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Speaker 1: another edition to the Bears Coaches Show with Head coach Mentneggie.
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Speaker 1: Mark Helfritz joins us at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: and the start to the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Solid win over the Lions twenty to thirteen at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: Now within a game of five hundred and seven to
Speaker 1: go and getting back to five hundred is the foundation.
Speaker 1: Now you have to start there. Yeah, that's where we're
Speaker 1: at right now, and it's uh, you know, for us,
Speaker 1: any way you look at it, we just want to
Speaker 1: be able to get a win coming off of losing
Speaker 1: four in a row. That's hard, and our guys did that.
Speaker 1: They battled really hard and came out with a win.
Speaker 1: And now now we're we're at an opportunity here to go.
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Speaker 1: CPAs and Consultants. All right, we start off usually with this,
Speaker 1: would you see antape? Well, you see um. Overall, just
Speaker 1: a bunch of plays where there's some opportunitistic stuff, whether
Speaker 1: it's on offense or defense. They kind of came in bunches.
Speaker 1: You know. We had a little bit of a slow
Speaker 1: start again on offense and it was a struggle the
Speaker 1: first you know, quarter and a half, and then we
Speaker 1: were able to pick it up and get that touchdown
Speaker 1: there at the end of the first half and going
Speaker 1: at halftime with the lead. Our defense was was was
Speaker 1: a bend but don't break type deal in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then offensively to come out in the third quarter
Speaker 1: of the second half and go down there and get
Speaker 1: those two touchdowns was big and you always like getting
Speaker 1: touchdowns after sudden change, so we had that interest by Kwikowski,
Speaker 1: great play by him, and then we got real quick
Speaker 1: to a third and seven, and then the player stepped
Speaker 1: up and made a great, great great play, great throw,
Speaker 1: great catch, get great route and an awesome protection and
Speaker 1: we're able to get that lead if you're in a
Speaker 1: fortunate enough position to get the two for one before
Speaker 1: the half. And you know a lot of great teams,
Speaker 1: that's where they make their money, so to speak. Over
Speaker 1: the years with the Eagles and with Andy at Kansas City,
Speaker 1: was that always in your minds When you know you're
Speaker 1: getting the ball to start the second half and you
Speaker 1: have the ball to end the first half, one of
Speaker 1: the things is you want to at worst case end
Speaker 1: the half with the ball and not give the opponent
Speaker 1: a chance to get the ball back. So to be
Speaker 1: able to go down there and get that touchdown and
Speaker 1: not a field goal but a touchdown, it was just
Speaker 1: just really good, I think for our mentality going in
Speaker 1: a halftime because it was such a sluggish start to
Speaker 1: the to the game, and then that helped propel us
Speaker 1: there and to start a third quarter. Was there any
Speaker 1: risk of the oh here we go again scenario with
Speaker 1: the slow start, Well, there's always at risk, and we've
Speaker 1: been We've been facing that and been challenged with that
Speaker 1: really the whole year. So I just I think that again,
Speaker 1: you talk about the words resilient, you talk about resolve,
Speaker 1: you talk about guys still caring. I mean in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. They could have just really not
Speaker 1: taken a week seriously and given up, and we don't
Speaker 1: have that. I think that's a credit to our players.
Speaker 1: And so you saw that again here we are challenged
Speaker 1: again in the first quarter and a half, but we
Speaker 1: stuck together, and you know, it came down to the end.
Speaker 1: In evaluating Mitch Tchubisky, some of those throws were all
Speaker 1: the throws that you've been talking about over the course
Speaker 1: of the year that you know he's capable of doing,
Speaker 1: and they're in the offense weapons are capable of achieving,
Speaker 1: whether it's how they run their route, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it came against man coverage. So he's winning against
Speaker 1: mancoverage yesterday. Yeah, we knew that going into it. And
Speaker 1: when you have that, you're gonna have to make throws
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to be pinpoint accurate with all
Speaker 1: the throws. Yesterday, to me, in so many ways was
Speaker 1: such a big game for him and the fact that
Speaker 1: really his decision making yesterday was by far the best
Speaker 1: of the year. I really loved that about him. I
Speaker 1: thought that, forget, forget all the throws that he made,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of good decisions that he made
Speaker 1: where maybe there's a shot mentality downfield that's not there,
Speaker 1: and you check it down for a ten eleven twelve
Speaker 1: yard game for a first down, and and and that
Speaker 1: was really neat to see. Um, guys were we're really
Speaker 1: rallying around that feeling that we had on the sideline,
Speaker 1: and then we were able to get the defensive lead.
Speaker 1: Honestly early you could it's fair to say he wasn't
Speaker 1: getting a lot of help at times. Yeah, well, no,
Speaker 1: there's a Again, unlike wrestling in golf and tennis and
Speaker 1: all this stuff that's individual, it's a team sport and
Speaker 1: m unfortunately for the outsiders and for the fans and
Speaker 1: for everybody that watches UM, you know, there's there's routes involved,
Speaker 1: there's protection evolved, there's ten other people that make that
Speaker 1: play work. And so sometimes when a play doesn't work,
Speaker 1: even though the quarterback gets all the credit for not
Speaker 1: working or blame, uh, yesterday it was a really, really
Speaker 1: solid game for mention, Well, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that we've ever really talked about this part of it.
Speaker 1: How does he hand that sort of frustration given his
Speaker 1: own battles this season? Yeah, that's think about that. That
Speaker 1: that's hard. And so when you're when you're getting all
Speaker 1: the blame and everything's going on you and for for
Speaker 1: some of that right and others not um and then
Speaker 1: to have some mistakes occur, mistakes always here. There's always
Speaker 1: some poor routes or their protection breaks down, and and
Speaker 1: or there's a drop ball or there's a misthrow or
Speaker 1: there's a bad play call. That happens a lot. And
Speaker 1: and for for him, he handled a great yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: he never got rattled. He stayed very composed, very cool, calm, collected,
Speaker 1: and that helped us in the end. What's that quote
Speaker 1: you guys used by complaining? No complaining? Uh, yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't like complainers, you know, and it complains kill culture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, So no complaining, just fight through it
Speaker 1: all right? Uh? Talk about the switch that seems to
Speaker 1: be the thing to this one. Yeah, the switch? Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: you know, to us, it was it was simple, It
Speaker 1: wasn't hard, It was not it wasn't a big story.
Speaker 1: We understand it. You know, to everybody else, it can
Speaker 1: it can be come one and and you know it's
Speaker 1: somebody that touches the football every play in the center.
Speaker 1: But Cody and James, uh, they really handled it really well.
Speaker 1: Um they're both completely selfless players. We just felt like
Speaker 1: it gives us a little more experience there. Uh, it
Speaker 1: balances out the line a little bit. And both guys
Speaker 1: they understood it. They were they were great with it,
Speaker 1: and I thought for the first game coming back, it
Speaker 1: really went well for everybody. I think some are trying
Speaker 1: to say it's a bit of an indictment on James
Speaker 1: and his potential either in the future or you know,
Speaker 1: at that position, at the center position. But you know
Speaker 1: there is youth involved here in experience and a right
Speaker 1: guard and Rashad Coward who's as raw as the day
Speaker 1: is long. So uh with Cody, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what you're getting one hundred percent of the time in
Speaker 1: terms of understanding protections and all that that goes into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we first of all, that couldn't be further from
Speaker 1: the truth furthest from the truth with Cody or with James. Sorry,
Speaker 1: James has done. This is this offensive struggle. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with James Daniels. You know, this is
Speaker 1: he's done a great job. This is just like you said,
Speaker 1: it's more so of just a balance of experience and
Speaker 1: they handled it great. So it's we're excited about where
Speaker 1: James is at, where he's going to be. We're excited
Speaker 1: about Cody, and then we have a guy that was
Speaker 1: playing defensive line a couple of years ago as our
Speaker 1: right guard. So every game and every experience that he
Speaker 1: gets is just gonna make him better and better. Now,
Speaker 1: it was David Montgomery yesterday and he ran hard. He
Speaker 1: ran really hard. So I think he had seventeen attempts
Speaker 1: and you know, the long runs weren't there yesterday, but
Speaker 1: what they were were there were some there were some
Speaker 1: runs in there where you could see that second, third,
Speaker 1: and fourth effort and he just doesn't go down on
Speaker 1: one tackle. Yeah. I know. There's also you know, you
Speaker 1: can create a lot of narratives when you look at
Speaker 1: games and you look at just statistics coming in. But
Speaker 1: I felt that that defensive front is completely undervalued. I
Speaker 1: don't care what the numbers say. When you got a
Speaker 1: deal with Snacks, Harrison and Trey Flowers, and whatever their
Speaker 1: issues may be on defense, that's still a prominent front
Speaker 1: that you got to move. They are there there. They
Speaker 1: were really good last year. They're still good this year. Again.
Speaker 1: There's sometimes there's reasons for those numbers, but um in
Speaker 1: any case, those players are a good front and it
Speaker 1: was a challenge for our guys. The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm' Jeff Joniak
Speaker 1: continues step back Tripisky looking at throw Jack's the ball
Speaker 1: looking into the end zone for producer preaches up heavy
Speaker 1: bags to cach touchdown, touchdown Gars, beautiful throw back Tripisky
Speaker 1: and a great catch for the Will Harris the rookie
Speaker 1: on his back. Bears are tied it up on an
Speaker 1: eighteen yard strike Tropisky to pronicker for the touchdown. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: at P ANDC Studios at Hallisaw. Matt Maggie with me
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac and that touchdown catch for Ben Broncker was
Speaker 1: an outstanding throw, outstanding catch, outstanding route, bring it all
Speaker 1: down for us one more time, because you love the
Speaker 1: journey of Brouncker and hanging in there tough, and he
Speaker 1: had a chance and he made it, made it happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big, big point in the game for
Speaker 1: us to get a spark and we got man coverage
Speaker 1: and he just ran a heck of a route. He's
Speaker 1: stuck the top of the route, set the angle for
Speaker 1: Mitch to be able to kind of see where he's
Speaker 1: coming out of it. And then mister it just on
Speaker 1: time with the perfect trajectory to be able to get
Speaker 1: it over top of that defender that was trailing him.
Speaker 1: And then you gotta make the catch. And then not
Speaker 1: only that, you gotta make the catches stay in bound.
Speaker 1: And they did all that in the offensive line, gave
Speaker 1: Mitch time. Yeah, he squeezed in it spectrum both tips, Yeah,
Speaker 1: grabbing that ball. But you could see his eyes were
Speaker 1: on it. They were in the slow motion on the
Speaker 1: TV copy, you could see it. But the other aspect
Speaker 1: of it, as you always like to say, it was
Speaker 1: a nice curved, clean pocket with green grass. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: you have to have that. If you don't have that
Speaker 1: green grass, you can't make that throw. You can make
Speaker 1: the throw, but it's probably not as accurate. And to
Speaker 1: make that work and make that happen, those guys executed it.
Speaker 1: And it's a guy who stepped in. Adam Sheheen was
Speaker 1: a game day inactive. Where is he at mentally and
Speaker 1: his approach to things right now? Yeah, you know, he's
Speaker 1: just just continuing to try to improve and get better. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a lot of different players that
Speaker 1: fit different molds of what we do and and so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking to have guys just every day
Speaker 1: just do everything they can to be the best player
Speaker 1: they can be and stuck defense. Now, and we start
Speaker 1: with Nick Wikowski. Yeah, yeah, he was handed out tomorrow,
Speaker 1: right maybe, Yeah, there's probably a good candidate there. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. He was everywhere, he really was. And
Speaker 1: you hate to see a guy like Danny Trevathan go
Speaker 1: down because he's really the heart and soul of our
Speaker 1: defense and such a leader and just the mentality that
Speaker 1: he brings not only the game day but to practice
Speaker 1: and in the meeting room. And he just has that
Speaker 1: that that fire about him that I love. And so
Speaker 1: now he's out of the game, Well, here comes quit
Speaker 1: and he's able to uh play the way he did.
Speaker 1: I mean everywhere, run, game, pass game, he just special
Speaker 1: teams and special teams. And so you look at that
Speaker 1: and you say, well, man, how does a guy play
Speaker 1: because he preps, he preps the right way, he cares,
Speaker 1: he's always ready for that call or for you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you're in the game now, and he's he's proven that.
Speaker 1: So how do you not just love that? You know?
Speaker 1: On our Bears Game Night Live show on Fox last night,
Speaker 1: during the highlights of watching him and breaking him down,
Speaker 1: it just it just occurred to me that as a coach,
Speaker 1: you're trusting your guys are going to get ready, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't always mean that's going to happen for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: But this guy was in the right place and just
Speaker 1: it was just perfect, like well it was against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I can't say perfect because football players and coaches don't
Speaker 1: talk about perfection, but just getting mentally ready to play
Speaker 1: as if you're going to start. It almost sounds cliche
Speaker 1: when you're in a locker room interviewing these guys, but
Speaker 1: you gotta count on it. You gotta count on it.
Speaker 1: He counted on it with Nick, and he delivered. He
Speaker 1: did and as coaches, I mean, our defensive coaching staff
Speaker 1: was was just telling me about how much it means
Speaker 1: to them that he preps the way he does all
Speaker 1: week long, you know, and you don't always get that
Speaker 1: everywhere from every player, but with him, that's a big,
Speaker 1: big time appreciation from from the coaching staffs that when
Speaker 1: somebody does go down, the next man up. That's that's
Speaker 1: when it works, is when they prep and you're you
Speaker 1: gotta get mental reps because you don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of reps in practice. And you know, we as coaches
Speaker 1: know who those guys are and you count on them.
Speaker 1: And then these guys now get the uh, they get
Speaker 1: to success and the recognition for being able to be
Speaker 1: patient and selfless this whole time. I've known him for
Speaker 1: all these years and he's a very likable guy. Number One. Um,
Speaker 1: quiet for the most part, but he's blue collar. You
Speaker 1: can tell from that background he is. He's he's he's dirty, tough,
Speaker 1: you know. And then he showed his athleticism yesterday picking
Speaker 1: that slant off, you know and making a good play
Speaker 1: and um, you know, you saw he had hands last year.
Speaker 1: You remember he caught that flat route in Minnesota. So
Speaker 1: he's an athlete though. All right, let's talk about Nick Williams.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of folks know who he is,
Speaker 1: but everybody seems to be surprised and shocked that he's
Speaker 1: got six sacks the team right now. Yeah, it's another
Speaker 1: great story. Somebody that again has has been a backup
Speaker 1: in this league, but has persevered and who's just continued
Speaker 1: to just battle each and every day and when given
Speaker 1: an opportunity, he shines. And it just it speaks volumes
Speaker 1: to Jay Rodgers, our defensive line coach, and Mark Dalion,
Speaker 1: our linebackers coach with these guys, of of making sure
Speaker 1: that these guys are mentally prepared. And so here here
Speaker 1: comes an injury without Kim Hicks, and now Nick Williams
Speaker 1: steps up, plays hard. He's a big man, he's athletic,
Speaker 1: he can move and you saw him doing that yesterday.
Speaker 1: What do you man about him? From Kansas City just
Speaker 1: observing him. Just a really, really good person that took
Speaker 1: the game very seriously. Every practice mattered, when he got
Speaker 1: his reps, that mattered. And now it's a reflection of
Speaker 1: what you're seeing on game days. He's just doing it
Speaker 1: now against the ones um Ryan Nall activated and boom
Speaker 1: right away made an impact on teams. Yeah, it's another
Speaker 1: another really good story of somebody again. These are these
Speaker 1: are players that were able to either have a history
Speaker 1: with or we're bringing them in ourselves and letting them
Speaker 1: kind of grow and become the players that they become.
Speaker 1: And you know, you get you get the notice late
Speaker 1: in a week of this opportunity, and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how happy he was. He's worked hard for it,
Speaker 1: and you know you saw it yesterday. He made the
Speaker 1: most of it. No more of the Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: Show already feels like February this morning. It does. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it, but that's Chicago right in November.
Speaker 1: The touchdown, we just heard Taylor Gabriel again, a perfectly
Speaker 1: thrown ball, great whip on it and running away from
Speaker 1: a defender, break that one down for the touchdown. Now
Speaker 1: four touchdowns this year for Taylor, right, So we got
Speaker 1: third and seven, We just had, you know, two plays
Speaker 1: that went for three yards. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: a key moment in the game where after us, you know,
Speaker 1: a sudden change, you want to be able to strike
Speaker 1: and get a touchdown, and so to be able to
Speaker 1: do that was big. TG ran that route in practice
Speaker 1: and it was one of the best routes. It was
Speaker 1: a little different the way it looked, but one of
Speaker 1: the best routes I've I've seen so far this year.
Speaker 1: And so I think when you see that in practice
Speaker 1: and you feel that, you kind of know that this
Speaker 1: might be a good play as a coach, as a
Speaker 1: play caller, but also as players, you feel it. And
Speaker 1: we got man coverage like we were hoping, and he
Speaker 1: beat his guy up and then Mitch made just a
Speaker 1: perfect throw on the spot, Um, which is not an
Speaker 1: easy throw and he had great protection. Now that you
Speaker 1: mentioned it, could you dare to guess a percentage of
Speaker 1: how many plays that you knew were going to work
Speaker 1: because of how they were done in practice and you
Speaker 1: could get the right matchup that that's happened this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's um, there's there's more than probably most people
Speaker 1: would think. Um. You know. The other one too, was
Speaker 1: was um three Cohen's touchdown yesterday. Again, just a lot
Speaker 1: of details that go into it. Just looks like a
Speaker 1: simple flare route that you throw to the back and
Speaker 1: he just okay, well anyone care. But to the credit
Speaker 1: of the players, they executed it just to perfection. And
Speaker 1: when you get the ball in twenty twenty nine hands,
Speaker 1: he makes good things happen in us what they did.
Speaker 1: He also, you know, he did an interview with our
Speaker 1: sideline reporter Mark Rody before the game before you know,
Speaker 1: last week, and he said, you know, I like running
Speaker 1: between tackles. I want to get north and south. So
Speaker 1: we have this idea that he only wants to try
Speaker 1: to make a home run every time and go hot,
Speaker 1: but he seemed to be more dedicated to that yesterday.
Speaker 1: What would you how would you? No? I agree. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the benefits of who he is
Speaker 1: as a player is that he's not just a guy
Speaker 1: that is a scat back that can go outside. And
Speaker 1: now the other thing that's that's uh goes unnoticed and
Speaker 1: shouldn't is teams are very very aware of who he
Speaker 1: is and where he's out in the field. And you
Speaker 1: go back and you watch that tape and you watch
Speaker 1: how many times we had two people on him. What
Speaker 1: that does is open others. And so because he might
Speaker 1: not have the numbers, there's hidden numbers in there, and
Speaker 1: he needs to be a part of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: I would say that's been buried with all due respect
Speaker 1: to what you think is the fourth and one call
Speaker 1: to me is the is the game changer? I believe
Speaker 1: that was absolute necessity given the scenario really revealed a
Speaker 1: lot of benefits. How do you look at it now?
Speaker 1: Twenty four hours later? I felt like at that point
Speaker 1: in time that um, you know, we were we were struggling,
Speaker 1: and and it was it was before you look up
Speaker 1: at the clock and there's three, four or five minutes
Speaker 1: left in the second quarter and it's fourth and one.
Speaker 1: You know, we we uh, I know we're pretty backed up,
Speaker 1: but we're gone nine nothing thirteen nine or whatever. But right,
Speaker 1: but we're at a point where it was good for us,
Speaker 1: and I knew our I really felt good. Our coaches
Speaker 1: felt good about being able to execute that play and
Speaker 1: that's what they did and so it gave it gave
Speaker 1: our guys a little bit of juice and um, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm proud of them. Did Kyle Fuller ever right to
Speaker 1: be ticked off yesterday? Um no, I think that uh
Speaker 1: all of our guys. It's an emotional game, and there's
Speaker 1: it was a close. It was a very close call.
Speaker 1: And it's hard because it's so fast and when a
Speaker 1: quarterback gives himself up lately, that's the part that is
Speaker 1: hard for these defenders and you got to be real
Speaker 1: clear with that. And I think it was the biggest
Speaker 1: issue was for the hitting the helmet and it's so
Speaker 1: close in that moment, so you can understand both sides.
Speaker 1: So club dub open, I'm vincent Mulcamara had an interesting
Speaker 1: reaction to it, and he says, it's not I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: basically saying. People can have an opinion about it or
Speaker 1: poke fun at all they want, but the fact is
Speaker 1: losing four straight games impacted us. It impacted and underscored
Speaker 1: just how hard it is to win one game. You
Speaker 1: know us, Jeff, I mean, we're we're that's who we are.
Speaker 1: And um, this the moment you start changing that because
Speaker 1: you're concerned about how you won. You got issues and
Speaker 1: we we that's not where we're at. And we understand,
Speaker 1: um that it's hard to win in this league. And
Speaker 1: I'm proud of every one of our guys for fighting through.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of parody and you saw it yesterday
Speaker 1: with the scores of the games and yesterday's games. So, um,
Speaker 1: we want every win that we can get. Well, we
Speaker 1: don't care how it comes. Let's get to win and
Speaker 1: when we get it, we're gonna celebrate. All right, quick,
Speaker 1: look at the Rams before we get you out of here. Well,
Speaker 1: this is a team right now, that's you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're five and four and they had a you know,
Speaker 1: a defensive battle yesterday with Pittsburgh and um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just uh, they're this is a team that's coming
Speaker 1: out of the Super Bowl and they have their own
Speaker 1: deals at stuff that they're dealing with. But um, it's
Speaker 1: a it's gonna be a heck of a game, big
Speaker 1: challenge for us. I have a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: Sean McVeagh, I have a lot of respect for a
Speaker 1: lot of the players on their team, and we got
Speaker 1: to just make sure that we control what we control,
Speaker 1: and that's prepping all week long. The biggest task of
Speaker 1: the week is figuring out how to stop Aaron Donald. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's no, he's a he's a game changer and he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys you gotta make sure you know
Speaker 1: where he's at on every single play. All right, good
Speaker 1: luck with your preparation. Thank you, Talk to you next week.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak and Mark Helfridge, Bears offensive coordinator, as we
Speaker 1: enjoyed the three Cohen touchdown coming out of the break there. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Matt broke it down a little bit before you did.
Speaker 1: But let's get your eyes on it because it takes
Speaker 1: more than just the ease of what it looked like there. Yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: the guys did a great job. It was probably the
Speaker 1: one look that we didn't plan for. Um, they play
Speaker 1: that that coverage a bunch of different ways, and the
Speaker 1: combination of the front and the coverage they played very rarely,
Speaker 1: and so the guys kind of made a little little
Speaker 1: side adjust on the run. And yeah, three con touch
Speaker 1: sounds are always good. Yeah. How often does that have
Speaker 1: to happen that if you're not getting look, you got
Speaker 1: to play call? But these little adjustments that can still
Speaker 1: make it work. And in terms of many times that's
Speaker 1: been successful this year or not, is it trending up? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean one game trend will take and
Speaker 1: build on it, you know, take that confidence from it.
Speaker 1: And I think at that moment, Uh, in those types
Speaker 1: of situations, he's tell guys to trust, you know, trust
Speaker 1: their training, trust whatever they've been told from day one
Speaker 1: versus hey, this this look or or this call, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, or just trust your technique, trust your training
Speaker 1: of of what they've what they've been working on for many,
Speaker 1: many years. I'm sure he loves the pitch too, because
Speaker 1: if he can turn the corner with not a lot
Speaker 1: of bodies in front of him, he can trust his
Speaker 1: quickness and elusiveness to get into the end zone or
Speaker 1: make a big play. Definitely, definitely, we've you know, obviously
Speaker 1: been searching for ways to get him the ball in space. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and that was a great example of of you know,
Speaker 1: it shown up in a big way. Did you feel
Speaker 1: he was more vertical yesterday even with his touches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we had. I thought he made a great cut
Speaker 1: on kind of a mid zone, outside zone type of
Speaker 1: run and we didn't lock up the backside. You know,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of times we had probably four
Speaker 1: runs that that it was like four inches from being
Speaker 1: a home run. And whether it was you know, the
Speaker 1: front side guard, the center of the backside guard, uh,
Speaker 1: culmination of of of the back in them just working
Speaker 1: in in in sync. A lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: near misses. You know, there's this old adage that offensive
Speaker 1: play callers and designers, I think every place is designed
Speaker 1: to be a touchdown. Is that true? Well, in theory, yes,
Speaker 1: but no, I mean there's there's got to be some
Speaker 1: body blow mentality and and uh you're you're always fighting
Speaker 1: through that, you know, But but it is true. I
Speaker 1: mean every play could be a big chunk play if
Speaker 1: everything's perfect. That is voting what other guys um. And
Speaker 1: he wants the one run more between the tackles. He
Speaker 1: said it, he said it last week. And we often
Speaker 1: don't think of him as that type of back, but
Speaker 1: he is capable of doing it. He is, and he
Speaker 1: just he did again a good job of of of
Speaker 1: making a vertical cut and it should have been a
Speaker 1: much bigger play. I think I can't remember four or
Speaker 1: five yard aren't four orive year gain and and we
Speaker 1: just missed on on the back side of it, Uh,
Speaker 1: potential for a much bigger play. There are a few
Speaker 1: stuffs yesterday in the run game, which doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: against that front, especially with Snacks Harrison in charge there.
Speaker 1: But last year the negative run totals were the most
Speaker 1: in the league. Now it's it's not like that at all.
Speaker 1: What's been the difference in that regard in terms of
Speaker 1: negative runs? I think it's a combination of things. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys up front, UH have have you know, committed
Speaker 1: to being being whatever the right word is better? Uh,
Speaker 1: just in terms of negative plays usually come from either
Speaker 1: a lack of technique, lack of community, you know communication.
Speaker 1: Uh you're just on different pages and somebody gets cut
Speaker 1: loose or they pressure into it and you don't you know,
Speaker 1: throw maybe an RPO or some sort of adjustment that way.
Speaker 1: And so I think that that combination of factors and
Speaker 1: UH is probably the biggest difference. Well, what about the
Speaker 1: offensive line, return to codiet center, how to impact you
Speaker 1: and just getting these guys ready for it. And what
Speaker 1: did you think of the results? Um, well, the results
Speaker 1: are wins. All right, that has to be it, right, No,
Speaker 1: I'm joking, but no, that is true. Yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: part of it. You never know what that is for
Speaker 1: the security blanket factor at quarterback and and and you
Speaker 1: know all the things that go into that. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: all those guys are just still still young. You know
Speaker 1: our inner core of Rashad and it is Rashad by
Speaker 1: the way. I know how about that. I did talk
Speaker 1: to him, Yeah, I know I did. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: thing that's coming out of the kid and it is
Speaker 1: Rashett yea. So we will we will head in that
Speaker 1: direction from that. Stay forward The Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Mark help Ridge and w bbm's Jeff Joni
Speaker 1: at continue bat The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you
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Speaker 1: at Haddles Hall with the Bears offensive coordinator Mark health Rich.
Speaker 1: Any are you kidding me? Throws yesterday that you caught
Speaker 1: your eye from Mitch? Are you throw? Um? I mean no,
Speaker 1: I say that possibly right, I just realized No, I'm
Speaker 1: like one of those where you are you kidding me? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that the back foot throw, right, yeah, the
Speaker 1: backfoot throw. You know, that was one of those ones
Speaker 1: where it was a great throw. Could have probably stepped
Speaker 1: up and protected himself a little bit more. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we were joking about that during the game. Hey,
Speaker 1: if he needs to take a shot to throw that
Speaker 1: type of throw, what we'll take it. Um. But his
Speaker 1: his feet were better, he was on to number one better,
Speaker 1: and I thought, more than anything overcame an early bad throw.
Speaker 1: You know, the first third down in the game was not,
Speaker 1: you know, not an ideal throw. We had good, good
Speaker 1: protection and good route. We were in good, you know,
Speaker 1: good shape there and he didn't make it, but he
Speaker 1: bounced back and and you know, then he had another
Speaker 1: situation where he had a drop any and he kept
Speaker 1: coming and so that that that in itself is a
Speaker 1: positive sign. How did they handle his these guys And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't had a chance to break
Speaker 1: it all down yet, but against the Raiders, they showed
Speaker 1: a lot of man, which is they do primarily, but
Speaker 1: then at the snap there and zone, how did the
Speaker 1: receivers adjust to that? How often did they do that
Speaker 1: yesterday in your opinion, and how did Mitch handle it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they popped a few more um kind of just make
Speaker 1: us prove it type of coverages of playing more more
Speaker 1: zone more drop eight, which is a big deal, you know,
Speaker 1: a big deal of there's usually drop eight with man
Speaker 1: coverage on the back end. There was just a few
Speaker 1: more steps of of of h drop eight with zone
Speaker 1: both to to try to eliminate our free release guys
Speaker 1: with Tarik and you could see them kind of holding
Speaker 1: guys as they left the backfield and that's all part
Speaker 1: of their their deal. But for the most part we
Speaker 1: reacted well. There a couple times where we would have
Speaker 1: wanted to get the ball out faster or or just
Speaker 1: you know pull it down and run and owning the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, which I've personalities felt that Mitch
Speaker 1: has great vision between the hash marks or just outside
Speaker 1: the hash marks, between the numbers. With Alan Robinson, they
Speaker 1: got something going in. Yeah, they did, you know, did
Speaker 1: a great job there, you know, right before half of
Speaker 1: taking advantage of a couple of plays over the middle. Uh,
Speaker 1: and as the game progress us that was something that
Speaker 1: they really started to try to take away. You know,
Speaker 1: you'll see four or five guys dropping out within between
Speaker 1: the hashes or between the numbers for sure, and trying
Speaker 1: to take some of that away. How do you as
Speaker 1: a coach even handle the slow starts and just you know,
Speaker 1: you ran fifteen plays, you got twenty three yards and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh no, here we go again. And it
Speaker 1: has been a common issue for the part of this season.
Speaker 1: And how you look at the guys and see how
Speaker 1: they're responding in those situations. Yeah. Again, I think it
Speaker 1: just comes back to ownership, you know, owning why things happened.
Speaker 1: And sometimes sometimes you get lucky in a good way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get unlucky in a bad way. And if
Speaker 1: it's whatever a misthrow, a drop pass about, you know,
Speaker 1: poor design by us, whatever it may be, you recognize
Speaker 1: that right then and there, and you move on. You
Speaker 1: can't possibly be working any harder to figure out how
Speaker 1: to get it going. Uh you know, I no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And our guys, our guy You know again, there's there's frustration,
Speaker 1: and it's good frustration. You know, it's not blaming, finger
Speaker 1: pointing frustration. It's how can we get this right? Would
Speaker 1: you know that's the biggest challenge of the first year
Speaker 1: and a half as a staff. The start. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's probably more been this this year, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying than last year. Sure, yes, absolutely, And that's
Speaker 1: that's something that that you know, I was just watching
Speaker 1: who was I watching Tampa Bay against h the Rams,
Speaker 1: and you know they had a quick touchdown and then
Speaker 1: they must have a pick six or a kick return
Speaker 1: or something, because it was bang, bang, fourteen nothing And
Speaker 1: and that's the exact opposite kind of how we've been operating.
Speaker 1: You didn't have the opportunity. We already did hear from
Speaker 1: Matt on it, but I always like hearing what you
Speaker 1: have to say and breaking down the big the big play.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the Bronicker touchdown. Yeah, just a
Speaker 1: great kind of a culmination of everything. Protection, route running,
Speaker 1: throw catch. You did a great job at the top
Speaker 1: of the route, just technically, uh kind of sticking and
Speaker 1: creating a great angle for it from Mitch and then
Speaker 1: just a great, you know, great spot with the throw
Speaker 1: and then to come down with it and finish the
Speaker 1: play was a big deal. We had that in mind
Speaker 1: to get that against a linebacker, and they ended up
Speaker 1: playing a you know, more of a Nickel safety on it,
Speaker 1: and so we made a great play and the Taylor
Speaker 1: Gabriel touch time. Yeah, you know again just a great
Speaker 1: route culmination of all those same things. Protection timing. Uh,
Speaker 1: they kind of brought a similar game that they bought
Speaker 1: brought earlier upfront that we protected better this time, and
Speaker 1: and Mitch let let that one go early, which is good.
Speaker 1: Matt also mentioned the angle on that, so enlighten us
Speaker 1: on that. Why that aspect of those routes. The angle,
Speaker 1: Why is that of importance in the type of angle
Speaker 1: because usually you're throwing that ball early, you know, and
Speaker 1: so if your foot sticks and you and the huge
Speaker 1: receiver starts to burst wherever at whatever a five yard
Speaker 1: out or a ten yard out or a corner route,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to define those angles obviously beforehand.
Speaker 1: Some of that is going to change with relationship to
Speaker 1: the where the you know, where the defender is on
Speaker 1: the receiver. But that ball has to be out, you know,
Speaker 1: on time and in rhythm, and everybody has to know
Speaker 1: where it's gonna see the angle before you trust the
Speaker 1: angle as the trust the angle in that type of
Speaker 1: you know, situation because you're running it on air, so
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna you're gonna have rules for hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to the front pilon, we're going to the
Speaker 1: back pylon, um, depending on where you are in the
Speaker 1: field of play. And they say it's not a complicated game.
Speaker 1: It's a complicated game. The Bears Coaches Show with head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the
Speaker 1: Bears News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point
Speaker 1: nine FM w BBM. Final moments here with Bears offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Mark Halfred John The Bears Coaches Show a couple
Speaker 1: of other items from yesterday's game. Let's talk David Montgomery
Speaker 1: because again he earned the respect of the home crowd
Speaker 1: because of some of those late runs. Just I mean,
Speaker 1: this is who is not going down tough, yep. And
Speaker 1: and guys continue to be surprised by when he breaks tackles.
Speaker 1: And that's something that we just keep hammering home, is
Speaker 1: the dude's gonna break tackles finished, you know, finisher block
Speaker 1: who's surprised, Well, yeah, exactly exactly, you know, And you
Speaker 1: could just see, you know, see guys on the backside
Speaker 1: just start to let up and then oh, I'm too
Speaker 1: you know, too late to to to to finish my deal.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, he's doing a nice job. He's not
Speaker 1: a bulldozer. I mean this is uh, you know, he's
Speaker 1: just sough. Yeah, he's got that that flat out top Yep.
Speaker 1: Absolutely interesting. Um in terms of ronicker in a larger role, Uh,
Speaker 1: obviously the touchdown is huge for him first one ever.
Speaker 1: But in terms of his route running, is he more
Speaker 1: accomplished than maybe we think he is. Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: a very good route runner, and he's just he's you know,
Speaker 1: his primary asset probably of everything is just speed, you know.
Speaker 1: And then his ability to change direction has helped him
Speaker 1: out on special teams and has been a big contributor there.
Speaker 1: Uh And but yeah he's done. He's done a nice
Speaker 1: job when we've asked him too. Uh Uh as a
Speaker 1: rout runner and you must have a special place in
Speaker 1: your heart for guys like Ryan. No. I mean he
Speaker 1: had easily gone somewhere else. I wanted to be here
Speaker 1: because he said there's there's no place like this that
Speaker 1: when he knew he was gonna get put on practice squad.
Speaker 1: Uh and then gets the chance and it looked like
Speaker 1: all these months and years of bottled up aggression unleash,
Speaker 1: just unleashed on special teams. It was awesome. He was
Speaker 1: he was hilarious during pregame, he was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of what do I do? Almost you know,
Speaker 1: if a couple of things do I do? I do?
Speaker 1: I step in here? And you know, it was it
Speaker 1: was we had a couple of funny moments. But that's
Speaker 1: one thing I told him. Just proud of his you know,
Speaker 1: proud of his persistence and his effort, and couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to watch him play. And from the first kick it was,
Speaker 1: it was evident. He was. Yeah, time to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. Guys like this, they never then they
Speaker 1: don't go back to that practice squad, you know, because
Speaker 1: of that kind of effort. And we know he can
Speaker 1: run the ball. You know, we can run the ball
Speaker 1: if that ever becomes an opportunity for him. All Right,
Speaker 1: we can talk a round at the Rams all we want,
Speaker 1: but we got to start with Aaron Donald on how
Speaker 1: to keep that guy from wrecking your offense. Yeah, he's Uh,
Speaker 1: the nightmares have begun already, just of of watching watching
Speaker 1: tape and uh, you know, they just they they're putt
Speaker 1: him in a lot more uh spots, from a front
Speaker 1: standpoint and positionally moving around quite a bit. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then the parts, you know, whether it's Fouler or the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys that they're they're just playing at
Speaker 1: a very very high level. Um, you know, had a
Speaker 1: tough team loss the other day, but played you know,
Speaker 1: elite defense. It's old, but it's historical, and I personally
Speaker 1: have never been there, so I can't wait to call
Speaker 1: a game from Memorial Coliseum. You obviously played with your
Speaker 1: Oregon teams there often, So what's it like there? That's
Speaker 1: a good way, It's yeah, it's an historic, legendary they've
Speaker 1: I haven't been there since they've done the updates, but
Speaker 1: you know, place with a ton of history and have
Speaker 1: mostly a lot of a lot of good memories by
Speaker 1: by and large, a lot of good memories. Do you
Speaker 1: ever lose there? Oh? Yeah, okay, couples a lot of way.
Speaker 1: You're ran the table there. As we wrap up with
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, and our producer's Dan Burrelly, Keith Johnson,
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