Speaker 1: Had a pleasant, good evening everybody, and walking into the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Ebert, Flus
Speaker 1: Jeff joniach with you until I had o'clock tonight here
Speaker 1: on news radio one oh five nine WBBM or recap
Speaker 1: the twenty to twelve lost to the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, everyone, and get even Matt, how
Speaker 1: you feel good? Even? How are you feeling? I'm doing fine,
Speaker 1: doing fine. What'd you learn? What'd you learn? Well? You know,
Speaker 1: I had a team meeting this morning with the players
Speaker 1: and you know, really just talked about consistency of execution.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we're doing a lot of good
Speaker 1: things out there on the field, but we need to
Speaker 1: do it more consistently. And that was the main thing
Speaker 1: we're working to improve on, just the basics, you know,
Speaker 1: your alignment, your assignment and your technique. And that's what
Speaker 1: came out of the film for us. And really, I
Speaker 1: thought we did a nice job yesterday, you know, in
Speaker 1: special teams for sure, you know, obviously flipping the field
Speaker 1: and two kickoffs inside to twenty. We had that punt
Speaker 1: that was inside the four, and they operated well all day. Obviously,
Speaker 1: had the cause fumble on the punt that set us
Speaker 1: up for a field goal. And obviously we're all disappointed
Speaker 1: in the last play, of course, you know, if you
Speaker 1: can't take that back. But overall, we thought the special
Speaker 1: teams played well. Execution of the offense, How did you
Speaker 1: feel about it? We did a nice job of getting
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. Mooney got started, which was awesome,
Speaker 1: and he threw that He threw that great bomb down
Speaker 1: the sideline, and I thought that was a great adjustment
Speaker 1: by Mooney to be able to lean into the guy
Speaker 1: and then come back to the football and create some
Speaker 1: space for himself. All right, we're gonna get into justin
Speaker 1: later on of the program. I'm going to commit a
Speaker 1: whole segment to it, because that's everybody wants to talk about.
Speaker 1: But overall, though that that alone, that one play alone
Speaker 1: should mean significance to both players. I don't care what
Speaker 1: defense you're playing. Yeah, I think the chemistry for those
Speaker 1: guys is just starting to grow, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: been there in practice, you know, now we're starting to
Speaker 1: see it in the game. So I really think that's true.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Gap responsibility contain. These are awards that popped up yesterday
Speaker 1: after watching. I'm sure you'll cover that here today. But
Speaker 1: the slight of hand by Daniel Jones, he's exceptional at it.
Speaker 1: Number one doesn't make any excuses obviously, but it is
Speaker 1: a difficult thing to deal with with Sae Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: just that two man game of what they did and
Speaker 1: how you guys defended it. Where are the preach points,
Speaker 1: I guess for you. Yeah, we just we need to improve.
Speaker 1: I'm playing, you know, the boot keepers and don't know
Speaker 1: who's taking the second contain and who has that on
Speaker 1: every single play, you know, the three times that ran
Speaker 1: the play. We're in three different coverages, so it's different
Speaker 1: on each one, but we do have a guy that's
Speaker 1: assigned to them, and we have to do a better
Speaker 1: job with executing there. And with that. Is that something
Speaker 1: that you can't necessarily fix swats going on at the
Speaker 1: time or do you need to get back in the
Speaker 1: locker room because it did change in the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we again, we I think we needed to fix it faster.
Speaker 1: Yeah we can't. You know, you can have a play
Speaker 1: happened to you once, but you shouldn't have it happened
Speaker 1: to you two times? And we need to do a
Speaker 1: better job there of adjusting. And certainly we made the
Speaker 1: adjustment at halftime and you know we didn't see it there.
Speaker 1: We ended up getting a sack on the second time
Speaker 1: they ran it and uh, you know in the second half.
Speaker 1: But got to do it better. The rub is I
Speaker 1: think people have asked me already, well, you know they
Speaker 1: want these guys flying off the line of scrimmage to
Speaker 1: get off's got to be critical, you know. And but
Speaker 1: you want that, but you also have to play responsibilities
Speaker 1: and everybody's got to do their assignment right. This goes
Speaker 1: back to what you continuously say alignment, assignment and key execution.
Speaker 1: Yeah so yeah, so, but I mean that is you
Speaker 1: do want these guys flying off? Oh you do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's We're a penetrating defense. You know, we penetrate up
Speaker 1: front and our linebackers are downhill and that's how we play.
Speaker 1: That's our style. But there's certain you got to read
Speaker 1: your keys. You know, your eyes have to be disciplined,
Speaker 1: you know, so when you get that boot key down,
Speaker 1: you have to shuffle down. As a defensive end, they'll
Speaker 1: be able to get up in their face. And it's
Speaker 1: the same thing with the linebackers. You know, you got
Speaker 1: to be able to read the flow of the lineman
Speaker 1: to be able to see that it's boot okay and
Speaker 1: then come out of that to be able to recontained.
Speaker 1: So we just have to improve on our eye discipline.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the second half, because now four straight
Speaker 1: games no touchdown, that's not something insignificant here. So again,
Speaker 1: if it's a bend, no break, if it's opportunistic activity,
Speaker 1: the proper tackle at the right time, a turnover, these
Speaker 1: things should continue to build confidence for that unit, especially
Speaker 1: late in game. Second half. No, it's good. It's the
Speaker 1: guys did a nice job again yesterday and you know,
Speaker 1: we commend him for that, and uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: more about us, you know, being consistent, you know, throughout
Speaker 1: the game, and we're working on that and the guys
Speaker 1: will get that this week. All right, let's tell you
Speaker 1: injuries you mentioned in your news conference, Cody White are
Speaker 1: gonna miss some time. I've known him since the day
Speaker 1: he walked in here for seven years. The guy doesn't
Speaker 1: even like missing a single practice rep, let alone a game.
Speaker 1: So however long he's out, that's gonna be tough for
Speaker 1: a guy like oh, Cody. Cody is a great man,
Speaker 1: and he's the first guy that contacted me as a
Speaker 1: player when I got the job here, and you know,
Speaker 1: I always remember that had a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 1: He was the first Bear that I talked to in
Speaker 1: terms of the players. But he's a great first impression.
Speaker 1: You know, he had ninety nine starts with only two
Speaker 1: miss games, and he is the apitity of what Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear toughness is. And we're certainly going to miss him
Speaker 1: here for a few weeks. And again we'll we'll make
Speaker 1: adjustments as we go, um, you know, through the course
Speaker 1: of the week and find our best five you know,
Speaker 1: inside there and go from there. Yeah. But the good
Speaker 1: news is, and I mean listening to what you're saying here,
Speaker 1: it doesn't appear to be a season ending injury. No,
Speaker 1: it does not appear that to appear to be that way.
Speaker 1: That's good news right there. I talk about the offensive
Speaker 1: line in general, how I fared yesterday. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: good in points. They were good in points. I thought
Speaker 1: we you know, gave up too much inside pressure. Um
Speaker 1: at times. You know, we just got to work on
Speaker 1: our fundamental and technique in there. We had they had
Speaker 1: some one on ones inside the We have to win
Speaker 1: those matchups. Overall, they did a solid job of keeping
Speaker 1: the pocket at times, but again it's about consistency of execution.
Speaker 1: You know, when we get that, when we have time
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, we can ride the pocket, we
Speaker 1: can deliver it. You saw what we did yesterday. We
Speaker 1: had some good explosive passes, which is nice. Um. Overall,
Speaker 1: in terms of the run game, you know, obviously been
Speaker 1: running the ball at a really good clip. We ran
Speaker 1: it good yesterday, but again it's not up to our standards.
Speaker 1: We want to run the ball a little bit better
Speaker 1: than that, and our guys got to come off the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: The runners got to finish the runs violently, and we
Speaker 1: saw some that yesterday, But it has to be more consistent.
Speaker 1: How you know, you got a three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: pounder in there, and those big guys are hard to
Speaker 1: move though, aren't they. Yeah, yeah, you have to move
Speaker 1: them with you know, sometimes their singles, sometimes there's doubles
Speaker 1: and and you know, we had some good production yesterday too.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's break down that whole scenario
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, because you mentioned it already, Trent,
Speaker 1: and go with an absolutely superb punt. You get the
Speaker 1: long field, you get the punt, and what's going through
Speaker 1: your mind at this point forget forget about them off
Speaker 1: for the moment, but you're thinking to yourself, Okay, you
Speaker 1: know this is setting up ideally here. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that what was going through your head. Yeah, we had
Speaker 1: to make the decision there, you know. It was you know,
Speaker 1: third and two and a half. We end up running
Speaker 1: it in there and didn't get any arts, so we
Speaker 1: decided to punt it, and we punted it and we
Speaker 1: rolled down to the four at three or four, so
Speaker 1: we had all three of our time outs available to
Speaker 1: us there. We banged one on the first one, bang
Speaker 1: one on the second down, and then you know, waste
Speaker 1: minimal time. And then the third down we let go
Speaker 1: because we were going to have the two minute warning
Speaker 1: and then we were thinking we're gonna get the ball
Speaker 1: midfield with a one time out with two oh one
Speaker 1: was the number we had right there with first down,
Speaker 1: So we felt good about our chances at a score
Speaker 1: and have a two point conversion to tie it. And
Speaker 1: I think we've done a pretty good job from there.
Speaker 1: Patrick Scales on the ball, will send it back to Trenton.
Speaker 1: Gill Spot is good. Kick his up by Badgeley and
Speaker 1: he's two for two. He nails it from twenty two,
Speaker 1: sixth place, seventy seven yard drive. Great seats available to
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Speaker 1: your tickets at Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Bears Coach the show. Just heard one
Speaker 1: of four Michael Badgeley field goals. We talked about it
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, the guy came up in there
Speaker 1: through New Jersey, That's where he grew up and just
Speaker 1: nailed everything. He's only missed one inside of forty in
Speaker 1: his career, so he pretty automatic. No, he's he's been
Speaker 1: good throughout his career. We had him in Indianapolis a
Speaker 1: couple of years back, and he did a real nice
Speaker 1: job for us when he was filling in there, and
Speaker 1: and what a pro you know, what a great young
Speaker 1: man he is, first of all, and he came through
Speaker 1: for us, you know, four to four and did a
Speaker 1: heck of a job. You know, I got to really
Speaker 1: say also say to Ryan Poles and his staff there,
Speaker 1: you know, with Cairo um, you know, having his personal situation,
Speaker 1: you know, he ended up calling in some kickers. We
Speaker 1: worked him out, We were able to sign him, you know, Badley.
Speaker 1: So that was so so good by those guys. And
Speaker 1: really fourth, you know, thinking by Ryan and his staff.
Speaker 1: It's an underrated thing around league, that emergency list, and
Speaker 1: you gotta have connections and get things moving in the
Speaker 1: right direction for something like that. We'll touch on Cairo
Speaker 1: in a second, but uh, and then just to trust
Speaker 1: your eyes in that moment during a workout, and and
Speaker 1: going with your gut right because and there's no time
Speaker 1: for introductions, and get him in, get him on the plane.
Speaker 1: You know, there's been some great career spawned from that.
Speaker 1: Robbie Gould here, who's you know, got on a plane
Speaker 1: to play Cleveland and he's still kicking. How is Cairo?
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, everything sounds everything, everything's good. Kyle was
Speaker 1: back in the building. Everything looks up and up. And
Speaker 1: again I'll let him discuss his personal matter with everybody
Speaker 1: once he gets to the Metia here this week, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: everything looks great. And for emergency purposes, I wrote this
Speaker 1: down on my notes this morning. Would it be advantageous
Speaker 1: to have a second kicker on the practice squad. Is
Speaker 1: that if you really value somebody, it's it's more spots
Speaker 1: down the practice squad. I know, I'd like to develop
Speaker 1: players and so forth, but situations like these, whatever might
Speaker 1: happen during a practice, somebody gets hurt, whatever, is that
Speaker 1: something that, Yeah, it would be a good idea. I
Speaker 1: think it could be. You know, I haven't discussed that
Speaker 1: yet with Ryan, but you know, I think it could
Speaker 1: be advantageous for sure. All right, let's talk about Cole
Speaker 1: Commet the tight end screen loved it. I loved the screenplays. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they can take the start out of a pass rush
Speaker 1: pretty good. But a couple of those really can get
Speaker 1: a quarterback going too. Yeah, no doubt, they're really good.
Speaker 1: Those wide delay screens. You know, they're tough to defend,
Speaker 1: you know, once you know, because we got some athletic
Speaker 1: lineman that can get out there on the blocks, you know,
Speaker 1: to lead that way. And the lineman did a good job.
Speaker 1: You know, Cody did a nice job on that play.
Speaker 1: You know, Tevin did a nice job on that play,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know Sam also, So you have
Speaker 1: to have the blockers in front of you, you know,
Speaker 1: and then the Titans really got to do good job
Speaker 1: of selling it. You got to really sell that protection
Speaker 1: piece to it before you flip, you know, and catch
Speaker 1: that pass. So he's been doing a nice job with that.
Speaker 1: Trevior Westcoe got a fair amount of snaps in this one.
Speaker 1: We don't know that much about him here, but he's
Speaker 1: been in the league for a while, had himself a
Speaker 1: catch in this game as well. We can tell us
Speaker 1: more about what he's done. A good job. You know,
Speaker 1: he's coming late, you know, from you know, obviously after
Speaker 1: training camp, and uh, you know, he's been great, you know,
Speaker 1: doing a great job of picking up the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, we really are pleased to have him because
Speaker 1: he's our hy blocker, you know. So Ryan's been out,
Speaker 1: he's been on the ball blocking that y spot and
Speaker 1: on that particular played did a nice job of getting
Speaker 1: his depth and really made a nice catch and Jake
Speaker 1: tongas with with one snap Ryan maybe on the mend
Speaker 1: here Ryan Griffin, Yeah, we hope. So he's day to day.
Speaker 1: We'll see where he is. Like a lot of guys,
Speaker 1: you know, demos that same way, he's a day to
Speaker 1: day guy. We'll see where he is and we'll go
Speaker 1: from there. All right, let's switch back to the running
Speaker 1: game for a moment. Another good number in yards like
Speaker 1: you mentioned in the first segment, but hard to earn
Speaker 1: against the Giants, but seven hundred nine yards after four games,
Speaker 1: that's the most by the Bears since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: So again, for some reason, the league is putting up
Speaker 1: a lot of numbers around the league with rushing yards.
Speaker 1: We theorized on the team playing top there, and there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different reasons. But going back to
Speaker 1: the old blood of your nose type of running game
Speaker 1: is not a bad idea. Say, you know when you
Speaker 1: need it right, yeah, yeah, you have to rely on
Speaker 1: a good running game, So open up the passing game.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something we're building. And the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know, Chris Morgan and Luke gets you have done
Speaker 1: a great job of calling up these runs and coaching
Speaker 1: them up. You know, it's it's not as easy as
Speaker 1: it looks. You know, you have to block force the
Speaker 1: right way. We got to change it when the defensive
Speaker 1: presents different looks and you have to have those things
Speaker 1: built in, and they do a wonderful job and I
Speaker 1: think gets you referred to it last week. You know,
Speaker 1: the cans from one side of the other, from one
Speaker 1: run play to the next, or you know, a pass
Speaker 1: play to a run play. And our quarterbacks had a
Speaker 1: great job doing that, you know, And that's not an
Speaker 1: easy job. And he's he's really a nice job. A
Speaker 1: note on a justin on his scrambles, and he's joked
Speaker 1: about it in the past two even last season. His slides.
Speaker 1: Would you like them to begin sooner to avoid a
Speaker 1: pot or you know, sometimes it gets a little awkward
Speaker 1: and the risk of injuries. I think he's I think
Speaker 1: he does a good job of that. I think he does.
Speaker 1: You know, those defenders have to fly, you know, he slides,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's a quick he's a quick guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he does it pretty quick, and those defenders just
Speaker 1: have to fly over top of him and can't hit him.
Speaker 1: So the Giants lurking all around. Their safety is back deep.
Speaker 1: Corner's way off the ball. It's third and twenty. Field's
Speaker 1: gonna flick it. Passes caught Herbert forty five forty thirty
Speaker 1: five thirty in the first dive of the pairs, moves
Speaker 1: the scrum pile down there. The twenty seven of the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Well time perfectly blocked up fields to
Speaker 1: Herbert for twenty four yards on the screen on third
Speaker 1: down and a long way to go a kickoff tailgating
Speaker 1: season with a league leading lineup at your local jewel
Speaker 1: osco get everything from chips and tips, two wings and
Speaker 1: other things in one quick trip, Bears head coach Matt Eberflus,
Speaker 1: And we just heard the twenty four yards screen on
Speaker 1: third and twenty Time has a joke and the broadcast
Speaker 1: when it gets a certain number, we don't have plays
Speaker 1: for that man, but you did on third and twenty. No,
Speaker 1: that was a good a good play callum there and
Speaker 1: obviously really good execution. You know. That was really a
Speaker 1: good way to flip the field. And we did a
Speaker 1: nice job there and those those things are always good
Speaker 1: to have. And I thought we had the right play
Speaker 1: call but also the right person. You know, Herbert's a
Speaker 1: strong runner south, he gets vertical right now, he gets
Speaker 1: north right now, and he's got his pads down. And again,
Speaker 1: like I explained earlier on the Kolkamet screen, it takes everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, so you got receivers blocking down the field,
Speaker 1: you know, Saint Brown was blocking down their Pettis was
Speaker 1: blocking down there, a mirror was blocking the mirror yep,
Speaker 1: and Tevin Jenkins had not one, but two two different blocks,
Speaker 1: two big blocks on that one. You know, So the
Speaker 1: guy's got to get out in front of it and
Speaker 1: did nice jobs. That was a great team effort. So
Speaker 1: aside from and whatever the scheme is, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: the decisions are. My Luke getsy when you guys put
Speaker 1: together the game plans. Can the screen become something that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what's coming? You can't stop a type of
Speaker 1: thing that becomes a real weapon if it's run just
Speaker 1: so perfectly. Yeah, I think you have to have a
Speaker 1: number of screens because you have to change the looks
Speaker 1: and change who's getting the screens, and then change the
Speaker 1: formations and the motions in front of them. So I
Speaker 1: think you can't be predictable. I think it's got to
Speaker 1: be a different look every time, which I think we've
Speaker 1: done a good job of that. How do defenses feel
Speaker 1: about defending screens? A lot of time deception angle that
Speaker 1: you know gets them going twenty a lot of times.
Speaker 1: What people do is they back up, you know, you
Speaker 1: get that front line at ten yards on a third
Speaker 1: and twenty so you got space to block, guys. You know,
Speaker 1: the one thing you got to have is athletic lineman
Speaker 1: to be a block in space, and we have that
Speaker 1: with Herbert nineteen to seventy seven, now six point one
Speaker 1: yards to carry on his fifty two carries this year,
Speaker 1: and I love going into the history. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's Walter Payton and Gail Sayers the only other backs
Speaker 1: with better than six yards of carry with at least
Speaker 1: fifty attempts to start a season. Peyton did it in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven and Sayers did it in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1: So that's some pretty rare company. I know, it's not
Speaker 1: a me sport. It's a regard right there for sure.
Speaker 1: But emphasizing the production though it's it's it's good stuff, No,
Speaker 1: it is, it is. And you know you have to
Speaker 1: build on things, you know that are positive, and that's
Speaker 1: certainly a positive for us. And he's got a good
Speaker 1: downhill style, and he's got a good bounce out and
Speaker 1: a good cut back, and he's got his pads low
Speaker 1: and he reads those plays really nice, and you know
Speaker 1: he's got to continue to do that really press that
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and read those things at the last moment.
Speaker 1: Also with reading with Justin facing a lot of eight
Speaker 1: man fronts right now, obviously with him and the backs
Speaker 1: that are doing so well and Giants play man. You
Speaker 1: know they turned their back. Is that give him an
Speaker 1: immediate invitation to take that ball and go well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it More importantly, it opens up the passing game,
Speaker 1: you know when you get eight man box and a
Speaker 1: lot of times they were they were going zero yesterday,
Speaker 1: so we you know, we got a chance to take
Speaker 1: advantage of those things with those downfield throws, and we
Speaker 1: got to continue to do that. And for the fans
Speaker 1: who are not exs and those crazy like we are,
Speaker 1: zero means zero means when they have nobody in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, you know, so cover one with
Speaker 1: you they got one guy back and cover zero they
Speaker 1: have nobody back, So they got more guys on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and their max pressuring and the zero
Speaker 1: blitz is they just bring the house. A lot of
Speaker 1: run blitz is yesterday, don't you think, Yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of them. How do you think they responded to
Speaker 1: those runblitz is good? Yeah? I thought we did a
Speaker 1: good job of pushing the pile and getting positive yards
Speaker 1: on most of them. A lot of stuff to build
Speaker 1: on offensively, and I know everybody wants it right now,
Speaker 1: and so there's a throw up your hands type of
Speaker 1: feeling at times. Well, can you tell folks about how
Speaker 1: hard it is to develop an offense, especially a new
Speaker 1: one with a lot of young players and a young quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it starts from the beginning, you know, when
Speaker 1: you put informations, motions, shifts, you know, run blocking. You
Speaker 1: know how we have a variance of runs. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not just an outside stretch team. We run other schemes.
Speaker 1: We got what we call gap schemes where they people
Speaker 1: actually poll sometimes garden tackle poll. Sometimes it's the guard.
Speaker 1: And then how we block force, you know, that's so important.
Speaker 1: You can see it visibly on tape. How we use
Speaker 1: our receivers to block force. And there's the varying ways
Speaker 1: to do that based on the coverage shell, based on
Speaker 1: the front. Sometimes those guys are inserting inside the tight
Speaker 1: end to block inside there. So it's an important part.
Speaker 1: So there's it's all eleven of us doing the same
Speaker 1: thing at the same time, you know, and that's just
Speaker 1: the run game. And now you talk about the passing
Speaker 1: in the protections. You know the route depths, the you
Speaker 1: know the timing and the rhythm of the passing game.
Speaker 1: So it's coming together and we saw improvement. We saw
Speaker 1: improvement yesterday on that on the rhythm and timing and
Speaker 1: getting the ball down the field to a couple of
Speaker 1: our players in certainly moving hacked. Just the language alone
Speaker 1: and understanding what the responsibilities are for all the other
Speaker 1: ten players for justin fields and know where they're going
Speaker 1: to be on any given play at any given adjustment
Speaker 1: and all that. So right then, job, he's done a
Speaker 1: great job with all the verbiage and you know calling
Speaker 1: it it's day one, he's done a great job. When
Speaker 1: I we'll get in more into justin fields after another break,
Speaker 1: snapping to play fake fields with time looking parting deep downfield,
Speaker 1: going for money over the solder, got it inside the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line. Wow, what a catch. Beared it out,
Speaker 1: fly down the sideline left and that's a bomb of
Speaker 1: fifty six yards and the Bears in business. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears Coach You Show with Bears head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus Bears will be getting ready for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Later in the program, we'll take a look at what
Speaker 1: Minnesota is doing, especially after their long visit to London.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Justin Fields. This is interesting. I
Speaker 1: saw this. One of the writers put it out there
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Justin Fields through week four this year, fifty
Speaker 1: seven completion percentage, seventy point three quarterback rating. If you're
Speaker 1: into these numbers or whatever. In year two, Josh Allen
Speaker 1: through week four of his second year, fifty five percent
Speaker 1: completion percentage sixty eight point four. Same perspective is important here,
Speaker 1: would you say? Yeah? It is? It is. You know,
Speaker 1: we're building upon something, you know, and and it's one
Speaker 1: step at a time, you know. So you know, we
Speaker 1: thought we took a step forward, you know, in that
Speaker 1: direction yesterday with the rhythm of timing getting the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. Um, you know. So I think that's
Speaker 1: an important piece to it. And you have to have perspective,
Speaker 1: you really do. You got to make sure you looking
Speaker 1: at the big picture, taking one step at a time
Speaker 1: and just moving and progressing as we go. And that
Speaker 1: throw we just heard from Justin Fields to Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: I would call that a confidence throw. Would you I
Speaker 1: would too, you know, and I've said it all along.
Speaker 1: This guy can throw a deep ball, you know. And
Speaker 1: he put that one right on the money. And uh,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier in the segment, you know, Mooney
Speaker 1: did a nice step adjusting back into the defender and
Speaker 1: then sliding back outside to catch that ball in great
Speaker 1: concentration by him. And because of that, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: knows that he can throw a great deep ball. He
Speaker 1: did at a house state. He's shrown it many times
Speaker 1: already in his short career. But there's a higher expectation
Speaker 1: than these kinds of throws too. There's a perception maybe
Speaker 1: that you guys are staying on the conservative side of this,
Speaker 1: but it's all with in the formulation of what you
Speaker 1: want to attack. And yeah, that's right. Can you tell
Speaker 1: tell us more about No, that's right. You know you
Speaker 1: have to you know it's an old, old saying, but
Speaker 1: so you have to take what the defense gives you,
Speaker 1: you know, and if they're they're all open, they're tight,
Speaker 1: you know. Defending the run, we're gonna have to take
Speaker 1: some shots down the field, and we certainly did that,
Speaker 1: you know yesterday. You know, if they're playing soft, which
Speaker 1: you've played a couple of teams that have done that.
Speaker 1: Then we need to take the underneath throws and be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball, which we've done you know
Speaker 1: when they give you that. So it's it's about winning
Speaker 1: the game, and it's also about developing our offense as
Speaker 1: we go. But part of developing our offense is putting
Speaker 1: a game plan together to win the game that we're playing,
Speaker 1: and that's going to change every week. How would you
Speaker 1: say you educate a quarterback on the window of opportunity
Speaker 1: on a throw like what's open and what's not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would just say he's got to listen. You know,
Speaker 1: we've said it all along, but it's true. You got
Speaker 1: to listen to your feet. You know. The way your
Speaker 1: feet are is when the ball is supposed to be delivered,
Speaker 1: you know, and then if that's not open, then you
Speaker 1: had to have to hitch up one and then to
Speaker 1: deliver it then and then from there and then then
Speaker 1: the plays the clocks over. Now you got to take
Speaker 1: off and go. So he just got to listen to
Speaker 1: his feet. What do you not want infiltreating his mind?
Speaker 1: At this point? Um, I just wanted to stay with
Speaker 1: the process. I know that's coach speak, but you really
Speaker 1: have to be in the moment. You have to stay
Speaker 1: with the process of him looking at the tape, getting
Speaker 1: better and improving, you know, coming in, you know, in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days, getting the game plan, getting
Speaker 1: the preview for it, and then working into Wednesday and
Speaker 1: having a great practice on Wednesday, and then that's all
Speaker 1: we can focus on right now. Coaches are results driven
Speaker 1: from snap to snap. Do numbers or stats or things
Speaker 1: like that influence you in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: do you not? No? I think I think it's part
Speaker 1: of all. I take it all information, you know, so
Speaker 1: I look at all information in terms of stats and
Speaker 1: you know, from everywhere, and I think that's you can
Speaker 1: you can clean information from that, and I think it's
Speaker 1: important that you do that because now you can you
Speaker 1: can give that to the player and a positive you
Speaker 1: can give it to and how he's going to improve
Speaker 1: and use all information um analytics. So when you first
Speaker 1: started coaching, that term probably didn't exist, right, No, it didn't. Uh,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about it? No? I think it's good.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I mean, you have to embrace it.
Speaker 1: You have to. You have to because because it's there.
Speaker 1: You know, it's there, and it's good, you know, it's
Speaker 1: really good. You can you can have you know, so
Speaker 1: much information given to you, you know, and you've got
Speaker 1: to have somebody that's there to break it down, you know,
Speaker 1: because there's so much there. They have to put it
Speaker 1: on a one pager for you, you know. And then
Speaker 1: I think and you really do a good job of
Speaker 1: working through that with that, how you're going to operate
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, when are you gonna go
Speaker 1: for fourth downs? You know, when do you use your
Speaker 1: time outs? When you know, how is the guy operating?
Speaker 1: You know, in terms of the downfield throws or how
Speaker 1: the runners are running yards after contact? Are we really
Speaker 1: getting what we say we're really knocking the pile forward
Speaker 1: or really really knocking it back. Um, So you can
Speaker 1: use those things and GPS, you can use it for
Speaker 1: the player's health, you know, we do a lot of
Speaker 1: that during the course of the week. You know, we
Speaker 1: measure distances, you know, effort speeds, you know, because we
Speaker 1: try to get each player up to his max speed
Speaker 1: ninety percent of his max speed three times a week
Speaker 1: because that's supposed to help with injury, you know, And
Speaker 1: so we get that done. We're making sure the players
Speaker 1: know that. So that's just one example how we use it.
Speaker 1: Play action to the pocket flag flies, He's going deep
Speaker 1: down the field. Bendy Jackson, Hey be beautiful. Over the
Speaker 1: shoulder interception inside the ten yard line. The Bears held
Speaker 1: a deep found by Tyrod Taylor making the play here
Speaker 1: on the fourth quarter in New York. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: here tonight. Just heard the Eddie Jackson interception. Tremendous interception.
Speaker 1: Tell tell me how hard that was to intercept that
Speaker 1: pack Yeah, that's you know, the longer and further the
Speaker 1: ball goes, you know, you gotta track it longer and
Speaker 1: know certainly with the wind in there yesterday, it was
Speaker 1: significant and that's it's made it even more special. So, um,
Speaker 1: what a great job by him covering all that space
Speaker 1: and tracking that ball all the way down there and
Speaker 1: catching it over his shoulder, looking at it all the
Speaker 1: way in. You know, it's too bad that we couldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, get that guy to peel off of him
Speaker 1: so we can get a nice return on that, you know,
Speaker 1: because we got the ball down there in a short
Speaker 1: field but backed up. But what a great job scouts
Speaker 1: always taught, you know, can it? Can a guy track
Speaker 1: it not only as a receiver but as a defender.
Speaker 1: What are some of the key fundamentals of tracking deep passes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would just say it's concentration, It really is, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you got to really knowing the time you're jump.
Speaker 1: If you're going up with a receiver, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a big thing. When the time you're jumping, you got
Speaker 1: to practice it. You know, you got to throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field for these guys. And you know,
Speaker 1: we do a couple other things where we use these
Speaker 1: bags that have these arms on them and we throw
Speaker 1: the ball there and it gets tipped. That really works
Speaker 1: on your concentration too, to be able to track a
Speaker 1: ball once it's tipped. Because a lot of times, most
Speaker 1: of the time with a defensive back, you know, you
Speaker 1: have to get it, catch it outside the frame, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you're a receiver, the quarterbacks put
Speaker 1: it on your rame. Well, when you're a dB, a
Speaker 1: lot of times you catch it out of the frame.
Speaker 1: So we always want to throw the ball outside the
Speaker 1: frame of the body to make sure he has to
Speaker 1: reach for it and track it outside of the frame.
Speaker 1: Blitzed him a fair amount yesterday as well. He had
Speaker 1: some from the post into the box and that's something
Speaker 1: he's done in the past as well. How did that
Speaker 1: go in your opinion? It was good, It was good.
Speaker 1: We thought he was in there good and ended up
Speaker 1: making some tackles at the line of scrimmains a couple
Speaker 1: maybe one behind the line of scrimmons I think or
Speaker 1: was in on one of those, but one of him
Speaker 1: he made a mistake, you know. He went in the
Speaker 1: A gap, you know, so he's supposed to go into
Speaker 1: B gap. That was one that ripped off, you know,
Speaker 1: in the second half, and he knows that we got
Speaker 1: to do a better job of making sure we're in
Speaker 1: the right spot. Over on nine tackle day and some
Speaker 1: one on ones with sae Quon Barkley, I know coach
Speaker 1: Alan Williams mentioned the thick thighed player and he is.
Speaker 1: Those are steel belted right there. No, that's good and
Speaker 1: you know, and Eddie did a nice job, he really did.
Speaker 1: He played a solid game yesterday. I let's talking about
Speaker 1: the other safety, Jiquon Brisker. He had himself a sack
Speaker 1: nack Jones out of the game for a bit. He
Speaker 1: didn't really he wasn't the same quarterback after that. But
Speaker 1: that had to be some kind of head spinning learning
Speaker 1: lesson though for rookies in this game. Defensively, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was. There's certainly a lot of learning moments for
Speaker 1: all the rookies. You know, we're out there playing with
Speaker 1: think four right now, defensive lineman you know, two DB's three,
Speaker 1: two defensive backs. Yeah, so you know we're playing with
Speaker 1: those guys, and those guys are improving. You know, they're
Speaker 1: getting better, but they also have learning moments, and they
Speaker 1: did yesterday. You know, I thought Jaquan had some really
Speaker 1: good hits. So yesterday, obviously the sack was a real
Speaker 1: nice play. I thought he had a nice pass breakup
Speaker 1: that was a really solid hit on the sideline. Um,
Speaker 1: they're late in the game, so he's getting better and
Speaker 1: improving as he as he continues to grow. Do you
Speaker 1: think his I mean we suggested it, you know when
Speaker 1: he came out of Penn State. And when he's got
Speaker 1: that physicality to him, will he be in your opinion,
Speaker 1: a tone center at safety because of the kind of
Speaker 1: hits he can bring to the Yeah, that's what we
Speaker 1: want to throw into that. Yeah, we want a physical
Speaker 1: style and he certainly, you know, exudes that every time
Speaker 1: he steps onto the field and proves it every time.
Speaker 1: And uh, and we were excited about where he's going.
Speaker 1: We talk about Kyler Gordon a lot because we have
Speaker 1: high expectations for him. And overall, what would you think
Speaker 1: of yesterday's Yeah, for him, it's yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1: It was good. Obviously we don't like the dpi you know,
Speaker 1: um on the sideline there, But that's again technique he's got.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a good technique on that particular play
Speaker 1: we got. We got to help him with that, you know,
Speaker 1: coach has got to help him with that. And he's
Speaker 1: going to get better. And in that situation, a lot
Speaker 1: of times when you're trailing player, you're doing so Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got tangled up with him a little bit. They're
Speaker 1: gonna throw the flag on that, But that seemingly something
Speaker 1: that happens quite a bit. Now, Yeah, that happens all
Speaker 1: the time, but it's always always happens at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. You know what you do at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, the first five yards for a defensive back
Speaker 1: is everything, and then obviously at the catch point and
Speaker 1: having ployees through all the way through the down. So um,
Speaker 1: we'll get better at times. You we mentioned early in
Speaker 1: the confidence you have in the development of the special
Speaker 1: team's unit, and there's a lot of young players on
Speaker 1: that unit getting great opportunities. Josh Blackwell, let's find out
Speaker 1: what he's all about. Who he is. He's out of duke,
Speaker 1: undrafted rook That's a big hit right there. I thought
Speaker 1: for a moment Jalen Jones had recovered the fumble in here,
Speaker 1: he recovered his own fumble. Yeah, we got two rookies
Speaker 1: out there as the gunners, and those guys they are
Speaker 1: both fast, you know, so there'll be a gunner. You
Speaker 1: have to be fast, and those guys are that. And
Speaker 1: he was physical you know on that play. Did nice
Speaker 1: to about putting himself in there, put his pads on
Speaker 1: the ball and then it squirted over to Jalen Jones
Speaker 1: and then ended up popping out of there. But he
Speaker 1: ended up second effort, you know, the hustle principle. Really
Speaker 1: nice by Blackwall to jump on the ball there and
Speaker 1: get a great field position for our football team. And
Speaker 1: with a guy like that, what he's being taught, can
Speaker 1: some of that be translatable to the to the defense
Speaker 1: at some point down sure. Yeah, we've been working him
Speaker 1: in at nicol We've been working him on the outside.
Speaker 1: So he's been working, you know, really hard um to
Speaker 1: get on the field. So we're we'll continue to look
Speaker 1: at that. Daniel Jones and a quarterback takes fakes and
Speaker 1: this time the Bears are not fulled waiting for him.
Speaker 1: Jack Kwon Brisker finally back to the thirty five yard
Speaker 1: line and Jones comes up limping. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show. We just heard Jikwan Briskers sack. We
Speaker 1: mentioned it a little bit in segment number five. Break
Speaker 1: it down one more time, Jiquan. Yeah, so that's a
Speaker 1: that's a tight end pressure for us, you know, so
Speaker 1: coming off the tight inside and you know, it's really
Speaker 1: he has to do a good job of feeling the
Speaker 1: quarterback goal away. So as he comes off the edge,
Speaker 1: he has to take three hard steps down the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Okay, go through the mesh point, which is
Speaker 1: where they go with the halfback, and if he comes
Speaker 1: out with the ball, then he gets flatten, comes up
Speaker 1: and that's what he did, and he made a nice
Speaker 1: sack on that play and did a real nice job
Speaker 1: of body control. Okay, at the very end of that
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to make that tackle, sometimes
Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and just you know, hit.
Speaker 1: They got really hard and signs you missed that tackle.
Speaker 1: So I thought he did a nice job of gathering
Speaker 1: himself to make the secure tackle at the very end
Speaker 1: of that play. I please don't bite my head off
Speaker 1: on this one. So outside contain not just I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about Brisker specifically, but anybody. Is it as simple
Speaker 1: as just hold your ground and don't get sucked in?
Speaker 1: And is it always? Should there always be outside, especially
Speaker 1: now with the RPO thing going and you're going to
Speaker 1: see more of it this year. Yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: always want to be able to contain the quarterback in
Speaker 1: the pocket. You know, we need to do a better
Speaker 1: job of that. You know, Tyrod Taylor got out one time,
Speaker 1: you know, we would inside charged by ninety four, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we need to do a bad job with
Speaker 1: containment there. But you always want to have it the
Speaker 1: quarterback contained. Obviously in run defense, you always want to
Speaker 1: have containment, and it's that's the player that's outside in
Speaker 1: on the football and there's always one guy at least
Speaker 1: responsible for that, and we have to do a good
Speaker 1: job with that. Overall, it's gonna take many different ways
Speaker 1: to win games. There's no there's no formula that's going
Speaker 1: to be absolutely operational. Everything you have, you have goals
Speaker 1: you want to set for each each phase. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know certain you mentioned it a few times already.
Speaker 1: Hey you want to hold you know, I think what
Speaker 1: was yesterday you wanted to hold, say Quan to how
Speaker 1: much you carry under three into threes? Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you said all those. But they want a game
Speaker 1: with minimal passing yard yesterday, Right, they're down receivers, they
Speaker 1: use their tight end in fullback. They've been doing that
Speaker 1: quite a bit, you know. Just a little bit goes
Speaker 1: a long way, is my point, right, And you could
Speaker 1: as a team feel the same way right from your perspective.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you know, these like I said yesterday,
Speaker 1: these games are you know, they're small margins in these games,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know you have to do things right,
Speaker 1: you know, and they always come down to six or
Speaker 1: seven plays. You know, in those six and seven plays.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, like two weeks ago, we made
Speaker 1: those plays at the end of the game to win
Speaker 1: the game. You know, we got to continue to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, they always come down to that many plays
Speaker 1: and you got to make those impactful plays when they count.
Speaker 1: I think fourteen games sided by a score, right, an
Speaker 1: NFL record again this week, yep. I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I know why it's all happening right now, this season,
Speaker 1: all these first times. Yeah, I think it's started with
Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, you know, Yeah, it's working into the
Speaker 1: regular season, and I think it's set up that way.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just started to come down into the
Speaker 1: last two minutes of the game. So it's not just
Speaker 1: early season teams trying to figure themselves out, getting adjusted
Speaker 1: ten new coaches. I mean, is that part of it
Speaker 1: or is this how twenty twenty two may roll. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It looks like it's patterning that way. It
Speaker 1: looks like a pattern to me. So we'll see, as
Speaker 1: a coach that has built his career on defense, is
Speaker 1: that up your alley? Then? Um, you know, hey, you
Speaker 1: gotta play what it is. You know, you got to
Speaker 1: play the ball where it lies and uh and see
Speaker 1: where we go. But we're certainly uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: first part of the season's been that way, all right.
Speaker 1: I got a touch on this because the five of
Speaker 1: the first seven drives I believe deep into Giants territory
Speaker 1: over three in the red zone. So you got deep
Speaker 1: on those. Even if one or two of those come home,
Speaker 1: there's a different story here. It changes the complexion of
Speaker 1: the game. You put more pressure on opposition. That's going
Speaker 1: to be critical here that red Just simple execution here
Speaker 1: and there will make a big difference. Yeah, I mean you,
Speaker 1: like you said, you turn one of those into a touchdown,
Speaker 1: you know, or two, you know, and then that's a
Speaker 1: different ball game, you know. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: important that we execute not only on third down because
Speaker 1: that's what it points to. Hey if we would have
Speaker 1: converted those third downs, but hey, on first and down,
Speaker 1: you know, you can score on those plays. Too, So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we have to be aggressive, which we are
Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to do that all right now,
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Speaker 1: What a game that was. I'm sure you popped on
Speaker 1: some of it, but uh sixty yard field goal attempts
Speaker 1: and sixty one yard or banks twice. It's a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy game this NFL right now, but a well harder
Speaker 1: and win by Minnesota Vikings, a division opponent three and one,
Speaker 1: and a lot of weapons that come to mind right
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Yeah, I mean, they have a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons on offense, of course, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's you know, certainly two backs that they're going to
Speaker 1: use are really good obviously, the two receivers they have
Speaker 1: are really good, you know, so in the quarterbacks a
Speaker 1: really good player too. You know, they got players all
Speaker 1: across the board, and it's going to be a big
Speaker 1: challenge for us for our defense this week. And then
Speaker 1: on their defense they have, you know, obviously, the two
Speaker 1: outside rushers are really good players, good solid players. Inside
Speaker 1: their middle linebackers, you know, one of the best in football,
Speaker 1: you know, so they got a lot of good players
Speaker 1: on our team. They got a good roster, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a handful for our football team to go
Speaker 1: up there and take care of business. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: you didn't name any of the players, but everybody knows
Speaker 1: who they are. Yeah, and we're talking Kirk Cousins, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison and Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson. Tell us what
Speaker 1: this guy's all about. They're moving him all over the place.
Speaker 1: Matchup nightmare. Yeah, he's he's obviously one of the best
Speaker 1: in the business and he's proven that. And uh, we
Speaker 1: certainly got our hands full with him, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do It's gonna be all eleven of us
Speaker 1: to take care of him in that offense. What is
Speaker 1: his What make what separates him right now? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 1: I just think explosive athletic ability. He's so explosive and
Speaker 1: he has the ability to go get the ball. And
Speaker 1: he's strong, you know, he's he's a strong player too,
Speaker 1: you know, strong through the catch and strong through the
Speaker 1: whole route. And defensively, you mentioned the middle linebacker and Kendricks,
Speaker 1: but I always go to Harrison Smith. I'm a big
Speaker 1: safety guy. I love how he plays the game. He's
Speaker 1: steady and always a dangerous guy and on a blitz.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're still doing that. I haven't
Speaker 1: watched their tape yet. Harrison's played for a long time.
Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of tape on him, and he
Speaker 1: does it all. You know. He plays in the deep part,
Speaker 1: plays in the quarter, plays in the half, plays in
Speaker 1: the middle, and he's a heck of a blitzer and
Speaker 1: he does a great job with his disguises. So he's
Speaker 1: done it all through his career. And Zadarius Smith is
Speaker 1: playing with some fire and some vigoris feels. I think
Speaker 1: he's got a little hip on a shoulder for some reason.
Speaker 1: Outside pass rusher, and really they utilize him all over
Speaker 1: the place. So three times where they put him over
Speaker 1: the ball and he's rushing in a gaps and the
Speaker 1: gaps in the knowing the first and second down, and
Speaker 1: they do a lot of things with him, and they
Speaker 1: should know they should get matchups where they want with
Speaker 1: that player. And Biggs, he's done a nice job, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: good luck in your week of preparation for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Appreciate it. Maddy Refluce here on the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show, We're out of time. I want to thank
Speaker 1: Keith Johnson, Andy gersher, Dan Breally, Jordan Trentup and of
Speaker 1: course Bears head coach Mattie Beflus. I'm Jeff Joniac. Week
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