Speaker 1: Lesen Good, even everybody, and welcome to P ANDC Studios
Speaker 1: here at HAIs On. Welcome to the Bears Coaching Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Matt Naggy, Jeff Joni Ech with you
Speaker 1: till eight o'clock tonight. Dramatic come from behind when sixteen
Speaker 1: fourteen Eddie Pineto's fifty three yard field goal as time
Speaker 1: expires A lot to unpacked tonight. Coach, that was some
Speaker 1: kind of emotional roller coaster at the end of the
Speaker 1: game there, How do you put that in perspective for
Speaker 1: yourself watching it all unfold? Yeah, it was wild. Always
Speaker 1: good to be on the winning side of that, that's
Speaker 1: that's for sure. But our guys just that it was
Speaker 1: an emotional roller coaster, just starting with the they go
Speaker 1: for two, and then the extra point miss, then the
Speaker 1: off side and then then go for two and get it,
Speaker 1: and then go down the field and make plays and
Speaker 1: our kicker end it with a with a big kick.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. Yeah, it was cool for everybody.
Speaker 1: Struck though, with your foresight to take that Saints game
Speaker 1: against the Texans that you brought up on our postgame
Speaker 1: show and show the guys on Saturday, Hey, this is
Speaker 1: how it's done with one second to go. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just amazing. There are so many different situations
Speaker 1: that go on throughout the year year and you know,
Speaker 1: watching that Saints Texans game was wild as well. It
Speaker 1: was almost as eerially similar to how that went down.
Speaker 1: And so we showed it to our guys on Saturday
Speaker 1: morning and made them answer questions as to what we
Speaker 1: would do here, what we do there, because there were
Speaker 1: some times where you may call time out or may not.
Speaker 1: But again, they had one time out left and we
Speaker 1: had one time out left. And so after they hit
Speaker 1: the two point conversion yesterday, we went up and down
Speaker 1: the sideline and said, hey, we just watched the Saints
Speaker 1: to it, let's go do it. And our guys felt it.
Speaker 1: They felt the energy and you could see they were confident,
Speaker 1: and so that's that's what we did. We were able
Speaker 1: to move the ball down the field, our guys made
Speaker 1: plays on offense when needed, and um, you know, and
Speaker 1: then again you couldn't had it any better finished than
Speaker 1: Eddie to put it through the middle right. But Buster
Speaker 1: screened by the way, said that Naggie's like a guy
Speaker 1: in terms of the ability of throwing it out there
Speaker 1: you know about the scenario circumstances, that's the game, that's
Speaker 1: that's the NFL. Yeah it is. And I think that
Speaker 1: there's so much parody in this league that so many
Speaker 1: games are won and lost less than seven points, and
Speaker 1: yesterday was a prime example. And so I just want
Speaker 1: to give so much credit to um, you know, the
Speaker 1: players for believing in that and trusting in it, and
Speaker 1: then special teams yesterday, to our special teams, I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know what, not just not just our
Speaker 1: field goal team, but just punting the ball, setting world
Speaker 1: records with Pat O'Donnell, and just our cover coach Tabor
Speaker 1: and Jamie Cole and those guys. I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: uh doing some great stuff. Yeah, we'll talk to Chris
Speaker 1: Tabor starting at the bottom of the hour, and this
Speaker 1: coaches show tonight, the special team's coordinator, we'll allow to
Speaker 1: talk about. Indeed, let's dig in a little bit into
Speaker 1: Pinnere because from what he told everybody after the game,
Speaker 1: he told you I got you, coach, So you want
Speaker 1: to hear that obviously, and I know from being around
Speaker 1: here for a long time, there have been something they
Speaker 1: don't want to take that kick necessarily he wanted the kick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and again, um a credit to him for
Speaker 1: for having that mentality and that confidence. We talk about
Speaker 1: visualized to actualize and so m we try to crave
Speaker 1: pressure and create pressure and everything that he has done
Speaker 1: during this offseason working up to this point, you try
Speaker 1: to make it a little easier for him when he
Speaker 1: gets to that moment. And that's what happened. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a it was a great hold by by Pat,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you gotta make the kick. You
Speaker 1: gotta block, you gotta snap, you gotta do everything. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, that thing wasn't just good from there.
Speaker 1: That thing was going to be good from sixty man
Speaker 1: Naggie here on the Bears Coach the show brought to
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Speaker 1: interesting about the end of the game too, You could
Speaker 1: have challenged any number of plays, including those fourth down
Speaker 1: catches for spots, but you had to have that time
Speaker 1: out available to yourself. That thinking, and you have help
Speaker 1: obviously with that too, is not something that should go unnoticed.
Speaker 1: That's a big thing. Yeah, it's you know, being able
Speaker 1: to have one time out is so big and there
Speaker 1: we use the one to to get Khalil back in
Speaker 1: the game there on that fourth down and just to
Speaker 1: get him a little breather. Those guys retired. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just just knowing that you have that that time out
Speaker 1: just it leaves the whole millfield. I mean, we couldn't
Speaker 1: have thrown that ball over the middle to a rob
Speaker 1: at the end without that time out and um, and
Speaker 1: so it is valuable to have that. And and I
Speaker 1: give credit to our our coaches for there. You know
Speaker 1: that the fourth down that they had where they was
Speaker 1: close to the sticks that they converted for a first
Speaker 1: I really wanted to challenge at um, but they they
Speaker 1: you know, that's a game changing challenge, but you also
Speaker 1: lose a time out, right, and so yeah, it was
Speaker 1: it was It was good of our coaches to to
Speaker 1: really we all collaborated and decided not to do it. Boy.
Speaker 1: And it must take some restraint by you, right, it does.
Speaker 1: You're in a moment, yeah, and there's only one chance
Speaker 1: and you can't get it back. And you know, I
Speaker 1: also figured too that that's another you know, you challenge
Speaker 1: at it gives your guys a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a breather as well. But uh, you look back at it,
Speaker 1: and boy, we were we were fortunate to keep it.
Speaker 1: Let's toc Mitch yep made the play when he had
Speaker 1: to ice in the veins. Yeah he did. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that's what, um you know for us, like
Speaker 1: we're we're gonna keep growing with this offense. And I
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's not where we wanted to be at.
Speaker 1: Everybody understand, we all are very aware of that. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a different style yesterday. We were
Speaker 1: more balanced run, running, pass. Uh. But in the end,
Speaker 1: you know, this kid Mitchell had a chance to either
Speaker 1: win the game or not put our team in a
Speaker 1: position to win a game, and he made He made
Speaker 1: throws when he needed to and in that last play
Speaker 1: of the game. That's that's one here as we look
Speaker 1: down the road here, that's one that we can possibly
Speaker 1: look back at and say, man, that was the start.
Speaker 1: And who knows whether whether we do or don't, But
Speaker 1: I just think it was a special play. It was
Speaker 1: a great play by our line. It was a great
Speaker 1: great play by Mitchell, was a great play by a
Speaker 1: rob to get down right away and not run with
Speaker 1: the football. And I mean, I mean even mitche if
Speaker 1: he waits even a half a tick longer before yeah
Speaker 1: gets on the move, I mean think about it. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's uh, we'd be sitting here to you know tonight
Speaker 1: oh and two and um, I just uh again, it's
Speaker 1: it's way easier to be teaching off of wins than
Speaker 1: it is when you and and to it was decided
Speaker 1: uh there with one second to go. So like we said,
Speaker 1: we need one second in the ball. So you we
Speaker 1: asked a ton of questions in your news conference earlier
Speaker 1: today about the offense in general, and I think because
Speaker 1: of expectations, everybody was expecting a season to develop right away.
Speaker 1: But as you pointed out, and as I often point
Speaker 1: out about about this league, every season's different. Just because
Speaker 1: you say it doesn't mean it's gonna be it right away,
Speaker 1: or it may be right away, and I may not
Speaker 1: end the way you want. So this is about the
Speaker 1: whole six team. It is, and there's so many variables
Speaker 1: that go into it. And I you know, we know
Speaker 1: that the instant gratification that's wanted every every year from
Speaker 1: from every team that you get into, but you know
Speaker 1: they do take time, and um, you know we're we're
Speaker 1: going to do everything we can to make sure that
Speaker 1: we find the solutions in this thing. We don't dwell
Speaker 1: on the negatives. We just keep keep hammering away until
Speaker 1: we figure it out. And once we figure out exactly
Speaker 1: what our identity is, UM, I feel like then um,
Speaker 1: and we start scoring more points and we start moving
Speaker 1: the ball better. It's going to be a great combination
Speaker 1: with our defense and our specialty. That's the thing right there.
Speaker 1: You said, when we establish our identity and you established
Speaker 1: an identity last year, and you would think it's the
Speaker 1: same identity, but that's not the case. It's really not.
Speaker 1: And uh, there's there's same principles, there's same concepts within there.
Speaker 1: But uh, we were a different offense last year, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna we're different. Um, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: different this year and next year going forward. And so
Speaker 1: usually it takes, you know, a good six to seven
Speaker 1: games before you really start figuring out what is what?
Speaker 1: What are you hanging your hat on? And sometimes it's
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, you know what, we got these offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and our road graders, and we're just gonna pound
Speaker 1: the ball and just run it, and you got to
Speaker 1: stop us and we'll hit you with play action. Other
Speaker 1: times you might want to spread people out. So we're
Speaker 1: kind of working through that right now. Bears head coach
Speaker 1: Mattneggie step away now for a break at seven, Away
Speaker 1: for WBBM's traffic, and whether together around the eights with
Speaker 1: Abby Ryan a kick. The kid's gonna remember for a
Speaker 1: very long time, always remember your first game winner. And
Speaker 1: Eddie Pinato does it just a couple of days after
Speaker 1: his birthday. Met and you could hear by the exuberance.
Speaker 1: It was quite a moment for everybody. I literally thought,
Speaker 1: I popped the cartilage in my really seriously, it hurts
Speaker 1: so bad. It was in spasm for the next twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: I went nuts. I mean, the coach's booth is right
Speaker 1: next door, and we could see everybody too, and everybody's
Speaker 1: just fist pump, and so you know, you get those
Speaker 1: rare moments in this game. And I said it repeatedly
Speaker 1: after the game, it is so hard to win one game.
Speaker 1: And I know that's now become a thing and it's
Speaker 1: cliche every coach says it, but I believe it. It's
Speaker 1: just it's hard. It's hard to win a game. It
Speaker 1: is and it's just so exciting. Well, you're not around
Speaker 1: many games that come down to the way that that
Speaker 1: that game went down yesterday, and so you know, you
Speaker 1: you see that type of kick, I mean to make
Speaker 1: the other two kicks that he made as well, and
Speaker 1: to have two fifty plus yard field goals and art
Speaker 1: and one to one to win it and extra point.
Speaker 1: He's worked really hard to get to this point and
Speaker 1: he helped us win a game, a big game yesterday,
Speaker 1: And there's just a lot of parody and they're hard
Speaker 1: to get and we we love getting that win. Three
Speaker 1: game road winning streak dating back to last season now,
Speaker 1: and nobody likes talking about stats about previous years because
Speaker 1: it's a whole different scenario. But the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is, and you mentioned it as well yesterday about
Speaker 1: the one and seventeen number hoosing teams going in there
Speaker 1: and in the first a couple of weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: it's the combination i'd imagine of the heat, combination of
Speaker 1: the air. There's got to be something, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot to it. And you go back even to the
Speaker 1: start of the nineteen seventy merger, they've only lost a
Speaker 1: handful of games in the month of September. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's not easy, but so you look at that and
Speaker 1: you realize that again you don't care how you get
Speaker 1: to win, but you get to win. And so are
Speaker 1: I just I'm really you know, I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: a game like this. And similar to last year and
Speaker 1: Green Bay when we played on Week one, I had
Speaker 1: that tough loss. We learn from that, and I think
Speaker 1: a game like this, where you have a game where
Speaker 1: it comes down to a field goal in the offense
Speaker 1: has to um, you know, go down and get a
Speaker 1: field goal position, or the defense needs to get a
Speaker 1: stop on a two point conversion. It could happen again
Speaker 1: this year and we've been through it now, so when
Speaker 1: it happens the next time, we're ready for it and
Speaker 1: we say, hey, you know now you have even more confidence.
Speaker 1: We've already done this, let's go do it again. So
Speaker 1: using that to help us in the future, I'll be
Speaker 1: curious to see how how it works out. Joined the
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Speaker 1: tickets to join now rubbed up the running game. So
Speaker 1: I tweet from somebody said that it brought back memories
Speaker 1: of Chuck Knacks. So chuck knacks, they call it ground
Speaker 1: chuck right, one hundred and fifty three yards judging, but
Speaker 1: the beauty of one drive, nine straight runs love. Yeah, yeah, Well, um,
Speaker 1: I guess we get predictable. We're either all all run
Speaker 1: or all pass. But yeah, it's it's we knew going
Speaker 1: into yesterday that it was going to be kind of
Speaker 1: a if. If you use the analogy of a boxing match,
Speaker 1: there was going to be a lot of body blows
Speaker 1: and you had to stay um consistent with that. And
Speaker 1: and and our guys, our guys did that, and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery obviously had the bulk of the carries and
Speaker 1: he really did a good job with his vision and
Speaker 1: making some extra yards when he had a chance to.
Speaker 1: Obviously Corderyl having a big spark there on that on
Speaker 1: that run, on getting to the edge. Some great blocks
Speaker 1: um by our offensive line and wide receivers and tight ends.
Speaker 1: So it's important to get that going. And and so
Speaker 1: we we got that going a little bit. We get
Speaker 1: we try to get that passing game going, try to
Speaker 1: get them together and we'll you know, put put a
Speaker 1: put a game here together where we're running passed pretty good.
Speaker 1: The other component of that is from a game planning perspective,
Speaker 1: I'm certain you gotta keep those two pass rushers honest
Speaker 1: and run out and make them be if you know,
Speaker 1: tackle too. Also sure, and they knew that going into it.
Speaker 1: But one of our big deals was making sure that
Speaker 1: that that they did not wreck the game, meaning Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb and Von Miller and uh, you know, giving up
Speaker 1: zero sacks yesterday, no sacks, giving up our offensive line.
Speaker 1: I thought they protected their tails off. And then the
Speaker 1: other one too that sticks out. That's really hard and
Speaker 1: people take for granted are the pre snap penalties on
Speaker 1: the road, you know, the false starts, delay games, that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and so false start wise, our guys
Speaker 1: were great, and so you're on silent count. You can't hear.
Speaker 1: It's loud, and we never got into a first and
Speaker 1: fifteen because of a false start, which was really neat.
Speaker 1: Tray Burton was able to get on the field, got
Speaker 1: three targeted throws, but just watching I didn't get through
Speaker 1: all of it, but some of it just cut blocks
Speaker 1: and so for he was asked to make made differences
Speaker 1: in the run game. Yeah, we had some some cup
Speaker 1: blocks in there for those guys, and I thought they
Speaker 1: did a good job that um defended some of them
Speaker 1: as well. So that's there's different types of concepts that
Speaker 1: we have in the run game, and that was one
Speaker 1: of them. Yesterday. We're gonna take another break here, Bear
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Speaker 1: Gates with Abbie Ryan. Longest play of the day twenty
Speaker 1: five yards to Alan Robinson and that just wasn't drawn
Speaker 1: up and the dirt wasn't no, no, that was That's
Speaker 1: a play that it's pretty pretty much a staple play
Speaker 1: for us in that situation, and us the line really
Speaker 1: protected well. They gave Mitch time. Mitch was trying to
Speaker 1: find a pocket to or a lane in the pocket
Speaker 1: to be able to have vision and see him, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden there came a rob coming
Speaker 1: across the middle and even threw a nice laser to him.
Speaker 1: And and then what I think is really neat is
Speaker 1: the fact that uh a rob caught the ball and
Speaker 1: then took one step and got immediately down and two
Speaker 1: steps and this came over. Yeah, did you did you
Speaker 1: honestly because it did go to zero? Did you? Were
Speaker 1: you sweating it? Yeah? I was sweating it, but I
Speaker 1: felt I could kind of see looking as he was
Speaker 1: running and going down. I had my eye up on
Speaker 1: the game clock because I was calling a time out
Speaker 1: right next to the ref and uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: I told him before the play, I'm gonna be right
Speaker 1: there with you calling a time out, you know, after this. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know it was it was right. I mean, there
Speaker 1: was there was one second left on the clock and
Speaker 1: they got it right. And so uh um, one second
Speaker 1: in the ball. Three hits on quarterbacks, not asking you
Speaker 1: to wigh in, but they were flagged two on the
Speaker 1: bare side, one at the end of the game. That
Speaker 1: that helped significantly, obviously. Um. From a coaching perspective, is
Speaker 1: it the inconsistency of some of these calls from a
Speaker 1: whether it's that or DPI or ops, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: Is that what maybe the frustration might come in for
Speaker 1: for coaches? Yeah, there, there's it's it's subjective, you know,
Speaker 1: and I know they're really trying to put an emphasis
Speaker 1: on making sure that when you land on a quarterback
Speaker 1: you don't drive in drive them into the ground. And
Speaker 1: so some of these hits are so bang bang that
Speaker 1: um you know it just to the to the common eye,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like one, but to them at their
Speaker 1: angle that they have, it does. And so, um, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it will be discussed in the off season. Asked
Speaker 1: to how to go about this, and um, you know
Speaker 1: it's uh like you know, like you said yesterday, there
Speaker 1: was a couple that were called, Um there I think
Speaker 1: three total that were called two on us, one on them,
Speaker 1: and um, so we'll just see how they end up
Speaker 1: handling that. How about that? And I didn't know the
Speaker 1: rule at the end of the game. Uh you get
Speaker 1: it at the one after and off sides when it's
Speaker 1: at the third. I mean I didn't get all that
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, that's a that's a unique rule that um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was not aware of exactly the yardage
Speaker 1: that was that that that went down, but I think
Speaker 1: uh uh you know, yeah, it's something that they're going
Speaker 1: to probably look at just to see, um that they
Speaker 1: had that right just because it doesn't happen. That's one
Speaker 1: that does not happen very often, and so they went
Speaker 1: from kicking an extra point from the twenty yard line
Speaker 1: to an all sides taking them the whole way down
Speaker 1: to half the distance from the two, which is the
Speaker 1: one and um uh but that that's the rule overwhelming benefit.
Speaker 1: It is like the you know, you're third and twenty
Speaker 1: nine at five year, get your first. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure sometimes we love it. Yeah, depends onside your own.
Speaker 1: But we were for that penalty. We ended up being
Speaker 1: on the wrong side for them to get it at
Speaker 1: the one. Um and it is uh one and I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll be looked at. I wiped with the defense
Speaker 1: seventy six snaps hanging out for dear life at this year.
Speaker 1: They were tired, uh again, just looking at Khalil on
Speaker 1: the sideline when we needed to get him back in there,
Speaker 1: and he gave me this look like man, I said,
Speaker 1: we just just need one more from you, one more play,
Speaker 1: just you know, and he went out and gave it
Speaker 1: to us. And you know, when you're when you're going
Speaker 1: as one hundred percent, one hundred miles an hour all
Speaker 1: the time like they. I mean, I was watching that
Speaker 1: d line and they were flying around yesterday trying Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd and those guys flying around trying to Khalil Kim
Speaker 1: Hicks and just uh, guys just trying to get in
Speaker 1: Flacco's lane. He's such a tall guy and just being
Speaker 1: able to like affect him a little bit, and um,
Speaker 1: it was it was it was something to be seen
Speaker 1: a couple of the defense in general, you know, again
Speaker 1: did did great things to bend that break from for
Speaker 1: the most part until the very end. But um, some
Speaker 1: big plays across the board of clutch moments. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest. Yeah, that could have been maybe reviewed, right,
Speaker 1: it could have been yeah or not. No, I think
Speaker 1: you could know that that one can't because that one
Speaker 1: that that one, it's a turnover. So yeah, and then
Speaker 1: they get into their whole deal of whether they blew
Speaker 1: the whistle or his knee touch. But um, you know
Speaker 1: he sat on that little out route, made a good
Speaker 1: play and that was huge. You know. It's Uh, that's
Speaker 1: something that we've been focusing on, is trying to get
Speaker 1: those takeaways. The defense has been playing so well the
Speaker 1: last two games, and um, you know they'll just continue that,
Speaker 1: all right. You got to actually pay for the Redskins
Speaker 1: um a lot to unpack there too. Their defense was
Speaker 1: supposed to be, you know, pretty significance. Hasn't started out
Speaker 1: that way. But you got case Keenum, a veteran, a
Speaker 1: quarterback to deal with, and a defense with a guy
Speaker 1: like Ryan Kerrigan also one of the top past rushers
Speaker 1: in football. Yeah, so we will. You know, we dug
Speaker 1: into him a little bit this afternoon. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: with all the parody in the league, it's just that
Speaker 1: you never know how things go. And so regardless of
Speaker 1: how their defense is doing, it's the same as our offense.
Speaker 1: You know that at any given time things can change,
Speaker 1: and so it'll be, you know, on the road again
Speaker 1: on Monday night. But we'll take some time here to
Speaker 1: put a you know, a good game plan together offense
Speaker 1: and defense and go get that win. Here's another staff
Speaker 1: for you. They're one in sixteen at home on Monday
Speaker 1: night since nineteen. Let's keep that going. Thanks coach. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, Chris Tabor, special teams coordinator joining the program.
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Speaker 1: Cepason Consultants. That was a seventy five yard punt, longest
Speaker 1: in the career of Patrick O'Donnell. As we bring in
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator Chris Dabor, A, boy, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a lot about the kicking, but I gotta talk about
Speaker 1: the leg of the big boy there. The punter had
Speaker 1: a hey, heck of a day. Yeah, heck of a day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we ended up at fifty point
Speaker 1: five on the net, and which is obviously that's a
Speaker 1: big number. But having that seventy five yard punt obviously
Speaker 1: flipping field position and then enough hang really to allow
Speaker 1: the guys to get down there and corral them. And
Speaker 1: then there was a penalty added to it. So it
Speaker 1: was that was a big play for us. And uh
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can keep doing those types of and
Speaker 1: those and correct me if I'm wrong. I believe it was.
Speaker 1: Was it a taildown spiral or was it the rugby style?
Speaker 1: Because it took the kick, you know, it took the
Speaker 1: ricochet and do you know if those ricochets are going
Speaker 1: to go the direction they want them to, Well, when
Speaker 1: you hit the rugby style, sometimes sometimes you get them
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't, So that's a that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: The ones that turn over, I mean, that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of a you know, that's hit or miss also, so
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of luck of the drawl and
Speaker 1: the football God smiled on us on that. It was
Speaker 1: a single game record by the way, for gross at
Speaker 1: fifty seven point four broke a sixty seven year old
Speaker 1: record in a single game a bear by the name
Speaker 1: of Fred Morrison in nineteen fifty ten. These are nuggets
Speaker 1: that you can only find, but it just does. It
Speaker 1: just goes to show you what what kind of day
Speaker 1: it was for Patrick O'Donnell. No been real proud of him,
Speaker 1: I mean, and the other area where he doesn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of recognition is his holding. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he did a great job yesterday get getting some of
Speaker 1: those and and and spinning around those type of deals.
Speaker 1: So my hat's off to him. He's pros pro and
Speaker 1: he just keeps getting better. Hetting every week here talking
Speaker 1: about the operation. You know on a game, when he
Speaker 1: feels going, you immediately only think about the nerves of
Speaker 1: the kicker, veteran or otherwise, But in this case it's
Speaker 1: it's essentially a rookie kicking, but the nerves of Patrick
Speaker 1: Scales and the nerves of Patrick O'Donnell. For the operation
Speaker 1: to be smooth, they have to be legit to be
Speaker 1: there though those I'll tell you what Scales is. He's
Speaker 1: improved tremendously, uh from OTAs into training camp. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's snapping at a really high level. No one
Speaker 1: ever talks about it, right, but I've been real pleased.
Speaker 1: How would we know? You know, well people people don't,
Speaker 1: they don't ask, they don't look at it, but you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the location and where the laces are at,
Speaker 1: and it just it just helps with the operation. And
Speaker 1: if they can get the ball down quickly, it allows
Speaker 1: Eddie more time to see it and then he can
Speaker 1: then he can really go attack the ball. So it's
Speaker 1: it's they all got to work together and they're doing
Speaker 1: a great job. Real proud of him. So location, but
Speaker 1: is the velocity better for him? And how did somebody
Speaker 1: get a better velocity if that were the case for Patrick?
Speaker 1: You know, really for a short snap you we always
Speaker 1: say you want to throw a catchable ball and it's
Speaker 1: not so much uh super fast or where you say
Speaker 1: the velocity, it has to be just right. It's then
Speaker 1: that's why I say a catchaball ball because obviously the
Speaker 1: holder as he's playing, I mean, has to catch hit
Speaker 1: the spot. And if it's a catchable ball, his hands
Speaker 1: are relaxed. If he fires a fastball at him, then
Speaker 1: obviously his hands are tense, and then then it's a
Speaker 1: little shaky putting down. So it all works hand in hand,
Speaker 1: and those guys are have been real good. So from
Speaker 1: your experience, in a scenario like yesterday, could the adrenaline
Speaker 1: rush of the moment make a guy throw it back harder,
Speaker 1: make the hands and not feel as comfortable and all that?
Speaker 1: But it did not happen. Yet it didn't. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I mean it can it happen, sure, and I think
Speaker 1: that I think that's natural. But those are the moments
Speaker 1: that as we're off to the side practicing, those are
Speaker 1: the moments we want to put ourselves in. And although
Speaker 1: you say you praxim in practice, isn't it Obviously it's
Speaker 1: different in a game. But we've we've we've played those
Speaker 1: scenarios through our heads many a time, and fortunately we
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to do it yesterday. Make sure you
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Speaker 1: first at w BBM check of traffic and weather together
Speaker 1: or the gates with Abby Ryan. Two fifty yard field goals,
Speaker 1: the fifty two yard or earlier in the game yesterday,
Speaker 1: Eddie Pineto and just how you were feeling over the
Speaker 1: course of that whole game about Eddie and what you
Speaker 1: saw in pregame. But then you know, we've asked Matt
Speaker 1: obviously his emotions about the final thirty one seconds of
Speaker 1: the game and how everything unfolded and Eddie wanting that opportunity.
Speaker 1: What was it like for you? I'll tell you, I
Speaker 1: mean it was I'll definitely say a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be honest with you. Coach. We talked
Speaker 1: about some situations earlier in the week from the New
Speaker 1: Orleans game and Houston game where that was kind of right.
Speaker 1: We talked about that earlier a crazy scenario there, and
Speaker 1: I remember his coach was talking about it. I leaned
Speaker 1: over at Helfrich and I said, boy, that's a roller
Speaker 1: coaster ride. I don't think I want to get on
Speaker 1: on that one. And sure enough, that's what we found
Speaker 1: ourselves in. But really the moment is obviously they did
Speaker 1: a good job Pollness there on the field goal block,
Speaker 1: which gave him the opportunity to get the two points.
Speaker 1: And you are devastated. But at the same time, as
Speaker 1: coach says, as long as we have the ball and
Speaker 1: there's one second left, we can still win the football game.
Speaker 1: And uh, you just you regroup, you put yourself back
Speaker 1: in the moment, say let's just keep coaching hard for
Speaker 1: these last thirty seconds. We get our shot, We get
Speaker 1: our shot, and and and we did. And when he
Speaker 1: went out there, I'll be honest with you, I was
Speaker 1: just in such and you're in the mood of the
Speaker 1: moment um. I just looked out there and I saw, oh,
Speaker 1: this last one fifty three, Oh yeah, he has it.
Speaker 1: And that that honestly, that was that was that was
Speaker 1: my thought. And I thought, this was this is a
Speaker 1: you know, the football gods have been given us challenges
Speaker 1: and they gave us they threw this one game number
Speaker 1: two and he responded, So I'm real proud of him.
Speaker 1: And it brought to light again the whole kicking competition story,
Speaker 1: because now the Bears have found their kicker. But it
Speaker 1: is a very long season and a lot more challenges,
Speaker 1: maybe even more challenging than that one. Our ahead. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's it's game two. Yeah, it's it's game two of
Speaker 1: you know, a sixteen game set. So h yes, where
Speaker 1: are we obviously excited and proud of him, no question,
Speaker 1: But I think you have to keep it in the
Speaker 1: moment and and move on because next week's game now
Speaker 1: is even more important than last week's and and you
Speaker 1: have to be able to perform. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: don't do well in the next game, well this last
Speaker 1: game means nothing. And uh and I know this, the
Speaker 1: the NFL monster, uh does look for teams and people
Speaker 1: that get laxed, and if you relaxed, it will like
Speaker 1: it likes to eat you up. So we have to
Speaker 1: stay sharp. We got to stay to our routine and
Speaker 1: and stay focused, and he'll do that. So we just
Speaker 1: got to keep stacking games. He's caught the attention of
Speaker 1: his teammates, though, you must feel that on the sideline
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and his personality allows for that obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, in a world of quirkiness that is often attached,
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to be that type of guy. He's
Speaker 1: just him. No, he has a you know, obviously, and
Speaker 1: I've told him. I mean, his parents did a great
Speaker 1: job raising him, there's no doubt. But he has a
Speaker 1: great heart. And the emotions that you see on the field,
Speaker 1: that's him and that's real and uh, and the guys
Speaker 1: have gravitated towards that. I gravitate towards that, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why he's like the way that he is.
Speaker 1: And they also see on the side how hard he
Speaker 1: is working and how far he's come from OTAs to
Speaker 1: this point. And he does admit, he did admit it
Speaker 1: yesterday and then and probably in a in an emotional
Speaker 1: moment after the game, just how hard it's been, you know,
Speaker 1: to get to this point. No, but that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the deal. I mean, we're we've gone through a process.
Speaker 1: Obviously scrutinized by many. Doesn't really matter. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think it's been overblown. We're trying to do the
Speaker 1: best job that we can to find the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: their kicker. And this kid has stepped up to that
Speaker 1: challenge and has accepted that and he's he's doing it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's the things that he's gone through I
Speaker 1: think has helped laid a foundation. If you watch the
Speaker 1: TV copy and they zoom in on his before the kick,
Speaker 1: you see in his eyes that he's going for it,
Speaker 1: and that to me, tells the whole story right there,
Speaker 1: And that's why that's why I'm so proud of him.
Speaker 1: He wanted the kick, and he knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: make the kick, and I felt real good that he
Speaker 1: was gonna make the kick. Also, this opens an interesting question,
Speaker 1: do you look your kicker in the eye before every kick.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of cues that we give him
Speaker 1: before he goes out. I give I give him a
Speaker 1: signal and it reminds him of a couple of drills
Speaker 1: that we do during the week. And if he knows
Speaker 1: when he follows that, chances are that he's going to
Speaker 1: strike a good ball. And so we just we have
Speaker 1: that kind of little deal and we go through that
Speaker 1: and off he goes. But what if you who don't
Speaker 1: see what you need to see in the eyes of
Speaker 1: a kicker. Live with it. No, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I know at this moment. I know what I have,
Speaker 1: I know what's inside, So I don't need to go
Speaker 1: up and look at him. I saw it in pregame
Speaker 1: to see it maybe in passing, but before he goes
Speaker 1: out there, I don't have to see it. I know.
Speaker 1: I know that he's laser focused and he's ready to go,
Speaker 1: and he's hungry to go do it back of a
Speaker 1: story he is, that's for sure. Eddie panierroot one of
Speaker 1: the top stories in the league right now. After two
Speaker 1: weeks of the NFL season, the journey that is the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen campaign for the Chicago Bears. One more segment
Speaker 1: here with coach Tabor as we get you sent for
Speaker 1: Bears and Redskins, will take a look at their special
Speaker 1: teams as well. First to check of w BBM traffic
Speaker 1: and whether together on the gates with Abby Ryan. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Bears. Coach you show here at P
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Speaker 1: CPA's and Consultants. Final few minutes here with Chris Tabor,
Speaker 1: Bears special teams coordinator. The difficulty, I'd imagine the conversation
Speaker 1: may or may not have been with Sherik McManus being
Speaker 1: inactive for this game with Trey Burton coming back. Coach
Speaker 1: explained it a little bit in the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 1: Was that difficult, Oh, sure it is. He's a he's
Speaker 1: a key leader, force, great football player, force, and and
Speaker 1: that was a tough decision. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: every every week's always different. The September return game in
Speaker 1: the National Football League is non existent. It doesn't amount
Speaker 1: too much, does it right now? Because yeah, eight kickoffs
Speaker 1: yesterday from both teams, all touch backs way out of
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone. No one was going
Speaker 1: to be doing it any other way. And it's not
Speaker 1: just because of the thin aired Denver, right, I think
Speaker 1: that you know, we had Cordell, We had CP back
Speaker 1: there at nine yards and right nine and a half, correct,
Speaker 1: I mean, and if he was gonna make a mistake,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're going yeah, and we want to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: But yeah, right now, it's a little non existent, but
Speaker 1: it will show up. It will be the return season,
Speaker 1: it will it will be starting nowadays, Well, we gotta wait.
Speaker 1: When the leaves start changing, it really starts kicking into gear.
Speaker 1: But it really it stinks, to be quite honest, when
Speaker 1: you know you have a guy that's one of the
Speaker 1: premier guys, and you know when he took that pitched yesterday,
Speaker 1: it looked like a kick return rundown sideline. It was
Speaker 1: the fat NFL's gen stats or stat whatever they call it,
Speaker 1: twenty two mile per hour and long the fastest in
Speaker 1: the league in the last two years. He's I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't believe the big man moving that fast, how
Speaker 1: quickly he hits the gas. No, he's a he's special player.
Speaker 1: Glad he's on our team, and I'll be excited when
Speaker 1: we start getting some opportunities. We just gotta be patient.
Speaker 1: That's that's the deal. You gotta be You gotta be patient,
Speaker 1: and if a team makes a mistake, then you gotta
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And that's that's what we preach
Speaker 1: every time we go out. You know that probably going
Speaker 1: to bang it out the end zone yesterday, but we said, hey,
Speaker 1: be ready for the mistake, and here we go. I
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the broadcast yesterday because you know, you'll
Speaker 1: often take for granted when it's done so well by
Speaker 1: Tarik Cohen. Just retrieving these bombs in the punt in
Speaker 1: the punt return game, fair catches, that's a luxury item. No,
Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job handling field position
Speaker 1: there yesterday with the fair catches. Those were good decisions
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I don't you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: get backed up behind the eight ball like what Green
Speaker 1: Bay did the previous week. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: a good step forward. All right, Redskins, trust Way who
Speaker 1: was here with the Bears all four of his punts
Speaker 1: in the twenty and yesterday's lost to the Cowboys. Dustin
Speaker 1: Hopkins there, kicker, what do you know? Well, just getting
Speaker 1: right into it. I mean, this will be another good
Speaker 1: test for our unit, and we need to play well.
Speaker 1: Both those guys are are good football players, and we'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't forecasted the weather yet, but well,
Speaker 1: we've got to be ready for everything and anything. All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate congratulations, nice job. As we wrap up with Special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Chris Tabor, Gibson's restaurant group wanted to thank
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Speaker 1: the program. As always, that's gonna do it for tonight's
Speaker 1: show for Bears head coach Matt Nangie, Special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: Chris Tabor, and thanks to our producers Dan BURRELLI, Andy
Speaker 1: Gersher and Jordan tread Up and Keith Johnson. I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniak Bears Redskins from Washington. Pregame at four twenty, kickoff
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