Speaker 1: The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network
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Speaker 1: Bears head coach Matt Maggie, the coaching staff and Bears management.
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Speaker 1: from Hollis Hall. Here is the Voice of the Bears
Speaker 1: w BBMS Jeff Joni Yak and a pleasant, good even everybody,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to p NC Studios at Alisa on
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show featuring head coach Matt Naggie. I'mjeff
Speaker 1: Jonik with you to eight o'clock tonight. Offensive coordinator Mark
Speaker 1: Helfrich will join the program at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: As we look ahead to the Green Bay Packers, look
Speaker 1: back a little bit at what the Bears did to
Speaker 1: beat Dallas and go to seven and six and outstanding,
Speaker 1: a fun environment Matt at Soldier Field on that Thursday
Speaker 1: night and by far the best feeling we've had all season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great one for us, for everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a fun one to be a part of.
Speaker 1: And it was great for our our team, our city,
Speaker 1: our fans, everybody. Um, it's it's what we've been looking for,
Speaker 1: you know, all year long. And to get it on
Speaker 1: that stage and put put a few weeks together here
Speaker 1: has been good. I ask you this when things are
Speaker 1: going well and sometimes when we don't win a game.
Speaker 1: But the way you called that game, was it in
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse? Yeah? Well, it always is when you produce
Speaker 1: and execute and get stay ahead of the chains. You know.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I thought we did.
Speaker 1: Even on that first drive when we ended with the interception,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a third down on that drive, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just a credit to our players for
Speaker 1: for for doing that. And it was one of those
Speaker 1: games where things we're just going well for us, and
Speaker 1: then guys were making plays and you love seeing that.
Speaker 1: We were able to do it for for four quarters
Speaker 1: and and and really all three phases. So to come
Speaker 1: out of there with a win, it felt great. But
Speaker 1: before you know it, here we are getting right for
Speaker 1: green Bag. You know, it's easy to look at Mitche's
Speaker 1: performance and say, Okay, this was a one game deal
Speaker 1: this season, but it's the last five games there's just
Speaker 1: been this I don't know, I don't want to say maturation,
Speaker 1: but maybe that's the word you want to use, but triggering, quicker,
Speaker 1: thinking differently, approaching the game in a little different way
Speaker 1: on Sundays or on Thursday in this case, would you agree? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you know what, Jeff, I also think that it
Speaker 1: happens a lot with a lot of different UM teams
Speaker 1: and maybe offenses throughout the year. There, you know, y'all
Speaker 1: go through some some some of it are on the
Speaker 1: front end. You start out really fast and then there's
Speaker 1: these these valleys that you go into and others you
Speaker 1: start out slow and then you hit your highs later
Speaker 1: in the year. So ours just happened to be you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know that first half of the season and it
Speaker 1: was a it was a battle. But now I do
Speaker 1: feel like, like you said, the last five weeks have
Speaker 1: felt a lot better offensively, and it's been one of
Speaker 1: those deals where the offense is able to help out
Speaker 1: the defense more and it's more of a team effort
Speaker 1: rather than just the defense trying to keep a team
Speaker 1: the under twenty points every week. So it's a good feeling.
Speaker 1: Are our guys are mentally tough, which is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things when you come through something like this.
Speaker 1: And now we'll just have to see what we do
Speaker 1: here the next three weeks, and everybody on offense is
Speaker 1: helping him out now too. It is it's it's and again,
Speaker 1: just like we always talk about the quarterbacks going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of the credit when you win, and
Speaker 1: he's also going to get a lot of the blame
Speaker 1: when you lose. But all in all, I think our
Speaker 1: offense understands that right now we're executing at a much
Speaker 1: higher percentage with these plays which are producing in positive yards,
Speaker 1: eliminating third and longs, and putting more points on the board.
Speaker 1: So when all that works together in unison, it helps
Speaker 1: you out. Even for myself as a play caller, the
Speaker 1: confidence for all of us in practice, it's you know,
Speaker 1: the guys have continued to stay focused each and every week,
Speaker 1: and it's nice when you're rewarded with wins. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you want in a perfect world offense in
Speaker 1: terms of the passing game. Do you want, as you say,
Speaker 1: the run after catch or I say yards after the catch,
Speaker 1: or do you want big catch of the catch point?
Speaker 1: So I saw some statistics this week, the lowest amount
Speaker 1: of catches at the point, highest number of yards after
Speaker 1: the catch. Is it game by game or what do
Speaker 1: you prefer in the bigger picture? What do you prefer?
Speaker 1: I would say it's it is game by game. Um,
Speaker 1: you need to be able to stretch the defense downfield
Speaker 1: vertically so that they can't just sit on everything. If
Speaker 1: they are going to sit on stuff, then you need
Speaker 1: you need to try to, you know, take advantage with
Speaker 1: some double moves here or there. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: and you got to get that run game going. So
Speaker 1: I think the nice part about this offense that you're
Speaker 1: starting to see and you saw some of this last year,
Speaker 1: is when you do get into some of the RPO stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just like the touchdown to Anthony Miller had
Speaker 1: on the on the bubble screen out there. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it can put you in good situations, but there's execution involved,
Speaker 1: and there's two wide receivers, um Cordaro and Riley. Ridley
Speaker 1: made two great blocks. Um you know, Mitch made a
Speaker 1: great throw and seventeen made a great run after the catch.
Speaker 1: So it just it stretches a defense horizontally and not
Speaker 1: always vertically and so that balance of width and depth
Speaker 1: and field uh, and then making plays when giving a
Speaker 1: chance um is really what ultimately what we're looking for
Speaker 1: my thunder because Miller, I want to save that player.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run that highlight will come out of a
Speaker 1: break as one of my favorite plays of the year.
Speaker 1: And its simplicity, but it's execution and the desire. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about that, all right, let's get caught up
Speaker 1: on what's what's going on right now. So he had
Speaker 1: a little mini buy weekend, so to speak. He brought
Speaker 1: them guys in this morning and what did you guys do?
Speaker 1: And how is everybody looking around? Yeah? No, you know
Speaker 1: what it was. It was really good for us to
Speaker 1: have a few days off players end, coaches, players physically, coaches, mentally.
Speaker 1: We went for we had a nice little stretch there
Speaker 1: of three three games and eleven days. And when you
Speaker 1: go from a Thursday Thanksgiving game to a Thursday night
Speaker 1: the next week, there's really no rest. And so our
Speaker 1: weekend was it was nice to have a normal weekend
Speaker 1: and have a few extra days. And now our guys
Speaker 1: came in this morning and we really focused in on
Speaker 1: a mental day. You know, get a little headstart on
Speaker 1: on Green Bay kind of where they're at, and and
Speaker 1: um put to bed basically the Dallas game and guys
Speaker 1: get a lift in and coaches are grinding on Green
Speaker 1: Bay stuff, all right. News that Roquan Smith's head to
Speaker 1: die are the pectoral and that seemed to be kind
Speaker 1: of the course of action. So you know, that's a
Speaker 1: bummer because I was loving the way he played. His
Speaker 1: energy was at a high pitch at the moment, you know,
Speaker 1: And now that's a bummer right there. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: And you always hate to see guys get injured, especially
Speaker 1: especially these longer ones where they take a little bit
Speaker 1: more time. But um, you know, Roquan will be fine.
Speaker 1: He'll pull he'll pull through this. We'll get them, get
Speaker 1: them back on track. And I think we all know
Speaker 1: kind of what we have with him, and we know
Speaker 1: what the future holds with him. We're very lucky to
Speaker 1: have him. He's he's he's been everything and more from
Speaker 1: what we've expected and seen. And he starts like hill,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. He's a guy that each and
Speaker 1: every week one of those guys that these offenses have
Speaker 1: to prepare for. And so the obvious question is Is
Speaker 1: there a potential that it could linger into next season
Speaker 1: at all, even in the offseason program. Is that that
Speaker 1: kind of injury. I'm sure it's a little premature to
Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah, it's probably just a little bit early
Speaker 1: on that. But I know the type of workout warrior
Speaker 1: that he is, and I know what we have with
Speaker 1: our strength staff. They'll be getting him ready and so
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for him will just be to really
Speaker 1: take it day by day, week by week, and we'll see.
Speaker 1: But I feel confident he'll be ready to rock and
Speaker 1: roll by next year. We'll know more Wednesday and guys,
Speaker 1: But it's like the big tease everybody wants to see
Speaker 1: a Keen Hicks back. It's you know, he's starting to
Speaker 1: practice or whatever, and he's at that three week window,
Speaker 1: But do you feel hopeful? I do. I feel hopeful
Speaker 1: about it, But again, it's it's hard to until we
Speaker 1: go through the week and we see where he's at.
Speaker 1: I do. You know, it's to be able to know
Speaker 1: that you have the possibility of having him come back.
Speaker 1: He's such an interval part of that defense and in
Speaker 1: so many different ways, So you know, we'll keep our
Speaker 1: fingers crossed for him and see where this week takes us.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggie and
Speaker 1: w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues bunch set right single to
Speaker 1: the laft province, snap out of the gun Trubisky to
Speaker 1: keep them up to the fifteen insight cutting the ten
Speaker 1: five hands up touchdown Bears Mitchell Trubisky with six more.
Speaker 1: The Bears explode to a thirty to fourteen lead, twenty
Speaker 1: three yards right down Michigan Avenue. Baby, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley Financial Advisors,
Speaker 1: a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Jeff Joniac and
Speaker 1: Mad Naggie with you and Mark Helfretz coming up at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. You heard the Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: touchdown run. I was losing my mind. It just opened
Speaker 1: up beautifully, and he just loves seeing that. It's just
Speaker 1: he's not Lamar Jackson. Few are. But when you see
Speaker 1: a quarterback pick those yards up and get that out
Speaker 1: that that happened to be right. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, but as the longest touchdown run by
Speaker 1: a Bears quarterback since Jim Harba nineteen eighty six. Is
Speaker 1: that right? Wow? Against Tampa he went twenty six years
Speaker 1: Mitch went twenty three. Yeah, that that was a pretty
Speaker 1: cool run to watch. And you see, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times as as we're telling him, you know,
Speaker 1: be smart, don't take that extra hit. And so when
Speaker 1: he pulled the football, uh, you know, Charles Leno made
Speaker 1: a made a hell of a block and and Mitch
Speaker 1: was able to kick it up in there. And I
Speaker 1: think most of us probably thought that he was about
Speaker 1: ready to get down, and probably even the safety thought that.
Speaker 1: But Mitch made Yeah, he just made that little plan
Speaker 1: he did. He went, he stuck it in the ground,
Speaker 1: in the ground north and south, protected to football, and
Speaker 1: then you could see all the emotions come out after
Speaker 1: he scored. We could talk about this. Two were blew
Speaker 1: in the face about Okay, why he wasn't leaving the
Speaker 1: pocket as much earlier this season or what the There's
Speaker 1: a lot to that, But the fact is, does it
Speaker 1: give him confidence as a quarterback to have those opportunities
Speaker 1: a handful of times a game? Yeah, yeah for sure?
Speaker 1: And why and and well what it does is you
Speaker 1: when you when you're a quarterback that can run with
Speaker 1: the football. You become a in essence, another running back
Speaker 1: that the defense has to know and they have to
Speaker 1: account for it. And really it's like it's like having
Speaker 1: an extra blocker in one way or another, just by
Speaker 1: by saying, hey, listen, you want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: take away this guy, then we're going to come back
Speaker 1: and use this. Not all teams can do that. We
Speaker 1: have that and Mitch so being able to have some
Speaker 1: runs where he's able to, you know, get extra yards
Speaker 1: because they're not accounting for him, is going to be
Speaker 1: used to our advantage. And you know we we have
Speaker 1: had those this year. There have been some For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it didn't happen as much, but but now it is
Speaker 1: and we're all seeing to come to fruition. It's helping
Speaker 1: us out and the confidence is really high. A sneak
Speaker 1: peek at the Packers because they am not allowed a
Speaker 1: lot in that regard just one hundred and four rushing
Speaker 1: yards by quarterbacks and they faced Carson Wentz and they
Speaker 1: faced Daniel Jones and whatnot. Is it something that they
Speaker 1: do or something you're going to be aware of what
Speaker 1: they're doing to maybe not run into that problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: schematically they do a good job at that. And again,
Speaker 1: you know, our our game against Dallas was a game
Speaker 1: there where we saw some things and he was making
Speaker 1: great decisions. And not every you know, not every game
Speaker 1: is going to be like that. We knew this for
Speaker 1: the Dallas game that it was a probability. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we'll just you know, we'll see how it goes. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's through the air of this game. We really
Speaker 1: don't know. But we want to be able to schematically
Speaker 1: do whatever helps us as much as possible and then
Speaker 1: let Mitch make plays. And but it's certainly a huge
Speaker 1: advantage for him. I want to talk a lot about
Speaker 1: Mitch because you were miked up this weekend and we
Speaker 1: played it on the Bears Game Night Live show Sunday night.
Speaker 1: It was outstanding. It really takes you behind the curtain
Speaker 1: of what your relationship is like with Mitch and how
Speaker 1: he feels about you. And I saw this last week
Speaker 1: when Mitch was miked up. This is you guy, It's
Speaker 1: it's a unique to me, it looks like a unique relationship.
Speaker 1: Can you take us in that a little bit deeper? Well,
Speaker 1: it is, and you know, as as everybody can understand,
Speaker 1: you know, we're all together for a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of hours over the course of the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, and not just myself. I mean that they're
Speaker 1: you know, you saw some of that from from me
Speaker 1: and time throughout the game with some of the players,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, the relationship, there's just so many
Speaker 1: discussions and conversations um that are very authentic, honest, open um.
Speaker 1: Not always easy between us, and not just myself, but
Speaker 1: with with David, going with Mark Helfrich, with the other quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: with Mitch, and that's how you all build these relationships,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the trust. The T word is building
Speaker 1: trust so that when you're in the element, when you're
Speaker 1: in in that environment of being able to have to
Speaker 1: make decisions in a short brief time. Um, he trust
Speaker 1: me as a play caller, I trust him as a player.
Speaker 1: We all trust each other and it's a pretty cool dynamic.
Speaker 1: And you were able, you know, some were able to
Speaker 1: see some of that, and I'm sure they edited out
Speaker 1: a lot of other stuff as well. But I like
Speaker 1: getting down the refereence. That's a terrible call, and you
Speaker 1: missed the face masks. They missed three face masks. I'm
Speaker 1: a little too fiery, so I got to pull back
Speaker 1: a little bit that emotion. I loved that you said
Speaker 1: to Cody Whiter lead was just one word lead. Why Well,
Speaker 1: that's where it all starts. And the one thing that
Speaker 1: we're all seeing in some of this execution that's going
Speaker 1: down in the last several weeks is you're we're really
Speaker 1: seeing a change. That's the line of scrimmage. You're feeling
Speaker 1: that things are happening on the other side, and so
Speaker 1: we're covering guys up we're sticking on our blocks, we're
Speaker 1: pass protecting, and what's happening is it's a domino effect
Speaker 1: to where now a guy like David Montgomery Tarik Cohen
Speaker 1: are getting you know, four to five, six seven yards
Speaker 1: on a carry instead of one, two or three, and
Speaker 1: that goes into that first down deal where we want
Speaker 1: to make sure we stay ahead of the stick. So
Speaker 1: those guys up front, they don't say a whole lot,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't get a lot of glory, they
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of praise when things aren't going well.
Speaker 1: They get a lot of it falls back on them.
Speaker 1: But they understand my relationship with them and how much
Speaker 1: it means to me when they play well like that.
Speaker 1: They don't get a lot of credit, but they deserve
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Well, take a look at the
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Speaker 1: the Miller touchdown and for him it's his first of
Speaker 1: the season. He had seven last year. It's been a
Speaker 1: process this year. But you know, for a guy that
Speaker 1: is as emotional as him, the way he finished at
Speaker 1: what it just means to see a guy able to
Speaker 1: make good on what his all really is. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's really neat. And Anthony's a guy, you just
Speaker 1: he's a ball of fire and you just you absolutely
Speaker 1: love that. I love the energy. I love it. It does,
Speaker 1: it does. But that's okay. You know, we're we're okay
Speaker 1: with that as long as you don't cross the line.
Speaker 1: And there's been one or two times this year where
Speaker 1: we've had to make sure that he understands, listen, you
Speaker 1: can't do that, and he knows that. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that usually doesn't make the same mistake twice. But on
Speaker 1: the field, as a football player, when you get the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands, he can make a lot of
Speaker 1: things happen. And he's growing in a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways as a receiver. He's understanding too that even when
Speaker 1: he's not catching that touchdown pass and he needs to
Speaker 1: make a block for somebody else, he's doing and he's
Speaker 1: he's enjoying doing that. Um So, but that that play
Speaker 1: was was a fun one for us especially. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's just a nice simple throw
Speaker 1: to the flat where guys are just making plays and
Speaker 1: then he's able to cut up in there. No one
Speaker 1: was going to stop him from getting in that end
Speaker 1: zone and it produced six points for us. One more
Speaker 1: thing I mentioned that would talk defense in the Packers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but after interception
Speaker 1: the last two games, he's thirty of thirty eight for
Speaker 1: three hundred eighty yards, five touchdown passes, a passing rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown obviously, and ten yards of completion. Those are significant
Speaker 1: numbers after a play that you wish you wouldn't have thrown.
Speaker 1: Why is that significant, Well, it's it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a credit to him and his growth mentally. Um
Speaker 1: I think even years past it might have affected him
Speaker 1: to the sideline and then carried out to the next
Speaker 1: play in next series. Couldn't get it out, couldn't get
Speaker 1: it out of his head. That hasn't been the case.
Speaker 1: And you just said that with the numbers he's producing.
Speaker 1: You go back to the Detroit game on Thanksgiving. You know,
Speaker 1: through the interception, went six for six right after that. So, um,
Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of mental growth there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of trust from his teammates to him,
Speaker 1: from him to his teammates, and a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: when he threw that interception, you know he knew it
Speaker 1: was it wasn't a great decision. He knew it wasn't
Speaker 1: a great throw, but he couldn't he couldn't actually wait
Speaker 1: to get back out because we were moving the ball
Speaker 1: right down the field. So does that help you? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and how you can call the game. Sure, And it
Speaker 1: comes down to again you talk about trust to trust
Speaker 1: with players and players right quarterbacks, wide receivers, etc. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing that goes with a play caller and
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And we've we've really been been growing our
Speaker 1: own since half you know, halfway through the season on.
Speaker 1: It's been getting a lot better. And so you know, uh,
Speaker 1: interception for him, he has to come back, make throws,
Speaker 1: a fumble for David Montgomery has to come back and
Speaker 1: carry the rock or carry the ball. And so I
Speaker 1: think it just, uh, it's it's reciprocated between all of us. J. P. Holtz,
Speaker 1: Jesper Horstead, Kevin Pierre Lewis, Kevin Tolliver. Whatever guy is
Speaker 1: being shoved into the mix is responding. I say, hip
Speaker 1: hip parade for them, but the coaches who get them
Speaker 1: ready have to also get the praise here. Yeah, same
Speaker 1: thing goes with the two offensive linement with Cornelius Lucas
Speaker 1: and Rushad Coward. I mean, and then for the change
Speaker 1: and flip that we made with Cody and James Daniels
Speaker 1: in the middle of the year. So with with Harry
Speaker 1: he standing there on the other line, I mean, the
Speaker 1: coach is making sure that your guys are prepared is hard.
Speaker 1: Is hard to do all the time because you're so
Speaker 1: focused in on the starters and and but that's so
Speaker 1: just the culture that we have, the coordinators, everybody doing
Speaker 1: their part so that when these injuries do come up,
Speaker 1: we're able to rock and roll. And that's what you've seen.
Speaker 1: I don't want to move past Tyliver too much, but
Speaker 1: you need him to play. I mean, that's a growth
Speaker 1: player at a key position. Yeah, another another guy that
Speaker 1: comes in here and against one of the top offenses
Speaker 1: in the NFL and an unbelievable wide receiver and Cooper.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be challenged. But these guys want that,
Speaker 1: they enjoy it, they look forward to it. It was
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for him Week one to week fifteen.
Speaker 1: What's the difference in the Green Bay Packers the record?
Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot there and where they're
Speaker 1: at there, they're they're winning a lot of games. They
Speaker 1: have that quarterback that's pretty good, and we know that.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in our guys, and you know, we understand that
Speaker 1: it wasn't the game that we wanted to play week one.
Speaker 1: And then the same goes for them too, So we're
Speaker 1: completely different teams in all facets, both both sides of
Speaker 1: them and us. It'll be it'll be a big challenge.
Speaker 1: We know it's a big game for us, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, we just want to keep doing what
Speaker 1: we've been doing the last several weeks. Their backfield is
Speaker 1: obviously a good one two punch and Aaron Jones the
Speaker 1: underrated aspect in the passing game. So I went back,
Speaker 1: if he's targeted four times and more and he gets
Speaker 1: some good they're seven and one. I mean they're winning anyway,
Speaker 1: but that seems to be a key component to them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So in regards to him on offense, they move him around,
Speaker 1: they'll put him in empty they'll put him outside try
Speaker 1: to get a match up with a linebacker, or they'll
Speaker 1: put him in the eye formation and run them between
Speaker 1: the tackles. So he's very multidimensional in that case. And
Speaker 1: then their defense, you know, regardless of any numbers, they're
Speaker 1: they're playing well as a unit. They've had a lot
Speaker 1: of consistency. I think Coach Patton is one of the
Speaker 1: better defensive coordinators in the NFL, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him and what he does. So
Speaker 1: we know that we'll have our handsful, but we're welcoming
Speaker 1: the challenge. All right, Well, good week of preparation and
Speaker 1: good luck. We're talking next week. Thanks Jef. That's Bears
Speaker 1: head coach Man Naggie coming up next. Mark helfriche the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, joins the program. This is Bears Coaches Show,
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Speaker 1: Bears Offensive Coordinate. Good to see you enjoy weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little little bit of get away time, a little
Speaker 1: couple of hours here and there, has some great family
Speaker 1: time and then back to the Smith brothers unfortunately. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Darius Preston, Yeah, we'll talk about those guys in a minute,
Speaker 1: but you just heard the highlight of Alan Robbinson's first
Speaker 1: touchdown of two and we went over the Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 1: right now there's a terrific bonding and it's been bruin
Speaker 1: since last season really really the second half of last season,
Speaker 1: maybe late last season, between Mitchell Trubisky and Alan Robins.
Speaker 1: Right now, are they in a sweet spot? It feels
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah. You know, there's always there's always things
Speaker 1: that you can you can do differently better here and there,
Speaker 1: and and and we're at, you know, in a good
Speaker 1: space of of nitpicking and correcting and after a win,
Speaker 1: and that's I think here the world's nit picker. No,
Speaker 1: you are so everybody. I mean you, I like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I give you something night there and yeah,
Speaker 1: but well that has to make it has to be
Speaker 1: a longer answer than yes. But but they can they
Speaker 1: can be better. You know, we had a couple of misses,
Speaker 1: a couple just whatever it is, route de ups, angles,
Speaker 1: all those things that you can improve upon. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they made up for the lost time of losing.
Speaker 1: That initial off season with with him was a big deal. Um.
Speaker 1: And now just just uh, you know, need to keep
Speaker 1: playing as a as a unit U and making it happen.
Speaker 1: You know, you bring it up to the point and
Speaker 1: I want to bounce off of that just because the
Speaker 1: average person sees a game and you know, they just
Speaker 1: assume the worst one. It's a quarterback. But that angles
Speaker 1: and route depth and where your where your landmark's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. You know, you could easily say, like you know,
Speaker 1: the old Mike martzay, hey, you don't run to it,
Speaker 1: and if you're not there, it's on you, it's not
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. I don't know if that pertains to
Speaker 1: this offense so directly, but the fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is the other guy's playing defense can redirect that whole
Speaker 1: plan in a different direction. So just if you could
Speaker 1: just emphasize to the listeners just how critical all of
Speaker 1: that is for the execution of one simple play. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, visualize a three on two fast
Speaker 1: break in basketball, you know, and there's three people and
Speaker 1: if they're all in a line and there's no spacing
Speaker 1: or you know, they're they're one guy's too flat, one
Speaker 1: guy's too wide. You know, that might be a little
Speaker 1: bit easier way to describe it. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of those that happen on a football play and there's
Speaker 1: eleven people that throw it, there's eleven people that run it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's it's it's timing, it's it's depth, it's angle
Speaker 1: of cut, it's angle of route. Um, it's protection. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, clean protection. Uh, it's stepping up
Speaker 1: when there's you know, just all those little variables that
Speaker 1: go into and oh, by the way, there's guys that
Speaker 1: are you know, trying to clean your clock, that that
Speaker 1: that are violently, you know, violently trying to get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback during all that. So you've got to stimulate
Speaker 1: as many of those things as possible. Some of them
Speaker 1: are hard to simulate in practice, but you try to
Speaker 1: make it happ as much as possible. But that being said,
Speaker 1: over the last five games record aside, you know, four
Speaker 1: and one, Yes, it's all good. But you would you
Speaker 1: say all of that is elevating at the same time, definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, I think our guys last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: in particularly, have done a great job in protection, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and and you know you we had you know,
Speaker 1: just maybe some some luck of the draw with some
Speaker 1: opponents on the back end, and and how they fared
Speaker 1: just from a health standpoint. And but again that that
Speaker 1: confidence is those are real, real reps against NFL guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll take it. You know. I think our guys
Speaker 1: collectively are playing with more confidence. Uh. And we have
Speaker 1: to carry that to to Lambo. Some routes require touch,
Speaker 1: you drop it in the bucket, your back shoulders. But
Speaker 1: the velocity of Mitche's throws seemed to be at a
Speaker 1: season high against the Cowboys. Is that just my perception
Speaker 1: of it, because he threw some that Wow, there's sticking
Speaker 1: like velcrow to the chest of the receiver. And I
Speaker 1: think that again just goes back to being being in
Speaker 1: rhythm and being you know, confident within the play, the
Speaker 1: timing of the play, and yeah, it wasn't always his
Speaker 1: first option, and maybe it was a second or third.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, made some more plays with his feet,
Speaker 1: which I think kind of you know, got in his
Speaker 1: own mind and and and really really got him going,
Speaker 1: I think, which is something we've been hoping and wishing
Speaker 1: for on RPOs. Would you say it was his best
Speaker 1: RPO game? Uh? Yeah, we had you know, from decisions
Speaker 1: to the process. I had a couple of throws that
Speaker 1: you know, had a touchdown pass on a round play.
Speaker 1: Those are always great for that's that that just validates
Speaker 1: and verifies everything for the court, for the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: when that gets going, now you know they're a little
Speaker 1: bit almost throw first and run and you can you
Speaker 1: can hit that sweet spot. But yeah, good progress there, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Mark Helfritch, our guest here on The Bears Coaches Show.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and
Speaker 1: w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues Forstead remains in with Holtz
Speaker 1: there tight ends left side of the line slot to
Speaker 1: the right, Miller Robinson tighter coverage out of the air
Speaker 1: side taking the snap play fake to the pockets, setting
Speaker 1: up a screen of Holts catch runs up field thirty
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty full head of steam, bulldozing inside the ten. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna like this kid from Pitt. He just puts
Speaker 1: his head down and goes. This segment of The Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show is brought to you by Old Spice. Never
Speaker 1: let a friend lose his swagger. So Mark Helfrich is
Speaker 1: the swagger back. That's good advice. Yeah, I think it is,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it is. But that that that's
Speaker 1: something then that has to be earned every day and
Speaker 1: and validated every day. Uh And and you know, as
Speaker 1: we as we roll into like we said, rolling into
Speaker 1: Lambo with confidence is a big deal. You just heard
Speaker 1: the highlight of JP Holts's thirty yard run. But the
Speaker 1: combination of he and Jasper Horst did uh it just
Speaker 1: it just balances out the whole offense, no question. And
Speaker 1: we've had some other guys, whether it's Anthony or you know,
Speaker 1: some of these other guys make some some plays and unition.
Speaker 1: You know, CP had the huge, obviously catching run. Uh
Speaker 1: that that balances out the you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: rob type of way. That people can defend us. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably not a lot of people that predicted the
Speaker 1: post route to him early on and that the catch
Speaker 1: and run that was a huge play. But yeah, Holt
Speaker 1: has done a great job. Patterson played too. Talk about
Speaker 1: the excitement level. I mean, if you can make every
Speaker 1: every uh every play a kicker turn possibility with a
Speaker 1: head of steam cred, I see now why there's so
Speaker 1: much effort to try and find a player to a
Speaker 1: game to get him loose, because if it happens, good luck.
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're chain mover or a touchdown yep.
Speaker 1: And they you know, we caught him in a in
Speaker 1: a blitz and he was kind of the hot answer
Speaker 1: on that on that in that situation, and Mitch did
Speaker 1: a great job of getting the ball out and and
Speaker 1: he did the rest. Cornelis Lucas. I mean, maybe should
Speaker 1: I not be surprised he's he has played so well
Speaker 1: and knock on woods, you know, from from going back
Speaker 1: to Washington where nobody blinked, you know, there wasn't anybody
Speaker 1: that there was that was skeptical about how he was
Speaker 1: going to play against you know, Ker again, and then
Speaker 1: it's been whoever Aaron Donald and all these other guys
Speaker 1: we've had the pleasure of playing against. Uh, he has
Speaker 1: not wavered at all. Has he been perfect? No? Has
Speaker 1: rashadkward been perfect? No? But he's not giving up a
Speaker 1: sack this year. He's playing his tail off and and
Speaker 1: we're getting every ounce ode of those guys and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know again the on the on the right momentum swing. Uh,
Speaker 1: I just got to do it again. I threw something
Speaker 1: at David Montgomery after the game because I had done
Speaker 1: a feature with him on our Game Day Live show
Speaker 1: that Eric on Thursday back in June. He tweeted out
Speaker 1: how much he just couldn't get enough watching Walter Payton highlights.
Speaker 1: I was not insinuating that he's going to be Walter Payton,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want that, obviously, he wants to be
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. But through the first thirteen games of their careers,
Speaker 1: their numbers are nearly identical. So I gave him that card.
Speaker 1: After the game, he goes, Wow, how important is things
Speaker 1: sometimes to be put in perspective and context. It's like
Speaker 1: Mitch Wood, right, It's there's somebody wrote a start by
Speaker 1: Mitch and Drew Brees. Their numbers are almost identical through
Speaker 1: the first thirty eight games. And that's where you know,
Speaker 1: stats are stats, and and you can bend and move
Speaker 1: and you know coerce. But yeah, you need to go
Speaker 1: back to to reality and understand why things happen or
Speaker 1: why things don't happen. H And you know, there's no
Speaker 1: greater example than the two you mentioned, the quarterback and David.
Speaker 1: Things have not been perfect by any stretch for him
Speaker 1: or the people that are supporting him. H And to
Speaker 1: just recognize it. Hey, here here, here's what happened. Here's
Speaker 1: why let's move on together. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: not your fault, it's not my fault. It's not that
Speaker 1: this is you know what happened. Uh and and role
Speaker 1: and he's he's just a great you know you've been
Speaker 1: around enough. He's a great worker, a great teammate, and
Speaker 1: just a guy that that you know, again, his best
Speaker 1: days are ahead. And and we would we would love
Speaker 1: that comparison he made about what ten twelve years from now?
Speaker 1: Right right right? I mentioned this with with Matt just
Speaker 1: he was miked up this past week. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw any of that the but but
Speaker 1: just the conversation with Mitch, the hugs, the proclamations of
Speaker 1: love for each other. It's it's to me meaningful, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's it's genuine um. And it goes deeper than that,
Speaker 1: because he even mentioned, you know, the relationship with with
Speaker 1: you and Mitch and we're gone and you and Mitch,
Speaker 1: I mean that whole company, so to speak, that you
Speaker 1: keep in that quarter Can you take us behind the
Speaker 1: scenes a little bit of just how impactful it is
Speaker 1: every day to work with a quarterback because it's the
Speaker 1: most important position sports and absolutely it is. And the
Speaker 1: head coach and the quarterback have to be on the
Speaker 1: same page. And you know, Rags is with him every
Speaker 1: you know, every meeting, every minute of every day, and
Speaker 1: and mitches mitches, Mitch's Mitch. And that's the most important
Speaker 1: thing is you get to know every quarterback. They're individuals
Speaker 1: with you know, thoughts and feelings and hopes and dreams
Speaker 1: and aspirations and faults and you have to know all
Speaker 1: those things, you know to be able to push the
Speaker 1: right buttons in the in the crunch time and know
Speaker 1: that you know you're on the same side. And that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why it's so important is you just got to
Speaker 1: be able to to live through the highs and live
Speaker 1: through the lows, live through the pat on the back,
Speaker 1: live through the stab in the back, and and get
Speaker 1: through it. From week one to week fifteen, if you can,
Speaker 1: in a short sense kind of describe what it's been
Speaker 1: like for the gay and you guys working with him,
Speaker 1: he's he's worked, he's worked, and he's you know, it's been.
Speaker 1: It's been probably exactly what it seems like. You know
Speaker 1: at times, uh, some smiles and joy and some other
Speaker 1: times some you know, not not the opposite of that.
Speaker 1: And again because he cares a tremendous deal about his team,
Speaker 1: his city, everything that he represents, uh means a great
Speaker 1: deal to him. And uh, when things go well, you know,
Speaker 1: that's emotional. When things aren't going well, that's emotional. And
Speaker 1: you need to find that that groove and and uh,
Speaker 1: where you can you can succeed and thrive and not
Speaker 1: just not just try to, you know, survive. No bigger
Speaker 1: smile and then he ran into the end zone from
Speaker 1: twenty three yards. That's Mark Helfrich. One more segment to
Speaker 1: go The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie
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Speaker 1: Let's focus on attackers. That's where our attention goes here
Speaker 1: for the week fifteen matchup. Anything you see that they're
Speaker 1: doing different than a week one. Week one is the
Speaker 1: great unknown for everybody. So you kind of toss some
Speaker 1: things out. That's just that's just a field game. But
Speaker 1: what are they doing now that you has your attention Defensively, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it obviously starts with the pass rush and
Speaker 1: and those guys, the you know, President Zadarius Smith have
Speaker 1: been phenomenal, Uh, and then they kind of like a
Speaker 1: good you know, a good scheme does they present different
Speaker 1: problems every week. They attack protections uniquely as far as
Speaker 1: each each opponent and you know, knowing, hey, whoever the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings protect differently than us than than Denver who
Speaker 1: you know, whoever the rest of their opponents have been
Speaker 1: and uh, they're they're really good. Uh. They do a
Speaker 1: great job of kind of mixing and matching from all
Speaker 1: their personnel groups, both their their fronts and their their games,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, pressures or just you know game
Speaker 1: line games upfront, uh, and then changing up the look
Speaker 1: for the quarterback on the back end, but playing similar
Speaker 1: things from their standpoints. So it's kind of one of
Speaker 1: those things where a lot of things look differently and
Speaker 1: then they kind of play the same and then a
Speaker 1: lot of things look differently. But then, h to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: that's a lot to unpack right there. Well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you could throw them some curveballs too. Sure. Sure,
Speaker 1: it's you know, similar to our defensive Hey. You know,
Speaker 1: they present you one look and do four or five
Speaker 1: things out of it, and they're really good at it.
Speaker 1: And then they do a few things each each week
Speaker 1: that are unique and so uh and then they've got
Speaker 1: good players doing it. Uh. So they're you know, on
Speaker 1: a roll right now. Obviously played very well yesterday and
Speaker 1: gave up a late one, uh, made a little closer
Speaker 1: than than it probably was, and playing down a couple
Speaker 1: of guys. Will see how that plays out from their
Speaker 1: their health standpoint. But but very very very very very sound,
Speaker 1: well coached, elite, elite guys. Teams have run on them,
Speaker 1: but they've survived it with wins for whatever reason. But
Speaker 1: there's been some pretty big rushing numbers against them this season.
Speaker 1: What do you see on that in front of Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've they've you know, they've had a couple of pot
Speaker 1: you know for that was just watching Minnesota earlier and
Speaker 1: they had the one whatever seventy five yard touchdown and
Speaker 1: then a lot of one yard games, you know, So
Speaker 1: it's kind of that body bow, body bow, body blow,
Speaker 1: knockout type of thing, but you gotta you gotta finish
Speaker 1: the knockout. And then it seems to me their secondary
Speaker 1: is I don't know, is it the strength of their
Speaker 1: defense because they're gonna play a lot of time potentially,
Speaker 1: um and the Bears have seen a lot of time
Speaker 1: this season, So is that something you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be focused on because they can death throw a bunch
Speaker 1: of things at you. Yep, and and veteran guys very
Speaker 1: very good, you know obviously you know Adrian, but the
Speaker 1: two corners, Alexander has been elite again. He's he's a
Speaker 1: great player, and I think Kevin King is probably playing
Speaker 1: at his highest level ever and he's banged up last week,
Speaker 1: and that's one of the guys obviously we'll kind of
Speaker 1: keep track of. But but yeah, they're they're playing well,
Speaker 1: playing with confidence, and anytime you can play how they
Speaker 1: do on the back end with the confidence in that
Speaker 1: pass rush up front, that helps him. All Right, Well,
Speaker 1: appreciate you being on once again. Good luck with your
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