Speaker 1: Happy Monday, everybody. I hope your weekend was great time
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Coach you show with head coach Matt
Speaker 1: Eberflus Jeff Joniac with a heere into eight o'clock tonight
Speaker 1: on news radio one oh five nine w BBM. Good evening,
Speaker 1: Matt hythen good, how are you doing doing? Okay? How
Speaker 1: to go today with the fellas? You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of work you normally do on the Monday. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a good team meeting, brought the guys in recap
Speaker 1: the day with them, and really showed him in the plays.
Speaker 1: You know, we showed him, you know, hey, how we
Speaker 1: were ten to ten at halftime, and I showed him
Speaker 1: how we dominated the third quarter fourteen to zero. Really
Speaker 1: nice job by the defense going three and out to
Speaker 1: start that second half, and then the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: scored touchdown, defense went five and out of the next one,
Speaker 1: offense scored another touchdown and the defense did a nice
Speaker 1: nice job of stopping him again. So it was a
Speaker 1: really good third quarter. Um. You know, obviously cole comment
Speaker 1: had two touchdowns in that quarter there. But then we
Speaker 1: talked about the fourth quarter. You know, how we started
Speaker 1: off the fourth quarter, had a couple of things that
Speaker 1: we needed to correct, you know, uh, you know, kick
Speaker 1: out of bounds penalties, things that would cause them to
Speaker 1: to get a drive and keep drives alive. So and
Speaker 1: we obviously made that real nice play. Sandborn made that
Speaker 1: beautiful play that interception which was negated by a penalty
Speaker 1: also so um, you know, and then they got back
Speaker 1: in it and tied it. They tied it up there,
Speaker 1: um with the uh the interception return you know, to
Speaker 1: made it twenty four twenty four. So then at that point,
Speaker 1: really you know, then it's a tie ball game, you know.
Speaker 1: So then a lot of adversities happened to that point.
Speaker 1: Now we got to we set our minds and do
Speaker 1: a great job. And then in a third and one,
Speaker 1: you know, Justin responds, you know, by throwing the interception.
Speaker 1: He responds the very next series, okay, just as you
Speaker 1: know he would, um with that six sixty seven yard
Speaker 1: testdown scamper so um pretty special guy. Um. And again
Speaker 1: we uh, we weren't clean on the operation on the
Speaker 1: extra point and end up missing the extra point. You know.
Speaker 1: So now we go up by six, and we were
Speaker 1: up by six there, but I think about seven minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the game, and we couldn't close the
Speaker 1: deal on offense, and couldn't close the deal on defense,
Speaker 1: and we just we got to do a better job
Speaker 1: in those moments um operating, you know, in that in
Speaker 1: that you know, when we're up there and be able
Speaker 1: to finish, to gain the right way, you open up
Speaker 1: some windows of discussion here. Let's let's start with Justin
Speaker 1: Because Jim Schwantz, who's on our pre and postgame crew,
Speaker 1: the former San Francisco forty nine or Chicago Bear, Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys special team stud he walks into booth these last
Speaker 1: five weeks and he's an a racer. Justin's an a racer,
Speaker 1: And is that fair say he races some of the
Speaker 1: shortcomings that pop up during a game. And he's also
Speaker 1: a responder because I think when he does something he
Speaker 1: doesn't approve of, like the pick six, which he says
Speaker 1: he'll never throw again, you know, he feels compelled to
Speaker 1: just give it that little extra to be an a racer.
Speaker 1: So is that what he's becoming? I guess yeah, he's
Speaker 1: obviously very special. First of all, he's a special person.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a great teammate, he's a great leader
Speaker 1: of this football team, and he doesn't do actions. You know. First,
Speaker 1: you know, he's the first guy in, the last guy
Speaker 1: to leave, and he is working in the same guy
Speaker 1: every day and he does it. He's there after practicing,
Speaker 1: as you know, you know, for forty five minutes, throwing
Speaker 1: routes with these with these receivers every single day. So
Speaker 1: he's special that way, you know. And we always tell
Speaker 1: talk about leadership, we say, hey, model of the behavior
Speaker 1: you wish to see, and that's what he does. He
Speaker 1: models that. By doing that, he inspires others. He inspires
Speaker 1: this whole football team by the way he works. Now,
Speaker 1: going to the football field itself on game day, there
Speaker 1: is no question that he is something that is hard
Speaker 1: to handle for the opponent because the ability to run
Speaker 1: on the design runs, but also the unscripted ones as well.
Speaker 1: The third and one was a design run. Everybody knew
Speaker 1: that he had a potential to keep it and he
Speaker 1: did what he did. And obviously there's the ones where
Speaker 1: he drops backs. You know, it does a does a
Speaker 1: good job of getting those first downs on third down
Speaker 1: or whatever the situation may be. But yeah, he's special.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarters, so the production is not good over the
Speaker 1: course of I think nineteen fourth quarter possessions one touchdown
Speaker 1: I believe to see. But to me, that's a function
Speaker 1: again of a young team. It's a function of learning
Speaker 1: how to win. All those things we talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: the three to four plays, the six to seven plays
Speaker 1: that need to happen over the course of game. But
Speaker 1: it comes to a head in a fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: a tight game, and you're gonna be in a ton
Speaker 1: of tight games. My belief is you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a tight game the rest of the year, no matter
Speaker 1: the opponent, because that's how you guys play. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's the way the NFL is, right, you know, it
Speaker 1: comes down to the last you know, always within in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, you always within a one touchdown game.
Speaker 1: So we have to learn from these moments and we
Speaker 1: have to get better and improve so we can execute
Speaker 1: down the stretch. And that also defense, not just offense.
Speaker 1: You know, the defense has to come up and make
Speaker 1: a play, make a big sack, make a takeaway. No
Speaker 1: takeaways the last two weeks. I'm sure that something in
Speaker 1: the year, like I said in a team meeting, that
Speaker 1: we had one taken away from us. You know, the
Speaker 1: Sandborn interception was a great momentum shifter there. You know,
Speaker 1: it was twenty four I believe to ten at that point,
Speaker 1: and we take that ball away there, take it back
Speaker 1: to the twenty five, get a nice drive going there.
Speaker 1: We either punt and pin or up by you know,
Speaker 1: three scores or two and a half scores, whatever that
Speaker 1: might be. And that was a big momentum change your
Speaker 1: for us. But and then Gibson Gibson on the fumble
Speaker 1: they had on that reverse. You know, we got to
Speaker 1: do a better job of you know, doing a great
Speaker 1: job and that when it's that country fumble or city
Speaker 1: fumble or and they're on there in tight quarters that
Speaker 1: we've shield our back towards the opponent and make sure
Speaker 1: we don't expose the ball so we can recover it.
Speaker 1: So we touched on the referee situation last week, touch
Speaker 1: on a post game. It is what it is. But
Speaker 1: how do you prevent your team from getting defeated by
Speaker 1: it during a game? No, you just got to reset.
Speaker 1: You got to reset and make sure that your mind
Speaker 1: is on the next play. You know, you're going to
Speaker 1: have adversities, and like I said yesterday and the press
Speaker 1: are after the game, your adversity comes in many forms,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to be able to deal with that.
Speaker 1: You know, championship teams, winning teams, they just bust through adversity.
Speaker 1: They see it, they look at it and say, okay,
Speaker 1: move on to the next play, and they just keep
Speaker 1: making plays. And if you do that, keep executing in
Speaker 1: those critical moments, good things are going to happen. Do
Speaker 1: you think as a whole they have done that or
Speaker 1: do you notice slump shoulders and reactiveness? No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't notice that one good. I think we are
Speaker 1: right there in the moment, and I think that our
Speaker 1: guys are growing. You know, we got a young football team.
Speaker 1: The guys are learning in these moments and we're only
Speaker 1: going to get better, all right. I love what you
Speaker 1: had to say after the game because you brought up
Speaker 1: the fact, Okay, you got three straight losses six to seven,
Speaker 1: and that can harm teams, no question. You lose three
Speaker 1: straight in this league, it's like crisis, right any team.
Speaker 1: But you said, you know, be there for the man
Speaker 1: next to you. Go deeper in that. You can now
Speaker 1: our final minute in the segment about be there for
Speaker 1: the man next Yeah, it's it's really simple. It's about
Speaker 1: your attitude, and it's about your behaviors, you know. So
Speaker 1: if you have a good attitude, that comes from your
Speaker 1: inside out, So that comes from your mind and your heart, right,
Speaker 1: your attitude does, and then your behaviors is the actions
Speaker 1: you show what's inside of you. So what does that.
Speaker 1: It's be on time, it's be respectful, it's the work
Speaker 1: hard and those three things we live by here. So
Speaker 1: those guys are doing that, they're showing that. And to
Speaker 1: be a good team that you have to show it
Speaker 1: every single day. And that's what the guys were doing.
Speaker 1: And the leaders show it obviously, and the other guys
Speaker 1: show the way, but you also want them to lead
Speaker 1: on their own. So that's how I've been a big topic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. You know, everybody's a leader. You know, you
Speaker 1: got to be able to lead and you lead by example.
Speaker 1: You know. It's not a big You don't need to
Speaker 1: say a lot of things. You need to do. You
Speaker 1: need to be a doer. We want doors in this building,
Speaker 1: guys that go to to go to work and do
Speaker 1: their business every single day. And as Matt Ebert Fluce
Speaker 1: bears head coach following a lost to the Lions, getting
Speaker 1: ready for the Atlanta Falcons snap bootleg fields, he's got
Speaker 1: an opportunity pickling the water. Come at Mexico, rob of
Speaker 1: the eighteen. There he goes to the end zone, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 1: Bears fifty yard strike on second and one and come
Speaker 1: out with this second touchdown of the day. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears coach you show with Bears head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Ebert flus fifty yard touchdown throw to Cole Commit.
Speaker 1: How much do it run plays? Set up those deep balls? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, that's all set up by the outside wide
Speaker 1: zone stretch game, you know, so you have to build
Speaker 1: a run that first, and that's one of our bread
Speaker 1: and butter plays and we run at several other plays too,
Speaker 1: but that's one of the plays we really hang our
Speaker 1: hat on is the wide zone, and off of that
Speaker 1: comes to keepers. You know, have the keepers off of
Speaker 1: it where you have different various route concepts to be
Speaker 1: able to throw shots down the field. Sometimes they're just
Speaker 1: normal routes concepts, like a normal boot you got a
Speaker 1: guy in the flat, a guy and an over out,
Speaker 1: maybe a guy running a deep comeback. But some of
Speaker 1: those times we take shots on those and those are
Speaker 1: the post post corner concepts, and that's what Cole ran
Speaker 1: um the other day and it was really good. It
Speaker 1: was a pump play and he was wide open on
Speaker 1: the back side of that and there was confusion in
Speaker 1: the in the coverage, and uh, I thought Cole did
Speaker 1: a great job of really focusing, you know, catching that ball,
Speaker 1: you know, because it was in the sun. Um, he
Speaker 1: had to turn around a little bit for it and
Speaker 1: it was up there for a while. And man, what
Speaker 1: an athlete he is. And he's really really impressing us
Speaker 1: this year with his with his ability to catch and
Speaker 1: run with run after the catch. Yeah. I brought it
Speaker 1: up both times because those both catches, both touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: You're battling the sun, you know. Uh, that part of
Speaker 1: Soldier Field at that time of day is challenging. It
Speaker 1: is this time of year or two because the sun
Speaker 1: gets lower, you know, this time of year, and certainly
Speaker 1: it's hitting that corner that we saw yesterday. But great concentration.
Speaker 1: So five touchdowns in three games. He had four catches
Speaker 1: for seventy four yesterday, I believe it or not. This
Speaker 1: is what happens when you start scoring points in the NFL. Right,
Speaker 1: It's the first since win. But Cole Comet first Bears
Speaker 1: player with two receiving touchdowns in back to back games
Speaker 1: since Johnny Morris back in nineteen sixty four. Nice, I
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, but you know this relationship with it
Speaker 1: and I've heard now comparisons also. It happens again when
Speaker 1: you start scoring touchdowns, people start looking for comparisons. But
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews the quarterback with a running quarterback in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of similarities Mark Andrews and Cole Commet.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure if you feel that way
Speaker 1: or scouts feel that way, but it's a heck of
Speaker 1: a comparison now. And with a QB tight end relationship
Speaker 1: like that, it can last to ten years. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really it's really nice to be able to have him.
Speaker 1: You know, first of all, the way he works every
Speaker 1: single day, he's positive, he's energetic, He's exactly what we
Speaker 1: want for a Chicago Bear. In turns how he goes
Speaker 1: about his business every single day. And he's a good player,
Speaker 1: you know. So the couple of those two things, with
Speaker 1: his partnership with the quarterback, that's a great tam to have.
Speaker 1: And those guys are doing a great job. This year.
Speaker 1: Really the chemistry, you know, in the connection they have
Speaker 1: really worked on during the course of practice is really
Speaker 1: paying off into games. And he's born to be a
Speaker 1: bear because he grew up in Chicago. Bear right, you
Speaker 1: know it's perfect. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. He's got
Speaker 1: pro football in his blood too, so he's he's got
Speaker 1: it all here does week seven through week ten, Fields
Speaker 1: now ranks eighth in the league in quarterback passer rating
Speaker 1: eight passing touchdowns. That's tied for second in the league
Speaker 1: with the likes of Mahomes, Rogers, Gino Smith, Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: But overall, what we're seeing, what we're hearing, the specialness,
Speaker 1: as you referred to it as it's a runaway freight train,
Speaker 1: just like he was a freight train on that run
Speaker 1: to the end zone. We'll get into some of these
Speaker 1: plays when we run the highlights, but he's doing a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything and it's quite entertaining, Matt yea
Speaker 1: quite entertain yes it is. And we're seeing him go
Speaker 1: right before our eyes and you know he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: getting better and all aspects of the game. Um, he's
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable in the offense. Uh, he's learning. We're
Speaker 1: able to change and adjust to his style a little bit,
Speaker 1: but also change and adjust the offense as we go,
Speaker 1: you know, so we can't line up and run the
Speaker 1: same things, you know every week. We got to be
Speaker 1: creative and we are doing that. And the offensive staff
Speaker 1: and gets here doing a great job. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the offensive line. A seventh change in ten games,
Speaker 1: and which is never good for an offensive line. Tevin
Speaker 1: Jenkins unable to go this past week's goal field goes
Speaker 1: in at guard. Just what's your thought of that is
Speaker 1: and how it's all working. No, I just I would
Speaker 1: just say, you know, uh, Chris Morgan, our offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: you know, um, I mean I know that, you know,
Speaker 1: Austin King, they do a great job of getting those
Speaker 1: guys ready. You know, they have the ability those three
Speaker 1: players that don't start to be able to swing in
Speaker 1: and out like that, um is really important, you know.
Speaker 1: And Schofield's one of those guys that can move in
Speaker 1: and out. And he did a nice job of stepping
Speaker 1: in there, um, you know, late in the week and
Speaker 1: stepping in or during the game. But that's a credit
Speaker 1: to him on the players around him and also the
Speaker 1: coaches around him and Alex Leatherwood was active, But where
Speaker 1: is he had in his progress? Right? Good, he's doing good.
Speaker 1: He's again reflecting him in and out as well, and
Speaker 1: he's learning the offense and he's making steady progress all right.
Speaker 1: Last season, the Bears had eleven unnecessary roughness caused that.
Speaker 1: It was number one in the league at the first
Speaker 1: one yesterday, and that was the sideline Kyler Gordon trying
Speaker 1: to take the ball out and the quarterback gets a
Speaker 1: little shove in the back and boom, they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna do that with QBS, no question about it. It's
Speaker 1: but as a young player, that's another learning moment for
Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, we showed that in a team meeting.
Speaker 1: You know, we said it to everybody and we've talked
Speaker 1: about it before. With quarterbacks on the sideline, you cannot
Speaker 1: shove them or move them in the white you can't
Speaker 1: do it because they protect the quarterbacks, you know. So
Speaker 1: we showed that we're learning from that. And again all
Speaker 1: he did was punched the ball and maybe laid a
Speaker 1: hand on him and then you know there they go
Speaker 1: on the sideline and they're gonna call those plays And
Speaker 1: was it unnecessary roughness? I don't know, but they're typically
Speaker 1: gonna call that. More Fields looking the throw pump big
Speaker 1: now in big trouble, brought down enough you step the
Speaker 1: tackle left to the five. Did he get in? He
Speaker 1: powers in and somehow gets in the end zone and
Speaker 1: blew through it. The chart Lion made something big out
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Speaker 1: Coachy Show with head coach Matt Eberflus. Just heard a
Speaker 1: riveting run by Justin Fields. Many things went through my
Speaker 1: head trying to describe that play, but seeing it a
Speaker 1: second and third and fourth and fifth time now when
Speaker 1: he loaded his shoulder into Deshaun Elliott which knocked him
Speaker 1: out of the game. That was a vicious play by
Speaker 1: a big, thick quarterback. And I think you and I
Speaker 1: talked about this in pregame yesterday. Just the size is
Speaker 1: something you have to take into account. Is a big quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's not Dante Colepepper at two hundred and forty five
Speaker 1: fifty pounds, but he's thick, he can deliver it. I
Speaker 1: don't think Dante can move that fast either. I played
Speaker 1: against Dante when he was at Central Florida. We're at
Speaker 1: the University of Toledo U back in like ninety eight,
Speaker 1: I want to say, or ninety seven, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think he has play foot speed,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that. I mean, Lamar definitely does,
Speaker 1: Michael Vick does. But sure, let's talk about that first
Speaker 1: before we get into the speed of this guy, because
Speaker 1: that's a want two touchdown. Yeah, it is. It is,
Speaker 1: And we did as a football team. We did a
Speaker 1: really nice job of whittling that clockdown, you know. So
Speaker 1: that was right before the half um. You know, so
Speaker 1: we have a mechanics for that, and obviously we've been
Speaker 1: doing a really good job of that, you know, points
Speaker 1: before half. Um. We're won in the league doing that
Speaker 1: right now with point differential. We scored forty points I
Speaker 1: believe up to that point and we have a plus
Speaker 1: thirty point differential, So we're first in the league right
Speaker 1: before half scoring that way. But uh, and that's really
Speaker 1: a credit to you know, the offensive staff and really
Speaker 1: the game management of that being able to whittle that clockdown.
Speaker 1: And we had a situation there, right, the ball goes
Speaker 1: out of bounce, right, they call it out of bounce.
Speaker 1: Then they changed their call from it's a fumble in bounce,
Speaker 1: so we end up using because it's a clock stoppage there.
Speaker 1: We end up using that because it's going to be
Speaker 1: a hot clock to start. We had to use our
Speaker 1: time out to avoid a ten second runoff before that
Speaker 1: play actually happened, so that was good. So we had
Speaker 1: twenty five seconds, we still had two timeouts. We're all clear,
Speaker 1: squared away on that, and then it ends up being
Speaker 1: we're justin. Joss back on that one play and just
Speaker 1: makes a remarkable play. He makes like four or five
Speaker 1: guys miss and then he takes it and decides to
Speaker 1: go north. And when he does that, it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 1: Do you ever hold your breath? Well, he's he's got
Speaker 1: to be smart, you know, we talked about being smart
Speaker 1: and being wise. He was going to score a touchdown there.
Speaker 1: He used what he needed to use to get in there,
Speaker 1: so he was he was smart that way. Then the
Speaker 1: kickout goes out of bounds, right, and now you get
Speaker 1: a get a hail Mary, which you practice probably every
Speaker 1: week anyway, right, Yep, defending that, but it's one of
Speaker 1: those moments though it could have. I mean, we've seen
Speaker 1: it happen. Yeah, you just can't let it happen. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we did an okay job. We can clean some things
Speaker 1: up in the execution of that very last play, for sure.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking Eddie because I know Eddie was he
Speaker 1: wants to pick, let's face it, but hey, you never know.
Speaker 1: Also take the pick, get the block and going and
Speaker 1: stranger things have happened, you take at the distance. Yep,
Speaker 1: you never know with Eddie because he's a good athlete
Speaker 1: for sure. Exactly the pick six, that's a second of
Speaker 1: his career, but thirteen quarters without an interception before that one.
Speaker 1: So it's not a problem. It's not a problem right now. No,
Speaker 1: the offense has done a really good job of protecting
Speaker 1: the ball. You know. That was just you know, one mistake,
Speaker 1: you know, one play. He'll tell you, like he said yesterday,
Speaker 1: he should have just dirted it in the ground, you know.
Speaker 1: So the mechanics of it, the timing of it was
Speaker 1: a little bit off on that particular screenplay and just
Speaker 1: should have just dirted it in the ground. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to the speed element now, because and I
Speaker 1: had a couple of conversations this morning with some former
Speaker 1: NFL players. You know, everybody knows what speed looks like.
Speaker 1: But with the way he runs a long strider, right,
Speaker 1: but he's still pulling away from guys and he almost
Speaker 1: makes them look like they're standing still. There's some fast
Speaker 1: guys on that field yesterday. Has he got a different
Speaker 1: kind of speed that we just teams and players are
Speaker 1: not understanding at this juncture. Yeah, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: just watch the tape, you know, you see him breakdown angles,
Speaker 1: you know, as people have angles on them and he
Speaker 1: just breaks them down. And that's what he has the
Speaker 1: ability to do that. He's his speed is as fast
Speaker 1: as it needs to be, you know, I always say that,
Speaker 1: so the guys that are super fast. He has different
Speaker 1: gears than most people, and he's able to pull away
Speaker 1: from guys as you saw in that sixty seven yard
Speaker 1: run on that third and one. And he's also able
Speaker 1: to pull away guys, you know, from on the sideline.
Speaker 1: You know, he can do that as well and get
Speaker 1: out of bounce. But he's been doing a great job
Speaker 1: with that. We just got to continue to be smart
Speaker 1: when we do it. Is he tired, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, we're working into our bye week coming here, right,
Speaker 1: So we got three games to go before the buy,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be smart about, you know, keeping our
Speaker 1: guys fresh. You know, we want to really do a
Speaker 1: good job of being fresh playing our style these last
Speaker 1: three games before we get to that buy. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be smart with our football team. And because he
Speaker 1: runs so much by choice and design, would it ever
Speaker 1: be a situation where his legs grow fatigue during a
Speaker 1: game that affect the way he passes. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it off. Yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way. I don't feel that way. He's you know,
Speaker 1: super strong, and he's got a great win and endurance
Speaker 1: and he really works himself, you know. So he's had
Speaker 1: that that foundation in terms of his conditioning level. So
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. But we gotta be smart
Speaker 1: with him during the week to making sure that he
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent fresh on game day. Second, at seven,
Speaker 1: I've a minute to play here on the third golf
Speaker 1: on the takeaway fakes it sets to throw pressure coming
Speaker 1: hit and down he goes the jackhammer. Jack Sanborn his
Speaker 1: second sack today, that one coming on the blitz and
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Speaker 1: two Jack Sanborn sacks a beauty because he's going up
Speaker 1: against a big dude, young a Penney Sewell and he
Speaker 1: had the leverage, worked him and beat him. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are those are some of the simulated pressures that we run,
Speaker 1: you know, where you were only rushing four guys, but
Speaker 1: you're simulating like you're rushing five or six guys and
Speaker 1: we're just really just dropping back into coverage. And uh so,
Speaker 1: you know, if he had the protection right, you can
Speaker 1: get that right. And he did a really good job
Speaker 1: of just uh you know, hitting it, you know, with
Speaker 1: speed and he gets his pads down. He always has
Speaker 1: the ability to keep his toes pointing at the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He doesn't work away from the quarterback. He works towards
Speaker 1: the quarterback the entire time. So he has a really
Speaker 1: natural knock for that. How about the other sack? What
Speaker 1: was the Yeah, yeah, the other one was he you know,
Speaker 1: we got him on the move, you know. It was
Speaker 1: they're trying to hit the short pylon and Joe did
Speaker 1: a really good job. Joe Thomas did a really good job.
Speaker 1: But he was the outside pressure player. He ended up
Speaker 1: picking up the guy in the flat, which that was
Speaker 1: his first read. And then uh, Samborne did a great
Speaker 1: job of rapping the rush and had a nice sack
Speaker 1: on that one and tracked down Jared Goff for a
Speaker 1: three yard loss. So at twelve tackles had an interception
Speaker 1: taken away. If you didn't, you win the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's conversation about a guy being an NFC Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Week, honestly, because two sacks of interception wins
Speaker 1: a game in twelve tackles. That's some pretty heavy stuff
Speaker 1: for a second career start. No, that's good numbers, and
Speaker 1: that's what we expect of our linebackers. You know, they
Speaker 1: play off the guys in front of him, and we've
Speaker 1: had some guys in there in the past that have
Speaker 1: had super good numbers. I mean, you can start naming
Speaker 1: the names. I mean there's some guys in our system
Speaker 1: that have had the ability Hall of Fame type players
Speaker 1: that have had the numbers in there, So we expect
Speaker 1: that of our linebackers. Those are big shoes to fill
Speaker 1: and those guys should be productive every single week. What
Speaker 1: are you learning about what he is? No? Smart, very instinctive.
Speaker 1: We knew that, you know from the preseason watching his
Speaker 1: college tape. He's got a really good knack for the ball.
Speaker 1: He has, you know, good ball hawking skills, and we're
Speaker 1: excited where he is because he does have good instincts.
Speaker 1: You know, guys can trigger fast, guys can move fast
Speaker 1: or quick to the ball, and he's got good tackling ability.
Speaker 1: Nick Morrow three tackles for loss. Playing the week's side
Speaker 1: last two weeks. You mentioned good things last week, same here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was solid. Both those guys graded out high this week.
Speaker 1: They had a really good game, you know, defending the run.
Speaker 1: You know, a good week of defending the run this week,
Speaker 1: which is which is real positive for the whole group.
Speaker 1: That's the defensive line, the front seven. You know, linebackers
Speaker 1: in the safeties did a nice job aut defending the
Speaker 1: run for sure. Yeah, I think I hope, I'm right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think nineteen tackles by the entire
Speaker 1: defensive line group, just the defensive lineman I, which would
Speaker 1: be quite a bit for this season. That might be
Speaker 1: a season high. Is that? Am I right on the money?
Speaker 1: So did that? That's what you want? That's what you want.
Speaker 1: That means the ball is not getting into the secondary
Speaker 1: and the run game, and we're doing a good job
Speaker 1: of really snuffing it out at the line of scrimmager
Speaker 1: a right. Dominique Robinson had six tackles now also virtue
Speaker 1: he played fifty five snaps in the game. So that
Speaker 1: is that the kind of production you want. Obviously you'd
Speaker 1: like to get some sacks if possible, but that's not
Speaker 1: the case right now. Shared at tackle for loss in
Speaker 1: this one overall wod Yeah, we were getting a lot
Speaker 1: of production out of those rookies, you know, with Samborne,
Speaker 1: Dominic Robinson, you know, Kyler Gordon and Jaquan Brisker. We're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of production out of those guys and
Speaker 1: that's great to see. You know, those guys are going
Speaker 1: to be here and they're gonna be working here for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, and they're they're improving every single week now.
Speaker 1: Dominic had more reps because you know, Moe was out,
Speaker 1: Muhammad was out, and they were sharing the role really
Speaker 1: with Gibson was on one side, he was on the
Speaker 1: other side taking the ball with that work and you
Speaker 1: know the other guys that were in there, they got
Speaker 1: maybe ten, ten to five plays and that was it.
Speaker 1: So guys did a really good job with their stamina.
Speaker 1: They gutted it out without having that extra piece in there,
Speaker 1: all right, and Justin Jones uh I circled him as
Speaker 1: one of the key players this week before the game
Speaker 1: and just to be a penetrator, be a disruptor. He
Speaker 1: had a good staff, very nice Yeah, he did a
Speaker 1: very nice job. He also graded out a yesterday. He
Speaker 1: had a lot of good production TfL's you know pressures.
Speaker 1: You had that pressure on that on that big Hail
Speaker 1: Mary play, which I think you know made him sort
Speaker 1: even shorter. But he's been productive for us. You know,
Speaker 1: he's our he's one of our captains and one of
Speaker 1: our leaders on defense, and he's been a nice job
Speaker 1: of really rallying those guys um these last couple of
Speaker 1: games help keep the ball in there. He goes justin
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Party five, bring rush in front
Speaker 1: of him. Please reliance on his way, running left to
Speaker 1: the ten five ends of touchdown, he goes sixty seven yards.
Speaker 1: Ready sent and go to any jewel Osco for freshness
Speaker 1: at your fingertips. With every handoff, get everything from produce
Speaker 1: and meat to Delhi treats and more. Just heard the
Speaker 1: sixty seven yard run by Justin Fields for the touchdown
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row, first time in NFL history
Speaker 1: to rush for at least two twenty five and five
Speaker 1: straight games. Fourth in history with a fifty yard touchdown
Speaker 1: pass and a fifty plush yard touchdown run of the
Speaker 1: same game, sharing that with Lamar cam Newton and a
Speaker 1: gentleman by the name of Ace Parker in nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: eighties of Pro Football Hall of Famer first quarterback Since
Speaker 1: Tobin wrote in nineteen fifty one, with at least one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five rusher yards in consecutive games, and he
Speaker 1: said it best, I don't care about records, I care
Speaker 1: about wins, right, But comes with that is this uniqueness
Speaker 1: that we're seeing. Well, it's winning football, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's what he does care about. We got to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know, he continues to do winning football,
Speaker 1: which is take care of the ball, take care of himself,
Speaker 1: make sure that he's you know, staying out harm's way
Speaker 1: and operating the offense. And he's doing much better job
Speaker 1: every single week. You can see his growth. He's getting better,
Speaker 1: he's improving in all areas, and we're excited about where
Speaker 1: he is. And you know, the inevitable of getting Walter
Speaker 1: Payton's name mentioned in these unbelievable records as well, first
Speaker 1: Bears player to rush for at least one hundred forty
Speaker 1: seven yards and back to back game since Walter and
Speaker 1: that was back in nineteen eighty four before the Bears
Speaker 1: became a Super Bowl team. On the day as actually
Speaker 1: that he broke Jim Brown's all time rushing record against
Speaker 1: the Saints October seventh, nineteen eighty four. Thank you, Larry
Speaker 1: Mayor of Chicago Bears dot Com. But it's fun stuff
Speaker 1: for Bears fans because, honestly, there hasn't been this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff in the history of Bears football, this kind
Speaker 1: of production from that position running the football right now,
Speaker 1: and the passing aspect of it is also developing, and
Speaker 1: more of it to come you can understand why everyone's excited, right, No,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. I mean you talk about the legends
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears, you go back to Red Greens,
Speaker 1: you know, and Bronco Nagurski, you know, and then Walter
Speaker 1: of course, and all the great runners, Gail, I mean,
Speaker 1: all the guys that have been able to run the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, with electricity like that, you know, break tackles
Speaker 1: and run and break runs that are long runs. Um,
Speaker 1: that's pretty special, you know. And he has that that
Speaker 1: trait you know as a quarterback, which is even more special,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's the he's a passer first, and
Speaker 1: then he's a has the ability to run the ball
Speaker 1: as well, and he's running the offense, you know, doing
Speaker 1: a good job of growing every single week. But uh,
Speaker 1: certainly a special guy. And you know, a guy that
Speaker 1: we're looking at here as a Chicago Bears fans watch
Speaker 1: these games. You're seeing something special every single week. Fourth quarters,
Speaker 1: passing the ball getting touched down. Is that the next step? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think it is. We got
Speaker 1: to execute as a football team. You know, that game
Speaker 1: came down to us executing as a team. We needed
Speaker 1: to you know, seal the deal on offense with seven
Speaker 1: minutes ago, and then we needed to do a great
Speaker 1: job on defense of sealing the deal too, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's it's not just one side, it's it's the
Speaker 1: whole team, and we have to do a good job
Speaker 1: of that in the fourth quarters because we know that
Speaker 1: these games are coming down to these uh, these tight
Speaker 1: games are always going to come down to that in
Speaker 1: the end. I didn't hear your news conference this morning.
Speaker 1: They were asking you something about when you got here,
Speaker 1: what did you think of Justin and what do you
Speaker 1: think now? Can you complete that sentence for him? Yeah? So,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're looking at different jobs across the league,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, had a was fortunate to be
Speaker 1: build an interview for us a couple of spots this time.
Speaker 1: But I've you know, I've had like, I think six
Speaker 1: interviews over the course of three or four years, uh
Speaker 1: and my time as a defensive coordinator. And you look
Speaker 1: at at organizations, but the first scene you look at
Speaker 1: is you know how the organizations set up, you know,
Speaker 1: is it set up for success? And then who's going
Speaker 1: to be the quarterback? And that that's those are two
Speaker 1: things you have to check off right away, you know,
Speaker 1: do you believe in the organization and the leadership, And
Speaker 1: that was a definite yes for me with the McCaskey family.
Speaker 1: And then you look at the quarterback with Justin Fields
Speaker 1: being here, and that was a green light all the way.
Speaker 1: You know, you watch a tape on them, you saw
Speaker 1: the electricity is a ability to you know, throw the ball,
Speaker 1: his deep ball passing. That's I've been saying that along.
Speaker 1: I got that first one. I watched him from you know,
Speaker 1: last year's tape, his college tape. You know, I knew
Speaker 1: that that's a trade of his and then his special
Speaker 1: athletic ability, you know, use the right way, it can
Speaker 1: be a special, special player for the Chicago Bears. I
Speaker 1: think it impacts more because you are a defensive coach
Speaker 1: first and foremost. So you know what is hard to stop?
Speaker 1: Is that part of it? Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And you know what's difficult to stop for sure. And
Speaker 1: I think that when you look at the guys across
Speaker 1: the league. You know, I came into the league, what
Speaker 1: fourteen years ago, um so I've seen the drop back passers.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen the rivers and the bradies and
Speaker 1: the you know Breezes and you know the Roethlisbergers. I've
Speaker 1: seen those guys when and when they're in their prime,
Speaker 1: you know. And then you saw the maturation of the
Speaker 1: game changing. You know, it started to change, you know
Speaker 1: with the Russells and everybody. You know, uh Lamar and
Speaker 1: Josh and all the guys. They have now pat all
Speaker 1: the guys and our guy and you can see the
Speaker 1: maturation and the changing of the guard. The game has changed,
Speaker 1: you know. So defensive coaches have to you have to change,
Speaker 1: they have to adjust to these guys and and it's
Speaker 1: all about stopping the quarterback. And you can see it.
Speaker 1: And again when I was the coordinator, we certainly had
Speaker 1: to adjust because we were on the on the front
Speaker 1: end of that when it certainly started. But it is
Speaker 1: an exciting time for the NFL. These guys make the
Speaker 1: league special and it's fun to watch. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show with Matt Eberflus. Now it's time
Speaker 1: to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers, the
Speaker 1: official sports book partner of the Bears. The Bears back
Speaker 1: on the road Sunday, taking out the four and six
Speaker 1: Falcons in Atlanta, the Falcons coming off ten days rest
Speaker 1: after losing to the Panthers twenty five to fifteen last
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Before we get into the game itself a
Speaker 1: little bit, I want to touch on some players. Matt Adams,
Speaker 1: he's out there. I don't know if you've heard this.
Speaker 1: He had a shirt off in the cold yesterday warming
Speaker 1: up at Soldier Field. I thought, what am I seeing here? Now?
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's braving the elements. Now you
Speaker 1: know him better than us. Yeah, is that Matt Adams?
Speaker 1: Met is a little crazy, um, but I could see
Speaker 1: him doing that. I'll make sure he has a shirt
Speaker 1: on next time. It was awesome. Believe me, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: He was good and he is he close? Is he
Speaker 1: close to getting back? Yeah? We think he is. We
Speaker 1: always see where he is this week, but we do
Speaker 1: think he's close. And he's a really good player for us.
Speaker 1: You know he can he can do a lot of
Speaker 1: good things on special teams, but certainly help us at
Speaker 1: the linebacker level as well. All right, Jalen Jones getting
Speaker 1: more and more action, kindavill door out, how would you
Speaker 1: rate where he's progressed over the course? They see on
Speaker 1: another undrafted guy, but out of the SEC where he
Speaker 1: faced a lot of great talent. Yeah, he's doing a
Speaker 1: solid job. You know, he's been in there. He's really
Speaker 1: done a good job on teams for us, you know,
Speaker 1: as a gunner in different spots for us, on the
Speaker 1: cover teams for sure. Um, you know, he's a big
Speaker 1: four phase guy. But he's also got his work on defense,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's doing a solid job with there.
Speaker 1: You know, he's learning, you know, he's learning the game
Speaker 1: um as he goes, and he's got some good experience
Speaker 1: in there, and we're glad to have him. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of folks look at targets and snaps or
Speaker 1: whatever with the receiver position. Darnel Money is always getting
Speaker 1: a ton of snaps, but Claypool, uh didn't get a
Speaker 1: ton of snaps or targets. Same with Pringle coming back.
Speaker 1: But you know, you game plan for each opponent, so right,
Speaker 1: whatever you're going to try and exploit, you're gonna exploit that.
Speaker 1: That's not to say that there's a reason for that
Speaker 1: other than that. Correct, No, you know, obviously Cole had
Speaker 1: the most you know, targets yesterday, then followed by Mooney
Speaker 1: and I think Pettis head was it was the next
Speaker 1: and then pring Old, then Clay, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: I just think that it's uh, you know, it's game
Speaker 1: by game, you know, and sometimes it was guys were
Speaker 1: targeted and they were the primary and we had to
Speaker 1: go to the secondary read So that happens all the time.
Speaker 1: And then nikkil Harry and Bayleis Jones. Do you have
Speaker 1: these conversations with these players and how are they accepting
Speaker 1: them and is it what you expect them to think it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I said last week, and and I think
Speaker 1: post game or maybe it was on Monday, but it was.
Speaker 1: You know, it's about competition, you know, it's about guys,
Speaker 1: you know, delivering during the course of the week, you know, alignment, assignment,
Speaker 1: knowing your job, doing your job, blocking the point, blocking
Speaker 1: on the back side, and then being a playmaker. That's
Speaker 1: what the receiver positions about. And we're going to reevaluate
Speaker 1: that every single week. Are there guys on the practice
Speaker 1: squad right now that are making an impact that we're
Speaker 1: not even aware of that could be finding their way
Speaker 1: to action at some point in the season or is
Speaker 1: that still an ongoing process? I mean, are the guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, how they perform. Yeah, they're doing well. They're
Speaker 1: doing well. The guys, the show team guys are really
Speaker 1: the backbone of our practices. You know. They have to
Speaker 1: do a great job and they are of giving us
Speaker 1: the looks we need offense, defense and kicking, and those
Speaker 1: guys are doing a tremendous job. They play with speed,
Speaker 1: they play with you enthusiasm, they get they do it right,
Speaker 1: Their alignments are good, they're trying to mock what the
Speaker 1: opponents they are trying to give to us on game day,
Speaker 1: and we've got to get a good look every single week.
Speaker 1: And those practice squad guys are doing a really good job,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's something that's probably not a small
Speaker 1: thing because you need them to give the same kind
Speaker 1: of effort that you're expecting if they were running a
Speaker 1: Bears plays. They're doing snap for the opposition here because
Speaker 1: you're not going to get a true field. No, that's right,
Speaker 1: and you know we're evauating those guys. We evaluate their talent,
Speaker 1: their effort, their skill sets every single week. When we're
Speaker 1: looking at on offense, you guys are looking at the
Speaker 1: defensive players and vice versa. So it's an important part
Speaker 1: and obviously Ryan's crew, you know, and Ian are looking
Speaker 1: at those guys every single week, and we're always trying
Speaker 1: to improve our roster. We're always trying to upgrade our
Speaker 1: practice squad, and you know, upgrade the Chicago Bears. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. Nate Sutfeld, the backup quarterback for Detroit,
Speaker 1: had to be justin fields at practice last week and
Speaker 1: he was out of breath. Yeah, they ran him into
Speaker 1: the ground. I mean, think about that. Who's going to
Speaker 1: imitate that guy? Yeah, that's gonna be hard right everywhere? Yea,
Speaker 1: in most cases, in most cases. Anyway, all right, let's
Speaker 1: look at the Falcons. Arthur Smith. You coached against his
Speaker 1: offenses in the AFC South, So he seems like a
Speaker 1: very competitive and very fiery coach. Yeah, he is, and
Speaker 1: he's a very good coach. He's committed to the run game.
Speaker 1: He's big into play actions. He's made his living off
Speaker 1: of that, and they do it better than most for sure.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's done a nice job for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're fourth in the league. And rushing to
Speaker 1: your point about that, what's your thoughts on Marcus Mariota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he has the difference. He has the ability
Speaker 1: to run the ball, you know, just like our guy exactly.
Speaker 1: So they have the disconnects, they got the quarterback runs,
Speaker 1: the design runs. You know, Marcus I believe was with
Speaker 1: the Raiders last year and did a lot of the
Speaker 1: uh you know quarterback runs with them as well on
Speaker 1: third and short because we played him last year. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a heck of an athlete. And they're
Speaker 1: twelfth and scoring entering this week. H Cordell, Patterson, Tyler
Speaker 1: l Gear. They're like they are like twelve guys running
Speaker 1: the football. And then you got a tight end with
Speaker 1: the unique athleticism basically wide receiver and Kyle Pitts, which's
Speaker 1: been your experience with him. No, they're all good athletes,
Speaker 1: all those guys. They all create a lot of mismatched
Speaker 1: problems for you. And they're strong and they're they're athletic,
Speaker 1: and their their ability to run with the ball after
Speaker 1: they catch it. You know, like Cordell is an amazing
Speaker 1: player in the in the special teams as well as
Speaker 1: you know, just him being the big athlete he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he's back there and kick return, he's been lining
Speaker 1: up nine and three quarters deep in the end zone,
Speaker 1: so he's willing to take a deep kick out. That's
Speaker 1: that's nothing new. He's done that before in the past, right,
Speaker 1: So that'll that'll be a that'll be a game plan
Speaker 1: thing for you, whether ye try to boot it out.
Speaker 1: We got good special teams as well. Yeah. How about defense,
Speaker 1: Grady Jared always a tough guy to deal with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a forc inside for sure. He's he's a big
Speaker 1: problem to handle. Um, you know the defensive coordinators. One
Speaker 1: of my mentors, danps I, used to be as GA
Speaker 1: way back at Toledo, so he's a good coach. Work
Speaker 1: with him for quite a while at Toledo before he
Speaker 1: went to Notre Dame in the early nineties. But there
Speaker 1: was a long time ago, but we've stayed in touch
Speaker 1: and certainly really respect him. You know, I love his
Speaker 1: wife mel and uh, we're super close. But he's a
Speaker 1: good coach. He keeps coming out of retirement. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he does well. He's he's a Super Bowl winning defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator a couple of spots, so he's done a good job.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty cool story right there. Uh. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of expair players coaches on that staff to
Speaker 1: kind of be kind of an interesting lead up to
Speaker 1: the game. I guess if no, it'll be a good
Speaker 1: matchup for sure. Yeah. Overall, you feel good, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: feel good. We feel good where we are. We're excited
Speaker 1: about this week. We got to get back to work,
Speaker 1: you know, clean up the things that we need to
Speaker 1: clean up, and just keep improving the things that we're
Speaker 1: doing well. And our eyes are forward to Atlanta. All right,
Speaker 1: good luck, Thank you so much, appreciate it. Enjoy the
Speaker 1: preparation this week. Thank you. As Bear's head coach, Matt Eberflus,
Speaker 1: want to thank our producers Keith Johnson, Andy Gersherd, Dan
Speaker 1: Burrelli and Jordan tread Up. We're headed to Atlanta to
Speaker 1: take on the Falcons. Our pregame coverage at nine, kick
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