Speaker 1: The following is the presentation of the Chicago Bears Network
Speaker 1: now one News Radio seven eighty and one oh five
Speaker 1: point nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches Show, a
Speaker 1: special holiday edition WYE from the Peyton Center at Hallis Hall,
Speaker 1: featuring Bears Head coach Matt Maggie, General Manager Ryan Pace,
Speaker 1: and Team President Ted Phillips. The Bears Coaches Show is
Speaker 1: brought to you by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored
Speaker 1: by had to Get Healthcare, Hilton and the village of
Speaker 1: Bedford Park. Now from Hallis Hall, here's the Voice of
Speaker 1: the Bears w BBMS, Jeff Jodiac and good to be
Speaker 1: back with you on the radio. Bear season. Tickelvoorders here
Speaker 1: at the Walter Payton Center on the campus of Hallis
Speaker 1: Hall and Lake Forest, and they're jacked up about the
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen season. We're brought to you by Whipfley, CPA's
Speaker 1: and Consultants of Pleasident Even God Evening everybody. I'm Jeff Joniac,
Speaker 1: along with our special guests and our special edition of
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show. To my far rights, the general
Speaker 1: manager of the Chicago Bears, Ryan Pace, the man in
Speaker 1: the middle, First year head coach Matt Negge and the
Speaker 1: President and CEO of the Chicago Bears, mister Ted Phillips.
Speaker 1: Good to have you aboard, fellas, and we are ready
Speaker 1: to go an hour of conversation about the twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, and we will start with Matt Neggee. This
Speaker 1: is really your first introduction in an intimate setting with
Speaker 1: Bears fans, so Bears fans. This is mattan Matt Neggan.
Speaker 1: These are your Bears fans right here. This is awesome,
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome. And you know, we sit here and we
Speaker 1: are in these buildings and on these fields so much
Speaker 1: and behind these walls working on stuff. But to come
Speaker 1: out here and be able to uh to see the
Speaker 1: the faithful and the true fans that are out here
Speaker 1: that support us, Trust me, we appreciate all of it.
Speaker 1: And we're really looking forward to getting started. What can
Speaker 1: you tell them about what you like so far? You're
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster now set and a certain edition
Speaker 1: you know, dropped in just to to knocked down a
Speaker 1: few quarterbacks for the next many years. How about that.
Speaker 1: We're excited, Yeah, We're we're excited. It's uh being able
Speaker 1: to uh to come here and and obviously, uh, to
Speaker 1: work with Ryan and Ted and George and and all
Speaker 1: the great coaches on staff, it's been it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: You know. We have unbelievable players and that's what makes
Speaker 1: it so much fun is trying to build this and
Speaker 1: and create this this culture of understanding what it takes
Speaker 1: to win and all the hard work and dedication that's involved.
Speaker 1: And so it's a it's a process, and uh, but
Speaker 1: we we we look forward to the challenge and we're
Speaker 1: really excited to creating this fifty three man roster. And
Speaker 1: we got a lot of good guys, all right, Ryan
Speaker 1: Pace about forty eight hours or so, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many hours ago. But it's setting in. It's settling
Speaker 1: in that you pulled off this trade to get Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack from the Oakland Raiders. How would you characterize the
Speaker 1: impact in the building, the coaching staff, the locker room.
Speaker 1: We know how the fans feel, a body. You're getting
Speaker 1: your first taste of this because the city is going
Speaker 1: crazy about Khalil Mack. You know, Jeff, it's definitely energizing.
Speaker 1: It's energizing to our whole building and obviously our fan
Speaker 1: base too. It kind of follows the mindset that starts
Speaker 1: at the very top with our ownership, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: be aggressive, be calculated, and everything we're doing it's all
Speaker 1: about winning games and this guy's definitely gonna help win
Speaker 1: games for the Bears. Ted Phillips, When this was all
Speaker 1: presented to you and the possibility became more a reality,
Speaker 1: what was your first thought? What was your first reaction?
Speaker 1: Mine was whoa baby? Yeah, we got Kalil Mack. It.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a process and when it first
Speaker 1: was brought up, Um, I'm not sure I felt it
Speaker 1: was going to really happen. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: teams in the mix. Um, But the more it started
Speaker 1: to become real, it became as exciting as anything we've
Speaker 1: done in years. So my hat's off to Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: Joey Lane did an amazing job in this process. It's
Speaker 1: really hard when you when you're not sure what's real,
Speaker 1: what's not out there, and to pull off that trade
Speaker 1: and to still keep some nice assets with draft picks. Um,
Speaker 1: it's big and it's going to elevate the whole team,
Speaker 1: all right, that really is the key. Yes, two first
Speaker 1: round picks go, but that second round pick you get back.
Speaker 1: Is not something you just man, it's not just a
Speaker 1: throw in. That is a significant piece to this whole puzzle, Jeff.
Speaker 1: That was key for us the whole time. We talked
Speaker 1: about getting the second round pick back because it gives
Speaker 1: us two twos in the twenty twenty draft, and I
Speaker 1: think we've we've shown and you know, we can do
Speaker 1: some work in that in that round for sure. Um
Speaker 1: So that was a critical piece to the trade. You know,
Speaker 1: when you go through the process of acquiring a player
Speaker 1: of this magnitude days before the season, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: present overnight. So the process was lengthy. It was not
Speaker 1: something that just came out of thin air. It was
Speaker 1: there was a lot of thought going into this. This
Speaker 1: is not just something that you just said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're pulling the trigger on this. You met, the organization,
Speaker 1: the franchise, the ownership all had to think about this
Speaker 1: for sure. And you know this. You know, the speculation
Speaker 1: with Khalil started probably about over the summer, and then
Speaker 1: Matt and I would talk about it a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout training camp, and you know, Matt would always say
Speaker 1: to me, Hey, Ryan, persistence over resistance, and we would
Speaker 1: just talk about it. A lot and uh and then
Speaker 1: you know, as we got closer and especially over the
Speaker 1: last week, that started to become a reality. And here
Speaker 1: we are and Matt today you discussed with the media
Speaker 1: in detail some of the emotions, the excitement, the qualities,
Speaker 1: the skill set of this particular player. Share with the
Speaker 1: fans here what you're seeing with Khalil Mack just the
Speaker 1: guy that you've just gotten to know a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I obviously know who he is as a player
Speaker 1: from from playing against him for the past four years
Speaker 1: in the same division, but really what sometimes can get
Speaker 1: neglected and a player like this and as talented as
Speaker 1: he is is, he's just as good of a human
Speaker 1: being in person and just such a quality hard worker
Speaker 1: and everything he does he does one hundred percent. He's
Speaker 1: a good character guy. Today out here in the first
Speaker 1: day of practice, I mean, he steps on the field
Speaker 1: and he gets instant credibility from all of his peers,
Speaker 1: you know, and he hasn't even done anything out here
Speaker 1: with our team. So just listening to him talk, just
Speaker 1: seeing it in his eyes how passionate he is, and
Speaker 1: you you understand and you appreciate it, and you're sure's
Speaker 1: heck happy that he's on your team. Now that it's set,
Speaker 1: I always ask you this question our first segment, give
Speaker 1: us a little state of the address. So the twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen Bears as we get ready to go up to
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night. Okay, Well, for
Speaker 1: our fans, thank you all for being here on Labor
Speaker 1: Day's huge for us to have all of you here
Speaker 1: in person. You guys are the lifeblood of our organization.
Speaker 1: And this year, I mean it isn't just Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: We had a big offseason, big draft, a lot of
Speaker 1: free agent acquisitions, got to keep our defense in tech,
Speaker 1: bring back coach Fangio, got the best offensive coaches, including
Speaker 1: the guy next to me here to help elevate our
Speaker 1: offense like you've never seen with a quarterback with like
Speaker 1: Mitch Traubisky. So there's a lot of excitement. So we
Speaker 1: need you guys cheering every Sunday home or away, and
Speaker 1: I think you're going to be really excited and happy
Speaker 1: about what you see. I want to add, I know
Speaker 1: he only got a minute or two here before break probably,
Speaker 1: but this whole idea of bringing in Khalil Mack, the
Speaker 1: reason it became so such a positive thing and something
Speaker 1: that we knew made sense is because Ryan, Joey, Matt
Speaker 1: they know how to communicate, They know how to dig
Speaker 1: deep analyze the pros and cons of every decision we
Speaker 1: make at that level. So it made it a lot
Speaker 1: easier to say, you know what, it makes all the
Speaker 1: sense in the world. So I'm fired up. I hope
Speaker 1: you are too, are you as we continue on with
Speaker 1: our special guest tonight in this holiday edition, the Labor
Speaker 1: Day edition, as Yeah, fans playing some football off to
Speaker 1: our right. You've got a great crowd. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming out tonight, everybody. I love your support. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of familiar faces in the front row. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they come back Ted every year. They do.
Speaker 1: You know what, they're in the front row. They just
Speaker 1: know how to beat the crowd. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they do it, but they do it. Same thing happens
Speaker 1: at training camp. And by the way, I gotta give
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap to the entire Bears football team,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, Ryan Pace, Ted, when you were out there,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw it. The interaction with the fans
Speaker 1: at training camp this year was extraordinary. Mitch Bisky went
Speaker 1: out of his way and always does to talk to
Speaker 1: as many people, shaking many people's hands, sign autographs, and
Speaker 1: all the fellas did it, and that that's a testament
Speaker 1: to you know, the culture that you're building here is
Speaker 1: about being good people first and foremost good football players obviously,
Speaker 1: but that comes from you, guys. That comes from you, guys.
Speaker 1: Is that what you want? Is that part of the
Speaker 1: being a bear? Yeah? I think so, I know so.
Speaker 1: And this is all about us together and we appreciate
Speaker 1: all the support, all the cheers that go on, and
Speaker 1: it's about treating people the right way and as long
Speaker 1: as you do that, I think, you know, with everybody
Speaker 1: that we have here, and as we evaluate these players,
Speaker 1: we also take into consideration and put a lot of
Speaker 1: stock into it is who they are as people too,
Speaker 1: because inevitably, in this game there's adversity. It'll always strike
Speaker 1: and there's going to be a lot of peaks and valleys.
Speaker 1: And when you hit those valleys, how do you respond?
Speaker 1: And when you build a culture of good people, um,
Speaker 1: then when the when the valley's hit, then you stick together,
Speaker 1: you figure out a way to get it fixed, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, you normally come out of it and it's
Speaker 1: the same thing when things are really going really well
Speaker 1: for you is you don't ever think that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's because of you, it's because of us, and everyone's
Speaker 1: doing you know, working hard together. And and then so
Speaker 1: the best part is having training camp and seeing all
Speaker 1: the fans and the energy that's out there and just
Speaker 1: the the excitement and everyone's they care so much about
Speaker 1: our team and it excites our players. And in the end,
Speaker 1: that's why we all do this, is to do it together,
Speaker 1: is to win football games and and and have fun
Speaker 1: doing it. Ryan, how do you like the roster? You know,
Speaker 1: there's obviously a lot of action throughout this offseason and um,
Speaker 1: starting with you know, free agency and through the draft
Speaker 1: and then all the way until the let this past weekend. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeff, it's a good question because I feel
Speaker 1: like we're always still trying to improve. So it's it's
Speaker 1: never over. I mean, even now when we're looking at it,
Speaker 1: there's always things we can tweak and add. But but
Speaker 1: I would say you we have a young foundation in place,
Speaker 1: we feel really good about our depth, and we're excited
Speaker 1: to get the season started. But I just as an evaluator,
Speaker 1: you were always trying to improve the roster. There are
Speaker 1: only I believe I read this nine players from your
Speaker 1: first team in twenty fifteen. That is a complete overhaul
Speaker 1: of a roster. And it's not out of the ordinary, obviously,
Speaker 1: but you went and found men who fit the description
Speaker 1: that you have penciled down as this is the way
Speaker 1: it's got to be five at a minimum, five very
Speaker 1: specific qualities. Do you feel your locker room is fulfilled
Speaker 1: with those type of people. That's one thing Matt and
Speaker 1: I both feel really good about right now is the
Speaker 1: quality of men we have in our locker room. And
Speaker 1: it's been an emphasis through the whole process. So every
Speaker 1: time we're talking about a player, if it's free agency
Speaker 1: or the draft, that's emphasized and we talk about with
Speaker 1: our scouts all the time, and it's really ingrained in
Speaker 1: their heads. These are the type of players that we want,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's you know, there's five key traits
Speaker 1: we're looking for, and we really make a strong emphasis
Speaker 1: on that. And I think you see it now. You
Speaker 1: see it as this team's come together, how close they are,
Speaker 1: the kind of teammates that they are, and you know,
Speaker 1: Mattes said it, there's going to be there's so much
Speaker 1: parody in our league. There's so many close games in
Speaker 1: our league. When you have the right kind of guys
Speaker 1: or the right kind of makeup, I think they pull
Speaker 1: you through those moments and ted while the building of
Speaker 1: the roster has been ongoing and continues, and we'll always continue.
Speaker 1: As Ryan points out, there's building going on here at
Speaker 1: Hallis Hall. The big structure is looking more and more
Speaker 1: impressive every day. But this is a major, major undertaking,
Speaker 1: a huge asset for football operations. Why this time in
Speaker 1: our game is that important as you move forward here
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and beyond, well, I think I think
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do and coach Nagy came in
Speaker 1: here and kind of set the tone with the culture
Speaker 1: of being obsessed to be the best. And when Ryan
Speaker 1: came aboard, you know, he had a much more analytical
Speaker 1: view looking forward to sports nutrition, how do we get
Speaker 1: that extra edge on other teams? And so we've been
Speaker 1: moving forward in those areas and we realize that twenty
Speaker 1: years we've been at Hallis Hall here and we've never
Speaker 1: really done a huge overhaul of the football performance area.
Speaker 1: So that's what that new building is that you see
Speaker 1: going up. It's going to be about one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty thirty thousand square feet and it's going to be
Speaker 1: state of the art. The player. It's going to be
Speaker 1: great for the players. And when you have a working
Speaker 1: environment and when the players see that commitment from ownership
Speaker 1: to be the best we can be, makes a huge difference.
Speaker 1: They spend a lot of time here, Manton, Right. Do
Speaker 1: they like the new practice fields? The players? It's kind
Speaker 1: of tucked away a little bit. You got the train.
Speaker 1: It's very unique in that regard. There's an Amtrak train
Speaker 1: going through there, and there's practice going on, and you've
Speaker 1: got the big hill and the sand pit and all that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of these guys have
Speaker 1: experienced these types of things before. I mean, I haven't
Speaker 1: been now these college campuses, I don't know what they
Speaker 1: have now. They love it, absolutely love it. And so
Speaker 1: instead of calling them fields one, two, three, and four,
Speaker 1: they already named it track Is Field was the old
Speaker 1: field for so, and then Bear Hill because of our
Speaker 1: our hill that's out there now for them to train
Speaker 1: on and run on. So they they they've named it.
Speaker 1: And when you name something, you normally like something. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. You're you're set back a little bit. The
Speaker 1: fields are are in great condition. Um, it's just uh,
Speaker 1: you feel like it's you, it's your place and so um.
Speaker 1: The guys just they appreciate it and they get a
Speaker 1: nice little walk over to a nice a little warm
Speaker 1: up from from Hollis Hall here to walk over to it.
Speaker 1: It's it's all, it's all great. Yeah, we have buses
Speaker 1: for them when it's twenty below zero. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: those guys don't love that, that's for sure. No more
Speaker 1: of the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: along with Brian Pace and Ted Phillips on news Radio
Speaker 1: seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM.
Speaker 1: Well been right along here at the Walter Payton Center
Speaker 1: on a holiday weekend. Bears fans here and joining the conversation.
Speaker 1: It's the twenty eighteen Bears. It's a preview of sorts
Speaker 1: obviously with the Green bay Ers are waiting on Sunday
Speaker 1: night up at Lambeau Field and the work's begun practice
Speaker 1: earlier today. Brian Pace, Mattneggie and Ted Phillips our guests
Speaker 1: join us for a day of music, food, football, and
Speaker 1: fun at the middle of Light Bears, Black Party and
Speaker 1: Logan Square Saturday, September eight. Visit Chicago Bears dot com
Speaker 1: for details. I will start off this segment with Ted
Speaker 1: because Ryan is a decisive individual. When he wants something,
Speaker 1: he goes and gets it clearly. Did you know that
Speaker 1: when you hired him? Yeah? I think we did. That
Speaker 1: was one of the attractive characteristics he brought to the table.
Speaker 1: Ryan's the kind of guy that he is, transparent, great communicator,
Speaker 1: understands how to move forward in every area that affects
Speaker 1: football operations. People love working with him, and he's been
Speaker 1: everything that we thought he'd be when we hired him,
Speaker 1: and only good things ahead. You've kind of been in
Speaker 1: the in the national scope, Ryan almost been labeled now
Speaker 1: as a as a gambler. Do you look at yourself
Speaker 1: that way or is that an Is that a term
Speaker 1: that you're not comfortable with sometimes? I think when you
Speaker 1: hear that, it sounds like I don't want to to
Speaker 1: be associated being reckless, you know, And I think that
Speaker 1: what we do is very calculated and very thought out
Speaker 1: and also very collaborative. So when we talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: these decisions, you know, Matt and I are always arm
Speaker 1: in arm on these decisions, and then to go all
Speaker 1: the way up to the top to George and Ted
Speaker 1: and just being very transparent with our communication when we're
Speaker 1: making these moves, especially the significant ones like we did
Speaker 1: this weekend. So I just think, you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to be aggressive at the right time, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: be calculated and thorough with those decisions. Reckless would imply
Speaker 1: you didn't do your homework and you just, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a very boom let's grab him. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: the case. This man he is and no stone unturned, Jeff.
Speaker 1: This is a business that is full of risks. Whether
Speaker 1: it's the draft, whether it's agency, whether it's injuries on
Speaker 1: the field that impact your play. You're always dealing with risk.
Speaker 1: So it's about, as Ryan said, it's about having calculated risks,
Speaker 1: being smart, but not being afraid and not looking back.
Speaker 1: And he's outstanding at that. We talked to Chairman of
Speaker 1: the Board George Hollis McCaskey before the show tonight for
Speaker 1: a half hour and one of the things I asked him,
Speaker 1: and I'll ask you guys, in the process of the
Speaker 1: coaching search and knowing who you wanted to hire and
Speaker 1: the type of person you wanted to hire. Did you
Speaker 1: guys get closer as an organization because of the way
Speaker 1: you went about the process. You guys worked on this together.
Speaker 1: You got to know Matt. You made the decision. Obviously
Speaker 1: George brought up the plane, right, that would get anybody closer,
Speaker 1: But it seems to me that happened. It really galvanized
Speaker 1: this organization the process to hire Matt. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that would definitely be accurate, you know, just as we
Speaker 1: talked through what we were looking for in the traits
Speaker 1: we wanted to identify. And you know that was however
Speaker 1: long that that road trip was, that was five or
Speaker 1: six days with some twisting turns along the way, and uh, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we definitely got closer, I think through that experience. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it ended the right way, you know, and
Speaker 1: we'd done so much preparation for that, and I felt
Speaker 1: like I felt like we knew Matt before we even
Speaker 1: met them, you know, and then just fifteen minutes into
Speaker 1: that interview, I think we all could kind of look
Speaker 1: at each other because we talked about it so much
Speaker 1: and say, Man, this this is our guy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I will add that you know you can't help but
Speaker 1: get closer because you're not just hiring a coach, you know,
Speaker 1: you're hiring a human. And so we're talking about like
Speaker 1: the characteristics and traits that fit being a Chicago bear
Speaker 1: Head coach. And when you're talking at that level, and
Speaker 1: then you start to connect and you realize that that George, Ryan, myself,
Speaker 1: all we're feeling the same thing. It's pretty powerful. In turn, Matt,
Speaker 1: when you interviewed with them, did you feel it as
Speaker 1: well that these guys they did their homework, that you
Speaker 1: felt comfortable with what you were hearing In return? It
Speaker 1: was instant, It was right away. And I can tell
Speaker 1: you I pulled up to the to the hotel and
Speaker 1: and uh parked my car and I got out, and
Speaker 1: instantly George was there waiting for me, and uh and
Speaker 1: grabbed me and we started walking into the lobby to
Speaker 1: head upstairs for the interview, and he started uh informing
Speaker 1: me on the history of his family and and and
Speaker 1: just just uh the the ability of him his family
Speaker 1: starting the mc caskey High High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: where I grew up. And so we started off of
Speaker 1: just how ironic that was that I'm going for this
Speaker 1: head coaching interview, and here we are with you know,
Speaker 1: the the the owner of this team, and uh just
Speaker 1: just explaining to me that. So instantly that was the start.
Speaker 1: And then I walked upstairs. I sat down, and there's
Speaker 1: a hym and there's there's a there's a there's a
Speaker 1: pretzel and a plastic rapper from from it from Hammond's.
Speaker 1: It was a Hammond's pretzel, which is from Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 1: and so there was that tie there. And then I
Speaker 1: started talking to to Ryan and to George and to Ted.
Speaker 1: Within he says, fifteen minutes, But within five minutes, I
Speaker 1: knew in my heart, I knew, I knew, I knew
Speaker 1: that this was this was it, and this was my
Speaker 1: opportunity to to let them know who I am, um,
Speaker 1: not only as a coach, but as a person. And
Speaker 1: I promised myself UM, and I told them this in
Speaker 1: the interview, that what they got in those four hours,
Speaker 1: five hours, whatever it was, was what they're going to
Speaker 1: get on a daily basis. And hopefully to this point
Speaker 1: I've I've held true to that. UM. It was it
Speaker 1: was easy to go through the interview when you are
Speaker 1: just yourself and uh, I couldn't be happier. I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1: I'm proud to be a part of this, and and
Speaker 1: now let's let the fun begin and and uh uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it just speaks volumes of of where this is,
Speaker 1: who were represented by, you know, and and one thing
Speaker 1: I want to I want to make sure I say is,
Speaker 1: uh Ryan, Ryan can attest to this as well, is
Speaker 1: not every team in the NFL in regards to this
Speaker 1: most recent trade we just made. Even if there's coaches
Speaker 1: and general managers that want to make this move, not
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL will do it. And so
Speaker 1: that was the one thing that we talked about. So
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that that's that's out
Speaker 1: there of how fortunate we are with our ownership and
Speaker 1: management to be able to put us in a situation
Speaker 1: to make this happen. So that's that's If you don't
Speaker 1: have that, then you can't make this. And so thank
Speaker 1: you for that, and now let's go let's go reap
Speaker 1: the benefits from that. So I'm just just so proud,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to get that to our players now
Speaker 1: to understand how lucky they are. And it's been a
Speaker 1: tough couple of days here with the roster cutdowns, but
Speaker 1: here we got fifty three guys. We're ready to roll.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show a special edition live from the
Speaker 1: Peyton Center at Hallis Hall, between coach Matteneggie, General Manager
Speaker 1: Ryan Face, and team President Ted Phillips. Brought to you
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Speaker 1: Verizon and Miller Lite. Once again the Voice of the
Speaker 1: Bears w BBMS Jeff jodiad good to be with you everybody.
Speaker 1: We're at hattisaw at the Walter Peyton Center, home for
Speaker 1: our holiday gathering. Here a fine labor day. I hope
Speaker 1: you're all enjoying it back home as well. And if
Speaker 1: you've worked today, we appreciate your labor as always, and
Speaker 1: it was work being done here today at Hollisall Bears
Speaker 1: got some practice in today. Matt met the media before
Speaker 1: practice and or was it before I can't even remember
Speaker 1: now yeah, after practice. Yeah, it's been a long day.
Speaker 1: I after practice, but just for the sake of review
Speaker 1: what happened today at practice of note, and I know
Speaker 1: a lot of discussions still about Rokuan Smith. Is he
Speaker 1: gonna play, how much he's gonna play, same with Khalil Mack,
Speaker 1: how's Aaron Lynch who's starting in left guard? Those are
Speaker 1: pretty much the questions you've been getting almost every day. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it was a great day. So the guys had three
Speaker 1: days off here and we wanted to get them back
Speaker 1: out here on the field to run around and get
Speaker 1: the kinks out. We had a long training camp, lots
Speaker 1: of stuff going on, and so they got some rest,
Speaker 1: came back out and now you put together some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that you're gonna do in this in this
Speaker 1: first game, and so that's kind of exciting for them
Speaker 1: to really see what we're going to be about, how
Speaker 1: much we're gonna do, not do and uh. And then
Speaker 1: you go ahead and you look at Khalil his first
Speaker 1: time coming out, and Roquan, everyone's doing well. It's um
Speaker 1: as I've been saying, it's arrow up right now for
Speaker 1: them and they understand that. But it is calculated and
Speaker 1: we want to be smart with how we use them.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven minutes into the program, I don't think we
Speaker 1: talked about Mitchell Trubisky yet. How about that? So Ryan,
Speaker 1: you've watched him grow every day since he's been a
Speaker 1: Chicago Bear. What right now sticks out about the growth
Speaker 1: that you see in him. I think what sticks out
Speaker 1: is just his eagerness to learn, his eagerness to get better.
Speaker 1: He's Matt. And I talked about obsession or or being passionate.
Speaker 1: He's definitely that. And so you know, I think you're
Speaker 1: always striving for your most important players, in your best
Speaker 1: players to be your best workers, and Mitch fits that.
Speaker 1: And he's always doing more. He's always at the facility
Speaker 1: he wants to be great, and just to see him
Speaker 1: working at that, and I think, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you know, Matt's done a good job too of surrounding
Speaker 1: him with a lot of really good talent that makes
Speaker 1: him better. So you start with coach Helfrich and coach Rougone,
Speaker 1: and you know Chase Daniel and Tyler Bray. It's a
Speaker 1: great environment for a quarterback to be successful. What have
Speaker 1: you learned about Mitch? You didn't know Matt, Well, he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's more competitive than I thought he was going
Speaker 1: into it. He's extremely competitive. He cares a lot, which
Speaker 1: is we're fortunate to have. And and I've been around
Speaker 1: a lot of different quarterbacks that have a lot of
Speaker 1: different personalities, and this is the guy we want. He's uh,
Speaker 1: he has so much talent. He wants to do everything
Speaker 1: the right way all the time. Very driven, very focused,
Speaker 1: loyal to his teammates, one of the hardest workers. But
Speaker 1: I'd say I really didn't know he was as competitive.
Speaker 1: And it's it's almost to a perfectionism that he's like
Speaker 1: a perfectionist. But that's a good thing as long as
Speaker 1: we just let him know that it's okay to make
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Speaker 1: official app. So Matt Yesterday sitting down Khalil Mac without
Speaker 1: the mic on, He's sit We're talking. Hey, do you
Speaker 1: know who Spice Adams is? He by ys Spice. He
Speaker 1: laughed so hard. He apparently watches his stuff on the internet.
Speaker 1: And you've met Anthony Adams, I'm sure, but a great bear,
Speaker 1: right fun guy. He's made a cottage industry out of
Speaker 1: the out of social network. But he's a big part
Speaker 1: of the Bears family as well. But what really strikes
Speaker 1: me when the guys and Alan Robinson was the same
Speaker 1: way he knew the entire history of the organization. He
Speaker 1: followed it. They grew up eighty five Bears obviously big.
Speaker 1: That's important to what you have going on here. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a museum in that building where you work
Speaker 1: every day. It is. And again, these guys are special
Speaker 1: and they understand the game of football. You talk to Khalil,
Speaker 1: he knows, he knows his history and coming here obviously
Speaker 1: with the history of such great defense as Uh. When
Speaker 1: I talked to him on the phone for the first time,
Speaker 1: that's the first and first thing he said is he's
Speaker 1: ready to come back here to the monsters of the Midway.
Speaker 1: So he was pumped up about it, excited um. And
Speaker 1: and so when you when you have that a former
Speaker 1: defensive player of the Year joining a you know, a
Speaker 1: team that that has always had great defenses, it's just
Speaker 1: a match made in heaven. Ryan, You've had some players
Speaker 1: overcoming some obstacles in their career that are on this
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. Are there any in particular you're
Speaker 1: proud of giving their return, how they've overcome, and how
Speaker 1: they maintained their their belief that they can be a
Speaker 1: big part of this team. Jeff, it's hard to single
Speaker 1: out any one player. I think, you know, we're proud
Speaker 1: of this whole team right now. I mean, really, we've
Speaker 1: had We've had a long, intense offseason, starting with training
Speaker 1: camp July sixteenth, five preseason games all the way to
Speaker 1: this point. So I think our team here talking about
Speaker 1: being calloused and kind of put through put through that,
Speaker 1: and they definitely are, and I feel like we're ready
Speaker 1: to go. And so I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: single out one single player. I just say I'm proud
Speaker 1: of the whole team right now. But I would say
Speaker 1: a guy like Kyle Long, who has had multiple surgeries,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. Alan Robinson, who played ladies and
Speaker 1: gentlemen as you may or may I know one game,
Speaker 1: third play of the game, seventeen yard catch bam acl
Speaker 1: Tarren Jacksonville. And from what I've been told, the man
Speaker 1: has worked harder than anybody could possibly imagine. It's been
Speaker 1: an untold story somewhat of how hard he's worked to
Speaker 1: get himself ready to go. A year later. You talk
Speaker 1: about Kyle Long, Alan Robinson, Kevin White, a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys that have faced adversity and kind of clawed
Speaker 1: their way back out of it. And with a rob
Speaker 1: as soon as he got here, just his sense of professionalism,
Speaker 1: how locked in and dialed in he is every day.
Speaker 1: He's working so hard, and that's infectious to not just
Speaker 1: the receiver room, but the whole roster. And whenever you
Speaker 1: sign a college player or draft a college player, I
Speaker 1: feel like we know a ton about those guys because
Speaker 1: the draft draft process is so thorough. But one of
Speaker 1: the reasons free agency can be risky is these guys
Speaker 1: have been in the league for a handful of years
Speaker 1: and it sometimes it's hard to get those details. But
Speaker 1: I think our scouts, Josh Lucas, Champ Kelly, they did
Speaker 1: a really good job research in the background of these guys.
Speaker 1: So when you talk about Alan Robinson or Trey Burton
Speaker 1: or some of these new acquisitions, really really high character
Speaker 1: in hitting all the traits we stress ted. You can
Speaker 1: only speak to this because you were there in the
Speaker 1: process of hiring Ryan. He laid out his vision so
Speaker 1: many years later. The belief in him clearly is there
Speaker 1: he got an extension as well. If you go back,
Speaker 1: did you the vision that you heard? Are you seeing
Speaker 1: it come to fruition? Now? Yeah, That's what makes this
Speaker 1: season exciting is is the interview with Ryan, the interview
Speaker 1: with coach Naggie. They laid out their vision, They aid
Speaker 1: out who they were as people and as football executives
Speaker 1: to a t they have followed through with what they presented. Okay,
Speaker 1: and when you I am so proud to be next
Speaker 1: to these two guys. Their passion, their work ethic, their
Speaker 1: attention to detail, the way this roster has just churned
Speaker 1: over in the last few years, and we've got so
Speaker 1: much young talent and infused with some free agent acquisitions.
Speaker 1: It's time to get going. It's time to beat the Packers.
Speaker 1: On Sunday Night, The Bears Coaching Show with Coach Matt Maggie,
Speaker 1: team President Ted Phillips, and General Manager Ryan Face continues
Speaker 1: exclusively on the Home of the Bears News Radio seven
Speaker 1: eighty and one oh five point nine FM WVBM and
Speaker 1: welcome back everybody, Bears fans. Have you had a good
Speaker 1: time to night? Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun season. Indeed, as we get you
Speaker 1: set for the kickoffs Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: will have it for you with a four pm pregame
Speaker 1: with my entire crew, Time Thayer, Ron Leash and Jim
Speaker 1: Schwanza and the seven time consecutive pro bowler Jay Hilgenberg
Speaker 1: and kickoff at seven twenty up at Lambeau Field in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Wisconsin. Ryan, as you evaluated this team, have
Speaker 1: you have your expectations changed with the evolution of this
Speaker 1: team over the course of the offseason of where we
Speaker 1: are today, Yeah, you know, I think our expectations are
Speaker 1: always going to be win championships, but to build this
Speaker 1: team the right way in order to accomplish that, and
Speaker 1: that's a combination of all the different player acquisition avenues
Speaker 1: that we utilize. But you know, now that we're getting
Speaker 1: into the season here, our focus is a game by
Speaker 1: game approach and right now it's straight on the Packers
Speaker 1: and so but as we build this team, yeah, the
Speaker 1: goal what drives us every day is to win championship. Matt,
Speaker 1: you know what it's like to be a playoff coach.
Speaker 1: You've I believe, if my math is right, seven out
Speaker 1: of your ten coaching seasons, your teams have gone to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know what it looks like. You've got
Speaker 1: Trey Burton who won a championship, he knows what it
Speaker 1: looks like. A Keem Hicks played for the Patriots. He
Speaker 1: knows where the super Bowl team looks like from the
Speaker 1: inside out. Are you starting to see some of those
Speaker 1: elements around you and will you know? Well, you know
Speaker 1: as a coach instinctively when because players have told me
Speaker 1: when they've gone to a super Bowl, when the season
Speaker 1: has gone to that level where they get to a
Speaker 1: super Bowl and not necessarily winning it, but there's something
Speaker 1: that happens a moment, a split second, when they know
Speaker 1: they're going, they know they're good. Yeah, that's true. That
Speaker 1: that is very true. And there's been a couple of
Speaker 1: years where a part of those playoff years where we've
Speaker 1: won nine in a row and you kind of know
Speaker 1: when it's going on where you feel it. There's also
Speaker 1: been the years where we've lost six in a row
Speaker 1: and you get through that and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you win one or two games and you start clicking.
Speaker 1: You say, okay, this is why, and you click and
Speaker 1: you get it going the right time. So the thing
Speaker 1: that's important here in all this, I know we have
Speaker 1: a great energy and a great vibe. The message that
Speaker 1: we're all trying to send and what I'm personally trying
Speaker 1: to send to the team is you know, you you
Speaker 1: don't win anything on paper. So as long as every
Speaker 1: it all looks good and sounds good, but what we
Speaker 1: need to do is we need to go out there
Speaker 1: and play these games, and we need to show what
Speaker 1: we can do and show what all the hard works
Speaker 1: out make it payoff and so it can look. I
Speaker 1: was a part of the Philadelphia Eagles team when we
Speaker 1: had to quote unquote dream team and so um that
Speaker 1: was that was that was a hard season and you know,
Speaker 1: the expectations going into it or this and that, and
Speaker 1: that's not where we're at right here with this team.
Speaker 1: It's different. But we the guys understand that you got
Speaker 1: to take it game by game. You can't look forward,
Speaker 1: you can't say what you're gonna do. You need to
Speaker 1: focus on one game at a time and that's all
Speaker 1: you can control. You've been very good about because offense
Speaker 1: is a different animal. I mean, it's it takes time, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you've been very good about tamping it down a
Speaker 1: little bit because just because A, B and C does
Speaker 1: not equal D, right right? Yeah? So and can a
Speaker 1: city Just using that as an example with this offense,
Speaker 1: is it took time, and it was It was probably
Speaker 1: a good three years until you really started totally clicking
Speaker 1: with it. But we still had success and won nine
Speaker 1: games in a row the first year in Kansas City
Speaker 1: when we still didn't know the offense as well as
Speaker 1: we ended up knowing it five years later. So the
Speaker 1: guys understand that, and we're really way past my expectations
Speaker 1: here this year with our players were past it, and
Speaker 1: that's that's why I get so excited and I have
Speaker 1: to just not peak too soon with these guys and
Speaker 1: just control my emotions. But they're excited too, and they
Speaker 1: feel it and they deserve to feel good about themselves.
Speaker 1: But they we got to do it on the field.
Speaker 1: Ted when the trade happened from I'm sure you got
Speaker 1: a ton of text messages, but how did the fans react?
Speaker 1: Because they react, win or lose, they react, they'll be
Speaker 1: calling Antania how they're gonna fix it. Did you get
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback after the trade? All positive, all
Speaker 1: positive from fans, friends, business partners. That's what makes it exciting.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're just from from Missus McCaskey through
Speaker 1: the McCaskey family, all the staff people who who put
Speaker 1: their long hours in here at the Bears and the
Speaker 1: football side of things. We're just dying for a winner.
Speaker 1: So and we're not afraid to say that we're out
Speaker 1: for championships. That's what we want to do. And I
Speaker 1: think probably most of you know the last time we
Speaker 1: opened the season against Green Bay was two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Just saying that's a good goal to have. That's when
Speaker 1: Devin Hester was ridiculous. I remember think Lance Priggs had
Speaker 1: a pick six in the season opener and the Bears
Speaker 1: didn't lose for quite a while. It was a great
Speaker 1: start to the season, all right. A little sneak preview
Speaker 1: in our remaining moments. So the Green Bay Packers, you're
Speaker 1: on the clock to get ready for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: We got Aaron Rodgers, you got a new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Give us a little scouting report on what you know
Speaker 1: about the Green Bay Packers. Matt Nage. Well, obviously they
Speaker 1: had a really good quarterback. We're well aware of that.
Speaker 1: Um as far as you know their offense and what
Speaker 1: they do. They played together. Anytime you have a great
Speaker 1: quarterback like that, you're gonna be able to move the ball.
Speaker 1: So they're successful there. Um. On defense, they're coming in
Speaker 1: with a new defensive coordinator and Mike Petton. Mike Petton
Speaker 1: and I go back to what we're both from from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Another one, Yeah, another one. It's like the entire preseason
Speaker 1: has been a family reunion from Matt Naggie. Really, where
Speaker 1: where's he from. He's from just outside of Philadelphia, Ok, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the in the Norristown area. But he's uh, he's
Speaker 1: a really good defensive coordinator. He'll have his guys ready.
Speaker 1: We respect that and we look forward to it. They
Speaker 1: have a they have a very good team, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, there's always there's always some unscattered looks on
Speaker 1: from both sides, and that's always the fun of the
Speaker 1: first game is as you start building the library of
Speaker 1: what teams do. But we have respect for them, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, with where they're at, and and uh, we
Speaker 1: look forward to it. Typically, if I'm not mistaken, you
Speaker 1: can go back and look. But the first week is
Speaker 1: usually the great unknown. There's a high scoring games and
Speaker 1: a lot of upsets. Yeah, you'll have that. And again
Speaker 1: there's just not you don't know. You don't know whether
Speaker 1: it's offense or defense, what teams are gonna do, what
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up surrounding all their players with playwise,
Speaker 1: But that's the exciting part. And I think for us
Speaker 1: as coaches, what you need to do is be as
Speaker 1: prepared as possible to adjust and adapt. There's gonna be surprises.
Speaker 1: How do you react to those surprises? Do you get
Speaker 1: do you get spooked off and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you don't know what to do and you panic, or
Speaker 1: you just stay under control and try to fix the
Speaker 1: problem and you keep moving on. And your first game
Speaker 1: as an NFL head coach in the regular season is
Speaker 1: Sunday night Football against Green Bay Packers. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: From Matt Nagee. Living in the moment. I don't want
Speaker 1: it any other way. I can't wait. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's gonna wrap us up for tonight. Give him a
Speaker 1: big hand, everybody, gentle manager, Ryan Pace, head coach, Mattnegie,
Speaker 1: President at CEO, Ted Phillips, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: all your time, as well as our producer Dan Varilli,
Speaker 1: studio producer Eddy Gersher, our board operator Tonight Lisa Fielding,
Speaker 1: our engineer Paul's arrange and help from a little ze
Speaker 1: in John Flaws with the microphones. Tonight Bears Packers, lambeau
Speaker 1: Field Sunday Night pregame at four kickoff seven twenty. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to everybody. I'm Jeff Johnny K. Have a
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