WEBVTT - Nagy on Montgomery's leadership | Coaches Show 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.160 Welcome into another edition of the Bears Coaching Show with 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.920 Bears head coach Manneggie, brought to you by Whippley CPAs 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.440 and consultant Jeff Jonik. With you here until eight o'clock 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.600 tonight on News Radio one h five nine WBBM. Coach 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.159 Nage here until the bottom of the hour, and then 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.760 we turn it over to Special Teams coordinator Chris Tabor. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.119 We're wrapping up the loss to the Arizona Cardinals that 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.640 sold your field. I hate even saying that because they 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.200 add up and it cannot be fun. It can't be 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.840 fun for anybody. And you know, I guess the big 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.280 question is how does the losing, How is it affecting 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.320 you you personally? And then how do you see it 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.000 affecting your team? Well, I think the biggest thing, you know, Jeff, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.320 is that you know, for all of us and the players, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.160 the coaches, everybody, all of us involved in this is 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.400 is uh. You know, you put a lot of time 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.320 and effort into trying to do everything you can on 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.639 that on in those three hours, you know, to come 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.760 out with to win, and you know when you reflect 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.960 back at the game, and I think it's obvious state 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.280 and the obvious that you know, the turnovers out, you know, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.840 hurt us in that game, so you give a short 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.120 field to the defense and in the end you end 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.800 up losing. You know, you lose a really good football team. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.360 And all right, so you have the locker room and 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.880 you got to make sure guys understand the whys, and 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.640 then you come in this morning and guys watch tape 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.119 and coaches watch tape, and you got to be able 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.880 to look at solutions. And the biggest thing that we 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.640 can do is just try to figure out how to 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.040 get better, to keep fighting, keep practicing, and then have 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.920 to go out there and minimize those mistakes and play 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.560 better to be able to be the team like Green 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.160 Bay on the road. It's it's a bit of a 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.360 maze when you think about it. I'm sure for a 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.240 head coach, right because you know what works. You know, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.000 if it's executed, it's going to work. But then you 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.040 got the other side of the ball doing what they do, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.199 and then you feel good about your plan every week, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.640 and then it still doesn't result in the outcome you 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.400 look for, so you keep getting stopped by that maze. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.120 If you think about it, that has to be one 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.800 of the most underrated aspects of being a head coach 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.040 when you're not successful. Yeah, no, no, I would agree 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.680 with that. I think you know, you look back at 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.240 that game yesterday and you know, you come out and 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.400 it's you. You get to football, and you get to 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.280 a third down and you know, we got man coverage 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.480 and everything's there. And you know, again, Andy has been 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.680 absolutely phenomenal this entire time. Uh, just with accuracy and 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.760 just putting us in good situations last a couple of 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.080 weeks and just coming in with no reps against Detroit, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.880 and you know, he's played a lot of games, You've 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.880 seen a lot of different coverages, and it was definitely 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.760 a little slick in that first quarter, and I think 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.560 the ball just got away from him a little bit 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.240 and it went hid behind the team and unfortunately, right 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.760 into the hands of their defender. And so three plays 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.480 in you have an interception and great field position for 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.280 the best offense in the NFL. And that's how it starts, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.160 you know. And then and then you hold them and 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.680 you get to the fourth and two and now they 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.000 make a hell of a throw, a hell of a 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.840 catch and they score a touchdown. And so now that's 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.919 not how you want to start. So now you got 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.200 to recover from that. And now you go down the 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.880 field and whatever plays in the twelve plays, and now 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.359 you have another pick and it's returned sixty yards down 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.040 to inside you know, the twenty yard line, and now 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.760 they score again, and so before you know it, it's 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.880 fourteen to nothing. And it's just like you said, like 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.120 against great teams the Buccaneers game Tampa back, same thing happened. Turnovers, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.720 short field touchdowns. You cannot do that against these great teams. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.720 You really can't do it at all. But against these teams, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.880 they will make you peck. And so now we are 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.400 in recovery mode and we try to keep it, you know, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.760 to a little closer and and it just ended up 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.040 in the end getting us. And it's like following the 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.360 bouncing ball. It's not bouncing your way, right, I mean, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:45.400 there's deflections, there's tip passes, there's catch Cole Commet could 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.600 have made Rold hit the ground boom pops in the 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.040 hands of Buddha Baker as you just outlined, Do you 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.960 feel that you just throw your hands up sometimes? Yeah, No, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.320 you're right, I mean you definitely when the ball isn't 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.160 bouncing your way, it's just like, geez, you know, this 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.920 is just absolutely crazy. But at the same point in time, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.760 when you know you have guys that care, that are 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.840 playing hard. I mean, just go and look at that 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.400 goal line standard that our defense had when they had 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.440 the ball inside the two yard line and we held 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.840 them to a field goal on a sudden change. You know, 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.480 like that to me, right there shows on that third 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.440 and goal they ended up losing a few yards that 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.040 the guys are really really you know, doing everything they can, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.720 even with the ball bounce in a certain way to 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.159 keep the game to where we have a chance to win. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.840 And yesterday I think, you know, Jeff, we always talk 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.720 about complimentary football. Well, yesterday was an interception that led 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.760 to a touchdown, another interception that led to another touchdown, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.479 and then the defense gets a three and out and 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.000 the offense goes three and out. The defense gets to 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.200 three and out, the offense goes three and out. There 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:50.520 was no consistency to complimentary football, and that's what we're 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.600 striving for. So as a coach, when you look at 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.880 that and you see that, you want to do everything 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.000 you can to put them in great situations, but be 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.880 able to teach them you know, you know, how did 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.400 that happen? And that's that's where we're at. And now 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.720 in the NFL you got to reset really quickly, and 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.640 you got to look at the tape and you got 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.080 to get back at it. And now here we are 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.800 getting ready for green back. That's the perplexing part of 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.040 it for people, i'd imagine, because they want to hear 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.560 answers to solutions and for solutions, but the problem is 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.760 that there's only one answer. The answer is, just like 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.400 you said, you got to roll up your sleeves and 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.600 go back to work, no matter where you're at, no 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.640 matter what the season is looking like, no matter what's ahead. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.760 And that answer is sometimes hard to digest. But what 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.480 else are you supposed to do? Yeah? No, that's all 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.560 you can do. And then then there's the dynamic of 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.920 making sure that the players understand that too. Is um 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.160 is how important it is for them that they you know, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.240 they come out and they put together a great mindset 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.280 of practice, great practice reps, and then they come out 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.039 and they get to do it again. We're all very 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.720 fortunate that we're in this profession to be able to 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.280 play a great, great game, coach a great game, and 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.640 and and you know, so I think it's important that 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.919 they know that, our guys know that, our coaches know it, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.600 and and now, um, we just gotta we gotta keep fighting. Man. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.800 I know it sounds monotonous, but it's real and that's 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.599 all we can do. Okay's the thing. You did. Move 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.480 the ball. You got a lot of first downs and 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.440 fishing in the red zone on the clock. We talked 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.479 about this in the postgame interview. Ran a lot of 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.400 place four fourth down conversions, a two point conversion, ten 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.040 of nine on third and fourth down combined. You take 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.159 all of that to have just those four plays taken 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.440 out of the out of the equation, because yeah, you know, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.840 that's that's it. That's that's basically yesterday's game in a 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.760 nutshell is that. And you know, you go ahead and 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.400 you have you have a plan, and you put it 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.159 together and the guys execute it. But in the end, turnovers, 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.039 I mean, that's one of the biggest stats is that 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.039 takeaway turnover margin in the NFL. If you get takeaways 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.200 and you don't give the ball up, you'll win a 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.000 lot of games. And you know, we we gotta start 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.640 getting more takeaways on defense, and we got to start 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.200 protect a more on offense. How he is Andy Dalton's 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.359 non throwing hand apparently injured on a tackle. Yeah, he 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.040 injured on the on the tackle on the second interception. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:14.280 And so we're we're getting to look at this morning 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.480 and now these guys are working through it and continue 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.200 to just kind of see like where he's at and 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.920 how that goes. But I think he's tough now, you know, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.880 for him to be able to play through that's that's 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.840 never fun when you hurt your hand, whether it's your 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.320 non throwing hand or you're throwing hand. And will continue 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:29.800 to just kind of keep an eye on it throughout 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.080 the weeks. And here's a snap on the end around 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.040 from Montgomery, a flip back that Dalton breaks the tackle 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.080 of the police clicker. He got granted sort of the 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.920 forty yard line to the thirty had brought down from 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.080 behind by Simon and to pick up a thirty three 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.040 how a first down throw by Andy Dalton and Jakine Grant. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.800 Come back to the Bears Coaching Show brought to you 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.360 by Whipplee CPAs and Consultant's a proud partner of the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.360 Chicago Bears. Learn more at whippleet dot Com just heard 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.720 the gadget play. That was the wildcat, a fly sweet 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.960 to Andy Dalton to throw over the top in a 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.640 very difficulty with a guy in his face and ducking 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.600 out of that tackle. Break that one down, will you. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.040 It was the same play that we ran in the 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.400 Saints in the playoff game last year, and so the 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.480 difference was we had Andy had to go ahead and 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.120 make a guy miss. A guy made a good play 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.440 in the backfield, and Andy did a wonderful job of 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.160 making the guy miss and still reset and throwing accurate 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.320 ball down the sidelines to g tem Grant. So you know, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.800 Mooney was number one in the progression and maybe if 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.360 he had time he would have give him to the shop, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.160 but he basically reset to his number two, which was 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.480 Kim And I thought it was a really a great 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.559 job by by Andy. And this guy's all right. No 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.120 other major injuries yesterday of concern, it appears, but justin 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.240 fields I'm going discussion and you mentioned this morning Payne 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.320 tolerance will be the key on his availability. There's no 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.640 way to determine that at this point. Yeah, there's not 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.240 other than you know, taking some bags and maybe you know, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.040 you know, with the bags and hitting them a little bit. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.000 But he's tough and and we just got to listen 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.120 to our trainers and to him and see where he's 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.439 at for this week. But uh, you knows, he's Like 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.600 I said this morning, everything that we'll do will be 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.720 out of pure safety for him and then make the 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.920 best decision for the team. There's a bunch of guys 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.439 that are out, you know, Damian Williams, a Mark, He's 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.120 good Win a Key, Mario Edwards. These are there any 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.800 potentials of return? I hope so I think, you know, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.640 to each our own, but I do feel like where 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.880 those guys are at that some of those guys will 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.800 have a good chance at being back. You know, we'll 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.920 always we'll get together, whether it's later on tonight or 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.880 whether it's tomorrow. And we continue to talk through each 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.559 day literally with these guys, and they're all changing, they're 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.520 all a little bit different, and it gives us an 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.559 idea game plan wise as to who we're going to 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.720 have and not have. But every one of those guys 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.480 is fighting like hell to get back. Well, when a 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.000 guy like kind of Murray's on the field, you want 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.880 a guy like real Quant Smith on the field. So 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.600 he could not have been a hundred percent. There's no way. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.560 But this guy's got an attitude right now of of 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.080 dominance and leadership. And I think about that third and 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.720 seven or he took off off the edge and here 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.200 comes ro Quon. He beat him, He beat him there, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.280 forced him to a out of bounds two yards. You 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.800 have a first down. Talk about that play and what 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.000 Roquan at less than one hundred percent what he gave 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.160 effort effort wise on that play. You know we're in 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.240 man coverage on that play, and Kyler is always going 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.839 to be a threat to use his legs if it's 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.040 not there, And yeah, that's what he did. You know, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.200 he got outside into pocket, and I thought Roquan showed 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.760 his ability to be able to use a great angle 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.080 to make him go out of bounds. And there's some 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.760 linebackers you're going to run away from. Roquon's not one, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.520 even coming off of a hamstring. So the other part 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.080 of that too, The first part of your question is 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.920 I think that speaks to who Roquan is as a 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.600 person and as a leader of this defense. Is him 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.840 being able to do everything he can to get backed 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.120 u and be there first guys, was pretty cool. Overall 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.000 the defense. Now, last four opponents, they've given up two 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.640 eighty two ninety nine, two thirty nine, two fifty seven. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.920 I think you would take that very much. Now, it's 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.560 not all about yards. Obviously, there were some things that 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.280 still need to be corrected and so forth tackling wise. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.120 But what did you think of how they played kind 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.600 of murray yesterday given the fact that they were putting 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.080 some really difficult situations five times in plus territory and 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.200 the Arizona Cardinals enjoyed a forty nine yard starting for 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.719 their possessions their own forty nine for their game. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.839 they were. You know when you look at it, Um, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.000 there was ten total series that that our defense ended 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.880 up having, and um, you know, four in the first half, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.360 plus the fifth one was at the end of the half, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.120 and then four at the end of the game or 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.280 the second half with one and in the four minute mode. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.400 And um, when you look at those eight possessions, I'm 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.800 talking about four of them, Like you said, we're off 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.160 a sudden change, and um, it's it's not easy. You know, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.800 the ones that that they had the ball in minus territory. Um, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.680 you know, we held them to a field goal a 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.200 touchdown in two punts. So at the same point in time, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.080 you know, Sean would tell you, hey, that third possession, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.720 we gave up a touchdown on a seven play drive, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.360 the ball starting at the minus twenty six. But they 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.560 played hard situation. I talked about the one in the 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.920 goal line. They fought hard there. The biggest thing, probably, Jeff, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.480 is you look at some of the third downs and 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.080 fourth downs is them, you know, executing whether it's a touchdown, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.960 whether it's a big rong, whether it's a scramble. And 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.120 I know that's an emphasis that we want to continue 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:19.960 to improve on. I want to talk about David Montgomery, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.280 first of all his day and then what he had 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:22.920 to say after the game. I want to read a 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.079 quote to you. But first of all, just he was 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.880 a decisive and thunderous back there. Yeah, he had his mindset. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.959 He's like that every game and not every game that 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.440 you get opportunities that it goes your way like that. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.280 But I thought you really felt the persistence of him 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.760 running hard, vertically, breaking tackles. And then in the past 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.560 game too, you know, catch a ball in the flat 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.320 straight arm or guy get vertical, get extra yard yards 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.920 after contact. That's who he is. Doesn't shock me. He's 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.160 like that way in practice, and he's been that way 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:53.880 ever since he's been here. Half a handoff off the 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.360 right saxomatic to the forty five of the turners for 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.200 the forty still rolling. It's the thirty. David Montgomery, not 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.760 to be denied. I had a big first half of 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.280 the Bears download the Chicago Bears have to play our 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.520 new predictor game, Risk It, brought to you by Bette 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.560 Rivers for your chance to win two hundred fifty dollars 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.800 in free bets and a customed Bears Jersey. Just heard 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.280 a big run of twenty four yards by David Montgomery 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.720 out of the break. We're talking about David's performance, but 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.240 I want to talk about what he said at the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.520 podium yesterday for eight minutes. I don't know if you 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:21.760 watch it, I don't know if you read any of 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.200 the quotes, but I'm going to kind of summarize what 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.160 he said, and basically, it's about the dream of getting here, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.040 always wanting to be a professional athlete in this game. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.080 He goes, I'm here, and as you learn when you 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.560 get to the NFL, it's all predicated off wins and losses. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.680 But in the midst of it, you tend to forget 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.160 why you do what you do, You forget who you 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.040 do it. For a lot of times, you got to 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.040 take a step back and understand that I was a 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.319 little kid playing this game. I started playing this game, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.800 and you get to get back to the basics of 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.880 just having fun with regardless of how it looks, even 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.000 when it's darker, as dark as it may seem, you 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.320 still got to understand that it's still a game. But 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.920 in addition to that, he says, I can look at 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.360 basically look in the eyes and these players. Nobody's going 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.640 to give up, and he's not gonna let him. Can 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.560 that attitude that he has, and I know you know 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.640 him so well that you know his attitude, can it 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.199 rub off everyone in that locker room? Could Rokuan's attitude 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.680 rub off on everyone in the locker room even in 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 these dark times with five to go, there's no doubt 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.880 about it. And as a coach, when you hear those 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.680 words and when you know how real and authentic they are, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.480 makes you proud because you know this is He's family 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.040 and no matter what the record is, no matter where 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.000 you're at no matter how hard things get. I think 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.240 it speaks volumes to who we have in this building. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:43.280 And guys like him, they really when you know that, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.240 they fight and they don't care about what's going on. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.760 They control with taking control and they give it everything 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.280 they got. That's who he is and you'll never be 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.600 able to take that away from him. And championship teams 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.200 when you have that, when you have David Montgomery's, you 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.960 win a lot of games, You win a lot of 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.640 Super Bowls, and whatever sport it is, you win because 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.600 they fight and they never quit. And I think you 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.000 guys probably saw a piece of who he is yesterday 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.840 in a tough loss. But at the same point in time, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.240 that's not going to affect how he practices. It's not 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.400 going to change whether we win five in a row 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.120 or lose five in a row. He is who he 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.760 is and as a coach, that's all you can ask for, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.600 and you appreciate that. And you know there's gonna be 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.880 a ton of questions obviously in these final weeks about 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.800 you know, how do you play guys? Do you want 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.000 to exhaust your roster just to see what you got? 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.560 You know, it's always this tug of war when when 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.360 things aren't going well about those types of questions, how 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.760 do you approach this, you know, even like with the 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.280 Tevin Jenkins questions this morning about you know, working him 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.600 into the mix somehow, some way got his feet what 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.240 yesterday on special teams? How do you approach that with 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.320 your guys, because again you have a lot of people 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.080 to answer to, including yourself. Sure, No, I mean the 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.240 easy way to think of it is you need to 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.320 do whatever you can do to win. I mean, no 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.960 matter what the situation is in any year, it's your 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.080 job when you go out there on Sunday or whatever 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.280 day it is, is to win. And you just keep 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.440 it super simple. And so you understand the questions and 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.840 you understand every scenario that's asked. But at the same 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.240 point in time, we all need to do what's best 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.840 for this team to win and for these players, coaches, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.600 everybody else to win each week. And so every scenario 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.640 is a little bit different. And Tevin has done a 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.200 great job at doing what he can do and we'll 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.600 continue to work through that. And I know it's brought 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.600 up also about justin if he does get down the 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.040 field here and maybe even on Sunday night. What are 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.920 your expectations based on what's happened here with those couple 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.040 of games when he started to really get it a 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.680 little bit for you. Yeah, yeah, there's excitement because you 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.280 really felt where he was going. You felt his growth, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.680 you felt him getting better situation when you felt him 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.600 getting better confidence wise, you felt him getting better in practice. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.760 So we'll see where he's at health wise, and if 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.520 he is able to go, Like I said, you know, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.240 he's the starter. When he's healthy, they'll be the starter. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.160 So we gotta figure out where that's at. And then 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.000 as as as coaches, regardless of who the quarterback is, 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.639 we got to decide how the game plan goes. And uh, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.640 you know it's a common opponent that we know, big 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.000 rivalry here with with Green Bay and um, you know, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.920 so we'll make sure that we're doing everything we can 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.680 to put ourselves in the best position possible. Any team 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.600 plays the Packers, how do you stop Aaron Rodgers? It's 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.479 the unending question with a great quarterback, a future Hall 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.520 of Famer. Do you come up with new ideas or 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.199 just keep pounding the rock? What do you do? Yeah? No, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.200 I mean that's a that's definitely the million dollar question 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.080 for every defensive coordinator, offensive coordinator, head coach, special teams. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.040 You know, when you're talking about one of the greatest 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.600 quarterbacks to ever play the game, Um, you know you 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.320 can understand that you and we have to be really 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.760 really good in a lot of different phases whatever that is. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.000 It's just like yesterday, when you play a great offense, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.200 you got to be sharp. And so we can't beat ourselves. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.160 We got to make sure that we play good football 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.359 where Chris, we don't turn the ball over, because one 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.240 thing we do know about Aaron Rodgers is he's is 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.280 not turning football over. So we gotta we gotta make 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.280 sure that that turnover battle, uh, that we keep it 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.240 even or win it. Uh. And and know that we'll 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.240 put together a plan to do everything we can for that. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.080 And right now, be willing to tackle aj Dillon because 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.560 he's getting the ball in two hundred forty seven pound 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.439 he's a big man and you know, down downhill runner 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.439 and they know that, and I don't think they care that. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.160