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Speaker 1: good even everybody, and welcome into the Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: from Hallis off PNC Studios. As the Bears go to
Speaker 1: four and three, back on top in the NFC North
Speaker 1: with a nice win over the New York Jets twenty
Speaker 1: four ten yesterday. We're with you until eight o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll be joined as well by Mark Helfritch, the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator of the Bears. Coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, Coach and Aggy, Good evening, How are you doing? Good?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I say, nice, Wind, They're all nice,
Speaker 1: and they're none of them. As we've talked many times
Speaker 1: already on this show. Are are easy. There's I don't
Speaker 1: care what anybody has to say about who should do
Speaker 1: what when it does not matter. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bears really took advantage of some really good opportunities,
Speaker 1: made some clutch plays. You guys made some clutch clutch
Speaker 1: plays when you needed to in that game. We did,
Speaker 1: And like you just said, I mean, coming coming out
Speaker 1: of this game with a victory, none of them are easy.
Speaker 1: And I was just really happy the guys showing up
Speaker 1: and starting um, starting fast and finding every way possible
Speaker 1: to win and collectively, so it was good to get
Speaker 1: back on the on the winning track and put a
Speaker 1: good game together. And so we're um. We celebrated that
Speaker 1: yesterday and now it's time to get ready for the Bills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that celebration with the disco Boscher is catching fire, I
Speaker 1: know what, and it's gonna grow over the course of
Speaker 1: the season. Now you've even intimated that you might have
Speaker 1: to put on your dancing at some point, right, Well,
Speaker 1: we gotta earn it so for in order for me
Speaker 1: to get out there and start dancing to better be
Speaker 1: worth so that bo Sweeney, They're gonna go crazy when that.
Speaker 1: But you know that fun moment, it really is catching on.
Speaker 1: I know you guys put it out there that the
Speaker 1: Bears organization does on social media after it happens. But
Speaker 1: just Stephen talking to the guys that that little bit
Speaker 1: of private time means something. It does, it's that's why
Speaker 1: we do what we do. And uh, these guys they
Speaker 1: work so hard and they put in so many hours
Speaker 1: and there's there's just so much that goes on to
Speaker 1: get those wins. And when you do get them, celebrate them,
Speaker 1: you know, have fun, like we always say, let your
Speaker 1: personality show. And those guys enjoy it. It's a time
Speaker 1: for them to bond. And for those that can't dance,
Speaker 1: they'll sit there and watch and and uh, it's just
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good five five minutes, you know
Speaker 1: of just uh you know, understanding that it took a
Speaker 1: lot of effort to get that win together and now
Speaker 1: celebrate it and and uh get ready for the next game.
Speaker 1: Picks the music. We have some people internally that go ahead,
Speaker 1: and then some of the players as well, they'll put
Speaker 1: they'll give some input and and so they try to
Speaker 1: switch it around with who has the most input and
Speaker 1: who does it each week. So um, hopefully there's a
Speaker 1: lot of songs, because that means there's a lot of wins.
Speaker 1: You had Jordan Howard break you down. Why, Well, Jordan's
Speaker 1: a big part of this team. And I just thought yesterday, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he ended up having around twenty two carries,
Speaker 1: sixteen of him in the second half, and and every
Speaker 1: game is gonna be a little bit different. And Jordan,
Speaker 1: anybody that knows Jordan is you know, he's an introverted, quiet,
Speaker 1: quiet person. But when he when he's out there on
Speaker 1: the field, he runs the ball hard. And and I
Speaker 1: just thought yesterday it was a it was an example
Speaker 1: of us just continuing to stick with the run and
Speaker 1: the big old line on offense. We got into four minute,
Speaker 1: we had to lead and they know we're running the
Speaker 1: football and Jordan had that nice twenty four yard run
Speaker 1: with some great blocking by the old line and it
Speaker 1: just felt right, you know. And and he's been doing
Speaker 1: everything that we asked him to do. And it was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a sloppy weather game and not
Speaker 1: not a lot of rain, but it was it was
Speaker 1: it was a game for him to carry that ball
Speaker 1: around a little bit, and I thought he did a
Speaker 1: great job. Prelude of what's to come. Yeah, sure, you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: with the weather and so forth. But you know, those
Speaker 1: are always important things that we talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: In this offense, second half is where you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your carries more than more than a lot of times.
Speaker 1: That's how this goes. And now there's times too when
Speaker 1: we started running the ball early that first drive yesterday,
Speaker 1: and and uh, there's gonna be adjustments by the defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: some games you will see more runs in the first half,
Speaker 1: but but a lot of times, if you are running
Speaker 1: the ball more in the third and fourth quarter, it's
Speaker 1: because you have a lead. And so there's kind of
Speaker 1: a philosophy of trying to get to lead early. And
Speaker 1: every game is a little bit different. But when when
Speaker 1: you do get a chance to get in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and you have a double digit lead or you're
Speaker 1: you're winning and you're a head and you've got to
Speaker 1: get first downs by running the football, Um, then we
Speaker 1: feel very comfortable with who we have. You had the
Speaker 1: lead and you never gave up the lead. But there
Speaker 1: were moments when and as has happened throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season at will with a young team in particular,
Speaker 1: you'll hurt yourself every now and again. That just gives
Speaker 1: that a little bit of nervousness to the equation a
Speaker 1: little bit. And that happened again yesterday. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of times, you know, two of
Speaker 1: them to stick out to me. The where the penalties
Speaker 1: um defense is. The defense was playing great all day
Speaker 1: and forcing a lot of three an ounce and then
Speaker 1: on third down made a great play and unfortunately Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson got called for the unnecessary roughness. And that's a
Speaker 1: bang bang play. That's not easy for a defender to
Speaker 1: not hit him, especially when we're preaching and teaching all
Speaker 1: week long about being physical and attacking and finishing and
Speaker 1: so a lot of effort there by Eddie, and unfortunately
Speaker 1: they called the penalty and and that's that's the rules.
Speaker 1: And so they ended up leading into a touchdown. But
Speaker 1: then the next possession by the offense. I was impressed
Speaker 1: with how our guys pulled together offensively when it was
Speaker 1: a seven point game to put together eight plays I
Speaker 1: think seventy something yards, had five first downs and ended
Speaker 1: it with a touchdown to go back up fourteen. And
Speaker 1: so I thought that was a really telling story of
Speaker 1: who who our team is, how we stick together, and um,
Speaker 1: it was just it was it was a good part
Speaker 1: of the day and with Eddie and that, and he
Speaker 1: voiced his concerned about it in the locker room afterwards. Now,
Speaker 1: the preach point would be this week, you'd still want
Speaker 1: them to play that aggressive, Yeah, because if he catches
Speaker 1: the ball, um, you know, then he pops the ball
Speaker 1: out and it makes a great play. And that's just
Speaker 1: one of those ones that's it feels like it's the
Speaker 1: gray area. It's it's the referees are making the right
Speaker 1: call because that's the rules. But for us as coaches
Speaker 1: and him as a player, he's just trying to play
Speaker 1: hard and so um, you know, Fortunately we bounced back
Speaker 1: from it and you learn from it, and if he
Speaker 1: sees that happened next time, maybe he does pull up.
Speaker 1: We invariably talk about offense first on this show almost
Speaker 1: every bit, and we already did a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to just really pump up the defense because
Speaker 1: they had an opponent on the ropes and that pony
Speaker 1: came in on the ropes a little bit, just underman
Speaker 1: a little bit, and not that the Bears were one
Speaker 1: hundred percent without Khalil, but really put up season high
Speaker 1: numbers across the board, creativity on the blitzes. And I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Bryce Callahan. I mean, we did
Speaker 1: a feature on on our Beame Game Today Live show
Speaker 1: this week ironically and not purposely, but just emphasizing the
Speaker 1: difficulty of that nickel position. And a guy who's five
Speaker 1: to nine and he's climbing the ladder to take on
Speaker 1: tight ends and big receivers and playing physical and playing loose,
Speaker 1: and he has the freedom and the confidence to blitz
Speaker 1: because he's got a coach who believes in him, and
Speaker 1: he puts that on together and he puts a game
Speaker 1: like that together yesterday. Sure. Yeah, it's it's when you
Speaker 1: have a nickel that plays inside that has the athleticism
Speaker 1: that Bryce has, it's a benefit and it's an advantage
Speaker 1: for our defense. I thought Vic, the coaches and the
Speaker 1: players did a really good job at coming in at
Speaker 1: understanding that we had to stop the run first. And
Speaker 1: if you go back and look at the numbers on
Speaker 1: first down, really good numbers at stopping the run. And
Speaker 1: when you do that, then you can force teams into second,
Speaker 1: a long third or long and that's always advantage defense.
Speaker 1: So number one stopped the run. And then when you
Speaker 1: talk about Bryce, you know there was a couple of
Speaker 1: Nickel blitzes where he came off the slot and uh,
Speaker 1: and and all that does is that edge pressure can
Speaker 1: create some some issues for the quarterback in regards the timing.
Speaker 1: He's got to move his feet. He feels some color
Speaker 1: or some the jersey, you know color coming off the side,
Speaker 1: and now it just takes them off a quick tick
Speaker 1: and then to be able to make some tackles and
Speaker 1: to make some pass breakups. He's he's very underrated and
Speaker 1: does a good job in there in the slot. And
Speaker 1: you guys were in nickel a ton yesterday almost the
Speaker 1: entire game. Uh, they still couldn't run against that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody doing their job, it is. And that's the guys
Speaker 1: up front too, and they're they're going to be able
Speaker 1: to hold off, hold off to double teams, let the
Speaker 1: linebackers run into those gaps and make plays. And then
Speaker 1: anytime he gets the second or third level, then the
Speaker 1: DB's got to step up and make tackles. That's Matt
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Speaker 1: Joniak continue it waits the snap five of the play
Speaker 1: clock takes the snap gives it a look left. Trubisky
Speaker 1: throwing left side of the end zone, catch his mate
Speaker 1: backing up. They did not say now they do touchdown
Speaker 1: Bears how to throw to the left side Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: with a grab. They had to make sure its pet
Speaker 1: were down to the back of the end zone. Defending
Speaker 1: the play. Puster screen the rookie from Memphis from four
Speaker 1: yards and that was a big touchdown play. And Matt
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Speaker 1: You said yesterday and again today as a significant throw,
Speaker 1: significant play and a chemistry between the two on the
Speaker 1: back shoulder. Yeah, that was a great throw, really great catch.
Speaker 1: And then for Anthony to be able to get his
Speaker 1: butt down in bounds counts as two feet, you know.
Speaker 1: So they dropped eight defenders into coverage, they had an
Speaker 1: extra guy. They only rushed three. When that happens it's
Speaker 1: more difficult for the quarterback. There's less lanes to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, so Mitch had more time, made it trusted
Speaker 1: Anthony on the corner route. The guy had pretty good
Speaker 1: coverage buster screen had good coverage, and he threw a
Speaker 1: back shoulder. Anthony made a great catch, got his butt
Speaker 1: down in bounds and got the touchdown on a big
Speaker 1: third down that dB. You know, he doesn't get his
Speaker 1: head around too fast and not even maybe he got
Speaker 1: a glimpse, but that that's where you can do that
Speaker 1: back shoulder for sure. Yeah, No, that that's h and
Speaker 1: that takes Uh, there's trust with your receiver, right, and
Speaker 1: then for the receiver to have trust and knowing that
Speaker 1: the quarterback is going to throw it, then Anthony had
Speaker 1: to make the catch. And so for him to make
Speaker 1: that catch, uh, he ran a good route. They had
Speaker 1: pretty good coverage on him, and then it was a
Speaker 1: really good throw by Mitch. And you know, the two
Speaker 1: of them hamn't connected on a high percentage yet. Right again,
Speaker 1: the day to day growth though, any kind of success,
Speaker 1: what does that do for the two of them, Well,
Speaker 1: it helps them and they're both you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: looking at one guy that's a rookie, um, just in
Speaker 1: this offense and the other one is in his second
Speaker 1: year per se in the NFL, but really as a
Speaker 1: rookie in this fense. So that timing is gonna come
Speaker 1: and the more type of throws that they have like that, Um,
Speaker 1: just it's just gonna build more and more. It'll be gradual. Um.
Speaker 1: But as you as you'll see here over time, Uh,
Speaker 1: Anthony's a really good receiver and he'll he'll have that
Speaker 1: bond in that connection with Mitch. Late in the game,
Speaker 1: Kyle Long gets injured. Um, you guys have talked about it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be twenty four to forty eight hours before
Speaker 1: you know and any real details on the extent of
Speaker 1: the injury and whatnot. And everybody's talking about it the
Speaker 1: same way. They feel awful for the game because he's
Speaker 1: overcome a lot. Yeah he has, and that's ah, but
Speaker 1: it's a part of the game and Kyle knows that.
Speaker 1: And uh, um you know he got it rolled up
Speaker 1: pretty good when you see it on tape and was
Speaker 1: in some pain. So, like like we said this morning,
Speaker 1: the next twenty four or forty eight hours, he's going
Speaker 1: through that evaluation process to know exactly what it is,
Speaker 1: and then we'll know more for him as far as
Speaker 1: what his future holds and how that thing goes. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, we have we have a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: that are close, you know, in particular on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: We have good depth there and I think Kyle'll be
Speaker 1: the first to tell you if it was any other position,
Speaker 1: including his, it's it's the next man up and we
Speaker 1: gotta stit together. We got a rally make sure that
Speaker 1: whoever it is until we find out exactly what it
Speaker 1: is what Kyle, hey, next guy's in And let's go
Speaker 1: safe to say at least missed this game coming up.
Speaker 1: I would imagine, yeah, go ahead, Well yeah, again, we
Speaker 1: don't know for sure, but it could yeah, it could.
Speaker 1: It could be. I mean, he was in some pain
Speaker 1: and so we'll just have to you know, once we
Speaker 1: know more than it will be a lot clear force.
Speaker 1: What I was driving at is. So with Kush coming back,
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Witzman that you had thirteen games and
Speaker 1: starting experience with last year, would you be open to
Speaker 1: keeping guys in similar spots so you don't have the
Speaker 1: wholesale changes on the offensive line Because you just said
Speaker 1: even today. You were really happy with the protection yesterday
Speaker 1: against the pretty you know, pressure pack defense, Yeah, they were.
Speaker 1: They did a lot yesterday the Jets. A lot of
Speaker 1: games were the ends in the town acles twist and
Speaker 1: they stunt, they try to get you off levels, and
Speaker 1: the offensive line did a really good job of working
Speaker 1: through those games. So now with Kyle's situation, we'll off
Speaker 1: to see how that goes where he's at. But like
Speaker 1: I said, between having James, Daniels, Kush and Witzman, we
Speaker 1: have three guys there that if we need to, we'll
Speaker 1: take those three guys. We'll figure out what's best for
Speaker 1: him where they where they work best at. And that's
Speaker 1: where Harry comes in. Harry Easton, our offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: will come in and put them in a good situation
Speaker 1: and and just really focus on what we need to
Speaker 1: do and then we just keep going along. All right.
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Speaker 1: in the game, Jerbisky looks things over. Jets are bringing extras.
Speaker 1: Scherbisky floks a pass put white open. There goes toing forty,
Speaker 1: Mickfield big luck to the thirty to the twenty angle
Speaker 1: ten five hands up touchdown. They beat the Blitz touchdown pairs.
Speaker 1: They got the laid Cohen seventy yard catching run, the
Speaker 1: longest play of the season and third time in four
Speaker 1: games for three cone, one hundred plush yards from scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He is hit a groove yey he has. He's uh,
Speaker 1: he's a weapon, as we know. You know, he's able
Speaker 1: to do things into batfield, running the ball um uh.
Speaker 1: And then you get him into backfield and you want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and throw a screen or you want
Speaker 1: to motion the mountain, run some routes with him. He's
Speaker 1: very dynamic and uh, you know him and Mitch they're
Speaker 1: they're timing, they're they're getting that down. And yesterday Mitch
Speaker 1: just made a great, great pass over top some defenders
Speaker 1: and Terik kind of did a great jobs, you know,
Speaker 1: squeezing through a bunch of guys to to leak out
Speaker 1: on the screen, make a great catching, a great run.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget Taylor game. Bro Yeah, unbelievable block. Have
Speaker 1: been a shorter play, big block, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: that's that's the difference between um, you know, like a
Speaker 1: thirty five yard game versus a seventy yard game and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in points. And so that's what it takes
Speaker 1: is the little things and everybody on every play, all
Speaker 1: eleven players doing their job. And when you do that
Speaker 1: and you execute it, then like I said yesterday, those
Speaker 1: are those are the fun ones that teach off of
Speaker 1: ton of yards after the catch yesterday and in your
Speaker 1: history there have been a lot of big yard after
Speaker 1: the catch seasons for you. It's not just the guys
Speaker 1: who can catch and run, But do you demand your
Speaker 1: receivers on everywhere you've been that they have to block
Speaker 1: they need to And the reason being is that there's
Speaker 1: just in this offense, there's a lot of different guys
Speaker 1: that can catch balls at different times predicator based off
Speaker 1: of the defense and whatever coverage they want to play.
Speaker 1: So you will see different guys catch balls. And because
Speaker 1: of that, the guys that are different that aren't catching
Speaker 1: the ball, they need to block. Our guys recognize that.
Speaker 1: They realize that Mike Ferry or wider sever coach does
Speaker 1: a really good job at teaching that to our young guys.
Speaker 1: And and you know, whether you're twenty yards down field
Speaker 1: or your five yards down field, it's important to make
Speaker 1: those blocks. Protecting the ball was one of your keys
Speaker 1: again this week. It always will be. But now looking
Speaker 1: back our statman Doug Clutti, So when Mitch's nineteen starts,
Speaker 1: he's lost the turnover battle only in three games in
Speaker 1: his career, in ninth straight of not losing the battle,
Speaker 1: including all seven this year for the first time since
Speaker 1: a very long time here in Bears history. Does that
Speaker 1: say something about him? Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's it's
Speaker 1: we talk about ball security, and we talk about on
Speaker 1: the offensive side, respect the football, and when you win
Speaker 1: that turnover margin battle with your opponent, you have the
Speaker 1: percentages of winning are higher. And that's for the season
Speaker 1: as well. And right now we're doing a good job
Speaker 1: at taking the ball away from these offenses. And then
Speaker 1: when we're on offense, we're protecting in respecting the football.
Speaker 1: You match those two together and that helps you win
Speaker 1: games defense three and outs, six of them yesterday, I
Speaker 1: think on the first ten possessions of the game. Maybe
Speaker 1: I think that was accurate. But it's a fewest in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, fewest first downs allowed, only fifteen
Speaker 1: red zone drives allowed. This is preventing teams from getting
Speaker 1: in any sort of rhythm, clearly right it is. And
Speaker 1: I think when when you're able to get to the
Speaker 1: offense off the field and create three and ouns. What
Speaker 1: it can do too is for the play caller, they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out you know you're there, you're doing
Speaker 1: something right. So I thought defensively for us, again, it
Speaker 1: starts on first down. If you can, um you know,
Speaker 1: keep them to second and eight second and nine second
Speaker 1: and ten, now you have a great chance to get
Speaker 1: them into a longer third down distance, which again has
Speaker 1: advantaged defense. And so we we we stayed that course yesterday.
Speaker 1: And when you do that now, now you've got to
Speaker 1: be good and special teams too, and if the field
Speaker 1: position becomes a part of the game because they're not
Speaker 1: flipping the field when they're not getting first down, so
Speaker 1: it all kind of works together. And then I just
Speaker 1: I just think that the guys really rallied together yesterday.
Speaker 1: They were playing fast, they were flying around, and it
Speaker 1: started from the very beginning the first drive and really
Speaker 1: went throughout the game. You guys showed up with a
Speaker 1: great idea with the throwback uniforms, which looked great. I
Speaker 1: think fans love them. And then you took the ball
Speaker 1: and ran with it even further. The genesis of that
Speaker 1: idea of having players pick up a Bears legend and
Speaker 1: you've shown up at the press conference and George Hollis
Speaker 1: number seven a nice touch to the day. Sure, No,
Speaker 1: it was, and collectively it was all of us within
Speaker 1: the organization. There was a few of us that got
Speaker 1: together and just decided to, you know, just could be
Speaker 1: something neat to do. And that's what I think is
Speaker 1: so special about who we have in this building and
Speaker 1: who we have in this team and coaches, players, management.
Speaker 1: We all think the same thing and we knew it
Speaker 1: would be special. We all kind of just started putting
Speaker 1: our minds together and how we can make it work.
Speaker 1: And we did it. You know, the guys. The guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. It was really neat to see them grab
Speaker 1: their jerseys after our team meeting, get the team picture
Speaker 1: at the end of it, and then and then seeing
Speaker 1: some of the guys come in game day with that,
Speaker 1: and so just a lot of respect for the past
Speaker 1: players and coaches that have been here, and um, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just way too important to not give them credit.
Speaker 1: Do you have other ideas in your head? Do these
Speaker 1: things just pop up? Do you do you like theming
Speaker 1: the season so to speak? Well, you know, there are
Speaker 1: some things that we discuss on how we would do things,
Speaker 1: and you try to you know, try to prepare for
Speaker 1: down the road. But but some of it just happens
Speaker 1: instinctually too, and it's just organically happens, and sometimes those
Speaker 1: are the ones that are better, you know. And um uh,
Speaker 1: now it might create a little bit more u havoc
Speaker 1: for the people that have to get all this, you know,
Speaker 1: for the folks that had to go ahead and order
Speaker 1: all the jerseys and get it all set up. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff behind the scenes that go down. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's easy for me to sit there and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we got all these jerseys, but there's a process to it,
Speaker 1: so we'll continue to do stuff as we go. I
Speaker 1: think he keeps it fun for the players. They enjoy it,
Speaker 1: they respect you for that, and it just brings us
Speaker 1: all together really tight. All right, quick, we're down the Bills.
Speaker 1: You're watching them right now against the Patriots. You could
Speaker 1: easily say, you know, this is a team struggling at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position with the injury to Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: not getting much done. But they do some things that
Speaker 1: get your attention right away, including defensively without a doubt,
Speaker 1: and anybody that thinks any different than that, all they
Speaker 1: need to do is turn on the Vikings game and
Speaker 1: go ahead and check out that game of Buffalo versus Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and Buffalo just absolutely got after him. And so their
Speaker 1: defense is a defense that is aggressive. They fly around.
Speaker 1: Sean does a great job their head coach at at
Speaker 1: really putting guys in good positions. They play well together offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have a young rookie quarterback who is being replaced
Speaker 1: tonight by Derek Anderson, but they got a great running
Speaker 1: back in with Shaw McCoy. They got some some big
Speaker 1: wide receivers and so it's and going to Buffalo. That's
Speaker 1: a hostile environment. Now they get after you, and they're loud,
Speaker 1: they're rowdy, and they're right on top of you. So
Speaker 1: we got to come there with our a game and
Speaker 1: play fast and furious right away. All right, good luck
Speaker 1: in your preparations. We're talking throughout the course of the week.
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Speaker 1: lowers the shoulders he is in for the touchdown, touchdown
Speaker 1: Bears twenty three, ten, seven or eight to go, the
Speaker 1: fourth two yard plunge short and Howard. And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of drive with Jordan Howard you can do with
Speaker 1: the lead in the fourth quarter. And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: That was the finishing blow for the New York Jet says.
Speaker 1: The Bears get their fourth win of the year and
Speaker 1: back and first in the NFC North. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the program, joined by Mark Halfritch. In that running game,
Speaker 1: when you have the leader, you can play the four
Speaker 1: minute offense and hand the ball off. He's the add
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, he did a nice job. But
Speaker 1: I think we really we challenge our guys all last
Speaker 1: week to step up in that area, and we probably
Speaker 1: we still left quite a bit on the bone as
Speaker 1: far as yardage or opportunities that that for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: whether it was the running back, whether it was the quarterback,
Speaker 1: whether it was the old line, we had some some
Speaker 1: issues in in all, you know, all three kind of
Speaker 1: levels of that deal that we'll work to improve upon
Speaker 1: and get ready for Buffalo. But at that point of
Speaker 1: the game, had to had to put that drive together.
Speaker 1: And the guy's answered, and everybody's happy for Jordan because
Speaker 1: you know, hey, listen, the man wants to rock like
Speaker 1: any any running back worth his salt. So I mean
Speaker 1: the twenty four yard or run I really enjoyed. That's
Speaker 1: that's Jordan Howard right there. Yeah, and then we have
Speaker 1: to get him going. You know, in some all those
Speaker 1: other two yard runs have to become six or have
Speaker 1: to become a broken tackle for you know, a house call,
Speaker 1: and those are those are all the things that as
Speaker 1: we all uh get to take these next steps together
Speaker 1: and and and get to know what buttons to push,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I just think he still has a lot
Speaker 1: in him, and I really do. It's funny. I think
Speaker 1: if you came and do this show every single week,
Speaker 1: you would say the same thing. You left things on
Speaker 1: the bone. That's offensive coordinator's mentality. Well, and that's how
Speaker 1: you know, always growing. Yeah, and I think our guys
Speaker 1: feel that, you know, they know the first thing I walked.
Speaker 1: It's funny the first guy I saw in locker room
Speaker 1: always trying to get kind of to the alignment first
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know Bobby Massey is apologizing for
Speaker 1: the second play of the game. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of funny that that that you know, and you
Speaker 1: you want to to certainly not do well, but you
Speaker 1: want to recognize what was good, what was bad, and
Speaker 1: and move on as a staff now that you've been here.
Speaker 1: While I've never asked anybody this, but I know there's
Speaker 1: some some coaches here that can be pretty fiery. Do
Speaker 1: you guys chew on these guys a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of getting on them during the game, and
Speaker 1: then you know you're pretty pointed afterwards. Sure, I think
Speaker 1: it's individual. You know, you get to know these guys
Speaker 1: and that's what. So you can push certain guys and
Speaker 1: some guys you have to sidle up next to put
Speaker 1: your um around him and and you know just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we need more out of you in this way, you know, ABC.
Speaker 1: But that's all part of the process of getting to
Speaker 1: know just exactly what what motivates guys. And some guys,
Speaker 1: you know, you can scream and yell and they shut
Speaker 1: it down. You know, some guys you can scream and
Speaker 1: yell and they love it. And so it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of finding those individual relationships really pressing buttons. So exactly,
Speaker 1: h Kyle Long, Uh, we don't know what the extent
Speaker 1: of it all is yet, but where has he been
Speaker 1: at in terms of his play and um, if he
Speaker 1: should miss any significant time or any time, what does
Speaker 1: that do for you? And especially in the run game
Speaker 1: right now, because you do you do want to work
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, absolutely, Uh don't know the first part
Speaker 1: of it, and not just a media don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: really don't. But yeah, unfortunately, you know, I've been around
Speaker 1: Kyle for a long time and uh tough, Yeah you
Speaker 1: have you forget about that. You were with him and
Speaker 1: just being with him in the in the training room
Speaker 1: after the game was was tough. Um, he handled it
Speaker 1: tremendously well. Get a bunch of great teammates surrounded him
Speaker 1: right right when it happened. Uh, and and and post
Speaker 1: game kind of taking care of him. But we'll see, um,
Speaker 1: you know, if that happens. Coming back to a combination
Speaker 1: again of of Kush, of James, of of Wits who
Speaker 1: you know who we just signed, putting putting that together,
Speaker 1: Bradley soel Um, just trying to find that that whatever
Speaker 1: the magical combination is of getting the right getting the
Speaker 1: right five in there. All right. So James Daniels makes
Speaker 1: his debut as a young man. What did you see?
Speaker 1: How did he handle it? He obviously has had plenty
Speaker 1: of snaps. In fact, he had one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: snaps heading up into this game, and the Bears scored
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten points in those three games he played.
Speaker 1: Not because of him. That's great, but it is a
Speaker 1: good about that's a good symmetry, right, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'll say the combination if he and Kush. But and
Speaker 1: so you know, it's not like you just threw him
Speaker 1: in there as a twenty one year old rookie say hey,
Speaker 1: go get him boys. You know that that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I think he's a guy that's a great
Speaker 1: example of his best ball is ahead of him period.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a young guy in experience
Speaker 1: at that position, really playing against grown men and in
Speaker 1: this game moving a tremendous amount of the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not, hey, this guy lines up outside shade of
Speaker 1: me every single time and stay right there in the
Speaker 1: B gap. It's you know, it's a guy coming this
Speaker 1: way and crossing his face or you know, some twist
Speaker 1: games linebackers coming at him. All in all, handled things
Speaker 1: pretty well. We had a couple other guys make mistakes
Speaker 1: that were maybe a little bit more of what you
Speaker 1: would expect from a from a rookie in there, but
Speaker 1: but very excited about his future for sure. The Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and w bbm's
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac continue, competitor in me drives me, gives you
Speaker 1: the accept the challenge, and as a competitor, when you
Speaker 1: get challenged, work towards it. You do anything you can
Speaker 1: to accept the challenge and conquer the challenge. As one
Speaker 1: year ago, Zach Miller suffered that devastating leg injury in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, who all will never forget it, and he
Speaker 1: has worked his way back into being a contributing member
Speaker 1: of this football team, even though he's not suiting up,
Speaker 1: he's not on the field. Mark Helfrich, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Zach Miller, and to tell us what you've learned about
Speaker 1: being around Zack in your time here so far. Phenomenal guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been a guy that I think it
Speaker 1: was really cool what the Bears did as an organization,
Speaker 1: and I think that immediately speaks to who he is.
Speaker 1: That that answers every question about that guy. But he's
Speaker 1: been around my wife, my kids, you know, certainly our team,
Speaker 1: and every every interaction you see with that guy is positive,
Speaker 1: you know. And he's been he's been awesome. He's been
Speaker 1: an additional coach and then he's done it all with
Speaker 1: flawless hair, which is kind of kind of a good
Speaker 1: bed too. Very jealous of every I was joking with
Speaker 1: the other day and lack. I'm I go, man, thick
Speaker 1: up top. I've been living in the weight room and
Speaker 1: he has. Yeah, I mean, but his story is certainly
Speaker 1: a study in this game. It's it's it's another symbol
Speaker 1: of what these men who play this game are willing
Speaker 1: to go through, you know, to compete and still not
Speaker 1: give it up. It is, it's it's it's like you said,
Speaker 1: it's the it's kind of microcos him of the best
Speaker 1: and the worst, right, the worst, the injury and the
Speaker 1: devastation and all that, and then the best is how
Speaker 1: he's responded and how his teammates have responded to him.
Speaker 1: All right, well, uh, we're forty five minutes into the show.
Speaker 1: We really haven't talked about Mitch Trubiski yet tonight. So
Speaker 1: how did you look yesterday to you? In terms of
Speaker 1: his performance, he was certainly a little up and down,
Speaker 1: and as always, as not always him that that that
Speaker 1: made that up or made that down? Um. I thought
Speaker 1: the best thing he did is he battled, he kept playing,
Speaker 1: He made some tremendous throws late, he made some tremendous
Speaker 1: conversions with his feet. Uh, you know, those things. Those things. Again,
Speaker 1: there were times that a guy could get very frustrated
Speaker 1: or a guy could you know, not shut it down,
Speaker 1: but just mentally kind of kind of go go silent
Speaker 1: or go mute, go mute to the whole situation. He
Speaker 1: didn't and and uh did some great things in the
Speaker 1: run game that kind of go unnoticed, did some against
Speaker 1: some very good things in the passing game when we
Speaker 1: needed it most. Uh, and we won. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the bottom line is winning. And you've been in the
Speaker 1: lead all seven games in the second half this year
Speaker 1: and we finished, you know, and like you said that
Speaker 1: that that drive, the response when they scored in that drive,
Speaker 1: that that you know, he helped. He helped certainly spark uh,
Speaker 1: both in the in the run and the past aspect
Speaker 1: of it was huge. And third quarter you're scoring touchdowns
Speaker 1: coming out of the locker room. So whether it's a
Speaker 1: take a deep breath or the adjustments in this short time,
Speaker 1: you guys do have something is clicking there, which is
Speaker 1: also the mark of a rising offense. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's just maturing, you know, he's again he's settling down. Certainly, Hey,
Speaker 1: we'd love to play flawlessly and great every snap, but
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of unrealistic, right And they're pretty good
Speaker 1: on the other side, and they're gonna do their best
Speaker 1: to not let that happen. But we certainly want to
Speaker 1: put ourselves in the best position that the play can dictate,
Speaker 1: and and he's doing that way more often than not
Speaker 1: for sure. Tarik Cohen five hundred and sixty all purpose
Speaker 1: yards Right now, his receiving numbers are going up. He's
Speaker 1: among the best in the league right now. Have you
Speaker 1: guys hit a rhythm and a slot for him now
Speaker 1: that he is excelling in that you can build on
Speaker 1: or is that still work in progress? Also? It really is.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just such a Swiss Army knife type
Speaker 1: of guy that can can do so many roles really well.
Speaker 1: Uh that that, yeah, you kind of maybe over emphasize
Speaker 1: one thing one week and maybe maybe they're defending it differently,
Speaker 1: or you know, don't you don't end up getting him
Speaker 1: the ball, certainly in the screen game or at running back,
Speaker 1: we can we can take that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Yesterday double teamed him on some things, you know, so
Speaker 1: it kind of took that, took that away. At times.
Speaker 1: We missed him a couple of times in the passing game.
Speaker 1: One of those things was was, you know, probably the thrower.
Speaker 1: One of those things was the protector. You know. So
Speaker 1: again have to continue to find ways to get get him.
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Speaker 1: Mark Helferts, the Bears offensive coordinator. What are some of
Speaker 1: the things that you're enjoying right now out of the
Speaker 1: backfield with Cohen and Howard in there. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you got traditional eye formations with Cohen at the full
Speaker 1: backs and you're moving them around. It's it's a chestnut
Speaker 1: Matt sue back. No if Jeff putting out Matt Suey, however,
Speaker 1: don't put it past him. He could probably no question.
Speaker 1: Probably clear space for you. I love it. I love
Speaker 1: it me. It's tradition. You have two backs, two backs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just options, like you said, getting getting both those guys
Speaker 1: back there, you can you can kind of utilize their
Speaker 1: strengths and the defense doesn't necessarily know what's coming. You know,
Speaker 1: if one guy's back there, they're gonna you know, have
Speaker 1: a little bit of an indication about maybe what the
Speaker 1: percentage of this type of play versus that type of
Speaker 1: play maybe, uh, you know, a free release or not,
Speaker 1: depending who's in there, all those kind of things. But
Speaker 1: those guys have both done a good job. Jordan has
Speaker 1: done a good job in kind of the free release
Speaker 1: passing game. Uh. Tarik has done a nice job in protection. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so they kind of, you know, have done both
Speaker 1: well and we'll keep keep working on that. And Benny
Speaker 1: with a big black yesterday on a big play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Benny did some some great stuff. Had had one that
Speaker 1: he would he would like back for sure, there is
Speaker 1: I'm only looking at the good one. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, but yeah, all those guys, all
Speaker 1: those guys are getting played well at times, and and
Speaker 1: like we said earlier, kind of left left a little
Speaker 1: bit on the bone. All right, I say, Buffalo, you
Speaker 1: say what, Uh well, yeah, getting ready. We've already kind
Speaker 1: of moved on to that next week and have watched
Speaker 1: a ton of their their tape, very very good on defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got hughes. I mean, they got guys at every level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really do a lot different than the teams we've
Speaker 1: played recently. Schematically but but excellent. Yeah. Well, hopefully not
Speaker 1: dying blitz is from everywhere, like the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks have been, you know, trying to keep your head
Speaker 1: on a swove, trying to call the game even as
Speaker 1: a coach too, And for mister t Bisky, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that that will help settle things down a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You know, defenses are like offenses now, they're evolving into
Speaker 1: all sorts of different looks, so be illegal. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: appreciate your time as I always, Thank you so much
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