Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to another edition of the Bears Coaching Show.
Speaker 1: Good to be with you tonight with Bears head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Nagge Jeff Jonahac with you until eight o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: We're brought to you by Whippley CPA's and Consultants, and
Speaker 1: just after seven thirty joined by Special teams coordinator Chris
Speaker 1: Tabor to join the program. A very very tough loss
Speaker 1: yesterday to the Detroit Lions. You look at it, Matt,
Speaker 1: the fourth largest comeback in team history week one and
Speaker 1: then a rough ten point fourth quarter loss in week thirteen.
Speaker 1: It's the story of the National Football League. Just underscores
Speaker 1: just how hard it is to win every single week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not easy. And you go to see yesterday,
Speaker 1: you know how that goes, and you have a ten
Speaker 1: point lead with four minutes to go, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's what we talk about finishing. So it's every
Speaker 1: game is going to be a little bit different. And
Speaker 1: we've had our challenges this year with that and trying
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to either come back and win
Speaker 1: or now keep a lead and win. And so we
Speaker 1: didn't do that, and we got to pick up the
Speaker 1: pieces and keep getting after it as losses go. Where
Speaker 1: does this one stick with you in your history? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one, This was one that you always remember for
Speaker 1: so many different reasons. I you know, it's it's um.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like in the middle of the season
Speaker 1: when we had a couple of those games where the
Speaker 1: offense was really struggling and the defense was playing really
Speaker 1: really well and we weren't. We just weren't working hand
Speaker 1: in hand. And this was one yesterday where I was
Speaker 1: just so darn proud of the offense and the challenge
Speaker 1: that was presented to them all week long about coming
Speaker 1: out from the very first play and creating a tempo,
Speaker 1: and all game long we had tempo. We were in
Speaker 1: control of that whole game offensively. So as much as
Speaker 1: it stinks to lose the game and it hurts, and
Speaker 1: this is one you always remember, Uh, that is the
Speaker 1: one positive that we can take out of this thing
Speaker 1: and that we need to use here and the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Even the best of us in a
Speaker 1: situation like this could speak it and say it and
Speaker 1: walk around with it the positivity. But are you challenged
Speaker 1: right now, even you as a man right now about
Speaker 1: this because it's it's one of those deep dark holes. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and if you if you can't admit that, then you're
Speaker 1: probably you know, not telling the truth. So I think
Speaker 1: that's real and that's where that's where in these times
Speaker 1: right now, And what I think is really important is
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I'm talking about on the field,
Speaker 1: off the field, everybody. In these moments, people show their
Speaker 1: true colors. And that's what I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1: Whether it's players, whether it's coaches, whether it's friends, whether
Speaker 1: it's family. You can see how people are and so
Speaker 1: I think this is an experience for me that you
Speaker 1: use it the right way. And the ones that understand
Speaker 1: how to fix things, the ones that have been callous
Speaker 1: three times like this, they're the ones that support you
Speaker 1: as you go through, and they're the ones you lean
Speaker 1: on in these times. And I'm not just talking about
Speaker 1: family and friends. I'm talking about the players and the
Speaker 1: coaches and experiences you go through. And yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: it is. It feels like a pretty deep dark hole
Speaker 1: right now. But eventually somewhere there's gonna be some sunshine.
Speaker 1: And I don't know where that is or when it is,
Speaker 1: but that's just how I live my life, man, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to stay positive. You know, if
Speaker 1: you see any of it, you see the negativity, and
Speaker 1: maybe you have over the course of your career. How
Speaker 1: do you approach players that do show that. I'm not
Speaker 1: suggesting that's happening, but if it does start, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Oh, you give them advice, You tell them
Speaker 1: what's in front of us, you know. And then unless
Speaker 1: you want to continue to keep having it be a
Speaker 1: dark hole and keep digging a hole, then you can
Speaker 1: keep being negative. And that's but then the people that
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it, the people that
Speaker 1: want to stay positive, that have good energy, have good juice,
Speaker 1: you know, that's they're they're the ones that you rely
Speaker 1: on to get this thing fixed. And so is it
Speaker 1: natural for twenty four hours for you to be emotional
Speaker 1: and then to feel hurt. Yeah, I mean you want
Speaker 1: that too, But you got to be able to get
Speaker 1: out of it. And there's great leaders in this world,
Speaker 1: in the sports world that have been through these times,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a matter of you know, having a
Speaker 1: great supporting cast and just listening right now in times
Speaker 1: like this and not panicking. But that's what we have
Speaker 1: to do and the ones that want to be a
Speaker 1: part of that. That's the exciting part for us as coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, in your position, you have to answer to
Speaker 1: every player. They have to answer to you, You have
Speaker 1: to answer to management, you have to answer to the
Speaker 1: building in many senses, So are these hard days, even
Speaker 1: though the communication is something that I know is great
Speaker 1: with all of you guys. And you mentioned it this
Speaker 1: morning in the news conference with George and Ted. When
Speaker 1: they ask questions, you have to answer some hard questions.
Speaker 1: Is that one of your bigger challenges? Well? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: but for me, Um, one of the things that that
Speaker 1: I like to do is I'm always just in conversations.
Speaker 1: I'm always very honest and sometimes it might not be
Speaker 1: the right answer when I'm talking to a player, when
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a coach, Uh, you know, no matter
Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, They're always going to get my
Speaker 1: my open, honest opinion and evaluation of whatever the topic is.
Speaker 1: And so um, you know, then then you go from
Speaker 1: there and you figure out the whys and you figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: how how do we get better and how do we
Speaker 1: work together? And what are the and then if there's
Speaker 1: no answers, then you got to go to something else.
Speaker 1: But um, that's why sometimes tough discussions for some people
Speaker 1: are tough, but a lot of times for myself, just
Speaker 1: because I believe in that and I live by that,
Speaker 1: it's not quite as tough as sometimes it may feel.
Speaker 1: Is it help you coach knowing that you have the
Speaker 1: ability to have outstanding communication because if you didn't have
Speaker 1: that and you were shut out, it would be pretty challenging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be hard. And you have to have that
Speaker 1: you And now the part of the communication as a
Speaker 1: as a head coach, um is more ears, you know,
Speaker 1: is more listening and understanding and being able to paint
Speaker 1: that picture and figure out the whys and and then
Speaker 1: also start with myself, you know, and what is it
Speaker 1: and and understand Okay, here, here's how we get this fixed.
Speaker 1: Here's how we get that fixed. I might be the
Speaker 1: conduit of communication between a player and a coach because
Speaker 1: there's there's some stuff going on there and or it
Speaker 1: could be anything, you know, it might be a player
Speaker 1: and a player. But I got to be able to
Speaker 1: help that out. That's my job. And so um, there's
Speaker 1: there's different ways to do it. And I think let's
Speaker 1: sting is a big part. All right, let's dip in
Speaker 1: a little bit here before we hit a commercial break
Speaker 1: on the offense, there was efficiency and was couraging day.
Speaker 1: What did you think overall of all the different parts
Speaker 1: being used in it, including the young guys at Darnel,
Speaker 1: Money and Cole commit. Yeah, no, it was everybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool to see our tight ends blocking
Speaker 1: in the run game, our running backs running hard, protecting
Speaker 1: in the pass game, running backs making plays in the past,
Speaker 1: game wide receivers making big catches over the middle, run
Speaker 1: after the catch. When when when you're in a game
Speaker 1: offensively and you're on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of third downs because the
Speaker 1: first and seconds are really good. That's what yesterday was
Speaker 1: for us, especially obviously in the first half. That first half,
Speaker 1: those first five possessions, that felt good. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just okay, well we were throwing at every play or
Speaker 1: we were running at every play. We were trying to
Speaker 1: keep them off balanced with play actions, with the movements
Speaker 1: and the nakeds our run game. Early on, man, it
Speaker 1: just established really well. The line was getting after him,
Speaker 1: we were creating running lanes, and we were scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: We weren't coming out of it with three. We were
Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns, and to have three touchdowns there in the
Speaker 1: first half, that's what you want. That's what we've been
Speaker 1: wanting all year long. So now we tried to mix
Speaker 1: it up a little bit in the third and have
Speaker 1: some no huddle and again I don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: but it didn't work. And so now you know we
Speaker 1: didn't We didn't get anything going in the third and
Speaker 1: then the fourth there we had a we had a
Speaker 1: crucial penalty and in a couple of sacks and again
Speaker 1: finishing your BIS, you gotta roll over the air side.
Speaker 1: He's got come out, turned his shoulders. Ten fun tens, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 1: Bears trip bisky eleven yards for the touchdown. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears Coaches Show. Cole come out with a
Speaker 1: big touchdown catching a run. The Chicago Bears and Improven
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Speaker 1: head coach Matt Naggie, let's talk about that play we
Speaker 1: broke it down on our TV show on Bears Game
Speaker 1: Night Live on Fox last night. Just the simplicity of
Speaker 1: the boot, which is an outstanding effective play, and just
Speaker 1: seeing that big guy running with a football on several
Speaker 1: occasions yesterday but into the ends on an end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel had to be a joy for you as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was awesome. You know, we got to keep him
Speaker 1: going and he gets across there real nice on the
Speaker 1: naked and Mitch got it to him and nice and
Speaker 1: quick head, pinpoint accuracy what to throw and then Cole,
Speaker 1: you know, big body with some speed. It's going to
Speaker 1: be tough to tackle him there going in and he
Speaker 1: was able to get in for a touchdown. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to what you said about the no huddle to
Speaker 1: start the third quarter and you kind of chuckled about, Hey,
Speaker 1: it didn't work for whatever reason because of the ineffectiveness
Speaker 1: in terms of scoring in that quarter. Is it starting
Speaker 1: to create ghosts in everybody's head about it too much pressing?
Speaker 1: I mean, what could be the issue? Yeah, No, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I think that we said
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the week, we're regardless of the score.
Speaker 1: We don't care at the score is we're going no
Speaker 1: huddle to start the third, and so we had to
Speaker 1: stick to that, and you know, we were running the
Speaker 1: ball well against him, and you know, you can say, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: we should have just came out and tried to run
Speaker 1: the ball. Well, you know, we've been doing that this
Speaker 1: year and then for different reasons it hasn't been working.
Speaker 1: So we stuck to it. We weren't going to live
Speaker 1: in it, but we were going to try to get
Speaker 1: a couple first downs and then back out of it.
Speaker 1: And then we had a penalty that kind of dug
Speaker 1: us back a little bit, and before you know it,
Speaker 1: we had to punt, and now they also got the
Speaker 1: ball to start the third, so they had one more
Speaker 1: possession in us in that third, so we really had
Speaker 1: that possession, I think one other short one and then
Speaker 1: it was before you know it, it's the fourth. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you mean it's it's It's definitely crazy how this is
Speaker 1: going on right now. I've never been a part of it.
Speaker 1: In terms of Matthew Stafford, I mean, he's done this
Speaker 1: to a lot of teams. That doesn't make it feel
Speaker 1: any better, obviously, but now he's got the most fourth
Speaker 1: quarter comebacks in NFL since he came in the league,
Speaker 1: and he's tied for seventh all time in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Knowing that, knowing he's going to have opportunities like that,
Speaker 1: he's never gonna back down from it. It's still a
Speaker 1: little bit of a disbelieving moment, isn't it When you
Speaker 1: got by ten with four thirty to go? How are
Speaker 1: you processing that now with coaches? Yeah, now it is
Speaker 1: because you know, we feel like that's our strength is
Speaker 1: being able to close him out on defense and then
Speaker 1: or get to offense where we can just go ahead
Speaker 1: and get that first down in four minutes and so,
Speaker 1: but you're going against, like you said, a really good
Speaker 1: quarterback that if you give him time, he'll dice you
Speaker 1: with his arm. I mean, he's he's he's so deadly accurate.
Speaker 1: And you know that's that's something that I know we
Speaker 1: talked about this morning as a coaching staff, is being
Speaker 1: able to limit those big plays and close the games out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there were eighteen plays off ten yards or
Speaker 1: more and nine of twenty yards or more with with
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions yesterday. He did get out of the
Speaker 1: pocket a little bit when the rush was coming. It
Speaker 1: was more of an interior rush, it seemed was that
Speaker 1: a critical component to the win for the Lions yesterday
Speaker 1: and no success place. It definitely helped him getting outside
Speaker 1: to be able to see those intermediate throws. And so
Speaker 1: you know, if you lose any contained or if you
Speaker 1: have a t game or a stunt or a defensive
Speaker 1: en goes inside and you got to have your detail
Speaker 1: going outside and have that keep that guy contained. And
Speaker 1: you'll see some teams that force the quarterback a certain way, well,
Speaker 1: you know, depending on which way they'd like to roll
Speaker 1: out of the pocket. But I just felt like yesterday
Speaker 1: there was a few times where that happened where it
Speaker 1: just made it a nice clean pocket for him to
Speaker 1: be able to see his guys and then he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's always gonna beat you with his arm. Despite giving
Speaker 1: up all that yardage and the five touchdowns, there were
Speaker 1: some some interesting things that did happen defense, And let's
Speaker 1: talk about blow Nichols. I think it was an all
Speaker 1: state tight end and growing up in high school in Delaware,
Speaker 1: there had the interception that's not an easy catch, I'm certain,
Speaker 1: and then a sack. Is his play continuing to develop
Speaker 1: over the course of the year to your satisfaction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's growing, he's getting better, and that's what we need
Speaker 1: right now, you know, I think that being able to
Speaker 1: develop these guys that you draft, and that was definitely
Speaker 1: a huge point in the game where we would have
Speaker 1: loved to get points off of that. But it was
Speaker 1: a big play and it was pretty pretty athletic play
Speaker 1: all things considered. And then Buster screen in the open
Speaker 1: field double legg takedown basically for the former All Street
Speaker 1: wrestler there Worth down on one and dhc limiting a
Speaker 1: catch to the tight end Hockinson to make it a
Speaker 1: fourth and one. Those were early in the game, but
Speaker 1: those are the type of plays that I felt were
Speaker 1: very impactful. What do you think, Yeah, for sure, And
Speaker 1: especially with Buster on that fourth and one, coming the
Speaker 1: whole way across the field on the Jets week, that's
Speaker 1: not easy because you don't have a great angle to
Speaker 1: make that play, but he went in there, and like
Speaker 1: you said, him having that wrestling background, he's always been
Speaker 1: a physical player. Now for his size, he might be
Speaker 1: pound for pound for pound, one of the toughest on
Speaker 1: the team, and so I appreciate that about him, and
Speaker 1: certainly in big play a couple of snaps in there
Speaker 1: for Trevis Gipson getting his feet we would you see,
Speaker 1: I liked what he Travis has done a great job
Speaker 1: all year long and just staying the course, waiting for
Speaker 1: his time to come, and yesterday that was it. So
Speaker 1: I think he was in around ten or eleven plays
Speaker 1: in the game. Every one of those plays he was,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it was some type of rush move
Speaker 1: or trying to you know, affect a quarterback. He did
Speaker 1: it one hundred miles an hour and he's only going
Speaker 1: to continue to get better. Nap Drabisky stretches the hand off.
Speaker 1: Here's David Montgom. We're at the ten, bouncing outside to
Speaker 1: the five, stiff farm into the end zone. Touchdown left
Speaker 1: pilot David Montgomery will not be denied. How the Bears
Speaker 1: lead at nine Nothing Here with the first quarter at
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Speaker 1: just heard the first touchdown run by David Montgomery that
Speaker 1: may have been my favorite David Montgomery touchdown run of
Speaker 1: the year, and that that was just sheer desire to
Speaker 1: get in there break that one down for us. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean it just the effort of David. I mean,
Speaker 1: this kid's been doing this since he's been here. I'm
Speaker 1: just so proud of the way he runs. He runs
Speaker 1: so hard, he makes so many people miss his effort.
Speaker 1: His determination to score is second to none, and so
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a lot of the guys on that
Speaker 1: play did their job in blocking in but when that
Speaker 1: football's in his hands, it's going to take more than
Speaker 1: one guy to get them down. I think he showed
Speaker 1: it there. And let's talk about Darnel money because you know,
Speaker 1: you quick, you you wake up this morning, you start
Speaker 1: looking at some of the team stats getting ready for
Speaker 1: the next game. You see Darnell Mooney's got seventy one targets,
Speaker 1: forty catches for one or twenty eight yards, second most
Speaker 1: yards after the catch in the receiver room. This is
Speaker 1: maybe a not so quietly emerging season for a fifth
Speaker 1: round draft pick. Yeah, we're very fortunate to have Darnell.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's come in here and done a lot
Speaker 1: of great things. And to tell you the truth, you know,
Speaker 1: we want to be able to, you know, look for
Speaker 1: him even more because he's such a playmaker. You see
Speaker 1: yesterday and that third down they played a little zone.
Speaker 1: They had a guy waiting there for him in the flat,
Speaker 1: and Mitch just made a great, great throw underneath, and
Speaker 1: then Darnell just turned on the Jets and out ran
Speaker 1: them down the sideline and instead of going out of bounds,
Speaker 1: stuck his head in and got another four or five yards.
Speaker 1: So I just we've been very impressed from him from
Speaker 1: day one. He's a great kid. Matt, is it too
Speaker 1: easy to be critical of a rob on that catch
Speaker 1: that could have been a first down defender fell down?
Speaker 1: I know that was my immediate reaction. Now you gotta
Speaker 1: get that no matter what, because you get shots at
Speaker 1: the end zone. Then given the time, I know there's
Speaker 1: a balance Beteen getting out of bounds and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: how do you frame that? Yeah, I would say it's
Speaker 1: it is hard because again for me just knowing who
Speaker 1: Arab is as the type of person and he is,
Speaker 1: and how how his football IQ is is so high,
Speaker 1: and sometimes in those situations when you turn around, they
Speaker 1: catch the ball and you catch it and you turn around.
Speaker 1: To all of us that are watching it on TV,
Speaker 1: we know where that yellow lines at, we know where
Speaker 1: that first down markers at. But when you go to
Speaker 1: turn around, sometimes you just you lose your awareness a
Speaker 1: little bit of where you're at. And then, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, you know, you're always taught to get out
Speaker 1: of bounce. So he was kind of caught in between
Speaker 1: the two. And we have we have the ability there
Speaker 1: to get a first down, we call timeout or if
Speaker 1: we don't, we got to go for it. And that's
Speaker 1: what happened. So I know Arabs is probably kicking himself
Speaker 1: more than most people. But that's definitely a tough one.
Speaker 1: One thing about fans and football, it is an emotional reaction,
Speaker 1: good and bad. And in the world of fans and
Speaker 1: media for that matter, I assume there's black and white
Speaker 1: decision making and that's certainly not the case. And as
Speaker 1: you stand for your team, what is the most difficult
Speaker 1: thing right now? By standing before your team, well, just
Speaker 1: letting them know you know they're What's the part to
Speaker 1: the players that you keep hearing and from the coaching
Speaker 1: staff is, you know, is everyone wants this so bad
Speaker 1: and there's really when it comes down to it, we
Speaker 1: have Sundays to get this done. And Monday, Monday through
Speaker 1: Saturday is important to get your practice reps. It's important
Speaker 1: to do your meetings and all that stuff. But when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it on Sunday for those sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: are we doing enough to win the game? And so
Speaker 1: the talk goes only for so long and you know
Speaker 1: the messages and at some point in time that as
Speaker 1: as players and as coaches, you just got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get it done. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: where we're at right now. All right, let's look at
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans a record that is four and eight,
Speaker 1: but they have had very strong games against a lot
Speaker 1: of first place teams. What's your early looking, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: they're They've always been a good football team. They're a
Speaker 1: team that's in the playoffs all the time. And I
Speaker 1: know they've gone through some stuff this year, but you know,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Boston is a quarterback that can not only beat
Speaker 1: you with his arm, but can can get outside of
Speaker 1: the pocket, extend plays and beat you with his legs.
Speaker 1: And then the weapons that have their own offense as well. Defensively,
Speaker 1: JJ Watt is where it starts for them and he's
Speaker 1: their leader, and I just think that for us, we
Speaker 1: got to make sure, I think we keep continuing to
Speaker 1: worry about us and what we do, but also understand
Speaker 1: where they're at. So you got two teams right now
Speaker 1: that you know they had a tough loss. The way
Speaker 1: that they lost too was tough. So you got two
Speaker 1: teams that lost in two different tough, you know, difficult fashions,
Speaker 1: and are going to continue to go fight against one
Speaker 1: another until somebody gets a win. You know, somebody asked
Speaker 1: me about this other day, just a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: a fan. He goes, you know, why do coaches always say,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're ask them questions about other teams, Hey,
Speaker 1: we do got to worry about us, because that is
Speaker 1: the truth though, and explain a coach is thinking about that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: there's you have to be aware of your opponent and
Speaker 1: what their strengths and weaknesses are, but you also need
Speaker 1: to be able to do the same thing to your
Speaker 1: own team. And especially I think when you're going through
Speaker 1: what we're going through right now, is you have to
Speaker 1: get you right first. And so when you're winning and
Speaker 1: you feel like you got you right, then you can
Speaker 1: focus a little bit more on what you're about to see,
Speaker 1: but right now, when you're going through what we're going through,
Speaker 1: it's very important that you get you right, and so
Speaker 1: that's where we're at. All right, Matt, We'll let you go.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time as always, and good luck in your
Speaker 1: prep this week. For the Houston Texans, I appreciate Jeff
Speaker 1: Corderil to the ten to the fifteen of the twenty
Speaker 1: Little Scuffle twenty five thirty slip of their tacklers down
Speaker 1: the left side to the forty to the forty five
Speaker 1: and knocked out the bounds on the first side line.
Speaker 1: You have a hard time bringing down a freight train
Speaker 1: like Corderill Patterson. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show,
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Speaker 1: Now joined by Chris Tabor, the Bears veteran special teams coordinator.
Speaker 1: Good to have you alongside, Chris. How you doing today?
Speaker 1: Doing good? Thanks for having me, Thanks for your time.
Speaker 1: This is probably something you always want. You want at
Speaker 1: least a couple of big plays on special teams that
Speaker 1: impact the game in some form or fashion at least
Speaker 1: got one with that big return from Cordelle Patterson. Let's
Speaker 1: start there. We just heard the highlight the guy keeps
Speaker 1: on churning, he keeps on rolling. No, and that that
Speaker 1: was a good job by the guys blocking. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he did. There wasn't a lot of room in there,
Speaker 1: and he just kind of picked his way through there.
Speaker 1: But the guys were I thought, physical at the point
Speaker 1: of attack there and did a good job giving him that.
Speaker 1: Crease Detroit had been coming into the game and kicking
Speaker 1: short to a lot of people and they've been doing
Speaker 1: a great job covering. So that was that was a
Speaker 1: big challenge to our guys, and that was a good
Speaker 1: way for us to start right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: More and more, are you noticing or maybe it's just
Speaker 1: been consistent that when you got a guy like him
Speaker 1: back there, everybody else, the other ten guys want to
Speaker 1: make it special because he's special. No, I think that.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of truth to that, And
Speaker 1: I think that because they know that it could go
Speaker 1: at any moment, and you don't want to be that
Speaker 1: guy that didn't finish your block. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in that room, they take a lot of pride in
Speaker 1: that unit. So I'm really pleased with him. We just
Speaker 1: had a feature with him for our Bears Game Day
Speaker 1: Live show on Fox, and you just the guy had
Speaker 1: a grin from ear to ear. He just loves the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, some guys can talk it, but he
Speaker 1: shows it every single every single day. And uh, it's
Speaker 1: must be a joy to coach this guy. He's he is.
Speaker 1: He's definitely one of the funnest guys that I've I've coached.
Speaker 1: He's uh, he is. He's fun to be around because
Speaker 1: he does he just likes to play football. He is
Speaker 1: a football player, you know. I mean he's a guy
Speaker 1: obviously the balls in his hands, he's special, but he
Speaker 1: can also go down and cover kicks. I mean, he
Speaker 1: just he just plays. That's that's That's what you really
Speaker 1: appreciate about him for special teams tackles. Heading into the
Speaker 1: next game here against the Houston Texans, do you think
Speaker 1: because of his running style he delivers more punishment than
Speaker 1: he takes. Oh yeah, I I do. I mean he
Speaker 1: I remember standing out on the field one time with
Speaker 1: another coordinator and we were just visiting and then the
Speaker 1: returners came out for the warm up and here he
Speaker 1: comes in the in the coordinator looked at me and
Speaker 1: he goes, my gosh, I knew he was big. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize he was that big. I said, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's big. He's big and he moves fast. So no,
Speaker 1: he's it's a he has special traits, he really does,
Speaker 1: and he's just you know the other thing about him,
Speaker 1: he's he's a really just he's a good team player,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's really great for our room, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're glad that he's with us. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: approaching nine hundred yards and returns. You talk about when
Speaker 1: in the punt game, you know, get our first first down,
Speaker 1: but you get a forty five yard like that. He
Speaker 1: just gave you four first hounds. And in his career,
Speaker 1: you know, this is he's heading towards his third NFL
Speaker 1: one thousand plush yards season and return yards. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if fans care about that stuff, because we
Speaker 1: also we trumpet running backs for doing it, receivers for
Speaker 1: doing it, but honestly, when it's a returner, it's a
Speaker 1: tremendous hidden yardage and field position. And um, this will
Speaker 1: be the first time since twenty fifteen if he gets there,
Speaker 1: and that was with the Vikings. In his first year,
Speaker 1: he had over thirteen hundred yards in the NFL. Wow,
Speaker 1: I did not I did not know that. Uh, that
Speaker 1: stat right there. That's uh, that's good to know. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that little that little NuGet. Well, you know, you
Speaker 1: can count on me for a few nuggets now and
Speaker 1: the end. I appreciate that. That's the extent of it. Um.
Speaker 1: How is DeAndre Carter working out at this point? This
Speaker 1: is your fifth punt returner this year. He's doing well.
Speaker 1: You know, he had one chance yesterday and was very aggressive,
Speaker 1: uh with with that he catches the ball. Well, you
Speaker 1: know we didn't uh and I thought yesterday I mean
Speaker 1: that that punter. Uh, we tried to apply a little
Speaker 1: bit of pressure just because we felt like if we
Speaker 1: if we did a little bit of that, that his
Speaker 1: punts wouldn't be is booming. He was number one in
Speaker 1: the league in nett and gross and yesterday he got
Speaker 1: some roles, really is what he got. So I think
Speaker 1: that when he gets an opportunity to this, this kid
Speaker 1: has he has, he has a chance. He's doing a
Speaker 1: nice job for us and and uh, you know, glad
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Speaker 1: Chris Tabor, the Bear Special team's coordinator. All right, let's
Speaker 1: dig into the game now, uk looking at the decision
Speaker 1: making on that potential on side kick after the Lion
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown and then putting Mooney back there as
Speaker 1: opposed to Patterson. What's the thinking, because I'm certain you're
Speaker 1: looking at two possible scenarios and trying to find the
Speaker 1: right answer the two scenarios there. Prader, he has a
Speaker 1: really good high high hopper what we call where it
Speaker 1: goes into the ground and then it hangs up in
Speaker 1: the air on his onside kick, and h Cordell has
Speaker 1: always been that hands guy because he is so big
Speaker 1: and strong, and there's always, obviously on that play a
Speaker 1: lot of bodies around. So that's why we play him
Speaker 1: there and then you like to put we had Cohen
Speaker 1: back there earlier in the year. That's a guy that
Speaker 1: obviously has to be able to field the football and
Speaker 1: has speed to be able to track a lot of
Speaker 1: things because he has to cover a lot of field
Speaker 1: now and uh and that's what that's what Mooney gives us.
Speaker 1: And they did a nice job of executing that kick
Speaker 1: right there to get you inside there. I mean on
Speaker 1: the flip side that you want to get him inside
Speaker 1: the twenty. And that's what that's unfortunately, is what they
Speaker 1: did to us. What was it his decision to just
Speaker 1: go third base third base, slide and slide it out
Speaker 1: or what was the decision making there? On my Mooney's part,
Speaker 1: I was fine with his decision making. I mean, he
Speaker 1: feeled the ball. That ball wasn't it was. It was
Speaker 1: too close to let it drop and see if it
Speaker 1: goes back for a touchback. Uh. And those guys obviously
Speaker 1: your hands team uh not as good as blockers. Uh.
Speaker 1: So it's because you're you're trying. You're thinking the hey,
Speaker 1: possible ball coming at me. I got a dodge at
Speaker 1: those those type of things. Then find my guy to
Speaker 1: get but no, he's you know, he's gone, and then
Speaker 1: you know, I have no problem with him. He doesn't
Speaker 1: need to take a shot or get held up and
Speaker 1: then they come in and punch the football. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we must make sure that we
Speaker 1: have the football at the end of that play, playing
Speaker 1: the percentages on something like that. With all the different
Speaker 1: scenarios in the game, because of three timeouts in the
Speaker 1: two minute warning, it's likely more likely they would kick
Speaker 1: it deep, right, I think I think that's those Those
Speaker 1: are checks that you can have. You can put your
Speaker 1: kick return team out there and they kick an onside
Speaker 1: kick at two minutes to go and you don't get
Speaker 1: the ball back, and then we can we can sit
Speaker 1: around and we can talk about that or at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. We must make sure that we
Speaker 1: have the football at the end, at the end of
Speaker 1: that play, and that's those Those are scenarios, and they
Speaker 1: go you put your hands team out there, then the
Speaker 1: kickoff team because of those timeouts, then they elect to
Speaker 1: kick it deep and pin you there and say that
Speaker 1: we're going to use the timeout. So that's a though.
Speaker 1: Those are shit away that come up. But you must
Speaker 1: always make sure that trump card is have the football
Speaker 1: at the end of the play. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Cairo Santos now up to sixteen in a row.
Speaker 1: I don't think you care much about the streak, obviously,
Speaker 1: because those can become their own little distractions. But boy,
Speaker 1: he continues to shine. What a great season he's having
Speaker 1: given him where he's come from. How pleased are you
Speaker 1: with Cairo right now? I'm doing He's I'm proud of him.
Speaker 1: You know, I still think there's room for improvement there.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's he's making kicks and he's getting
Speaker 1: his points and that's what a field goals kicker job is.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday you know, tried to move the ball
Speaker 1: around a little bit on agnew and because he's such
Speaker 1: a dangerous reach turner. But I've been real pleased with him.
Speaker 1: He's he's getting better and you know, he's he's healthy now,
Speaker 1: fully healthy, and I think that's a credit to him
Speaker 1: to get back to where he was when he was
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. There were a bunch of miss kicks
Speaker 1: in the league yesterday day in your case, an extra
Speaker 1: point block. You can break that one down for us.
Speaker 1: But just is it the turn of the calendar to
Speaker 1: December with some of these kicks, you think anyway, So
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, they they had a really good
Speaker 1: guy there. We didn't do a good job in our
Speaker 1: c gap there, and I thought the kick was a
Speaker 1: little low. So we gotta, you know, we gotta do
Speaker 1: you know, this kind of combination of those things. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you might. I mean the wind and the weather change
Speaker 1: and the balls not flying as far as it was
Speaker 1: early in the year. I mean, those those things are
Speaker 1: going to pop up. I didn't see that. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that there was a lot of miskicks in the league.
Speaker 1: I didn't I haven't perused the rest of the league yet. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: is it a fun chest match for you with the
Speaker 1: return game? And I know the league continues to look
Speaker 1: at it and make adjustments and rules changes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But you know, like you said with Agnew, how to
Speaker 1: how to deal with a guy like that, how to
Speaker 1: disrupt somebody's really vice versa? What other teams are going
Speaker 1: to do to Cordel back there? Is that a fun
Speaker 1: part of coaching for you? No, it is, it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, just like Detroit yesterday, Praytor had not been
Speaker 1: kicking off Fox had been the kickoff guy and then
Speaker 1: I see Prator warming up. Man, We're prepared, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it does it throws you off or teams
Speaker 1: against us. We get a lot of different looks with
Speaker 1: regards to which safeties are pulling out to try to
Speaker 1: confuse our count and those type of things. So we
Speaker 1: always get something each week that goes off script, so
Speaker 1: to speak, and it is fun to be able to
Speaker 1: figure it out and make the adjustments. I really that's
Speaker 1: that's enjoyable. Welcome back to the Bears Coach You Show,
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Speaker 1: more minutes with Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. Want to
Speaker 1: talk about the coverage units and just the play off
Speaker 1: some of the guys and Joel Ea booney Way has
Speaker 1: been at the top of the chart and tackles now.
Speaker 1: I think he's up to eight tackles overall. A lot
Speaker 1: of your guys have tackles this year. It's not just
Speaker 1: one or two guys with the lion's share, but very
Speaker 1: athletic body, very very thick body going down there and
Speaker 1: making place. I'll tell you I thought yesterday, he is
Speaker 1: he's a he's he's he's improving and we've made note
Speaker 1: of that, and I think a lot of the good guys, Uh, yesterday,
Speaker 1: I thought we played much faster, uh in in our
Speaker 1: coverage area. And I don't you know, obviously that Detroit
Speaker 1: was a really good special teams unit, so we we
Speaker 1: had our work cutout for us. But just I thought
Speaker 1: we played more physical. Mingo played more physical DHC is
Speaker 1: playing physical Holts. He had couple tackles, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're starting to pick that up from your tight end position.
Speaker 1: Though that that's a big deal in the special teams world.
Speaker 1: Just uh, you know, your bigger bodies being able to
Speaker 1: make plays in open space. That's that's been really good force.
Speaker 1: Has that been a coaching point of views to be
Speaker 1: more physical now? I just wanted playing tough, hard nosed football.
Speaker 1: And I just I like our group, I really do.
Speaker 1: And I love the way that they prepare and practice
Speaker 1: and and I was just I was proud of their
Speaker 1: effort that they gave us yesterday. And they they've they've
Speaker 1: been doing that so uh, you know, but there's still
Speaker 1: room for improvement for us, and that that's the thing
Speaker 1: that I think they're encouraged by about. And I am
Speaker 1: two and and uh. You know this week will be
Speaker 1: another challenge for us. So you know, let's let's play
Speaker 1: better and and uh and keep improving. Is it a
Speaker 1: good thing when the numbers for the tackles and who's
Speaker 1: involved is spread out over the entire unit? Is that
Speaker 1: a sign of what? For you? I think that's a
Speaker 1: sign of you know, it's it's a whole collective unit.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have just one player making all
Speaker 1: the tackles, then you know, then he can be pinpointed
Speaker 1: and taken away by another team. When it's when it's
Speaker 1: spread out, that means that guys are are are playing
Speaker 1: off of each other. Uh. You know, maybe one guy,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, he's a dog and he
Speaker 1: flushes the bird out of the bushes, and the other
Speaker 1: guy he shoots it. He gets it, you know, but
Speaker 1: it was because of the dog went into the bush,
Speaker 1: you know. So I think that's what we're what we're getting.
Speaker 1: Some guys are are they don't make the tack but
Speaker 1: I say they forced the tackle. So I think that
Speaker 1: that's good. If we can keep it spread out, that's
Speaker 1: good for us. Let's talking about Patio. I know he's
Speaker 1: one of the top guys in the league and inside
Speaker 1: the twenty this year, and he got some punts inside
Speaker 1: the ten yesterday. No, that was big, those those those
Speaker 1: two pooch punts. I thought we were really big time
Speaker 1: by him because you kind of get into that area
Speaker 1: where maybe there's not a lot of room and just
Speaker 1: for him to eliminate the touchback and we don't get those. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's big for us. I've been proud of him,
Speaker 1: all right, scratch the surface out of the Texans. What
Speaker 1: are we looking at? Big strong fast, you know, just
Speaker 1: getting into him right now. And I've been kind of
Speaker 1: tracking them through the We have this thing, the Big
Speaker 1: Play tape, and they're on it a lot. They make
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays and they got good cover
Speaker 1: units and so well, we'll have our hands full, all right,
Speaker 1: Big Chris, appreciate the time. It's always good luck with
Speaker 1: the prep this week. We'll talk to you down the road. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's a rap on tonight's Bears Coach a show.
Speaker 1: I want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up, Dan Billy,
Speaker 1: Eddie Gersher and Keith Johnson for Bears head coach Mattenegge
Speaker 1: and special teams coordinator Chris Taber, I'm Jeff Joningac. We'll
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