WEBVTT - Nagy, Tabor on Bye Week Improvements | Coaches Show 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.800 Good to be with you, everybody, and welcome into the 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:04.480 Bears Coaching Show with Bears head coach Mattneggie Jeff Joning 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.400 ac with you until eight o'clock tonight just after seven thirty, 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.280 will be joined by Bear Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.440 Get evening, Matt, How you hanging in there, buddy? You 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.640 hit the bye week now, but not the way you 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.159 envisioned obviously or hoped. Yeah, yeah, it's not you know, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.840 it's it's unfortunate, and you never want to hit the 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.520 bye week into a loss, going in after a loss, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.640 let alone, you know, four in a row. So that's 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.080 what we need to do, is we need to figure 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.960 out why this you know, why this has happened, and 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.199 we got to use this bye week for us. Is 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.720 to make sure that we use it to help us 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.960 off physically and mentally. Is the only thing we can do. Um. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.680 We have to make sure that we're critical of ourselves, um, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.760 the way that we're playing, the way that we're coaching, 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.560 and try to try to, you know, come up with solutions, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.640 you know, and these solutions obviously something that is not 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.800 easy to find when you're really stuck in the muck 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.040 like this, what's your gut tell you? I mean, you 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.840 must have some idea in your mind of what the 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.520 what the main reasons are. Yeah, it's it's a good 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.039 question by you, and I think that, Um, you know 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.480 you're you're when you care as much as as we do, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.000 and you know that and you put a lot of 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.040 time and energy into this. The word frustration can certainly 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:17.800 pop in, But then you also got to be mental 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.800 and strong, right. You got to be able to say, Okay, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.280 there's a reason behind all this. And as much as 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.560 that stinks to hear that there, there's there's gotta be 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.759 a reason somewhere. And for us to be five and five, um, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.080 and and have these six games ahead of us, we 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.120 got to make sure that we realize what we have 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.720 in front of us and we still control everything. But 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.160 there's gotta be you know, changes that happen, and it's 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.400 gotta it's got to happen on game day and it's 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.600 got to happen. What I mean by that is there's 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.200 gotta be more touchdown score. Um. The way that our 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.920 defense is playing right now, they're getting takeaways and turnovers yesterday, 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.840 which was great. That was a huge INSTIs for us 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.640 our special teams put together a wonderful day and so 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:04.320 we're we're missing that offensive element. And again, it's not 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.600 it's not about even scoring thirty points or forty points. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.440 It's just about being more efficient in the red zone 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.359 and more efficient on third down. And you know, it's 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.840 all of us together, it's coaches and as players. You 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.079 updated the status sense and injured players, but I think 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:20.600 a lot of folks would like to know what the 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.400 status of Nick Foles is after being driven into the 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.079 ground last night in that fourth quarter you mentioned this morning, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.320 you don't see I hour as a possibility, So that's good. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.720 So it's gonna kind of have wait and see situation 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.880 with him. And what would you call the injury? Yeah, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.120 I think so it's it's kind of that hip glued 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.720 area where he landed on it really hard, and I 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.280 think the initial concern at least mind was just listening 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.720 to it down there on the field, and afterwards was 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.959 making sure it wasn't anything significant. You know, where something 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.880 pops out a joint or there's an issue with the 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.079 hip or the lag and that's not the case. So 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.160 in that hip glued area, just you know, being able 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.000 to kind of kind of see where this thing goes 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.679 the next couple of days end or a week and 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.680 again with this by coming one it does. Things happen 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.240 for a reason, and so we'll get him back on 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.280 track hopefully and and keep a close by on that. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.640 And of course Mitch Trubisky obviously working through a shoulder injury. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.960 It wasn't considered to be a season ender at the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.920 time of it happening, and getting a second opinion, but 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.560 is everything on the table at the quarterback position right 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.280 now as well offensively, well, I think it is for 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.280 for everybody, all all of us. It's we're at a 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.639 point right now for between h two guys that are injured, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.760 we have to figure out, okay, with both their injuries, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.160 where are they, you know, And that's that's probably something 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.160 you know that we're going to have to wait to 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.040 see as this thing goes, what's best for us and um, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.280 you know, depending on Nick's injury, depending on Mitch's injury, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.200 where we're at and so that's going to be a 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.680 little bit of a challenge. But we'll continue to work 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.040 through that day by day. As you break down the 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.880 tape and look at what they did on third down, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.400 to you and Matt Mike Zimmer has been one of 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.480 the best third down steamers in the lead for a 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.440 long time, long before it became Biking's head coach. It 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.400 was challenging, obviously, and it's been challenging with all the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.720 different stunts and twists and things going to games up 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.800 front for the offensive line. Some of it for good reason, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.280 because it's a bunch that has not worked together every 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.800 single snap this season. Is that there in life some 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.839 of the issues, I would say, yeah, that's some of it. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.120 And you know, in the last two years, we've we've 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.240 been one of the best teams in the NFL against 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.720 the Vikings on third down. They've always been really really 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.200 good on third down. That's that's schematically what they do. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.080 And the last two years they've had a defense in 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.400 a unit that's played a lot of snap together on 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.839 for down, so it means even better. We've we've been, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.520 you know, in four games, really good against them on 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.599 third down until yesterday, and yesterday just it was a 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.920 game where we weren't. And it's it's been a common 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.120 theme this year right now in that area. And so 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.520 again for us as coaches on third down, being able 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.240 to make sure that we're putting our players depending on 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.719 their strengths and weaknesses. What are we doing to help 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.360 them out or what are we doing to her them? 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.000 And so that's our job here bye week as well 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.880 as to focus on that. I mean trigged by Eddie Jackson. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.760 Eddie Jackson, Um, I didn't hear his news conference after 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.360 the game. I just saw some quotes, but essentially saying 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.120 the leaders have to step up here and help the 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.440 rest of the squad. You've indicated that you're going to 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.680 meet with players here, what they have to say, what 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.880 you typically do, How important is that and what do 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.839 you want to hear well? So, first of all, I'll 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.240 make this clear. I think that um, you know, when 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.919 I made that comment yesterday and regards and talking to players, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.839 a lot of that is more it's more schematic, and 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.000 it's more Okay, how can we help you or what 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.520 are we doing that we're not doing enough of? Uh? 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.680 And a lot of that was was geared towards the offense. Um. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.159 You know, there's no type of players meeting or anything 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.520 like that or our call we've had. We do that 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.400 every week. We we we work on that every week 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.599 with our culture and so that I have zero issue there. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.040 But with Eddie and with what he's saying, I love that. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.640 I love the fact that he is a leader and 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.640 this is now, you know, become his team with a 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.520 lot of these other leaders on the team. And I 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.039 just appreciate when leaders speak up because I think it's 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.120 times ten of what coaches can say. I really value 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.320 what they say, and I appreciated that. I think, you know, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.400 he focused in on the word accountability. And when you 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.880 hear a player talk about accountability and it's not coming 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.880 from a coach, it means more. And that's just kind 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.599 of where that went last night. Do you want to 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.360 hear from other guys like Eddie about that, I mean, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.280 making those kind of statements. Obviously, they can't step out 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.840 of their own comfort zone. You know, a guy like 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.640 Kelo Mack talks more on the field, but he's not 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.640 a very vocal guy, I would imagine overall, but a 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.200 guy who stands up like a team Hicks or other 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.840 players like that. And on the offensive side of the ball, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.839 there's got to be a few guys like Allen Robinson, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.920 of course. Yeah, And that's the thing as well as 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.080 sometimes when that happens or when you have a player 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.600 that says that at the end of the game, it 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.120 kind of just talks about where we're at. These guys. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.120 These guys are grown men on this team, and so 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.600 offensively when they hear that, they don't need to keep 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.680 hearing it. They understand where they're at and they know that, Okay, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.520 one of our leaders is saying this, it's a little 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.640 bit of a challenge, and they're going to accept that. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.560 We got guys that really want to do what's best 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.760 for the team. They're not me guys, they're we guys, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.240 and so there you know that happens. You're right, there's 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.760 not a lot of our other guys that are a 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.360 lot of you know, once they hear Eddie say something, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.040 it kind of just stays at that. Cousin's gonna throw 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.480 left side, daided through his hands and picked up pike. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.000 Cleil Mack down the right sideline map steps out of bounce. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.440 He just took it out of his hands and the 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.160 Bears with a huge stop. Cleil mac with a swipe 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.560 from Adam Feeling on a rare drop in a coverage 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.480 man thirty three yards on the return. Welcome Back to 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.720 the Bears Coaching Show brought to you by Whippley, CPAs 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.119 and consultants. I think he was ticked off. He didn't 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.880 take it to the house. He just ran out of 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.560 real estate, tiptoeing down the sideline right in front of you. Yeah, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.040 he did. It was right in front of me. I 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.240 had a great angle and I can see that ball 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.240 just kind of fall right in his chest and he's like, oh, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.560 here it is. You know, I got it. Let's go 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.680 play football now, And that's what he and just have 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.120 to step out of bounds. But you know, just knowing 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.920 Khalil and how he works, he definitely would have wanted 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.960 to try to score there. But well, it was nice 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.760 to see that if he's not rushing the quarterback and 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.400 they're going to drop him to be able to get 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.880 an interception as a win win. Real Quan Smith, it's 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.520 been a rising story, calling him rising real quand these days, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.760 but a fourteen tackle, three tackle for loss, one sack 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.440 outing last night, tweeted this morning, every pain gives a lesson, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.280 and every lesson changes a person. He's been doing these 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.440 inspirational things on his Instagram and Twitter throughout the course 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.520 of the season, but right now number one with fifteen tackles, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.320 for loss and number tied for first in total tackles 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.800 in the NFL right now on a defense that continues 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.319 to make some big plays. So where would you put 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.199 him And what does that statement mean to you when 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.600 you hear that, Well, I understand and know that you 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.480 know this guy, what a growth he's had, you know, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.200 in the last couple of years. And for him to 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.680 be able to have the significance of really rise into 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.479 the occasion and take being a team leader and understanding 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.600 what it takes to be able to stop these these 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.680 run games that we're seeing, he's making these tackles for 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.840 losses that are putting them in second and long, etc. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.720 And that's um, you know, he's leading by example and 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.280 to see his growth and for him to be at 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.040 the top of the league like this right now, it 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.079 doesn't surprise me. And I'm really proud of him. And 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.800 you know, he does not change from week to week, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.200 day to day, practice to practice. He's the same guy 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.520 and he's becoming a big time player. Do you like 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.480 the fact that Chuck Logano is unleashing him a little 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.840 bit in the blitz area? Yeah, yeah, we need to 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.400 have that. And you know, the more we have that 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.120 the better off we are because he'll be able to, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.320 you know, use his speed and his angles and leverage 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.080 to be able to beat some of these offensive linemen. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:46.880 And then the good thing that he does is he 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.240 makes a lot of tackles, uh, in the in the backfield, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.320 whether it's a quarterback, whether it's a running back, he's 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.720 wrapping up And these are game changers now. You know, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.520 if it's a screen, they try to make a screen, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.559 they got alignment out there getting ready to block him. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.360 He lays alignment, tackles the back for a four year 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.120 loss Like those are big time plays and he's consistently 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.079 making those plays. Kim Hicks went out with a hamstring 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.920 last night. What do you think the status is shorter 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.719 long term? Yeah, I don't know yet. I think that 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.679 it's a right now for him. Um, it's going to 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.280 be one of those day to day things as we 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.440 work through this, just to kind of see. I know 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.480 he was bummed when he came out. You know, he 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.920 felt like he knew he did it right away. Um, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.520 And that's any way you look at it, that's a 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.840 that's a huge loss for us. So hopefully Andre and 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.320 his guys can and his trainers can get him back 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.960 asap because he's a big part of that defense. It 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.640 makes sense when you say this, But chasing the lead 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.560 all the time, how do you see it impacting the 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.720 defense mentally? I know it does affect how they rush 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.320 the pass or the ability to or to take the 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.599 ball away. They're overcoming that and keeping teams out of 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.960 the end zone. But mentally, how do you feel that's 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.760 affecting them if at all? Well, yeah, it can. It 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.760 can certainly get you, um, if it continues to happen 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.600 over and over and over. But that's probably, Jeff, a 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.000 really good point by you, and the fact that, um, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.480 that's something that most people think they can just go 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.080 out and just turn it on and be okay. But 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.280 there is the mental side of it, and there can 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.040 be times when there's a sudden change. I mean they 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.480 just they just got off the off the field and 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.480 there's a punt return and we muff it and they 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.360 get the ball and now they got to run back 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.360 out there on the field. I know by the way, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.080 they're going to get it three and out. You know. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.040 So those are some some little parts of this game 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.520 that a lot of people can miss out on, and um, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.520 you know, they're doing that right now, and that's why 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.679 again the last the last three games, they've really played really, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.880 really well as a unit, and unfortunately losing these games 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.680 is what makes it worse, right because you know, when 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.400 you have that side of the ball that's really coming along, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.600 and then yesterday you're also going to get takeaways as well, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.280 which is what we've been harpening on. We're getting everything 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.959 we're asking them to do, and that's that's where you know, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.199 that third phase of offense has to be able to 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.440 step up. At one point. I believe in the first 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.920 half fourteen different players had to tackle. And that will 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.720 is not just because of Dalvin Cook and getting as 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.320 Chuck mcgonnah likes to say, or as football coaches like say, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.720 as many hats to the ball as possible. It was 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.960 on everybody and they were doing it to every Viking player. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.240 U is the defense right now feeling in a zone 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.520 a little bit in that regard? Yeah, you know, you 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.600 know what I think, what they're doing right now, that's uh, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.800 that's really that I like the most is they're playing 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.560 with a lot of energy. You know, when you play 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.400 with energy, you see the guys out there in the 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.400 TV timeouts and they're dancing right, they're they're just they're 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.880 out there playing together as a team. There's a fun 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.720 element to it, there's a confidence to it, there's a 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.880 little bit of a swag to it. And then good 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.480 things happen when you when you play with confidence. So 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.280 that's the part that I like, and I think Das 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.080 kind of goes back to the message that Eddie was 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.160 trying to get across to the rest of the guys 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.680 on the team is um, you know, it's okay to 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.400 have that, and it's okay to go play loose. It's 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.920 okay to have some fun, it's okay to have a voice, 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.160 it's okay to you know, do all that. And again 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.320 they're doing that on defense and you're seeing positive results 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.480 that come from it. Welcome back to the Bears Coaching 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.920 Show with Bears head coach Matt Nagge. The Chicago Bears 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.360 and Proven It are supporting Chicago's small businesses. Small World 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.240 Byron Grilled is this week's Small Business All Pro. Visit 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.440 Chicago Bears dot com slash Small Business All Pros to 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.840 learn more. Matt, the Special Team's play gave you feel 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.880 position and gave you points coming out of the locker 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.360 room at halftime. Cordarell Patterson has been wanting this for 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.680 a while now. He's now the NFL co leader all 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.400 time record for eight touchdowns in the kick return game 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.360 and still plenty of left in his career to become 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.960 the all time leader. At some point, did you think 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.760 right there, okay, this is exactly the spark to light 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.240 the fire for this football team. Yeah, I did. I 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.720 thought that that was a just that, you know, especially 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.040 with the struggles we've had coming out in the third quarter, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.880 you could feel the sideline, the energy on the sideline 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.360 really jump up, and to be up by a touchdown 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.199 and then let the defense go out and do their thing. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.520 That that's what I thought was was the coolest part 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.760 of that. Again, CPS, but he's been waiting for that opportunity. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.280 I know, Coach Paber has been coached in and the 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.440 rest of our guys that are out there blocking, and 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.920 so to get that was good. We just gotta, you know, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.320 be able to take advantage of some of the fuel 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.839 position that he gave us as well. I talked about 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.960 this last night. No matter when he touches the ball 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.800 or what he does, and he did a lot again 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.440 last night. Obviously, with the touches, the wildcat hunt, return coverage, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.560 the kickoff return. He does everything with a reckless, abandoned 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.880 He hits the whole heart. He hits and runs as 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.000 hard and physical as possible. He's not unique in that 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.400 regard of the NFL. Other players like that, but not 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:41.320 everybody is. How special is that quality about him right now? Yeah, 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.960 it's a toughness and he knows that. And so when 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.440 you have the size and speed that he has any 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.520 experience in this game, um, there's not a lot of 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.760 stuff to hold you back. So he's a He's a 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.760 really good football player. I mean, he had that big 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.680 catch spreading him out there on third and third and 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.800 six down in the red zone, and it made it 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.280 look very natural with the hands catch. So he's a 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.040 weapon for us, and we just want to make sure, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.080 you know, we use them the right way. With David 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.840 Montgomer being out, he was going to get some more 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.800 opportunities at the running back position. There's times he's running 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.680 downfield as a gunner. So there's a lot of things 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.240 that he's doing and I bet if you had a 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.560 little tracker on him to see the amount of runs 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.480 and where he was yesterday on that football field, it 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.840 was certainly more than anybody in that game. So I 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.400 give him credit. And you know, and he's also a 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.440 team player, you know, he's he's just the guy that 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.320 wants to do whatever he can to play hard and 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.880 try to do what he can to help the team win. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.600 You got a couple of guys their feet wet in 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.320 the run game. Could this lead to more opportunity for 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.160 the mar Miller our Davis Pierce? I know David's a 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.920 short term situation. He'll be back, But does that give 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.360 you some hope of some diversity back there? Yeah, it does. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.200 And those guys were excited for these opportunities. And we 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.080 didn't know how many carries each one of those guys 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.920 would get. And there's different reasons they're up there, just 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.280 for different parts of the game, but they all handled 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.640 it really well. And again, when you lose a player 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.160 like David, it's never are going to help you. But 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.640 that's a part of the game. And I thought those 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.480 guys did a good job stepping up and being a 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.400 good unit. And I thought Charles London did a good 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.160 job of getting those guys ready. And so now we 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.640 just got to focus on trying to get David back 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.920 a sap. If you would look in the broad scope 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.400 of ten games, and you'll talk about this with your 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.400 team and coaches, would you say, in addition to just 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.240 shooting yourself on the foot over the course of the 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.720 season at key moments, the missed opportunities for big plays 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.440 is really the headline for the current situation you're in. Yeah, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.040 I think obviously specifically you're talking about offense there, you know, 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.160 even all that said in that game yesterday, all that 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.440 said on fourth down, we had an opportunity to catch 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.360 the ball and either score or get it within the 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.120 five yard line and kick an extra point, win the game, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:55.400 all that said, and so that's the part that you realize, Okay, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.360 where is this season going right now? Well, you're five 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.200 you were five and one, you're currently five and five 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.280 with six games to go. So and oh by the way, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.520 four of those six are going to be division opponents 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.840 that you play. So that's a good thing. But we 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.320 can't worry about anything other than what happens after this 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.600 buy And again we've been through this. It's not easy, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.400 it's not fun. When you do get that one win, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.359 it gives you a little momentum. It's it's it's getting 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.080 that one win and we're going to be doing it. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.879 The next opponent is going to be one of the 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.400 best teams in the NFL with pretty pretty good quarterback. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.000 So there's different ways that we're being challenged, whether it's 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.440 a run game, whether it's a quarterback, whether it's a defense, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.479 and we got to do whatever we need to do 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.000 to figure out a way to win. We got to 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.480 do it. Lastly, you know, that fourth and ninth pass 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.879 from Poles de Millier to me as a metaphor because 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.600 the games for the most part have been close, and 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.520 it's a fingertip and that must feel more aggravating and 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.399 frustrating because those plays have been there at times this 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.920 season and that could have changed the whole situation with 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.520 two or four to go. Sure, absolutely, and that's that's 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.040 kind of what we're talking about, like you said, a 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.240 metaphor for where we're at. Um. You know, it takes 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.399 one of those plays to click, especially early on in 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.719 the game, and if you have an opportunity to make 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.560 a big play, we make the big play. And that's 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.560 kind of the spark that we're looking for right now 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.960 and that's what we're searching for, and that's what we're doing. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.920