WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich talk Trubisky, Daniel 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:11.440 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network No. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.120 One News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.560 nine FF. This is the Bears Coaches Show with Bears 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.000 Head coach Matt Nagge, the coaching staff and Bears management. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.560 The Bears Coaches Show was brought to you by Whitpley 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.200 CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Advocate Healthcare, Hilton and 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.480 the Village of Bedford Park. No. From Hellis Hall. Here's 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.199 the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac and 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.200 a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into hallisaw PNC 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.920 Studios and another edition of The Bears Coaches Show. It 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:42.960 feels like we haven't played in a month after just 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.120 playing three and twelve days. It's the weirdest feeling not 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.839 to play on Sunday. But here we are on a Monday, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.920 review a little bit of Detroit and kind of set 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.480 the tone moving forward for the final five games of 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.560 the year. The most important one though, the next one 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.840 against the New York Giants. Jeff Joniac and head coach 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.600 Matt Nage. How you doing. How'd you survived the four 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.880 day break? Well, it's not quite four day break but 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.840 close enough. Yeah, no, it was great. It was good 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.640 to rejuvenate a little bit and take some time off 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.440 for the players and the coaches. Now here, we are 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.240 back at it, and we're brought to you by Whitley 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.880 Financial Advisers. Hopefully, hopefully you got some downtime in there 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:19.680 as well. I know you went to a Northwestern game 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.440 with the kids, so that must have been fun for 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.679 them too. Yeah, it was good. It's always good to 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.120 kind of step back when you get a chance and 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.959 take some time to spend with family. And what better 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.960 way than to go to a Northwestern game and check 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.840 the game out and playing Illinois. So it was fun. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.080 It was a good time. And and yes, so now 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.319 we're all back at it and really deep into the 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.720 New York Giants. All right, it's a long time away 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.720 from the last game. But you know, when you meet 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.160 the media again tomorrow, you'll probably get a lot of 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.280 questions about the trade game. We'll try just to do 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.840 a little bit of it. Frame it a little bit, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.040 just frame what happened in twelve days, and well, this 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.480 twelve day stretch potentially be remembered for a long time. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.920 Well I hope it is, because I I go back 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.320 to UH several weeks ago where we discussed kind of 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.480 what we were what we were challenged with with playing 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.840 those those three games in twelve days. And I don't 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.600 necessarily know if the guys truly understood it at the time, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.880 but because they were so focused in on what game 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.960 we were playing that week, and it was a tall, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.160 tall task, but they did a great job with it. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.120 I thought the coaches and everybody in the organization just 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.799 really focused in on making sure that they did their 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.079 job and they controlled what they could control, and inevitably 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.240 to come out with three division wins is huge. Now 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.440 we hit the reset button and we rejuvenate, we get 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:41.160 some rest both mentally and physically. That was a tough 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.320 game in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day that that was not 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.120 easy by any means. It's never easy to win on 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.240 the road and with short rest, but we did that 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.560 and so proud of proud of our guys. They understand that. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.480 And UH and now, like I said, you got a reset, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.480 come back in here ready to go, and that that's 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.720 going to be our next challenge. Clutch comes to mind. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.560 You talk about the plays that allowed you to survive 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:08.359 that kind of workload in that particular situation in scenario 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.560 on Thanksgiving, would you say that would be accurate for sure? Yeah. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.000 And you know, everyone is obviously going to talk about 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.760 the great interception pick six by Eddie Jackson, which inevitably 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.200 ended up winning the game for US by seven points, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.080 But there was a lot a lot of other parts 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.200 of the game that I thought, you know, guys made 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.120 big plays, whether it was an Eddie Goldman in the 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.799 trenches that made a play here they're stopping a run, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.760 or you know, chasing the running backs making plays for 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.960 the touchdown passes, or a big third down conversion from 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 Chase to Tom Taylor Gabriel. And there was a lot 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.640 of different places throughout that game, special teams, you know, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.920 making field goals, punts that we had. So it was 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.000 a team win. You could feel it. After the game. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.080 Everyone felt that way, and they understood how big it 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.000 was in Chase Daniel walking around proudly, not necessarily grinning 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.240 from ear to ear, but just being Chase in control, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.120 true veteran in every sense of the word. And I 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.840 think it's the rare scenario just being around better than 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.840 two decades that you know, people weren't wringing their hands 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.800 about the backup quarterback having a startup big game. Yeah, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.000 not at all. Everyone knows who chases and how he 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.719 handles business. And you know, myself being somebody that was 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.159 with him in Kansas City as his position coach for 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.719 three years, just knowing who he treats every game like 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.800 he's the starter. So as far as game planning, as 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.920 far as how he handled practice, nothing changed for him. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.520 Now he was gonna, you know, have to take it 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.400 on himself to once the game started to make sure 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.200 that he was able to make the throws that he 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.200 needed to make without having that practice time with the guys. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.839 And he did that. You know, early on he missed 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.840 a couple throws here there. I don't think anybody was 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.840 stressing him at all. They understood what the deal was. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.080 But he made throws when he had to and everybody 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.640 trusted in him. Is there What about his personality attracts 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.440 you to him as a coach because you were with him. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.760 Aside from the obvious of what you've explained many many times, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.960 that he puts in the work like he's going to start. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.320 That should be the standard for every backup quarterback, and 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.800 a lot of it is lip service. Sometimes with him 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.159 it doesn't appear to be in any sense of imagination, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.800 but what deeper about him. So with Chase, we talked 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.400 about at the start of the year and we've continued 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.040 to talk about the obsession and being obsessed. And here's 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.559 a guy that you know, he's one of the first 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.839 into building every single day, one of the one of 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.520 the last to leave, and he just it's an obsession 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.760 for him. He understands how important it is who whether 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.600 it's the identification of linebackers or whether it's coverage, looks 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.000 at the defense, gives you, whether what we're doing offensively, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.280 and what his role is progression wise. But he takes 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.520 it very seriously and he knows that with the lack 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.560 of experience that he's had playing on a game day, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.800 that he can make up for that by knowing the 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.760 ins and outs of the system and the ins and 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.520 out of what he sees on defense. And that's why 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.360 you're able to put a guy like Chase out there 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.800 in these type of situations and win football games. Going 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.120 back to college and I'm a big twelve guy being 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.000 in Iowa, stay grab but to me, he was just rugged. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.560 He was gritty, is that who he is. He's a 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.839 he's very rugged, gritty. The one word that I always 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.120 think of when I think a Chase is very competitive. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.320 You know, he does. He wants to compete in everything 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.919 he does. And he doesn't care whether it's running the 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.479 scout team or whether it's you know, when he's running 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.560 with the first team, he does not care. He's competitive. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.000 And I love that about the quarterback position when you 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.440 are competitive, and he definitely has that bleeds through you. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.840 Guys kind of gravitate to him too, much like Mitch 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:45.000 Drubisky in the same way. And again standard answer, you 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.440 know for Mitch, wait and see. Yeah, probably haven't seen 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.920 much of him lately, you know, given the time off 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.279 and one. I know he's been in the building and 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.520 so forth. But wait and see, and you feel good 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.080 about Chase moving forward? Yeah, No matter who it is, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.640 we feel like we're in a good position. And and 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.279 you know, I think it was interring for Mitchell to 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.719 stand on the sidelines and see some of how the 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.360 game goes when you're when you get to see it 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.720 from a coach's perspective, and so that was good for him. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.880 He's chomping out the bit to get out there. We'll 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.360 take it day by day and see where he's at. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.480 Did you hear things back from him in that regard 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.800 that having a minute to step Yeah. Yeah, he talked 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.320 to us and he said, you know, it is different, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.040 you know, and it was good for him to see that. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.400 And when after he sees it on the field. Um, 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.080 and then when he sees it like us as coaches 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.400 on the sideline, it clicks a little bit and you 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.360 get to understand that. All right. We're with Matt Neggie, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.840 the Bears head coach, on The Bears Coaches Show Inside 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.040 the Bears, coming up this week. The Chicago Bears Network, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.920 presenting it by Verizon, Anthony Adams and Lawrence Screeden cover 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.760 the world of Bears football on and off the field 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.360 every Sunday night at eleven o five pm on Fox 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.600 thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.160 com or on the Bears official app. The Bears Coaches 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.520 Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff 0:07:53.560 --> 0:08:00.400 Joey app continues takes the snap. Here's the throwing excent 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.960 to the house at the ten five into touched down 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.880 after the second week in a row Eddie jacks into 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.120 the house and up pick six six defensive touchdowns by 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.320 your twenty eighteen Bears, Eddie Jackson quickly becoming the playmaker. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.360 I'm that defense. I decided on my own. He's now 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.680 quick six Jackson. How about that quick six Jackson? You 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.640 like it? I do, Yeah, I like that. I'm sure 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.680 there's something a little hipper with today's crowd, but quick 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.839 six because here's why the last two games, first play 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.000 out of a time out boom touchdowns are you know, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.760 you're boomed? I like to add after the game, by 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.400 the way, that's going to be incorporated as well. There's 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.520 so many great things happening with this team, and it's 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.680 just the energy is almost as if it's it's it's 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.520 it's not it's it's not being stopped, and it's just 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.680 it's it's just rolling. The snowball is getting bigger and bigger, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.959 and just everything around it. It's a fun. We talk 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.040 about the time. The group's fun. Every little bit of 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.360 it is fun. Yeah, it is, and that's what we 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.600 want to be. That's who we are. The people and 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.120 the players on this team want to have fun. They 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.960 love they love dancing, they love being themselves and I 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.679 think you're seeing that you make a good play, celebrate, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.800 enjoy it now'll be smart about it. Come home back 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.440 so we can kick the extra point if it's after 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.120 the game, whatever it is, just have a good time. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.800 That's why we do what we do. And you know, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.520 coaches are putting players in great positions defensively, doing a 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.040 great job offensively, the players are executing. It's just a 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.840 lot of fun right now. All right, So more detail 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.040 and Eddie Jackson, So today I wrote something. They do 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.880 something called Joni External. So if you take his last 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.040 thirty nine games all the way back to college, he's 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.320 got ten touchdowns, eight defensive touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.040 You know, I can't just dismiss the college thing because 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.040 that's when he showed what he's capable as a playmaker. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.880 That's an insane number at touchdowns when you're not an 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.400 offensive player. Yeah no, that's a lot of touch thirty 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.840 nine games for number touchdowns, that's a lot. And and 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.160 we like a lot of touchdowns from him, so let's 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.800 keep that going. But he's very instinctual. He understands the game. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.880 He knows when when to anticipate the throws from the quarterback. Uh, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.800 you see him everywhere. He is literally, um all over 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.079 the place. Uh. He's a risk taker, which is good. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.800 He knows, he's calculated, he knows when to take risks. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.160 And then I mentioned this the other day, but um, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.720 he has great ball skills. And so when that ball's 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.800 in the air, there's no oh, am I gonna catch it. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.440 You know, he's he's gonna catch the football. And it 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.000 doesn't matter what type of catch it is. He's like 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.680 a receiver back there. So the other part that's really 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.319 good about seeing what Eddie does is once he makes 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.520 the catch, he becomes that punt returner and he becomes 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.640 a wide receiver and a good one. So Um, when 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.160 you have all that, you put it all together, Uh 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.320 you're successful. You get you get touchdowns and even when 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.680 you don't get touch sounds, you get the interceptions. It's 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.160 always great for the team. I mean you go back, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.440 you know, embarrass history. Now again it's early in his career, 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.440 but nobody has done it as early in his career. Sure, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.320 I mean you're talking about Charles Tillman had nine, Dick 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.480 Buckets had one. You know, the secondary Mike Brown, you 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.719 know these guys played a lot of games, so it 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.360 is something. It doesn't mean it's gonna happen every It 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.440 could go into a draft froll we know in that regard. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.160 But more importantly, his play as a safety back there 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.680 at the post and be able to come down to 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.120 the box and bring down tight ends and running backs 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.160 and watching the eyes of the court back now reading 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.800 the eyes all these things. Are you seeing him advance 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.120 that aspect to forget about the playmaking aspect, just that 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.520 the fundamental aspects of playing safety as well, because the 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.720 same thing we're seeing a roque more and more every game, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.719 you know, ironing out all those details. Yeah, you can 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.199 see him, and I'm talking about Eddie Jackson here when 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.600 when he's running around, he's making tackles all over the place, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.400 and you know, whether it's punching a ball out, making 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.640 a tackle in the backfield on a blitz, deflecting a ball, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.760 he's also elevating the play of everybody around him. And 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.640 I could see that since I've been here in training camp. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.360 I can see him slowly grow into that leader. And 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.200 he's not an overly extroverted personality, but but he has 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.160 it in him and I think he just lets it 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.840 happen when he needs to, He lets it happen with 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.400 his play and he's really just taking advantage of all 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.440 the good things that the front seven guys are doing. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.319 And if he needs to make a play in the 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.720 back end, great, If he needs to be the eighth 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.520 man in the box, he can do that as well. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.679 So he's versatile for vic to be able to move 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.040 around and do different things. And anytime you have that 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.480 as a coach, it just allows you to It just 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.840 opens up Pandoor's box, allows you do so many things. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.319 I've also maintained too that if you look at playoff 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.800 caliber teams, especially once it moved deeper into the playoffs, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.040 there's a safety of that. We can go down the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.679 list for decades. And I'm not saying he's there yet, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:09.040 but a guy that, as you say, people gravitate to 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.719 him and he's a natural intangible leader that way. Um, 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.480 he's headed in that direction for sure. I think every 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.240 I mean you were with Eric Barry, Yeah, he explained 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.240 to us what impact he had. Besides being a great player, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.520 there's the the extraneous stuff that goes into it. Well. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.120 So when you have a guy like Eddie back there 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.840 in the back end. Um, what happens now, and I 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.280 think you just said earlier is unfortunately sometimes people can 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.840 start wanting to expect it all the time. And what 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.200 he's doing right now is is is rare. But that's good, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.920 you know, and so um for him to just continue 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.520 to just keep playing and doing what he does, don't 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.760 force anything, don't press I think that's the best part 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.760 of all this is that he's just playing ball out there. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.679 Eric Barry was a great safety that we had in 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.760 Kansas City and who's still there and and um, you 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.280 know Eric what was a leader by example as well. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.920 And so when you have these guys, these offenses now 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.200 every single game we play, they have to know where 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.160 thirty nine's at. And so when you have to worry 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.520 about all these guys on defense, it makes it hard 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.280 to gain plan for. And that's kind of what we're 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.960 getting to right now. It started in Week one against 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.000 Green Bay, and what's happened in it went for a 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.040 few more weeks and it got stronger and stronger, and 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.120 so it's really neat to see the consistency that we've had. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.080 And I think Eddie will be the first to tell 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.360 you that it's not just him. You know, there's so 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.720 many different variables that go into this. You go back 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.200 to that pick six and Khalil one of the very 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.440 few times in that game where he wasn't doubled and 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.040 had actually a clean rush to the quarterback. The reason 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.520 why that ball came out so quick on a three 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.960 step was because Khalil was getting ready to hit the quarterback, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.560 so he had to get the Stafford had to get 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.680 the ball out. Well. When that's the case, you can 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.160 anticipate in jump routes, and that's what happened. No more 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.240 of the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Maggie 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.920 on News Wadio seven eighty and one oh five point 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:05.480 night FM WBBM. I'll pistol formation fake at the Howard 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.680 throwing Daniel right corner of the end zone. He's got 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.040 calling for the touchdown and the Bears are backed in front. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.480 Teri Coon with a grab and Chase Daniel coupled on 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.240 each side of the end zones. The Bears get the 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.840 win over the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. Made everybody enjoy 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.960 their turkey and the fixings in their family a special day. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.080 Matt Neggie is here one more segment before the coach 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.880 takes off, and then the offensive coordinator, Mark Helpers will 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.920 join the program. We're brought to you by Whipley Financial Advisors, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.920 a proud part of the Chicago Bears. Here at P 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.960 ANDC Studios at Hallis Hall. I believe Monday after the 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.840 game or Friday after the game up here at Hollis Hall. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.240 You said maybe it was after the game. I don't know. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.920 I wasn't able to come here on Friday, but your 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.480 quote was, I'm starting to learn as a head coach 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.840 with this team who we are and it's special, it 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.640 really is. Can you expand upon that, because almost every 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.480 week you say you're learning and maybe maybe you don't 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.880 have it all down yet know what they are, what 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.760 the Bears of twenty eighteen are, um, but you're getting there. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.400 Just in more detail. What are you referring to for 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:16.120 us UM week one tough loss against Screen bay Um adversity, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.360 how to how to respond from that? And then we 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.120 go ahead, we win a couple of games in a row, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.040 and then we lose a couple of games in a row, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.600 and then you and so just the different ways of 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.000 of how we molded together into who we are and 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.600 you know, maybe three weeks ago, four weeks ago, I 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.560 told the guys, I said, you know, this is a 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.400 point right now in the season where for a lot 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.880 of teams it's it's gonna start going one way or 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.800 the other, and it's up to us and this is 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.640 what we have ahead of us. And and so you 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.840 don't know, And I couldn't have said that at that time, um, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.840 whether or not we were a special team. But to 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.680 me and to our coaches and to our players, you 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.160 could feel what's going on right now and is real. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.840 And so when when you when you feel that and 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.479 you know it and you go through what we just 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.919 went through, uh, now it's go time. And so they've 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.760 earned the right and we've earned the right as a 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.800 team to be in this situation. And I think the 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.040 most important thing for us right now is to um, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.520 continue to stay on the path with the horse blinders, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.800 the earmuffs, and don't listen to what anybody says about 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.000 how good you are. No one cares, we don't care. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.040 We only care about winning this next game. And when 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.480 you do that, you understand that you just continue to 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.280 get better and better. And so there's still five games 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.280 to go, but the only one we care about is 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.000 New York and we're coming off a big, big win 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.360 in Detroit. And so when I said we were special, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.399 I was just really insinuating the fact that in so 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.960 many different ways we've we've callused ourselves, we've we've turned 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.000 into a team now that I think really believes in 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.359 one another. We trust one another, and regardless of whether 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.960 there's a bad play in the game, no one ever 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.439 points fingers. If there's an interception, the defense steps up, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:08.840 if there's a if there's a big play by the 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.840 opponent's offense, then then the offense comes back and strikes 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.360 right and works off of each other. And so that's 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.479 kind of where we're at right now, and I like 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.160 that we have a ways to go, without a doubt, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.160 but we're growing and that's where the special comes into play. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.040 You went to the playoffs four times in five years 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.080 in Kansas City, thirteen through seventeen, so you really do 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:34.760 know kind of the formula of what to do. I'm 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.359 sure you're forward thinking a little bit on how to 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.600 handle these five games, because there no matter what about 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:45.159 the blinders, and they are gonna get grilled on playoffs, playoffs, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.920 playoffs and we now have the seeds. We know if 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.040 the season ended the day where the Bears would be 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.480 what you know, that's gonna grow? How do you tamp 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.159 that down? How do you? Or do you embrace it 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.040 a little bit? No, So what you do is you 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.600 understand and that it's going to be out there, but 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.520 you do everything in your power to just listen to 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.440 what's going on in this building right now. And that's 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.280 the message that we are sending to the team within 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.119 these four walls at House Hall, and that that is 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.240 the challenging part. That's the hard part, especially for a 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.960 team that really hasn't been in this situation before. How 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.000 do you handle that? The one thing that they're going 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.080 to understand here is that every game is going to 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.200 be the most important game. So this coming week, everyone's 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:27.840 going to talk about how big this game is it 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.280 means the most, right then the following week, how big 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.200 this game is it means, and then the next week 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.719 it means even more. So really, when you start doing that, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.320 then you don't play as yourselves. And so we don't 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.080 need to change what we're doing. We just need to 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:45.879 continue preparing each week as as we've been doing all 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.280 year long, and that's my job to make sure that 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.800 I handle that. And that's not just what the players, 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.000 but with the coaches too, and how do we coach 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.760 these guys, And so don't put too much pressure on yourselves. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.600 Just be you right, that's what we say, and just 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.240 and play. And but prepare really hard, you know, Tuesday 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.040