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Speaker 1: a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into hallisaw PNC
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Speaker 1: feels like we haven't played in a month after just
Speaker 1: playing three and twelve days. It's the weirdest feeling not
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday. But here we are on a Monday,
Speaker 1: review a little bit of Detroit and kind of set
Speaker 1: the tone moving forward for the final five games of
Speaker 1: the year. The most important one though, the next one
Speaker 1: against the New York Giants. Jeff Joniac and head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Nage. How you doing. How'd you survived the four
Speaker 1: day break? Well, it's not quite four day break but
Speaker 1: close enough. Yeah, no, it was great. It was good
Speaker 1: to rejuvenate a little bit and take some time off
Speaker 1: for the players and the coaches. Now here, we are
Speaker 1: back at it, and we're brought to you by Whitley
Speaker 1: Financial Advisers. Hopefully, hopefully you got some downtime in there
Speaker 1: as well. I know you went to a Northwestern game
Speaker 1: with the kids, so that must have been fun for
Speaker 1: them too. Yeah, it was good. It's always good to
Speaker 1: kind of step back when you get a chance and
Speaker 1: take some time to spend with family. And what better
Speaker 1: way than to go to a Northwestern game and check
Speaker 1: the game out and playing Illinois. So it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a good time. And and yes, so now
Speaker 1: we're all back at it and really deep into the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. All right, it's a long time away
Speaker 1: from the last game. But you know, when you meet
Speaker 1: the media again tomorrow, you'll probably get a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about the trade game. We'll try just to do
Speaker 1: a little bit of it. Frame it a little bit,
Speaker 1: just frame what happened in twelve days, and well, this
Speaker 1: twelve day stretch potentially be remembered for a long time.
Speaker 1: Well I hope it is, because I I go back
Speaker 1: to UH several weeks ago where we discussed kind of
Speaker 1: what we were what we were challenged with with playing
Speaker 1: those those three games in twelve days. And I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know if the guys truly understood it at the time,
Speaker 1: but because they were so focused in on what game
Speaker 1: we were playing that week, and it was a tall,
Speaker 1: tall task, but they did a great job with it.
Speaker 1: I thought the coaches and everybody in the organization just
Speaker 1: really focused in on making sure that they did their
Speaker 1: job and they controlled what they could control, and inevitably
Speaker 1: to come out with three division wins is huge. Now
Speaker 1: we hit the reset button and we rejuvenate, we get
Speaker 1: some rest both mentally and physically. That was a tough
Speaker 1: game in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day that that was not
Speaker 1: easy by any means. It's never easy to win on
Speaker 1: the road and with short rest, but we did that
Speaker 1: and so proud of proud of our guys. They understand that.
Speaker 1: And UH and now, like I said, you got a reset,
Speaker 1: come back in here ready to go, and that that's
Speaker 1: going to be our next challenge. Clutch comes to mind.
Speaker 1: You talk about the plays that allowed you to survive
Speaker 1: that kind of workload in that particular situation in scenario
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, would you say that would be accurate for sure? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, everyone is obviously going to talk about
Speaker 1: the great interception pick six by Eddie Jackson, which inevitably
Speaker 1: ended up winning the game for US by seven points,
Speaker 1: But there was a lot a lot of other parts
Speaker 1: of the game that I thought, you know, guys made
Speaker 1: big plays, whether it was an Eddie Goldman in the
Speaker 1: trenches that made a play here they're stopping a run,
Speaker 1: or you know, chasing the running backs making plays for
Speaker 1: the touchdown passes, or a big third down conversion from
Speaker 1: Chase to Tom Taylor Gabriel. And there was a lot
Speaker 1: of different places throughout that game, special teams, you know,
Speaker 1: making field goals, punts that we had. So it was
Speaker 1: a team win. You could feel it. After the game.
Speaker 1: Everyone felt that way, and they understood how big it
Speaker 1: was in Chase Daniel walking around proudly, not necessarily grinning
Speaker 1: from ear to ear, but just being Chase in control,
Speaker 1: true veteran in every sense of the word. And I
Speaker 1: think it's the rare scenario just being around better than
Speaker 1: two decades that you know, people weren't wringing their hands
Speaker 1: about the backup quarterback having a startup big game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not at all. Everyone knows who chases and how he
Speaker 1: handles business. And you know, myself being somebody that was
Speaker 1: with him in Kansas City as his position coach for
Speaker 1: three years, just knowing who he treats every game like
Speaker 1: he's the starter. So as far as game planning, as
Speaker 1: far as how he handled practice, nothing changed for him.
Speaker 1: Now he was gonna, you know, have to take it
Speaker 1: on himself to once the game started to make sure
Speaker 1: that he was able to make the throws that he
Speaker 1: needed to make without having that practice time with the guys.
Speaker 1: And he did that. You know, early on he missed
Speaker 1: a couple throws here there. I don't think anybody was
Speaker 1: stressing him at all. They understood what the deal was.
Speaker 1: But he made throws when he had to and everybody
Speaker 1: trusted in him. Is there What about his personality attracts
Speaker 1: you to him as a coach because you were with him.
Speaker 1: Aside from the obvious of what you've explained many many times,
Speaker 1: that he puts in the work like he's going to start.
Speaker 1: That should be the standard for every backup quarterback, and
Speaker 1: a lot of it is lip service. Sometimes with him
Speaker 1: it doesn't appear to be in any sense of imagination,
Speaker 1: but what deeper about him. So with Chase, we talked
Speaker 1: about at the start of the year and we've continued
Speaker 1: to talk about the obsession and being obsessed. And here's
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, he's one of the first
Speaker 1: into building every single day, one of the one of
Speaker 1: the last to leave, and he just it's an obsession
Speaker 1: for him. He understands how important it is who whether
Speaker 1: it's the identification of linebackers or whether it's coverage, looks
Speaker 1: at the defense, gives you, whether what we're doing offensively,
Speaker 1: and what his role is progression wise. But he takes
Speaker 1: it very seriously and he knows that with the lack
Speaker 1: of experience that he's had playing on a game day,
Speaker 1: that he can make up for that by knowing the
Speaker 1: ins and outs of the system and the ins and
Speaker 1: out of what he sees on defense. And that's why
Speaker 1: you're able to put a guy like Chase out there
Speaker 1: in these type of situations and win football games. Going
Speaker 1: back to college and I'm a big twelve guy being
Speaker 1: in Iowa, stay grab but to me, he was just rugged.
Speaker 1: He was gritty, is that who he is. He's a
Speaker 1: he's very rugged, gritty. The one word that I always
Speaker 1: think of when I think a Chase is very competitive.
Speaker 1: You know, he does. He wants to compete in everything
Speaker 1: he does. And he doesn't care whether it's running the
Speaker 1: scout team or whether it's you know, when he's running
Speaker 1: with the first team, he does not care. He's competitive.
Speaker 1: And I love that about the quarterback position when you
Speaker 1: are competitive, and he definitely has that bleeds through you.
Speaker 1: Guys kind of gravitate to him too, much like Mitch
Speaker 1: Drubisky in the same way. And again standard answer, you
Speaker 1: know for Mitch, wait and see. Yeah, probably haven't seen
Speaker 1: much of him lately, you know, given the time off
Speaker 1: and one. I know he's been in the building and
Speaker 1: so forth. But wait and see, and you feel good
Speaker 1: about Chase moving forward? Yeah, No matter who it is,
Speaker 1: we feel like we're in a good position. And and
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was interring for Mitchell to
Speaker 1: stand on the sidelines and see some of how the
Speaker 1: game goes when you're when you get to see it
Speaker 1: from a coach's perspective, and so that was good for him.
Speaker 1: He's chomping out the bit to get out there. We'll
Speaker 1: take it day by day and see where he's at.
Speaker 1: Did you hear things back from him in that regard
Speaker 1: that having a minute to step Yeah. Yeah, he talked
Speaker 1: to us and he said, you know, it is different,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was good for him to see that.
Speaker 1: And when after he sees it on the field. Um,
Speaker 1: and then when he sees it like us as coaches
Speaker 1: on the sideline, it clicks a little bit and you
Speaker 1: get to understand that. All right. We're with Matt Neggie,
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Speaker 1: Joey app continues takes the snap. Here's the throwing excent
Speaker 1: to the house at the ten five into touched down
Speaker 1: after the second week in a row Eddie jacks into
Speaker 1: the house and up pick six six defensive touchdowns by
Speaker 1: your twenty eighteen Bears, Eddie Jackson quickly becoming the playmaker.
Speaker 1: I'm that defense. I decided on my own. He's now
Speaker 1: quick six Jackson. How about that quick six Jackson? You
Speaker 1: like it? I do, Yeah, I like that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's something a little hipper with today's crowd, but quick
Speaker 1: six because here's why the last two games, first play
Speaker 1: out of a time out boom touchdowns are you know,
Speaker 1: you're boomed? I like to add after the game, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's going to be incorporated as well. There's
Speaker 1: so many great things happening with this team, and it's
Speaker 1: just the energy is almost as if it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's not it's it's not being stopped, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's just rolling. The snowball is getting bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: and just everything around it. It's a fun. We talk
Speaker 1: about the time. The group's fun. Every little bit of
Speaker 1: it is fun. Yeah, it is, and that's what we
Speaker 1: want to be. That's who we are. The people and
Speaker 1: the players on this team want to have fun. They
Speaker 1: love they love dancing, they love being themselves and I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing that you make a good play, celebrate,
Speaker 1: enjoy it now'll be smart about it. Come home back
Speaker 1: so we can kick the extra point if it's after
Speaker 1: the game, whatever it is, just have a good time.
Speaker 1: That's why we do what we do. And you know,
Speaker 1: coaches are putting players in great positions defensively, doing a
Speaker 1: great job offensively, the players are executing. It's just a
Speaker 1: lot of fun right now. All right, So more detail
Speaker 1: and Eddie Jackson, So today I wrote something. They do
Speaker 1: something called Joni External. So if you take his last
Speaker 1: thirty nine games all the way back to college, he's
Speaker 1: got ten touchdowns, eight defensive touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't just dismiss the college thing because
Speaker 1: that's when he showed what he's capable as a playmaker.
Speaker 1: That's an insane number at touchdowns when you're not an
Speaker 1: offensive player. Yeah no, that's a lot of touch thirty
Speaker 1: nine games for number touchdowns, that's a lot. And and
Speaker 1: we like a lot of touchdowns from him, so let's
Speaker 1: keep that going. But he's very instinctual. He understands the game.
Speaker 1: He knows when when to anticipate the throws from the quarterback. Uh,
Speaker 1: you see him everywhere. He is literally, um all over
Speaker 1: the place. Uh. He's a risk taker, which is good.
Speaker 1: He knows, he's calculated, he knows when to take risks.
Speaker 1: And then I mentioned this the other day, but um,
Speaker 1: he has great ball skills. And so when that ball's
Speaker 1: in the air, there's no oh, am I gonna catch it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's gonna catch the football. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what type of catch it is. He's like
Speaker 1: a receiver back there. So the other part that's really
Speaker 1: good about seeing what Eddie does is once he makes
Speaker 1: the catch, he becomes that punt returner and he becomes
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and a good one. So Um, when
Speaker 1: you have all that, you put it all together, Uh
Speaker 1: you're successful. You get you get touchdowns and even when
Speaker 1: you don't get touch sounds, you get the interceptions. It's
Speaker 1: always great for the team. I mean you go back,
Speaker 1: you know, embarrass history. Now again it's early in his career,
Speaker 1: but nobody has done it as early in his career. Sure,
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about Charles Tillman had nine, Dick
Speaker 1: Buckets had one. You know, the secondary Mike Brown, you
Speaker 1: know these guys played a lot of games, so it
Speaker 1: is something. It doesn't mean it's gonna happen every It
Speaker 1: could go into a draft froll we know in that regard.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, his play as a safety back there
Speaker 1: at the post and be able to come down to
Speaker 1: the box and bring down tight ends and running backs
Speaker 1: and watching the eyes of the court back now reading
Speaker 1: the eyes all these things. Are you seeing him advance
Speaker 1: that aspect to forget about the playmaking aspect, just that
Speaker 1: the fundamental aspects of playing safety as well, because the
Speaker 1: same thing we're seeing a roque more and more every game,
Speaker 1: you know, ironing out all those details. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: see him, and I'm talking about Eddie Jackson here when
Speaker 1: when he's running around, he's making tackles all over the place,
Speaker 1: and you know, whether it's punching a ball out, making
Speaker 1: a tackle in the backfield on a blitz, deflecting a ball,
Speaker 1: he's also elevating the play of everybody around him. And
Speaker 1: I could see that since I've been here in training camp.
Speaker 1: I can see him slowly grow into that leader. And
Speaker 1: he's not an overly extroverted personality, but but he has
Speaker 1: it in him and I think he just lets it
Speaker 1: happen when he needs to, He lets it happen with
Speaker 1: his play and he's really just taking advantage of all
Speaker 1: the good things that the front seven guys are doing.
Speaker 1: And if he needs to make a play in the
Speaker 1: back end, great, If he needs to be the eighth
Speaker 1: man in the box, he can do that as well.
Speaker 1: So he's versatile for vic to be able to move
Speaker 1: around and do different things. And anytime you have that
Speaker 1: as a coach, it just allows you to It just
Speaker 1: opens up Pandoor's box, allows you do so many things.
Speaker 1: I've also maintained too that if you look at playoff
Speaker 1: caliber teams, especially once it moved deeper into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: there's a safety of that. We can go down the
Speaker 1: list for decades. And I'm not saying he's there yet,
Speaker 1: but a guy that, as you say, people gravitate to
Speaker 1: him and he's a natural intangible leader that way. Um,
Speaker 1: he's headed in that direction for sure. I think every
Speaker 1: I mean you were with Eric Barry, Yeah, he explained
Speaker 1: to us what impact he had. Besides being a great player,
Speaker 1: there's the the extraneous stuff that goes into it. Well.
Speaker 1: So when you have a guy like Eddie back there
Speaker 1: in the back end. Um, what happens now, and I
Speaker 1: think you just said earlier is unfortunately sometimes people can
Speaker 1: start wanting to expect it all the time. And what
Speaker 1: he's doing right now is is is rare. But that's good,
Speaker 1: you know, and so um for him to just continue
Speaker 1: to just keep playing and doing what he does, don't
Speaker 1: force anything, don't press I think that's the best part
Speaker 1: of all this is that he's just playing ball out there.
Speaker 1: Eric Barry was a great safety that we had in
Speaker 1: Kansas City and who's still there and and um, you
Speaker 1: know Eric what was a leader by example as well.
Speaker 1: And so when you have these guys, these offenses now
Speaker 1: every single game we play, they have to know where
Speaker 1: thirty nine's at. And so when you have to worry
Speaker 1: about all these guys on defense, it makes it hard
Speaker 1: to gain plan for. And that's kind of what we're
Speaker 1: getting to right now. It started in Week one against
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and what's happened in it went for a
Speaker 1: few more weeks and it got stronger and stronger, and
Speaker 1: so it's really neat to see the consistency that we've had.
Speaker 1: And I think Eddie will be the first to tell
Speaker 1: you that it's not just him. You know, there's so
Speaker 1: many different variables that go into this. You go back
Speaker 1: to that pick six and Khalil one of the very
Speaker 1: few times in that game where he wasn't doubled and
Speaker 1: had actually a clean rush to the quarterback. The reason
Speaker 1: why that ball came out so quick on a three
Speaker 1: step was because Khalil was getting ready to hit the quarterback,
Speaker 1: so he had to get the Stafford had to get
Speaker 1: the ball out. Well. When that's the case, you can
Speaker 1: anticipate in jump routes, and that's what happened. No more
Speaker 1: of the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Maggie
Speaker 1: on News Wadio seven eighty and one oh five point
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Speaker 1: throwing Daniel right corner of the end zone. He's got
Speaker 1: calling for the touchdown and the Bears are backed in front.
Speaker 1: Teri Coon with a grab and Chase Daniel coupled on
Speaker 1: each side of the end zones. The Bears get the
Speaker 1: win over the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. Made everybody enjoy
Speaker 1: their turkey and the fixings in their family a special day.
Speaker 1: Matt Neggie is here one more segment before the coach
Speaker 1: takes off, and then the offensive coordinator, Mark Helpers will
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Speaker 1: ANDC Studios at Hallis Hall. I believe Monday after the
Speaker 1: game or Friday after the game up here at Hollis Hall.
Speaker 1: You said maybe it was after the game. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to come here on Friday, but your
Speaker 1: quote was, I'm starting to learn as a head coach
Speaker 1: with this team who we are and it's special, it
Speaker 1: really is. Can you expand upon that, because almost every
Speaker 1: week you say you're learning and maybe maybe you don't
Speaker 1: have it all down yet know what they are, what
Speaker 1: the Bears of twenty eighteen are, um, but you're getting there.
Speaker 1: Just in more detail. What are you referring to for
Speaker 1: us UM week one tough loss against Screen bay Um adversity,
Speaker 1: how to how to respond from that? And then we
Speaker 1: go ahead, we win a couple of games in a row,
Speaker 1: and then we lose a couple of games in a row,
Speaker 1: and then you and so just the different ways of
Speaker 1: of how we molded together into who we are and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe three weeks ago, four weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: told the guys, I said, you know, this is a
Speaker 1: point right now in the season where for a lot
Speaker 1: of teams it's it's gonna start going one way or
Speaker 1: the other, and it's up to us and this is
Speaker 1: what we have ahead of us. And and so you
Speaker 1: don't know, And I couldn't have said that at that time, um,
Speaker 1: whether or not we were a special team. But to
Speaker 1: me and to our coaches and to our players, you
Speaker 1: could feel what's going on right now and is real.
Speaker 1: And so when when you when you feel that and
Speaker 1: you know it and you go through what we just
Speaker 1: went through, uh, now it's go time. And so they've
Speaker 1: earned the right and we've earned the right as a
Speaker 1: team to be in this situation. And I think the
Speaker 1: most important thing for us right now is to um,
Speaker 1: continue to stay on the path with the horse blinders,
Speaker 1: the earmuffs, and don't listen to what anybody says about
Speaker 1: how good you are. No one cares, we don't care.
Speaker 1: We only care about winning this next game. And when
Speaker 1: you do that, you understand that you just continue to
Speaker 1: get better and better. And so there's still five games
Speaker 1: to go, but the only one we care about is
Speaker 1: New York and we're coming off a big, big win
Speaker 1: in Detroit. And so when I said we were special,
Speaker 1: I was just really insinuating the fact that in so
Speaker 1: many different ways we've we've callused ourselves, we've we've turned
Speaker 1: into a team now that I think really believes in
Speaker 1: one another. We trust one another, and regardless of whether
Speaker 1: there's a bad play in the game, no one ever
Speaker 1: points fingers. If there's an interception, the defense steps up,
Speaker 1: if there's a if there's a big play by the
Speaker 1: opponent's offense, then then the offense comes back and strikes
Speaker 1: right and works off of each other. And so that's
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at right now, and I like
Speaker 1: that we have a ways to go, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: but we're growing and that's where the special comes into play.
Speaker 1: You went to the playoffs four times in five years
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, thirteen through seventeen, so you really do
Speaker 1: know kind of the formula of what to do. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're forward thinking a little bit on how to
Speaker 1: handle these five games, because there no matter what about
Speaker 1: the blinders, and they are gonna get grilled on playoffs, playoffs,
Speaker 1: playoffs and we now have the seeds. We know if
Speaker 1: the season ended the day where the Bears would be
Speaker 1: what you know, that's gonna grow? How do you tamp
Speaker 1: that down? How do you? Or do you embrace it
Speaker 1: a little bit? No, So what you do is you
Speaker 1: understand and that it's going to be out there, but
Speaker 1: you do everything in your power to just listen to
Speaker 1: what's going on in this building right now. And that's
Speaker 1: the message that we are sending to the team within
Speaker 1: these four walls at House Hall, and that that is
Speaker 1: the challenging part. That's the hard part, especially for a
Speaker 1: team that really hasn't been in this situation before. How
Speaker 1: do you handle that? The one thing that they're going
Speaker 1: to understand here is that every game is going to
Speaker 1: be the most important game. So this coming week, everyone's
Speaker 1: going to talk about how big this game is it
Speaker 1: means the most, right then the following week, how big
Speaker 1: this game is it means, and then the next week
Speaker 1: it means even more. So really, when you start doing that,
Speaker 1: then you don't play as yourselves. And so we don't
Speaker 1: need to change what we're doing. We just need to
Speaker 1: continue preparing each week as as we've been doing all
Speaker 1: year long, and that's my job to make sure that
Speaker 1: I handle that. And that's not just what the players,
Speaker 1: but with the coaches too, and how do we coach
Speaker 1: these guys, And so don't put too much pressure on yourselves.
Speaker 1: Just be you right, that's what we say, and just
Speaker 1: and play. And but prepare really hard, you know, Tuesday
Speaker 1: through Saturday. Prepare so much to the point that when
Speaker 1: you get out there on the field, everything's slow and
Speaker 1: you've already played the game and now you can just
Speaker 1: have fun. And when you do that, um and you
Speaker 1: only worry about that one game, then you don't put
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure in yourself. It is interesting because
Speaker 1: we talked about this. I brought it up weeks ago
Speaker 1: because right around November or mid November, right around Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: you in Kansas City, you in Philadelphia with Andy, you
Speaker 1: guys ripped off of long winning streaks. You know why. Well,
Speaker 1: part of the part of the reason behind that is
Speaker 1: just again with with coach Reid's philosophy, is making sure
Speaker 1: that you just stay even killed the entire season. And
Speaker 1: as as simplistic as that sounds, it's hard to do.
Speaker 1: And when you have young guys, you have a bunch
Speaker 1: of rookies or you have guys that have been in
Speaker 1: the league for their first year. Here, they're already played,
Speaker 1: they've played a full season already, so mentally there they
Speaker 1: start getting to the bottom of the tank. They start
Speaker 1: getting to the bottom of the tank. So we have
Speaker 1: to make sure that with our training staff, with our nutritionist,
Speaker 1: with everybody in this building, that we handle these guys
Speaker 1: the right way. So we need to give them rest,
Speaker 1: let them recuperate. So we want everybody to slightly be
Speaker 1: getting stronger as the season goes on, instead of what
Speaker 1: most teams do is they get weaker, and so when
Speaker 1: the most important time of the season comes, you're in
Speaker 1: an empty tank, and we don't want that. So it's
Speaker 1: a unique process. But I was fortunate to learn through
Speaker 1: one of the greatest in coach read all right, get
Speaker 1: ready for the New York Giants off three and eight
Speaker 1: record in the first eleven games. We're out of time
Speaker 1: to talk about them. We'll catch you on Wednesday. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Mark Helfridge. Coming up next Book Bears
Speaker 1: Coaching Show with head coach Met Maggie and this hour
Speaker 1: featurating offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge. Brought to you by Whippley
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Speaker 1: the Bears offensive coordinator. That run is not insignificant when
Speaker 1: you got Matthew Stafford in a thirty some game winning
Speaker 1: comebacks in the NFL alm the road in his house
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. You know, I jumped the gun when I
Speaker 1: have fuller. I said that out of doing in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't looking at the time, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I started doing the math. Okay, this will be interesting.
Speaker 1: But that that was beautiful. It was huge and uh
Speaker 1: a fitting way. You know you said ten yard run.
Speaker 1: It was hardest led and all day long in the
Speaker 1: rud game. And they do a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: go back to Carolina the week before we played him,
Speaker 1: and they, you know, really limited it. A great rushing
Speaker 1: attackt that Carolina has to I think it was fifty
Speaker 1: five yards and they went over to something the other yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, that's a tough, tough defense in that building.
Speaker 1: Huge play by Kyle and and you know everybody knew
Speaker 1: the scenario. You had to get it first down in
Speaker 1: the game and was a huge, huge, as you said,
Speaker 1: just leave no doubt in the game with the ball
Speaker 1: in our hands type of moment. And James Daniel gets
Speaker 1: a big thumbs up on that too, right, he does.
Speaker 1: Mike Pereira was against it, and we'll have to have
Speaker 1: to talk to Mike. Mike about that, but no, he uh,
Speaker 1: you know, could have could have finished his block a
Speaker 1: little bit better. And and there's again there's no issue
Speaker 1: of anything. But he uh did whatever he could to
Speaker 1: make sure we got it done. I didn't hear said,
Speaker 1: So fill me in it for those of us that
Speaker 1: there may have been a question I legality of the
Speaker 1: end of that play. There's a couple of plays earlier
Speaker 1: in the game we might have a question on too.
Speaker 1: All right, we went into detail just about who Chase
Speaker 1: Daniel is with Matt before you got here, But now
Speaker 1: just the difficulty if you could put in a perspective,
Speaker 1: I don't care if he's fifty fifteen year veteran with
Speaker 1: no live route, running half speed routes on a short
Speaker 1: week on the road, your third NFL started, your first
Speaker 1: time in November since college a decade ago, and you
Speaker 1: go out there and calmly, take care, and you throw
Speaker 1: sixteen completions in the first half, more than we've had
Speaker 1: in any game, and seventy three percent conversion first down
Speaker 1: passing in the second half started elevate. You know, just
Speaker 1: if you could put it into context what he was
Speaker 1: honestly facing, well, it was a tall task. Number one
Speaker 1: just because of their defense and their front in particular.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a situation and you know, we're not necessarily
Speaker 1: built for that right now, Hey they's gotten pounded, and
Speaker 1: you know, righte our defense and get out of town
Speaker 1: and try to steal one. You know, he in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways had to get us in the right situation,
Speaker 1: had to make plays, which he did. And I think
Speaker 1: you could see by how how we game plan It wasn't.
Speaker 1: There was no you know, handcuff type oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what if type of feeling at all. Uh. It was, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna attack where we would normally attack, you know,
Speaker 1: are you gonna do some things differently? Sure? Uh. But
Speaker 1: but he threw the ball pretty well, pretty you know,
Speaker 1: really well, not having any as you said, full speed reps, uh,
Speaker 1: beating up to to game time, but just hats off.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing of all, the biggest stat
Speaker 1: that of all is zero in the in the i
Speaker 1: NT column. Uh you see, guys, I mean we saw
Speaker 1: him yesterday multiple times, the day before multiple times of
Speaker 1: just bad decisions with the ball and just poor you know,
Speaker 1: poor discipline and respect for the ball and chase chase
Speaker 1: you know, played that to the to the hill. Awesome.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll continue on with Mark Helfritch here on
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show. The Bears Coaches Show with offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Mark Helfrich and w bbm's Jeff Joey continues Cohen
Speaker 1: to the right of Chase Daniel. Bunch set to the right.
Speaker 1: Daniel screens it right to Meddle wanted the throw. He
Speaker 1: throws it back to Chase. Daniel makes the catch stutter
Speaker 1: step inside the thirty five yard line. With the help
Speaker 1: of Cony white Air. He bangs down and tried the
Speaker 1: thirty in the Bears first down. But there is a
Speaker 1: purple file. Hanally faces defense. They'll check it on the goal,
Speaker 1: they'll check it on o't the war. All right, it
Speaker 1: becomes a bigger play. But it was interesting to me that,
Speaker 1: you know, again, you guys just never just let alone
Speaker 1: traditional football. Chase Daniel hasn't played and he's throwing you
Speaker 1: getting catching passes. Rather. I loved it, um and it
Speaker 1: could have been a big play. It could have gone
Speaker 1: he could think he drew the face mask. Otherwise that
Speaker 1: would have been a very disappointing play. With kind of
Speaker 1: the Great Wall of China. We had out in front
Speaker 1: of it, and they had two defenders. Mark Helfrichard guest
Speaker 1: here on the Bears Coaches Show. Uh, Tae Kwon Maizelle
Speaker 1: getting more opportunities. Why he's made plays. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that that consistently has has shown up in
Speaker 1: practice and we're kind of looking around and going, wow, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, can can we figure a way to plug
Speaker 1: and play him in a few different instances? And he
Speaker 1: and Chase actually had the most chemistry. You know, when
Speaker 1: you look back at a guy that he actually has
Speaker 1: thrown to more, you know, more so than others at
Speaker 1: least to this point. Uh was was smoke and but
Speaker 1: just no just play making ability in and he's multifaceted.
Speaker 1: He can play running back, he could play really every
Speaker 1: wide out position. Uh. And he's tough. Yeah, it gives
Speaker 1: you another one of those juice guys. Taylor Gabriel and
Speaker 1: her calling and those guys all were major factors in
Speaker 1: the offense. Uh. In that game, I think they had
Speaker 1: fourteen catches between the two of them, Gabriel Gabriel and
Speaker 1: calling you're throwing them Mozille touchdown. Um. It keeps the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, on its heels. Spread out all over the
Speaker 1: place with that speed right exactly, and a guy that
Speaker 1: that you can hand the ball to throw the ball
Speaker 1: to in in various ways. That's that usually presents problems
Speaker 1: and and teams have have kind of used up how
Speaker 1: certainly when he and Tarka in the game at the
Speaker 1: same time. And then you couple that, like you said,
Speaker 1: with either a combination of whether it's a Rob or
Speaker 1: Anthony or Taylor. Uh, you know, hopefully there's there's somebody
Speaker 1: that they can't can't cover. And you know you mentioned
Speaker 1: in the last segment about you know you're not the
Speaker 1: team right now, it's there, you know, just power up
Speaker 1: and get out of the field and be safe about it.
Speaker 1: I think the aggressive nature of Matt Nage and how
Speaker 1: you guys have put together the whole team, I don't
Speaker 1: think you guys are ever gonna want to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to push it. We don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna certainly be smart about things, but we want
Speaker 1: to be aggressive. We want to be you know, calculated,
Speaker 1: we want to play. I think just from the mindset
Speaker 1: to excel, not let's not screw this up. You know,
Speaker 1: there's just a mind shift there that that some people
Speaker 1: have and with how good our defense is playing, you know,
Speaker 1: there's I certainly get you know sometimes people have brought
Speaker 1: that up, but that's just not how we're gonna operate.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be smart, but we're gonna be an attack
Speaker 1: mode on the time. Uh. And and that does mean
Speaker 1: we're you know, running one hundred and twelve plays. It
Speaker 1: means we're going to be smarter about you know, deploying
Speaker 1: that from a tempo standpoint, time and possession, all those things.
Speaker 1: But we are always going to be on the front foot,
Speaker 1: which leads to another conversation about the running game, because
Speaker 1: yesterday in the league, the whole week, you know, the
Speaker 1: running game numbers went through the roof. You know, on
Speaker 1: a granted December, we're knocking on December's door. The weather
Speaker 1: is going to change. The weather certainly changed here, uh
Speaker 1: last night. But um, I mean just team's just really
Speaker 1: piling up the rushing yards. Are we equipped to do that?
Speaker 1: Are we are we finding ways here? In this little
Speaker 1: time off, you guys had to try and correct that
Speaker 1: part of the of the game, of the offensive game.
Speaker 1: Well yes, and no, I mean that again to to
Speaker 1: that's Detroit's strength. You know by far Detroit strength is
Speaker 1: defending the run. I'm talking more. Yeah, general, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: you know in the perimeter. Perimeter action is something that
Speaker 1: kind of opened up. But yeah, absolutely, we're trying to
Speaker 1: get better in a run game. We're trying to get
Speaker 1: better in the passing game. You know, we left a
Speaker 1: lot again, are you gonna say left lout of the bone?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm just saying. That's one of the
Speaker 1: encouraging things is we're not done improving and never will
Speaker 1: be at any position, you know, in any phase. And
Speaker 1: the only thing that you know, the only thing we
Speaker 1: care about piling up is wins. And if we run
Speaker 1: a little bit more one game or throw a little
Speaker 1: bit more one game, doesn't matter how the offensive line
Speaker 1: I think sometimes gets overlooked by what they're doing. Um,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to be perfect, obviously, but are they not
Speaker 1: getting enough do for what has happened here? Obviously a
Speaker 1: changing quarterback for this game, but just the stretch and
Speaker 1: the changes up front a little bit, having a young
Speaker 1: guy in there, a new guy in there, they've been
Speaker 1: holding their own. Yeah. Really, both you know, you look
Speaker 1: at it. Both guard spots are new, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think Harry's done a great job in there of
Speaker 1: rotating those guys around so everybody has confidence with one another,
Speaker 1: and certainly with the with the quarterback back or the
Speaker 1: quarterback in them really is probably the most important part
Speaker 1: of that. But nobody's blinked. You know, we expect those
Speaker 1: guys to go out and play great. They've protected well
Speaker 1: we can certainly again, you know, we had one one
Speaker 1: miscommunication in the in the in the passing game, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately that was the time that they didn't cover Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: and so you know, it's one of those ones where
Speaker 1: it just it stings that that much more that we
Speaker 1: have a guy literally, you know, twenty twenty yards uncovered
Speaker 1: and we got a sack. Uh And so those things
Speaker 1: again are you know, as competitors. They'll come back tomorrow
Speaker 1: and be the first ones to admit, hey, we should
Speaker 1: have done a B and C, and we'll try to
Speaker 1: coach him better and get him in a better position.
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Speaker 1: Remaining moments, Let's just give a little look at the
Speaker 1: Giants because we don't have a whole heck of a
Speaker 1: lot of time, Just a quick sneak peak of their
Speaker 1: defense right now. Uh, you know, learn a lot about
Speaker 1: them right now as we speak. A lot of new faces,
Speaker 1: a lot of new bodies on that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and certainly a new scheme obviously with the new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: You know, we're hoping Kevin Gilbride would be a big
Speaker 1: source of information, but unfortunately guy, Yeah, that guys knew.
Speaker 1: That guys knew that Guy's a lot of undrafted guys
Speaker 1: and everything. Yeah, very very similar schematically to the last
Speaker 1: three really opponents when you take really Buffalo, Detroit and
Speaker 1: Minnesota kind of you know, individually similar, similar structure, but
Speaker 1: then different pressures, different coverages. Is that is somewhat of
Speaker 1: a little bit of a benefit though definitely definitely familiarity
Speaker 1: of scheme will will carry over a ton. Now there's
Speaker 1: different indicators, different tells of hey, this pressure is coming
Speaker 1: versus this team versus the other, and so some of
Speaker 1: that's good. Some of that is, you know, unique to them.
Speaker 1: One real quick thing as a great college coach that
Speaker 1: you were, are these numbers out of control? Seventy point games?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that. I love it, that
Speaker 1: was I see. I love college. I love the college overtime.
Speaker 1: But that's probably why why will never happen? Right? Is
Speaker 1: the seven overtime deal? Yeah? Basketball? Basketball game broke up
Speaker 1: in a little boxing match afterward. Apparently I didn't see it,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, but it's it's crazy what's going on,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, we don't have time to get
Speaker 1: into it. But it almost feels sometimes like seven on
Speaker 1: seven football and nobody's playing defense. I know that's not true,
Speaker 1: but holy smokes. Great to talk to you is always
Speaker 1: good luck this week, Congratulations on what's been going on
Speaker 1: so far, Appreciate it. Go bearts. That's right, Mark, Helfreg
Speaker 1: Bears offensive coordinator. We get the Bears and Giants from
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Speaker 1: Have a great night, everybody. We'll talk to you next time.