Speaker 1: Special Good evening, everybody, and welcome into the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with Bears head coach Mattneggie, Jeff Joniac with you
Speaker 1: until eight o'clock tonight. Coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, Special teams coordinator Chris Taber joins the program.
Speaker 1: We've arrived at the doorstep of week seventeen. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: the winning Jacksonville. Three straight at any point is significant
Speaker 1: in the season. You've done it now seven times in
Speaker 1: your three years as head coach. What was the aftermath like,
Speaker 1: give us a little glimpse. No, it was good, you
Speaker 1: know what, Jeff. It's for these guys to be able
Speaker 1: to enjoy it, and it worked hard to get to this,
Speaker 1: through that stretch that we had that wasn't so good,
Speaker 1: and but here we are. You know, now we have
Speaker 1: a huge week of prep for us to get ready
Speaker 1: for a big time game. But they enjoyed it last night.
Speaker 1: It was good that the conversations on the airplane when
Speaker 1: we fly back, just talking through guys, watching video and
Speaker 1: just understanding where they put us right now. You still
Speaker 1: walk in the plane. Yeah, absolutely, That's what I said.
Speaker 1: I was going to do that all year long, and
Speaker 1: I've been able to do that, and they're a lot
Speaker 1: better when you're winning. So the fans turned out, I know,
Speaker 1: we had it on the broadcast and we kept turning
Speaker 1: up the sound and it was the first time all
Speaker 1: year that it was genuine fan noise from seventeen thousand
Speaker 1: plus many many Bears fans. Did it make a difference
Speaker 1: at some level? Yesterday? Yeah it did? And you know
Speaker 1: you can feel it even running out onto the field.
Speaker 1: When the players are running out onto the field, you
Speaker 1: could feel the crowd just cheering them on. And they
Speaker 1: haven't had that, Jeff, all year long, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's a that's a raw emotion to get to get
Speaker 1: going with the start of a game that that just
Speaker 1: has hasn't happened most of the season. And now to
Speaker 1: have that and all those fans down there, they they
Speaker 1: juiced it up and got it going in at the
Speaker 1: end of the game when we were up pretty big,
Speaker 1: they were all just chanting and cheering and you could
Speaker 1: just see the players getting into it. It was it
Speaker 1: was really neat. Heck, the Jaguar fans were rooting for
Speaker 1: you too, you know, they really they secured the number
Speaker 1: one pick. Hey, in all seriousness, how do you put
Speaker 1: this in perspective how far this team has come in
Speaker 1: terms of staying engaged, staying focused, staying hungry, because it
Speaker 1: very easily met you know it, it could have gone
Speaker 1: the other way. It very easily could have. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: could have and and I probably it's hard for me
Speaker 1: right now at this moment to answer that exact question.
Speaker 1: I'll be able to do that at the end of
Speaker 1: the year when you really look back and you go
Speaker 1: back to certain games throughout the season where um, you
Speaker 1: felt either really good or you didn't feel really good.
Speaker 1: And so right now, we're just in the moment, and
Speaker 1: the moment for us is a good place right now.
Speaker 1: So we're trying to keep that thing going. You're you're
Speaker 1: every week they're going to give you a new team
Speaker 1: to play, and we've created this situation right now that
Speaker 1: we currently sit in where you win and you're in
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we weren't sure if that was
Speaker 1: going to be the case three to four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But the messaging that we've had, the players buying into it,
Speaker 1: the players doing it and executing it not just on
Speaker 1: game day on the weekends, but throughout the weeks with
Speaker 1: meetings or practices and their their participation and willingness to
Speaker 1: believe and trust in the process is huge. And now
Speaker 1: they're they're they're they're reaping the benefits of that, and
Speaker 1: they see what can happen, and so different parts of
Speaker 1: the ball you see, and we offensively, we've finally got
Speaker 1: things go on special teams as rolling defense is getting
Speaker 1: big time plays at big time situations in the game.
Speaker 1: And now here we are but one week to go,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's been the credit to them. You're
Speaker 1: a message guy, but was there a creative process to
Speaker 1: your messaging this time? Given the situation of a six
Speaker 1: game skid and a quarter a season to go, did
Speaker 1: you have to find a different way to reach them. Well,
Speaker 1: we did, and one of the ways we did that
Speaker 1: was with four games to go in the season, we said,
Speaker 1: you know, there's four quarters in a season, and at
Speaker 1: the start of the fourth quarter of the season, with
Speaker 1: four games left, we said, let's let's let's go four
Speaker 1: and OL. And if we go four and OL, we
Speaker 1: will we will have a great opportunity to at least
Speaker 1: be in the mix somewhere to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And as I've mentioned before, every year is different. As
Speaker 1: a head coach. Every every team is different with your messaging.
Speaker 1: That for us, that was a that was a big
Speaker 1: time motivating factor. Just knowing that and understanding and educating
Speaker 1: him as to where things are with with other teams
Speaker 1: and what's real and what's what's not real and h
Speaker 1: then you take that and then you got to do it.
Speaker 1: And where it gets tough is when you don't do
Speaker 1: it and you got to create another message. But they've
Speaker 1: done it for three weeks now, and so now here
Speaker 1: we are, you know, we're we're we're here. Now we're
Speaker 1: we're three and oh the last three games and now
Speaker 1: we're gonna we gotta do everything we can to go
Speaker 1: four and now and then see what now we go
Speaker 1: four and no because of going three and O, we're in.
Speaker 1: So that that's awesome, all right. I look at three
Speaker 1: key plays yesterday and you tell me if you agree
Speaker 1: the fourth and five conversion to a rob You got
Speaker 1: Mitch throwing the pick, but he came back strong, very
Speaker 1: strong after that. It didn't eat him up. And that's
Speaker 1: significant for many different reasons that you can amplify on.
Speaker 1: And of course the Roquan takeaway, the defense picking you
Speaker 1: up and you guys never look back any others or
Speaker 1: you know those three pillars of the game. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I agree with that. The one, the one that's
Speaker 1: in there that's sneaky in my opinion, that that was
Speaker 1: early on too, was when they tried to do the
Speaker 1: fake punt and they had to hold on Dhcum. To me,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a sneaky play in that game that
Speaker 1: with DHC playing so well and them having to have
Speaker 1: to hold him to convert it. Um, that was a
Speaker 1: big time play because you know, the kid got the
Speaker 1: first down, but they got it because of holding, so
Speaker 1: they had to end up plunting the ball. But I
Speaker 1: think that, but the other ones you mentioned are all
Speaker 1: certainly big time players. Also. Blitz pick up and recognition
Speaker 1: by Mitch yesterday was very good. According to Tom, he
Speaker 1: was seven for seven on blitzes against extra pressure. Is
Speaker 1: that a major significant improvement here heading into this week
Speaker 1: seventeen matchup NBN. Yeah. You know, teams are gonna try
Speaker 1: to create some pressure up front and blitz you and
Speaker 1: make you make quick decisions, and then the wide receivers
Speaker 1: when that's the case, they got to win. And yesterday
Speaker 1: A robbed that and then you got to get the
Speaker 1: ball out and be accurate. The lines got to squeeze
Speaker 1: the right way and try to protect inside out. They
Speaker 1: did it. And again, like Mitch is gonna get always
Speaker 1: be critiqued on what happens on third down and what
Speaker 1: happens in the red zone. And yesterday, other than that
Speaker 1: pick in the red zone, he did a good job situational. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know he talked about John d Philippa on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: You have to turn him in the right direction right there,
Speaker 1: because it's Jacksonville. They got some juice going on. This
Speaker 1: is an oh moment. What's the key? There's what's the
Speaker 1: key to make sure that doesn't snowball. That's when you
Speaker 1: rely on your coaches, like he said, with coach Flip,
Speaker 1: I think coach Flipp has done an amazing job all
Speaker 1: year along with these quarterbacks. And you know, with the
Speaker 1: history of who where he's been and what he's done
Speaker 1: at that position. He's also played it in college and
Speaker 1: he gets it, and so learning who Mitch is as
Speaker 1: a person in those moments helping him out, and he
Speaker 1: did that yesterday. And so now all of us collectively,
Speaker 1: right between Bill and Rags and everybody else, we get
Speaker 1: into a locker room, a halftime is here we go.
Speaker 1: We got two more quarters ago, next play mentality Now
Speaker 1: Mitch has got to do it and then he needs
Speaker 1: his teammates to help. And that that's kind of what happened.
Speaker 1: Snap Trubisky looking standing in the pocket, drills the middle
Speaker 1: of the end zone touchdown, Jimmy Graham touchdown. Bears had
Speaker 1: a six three league at Jimmy Graham touchdown catch a
Speaker 1: beauty two on the day. Now over eighty red zone
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his career. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show,
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Speaker 1: We got to talk to Jimmy Graham. Just a tremendous season.
Speaker 1: Eight touchdowns, couple four cole Comet as well. You got
Speaker 1: great production of sixty nine catches and ten touchdowns out
Speaker 1: of those two guys. He's just got a little juice
Speaker 1: to him. He does. And you know what, when you're
Speaker 1: in this league as long as he has been, and
Speaker 1: you realize what's sitting in front of end just the
Speaker 1: way things have been from day one, that Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: was here as a bear. He's been all in the
Speaker 1: only thing he wants to do is win a championship.
Speaker 1: And what he's taught Cole in this process and the
Speaker 1: way that he's been a mentor to Cole Comet, no
Speaker 1: one will ever see or know until it's ten years
Speaker 1: down the road, and cold Comet would be the one
Speaker 1: that says it. But there's times in practice where something
Speaker 1: may happen and no one sees this, but but Jimmy
Speaker 1: will be the one that goes over and tries that
Speaker 1: tries to help him from a player point of view,
Speaker 1: where something happens in the game, Jimmy'll be there to help.
Speaker 1: So all that other stuff that happens on the field
Speaker 1: with Jimmy as a player, what he's doing right now
Speaker 1: to help build our future with Cole Comet, you just
Speaker 1: people don't understand. And so that's just something else that
Speaker 1: I think needs to get recognized. Because whatever he's doing
Speaker 1: on the field is awesome and we knew he could
Speaker 1: do this, But what he's doing off the field and
Speaker 1: helping in practice and in meetings and all that stuff, man,
Speaker 1: is that pretty awesome for col Comet Now he's one
Speaker 1: touchdown away from matching Mike did his single season record
Speaker 1: for touchdowns by a tight end back to nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 1: So pretty good company. All right, Tuttyville. I've been asked
Speaker 1: a lot about Tuttyville. They think I came up with
Speaker 1: I got no, no, no no, this is all Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: has got to sign up in his office. Will you
Speaker 1: explain again? I think you've done it on this show.
Speaker 1: But for those who have been texting me and emailing
Speaker 1: me and asking me questions on social media about Tuttyville,
Speaker 1: where did it originate? Well, you know, so on a
Speaker 1: team that I coached with, we all we all kind
Speaker 1: of talked about let's let's have a bunch of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's about touchdowns on field goals, and and uh, the word,
Speaker 1: the word tutty just started getting thrown around a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so we kind of liked it. We thought it
Speaker 1: made sense, and then before you know it, it just
Speaker 1: became part of our language. And um, you know there
Speaker 1: was Tuttyville kind of started. The vill part was here.
Speaker 1: Now the Tuttyville is here. That that's that's here in Chicago.
Speaker 1: And so that's what's pretty neat and the guys for
Speaker 1: for us as coach, as we joke about it, and
Speaker 1: there for a while there weren't a lot of there
Speaker 1: weren't There wasn't much tutty goal. But recently it's been
Speaker 1: it's back and uh. For for our players right now
Speaker 1: on offense to be able to be as effective as
Speaker 1: we've been um regardless of who we're playing and and everything,
Speaker 1: they are playing with a lot of confidence. And I
Speaker 1: just think that when you're scoring touchdowns and you're scoring tuddies,
Speaker 1: it's infectious and it's contagious. And the belief in one
Speaker 1: another right now between our players and our coaches, and
Speaker 1: our coaches and our players is for this year out
Speaker 1: on all time high. So we're momentum wise, momentum meter wise,
Speaker 1: we're going in the right direction. Nineteen touchdowns the last
Speaker 1: five games, one hundred and sixty three points on your
Speaker 1: last fifty drives. So that's outstanding. All right, Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about Alan Robinson. Eight of his
Speaker 1: ten catches for first downs. I liked, if you're not
Speaker 1: going to press the really press them tight of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, And I think about Davante Adams perfect example,
Speaker 1: they both did it yesterday. Going back and watching the
Speaker 1: Packer game already, you know that that little hesitation move
Speaker 1: at the at the line of scrimmage, the footwork to
Speaker 1: free themselves and create a little distance on those in
Speaker 1: breaking routes or double moves or whatever. I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned it and use the word art. There isn't art
Speaker 1: to making sure everything is precise and what you do
Speaker 1: at all areas of the field, but in particularly getting
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. It's hard to man up
Speaker 1: Dante Adams. He's gonna find a way, especially that quarterback
Speaker 1: is Alan Robinson also difficult. Now it's a line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage for teams to deal with. Yeah, and he's always
Speaker 1: been that way. There's there's a handful of guys in
Speaker 1: this league, Jeff, that that you look at and you say,
Speaker 1: you know what, when you press them, good luck. And
Speaker 1: it's just that that art part is that's not something
Speaker 1: that just happens overnight. That's that's something that takes time.
Speaker 1: They these wide receivers, these great rob receivers, they study
Speaker 1: other great wide receivers guys that have been really good
Speaker 1: at being able to do that, and then they use
Speaker 1: it into with their game and so um, that's just
Speaker 1: a part of that's a that's a weapon that they
Speaker 1: have in their arsenal, and a rob is one of
Speaker 1: those guys. And so if you're gonna come up and
Speaker 1: press them, you better have a plan. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: play off, you better have a plan. And that's advantage Bearers.
Speaker 1: Nice burst buyer Tavis Pierce on that wildcat, nice call.
Speaker 1: They're unsuspecting to do a double take. But boy, he's
Speaker 1: got some juice. He does, he really does, and I was,
Speaker 1: I was really happy for him. David did a good
Speaker 1: job playing quarterback and so that was a good day.
Speaker 1: And then for four, you know, those guys created a
Speaker 1: nice lane up front. Two. You know, they had good
Speaker 1: leverage with those lanes. And then Artavius hit it man,
Speaker 1: he hit it fast, and then he was rewarded with
Speaker 1: a touchdown. The next play, snap Jimmisky takes turns given
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Speaker 1: with Bears head coach Matt Neeggie. Let's touch on David
Speaker 1: Montgomery a touchdown now in five straight games, seven since
Speaker 1: the bye week, longestreaked by a Bears back since Neil
Speaker 1: Anderson back in nineteen ninety one. Where is he at
Speaker 1: right now in terms of his growth and progress as
Speaker 1: a twenty three year old player. He's had a bright future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his confidence is at an all time high,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of where where the offense is. But
Speaker 1: it's in unison with that offensive line, and so when
Speaker 1: those guys are rolling, they're communicating, they're creating lanes, and
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be some times yesterday where you saw
Speaker 1: he just does his little straight arm or stiff arm
Speaker 1: to a dB or safety and you're gonna have trouble
Speaker 1: with that. His contact balance in between the tackles, his vision,
Speaker 1: his anticipation, his awareness of down and distance is really
Speaker 1: really good. And so you combine that with who he
Speaker 1: is as a person and his drive and motivation to
Speaker 1: be great, and he's leading our offense right now. Is
Speaker 1: there another gear left in this offense or this team
Speaker 1: in general for Sunday. Yeah, yeah, I believe there is,
Speaker 1: and I think that we're we're in. We're currently sitting
Speaker 1: in the playoffs right now. When you look at I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to win and so, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: understand that. The confidence of where we're at as a
Speaker 1: team of fighting together through all the adversity we went through,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty strong. It's pretty powerful, and it's moving.
Speaker 1: You know, you get through that, you're not sure where
Speaker 1: it's going to go. But then when you do it,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you strung three in a row.
Speaker 1: And that's all you can ask for heading into this
Speaker 1: last game of the season after where we've been. So
Speaker 1: now now you gotta find that gear. You gotta dig
Speaker 1: down a little bit deeper, coaches and players included, and
Speaker 1: bring it on Sunday. At the same time, you recognize
Speaker 1: this morning that you can't make it too hyped. It's
Speaker 1: going to get hyped, there's no question about it. Plus
Speaker 1: the Bears packers on top of it. How do you
Speaker 1: make it big but don't feel big. A lot of
Speaker 1: that has to be done through the players and their experiences,
Speaker 1: right so what they've been through. We all understand the
Speaker 1: significance of this game, take out the whole, like you
Speaker 1: just said, take out the whole, win and get in
Speaker 1: playoff for twenty twenty. This is the Bears Packers, right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any bigger than that. And so you know,
Speaker 1: we understand where we're at. We understand a significance of
Speaker 1: that right there in itself. Whether each team never didn't
Speaker 1: even have a win, it would matter, but it's different.
Speaker 1: You know. This is for the playoffs, for for us
Speaker 1: and for them, for for a number one seed. So
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want it any other way. If you're not
Speaker 1: a competitor, um you know, or if you are a competitor,
Speaker 1: which we all are, you're ready for it. And now
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of the preparation, the planning, the understanding,
Speaker 1: the togetherness of doing what we've been doing and then
Speaker 1: putting it all together on Sunday and attacking a full
Speaker 1: speed ahead. Your expertise is quarterback play, offensive play. In
Speaker 1: your role, can you offer any insight to the Bears
Speaker 1: defense on how to deal in a more impactful way
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers? Yeah, I absolutely can. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying give me the company singer, but I like that
Speaker 1: devilish grin I'm seeing right now. Now for sure I can.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that fair enough, all right, It
Speaker 1: sounds simple, but it's not. Keep the ball away from
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Okay, try to limit the impact the Davante
Speaker 1: Adams and on the defensive side of the ball. Don't
Speaker 1: get in a hole where you're just at the mercy
Speaker 1: of the Smith brothers and those two dbs jyr Alexander
Speaker 1: and Darnell Savage reaking havoc. I know it's not that simple,
Speaker 1: but is that a great place to start. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you have to. And once you understand, like right now,
Speaker 1: what they're doing well is they're playing complimentary football and
Speaker 1: they're they're scoring points. They're really good, and the Packers
Speaker 1: are really good in the red zone. They're really good
Speaker 1: on third down. That's situational football. When you're good there,
Speaker 1: you're going to score points because you're getting first downs
Speaker 1: and you're getting touchdowns. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: you have a very good defensive coordinator and coach Mike
Speaker 1: Petton that has a bunch of guys on that defense
Speaker 1: that when they get a lead, their strength is being
Speaker 1: able to really shut down the past and pin their
Speaker 1: ears back and get after the quarterback. They're really good
Speaker 1: at that. So what we need to do is make
Speaker 1: sure that we get touchdowns and we're effective on third
Speaker 1: down so that our defense can do the same thing,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes a really good head to head
Speaker 1: match up and made the best team win. Running the
Speaker 1: ball against them has has proved to be if you're successful,
Speaker 1: it's put them in some bunds close games and their losses.
Speaker 1: And I know they put all the emphasis on stopping
Speaker 1: that a great Derrick Henry last night. Do you suspect
Speaker 1: the same that they'll try at least to take away
Speaker 1: David Montgomery in the run game. Yeah, you would think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, they did a good job last night, you know,
Speaker 1: and they got the lead and then Tennessee was able
Speaker 1: to come back and make it a five point game,
Speaker 1: and then they came right back and counterpunched them. So again,
Speaker 1: I think that they're well coached. I think they have
Speaker 1: good players and but but we also believe I have
Speaker 1: ultimate trust in our players and our coaches, and we
Speaker 1: wouldn't want it any other way. All Right, Matt, good
Speaker 1: Luck should be a lot of fun this week, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you after all right, Jeff take care
Speaker 1: of now, a quick snap at a FI punt running right,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get the first down and a flag
Speaker 1: goal on Jacksonville side of the fence. So they go
Speaker 1: for because they got nothing to lose in a thirteen
Speaker 1: game losing streak. On the snapped Andrew Wingard, it's not
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Speaker 1: by Chris Tabor, the Bears veteran special teams coordinator. Good
Speaker 1: to have you alongside, Chris. How you doing doing well?
Speaker 1: Thank you? All right? Your old pete. Joe D. Camillus
Speaker 1: trying to pull fast one on you guys yesterday on
Speaker 1: the fake punt, DHC draws the flag. How big of
Speaker 1: a play is that? Because I listed three plays I
Speaker 1: thought were turning points in the game, more significant moments
Speaker 1: in the game. I didn't put that in the mix,
Speaker 1: but Matt Naggie did he Because that's a sneaky one, right,
Speaker 1: There could have been a different story. No, it was
Speaker 1: because it was we were prepared and I'll say Joe
Speaker 1: D and we were prepared that he was going to
Speaker 1: throw the kitchen sink at us. He did. He gave
Speaker 1: us that that was a new fake, but we felt
Speaker 1: like we were prepared for it. He ran the reverse,
Speaker 1: he put both his slots up on and punt team
Speaker 1: and ran gunner motion. Then in the last play of
Speaker 1: the game, he tripled teams McManus and double teams the
Speaker 1: other guy. So there was a lot of things that
Speaker 1: he did. I thought our guys handled it well. But
Speaker 1: going back to that play, Uh, coach and I actually
Speaker 1: clicked on and we were we said, hey, be alert
Speaker 1: right here, something something fish. Yeah. Well was at fourth
Speaker 1: and three, and it was just kind of one of
Speaker 1: those moments you're in the first half, you know, you're
Speaker 1: one and thirteen and you're trying to make something happen,
Speaker 1: and uh, Duke, you know, misses the tackle there. But
Speaker 1: their guy made a nice play. But DHC clearly did
Speaker 1: get held and he did a nice shot. He's such
Speaker 1: a smart football player. Uh. And they came out and
Speaker 1: immediately showed punt and then they shifted real quickly to it.
Speaker 1: So there were some moving parts that were that were
Speaker 1: taking place, and I thought, uh, you know, DHC, that's
Speaker 1: that's a big time play on his part. He keeps
Speaker 1: making him doesn't he on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: another one yesterday? I mean, he just keeps on showing up. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you if behind the scenes, he's a very
Speaker 1: well prepared player. He watches a lot out of tape
Speaker 1: and and puts some he he's prepared himself to make
Speaker 1: those plays just by the work what he does during
Speaker 1: the week. I mean it really is. It's uh, he's
Speaker 1: when you talk about a pros pro he does. He
Speaker 1: does those things. How would you assess the performance of
Speaker 1: your unit against Jacksonville? I was proud of the guys.
Speaker 1: I mean there's some there's always a few plays you
Speaker 1: always want back. I think or feel like he could
Speaker 1: always do a little bit better. But I liked our
Speaker 1: play speed. I thought that we were playing fast. When
Speaker 1: you go back and you study the tape, the guys
Speaker 1: are playing physical. So I think that we're we're getting better,
Speaker 1: but there's still things for improvement. So I'm encouraged by that. Also,
Speaker 1: you're not one to throw a lot of bouquets. You're
Speaker 1: not also one to do a lot of criticism. You're
Speaker 1: very even keeled about every performance. That is just how
Speaker 1: you coach is that your nature? And are you with
Speaker 1: the guys the same way? I hope that I am, Um,
Speaker 1: I want to be that way. I just I just
Speaker 1: feel like that the l monster, so to speak, if
Speaker 1: you get too high and feel good about yourself, it
Speaker 1: will eat you up. It'll come after you. And I
Speaker 1: just think that you have to stay steady because every
Speaker 1: week is a new challenge and it's always about the
Speaker 1: next game. It really is. And then at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, then you can go back and you say, Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: that was we had a good year. I need to
Speaker 1: we need to do better here and whatnot. But that's
Speaker 1: that's how I kind of view it. To me, the
Speaker 1: season is just one long process and at the very end,
Speaker 1: whenever that is, then you then you can enjoy or
Speaker 1: be disgruntled whatever you want to be. Do you drive
Speaker 1: any enjoyment week to week though it sounds like a
Speaker 1: very non fulfilling journey. No, No, it's very fulfilling. It's
Speaker 1: it's just that I think you have to. Once the
Speaker 1: game is over, you enjoy you know, like last night
Speaker 1: we won the game. I was excited that we won
Speaker 1: the game. You enjoy it. But now I mean, you're
Speaker 1: already onto Green Bay, and so it's you just start
Speaker 1: the process all over and you just it's you can't
Speaker 1: you can't get you can't get soft. Really, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, forty yard field goal try scales
Speaker 1: on the ball o'donald with a look towards his kicker,
Speaker 1: flashes his hand, takes the snap, puts the spot down
Speaker 1: and is right down the middle for the lead on
Speaker 1: the final snap for the first half of the Bears
Speaker 1: go into the locker room with a thirteen ten lead.
Speaker 1: A Bears fans, when shopping for your game day celebrations,
Speaker 1: don't forget to pick up your favorite variety of lace,
Speaker 1: potato chips and toastitos. Toastitos and lays are an essential
Speaker 1: part of the game day tradition and the official chip
Speaker 1: of your Chicago Bears. God Bears and the Bears with
Speaker 1: a wind to go to eight and seven Packers coming
Speaker 1: to town. Cairo Santos remains sizzling. I know you kind
Speaker 1: of tamper all those things down. I know it. You're
Speaker 1: grinning at me right now. But in your weekly news
Speaker 1: conferences with the media and whatnot, you say, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: doing well. But honestly, he's he's doing better than well,
Speaker 1: he's tearing it up. And he made his twenty fourth
Speaker 1: in a row. That tis Robbie Golds twenty thousand and
Speaker 1: six franchise record for consecutive makes in a single season.
Speaker 1: And we had him on our Bears All Access Shoe
Speaker 1: Tom and I a couple of weeks ago, and just
Speaker 1: the thoughtful way he goes about explaining where he's at,
Speaker 1: where he's come from, what his process is, right down
Speaker 1: to what shoe he's wearing, and the grass, the Bermuda
Speaker 1: grass he was looking forward to kicking from in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to this guy, No, there is. He's
Speaker 1: done obviously a really nice job. The thing that I
Speaker 1: like about him is he's steady. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy that's making a lot of kicks.
Speaker 1: But in order to do that, you got to be
Speaker 1: steady each and every day and be the same guy.
Speaker 1: He is that. And you know he'll also give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to Scales and Patio also, it's you know,
Speaker 1: those those three guys do do a really good job.
Speaker 1: But we just got to keep making him and h
Speaker 1: you know this will be different because this will be
Speaker 1: uh you know, this will be Soldier Field and I
Speaker 1: guess January, you know, so this will be his first
Speaker 1: experience at that and so I'll bring on some new challenges,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he'll rise up to that. Yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: sixth degree high temperature expected and uh later afternoons start
Speaker 1: sneaking into early evening. That does change things along the lakefront.
Speaker 1: But it's not green Bay against Tennessee in a snowstorm yesterday.
Speaker 1: No I saw that. Who I was watching the tape,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Boy, Oh, what a sloppy day
Speaker 1: up in Lambeau. And that's that's tough sledding for specialists
Speaker 1: when you're play in weather like that. And obviously green
Speaker 1: Bay has a great one and Crosby's been doing a
Speaker 1: long time, so he was able to, you know, navigate
Speaker 1: through that. So that's that's what the good ones do.
Speaker 1: And we feel like we have a good one. Also,
Speaker 1: I'd be remissed because yes, we did discuss it on
Speaker 1: the broadcast yesterday about the significance of the operation and
Speaker 1: Patrick Seals and Patrick O'Donnell and he did bring that up.
Speaker 1: Santos did last week with us of how much of
Speaker 1: a relief that is, there's no stress there. He knows
Speaker 1: he's going to get an accurate placement, an accurate snap
Speaker 1: and heat. Now he doesn't have to worry about two
Speaker 1: thirds of the process. What level are those two guys
Speaker 1: in that operation plan out right now for you relative
Speaker 1: to the league, because you watch it all really high.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, they if you probably in
Speaker 1: our world guys that you study that have a great
Speaker 1: operation are the Baltimore guys Morgan Cox and Sam Cook.
Speaker 1: And you know we tweeked some things last year with
Speaker 1: Scales and Patio and with Eddie. We've we've stayed along
Speaker 1: that line of what we're doing and those guys have
Speaker 1: really I appreciate those guys because they bought in to
Speaker 1: the whole deal to make the the operation go more
Speaker 1: smoothly and give that kicker even more confidence that just
Speaker 1: as you mentioned earlier, he doesn't have to worry about
Speaker 1: that stuff. And uh, you know people don't think about
Speaker 1: that part, you know, And and that's it is You're right,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a big deal. Uh. Just
Speaker 1: Scales putting the ball over the spot and it's not
Speaker 1: into the holder's body for a second there when it
Speaker 1: goes into the body. Now the kickers he's lost sight
Speaker 1: on the ball and and then you know, then the
Speaker 1: holder has to get it down quickly. Those are all
Speaker 1: and it happens so fast you figure that the ball
Speaker 1: is getting off in one point two seven seconds and
Speaker 1: just to be able to lose it for a blink
Speaker 1: of an eye right there, that's that's where the doubt
Speaker 1: creeps in into the kicker. And uh, you know, our
Speaker 1: guys knock on Wood have done a good job of
Speaker 1: leaving that doubt out of his mind. So it's been
Speaker 1: good think about it. Over the years, the Bears were
Speaker 1: blessed to have a singular lunch snapper to play the
Speaker 1: most games in Bears history and Patrick Manneley that helped
Speaker 1: with Brad Maynard on the whole, I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a whole and you were part of that too. I
Speaker 1: mean the operation for the Bears over the last a
Speaker 1: couple of decades has been pretty significant. No, it is,
Speaker 1: but you when you're when you're playing in climate like this,
Speaker 1: that's uh, it's so it is so important because not
Speaker 1: only I mean, imagine if your kicker has to navigate
Speaker 1: and worry about snap and hold and then he has
Speaker 1: to play the wind and then the footing of the field.
Speaker 1: You know, all those things come into play. And the
Speaker 1: more that you can eliminate some of that stuff, I
Speaker 1: just believe that you give your guy higher chance to
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Speaker 1: better tomorrow. Chris Tabor our guest, our final moments here
Speaker 1: as the Bears get ready with the Packers. DeAndre Carter
Speaker 1: getting him back did it have an impact? I thought
Speaker 1: it did. They picked up coal Quit right before the game,
Speaker 1: and obviously he's a veteran player that's been around a
Speaker 1: long time, so you knew his body of work. But
Speaker 1: he hadn't punted since the fourth game when he was
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, So I mean, you're talking three quarters of
Speaker 1: the season, so you really weren't for sure to have
Speaker 1: a guy to be able to go back and catch
Speaker 1: the football. Confidently, it was good and Anthony Miller's done
Speaker 1: a good job for us there also, But I thought
Speaker 1: Carter man, I really tipped my hat to him because
Speaker 1: he showed some toughness now last Wow, it was it
Speaker 1: was umble and he bounced back and came back that
Speaker 1: our guys are they really respect that? And you know
Speaker 1: he had the first return whatever was thirteen fourteen yards.
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job playing for us there.
Speaker 1: So it's good now to have multiple options. All right,
Speaker 1: what are we looking at with the Packers special teams unit? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a team that you know, I think the last
Speaker 1: time that we played him, I didn't think that we
Speaker 1: played Chicago Bears special teams And that's going to be
Speaker 1: our chair. We need to we need to you know,
Speaker 1: there our opponent, but we're gonna still worry about ourselves
Speaker 1: and we need to we need to play to our
Speaker 1: standard and h and we need to play well. But
Speaker 1: the Packers, obviously they got a good battery. Crosby's a
Speaker 1: really good kicker. JK. Scott's a really good putter. Now
Speaker 1: you have Tavon Austin who's return returning punts for him.
Speaker 1: So they've picked up some weapons obviously with Tavon since
Speaker 1: since we last played them. So we'll have our hands full.
Speaker 1: But we're going to be excited and anxious to play
Speaker 1: this game. Ill I right keys to the game every week.
Speaker 1: I always an intangibles depending on the opponent. I always
Speaker 1: say showing toughness and intelligence on special teams a key
Speaker 1: to win. You could say it every week. But is
Speaker 1: it for a matchup like this critical? Absolutely, I mean
Speaker 1: it is. I mean this is Uh. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a couple of penalties yesterday that I was disappointed
Speaker 1: with because one of them was a self inflicted penalty.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you gotta you can't have those things, and
Speaker 1: you got to play good smart football. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: in the return game, we need to either score or
Speaker 1: set up the score. We got to make sure that
Speaker 1: we have the football and give it back to our offense.
Speaker 1: And then you know, anytime that they're they're punny, we
Speaker 1: got to play defense first and make sure that we
Speaker 1: can have an opportunity to get the football. So there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things and we got to be
Speaker 1: able to cover. And uh, I'm sure our guys will
Speaker 1: be up to the task and I'll be excited to
Speaker 1: wash them play Sunday afternoon. All right, good luck Sunday,
Speaker 1: Thanks for your time. All right, thank you. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a wrap out tonight's Bears coach. You so want to
Speaker 1: thank our producers Jordan trut Up, Dan Brilliani, Grisher and
Speaker 1: Keith Johnson out of the board. Most of all to
Speaker 1: you for listening for Bears head coach Matteneggie and special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Chris Tabor. I'm Jeff Joni ACC wishing you
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