Speaker 1: Had a pleasant, good evening once again, everybody, and welcome
Speaker 1: into the Bears Coaching Show with Bears head coach Matt Naggie.
Speaker 1: This is Jeff Joniak. A nice seventeen thirteen win over
Speaker 1: the visiting New York Giants leaves the Bears at two
Speaker 1: and l here until eight o'clock tonight. We'll be joined
Speaker 1: by Chris Tabor at the bottom of the hour of
Speaker 1: the Bears veteran special teams coordinator, Matt, how you doing,
Speaker 1: How do you feel about things? And what did you
Speaker 1: think of how you won? Not that that you won. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's good to be here again. I think for us,
Speaker 1: you go back and you watch the tape and you
Speaker 1: realize a few things stand out, and you know the
Speaker 1: for the defense really stepping up on third down yesterday
Speaker 1: jumped out to me. They had one the one drive
Speaker 1: where were the Giants went ninety five yards and only
Speaker 1: had one third down, which meant they were getting some
Speaker 1: chunks there and ended up in the touchdown on fourth
Speaker 1: and golf from the one. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I was really happy with the way the defense played
Speaker 1: offensively again in the first half was really good. I
Speaker 1: thought it was solid. We put points up on the board,
Speaker 1: we were moving to football, We were great on third down,
Speaker 1: and then in the second half, to have two interceptions,
Speaker 1: to have a missfield goal, and to have a punt
Speaker 1: as your four possessions. That's how it felt at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Even though we won, there was
Speaker 1: still frustration there. But I'm okay with that. I think
Speaker 1: that the guys understand that were we want to really
Speaker 1: get that four quarter string where we're putting this whole
Speaker 1: thing together, and when we do, I think it would
Speaker 1: be pretty good. Is it a gnawing feeling when that
Speaker 1: happens a little bit in your belly, It is just
Speaker 1: because you want to You know, it was different than
Speaker 1: last week when we played in Detroit and you scored
Speaker 1: twenty one points in the fourth. You gotta turnover on
Speaker 1: defense and you were doing things on special teams, and
Speaker 1: so it's a little different feeling at the end. But
Speaker 1: as I told the team, you know, yesterday was hey, guys,
Speaker 1: we're two and oh right now, and yeah it was
Speaker 1: an ugly win, but we won, and don't lose sight
Speaker 1: of that. These things aren't easy. And now, now how
Speaker 1: do we get better? This is the Bears Culture Show.
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants Mattneggie, Jeff
Speaker 1: Joni Eck with you until eight o'clock. What gets lost
Speaker 1: in your opinion in games like this and how they're
Speaker 1: won like this A few things. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at it from the offensive perspective, you say, okay,
Speaker 1: when teams like this know that you have a lead,
Speaker 1: when they start seeing a little bit of what your
Speaker 1: identity is, and you got to run the football. I
Speaker 1: thought the first half we were just okay at that
Speaker 1: and then in the second half we got a lot better.
Speaker 1: And again some of that is just repeating calls and
Speaker 1: being able to let these guys go out there and
Speaker 1: do it again. And as execution, they did a great
Speaker 1: job executing. Defensively, you know you have that pick six
Speaker 1: that's called back. You gotta respond now to some adversity, Okay,
Speaker 1: didn't go our way. Myself included, we all got to, okay,
Speaker 1: bounce back. What do we do? How do we get
Speaker 1: a stop? And we did that and then to come
Speaker 1: out with the win at the very last play of
Speaker 1: the game, to be able to hold these guys off,
Speaker 1: I think we all felt the same way. But at
Speaker 1: the end we're half of we won. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: that play because Eddie Jackson, he's had two of these
Speaker 1: now were taken away by penalty in his career, So
Speaker 1: with a ball in his hands, he's something to watch.
Speaker 1: That was a terrific return regardless of what happened and
Speaker 1: called back. But do you like the aggressiveness because it
Speaker 1: is a debatable thing, and you like the aggressive nature
Speaker 1: by which he's attacking the football in that scenario. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to play it exactly like he did. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's such a bang bang play that you can't possibly
Speaker 1: tell Eddie to not pay to play it any different.
Speaker 1: You have to play it the way he did, and
Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate, but it's a part of the game,
Speaker 1: and it's it's not the first one and certainly isn't
Speaker 1: going to be the last one. So I just I
Speaker 1: love the way that Eddie Jackson has been playing the
Speaker 1: last two games. He's really tackling well, he's seeing the football,
Speaker 1: he's making plays, and he's being a great leader. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion already about the tight ends through
Speaker 1: two weeks, twelve targets, five catches, one touchdown, fifty five
Speaker 1: yards However, watching the tape and watching the run game
Speaker 1: and how it's working and David Montgomery averaging five point
Speaker 1: one to carry, it's not just the guy's up front
Speaker 1: or his vision and his patients. It's it's the tight
Speaker 1: ends when you go to two and three tight end
Speaker 1: packages in it without a doubt. And that's what I
Speaker 1: think is very important for everybody to understand, is that
Speaker 1: as a important as it is to be able to
Speaker 1: have a bunch of catches from that tight end room
Speaker 1: and do different things there, it's just equally important to
Speaker 1: be able to help us in the run game. They're
Speaker 1: doing a phenomenal job at that right now. The numbers
Speaker 1: feak for themselves, and we wouldn't want to change anything
Speaker 1: in regards to that. You've always maintained that you know
Speaker 1: each week's different, you don't know how it's gonna work
Speaker 1: in terms of who's getting targets. So yesterday there's ten
Speaker 1: guys to touch the football, including Bobby Massey, as we
Speaker 1: talked about in the postgame show, and the fun part
Speaker 1: of it making that big and and let's not joke
Speaker 1: about that, because it saved a minute and forty seconds
Speaker 1: off of their ledger. That they could have used at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. So that that was very,
Speaker 1: very very important, wasn't it. It really was, And they
Speaker 1: decided to zone us out there on that fourth down,
Speaker 1: and for that past to happen, you got to get
Speaker 1: a little bit lucky the way squeezing between the two
Speaker 1: defenders popped up in the air, and then for Bobby
Speaker 1: to have the awareness to catch that football and get
Speaker 1: and fall forward for the first that's awesome. That was
Speaker 1: a big play for us. So again back what I
Speaker 1: originally was pointing out about the spread, do you prefer
Speaker 1: that is that Mitch seeing the field the way you want? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Seven to the backs, eight to the receivers due to
Speaker 1: the tight ends, and one offensive linement. Yeah. Because what
Speaker 1: that does, Jeff, is that makes it difficult for the
Speaker 1: defense is just trying to take one guy out of
Speaker 1: the game. And that's always been a part of this
Speaker 1: offense is some games you might have somebody that has
Speaker 1: twelve targets, and the next week they might have that
Speaker 1: same person might have four targets. It's all based off
Speaker 1: of what the defense wants to do, and then we
Speaker 1: adjust to that. And I think that's that's what you
Speaker 1: start to see that's not the first time you've seen that.
Speaker 1: Mitch has talked about the trap eight and that happened
Speaker 1: a fair amount yesterday, and that's an invitation for him
Speaker 1: to move, and he was moving to your satisfaction. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you can see that they had a drop eight
Speaker 1: type of play on that scramble there at the end
Speaker 1: of the half. When he scrambled back, he's kept his
Speaker 1: eyes down field. He didn't put his eyes on the
Speaker 1: defensive linemen or linebackers. He actually pointed to Mooney to
Speaker 1: strike back, and then he made a great throw across
Speaker 1: the field and Mooney made a great cap. So you
Speaker 1: saw that, and then you also saw it Jeff on
Speaker 1: the first touchdown, he scrambled out of the pocket, invited
Speaker 1: to defender to take him, and then he just lobbed
Speaker 1: it over the top to David Montgomery. Highs and lows.
Speaker 1: You hope to even out, obviously, but you know, you
Speaker 1: look at what his production is right now in terms
Speaker 1: of Mitch five touchdowns, you seven weeks a year ago,
Speaker 1: so there is change in the way the offense is working.
Speaker 1: And basically a whole game when you take each half
Speaker 1: of the two games of positiveness that you can build
Speaker 1: around as an offense. Yeah, that part we like. And
Speaker 1: again we're trying to figure out too as a coaching
Speaker 1: staff each week as we go, Okay, what do we
Speaker 1: do well? We know what our identity wants to be,
Speaker 1: but what do we do well? And now that we're
Speaker 1: kind of seeing what we do well what we don't
Speaker 1: do well. We got some new players on offense. How
Speaker 1: they fit now it makes it a little bit easier
Speaker 1: for us to start scheming and do what you just said,
Speaker 1: which is trying to put four quarters in good football together.
Speaker 1: Montgomery to the left that Tribisky takes the snap, Mitch
Speaker 1: looking to throw. Mitch with time, Mitch a rod it
Speaker 1: was right, Mitch gonna toss it down to David Montgomery
Speaker 1: down the sideline. He's inside the ten, works in the
Speaker 1: middle of the fill left, He's in for the touchdown. Touchdown.
Speaker 1: Bears third and six, twenty seven yards catch and run
Speaker 1: David Montgomery Bears in front. Six second career touchdown catch
Speaker 1: for David Montgomery finished with three for forty five of
Speaker 1: the touchdown plus five. Want to carry on his sixteen
Speaker 1: attempts back on The Bears Coaching Show with head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy Bears with a win over the Giants. So
Speaker 1: his involvement in the passing game, I always felt that
Speaker 1: that's an underrated aspect. Tom and I talked about it
Speaker 1: a great deal this week leading up to the game,
Speaker 1: that you know, that's that's a part of the game.
Speaker 1: Yes you have Tariko and yes you have Cordorill Patterson
Speaker 1: to compliment that out of the backfield. But David David
Speaker 1: could do some damage now he can, and he has
Speaker 1: the ability to make plays after the catch two so
Speaker 1: he's you saw that yesterday. And to be able to
Speaker 1: catch it on the sideline, stick his right foot in
Speaker 1: the ground, make a couple moves, make some guys, missus
Speaker 1: score a touchdown just speaks to who he is and
Speaker 1: how he does things. So we liked out about him.
Speaker 1: We want to keep growing area and the beauty of that.
Speaker 1: It caps up a twelve play, eighty two yard driving
Speaker 1: seven and a half minutes to open the game, and
Speaker 1: that's certainly what you'd like to have your identity b
Speaker 1: isn't it it is? And starting the game with a touchdown.
Speaker 1: It was refreshing for us yesterday just for us to
Speaker 1: be able to do that making plays. I think we
Speaker 1: were four for four on third down, which was a
Speaker 1: big emphasis for us heading into that week. So it's
Speaker 1: a start. It gets the defense going to they go out,
Speaker 1: they get a sack, you know, they get a fumble,
Speaker 1: and it just really gets you going the right way.
Speaker 1: Not something you want to think about, but it only
Speaker 1: happened two times last season, So yeah, I mean, doesn't
Speaker 1: that change the way you call games? Then? Even from
Speaker 1: that opening drive. I mean, I know it's a long
Speaker 1: game and it's sixty minutes, but that opening drive must
Speaker 1: impact you in some way as a play call does,
Speaker 1: and Jeffrey, it allows you as a play caller to
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm. Plus, when you don't go three
Speaker 1: and out and you're able to get some first downs,
Speaker 1: you can see what they're going to try to do
Speaker 1: personnel matching, So if you're in a certain personnel, what
Speaker 1: are they going to do to That just gives you
Speaker 1: more plays, more opportunities. And you know, the last two
Speaker 1: weeks now we've started the game with the football and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's our job on offense to have a
Speaker 1: fast start two weeks or you know, last week it
Speaker 1: was three and out and now this week was get
Speaker 1: a touchdown, So let's keep getting touchdowns that first drive.
Speaker 1: Now let's go to David's run game now, because that
Speaker 1: end of the game, you know, there's seven thirty six
Speaker 1: to go, you've got a four point lead, and he
Speaker 1: has a possession on a eleven yard run to start,
Speaker 1: he's got a ten, he's got a nine. A couple
Speaker 1: of plays later, then a penalty set you back. Then
Speaker 1: he goes off on another twenty three. This is a
Speaker 1: perfect scenario to close out a game with a back
Speaker 1: who can pick up that kind of potential yardage. But
Speaker 1: the key to me was not only those guys up
Speaker 1: front coming off the ball, but is he a lot
Speaker 1: more patient this year at waiting for blocks to set
Speaker 1: up and then moving in the right direction. I think
Speaker 1: you could say that. And again that goes with that
Speaker 1: communication that those running backs have with the offensive line
Speaker 1: and tight ends. They get together and they meet throughout
Speaker 1: the week and they talk through different run schemes and
Speaker 1: the way that they see different fronts and the way
Speaker 1: that they see the linebackers moving on different places and
Speaker 1: calls that they have. And so again what I think
Speaker 1: is important is you have a defense yesterday that knows
Speaker 1: that the run is coming. You're in four minute mode essentially,
Speaker 1: and when you're getting ten, nine, ten eleven yards per pop,
Speaker 1: you got to keep it going and they know that,
Speaker 1: and we were still able to run. So that part
Speaker 1: feels good, and I think that Dave is doing a
Speaker 1: great job at growing in that area to play a
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller, I thought, really set a tone early because
Speaker 1: those Giants, those receivers, and I know people are dinging
Speaker 1: the Giants. You certainly didn't. Leading up to the game.
Speaker 1: You sent the warning out that this is a team
Speaker 1: that plays fast, but they get a lot of yards
Speaker 1: after the catch in their careers, some of these receivers,
Speaker 1: and I thought he had a blanket coverage type of
Speaker 1: day and Jalen Johnson wasn't far behind him on that.
Speaker 1: Now that they've played really well and it helps when
Speaker 1: you got guys up front getting into that quarterbacks lap,
Speaker 1: which I thought we did yesterday some nice breakups. I
Speaker 1: think really the only the only true negative and pass
Speaker 1: coverage when you look at yesterday was probably those last
Speaker 1: two plays of that first half when they hit the
Speaker 1: dagger over the middle for about a twenty five thirty
Speaker 1: yard game and came back and hit another one, you know,
Speaker 1: to be able to give them a fifty eight yeard
Speaker 1: field goal attempts. So other than that, though, I thought
Speaker 1: they did a great job, and I thought that Chuck
Speaker 1: Pagana did a really good job at calling the game.
Speaker 1: I'm about to play a barkivous mingo showing you he
Speaker 1: does have pass rush. He was a high draft pick obviously,
Speaker 1: and his up played his career in a variety of
Speaker 1: roles and certainly on special teams four year as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Barkivas has done a really good job at fitting our scheme,
Speaker 1: you know, especially on first and second down. He has
Speaker 1: a good feel for what we like to do. And
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that you see every single play.
Speaker 1: His motor is just rolling. I mean he is attacking
Speaker 1: and going after in the run game, in the pass game,
Speaker 1: and he's really helping us out in that area. Yan
Speaker 1: Bush in there and the dime the interception, Any chance
Speaker 1: he could have taken it outside and gone, I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it would have been nice, But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I will take that interception. I thought he
Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job at reading the route of the
Speaker 1: wide receiver and he timed it up just right to
Speaker 1: be able to step in front make that play. The
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Speaker 1: and again Chris Taber joining us here at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour. Matt, and as you look at what
Speaker 1: you looked at it at yourself in the offseason as
Speaker 1: a play caller, how is it all evolving for you?
Speaker 1: Two games in so far? I feel it's pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know. I like the communication with our coaches throughout
Speaker 1: the week, especially on Monday and Tuesday when we really
Speaker 1: start game planning. I love the way that that's going.
Speaker 1: We're taking that to the week for the players to
Speaker 1: be able to put into practice and see what we
Speaker 1: do well, what we like and don't like, and then
Speaker 1: it's on the players to be able to execute. Didn't
Speaker 1: for us to be able to put it out there
Speaker 1: to do everything we can to get to win. So
Speaker 1: so far, it's been really, really good. Darnell Mooney got
Speaker 1: himself half the amount of snaps in this game and
Speaker 1: delivered with his first NFL touchdown. What I loved about
Speaker 1: it is just the ability to recognize the situation Mitch
Speaker 1: was buying some time coming back to the quarterback and
Speaker 1: shedding his receiver to get to the football. Yeah, Darnell
Speaker 1: has done a great job at really making this game
Speaker 1: slow for a rookie. Love where he's at kids playing
Speaker 1: really fast, I mean getting in there in some blocks.
Speaker 1: He was a lead blocker yesterday in the run game.
Speaker 1: And then to make that touchdown, that touchdown catch at
Speaker 1: a crucial moment on a scramble by Mitch. That's what
Speaker 1: you love to see. And I think that this kid's
Speaker 1: arrow is majorly up right now and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to see what he does arrest of the season.
Speaker 1: I was playing around Toss, I say, I swear Levin's
Speaker 1: leading the way on this play, and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe just providing some No, he was the
Speaker 1: lead blocker on the play. Yeah, it wasn't really scripted
Speaker 1: that way, but it looked pretty sweets. So maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be scheming for that play next week. Hey, you'd love
Speaker 1: to have tough receivers like that that are willing to
Speaker 1: dig out guys no matter their size, get in the way,
Speaker 1: creating interference that extends your running plays. It does, and
Speaker 1: those guys, those running backs, trust me, they love seeing that.
Speaker 1: When you got little guys in there making blocks on linebackers,
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Let's stock pass rush for
Speaker 1: the big three when they're when they're jelling, when they're
Speaker 1: gonna have more time together. I can't even imagine how
Speaker 1: it's gonna look because a bigger cheam's got a couple already.
Speaker 1: Matc had is yesterday, and of course the return of
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn or the debut of Robert Quinn. So as
Speaker 1: he gets more and more time with these guys, the
Speaker 1: types of stunts and twists and things you guys can do.
Speaker 1: It really is an endless library. I would imagine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should only get better. And I think for Robert
Speaker 1: to have, you know, a little over twenty plays yesterday,
Speaker 1: but you felt him when he was in there. I know,
Speaker 1: you gotta know where he's at when you scheme offensively.
Speaker 1: And now what that does is taste a little bit
Speaker 1: of pressure on the other edge off of fifty two wheel.
Speaker 1: So you know, as we get further and further into
Speaker 1: this season, hopefully we see more and more of that.
Speaker 1: By my math, fifteen teams scored thirty or more in
Speaker 1: Week two. I don't know why, but it's blowing up
Speaker 1: a little bit on the scoreboard. But it does underscore
Speaker 1: the importance of taking advantage of every opportunity to put
Speaker 1: points on the board. So if you do the Anthony
Speaker 1: Miller that would have been a tough catch, but an
Speaker 1: unbelievable throw by Mitch right where you want it to
Speaker 1: make a big play there, the missfield goal. You know,
Speaker 1: you can talk about some other things like that. Is
Speaker 1: this a paramount example, especially going in against Atlanta, a
Speaker 1: team that does have the ability to score points, to
Speaker 1: take advantage of every single scoring opportunity you can. It does.
Speaker 1: It does. And when you talk about our upcoming opponent
Speaker 1: here with Atlanta, they're scoring a lot of points. And
Speaker 1: so what I like about our defense right now, regardless
Speaker 1: of who you're playing, is our defense isn't given up
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of points. So we're we're pretty
Speaker 1: good in that category right now. That'll be a challenge
Speaker 1: for us this week. But I know our guys will
Speaker 1: be ready for it offensively, knowing that that should always
Speaker 1: be the goal. And we have that and we want
Speaker 1: to stay attacking and aggressive, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a really good chance for us to try to put
Speaker 1: these four quarters together and score as many points as
Speaker 1: we possibly can. Ye. I saw a tweet on Twitter
Speaker 1: from Daniel Jeremiah from NFL Network. He was studying the
Speaker 1: games and he said, if you're linebacker, safeties can't cover,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be exposed as a defense. Do you feel
Speaker 1: you have that part ratcheted down as well because of
Speaker 1: guys like Roquan Smith, Eddie Jackson and your secondary Kyle
Speaker 1: Fuller among the leagues leaders and pass breakups the last
Speaker 1: three plus years now and Jalen's coming on strong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. We like our guys that can cover. Of course,
Speaker 1: when you have a safety like Eddie Jackson and a
Speaker 1: guy like Tshaun Gibson, they're pretty good matchups advantage us
Speaker 1: when they're out there covering it. There's tight ends and
Speaker 1: that part is great. To have a guy like Roquan
Speaker 1: who can fly around and do different things and still
Speaker 1: be able to blitz and stop the run game. I
Speaker 1: like that part and they accept the challenge. They want that.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be games we have our hands full,
Speaker 1: but they'll be ready. Matt Ryan's eye's gonna be good,
Speaker 1: isn't he Yeah, he's he's um. He's seen a lot
Speaker 1: of different defenses. He's been in some big time games. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's always been a really really good quarterback that he's
Speaker 1: deadly accurate um and you know, playing he's always been
Speaker 1: a part of high scoring offenses. So I think that
Speaker 1: our guys are gonna have to be ready for the
Speaker 1: challenge again. Like always, you got to be able to
Speaker 1: affect these quarterbacks in the pocket and make them get
Speaker 1: off rhythm, and if you do that, you always have
Speaker 1: a chance. They now are looking at two star receivers
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley's on a tear at the moment,
Speaker 1: number one in the league and yards four touchdowns out
Speaker 1: of the gate. They've got a whole trio of of
Speaker 1: of talent there guy on third down two and Russell Gage.
Speaker 1: So big challenge for your defense here, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And I think those two wide receivers complement each other
Speaker 1: really well. You got Julio, who's who's big, strong, tall
Speaker 1: and fast, and you got Alvin who's super fast, becoming
Speaker 1: a really good route runner and can score a touchdown
Speaker 1: on any play when he has that ball in his hand.
Speaker 1: So our gods will be ready though, they're gonna look
Speaker 1: forward to the challenge. And we got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for our opponent. We know we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have our a game. All right, Good luck, Matt, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Talk to you next week, all right,
Speaker 1: Jeff see, welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought
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Speaker 1: to you. How you doing, man nice win doing well?
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I want to get right to
Speaker 1: the play of Cordell Patterson in the kick return game.
Speaker 1: Because one hundred and ten yards in week one, another
Speaker 1: eighty three in week two last year led the league
Speaker 1: in yards. If I'm not mistaken and is one ninety
Speaker 1: three already leads the league, then you add the average
Speaker 1: into it. It's sexy. It looks good at thirty two
Speaker 1: point six. He's taking those chances deep as they go
Speaker 1: and you're still comfortable with that, I'd imagine. No, we are,
Speaker 1: We're real comfortable with it. I mean, anytime the ball
Speaker 1: is in his hands, he's a he's a threat to score.
Speaker 1: He puts a lot of pressure on the opposing team's
Speaker 1: kickoff team and they got to get down and cover,
Speaker 1: whereas a lot of teams see a guy's five yards
Speaker 1: dep six his arms out and it's a touchback. I mean,
Speaker 1: we want to apply pressure, and I mean it's like anything,
Speaker 1: the more times you do stuff, the better you get
Speaker 1: as you get going. And uh, you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: hit as big as big as one as we wanted yesterday,
Speaker 1: but you could tell on tape where we were getting
Speaker 1: closer and closer. New York did a good job also
Speaker 1: in coverage. So that was that was good matchup and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we'll have another good one this week too. Yeahs.
Speaker 1: As the time goes, do you believe teams will start
Speaker 1: trying to pop fly it short like they did with
Speaker 1: Ryan Noll this past week? No, I think I think
Speaker 1: that they will, And I told the guys we need
Speaker 1: to get better in that area. We've worked that, but
Speaker 1: obviously where it's not even close to a finished product
Speaker 1: in that area. But I said, when teams bloop you,
Speaker 1: that's a sign of respect. Now what we need to
Speaker 1: do is we have to be able to to really
Speaker 1: dent it and set field position and give the offense
Speaker 1: a shorter field because if you know, they score or
Speaker 1: or we move it some and if we stall out,
Speaker 1: then we can pin them down there. Patio can pin
Speaker 1: them down there. And then just so I call it
Speaker 1: the circle of life. I mean, then do you really
Speaker 1: want to keep doing that to us? And so that's
Speaker 1: we got to get better on the short kicks and
Speaker 1: we're gonna work hard at that. The circle of life. Huh,
Speaker 1: circle of life, yes, you know that's uh, defense stops them.
Speaker 1: You know, we get we get a point return hopefully
Speaker 1: either score sets up the score, and then then we
Speaker 1: kick off an established field position. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a revolving circle all the time.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Patio, pat O'Donnell, that sky high tumbler
Speaker 1: that Sheriff McMann has settled under. Those are are just
Speaker 1: wonderful plays that they excite me. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of fans, you know, may dismiss it as no to me,
Speaker 1: They're just they're just beautifully orchestrated and executed. No different
Speaker 1: than that play last year when when Cordell ran it
Speaker 1: down and tapped it inside the one. To me, it
Speaker 1: was one of the top plays of the year by
Speaker 1: any player on the team. Well, I'm real proud of
Speaker 1: the guys and real proud of Patio and that whole unit,
Speaker 1: because when you get into those pooch areas, especially, is
Speaker 1: the winds blowing in those types of things, and Patio
Speaker 1: having to control the ball, being able to hang it
Speaker 1: up there, and then Mac finding the ball, recognizing that
Speaker 1: the returner's not going to catch it, and then he
Speaker 1: feels it himself. That's a that's a big time play
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can keep that going. What was the
Speaker 1: wind like yesterday? Because I had it down as double digits,
Speaker 1: So was it an interesting wind? Again at Soldier Field?
Speaker 1: What was it like down there? It was? It was,
Speaker 1: It was interesting, but it was consistent. I would say
Speaker 1: it was blowing towards their bench, so for example, to
Speaker 1: the left of our bench or towards our tunnel the
Speaker 1: north side there wind was a little bit at the
Speaker 1: back and when you kicked the other way. It was
Speaker 1: kind of you were into it, but at times it
Speaker 1: did die down. We went down to the stadium on Friday,
Speaker 1: it was the same wind. There was gus up to
Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour that day, So it was it
Speaker 1: was much tougher on Friday than what it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: But it's still it's it's still tricky, and we just
Speaker 1: got to keep blogging in miles down there. You truly
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna get. But what happens out
Speaker 1: of Friday may not happen out of Sunday. What happens
Speaker 1: on a Friday, does it potentially cause a player to
Speaker 1: think about what happened on Friday on Sunday? Um, no,
Speaker 1: I think you know, we really what we when we
Speaker 1: go down we talk about just kind of charting the
Speaker 1: moment and charting that day and kind of kind of
Speaker 1: putting in our books and saying, Okay, hey, this is
Speaker 1: this is what it is, and if you know, it's
Speaker 1: always nice, if it's it's a lot more difficult earlier
Speaker 1: than the week than what it is on Sunday. But
Speaker 1: just having that that recall of where he wants to
Speaker 1: play the ball and those type of things is really important.
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Speaker 1: break down the kicks of Kiro Santos yesterday and just
Speaker 1: how he's how he's been doing overall. I think he's
Speaker 1: been performing well. Uh you know, I was pleased with
Speaker 1: his touchbacks yesterday, and I know they brought a couple out.
Speaker 1: That's fine, you know, to be quite honest with you,
Speaker 1: without having the preseason games and you're able to cover
Speaker 1: some kicks right now, I think that that's going to
Speaker 1: help you in the end. With regards to his field goals,
Speaker 1: you know, I know he's one of two and we
Speaker 1: missed that fifty yarder and he'd like to have that back.
Speaker 1: I thought he struck the ball well, that was that
Speaker 1: left or right and he played it a little too
Speaker 1: much left and hit such a good ball and actually
Speaker 1: just stayed on his line instead of just fading on
Speaker 1: in there. So that's lesson learned. But you know, those
Speaker 1: are those are kicks obviously that we want to make
Speaker 1: and he wants to make. And I know that given
Speaker 1: another opportunity, he'll do that. Yeah. I read a quote
Speaker 1: from Joe Judge prior to them, talking about Graham Gano
Speaker 1: veteran kicker obviously, but he said, you know, in general,
Speaker 1: he says, you really see the best ball from kickers,
Speaker 1: any specialist that matter, kicker, punter, snapper, when they get
Speaker 1: toward their thirties. This is Joe Judge's opinion, they've had
Speaker 1: their time to really develop, to understand the league, to
Speaker 1: really understand how their body works, to structure it for
Speaker 1: the duration of a season. They understand situationally, how they
Speaker 1: have to stay fresh and in the moment. Young guys
Speaker 1: may have a little more pop in their lengths at times,
Speaker 1: but young guys may have a little bit more raw ability.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to NFL specialists, they really start
Speaker 1: peeking around those thirties ages right there. Do you agree
Speaker 1: with that assessment or is that a particular flavor that
Speaker 1: a coach may like for their football. I think there's
Speaker 1: some truth to that statement. I would also say that
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of flavor in that also, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean you could go around the league. For example,
Speaker 1: Buckner in Kansas City as a young player that is
Speaker 1: I consider one of the best, along with Tucker who
Speaker 1: now is an older player. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: it just depends. It depends on the player, I really
Speaker 1: believe that, and how they strike the ball. And and
Speaker 1: then I think also it's it's the patience of an organization.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is that fine line of do you
Speaker 1: move on from a guy after so many misses or
Speaker 1: do you work through those those trials right there? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the tricky part. That's the tricky part,
Speaker 1: because you'll you'll see some guys that have missed. Uh
Speaker 1: for example of the Carlson kid that was up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a couple of rough weeks there
Speaker 1: and now he's he's doing well out in out in Oakland.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, it's just it's it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a crapshoot the times you know, you're just
Speaker 1: not really for sure what you get and just have
Speaker 1: to kind of uh you got to know your player
Speaker 1: and and uh and just kind of go from there
Speaker 1: and keep developing them. Yeah, what I like is I
Speaker 1: like consistency, so and to live within grow so you
Speaker 1: get and I'm talking about the whole operation, which you're
Speaker 1: fortunate to be able to resign and keep investing in
Speaker 1: Patrick O'Donnell and Patrick Scales keeps coming back. So you know,
Speaker 1: two thirds of the operation, you know you're feeling really
Speaker 1: good at which would help the other third part of
Speaker 1: it in the in the kicking game for confidence and whatnot,
Speaker 1: no question because those those two guys just and no
Speaker 1: one will talk about it, but Scales snaps us on
Speaker 1: the shorts, naps we're just money. I mean, he catches
Speaker 1: the ball. We don't mess up the lace as we
Speaker 1: get it down fast. And Patty, oh I call him
Speaker 1: Patty the Caddy because he understands that stadium and he
Speaker 1: can help you know, a Cairo who hasn't kicked a
Speaker 1: lot in there, and he's helped Eddie who is developing
Speaker 1: in there. Just hey, where you want to play it?
Speaker 1: This is this is going to be the lean on
Speaker 1: the ball. This is how I'm going to fix it
Speaker 1: a little bit for you and those type of things
Speaker 1: as the ball flies through the air. So it's great
Speaker 1: having those two players as part of our battery. You know,
Speaker 1: people look at numbers all the time. They are all okay,
Speaker 1: averages and whatnot. How do you define the quality and
Speaker 1: the performance of a punter when you look at their
Speaker 1: averages and whatnot and what plays in it, because there's
Speaker 1: many different factors and analysis of it. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of I think a lot of people like to
Speaker 1: look at numbers because that's an easy thing to look
Speaker 1: at and they understand people understand numbers. But for example,
Speaker 1: the Giants net punt wise had a higher net punt
Speaker 1: than what we did. Well. Ours was also shorter because
Speaker 1: our offense got us closer down there and we were
Speaker 1: hitting some coochballs, and Patio hit two inside the twenties,
Speaker 1: one obviously being inside the five where their punter hit
Speaker 1: two touchbacks. So I think, you know, and when you
Speaker 1: hit those those shorter pooch punts, obviously your numbers are
Speaker 1: not going to be high. So I don't get all
Speaker 1: stuck on numbers. I get stuck on on what the
Speaker 1: field position is that at the end at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. And I think that's to me, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's reality, because it's our job to set
Speaker 1: field position and in those type of things, not look
Speaker 1: at not look at numbers and say, boy, you know
Speaker 1: we had a we had a fifty yard right, Well,
Speaker 1: I tell where I look. I like the fair catch
Speaker 1: number because you're you do get there's no hidden yardage
Speaker 1: there then, and you got and the down the number
Speaker 1: of down punts telling you you got a good chemistry
Speaker 1: going with your punter and your and your coverage unit. No, no,
Speaker 1: no question. I like it. I'll be honest with I
Speaker 1: view I view it the same way because those fair catches,
Speaker 1: that is that is all met and you are eliminating
Speaker 1: the return, which is which is important because the returners
Speaker 1: in this league are so good. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show with Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor as
Speaker 1: he gets ready to get his fellows headed to Atlanta
Speaker 1: to take on the Falcons. Let's first talk about Terry Cohen.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had any opportunities yet in the in the
Speaker 1: punt game, but he's gonna be here a while. A
Speaker 1: new contractor statue how do you feel about that, because
Speaker 1: he's just a big a part of you as he
Speaker 1: is the offense. No question, I'm excited about it. I
Speaker 1: was really fired up to see that, and I think
Speaker 1: the organization has done a great job uh signing him back.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an electric player and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're going to expect big things out of him
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can get our punt return game going
Speaker 1: here in week three? What's it mean to him? Because
Speaker 1: he was a fourth round pick, he was from a
Speaker 1: smaller school, and there's no guarantee when that happens. Obviously,
Speaker 1: no matter what your skill set is, your situation has
Speaker 1: to be ideal to get that kind of contract. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, just knowing Tarik, he's very appreciative. He's he's
Speaker 1: a he's a confident but yet humble guy and uh
Speaker 1: and a great teammate and a great kid to be around.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot of fun coaching them. But I
Speaker 1: know he's excited, and you know, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: just human instant that that probably takes a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure off of him and he can go out there
Speaker 1: and play and and uh and do the things that
Speaker 1: that he can do with the football. So glad we
Speaker 1: got it done. I'm glad he's gonna be a part
Speaker 1: of this organization for a while. Up Nut, the Falcons
Speaker 1: and the on site kick that they were unable to
Speaker 1: recover is a big topic of conversation and there set
Speaker 1: back to Dallas. So I read somewhere that somebody's opinion
Speaker 1: was that when you have an onsight kick like that
Speaker 1: and Dallas in this case, it was fortunate that the
Speaker 1: kick rolls towards their bench, because if it's the other way,
Speaker 1: those coaches and players are screaming to get on the ball.
Speaker 1: The Falcon's kind of watched it, go what's your coaching
Speaker 1: point on that? That's a tough kick. But you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm still getting into it. I just saw the
Speaker 1: highlights on ESPN there. But what I saw was, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they're thinking that the ball is not going
Speaker 1: to go ten yards, and at that moment, I think
Speaker 1: there's probably there has to be that common sense factor.
Speaker 1: Can I just go ahead and get on it even
Speaker 1: though it hasn't gone to ten yards, not blocked, it's
Speaker 1: right there by me. It's safe to do because obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's coached. Hey, don't touch it if it doesn't
Speaker 1: go ten. So there's and I think that's where the
Speaker 1: common sense of football comes into play a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that was that was a tough play and you know,
Speaker 1: a good kick it turn it into a mad scramble,
Speaker 1: which in today's world of on site kicks, that's what
Speaker 1: you have to turn it into. All right, real quick
Speaker 1: before we let you go. A man who's made also
Speaker 1: of his kicks so far, tell us about young Hoku Falcons. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's a good football player, you know, and he can
Speaker 1: move the ball around and he has range, and uh
Speaker 1: you know he's going to be a challenge for us
Speaker 1: just in the return game and and then being able
Speaker 1: to apply pressure on him in the field goal area.
Speaker 1: So we have our hands uh full with with this
Speaker 1: group because this this is a good foot and just
Speaker 1: in our area alone, I know they're good in the
Speaker 1: other areas, but just in our long our area, I mean,
Speaker 1: they grab our attention. Just when you watch the tape,
Speaker 1: they play hard. Are your new additions and coverage units doing.
Speaker 1: We're getting better, still, not where we need to be.
Speaker 1: I think we're still a work in progress. And uh
Speaker 1: you know, the nice thing is we got another week
Speaker 1: to get better and we'll we'll we'll evaluate it. We
Speaker 1: we took a few strides this past week, but it's
Speaker 1: it's not where it needs to be yet, so we'll
Speaker 1: keep working. Appreciate it. Chris, good luck this week in
Speaker 1: your preparation. And that's a wrap out tonight's Paris Coaching Show.
Speaker 1: Want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up, Dan Berilli,
Speaker 1: Eddie Grisher and Lisa Fielding, and most of all you
Speaker 1: for listening for Bears head coach Matt Naggie and special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Chris Tabor. I'm Jeff Joniak. We'll have the
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