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Speaker 1: a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into another edition
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Speaker 1: good evening and a warm welcome to head coach Matt Nagge.
Speaker 1: I know it's a team thing, but your first NFL
Speaker 1: win in the regular season's going to mean a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot. You're never gonna forget it, are you? No?
Speaker 1: I won't. There was a special night and you know,
Speaker 1: just really neat for our team, our city, our fans.
Speaker 1: It was electrifying last night. They were a big part
Speaker 1: of the win. And then for all of us together
Speaker 1: just to celebrate. It was a really good time. What
Speaker 1: did you think of the anthem? Wow, that's all I
Speaker 1: could say, you know, I mean it literally made made
Speaker 1: you just so proud. Um it was it was so neat.
Speaker 1: You know, anybody that's never been a part of that.
Speaker 1: I was. I was able to see it happen at
Speaker 1: a Blackhawks game, and but to be out there on
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line here in the front and center
Speaker 1: was it was really special. And they roared all day.
Speaker 1: But you gave him a lot to roar about it.
Speaker 1: We tried, Yeah, let's start with the defense because that's
Speaker 1: certainly a big story. You do the scan of the
Speaker 1: national TV today and that's a big conversation. Fifty two
Speaker 1: and a Bears jersey. I was getting a lot of love,
Speaker 1: But it's more than him. He's opening some doors, but
Speaker 1: guys are running through and punching down the walls. It
Speaker 1: is and and uh, you know, it goes to show, um,
Speaker 1: what can happen when you get eleven guys playing playing together,
Speaker 1: and then you bring Khalil into this thing, and uh,
Speaker 1: it just makes it, uh you know special for the guys.
Speaker 1: They go out, they play physical, they're dominating last night. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a big time challenge to keep
Speaker 1: Russell in the pocket. I thought we did a really
Speaker 1: good job at that. And then uh, in turn, you
Speaker 1: get turn over sacks in good field position with that.
Speaker 1: I mean in the broadcast, I kept asking time fair
Speaker 1: is he unwilling to leave the pocket or do they
Speaker 1: have him just so cornered down in and down out
Speaker 1: that he had no escape route and he tried to
Speaker 1: trigger from the pocket. It might have been a little
Speaker 1: bit of both, you know, of coach Fangio and the
Speaker 1: rest of our coaches did a really good job at scheming.
Speaker 1: I thought, for for a quarterback that can be such
Speaker 1: a weapon outside the pocket. And then you got to
Speaker 1: give the players credit for for executing the game plan.
Speaker 1: And anytime you have collapsed pocket and you don't have
Speaker 1: green grass, as we like to say in the quarterback room,
Speaker 1: it's tough. And that's what our defense did last night.
Speaker 1: They somewhat suffocated them and made them made him really,
Speaker 1: you know, stay in that pocket. And and it's difficult
Speaker 1: to make tight, tight window throws when you're in there.
Speaker 1: And now the league and sex, I know it's two weeks,
Speaker 1: but still it's good to be number one. It's something,
Speaker 1: right it is. Yeah, yeah, and that's that's uh. When
Speaker 1: you're sacking the quarterback, that means good things are happening.
Speaker 1: And then and then of course to get the turnovers
Speaker 1: and have two games in a row here where yeah,
Speaker 1: pick six is uh, that's uh, that's rare. That's rare company,
Speaker 1: and it's rare for Russell Wilson. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you realize this or not. It's only the third of
Speaker 1: his entire career and been like twenty eight hundred pass
Speaker 1: attempts between pick sixes. So that is, in fact, by
Speaker 1: definition rare. Doesn't surprise me, Danny, excuse me. Prince of
Speaker 1: Mukamara also gave you the game ball. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was nice as well. In the locker room that Iland
Speaker 1: saw a snippet of it. What else went on in there? Well, we, uh,
Speaker 1: the guys had a little fun, you know. We we
Speaker 1: we decided to let these guys celebrate it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was had a good talk with coach Madden this
Speaker 1: summer and we talked about some different ideas and thoughts,
Speaker 1: and I just, uh, it's just so important to allow
Speaker 1: these guys to enjoy the moment. And there's there's um.
Speaker 1: You know, you only get so long to celebrate these things,
Speaker 1: and before you know it, you're right here already working
Speaker 1: on the Cardinals. And so we took five minutes out
Speaker 1: of our night last night to celebrate it. And the
Speaker 1: guys had some fun. There was some good dance moves,
Speaker 1: and yourself and I stayed out of that bad little dab.
Speaker 1: Maybe down down the road, Yeah, down the road. You
Speaker 1: know they're gonna ask that's okay, you opened up. They're
Speaker 1: gonna ask Man Naggie, our guest here on the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show, as we get you set for Arizona on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's a quick turnaround. Indeed, I will say this one
Speaker 1: more on that topic. You play music obviously during practice,
Speaker 1: you did throughout training camp. Your team's a team of dancers,
Speaker 1: and Tarik Cohen's probably tops on the list. There's a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys. They just move. They're out there moving around,
Speaker 1: they do and they have energy, positive energy, and we're
Speaker 1: letting a personality show when they're out there. They're having
Speaker 1: fun and uh, it's I think it's good healthy environment.
Speaker 1: Did you anticipate because you're a football guy obviously, so
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a to me, probably a slam
Speaker 1: dunk answer, But the constant comparison and the constant microscope,
Speaker 1: Mitch Robiski's under almost a minute by minute analysis of
Speaker 1: how he's growing, what he's learning, what he's not doing right.
Speaker 1: It's I know that's the quarterback position. But were you
Speaker 1: prepared for that, especially in light of other kids in
Speaker 1: his draft class and whatnot. Yeah, you are, I know,
Speaker 1: I was. I know he is, and that just comes
Speaker 1: with the territory and he's handled it great. Um you
Speaker 1: know right now, I just want him to control what
Speaker 1: he can control and just focus on being the best
Speaker 1: quarterback he can be. If you do that, everything else
Speaker 1: normally take care takes care of itself. So what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do as a as a head coach and is
Speaker 1: really just be there for him, support him at all times.
Speaker 1: And most importantly, I just wanted him to have phone
Speaker 1: when he's out there and just let it rip. And
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times where there's a mistake, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a bad throw or a poor decision, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: go about it with the next play mentality And I
Speaker 1: think you saw that last night. There was a couple
Speaker 1: of plays that he missed. He did have a couple interceptions,
Speaker 1: but again that's a part of football. He'll learn from that,
Speaker 1: and I promise you he'll get better from it. You've
Speaker 1: been way out in front of that. You've been talking
Speaker 1: this way from the moment we started. Why. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: it's because I know this offense and I know what
Speaker 1: it takes. No matter who you are at quarterback, it
Speaker 1: does take a little bit of time. And so we
Speaker 1: all understand in this building, inside those four walls here
Speaker 1: at House Hall, that you know there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit patience needed. Now that doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: can't go out and still execute and score a lot
Speaker 1: of points, but there's gonna be some bumps in the
Speaker 1: road that you need to be able to recover from.
Speaker 1: And then as long as you use it as a
Speaker 1: learning tool to make yourself better in most regards, then
Speaker 1: in the end, once you get through that patience level,
Speaker 1: then it'll work out. Thinking about it, he is complete
Speaker 1: and seventy percent of his passes. Maybe not all the
Speaker 1: intermediate to deep rounts yet, but sure, yeah no, And
Speaker 1: also the shots will come, they'll they'll happen. I think
Speaker 1: what happens is if you start to try to force
Speaker 1: the shots down field, then normally you won't be successful.
Speaker 1: So you got to just let it happen. Play it out, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just stay within the system. I I need
Speaker 1: to continue to just uh, you know, keep calling plays
Speaker 1: that can put him in a good situation the rest
Speaker 1: of our guys and and then again, he has some
Speaker 1: talent around him, but those guys are learning this offense too.
Speaker 1: So as much as it is for the quarterback learning
Speaker 1: this offense, we have a lot everybody on this offense
Speaker 1: is learning it too. So that's all. That's all too
Speaker 1: that you're still learning all of them. Very fair, yeah,
Speaker 1: very free. You get to see how these guys work.
Speaker 1: And you know, the plays that worked in Kansas City
Speaker 1: in this offense could be totally different than the plays
Speaker 1: that work here in Chicago. And so that's kind of
Speaker 1: what we're working through right now. And we're creating our
Speaker 1: own identity on offense. And uh, I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: when that time is going to come that we know
Speaker 1: for sure that this is it, but we're in the
Speaker 1: middle of it right now and I'm just really I
Speaker 1: like where we're at and as long as we keep
Speaker 1: getting wins and that's okay. Well, it's a tried and
Speaker 1: true system, so you know there's a big, big bonus
Speaker 1: at the end of the rainbow. For sure. It's work.
Speaker 1: It has worked, it has worked, and um, you know
Speaker 1: that's that's what's so exciting. That's why our players are excited.
Speaker 1: And then as a team collectively, UM, we all just
Speaker 1: know once once, uh we keep sticking together, and uh
Speaker 1: we win together, we lose together, and then we play
Speaker 1: together and and in the end we just all try
Speaker 1: to control what we can control. The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Mad Maggie and w BBMS Jeff Jonie
Speaker 1: app continue back. Here's the throw thirty to the twenty
Speaker 1: inside cutting off. So pick six, goodbye, Prince Amukamara twenty
Speaker 1: three ten Bears the lead dot com on the official
Speaker 1: Bears app All right, so the pick six by Prince
Speaker 1: Samu Kamara. Uh, you know, all day long, you're waiting,
Speaker 1: you're waiting, you're waiting for something big to happen. You
Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be a bouncing ball
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. And boy, that was preparation,
Speaker 1: he said. He even kind of setting it up all
Speaker 1: day somehow and it was his study that led to
Speaker 1: that interception. Yeah, it just goes the show what type
Speaker 1: of player he is anticipating that setting him up. We've
Speaker 1: seen that in practice, We've seen it in h in
Speaker 1: training camp, and just what a game changing moment there
Speaker 1: to be able to not only intercept it, but to
Speaker 1: take it back and score the touchdown. And that was
Speaker 1: obviously a big moment. And to again to have that
Speaker 1: happened in that game and previously the previous game with
Speaker 1: khalil Um that that that obviously gives your chances a
Speaker 1: lot greater in regards to winning that game. I want
Speaker 1: to go back to something saying the first part, because
Speaker 1: you know about the next play mentality, you got to
Speaker 1: give a tip of the cap to the defense after
Speaker 1: the two interceptions. They did not allow a first down
Speaker 1: on those next two possessions. So again that's team football
Speaker 1: picking your guys up on the offensive side and so
Speaker 1: no damage done. It is, and we talk about that
Speaker 1: all the time, and there's gonna be times where where
Speaker 1: maybe the defense gives up a touchdown and the offense
Speaker 1: has to step up and go down and score and
Speaker 1: so um, you know, to have two interceptions back to
Speaker 1: back and for the defense to force two, three and
Speaker 1: ounce was big and and uh it just uh it
Speaker 1: just stops a momentum that that the the opponent could
Speaker 1: have after a big play. And when you have that,
Speaker 1: it gives you just so much confidence as a team
Speaker 1: knowing that each each side has each other's back. Well,
Speaker 1: Kwan Smith got to start at inside linebacker next to
Speaker 1: Danny Trevathan and it had a big, big day with tackles,
Speaker 1: with seven tested in coverage, everything you'd want to see
Speaker 1: from an inside linebacker. The rookie level, you know, saw
Speaker 1: a lot of what you saw in college. The form
Speaker 1: tackling was very good. Would you think overall this performing
Speaker 1: he did really well. You know. The one thing that
Speaker 1: stood out to me was being on Monday night and
Speaker 1: his first start, uh the game. You know, the lights
Speaker 1: weren't too bright, the game wasn't too big. He played fast,
Speaker 1: he was very focused, um, very business like at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game. At the end of the game,
Speaker 1: it was the same. And so it showed up in
Speaker 1: between plays. It made some great tackles, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and so that's that's for him a starting point. And
Speaker 1: now we just hope that each and every rep that
Speaker 1: he gets in the game, he continues just from prove improof.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a feeding friends, you going on
Speaker 1: that side of the ball, isn't it. I mean you
Speaker 1: can sense it. So many guys getting a hand into
Speaker 1: that game. And the different packages. So you played a
Speaker 1: lot of players yesterday, maybe they didn't get a ton
Speaker 1: of snaps. I'm talking about the packages of putting Sherik
Speaker 1: of Manison. There. You got Aaron Lynch marked down the
Speaker 1: sheet for this game with a sack and involved very much,
Speaker 1: um the law. Nichols got his first snaps in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So everybody wants in right now. It's good. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: all feel it and they know it. And so again
Speaker 1: when you have some of the players that we have
Speaker 1: on defense, Um, there's mismatches that occur, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know when when other guys need to step up and
Speaker 1: make plays, you see that happen, and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: along with that is uh Danny Trerethan. You know what
Speaker 1: a great game he had, you know, with with a
Speaker 1: couple of sacks and forced fumbles and he was just
Speaker 1: all over the place. And that's what we like, we
Speaker 1: need to have that and the list goes on and
Speaker 1: on from the defense yesterday, Uh, it was a special
Speaker 1: night for them. It was a one that we won't forget.
Speaker 1: And we got to continue to keep that thing going.
Speaker 1: And let's look at the offensive side of the ball again.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the running game today. You'd like to see
Speaker 1: in terms of actual pure running plays get a little
Speaker 1: more production. I would, And I think that you know,
Speaker 1: in our situation, Uh, the the big old line and
Speaker 1: the running backs they set the tone. And um, yesterday, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we just weren't averaging as many yards as
Speaker 1: we would like to in a game. But they understand that.
Speaker 1: They know that and any run game is going to
Speaker 1: help you know, an offense out in particular or quarterback
Speaker 1: and so um that's something that we'll we'll definitely focus
Speaker 1: on and uh and I know the guys will work
Speaker 1: hard at it. We have a great group of offensive
Speaker 1: line and great group of backs, tight ends, etc. And
Speaker 1: so um, you know that they'll they'll take a look
Speaker 1: at the film and see where we can improve a
Speaker 1: bunch of third and shorts third and make with thirtain
Speaker 1: you know five or less. Uh, your playbook is wide
Speaker 1: open that point, then, isn't it? It can be. And
Speaker 1: that was the one thing yesterday in the game was
Speaker 1: in the first half we were five for eight on
Speaker 1: third downs and they were all third and manageable. I
Speaker 1: don't think any of them were more than you know,
Speaker 1: third and six, third and seven. Most of them were
Speaker 1: into one, two, three, four range. But then on the
Speaker 1: other hand, we did not convert a third down in
Speaker 1: the second half, and so we only had four opportunities,
Speaker 1: one of them being a four minute third down, So
Speaker 1: really we were over for three and those were all
Speaker 1: you know, third and double digits, third and ten, third
Speaker 1: and twelve, third and fourteen, and so just goes to
Speaker 1: show you gotta you gotta be able to get positive
Speaker 1: yards on first down and put yourself in third and
Speaker 1: manageable and now your percentages go way up. So first
Speaker 1: half we did that, second half we did, and so
Speaker 1: again that's something we need to improve that. As you
Speaker 1: go back, I watched the tape today as you did,
Speaker 1: probably more than once, and I mentioned it to you
Speaker 1: in the in the our post came interview that that
Speaker 1: long drive bridging the third and fourth quarter. As you
Speaker 1: look back again now looking in retrospect, how big was
Speaker 1: that drive? It was big and actually it was our
Speaker 1: best drive of the game. And I say that because
Speaker 1: of where it happened in the game. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, we had eleven plays in that drive, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and we didn't have one third down, and so when
Speaker 1: you have first down anything, yeah, yeah, So anytime you
Speaker 1: do that, you're getting more than just positive yards. And
Speaker 1: then to top it off with a touchdown. To me,
Speaker 1: that might have been one of our best drives that
Speaker 1: we've had in two games. And so that was that
Speaker 1: was something for us to build on again. We started
Speaker 1: out hot, went ninety you know, ninety five yards ish
Speaker 1: for a touchdown to start the game. And it's there,
Speaker 1: it's there. We just got to find a consistency. Tantonine
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Speaker 1: touchdown touchdowns are up sixteenth three out of the Seahawks
Speaker 1: forty five seconds out of the fourth quarter. Bears in
Speaker 1: front all right, Anthony Metta was his first NFL touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: You liked that play, don't you? In the red zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. You know. We were able
Speaker 1: to get Mitch outside of the pocket, get him on
Speaker 1: the run and Anthony made a nice little move there
Speaker 1: on the corner in a good catch and the Bears
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Speaker 1: season home game. Okay, so you didn't get to witness it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had time to go back,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty cool to see Brian or Lacker
Speaker 1: out there, missus McCaskey taking the microphone and having every
Speaker 1: one of those fans attentive to what was going on.
Speaker 1: But what I loved to seeing all the old teammates
Speaker 1: coming back. Yeah, and your guys who witnessed that to
Speaker 1: see what it's all about here in Chicago. Man, that
Speaker 1: that's the best right, Yeah, it was, and we caught
Speaker 1: the tail end of it, and you know, just so
Speaker 1: much support and just so much hard work through with
Speaker 1: what Brian has done and then to put it all
Speaker 1: together at home in front of everybody. What a special
Speaker 1: moment for everybody, everybody involved. And you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: we got to catch the end of it walking out
Speaker 1: there on the field, but I know everyone was really proud,
Speaker 1: which which brings me up Danny Treviathan because he was
Speaker 1: asked about it, he says, oh, we knew, we knew
Speaker 1: what this meant, this day meant to Chicago. So at
Speaker 1: the linebacker level, they went out and balled out, as
Speaker 1: he likes to say. And he may be the underrated
Speaker 1: story of the game because he had a huge game
Speaker 1: and he was playing like Danny trevithan completely healthy thinking
Speaker 1: of the game, playing the game with that vicious attitude
Speaker 1: on the field, and I don't I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of an underrated story in that game. He is for sure,
Speaker 1: and he's a guy that he had a great game
Speaker 1: against the Packers as well. He's playing that at a
Speaker 1: high level and we need that he's an experienced veteran
Speaker 1: on our defense. Our guys look to him as a leader,
Speaker 1: and when they see a leader like him flying around
Speaker 1: making plays with the energy that he has, it's infectious
Speaker 1: to everybody else. So he did. He had a really
Speaker 1: big game last night. I saw him in the locker
Speaker 1: room afterwards. He was completely exhausted. He left it all
Speaker 1: out in the field and he did it through all
Speaker 1: four quarters. Target totals being what they are, they will
Speaker 1: change week to week based on a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: But in his career, Alan Robinson's been a featured target
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one targets his last two years
Speaker 1: before last year's injury, so he's used to getting targeted.
Speaker 1: He got the number one amount of targets yesterday and
Speaker 1: ten catch day. What's this due to the entire offense
Speaker 1: now moving forward? Because it does create interest from defenders
Speaker 1: now it does, and you know A rob has respect
Speaker 1: from every defensive back and safety in this league, and
Speaker 1: so he's going to get that. And I think what
Speaker 1: he's doing is he's now building trust and a good
Speaker 1: trust with Mitchell and you'll see that continue to get
Speaker 1: better and better as well. The more and more routes
Speaker 1: they run the more and more plays that we have.
Speaker 1: And so for last night, for him to have fourteen
Speaker 1: targets and ten catches, that's a start. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: now his his um you know, yards per catch wasn't
Speaker 1: extremely high, but again that's per game how that goes.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we're just we like where that's at.
Speaker 1: We want to get that with some other receivers as
Speaker 1: well and tight ends and but for the most part,
Speaker 1: we were happy with that. There's no doubt. And I've
Speaker 1: talked to you about this and you've told us about
Speaker 1: it as well. This is a tight room, tight team.
Speaker 1: It's growing tighter every day. And today's another example, the
Speaker 1: Bears announcing with the players committing more than two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars the local social justice initiatives, the
Speaker 1: Bears also matching that, so it's a half a million
Speaker 1: dollars in the discussion. That's a part of this. You've
Speaker 1: been a part of this as well. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on all this? Today, the Bears released on Twitter
Speaker 1: and their and their website and Facebook an eight and
Speaker 1: a half minute video with the Committee of Gentlemen, Sam
Speaker 1: Matchel at the at the top of it, obviously, Trey Burton,
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel Keem Hicks, Mitch Drobiski, and Chairman of the
Speaker 1: board George McCaskey. Yeah, So it's this is something that
Speaker 1: these guys have really been talking about for a long
Speaker 1: time now, and I just think it's such a neat
Speaker 1: moment and just really cool for them to be able
Speaker 1: to u do everything they possibly can to h to
Speaker 1: handle this, and to to go out there and show
Speaker 1: their support for this, and so on top of that,
Speaker 1: then to max it out and to have uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bears match it and like you said, and get
Speaker 1: that to five hundred thousand dollars is just, um, that's
Speaker 1: just very unique, really neat. Uh. And then most importantly too,
Speaker 1: I think it's one of one of the things that
Speaker 1: that's neat with that as well as the fact that
Speaker 1: we're the first team to do that, and and so
Speaker 1: just a lot of credit to those players for spearheading
Speaker 1: this thing and making sure that this gets done. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just know everybody involved is really proud,
Speaker 1: proud of this and wants to just keep it going.
Speaker 1: All right, our remaining minute, what would you tell us
Speaker 1: about the years on the Cardinals that you've done some
Speaker 1: quick work on in a short week. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: know this. You know, people can look at you know,
Speaker 1: what they've done offensively with scoring six points in two games.
Speaker 1: They can talk about their record being owned two But
Speaker 1: but I'll say this, and this will be the message
Speaker 1: to the team, is that there's way too much parody
Speaker 1: in this league. And uh, you know, you just have
Speaker 1: to understand that every every team in this league can
Speaker 1: win any single game, regardless of their record or what
Speaker 1: has happened in the past. And sometimes, as they say,
Speaker 1: a wounded animal sometimes the scariest one. And so our
Speaker 1: guys we're going to be completely ready and they need
Speaker 1: to understand how focused we need to be. We're on
Speaker 1: a short week today just being our only day for
Speaker 1: for game prep um, so we need to understand that
Speaker 1: we need to get guys back in, get some rest,
Speaker 1: get going tomorrow and and uh and just know that
Speaker 1: uh um, you know, for for us, let's put together
Speaker 1: a complete game here in week three on the road.
Speaker 1: Let's be sharp, detailed, focused and win together. Very good. Well,
Speaker 1: go at it. I know you got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do at Naggie. Congratulations segre Man Naggie, Bears
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Speaker 1: Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac In the gun seventeen down
Speaker 1: to play clock the staffish back Rick pushed by Roy
Speaker 1: Rob again pocket start to close full comes out at
Speaker 1: the forty yard line. They get to him again. He
Speaker 1: is being cornered in the pocket, unable to get out.
Speaker 1: Have a Bears defense to a standing ovation. Harrett Soldier
Speaker 1: field and was clil max sacking the quarterback and stripping
Speaker 1: him once again. And it is great to see the
Speaker 1: Bears defense playing on the home turf to that kind
Speaker 1: of excitement level. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: and here with Director of Football Administration Joey Lane. Good evening,
Speaker 1: how you doing, Jeff, Thanks for having me, Hey, congratulations
Speaker 1: on the win for the entire front office. Great to
Speaker 1: have you here, and uh, you know, great to delve
Speaker 1: into a unique job in sports, and that is your
Speaker 1: job obviously a part of your job, and that's the
Speaker 1: art of contract negotiating in the National Football League. It's
Speaker 1: part of what you do. But with the contracts grabbing headlines,
Speaker 1: every every writer out there somehow finds a way to
Speaker 1: get the exact terms of the deal that the team
Speaker 1: never does put out but some extraordinary value and impact
Speaker 1: on a franchise. What made it motivated you to to
Speaker 1: pursue this aspect of sports. No, really, it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of you know, an area that
Speaker 1: intrigued me ever since I, you know, learned about the
Speaker 1: business side of sports. Uh you know, I would say
Speaker 1: maybe it's a it's a young you know kid in
Speaker 1: high school. Uh, you know, just can kind of intrigue me.
Speaker 1: And never you know, never know, it wasn't the most
Speaker 1: athletical or anything like that. So I don't sell yourself
Speaker 1: short to go and sell yourself out. And when I
Speaker 1: got to college, I kind of studied up on the
Speaker 1: CBO and and I was just lucked into a job
Speaker 1: with the Saints in two thousand and five, and I
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to work for Mickey Loomis, work under
Speaker 1: Russ Ball, Kay Harley there obviously, you know Ryan. I
Speaker 1: learned a lot from Ryan there and he took me
Speaker 1: here with him. So so it's just a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of luck involved, and that's why why I'm here,
Speaker 1: and good people to learn from fresh in our minds
Speaker 1: obviously is what many have described as a seismic acquisition
Speaker 1: with Khalil Mack and then that's David days before the opener.
Speaker 1: But in order for it to all come together, you
Speaker 1: were also negotiating this long term contract with Max Age
Speaker 1: and Joel Siegel, and I'm certain time was of the
Speaker 1: essence on this one. What was the pressure like in
Speaker 1: writing that contract, which turned out to be the highest
Speaker 1: paid defensive contract in NFL history. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: busy time. It was kind of kind of blur a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I wouldn't necessarily call it, you know, pressure,
Speaker 1: There was some urgency there to get it done. I
Speaker 1: think it was Friday night when things kind of came
Speaker 1: together and we got the go ahead from from the
Speaker 1: Raiders to contact Joel Siegel, who we have a great
Speaker 1: relationship with and and to see if we get a
Speaker 1: deal done and and finalized the trade and and once
Speaker 1: once we we contacted Joel and and and really it
Speaker 1: was just a matter of, hey, Joel, we have we've
Speaker 1: gotten permission and and does Khalil wanted to be a
Speaker 1: Bear and and uh Joel was fired up about he said,
Speaker 1: you know, Khalil was fired up about, uh, the opportunity
Speaker 1: to become a Bear and and just a storied franchise
Speaker 1: and you know, be a member of the organization and
Speaker 1: the historic defense and uh so really the relationship we
Speaker 1: had which all it just kind of made it made
Speaker 1: it easy. There are a few things we needed to
Speaker 1: work through in that short time, but he was motivated
Speaker 1: to get something done. Khalil was motivated to get something done.
Speaker 1: And and we worked through it, and uh, through the
Speaker 1: night Friday and Saturday, you know, morning afternoon we kind
Speaker 1: of kind of finalized. Something had to be quite the
Speaker 1: adrenaline rush. You'll even admit that, right, Yeah, absolutely, it was.
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was it was, It was really fun.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with Director of Football Administration Joey
Speaker 1: Lane and w bbm's Jeff Joeyak continue snap us back
Speaker 1: to Russell Wilson they keep him in the pocket, tripped
Speaker 1: up and down it goes again. Sack by Danny Trevathan
Speaker 1: tripped him up if he's ready to check the pocket. Oh,
Speaker 1: he had a heck of a game. Two sacks, I
Speaker 1: believe eight tackles in this one, and a spirited performance
Speaker 1: by the Bears inside linebacker, and I went over the seahawk.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show here from PNC
Speaker 1: Studio at Halis Hall with Joey Lane. Joey, you, guys,
Speaker 1: General Manager Ryan Pace acquired and or retain players writing
Speaker 1: contracts worth my math's even close, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: totally over four hundred million bucks this year. Given the
Speaker 1: complexity the NFL salary cap and how challenging it is
Speaker 1: to balance the accounting of that cap, at times, while
Speaker 1: you're looking at the present, you're also have an eye
Speaker 1: on the future financially on the franchise, don't you. Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: I think with every decision we make, they're kind of
Speaker 1: two components to it, and it's a you know, if
Speaker 1: you will, micro and a macro and micro with the
Speaker 1: goal is always to compete today, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're always looking and thinking, thinking about how decisions affect
Speaker 1: our roster two three, four years down the road. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's the importance of the importance
Speaker 1: of working with you know, good people Ryan Ted, coach,
Speaker 1: Naggy Josh Champ to where the communication and the kind
Speaker 1: of going over the cost benefit of each decision. It's
Speaker 1: it's really easy and for us to be on the
Speaker 1: same page when we're we're making these decisions of kind
Speaker 1: of being arm in arm. You know, fans often read
Speaker 1: or hear discussions related to the CBA and again that's
Speaker 1: negotiating by the league in the nfl PA. But it
Speaker 1: is a living, breathing document, is it not. And it
Speaker 1: can be interpreted differently, i'd imagine by teams and more
Speaker 1: importantly agents, right, And so how complex is that to
Speaker 1: navigate even in your position? And do you know this
Speaker 1: thing cold? Yeah, I'd like to say, no, it's definitely
Speaker 1: our governing law, right, you know, I'd like to make
Speaker 1: it sound like it's a little more complicated than yea
Speaker 1: it is to to increase my worth. But uh but really,
Speaker 1: you know, once you get get get a hold of it, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and you'd find out how to navigate it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's definitely something we reference, uh, you know daily, myself
Speaker 1: and Nick Sabella, we're always kind of uh looking back
Speaker 1: at it, um and and going through it. But you know,
Speaker 1: from from a standpoint of us and agents to where
Speaker 1: there's a lot of black and white to it, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the things are subject to interpretation and um.
Speaker 1: But but we uh we we there there. There are
Speaker 1: not many times to were uh where we're kind of
Speaker 1: fighting over some things in the CBA. We kind of
Speaker 1: leave that to uh, the union and the league. Your
Speaker 1: NFL history, as you're indicated in the first segment here,
Speaker 1: began with the Saints. You spent eleven years there, you
Speaker 1: were an intern there. It's where you worked with Ryan.
Speaker 1: So how closely did you guys at that time work
Speaker 1: together in that organization and how would you describe your relationship.
Speaker 1: I definitely would say we're we're pretty close, working together
Speaker 1: for almost fourteen years at this point. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: kind of coming in as an intern, Ryan was a
Speaker 1: pro scout at the time, and you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily come in with an intense football background,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, Ryan kind of kind of brought
Speaker 1: me on in his wing a little bit of uh
Speaker 1: you know, working with the personnel department and kind of
Speaker 1: trying to do whatever I can and and uh it
Speaker 1: was great, you know to to listen to how the
Speaker 1: scouts and the evaluators you know talked, and right Ryan
Speaker 1: kind of showed me what what they were, you know,
Speaker 1: looking for and football players and what they looked for
Speaker 1: traits wise. So I you know, really really gathered a
Speaker 1: lot uh during during those times. And and uh and
Speaker 1: right right now just again being being together with them
Speaker 1: for fourteen years, and it's, uh, the communications really seamless
Speaker 1: right now. There's a lot of you know, trust on
Speaker 1: on each side. And that's that trust is something that
Speaker 1: I definitely don't take for granted. Man, you're right here
Speaker 1: in May fifteen. So what's it like not a half
Speaker 1: such a pivotal role in helping, you know, reshape the
Speaker 1: riter and reflect what Ryan's vision is for what he
Speaker 1: wants the Bears to be. Yeah, I mean, first off,
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible to be working you know for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, right you know, uh, such a great franchise
Speaker 1: and the McCaskey family. It's, uh, it's you got to
Speaker 1: pinch myself. So uh, and then the exactly Ryan you know,
Speaker 1: kind of taking me over from New Orleans and and
Speaker 1: you know, being able to really uh, you know, carry
Speaker 1: out his vision. It's it's pretty cool. The best the
Speaker 1: best thing about it is, you know, kind of where
Speaker 1: we are from four years ago when we got here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the character and the culture of this football team.
Speaker 1: And that's that's really is a testament to Ryan and
Speaker 1: with Coachnaggi coming into they share the vision, that vision
Speaker 1: for the football team and uh, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and you know Ryan's what he's looking for in players
Speaker 1: and uh, and that being carried out by Josh champ Mark. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty pretty cool to be sitting here
Speaker 1: today and looking at the culture of our team and
Speaker 1: where we're at as a negotiator. Do you have a philosophy? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's you know what, I would say that
Speaker 1: there's two It's two parts to it. There's one, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of be principled, having your principles, um. And then
Speaker 1: that really in a sense of you know, we don't
Speaker 1: we don't get stuck on a quote unquote position and
Speaker 1: trying to win within a negotiation. You know, we have
Speaker 1: we have an honest thought process that's always going to
Speaker 1: be genuine and evan is based you know. Um and
Speaker 1: and you don't necessarily think you could. We might not
Speaker 1: agree with the other side, but always but they they
Speaker 1: have to respect that. Um and then and then a
Speaker 1: cooperative with with agents. Uh. You know, really, when when
Speaker 1: you go into these negotiations, like I said, it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily you're trying to win, it's working together. It's almost
Speaker 1: like a partnerships. That's why our relationships are important. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, let's try to get something done. Let's try
Speaker 1: to get to the heart of the issues and work
Speaker 1: together to see if we can find that common ground.
Speaker 1: But Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues
Speaker 1: exclusively on the Home of the Bears News Radio seven
Speaker 1: eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM,
Speaker 1: and our final moments with Joey Lane here on the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show. Kind enough to spend some time with us. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're an even kiel guy. You're very friendly.
Speaker 1: I always gonna smile on your face. But when you're new, O,
Speaker 1: shat do you change? Is just like the feel for
Speaker 1: the guys. Does the switch flipp Does the emotion take over?
Speaker 1: What's going on with that? No, I wouldn't say, um,
Speaker 1: you know, as as coach now he says, be you
Speaker 1: you know, bry So, I don't say we necessarily you know, change.
Speaker 1: I'd like to consider, you know, myself as a genuine person. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's I would just say that going
Speaker 1: through these negotiations once again, it's it's it's in. It
Speaker 1: just stresses the importance of having relationships with agents to
Speaker 1: where you get to know their personality. Right. So, uh no, no,
Speaker 1: negotiation is really no two negotiations are like you know,
Speaker 1: they kind of take on a life of its own. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's momentum swings you know here there
Speaker 1: and um you know you gotta yeah, just understand that
Speaker 1: there there's an end game and you're trying to find
Speaker 1: common ground with with with an Asian and and uh
Speaker 1: the other side and you could control which you could control,
Speaker 1: and and like it's it's you just kind of get
Speaker 1: you have to get past those momentum swings and and
Speaker 1: because that's not going to be productive if you you
Speaker 1: get rolled up and you get you know, let emotions
Speaker 1: kind of get involved. So just as long as as
Speaker 1: each side, you know, it's motivated to get something done,
Speaker 1: and usually you can find that common ground. Have you
Speaker 1: always been a football guy? He grew up in uh
Speaker 1: Louisiana as a kid, you know, I, uh growing up
Speaker 1: in Louisiana, a huge Saints fan growing up. Uh you know.
Speaker 1: Once again, I you know, it was a ninety nine
Speaker 1: pounds in high school. I couldn't even couldn't even get
Speaker 1: a helmet that fit me, you know, in high school
Speaker 1: my freshman year. So, uh, you know, if the football
Speaker 1: guy guy concept, I wouldn't necessarily categorize myself as that.
Speaker 1: I like to think, I, you know, bring something unique
Speaker 1: to the organization and look at uh the game from
Speaker 1: a different lens. Um you know, obviously the business side
Speaker 1: of it. But uh but yeah, so I you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely, um, you know, definitely see myself as as
Speaker 1: kind of just a fan living a dream. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: you're doing a heck of a job and we appreciate
Speaker 1: you taking the time. Joey Lane, director of Football Administration
Speaker 1: of the Bears, thank you so much. All right, thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you for the Week three kickoff
Speaker 1: in Arizona, where the Bears meet the Owen two Cardinals
Speaker 1: in Glendale, Arizona. Have a great night, everybody. Thanks for listening.
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