WEBVTT - Matt Eberflus: 'Young guys are getting great experience' | Coaches Show 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.520 The following is the presentation of the Chicago Bears Network, 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.640 now on news radio one oh five nine. This is 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.759 the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.120 sponsored by Advocate Healthcare and Athletical Physical Therapy. Now from 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.880 Palace Hall. Here's the police of the Bear's w BBMS 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.000 Jeff Joniac, Welcome in to another edition of the Bears 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.120 Coaches Show featuring head coach Matt Eberflus. A great evening 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.559 to everybody. Hope everybody's Christmas was great, joyful, hopeful, and 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.159 that goes for you too, Jem and nice day. Ah, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.559 yes I did, and good even. We're here until eight 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.080 o'clock tonight. Coming up at eight o'clock Monday Night football 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.680 joining in progress. It's the Chargers and Colts. Will pick 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.120 that up on seven eighty AM, with news continuing on 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.320 one oh five nine FM. All right, so you have 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.239 plenty of time to think about this one and take 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.960 a look at things. So we'll start with the weather 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.520 though first, because many Bears saying it was the coldest 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.639 game they ever played. Twenty six mon our wins GUS 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.480 to thirty five temperature and nine win SHO minus twelve. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.680 It felt even colder than that to me in the booth. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.800 How to feel for you and how did the players 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.480 respond to that? Cool? No, it was good. You know, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.600 first of all, shout out to the fans for everybody 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.880 that showed up to the game. That was really cool 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.920 to see all the Bears fans there chairing the song 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.160 and they've been excellent all year, you know. Relative to 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.959 the players, it was it was really cold, but it 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.080 was more about the wind. You know, the wind was 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.479 pushing the ball, you know, one direction or the other. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.480 It was more of a swirling wind up there, you 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.200 know in the stadium because it was coming from the 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.080 west and it wasn't coming you know, you know, more 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.240 one way or the other, but it was hitting the 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.479 side of the stadium and kind of swirling in there. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.440 So it really wasn't pushing it one direction or the other. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.760 So it really didn't say, okay, hey we want to 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.399 kick this way or kick that way, because that was 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.320 a consideration going into the game, saying hey we can 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 you know, possibly you know, take the ball or and 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.920 also had to win in the fourth quarter to be 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.240 able to do that. But we decided to go ahead 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.040 and we were deferring again. We didn't. We end up 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.640 winning the coin toss, but it all worked out. But again, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.400 the kick lines where they were fourth down considerations were 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.079 a little bit longer just because of the wind um 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.360 and went we went for fourth downs too, obviously, went 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.079 for four of them moments at the very end of 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.519 the game. We end up getting one of them, we 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.280 end up getting a reversal on a replay on the 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.280 other one, and the other one was tipped at the 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.119 line of scrimmage. So overall we need to do better there. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.840 But certainly those lines were open a little bit more 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 from fourth down tries. Well, Hack Justin even said even 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.519 the short throws, you didn't really know where it was 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.120 going to wind up going because of the gusts, you know, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.280 those little things. Yeah, I mean, how about shotgun snaps. Yeah, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.280 you saw that on the on the on the Morrow interception. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.400 You know, Josh was stepping up to go ahead and 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.720 throw a simple check down and the wind just blew it, uh, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.799 you know, vertically, So it ended up you know, going 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.840 right to Morrow and doing a nice job of catching it. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.800 And and not that this vets the Bears in any way, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.359 shape or form, but you feel for Buffalo a little bit. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.800 They were stuck here because of what was going on 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.480 in Buffalo, And if you were in that same situation, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.440 how would you handle that, Because you know, you're in 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.639 the future when you're a playoff team end of the 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.240 year and you're trying to get stuff done and get 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.880 and get the best possible seed. Now they lost a 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.840 day here and now they're losing. I don't even know 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.200 if they're back yet. Yeah. I think they got back 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.480 yesterday sometime afternoon, I believe. But again, that was one 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.880 of the worst storms the Erie County and Buffalo has 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.160 had in fifty years. And obviously a lot of people 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.320 have lost their lives. So it's a serious, serious deal 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.360 and people are still digging out from that. A lot 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.799 of people don't have electricity. So I feel for those 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.320 people over there. Prayers out to those guys. But yeah, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.880 it's certainly a tough situation for the football team as well. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.040 All right, let's let's dig into the game. Attrition has 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.280 been something significant obviously on this football team. I believe 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.240 of the twenty two starters, eleven of them did not 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.400 start Week one. Yeah, that's that's significant, and a lot 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.040 of teams go through it but yet you've managed, as 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.520 you were pointing out to me, you know many times, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.000 been in a lot of these games despite that attrition 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.400 and right up until the fourth quarter and key moments. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.440 What do you what do you attribute that to and 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.480 how did they respond to that? With this a whole 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.920 group of guys, offensive line changes again, secondary you name it. Yeah, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.720 I mean the guys were in there battling again. So 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.680 it was you know, twenty one thirteen, you know, going 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.760 into you know, eight minutes to go within the game, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.359 and uh, you know, but to go back to your 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.120 original question, you know, it really is the guy's being 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.719 able to step up. You know, I think the coaches 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.960 are doing an outstanding job preparing these guys. You know, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.560 the Jalen Jones, you know the black Well, you know 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.560 Sandborn when he's in there, Dominic Robinson, Gordon coming back 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.200 from injury. He's played really well the last couple of weeks. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.440 Brisker has done a nice job, you know, So you 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.280 get a Veylis Shones had a bounce back game from 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.160 last week from the week before. So a lot of 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.120 these young guys are getting a lot of great experience 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.640 and uh, you know it happens in the league where guys, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.040 you know, you know, go down and you got to 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.880 step up, and guys have done that all year. Could 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.039 you have imagined playing this many rookies and this many 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.839 snaps before the season began, And if you did or didn't, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.680 did you have faith that the coaches would get them 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.320 ready because of the type of talent that was brought in. Yeah, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.840 I always have faith in the coaches. You know, these 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.719 guys are teachers first and that's what they are. And 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.800 then they're they're they're motivating guys. They can motivate their 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.720 players to play very hard and play play the right way. So, um, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.520 that's why we brought him here in the in the beginning. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.840 But uh, yeah, you never really know what's going to happen. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.400 We knew we're gonna have to play a few rookies, um, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.320 you know on defense for sure, but uh, you know 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.479 this has been a little bit more than we're used to. Yeah, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.479 no question. Three starters in the second Let's pick it 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.120 up there because Gordon outside, which was a little bit 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.599 different than the nickel, And how did he respond in 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.599 your opinion? Look good? Another interception? Yeah, it's great. It 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.640 was a great interception. You know, obviously was cover three, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.599 end up bailing back to his third and end up 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.479 you know, high pointing the ball and a nice return 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.880 out to the thirty five. That was very good. But uh, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.359 you know, I think it's another opportunity for him to 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.000 play outside and use a different skill set. You know, 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.320 he's been going back and forth and he can just 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.760 really hone on this outside scope was position right now 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.479 and he looks good out there, and he's gonna have 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.120 his hands full. You know, we're gonna play a couple 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.840 of good sets of receivers here to the last two 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.280 weeks and he'll have his hands full and he's gonna 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.120 have to use all the skill he can. It might 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.719 give you a window to next year at a different spot. Absolutely, Yeah, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.680 and Blackwell also learning that. Yeah, Blackball is doing good inside. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.280 You know, he's a very scrappy player. He's very tough. Um. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.359 He shows that on special teams all the time. He 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.320 did a really nice job a couping the ball yesterday, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.240 keeping on his inside pad. Um. I think it was 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.960 a pass out to the tight end knocks out there. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.600 But I believe and uh um he's done a good 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.560 job there. And I know everytime there's a near takeaway 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.640 or possibil takeaway. It's gonna live with you, Jalen Jones 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.640 on that cross one side to the field the other. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.400 Just put your hands up in there. Maybe you snare 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.520 that one. That would have been a un amazing play 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.719 as well. But overall, his his toughness and ability to 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.040 just not make it too big for him sticking out 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.440 about this hundred We talk about him every week. Yeah, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.200 he's doing a really good job there. And you know 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.120 that one player you're referring to, you know, that was 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.120 a you know, the ball us one across the field. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.360 He was We're in a cloud corner covered two corner there, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.720 and he was just simply bail him back and he 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.680 did a good job of high pointing the ball. His 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.720 hands got to come up together. I mean, if you 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.640 look at the replayers hands or apart, you know, so 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.000 you got to form that triang or that diamond to 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.520 be able to catch that ball and look it in. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.880 And so we'll coach him up on that and get 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.960 them better for next time. Isn't it the darnest thing? 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.800 It is? It really is about the little things. This 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.760 it is always is. Little things become big things. If 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.000 if you let it right. So I mean we go, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.640 we go all these shows all season long, but every 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.840 single week of these shows we talk about these little 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.760 things and once those little things get picked up to 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.800 the record flips. Yep, it sure does. The Bears Coaches 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.040 Show with Matt Eberflus and w BBMS Jeff Joni I 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.640 continues snap fields, protections, good look at the throw to 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.760 the end zone wide up, but backing up what corner 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:55.200 dot tech pet us for the touchdown? Touchdown? Bears, Welcome 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.760 back to the Bear's Coaches Show with Matt Eberflus. Greats 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.920 He's available to see here Chicago Bears this season. It's 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.760 would you feel get your tickets at Chicago Bears dot 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.240 com slash tickets. Just heard the fields to Pettis touchdown 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.840 a six yard or only touchdown of the game for 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.240 the Bears. Opening drive touchdowns are always sweet. That one 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.080 was breakdown the play. Yeah, you know, our offense has 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.760 done a really good job when I was opening drives 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.280 all year and uh that's our first fifteen. The guys 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:18.960 do a really good job of scripting that. You know, 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.480 during the course of the week, Um, the players know 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.720 what the plays are and again that was a red 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.320 zone play for us, and uh, you know they were 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.040 in a quarters type of concept on that particular play. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.600 We had a bunch concept there and uh, you know 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.600 Dante line up at number three and end up you know, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.800 stemming out to the number two position and working to 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.160 the flat. You know, whatever happened there, they happened. And 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.080 he was wide opening in the in the in the 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.079 corner of the end zone there. Nice nice throw, nice 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:47.000 catch and good execution. Yep, it's never easy pitching catch, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.400 but he's wide open, backing up catching the throw. Just 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.760 you know, don't drop it right, That's that's what you're thinking. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.640 It's always a teaching moment here, Always a teaching moment 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.120 here for sure. With Matt Eberflus, you talk about stem. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.200 Let's talk about for those people who don't know what 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.920 that means, refers to our route. Yes, so when you 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.920 start out as a receiver, you stem your route either 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.559 inside or outside based on the leverage of the of 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.240 the defender or based on the route concept itself. So 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.280 he was line up at number three, So you always 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.320 count the receiver numbers outside in so when you're in 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.840 a three by one set, it'll be one, two, three. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.840 He was line up inside the innermost receiver towards you know, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.760 towards the ball, and he stemmed out to that number 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.280 two positions, so he actually switched release with the number 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.280 two guy and then he went to the flat. So 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.480 that really created some confusion, um, you know for the 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.560 Buffalo Bills in that particular play, and we end up 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.559 scoring a touchdown. All right, Another one here because we 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.200 talked about the first fifteen. I don't know, maybe teams 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.720 do more than that or less than that. When was 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.600 that born? Has it always been that way? And could 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.360 you do more? That's just too much? That's a good question, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.480 you know. You know, different coordinators do it different ways. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.000 You know, their first fifteen is really predicated off their 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.520 first and second down calls, so they have them and 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.280 they just go down the line to make s. They 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.559 do a good mix of running pass and different formations 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.160 and different pass concepts. You know. Then when it goes 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:07.960 to third down, they go to their third down chart. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.880 You know, what's my first third and two call, what's 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.600 my first third and five call? So forth and so on. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.520 But they go through that so they get a good 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.960 rhythm and they really do it for you know, identification 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.840 also for the for what what is the defense? What 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.200 are they doing? How they attacking us, how they trying 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.800 to attack us, So they can gather information as they 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.319 go through their first fifteen. And then conversely, how does 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.600 the defense prepare for somebody's first fifteen? Obviously you're watching 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.200 previous weeks and so forth, but maybe everybody's got a 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.120 fresh fifteen, uh, and then what can you do with 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.679 your fifteen? Yeah, that's that's also a good that you 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.080 want to counter a lot of those things. And you know, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.520 we have what we're you know, our stable defenses, of course, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.000 but we also have these things that we mix in there, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.920 you know, to throw them off the scent. So we'll 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.080 have different new looks for them as well in the 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.880 first fifteen, different fronts, different front variations, different movements, different pressures, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.840 something they haven't seen from us, just to mix some 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.800 mix in there. We do that every single week. Do 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.679 teams also planned the first drive in the second half? Sure, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.800 same way, yep, they sure do, yep. So they go 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.040 in there and they'll get collectively as a group they say, okay, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.920 this is what we're gonna start with. Guys. Here's here's 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.120 another stack of plays that we want to run and 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.480 then we'll go back to our third down menu. Very good. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 I always love hearing that kind of insight. All right, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.480 let's talk about the rush, both the Bears and defending 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.600 the run. Obviously there's a big, big part of the 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.959 game with the two hundred and fifty seven yards rushing 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.240 against you in the eight that you get. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:31.720 so that was one of the big, you know, key 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.719 takeaways that you and I talked about before the game. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.720 We wanted to own the line of scrimmage. And again, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.400 hats off to Buffalo. They did a really good job 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.720 of that, you know, with their defensive line and also 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.000 the running backsman ale to run the ball. So you know, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.440 we got to do a good job of fitting up 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.520 the run on defense, you know, and then obviously doing 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.280 a really good job of like we have all year 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.640 on offense. I've been having that ability to run the ball. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.280 We just got to do a better job of finishing 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.360 our blocks. How do you feel Herbert looked, let's not 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.320 look at the production for a minute, because he had 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.120 a few touches is not a lot of yards, but 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.520 it was at their defense or was he just getting 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.040 back into form? Yeah, I just think he you know, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.920 I thought he looked good, you know, pregame, I thought 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.400 he was he was ready to go, and he'll he'll 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.440 get himself right there again. He's he's a talented back. Um, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.640 he'll he makes those cuts and makes those guys miss 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.040 and uh, he'll be back at it here shortly. They 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.840 mentioned in the news conference earlier today, they you know, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.280 you had a footstep down justin fields by Matt Milano, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.520 the linebacker for the Bills. But he's good to go. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.320 He's okay, yeah, yeah, he's good to go again. We'll 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.520 see here in the next forty eight hours. But you know, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.600 right now everything's green light. He's looking good and ready 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.120 for Wednesday's practice. I thought it was an interesting question, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.320 you know, to even consider shutting him down, was one 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.319 of the questions asked. But there is so much evaluation. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.520 Every rep matters at this point. I know some people 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.160 may not believe that that it carries over, but every 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.679 experience matters. It's a it's a deposit on your future, Yes, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.160 it's it really is important. These are two division games 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.560 for us UM. It's very important for a football team 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.920 to be able to go out compete and win these 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.600 football games. And UH and learn how to finish as 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.920 a group playing complimentary football at the end. And in 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.719 these division opponents. Obviously, you gotta win your division to 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.679 get in the playoffs. That's always the key, you know, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.560 that's your clearest pathway to do it. So to take 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.800 on these teams and knock them down is a big 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.120 key alliance. Also competing still for a playoff spot, so 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.360 they'll come in with some juice there. Their building was 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.360 rock and a couple of weeks ago, so that's also 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.200 a good experience for the basil Burg. Now more of 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.880 the Bears Coaches Show featuring Matt Eberflus on Shape Congo's news, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.600 traffic and weather station one oh five nine w BBM. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.480 Back to throw, Josh Allen winds up tossness intercepted into 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.200 the end zone. Gordon comes out five. Gordon with an 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.880 athletic pick of the ten to the fifty twenty twenty 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.400 five thirty coming to the near side of the field, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.559 head tackle Crow behind by James Cook all the way 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.679 out to the thirty five yard line. Catter Gordon's third 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.160 interceptor of the year. Welcome back to the Bears Coaching 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.000 Show with Matt Eberflus, get the ultimate VIP fan package. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.240 It's Chicago Bears VIP so if you're a game ticket 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.000 and appearance and Bears Legends and more by visiting Chicago 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.920 Bears vip dot com. The interception by Gordon his third 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.840 we already touched down to play, but just after he 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.160 comes back in the concussion, it just seems like he's 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.440 a slightly different player. Is that me imagining it or 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.080 what do you think? Uh? You knows he's always had 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.960 great confidence. I think he had a chance to in 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.320 those couple of weeks to reflect a little bit. Uh, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.680 to go back and digest what he's done so far 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.680 to this point, go back and look a lot of it, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.000 look at a lot of his tape, and really get 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.480 the feedback from his coach and really just do a 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.960 good job. They're assessing where he was and where he's 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.440 going to go in the future and where he's gonna 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.680 go these next few games. And uh, and again that 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.240 player that we just heard was was it was excellent. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:49.800 You know. It was a one by three formation that 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.120 tight end up going in a crossing route and we 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.240 were in a simple cover three and he ended up 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.800 climbing in his third um and they try to throw 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.040 a deep over route to the back of that corner 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.000 of the end zone there, and he did a great 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.080 job sinking back and high pointing that ball, brought it 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.840 back to the thirty five. There were some really good 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.640 blocks on that return as well. You know, we always 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.200 bring up all the returns on the numbers there, it's 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.400 the numbers return. And I thought our defense had a 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.240 really good job getting some blocks. Almost had a chance 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.000 to break it when he cut back across the field, 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.320 but he got caught. But I thought overall it was 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.360 a good interception and a really nice return by our defense. Yeah, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.600 when he cut the I thought for sure that something 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.760 might open up there. And when he made that kind 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.720 of look you know you got, you got, you had 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.920 stood up a little bit, right, Yeah, yeah, tall, Okay, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.360 here we go, right, here we go. But the but 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.200 the other thing too, that the interception itself, the technique 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.760 and the sinking and all that's great, But to me, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.520 that was an athletic interception high pointing that ball, leaping, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.880 twisting and making the catch. That that all has to 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.000 be put together as well. Yeah, and then the the 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.840 you know, the sermon. You know, I always right there 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.160 on the goal and when he caught it, you know, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.360 so he was in you know, but him to be 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.760 able to take it out of there till the thirty 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.040 five was really good. Um. Obviously, if you get any 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.720 deeper net, you just like the take a knee. But 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.760 in that one there, he's kind of was fell back 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.320 into it as he caught it, and he decided to 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.960 bring it out from your conversations with him over the 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.920 course of the season, because he was targeted a ton, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.080 I mean he was and you know, did give up 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.960 some yards and a couple of touchdowns. But did that 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.280 challenge his resolve in anyway, Well, he's gonna have his 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.360 resolve challenge. You're playing corner in the NFL, So that's 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.200 the way it goes. I mean, you're gonna get targeted, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.560 you're gonna get you know things, the ball is gonna 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.720 get thrown to you. What I think that the defensive 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.440 backs are really doing a good job. And I mentioned 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.720 this the last couple a couple of weeks ago. I 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.200 believe is that when the ball is thrown on a 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.840 go ball, you know, we've been doing a really good job. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.800 And I think Jaalen had one yesterday again or it 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.080 might have been black Wall black bol where he was 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.760 looking he was in phase, but also looking back as 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.880 his arms go up, you know, so he won't get 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.600 defensive pass interference. And I think our defensive backs coach 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.560 has been doing a really good job with that. James 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.000 Row and also David Overstreet have done a nice job 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.640 with that repping that. During the draw work. You mentioned 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.440 penalties and I know that was a big thing for 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.880 you coming and your history is low penalties, and I 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.240 think that has been the case. There's been very few 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.879 special teams penalties. Are you Are you comfortable with the 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.320 amount of given a young team so far with two 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.680 games together. Yeah, I mean it's it's been good. It's 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.120 been good. It's not top five, it's not where where 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.919 we need it to be, um where we want it 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.399 to be. But it's been disciplined football. You know. The 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.520 guys who have been disciplined, they've done a nice job 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.280 understanding when when too when not to um you know, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.760 make those moves that are that are on the edge 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.680 and uh of they did a really good job being 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.560 discipline and things like personal files and all that. I 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.280 touched on this and the Bears led the league in 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.480