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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak and a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome
Speaker 1: into the Bear's Coaches Show with head coach Matt Eberflus.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonik with you until eight o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 1: news Radio one oh five nine w BBM. A wonderful
Speaker 1: Chicago style. I gotta say Chicago style. Season opening victory
Speaker 1: at Saggy Soldier Field yesterday met a nineteen ten over
Speaker 1: the visiting Niners. How did it feel in good evening?
Speaker 1: To you? It was it was great. You know, I've
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the moment, you know, after the game with
Speaker 1: the players, just you know, reflecting on out how hard
Speaker 1: they worked during the course of the week and how
Speaker 1: they performed during the game, and you know, it's a
Speaker 1: gritty performance and the guys just pulled tighter and tighter
Speaker 1: together as as the game went on. So and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a credit to the coaches and their preparation during
Speaker 1: the course of the week, and also you know their
Speaker 1: halftime adjustments, what they what they did and adjusted to
Speaker 1: the weather and adjusted to what we were seeing on
Speaker 1: the field. So just the hats off to the whole group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields remarked after the game in an interview. I so,
Speaker 1: I said, it felt like he was in a movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've talked to him about this,
Speaker 1: but I could picture, you know, one of those football
Speaker 1: movies from high school and it's muddy and it's raining
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But the torrential rain of the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: certainly set that scene. But he played the part very
Speaker 1: well in that movie, didn't he, Yes, he did. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a special guy, you know, and uh, you
Speaker 1: could see he was. He was just unbelievable with him,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to extend plays and create things
Speaker 1: on his own when things break down, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. Also, you know the end of game,
Speaker 1: they slipping, slide whatever, however you want to describe it.
Speaker 1: A backyard kids having fun, but adult kids doing it
Speaker 1: this in this case. But that's a forever moment. Because
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the still shot photos
Speaker 1: of it, they're plastered everywhere. That moment's never going away
Speaker 1: for you either your staff. That is a snapshot for
Speaker 1: their rest of their lives. Yeah, you know those things,
Speaker 1: those moments are just spontaneous. They this happened, you know,
Speaker 1: it's out of pure joy for winning the football game
Speaker 1: and in the elements and how fun it was for
Speaker 1: everybody to take part of that, and they just did it,
Speaker 1: and they all just said, Hey, we're gonna go do
Speaker 1: a slipping slide. It was fun to watch. And boy,
Speaker 1: Justin's was perfect. Man, you're talking about he was spread eagle, perfect,
Speaker 1: sliding all the way in there. Yes, a performer for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: the performance included nineteen non answered points in that second half,
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes, you had the Cutel Herbert touchdown run
Speaker 1: and Eddie Jackson interception that was awful big too, and
Speaker 1: a big shared third down sack by Roquan and Dominique Robinson.
Speaker 1: Those are the headlines. There's hidden highlights along the way,
Speaker 1: But just put all that into context for us and
Speaker 1: then maybe throw us some hidden highlights in that game
Speaker 1: that we maybe not focusing on after you watch the tape. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know I told the players in the
Speaker 1: night before that you know it's going to come down
Speaker 1: to six or seven plays, and those are the plays
Speaker 1: you just described. That were the plays you know that
Speaker 1: we talked about the night before. But you also have
Speaker 1: to perform in the plays to the other plays, and
Speaker 1: you never know when those six or seven plays are
Speaker 1: gonna come. You don't know if it's going to be
Speaker 1: played one. It could be play seventy two, could be
Speaker 1: played forty two. That's why the cycle of the snap
Speaker 1: in our foundation is so important that we play you know,
Speaker 1: full speed, you know, aggressive smart football every single play
Speaker 1: and then good things happened. And that's what happened there.
Speaker 1: And really, just to answer your second part of the question,
Speaker 1: highlighted that would be when Dante Pettis caught that football
Speaker 1: across the field, you had EQ come all the way
Speaker 1: across the field to block for the touchdown, you know,
Speaker 1: and Dante set it up and EQ came all the
Speaker 1: way over and made that final block and there it was.
Speaker 1: But that just goes about, you know, our principles of
Speaker 1: how you hustle and play with great intensity, and he
Speaker 1: certainly showed that on that play. Yeah, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about EQ even later in the show on his touchdown catchup.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite design play of the game. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that leader in the show. It was an
Speaker 1: upset in the Vegas world. Of course, you don't live
Speaker 1: in that world. The players and coaches don't live in
Speaker 1: that world. This belief in each other I think has
Speaker 1: grown maybe quicker than most, maybe even the players feeling that.
Speaker 1: Even a comment made I think it was Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: actually after the game said everything coach Eberflus has been
Speaker 1: telling us is coming true. Well, you know, it's when
Speaker 1: the guys work hard together, you know, and put something
Speaker 1: out there, which they did, you know, all the last
Speaker 1: last seven months in training camp. They've always done, you know,
Speaker 1: put everything out there, done everything we've asked them to do.
Speaker 1: And there's a bond that happens there. And that's what
Speaker 1: you're seeing, you know, and guys hell do a standard.
Speaker 1: They're starting to hold themselves to our standard. And that's
Speaker 1: the reflection of the game. The other day, You've indicated
Speaker 1: that it takes a long time to watch tape the
Speaker 1: way you guys grade the tape at this point, because
Speaker 1: I don't know how you operate every single day during
Speaker 1: the regular season. So how many times have you watched it?
Speaker 1: Have you watched it once or do you go back?
Speaker 1: How many times do you go back through it? And
Speaker 1: how long does it take? It takes a while because
Speaker 1: you know what I watched the tape. It's it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six plays, so I got I watched continuous,
Speaker 1: so I'll start with it's the way the game goes,
Speaker 1: so the the kicking, and then offense, then hunt and
Speaker 1: then defense. And I watched it all the way through
Speaker 1: so I can get the flow of the game, just
Speaker 1: for more of a game management style to watch it
Speaker 1: that way. But on every play, I'm watching effort, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the intensity. I'm watching how we're how we're
Speaker 1: taking care of the ball, and how we're you know,
Speaker 1: really take you getting after the football on defense and
Speaker 1: then if we're playing smart, you know, in terms of
Speaker 1: being aggressive and being smart. So it takes a while,
Speaker 1: you know. I got in here this morning at around six,
Speaker 1: started watching the tape and I was done around ten
Speaker 1: ten thirty, So it took me a while to watch it.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're here to do. Yeah, we're here
Speaker 1: to have the standards and we're here to make sure
Speaker 1: we don't walk by a mistake and make sure that
Speaker 1: we're grading the guys the right way so they can
Speaker 1: get the feedback they need to get better. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into some of what happened yesterday. Let's tide
Speaker 1: the running game because there was a commitment. Certainly the
Speaker 1: weather contributed to that. Thirty seven. We love that here
Speaker 1: in Chicago. The ninety nine yards also is significant. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a good number. It's a hundred, it's
Speaker 1: almost one hundred yards. It's not what you want yards
Speaker 1: per carry. But in these conditions and the commitment to it,
Speaker 1: would you say it was a successful day. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that the weather dictator that you know, on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. We you know, both teams
Speaker 1: run the ball at the same amount of times, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's, uh, you know, a commitment that you have
Speaker 1: to have when the weather's like that, and you got
Speaker 1: to be able to be good at it. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to be good stopping the run and running
Speaker 1: the ball. And we certainly need to improve on both sides,
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball in that regard. We're going
Speaker 1: to really work hard on that this week. Five first
Speaker 1: downs by penalty. Now, the commitment of the committed penalties
Speaker 1: were San Francisco, twelve of them for ninety nine yards. Also,
Speaker 1: but your players and how they're using their technique and
Speaker 1: how they're performing also contribute to drawing those penalties. So
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's a huge win for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, penalties are always a big part of it.
Speaker 1: That's not beating yourself, you know, and you can play
Speaker 1: inside the whistle, you know, make sure you know snapped
Speaker 1: the whistle and play aggressive style and still get your
Speaker 1: job done. And we're always talking about that. We had
Speaker 1: the officials in for training camp a lot of times.
Speaker 1: We've played our guys a lot in preseason for that reason,
Speaker 1: and we want to play clean football, and it showed
Speaker 1: on Sunday the Bears Coaches Show with Mattie Buflus and
Speaker 1: w BBMS Jeff joni I continued, there's the snap at
Speaker 1: out of readoption. It gives left to Samuel, he bounces inside,
Speaker 1: he follow the football, Bears have taken it away and
Speaker 1: under his arm. Jaquan Brisker the safety horse bumble. Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson recovered by brisk Welcome back to the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus here until eight
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight as we get ready for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Later in the show, first defensive series and why don't
Speaker 1: you know it a forced fumble to stop the drive
Speaker 1: in the red zone, Jalen Johnson pulling up peanut punch
Speaker 1: and Charles Timlan was there yesterday as one of the
Speaker 1: honorary captains enjoying the show. Had to make him happy
Speaker 1: to see that in the recovery by Jaquan Brisker. It's
Speaker 1: what you've been preaching, and you'll preaching till the cows
Speaker 1: come home, right, Yeah, it was. It was a good play.
Speaker 1: You know, we were in a shell coverage there, and
Speaker 1: you know, Jaalen head force on the defense in terms
Speaker 1: of the run play and he and that reaching there
Speaker 1: and punching it out. And then Jaquan was the apex player,
Speaker 1: you know, playing the half part of the field and
Speaker 1: he ended up recovering it. And we have some good pursuit,
Speaker 1: you know, Roquan was pursuing the ball as well. We
Speaker 1: had some good pursuit inside out but it was a
Speaker 1: nice play. You know, it could there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things that could we could do a little bit better
Speaker 1: on that play, but uh, you know, we'll talk to
Speaker 1: the players about that details. But but we got the
Speaker 1: fumble recovery on that one, right, because in the end,
Speaker 1: that's truly what you care about is the finish. Yes, finish,
Speaker 1: and that's what that's really goes to the coaches. You know,
Speaker 1: we and all of our drools, we have a start
Speaker 1: to every droll, We have a finished every droll. We
Speaker 1: make sure that guys finished the right way, and they
Speaker 1: certainly did that on that play. Does your Bears fandom
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Speaker 1: Bears Coaching Show on WBBM Jeff Joniac and coach Eberflus.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take Eddie Jackson's diving interception in twenty
Speaker 1: six yard return. It was significant, but more than just
Speaker 1: for the impact of this game. For him as a person,
Speaker 1: it's been eating at him for a long time. That
Speaker 1: was his first one in thirty one games. He's only
Speaker 1: had two in the last forty seven. You know, he's
Speaker 1: had some taken away or whatever. But the exuberance at
Speaker 1: which I saw with my own eyes and sat down
Speaker 1: with him last week for an interview we're gonna run
Speaker 1: later this week on Bears Game Day Live on Fox.
Speaker 1: It's just that he feels he's going to have the
Speaker 1: best year of his career. And it's because of the
Speaker 1: positions that you guys have designed to put him in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's really you know him, he's really working his
Speaker 1: tail off. He's really got himself in great shape. He
Speaker 1: looks fantastic, he looks fast, he's quick, and that's how
Speaker 1: he's been practicing. And he's put the work in, you know,
Speaker 1: in training camp all the way through, and he put
Speaker 1: himself in that position, and he has that confidence because
Speaker 1: of the work he puts out on the practice field.
Speaker 1: You know, in that particular play he ended up dropping in.
Speaker 1: He was a robber to that defense and they end
Speaker 1: up running an inside breaking route and he happened to
Speaker 1: be right there. Read the quarterbacks. I stepped right in
Speaker 1: front of it, you know, popped up off the ground
Speaker 1: before he was touched and had a nice return of
Speaker 1: twenty six yards to the twenty one yard line, and
Speaker 1: we got to do a little bit better job blocking
Speaker 1: for him on that return. But we'll get with our
Speaker 1: players on that. But it was a nice job by him,
Speaker 1: all right, because I gave him that a moniker in
Speaker 1: his first two years of quick six Jackson, so he's
Speaker 1: always hunting for the end zone. Roal quant Smith, How
Speaker 1: did he perform first time? It's first time you look
Speaker 1: at him and a regular season game as a week
Speaker 1: side linebacker and four three defense. Yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: did well. He did well for the first time coming out.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of action in there, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of plays to be made in that position. And
Speaker 1: he let our team in tackles and and you had
Speaker 1: that half a sack and did a nice job getting
Speaker 1: into some you know, defending the pass and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's got a great opportunity at the end
Speaker 1: of the game if that's if it's not so wet,
Speaker 1: you know, because the ball was really high on that,
Speaker 1: I think he probably picks that. So he's gonna have
Speaker 1: his opportunities or that's a hot spot in our defense,
Speaker 1: and he got the right guy there for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, given a blue sky day,
Speaker 1: would that have been potentially a tip pass? The ball's
Speaker 1: probably heavy from the water, whatnot even to the secondary
Speaker 1: or by himself. Yeah, yeah, and he knows he can
Speaker 1: make that play, and he should have made the play.
Speaker 1: But he's definitely gonna be chomping at the bit to
Speaker 1: get his first one here coming soon. You know, just
Speaker 1: just popped in my head because her lacker in the
Speaker 1: lovey version of this defense the mic down the pike
Speaker 1: something like that, is Morrow have that same kind of
Speaker 1: moniker the mic down the pike. He liked that turn
Speaker 1: I do. It's it is good And yeah, he will
Speaker 1: have some of that. And we change that up. We
Speaker 1: need we know who carries those guys down the vertical.
Speaker 1: We change that up as we go. But that's been
Speaker 1: adjusted over the years. But certainly Marrow would have that
Speaker 1: job all right, others because I know this feeds feeds
Speaker 1: your desires is just getting your hands on the ball.
Speaker 1: So that to the nearest side, Kyler broke on a ball.
Speaker 1: Trevis Gipson just tipped the past. Could that have been
Speaker 1: an interception if that pass hadn't been deflected? Yeah, as
Speaker 1: he broke on it quickly I think it still should
Speaker 1: be intercepted because, yeah, I think we have to have
Speaker 1: the ability to track the ball if it moves, because
Speaker 1: obviously we're gonna get some tip passes in there, and
Speaker 1: we have drolls that replicate that, and so he's worked
Speaker 1: on that in practice and we expect him to make
Speaker 1: that play. All right, your corners, by my math, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys adjust what he is given
Speaker 1: in the post game statistics for defensive tackles and whatnot.
Speaker 1: You guys may have your own, but I counted up
Speaker 1: sixteen by the corners. The three corners Kendallville, Door and
Speaker 1: Jalen and Brisker, Gordon Johnson allwit tackles for loss. So
Speaker 1: a very active day. You're expecting these corners to be
Speaker 1: physical tacklers. Yeah, you know are saying, I'm sure this
Speaker 1: will be a mike down the pike here. So there's
Speaker 1: no house guests, yes, in our defense, So that means
Speaker 1: that everybody tackles, you know, everybody runs. Everybody tackles in
Speaker 1: our defense, and that's including the corners, and we work
Speaker 1: on it every single Wednesday, every Thursday, and that's an
Speaker 1: important piece to our success. Now, more of the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show featuring Mattie Berflues on Chicongo's news trafficking weather
Speaker 1: Station one oh five nine w BBMS. That back stunt
Speaker 1: picked up up front, Eric Darmstead being shoved out of
Speaker 1: the way, circling out of it, pivoting to set up
Speaker 1: a throw wide open nearside pass this cut, there's Pettis
Speaker 1: to the twenty, to the fifteen, to the ten, to
Speaker 1: the end, Joe Wow, justin fields to wide open Don
Speaker 1: Pettis and fires a fifty one yard touching run touchdown,
Speaker 1: backyard ed lived football with Fields using his legs to
Speaker 1: buy time scanning the field, comes all the way back
Speaker 1: to the near side to find an uncovered Dante Pettis.
Speaker 1: Your big highlight of fifty one yard touchdown and as
Speaker 1: Coachiberflus mentioned earlier in the show, at terrific black by
Speaker 1: Equimenia Saint Brown, that's a sweet six right there and
Speaker 1: a fire starter free football team. Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 1: It was a momentum shifter for sure, And what great
Speaker 1: vision by Justin Nabie able to get out of the
Speaker 1: pocket there and create that space for himself and then
Speaker 1: to have a vision to see all the way across
Speaker 1: the field to a wide open Dante Pettas, and like
Speaker 1: we said, Eq did a great job of coming across
Speaker 1: the field and making that touchdown block and that was
Speaker 1: really exciting. In the setup by Dante to veer back
Speaker 1: inside to buy himself a little more space to get
Speaker 1: to the near pylon. That was also a nice job
Speaker 1: on his run. How did you evaluate how Justin handled
Speaker 1: the defensive front of the forty nine ers, the read options,
Speaker 1: those type of things. Yeah, he did a really good job.
Speaker 1: That's a great front. I mean, you got Bosa Armstead,
Speaker 1: can Law, there's some really good guy, you know, Werner.
Speaker 1: In the terms of the linebacker, that's one of the
Speaker 1: some of the you know, I would say probably the
Speaker 1: top one of the top five defenses fronts and football.
Speaker 1: So I thought our guys did well. Certainly in the
Speaker 1: second half we did a lot better, you know, the
Speaker 1: keepers and all that really is. You know, that's a
Speaker 1: threat that he has. He's able to do that with
Speaker 1: his feet and you can certainly see feel his speed
Speaker 1: on the field. There a lot of times him taking
Speaker 1: up grass and him doing a great job and get
Speaker 1: into the sideline and protected himself. I don't have all
Speaker 1: the quotes in front of me. But I read an
Speaker 1: article in the Athletic Steve Young to the San Francisco
Speaker 1: reporters out there talking about how, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback and all he wanted to do was run
Speaker 1: at first first look, and they didn't see it. Boom,
Speaker 1: He's gonna go. And the great Sid Gilman actually took
Speaker 1: him aside in the USFL and tied his feet together
Speaker 1: so that he would force himself to throw from the
Speaker 1: pocket and and and throw guys open. And that changed
Speaker 1: his whole career because he did struggle in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: when he first came in the league, and it was
Speaker 1: very attic back there, and you may recall some of
Speaker 1: these discussions, you know, over the course of your football life.
Speaker 1: But because it was brought up because of the two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that were facing off, two guys that have to
Speaker 1: learn that, you know, the effectiveness of pulling the trigger
Speaker 1: from the pocket. When that happened, he became a much
Speaker 1: better overall quarterback and then became even more dangerous with
Speaker 1: his legs. Do you find truth in that here? Moving forward? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really believe that yesterday he made good decisions, you know,
Speaker 1: justin did a nice StEB of dropping back, going through
Speaker 1: his progression and then when he felt the rush, he
Speaker 1: escaped by using his feet. And that, to me is
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks don't have that option. You know, they don't have
Speaker 1: the option. They're in there and if guess what if
Speaker 1: it breaks down, they're they're in there, you know, and
Speaker 1: they get sacked and take the sack. So I thought
Speaker 1: he did a nice job of feeling that as the
Speaker 1: game went on, of when did use his feet and
Speaker 1: use him wisely and then stay out of harm's way,
Speaker 1: And he did that. Yeah, I was not even referring
Speaker 1: just his performance yesterday, but bigger picture. They always say,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, until a quarterback can pull the trigger
Speaker 1: from the pocket and be a pocket passer first, you
Speaker 1: know that, that's when you know you got a really
Speaker 1: good question. I mean, I always looking at situational football.
Speaker 1: You know, when the quarterback operates, you know, in third down,
Speaker 1: two minute, you know, to win the game for you
Speaker 1: that's when you're operating from the pocket. And that's what
Speaker 1: the greats have done over the course of the years.
Speaker 1: That's when I believe you think, you know, you know
Speaker 1: you have a good one. The crazy thing about yesterday
Speaker 1: to your top weapons, darn alimony and Cole commet to
Speaker 1: combine four targets I think in the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: eight different guys were throwing the football, but you only through,
Speaker 1: you know, at seventeen passes. So it's you can't evaluate that.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, it's what dictated. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it was the weather. I mean, you know it
Speaker 1: was it was tough for both teams to move the
Speaker 1: football and the weather dictated that. Yesterday, play of the
Speaker 1: offensive line, I mean, this was supposed to be the topic.
Speaker 1: How did they play? How did they do? What you
Speaker 1: said at a great front. Yeah, it was. You know,
Speaker 1: again they're playing at some some the best in football
Speaker 1: at some spots there, and uh, I thought they handled
Speaker 1: it well. You know, they operated well as a group.
Speaker 1: They played together. The five out there played together really
Speaker 1: well during the course of the game. And again it's
Speaker 1: like every other position, we got lots of things to
Speaker 1: work on. We got to keep working, keep getting better
Speaker 1: with the coach, and we'll do that this week with
Speaker 1: Chris Morgan. As promised to Bosa played both sides. I
Speaker 1: think he's first six or so we're on the on
Speaker 1: the right tackle and I think, I my MAT's not great,
Speaker 1: but I think thirty on one side and twenty five
Speaker 1: or twenty seven on the other right, So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: by design. Yeah, that's that's smart because you're trying to
Speaker 1: bring chips to them and you're trying to thump them
Speaker 1: on the outside a little bit to slow them down,
Speaker 1: bluff them, thump them and do those types of things.
Speaker 1: They do that really to mix it up. So you
Speaker 1: can't pick a side, and I gotta throw your tight
Speaker 1: endsine there too, because you did have you know, two
Speaker 1: tight sometimes on that side dealing them with Bosa. How
Speaker 1: they perform, Yeah, they did well. They did well. I
Speaker 1: thought Ryan, you know, and Cole both did a nice job.
Speaker 1: They played physical and they did a nice shot at
Speaker 1: that point of attack, helping us out. The Bears Coaches
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Speaker 1: Matt eberflews here on the Bears Coaches Show. Just heard
Speaker 1: Justin Ecumenius Saint Brown. I love this one. It was
Speaker 1: Justin could have easily thrown at the pringle. I would
Speaker 1: imagine it running the end zone, but perfect, perfect touch
Speaker 1: on the throw to Eq on the end zone. Break
Speaker 1: it down better than I just did, because that was
Speaker 1: my favorite play in terms of design. No, it was
Speaker 1: a really good play and it was a bunch set,
Speaker 1: you know. So they got confused a little bit, I believe,
Speaker 1: with who was picking up who, and I think they
Speaker 1: just let Eq go, you know. Um, And I'm not
Speaker 1: quite sure if it was a Mats covers or a
Speaker 1: man cover. If it was a match coverage, it would
Speaker 1: be the corner that had to sink back and take
Speaker 1: that guy. And if it was man, they guy just
Speaker 1: got lost in the shuffle, the guy you know, standing
Speaker 1: over Eq. So you know, we looked at a couple
Speaker 1: of different ways and but there you go again. We're
Speaker 1: justin the deep ball. I mean, he throws a just
Speaker 1: a fabulous deep ball and he put it right on
Speaker 1: the money and with a great catch, a great throw,
Speaker 1: great protection and all around a nice job by the
Speaker 1: offensive staff and the offense. The touch is important, you know.
Speaker 1: You got to have different speeds on your pitches right right,
Speaker 1: you do, and yesterday it was harder to do that
Speaker 1: because you know, they had wind and rain at times
Speaker 1: and it was a soggy mess out there, you know,
Speaker 1: to throw that ball accurately like that, you know, was
Speaker 1: a beautiful throw. The wind definitely picked up over the
Speaker 1: course of the game, did it not, Yeah, it's sure
Speaker 1: did it came. It was coming from our backside, so
Speaker 1: it was really good left or right. I mean you
Speaker 1: could feel that coming in the second half. You certainly
Speaker 1: had to adjust to that, but it was it was
Speaker 1: definitely blown to the second half. Our promo here for
Speaker 1: fans to get seats. They packed the place yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: I just want to thank the fans, you know, for
Speaker 1: sticking it out there. Man. It was really coming down
Speaker 1: in the fourth court and I look up there and
Speaker 1: there's still full house and they're still screaming on third down.
Speaker 1: And that was my first really experience in the in
Speaker 1: a game. You know, we played a preseason game there before.
Speaker 1: It's not like anything like the regular season. I just
Speaker 1: want to thank the fans because the education of those
Speaker 1: guys who win to be loud and they were awesome
Speaker 1: and I can't thank them enough. And we need that more.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get that more here, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 1: And it was it was fun. Yeah, they loved the elements.
Speaker 1: And you couldn't see this, I would imagine, but the
Speaker 1: different areas of the stadium, there were waterfalls. It was
Speaker 1: coming down, so fans, you know, taking their shirts off
Speaker 1: and join the free shower. Yeah, Mother nature provided it
Speaker 1: added to the aesthetics of the moment earlier in the show.
Speaker 1: I wanted to circle back here and our remaining moments
Speaker 1: in this segment. The rookies made a lot of noise
Speaker 1: in this one, from Kyler to Brisker to Robinson and
Speaker 1: Braxton Jones, Jalen Jones on special teams and you got
Speaker 1: to say, you know you're punter Trent and Gill. He
Speaker 1: had a big, big job here to put that ball
Speaker 1: down on the kicks and to deal with whatever was
Speaker 1: coming at him in the punk game. Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: so pleased with all the rookies. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Ryan Poles and his staff obviously did an awesome job
Speaker 1: of evaluating these guys not only for their athletic ability,
Speaker 1: but the maturity. Those guys are stepping there in an
Speaker 1: NFL game and performing the way they did. They have
Speaker 1: to have, you know, maturity, you know, to their game
Speaker 1: as well as at the athletic ability to perform in
Speaker 1: an NFL game. So hats off to those guys. The coaches,
Speaker 1: you know, they're really preparing those guys and you know,
Speaker 1: making sure that the moment wasn't too big for him,
Speaker 1: and they soaked it all in and they performed, and
Speaker 1: all all those guys that are really nice job for
Speaker 1: us in that victory. Nice word they're soaked because it
Speaker 1: could Yeah, because I'm going to the towel. Yeah, exactly what.
Speaker 1: I had never heard of it. Tom had never heard
Speaker 1: of it. Jay Hilgenberg and Jim schwantz Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we were teasing him that, Yeah, sure you knew it.
Speaker 1: They they said they knew the rule. Explain it? Were
Speaker 1: you aware of it? I had never heard of this
Speaker 1: in my entire career. It's really a rule where, you know,
Speaker 1: designed for the snow. You're not supposed to take anything
Speaker 1: out there. You can clear away, you know, anything like
Speaker 1: with your hand or your foot, but you can't take
Speaker 1: an object out there and clear it away. And that's
Speaker 1: just the rule that was put in a couple of
Speaker 1: years back. And the officials are really supposed to stop
Speaker 1: you from doing it to make sure you don't get
Speaker 1: the penalty. Said, oh, you can't do that, you know so,
Speaker 1: and then stop you from doing it. But I think
Speaker 1: by the time they looked over there, they were already
Speaker 1: pat in the ground with the towel. They called the penalty,
Speaker 1: So right or wrong it was. It was a penalty
Speaker 1: that was called. We did it, we were It was
Speaker 1: a mistake by us, and we got to learn from it.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with Mattie Broflus and w BBMS
Speaker 1: Jeff jony I continues. Two receivers left back up row
Speaker 1: more Man rush pressure coming, rapping him up and bringing
Speaker 1: him down. Done goes done. Robinson, a rookie out of
Speaker 1: Miami Boile sacks Trey Lance at thirty eight, and that's
Speaker 1: a loss of seven at a mighty big one kickoff
Speaker 1: tailgating season with the league leading lineup at your local
Speaker 1: jewel asco get everything from chips and dips to wings
Speaker 1: and other things in one quick trip. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bear's Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus.
Speaker 1: We just heard Miami of Ohio rookie Dominique Robinson get
Speaker 1: his first NFL sack, he also said, and then he
Speaker 1: combined with Roquan on the second one against Trent Williams,
Speaker 1: who did not give up a sack last year, one
Speaker 1: of the all time greats and nine time consecutive pro bowler.
Speaker 1: But he said he picked up some tells, he told
Speaker 1: a report he picked up some tells on William's seven
Speaker 1: tackles on top of it. Yeah, he performed well. And
Speaker 1: you know we always we have our sayings that you know,
Speaker 1: you know, defeat your man. You know that's gonna be win.
Speaker 1: It's basically win y're one on one matchups. You know,
Speaker 1: he studied and did a great job with that. And
Speaker 1: that sack that he had with Roquan really was a
Speaker 1: deep set, you know by the tackle, and he did
Speaker 1: a great job what we call level rushing, meaning that
Speaker 1: he gets to the level of the quarterback. Straw, now
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks inside rather than just running around and the
Speaker 1: tackle push you by. You now level back inside, and
Speaker 1: that's what he did. He level back inside and made
Speaker 1: that sack. And it was a really smart rush by him.
Speaker 1: And on the one against McGlinchey, winning with his hand
Speaker 1: fighting knock those away cut across his face, boom to
Speaker 1: the quarter. Yeah, that one there was really nice because
Speaker 1: he sold the vertical move initially and he set out
Speaker 1: wide and then he was able to side scissor side
Speaker 1: swipe inside. Okay, make an inside move and then show
Speaker 1: obviously the strong hands that he has to be able
Speaker 1: to get the quarterback down with one hand. Kylie Gordon's
Speaker 1: got a lot of responsibilities when when you're talking about Nicho,
Speaker 1: it's one of the key ones. How how did that
Speaker 1: go yesterday? It was good, It was good. You know,
Speaker 1: we end up you know, he end up making a
Speaker 1: lot of tackles. Um. You know, made a nice play
Speaker 1: on the screen against Samuel. That was a really nice play. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, wish he could have one play back on
Speaker 1: the one on the big box fade, you know, to
Speaker 1: start the third quarter But he'll learn from that. You know.
Speaker 1: We got to play these rookies, you know, and they
Speaker 1: all perform really well, and they're going to have a
Speaker 1: mistake here and there, and it's just we got to
Speaker 1: learn from it, put it in our file and learn
Speaker 1: and grow every single week with these guys. What is
Speaker 1: the teaching point in that one? Was the forty one
Speaker 1: yard or did Juan jas his eyes? His eyes? You know,
Speaker 1: he's got to have his eyes. We always say, you know,
Speaker 1: alignment assignment, key in the key part is where your
Speaker 1: eyes are and why are they there? So we just
Speaker 1: got to do a great job with our eyes in
Speaker 1: that particular play overall, and I didn't know this until
Speaker 1: this morning. To be honest, I didn't study Trey Lance's numbers,
Speaker 1: but I was keenly interested how he was going to
Speaker 1: perform it. From a completion percentage point of view, Daniel
Speaker 1: throw the weather into it and forty six percent completion percentage.
Speaker 1: That also speaks to the way you guys made it
Speaker 1: difficult for him and a fifty quarterback rating. Overall, a
Speaker 1: dangerous guy with his legs and a big, powerful arm,
Speaker 1: but there was some question about what his accuracy might be,
Speaker 1: especially in the short to intermediate game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think are really are starts with our front, you know,
Speaker 1: so we always say Russian cover, cover and rush and
Speaker 1: uh it goes hand in hand, but it all starts
Speaker 1: with the h and I think our rushed to the
Speaker 1: nice shaw. You know. Travis Smith's our d line coach.
Speaker 1: He's a disciple of Rod Marinelli, so he understands, you know,
Speaker 1: the rush lanes and how to rush, you know, opposite
Speaker 1: the center's slide. And we did a solid job in
Speaker 1: the first time getting pressure on the quarterback. Did the
Speaker 1: interior push make it difficult on him? At times? That
Speaker 1: pocket started to get really tight. He didn't know if
Speaker 1: he should eject or if he had room to eject. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it did. You know, it's four equals one
Speaker 1: for us, so all four d lineman equals one. We
Speaker 1: got to be have a coordinated rush together. And those
Speaker 1: guys did a nice job yesterday A ward on the
Speaker 1: safety of the forty nine ers. I thought he played
Speaker 1: a heck of a game. It's hard to say his
Speaker 1: name at Telenoah. Yeah, Hufanga out of USC doesn't look
Speaker 1: like Troy Polamalu or anything, but he certainly plays with
Speaker 1: that kind of hair on fire mentality. It looks like
Speaker 1: he was getting played. Yeah, he's an aggressive player and
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's played. He played well yesterday for sure,
Speaker 1: and he's an exciting guy to watch. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: what happened in the locker room after the game. What's
Speaker 1: their coach? How did that make you feel when your
Speaker 1: quarterback gave you a game ball? Game one to Ryan
Speaker 1: Poles as well. It was captured on tape. It's been
Speaker 1: all over social media today. It was a wonderful moment.
Speaker 1: Tell me how you feel about it. No, it was special.
Speaker 1: It was it was you know, you get your first
Speaker 1: victory um as an NFL head coach, you know, and
Speaker 1: then you have your quarterback give you a game ball.
Speaker 1: That to me is special in front of the group,
Speaker 1: and it was an exciting time because we just got
Speaker 1: them celebrating the victory together. And that moment will last
Speaker 1: forever in my memory. And also the people in your
Speaker 1: life that mean a lot to you. One of them,
Speaker 1: Gary Pinkell, a former college coach. Uh, what did that
Speaker 1: mean to greet you off the sideline with a great,
Speaker 1: big hug? It was great, It was It was fun
Speaker 1: to have him there. I had Coach Pinkell there for me.
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli was there as well. Uh. Pat Gucardo, my
Speaker 1: head high school coach from Whitmer High School, was there,
Speaker 1: you know. And Tom am Stutts, who was also the
Speaker 1: head coach at Toledo, was my position coach. There. Had
Speaker 1: all four of those guys there in their families to
Speaker 1: the game, and it was just fat It was just
Speaker 1: so great to be able to see those guys before
Speaker 1: and after the game. And I'll cherish that moment forever.
Speaker 1: All right, I look ahead to the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Our final segment coming up here on The Bears Coaches Show.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show continues exclusively on the Home of
Speaker 1: the Bears, shoicgo's news trafficking weather station one oh five
Speaker 1: nine w BBM. Snap to fields, handing off Herbert, blockers
Speaker 1: up front, pretty direction up into the end. Zode put
Speaker 1: a touchdown, touchdown Bears Collo Herbert nineteen ten. Good guys,
Speaker 1: Calll Herbert rushing for the touchdown. A nice performance by
Speaker 1: the second year running back nine carries and forty five yards.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Bears Coaches Show. Our final segment
Speaker 1: with Coach Eberflus after the nineteen ten win over the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and moments will start to look at
Speaker 1: that team up north, the Green Bay Packers. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Kleio. He's got some juice to him, Yeah, he does.
Speaker 1: I really like his style. You know, he's got a
Speaker 1: really good lean to it, and he's got great cutability.
Speaker 1: He's got really good vision. And you saw it yesterday
Speaker 1: and you know the touchdown run was was there. You know,
Speaker 1: you saw the vision to be able to take it
Speaker 1: back door and cut it back and I told him
Speaker 1: when he got off the silence, it's a really good run,
Speaker 1: great vision, and he's always got his shoulders down, which
Speaker 1: is which is good for a runner. Winning is really
Speaker 1: hard in this league, as you know. I don't need
Speaker 1: to tell you that, but it's a cliche that others,
Speaker 1: especially analysts and fans, they don't really want to hear that.
Speaker 1: They just want to win. But it's hard. It's hard,
Speaker 1: so but you have to enjoy it. You have to
Speaker 1: enjoy it when it happens. But it is quick, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what your philosophy or sayings aren't regarding that.
Speaker 1: I know it's probably a twenty four hour rule and
Speaker 1: let's go. But but what is it and how do
Speaker 1: you frame it and how do you down build off
Speaker 1: this foundation brick, Yeah, no doubt, And we do have
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour rule. So we bring the players
Speaker 1: in after the game on Monday, so they're working on Monday.
Speaker 1: We have a team meeting at eleven and we review
Speaker 1: the game, good, batter indifferent. We pass out awards, game balls,
Speaker 1: all the things that you do when you win, and
Speaker 1: then we say, hey, guys, it's twenty four hours. And
Speaker 1: the twenty four hour rule really for a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons is that as a player, you have to get
Speaker 1: yourself to a point for the game and it's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot higher than practice, so your intensity
Speaker 1: has to be so high for that. The twenty four
Speaker 1: hour rule is there for you to not look at
Speaker 1: your performance get better, but then it's also to decompress
Speaker 1: and come back down because you can't live your life
Speaker 1: up at game level. The whole time game is games
Speaker 1: are games, right, So then we have to come back down,
Speaker 1: start looking at the opponent, the next opponent, and get
Speaker 1: our preparation on Wednesday, on Thursday, on Friday, and then
Speaker 1: we'll work into our forty eight hour preparation where we're
Speaker 1: getting ourselves back up to game time. So really I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the psychle of the week. You know, we
Speaker 1: always talk about psycho of the snap, which you have
Speaker 1: to do during the game, but you have to have
Speaker 1: that rhythm of the week so you can get consistent
Speaker 1: play out of your performers. Do you take the same
Speaker 1: advice as I do? Zo take the same advice because
Speaker 1: you have to be up for the game. You got
Speaker 1: to be laser focused. You got to be on point
Speaker 1: with what you're doing with your calls, and then you
Speaker 1: have to be able to come back down twenty four
Speaker 1: hours later, start getting in preparation mode again starting on
Speaker 1: into Monday, into Tuesday, and all the way through the week.
Speaker 1: Were pleased with the entire operation. From a coaching perspective, headsets,
Speaker 1: play calling. There didn't seem to be any slow, not
Speaker 1: even with the circumstances. It was good. It was good.
Speaker 1: You know, there's always things that we can improve on,
Speaker 1: maybe be a little bit quicker, a little bit smoother,
Speaker 1: and we certainly talked to the coaches about that, and
Speaker 1: I'm certainly trying to get better too. But overall, it
Speaker 1: was the first game was a good operation. It was smooth,
Speaker 1: guys were calling, we communicated very well, and we got
Speaker 1: what we needed to get done. Let's be clear to
Speaker 1: our audience as well, the same is true Monday Tuesday
Speaker 1: until the injury report comes out on Wednesdays. We're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about injuries on this show during the
Speaker 1: season unless there's something you have to tell us about,
Speaker 1: something significant. But overall, did you come out of it
Speaker 1: pretty good? Yeah? Yeah, we came out of really good
Speaker 1: and we're the best you can come out, so we're
Speaker 1: excited about that. Let's now take a look at the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Time to look Ahead, brought to you
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Speaker 1: Before they do that, though, because you mentioned it game balls,
Speaker 1: is that something you talk about publicly? Who did you
Speaker 1: give game balls too? Or is that something you keep
Speaker 1: it internally to justin fields? Defensive it was Eddie Jackson,
Speaker 1: it was Brisker and also Dominic Robinson on defense. And
Speaker 1: then it was a really good job by the entire
Speaker 1: group and those guys are deserving of it, and they
Speaker 1: had a heck of a game, all right. Green Bay
Speaker 1: had a rough time up in Minnesota. The Vikings a
Speaker 1: very good football team as well. I really did a
Speaker 1: heck of a job and including Justin Jefferson, who is
Speaker 1: arguably the best skill position player in the division, just
Speaker 1: tore it up. They moved them all over the place.
Speaker 1: But overall, what did you see on tape quickly? I'm
Speaker 1: sure you didn't delve into it a deep, deep amount,
Speaker 1: But what's your view on the Packers right out of
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, I mean, it's you know, so you know,
Speaker 1: these are a week by week you know, it's can
Speaker 1: you certainly look at the week before for the style
Speaker 1: and the and the play and the formations they ran
Speaker 1: and all those things and what they were doing. But
Speaker 1: to me, it's it's one game at a time. And
Speaker 1: I know it's cliche, but we're gonna go up there
Speaker 1: Sunday night and it's gonna be our game versus them,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's what's gonna be. So last
Speaker 1: week's last week. Our game's done, their game's done, and
Speaker 1: now we've got a new performance coming up. You love
Speaker 1: the history of this franchise, So the Packers are as
Speaker 1: big a story in this franchise as history as anything
Speaker 1: you'll ever find and it's a very heated rivalry. Will
Speaker 1: you use that to your advantage in helping set the
Speaker 1: tone for this week? Yeah, I mean I will use
Speaker 1: it to some degree. But to me, like I said
Speaker 1: after the games, to the players, it's all about us,
Speaker 1: it really is. It's about how we're performing and what
Speaker 1: we're doing in the style we approached the game and
Speaker 1: play the game. So to me, that's the most important.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think when you frame it that way,
Speaker 1: keep keep you guys focused tight, and we're excited about
Speaker 1: getting this week going. I say, Aaron Rodgers, you say
Speaker 1: what I say. Good player. He's a good player, and
Speaker 1: he's been a good player in this league for a
Speaker 1: long time. He's won a lot of football games, and
Speaker 1: we're excited about facing them this week. How many times
Speaker 1: have you faced Aaron Rodgers? Do you know? Because I
Speaker 1: didn't look it up, I want to say three, maybe four,
Speaker 1: A couple of times in Dallas then and twenty twenty
Speaker 1: we faced them when I was at Indianapolis. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you get a pretty good idea of what he's all about.
Speaker 1: But that running game is a great one two punch there,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon. I suspect that will be
Speaker 1: a primary focus for your defense. Yeah, and it's really
Speaker 1: just a primary focus for us. You know, we have
Speaker 1: to improve on that. Just like tod I said on
Speaker 1: the onset, the offense has got to do a really
Speaker 1: good job of running the ball more effectively, and defense
Speaker 1: has to do a better job of stopping it. And
Speaker 1: that's something we're going to be working on this week. Hard.
Speaker 1: What do you think of their defensive front, just like
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers last year, a team to finish
Speaker 1: in the top ten and points allowed and yards allowed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have a strong front, they really do. And their
Speaker 1: front seven strong. You know, they know they're missing missing
Speaker 1: backer or two inside there yesterday, but you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see who's who's up and who's down. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big challenge for our offense. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: good luck with your preparation and you made it through
Speaker 1: your first full Bears Coaches show. There you go. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank anymore to go. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our producers Keith Johnson, Dan Billy, and Jordan
Speaker 1: trut Up for Bears head coach Maddy Refluse, I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Week two kicks off at Lambeau and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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