WEBVTT - Nagy, Lazor talk Trubisky, offense | Coaches Show 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.440 Good to be with you, everybody, and welcome into the 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.880 Bears Coaches Show at Bears head coach Matt Naggie. I'm 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:06.880 Jeff Joniac with you into eight o'clock tonight and we're 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.280 brought to you by Whippley CPA's and Consultants. And just 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.320 after seven thirty, Bears offensive coordinator Bill Lazier will join 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.480 the program. Thirty six seven Matt Naggie, Good evening. That 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.520 has a great ring to it, doesn't it. Hey, what's 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.040 up Jeff yet? Does? It's about time for our players. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.400 I'm happy for them. I'm happy for just the way 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.200 that they bounced back. They came with the juice early 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.880 on and we got it going, which was great. I 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.319 think we were able to just keep that momentum going 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.000 for the rest of the game and able to get 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.479 out of there with a good win. I'm interested to 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.680 what you have to say about this more in detail, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.239 because you were quoted yesterday after the game that you 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.479 sensed the vibe and and energy in the pregame. I mean, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.480 it's fifty six days between wins. It had a start 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.520 even earlier than that. No, they did, and it's hard. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.680 It's hard when you go six weeks plus a bye 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.680 week in there makes us seven weeks, and so that's 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.080 a long time that you're going through. A lot of 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.760 the same talks, a lot of the same meetings, a 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.280 lot of the same practices, but um, you stay the course. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.480 And then these players have done a great job of 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.000 leading each other. I think the coaches have done a 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.240 great job of staying on top of the players and 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.039 staying positive, as hard as that can be sometimes. And 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.920 then on game day, let's face it, on game day, Uh, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.160 it comes down to the players. And they took it 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.399 upon themselves before the game to have the fire and 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.080 the juice and the energy. And it might sound crazy, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.479 but when there's no fans in the stands, it's hard 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.960 and you have to create an edge. You have to 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.360 you have to bring it on yourselves, and our guys 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.480 did it and it showed right from the first play. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.959 I don't think it sounds crazy because it's real. I mean, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.479 they have to. There's nothing in there. There's no juice. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.400 You can have a PA announcer or the music, you 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.640 could have whatever to make it feel like a real game, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.880 but it's just not the same. So that does have 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.920 to come from these guys. It does, and it's it's 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.720 funny to think, like, you know, I can remember back 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.920 to the first game in the season in Detroit when 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.080 it was it was a shot when there's no one 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.560 in the stands. Now you've kind of become used to 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.200 it and you understand it. But it's crazy to think 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.000 of when we get back to when the fans are 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.520 able to be in there, what that's going to be 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.040 like in the appreciation for it. But without a doubt, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.920 you got to do it, and our guys did it 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.280 and it helped us win all right, full game? How 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.400 did it help that each phase did what it did well? 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.560 It was huge because you know, Jeff, we've been talking 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.800 about this all season long, like we will have the 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.640 defense play really well, the offense will struggle or this 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:31.120 the you know, the special teams is kick and tail 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.280 and the defense is playing well, and then the offensive 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.360 and then the offense is the last couple of weeks 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.160 playing well and our defenses struggle. Well, Now what we've 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.080 done is our guys got to see us. It's a 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.760 pretty cool deal when you put them all three together. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.079 And so we did that and we're going to have 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.200 an opportunity here with three more games to be able 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.200 to do that again, and we got to see if 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.839 we can follow up with that sour Our guys need, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.080 our players needed that, our coaches needed it. But there's 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.440 you hit the reset button and you go back to 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.560 what you know, what it felt like and where you're at, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.959 and especially against a good football team like Minnesota who's 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.519 coming off a tough loss. Matt, there's always a temptation 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.480 to write tomorrow's headline today, and that can be used 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.520 to describe a lot of things in life. Some are 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.080 asking if this win makes a difference, And when you 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.120 look at your team or you look at yourself in 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.120 the mirror, that is a very difficult question to answer 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.560 when you're a competitor. How do you look at it? 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.680 So you know the way I look at it is. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.960 Every season is so different for every team, and the 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.440 automate goal is do you give yourselves a chance? Which 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.120 means are you able to get into that into the playoffs? 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.760 And every story is different, Every year is different, and 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.160 our guys right now, this is what we're going through now. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.120 As good as it feels to be able to get 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.440 a good win like that, the guys deserve that. Now. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.600 What we gotta do is we got to follow it 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:52.240 up consistently. So we need to continue to get first 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.240 downs on offense and stay out a third down. We 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.520 need to continue to be effective in the red zone. Defensively, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.520 we have to continue to pressure the quarterback and get sacks. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.000 Continue with the takeaways, special teams wise, keep making our 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.720 field goals every chance we get, flipping the field right 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.080 with the punts, getting fumbles if we can. And so 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.160 when we do that, we really we really have a 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.000 great chance, you know. And so we have three games 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.320 left and it starts this week again with Minnesota. But 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.760 that's the exciting part. Is just another opportunity when you 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:29.360 crystallize that performance. Is it what you envisioned this team 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.000 when you started this season to be? Yeah? And and 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.040 so the way I look at it is our defense 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.680 for the season has been playing really well. I thought 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.359 that if you really look back, there's three games with 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.560 our defense, two against Detroit and one against Green Bay 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.560 where I just felt like that wasn't our defense. The 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.320 rest of the games against teams this year, I think 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.239 our defense has played really well, whether it's getting stops 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.960 ben but don't break, not letting them score. Against Atlanted, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.159 we had a bunch of sacks and turnovers, and but 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.880 we weren't sinking right and offensively, we had to change 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.920 the quarterback we had. We were trying to we had 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.680 some fluidity there at the offensive line. Some guys get 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.000 banged up trying to figure out what the change of 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.720 the offense where we're at. And so now what you've 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.920 seen in really the last three weeks is a little 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.640 bit more of an identity on offense. And um, you 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.680 know now that the defense yesterday picked it back up 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.360 and we put it all together, and so there's a 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.400 little there's a confidence that's going on right now with 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.920 these guys, and that's what we got to be able 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.919 to carry on over to Sunday. Is Mitch that difference 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.919 maker with the confidence, Well, I just think that his 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.560 confidence is a big part of it. And and but 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.560 that said too, I'm gonna go ahead and say that 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.760 I believe that the consistency at the offensive line, um, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.200 with what we've done with those guys and where we 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.520 put guys has really really helped out because it's helped 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.360 it helps any quarterback out when you're able to run 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.240 the football and when you can pass protect and so 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.160 when you when you can do those two things, it's 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.320 going to always help all quarterbacks out. Now. Now you 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.200 go ahead and you put a guy like Mitchell back 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.599 there who is able to extend plays with his legs, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.280 and Mitchell right now, for his own good, is playing 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.960 at a really high level. You combine that with an 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.680 effective awesomouth offensive line are running back and running backs 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.080 with CP and David that are running super hard, and 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.480 you got a really good product. Let's talk about a 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.640 couple of drives. I like the early second quarter drive, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.560 Mitch was perfect eight for eight seventy one yards. You 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.679 got that four man bunch to the right the quad, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.320 and then you throw back to Jimmy Graham with the 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.080 touchdown beat Eric Murray and then the one right before 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.200 halftime with Alan Robinson. Yeah, those are important, you know, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.719 because you're coming away with touchdowns and we have guys 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.880 on that offense that can make plays one on one, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:46.960 so when you get in the red zone. We felt 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.839 like going into the season that should be a huge 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.280 advantage for us. We got a lot of basketball players 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.039 that can go up and get it, so that was 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:56.839 nice to be able to get both of those touchdowns, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.120 and then we knew we were getting the ball the 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.320 third quarter coming out and we want to be able 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.119 to get a touchdown there. We got three, but just 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.120 just hoppy of the way those guys have produced there. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.960 Mitch Trubisky goes into a shotgun, drags a receiver in 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.560 motion to the right out of the gutty sticks into 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.800 the belly of Montgomery. That crack turns into what can 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.160 you not do? The outside left half to forty forty 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.720 five to the fifty. Nobody's gonna get up twenty fifteen 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.600 ten five skipping into the end zone. David Montgomery half 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.120 first snap, eighty yard gallup for six han. The Bears 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.520 lead the Texans on their first snap for the game offfectively, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.240 David Montgomery marching into the end zone. A tutty as 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.200 Matt Nee he likes to say, Tuttyville in that first 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.160 half last two games, Big Matt, My goodness, but you 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.560 gotta go back to November of nineteen eighty eight, long 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.800 before you were here against the Packers Neil Anderson the 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.360 last eighty yard run in Bears history. The Chicago Bears 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.480 improved it. Supporting Chicago small businesses, Bark Bark Club is 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.240 this week's Small Business All Pro visit Chicago Bears dot 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.680 com slash Small Business All Pros to learn more. There 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.680 are still shots of the blocking and the hole that 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.520 you probably haven't seen pictures of David Montgomery's run. It's 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.440 pretty impressive. It's a huge canyon. Well yeah, it's it's beautiful. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.360 And you know, uh, we we always talk about the 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.400 safety in these defenses. Uh, sometimes you don't have guys 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.440 that account for these free safeties. And so when you 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.720 call run play, you go ahead and get the first 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.880 and second level blocked and the third level that's safety 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.720 that's on the running back. That's one on one on 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.360 the running back. And when you go back and you 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.600 look at this and you see number twenty read he 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.160 comes down, he breaks down to go ahead and make 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.240 a tackle, and David just goes ahead and gives one 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.400 little stiff arm and makes some miss and from then 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.320 on it was a rob down the sideline that was 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.559 able to really just get in the cornerbacks way and 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.080 spring thirty two the rest of the way. So just 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.839 to well executed play by these guys and to start 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.040 the game with the ad our touchdown run was was 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.520 really pretty cool. Well, he's not a four three back 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.000 and it doesn't matter because he still hit twenty miles 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:01.800 an hour apparently according to So you go, okay, that's 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.880 fast enough, right, Matt, Yeah, we'll take twenty for sure. Yeah. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.880 I was joking with him, telling him that he looked 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.160 like he was four four eight there and got a 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.520 little chuckle. So he'll be pumped up about twenty miles 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.640 per hour. Let's talk about the tight ends because if 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.360 you if you combine the production of Cole and Jimmy, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.720 not just in this game, but for the season, it's 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.880 it's a significant jump obviously from a year ago, but 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.120 it would it would put them in the top five 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.760 in terms of yardage and touchdowns eight and almost six 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.400 hundred yards of tight end production for one individual. So 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.560 obviously that's a significant jump. What's it doing for Mitch 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.160 and the offense right now to get that production? Yeah, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.040 it's truly helping us out. I mean, you know, Cole 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.360 Comet has just been really coming on late, and you know, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.000 in a perfect world, it would have been great to 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.640 get him going a little bit earlier. And there's you know, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.240 you're learning this offense, you're learning that you never played 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.360 an NFL game before, So it does take a little 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.679 bit of time. But at the same point in time, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.920 he's done everything we've asked him to do, and now 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.600 you're seeing he's getting more targets, he's getting football more 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.559 and that play he made yesterday on the on the 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.439 bootleg uh in the flat, just having three or four 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.120 guys try to take them down and then no one 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.800 get him down. Um, he's got great energy, and Jimmy's 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.480 done a great job at being a mentor towards him 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.960 and and explaining to him how you do what you 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.160 do on and off the field. And those two guys 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.160 together are really doing great and it's a huge it's 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.480 a huge deal for our offense. Well does it also 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.040 give the team a bounce? There's probably a half a 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.160 dozen guys yesterday that you could put that label on them. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:33.200 Yesterday Cole obviously, and the way Montgomery finished his runs. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.360 You could talk about the way Mitch made his decisions. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.640 You could talk about Khalil fighting again through all the 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.040 knicks that he's had been on the injury reports seven 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.679 times this year, but he shows up. Mario Edwards had 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.400 his best game. You could say, I mean, there's a 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.280 bunch of guys in that in that category isn't there, Yeah, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.480 there are. They're they're playing hard, Jeff. And that that's 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.559 what I love about these guys is these guys man, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.319 they're they're they're warriors and they care. Uh. And sometimes 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.600 it's harden, you lose six in a row to keep 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.959 that fire, but they've done that and when when they 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.360 and then they feed off of each other and David 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.800 Montgomery and you know, this kid's been running his tail 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.720 off for a long time and I'm just excited for 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.280 him now to be able to to have it come 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.880 to fruition. And again, I'll go back to I think 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.000 the consistency with do line is helping. You're feeling that. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.360 And then these guys that they're all Jimmy and Cole 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.680 and these other types, they're all blocking. Uh. Last week 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.960 they were blocking really well for the run game. This 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.000 week really well. So it's it's pretty cool. Defensively, Tollyeah. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.240 If there's any sign of a team that is not quitting, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.280 all you gotta do is look at the blocking because 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.000 that's one too, that's effort and it's happening. That Anthony 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.640 Miller cut block on the Mooney touchdown was outstanding. I 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.240 take that on any offensive line and today that cut 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.960 block a rob special teams play. I mean there's a 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.160 lot of that going on here. And that's just not 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.320 something you just talk about. That's something you need and 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.880 that's something that shows you that they're listening to you. Yeah, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.719 and you know what, Jeff, But I think where it 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.040 starts is there there are practices. The last couple of 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.839 weeks have been super fast. The tempos, the speed, uh, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.960 the the energy, um, it's been really really good. And 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.040 that's what keeps you really optimistic as a coach is 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.920 when you see that as to where these guys are. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.360 So they're taking that and they're transferring that to the game. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.680 And even like special teams, you talk about a guy 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.839 all this stuff happens with turnovers and you got a 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.079 guy like Sherik McManus who comes on down and just 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.679 makes a great tackle, strip strip fumble. Um. Those are 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.600 huge plays and and and a lot of times they 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.240 go unsung. And I just feel like our Special Teams 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.600 coach Tabor, coach Ganner doing a great job too. Yeah, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.679 he played his tail off, three tackles on top of it, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.360 he was around the ball at all times. And then 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.040 you know, you can't look past the Cairo Santo stretch 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.640 right now, right now, he'd have a single season record 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.080 in terms of accuracy in various history if he keeps 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.320 this up over, up over. Yeah, that that's real, and 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.600 you're you know, that's that's when you get into these games. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.640 So many games are won and lost by a field goal. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.160 Right now, he's kicking with a lot of confidence and 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.600 the other parts of the the field goal team are 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.000 doing well, So we gotta keep that calling. Watching Chase 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.439 Prock out of the end zone sack for the safety 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.800 and the Bears were relentless pressure. Khalil Mac gets it done. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.640 Welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought to you 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.040 by Whippley CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner at the 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.680 Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whippley dot com. That was 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.559 one at safety sack Matt was one that was a 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.800 terrific play, first of all, And is that an example. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.040 You know people talk about scheming receivers open, you could 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.840 also scheme pass rushers open, and I thought that was 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.079 the case going up against a struggling guard right now 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.040 in Houston. Yeah, so you know, we we had one here. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.560 We had a little stunt here where you know, fifty 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.440 two is gonna go ahead and go down inside with 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.040 a game on Zach Fulton, their right guard and uh, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.640 you know, Roquon's coming down on the tackle. Their guard 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.280 gets edgy, turns his hips, and Khalil's able to just 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.440 get vertical and then all of a sudden, abroad comes 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.640 on and Deshaun has nowhere to go, and it just 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.280 it happens to be a safety. So those are games, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.600 Those are pivotal plays that happened for us to get 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.280 the ball back. But I just I was really happy 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.679 for Khalil because he's been fighting really hard this year, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.600 playing hard every single play, and it's nice to see 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.160 him get rewarded for it. One of eleven hits on 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.560 Deshaun Watson, that's a lot. He is a moving target. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.880 And seven sacks overall of quarterbacks. With Aj mccarrott also 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.600 getting sacked by the Bears early on, we just starting 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.360 to get a little itchy, a little worried because they 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.080 were getting there but they just couldn't finish, and he 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.040 was picking up some yards and moving them a little 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.920 bit a little bit. But at the same point in time, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.040 as you know, I mean that that's what this kid, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.160 does you know DeShawn does that he's he has He 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 finds magic ways to get out of trouble. And there's 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.400 a couple times where we lost a little bit of contained, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.640 but he's a really good football player and some of 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.240 those are going to happen. I thought the rest of 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.760 the game, when we made him one more one dimensional, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:00.880 we did a better job. How's Jalen Jackson Hopefully pretty good. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.640 You know, he banged up his shoulder a little bit, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.640 I think on that hit when he stopped to Sean 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.240 from the touchdown there at the one yard line. But 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.000 he's a tough kid, and uh, you know, we'll keep 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.320 a good clean eye on him this week and hopefully 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.960 have him ready for Sunday. All Right, DHC made another play, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.960 gets in there, makes a play every time. He's a 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.480 smart football player. And then Duke Shelley wasn't really focused 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.680 on by Houston at all. You would think that that 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.400 maybe be the case. But how did he look? No, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.320 they both did really well. DC. Like you said, you know, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.360 he's a role player for us. It just always comes 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.640 up big and I love what he does on special 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.160 teams and then what he's been doing for us this 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.920 year with some big plays on defense and you just 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:37.960 rely on that. And then for Duke Shelley to come 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.760 in and have a great opportunity, I thought he fought 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.920 his tail off. He went in there and got into 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.560 the Briar patch a little bit and the run game 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.400 was able to make some some plays and it's the 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.600 stage wasn't too big for him. So that was good. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.360 The Briar Patch. I haven't heard that one helped me 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.120 out on the Briar Patch. Yeah, just in the run 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.960 game with all those big boys, all the all the 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.600 all the people in the trenches. He was able to 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.720 stick his head in there. Hey, I gotta ask you 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.680 because this morning with your Zoom Media interview with the 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.560 local media, somebody asked you about is this the key 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.000 to unlock Mitch's potential? And you said, I think it's real. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.520 I think it. It caught a lot of people's attention 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.600 given his journey and where he's at right now. Can 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.960 you amplify a little bit on what you are looking 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.880 at in that regard with Mitch. Yeah, I just think 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.160 as a quarterback, and you know, any position, but we're here, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.960 we are talking about a quarterback. There's there's always growth 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.760 in different ways and when it happens, and you know, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.600 he's he's had a very interesting first four years in 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.560 this league and a lot of different highs and lows 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.440 for him. But when you when you talk about somebody 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.200 that cares immensely and you talk about the resiliency, persistence 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.360 of a resistance, you talk about how to handle highs 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.760 and lows. Right now, with where he's at, he's in 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.120 a really good place and so that's about as real 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.160 as I can be. I appreciate that from him. Again, Well, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.040 we're just working on day to day, week to week 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.120 right now with our team and with him, and that's 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.960 all he wants and that's all we want. So we're 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.360 in a good place. We feel good about it. I'm 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.000 happy for him, and uh, you know, you got to 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.760 give him a lot of credit. All right, let's talk 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.359 Vikings rematch. You're right now tied in second in the 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.560 NFC with the Vikings, so we know the magnitude of 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.920 the matchup. It's massive. Nineteen thirteen the first meeting, rather 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.840 nineteen thirteen finish in that one. What's different? If anything 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.280 gets You've noticed? I know Ierf Smith didn't play against 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.840 the Bears in the first game, but he had a 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.960 nice game against Tampa yesterday. Another weapon on their offense. Yeah, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.840 he's a special player. He didn't play m I what 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.359 I think is, you know, I go back to that 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.200 game offensively for us was we didn't do very much 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.000 and we had and one of the things that we 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.720 were harpering on all year to the defense, special teams 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.280 and to our offense was let's get better field position. Well, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.400 our defense did a great job at containing Dalvin Cook 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.480 that game. I think he had thirty carries for ninety 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.600 six yards, and we had great field position, but we 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.679 weren't able to capitalize offensively, and it was a it 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.240 was a struggle and they limited us yard watt yardage wise. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.800 We didn't score obviously, I think that was the game 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.919 were you know are we just didn't score a lot 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.840 of points. For thirteen points, you can't win with that. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.160 So I think for our offense, let's have a let's 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.119 have a better game, Let's continue to play well in 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.239 defense and use special teams our advantage. All right, good 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.240 luckily prep this week. We'll talk to you throughout the weekend. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.840 Nice win, Thanks Jeff, take care of him. Snapped Trabisky 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.000 and a quickly sharth screen right side and Mooney great 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.840 block to the ten to the five. Moony gets the 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:36.000 front pilot and is he in for the touchdown? He is? Touchdown? Bears. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.600