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Speaker 1: a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into PANC Studios
Speaker 1: at hallisaw for a week eight edition of The Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show with Head coach Matt Naggie, Jeff Joni equ
Speaker 1: with you until eight o'clock tonight and later joined by
Speaker 1: Bear Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. Good evening, How you doing, Jeff? Fantastic?
Speaker 1: So it comes down to a hail Mary, how about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was crazy for it to come down to that,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously you'd love your phases to play
Speaker 1: better so it doesn't come down to that. But I
Speaker 1: was you know, our guys battled to the very end
Speaker 1: and came up a yard short. Yeah, And how often
Speaker 1: do you guys practice hail Mary's We actually practiced it
Speaker 1: quite a bit now, trying to get it, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in real action and without somebody jumping up and having
Speaker 1: a mosh pit of guys. They're just jumping up on
Speaker 1: each on each other and coming down and do an ankle.
Speaker 1: So we we try to practice them the formation and
Speaker 1: go through the procedure as much as possible without going
Speaker 1: through trying to get injuries in practice. What do you
Speaker 1: think if he didn't have a hand in his face,
Speaker 1: Mitch at that very last second, it's pretty amazing that
Speaker 1: he got that much leverage on that. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just no well, and it's a sixty yard throw, and
Speaker 1: that was it was going into the wind a little bit.
Speaker 1: That was the direction of going into the wind all
Speaker 1: day and uh and so yeah, if you could buy
Speaker 1: a little bit more time or hold that guy off
Speaker 1: just a little bit more to be able to get
Speaker 1: a few more yards into the end zone. And it
Speaker 1: was a great job by Kevin to go up at
Speaker 1: the highest point get that ball and um and give
Speaker 1: us an opportunity there at the end and then to
Speaker 1: make to make a you know, an effort to reach
Speaker 1: across you had to make a move. It was good too,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately just wasn't enough and should have never came
Speaker 1: down to that. We got to play better as a team,
Speaker 1: all right, But you score thirty one, you hold the
Speaker 1: Patriots on offense the twenty four. If you were to
Speaker 1: say that ahead of time, would you take that, you'd say, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you would, you would. And you know, the thirty
Speaker 1: one points for the offense is great, and you know
Speaker 1: some of those came off with nice turnovers too. You know,
Speaker 1: the defense got a turnover with a fumble recovery. Special
Speaker 1: teams also, you know got a got a turnover on
Speaker 1: a kickoff return. And so for us putting up thirty
Speaker 1: one points is good. The defense again with one of
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterbacks to ever played this game to to
Speaker 1: hold them the twenty four points. But that's why it's
Speaker 1: a team sport. And um, there's gonna be times this
Speaker 1: year where special teams is gonna win us a game,
Speaker 1: if not more, And this just happened to be one
Speaker 1: where I know that the special teams players and coaches
Speaker 1: wishes that those two touchdowns didn't occur. The fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is they did, and now how do we
Speaker 1: fix it going forward. The one of the issues, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, with today's coverage of football is beyond just
Speaker 1: the daily beat writers and the analysts on TV, is
Speaker 1: a lot of people dig into stats, stats that come
Speaker 1: up from different websites and whatnot. And you don't know
Speaker 1: what's fact in fiction. You do in your own building, obviously,
Speaker 1: but it creates a whole different storyline on occasion. So
Speaker 1: when you look at poor throws or bad throws or
Speaker 1: whatever in your mind out of those fifty throws. You
Speaker 1: educated the media a little bit today about about all that.
Speaker 1: Because routes are run certain ways, maybe they're not running right.
Speaker 1: We brought this up a few weeks back. So how
Speaker 1: any would you say you'd like to have back or
Speaker 1: he'd like that back out of that? Well, there there's
Speaker 1: a there's there's a few in there. Uh. And again
Speaker 1: I don't have the exact number. Uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: like you just said, there's protection issues, there's guys getting open,
Speaker 1: and then there's sometimes there's just they played good defense
Speaker 1: and that's a part of football. Um, and so uh,
Speaker 1: you know the decision making that he made, Uh, he
Speaker 1: made a great decision on the on the touchdown to
Speaker 1: Tariq down there inside to five yard line. Um that
Speaker 1: that that that he made there with that play call.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just he was doing some good stuff
Speaker 1: there and they had some zero checks, they were bringing
Speaker 1: some heat, bringing some pressure and uh he escaped from
Speaker 1: several uh um uh blitzes cover zero looks and and
Speaker 1: so there's there's a few, you know, downfield. I think
Speaker 1: some of them came towards the end, like that last possession.
Speaker 1: There was a few downfield, um where he probably wishes
Speaker 1: he had back. But there was some early in the
Speaker 1: game that might have looked like they were on him
Speaker 1: for for being slightly overthrown or just off touch. But
Speaker 1: there's there's other other reasons for it. And Taylor Gabriel
Speaker 1: mentioned after the game that, you know, they felt he
Speaker 1: felt like they were giving him a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of attention out there, so he couldn't do exactly
Speaker 1: what he wanted to do in terms of the deep game.
Speaker 1: And I think that was kind of the statement even
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week from the Patriots that
Speaker 1: you know, the deep game had been hurting them a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you guys had been doing a really
Speaker 1: good jab in the deep game. Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was going to be a focus for them. And Taylor's
Speaker 1: had he put before yesterday, he put together two pretty
Speaker 1: good games, two hundred yard games, and he's a fast
Speaker 1: wide receiver that can go downtown. So he's he's gonna
Speaker 1: get recognition and that's okay. If teams are going to
Speaker 1: decide to do that, then we got to be able
Speaker 1: to have other guys step up. And you saw a
Speaker 1: guy like Trey Burton yesterday makes some nice catches over
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, had a nice touchdown catch
Speaker 1: there at the end of the game. And hopefully as
Speaker 1: we move forward here, these different pieces will will really
Speaker 1: help us um timing wise within the offense when teams
Speaker 1: decide to take one or two guys away, we have
Speaker 1: so many different pieces where we can step up and produce,
Speaker 1: put points on the board and and come out with
Speaker 1: a win. What do you want the run game to
Speaker 1: look like? Well, we just need to we need to
Speaker 1: be able to get more yards per carry. So our
Speaker 1: average is down right now, We're just not averaging a
Speaker 1: whole lot of yards in the rush game. And um
Speaker 1: and and that will come. UM this this isn't the
Speaker 1: first time that I've been through this. It's really not
Speaker 1: so uh. You know, as as a coaching staff, we'll
Speaker 1: put a good plan together. We'll figure out the why part. Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's the fun part, that's the challenging part. And
Speaker 1: so we'll we'll put our heads together, we'll figure out
Speaker 1: what's best for us, and and we'll stay positive. I
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing you need to do, is uh,
Speaker 1: you never panic. You just keep rolling and you stay persistent.
Speaker 1: Um And and I love the one of my favorite phrases,
Speaker 1: persistence of a resistance. I love it. And so that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do with that run game. And it's
Speaker 1: not because of one person, whether that's a running back
Speaker 1: or an offensive lineman or whoever. Uh, it's all of us,
Speaker 1: and we'll get it fixed. And with that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, even going back to Kareem Hunt last year,
Speaker 1: I think there were ten out of his fifteen games
Speaker 1: his carries went way up in the second half of games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a lot that that's kind of how
Speaker 1: this offense is built, where you go ahead and a
Speaker 1: lot of times you'll get you'll get out in front
Speaker 1: with the passing game and then you finish the game
Speaker 1: off with the run game. And that happened a lot
Speaker 1: last year with Kareem. There's a lot of games early
Speaker 1: on in the year where he didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of his touches and a lot of his yards until
Speaker 1: the end of the game in four minute where he'd
Speaker 1: break a few and and so, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: just I just know that for myself, I still have
Speaker 1: extreme confidence and everybody everybody that's associated with that, and uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, you do need to be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and uh, you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the guy that sits back there and and
Speaker 1: calls fifty pass plays in a game because you're two
Speaker 1: one dimensional. And now when you get behind fourteen points,
Speaker 1: you're you're forced to do You're forced to twelve passes
Speaker 1: extra on top of that. But um, you'd like to
Speaker 1: be too early on. You'd like to be able to
Speaker 1: get a few more yards percarry. Is the breaking point
Speaker 1: at two score game or does it have to be
Speaker 1: to you a two touchdown game? No, it depends on
Speaker 1: where it's out in the game. You know, if it's
Speaker 1: fourteen points in the fourth quarter, you need to you
Speaker 1: need to get those possessions back up, so well you
Speaker 1: normally go hurry. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach
Speaker 1: Mad Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joiac continues snap his back,
Speaker 1: Trabiski rolling it was right. Here comes the pressure, tries
Speaker 1: to obey circles all the way back to his thirty
Speaker 1: look at a set of street Now he's gonna keep
Speaker 1: left twenty fifteen ten five with a block part. He
Speaker 1: is in for the touch style. Cody white Hair leading away,
Speaker 1: blew up his defender and the Bears hair the lead
Speaker 1: nine seven, the air heat soldier field. That was exciting.
Speaker 1: And when your quarterbacksmen around like fran Tarkenton or Michael Vick,
Speaker 1: because that's what it looked like a little bit coach.
Speaker 1: Now you're back on the Coaches Show. The part I
Speaker 1: loved Cody white Hair saying come on, you know, signaling him,
Speaker 1: come on follow me. He just blew up that dB
Speaker 1: in the end zone. But that was fun. That was
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Yeah, it's it's uh, that's another weapon
Speaker 1: that Mitch has and and so if something's not there
Speaker 1: in the passing game, he's able to extend to play
Speaker 1: with his legs and you saw a little bit of
Speaker 1: that yesterday. Um, and he'll be the first to tell
Speaker 1: you that that's not something that he's looking to do.
Speaker 1: But if teams are going to play his specific coverages
Speaker 1: that enable him to do that, then he'll do that.
Speaker 1: And you saw evidence of that yesterday with making a
Speaker 1: good play and then of course, uh with Cody leading
Speaker 1: him on in there in the end zone. Was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So now he's second in the NFL and Russian yards
Speaker 1: quarterback behind Cam Newton. Yeah, two hundred forty five yards. Um,
Speaker 1: you take what you take, right, Sure, it doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't bother you, right, No, not at all. I tell
Speaker 1: you I dealt five years of that with with Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean it was again he was able to especially
Speaker 1: on third down, when teams have specific coverages that they
Speaker 1: like to play, it can be a backbreaker to that
Speaker 1: defense when you scramble for a first and Mitch did
Speaker 1: that quite a few times yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. And when
Speaker 1: you do that, um, that's hard because that's just another
Speaker 1: another um uh, you know, that's somebody else for the
Speaker 1: defense they got to defend with those legs. And so
Speaker 1: when you're not throwing a football, if you can extend
Speaker 1: to play with your legs, and that's that's a benefit. So, um,
Speaker 1: he did that yesterday. We don't want to live in
Speaker 1: that world, but if they give it to us, we'll
Speaker 1: take it. So they're throwing a spy out there yesterday,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the course of the game. From an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman's perspective, you know, because sometimes these guys just waiting.
Speaker 1: Does it cause a little concern in an offensive lineman's
Speaker 1: mind if he doesn't have if his responsibility is to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that, when do I go? How
Speaker 1: do I stay? Is that is that a thinking process? Right?
Speaker 1: It really just depends on the play, you know. Is
Speaker 1: it a is it a naked is it a screen?
Speaker 1: Is it a drop back? Is it a run? Um?
Speaker 1: And the times sometimes where that can get you if
Speaker 1: it's a screen. For instance, yesterday we had one. We're
Speaker 1: on third down. We called a screen to Tarik and
Speaker 1: they had a spy. Uh and they only rush three
Speaker 1: and and so you know, Mitch had to dirt at
Speaker 1: his feet and um. And so that was a good call,
Speaker 1: a defensive call by them. But other than that, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect him too much. They're able to go
Speaker 1: out there and play. All right, let's sound a little
Speaker 1: little defense. But on Nichols keeps making place. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was the most snaps he played all
Speaker 1: season yesterday. It's just an explosiveness about him. He's earned
Speaker 1: it obviously on the practice field to get to Sunday,
Speaker 1: but the confidence seems to be just skyrocketing. He was
Speaker 1: one of the first guys on our post game we interviewed,
Speaker 1: and he's talked like a veteran now, yeah, about the
Speaker 1: game and about what's next. Sure, now he's a like
Speaker 1: you said, I mean, he is playing fast, He's playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, especially for being a rookie US.
Speaker 1: You can see his confidence in himself within the scheme
Speaker 1: is getting higher and higher each game. And he's made
Speaker 1: some big time plays now. And the play he made
Speaker 1: yesterday to be able to make that tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: get that fumble, and the way he got it kind
Speaker 1: of the way everybody was kind of falling on the ball,
Speaker 1: I thought was very impressive and you know, nice for
Speaker 1: for us to get the ball on offense and turn
Speaker 1: it into points. There was a lot of discussion about
Speaker 1: the use of your outside linebackers yesterday. Um, what did
Speaker 1: you think of that, and with Khalil, you know, there
Speaker 1: there were situations where you know, you gotta these situations,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta monitor it throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game and moving forward here, yeah, well and there
Speaker 1: we did a little bit more UM drop eight in
Speaker 1: that game. Uh And and some of that is you know,
Speaker 1: schematically in regards to just some of what the game
Speaker 1: plan was with with with our defensive coaches and with
Speaker 1: vic and um, that's not the first time that does
Speaker 1: happened against Tom Brady. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons for that, because he gives you an extra defender. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, connecting the dots. People say, well, is it
Speaker 1: because of Khalil's ankle, and and you know he can't
Speaker 1: rush the pasture and you know, for for for us
Speaker 1: UM and what what Vick does a good job with
Speaker 1: his trying to put his players in the best situation possible.
Speaker 1: And so yesterday there was uh several more drop eights,
Speaker 1: and but there were still times where he was you know,
Speaker 1: bringing it with four and at times even more than that.
Speaker 1: And so you saw that on the interception. So I
Speaker 1: think as games go by, you'll see different UM game
Speaker 1: plans from him, and then we just got to monitor
Speaker 1: Khalil's ankle, you know. And you have your hands full
Speaker 1: obviously with so much. Have you learned a lot about
Speaker 1: defense this year? Yeah? Yeah, I have. And it's neat.
Speaker 1: It's neat seeing kind of just his style of what
Speaker 1: he believes in and and um, the different types of
Speaker 1: zone pressures that he has and whether it's man or
Speaker 1: a shell, coverage Cover two or Cover four when he
Speaker 1: is gonna heat you up with cover zero. Uh, and
Speaker 1: then bouncing, you know, being able to talk football, you know,
Speaker 1: x's and os. He might ask me a question vice versa,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's good. I give him a
Speaker 1: perspective from the offensive side, and he gives me a
Speaker 1: perspective from their side. No more of the Bears Coaching
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Speaker 1: As Trubisky goes to work Burton one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: yards of receiving his first one hundred yard game. Going
Speaker 1: to the right up, Trubisky takes the snap sets to
Speaker 1: throw winds up right Sidns touchdown, Burton, touchdown, Bears thirty
Speaker 1: eight thirty New England. Burton ninth catch defender fell down
Speaker 1: wide open pitch and catch Trubisky gets him on the
Speaker 1: board or touchdown of the season. For Trey Burton, he's
Speaker 1: making the most of his opportunities with the Bears and
Speaker 1: enjoying it. He said after the game met middle of
Speaker 1: the field is open. I just took what they gave me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. He played well yesterday and it was good
Speaker 1: to see that connection going and uh, you know, they
Speaker 1: were they were going ahead and trying to take away
Speaker 1: some other guys throughout that game, and it opened up
Speaker 1: some good stuff for Trey. He won his one on
Speaker 1: one matchup throughout the game and it was good to
Speaker 1: see him get on track there with Mitchell and hopefully
Speaker 1: keep that thing going. So you watched the tape and
Speaker 1: you thought about it overnight, We'll gave you a stomach
Speaker 1: ache anything, Well, just you know, ultimately, you just we've
Speaker 1: worked so hard and there's just so many hours that
Speaker 1: go into a players and coaches and you know, to
Speaker 1: get to get to this point right now where we're at.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to come away with the win,
Speaker 1: and there's there's no uh, there's nothing else that matters.
Speaker 1: We really don't care about any of the stats or numbers,
Speaker 1: and we just we want to win. And um, I've
Speaker 1: explained to the team that it is a very long season,
Speaker 1: um and and that we got a ways to go
Speaker 1: and now we're getting challenged here, and so how are
Speaker 1: we going to react? Are we gonna stick together? Are
Speaker 1: we're gonna pull apart? And I think I have a
Speaker 1: pretty good idea of because of who we are and
Speaker 1: the way we work, that we'll stick together. We'll become
Speaker 1: tighter because of this, and we'll grow stronger and uh,
Speaker 1: and go ahead and give our best effort next week.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you something about that? You've said it
Speaker 1: every time that the team has suffered a setback or
Speaker 1: something to overcome about staying together. What wouldever lead you
Speaker 1: to believe they wouldn't? Well, I mean, there's it comes
Speaker 1: down to responsibility, accountability, UM, selfish players and not selfless players.
Speaker 1: And we're we have a team full of high character guys.
Speaker 1: And that's something that Ryan and I discussed when we
Speaker 1: decided to do this thing. And Ryan works that way
Speaker 1: and he knows that I worked that way, and so UM,
Speaker 1: you you try to build the team with good people,
Speaker 1: and um, it's really hard to go and defeated. And
Speaker 1: so when things don't go great, how do you react
Speaker 1: to it? Um? Is it the offense is fault? Is it?
Speaker 1: The defensive fault? Is a special teams when you're a
Speaker 1: team that just accepts responsibility and start and looks into
Speaker 1: mirror and starts with yourself and you you you bring
Speaker 1: it on and you understand why why it happened or
Speaker 1: why you lost, and vice versa. When you win, you
Speaker 1: don't think it's all you. You You know, you understand it
Speaker 1: your teammates, UM, and you ride that thing through the
Speaker 1: sixteen games that you play together. Hopefully then you make
Speaker 1: the playoffs and now you use all those experiences from
Speaker 1: those sixteen games, all of those different challenges that you had,
Speaker 1: good and bad, to help you in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: is your radar always up? Always? And if you see
Speaker 1: something that doesn't look right, you feel you have to
Speaker 1: address it immediately before it festers? For sure? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: need to. And when when that usually happens is when
Speaker 1: a losing streak occurs to where it just gets it
Speaker 1: gets long and monotonous, and they feel like they're hearing
Speaker 1: the same message. And so that's where you have to
Speaker 1: do everything you possibly can to to understand it. You know,
Speaker 1: we've lost two in a row, and it's really not
Speaker 1: the end of the world. It's really not where We've
Speaker 1: played six games, we've lost two in a row, and
Speaker 1: we've also won three in a row. So when we
Speaker 1: were winning three in a row, it's the same thing
Speaker 1: as staying even kiel not thinking we're too good. So, um,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're built for these type of situations.
Speaker 1: We understand how to handle adversity, at least I think
Speaker 1: we do. And now we'll see as we go, and
Speaker 1: we won't know the final answer of this question until
Speaker 1: we get to the end of the season. Oh we're done,
Speaker 1: Kevin and White, before we take a quick look at
Speaker 1: the Jets and let you go for the evening snaps
Speaker 1: have increased the past few weeks. He had his first
Speaker 1: targets of the year in this game, including the Hail Mary.
Speaker 1: But I heard him in a postgame interview on Fox
Speaker 1: yesterday and he said he had changed his mindset two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You know what the depth of that is
Speaker 1: and what may have precipitated that for Kevin, well for him,
Speaker 1: for Kevin, you know, he's been through. He's been through
Speaker 1: some adversity himself, you know, mentally just in his situation
Speaker 1: and what he's been through here with the team the
Speaker 1: last couple of years and health wise and everything. So
Speaker 1: now it's a new head coach, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: new players, and it's a new system, and so that
Speaker 1: that's a challenge. And you know, I think what he's
Speaker 1: done is he's become selfless in the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and realized that whether it's taken scout team reps
Speaker 1: in practice or whether it's making an extra block in
Speaker 1: the game to spring somebody open. Um, that he's being
Speaker 1: patient right now. And I love that about Kevin. He's
Speaker 1: a great person, um, with a lot of talent, and
Speaker 1: we're just trying to figure out with everybody else that
Speaker 1: we have, how we can put it together. Uh. For
Speaker 1: that that helps both of us, himself and us as
Speaker 1: a team. And so usually things always happen for a reason.
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know when his time is coming,
Speaker 1: but I do appreciate him, um, you know, really having
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for our team and for his
Speaker 1: teammates and coming out and working hard every day. All right,
Speaker 1: quick look at the Jets three and four. Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: you certainly uh yeah, you know, you know what he
Speaker 1: did in college and once he's done early on. And
Speaker 1: and their defense, their defense with a defensive minor head
Speaker 1: coaches is something to look at. Yeah they are. And I, uh,
Speaker 1: my father actually coached Tod Bulls in in uh in
Speaker 1: high school, and so I know Todd really well. I
Speaker 1: was growing up as a young kid and my dad
Speaker 1: used to always talk about this, this player, Todd Bowls
Speaker 1: is such a a such such a special player that
Speaker 1: he coached, and so I always knew who Todd was
Speaker 1: as a player playing with the Redskins growing up, and
Speaker 1: then we got to coach together in Philadelphia. We coached together,
Speaker 1: and so I have ultimate respect for Todd. I think
Speaker 1: he's a hell of a coach. He's really good at
Speaker 1: what he does, really awesome individual um and and really
Speaker 1: knows defense extremely well. So tons of respect for him
Speaker 1: and what he's done there, um And so it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be a great challenge for us, even keeled and
Speaker 1: tough minded it very much. She likes to blitz just
Speaker 1: a little, just a little, all right, coach, We'll talk
Speaker 1: you throughout the course of the week. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Jonia. Here's Parky
Speaker 1: to ticket to Corderyl Patterson, It's gonna bounce in front
Speaker 1: of him. We'll take it up a hop half The
Speaker 1: gold line comes out near side ten fifteen when he
Speaker 1: gets ahead of steep boat flopped up Fandre Houston. Carson
Speaker 1: has recovered him. The air fairsit side of the Patriot
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line. The punch up delivered by Nick
Speaker 1: Quicktowski Fair Special Teams comes up huge at Soldier Field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did Nick Quickcowsky triffic job fending off a blocker.
Speaker 1: Then you know, you tell me how it all went down.
Speaker 1: Chris Taber kind enough to join us tonight because he
Speaker 1: kind of went down to the ground. It almost looked
Speaker 1: like Patterson ran into the back of his guy and
Speaker 1: that dislodged the ball. But the fact that Nick is
Speaker 1: there with that guy made it all kind of you know,
Speaker 1: like a bunch of blocks falling down. No, there's Nick
Speaker 1: did a great job on that play coming down and
Speaker 1: uh he was engaging his blocker and did a nice
Speaker 1: job taking his man back into into Cordell there. And
Speaker 1: fortunately we gotta gotta turnover and that was big. We
Speaker 1: ended up getting seven points off of that, So that's good.
Speaker 1: Patterson's fumbled every season in his career. I think he's
Speaker 1: got eight. I'm sure you knew that ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But did you feel that that could have been a
Speaker 1: vulnerability or we talked about it in our meetings that
Speaker 1: you know, we need to kind of we need to
Speaker 1: create a turnover, create a short field, change momentum there,
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that's what that play does. And you're
Speaker 1: still a way of possession, no question. That's what I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say. Keep it out at number twelve,
Speaker 1: s hands there, that's it. That's good for you. All right,
Speaker 1: comes back though he bites you on the ninety five
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. He had a great wall blockers set up,
Speaker 1: and uh, I always talk about running backs that that
Speaker 1: get into that second level crack turns into a canyon.
Speaker 1: It was a big canyon. No it. Uh he was.
Speaker 1: He's coming up our sideline there, and he's a player
Speaker 1: you have to get in front of. And because once
Speaker 1: he gets ahead of steam, I mean I described it
Speaker 1: as a runaway train and uh we were getting in
Speaker 1: front of him and an increase on the back side.
Speaker 1: Uh we just lost lost some guys on that side
Speaker 1: and he hit it and uh, you know, we got
Speaker 1: to do a better job there. That's on me and
Speaker 1: gotta get him coached up better than that. And uh,
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting back on the pre field. Fix that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look like it right now. It's a serious tone.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you do you you challenge your guys, man,
Speaker 1: you do, no question. I have a lot of confidence
Speaker 1: in our guys and uh, you know this obviously the
Speaker 1: way it ended up for us Wash was disappointing, But
Speaker 1: at the same time, that'sh're we're you know, it's not
Speaker 1: going to define us as it'll motivate us. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that's what we got to grow in this
Speaker 1: next step. But we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean, we're we're going to face another return.
Speaker 1: It's tops in the leagues. I mean, he's the number
Speaker 1: one point return in the league. Um, so we're we
Speaker 1: got our hands full all right now. And young players
Speaker 1: are on your special teams units every single year. So
Speaker 1: Kevin Tolliver on that particular instance, Um, he's almost the
Speaker 1: last line of defense there, with all due respect to
Speaker 1: Cody Parkey. Um, he's not going to catch him. Um
Speaker 1: how did you play that better next time? What's what's
Speaker 1: his job there? Well, he's coming in unblocked, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know as the as the ball cuts back to him,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a it's a matter of gathering
Speaker 1: myself and making the tackle, keeping my head up and
Speaker 1: seeing the tackle. And uh, it's something that we'll obviously
Speaker 1: we need to go back and clean up. And we will,
Speaker 1: and I look forward to for him to for the
Speaker 1: next opportunity, he'll make that play. I felt, you tell me.
Speaker 1: I thought Nate Ebner, who was one of their prime
Speaker 1: special teams player, maybe held Sharick on that plate, got
Speaker 1: got behind him a little bit, pushed him, shoved him
Speaker 1: and held him. I don't know, but I when I
Speaker 1: went back and watched all the returns yesterday, UM, there's
Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot of holding going on. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of blocks in the back. Well, honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, I, you know, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: one way or the other. I will say this, Uh
Speaker 1: I they let him play, but both sides. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I and I'll be honest with you, I'd much rather
Speaker 1: have it that way and let us let us play
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, we got to work on
Speaker 1: getting off the blocks and making plays. The Bears Coaches
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Speaker 1: it Soldier Field against the New York Jets. Here with
Speaker 1: Chris Tabor, as we take a look at yesterday's game.
Speaker 1: Let's talking about the black punt. How'd you feel the
Speaker 1: operation was? You know what we refer to now this
Speaker 1: is the snap, the placement and how excuse me, the
Speaker 1: snap and the and the and the kick and where
Speaker 1: it's placed and everything. The operation, how is the operation?
Speaker 1: It was okay, I think it's I think that's something
Speaker 1: that anytime you see that there's eight guys in the
Speaker 1: box or they're singled up out out on your gunners,
Speaker 1: especially at that midfield they're trying to rush you there,
Speaker 1: you always want to be as fast as you can.
Speaker 1: But we got obviously, uh, you know, we had an
Speaker 1: issue there, uh with with with the blocking. Uh not
Speaker 1: a schematic thing, but something that I need to get
Speaker 1: correct and we'll get corrected. Um. And you know, the
Speaker 1: good news for me is that I'm fired up about
Speaker 1: and going to see the guys tomorrow. Is is good players,
Speaker 1: and they listen, they're coachable, and I know we'll get
Speaker 1: that fixed because that can't happen. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: pinning them down in there and then letting our defense
Speaker 1: go to work and then have an opportunity for going
Speaker 1: to return the ball a booney way. A couple of
Speaker 1: things I want to talk about. So he actually tripped Ronnicker.
Speaker 1: I know some of the Nationals the people looking at saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you got steamrolled by Dante Higtower buddy. He did lose
Speaker 1: his balance on that too. In situations like that. Could
Speaker 1: he ring him down to the ground with him. If
Speaker 1: you're ever coached, yeah, I mean, if you're if you
Speaker 1: are getting beat last resort, Yeah, if I have to
Speaker 1: hold and then we have to yeah, we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and take the penalt. Yeah. Another moment in the game,
Speaker 1: Sherik was a little hot about something in here, and
Speaker 1: I brought it up on the broadcast. Here's this rookie
Speaker 1: from Western Kentucky. He's got his arm, the rookie kind
Speaker 1: of calming down the veteran. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: pretty significant step in the right direction for a young guy,
Speaker 1: you know, feeling feeling that he has that liberty to
Speaker 1: do that. You know what I'm saying, No, no, no question.
Speaker 1: I mean, guys are always going to get a little
Speaker 1: heated out there, but you know, you want to stay
Speaker 1: even keel if you can, and then and play between
Speaker 1: the whistles and go to work. Yesterday Cody Parkey, Uh,
Speaker 1: the range with the wind, what would have been because
Speaker 1: the wind was not awful, but it was it was insistent, No,
Speaker 1: it was, it was it was consistently blown towards our
Speaker 1: sideline and really to our tunnel. Was where the wind
Speaker 1: you had it, you could really let it go there
Speaker 1: and you could probably stretch it back if you wanted
Speaker 1: to try a fifty three yard or in those type
Speaker 1: of things. Going the other way to the right of
Speaker 1: our bench. It was more in our face, and obviously
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of the return game came into
Speaker 1: play because the ball would just get kind of knocked
Speaker 1: down there. So you know, I think you were probably
Speaker 1: going to travel around in that that thirty that you know,
Speaker 1: thirty yard line forty eight yard field goal type deal.
Speaker 1: Tricky place to kick, even on a sunny day. What's
Speaker 1: the impact of the sun has It appeared to affect
Speaker 1: Cordero on the opening kickoff, It appeared to affect Josh
Speaker 1: Bellamy on a pass attempt that he just put his hand.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see. Is that high sun a significant factor
Speaker 1: when you're kicking from south to north? Its ord your
Speaker 1: field at that time of day, No, no question it was,
Speaker 1: And we actually we talked about that in pregame, and
Speaker 1: then we talked about it during the game, just with
Speaker 1: regards to, hey, we're kicking this way. He might be
Speaker 1: a little slower bringing it out because he's having a
Speaker 1: tough time finding the football. So you know, we do
Speaker 1: do talk about those things. I mean, obviously the weather
Speaker 1: is a big deal in the special teams world. Benny
Speaker 1: Kenningham with his return game, does he have the liberty
Speaker 1: to do what he wants or do you say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna keep this one here, we want
Speaker 1: to start at twenty five or is it a feel thing?
Speaker 1: We talk about it, you know, we you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna set him. We're gonna talk it a little bit
Speaker 1: about obviously during the week, the matchups, how the wins,
Speaker 1: playing those type of things, and then the hang time
Speaker 1: of the kick. But with regards to his decisions of
Speaker 1: bringing them out, I was those were all good decisions.
Speaker 1: And as I stated, I mean, the weather's changing and
Speaker 1: return season is here, and I think as probably you
Speaker 1: might see a few more bigger returns because cover teams
Speaker 1: haven't quite covered as many yet. And yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: and it's right now you can say it's advantage return team.
Speaker 1: That's interesting point. You know, I was joking in pregame
Speaker 1: yesterday I kind of put the whammy on you. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: what because it's the anniversary was the anniversary of Devin
Speaker 1: Hester's nineteenth touchdown or whatever it was. And so we
Speaker 1: brought it up in pregame and I said, I remember
Speaker 1: those good old days of the return game, you know,
Speaker 1: and guys taking it out, But there haven't been a
Speaker 1: lot of returns in this league they've taken, you know,
Speaker 1: just putting the arms out or just letting it, say,
Speaker 1: out of the back of the end zone, or purposely
Speaker 1: doing it with the kickoff moved up nowadays. Right, No,
Speaker 1: And it's it's every team's a little different of some. Some
Speaker 1: Some guys will put them right at the goal line
Speaker 1: if they take one step back, even if it's a
Speaker 1: low hang, they'll they'll they'll keep it in there. I
Speaker 1: think it just it depends on the total matchups offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and kicking, how you feel about bringing that thing out.
Speaker 1: Even how about on the coverage unit too, because if
Speaker 1: you get an early, fast team, I think they're making
Speaker 1: up ground pretty quick on you as you go into
Speaker 1: your back pedal. You try to do it with inside
Speaker 1: like the thirty right before they turn around and started blocking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most guys are gonna flip, you know, they flip and
Speaker 1: you're gonna make contact between that thirty and twenty. It's
Speaker 1: usually thirty twenty five really, and those guys can get
Speaker 1: on you quickly, but not a lot quicker than I thought. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but really with the new rule and guys only being
Speaker 1: a yard back, um, it's to me it still seems
Speaker 1: like it takes them a while to get going. Now,
Speaker 1: no one can hit you inside that fit inside the
Speaker 1: first fifteen yards, so you feel like you can get
Speaker 1: built up. But compound that with a low kick, it's
Speaker 1: in his hands a little bit quicker, and that disc
Speaker 1: between you know, making contact with with with the guy
Speaker 1: to engage him and the returner can still be significant,
Speaker 1: and that's why you're seeing guys return for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The thing that's different also, I don't know, but one
Speaker 1: thing is is you have to line everyone up, and
Speaker 1: a year ago you could, you could muddle huddle, you
Speaker 1: could hide guys right now basically with the way the
Speaker 1: way the rule is, and it's a good rule, but
Speaker 1: you have to you show your hand right away. So,
Speaker 1: for example, if you wanted to Matthew Slayter's a good
Speaker 1: cover player for them, Mac is a great cover player
Speaker 1: for us. It's clearly defined where he's lined up at
Speaker 1: before the kick, as opposed to maybe last year where
Speaker 1: you could have. You could move before the kick and
Speaker 1: you could hide him. Maybe a team thought, well, he
Speaker 1: was the R four, but no, he's really the L five,
Speaker 1: and it screws up the blocking and then he gets
Speaker 1: home free. But at the same time, with this rule,
Speaker 1: we're trying to prevent the big collisions, and we're trying
Speaker 1: to give the kickoff return team, so to speak, a
Speaker 1: chance so that there aren't the big collisions. The Bears
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Speaker 1: Brief moment left here with Special Teams coordinator Chris Taborn
Speaker 1: before we rejoined Matt Naggie, What are you looking for
Speaker 1: in that Jets Special Teams unit? Coach by bram Bore
Speaker 1: All there, They're a good unit. They already have my attention.
Speaker 1: Just getting into him right now, obviously the punt returner.
Speaker 1: He's leading the National Football League. Anytime you're facing the
Speaker 1: top returner in the league, that that always grabs your attention.
Speaker 1: He's averaging a little over seventeen yards per return. So
Speaker 1: we have our work cut out for us. And then
Speaker 1: obviously we need to play better. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're probably licking their chops that they want to
Speaker 1: come after us, but we need to answer the bell
Speaker 1: there and looking forward to the challenge. When there is
Speaker 1: something like that that happened to you guys yesterday. Honestly,
Speaker 1: then when you put on the tape and you get
Speaker 1: your eight, they're vulnerable. Here here we go. That's what
Speaker 1: you feed onto as a special team coordinator, no question.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you always say there's a little bood
Speaker 1: in the water, you know, you know, and you have
Speaker 1: to they're gonna want to attack it and see if
Speaker 1: you fix it. And unfortunately for those type of things,
Speaker 1: when those things happen, that the fix you have to
Speaker 1: prove to the league. The fix it takes about four weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, because people want to keep attacking
Speaker 1: that all the time. So, uh, you know, we just
Speaker 1: need to get back to the three things we always
Speaker 1: talk about, assignment, alignment, and technique and if you if
Speaker 1: you handle those things, you can you can set yourself
Speaker 1: up for success. Go get them. Thank you my friend
Speaker 1: Chris Tabor, Special Teams Coordinator, Thanks for joining us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna bring the Bearers and Jets to you. And now
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