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Speaker 1: a great evening. Everybody. Welcome into fancy studios at Hallis
Speaker 1: Hall as the Bears Coaches Show rolls on here as
Speaker 1: we head into a week to out of the season.
Speaker 1: Head Coach Matt Naggie with you until eight o'clock tonight,
Speaker 1: will be joined by a defensive coordinator, Vic Fan Joe
Speaker 1: as well. Good to have you, Coach forty one nine.
Speaker 1: Certainly feels good, looks, good smiles all around. Huh. That
Speaker 1: was fun. No, that was a fun game and just
Speaker 1: awesome for the guys that come out and play. And
Speaker 1: we had a great week of practice and translated to
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, that's a that's a game
Speaker 1: that we understood going into a hostile environment, tough crowd
Speaker 1: and a team that was a little bit wounded, and
Speaker 1: you just never know. And so our guys came out
Speaker 1: and credit to them for playing hard and fast and
Speaker 1: physical and got some turnovers on defense, some touchdowns and
Speaker 1: came out with the win. Yeah. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to that practice comment, and you brought it up
Speaker 1: earlier today with the media. You said it was the
Speaker 1: best of the year potentially practice. What about it? What
Speaker 1: makes practice during a week of prep special? And then
Speaker 1: you know it because sometimes I've heard THEMN coaches and
Speaker 1: they doesn't really translate. Why do you think this this
Speaker 1: particular week. Well, it's crisp, you know, and the guys
Speaker 1: when they're when they're practicing right now, what's happening is
Speaker 1: you start to lose some repsum just to help save
Speaker 1: on the wear and tear these guys bodies physically, and
Speaker 1: so you're looking for great quality mental reps and when
Speaker 1: they're out there, it's not making mistakes, it's it's still
Speaker 1: playing fast in practice. And so when you play fast
Speaker 1: in practice and you try to simulate the game tempo,
Speaker 1: and then you don't make mistakes or or mental errors
Speaker 1: on any side of the ball. Uh, and it's sharp,
Speaker 1: it's crisp. You know, the periods go fast because there's
Speaker 1: less mistakes, there's less repeated plays, and um, that's what
Speaker 1: we had this past week. You could see it. I
Speaker 1: thought our coaches really coached their tails off. You could
Speaker 1: you could do. There was just a sense of a
Speaker 1: lot of focus, and we talked about it each day
Speaker 1: and even up until our walk through on Saturday, where
Speaker 1: that's really completely a mental day, and our guys were sharp.
Speaker 1: And so we were four for four this week, and um,
Speaker 1: you don't always have that, unfortunately, but we we had
Speaker 1: it this week and I had a good feeling going
Speaker 1: into it. What's the best way then to carry that
Speaker 1: momentum into another week of doing the same thing. Is
Speaker 1: it possible? Is it something? Now that this is the
Speaker 1: new the new ceiling for practice, you end up wanting
Speaker 1: to make this uh be completely normal. This is the norm,
Speaker 1: and our guys are learning that. Everybody here is learning that.
Speaker 1: And so that's my job as the head coach to
Speaker 1: to keep my thumb down on that and make sure
Speaker 1: that we all understand that we need to be completely
Speaker 1: dialed in. We need to be focused on all the
Speaker 1: details and not get complacent, which we've talked about all
Speaker 1: year long. And and um, that's that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: So it's not hard, especially coming into a division game,
Speaker 1: coming back home. Um, and and that's all we're focused
Speaker 1: on right now is the Detroit Lions. How'd you do
Speaker 1: it for yourself? You're putting the thumb on everybody else.
Speaker 1: How do you do Matt Naggy, Well, it's it's not
Speaker 1: hard because I understand, you know, I realize the importance
Speaker 1: of where we're at right now. I know everybody's looking
Speaker 1: for me with my direction and my leadership. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm here. And uh, and I've learned from one of
Speaker 1: the best in the league and coach Reads. So h
Speaker 1: just going through these long seasons. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: just finished got through our our our eighth game and
Speaker 1: for us now to be where we're at now it's
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. But a Saturday, you know,
Speaker 1: stay within the the this this start of the third
Speaker 1: third quarter for us, and it happens to be at
Speaker 1: home and we're looking forward to it. If you had
Speaker 1: to deal with this defense yourself, how would you do it?
Speaker 1: Because they really played hard yesterday. Just going over it again,
Speaker 1: just everybody, like you said earlier today, flying around, the effort,
Speaker 1: insight in the trenches, the dbs on it. Everything was
Speaker 1: really really something defensively, it was it was everywhere. And
Speaker 1: that's what I appreciate so much from these guys, and
Speaker 1: and our our offense and our special teams feed off
Speaker 1: of that um. The defense feeds off of it from
Speaker 1: each other. You know, if the defensive linemen are getting
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback um, then it buys the dbs
Speaker 1: some time to be able to you know, close on
Speaker 1: any any separation at the wide receivers create and ad
Speaker 1: vice versa. If if the dbs are locking down the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, then it gives the d lineman more time
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. And then at the second
Speaker 1: tier you have the linebackers and they're flying around horizontal
Speaker 1: from sideline to sideline. I thought you saw that all
Speaker 1: day yesterday. And then you get down in the trenches
Speaker 1: and our guys just made a nice, tough, tough couple
Speaker 1: of hits there, a tough couple tackles on their running
Speaker 1: backs and just you felt it in the game. You
Speaker 1: watch it on video. You see it on tape, and
Speaker 1: it all stuck out offensively, you know, not many snaps
Speaker 1: obviously that that's fine. And when you got forty one
Speaker 1: on the board, and you know, that's that's great. In
Speaker 1: this league right now, it appears you're gonna need to
Speaker 1: score points. I mean to be one of those teams.
Speaker 1: And you guys are right now, last four games, the
Speaker 1: scoring average way up. You're fifth in the league as
Speaker 1: it is. I think that for fans is what's coming
Speaker 1: back to me is most exciting is that you guys
Speaker 1: are scoring almost thirty points a game and you're not
Speaker 1: even there yet. Yeah, right, you're right. And yesterday was
Speaker 1: a yesterday. It was a strange game on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, just with only having forty six plays.
Speaker 1: The first half was somewhat normal. When you have two
Speaker 1: defensive touchdowns within one quarter, your plays are going to
Speaker 1: be limited. And then when you have a lead like
Speaker 1: we had in the third quarter, they they they took
Speaker 1: some time off the clock on the first drive. They
Speaker 1: went down and kicked a field goal, and we came
Speaker 1: right back and had a long pass interference call on
Speaker 1: their defense, and then we ended up getting a field goal.
Speaker 1: So two possessions went by there and um, it was
Speaker 1: it was you know, one field goal for another and
Speaker 1: you stretched out, you know, eight minutes on the clock
Speaker 1: in that quarter and before you know it's a fourth
Speaker 1: quarter in your in four minute mode. So it was
Speaker 1: a strange day, um for the offense. But that's how
Speaker 1: it goes, and and and again. All as we care
Speaker 1: about is that score and being able to put up
Speaker 1: forty one points on the road, um is great to have.
Speaker 1: And uh and it's a credit tall the guys. You
Speaker 1: saved some thirty plays that you never touched your books,
Speaker 1: so you can roll it after something else. You know.
Speaker 1: You know that at one point in the game, you
Speaker 1: had four running backs in and they call it time
Speaker 1: out and Tom Thair literally blurted out, oh, like something bad,
Speaker 1: because we wanted we wanted to see what was next.
Speaker 1: You know. That's the thing about you. I'm sure your
Speaker 1: guys feel the same way when they get thrown in
Speaker 1: there with Eddie Jackson in the slot that one time,
Speaker 1: and just these little things that really gets your attention
Speaker 1: and cause another team to prepare for it. But can
Speaker 1: you can you appreciate that though? From yeah, I do,
Speaker 1: I think it's great. We have a we have a
Speaker 1: bunch of great talented athletes on our team, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna use everybody and and and again that's that's part
Speaker 1: of why we do what we do is to have fun.
Speaker 1: And I'm a big believer in that. And the guys
Speaker 1: like it. And and uh, if you can create an
Speaker 1: advantage somehow, whether it's through personnels or formations or play concepts,
Speaker 1: and let's do it. And um, you know, we we
Speaker 1: try to mix our personnel's up a little bit, and
Speaker 1: we might be a little bit unconventional, um, which is
Speaker 1: okay because that stresses the defense. And and we just
Speaker 1: try to use it. Guys start coming to your door,
Speaker 1: our hand in. Man, they're already starry. You know they are.
Speaker 1: I know they are. They have to be, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Our first segment in the books with head coach Matteggie
Speaker 1: for the five and three Bears hitting the midpoint in
Speaker 1: terms of the actual sixteen game season with Detroit coming
Speaker 1: in on Sundays, Let's step away now the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniac continues, he's got it back to his left three
Speaker 1: receivers to the right. He takes the snap coming to
Speaker 1: their side of hold, handing us upthing out of the
Speaker 1: flex of Leonard Floyd. Fuck hands out touchdown Bears number
Speaker 1: two today their Robbaball. The celebration begins in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Bears sixtend their lead touch twenty to nothing here in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and it would grow larger. The Bears finish off the
Speaker 1: Bill's forty one nine to pick six by Leonard Floyd,
Speaker 1: the first of his NFL career. Welcome Back to the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley Financial Advisors,
Speaker 1: a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. And he almost
Speaker 1: was relieved the way he flung that football into the stands.
Speaker 1: He can't he can't fall them, right, you know, Leonard
Speaker 1: was happy. No, you can't. And it was a great play,
Speaker 1: you know, first of all getting the tip ball up
Speaker 1: in the air and then Leonard to be there in
Speaker 1: position to catch it and then take those long strides
Speaker 1: into the end zone and then he, like you said,
Speaker 1: he flung it into the end into the stands and
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm you know, I'm sure it felt really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was auditioning you know, for an offensive spot. You know,
Speaker 1: showed good hands, good good instincts to run with the ball. No,
Speaker 1: he I thought he played well. I thought he was
Speaker 1: close on a number of things. He got a tip pass,
Speaker 1: he sniffed out a screen. I mean he did some
Speaker 1: good things. Oh he did a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: And that that's the thing that you know, It's one
Speaker 1: thing to to get sacks. It's another thing to affect
Speaker 1: a passer. But this kid is just playing with a
Speaker 1: very high motor every single play. He had a play
Speaker 1: where he made a tackle and he just collapsed the
Speaker 1: pocket and came down on the back and it was
Speaker 1: just it might have been one of the best plays
Speaker 1: of the game and it's probably may go unnoticed. But
Speaker 1: he's making a lot of great plays right now. And
Speaker 1: as is that whole defense. I mean, you go around
Speaker 1: and I went around this morning and just tried to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, pin it down as to who really stepped
Speaker 1: up and was it one guy And it wasn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was literally everybody from the defensive line to the linebackers,
Speaker 1: to the dbs to the coaches. It was just fun,
Speaker 1: really fun effort. You could see it was faffort all
Speaker 1: the way through the game, to the end of the game,
Speaker 1: to the very last play with the stack. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: Aaron Lynch. And let's talk about Eddie Goldman too. You
Speaker 1: brought him up today. He had four tackles last week
Speaker 1: against the Jets, and that's the part of the game.
Speaker 1: You really got to watch the tape and slow it
Speaker 1: down to see exactly what he was doing in there.
Speaker 1: But he was. He was using his leverage and getting
Speaker 1: making plays. He made a lot of great plays. And
Speaker 1: when you're into trenches in there, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: big bodies and a lot of people that you can't see.
Speaker 1: But when you actually sit down and you break down
Speaker 1: the tape, you realize how great of a game that
Speaker 1: he played. I mean a lot of double teams. He's
Speaker 1: in there with six hundred pounds going after him, and
Speaker 1: um so he's making great plays. And I just I
Speaker 1: really was. I thought that was really neat at how
Speaker 1: hard he played, and as is all the other guys too.
Speaker 1: And you know, you could say what you want to buy,
Speaker 1: opponents and how you evaluate things. People write about it
Speaker 1: all the time, but you know, what you play, who
Speaker 1: you play, he doesn't matter. You got to respect every
Speaker 1: single opponent, and your your guys definitely did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. You have to. And the parody in
Speaker 1: this league is just way too, way too common, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no reason for any letdown or for us,
Speaker 1: and we're not good enough of a team to do that.
Speaker 1: That's not I mean, we we're trying to create our
Speaker 1: own identity right now and every game is is just
Speaker 1: so important and so for our guys that come out
Speaker 1: here and be focused and from start to finish what
Speaker 1: we needed. I'm glad you use that word identity again
Speaker 1: because you had talked to us many times early in
Speaker 1: the season about, you know, hoping around mid season to
Speaker 1: have your identity to chiseled out. So is the statue
Speaker 1: done on what the identity is? Are you still chipping
Speaker 1: away at the block of granted? And what's your opinion
Speaker 1: about it all? Yeah, so we're still chipping away. We're
Speaker 1: not there yet, but we're getting close. And what I
Speaker 1: like is that we're we're figuring out ways. We've been
Speaker 1: in different styles of games with big leads, we've played
Speaker 1: from behind, we've played close ones in the third and
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. But the good thing is that throughout at all.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest separation towards the end of a
Speaker 1: game would have been the Patriots game when we were
Speaker 1: down fourteen points in the fourth quarter. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, our guys are learning how to play these
Speaker 1: four quarters, and defensively, our guys are flying around. Offensively,
Speaker 1: we're still working on some things, but I really like
Speaker 1: the growth of our offense individually, where we're getting our
Speaker 1: timings getting better. Our offensive line is doing a good
Speaker 1: job of protecting from Mitch, and in special teams, I
Speaker 1: thought it might have been one of their best games
Speaker 1: of the year yesterday with with Cody kicking two field
Speaker 1: goals and five extra points, and then with Pat having
Speaker 1: some great punts, and then guys our gunners running downfield
Speaker 1: and creating great field position. Yeah, and always, and I
Speaker 1: gave Pat Scales a little shout out he had his
Speaker 1: first special teams tackle. Ye, so long snappers getting a tackle.
Speaker 1: That's always good. Everybody's playing, everybody's playing hard. Really, I
Speaker 1: gotta again commend the coaching staff because, and Tom talks
Speaker 1: about it all the time, there's never been a moment,
Speaker 1: whether it be a practice we saw in training camp
Speaker 1: or a situation where you had to get somebody ready
Speaker 1: to fill in and play because of injury or performance
Speaker 1: or whatnot. That these guys aren't. They are ready to go.
Speaker 1: They know exactly what is being asked of them. You guys,
Speaker 1: as coaches, are doing an unbelievable job of preparing for
Speaker 1: preparing these guys. You talk about your staff, but even today,
Speaker 1: the defensive assistance and offensive assistants. We're able to talk
Speaker 1: to the media today and just hearing the exuberance by
Speaker 1: which they feel about these guys, about teaching these guys
Speaker 1: they're genuinely excited about. Now. Winning certainly helps, but I
Speaker 1: think it's just in their DNA this collection of coaches.
Speaker 1: Would you say that's accurate for sure? No, we have
Speaker 1: a We have great, great, great coaches on this staff
Speaker 1: that work really well together. They all care about each other.
Speaker 1: There's zero egos. And I think that's the part that
Speaker 1: is so big in this league is when you have
Speaker 1: guys that truly love what they're doing. They love trying
Speaker 1: to teach, to teach their players everything they possibly can
Speaker 1: to help them get better. They try to really bring
Speaker 1: out all their strengths, try to fix their weaknesses player wise,
Speaker 1: and then you know the part that goes on notice
Speaker 1: is the relationships that are built with these coaches, as
Speaker 1: in nights like tonight when there's meetings going on and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's the best way to attack
Speaker 1: an opponent, the communication, the collaboration with each other, and
Speaker 1: then on game day just motivating your players and being
Speaker 1: there for each other. And that's that's why in the
Speaker 1: end when we celebrate after these games, there's just so
Speaker 1: much effort that goes into it for the players and
Speaker 1: the coaches, and when you do it, you do it
Speaker 1: all together. Mattneggie and the Bears Coaches Show coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni at play fake
Speaker 1: Peterman gonna throw Peter Men taps the ball working over
Speaker 1: at what an interception by Kyle Fuller. He snagged it,
Speaker 1: stays out of street. He's got a little bit of
Speaker 1: an escort as he winds his way to the twenty
Speaker 1: eight yard line up Buffalo Man, oh Man, Kyle Fuller,
Speaker 1: it appeared to me caught the nose of the football
Speaker 1: that interception. That was a heck of a player. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was Vic Fangio joining us here on the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show. You break it down for us a little
Speaker 1: more than I described it, because I thought it was
Speaker 1: an outstanding, outstanding pluck out of the air. It was
Speaker 1: he had tight coverage on his guy. The guy ran
Speaker 1: an end route, which is always hard to cover in
Speaker 1: certain coverages. That he was tight enough and we had
Speaker 1: decent rush and he plucked it out of the air.
Speaker 1: You know, again, a lot of times interceptions it can
Speaker 1: be tips or something. But he's had a couple here
Speaker 1: of late that have been really nice place. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: our share of ricochets and you know, with the tight coverage.
Speaker 1: And he played really wonderful yesterday, obviously getting in a
Speaker 1: lot of attention for his performance, involved in all three
Speaker 1: of the interceptions. And it's just his physicality. It's it's there.
Speaker 1: It's always been there, as a matter of fact. But
Speaker 1: his confidence level seems to be very high, and the
Speaker 1: respect of his teammates is also equally. He's high. Well,
Speaker 1: anytime you can experience success, that goes a long way,
Speaker 1: and you know, improving your own confidence and attitude and
Speaker 1: the attitude of others also, so you know, you can
Speaker 1: talk all you want, but eventually you got to do
Speaker 1: it on the field, and he's been doing that of late,
Speaker 1: and it sounds to me he's just from reading about
Speaker 1: his teammates talking about him, other defensive backs. He's he's
Speaker 1: become a guy that takes guys to the side, talks
Speaker 1: to them a lot, doesn't do it in front of
Speaker 1: a lot of people. His demeanor is very serious, business
Speaker 1: like and quiet. On the quieter side. Is that something
Speaker 1: that he that you urged him to do or is
Speaker 1: he doing all this stuff organically? Now? I think he's
Speaker 1: doing it mostly on his own and with good intentions,
Speaker 1: and the more you can have with that, And again,
Speaker 1: I don't think he felt comfortable doing that prior to now,
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe towards the end of the last
Speaker 1: year when he started experience some good success. So success
Speaker 1: has a lot of things that fall off of that
Speaker 1: that help, and that's one of it. It It bears fruit,
Speaker 1: bears fruit bears fruit. He's you know, and your relationship
Speaker 1: with him has grown equally, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been a unique relationship with him, has in it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been here since we've been here, or I've been here,
Speaker 1: i should say, and it's been a good relationship. You know.
Speaker 1: The year he sat wasn't able to play because of
Speaker 1: his injury, you know, it was a tough year for everybody,
Speaker 1: and but I like the way he's come back from that,
Speaker 1: and you know, and he's just picked up where he
Speaker 1: left off last year and had a nice season. How
Speaker 1: would you describe your defense right now? The way it's playing. Well,
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, I've been obviously better than
Speaker 1: the two weeks prior to that. We've done a pretty
Speaker 1: good job overall of not giving up the big play.
Speaker 1: We've done a nice job of playing the run. Both
Speaker 1: of these last two teams that we played ran the
Speaker 1: ball well. That was part of the offense that they
Speaker 1: were doing very good. And we've been able to control
Speaker 1: the running game without having the work extra hard to
Speaker 1: do it. Our guys up front, to Keim and Eddie,
Speaker 1: the inside backers, the outside backers, you know, the guys
Speaker 1: that are rolling in and out there have done a
Speaker 1: nice job. Everybody's getting a chance, man, everybody's doing something well.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with defensive coordinator bet Bengio and
Speaker 1: w bbm's Jeff Joniac continue, Bears are blitzings. Peterman is
Speaker 1: throwing the protection holes he throws. I can test it.
Speaker 1: Are you hooked up? And it accepted? Amos up with it?
Speaker 1: Amos hit from behind Bears football at the thirty eight
Speaker 1: yard line up buffatall there for the deflection. Adrian Amos
Speaker 1: with the swife his second You're here pick first of
Speaker 1: this season on the tip by Kyle Fuller. All right,
Speaker 1: so it all adds up right now, Bear, And I
Speaker 1: know Vic Fangio does not want to hear all the math,
Speaker 1: but it's my obligation right to say number one in
Speaker 1: the NFL and points off takeaways two in total takeaways
Speaker 1: two and turnover margin two interceptions tie for second, and
Speaker 1: forced fumbles. But this is the point I want to make,
Speaker 1: is that the number of guys that are touching the
Speaker 1: ball in these cases, so ten players with the fourteen pack,
Speaker 1: that's significant, isn't it. I think so. I kind of
Speaker 1: noticed that today at some point, and we've had a
Speaker 1: lot of guys get them, which is good. I think
Speaker 1: they all feel like they can. You know, once you
Speaker 1: get one, then you know you can get two. You
Speaker 1: get to you know you can get your third, and
Speaker 1: I think it can become a little bit contagious. Twelve
Speaker 1: with at least a full sack. Isaiahraman got his first yesterday.
Speaker 1: Is that also significant? I think so. I think it's
Speaker 1: a reflection of you know, playing a lot of guys
Speaker 1: like you alluded to earlier. Also, you know, different guys
Speaker 1: are rushing at different times and so they're getting their opportunities,
Speaker 1: and you know it adds up. What do you think about? Well,
Speaker 1: now what you think? But you were needing to use
Speaker 1: different personnel this week so you get outside linebacker depth
Speaker 1: is always something you wanted, any position actually, but you
Speaker 1: got Kylie Fitz in there, you got Isaihavon rushing the
Speaker 1: passer because you never know what's coming next. Is that
Speaker 1: valuable to you? And to see even those guys come
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, I know the game was decided,
Speaker 1: but just to get them out there and see Iggy
Speaker 1: get a tackle for loss sack at the end of
Speaker 1: the game there for Roy Rob. I mean, those things
Speaker 1: do they matter? I think so. You know, if you'd
Speaker 1: ask the players, they definitely would say it does. And
Speaker 1: I think any real game action you can get, even
Speaker 1: though it was in the situation that it was in yesterday,
Speaker 1: can only help you when you are called to action
Speaker 1: and when the game's not decided. So every rep is valuable.
Speaker 1: We had to talk to some of the assistant coaches
Speaker 1: today up here at Hollis Hall, and I was talking
Speaker 1: with Glen Pire's about linebacker playing. We're blowing up Danny,
Speaker 1: Trevathan and Roquan and he says, well, we still need consistency.
Speaker 1: And Coach Nagy said that he felt it was their
Speaker 1: best game of the year as a duo, a twenty
Speaker 1: five tackles and whatnot. They were flying all over the field.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate the fact that you know your assistance
Speaker 1: and you guys look at things a little differently than
Speaker 1: we do. We don't get caught We get caught up
Speaker 1: and what happens, but you get caught up in the
Speaker 1: big picture, right, Yes, I mean, and I agree with
Speaker 1: Glenn's assessment there. I mean, ro Quan and Danny both
Speaker 1: did a lot of good things yesterday and have been
Speaker 1: doing a lot of good things throughout the season, but
Speaker 1: there's still plays that they can play better and be
Speaker 1: even a more significant player for us moving forward. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, we've missed a couple of tackles here and there,
Speaker 1: a little late and coverage here and there, and those
Speaker 1: plays can start to add up, and you know, when
Speaker 1: we head into the second half of the season, we
Speaker 1: need to eliminate those plays. Aside from that, Danny helping
Speaker 1: Roquan and Roquan being the player that you saw in
Speaker 1: tape coming out of colleges that at all coming in
Speaker 1: fruition in terms of his explosion, his ability to go
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline is tackling ability when it's right in
Speaker 1: front of him, and just to there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of yards after There was not a lot of yards
Speaker 1: after contact yesterday from your entire defense, they're just whacking
Speaker 1: people now. Roquan's definitely got all the ability that we
Speaker 1: thought he had prior to us drafting him. I still
Speaker 1: think he's suffering a little bit from not being in
Speaker 1: training camp, and even when he did come to training camp,
Speaker 1: he only had a day and a half of practice
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury that he got. So he's playing
Speaker 1: very well for us, but he can play better. Where
Speaker 1: does it show up in terms of that well in coverage?
Speaker 1: You know, his own drops, you know, understanding the route
Speaker 1: pickups and man coverage and those things. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the secondary, because everybody's been together now, so as
Speaker 1: you get to the midpoint of another season here, that
Speaker 1: experience and continuity, is it now really starting to pay off?
Speaker 1: I think so anytime you you know most we had
Speaker 1: these guys last year and now they've played another half
Speaker 1: a season together. You know, that's two training camps besides
Speaker 1: half a game, full season and a half, and they
Speaker 1: get to know each other and play off each other,
Speaker 1: communicate easier, have confidence each other, can communicate without being verbal,
Speaker 1: you know, just by looking at each other and you know,
Speaker 1: make a signal or a look. So all of those
Speaker 1: little things at up. Is this defense reminding you of
Speaker 1: any you've coached. And I don't like to go don't
Speaker 1: like to do that. No, I don't like to compare.
Speaker 1: That's fair. They are making their own mark though they're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention out there. Good, they deserve it. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: going into the second half of the season, they'll continue
Speaker 1: that and hopefully they'll bear the fruit of their labor.
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Speaker 1: pm on Fox thirty two Chicago. Our remaining moments with
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Vick Fangio. Again, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: As always, Before the game yesterday and this has been
Speaker 1: talked about in the league, but I just went back myself.
Speaker 1: But the league scoring average going into yesterday was twenty
Speaker 1: four points a game, as the most in NFL history.
Speaker 1: You gotta go back to nineteen forty eight. You know,
Speaker 1: things are way different than then. Is that forced you
Speaker 1: in any way to look at football differently from a
Speaker 1: defensive perspective. Just with the amount of points being scored
Speaker 1: even yesterday, several teams including US scoring forty points or
Speaker 1: more and big numbers thirty five, thirty eight, thirty nine
Speaker 1: point games. Well, the game has changed offensively, and that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's driven everything. So as a defense we
Speaker 1: have to adjust to it. You know, the biggest change
Speaker 1: is teams are playing with three wide receivers on the
Speaker 1: field a lot more than they used to. So the
Speaker 1: game has spread out a lot more than it used
Speaker 1: to be on more plays than it used to be.
Speaker 1: Teams are throwing the ball deeper more times than they
Speaker 1: used to with the game with the field being spread
Speaker 1: out as much as it is. If teams try and
Speaker 1: do a little too much on defense, and you know,
Speaker 1: one little error here or there, or avoid a zone
Speaker 1: here or there, you know, there's just more people out
Speaker 1: there in space to make you pay for and I
Speaker 1: think part of the points being up, I think you
Speaker 1: would also find the amount of big plays is up.
Speaker 1: You know. Consequently too, I think there are more defensive
Speaker 1: touchdowns being scored somewhat. That's factoring into that, you know,
Speaker 1: with the more wide open play that you're seeing. But
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of everything. You know. The talent
Speaker 1: level on the offensive side of the ball has really
Speaker 1: escalated in the last few years and makes it tougher
Speaker 1: to play defense. Defensive penalties too. I mean, he could
Speaker 1: literally stand back there, throw it up and you may
Speaker 1: get a penalty out of it. Off the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've you know, the tie like in baseball, say goes
Speaker 1: to the runner, any doubt goes to the offense in football.
Speaker 1: So um, you know that you have to fight that
Speaker 1: battle too. All right, Lions up? What do you think
Speaker 1: did you wit? Lions up? What do you think they
Speaker 1: they've got? You know, Stafford, we all know him here.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been their quarterback for a while now.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league. Great
Speaker 1: arm talent, strength, arm strength, accuracy, release, mobile in the pocket.
Speaker 1: You know, they've beaten. The three of the teams that
Speaker 1: they've beaten this year are the three teams that we've
Speaker 1: lost to, so that, you know, kind of tells you
Speaker 1: what kind of talent and capabilities they have. So it
Speaker 1: will be a tough divisional test, always is with him
Speaker 1: at quarterback in the Lions, so hopefully we'll be up
Speaker 1: to our best. Good luck in your preparation. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Vic Fangio, Bears defensive coordinator. Have a good night, everybody.