WEBVTT - Nagy, Tabor preview the Seahawks | Coaches Show 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.440 Welcome into the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Mattoneggie, 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.280 brought to you by Whiply CPA's and consultant Jeff Joniac 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.240 with you until eight o'clock tonight here on news Radio 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.360 one h five nine WBBM. Coach Naggie until the bottom 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.440 of the hour, and then special teams coordinator Chris Tabor 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.720 joins us as well, recapping a seventeen nine loss to 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.040 the Vikings. So much about this game. Again, We've had 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.239 these scenarios where if someone was not at the game, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.759 someone did not watch the game, someone did not listen 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.360 the game, and you looked at just the stats and 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.800 you wondered, how in the world could the Bears have 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.440 not won this game. It'd be one of these games. Yeah, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.240 it would be you know, it's the red zone, not 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.280 being effective in there and trying to get points, and 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.640 there was a lot of sudden change yesterday. I thought 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.040 our defense did a phenomenal job, which a sudden change. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.360 We've been harpening on that all year. But offensively, it 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.440 was just, you know, we were ineffective there and in 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.400 the NFL, to be effective and to be a championship team, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.680 you got to be great in the red zone. You've 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.800 got to score touchdowns, and when you score three points 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.600 essentially in the game, you know that just that you're 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.639 not going to win the games that way. It seems 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.800 to me it's just such a fine line, as always 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.399 of winning or losing. In the National Football League, everything 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.440 turns on a player two in a game at a 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.120 minimum a half dozen plays. But do you feel the 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.920 player's frustration at all in those moments? Yeah, I mean 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.200 you feel it when you have penalties, the first penalty 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.800 to start the game, ten yard run and a penalty. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.160 You feel it when there's turnovers. You you know, there's 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.640 there's there's just you gotta be clean. You got to 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.000 have effective plays. You gotta be We talk about at 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.480 twelve of twelve. It's eleven of eleven players and then 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.160 the coaching. The coaching part is the twelve aspect twelve 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.880 and twelve. You can't have ten to twelve. You can't 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.440 have eleven to twelve, and offensively we have knock been 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.760 twelve or twelve. Simply put so, in order to be 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.960 a great team to win games, you gotta be twelve 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.280 to twelve and you can't have negative plays. If you do, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.200 you got to be able to recover, and we're not 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.800 recovering right now. To have four third downs that were 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.400 third and seventeen plus in an NFL game is hard 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.160 to do. It's certainly hard as hell to convert. And 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.960 you know, so you look at four downs, you look 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.880 at third downs, you look at situational football, you look 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.480 at protecting and respecting the football. If you look at 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.440 getting touchdowns in the red zone, and you know, we 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.919 just didn't do that. As a head coach and with 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.880 your staff affecting that change to avoid these situations only 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.320 go so far. You can't play the game. Is that 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.840 a level of frustration that us as fans and us 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.480 looking at this thing from a different perspective can't really appreciate. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.200 I hear what you're saying. I think we're all a 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.000 part of this, and I know we are, And there's 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:42.239 there's there's times as you go through these learning instances 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.160 and these plays and scenarios and everything that goes on, 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.480 it really makes you have to laser in as a 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.280 player and a coach to be great. And we've proven 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:58.000 that this year. We haven't been able to overcome negative yards. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.359 That's been a struggle for us. So when there is 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.480 a third and one, you can't have a false start. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.400 You gotta be locked in. When when you you know, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.679 have the ball um and you're in a position to 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.240 be able to try to make a good play call, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.120 you got to make a good play call right from 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.520 from our own When you have a chance to make 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.280 a catch, you gotta make a catch. When you have 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.560 a chance with ball security, you know you gotta ball. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.520 You got to do it. And when when that's not happening, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.520 you score three points. And it's not a heart equation, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.160 it's really it's actually fairly simple. But good teams and 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.040 good offenses do that. And when you don't do that, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.400 you score three points. What have you done with your 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.120 staff to try to bridge that gap? Because players obviously 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.040 want to be put in a position to succeed. If 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.520 they feel they are, they play faster, they play better, 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.480 they feel confident. Do you feel that connection has been 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.880 solid there? Yeah? I think our coaches and players have 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.800 really really good relationship hips. I just I think are 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.320 you know the offensive if you're talking specifically about offense, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.200 the offensive coaches the relationships that they've dealt with these guys. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.040 We've got some young guys, right now on offense, and 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.360 I think it's great for them to learn through some 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.120 of these experiences. These guys are playing hard. I think 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.400 that's the one thing in all this as we talk 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.360 through real talk, the one thing that we all need 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.160 to understand is that these players are playing hard. And 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.080 as a coach, when you see players that play hard 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.080 in that care, that means that means a lot. And 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.920 so now you've got to be able to play hard 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.640 care and be successful and succeed and work together as 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.880 a group. And you know that's where it's been a 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.320 little bit hard for us. And so you go through 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.200 particular scenarios and these guys they talk about it, they 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.480 practice it, and we just got to do it. You're 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.360 basically saying last night, in particular, with the defense included here, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.120 you felt you were in a fight and you had 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.000 a bunch of guys behind you, no doubt. I mean, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.320 I mean that was and anybody that was in that 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.040 game to see it, we could feel it. Um, did 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.960 the emotions get going and for sure what it was, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.760 you know what some of the personal fouls mine included. Um, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.600 But we all have to understand the balance of where 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.280 to draw the line. And once once we had too many. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.800 Um then we had to pull that back in and 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.919 we understand, like too many is one, right, I understand 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.560 that that one is too many. But it it got 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.280 to a point where it was important to talk to 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.920 the guys and say, okay, let's be let's make sure 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.520 that we're being smart and we're you know, this comes 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.719 to an end, right, Every action has a reaction. Let's 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.920 not be the reaction. Let's keep playing hard. We're in 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.360 this fight, and offensively, we get that touchdown and make 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.360 it a one score game. In seventeen to ten, we'll 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.200 get another stop, we'll get the ball and go down 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.080 to score. And we just couldn't. We couldn't catch up. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.320 And it wasn't that we were in in areas to 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.640 do it because we were moving the football. It was 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.400 just the situational red zone football wasn't good enough for you, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.440 and that as you're flashing through it in the moment. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.480 Is it a compilation of all of the frustration of 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.839 an entire season coming out. I would say probably there's 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.680 a little bit of that. And I also think that 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.760 that that's okay, you know, I think that we're all 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.920 a little bit human here and you get to a 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.360 point where you know, you know me, Jeff. You know 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.040 I'm an emotional guy, and that's the first one I've 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.320 ever had. But at the same point in time, I 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.320 think the players understood that just as much as they're 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.560 fighting for us, we're fighting for them too. And you 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.120 could feel the energy on the sideline pick up, and 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.960 I think it's just there's a little bit there that 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.719 it shows it togetherness. And again I'll be the first 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.560 to tell you I don't regret it. I would if 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.720 I was in the same situation and yesterday and you 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.840 said hit the repeat button, I would hit the repeat button, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.880 plain and simple. I think snapback Cousins gonna laugh it 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.800 down the right side going for Marcet Smith in complete 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:06.200 fairy tight coverage. Thomas Graham again, the young rookie sixth 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.720 rounder out of Oregon, is rising to the challenge of 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.840 taking out the bike gags tonight. That's his second pass breakup. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.360 He set several tackles as well in the run game. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.600 Welcome to the NFL, Big Boy, Welcome back to the 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.120 Bears coaching show, brought to you by a Whiffley CPAs 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.600 and Consultants, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears learned 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.800 more at whipfley dot com with Bears head coach Matt 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.520 Naggie breaking down last night's a game against the Vikings 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.320 and looking ahead to Seattle. Here in just moments, just 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.680 had a compilation of plays right there from Thomas Graham. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.520 What a night. Seven tackles, three pass breakups. It never 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.200 looked for one second like he hadn't played all year. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.960 I mean, honestly, I brought it up to Tom in 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.120 the broadcast, Matt that during minicamp and training camp there 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.440 were times he flashed and there were times he looked 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.400 like he wasn't playing to his top speed. So therefore 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.000 I was assuming he was thinking a lot. But he 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.480 did not play like that last night. No, he didn't. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.440 I thought you should really tell he seemed like a 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.800 gamer yesterday and we weren't really sure. You love seeing 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.080 stories like that where a guy comes in and they're 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.760 able to step up, and you know, he was going 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.480 against some really good wide receivers and a great offense. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.360 So for him to be able to have that, I 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.800 can only imagine what that means for his confidence. And 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.160 that's how careers get started. So you know, we appreciate 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.680 that from him, and there's other guys too behind the 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.880 scenes is stepped up, but he was certainly one that 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.800 had the production searching for the right chemistry on the 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.440 back end of the defense pre COVID issues. Did he 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.560 flash during his time throughout the course of the season 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.640 on the practice squad and what he did for the 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.959 look squad and so far, Yeah, he's done a great job. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.959 He cares, you know, so when he's out there on 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.760 the look on the look team, giving us looks on offense, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.000 he really does a good job. And you never know 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.800 when your time is going to come, especially now with 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.679 all the COVID protocols and guys missing games. So you 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.079 got to give him credit. He was prepared, he was ready. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.160 He stepped up to the challenge. He said, next man up, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.319 I'm up. And that's what he did now that he 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.520 started and faced, as you said, a premier offense in 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.439 the National Football League. I'm not insinuating that he's not 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.719 a good practice player, but do you know, uh that 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.760 there are guys that are okay practice players and you 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.480 have to trust they take of the Sunday or that 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.480 there are some players that that's you know, I felt 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.760 Brian Urlacher might have been a similar guy. He loves Sundays, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.199 So whatever happened during the week, you knew he was 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.520 going to be there on Sundays. That's that's a play. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.319 That's a Hall of Famer. But do you know that 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.920 you have some of those guys? Yeah, I mean you know, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.320 I would say the one that is that that practices 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.120 one hundred miles an hour and it shows up on 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.080 table on Sundays is Robert Quinn. I mean, he's that's 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.200 one guy that you want to talk about how to practice. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.360 He only has one speed. And I'm so excited to 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.640 be able to see what he's done this year and 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.640 to see how how that works and for our for 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.760 all of our younger players to see how you're supposed 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.760 to practice. Um and Roque well Que that's been day 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.520 one as well. So those are those two guys and 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.720 then you see it on tape, and so I think 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.800 it's been great for these younger guys to see that 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.560 because practicing is how you're going to play. So are 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.320 there a couple of guys Hall of Fame guys maybe 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.760 here there that you get away with it when they 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.040 get a little older. But these guys, they fly around 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.679 and our young guys see that not to get too 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.280 deep into it, you know, for obvious reasons, the referees, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.719 I think most observers felt it was some questionable situations there, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.280 and Robert Quinn after the game basically urging the refs 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.080 to let guys play ball had you back in his statements. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.760 But is there an infuriating level here of guys just 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.679 trying to make plays and it's more interpretation. Yeah, you know, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.079 I just think that again, there's a lot that goes on. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.240 There's a lot in that rule book. You know, there's 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.920 a lot in there, and that's part of the rules 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.600 and you've got to follow the rules. And then the referees, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.959 I'll also say that they have a difficult time because 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.320 it's so fast. Everything is so quick when it happens, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.400 and so that's where you know, we're able to see 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.920 the replays and seeing its slow motion and it makes 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.439 it a lot easier for us to see. Um. But 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.120 these are you know, these penalties can be plays that 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.920 impact games, as we've seen throughout the year and years, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.199 and so you just gotta it's just again, I tie 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.640 it back into it's an emotional game, it's a physical game. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.160 These guys are doing a lot of stuff out on 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.000 that field. They're sacrificing their bodies. And you know when 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.280 you when you have a penalty that goes a certain way, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.720 there's an emotion, that emotion attached to that, and there's 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.160 a certainly a lot of rules under that. As you 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.160 roll back the tape, do you stand by your feelings 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.160 on some of them or can you see the dilemma 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.599 for the officiating crew in some of those situations that 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.480 hurt you last night? No, I think, uh, you know, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:45.400 the unnecessary roughness with with with theon um, you know, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.360 I do stand by what I saw. Um. The one 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.800 that's really unfortunate is the third and seventeen tackle by 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.160 Tease Tabor, you know, but you know that's in the 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.680 rule book with that, so that's again that the referees 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.040 are own the rules there. And then you know the 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.720 little issue on the side with the down and distance 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.320 and be challenging and all that. So you know, it's 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.520 just uh, I think there's the one thing that I 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.960 will say is that I thought that that Scott did 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:20.679 a great job of explaining everything to me in a 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.760 really good job throughout the game of explaining to me 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.319 everything that was going on and as heated as I 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.959 was at times, he was very calm and did a 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.000 great job too, and I appreciate that. You know, he 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.520 understands from our side, so um, you know that's that's 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.000 where that's at. I was Referee Scott Novac last night 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.440 snapped the Cousins here on third down, jack the football, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.600 he goes down, he goes, yes, he does, and it's 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.679 Robert Quinn on third and ten with the sack of 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.920 eight yards. 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Tracking down 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.000 that single season record of Richard Dent at seventeen and 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.160 a half, Tom Thayer got a text message from Richard 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.080 Dent yesterday Matt saying that, you know, because Tom was wondering, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.880 you know, some of these records means something that to 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.000 old Bears, old players, even at the high school level. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.160 We kind of embraced those things and hope they never 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.520 get broken. But you know, he's all about he said, hey, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.559 records are made to be broken, the old cliche. And 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.760 a guy like that Quinn, who's been in the league 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.959 a long time, has played the game the right way. Hey, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.840 if it happens, it happens. And he is tracking towards 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.640 that and also named of the Pro Bowl. And how 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.400 do you feel all about that it's the first Pro 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.079 Bowl for him since twenty fourteen. Yeah. No, I'm really 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.480 happy for Robert because he works so hard, you know, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.600 on the field and practice in the offin field as well, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.520 and so when you see the results on game day. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.440 It was really cool breaking the news to him yesterday 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.520 that he made the Pro Bowl. If you know Robert, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.319 you understand that. The next thing he'll say to you 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.840 is I'm just glad, I'm breathing, you know, and he'll 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.520 just he's simple. He's a simple man, but he certainly 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:04.160 plays art and he's having a great year. And to 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.040 be able to bounce back to from all the stuff 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.240 that he went through last year too, I think it 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.559 just goes to show his uh, you know, mental fortitude 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.479 and just his resiliency of being able to take all distractions, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.040 put it aside, come here and just every single day 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.400 act like he's a rookie, and that's what you appreciate 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.640 most about him. The shame of it all defensively, obviously, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.440 is the injuries. And you can't bemoan it. It's a 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.360 part of the game. It happens. Every team's getting bit 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.320 by it in some form or fashion. But with Khalil 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.800 and Akeem Akeem, you know Van Jine was wrapped up. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.800 He made a difference. You could feel it throughout the defense. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.440 His emotion was there. He loves playing at home, loves 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.760 playing in NFC North games, loves playing in prime time. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.000 You know, you wonder what would have been. It must 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.920 leave you feeling and also wondering what if. Yeah, I 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.240 think he makes a good point. And as I was 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.840 watching the tape last night, of all three sides of 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.840 the ball, you could really really feel and it was 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.640 it was really neat to see the swarm of the 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.320 defense and I know what the energy felt like last 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.800 night on that sideline, but then to see it on 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.760 tape and just to see guys chasing down the football, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.840 to see guys trying to rip the ball out to 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.400 see guys making a stop in the backfield, shooting the 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.600 A gap and B gap and just you know, like 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.640 you said, just these guys there's front seven set the 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.760 tone and then the guys on the back end when 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.000 they had to make the play. I just think, you know, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.080 I think about that third down throw that Kirk had 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.240 across the middle to Justin and Marquis Christian made a 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.800 good breakup on it, and uh, you know, we had 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.160 a little delayed blitz by forty four with Ogletree, and 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.080 it just was exactly it was a great call by Sean, 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.880 and so getting those guys in a position to make plays, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.920 they made the play and got off the field. And 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.000 the other part of that too was a sudden change. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.240 There was a lot of sudden change moments yesterday, whether 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.080 it's an interception or fumble, a muffpunt, and the defense 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.280 never they never blinked. And that's a sneaky, sneaky good 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.320 trait that they had yesterday that I was really appreciative of. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.560 Sean decided to a heck of a job there. All right, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.840 let's turn to Justin Fields and talk about his performance. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.160 The good the bad and where he grew where he 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.480 maybe still isn't growing. No, he you know, justin again 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.560 you can see what he can do when he's outside 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.360 of the pocket. He can make some really good plays. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.000 I thought his vision was good, a couple of progressions 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.160 that he really did a good job of going from 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.120 one to two to three. Um, and I think, you know, situationally, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.160 there'll be sometimes as he looks at the tape and 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.560 just goes through, Okay, where are we at and how 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.920 defenses are going to try to trick them with coverages, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.960 U with some with some stunts and blitzes. But for 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.040 the most part, again, I thought he grew. And it's 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.440 never easy, but he's he's done a good job. There 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.560 was really no issues of in and out of the huddle. Um, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.240 he did a good job with that making plays. He 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.600 just understands he's more competitive than anybody. You know, he 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.760 wants to put more points on the board. And uh, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.160 you know he's a leader being the quarterback position to 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.200 that offense, and the guys are gonna follow him. So, uh, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.520 you know he's got to continue to keep playing harder. Well, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.280 can't tell I'm about fumbling right now. Yeah, Well, he knew. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.080 He knew it right away. When he came off the sideline, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.160 he said, he put his chest, said, my bad, my bad. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.560 That's something in this league the people are going to 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.320 go after and when you put the ball in the 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.600 ground and they see it and there it's on tape 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.119 and they can show highlights to their defense, that's not 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.080 going to stop. So we just have to be smart 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.320 with how we use him, and then he's gonna have 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.960 to be smart at all times understanding that ball security 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.840 is huge in this league. And these guys hit a 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.560 little bit harder and they run a little bit faster. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.800 You said, it starts with you, ends with you. Do 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.479 you have more answers in the tank? Well, I mean 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.280 it's it's for all of us and for me to 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:44.160 understand that you know, everything that's gone on this year. Um, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.920 the only way that that I'm wired is to make 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.840 sure that that I'm doing everything possible to give um, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.520 these players in all three phases an opportunity to win. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.320 And you know, being able to have that connectivity of 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.639 all three is to win is not easy. And you 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.200 got you gotta lock in and the four phases with 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.240 the coaching staff. So, um, nothing's gonna change in regards 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.600 to the fight. We just the results got to be different, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.680 and we're well aware of that, and so we just 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.840 gotta put together, you know, really good days of practice 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.639 and just keep keep throwing punches. Yattle's playing right now, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.639 so can't really get into them too much. We know 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.840 what they are. Good coach team by Pete care On, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.320 a great quarterback in Russell Wilson, and that will begin 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.040 your preparation for that on a Christmas holiday week, so 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.600 it should be very interesting for sure. Yep. There they're 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.760 you know, it's always difficult to play out there in Seattle, 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.359 and they're gonna they're gonna be fighting, and they got 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.400 a great quarterback in Russell. So we'll have our handsful boat. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.160 We'll be ready, all right, Matt, thank you so much. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.240 We'll talk to you soon. See Jeff Hi snap pressure 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.000 coming from Damian Williams. He partially blocks it. It's puzzling 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.120 around at the thirty yard line and the Bears we'll 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.680 get the football right there. Damian Williams, he's having a 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.320 star role tonight on special team. 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