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Speaker 1: Bears head coach Matt Naggie, the coaching staff and Bears management.
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Speaker 1: a pleasure, good avan everybody. I'm Jeff jony Ak, and
Speaker 1: welcome into Pancy Studios here at Hollis HOLLWID Bears head
Speaker 1: Coach Matt Naggi here until eight o'clock tonight. Later on
Speaker 1: in the program, we'll be joined by Bears Special Teams
Speaker 1: Coordinator Chris Tabor to join the program Matcket evening. How
Speaker 1: are you doing good? How are you doing fantastic? I
Speaker 1: gotta say quickly from a personal perspective, that was a
Speaker 1: treat and any Bears fan who was at the game,
Speaker 1: watching the game, listening to the game, heard about the game,
Speaker 1: or are just finding out about the game, had to
Speaker 1: feel the same way from start to finish. How satisfying
Speaker 1: was it other than the obvious that you won, that's
Speaker 1: just how you won the game. Yeah, Now, those are
Speaker 1: special games there, Those are ones that you always remember.
Speaker 1: And the nice thing about that game was the fact
Speaker 1: that it started with the first play of the game
Speaker 1: and it ended with the last play of the game.
Speaker 1: And so when you do that on offense, on defense,
Speaker 1: in special teams and you play as well as we did,
Speaker 1: it can do so much for your team with their
Speaker 1: confidence and they get to believe and see that it's
Speaker 1: there to grab. And when we've been talking about it,
Speaker 1: when the defense has been playing super the offense had
Speaker 1: room for improvement. And for the offense to come out
Speaker 1: and have the series that we had and very few
Speaker 1: third downs really until the fourth quarter, to be efficient
Speaker 1: in the red zone, and then for the defense to
Speaker 1: continue with what they've been doing, and for special teams
Speaker 1: to continue. Um, those are those are games, Like I
Speaker 1: just said, that that lasts forever. And then now hopefully
Speaker 1: we can use this to catapult us in the right
Speaker 1: direction and continue into a good momentum. Well, I've been
Speaker 1: telling people to any people asking me, you know, about it.
Speaker 1: You now know what you're capable of. They know what
Speaker 1: they're capable of. Mitch knows what he's capable of. You
Speaker 1: know what you're capable of in terms of play can
Speaker 1: and so forth, and using what you have. Is that
Speaker 1: a fair statement for sure? And and so um for us,
Speaker 1: we we understand that it's uh, it's something that's going
Speaker 1: to take a little bit time, but the patients can
Speaker 1: sometimes not be there for for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and so we can talk about it and we can
Speaker 1: say it's going to take time, but to actually see
Speaker 1: it happen, um like it did yesterday. Um. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: the one thing that gets hidden in this thing. The
Speaker 1: offense played really well. But that was a really good
Speaker 1: offense for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that that our defense
Speaker 1: was facing. Now, this is a team that put up
Speaker 1: four hundred yards three three weeks in a row and
Speaker 1: broke an NFL record, And so for our defense to
Speaker 1: come out and contin then you playing dominant football like
Speaker 1: day ben Um, that was that was just as good.
Speaker 1: The risk of this show giving your offensive mind is
Speaker 1: we can always talk offense a segment, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: you led me into defense because we do have to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Uh, it's a it's a defense because
Speaker 1: of who's there. It's taking the start out of teams
Speaker 1: a little bit. It. I mean, you could already see
Speaker 1: it in the first couple series, a defeated look just
Speaker 1: by their actions, their body language, their penalties. I mean,
Speaker 1: you name it is the presence of one guy affecting
Speaker 1: twenty one other guys in a sense in Khalil mack Well,
Speaker 1: I want to give it on him obviously, but he
Speaker 1: is making that kind of difference in the first four weeks.
Speaker 1: He is and then like you said, with twenty one
Speaker 1: other guys, I mean he's he's number one. Most importantly
Speaker 1: for us is he's raising everybody's level a play, um,
Speaker 1: just because of they get to see how he practices.
Speaker 1: They see his motor during the games. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone talks about how great sacks are, and sacks are great,
Speaker 1: but the one thing that's just so impressive of for
Speaker 1: him to have four straight games to to get that ball,
Speaker 1: get that football and put that ball on the ground
Speaker 1: and give us an opportunity for a turnover. UM. And
Speaker 1: so the guys in practice on defense, they feel that
Speaker 1: they practice that way. They understand that that when when
Speaker 1: you have a guy as dominant as he is at
Speaker 1: one position, that if they step up their game, then
Speaker 1: it just it completely changes them. Really the atmosphere of
Speaker 1: the every everyone looks at the defense now and they're
Speaker 1: they there's a there's a fear a little bit and
Speaker 1: from the offense and they get that they don't get
Speaker 1: the ball off on time, um that our defensive line
Speaker 1: is going to get home. They're going to sack the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so that gives confidence to the dbs. And now
Speaker 1: the dbs can be a little bit more aggressive, and
Speaker 1: they can be jumpy with some of the stuff they do,
Speaker 1: and so and then it's our coaches. Our coaches do
Speaker 1: a great job of putting these guys in great, great
Speaker 1: positions to make plays. And so it's CONTAINU just they
Speaker 1: feed off one another. And right now I'm glad they're
Speaker 1: our defense. And he has affected many different plays yesterday
Speaker 1: because of his past trush that spin move at the
Speaker 1: last second that led to an interception. Obviously the tip
Speaker 1: to Danny Trevathan got and I think everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: follow a little bit, you know. And there's a guy
Speaker 1: we talked about last week he made a big play.
Speaker 1: One of the first guys to always greet him. It's
Speaker 1: below Nichols, and it's Mac going to congratulate the young man.
Speaker 1: That must feel great for this kid, a rookie, it is.
Speaker 1: And again you have these young guys that are seeing
Speaker 1: how it's supposed to be done and they want to
Speaker 1: emulate the guys in front of them, and they feel it.
Speaker 1: You look at our sideline yesterday and you can see
Speaker 1: how energetic and how committed and involved these these players
Speaker 1: are some guys that aren't even in pads, you know,
Speaker 1: or others. And go back and look at the last
Speaker 1: play of the game on defense for the interception with
Speaker 1: with uh you know, with Lynch, and you look at
Speaker 1: fifty two on the sideline, look at look at Khalil
Speaker 1: on the sideline and how crazy he's going on us,
Speaker 1: how happy he was in that situation for Aaron to
Speaker 1: get that interception. I think it's gonna be good for
Speaker 1: Aaron Lynch this year. Yeah, yeah, even I mean Khalil
Speaker 1: Max's presence is going to make a big him. It is.
Speaker 1: And and it's so those are the intangibles that you know,
Speaker 1: either have or you don't have. And We have that
Speaker 1: right now with these guys, and it's just it's spreading
Speaker 1: like wildfire. This is Matt Naggie and the Bears Coaches Show.
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Whipfleet Financial Advisors. Um, you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier today and you you're a man of your word.
Speaker 1: You have been from the moment you got here. You
Speaker 1: want to be aggressive, calculated, obviously calculated aggressive, You aggressive
Speaker 1: from start to finish. Um. I ran in your dad
Speaker 1: after the game, first thing says to me, Hey, how
Speaker 1: about that? About that? I'm just glad he kept the
Speaker 1: pedal on the metal, so to speak. You know, does
Speaker 1: that cross your mind? Like how far do you go
Speaker 1: because you're up so big? Yeah? No, it Well, what
Speaker 1: you do as you kind of prep for these type
Speaker 1: of moments, You go through situations as a coach and
Speaker 1: how you're going to handle different scenarios and and so
Speaker 1: for me, we just had a mentality yesterday that we're
Speaker 1: going to continue to keep here of staying completely aggressive.
Speaker 1: Who cares about to score at zero zero? There's too
Speaker 1: much stuff that can happen in this league. There's too
Speaker 1: many teams that can come back, and so, UM, I
Speaker 1: just thought it was great by a great job by
Speaker 1: our guys of when we were calling some shots downfield
Speaker 1: of making the place happen. That was a big emphasis
Speaker 1: for us was we were calling shots. The first few weeks,
Speaker 1: we weren't connecting on those and it's it's good to
Speaker 1: do that. It's good to call them, but you got
Speaker 1: to connect. And so for us to be able to
Speaker 1: connect on those shots, to start it off with the
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Trey Burton, and once we got that
Speaker 1: first one, I had a feeling that this could be
Speaker 1: this could be a good day for us. Well, now,
Speaker 1: with the type of defense you're playing, it's almost an
Speaker 1: obligation to do then it is. And so you look
Speaker 1: at us as a team, we were what top three
Speaker 1: in the league in time of possession going into yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you didn't see as much. I think we lost
Speaker 1: the time of possession battle by about five minutes, but
Speaker 1: we had several big chunk plays that were over thirty
Speaker 1: yards and so that's gonna cut down your time of possession.
Speaker 1: But then we go right back to where we've been struggling,
Speaker 1: which is the red zone. And for us to go
Speaker 1: four for four yesterday with four touchdowns in the red zone,
Speaker 1: complete confidence, and again the practice and the preparation that
Speaker 1: our guys had on that Thursday night and Friday practice,
Speaker 1: it just completely transferred over to the game and they
Speaker 1: made plays and we got touchdowns. The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: continued going out to the numbers, left slot left Robinson
Speaker 1: tight end. Burton heads in motion of the right slot
Speaker 1: Dribisky and the gun back to his left takes the
Speaker 1: shotgun stack, giving a look left. Durbisky gonna float it
Speaker 1: into the left corner of the end zone. Going to
Speaker 1: get it, Rabbit, It's got it. Touchdown, Touchdownbers a biscuite
Speaker 1: to Allen Robinson, a fourteen yark strike at Robinson's nineteenth
Speaker 1: career red zone touchdown. The Bears extend their lead over
Speaker 1: the Bucketeers, and that was his first Bears touchdown for
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson. Two of the six touchdown throws that Mitch
Speaker 1: Chubisky three yesterday, five in the first half, setting records
Speaker 1: and never been done before in the first half here
Speaker 1: with Matt Naggie, that volume of numbers, and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Pat Mahomes did it this year in week two.
Speaker 1: So just given everything, how focused everybody has been on
Speaker 1: Mitch on the outside, it does not equate to what
Speaker 1: the inside was looking at how the inside of the
Speaker 1: building was looking at Mitch. And that's always the big conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one side and then you got
Speaker 1: the other side of the story, and the other side
Speaker 1: of the story is this you'll tell it, but I'll
Speaker 1: give the preview, is that this is not just because
Speaker 1: it happened yesterday. This is the culmination of months and
Speaker 1: where it's been heading. Would that be a proper way
Speaker 1: to put this in content? Yeah? Really, he's he and
Speaker 1: we as an offense, uh, he meaning Mitch. Um. You
Speaker 1: know there's so many hours and so much film work
Speaker 1: and study and notes and um. You know that goes
Speaker 1: into trying to make this thing go as smoothly as
Speaker 1: possible and so um when you're not, you know, you're
Speaker 1: not executing like you wish you could, or you you
Speaker 1: want to be better as an offense in general as
Speaker 1: a whole. Uh, it can be frustrating. And like you
Speaker 1: just said, you know you have you have the outsiders
Speaker 1: and then you have the people on the inside the
Speaker 1: building and um, and and it's all because people care.
Speaker 1: None of it is because the criticism every We understand that,
Speaker 1: and Mitch understands that people just want the best and so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, trust me more than anybody. Mitches out there
Speaker 1: putting in tons of work, extra work. Uh, he cares
Speaker 1: more than than most. And and so to have that
Speaker 1: game yesterday that he had, I was just really really
Speaker 1: truly happy for him, for us, and and you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's just so much effort in time that goes
Speaker 1: into it that to be able to see it come
Speaker 1: to fruition and see all that stuff happened in one
Speaker 1: game is is good for us as a team and
Speaker 1: good for him. The assistant coaches are available to the
Speaker 1: media today up here at Hollis All. So quarterback coach
Speaker 1: David Going spoke to his sideline demeanor, Mitch's sideline demeanor
Speaker 1: in this game, and it was very focused and he
Speaker 1: stayed steady throughout and it was something he was very
Speaker 1: encouraged by. Did you witness that as well? And was
Speaker 1: it different than any other game this specison so far?
Speaker 1: So it was and you could feel it. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: one of the things that we discussed as as coaches
Speaker 1: and with Mitch was a few weeks ago. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna cut you loose. And it's that
Speaker 1: whole quote unquote next play mentality. So if it's a
Speaker 1: good play, let's let's move on and let's keep going.
Speaker 1: If it's an interception, a fumble, a poor read, your
Speaker 1: eyes don't go where our eyes go, then it's okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Let's just let's just really truly focus
Speaker 1: on the next play. Well, we started talking about that,
Speaker 1: and he ended up being in a game where he
Speaker 1: had two picks right away against thee Attle, back to back,
Speaker 1: and he really hung in there and used that mentality
Speaker 1: that we discussed to his benefit, and we got through
Speaker 1: the game, we won the game, and and uh, well,
Speaker 1: on the other end of the spectrum was yesterday, he
Speaker 1: was playing really well, and it was it was though,
Speaker 1: to keep those blinders on and to not listen to
Speaker 1: what you're hearing, not worry about. Okay, now I'm content.
Speaker 1: I just threw a couple of touchdown passes, you know,
Speaker 1: were scored some touchdowns in the red zone. None of
Speaker 1: that from him. He wanted more. He wanted to just
Speaker 1: keep going. He didn't want any just he was. He
Speaker 1: was really in his own and h so for us
Speaker 1: as coaches, we all felt that from him and from
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys on offense, and when you
Speaker 1: when you all are in his own, good things happen.
Speaker 1: And I felt just yesterday everybody was feeling good. Is
Speaker 1: the play of the receivers and the type of routes
Speaker 1: that are running and what they're running, and getting to
Speaker 1: understand the offense better and all the concepts and the
Speaker 1: variations off those concepts, allowing in particular guys that you
Speaker 1: know are outstanding route runners like Alan Robinson coming off
Speaker 1: acl Taylor Gabriel, who's got the speed playing to their
Speaker 1: speed or did they yesterday more than at any point
Speaker 1: this now? I think really right now they're they're they've been,
Speaker 1: They're playing the same way that they've been all year long. Um. Conceptually,
Speaker 1: we're trying to fit fit some concepts into our offense
Speaker 1: UM that we feel are great not only for for Mitchell,
Speaker 1: but for for our our receivers and our running backs
Speaker 1: and for the O line mixing it up. UM. So
Speaker 1: I just think in general, as long as these guys
Speaker 1: they just worry about their position and what they do
Speaker 1: and making the throws, making the catches, all the rest
Speaker 1: of his self takes care of itself. So we're in
Speaker 1: a good spot right now. And conceptually though, we're just
Speaker 1: trying to stick with the basics. Cohen lined up left
Speaker 1: outside the numbers. Now he's pulled into the left of
Speaker 1: the quarterback, Trip Whisky slot right, snap back protection good again,
Speaker 1: Trip Whiskey fishing at the two into the end zone, touchdown, touchdown.
Speaker 1: Bears working on labot tape, David Hand. The Bears are
Speaker 1: making these linebackers work on a summer sault in the
Speaker 1: end zone to the north end zone fans by Cohen.
Speaker 1: It caps a nine yard strike with a touchdown catch
Speaker 1: Trip Whisky. Three touchdown throws in his first half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Cohen's excitement is palpable, and it spreads like wildfire.
Speaker 1: He's been that way from the moment he got drafted here. Matt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's electric. You know, he can do so much.
Speaker 1: He can run the ball in between the tackles, he
Speaker 1: can run it on the edges, he can run routes.
Speaker 1: You can put him in the slot, you can put
Speaker 1: him outside. And so when you have that, that's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a toy as a coach, and those
Speaker 1: are good. You'd like to have good toys. And so
Speaker 1: he showed up yesterday. He may plays when we called
Speaker 1: on him, and then that's gonna be big for us
Speaker 1: as we move forward. You know, in variably the last
Speaker 1: two years, there are reporters who ask and it almost
Speaker 1: seems like because he's diminutive in height five six five
Speaker 1: seven or whatever he is, that he can't hold up
Speaker 1: to twenty plus touches in a game. And here he
Speaker 1: is running between the tackles yesterday as well as all
Speaker 1: those different routes and taking handoffs. So he's a little
Speaker 1: thicker than the average five six five seven back or
Speaker 1: which receiver would you not say, Yeah, for sure, he's
Speaker 1: he's Uh, he might tell you he's one ninety, but
Speaker 1: he's slightly under one ninety. So but but the one
Speaker 1: thing is is he's tough and he understands too. These
Speaker 1: ball carriers when they run in between the tackles, there's
Speaker 1: a there's in my opinion, there's an art to understand
Speaker 1: and how to take a hit and uh, and sometimes
Speaker 1: when you got to get down and not take a
Speaker 1: senseless hit that you don't need to take and he
Speaker 1: has that, um, and then he extends plays. You know,
Speaker 1: he he's uh, he's he's just able to have a
Speaker 1: good feel for that and when you when you have
Speaker 1: that again, the biggest advantage for us with him is
Speaker 1: that we can line him up into battlefield and we
Speaker 1: can run the football with him a lot of times
Speaker 1: when you put smaller guys back there, it's hey Scott,
Speaker 1: Scots gat they're going to release to the flat and
Speaker 1: run a route with him. We can do both, so
Speaker 1: it makes the defense be honest. And Jordan Howard can
Speaker 1: do both too, absolutely sorry, yeah, use yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think it's for us to have both of those guys. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just really uh, they're they're they're different tools for
Speaker 1: for us as as we as we build this offense,
Speaker 1: and uh, those guys understand that and they realize that.
Speaker 1: And so one game it may be uh Cohen, the
Speaker 1: next game it may be uh Jordan and so or
Speaker 1: when the weather turns, you're gonna need a mutter. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, and and that's the best part of having
Speaker 1: different type of backs like that. So right now, Coin
Speaker 1: tenth in the league in combining yards as he put
Speaker 1: together quite the performance yesterday. Let's try and tick down
Speaker 1: some other things. Sam Acho today, you know word that
Speaker 1: he tores Peck. I think he only had it was
Speaker 1: third snap he took in the game, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be out for the year. Digs into the depth a
Speaker 1: little bit. But there are guys there. Yeah, No, we
Speaker 1: do have depth there. But I'll say this about Sam
Speaker 1: Sam He's a just a true professional that comes to
Speaker 1: work each and every day and does everything that we ask.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's a he's a big time leader on
Speaker 1: this team. So that's a that's a that's a that
Speaker 1: that hurts us losing him. But you know, we'll get
Speaker 1: him all fixed up with with surgery and get him
Speaker 1: going there and then you know, get keep him around
Speaker 1: the building and just have him be there for support
Speaker 1: and help out as much as possible. And but again
Speaker 1: it is that as part of football, and guys get injured,
Speaker 1: and so whoever that is that steps in next and
Speaker 1: fills that role, we gotta go. It'd be insane not
Speaker 1: to congratulate the offensive line or at least bring him
Speaker 1: up here in some detail about their performance yesterday, because
Speaker 1: and you bring it up all the time about the
Speaker 1: green grass for the quarterback to have a little to
Speaker 1: to make a play and step in the step up
Speaker 1: in the pocket, or just have some time, just enough
Speaker 1: time to pull off some of these deeper routes. But
Speaker 1: there were many times yesterday I kept saying, comfy pocket,
Speaker 1: pockets clean, you know, time to throw. So job well
Speaker 1: done by those guys up front and working in the
Speaker 1: rookie at guard at times two And James Daniels, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you when you play quarterback, uh, and there's people
Speaker 1: around your knees, it makes that throw a lot a
Speaker 1: lot more difficult and the accuracy can can be a
Speaker 1: lot a lot worse in so many ways. And so
Speaker 1: but when you have that green grass that we talk about,
Speaker 1: and we talk about it all the time, the percentages
Speaker 1: go way up. And so yesterday, if you go back
Speaker 1: and you watch that game and you see the tape,
Speaker 1: you'll see for majority of the snaps that Mitch had
Speaker 1: back there, there was a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: green grass for him to step up into the pocket,
Speaker 1: to move it, slide into pocket and make the throws.
Speaker 1: And so if you don't have that, you can forget about.
Speaker 1: He had it yesterday, and then we took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: What the what the throws and catches. You're insulated because
Speaker 1: you're you're on the inset and you're you're you're in
Speaker 1: charge here, You're in charge. But do you feel the
Speaker 1: rejuvenation in this building in one month games? You can
Speaker 1: feel it. You feel it, you hear it. People are
Speaker 1: energized right now. It doesn't matter who they are, if
Speaker 1: they're in this building, um, whether they're they're players, coaches, staff,
Speaker 1: anybody in the organization. They they we have a good
Speaker 1: thing going right now. I think what's important for everybody
Speaker 1: to understand is the fact that it is a very
Speaker 1: long season and uh, it's it's my job as a
Speaker 1: head coach, it's our job as coaches to make sure
Speaker 1: that we just stay even keel and so to get
Speaker 1: some rest here over the bye week, and then let's
Speaker 1: let's come back here focusing on Miami and only worry
Speaker 1: about Miami. Three and one means nothing right now. We
Speaker 1: can look back in week sixteen it made mean nothing, um,
Speaker 1: but we're going to use it in a positive right
Speaker 1: now that we've worked hard to get those three wins
Speaker 1: and uh and and do everything we possibly can to
Speaker 1: get to form one. Yeah, and they always the the
Speaker 1: look back sometimes with coaches don't like to do but
Speaker 1: literally make one more play in Green Bay and you're
Speaker 1: looking at a team that it would be four. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: do that. No, you can't. But there's some ways to
Speaker 1: look at that. And so for us when we lost
Speaker 1: that game, it was a tough way to lose. And
Speaker 1: but I do believe, truly, and I've said just to
Speaker 1: the team and coaches, I do believe that some of
Speaker 1: those scars and blemishes help build who you are as
Speaker 1: a team. And so we'll learn from that and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully it doesn't come down to the end
Speaker 1: of the year where one game, you know, keeps us
Speaker 1: from from going to the playoffs. But with that said,
Speaker 1: it builds your character and it can make you a
Speaker 1: tougher and stronger team. So right now we're looking at
Speaker 1: it as as for us to build on it, use
Speaker 1: it as a positive. Well. I enjoy the week, a
Speaker 1: little self reflection, a little downtime hopefully as well. I
Speaker 1: appreci much. Yeah, thanks John, gratulations again, great start to
Speaker 1: the season three and one. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: be joined by a special teams coordinator, Chris Tabor, who's
Speaker 1: excited to be on the program tonight. This is the
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Speaker 1: Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac Fitzpatrick and a gun back
Speaker 1: to his right bunch left receiver right. Bears are bringing
Speaker 1: await with pressure coming for on the ground pile of
Speaker 1: fort They recover, but on third and eleven the Bears
Speaker 1: bring heats Kalil mac with the forced bumble for the
Speaker 1: fourth consecutive game. A sex strip for Khalil Mack. Well,
Speaker 1: I bring a highlight into the show with Chris Tabor
Speaker 1: because Khalil Mack is a defining player and somebody that
Speaker 1: has made everybody else better on the team and it
Speaker 1: even impacts special teams. It just does everything he does
Speaker 1: and helping that defense get to where it is. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the program, by the way, Good to see you.
Speaker 1: In Craig congratulations and yesterday's win. But I know he
Speaker 1: doesn't play special teams, but if he did, he I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'd be electric. He'd be electric. Man, what would
Speaker 1: you do with a guy like that, right, an outside
Speaker 1: linebacker that can move like that and threek Havoc. But
Speaker 1: he has and you've witnessed his practices, so he has
Speaker 1: made a huge impact even away from his down to
Speaker 1: down performance on Sundays. It's how he works, no question.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a true pros pro and
Speaker 1: you can see why he's, in my opinion, one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the National Football League. Glad he's here.
Speaker 1: It's stepped it's stepping everybody's game up, you know. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to see him get the quarterback on third
Speaker 1: down because then we have an opportunity to send the
Speaker 1: punt return team out and get the ball in three
Speaker 1: Cohen's hands. So it's a it's it's a trickle down
Speaker 1: effect and it's it's exciting. One. Yeah, three and outs,
Speaker 1: it's a big You guys lead the league in three
Speaker 1: and outs and I believe Cohen has the tied for
Speaker 1: the most punt returns. So you're getting punts and you
Speaker 1: put in the ball a ball like that, a player
Speaker 1: of his caliber and his electricity, Yeah, that's gonna get
Speaker 1: your field position right, no question. I mean we want
Speaker 1: to get the ball in his hands, out in open
Speaker 1: space and let him create. I mean, he's a dynamic
Speaker 1: player that can change field position. He can either score
Speaker 1: or he can set up the score, and those that's
Speaker 1: why we want in our in our return game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, so far in the first month of
Speaker 1: the season, how would you characterize what the new rules
Speaker 1: and all the discussion points that had become so popular
Speaker 1: in training camp affected anything for the first month. You know,
Speaker 1: it's still I think it's still early. I mean, still
Speaker 1: seen a lot of touchbacks in the kickoff return game,
Speaker 1: and I think that's going to kind of continue, I
Speaker 1: mean return season. And we're probably about another few weeks
Speaker 1: away from the official opening dominy shopping days till Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's honest way, but I do like the new
Speaker 1: set of rules that the league is implemented. M you know,
Speaker 1: there's it's there's a lot more one on one blocking.
Speaker 1: As you're down on the field you don't hear or
Speaker 1: the big collisions and I think that's I think that's
Speaker 1: good for the game. Player safety needs to always be
Speaker 1: at the forefront of everything, and I think the league
Speaker 1: has done a nice job with that. Has it curbed
Speaker 1: any of the edginess of special teams because that sometimes
Speaker 1: is a tone setter or early in the game, No,
Speaker 1: it is, I mean it's it's you still have the
Speaker 1: integrity of the game still set in field position, um.
Speaker 1: And like I say, the more times you can you know,
Speaker 1: begin to return the ball and set field position those things,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be it's gonna be a good thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, with the new rules, you're kind of seeing
Speaker 1: some some of the schemes and those things that guys
Speaker 1: can't do quite as much just the way it's it's
Speaker 1: it's formulated. But it really comes down to the skills
Speaker 1: of guys blocking out in open space, which, to be
Speaker 1: quite honest, that's a tough skill for those guys. It's
Speaker 1: probably actually the hardest thing to do. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: can kind of see who's good and get things done there.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with Special Teams coordinator Chris Taper
Speaker 1: and w bbm' Jeff Joniac continued fifty R track leaptash
Speaker 1: angle right north end zone flags are quiet snapped by scales,
Speaker 1: placement by Odno, kicked by Parky from fiftyr to is good.
Speaker 1: And that ends the first half with an exclamation point
Speaker 1: at a completely and dominant performance by your Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: The third most points ever by the Bears in the
Speaker 1: first half. They hummed thirty eight hot Tampa Bay. They
Speaker 1: leaded thirty eight three at half time here with Chris Taper,
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator. That was a good exclamation point for
Speaker 1: a near perfect first half. No coach will ever say
Speaker 1: they had in your perfect performance by any means that
Speaker 1: just not in your guys, DNA is it? But that
Speaker 1: came pretty close. No, it was. It was that became
Speaker 1: pretty close. Was it was? I A to me, that
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. The guys did a great
Speaker 1: job of executing in all three phases. It was. It
Speaker 1: was fun to be a part of that. Yeah. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the third most and a half and not
Speaker 1: see it's nineteen sixty two. I believe November of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty two of the Bears scored that many points. Since
Speaker 1: the Bears scored fifty seven against the Baltimore Colts and
Speaker 1: that was without any off no defensive or no special
Speaker 1: teams touchdown so which we didn't have yesterday. It was
Speaker 1: just pure offense. So it's a long time ago. It's
Speaker 1: not easy. I know. I know. Scoreboards are lightening up
Speaker 1: around the league, and there's a couple of forty point
Speaker 1: teams that at even one you didn't win. Your old team,
Speaker 1: they didn't win with forty something points and against the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. But it is hard to score that. And
Speaker 1: right now I still feel and you correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. I mean it's still a little feeling out
Speaker 1: process in the league, a little bit about what teams are,
Speaker 1: no no question. I mean, you're just finishing the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. I think you're figuring out who
Speaker 1: teams are, what you are, what you can and cannot do.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's it's always a you're you're
Speaker 1: always developing, always always mature and all the time. Stop
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Speaker 1: regular season home game as the Bears take a bit
Speaker 1: of a break a bye week coming up, which got
Speaker 1: planned little self, self scout. That's always the It's not
Speaker 1: a cliche, but it sounds like it because we hear
Speaker 1: from coaches every every year. But it is important. No,
Speaker 1: you have to you always have to check yourself. And
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, you start getting an early working
Speaker 1: on Miami, you know, in which you see on tape
Speaker 1: there they're awfully good, So it's it's it's good to
Speaker 1: get ahead. So Cody Parky hit that fifty at or so,
Speaker 1: He's proven to be a huge edition, nine to ten
Speaker 1: in field goals, made all twelve of his pats, tied
Speaker 1: for second and points in the league. He's got twenty
Speaker 1: touchbacks on his twenty fourth kickoff, So, like you said,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much in line with everybody else in the league.
Speaker 1: But overall, how's he doing. He's doing well. You know,
Speaker 1: the thing you really like about about Cody is he
Speaker 1: has a distinct routine throughout the week of what he
Speaker 1: needs to get done and how he's going to get
Speaker 1: it done. And then the thing you really love about
Speaker 1: him is if if there is a misfortunate miss Uh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't dwell on it, you know, like the one
Speaker 1: he missed there in Arizona, and he comes back and
Speaker 1: bangs three of them for us. And he's just he's
Speaker 1: very steady. He knows exactly what he needs to get
Speaker 1: downe if he misses one, he knows how to fix it. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's he's been a great addition for Uce. Yeah. Good personality.
Speaker 1: Seems totally fit. You know. I joked with him because
Speaker 1: we did a show him bears All Access, which is
Speaker 1: heard on our sister station six seventy the score. We
Speaker 1: had Cody and paddled down. I say, hey, we're scales,
Speaker 1: you know, if you guys are coming on because it's
Speaker 1: the operation. The whole operation is long snap, you know,
Speaker 1: placement and and the boot. How is the operation because
Speaker 1: you're familiar with no see's no snaphole kick? Yeah, quite
Speaker 1: quite quite important. They all three do a really good
Speaker 1: job together and they understand where everything needs to be
Speaker 1: in their communication of all those things. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: the the natural football fan probably doesn't understand all the
Speaker 1: if the if they placed the ball in between the hash,
Speaker 1: is the long snapper going to move it up? Or
Speaker 1: he's gonna move it back so that the holder, the
Speaker 1: and the kicker can get the right spot. All those
Speaker 1: little things they work out and we practice it during
Speaker 1: the week and they do a great job. And he'll
Speaker 1: be fine too, you know, Soldier Field. I always thought
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold was the best ever at Soldier Field because
Speaker 1: of the conditions and his late December and January performances.
Speaker 1: His percentage was better than anybody's visiting it otherwise. But
Speaker 1: he's he's done it in tough conditions too, so when
Speaker 1: the weather turns, that's the true metal of the kicker, oh,
Speaker 1: no question. And Cody's he's been a cold weather kicker.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a rookie year and all Pro in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and then you know I had him in Cleveland also,
Speaker 1: which is also a tough place to kick, and he
Speaker 1: kicked real well there, So I don't see it phasing
Speaker 1: him now. And Pat O'Donnell only fourteen punts this year
Speaker 1: so far because the Bears have have had great time
Speaker 1: and possession to move the ball. Sixth in the league.
Speaker 1: That punting average right now at forty two nine, and
Speaker 1: anytime you get over forty on the net things you're
Speaker 1: looking good, right, No, it is, And I think that
Speaker 1: sometimes people do look at the numbers. What we try
Speaker 1: to say is did we win the net punt that day?
Speaker 1: And uh, right, now, Pats won the net punt and
Speaker 1: that also ties in our punt return team also takes
Speaker 1: great pride in that because they want to obviously knock
Speaker 1: down the other punt punter's net. But he's changed something
Speaker 1: and he's done really well. Your suggestion, correct. We talked
Speaker 1: about it and he and he's and he's really accepted it,
Speaker 1: and he's really worked on fine tune in some things.
Speaker 1: He has a really big leg. He's a very talented
Speaker 1: football player, and he can flip the field in those
Speaker 1: type of things. And he can also you know, get
Speaker 1: him inside the ten and does a nice job there.
Speaker 1: So we've been real pleased with his production and excited
Speaker 1: to see what he does in this next quarter of
Speaker 1: the season. He can boom it forever. Are you a
Speaker 1: hang time guy to hang hanging in location? You want
Speaker 1: him to correlate, you know, you don't want to hit
Speaker 1: see a guy at a you know, a fifty yard
Speaker 1: punt at you know, a four to three hang. Obviously,
Speaker 1: now the balls in the returner's hands quickly. There has
Speaker 1: to be some type of correlation there, you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you're talking about a forty eight yard punt,
Speaker 1: you know anywhere from that four six to four eight
Speaker 1: to give your McManus's and your bellamies an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get down there and affect the returner so it all
Speaker 1: ties in and pass doing a nice job in that area.
Speaker 1: That's Chris Tabor. One more segment with a special teams
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Speaker 1: headphones of the Chicago Bears, and boy it was loud
Speaker 1: enough to could use headphones. Yesterday at Soldier Field, Chris
Speaker 1: Tabor Mattnegie has been talking about homefield advantage. You've been
Speaker 1: here before. You know how valuable that is. You know
Speaker 1: how crazy these fans will get when they when they
Speaker 1: get something that you're about. Are you seeing it all
Speaker 1: come to life again? Yeah? No, it's fun. It's a
Speaker 1: great it's a great venue. I mean, obviously Chicago sports fans,
Speaker 1: I mean, Bears fans are are are the best. And
Speaker 1: to get that place rocking like it is, I mean
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great home field advantage. Does Matt
Speaker 1: Niggy being as aggressive minded and what he wants this
Speaker 1: team to be and as creative as he is, is
Speaker 1: it fueling any creativity for you? Are you asked to
Speaker 1: be creative? Yes? Oh yeah, No, coach, he pushes you
Speaker 1: and he wants you to think outside the box. And
Speaker 1: that's fun. I mean, it's it's fun to when you're
Speaker 1: in the office all week and you're watching tape to
Speaker 1: try to find something that maybe you can exploit and uh,
Speaker 1: and then you present it to the guys and then
Speaker 1: they take pride in and then you have some fun
Speaker 1: and when those chances come up on Sunday, hopefully we
Speaker 1: deliver with that creativity. Even though you're on the special
Speaker 1: team side. When you see the game plan because you
Speaker 1: guys all work together, all coordinators and the whole staff.
Speaker 1: But when you see plays like he did yesterday, when
Speaker 1: Jay Daniel comes out there, I mean, is that reb
Speaker 1: your engine a little bit? Oh? No question? Are you
Speaker 1: on the edge of your seat just like everybody else?
Speaker 1: No question? When I when I when I saw it
Speaker 1: during the week, I said, I love that one. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see it. And when they got inside
Speaker 1: right there and the five, I said, here it comes.
Speaker 1: It is great. Yeah, I had to do it a
Speaker 1: second time because of the penalty. Boy Matt was hot.
Speaker 1: Now he's fired in no question. Yeah, coaches, you know
Speaker 1: where he's coming from. And that's that's what you want.
Speaker 1: You know. The players love it. The coaches love it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you understand he understands what this franchise is about and
Speaker 1: where it's supposed to be and uh and he's leading us.
Speaker 1: And you've been able to share that with your own
Speaker 1: players because you've been here before those who haven't been.
Speaker 1: You know, I do think these guys, there's there's something
Speaker 1: about these guys that are embracing this a little bit,
Speaker 1: no question. I say it every every day when I
Speaker 1: walk in the building and you see coach Hollis statue
Speaker 1: right there. It's hum bling in that sea on the
Speaker 1: helmet means something. I mean, it's uh, you have to
Speaker 1: live up to it and and there's just a sense
Speaker 1: of pride and that that you gotta get it done.
Speaker 1: All right, Chris, Let you go. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for having great bye a week, get ready for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Have a great night, everybody. I'm Jeff Joniak and this
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