WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Tabor on Bye Week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.880 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.800 now one News Radio seven eighty and one oh five 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.040 point nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches Show with 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.000 Bears head coach Matt Naggie, the coaching staff and Bears management. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.520 The Bears Coaches Show was brought to you by Whitpley 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.159 CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Advocate Healthcare, Hilton and 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.480 the Village of Bedford Park. No From Hellis Hall. Here's 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.159 the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniak and 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.280 a pleasure, good avan everybody. I'm Jeff jony Ak, and 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.160 welcome into Pancy Studios here at Hollis HOLLWID Bears head 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.960 Coach Matt Naggi here until eight o'clock tonight. Later on 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.240 in the program, we'll be joined by Bears Special Teams 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.640 Coordinator Chris Tabor to join the program Matcket evening. How 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.760 are you doing good? How are you doing fantastic? I 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.920 gotta say quickly from a personal perspective, that was a 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.960 treat and any Bears fan who was at the game, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.680 watching the game, listening to the game, heard about the game, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.000 or are just finding out about the game, had to 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.240 feel the same way from start to finish. How satisfying 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.720 was it other than the obvious that you won, that's 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.399 just how you won the game. Yeah, Now, those are 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.800 special games there, Those are ones that you always remember. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.640 And the nice thing about that game was the fact 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.560 that it started with the first play of the game 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.520 and it ended with the last play of the game. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.920 And so when you do that on offense, on defense, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.039 in special teams and you play as well as we did, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.920 it can do so much for your team with their 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.959 confidence and they get to believe and see that it's 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.200 there to grab. And when we've been talking about it, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.600 when the defense has been playing super the offense had 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.040 room for improvement. And for the offense to come out 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.640 and have the series that we had and very few 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.720 third downs really until the fourth quarter, to be efficient 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.080 in the red zone, and then for the defense to 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.360 continue with what they've been doing, and for special teams 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.160 to continue. Um, those are those are games, Like I 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.120 just said, that that lasts forever. And then now hopefully 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.280 we can use this to catapult us in the right 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.680 direction and continue into a good momentum. Well, I've been 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.880 telling people to any people asking me, you know, about it. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.480 You now know what you're capable of. They know what 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.400 they're capable of. Mitch knows what he's capable of. You 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.520 know what you're capable of in terms of play can 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.280 and so forth, and using what you have. Is that 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.560 a fair statement for sure? And and so um for us, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.120 we we understand that it's uh, it's something that's going 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.960 to take a little bit time, but the patients can 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.160 sometimes not be there for for a lot of people, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.520 and so we can talk about it and we can 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.440 say it's going to take time, but to actually see 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.720 it happen, um like it did yesterday. Um. And you know, again, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:47.880 the one thing that gets hidden in this thing. The 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.079 offense played really well. But that was a really good 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.880 offense for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that that our defense 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.800 was facing. Now, this is a team that put up 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.720 four hundred yards three three weeks in a row and 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.840 broke an NFL record, And so for our defense to 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.200 come out and contin then you playing dominant football like 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.920 day ben Um, that was that was just as good. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.160 The risk of this show giving your offensive mind is 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.400 we can always talk offense a segment, but I'm glad 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.440 you led me into defense because we do have to 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.400 talk about it. Uh, it's a it's a defense because 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.800 of who's there. It's taking the start out of teams 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.600 a little bit. It. I mean, you could already see 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.520 it in the first couple series, a defeated look just 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.960 by their actions, their body language, their penalties. I mean, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.240 you name it is the presence of one guy affecting 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.960 twenty one other guys in a sense in Khalil mack Well, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.200 I want to give it on him obviously, but he 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.960 is making that kind of difference in the first four weeks. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.200 He is and then like you said, with twenty one 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.200 other guys, I mean he's he's number one. Most importantly 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.680 for us is he's raising everybody's level a play, um, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.240 just because of they get to see how he practices. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.480 They see his motor during the games. Um. You know, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.360 everyone talks about how great sacks are, and sacks are great, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.520 but the one thing that's just so impressive of for 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.760 him to have four straight games to to get that ball, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.080 get that football and put that ball on the ground 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.440 and give us an opportunity for a turnover. UM. And 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.159 so the guys in practice on defense, they feel that 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.360 they practice that way. They understand that that when when 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.240 you have a guy as dominant as he is at 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.680 one position, that if they step up their game, then 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.680 it just it completely changes them. Really the atmosphere of 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.960 the every everyone looks at the defense now and they're 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.080 they there's a there's a fear a little bit and 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.000 from the offense and they get that they don't get 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.320 the ball off on time, um that our defensive line 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.200 is going to get home. They're going to sack the quarterback. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.080 And so that gives confidence to the dbs. And now 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.840 the dbs can be a little bit more aggressive, and 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.640 they can be jumpy with some of the stuff they do, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.839 and so and then it's our coaches. Our coaches do 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.960 a great job of putting these guys in great, great 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.360 positions to make plays. And so it's CONTAINU just they 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.840 feed off one another. And right now I'm glad they're 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.960 our defense. And he has affected many different plays yesterday 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.960 because of his past trush that spin move at the 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.839 last second that led to an interception. Obviously the tip 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.120 to Danny Trevathan got and I think everybody's trying to 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.160 follow a little bit, you know. And there's a guy 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.120 we talked about last week he made a big play. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.320 One of the first guys to always greet him. It's 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.080 below Nichols, and it's Mac going to congratulate the young man. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.120 That must feel great for this kid, a rookie, it is. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.880 And again you have these young guys that are seeing 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.600 how it's supposed to be done and they want to 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.080 emulate the guys in front of them, and they feel it. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.920 You look at our sideline yesterday and you can see 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.640 how energetic and how committed and involved these these players 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.040 are some guys that aren't even in pads, you know, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.280 or others. And go back and look at the last 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.240 play of the game on defense for the interception with 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.120 with uh you know, with Lynch, and you look at 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.280 fifty two on the sideline, look at look at Khalil 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.120 on the sideline and how crazy he's going on us, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.400 how happy he was in that situation for Aaron to 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.200 get that interception. I think it's gonna be good for 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.919 Aaron Lynch this year. Yeah, yeah, even I mean Khalil 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.200 Max's presence is going to make a big him. It is. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.880 And and it's so those are the intangibles that you know, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.560 either have or you don't have. And We have that 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.799 right now with these guys, and it's just it's spreading 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.000 like wildfire. This is Matt Naggie and the Bears Coaches Show. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.000 It's brought to you by Whipfleet Financial Advisors. Um, you 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.400 mentioned earlier today and you you're a man of your word. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.400 You have been from the moment you got here. You 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:43.680 want to be aggressive, calculated, obviously calculated aggressive, You aggressive 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.760 from start to finish. Um. I ran in your dad 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.839 after the game, first thing says to me, Hey, how 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.320 about that? About that? I'm just glad he kept the 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.960 pedal on the metal, so to speak. You know, does 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.720 that cross your mind? Like how far do you go 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.800 because you're up so big? Yeah? No, it Well, what 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.120 you do as you kind of prep for these type 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.279 of moments, You go through situations as a coach and 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.719 how you're going to handle different scenarios and and so 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.360 for me, we just had a mentality yesterday that we're 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.400 going to continue to keep here of staying completely aggressive. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.160 Who cares about to score at zero zero? There's too 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.040 much stuff that can happen in this league. There's too 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.840 many teams that can come back, and so, UM, I 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.000 just thought it was great by a great job by 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.640 our guys of when we were calling some shots downfield 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.960 of making the place happen. That was a big emphasis 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.000 for us was we were calling shots. The first few weeks, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.560 we weren't connecting on those and it's it's good to 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.360 do that. It's good to call them, but you got 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.480 to connect. And so for us to be able to 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.400 connect on those shots, to start it off with the 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.600 touchdown pass to Trey Burton, and once we got that 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.200 first one, I had a feeling that this could be 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.000 this could be a good day for us. Well, now, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.800 with the type of defense you're playing, it's almost an 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.680 obligation to do then it is. And so you look 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.920 at us as a team, we were what top three 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.920 in the league in time of possession going into yesterday, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.120 and you didn't see as much. I think we lost 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.680 the time of possession battle by about five minutes, but 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.960 we had several big chunk plays that were over thirty 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.200 yards and so that's gonna cut down your time of possession. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.640 But then we go right back to where we've been struggling, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.560 which is the red zone. And for us to go 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.120 four for four yesterday with four touchdowns in the red zone, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.760 complete confidence, and again the practice and the preparation that 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.160 our guys had on that Thursday night and Friday practice, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.400 it just completely transferred over to the game and they 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.679 made plays and we got touchdowns. The Bears Coaches Show 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.280 with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.320 continued going out to the numbers, left slot left Robinson 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.560 tight end. Burton heads in motion of the right slot 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.760 Dribisky and the gun back to his left takes the 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.720 shotgun stack, giving a look left. Durbisky gonna float it 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.199 into the left corner of the end zone. Going to 0:08:54.280 --> 0:09:00.480 get it, Rabbit, It's got it. Touchdown, Touchdownbers a biscuite 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:05.479 to Allen Robinson, a fourteen yark strike at Robinson's nineteenth 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.680 career red zone touchdown. The Bears extend their lead over 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.600 the Bucketeers, and that was his first Bears touchdown for 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.400 Alan Robinson. Two of the six touchdown throws that Mitch 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.760 Chubisky three yesterday, five in the first half, setting records 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.640 and never been done before in the first half here 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.440 with Matt Naggie, that volume of numbers, and you know, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.920 obviously Pat Mahomes did it this year in week two. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.240 So just given everything, how focused everybody has been on 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.240 Mitch on the outside, it does not equate to what 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.960 the inside was looking at how the inside of the 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.840 building was looking at Mitch. And that's always the big conversation, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.640 you know, it's it's one side and then you got 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.560 the other side of the story, and the other side 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.080 of the story is this you'll tell it, but I'll 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.800 give the preview, is that this is not just because 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.559 it happened yesterday. This is the culmination of months and 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.600 where it's been heading. Would that be a proper way 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.400 to put this in content? Yeah? Really, he's he and 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.600 we as an offense, uh, he meaning Mitch. Um. You 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.600 know there's so many hours and so much film work 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.440 and study and notes and um. You know that goes 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.480 into trying to make this thing go as smoothly as 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:22.040 possible and so um when you're not, you know, you're 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.640 not executing like you wish you could, or you you 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.520 want to be better as an offense in general as 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.240 a whole. Uh, it can be frustrating. And like you 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.719 just said, you know you have you have the outsiders 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.840 and then you have the people on the inside the 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.120 building and um, and and it's all because people care. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.120 None of it is because the criticism every We understand that, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.920 and Mitch understands that people just want the best and so, um, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.600 you know, trust me more than anybody. Mitches out there 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.120 putting in tons of work, extra work. Uh, he cares 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.600 more than than most. And and so to have that 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.160 game yesterday that he had, I was just really really 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.840 truly happy for him, for us, and and you know, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.400 there's there's just so much effort in time that goes 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.160 into it that to be able to see it come 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.240 to fruition and see all that stuff happened in one 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.800 game is is good for us as a team and 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.160 good for him. The assistant coaches are available to the 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.400 media today up here at Hollis All. So quarterback coach 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.400 David Going spoke to his sideline demeanor, Mitch's sideline demeanor 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.880 in this game, and it was very focused and he 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:31.480 stayed steady throughout and it was something he was very 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.080 encouraged by. Did you witness that as well? And was 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.719 it different than any other game this specison so far? 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.960 So it was and you could feel it. And I think, um, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.520 one of the things that we discussed as as coaches 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.439 and with Mitch was a few weeks ago. Hey, listen, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.720 we're gonna we're gonna cut you loose. And it's that 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.720 whole quote unquote next play mentality. So if it's a 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.960 good play, let's let's move on and let's keep going. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.679 If it's an interception, a fumble, a poor read, your 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.240 eyes don't go where our eyes go, then it's okay, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.600 let's move on. Let's just let's just really truly focus 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.680 on the next play. Well, we started talking about that, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.120 and he ended up being in a game where he 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.600 had two picks right away against thee Attle, back to back, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.599 and he really hung in there and used that mentality 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.120 that we discussed to his benefit, and we got through 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.920 the game, we won the game, and and uh, well, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.000 on the other end of the spectrum was yesterday, he 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.240 was playing really well, and it was it was though, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.360 to keep those blinders on and to not listen to 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.400 what you're hearing, not worry about. Okay, now I'm content. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.160 I just threw a couple of touchdown passes, you know, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.720 were scored some touchdowns in the red zone. None of 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.160 that from him. He wanted more. He wanted to just 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.320 keep going. He didn't want any just he was. He 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.720 was really in his own and h so for us 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.679 as coaches, we all felt that from him and from 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.160 the rest of the guys on offense, and when you 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.800 when you all are in his own, good things happen. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.640 And I felt just yesterday everybody was feeling good. Is 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.959 the play of the receivers and the type of routes 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.160 that are running and what they're running, and getting to 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.120 understand the offense better and all the concepts and the 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:15.600 variations off those concepts, allowing in particular guys that you 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.640 know are outstanding route runners like Alan Robinson coming off 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.000 acl Taylor Gabriel, who's got the speed playing to their 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.920 speed or did they yesterday more than at any point 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.080 this now? I think really right now they're they're they've been, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.800 They're playing the same way that they've been all year long. Um. Conceptually, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.200 we're trying to fit fit some concepts into our offense 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.200 UM that we feel are great not only for for Mitchell, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.160 but for for our our receivers and our running backs 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.400 and for the O line mixing it up. UM. So 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.160 I just think in general, as long as these guys 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.199 they just worry about their position and what they do 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.000 and making the throws, making the catches, all the rest 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.920 of his self takes care of itself. So we're in 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.160 a good spot right now. And conceptually though, we're just 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.560 trying to stick with the basics. Cohen lined up left 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.400 outside the numbers. Now he's pulled into the left of 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.960 the quarterback, Trip Whisky slot right, snap back protection good again, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:16.680 Trip Whiskey fishing at the two into the end zone, touchdown, touchdown. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.160 Bears working on labot tape, David Hand. The Bears are 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.040 making these linebackers work on a summer sault in the 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.800 end zone to the north end zone fans by Cohen. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.480 It caps a nine yard strike with a touchdown catch 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.520 Trip Whisky. Three touchdown throws in his first half. Yeah, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.640 and Cohen's excitement is palpable, and it spreads like wildfire. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.520 He's been that way from the moment he got drafted here. Matt. Yeah, 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.680 he's he's electric. You know, he can do so much. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.600 He can run the ball in between the tackles, he 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.480 can run it on the edges, he can run routes. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:49.920 You can put him in the slot, you can put 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.800 him outside. And so when you have that, that's a 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.240 little bit of a toy as a coach, and those 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.200 are good. You'd like to have good toys. And so 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.600 he showed up yesterday. He may plays when we called 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.960 on him, and then that's gonna be big for us 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.600 as we move forward. You know, in variably the last 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.520 two years, there are reporters who ask and it almost 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:15.000 seems like because he's diminutive in height five six five 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.720 seven or whatever he is, that he can't hold up 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.120 to twenty plus touches in a game. And here he 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.560 is running between the tackles yesterday as well as all 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.760 those different routes and taking handoffs. So he's a little 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.680 thicker than the average five six five seven back or 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.080 which receiver would you not say, Yeah, for sure, he's 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.000 he's Uh, he might tell you he's one ninety, but 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.240 he's slightly under one ninety. So but but the one 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.600 thing is is he's tough and he understands too. These 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.240 ball carriers when they run in between the tackles, there's 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.720 a there's in my opinion, there's an art to understand 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.320 and how to take a hit and uh, and sometimes 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.160 when you got to get down and not take a 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.760 senseless hit that you don't need to take and he 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.440 has that, um, and then he extends plays. You know, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.880 he he's uh, he's he's just able to have a 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.160 good feel for that and when you when you have 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.920 that again, the biggest advantage for us with him is 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.200 that we can line him up into battlefield and we 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.440 can run the football with him a lot of times 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.560 when you put smaller guys back there, it's hey Scott, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.560 Scots gat they're going to release to the flat and 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.880 run a route with him. We can do both, so 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.640 it makes the defense be honest. And Jordan Howard can 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.280 do both too, absolutely sorry, yeah, use yeah, And I 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.440 think it's for us to have both of those guys. Um, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.200 it's just really uh, they're they're they're different tools for 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.640 for us as as we as we build this offense, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.880 and uh, those guys understand that and they realize that. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.760 And so one game it may be uh Cohen, the 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.080 next game it may be uh Jordan and so or 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.280 when the weather turns, you're gonna need a mutter. That's right, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.560 that's right, and and that's the best part of having 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.040 different type of backs like that. So right now, Coin 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.120 tenth in the league in combining yards as he put 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.160 together quite the performance yesterday. Let's try and tick down 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.920 some other things. Sam Acho today, you know word that 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.760 he tores Peck. I think he only had it was 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.480 third snap he took in the game, and he's gonna 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.600 be out for the year. Digs into the depth a 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.520 little bit. But there are guys there. Yeah, No, we 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.720 do have depth there. But I'll say this about Sam 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.960 Sam He's a just a true professional that comes to 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.680 work each and every day and does everything that we ask. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.159 And uh, he's a he's a big time leader on 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.040 this team. So that's a that's a that's a that 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.160 that hurts us losing him. But you know, we'll get 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.040 him all fixed up with with surgery and get him 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.000 going there and then you know, get keep him around 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.840 the building and just have him be there for support 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.800 and help out as much as possible. And but again 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.080 it is that as part of football, and guys get injured, 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.479 and so whoever that is that steps in next and 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.080 fills that role, we gotta go. It'd be insane not 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.080 to congratulate the offensive line or at least bring him 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.320 up here in some detail about their performance yesterday, because 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.000 and you bring it up all the time about the 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.400 green grass for the quarterback to have a little to 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.439 to make a play and step in the step up 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.880 in the pocket, or just have some time, just enough 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.120 time to pull off some of these deeper routes. But 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.560 there were many times yesterday I kept saying, comfy pocket, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.800 pockets clean, you know, time to throw. So job well 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.800 done by those guys up front and working in the 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.360 rookie at guard at times two And James Daniels, Yeah, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.880 when you when you play quarterback, uh, and there's people 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.600 around your knees, it makes that throw a lot a 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.960 lot more difficult and the accuracy can can be a 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.520 lot a lot worse in so many ways. And so 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.879 but when you have that green grass that we talk about, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.920 and we talk about it all the time, the percentages 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.400 go way up. And so yesterday, if you go back 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.400 and you watch that game and you see the tape, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.280 you'll see for majority of the snaps that Mitch had 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.159 back there, there was a lot of a lot of 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.800 green grass for him to step up into the pocket, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.479 to move it, slide into pocket and make the throws. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.960 And so if you don't have that, you can forget about. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.000 He had it yesterday, and then we took advantage of it. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.639 What the what the throws and catches. You're insulated because 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.840 you're you're on the inset and you're you're you're in 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.280 charge here, You're in charge. But do you feel the 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:06.160 rejuvenation in this building in one month games? You can 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.360 feel it. You feel it, you hear it. People are 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.159 energized right now. It doesn't matter who they are, if 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.560 they're in this building, um, whether they're they're players, coaches, staff, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.360 anybody in the organization. They they we have a good 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.200 thing going right now. I think what's important for everybody 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.480 to understand is the fact that it is a very 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.159 long season and uh, it's it's my job as a 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.400 head coach, it's our job as coaches to make sure 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.640 that we just stay even keel and so to get 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.480 some rest here over the bye week, and then let's 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.120 let's come back here focusing on Miami and only worry 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.600 about Miami. Three and one means nothing right now. We 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.479 can look back in week sixteen it made mean nothing, um, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.560 but we're going to use it in a positive right 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.639 now that we've worked hard to get those three wins 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.199 and uh and and do everything we possibly can to 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.720 get to form one. Yeah, and they always the the 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.040 look back sometimes with coaches don't like to do but 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.320 literally make one more play in Green Bay and you're 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.440 looking at a team that it would be four. Oh yeah, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.840 do that. No, you can't. But there's some ways to 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.760 look at that. And so for us when we lost 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.359