Speaker 1: What o'clock. The following is a presentation of the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears Network now one News Radio seven eighty and one
Speaker 1: oh five point nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with Bears Head coach Matt Naggie, good coaching staff
Speaker 1: and Bears management. The Bears Coaches Show was brought to
Speaker 1: you by Whitpley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Advocate Healthcare,
Speaker 1: Hilton and the Village of Bedford Park. No From Hallis Hall.
Speaker 1: Here's the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: and a pleasant good even every bond. Welcome Bear fans.
Speaker 1: The PNC studio is here at Hallis and the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show with Head coach Man Naggie, Jeff Joniac with
Speaker 1: you into eight o'clock tonight, later joined by Bears offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Mark Helfrich, coach. How you doing this evening? Going
Speaker 1: tough to handle a loss like that for anybody, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who you are, when and when it happens in
Speaker 1: the league, during the course of your career and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But watching the tape in Deep Yale like you didn't
Speaker 1: you inferred this at the news conference today with the media,
Speaker 1: But then having the whole day and talking with your
Speaker 1: staff about it. What are your takeaways? What'd you come
Speaker 1: away with when you watched it all on tape? Again,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that that we saw as a staff,
Speaker 1: that I saw is it really was a tale two
Speaker 1: halves and and so one of the things that we
Speaker 1: discussed going into the game the night before it was
Speaker 1: just making sure that whatever we do, um, whatever happens,
Speaker 1: we want to be able to finish. Now, obviously that
Speaker 1: didn't happen, but for us, uh, you know, for our guys,
Speaker 1: none of it was because of lack of effort, you know.
Speaker 1: And so that's a pretty good team that we played
Speaker 1: over there. We get that, we understand that, and we
Speaker 1: had them right where we wanted them, but now we
Speaker 1: got to finish them. So fortunately for us, it's the
Speaker 1: first week of the season. We understand it is a
Speaker 1: very long season. So what we're gonna do is we're
Speaker 1: gonna learn from this and we're going to make ourselves
Speaker 1: better be because of this. And I can't tell you
Speaker 1: what week that's going to happen in, but I promise
Speaker 1: you it'll happen. And our guys have a great attitude,
Speaker 1: you know, afterwards, you can see they were really frustrated,
Speaker 1: and understandably so, but they're not going it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those deals where it just puts us
Speaker 1: down to where we can't recover. We'll recover. It is
Speaker 1: an interesting question when you think about a veteran team
Speaker 1: versus a young team, and this is a younger team
Speaker 1: more than it is a veteran team. But there have
Speaker 1: been guys that have gone this and seen this script
Speaker 1: play out over and over again. How do you help
Speaker 1: them not think, oh not again. Well, you gotta believe.
Speaker 1: And so we're building this culture here right now and
Speaker 1: understanding that we've been prepared for this. This isn't something
Speaker 1: where you know, the guys go into this with unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 1: And if you do that as a coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: you talk about the highs end of the loads, you're
Speaker 1: prepared for it. And even if it would have been
Speaker 1: a different ending to where you win that game, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you know you have to
Speaker 1: be able to prepare it for week two and say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we're really not that great, you know, even with that win.
Speaker 1: So it is a long season. I've I've had big
Speaker 1: dream to the guys, and so hopefully we can grow
Speaker 1: from it. How much quicker did Rogers get rid of it?
Speaker 1: I know Pro Football Focus timed that it was three
Speaker 1: seconds in the first half plus and then it was
Speaker 1: less than three seconds in the second half. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys do look at that afterwards and
Speaker 1: see how quickly and what can be done if you
Speaker 1: can't get to them to at least make it a
Speaker 1: little more difficult, to make it less than a pitching
Speaker 1: catch type situation. Well, there he was getting the ball
Speaker 1: out a lot quicker, a lot more three steps. They
Speaker 1: pop some runs now and then, and then they did
Speaker 1: some quick stuff to the flats and and so you know,
Speaker 1: for us trying to keep everything in front of you
Speaker 1: and make good tackles and no run after the catch.
Speaker 1: In the second half, defensively, we had some big plays
Speaker 1: that were given up, you know, to say the least
Speaker 1: we had a seventy five yard or a fifty one
Speaker 1: yard or a thirty two yarder, and I think around
Speaker 1: a twenty three yarder, and they're they're big plays. They
Speaker 1: so we were we had them where we wanted them too.
Speaker 1: We had a big third third and fourteen where they
Speaker 1: got a first down backed up on the on the
Speaker 1: on their own fifteen the total. That's just part of
Speaker 1: the game. And so hopefully our guys can understand that,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna they're gonna, they're gonna see that, and
Speaker 1: and uh, next time we're in that situation, offensively, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get first downs. Well, head coach Matt Nagy here
Speaker 1: on the Bears Coach the show brought to you by
Speaker 1: a Whipfley CPAs and consultants with you until eight o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Mitch Trubisky. Let's talk first half, first series. Uh,
Speaker 1: first couple of series were awesome. The creativity of your
Speaker 1: play calling and what you guys put on the script
Speaker 1: was was a lot of fun to watch, and it
Speaker 1: seemed to invigorate you know, everybody in the building that
Speaker 1: was a Bear fan. You can even hear Bears fans cheering,
Speaker 1: and you heard a lot of Packer fans booing in
Speaker 1: that first half. Um, just break that down a little
Speaker 1: bit on how all that went from Mitch and the offense.
Speaker 1: It was good to see because you get to understand
Speaker 1: that where we can get this thing too offensively. I
Speaker 1: think It showed all the hard work that they put
Speaker 1: in in training camp and to go four team plays
Speaker 1: with a touchdown to first drive. You know. Ever, with
Speaker 1: this offense and with those group of guys out there,
Speaker 1: I was so happy for them. Then the next the
Speaker 1: next series, they came out and put together a nice
Speaker 1: long drive again and got three points. What we need
Speaker 1: to understand is is that we have to eliminate to
Speaker 1: three and ounce. There was there was. We had ten
Speaker 1: total drives at that game, and of the ten possessions,
Speaker 1: four of them were three and ounce and those are hard,
Speaker 1: especially when your defense is playing as well as they were. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't get field goals. We need to
Speaker 1: execute in the red zone, and of course you need
Speaker 1: to get first downs on third and one at this point. Yet,
Speaker 1: and there are so many scenarios obviously, so many, um,
Speaker 1: third down scenarios, the amount of yards you have to
Speaker 1: get for each third down scenario, red zone opportunities, whatnot.
Speaker 1: Do you have some in your opinion, you have right
Speaker 1: now bread and butter plays. Yet in the red zone?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah we do? And and um, you know
Speaker 1: there's some there's some situations that we as coaches feel
Speaker 1: like we can be better at. And then we also
Speaker 1: feel like execution as well. This isn't just one one
Speaker 1: thing here um in regards to the the the red
Speaker 1: zone plays and execution. And so we'll we'll we'll get
Speaker 1: that fixed and uh, and the guys will understand that
Speaker 1: we're going to do everything we possibly can to put
Speaker 1: them in a good situation. And then when we do
Speaker 1: put them in that situation, they need to make plays.
Speaker 1: You mentioned some stuff you'd like back, even if you
Speaker 1: won the game, you'd still want stuff back, right during
Speaker 1: the course of the game, certain situation, certain play costs,
Speaker 1: certain moments in the game. Surely, Yeah, always. I don't
Speaker 1: think you ever have a game where it's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent exactly how you wanted it to go. But for us, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really anxious to see how our guys
Speaker 1: recover from this, and I know they will and we
Speaker 1: we just we have such good guys and such good people,
Speaker 1: high character guys. We're we're we're just going to be
Speaker 1: at a point now where we got to have a
Speaker 1: solid week of practice. We got to refocus. We can't
Speaker 1: dwell in the past. It's it's it was a big
Speaker 1: game for us. We didn't win it. Am I happy
Speaker 1: about it? Absolutely not. But we're not going to dwell
Speaker 1: on them. We know we got a big game coming
Speaker 1: up at home against Seattle and that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: be focused on. That is the story of the National
Speaker 1: Football League. It waits for no one. You got you
Speaker 1: gotta jump right at it. But you do have sixty
Speaker 1: minutes of film that you can break down and it
Speaker 1: must excite you like you insinuated just a moment ago
Speaker 1: how good you can be. And when the executions on,
Speaker 1: this would be a very difficult team to beat because
Speaker 1: that that first drive is a perfect example of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's there, and the consistency of doing that is where
Speaker 1: is what we gotta find. And what we need to
Speaker 1: do is just make sure that we try not to
Speaker 1: do too much within this system and then we make
Speaker 1: it nice and clean and fast. For example, for for
Speaker 1: Mitchell at the line of scrimmage, don't give him too
Speaker 1: much to where it slows him down. The kids very smart,
Speaker 1: he's very talented, and so what we can't do is
Speaker 1: paralyze him by you know, the old paralysis by analysis.
Speaker 1: We can't do that, and that's our fault as coaches.
Speaker 1: If we do so, we need to balance that you're
Speaker 1: not saying that that happened last No, that didn't happen
Speaker 1: last night. But we gotta we have to make sure
Speaker 1: that in all phases, you know, and defense as well.
Speaker 1: You know, we just let's uh, let's make sure that
Speaker 1: we can let our guys play fast and uh again,
Speaker 1: a game like last night, just as we were unscouted,
Speaker 1: you know, some they had some defensive looks that they
Speaker 1: had that were un scouted as well. And that's that's
Speaker 1: a credit to to Mike Patton in their defensive side
Speaker 1: for for putting in some good stuff. The NFL chess
Speaker 1: match there it is right, Yeah, The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Jodiac
Speaker 1: continue first half, Bears up ten zip preman rush coming clean,
Speaker 1: Roy Rahan had it is intercepted by mac Mac went
Speaker 1: up to the twenty fifteen ten five heads touchdown Bears,
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack rolling in his second career picks six and
Speaker 1: what a welcome to Chicago for Khalil back. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a night for Khalil mac h wearing Bears colors for
Speaker 1: the first time as Welcome back to the Bears coaches
Speaker 1: show here represented by Whipped Leasypas and Consultants with Matt
Speaker 1: Naggy so sack, interception, forced fumble, fumber recovery, defensive touchdown
Speaker 1: a week one. Last player to do that in a
Speaker 1: game was Khalil Mack back in twenty sixteen against the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and since they started tracking sacks and eighty two, he's
Speaker 1: the first guy to do that in one half thoughts. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: well it was special. It was a special moment for
Speaker 1: him and you could just really feel it on the
Speaker 1: sideline how happy everybody was for him. He was completely
Speaker 1: out of gas after that touchdown. But that just goes
Speaker 1: to show, I think, what we have here on our
Speaker 1: team with him and what he brings and how he
Speaker 1: elevates everybody on that side of the ball. So we're
Speaker 1: very fortunate and we were happy for him. He paid
Speaker 1: forty two snaps. Were you even surprised or was that
Speaker 1: someone in the wheelhouse of what you wanted to do
Speaker 1: or was it going to be a field thing as
Speaker 1: the game went on? It was a field thing as
Speaker 1: a game went on. You know, I think that that
Speaker 1: would probably have been a few more than what we
Speaker 1: thought going into it. But you know, when you're playing
Speaker 1: so well like he was, again, we had to see
Speaker 1: where his conditioning was at, and he felt pretty good,
Speaker 1: so that's what we went with. He's a bulldog and
Speaker 1: he's outstanding. But maybe the most stunning play was on
Speaker 1: the cob. He is down there right at the very end,
Speaker 1: after rushing the pastor, dropping off and then going to
Speaker 1: get the guy. Yeah, he's uh, you know, he's just
Speaker 1: he does things so easily when he's out there, just
Speaker 1: the way he rushes the quarterback and then he has
Speaker 1: great instincts and and uh, you know, there was no
Speaker 1: chance of him not catching that interception when they threw
Speaker 1: that screen to him. I mean he's out here at
Speaker 1: practice every day, uh, in warm ups acting like he's
Speaker 1: a quarterback and catching balls and doing different things. He's
Speaker 1: an athlete. As you say, cornerback. No quarter quarterback told
Speaker 1: me he could play corner Oh and yesterday he was
Speaker 1: lined up across from DeVante Adams and had three jobs
Speaker 1: and he did them all. Yeah, he disengaged from him,
Speaker 1: and he still rushed the pastor and got out to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He finding me to interrupt you, but so
Speaker 1: he's playing quarterback. Yeah, and he just well, he just
Speaker 1: he likes that funny. He's athletic, and it showed. And
Speaker 1: so in such a big moment, they try to throw
Speaker 1: a screen and he reacts, he reads it, he feels it,
Speaker 1: makes a catch, makes a couple of guys missing in.
Speaker 1: One of the most impressive parts of the whole thing
Speaker 1: was he didn't have great ball security as he was
Speaker 1: going in and the guy went to swipe it and
Speaker 1: he still held onto him. That That was obviously a
Speaker 1: huge play in the game and even a coaching point
Speaker 1: for an all Pro. Right, that's right, yeah, tuck it away.
Speaker 1: How about the work done by your coaching staff, Brandon
Speaker 1: Staley in particular and Vic Fangio of getting this guy ready. Clearly,
Speaker 1: his singular focus was getting ready for the Packers, despite
Speaker 1: everything that was swirling around him in terms of the
Speaker 1: trade and then getting resettled and impossible really to get
Speaker 1: settled in one week, but he kept talking about it,
Speaker 1: and I believe him he was. The whole focus was
Speaker 1: getting ready for this game. It was, and both those guys,
Speaker 1: Brandon Stalely and Vic did a great job prepping him
Speaker 1: getting him ready. I know he spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with Brandon, you know, in their room, going over
Speaker 1: the xs and os and just kind of the strategy
Speaker 1: part of it. And Brandon is a great teach and
Speaker 1: I think he's a perfect fit with Khalil, and so
Speaker 1: they tried to spend as much time as possible getting
Speaker 1: ready for it, and so they obviously did a good
Speaker 1: job and they'll just continue to do that each and
Speaker 1: every day. Roe Quant smith Sack on his first NFL
Speaker 1: snap a glimpse of what he's going to be for
Speaker 1: this franchise as well. You can see the explosiveness I
Speaker 1: believe eight snaps for him in this game. He's obviously
Speaker 1: gonna play a heck of a lot more moving down
Speaker 1: the road. But when a rookie does that, and what
Speaker 1: he had to go through this offseason, is that a
Speaker 1: great sign? Also? It is? And it is And anytime
Speaker 1: you come in obviously you have a you have a
Speaker 1: first play that you're in there pretty neat, and I
Speaker 1: know he's ready. He's ready. He's really you know, at
Speaker 1: that point now where he can start flying around and
Speaker 1: trusting everything and just kind of getting another another week
Speaker 1: of Vicks defense and understanding all the calls. So that
Speaker 1: he can play fast. So we feel good with where
Speaker 1: he's at and looking forward to his future. Roy Robinson Harris,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a bunch of a nice plays being
Speaker 1: made in this game too. He's a guy that's it's
Speaker 1: young and he's still he's on the way though to becoming.
Speaker 1: He's got all that guide giving ability and size just
Speaker 1: waiting to be tapped right. Yeah, he's a big guy now,
Speaker 1: very tall, rangy, long, powerful and had had a real
Speaker 1: nice move there, um, you know on Aaron and so
Speaker 1: um you know. With him, it's just going to be
Speaker 1: learning and understanding where he fits on this defensive line,
Speaker 1: how he can keep improving each and every day. And
Speaker 1: he's in a great spot, so just keep playing hard.
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie our guest here on the Bears Coaches Show,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to UH Brought You Rather Buy Whiffley CPAs
Speaker 1: and Consultants and proud partner of the Chicago Bears. No
Speaker 1: more of the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt
Speaker 1: Maggie on news Way Todio seven eighty and one oh
Speaker 1: five point nine FM w BBM. Shotgun Tripisky, I'm the
Speaker 1: keeper leaves in he crushes the gold light into the
Speaker 1: end Zoe touchdown, touchdown, Bears, Trippiscian him the two on
Speaker 1: the opening drive Kathlick at ten plate journey that started
Speaker 1: at the Bear fourteen. Bears lead the Packers six in
Speaker 1: and that was the opening drive. Mitch Trubisky with his
Speaker 1: third NFL or rushing touchdown. Welcome back to the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show. Here at PNC Studios at Hallis. I'll brought
Speaker 1: to you by Whip Please see a PA's and Consultants,
Speaker 1: proud partner of the Chicago Bears, and Monday Nights are
Speaker 1: next Monday Night Regular. She's an amment over against the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Brought to you by Miller Light, brewed for
Speaker 1: Bears fans and always brewed for most taste. Miller Light
Speaker 1: hold true. We'll get into that in just a minute.
Speaker 1: Go back to Mitch Trubisky's day overall. How is the
Speaker 1: clock in his head going on? In the pocket and
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket in your opinion? No, he's fun.
Speaker 1: He's learning in this offense how to use his feet,
Speaker 1: where to slide, how to push up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: And I think in the first half he was really
Speaker 1: good with that. The second half you know, there were
Speaker 1: some times where maybe he could have you know, worked
Speaker 1: his feet a little bit more. But that's going to
Speaker 1: come in that that happens, that's very natural, that's not uncommon,
Speaker 1: and so he'll continue to keep working on that. I
Speaker 1: was very proud of him with you know how how
Speaker 1: he came out this first game and he was in
Speaker 1: and out of the huddle. Uh, he had a good
Speaker 1: amount of stuff on his play. He handled a great Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had mentioned and I know people, I brought this
Speaker 1: up to you. Two Packers played more zone than man.
Speaker 1: But you adjust to that, and it wasn't a reason
Speaker 1: for not playing at a level where they could have
Speaker 1: made more of those you know, I suppose of those
Speaker 1: three an ounces and so forth. So that's something you
Speaker 1: just suggest to during the course of the game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to and that's what That's why the coaches
Speaker 1: are up in the box and you get a feel
Speaker 1: for where they're at. He also did some drop eat
Speaker 1: and there too. You know where you're gonna get that
Speaker 1: extra defender. And so again I'm going to continue to
Speaker 1: go back to there. There's times where, um, you know,
Speaker 1: they're on both sides, there's gonna be some unscouted tendencies
Speaker 1: that there are, and so we just need to adjust.
Speaker 1: And I think after game one we didn't do enough
Speaker 1: to win a game situationally, offensively, we had to be
Speaker 1: better on on third down. We had a stretch there
Speaker 1: where we weren't converting third downs. I think there were
Speaker 1: seven or eight in a row. But in the start
Speaker 1: of the game and the end of the game, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're so I see some growth offensively. Is
Speaker 1: is at a time when we were in somewhat of
Speaker 1: a four minute offense where we're able to churn out
Speaker 1: first downs, we were converting third downs and then the
Speaker 1: unfortunately the one that we didn't get in the red
Speaker 1: zone was the biggest one. And so we need to
Speaker 1: we need to get touchdowns down there and can't kick
Speaker 1: field goals, especially against a guy like Aaron Rodgers. Did
Speaker 1: they Packers force you to throw short a lot? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily? No, No, we had we had some opportunities
Speaker 1: within the plays to take shots down field, and and
Speaker 1: so no, I don't think it was anything that they
Speaker 1: were forcing us to do. Alan Robinson just seeing them
Speaker 1: back out there, I meant a lot to him, Seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way couldn't and some terrific connections
Speaker 1: between him and Mitching those first two first couple of DRIs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were, and he had a nice contested down the sideline.
Speaker 1: Mitch made a hell of a throw, put it really
Speaker 1: where the only place they could be, and that was
Speaker 1: a tough catch. He came down with that. And so
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to get more and more opportunities.
Speaker 1: We know that in what we do, how we can
Speaker 1: move them around, do different things. He has a lot
Speaker 1: of great strengths and one of his strengths is being
Speaker 1: in the red zone in Alan Robinson, So we got
Speaker 1: to make sure we use that eighteen career touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the red zone for Alan Robinson. Let's go back. I
Speaker 1: mentioned this to you yesterday when we interviewed for the
Speaker 1: Morning show, the t formation play. It clearly meant a
Speaker 1: lot to you to do that. But plays like that
Speaker 1: nineteen forties still could have a place in today's game.
Speaker 1: I can remember Mark Roman when he was the offensive
Speaker 1: coordina forty nine Ers, the year they went to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, he said he kept running the Lombardi sweep.
Speaker 1: Can plays like that be stirred up and used today
Speaker 1: with some regularity? I think there can be. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know that that was an important play for us,
Speaker 1: you know we it was a T left formation, was
Speaker 1: the call, and we called it popa bear left and
Speaker 1: our guys were so fired up when we did the
Speaker 1: first fifteen to hear that play, and I had a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in us getting at least five yards
Speaker 1: and we ended up getting seven yards. Gott got a
Speaker 1: good little run there, and so maybe we'll build off
Speaker 1: of that a little bit. I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: And how about I didn't see it the first time.
Speaker 1: Everyone's pointing in pointing. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But Charles little Junior is in a bunch set to
Speaker 1: the right, loved it. Yeah. Well, we're going to continue
Speaker 1: to do that that kind of stuff, and we'll mix
Speaker 1: different things in. We don't. We want to be smart
Speaker 1: with it. It's got to make sense. But it gives
Speaker 1: if anything, that's going to give our offense an advantage,
Speaker 1: we'll continue to do and our players as long as
Speaker 1: we do it well and we uh progress with it,
Speaker 1: then we'll just keep doing it. And you're not doing
Speaker 1: it just for show. No, you're not going to do
Speaker 1: stuff just to be cute. No, you're doing it. There's
Speaker 1: meaning for every single play, whether it sets something later
Speaker 1: or it's designed to actually situationally make something happen. Yeah, Park,
Speaker 1: And with that it can confuse the defense. Anytime you
Speaker 1: make the defense talk and you make them communicate just
Speaker 1: one time. Now they got something has to happen. So
Speaker 1: it can be as simple as just moving the half
Speaker 1: back in the shotgun, moving him from the left side
Speaker 1: to the right side. And now the responsibilities of the
Speaker 1: MIC linebacker changes with the will linebacker or the Sam linebacker.
Speaker 1: So when you take it to another element and you
Speaker 1: start spreading out guys and doing different things that are
Speaker 1: a little bit unconventional, maybe they didn't prepare for that,
Speaker 1: and that's where I think there can be an advantage.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you don't want to get
Speaker 1: to the part to where we can't we don't know
Speaker 1: what we're doing because we're doing too much. That's the
Speaker 1: fine balance. And then in addition to that, the next
Speaker 1: opponent has to spend some time right as a good point. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, some people might want to say snark snarky
Speaker 1: can say, well, you know, is that really that much
Speaker 1: extra work? You as a coordinator, you as a guy
Speaker 1: trying to figure out that, Yeah it is, there's alms
Speaker 1: only so much time in a week. You're you're right on,
Speaker 1: and you do only have so many hours to prepare
Speaker 1: for so many different situations. So anything that you do
Speaker 1: that can give yourself an advantage, you know, whether they
Speaker 1: prepare for it or not, that's part of the chess
Speaker 1: match that that you have going on. And it's the
Speaker 1: same thing goes on the other side. So there's blitzes
Speaker 1: and stunts that they'll have that they'll have ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we just need to make sure that offensively, that
Speaker 1: your protection is nice and sound to be able to
Speaker 1: pick up almost anything. All right, Matt wrap it up
Speaker 1: with a sneak peek of the Seattle Seahawks and another
Speaker 1: quarterback that can make plays out of the pocket and
Speaker 1: loves to do that. He's off schedule and he's dangerous.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. He is one of the one of the
Speaker 1: best in the league extended plays and um, they're they're
Speaker 1: very well coached, they have a great mindset as a team,
Speaker 1: they're winners. Uh, they won't be intimidated by anybody or anything.
Speaker 1: So but but I think for us, the biggest thing, Jeff,
Speaker 1: is that we just focus on us. I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to worry about anybody else. We just go
Speaker 1: out there and we worry about us. We can troll,
Speaker 1: we can control, and then we just placed Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: football and we're creating our identity. Now that's not what
Speaker 1: you know. I think you saw glimpses of it yesterday.
Speaker 1: But once we put that thing together, I think you know,
Speaker 1: people will be really happy in our players and our
Speaker 1: coaches and everybody in our building is really striving for
Speaker 1: the right direction, and that's to win ball games. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Matt. All Right, we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next week. Good luck this week in your preparation. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, offensive coordinator Mark Helfreds will join the program
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and
Speaker 1: this hour featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge. Front to you
Speaker 1: by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Athletical Physical
Speaker 1: Therapy for Ryson and Miller Light. Once again the Voice
Speaker 1: of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni at hat Flin
Speaker 1: Dix thelone safety back Deep snap is back to Mitch Kubisky.
Speaker 1: Stanzy and art Is back going down the rank side
Speaker 1: up in the air pass piss cad Allan Robinson first
Speaker 1: down took Green Bay's thirty three yard line on Gayer
Speaker 1: Alexander the rookie out of Louisville. Alan Robinson with a
Speaker 1: grab there as he returns healthy to a NFL team,
Speaker 1: the Bears after three hundred and sixty four days or
Speaker 1: waiting after a week one third play acl Tare last
Speaker 1: year in Jacksonville. Welcome back to the Bears coach to
Speaker 1: show joined I by offensive court data Mark Helfrich, Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us. And that's the connection that everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to see, and that connection's brewing between Mitch and Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: it really is. We've seen their chemistry developed. That was
Speaker 1: a nice call there. We need to make a few
Speaker 1: more of those exciting moments happen. And you know, saw
Speaker 1: some glimpses and some you know, little shininess here and there,
Speaker 1: but just not enough consistency to overcome kind of the
Speaker 1: circumstances of the night. And did a lot of good
Speaker 1: things that we can build upon, but but certainly a bitter,
Speaker 1: bitter taste in our mouth at the end of it.
Speaker 1: Before we get further into that, just putting together the
Speaker 1: game plan for the first time for a regular season game.
Speaker 1: How much fun was it? Because you guys clearly have collaborated,
Speaker 1: you and Matt and the rest of the offensive staff,
Speaker 1: And I've been in that office of you know, that
Speaker 1: crazy grease board and it can make your head spin.
Speaker 1: M Is it fun to work with him? Is it
Speaker 1: fun to sit here and brainstorm and come up what
Speaker 1: everybody should be calling the Bears offense? Whatever the Bears
Speaker 1: offense is right, mature into It's not the Eagles, it's
Speaker 1: not the Chiefs, it's not Ohregan. It's a combination of
Speaker 1: whatever comes through your minds based on the tailored talent
Speaker 1: you have here on this. And you got to the
Speaker 1: probably the most important part of that at the end
Speaker 1: is who Who's who's executing the deal, who's running the show.
Speaker 1: And we have to constantly just just think through Mitch's
Speaker 1: head and through his eyes and how he processes things.
Speaker 1: And he saw a lot of things last night. He
Speaker 1: you know, he's certainly had a couple couple of things
Speaker 1: that he'll he'll kind of you know, their head knocking
Speaker 1: type of mistakes, like, oh, of course I should you know,
Speaker 1: should have done that Day one type things, but not
Speaker 1: very many, certainly not very many, but just managing the noise,
Speaker 1: managing to come back, uh, some of the things that
Speaker 1: we asked him to do. Check out the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: those those sorts of things. He handled him well. But no,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a lot of fun. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of that game, as as rough
Speaker 1: as it was, as hard as it is to lose,
Speaker 1: you know where you are, and you know, uh, player
Speaker 1: A can handle this, Player B can't. Player CE can
Speaker 1: do a little bit, maybe more than you thought. Player
Speaker 1: D can't. You know, just all those all those things
Speaker 1: that you're not you're not determining everyone's future at this point,
Speaker 1: but you certainly time you know everybody you started hearing,
Speaker 1: you see a complete documentary on it, every single player.
Speaker 1: But until you see them react in these situations, you
Speaker 1: really don't know. It'll be a learning price. It's that
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson line of right, everybody has a plan until
Speaker 1: they get in the face, and that that that we
Speaker 1: know what Mitchell Trubisky, We know how he responds when
Speaker 1: he gets hit in the face, and it's a good response.
Speaker 1: Some of these other guys, uh uh, you know, remain
Speaker 1: to be seen to a certain degree, but but you
Speaker 1: know a lot of return are positive. The Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and w bbm's Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniac continues from center. Trabisky play bait, sets up in
Speaker 1: the pocket, throwing right open Man Park half the thirty
Speaker 1: six of the Packers getting free Gabriel truck down. It's
Speaker 1: at the thirty yard land of Green Bay Bears. Around
Speaker 1: the move, Antonio Morrison, how the tackle Hey thirty one
Speaker 1: yard games and another one of them Bears New Weapons,
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel connecting with Mitch Trubiski and the lost last
Speaker 1: night to the Green Bay Packers. Here with offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Mark Helfridge on The Bears Coaches Show. The Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by Verizon.
Speaker 1: Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover the world of Bears
Speaker 1: football on and off the field every Sunday night at
Speaker 1: the eleven o five on Fox thirty two Chicago, or
Speaker 1: watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com. Around the Bears
Speaker 1: official app mark. There's all sorts of types of weapons,
Speaker 1: that you guys can choose to use and how you
Speaker 1: use them and Claire, we saw some of that. But
Speaker 1: the speed of Gabriel, speed at Cohen, the quickness of
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, the side of Alan Robinson, the size of
Speaker 1: your tight ends you got Kevin White, Um, the mix
Speaker 1: and match of this. It'll be a game to game
Speaker 1: matchup exploitation, correct, that's what you're looking for. We like
Speaker 1: that word. Yeah, yes, And you know that's one thing
Speaker 1: that there is only one ball, right and at some
Speaker 1: point they're gonna they're gonna adjust to somebody and that's
Speaker 1: where the other guy has to have the bigger night.
Speaker 1: And and it's just the way, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: the way it goes, uh, kind of the some of
Speaker 1: the things we do in the run game. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: might take away the running back. Other times they'll they'll
Speaker 1: take away that, you know, the other parts of the
Speaker 1: other facets of it. And so that's where uh, you know,
Speaker 1: again that plays through the quarterback and he just needs
Speaker 1: to make great common sense decisions in ron and in
Speaker 1: pass uh, and guys have to be great without the ball.
Speaker 1: We had some great instances of that last night of
Speaker 1: whatever it was, guys clearing you know, guys on clearing routes.
Speaker 1: We had guys great downfield blocks, Kyle Long and Cody
Speaker 1: I know, I know they're not skilled guys, but they're
Speaker 1: they're big skill guys for us, and they had a
Speaker 1: big finish on the long screen conversion. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: we also had sometimes where we didn't get the job done.
Speaker 1: We didn't block whatever it is well enough on the perimeter. Uh,
Speaker 1: and certainly some things inside that we need to clean up.
Speaker 1: And so again, like any game, win or lose, there's
Speaker 1: always those those things that you have to improve upon.
Speaker 1: That is a tough team to run on. Obviously those
Speaker 1: guys up front, but you still ran between the tackles.
Speaker 1: Even when you know a team is stout in that regard,
Speaker 1: you do have to try and puncture that, don't you
Speaker 1: Over the course of the game. You do, you do.
Speaker 1: It's just those body blow, body blow, body blow type
Speaker 1: of actions. Sometimes those set up and you just played
Speaker 1: the Taylor Gabriel big big game that was you know,
Speaker 1: off of play action play action situation and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep poking and prodden and one turns into
Speaker 1: a cutback for a big game. We had a couple
Speaker 1: of bounce outside uh from Tariq Um and then we
Speaker 1: had a few again in there that that our guys
Speaker 1: will watch on tape and go, man, what could have
Speaker 1: been type of situations. And that's where when as coaches
Speaker 1: own that and you know they as plays need to
Speaker 1: look just objectively and take it all in and improve everyone.
Speaker 1: I took a listen a little bit today and read
Speaker 1: some stuff. But everybody got all happy about Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: catching the ball, but because he had a couple of
Speaker 1: drops the last couple of years. But the guy worked
Speaker 1: at him. Man, he had five targets, five catches, and
Speaker 1: one year ago in the Atlanta game he dropped. One
Speaker 1: year the end zone. This year boom makes that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy who's put in the investment. He really has.
Speaker 1: I'm knocking I don't know if it's but I'm knocking
Speaker 1: on some some substance. But yeah, he has worked very hard.
Speaker 1: And Mitchell has really, uh, you know, grabbed him at
Speaker 1: every opportunity. I mean, you've you've been at a lot
Speaker 1: of practices. You've you've seen that where pulls him over
Speaker 1: and and just does drill work and he's the catcher
Speaker 1: and that that all those add up all those little
Speaker 1: just just seeing the ball hit your hands is a little,
Speaker 1: you know, mini confidence booster, and that's all it is
Speaker 1: for those guys. I mean, they have the physical skills
Speaker 1: and it's just a one percent confidence thing um And
Speaker 1: and you know, we don't know that other side of him,
Speaker 1: and so we're we're hoping to build on this one.
Speaker 1: You had an amazing running game in Oregon. Everyone wants
Speaker 1: to think it was and Matt you know, was in
Speaker 1: the offense that had the NFL's rushing leader last year.
Speaker 1: So it's still a major component of this offense, right. Definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely to be has to be and we have to
Speaker 1: be able to run a football better, you know, and
Speaker 1: certainly the most glaring situation in this game or two
Speaker 1: thirdin ones, that that we have to convert and that
Speaker 1: those are those are game changers, and that that again
Speaker 1: we have to you know, help them out schematically, we
Speaker 1: have to execute him better. But but absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: this division the quarterbacks were playing against, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to put a game away and you know
Speaker 1: that probably you know, looking back from the second quarter on,
Speaker 1: that's where you get into the to the second guessing
Speaker 1: game of shoulda would have coulda And but yeah, we
Speaker 1: we have to be able to run the ball efficiently
Speaker 1: and probably the most important thing we have to we
Speaker 1: have to run it when they know we're running it.
Speaker 1: When you put something on tape now in the regular season,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get a pretty good idea on what
Speaker 1: teams will try to attack, right in terms of your
Speaker 1: offense now for the most part, yeah, for the most part,
Speaker 1: And it always starts with the young quarterback trying to
Speaker 1: make is make him think as much as any other
Speaker 1: player on that team. Did the Packers make him think
Speaker 1: last night? They did. They did a lot of things
Speaker 1: that they've done in the past. Um maybe through the
Speaker 1: first half and the second half they they they tweaked
Speaker 1: a couple things, but it maybe did you know, things
Speaker 1: at a higher percentage. And they had before they brought
Speaker 1: one zone pressure that I think they were I think
Speaker 1: they were misaligned that they had never brought before. And
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's part of you know, probably through
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the season, even you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: see some you know, what we call unscouted looks. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see some some things that you've never seen before. Uh,
Speaker 1: And and that's where you just go back to your
Speaker 1: base rules and we give guys, you know, base base
Speaker 1: just kind of a little checklist of things to do,
Speaker 1: whether it's a protection or run scheme, and and go
Speaker 1: from there. What was going through your head as a
Speaker 1: coaching staff up until halftime, Well a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You know, our defense was playing just absolutely lights out
Speaker 1: and I think your equal parts excited about that, but
Speaker 1: also frustrated at kicking field goals and we had to
Speaker 1: We could have finished that game just right there, one
Speaker 1: play exactly. It could have been exactly from that first
Speaker 1: our second drive to the you know, end of the
Speaker 1: game on any face, no question, and we just kept talking.
Speaker 1: I was talking on the headset just foot on the gas,
Speaker 1: foot on the gas, foot on the gas, because you
Speaker 1: can't have that letdown of, Hey, the defense is playing great.
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Rodgers is out. There's a natural tendency
Speaker 1: to have a little lull, and we were talking about that.
Speaker 1: Everybody was conscious of that, and uh but just yeah,
Speaker 1: we did not you know, deliver the knockout blow when
Speaker 1: when we needed to. The Bears Coaches Show with head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears,
Speaker 1: News Radio seven eighty in one oh five point nine
Speaker 1: FM w BBM, and welcome back to the program. Here
Speaker 1: in our final moments with Mark Helfrich, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: Matteggie in just a moment and stop by the middle
Speaker 1: of light Chicago Bears Ultimate tail Gate to enjoy food,
Speaker 1: five dollars, midder, lights, music and games for every age.
Speaker 1: Located at the Field Museum Terrace. The Ultimate tail Gate
Speaker 1: free to enter and will We opened two hours before
Speaker 1: and one hour after every Bears regular season home game.
Speaker 1: All right, I touched on it. I'm sure you got
Speaker 1: a bit of a thrill as well. With a T
Speaker 1: formation play. It was, uh, you know, something we had
Speaker 1: talked about for a long time, but we didn't we
Speaker 1: didn't let out there and yeah, just kind of a
Speaker 1: little tip of the cap. We kept calling it that
Speaker 1: all along and it's pretty cool. Ended up with a
Speaker 1: decent gain and uh, a little little little throwback moment
Speaker 1: for maybe you you remember that, right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: It did. Catch me by surprise. And I was looking
Speaker 1: at like, Tom, that's a T formation and you know,
Speaker 1: I love the reasoning behind it, that that that that
Speaker 1: meant a lot to tom as a Bear who played
Speaker 1: played here for a decade and has done the games
Speaker 1: now for twenty years. So that was big. Um first
Speaker 1: fifteen when you know it's been that's a staple everybody does,
Speaker 1: you know, sift the first fifteen. And I was reading
Speaker 1: a quote from Clay Matthews and he was talking about
Speaker 1: the first fifteen and you know, they wanted to weather
Speaker 1: the storm and whatnot. But he used the term there
Speaker 1: was a lot of college stuff in there, with protections
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't know if it's a compliment or
Speaker 1: a criticism, but I don't know that football's football doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's playing in college in the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're getting young guys playing this game and spread offenses,
Speaker 1: and you're trying to speed up the process of those
Speaker 1: guys adapting to the NFL. Even if there's college stuff
Speaker 1: in there, what's the big deal? I mean, that's those
Speaker 1: are those are good things? Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't spanned in the game, right, I haven't. There was nothing. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know collegiate any element of that.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's things that certain we've done in
Speaker 1: the past, and there's things that that Matt has done
Speaker 1: in the past. Absolutely, and maybe in a few things
Speaker 1: are green based done in the past, but I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what he meant. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to put our guys in the best
Speaker 1: position to be successful and score touchdowns. And you guys,
Speaker 1: it's safe to say, barely scratched the surface on Sean
Speaker 1: what you have, especially in situational football. You have to
Speaker 1: eat every Yeah, yeah, I mean you just there's you
Speaker 1: haven't run that many place, right with all the other
Speaker 1: stuff that goes on third down, red zone, goal line.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're again, we're excited about where we're headed.
Speaker 1: And uh certainly would have liked to jump start that
Speaker 1: whole process with a huge win. But but our guys,
Speaker 1: I think are the right frame of mind. Mark, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining. I guess we'll be talking to you throughout
Speaker 1: this season and appreciate your time. Good luck you, Seattle,