Speaker 1: Welcome into the Bears Culture Show with head coach Matt Naggie,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Whippley CPASN Consultants. Jeff Joniac with
Speaker 1: you until eight o'clock tonight here on news radio one
Speaker 1: oh five nine w BBM. Coach Naggie with us until
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, and then we joined by
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Bill Laser. We talked Bears bucks and then
Speaker 1: preview San Francisco's visit next Sunday at noon at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: And even if Matt first and foremost, everybody wants to know,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling? Yeah? Good, Even Jeff, now I'm
Speaker 1: feeling good. Um, you know it's you know, you get
Speaker 1: you get up this morning and you get to news.
Speaker 1: It's obviously a shocker, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: And we've got a great staff of people to be
Speaker 1: able to help out and get calling. So that's where
Speaker 1: we're at us how we're handling it. Yes, this morning
Speaker 1: revealing a positive COVID test, so you're gonna be remote
Speaker 1: for a time. Yet another hurdle, huh about it? Yeah? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it is, it is. And for sure, I think in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, Jeff, we are certainly being tested.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. I do believe in the resiliency of
Speaker 1: who we are and everything and what we got to
Speaker 1: do it And this is just another hurdle for us
Speaker 1: to get over and I know we will and get
Speaker 1: back to that tape and look as to where we
Speaker 1: can get better from from the game yesterday. And um,
Speaker 1: and we got to fix it, and we gotta go
Speaker 1: out and we got to do it, and we gotta
Speaker 1: get back on the winning track. So you know, health
Speaker 1: is of a most concerned. So you know you sound
Speaker 1: a little stuffy. Uh, you still have the juice to
Speaker 1: keep grinding, or you're being a football coach or you're
Speaker 1: being smart. No, no, everything's yeah, We're good. And um,
Speaker 1: whenever you're coaching football, you can always have fun and
Speaker 1: you always uh you know, you get another opportunity to
Speaker 1: get back at it. And I think, um again, you know,
Speaker 1: the moments of being with the guys after the game
Speaker 1: and just seeing their seriousness to where we were and
Speaker 1: and and their care and you know, just just talking
Speaker 1: about pride and getting this thing back on track is
Speaker 1: is the only thing that we can do. So just
Speaker 1: the coaches that we have, the players that we have, UM,
Speaker 1: rallying around each other, supporting each other, and getting it
Speaker 1: right back on track. So two different places, taking me
Speaker 1: to both. One before the game Saturday night, because I
Speaker 1: know it's been discussed. You said the team got closer
Speaker 1: over the last couple of days for whatever reason that
Speaker 1: may be. Can can you share why and then take
Speaker 1: us after the game because the result obviously was not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd say two things that I think. Number one, you know,
Speaker 1: as I said this morning, Um, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things is as a as a leader, as a head coach,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to it's your job to
Speaker 1: be able to have a pulse to the team and
Speaker 1: where they're at. And you know, we've gone through a
Speaker 1: bunch of little things here there, um, whatever it is
Speaker 1: which all teams go through, and I think it's my
Speaker 1: job to make sure that when you when you feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity to be able to send
Speaker 1: a message to them, and not just for that game
Speaker 1: for yesterday, you know, but for for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year and how we handle things and how we
Speaker 1: do things and who we are. Let's not forget who
Speaker 1: we are as a team. Um. The results may not
Speaker 1: always be what we want them to be. Uh, and
Speaker 1: we understand that and what everybody wants them to be.
Speaker 1: But if we're real, we understand that we stick together
Speaker 1: and we're real, we don't run from um from failure.
Speaker 1: You know, we accept it and we we use it
Speaker 1: as adversity to make us get better. Everything is not
Speaker 1: always perfect, and how are we going to fix it? So? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the frustration that that that we all have
Speaker 1: is real and understandable. We get all that completely. The
Speaker 1: only way to fix it is to be more productive,
Speaker 1: which is going to help you win. And that's in
Speaker 1: all three phases. And if we do that and we
Speaker 1: win it, here's a lot of stuff and you know it.
Speaker 1: It's it's going through these times that you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to stay mentally strong more than anything. And
Speaker 1: that's what the challenges for this week. You know, the
Speaker 1: anticipation was it was going to take a monumental effort
Speaker 1: to win in Tampa against that team right now is
Speaker 1: as championship caliber as they are, and they're just they're
Speaker 1: on a roll. They've they've been on a role since
Speaker 1: late last season all the way through the playoffs. Was
Speaker 1: this almost could you describe as an anticipatory move by
Speaker 1: you to make sure everybody keeps their head. But you know,
Speaker 1: on Saturday night eight, this may not turn out the
Speaker 1: way we want. You're not saying you're giving up when
Speaker 1: you couldn't win, but you know there was a chance
Speaker 1: that this could happen. We're trying to like head something
Speaker 1: off of the pass right right. Probably the biggest thing
Speaker 1: was when when you talk, you know, everything that we've
Speaker 1: discussed about, how what our practice habits are, you know,
Speaker 1: what things that we do throughout the week, the little
Speaker 1: things um, just making sure we stay stay on all that,
Speaker 1: and then when you get to a point, you know,
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity every Saturday night before the game
Speaker 1: to be able to speak my message to the team
Speaker 1: and whatever that is. Sometimes it's offense, defense, special teams.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about the opponent we're playing, and other times
Speaker 1: it's it's a little more vocal or a little bit
Speaker 1: more impactful at the right time. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what the other the other night was was. Really Again,
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't directed so much just at that
Speaker 1: game that we played. It was it was directed more
Speaker 1: so about our team and our family moving forward and
Speaker 1: how We're going to do it regardless of the results.
Speaker 1: How how are we going to do it? Because we
Speaker 1: do know, um that the ebb and flow of the
Speaker 1: season and how it goes. And when when we won
Speaker 1: two games or two weeks ago, we were feeling really good,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden you lose two games,
Speaker 1: and so the only way to fix that is to
Speaker 1: get back and win that next game at home against
Speaker 1: the good football team with Sam Fran and then win
Speaker 1: another one and then get to the bye week and
Speaker 1: get back on track like everybody wants to with those
Speaker 1: bye weeks, get healthy and then make that run. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, for us, that was really the biggest message
Speaker 1: of it all. And I feel like the reason why
Speaker 1: I thought it was impactful is because I felt like
Speaker 1: he was well received, you know, and and now now
Speaker 1: we got to go out and do it this week.
Speaker 1: Interesting quote after the game from Justin Fields, because obviously
Speaker 1: the young man is not experienced stuff like this in
Speaker 1: his high school or college days. Blessed with great skill himself,
Speaker 1: he could lead his high school team, and he certainly
Speaker 1: let Ohio State and a great program like that, but
Speaker 1: he said he was asked how he felt and he says,
Speaker 1: it's not really anger. It's just like, I've never been
Speaker 1: in this position where I'm losing, so I don't know
Speaker 1: how to feel. How do you want him to feel? Well?
Speaker 1: You when he you know, when he makes a comment
Speaker 1: like that, you understand it because all his life he's
Speaker 1: been a winner and that's why he's so successful. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at a guy like Justin at at Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence as well, right, and another guy who tend to
Speaker 1: lose game many games in college and high school, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know that the NFL
Speaker 1: hits So really, I believe that. Again, as much as
Speaker 1: we all want to continue to see the growth physically
Speaker 1: on the field, there's the mental aspect of it too.
Speaker 1: As playing quarterback in the NFL, it's not easy. It
Speaker 1: is difficult. Every team is going to present you with
Speaker 1: a challenge every single week, not just for the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but for all for the offense, for the defense, for
Speaker 1: special teams, for the coaching staff, and you better be
Speaker 1: on your a game every every week. And so um,
Speaker 1: this is a great time for him to learn that.
Speaker 1: And and he's got to be able to voice how
Speaker 1: he feels. And then we all talk through how we
Speaker 1: you know, how can we all improve? How can we
Speaker 1: all get better? And the beautiful thing about Justin is
Speaker 1: he has that if factor. It's one of his greatest
Speaker 1: strengths is his ability to persevere. And that's something that
Speaker 1: either have it or you don't. He has it. We're
Speaker 1: lucky he has it, and we know he's you know,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna bounce back, snap, gonna flip it on
Speaker 1: the end around here to Herbert, but a nice block
Speaker 1: springs him thirty five, thirty cuts it up to the
Speaker 1: twenty five and standing up, he goes out of bounds.
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Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert gent sweep. Initially we mistakenly and the booth
Speaker 1: gave him rushing yards, but that was a past. But overall,
Speaker 1: what he's learning and you're learning about his running style
Speaker 1: and his adaptability over over these last three games and
Speaker 1: what he's expanded in his in his repertoire. Uh really
Speaker 1: is something. This is a great story just to talk
Speaker 1: about his day over on how the line blocked for
Speaker 1: him in the running game. Yeah, he's he's been really impressive.
Speaker 1: He's last several weeks. Uh. It's he's a guy that
Speaker 1: when you see him touch the football, Um, he kind
Speaker 1: of glides. He glides a little bit when he when
Speaker 1: he when he somebody comes to just try to arm
Speaker 1: tackle him or even just try to wrap. It's difficult
Speaker 1: because he's always moving and UM, it just kind of
Speaker 1: like they slide or bounce off of them, and you know,
Speaker 1: he also has that ability to just run through the
Speaker 1: arm tackle. So all that said, I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: impressive against the number one rush defense in the NFL
Speaker 1: for him to be able to put up a hundred
Speaker 1: yards in the old line to block the way they
Speaker 1: did alone with the tight ends and stuff. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's certainly a positive point for us that we want
Speaker 1: to grow off of. We don't want to lose sight
Speaker 1: of that within that game, even though it was difficult
Speaker 1: in so many ways. Um, we want to grow off
Speaker 1: of the positivity of that and that that's something that
Speaker 1: is good for us interesting in development. Right before the
Speaker 1: game obviously, and we did discuss this a little bit
Speaker 1: after the game with you. Uh in Tampa, Elijah Wilkinson
Speaker 1: removed from the starting lineup. Now it's Lachevia Simmons. Certainly,
Speaker 1: you know that you always tell these guys, okay, be
Speaker 1: ready to go. But the reality is, you know, is
Speaker 1: a shock to the system. This this is the way
Speaker 1: it is in the National Football League. So overall, how
Speaker 1: he handled it and then what Alex bars did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know you get that, you get that call
Speaker 1: in the morning and um, those are you know we've
Speaker 1: had those before in the past for other reasons, and
Speaker 1: that's a perfect example why you always got to be
Speaker 1: ready as a backup. And so um, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Pig came in there and and uh, you know he
Speaker 1: was able to come in on short notice and do
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. And you know, there there's
Speaker 1: a couple of times where just us collectively, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we weren't able to um, you know, to get some
Speaker 1: things done. But at the same point in time, his
Speaker 1: effort and his care and his wants to get better
Speaker 1: and he'll do that with with with Lachavis and then
Speaker 1: for Alex to be able to come in and help out,
Speaker 1: you know, he has a role within this offense. He's
Speaker 1: very versatile, and I thought he did a great job.
Speaker 1: So again, you know, these are part of what you
Speaker 1: go through, UH in every season, and we just got
Speaker 1: to be able to handle. Everyone's got to stay prepared,
Speaker 1: just just like right now with me in my situation,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone in the next man up mentality. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what your availability will be on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a day by day process, right, so yeah,
Speaker 1: day by day, Chris Tabor gets the baton for the moment, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, he's your chief lieutenant Matt. Before
Speaker 1: the game in our interview, I said, you know, do
Speaker 1: you feel like the passing game is developing to the
Speaker 1: point that you're knocking on the door? Did anything happen
Speaker 1: in the game that changes that thought for you? No,
Speaker 1: nothing happened other than just you know, they brought some
Speaker 1: some different blitzes, UM, where there's a communication process to
Speaker 1: be able to you know, move within the play, within
Speaker 1: the snap for us to get fixed and corrected. And
Speaker 1: we'll do that. But you know, we we got to
Speaker 1: be able to UH to make sure that the passing
Speaker 1: game grows and gets better and UM and then when
Speaker 1: you when you have that along with the run game,
Speaker 1: they'll complement each other really well. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: just going through the tape and just seeing where we're at, Um,
Speaker 1: you know what I think the biggest thing is is
Speaker 1: the start, you know, against the team like that in
Speaker 1: that football game. If you get behind twenty one and
Speaker 1: nothing against that team, it's it's trouble. So we got
Speaker 1: to be able to to make sure if we're going
Speaker 1: to take the ball, that we don't go three and out. Um,
Speaker 1: we need to get first downs at worst, you need
Speaker 1: to flip the field. Uh. And then of course you
Speaker 1: can't have the big punt return, and then you can't
Speaker 1: have a penalty on the first play on defense, and
Speaker 1: it kind of goes on and on to art. That's
Speaker 1: what we got to eliminate. We got we were a
Speaker 1: much better team when we start fast. And you know,
Speaker 1: for him, you know, I always get worried with young
Speaker 1: quarterbacks getting sacked a bunch, and right now he has
Speaker 1: been sacked the most times in the NFL, and it's
Speaker 1: coming at him swift and sometimes in some cases there's
Speaker 1: not much he can do other than try to get
Speaker 1: out of trouble. And that's just the reality of it all.
Speaker 1: Do you have to keep an eye on that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: we need to be very cognizant of that. And um
Speaker 1: and I feel like, especially after the Cleveland game, that
Speaker 1: we've been really good with trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: as much as we can, we're helping out. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's literally impossible to help out on every single play
Speaker 1: just for different reasons. But when you can help out,
Speaker 1: you need to do that. And that's okay. Um, we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that he's feeling good back there
Speaker 1: in the pocket, and and then whenever he has a progression,
Speaker 1: that he stays within the progression, that the balls out
Speaker 1: on time too, because there's a lot of different parts
Speaker 1: of taking sacks, right, whether it's hey, the defense covered
Speaker 1: it up, it was good by the defense and it
Speaker 1: wasn't a good play call, was that the ball was
Speaker 1: the ball out on time by the quarterback? Was there
Speaker 1: a miss block. There's so many things that go into
Speaker 1: that sack study. So we got to make sure that,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is, that we limit that so
Speaker 1: that we because those are negative yards, you can't have
Speaker 1: negative yards. You gotta stay ahead of the sticks, and
Speaker 1: then sometimes they can create turners and we don't want that.
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Speaker 1: Bears jersey. Final moments with Matteggie. All right, so we've
Speaker 1: been talking about tight ends for a while. Cool commet
Speaker 1: Jesse James Crack to Jesper Horstead in the end zone.
Speaker 1: That didn't result in the touchdown, but a good bid
Speaker 1: on trying to get one. So the tight end got involved.
Speaker 1: Is this a new floor to keep building one? For sure?
Speaker 1: You know some of the personnel that we're working with,
Speaker 1: you can see you saw some of that yesterday and again, um,
Speaker 1: we'll continue to grow. We want to be able to
Speaker 1: be multiple in our personnel packages with whatever that is,
Speaker 1: to be able to see where they're at as a
Speaker 1: defense and kind of go back and forth. And so
Speaker 1: yesterday happened to be a little bit heavier that in
Speaker 1: that side of it, and then again target wise too.
Speaker 1: So those guys have done a great job. We want
Speaker 1: to keep that going, yeah, you know, and they've also
Speaker 1: done a very nice job of blocking. Uh would you agree?
Speaker 1: So all these last few weeks, so you know, does
Speaker 1: this grow nown to maybe where you know, the defense
Speaker 1: is suspecting them in there as blockers as opposed to receivers,
Speaker 1: and then does that create opportunities for them in the
Speaker 1: passing game? Yeah, yeah, for sure. And you know, you
Speaker 1: get these guys that are out there and they're blocking,
Speaker 1: and that's where you see like the play actions or
Speaker 1: the movements. You know, Jesse James had had a naked
Speaker 1: yesterday where we bootlegged to them and threw them one
Speaker 1: in the flat and Coles had a couple and you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, we had the one faith to je
Speaker 1: Spur in the end zone. But it can help more
Speaker 1: so probably in the playashing game where we are running
Speaker 1: the ball well with the tight ends and so what
Speaker 1: we gotta schematically, you know, we gotta make sure tendency
Speaker 1: wise we're doing all right stuff. But they've definitely been
Speaker 1: more involved, all right, let's talk about the defense yesterday,
Speaker 1: and they had a real challenge on their hands obviously
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady and short fields. A couple of guys
Speaker 1: that deserve recognition. Obviously, DeAndre Houston Carson prove again his value,
Speaker 1: got involved in many different ways as starting safety, but
Speaker 1: finished with eleven tackles. He may not be the fastest,
Speaker 1: he may not be the biggest, but boy, he is
Speaker 1: smart and really knows what he's doing. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: great for Sean to be able to have him to
Speaker 1: use him in different packages. I think DHD has done
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job at really number one being such a
Speaker 1: leader on the special teams unit, but then number two
Speaker 1: being able to go out there and be productive, like
Speaker 1: you just said, on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So he's been doing it a while, he's savvy, had
Speaker 1: a big pick in that Raiders game, and then yesterday
Speaker 1: obviously played well too. So that's something that we want
Speaker 1: to keep going. And uh, you know, those guys are
Speaker 1: doing a great job, and a game like that without
Speaker 1: Hickson Quinn, you feel their absence. But how did you
Speaker 1: think overall, given the scenarios that they did over all
Speaker 1: the defense? Yeah, I thought, well, I started with their practices.
Speaker 1: I thought the guys had a great week of practice,
Speaker 1: and um, you know there there were some times there
Speaker 1: where they were getting some chunks, uh in the second
Speaker 1: part of the third and fourth quarter. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: just we knew going into but it was gonna be
Speaker 1: very difficult to try to get pressure on Tom. He
Speaker 1: gets the ball fast and he really you talk about
Speaker 1: timing with your feet, I mean that that's a that's
Speaker 1: a five hits throw type throw on every play, whether
Speaker 1: it's play action, whether it's dropped back, that balls out
Speaker 1: and he's not going to really let you get touched
Speaker 1: too often. So when you do get opportunity, you got
Speaker 1: to hit them. Um. But then once they got that lead,
Speaker 1: they were really able to get that run game going
Speaker 1: to do some different things. And but I was proud
Speaker 1: of our defense with those as you know, as minute
Speaker 1: as it can sound um to us, the fact that
Speaker 1: they um were able to hold them on that fourth
Speaker 1: and inches, fourth and one and fought twice down there
Speaker 1: in the goal line. Uh that that's that speaks to
Speaker 1: who they are and we got to be able to
Speaker 1: use that moving forward. You made a passionate plea this
Speaker 1: morning in your news conference with with the media for
Speaker 1: points and it's all about points right now, do you
Speaker 1: feel that you and your staff will find those pathways
Speaker 1: to points? Yeah? I do, I do, And and uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's not just it's it's gonna be all of
Speaker 1: us doing it together. And UM, trust me, they're they're
Speaker 1: all grinding a way right now, trying to find these
Speaker 1: answers with the players and and and making sure that um,
Speaker 1: you know, there there's some in my opinion, you know,
Speaker 1: when when you have you know, these coaching um ideas
Speaker 1: and thought and suggestions from the players too. When you
Speaker 1: go through all this, you want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're honest when you go through it all too. So
Speaker 1: if there's any opportunities within the game that should have
Speaker 1: been made, then you know, we bring that out. And
Speaker 1: if it is execution, we bring that out. So when
Speaker 1: you get an opportunity to make a play, you make
Speaker 1: the play. When we get an opportunity to call a
Speaker 1: play at a certain time, you got to make that
Speaker 1: play call. So that's kind of um that emphasis and
Speaker 1: when we do that, uh, you know we can we
Speaker 1: have the ability to be really special. And so we
Speaker 1: just got to go out. We got to do a
Speaker 1: great week of practice and uh and see where it goes.
Speaker 1: All right, final thirty seconds, you're gonna get an angry
Speaker 1: bunch of Niners. They've lost four in a row, so
Speaker 1: we know what that's like and backs against the wall,
Speaker 1: the whole every cliche of the book when they come
Speaker 1: to town. Yeah, well, you know, another another team that
Speaker 1: has had a lot of success over the years, and
Speaker 1: they're really well coached, and you know, they work through
Speaker 1: the run game and the play actions, and they got
Speaker 1: a fast defense that flies around. You know, they had
Speaker 1: a big game last night. You know, some weather versus
Speaker 1: the Colts. So um. You know, again, every one of
Speaker 1: these games the NFL, you can throw the records out
Speaker 1: the window. They all matter and they all are tough.
Speaker 1: So we got to make sure that we come out
Speaker 1: and just play our game. I appreciate it, Matt feel
Speaker 1: better and knock on what everything goes well. You'll be
Speaker 1: back on the sidelines on Sunday at Soldier Field. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jeff. Take care of Sunday's game against the San
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Speaker 1: Bears offensive coordinator Bill Laser, Bill, good evening, are you
Speaker 1: doing and a lot to break down, obviously for a
Speaker 1: game like this, especially for a rookie quarterback. What did
Speaker 1: you see on tape? And let's start with that In
Speaker 1: terms of breaking this one down, Well, I think I
Speaker 1: think that the way the game started, you know, it
Speaker 1: was disappointing when you when we prepare how the early
Speaker 1: players are going to go, and obviously we got off
Speaker 1: to a rough start that first drive. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you think, well, the momentum matters or doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But I think I think part of the deal for
Speaker 1: us is when you do get off to that kind
Speaker 1: of start, thing, we've got to get momentum changed, and
Speaker 1: obviously took it took us a while really to get
Speaker 1: much going. So with the five turnovers, obviously, uh, those
Speaker 1: are are gonna sting and give short fields to the opposition,
Speaker 1: But overall, I mean it's a team thing there with
Speaker 1: those turnovers, it's just not just in committing them. Uh
Speaker 1: what what kind of conversation did you have with them
Speaker 1: throughout the game because he is a calm guy and
Speaker 1: so are you. He appreciates that. And then what's your
Speaker 1: postgame conversation like with him to just to keep his
Speaker 1: confidence up even though he might tell you he's confident.
Speaker 1: We're all human here, you know what I'm saying? Absolutely? Absolutely, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think I think the big thing is the big
Speaker 1: picture of Okay, you know, most most games, or I
Speaker 1: guess all games are going to have some good and
Speaker 1: some bad. We'd all like to have those games like
Speaker 1: we've seen him have more. There's more good than bad.
Speaker 1: But when you come out of them, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: it level. You gotta just keep the attitude. Well, if
Speaker 1: we learn from the bad, then it's really not bad
Speaker 1: because in the big picture, it's gonna it's gonna help us.
Speaker 1: And I think when you talk about committing five turnovers
Speaker 1: as an offense, you probably have a very small chance
Speaker 1: of ever winning a game in the NFL that way,
Speaker 1: and certainly the plan against the team with a good record,
Speaker 1: so you just make it really hard on yourself. So
Speaker 1: we have to look at where it was a scheme issue,
Speaker 1: where it was just a technique issue, where it was
Speaker 1: you know, most of those turnovers it's more than one
Speaker 1: thing that leads to it, right, And the heaviest responsibility
Speaker 1: is always on the guy with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what Justin is for most players in
Speaker 1: the game. And I think he understands that, and so
Speaker 1: the bar set really high. And the great thing about him,
Speaker 1: the competitor he is, is he's ready to answer that call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said as much after the game yesterday, you know,
Speaker 1: basically saying just that. So he says he's never gonna
Speaker 1: stop stop working or anything like that. And that would
Speaker 1: be an assumed thing as a young player in terms
Speaker 1: of where he's positioned on the road in that kind
Speaker 1: of environment like Cleveland, when things aren't going well and
Speaker 1: it is loud and it's it's a situation where if
Speaker 1: he's in the gun and you guys have your cadence,
Speaker 1: is there anything with his positioning under center versus shotgun
Speaker 1: that maybe get the appearance the defense is not going
Speaker 1: to be timing up the rhythm of the account by
Speaker 1: what you're doing with James Daniels and the signal. And
Speaker 1: it just seemed like Shaq Barrett was off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage in a in a moment's notice. Well, he
Speaker 1: let's say this going even going into the game, we
Speaker 1: knew the check was good at that we knew that
Speaker 1: he has great get off. I mean a lot is
Speaker 1: said about whether teams have a home field advantage or not,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot had been talked about earlier
Speaker 1: this year about did it really make a big difference. Well,
Speaker 1: that's probably the one biggest area, especially for the offense,
Speaker 1: where where a home field advantage makes a difference. Which
Speaker 1: is allowed allowed stadium, you know, and just to get
Speaker 1: off of your line, and if if you're tackles and
Speaker 1: tight ends the guys who are furthest away from the ball,
Speaker 1: if they're just not totally on top of it as
Speaker 1: far as timing up the whole mechanics and making sure
Speaker 1: they get off, it puts you at a disadvantage. But
Speaker 1: we knew going in. You could see on tape fifty
Speaker 1: eight and how how he does a great job getting
Speaker 1: a jump, and um, we have our changeups to the cadence,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to think that we did a good
Speaker 1: job using them. But when you watch the tape, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't can't say that that fifty eight wasn't still
Speaker 1: going probably, you know reality, he probably is willing to
Speaker 1: give up a off size penalty or two to get
Speaker 1: to get that job. A quick snap from center on
Speaker 1: a handoff left, here's Herbert hits the gas thirty yard
Speaker 1: line through a whole thirty five forty forty five keep
Speaker 1: us turning to midfield, moves the pile all the way
Speaker 1: down to the forty five yard line. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bears coaches show. Join I guess offensive coordinator Bill Lazier,
Speaker 1: And if you're attending Sunday's game, be sure to stop
Speaker 1: by the Miller Light Ultimate tail Gate, located at the
Speaker 1: Field Museum for food, games, music, and more. Free to
Speaker 1: Bears fans of all ages. The Ultimate tail Gate open
Speaker 1: at ten am through one hour post game. Just here
Speaker 1: to highlight of Khalil Herbert. You know, I can't even
Speaker 1: say it surprises us anymore because you guys scouted him,
Speaker 1: the college and Pro department looked at him, you guys
Speaker 1: drafted him in the sixth round. But is there still
Speaker 1: some impressiveness here about what Khalil is doing? Because I
Speaker 1: think yesterday again, I don't know what the yards you
Speaker 1: have to contacted of the hundred yards I bet three
Speaker 1: quarters of it might have been after contact, broken tackles,
Speaker 1: not a surprise, but it's still impressive. And is this
Speaker 1: earning him and opening up more opportunities even when you
Speaker 1: get David Montgomery back up and running well, I think
Speaker 1: you're the way you put it was great that that's
Speaker 1: not a surprise now, but still impressive and for a
Speaker 1: first year player, for a rookie to just handle the
Speaker 1: game week, how he does, to handle game day, how
Speaker 1: he does trying. Khalil's trying really hard to be a
Speaker 1: complete player, you know, to do his part both not
Speaker 1: only running the football, getting some plays in space and
Speaker 1: making big plays and having plays in tight quarters and
Speaker 1: being a physical runner, but also in past protection and
Speaker 1: just all the different things that are an NFL back
Speaker 1: needs to do. So I think what's impressive is how
Speaker 1: he's he has quickly become a very well rounded player.
Speaker 1: And I cut off five of his targets yesterday too.
Speaker 1: I know, I've I've spoken to him as well. He's
Speaker 1: trying to work really hard on that aspect of his game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now he's doing he's doing. He's doing great. And you know,
Speaker 1: when when injuries happen, one of the things that you
Speaker 1: have to be real careful of I think in this
Speaker 1: league because you know, the frontline players get get such attention, right,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of the nature of having a professional league,
Speaker 1: and so when you lose them, it is certainly something
Speaker 1: that you feel. I'm not just talking about David, I'm
Speaker 1: just talking in general in the NFL. But we have
Speaker 1: to be careful is we have to make sure we
Speaker 1: maintain a really high standard of expectations for the guys
Speaker 1: who come in because over the course of the season
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. But this is the standard that
Speaker 1: we expect Bears players to play out on offense. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't drop because the starters out or the first
Speaker 1: and second stream backs are out right, this is this
Speaker 1: is still what we expect to play winning football. And
Speaker 1: I think Khalil's really taken to that, you know, and
Speaker 1: no one, no one's making excuses for him because he's
Speaker 1: a rookie, because he hasn't played much. Just we'll keep
Speaker 1: our standard high, and he's answering the belt. So when
Speaker 1: you find out Elijah Wilkinson is not going to be
Speaker 1: able to play, and you go to Lachivias Simmons, you
Speaker 1: could have gone to Alex bars he's in the heavy package.
Speaker 1: I mean, is this to keep your plan in place
Speaker 1: or this was Lachevius's turn to get up there? And
Speaker 1: how did that process all work for you in terms
Speaker 1: of what plays you had to start the game the
Speaker 1: first fifteen Well, Lachevius had played for US in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He'd spent a lot of time out there at tackle,
Speaker 1: and you know, we had felt like he played well
Speaker 1: enough that we felt good about it going in obviously
Speaker 1: had some rough rough time. Certainly, moving Alex to that
Speaker 1: spot does limit you in some of the packages that
Speaker 1: have been successful for us the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: with Alex coming in as an extra tight end, So
Speaker 1: all of those things get balanced, and you know, players,
Speaker 1: players get opportunities, and no rough outing should be a
Speaker 1: fatal outing, you know, I mean, and I think guys
Speaker 1: gaining experience and they go and there's nothing like playing
Speaker 1: an NFL game on the road as an offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just you can't really prepare for. You
Speaker 1: can play loud music at practice, but it's just not
Speaker 1: the same. And so the Chavis will learn from whatever
Speaker 1: mistakes he made, and we believe in him and what
Speaker 1: his ability is so he'll get better, he'll keep going.
Speaker 1: How did you think Alex did after that? I thought
Speaker 1: Alex defined. There were a couple of times probably where
Speaker 1: the sets that you take as a tackle maybe are
Speaker 1: a little bit different. We were playing formidable guys on
Speaker 1: the edge. Obviously he's are proven productive players. So Alex
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect. But the thing we've learned about Alex bars
Speaker 1: is whatever he's called upon for, he's going to be
Speaker 1: ready to step up and do it. And so I
Speaker 1: thought it was a solid outing from him, especially without
Speaker 1: being prepared for it. And uh, you know, could couldn't
Speaker 1: couldn't be prouder of it. We know what we have
Speaker 1: in Alex. He proved it last year when he came
Speaker 1: in as a starter at center, at that guard. Now
Speaker 1: he's played at tackle, he's played extra tight end. Getting
Speaker 1: the guy's just he's just he'll do anything we ask
Speaker 1: and we get us all all the time. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bear's Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Bill Laser.
Speaker 1: We'll look ahead to the forty nine ers in just
Speaker 1: a moment. You know, the interesting thing about play calling is,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you have what you have in front
Speaker 1: of you, but when you're down twenty one right away
Speaker 1: or down there? I mean, does everything go out the
Speaker 1: window or how do you recalibrate as a play call? Well,
Speaker 1: I think over time you learn not to not to
Speaker 1: panic and not to react too quickly. Certainly twenty one.
Speaker 1: Nothing is not fun when you're behind. But you you'd
Speaker 1: like to think, Hey, if we believed in the run
Speaker 1: game coming in here as being part of what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, maybe it's not the same as if the
Speaker 1: score was three three, but we can still keep that
Speaker 1: as part of what we're doing. The thing you don't
Speaker 1: want to do is become one dimensional. I think the
Speaker 1: way the rules are set on offense in football in
Speaker 1: the NFL today, the offense has a lot of advantages
Speaker 1: over the defense. The time when you lose your advantage
Speaker 1: offensively is when the defense knows what you're doing. If
Speaker 1: they know you're running the ball at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, or on fourth and one, if they know
Speaker 1: you're throwing the ball at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: if they know you're throwing the ball on third and fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the times when it kind of
Speaker 1: goes back to advantage defense. And so even though you're
Speaker 1: down twenty one nothing early. You don't want to give
Speaker 1: them the advantage of knowing that we're going to throw
Speaker 1: in every single play, and it's it's not a good situation.
Speaker 1: So we tried to maintain some balance. Obviously, when you
Speaker 1: look at how it went, three points not very good.
Speaker 1: So maybe the ballot, maybe keeping balance actually didn't help us,
Speaker 1: you know, And you gotta just have to be honest
Speaker 1: about that too. I mean, when the score gets through
Speaker 1: certain points, sometimes it is time to change the plans.
Speaker 1: But in the midst of the game, you react to
Speaker 1: not only the score of the game, but also how
Speaker 1: are we doing run in the football, how are we
Speaker 1: doing pass protecting, how are we doing getting open and
Speaker 1: all those all those things factored together. That's why you
Speaker 1: have a big call sheet, because sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: have to move off the mark and adjust. Now it's
Speaker 1: time to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers,
Speaker 1: the official sports book partner of the Bears. Before last
Speaker 1: night's three takeaways in a bad weather game in the
Speaker 1: rain in San Francisco, the forty nine ers only had
Speaker 1: two takeaways now five on this season. So let's begin.
Speaker 1: Their new defensive coordinator, Damiko Ryan's not that far removed
Speaker 1: from being an outstanding player and a former linebacker, replacing
Speaker 1: now Jets head coach Robert Sala from your early look
Speaker 1: at the forty nine ers. Is he maintaining a similar
Speaker 1: scheme or is he putting his own rink on it
Speaker 1: or this is a complete unknown as a coordinator obviously, Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think there are enough there's enough video
Speaker 1: now to know what they're doing. We knew who a
Speaker 1: lot of these players were before now, but you know,
Speaker 1: you can see them on tape and they have some
Speaker 1: really really good players, which is which has brought them
Speaker 1: success defensively in the past, and we'll continue to I
Speaker 1: do think there is a little unknown when you're talking
Speaker 1: about a new defensive coordinator, just when it comes to
Speaker 1: situational things. There will only be so many red zone
Speaker 1: snaps of him calling the defense and you can say, well,
Speaker 1: it's it's some of the same red zone schemes as
Speaker 1: last year. But the coordinator is going to develop his
Speaker 1: own personality, how aggressive he wants to be into game situations,
Speaker 1: fourth bound calls, all those things, and so there will
Speaker 1: be a little bit of unknown with a smaller book,
Speaker 1: so to speak, on this coordinator than on some others,
Speaker 1: but I think we'll probably start the week focused on
Speaker 1: they're really good players, which we know they have, especially
Speaker 1: in the front. You know, they've got some really good
Speaker 1: football players starting there at Nick Bossa, Eric Armstead, Fred Warner.
Speaker 1: That's enough to worry about right there. That's an easy
Speaker 1: list to me, Yes, hard list to block, yes, indeed. Well,
Speaker 1: good luck with your preparation looking for the bounce back.
Speaker 1: I know you guys will be excited to hit the
Speaker 1: practice field this week, and thanks as always for your time. Great,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. That's gonna do it. For tonight's show,
Speaker 1: I want to thank Bears head coach Matneggie An offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Bill Lazier. Of course, our producers Jordan Trudup, Keith
Speaker 1: Johnson and Andy Gersher will come to you from Soldier
Speaker 1: Field for a noon kickoff against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Our pregame gets underway at nine and again the kickoff
Speaker 1: at noon from Soldier Field. Thanks for listening, everybody. This
Speaker 1: is News Radio one oh five nine DBBM. Good night, everybody.