Speaker 1: Happy victory Monday, everybody, as we kick off the Bears
Speaker 1: coaching show this evening with head coach Matt Negg. He
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Speaker 1: the program at the bottom of the hour, a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Sean Desai joined with a guy that's probably bouncing
Speaker 1: off the walls thrilled about his defense's performance is scintillating.
Speaker 1: Twenty to seventeen went over the Bengals Matt one and
Speaker 1: one off to Cleveland for Week three. We got we
Speaker 1: gotta talk about that defense right out of the gate
Speaker 1: and Sean himself, Yeah, they were. They were awesome, Jeff.
Speaker 1: It was that's the defense that we know. And they
Speaker 1: were flying around, they were having fun. They were just
Speaker 1: you know, doing what they did all week in practice
Speaker 1: to go, you know, and forced a punt and then
Speaker 1: four downs and then another punt in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then to have that turnover fest that they had
Speaker 1: where they had the fumble recovery, the force fumble and
Speaker 1: then the three picks in a row. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's ever happened with the linebacker, D line and
Speaker 1: dB all getting an interception in this you know in
Speaker 1: one game. Well, I got my best man on the job,
Speaker 1: our thirty six year statistician, Doug COLLETTI will we'll do
Speaker 1: the math on that one. I was searching as well.
Speaker 1: I thought of eighty five. The eighty five Bears certainly
Speaker 1: had a game where everybody had their hand in something.
Speaker 1: But the d Linement angle is the tough one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love love his defense. Uh well, we're gonna find
Speaker 1: that out. But that but that does speak to a
Speaker 1: larger discussion about the defense because as these plays, these
Speaker 1: impression plays were being made throughout the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: the roster was checking boxes. It was a whole unit.
Speaker 1: Like you said, they were swarming. And I the first thing,
Speaker 1: and I may even said this in the broadcast, because
Speaker 1: it really was like a hornet's nest stirred up. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. And that's what I loved about it was
Speaker 1: they went out and they did it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I keep talking about practice, and I just gotta credit
Speaker 1: the coaches, and I gotta credit to the guys there
Speaker 1: in practice that when you do that in practice, you
Speaker 1: do it in the game, and they did it and
Speaker 1: and you felt it. And to get those turnovers, and
Speaker 1: we could have taken advantage of the short field that
Speaker 1: we had on offense. And I'm sure we'll talk about that,
Speaker 1: but you know, these guys, they came out and they
Speaker 1: have fun, they had swagged, they got they turned, they
Speaker 1: got the football from them. We wanted the turnover battle.
Speaker 1: We hit their quarterback, we stopped the run game, and
Speaker 1: we won the game. You know, you like the way
Speaker 1: practices typically goal but deep down in your heart, do
Speaker 1: you know some weeks just just wasn't the best and
Speaker 1: it showed on Sunday. Well, I think that's it's very
Speaker 1: normal to at times like you just always we all
Speaker 1: have to check each other right, and it's it's my
Speaker 1: job as a coach, it's our job as coaches to
Speaker 1: make sure that we stay on those guys and and
Speaker 1: that we watched the film and we see where we're at.
Speaker 1: And so those guys practice, they practice hard a lot,
Speaker 1: but we just wanted to emphasize it and then they
Speaker 1: saw the results. Can't get into scheme. We won't get
Speaker 1: in it with Sean later either, because but but a
Speaker 1: lot of it was present, prevalent, and you could see it,
Speaker 1: a lot of mixes and coverages, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of things happening on the defense At times. I
Speaker 1: was trying to stay on top of it myself. Where's
Speaker 1: every buddy winding up at the snap? And that clearly
Speaker 1: is something that Sean has gotten his wheelhouse right now.
Speaker 1: I think he made a great adjustment. I think he
Speaker 1: did some different things with the players in that front seven,
Speaker 1: and it makes it hard on a quarterback when you
Speaker 1: have moving parts, and we did that, and then the
Speaker 1: guys got to go make plays, and the guys make plays.
Speaker 1: So it was a great combination of scheme, a great
Speaker 1: combination of execution by the players, and they put it
Speaker 1: together and they had a lot of fun. Bears head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Neage here on the Bears Coaches Show. It's
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight, let's talk roal Kuan Smith, because I
Speaker 1: gotta give it to you. You've been talking about it
Speaker 1: since the offseason program where his star is rising and
Speaker 1: the players are starting to add up now and this
Speaker 1: is a guy that was around the entire offseason. I
Speaker 1: really believe he loves the building. He loves being there,
Speaker 1: he loves being in Chicago. Berry loves this city. And
Speaker 1: now I think that's a guy who's now hitting a
Speaker 1: real comfort zone in his mature and where he's at
Speaker 1: as a rising player in this league, no doubt. And
Speaker 1: you know more than anybody, this city and the history
Speaker 1: that we've had with defense and middle linebackers, and when
Speaker 1: you have these middle linebackers that come and play on
Speaker 1: these great defenses, he can definitely carry the torch for them.
Speaker 1: And he's he's special now. He is really really growing
Speaker 1: into an unbelievable player. And when when you make a
Speaker 1: play like that and you just putting, you intercept the football,
Speaker 1: but then you make a running back miss run down
Speaker 1: the sideline, you got help with your buddies down the sideline,
Speaker 1: you turn it into a touchdown. Those are special plays.
Speaker 1: Those are game changing plays. And that's why he's here.
Speaker 1: He's worked hard to get to this point. He's really
Speaker 1: helping us out. Oh as Sean later in the hour
Speaker 1: about this, But if you were to analyze that play,
Speaker 1: say you were in the booth, okay, and you were
Speaker 1: on television as as a Bear's analyst, you were doing
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer's job breaking down that highlight. To me, the
Speaker 1: best part of the whole thing. Yes, he caught the football,
Speaker 1: but that first step he had full worker. But David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: they're getting past Joe Mixon. That was immediate reaction. Boom.
Speaker 1: It was instinctive right right. That to me was the
Speaker 1: best part of the whole thing, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Number One, he caught the ball right because a lot
Speaker 1: of these defensive guys they can't catch. So he called
Speaker 1: he caught the ball. Number one. And then number two
Speaker 1: he was fleet. He was like like he used to
Speaker 1: have fleet of feet there where he was able to
Speaker 1: make Joe Mixon miss. And then then he started bursting
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, he felt like he
Speaker 1: was back there in high school with that ball in
Speaker 1: the left hand and running down the sideline with his
Speaker 1: guys blocking for him, and he scored a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: it was awesome. See that's it right there. Left hand
Speaker 1: is I didn't even evaluate that part because Burrow wasn't
Speaker 1: going with the tackle. He's going for the strip. So
Speaker 1: that was critical right there. Outstanding played front to back
Speaker 1: to me. That's like the guy, the power hitting power
Speaker 1: hitter in baseball hitting a Grand Slam and now everybody's
Speaker 1: juiced up because the defense played furious after that. All Right,
Speaker 1: what's the latest on Andy Dalton and if healthy, will
Speaker 1: he the starter this week against Cleveland Brunch. Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So you know, we're still working through the results of
Speaker 1: where he's at this morning with the MRI and all
Speaker 1: of that, and you know, he really toughed it out yesterday.
Speaker 1: I know he's a little bit sore um and so
Speaker 1: we'll see you no more tonight. If he is healthy,
Speaker 1: he will be the starter. But you know, well, well
Speaker 1: we'll work through all that and get more results later
Speaker 1: on tonight. That drive although aided as well by an
Speaker 1: Eli Apple penalty, which that counts to me as a
Speaker 1: big pass play. Uh that that was the play that
Speaker 1: basically in the end gave you the lead you never
Speaker 1: gave up. So the critical aspect of that to start
Speaker 1: fast is what you and I talked about in the
Speaker 1: pregame show, was something you really needed and it really
Speaker 1: set the tone for the whole day. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good point, and you know that that was really good
Speaker 1: for our offense to have a tem play drive. And
Speaker 1: here here's so if you keep it really simple and
Speaker 1: you say, okay, that first drive versus every other drive
Speaker 1: that you had, because because Jeff the very new drive,
Speaker 1: we had a fifteen play drive there resulted in zero points.
Speaker 1: So that first the first drive, we had ten plays,
Speaker 1: we got a touchdown, no penalties, three for three on
Speaker 1: third down, one for one in the red zone. We
Speaker 1: had a ten yard play, a seventeen yard play, a
Speaker 1: thirty two yard play, and an eleven yard play within
Speaker 1: those ten plays. And so that's good football. And then
Speaker 1: we had the fifteen play and you know, we had
Speaker 1: penalties and we had some stuff called back. That that's
Speaker 1: the difference to the rest of the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: Snap his back for man Rush Dalton to throw conviction prow.
Speaker 1: I'm a post Ellen Robinson touchdown, touchdown Bears. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: touchdown catch the fortieth in his career. Andy Dalton's throw
Speaker 1: in the highlight. You hear me say I mean, I
Speaker 1: just couldn't help myself. He's getting rid of the ball,
Speaker 1: and I said, a convicted throw, that's what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly the way to describe that, right, it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great throw. And you know down in
Speaker 1: the red zone down there, there's traffic throws and not
Speaker 1: every play is wide open, so you gotta gotta be
Speaker 1: on time, you gotta be in rhythm, and then you
Speaker 1: got to have a contested catch, and that we had.
Speaker 1: All that happened. We had protection and he made a
Speaker 1: good decision, made a good throw on time, and then
Speaker 1: a Rob made a heck of the catch and he's
Speaker 1: probably pulling his hair out on an absolute beautiful strike
Speaker 1: from justin field to the end zone later on in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, you know, it's all these years we've
Speaker 1: been here with a Rob and you don't see that
Speaker 1: very often, you know, and we get we get spoiled.
Speaker 1: But every now and then you'll you'll have that, and
Speaker 1: I know him more than anybody would want that back
Speaker 1: with at the same point in time, We'll never stop
Speaker 1: throwing those to him because he's a special player. He
Speaker 1: once led this league in touchdown reception. So that's certainly
Speaker 1: something he's capable of doing. Let's talk David Montgomery's day.
Speaker 1: I think you knew and everybody watching that Bengals defense
Speaker 1: against Dalvin Cook and the Minnesota Vikings. They've loaded up.
Speaker 1: They've loaded up on size two, three and fifty pounders
Speaker 1: in there and a very active Larry Ogan job. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna be easy running the ball up the
Speaker 1: middle on these guys, and that proved to be the case. However,
Speaker 1: once again, this young man got I think he had
Speaker 1: forty four yards after contact. And it wasn't big chunks
Speaker 1: of yards. This was grinding. This was a grinding running game.
Speaker 1: It was, and that David's built for that. He makes
Speaker 1: guys miss. He has great contact balance, and so I
Speaker 1: really appreciate all those yards after contact because they do
Speaker 1: make it hard, and they went out and made it.
Speaker 1: They had a big emphasis on changing up some of
Speaker 1: their D line from last year and they're going to
Speaker 1: stop the run, so that that was challenging for us,
Speaker 1: but we were able to still have those attempts. Frankly,
Speaker 1: it's a great precursor for what is the AFC North.
Speaker 1: I mean, those teams are built that way. Baltimore, the
Speaker 1: same Cleveland now the same Cincinnati, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: So those are all opponents coming up on your schedule.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the offensive line. And I gotta
Speaker 1: give a tip of the cap to Jason Peters. Man.
Speaker 1: That's a p that's a pro. Left the game last week,
Speaker 1: comes back, plays the full game in the heat. No doubt.
Speaker 1: He's a special player, even at thirty nine years old.
Speaker 1: He's somebody that he speaks volumes to these guys on
Speaker 1: the offensive line into our offense in general of being
Speaker 1: able to tough it out. That was huge for us
Speaker 1: to be able to get him in that game. And
Speaker 1: I thought he did a great job. All right, let's
Speaker 1: say some time here for your rookie quarterback justin fields,
Speaker 1: no kidding, you know, gotta be ready at any moment.
Speaker 1: That certainly was the case for him. Some good things,
Speaker 1: some things need work at what you would expect from
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback without a week of prep. Break it
Speaker 1: all down for us, and how you looked at it, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he did. He did a really good job coming on
Speaker 1: in in that situation. And you know, for me just
Speaker 1: getting the plays into him and him being able to
Speaker 1: get in and out of the huddle. You guys know,
Speaker 1: we talked about it in a training camp. We talked
Speaker 1: about in no tas that that can be a starting
Speaker 1: point for him to get good at and he's done that.
Speaker 1: Now the next part is now making the play work.
Speaker 1: And so what a great time for him to be
Speaker 1: able to see some defenses and make some plays and
Speaker 1: and there's some learning experiences in there that that were
Speaker 1: he's going to learn from and we're all going to
Speaker 1: learn from. But he definitely got better. Nothing can surprise
Speaker 1: him at this point. He's been so you know, raised
Speaker 1: to be this, you know, right from high school. But
Speaker 1: in conversation you had with him maybe today or last night,
Speaker 1: how was he feeling about it? Though? Yeah, that's probably
Speaker 1: what's what's the neatest part of all this is you know,
Speaker 1: you could look at his numbers and and he'll he'll
Speaker 1: tell you and you know, he knows he can play
Speaker 1: a lot better, and he's hard on himself. He's his
Speaker 1: biggest critic. But that's what you love about him because yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some things that he can do better and he
Speaker 1: can learn from and we all can help him with that.
Speaker 1: That's our job is to make sure we help him,
Speaker 1: but at the same point in time, we also know
Speaker 1: the good things that he's done. And that scrambled that
Speaker 1: he had at the end of the game where he
Speaker 1: had he had him the defensive end flying in the
Speaker 1: air to try to tackle him, and he brushed him
Speaker 1: off and then and then burst it away from the
Speaker 1: next guy and got the first down. That was huge,
Speaker 1: and not many guys to that, but right. I mentioned
Speaker 1: that on our Bears Game Night Live show because when
Speaker 1: you when you get a closer up view of a
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson is long he make you know he just
Speaker 1: slipped off. He's thick legged. It's not some narrow based quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's strong and I'm sure he's even gonna get stronger
Speaker 1: over the course of his career, so that allows him
Speaker 1: to break tackles as well. It was an awkward landing.
Speaker 1: I thought for a second, Oh, that's not good because
Speaker 1: he probably wanted to slide, but he got hit from
Speaker 1: behind and that changed the whole thing. Probably scared him
Speaker 1: as well, and we talked to him in the postgame
Speaker 1: show and he kind of laughed about it, but that
Speaker 1: those are the kind of things that probably that's why
Speaker 1: you have no hair on your head that you can't
Speaker 1: control happen in an NFL game. Yeah, when we were
Speaker 1: watching it this morning watching the tape, you know you
Speaker 1: do that because we saw it was right on our
Speaker 1: sideline and then for that to happen, you definitely hold
Speaker 1: your breath, blow, snap fakes, the hand off to mixing
Speaker 1: with all the trainers intercepted flexing at the ten and
Speaker 1: down to the nine. That is three consecutive interceptions. The
Speaker 1: pressures home hid out like Ogletree s here sack and
Speaker 1: an interception by Agelo Blackson. Single game Bears tickets are available.
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Speaker 1: for more information. Just heard the Angelo Blackson interception with
Speaker 1: Bears head coach Mattneggie. I'll tell you what, that's his
Speaker 1: athletic A players you're going to get because he showed
Speaker 1: some moves as well, and you know, hey, there's room
Speaker 1: for guys like that on your offenseive time or two.
Speaker 1: Angelo Blackson, I mean that was a pro move right there,
Speaker 1: squeezing that ball, keeping it high up in the air
Speaker 1: away from anybody to take it away. That was reactionary
Speaker 1: all the way around. It was, and it all started
Speaker 1: with Ogle Tree with his blitz and then he got
Speaker 1: his hands off in Joe Burrow's face and was able
Speaker 1: to tip the ball and then like you're saying, to
Speaker 1: be able to catch that ball, come down with it,
Speaker 1: and it actually like he actually like bobbled it then
Speaker 1: called it. But then the next part too, is just
Speaker 1: he kind of he kind of raised the ball up
Speaker 1: a little right like that's what I'm saying, a pretty
Speaker 1: good a fleet and started running. I thought he's gonna
Speaker 1: high step into the end zone, but he did a
Speaker 1: great job, ball security went down and then as Eddie
Speaker 1: big Man does, he's going to celebrate afterwards. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been a very impressive edition. I know he led
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and Pressures last year. You think of
Speaker 1: a guy like that just simply as a run stuffer,
Speaker 1: but he can collapse the pocket. And now he's had
Speaker 1: a couple of nice starts to these to this season,
Speaker 1: and now you're bringing Mario Edwards back into the mix.
Speaker 1: And the only word I could think of describing Mario
Speaker 1: as he comes off the suspension the NFL suspension is violent.
Speaker 1: He plays violent football, right, Yeah, without a doubt. I
Speaker 1: think that's a perfect word for him. He is. He's violent,
Speaker 1: and he loves every part of the word violent. I
Speaker 1: mean he is coming to sack that quarterback and do
Speaker 1: his thing. So that'll be good to get him back
Speaker 1: and knocking on the door Eddie Goldman. He was a
Speaker 1: game time decision last week, so maybe he comes back too,
Speaker 1: and that would even strengthen this thing even further to
Speaker 1: help your rotation upfront. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about the way our defensive line has been
Speaker 1: playing in to to get those two guys back would
Speaker 1: be great. All right, let's talk more about just the
Speaker 1: offense in general. Clearly there's still growth potential here no
Speaker 1: matter whose quarterback in just because of what you talked about,
Speaker 1: all those little starts and stops, because you need to
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. Yeah, and that's probably the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: just with the field position that we had after those turnovers.
Speaker 1: You know, you're looking at the plus thirty nine yard line,
Speaker 1: the plus thirty six, the plus nine and coming away
Speaker 1: with all that with six points, and that's where touchdowns
Speaker 1: you can you can put the game away. And that's
Speaker 1: you know, we got to learn from that. Luckily we
Speaker 1: came out with the win and finished it with a
Speaker 1: four minute but in the red zone there we got
Speaker 1: to stay away from penalties, keep away sacks, and then
Speaker 1: just you know, we got to go ahead and just
Speaker 1: keep executing. Non't matter if a team wins or loses.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you're the same way as a staff
Speaker 1: and as a head coach. You look at the math,
Speaker 1: you look at having all transpired, you look at the
Speaker 1: game tape, and some things don't add up, or you know,
Speaker 1: you win. But so the tight end, that'll be a
Speaker 1: time this Yeah, obviously just one time. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: mean that that's we got to get the tight ends.
Speaker 1: That's not intentional, that's that's uh, that's something that we
Speaker 1: want to always every week. We want those tight ends involved.
Speaker 1: They're they're a great weapon in this offense. And so
Speaker 1: we got to be better there. And that starts with me.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it, you got some emotional guys
Speaker 1: playing on that unit. I mean, Jimmy shows it all
Speaker 1: the time on the field, and Cole Commet is right
Speaker 1: there with him. I mean, those are two guys that
Speaker 1: really want to be a part of the offense. Hey,
Speaker 1: and they always say they're a quarterback's best friend, right, Matt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt there. Well, there's guys and Jesse James too,
Speaker 1: and whole see. I mean all those guys. It's a
Speaker 1: great room and they all just want to do what's
Speaker 1: best for the offense. And they don't they honestly don't
Speaker 1: care about staffs, but they do care about helping us win.
Speaker 1: That's that's why they've been so great to us. Guy
Speaker 1: who cares about winning as well, and maybe got lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle of this went Darnell Mooney. The conversation
Speaker 1: should be centered on that as well, because got himself
Speaker 1: open a great throw by Justin, a drop in the
Speaker 1: bucket throw one and maybe I do maybe could have
Speaker 1: got the other one. I don't know, I haven't watched
Speaker 1: it all yet. Did but uh, Darnell Mooney running routes,
Speaker 1: who wants to be the best at it, and he
Speaker 1: really created some separation to get himself open from and Justin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for both guys, he's been doing a great job with that.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's he's a phenomenal outrunner. And we
Speaker 1: just had that one that was just a little bit
Speaker 1: off between those two guys. But I have a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence we run that again, they'll they'll connect. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk Browns keeping them uh, you know, reasonable rushing
Speaker 1: total I think would be your first order of defense
Speaker 1: because it's an outstanding rushing unit. Yeah. Coach Stefanski does
Speaker 1: a great job with them on offense, and you know
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield running the show and with Chubb and Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt who I was with in Kansas City, and those
Speaker 1: wide receivers and tight ends, they do a lot of
Speaker 1: different personnel packages. They are it's gonna start with the
Speaker 1: run and then they're going to hit you with some
Speaker 1: shots and play actions. And the offensive line is good.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to bring that same defense that
Speaker 1: we had this past weekend and uh and have our
Speaker 1: handsful there. They've done a nice job with Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: not the tallest quarterback, but certainly a confident back and
Speaker 1: right now leads the NFL and completion percentage. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's a good Again, they do some really good things
Speaker 1: and those guys are working well together. And he's a
Speaker 1: good quarterback. He can beat you with his arms and
Speaker 1: his legs. First thing you think of Brown's defense, Miles Garrett. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Miles is just such a big, long rangey defender
Speaker 1: that you know, he can sack you, he can stop
Speaker 1: the run, he can get your throwing lane on the
Speaker 1: passing game, and so that defense in general that they
Speaker 1: fly around and they made play. So we're gonna we'll
Speaker 1: have to bring our a game for sure. All Right, Matt,
Speaker 1: I have a great week of practice. Sam. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you down the road. Appreciate it, thanks, Jeff, Take care.
Speaker 1: M A's Bears head coach, Matt Neeggie. We'll have our
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Sean Desai coming up next. Snap to Burrow,
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Speaker 1: by Whippley CPAs and Consultants with Bears defensive coordinator Sean
Speaker 1: to say, Sean, thanks for joining us this evening. Just
Speaker 1: heard the Rokuan Smith pick six. A scintillating journey to
Speaker 1: the house for our guy. Just a tremendous play all around.
Speaker 1: Break it all down because not just the dropping coverage,
Speaker 1: the catch, but the return, because that's a segmented analysis
Speaker 1: as well, beginning with the move on Joe Mixon, the
Speaker 1: speed and then moving the ball, I mean, break it
Speaker 1: down for us. Yeah, no, I mean it was. It
Speaker 1: was a great effort by really all eleven. I mean
Speaker 1: starts with the rush up front, you know, they they
Speaker 1: gave us a unique said and ended up going to
Speaker 1: four by one on the look but the past and
Speaker 1: we got a good, good rush up front. I think
Speaker 1: the quarterback felt it and kind of threw it where
Speaker 1: he thought there was an opening in Brookland did a
Speaker 1: good job dropping and keeping his depth in his own
Speaker 1: coverage and obviously plucking the ball on and getting to
Speaker 1: the nearest sideline. Kind of all the things we're trying
Speaker 1: to treat, teach and train these guys. Getting to the
Speaker 1: nearest sideline, keep protecting the ball is there, getting there,
Speaker 1: and then trying to set up the moves on the
Speaker 1: on the coverage team, you know, on the offensive guys
Speaker 1: because they're not used to tackle him. So he did
Speaker 1: a good job and there was kindle out there. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of guys alec Ogletree clear Mack had
Speaker 1: a good block in the beginning, so guys were just
Speaker 1: kind of rallying around him and trying to carave at
Speaker 1: him down in the end zone. I brought this up
Speaker 1: with Matt because Roquan and I've got to know him
Speaker 1: very well. He really loves this city. He loves being
Speaker 1: there and he loves the building. He was there the
Speaker 1: entire offseason, and he just kind of had a feeling like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is It's always been important to him. He wants
Speaker 1: to be known as one of the greats. He has
Speaker 1: great confidence, but he's not gonna use his voice to
Speaker 1: shout from the highest mountain top. Hey look at me.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna let us play play go. Is Is
Speaker 1: that who he is? All of what I said right
Speaker 1: there is an encompass where he's at and who he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think he's a He's a humble guy.
Speaker 1: He's obviously been a part of some really good program
Speaker 1: starting with Georgia and then coming in here. But he's
Speaker 1: a humble guy. He's a hard working guy, really a
Speaker 1: student of the game, and he just wants to grow
Speaker 1: every day, you know. And you see it with coach
Speaker 1: McGovern the way he's interacting with him and just trying
Speaker 1: to be a sponge for information, trying to come up
Speaker 1: extra and meeting you. Like you said, he was here
Speaker 1: all in the offseason. He just wants more information, more certainty,
Speaker 1: more detail, more fundamental work to improve all aspects of
Speaker 1: his game. And it shows, you know, it shows his improvement.
Speaker 1: And I think as much as he's getting better, there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of room for improvement for him. And
Speaker 1: he'll tell you the same thing, which is the exciting part.
Speaker 1: What was the tone of your conversation the day's leading
Speaker 1: up to Sunday with that unit? Certainly I brought up
Speaker 1: a lot of attention about the defense and so forth.
Speaker 1: And what impression did you try to leave on your
Speaker 1: guys that really translated to Sunday. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing was I didn't want these guys to press,
Speaker 1: you know, to go and make a play. I think
Speaker 1: that what they need to do is just trust themselves,
Speaker 1: have fun out there and really trust the defense in
Speaker 1: the scheme that we're asking them to do, really trust
Speaker 1: their tech and trading, because when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: the fundamentals of the first thing that leads to great defenses.
Speaker 1: And so these guys showed that, you know, you saw
Speaker 1: it on tape where they trusted each other. They trusted
Speaker 1: the calls, and they trusted the fundamentals of it, and
Speaker 1: they trusted their trading, and they played with a lot
Speaker 1: of energy. And then when that happens, that's contagious. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously just amongst the defense, but you know, it steals
Speaker 1: over to the offense, steals over to the special teams,
Speaker 1: and we want to try to be that spark as
Speaker 1: much as we can. I think some of the reaction
Speaker 1: from just enthusiast fans whatever they want, Okay, they want
Speaker 1: to know the coaches in somebody's grillages or you know,
Speaker 1: reaming them out about a performance. But these are grown men,
Speaker 1: they're professionals. They don't need that necessarily. They're looking the mirror.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I interviewed Balah before the
Speaker 1: game last week, and I could see it on his face,
Speaker 1: and so I said, are you angry? He goes Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm angry, you know, and it showed they know that's right,
Speaker 1: they know, but that that doesn't preclude them from a
Speaker 1: stilm talking to either. Now you know, they know, they know,
Speaker 1: but they are fessionals and they know they know they
Speaker 1: have a job to do, and we as coaches know
Speaker 1: we have a job to doing. Rollhill accountable to that standard.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest emphasis. So how would
Speaker 1: we get our message across. Whether it's we have to
Speaker 1: raise our voices or doing a different fashion, We're trying
Speaker 1: to use all the methods because the ultimate goal is
Speaker 1: to just be able to reach these guys where they're
Speaker 1: at and make sure they respond to the message that
Speaker 1: we're trying to give. Snap back to Burrow Pocket starts
Speaker 1: to close throughs over there to t Higgins, Eddie Jackson
Speaker 1: nuts at three balls, scooped up by the Bears, picked
Speaker 1: up and running right. It's just Shaun Gibson, Gibson all
Speaker 1: the way down of the forty yard line of the
Speaker 1: Sits and Eddie Bengals Eddie Jackson on the force bumble
Speaker 1: Bears are in business. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with defensive coordinators Sean to say, Sean, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Eddie Jackson. The force fumble on t Higgins, the
Speaker 1: highlight we've just heard. That was an outstanding play as well.
Speaker 1: I know some folks called it the peanut punch. It
Speaker 1: was not a punch. It was a strip and on
Speaker 1: a big guy who's not easy to deal with, te Higgins. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: the thing that started with disguising the play. Yet he
Speaker 1: got into the post and he saw the play and
Speaker 1: there was a little bit separation created there by. The
Speaker 1: receiver did a great job running the route. But U
Speaker 1: credit Teddy. You know, he had a nice clean breakout
Speaker 1: of the post. He had a good angle, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's a big thing when you're talking about
Speaker 1: the deep part of the fields, your angles, and that's
Speaker 1: a big point of emphasis for us. And he had
Speaker 1: a nice clean angle at it. And then you know,
Speaker 1: we always try to emphasize being physical and tackling at
Speaker 1: the level of the ball. So when you can wrap
Speaker 1: it the level of the ball, good things can happen.
Speaker 1: And he showed that there. You know, he got his
Speaker 1: arms around at the level of the ball, held on
Speaker 1: and raked like you said, at the ball, and the
Speaker 1: ball came out and then obviously we want to swarm
Speaker 1: to the finish and when balls bounce your way like
Speaker 1: they did for t Shaun over there. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite plays though the game was the run stop on
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. So he's at the line of scrimmage, Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase rookie, you know, cut across his face and chopped
Speaker 1: down a six foot one running back who carries, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot to him. That's not an easy tackle, even
Speaker 1: with a head of steam going down. So that's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite plays, how about you? Yeah, No, that
Speaker 1: was a really good play by Eddie. Again, you just
Speaker 1: see his instincts. He had a feel for the situation.
Speaker 1: His preparation throughout the week kind of alerted him to
Speaker 1: some of the tells that were that we felt were
Speaker 1: there in that situation. And then he went ahead and
Speaker 1: took his shot. And we want our guys to take
Speaker 1: shots from they do it between the structure of the defense.
Speaker 1: Because we've got some playmakers they can go and make
Speaker 1: those type of plays. And you're right mixing as I
Speaker 1: think he's a premier back in this league. He's very
Speaker 1: physical in the downhill runner and that was a great
Speaker 1: play by Eddie. From your perspective with players of today,
Speaker 1: and you've been here for nine years, You've gotten to
Speaker 1: know a lot of these guys very well. Do they
Speaker 1: love the idea of being deployed and it could be
Speaker 1: different every week? So when I say deployed, you're talking
Speaker 1: about weaponizing that, whether it be the unique coverages, the
Speaker 1: mix of coverages to try and confuse quarterbacks and offenses.
Speaker 1: But do they get into that a little bit the
Speaker 1: chess game as opposed to just going out there and
Speaker 1: doing the same thing every week and just trying to
Speaker 1: make plays. Yeah, you know, I think there's a balance.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys do appreciate that, but
Speaker 1: I think I think they understand that when you got
Speaker 1: to play within the structure of the defense, the defense
Speaker 1: will allow him to make be variable and have a
Speaker 1: little variety and diversity. And so that's what we try
Speaker 1: to emphasize is making sure everybody knows our techniques and
Speaker 1: fundamentals are required by the defense, and then we can
Speaker 1: deploy guys in different ways when necessary, and sometimes that
Speaker 1: helps really well, and other times you got to play
Speaker 1: just a very traditional style of defense based on who
Speaker 1: you're going against. From a quarterback end, receivers perspective. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn because in
Speaker 1: many respects too, you're trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: unlock their pass rush with all the attention they get,
Speaker 1: particularly Mac and boy, what a great job lining both
Speaker 1: of those guys up on one side with a stunt
Speaker 1: that got Quinn home early in the game. Break that
Speaker 1: down the philosophy of that without getting too much deep
Speaker 1: into your scheme. Yeah, I think it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of pigging back off the question you asked about
Speaker 1: the deployment of the tafeties in different dbs. It's similar.
Speaker 1: You know, we want to try to put our guys
Speaker 1: in their most favorable positions that we feel like afavable matchups,
Speaker 1: and so we're going to continue to look at that
Speaker 1: each week and it's different by week. And I think
Speaker 1: our guys are accepting that and I think they understand
Speaker 1: what our philosophy is. And again, it all starts with
Speaker 1: our players being able to learn the techniques and fundamentals
Speaker 1: throughout the system, because once they've mastered those, we can
Speaker 1: use them in different ways. Bengals head coach Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: had very, very glowing comments about Jalen Johnson said that
Speaker 1: guy is a great player and we knew it going
Speaker 1: in proved that today. So his first career interception, I
Speaker 1: know it's been on his mind. He said he dropped
Speaker 1: six last year and it still lives with him. But
Speaker 1: you talk about a guy, you know, I it's he's
Speaker 1: an interesting guy because he seems he acts and talks
Speaker 1: like a ten year vet and it's very important to him.
Speaker 1: It's he's serious, man, He's a serious dude. That's right.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's it's it's it's refreshing, like
Speaker 1: you said, to see a second year guy with that
Speaker 1: type of approach and mentality. He's real mature and he's
Speaker 1: real focused, which is good. You know, he still likes
Speaker 1: to have fun and everything, but when it's time to
Speaker 1: play and execute his job and the defense and especially
Speaker 1: the coverage, he's taking a leadership role in the defensive
Speaker 1: back room. Uh. You know, he takes a lot of
Speaker 1: pride in you. And then you know, guys that take
Speaker 1: a lot of pride in their own craft usually end
Speaker 1: up playing well. And so he's an example of that.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Sean Ducai after a nice win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the finish because it got a little
Speaker 1: interesting there at the end. Let's break down the Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase touchdown on how that worked out of the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense. Yeah, you know, they caught us
Speaker 1: in a favorable matchup for them on one on one
Speaker 1: on the outside, and and uh, you know, well, well
Speaker 1: we'll be better there with our technique and the breakout
Speaker 1: of the post to help get that one down. And
Speaker 1: then we got to finish that tackle to at least
Speaker 1: give us another chance to play in the red zone.
Speaker 1: And so that's a good learning experience for us. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue emphasize that, but you know, it'll and
Speaker 1: then we'll mix up the coverages to try to avoid
Speaker 1: those big plays. It's the first time I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody's really asked you this, But how is it settling
Speaker 1: in as now the defensive coordinator in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: time management and how you go about your business. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've been trending toward this direction your whole career, but
Speaker 1: now that you're two games in the regular season into it,
Speaker 1: how is that working out? For you and how you
Speaker 1: look at it as you look yourself in the mirror
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, I mean, so far, so good, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the results are the results. You know,
Speaker 1: a week one we want to be better. In week
Speaker 1: two we had pretty good results. So you know, we're
Speaker 1: just trying to look for some consistency and build that
Speaker 1: throughout the season. It's a long season, you know. We're
Speaker 1: only two games into this seventeen game season, so as
Speaker 1: you know, it's a marathon and we want to make
Speaker 1: sure we're pacing ourselves appropriately to win the games on
Speaker 1: a week by week basis that we need to win.
Speaker 1: And so obviously we got a tougher pint with Cleveland
Speaker 1: coming up, and we're excited for that opportunity. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. It's time to look ahead. Brought
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Speaker 1: of the Bears. They have Baker Mayfield at quarterback. He
Speaker 1: leads the NFL and completion percentage, and the Browns may
Speaker 1: get Odell Beckham junior back, but may have lost Jarvis Landry.
Speaker 1: That is another healthy dose of weaponry there that the
Speaker 1: backfield alone sticks out, but so does Baker Mayfield, how
Speaker 1: do you look at it? Yeah, absolutely, I mean I
Speaker 1: think they're built really well. The whole team is built
Speaker 1: really well. You know, they've got a lot of explosive weapons.
Speaker 1: Like you said, starts with those two running backs, and
Speaker 1: they can really set the temple up front with them,
Speaker 1: and I think coach to Fans does a great job
Speaker 1: scheming and game planning to get those guys in spots
Speaker 1: where they contain some yards. And then their play action game,
Speaker 1: an explosive pass game, is as good as anybody else
Speaker 1: in the week, and they've got the weapons to do,
Speaker 1: especially with Odell being able to come back as well.
Speaker 1: In Baker's playing top notch ball right now also, so
Speaker 1: it'll be if it'll be a fun exciting challenge for us.
Speaker 1: He's actually and it's selling that play action at the
Speaker 1: Bear Hands shows got the head Bob Football on the hip.
Speaker 1: He's got it down right. That's right, that's right. And
Speaker 1: they do a good job. I mean, the system is
Speaker 1: built off the run and the play action off of it.
Speaker 1: So we got to be really good with our eyes
Speaker 1: and our fundamentals. And just for yesterday's went over Houston
Speaker 1: eleven target, eleven catches, by the tight ends for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Now. That varies obviously week to week, but
Speaker 1: it certainly gets your attention, doesn't That's right. They they've
Speaker 1: got all their skills. You know, we talked about the
Speaker 1: running backs and receivers, but the tight ends are active
Speaker 1: and they've got a lot of them up, a lot
Speaker 1: of them that they used in variety of different roles.
Speaker 1: So we got to be good at all levels of
Speaker 1: our defense and it'll be an exciting challenge for us,
Speaker 1: all right, Sean, appreciate it all the time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. Congratulations, and we'll talk to you in a
Speaker 1: few weeks, all right. Thanks Jeffs here. That's Bears defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Sean to say. That's a rap on tonight's show.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Bears head coach Mattneggie and defensive coordinator Sean
Speaker 1: to Say, along with our producers Jordan tread Up, Andy
Speaker 1: Gersher and Keith Johnson, Well the Bears are the Browns
Speaker 1: coming to you from Cleveland on Sunday, nine AM pregame
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