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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, and then special teams coordinator Chris
Speaker 1: Tabor joins the program. Matt, dramatic finish in hinz Field
Speaker 1: Monday night, but falling short by two this one. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll sting for a bit as you go into
Speaker 1: the bye week, i'd imagine, but given how the second
Speaker 1: half took shape and what was overcoming, how Justin Fields played,
Speaker 1: and how the offense elevated because of it, it must
Speaker 1: give you a big boost of momentum into this bye
Speaker 1: week and beyond. Yeah, Jeff, you know, I think you
Speaker 1: know you're right, and it's it's the difficult part is
Speaker 1: you just for these guys and for all of our
Speaker 1: coaches players, you know, everybody's city, the fans, everybody you know,
Speaker 1: you you you know, you put in a lot of
Speaker 1: work and you want to get to win. And that's
Speaker 1: an emotional game last night, and it's it's not an
Speaker 1: easy environment, but it's it's fun to be a part
Speaker 1: of that. And for the guy to continue to fight
Speaker 1: to the very end and come down to basically the
Speaker 1: last play and be on the wrong end of it.
Speaker 1: That that's where it's tough. Um, it's an emotional time,
Speaker 1: but you wake up and you realize, like you said,
Speaker 1: you know at the same point in time that you
Speaker 1: know justin at that moment the end of the game
Speaker 1: to come down and help lead the team to score
Speaker 1: is huge. And that's one of those moments that in
Speaker 1: his career he'll always remember, always be in his rookie
Speaker 1: year and Monday night football in Pittsburgh and soum he
Speaker 1: did it, and he proved to us that he was
Speaker 1: going to do it. He told us he was going
Speaker 1: to do it, and he did it. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of where we're at. How'd he tell you he was
Speaker 1: going to do it just by his emotions and his
Speaker 1: the look on his face. Like I said this morning,
Speaker 1: he just we walked over to get ready to give
Speaker 1: him the play and get out there for the first play,
Speaker 1: and before we did it, you know, just to kind
Speaker 1: of see where he's at, and you get a sense
Speaker 1: of where guys are and to look in their eye.
Speaker 1: He just had this big grin on him, you know,
Speaker 1: this big smile like this is this is what he
Speaker 1: was built for, and it's just it's just rare to
Speaker 1: have that. And so then you know that. But then
Speaker 1: when you see it actually come to fruition and it
Speaker 1: ends in a touchdown or an extra point puts you
Speaker 1: up by one, it's one of those moments that we'll
Speaker 1: always remember, you know. I wish we could have came
Speaker 1: out on the other side, but for his growth and
Speaker 1: for who he is in our offense, it was a
Speaker 1: special moment. You mentioned his growth, and it seems as
Speaker 1: if the entire population is so focused on just his growth,
Speaker 1: but with his growth comes growth for the football team
Speaker 1: in every phase. So sometimes that lost in this because
Speaker 1: it's justin fields, the eleventh pick in the first round
Speaker 1: of the NFL draft, and he's got this potential to
Speaker 1: be great. Yeah, I think there's a it's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a you have a first round
Speaker 1: draft pick that you move up to get at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, and who now has you know, heading into
Speaker 1: you know, really, I mean he's he's heading into six
Speaker 1: seven starts now and getting lot of reps and you're
Speaker 1: seeing the growth, you're seeing the excitement. He's made two
Speaker 1: really big plays now in big time moments back to
Speaker 1: back weeks, and that's what you feel, that's what everybody feels,
Speaker 1: and there's the excitement. The tough part is when you lose,
Speaker 1: and Justin will tell you that's all he cares about, right,
Speaker 1: and he understands everything that comes with it. We understand
Speaker 1: everything that comes with it. But at the same point
Speaker 1: in time, this is a team game and we're doing
Speaker 1: everything we can, like we said last night or one eleventh,
Speaker 1: to help this team win, and we haven't done that
Speaker 1: in the last several weeks and we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: do that. We gotta do more of that so that
Speaker 1: we can win. What changed that allowed Justin to really
Speaker 1: go downfield so much more in the second half and
Speaker 1: just the decisiveness now two weeks going, but there's a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot more plays downfield in the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I mean, you know, when you
Speaker 1: head into a game, it's it's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a boxing match. Those first several rounds, you're just kind
Speaker 1: of seeing what the game plan is right, You know,
Speaker 1: what are you coming with a run game? With a
Speaker 1: past game? You saw we had that bootleg on the
Speaker 1: one player where Justin rolled out to his left made
Speaker 1: a great throw, and then two plays later we ran
Speaker 1: one and they sacked us. And so there's a feeling
Speaker 1: out procedure of really where you're at and what you
Speaker 1: want to do. Once we could get a good feel
Speaker 1: of where they were and what their game plan was,
Speaker 1: I think builded a great job, Bill Laser of of
Speaker 1: getting our guys into a rhythm. And then the guy's
Speaker 1: got to make plays. And you saw more shots and
Speaker 1: they're not all completed, but it stretches the defense out vertically,
Speaker 1: which can open up the run game in a quick game,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what you saw. And then Justin just
Speaker 1: made some plays and some throws. You know, that one
Speaker 1: throwy threw to Jimmy Grammers was as as good as
Speaker 1: it gets. And so when you make throws like that,
Speaker 1: you just instantly have more confidence in yourself. It seems
Speaker 1: to be also a national discussion on just the hits
Speaker 1: he's taking, some of which can be described as late
Speaker 1: or unnecessary, but not drawing flags, and you know it's
Speaker 1: not the NBA. It's not you know, MJ getting because
Speaker 1: it's MJ not getting those files. But maybe there is
Speaker 1: some of that I don't know, Or is it because
Speaker 1: he's considered a running quarterback and that throws some things
Speaker 1: out the window from an officiating perspective, maybe even subconsciously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, regardless of who you are or
Speaker 1: where you're at on the field, you know, the nature
Speaker 1: of the game is to always protect all players, and
Speaker 1: let alone the quarterbacks when they're running with the football
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a quick game. It's a fast
Speaker 1: game down there. Those referees have some tough decisions to
Speaker 1: make when it's it happened so quickly, and it's a
Speaker 1: part of the game. The biggest thing that we can
Speaker 1: do is to help justin limit and minimize the amount
Speaker 1: of times that he takes those those hits. Every now
Speaker 1: and then, there's gonna be one. You know. He had
Speaker 1: the one on the sideline where Minka came over and
Speaker 1: hit him pretty hard. He had the other one where
Speaker 1: he kind of went for a slide and got hit
Speaker 1: from behind. And he had a few where he slid
Speaker 1: early which was great and didn't take a hit he
Speaker 1: got somewhere, he ran, got out of bounds. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, next week or two weeks from now, we
Speaker 1: play Baltimore, We're going to see a quarterback that takes
Speaker 1: a lot of hits a lot of times. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's just a balance of how many you take and
Speaker 1: how hard, how hard they are. What do you do
Speaker 1: by penalties? Well, we got to fix them, and that
Speaker 1: that's that starts with me. I got to make sure
Speaker 1: that we continue to emphasize it to the players. And
Speaker 1: then when the players are out there, they gotta you know,
Speaker 1: they got to make sure that they follow through with
Speaker 1: the execution. I'm not having them. There's gonna be some
Speaker 1: penalties here or there. It's the outliers and it's the
Speaker 1: max number of penalties that hurt. And we need to
Speaker 1: be a better and more disciplined football team. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's an unnecessary roughness, a flagrant foul, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: any anything that's just controllable. We need to do a
Speaker 1: better job at controlling our emotions and the false starts
Speaker 1: to jump off side, you know all that stuff like
Speaker 1: we can we can get better there too. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be an emphasis. It has to. Yeah, that really
Speaker 1: is the key word, the control part and that offense.
Speaker 1: We know about the emotion of the game, and you
Speaker 1: played it at a high level as well, so you
Speaker 1: know what it's like. And you're on that sideline. But
Speaker 1: at this point, just because it's gonna be called clearly,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be called on the taunting, is there any
Speaker 1: way to make an edict? Hey, No matter what, I know,
Speaker 1: it's a great play in a great moment, Come with
Speaker 1: your teammates the sideline and celebrate with us, and yes,
Speaker 1: end it right there? Is that a possible message from you?
Speaker 1: And this absolutely, without a doubt, without a doubt, that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's really the way that we have
Speaker 1: to go. And the players need to understand that it's
Speaker 1: hurt us too much and it's kept teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: you worked so hard to get a team off the
Speaker 1: field and then to have it happen where they get
Speaker 1: a free player to get back on that's a backbreaker. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know what we got to do and what I
Speaker 1: need to do is make sure that they follow that lead.
Speaker 1: They understand it, and any point in time that it happens,
Speaker 1: it's unaccepted, you know, And so we got we gotta
Speaker 1: really make an emphasis to that, so they follow through
Speaker 1: and they don't do it. Snap the fields under pressure,
Speaker 1: leaving the pocket. Tuck's gotta fire into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Catchus Beard theft corner of the end zone. Touchdown, darn
Speaker 1: Old Mooney touchdown. Bears Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show.
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Speaker 1: dot com. There was the fields to Mooney touchdown. I
Speaker 1: literally jumped out of my seat, although I wasn't sitting outstanding,
Speaker 1: so that's how excited I was. But boy was at
Speaker 1: a throw man and this the throwing to his left
Speaker 1: as a right handed quarterback. Honestly, it's you don't see
Speaker 1: it very often done as well and as precise and
Speaker 1: with accuracy as he's showing. Not just that thrown, but
Speaker 1: it's happened more than once. Is this unique to justin Fields? Well,
Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see some of his strengths
Speaker 1: of what he does well. And every now and then
Speaker 1: some quarterbacks will develop some some some favorites or some
Speaker 1: habits that team start to see Hey, this guy really
Speaker 1: he throws well to the left or he throws well
Speaker 1: to the writer. He's he's a good hitch hitch throw
Speaker 1: type guy from the pocket. Um and we I mean
Speaker 1: he had the bootleg where he rolled to his left
Speaker 1: and threw a nice ball to Cole Comet early on too,
Speaker 1: where again you're starting to see that now, and um,
Speaker 1: we loved seeing it because especially that last one for
Speaker 1: the touchdown is it wasn't a roll out. It just
Speaker 1: it was a it was a drop back pass that
Speaker 1: wasn't there. So we rolled out and became a runner
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden became a thrower and
Speaker 1: made a great throw. Mooney made a hell of a catch,
Speaker 1: got both feet and at a big time moment. And
Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest thing is you know that I
Speaker 1: really feel is that he's making big time plays in
Speaker 1: big time moments. And that's what's exciting too. All right,
Speaker 1: So you gotta get you your body square at some
Speaker 1: point to make that an accurate throw. But what is
Speaker 1: so pronounced with him just from my analysis and you
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback quote here in this in this particular question,
Speaker 1: but his follow through no matter where his arm slot
Speaker 1: is whether it's right arm, it is very thorough. Is
Speaker 1: that where the accuracy comes from or is it more
Speaker 1: complicated than that. But he seems to really really be
Speaker 1: good with making sure that follow through. You can see
Speaker 1: it very clearly, and he just it's like a laser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I would I would relate it to or compare
Speaker 1: it to like a free throw. You know, when you
Speaker 1: follow through on a free throw or say it's a
Speaker 1: fade away three, you know, and you just kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you know it is it's you know it's
Speaker 1: going to be a great throw. There's more of a
Speaker 1: feel to it, is what I'm saying. So it was
Speaker 1: very similar right to his touchdown throw two weeks ago
Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers, the Jesse James I'm very
Speaker 1: similar throw where he kind of threw off his right foot,
Speaker 1: got both feet in the air, how to follow through,
Speaker 1: stide arm and and so it's a natural feel that
Speaker 1: he has. It's honestly, it's more DNA than anything. How
Speaker 1: the offensive line do. They did a lot better. They
Speaker 1: really did a good job against a tough defense to
Speaker 1: front in that environment. I was proud of them. I
Speaker 1: thought they grew. I thought they got a lot better.
Speaker 1: You know, that's not easy on the road silent count.
Speaker 1: You know, we unfortunately, we had a couple of false
Speaker 1: starts with which hurt us, and the guys understand that
Speaker 1: and know that. But for the most part, I really
Speaker 1: thought they did a good job. And that's another part
Speaker 1: of the growth that we're happy about. With the offense,
Speaker 1: We're getting more explosives. I think we had eleven explosives yesterday.
Speaker 1: Eight passes of sixteen or plus yards and three runs
Speaker 1: of twelve or plus runs. So, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to have that sometimes eliminates going twelve and fourteen play
Speaker 1: drives because you're getting big place and it's first time
Speaker 1: in three years a Bear's quarterback had a stat line
Speaker 1: with a yard propositive attempt of ten yards or more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a minute, but he had it. I'm undenied
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. All right, Let's let's go to the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Concerns, positives. What do you take
Speaker 1: out of this one? Well, you know the positives. I'll
Speaker 1: start off with that is, you know, at what we
Speaker 1: were able to do. We were able to hit ben Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we had four sacks. We kept them. The
Speaker 1: two hundred and five yards passing two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: total yards of offense for them. So that's the good.
Speaker 1: And also I think we we held uh Naji Harris
Speaker 1: to a pretty low yards per per carry. That's good. Um, well,
Speaker 1: we gotta be a little bit better at of situational football.
Speaker 1: Is again that complimentary football when we need to stop
Speaker 1: getting that stop when we need it. Now, we always
Speaker 1: need to stop. We get that. But uh, there at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, would have been really good
Speaker 1: to be able to not allow them to get down
Speaker 1: there for that field goal attempt. A couple of things
Speaker 1: here there we can get better at. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: for the most part, the other part that we're emphasizing
Speaker 1: as the takeaways. You know, we didn't come away with
Speaker 1: any takeaways on defense, so that can help flip the field.
Speaker 1: But we uh, we really feel like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: get healthy here, get some guys back and get get
Speaker 1: rock and a rolling Yeah, the third along the third
Speaker 1: and six plus going into the game, twenty eighth in
Speaker 1: the league defensively, and so they hit on a few
Speaker 1: more of those. It doesn't seem like it's a killer,
Speaker 1: but those lead to scoring drives when you convert those yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. They just keep the drive going. And they
Speaker 1: had a couple of those third downs like you're saying,
Speaker 1: and even some third and goals you know that they
Speaker 1: were able to take advantage of. So I know that's
Speaker 1: an emphasis that Sean's really focusing on, and our guys
Speaker 1: understand it. Again, this bye week will really allow us
Speaker 1: to reflect us to where we're at, how we're going to.
Speaker 1: Certain areas can get better. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: terrific comeback because, as you said, the environment was it
Speaker 1: was really loud in there. I know my ears are
Speaker 1: still ringing Montgomery again a little while, Keah, this time
Speaker 1: we give it the Mooney left to the tenth, to
Speaker 1: the five into the end zone, put a touchdown and
Speaker 1: David Montgomery pumps his piss because two Steelers thought he
Speaker 1: kept that ball. Terrific ball, fake Montgomery, the Mooney, David
Speaker 1: Montgomery on the cat and the gift to Darnel Mooney
Speaker 1: a second touchdown for the Bears wide receiver in their
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Speaker 1: David Montgomery ran it very well yesterday. He did a
Speaker 1: great job. He's done really well with that and it's
Speaker 1: just a little change up. The defense has to prepare
Speaker 1: for it. There's different things we can do out of it.
Speaker 1: But the execution level was really great by everybody. And
Speaker 1: then Cole Comet he had one of those explosives. A
Speaker 1: really good day for him, and Jimmy Graham good to
Speaker 1: see that working obviously, and it just and Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And here again this goes back to
Speaker 1: justin fields because if he plays well and throws the
Speaker 1: ball well and he's protected and they're getting the running
Speaker 1: game going and all these other weapons that everybody's been
Speaker 1: asking for and getting targets to start to get those
Speaker 1: targets in the big place. Yeah, I felt that yesterday, Jeff,
Speaker 1: where you were able to see some different guys getting
Speaker 1: getting those targets. Like you're saying, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: a short pass, whether it was downfield, rout and even
Speaker 1: whether it was complete or incomplete, but you saw us
Speaker 1: getting the tight ends, evolved the running backs a little
Speaker 1: bit here there, those wide receivers, and I think what's
Speaker 1: happening is you're starting to see just and feel more
Speaker 1: and more comfortable with these reps he's getting with these
Speaker 1: particular receivers and running backs. And now we got to
Speaker 1: grow off of that. We're kind of finding a nice
Speaker 1: little balanced schematically with what we like to do with them.
Speaker 1: We're finding out what his strengths and weaknesses are, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to put it all together to make it
Speaker 1: the best for us. All Right, we all know it's
Speaker 1: been a tough schedule. Your opponents of one forty three games,
Speaker 1: most in the league. It's a it's a treacherous road.
Speaker 1: We knew that was going to be the case. In
Speaker 1: addition to that, you guys faced According to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: who are the four highest graded defensive linemen in the league.
Speaker 1: You faced Cam Heyward last night, Aaron Donald, Miles, Garrett,
Speaker 1: Max Crosby. Top four receivers in yardage, Cooper Cup, Deebo, Samuel,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, and Dvante Adams. So the record is three
Speaker 1: and six, But you faced a lot of things that
Speaker 1: theoretically sharpen you for the rest of the road here,
Speaker 1: getting your guys against these type of players and quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and future Hall of famers. How would you assess it
Speaker 1: all as we hit this midley point. Well, the good
Speaker 1: part is that it calases you for sure, because you're
Speaker 1: going up against those those great players, like you just said.
Speaker 1: But what we got to be able to do now
Speaker 1: is take that and use it to our advantage moving forward,
Speaker 1: because you know, you know the schedule better than anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got we got some really good football
Speaker 1: teams ahead of us, so and that's how it should be.
Speaker 1: We get that we need to be able to beat
Speaker 1: all of those teams that are in front of us,
Speaker 1: and we really feel like with who we have and
Speaker 1: getting getting some of our guys back is going to
Speaker 1: be crucial. But it definitely makes you better, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And I think really for again looking at Justin, for
Speaker 1: him to be able to play some of these defenses
Speaker 1: that he's seeing, he's done a he's done a really
Speaker 1: really good job of, you know, making the game slow
Speaker 1: down a little bit on defense, but yet still making
Speaker 1: plays and being great Monday, you know, through Saturday, and
Speaker 1: that's where we want to keep growing. In addition to
Speaker 1: what you do and say as a head coach and
Speaker 1: your staff, would you know because sometimes these situations, not
Speaker 1: that these guys are quitters by any means, they showed
Speaker 1: that fight perfectly example last night, but you are three
Speaker 1: and six. Would Justin's presence and development alone help everybody
Speaker 1: else stay in tune here and keep going. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and I really I know that for a fact, But
Speaker 1: I also know who our players are and where they're at.
Speaker 1: And again, Roquon, I thought had a great message, you know,
Speaker 1: just just talking to the to the guys last night
Speaker 1: at the end in the locker room, just not not
Speaker 1: a lot, just short and sweet to the point of it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's time we get back on track.
Speaker 1: And so when you hear that coming from your players
Speaker 1: and your leaders, it really is is great to hear
Speaker 1: from the coach's perspective. And I know that the players
Speaker 1: feel that too. So they're gonna get away for a
Speaker 1: little bit. They're gonna come back in a week and
Speaker 1: be able to be refreshed and rejuvenated and be ready
Speaker 1: to attack these these final guaranteed eight games and what
Speaker 1: do you want out of the week for yourself and
Speaker 1: your stuff? Well, you know, it's h It's something where
Speaker 1: for for us as a staff, we're already attacking the
Speaker 1: self scout in all three phases, which every team does. Um,
Speaker 1: we're able to some of the coaches will be able
Speaker 1: to get away and um, break away for a little
Speaker 1: bit and get some time for their mental health, which
Speaker 1: is which is great and important, and be able to
Speaker 1: come back at this thing and get refreshed. So for
Speaker 1: me personally, I'll be able to really look at all
Speaker 1: three phases. I kind of had a sneak peek to
Speaker 1: it last week when I was, you know, out with COVID.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like two weeks now that I'm able
Speaker 1: to do this and really get back on track health
Speaker 1: wise without specifics, because that's a wait and see. Will
Speaker 1: you feel are you leaning more towards optimistic than yes
Speaker 1: and miss? Yeah, we are, we are. That's that's a
Speaker 1: part of the game or injuries. Every team's going through
Speaker 1: it right now in some significant positions. But I really
Speaker 1: do feel like you're heading into this bye week and
Speaker 1: then into the next week when we prep for for
Speaker 1: Baltimore is we are starting to get a lot of
Speaker 1: death back and it's a it's a great time to
Speaker 1: have the buy right now. So I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely lean more towards optimism. All right, Hopefully you have
Speaker 1: plenty of play sent to the league office to get
Speaker 1: a good look. They can spend some time in the
Speaker 1: buye week too. That's that's all we'll say at it.
Speaker 1: How about it? Right? I hear you, Thanks Jim, all right,
Speaker 1: and enjoy your bye week. We'll talk to you next week.
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Speaker 1: good pal, special teams coordinator. After the loss in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and you heard the DeAndre Houston Carson Johnny on the
Speaker 1: spot scoop and score, but a whole lot more to
Speaker 1: that play. Break it down for me after watching it
Speaker 1: all on tape and watching it live on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: because it was a big play in the game. No,
Speaker 1: the guys came through. I mean, you know, we had
Speaker 1: had we had the turnover ourselves after that good kickoff return,
Speaker 1: and defense did a great job of not allowing any
Speaker 1: points on that. But we felt, you know, we felt
Speaker 1: we needed to to right the ship and where where
Speaker 1: we were at. You know, Pat, you know, hit a
Speaker 1: big punt and the guys did a good job of
Speaker 1: going down and covering. I thought they covered well in
Speaker 1: the pots, an area we've been trying to improve each
Speaker 1: and every week, and last night the kids did a
Speaker 1: great job in that area. But we talked all week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Ray Ray is a good player, but there
Speaker 1: there's been times where he's put the ball on the
Speaker 1: ground and and uh kind of when he twists and
Speaker 1: moves a little bit, you can you can get your
Speaker 1: hand in there and punch it out. And Iggy did
Speaker 1: a good great job getting down there and punching that out.
Speaker 1: And then DHC just to have the no withal to
Speaker 1: pick that thing up and scoop and score uh and
Speaker 1: get us get us going again because I think I
Speaker 1: don't know, I can't remember. Was there about seven minutes
Speaker 1: left in the game and that kind of resparked you.
Speaker 1: Oh so that that was that was big play and
Speaker 1: glad that we executed there. Yeah, I believe Thomas Quo
Speaker 1: was after that. Couldn't happen a nicer guy. And that's
Speaker 1: the case, because the love fest for a DHC over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years is you just you just
Speaker 1: so well thought of. And I just completed a TV
Speaker 1: feature with him a couple of weeks ago, and a
Speaker 1: lot of depth to the guy out, a lot to him.
Speaker 1: So but again, you know, it took a whole unit
Speaker 1: to make that play, but you know, to have him
Speaker 1: scoop and score that was that was off on night. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, it's if you're really if you're talking
Speaker 1: to young kids, are you even talking to pro players
Speaker 1: a guy that goes out a half hour early each
Speaker 1: and every day to work on his craft. It just
Speaker 1: it's not coincident. I mean, things are going to happen
Speaker 1: for those guys, and he's done that. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that's why I always say he's a straw that stirs
Speaker 1: to drink. Yeah, you know. Damn Pompey, the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame writer and my good friend I wrote today that
Speaker 1: every good team, I think he said, every good team
Speaker 1: needs a guy just like DeAndre Houston Carson. All right, so, uh,
Speaker 1: let's break down some other things in this game. Let's
Speaker 1: go with the sixty five yard field goal try two
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock and looking at it again, it
Speaker 1: was right down the middle, right down the middle. Unbelievable,
Speaker 1: just a couple of couple of yards. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's obviously that's a that's a tough kick, Hindes,
Speaker 1: but that's you know, what are you gonna do? You
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta give a shot. And and uh and
Speaker 1: he did. I mean, the guy, the guy is accurate.
Speaker 1: I mean the ball, it wasn't like its sprayed left
Speaker 1: or duck hooked or anything along those lines. I mean
Speaker 1: it's right down the middle, just you know, just it's
Speaker 1: just too far. Yeah, So did you calculate how many
Speaker 1: yards that would have been? Short? Two or three? I
Speaker 1: was so longer than that. I think it landed. It landed.
Speaker 1: It landed on the b in the Pittsburgh black lettering. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know that m Yeah, you're probably five
Speaker 1: yards or so, you know, and that's you know, we
Speaker 1: tried to tried to steal some yards right before, but
Speaker 1: but Walt knocked it down there, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: every yard at that that deal obviously is it gives you,
Speaker 1: It gives you a shot. Did you see they still
Speaker 1: shot of a potential offside Pittsburgh? I saw it live,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean we you know, we did everything
Speaker 1: that we can alert the officials just with the linements
Speaker 1: and those type of things. But I'm not that's not
Speaker 1: that's not my area. So right, I got you. I
Speaker 1: don't know that five yards would have made a difference potentially.
Speaker 1: So welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Chris Tabor,
Speaker 1: the Bear Special teams coordinator Jeff joni Q with you
Speaker 1: until eight o'clock tonight. Before the break, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the sixty five yard tribe by Santos and Cole
Speaker 1: Commet on the edge and I don't know what you
Speaker 1: call him in your special team's position, but he had
Speaker 1: to deal with Minca Fitzpatrick, a very aggressive player on
Speaker 1: defense as it is, but he had to deal with
Speaker 1: him on his inside and a cornerback Cameron Sutton on
Speaker 1: the outside. Did in Sutton got through to at least
Speaker 1: get in the area of Santos, Did that prevent Cairo
Speaker 1: in any way of completing his follow through? And what
Speaker 1: this commit did his best? He had to do both.
Speaker 1: He had to He had to somehow defer or deter
Speaker 1: are the penetration of those two players. No, it didn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with the kick. In fact, in
Speaker 1: our world that's a very common common deal. There you
Speaker 1: have a comet, we call him the wing, and he's responsible,
Speaker 1: you know, we're always protection is built from the inside out,
Speaker 1: and Bars is the tight end right next to him,
Speaker 1: and he's hooking anything in the d gap there. And
Speaker 1: then comets handling inside and outside because you always think
Speaker 1: that your operation, if someone comes from around the outside,
Speaker 1: that your operation can handle it. The actually on the
Speaker 1: game where we went up by one and they jumped offsides,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is known for what we call using a hand key,
Speaker 1: where they're watching the holder's hand and once he opens
Speaker 1: his hands, they get a jump on the ball. And
Speaker 1: so we elected to do two of them on the
Speaker 1: previous one and they jumped off sides. Because then when
Speaker 1: we attempted the extra point there to go ahead. Then
Speaker 1: they had to kind of pump their brakes, which made
Speaker 1: it made it much easier. So then on that last
Speaker 1: kick we did, we tried the same thing and Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: actually tried to move they stemmed on the inside to
Speaker 1: try to draw us off sides to push it back
Speaker 1: five yards, and we actually tried to draw them off
Speaker 1: sides ourselves to try to pick up five yards. So
Speaker 1: it was a game within the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: protection wise, those guys up front, they did a good job.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, no, it always looks closer than
Speaker 1: what it really is on a field goal and a
Speaker 1: field goal block attempt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: guess you would be right on that for sure. So
Speaker 1: the streak ends at forty Buddy hit forty, so tied
Speaker 1: for third all time. That's a heck of accomplishment over
Speaker 1: of course, the two seasons for Cairo Santos. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it is, I mean, really proud of him.
Speaker 1: In fact, i'm work. You know, I think what Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods when he won the Grand Slam, they called it
Speaker 1: the Tiger Slam where he won two and then it's
Speaker 1: kind of a lull and then he won the first
Speaker 1: two were gonna go. We're gonna call it the Cairo streak.
Speaker 1: I mean sixty five yard or that. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: you know. Uh so we're gonna in our own little world.
Speaker 1: But really proud of him. I mean, well start a
Speaker 1: new one. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, you gotta pick yourself up.
Speaker 1: That's the game of football. Um, let's talk. Let's talk
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant on his fumble and you know, you think
Speaker 1: he's a he's a small guy like me, but James,
Speaker 1: James Pierre had he got lower. He did, he got
Speaker 1: he got lower, he got low and uh put his
Speaker 1: helmet on the football and did a good job. And
Speaker 1: Jachem was was trying to go two hands on the football,
Speaker 1: but kind of rolls it over and exposes it and
Speaker 1: that can't happen. I mean, that's they're a really good
Speaker 1: coverage team and we feel like we're a good kickoff
Speaker 1: return team, and we were chopping wood all night and
Speaker 1: then we finally get the breakout right there for good
Speaker 1: field position and then turned it over. That's that that
Speaker 1: really stung. But credit to the guys of coming back
Speaker 1: and then whatever that was too series later or a
Speaker 1: series later, causing r fumble and picking it up for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So really, how the guys were resilient there,
Speaker 1: I do I appreciate that about him. So Tom and
Speaker 1: I were talking on the broadcast on the punt that
Speaker 1: he was surrounded by Steelers and they were trying to
Speaker 1: maybe push him into the football. And Tom said that
Speaker 1: that used to be taught in the old days, and
Speaker 1: that was allowed. You could knock somebody into the football.
Speaker 1: Is that still allowed? He used to Okay, so number one,
Speaker 1: he should be away from that football, yes, but number
Speaker 1: but number two, the rules have changed. Yes, you used
Speaker 1: to be able to push guys into the ball. The
Speaker 1: rule now states if a player is standing around a
Speaker 1: ball and he is not actively engaged in blocking someone,
Speaker 1: you can't push them into the ball. So when I
Speaker 1: saw the replay, I was upset that he was around
Speaker 1: the ball. And then so we got that corrected quickly.
Speaker 1: And then, uh, when I saw the replay and he
Speaker 1: was just standing there and I saw him push him,
Speaker 1: I knew that we were in the clear because they
Speaker 1: can't do that. Yeah, made Tim a little nervous, using
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know about this one. I
Speaker 1: don't think Tom lose his hair exactly exactly. That is
Speaker 1: the game of football sometimes, isn't it You you lose
Speaker 1: your hair a little bit. Overall? What will you look
Speaker 1: at in terms of what you're looking for for a
Speaker 1: second half to improve special teams all? Over well, I
Speaker 1: think that I think that, you know, we took some
Speaker 1: steps in the right direction. I've been the punt coverage
Speaker 1: has been a thing um that we've been harping on.
Speaker 1: And I thought that we thought that we took a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction last night. But other things
Speaker 1: that I always I will always only worry about the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears and what we need to do in order
Speaker 1: to get better. And there's there are some things that
Speaker 1: was a good special teams unit that we played last night,
Speaker 1: and I knew it would be. And when we come
Speaker 1: back and we have Baltimore, uh, just knowing Harbors and
Speaker 1: how they play football over there, it's another AFC North opponent,
Speaker 1: I mean, they can play good special teams too. So
Speaker 1: we got we'll continue. We got to get better at
Speaker 1: our fundamentals. We got to get better at just the
Speaker 1: little things. And that's my job as a coach and
Speaker 1: to help him with that. So we'll just we'll kind
Speaker 1: of stay the course and like I say, I say
Speaker 1: it all time, just keep chopping wood fellas, and and uh,
Speaker 1: good things can happen. Now it's time to look ahead.
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Speaker 1: Moments with Christieber Bears Special teams coordinate so you touchdown
Speaker 1: in the last break up For those uninformed, John Harball
Speaker 1: was outstanding special teams coordinator in his day and out
Speaker 1: of the head coach of the Ravens and a very
Speaker 1: successful operation over there. And because of that is he
Speaker 1: always made sure that emphasis on special teams is high.
Speaker 1: No he has and they they have. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of good players that play on special teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: and they you know, arguably have one of the greatest
Speaker 1: kickers of all time and Justin Tucker, a guy that
Speaker 1: could hit touchbacks, a guy that could put the ball
Speaker 1: on a kickoff at the two yard line with four
Speaker 1: two or four three hang. I mean, so they're going
Speaker 1: to present a lot of problems, but you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're they're physical, they keep coming after you and it'll
Speaker 1: be just another one of those uh, you know, if
Speaker 1: you punch them in the mouth, they're going to punch
Speaker 1: you back, and then you just you just kind of
Speaker 1: keep trading punches and you go. But this will be, uh,
Speaker 1: this will be another big test for our group. And
Speaker 1: after this week's by the Bears, we'll host the Ravens
Speaker 1: Sunday the twenty first at Knew and Lamar Jackson leading
Speaker 1: the Ravens wh an overtime went over the Vikings on Sunday,
Speaker 1: his tenth career game with at least one hundred rushing yards,
Speaker 1: tying him with Mike Vick for the most games buy
Speaker 1: a quarterback of that nature in NFL history, certainly something
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on for those fans of mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Lamar and Justin Fields, How did Patio do in the
Speaker 1: first half of this season? Patio doing well. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, there's been a few games where you know,
Speaker 1: I know that he's wanted to perform a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but have a lot of confidence in that guy. I
Speaker 1: thought his location yesterday was really good and uh, and
Speaker 1: I think that was also a reason why we covered
Speaker 1: better too, because he you know, he really limited the field.
Speaker 1: Ray Ray was a guy that could take the ball
Speaker 1: to the perimeter and those type of things, and we
Speaker 1: wanted to keep him. You know, obviously, the less field
Speaker 1: the better for us. And I thought he did a
Speaker 1: really good job there. So he keeps him proving, and
Speaker 1: I like where he's at, and but there's still room.
Speaker 1: He'll he'll, he'll be the first one I tell you.
Speaker 1: He says, I know I could get better, And that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to work at the second half. Here
Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys finding the roles on special
Speaker 1: teams that are developing. Talk about some of those guys before, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, let you go after that, you bet you know.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I thought, I thought Xavier Crawford really played one
Speaker 1: of his his better games up a play that no
Speaker 1: one will talk about is the missed extra point by
Speaker 1: Boswell and in the pressure that Xavier comes around and
Speaker 1: gets long and gets extended, makes it really close. He's
Speaker 1: almost there, and I don't, you know, obviously you're always
Speaker 1: trying to block a kick, but if you don't, you
Speaker 1: want to affect the kick. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: one where it was close enough where he affected it.
Speaker 1: And I told him, I said, that might have been
Speaker 1: for as good as your gunner reps were yesterday and
Speaker 1: and then just the things that he does force on kickoff,
Speaker 1: I'm not allowing the ball to get back out to
Speaker 1: to the to the field. That was about as big
Speaker 1: a play as I've seen. And I told him, I said,
Speaker 1: and no one's even going to talk about it. And
Speaker 1: I said, that's the world of special teams, buddy. But
Speaker 1: I said, I appreciate it. And I said, in our room,
Speaker 1: we noticed that. We talk about it, and then you know,
Speaker 1: try to hold each other accountable on it. But he's
Speaker 1: he's he's doing well. And then you know, we had
Speaker 1: Iggy's really been been playing well the last few games
Speaker 1: and playing like I expect him to play. And uh
Speaker 1: so that that's that's encouraging. Were we still got plenty
Speaker 1: to work gone, and I know we can get there.
Speaker 1: It was just it's a it's a work in progress.
Speaker 1: All right, Chris, We'll talk to you in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, enjoy your bye week, all right, Thank you,
Speaker 1: all right, everybody that's going to ramp up tonight, Shoe
Speaker 1: appreciate you listening. Thanks to our producers Jordan Trudup and
Speaker 1: Dan Barilli for coach Naggie and coach Tabor. I'm Jeff Joniak.
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