Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bears Coaches Show this evening with head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Naggie, brought to you by a whip please
Speaker 1: CPA's and consultant Jeff Joniac with you unto eight o'clock
Speaker 1: here tonight on news radio one h five nine WBBM.
Speaker 1: Coach Naggie with us until the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: and then we joined by offensive coordinator Bill Laser Mac
Speaker 1: Congratulations sound the big win it Soldier Field in the
Speaker 1: NFC North. Always important ten point went over the Lions,
Speaker 1: and congrats on your thirtieth regular season win. Those things
Speaker 1: don't matter, but it's a mile post, you know, so
Speaker 1: I gotta give you that. And uh, I had your
Speaker 1: post game locker room we did on the on the
Speaker 1: TV show last night on Bears Game Night Live on
Speaker 1: Fox thirty two Chicago, and I just felt you were emotional,
Speaker 1: not in the rara like oh man, look what we did,
Speaker 1: but it was it was reserved. I think you guys
Speaker 1: came through a lot, and so did you. Jeff fair
Speaker 1: to say absolutely, And I think you know that was
Speaker 1: a getting through that that last week. I think our
Speaker 1: guys understood that we rallied together and it was important
Speaker 1: for us having a division game at home to get
Speaker 1: back on track. And so all the credit goes to
Speaker 1: the players for just really stepping up and in all
Speaker 1: three phases like we said yesterday. Um, and when you
Speaker 1: see it on tape, it confirms it. You know, the energy,
Speaker 1: the guys flying around to finish uh in particularly, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought that the offensive line, the tight ends, the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, the way they running backs ranto football like,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's all about. And it makes life
Speaker 1: a lot easier on third down. Albeit we weren't great,
Speaker 1: it made it a lot easier to not live in
Speaker 1: those third and lungs and so a lot of good
Speaker 1: things to pull from it. And now we got to
Speaker 1: make sure that we, you know, we follow that up
Speaker 1: with another performance like that. Yeah, people were giving me
Speaker 1: a hard time because I use the word hangry to
Speaker 1: describe what I wanted the Bears to be on Sunday
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field. Hungry and angry, angry, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's exactly how you guys looked. No, it was, and
Speaker 1: it's a mindset and the mentality. The players took it
Speaker 1: head on. They were they were that way, I'd say,
Speaker 1: and they didn't just start that way for a driver
Speaker 1: or two. They really kept it to the very end.
Speaker 1: I mean you see it Jeff on tape. Offensively, you
Speaker 1: see it at the end of the game. And then
Speaker 1: we were able to get in you victory formation. The
Speaker 1: defense being able to be so great in the red zone,
Speaker 1: to have those goal to goals, to have them come
Speaker 1: away with no points to get to take away. You
Speaker 1: felt that swarm. You felt these guys flying around and
Speaker 1: they you know, they stayed patient with it. So in
Speaker 1: the end, when you hold them the fourteen and you
Speaker 1: score twenty four, you have a chance to win. No.
Speaker 1: One of five in the red zone. The incredible aspect
Speaker 1: of being one of four in the goal to go
Speaker 1: situations and they get seven points out of that. You know,
Speaker 1: Jim Schwantz and our postgame show was talking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this era, teams can move the ball between the twenties,
Speaker 1: but it gets a whole lot difficult and you really
Speaker 1: make your mark as a football team. And people get
Speaker 1: all cringed when you hear Ben no break, But hey,
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do if you want to
Speaker 1: be a good defense. Yeah, because you're you're eliminating points
Speaker 1: off the scoreboard, and especially when they go for it
Speaker 1: on fourth down. That's the other part, you know, fourth
Speaker 1: down for us, we've we've done a good job of
Speaker 1: making teams pay when they do go and that's a
Speaker 1: part of it. But again, all three phases, our special
Speaker 1: teams did a great job too. I felt it on
Speaker 1: the sideline and you can see it a couple of
Speaker 1: things here and there. Before the most part, when we
Speaker 1: put three phases together, which this was the first time
Speaker 1: in four games we did that, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: chance to win every game, and it doesn't mean you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna have a chance, and we did that,
Speaker 1: all right. The eye word now is popped up, and
Speaker 1: you know what that is? Identity, right, So this is
Speaker 1: what you're always seeking. But you feel you came out
Speaker 1: of this what you believe is an identity for this
Speaker 1: football team. But keeping in mind, it's a flexible identity,
Speaker 1: that's right. I think that's the key, Jeff, is that
Speaker 1: it is flexible and it's it's game by game, it's
Speaker 1: matchup by matchup. But well, we all agreed about in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the week. Last week, after we went
Speaker 1: through everything was win, loser, draw, whatever, happens. Let's be
Speaker 1: able to come out of this thing and say we
Speaker 1: at least did it with trying to have an identity.
Speaker 1: If you can do that, you can you can really
Speaker 1: be a lot more comfortable understanding that you won or
Speaker 1: you lost. And yesterday we won. So when you have
Speaker 1: an identity and you win and you play as a
Speaker 1: three face football team, that's a good feeling. So now
Speaker 1: the great teams keep that going regardless of who they're playing.
Speaker 1: And so that's going to be the challenge this week.
Speaker 1: And and for you, does it allow you in terms
Speaker 1: of how you guys handled things offensively yesterday from a
Speaker 1: coaching point of view to see the bigger picture and
Speaker 1: how did that feel? Again? It does? And it felt great. Um,
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned it told me last night and
Speaker 1: then just this morning too, you know you. For me,
Speaker 1: I was really able to connect with that defense and
Speaker 1: listen to the headset was shown a lot more detailed
Speaker 1: as to what's going on timeouts, was you know, situational
Speaker 1: football with timeouts challenges? Um, there was there was plays
Speaker 1: that I saw yesterday with that. For instance, the one
Speaker 1: catch that a rob had um where he toe tapped
Speaker 1: and got it in I knew we caught the ball.
Speaker 1: I knew it was two feet in. But what we
Speaker 1: were able to do was I was standing right there,
Speaker 1: so I could see it, and and so knowing that,
Speaker 1: we went fast and we aid them challenge it and
Speaker 1: they burned a time out in the second half, which
Speaker 1: is trucial. So like little things like that, I was
Speaker 1: able to see be down there with the special teams
Speaker 1: and then of course be there for the offense in
Speaker 1: certain ways wherever I did too. So it felt good
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. I felt like it
Speaker 1: made me a better head coach, and I thought builded
Speaker 1: a wonderful job yesterday. You know, the offensive line and
Speaker 1: the blocking in general. We could go through so many
Speaker 1: individual plays in the game. We don't have the time
Speaker 1: to do it. But I mean wide receivers, all your
Speaker 1: tight ends, JP as a fullback, all had a hand
Speaker 1: in the blocking. I mean Darnelmoni's chopping a six foot five,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty pound defensive n Bryant you know
Speaker 1: in the game. And Alan Robinson, I mean talk about
Speaker 1: being selfless. I mean he's targeted three times, but you
Speaker 1: asked him to throw some important blocks. But the old
Speaker 1: line in general, I said, you know, have this be
Speaker 1: the day they be the reason? And did you guys
Speaker 1: go We talked to Cody white Hair after the game
Speaker 1: kind of insinuated that that that that conversation happened, that
Speaker 1: maybe you guys went to you guys be the reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that happened. You can give some
Speaker 1: clarity on that. But when an offensive line is asked
Speaker 1: to be a reason, I think the game changes. Well,
Speaker 1: these guys are very prideful and they know again they
Speaker 1: know what we can be. And we felt like, hey again,
Speaker 1: beginning of a week, we're going to talk about how
Speaker 1: we get better and a big part of that is
Speaker 1: through the run game, and everything starts run and pass
Speaker 1: with the O line. If you don't have protection, you
Speaker 1: can throw. If you can't run, run block, you can't run.
Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. So when you can do both, it's special.
Speaker 1: And I thought yesterday the offensive line they deserved a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for the mentality is stepping up. For
Speaker 1: the very first play of the game, when David cut
Speaker 1: back to the left and you see the entire offensive line,
Speaker 1: in particular seventy one Jason Peters just completely washed down
Speaker 1: the left side of the line and allowed David to
Speaker 1: cut back and we got We got nine yards on
Speaker 1: the very first play. That's a really good feeling when
Speaker 1: you can get nine yards on first intent. So it
Speaker 1: started there and it ended in the four minute being
Speaker 1: able to chew up clock and then then we've finished
Speaker 1: it off with Justin making a great throw to to
Speaker 1: a rob and the penalty, and so it was just
Speaker 1: a team effort, even to the very end when when
Speaker 1: we plunted the ball and they jumped all sides. You
Speaker 1: know that was Tabs did a great job of having
Speaker 1: that set up to try to get him to jump off,
Speaker 1: and what do you know, they jumped off. So it
Speaker 1: was one of those days and it feels good to
Speaker 1: have that. Once safety Deep takes the snap looking to throw,
Speaker 1: gets a four man rush, plenty of time, Hark just back.
Speaker 1: Moody's free down the field, out it inside the fifty
Speaker 1: to the forty Can he break the tech? Ley does
Speaker 1: gets right, dodging decklers to the twenty six yard line,
Speaker 1: sixty three yards fields to Moony. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: the throw and the highlight of Justin fields and a
Speaker 1: beauty stretch in the field that Darnell Mooney break it
Speaker 1: down for us. Buddy, Yeah, that was a pretty cool
Speaker 1: play and got to give Justin a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: He saw the defense come down post snappy, he trusted
Speaker 1: his progression and he was able to hit Mooney on
Speaker 1: that circle post and um, you know, it starts with
Speaker 1: the line with the protection. He had great protection, and
Speaker 1: then Justin stayed in time and on rhythm and uh,
Speaker 1: he was able to take a three step hitch and
Speaker 1: throw and Moody Mooney and Justin were on the same wavelength.
Speaker 1: You know. Mooney hit that hit that nod and then
Speaker 1: he went vertical upfield. He stayed away from that field
Speaker 1: safety and Justin knew that and threw it to a
Speaker 1: spot on time. And Justin didn't put too much air
Speaker 1: on it and he didn't just throw a laser. It
Speaker 1: was a nice number two ball that we call it.
Speaker 1: Mooney made a great catch, broke that one tackle and
Speaker 1: then made some yards after the catch. So they were
Speaker 1: connecting yesterday and as the need to seek. What's a
Speaker 1: number two ball, if I may ask you at Liberty, Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: So a number one would be when you throw like
Speaker 1: a laser. A number three would be when you throw
Speaker 1: like a lollipop, real higher, it touches the clouds. A
Speaker 1: number two is in between. Very nice. Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: you gotta have slots, You have to you have to
Speaker 1: do it in many different ways, in many, many different ways,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You know, Justin says he was
Speaker 1: in a different headspace for this one, and given the
Speaker 1: adversity of a week ago, and you've mentioned it about
Speaker 1: the special ability to bounce back no matter what, that's
Speaker 1: a quality not every player, certainly not every quarterback can command.
Speaker 1: Justin deserves a lot of credit for being able to
Speaker 1: bounce back from that, and I think his mindset is
Speaker 1: rare for somebody as young as he is. But it
Speaker 1: also speaks to who he's been and why he's where
Speaker 1: he's at right now is because of that. Again, I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, it's it's only fair to let
Speaker 1: Justin and everybody else understand it. Hey, we could have
Speaker 1: helped him out better that first against Cleveland, and we
Speaker 1: made it. You know, our job to do that as
Speaker 1: coaches this week to make things feel better for him.
Speaker 1: And I you know, he said that to you yesterday
Speaker 1: and he felt that way during the week of practice,
Speaker 1: and I think it reflected on game day if you
Speaker 1: saw it yet. But there's a great still shot of
Speaker 1: him on the bench. He's sitting in a relaxed position
Speaker 1: like this after the game, like, you know, a job
Speaker 1: well done, and he's probably soaking in what just happened,
Speaker 1: given what occurred the week before, and you just wonder
Speaker 1: what he was thinking at that moment. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I haven't seen that yet, but I can. I
Speaker 1: can kind of visualize it, and especially when he puts
Speaker 1: that smile on. You know, we love when he's smiling
Speaker 1: and he's worked. He works so hard to get to
Speaker 1: that point. And you know the other thing too, Jeff,
Speaker 1: is you'll see it on tape when you watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen it. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the game there when we're in four minute, I mean
Speaker 1: he's running down the sideline with tight ends on the
Speaker 1: Detroit sideline after a handoff and being there just in
Speaker 1: case there's a fumble or blocking et cetera. I mean
Speaker 1: that's rare. That's different, and I think it just shows,
Speaker 1: you know, he's helping guys up after they get tackled,
Speaker 1: like you don't see that very often. He did that. Well,
Speaker 1: I forgot, frankly about the strip sack Harris had on
Speaker 1: him and he goes and gets the I mean that's
Speaker 1: twice now, but I forgot about that. That's now a
Speaker 1: small thing. It's a big deal. You don't want them
Speaker 1: to get hurt, though, but that's a that's a that's
Speaker 1: not a small thing. Well, it's his reactionary. You know,
Speaker 1: he's still reactionary. And it's like he was laying on
Speaker 1: the ground after he got hit and then he saw
Speaker 1: the ball kind of fumbling and he just popped up
Speaker 1: and went running for it. And then he's such a
Speaker 1: natural athlete he just scooped it up and then got tackled.
Speaker 1: But that was a huge part of the game. And
Speaker 1: so where will you take this quarterback thing this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know we know that with with Andy right now,
Speaker 1: he's working through his his injury, and so the next
Speaker 1: couple of days here today tomorrow, we'll give us a
Speaker 1: good ideas as to where he's at, and then when
Speaker 1: we get to Wednesday, we'll have a I think we'll
Speaker 1: have a strong feeling as to as to where he's
Speaker 1: at health wise, and then we got to go ahead
Speaker 1: and see what that percentage is to make that decision.
Speaker 1: This league is humble you in a second, and it
Speaker 1: did again yesterday because you're feeling good. David Montgomery just
Speaker 1: killing it yesterday. That nine yard touchdown run is as
Speaker 1: good as it gets. You know, this team loves David
Speaker 1: mock Marie period, end of story. And then he gets
Speaker 1: he gets the knee. Yeah. No, I mean he's such
Speaker 1: a because it's easy to love somebody when they care
Speaker 1: so much about others more than themselves. And I think
Speaker 1: he's he's as selfless as he guess. All's the guy
Speaker 1: wants to do is win. He doesn't care if he
Speaker 1: has twenty carries for sixty yards. He just wants to win.
Speaker 1: And so, um, you know, we just got to see
Speaker 1: where he's at and everything. Obviously, to hurt himself is tough.
Speaker 1: You hate to see that. Um, but he has he
Speaker 1: has a great spirits and you know he can still
Speaker 1: be a leader and we'll see where that goes. But man,
Speaker 1: he's he's having a heck of a start of the season,
Speaker 1: and a good job by Damian Williams as well. He
Speaker 1: got dinged up a little bit, but hopefully that's good
Speaker 1: because that's that's a good one two punch. I mean,
Speaker 1: as you know nowadays, it looks like that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: the running back backfield djour in the league. He got
Speaker 1: some rare exceptions out there, but I have two is helpful,
Speaker 1: no doubt. And Damian's one a wonderful job too, being
Speaker 1: able to understand kind of his role. And they've they've
Speaker 1: built a phenomenal relationship. They taught, they've been teaching Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert a lot of great stuff. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: you know that that was one of our you know,
Speaker 1: running back room was somewhere where we had a lot
Speaker 1: of depths, and now you know, we see where it's at.
Speaker 1: But again we have a lot of trust in Damien
Speaker 1: as well. Snap plate fake, Nope, they'd hand it off.
Speaker 1: Montgomery cutting inside, dodging one tackler, still on his feet
Speaker 1: as he rumbles, and he's in till the end zone
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. That's all David Montgomery. That his second
Speaker 1: effort nine yards far side of the end zone. Touchdown. Bears.
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Speaker 1: Montgomery his second touchdown or run in a twenty four
Speaker 1: or fourteen win over the Detroit Lions. I believe, now
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns in his last nine games, Matt and five
Speaker 1: one hundred yard efforts in his last ten games. Um,
Speaker 1: you'd love to keep that momentum going. We'll see what
Speaker 1: the injury is. But again, that touchdown run, it was
Speaker 1: symbolic of what the whole day was. When you start
Speaker 1: a game with a three tight end set and a
Speaker 1: one back and I think he went tight end on
Speaker 1: twenty nine, multiple tight end snaps in the fifty seven.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a mentality you were you were going
Speaker 1: to happen on this day. Yeah, That's that's exactly right,
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that mentality is a part of it.
Speaker 1: And that run that you're talking about, you know, David
Speaker 1: goes ahead and he makes that first guy miss and
Speaker 1: then he gets to to about the five yard line
Speaker 1: and now it's just a just a bunch of just
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, big guys in there, and just
Speaker 1: the legs are turning. Guys are in there, like you said,
Speaker 1: Mooney and James and and um, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: all the old lineman pushing it. And for five yards
Speaker 1: they just pushed the pile in there. And I think
Speaker 1: that was kind of the mentality that we had going
Speaker 1: into yesterday. And and when you can get a run
Speaker 1: from the nine yard line for a touchdown, those are
Speaker 1: always beautiful. I think you had nine nine plush yard
Speaker 1: carries and you got the explosives, and that allowed you
Speaker 1: to get first downs, move the chains. Twenty first downs overall,
Speaker 1: and some really good work done across the board. We
Speaker 1: got to talk to defense. Now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you realize this, but the Bears leave the NFL and
Speaker 1: sex yeah, no, well I feel it, and I do
Speaker 1: realize it because I think right now when you put
Speaker 1: on the tape and you see what those guys are
Speaker 1: doing that front seven, Um, that's that's what we love.
Speaker 1: I mean, between ninety four and fifty two off the
Speaker 1: edge that D line up front of the linebackers flying
Speaker 1: around different games and stunts. Um that I love it,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a great stat to have because what
Speaker 1: that's going to do is help out that back end.
Speaker 1: And then now that they know that, you know, you're
Speaker 1: putting pressure front seven on the quarterback. Now the dbs
Speaker 1: are able to go play fast and do some things.
Speaker 1: So continue to get takeaways and turnovers, but there's sacks
Speaker 1: or game changing. The team goes out on the first
Speaker 1: snap on a groin, but the other sixty some snaps,
Speaker 1: the defense did what it did. Yeah, a little bit
Speaker 1: of run in the in the beginning of the game
Speaker 1: with Jamal Williams, but the ben no breaks, stopping plays,
Speaker 1: making clutch stops in the passing games as well as
Speaker 1: the running game and getting to golf. How significant is
Speaker 1: to again, maybe be without him a while that those
Speaker 1: guys were able to step in and still play at
Speaker 1: a high level. Yeah, So you know, our Kim is
Speaker 1: such a big part of our defense, and he's such
Speaker 1: a big man that that offense has got to know
Speaker 1: where he's at on every play. I mean, even on
Speaker 1: the play that he got hurt. The first play, I mean,
Speaker 1: he made a great play on the running back and
Speaker 1: you feel that it's a vicious tackle. It's a it's
Speaker 1: just vicious because he's such a you know, large human
Speaker 1: being and plays with such intensity. So um, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see where that goes. But uh, it's other guys
Speaker 1: got to step up. And that's what you know. We
Speaker 1: do have depth at that defensive line, and we got
Speaker 1: some young guys too, So Coach runs will do a
Speaker 1: good job of getting him right. Coach Socile put him
Speaker 1: in the right spots, and the other guys got to
Speaker 1: step up to help out. He has a big loss
Speaker 1: with team when he's not in the game, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Eddie Goldman. So you watch the tape, what
Speaker 1: you see. Yeah, again, he played about thirty four to
Speaker 1: thirty five snaps and I think it was really good
Speaker 1: for him just to be able to get into that
Speaker 1: football shape again. And you know, Eddie, I've said it
Speaker 1: since I've been here. Eddie, probably more than any player
Speaker 1: in the NFL, is one of the more underrated players
Speaker 1: that makes plays without making plays, you understand, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So he's out there making plays by
Speaker 1: maybe getting double teams they're creating, making somebody step up
Speaker 1: or run a certain way. Now now a guy gets
Speaker 1: a tackle, and I think yesterday the biggest thing for
Speaker 1: us was and for him was number one his health,
Speaker 1: his conditioning, and then just being a good teammate out there,
Speaker 1: which he is. So that's very, very important, and I
Speaker 1: thought he did a great job. Alec old Tree killed
Speaker 1: it yesterday. Man. I think he had ten solo tackles.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys have him as a staff,
Speaker 1: but out of the twelve, ten were solo stops in
Speaker 1: that big play probably prevented a touchdown getting his hand
Speaker 1: up there and the vertical leap to getting the path
Speaker 1: of the past that Goff had clearly set for Dandre Swift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was huge. I mean there's one guy you know
Speaker 1: that that that. I mean, there was a there was
Speaker 1: a bunch yesterday, but the forty four kept popping out
Speaker 1: all over the place and making a big place too,
Speaker 1: And so I think we might have had him down
Speaker 1: as as around thirteen or fourteen tackles, one tackle for loss,
Speaker 1: a pass breakup. What you just talked about. That pass
Speaker 1: breakup is huge. I mean he's so long levered that
Speaker 1: like when the ball came up, he just he got
Speaker 1: just enough on it to tip because that might have
Speaker 1: been a touchdown. And you felt him all over the place,
Speaker 1: whether it was tackles, whether it was you know, playing
Speaker 1: a guy in man coverage, but he was everywhere and
Speaker 1: that was huge. All right, Raiders. Next, they're playing the
Speaker 1: night against the Chargers, so you'll be watching that one.
Speaker 1: I'm sure their offense is really playing at a high
Speaker 1: level in the passing game. Yeah, there they got. You know,
Speaker 1: have so much respect for Derek Carr. He's a heck
Speaker 1: of a quarterback. He's playing at an elite level right now.
Speaker 1: You know that having that tight end Waller there and
Speaker 1: and morrow, and then the running backs and the speed
Speaker 1: that they have at wide receiver. So all in all,
Speaker 1: you know that offensive line coach Scruton is doing a
Speaker 1: great job with him. They're playing with a ton of
Speaker 1: confidence and I think right now, you know, to be
Speaker 1: a team that's undefeated. They got a game tonight, Like
Speaker 1: you said, we'll be important to watch it. But that's
Speaker 1: going to be a huge challenge for us, and so
Speaker 1: it's going to be about us sticking together and trying
Speaker 1: to put another three phase game together. All right, enjoy
Speaker 1: your week of prep. We'll talk to you down the road.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Awesome thanks Jesse. Snap is back. Good
Speaker 1: protection Ifetti holds up going deep down the right side
Speaker 1: of money over the show, We're a different mix. The
Speaker 1: catch inside the five yard line, Bears are gonna be
Speaker 1: first in goal. Great adjustment by Mooney, terrific throwaway from
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Speaker 1: in our guest this week, offensive coordinator Bill laserbil congratulations
Speaker 1: on the win. Terrific job. Let's start breaking it down,
Speaker 1: beginning with a Darnell Mooney connection with fields. So we
Speaker 1: heard the earlier sixty four yarder and this was that
Speaker 1: sideline throw, a terrific well placed ball by and the adjustment,
Speaker 1: the adjustment by Darnell to make that happen. But the
Speaker 1: decision thereby by justin to make that play part of
Speaker 1: the big picture success of the day. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: we did a nice job of playing aggressively on the
Speaker 1: outside that they the guys went into the game feeling
Speaker 1: good about the matchups with the DBS, and obviously Justin
Speaker 1: trusted them and took some shots. I think it helped
Speaker 1: really help, you know, change the field on some of
Speaker 1: some of those drives for us, and it was really
Speaker 1: huge and we were able to get those things done
Speaker 1: on first and second down, which is which is really big,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as being able to protect and
Speaker 1: play action a little bit. So we felt like it
Speaker 1: we were hoping we would get some of those balls
Speaker 1: down the field and it turned out season high and
Speaker 1: points and yards for the Bears. A couple keywords that
Speaker 1: you and Matt and Justin after the game had repeated
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week, and that was rhythm.
Speaker 1: Did you have it yesterday? Well? I think I think
Speaker 1: when you're when you're not getting the third down very often,
Speaker 1: it feels a lot better. And I think we all
Speaker 1: felt that, you know, we were able to make first
Speaker 1: first downs running the ball more than than we had
Speaker 1: some and we weren't getting the third down a lot.
Speaker 1: So I think those uh, you know, some of those
Speaker 1: drives felt felt really good for the guys because they
Speaker 1: felt like as as a drive went on, we got stronger.
Speaker 1: So I think everyone felt that and I certainly loved
Speaker 1: that right from the first snap you go one back,
Speaker 1: three tight ends and a bunch of tight end, multiple
Speaker 1: tight end formations and running the ball. That the end
Speaker 1: result was fantastic in terms of production. But I mean
Speaker 1: it was a mentality, wasn't it to get real, real
Speaker 1: physical up there? Because everybody blocked in this one. Well,
Speaker 1: someone told me a long time ago that the effort
Speaker 1: of the players is what wins games, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was on display, and it showed up in the
Speaker 1: passing game also, But certainly there were plenty of great
Speaker 1: clips from the run game where it was the effort
Speaker 1: of our players and their willingness and enjoyment being physical
Speaker 1: that showed up. And I think they had fun. I
Speaker 1: think that they have fun when they watch that on
Speaker 1: tape together too. Yeah, you know, receivers, you'd think that
Speaker 1: sometimes you'd have to talk them into the idea of hey,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna block, maybe today more than you're
Speaker 1: gonna But you know, this is a different group of guys,
Speaker 1: and beginning with Alan, Alan is a professional through and through,
Speaker 1: and he did a ton of blocking and you're seeing
Speaker 1: Darnell chopping down Austin Bryant six five, two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty pounder giving him a cup block. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: fun too for these guys, I'd imagine. Obviously the payoff
Speaker 1: is the big catches, but those little things give a
Speaker 1: very prideful approach for everybody involved. When you rush for
Speaker 1: almost one hundred and ninety yards. Well, part of being
Speaker 1: successful is the willingness of everybody to sacrifice. And not
Speaker 1: everyone's doing exactly what they want on every play, but
Speaker 1: if guys buy into it and they work for each other,
Speaker 1: and then you know, take pride in the fact that
Speaker 1: when when their teammates see them out there sacrificing for
Speaker 1: each other, Uh, it just it just adds to the
Speaker 1: whole group. And so I think when when you're in
Speaker 1: the locker room after the game, um, guys are smiling
Speaker 1: and high fiving and they they realized that they did
Speaker 1: it for each other. And again it's it's the effort
Speaker 1: of the players that made the difference today. You know that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you saw it coming too in terms of
Speaker 1: justin because you indicated, you know, when you your news
Speaker 1: conference last week with the media on Thursday, that the
Speaker 1: practice made made you feel like, Okay, this is this
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting. I'm paraphrasing what you said,
Speaker 1: but you liked how Justin approached the practice. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it showed up on on on
Speaker 1: game day. I thought that the procedure was was pretty good.
Speaker 1: And you know, you rarely come out with with perfection,
Speaker 1: but everything down to um the time we were breaking
Speaker 1: the huddle, during the four minute drive and when we
Speaker 1: were snapping the ball, so we were using every second
Speaker 1: on the clock. Of all those little things matter and
Speaker 1: and none of them is a huge, huge deal, but
Speaker 1: when you add them all up, it's a lot that
Speaker 1: a QB has to do on game day. And just
Speaker 1: just like we talked about, I thought we thought during
Speaker 1: during the practice week, Justin's procedure and all the little
Speaker 1: things were really sharp and translated to game day. So
Speaker 1: we're excited about that receiver to the writers, Robinson left side,
Speaker 1: good one snap play, fake field. Look at the throw
Speaker 1: going deep down the right side. He's got Robinson inside
Speaker 1: of the twiteter a first down. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaching Show, joining us his offensive coordinator Bill Laser.
Speaker 1: Back with you until eight o'clock tonight as we break
Speaker 1: down the Bears win over Detroit Lions. That that throw
Speaker 1: and catch to Robinson, Uh, please break one down for us,
Speaker 1: because that was beautiful front and end. Well, a couple
Speaker 1: of things that showed. The first of all, I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone is surprised to see to see Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: make that kind of catch because we know he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's obviously able, he's a big man. He'll reach up
Speaker 1: for the football like he did contested place right. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously have been have been his specialty over time. Uh.
Speaker 1: The thing that showed up with it that you know
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't know until you until you see it
Speaker 1: was just uh Justin's trust, you know to put it
Speaker 1: in that small window for him and then also obviously
Speaker 1: his ability to get it there and so between the
Speaker 1: two of them and would would it was just a
Speaker 1: hand of a play and at that moment I think
Speaker 1: gave great momentum to the offense. Those big plays, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he talked about that before the season even began.
Speaker 1: That's what he went into his offseason mode, was the
Speaker 1: ability to cry, cry and create more explosive plays, whether
Speaker 1: that working on his own speed, and quickness out of
Speaker 1: his brakes, and that really is the key that to Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, it's very difficult to do these long drives,
Speaker 1: so those big chunks make a big difference. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think we had I think we had five
Speaker 1: passes over twenty, you know, and they were all first
Speaker 1: and second down plays, you know, where where you know
Speaker 1: the defense maybe isn't necessarily in that all out pass
Speaker 1: rush Molard right now, and you can add a little
Speaker 1: play action at times to it. So those I think
Speaker 1: all five of those plays really helped turn the tide
Speaker 1: in this game. They flipped the field and gave us
Speaker 1: a momentum to go score. Justin was under center a bunch.
Speaker 1: How did that make him feel versus playing in the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Dank game? And did that make a difference. What
Speaker 1: was the thinking behind that? Well, I think the center
Speaker 1: versus shotgun, that's that's a decision we kind of make
Speaker 1: going into each game because we have the ability to
Speaker 1: do both. There's always a mix of the two going
Speaker 1: into the plan. And sometimes as the game starts to
Speaker 1: play out, despite you know how much what you thought
Speaker 1: the ratio would be, sometimes it is working a certain way,
Speaker 1: and so and certainly the understander runs were working early,
Speaker 1: so that that kind of lends itself to keep going
Speaker 1: in that direction. As far as Justin goes, I think
Speaker 1: he has the ability to do both, you know. I
Speaker 1: think he there's a different rhythm to be an under
Speaker 1: center than there is from the gun, and on certain
Speaker 1: plays probably quarterbacks like that rhythm. So it helps some
Speaker 1: time it up. But he's shown us the ability to
Speaker 1: do both, and we have enough to be able to
Speaker 1: react during the game if we need to. And so
Speaker 1: I think we had a pretty good mix. And owning
Speaker 1: the snap count and a home game is a big
Speaker 1: difference as well for a quart especially a rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: in this case. Did you feel that also because he's
Speaker 1: in command of that one right there, did that make
Speaker 1: any I think I think it helped. We talked about
Speaker 1: the whole the whole procedure, all the different things he
Speaker 1: had to do. Um, it probably helped him be able
Speaker 1: to be in control with his voice a little bit
Speaker 1: in this game. Um, you know, I think you know,
Speaker 1: I'm up in the box watching it during the game,
Speaker 1: but even from up there, usually you can tell a
Speaker 1: thing when things get off or for Crisp and I
Speaker 1: had the sense that we were pretty crisp. He also
Speaker 1: after the game said he appreciated just the interaction with
Speaker 1: you in his ear and the calmness. And this is
Speaker 1: a calm guy, so you know, he's it's just really
Speaker 1: interesting to hear him talk that way. Do you think
Speaker 1: that was a very good aspect for him to hear
Speaker 1: that and and get the game going in the right
Speaker 1: direction right from the first drive of the game. Well,
Speaker 1: you'd have to ask him, I guess, or have him
Speaker 1: elaborate out. I can't speak for him. I think when
Speaker 1: I watched watched him during the game, I mean, you
Speaker 1: saw a guy that really doesn't get rattled, a guy
Speaker 1: that that handles himself right. Um. I think that gives
Speaker 1: confidence to his teammates when when he appears to be
Speaker 1: under control, you know, he's guys different and how how
Speaker 1: he approaches the game. But I think I think we've
Speaker 1: we've all done a pretty good view now of this
Speaker 1: this being a poised guy out there. Let's talk David
Speaker 1: Montgomery because everybody's just sick about it. Hopefully it's not
Speaker 1: a long term thing. But this guy, you know, you
Speaker 1: can make a case that well, I told him a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. You know, are you comfortable with
Speaker 1: the idea You're one of the faces of this franchise
Speaker 1: right now. And because of his love of the game
Speaker 1: is desire. His teammates want to play for him. They
Speaker 1: want they all talk about wanting to block for David.
Speaker 1: He's really you know, as as Ryan is referred to players, multiplier,
Speaker 1: he's a multiplier. Well, he's he's he's got a spirit
Speaker 1: about him. Uh that is contagious, you know. And and
Speaker 1: the toughness, I mean it certainly feels like and looks
Speaker 1: like he's got this this certain nose for the end zone,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get in the red zone. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch him go. And uh, yeah, we
Speaker 1: were hoping for the best and hoping to have him
Speaker 1: back as soon as possible. Um, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: part of part of football when you when you lose
Speaker 1: someone who means so much to you for whatever amount
Speaker 1: of time it's going to be. Uh, you have to
Speaker 1: just take the approach. And not only are we looking
Speaker 1: for a back right or running back to pick it
Speaker 1: up to replace him, but okay, now the rest of
Speaker 1: you also have to pick it up. I mean David
Speaker 1: isn't someone you replaced with one guy. It's gonna take
Speaker 1: everybody picking their game up to try to make up
Speaker 1: as best we can for whatever amount of time you
Speaker 1: might not be there. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with offensive coordinator Bill Laser. More of Matteggie coming
Speaker 1: up in moments as we look ahead. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the Raiders in just a moment with Bill, and they're
Speaker 1: playing tonight as we speak against the La Chargers at
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. One of my favorite players in the game
Speaker 1: was the Wildcat with Williams and Herbert in the backfield.
Speaker 1: Didn't know what was going to happen, and here you
Speaker 1: got it winds up all three had a hand in it,
Speaker 1: and Herbert winds up being a lead back for Montgomery.
Speaker 1: How did you like that play? Well, we all obviously
Speaker 1: like the results of it. But I think when you
Speaker 1: when you when you're able to do kind of some
Speaker 1: fun things like that where you get multiple backs together,
Speaker 1: even when you start practicing those kinds of things, I
Speaker 1: think the guys have fun with it, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's really a knee room that running back
Speaker 1: around with the guys that we have and when they're
Speaker 1: out there blocking for each other and playing for each other,
Speaker 1: and they they enjoy that. They take a lot of
Speaker 1: prime minutes. So so it is important to sprinkle in
Speaker 1: a little fun right in the in terms of just
Speaker 1: you know, turn around and hand off and let it rid. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think they would tell you it's good
Speaker 1: to have a little fun mixed and as long as
Speaker 1: it works, I'm for it all right, Time to look ahead.
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Speaker 1: right now. Raiders off to a good start. They last
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl they were three and oh
Speaker 1: and that's where they're at heading into this one. And
Speaker 1: you got to look at a couple of pass rushers,
Speaker 1: I guess out of the gate, Max Crosby and Unique
Speaker 1: and Gackway to start this thing in Gus Bradley and
Speaker 1: the new defensive coordinator over there as a Cover three
Speaker 1: defensive guy in his background. What do you what do
Speaker 1: you see in the Raiders in their early stages? Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know good. Gus has a reputation for
Speaker 1: a style of defense and it's not the scheme of
Speaker 1: what they run. But it's also how how they play,
Speaker 1: and I think I think he's deserved that. And so
Speaker 1: I even before you turn the tape on, you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of had a pretty good sense of what
Speaker 1: you were going to get. I had coached with gust
Speaker 1: and back in Seattle years and years ago. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think the guys getting the press right now,
Speaker 1: you know, all those guys up front who are are
Speaker 1: reaking havoc a little bit. And as you know, when
Speaker 1: when the front the rushman up front, uh caused problems
Speaker 1: in the offensive backfield, it gets hard to do to
Speaker 1: do lots. So I think I mean, if you looked
Speaker 1: at it on paper right now, you know it doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't look real pretty because they're not letting people
Speaker 1: get first dounds. You know, they're they're not letting people
Speaker 1: get a lot of yards per attempt passing and uh
Speaker 1: you know they're they're they're they're uh pretty stout. So well, well,
Speaker 1: I think we'll have to find a way to match
Speaker 1: up better, you know than maybe what we've been doing
Speaker 1: recently on third down. That'll be that'll be key to
Speaker 1: staying on the field. We're able to stay out of
Speaker 1: third down to a little bit. That will help too.
Speaker 1: But when we get there, I think I think they'll
Speaker 1: they'll prove to be pretty stout defense to turn the
Speaker 1: sticks on. So it's going to be a challenge, all right.
Speaker 1: Very good Bill, Thanks for your time as I always
Speaker 1: seeing a couple of weeks. Good luck with your prep
Speaker 1: this week. Great, Jeff, appreciate it. Thank you, Bears offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Bill Lazier. That's gonna do it. For tonight's show.
Speaker 1: I want to thank our producers Jordan Trdup and Andy
Speaker 1: Gersher along with Keith Johnson. It'll be the Bears and
Speaker 1: Raiders from Vegas on Sunday, our pregame at noon, kickoff
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