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Speaker 1: BBMS Jeff Joniac and a pleasant, good evening, everybody. Welcome
Speaker 1: back into the Bears Coaches Show this week with Bears
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Naggie. Winners over the Carolina Panthers now
Speaker 1: five and one through six weeks of this season. Jeff
Speaker 1: jonyak with you until eight o'clock tonight. Coming up, Bear
Speaker 1: Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. He'll be joining the program
Speaker 1: at around seven thirty And as I always are, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Whipplee, CPAs and Consultan's Matt good evening.
Speaker 1: Congratulations again, and you know, as odd as this is
Speaker 1: going to sound, at week six, Week seven, the Bears
Speaker 1: are in first place. That's not the oddity. The oddity
Speaker 1: is you control your own destiny. Right now, honestly, six
Speaker 1: weeks into the season, you're in first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC North And that's just the facts, man, That's exactly right, Jeff.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's so really really cool for
Speaker 1: our team to understand is that, hey, this is just
Speaker 1: the start, but it's so important to be able to
Speaker 1: put yourself, you know, in a position to where you
Speaker 1: do control your own destiny in the end essentially. And
Speaker 1: so they're really sticking together in these games. And hey,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of these games that have been tough,
Speaker 1: they've been hard, they're sometimes hard to watch, but what
Speaker 1: our guys are doing is they're fine ways to win.
Speaker 1: And I think right now what's happening as a team
Speaker 1: is we're building a little bit of an identity as
Speaker 1: a team forget offensive, especially as a team. We're kind
Speaker 1: of figuring out that, hey, this is where we can
Speaker 1: roll through adversity like we can go now. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what hits us, We're gonna stick together. And that's powerful.
Speaker 1: So as you feel the same kind of frustration maybe
Speaker 1: for somebody watching it or listening to it, you know,
Speaker 1: and things aren't going well, how are you managing that
Speaker 1: because I'm sure your blood's up at time or two.
Speaker 1: Not to mention some of the calls that didn't go
Speaker 1: our way, you know, in terms of those past interference
Speaker 1: penalties and whatnot. No, you're right, I mean the competitor
Speaker 1: in all of us is to make sure that we
Speaker 1: are just trying to be as close to perfect as
Speaker 1: you can be. And then when I talk about offense,
Speaker 1: you know, you get to a point where, okay, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: now we try to make an adjustment in the game
Speaker 1: yesterday of being able to go a little bit more
Speaker 1: tempo and just kind of break the monotony of where
Speaker 1: we were with the flow of the game and the rhythm.
Speaker 1: And so it's for different reasons it hasn't been where
Speaker 1: we want it, but at the same point in time,
Speaker 1: when you look back and you say, okay, in the
Speaker 1: first half, we had an eleven play drive. You know,
Speaker 1: we st on three or four possessions. We had a
Speaker 1: touchdown in the red zone after a sudden change on
Speaker 1: defense with the intersection. You know, in the second half
Speaker 1: we had two ten play drives. We had a touchdown
Speaker 1: that took four and thirty seconds and another field goal
Speaker 1: that took ten. So there are some positives, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what keeps you going is now saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: when we fix the end of the game third and three,
Speaker 1: third and two, and when we convert those or we
Speaker 1: don't have the issues with the time out in the
Speaker 1: delayed game on the first possession, you get that corrected,
Speaker 1: it feels a lot better. And at one point in
Speaker 1: time in that game, we were up twenty to six,
Speaker 1: you know, and so it could have been twenty eight
Speaker 1: to six, twenty seven to six, and it feels even
Speaker 1: more different. So we know we're close. We love being
Speaker 1: five or one. We know we can be a lot better.
Speaker 1: But that's that's excite. There were twenty six snaps yesterday
Speaker 1: with three receiver, one tight, a one back and you
Speaker 1: know it was a rob and it was Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: and it was a darnel money. You had eighteen passes
Speaker 1: and eight runs and you average seven point oh eight
Speaker 1: yards of play and five point seven five yards to carry.
Speaker 1: So that's does that give you an indication yet? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of good snaps right there in that
Speaker 1: personnel grouping. And do you use that as a place
Speaker 1: to start. Yeah, Well, you know you know where a
Speaker 1: lot of that came, Jeff. Was a lot of that
Speaker 1: was when we we went a little bit more tempo
Speaker 1: in that personnel, and you could feel that there in
Speaker 1: the second half. On those runs we had a run
Speaker 1: for five or run for eleven, or run for twelve
Speaker 1: or run for zero, a run for nine and a
Speaker 1: run for two, So that's what you're feeling when you
Speaker 1: say that, and then vice versa. When we weren't that,
Speaker 1: we had a run for minus one or run for
Speaker 1: one or run for minus one. So you feel a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. And some of those personnel's, Jeff,
Speaker 1: are the same as what you just mentioned, the eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: So there's just a little bit of a rhythm to it.
Speaker 1: And when you do get those runs that put you
Speaker 1: in second in three, second and two or first and ten,
Speaker 1: you can get in a rhythm and you can mix
Speaker 1: it up and do some play ashes, etc. So it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of doing that probably a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: and how we can get to it. But the guys
Speaker 1: went there, and again I'm just gonna keep harpening going
Speaker 1: back to when it would be one thing if these
Speaker 1: guys didn't care, if they didn't care but they do,
Speaker 1: and that's the part that we know by sticking together,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be all right. Yeah, Nick Foles definitely is
Speaker 1: one of those guys leading that way for you. And
Speaker 1: his news conference yesterday was compelling and I think every
Speaker 1: Bears fan that would have heard it would feel really
Speaker 1: good about what's in store for this team because he
Speaker 1: brought up things that you just did about the culture.
Speaker 1: He's thrilled to be here, he feels honored to be
Speaker 1: with this organization right now, and he was all jacked
Speaker 1: up after the game win aside admitted where the difficulties were, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have thrown that ball and learned from it.
Speaker 1: But overall, just imagine what this will look like down
Speaker 1: the road. That's what I think is really really going
Speaker 1: to be important for all of us to understand, is
Speaker 1: just that. And you know I saw that yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: I heard about how good he did and what he
Speaker 1: was saying because it was so real and so authentic.
Speaker 1: And so when you watch it and you see how
Speaker 1: organic it was, that's who he is and that's what
Speaker 1: that's the way he handles certain situations with his teammates
Speaker 1: offense and defense, special teams but when you feel that
Speaker 1: and you understand that we as a team, players and coaches,
Speaker 1: we all understand where we're at right now on offense.
Speaker 1: And it's not for lack of effort. It's it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of okay, when we do get this thing
Speaker 1: going with the way our defense is playing, it's it's
Speaker 1: better to be having to go this way and only
Speaker 1: get better than it is to go the other way
Speaker 1: where you start out really hot and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you go the other way. So we're just keeping
Speaker 1: things in perspective, and I think, uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: know me, Jeff, and you understand that how how how
Speaker 1: what we believe here, and that's that's staying very very positive,
Speaker 1: and when when bad things happened, it's okay, next play mentality,
Speaker 1: let's roll, let's stick together, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: I still feel strongly too, that it's now a large
Speaker 1: sample size because it's happened throughout your three years and
Speaker 1: many of these guys have been with you for this long. Uh.
Speaker 1: Winning tight games definitely, as you say, callous you and
Speaker 1: builds character and they do pay off in December and January.
Speaker 1: I really believe that without a doubt I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know where that helps you is when when it
Speaker 1: matters the most, which is when you try to get
Speaker 1: to the to the deal at the end. There you know,
Speaker 1: to be able to get into that deal at the end,
Speaker 1: you know you can, you can say it, you can
Speaker 1: say what it is, the deal at the end we
Speaker 1: get there, that's when it matters most because you've been
Speaker 1: through those you've been you've been tested, right, you've been
Speaker 1: You've been through those obstacles and we've accepted it. So
Speaker 1: now think about where how that can help us mentally,
Speaker 1: um and then knowing that it's we've been there, done that.
Speaker 1: And when you have that, you got a team that's
Speaker 1: very resilient and persistent and keeps going six together, it's
Speaker 1: hard to stop. And that's that's kind of where we're
Speaker 1: Atting the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie
Speaker 1: and WBBM's Jeff Joniac continues, fules throws, build the end zone,
Speaker 1: then tight coverage cut for the touchdown touchdown. Cole come
Speaker 1: at touchdown, Bears they lead at six nothing. Here on
Speaker 1: the first first cammer touchdown for Notre Dames, Cole commet
Speaker 1: the local product, who I learned from an article by
Speaker 1: Dan Wider or the Chicago Tribune that uh, Mama Commet
Speaker 1: was in the stands watching it there down in Carolina.
Speaker 1: So there were fans there and you felt that their
Speaker 1: presence a little bit. I couldn't tell calling it from
Speaker 1: from a television screen what it was like, but I
Speaker 1: heard there was a lot of chanting going on. But
Speaker 1: you know, from mom to be there to see son
Speaker 1: going catch his first NFL touchdown and what a play
Speaker 1: it was, both throwing catch. That's pretty cool. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: without that show. They'll always remember that one. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think back to the data we drafted Cole
Speaker 1: and his family in the living room and how excited
Speaker 1: they were. So I can only imagine what that would
Speaker 1: have been like for her to be there to see
Speaker 1: her her son's first NFL catch. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: gives you chills. And it was a really, really good catch.
Speaker 1: It was well contested, they were in a good coverage
Speaker 1: and so that's good. That's a good way to get
Speaker 1: started for him and hopefully we'll see a lot more
Speaker 1: of those in his career. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the defense. Hard fought again. This is a character driven unit.
Speaker 1: I believe as well. They're feeling the roads right now.
Speaker 1: Three takeaways, four sacks. But on the big plays, the
Speaker 1: splash plays, I numbered ten or eleven players had a
Speaker 1: hand in it. It's not just the guy making the play.
Speaker 1: There are ten or eleven guys. Fact, five guys had
Speaker 1: a hand in those four sacks for example. Um, that
Speaker 1: tells you that they're swarming and they're playing at the ball.
Speaker 1: And the type of coverage yesterday was significant because I
Speaker 1: kept watching tape of the last couple of games with
Speaker 1: the Panthers and seeing these in cuts crossers and they
Speaker 1: have the speed to break away and rip off big
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. That wasn't happening. No, it wasn't it.
Speaker 1: And just like you said it was. It was that
Speaker 1: some of the stunts and the defensive line movement that
Speaker 1: we had, the linebackers were playing fast and it just
Speaker 1: in the back end. It helped our guys out so
Speaker 1: much and they do a lot of good, good things.
Speaker 1: They have speed on offense in Carolina, and I thought
Speaker 1: that really they had. They had a couple of drives
Speaker 1: where they had, you know, thirteen fourteen play drives, but
Speaker 1: they ended in field goals and That's what we've been
Speaker 1: doing all year long, is being able to mean, you know,
Speaker 1: contain them and make them kick three points instead of
Speaker 1: getting that touchdown. So overall, everybody flew around. I mean,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson right now is having an unblieable Sea season.
Speaker 1: He's flying around very very oppert gandistic. I mean, punching
Speaker 1: that ball out. Obviously, had that touchdown taken away, which
Speaker 1: is a part of the game. But they're they're just
Speaker 1: all rolling right now. They're they're they're in a really
Speaker 1: good place. Coach Bagana's putting him in a good place,
Speaker 1: and they're just feeding off of each other. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are feeding off Kyle Fuller's physicality.
Speaker 1: He's really hitting people hard and they're not getting anything
Speaker 1: after the catch. Obviously, when you play aggressively, and I
Speaker 1: think you'd prefer they play aggressively, and if they're going
Speaker 1: to be a flag or two, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: deal with it. But because it is really it really
Speaker 1: is harder to find what passion interferences right now. But
Speaker 1: I'll take the shoulder to the chest any day. If
Speaker 1: it's going to be a fifty fifty decision, I'll go
Speaker 1: with that, wouldn't you? Yeah, absolutely, I think the Kyle's
Speaker 1: he's really having a great season, playing very physically. He's smart,
Speaker 1: he watches so much tape, so he's able to have
Speaker 1: great He already has great instincts, but now he can
Speaker 1: really use everything that hit all his knowledge that he
Speaker 1: takes into it. So being able to fall off in
Speaker 1: his own and hit a shallow cross guy like that
Speaker 1: another one. It's it's it's hard to be able to
Speaker 1: criticize the guy that's playing tough like that and playing physical.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is, and Kyle's great. He
Speaker 1: handled it awesome and he's gonna keep that going though.
Speaker 1: All right, how about you guys up front? Every one
Speaker 1: of those defensive linemen, between some of the games that
Speaker 1: they do with the twists and stunts, they're really I
Speaker 1: can't just sing a while one because they were all
Speaker 1: doing a lot of good stuff. And then along with
Speaker 1: those outside linebackers, you know, with with with Khalil that
Speaker 1: from the very first play of the game, Kalil makes
Speaker 1: a heck of a play on the run, dips inside
Speaker 1: and makes the play. And then I thought that Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn the entire game, his motor was going one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour and that's why he's here. So he
Speaker 1: affected the game. He affected the quarterback, and then Vaughters
Speaker 1: and Mingo again you felt them too, So the four
Speaker 1: of them really put together a great game along with
Speaker 1: his d Lineman. We knew this was coming. We felt
Speaker 1: it was coming, we heard it from him, and now
Speaker 1: six weeks in, we're feeling real. Kuan Smith, you talk
Speaker 1: about feeling, how about that play sniffing out the screen
Speaker 1: where he created the leverage by just dipping out it
Speaker 1: would not he would not be blocked, and that play
Speaker 1: was sighting. That's a great play right there, firing his gun,
Speaker 1: He's like a missile. That's not you know, you've been
Speaker 1: seeing it all year, man, he's been He's been making
Speaker 1: those plays on those screens. And what I thought was
Speaker 1: so important at that point in time was he made
Speaker 1: a He not only made that tackle, but he you know,
Speaker 1: keeping them in bounds to keep that clock rolling. We're
Speaker 1: very very important too. So he's playing at a very
Speaker 1: high level. I love his confidence. Coach da Leone is
Speaker 1: getting those guys going. Danny Trevizi yesterday played I think
Speaker 1: his best game in the season. I think you really
Speaker 1: felt him. So those two guys combined with everybody else
Speaker 1: on d it's there. You know you really like it.
Speaker 1: You made a decision to go with Rochette Coward at
Speaker 1: left guard instead of Alex Bars. Is that what you wanted?
Speaker 1: A more physical presence at this time? And how did
Speaker 1: you think that all worked out? No, they're they're both
Speaker 1: physical players, and you know, Rochette has a little bit
Speaker 1: more experience and he's doing they're both doing really well
Speaker 1: in practice, you know, leading up in training camps as backups,
Speaker 1: and now they get an opportunity. So I think Shad
Speaker 1: would tell you that there's a couple plays yesterday that
Speaker 1: he could have been a little bit better apt But
Speaker 1: we're foolish if we all think that he's going to
Speaker 1: come in here and just be perfect on every single stime.
Speaker 1: That's just not realistic and it's not fair to the kids.
Speaker 1: So you just have to minimize those right when it
Speaker 1: do happen, you have to minimize him, and then he's
Speaker 1: got to learn from those, and he will, and then
Speaker 1: you just continue to keep learning from your coach. Coach
Speaker 1: Castile in practice the rest of it this weekend and
Speaker 1: can you improve and be the best guy you can
Speaker 1: beat for the end of the season. No more of
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Speaker 1: throws near your site. Broke it up, editors up, get
Speaker 1: on the tip, hit side of the ten head take
Speaker 1: it out of botonds on the near sideline. It is
Speaker 1: intercepted by to Shaun Gibson. Shaun Gibson with his twenty
Speaker 1: fifth career interception, Jalen Johnson getting his hand in there
Speaker 1: to create the breakup and the deflection of the hands
Speaker 1: up to Sean Gibson. So it's one thing to get
Speaker 1: the ball and you're defending a player, but another to
Speaker 1: be in the area code which Eddie Jackson and to
Speaker 1: Shaun Gibson clearly are thinking. A tremendous offseason pick up
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Gibson. Um, this was his m O. And
Speaker 1: these are the kind of plays, a lot of deflective
Speaker 1: passes here in the last few recent weeks. And that's
Speaker 1: a sign that you guys are still continuously and specifically
Speaker 1: making plays on the ball. Yeah, they are. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're anticipating the throws and then when you just get
Speaker 1: those those PBUs those pass breakups, ball goes up in
Speaker 1: the air and uh. And now you got ball hawks
Speaker 1: back there with two safeties that are just they roam
Speaker 1: around man and they know where to go and they're
Speaker 1: at the right spot at the right time. All right.
Speaker 1: Back on special team's Cairo Santos really kicked well there
Speaker 1: in Carolina for you as a Kansas City chief. He
Speaker 1: had four field goals in one game and an overtime win.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that one I kicked one.
Speaker 1: I guess as time expired, and so clearly comfort zone
Speaker 1: for him in a fifty five yard or in a
Speaker 1: comfort zone for you to get him try that one.
Speaker 1: That was big. Yeah, it was. It was neat to
Speaker 1: see him hit that fifty five yarder. You know you
Speaker 1: could you could feel a little bit of the breeze
Speaker 1: going left right there for for that. So I felt
Speaker 1: real confident from from fifty five and just had to
Speaker 1: go straight and he did it. The offense well continues
Speaker 1: to grow. You continue to get more comfortable Nick with
Speaker 1: the offense, you working with him, working with players more
Speaker 1: and more figure out more of what works, what doesn't,
Speaker 1: what in your opinion, needs to improve first, to kind
Speaker 1: of set the platform for it to build and grow on.
Speaker 1: What I would say when you ask that is is
Speaker 1: right now is collectively for all of us, and I
Speaker 1: know I've been saying it for a few weeks now,
Speaker 1: but for all of us to just do our job,
Speaker 1: you know. And when I say that, you know, if
Speaker 1: that's in the run game, calling a run at the
Speaker 1: right time by myself right, by mean being able to
Speaker 1: have the exact footwork and path by the running back,
Speaker 1: the old line communicating and making their double teams up
Speaker 1: to the mic linebacker on the same time that everybody
Speaker 1: else is doing the same blocks. Whether it's in pass protection,
Speaker 1: you know, are we are they just dropping off and
Speaker 1: they're having a four man rush and we're protecting in
Speaker 1: a play action pass and we we take the check
Speaker 1: down for gimme. Sometimes it's just the little things that
Speaker 1: you know, it might not be a forty yard pass play,
Speaker 1: it might get a checkdown, but you just doing the
Speaker 1: little things and doing your job, we'll get this thing
Speaker 1: back on track. And the reason why I feel confident
Speaker 1: about that is because of the styles of personalities that
Speaker 1: we have, the leaders that we have on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, they're they're grown men. They understand
Speaker 1: that and they care and that's that's the starting point.
Speaker 1: Penalties tie for most in the league right now. Is
Speaker 1: this a problem for you? Yeah? I mean it does it.
Speaker 1: The last several weeks, it's felt like there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of penalties, and that's a you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: make sure that we're doing everything we can to lead
Speaker 1: to learn from them and why are they happening. Yesterday
Speaker 1: we had a couple of substitution issues and those those
Speaker 1: gotta you know, you gotta eliminate those as you can't
Speaker 1: have those um and we gotta just know the why part,
Speaker 1: and then we got to do our job as coaches
Speaker 1: to make sure that we bring it up to the
Speaker 1: players so that they can eliminate them. All right. I
Speaker 1: think it was in the preseason or maybe uh right
Speaker 1: before it, you said team flights this year. You did
Speaker 1: it once last year. You're gonna walk around the plane,
Speaker 1: You're gonna talk to people front to back. Are you
Speaker 1: doing that? And it's been beneficial and you indicated in
Speaker 1: your press conference earlier today with the media that it
Speaker 1: was a fun ride home. I've been on a lot
Speaker 1: of team flights. It's usually, you know, even win or lose,
Speaker 1: everybody says always a crazy and there it's not a party.
Speaker 1: I mean, people are working on the iPads, they got
Speaker 1: their headsets on. But you kind of indicated that maybe
Speaker 1: it was a little different last night. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't that it was different, and it
Speaker 1: was just that there's a there's a really good sense
Speaker 1: and there's a feel right now of where we're at
Speaker 1: and understanding. You know, six games and we won five
Speaker 1: and you need to be able to position yourself the
Speaker 1: right way. But also, Jeff, what I think is probably
Speaker 1: more important and why we're at and why we are
Speaker 1: the way we are as a team is you know,
Speaker 1: some teams can be really happy and content with being
Speaker 1: five or one and just all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just okay, right, they're just even kill. The reason
Speaker 1: why I get insighted is from the converse stations last
Speaker 1: night on that plane is that we know there's a
Speaker 1: lot more ahead of us. We know there's a lot
Speaker 1: more room for improvement. And so when you know that,
Speaker 1: how do you not get fired up? About that, and
Speaker 1: so we're in a good We're in a good spot.
Speaker 1: We got a great challenge ahead of us this week
Speaker 1: going to LA They're a really good football team and
Speaker 1: they're well coached, so it's gonna be a big challenge,
Speaker 1: and we just got to keep doing what we're doing,
Speaker 1: which is we got to do everything we can to
Speaker 1: win the football game. It's a little mini rivalry starting
Speaker 1: to develop here right with the Rams. Yeah, they're they're difficult,
Speaker 1: they're tough, and you know, they got us last year.
Speaker 1: And I just have a lot of respect for Sean
Speaker 1: McVay and what he does there and how he does it.
Speaker 1: And they got a great football team. So you know,
Speaker 1: being an NFC team does matter. They matter a lot.
Speaker 1: And so they're coming off a tough loss last night
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. So we just got to make sure
Speaker 1: we have a really really efficient and productive week of practice,
Speaker 1: we take care of our bodies, and then we go
Speaker 1: out there and statementally focused. That's Bears head coach Matt
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Speaker 1: the Bears w BBMS Jeff Jodiac. Snap placement made kicked
Speaker 1: by Cairo Santos climbing to the uprights and the kick
Speaker 1: is good from fifty five yards. Cairo Sancho snail's ay
Speaker 1: career long fifty five yard or a key boot right
Speaker 1: before halftime and the Bears get the win over the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Whippley, CPAs and Consultants. Jeff Joniac joined
Speaker 1: now by the Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. Good to
Speaker 1: have you alongside it. I feel it was a mighty
Speaker 1: important three points. How do you feel about it? No,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a big three points. Obviously him
Speaker 1: hitting his career long that that was big, But the
Speaker 1: just the whole operation, the guy guys blocking snap holding
Speaker 1: kick was is great. And then anytime you can get
Speaker 1: points right before you go into halftime, and then you know,
Speaker 1: we were receiving the ball in the second half, so
Speaker 1: it gives you an opportunity, you know, to get that
Speaker 1: two for one going. So that was big. Really proud
Speaker 1: of Cairo on that, and hopefully we can continue that. Well,
Speaker 1: he's on a roll right now. I called it sizzling Santos.
Speaker 1: He's seven for his last seven. That's good. It's a
Speaker 1: lucky number. Hopefully we can increase that number. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't field goal kickers like that kind of
Speaker 1: success in terms of streaks, they start to feel a
Speaker 1: certain mojo or or am I just making that up
Speaker 1: in my own head? I think everyone talks about streaks, Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean we don't. I mean it's it's really it's
Speaker 1: always about the next kick at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: because that's the one people are going to remember. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's hitting. The thing I'm really proud
Speaker 1: about him is it is the way he's just striking
Speaker 1: the ball, the rotation of it. He's shortened his steps
Speaker 1: a little bit and he's making great, great contact and
Speaker 1: he's sitting there where he wants it to go. And
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm really nosing about him is when
Speaker 1: we go out to practice, how he's handling the wind.
Speaker 1: Whereas a few weeks ago he was he was figuring
Speaker 1: it out. Now he's now he's taking it on. So
Speaker 1: I think those are signs of you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: what you want, and a guy that's going to kick
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Patrick O'Donnell yesterday set up some long fields,
Speaker 1: didn't he He did, and he really m I think
Speaker 1: that's that's why I don't get caught up in looking
Speaker 1: at stats, because I think that our net might have
Speaker 1: been like thirty seven or thirty five or something, not
Speaker 1: a it's not a high net. And uh, but the
Speaker 1: offense was doing a great job of if getting into
Speaker 1: midfield and then Pat was was pinning him in there
Speaker 1: and causing long field. So I was really proud him.
Speaker 1: I thought that was his best game, uh, that he's
Speaker 1: had this year. And uh, in fact, when that one
Speaker 1: that checked up on the two yard line, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure during a TV time out, if someone didn't
Speaker 1: come out and replace the sand, you know, put a
Speaker 1: little sand in there because of a divot out there.
Speaker 1: I mean that thing just stuck. And I was really
Speaker 1: proud of I mean the last the last punt getting
Speaker 1: it off and he did a great job there and
Speaker 1: uh and really helped us. Yeah, that was oh moment. Indeed,
Speaker 1: break that down for us a little bit because Trenton Cannon,
Speaker 1: they're they're running back kind of was free. There was
Speaker 1: at a missed assignment type of situation. That's a mist
Speaker 1: assignment that uh, you know can't happen, especially in a
Speaker 1: moment like that. And uh, you know I told Pat
Speaker 1: he was the cleaner on that. Uh you know, my
Speaker 1: first go around here, we had Brad Maynard and we
Speaker 1: always called him the cleaner because there's something happened. He
Speaker 1: was able to get the ball off so fast and
Speaker 1: clean up everybody's mistakes. Pat Patio really did it there
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Dodge dodged a bullet, but something
Speaker 1: that has to get rectified. Yeah, because honestly, that's a
Speaker 1: couple in a few weeks and an important phase of
Speaker 1: the game, certainly dictating philps tion or God forbid a
Speaker 1: scoop and score if it's blocked. Um partially the week
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. But uh, these part of
Speaker 1: the details that Matt talks about absolutely and It's not
Speaker 1: hard concepts h to get done, just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: guys just have to do their job and have to
Speaker 1: continue to coach better to make sure that they do
Speaker 1: their do do their job. So uh, we still have
Speaker 1: happy that we are five and one. Happy that you know,
Speaker 1: Pat got that that off there and in those things.
Speaker 1: But we have plenty of things that we need to
Speaker 1: clean up in our area. So I'm still I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that because we need to improve and uh and
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Speaker 1: Show with Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor and WBBMS Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonia continue Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought
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Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at w ip fli
Speaker 1: dot com. Joined by Chris Tabor. Jery McManus was back
Speaker 1: felt him again on the field, had to lead the
Speaker 1: game again with a hamstring I don't know what the
Speaker 1: status is, but you can't ever overvalue the veteran impact
Speaker 1: of a guy like himself. What he does and what
Speaker 1: he does in terms of getting downfield as one of
Speaker 1: the first guys has really really become something of significance, No,
Speaker 1: no question. It was nice to have him back. You know,
Speaker 1: he recorded those two two tackles and then the downing
Speaker 1: of the ball at the two yard line. Those are
Speaker 1: those are three big plays. And anytime a player is
Speaker 1: able to get multiple, uh special teams tackles in a game,
Speaker 1: that's always that's always a good thing. So it was
Speaker 1: good to have him back. Um, and then hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll be ready to roll for Monday night because we
Speaker 1: need him. Josh Woods is starting to stack up some
Speaker 1: tackles as well, but I don't know if he got
Speaker 1: any yesterday, but I think he was up to six
Speaker 1: maybe for the year. As he developing in that regard,
Speaker 1: he's developing, he's a player. It still needs to improve,
Speaker 1: um and uh, you know, we we just got to
Speaker 1: keep keep him, keep him going. There's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of all the guys. I'm always concerned with what
Speaker 1: do we need to fix and so I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that he had that many tackles, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, because I'm thinking about other things. But I
Speaker 1: know I am proud of him. He's a good football
Speaker 1: player and UH can still improve. So so we're excited
Speaker 1: about that. In the first kickoff of the game, our
Speaker 1: Tavis Pierce down there. I had to check the scorecard
Speaker 1: real quick, and there he was. So that's Is that
Speaker 1: a development as well? No, it is. And you know
Speaker 1: that's a first time he's ever played on special teams
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't believe that he was a
Speaker 1: big special teams player in college, but those were his
Speaker 1: first live reps and that's kind of the you know,
Speaker 1: it's a COVID effect really, yeah, from from you know,
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of no preseason games. But the official
Speaker 1: came over to me a couple of times because we
Speaker 1: have to line up on the thirty four yard line
Speaker 1: on a kickoff, and he said, coach number forty six
Speaker 1: need needs to move up or also we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to call flag. I said, oh no, no, please don't
Speaker 1: call flag'll he'll be fine. I said this, I said,
Speaker 1: this is first game. I said, just just cut him
Speaker 1: a little slack and he says, okay, coach, I'll keep
Speaker 1: tell him, I said, just I said, I'm sure when
Speaker 1: you talk to him he's he'll look right at you
Speaker 1: and say, yes, sir, need did. But now I was
Speaker 1: happy for him. It's that's always exciting and tough for
Speaker 1: for a rookie to get his first reps, let alone
Speaker 1: and be a kickoff rep. See. I wouldn't imagine that's
Speaker 1: the kind of equity you build up over the years
Speaker 1: with the officiating croup. But I guess it helps. And
Speaker 1: maybe there are new guys that are in the same
Speaker 1: position because there are a bunch of new officials this year. No,
Speaker 1: there is, and and uh, we're just all trying to
Speaker 1: work together. Yeah, but what would you say? That's somewhat rare.
Speaker 1: I mean, because when you you're talking about calling the game,
Speaker 1: you just gotta call it the way you see it
Speaker 1: as an official, No, no, no question. But I will
Speaker 1: say this, I think the officials try to do a
Speaker 1: good job of letting the players play and they don't
Speaker 1: want to call silly penalties like for a guy who's
Speaker 1: not even moving and maybe he's on the thirty three
Speaker 1: and a half yard line as opposed to the thirty four,
Speaker 1: you know, a nitpicking there, So I think that's always good.
Speaker 1: They do a good job of coming up and saying, hey, coach,
Speaker 1: you were close here, you're close here, And I do
Speaker 1: appreciate that because that's the thing. We've been trying to
Speaker 1: eliminate penalties, and we accomplish that goal yesterday in our area,
Speaker 1: but we still we still got to improve technique wise
Speaker 1: as we move forward here. Have you over the years
Speaker 1: been one to be gregariously communicative with the officials over
Speaker 1: the years, do you like to partake in conversation? No,
Speaker 1: I'm I always want to be very respectful. I respect
Speaker 1: the job that they have to do. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you're down on the field, it is moving so fast
Speaker 1: and for those guys to have to make those call
Speaker 1: so quickly, I really respect that. And I know that
Speaker 1: people get upset with officials, but that's not it's not
Speaker 1: an easy job. And to be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: think more times than not, you know, I know there's
Speaker 1: there's miscalls, just like there's misplays by by players. Uh. Overall, though,
Speaker 1: I think when you slow it down, you go, boy
Speaker 1: that that official got it right and and in you know,
Speaker 1: live action. Uh there, it's it's a bang bang play
Speaker 1: and they got to make a decision. So very respectful
Speaker 1: of those guys and what in their job they have
Speaker 1: to perform. Quiet day in the return game, and you
Speaker 1: kind of intimated that Joey Slive is probably not going
Speaker 1: to give Cordall Patterson a look. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how many more will well, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we we knew he had a
Speaker 1: big leg, and he hits a lot of touchbacks and
Speaker 1: the guy is a good kicker. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, we always talk about sometimes when they try
Speaker 1: to hit it so hard and get out, he's gonna
Speaker 1: make a mistake. Yesterday he didn't make a mistake. But
Speaker 1: uh uh, you know, we're all is going to treat
Speaker 1: every game is different, you know, and hopefully we'll have
Speaker 1: an opportunity when we head out out west here to
Speaker 1: be able to get some returns. The Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni, Acabhama, Chris Taber, Bears Special Teams Coordina. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about DHC, otherwise known as DeAndre Houston Carson. When
Speaker 1: you see him making back to back game ending defensive
Speaker 1: plays and you know he's one of your core special
Speaker 1: teams guys that always probably has an eye on gosh,
Speaker 1: I could wish I could get on the field defensively
Speaker 1: and gets an opportunity and makes the most of it.
Speaker 1: How how does that make you feel? And I'm certain
Speaker 1: it's a It's a lot of pride for a who
Speaker 1: to me is just a pure football player. No he is.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of him. And in fact, I was
Speaker 1: trying to fix something from that previous punt play, so
Speaker 1: I didn't even see the interception, so I didn't know
Speaker 1: that it was him, and then they told me, and
Speaker 1: I was just so fired up for him, because in
Speaker 1: our world, DHC, I mean, he's he's the straw that
Speaker 1: stirs the drink for us. And and he's just a
Speaker 1: really heavy football player. And the thing about him is
Speaker 1: you go out to practice, he's going to be out
Speaker 1: there thirty minutes before practice even starts, so we can
Speaker 1: do some extra stretching and get going. He'll he'll text
Speaker 1: me at nighttime, hey, I was watching this watching that.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy studies more tape. He truly is
Speaker 1: a coach on the field, and it's I can just
Speaker 1: and that doesn't matter what special teams or defense. And
Speaker 1: there's a reason why he puts himself in good positions
Speaker 1: to make plays at the end of the game. Defensively,
Speaker 1: him doing that doesn't doesn't surprise me. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of people don't know much about him,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, and even though he's been here five years.
Speaker 1: That's great insight on DeAndre Houston. Carson clearly a core
Speaker 1: player on a very good special teams unit, and those
Speaker 1: types of guys they last in the league a long time.
Speaker 1: Perfect example with Sherik McManus over the years. Matthew Slater
Speaker 1: with the New England Pay also a very book smart football,
Speaker 1: book smart player, right, no question. You can't can't have
Speaker 1: enough of those guys because they I think what really
Speaker 1: helps having a DHC in your room and McManus and
Speaker 1: those type of things, guys that really study and work
Speaker 1: at their craft, is the young players, the rookies that
Speaker 1: come into our room and they're able to watch, you know,
Speaker 1: they figure out, hey, how this guy's been playing this
Speaker 1: long in the league. Why is that? And then they
Speaker 1: start seeing his study habits and how he does it
Speaker 1: and those type of things. Then that's you beginning to
Speaker 1: build your culture and you can build your unit that
Speaker 1: way and they develop pride together. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: you got got to have those guys. Chris, let's talk
Speaker 1: the Rams Special teams unit. I'm gonna start with the punter,
Speaker 1: Johnny Hecker. He can throw it, he can boot it.
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys you always bring up, no question.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's very crafty, has a lot of different
Speaker 1: clubs he can hit with regards to you know, punting
Speaker 1: the football. But then you know he's really like their
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. I mean he throws. The guy can
Speaker 1: throw it is very impressive. So you always got to
Speaker 1: be alert on that. So we'll have our hands fall.
Speaker 1: We know this unit and they're a well coached unit,
Speaker 1: but you know, we gotta at the same time, we
Speaker 1: need to fix our things and worry about ourselves and
Speaker 1: improve that way. And if we can do that, that'll
Speaker 1: give us a chance to play well on Monday night.
Speaker 1: All right, good luck with your preparation. Thanks very much, Chris,
Speaker 1: And that's a rap on tonight's Bears Coach you show.
Speaker 1: Want to thank our producers Jordan tread Up, Dan Billy,
Speaker 1: Eddie Grisher and Keith Johnson, and most of all to
Speaker 1: you for listening. Bears and Rams pregame four fifteen kickoff
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