WEBVTT - Nagy preps for Thursday Night Football | Coaches Show 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.800 And a pleasure. Good even everybody, and welcome into another 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:04.680 edition of The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.640 Whipplely CPAs in consultant time Jeff Joniac with a head 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.400 coach Matton Neggy as we break down yesterday's nineteen to 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.800 eleven loss to the Indianapolis coach. Good evening, coach, how 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.000 you doing and uh when you when you looked at 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.000 the tape, anything pop out that that concerns you at 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.440 the moment because you can't spend a lot of time 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.800 at it, frankly because of Tampa Bay coming in on Thursday. Yeah, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.760 you're right, Jeff. I mean we had to bust through 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.160 it real quick and just kind of see to confirm 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.320 what we thought we saw and I think you know 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.760 um stayed and the obvious you got to score more 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.680 than eleven points. You just can't have that. It is 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.440 a good defense we played against, but we can be 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.360 a lot better Offensively. You couldn't get into a rhythm, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.040 struggled to establish the run game and then third down, 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.360 you know, wasn't good enough for fourteen So that that 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.559 was that special teams too many penalties, block punt, So 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.680 we can be better there. I thought our kickoff return 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.840 was just okay. And in defense it did you know, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.840 a couple of third downs that we gave up, But 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.720 for the most part, Jeff, I felt them fine around overall. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.120 What types of things that you try to do, you 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.679 just couldn't seem to get going in the right direction. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.640 That maybe some of what they did. I know, you 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.679 always like to say you want to dictate, and you 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.280 know you have to worry about what you guys do, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.520 now what they do, but they did do some things well. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.319 They seem to be very sticky defensively. Yeah, you know what, Jeff, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:21.640 I think you hit it on the head there. I 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.400 think that they probably you walk out of this game, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.920 and at least for their their purposes on defense, they 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.200 dictated a lot of what went on yesterday offensively, and 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.880 so us it's back to the drawing boards for us. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.840 Sometimes you have these type of games that you got 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.480 to use and you stay positive and you figure out 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.360 the why part, and I think we'll do that. This 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.000 is Matt Naggie and the Bears Coaches Show. Jason Lescauso, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.800 the strength and conditioning coordinator, would join the program at 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.040 the bottom of the hour. Let's let's break down the 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.080 line of scrimmage. I know we talked before the game 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.280 in our pregame interview right before kickoff, and I suggested 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.600 that this could be one of these trench warfares that 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.080 it turned out to be that way where you to 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.600 battle up your fist and try to fight your way 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.760 out of it. It was. It definitely was, and I think, um, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.600 you know, when you look at it. Going into it, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.840 we knew that defensively we're going to have to stop 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.840 the run. And really, for the most part, there was 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.400 one or two runs, one of them being at the 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.320 end of the game where they got a nice little 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.840 chunk on it. But I really felt our guys up 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.679 front except that challenge and do a great job of 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.920 stopping the run overall from the course of the game. Offensively, again, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.240 I keep saying it, I know that we can be better, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.640 and I have no you know, no doubt we will. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.520 But we got to do it. You know, you have 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.880 to be able to run the football, and you got 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.519 to be able to get some chunks too. It can't 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.840 always be second and eight, second and nine, and and 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.799 our guys will understand that that's that's that's that's part 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.359 of the game, and we just getting Then we got 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.640 a scheme better as well. Now, one of the things 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.359 that let's talk defense for a moment too, because they 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.720 only allowed two point eight to carry that two long 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.520 runs of sixteen plus are two plays of sixteen plus. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.840 That was really it. And you hold a team to 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.920 nineteen points. Yes, everybody could play better, pass rush can 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.440 get home better, make the hits on the quarterback better. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.720 But you know that's that's a pretty solid performance by 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.240 the defense. Yeah, it is. And again that's what I 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.760 felt yesterday at the end of the game. I thought, situationally, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.560 we've shown it all year long. Now, Jeff defensively when 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.360 teams were kind of a bend, but don't break deal 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.120 where teams getting in that red zone and we're not 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.120 giving up touchdowns, we're making teams kick field goals. And 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.200 so that's a credit to Chuck and those guys, those 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.440 players playing hard and playing fast. It it's gonna end 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.519 up helping us out in the long run. Let's break 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.040 down Nick Foles. First start, he said, you know, I 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.359 need to execute better, but overall, how did you look 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.880 at his performance? Well, again, you know there's a calibration 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.360 through this process. And when I say that there's a 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.400 there's a calibration for him, uh, having his first start, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.960 you know since last year, getting into a groove and 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.280 trying to figure out the best way that he plays 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.680 with his teammates. And then there's also Jeff a calibration 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.040 for us as coaches with Nick and how does he 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.400 work And so you've you've heard me say it last week. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.040 There's gonna take a little bit of time here trying 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.840 to figure out how this thing goes with him. And 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.080 that's where you know, with it being early on in 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.000 the season, four weeks in, we need that's our job 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.440 now is to get that calibrated as best as we can. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.240 And then how does that flip to the guys who's 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.160 throwing the ball too? Yeah, the same thing again those guys, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.880 just the timing of where they're at with their routes 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.760 and understanding schematically where we're at. Just all we're always 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.080 going to talk about detailing routes and making sure we're 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.480 exactly where we need to be. And the defense is 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.039 always there's moving parts and sometimes you gotta just win 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.680 and execute. That's just sometimes how this game goes. And 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.760 I thought yesterday you saw that towards the end of 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.960 the game. Our guys, our wide receivers, tight end made 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.560 some plays and the biggest thing is going to be 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.839 for us just to continue to stay positive and work 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.880 through this. A guy like Anthony Miller, is that an 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.200 area of where you gotta stay positive from his point 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.560 of view because he's a guy that wants it. I 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.800 can imagine him being frustrated. But I think he's like 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.640 five or fourteen in terms of catches to targets here 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.200 in the last a couple of weeks after making some 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.040 big plays. Is there a way to get fine consistency 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.240 for him somehow, just to have him feel some success 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.440 and help out a little bit here and in taking 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.360 the pressure off a rob in the tight ends. Yeah, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.240 And you know, Anthony's playing a lot in the inside 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.360 in the slot, and so there's gonna be some some 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.120 traffic in there, and there's gonna be a lot of 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.880 contested catches, and so what we can do is find 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.279 ways to kind of get him some some easier catches 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.880 to get going. He obviously made that huge catch last 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.640 week for the win, and we have a lot of 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.160 faith in him, and I think that Nick's going to 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.760 continue to just keep learning what he does and how 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.039 he runs routes, and then we got we gotta execute. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.120 Hecula learning on the jab role for Darnelmoney right now 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.640 is a fifth round draft pick. I know everybody's talked 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.839 about it's not too big for him, and it's clearly not. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.120 He's gonna start seeing a lot more physicality. I get. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.880 I get this feeling because not only can run by you, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.159 but he's doing a great job in traffic as well. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.719 Made a great catch on a thirty three yard Where 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.520 do you see his progress already after just one month. Yeah, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.719 he's every week, Jeff, He's getting better and better, and 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.599 that's what you love. I think that's the best part 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.880 of that is being able to see his growth. He's 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.720 really learning under a rob on the details of playing 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.520 that position, and there's gonna be times where he makes 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.160 a mistake here there, but for him to go up 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.480 and make that big grab yesterday down the left sideline 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.760 was definitely good to see. Hey, let's talk special teams 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.760 a little bit. I don't know if you get into 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.080 the intricacies of it, but on that partially deflected punt, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.240 that kind of set a poor tone for the day. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.960 I think you'd agree, right, right, out of the gate. Yeah, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.279 it did. And I know Coach Tabs again, I have 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.000 a lot of so much faith in him and what 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.440 he does, and he has so much passion back there 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.680 with those guys, and we really feel like we have 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.719 one of the best defense or special team junits in 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.360 the game. And so we gotta, you know, get back 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.000 and just understand the why parts. And I know Coach 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.599 Tabs again will do that and our guys will, they'll 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.560 they'll understand that we can't have that at all, let 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.800 alone the first punt of the game. And so we 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.640 got to bounce back there. And how do you feel 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.480 about having a veteran back there in Ted Ginn Junior, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.440 because there are many options on your two return punts 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.599 right now for the time being anyone. Yeah, there are. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.880 And Ted's the guy that we trust. We understand it. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.480 He's gonna, you know, for the most part, make good decisions. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.200 And uh and that's probably the biggest thing while he's 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.239 back there. Alan Robinson with a second consecutive one hundred 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.080 yard receiving day as the Bears fall in nineteen to 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.320 eleven to the Indianapolis Colts at Soldier Field. That touchdown 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.960 catch though, Uh, those are perfect examples of what he 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.960 does in those areas. He gets fights for the ball 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.080 fifty to fifty, go up and get a type of guy. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.520 And I think as the season goes on, more time 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.880 spent with Nick Foles, I think, uh and I think 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.600 you would agree that those are more possibilities there for 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.400 Alan Robinson and and and his quarterback. Now, yeah, without 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.600 a doubt, you can see that that that catch there, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.840 that's a little different than when the ball when the 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.240 when the DB's face guarding him or face shield him 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.640 and he's got to reach around him to get it. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.640 When when he high points it he has a he 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.560 does a really good job of going up and getting it. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.560 And you know, give credit to Nick for giving him 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.720 a chance. And so we just need to do more 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.200 of those and have more of that like we did 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.600 at the end of the Atlantic game, and do it 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.400 earlier in the first, second, third quarter. Um and these 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.320 next games coming up. I want to talk about Dave 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.280 Montgomery because uh, yeah, you set a point of attack 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.760 and he was just trying to burrow his nose in there. Man, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.360 it was not happening. It's hitting like a brick wall 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.400 a little bit with the running game, but he kept 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 he kept trying, he kept trying. Are we under estimating 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.960 this guy's physicality and his mental toughness and physical toughness 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.680 to to know he's gonna get Claubert because that was 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.080 a big, sturdy front wall yesterday that the Bears were 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.880 haven't tried to move out of the way for him. Yeah, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.920 you know, Dave David is uh just he's a He's 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.800 a ground and pale type running back that can do 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.560 a lot of things. Um, you know, in between the 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.080 tackles outside he breaks a lot of tackles, and yesterday 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.959 it was just one of those days where they did 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.000 a good job of trying to you know, shut down 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.400 those lanes that he doesn't have. And so you know 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.240 he'll David's gonna bounce back. I have all the all 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.160 the faith in the world and him and and our 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.200 coaches and our O line and our tight ends of 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.480 getting that back on track. And this is a part 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.000 of the game. You know, you get tested like this. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.400 It kind of tested you, test you a little bit 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.120 and makes you say, okay, how do we get better? 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.199 And it's good time and so our guys will be ready. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.280 I always go back to you on this, Yes, you're 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.280 the head coach, but you're the play caller. What was 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.439 your level of frustration throughout the course of the game yesterday? 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.160 As we use this term rhythm. Last week we had 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.559 a bunch of ours, relentlessness, you know, all kind of stuff. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.400 But this, I think, I think that would be a 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.400 fair thing, is the rhythm. Even as a play caller, Yeah, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.559 there there wasn't any rhythm. I think that's probably the 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.640 best word to use for our offense yesterday, is that 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.440 there was no rhythm, and um, it is difficult as 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.320 a play caller, and that's my job as a play 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.240 caller to try to find ways to get rhythm and um, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.120 you know whichever way that is. Whether it's it's running 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.840 the football, you get a rhythm and you hit some 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.679 play actions and some screens, and or if it's throwing 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.760 the football and then you pop some runs and you 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.200 know there, once we started losing time, when we were 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.960 down two scores, we had to become more one dimensional 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.760 yet again, so we I think rhythm's probably a good word. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.680 Head and into this next week the tough defense because 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.600 there were a couple of potential takeaways. Obviously, Khalil Mack 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.520 will be thinking about that one for a while. I 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.319 know he's gotta, he's gotta get rid of it, but 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.200 those are probably not as easy as they look. And 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.480 Roquan with a terrific attempt to get that interception just 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.760 by a hair. A great play there by Deshan Gibson. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.280 Do as you look back at it, with those two 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.079 plays make a big difference. Yeah, they would have situationally 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.400 with where they occurred at You know, I know Khalil 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.480 Khalil's an unbelievable athlete and he probably couldn't sleep last 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.840 night just being able to watch that just fall right 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.560 into his lap. And uh and then Roquan, what a 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.480 special play. It's just you know, you talk about a 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.760 game of inches. Literally his you know, his foot just 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.960 being out by an inch is tough. But we gotta, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.960 we gotta bounce back from those. And again I'm just 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.360 gonna go back to you know, there was a couple 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.960 third downs where Philip Rivers threw the ball up just 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.760 and it wasn't like he was wide open. They just 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.520 made a better play than us. It was good defense, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.840 it was great offense. But if we have those back, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.040 I thought the defense played really well. Let's talk about 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.160 Roquan because legian tackles. I think he had twelve or 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:08.080 thirteen tackles, but he was playing physical downhill, sniffing out 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.520 things and uh really with his hair on fire yesterday 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.440 in the face of a loss. I mean, I would 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.040 think that that would be bune of your prime players yesterday. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.839 That was important for him to play like that. And 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.080 again you felt that the defensive find the outside linebackers 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.160 getting you know, putting some pressure on Philip and then 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.880 he's getting the ball out to the backs and making plays. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.679 The one that jumps out to me in particulars when 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.960 they threw the little hat back screen and he just 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.839 shot out, you know, like a missile and just made 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.679 a great tackle. And so that's where you felt him. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.120 He also felt him on the little flare route down 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.360 in the red zone. So all around, good game by Roquan. Yeah, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.520 well he is the missile. He's the Minezuma missile. There 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.040 you go. Yeah, that's you know, I talked to him 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.720 before the game and a feature interview and you know, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.000 just talking about more splash plays because he piles up 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.960 the tackles. He's got the rain sideline to sideline. Would 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.160 you agree that the next level for him is making 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.199 those splash plays like blowing up plays like that or 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.920 taking an interception, or if he's calling on a blitz, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.320 get home and get the sack and get an interception, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.000 or I don't think he has a force mumble in 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.480 his career yet. Yeah, yeah, that would be that. But again, 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.280 you know that play that he made down there in 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.880 the red zone almost had an interception. And you just 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.840 as long as you feel him, and then when they're 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.480 running the football, he's closing up gaps and he's helping 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.439 out other guys. Sometimes there's plays that are made when 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.800 he's not making plays, and so that other stuff will come. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.720 But I'm really proud of the way that he's playing 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.439 right now. I think Coach Da Leon's doing a great 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.720 job with those guys on the inside, and you just 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.320 feel those guys playing fast. How did because we haven't 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.760 talked about this, how did the change in start time 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.040 affect you guys in any way, shape or form on 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.679 Saturday in terms, Yeah, it didn't affect us at all. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.080 You know, initially the guys are a little bit surprised 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.560 by it, but then you just you explained to him that, hey, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.000 we talk about expect the unexpected. We got to be 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.000 able to adapt an adjust. The cults are going through 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.080 the same thing, and so as as they understand that 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.319 this week right now they trust us and taking care 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.120 of their bodies and making sure that we give them 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.120 time to get their rest and heal up and get 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.680 ready for Thursday night, they're okay with it. I refer 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.120 to it as contingency twenty twenty in my lead in, 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.400 because that's the word you've used all along. I think 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.040 I think it's probably not the last time this might happen. No, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.640 without a doubt, they'll they'll be more. I mean, it's 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.439 that's just the way this year is going right now. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.280 And then if you get up in arms in it 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.160 and you get frustrated and you get you know, out 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.160 of sorts, it doesn't do any good. So we just 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.920 rolled the punches. Well, what was your conversation like in 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.480 the locker room with the fellas, what do you what 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.640 do you gotta tell them? Yeah, you know what it was, Jeff. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.120 It was just um letting these guys know that hey, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.240 this is uh, we're four games in, we're currently three 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.800 and one. Uh, it doesn't matter how you get to it. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.360 That's the simple facts. And so it doesn't feel good 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.880 right after the game when you're in there because you 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.160 lost the game and you're frustrated. But what we have 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.440 is a bunch of good guys that have been through 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.480 these moments before, and now we got to you know, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.360 rally back together. And the good thing of a short 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.240 week is that when you lose the game, it's a 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.920 it's uh. I mean, we're already on to Tampa Bay, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.240 and before you know, we're gonna be back at the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.079 hotel and back at Soldier Field and get back out 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.240 there again to try to go to four and one. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.240 So that was really the biggest message. There was no 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.640 yelling in the screaming. It was just let's just stay composed, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.679 let's stay together, and let's get back on track. How 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.680 did you guys get out of the game healthwise? Pretty good? 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.120 You know, I think, uh, in regards to to Dion Bush, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.400 he has a has a hamstring, But other than that, um, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.320 I think that, uh, we're really in good shape. So 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.120 knock on wood. You know, the addition of Tyler Bray 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.520 to be active in terms of a fifty three man 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.320 roster set up some flares out there. What was behind 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.680 the thinking of that because it certainly created a lot 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:48.240 of questions. Uh, just it's the way it is right 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.120 now at the quarterback position. Yeah, no, there there's absolutely 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.120 nothing to it. It's just a it was ability to 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.200 to flex him up and get him up to the 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.200 active He can be down there on the sideline with 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.440 us and literally nothing to it. You know, Mitch had 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.640 a really good week. He was really supportive and great 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.320 all week long. Uh, in the quarterback room and so uh, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.440 you know, I I totally understand why there's people that 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.040 are questioning, you know and figuring out what's going on, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.080 But there was absolutely nothing to it. All right, let's 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.480 take one more look at the idea with no fans 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.200 in the in the sound thing, because clearly the league's 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.000 blowing up. Point wise. Um, we've talked about it now 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:28.040 every single week. Are the benefits Are they gone for 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.680 home field advantage right now? In a sense, Yeah, they're gone. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.160 There's there's no home field advantage. It doesn't matter where 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.080 you play. It doesn't matter. Um when you get down there, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.720 you know, third and one, fourth and one, Um, you're 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.080 inside the five yard line. UM, when the crowd typically 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.040 if you're at home and the defense is up and 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.560 it's it's it's you know, the offense is on the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.640 road and you have the crowd cheering. You don't have 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.040 that anymore. So it's just a major advantage offense. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.320 so when people want to say, okay, they want you 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.560 know that we got these great pass rushers over the night, 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.320 they're not piling up sacks and hitting quarterbacks routinely every week. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.720 You have to give that a little bit to this reason, right, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.480 I would say, yeah, I think so. And again, the 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.720 quarterbacks that use their cadence that you get free plays. 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.440 You know, we we've fortunately, we've gotten four straight games 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.280 now being able to get a defensive all sides, which 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.520 which helps. And and so it's without a doubt, it's 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.840 a it's a weapon if you use it the right way, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.640 and it's certainly an advantage for the offense on the road. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.200 All right, let's look ahead, Tampa Bay Buccaneers coming in 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.240 and you're in a cramming session right now. But we 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.360 all know what Tom Brady is still capable of at 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.440 his age. It's really remarkable when you consider he's in 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.840 the same draft class as Brian Urlacher's already in the 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.240 Hall of Fame, and he's still throwing five touchdown games. Yeah, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.520 that's just what he does, you know. I mean, here's 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.920 a team that was losing twenty four to seven with 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.080 forty five deconds ago in the second quarter, and all 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.240 of a sudden to try to get out of the 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.120 half fumble that goes back to Tampa and a touchdown 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.240 is twenty four to fourteen, and then they just take 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.400 over from there. And that's what happens when you have 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.320 him a quarterback. He's one of the best, if not 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.320 the best, to ever play the game at that position. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.240 You're never out of it. He's only going to get 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.359 better with that team. And you know, um, I just 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.360 think that whenever you have him a quarterback, you're gonna 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.919 have a chance to win. So I guess one of 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.679 the preach points for you this week was no mistakes, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.240 no no easy giveaways. To give that guy a short 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.800 field at any point in the game. Yeah, if you 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.680 do that, you're gonna be in trouble. It's got to 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.840 be something where you're able to affect a pocket like 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.879 any quarterback, but you want to be able to affect it. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:33.879 You know, he's a tall quarterback, so he can he 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.400 can see over those those linemen and over the middle 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.679 of a field. And but you got to do that. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.439 And then offensively, we have to score more than eleven 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.760