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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak had a pleasant good day to everybody. Welcome
Speaker 1: into another edition of the Bears Coaches Show with Head
Speaker 1: Coach Matt Eberflus. Jeff Joniak here with you until eight
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight on news Radio one oh five nine w BBM.
Speaker 1: We recapped the twenty three twenty win over the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans at Soldier Field and gave me man, how you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Hey, thanks for giving me a shout
Speaker 1: out today at the news conference this afternoon, head to
Speaker 1: do it. I hear my name echoing, I go, I
Speaker 1: can't be good, can't be good. But it was. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you about it later as to why at the
Speaker 1: news conference. But that's the first time my name's ever
Speaker 1: been mentioned at a head coaching NewsCap. Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. Oh, I don't think you get a weekly
Speaker 1: of that, that's for sure. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the game. The name of the game is resiliency right now, right,
Speaker 1: And that's probably true for most of the thirty two
Speaker 1: teams in the league. I'll give you some numbers later
Speaker 1: as to why. But resiliency is necessary to get a win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt, you really do. You got to be
Speaker 1: strong in the fourth quarter, and you know, certainly in
Speaker 1: the second half. You know, they're all you know, decided
Speaker 1: by one score or less. You know, it comes down
Speaker 1: to that. So you know, the guys know that, and
Speaker 1: we've been working really hard at that. You know, it's
Speaker 1: really how we practice. You know, our mental and physical
Speaker 1: stamina is good, and it's how we practice every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: It's it's what we built upon, you know, during training camp,
Speaker 1: and the guys are able to execute down the stretch.
Speaker 1: You know, that's almost like a fuel tank. You know,
Speaker 1: you get that on full to have that, But when
Speaker 1: it's not on full, will you tell us that too?
Speaker 1: When you know, and something like that, you just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like the week was good and it showed up
Speaker 1: on a Sunday. Yeah, I mean, you know, I thought
Speaker 1: we had a good week of practice. You know, it
Speaker 1: was physical on Wednesday, and that showed in the running game.
Speaker 1: I'm both. You know, we ran the ball obviously very
Speaker 1: well on offense and that's all eleven of us, and
Speaker 1: then we stopped to run better on defense. You know,
Speaker 1: we were at a three point seven you know goal.
Speaker 1: We got three point eight for the game. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all eleven of us there too, So we thought
Speaker 1: we tackled better. That was a big emphasis for the
Speaker 1: game going into it. Not where it needs to be yet,
Speaker 1: but it certainly we tackled lower and we tackled better
Speaker 1: during the course of the game. Is it ever perfect?
Speaker 1: It can be real close. Yeah, that's what we're searching.
Speaker 1: You've had some of those games, huh yeah, where yet
Speaker 1: it must just be euphoric for a head coach who
Speaker 1: who is hammering that nail all the time for a
Speaker 1: moment like that in a game, well, it says a
Speaker 1: lot about the coaches. You know. The coaches worked tirely
Speaker 1: to get that done during the course of the week,
Speaker 1: make those corrections and to get better as a football team.
Speaker 1: And that's what we need to do every week. You know,
Speaker 1: we need to improve every single week. You know, going forward,
Speaker 1: how's the crowd for you? You gave him a treat
Speaker 1: at the end there on real Quant's pick and the
Speaker 1: field goal to walk off win. The place went crazy
Speaker 1: for that. But overall, you know, it was a patient
Speaker 1: game for a fan towards Yeah, the fans that the
Speaker 1: fans have been great. You know Chicago Bear fans there,
Speaker 1: they are very intelligent and man, they get loud when
Speaker 1: they need to get loud. And we're excited about having
Speaker 1: you know, that environment at home, you know, and certainly
Speaker 1: excited about being two and oh at home. So creating
Speaker 1: a home field advantage for ourselves, right, because you're getting
Speaker 1: a road here for a bit. I know you do
Speaker 1: one at a time, but there's a whole chunk of
Speaker 1: road games coming up for you. Yeah, and that's the
Speaker 1: same really the same preparation for us. And we feel
Speaker 1: a lot of times you get a little bit more
Speaker 1: time on a road game because you got that travel
Speaker 1: spot in the hotel and you have some more mental
Speaker 1: preparations you can get done there during that time. So
Speaker 1: I mentioned that I pull out this stat but two
Speaker 1: and one through three weeks in a season where eighteen
Speaker 1: games already in the league have been decided by three
Speaker 1: points or less this season. That's the most in NFL
Speaker 1: history through three games. Did you know that's dead? I
Speaker 1: did not, but I certainly know it by living it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it is always that way, and that's
Speaker 1: why you have to be good in situational ball. Offenses
Speaker 1: are not scoring a lot of points. It's down five
Speaker 1: percent overall. I don't know watching these things, but the
Speaker 1: NFL certainly chunks out that information every every Monday and
Speaker 1: after the game's on Sunday, so implying to me that
Speaker 1: the idea of having these type of games is exactly
Speaker 1: what the NFL loves because it keeps everybody's interest from
Speaker 1: the first kickoff to the final gun. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: way it is. That's the way it goes, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember back in twenty twenty, this scoring was sue
Speaker 1: the roof, you know, so you know, we couldn't tell
Speaker 1: if it was the crowd noise or what it might be,
Speaker 1: but certainly that season was a little bit different than
Speaker 1: this one started out all right, Well, you know, it
Speaker 1: takes time first quarter of the season anyway, with the
Speaker 1: training camps as they are now, do you buy into
Speaker 1: that at all? Just in terms of both offense and defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk about tackling. I mean we talk teams are always
Speaker 1: upset about tackling in the first quarter of the year, right,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think it's you know, if it's predictable,
Speaker 1: it's preventable, you know. And that's what coach Rods always say.
Speaker 1: So we got to do a better job of working
Speaker 1: that in. And I think, are you know, playing the
Speaker 1: preseason games helped us out, you know, to get us
Speaker 1: to a bigger, you know, better spot than if we
Speaker 1: wouldn't have played in those games, for sure. All Right,
Speaker 1: two eighty one, two hundred eighty one yards rushing the
Speaker 1: football most here since nineteen eighty four. That predates the
Speaker 1: Bear Super Bowl team, and they ran the ball a
Speaker 1: lot and at a great success rate. But that's that's
Speaker 1: impressive no matter how you slice it. Yeah, that's it's
Speaker 1: a historic I mean, you think about it, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of years between you know, now and then, for sure.
Speaker 1: But man, that's a great job by everybody involved. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we had a bunch of big runs, you know,
Speaker 1: which you need to have that to get that number,
Speaker 1: and everybody was involved. I mean, the receivers blocking on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, the tight ends blocking, um, the lineman jump
Speaker 1: into the second level to get to the linebackers and
Speaker 1: push them by the pile. And then you know Herbert
Speaker 1: making those you know, great cuts and um. It was
Speaker 1: it was all everybody involved and it was it was
Speaker 1: something to watch. It's empowering to see you win the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage in that regard, isn't it. I mean,
Speaker 1: players love that. I mean that bore him on the
Speaker 1: touchdown run, cleared his guy from right tackle all the
Speaker 1: way to the sidelines. I mean it's like out of
Speaker 1: a movie, putting a guy on the bench. I mean
Speaker 1: that that play blocked up had to be. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: showed that. I saw the play in the team meeting today,
Speaker 1: you know, because we show all usually show all the
Speaker 1: touchdowns and explosive plays, and then we showed the takeaways
Speaker 1: and all that in that meeting. But man, I highlighted
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys in there. Both tackles, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously he said, Larry pushed the dB down on the ground,
Speaker 1: and then you know the Braxon came up and finished
Speaker 1: and really had the touchdown one. And then if you
Speaker 1: look at uh Sam, Sam had a great seal block. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that that was excellent too. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good blocking on that particular play and obviously a
Speaker 1: great run. Heck blasting game also got to put him
Speaker 1: in there. Uh, Braxton Jones, he had two cracks at
Speaker 1: him because he kept going he finished. Yep. That's the
Speaker 1: definition to finish right there. And we want to be
Speaker 1: strong finishers and and that's how we practice. Who want
Speaker 1: to you know, start fast and finished strong and everything
Speaker 1: we do and those guys proved it on that play. Montgomery,
Speaker 1: I think eleven snaps housy today, like mentally because I
Speaker 1: know this means everything to him. He's the team's important
Speaker 1: to him. What he does on the field is important
Speaker 1: to him. And it happened on a play when he
Speaker 1: wasn't even running the football is yea. He's very passionate
Speaker 1: about this football team and about his teammates. And you
Speaker 1: know he's he's this that way. What a great worker
Speaker 1: he is, what a great teammate he is. And you know,
Speaker 1: certainly being injured, you know, you know he's done a
Speaker 1: little bit about that, but he's he's he'll turn the
Speaker 1: corner right now. It's day to day. We'll see where
Speaker 1: he is on Wednesday going forward and the rest of
Speaker 1: the week and then we'll go from there. But Herbert
Speaker 1: certainly took the baton. Uh. And this is somebody we
Speaker 1: got familiar with last year when David was out. He
Speaker 1: led the NFC and rushing for four weeks that he
Speaker 1: was in there. So excellent runner. What do you love? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a little bit different style. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: very smooth. Um. You know, he's obviously he gets North,
Speaker 1: you know, right away, and he's he has the ability
Speaker 1: to hit the home run. You know, That's that's what's
Speaker 1: great about him. Um. I love his style. And he's
Speaker 1: a he's a really good pass protector too, which is
Speaker 1: which is awesome thing to have for to be able
Speaker 1: to do both. The Bears Coaches Show with Matt Eberflus
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Speaker 1: dot com slash tickets. The pick, great read, came downhill
Speaker 1: with a real purpose, and heck maybe if it wasn't
Speaker 1: tipped by Alan General Blackson, he still might have picked
Speaker 1: that ball off because he had a he had a
Speaker 1: beat on it, didn't he Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: really a good play. Um. You know, we were in
Speaker 1: his own coverage there and he just read it and
Speaker 1: broke and and I really believe he probably would have
Speaker 1: picked it off no matter what. And uh, um, what
Speaker 1: a great play at a great moment, you know. And
Speaker 1: he's a he's an impactful player. Um, certainly had a
Speaker 1: great game. You know, the sixteen tackles, you know, and
Speaker 1: that great interception. You know, some TFLs and he was
Speaker 1: all over the field and he's in that well positioned
Speaker 1: for us, and that's a hot spot in our defense
Speaker 1: and you need a playmaker there and he certainly was that.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, he hummed the ball into the south
Speaker 1: end zone. I mean he must have thrown a mile
Speaker 1: A little gift for the fans but he just let
Speaker 1: out a lot of emotion. He's probably got a lot
Speaker 1: of pent up feeling for a variety of reasons. But
Speaker 1: he's constantly being compared though to other great players at
Speaker 1: that position in this particular scheme. So yeah, he wants
Speaker 1: he wants to deliver this kind of mail too. And
Speaker 1: there's going to be more of this, isn't it, Because
Speaker 1: the further he gets engrossed in this scheme and what
Speaker 1: comes to him and what he creates, there's going to
Speaker 1: be more big place here. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: places to be had in there, and he certainly got
Speaker 1: to make him and he certainly did that in this
Speaker 1: game for sure. And then we're excited about where he is.
Speaker 1: You know, he's growing in the defense, he's understanding where
Speaker 1: he fits in the defense. You know, and I said
Speaker 1: it last night. You know he's coming from a three four,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's a little bit more lateral. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a little more take on and this is more run,
Speaker 1: you know, it's more run, it's more speed, it's more playing,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, in front of the in front
Speaker 1: of the lineman in front of that are penetrating and
Speaker 1: you have to learn how to do that, and I
Speaker 1: think he's learning as he goes. He's getting more comfortable
Speaker 1: in that position for sure. Nicholas Morrow also had himself
Speaker 1: a nice game. Six tackles. A big one on that
Speaker 1: tackle for loss was third and six. Yes, that was
Speaker 1: a big play, but coming out of there, that gave
Speaker 1: that guy no chance to even get away. No, it
Speaker 1: was a great reaction and I love the tackle, the
Speaker 1: form tackle that he had on that and that's exactly
Speaker 1: how we want to do it. And we're going to
Speaker 1: use that for the rest of the team and the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys to show the perfect tackle and
Speaker 1: how you do that. But what a great reaction in
Speaker 1: a big time play, in a big moment. I think
Speaker 1: you and I talked about it the morning of the game.
Speaker 1: The proper way of I mean looking for more lower
Speaker 1: tackles just like that. That is that by definition your
Speaker 1: hamstring tackle. That is it right there. If you want
Speaker 1: to see the definition or a video clip of it, there,
Speaker 1: it is right there. That was awesome, awesome play right there.
Speaker 1: How about on the back in what how was your
Speaker 1: analysis of that after watching table? Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1: I think we give up a couple of plays that
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have. Um, you know, we got to do
Speaker 1: better back there on a couple of plays. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just communicating, you know, we did. We did a good
Speaker 1: job overall tackling though. I really like the tackling. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not where it needs to be, but it has
Speaker 1: gotten better. And we just got to keep getting on
Speaker 1: the runners and keeping the cup, the big cup on
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, the forced player, pursuit player and
Speaker 1: apex players. And we're continuing to do that. But there'll
Speaker 1: be an emphasis for this week. Are mental errors manageable
Speaker 1: right now or are they still happening at a rate
Speaker 1: that you're not comfortable with? Yeah? I think mental errors,
Speaker 1: you know are always you want it very limited, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're being realistic, usually less than five.
Speaker 1: If you have more than that, um, that's too many.
Speaker 1: And we're still working to get to that low number.
Speaker 1: So we have to continue to work on it, guys,
Speaker 1: understanding the scheme, understanding what we're trying to get done,
Speaker 1: and it really comes down to how we practice. If
Speaker 1: we practice you know, mental mental air free, we'll do
Speaker 1: it in the game. First, all right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: Kyler because he was in the focus a week ago.
Speaker 1: You worked with him this past week. Made a couple
Speaker 1: of very nice plays too in the game. I know
Speaker 1: that there was the one big pass play, but just
Speaker 1: the instincts, the speed. If something goes wrong, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like he's going in the tank for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. He's still making plays. The read on
Speaker 1: that from the nickel slot to break up that short
Speaker 1: throw over to Brandon Cooks. That's a big time. He's
Speaker 1: doing a lot of good things and he's going to
Speaker 1: build on the positive and that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1: And he's continue to do that and then make the
Speaker 1: corrections and then learn from those and those experiences, these
Speaker 1: heavens are invaluable. They are so good for him to
Speaker 1: be able to learn from that. You know, he worked
Speaker 1: a lot on his footwork last week in terms of
Speaker 1: how his angles going into tackles and what his footwork
Speaker 1: needs to be going into the tackles, and he improved
Speaker 1: on that this week, and how to hamstring tackle at
Speaker 1: the low and wrap strong and make those plays with
Speaker 1: his feet on a play like that from the nickel slot.
Speaker 1: Since that play is everybody runs it, everybody tries to
Speaker 1: get a little a receiver out there and try could
Speaker 1: is that interceptible pass at some point it is. I've
Speaker 1: seen it intercepted a couple of times. You know, usually
Speaker 1: it's by tip you xally tippet and actually can catch
Speaker 1: it that way. It's hard to catch it in the
Speaker 1: first you know, in the first way. But we've certainly
Speaker 1: seen it tipped and intercepted a couple times. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk Kendall vill Door. You know, you know Kendall
Speaker 1: end Up, you know, great out pretty well. Um, he
Speaker 1: made that very impactful play with Eddie picking that pass off.
Speaker 1: We know, and we talked to him about how he's
Speaker 1: got to get his hands right so he can pick
Speaker 1: that pass off. But that got tipped up and Eddie
Speaker 1: made that great interception to stop that score. Um, he
Speaker 1: had a couple of pass breakups, did a nice job,
Speaker 1: did a better job tackling as well. So you know,
Speaker 1: he had fifty eight plays in the game. So he
Speaker 1: did play well stepping up into that role for sure.
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Speaker 1: twenty five Welcome Back to the Bears Coaches show Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert the fifty two yard scamper. Typically on a big
Speaker 1: run like that, I always say a crack turns into
Speaker 1: a canyon and the way he goes, but there was
Speaker 1: a canyon from the jump. What a what a running
Speaker 1: lane for Khalil Herbert on that one. But you know
Speaker 1: what I really loved about that play because you as
Speaker 1: a coach, I was talking about finish, finish, It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what phase you're playing, like the final eight or
Speaker 1: nine yards. Moves the ball from his right arm to
Speaker 1: his left right used to he picked up eight or
Speaker 1: nine extra yards on that. Yeah, no doubt, And that's
Speaker 1: what we tell him to do. You know, if you
Speaker 1: have the space to do it and you're not in traffic,
Speaker 1: go ahead and switch the arms, you know, bodyball boundary,
Speaker 1: and then go ahead and use use that weapon that
Speaker 1: you have, that stiff arm, and that it creates the
Speaker 1: yards force and he did a great job with that. Again,
Speaker 1: that was a pretty wide open hole. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: the guys did a nice job of you know, run,
Speaker 1: you know, varying your runs, you know inside outside. You know,
Speaker 1: when you do that as an offense man, it's hard
Speaker 1: for the defense defend all those and they just got
Speaker 1: it rolling. The best day running the football in the league.
Speaker 1: Buy a player Khalil Herbert twenty for one fifty having
Speaker 1: in the two touchdowns only two negative runs, ten carries
Speaker 1: for five yards or more. It almost seemed crazy to
Speaker 1: think that. You know, at one point, I'm thinking, decond,
Speaker 1: I get three hundred and fifty yards rushing the football.
Speaker 1: I mean I think one hundred and ninety yards of
Speaker 1: those came before contact, which tells me that the guys
Speaker 1: up front were doing their job. And you mentioned the receivers.
Speaker 1: You've got to talk about Equanimius Saint Brown. His blocking
Speaker 1: has been really good, obviously a product of the system
Speaker 1: that he was coming from what you're demanding as well.
Speaker 1: But if you could put all that in one big
Speaker 1: pot and share with us what's going on there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, you know, Tyke does an excellent
Speaker 1: job of coaching these guys, you know, when the crack,
Speaker 1: when the stock and you know in how we do it,
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, from Mooney to Saint Brown
Speaker 1: to Pettist, you know, to Smith, all of them in there,
Speaker 1: you know, doing a great job of sustaining their blocks.
Speaker 1: And that's not easy to do because a lot of
Speaker 1: times they're cracking on bigger safeties, they're blocking linebackers and
Speaker 1: it's just about the one too, you know, and then
Speaker 1: the technique that the coaches are telling to do and
Speaker 1: we got to practice that way, you know, and they
Speaker 1: do and it's been really really good to see and
Speaker 1: you have a really good we call those receivers. Those
Speaker 1: are explosive playmakers, right, so they make them obviously, you
Speaker 1: know in the passing game. We get chunk plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game, but they also do it in the
Speaker 1: running game. You know, they're so important position for us
Speaker 1: to make explosive plays in the running game because that's
Speaker 1: when it gets to the second level and that's when
Speaker 1: we have to get those blocks on the perimeter. How
Speaker 1: beneficial is blasting game proving to beat Kyrie? Blasting game
Speaker 1: eleven snaps the first week thirteen, last week fifteen, This
Speaker 1: week We told you last week folks that he had
Speaker 1: when he was on the field one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: yards of offense produced. It's it's got to be close
Speaker 1: to another hundred yards yesterday and those fifteen he was
Speaker 1: in there for a lot of big plays. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's such an important thing on early downs to have
Speaker 1: that fullback in there, and it changes, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're in twenty two personnel or twenty one personnel and
Speaker 1: you have that guy in there, it's it's a big
Speaker 1: adjustment for the defense and you have to really work
Speaker 1: on those run fits because not every team carries a fullback,
Speaker 1: you know, so you know only a few teams do
Speaker 1: you know, and more and more are starting to go
Speaker 1: back to it. But man, when you have that weapon
Speaker 1: as a fullback, it creates a lot of situations for
Speaker 1: the for the defense to handle. We got to talk
Speaker 1: offensive line. They are grading out very high and the
Speaker 1: run blocking, I know some studies say the past blocking
Speaker 1: isn't what it needs to be or whatnot. And again,
Speaker 1: these guys are growing. It is week week three together
Speaker 1: and some young players on there. How would you assess
Speaker 1: their development at this point? Yeah, Chris Morgan, you know
Speaker 1: in Austin King do a great job with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm in some of those meetings
Speaker 1: and those guys are teachers and they have a way
Speaker 1: of simplifying things, you know, and to get the guys
Speaker 1: to play aggressive, you know, and smart and with great
Speaker 1: technique and you can see that. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: like you know, it's perfectly blocked a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, and guys are and then what I love
Speaker 1: about it is a second effort to finish. Those guys
Speaker 1: are always covering down the field, They're always pushing the pile.
Speaker 1: They're always knocking things forward. We really say, knock it
Speaker 1: forward on offense, knock it back on defense. And that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And the effort is there, the technique
Speaker 1: there is there, and the want too is there, and
Speaker 1: that's a that's attributed. It's really to the whole group.
Speaker 1: That's a tight group, that offensive line, and they're building
Speaker 1: upon these performances and you know, playing time will continue
Speaker 1: to be a focus based on what you do in practice,
Speaker 1: and that certainly something you touched on with having Jenkins
Speaker 1: this past week because Patrick Start had a lot more
Speaker 1: snaps at right guard. Yeah, that's right. And again it's
Speaker 1: all about practice. You know. The way you practice is
Speaker 1: you know the way you're gonna play and how much
Speaker 1: you're gonna play, you know, So that's an important piece
Speaker 1: to that. And uh, again, he had a good Thursday
Speaker 1: and a good Friday, and we got to work on
Speaker 1: that running day that first day and have him have
Speaker 1: a good Wednesday. And you keep referring to you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get into justin fields in our next segment, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's a group thing here. So offensive line.
Speaker 1: If if the past protection can only hold for so long,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be it's it's and same
Speaker 1: with him getting rid of the football or they miss.
Speaker 1: It's all together, the whole. All eleven guys matter on
Speaker 1: the execution of these plays. Yeah, no doubt, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: If it's a runner of pass, it's all eleven of
Speaker 1: us um you know, and coaches too, and we got
Speaker 1: to make sure we're on point. The Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: Eberflus and one quick four play drive that you didn't
Speaker 1: care about, just line it up and kicked the finishing
Speaker 1: blow and that was Cairo Sanders from thirty made all
Speaker 1: five of his kicks, including a fifty yarder, and he
Speaker 1: hasn't had many of those as a Bear, but inside
Speaker 1: of forty as a missed as a Bear thirty six
Speaker 1: in a row. I want to jink some moving forward,
Speaker 1: but hey, job well done. Yeah, he was three for three.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a forty seven yard or a
Speaker 1: fifty yard and obviously the game winner and it was
Speaker 1: a really good operation. Might have been involved. The protection
Speaker 1: was good all day, you know, the snap, the hold,
Speaker 1: obviously the kick was great and you know it takes
Speaker 1: all eleven and those guys as well, but certainly good
Speaker 1: to see if us moved the all to the left
Speaker 1: hash there and then he kicked it right to the middle.
Speaker 1: So it was a it was a fun moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, the pressure is on the holder. I mean
Speaker 1: he's still learning, right, I mean he's he's a young player,
Speaker 1: so but he's He's proven to be quite the impact
Speaker 1: player as well. His punting has been outstanding. I met
Speaker 1: him in the locker room last week for the first time,
Speaker 1: and a delightful young man from North Carolina. I went
Speaker 1: to NC State, grew up in Chapel Hill, So we
Speaker 1: had a good conversation about that. But that's a that's
Speaker 1: a big moment for a young player as well, getting
Speaker 1: that snapped down in a key moment there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. You never do. And those
Speaker 1: guys are tight, and they certainly work hard at it,
Speaker 1: and that they've been doing a good job with that.
Speaker 1: And he's done a nice slub of punting the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, he's uh, you know, really good at punt
Speaker 1: and pin you know down there, those those rugby style kicks,
Speaker 1: and he's really improved on that and that's going to
Speaker 1: be a weapon force. All right, let's talk justin. What
Speaker 1: did you see? Yeah, so, you know, justin I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to build off the explosive passes
Speaker 1: he did have. You know, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: times where he had a nice explosive pass. A couple
Speaker 1: to Cole, you had one to Darnell mooney. You know,
Speaker 1: he has some good ones, you know, and that's an
Speaker 1: exciting piece that we can build off of. You know,
Speaker 1: with that running game that we have, there's going to
Speaker 1: be some wide open lanes for us to be able
Speaker 1: to throw into and we're going to continue to build
Speaker 1: off off the positives there. So that's where we are
Speaker 1: and we're working diligently to get that done. Do you
Speaker 1: feel in anyway and I'm going to focus on that
Speaker 1: deep bottom mooney that he attempted in traffic, there are
Speaker 1: possibly other options. Is this a pressing situation at some point?
Speaker 1: Just wanting to go for the big play? Maybe that
Speaker 1: opens things up. He is a competitive guy. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's part of it, and maybe just the other guys
Speaker 1: pressing too. Yeah, I you know, I think I alluded
Speaker 1: to it in the press conference earlier, is that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all eleven of us to get things done. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's run game or pass game. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's about the protection, it's about the you know,
Speaker 1: the timing of the routes, you know, the depth of
Speaker 1: the routes that we're running, you know, and all of
Speaker 1: it's involved. And you know, of course the quarterbacks part
Speaker 1: of that too, you know. So we're just working through
Speaker 1: that and trying to get better every single week, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna actend you the run game to open up
Speaker 1: those passingly. You know. The interesting thing about this is
Speaker 1: people talk about this system. Aaron Rodgers, as great as
Speaker 1: he is, had a little bit of run up for
Speaker 1: that in twenty nineteen. He was getting sacked quite a
Speaker 1: bit during that. We look at Russell Wilson now in
Speaker 1: a similar system in Denver with Nathaniel Hackett, hasn't been
Speaker 1: real easy scoring points. So is that a factor in
Speaker 1: this too? This is new. Yeah, I mean it's I
Speaker 1: think it's like the rhythm and timing of an offense.
Speaker 1: You know that takes time to build, and you know
Speaker 1: you're going against different coverages, different fronts every single week,
Speaker 1: and I think that's that's something that has to do
Speaker 1: with it. And again it's it takes time. You got
Speaker 1: to be patient and it takes time to get through
Speaker 1: the process of it. In terms of his decision making,
Speaker 1: we touched on this last week too about taking some
Speaker 1: of those runs. He certainly feels comfortable doing that and
Speaker 1: has picked up some that's helping the run game too.
Speaker 1: It's keeping defenders on their heels a little bit. How
Speaker 1: much is that helping the overall run game just with
Speaker 1: him back there too, because they got to worry about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. It definitely helps out. You know, when you
Speaker 1: have that thread of a quarterback that can run the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, either it's design runs or if it's a
Speaker 1: quarterback scramble, you know that that puts a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, stress on the defense for sure. And up
Speaker 1: here mentally he's in a good spot or is he
Speaker 1: taking this you know, forgetting it and moving on type
Speaker 1: of mentality every day? Yep, it's our twenty four hour rules.
Speaker 1: So's he's going to that. We're listening to meetings with him.
Speaker 1: He's positive, he's upbeat, and he's getting ready to work.
Speaker 1: Get back to work. On Wednesday, The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with Mattie Brouflus and w BBMS Jeff Joni. I continues
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Speaker 1: dot com. One of two big catches by Cole Comet. Overall,
Speaker 1: that's gonna loosen things up as well. I don't know
Speaker 1: what comes first, chickenut of the egg here with receivers
Speaker 1: finding success to help out the tight end or the
Speaker 1: tight end helping the receivers. I know it's all eleven,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the coverages that will help one of those
Speaker 1: two positions. Yeah, there's no doubt when you can get
Speaker 1: the ball to your tight end because you know, I
Speaker 1: think that you know, tight end receptions are are really
Speaker 1: good because those guys have the catch radius. You know,
Speaker 1: they're usually bigger than the guys who are covering them,
Speaker 1: and they can use their body and you can certainly
Speaker 1: throw those guys open, but man, they're they're usually always
Speaker 1: open because of the catch radius. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Cole proved at last, you know, yesterday, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was great to see him get those two explosive passes
Speaker 1: and it maybe it only takes a little firestarter like
Speaker 1: that to get that rhythm going. For weeks to come, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, is this possible and what are you seeing
Speaker 1: in practice from that chemistry that maybe hasn't made it
Speaker 1: to Sundays. Yeah, but there's been great chemistry with with
Speaker 1: the tight ends, all the tight ends, and he certainly
Speaker 1: caught some explosive passes you know, you know down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, you know, you know, in the
Speaker 1: corners of the of the field and certainly in the
Speaker 1: low part of the field too, So that's what we're stressing.
Speaker 1: And again he does a nice job of cutching the
Speaker 1: ball and running after the catch too, So we're excited
Speaker 1: about where that is. Byron Pringle only managed to play
Speaker 1: a couple. It would be great to get these guys
Speaker 1: in there with some consistency right again, but the continuity
Speaker 1: maybe get Veyleiss Jones here in the coming weeks as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: so we're we're excited where valis is. We'll see where
Speaker 1: he is this you know, coming week, because that'll be
Speaker 1: a nice edit piece for us if he can come back,
Speaker 1: you know, from that hamstring. So we're excited to see
Speaker 1: where he is going because that brings a speed piece
Speaker 1: to it, and certainly in the return game we can
Speaker 1: get that going as well. That'll be very helpful for
Speaker 1: us going forward. You know, all those guys are working hard,
Speaker 1: um during the course of the week, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Saint Brown obviously has been been an impactful
Speaker 1: player for us in the run and the pass um,
Speaker 1: you know, and certainly Mooney getting going there is going
Speaker 1: to help us as well. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: darn now, because we talked about it. This is why
Speaker 1: the Joniac name was mentioned in the coach's news conference
Speaker 1: and very flattered but I couldn't believe my eyes because honestly,
Speaker 1: I'd never seen it. So he's out there in the
Speaker 1: jugs gun. A lot of people will um on social media.
Speaker 1: We're taking pictures of it from the media. Word traveled um.
Speaker 1: And I don't want anybody to take this the wrong
Speaker 1: way because this is just who he is and what
Speaker 1: he's all about. It doesn't surprise me, doesn't surprise you.
Speaker 1: But this is not somebody looking for attention just because
Speaker 1: you know, he might have had a couple of drops
Speaker 1: in a game. This is work, this is his job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a He's works hard. I mean, he's out
Speaker 1: there every single day before practice, is on that joke.
Speaker 1: So that's that's nothing new to him, you know. So,
Speaker 1: and he wants has something to work on, he's gonna
Speaker 1: go work on it and get better at it. So
Speaker 1: he's a very determined young man. He's very talented, and man,
Speaker 1: he's a hard worker. So when you combine those traits,
Speaker 1: nothing but good things are going to happen for Darnel
Speaker 1: this year. Did you talk to him about that today? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've talked to him about it. He knows. He knows that,
Speaker 1: and he knows that everything is positive going forward and
Speaker 1: we're working in progress here and he's a big part
Speaker 1: of our plans. Did you ask him why he did that? Oh,
Speaker 1: he's just working. Yeah, just getting to work. That's that's all.
Speaker 1: It's a cool little story if you ask me. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you hear these stories about high school
Speaker 1: sports or whatever basketball team goes after they got beat
Speaker 1: and they go back in the gym and they have
Speaker 1: a practice or they're running sprints. That's not what this is.
Speaker 1: This is just a guy working on his crab four
Speaker 1: hockey team. Yeah, exactly right. Let's talk special teams real quick,
Speaker 1: because aside from the operation as what we call the kicking,
Speaker 1: punning and long stamping situation. What did you think of
Speaker 1: the overall performance on that there was a fake punt
Speaker 1: on you. Obviously, punt retren game has been been quiet,
Speaker 1: but trust and Ebner is still very very good back
Speaker 1: there on the back end for the kick return. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about it today, you know, just about sustaining blocks.
Speaker 1: You know, we got to do a better job of
Speaker 1: having a body on a body and sustaining blocks in
Speaker 1: our return game, you know, to give those guys some
Speaker 1: windows to run into. Um. So we got to improve
Speaker 1: on that for sure. And that's that's going forward that
Speaker 1: I'll be a big emphasis for us this week. Rarely
Speaker 1: do we put the focus on guys that are on
Speaker 1: the special team's kickoff coverage team or you know, announcers
Speaker 1: and there's there's no time for it, right but Tom
Speaker 1: and I did it yesterday just to alert Pop who's
Speaker 1: on there. I mean, these are guys that Chicago hasn't
Speaker 1: really heard about yet. There's a bunch of rookies on there,
Speaker 1: and I think they deserve to. You know, this is
Speaker 1: where they're cutting their teeth. The guy's like Elijah Hicks
Speaker 1: and Weatherford and uh, you know, we can go down
Speaker 1: the list. There's a lot of young players on those units,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a way to get playing time, and
Speaker 1: they're getting your attention, and you're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: these guys for a long time if they if they
Speaker 1: do clear that hurdle and get the chances to win
Speaker 1: some spots on defense or on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the football. And and those guys who are doing a
Speaker 1: good job, you know, from Samborne to Joe Thomas. You know,
Speaker 1: Weatherford does a nice job. Obviously, Blackwall and our is
Speaker 1: one of our gunners, you know, uh, you know, Lamar
Speaker 1: came in and you know, did some things for us yesterday.
Speaker 1: Jalen Jones also since been one of our gunners and
Speaker 1: he's been doing a good job with that. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that go unheralded, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game that really, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: are a big part of our success for the victory,
Speaker 1: yes victory yesterday and not man Adams yesterday. But he's
Speaker 1: a leading special teams tackler going into Week four with
Speaker 1: four special teams tackle is a familiar player to you.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll be back soon as well. The Bears Coaches
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Speaker 1: Coaching Show with Mattieberflus. There's the sack by Justin Jones,
Speaker 1: the three technique defensive tackle to play up front, getting
Speaker 1: it done. How's he been playing? I know he had
Speaker 1: eight tackles last week. This week the sack and that
Speaker 1: was a big one. Came out of nowhere. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: in one of those important spots for us. You know,
Speaker 1: he plays the under tackle for us, and man, he's
Speaker 1: been doing really well these first three weeks. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a takeoff position, so he his charge is to
Speaker 1: get off in the B gap and he does a
Speaker 1: really good job with that and disrupt the running the
Speaker 1: pass game. You know, and when he gets a single,
Speaker 1: then you know, we asked him to win those those
Speaker 1: one on one matchups in the pass game. He's done
Speaker 1: a good job either getting pressure or getting sacks in
Speaker 1: that regard. So that's what he did in the game yesterday.
Speaker 1: I know, a depth on the defensive line is never enough.
Speaker 1: You're you're always looking for guys to come in there, rotate.
Speaker 1: Have you been pleased with the snap distribution among the guys.
Speaker 1: Are you getting the waves of fresh bodies that you seek? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been good, you know, you know, our our defensive
Speaker 1: you know, guys have been doing a good job of
Speaker 1: rotating those guys in there, and you want to have
Speaker 1: guys fresh in the fourth quarter so they can rush,
Speaker 1: you know, when they when they need to. And we've
Speaker 1: been getting some good pressure. You know. Obviously it's never
Speaker 1: enough pressure, never enough sacks. But we need to keep
Speaker 1: working those waves, you know, and making sure we're doing
Speaker 1: a good job of getting those guys in there like Trevis,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know and you know Muhammad and
Speaker 1: and and also wrote you know, uh Domaic Robinson in
Speaker 1: there too as well, to rush those guys um and
Speaker 1: to get their chances and get their one on one matchups.
Speaker 1: How do you know when it's time. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: in the rotation for that on early downs. You know,
Speaker 1: the coach is controlling it, but we also work closely
Speaker 1: with the play. You know, so if the player knows, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going in, this is my fourth player in my
Speaker 1: fifth play in a row, then we'll just simply rotate
Speaker 1: them out. They know the play number that they're looking at,
Speaker 1: and they know who's rotating with them, so, you know,
Speaker 1: and we want to get our rushers, obviously in the
Speaker 1: green rush on third down so we can get out
Speaker 1: the field. You say the green rush, Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 1: It's just our like our NASCAR green rush. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: the speed rushers speed in the NASCAR package. See, you're
Speaker 1: throwing words in me. You know, You've got so many
Speaker 1: I can't keep track. Yeah, there's there's quite a few
Speaker 1: of them. I like it. I like it. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas in our previous segment, veteran that you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and he came in there and played in the bass defense.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy now to see veterans on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: But I think it's been a valuable thing because they tend,
Speaker 1: you know, because of salary cap, they tend to just
Speaker 1: go by the wayside and all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: don't hear from them, you know. Maybe ever again, it's
Speaker 1: not a league that favors veterans sometimes, But has that
Speaker 1: been a good thing to have a practice squad that
Speaker 1: can include veteran players of any that's been outstanding, how valuable,
Speaker 1: have that experience and you're able to plug and play,
Speaker 1: you know. And you know, Joe's played in our scheme
Speaker 1: you know before, and you know, he came out twenty
Speaker 1: seven plays. You know, Houston is one of the more
Speaker 1: you know bass teams, you know, they come out in
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two and they utilize that a lot.
Speaker 1: So he ended up having twenty seven plays yesterday, you know,
Speaker 1: and had a lot of plays in the kicking game too.
Speaker 1: I think he had twenty two in the kicking So
Speaker 1: he was a big part of our game plan and
Speaker 1: he functioned really well. You know, he ended up greeting
Speaker 1: out really well for us. He was consistent, he was physical,
Speaker 1: made some tackles, and we were certainly glad to have
Speaker 1: him in there. He performed really well. Yeah, these guys
Speaker 1: gotta love the game, because I'm sure it's a little
Speaker 1: hit to the the ego a little bit to be
Speaker 1: put on a practice squad. You're not you're not in
Speaker 1: that same fifty three man paiday type of thing, but
Speaker 1: it is it's a better situation. Um, do you have
Speaker 1: to have sometimes heart to hearts with guys about that
Speaker 1: that they don't want to go on the practice squad? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you do. And but you know, Joe's the
Speaker 1: right kind of guy. You know, he's a great teammate.
Speaker 1: He's been in this league a long time. He understands
Speaker 1: the league and and he certainly put its best foot
Speaker 1: forward yesterday. All right, excluding scrambles, go back to the
Speaker 1: offense here, three ninety four yards on the ground in
Speaker 1: the past two games, not including justin What eventually will
Speaker 1: this allow you to do in this offense? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you got to have foundation, you know. So what is foundation? Well,
Speaker 1: we know the foundation for us is our hits principal,
Speaker 1: you know, the hustle of the intensity, taking care of
Speaker 1: the ball and being smart situationally. Well, the intensity piece
Speaker 1: part of that is running the ball, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's how we show intensity on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And that's a foundational piece for us. You know.
Speaker 1: So in order to be a good football team, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to run the ball. You gotta
Speaker 1: able to stop the run. And we're you know, we're
Speaker 1: establishing that right now as we go through this season.
Speaker 1: So and what that opens up is a lot of
Speaker 1: other things. It opens up you get loaded boxes, and
Speaker 1: it opens up a lot of windows in the passing game.
Speaker 1: So we're excited about where that's going. But you can't
Speaker 1: have that if you can't run the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: So it's important for us to be able to do
Speaker 1: that in the staff, us that week in and week
Speaker 1: out that we're gonna be able to do that. Now
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Speaker 1: had the jersey next week to take out the Giants
Speaker 1: at noon, the Giants trying to get to three and
Speaker 1: oh tonight they are already underway hosting the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and we'll get Mad out of here. So he can
Speaker 1: take a look at this matchup with Dallas. First thing
Speaker 1: you think of, obviously on offense is Daniel Jones, a
Speaker 1: quarterback with Saquon Barkley who has had some injury troubles.
Speaker 1: Bears have played him every year since twenty eighteen, so
Speaker 1: he's had a couple of injuries in the Bears game
Speaker 1: that's cost him some time, but he seems like he's
Speaker 1: back to work and back to normal. Yeah, they certainly
Speaker 1: have good skill on their team, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1: In the runner definitely is that, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: allowed to bring down and he's also a guy in
Speaker 1: the passing game that certainly can work you in the
Speaker 1: passing game too. So we've had a chance to play him,
Speaker 1: you know, a few times over the last few years
Speaker 1: and certainly what a great player he is. So they're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have a hands full with the Giants
Speaker 1: coming this next Sunday. And how about Daniel Jones, what
Speaker 1: your analysis on him? Yeah, I think he's improving, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Brian Dabele is a great coach
Speaker 1: and a great quarterback coach, and he's certainly utilizing his
Speaker 1: skill and what he does well in that offense. So
Speaker 1: Brian's done a great job with him. And defensively, the
Speaker 1: front is pretty impressive. There's some names on there. A
Speaker 1: couple guys are getting back healthy, including Ajulari and the
Speaker 1: first round pick Cavan Thibadeaux. So I'm sure you took
Speaker 1: a look at him in the draft preparation as well.
Speaker 1: But with Dexter Lawrence and Leonard Williams and those guys.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting. And I mentioned Wink Martindale and the
Speaker 1: first thing out you know, you always think of it
Speaker 1: just the pressure and the types of different looks he
Speaker 1: gives you. Yeah, he was with obviously with Baltimore for
Speaker 1: all those years, and he did a great job with
Speaker 1: those guys in the varying affronts and coverages and the
Speaker 1: pressure package that he brings. H certainly creates a lot
Speaker 1: of issues for the offense. So we'll have our hands
Speaker 1: full with that and guys that we're going to work
Speaker 1: at it. You know, obviously we're gonna look at it
Speaker 1: here the next couple of days, come up with a
Speaker 1: game plan that's simple, that sounds, that's attacking, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get that going here pretty soon. All right, Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: we appreciated as all another one of the books, and
Speaker 1: good luck in your pursuit of win number three. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you. Already at the quarter pole used to be
Speaker 1: what the quarter pole was. I always forget the seventeenth game.
Speaker 1: But it's moving quickly, right, yes, it's moving quickly. Appreciate it, Matt.
Speaker 1: This will be the seventh meeting since twenty thirteen between
Speaker 1: the Bears and Giants. Bears have won the matchup each
Speaker 1: of the last three years. Brand new scheme, brand new
Speaker 1: leadership there in New York. That's going to do it
Speaker 1: for us. Here from Hallis, I want to thank our
Speaker 1: producers as always, Lisa Fielding Tonight a Mom with Dandy
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniach. Week four kicks off back at MetLife
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