Speaker 1: Welcome into the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Nage,
Speaker 1: brought to you by a Whipple Cepas and consultants. Jeff
Speaker 1: jonahak with you until I had a clock here tonight
Speaker 1: on news Radio one oh five nine w BBM. Coach
Speaker 1: Naggie here until the bottom of the hour, and then
Speaker 1: we turn it over to defensive coordinator Sean Desai. Matt,
Speaker 1: congratulations on that win. An emotional one for you again
Speaker 1: back to back weeks. Really you could see it in
Speaker 1: your postgame delivery to the Fellas twenty to nine an
Speaker 1: Allegiance Stadium in Vegas, and you kind of consider this
Speaker 1: a landmark win right now for you personally. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, Jeff, I think the biggest thing for our
Speaker 1: players was just, you know, putting together a really good
Speaker 1: week of practice, which is as every week. But then
Speaker 1: we knew going into this this game yesterday, it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a battle. There was gonna be a you know,
Speaker 1: a fight, and we had to be ready for it,
Speaker 1: and our guys were and I think that's what I
Speaker 1: was really impressed about and h and they did it
Speaker 1: for for four quarters. And that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: when you when you fight and you do it together,
Speaker 1: and you play smart, you protect the football, you get
Speaker 1: after their quarterback. Um, you know, usually good things happening well,
Speaker 1: you know, and you finished. Sometimes it's one thing to
Speaker 1: come out especially against you know, the Raiders. They're a
Speaker 1: team that was starting slow in the first quarter and
Speaker 1: even a little bit of the second quarter. But did
Speaker 1: they come out in that third or fourth quarter they
Speaker 1: can really get after him. And I look back at
Speaker 1: the start of that first play the third quarter when
Speaker 1: when Robert Quinn made a nice cackle and made a
Speaker 1: second in one, and then we got a tackle for
Speaker 1: a loss, and then they had that we had that
Speaker 1: break where on the scramble he dropped the ball and
Speaker 1: sometimes that's just the way it goes, and you need
Speaker 1: some of those every now and then. And so we
Speaker 1: were able to take advantage of that. The defense got
Speaker 1: a couple more three and outs, and we were playing
Speaker 1: the punk game back and forth to each other and
Speaker 1: finally until it broke open and we were able to
Speaker 1: to you know, really at the end of there in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, get that field goal to make an
Speaker 1: eight point game, and then get that other field goal
Speaker 1: to make it two scores. Fans travel, We know it,
Speaker 1: We knew they were going to be there, and you know,
Speaker 1: you you felt it in a profound way. And I
Speaker 1: had a chuckle this morning. And I got back early
Speaker 1: this morning on a red eye. I saw it week
Speaker 1: from a Bears fan thanking the Raiders for building a
Speaker 1: brand new stadium for Bears fans. And you know, because
Speaker 1: in the hallways which you can't see and I didn't
Speaker 1: see the chance and the singing the Bears fight song
Speaker 1: in the in the corridors of the building is something
Speaker 1: that you would have never seen in Oakland Colisseum during
Speaker 1: the old black Hole day. So you know, this was
Speaker 1: this was an interesting addition to the equation. At the
Speaker 1: end of the game, when we were running off the
Speaker 1: field to head into the locker room, the sea of
Speaker 1: orange jerseys and the Bears jerseys all over the place
Speaker 1: was just it was it was unbelievable, and they were
Speaker 1: just cheering and they were such a big part of
Speaker 1: that and it just means so much to our players.
Speaker 1: All right, So last week the chiseling of the identity
Speaker 1: started to take shape, and now starting to polish it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, is this is this what we're
Speaker 1: looking at for twenty twenty one, Well, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's a mindset right now within the offense and the
Speaker 1: identity that we have understanding that you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of this is is you got to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're able to run the ball, and we've all always
Speaker 1: said that from day one, but I think now you
Speaker 1: start looking at different personnels, you look at different formations,
Speaker 1: and but you got to be able to have enough
Speaker 1: to where you can make an adjustments too. So really
Speaker 1: you can have whatever plays you want. But if the
Speaker 1: mindset of the guys, they understand what we're doing when
Speaker 1: we go into it, and I think that's what we're
Speaker 1: really feel in the last couple of weeks is that
Speaker 1: identity and now we just build off of that. But
Speaker 1: it's nice being able to head into those games and
Speaker 1: then get off to a fast start with the offense
Speaker 1: and I just appreciate that from the players and coaches. Well.
Speaker 1: And the good news here is also, I mean, while
Speaker 1: the passing game is still trying to get at sea
Speaker 1: legs with a new quarterback and a rookie quarterback at
Speaker 1: that there's other things happening to get wins. So you're
Speaker 1: winning with an offense that's still statistically and not that
Speaker 1: that matters, but is still a work in progress here
Speaker 1: in terms of the passing game. Yeah, and that's that's
Speaker 1: a part of this process. Like you just mentioned, So
Speaker 1: when you have a rookie quarterback and you're going through
Speaker 1: trying and you build this identity, other things will come.
Speaker 1: And I think you felt it against Detroit. We had
Speaker 1: more shots, right, we were able to Mooney was able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of some coverages and Justin made some
Speaker 1: good throws. And some games, you know, when you have
Speaker 1: whatever it was, thirty seven or thirty eight runs like
Speaker 1: we did yesterday, again, a lot some of those can
Speaker 1: come in that fourth quarter when you're in four minute
Speaker 1: mode and you're winning and when they know you're going
Speaker 1: to run, can you run? So all that said, I
Speaker 1: just really big picture offensively. I love the way the
Speaker 1: guys are accepting this identity. Doesn't matter what position, They're
Speaker 1: doing it together and it makes it fun. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about that running game with Damian Williams sixteen for sixty
Speaker 1: four in a tuddy Khalil Herbert eighteen for seventy five.
Speaker 1: But Pro Football Focus had fifty yards of that after contact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what I think that's what you felt. We
Speaker 1: all felt that. So you know, Damien is a guy
Speaker 1: where and when we were really evaluating them as a
Speaker 1: free agent. One thing that's stuck out on tape of
Speaker 1: Damian is that it's very it's it doesn't happen very
Speaker 1: often where the first and brings him down. So if
Speaker 1: you look at that touchdown run, you know that play
Speaker 1: was designed to be able to have him go one
Speaker 1: on one on the corner and we're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: go ahead and bet on our guy, our running back,
Speaker 1: and he proved us right. So that's what that's what's
Speaker 1: beautiful about him. He also lowered the boom a few
Speaker 1: times too down there in the red zone, lowered his
Speaker 1: shoulder and maybe didn't get a you know, many yards,
Speaker 1: but it was a physical run. And then with Khalil,
Speaker 1: you can just see like the way he glides through
Speaker 1: those holes and he's physical, he's got low contact balance
Speaker 1: and uh and he's smart. So those two guys really
Speaker 1: did a great job of picking up where where David
Speaker 1: was and Montgomery, and I think with all those guys, man,
Speaker 1: they do such a great job. I gotta talk Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham on one of those late runs. Uh, I get
Speaker 1: I thought of Herbert was down and he's churning his
Speaker 1: legs Allah Montgomery and then here's Jimmy Graham. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the pile keeps moving and now you look
Speaker 1: at the replay and Jimmy Graham is grinding his legs
Speaker 1: and celebrating this. He's not getting targets, he's not getting touches.
Speaker 1: But the last two weeks is a mole as a
Speaker 1: blocker really stood out, And Uh, it's you got to
Speaker 1: embrace it at that point in your career to really
Speaker 1: want to do that. And that that speaks volumes to
Speaker 1: who Jimmy is as a as a as a person,
Speaker 1: but as a professional football player. This guy just wants
Speaker 1: to win. And you know, he honestly does not care
Speaker 1: about anything but win it. So when it comes, if
Speaker 1: he needs to help this team by blocking, then that's
Speaker 1: what he's gonna do. He knows that the other stuff
Speaker 1: will come. And I just think he's a very selfless
Speaker 1: person that that just cares about his players and his
Speaker 1: teammates and his coaches. And if that's what we asked
Speaker 1: him to do it, he's gonna do it. Defense went
Speaker 1: in there and shut down the NFL's passing leader. How
Speaker 1: do you do it? Yeah, No, well they did it
Speaker 1: as one, they did it together. Um, you had to
Speaker 1: be able to stop the run, which we did. You
Speaker 1: got to be able to affect Derek Carr's lane, his
Speaker 1: passing lane, and he had one or two times where
Speaker 1: he had a clean pocket for the most time. Most
Speaker 1: of the time there, those guys were really getting after him.
Speaker 1: And then it help up the dbs on the back end,
Speaker 1: and so I think all at all we just kept
Speaker 1: them out of rhythm and uh. And then Shawn to
Speaker 1: Sign as coaches did a wonderful job. Fields under center
Speaker 1: takes play fake fields rolling. It was right hit as
Speaker 1: he delivers into the end zone, touchdown, Jesper horsh dead touchdown, Bears.
Speaker 1: Fields took another pop. Bears have the lead sixty three
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Speaker 1: You just heard the touchdown throw justin Fields to Jesper Horstead.
Speaker 1: That will go down in his history, his personal history
Speaker 1: as his first NFL passing touchdown. Break it down for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a little naked there to get Justin on
Speaker 1: the edge, and they played it pretty well, and we
Speaker 1: had an idea that they might try to his own
Speaker 1: zone us out we had we had to naked out
Speaker 1: to the right on the flot and they covered it.
Speaker 1: But again, a lot of times down there in the
Speaker 1: red zone, there's there's not a lot of plays that
Speaker 1: are wide open. So sometimes it's about the players making plays,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly would happen. We got the edge, Justin
Speaker 1: got to the edge and he made a great throw
Speaker 1: to it, running, you know, off his right, throwing it
Speaker 1: off his right foot, running to his right, kind of
Speaker 1: throwing back to his left a little bit, and Jesper
Speaker 1: just kind of the guy with face guarding him and
Speaker 1: he just made a heck of a catch, which he's
Speaker 1: done a lot in practice, you got. I mean, we
Speaker 1: see it all the time, so it wasn't shocking by
Speaker 1: any means. But he made a great catch and it
Speaker 1: was really neat to see brought up to throw the
Speaker 1: mooney with you on the postgame show last night. But
Speaker 1: it deserves another look because the mooney on third and
Speaker 1: twelve in the twenty seven yard line. That's a marquee
Speaker 1: play in this game because it's fourteen nine and you're
Speaker 1: in a dog fight, you don't know what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and you chewed off another almost nearly five minutes on
Speaker 1: the clock because of that chain mover, no doubt, And
Speaker 1: those are moments that we're all going to look back at,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the season and say, you remember that play,
Speaker 1: and you're right. When it's fourteen to nine, they had
Speaker 1: just scored a touchdown and it was so imperative for
Speaker 1: us offensively to get some first downs and worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: come out of there with three like we did. But
Speaker 1: that play right there kind of signifies our guys stepping
Speaker 1: up when they had to and Mooney making a play
Speaker 1: justin making a throw the old line protecting and uh,
Speaker 1: you know those are not easy conversions in the NFL
Speaker 1: that those third and twelves are hard, and we were
Speaker 1: able to convert it, which great. So the young men
Speaker 1: took a lot of hits obviously, um I think I
Speaker 1: numbered six, But some of those can you coach him
Speaker 1: out of them? There's there's something you always want to
Speaker 1: coach him out as many as you can. And you
Speaker 1: know the one that he took on the very first
Speaker 1: one with the quarterback draw um, that that's one there
Speaker 1: where you're in situational football. And we knew all week
Speaker 1: that that was something we were going to look at
Speaker 1: doing and that the safety. You got to give him
Speaker 1: credit too, he came up and made a big play.
Speaker 1: So as Justin goes through this, we know that at
Speaker 1: times we're going to use his legs because he's so
Speaker 1: he's such a weapon. But at the same point in time,
Speaker 1: it's the risk reward, So we got to know and
Speaker 1: understand that we also need him healthy, so that'll be
Speaker 1: that'll be importantly. Yeah, and you you kind of felt too.
Speaker 1: Once he did take that hit. The Raiders were going
Speaker 1: to try as hard as they could, even you know,
Speaker 1: they drew a lot of penalties and there was a
Speaker 1: couple of roughings, so they were going after him for sure,
Speaker 1: and that's uh, you know, that's going to happen to
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback and especially a guy that that will run.
Speaker 1: And so he knows that. So what we got to
Speaker 1: do is make sure we as coaches teach him as
Speaker 1: much as we can to make sure he doesn't take
Speaker 1: that extra hit. All right, So let's get into the
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. This could be known as the Kalil mac
Speaker 1: game because I think you know, he rows all boats
Speaker 1: because of his history there and the respect this team
Speaker 1: has for him. Is there any aspect of this that
Speaker 1: you felt this team played hard as well for Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack on this particular day. No, what I would say
Speaker 1: the way he played was, I mean, it was on
Speaker 1: another level, and I think it's it's what a what
Speaker 1: a great game to be able to do that for
Speaker 1: considering the circumstances. That said, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: our guys would say on defense and Khalil included that
Speaker 1: they're playing they're playing as one right now. They're doing
Speaker 1: it free each other, and they understand the magnitude and that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know this was his old but they honestly, including Khalil,
Speaker 1: like that this is about going there to get to
Speaker 1: win for the twenty one Bears and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the biggest thing. But it was
Speaker 1: really it was a special day for him and his
Speaker 1: teammates definitely helped out. Gotta tuck Robert Quinn too, because
Speaker 1: any question about what he's got left in the tank
Speaker 1: in terms of quickness and speed. When he read the
Speaker 1: screen to Brian Edwards and he tracked him down and
Speaker 1: brought him down from behind, I mean that he looked
Speaker 1: fantastic on that play. But that kind of effort when
Speaker 1: that shows up when you're you go to the team
Speaker 1: meeting tomorrow, you put that play on the on the screen,
Speaker 1: everybody's going to jump out of their scene. That that's
Speaker 1: how we do it. For a veteran, that's how we
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, that's what out of doubt. We've been
Speaker 1: emphasizing that this entire season. And that's what you love
Speaker 1: is when you can take And here's the deal to
Speaker 1: Jeff is that that didn't just happen. He practices that
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. I mean sometimes we have to
Speaker 1: pull him back in practice because it's going one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour all the time. So it translates to
Speaker 1: the game. And that's what we all saw. And when
Speaker 1: your teammates see that, it's not a sack, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not you know, a sackphone bull, It's not an interception.
Speaker 1: It's an effort. Play man. That's contagious. Duke Shelley and
Speaker 1: Kindallville Door. You knew they were going to get targeted
Speaker 1: because they still have a lot to prove, and I
Speaker 1: think they had twelve targets, but they gave up less
Speaker 1: than sixty yards in the passing game yesterday. Talk about
Speaker 1: those two guys. That's a that's a big part of
Speaker 1: the play yesterday. And even when you look down and
Speaker 1: they put Waller, who's one of the best red zone
Speaker 1: margets in the NFL, best best tight ends in the NFL,
Speaker 1: one on one, it just shows the confidence that that
Speaker 1: that our coaches have in Kindle to be there one
Speaker 1: on one and he made a great play. And when
Speaker 1: you can do that, you're making special plays. So I
Speaker 1: think in general you could see that, you could feel that.
Speaker 1: And again Duke Shelley did a wonderful job too. Feels
Speaker 1: it takes turns, give it away, touchdown, touchdown. Bears Damian
Speaker 1: Williams in from the four Bears extend their lead with
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Speaker 1: That was the Damian Williams touchdown around the four yard er.
Speaker 1: What a spin move? Huh? That was sweet. It was sweet.
Speaker 1: That's what he's done. That's what we talked about. And
Speaker 1: when you have that, that makes it a lot easier
Speaker 1: for all of us, and we're just appreciative in you know,
Speaker 1: he did a great job in practice and took it
Speaker 1: to the game all right with the with the full
Speaker 1: roster and the utility of having that and guys on
Speaker 1: the practice squad when something happens like you inserted Alex
Speaker 1: Bars last week in offensive lineman do this around the league,
Speaker 1: but now and even expanded a role. Looks like he
Speaker 1: was on the field for thirteen times as an eligible player.
Speaker 1: You guys had nine runs, four passes, You had a
Speaker 1: fifteen yards on the runs and a touchdown and fields
Speaker 1: was three or four and for thirty one yards. So
Speaker 1: that's good production having that extra attacker out there. But
Speaker 1: how he was deployed does this, So talk about that
Speaker 1: part of it first him, but what it signals to
Speaker 1: the rest of the roster, Hey, we may need you,
Speaker 1: we may need you throughout the course of this season.
Speaker 1: We're using We're utilizing everything on this roster. Without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I think our coaches did a great job of game
Speaker 1: plan and using him and getting him into game and
Speaker 1: being able to use him at certain times. And you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: like you can put him in on certain calls in
Speaker 1: practice throughout the week on that call sheet, but you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know if you ever get to him, And
Speaker 1: it just so happened yesterday that you know we're getting
Speaker 1: to him. And like you said, thirteen plays is a
Speaker 1: good amount. I think it's a good number. You can
Speaker 1: rely on him. Alex has done a great job, will
Speaker 1: be reliable and dependable, and it helps us out. So
Speaker 1: that's that's why we did and I think moving forward
Speaker 1: as we go just speaks to who he is, and
Speaker 1: then we can we can keep working off of that.
Speaker 1: Let's dip into the special teams because it was a
Speaker 1: complimentary football game. All three phases deserve a credit here.
Speaker 1: The operation continues to excel for the kicking game and
Speaker 1: Cairo with two really important forty six yard field goals
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of those aren't Those aren't gimmys,
Speaker 1: but now the NFL's longest streak of consecutive field goals
Speaker 1: made this guy. Man, he's been a fine and he's
Speaker 1: delivering you great confidence to put him out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's credit to Ryan and all his guys from
Speaker 1: Dick Cairo in here, and it's he's been he's just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he just comes out and he does what
Speaker 1: he's supposed to do. And you get in that moment
Speaker 1: yesterday in the game and you just feel so good
Speaker 1: when when he's kicking those forty six yard field goals,
Speaker 1: you really do. And I think that having that calm
Speaker 1: and that confidence that he's brought and still to our
Speaker 1: kicking game, I think it makes all of us feel good.
Speaker 1: And those were two big kicks and and it showed
Speaker 1: the importance of it. We see some personality in the
Speaker 1: return game with jakeem Grant. Yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get interesting, Yeah, without a doubt. And I'll say,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's the beauty of that part of
Speaker 1: the game is he does have a lot of experience
Speaker 1: doing that back there. So so as coaches you understand that.
Speaker 1: Now there's some things that in the game that you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you're you're you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're being smart about and coach Dabs and coach Dan
Speaker 1: will do a great job with that. But at the
Speaker 1: same point in time, I know this, when you kick
Speaker 1: the ball to him, you know every time that he
Speaker 1: can go to the distance. And I think that other
Speaker 1: teams know that as well. So it's nice having that's
Speaker 1: he's only going to get better and he's been a
Speaker 1: great addition, all right, So it's that it's that point
Speaker 1: in this season, first Packer game, I see the grin here.
Speaker 1: We go four and one on a four game role. Uh,
Speaker 1: A kind of a hard team to pinpoint outside of
Speaker 1: the obvious the big two with Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but a lot of injuries. So you got to sort
Speaker 1: through that a little bit in terms of personnel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do that. And like you said, nothing needs to
Speaker 1: be said in regards I think our building, our our players, coaches,
Speaker 1: everybody understand the significance of this game. Uh, we're not
Speaker 1: going to downplay it, but we're not We're also going
Speaker 1: to stay in in the moment. Right now with where
Speaker 1: we're at, I think we're in a good place. Um,
Speaker 1: we got to have a great week of preparation. Anytime
Speaker 1: you're going against Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams and Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and and uh and that offense, they're always going
Speaker 1: to challenge it. They're always in the game. And so uh,
Speaker 1: we were this is going to have to be a
Speaker 1: week where again, uh, when we play on Sunday, a
Speaker 1: game where all three phases are together and if we
Speaker 1: can keep that going, um, we'll be excited in the end.
Speaker 1: And a game where you again you just you need
Speaker 1: to and you want to keep that crowd. When when
Speaker 1: our crowd gets into it and they affect the game,
Speaker 1: we usually come out victorious. And I think that's where, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just so energetic. They get going, and there's there's
Speaker 1: such a you know, just a great feeling and it
Speaker 1: just gets our defense going and they get you know,
Speaker 1: and when are getting after the quarterback and trying to
Speaker 1: sack him as much as you can and then create turnovers,
Speaker 1: and then it gets the offense going. It's all complimentary
Speaker 1: and august in hand. So that's what I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to a seeing our crowd get crazy this weekend,
Speaker 1: and what better way to do it against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay All right, enjoy your week of prep. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you down the road here, all right, Thanks, Jeff,
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Speaker 1: with Bears defensive coordinator Sean to sashean, how you feeling
Speaker 1: and congratulations on that victory. A lot of great things
Speaker 1: to discuss here. Khalil max Sack as we came out
Speaker 1: of commercial break here as an old friend. He put
Speaker 1: down to the ground a couple of times, but just
Speaker 1: in general his performance was inspiring and he was all
Speaker 1: over the place. Yeah, I agree, I think that's that's
Speaker 1: probably the right word to use. You know, he's battling
Speaker 1: through some injuries and things like that, but he's as
Speaker 1: much of a warrior and a professional as you would
Speaker 1: ever want. And he showed it on tape. District played
Speaker 1: really hard, they played together, they were swarming the ball,
Speaker 1: and they brought a physicalness to the game that we
Speaker 1: tried to emphasize. And so I was proud of that,
Speaker 1: and there were a lot of guys showing it on
Speaker 1: tape yesterday and in the in the big picture, what
Speaker 1: you've done here, you a quieted a ninth ranked scoring
Speaker 1: offense in football. And you know, the first forty possessions
Speaker 1: I think of the year four to three and outs
Speaker 1: five yesterday. You know, our big emphasis tried to win first,
Speaker 1: second down and earlier, and then tried to get him
Speaker 1: off on third down when we get a chance. And
Speaker 1: we had some good opportunities early in the game where
Speaker 1: we got him the third down quickly, and guys execute
Speaker 1: the plan on third down. And so the results of
Speaker 1: that is, you know, like we tell our guys, you
Speaker 1: played less reps or you get into a little bit
Speaker 1: of rhythm on third down and you're take an offensive
Speaker 1: or other there rhythm. And so I think we did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of doing that yesterday. And let's
Speaker 1: talk about the secondary because with the kind of weapons
Speaker 1: they had there and Hunter renfro and certainly the speed
Speaker 1: of Rugs and the tight end Darren Waller, you would
Speaker 1: believe that they would try to put some mismatches or
Speaker 1: what they believe are mismatches. But I brought this up
Speaker 1: with Matt the job that Duke Shelley and Kindallville Dory.
Speaker 1: I had them for twelve combined targets, but they gave
Speaker 1: up sixty passing yards. That's it. Put in perspective what
Speaker 1: they were challenged with, tasked with and how they responded particular.
Speaker 1: But really the whole second was found trying to limit
Speaker 1: the explosive passes. And uh, you know, we've we've we've
Speaker 1: been good at that point and not so good at
Speaker 1: other points this season, and that's been a huge point
Speaker 1: of emphasis for us. And you're seeing. What you're seeing
Speaker 1: is guys taking the coaching and understanding how the defense
Speaker 1: is sitting together and seeing where they can go make
Speaker 1: plays on the ball and where they can't. Because you
Speaker 1: know that's part of the way we teach our defense.
Speaker 1: Here's there's opportunities for certain guys in certain plays and
Speaker 1: now other ones, and then when there it's not their chance,
Speaker 1: they got to be able to win their leverage and
Speaker 1: do continuer. A great example of that yesterday where they
Speaker 1: want a lot of their leverages and and use their
Speaker 1: help in the defense, and we were able to get
Speaker 1: off the field and they made some big plays and
Speaker 1: some big tackles. You know how you explain that right there?
Speaker 1: I can visualize it. But it is also you allow
Speaker 1: them to have the freedom to have some intangible ad
Speaker 1: lib not not to ruin the defense. You still have
Speaker 1: a responsibility. But can they use their instincts and go
Speaker 1: after things? Yeah? I think so, And I think the
Speaker 1: art of this whole thing is trying to teach them
Speaker 1: when they can go after things in situation, whether it's
Speaker 1: a certain point in game or a certain route that
Speaker 1: they see, a certain routes to have a certain formation.
Speaker 1: So that that's part of our challenge coach and aspect,
Speaker 1: teach those guys when they can do it. You know,
Speaker 1: we want to take the natural instincts away from these
Speaker 1: guys and we want to try to really accentuate those looks.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of highly intinctive players, and so
Speaker 1: that's what we're continually try to do. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because you look at all the positives after a
Speaker 1: win from a fan perspective and then as a coaching perspective.
Speaker 1: You know, we're some of the things that you weren't
Speaker 1: pleased with. When a guy is open and drops a pass,
Speaker 1: you dodge bullets. But that is also a part of
Speaker 1: the game, right, I mean, that's just the way it is,
Speaker 1: and you got to live with it. You point it out,
Speaker 1: but you can use it, I guess to your advantage
Speaker 1: a little bit. Not to scare guys, but hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we did this, but this could have happened for sure.
Speaker 1: You know. I think part of our job at the
Speaker 1: end of every week when loser draw us to kind
Speaker 1: of be honest with the take. And that's what we
Speaker 1: try to do. When we get these guys in and
Speaker 1: and we're honest with them and all the good stuff
Speaker 1: that they do, We're honest with them on some of
Speaker 1: the things that we need to improve on. And I
Speaker 1: think that's our job. It's only week five of the season,
Speaker 1: so you know, I always tell our guys, really have
Speaker 1: I seen a perfect game being played on inside of
Speaker 1: the ball, and so there's always been the room for improvement,
Speaker 1: and we've got that. And then we're not going to
Speaker 1: complain about guys dropping past against us because we oftentimes
Speaker 1: get the other ones exactly. We'll take those as many
Speaker 1: as we can. And there's reasons for drops also, you know,
Speaker 1: the physicalness of the game and the swarming and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I think the defense benefit from that
Speaker 1: play mentality yesterday, no question. You can put ghosts in
Speaker 1: the head of receivers who are wide open, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Snap back car. Here comes Mack Rush against
Speaker 1: I with Blackson car lets it fly down the field,
Speaker 1: interflat center field and intercepted. Intercepted by the Bears DeAndre
Speaker 1: Houston Parson. Now the Bears celebrate Welcome Back to the
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Speaker 1: am through one hour. Post game. Here with Bears defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Sean to say it's no longer here a surprise.
Speaker 1: When DHC makes a play on defense, it's something he's
Speaker 1: good at. He did it in the clutch last season.
Speaker 1: He had to run a long way to get that,
Speaker 1: but you felt it coming and you just wanted it
Speaker 1: was he gonna get there, and he got there and
Speaker 1: made a great interception break that. Yeah, I agree, he
Speaker 1: did a great job. And he's playing the post in
Speaker 1: that defense disguising. First, he did a great job to
Speaker 1: Skuis in the coverage. U hung on his hash and
Speaker 1: it was a far hash that he was on, and
Speaker 1: then he read the quarterback and took his break. You know,
Speaker 1: we just talked about taking your opportunities when you can.
Speaker 1: You know, he saw the quarterback's eyes and he went
Speaker 1: ahead and go ahead and took his opportunity. So he
Speaker 1: saw one deep throw coming and you know he timed
Speaker 1: it up. He took a great angle and then good
Speaker 1: things happened when you run to the ball like that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Sean Gibson. He gets a sack, and
Speaker 1: let's talk about Trevis Gibson. No. First with to Sean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's always good to have a red him
Speaker 1: back like that and Uh, he made a great play
Speaker 1: on the on the time that we put him over
Speaker 1: there off the edge and you know, beat the running
Speaker 1: back and kind of kept pursuing him, was able to
Speaker 1: get him down and then uh, he was able to
Speaker 1: finish him off too. So that was a good job
Speaker 1: on the stack. And with Trevis, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: a prime example of a young guy, uh, just needing
Speaker 1: some time in this defense to learn it, and then
Speaker 1: getting some good coaching by coach Chewy uh and then
Speaker 1: understanding what we expect him in his roles when he's
Speaker 1: in the game and he's embracing all that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's embracing the techniques that we're teaching, the fund mails
Speaker 1: and understanding the bigger picture of how he fits, how
Speaker 1: his role fits into the defense. And then when he
Speaker 1: gets his opportunities powerman he gets in the game because
Speaker 1: that's variable based on his role. Right now, he's taken
Speaker 1: full advantage of him. And that's that's something nice to
Speaker 1: see for him. You know, an impressive victory in and
Speaker 1: of itself, just how you shut down that offense and
Speaker 1: made the plays and you did it without again another
Speaker 1: starter in a Keem Hicks. How impressive is that. Yeah. Important.
Speaker 1: How important is that? Also? You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: impressive and important to credit the coach row and to
Speaker 1: Shane Tobe that working in the d line room to
Speaker 1: get those guys going. But you see that that you
Speaker 1: know what we're developing here and what we're trying to build,
Speaker 1: this mentality of the next man up. Uh, and you
Speaker 1: lose a guy like a Keeam, which is we all know,
Speaker 1: it's a huge loss for our defense. You know, he's
Speaker 1: one of the leaders of the defense and he brings
Speaker 1: a different type of presence down the middle of the defense.
Speaker 1: But we have other really good players. You know, Belal
Speaker 1: Nicol steps up, steps up, Angelo Blackson steps up, Mario
Speaker 1: Edwards steps up. Eddie Goldman had had his best game
Speaker 1: thus far coming back and was really physical at the
Speaker 1: point of attack, and Kyra's Tonga steps up. You know,
Speaker 1: So guys understand the way we want to play defense
Speaker 1: on this side of the ball is there's a certain
Speaker 1: level that we expect and regardless of who's filling those shoes,
Speaker 1: the level's not going to change, and so everybody rises
Speaker 1: up to that. And that was a prime example of
Speaker 1: that yesterday. The pressures are common. I think Blackson had
Speaker 1: four more, is that an underrated aspect of his game
Speaker 1: is collapse in that pocket from his position. Yeah, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you say it's underrated, but he's done it,
Speaker 1: and we've known that he's done it, and so we
Speaker 1: try to utilize that and continue that. You know that
Speaker 1: that's a special trader that he has to be able
Speaker 1: to go a Russian passer from the inside and creates
Speaker 1: him havoc. And he's understanding and playing within the defense
Speaker 1: and accepting those roles. And then the same thing, like
Speaker 1: like we talked about Travis, when it's his time to
Speaker 1: go and win, you know he's winning. And pressures are
Speaker 1: just as important because they still get after the quarterback
Speaker 1: and you can't always get there. You know, that's one
Speaker 1: thing that we all got to understand. Those guys got
Speaker 1: understand that the timing of the play sometimes doesn't always
Speaker 1: allow you to get there. But the pressures are impactful,
Speaker 1: and I think I think just being around the quarterback
Speaker 1: impacts those guys. Five weeks in, do you feel your
Speaker 1: defense completely understands what you want and how you're scheming them.
Speaker 1: I know it's different every week, but do you feel
Speaker 1: that you've what their beak a little bit. What their
Speaker 1: appetite about? Okay, what's next? Because they are being deployed,
Speaker 1: they are being used in different ways, in different fashions.
Speaker 1: Does that feed their excitement? I hope, so, you know,
Speaker 1: I hope. So. You know, it's a long season. We
Speaker 1: want to keep these guys engaged as much as we
Speaker 1: can see that when we do have some unique things
Speaker 1: for different guys that one will call it, you know,
Speaker 1: it's going to show up on tape, and two that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have opportunities bill make plays. You know, we're
Speaker 1: still growing as a defense and we're still trying to
Speaker 1: build our brand that we want to be in. You know,
Speaker 1: I've said it before, it's gonna be a season long process,
Speaker 1: our growth process. And we're okay with that. You know,
Speaker 1: we're okay with that because we like where we're trending
Speaker 1: right now. And it's still only Week five and we
Speaker 1: got a lot of football left to play. But uh,
Speaker 1: we're at a good spot of Week five. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears defensive coordinator Sean
Speaker 1: DECI want to talk about a couple of other player
Speaker 1: Danny Trevathan gets back on the field. You know, hard
Speaker 1: to keep that guy down. Yeah, that's right. You know,
Speaker 1: it's always good to get a guy who's who's obviously
Speaker 1: got a lot of stripes on the wall in his
Speaker 1: defense and get him back on the field and get
Speaker 1: him kind of his feet wet back playing with the guys.
Speaker 1: And so that that was fun for him. And you know,
Speaker 1: he had some production too, which was nice. We talk
Speaker 1: about the Robert Quinn play on the screen to Brian Edwards, Well,
Speaker 1: I sniffed it out and then just turned down the
Speaker 1: jets and he looked, he looked young. It's showing on tape,
Speaker 1: you know, his effort and his relentless nature, his pursuit
Speaker 1: and his ability to finish on the ball. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that's just one example. But you turn on that tape
Speaker 1: and is flying all across the field, and that's impactful.
Speaker 1: And the guys know it. Our players know it, and
Speaker 1: I think opponents see it. And so that that's a
Speaker 1: credit to him and his preparation and his training towards
Speaker 1: what he wants to get done. Now it's time to
Speaker 1: look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers, the official
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Speaker 1: to the pack rivalry, because let's see, this should be
Speaker 1: what game seventeen about, right Yeah, I mean, so you've
Speaker 1: seen it all, you know it all, you know what
Speaker 1: to expect, you know what's at stake here. How do
Speaker 1: we look at this team right now? Like the other
Speaker 1: sixteen games, they still got number twelve back there, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and DeVante's there. So they're very good on offense. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of skill where number twelve can
Speaker 1: change the game with number seventeen eighty time Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: is running at a high level, and they protect Aaron.
Speaker 1: Aaron can extend plays with his feet, and obviously you
Speaker 1: know they can hit explosive passes anytime they need to
Speaker 1: in the past game. So we'll have our work cut
Speaker 1: out for us. It'll be an exciting opportunity. I think
Speaker 1: our guys will be ready to play and be locked in,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's always good to get back home
Speaker 1: and kind of have the home crowd behind us as well.
Speaker 1: You know, you get them in a particularly tough situation
Speaker 1: third down and finds a way. And and this year
Speaker 1: they're eleventh entering week six and third down conversion, So
Speaker 1: is that is that the down that that really has
Speaker 1: to you know, pay off for the Bears here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I think that that that one's always the down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, and football's third down. But really, in our opinion,
Speaker 1: what we try to preach our guys that we got
Speaker 1: to win first and second down. You know, we gotta
Speaker 1: get them one to one dimensional, and then when you
Speaker 1: win first and second down, they've got some long or
Speaker 1: third down distances that they got to travel, and so
Speaker 1: that helps us, you know, as opposed to if you
Speaker 1: kind of get a little bit oosy on first and
Speaker 1: second down and third and shorts come up. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's advantage of the offense. So we'll try to
Speaker 1: win first, second down, and then when it's third down,
Speaker 1: we're going to do our best to uh make sure
Speaker 1: we have a good mix of rushing coverage and try
Speaker 1: to try to win those and get off the field
Speaker 1: and get the ball back to our offense as soon
Speaker 1: as we can. Well. Enjoy your preparation this week. It's
Speaker 1: fun for a Bears Packer game, and you know you
Speaker 1: could tamp some knowledge as well from Mike Petton. You
Speaker 1: know you'll get that question many times. Enjoy it. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Sean, appreciate it. Congratulations on the win.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it for tonight's show. Appreciate you listening.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to head coach Matt Nagge and Bears defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Sean to said. Coming up next the Bears and
Speaker 1: Packers at Soldier Field. Our pregame begins at nine, kickoff
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