Coach Show: Nagy, Helfrich on Trubisky's growth

from Hollis Hall. Here is the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni Yak and a pleasant, good even everybody, and welcome back to p NC Studios at Alisa on The Bears Coaches Show featuring head coach Matt Naggie. I'mjeff Jonik with you to eight o'clock tonight. Offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich will join the program at the bottom of the hour.

As we look ahead to the Green Bay Packers, look back a little bit at what the Bears did to beat Dallas and go to seven and six and outstanding, a fun environment Matt at Soldier Field on that Thursday night and by far the best feeling we've had all season. Yeah, it was a great one for us, for everybody, you know, it was a fun one to be a part of. And it was great for our our team, our city, our fans, everybody. Um, it's it's what we've been looking for,

you know, all year long. And to get it on that stage and put put a few weeks together here has been good. I ask you this when things are going well and sometimes when we don't win a game. But the way you called that game, was it in your wheelhouse? Yeah? Well, it always is when you produce and execute and get stay ahead of the chains. You know. That's one of the things that I thought we did.

Even on that first drive when we ended with the interception, we didn't have a third down on that drive, and um, you know, that's just a credit to our players for for for doing that. And it was one of those games where things we're just going well for us, and then guys were making plays and you love seeing that. We were able to do it for for four quarters and and and really all three phases. So to come out of there with a win, it felt great. But before you know it, here we are getting right for

green Bag. You know, it's easy to look at Mitche's performance and say, Okay, this was a one game deal this season, but it's the last five games there's just been this I don't know, I don't want to say maturation, but maybe that's the word you want to use, but triggering, quicker, thinking differently, approaching the game in a little different way on Sundays or on Thursday in this case, would you agree? Yeah?

And you know what, Jeff, I also think that it happens a lot with a lot of different UM teams and maybe offenses throughout the year. There, you know, y'all go through some some some of it are on the front end. You start out really fast and then there's these these valleys that you go into and others you start out slow and then you hit your highs later in the year. So ours just happened to be you know, um, you know that first half of the season and it

was a it was a battle. But now I do feel like, like you said, the last five weeks have felt a lot better offensively, and it's been one of those deals where the offense is able to help out the defense more and it's more of a team effort rather than just the defense trying to keep a team the under twenty points every week. So it's a good feeling. Are our guys are mentally tough, which is one of the biggest things when you come through something like this.

And now we'll just have to see what we do here the next three weeks, and everybody on offense is helping him out now too. It is it's it's and again, just like we always talk about the quarterbacks going to get a lot of the credit when you win, and he's also going to get a lot of the blame

when you lose. But all in all, I think our offense understands that right now we're executing at a much higher percentage with these plays which are producing in positive yards, eliminating third and longs, and putting more points on the board. So when all that works together in unison, it helps you out. Even for myself as a play caller, the confidence for all of us in practice, it's you know, the guys have continued to stay focused each and every week,

and it's nice when you're rewarded with wins. I don't know what you want in a perfect world offense in terms of the passing game. Do you want, as you say, the run after catch or I say yards after the catch, or do you want big catch of the catch point? So I saw some statistics this week, the lowest amount of catches at the point, highest number of yards after the catch. Is it game by game or what do you prefer in the bigger picture? What do you prefer?

I would say it's it is game by game. Um, you need to be able to stretch the defense downfield vertically so that they can't just sit on everything. If they are going to sit on stuff, then you need you need to try to, you know, take advantage with some double moves here or there. But um, you know, and you got to get that run game going. So I think the nice part about this offense that you're starting to see and you saw some of this last year,

is when you do get into some of the RPO stuff. Um, you know, just like the touchdown to Anthony Miller had on the on the bubble screen out there. Uh, you know, it can put you in good situations, but there's execution involved, and there's two wide receivers, um Cordaro and Riley. Ridley made two great blocks. Um you know, Mitch made a great throw and seventeen made a great run after the catch.

So it just it stretches a defense horizontally and not always vertically and so that balance of width and depth and field uh, and then making plays when giving a chance um is really what ultimately what we're looking for my thunder because Miller, I want to save that player. We're gonna run that highlight will come out of a break as one of my favorite plays of the year. And its simplicity, but it's execution and the desire. We'll talk more about that, all right, let's get caught up

on what's what's going on right now. So he had a little mini buy weekend, so to speak. He brought them guys in this morning and what did you guys do? And how is everybody looking around? Yeah? No, you know what it was. It was really good for us to have a few days off players end, coaches, players physically, coaches, mentally. We went for we had a nice little stretch there of three three games and eleven days. And when you go from a Thursday Thanksgiving game to a Thursday night

the next week, there's really no rest. And so our weekend was it was nice to have a normal weekend and have a few extra days. And now our guys came in this morning and we really focused in on a mental day. You know, get a little headstart on on Green Bay kind of where they're at, and and um put to bed basically the Dallas game and guys get a lift in and coaches are grinding on Green Bay stuff, all right. News that Roquan Smith's head to die are the pectoral and that seemed to be kind

of the course of action. So you know, that's a bummer because I was loving the way he played. His energy was at a high pitch at the moment, you know, And now that's a bummer right there. Yeah, it is. And you always hate to see guys get injured, especially especially these longer ones where they take a little bit more time. But um, you know, Roquan will be fine. He'll pull he'll pull through this. We'll get them, get

them back on track. And I think we all know kind of what we have with him, and we know what the future holds with him. We're very lucky to have him. He's he's he's been everything and more from what we've expected and seen. And he starts like hill, no doubt about it. He's a guy that each and every week one of those guys that these offenses have to prepare for. And so the obvious question is Is there a potential that it could linger into next season

at all, even in the offseason program. Is that that kind of injury. I'm sure it's a little premature to talk about. Yeah, it's probably just a little bit early on that. But I know the type of workout warrior that he is, and I know what we have with our strength staff. They'll be getting him ready and so the biggest thing for him will just be to really take it day by day, week by week, and we'll see. But I feel confident he'll be ready to rock and

roll by next year. We'll know more Wednesday and guys, But it's like the big tease everybody wants to see a Keen Hicks back. It's you know, he's starting to practice or whatever, and he's at that three week window, But do you feel hopeful? I do. I feel hopeful about it, But again, it's it's hard to until we go through the week and we see where he's at. I do. You know, it's to be able to know that you have the possibility of having him come back.

He's such an interval part of that defense and in so many different ways, So you know, we'll keep our fingers crossed for him and see where this week takes us. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues bunch set right single to the laft province, snap out of the gun Trubisky to keep them up to the fifteen insight cutting the ten five hands up touchdown Bears Mitchell Trubisky with six more. The Bears explode to a thirty to fourteen lead, twenty

three yards right down Michigan Avenue. Baby, Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley Financial Advisors, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Jeff Joniac and Mad Naggie with you and Mark Helfretz coming up at the bottom of the hour. You heard the Mitchell Trubisky touchdown run. I was losing my mind. It just opened up beautifully, and he just loves seeing that. It's just

he's not Lamar Jackson. Few are. But when you see a quarterback pick those yards up and get that out that that happened to be right. I don't know if you know this, but as the longest touchdown run by a Bears quarterback since Jim Harba nineteen eighty six. Is that right? Wow? Against Tampa he went twenty six years Mitch went twenty three. Yeah, that that was a pretty cool run to watch. And you see, you know a lot of times as as we're telling him, you know,

be smart, don't take that extra hit. And so when he pulled the football, uh, you know, Charles Leno made a made a hell of a block and and Mitch was able to kick it up in there. And I think most of us probably thought that he was about ready to get down, and probably even the safety thought that. But Mitch made Yeah, he just made that little plan he did. He went, he stuck it in the ground, in the ground north and south, protected to football, and then you could see all the emotions come out after

he scored. We could talk about this. Two were blew in the face about Okay, why he wasn't leaving the pocket as much earlier this season or what the There's a lot to that, But the fact is, does it give him confidence as a quarterback to have those opportunities a handful of times a game? Yeah, yeah for sure? And why and and well what it does is you when you when you're a quarterback that can run with

the football. You become a in essence, another running back that the defense has to know and they have to account for it. And really it's like it's like having an extra blocker in one way or another, just by by saying, hey, listen, you want to go ahead and take away this guy, then we're going to come back

and use this. Not all teams can do that. We have that and Mitch so being able to have some runs where he's able to, you know, get extra yards because they're not accounting for him, is going to be used to our advantage. And you know we we have had those this year. There have been some For whatever reason, it didn't happen as much, but but now it is and we're all seeing to come to fruition. It's helping

us out and the confidence is really high. A sneak peek at the Packers because they am not allowed a lot in that regard just one hundred and four rushing yards by quarterbacks and they faced Carson Wentz and they faced Daniel Jones and whatnot. Is it something that they do or something you're going to be aware of what they're doing to maybe not run into that problem. Yeah,

schematically they do a good job at that. And again, you know, our our game against Dallas was a game there where we saw some things and he was making great decisions. And not every you know, not every game is going to be like that. We knew this for the Dallas game that it was a probability. Yeah, so we'll just you know, we'll see how it goes. And maybe it's through the air of this game. We really

don't know. But we want to be able to schematically do whatever helps us as much as possible and then let Mitch make plays. And but it's certainly a huge advantage for him. I want to talk a lot about Mitch because you were miked up this weekend and we played it on the Bears Game Night Live show Sunday night. It was outstanding. It really takes you behind the curtain of what your relationship is like with Mitch and how he feels about you. And I saw this last week

when Mitch was miked up. This is you guy, It's it's a unique to me, it looks like a unique relationship. Can you take us in that a little bit deeper? Well, it is, and you know, as as everybody can understand, you know, we're all together for a lot of a lot of hours over the course of the past couple

of years, and not just myself. I mean that they're you know, you saw some of that from from me and time throughout the game with some of the players, but um, you know, the relationship, there's just so many discussions and conversations um that are very authentic, honest, open um. Not always easy between us, and not just myself, but with with David, going with Mark Helfrich, with the other quarterbacks, with Mitch, and that's how you all build these relationships,

and that's that's the trust. The T word is building trust so that when you're in the element, when you're in in that environment of being able to have to make decisions in a short brief time. Um, he trust me as a play caller, I trust him as a player. We all trust each other and it's a pretty cool dynamic. And you were able, you know, some were able to see some of that, and I'm sure they edited out a lot of other stuff as well. But I like

getting down the refereence. That's a terrible call, and you missed the face masks. They missed three face masks. I'm a little too fiery, so I got to pull back a little bit that emotion. I loved that you said to Cody Whiter lead was just one word lead. Why Well, that's where it all starts. And the one thing that we're all seeing in some of this execution that's going down in the last several weeks is you're we're really

seeing a change. That's the line of scrimmage. You're feeling that things are happening on the other side, and so we're covering guys up we're sticking on our blocks, we're pass protecting, and what's happening is it's a domino effect to where now a guy like David Montgomery Tarik Cohen are getting you know, four to five, six seven yards on a carry instead of one, two or three, and that goes into that first down deal where we want

to make sure we stay ahead of the stick. So those guys up front, they don't say a whole lot, you know, they don't get a lot of glory, they don't get a lot of praise when things aren't going well. They get a lot of it falls back on them. But they understand my relationship with them and how much it means to me when they play well like that. They don't get a lot of credit, but they deserve

a lot of credit. Well, take a look at the Green Bay Packer and more coming up in our final segment with Coach Now no more of the Bears Coaches Show with head Coach Matt Maggie on News Where Too seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM WBBM Snap Trubisky outlet past the Miller right side hits the guest of the five spend to the ends up touchdown touchdown Bears and the latest twenty three seven Trubisky's third touchdown pro fourteen yards and Miller well this first touchdown

of the year. You can help deserving families by donating a gently used winter coach to the Chicago Bears jewel Osco Coach Drive at the participating jewel Asco locations now through February twenty eighth. Donations benefit the Salvation Army. There's the Miller touchdown and for him it's his first of the season. He had seven last year. It's been a process this year. But you know, for a guy that is as emotional as him, the way he finished at what it just means to see a guy able to

make good on what his all really is. Yeah, it's it's it's really neat. And Anthony's a guy, you just he's a ball of fire and you just you absolutely love that. I love the energy. I love it. It does, it does. But that's okay. You know, we're we're okay with that as long as you don't cross the line. And there's been one or two times this year where we've had to make sure that he understands, listen, you can't do that, and he knows that. He's a guy

that usually doesn't make the same mistake twice. But on the field, as a football player, when you get the ball in his hands, he can make a lot of things happen. And he's growing in a lot of different ways as a receiver. He's understanding too that even when he's not catching that touchdown pass and he needs to make a block for somebody else, he's doing and he's he's enjoying doing that. Um So, but that that play

was was a fun one for us especially. You know, it's it's it's a it's just a nice simple throw to the flat where guys are just making plays and then he's able to cut up in there. No one was going to stop him from getting in that end zone and it produced six points for us. One more thing I mentioned that would talk defense in the Packers.

I don't know if you realize this, but after interception the last two games, he's thirty of thirty eight for three hundred eighty yards, five touchdown passes, a passing rushing touchdown obviously, and ten yards of completion. Those are significant numbers after a play that you wish you wouldn't have thrown. Why is that significant, Well, it's it's it's it's a

it's a credit to him and his growth mentally. Um I think even years past it might have affected him to the sideline and then carried out to the next play in next series. Couldn't get it out, couldn't get it out of his head. That hasn't been the case. And you just said that with the numbers he's producing. You go back to the Detroit game on Thanksgiving. You know, through the interception, went six for six right after that. So, um, I just think there's a lot of mental growth there.

There's a lot of trust from his teammates to him, from him to his teammates, and a matter of fact, when he threw that interception, you know he knew it was it wasn't a great decision. He knew it wasn't a great throw, but he couldn't he couldn't actually wait to get back out because we were moving the ball right down the field. So does that help you? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely,

and how you can call the game. Sure, And it comes down to again you talk about trust to trust with players and players right quarterbacks, wide receivers, etc. It's the same thing that goes with a play caller and a quarterback. And we've we've really been been growing our own since half you know, halfway through the season on. It's been getting a lot better. And so you know, uh, interception for him, he has to come back, make throws, a fumble for David Montgomery has to come back and

carry the rock or carry the ball. And so I think it just, uh, it's it's reciprocated between all of us. J. P. Holtz, Jesper Horstead, Kevin Pierre Lewis, Kevin Tolliver. Whatever guy is being shoved into the mix is responding. I say, hip hip parade for them, but the coaches who get them ready have to also get the praise here. Yeah, same thing goes with the two offensive linement with Cornelius Lucas

and Rushad Coward. I mean, and then for the change and flip that we made with Cody and James Daniels in the middle of the year. So with with Harry he standing there on the other line, I mean, the coach is making sure that your guys are prepared is hard. Is hard to do all the time because you're so focused in on the starters and and but that's so just the culture that we have, the coordinators, everybody doing their part so that when these injuries do come up,

we're able to rock and roll. And that's what you've seen. I don't want to move past Tyliver too much, but you need him to play. I mean, that's a growth player at a key position. Yeah, another another guy that comes in here and against one of the top offenses in the NFL and an unbelievable wide receiver and Cooper. So you're gonna be challenged. But these guys want that, they enjoy it, they look forward to it. It was a great opportunity for him Week one to week fifteen.

What's the difference in the Green Bay Packers the record? You know, there are a lot there and where they're at there, they're they're winning a lot of games. They have that quarterback that's pretty good, and we know that. But at the same time, we have a lot of confidence in our guys, and you know, we understand that it wasn't the game that we wanted to play week one. And then the same goes for them too, So we're completely different teams in all facets, both both sides of

them and us. It'll be it'll be a big challenge. We know it's a big game for us, but at the same time, we just want to keep doing what we've been doing the last several weeks. Their backfield is obviously a good one two punch and Aaron Jones the underrated aspect in the passing game. So I went back, if he's targeted four times and more and he gets some good they're seven and one. I mean they're winning anyway,

but that seems to be a key component to them. Yeah, So in regards to him on offense, they move him around, they'll put him in empty they'll put him outside try to get a match up with a linebacker, or they'll put him in the eye formation and run them between the tackles. So he's very multidimensional in that case. And then their defense, you know, regardless of any numbers, they're they're playing well as a unit. They've had a lot

of consistency. I think Coach Patton is one of the better defensive coordinators in the NFL, and I have a lot of respect for him and what he does. So we know that we'll have our handsful, but we're welcoming the challenge. All right, Well, good week of preparation and good luck. We're talking next week. Thanks Jef. That's Bears head coach Man Naggie coming up next. Mark helfriche the

offensive coordinator, joins the program. This is Bears Coaches Show, Little Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie at this hour, featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge. Brought to you by Whippleas CPAs and Consultants, Athletico Physical Therapy and the Village of Bedford Park. Once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Jony Ad Tripiskey and the gun backs things off making checks four of the play clock down seven takes the snap cut I right full the

middle of the end zone. The pass is hard for the touchdown touchdown Bears and the catch made by Alan Robinson. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley CPAs and consultants Jeff jony Ak and Mark Helfrich, Bears Offensive Coordinate. Good to see you enjoy weekend. Yeah, a little little bit of get away time, a little couple of hours here and there, has some great family

time and then back to the Smith brothers unfortunately. Yeah, right, Darius Preston, Yeah, we'll talk about those guys in a minute, but you just heard the highlight of Alan Robbinson's first touchdown of two and we went over the Cowboys. You know, right now there's a terrific bonding and it's been bruin since last season really really the second half of last season, maybe late last season, between Mitchell Trubisky and Alan Robins. Right now, are they in a sweet spot? It feels

that way. Yeah. You know, there's always there's always things that you can you can do differently better here and there, and and and we're at, you know, in a good space of of nitpicking and correcting and after a win, and that's I think here the world's nit picker. No, you are so everybody. I mean you, I like, you know, you know, I give you something night there and yeah, but well that has to make it has to be a longer answer than yes. But but they can they

can be better. You know, we had a couple of misses, a couple just whatever it is, route de ups, angles, all those things that you can improve upon. Um. But yeah, I think they made up for the lost time of losing. That initial off season with with him was a big deal. Um. And now just just uh, you know, need to keep playing as a as a unit U and making it happen.

You know, you bring it up to the point and I want to bounce off of that just because the average person sees a game and you know, they just assume the worst one. It's a quarterback. But that angles and route depth and where your where your landmark's supposed to be. You know, you could easily say, like you know, the old Mike martzay, hey, you don't run to it, and if you're not there, it's on you, it's not

on the quarterback. I don't know if that pertains to this offense so directly, but the fact of the matter is the other guy's playing defense can redirect that whole plan in a different direction. So just if you could just emphasize to the listeners just how critical all of

that is for the execution of one simple play. Well, it's just you know, visualize a three on two fast break in basketball, you know, and there's three people and if they're all in a line and there's no spacing or you know, they're they're one guy's too flat, one guy's too wide. You know, that might be a little bit easier way to describe it. But there's a lot of those that happen on a football play and there's

eleven people that throw it, there's eleven people that run it. Uh. And it's it's it's timing, it's it's depth, it's angle of cut, it's angle of route. Um, it's protection. Uh, it's it's you know, clean protection. Uh, it's stepping up when there's you know, just all those little variables that go into and oh, by the way, there's guys that are you know, trying to clean your clock, that that that are violently, you know, violently trying to get to

the quarterback during all that. So you've got to stimulate as many of those things as possible. Some of them are hard to simulate in practice, but you try to make it happ as much as possible. But that being said, over the last five games record aside, you know, four

and one, Yes, it's all good. But you would you say all of that is elevating at the same time, definitely, definitely, you know, I think our guys last couple of weeks in particularly, have done a great job in protection, uh, you know, and and you know you we had you know, just maybe some some luck of the draw with some opponents on the back end, and and how they fared just from a health standpoint. And but again that that confidence is those are real, real reps against NFL guys. Uh,

and we'll take it. You know. I think our guys collectively are playing with more confidence. Uh. And we have to carry that to to Lambo. Some routes require touch, you drop it in the bucket, your back shoulders. But the velocity of Mitche's throws seemed to be at a season high against the Cowboys. Is that just my perception of it, because he threw some that Wow, there's sticking

like velcrow to the chest of the receiver. And I think that again just goes back to being being in rhythm and being you know, confident within the play, the timing of the play, and yeah, it wasn't always his first option, and maybe it was a second or third. And uh, you know, made some more plays with his feet, which I think kind of you know, got in his own mind and and and really really got him going, I think, which is something we've been hoping and wishing

for on RPOs. Would you say it was his best RPO game? Uh? Yeah, we had you know, from decisions to the process. I had a couple of throws that you know, had a touchdown pass on a round play. Those are always great for that's that that just validates and verifies everything for the court, for the quarterback. And when that gets going, now you know they're a little bit almost throw first and run and you can you can hit that sweet spot. But yeah, good progress there, absolutely.

Mark Helfritch, our guest here on The Bears Coaches Show. The Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues Forstead remains in with Holtz there tight ends left side of the line slot to the right, Miller Robinson tighter coverage out of the air side taking the snap play fake to the pockets, setting up a screen of Holts catch runs up field thirty twenty five twenty full head of steam, bulldozing inside the ten. Oh,

we're gonna like this kid from Pitt. He just puts his head down and goes. This segment of The Bears Coaches Show is brought to you by Old Spice. Never let a friend lose his swagger. So Mark Helfrich is the swagger back. That's good advice. Yeah, I think it is, you know, I think it is. But that that that's something then that has to be earned every day and and validated every day. Uh And and you know, as we as we roll into like we said, rolling into

Lambo with confidence is a big deal. You just heard the highlight of JP Holts's thirty yard run. But the combination of he and Jasper Horst did uh it just it just balances out the whole offense, no question. And we've had some other guys, whether it's Anthony or you know, some of these other guys make some some plays and unition. You know, CP had the huge, obviously catching run. Uh that that balances out the you know, it's just a

rob type of way. That people can defend us. So yeah, there's probably not a lot of people that predicted the post route to him early on and that the catch and run that was a huge play. But yeah, Holt has done a great job. Patterson played too. Talk about

the excitement level. I mean, if you can make every every uh every play a kicker turn possibility with a head of steam cred, I see now why there's so much effort to try and find a player to a game to get him loose, because if it happens, good luck. I mean you're you're chain mover or a touchdown yep. And they you know, we caught him in a in a blitz and he was kind of the hot answer on that on that in that situation, and Mitch did a great job of getting the ball out and and

he did the rest. Cornelis Lucas. I mean, maybe should I not be surprised he's he has played so well and knock on woods, you know, from from going back to Washington where nobody blinked, you know, there wasn't anybody that there was that was skeptical about how he was going to play against you know, Ker again, and then it's been whoever Aaron Donald and all these other guys we've had the pleasure of playing against. Uh, he has not wavered at all. Has he been perfect? No? Has

rashadkward been perfect? No? But he's not giving up a sack this year. He's playing his tail off and and we're getting every ounce ode of those guys and and uh, you know again the on the on the right momentum swing. Uh, I just got to do it again. I threw something at David Montgomery after the game because I had done a feature with him on our Game Day Live show that Eric on Thursday back in June. He tweeted out how much he just couldn't get enough watching Walter Payton highlights.

I was not insinuating that he's going to be Walter Payton, and he doesn't want that, obviously, he wants to be David Montgomery. But through the first thirteen games of their careers, their numbers are nearly identical. So I gave him that card. After the game, he goes, Wow, how important is things sometimes to be put in perspective and context. It's like Mitch Wood, right, It's there's somebody wrote a start by Mitch and Drew Brees. Their numbers are almost identical through

the first thirty eight games. And that's where you know, stats are stats, and and you can bend and move and you know coerce. But yeah, you need to go back to to reality and understand why things happen or why things don't happen. H And you know, there's no greater example than the two you mentioned, the quarterback and David. Things have not been perfect by any stretch for him or the people that are supporting him. H And to just recognize it. Hey, here here, here's what happened. Here's

why let's move on together. You know, it's it's it's not your fault, it's not my fault. It's not that this is you know what happened. Uh and and role and he's he's just a great you know you've been around enough. He's a great worker, a great teammate, and just a guy that that you know, again, his best days are ahead. And and we would we would love that comparison he made about what ten twelve years from now? Right right right? I mentioned this with with Matt just

he was miked up this past week. So I don't know if you saw any of that the but but just the conversation with Mitch, the hugs, the proclamations of love for each other. It's it's to me meaningful, I don't.

It's it's genuine um. And it goes deeper than that, because he even mentioned, you know, the relationship with with you and Mitch and we're gone and you and Mitch, I mean that whole company, so to speak, that you keep in that quarter Can you take us behind the scenes a little bit of just how impactful it is every day to work with a quarterback because it's the most important position sports and absolutely it is. And the head coach and the quarterback have to be on the

same page. And you know, Rags is with him every you know, every meeting, every minute of every day, and and mitches mitches, Mitch's Mitch. And that's the most important thing is you get to know every quarterback. They're individuals with you know, thoughts and feelings and hopes and dreams and aspirations and faults and you have to know all those things, you know to be able to push the right buttons in the in the crunch time and know

that you know you're on the same side. And that's why, that's why it's so important is you just got to be able to to live through the highs and live through the lows, live through the pat on the back, live through the stab in the back, and and get through it. From week one to week fifteen, if you can, in a short sense kind of describe what it's been like for the gay and you guys working with him, he's he's worked, he's worked, and he's you know, it's been.

It's been probably exactly what it seems like. You know at times, uh, some smiles and joy and some other times some you know, not not the opposite of that. And again because he cares a tremendous deal about his team, his city, everything that he represents, uh means a great deal to him. And uh, when things go well, you know, that's emotional. When things aren't going well, that's emotional. And you need to find that that groove and and uh, where you can you can succeed and thrive and not

just not just try to, you know, survive. No bigger smile and then he ran into the end zone from twenty three yards. That's Mark Helfrich. One more segment to go The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM. This segment of The Bears Coaches Show is brought to you by CDW. People to get it learn more at CDW dot com. Mark Helfrich Our guest our final segment.

Let's focus on attackers. That's where our attention goes here for the week fifteen matchup. Anything you see that they're doing different than a week one. Week one is the great unknown for everybody. So you kind of toss some

things out. That's just that's just a field game. But what are they doing now that you has your attention Defensively, Well, yeah, I mean it obviously starts with the pass rush and and those guys, the you know, President Zadarius Smith have been phenomenal, Uh, and then they kind of like a good you know, a good scheme does they present different

problems every week. They attack protections uniquely as far as each each opponent and you know, knowing, hey, whoever the Minnesota Vikings protect differently than us than than Denver who you know, whoever the rest of their opponents have been

and uh, they're they're really good. Uh. They do a great job of kind of mixing and matching from all their personnel groups, both their their fronts and their their games, whether it's you know, pressures or just you know game line games upfront, uh, and then changing up the look for the quarterback on the back end, but playing similar things from their standpoints. So it's kind of one of those things where a lot of things look differently and then they kind of play the same and then a

lot of things look differently. But then, h to the quarterback, that's a lot to unpack right there. Well yeah, yeah, it's kind of like you could throw them some curveballs too. Sure. Sure, it's you know, similar to our defensive Hey. You know, they present you one look and do four or five things out of it, and they're really good at it. And then they do a few things each each week that are unique and so uh and then they've got good players doing it. Uh. So they're you know, on

a roll right now. Obviously played very well yesterday and gave up a late one, uh, made a little closer than than it probably was, and playing down a couple of guys. Will see how that plays out from their their health standpoint. But but very very very very very sound, well coached, elite, elite guys. Teams have run on them, but they've survived it with wins for whatever reason. But there's been some pretty big rushing numbers against them this season.

What do you see on that in front of Yeah, they've they've you know, they've had a couple of pot you know for that was just watching Minnesota earlier and they had the one whatever seventy five yard touchdown and then a lot of one yard games, you know, So it's kind of that body bow, body bow, body blow, knockout type of thing, but you gotta you gotta finish

the knockout. And then it seems to me their secondary is I don't know, is it the strength of their defense because they're gonna play a lot of time potentially, um and the Bears have seen a lot of time this season, So is that something you're gonna have to be focused on because they can death throw a bunch of things at you. Yep, and and veteran guys very very good, you know obviously you know Adrian, but the

two corners, Alexander has been elite again. He's he's a great player, and I think Kevin King is probably playing at his highest level ever and he's banged up last week, and that's one of the guys obviously we'll kind of keep track of. But but yeah, they're they're playing well, playing with confidence, and anytime you can play how they do on the back end with the confidence in that pass rush up front, that helps him. All Right, Well, appreciate you being on once again. Good luck with your

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