Coaches Show: Nagy, Fangio on preparing for Rams

a pleasure. Good even everybody, and welcome into another edition of The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by a whip Fleet Financial Advisors, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Here for the next hour talking Bears football and get even in Coach Matt Naggie, Good, how are you doing? Okay? Well? Here from Vic Fangio. Later out of the program, let's talk things over about yesterday and look ahead because there's

gonna be so much focus this week. You got your hands full quieting all the masses about this game, aren't you a little bit? Yeah? But that's okay. You know, our guys talking about yesterday. Um, you know, that was a tough one for us, but I appreciate the guys battle until the end and and sometimes you have those type of games. So we lost the turnover battle and we're a little inconsistent throughout the game, but overall, our guys will learn from it, will grow from it, get

better from and you're ready for this week. What are your points of emphasis from that game to you guys when you get them together tomorrow. Well, ball security number one is you you got to protect the football and when it's wet out, you really got to focus in on that. Uh. And then just um, I think just being a little bit more consistent in our play throughout from start to finish. You know, um, starting a game there the second play with a pick six isn't isn't

how you want to start it. But then you know, with that happening, I thought the guys kept their composure throughout, and Higur figured out a way in the end to battle till the very end and give us a chance to win. Because there was all sorts of things that happened right away, whether it be the kickoff muff to the interception you said, there, all sorts of things just not settling in. Was your job different yesterday? Out of all the games you had this season? How were you

working the sidelines and working the working the fellas. Yeah, it, uh it was a little different, um, but nothing too crazy, you know. Uh, Like I said, the biggest thing is once there is that turnover early in a pick six, Um, the nice thing is that you know, you have the whole rest of the game to to regroup and it's only you know, it's seven nothing. And that's what I like about our guys is you know, we we uh

we we had a couple three and outs offensively. Defensively in the first half, the guys were playing really well, forcing a lot of punts and uh, you know, had good field position and so that that part was good, Um.

And then we got into the second half, and that's where I thought, you know, we started out giving up a touchdown there that first drive, and then they got a touchdown on the next drive, and there just wasn't much rhythm on offense, and but we we did enough in the end, had a good day on special teams, and uh, you know, came down to that fourth down and every time everything had to go exactly right for

that even to be a possibility. Uh, it does give you another teaching point to your guys though, that anything is possible. I think you even touched on that a little bit. Uh, but you know, onside kicks, I think that's only the seventh all year in the league recovered. So your odds were against you. Sure, you know, no, it was and and yeah, I think it's below thirty percent chance of getting that, but that's why you do it. That's why you have it. And and uh, our guys executed.

It's a perfection. And when that happens. Now, now you get the ball, you got a chance to go down to score, you know, I know we were talking about it because it's it's that temptation. You're right by the end zone you go for the field goal instead, so you you know it is at a temptation. Yeah, Well when it's a temptation is when you're that close. Yeah. Uh. And because you're you're right there, and you know, really the right the right move is to kick to field goal.

You have to get points because if you don't score, it's game over. So we went ahead and got two points and we felt like with the amount of time that was left on the clock, we could go ahead and still kick to field goal, get too points and then just try for that onside kick. We got it, and then you could see right there that we uh, you know, guys caught the ball. They got out of bounds. I was a big throw and catchy by Chase and to wreak there down the sideline and then ultimately got

a pass interference and then had the touchdown. Play. The clock was working in your favor. It was plenty of time. Yeah, it was, and the guys did the credit to the guys on offense for executing that. It's not easy and there's a lot of things that can happen, a lot of things that go on, and I thought they did a great job with that. How do you maintain your calm as play caller in those moments. Well, that's what you have to do, is you have to remind yourself

to just stay calm. There's a lot of things that are going on outside of you. You can hear all the noise, you can hear the excitement, you can feel the excitement, but I have to stay composed and make sure. And that's why if you do it the right way. You try to prepare days ahead of time, or than night before, you play those type of situations, what if, what if if, and so that when you do, when you are presented with an opportunity to make a call, you can at least get close or try to get

close to those situations. Now, don't jump on me, but you literally go through all those very specific scenarios, play call for every single possible sing no, no, not every single one, but a lot of them are are more you know, fourth down and then with a particular distance. That's where you get into your when you know you don't have another call, it's either fourth down or nothing. So you try to play those out and then you got to play it out too where you're out in

the field. So that's where I'm saying. If you have if you're at the it's fourth and goal from the fifteen yard line, that's hard. That's one of the hardest play calls in football. If it's fourth and goal from the two yard line, that's a little easier because you're closer. If it's a two point play. Is what has happened throughout the game? Have you shown you know it's easy to sit there and say, well, you got the whole play call sheet to call this play, but now you're

at the end of the game. You've already run that play, So what's the next one? Right, what's what's what's play B and play C? And so that's where you start playing around with some of the choices. How often, and maybe you don't want to talk about it, but how many if a play is working, you trusted to keep on working? And how many times do you call the same play over and over? Yeah? No, there's there's some coaches that that won't repeat a play um or maybe

they'll change a personnel or slightly change the formation. Uh and and so for me, I think it's more of an opinion on where you're coming from who's running the play. I'm okay with repeating plays. I probably don't do it as much as some but uh but I certainly think that in the game, if you feel like you're you're feeling good, we repeat we repeated plays yesterday, uh and something, And if they're working, then why not keep testing it? Right?

I think it's your fiduciary responsibility and that that's what we do sometimes must get give you some respect for those came before you in league history, because you know, you think of the great teams and they knew it was coming, and they still couldn't stop it, repeating over and over and over again. I think of, uh, you know plays the Bears of running their history, or the Lombardi sweep. You know, you know it was coming, but

sure he gets stabbing. Sure, yeah, No. It's sometimes we as coaches cannot think ourselves and we think it's about the plays and not the players. And uh and and so when you repeat plays and you see it really is about the players. The last play, if Chase had time to set his feet and throw into it, did you feel Taylor it beat his man? Could that have been a touchdown? Well, looking at it again, well it could have been. But again that's that's a credit to

their defensive coordinator, James Betcher. He called a cover zero look where they were going to bring the one more than what we had. I thought Chase did a good job of stepping aside and at least giving us an opportunity to make a play or get a pass interference. And the dB made a good play and um, you know we we we had an opportunity. It didn't work out for us, But in that situation, I thought that I thought the guys on offense did a good job

at least giving us a chance. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joni at continue and in the backfield a Keem Hicks. He takes the hand off. He he is in for a touchdown. Touchdown Bear rictor revisited. Keem Hicks punctures the goal line. Look at how the Bears have delayed. Keeves got that baby rocking under his right arm. He not giving that bad boy up ever, that's true. No, Spike know nothing,

but boys have fun. Back in the Coaches Show at Bears head Coach Mattneggie and the Chicago Bears Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by Verizon, Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeten cover the world of Bears football, on and off the field every Sunday dit the eleven o five on Fox thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com or on the Bears Official app. I happen to be walking to the bus from the booth as he was walking out of the locker room

to the bus. So we had a little conversation and you know, even in defeat, he had a big grint on his face. I mean that was that was something. And at one point of the broadcast, in another situation, you know, right near the going give it to him again? Why not it works? Yeah, you know, yeah, no, it was. We've had some fun with that in the last couple of weeks and uh, in that in that situation, I thought it was a great, great opportunity for us to

uh to punch it in with him. And I went back and watched it uh this morning and just we got to work on his ball hand a little bit. He kind of reached for that ball. We got to be carefuls right, he accepted, he took it. He took it, and he's a tough man to tackle, so I was. I was happy for him, happy for the guys. There was much need to touchdown at that time, and we had a little fun with it. Yeah. And let's be clear, I mean, you're not doing this just for you know,

for kicks. This is this is serious football there there. You're utilizing assets on your roster. Right Robertson Harris is on the field at the same time, big body to block, and it gives you other options moving forward to use different personnel and use the same personnel but in a different way. I mean that that's the whole point of this, without a doubt. And you know, that was a big play that we needed at that time. That wasn't something where we were winning by fourteen or twenty points, and

and uh, just to have some fun. That was a much needed play. And that's what when we went to and and again we we've practiced that and uh, you know a team has done a great job at you know, going in there and being ready too, because a lot of times guys aren't ready. So we made sure that he was ready for that opportunity, that situation, and he did it and we executed it. What would make them not ready just coming off the field and get yeah,

or being coached up for something else. Yeah, they could be watching They could be watching the you know, looking at the video or the cutups or not the cutups, but the pictures of the previous series, depending on how fast it is. And and so our coaches did a good job on the sideline and getting them ready to come on down there. And I turned around and he was ready to go in. Now do these guys have to attend a little bit of the offensive meeting when

they're involved. That's some of the best times of the week. To tell you, the truth is, Uh, they get a little knock knock knock every morning if if it's a if it's a play that they're in. And then I walk into the defensive team team room and they all turn their heads to look at me, and then I go ahead and give them numbers a number call and if their numbers called, they come on into the offense and then they get an applaud in the offensive meeting room.

And and then you know, depending on the play, they'll either get shushed out of here and by the offensive guys and they'll tell them to leave, or they'll they'll cheer him and say, all right, let's go. So depending on the play, but they have the guys have fun with it, and um we as coaches have fun, and uh, you know, you want it to be productive. Safe to say, we'll probably see that guy in there. Yeah maybe, yeah,

maybe that's for sure. Six tackles and sack, tackle for loss, two quarterback hits and a pass breakup in addition the day for a team hicks. I mean, we could we could talk about guys all we want, But that guy's playing at a very high Pro Bowl level. He really is, and and we appreciate that. And uh, he's such a such a big guy, very athletic for how big he is. Um, he's really growing as a player. I think he's becoming really well rounded in regards to the different styles will play.

Whether it's stopping the run, batting down passes, sacking the quarterback, making tackles for losses in the backfield, chasing down screens. He can do it all. And that's a big, huge, huge part of our defense. And I think you could see that especially the first three plays of that goal line stand until they had that fourth down touchdown. Those first three plays, not just that team, but that whole that whole defensive lineman, they were penetrating getting to the

other side, and they made it. They made it really difficult. And again I'll keep going back to it, this is a team that just they don't just get so many other teams will just give an easy rushing touchdown in that situation from the one yard line, and we don't do that. The same thing happened in Miami against the Dolphins. Now, both games we ended up losing, but you pull those instances and you use that to teach it for us down the road. Here Hicks in terms of say Quon

Barkley said, man, that kid is legit. That was his quote. He says, you feel him when you tackle him or you attempt to tackle him. And that's coming from a guy who's a monster at three thirty six in there. So you had the year on the field level watching him run and he even says every time he touches the ball, uh, I feel I can score. And he runs that hard he does, and it's uh, he's got a ways to go before this comparison hits, but he resembles the way he runs style wise and speedwise. Is

a bo Jackson. And he's just such a thicker body, thicker legs. He's got tree trunks for legs, I mean, but they're so strong and powerful. You can see him jump, you know, when he jumps into you know, in the air. Uh he can beat you with speed. He you know, he can beat you with different moves. And that's why he was chosen so high this year in a draft. And he's a very quality type person human being and uh um that they you know, he's a he's a

heck of a player. Some of these guys, you can only bottle up for so long, and you guys did. Overall they had nothing going, really yeah, really nothing going until he had that run right before. Yeah. And that's that's what he can do. And that's what That's what good running backs do, is uh and and good rushing teams as they can go ahead and every now and then, um pop one and and so that's what that's what he did. And this isn't the first time he's done that.

Now he's he's he's been doing that all season long. And we knew that. And like you said, I think our defense did a really good job. There was one or two plays I think did Dave want back? And we gotta learn from it. No more of the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie on news Radio seven eighty and one out five point nine FM w BBM, shot Gun staff and up to to Cohen prow to the n Show. But he's caught with a touchdown did

he better? From Terry Cod and Matt Naggie pulls another trick out of his bag and an extra point away from tying at his time expires. Yeah, we were get a little excited. Yeah, we get a little excited this. Uh is weird hearing it that way? Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow. Break down the play. Well, it was a Again, we've had some plays now we call him an incubator that we practice and they just kind of grow and and uh, and we feel like when we have a good opportunity

to call him or run him, we will. And again, credit to the players for executing it. And they they covered the number one option, which was Chase, and those guys made a play. I mean, twenty nine Colvin made a great throw. Seventeen Anthony got a cross there and got open and then he made it. I mean, the heck of a throw in that situation. Even Colin, right after the game, we interviewed him on the field. If his options are taken away, he goes, well, I got

I got a lot of thinking to do. What happens? Yeah, no, there's a lot of things that can happen when he has the ball, and he has a lot of thinking that goes on. But it's good thinking. So uh, those guys ad lib and you want the ball in your playmaker's hands. And I think you saw that there in the fourth quarter. Twenty nine. Tarik was having a great fourth quarter, making a lot of plays and he was almost he was in his own and that throw that he made to Anthony Miller was a was a great throw.

That's not an easy throw and in that situation on the run, the way he did that was really good. Yeah, I mean it was right yeah, where anyone else could get it. So, I don't know if you're aware of this, but he and Jerry Rice, is that right? Are the only two players to catch at least twelve for one hundred and fifty yards and throw a touchdown? Wow? Yeah, h yep, that's great. Five seven, that's it. Yeah, it

doesn't surprise me though. Um, a lot of different action, you know with the with laterals and reverses and whatnot. When is there a maximum time a lateral pass can actually work to success and get to a receiver? Do you do you run out of time? Ever, it depends on the type of you know, reverse or lateral, um, toss, bat, whatever you call it. I think everyone's a little bit different,

and it depends where you're doing it at Uh. There's some some that are execute where there's a double reverse and it happens so quick that guys don't know where the ball's at. There's others, you know, the flea flickers, you hand it off, he tosses it back, and then you see the one that the Giants ran against us. So they're all a little bit different in terms of the snap. And Cody in the preseason changed at you guys coaching technique and as an extra quarterback, did you

ever take snaps like he does now? And what is that like? Is there any difference and hand adjustment for quarterbacks or anything different. No, there's nothing different. It's it's the same coming back. There's really no difference there. Um, I think yesterday, uh, you know when in a normal, completely dry situation, those don't happen. And unfortunately it was a little wet out there and just the way they were, you know, coming back and just with the ball, security

just wasn't there. And some of these guys did practice it though, oh yeah during the week, which is good. He's like sticking in a bucket or what do you do? Well you can and there there was the one day where it was raining, so you just go ahead and practice outside in the rain and get used to that. All right. Looking at this game coming up, obviously the top team in the NFC. You guys are on the top for the NFC yourself, So there's a headline matchup. It's why they moved it. So let's break it down

a little bit. Um, I don't know what you're gonna tell your fellas. Probably save that for them as you start the week. I mean, last week it was focused. Um, I would imagine this week is don't let it get too big. I mean, because there's gonna be a lot of national media coming and really for the first time where it's gonna be major attention. Sure, and it's may be the rest of the season this way. Sure. Yeah, and that's that's that's a good thing. We like that. Uh.

I think we understand how to handle We'll understand. We've been through now a couple national televised games, which is good for us, But you don't want to make this There's there's that balance of trying to say, Okay, listen, we know it's an important game. It's gonna be on on primetime Sunday night and there, but that's fun. That's

that's what you want. Um. Now, how do you corral that and how do you make sure that you don't make it too big of a game, because when you do make it too big of a game, then you don't play the game you're supposed to play. That's my job to make sure that throughout the week I send the right message to these guys so that they're prepared

as best as they can be. That's our coach's jobs to do the same thing, and then the players have to take responsibility and knowing that from here on out, no matter who it is that we're playing, every game is going to be the biggest game of the season from from the rest of the way here. So so ultimately nothing's changed. Nothing's changes now, nothing changed from for us.

The environment's going to change, and there's going to be a feel to it, and it's going to be a home game for us, and so that part will change. But as far as how we practice, as far as how we prepare, we're not going to prepare more because it's the Rams than we did for the New York Giants last week. That all stays the same. And whether it's it's a Sunday night game, a Monday night game, or a Sunday game at twelve o'clock, it does not matter. We gotta go control what we can control. Aaron Donald

is out of his mind at the moment. Eight and a half sacks last three games, yet none and one hit. In his first three games, He's got sixteen and a half sacks. Is he almost unstoppable at the moment. The way he's playing right now is on another level. And if you don't respect that, and you don't appreciate that, uh, And and coming from an offensive coach's perspective, you gotta

you gotta know where he's at on every single play. UM. The other thing that's that's relevant and important that you see with him is that he's making big plays at big times and and so he's always his motor is always going. Uh. Doesn't matter whether he's double team to triple teams. Uh, He's still able to get in there and make plays. But the last several weeks now, he's been very opportunistic with um with with sack fumbles and turnovers.

And just this past weekend, I mean that was a close game with Detroit the whole way through until he made a play, and he made that play, got the sack fumble, and the kind of flipped the game around. What do you think of their offense? Real quick. Well, their offense is really good. I think uh Sean McVeigh does an amazing job of scheming you, putting his guys in great situations. He's built a great relationship with his quarterback.

His players completely trust him. They trust what he's building, they trust his scheme, they trust how things fit and when you win, it helps. And they're doing that. They're they're a complete team. I really don't want it any other way. I think it's a great opportunity for us. You know, let's respect our opponents. Let's let them come on in here to Soldier Field, Let's have a little fun.

The Bears Coaches Show with head coach mad Maggie and this hour featuring defensive coordinator Vic Bengio, brought to you by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Athletico Physical Therapy for Rison and Miller Litte once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni Eli Manning takes the snap. Big rush by Hicks and a rush by Floyd hammers Eli down to the ground and that's sec. Number two this season for Leonard Floyd, who has three steps in a big hurry to get to the quarterback.

Huge right there. The last six games very active for Leonard Floyd and that was a big play right after another sack. I think with four that or after that, Vic Fangio back with us and last six games Leonard. I know everyone wants to focus on the sacks, but he's making a lot of progress right now. Definitely. I'm

in the first four games, five games. You know, he played the first three games with a cast on his hand, had no use of his one hand, and be honest with you, just a little disappointed in myself to even let him play as much as we did. But he wanted to go and he gave it a good effort, and then his first game out of the cast, he was a little hesitant to use it, you know, freely the way you need to be able to. So I don't think we've seen him play the way he's capable

of until the last, like you said, five or six games. Yeah, we did an interview with him before the game, leading up to the game, I should say, and he said, yeah, I felt like myself through all that time. Now you know whether or not he's he's thinking like you're thinking, you're you're a coach and you're you can see things differently, but it seems only naturally you would be a little

afraid to let it loose with that hand. Yeah, I'm talking about the first game or so when he was out of the big cast and had a smaller protective device on it. The first few games when he had the big cast on, he was trying everything, but it's not easy to play football with one hand. Yeah, So I'm expecting a breakout rest of the season for Leonard Floyd just because it just you know, the steps, his strides are so long. He gets there in a hurry. Yeah.

You know Roquins that way, in a different way. Yeah, guys are closed quickly on your defense, don't you. Yeah, those two guys that you mentioned and some others can run and when they see it, they can go get it. All right. What is your evaluation yesterday? Just very disappointing loss. You know, we played extremely well in the first half

up until the last two plays. We should never let them get that field goal at the end of a half, and then you know, we gave up the reverse pass for the touchdown, and you know, we had a period there where we just didn't play as well, you know, and we had a chance to win at the end of the game and gave up that fuel goal. You know, after the first play run that Barkley broke out of there, that we could have played a little better, And you know,

that's the way it is in the NFL. You don't get many mulligans and hopefully don't pay for your mistakes. But we did pay for ours yesterday. I just had a curiosity and to Beckham touchdown throw, because he's so good with the ball in his hands, is it put everybody on edge a little bit because could somebody have hit him? Well, it's like everybody hesitated, like they now treated him like almost like a quarterback, don't touch me

type of thing. It just looked that way. I don't know, Yeah, I looked that way a little bit, But I think some of it too was because he's so elusive. They were afraid to miss him. But we were a little tentative at going after him there. For some reason, we could have done a little better there. Breakdowns have not happened often. Was it something they did on this day

to the secondary that had a few breakdowns? Well, on that play, we you know, we just vacated the middle of the field, which we shouldn't have done, and you know we paid for it. The Bears Coaches Show with defensive coordinator Bit Bengio and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continued

Shotgun Manning takes in trouble. Daddy goes sacked on the play and brought down by Khalil mack back at the forty yard latt his ninth sack of the year, and Manning the victim of his four hundredth career sack, and it's a big one on third down and they now will punt. That was a big sack in the game.

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talk about it with Vick here in a moment. Let's just go back a little more through the game yesterday and just in general, any particular reason why you guys have been so stingy in first half of games. It's an NFL low seventy five first half points allowed. You're gonna win a lot of games if you continue to

play that kind of stingy football. I know it hasn't you know, happened in the second half necessarily, but to get that head start where you can do things a little differently in the second half defensively when you're on

the lead and so forth, Has that made a big difference? Well, it definitely helps the whole team when you can hold the other team down early in the game, especially if your offense isn't clicking, particularly on the road, to go out there and hold the fort for everybody, and our guys have come out ready to play most of the time. What do you think of the tackling yesterday when you knew going in you were going to need all eyes on, say Quon Barkley. You know, the tackling overall wasn't too bad.

It's just that the ones we did miss came on his two of his bigger plays, so they stand out. But overall it wasn't too bad. I don't want to throw him too many bouquets, you know, even after the fact. Now, but he's gonna be around a while. I heard players say, and if I'm not mistaken, that you thought he maybe looked a little bit like a Barry Sanders type of back. Mattee you was just on earlier in our program Tonight

said he reminds him about Jackson. Dom Thayre says, he's got a lot of tenancies and qualities of a Walter Payton. Given how hard he runs the ball, where do you envision him becoming one day. He's a hard guy to compare to somebody because it runs like a back who's one hundred ninety five two hundred pounds with his speed and elusiveness. But yet he's two hundred and thirty pounds, so he has the power to go with that. So I really don't remember a back that combines all those

qualities that he has right now. You know, in a time and place when everyone I only wants to talk about passing games, there's still there's still a home for a great running back to lead a football team, not only last week with the Giants, but now coming up with Todd Gurley as a defensive coordinator. Do backs scare you as much as great quarterbacks? Really great backs? Oh yeah, I mean, I don't mean to say anything scares you, but you know what I mean. The running backs are

the easiest guys to get the ball to. You just have to turn and hand it off to him, or you can throw something short to them. So if they're really that good, like these couple guys we saw yesterday and going to see next week are it's easy for them to get the ball in their hands, so they are a problem. The goal line stand that nearly was complete at the end and not the end, but when Manning was hitting, he threw to wide open Odell Beckham.

The fight and the fire and the desire is this coming from you and your philosophy or you guys just guys that are going to lay it out out there every time every snap. Now that's a reflection of the players. Certainly we emphasize that, reinforce it, like it, try and coach it, but ultimately it comes down to the players. And that's just the type of guys we have. Because you know, even Mattie said, you know, some teams they just they just they're that close, they just they just

give it up. You know. You guys don't give up an inch, try not to, you know. And we've got some big guys inside and Goldman and Hicks and the other defensive lineman, and you know we're gonna put up a fight until they get it in. Kyle Fuller's on fire too in terms of seeing the football as a as a member of the secondary sixth interception tie for the league lead right now. We've talked about him several weeks now, but is he really coming in his own right now as a corner at top flight cornerback in

this league. I think so. He's been the beneficiary of a lot of hard work. He's committed himself to being the best he can be. You know, He's come through some tough times in the last few years ever since he's been here, really even his rookie year when when we weren't here. So it's good to see a guy come through all the adversity and reaping the benefits of

a lot of good work. 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 Remaining Moments with Vic Fangio, the Bears defensive coordinator, has the Bears get ready to meet the La Rams. Wow, they're balanced, Huh, they really are they you know, most people think they're best players. They're running back and they yet they throw the ball

extremely well. They got two receivers that will get over a thousand yards if they're not already there. And girl's got about i don't know, sixteen or seventeen hundred yards from scrimmage right now. And yeah, the quarterbacks running it very efficiently, and and they do a great job. They got a great scheme. They do a great job calling it, and it's a huge challenge. What's the essence of their scheme?

They they make everything look the same, both running past or I don't want to say old school, but they're under center more than any team in the league. Still, they don't go to the shotgun as much on the early downs, and they're an old fashioned run and play action pass and they do a good job of making it both look the same. Put the players into a buying you know, as far as determining run or pass, and and they're really good at it because so many

teams are and gunned. Does it make a defensive player? Is it unusual almost to see a guy under center that much? Does it make them stop and think for that? Well, it is a little unusual, just in that. You know, it's hard to believe you'd say that, but yeah, there's it's not as many teams spending time under center as much as they are, and they're really good at it. I know he's not on your side of the ball. But do you admire the excellence of a player like

Aaron Donald? Yeah, he's just such a great player. He's and I think the thing you admire the most, besides his extraordinary talent, is he's a relentless player and you're in for an all day sucker if you got to block him, and which makes him a great player, coupled with his tremendous talent. Girley versus somebody like Barkley types

of player, any comparisons contrasts. They're similar in that they are very important to their offenses, and both from a obviously carrying the football in the running game and also receiving it in the passing game. So from that standpoint, they are very similar. Obviously, Matt is using some of your defensive personnel on offense. Do you get a kick out of it, especially when they do something like Hicks yesterday. Yeah, you know, I think it's good, you know, keeps things fresh,

brings the team together more. I believe I'm still looking for somebody on offense that can maybe help us on defense, but yet to find that guy. Keep looking. I know you uncover every rock, so you can do it well. Good good luck on Sunday night. We really appreciate you coming out. You'd be a fun night, a fireworks show on both sides of the ball for both teams. So good luck, Thank you. It's Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.

All right, that's gonna wrap up our show tonight. Bears and Rams Sunday, four o'clock Free Game seven twenty kickoff from Soldier Field. Thanks for listening. Everybody, have a great night. This is News Radio seven eighty and one or five point NFM w BBM. We'll talk to you next time.