Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich building off win

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Solid win over the Lions twenty to thirteen at Soldier Field. Now within a game of five hundred and seven to go and getting back to five hundred is the foundation. Now you have to start there. Yeah, that's where we're at right now, and it's uh, you know, for us, any way you look at it, we just want to be able to get a win coming off of losing four in a row. That's hard, and our guys did that. They battled really hard and came out with a win. And now now we're we're at an opportunity here to go.

Five hundred Bears Coaching Show brought to you by Whipfley, CPAs and Consultants. All right, we start off usually with this, would you see antape? Well, you see um. Overall, just a bunch of plays where there's some opportunitistic stuff, whether it's on offense or defense. They kind of came in bunches.

You know. We had a little bit of a slow start again on offense and it was a struggle the first you know, quarter and a half, and then we were able to pick it up and get that touchdown there at the end of the first half and going

at halftime with the lead. Our defense was was was a bend but don't break type deal in the first half, and then offensively to come out in the third quarter of the second half and go down there and get those two touchdowns was big and you always like getting touchdowns after sudden change, so we had that interest by Kwikowski, great play by him, and then we got real quick to a third and seven, and then the player stepped up and made a great, great great play, great throw,

great catch, get great route and an awesome protection and we're able to get that lead if you're in a fortunate enough position to get the two for one before the half. And you know a lot of great teams,

that's where they make their money, so to speak. Over the years with the Eagles and with Andy at Kansas City, was that always in your minds When you know you're getting the ball to start the second half and you have the ball to end the first half, one of the things is you want to at worst case end the half with the ball and not give the opponent

a chance to get the ball back. So to be able to go down there and get that touchdown and not a field goal but a touchdown, it was just just really good, I think for our mentality going in a halftime because it was such a sluggish start to the to the game, and then that helped propel us there and to start a third quarter. Was there any risk of the oh here we go again scenario with the slow start, Well, there's always at risk, and we've been We've been facing that and been challenged with that

really the whole year. So I just I think that again, you talk about the words resilient, you talk about resolve, you talk about guys still caring. I mean in a lot of different ways. They could have just really not taken a week seriously and given up, and we don't have that. I think that's a credit to our players. And so you saw that again here we are challenged again in the first quarter and a half, but we stuck together, and you know, it came down to the end.

In evaluating Mitch Tchubisky, some of those throws were all the throws that you've been talking about over the course of the year that you know he's capable of doing, and they're in the offense weapons are capable of achieving, whether it's how they run their route, and a lot of it came against man coverage. So he's winning against

mancoverage yesterday. Yeah, we knew that going into it. And when you have that, you're gonna have to make throws and they're gonna have to be pinpoint accurate with all the throws. Yesterday, to me, in so many ways was such a big game for him and the fact that really his decision making yesterday was by far the best

of the year. I really loved that about him. I thought that, forget, forget all the throws that he made, there was a lot of good decisions that he made where maybe there's a shot mentality downfield that's not there, and you check it down for a ten eleven twelve yard game for a first down, and and and that was really neat to see. Um, guys were we're really rallying around that feeling that we had on the sideline, and then we were able to get the defensive lead.

Honestly early you could it's fair to say he wasn't getting a lot of help at times. Yeah, well, no, there's a Again, unlike wrestling in golf and tennis and all this stuff that's individual, it's a team sport and m unfortunately for the outsiders and for the fans and for everybody that watches UM, you know, there's there's routes involved, there's protection evolved, there's ten other people that make that

play work. And so sometimes when a play doesn't work, even though the quarterback gets all the credit for not working or blame, uh, yesterday it was a really, really solid game for mention, Well, you know, I don't know that we've ever really talked about this part of it. How does he hand that sort of frustration given his own battles this season? Yeah, that's think about that. That

that's hard. And so when you're when you're getting all the blame and everything's going on you and for for some of that right and others not um and then to have some mistakes occur, mistakes always here. There's always some poor routes or their protection breaks down, and and or there's a drop ball or there's a misthrow or there's a bad play call. That happens a lot. And and for for him, he handled a great yesterday. You know,

he never got rattled. He stayed very composed, very cool, calm, collected, and that helped us in the end. What's that quote you guys used by complaining? No complaining? Uh, yeah, we don't like complainers, you know, and it complains kill culture. Yeah, there you go, So no complaining, just fight through it all right? Uh? Talk about the switch that seems to

be the thing to this one. Yeah, the switch? Yeah, No, you know, to us, it was it was simple, It wasn't hard, It was not it wasn't a big story. We understand it. You know, to everybody else, it can it can be come one and and you know it's somebody that touches the football every play in the center. But Cody and James, uh, they really handled it really well. Um they're both completely selfless players. We just felt like it gives us a little more experience there. Uh, it

balances out the line a little bit. And both guys they understood it. They were they were great with it, and I thought for the first game coming back, it really went well for everybody. I think some are trying to say it's a bit of an indictment on James and his potential either in the future or you know, at that position, at the center position. But you know there is youth involved here in experience and a right guard and Rashad Coward who's as raw as the day

is long. So uh with Cody, I mean, you know what you're getting one hundred percent of the time in terms of understanding protections and all that that goes into it. Yeah, and we first of all, that couldn't be further from the truth furthest from the truth with Cody or with James. Sorry, James has done. This is this offensive struggle. It has nothing to do with James Daniels. You know, this is he's done a great job. This is just like you said, it's more so of just a balance of experience and

they handled it great. So it's we're excited about where James is at, where he's going to be. We're excited about Cody, and then we have a guy that was playing defensive line a couple of years ago as our right guard. So every game and every experience that he gets is just gonna make him better and better. Now, it was David Montgomery yesterday and he ran hard. He

ran really hard. So I think he had seventeen attempts and you know, the long runs weren't there yesterday, but what they were were there were some there were some runs in there where you could see that second, third, and fourth effort and he just doesn't go down on one tackle. Yeah. I know. There's also you know, you can create a lot of narratives when you look at games and you look at just statistics coming in. But I felt that that defensive front is completely undervalued. I

don't care what the numbers say. When you got a deal with Snacks, Harrison and Trey Flowers, and whatever their issues may be on defense, that's still a prominent front that you got to move. They are there there. They were really good last year. They're still good this year. Again. There's sometimes there's reasons for those numbers, but um in any case, those players are a good front and it

was a challenge for our guys. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm' Jeff Joniak continues step back Tripisky looking at throw Jack's the ball looking into the end zone for producer preaches up heavy bags to cach touchdown, touchdown Gars, beautiful throw back Tripisky and a great catch for the Will Harris the rookie on his back. Bears are tied it up on an

eighteen yard strike Tropisky to pronicker for the touchdown. Welcome back to The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley Financial Advisers, a partner of the Chicago Bears. Here at P ANDC Studios at Hallisaw. Matt Maggie with me Jeff Joniac and that touchdown catch for Ben Broncker was an outstanding throw, outstanding catch, outstanding route, bring it all down for us one more time, because you love the journey of Brouncker and hanging in there tough, and he

had a chance and he made it, made it happen. Yeah, that was a big, big point in the game for us to get a spark and we got man coverage and he just ran a heck of a route. He's stuck the top of the route, set the angle for Mitch to be able to kind of see where he's coming out of it. And then mister it just on time with the perfect trajectory to be able to get it over top of that defender that was trailing him.

And then you gotta make the catch. And then not only that, you gotta make the catches stay in bound. And they did all that in the offensive line, gave Mitch time. Yeah, he squeezed in it spectrum both tips, Yeah, grabbing that ball. But you could see his eyes were on it. They were in the slow motion on the TV copy, you could see it. But the other aspect of it, as you always like to say, it was a nice curved, clean pocket with green grass. Yeah, that's

you have to have that. If you don't have that green grass, you can't make that throw. You can make the throw, but it's probably not as accurate. And to make that work and make that happen, those guys executed it. And it's a guy who stepped in. Adam Sheheen was a game day inactive. Where is he at mentally and his approach to things right now? Yeah, you know, he's

just just continuing to try to improve and get better. Um. You know, we have a lot of different players that fit different molds of what we do and and so, uh, you know, just looking to have guys just every day just do everything they can to be the best player they can be and stuck defense. Now, and we start with Nick Wikowski. Yeah, yeah, he was handed out tomorrow, right maybe, Yeah, there's probably a good candidate there. I'll

tell you what. He was everywhere, he really was. And you hate to see a guy like Danny Trevathan go down because he's really the heart and soul of our defense and such a leader and just the mentality that he brings not only the game day but to practice and in the meeting room. And he just has that that that fire about him that I love. And so now he's out of the game, Well, here comes quit and he's able to uh play the way he did. I mean everywhere, run, game, pass game, he just special

teams and special teams. And so you look at that and you say, well, man, how does a guy play because he preps, he preps the right way, he cares, he's always ready for that call or for you know, hey, you're in the game now, and he's he's proven that. So how do you not just love that? You know?

On our Bears Game Night Live show on Fox last night, during the highlights of watching him and breaking him down, it just it just occurred to me that as a coach, you're trusting your guys are going to get ready, but that doesn't always mean that's going to happen for whatever reason. But this guy was in the right place and just it was just perfect, like well it was against Minnesota.

I can't say perfect because football players and coaches don't talk about perfection, but just getting mentally ready to play as if you're going to start. It almost sounds cliche when you're in a locker room interviewing these guys, but you gotta count on it. You gotta count on it.

He counted on it with Nick, and he delivered. He did and as coaches, I mean, our defensive coaching staff was was just telling me about how much it means to them that he preps the way he does all week long, you know, and you don't always get that everywhere from every player, but with him, that's a big, big time appreciation from from the coaching staffs that when

somebody does go down, the next man up. That's that's when it works, is when they prep and you're you gotta get mental reps because you don't get a lot of reps in practice. And you know, we as coaches know who those guys are and you count on them. And then these guys now get the uh, they get to success and the recognition for being able to be patient and selfless this whole time. I've known him for all these years and he's a very likable guy. Number One. Um,

quiet for the most part, but he's blue collar. You can tell from that background he is. He's he's he's dirty, tough, you know. And then he showed his athleticism yesterday picking that slant off, you know and making a good play and um, you know, you saw he had hands last year. You remember he caught that flat route in Minnesota. So he's an athlete though. All right, let's talk about Nick Williams.

I don't think a lot of folks know who he is, but everybody seems to be surprised and shocked that he's got six sacks the team right now. Yeah, it's another great story. Somebody that again has has been a backup in this league, but has persevered and who's just continued to just battle each and every day and when given an opportunity, he shines. And it just it speaks volumes to Jay Rodgers, our defensive line coach, and Mark Dalion, our linebackers coach with these guys, of of making sure

that these guys are mentally prepared. And so here here comes an injury without Kim Hicks, and now Nick Williams steps up, plays hard. He's a big man, he's athletic, he can move and you saw him doing that yesterday. What do you man about him? From Kansas City just observing him. Just a really, really good person that took the game very seriously. Every practice mattered, when he got his reps, that mattered. And now it's a reflection of

what you're seeing on game days. He's just doing it now against the ones um Ryan Nall activated and boom right away made an impact on teams. Yeah, it's another another really good story of somebody again. These are these are players that were able to either have a history with or we're bringing them in ourselves and letting them kind of grow and become the players that they become. And you know, you get you get the notice late in a week of this opportunity, and I can't tell

you how happy he was. He's worked hard for it, and you know you saw it yesterday. He made the most of it. No more of the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie on Newsway Too seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM. Trio to the Right, snaff is Back Traubisky, clean pocket, Gonna zip the ball down of the end of the get real right side of the End, zade beat the coverage for six Bears extent of late in nineteen six over the Lions, Nice whip bro by Trapisky to Gabriel and

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The touchdown, we just heard Taylor Gabriel again, a perfectly thrown ball, great whip on it and running away from a defender, break that one down for the touchdown. Now four touchdowns this year for Taylor, right, So we got third and seven, We just had, you know, two plays that went for three yards. So I thought that was a key moment in the game where after us, you know, a sudden change, you want to be able to strike and get a touchdown, and so to be able to

do that was big. TG ran that route in practice and it was one of the best routes. It was a little different the way it looked, but one of the best routes I've I've seen so far this year. And so I think when you see that in practice and you feel that, you kind of know that this might be a good play as a coach, as a

play caller, but also as players, you feel it. And we got man coverage like we were hoping, and he beat his guy up and then Mitch made just a perfect throw on the spot, Um, which is not an easy throw and he had great protection. Now that you mentioned it, could you dare to guess a percentage of how many plays that you knew were going to work because of how they were done in practice and you

could get the right matchup that that's happened this year. Yeah, there's there's um, there's there's more than probably most people would think. Um. You know. The other one too, was was um three Cohen's touchdown yesterday. Again, just a lot of details that go into it. Just looks like a simple flare route that you throw to the back and he just okay, well anyone care. But to the credit

of the players, they executed it just to perfection. And when you get the ball in twenty twenty nine hands, he makes good things happen in us what they did. He also, you know, he did an interview with our sideline reporter Mark Rody before the game before you know, last week, and he said, you know, I like running

between tackles. I want to get north and south. So we have this idea that he only wants to try to make a home run every time and go hot, but he seemed to be more dedicated to that yesterday. What would you how would you? No? I agree. I think that's one of the benefits of who he is as a player is that he's not just a guy that is a scat back that can go outside. And now the other thing that's that's uh goes unnoticed and shouldn't is teams are very very aware of who he

is and where he's out in the field. And you go back and you watch that tape and you watch how many times we had two people on him. What that does is open others. And so because he might not have the numbers, there's hidden numbers in there, and he needs to be a part of this other stuff. I would say that's been buried with all due respect to what you think is the fourth and one call to me is the is the game changer? I believe that was absolute necessity given the scenario really revealed a

lot of benefits. How do you look at it now? Twenty four hours later? I felt like at that point in time that um, you know, we were we were struggling, and and it was it was before you look up at the clock and there's three, four or five minutes left in the second quarter and it's fourth and one. You know, we we uh, I know we're pretty backed up, but we're gone nine nothing thirteen nine or whatever. But right, but we're at a point where it was good for us,

and I knew our I really felt good. Our coaches felt good about being able to execute that play and that's what they did and so it gave it gave our guys a little bit of juice and um, I'm I'm proud of them. Did Kyle Fuller ever right to be ticked off yesterday? Um no, I think that uh all of our guys. It's an emotional game, and there's it was a close. It was a very close call.

And it's hard because it's so fast and when a quarterback gives himself up lately, that's the part that is hard for these defenders and you got to be real clear with that. And I think it was the biggest issue was for the hitting the helmet and it's so close in that moment, so you can understand both sides. So club dub open, I'm vincent Mulcamara had an interesting reaction to it, and he says, it's not I'm paraphrasing,

basically saying. People can have an opinion about it or poke fun at all they want, but the fact is losing four straight games impacted us. It impacted and underscored just how hard it is to win one game. You know us, Jeff, I mean, we're we're that's who we are. And um, this the moment you start changing that because you're concerned about how you won. You got issues and we we that's not where we're at. And we understand,

um that it's hard to win in this league. And I'm proud of every one of our guys for fighting through. There's a lot of parody and you saw it yesterday with the scores of the games and yesterday's games. So, um, we want every win that we can get. Well, we don't care how it comes. Let's get to win and when we get it, we're gonna celebrate. All right, quick,

look at the Rams before we get you out of here. Well, this is a team right now, that's you know, they're they're five and four and they had a you know, a defensive battle yesterday with Pittsburgh and um, you know, it's just uh, they're this is a team that's coming out of the Super Bowl and they have their own deals at stuff that they're dealing with. But um, it's a it's gonna be a heck of a game, big

challenge for us. I have a lot of respect for Sean McVeagh, I have a lot of respect for a lot of the players on their team, and we got to just make sure that we control what we control, and that's prepping all week long. The biggest task of the week is figuring out how to stop Aaron Donald. Yeah, yeah, he's no, he's a he's a game changer and he's one of those guys you gotta make sure you know where he's at on every single play. All right, good

luck with your preparation. Thank you, Talk to you next week. That's Bears head coach Matt nage coming up next, Mark Helfrich The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggie at this Hour, featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfritch, brought to you by Whipplease, CPAs and Consultants, Athletico Physical Therapy and

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Jeff Joniak and Mark Helfridge, Bears offensive coordinator, as we enjoyed the three Cohen touchdown coming out of the break there. Uh, and Matt broke it down a little bit before you did. But let's get your eyes on it because it takes more than just the ease of what it looked like there. Yeah, actually, the guys did a great job. It was probably the

one look that we didn't plan for. Um, they play that that coverage a bunch of different ways, and the combination of the front and the coverage they played very rarely, and so the guys kind of made a little little side adjust on the run. And yeah, three con touch sounds are always good. Yeah. How often does that have to happen that if you're not getting look, you got to play call? But these little adjustments that can still make it work. And in terms of many times that's

been successful this year or not, is it trending up? Uh? Well yeah, I mean one game trend will take and build on it, you know, take that confidence from it. And I think at that moment, Uh, in those types of situations, he's tell guys to trust, you know, trust their training, trust whatever they've been told from day one versus hey, this this look or or this call, uh, you know, or just trust your technique, trust your training of of what they've what they've been working on for many,

many years. I'm sure he loves the pitch too, because if he can turn the corner with not a lot of bodies in front of him, he can trust his quickness and elusiveness to get into the end zone or make a big play. Definitely, definitely, we've you know, obviously been searching for ways to get him the ball in space. Uh. And and that was a great example of of you know, it shown up in a big way. Did you feel he was more vertical yesterday even with his touches. Yeah,

we we had. I thought he made a great cut on kind of a mid zone, outside zone type of run and we didn't lock up the backside. You know, there were a couple of times we had probably four runs that that it was like four inches from being a home run. And whether it was you know, the front side guard, the center of the backside guard, uh, culmination of of of the back in them just working in in in sync. A lot of a lot of

near misses. You know, there's this old adage that offensive play callers and designers, I think every place is designed to be a touchdown. Is that true? Well, in theory, yes, but no, I mean there's there's got to be some body blow mentality and and uh you're you're always fighting through that, you know, But but it is true. I mean every play could be a big chunk play if everything's perfect. That is voting what other guys um. And he wants the one run more between the tackles. He

said it, he said it last week. And we often don't think of him as that type of back, but he is capable of doing it. He is, and he just he did again a good job of of of making a vertical cut and it should have been a much bigger play. I think I can't remember four or five yard aren't four orive year gain and and we just missed on on the back side of it, Uh,

potential for a much bigger play. There are a few stuffs yesterday in the run game, which doesn't surprise me against that front, especially with Snacks Harrison in charge there. But last year the negative run totals were the most in the league. Now it's it's not like that at all. What's been the difference in that regard in terms of negative runs? I think it's a combination of things. You know, those guys up front, UH have have you know, committed

to being being whatever the right word is better? Uh, just in terms of negative plays usually come from either a lack of technique, lack of community, you know communication. Uh you're just on different pages and somebody gets cut loose or they pressure into it and you don't you know, throw maybe an RPO or some sort of adjustment that way. And so I think that that combination of factors and

UH is probably the biggest difference. Well, what about the offensive line, return to codiet center, how to impact you and just getting these guys ready for it. And what did you think of the results? Um, well, the results are wins. All right, that has to be it, right, No, I'm joking, but no, that is true. Yeah, no, that's part of it. You never know what that is for the security blanket factor at quarterback and and and you know all the things that go into that. Uh, you know,

all those guys are just still still young. You know our inner core of Rashad and it is Rashad by the way. I know how about that. I did talk to him, Yeah, I know I did. Yeah, there's a thing that's coming out of the kid and it is Rashett yea. So we will we will head in that

direction from that. Stay forward The Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark help Ridge and w bbm's Jeff Joni at continue bat The Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by a Whipley CPAH and consultants here at PNC Studios at Haddles Hall with the Bears offensive coordinator Mark health Rich. Any are you kidding me? Throws yesterday that you caught your eye from Mitch? Are you throw? Um? I mean no, I say that possibly right, I just realized No, I'm

like one of those where you are you kidding me? Yeah? Yeah, I mean that the back foot throw, right, yeah, the backfoot throw. You know, that was one of those ones where it was a great throw. Could have probably stepped up and protected himself a little bit more. But uh, you know, we were joking about that during the game. Hey, if he needs to take a shot to throw that

type of throw, what we'll take it. Um. But his his feet were better, he was on to number one better, and I thought, more than anything overcame an early bad throw. You know, the first third down in the game was not, you know, not an ideal throw. We had good, good

protection and good route. We were in good, you know, good shape there and he didn't make it, but he bounced back and and you know, then he had another situation where he had a drop any and he kept coming and so that that that in itself is a positive sign. How did they handle his these guys And I don't know, I haven't had a chance to break it all down yet, but against the Raiders, they showed a lot of man, which is they do primarily, but then at the snap there and zone, how did the

receivers adjust to that? How often did they do that yesterday in your opinion, and how did Mitch handle it? Yeah, they popped a few more um kind of just make us prove it type of coverages of playing more more zone more drop eight, which is a big deal, you know, a big deal of there's usually drop eight with man

coverage on the back end. There was just a few more steps of of of h drop eight with zone both to to try to eliminate our free release guys with Tarik and you could see them kind of holding guys as they left the backfield and that's all part of their their deal. But for the most part we

reacted well. There a couple times where we would have wanted to get the ball out faster or or just you know pull it down and run and owning the middle of the field, which I've personalities felt that Mitch has great vision between the hash marks or just outside the hash marks, between the numbers. With Alan Robinson, they got something going in. Yeah, they did, you know, did a great job there, you know, right before half of

taking advantage of a couple of plays over the middle. Uh, and as the game progress us that was something that they really started to try to take away. You know, you'll see four or five guys dropping out within between the hashes or between the numbers for sure, and trying to take some of that away. How do you as a coach even handle the slow starts and just you know, you ran fifteen plays, you got twenty three yards and

it's like, oh no, here we go again. And it has been a common issue for the part of this season. And how you look at the guys and see how they're responding in those situations. Yeah. Again, I think it just comes back to ownership, you know, owning why things happened. And sometimes sometimes you get lucky in a good way. Sometimes you get unlucky in a bad way. And if it's whatever a misthrow, a drop pass about, you know, poor design by us, whatever it may be, you recognize

that right then and there, and you move on. You can't possibly be working any harder to figure out how to get it going. Uh you know, I no, no, no, And our guys, our guy You know again, there's there's frustration, and it's good frustration. You know, it's not blaming, finger pointing frustration. It's how can we get this right? Would you know that's the biggest challenge of the first year and a half as a staff. The start. Yeah, I mean that's probably more been this this year, that's what

I'm saying than last year. Sure, yes, absolutely, And that's that's something that that you know, I was just watching who was I watching Tampa Bay against h the Rams, and you know they had a quick touchdown and then they must have a pick six or a kick return or something, because it was bang, bang, fourteen nothing And and that's the exact opposite kind of how we've been operating.

You didn't have the opportunity. We already did hear from Matt on it, but I always like hearing what you have to say and breaking down the big the big play. So let's talk about the Bronicker touchdown. Yeah, just a great kind of a culmination of everything. Protection, route running,

throw catch. You did a great job at the top of the route, just technically, uh kind of sticking and creating a great angle for it from Mitch and then just a great, you know, great spot with the throw and then to come down with it and finish the play was a big deal. We had that in mind to get that against a linebacker, and they ended up playing a you know, more of a Nickel safety on it, and so we made a great play and the Taylor Gabriel touch time. Yeah, you know again just a great

route culmination of all those same things. Protection timing. Uh, they kind of brought a similar game that they bought brought earlier upfront that we protected better this time, and and Mitch let let that one go early, which is good. Matt also mentioned the angle on that, so enlighten us

on that. Why that aspect of those routes. The angle, Why is that of importance in the type of angle because usually you're throwing that ball early, you know, and so if your foot sticks and you and the huge receiver starts to burst wherever at whatever a five yard out or a ten yard out or a corner route, you know, you have to define those angles obviously beforehand. Some of that is going to change with relationship to the where the you know, where the defender is on

the receiver. But that ball has to be out, you know, on time and in rhythm, and everybody has to know where it's gonna see the angle before you trust the angle as the trust the angle in that type of you know, situation because you're running it on air, so you know, you're gonna you're gonna have rules for hey, we're going to the front pilon, we're going to the back pylon, um, depending on where you are in the field of play. And they say it's not a complicated game.

It's a complicated game. 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. Final moments here with Bears offensive coordinator Mark Halfred John The Bears Coaches Show a couple of other items from yesterday's game. Let's talk David Montgomery because again he earned the respect of the home crowd because of some of those late runs. Just I mean,

this is who is not going down tough, yep. And and guys continue to be surprised by when he breaks tackles. And that's something that we just keep hammering home, is the dude's gonna break tackles finished, you know, finisher block who's surprised, Well, yeah, exactly exactly, you know, And you could just see, you know, see guys on the backside just start to let up and then oh, I'm too you know, too late to to to to finish my deal. But uh, yeah, he's doing a nice job. He's not

a bulldozer. I mean this is uh, you know, he's just sough. Yeah, he's got that that flat out top Yep. Absolutely interesting. Um in terms of ronicker in a larger role, Uh, obviously the touchdown is huge for him first one ever. But in terms of his route running, is he more accomplished than maybe we think he is. Yeah, he is a very good route runner, and he's just he's you know, his primary asset probably of everything is just speed, you know.

And then his ability to change direction has helped him out on special teams and has been a big contributor there. Uh And but yeah he's done. He's done a nice job when we've asked him too. Uh Uh as a rout runner and you must have a special place in your heart for guys like Ryan. No. I mean he had easily gone somewhere else. I wanted to be here because he said there's there's no place like this that when he knew he was gonna get put on practice squad.

Uh and then gets the chance and it looked like all these months and years of bottled up aggression unleash, just unleashed on special teams. It was awesome. He was he was hilarious during pregame, he was like, you know what, you know, kind of what do I do? Almost you know, if a couple of things do I do? I do? I step in here? And you know, it was it was we had a couple of funny moments. But that's

one thing I told him. Just proud of his you know, proud of his persistence and his effort, and couldn't wait to watch him play. And from the first kick it was, it was evident. He was. Yeah, time to be a part of it. Guys like this, they never then they don't go back to that practice squad, you know, because of that kind of effort. And we know he can run the ball. You know, we can run the ball

if that ever becomes an opportunity for him. All Right, we can talk a round at the Rams all we want, but we got to start with Aaron Donald on how to keep that guy from wrecking your offense. Yeah, he's Uh, the nightmares have begun already, just of of watching watching tape and uh, you know, they just they they're putt him in a lot more uh spots, from a front

standpoint and positionally moving around quite a bit. Uh. And then the parts, you know, whether it's Fouler or the rest of the guys that they're they're just playing at a very very high level. Um, you know, had a tough team loss the other day, but played you know, elite defense. It's old, but it's historical, and I personally have never been there, so I can't wait to call a game from Memorial Coliseum. You obviously played with your

Oregon teams there often, So what's it like there? That's a good way, It's yeah, it's an historic, legendary they've I haven't been there since they've done the updates, but you know, place with a ton of history and have mostly a lot of a lot of good memories by by and large, a lot of good memories. Do you ever lose there? Oh? Yeah, okay, couples a lot of way. You're ran the table there. As we wrap up with offensive coordinator coach Elritch, Gibson's restaurant group wants to thank

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