Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich moving forward

and a pleasant good even every bond. Welcome Bear fans. The PNC studio is here at Hallis and the Bears Coaches Show with Head coach Man Naggie, Jeff Joniac with you into eight o'clock tonight, later joined by Bears offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, coach. How you doing this evening? Going tough to handle a loss like that for anybody, doesn't matter who you are, when and when it happens in the league, during the course of your career and whatnot.

But watching the tape in Deep Yale like you didn't you inferred this at the news conference today with the media, But then having the whole day and talking with your staff about it. What are your takeaways? What'd you come

away with when you watched it all on tape? Again, the biggest thing that that we saw as a staff, that I saw is it really was a tale two halves and and so one of the things that we discussed going into the game the night before it was just making sure that whatever we do, um, whatever happens, we want to be able to finish. Now, obviously that didn't happen, but for us, uh, you know, for our guys, none of it was because of lack of effort, you know. And so that's a pretty good team that we played

over there. We get that, we understand that, and we had them right where we wanted them, but now we got to finish them. So fortunately for us, it's the first week of the season. We understand it is a very long season. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna learn from this and we're going to make ourselves better be because of this. And I can't tell you what week that's going to happen in, but I promise

you it'll happen. And our guys have a great attitude, you know, afterwards, you can see they were really frustrated, and understandably so, but they're not going it's not gonna be one of those deals where it just puts us down to where we can't recover. We'll recover. It is an interesting question when you think about a veteran team versus a young team, and this is a younger team more than it is a veteran team. But there have been guys that have gone this and seen this script

play out over and over again. How do you help them not think, oh not again. Well, you gotta believe. And so we're building this culture here right now and understanding that we've been prepared for this. This isn't something where you know, the guys go into this with unrealistic expectations. And if you do that as a coaching staff, and you talk about the highs end of the loads, you're

prepared for it. And even if it would have been a different ending to where you win that game, and now all of a sudden, you know you have to be able to prepare it for week two and say, hey, listen, we're really not that great, you know, even with that win. So it is a long season. I've I've had big dream to the guys, and so hopefully we can grow from it. How much quicker did Rogers get rid of it? I know Pro Football Focus timed that it was three seconds in the first half plus and then it was

less than three seconds in the second half. I don't know if you guys do look at that afterwards and see how quickly and what can be done if you can't get to them to at least make it a little more difficult, to make it less than a pitching catch type situation. Well, there he was getting the ball

out a lot quicker, a lot more three steps. They pop some runs now and then, and then they did some quick stuff to the flats and and so you know, for us trying to keep everything in front of you and make good tackles and no run after the catch. In the second half, defensively, we had some big plays that were given up, you know, to say the least we had a seventy five yard or a fifty one yard or a thirty two yarder, and I think around

a twenty three yarder, and they're they're big plays. They so we were we had them where we wanted them too. We had a big third third and fourteen where they got a first down backed up on the on the on their own fifteen the total. That's just part of the game. And so hopefully our guys can understand that, and they're gonna they're gonna, they're gonna see that, and and uh, next time we're in that situation, offensively, we're

gonna get first downs. Well, head coach Matt Nagy here on the Bears Coach the show brought to you by a Whipfley CPAs and consultants with you until eight o'clock tonight. Let's talk Mitch Trubisky. Let's talk first half, first series. Uh, first couple of series were awesome. The creativity of your play calling and what you guys put on the script was was a lot of fun to watch, and it seemed to invigorate you know, everybody in the building that

was a Bear fan. You can even hear Bears fans cheering, and you heard a lot of Packer fans booing in that first half. Um, just break that down a little bit on how all that went from Mitch and the offense. It was good to see because you get to understand that where we can get this thing too offensively. I think It showed all the hard work that they put in in training camp and to go four team plays

with a touchdown to first drive. You know. Ever, with this offense and with those group of guys out there, I was so happy for them. Then the next the next series, they came out and put together a nice long drive again and got three points. What we need to understand is is that we have to eliminate to three and ounce. There was there was. We had ten total drives at that game, and of the ten possessions, four of them were three and ounce and those are hard,

especially when your defense is playing as well as they were. Um, you know, we can't get field goals. We need to execute in the red zone, and of course you need to get first downs on third and one at this point. Yet, and there are so many scenarios obviously, so many, um, third down scenarios, the amount of yards you have to get for each third down scenario, red zone opportunities, whatnot. Do you have some in your opinion, you have right now bread and butter plays. Yet in the red zone?

Oh yeah, yeah we do? And and um, you know there's some there's some situations that we as coaches feel like we can be better at. And then we also feel like execution as well. This isn't just one one thing here um in regards to the the the red zone plays and execution. And so we'll we'll we'll get that fixed and uh, and the guys will understand that we're going to do everything we possibly can to put

them in a good situation. And then when we do put them in that situation, they need to make plays. You mentioned some stuff you'd like back, even if you won the game, you'd still want stuff back, right during the course of the game, certain situation, certain play costs, certain moments in the game. Surely, Yeah, always. I don't think you ever have a game where it's one hundred

percent exactly how you wanted it to go. But for us, uh, you know, I'm really anxious to see how our guys recover from this, and I know they will and we we just we have such good guys and such good people, high character guys. We're we're we're just going to be at a point now where we got to have a solid week of practice. We got to refocus. We can't dwell in the past. It's it's it was a big game for us. We didn't win it. Am I happy about it? Absolutely not. But we're not going to dwell

on them. We know we got a big game coming up at home against Seattle and that's what we're gonna be focused on. That is the story of the National Football League. It waits for no one. You got you gotta jump right at it. But you do have sixty minutes of film that you can break down and it must excite you like you insinuated just a moment ago how good you can be. And when the executions on, this would be a very difficult team to beat because

that that first drive is a perfect example of that. Yeah, it's there, and the consistency of doing that is where is what we gotta find. And what we need to do is just make sure that we try not to do too much within this system and then we make it nice and clean and fast. For example, for for Mitchell at the line of scrimmage, don't give him too

much to where it slows him down. The kids very smart, he's very talented, and so what we can't do is paralyze him by you know, the old paralysis by analysis. We can't do that, and that's our fault as coaches. If we do so, we need to balance that you're not saying that that happened last No, that didn't happen last night. But we gotta we have to make sure that in all phases, you know, and defense as well.

You know, we just let's uh, let's make sure that we can let our guys play fast and uh again, a game like last night, just as we were unscouted, you know, some they had some defensive looks that they had that were un scouted as well. And that's that's a credit to to Mike Patton in their defensive side

for for putting in some good stuff. The NFL chess match there it is right, Yeah, The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Jodiac continue first half, Bears up ten zip preman rush coming clean, Roy Rahan had it is intercepted by mac Mac went up to the twenty fifteen ten five heads touchdown Bears, Khalil Mack rolling in his second career picks six and

what a welcome to Chicago for Khalil back. Yeah, what a night for Khalil mac h wearing Bears colors for the first time as Welcome back to the Bears coaches show here represented by Whipped Leasypas and Consultants with Matt Naggy so sack, interception, forced fumble, fumber recovery, defensive touchdown a week one. Last player to do that in a game was Khalil Mack back in twenty sixteen against the Panthers, and since they started tracking sacks and eighty two, he's

the first guy to do that in one half thoughts. Yeah, no, well it was special. It was a special moment for him and you could just really feel it on the sideline how happy everybody was for him. He was completely out of gas after that touchdown. But that just goes to show, I think, what we have here on our team with him and what he brings and how he elevates everybody on that side of the ball. So we're very fortunate and we were happy for him. He paid

forty two snaps. Were you even surprised or was that someone in the wheelhouse of what you wanted to do or was it going to be a field thing as the game went on? It was a field thing as a game went on. You know, I think that that would probably have been a few more than what we thought going into it. But you know, when you're playing so well like he was, again, we had to see where his conditioning was at, and he felt pretty good, so that's what we went with. He's a bulldog and

he's outstanding. But maybe the most stunning play was on the cob. He is down there right at the very end, after rushing the pastor, dropping off and then going to get the guy. Yeah, he's uh, you know, he's just he does things so easily when he's out there, just the way he rushes the quarterback and then he has great instincts and and uh, you know, there was no chance of him not catching that interception when they threw

that screen to him. I mean he's out here at practice every day, uh, in warm ups acting like he's a quarterback and catching balls and doing different things. He's an athlete. As you say, cornerback. No quarter quarterback told me he could play corner Oh and yesterday he was lined up across from DeVante Adams and had three jobs and he did them all. Yeah, he disengaged from him, and he still rushed the pastor and got out to the quarterback. He finding me to interrupt you, but so

he's playing quarterback. Yeah, and he just well, he just he likes that funny. He's athletic, and it showed. And so in such a big moment, they try to throw a screen and he reacts, he reads it, he feels it, makes a catch, makes a couple of guys missing in. One of the most impressive parts of the whole thing was he didn't have great ball security as he was going in and the guy went to swipe it and he still held onto him. That That was obviously a huge play in the game and even a coaching point

for an all Pro. Right, that's right, yeah, tuck it away. How about the work done by your coaching staff, Brandon Staley in particular and Vic Fangio of getting this guy ready. Clearly, his singular focus was getting ready for the Packers, despite everything that was swirling around him in terms of the trade and then getting resettled and impossible really to get settled in one week, but he kept talking about it, and I believe him he was. The whole focus was

getting ready for this game. It was, and both those guys, Brandon Stalely and Vic did a great job prepping him getting him ready. I know he spent a lot of time with Brandon, you know, in their room, going over the xs and os and just kind of the strategy part of it. And Brandon is a great teach and I think he's a perfect fit with Khalil, and so they tried to spend as much time as possible getting ready for it, and so they obviously did a good job and they'll just continue to do that each and

every day. Roe Quant smith Sack on his first NFL snap a glimpse of what he's going to be for this franchise as well. You can see the explosiveness I believe eight snaps for him in this game. He's obviously gonna play a heck of a lot more moving down the road. But when a rookie does that, and what he had to go through this offseason, is that a great sign? Also? It is? And it is And anytime you come in obviously you have a you have a first play that you're in there pretty neat, and I

know he's ready. He's ready. He's really you know, at that point now where he can start flying around and trusting everything and just kind of getting another another week of Vicks defense and understanding all the calls. So that he can play fast. So we feel good with where he's at and looking forward to his future. Roy Robinson Harris, I mean there's a bunch of a nice plays being made in this game too. He's a guy that's it's young and he's still he's on the way though to becoming.

He's got all that guide giving ability and size just waiting to be tapped right. Yeah, he's a big guy now, very tall, rangy, long, powerful and had had a real nice move there, um, you know on Aaron and so um you know. With him, it's just going to be learning and understanding where he fits on this defensive line, how he can keep improving each and every day. And he's in a great spot, so just keep playing hard.

Matt Maggie our guest here on the Bears Coaches Show, Welcome back to UH Brought You Rather Buy Whiffley CPAs and Consultants and proud partner of the Chicago Bears. No more of the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie on news Way Todio seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM. Shotgun Tripisky, I'm the keeper leaves in he crushes the gold light into the end Zoe touchdown, touchdown, Bears, Trippiscian him the two on the opening drive Kathlick at ten plate journey that started

at the Bear fourteen. Bears lead the Packers six in and that was the opening drive. Mitch Trubisky with his third NFL or rushing touchdown. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. Here at PNC Studios at Hallis. I'll brought to you by Whip Please see a PA's and Consultants, proud partner of the Chicago Bears, and Monday Nights are next Monday Night Regular. She's an amment over against the Seattle Seahawks. Brought to you by Miller Light, brewed for

Bears fans and always brewed for most taste. Miller Light hold true. We'll get into that in just a minute. Go back to Mitch Trubisky's day overall. How is the clock in his head going on? In the pocket and outside of the pocket in your opinion? No, he's fun. He's learning in this offense how to use his feet, where to slide, how to push up in the pocket. And I think in the first half he was really

good with that. The second half you know, there were some times where maybe he could have you know, worked his feet a little bit more. But that's going to come in that that happens, that's very natural, that's not uncommon, and so he'll continue to keep working on that. I was very proud of him with you know how how he came out this first game and he was in and out of the huddle. Uh, he had a good

amount of stuff on his play. He handled a great Yeah, he had mentioned and I know people, I brought this up to you. Two Packers played more zone than man. But you adjust to that, and it wasn't a reason for not playing at a level where they could have made more of those you know, I suppose of those three an ounces and so forth. So that's something you just suggest to during the course of the game. Yeah, yeah, you need to and that's what That's why the coaches are up in the box and you get a feel

for where they're at. He also did some drop eat and there too. You know where you're gonna get that extra defender. And so again I'm going to continue to go back to there. There's times where, um, you know, they're on both sides, there's gonna be some unscouted tendencies that there are, and so we just need to adjust. And I think after game one we didn't do enough to win a game situationally, offensively, we had to be better on on third down. We had a stretch there

where we weren't converting third downs. I think there were seven or eight in a row. But in the start of the game and the end of the game, uh, you know, we're so I see some growth offensively. Is is at a time when we were in somewhat of a four minute offense where we're able to churn out first downs, we were converting third downs and then the unfortunately the one that we didn't get in the red zone was the biggest one. And so we need to we need to get touchdowns down there and can't kick

field goals, especially against a guy like Aaron Rodgers. Did they Packers force you to throw short a lot? Uh? Not necessarily? No, No, we had we had some opportunities within the plays to take shots down field, and and so no, I don't think it was anything that they

were forcing us to do. Alan Robinson just seeing them back out there, I meant a lot to him, Seriously, I mean, there's no way couldn't and some terrific connections between him and Mitching those first two first couple of DRIs, Yeah, there were, and he had a nice contested down the sideline. Mitch made a hell of a throw, put it really where the only place they could be, and that was a tough catch. He came down with that. And so he's going to continue to get more and more opportunities.

We know that in what we do, how we can move them around, do different things. He has a lot of great strengths and one of his strengths is being in the red zone in Alan Robinson, So we got to make sure we use that eighteen career touchdowns in the red zone for Alan Robinson. Let's go back. I mentioned this to you yesterday when we interviewed for the Morning show, the t formation play. It clearly meant a

lot to you to do that. But plays like that nineteen forties still could have a place in today's game. I can remember Mark Roman when he was the offensive coordina forty nine Ers, the year they went to the Super Bowl, he said he kept running the Lombardi sweep. Can plays like that be stirred up and used today

with some regularity? I think there can be. And uh, you know that that was an important play for us, you know we it was a T left formation, was the call, and we called it popa bear left and our guys were so fired up when we did the first fifteen to hear that play, and I had a lot of confidence in us getting at least five yards and we ended up getting seven yards. Gott got a good little run there, and so maybe we'll build off of that a little bit. I'd like to see that.

And how about I didn't see it the first time. Everyone's pointing in pointing. I don't know what's going on. But Charles little Junior is in a bunch set to the right, loved it. Yeah. Well, we're going to continue to do that that kind of stuff, and we'll mix different things in. We don't. We want to be smart

with it. It's got to make sense. But it gives if anything, that's going to give our offense an advantage, we'll continue to do and our players as long as we do it well and we uh progress with it, then we'll just keep doing it. And you're not doing it just for show. No, you're not going to do stuff just to be cute. No, you're doing it. There's meaning for every single play, whether it sets something later or it's designed to actually situationally make something happen. Yeah, Park,

And with that it can confuse the defense. Anytime you make the defense talk and you make them communicate just one time. Now they got something has to happen. So it can be as simple as just moving the half back in the shotgun, moving him from the left side to the right side. And now the responsibilities of the MIC linebacker changes with the will linebacker or the Sam linebacker.

So when you take it to another element and you start spreading out guys and doing different things that are a little bit unconventional, maybe they didn't prepare for that, and that's where I think there can be an advantage. But at the same time, you don't want to get to the part to where we can't we don't know what we're doing because we're doing too much. That's the fine balance. And then in addition to that, the next

opponent has to spend some time right as a good point. Now, you know, some people might want to say snark snarky can say, well, you know, is that really that much extra work? You as a coordinator, you as a guy trying to figure out that, Yeah it is, there's alms only so much time in a week. You're you're right on, and you do only have so many hours to prepare

for so many different situations. So anything that you do that can give yourself an advantage, you know, whether they prepare for it or not, that's part of the chess match that that you have going on. And it's the same thing goes on the other side. So there's blitzes and stunts that they'll have that they'll have ready to go, and we just need to make sure that offensively, that your protection is nice and sound to be able to

pick up almost anything. All right, Matt wrap it up with a sneak peek of the Seattle Seahawks and another quarterback that can make plays out of the pocket and loves to do that. He's off schedule and he's dangerous. Russell Wilson. He is one of the one of the best in the league extended plays and um, they're they're very well coached, they have a great mindset as a team, they're winners. Uh, they won't be intimidated by anybody or anything. So but but I think for us, the biggest thing, Jeff,

is that we just focus on us. I don't think we need to worry about anybody else. We just go out there and we worry about us. We can troll, we can control, and then we just placed Chicago Bears football and we're creating our identity. Now that's not what you know. I think you saw glimpses of it yesterday. But once we put that thing together, I think you know, people will be really happy in our players and our coaches and everybody in our building is really striving for

the right direction, and that's to win ball games. All right, Thanks very much, Matt. All Right, we'll talk to you next week. Good luck this week in your preparation. Coming up next, offensive coordinator Mark Helfreds will join the program The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and this hour featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge. Front to you by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Athletical Physical

Therapy for Ryson and Miller Light. Once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni at hat Flin Dix thelone safety back Deep snap is back to Mitch Kubisky. Stanzy and art Is back going down the rank side up in the air pass piss cad Allan Robinson first down took Green Bay's thirty three yard line on Gayer

Alexander the rookie out of Louisville. Alan Robinson with a grab there as he returns healthy to a NFL team, the Bears after three hundred and sixty four days or waiting after a week one third play acl Tare last year in Jacksonville. Welcome back to the Bears coach to show joined I by offensive court data Mark Helfrich, Thanks for joining us. And that's the connection that everybody wanted to see, and that connection's brewing between Mitch and Alan Robinson,

it really is. We've seen their chemistry developed. That was a nice call there. We need to make a few more of those exciting moments happen. And you know, saw some glimpses and some you know, little shininess here and there, but just not enough consistency to overcome kind of the circumstances of the night. And did a lot of good things that we can build upon, but but certainly a bitter, bitter taste in our mouth at the end of it.

Before we get further into that, just putting together the game plan for the first time for a regular season game. How much fun was it? Because you guys clearly have collaborated, you and Matt and the rest of the offensive staff, And I've been in that office of you know, that crazy grease board and it can make your head spin. M Is it fun to work with him? Is it fun to sit here and brainstorm and come up what

everybody should be calling the Bears offense? Whatever the Bears offense is right, mature into It's not the Eagles, it's not the Chiefs, it's not Ohregan. It's a combination of whatever comes through your minds based on the tailored talent you have here on this. And you got to the probably the most important part of that at the end is who Who's who's executing the deal, who's running the show.

And we have to constantly just just think through Mitch's head and through his eyes and how he processes things. And he saw a lot of things last night. He you know, he's certainly had a couple couple of things that he'll he'll kind of you know, their head knocking type of mistakes, like, oh, of course I should you know, should have done that Day one type things, but not very many, certainly not very many, but just managing the noise, managing to come back, uh, some of the things that

we asked him to do. Check out the line of scrimmage, those those sorts of things. He handled him well. But no, it's been it's been a lot of fun. And I think, um, you know, coming out of that game, as as rough as it was, as hard as it is to lose, you know where you are, and you know, uh, player A can handle this, Player B can't. Player CE can do a little bit, maybe more than you thought. Player

D can't. You know, just all those all those things that you're not you're not determining everyone's future at this point, but you certainly time you know everybody you started hearing, you see a complete documentary on it, every single player. But until you see them react in these situations, you

really don't know. It'll be a learning price. It's that Mike Tyson line of right, everybody has a plan until they get in the face, and that that that we know what Mitchell Trubisky, We know how he responds when he gets hit in the face, and it's a good response. Some of these other guys, uh uh, you know, remain to be seen to a certain degree, but but you know a lot of return are positive. The Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and w bbm's Jeff

Joniac continues from center. Trabisky play bait, sets up in the pocket, throwing right open Man Park half the thirty six of the Packers getting free Gabriel truck down. It's at the thirty yard land of Green Bay Bears. Around the move, Antonio Morrison, how the tackle Hey thirty one yard games and another one of them Bears New Weapons, Taylor Gabriel connecting with Mitch Trubiski and the lost last night to the Green Bay Packers. Here with offensive coordinator

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use them and Claire, we saw some of that. But the speed of Gabriel, speed at Cohen, the quickness of Anthony Miller, the side of Alan Robinson, the size of your tight ends you got Kevin White, Um, the mix and match of this. It'll be a game to game matchup exploitation, correct, that's what you're looking for. We like

that word. Yeah, yes, And you know that's one thing that there is only one ball, right and at some point they're gonna they're gonna adjust to somebody and that's where the other guy has to have the bigger night. And and it's just the way, you know, kind of the way it goes, uh, kind of the some of the things we do in the run game. Sometimes they might take away the running back. Other times they'll they'll take away that, you know, the other parts of the

other facets of it. And so that's where uh, you know, again that plays through the quarterback and he just needs to make great common sense decisions in ron and in pass uh, and guys have to be great without the ball. We had some great instances of that last night of whatever it was, guys clearing you know, guys on clearing routes. We had guys great downfield blocks, Kyle Long and Cody I know, I know they're not skilled guys, but they're they're big skill guys for us, and they had a

big finish on the long screen conversion. Uh. And then we also had sometimes where we didn't get the job done. We didn't block whatever it is well enough on the perimeter. Uh, and certainly some things inside that we need to clean up. And so again, like any game, win or lose, there's always those those things that you have to improve upon. That is a tough team to run on. Obviously those guys up front, but you still ran between the tackles.

Even when you know a team is stout in that regard, you do have to try and puncture that, don't you Over the course of the game. You do, you do. It's just those body blow, body blow, body blow type of actions. Sometimes those set up and you just played the Taylor Gabriel big big game that was you know, off of play action play action situation and uh, yeah, you're gonna keep poking and prodden and one turns into

a cutback for a big game. We had a couple of bounce outside uh from Tariq Um and then we had a few again in there that that our guys will watch on tape and go, man, what could have been type of situations. And that's where when as coaches own that and you know they as plays need to look just objectively and take it all in and improve everyone. I took a listen a little bit today and read some stuff. But everybody got all happy about Jordan Howard catching the ball, but because he had a couple of

drops the last couple of years. But the guy worked at him. Man, he had five targets, five catches, and one year ago in the Atlanta game he dropped. One year the end zone. This year boom makes that. You know, he's a guy who's put in the investment. He really has. I'm knocking I don't know if it's but I'm knocking on some some substance. But yeah, he has worked very hard. And Mitchell has really, uh, you know, grabbed him at every opportunity. I mean, you've you've been at a lot

of practices. You've you've seen that where pulls him over and and just does drill work and he's the catcher and that that all those add up all those little just just seeing the ball hit your hands is a little, you know, mini confidence booster, and that's all it is for those guys. I mean, they have the physical skills and it's just a one percent confidence thing um And and you know, we don't know that other side of him, and so we're we're hoping to build on this one.

You had an amazing running game in Oregon. Everyone wants to think it was and Matt you know, was in the offense that had the NFL's rushing leader last year.

So it's still a major component of this offense, right. Definitely, definitely to be has to be and we have to be able to run a football better, you know, and certainly the most glaring situation in this game or two thirdin ones, that that we have to convert and that those are those are game changers, and that that again we have to you know, help them out schematically, we

have to execute him better. But but absolutely, you know, this division the quarterbacks were playing against, you have to be able to put a game away and you know that probably you know, looking back from the second quarter on, that's where you get into the to the second guessing game of shoulda would have coulda And but yeah, we we have to be able to run the ball efficiently and probably the most important thing we have to we have to run it when they know we're running it.

When you put something on tape now in the regular season, and you're gonna get a pretty good idea on what teams will try to attack, right in terms of your offense now for the most part, yeah, for the most part, And it always starts with the young quarterback trying to make is make him think as much as any other player on that team. Did the Packers make him think last night? They did. They did a lot of things

that they've done in the past. Um maybe through the first half and the second half they they they tweaked a couple things, but it maybe did you know, things at a higher percentage. And they had before they brought one zone pressure that I think they were I think they were misaligned that they had never brought before. And but yeah, that's that's part of you know, probably through the first quarter of the season, even you're you're gonna see some you know, what we call unscouted looks. You're

gonna see some some things that you've never seen before. Uh, And and that's where you just go back to your base rules and we give guys, you know, base base just kind of a little checklist of things to do, whether it's a protection or run scheme, and and go from there. What was going through your head as a coaching staff up until halftime, Well a lot of things.

You know, our defense was playing just absolutely lights out and I think your equal parts excited about that, but also frustrated at kicking field goals and we had to We could have finished that game just right there, one play exactly. It could have been exactly from that first our second drive to the you know, end of the game on any face, no question, and we just kept talking.

I was talking on the headset just foot on the gas, foot on the gas, foot on the gas, because you can't have that letdown of, Hey, the defense is playing great. You know, Aaron Rodgers is out. There's a natural tendency to have a little lull, and we were talking about that. Everybody was conscious of that, and uh but just yeah, we did not you know, deliver the knockout blow when

when we needed to. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears, News Radio seven eighty in one oh five point nine FM w BBM, and welcome back to the program. Here in our final moments with Mark Helfrich, we'll hear from Matteggie in just a moment and stop by the middle of light Chicago Bears Ultimate tail Gate to enjoy food, five dollars, midder, lights, music and games for every age.

Located at the Field Museum Terrace. The Ultimate tail Gate free to enter and will We opened two hours before and one hour after every Bears regular season home game. All right, I touched on it. I'm sure you got a bit of a thrill as well. With a T formation play. It was, uh, you know, something we had talked about for a long time, but we didn't we didn't let out there and yeah, just kind of a little tip of the cap. We kept calling it that

all along and it's pretty cool. Ended up with a decent gain and uh, a little little little throwback moment for maybe you you remember that, right, I'll tell you what. It did. Catch me by surprise. And I was looking at like, Tom, that's a T formation and you know, I love the reasoning behind it, that that that that meant a lot to tom as a Bear who played played here for a decade and has done the games

now for twenty years. So that was big. Um first fifteen when you know it's been that's a staple everybody does, you know, sift the first fifteen. And I was reading a quote from Clay Matthews and he was talking about the first fifteen and you know, they wanted to weather the storm and whatnot. But he used the term there was a lot of college stuff in there, with protections and stuff. I don't know if it's a compliment or a criticism, but I don't know that football's football doesn't

matter if it's playing in college in the NFL. Uh, you're getting young guys playing this game and spread offenses, and you're trying to speed up the process of those guys adapting to the NFL. Even if there's college stuff in there, what's the big deal? I mean, that's those are those are good things? Yeah, I don't know. I haven't spanned in the game, right, I haven't. There was nothing. Uh, I don't. I don't know collegiate any element of that.

You know, there's there's things that certain we've done in the past, and there's things that that Matt has done in the past. Absolutely, and maybe in a few things are green based done in the past, but I don't I don't know exactly what he meant. But we're gonna we're gonna try to put our guys in the best position to be successful and score touchdowns. And you guys, it's safe to say, barely scratched the surface on Sean

what you have, especially in situational football. You have to eat every Yeah, yeah, I mean you just there's you haven't run that many place, right with all the other stuff that goes on third down, red zone, goal line. But yeah, we're again, we're excited about where we're headed. And uh certainly would have liked to jump start that whole process with a huge win. But but our guys, I think are the right frame of mind. Mark, thanks for joining. I guess we'll be talking to you throughout

this season and appreciate your time. Good luck you, Seattle,