Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich on offensive development

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Whippley Financial Advisor's coach. How you doing tonight? Good? How are you doing? Fantastic? Frustrating but by no means demoralizing at this early point in this season. I think that's the best way to sum it up, Yeah it was. It was frustrating, but um, you know, you try to learn from these and the guys battled, they played hard, not the outcome that we wanted, but again they they they um they played to the final play. And we'll just try to use it for teaching. What did you

like and what concerned you? Well, the part I liked was um in that environment. UM just the way they completely um played until the final play. No no one gave up, no one quit um. And there were some adversity throughout the game, uh for for really all three sides. And so we stuck together and we fought till the very end. UM. You know. Offensively, to start we uh by not scoring any points. That's tough. But the defense then held them to seven points. So it felt felt

a lot worse than seven and nothing. But we came in at halftime, had a good talk, the guys were positive, came back out, and then we went ahead and offensively got back on track and scored three three quick touchdowns in eight minutes and and um and and had a nice little lead. And then going to the defensive side, you know, we we uh, you know, we miss some

tackles and they had some big plays. And when when you when you have big plays in this league, Uh, and you have touchdowns off of those big plays, then um, you know you gotta you gotta battle to the end. And that's what happened. Any concerns that you see moving forward, no, no, none at all. Now we're we're in a good place right now where we have a team full of good, good leaders, good guys. That's why why we believe in the guys that we brought in here. Uh. Four times

like this. It's never it's never always rosy. It's it's it's hard to have those Tampa Bay games every week. But um, again, you can learn from these situations and that's what we'll do and we'll become better coaches, will become better players and and um put it behind us and get ready for doing it. You know you mentioned the Tampa Bay weeks. Yes you can't. But uh, a couple of touchdowns taking off the board by those red zone takeaways, and they lead the league. I think they

have five now for the season. Miami does credit to them. But it would have been a high scoring game. It would have been another explosive, high scoring game. It looks like offensively. That must give you great hope and excitement as well. Yeah, the guys are really starting to gel offensively. You can see Mitch's playing playing really well right now. The trust level amongst him and the wide receivers, the offensive line block and the guys running the ball. M

it's all there. And uh, you know, we gotta the fellas notice, but the ball security is number one. We gotta you gotta protect the football. You gotta respect the football. And when that's the case and you win the turnover battle, then you normally have a good chance of winning. And yesterday, offensively, we didn't do that. None of it was lack of effort.

And these guys feel bad, you know. It stinks that that they lost the fall, you know, through an interception or lost to fumble um And so we got a rally behind him and support them. The heat was managed the best it could be. I've had people tell me it may have been the hottest game those who didn't play that David experienced on that sideline. I was only there on pregame, but I felt the heat even coming up from the grass and that's how that's how hot

it was there. And that was a you know ten thirty in the morning, eleven thirty in the morning, So, um, was it one of them? And that we're not making an excuse here, it's just the reality. You're in the sun there in the shade, um the whole game. But was that one of the hottest games you ever experienced? Yeah? It was? It was that was that was the hottest game that I was ever a part of. Um, yeah, for sure it was hot. But again, like you just said,

that's no excuse. That's all part of the elements. And I said it last week. There's gonna be times when teams are coming to here, to our home and been playing in some pretty cold weather, So you use whatever to you. That's exactly right, and I do want to make sure that everyone understands that. Um, you know, we were our athletic trainers and our sports science the part

every everyone there. They were. They were awesome and making sure everyone was hydrated and we didn't have any cramping issues considering I think it was a heat index of one hundred and seven and uh, you know, our guys to play five essentially. Um, they did a great job with that, and like you said, with the shade, we were able to have some man made shade build over there. But um, no excuses Miami Desert. They won the game, they fall hardy, they gave us a battle and and

um then we lost. But we'll learn from it from your experience over the years dealing with warm weather games, and certainly this was in a cute situation. What do you do doing this week? Then it is it affect them anyway over the course of this week as far

as the weather, Yeah, we're just there. Just their general Yeah, health and feeling after something like that, it's so draining, I would say, probably more so on on Monday, um today, tomorrow, Uh, it can start to you know, they'll they'll start get back to recovering. Um, just because of it was five quarters number one, no matter where you play, that's an extra quarter physically, and then because of the environment and

the weather. So but but our guys will be fine. Uh, they they're you know, we're going into week six here and they understand how important it is to protect our home turf and and it's going to be a great challenge and a great opportunity for us to play Patriots. You mentioned tackles. It's been brought up obviously. The two big plays by Albert Wilson. Were incredible runs on his part.

Give me a little daylight and boom, he's gone. Anyway, thirty one tackles, according to statistics by the defensive backs in the game as it was. Um. In terms of that, do you think some of the fatigue that may have kicked in is a part of that when you got a situation like that going on, I don't know, you know, it could be. Uh, I'm not I'm not really one to I guess answer that just because I don't know physically exactly where everybody was. I guess I'm dress a

lot of tackles in the backfield. Yeah, well I'm dramming. It hasn't shown up at point this year. Sure that. No, Yeah, so it could be. But um again, they had to tackle in that weather too, And so for for our guys, um, you know, they are our guys. Our players are harder than themselves and they care and that's a good thing. And when we were flying back on the plane last night, you know, these guys were discussing, um, uh, you know, how we can get better and how we're going to

get better. And when you see that and there's no um situation where guys are pointing fingers or or they're they're split at all. That we don't we don't have that, and that's that's what I'm proud about with this team and this organization, and so we gotta we gotta work through this. That's not even a fact. I mean, that's not even a factor. You know, usually when things like that happen, that's over a couple of years of something that's not going right. I don't think you ever have

to worry about that with this punch. No, you know, they're just that type of guy. So on the plane. So, yeah, that's an interesting thing. So our guys, were you going up to guys guys coming up, do you or you just get a sense of what's going on? Yeah, no, I like you guys put their headset out right bad and they go to sleep. No, there was, and trust me, there was a good amount of guys that were that were completely exhausted and tired and with which you can understand.

But at the same time too, the guys are, you know, just coming coming off a battle on the field, and so I'd like to go back and just talk to the guys and just see how they're doing. I like number one, just check physically how are they and uh, and then mentally we're you at and then talk through it. You know, hey, you know, how can we get better? What can what can we do to get better? And

communications huge in this building. And as long as we communicate, we're all honest and we figure out how to fix problems and issues. Um, then in the end, automately it's going to help us. And that's that's what we do and that's what I love about this team. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff joni Ac continues. Gabriel traps out to the left side beyond the numbers slot right Troy Burton and outside

of aim Aden Robinson. Jrmisky takes the snap, got to Formta rush loft the fast down the right side, going deep. Gabriel's got it over the shoulder and brought down inside the twenty five. Taylor Gabriel preaches man deep his second big player of the day and it keep going after this corner Tory mctire and as Taylor Gabriel's second one hundred yard game as the Bears losing overtime in Miami, as they go to three and two, but still maintained first place in the NFC North. Welcome back to the

Bears Coach. The show brought to you by a whip Fleet Financial Advisors, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. And I believe it was sixty one career games. He never had a one hundred yard games, and now he's got him back to back. So this new role for him in this career, he's really taking advantage of it.

Taylor Gabriel, Yeah, he's doing well. And it's again when he first got here, coming from Atlanta, it was a different system, and now we're learning how he fits into a role here with our offense, and he's got a lot of confidence. He's playing well. He's doing a great job. And so you can see a guy like that that has speed, you can always take the top off of

a defense. It opens up other guys as well, and so whenever we get an opportunity to throw it deep, we're going to and he's been they've been connecting with those deep balls. Must feel great that he you mentioned, I mean last week, I think to the media he didn't anymore. I want to be just labeled as a guy. He's just a gimmicky guy again. Yeah, He's the great part about Taylor is that you're able to use him as a gadget guy, and he's great at that, but

defenses can't just look at him as that. And now what he's doing is he's going out there and he's playing outside, and he's playing a lot more plays than he's ever been used to, and he's fulfilling a role for us, which is great. He's really him and Alan Robinson right now collectively or just feeding off of each other. And Alan's just such a great mentor for all these guys and just does all the little things right all the time. And so anytime you have that, it helps

everybody out. You know, you don't love numbers. Last week I thought I was one of the best quotes I've ever heard of coach say when you said, we don't care about numbers. We care about letters. And everybody knows what that means super Bowl letters. But Mitch, the last two weeks seven seventy nine touchdowns, one interception, one forty three rating, one hundred yards rushing on eleven carries. Wow,

that's a that's a lot of math right there. Those are numbers that I'd like to talk about a little bit. I mean, what's that saying, one of those numbers telling Matt Nage, Well, it's starting to tell everybody that he's starting to feel really comfortable in this offense. And we are all together feeling that. You're seeing him throw the ball with a lot of conviction. You know, he's trusting his first read, he's seeing it better. Uh, he's feeling better.

We're feeling better knowing what plays he likes uh in time. And so anytime that happens, you start seeing numbers like that. And I think he's done a really good job at being able to balance this touchdown to check down mentality. If it's there, the touchdown or the deep ball, he takes it. If it's not, then we check it down and and uh and let our our playmakers make plays. And so it's really neat for me to be able to see see Mitch grow. He appreciates the role he's in.

He has a lot of respect for the role of rather respect for his teammates. And as I've said from day one, this thing will only get better each and every week, and there's gonna be still hiccups as we go but right now, from where we're at, where we've come to, I'm really proud of the guys. And he leads a charger. Yeah, And a couple of hiccups yesterday were early in the game, and boy, just think what

happens if he hits Miller there on the deep one. Yeah, and some of these things too, Just so people know it's it's not always just Mitch. I don't know if the routes are run right or whatever. We don't know that as as fans and observers. So you know that stuff though. Yeah, And there's uh, shoot, you can go back and look at a lot of tape from a lot of quarterbacks yesterday. And I know everyone likes to be hard on our quarterback here, and I get it, but I just want to make it real clear that

I watch a lot of football. We watch a lot of football, and trust me, there's a lot of miss miss throws by a lot of good quarterbacks in this league.

But there's a lot of good throws made too. And what our guys doing right now is he's making He's making a lot of good throws and so he's putting us in great situations and he'll be the first one to tell you that he wants the interception back and understands that, but he'll learn from it, wall grow and then uh in the end, Uh, this offense will will We'll get to that point to where we just really

start humming and we feel good about everything. And um, but um, they're they're in a good spot, you know. Back to the plane, right, you talked to everybody. But do you spend a lot of time with Mitchell? Does he need time to decompress on the plane. No, We'll spend some time together and talk and uh, he wants to. Yeah, it's good. It's good that that that that you got to have that relationship. Um, this isn't just a deal where we're in the classroom, where we're on the football field.

I think being able to have the human element involved in it and just um talk ball after everything too. There's a lot of emotions that are going on now on that plane. It's it's hard. You know, you're you're just getting over those guys are physically and mentally beat down when loser draw. Uh, and so it's it's it's nice to be able to talk through some things. Um. Generally I'll watch the game on the plane and then I'll go back and talk to him after I've seen

seen it. The players will watch it too, so they have a pretty good idea, um the next day how they feel about things. And and then uh, you know, a daylight today, they come on in here, we'll talk about it in the morning for a little bit, and then we put it aside and let's go. It's uh, even even after a win, it's it's it's time to move on. You don't have any wasted time here on on poutner or worrying about this or that. You fix your problems and you move on. How many times do

you watch the game. I'll watch it maybe two or three times. And the first time I watch it, I watch him. No, I actually take my time each play. Yeah, and I'll take my time, and I'll rewind it each play, probably watch each play four or five times from different angles and and understand every position and see it all. Uh. And then generally, um, and that's offense, defense and special teams.

So that takes a little bit of time. Um, it'll take me carry me to this morning, and then the guys come in, you talk a little bit about it, and then right on to to new England. They hand it up out to the late. Here's Cohen loping gets oude of the pen. Fine, he's a touchdown touchdown, Bears twenty one yard run Terry Cohen and a celebration continues

in Miami. Things we're really smoking there and Teri Cohen is a big part of this right now, coaching ague with us in this Sunday's game against the Patriots, brought to you by Advocate Healthcare, the official healthcare provider of the Chicago Bears. His numbers also popping now two fourteen all purpose yards over the past two games. That has come by ground and by air. And he's in my perspective, hitting those plays with authority, running his routes with explosiveness.

There's no thinking going on. He's just playing. That's what we like right now is these guys are starting to get to that point where they're not thinking. And when you when you don't think, the game slows down a lot. And that's starting to happen now with these guys on offense, and uh Ter's a big part of that. We're able

to do different things with him. He had that nice touchdown run yesterday, made a safety miss one on one in air and guys did an excellent job blocking the scheme and that was a big play in the game. And then of course being able to U to catch the ball out of the battlefield and do different things

with them. Uh, what was really great? Uh. You know, this has always kind of been interesting for me being on these coaches shows over the years because everybody likes to be a head coach and they have all the game situations in their head. And you answer those questions

today about different things. What did you learn from your playing career as a coach or as a player rather as a quarterback, as a quarterback more importantly, and from coach read over the years about handling criticism, whether it be inside or outside of building. Yeah, well, and it's serving you know, yeah, yeah, it comes with the territory. So nobody in this role, um would be in this seat or take this job if they couldn't handle it. And um, so a lot of times there's credit given

to the head coach when it shouldn't be. And and then there's times when when there's criticism that goes when there should be you know as well, So I get it, I understand it. And the part that that I don't that I always keep in perspective is that again I say this all the time, is that it's only because people care. You know, they want they want they want to win, and I get that. So uh, you know, I always go back to trust me. We're doing everything we can to, uh to to to make sure that

we have an a good opportunity to win. And so anytime you have situations where you can learn as a coach specifically UM and whatever it is, you you remind yourself of what they are and then you ask yourself the question, would you do it the same? Would you do it different? Throughout the game in all different situations. So with with this being my my fifth game as a head coach, uh, there's every game, there's always something that that, um, I like to think about and decide

and it'll only help make me better in the long run. Well, you're also relying on your past experiences to to make sure these decisions. There is a philosophy that you have put together that you will tweak throughout the rest of your career. Yeah. Yeah, and and and at times it will change, uh you know, uh, for for our guys, whether it's a fourth down call, whether it's like yesterday, where you know we're in a position to kick a longer fifty three yard field goal, Um, do you throw

the ball? And third down and try to get closer? All valid questions. I totally understand that. Uh. And so when we're in those situations again, depending on the on the weather, depending on uh, you know, the running back, the lineman, the wide receivers, maybe you do throw it. And and but I but I said it this morning, and I feel it that I felt very confident in the kick yesterday at fifty three yards and I still I still till today, I still feel the same way.

And it doesn't mean that it will play out the same way. And we may give them, you know, we may do call different play who knows. But I have a lot of confidence in Cody Parkey. And plus there's the weather turns things changing, Yeah, exactly, you know for sure we're getting close to that. The weather is changing here very rapidly, all right, in our remaining moments here A little sneak peak at the Patriots. Obviously you you took them last year in Kansas City and did a number.

I mean, not that that matters this year, but there is some knowledge and Tom Brady. This game is huge, It's huge for fans. He's only been here one other time. Um, there's gonna be a great vibe. There's gonna be a great vibe in that in that building. And what's your respect level for what this man has accomplished with that head coach? Well, the ultimate respect and and you know he's one of, if not the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. And then obviously with coach Belichick is

the same stature. Uh so uh, this is this is a team that has been there, done that so many times. They know how to win, they know how to take it to the top. And I think it's a great challenge for our guys. What better way than to have a team that's hot right now, come on in here to Soldier Field. We always talk about protecting our home turf, and our guys will be ready, they'll be excited. It'll

be an awesome challenge and that's what you want. If you're looking for anything less than that, than you're in the wrong business. And so, um, it'll be our job to have a great week of practice. Respect our opponent, but by all means, give him everything we got. All right, Well, we'll be looking forward to it. We'll talk to you throughout the course of the week. Thank you, Thanks Cheff.

The Bears Coaches Show with head coach mad Maggie and this hour featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge, brought to you by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Athletico Physical Therapy for Ryson and Miller Lite once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac Subisky with Cohen who was left, takes the snap, Mitch gonna throw, protection,

holds throwing Middlezo touchdown, touchdown, Bears for the lead. Helena Robinson, great route and Mitch he knew exactly what he was doing. He guns it in there, Bears up thirteen seven. All right. Mark Helfridge, Bears offensive coordinator, joins the program. Now, good evening. And on that throw he did, he just he knew and he later ripped and he had velocity on them ball. Yeah. And you were dead on in your in your descript you're good at what you do. Because that and that's

thank you. That's what we need to do more of, is to just get get get dialed in a one hundred percent you know. It's unfortunately I've been on the show this my second time, and a bunch of missed opportunities have been characterized in both and a tough loss, you know, great a great rebound, you know, and I'm sure we'll get more into it. Uh just from a you know, really every aspect of our offense. We had a bunch of chances in the first half and didn't

make it happen. The second half, I thought, responded really well. But then we have to close the deal. We have to be able to close the deal. So let's let's take it in chunks a little bit, not to go over everything, but that first one hundred and thirty one yards on the or thirty one plays and one hundred and twenty four yards or something like that, that was that was it for the first thirty one plays during

that period of time. What were you trying to do there to get everything going in the right direction, because then we know what happened in the second half. Yeah, I mean, you look at the first three plays, and we probably had we had two guys, two guys with opportunities for for eighty eight yard touchdowns in the first two plays. And so when you look at that, uh, and and luckily and to his credit, we came back

to similar schemes later and and Mitch hit him. You know, guys made plays and and and so it's just again you just can't get enough repetitions at quarterback and and and again it wasn't his quote unquote fault on ninety eight percent of it, but uh, you know, again he responded well, came back and played more just just urgent, more confidently, and again your description of just being just just more just focused and laser focused progression wise and everything he did. And he did a nice job when

you say, you know, the similar concept. What does that say about him though? That he was able to go back to it and deliver a lot a lot And you know, Anthony Miller's touchdown was was basically the same play as the first third down of the game. Uh, and so again for him to recognize it was actually a little bit different pressure that they brought and it was a different coverage, but it kind of played out

the same for the quarterback. And so that that's something that that you just again, those are things that nobody when we certainly don't want to, you know, go back on that thing of experience and reps and all that stuff. But that's what it has to be at the at the quarterback position, but even at the receiver position. So you know, their routes have to be run precise. They got to get to the area where and so I

don't know if that's all accurate either. So those are things that all are are going to be ironed out over time. Absolutely, And we had a couple of plays, you know, and and going back to it takes it takes a village, It takes all eleven of you know, we had a couple of plays where where Mitch was correct, the route was correct, and our protection broke down. And you know, buying larger guys have done a great job up front and they will continue to you know, compete

their tails off and improve. Everybody will from this um and and you know everybody, everybody kind of took their their their responsibility and took their took their turn. Yeah, the hardest part of the day probably is taking points off the board. You know, you know you're gonna get something and buy galley. It didn't happen. Yeah, I mean huge turn of events. I mean that that um, you know, that's a tough one. Yeah, I don't want to get

you in trouble. Yeah. The point is though it's a it doesn't seem to be well, it looks like it's a subjective thing. I don't know, but it's you know, like Matt said, he did everything he was supposed to be. He did everything to do, he did everything. He was one of those things and and all this very generally officials look for things or anticipate things, and and and that's issue. And you have to see it, you know, you have to see it happen to throw a flag

in that situation. Uh, and not I think something must have happened here, you know, a type of mentality. And I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that happen, right, but you know, very proud of how those guys executed there. But then again, we have to treat that that that's another learning experience for you, right it is in the next play again, we we we've got an answer. We've got to we've got to be right, uh with with a little route route part of it. And and you know,

a quarterback, we've got to be right. We got to respond better to another kind of you know, piece of adversity. The Bears coaches show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continue. Mitch in the gun back to his right. Seebert top of the field too near side. Mitch got to shovel inside. Here is track Burnet. He goes her but for the doll line. He is in

for the touchdown. Touchdown Bears and at seven six and he throws the ball into the Hends on the way picked our fan as trade Bert gets into the Bears finally get on the board. Yeah, first touchdown, but it's third of the season, second out of shovel pass. And my broadcast partner Mark Helfritch always used to say the bootleg was the play of the nineties, ending his shovel passes now the play of this decade. It's it's popping up everywhere. But how effective? Why does why do those

plays work? Question? Near the goal line? Yeah, it has a couple couple there's a couple of elements too. There's a perimeter element, you know, whether it's a toss or a handoff to somebody running to the to the perimeter. And then there's an interior element to it too, you know, basically a power play. Uh that that version I'm talking talking about the ones specifically we did yesterday, and so there's there's some some gray area for a defense that

has to attack. They have to respond to one of those two elements and hopefully you're you know, throwing it or pitching it to the other. So a little bit of a triple option kind of kind of aspect to it, I guess makes it, makes it difficult, and quarterbacks love it because it's a it's a touchdown pass exactly. The touchdown pass, ever, can't get any easier than that, that's

for sure. But that's a good combination right there. Indeed, Um, let's let's talk more about what you guys were aiming to do against this particular defense that that secondary obviously was making a lot of turnovers. They're very stingy in the red zone. Think they have now five takeaways in the red zone. Um, what were they doing well yesterday that that you anticipated they do well? And how are

you're going to combat it? Well, you know, we always like to at least think we have the child class in our mind and we have the ball in our hand, and so we'll make it right type of mentality. And and uh, you know, the two the two biggest plays of the game obviously, the or the the turnover inside the inside the one really and then and then the red zone pick after the tough we'll just call it

a tough call. Uh. And so those those two things, you know, again can happen, and they were really self inflicted that you know, we kind of ran into our own guy almost after tripping on our own you know. It was just one of those weird plays where you're you're you're Jordan kind of got tripped up and then he kind of lost his ball securities as he was falling to the ground. And that's something you drill constantly, is falling down without protecting yourself. That's a very unnatural

thing to do. And and unfortunately it happened in the worst possible situation. Uh. And then you know, the number one thing, the number one thing at quarterback he can't do is turn the ball over in the red zone and and unfortunately we did that. So we have to coach those situations better, and we can and will and we'll respond to them the right way. How's it going with the cushion? Daniel's alternating series is there's a lot of benefits here, I think. So, you know, those guys

both um. They did things well, they did things that they'll watch on film and go ahead. I could you know, I could do. I could polish up a couple of things here and there as we again we all can. But liked I thought, I thought them. They each brought their own element to it. H Cush did a great job on Trey's touchdown. As a matter of fact, they're on that that shovel. You just played a great block. I had a couple of their key blocks and then and then you know, JDS is just a guy again

that just needs to play it is. He needs every rep that that he can get as well. I noticed last night on our TV show Bears Game Night Live on Fox, I had a breakdown Cohen's plays in the open field and in space, and it just turned out, I know, three of them were on second down and one was on third down that we broke down. But something fascinating there with second down with him after you get, you know, in a real good position first down, to

just keep moving the chain, stay ahead of the chains. Yeah, just by happenstance, maybe just by happen stance. They had a they had a little bit of a kind of a second and long plan that that that was unique. And so there were a couple things that we were trying to to to you know, strategically get get the ball and Trees had we liked the ball in trees hands. That's a good thing. Um. And uh, you know again did did everything right until the very end of that play.

And you got to give give them credit, uh on the forced fumble. But again we're gonna coach up and correct the ball security element of it. But yeah, he did some really good things. Um, kind of freelanced a couple of things that you know, he's always going to do. Make a play that that nobody, nobody's ever seen before. And he's he's fun to coach and fun to be around. Well, one thing I noticed, when he is off a schedule a little bit on his runs and doing an ad

a living his heads constant. It's like a turret. It's constantly moving around. So would that tell me then he's got a great vision, he knows what he's looking for. He's he's amazing. He's one of those guys, you know, he's not necessarily very tall or thick, but he's always kind of running at full speed, full speed, arnidirectional and

with full power. You know, there's there's some guys that if they have to change direction, they lose some element there, whether it's their leverage, their ability to change direct, whatever it is. And he doesn't, you know, and I think so he maximizes all all elements of what make him special. Running running straight ahead. He can do it, you know, every which way. He can do it. In the protection game, he could do it obviously as a route runner, So he does. He just does a lot of good things.

Are some of Mitch's attempted throws in positions where, say for Alan Robin's who drew three penalties yesterday, are those risk risks you're worth taking in some of those situations because you might be able to draw at a minimum

a flag if you're not going to end. Those are big places, absolutely, And you know, the spot foul is a huge deal in the NFL, and we probably had one more where we would have liked to see him, you know, gave him a shot at the ball and a couple of years ago, I can't remember the exact step, but I think he actually led the league galland and yeah and past. You know, passenger fearance tentletis called against um, and so that's something that you know. Again, he's a

lanky guy. He's got great, great range, and guys have to have to get on him and get into him to it to effect his ability to make the catch. Mark Helfrich, our offensive coordinator, our guest here on The Bears Coaches Show, and make sure you stop by the middle of Light Chicago Bears Ultimate Tailgate to enjoy food

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of the program. If you just join, I guess we're with offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich for a couple of more minutes breaking down the lost to Miami. We'll give a little sneak peek Patriots. In just a moment, I mentioned to Matt he's not a big numbers, guy. But Mitch's numbers over the last two games obviously are fantastic, just great numbers all the way around the horn. But what I want to talk about with you the fact that the big play is now eleven of twenty five yards

or more so in the past two games alone. So the big play element is starting to really percolate. And I'm sure it's it's it's fitting into what you guys ultimately would like to see. Yeah, and the thing we would ultimately like to see is wins, you know, And and that is good. I couldn't tell you any of those numbers. I'm also I couldn't number at all. Uh. But we have to, you know, push the ball down field and become more explosive, more consistently explosive, uh, and

turn those into touchdowns. You know, we've we've done a better job of that us, as you've said the last last couple of weeks. But then you know, at the end of a game like that and you go back to man, if we would, should, could have, and it and it bites you. And so there's nobody on more more frustrated than than Mitchell when when it's and again it's not on him, but he's the quarterback sit so it will be uh and I know he's excited to

to prepare for a great challenge in New England. So in the five games so far, no matter the outcomes or who you're playing, you've shown what you are capable of doing offensively in certain things with you know, having manageable third downs, the field position, all these things that you talk about when you talk about winning football, time of possessions, still leading the league in that category. Um, the downfield elements, the spreading the ball around to different receivers,

horizontally and vertically, stretching teams. It seems to be this big pot. If this was like Stu, it's starting to it's starting to cook. I mean, is this a good way to describe because all of those things there, there have been moments of great success in all of these certain certain situations. Is that is that a good sign? It's it's that sounds delicious if we put that, if we can put that all together, and that's yeah, that's

absolutely what you're trying to do. You have to you have to be able to you know, all those cliches you have to run when they know you're going to run. You have to build a throw when they know you have to throw. And we've been able to do those things at times. You know, even even yesterday, we overcame some bad third down situations that we don't want to

be in. Uh. And then at the same time, that's what makes it that much more frustrating when when you give away something that you know that you can execute. And that's where we you know, we go back to the drawing board and and go, Okay, hey, maybe we need to tweak this or tweak that, or lose this or add more of that. And it's just that constant feedback and and and give and take when you're when you're developing, you know, a bunch of guys that have

never played together before. All right, that's going to wrap up the program tonight. If the Bears get ready for Game Day with a powerful noise canceling technology of boys Quite comfort. Thirty five head funds, Good Night Everybody, w BBMN, HD Chicago, w CFSFM and HD one Elmwood Parks, Chicago,