Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich on offensive struggles

and walking up panc Studios. You had us on The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggi, Jeff Jonyak with you until eight o'clock tonight as the Bears regroup after lost to the Saints. Good evening, How are you doing good? How are you doing good? What the tape reveal? Well, there's a lot there. You know, that's not how we

want to play really, all three phases. You know, we want to be able to come out here and take advantage of playing at home and start better in the first half as far as the first quarters concerned, coming out the second half, started the third quarter, Um, you know, going down there for them in six plays and scoring a touchdown going nineteen to ten UM and then for having a fumble for on offense the very next play.

That that's tough. It's tough to recover from. Um. But you know we Uh, that's where we're at right now. We know that we got to get better. Have you ever been a part of a team that has struggled in yards per play through chunks of games like you have this year? Yeah? Probably probably not, you know, And that's that's the frustrating part, which is completely understandable. It's

frustrating for everybody. The challenging part in all this, Jeff is is um, you know, number one, it's it's at a point where you really just help you can get get nothing but better. Uh, And it should that's what should happen. Uh. I have ultimate trust in our in our guys, and I just feel like once that game happens, right, it's everything's about confidence. And once you get that game on offense where you get that that where it finally breaks, it just takes a little bit of confidence for them

to get going. And that's what we're missing right now. We just haven't had it. You feel the confidence is Yeah, it's well, no, the confidence yeah, in certain maybe certain areas of the game. Yeah, there's some times and to start the game to go three and out right, you need we need to be better than that to go three and out and that's just not You want to get some first downs and you want to get the rhythm going, and we didn't do that. Where is the

confidence in yourself at the same time, Yeah, my mind's fine. Again. The one thing with me that people will find out is when it comes to confidence, I really don't lack a whole lot of confidence in a good way, meaning that it's not an arrogance, but it's confidence. And I've and the confidence isn't so much about myself as it

is so much about our players. And as long as they feel that and they know that, is there going to be times where we need to get on them a little bit because of the way a play was done execution wise. Yeah, but um, we all need to be held accountable. But for me, confidence wise, I feel like that's one of my strengths, is knowing how to be able to help myself and others out. One of the things that struck me about your and I didn't

listen to your postgame press comments. We only talked to you briefly after the game and then listening to your news comments earlier today. This idea that you want to find out who the leaders are that I'm gonna stand up. And from my perspective, I always thought I knew who the leaders were already. Is that not the case? Well,

every it's how do you lead? It's in different ways when when times of adversity like this, when when they when they hit and you just feel like, um, you know, whether it's offense, defense or special teams, it doesn't matter however the offense is performing. If you're looking for an offensive leader, who that is it may surprise you sometimes you never know. But when you challenge somebody and you and the team gets in interrupt like this on offense, um,

who's going to be the guy this show? I don't know that we'll see you know, and and um, same with defense, it's it could be a different person in these times because somebody's been through it before. So that that's what what to me. This coming week is going to be interesting to see how our leaders step up. You talked about Mitch his performance and focusing on footwork and you delve a little bit more into his game

yesterday with that as the as the hook. Sure, just a few throws were he was kind of off balanced and footwork was opening up his front left hip and stepping back a little bit, which can cause a throw to be inaccurate. Uh, you know, And so what you want to say, there's gonna be times where that's gonna happen. You have to you can't step up into the pocket because if you do your break your finger on somebody's helmet. There's other times where you might want to see him

slide left instead of scramble right. Uh. So all of that stuff comes, and those are gonna happen in games. You just want to limit those. And I felt like yesterday there was probably more of those than there probably should have been. So we got to correct them. We gotta get with them and find out the why part and and uh and make sure that we get that thing fixed or just taking it from practice to Sunday, which obviously we talk about all the time, and he

was very open about it. And our postcame interview with Mark Rodi that you know that that rep that he had with Taylor Gabriel, he repped it all week and completed it all week. And that's where the frustration comes in from Mitch. Right, it didn't happen on that particularly, and he's I'll tell you what, Jeff, that that throw that that he missed on that third and five the second series of the game, was a throw that I'm telling you what in practice all week long. I mean,

he was just on fire with it, you know. So that's where you want to be able to see him be able to take that from practice to the field. And I thought his foote I'm gonna, you know, going back and checking out the foote work in practice versus if you match it up, it'd be curious to see how that looked. So when something like that's zinging on practice days, may not always put it in, But do you put it in the game play because I feel good about that play. That's gonna be that's gonna be

a bread and butter this day. Sure, Yeah, yeah. And when you know that that play in general schematically we felt was good versus a lot of different coverages. And so that's what we did. And what happens is this is when when things happen a little bit more repetitively throughout the game, and then you lose the way we lost, This stuff gets magnified. Right, So if we go ahead and we win by twenty and he missed that throw early in the in the game, it never it never

gets looked at, you know. So what we have to do is balance at that and understand that that that's that's real. Yeah, and I think it's I'm only bringing it up because he brought it up yea, you know, as an example of maybe his own personal frustration with it. Um. But at the same time, not to belabor this point, if that play is made for a guy like Mitch in an offense like this, that's just as whole, you know,

as you use the word hole. Could a play just simple as that spark the fire, Yes, for sure, And and Mitch knows that. And so those are what that's what we that's what we want from him. Um, that's what we're going to continue to challenge him with, is to make that throw. And and so what it does is get your first down. You know, it's third and five,

you get a first down. Now, you get a little consistency going, there's a little rhythm that gets going, and there's gonna be times where he has to add lib a little bit and use his feet and scramble and make a play. There's gonna be times where our run game needs to pick it up and help help out everybody else so that we can have more second and twos. You know, but that just wasn't that wasn't the case. Shright now here we are. Yeah, I don't even know

where to going. I honestly got I don't know where to go. Yeah, I'll let you take the baton on that one. Well, seven attempts number one to start seven, you can't. It's hard to win with seven attempts. But I you know, just like you're getting to where you say you can't even get to it. You know, for us, it's just a matter of yards per attempt and being able to get a couple, you know, a couple runs that that have some yardage to them, and we haven't

done that. So I know it sounds repetitive over the last several weeks, and it's almost like you just need to we all need to just stop talking about it until it happens. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff joni Ac continues kickoff for Darrell Patterson settling in the end zone. How about a R d angles left gets to the ten, opening up the twenty, gets the gains of the twenty five prit to tackle. He's in the clear, putting right to

the forty. Big change, her eyes stepped out of the tackle. Twenty ten five touchdown touchdown Bears one hundred and one years Sunday's game against the La Chargers brought to you by jewel Osco, the official grocery store of the Chicago Bears. You heard the highlight. Uh, it's always exciting when you hit a home run, and that's what kick returns are

home runs. Uh. And Cordell Patterson everything, And the funny it was, I don't know if you know this, but it was three hundred and sixty four days after he did the same thing against the Bears last year with the Patriots. How weird is that? Yeah? Soldier field, Yeah, so same direction everything else? It was it different. I thought it a different direction, okay, um, but in any case,

it was like running a mid zone for him. I mean, he hit that thing and once he stuck that left foot in the ground and hit it, he ran it back for a for a touchdown, you know, and he as he was coming off the sideline, that's what he said. Hey, that's why y'all brought me here. But we needed that spark um at that point in the game, and it got us right back in it. And you could feel the energy the crowd got going. It was really posts you know, that's that's exactly what they wanted right then

and there. I mean, that was that was time. But you know, everything about his abilities and skill sets because of his size really captured in that moment. It was, Yeah, well he's a he's a big guy that can run fast and when you have and then he's ultra talented in regards to ball skills, and he's a he's a great teammate. So all that encompasses to you throw that all that together and you come up with a pretty

good player. You know, he's an interesting guy. I want to get to know him more, but he he's not one that likes talking too much about anything really about getting the game or anything like that. Um, are some of those guys just that's the way they are, right. Yeah, there's a there's several guys that are introverted and he's really not like no, I just I'm saying, yeah, it just for him. He's They're all a little bit different depending on what environment they're in, But he's a he's

a happy, go lucky person. That's a great teammate, you know, really good in a classroom. Um, just very very selfless, which I think can sometimes go under appreciate it in today's aspects. Just just he doesn't as far as touching the football, you know, in the game. I mean, whatever happens happens. He talks about having patience and what better time than now for all of us to understand that there's some patience evolved with the with the frustrations that

go around in our inner circle. Uh, and just meaning like hey, we stick together and you have leaders like that. He's been in the league now seven or eight years, right, I think somewhere around there, and uh, you know he's been on he just won the Super Bowl last year, so he knows what it takes and he knows what teams go through, so he can become one of those leaders.

How did you look at the defense on tape? Well, I thought that uh for the first half, you know, there there was a couple plays here or there where they had some nice, nice gains on us a few passes, but generally, you know, what I thought after the game last night was that they would have been a little bit more protected with some better play on offense. The

first half. The you know, the drive that I think our defense will went back as the start of the third quarter, six plays going on down there with some chu. I think there's a forty seven yard play, a seventeen yard game, a seven yard game, a three yard game, and in a touchdown, and just like that, it was nineteen to ten and then we fumbled the next play. And so you know, if our defense looks back there, you know, overall as as a unit, you'd like to

see better there. But for the most you know, first half, I liked what they did. Yeah, at the same time, and I'm not trying to ease their burden, but with six series that had sixteen plays for twenty yards and they're on the field repetitively after thirty seconds or a minute, I mean, how how do you affector that into the equation? No, that's in the evaluation again, not to take it off, I mean that happens sometimes. Yeah, No, that's a part

of it. That's that's real. And then you know, for our guys to be able to offensively go out there and get a lead and go up seven to nothing or ten to nothing or fourteen to nothing instead of going down. It's a different style of game. So starting fast, when we take a lead in a game, we normally do pretty well, and we did not do that yesterday. So it's a little bit more of a challenge for a defense because teams can be more balanced and when you get a lead it's fourteen to nothing. Now team's

got to become a little bit more one dimensional. You have repetitively said it's still a couple of weeks away maybe for identities to form. Defensively, they knew what their identity was when the season began. It's how they felt about there themselves last year as well, and Prince and Mukamara said after the game, he's worried that they're losing

their identity. When you hear that out of the locker room, is that something you address, you fix, you talk to Chuck Bagana or is that just again postgame natural frustration with the moment. Yeah, it's more of the moment for those guys. Those guys will say some things. You know, it's hard to they all love the game so much they care about what we're doing and where we're going that frustrations can boil over, and that's we We try to do our best as leaders to make them understand

that that's okay to feel that way. But none of that's ever personal. That these guys just care and um, you know we you know, we we lost a big piece and Akiem Hicks now in the middle there, so uh, that's that's very understandable. But at the same time, we lost him for the Vikings game, so we're able to have other guys step up, and um, it'll it'll be

a challenge, but that's that's why. That's why we're all in this league right now, is because we've all worked hard to get to this point and now there's a big challenge ahead of us, and let's rally together. Let's not be that team that pulls apart. Let's stick together, and let's let's look back on this and say, hey, man, you remember that chapter in twenty nineteen season where we went through that rut and everyone just tried to pull us apart and never happened. That that's what this is

all about. No more of the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie on news Waydio seven eighty and one out five point nine FM w BBM. Go rid to the right of bench, Triviisky wins out to the left side, number slap left. Robinson tight end to the right side of the line as well. Snapped back. Here's t risky looking scanning tight pocket back off again jone touchdown Alan Or Robinson. Welcome back to the Bear's Chroachy Show, brought to you by a Whippley Financial Advisors, a proud

partner of the Chicago Bears. That was Allan Robinson's touchdown catch. The reason I bring it up, and I know you mentioned earlier today that garbage time at the end of a game. You don't care about the numbers and all that, but I do love the route, the route that he ran and his release on that rookie from Florida, Gardner Johnson. I think they had something going between them two throughout

the course of the game. How about that route, Yeah, it was it was a It was a He's been running those type of routes all year long and he gets open and a lot of times when he's covered, he's uncovered. So our guys know that. And he's a hell of a player. He plays hard, he's a leader. Everything matters to him on every single snap. And you saw that right there and a touchdown. Would you call his day yesterday a rugged performance given the circumstances, Yeah,

it was. And you know he had a couple other opportunit news as well. He had that catch down the sideline that was just called out of bounds. But that's that's who That's who Alan Robinson is. He's a fighter. He's gonna do everything he needs to do to help this team. And so we're lucky to have him. We want to keep this singing picking up out of the break. I was gonna lead you into below Nichols. So when you get a young man that you know, it's easy

to make excuses for your injuries and whatnot. But he doesn't seem like that type of guy. He was really excited about playing yesterday. I thought, you know, from watching it again, there was some good things. Yeah, he played well, and um, you know, you come in there with a cast on, you've been out a few weeks. But he's learning a lot from a team Hicks, and he's been a great mentor to him. And Bellows another kid that just really really cares about this game and he wants

to be great at it. So every every time he's on the field, every snap that he takes, he's gonna give it as all and then let's suck special teams. There was a lot of good and some things that need to be fixed a little bit because much like UH teams look at offenses that are struggling their defenses, they'll they'll try the same thing the next week. So yeah,

it's a that's a huge part of the game. That third that third phase there and special teams and uh you know, the first block punt they got us on a little uh game, you know where they did a little pick stunt and uh so that was the first one, and then the second one that was tipped was really

just a one on one that someone got beat. Uh And then we turned around and are but coverage wise, okay, you know there were a couple they had the one touchdown call back there at the end, but then we had to touchdown, you know, which I thought was great. I was a huge part of the game. And um so we're going to continue to see more and more kickoff returns with eighty four back there with cordarrel and we want to be able to flip the field and

get closer to midfield if it's not a touchdown. Which leads me in this because I did bring it up and the broadcast, Uh, after he hit the home run, there were several times later in the game he could have returned it. Um, did you guys just want the field position guaranteed to try and get something gone or is that a I think it's more. Yeah, it's more of a field thing of where we're at, and Coach Taves and those guys do a good job. They have their reasons behind that, and that's what we stick to.

Once you do it, you'll want to see every time. Right. Rashid Coward making first NFL start, I really amplified it at the beginning of the day because you're talking about a kid from Brooklyn who was, you know, not always easy growing up over there. Playing football in Brooklyn is not an easy task either, And then coming into the league's defensive player moved to right tackle where he got most of his prep, then certed in that right guard

position against the Vikings. If people don't know the whole journey in his story and then gets his first NFL start, that's some kind of journey in a short period of time, trying to learn a new position. Howdy fair and what did you think of that part of it? Yeah, it's a great story for him, and he did a great job, you know, all things considered. There's a couple of times where you know, technique wise, he could have been a little bit better, but that's you have to understand that.

That's a part of this deal with him. He's come a long way coming from the defensive line now to offense and here you are starting in the NFL. So it's a credit to him. It's a credit to coach Harry. He's standing for getting him ready for these type of situations, and you know, I look forward to him just improving each and every week. All right, let's talk Los Angeles Chargers. Really tough loss for them yesterday against Tennessee on a fumble near the goal line. They're scuffling a little bit

two at two and five. What do you know about the Chargers at this point? Well, I do know this from going against him for five years in the AFC. West. It all starts with that quarterback and Philip Rivers any game you play, you're gonna have a chance to win with him a quarterback. I've been a part of games where he's come back and beat us when we had a big lead, and there's been games where where we've come from behind and won games. But he's never He's

always going to go until that whistle blows. A lot of talent there on the offensive side of the ball, with big wide receivers and of course with the two running basket Gordon as well there, and then the defensively. You know, Melvin Ingram was out last week, but going against Ingram and Bosa on those edges, I think are some of the top two tandem defensive ends in this game. They're fast at the linebacker position and the back end.

They got hurt with their two safeties in early on in the preseason, so but other guys have filled in well and Casey Hayward as their corners, so they're they're You're right, they had bigger expectations, but it is early in the season for them, and you know they're going to come in here trying to do everything they can to win the game. All right. Lastly, I think you even alluded to it. Everybody feels it. Three and three this year versus last does feel different? Right, Yeah, it does.

There's and every year is different. That's that's the crazy part. So you know, that's why I think it's very very important to balance where you're at and to be able to step out of the trees and say, Okay, we're three and three, let's regroup, let's get back on track. What better way than at home? Just like last year when we played the Jets at home, Let's see what we can do this year. All right, good luck this week, Thanks Jesse. Coming up next, Mark Helfrich, the Bears offensive coordinator,

joins the program. Well Bears Show with head coach Matt Maggie at this hour featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfritz, brought to you by Whip Please, CPAs and consultants Athletico Physical Therapy and the Village of Bedford Park. Once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Jony add a trio right too to the left empty spread from Mitch Raisky.

They rushed three dropy bitch to throw, caught by Robinson at the forty forty five to midfield First Down Bears Back on the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whip Please CPAs and consultans from ASC Studios here at Hallis Off, but used to be joined by offensive coordinator Mark Helfritz. How you doing this evening? Alan Robinson a heavily targeted guy. I think he had nine targets in

the first twenty plays of the game. So clearly, clearly, whoever the quarterback is, there is a comfort zone right now with Alan Robinson. And so the way he's running his routes and the way he's getting open in the most difficult of circumstances yesterday, when you think about everything else going on, that's something to build on right here. Sure, and he's a guy that, yeah, we have to continue

to be creative. They started double teaming him in different ways yesterday and and uh, you know, he's a competitive, fiery due that didn't makes unbelievable plays and he's a guy that did. Obviously we've we've leaned on and how they played early on it. It affected that a little bit as well, in addition to us wanting to get him get him started. So in theory it should open up opportunities if teams are going to start double lending him or do whatever they do with their different coverages,

it should open things up for somebody else to get open. Right, it will, and it did and and yes, in the future it should. We had a chance probably to get a couple more guys in the ball yesterday. A couple times. Mitch came off to Taylor Gabriel at least one time when one of those instances where he was doubled, and yeah, they're gonna they're gonna try to pick out our best guy and eliminate him, and we're gonna make him pay

somewhere else. Matt Todd at length before you get sat down here about the footwork a Mitch, and that was one thing he was focusing on. He'd like to go back to see the practice last week how the footwork married up with Sunday. And I think Mitch admitted after the game. You know even on that that crosser to Gabriel and the little corner route, you know, he erupped it so much in practice with great success that that

should have been one of the holster so to speak. Right, But how does footwork deviate over the course of practice to game day? Sometimes well, it's it's going to you know, right with the pass rush and how things happen in front of you and what you have to to Sometimes you have to maneuver to see things that that changes, and you work on that too. You work on drills to to simulate that um and and that I think across the board, every single one of our you know, hiccups, mistakes,

the fumbles, all those stuff. It wasn't like some guy came in and ripped it out. We made some unblocked tremendous play. It was we had a guy blocking that person and poor ball security and those are just you know, we talk all the time about make layups. Just make layups, make layups, make the easy play, make the make the routine play. Go back to the fundamentals of it, all of the play. And if we're asking somebody to do something, they can't that's one thing. But our our guys can

can can execute what we ask them to do. And certainly in the instance that that that you're alluding to, you know, footwork has to be check. That's all. We're not talking about that much. You know, you're talking about, hey, you have to maybe slide in the pocket or work this around a pass rush or again whatever those those those uh uh, those things do occur that will take

you off rhythm. What are the reinforceables that carry through every single practice when you're teaching and coaching in all of you with the quarterback position, because the footwork is a what's the word I'm looking for? Muscle memory too? Right? Absolutely? Yas what I mean, just by the day one fundamentals of everything. You know, just the day one fundamentals of every position. Take it sounds simple, but hey, take the

first step at the right angle. Take the second step, you know with pad leverage at the right you know, hand placement, you know all the things that go into it.

When camera Jordan is crossing your face and in full speed, that's where you have to you know, kind of kind of even fall back more on those bas based fundamentals and then and then react at the at the second level or third you know, third of of some aspects maybe in a blocking scheme or as a as a passer, you're you're always doing all that and you're not looking at it. You know, you have to keep your eyes down the field. That's a tough one though, obviously, but

that's that's the nature of the job. Absolutely absolutely question. Yeah, he's something else. So in your opinion with there are a lot of blown layoups yesterday, no question. I mean it's again we I sat there and you know I've always quote you know again layoup plays or unforced errors. You know in your tennis analogy of of are we again are you asking somebody to do something they can't do?

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Kevin Foy, double producers. Yeah, yeah, Kevin Foy. He's doing he's doing he's doing woman's work here on the Various Coaches Show from P ANDC Studios here at halisah Um back to you know you talk about the layout plays and all also for that and the when the layout plays don't happen, do you see a crumbling confidence begin on a team sometimes? And because you look at the math yesterday for three quarters and it was. It was almost unbelievable to think that eighty five yards during that time.

Can you see it on the faces? Do you? And how do you operate? Then? Uh? Sure, yeah, and yes absolutely that that reveals itself these guys, these guys know kind of what's supposed to happen, you know, on plays.

But but I think the probably the most important thing is you have to recognize, you have to identify it, you have to communicate it, because there are there are some guys that maybe don't you know, or they think, hey, well I'm fine, but this other guy screwed it up or or worse yet, every everybody starts, for instance, you know, you probably make several times everybody starts playing quarterback. You know, everybody tries to to to whatever second gas or over compensate.

Uh and and that's not that's not good either. We need everybody coaches first and foremost, uh you know, to to to reinforce what what was right and take ownership on what wasn't and then you know, just look each other in the eye and go. You know, I was asked last night and our Bears show on Fox Bears Game Night Live to come up with a one word description of the of the day, and and a couple of other people said whatever they said, and I said,

I simply said execution. So is that it's frustration? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that that frustration in the lack of execution. But if these things right, And when I say that, you know, it's not we're not going, hey, we're pointing to filing at the players. It's execution. It's coached, you know, that's on that's on all of us first. And then then again, these plays that a lot of these things

we're talking about, these are they're not they're not. Again, we're not asking him to be superman, but just execute within the offense. Go back to the basics of the offense, and and uh, move the football. You know, the turnovers were inexcusable. The you know, couple couple sacks just don't don't have to happen. A couple those were on the protection, a couple those were on the quarterback. You know, a

cup or pressure is not necessarily sacks. And so again, there's plenty, there's plenty to pass around, and we just need each got it to look at himself and stay in his lane. When you guys visit with Mitch and the offense over the course of the week. Um, do you have you noticed anything different about him this year versus last in terms of the meeting times, the practice, the way things are done this year versus No, No,

I don't think that, you know, there's nothing. You know, again, if these were just I think that the the all these gray area and you know, conspiracy theories of all these different things we need to play better, and there's there's plenty again coaches first, uh, and then each individ you know, each individual position group we can pick out and hey, look at this play, Look at this play, Look at that play, um, And it's frustrating as as heck, and it's still you know, a t score game there

for Yeah, that's the that's the thing about it. It was a two score game there for a while. And given that every game under Matt has been close and in his entire coaching career, you would think that that was going to happen this this time as well. Um, how how would you describe the difficulty with the run game right now? Well, I mean, yeah, and it's ever experienced anything like this, No, Um, And I think it's it's some of these are just circumstantial of the game.

You know, we get the kickoff return, uh for a touchdown, you know, after not a not good start, and then kind of again how they were playing us, it kind of lended itself to to throw on the ball more. And you know, we went that that direction. And then in second you know, in second half of the fourth quarter, obviously we were in a different situation to have to throw the throw the ball to to get back in it.

But again there's a lot of stuff, you know, ins and outs of those things that that probably go back to that frustration category, and and uh uh, we've worked on it. We will continue to work on it, and we will continue to find solutions. You know. That's that's the that's the hard part. It's easy to point and make negative, you know, but the solutions are the most meaningful. I know Matt kind of dismissed the what he you know,

the garbage time stuff. But are there things that build on to just even though it happened then like Adam Sheheen and being used in a way and that he is clearly capable of given his size and whatnot, is that am I reaching its straws for the confidence thing? For the offense or or I mean, is there something there? There's something there, and there's something there. You know, it's good that that guys are competing. You know, you get those situations and and uh yeah, like you said, the

guys that went in there. You know, Juice came in and did a good job and a few things and and Juice's Javon Wims. Jevon Wim sorry, um, And yeah, there's something to be taken from that, but we want that to be the game winning drive, not the Amy made it sort of close drive. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears, Niel's Radio seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM. Back in our final

moments with Bears offensive coordinator Mark healthy Town. The Bears Coaches Show brought to you buy Whippley CPAs and Consultants. We're bringing it to you from PANC Studios here at Hollis Hall. I touchdown at a coach about the debut as an NFL starter for a shide coward at guard and quite the journey. When you watch tape, what you see from the young man, promise you know, I thought

he did some some really good things. He made again some very correctable errors, but he was one of the first guys you know in here today, uh, trying to trying to get better and you know, inquire about this and that. Uh. Some you know played a little high at times, which is unlike him, but you know, very

very excited about his his future. He's a guy that you that's that the stuff happens fast and there, you know, one guy's cross face or gets picked on stunts there, there are a couple of you know, twist games that that that got him and James a couple of times. But excited about his future. For sure. He's got the mindset to be one of those yep. I don't know, I can't swear, but you know where I'm going. He's a bad man in there when he plays football on Sundays,

he is. And we actually saw some signs of that. James Daniels had a couple you know shots that he took on guys being physical in the right way at the right time and and you know, we're still still waiting for those guys to to to unleash that and to cut loose. But uh, he certainly provides that element. And then uh, with the receivers. So Anthony Miller early last week he said, you know, he felt the time's coming and he's gonna he's gonna be counted on to

make some big plays. So does he just need some He also indicated that he needs he would like to be fed early to get him in that kind of rhythm, you know, because he's every coach he's had has understood that. As he made that clear to you guys that that would be optimum. I know you can't dictate that, but

I mean, is that something you take under consideration? For guys, you did that by your play, right, And yeah, and I think every receiver in history that's what they want, right, They want they want they want the ball a lot early and often. But uh, you know, and Anthony's another guy that did some some really good things and then had a couple of things that just route wise, we have to to clean up. And and again that that hey, that looks like that has to be the quarterback's fault.

And then you know there's some more to it. Uh, probably could have had him on a shallow that would have probably had a huge, you know, a huge play potential. On a third down or a fourth down. Uh, and so again it's that mixed bag that we got to get out of. All right, quick sneak peak here we got twenty seconds for you on the LA Chargers. I almost said San Diego. Yeah, I mean just Gus Bradley defense.

They're excellent, you know, you know, kind of where they're going to be there doing a little bit more this year than they have in the past from a schemes scheme standpoint, but unbelievably talented up front. Obviously, both edge guys are elite, elite and a bunch of guys flying around on the back end. Appreciate it. Mark, have a

good week of preparation. As we wrap up with offensive coordinator Mark Helfritz, Gibson's Restaurant Group wants to thank you for joining us in tonight's Bears Coaches Show and here's your gift card to enjoy a meal at any of their Chicagoland locations. Thanks appreciate that much, and that'll do it for tonight's Coach You show for Matt Nage, Mark Helfrits, Dan Bailli, and Kevin Foy along with Andy Gersher and

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