Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich on win over Packers

the Village of Bedford Park. No. From Hellis Hall. Here's the Voice of the Bears w BBMS, Jeff Joniac and a very pleasant good even in the everybody, your manufactured Bears have clinched the NFC North Championship for the first time since the twenty tenth season, and a lot of excitement in the city of Chicago, a lot of excitement here in this building at Hollis Hall. Welcome into the program, everybody.

It's brought to you by Whippley Financial Advisors. Here from PNC Studios at allisaw We welcome in the head coach of the Bears, Matt Nagge. Congratulations again and as it settled in a little bit, yeah it has. You know, it was a great day yesterday, Lots of fun, lots of excitement, and there was need to see that, need to be a part of that. Everybody, the whole city, the fans, the coaches, the players, just everybody included. And it was a special day whilas remember and but as

you know, how this thing goes. Um, it's time to move on and get ready for San fran Yes, that's next time. The agenda out west in the Bay Area. You know, I used to cover the Bulls during the Jordan era and Michael when he was at his peak and going to championships every year, he always seemed to love the new guys that came in to experience the championship ride, and he took great pride in seeing that,

seeing that excitement. You know, you've been in that room when you have one division titles in Philadelphia and in Kansas City. So when you see what you saw yesterday, I mean, guys would have been on this roster and in twenty fourteen they were nineteen and forty five entering

the season, so they never experienced anything like this. Um. Is that a part of the joy of this, without a doubt, and for all of us included, I think that's what we as coaches have to focus in on is the fact that these guys, um some of them have been on teams where they've been good players, but they just haven't haven't won for whatever reason. And and we also told them too that the opportunity that was presented to us going into yesterday's game, you never know

if you're ever going to get that shot again. I mean, I just look at a guy, for example, like Tony Gonzalez. You know, he played however many years it was in the NFL, and it wasn't until the very end, I want to say, sixteen to eighteen years that he played and never made the playoffs. And so just one of the guys to understand, are in a great situation to make the playoffs with a win, but don't put too much pressure on yourselves and just go out and play

your game. And that's what we did. And now once we won the game and knew that we were gonna we clinched a spot. Now enjoy it and understand that it's okay to do that, and that's what we're going to do. But I also told them that when you get back in here into the building on Tuesday, that there's more to this and so that we, like I said, last night. You know, we can be happy, but we're not satisfied yet and we need to be able to to put that in perspective. And I think that's a

big part of this. What's the buzz on the coaching staff, Well, it's again yesterday enjoying it, but today it's just it's usual business. Everyone's right back to it. Uh it's it's uh. I like that because we need to win. We need to continue winning and uh no, there's no complacency. And that's going to be the biggest message to the team, to the players and to all coaches is that, uh, we need we need more, and we need to understand that. We got to keep continuing to practice the way we've

been practicing. Nothing's We accomplished one goal, but that's not the biggest goal and everybody knows what that is and there's more work to be done. This team is selfless, very easily because you you've mentioned and many many times, just strictly looking at the offense, it doesn't float through

one guy. So you know, I bring I brought this up before, guy like Alan Robinson who had one hundred and fifty one targets in back to back years before his injury in twenty seventeen, and he was the man. Everything flowed through that that that's not the case here and under you, it looks like that won't be that way. You know this is going to be a spread the wealth type of team. How do you get them to

play selfless? How did you do that? So as you go through the process, and in particular, just using Alan Robinson as an example, you know, you reach into two who these guys are as people? And when you meet him and you talk to him and you see that, you get a feeling. You talk to other other coaches that I've coached them, and you get a feel for

that as well. And and so I just think that once you explain your identity on offense and how it works, and that there might not always be fifteen targets for one wide receiver or he ends up with one hundred yards every game, but you lose, the guys are okay with that, and when you're winning, they're always okay with that. So are we have you just said it? We have a we have a selfless team that doesn't care about those numbers. They care about each other, They care about

doing their job within that specific play. And then they get to rip the rewards for doing that, and so, um, we have a lot of those guys on this team, and that's what we want to continue to keep building. It was there ever a point in this season because you're the only team in the league has had a lead in every game in the second half, which is quite the accomplishment. You're in every game. No one's blowing

a torch on you. Was there any point this season in a game, in a moment when your heart was racing where it could have turned the wrong way? No? Not really. Um, I think that's what's neat about this team. We got down early in the year to Arizone and Real Quick fourteen to nothing, and you could feel a sense of urgency from our team, and we were still young then. Yet we had the game in Miami that was it's just a strange game with going back and forth and then and then we get to lead and

then they get and then recover this over time. And but for the most part, there's always from from day one, there's never been any doubt from our players between each other, and there's never been any blame. Uh, it's always been positive. It's it's I want to make the next play to help this team. Coaches, I want to make the next call and then when it happens, you can feel what it's just. It's so strong and powerful. You feel so

good about it. And we've been winning, you know, with the in those type of games, and we have had a couple losses. We had the one loss at home to New England. That's a good team that we played. But we never we we alls we did. After New England was said, all right, it's time to get back on track and get and learn how to win again.

And that's what we've done. In your quiet moments, did you ever have any deep introspective thinking about how you are managing the team and calling plays and designing the offense. I really haven't. I wish, I wish I could say I have, um, but this has been NonStop from the very beginning. Really, it's coming up on a year now since uh, since I was hired, and um and and I'm okay with that. The time for me to reflect will be at the end of the season, and I

don't want that to be for a little while. I just kind of rely on on just kind of doing what I've done this whole time, which is which is it's natural, and it's it's relying on your coaches, it's it's it's feedback from your players. Uh, it's a support staff that everybody communicates and we all just want to do what's right for each other. So I haven't had that time yet. Well here's what's interesting. You're used to winning. Yeah, well,

and and and that's a good thing. Uh, but I've also been on a few teams where it's gone the other way. And so when we were a few yeah, when we were about halfway into the season, I told I told the team in one of our team meetings, this is the point right now where you're going to start seeing a lot of teams in this league either gonna start going south, or they're gonna start getting a lot better and going north, or it's one of two ways that they're going to start going. And we have

we're at that crossroad right now. And I forget exactly which game it was, but we won that week, and we just continue to keep winning. It was during that win streak that we had and that's when you start separating and you feel it and you say, okay, this is this is real. And then and then I really believe I look back to the Vikings game on Sunday night, I think that's when. That's when to everybody we felt like, Okay,

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Chicago Bears dot Com, around the Bears Official app. I'm certain you don't have time to be searching off that stuff. But Club Dub is like unlike anything in the league right now, and it's reached you know, fever pitch as we expected it would once the boss starter rolling. Have you? Have you seen some of these videos that the team has put up and what your thought is about it? Yeah, I've seen a few of them, and I know the

goysler they're having fun with it. I gave them the ability to h if they wanted to for yesterday to have their own phone out and video. That was a good time for him to do that, and they did it. They took advantage of it. But they got some some pretty good dances that they're creating right now, and they're they're they're celebrating and they're trying to get more more people involved. It's getting bigger and bigger. Um. But you know, as we as we see, uh, we'll see how it

goes here. Maybe maybe we'll get some some coaches on in there. Um, I don't know. I don't know about that, but I'll pay you stage dance. We got we gotta get him in there. And they got the guys will lose it. But it's so neat, it's it's neat to see that is catching on. And um, I just that's the personality who we are. That's our team, that's what we're about. Um, we're gonna have fun and everything that

we do. And as long as you're you're earning it, and then you deserve to you you deserve to have fun, and our guys are doing it. This town embraces teams like that. There have been teams like that, and this this city's great sports history, you know, all the way back to the sixty three Bears. But we're talking bulls, we're talking I mean, there have been some really fun teams that have won championships or we're knocking on championships doorm any times. So it kind of fits the city's

you know spirit, so to speak. Was that a mission for you to do? Uh? Well, how how great a sports town this is? Yeah? Absolutely? Your personality. No, it's both, there's it's a combination of both. Uh. I think everybody likes I mean when when you're when you're winning, um, uh, enjoy it, have fun. Let let your personality show. And and so you can see the fans are enjoying it. Uh Uh, the players obviously love it. They're housing great schools today they were doing is that right? Yeah, honestly

it is catching. Uh So yeah, we're we Uh. I'm sure there's some go ones out there. I'm sure we'll continue to see more of them. But why why not have fun? And you are busy today working the radio waves and spreading the wealth around town a little bit and deservedly so to talk about it's it's a major accomplishment to win a division title. It's not that it's not simple to do. Um. And then I understand you got a little podcast coming up with coach k I

know he does one. Mike Chevsky was a pretty cool Yeah, it was really really neat and you know, for me, so obviously coach k Uh is a is a big Bears fan and uh growing up uh downtown in the city and and so uh just being able to talk to him uh throughout his podcast for me, you know, growing up and just knowing, um, just how how great of a coach he is and and it's just it's an amazing accomplishment to think of all the players that he's coached and um, how they've gone on to either

the NBA or they've all become coaches themselves, and and uh and and and high quality, high character type guys. And I just really respect that. It was it was really cool to be able to talk to him. And then let me tell you something he was in He knew every player, he knew about every play of yesterday's game.

He was detailing it up. Um he he even you know, he was talking about Threek Cohen and how much he likes him, and I told him he'd be a pretty good point guard for him, and and uh but he he uh uh he just was talking about how he ran out of bounds there before the fourth, you know, and third and made it fourth and one and just the details and impressed me. It was really cool. And that play too, It was we hadn't even talked about

the game yet. You talked to Tarika about that? Yeah, yeah, well we've we uh well, that the one we talked about to Tarik is we always talk to our players in regards to reaching across the goal line. If it's that, then it was that when that he was talking about where you see at times where that ball when you go to reach across the goal line, that ball sports out and now all of a sudden, instead of having the ball to you know, half yard line, now it's

a touchback with the other team. But Cunning him, yeah, exactly exactly, so he uh, but you heard what he said yesterday. You know, he felt pretty confident in reaching it across and ended up being a big play. Um. But no, he's uh, you know, Coach k was just we had a great conversation today and it was really really special time to talk to him. Coaches no matter the sport, love X and os and the motivation and the thinking behind a lot of things. For sure, the

sports cross over and made different ways. No more of the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Neggie on news where toyo seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM WBB. They staggered the line of Scrimmatrick Glitzers. They're all coming Trubisky to throw SIPs it up there cock by Cohon at the eleven runs right to the five, darting for the pilot. Will they give it to a minsiber one? Are they gonna say step down? Do they say touchdown? Touchdown Bears And the celebration begins with the

dark end zone. First Tech got six twelve yards to Cohen. He hit the accelerator and turned the corner. Yeah, that was a great run by three Coo. We're just talking about it with Matt Neeggie, the Bear's head coach, as we continue on on the Coaches Show, brought to you by Whipfley Financial Advisers here at P ANDC Studios at Hollis. All right, let's do some quick bullet points about the game yesterday and our remaining moments with you and our

segment coming up next. Well of offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, Let's start with Mitch Trubisky going back over it today again. You did obviously a lot. I went back to it at Manny. I can't find one thing wrong with yesterday's game. Yeah, he played really well, and I think that, uh again, I'll get into some of the you know, I could sit here and talk to you for hours in regards to you know, play by play and tell you what

he did right, what he did wrong. But yesterday, progression wise, I mean, he was really on fire in regards to making quick decisions, making strong throws with conviction, um and and really and then there was a couple of plays too, where he was just was checking the ball down and teams want to go ahead and play soft and off and not let you get any downfield throws. And you check it down to your running back and you get

a ten yard game. And so he had a really good game yesterday, and I was proud of them for it. Throw it a Bellamie, throw it a Burton in the end zone. Rifles, there was some rifle throws, Yester. Yeah, his footwork was was really good. So those are all a lot of these throws in this offense are based off of timing and whether it's a three plant throw, a three hits throw, a five plant throw, a five hits throw. And he was on time with the throws yesterday.

The wide receivers ran good routes and then there were some contested Bellamy's catch there to the right, that was a that was a tough catch. It was contested. He had a guy in his back and made strong hands catch. One of my favorite plays. And he was outstanding in getting away from trouble just in the nick of time, but spinning away from all those you know, they were running diamond plus what do you call when they have

sevent dbs on the field. I don't know what that is, but I mean they were blitz in and coming at him from every angle. He twists away and he fires a throw to Sheheen, you know, a can't miss target. I think that's a confidence builder too for Shaheen that he's going to be more involved. Here was his clock ticking a different way with pressure yesterday. Well, he had good vision, good pocket awareness in there. I think his clock was ticking. It always does. He always has a

good feel for that. The more he's in this offense and he understands the concepts of what we do, his clock is going to get better. And you see these quarterbacks that are in these offenses for a long time. They sit in that pocket and they know when they get rid of the ball. They know when they have time and when they don't. And yesterday Mike Petton did their defensive coordinator did a good job of mixing different pressures and dropping guys and bringing guys and um. So

that was a good challenge for our whole offense. And but Mitch did a great job of scrambling out making a nice play there. Shahin you win a division and yet today that you're you're being asked about you know, or you always say, hey, we're you know, this is just the beginning one on one or two oh one offense. You know, when you break it down into a college type program and you're saying, hey, you know, the Chiefs are five oh one right now. Um wow, I mean

that's how much growth's coming. Well, we that and that that's what we hope for. Uh. Yeah, there's a lot there's a lot more room for improvement with with our offense and um, but that's what's exciting is the guys know that and they see that, and then we're trying to fit in and and mold this offense into the Chicago Bears offense. We want to make this is our offense. I don't, I don't whatever has happened with this offensive scheme in years past. Um, we got to figure out

how it works for us now. And we're in that kind of laboratory right now figuring it out. We're doing it in games, but that's the only way we can do it. So uh, once this season ends, then we'll come back and next year we'll be two two. So could he could he advance even to the three or four hundred level by next year or is this a process?

It could, but I would say it's more of a process. Um. You know, just for for anybody that you talked to in the in the old school West Coast offense will tell you it's a good two three years until you feel really comfortable and you're and you're going and um and and nowadays you you know a lot of these teams you just don't have that luxury so um for everything that we're throwing at this at this at these guys on offense, I really feel comfortable where we're at.

I like how they're handling it. I'm really surprised, and uh, we'll just keep growing. Earlier today you said Eddie Jackson and Aaron Lynch likely not seeing any ankle and elbow injuries. So we'll leave it at that as you as you go through the week. That's very very good news. I was sick to my stomach when I saw Eddie go down, but he looks like it'll it'll be okay. Uh. The defense in general, dominance not even the word. Right now. They are playing at a at a level that, uh

that some of the best defenses ever have played. I mean, have you ever been around a defense like this, I have not. No, I've been. I've been around some pretty good defenses. Uh. This defense right now, with the way that we're playing, um is is what I said yesterday is completely relentless. It's just one play after the next. So so if somebody has a certain play, then I'll play number two. The next guys got to play number three. The next guy's got it, and then okay, back to

play you know, the next player. And it's just one after the other. And when you put all those guys together, uh, it can make your the the opponents quarterbacks clock tick a lot faster, the offensive linemen have to you know, uh, you know, set back a lot quicker. Everything is just a little bit off kilter. And so uh, let's let's keep it going. And the coaches are doing a great job.

So I mean, get a chance to talk about Leonard Floyd we Arrow has been going up steady climbs, climbing the mountain, and man, he may have had his best game yesterday, I'd agree. Okay, San Francisco, So back to the messaging laboratory this week for you, obviously, it's it's continuing on and keeps going in the process, no period at the end of the sentence. But um, I think you got their attention. I don't think you have to

worry about that. I think you know that right now about how they're playing or why they're playing the way they are. Um quick ten seconds, fifteen seconds out the forty nine ers, though, What do they got going? Who is Nick Mullins? Yeah, yeah, well, well he's he's getting more and more experienced the last several games now, and

he's getting more of a library in that offense. And they got they got good skill players with Brita and and and there's wide receivers that they have a great tight end and Kittle and then defensively they played some different guys on the back end, but the front end they have a they have a big time game wrecker in DeForrest Buckner. So he's a he's a special player. And we'll grab our hands full with him. All right. We'll talk to you throughout the course of the week.

Appreciates his always congratulations again Bears Nations Flipping Hour at that man, Thanks, Jeff, I appreciate it. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Mad Maggie and this hour featuring offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge. Frought to you by Whippley CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Athletico Physical Therapy for Rizon and Miller Litte once again the voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac Shaye the tight end left wing. Now he moves in motion to the right. Trey Burton

hand down tight end. So three receivers to the right, snap his back. Three man of rush day drop e Tripisky, person that Burton's got it for the touchdown. Touchdown Bears, they're back in front. Twenty to fourteen ten to sixteen left fair of the fourth quarter at Soldier Field, thirteen yards. Trabisky to Burton had some really good protection there and that's why I want to start with Mark Helfridge. Thanks for being here in congratulations to you on the rest

of the staff. Well, appreciate it. Appreciate it very much. A great description. Once again, although that was a nine man, nine man drop on that one, they it was really really good protection. They didn't have me on my toes because there were times I was counting up the DV numbers and there were seventybs and they're blitzing from all over.

So um so yeah, but the protection overall, I mean, I think in the last two weeks at least from my perspective, maybe i've understold how good they've been, you know, against the Rams and the Packers and really all steady all year. It has been steady all year, and had

a couple really uncharacteristic guys getting beat. You know. We had Charles Leno on a mist assignment one time and Bobby Massey on a on really just thought out got beat, which that shocks you, you know, and that's a good thing when it's when it's shocking, when you're your your edge,

guys get you know, get some pressure on them. But overall, I thought our guys managed yesterday, Mike Petting, their their defense coord did a great job of of of changing up a bunch of stuff, mixing up looks, like you said, from from several different personnel groups that they hadn't they

hadn't really shown before. And so our guys handled that and whether to you know, kind of a similar storm to that first game where the comeback came and and we looked at right in the eye this time this time and Finn, Yeah, we talked a little bit with Matt about it. We didn't really break down the game that much, so we'll give you that opportunity. Just overall footwork, fundamentals, eyes, comfort, calmness. That pretty much described Mitch ter Bisky yesterday. He did

he did a great job. You know, a couple of those plays early on that the five yard throw that Arab breaks attack him becomes a big play, the the you know check check check, come to your checkdown where Jordan created you know some yards. Those got the day kind of rolling of of We just wanted some completions

early to get him, get him rolling. And I thought one of kind of his best his best sequence was we had three just stone cold drops in the second half, and that's where as a guy who listens to other people and a guy who lets that stuff get in his head, that that could have showed up. And I thought, not only him, but the other guys just battled through

that and finished the deal. So in general, this team has proven to be resilient, even though I know some people might say, well, you know how, they're ten and four and they've had the lead in every game in the second half this season, which no other team has. But there's moments in a season there's moments in a game where they have been extremely resilient. And let's just focus on the offensive side of that. Where where have you seen that resilience he come to fruition with this

team in terms of the offense. Well, yeah, I mean it's a it's a it's a short show, right. We have a lot of areas where where guys have not only individually but collectively just improved. You know, again, yesterday not our you know, best day by any by any stretch running the ball, but had a couple of big time plays. You know, Jordan's untouched on a ten yard run. Uh. You know, guys executing all over the place, um protection, as you said, the communication part of it, and then

just a fortitude. You know a lot of guys that haven't been in this moment and been the guy on a team in this moment. Trey Burton, you know, finishes the deal. He's been on a super Bowl team but not been quote unquote the guy and had a couple of drops. You know, he's one of those guys with

those those drops to persevere through that. His huge looking down the barrel of a guy who's been there, done that and coming back on you you know, everybody's little The stadium was a little uneasy there for a couple of minutes. But but you know, the finishing that in that fashion against that quarterback, against that team, we know what that means to the people around here. The Bears coaches show with offensive coordinator Mark Hilfridge and w bbm's

Jeff Joniac continues snap back. They're bringing a blitzer. He's free. Trabisky trying to avoid it, breaks the tackle, spins to his near site, lust it down the near side to Shad had the packer forty five some Mitch magic in the pocket there forty the blitzer who came in untouched and lift the place put away to the near side at Shaheen. You can't miss the target twenty three yards and the Bears first out. The one thing about that the eyes never left looking, you know, to sense the

spin and the blitzer come to it. His eyes kept down field. Was that the key to that. That was a big time play. That that feel, that escape of how he did that his textbook, you know you drilled that constantly, but that's that's in a you know, to have that that sixth sense of kind of the space of not on where the defenders coming from, but the safe spot of where you're going and then to keep his eyes up and finished. That was was huge. And you know, again Adam Sheheen is a huge target that

that we're excited that to have back and healthy. And he did some really good stuff yesterday. I mean it could become a huge weapon right now. And he's feeling good. And again you can't miss him. I mean, but when you throw that little route, you know, he picks up nine yards ten yards at I mean, he's like a

bull in a china shop. Yeah, no question. We had a little little little short post action to him there and and uh again, he has so many things, including on that the big conversion that we're talking about, the mistackle completion. He kind of had a little bustet assignment on the beginning of that play. Uh So again his

best football is I had of him, no question. You know, when you talk about assignments, you know Emmy's or at the mental airs, have they shrunk as the season's gone on, or do they crop up a faremont just because you're trying to you're putting out a new show every week. Yeah, I mean those things are going to happen. And that's that's what you want, you know, everybody. You want everybody on the same page, one hundred percent, right, eleven guys

doing the same thing. That sounds simple, but you know it isn't always the case. From the route concept, the protection concept, how how we're redirecting protection maybe uh, and then you have to execute it technically and somewhere in there something's you know, not perfect, and that's what we're gonna We're gonna always try to, you know, strive for that. And our guys have always come back when looser draw, you know, with a great attitude to improve. And that's

that's all we can ask. You know, this is your first year here, but for these guys who have had to deal You mentioned that quarterback in the last segment. That quarterback is Aaron Rodgers, and he gives you an upset stomach as a fan, as a broadcaster, because with a ball in his hands at the end of a game, I don't care how much times on the clock until you put him away. He's a threat. In some sense.

You get from being here in this building that that, in many regards, was a necessary hurdle to clear for this football team. Mentally for the guys that have endured his last second heroics and ways of beating the Bears. I don't know if you you can get a feel for that or not. Yeah, I mean, I know the history of football. I know certainly the history of the two franchises absolutely. You know, there's a lot of a

lot of blood on both sides of that deal. And they've had a ton of success recently and and you know, all we know is this year, in this game and today, and that's all that matters, right of of how we're going forward and getting ready for the next thing. Um. But yeah, I mean that's that's something that that you put in your memory bank of good stuff. You still improve on the stuff that wasn't perfect. Uh, and you move on and and uh, you know, excited about the

direction we're headed. And uh. Again, everybody has had a great attitude. Winning helps that, no question, But the fashion that they've in which they've handled success, it has been has been good to this point. Tarik Cohen when he hits the accelerator and gets room to go when he hits north and south, Uh, I dare say he's one of the best, you know in the league in terms of where he's going with the football and whatnot. Um

is he playing faster now? And would you? I mean, I know he loves going sideways too, but you never

know what's going to happen. But when he's getting vertical on somebody look out, I think that's what he's done the best, you know, so far, these are not so far these last couple of weeks, uh, Coach London has done a great job of just again harnessing a guy hate, get him pointed in the right direction, get his first step right, get his get his target, his aiming, point his eyes right, and good things are going to happen.

In the past game and the run game. You know, he and Mitch are on the same page that the touchdown to the to the right was a was a kind of a hot route situation where they had to be on the same page. Get the ball out and you know he did his best Joni I compression on the on the extension and the touchdown. But but and then putting his foot in the ground and getting some big games in the run game has been you know, obviously a very a very big deal here these last

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dot bos dot com. Slash Bears Bows, the official headphones of the Chicago Bears. Players have said they've been on record of saying it they've never had more fun in their respective careers individually. For you, you've had great success of the college game, but on the fun meter, where you at in your football playing life and football coaching life right now with this bunch, well, no, we're definitely blessed in that way of our guys get it right

now and again. Winning. Winning cares a lot of a lot of you know, ills and covers a lot of things up. But our guys get that it takes a lot of hard work, a lot a lot a lot of hard work to cut it loose and to just be able to play aston free and have fun. And and you know, Nags has done a great job just to the whole bu thing and and and selling that and believe in it and living it really uh and and yeah, there's a lot of fun moments, and then there's a lot of times where you're going, Okay, if

fun returns this kickoff, we're back. You know, you're you're thinking of the next thing, and and uh, you're absolutely relish in what happened yesterday. But then at the same time, you're looking ahead to you know, a great challenge, a great challenge on the inside of this defense coming up. So uh no, very very very lucky, very lucky to be where I am and where we are. Uh. You know, as you've alluded to, this is a great place to

be in a great time to be here. Yeah, it's a little bit like the devil on the shoulder right when you're trying to embrace the moment. But yet you gotta play what if, right, you gotta play the downside kick, you gotta play all those things that are coming up. You really can't ever ever, I mean, can you enjoy and live in the moment. It's different. I mean you're you savor it, you know, kind of as a as

a competitor, you relish that part of it. But you can't sit there and think about that at that time, you know what I mean. Afterwards, you know we joke, hey man, that would that would have been a great game to watching a bar. But you're not thinking that during the game, you know, type of type of deal. Um, but no, uh, excited, you know, excited about our guys. As a coach also, and you've been a head coach too,

when you go home and you hear, ay, great job. Wait, are you able to accept that or you just yeah, you know it's nice, but it's nice, but you know that's the same thing. And no, no offense to anyone. But if that's the same person that's going to walk around the corner and go that guy's you know, an adiot and the next week if we lose, you know, type type of deal, or the previous week of or even your wife. Well, my wife is always right, that's that's you know, I'm happily married. Well, at least I

am happy. I'm not sure if she's happy. I've been gone a lot right now since I'm very happy. Yeah, all right, quick snapshot. Look at the forty nine ers defense. What are you looking at? Well, a couple of guys that did very I'm very familiar with coach that are

working like the force. Buckner and Eric Armstead are too unbelievably talent to guys, relentless guys, uh inside super long, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're you know, six seven plus two ninety three hundred type guys and you know, athletic and relentless, you know, kind of uh like our front. You know, in a lot of ways you combine maybe the you know the best aspects of all those guys in the way kind of if you combined uh Khalil with Leonard and and

a team and you know, spit them out. So tremendous challenge. But we have you know, best defensive league to prepare uh with and against, and a lot of experience doing that. So again, excited to prepare for them, Matteggie, thanks for listening to everybody for Mark Helfritz, Dan BURRELLI, Eddie Gersher, Rob Hard, I'm Jeff Joniac. It's Bears and forty nine Ers with a three o'clock kickoff Sunday in San Francisco.

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