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the Village of Bedford Park. No. From Hellis Hall. Here's the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac and a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into hallisaw PNC Studios and another edition of The Bears Coaches Show. It feels like we haven't played in a month after just playing three and twelve days. It's the weirdest feeling not to play on Sunday. But here we are on a Monday, review a little bit of Detroit and kind of set the tone moving forward for the final five games of
the year. The most important one though, the next one against the New York Giants. Jeff Joniac and head coach Matt Nage. How you doing. How'd you survived the four day break? Well, it's not quite four day break but close enough. Yeah, no, it was great. It was good to rejuvenate a little bit and take some time off for the players and the coaches. Now here, we are back at it, and we're brought to you by Whitley Financial Advisers. Hopefully, hopefully you got some downtime in there
as well. I know you went to a Northwestern game with the kids, so that must have been fun for them too. Yeah, it was good. It's always good to kind of step back when you get a chance and take some time to spend with family. And what better way than to go to a Northwestern game and check the game out and playing Illinois. So it was fun. It was a good time. And and yes, so now we're all back at it and really deep into the New York Giants. All right, it's a long time away
from the last game. But you know, when you meet the media again tomorrow, you'll probably get a lot of questions about the trade game. We'll try just to do a little bit of it. Frame it a little bit, just frame what happened in twelve days, and well, this twelve day stretch potentially be remembered for a long time. Well I hope it is, because I I go back to UH several weeks ago where we discussed kind of what we were what we were challenged with with playing
those those three games in twelve days. And I don't necessarily know if the guys truly understood it at the time, but because they were so focused in on what game we were playing that week, and it was a tall, tall task, but they did a great job with it. I thought the coaches and everybody in the organization just really focused in on making sure that they did their job and they controlled what they could control, and inevitably
to come out with three division wins is huge. Now we hit the reset button and we rejuvenate, we get some rest both mentally and physically. That was a tough game in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day that that was not easy by any means. It's never easy to win on the road and with short rest, but we did that and so proud of proud of our guys. They understand that. And UH and now, like I said, you got a reset, come back in here ready to go, and that that's
going to be our next challenge. Clutch comes to mind. You talk about the plays that allowed you to survive that kind of workload in that particular situation in scenario on Thanksgiving, would you say that would be accurate for sure? Yeah.
And you know, everyone is obviously going to talk about the great interception pick six by Eddie Jackson, which inevitably ended up winning the game for US by seven points, But there was a lot a lot of other parts of the game that I thought, you know, guys made big plays, whether it was an Eddie Goldman in the trenches that made a play here they're stopping a run, or you know, chasing the running backs making plays for the touchdown passes, or a big third down conversion from
Chase to Tom Taylor Gabriel. And there was a lot of different places throughout that game, special teams, you know, making field goals, punts that we had. So it was a team win. You could feel it. After the game. Everyone felt that way, and they understood how big it was in Chase Daniel walking around proudly, not necessarily grinning from ear to ear, but just being Chase in control,
true veteran in every sense of the word. And I think it's the rare scenario just being around better than two decades that you know, people weren't wringing their hands about the backup quarterback having a startup big game. Yeah, not at all. Everyone knows who chases and how he handles business. And you know, myself being somebody that was with him in Kansas City as his position coach for three years, just knowing who he treats every game like
he's the starter. So as far as game planning, as far as how he handled practice, nothing changed for him. Now he was gonna, you know, have to take it on himself to once the game started to make sure that he was able to make the throws that he needed to make without having that practice time with the guys. And he did that. You know, early on he missed a couple throws here there. I don't think anybody was stressing him at all. They understood what the deal was.
But he made throws when he had to and everybody trusted in him. Is there What about his personality attracts you to him as a coach because you were with him. Aside from the obvious of what you've explained many many times, that he puts in the work like he's going to start. That should be the standard for every backup quarterback, and a lot of it is lip service. Sometimes with him it doesn't appear to be in any sense of imagination,
but what deeper about him. So with Chase, we talked about at the start of the year and we've continued to talk about the obsession and being obsessed. And here's a guy that you know, he's one of the first into building every single day, one of the one of the last to leave, and he just it's an obsession for him. He understands how important it is who whether it's the identification of linebackers or whether it's coverage, looks at the defense, gives you, whether what we're doing offensively,
and what his role is progression wise. But he takes it very seriously and he knows that with the lack of experience that he's had playing on a game day, that he can make up for that by knowing the ins and outs of the system and the ins and out of what he sees on defense. And that's why you're able to put a guy like Chase out there in these type of situations and win football games. Going back to college and I'm a big twelve guy being in Iowa, stay grab but to me, he was just rugged.
He was gritty, is that who he is. He's a he's very rugged, gritty. The one word that I always think of when I think a Chase is very competitive. You know, he does. He wants to compete in everything he does. And he doesn't care whether it's running the scout team or whether it's you know, when he's running with the first team, he does not care. He's competitive. And I love that about the quarterback position when you are competitive, and he definitely has that bleeds through you.
Guys kind of gravitate to him too, much like Mitch Drubisky in the same way. And again standard answer, you know for Mitch, wait and see. Yeah, probably haven't seen much of him lately, you know, given the time off and one. I know he's been in the building and so forth. But wait and see, and you feel good about Chase moving forward? Yeah, No matter who it is,
we feel like we're in a good position. And and you know, I think it was interring for Mitchell to stand on the sidelines and see some of how the game goes when you're when you get to see it from a coach's perspective, and so that was good for him. He's chomping out the bit to get out there. We'll take it day by day and see where he's at. Did you hear things back from him in that regard
that having a minute to step Yeah. Yeah, he talked to us and he said, you know, it is different, you know, and it was good for him to see that. And when after he sees it on the field. Um, and then when he sees it like us as coaches on the sideline, it clicks a little bit and you get to understand that. All right. We're with Matt Neggie, the Bears head coach, on The Bears Coaches Show Inside
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Joey app continues takes the snap. Here's the throwing excent to the house at the ten five into touched down after the second week in a row Eddie jacks into the house and up pick six six defensive touchdowns by your twenty eighteen Bears, Eddie Jackson quickly becoming the playmaker. I'm that defense. I decided on my own. He's now quick six Jackson. How about that quick six Jackson? You
like it? I do, Yeah, I like that. I'm sure there's something a little hipper with today's crowd, but quick six because here's why the last two games, first play out of a time out boom touchdowns are you know, you're boomed? I like to add after the game, by the way, that's going to be incorporated as well. There's so many great things happening with this team, and it's just the energy is almost as if it's it's it's it's not it's it's not being stopped, and it's just
it's it's just rolling. The snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and just everything around it. It's a fun. We talk about the time. The group's fun. Every little bit of it is fun. Yeah, it is, and that's what we want to be. That's who we are. The people and the players on this team want to have fun. They love they love dancing, they love being themselves and I think you're seeing that you make a good play, celebrate,
enjoy it now'll be smart about it. Come home back so we can kick the extra point if it's after the game, whatever it is, just have a good time. That's why we do what we do. And you know, coaches are putting players in great positions defensively, doing a great job offensively, the players are executing. It's just a lot of fun right now. All right, So more detail and Eddie Jackson, So today I wrote something. They do
something called Joni External. So if you take his last thirty nine games all the way back to college, he's got ten touchdowns, eight defensive touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns. You know, I can't just dismiss the college thing because that's when he showed what he's capable as a playmaker. That's an insane number at touchdowns when you're not an offensive player. Yeah no, that's a lot of touch thirty
nine games for number touchdowns, that's a lot. And and we like a lot of touchdowns from him, so let's keep that going. But he's very instinctual. He understands the game. He knows when when to anticipate the throws from the quarterback. Uh, you see him everywhere. He is literally, um all over the place. Uh. He's a risk taker, which is good. He knows, he's calculated, he knows when to take risks. And then I mentioned this the other day, but um,
he has great ball skills. And so when that ball's in the air, there's no oh, am I gonna catch it. You know, he's he's gonna catch the football. And it doesn't matter what type of catch it is. He's like a receiver back there. So the other part that's really good about seeing what Eddie does is once he makes the catch, he becomes that punt returner and he becomes a wide receiver and a good one. So Um, when you have all that, you put it all together, Uh
you're successful. You get you get touchdowns and even when you don't get touch sounds, you get the interceptions. It's always great for the team. I mean you go back, you know, embarrass history. Now again it's early in his career, but nobody has done it as early in his career. Sure, I mean you're talking about Charles Tillman had nine, Dick Buckets had one. You know, the secondary Mike Brown, you know these guys played a lot of games, so it
is something. It doesn't mean it's gonna happen every It could go into a draft froll we know in that regard. But more importantly, his play as a safety back there at the post and be able to come down to the box and bring down tight ends and running backs and watching the eyes of the court back now reading
the eyes all these things. Are you seeing him advance that aspect to forget about the playmaking aspect, just that the fundamental aspects of playing safety as well, because the same thing we're seeing a roque more and more every game,
you know, ironing out all those details. Yeah, you can see him, and I'm talking about Eddie Jackson here when when he's running around, he's making tackles all over the place, and you know, whether it's punching a ball out, making a tackle in the backfield on a blitz, deflecting a ball, he's also elevating the play of everybody around him. And I could see that since I've been here in training camp.
I can see him slowly grow into that leader. And he's not an overly extroverted personality, but but he has it in him and I think he just lets it happen when he needs to, He lets it happen with his play and he's really just taking advantage of all the good things that the front seven guys are doing. And if he needs to make a play in the back end, great, If he needs to be the eighth man in the box, he can do that as well. So he's versatile for vic to be able to move
around and do different things. And anytime you have that as a coach, it just allows you to It just opens up Pandoor's box, allows you do so many things. I've also maintained too that if you look at playoff caliber teams, especially once it moved deeper into the playoffs, there's a safety of that. We can go down the list for decades. And I'm not saying he's there yet, but a guy that, as you say, people gravitate to him and he's a natural intangible leader that way. Um,
he's headed in that direction for sure. I think every I mean you were with Eric Barry, Yeah, he explained to us what impact he had. Besides being a great player, there's the the extraneous stuff that goes into it. Well. So when you have a guy like Eddie back there in the back end. Um, what happens now, and I think you just said earlier is unfortunately sometimes people can start wanting to expect it all the time. And what
he's doing right now is is is rare. But that's good, you know, and so um for him to just continue to just keep playing and doing what he does, don't force anything, don't press I think that's the best part of all this is that he's just playing ball out there. Eric Barry was a great safety that we had in Kansas City and who's still there and and um, you know Eric what was a leader by example as well.
And so when you have these guys, these offenses now every single game we play, they have to know where thirty nine's at. And so when you have to worry about all these guys on defense, it makes it hard to gain plan for. And that's kind of what we're getting to right now. It started in Week one against Green Bay, and what's happened in it went for a few more weeks and it got stronger and stronger, and so it's really neat to see the consistency that we've had.
And I think Eddie will be the first to tell you that it's not just him. You know, there's so many different variables that go into this. You go back to that pick six and Khalil one of the very few times in that game where he wasn't doubled and had actually a clean rush to the quarterback. The reason why that ball came out so quick on a three step was because Khalil was getting ready to hit the quarterback, so he had to get the Stafford had to get the ball out. Well. When that's the case, you can
anticipate in jump routes, and that's what happened. No more of the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Maggie on News Wadio seven eighty and one oh five point night FM WBBM. I'll pistol formation fake at the Howard throwing Daniel right corner of the end zone. He's got calling for the touchdown and the Bears are backed in front. Teri Coon with a grab and Chase Daniel coupled on each side of the end zones. The Bears get the
win over the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. Made everybody enjoy their turkey and the fixings in their family a special day. Matt Neggie is here one more segment before the coach takes off, and then the offensive coordinator, Mark Helpers will join the program. We're brought to you by Whipley Financial Advisors, a proud part of the Chicago Bears. Here at P ANDC Studios at Hallis Hall. I believe Monday after the game or Friday after the game up here at Hollis Hall.
You said maybe it was after the game. I don't know. I wasn't able to come here on Friday, but your quote was, I'm starting to learn as a head coach with this team who we are and it's special, it really is. Can you expand upon that, because almost every week you say you're learning and maybe maybe you don't have it all down yet know what they are, what the Bears of twenty eighteen are, um, but you're getting there.
Just in more detail. What are you referring to for us UM week one tough loss against Screen bay Um adversity,
how to how to respond from that? And then we go ahead, we win a couple of games in a row, and then we lose a couple of games in a row, and then you and so just the different ways of of how we molded together into who we are and you know, maybe three weeks ago, four weeks ago, I told the guys, I said, you know, this is a point right now in the season where for a lot of teams it's it's gonna start going one way or the other, and it's up to us and this is
what we have ahead of us. And and so you don't know, And I couldn't have said that at that time, um, whether or not we were a special team. But to me and to our coaches and to our players, you could feel what's going on right now and is real. And so when when you when you feel that and you know it and you go through what we just went through, uh, now it's go time. And so they've earned the right and we've earned the right as a
team to be in this situation. And I think the most important thing for us right now is to um, continue to stay on the path with the horse blinders, the earmuffs, and don't listen to what anybody says about how good you are. No one cares, we don't care. We only care about winning this next game. And when you do that, you understand that you just continue to get better and better. And so there's still five games to go, but the only one we care about is New York and we're coming off a big, big win
in Detroit. And so when I said we were special, I was just really insinuating the fact that in so many different ways we've we've callused ourselves, we've we've turned into a team now that I think really believes in one another. We trust one another, and regardless of whether there's a bad play in the game, no one ever points fingers. If there's an interception, the defense steps up, if there's a if there's a big play by the opponent's offense, then then the offense comes back and strikes
right and works off of each other. And so that's kind of where we're at right now, and I like that we have a ways to go, without a doubt, but we're growing and that's where the special comes into play. You went to the playoffs four times in five years in Kansas City, thirteen through seventeen, so you really do
know kind of the formula of what to do. I'm sure you're forward thinking a little bit on how to handle these five games, because there no matter what about the blinders, and they are gonna get grilled on playoffs, playoffs, playoffs and we now have the seeds. We know if the season ended the day where the Bears would be what you know, that's gonna grow? How do you tamp that down? How do you? Or do you embrace it
a little bit? No, So what you do is you understand and that it's going to be out there, but you do everything in your power to just listen to what's going on in this building right now. And that's the message that we are sending to the team within these four walls at House Hall, and that that is the challenging part. That's the hard part, especially for a team that really hasn't been in this situation before. How
do you handle that? The one thing that they're going to understand here is that every game is going to be the most important game. So this coming week, everyone's going to talk about how big this game is it means the most, right then the following week, how big this game is it means, and then the next week it means even more. So really, when you start doing that, then you don't play as yourselves. And so we don't
need to change what we're doing. We just need to continue preparing each week as as we've been doing all year long, and that's my job to make sure that I handle that. And that's not just what the players, but with the coaches too, and how do we coach these guys, And so don't put too much pressure on yourselves. Just be you right, that's what we say, and just and play. And but prepare really hard, you know, Tuesday
through Saturday. Prepare so much to the point that when you get out there on the field, everything's slow and you've already played the game and now you can just have fun. And when you do that, um and you only worry about that one game, then you don't put a lot of pressure in yourself. It is interesting because we talked about this. I brought it up weeks ago because right around November or mid November, right around Thanksgiving, you in Kansas City, you in Philadelphia with Andy, you
guys ripped off of long winning streaks. You know why. Well, part of the part of the reason behind that is just again with with coach Reid's philosophy, is making sure that you just stay even killed the entire season. And as as simplistic as that sounds, it's hard to do. And when you have young guys, you have a bunch of rookies or you have guys that have been in the league for their first year. Here, they're already played, they've played a full season already, so mentally there they
start getting to the bottom of the tank. They start getting to the bottom of the tank. So we have to make sure that with our training staff, with our nutritionist, with everybody in this building, that we handle these guys the right way. So we need to give them rest, let them recuperate. So we want everybody to slightly be getting stronger as the season goes on, instead of what most teams do is they get weaker, and so when the most important time of the season comes, you're in
an empty tank, and we don't want that. So it's a unique process. But I was fortunate to learn through one of the greatest in coach read all right, get ready for the New York Giants off three and eight record in the first eleven games. We're out of time to talk about them. We'll catch you on Wednesday. Thank you so much, Mark Helfridge. Coming up next Book Bears Coaching Show with head coach Met Maggie and this hour
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to you by Whippleet Financial Advisors. Here with Mark Calfrich, the Bears offensive coordinator. That run is not insignificant when you got Matthew Stafford in a thirty some game winning comebacks in the NFL alm the road in his house on Thanksgiving. You know, I jumped the gun when I have fuller. I said that out of doing in Detroit, and I wasn't looking at the time, so I'm like, I started doing the math. Okay, this will be interesting. But that that was beautiful. It was huge and uh
a fitting way. You know you said ten yard run. It was hardest led and all day long in the rud game. And they do a great job. You know, go back to Carolina the week before we played him, and they, you know, really limited it. A great rushing attackt that Carolina has to I think it was fifty five yards and they went over to something the other yesterday. Yeah, and uh, that's a tough, tough defense in that building. Huge play by Kyle and and you know everybody knew
the scenario. You had to get it first down in the game and was a huge, huge, as you said, just leave no doubt in the game with the ball in our hands type of moment. And James Daniel gets a big thumbs up on that too, right, he does. Mike Pereira was against it, and we'll have to have to talk to Mike. Mike about that, but no, he uh, you know, could have could have finished his block a little bit better. And and there's again there's no issue of anything. But he uh did whatever he could to
make sure we got it done. I didn't hear said, So fill me in it for those of us that there may have been a question I legality of the end of that play. There's a couple of plays earlier in the game we might have a question on too.
All right, we went into detail just about who Chase Daniel is with Matt before you got here, But now just the difficulty if you could put in a perspective, I don't care if he's fifty fifteen year veteran with no live route, running half speed routes on a short week on the road, your third NFL started, your first time in November since college a decade ago, and you go out there and calmly, take care, and you throw sixteen completions in the first half, more than we've had
in any game, and seventy three percent conversion first down passing in the second half started elevate. You know, just if you could put it into context what he was honestly facing, well, it was a tall task. Number one just because of their defense and their front in particular. It wasn't a situation and you know, we're not necessarily built for that right now, Hey they's gotten pounded, and you know, righte our defense and get out of town
and try to steal one. You know, he in a lot of ways had to get us in the right situation, had to make plays, which he did. And I think you could see by how how we game plan It wasn't. There was no you know, handcuff type oh my gosh, what if type of feeling at all. Uh. It was, Hey, we're gonna attack where we would normally attack, you know,
are you gonna do some things differently? Sure? Uh. But but he threw the ball pretty well, pretty you know, really well, not having any as you said, full speed reps, uh, beating up to to game time, but just hats off. I think the biggest thing of all, the biggest stat that of all is zero in the in the i
NT column. Uh you see, guys, I mean we saw him yesterday multiple times, the day before multiple times of just bad decisions with the ball and just poor you know, poor discipline and respect for the ball and chase chase you know, played that to the to the hill. Awesome. All right, We'll continue on with Mark Helfritch here on the Bears Coaches Show. The Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich and w bbm's Jeff Joey continues Cohen
to the right of Chase Daniel. Bunch set to the right. Daniel screens it right to Meddle wanted the throw. He throws it back to Chase. Daniel makes the catch stutter step inside the thirty five yard line. With the help of Cony white Air. He bangs down and tried the thirty in the Bears first down. But there is a purple file. Hanally faces defense. They'll check it on the goal, they'll check it on o't the war. All right, it
becomes a bigger play. But it was interesting to me that, you know, again, you guys just never just let alone traditional football. Chase Daniel hasn't played and he's throwing you getting catching passes. Rather. I loved it, um and it could have been a big play. It could have gone he could think he drew the face mask. Otherwise that would have been a very disappointing play. With kind of the Great Wall of China. We had out in front of it, and they had two defenders. Mark Helfrichard guest
here on the Bears Coaches Show. Uh, Tae Kwon Maizelle getting more opportunities. Why he's made plays. You know, he's a guy that that consistently has has shown up in practice and we're kind of looking around and going, wow, hey, you know, can can we figure a way to plug and play him in a few different instances? And he and Chase actually had the most chemistry. You know, when you look back at a guy that he actually has thrown to more, you know, more so than others at
least to this point. Uh was was smoke and but just no just play making ability in and he's multifaceted. He can play running back, he could play really every wide out position. Uh. And he's tough. Yeah, it gives you another one of those juice guys. Taylor Gabriel and her calling and those guys all were major factors in the offense. Uh. In that game, I think they had fourteen catches between the two of them, Gabriel Gabriel and
calling you're throwing them Mozille touchdown. Um. It keeps the defense, you know, on its heels. Spread out all over the place with that speed right exactly, and a guy that that you can hand the ball to throw the ball to in in various ways. That's that usually presents problems and and teams have have kind of used up how certainly when he and Tarka in the game at the same time. And then you couple that, like you said, with either a combination of whether it's a Rob or
Anthony or Taylor. Uh, you know, hopefully there's there's somebody that they can't can't cover. And you know you mentioned in the last segment about you know you're not the team right now, it's there, you know, just power up and get out of the field and be safe about it. I think the aggressive nature of Matt Nage and how you guys have put together the whole team, I don't think you guys are ever gonna want to do that.
You know, you want to push it. We don't. I mean, we're gonna certainly be smart about things, but we want to be aggressive. We want to be you know, calculated, we want to play. I think just from the mindset to excel, not let's not screw this up. You know, there's just a mind shift there that that some people have and with how good our defense is playing, you know, there's I certainly get you know sometimes people have brought that up, but that's just not how we're gonna operate.
We're gonna be smart, but we're gonna be an attack mode on the time. Uh. And and that does mean we're you know, running one hundred and twelve plays. It means we're going to be smarter about you know, deploying that from a tempo standpoint, time and possession, all those things. But we are always going to be on the front foot, which leads to another conversation about the running game, because yesterday in the league, the whole week, you know, the
running game numbers went through the roof. You know, on a granted December, we're knocking on December's door. The weather is going to change. The weather certainly changed here, uh last night. But um, I mean just team's just really piling up the rushing yards. Are we equipped to do that? Are we are we finding ways here? In this little time off, you guys had to try and correct that part of the of the game, of the offensive game. Well yes, and no, I mean that again to to
that's Detroit's strength. You know by far Detroit strength is defending the run. I'm talking more. Yeah, general, absolutely, and you know in the perimeter. Perimeter action is something that kind of opened up. But yeah, absolutely, we're trying to get better in a run game. We're trying to get better in the passing game. You know, we left a lot again, are you gonna say left lout of the bone?
You know what I'm just saying. That's one of the encouraging things is we're not done improving and never will be at any position, you know, in any phase. And the only thing that you know, the only thing we care about piling up is wins. And if we run a little bit more one game or throw a little bit more one game, doesn't matter how the offensive line I think sometimes gets overlooked by what they're doing. Um, nothing's going to be perfect, obviously, but are they not
getting enough do for what has happened here? Obviously a changing quarterback for this game, but just the stretch and the changes up front a little bit, having a young guy in there, a new guy in there, they've been holding their own. Yeah. Really, both you know, you look
at it. Both guard spots are new, you know, and I think Harry's done a great job in there of rotating those guys around so everybody has confidence with one another, and certainly with the with the quarterback back or the quarterback in them really is probably the most important part of that. But nobody's blinked. You know, we expect those
guys to go out and play great. They've protected well we can certainly again, you know, we had one one miscommunication in the in the in the passing game, and unfortunately that was the time that they didn't cover Anthony Miller, and so you know, it's one of those ones where it just it stings that that much more that we have a guy literally, you know, twenty twenty yards uncovered and we got a sack. Uh And so those things
again are you know, as competitors. They'll come back tomorrow and be the first ones to admit, hey, we should have done a B and C, and we'll try to coach him better and get him in a better position. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears News Radio seven eighty and one out five point nine FM w BBM. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. It's brought to you by a Whippley Financial Advisor, Jeff Jonnyac and Mark
Helfred spears Off. It's a coordinator. You can join me. It's out there and Luke Canellis for Bears Game Night Live, brought to you by IGS Energy or recap every Bears game Sunday Night's ten thirty five on Fox thirty two Chicago. Remaining moments, Let's just give a little look at the Giants because we don't have a whole heck of a lot of time, Just a quick sneak peak of their defense right now. Uh, you know, learn a lot about
them right now as we speak. A lot of new faces, a lot of new bodies on that side of the ball, and certainly a new scheme obviously with the new coaching staff. You know, we're hoping Kevin Gilbride would be a big source of information, but unfortunately guy, Yeah, that guys knew. That guys knew that Guy's a lot of undrafted guys
and everything. Yeah, very very similar schematically to the last three really opponents when you take really Buffalo, Detroit and Minnesota kind of you know, individually similar, similar structure, but then different pressures, different coverages. Is that is somewhat of a little bit of a benefit though definitely definitely familiarity
of scheme will will carry over a ton. Now there's different indicators, different tells of hey, this pressure is coming versus this team versus the other, and so some of that's good. Some of that is, you know, unique to them. One real quick thing as a great college coach that you were, are these numbers out of control? Seventy point games? I don't. I don't know that. I love it, that was I see. I love college. I love the college overtime. But that's probably why why will never happen? Right? Is
the seven overtime deal? Yeah? Basketball? Basketball game broke up in a little boxing match afterward. Apparently I didn't see it, Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, but it's it's crazy what's going on, and I don't know, we don't have time to get into it. But it almost feels sometimes like seven on seven football and nobody's playing defense. I know that's not true, but holy smokes. Great to talk to you is always good luck this week, Congratulations on what's been going on
so far, Appreciate it. Go bearts. That's right, Mark, Helfreg Bears offensive coordinator. We get the Bears and Giants from New York nine am pre game at a neon kickoff. Be sure you're listening for Dan Barelli, Jim Goodis and Andy Gerscher, Coach Naggie and coach Alford, time Jeff Joniac. Have a great night, everybody. We'll talk to you next time.