Eberflus: Consistency and execution | Coaches Show

doing fine. What'd you learn? What'd you learn? Well? You know, I had a team meeting this morning with the players and you know, really just talked about consistency of execution. You know, I think we're doing a lot of good things out there on the field, but we need to do it more consistently. And that was the main thing we're working to improve on, just the basics, you know, your alignment, your assignment and your technique. And that's what

came out of the film for us. And really, I thought we did a nice job yesterday, you know, in special teams for sure, you know, obviously flipping the field and two kickoffs inside to twenty. We had that punt that was inside the four, and they operated well all day. Obviously, had the cause fumble on the punt that set us up for a field goal. And obviously we're all disappointed in the last play, of course, you know, if you can't take that back. But overall, we thought the special

teams played well. Execution of the offense, How did you feel about it? We did a nice job of getting the ball down the field. Mooney got started, which was awesome, and he threw that He threw that great bomb down the sideline, and I thought that was a great adjustment by Mooney to be able to lean into the guy and then come back to the football and create some space for himself. All right, we're gonna get into justin

later on of the program. I'm going to commit a whole segment to it, because that's everybody wants to talk about. But overall, though that that alone, that one play alone should mean significance to both players. I don't care what defense you're playing. Yeah, I think the chemistry for those guys is just starting to grow, you know, and it's been there in practice, you know, now we're starting to see it in the game. So I really think that's true.

All right, let's go to the defensive side of the ball. Gap responsibility contain. These are awards that popped up yesterday after watching. I'm sure you'll cover that here today. But the slight of hand by Daniel Jones, he's exceptional at it. Number one doesn't make any excuses obviously, but it is a difficult thing to deal with with Sae Kwon Barkley, just that two man game of what they did and how you guys defended it. Where are the preach points,

I guess for you. Yeah, we just we need to improve. I'm playing, you know, the boot keepers and don't know who's taking the second contain and who has that on every single play, you know, the three times that ran the play. We're in three different coverages, so it's different on each one, but we do have a guy that's assigned to them, and we have to do a better

job with executing there. And with that. Is that something that you can't necessarily fix swats going on at the time or do you need to get back in the locker room because it did change in the second half. Yeah, we again, we I think we needed to fix it faster. Yeah we can't. You know, you can have a play happened to you once, but you shouldn't have it happened to you two times? And we need to do a

better job there of adjusting. And certainly we made the adjustment at halftime and you know we didn't see it there. We ended up getting a sack on the second time they ran it and uh, you know in the second half. But got to do it better. The rub is I think people have asked me already, well, you know they want these guys flying off the line of scrimmage to get off's got to be critical, you know. And but you want that, but you also have to play responsibilities

and everybody's got to do their assignment right. This goes back to what you continuously say alignment, assignment and key execution. Yeah so yeah, so, but I mean that is you do want these guys flying off? Oh you do? Yeah, that's We're a penetrating defense. You know, we penetrate up front and our linebackers are downhill and that's how we play. That's our style. But there's certain you got to read

your keys. You know, your eyes have to be disciplined, you know, so when you get that boot key down, you have to shuffle down. As a defensive end, they'll be able to get up in their face. And it's the same thing with the linebackers. You know, you got to be able to read the flow of the lineman to be able to see that it's boot okay and then come out of that to be able to recontained. So we just have to improve on our eye discipline. Let's talk about the second half, because now four straight

games no touchdown, that's not something insignificant here. So again, if it's a bend, no break, if it's opportunistic activity, the proper tackle at the right time, a turnover, these things should continue to build confidence for that unit, especially

late in game. Second half. No, it's good. It's the guys did a nice job again yesterday and you know, we commend him for that, and uh, you know, it's more about us, you know, being consistent, you know, throughout the game, and we're working on that and the guys will get that this week. All right, let's tell you injuries you mentioned in your news conference, Cody White are gonna miss some time. I've known him since the day

he walked in here for seven years. The guy doesn't even like missing a single practice rep, let alone a game. So however long he's out, that's gonna be tough for a guy like oh, Cody. Cody is a great man, and he's the first guy that contacted me as a player when I got the job here, and you know, I always remember that had a chance to talk to him. He was the first Bear that I talked to in terms of the players. But he's a great first impression.

You know, he had ninety nine starts with only two miss games, and he is the apitity of what Chicago Bear toughness is. And we're certainly going to miss him here for a few weeks. And again we'll we'll make adjustments as we go, um, you know, through the course of the week and find our best five you know, inside there and go from there. Yeah. But the good news is, and I mean listening to what you're saying here,

it doesn't appear to be a season ending injury. No, it does not appear that to appear to be that way. That's good news right there. I talk about the offensive line in general, how I fared yesterday. Yeah, they were good in points. They were good in points. I thought we you know, gave up too much inside pressure. Um at times. You know, we just got to work on our fundamental and technique in there. We had they had some one on ones inside the We have to win

those matchups. Overall, they did a solid job of keeping the pocket at times, but again it's about consistency of execution. You know, when we get that, when we have time to throw the ball, we can ride the pocket, we can deliver it. You saw what we did yesterday. We had some good explosive passes, which is nice. Um. Overall, in terms of the run game, you know, obviously been running the ball at a really good clip. We ran it good yesterday, but again it's not up to our standards.

We want to run the ball a little bit better than that, and our guys got to come off the ball. Um. The runners got to finish the runs violently, and we saw some that yesterday, But it has to be more consistent. How you know, you got a three hundred and forty pounder in there, and those big guys are hard to move though, aren't they. Yeah, yeah, you have to move them with you know, sometimes their singles, sometimes there's doubles and and you know, we had some good production yesterday too.

All right, so let's let's break down that whole scenario at the end of the game, because you mentioned it already, Trent, and go with an absolutely superb punt. You get the long field, you get the punt, and what's going through your mind at this point forget forget about them off for the moment, but you're thinking to yourself, Okay, you know this is setting up ideally here. Yeah, that was that what was going through your head. Yeah, we had to make the decision there, you know. It was you know,

third and two and a half. We end up running it in there and didn't get any arts, so we decided to punt it, and we punted it and we rolled down to the four at three or four, so we had all three of our time outs available to us there. We banged one on the first one, bang one on the second down, and then you know, waste

minimal time. And then the third down we let go because we were going to have the two minute warning and then we were thinking we're gonna get the ball midfield with a one time out with two oh one was the number we had right there with first down, So we felt good about our chances at a score and have a two point conversion to tie it. And I think we've done a pretty good job from there. Patrick Scales on the ball, will send it back to Trenton. Gill Spot is good. Kick his up by Badgeley and

he's two for two. He nails it from twenty two, sixth place, seventy seven yard drive. Great seats available to see her Chicago Bears this season at Soldier Field. Get your tickets at Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets. Welcome back to the Bears Coach the show. Just heard one of four Michael Badgeley field goals. We talked about it a lot. You know, the guy came up in there through New Jersey, That's where he grew up and just nailed everything. He's only missed one inside of forty in

his career, so he pretty automatic. No, he's he's been good throughout his career. We had him in Indianapolis a couple of years back, and he did a real nice job for us when he was filling in there, and and what a pro you know, what a great young man he is, first of all, and he came through for us, you know, four to four and did a heck of a job. You know, I got to really say also say to Ryan Poles and his staff there, you know, with Cairo um, you know, having his personal situation,

you know, he ended up calling in some kickers. We worked him out, We were able to sign him, you know, Badley. So that was so so good by those guys. And really fourth, you know, thinking by Ryan and his staff. It's an underrated thing around league, that emergency list, and you gotta have connections and get things moving in the

right direction for something like that. We'll touch on Cairo in a second, but uh, and then just to trust your eyes in that moment during a workout, and and going with your gut right because and there's no time for introductions, and get him in, get him on the plane. You know, there's been some great career spawned from that. Robbie Gould here, who's you know, got on a plane to play Cleveland and he's still kicking. How is Cairo?

I think, Uh, everything sounds everything, everything's good. Kyle was back in the building. Everything looks up and up. And again I'll let him discuss his personal matter with everybody once he gets to the Metia here this week, but uh, yeah, everything looks great. And for emergency purposes, I wrote this down on my notes this morning. Would it be advantageous to have a second kicker on the practice squad. Is that if you really value somebody, it's it's more spots

down the practice squad. I know, I'd like to develop players and so forth, but situations like these, whatever might happen during a practice, somebody gets hurt, whatever, is that something that, Yeah, it would be a good idea. I think it could be. You know, I haven't discussed that yet with Ryan, but you know, I think it could be advantageous for sure. All right, let's talk about Cole

Commet the tight end screen loved it. I loved the screenplays. Obviously, they can take the start out of a pass rush pretty good. But a couple of those really can get a quarterback going too. Yeah, no doubt, they're really good. Those wide delay screens. You know, they're tough to defend, you know, once you know, because we got some athletic lineman that can get out there on the blocks, you know, to lead that way. And the lineman did a good job. You know, Cody did a nice job on that play.

You know, Tevin did a nice job on that play, you know, and you know Sam also, So you have to have the blockers in front of you, you know, and then the Titans really got to do good job of selling it. You got to really sell that protection piece to it before you flip, you know, and catch that pass. So he's been doing a nice job with that. Trevior Westcoe got a fair amount of snaps in this one. We don't know that much about him here, but he's been in the league for a while, had himself a

catch in this game as well. We can tell us more about what he's done. A good job. You know, he's coming late, you know, from you know, obviously after training camp, and uh, you know, he's been great, you know, doing a great job of picking up the offense, you know, and uh, we really are pleased to have him because

he's our hy blocker, you know. So Ryan's been out, he's been on the ball blocking that y spot and on that particular played did a nice job of getting his depth and really made a nice catch and Jake tongas with with one snap Ryan maybe on the mend here Ryan Griffin, Yeah, we hope. So he's day to day. We'll see where he is. Like a lot of guys, you know, demos that same way, he's a day to day guy. We'll see where he is and we'll go from there. All right, let's switch back to the running

game for a moment. Another good number in yards like you mentioned in the first segment, but hard to earn against the Giants, but seven hundred nine yards after four games, that's the most by the Bears since nineteen eighty eight. So again, for some reason, the league is putting up a lot of numbers around the league with rushing yards. We theorized on the team playing top there, and there's there's a lot of different reasons. But going back to the old blood of your nose type of running game

is not a bad idea. Say, you know when you need it right, yeah, yeah, you have to rely on a good running game, So open up the passing game. So I think that's something we're building. And the offensive line, you know, Chris Morgan and Luke gets you have done a great job of calling up these runs and coaching them up. You know, it's it's not as easy as it looks. You know, you have to block force the

right way. We got to change it when the defensive presents different looks and you have to have those things built in, and they do a wonderful job and I think gets you referred to it last week. You know, the cans from one side of the other, from one run play to the next, or you know, a pass play to a run play. And our quarterbacks had a great job doing that, you know, And that's not an easy job. And he's he's really a nice job. A note on a justin on his scrambles, and he's joked

about it in the past two even last season. His slides. Would you like them to begin sooner to avoid a pot or you know, sometimes it gets a little awkward and the risk of injuries. I think he's I think he does a good job of that. I think he does. You know, those defenders have to fly, you know, he slides, you know, because he's a quick he's a quick guy. Yeah, so he does it pretty quick, and those defenders just have to fly over top of him and can't hit him.

So the Giants lurking all around. Their safety is back deep. Corner's way off the ball. It's third and twenty. Field's gonna flick it. Passes caught Herbert forty five forty thirty five thirty in the first dive of the pairs, moves the scrum pile down there. The twenty seven of the

New York Giants. Well time perfectly blocked up fields to Herbert for twenty four yards on the screen on third down and a long way to go a kickoff tailgating season with a league leading lineup at your local jewel osco get everything from chips and tips, two wings and other things in one quick trip, Bears head coach Matt Eberflus, And we just heard the twenty four yards screen on third and twenty Time has a joke and the broadcast when it gets a certain number, we don't have plays

for that man, but you did on third and twenty. No, that was a good a good play callum there and obviously really good execution. You know. That was really a good way to flip the field. And we did a nice job there and those those things are always good to have. And I thought we had the right play call but also the right person. You know, Herbert's a strong runner south, he gets vertical right now, he gets

north right now, and he's got his pads down. And again, like I explained earlier on the Kolkamet screen, it takes everybody, you know, so you got receivers blocking down the field, you know, Saint Brown was blocking down their Pettis was blocking down there, a mirror was blocking the mirror yep, and Tevin Jenkins had not one, but two two different blocks, two big blocks on that one. You know, So the guy's got to get out in front of it and

did nice jobs. That was a great team effort. So aside from and whatever the scheme is, you know, whatever the decisions are. My Luke getsy when you guys put together the game plans. Can the screen become something that, hey, you know what's coming? You can't stop a type of thing that becomes a real weapon if it's run just so perfectly. Yeah, I think you have to have a number of screens because you have to change the looks and change who's getting the screens, and then change the

formations and the motions in front of them. So I think you can't be predictable. I think it's got to be a different look every time, which I think we've done a good job of that. How do defenses feel about defending screens? A lot of time deception angle that you know gets them going twenty a lot of times. What people do is they back up, you know, you get that front line at ten yards on a third

and twenty so you got space to block, guys. You know, the one thing you got to have is athletic lineman to be a block in space, and we have that with Herbert nineteen to seventy seven, now six point one yards to carry on his fifty two carries this year, and I love going into the history. So you know, it's Walter Payton and Gail Sayers the only other backs with better than six yards of carry with at least

fifty attempts to start a season. Peyton did it in nineteen seventy seven and Sayers did it in nineteen sixty eight. So that's some pretty rare company. I know, it's not a me sport. It's a regard right there for sure. But emphasizing the production though it's it's it's good stuff, No, it is, it is. And you know you have to build on things, you know that are positive, and that's

certainly a positive for us. And he's got a good downhill style, and he's got a good bounce out and a good cut back, and he's got his pads low and he reads those plays really nice, and you know he's got to continue to do that really press that line of scrimmage and read those things at the last moment. Also with reading with Justin facing a lot of eight man fronts right now, obviously with him and the backs that are doing so well and Giants play man. You

know they turned their back. Is that give him an immediate invitation to take that ball and go well? Yeah, I mean it More importantly, it opens up the passing game, you know when you get eight man box and a lot of times they were they were going zero yesterday, so we you know, we got a chance to take advantage of those things with those downfield throws, and we

got to continue to do that. And for the fans who are not exs and those crazy like we are, zero means zero means when they have nobody in the middle of the field, you know, so cover one with you they got one guy back and cover zero they have nobody back, So they got more guys on the line of scrimmage and their max pressuring and the zero blitz is they just bring the house. A lot of run blitz is yesterday, don't you think, Yeah, yeah, a lot of them. How do you think they responded to

those runblitz is good? Yeah? I thought we did a good job of pushing the pile and getting positive yards on most of them. A lot of stuff to build on offensively, and I know everybody wants it right now, and so there's a throw up your hands type of feeling at times. Well, can you tell folks about how hard it is to develop an offense, especially a new one with a lot of young players and a young quarterback. Yeah, I mean it starts from the beginning, you know, when

you put informations, motions, shifts, you know, run blocking. You know how we have a variance of runs. You know, we're not just an outside stretch team. We run other schemes. We got what we call gap schemes where they people actually poll sometimes garden tackle poll. Sometimes it's the guard. And then how we block force, you know, that's so important. You can see it visibly on tape. How we use

our receivers to block force. And there's the varying ways to do that based on the coverage shell, based on the front. Sometimes those guys are inserting inside the tight end to block inside there. So it's an important part. So there's it's all eleven of us doing the same thing at the same time, you know, and that's just the run game. And now you talk about the passing in the protections. You know the route depths, the you know the timing and the rhythm of the passing game.

So it's coming together and we saw improvement. We saw improvement yesterday on that on the rhythm and timing and getting the ball down the field to a couple of our players in certainly moving hacked. Just the language alone and understanding what the responsibilities are for all the other ten players for justin fields and know where they're going to be on any given play at any given adjustment and all that. So right then, job, he's done a great job with all the verbiage and you know calling

it it's day one, he's done a great job. When I we'll get in more into justin fields after another break, snapping to play fake fields with time looking parting deep downfield, going for money over the solder, got it inside the thirty yard line. Wow, what a catch. Beared it out, fly down the sideline left and that's a bomb of

fifty six yards and the Bears in business. Welcome back to the Bears Coach You Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus Bears will be getting ready for the Minnesota Vikings. Later in the program, we'll take a look at what Minnesota is doing, especially after their long visit to London. All right, let's talk Justin Fields. This is interesting. I saw this. One of the writers put it out there on Twitter. Justin Fields through week four this year, fifty

seven completion percentage, seventy point three quarterback rating. If you're into these numbers or whatever. In year two, Josh Allen through week four of his second year, fifty five percent completion percentage sixty eight point four. Same perspective is important here, would you say? Yeah? It is? It is. You know, we're building upon something, you know, and and it's one

step at a time, you know. So you know, we thought we took a step forward, you know, in that direction yesterday with the rhythm of timing getting the ball down the field. Um, you know. So I think that's an important piece to it. And you have to have perspective, you really do. You got to make sure you looking at the big picture, taking one step at a time and just moving and progressing as we go. And that throw we just heard from Justin Fields to Darnell Mooney,

I would call that a confidence throw. Would you I would too, you know, and I've said it all along. This guy can throw a deep ball, you know. And he put that one right on the money. And uh, like I said earlier in the segment, you know, Mooney did a nice step adjusting back into the defender and then sliding back outside to catch that ball in great concentration by him. And because of that, you know, everybody knows that he can throw a great deep ball. He

did at a house state. He's shrown it many times already in his short career. But there's a higher expectation than these kinds of throws too. There's a perception maybe that you guys are staying on the conservative side of this, but it's all with in the formulation of what you want to attack. And yeah, that's right. Can you tell

tell us more about No, that's right. You know you have to you know it's an old, old saying, but so you have to take what the defense gives you, you know, and if they're they're all open, they're tight, you know. Defending the run, we're gonna have to take some shots down the field, and we certainly did that, you know yesterday. You know, if they're playing soft, which you've played a couple of teams that have done that.

Then we need to take the underneath throws and be able to run the ball, which we've done you know when they give you that. So it's it's about winning the game, and it's also about developing our offense as we go. But part of developing our offense is putting a game plan together to win the game that we're playing, and that's going to change every week. How would you say you educate a quarterback on the window of opportunity on a throw like what's open and what's not? Yeah,

I would just say he's got to listen. You know, we've said it all along, but it's true. You got to listen to your feet. You know. The way your feet are is when the ball is supposed to be delivered, you know, and then if that's not open, then you had to have to hitch up one and then to deliver it then and then from there and then then the plays the clocks over. Now you got to take off and go. So he just got to listen to his feet. What do you not want infiltreating his mind?

At this point? Um, I just wanted to stay with the process. I know that's coach speak, but you really have to be in the moment. You have to stay with the process of him looking at the tape, getting better and improving, you know, coming in, you know, in the next couple of days, getting the game plan, getting the preview for it, and then working into Wednesday and having a great practice on Wednesday, and then that's all we can focus on right now. Coaches are results driven

from snap to snap. Do numbers or stats or things like that influence you in any way, shape or form, do you not? No? I think I think it's part of all. I take it all information, you know, so I look at all information in terms of stats and you know, from everywhere, and I think that's you can you can clean information from that, and I think it's important that you do that because now you can you can give that to the player and a positive you can give it to and how he's going to improve

and use all information um analytics. So when you first started coaching, that term probably didn't exist, right, No, it didn't. Uh, how do you feel about it? No? I think it's good. Like I said, I mean, you have to embrace it. You have to. You have to because because it's there. You know, it's there, and it's good, you know, it's really good. You can you can have you know, so much information given to you, you know, and you've got to have somebody that's there to break it down, you know,

because there's so much there. They have to put it on a one pager for you, you know. And then I think and you really do a good job of working through that with that, how you're going to operate in the game. You know, when are you gonna go for fourth downs? You know, when do you use your time outs? When you know, how is the guy operating? You know, in terms of the downfield throws or how

the runners are running yards after contact? Are we really getting what we say we're really knocking the pile forward or really really knocking it back. Um, So you can use those things and GPS, you can use it for the player's health, you know, we do a lot of

that during the course of the week. You know, we measure distances, you know, effort speeds, you know, because we try to get each player up to his max speed ninety percent of his max speed three times a week because that's supposed to help with injury, you know, And so we get that done. We're making sure the players know that. So that's just one example how we use it. Play action to the pocket flag flies, He's going deep down the field. Bendy Jackson, Hey be beautiful. Over the

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here tonight. Just heard the Eddie Jackson interception. Tremendous interception. Tell tell me how hard that was to intercept that pack Yeah, that's you know, the longer and further the ball goes, you know, you gotta track it longer and know certainly with the wind in there yesterday, it was

significant and that's it's made it even more special. So, um, what a great job by him covering all that space and tracking that ball all the way down there and catching it over his shoulder, looking at it all the way in. You know, it's too bad that we couldn't, you know, get that guy to peel off of him so we can get a nice return on that, you know, because we got the ball down there in a short field but backed up. But what a great job scouts

always taught, you know, can it? Can a guy track it not only as a receiver but as a defender. What are some of the key fundamentals of tracking deep passes. Yeah, I would just say it's concentration, It really is, you know, and then you got to really knowing the time you're jump. If you're going up with a receiver, you know, that's a big thing. When the time you're jumping, you got to practice it. You know, you got to throw the

ball down the field for these guys. And you know, we do a couple other things where we use these bags that have these arms on them and we throw the ball there and it gets tipped. That really works on your concentration too, to be able to track a ball once it's tipped. Because a lot of times, most of the time with a defensive back, you know, you have to get it, catch it outside the frame, you know. So you know, when you're a receiver, the quarterbacks put

it on your rame. Well, when you're a dB, a lot of times you catch it out of the frame. So we always want to throw the ball outside the frame of the body to make sure he has to reach for it and track it outside of the frame. Blitzed him a fair amount yesterday as well. He had some from the post into the box and that's something he's done in the past as well. How did that go in your opinion? It was good, It was good.

We thought he was in there good and ended up making some tackles at the line of scrimmains a couple maybe one behind the line of scrimmons I think or was in on one of those, but one of him he made a mistake, you know. He went in the A gap, you know, so he's supposed to go into B gap. That was one that ripped off, you know, in the second half, and he knows that we got to do a better job of making sure we're in

the right spot. Over on nine tackle day and some one on ones with sae Quon Barkley, I know coach Alan Williams mentioned the thick thighed player and he is. Those are steel belted right there. No, that's good and you know, and Eddie did a nice job, he really did. He played a solid game yesterday. I let's talking about the other safety, Jiquon Brisker. He had himself a sack nack Jones out of the game for a bit. He

didn't really he wasn't the same quarterback after that. But that had to be some kind of head spinning learning lesson though for rookies in this game. Defensively, yeah, it was. It was. There's certainly a lot of learning moments for all the rookies. You know, we're out there playing with think four right now, defensive lineman you know, two DB's three, two defensive backs. Yeah, so you know we're playing with

those guys, and those guys are improving. You know, they're getting better, but they also have learning moments, and they did yesterday. You know, I thought Jaquan had some really good hits. So yesterday, obviously the sack was a real nice play. I thought he had a nice pass breakup that was a really solid hit on the sideline. Um, they're late in the game, so he's getting better and improving as he as he continues to grow. Do you think his I mean we suggested it, you know when

he came out of Penn State. And when he's got that physicality to him, will he be in your opinion, a tone center at safety because of the kind of hits he can bring to the Yeah, that's what we want to throw into that. Yeah, we want a physical style and he certainly, you know, exudes that every time he steps onto the field and proves it every time. And uh, and we were excited about where he's going. We talk about Kyler Gordon a lot because we have

high expectations for him. And overall, what would you think of yesterday's Yeah, for him, it's yeah, it was good. It was good. Obviously we don't like the dpi you know, um on the sideline there, But that's again technique he's got. You know, he's a good technique on that particular play we got. We got to help him with that, you know, coach has got to help him with that. And he's going to get better. And in that situation, a lot of times when you're trailing player, you're doing so Yeah,

he got tangled up with him a little bit. They're gonna throw the flag on that, But that seemingly something that happens quite a bit. Now, Yeah, that happens all the time, but it's always always happens at the line of scrimmage. You know what you do at the line of scrimmage, the first five yards for a defensive back is everything, and then obviously at the catch point and having ployees through all the way through the down. So um,

we'll get better at times. You we mentioned early in the confidence you have in the development of the special team's unit, and there's a lot of young players on that unit getting great opportunities. Josh Blackwell, let's find out what he's all about. Who he is. He's out of duke, undrafted rook That's a big hit right there. I thought for a moment Jalen Jones had recovered the fumble in here, he recovered his own fumble. Yeah, we got two rookies out there as the gunners, and those guys they are

both fast, you know, so there'll be a gunner. You have to be fast, and those guys are that. And he was physical you know on that play. Did nice to about putting himself in there, put his pads on the ball and then it squirted over to Jalen Jones and then ended up popping out of there. But he ended up second effort, you know, the hustle principle. Really nice by Blackwall to jump on the ball there and

get a great field position for our football team. And with a guy like that, what he's being taught, can some of that be translatable to the to the defense at some point down sure. Yeah, we've been working him in at nicol We've been working him on the outside. So he's been working, you know, really hard um to get on the field. So we're we'll continue to look at that. Daniel Jones and a quarterback takes fakes and this time the Bears are not fulled waiting for him.

Jack Kwon Brisker finally back to the thirty five yard line and Jones comes up limping. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. We just heard Jikwan Briskers sack. We mentioned it a little bit in segment number five. Break it down one more time, Jiquan. Yeah, so that's a that's a tight end pressure for us, you know, so coming off the tight inside and you know, it's really he has to do a good job of feeling the

quarterback goal away. So as he comes off the edge, he has to take three hard steps down the line of scrimmage. Okay, go through the mesh point, which is where they go with the halfback, and if he comes out with the ball, then he gets flatten, comes up and that's what he did, and he made a nice sack on that play and did a real nice job of body control. Okay, at the very end of that you know, to be able to make that tackle, sometimes you want to go ahead and just you know, hit.

They got really hard and signs you missed that tackle. So I thought he did a nice job of gathering himself to make the secure tackle at the very end of that play. I please don't bite my head off on this one. So outside contain not just I'm not talking about Brisker specifically, but anybody. Is it as simple as just hold your ground and don't get sucked in? And is it always? Should there always be outside, especially now with the RPO thing going and you're going to

see more of it this year. Yeah, I mean, you always want to be able to contain the quarterback in the pocket. You know, we need to do a better job of that. You know, Tyrod Taylor got out one time, you know, we would inside charged by ninety four, you know, and then we need to do a bad job with containment there. But you always want to have it the

quarterback contained. Obviously in run defense, you always want to have containment, and it's that's the player that's outside in on the football and there's always one guy at least responsible for that, and we have to do a good job with that. Overall, it's gonna take many different ways to win games. There's no there's no formula that's going to be absolutely operational. Everything you have, you have goals

you want to set for each each phase. I'm sure you know certain you mentioned it a few times already. Hey you want to hold you know, I think what was yesterday you wanted to hold, say Quan to how much you carry under three into threes? Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, so you said all those. But they want a game with minimal passing yard yesterday, Right, they're down receivers, they use their tight end in fullback. They've been doing that

quite a bit, you know. Just a little bit goes a long way, is my point, right, And you could as a team feel the same way right from your perspective. I mean, there's you know, these like I said yesterday, these games are you know, they're small margins in these games, you know, and you know you have to do things right, you know, and they always come down to six or seven plays. You know, in those six and seven plays.

You know, you know, like two weeks ago, we made those plays at the end of the game to win the game. You know, we got to continue to do that. You know, they always come down to that many plays and you got to make those impactful plays when they count. I think fourteen games sided by a score, right, an NFL record again this week, yep. I mean it's crazy. I know why it's all happening right now, this season,

all these first times. Yeah, I think it's started with the playoffs, right, you know, Yeah, it's working into the regular season, and I think it's set up that way. You know, it's just started to come down into the last two minutes of the game. So it's not just early season teams trying to figure themselves out, getting adjusted ten new coaches. I mean, is that part of it or is this how twenty twenty two may roll. I don't know. It looks like it's patterning that way. It

looks like a pattern to me. So we'll see, as a coach that has built his career on defense, is that up your alley? Then? Um, you know, hey, you gotta play what it is. You know, you got to play the ball where it lies and uh and see where we go. But we're certainly uh, you know, the first part of the season's been that way, all right. I got a touch on this because the five of the first seven drives I believe deep into Giants territory over three in the red zone. So you got deep

on those. Even if one or two of those come home, there's a different story here. It changes the complexion of the game. You put more pressure on opposition. That's going to be critical here that red Just simple execution here and there will make a big difference. Yeah, I mean you, like you said, you turn one of those into a touchdown, you know, or two, you know, and then that's a different ball game, you know. So you know, it's it's important that we execute not only on third down because

that's what it points to. Hey if we would have converted those third downs, but hey, on first and down, you know, you can score on those plays. Too, So, um, you know, we have to be aggressive, which we are and we're going to continue to do that all right now, time to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Bears Minnesota Vikings. What a game that was. I'm sure you popped on some of it, but uh sixty yard field goal attempts

and sixty one yard or banks twice. It's a crazy, crazy game this NFL right now, but a well harder and win by Minnesota Vikings, a division opponent three and one, and a lot of weapons that come to mind right out of the gate. Yeah, I mean, they have a lot of weapons on offense, of course, you know, and there's you know, certainly two backs that they're going to use are really good obviously, the two receivers they have are really good, you know, so in the quarterbacks a

really good player too. You know, they got players all across the board, and it's going to be a big challenge for us for our defense this week. And then on their defense they have, you know, obviously, the two outside rushers are really good players, good solid players. Inside their middle linebackers, you know, one of the best in football, you know, so they got a lot of good players on our team. They got a good roster, and it's gonna be a handful for our football team to go

up there and take care of business. It's interesting because you didn't name any of the players, but everybody knows who they are. Yeah, and we're talking Kirk Cousins, Dalvin Cook, Alexander Madison and Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson. Tell us what this guy's all about. They're moving him all over the place. Matchup nightmare. Yeah, he's he's obviously one of the best

in the business and he's proven that. And uh, we certainly got our hands full with him, and we're gonna have to do It's gonna be all eleven of us to take care of him in that offense. What is his What make what separates him right now? Do you think? Well? I just think explosive athletic ability. He's so explosive and he has the ability to go get the ball. And he's strong, you know, he's he's a strong player too, you know, strong through the catch and strong through the

whole route. And defensively, you mentioned the middle linebacker and Kendricks, but I always go to Harrison Smith. I'm a big safety guy. I love how he plays the game. He's steady and always a dangerous guy and on a blitz. I don't know if they're still doing that. I haven't watched their tape yet. Harrison's played for a long time. I've watched a lot of tape on him, and he

does it all. You know. He plays in the deep part, plays in the quarter, plays in the half, plays in the middle, and he's a heck of a blitzer and he does a great job with his disguises. So he's done it all through his career. And Zadarius Smith is playing with some fire and some vigoris feels. I think he's got a little hip on a shoulder for some reason. Outside pass rusher, and really they utilize him all over

the place. So three times where they put him over the ball and he's rushing in a gaps and the gaps in the knowing the first and second down, and they do a lot of things with him, and they should know they should get matchups where they want with that player. And Biggs, he's done a nice job, all right. Well, good luck in your week of preparation for the Minnesota Vikings. Thank you. Appreciate it. Maddy Refluce here on the Bears

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