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news Radio one oh five nine w BBM. A wonderful Chicago style. I gotta say Chicago style. Season opening victory at Saggy Soldier Field yesterday met a nineteen ten over the visiting Niners. How did it feel in good evening?

To you? It was it was great. You know, I've really enjoyed the moment, you know, after the game with the players, just you know, reflecting on out how hard they worked during the course of the week and how they performed during the game, and you know, it's a gritty performance and the guys just pulled tighter and tighter

together as as the game went on. So and you know, it's a credit to the coaches and their preparation during the course of the week, and also you know their halftime adjustments, what they what they did and adjusted to the weather and adjusted to what we were seeing on the field. So just the hats off to the whole group. Yeah, Justin Fields remarked after the game in an interview. I so, I said, it felt like he was in a movie.

I don't know if you've talked to him about this, but I could picture, you know, one of those football movies from high school and it's muddy and it's raining and whatnot. But the torrential rain of the fourth quarter certainly set that scene. But he played the part very well in that movie, didn't he, Yes, he did. He's a he's a special guy, you know, and uh, you

could see he was. He was just unbelievable with him, you know, being able to extend plays and create things on his own when things break down, and uh, it was fun to watch. Also, you know the end of game, they slipping, slide whatever, however you want to describe it. A backyard kids having fun, but adult kids doing it this in this case. But that's a forever moment. Because I don't know if you've seen the still shot photos of it, they're plastered everywhere. That moment's never going away

for you either your staff. That is a snapshot for their rest of their lives. Yeah, you know those things, those moments are just spontaneous. They this happened, you know, it's out of pure joy for winning the football game and in the elements and how fun it was for everybody to take part of that, and they just did it, and they all just said, Hey, we're gonna go do a slipping slide. It was fun to watch. And boy, Justin's was perfect. Man, you're talking about he was spread eagle, perfect,

sliding all the way in there. Yes, a performer for sure. Well, the performance included nineteen non answered points in that second half, two touchdown passes, you had the Cutel Herbert touchdown run and Eddie Jackson interception that was awful big too, and a big shared third down sack by Roquan and Dominique Robinson. Those are the headlines. There's hidden highlights along the way, But just put all that into context for us and then maybe throw us some hidden highlights in that game

that we maybe not focusing on after you watch the tape. Yeah, I mean, you know I told the players in the night before that you know it's going to come down to six or seven plays, and those are the plays you just described. That were the plays you know that we talked about the night before. But you also have to perform in the plays to the other plays, and you never know when those six or seven plays are gonna come. You don't know if it's going to be

played one. It could be play seventy two, could be played forty two. That's why the cycle of the snap in our foundation is so important that we play you know, full speed, you know, aggressive smart football every single play and then good things happened. And that's what happened there.

And really, just to answer your second part of the question, highlighted that would be when Dante Pettis caught that football across the field, you had EQ come all the way across the field to block for the touchdown, you know, and Dante set it up and EQ came all the way over and made that final block and there it was. But that just goes about, you know, our principles of how you hustle and play with great intensity, and he

certainly showed that on that play. Yeah, we're gonna talk about EQ even later in the show on his touchdown catchup. That was my favorite design play of the game. We'll get into that leader in the show. It was an upset in the Vegas world. Of course, you don't live in that world. The players and coaches don't live in that world. This belief in each other I think has grown maybe quicker than most, maybe even the players feeling that.

Even a comment made I think it was Tevin Jenkins actually after the game said everything coach Eberflus has been telling us is coming true. Well, you know, it's when the guys work hard together, you know, and put something out there, which they did, you know, all the last last seven months in training camp. They've always done, you know, put everything out there, done everything we've asked them to do.

And there's a bond that happens there. And that's what you're seeing, you know, and guys hell do a standard. They're starting to hold themselves to our standard. And that's the reflection of the game. The other day, You've indicated that it takes a long time to watch tape the way you guys grade the tape at this point, because I don't know how you operate every single day during the regular season. So how many times have you watched it? Have you watched it once or do you go back?

How many times do you go back through it? And how long does it take? It takes a while because you know what I watched the tape. It's it's one hundred and fifty six plays, so I got I watched continuous, so I'll start with it's the way the game goes, so the the kicking, and then offense, then hunt and then defense. And I watched it all the way through so I can get the flow of the game, just for more of a game management style to watch it that way. But on every play, I'm watching effort, you know,

I'm watching the intensity. I'm watching how we're how we're taking care of the ball, and how we're you know, really take you getting after the football on defense and then if we're playing smart, you know, in terms of being aggressive and being smart. So it takes a while, you know. I got in here this morning at around six, started watching the tape and I was done around ten ten thirty, So it took me a while to watch it.

But that's what we're here to do. Yeah, we're here to have the standards and we're here to make sure we don't walk by a mistake and make sure that we're grading the guys the right way so they can get the feedback they need to get better. All right, let's get into some of what happened yesterday. Let's tide the running game because there was a commitment. Certainly the weather contributed to that. Thirty seven. We love that here in Chicago. The ninety nine yards also is significant. It's

it's it's it's a good number. It's a hundred, it's almost one hundred yards. It's not what you want yards per carry. But in these conditions and the commitment to it, would you say it was a successful day. Yeah, And I think that the weather dictator that you know, on both sides of the ball. We you know, both teams run the ball at the same amount of times, you know, so it's, uh, you know, a commitment that you have to have when the weather's like that, and you got

to be able to be good at it. You know, you got to be good stopping the run and running the ball. And we certainly need to improve on both sides, both sides of the ball in that regard. We're going to really work hard on that this week. Five first downs by penalty. Now, the commitment of the committed penalties were San Francisco, twelve of them for ninety nine yards. Also, but your players and how they're using their technique and

how they're performing also contribute to drawing those penalties. So I would imagine that's a huge win for you. Yeah, I mean, penalties are always a big part of it. That's not beating yourself, you know, and you can play inside the whistle, you know, make sure you know snapped the whistle and play aggressive style and still get your job done. And we're always talking about that. We had the officials in for training camp a lot of times.

We've played our guys a lot in preseason for that reason, and we want to play clean football, and it showed on Sunday the Bears Coaches Show with Mattie Buflus and w BBMS Jeff joni I continued, there's the snap at out of readoption. It gives left to Samuel, he bounces inside, he follow the football, Bears have taken it away and

under his arm. Jaquan Brisker the safety horse bumble. Jalen Johnson recovered by brisk Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus here until eight o'clock tonight as we get ready for the Green Bay Packers. Later in the show, first defensive series and why don't you know it a forced fumble to stop the drive in the red zone, Jalen Johnson pulling up peanut punch and Charles Timlan was there yesterday as one of the

honorary captains enjoying the show. Had to make him happy to see that in the recovery by Jaquan Brisker. It's what you've been preaching, and you'll preaching till the cows come home, right, Yeah, it was. It was a good play. You know, we were in a shell coverage there, and you know, Jaalen head force on the defense in terms of the run play and he and that reaching there and punching it out. And then Jaquan was the apex player, you know, playing the half part of the field and

he ended up recovering it. And we have some good pursuit, you know, Roquan was pursuing the ball as well. We had some good pursuit inside out but it was a nice play. You know, it could there's a couple of things that could we could do a little bit better on that play, but uh, you know, we'll talk to the players about that details. But but we got the fumble recovery on that one, right, because in the end, that's truly what you care about is the finish. Yes, finish,

and that's what that's really goes to the coaches. You know, we and all of our drools, we have a start to every droll, We have a finished every droll. We make sure that guys finished the right way, and they certainly did that on that play. Does your Bears fandom go beyond the game? Enter to win a trip to the Super Bowl at NFL dot com, slash Fan of the Year or Chicago Bears dot com. This is the Bears Coaching Show on WBBM Jeff Joniac and coach Eberflus.

All right, let's take Eddie Jackson's diving interception in twenty six yard return. It was significant, but more than just for the impact of this game. For him as a person, it's been eating at him for a long time. That was his first one in thirty one games. He's only had two in the last forty seven. You know, he's

had some taken away or whatever. But the exuberance at which I saw with my own eyes and sat down with him last week for an interview we're gonna run later this week on Bears Game Day Live on Fox. It's just that he feels he's going to have the best year of his career. And it's because of the positions that you guys have designed to put him in. Yeah, and it's really you know him, he's really working his

tail off. He's really got himself in great shape. He looks fantastic, he looks fast, he's quick, and that's how he's been practicing. And he's put the work in, you know, in training camp all the way through, and he put himself in that position, and he has that confidence because of the work he puts out on the practice field. You know, in that particular play he ended up dropping in. He was a robber to that defense and they end up running an inside breaking route and he happened to

be right there. Read the quarterbacks. I stepped right in front of it, you know, popped up off the ground before he was touched and had a nice return of twenty six yards to the twenty one yard line, and we got to do a little bit better job blocking for him on that return. But we'll get with our players on that. But it was a nice job by him, all right, because I gave him that a moniker in his first two years of quick six Jackson, so he's always hunting for the end zone. Roal quant Smith, How

did he perform first time? It's first time you look at him and a regular season game as a week side linebacker and four three defense. Yeah, I think he did well. He did well for the first time coming out. There's a lot of action in there, and there's a

lot of plays to be made in that position. And he let our team in tackles and and you had that half a sack and did a nice job getting into some you know, defending the pass and um, you know, I think he's got a great opportunity at the end of the game if that's if it's not so wet, you know, because the ball was really high on that, I think he probably picks that. So he's gonna have his opportunities or that's a hot spot in our defense,

and he got the right guy there for us. Yeah, I was going to ask you, given a blue sky day, would that have been potentially a tip pass? The ball's probably heavy from the water, whatnot even to the secondary or by himself. Yeah, yeah, and he knows he can make that play, and he should have made the play. But he's definitely gonna be chomping at the bit to

get his first one here coming soon. You know, just just popped in my head because her lacker in the lovey version of this defense the mic down the pike something like that, is Morrow have that same kind of moniker the mic down the pike. He liked that turn I do. It's it is good And yeah, he will have some of that. And we change that up. We need we know who carries those guys down the vertical. We change that up as we go. But that's been

adjusted over the years. But certainly Marrow would have that job all right, others because I know this feeds feeds your desires is just getting your hands on the ball. So that to the nearest side, Kyler broke on a ball. Trevis Gipson just tipped the past. Could that have been

an interception if that pass hadn't been deflected? Yeah, as he broke on it quickly I think it still should be intercepted because, yeah, I think we have to have the ability to track the ball if it moves, because obviously we're gonna get some tip passes in there, and we have drolls that replicate that, and so he's worked on that in practice and we expect him to make

that play. All right, your corners, by my math, I don't know if you guys adjust what he is given in the post game statistics for defensive tackles and whatnot. You guys may have your own, but I counted up sixteen by the corners. The three corners Kendallville, Door and Jalen and Brisker, Gordon Johnson allwit tackles for loss. So a very active day. You're expecting these corners to be physical tacklers. Yeah, you know are saying, I'm sure this

will be a mike down the pike here. So there's no house guests, yes, in our defense, So that means that everybody tackles, you know, everybody runs. Everybody tackles in our defense, and that's including the corners, and we work on it every single Wednesday, every Thursday, and that's an important piece to our success. Now, more of the Bears Coaches Show featuring Mattie Berflues on Chicongo's news trafficking weather

Station one oh five nine w BBMS. That back stunt picked up up front, Eric Darmstead being shoved out of the way, circling out of it, pivoting to set up a throw wide open nearside pass this cut, there's Pettis to the twenty, to the fifteen, to the ten, to the end, Joe Wow, justin fields to wide open Don Pettis and fires a fifty one yard touching run touchdown, backyard ed lived football with Fields using his legs to buy time scanning the field, comes all the way back

to the near side to find an uncovered Dante Pettis. Your big highlight of fifty one yard touchdown and as Coachiberflus mentioned earlier in the show, at terrific black by Equimenia Saint Brown, that's a sweet six right there and a fire starter free football team. Yeah, it really was.

It was a momentum shifter for sure, And what great vision by Justin Nabie able to get out of the pocket there and create that space for himself and then to have a vision to see all the way across the field to a wide open Dante Pettas, and like we said, Eq did a great job of coming across the field and making that touchdown block and that was really exciting. In the setup by Dante to veer back inside to buy himself a little more space to get to the near pylon. That was also a nice job

on his run. How did you evaluate how Justin handled the defensive front of the forty nine ers, the read options, those type of things. Yeah, he did a really good job. That's a great front. I mean, you got Bosa Armstead, can Law, there's some really good guy, you know, Werner. In the terms of the linebacker, that's one of the some of the you know, I would say probably the top one of the top five defenses fronts and football.

So I thought our guys did well. Certainly in the second half we did a lot better, you know, the keepers and all that really is. You know, that's a threat that he has. He's able to do that with his feet and you can certainly see feel his speed on the field. There a lot of times him taking up grass and him doing a great job and get into the sideline and protected himself. I don't have all

the quotes in front of me. But I read an article in the Athletic Steve Young to the San Francisco reporters out there talking about how, you know, he's a mobile quarterback and all he wanted to do was run at first first look, and they didn't see it. Boom, He's gonna go. And the great Sid Gilman actually took him aside in the USFL and tied his feet together so that he would force himself to throw from the

pocket and and and throw guys open. And that changed his whole career because he did struggle in Tampa Bay when he first came in the league, and it was very attic back there, and you may recall some of these discussions, you know, over the course of your football life. But because it was brought up because of the two quarterbacks that were facing off, two guys that have to learn that, you know, the effectiveness of pulling the trigger

from the pocket. When that happened, he became a much better overall quarterback and then became even more dangerous with his legs. Do you find truth in that here? Moving forward? Oh? Yeah, I really believe that yesterday he made good decisions, you know, justin did a nice StEB of dropping back, going through his progression and then when he felt the rush, he escaped by using his feet. And that, to me is what you're supposed to do. You know, a lot of

quarterbacks don't have that option. You know, they don't have the option. They're in there and if guess what if it breaks down, they're they're in there, you know, and they get sacked and take the sack. So I thought he did a nice job of feeling that as the game went on, of when did use his feet and use him wisely and then stay out of harm's way, And he did that. Yeah, I was not even referring

just his performance yesterday, but bigger picture. They always say, you know, hey, until a quarterback can pull the trigger from the pocket and be a pocket passer first, you know that, that's when you know you got a really good question. I mean, I always looking at situational football. You know, when the quarterback operates, you know, in third down, two minute, you know, to win the game for you

that's when you're operating from the pocket. And that's what the greats have done over the course of the years. That's when I believe you think, you know, you know you have a good one. The crazy thing about yesterday to your top weapons, darn alimony and Cole commet to combine four targets I think in the game. But you know, eight different guys were throwing the football, but you only through, you know, at seventeen passes. So it's you can't evaluate that.

It is what it is, it's what dictated. Yeah, I mean it was the weather. I mean, you know it was it was tough for both teams to move the football and the weather dictated that. Yesterday, play of the offensive line, I mean, this was supposed to be the topic. How did they play? How did they do? What you said at a great front. Yeah, it was. You know, again they're playing at some some the best in football at some spots there, and uh, I thought they handled

it well. You know, they operated well as a group. They played together. The five out there played together really well during the course of the game. And again it's like every other position, we got lots of things to work on. We got to keep working, keep getting better with the coach, and we'll do that this week with

Chris Morgan. As promised to Bosa played both sides. I think he's first six or so we're on the on the right tackle and I think, I my MAT's not great, but I think thirty on one side and twenty five or twenty seven on the other right, So yeah, that's by design. Yeah, that's that's smart because you're trying to bring chips to them and you're trying to thump them on the outside a little bit to slow them down, bluff them, thump them and do those types of things.

They do that really to mix it up. So you can't pick a side, and I gotta throw your tight endsine there too, because you did have you know, two tight sometimes on that side dealing them with Bosa. How they perform, Yeah, they did well. They did well. I thought Ryan, you know, and Cole both did a nice job. They played physical and they did a nice shot at that point of attack, helping us out. The Bears Coaches

Show with Mattie Berflus. He's sponsored by for Rising Rivers and Miller Lite once again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff jonia I Formation under center Fields, takes and fakes with time lof stood out, safe crowd to the end zone, touchdown, touchdown Bears. He fettered it in there, beautif play at Puemenius crapped it in the end zone and a touchdown. Bears for the league. Great seats available to see your Chicago Bears this season at Soldier Field.

Get your tickets at Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets. Matt eberflews here on the Bears Coaches Show. Just heard Justin Ecumenius Saint Brown. I love this one. It was Justin could have easily thrown at the pringle. I would imagine it running the end zone, but perfect, perfect touch on the throw to Eq on the end zone. Break it down better than I just did, because that was my favorite play in terms of design. No, it was a really good play and it was a bunch set,

you know. So they got confused a little bit, I believe, with who was picking up who, and I think they just let Eq go, you know. Um, And I'm not quite sure if it was a Mats covers or a man cover. If it was a match coverage, it would be the corner that had to sink back and take that guy. And if it was man, they guy just got lost in the shuffle, the guy you know, standing over Eq. So you know, we looked at a couple of different ways and but there you go again. We're

justin the deep ball. I mean, he throws a just a fabulous deep ball and he put it right on the money and with a great catch, a great throw, great protection and all around a nice job by the offensive staff and the offense. The touch is important, you know.

You got to have different speeds on your pitches right right, you do, and yesterday it was harder to do that because you know, they had wind and rain at times and it was a soggy mess out there, you know, to throw that ball accurately like that, you know, was a beautiful throw. The wind definitely picked up over the course of the game, did it not, Yeah, it's sure did it came. It was coming from our backside, so it was really good left or right. I mean you

could feel that coming in the second half. You certainly had to adjust to that, but it was it was definitely blown to the second half. Our promo here for fans to get seats. They packed the place yesterday. You know, I just want to thank the fans, you know, for sticking it out there. Man. It was really coming down in the fourth court and I look up there and there's still full house and they're still screaming on third down. And that was my first really experience in the in

a game. You know, we played a preseason game there before. It's not like anything like the regular season. I just want to thank the fans because the education of those guys who win to be loud and they were awesome and I can't thank them enough. And we need that more. We're gonna get that more here, so we're excited about that. And it was it was fun. Yeah, they loved the elements. And you couldn't see this, I would imagine, but the

different areas of the stadium, there were waterfalls. It was coming down, so fans, you know, taking their shirts off and join the free shower. Yeah, Mother nature provided it added to the aesthetics of the moment earlier in the show. I wanted to circle back here and our remaining moments in this segment. The rookies made a lot of noise in this one, from Kyler to Brisker to Robinson and Braxton Jones, Jalen Jones on special teams and you got

to say, you know you're punter Trent and Gill. He had a big, big job here to put that ball down on the kicks and to deal with whatever was coming at him in the punk game. Yeah, we were so pleased with all the rookies. I mean, you know, Ryan Poles and his staff obviously did an awesome job of evaluating these guys not only for their athletic ability, but the maturity. Those guys are stepping there in an

NFL game and performing the way they did. They have to have, you know, maturity, you know, to their game as well as at the athletic ability to perform in an NFL game. So hats off to those guys. The coaches, you know, they're really preparing those guys and you know, making sure that the moment wasn't too big for him, and they soaked it all in and they performed, and all all those guys that are really nice job for us in that victory. Nice word they're soaked because it

could Yeah, because I'm going to the towel. Yeah, exactly what. I had never heard of it. Tom had never heard of it. Jay Hilgenberg and Jim schwantz Uh. You know, we were teasing him that, Yeah, sure you knew it. They they said they knew the rule. Explain it? Were you aware of it? I had never heard of this in my entire career. It's really a rule where, you know, designed for the snow. You're not supposed to take anything

out there. You can clear away, you know, anything like with your hand or your foot, but you can't take an object out there and clear it away. And that's just the rule that was put in a couple of years back. And the officials are really supposed to stop you from doing it to make sure you don't get the penalty. Said, oh, you can't do that, you know so, and then stop you from doing it. But I think by the time they looked over there, they were already

pat in the ground with the towel. They called the penalty, So right or wrong it was. It was a penalty that was called. We did it, we were It was a mistake by us, and we got to learn from it. The Bears Coaches Show with Mattie Broflus and w BBMS Jeff jony I continues. Two receivers left back up row more Man rush pressure coming, rapping him up and bringing

him down. Done goes done. Robinson, a rookie out of Miami Boile sacks Trey Lance at thirty eight, and that's a loss of seven at a mighty big one kickoff tailgating season with the league leading lineup at your local jewel asco get everything from chips and dips to wings and other things in one quick trip. Welcome back to the Bear's Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus.

We just heard Miami of Ohio rookie Dominique Robinson get his first NFL sack, he also said, and then he combined with Roquan on the second one against Trent Williams, who did not give up a sack last year, one of the all time greats and nine time consecutive pro bowler. But he said he picked up some tells, he told a report he picked up some tells on William's seven tackles on top of it. Yeah, he performed well. And you know we always we have our sayings that you know,

you know, defeat your man. You know that's gonna be win. It's basically win y're one on one matchups. You know, he studied and did a great job with that. And that sack that he had with Roquan really was a deep set, you know by the tackle, and he did a great job what we call level rushing, meaning that he gets to the level of the quarterback. Straw, now the quarterbacks inside rather than just running around and the tackle push you by. You now level back inside, and

that's what he did. He level back inside and made that sack. And it was a really smart rush by him. And on the one against McGlinchey, winning with his hand fighting knock those away cut across his face, boom to the quarter. Yeah, that one there was really nice because he sold the vertical move initially and he set out wide and then he was able to side scissor side swipe inside. Okay, make an inside move and then show obviously the strong hands that he has to be able

to get the quarterback down with one hand. Kylie Gordon's got a lot of responsibilities when when you're talking about Nicho, it's one of the key ones. How how did that go yesterday? It was good, It was good. You know, we end up you know, he end up making a lot of tackles. Um. You know, made a nice play on the screen against Samuel. That was a really nice play. Um. You know, wish he could have one play back on the one on the big box fade, you know, to

start the third quarter But he'll learn from that. You know. We got to play these rookies, you know, and they all perform really well, and they're going to have a mistake here and there, and it's just we got to learn from it, put it in our file and learn and grow every single week with these guys. What is the teaching point in that one? Was the forty one yard or did Juan jas his eyes? His eyes? You know,

he's got to have his eyes. We always say, you know, alignment assignment, key in the key part is where your eyes are and why are they there? So we just got to do a great job with our eyes in that particular play overall, and I didn't know this until this morning. To be honest, I didn't study Trey Lance's numbers, but I was keenly interested how he was going to perform it. From a completion percentage point of view, Daniel throw the weather into it and forty six percent completion percentage.

That also speaks to the way you guys made it difficult for him and a fifty quarterback rating. Overall, a dangerous guy with his legs and a big, powerful arm, but there was some question about what his accuracy might be, especially in the short to intermediate game. Yeah, I mean, I think are really are starts with our front, you know, so we always say Russian cover, cover and rush and uh it goes hand in hand, but it all starts with the h and I think our rushed to the

nice shaw. You know. Travis Smith's our d line coach. He's a disciple of Rod Marinelli, so he understands, you know, the rush lanes and how to rush, you know, opposite the center's slide. And we did a solid job in the first time getting pressure on the quarterback. Did the interior push make it difficult on him? At times? That pocket started to get really tight. He didn't know if he should eject or if he had room to eject. Yeah, I think it did. You know, it's four equals one

for us, so all four d lineman equals one. We got to be have a coordinated rush together. And those guys did a nice job yesterday A ward on the safety of the forty nine ers. I thought he played a heck of a game. It's hard to say his name at Telenoah. Yeah, Hufanga out of USC doesn't look like Troy Polamalu or anything, but he certainly plays with that kind of hair on fire mentality. It looks like he was getting played. Yeah, he's an aggressive player and

he's you know, he's played. He played well yesterday for sure, and he's an exciting guy to watch. Let's listen to what happened in the locker room after the game. What's their coach? How did that make you feel when your quarterback gave you a game ball? Game one to Ryan Poles as well. It was captured on tape. It's been all over social media today. It was a wonderful moment. Tell me how you feel about it. No, it was special.

It was it was you know, you get your first victory um as an NFL head coach, you know, and then you have your quarterback give you a game ball. That to me is special in front of the group, and it was an exciting time because we just got them celebrating the victory together. And that moment will last forever in my memory. And also the people in your life that mean a lot to you. One of them, Gary Pinkell, a former college coach. Uh, what did that mean to greet you off the sideline with a great,

big hug? It was great, It was It was fun to have him there. I had Coach Pinkell there for me. Rod Marinelli was there as well. Uh. Pat Gucardo, my head high school coach from Whitmer High School, was there, you know. And Tom am Stutts, who was also the head coach at Toledo, was my position coach. There. Had all four of those guys there in their families to the game, and it was just fat It was just so great to be able to see those guys before

and after the game. And I'll cherish that moment forever. All right, I look ahead to the Green Bay Packers. Our final segment coming up here on The Bears Coaches Show. The Bears Coaches Show continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears, shoicgo's news trafficking weather station one oh five nine w BBM. Snap to fields, handing off Herbert, blockers up front, pretty direction up into the end. Zode put a touchdown, touchdown Bears Collo Herbert nineteen ten. Good guys,

Calll Herbert rushing for the touchdown. A nice performance by the second year running back nine carries and forty five yards. Welcome back to The Bears Coaches Show. Our final segment with Coach Eberflus after the nineteen ten win over the forty nine ers, and moments will start to look at that team up north, the Green Bay Packers. Let's talk about Kleio. He's got some juice to him, Yeah, he does.

I really like his style. You know, he's got a really good lean to it, and he's got great cutability. He's got really good vision. And you saw it yesterday and you know the touchdown run was was there. You know, you saw the vision to be able to take it back door and cut it back and I told him when he got off the silence, it's a really good run, great vision, and he's always got his shoulders down, which is which is good for a runner. Winning is really

hard in this league, as you know. I don't need to tell you that, but it's a cliche that others, especially analysts and fans, they don't really want to hear that. They just want to win. But it's hard. It's hard, so but you have to enjoy it. You have to enjoy it when it happens. But it is quick, and I don't know what your philosophy or sayings aren't regarding that. I know it's probably a twenty four hour rule and

let's go. But but what is it and how do you frame it and how do you down build off this foundation brick, Yeah, no doubt, And we do have a twenty four hour rule. So we bring the players in after the game on Monday, so they're working on Monday. We have a team meeting at eleven and we review the game, good, batter indifferent. We pass out awards, game balls, all the things that you do when you win, and

then we say, hey, guys, it's twenty four hours. And the twenty four hour rule really for a couple of reasons is that as a player, you have to get yourself to a point for the game and it's going to be a lot higher than practice, so your intensity has to be so high for that. The twenty four hour rule is there for you to not look at your performance get better, but then it's also to decompress and come back down because you can't live your life

up at game level. The whole time game is games are games, right, So then we have to come back down, start looking at the opponent, the next opponent, and get our preparation on Wednesday, on Thursday, on Friday, and then we'll work into our forty eight hour preparation where we're getting ourselves back up to game time. So really I'm

talking about the psychle of the week. You know, we always talk about psycho of the snap, which you have to do during the game, but you have to have that rhythm of the week so you can get consistent play out of your performers. Do you take the same advice as I do? Zo take the same advice because you have to be up for the game. You got

to be laser focused. You got to be on point with what you're doing with your calls, and then you have to be able to come back down twenty four hours later, start getting in preparation mode again starting on into Monday, into Tuesday, and all the way through the week. Were pleased with the entire operation. From a coaching perspective, headsets, play calling. There didn't seem to be any slow, not even with the circumstances. It was good. It was good.

You know, there's always things that we can improve on, maybe be a little bit quicker, a little bit smoother, and we certainly talked to the coaches about that, and I'm certainly trying to get better too. But overall, it was the first game was a good operation. It was smooth, guys were calling, we communicated very well, and we got what we needed to get done. Let's be clear to our audience as well, the same is true Monday Tuesday

until the injury report comes out on Wednesdays. We're not going to talk about injuries on this show during the season unless there's something you have to tell us about, something significant. But overall, did you come out of it pretty good? Yeah? Yeah, we came out of really good and we're the best you can come out, so we're excited about that. Let's now take a look at the Green Bay Packers. Time to look Ahead, brought to you by bet Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Bears.

Before they do that, though, because you mentioned it game balls, is that something you talk about publicly? Who did you give game balls too? Or is that something you keep it internally to justin fields? Defensive it was Eddie Jackson, it was Brisker and also Dominic Robinson on defense. And then it was a really good job by the entire group and those guys are deserving of it, and they had a heck of a game, all right. Green Bay had a rough time up in Minnesota. The Vikings a

very good football team as well. I really did a heck of a job and including Justin Jefferson, who is arguably the best skill position player in the division, just tore it up. They moved them all over the place. But overall, what did you see on tape quickly? I'm sure you didn't delve into it a deep, deep amount, But what's your view on the Packers right out of

the game. Yeah, I mean, it's you know, so you know, these are a week by week you know, it's can you certainly look at the week before for the style and the and the play and the formations they ran and all those things and what they were doing. But to me, it's it's one game at a time. And I know it's cliche, but we're gonna go up there Sunday night and it's gonna be our game versus them, you know, and that's that's what's gonna be. So last week's last week. Our game's done, their game's done, and

now we've got a new performance coming up. You love the history of this franchise, So the Packers are as big a story in this franchise as history as anything you'll ever find and it's a very heated rivalry. Will you use that to your advantage in helping set the tone for this week? Yeah, I mean I will use it to some degree. But to me, like I said after the games, to the players, it's all about us,

it really is. It's about how we're performing and what we're doing in the style we approached the game and play the game. So to me, that's the most important. And uh, I think when you frame it that way, keep keep you guys focused tight, and we're excited about getting this week going. I say, Aaron Rodgers, you say what I say. Good player. He's a good player, and he's been a good player in this league for a long time. He's won a lot of football games, and

we're excited about facing them this week. How many times have you faced Aaron Rodgers? Do you know? Because I didn't look it up, I want to say three, maybe four, A couple of times in Dallas then and twenty twenty we faced them when I was at Indianapolis. Okay, so you get a pretty good idea of what he's all about. But that running game is a great one two punch there, Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon. I suspect that will be a primary focus for your defense. Yeah, and it's really

just a primary focus for us. You know, we have to improve on that. Just like tod I said on the onset, the offense has got to do a really good job of running the ball more effectively, and defense has to do a better job of stopping it. And that's something we're going to be working on this week. Hard. What do you think of their defensive front, just like the forty nine ers last year, a team to finish in the top ten and points allowed and yards allowed. Yeah,

they have a strong front, they really do. And their front seven strong. You know, they know they're missing missing backer or two inside there yesterday, but you know, we'll see who's who's up and who's down. But it's gonna be a big challenge for our offense. All right. Well, good luck with your preparation and you made it through your first full Bears Coaches show. There you go. I appreciate it. Thank anymore to go. Thank you very much.

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