Monsters of the Midway: Preparing for Eagles

will show out. Tom, you're the one that knows the answer to this question more than either two of us. What is the biggest difference going from the regular season to the playoffs in terms of intensity and also preparation. There is no concern about next week. You're only concerned about is getting prepared for this week, making sure that you understand the entirety of your game plan. There's nothing that can come up and create you to create a

mistake or second guest your preparation. But I think that's a unique thing about Matt Maggie throughout the entire season. When he goes to the podium after the game, it's only about improving to the next week. And I think that's the same message that they presented this week. They are the Philadelphia Eagles, but we have to be a better football team than then. We played the Minnesota Vikings

last week. We've both been around here for a long time and learning you two, I think that this is the best coaching job I've seen in terms of a coach taking a team and getting them to focus solely on the task at hand, not worrying about the outside noise, what other people are saying good or bad, as well as also not looking back. They learned from their mistakes.

They learned from the Packers last week one. It was very difficult loss, but they focused on the task at hand and they rebound and they show resiliency throughout the season. You know, again, Matt Naggie always said, this is not a one man show when you're talking about the talent of the football team. I think the entire coaching staff

has done an unbelievable job. And we saw that, you know, early in the preseason, the starters weren't getting a lot of reps, so the backups were getting reps and they looked really good doing it. And then throughout the year when someone had to come in because of an injury, They've always showed up ready and prepared mentally and physically to play. I mean, it's just crazy. Three hundred and sixty five days ago, Matt Naggie was here. I mean, we had no idea that this is where we would

be fitting think about it. We went to training camp July nineteenth. I mean, it's been a long season and to be at this point, I mean, how exciting for the team and just the city of Chicago. Let me ask you, Larry and Lauren, what are the realistic expectations we all had when this football season started? And I don't think any of us are embarrassed to say, oh, if you were, if you were eight and eight and nine and seven, that would be a great turnaround and

the future really looks bright. And then all sudden, boy, a lot more confidence started to creep into all of us as Bears fans. And what were your expectations? You know, I think all of us just wanted the Bears to be relevant again after four straight last place finishes. I mean, Tom, all of us, you know, rewrite, we talk about the Bears. We do this all day. A lot of people out there. You know, they just go to the games and the weekends.

They're fans, but this is our lives. We do this every day, and we wanted the Bears to be relevant. We did not want to be talking about the draft on November first, or who was going to be fired. And you know, I do Q and A's with fans, and every question is when are they going to the coach? Who was going to replace them? And it's just been a pleasure this year. It's been so much fun for me and I know for both of you two to

have a successful season. And you're right, the expectations were not that high early in the season, and then even after the green Bay game, you know, here we go again. You know, they blew another one to Green Bay. But then the way they rebounded. They won three straight games, then they lose two in a row, and then they rebound again with five straight wins. They lose the Giants, they rebound again with four straight wins, and it quickly

became obvious to me it wasn't the same team. This wasn't the same attitude, This wasn't a here we go again type thing. And if you talk to a lot of the players now, none of them say, to their surprise, A lot of them say they looked at OTAs or training camp and they knew they were gonna have access a successful year. And they're telling me the truth. They really believed it. Right. Well, Lauren, you're around the head coach,

you're around the players. You have more, you know, much of a few time you don't remember I said twelve and four, that was exactly Well, then you know you're run of a few. But you know it's it's been great for us the whole football season. And just watch then, you know, the constant improvement of this football team. And they brought in a lot of new faces here, and you know, we also got introduced to how they were going to fit in to making this football team better.

Another thing too, that I also want to add, and I know we're gonna talk about the eighty five Bears and people love comparing the defenses and stuff, But to me, Matt Nage not only improve this team, but he brought fun back. And that the first thing I think about when I think of Bears football being fund was the eighty five team with the fridge and all the different characters.

And now the Bears have those type of characters. He's giving the ball the team hicks on the goal line on fourth down on the key play at the end of the game. It's the last play of the game. The Bears need a touchdown the force overtime. He has Tarik Cone throwing a pass. He has Nick Wikowski catching two point conversions. He has Bradley sal catching touchdown passes. I mean, what if you play for this team, they

probably send you out on a pass pattern. I mean it's incredible and that reminds me of the eighty five Bears in terms of the fun. Well, when you're an offensive lineman, you're blessed to be just an offensive lineman. You know, Bradley Sewell moves all over the place. We saw him at fullback, he him at tight end, you see him at offensive guard, offensive tackle, and he's a

really good long snapper. And I think that's one of the qualities that Matt Maggie has brought to this young group of athletes that he allows them to be themselves. He allows them to have fun. And I think that's the great thing is let your personality be your personality. Inside the locker room, there's a giant sign on the wall that we've all seen it, says be you. Matt's got that on his playsheet every week to remind him and a lot of the players I spoke would love

that about him. He said from day one. He came in here and he encouraged us to let us show a personalities, let us be ourselves, let us have fun. And they really respect Matt Naggie, but they love to have fun with him. And it's obviously translated into a great season that Laura obviously predicted. That's right, called it in July. You guys called it in July. And I mean just on the topic of Matt Nagie Coach of the Year. Oh, don't you know what, Shure, I'm biased.

I worked for the Bears. How do you not select him for his coach of the year. Everybody's talking about, you know, possibly Sean Payton or Anthony Lynne with the Chargers, and they both have done great jobs. That Matt Naggie took over a team last place four straight years. The Bears were four and twenty against their division opponents the last four years, and he won five out of six games that alone, I think earns Coach of the Year. NFC Champ's third seed in the playoffs. Call me crazy,

but how do you vote against them? You know, it'd be interesting to ask Matt Maggie this question because it would he vote for Andy Reid? Because you look at what Patrick Mahomes has been able to do with a similar style of offense. I think at all is it's opened us a picture to what Mitchell Trubisky could possibly be in a year or two in this offense. So when you talk about Coach of the Year candidates, I bet you if you asked Maddie'd probably point to Andy Reid.

And there's a lot of guys out there that are qualified, but no one, I mean, as Matt is as deserving as anybody. The chiefs of the Saints were both of the playoffs last year. Let's not forget that the Bears were irrelevant. The Bears were five and eleven, firing their coach. Nobody knew what was going on. They didn't know who was coming back. People had questions about the training, about Ryan Pace even returning, people had questions about Mitch Trubisky.

A year later, they're in the playoffs, They're the number three seed. Ryan Pace is probably going to be the executive of the year and Matt Naggie could be the Coach of the Year. So I think just that alone where they came from plays a role who gets the Coach of the Year awards. So that's why I think Matt deserves it well. And Eagles head coach Doug Peterson had great things, of course, to say about Coach Naggi today, and Coach Naggie gave us a little timbook Timbo that

Doug Peterson likes Vanilla Rainbows. Frankles, Yeah, I can add to that as well though, because our good buddy Dan Pompey here's a plug for it, who's writing the one hundred year book with Don Pearson for the Chicago Bears and did a book with Doug Peterson. He said that Doug Peterson's favorite ice cream is actually hoggindaes Vanilly has it for the night before every game. So there you go,

and I'm gonna plug real quick. If you guys have questions while you're listening out there on Facebook, YouTube, the Bears app, Chicago Bears dot com, make sure you guys are tweeting those are commenting on Facebook Live. We're going to get to some of those fan questions again. If you're just tuning in. This is Monsters in the Midway Live. We're happy to have you guys here and happy to be talking about the Bears playoff. And I have a question briefly about Tom Therap because Tom Thare a lot

of people right here. People don't realize that Tom Thare is the most interesting man in the world. Tom Thayre is the guy who's had dinner with Frank Sinatra. He has all these stories. It's incredible. Absolutely did. We'll talk about it later, but let me ask you this. Doug Peterson,

the head coach of the Eagles. Yes, Tom went to the Miami Dolphins for just a little bit after he played for the Bears, and Doug Peterson was your teammate, correct, And did you not play in the game where Sula broke the record against broke Don Shula broke George Pallas's record. It wasn't against the Eagles too. Against the Eagles, do Doug was playing quarterback? I was there for the Eagle

or for the Miami Dolphins. On the other side of the field was William Perry within an Eagles uniform because he got traded right at the same time. So for me it was more of an opportunity to sit in meetings led by Don Shula for a year learning more AFC passing type offense, and that was a great opportunity for me to go down there. But I also think if you look at the history of quarterbacks that Doug has been able to coach and play under. He's got

a wide variety of experiences himself. And so when you think of the combination between Matt and Maaggie and Doug Peterson, the two of them, they have so much in common, their their style of coaching, the way they think the game, because they're both ex quarterbacks, got it, It's gonna be one of the great story you know, uncontact battles of the game is Doug, It's gonna be really interesting. Now I know your brother in law was in the league.

He played offensive line too. I believe I'm wondering how Matt and Maaggie feels about going against this is like one of his closest friends. Would you rather go against a close friend or just haven't played another game and go against someone you don't know, Would you rather go against your brother? Because you think about Kyle Long and Chris Long, you think about two coaches that will never

touch each other. There's a you know, when you go through a game plan with Matt Naggie Collin and you're an offensive guard, there's a good chance that you could hit all eleven guys on the defense, or you know, they're scattered through your responsibilities. So when you get all eleven guys on single place, yeah, right, I remember I was there for him. I was a very young child watching. I'm just kidding thinking of Kyle, and they're two emotional

personalities of their team. And you know, I wouldn't want to go out there and have to hit my brother repeatedly. But if it, Kyle said in the locker room to I mean one word to describe it. He was anxious, anxious about, you know, having to do that, I think. And I also saw its Howie Long's birthday. His mom just isn't even gonna be able to watch, is what

he said. I remember when the Bears played the Rams, if I'm sure a lot of Bear friends remember, there was a fight in the game and Chris actually pulled Kyle off and saved him from being kicked out of the game. I wonder what will happen this week if that happens well, I mean, it is going to be an emotional game because if you go back and you look at the tape last year when they played the Philadelphia Eagles, Philly really was in control of that game

the whole time. This is an entirely different team that's going and to Soldier Field to play the Philadelphia Eagles this year. There's no similarities to the Bears on offense what they faced last year. But you know, that's kind of the uniqueness of it is Matt Maggie can probably help Vic Fangio and Doug Peterson can probably help Jim Schwartz in terms of how do you think offenses when you see the different formations out there. We're going to go to a fan question really quick. Um, first one,

is Eddie Jackson going to play this Sunday. I think it's gonna be hard to keep Eddie Jackson off the field. Fortunately, last week before the game, we got to see him running around on the field with the trainers and get coaches are getting an evaluation of where he's at seven days ago to where he will be in that in seven days from that, And to me, I think he's such a competitor. He knows he means so much of this football team. And you know, the guys that have

filled in for him ever really played well. Sheriff McManus and DeAndre Houston Carson, then Dion Bush. They have all played good, solid football. But Eddie understands what this game means. I don't think there's any way you're going to keep him out of it. I don't think that's the question. I think the question is how effective will he be out there? Because it is an ankle injury that's going to slow him a little bit possibly, so he will probably I imagine, play in the game, but is he

going to be affected by it? Is he going to be slower? And you know, with the Eagles see that he's not the same guy, they're going to try to attack him. But with that being said, I think the Bear secondary is way better than the Eagle secondary going into this game. And really, when you look at it, Tom, everybody talks about the defense and everything and about obviously

Roquan Smith and Kalo Mac made a big difference. But I remember talking to Vic Fangio before the offseason, everybody was asking about the draft and free agency and who the Bears were going to get. He just wait a second. The most important thing for this defense is the guys that are returning. They need to improve and keep developing. And he kept harping on those guys. And as we saw guys like we mentioned before with Eddie Jackson, but also Kyle Fuller tied for the league lead in interceptions

at Kem Hicks. Those are three guys from the defense from that have been here that are now taking that other step and all made the Pro Bowl. Well, not to want up you, but just to talk about a couple more candidates. If you look at what Leonard Floyd and Eddie Goldman have done the last five games, they're playing the best ball of their career. You know, Eddie Gott was rewarded with the new contract, and everybody knows what the obstacles at Leonard Floyda's face throughout the season.

But when you look at their improvement, not only we talked about the assistant coaches how much they've been able to help them, but how much they've gotten out of themselves and their improvement is almost immeasurable. How it filters do a Kem Hicks or how it goes down to Blile Nichols, or how it goes to Danny Trevathan from Rokuan and such. So those two guys also they got to be mentioned in the mix. And Danny Trevathan and Prince Semukamara, both two guys would have also been here before.

And they're making a lot plays this year and Princes taking the ball away like everybody in tom that's the biggest difference to me. The Bears last year were a top ten defense and they said their biggest thing this year was trying to be a number a top five defense. They made it at number three, but that doesn't really tell the whole story because this team took the ball away unlike any time ever before or the Bears. They had twenty seven interceptions after having eight each of the

last three years. That was the biggest difference, and that kind of reminded me the eighty five Bears too. They went out there thinking we're gonna take the ball away and we're going to score. Well, the funny thing about it, before the season ever started, Prince of Mukamara said he's going to set a goal to get ten interceptions throughout the season. And you think of the whole defensive back, the defensive backfield of defense as a whole have been able to triple that him out, So I go, boy,

that's high expectations for the defense to get ten. But he was saying it for himself. But I like the confidence that he kind of kicked off, because you know, you have one player with confidence that mentioned something about it, then it kind of trickles over to the next guy and the next guy's commitment and the next guy. So I think it was an important statement for Prince to make, but I like that they were able to capitalize on it. And the interesting thing to me, too, is that they

expect to make those plays now. When the game's on the line, the defense expects to either make a stop or take an interception away and end the game. And that's really refreshing. I think that's something they learned from the Green Bay game where it didn't happen and everybody thought, oh my god, this is going to ruin their season. But yet they learned from that and they've improved on that and they've done a great job. I think you're

as a former player, you can probably speak to this. Obviously, the confidence that they have now, they just feel like it's going to happen. I believe that they think they can make any quarterback look rush. They can take the vulnerabilities on the offensive line and take advantage of them.

There's receivers that they can match up with. But you know, they kind of got a little bit of a different monster coming in this weekend because Nick Folds is taken over, and I think he's better to run that system than Carson Wentz is. He's got a great relationship with Doug Peterson and the most pressure moments and they make the right calls and they have the right kind of communication together.

So everything the Bears have been able to do is you know, they got they leave a wake of teams behind them, but this is a this is a team they haven't seen yet this year. They're familiar with the system because of their head coach, but personnel, you need to see it on tape as much as you possibly can become familiar with your opponent by watching them on tape. I heard a lot of the same things though, before the Rams came in with Jared Goff and about how

they're high flying team. They're averaging thirty five points a game. Then the Bears defense completely shut them down, kept them from scoring a touchdown and fifteen to sixth Finals score, and really the Rams limped out of here not really knowing what hit them. Here's hoping. Obviously the same thing happens with the Eagles, but obviously their playoff tested going

to going to the Super Bowl and winning last year. Yeah, you know, the Philly had just has more success experience than what the Rams did up into this point or what the Bears have learned how to do up into this point, so they are a little bit more familiar with this playoff tempo that we talked about at the beginning of the show. As an eighty five bear, my friend, let me ask you this question. You had to say it like that too. He's been waiting. They are practicing

in the bathroom. I don't have to practice it, my friend. Um, you win the Super Bowl in eighty five, you have a really good season. In eighty six, the Eagles haven't had that good of a season. But was there any bit of a letdown or hey, we won, we reached the mountaintop. Was there any letdown? I know mcmannon got hurt in eighty six, but was there a letdown going into that season? Going through that season? Was it just not the same thing? No, there was not a letdown

because Dick didn't allow that. If he felt that you are uncommitted to what was required of you to get back to the super Bowl, you'd be cuts. It's a hard process of making this football team. And yet so many guys that were committed to the Bears, committed to winning that they gave everything in the offseason, and they gave everything during the season, and it was unfortunate that when when we got to the playoffs, so we weren't solid at the quarterback position. Tom, you mentioned Nick Foles.

I mean, coming up twenty five straight completions on Sunday, the Bears defense is obviously going to have their hands full. How can the Bears pass rush rattle Nick Foles? You know it just give him a limited amount of time to succeed because even when he scrambles, he does it kind of a lazy approach, but really confident of what he's looking for downfield. You can't let him have those lazy thinking moments. Everything's got to be rush, everything's got

to be scattered, everything's got to be instant. And you know it's it's weird because when you took you take the defense of last year, and the amount of time they would provide a quarterback to evaluate the downfield process. It's shrunk so dramatically this year that you don't have

any time if you're not ready to fire. When you're setting your feet, there's a chance that you're going to get hit, it's going to get deflected, the receivers are going to be covered, or the dbs are jumping the routes. I've been incredibly impressed with the pass rush this year, and I think a lot of it has to do obviously with the athletes and the talent. But Soldier Field, for the first time in my life that I can remember, has a true home field advantage where the crowd is

going crazy. In the eighties they were going crazy, but the way the stadium was built for all you youngsters out there, it kind of went like this, and the fans, the noise did not stay in, but it stays in right now, and the fans are loud, and it gives the defensive lineman the split second. And you can talk about this in terms of offensive line another split second

head start to get to the quarterback. And you mentioned I think you asked a question about how to rattle Nick Foles I have never seen Aaron Rodgers look rattled until this season. It Soldier field. He has owned the Bears in his career, even when they've hit him a couple of times. It sacked him a couple of times. This was the first time I've ever seen Aaron Rodgers not look comfortable at all on the field against the Bears.

And that's all about the pass rush and especially getting to the quarterback with four guys right, you know, they didn't have five blockers at the line of scrimmage that could block the type of talent that you can put on the line of scrimmage for the Bears defense. And I think that's one of the great things the assistant coaches here is you have to study your opponent where your vulnerabilities lie. Because the athletes defensively, you can put

them anywhere. It's not like you're gonna go to the line scrimmage you're gonna have the same four or five guys in the same place every time. Leonard and Khalil they can play inside, outside, a Keem Hicks can play both sides. Roy Robertson Harris can play up and down the line of scrimmage. So that's the one thing offensive lineman don't like. They don't like personnel always changing in front of them, because you kind of figure out the rhythm of the guy if you get to play fifty

sixty seventy snaps against them. Now if you're only playing one out of every seven eight snaps against the guy, you don't become very familiar with them. Then you assert the crowd noise you're getting off the ball, that instant late advantage defense and you put Nick Foles on the run. I always like. I also like the way Vic Fanjoe is blitz guys on the same side as Clue Max. So that makes the offensive line and pretty much have

to decide which guy to take. And it seems like it's resulted in some sacks either by Mac or Roquan Smith or Trevathan Well. The first sack in the Green Bay game, we sent Roquan Smith and then the left tackle committed in a mental air. He blocked nobody, but Khalil Mac got the sack in Roquan is coming, and that's one of, you know, one of the great traits of Roquan being a young guy. He's got really solid intelligence for a young guy that hasn't seen that much.

He understands timing of blitzes. He understands how to fool on the snap count and make people think or or you know, possibly jump offsides. Well, speaking of defense, one of our fan questions from Nicholas Witt is can we keep Vic Fangio. That's up to Vic Fangio. You know I would like that like that, Vic, Well, I mean it's all about opportunity to though, right. I mean people are saying, well, the Bear's gonna pay him, the Bears

pay him very well, it's not about money. It's about getting that once in a lifetime opportunity to become a head coach. And obviously he's going to You answered this on Brunch with Larry today. You've actually watched that ituned in. Wasn't your question, but I questions about you quite a bit on there to say that, Yeah, great, thank you. But it's all about opportunity, right, I mean, this is a guy and you can't blame him if he's going

to explore these opportunities either, right. I mean Vic is a really great defensive mind, and you know, you'd have to think people would respect the opportunity to interview him just to kind of get a temperature where he's at. He's in the perfect situation. He's in the perfect situation for the next five years. He could set a legacy here in Chicago that is as great as if he

went somewhere and became a head coach. But you know, I think the guys that are committed to coaching their whole life, they have to explore every one of their goals or our dreams and their football coaching life. I'll tell you one thing. I would like to watch the press conferences wherever he goes because he is highly entertaining. He is enjoyable to watch. He is hilarious, and reporters love him. The fans love him. He loves talking Cubs. He does. He talks to baseball. After the Cubs won

the World Series, he walked into my office. He was in San Francisco at home, gave me the local news paper of the Cubs, and yeah, he's He's a great guy and I wish him the best. Obviously, I hope he stays here because he's done a great Yeah. But yeah, the fans love him, and I have to say we love the fans. And Ted stan Phil on Facebook, um he's with the US Army serving in Germany. So thank you so much for your service and thanks for watching US fans tuning in all over. This is awesome. There

we go with the voice again. We're gonna keep it tally. It's going to be like two Clary and I don't know about you, but Brian Zonella says, what improvements to the offensive line did you see last week with Kyle longback? Power, strength, point of a point of attack movement? Um, you know he's I'm glad he got those reps twenty nine reps in the Minnesota game after recovering from his ankle injury. He he you know, Pro Bowl is one thing, but all pro is another, and he plays at an all

pro level. He's got kind of freakish athleticism for his size and strength. You know what's embarrassing is when you stand up there you say what's changed about the game from when you played in So I stand next to Kyle Long and I go, look, this is evidence because I am here. He is here and here, so you know his leadership qualities, his enthusiasm, you know, the way he wants to be out there with his teammates. Brian Witzman has done a great job you know, and you

can't lose that. And the Bears are very fortunate that he was able to come in here in a week. And especially when you move James Daniels a left guard, you know, a starting rookie left guard. But Kyle he adds a lot to this football team. And like you say, when you empty the bus, you want him to get off first, because he is that guy that sets the tone. And it'll be exciting this week to watch him against Fletcher Cox because that's a really good defensive tackle and

that's gonna be a great battle. A lot of people were talking about Chris Long against Kyle Long. Well, if Kyle Long's blocking Fletcher Cox, that's gonna must see TV here right there. Well, you know, it's interesting because you think about the first scripted plays that Matt Naggie puts together, it'll be as important as where you want to put Fletcher Cox as a will for the plays you want

for Mitchell Trubisky. And there's a lot that goes into defining the specifics of a game plan to choreographic perfectly to make sure you get bodies on him ten and a half sex this season, So how do you keep him away from number ten. Well, first of all, there you know, when you go to the offensive line, you break the huddle, there's five offensive lineman, there's four rushers. Whoever that uncovered offensive lineman is, he can never live

through a play without hitting somebody. You volunteer hitting him. If it's Cody Whitehair and they're rushing over the two offensive guards, Cody snap, secure this guy, and then you run at ninety one. So there's offensive line. Think about the ways that uncovered lineman's going to be able to help everybody, and it's going to be as important this

week as any week this season. They also have other guys too, though, Chris Long, like you mentioned before, Michael Bennett's got nine sex and he's a veteran that knows what he's doing out there. So what is it? Fifty five Brahm the outside linebacker, he's a heck of a pet. They're all good. You know, this is a good defense, but you know it's not an unsurmountable task for the Bears offense to go out there and look at, you know,

be efficient against it. When I go back and if I was an active player studying Philly, I think there's some vulnerabilities of that defense. That right, well, their secondary, they've had a ton of injuries. I think every player in the secondary of the former Bear they have Crave on the Blanc. They've got Corey Graham, They've got you know, a bunch of different guys back there. Um, DeAndre Hall also is playing for them. So on paper, you know

what it looked at the roster he was. I'm not sure if he's still there, but yeah, they could put an all X Bear secondary out there. Um, you never know, but you look on paper obviously, and that would be if the Bears are healthy at receiver, that would be a big advantage for the Bears. But again, games aren't playing. Say they have a front seven you have to deal with first. Nothing's going that way if you don't get this up here a block first. I love talking football time.

There isn't it the best. I could just sit here and just listen, you know, least it all today. Okay, we are going to be back tomorrow. If you're just tuning in, this is Monsters Midway Live. Laurence Greeden, Larry mayor Tom Fayer. We are taking your fan questions, so keep sending those in on Facebook and on Twitter. We have another one from Marshawn Triplet. Any update on Bryce Callahan, right, I don't believe Bryce Callan's gonna be coming back. You know,

he suffered a foot injury. He was placed on injured reserve. I don't think he'll be healed in time. I'm not a doctor. I don't play a doctor on TV or anything like that, but from what I've understand, I don't think he'll be back. He is out of contract, so it'll be interesting the CF returns next year. But he's one of the guys that we talked about in terms of a guy that was here before that really developed.

He had a great season this year. I mean, this is a guy who came from nowhere, went to Rice undrafted free agent, and this guy just became a star almost this year on defense, had a pick six and a great player well before he got injured. Vic fansio I went to the podium calling him one of the most important players on the Bears defense, and that's high praise when you have possible MVP candidates of the league that you know your nickelback is just as important as

any other player. What is true because of how much he's on the field and that's exactly what you've said. I mean, we talked about this before, but everybody's just been able to step up on this team. There's been no if so and so gets hurt. It's like, oh my gosh, the world's ending. It's been next in line. It's part of the approach that Matt Naggie's had all

season long. And I think that's just a difference. And we've seen this year what you're saying, Lauren, is is kind of cool to watch Javon Wims and Kevin White get an opportunity last week because Alan Robinson didn't play, and to see the big catches they came up with, to see the excitement that Kevin White exhibited after he made his catch, because these are guys that we pull for and part of the process of getting on the field is you got to earn your opportunity and sometimes

that that ladder is straight up and you got you gotta climb it every day. And those guys again evidence of the back the assistant coaches having these guys prepared when their moments called and they were both ready to go. And I think, you know, going back to again the culture change, you see how much fun that these guys are having it's next in line. They're all supporting each other, and they're all dancing and club dub after the tom I want your take on club dub. I love you.

Would you like, you know, give us a little something now? I wouldn't. There's no way that I would dance. I um, you know when they when when Willie Gott went up and down the airplane and asked for guys to show up at the Super Bowl Shuffle to dance. There's no way that I would have ever got caught dancing on camera because I can't do it. Neither as trying to get me to dance all the time, and I can't do it. He made it my New Year's resolution. But you think of you don't expect it. Yeah, like the

Little Kicks, that's me. Thirty something years later. It's still haunt and fencing and fuller than they can't dance, but to dance, no kid, but I but I do love either.

I love the excitement. I love the camaraderie. I love the enthusiasm because you know, at the end of last year, when we were in Minnesota watching the Bears, this was a team that was starving for camaraderie for that brotherhood, that friendship that you know, that bond that's it's it's it's stronger, and it's hard to develop in less you're in a scenario that these guys live every day. And

so I love the club job. I think it's fun and I'm glad that you know, Matt has allowed these guys to have that type of fun because you know, you're challenge in front of your peers every time you go to a team meeting after a game, because a coach speaks really critical to you. But I think that the camaraderie that's shared with these guys in those moments and in these moments is important for the team development. Larry, you haven't made it in there yet, not now, but

Larry walks by my office and dabs every day. So we're gonna leave you with that. Save this. I'm just calling that just go to just do the robots. Everybody can do the robot alright, Well, we'll be back here same time tomorrow from four to four thirty Central time. This has been Monsters of the Midway Live for Tom Fayer, Larry Mayor that rhymes I'm Lauren streeton will see you guys tomorrow. I wish it was John. I know I need to change my name.