Happy victory Monday, everybody, as we kick off the Bears coaching show this evening with head coach Matt Negg. He brought to you by a whiply CPASN Consultants Jeff Joniak here with you until eight o'clock tonight here on news Radio one oh five nine WBBM, and coming up in the program at the bottom of the hour, a defensive coordinator Sean Desai joined with a guy that's probably bouncing off the walls thrilled about his defense's performance is scintillating.
Twenty to seventeen went over the Bengals Matt one and one off to Cleveland for Week three. We got we gotta talk about that defense right out of the gate and Sean himself, Yeah, they were. They were awesome, Jeff. It was that's the defense that we know. And they
were flying around, they were having fun. They were just you know, doing what they did all week in practice to go, you know, and forced a punt and then four downs and then another punt in the first half, and then to have that turnover fest that they had where they had the fumble recovery, the force fumble and then the three picks in a row. I don't know if that's ever happened with the linebacker, D line and dB all getting an interception in this you know in
one game. Well, I got my best man on the job, our thirty six year statistician, Doug COLLETTI will we'll do the math on that one. I was searching as well. I thought of eighty five. The eighty five Bears certainly had a game where everybody had their hand in something. But the d Linement angle is the tough one. Yeah, we love love his defense. Uh well, we're gonna find that out. But that but that does speak to a larger discussion about the defense because as these plays, these
impression plays were being made throughout the game. I mean, the roster was checking boxes. It was a whole unit. Like you said, they were swarming. And I the first thing, and I may even said this in the broadcast, because it really was like a hornet's nest stirred up. Yeah, no, it wasn't. And that's what I loved about it was
they went out and they did it. And you know, I keep talking about practice, and I just gotta credit the coaches, and I gotta credit to the guys there in practice that when you do that in practice, you do it in the game, and they did it and and you felt it. And to get those turnovers, and we could have taken advantage of the short field that
we had on offense. And I'm sure we'll talk about that, but you know, these guys, they came out and they have fun, they had swagged, they got they turned, they got the football from them. We wanted the turnover battle. We hit their quarterback, we stopped the run game, and we won the game. You know, you like the way practices typically goal but deep down in your heart, do you know some weeks just just wasn't the best and
it showed on Sunday. Well, I think that's it's very normal to at times like you just always we all have to check each other right, and it's it's my job as a coach, it's our job as coaches to make sure that we stay on those guys and and that we watched the film and we see where we're at. And so those guys practice, they practice hard a lot, but we just wanted to emphasize it and then they
saw the results. Can't get into scheme. We won't get in it with Sean later either, because but but a lot of it was present, prevalent, and you could see it, a lot of mixes and coverages, a lot of a lot of things happening on the defense At times. I was trying to stay on top of it myself. Where's every buddy winding up at the snap? And that clearly is something that Sean has gotten his wheelhouse right now.
I think he made a great adjustment. I think he did some different things with the players in that front seven, and it makes it hard on a quarterback when you have moving parts, and we did that, and then the guys got to go make plays, and the guys make plays. So it was a great combination of scheme, a great combination of execution by the players, and they put it together and they had a lot of fun. Bears head coach Matt Neage here on the Bears Coaches Show. It's
brought to you by Whippley CPA's and Consultants. Here until eight o'clock tonight, let's talk roal Kuan Smith, because I gotta give it to you. You've been talking about it since the offseason program where his star is rising and the players are starting to add up now and this is a guy that was around the entire offseason. I really believe he loves the building. He loves being there,
he loves being in Chicago. Berry loves this city. And now I think that's a guy who's now hitting a real comfort zone in his mature and where he's at as a rising player in this league, no doubt. And you know more than anybody, this city and the history that we've had with defense and middle linebackers, and when you have these middle linebackers that come and play on these great defenses, he can definitely carry the torch for them. And he's he's special now. He is really really growing
into an unbelievable player. And when when you make a play like that and you just putting, you intercept the football, but then you make a running back miss run down the sideline, you got help with your buddies down the sideline, you turn it into a touchdown. Those are special plays. Those are game changing plays. And that's why he's here. He's worked hard to get to this point. He's really
helping us out. Oh as Sean later in the hour about this, But if you were to analyze that play, say you were in the booth, okay, and you were on television as as a Bear's analyst, you were doing Tom Thayer's job breaking down that highlight. To me, the best part of the whole thing. Yes, he caught the football, but that first step he had full worker. But David Montgomery, they're getting past Joe Mixon. That was immediate reaction. Boom.
It was instinctive right right. That to me was the best part of the whole thing, no doubt about it. Number One, he caught the ball right because a lot of these defensive guys they can't catch. So he called he caught the ball. Number one. And then number two he was fleet. He was like like he used to have fleet of feet there where he was able to
make Joe Mixon miss. And then then he started bursting and then all of a sudden, he felt like he was back there in high school with that ball in the left hand and running down the sideline with his guys blocking for him, and he scored a touchdown. So it was awesome. See that's it right there. Left hand is I didn't even evaluate that part because Burrow wasn't going with the tackle. He's going for the strip. So that was critical right there. Outstanding played front to back
to me. That's like the guy, the power hitting power hitter in baseball hitting a Grand Slam and now everybody's juiced up because the defense played furious after that. All Right, what's the latest on Andy Dalton and if healthy, will he the starter this week against Cleveland Brunch. Yeah? Absolutely, So you know, we're still working through the results of where he's at this morning with the MRI and all of that, and you know, he really toughed it out yesterday.
I know he's a little bit sore um and so we'll see you no more tonight. If he is healthy, he will be the starter. But you know, well, well we'll work through all that and get more results later on tonight. That drive although aided as well by an Eli Apple penalty, which that counts to me as a big pass play. Uh that that was the play that basically in the end gave you the lead you never
gave up. So the critical aspect of that to start fast is what you and I talked about in the pregame show, was something you really needed and it really set the tone for the whole day. Yeah, that's a good point, and you know that that was really good
for our offense to have a tem play drive. And here here's so if you keep it really simple and you say, okay, that first drive versus every other drive that you had, because because Jeff the very new drive, we had a fifteen play drive there resulted in zero points. So that first the first drive, we had ten plays, we got a touchdown, no penalties, three for three on
third down, one for one in the red zone. We had a ten yard play, a seventeen yard play, a thirty two yard play, and an eleven yard play within those ten plays. And so that's good football. And then we had the fifteen play and you know, we had penalties and we had some stuff called back. That that's the difference to the rest of the rest of the game. Snap his back for man Rush Dalton to throw conviction prow. I'm a post Ellen Robinson touchdown, touchdown Bears. Welcome back
to the Bears Coaching Show. It's brought to you by a Whippley CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner with the Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whippley dot com. Allen Robinson touchdown catch the fortieth in his career. Andy Dalton's throw in the highlight. You hear me say I mean, I just couldn't help myself. He's getting rid of the ball, and I said, a convicted throw, that's what it was. Yeah, that's exactly the way to describe that, right, it was. Yeah,
it was a great throw. And you know down in the red zone down there, there's traffic throws and not every play is wide open, so you gotta gotta be on time, you gotta be in rhythm, and then you got to have a contested catch, and that we had. All that happened. We had protection and he made a good decision, made a good throw on time, and then a Rob made a heck of the catch and he's probably pulling his hair out on an absolute beautiful strike from justin field to the end zone later on in
the game. Yeah, you know, it's all these years we've been here with a Rob and you don't see that very often, you know, and we get we get spoiled. But every now and then you'll you'll have that, and I know him more than anybody would want that back with at the same point in time, We'll never stop throwing those to him because he's a special player. He once led this league in touchdown reception. So that's certainly something he's capable of doing. Let's talk David Montgomery's day.
I think you knew and everybody watching that Bengals defense against Dalvin Cook and the Minnesota Vikings. They've loaded up. They've loaded up on size two, three and fifty pounders in there and a very active Larry Ogan job. So it wasn't gonna be easy running the ball up the middle on these guys, and that proved to be the case. However, once again, this young man got I think he had forty four yards after contact. And it wasn't big chunks
of yards. This was grinding. This was a grinding running game. It was, and that David's built for that. He makes guys miss. He has great contact balance, and so I really appreciate all those yards after contact because they do make it hard, and they went out and made it. They had a big emphasis on changing up some of their D line from last year and they're going to stop the run, so that that was challenging for us,
but we were able to still have those attempts. Frankly, it's a great precursor for what is the AFC North. I mean, those teams are built that way. Baltimore, the same Cleveland now the same Cincinnati, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. So those are all opponents coming up on your schedule. So let's talk about the offensive line. And I gotta give a tip of the cap to Jason Peters. Man. That's a p that's a pro. Left the game last week, comes back, plays the full game in the heat. No doubt.
He's a special player, even at thirty nine years old. He's somebody that he speaks volumes to these guys on the offensive line into our offense in general of being able to tough it out. That was huge for us to be able to get him in that game. And I thought he did a great job. All right, let's say some time here for your rookie quarterback justin fields, no kidding, you know, gotta be ready at any moment.
That certainly was the case for him. Some good things, some things need work at what you would expect from a rookie quarterback without a week of prep. Break it all down for us, and how you looked at it, Yeah, no, he did. He did a really good job coming on in in that situation. And you know, for me just getting the plays into him and him being able to get in and out of the huddle. You guys know,
we talked about it in a training camp. We talked about in no tas that that can be a starting point for him to get good at and he's done that. Now the next part is now making the play work. And so what a great time for him to be able to see some defenses and make some plays and and there's some learning experiences in there that that were he's going to learn from and we're all going to learn from. But he definitely got better. Nothing can surprise him at this point. He's been so you know, raised
to be this, you know, right from high school. But in conversation you had with him maybe today or last night, how was he feeling about it? Though? Yeah, that's probably what's what's the neatest part of all this is you know, you could look at his numbers and and he'll he'll tell you and you know, he knows he can play a lot better, and he's hard on himself. He's his
biggest critic. But that's what you love about him because yeah, there's some things that he can do better and he can learn from and we all can help him with that. That's our job is to make sure we help him, but at the same point in time, we also know the good things that he's done. And that scrambled that he had at the end of the game where he had he had him the defensive end flying in the air to try to tackle him, and he brushed him off and then and then burst it away from the
next guy and got the first down. That was huge, and not many guys to that, but right. I mentioned that on our Bears Game Night Live show because when you when you get a closer up view of a Trey Hendrickson is long he make you know he just slipped off. He's thick legged. It's not some narrow based quarterback. He's strong and I'm sure he's even gonna get stronger over the course of his career, so that allows him to break tackles as well. It was an awkward landing.
I thought for a second, Oh, that's not good because he probably wanted to slide, but he got hit from behind and that changed the whole thing. Probably scared him as well, and we talked to him in the postgame show and he kind of laughed about it, but that those are the kind of things that probably that's why you have no hair on your head that you can't
control happen in an NFL game. Yeah, when we were watching it this morning watching the tape, you know you do that because we saw it was right on our sideline and then for that to happen, you definitely hold your breath, blow, snap fakes, the hand off to mixing with all the trainers intercepted flexing at the ten and down to the nine. That is three consecutive interceptions. The pressures home hid out like Ogletree s here sack and
an interception by Agelo Blackson. Single game Bears tickets are available. Cheer on the Monsters of the Midway live at Soldier Field this season. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets for more information. Just heard the Angelo Blackson interception with Bears head coach Mattneggie. I'll tell you what, that's his athletic A players you're going to get because he showed some moves as well, and you know, hey, there's room for guys like that on your offenseive time or two.
Angelo Blackson, I mean that was a pro move right there, squeezing that ball, keeping it high up in the air away from anybody to take it away. That was reactionary all the way around. It was, and it all started with Ogle Tree with his blitz and then he got his hands off in Joe Burrow's face and was able to tip the ball and then like you're saying, to be able to catch that ball, come down with it, and it actually like he actually like bobbled it then
called it. But then the next part too, is just he kind of he kind of raised the ball up a little right like that's what I'm saying, a pretty good a fleet and started running. I thought he's gonna high step into the end zone, but he did a great job, ball security went down and then as Eddie big Man does, he's going to celebrate afterwards. Yeah, you know, he's been a very impressive edition. I know he led
the Arizona Cardinals and Pressures last year. You think of a guy like that just simply as a run stuffer, but he can collapse the pocket. And now he's had a couple of nice starts to these to this season, and now you're bringing Mario Edwards back into the mix. And the only word I could think of describing Mario as he comes off the suspension the NFL suspension is violent. He plays violent football, right, Yeah, without a doubt. I think that's a perfect word for him. He is. He's violent,
and he loves every part of the word violent. I mean he is coming to sack that quarterback and do his thing. So that'll be good to get him back and knocking on the door Eddie Goldman. He was a game time decision last week, so maybe he comes back too, and that would even strengthen this thing even further to help your rotation upfront. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I mean, you think about the way our defensive line has been playing in to to get those two guys back would
be great. All right, let's talk more about just the offense in general. Clearly there's still growth potential here no matter whose quarterback in just because of what you talked about, all those little starts and stops, because you need to score touchdowns. Yeah, and that's probably the biggest thing is just with the field position that we had after those turnovers.
You know, you're looking at the plus thirty nine yard line, the plus thirty six, the plus nine and coming away with all that with six points, and that's where touchdowns you can you can put the game away. And that's you know, we got to learn from that. Luckily we came out with the win and finished it with a four minute but in the red zone there we got to stay away from penalties, keep away sacks, and then just you know, we got to go ahead and just
keep executing. Non't matter if a team wins or loses. And I'm sure you're the same way as a staff and as a head coach. You look at the math, you look at having all transpired, you look at the game tape, and some things don't add up, or you know, you win. But so the tight end, that'll be a time this Yeah, obviously just one time. Yeah, No, I mean that that's we got to get the tight ends. That's not intentional, that's that's uh, that's something that we
want to always every week. We want those tight ends involved. They're they're a great weapon in this offense. And so we got to be better there. And that starts with me. And the thing about it, you got some emotional guys playing on that unit. I mean, Jimmy shows it all the time on the field, and Cole Commet is right there with him. I mean, those are two guys that really want to be a part of the offense. Hey, and they always say they're a quarterback's best friend, right, Matt, Yeah,
no doubt there. Well, there's guys and Jesse James too, and whole see. I mean all those guys. It's a great room and they all just want to do what's best for the offense. And they don't they honestly don't care about staffs, but they do care about helping us win. That's that's why they've been so great to us. Guy who cares about winning as well, and maybe got lost
in the shuffle of this went Darnell Mooney. The conversation should be centered on that as well, because got himself open a great throw by Justin, a drop in the bucket throw one and maybe I do maybe could have got the other one. I don't know, I haven't watched it all yet. Did but uh, Darnell Mooney running routes, who wants to be the best at it, and he really created some separation to get himself open from and Justin. Yeah, for both guys, he's been doing a great job with that.
He's you know, he's he's a phenomenal outrunner. And we just had that one that was just a little bit off between those two guys. But I have a lot of confidence we run that again, they'll they'll connect. All right, let's talk Browns keeping them uh, you know, reasonable rushing total I think would be your first order of defense
because it's an outstanding rushing unit. Yeah. Coach Stefanski does a great job with them on offense, and you know Baker Mayfield running the show and with Chubb and Kareem Hunt who I was with in Kansas City, and those wide receivers and tight ends, they do a lot of different personnel packages. They are it's gonna start with the run and then they're going to hit you with some shots and play actions. And the offensive line is good.
So we're gonna have to bring that same defense that we had this past weekend and uh and have our handsful there. They've done a nice job with Baker Mayfield not the tallest quarterback, but certainly a confident back and right now leads the NFL and completion percentage. Yeah, that's that's a good Again, they do some really good things and those guys are working well together. And he's a good quarterback. He can beat you with his arms and
his legs. First thing you think of Brown's defense, Miles Garrett. Yeah, he's Miles is just such a big, long rangey defender that you know, he can sack you, he can stop the run, he can get your throwing lane on the passing game, and so that defense in general that they fly around and they made play. So we're gonna we'll have to bring our a game for sure. All Right, Matt, I have a great week of practice. Sam. We'll talk to you down the road. Appreciate it, thanks, Jeff, Take care.
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Slash Fan Zone Slash Watch Parties for more information. Back on the program, The Bears Coaches Show brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants with Bears defensive coordinator Sean to say, Sean, thanks for joining us this evening. Just heard the Rokuan Smith pick six. A scintillating journey to the house for our guy. Just a tremendous play all around.
Break it all down because not just the dropping coverage, the catch, but the return, because that's a segmented analysis as well, beginning with the move on Joe Mixon, the speed and then moving the ball, I mean, break it down for us. Yeah, no, I mean it was. It was a great effort by really all eleven. I mean starts with the rush up front, you know, they they gave us a unique said and ended up going to four by one on the look but the past and
we got a good, good rush up front. I think the quarterback felt it and kind of threw it where he thought there was an opening in Brookland did a good job dropping and keeping his depth in his own coverage and obviously plucking the ball on and getting to the nearest sideline. Kind of all the things we're trying
to treat, teach and train these guys. Getting to the nearest sideline, keep protecting the ball is there, getting there, and then trying to set up the moves on the on the coverage team, you know, on the offensive guys because they're not used to tackle him. So he did a good job and there was kindle out there. There was a lot of guys alec Ogletree clear Mack had a good block in the beginning, so guys were just kind of rallying around him and trying to carave at
him down in the end zone. I brought this up with Matt because Roquan and I've got to know him very well. He really loves this city. He loves being there and he loves the building. He was there the entire offseason, and he just kind of had a feeling like, Okay, this is It's always been important to him. He wants to be known as one of the greats. He has great confidence, but he's not gonna use his voice to shout from the highest mountain top. Hey look at me.
He's just gonna let us play play go. Is Is that who he is? All of what I said right there is an encompass where he's at and who he is. Yeah, I think so. I think he's a He's a humble guy. He's obviously been a part of some really good program starting with Georgia and then coming in here. But he's a humble guy. He's a hard working guy, really a student of the game, and he just wants to grow
every day, you know. And you see it with coach McGovern the way he's interacting with him and just trying to be a sponge for information, trying to come up extra and meeting you. Like you said, he was here all in the offseason. He just wants more information, more certainty, more detail, more fundamental work to improve all aspects of his game. And it shows, you know, it shows his improvement. And I think as much as he's getting better, there's
still a lot of room for improvement for him. And he'll tell you the same thing, which is the exciting part. What was the tone of your conversation the day's leading up to Sunday with that unit? Certainly I brought up a lot of attention about the defense and so forth. And what impression did you try to leave on your guys that really translated to Sunday. Yeah, you know, the biggest thing was I didn't want these guys to press,
you know, to go and make a play. I think that what they need to do is just trust themselves, have fun out there and really trust the defense in the scheme that we're asking them to do, really trust their tech and trading, because when it comes down to it, the fundamentals of the first thing that leads to great defenses. And so these guys showed that, you know, you saw
it on tape where they trusted each other. They trusted the calls, and they trusted the fundamentals of it, and they trusted their trading, and they played with a lot of energy. And then when that happens, that's contagious. You know, obviously just amongst the defense, but you know, it steals over to the offense, steals over to the special teams, and we want to try to be that spark as
much as we can. I think some of the reaction from just enthusiast fans whatever they want, Okay, they want to know the coaches in somebody's grillages or you know, reaming them out about a performance. But these are grown men, they're professionals. They don't need that necessarily. They're looking the mirror. And I think, you know, I interviewed Balah before the game last week, and I could see it on his face,
and so I said, are you angry? He goes Yeah, I'm angry, you know, and it showed they know that's right, they know, but that that doesn't preclude them from a stilm talking to either. Now you know, they know, they know, but they are fessionals and they know they know they have a job to do, and we as coaches know we have a job to doing. Rollhill accountable to that standard. And I think that's the biggest emphasis. So how would
we get our message across. Whether it's we have to raise our voices or doing a different fashion, We're trying to use all the methods because the ultimate goal is to just be able to reach these guys where they're at and make sure they respond to the message that we're trying to give. Snap back to Burrow Pocket starts to close throughs over there to t Higgins, Eddie Jackson nuts at three balls, scooped up by the Bears, picked
up and running right. It's just Shaun Gibson, Gibson all the way down of the forty yard line of the Sits and Eddie Bengals Eddie Jackson on the force bumble Bears are in business. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with defensive coordinators Sean to say, Sean, let's talk about Eddie Jackson. The force fumble on t Higgins, the highlight we've just heard. That was an outstanding play as well. I know some folks called it the peanut punch. It was not a punch. It was a strip and on
a big guy who's not easy to deal with, te Higgins. Yeah. No, the thing that started with disguising the play. Yet he got into the post and he saw the play and there was a little bit separation created there by. The receiver did a great job running the route. But U credit Teddy. You know, he had a nice clean breakout of the post. He had a good angle, and I think that that's a big thing when you're talking about the deep part of the fields, your angles, and that's
a big point of emphasis for us. And he had a nice clean angle at it. And then you know, we always try to emphasize being physical and tackling at the level of the ball. So when you can wrap it the level of the ball, good things can happen. And he showed that there. You know, he got his arms around at the level of the ball, held on and raked like you said, at the ball, and the ball came out and then obviously we want to swarm to the finish and when balls bounce your way like
they did for t Shaun over there. One of my favorite plays though the game was the run stop on Joe Mixon. So he's at the line of scrimmage, Jamar Chase rookie, you know, cut across his face and chopped down a six foot one running back who carries, you know, a lot to him. That's not an easy tackle, even with a head of steam going down. So that's one of my favorite plays, how about you? Yeah, No, that was a really good play by Eddie. Again, you just
see his instincts. He had a feel for the situation. His preparation throughout the week kind of alerted him to some of the tells that were that we felt were there in that situation. And then he went ahead and took his shot. And we want our guys to take shots from they do it between the structure of the defense. Because we've got some playmakers they can go and make those type of plays. And you're right mixing as I
think he's a premier back in this league. He's very physical in the downhill runner and that was a great play by Eddie. From your perspective with players of today, and you've been here for nine years, You've gotten to know a lot of these guys very well. Do they love the idea of being deployed and it could be different every week? So when I say deployed, you're talking about weaponizing that, whether it be the unique coverages, the mix of coverages to try and confuse quarterbacks and offenses.
But do they get into that a little bit the chess game as opposed to just going out there and doing the same thing every week and just trying to make plays. Yeah, you know, I think there's a balance. I think a lot of guys do appreciate that, but I think I think they understand that when you got to play within the structure of the defense, the defense will allow him to make be variable and have a
little variety and diversity. And so that's what we try to emphasize is making sure everybody knows our techniques and fundamentals are required by the defense, and then we can deploy guys in different ways when necessary, and sometimes that helps really well, and other times you got to play just a very traditional style of defense based on who
you're going against. From a quarterback end, receivers perspective. All right, let's talk about Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn because in many respects too, you're trying to find a way to unlock their pass rush with all the attention they get, particularly Mac and boy, what a great job lining both of those guys up on one side with a stunt that got Quinn home early in the game. Break that down the philosophy of that without getting too much deep
into your scheme. Yeah, I think it's just, you know, kind of pigging back off the question you asked about the deployment of the tafeties in different dbs. It's similar. You know, we want to try to put our guys in their most favorable positions that we feel like afavable matchups, and so we're going to continue to look at that each week and it's different by week. And I think our guys are accepting that and I think they understand
what our philosophy is. And again, it all starts with our players being able to learn the techniques and fundamentals throughout the system, because once they've mastered those, we can use them in different ways. Bengals head coach Zach Taylor had very, very glowing comments about Jalen Johnson said that guy is a great player and we knew it going in proved that today. So his first career interception, I know it's been on his mind. He said he dropped
six last year and it still lives with him. But you talk about a guy, you know, I it's he's an interesting guy because he seems he acts and talks like a ten year vet and it's very important to him. It's he's serious, man, He's a serious dude. That's right. I think I think he's it's it's it's refreshing, like you said, to see a second year guy with that type of approach and mentality. He's real mature and he's
real focused, which is good. You know, he still likes to have fun and everything, but when it's time to play and execute his job and the defense and especially the coverage, he's taking a leadership role in the defensive back room. Uh. You know, he takes a lot of pride in you. And then you know, guys that take a lot of pride in their own craft usually end up playing well. And so he's an example of that.
Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears defensive coordinator Sean Ducai after a nice win over the Cincinnati Bengals. Let's talk about the finish because it got a little interesting there at the end. Let's break down the Jamar Chase touchdown on how that worked out of the back end of the defense. Yeah, you know, they caught us in a favorable matchup for them on one on one on the outside, and and uh, you know, well, well we'll be better there with our technique and the breakout
of the post to help get that one down. And then we got to finish that tackle to at least give us another chance to play in the red zone. And so that's a good learning experience for us. We're going to continue emphasize that, but you know, it'll and then we'll mix up the coverages to try to avoid those big plays. It's the first time I don't think anybody's really asked you this, But how is it settling in as now the defensive coordinator in terms of you know,
time management and how you go about your business. I mean, you've been trending toward this direction your whole career, but now that you're two games in the regular season into it, how is that working out? For you and how you look at it as you look yourself in the mirror on it. Yeah, I mean, so far, so good, you know. I mean, obviously the results are the results. You know, a week one we want to be better. In week
two we had pretty good results. So you know, we're just trying to look for some consistency and build that throughout the season. It's a long season, you know. We're only two games into this seventeen game season, so as you know, it's a marathon and we want to make sure we're pacing ourselves appropriately to win the games on a week by week basis that we need to win. And so obviously we got a tougher pint with Cleveland coming up, and we're excited for that opportunity. All right,
let's talk about that. It's time to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Bears. They have Baker Mayfield at quarterback. He leads the NFL and completion percentage, and the Browns may get Odell Beckham junior back, but may have lost Jarvis Landry. That is another healthy dose of weaponry there that the backfield alone sticks out, but so does Baker Mayfield, how do you look at it? Yeah, absolutely, I mean I
think they're built really well. The whole team is built really well. You know, they've got a lot of explosive weapons. Like you said, starts with those two running backs, and they can really set the temple up front with them, and I think coach to Fans does a great job scheming and game planning to get those guys in spots
where they contain some yards. And then their play action game, an explosive pass game, is as good as anybody else in the week, and they've got the weapons to do, especially with Odell being able to come back as well. In Baker's playing top notch ball right now also, so it'll be if it'll be a fun exciting challenge for us. He's actually and it's selling that play action at the Bear Hands shows got the head Bob Football on the hip. He's got it down right. That's right, that's right. And
they do a good job. I mean, the system is built off the run and the play action off of it. So we got to be really good with our eyes and our fundamentals. And just for yesterday's went over Houston eleven target, eleven catches, by the tight ends for the Cleveland Browns. Now. That varies obviously week to week, but it certainly gets your attention, doesn't That's right. They they've
got all their skills. You know, we talked about the running backs and receivers, but the tight ends are active and they've got a lot of them up, a lot of them that they used in variety of different roles. So we got to be good at all levels of our defense and it'll be an exciting challenge for us, all right, Sean, appreciate it all the time. Thanks for joining us. Congratulations, and we'll talk to you in a few weeks, all right. Thanks Jeffs here. That's Bears defensive
coordinator Sean to say. That's a rap on tonight's show. Thanks to Bears head coach Mattneggie and defensive coordinator Sean to Say, along with our producers Jordan tread Up, Andy Gersher and Keith Johnson, Well the Bears are the Browns coming to you from Cleveland on Sunday, nine AM pregame and a noon kickoff. That'll do it for tonight's show. This is News Radio one oh five nine w BBM. Have a great night, everybody,