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the NFL. It was a high scoring affair, several teams eclipsing the forty plus point mark, including New England, Dallas, Kansas City, and your Bears are hibernating getting some rest. How did it all go and how did it go for you? Yeah? Thanks Jeff? You know what it was.

It was good for for all of us to get away for a couple of days and now we're back at it, and you know how to howd a good day of practice with the guys get them back into you know, because they get away and it's good to kind of um get their get their juices going again, get their bodies going again with practice and their energy. And it was good. So now they'll have off tomorrow, get back out and start a normal week on Wednesday.

So the time spent obviously is good for guys to get their R and R but also to heal up a little bit. So what's the latest. I know you touchdown at this morning with the media, But on guys that missed the Steelers game three starters, you know, we forget that Khalil mac and Eddie Jackson, alec Ogletree, how are they? And then uh, we understand Tevin Jenkins and Deon Bush window to possibly return at this twenty one day clock gets underway. Now yeah, no, I mean it's uh,

you know with Khalil and Ogletree and Eddie Jackson. Uh, you know, obviously we would have loved to be able to have them against Pittsburgh, and we did him. But those guys are on their own individually working through their own their own injuries, and you know, sometimes it can be frustrating, and they all are such competitors and want to get back out there and want to be there to fight with their team. And so we'll monitor that all week long, and again Drey has done a great

job of our trainer of keeping those guys going. And then the good news is being able to start the twenty one day practice period with Tevin Jenkins and Deon Bush. So we're slowly getting um those guys back, which is important too because you know it's a it's a long year and this by hit at the right time and these guys are trying to get back here for this second part of the season. Yeah, a lot of questions about Jenkins from the media this morning because he is

an interesting figure right now. High draft pick and not able to see him in pads. Really, you don't really know a lot about him in terms of getting on the field. You know who he is as a guy, and you've seen him rehab and get ready and get through that back surgery, But what do you know about Tevin Jenkins right now? We got to be able to see where he's at and how he can play. I mean, he hasn't had pads on in a long time. So that's a part of it, right just putting the pads

on and then going out there. And then the other part of it two Jeff is being able to communicate with those guys when you're out there, whether it's pass protection, whether it's a run block, and then just going through your day to day, week by week stuff. Now, he's been really great in high spirits this whole time. But that's what we got to see before you even start to say, okay, well he should be at this spot

or that spot. We got to see where he's at individually, and then we can make a decision off of that. It's a sport that can leave you behind in a big hurry because focus is only on the now, and it's on the guys that are ready to go. We all know that watching the game and being in this sport for so long. So a young guy like that who has high expectations for himself, the team invested a high draft pick in him, showing respect for what his

traits are and his talents. How do you monitor his mindset and where he's at about this and so that he doesn't overdo it to try and get ready, or you know, any any number of things. What he must be thinking about, what his teammates think about him. All that is a part of this evaluation. I think that's real.

And you know, I know when you get when you're hurting like he was in the preseason, and you want to figure out why and you want to be able to play better, and you know you're not one hundred percent, And now you go and you get fixed and you come back, there's always going to be a sense of urgency to be able to show improve to everybody why

they made the right decision. That's our job as coaches is to make sure that he understands what we knew that but we got to do it the right way and it's gonna be a day by day thing for him. Um and and then just each day get a little bit better. And then and you look at a guy like Larry Boorham, right, you know, he had a couple of injuries here there, but he's back and now he put together two really good games and that that's growth

as a rookie. So we always often talk about Justin and him being as a rookie, but we have some other rookies too, and um, so we'll just continue to monitor all of that, all right. So self scouting is a term we here often once the bye week hits, but you know it's a it's a day to day you're always self scouting, right, But the things you did are you able to reveal some progress and growth that you feel you can really hit the ground running with

for the final eight games. Probably the biggest thing Jeff with the self scout for us is more so of specific plays and concepts. And I'm speaking on offense that we are starting to notice and realize that we like, um, you know, Justin's throw on them, well, Justin's reading them. Well, whatever that is progression wise, our guys are feeling the

same way with the identity. And so you see that, you understand that there's other parts where you say, okay, listen, we got to get a lot better at whether whether it's you know, a third down and third down in distance, or whether it's a red zone down and distance. We got to be able to get better in these situations.

And if we do that, it might only be sometimes two or three plays that we did not convert that would have taken us from say the mid twenties in rankings in the NFL to the upper you know or lower teams, you know, by just converting one or two more, that's how close it is. So that's the stuff that we know we can get better. And then obviously the big pictures we want to be able to score more points. Well, running the football is no you know what you can

end your hat on that one. I mean, that has been something from day one how has that come to be? I mean, you're averaging almost thirty carries a game. That's right up there among the league's best. I think it's two hundred and sixty six rushing attempts and two hundred and seventy past attempts this season. So I don't know if you envisioned it that to be the case regardless of record. But what do you think about all that math and about the running game being something you know

you can do when you need to do it. Yeah, well, if you if we go back when we think about the last couple of years here and that that's been something that you know, we've we've discussed that, Hey, we got to get better in the run game. You know, I think we have this year And you just said it, you mentioned it. And so when when you hang your hat on that and you run the football and you get better at it, um, you know, like you said, there's some balance there. Past pass game attempts are very

similar to rush game. Well, it's gonna take away a little bit of your pass game if you're running the ball. More So, what we want to do is is that little bit of pass game that's being taken away, we need to be better with the pass game to make up for it. And now you've become a good offense where you're running the ball well, you're throwing the ball well.

You form points for us bringing in Justin as a rookie and having him start where he did during the beginning of the season and to where he's at right now. It's a focus of ours to continue to feel like we're getting better and better where now you're really getting good by the end of the year, which is where you want to get good. You don't want to go the other way. And that's the excitement for us is

understanding that. Listen, we got a rookie quarterback to scrow and every day every week, and our offense is going to slowly getting better and better. With an identity match it up with the defense of special teams, we could get hot at the right time. Welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show. It is brought to you by a Whipplee CPAs and Consultant's a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at whipleet dot com. Bears head coach Mattneggie with Bill Lazier to join the program at the bottom

of the hour. So when we went to the break, we're just talking about justin fields, the passing game and his growth. I mean, that's second half in Pittsburgh. I know it's ancient history now, but that for me as a fan and as a broadcaster and as the play by play guys, a platform moment for another piece of the floor and climbing up those steps because of the environment, because of the moment, and frankly five yards away from a game winning field goal on the road and a

walkoff went into the bye week. Honestly, I mean that's is that where your excitement maybe begins for sure, And you know two weeks ago and I guess forty nine is fourth and one. What a huge moment at home to be able to make a play with his legs and and and score score that touchdown. To me, that was a moment too to everybody at home to see

that and feel that. But then in now, in a like the environment you talked about against the team that hasn't lost in thirty years on Monday Night football, when I looked at him and just saw the confidence that he had on the sideline before that drive, I knew we were going to score and and you don't really know what until you do it. But then he did it, and that is a platform moment. That's what we want

to grow from and he wants to grow from. And uh, you know that's that's the excitement that we all have right now. So there some moments now that other other guys are growing with him. So I the first guy I think of, Well, you know, it's Darnel money for sure, but Cole commet so I believe twenty nine targets over the last five games. He had thirteen first downs in those games early in the area out of three first down game and then three weeks in our own no

first downs because it wasn't getting the ball much. But you know, he was hurting to say, the fields miked up after the game. Let's build on this, bro, So let's let's do that. We can do this. How significant, Yes, you got the running game, you got leaders, but you're tight end, You're young tight end with your young quarterback and young backfield. How significant is that for those two

guys to bond in that sense? It's huge? And you know from meeting me, from the first day that we met, where I stand and what I believe in with tight ends. And you know, for us to be able to get Cole Commet, who's again, we got to remember this, this is a second year tight end. I could get fun examples of really good tight ends in this league that you know, did not have the numbers or the progression that cold Comet's having right now and became really good

players early on in their career. And that's where he's at. So when you when you throw a rookie quarterback into the mix as well, and you throw the timing into it, when you see those two start to build that relationship, like he said, let's build on this brouh, that's what you want, and so you start having more and more connections. A tight end can be a quarterback's best friend for many different reasons. And um, you're starting to see that

the targets go up. You talked about Mooney, you know, you talk about a rob, you talk about you know, Marquis good and had a big catch, our running back room, our other tight ends. I mean, it's we want to keep growing with all that, but that that relationship between cold Comet and Justin is only going to get stronger. All right, let's touch defensively. You know the run game, And you made a great point. You know, you guys were doing a nice job defending it. San Francisco game.

They did some different things on the edges and and and got you. They got you on the big chunks. But are you relatively comfortable with where that's going? Eddie Goldman had himself a good game watching that again on tape. Is that okay? Are you still confident in the run defense? I am? I absolutely am, and I think going into this the defensive line was definitely and is one of our greatest strengths on defense, depth wise and everything. And

Coach Frump does a great job of those guys. Those guys play hard, and you just mentioned it with Eddie Goldman. Eddie Goldman had the best game of a Bear this year. He is getting better, you see it on tape. We're gonna need that because teams are going to continue to run the ball. We're getting later and later in the season and weather starts to change and teams know they've got to run it. So we know that we gotta stop it. And if you don't stop it, they're gonna

keep running. So that's that's an emphasis for us. And I have ultimate belief in our guys. So on Our Bears a Game Night live show last night, we had to come up with a player of the first half of the season. Tom went with David Montgomery for reasons other than yes, he missed him game, but reasons other than just his induction is just what he means and his fight and his grit. And I could have easily gone with Roquan Smith, for example, but I went with

Robert Quinn because he's a different player. We've seen him burst, have the explosion, make up ground quickly closed the distance, six and a half sacks. He's getting explosive plays in there. Would that be fair as well for Robert Quinn. Absolutely, And you know, you look at guys like Khalil Mack, who unfortunately with the injury hasn't had the production of numbers because of not being out there recently, but he was off to a hot start too. You can never

go wrong with Roquan Smith. Roquan Smith's plays some of the best football that I've ever seen a middle linebacker played a long long time. So that's that's the easy one. But with Robert Quinn and what he does, unfortunately, you know he had to miss them one week with the being in the COVID protocol and stuff. But he's he practices hard, he plays hard. He's reminded everybody how good of a player he is. Offense has got to know at six and a half sack, So you're you're absolutely

right picking him. Download the Chicago Bears app to play our new predictor game, A Risk It brought to you. Buy Bette Rivers for your chance to win two hundred and fifty dollars in free bets and a custom Bears jersey. Matt Naggie with us our final segment with head Coach. We're just starting to scratch a service on a real quiet Smith. So I think he's playing faster than he ever has in his time here. He gets it, He triggers quickly, and he's a marauder out there. Tell us

more about what you see. The one thing Jeff that I see starts on Wednesday, goes to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then finishes on Sunday. Every single rep he is in there practicing his tailoff. And you know, I always look out and every time in practice, if there's a ten play period, he's there for play one through ten in practice. That's rare. And so sometimes we have to be able to just pull him out and save some of his legs and make sure we're keeping an eye

on apple Key doesn't want to come out. He practices how he plays, and he plays how he practices. Um. This guy is extremely motivated. He's a football player high i Q. He's a missile on the field. UM. And he's out to show everybody, um why he is the best middle linebacker in the NFL. And we're lucky to have him. So, you know, I'm looking forward to the rest of this year. Has he always been that way?

He has? He has, and I think but what happens is just like justin as a quarterback, as a rookie, when you start playing more, more and more plays throughout the season and now here he is in his uh, you know, his fourth year, the game slows down. You have keys, you have tendencies, you know how to study tape. So when you're out there on Sunday, man, you're just flying around, you know. And that's what he's doing right now, and you're starting to see it. And now it's it's

only going to get better. That takeaway bucket getting little lonely in it. Yeah, it is you're right, and you know, and we talk about it, We bring it up, we

talk about it in practice, you practice it. Um, you want to be able to get to that point in the game where you can get some turnovers, and that is something that usually comes in EBB and flows with with how that happens, and so hopefully we'll start to see that turn What I don't want to get into with that, Jeff, is something where where you start pressing right and you're trying to you can't. It'll they'll come.

They'll come when they come, as long as you talk about it, you teach it and and you just take it into the game and they'll they'll come up and it'll flip the field for the offense and we'll get more more scores as well. Yeah, pressing would lead to miss tackles and uh, you know, taking some chances you don't want to take all. Right, before we get into the Baltimore Ravens, Um, we got to talk about Clyde Emrick because Clyde Emerick will be later rest this week.

H meant a lot to me. I'll probably get choked up talking about him, but you know, when you think about it, he has had an impact on every coach from George hallis to you in the history of the Chicago Bears from nineteen sixty three when he was first introduced to him, in nineteen seventy one when he became the head strength and conditioning coach, the first of it's kind of the National Football League. What did you learn

from him? Well, you're right, it's it's a what a what an emotional time and just what what a great man that you saw around the building all the time, always had a smile on his face. The relationships that he built with with so many people in the support staff that he used to work with, and and um, I mean for somebody to be ninety years old like he was and be able to be around the building and have so much love for his Chicago Bears is special.

And anybody that you talk to, it doesn't matter whether you're in this building or you're outside or on the telephone, they all have nothing but positive things to say. And how much he impacted them. And obviously to have a nickname, the legend, that's pretty special. So um, we all love him to death. We prayers, you know, thoughts and prayers with his family, and uh, boy, it's it's it's it's hard to replace him, for sure. Question about it, all right,

John Harbaum, Baltimore Ravens. First thing you think of, much like the rest of the AFC North, physical toughness, great special teams, run the ball. And then you got, oh, by the way, a very gifted quarterback, elite athleticism, and Lamar Jackson. What are we what are we looking at here on Sunday? Yeah, well, first of all, get ready to play sixty tough minutes maybe more right. They've had some overtime games, three of them, yeah, three exactly three of them. So you got to be able to out

physical a physical football team. This is probably one that's gonna, you know, be something where all week long. The emphasis of understanding that not just physically but mentally. When you have an unbelievable player that touches the football every play like Lamar Jackson, that can beat you with his legs and his arms. Uh, Schematically, they do a great job on offense defensively, have a ton of respect for Wink Martindale.

He throws a lot of different stuff at you. Special teams as coach hardball's thing, and so there's a reason why they win a lot and they're consistent doing it, so this is this is another one of those fifth fights. This is it and we wouldn't want it any other way. It's going to challenge us and we just got to continue to play together. Miami did a heck of a

thing against Lamar Jackson. I mean it was at two level defense and they loaded up the line and had a little picket fence back there and they didn't allow them many escape routes. So there are things in there that you can use. Well, you know, anytime that you see a team have success, you're always going to see, Okay, what's the why, and then you got to see how it fits with who, what your scheme is, you know,

and defensively, and then what we want to do. So Sean, I'm sure we'll be looking at a lot of different things to be able to slow them down and stop them and then but our biggest thing is because they're such a good football team, is getting back to those three phases. But in the end, you know, we lost four four games in a row and it's time that we that we win against a really good football team and that that's going to be the automate focus and we gotta be we gotta be strong across the border.

All right, Matco luck with your preparation this week. We'll see soon, all right, Jeffs thanks for as pears head coach Mattney coming up neck Bill Laser joins the program. The Bears match up with the Ravens, brought to you by a signet the official partner of the Bears. Salute the service initiatives. Back on the Bears Coaches Show, now joined by a Bears offensive coordinator, Bill Laser. Bill, thanks for joining us. Do you enjoy your time last week? Yeah?

It was. The bike usually comes at a good time. So regrouped, ready to roll, all right. So as you thought about it, As you think about it, now, what did you learn about yourself here in the first nine games of the year, especially as a play caller. Well, I think I think we just uh, we just have to keep focused on our number one jobs. Just four enough points to wind, you know, and you never know going into the game. You have great plans, but you also have a big call sheet because games can go

in a lot of directions. Um, I think I think as we look at it, you know, we're we're we feel good about some of the run game production that we've had. We also have to have to be real honest looking in the mirror that uh in some of the games, the run game product has been good, but it hasn't It hasn't given us enough points to win the games. And we again, in the end, that's the key. So we just have to keep getting better. We got

to keep the run game production going. I think it's slowed down a little bit some of the stuff in the last couple of games, and I think the quarterback run has helped add to those add to that number. So anyway, we just have to keep rolling. And you know, we've been talking about just continuing to get that pass game production to rise to to kind of match what we're doing in the run game. I think that that'll

be key for us. Well, what happened in the second half, particularly of that game against Pittsburgh, in the moment in the crowd, and I brought this up with Matt earlier in the show, just God, it gives you so much excitement because you know you're you're you're basically five yards away from walking off that field a winner, and Justin Field has led to the most impressive scoring drive to get there. If that would have turned out that way. Yeah, I think again, you know, the key is winning, and

we didn't get it done. But if you, if you're real honest and look at some of the things that justin did that the pass off, stay in the in the second half, you have to feel like we made some progress. And so we've got to We've had time to look at it. We just have to build on it. And let's let's start uh at the beginning of the game and not have to come back right and then in the next the next handful of games. Do you do you pour over your decisions like I would be

in that situation, because that's the kind of guy. Or are you an easy guy to turn the page as a coach? Well, I think I think they're out. There aren't many games that you can come out of and say, gosh, this this is the one I didn't like, or this call. So I think they're always a handful of calls you come out of the game and you just try to

learn from them, I think more than anything else. You know, and as long as you as long as you take that mindset, because if you let it each up, well you're always going to live that way because it's you can't call the perfect game, so you just you just learn from learn from what happens, and move to the next one. Have you ever let it eat you up? And then you learned how not to? I think thinking, uh, let's see, this was sixth grade. We were we had the lead, okay, and we had the ball backed up

inside our own five and it was fourth dound. It was a tight game in the fourth quarter. And during the time out, and went to the sideline and the coaches had called display where I was in a fake into line and I was a quarterback and I was going to keep it like on a naked bootleg, and I said, why not take the safety, and they kind of gave me, no, no, just shut up, shut up, this is what we're gonna do. And so of course I got tackled it like the three yard line, and

then they scored a touchdown and beat us. And I just remember afterwards, you know, crying in the shower, just I should have just taken the safety. I knew better, you know, I knew better. So yeah, it's gotten me sometimes. That's that's sixth grade and it's still lingers. I love it. That's that's a football guy right there. Attending Sunday's game, be sure to stop by the Middle Light Ultimate Tailgate, located at the Field Museum for food, games, music, and more,

free to Bears fans of all wee use. The Ultimate tail Gate opens at ten am through one hour post game. Welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show with Bears offensive coordinator Bill Laser Justin Fields. You have this elite athlete at quarterback. He's young, he's a first round pick. You're helping Molden develop this guy on the fly, and the responsibility of that but also to the rest of the team is also foremost. But that's the most important, most

important part in sports, right that quarterback position. Do you feel all of that every day every week about developing and helping this guy get to where he needs to be? Oh, I think we just we just feel the fact that we've got to win games, and because he's at the quarterback spot, where he is in his development is critical and how we can win the games, you know. So that's that's really what we focus on right now. We're

just focus on beating the Ravens. And you look at the last few games and say, hey, this is where Justin is and how can we use that to beat them? And that's that's that's it. I mean, that's that's our job. How many times have we heard this? Two quarterbacks help raise all boats? Is that happening here? Because Cole Commet getting more active in the passing game, Alan Robinson last week. We have all these weapons, are they Do you feel that everything's starting to climb? I know they still haven't

enough points being scored. You're not winning right this moment, but do you feel positive? Well? I think I think you got to be realistic, right, we've got a winning streak started. I think we know that when the past production is in coming that all those pass catchers that you're missed that you're mentioning, they're not getting the ball,

you know. And so I think as coaches, we feel all the guys you mentioned, you know, they all want to help contribute to winning, and they can in the run game that they're blocking, but they also want to be able to contribute as far as getting the ball, and we want to get in the ball. So I think the responsibility we feel is making sure everyone has a chance to help win the game and take advantage

of those matchups. So that's you know, that's part of what we're going through right now is making sure we're giving those guys opportunities with football. What is the offensive line allowing you to do right now? And how do you think they've progressed over the course of the season. And a little shout out to Jason Peters coming in here, you know, thrown in there and at his age and experience level, really play well and have that conditioning that

he did not have in the off season. Well, to me, in this league, I think it goes under undernoticed how important the line is really. I mean, they don't get the publicity. But when they're playing well, you can run for first dounds and you can get the ball to your receivers because the quarterback has time. And really, those to me the keys. You know, you look at the Baltimore Ravens and some of the blitz looks that they

like to bring. I mean, if if we come out of this game happy with our production, it will be because we've protected the quarterback. I mean that to me really is critical. Now. Part of that is being able to run it effectively. That helps keep them off balance a little bit. If they know your phone that you play,

you know how they're going to play. So I think the way the line plays in everyone else that helps and pass protection, it's can be really big this week because because of the scheme that we're facing, there was a lot of discussion. Obviously, you're adding a bunch of burners to the roster, speed at the receiver position, out of the backfield, and with Justin now playing quarterback. Have you benefited from it enough to your satisfaction or as it tilted the field the way you maybe maybe hoped

it intended to. Well, I think overall we would all say that when your past production is so poor that you're not getting the ball to those guys enough, and we feel like there's way more production there. I think one of the things that you look at this pass game was our yards per per catch and how that really that number really jumped up for us. You know, the whole yards per attempt in the past game numbers,

I think is a real telling number. It's something we've struggled with other than in two games this year, and so we'd like to build off of those chunk plays that we're able to get to those speed ays you mentioned, you know, and for fans, you don't get into all of that. They just like watching the game and they you know, the yards per passed absolutely relates to winning, and explain why. Well, whether whether you're a team that chooses to throw it forty five times or twenty eight

times in the game. You know what it does is it just measures when you do throw it, you know how how effective are you being? And you know it takes I think a lot of other factors get taken into account, the completion percentage and then where you're throwing it down the field. And we know there have been times when our targets have been a little bit limited as far as spread in the field, and so we're trying to do a great job of being aggressive and

spreading the whole feed yield. And I think as we did that a little bit better in this last game, it showed up in the production our past Catcher's guy. If you combine all the all the math on the running backs Damien and Herbert and Montgomery and Justin, you put together an eleven hundred plush yard back with eight touchdowns and a really good average yards per carry, good stuff on first down, and we'd be talking about a guy. If that was one back, we'd be talking about him

as an MVP candidate in the league. Right, So you're getting great stuff out of the run game, Montgomery back, that effects obviously touches for Herbert. Do you feel you could use both in a manner based on matchups that that reflect a way to take advantage of them? I think so. I think if you're if you're talking about individual statistics, the number one way for guys to get good individual statistics is to get the lead in the game. Time now to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers,

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Bill Laser. That's a bunch of interesting math. Every week the league comes out with a bunch of interesting stuff that you probably don't pay any attention to. Right, Yeah, there isn't when you spend all your time trying to make first downs and touchdowns. There isn't time to read all that stuff. But the thing you know going in is that they that they have some elague players on offense that they've they've been very good at scoring points. Again, we're focusing on what we have to do to their

defense to move the ball. But we know what we know what kind of what kind of team they have, what their record is, you know what their average is, and it's our job to be ready for however the game goes. And your familiarity, certainly from a from a Bengals perspective when you were there, you know what that whole division is about, and it is about toughness and

physicality and pressure in the quarter back. Right Yeah, I mean this this defense tries what wants to be known for for blitz and uh, they'll they'll kind of live a little bit in the feast for famine world, and they certainly will put the pressure on you to have to make the play. They're going to make you prove that you can make the play against the blitz and pressure situations. That's that's since this coordinator took over, that's

kind of how how he's operated. Uh, you can tell their guys tend to take pride in it and enjoy it. They're not afraid to leave DB's on an island out there and say, okay, let's let's see if you can make the throws. Um. You know, when you look at them week to week or some weeks they play a lot of man. Some other weeks they decide to play some home. So they're they're in their coaches meetings right now just like we are. They're deciding how they're going

to play us. But we know, we know there'll be plenty of blitz calls on that on that call sheet on game day for him if he chooses to use them. All right. Lastly, are there things that Lamar Jackson does that Justin you would like Justin to watch and see how he attacks? Oh? I don't know. You know, I don't know about that. I guess you don't have to

ask Justin how if he studied them or not. I think I just think to me, Justin especially recently has shown uh the ability to be an NFL quarterback and his ability to play from the pocket, to use play action,

to throw on time. You know, like we talked about this week, he really was able to spread the ball across the whole field, and then with his ability to run, he also was able to do some things from the backfield from the shotgun where he either pulled the ball or made decisions to give the ball in some of the read game that I thought, you know, was really

good and put pressure on the defense. So to me, all those things are going to keep developing for him, you know, and week to weeks to be a little bit different. Challenges guys will will they'll be challenging and his ability to defeat the blitz and that will be the number one thing both and how we protect it and then how he handles it. So it'll be interesting to see. All right, Bill, good luck with your preparation this week. We'll talk to you down the road. Thanks, Jeff,

appreciate it as Bears offensive coordinator, Bill Laser. Okay, that's gonna wrap up tonight's program. Thanks to our producers Andy Gersher, Keith Johnson, Katie Tuber, Jordan Trento, and Dan Barelli. Bears Ravens Sunday, nine am. The pregame Newing the kickoff from Soldier Field. That's going to do it for me. I'm Jeff Joniak, thanks for listening to everybody. This has been the Bears Coaches Show on news Radio one oh five nine WDBBM. Good night, everybody,