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How are you doing? Jeff doing okay? What do you left feeling about this loss and how it all transpired yesterday? Yeah, Well, just like we would saying on a win, it's always great to coach off of a win. It always stinks coaching off of a loss. And you know, there's a lot of reasons for that. I think, you know, all three phases, we could have played better in different areas. You look at the positives and I feel like offensively, which has been the struggle for a lot of this year,

that we at times did play better. You can see flashes of what we know we can be situationally on fourth down, towards the end of the game, we converted some fourth downs and then you know, the big third down to give Kyra that chance to get a fifty one yard field about the end of the game. That was some of the good. Some of the bad was the fact that just not being able to finish, and that's kind of the methods to our team this week

and then rally and stick together and fight through this. Yeah, a lot of self inflicted wounds really all season long that really have hampered the progress, I would say offensively. Some mistakes, and those create difficulties for everybody across the board. Yeah,

the mistakes. You know, the teams that don't have as many mistakes usually wind up having staying ahead of the chains, not putting themselves in holes and being third and long second along, and you saw there were some instances yesterday where that was the case. And so one of the biggest things that we need to do is understand that we need to be a team in discipline, and we've already talked about that this morning of where we're at and where it needs to go moving forward if we

want to be successful. And that's something you really haven't experienced with so many different situations like this with penalties and faulse starts and those types of things that will hamper progress. It's new to you a little bit. How do you how do you process that as the head coach? Well, one of the things you do is you talk about being mentally tough, and um, you know when you're when

you're mentally tough, those things don't happen. And again, there's a fine line when you're a head coach and when you're a coach in general, when you start talking about players and where they're at and you know the effort of guys. That's the one thing with our guys and none of that is from effort. Our guys care immenseally and so we just got to lock in a little bit better. We got to hone in on the details

a little bit more. Whatever we're doing now, we've we've gone through eight games and we're sitting at five and three. The luxury for us is that we fast. We started fast. Now the next challenge for us is how are we going to finish. We want to focus on this coming week and we want to be able to put ourselves in a situation where we regain that momentum. You know,

a lot of this is based, you know. So I did an interview with somebody today and they talked about the game was really four games in one, and it made sense to me a little bit. And that goes back to sequencing. So as you try and play complimentary pause, you know that that involves sequencing to help get everything going in the right direction. So how do you solve the sequencing aspect of more consistency? Yeah, I think it's

like what you're saying is like complimentary football. Um. It's like when you're in a you know, a golf scramble and you got somebody that can drive well and somebody that can put well. I mean that's kind of how it is. And when you when you have your offense, when they're getting a turnover right, or they get a turnover inside of the red zone, is the offense turning that into a touchdown or are they missing the putt

and kicking the field goal? You know? Um, is the offense um being able to get in rhythm and get you know, get some first downs and give a rest to the defense so that when they come out, they're really coming off the ball. And it's complimentary football, and the more complimentary football, you have, the more successful have, because good things will go your way, all right. So if I had you in my scramble, are you teeing off or are you as you your short game? Or

are you putting for me? I am not putting. I can tell you that right now. I'm not doing any

of the three for you, So don't invite me. What is the you know, the good news is, and there always is some silver lining you must take into the next meeting, the next practice, the next game, and that is there was some breaking open of the run game against a very good historically run defense is now forty nine games deep and not allowing a one hundred yard back that goes back to the nineteen seventy Cowboys, believe it or not. So you did get close to that,

and David Montgomery did in particular. Yeah, And I think that's one of the positives that we took out of this was that. Yeah. You know, I thought even taking out that thirty eight yard run by David, in general, you felt more five yard pops. You know, it didn't feel like it was just one yard or you know, two yards. There were some good runs in there, and I compliment one. And there's a alignment for fighting through that and getting that done. We do believe that we

can be even better. It's going to help our past came out. We got a shore up some things on the front in regards to letting some guys get through every now and then on that offensive line, and our guys know that. But once we get that short up, I think we can start really putting things together and just continue to believe and stay positive. The other silver lining to me is you do dig holes as a team. You dig some holes, but you dig out of those holes and you make it interesting. So can you build

on that? We can. And when you look at this thing, it's like, Okay, you're down ten points with nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and as long as you put a good drive together, you have a chance. And again that's what we did. We put together. We strung together a nice drive from about the twenty five yard line. We went the whole way down the field and on third and goal from the three or four

we scored a touchdown and we capped it off. And now you at least give yourselves a chance with three timeouts and then two minute morning to get the ball back and to go down and at worst kick a field goal, and that's what we ended up doing. We gave ourselves a chance to go to overtime against a pretty good football team with a pretty good quarterback. And so now we got to finish. And again we got to that point. Our defense did their job. They gave the ball back to the office. They held him with

not scoring. The offense now has go ahead, go down there, take the ball down and scoring overtime. We didn't do it. So we've now checked that box off of being in overtime. We know how that feels, we know what it's like, so now we can hopefully use that for us down the road. I had the conversation go with Jevan Willmas. Well, you know it's uh John as he should feels really bad about what happened. He knows he's a bigger and

better person than what his action showed yesterday. But it uh, you know, it was a discussion that he was very apologetic and understands, um you know that he shouldn't have done that and those that you know, there'll be certain consequences moving forward, whether it's through the league and or US. I decided to go with a different puntment return or how did that work out with Dwayne Harris? Yeah, I thought Dwayne did a really good job. I'll tell you what.

There's a few there just being down on the sideline where I thought he was just gonna let it go, and then a second he goes and gets it. And you can tell one thing's for sure. This guy's been doing it for a while because he has he is completely fearless. He does not care about his body. He's gonna catch the football and he's gonna you know, he's gonna save a lot of a field position. Fulls looking to throw in plenty of time, launching deep down the

middle of the field for Mooney. He's got it inside of the Saints twenty five. There you go, Fulls to Mooney, the rookie in the big play. Make sure to get up for the Chicago Bears regular season with Jersey's caps and other mustafs from the official Chicago Bears Pro Shop. Shop now at Store dot We've been waiting for Chicago Bears dot com. Back of the Bears Coaches Show with Coach Naggy, brought to you by Whippley, CPAs and Consultants.

I'm Jeff Joniac a shining star brewing for Darnell Mooney, a fifth round pick who never felt like one and is not playing like one. One of the top young receivers in the league so far through the first half of the season and building momentum a fifty yard pass play and a touchdown where he said he knew he was gonna catch the pass. It was just a matter of patience for it to get there. I mean, I'm not calling this kid cocky. I'm calling it professional confidence.

How you like that, Yeah, No, I really liked that a lot. I think when that ball left and was in the air, you could see that he has some leverage on the corner and they took that safety and they cut the crossing route by a rob which Nick made a really really really strong throw, hitting him and stride, and then you know, he made a contested catch. So

we need to get more of those. It stretches the defense vertically, it opens up It helps open up the run game when you do that, and you don't just throw balls at ten yards And you know, we trial on one later in the game and just missed it a little bit inside. But now we really like where Moody's at and getting Anthony Miller, which is somebody that you know I have talked about a lot with you

and hoping that he would have a breakout moment. Is this maybe similar to a first step to what happened in the final five games of last season when he got chances and he made it happen. He had five or seventy three and that fifteen yard reception to set up the Santos game tank field goal was big. Yeah, I hope. So I was really proud of Anthony yesterday. He played a really strong game. He did a lot of things the right way. He's he's our energy, you know,

in that offense. He's a guy that just plays really hard every single play. It's never because of lack of effort with him, you know, he wants the ball every play. And so I'm proud of him from yesterday, and we want to just keep growing, all right. So you can talk about Alan Robinson all day long and some of his good catches in the end zone over the course

of his stay here with you. But that diving catch, but the route on Marshawn Lattimore equally impressive, as was the throw break all that down for us, and what you thought of that touchdown. Sure. Yeah, it was a corner route and they played man and so Lattimore had outside leverage and a Rob who's really difficult to press, got off a good free release, got vertical and then went ahead and game a little shimmy at the top and which creates the angle for the quarterback to know

where to throw it. So when you pause that film and you see when Nick let that and go, a Rob was nowhere close to where he ended up being. And so that's an anticipatory throw that Nick had he trusted Abe to get to that spot. I think that's a growth between those two guys that we can use going forward here. And then the effort of a Rob to dive out layout literally be parallel to the ground, have strong enough hands to make the catch, finish the catch.

That was a huge series for us. Is one of the connection points with Nick and his receivers tight ends running backs is that and correct me if I'm wrong, But he's an area thrower, get there? Do they still

have to learn that about him? Sure? And that's where when you throw it to an area, you want to make sure that that area is the same area that your wideouts are thinking and that's part of the process of them understanding how this system works, the timing of where the ball is supposed to be and where the route is supposed to be, matching ad up and making

sure it fits. They're working through that. I do think there's a lot of progressions routes and concepts that were running where you're starting to see that ross element really go a lot higher. And when that park gets really good than it just only helps improve our offense be a lot better. Is your desire as an offensive plate caller head coach to have an area passer? Number One, it helps out your O line because the balls out you're not holding on to the ball until he's open.

And then number two, it's hard on the defense. So I mean, you look at some of these guys across the league that have been doing it for years and years, and the one guy from playing against him for a lot of years was Philip Rivers. You know, Philip Rivers throws the spots and it's harder and not everyone's going to be perfect, but when when you do make that throw like Nick did for that touchdown, it's almost undefendable.

Is there any way to help from a quarterback's perspective, Jimmy Graham as tall as he is, it's amazing he hasn't been hurt more in his career because they were chopping him low. And can you throw the ball to him to help protect himself because I mean he easily could have suffered injuries on three catches yesterday. Yeah, for sure.

And you know he's been dealing without his whole career here because his height has always been a six seven, six eight type guy basketball player that can you know our football player that can be really good at basketball? Should saying. But again, him and Nick are really find in their mash and there's a couple of throws here there that Nick Probor wents back. There's a couple of routes here there that Jimmy would want back to run

a little different. But yeah, you're right, there was a couple that went low on him, and fortunately enough he came out healthy overall. Do we have any insight on the offensive line injuries with Bobby Massey in particular, Yeah, nothing yet, definite. I mean, Andre's still going he has a lot of stuff he's going through right now. And you know this early to day after, we don't have any updates for you yet, but we certainly well here.

You know, as the days go by, handing off, Montgomery hit the first any more hits the guest of the forty to the thirty of the states, hintser the twenty and fuckled down near the fifteen of the fourteen yard line, a third in one run. Then David Montgomery rips up a beauty. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whipple, the CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whipley dot com. We just heard the David Montgomery thirty eight yard run which

we referenced Matt in the previous segment. That was on a third and one. That's an example of what third and manageable can do for you. No, that was a big play, and I was really happy to see David get one of those type of runs. You know, I think it's good first confidence the O line on just a simple dive play being able to wash him down. You know, you had Cordiroll Patterson going around on a toss and you could get. All you needed was those linebackers to just move a little bit to their left.

Our right, and then David can do the rest. And that's what he did. That suck defense real quant Smith all over the place. Levin tackles the rain, showing up still reading it coming downhill with purpose, tough assignment at Alvin Kamara and Jared Cook at times. And the play of Danny Trevathan that one play was significant and really showed that looks like he's got his burst back now.

It might have been his best defensive play of the year. Yeah, you're right, Jeff, I think personally that from talking to our coaches as well in the defense side of the ball, that combined between Roquan and Danny, this was their combined best game of the season. They really played well. I mean, Quans been playing really fast with a lot of confidence. He did that yesterday. And then there's some times where Danny was left in space to tackle a wide receiver

back and he made that tackle. And when you have that along with the other strengths that he has a linebacker, he combined him with Roquan in there, they're definitely forced to be reckoning. Cairo Santos says it may have been, and he can't think of any more challenging. Windy day. There have been colder days, but not a windier day, and that's got to give you and him a great deal of confidence moving forward because he is on a roll.

He's fourteen of sixteen and ten in a row. And when we're talking fifty plush yarders in that kind of condition, you can kick anywhere. Then I'll tell you what it's. It's it's a shame that we lost that game because with everything that we've been through here the last couple of years, with the kicking situation, I'm super proud the way that Cairo has handled everything, um to the kick

city's made. He's shown up to be able to kick a fifty one yard or in the wind that was in there yesterday, to have a to have a time out called after you made it, to come back and hit another one. Uh, If that doesn't get your confidence going as a team, as a player, as a coach, as a city, I'm just proud of him, and we're gon we're gonna need him moving forward and be able to rely on. It's a weird year with the trading deadline coming up and what the ramifications are in terms

of the cap for next year. There's already a bunch of deals going on earlier today. Is there anything you need? You're not gonna tell me specifically what it is, but you do collaborate with your general manager Ryan Pace. You guys talk Is there anything you'd like to have if if at all possible? Yeah, I would just say that that you know, for me, UM, I have ultimate trust and Ryan and his guys are They look through everything.

They look at every position, regardless of a team in need or a better player if it makes sense that that can make us better as wee now, but also makes sense financially. Um. And what's the draft capital that you have? We're always looking at everything. So well, we'll probably get together a little bit here after after uh, you know, the day keeps going and then UM reconvene on all that stuff. I gotta talk to you about the third quarter just season long? How penetratingly challenging is

that at this point because it's eight games and seven points? Yeah, it's it's, uh, it is, it's very challenging. UM. It's it's uh, you gotta be able to score coming out at half. It's a momentum type deal as well. It's fuel position, UM, and we are looking into all of that. We've been looking into it. It's just really strange right now. Um,

but it's the first half of the season. So our goal right now is to say, Okay, let's go back and look at what the teams that are doing really well in the third quarter, what are they doing, and uh, is there something that we're missing schematically? Is something we're missing, you know, as simple as this, Jeff, It could be are we coming out of the locker room too late, for instance, Like those are the little things. It could be just be a couple of minutes to where your

mind's right and you're set and all that stuff. So we've done that, We've already fixed that and thought of that. But those are examples, and we certainly need to be better, and not just on offense, but on defense as well. We got to be better in that area. Do you script or have you ever scripted a second half? Start? Yeah?

We do. And again, the other part of this too is sometimes we'll put together a first half and a second half, and then we'll also get together and talk through some of the unscattered looks that we're seeing in the first half, and then we work off of that. Now they do the same thing on defense. And then there's some stuff that we did in the game in the first half that you really liked it. Maybe you

didn't think you did, or vice versa. But really, when it comes down to it, when you look at the teams that are having success, they're staying away from negative plays, they're staying away from penalties. If you do that, you'll have a good chance to score. Lastly, we're down the Titans. I think they take them in the mentality of their head coach and coach Rabel. You know, he have an identity that they're gonna beat you with the ground and pound and then but then don't trust me. They're really

good at play action passes too. I mean, I think Kenyon Hill is doing a great job at being able to work off of off in that run game, and it gets you going, get you going, get you going, stopping a run, stopping a run, stopping a run, and all of a sudden, over the top comes to play action. All right, Matt, thank you very much. Good luck with

your prep this week. Thanks Jeff calling all Bears fans age five to twelve to join the Chicago Bears Kids Club, brought to you by jewel Osco for exclusive content and sweepstakes. Visit Chicago Bears dot com Slash Kids Club. We continue with the Bears coach you show. Welcome now by Bears offensive porting er Bill Laser. We're brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants. Good evening, How you doing doing

just great? How about you? No complaints? No complaints yesterday? Obviously, there's a lot of good things to focus on that I'd like to start with. To me, there's building blocks offensively that really should give the players and yourself as coaches confidence that hey, okay, we're doing something here that we haven't been doing. Let's continue in the right direction for you. What would those be? Oh? I thought I

thought we gained some confidence. Um, we You know, confidence is really an interesting thing in sports, right, certainly in pro football. You think, hey, these guys are are the best of the best. They're probably were dominant players and in high school, they're dominant players in college. But that's that's what lets them get to this level. Uh, they should these guys should should have great confidence. But but it's a long season and then you go through uh

highs and lows. Right, the best teams kind of stay steady and just keep improving. But the reality is everyone goes through certain highs and lows, and and when when you're feeling that low, uh, it's it's impossible, in my opinion, to talk someone into being confident, right, they have to earn it. And I just felt like on the sideline, uh, we we got that look back in our eye a little bit, you know, and you saw it at the

end of the game, at the end of regulation. We had to come back and uh get a couple drives together to score to send it over time. I kind of saw that again in the guy's eyes. So I feel, you know, it's a little bit of a hard thing to measure, right, it doesn't show up on the stat sheet, but I saw it in the rye. So I felt good about that. Obviously, everyone feels good that the run game production increased. I mean, over overall, our numbers increased.

I mean, we just we just have to understand in the year twenty twenty in the NFL, there's certain amount of points you're gonna have to score to win. It's easier when you score them early, right and let our you know, play the team game and let your defense feed off of it. And but if whether you have to do it early or do it late, we just have to get to that right number of points. We don't always make the perfect decisions, but we sure spend a whole lot of time trying to get guys in

the right spots. But um, yeah, it's a long season and we're just we're just hungry, you know. We put a lot of work in, The players put a lot of work in. We're hungry to get to get back in the on the right side of the wind lost column. Also, I think there was a shot of you with the offense all gathered around you on the sidelines. Is that what you're referring to when you got to look in the eye, because that's the best way to gauge. No, Actually, when they have that right, I don't have to do

anything at all. They have that looking right, that's the easy time. Uh. You know. That was that was after after a crazy you know, a crazy penalty and a turnover, and I think as a staff we just felt like, let's make sure nothing spirals out of control. But I can tell you as we got together and it wasn't for very long, just to make sure we were poised as a group that everyone could have their head in the right spot. I walked away from it saying, no,

they're good. Really they were fine. But you know, we as coaches, you when you when you see that that kind of thing happened, you just want to make sure it doesn't it doesn't start spiraling. But I think we have a high character group and we've got some veteran guys and they're they're not going to let things get

out of control like that. So it was unfortunate we had that, you know, that the section of a couple of plays and everything that happened, But I think it was right after that we gathered up and no problem. Coach were good and they were good, you know, and that and the Javan wims Uh action that could that could go one of two ways too, And just as viewing it from even my position as play by play with with Tom as color, you're like, oh no, don't do that because it just kind of felt like it

was starting to come a part of the seams. Do you feel that as well as coaches where you have to interject, Well, we did at that point we did interject, you know, gather them up to interject, But as we gathered together there was no panic for them. They also saw what happened. They probably felt the same the same thing that you and I felt, which was, hey, don't let this don't let this thing go right now, guys.

But we had enough guys that were that were of the same mindset as us as we can't let this go. So we I think we walked away from that meeting. Hey, let's get back to business. Fules goes in there, have gone back to his right, Three receivers to the left side, snap back, big strong push again by Jordan throwing out round deerside. Anthony Miller. Did he get his feet down at the thirty two three yard line of the Saints, And he did? Anthony Miller on a very tight area.

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final five games he really poured it on. Could this be a starting point for Anthony Miller to start becoming more of a factor. Well, I have high, high expectations for Anthony. I thought, you know, it's one of those games where you just had a feeling that he was going to show up. And it's hard to explain why. Some of it is the matchup, some of it. I thought he had a good week of practice and so it just ended up being one of those games where

he was getting open in the slot. There were some times where the way the play worked out, the ball went elsewhere, but man, he might have run a great route, you know. And so you see that from the sideline of looking at the pictures, how open he got early in the game, and you just it was just one of those days you felt like like it was going to come back to him. And obviously real, real big play there at the end. A new number of big plays, but the last one to get some field goal range,

real big. I have been asked more about Darnell Mooney than any Bear in the last two years. There's this unbelievable attraction to a fifth round pick. Probably that's probably why, because people look at fifth round, sixth round picks say, oh, it would be nice if he Ben's player. But he's making plays, big plays as a rookie. And it's that quiet confidence and what I call professional confidence, not cockiness,

that seems to be carrying the day for him. What are you learning about him that maybe people shouldn't be surprised at the thing you saw right away was uh, seriousness about football, real aptitude mentally for learning. Uh. And then you have a great mixture on the when he gets on the grass, a great mixture of both speed and quickness and the ability to put put them together, which you know, it's it's it's not everybody has that,

right Um. And then I think, here, now as we go, you just you just you remember the very first game of the season, he caught the ball kind of down on one knee or went down to one knee and

immediately popped up and ran right. So with with no preseason where oftentimes those guys from college usually in that first preseason game, someone on your team is gonna get the ball, fall down or slip and and and think he's in college and just think he's down already, right, and then that teaches him, Oh no, no, this is the NFL. You have to get up and run. He had none of that preseason, and it didn't matter. Of the very first capacity caught on one, he popped up, boom,

turning ran. So he has a great awareness about him, really mature beyond his NFL age. So I only I only expected to get better. Let's talk Nick Foles Matt today, in his news conference with the media and his zoom meeting earlier in the day, they're trying to pepper him with questions about what they believe they see, but it's different from what coaches see or what they need to see, or what is designed to see that maybe the average

person doesn't see. So from that point of view, Matt says, Hey, we trust what we see, and how would you amplify that thought? Regarding Nick in terms of the sacks and some of the throws he makes. I thought you were going to tell me what they saw. I would prepare me for my press. Yeah, well, you know I think that. Listen. I think the reaction of the sacks is a guy not as mobile as other quarterbacks or in the case

here of Mitch. But you know, could he could he have avoided some of those by just getting rid of the football, And Matt pointed to it. Maybe one of the five, but not all of the five. Oh, I think you know we talk about about past protection has taken all eleven. You know, you try to put some some responsibility on the receivers to run the routes quickly because of the pressure he's under. And um, there's definitely

shared responsibility between the quarterback and the blockers. So I mean, if you really went through with sat with Nick with a fine toothcum, I'm sure he'd probably take more responsibility than he should for it, you know, because he's that

kind of guy. He's a team guy, so there's always shared responsibility at the same time, Uh, you know, Nick, Nick's one of those guys who kind of I mean, he's a big man, right, He's not easy to take down, so he also kind of feels like he can make a play, and you don't want to take all that away from him either, So he is he has a real ability to slide in the pocket and move and just find that spot. If he can find a soft

spot and still make the throw down the field. So every play that isn't right out on time on him. A quarterback then has to get into the situation of, Okay, is this one where I stay alive for a little bit and I can make a big play for us? Where is this one where I throw away and live the next play? And there's no one formula for that because every play, every pass rush, every route is different. And so you know, that's that's why these guys are

NFL quarterbacks. They figure that thing out as they go. We try to help them and direct them, but once the bullets start flying, they've got a lot of decisions to make about that stuff out there. And I have great confidence in Nick in his ability to help the protection with the throwaways, and so he will. I mean, he's just like all of us. He's trying to do the right thing to get the job done. And sometimes it's throw away and sometimes it's keep it alive and

make a play. All right? How about talked about third quarter? Have you ever in your career seen one quarter be so difficult for a football team in seven points? And it's almost unbelievable. Matt's never felt anything like this before, and it's it's a really a head scratcher. How how do you look at it? Seven points in eight games.

I really felt like it was one of those things where once we finally scored, that whole thing would go, you know, because there's no certainly we have the best and brightest minds working on is there is there a concrete reason, you know, And so far the best and

brightest haven't been able to find one for us. But I just I just think, um, when you when you're in a rut like we've certainly been offensively, when you look at the numbers and then there are a lot of those, a lot of those uh, a lot of those little things here and there start creeping up and becoming big deals. They get glossed over a little bit more when you're winning and you're putting up yards and points.

So let's just let's just make them make them uh you know, uh, obsolete facts by by scoring and winning and then and then we'll just let it take care of itself. Starting in Nashville on Sunday, how about it against Tennessee Titans. Give us a quick sneak peek of what you know about this Mike Rabel coach defense. Oh, I mean I think everyone took a lot of uh notice of them last year as a team. I think, you know, I think they're they're a well coached team,

and I think they play really hard. Um you know, I think, uh, they're one of those places that now from AFAR, it looks like as a as a as a organization, they're they're starting to expect to win, you know, and they've earned that, and so I think that that shows up in their play. When you when you watch the sacks that they've made, it's a lot of high effort sacks where guys are kind of pushing through double

teams and and out work in the offense. When you when you watch the interceptions that they're that they've made so far this year, I mean, if the ball gets tipped up into the air, they intercept it. It's amazing how many tip balls right now they've intercepted. And generally, but that's talking about it's usually that happens on the defense.

Who plays smart plays with their eyes in the right spot, so that so that defenders are when the balls in the air, they're all looking at the quarterback, at the ball, at the receiver. They're seeing it. Also when that balls tip man they're ready to react and go get it. So, you know, I just think I think they're They're a defense that is going to be a real challenge for us, you know, tough and physical on the front and smart with a number of interceptions, so I think it's gonna

be a dog fight. Yeah, they lead the league and pass breakups, passes defense, So to your point about the tip passes. All right, Well, good luck in your preparation this week. Thank you all as always for joining us, and we'll talk to you soon. All right, thanks my pleasure. That's a rap on today's Bears Coaches Show. Want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up, Dan BURRILLI and Andy Gersher and Keith Johnson. Bears Titans pregame at nine, kickoff at noon for the Bears and Tennessee for head coach

Matt Nagge an offensive coordinator Bill Laser. I'mjeff Jonaghak, wishing you a pleasant, good evening. This is News Radio seven eighty and one or five point nine FM WBB. I'm good night.