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Colt will break that down on our third segment today. Bill Lazier, the Bears offensive coordinator, checks in at the bottom of the hour. First of all, how do you encapsulize? What is three victories? Like you guys have accomplished two on last place stops, comebacks twice from sixteen down. We got to come up with a nickname for these guys. Cardiac Kids was the Browns back of the day with Brian Pipe. I don't know if you remember him, but the comeback Kids. We got a lot of names we

could throw around. You got one cooking. I don't I know this. So it's been it's been a lot of fun knowing that when we win these games, we can go celebrating Club dub I mean to win the games is what's been a lot of fun for us. On the sideline. I wish we could have our fans that are with us to be supportive of it and be

a part of it. But they're all different, you know, in regards to we don't really want to have a trend here get behind sixteen points in a fourth quarter, but that's what's happened, and our guys have been able to fight back. It's the first time in history. By the way, you listen to this stat I know you're not a big, big numbers guy, but down sixteen to start the fourth one hundred forty five times in franchise history. Team's record prior to this year was one and one

forty four. It's twenty ten matts. There have been six hundred and forty eight times, the teams only have won six times. The Bears have won it twice. So how

do you put that in perspective about this bunch. Yeah, it's crazy to think about just because when you're you're you know, the first time in Detroit, when we're down, then you come back and it happened so quick, and you know, defense got turnover's offensive scoring and making our kicks, and all of a sudden, before you know it, you have the lead and it's like, okay, let's through that again. And then you have your second game against the Giants and it comes down the last play of the game

and a tale of two halves. And then this this h this past weekend, similar type deal. You know, here we are in the fourth quarter and all of a sudden, momentum starts to change a little bit and you can feel it. And by the time that we got that football, that punt, they punted the ball to us. Outside of two minutes, I think there was not one person on that sideline that knew that we were not going to go down there. And when we all knew that we were going to go down there and win this game,

we just felt it. And there's a belief, there's a trust. There's something about this team, like I said yesterday, that's just a little bit special, and I don't know what it is, but it's it's powerful and I love being a part of it. And it's just a credit to all these players and coaches. All Right, Matt, you did have the conversation with Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Foles. The

turn to Nick Foles. Now, if you can explain your decision making after minuting with your coaches and then what the individual conversations were like, if you could share a little bit about that. Sure, Yeah, Well, first of all, you know, what we ended up doing in the decision that we're making is what we're doing is making it for the best of the team, you know, and I think that's what's um In this profession, you do have to have difficult discussions with players, and especially when you

build these tight relationships with them. Fortunately for us, both of these guys, Nick and Mitch are really good people, and they're both competitors. They both want to be the guy, but they also understand. You know, it was having discussions with him when you had to announce, when we had to announce the starter after training camp was an important discussion for both of them. They both handled it really well. And now to have this again with them moving forward here,

they've they've done the same thing. You know, just talking to to Mitchell Um, he understands it. He doesn't like it, he's he wishes it was something different, but he's handled it as best as he can and I think it definitely makes a lot easier when you have somebody as supportive as Nick has been to him as when Nick

was the backup. And I know that Mitchell handled this the right way and would be just as supportive to Nick as we move forward here again with Nick just I think the biggest thing for Nick and myself as a play caller is just knowing that we're going to learn what's best and how he works best, what he likes best, and it'll take a little bit of time, but I think yesterday was just a little snippet of

how things can go. And it's just a healthy quarterback room right now, and I know Nick's excited to get going when you make that change, and you felt the juice immediately. You know, when you think about it, it was five touchdown throws. You know, one was taken away by the interception by the Nard that's a debatable one obviously, the drop by Anthony Miller. So in six drives, five touchdown drives, which was what you've been preaching all along.

This season has to be about touchdowns. And you look at how the league is forming at the moment, whether it be COVID related and no offseason or the reality teams are popping the scoreboard. Is that move is much a part of this than anything. Yeah, I think you

bring up a good point. You know, in six possessions to have five five times at that ball ended up in the end zone with two of them being called touchdowns and both of them being called back, there's something to that, And I think you could just feel that, and that's you know, it's a credit to Nick and to these players of in that fourth quarter to be aggressive, to take shots we had to, And I think that that's kind of the DNA of who he is and what we want to be about. And and so that's

a start. When you look at Mitchell Trubisky and he did try to push the ball down the field and it's been a continuing kind of issue for Mitch hitting those deep out routes and some of those deep balls are just a little off. Is that something that he can work on and get in tune with And what are you telling him to be ready because the fact of the matter is he has to be ready in a moment's notice here. Yeah, for sure. I think Number one is in this situation, when you're told you know

that you're you're going to be the backup. There's a lot of motion that go through your head, and you know, there's there's frustration, there's disappointment. But once you get through that, now you got to pick yourself back up and realize what we're all about and how we're going to do things. And you just said it, You're you're literally one play away,

and so you've got to be mentally strong. You gotta be mentally all there, and then if and when that time comes again for you, you know, take it by storm. So he'll be good. I know he'll handle it the right way, and I'm proud of how he's handled it so far. Falls has made thirteen starts in the last five years, not including the Super Bowl run, and forty eight in his career. We look at him as a veteran backup, but what does he have that he's quipped

to be a starter for the rest of this season. Well, the biggest thing, Jeff, is that the amount of experience that he has, He's really seen in all the years he's been in this league, a bunch of different defenses. He's been in some different offenses. He now has enough time here in Chicago to understand the timing of how these wide receivers run a route. He's learned that. And I think his biggest strength is at the line of scrimmage,

so he sees defenses really well. That's a strength of his and so when you have that, you want to be able to use that and you're able to play fast. And it's just with some of the big time games he's had, he does it. Well. Here's the snap. Good rush they throw, as he said, into the end zone, touchdown, middle of the end zode. How beautiful pro ball, Dann. The Bears have the lead a stirring performance by Nick Foles in the offense three fourth quarter touchdowns, including the

game winner right there to Anthony Miller. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggie. I'm Jeff Joniak. Does your Chicago Bears fandom go beyond the game? The NFL Fan of the Year contest aims to celebrate extraordinary fans you inspire others through football. Visit NFL dot com slash Fan of the Year. Now, let's talk about that play. Because I love x's and o's as much as anybody, and I really work hard to try to

understand him. But when you are in a huddle and you tell a guy, hey, run to the L, I have a feeling they're gonna bring extras, And they bring the six and the blitz is coming from the rookie linebacker and he waits as long as he possibly can to hang in the pocket and folds finds Anthony Miller at the L. That's like goal, go down the street, hit the the oldsmobile, the red one down the corner, and then make an incut as a coach and just a guy who's a total jim rat like yourself. How

fun is that to hear that? Yeah, it's pretty it's

pretty cool. And then what's crazy, Jeff, is that that all that conversation went down and during that two minute warning that TV time out, so as everybody's at a TV time out, we're out on the huddle, and uh, you know, Nick is talking through with the guys as to what could happen, and we were able to get a little bit of a pre snap read as to what we thought they might do before the two minute warning him and so, uh you know, there he is being able to tell these guys, Hey, this is how

I'm gonna do it. This is the mechanics of how we're gonna do it, and the you know a lot of times if you end up getting to a certain play at the line of scrimmage, sometimes the defense can show you a look and then they can get out of it because they know you're you're checking and you're making an audible But if you do it discreetly and you do it quick, they can't get out of it.

And that's essentially what happened. And so, knowing that that was going to be the case, he then took it to the next level and tell Anthony, hey, we're gonna get him on this, and then run to the L because I'm gonna have to get rid of the ball quick if it's cover zero, and I'm gonna throw it to a spot and you run to that L and you catch the ball. And that's what happened. And so

when you see that, it's really special. So we should explain the atl is how Atlanta refers to itself here in twenty twenty with new uniforms and whatnot, and it's at atl in the end zone. But those landmarks, is it's that simple sometime to create those landmarks as opposed to all the crazy language in Chinese that you guys

throw at these players in the huddle. Yeah, you know what, it can get a little crazy when you're when you're looking at it from the film view the All twenty two or from you looking from our TV cut up versus when you're down on the field, you know. And so it's just really simple when when a quarterbacker, when Nick says, hey, into the l there's a spot, there's a landmark in the end zone that's as an L there. Just run to that and the ball be there, and

that's what happened. And you know, it's sometimes you can make the game a little easier and then that's what Nick did. Sometimes simple is better. But when you talk to Nick then afterwards about that play, what's he tell you, because now you could have a good laugh about it and you got to win. Well, yeah, I mean it's always great when it's completed and when it's a game winner. You know, it's it's just what it's a memory you

always keep. And you know, just talking to Nick after the game, he's had a lot of big moments now in his career. He's had a lot of highs and uh, you know, he may mention to me that that's one of his favorite plays that he's been a part of. And so to hear that in the first game with him as a Chicago Bear, you know, and to come back and win, like that's pretty pretty cool. So you do reap what you saw good or bad in this game.

What is what you reap from that in terms of his teammates and now moving forward as you prepare for him as a starter for the time with the Chicago Bears and getting starter snaps in practice, sure, I think again, and all of this too is all these quarterbacks are a little bit different. And one of one of Nick's strengths that he has is is um you know, and he's been doing it his whole career is being able to um uh maybe give a wide receiver a specific

route within the play call. And because he does, he's one of his strengths to seeing defenses really well and he knows where where they're coming from, and maybe a blitz coming from the field or it's coming from the boundary, he sees it. And he's not always right. But what what I think you saw yesterday in that fourth quarter was our wide receivers just knowing Okay, uh, be ready any at all times there could that ball could come to you and when maybe in a normal situation it doesn't.

And that's no slight against Mitch at all. There's a lot of quarterbacks that that aren't to that point that that Nick is, And so I think some of our wide receivers and tight ends are realizing, hey, there might be a progression into play where I'm number three and

I'm getting I'm getting the ball. Seeing that cover two beater to ted Kin Junior, you said is your favorite play when you met the media earlier today, Why is that your favorite throw and play when the protection's right and you know what to attack when they're doing cover two like that, those pockets are open on that side

of the field. Yeah, I just thought, Jeff did that that moment that play, You know, you don't always get Usually there's nine or ten guys that do it do it right within a play, and there's always one or two that are a little bit off. But that play there, man, they were Our guys were cooking. They they everybody was doing their job. Everything was on time and it's hard to stop when you're on time and end rhythm. It

was just everything about that play was good. And then to throw on top of it that it was fourth and six to keep the drive going. We had to have that. And and so I just I love when a play comes together when you visualize it and then when you execute it. It's really it's really neat to see third and seven from the twenty six yard line left Hash Ryan and the gun pourvn On third Downny he is in trouble and Donny goes. They climb over

the top and bring him down. Keep Hicks and I'm a sack three and a half a half shy of the league lead right now as the Bears get ready to meet the Indianapolis coach. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Naggie. I'm Jeff Joniak and welcome. Brought to you by Whippley Cepas and Consultant's a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Learned More and Whippley dot Com Bill Laser coming up at the bottom of the hour. Let's talk about the pressure because

I can't wait to see it. Maybe you've already told it up on how many pressures or hurries the front gave yesterday to Matt Ryan because at different points of the game. Let's take the first drive of the game out of it and the opening drive of this third quarter out of it, because I felt it really made him jump in there and feeling uncomfortable. Without a doubt, I think we had seven team pressures. We ended up getting them into a sixty seven point seven rating. We

had some sacks, some hits. You felt that at all times, and even Jeff that third quarter, that first drive of the third quarter we got off the field and unfortunately we had a late hit or not a late hit but UNSPORTSMLI conduct on ninety six. So with Akim Hicks and you really really felt at all game and you have to have that really against any quarterback but great quarterbacks like Matt Ryan, and it affected them and at the end there to get that interception to finish it.

But pressure in the quarterback is how you start. Let's talk about the run defense though. Is that something that does have your attention at the moment. Yeah, we want to get better there. I think that, Uh, there was a couple of third down runs that they hit on us yesterday and some longer ones. I think if you go back and you ask our guys, our coaches on a few of those plays. You know, we definitely need

to be better there. If you you get pressure on the quarterback, you stop the run, you make a team one dimensional, you usually do pretty good. So we're gonna keep focusing on that. I got a lot of faith in our guys up front. You don't have a guy like Tarik Cohen on the active roster at the moment we lose him to acl Tara it's awful, especially on a fair catch on a punt. Where do you go from here on that? And does that alter how you

may use your personnel moving forward? And is the punt return a wide open competition at the moment, Yeah, I would think it would be. I know Coach Tabor will have some some guys back there that he wants to take a look at and regards to replace, and Tarik it's it stinks to lose him because he's such a valuable piece of this team and we'll do everything possible

to make sure he still feels that. He was in great spirits last night, which I love about the kid um in regards to offensively with you know, how we replace him. I have a lot of faith in our coaches that schematically will be able to find different ways that you use different people, if that's somebody on this roster already or somebody different, or whatever that case may be.

I do have a lot of faith in our guys, plus not to you know, it gives David Montgomery, it gives Cordell Patterson, it gives you know, Ryan Nall or Tavius Piers. It gives these guys opportunities. That's a part of this how that's how you draft and develop. I boiled this down to three hours yesterday. Okay, the rescue, Nick was the rescue. That is something that is all ingrained in him. What is it about the wiring of this guy allows him to step into the fire and

take control. It's probably a DNA thing, honestly, Jeff, I think it's something where for him, he's built that way. He's been in big time moments. You know, you talk about being in the super Bowl and the way that that game was played in his calm that he had the whole time. I felt it from him when we played the Eagles a few years ago in the playoff game. I sensed it because our defense was getting after him.

And then he'll he'll you know, he still talks about how difficult it was playing against our defense and so but yesterday, Jeff, I, I also felt it in the fourth quarter during TV Timehouse, I'd look out at him before I call a player, after I called play. There was just an extreme amount of calm from him and the moment wasn't too big. And it doesn't mean that

something good's going to happen. You don't know, but I think that's the strength of his to the point of he may come out and throw three touchdowns a one quarter and you're never gonna know if he threw three interceptions of one corner and that's just not everybody has that, but he has it, and it probably affects his teammates more than they know, and affects his you know, his coaches too. Second one is redemption. It's Anthony Miller drop. Then they go to him and he makes the big one.

He wants to be great, he said it in the postgame show. So what about redemption. Yeah, that that keyword right there is trust And with redemption with Anthony, you know, he would tell you he wished he could get that That passed back two weeks ago in New York right now. But he's a fighter and he cares, he's passionate, and so hey, he got a chance, he made the most

of it and it doesn't surprise me one bit. And then relentlessness because that is also found in your pass rush with a guy like a Kim Hicks and Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn, but this team in general, it's relentlessness. Yeah, I love that word. And that's a that's a word that just speaks in so many manners to different parts of the game. And you feel fifty two Khalil Mack on every play coming around the edge, ninety four you know with Robert Quinn and offensively you can feel it.

You felt it on the from the bench, you felt it on the field. Once we got to that fourth quarter, it was just like, okay, we're gonna be relentless here with with the aggressive calls and with the aggressive decision making. And you felt it. So you know, between rescuing, you know, redemption, relentless. I love all three of those are word. All right, quick, look at the Colts. I have a lot of respect

for Frank Reich as a as a head coach. Obviously, Uh, you know, Chris Baller as a general manager, and so they're they're doing good things there in Indianapolis, and so Frank's gonna have those guys ready. They're playing really well right now. They're they're really balanced, and I think we're gonna have our hands for our guys will be up for the challenge. All right, goodluck with your preparation as always this weekend, and we will talk to you later

in the week. Thank you. You got it, Jeff. That's Bear's head coach Matt Naggi. Coming up next, we'll talk to offensive coordinator Bill Laser. Balls, looks right, throws right, touchdown, Jimmy, he'd touchdown Bears twenty six sixteen here on the port. Jimmy Graham with a second touchdown catch and you know it, another red zone catch for a touchdown. That guy's been dominant. Continue on on the Bears Coaching Show with offensive coordinator

Bill Laser. During the twenty twenty season, the Chicago Bears are giving away one hundred one thousand dollars to a deserving nonprofit organization in the Chicago land area. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash community all Pros for more information and how you can help out. Bill, Thanks for joining us once again. Good evening, Congratulations Thanks Jeff, happy to be here. Hey, let's talk Jimmy Graham before we talk quarterbacks.

We know what he can do in the red zone, but it just continually happens, and nobody can stop this guy. When you get the position that he gets and the size he gets in the matchups he gets and now three on the year already, there's gotta be a little bit more to it than just the size though. It's it's it's his basketball background, you know, boxing guys out, whatnot. But still gotta run the route, still gotta beat your guy. I think number one, You're right that I think teams

expected to combat. That's why there is a lot to it. And it's experience over time, and it's time on tasks with our quarterbacks, you know, just maybe well the defense

is working a period in practice. The quarterbacks and Jimmy go down and the other end zone and get together and say, hey, what if I throw it here, if the defenders in this spot, this is a good place to put it, and it just it takes time, and you know, you got to be proud of them, the quarterbacks and Jimmy with the short amount of time we've had to get here, you know, to be able to work that out. But it's I know, he makes it

look easy. It's not easy, and it's not easy when there's a guy in your back, and it's especially not easy when they pretty much know what's common. Yeah, they're gonna get physical with them when they do, so you got to fight through that too, be strong at the catch point. All right, tight ends, it seemed really were a focal point. Was at a plan yesterday? You see matchups that you liked and will this be more what you see from the tight ends this year? Well, I

think sometimes you plan it going in. Sometimes it's how the game plays out. I think we've been using them quite a bit, uh in the run game and uh, you know, just the way it worked. Uh, they got targeted early and it was productive. And so sometimes that means you just kind of come back to it. But there's only one ball to go around per play, Jeff. You know, so sometimes sometimes why didn't you do this?

Why don't you do that? Well, yeah, you know, coach is calling what's going to be successful in our mind, you know, every every single play, and we certainly liked those tight ends, and there hasn't been a game that we haven't come out, including this one, and said, gosh, we could do even more, you know, but again there's there's only one ball per play. So the page charts to Nick falls talk about what that means to you as a staff and what you guys discussed as a

staff to get to this point. I had great confidence that Nick would be prepared if his number was called, because had we've had a chance to watch him for these uh three weeks or so uh since since he was told he's gonna be the backup, and just how he prepared, how he takes mental reps, how he physical reps, doing everything he can to put himself in a game like situation on the field of practice, on the practice

field every day. I mean, he really works hard at doing that, and I think I think that that just gives you confidence. I mean that he's going to be as prepared as you could possibly be. Obviously, his track record of having success success in this league helps, but

he's worked at it. He's proven to everyone, players and coaches both that that he'll be prepared when his time comes, and I think he was I asked Matt earlier in the show, Just what what kind of guy is able to just at a moment's note to step in like he does? And I you know, you call him the fireman. You use the baseball analogy, the guy who puts out the fire as the closure. And he's been doing it his whole career. How he's why? Why is he wired this way? I don't know why, Jeff, I just I

just I've seen it happen before. In twenty thirteen, you know, I saw it happen and he came in and had a great year, led the league in passer rating that season. I've seen it from Afar at other places. I just think the guy does a great job when he is not the starter of preparing one hundred percent. He's a professional and he works at it. And you know, maybe I'm old fashioned, but I just tend to think that

that's that's the formula. Throws left side come back Robinson the catch pressure tackle twenty fifteen ten five touchdown bears Ellen Robertson goes to distance Alan Robinson with a touchdown on a huge day. Thirteen targets ten catches, another one hundred plus yard performance in his career Bill Laser, the offensive coordinator the Bears back on the Bears Coaches Show

brought to you by Whippley CPAs at Consultants. One of my favorite players in the game, just because it kind of fit into the theme of the day, and that's again, or the theme of the season for that matter, the resilience of this team to keep fighting through. And he broke two tackles and had one thing on his mind getting that ball in the end zone. Let's break that

down a little bit. Well, I think one of the things that showed up in this game I was run after catch and Alan had some of that and obviously that play was a big one. And uh, Alan, you're talking about a guy that not only is he a worker, not only has he proven to be productive, but I think it's it's impressive to watch him every day and whether it be in the meeting room or on the practice field, he wants to know the why, he wants

to talk the details. He wants to make sure he and the quarterback around the same page as far as what's expected. Um, you know, real real intellectual approach along with his physical approach to the game. And that's been real impressive for me. You know, you enjoy being around veteran players who who are smart, who can work with you and getting things figured out and get on the same page. And you know, I just I just think in those situations, we had a number of guys and

Ad was probably the number one example. I mean it was a clutch time, right, we needed it to come back and never blamed, just just operated and went out and did his thing. And so, uh give it gives you great confidence that no matter what situation we're in, you know, Alan's gonna gonna be there for us. Mitch and Nick really hit on those inside slants the great you know, you took advantage of leverage given by the defense. Those are very productive chain moving plays that if you

do break a tackle, it becomes something more significant as well. Right, and he obviously is outstanding that And he did it. He did it from the slot, he did it out why right, he did it out wide left. Yeah. I think the ability to move our receivers around is critical. You know, I think in this league, anything you have a success on, you'd have to expect the next defense

is going to work to take that away. For Alan to be able to work inside outside, be the single receiver, be part of a three receiver set, and he's really able to do any of those things, and I think it showed up in this game. But it makes us so much harder to defend because a rob can do all that. When you break it down, Nick had the ball in the end zone five times in six drives.

The reverberation of that moving forward, do the receivers, the tight ends, the backs, does that change their mentality a little bit? You know, you have to talk to them whether something's different or not. I don't know. I think they come out with great confidence. I think as a team, we have great confidence right now, and this is this is a couple of times right that we've had to do it and we haven't really blanked. I mean, as a coach, right I'm thinking about right now, how do

I fix the negatives? You know, I'm thinking about coming out of this game and where we haven't scored. But the reality is in the fourth quarter we have And I think it speaks towards the conditioning of our team.

It speaks towards the mental toughness, and it speaks towards the fact that we really don't flinch when we get in tough situations, which unfortunately we've been in a couple, but we've we've pulled through, and I think we just keep proving towards those yes, we can do this, and Nick was obviously the key part of that in this game, getting them involved. So now I think we come out

of it with more confidence than ever. I've seen some analysts talking already about, Okay, you decided that it would be to the strength of the offense to Mitch to be more under center and have play action, and now that Nick has played the majority of his snaps in a shotgun situation, that that play action is not as prevalent, and does it change the running game again, Well, first of all, I think Nick can do it. Makes been in a whole bunch of different offenses, so I don't

think there's any limitation with him. I think we go into every game trying to figure out what's the best way to attack this opponent and balance that with what are the best things that our players do, and you know, from that we formulate a game plan, so you know it'll it will all play out. And I don't think in the long NFL season, we know it's a very wrong season. I don't ever think it's just a one course,

set the autopilot and let it go, you know. I mean there's a constant evolution of what's the best thing right now to do. And it's because your personnel changes over time, for sometimes because of injury, it's because of the matchups to face that week, and it's because, especially in this season, you develop your offense as you go. Right, we had so we had no offseason, no OTAs, we had so limited training camp. Some of it is going

to have to grow as we go. And if we could predict exactly what our best players would be, obviously that's all we we call. But sometimes it's a little trial and error, and we didn't have preseason games to trial and error. We didn't have all the normal amount of padded practices against the defense to let some of these things show up. So there'll be an evolution as we go. I think this year more than ever and the key for us right to challenge as players and

coaches is to continue to get better. I just think in the way this preseason an off season was, it just puts a tremendous amount of importance on the teams that will keep getting better and we want to be one of those back on the Bears Coaches Show with offensive coordinator Bill Laser. We'll hear Matteggie from the top of the show in just a moment and joined Bears Care and Advocate healthcare and raising funds for programs supporting

Chicago area breast cancer patients and their families. Purchase your real Bears Fans wear pink shirt at Chicago Bears dot com slash pink Bill, what is your best advice that you would give Mitch Trubisky right now as he prepares really for the first time in his career other than when he started out as a rookie as a backup to Mike Glennon, came in in a week five to be a backup now in the National Football League, at this stage of his career, well, I think Mitch has

a long future ahead of him, and I think that perspective is critical. You know, it's just at some point right in the future, you're going to look back and see what happened in this time. Who we can't predict what's going to happen a week from now or a season from now, but he's gonna look back and see this is just part of a long future. And I think guys who are smart, who work hard, and who want to be great, those guys typically over time you

can just keep getting better. And that's exactly what I expect much to do. He's just gonna keep getting better, whether it's as a starter again at some point here somewhere, or whether it's as the backup this week. But that's the challenge for him as a seaboat. In the long term. Uh, he's gonna have a great future ahead of him, and this week all he can do is get better, and it happens to be as a backup. So that's what

you do. The guys who do have to take a step back to take two steps forward, really study what the guy that's moved into his spot is doing, especially a veteran and in this case Nick Foles out of imagine just watching everything, learning from that aspect of it and say, Okay, if he's doing this, I gotta do this. Is that a fair representation of the next step in the process for him, Well, he'll he'll figure that. He'll figure out over the time with what the specifics are.

I've got great confidence because I know what is I think I know over this time, I've learned what his character is and so he'll he'll work at it. He's a great team mate. Um, you know, it's it's some way, somehow, it's we're we're gonna get better as a team. And I hope he gets better as a player, and I think I believe that early in the process. But give us a little sneak peek before we let you go

here in the next minute. On the Indianapolis Colts. They have a defense, Jeff, don't don't look at the statue. You might not think we can make a first downsively, Yeah, they are. Defensively, they play fast, uh in the front um. You know, they've they've taken the ball away quite a bit and now we've given it away a little bit here recently. So that's something that we're gonna have to have to uh make sure that you always obviously are

concerned with that. But but knowing how they rank and they're they're good against the run in the past right now, so um, yeah, it's it looks like we're heading up to against the formidable foe right now. We've we've faced them before. You know that they're very sound and how they coach. They've got some some uh some impressive players. So doesn't sound real promising, doesn't know, you sound like Lou Holtz back in the days. Time to go to work.

We'll make sure we're ready. We'll have a great plan. But no, they've been really impressive. I'm joking a little bit. They need to really impressive three games. And so that's the NFL absolutely week to week league baby, And that's a wrap on Todnight's Bears Coach You Show. Want to thank our producers Jordan trut Up, Dan BURRELLI, Andy Gersher and Lisa Fielding, and most of all to you for listening. It's the Bears and the Coach pregame at nine, kickoff at noon with Tom and I right here on WBBM

with Bears head coach Mattoneggie offensive coordinator Bill Laser. I'm Jeff Joniac, wishing you a pleasant, good evening, and this is News Radio seven eighty and one or five point nine FM, WBBM. Good night, everybody,