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appreciate it. No, I'm feeling a lot better and it's it's good. And you know, I just uh yeah, it was it was wasn't wasn't easy watching that game yesterday on TV. But that's part of how this thing goes. And uh um, you know, we gotta we gotta be

able to regroup and get back at it. How many times did you jump out of your chair or you know, pull out whatever her you have left on your head as a man, you're a fan at that point, No, No, you really are, and it's uh um, you know you just put your phone to the side, you don't look at it. You don't want any calls or text messages. You just want to watch the game and be entrenched.

And I know in the touchdown pass that Justin had, you know, I started yelling and I was just real excited and just happy for the guys, and um, you know, and then you go through and you just you you go through the rest of the game, and you know, just the way that went in the second half. Uh, you just really wish we could have came out of there with the win. And so that that's probably the

most difficult part obviously. So assuming that you'd have Jeff and Tim on the radio listening to the broadcast, but it's hard to time up with the television. So you're do you have the TV sound down? Are you just absorbing it on your own it? Did you have it cranked up? No? I had it down low, and I just was I was just trying to to to watch the game, um from my perspective and just get a feel. You you are able to see replays and you can see a lot of things that you can't see down

on the sideline. UM. So that that part is good, But for the most part, it was more about visual than audio. Would you learn about this experience about your own self. Yeah, you know, very difficult being a way when everybody else is um is back into facility. All week, I had no clue what to expect for those three and a half hours on game day, I had no clue. And it was it was hard, um you know, I mean, I was just I just was at a point where

I again, it was kind of crazy. But I can remember, you know, back in nineteen ninety three when I was growing up watching a basketball game. I was a Michigan

fan and watching them. Uh they were down big, like twenty points to UCLA in the ninety three NCAA tournament, and I remember watching the game and being like superstitious and not moving and they started creeping back and winning, and so I was kind of I found myself yesterday, like just sitting here watching the game and we were good, things were happening, and I wasn't moving, you know, I was just shoot, I was just staying in the moment.

And it's just hard. It's weird, it's different. You don't want to do it, but it is what it is, and you know, it's just it's just it was a part of the protocol. Heck, I used to have my dad. We'd be watching the game and things we're getting out of hand and losing. I'd leave and then when I can hear him yelling out in the basement and he wouldn't let me back down because I I left. Yeah,

it was superstitious. But you can appreciate with fans in a different perspective now through sometimes Hey, I even lose that a little bit from a fan perspective because we're absorbed in what we're doing professionally. I think for sure you can you can definitely understand how that can go from from that side of it, and uh, again, just just how how that is. And it's totally different. It's totally different watching it on TV than being down on

the sideline and everything that goes on. And you can definitely see a lot. You see a lot throughout the game and just a little with the with the replays and stuff that they show, and you can get to feel too from the game as well, just kind of how the momentum is going. But um, you know that that's probably the biggest thing that I noticed. All Right, we can probably point to a series or two that turned the outcome in this one. You're up sixteen nine.

You're outscored twenty six. But the drive before the half, you get a field goal and no touchdown. You know you're getting the second half kickoff, but they get the bomb. I thought they were they that the clock running. I thought, okay, they're really doing this. The bomb for the three for the field goal, and then out of the locker room.

You have a thirteen play drive but to a field goal. Yeah, and that seemed where the slippage felt, would you agree, Yeah, So we we didn't come away with a touchdown on third and goal, we lost four yards. It was first and goal at the five we lost. We ended up losing four yards. Um, you know at an you know there's times in the red zone, like so when you get in the red zone, you gotta you gotta have

positive yards. But on that third and goal when we threw it to coal, you know, we didn't come away with the touchdown, and and then you know, we come out, like you said, we get three points and then they end up getting at that long screen and it just kind of went from there. So being able to recover. Now we're all that said, and you're still in the game.

Justin had that big play on fourth and one on the scramble and the spe play that he had and you're right there, and then you know, they went down and scored again, and so we just couldn't recover from that. And you could just kind of feel, like like I said this morning, touchdowns in the red zone and then you got to get stops. They didn't have many third downs in the second half, and they had too many explosives in that game. Yeah, I couldn't believe the math.

They were seventeen plays at ten or more for four hundred and twenty two yards. We had thirteen for two hundred some and you'd be you'd be happy with that too, But that's an extraordinary amount. So what do you think they were doing to create those It seemed like they were working your edges pretty good. Yeah, they did a good job of working the edges, you know, getting the tosses on the outside and then a couple contested catches

that they came down with, obviously the big one. I mean, when you look at it right, they had a what was it a fifty yard fifty yard post throw at the end of the half, and then an eighty yard throw that's one hundred and thirty yards in two plays to the same guy. So these are he's a good one. He's a really good football player, and that's not something that when we knew that going into it. But those are the ones that, you know, those big explosives. They

flipped the field and they scored. You know, they ended up getting a field goal off of one and a touchdown off to the other. But those are the ones that we got to eliminate. And you know, the other part two is being able to start getting some takeaways and flipping the field that way is going to be something we really need to emphasize, and getting those takeaways is paramount in any NFL game. Justin took a big step. His attitude. You could feel it, as you often refer

to it when you watch it. You can feel it the way he was bouncing in the pocket, hanging in the pocket, leaving the pocket, running quickly when he had an opportunity to see green grass. There's a lot to break down. We will in our next segment, but in these final thirty seconds before this segment, if you kind of summarize what he did, Yeah, he played fast. His decision making was great, there was no hesitation, He played confident, the game is slowing down to him, in my opinion.

You can see it. He was excellent on third down. If you're if you're good on third down in this league, you're gonna have a chance. So growth for him. A lot of great growth yesterday for him, and I think we all need to be really excited about that because that's and then oh, by the way, you rushed for one hundred plus yards, so that's an element that really helps us out. Eight of ten on third down throwing the football, he had five first downs and just one

sack going into the game. Five interceptions, ten sacks on forty five pass plays on third down, no touchdown, So a big improvement there. I'm gonna take Fields was gonna do something with it, but it was not this. He's trying to get out of trouble, breaks out of a tackle, lift to the fifteen ten five peno touchdown, touchdown Bears twenty two yard and lift play I'll broke it. Play

turn into six for Justin Fields. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whipplice epas In Consultants, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whipley dot Com with Matt Naggie, Jeff Joni X. So you just heard the exciting play Justin fields. He rocked the building. He rocked the building this south then as Soldier Field was his home. He was looking into the crowd and everybody saw a glimpse of what the future

could be. Nine forty three to go in the game, and I know, I yelled, we got ourselves a ballgame. The mixed extra point certainly was a downer there, but otherwise it would be tied at twenty three, still in a great spot to win this football game. Yeah, that's one of those special plays that I think we're all going to remember. Um, you know, we had a we had a little movement player and naked being able to get on the edge and they did a good job

of containing that taking it away. And sometimes that happens in this league. And so you got it's about the players, and Justin made a heck of a play on his own, and then guys working on the backside helping to get some blocks and then finishing with a touchdown. Like you said, you could feel it in the south end zone. You could, you could, you know, h everywhere watching it on TV

and didn't matter. You could feel it. And so it's one of those moments, one of those plays that we all kind of felt the same thing and to make it what we thought was gonna be a tie game. We obviously missed the extra point, but that that was definitely a special moment. That was the first time since Bobby Douglas in nineteen seventy three. I don't know if you ever put on some Bobby Douglas highlights when he is he ran for you know, a lot of yards

in his career, but you don't necessarily want that. You want it balanced. But those big plays are there and they're there for the taking against defenses that'll put them on their heels. And when he was on the move, he I think he was perfect throwing the football and design rollouts and he had eighty some yards of his

rushing yards were on those type of plays. Yeah, and when you add that element to his game that he has in when it could be a play action, it could be a drop back if it's not there, and you see a lot of other quarterbacks that have the ability that he he has, they take off and run and now now that's a major stressor to the defense. Now you're talking about scramble drills. Now you're talking about you know, uh, fifteen plus yard runs. It's a whole

other element. And he did that yesterday. You got to be able to balance that now with how much and where and all that. But yesterday, again, Justin grew as an NFL quarterback and that that's you know, you hate, you never want to lose and all that, and that's that's the tough part. But but Justin grew yesterday, and we want to we want him to grow and win. One of my favorite plays was the third and thirteen.

He threw to Marquise Goodwin under a blitz on time in rhythm, picked up twenty two yards, let him have some after the catch on that which you think of that one. Yeah, decision was awesome, Timing was awesome, accuracy was awesome. Uh, Marquise ran a great route and again NFL throw, it's never always a clean clean pocket. There's always stuff in front of you. And he made death row. So you know, even starting with his progression and his decision based off the coverage they gave us, that's where

we get excited as coaches. And he did it there, you know, Alan Robinson has been a big third down weapon for you in his years here, and because he got the lion's share of the targets. That's obviously changed to this point of this season so far. But emerging now is Darnell Mooney in that target for third down. He had a couple of more third down catches, now leads the team in third down catches. Is it important to develop a guy that is a go to guy?

A lot of these guys that you see around the league quarterbacks having you know, they need a guy in third down, they're going to this guy. Yeah, it's nice to have a few. And a rob has been amazing for us this entire time he's been here. And when you get you know, a younger rookie that was in here like Mooney who comes in and now is in you know, not a rookie anymore. He's able to go

out there and learn how to play this game. And he's done that, and so you have multiple guys that you can rely on it, which may said the stresser on the defense because they got to guard different guys and so it might be one game that a Rob gets more Mooney another, But it was nice to see that yesterday with Darnell and him starting and building that connection with Justin. No, let's talking about the run game

because Khalil Herbert was really good again. But was there an adjustment at all by San Francisco because there was one series he had four negative runs. I mean, the hats were moving across the line of scrimmage, no question about it. Um, was there an adjustment from your perspective after watching it on your tablet. No, there wasn't an adjustment there. Some of that was, you know, they they made good plays, uh, you know, and that was rare

for sure. I agree, And even watching it on TV when you see man, you know, they weren't four run plays in a row, but they were four run plays for losses in that series. That's not like us, let alone losing It's one thing to lose one, but to lose four yards on three or four of those that that's, uh, we can't have that. So we're really digging into the tape and looking, like you said, schematically slash execution and

all that time it together. But I thought Khalil ran the ball really well and he got opportunities, and that offensive line again was doing everything they could. Here's Fields got a bootleg it throws side arm pro went to the end zone for the touchdown. That's Jesse, Jesse James. What a throw by Fields on a bootleg left. Download the Chicago Bears app to play our new predictor game Risk It brought to you by bet Rivers for your chance to win two hundred and fifty dollars in free

bets and accustomed Bears Jersey. There was the touchdown throw and a beauty from Justin Fields to Jesse James and an eight play catch that had a lot to it. So I love for you to break down those plays from your eyes. Special quarterbacks are able to go to their left and throw against the grain, and he slots his arms sometimes in different levels, which is also not something every quarterback can do. That's encouraging and enticing for me.

Can you tell us all about that play? Yeah, so you know it's just a simple bootleg or naked to the left. I thought our tight ends did a really good job of getting good releases and cold did a wonderful job at protecting the edge. Jesse got out to the corner. You want a nice sell with the run and then coming back out you get a little bit of depth. You got to get your head and eyes

around to be able to locate the corner route. And then whoever else is coming into your vision along with Cole, who's going to bounce back out for an opportunity to throw it to him. But Justin at that point in time, rolling to his left, that's one of the most difficult throws that you can make as a right handed quarterback. And so when you go back and slow motion it and you pause it and you look at it, you realize how accurately, how accurate he was with the throw.

And then the TV copy, which you know we could see, was it made it by about an inch off of the defender's fingertips. And then Jesse made a great catch. So you needed a lot of things to happen. And again, like in those situations, it's about the players making plays, and our players made plays right there. That was a you know, they played good defense, we played better offense. Is how that went. So those touchdown passes, those throws

are all immense confident builders for Justin. The more of those he can have, the more that confidence is going to come out. And I think we all felt it yesterday and you saw it in the way his emotions. You could see it in the way he played. And the more that we get from that, the more that this offense is going to really start taking off and

doing a lot of good things. And that's that's the growth that we really want to see in our site at all about you're being chased, you're rolling, you're looking, you're running out of real estate. Your target is on a postage stamp because you gotta keep it away from the defender. What's the key for the accuracy on that one? Because you can't set your feet? But it is it hips?

Is it shoulders? What is it? Yeah, it's well, Number one, it's practice, which he does that coach flipping them work that throw a lot, because we have that in, you know, in our game. But then there's a little bit of feel to it as well. You know, it's like it's like sometimes it's like a basketball player they got a guy in their face and they got to shoot a fade away three. You know, you gotta have some touch,

and that's kind of what that was. When you flip those hips around, you gotta have you gotta be able to throw through it. You can't throw across your body. You gotta be able to flip the hips around both your feet are in the air, and then you got to have just great accuracy and a lot of that is DNA. That's him. You know. Some guys have it, some guys don't. He's an accurate thrower and that's a play right there where we needed him to be spot on, and he was. Larry Born first start, and then they

started shoving Nick Bosa over there. Quite the challenge for your first NFL start? How do you? How do you fare? He did really well. I was proud of Larry. I thought that it didn't surprise me because he prepares himself like he should. Uh, He's well coached, and his teammates do a great job of working with himself. He's only gonna get better because he wants it and he has it in him. He's a big he's athletic for his size,

and like I said, he cares. So when you have that again, another rookie that to me, is only going to get better every rep he gets. I know you're getting a lot of questions about future and where this goes after three game skid and where you're at and so forth, But I'm assuming I know the answer to this, Does the message change, does the process change? No? Nothing changes. But what we need to do is we need to just you know, make sure we're we're extremely focused with

the details, just the little things. And then it's about it's about finish. We played, you know, three quarters yesterday, two and a half quarters, three quarters. It's about finishing. It's about these these these phases playing together. There's no easy game in the NFL. You can't say that. We got to come out every week and know whoever we're playing, how are we going to win? And that's what we

gotta do. And again I have ultimate belief in every single one of these guys in that locker room, players, all the coaches that are that are here. Um, in times like this, we get tested. Um we we we stay tight. Uh we we we we speak the same language. We practice hard because how you practice is how you play. And then on game day you go do it. Uh. And so we got a You saw a team yesterday in the forty nine ers at lost four in a

row and they came back yesterday and got to win. So, um, we need to go one and oh we need to beat Pittsburgh in a hostile environment on primetime Monday night, and we got to do it together. And that's the only thing we can control right now is doing that. All right. You get the Steelers, tough minded coach, tough football team. You know what you're getting from a past rush pressure standpoint in a running game. And then if it's a big ben no, they for sure. I mean

they got there. They got a coach and spend there a long time that that does a wonderful job. They got a quarterback to spend there a long time that's won a lot of big games. Um, and I think you know what a what a big win for them yesterday against Eveland. So they're going to be coming in

with a lot of confidence. And we gotta we gotta again understand playing together, playing tough, vehem mentally tough, physically tough, and doing whatever we need to do to I don't care however it is, but by one point, win the game. All right, Matt, Good health to you. We'll talk to you later this week. Thank you. Thanks Jeff Sea. Come watch the Bears game at Legends Bar and Grill and Mokena next Monday night at this week's official Miller Like

Chicago Bears watch party. Visit Chicago Bears dot com, slash fan Zone Slash watch parties for more information. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. Welcome and defensive coordinator Sean Dasai looking back at yesterday's game and looking ahead to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good evening, Sean, how you feeling. What's your overall takeaway on what transpired yesterday? Yeah, you know, I don't think defensively, in particular, we didn't play up

to our standard. We didn't play the Brandon football that we wanted, and that's disappointing, and it starts with me, and so we're obviously gonna get the things that we need to get corrected as a group, business, staff and with the players, and then look forward to this great opportunity we got on the road, which would be a

tough challenge against Pittsburgh. Anything that is a common theme through what happened yesterday and the big plays, you know, you know, I would say just a lot of technique and fundamental issues, whether it's a run play with the guy over the gap or getting off blocks and making some plays on that wide receiver screen, some scrambled plays that were extended, and find some holes in some defenses

where we need to be better with our plastering. So there's a lot of different things, and then they kind of hiss in a lot of different ways, and those are things that we're going to be looking forward to getting corrected quickly. And they tacked the edges quite a bit, tried it a little bit. You gotta keme in there, and Eddie though, and the big guys up front, you know, it's probably not the best place for them to go. But those pitches it was almost like army football pitch right,

pitch left, But they were getting to the edges. So with pursuit, how do you get a guy to fundamentally technique wise score up and make those plays? Well, I think, you know, part part of getting to the edges is making sure that we have good edges in our defense, whether that's you know, usually falls in the outside linebacker room or defensive back to making sure that we're setting the edges firmly and not getting wide in there. So then like you said, we can force cutbacks into the

meat of our defense. And then from a stack backer position in a safety position, and the guys that are stack fitting, they got to be able to feel and temple those linemen coming up quick, hind them and getting over the top, and then when you do that, there should be some gap exchanges with the d lineman where they need to be able to rip and run as

well and set leverages and win their gaps. In terms of pressure of the last few weeks, obviously you have some great quarterbacks this game, a very good offensive line, anything that you looked at from a pressure point of view, because there weren't weren't a lot of pressure on Jimmy Garoppolo yesterday. No, yeah, you know, we didn't. We didn't get to him as much as we would have liked to the first half we played some pretty good defense

and held him to some field goals there. But the second half we didn't really have any many opportunities on third down. You know, we had the big third down and then we didn't. We didn't get him to third down really until the four minute situations towards the end

of that end of the game there. So we got to do better on first second down and we got to earn the right to pressure the quarterback and then uh, we gotta be able to mix it up on first second also and bring a little bit more pressure where we're still sound in the run defense, you know, just like a Keen brought up yesterday and post game and then just looking at it now myself, just with a minute and a half to go before halftime, one hundred and thirty three yards of offense and six points, you're

feeling really good. And I honestly thought, gosh, they weren't in a hurry for that final drive before halftime. The clock has run. I'm thinking, are they Are they not gonna try and even get in a field goal position? Is there any tendency win? The defense is also seeing that that you relax a little bit, I know you can't. Yeah, no,

you know, I don't think we relaxed. Uh you know, I just think they caught us in a coverage and split safety coverage or they had a whole throughout, you know, against one of our corners, and uh, you know, we didn't execute with our technique there and it was a fifty fifty ball and obviously Deepo Samuel came down with it, and then we didn't get the help to the corner that we need to get. And that was a technique and fundamental issue we need to get corrected. And we

will get corrected there. Quite frankly, you know that that was the way the forty Niners are going to run their two minute drill. You know. Part of part of the way they run their two minute you look at it throughout the season, is trying not to get the ball back to the other team, whether it's the end of a a half war in the game, and so they're very patient. Kyle Shandon is a great job in terms of being patient in the two minute, and so we

expected that patience. We had an opportunity on third and four to get off the field there and we didn't get off the field. We lost a one on one on the slant route there, so that single game Bears tickets aren't available. Cheer around the Monsters in the Midway live at Soldier Field this season. Visit Chicago Bears dot

com slash tickets for more information. Here with Bears defensive coordinator Sean Desai looking at the game yesterday, and we'll also take a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers coming up here in a moment. One other thing on the defense and what you faced. Did they do anything drastically different in the second half in terms of their scheme? I wouldn't say in terms of their scheme. I think they came out and tried to temple us a little bit

and they went to a little bit empty. But you know, we kind of lead the league and empties against us, empty empty formations against us, so we expected some empty because they had hit us on some of those. Uh were tried to get us and we've actually played pretty good on some of those in the first half, and they just tried to get the ball out fast. You know, they didn't with the rush going. There's a lot of quick game where there was rhythm passing and tried to

hit some spots. There were some easy throws for the quarterback and we weren't able to disrupt them, and so they got some chunk yards, whether it's an eight yard gain or eleven yard gain, and got themselves in some manageable second down situations. Why do you think teams have trended in that direction against you in that regard, like you just said, with the empty yeah, I think you know one thing empty does is it forces teams to

sometimes show their coverages. You know, we're we're a mix of coverage where we'd like to show split safety and play some post safety defenses. We'd like to use that disguise. If your pressure, it shows your pressure. So I think for them it negates the past rushing and able to get the ball out quick and trying not with the big guys up front hunt a little bit. And so we got to be tired to those routes and we have to change up kind of who we're bringing as

the rushers. With Eddie Jackson going down to the second play of the game, did it alter a plan you may have had, Well, you know, anytime one of your starters goes down, you need to be cognisant of that. And you know we've got an next man up mentality and DHC and Tease table fulfill that role at the

other safety spot for the rest of the game. We did a suffishing job and we'll just continue to grow and improve there as well and get the continuity back to with the communication that we want to be able to get. Are you concerned at how much rushing yards are are piling up here in the last four weeks? Yeah, you know, I think that's always a concerning. We want to play good run defense and starts with the upfront

and being physical. Well, you know, the first half of that game, I thought, I thought we did a pretty good job or some of you know, we gave up one run play for about twenty seven yards in the first half. But the second half they leaned on us again, you know, and they found us in some situations where we got cut out some gaps and hit the perimeter and forced us in some situations where we need to

swarm a little bittar than we did. And so yes, uh, to answer your question, the run defense will improve, and we need to make sure that our guys were able to process that and I got to get them in situations where they're the proper leverages to make those plays. What are some positives that came out of this? Obviously when you lose, you don't you don't want to just dwell all on the negative. There's got to be things, sure, building blocks for the next game. Yeah, No, I think

there are. There's there's always some building blocks. Like I said, we played a pretty good defense in that first half, you know, and you held you held a good offense to some limited yards. We know some places that we need to improve, even after the big wide receiver screen in the second half that they on that third and twenty we got on the third down in the red zone. You know, so he played good for a second down defense down on the two yard line, but you got

to win on that third down. And that's that's the thing that we want to continue to build on, is uh, there's instances of us playing really good football. Now the channel is to be consistent for sixty minutes, to bring that brand of football for the whole sixty minutes of the game. On a run like Elijah Mitchell, I think it was a thirty nine yard or I don't remember the exact but at that point the game, you're also trying to get the ball back and so guys are

trying to rake you at it. It is a tricky thing because you need a possession at that point in the game. But at the same time, you know, if you can keep them off the board, you know, it's a real interesting situation. What is your coaching points on that run? Yeah, the first thing is one, we got to make sure that the first guy gets secures the tackle, and then the calvary's got to come to, like you said, hold them up and try to punch the ball out,

but the first guy has to secure the tackle. You know, they outleverage us and we had some fit issues there. But the first guy that's that's in on that tackle needs to make sure they're wrapping up and hold the guy up until the rest of the guys come. I looked at I think it's play six of the game, Eddie Goldman dishing gage. This guy came in, made a really nice play, a powerful play. Now that he's had several games, I think he had thirty snaps yesterday. Are

you are you seeing more of those coming? And how important would those type of plays be to deter their interest the opposition and going inside there? Yeah, no, I think I think Eddie, like you said, he's still been getting his feet when he's getting better each week, and this this is one of his better games with his

hands and his physicalness at the point of attack. And so yeah, we expect him to continue to grow that way and that that will continue to help the interior of our run defense and that'll look probably for some people to try to run on the perimeter where we gotta make sure we're secured there. And what was it the impact of having a keen back, you know, a guy a veteran like that, his mindset and his approach.

It's always a positive impact to having back. He's a physical presence obviously down the middle of the defense, and he likes to play sort of physical type of football, and so we'll continue to grow with him there as well. A final moments here on the Bear's Coaches Show, which Sean side the various defensive coordinator as we get you set for the Pittsburgh Steelers as well. One thing real quick, you know before every season, everybody's got the high hopes

that everybody stays healthy, everybody plays to their level. But I don't even know. You may know how many snaps you've had with Hicks and Roquan and Khalil Mack and Quinn and Eddie Jackson on the same field at the same time. It hasn't been much this year. Obviously that's out of everyone's control you go about it, but you just wonder what it would be like if they could have a consistency of all those guys together at the

same time. Yeah, no health, health for sure in this league matters, but like you said, there's really no time for us to wonder and hope and wish for and so we gotta do the best with the guys that we've got, and we liked the guys that we got, and we got to continue to develop them and integrate

them with everybody else. Because the biggest thing when you talk about health issues is is working as eleven as one Because guys get a lot of reps together with each other other, they know each other, play, they communicate well with each other, and then when you get new moving pieces in there, uh, you got to ramp up the learning time and make sure everybody's still on the same page. And so that's that's usually the biggest sound

from guys Ranger. But I think we've got the coaches and the players to do that, and uh, you know, we obviously we feel the urgency to make sure that gets done sooner than later. All right, time to look ahead. Brought to you buy Bette Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Chicago Bears. That the Pittsburgh Steelers the first thing you think of when you think of the Steel City, especially on the road. A rabbit fan base and a really tough minded football team with a tough

minded head coach. Yeah, that's exactly right. And they obviously got a future Hall of Fame quarterback there. It's going to be a great challenge for us. Uh, you know, they're they're a team, like you said, that kind of knows how to win. You know that they've won a lot of games obviously in coach Tom's kirby, even throughout

that organization. So, uh, you know, we got to make sure that we're dot in our eyes and crossing our teas and making sure that we're fundamental technically sound to go ahead and win a road game, a tough road game in a tough place to play. Yeah, Coach Thomlin, you know, a similar path to years. You know, a young coach worked his way up to become a head coach. Quite the career he's had there. Yeah, No, he's tremendous.

He's kind of Uh, there's there's a couple of guys that you would say, as especially as a young coach, that you would kind of model your career off of, and he's one of them. He kind of knows how to win. He gets the best out of his players every year, regardless of circumstances, situation, and they just played consistently good football. So that's obviously a credit to him and the way he's helped continue to build that Steeler tradition over there, there's our nugget for the Pittsburgh game.

Nagy Harris, the rookie running back with two hundred ninety four yards and two touchdowns over the last three games. All right, so that's one place to start right there, because he's been he's in the top fifteen in the league in the yards from scrimmage right now. Yeah, for sure, he's a dynamic running back and he can do some things out of the backfield in terms of the past game as well. So we're gonna have our hands full there.

We got to make sure that we're really sound and physical and be able to uphold that brand for sixty plus minutes in that game to stop him. And then the next factor is obviously the Ben factor, the big Ben factor, and so we need to make sure obviously that we're tighten our coverage responsibies and be able to impact been as many ways as we can with rush coverage in disguise. How do you feel his game is changed now that he's on the tail end of what

has been a great career. What you still see is you still see the arm talent, you still see the physicalness. He's not an easy tackle. He's never been an easy tackle. He's a big, thick guy who can extend plays. The more and more comfortable he gets with the skill guys around him and all that you see the plays that he's able to make. So we got to make sure that we're prepared and playing at a high level. All right, Sean, appreciate your time. Thank you so much talking down the road.

Thanks Jeff, Matt's gonna do it for tonight's Bears Coaches Show. I want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up and Dan Billy and Keith Johnson working the board in our WBBM studios for head coach Matt Naggie and defensive coordinator Sean Dasai. I'm Jeff Jonnyak. Thanks for listening. Everybody. Well, the Bears and Steelers coming to you from Pittsburgh. Our pregame gets underway at four twenty, kickoff at seven fifteen on Monday night. That'll do it on NewsRadio one oh

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