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fun for anybody. And you know, I guess the big question is how does the losing, How is it affecting you you personally? And then how do you see it affecting your team? Well, I think the biggest thing, you know, Jeff, is that you know, for all of us and the players, the coaches, everybody, all of us involved in this is

is uh. You know, you put a lot of time and effort into trying to do everything you can on that on in those three hours, you know, to come out with to win, and you know when you reflect back at the game, and I think it's obvious state and the obvious that you know, the turnovers out, you know, hurt us in that game, so you give a short field to the defense and in the end you end up losing. You know, you lose a really good football team.

And all right, so you have the locker room and you got to make sure guys understand the whys, and then you come in this morning and guys watch tape and coaches watch tape, and you got to be able to look at solutions. And the biggest thing that we can do is just try to figure out how to get better, to keep fighting, keep practicing, and then have to go out there and minimize those mistakes and play better to be able to be the team like Green Bay on the road. It's it's a bit of a

maze when you think about it. I'm sure for a head coach, right because you know what works. You know, if it's executed, it's going to work. But then you got the other side of the ball doing what they do, and then you feel good about your plan every week, and then it still doesn't result in the outcome you look for, so you keep getting stopped by that maze. If you think about it, that has to be one of the most underrated aspects of being a head coach

when you're not successful. Yeah, no, no, I would agree with that. I think you know, you look back at that game yesterday and you know, you come out and it's you. You get to football, and you get to a third down and you know, we got man coverage and everything's there. And you know, again, Andy has been

absolutely phenomenal this entire time. Uh, just with accuracy and just putting us in good situations last a couple of weeks and just coming in with no reps against Detroit, and you know, he's played a lot of games, You've seen a lot of different coverages, and it was definitely a little slick in that first quarter, and I think the ball just got away from him a little bit and it went hid behind the team and unfortunately, right

into the hands of their defender. And so three plays in you have an interception and great field position for the best offense in the NFL. And that's how it starts, you know. And then and then you hold them and you get to the fourth and two and now they make a hell of a throw, a hell of a catch and they score a touchdown. And so now that's not how you want to start. So now you got

to recover from that. And now you go down the field and whatever plays in the twelve plays, and now you have another pick and it's returned sixty yards down to inside you know, the twenty yard line, and now they score again, and so before you know it, it's fourteen to nothing. And it's just like you said, like against great teams the Buccaneers game Tampa back, same thing happened. Turnovers, short field touchdowns. You cannot do that against these great teams.

You really can't do it at all. But against these teams, they will make you peck. And so now we are in recovery mode and we try to keep it, you know, to a little closer and and it just ended up in the end getting us. And it's like following the bouncing ball. It's not bouncing your way, right, I mean, there's deflections, there's tip passes, there's catch Cole Commet could have made Rold hit the ground boom pops in the hands of Buddha Baker as you just outlined, Do you

feel that you just throw your hands up sometimes? Yeah, No, you're right, I mean you definitely when the ball isn't bouncing your way, it's just like, geez, you know, this is just absolutely crazy. But at the same point in time, when you know you have guys that care, that are playing hard. I mean, just go and look at that goal line standard that our defense had when they had the ball inside the two yard line and we held

them to a field goal on a sudden change. You know, like that to me, right there shows on that third and goal they ended up losing a few yards that the guys are really really you know, doing everything they can, even with the ball bounce in a certain way to keep the game to where we have a chance to win. And yesterday I think, you know, Jeff, we always talk

about complimentary football. Well, yesterday was an interception that led to a touchdown, another interception that led to another touchdown, and then the defense gets a three and out and the offense goes three and out. The defense gets to three and out, the offense goes three and out. There was no consistency to complimentary football, and that's what we're

striving for. So as a coach, when you look at that and you see that, you want to do everything you can to put them in great situations, but be able to teach them you know, you know, how did that happen? And that's that's where we're at. And now in the NFL you got to reset really quickly, and you got to look at the tape and you got to get back at it. And now here we are

getting ready for green back. That's the perplexing part of it for people, i'd imagine, because they want to hear answers to solutions and for solutions, but the problem is that there's only one answer. The answer is, just like you said, you got to roll up your sleeves and go back to work, no matter where you're at, no matter what the season is looking like, no matter what's ahead. And that answer is sometimes hard to digest. But what else are you supposed to do? Yeah? No, that's all

you can do. And then then there's the dynamic of making sure that the players understand that too. Is um is how important it is for them that they you know, they come out and they put together a great mindset of practice, great practice reps, and then they come out

and they get to do it again. We're all very fortunate that we're in this profession to be able to play a great, great game, coach a great game, and and and you know, so I think it's important that they know that, our guys know that, our coaches know it, and and now, um, we just gotta we gotta keep fighting. Man. I know it sounds monotonous, but it's real and that's all we can do. Okay's the thing. You did. Move the ball. You got a lot of first downs and

fishing in the red zone on the clock. We talked about this in the postgame interview. Ran a lot of place four fourth down conversions, a two point conversion, ten of nine on third and fourth down combined. You take all of that to have just those four plays taken out of the out of the equation, because yeah, you know, that's that's it. That's that's basically yesterday's game in a nutshell is that. And you know, you go ahead and you have you have a plan, and you put it

together and the guys execute it. But in the end, turnovers, I mean, that's one of the biggest stats is that takeaway turnover margin in the NFL. If you get takeaways and you don't give the ball up, you'll win a lot of games. And you know, we we gotta start getting more takeaways on defense, and we got to start protect a more on offense. How he is Andy Dalton's non throwing hand apparently injured on a tackle. Yeah, he injured on the on the tackle on the second interception.

And so we're we're getting to look at this morning and now these guys are working through it and continue to just kind of see like where he's at and how that goes. But I think he's tough now, you know, for him to be able to play through that's that's never fun when you hurt your hand, whether it's your non throwing hand or you're throwing hand. And will continue to just kind of keep an eye on it throughout

the weeks. And here's a snap on the end around from Montgomery, a flip back that Dalton breaks the tackle of the police clicker. He got granted sort of the forty yard line to the thirty had brought down from behind by Simon and to pick up a thirty three how a first down throw by Andy Dalton and Jakine Grant. Come back to the Bears Coaching Show brought to you by Whipplee CPAs and Consultant's a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at whippleet dot Com just heard

the gadget play. That was the wildcat, a fly sweet to Andy Dalton to throw over the top in a very difficulty with a guy in his face and ducking out of that tackle. Break that one down, will you. It was the same play that we ran in the Saints in the playoff game last year, and so the difference was we had Andy had to go ahead and make a guy miss. A guy made a good play in the backfield, and Andy did a wonderful job of making the guy miss and still reset and throwing accurate

ball down the sidelines to g tem Grant. So you know, Mooney was number one in the progression and maybe if he had time he would have give him to the shop, but he basically reset to his number two, which was Kim And I thought it was a really a great job by by Andy. And this guy's all right. No other major injuries yesterday of concern, it appears, but justin fields I'm going discussion and you mentioned this morning Payne tolerance will be the key on his availability. There's no

way to determine that at this point. Yeah, there's not other than you know, taking some bags and maybe you know, you know, with the bags and hitting them a little bit. But he's tough and and we just got to listen to our trainers and to him and see where he's at for this week. But uh, you knows, he's Like I said this morning, everything that we'll do will be out of pure safety for him and then make the

best decision for the team. There's a bunch of guys that are out, you know, Damian Williams, a Mark, He's good Win a Key, Mario Edwards. These are there any potentials of return? I hope so I think, you know, to each our own, but I do feel like where those guys are at that some of those guys will have a good chance at being back. You know, we'll always we'll get together, whether it's later on tonight or

whether it's tomorrow. And we continue to talk through each day literally with these guys, and they're all changing, they're all a little bit different, and it gives us an idea game plan wise as to who we're going to have and not have. But every one of those guys is fighting like hell to get back. Well, when a guy like kind of Murray's on the field, you want a guy like real Quant Smith on the field. So he could not have been a hundred percent. There's no way.

But this guy's got an attitude right now of of dominance and leadership. And I think about that third and seven or he took off off the edge and here comes ro Quon. He beat him, He beat him there, forced him to a out of bounds two yards. You have a first down. Talk about that play and what Roquan at less than one hundred percent what he gave effort effort wise on that play. You know we're in man coverage on that play, and Kyler is always going to be a threat to use his legs if it's

not there, And yeah, that's what he did. You know, he got outside into pocket, and I thought Roquan showed his ability to be able to use a great angle to make him go out of bounds. And there's some linebackers you're going to run away from. Roquon's not one, even coming off of a hamstring. So the other part of that too, The first part of your question is I think that speaks to who Roquan is as a person and as a leader of this defense. Is him being able to do everything he can to get backed

u and be there first guys, was pretty cool. Overall the defense. Now, last four opponents, they've given up two eighty two ninety nine, two thirty nine, two fifty seven. I think you would take that very much. Now, it's not all about yards. Obviously, there were some things that still need to be corrected and so forth tackling wise.

But what did you think of how they played kind of murray yesterday given the fact that they were putting some really difficult situations five times in plus territory and the Arizona Cardinals enjoyed a forty nine yard starting for their possessions their own forty nine for their game. Yeah, yeah,

they were. You know when you look at it, Um, there was ten total series that that our defense ended up having, and um, you know, four in the first half, plus the fifth one was at the end of the half, and then four at the end of the game or the second half with one and in the four minute mode. And um, when you look at those eight possessions, I'm talking about four of them, Like you said, we're off a sudden change, and um, it's it's not easy. You know,

the ones that that they had the ball in minus territory. Um, you know, we held them to a field goal a touchdown in two punts. So at the same point in time, you know, Sean would tell you, hey, that third possession, we gave up a touchdown on a seven play drive, the ball starting at the minus twenty six. But they played hard situation. I talked about the one in the

goal line. They fought hard there. The biggest thing, probably, Jeff, is you look at some of the third downs and fourth downs is them, you know, executing whether it's a touchdown, whether it's a big rong, whether it's a scramble. And I know that's an emphasis that we want to continue to improve on. I want to talk about David Montgomery, first of all his day and then what he had to say after the game. I want to read a quote to you. But first of all, just he was

a decisive and thunderous back there. Yeah, he had his mindset. He's like that every game and not every game that you get opportunities that it goes your way like that. But I thought you really felt the persistence of him running hard, vertically, breaking tackles. And then in the past game too, you know, catch a ball in the flat straight arm or guy get vertical, get extra yard yards after contact. That's who he is. Doesn't shock me. He's like that way in practice, and he's been that way

ever since he's been here. Half a handoff off the right saxomatic to the forty five of the turners for the forty still rolling. It's the thirty. David Montgomery, not to be denied. I had a big first half of the Bears download the Chicago Bears have to play our new predictor game, Risk It, brought to you by Bette Rivers for your chance to win two hundred fifty dollars in free bets and a customed Bears Jersey. Just heard a big run of twenty four yards by David Montgomery

out of the break. We're talking about David's performance, but I want to talk about what he said at the podium yesterday for eight minutes. I don't know if you watch it, I don't know if you read any of the quotes, but I'm going to kind of summarize what he said, and basically, it's about the dream of getting here, always wanting to be a professional athlete in this game. He goes, I'm here, and as you learn when you get to the NFL, it's all predicated off wins and losses.

But in the midst of it, you tend to forget why you do what you do, You forget who you do it. For a lot of times, you got to take a step back and understand that I was a little kid playing this game. I started playing this game, and you get to get back to the basics of just having fun with regardless of how it looks, even when it's darker, as dark as it may seem, you still got to understand that it's still a game. But in addition to that, he says, I can look at

basically look in the eyes and these players. Nobody's going to give up, and he's not gonna let him. Can that attitude that he has, and I know you know him so well that you know his attitude, can it rub off everyone in that locker room? Could Rokuan's attitude rub off on everyone in the locker room even in these dark times with five to go, there's no doubt

about it. And as a coach, when you hear those words and when you know how real and authentic they are, makes you proud because you know this is He's family and no matter what the record is, no matter where you're at no matter how hard things get. I think it speaks volumes to who we have in this building. And guys like him, they really when you know that, they fight and they don't care about what's going on. They control with taking control and they give it everything

they got. That's who he is and you'll never be able to take that away from him. And championship teams when you have that, when you have David Montgomery's, you win a lot of games, You win a lot of Super Bowls, and whatever sport it is, you win because they fight and they never quit. And I think you guys probably saw a piece of who he is yesterday in a tough loss. But at the same point in time, that's not going to affect how he practices. It's not going to change whether we win five in a row

or lose five in a row. He is who he is and as a coach, that's all you can ask for, and you appreciate that. And you know there's gonna be a ton of questions obviously in these final weeks about you know, how do you play guys? Do you want to exhaust your roster just to see what you got?

You know, it's always this tug of war when when things aren't going well about those types of questions, how do you approach this, you know, even like with the Tevin Jenkins questions this morning about you know, working him into the mix somehow, some way got his feet what yesterday on special teams? How do you approach that with your guys, because again you have a lot of people to answer to, including yourself. Sure, No, I mean the easy way to think of it is you need to

do whatever you can do to win. I mean, no matter what the situation is in any year, it's your job when you go out there on Sunday or whatever day it is, is to win. And you just keep it super simple. And so you understand the questions and you understand every scenario that's asked. But at the same point in time, we all need to do what's best for this team to win and for these players, coaches, everybody else to win each week. And so every scenario

is a little bit different. And Tevin has done a great job at doing what he can do and we'll continue to work through that. And I know it's brought up also about justin if he does get down the field here and maybe even on Sunday night. What are your expectations based on what's happened here with those couple of games when he started to really get it a little bit for you. Yeah, yeah, there's excitement because you

really felt where he was going. You felt his growth, you felt him getting better situation when you felt him getting better confidence wise, you felt him getting better in practice. So we'll see where he's at health wise, and if he is able to go, Like I said, you know, he's the starter. When he's healthy, they'll be the starter. So we gotta figure out where that's at. And then as as as coaches, regardless of who the quarterback is,

we got to decide how the game plan goes. And uh, you know it's a common opponent that we know, big rivalry here with with Green Bay and um, you know, so we'll make sure that we're doing everything we can to put ourselves in the best position possible. Any team plays the Packers, how do you stop Aaron Rodgers? It's the unending question with a great quarterback, a future Hall of Famer. Do you come up with new ideas or

just keep pounding the rock? What do you do? Yeah? No, I mean that's a that's definitely the million dollar question for every defensive coordinator, offensive coordinator, head coach, special teams. You know, when you're talking about one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game, Um, you know you can understand that you and we have to be really really good in a lot of different phases whatever that is. It's just like yesterday, when you play a great offense,

you got to be sharp. And so we can't beat ourselves. We got to make sure that we play good football where Chris, we don't turn the ball over, because one thing we do know about Aaron Rodgers is he's is not turning football over. So we gotta we gotta make sure that that turnover battle, uh, that we keep it even or win it. Uh. And and know that we'll put together a plan to do everything we can for that.

And right now, be willing to tackle aj Dillon because he's getting the ball in two hundred forty seven pound he's a big man and you know, down downhill runner and they know that, and I don't think they care that. You know, it's a matter of stopping him. And he's from the waist down, you know, his he is his he's got tree trunk legs and he's he's something else, so we gotta be able to be good there too. All right, man, good luck with their preparation. We will

talk to you soon. Thanks Jeff. See you come watch the Bears game at Real Time Sports at Elk Grove Village on Sunday night of this week's official Miller Lank Chicago Bears Watch Party. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash fan Zone Slash Watch Parties for more information. Back at the Bears Coaches Show here on WBBM. It's brought to you by Whipfully CPAs and Consultants with Special Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor. Chris, thanks for joining the program. Let's start

with the conditions. Yesterday. We were eyeballing we always do time and I sitting up there in the booth looking pregame at the opposing kickers, and we felt Matt Prater was a little perplexed at times because it was windy one minute and not the next. You know everything you've experienced, well, how would you rate the conditions yesterday from the playing surface to the wind conditions over the course of the

game and how it affected things are not? Well, I'll tell you what to be honest with you, the playing surface was excellent. They had they had rested after the Baltimore game and in the middle there, you know, the middle out to the hash out to the numbers, it was the turf was tight. It was good. It was it was good playing conditions. But the wind that was

tough yesterday. The one thing about it, it it was consistent with regards to going towards their bench, but I kind of felt like it kind of fluctuated a little bit whether it was going to ours tunnel or to the other end zone there. So it did present some problems and Prayter were you know, he kind of visited with us in pre game there. He was trying to figure it out. Obviously, we don't give him any answers. I

just tell him good luck. But you know, Cairo had a great warm up and you know we didn't you know, we scored a lot of touchdowns there and we didn't get no field goals. So but he struck the ball real well pre game, so it felt confident about him, uh hitting there. We went down on Friday and so we were able to experience the turf and all those things.

But on Friday that it was very calm in the stadium. Yeah, it's interesting because some people wrapped down the turf assuming it was bad just from the purchase where they right from. But because it was brown down the middle, you think it oh boy, you know, but it's good to hear that that was not the case. No, it really, it really was good. And uh it actually seemed like it was cut lower than what it usually is, and uh it was nice. I thought. I thought the playing conditions

the field were good. All right, So Killotle Hilbert back there on I kick returned plate to his average, you know, in a couple of returns he had, and then keeping Jachim on pont Ratona, he had one. The thinking behind that just because more involvement in the offense with Grant Ort. Just need to see the rookie do his thing. No, I think I think that, Uh, I think that I have two good kick returners. I really do. I you know, I know Jachim is you know, wherever he's at in

the league, he's up there. And before Herbs before you know, became the more of a feature back. You know, he was a top five guy, and uh, he just he runs hard, He does a good job. He hasn't. He has the natural vision that you see on offense. And then the other thing about him is is as a kick returner, when he gets hit, the yaks that he has after that, he might he might get hit at the twenty two, but he's gonna finish at the thirty. And I just think he's he's doing a nice job,

and he's getting more confident and he loves it. He actually, uh, we were in a meeting when he was the feature back there and I had he sits next to me in a team meeting and I said, hey, I said, you haven't done anything wrong, but you're just gonna get more carries back there. So, uh, you know, no kick returns this week. And he looked at me. No kick returns. He he was, I can still do that, And I said, well, kid, I said, this is kind of how the NFL works, okay,

and we'll just kind of keep going through it. But don't worry. You're still going to practice it. You're still gonna get reps at it. You're still gonna be every meeting because there's gonna come a point in time where you're gonna be doing it again. And and it's rearing its head right now. Has he been asking since then for more opportunity? Oh, he always wants to play. Yeah I will. I will say that attitude. You want that attitude? No, no, I do. And he'll even say that in the cover phases.

Also he'll if I think that, you know, you know, Dave's playing and Herbs is at the number two spot there and just kind of watching as the game's going. I mean, I I'll sometimes feel a tug on my shirt say coach, I'm I can go, just put put me in. So I really, I really do appreciate that about him because that's a it's a player that didn't

play a lot of special teams in college. And I mean he's running down on kickoff, he plays on the punts, you know obviously the kick return, and he plays on part he's he's a four faced player that we've just kind of see grown. You know, he's grew from training camp to where he's at now. So hopefully we just

kind of keep him on that upward trajectory. Back at the Bears Coaches Show with Bears Special teams coordinator Chris taber So, like single game Bears tickets are available, Cheer out of the Monsters in the midway live at Soldier Field this season. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets for more information. Chris, let's talk about the kickers yesterday, Patrick O'Donnell two for forty five and a half, one

inside the twenty and along of fifty three. Again not a lot of action, but again, yeah, he's had I think what twenty two I want to say, punts with zero return yards this year, something like that. And that's been in his wheelhouse over the years. He's had some really good years in that kind and you'd love to

see that. No, I do, because you know, I know that we're not we're where we want to be at this time with regards to return yardage against US and and I think I said it probably a few weeks ago, maybe at the eight game mark. You know, we're just trying to chip away at that, and we're starting to do that the last few weeks of keeping guys in single digits, and uh, that's that's a testament to Pat, that's a testament to the gunners and the and the

obviously the inside corps getting down there. But no past doing a nice job. And yesterday wasn't easy, wasn't an easy day just with regards to you know, as simple as you know, people say, well, the drop, you know, and the wind's blowing right to left or left or right whichever where you're going, and it's pushing it, and you could you know, you could shank one off the

side of your foot and those type of things. So, uh, Fortunately he's a guy that's been here a long time and understands how Soldier field plays and and has some tools in his in his bag that he can go to and says, Okay, hey, this is how it's how the winds playing today. This is what I need to hit. This is how we can still be effective of eliminating

the returner. Because obviously that kid the more key. He's explosive player, you know, and uh, you know, I'm glad that he only had whatever one return for no yard, so we'll always take that. It's Rondelle More, the rookie out of Purdue, YEP, exciting player. Indeed, I did have a couple of kick returns overall on coverage your you guys yesterday. Caleb Johnson, Joel Yea Booney Way already burns.

Christian Jones credited with tackles I'm sure, you you look at that a little differently sometimes when you watch the tape. But how did that all turn out yesterday? No, I thought they did a nice job. I think the thing that sets us up, you know, right out of the gate obviously, is on our kickoff coverage. You know, Cairo does a nice job of moving the football and the thing that I loved about him yesterday, everything's blowing towards their sideline. But I think it was right there and

I can't remember the end of the third quarter. Quarter. Yeah, I was excellent, and we kicked out. We kicked opposite of what the win was doing because we out like that he could do that, and I think that's you know, that's it helps us because we go down to Soldier Field and everything tells you should go over there, but he goes coach, I can play it the way it's blown right now, I can play it and put it over there, and we said, all right, let's play it.

Let's go. And it turned out great for us because they had a counter return on us that they were going to try to hit and we actually ended up kicking it to where they wanted to go. So everything worked out in our favor on that, So that was good.

But it's nice to be able to have guys be able to kick the ball like that and then the coverage guy's understanding that they have a lot of faith of where he's going to put the football and kind of shrink the field and give us a chance to kind of corral a really good player and not let him play out in open space. Is Caleb we now put him in the category because he was from a small school, obviously a lot to learn. Is he a

rising player? I think that his arrow is definitely up, And I think it's been up every you know, every game he's got, he's gotten better. The thing that I love about the kid is, well, you know, we're gonna stay after practice and we're going to focus on one thing to try to get a little bit better at. And I always say, that's just put an extra You're you're, you're, you're putting money in the bank. And I said, we're gonna have to pull some of that out later on

game day. I said, but at least we're making deposits during the week and just kind of building confidence in the techniques that we're that we're teaching. But he's been he's been a player that if he makes a mistake, he's really good at correcting it and not making the same mistake twice. And I always tell young players, if you can be that player, uh, you can play a

lot faster and a lot longer in this league. Keep making the same mistakes over and over again, then people are going to ask you to go maybe try your skill set it with another team. You've had a rotation of captains since you know, that's what Matt chooses won from each phase of the team. So are there any new leaders emerging, uh, you know that can compare favorably to what we've had over the years. And a guy like Sherrick mcmanuson and some other guys that have come

through here under your watch. Oh yeah, DHC is uh And I always said that's a that's a gift. Yeah, that's a give but but you know, I mean, um, you know we have we have other guys in there, uh you know iggy Uh guys, there's uh Christian Jones as has been a guy that's that steps right, just does his job and places physical and does all the things that we asked him to do. Um. The thing that I like about our room uh and being People

don't see it. But when when we meet, uh, guys, they hold they hold each other accountable, and uh, you know, we we didn't feel like that. We played very well in the kick return game in Detroit. We we had some mental airs, stuff that self inflicted stuff that we did to ourselves, and we went into this game saying, you know what, let's clean that stuff up. This is a good cover team, but they're you know, they're not getting us inside the twenty, you know what I mean.

And when we take our shot on goal, get our return, let's deliver them to the twenty and then from there we're going to start working. And I thought the guy, I thought, we took a step in the right direction. We're not where we need to be, and then, you know, but hopefully we can grow on that effort into this Green Bay game. Final moments with Bear Special Teams coordinator Chris Tabor here on the Bears Coaches Show, and we'll look ahead of the Green Bay Packers in a moment

a couple of quick things. Cairo Santos on the on side kick track, I said, it looked like a Sausa dancer out there, going back and forth trying to get some movement, you know, with with with their return team showing one way and then you know what we try to say, kind of pull the string on them a little bit and so that hopefully when the ball gets down, you're just trying to create a little bit more space.

Still tough play to recover, I think I saw last night on Sunday Night Football, although I did see, I think the percentage might be up to about eleven percent, which in the past is really about on par you know, it's about it's usually about twelve percent, I think is where the league would try to to see it go too, So they are getting closer to that. But still a tough play. But yes, it was. It was the salsa

wide left. Maybe that's the name of the play. I don't know any reason in your opinion that no punt return touchdowns in the National Football League this season. I'm gonna go probably quirk. I will also say this, I think the punters are becoming very skilled at what they do, you know, with regards to placement and hang time, and then the resources that you have out at gunner, you know, and what are you gonna do on on that? So I think there's a lot of factors. But yeah, that

does shock me. I mean, there's already been a few kick return touchdowns. The kid from Minnesota already has two. We'll talk about him at a later date. I don't want to talk about him right now. He's a really good players from your all. He's an Iowa States, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's good, yes, good player. But no, that's interesting. I realize that Brian Johnson has been on and off our practice squad. Kicks the game winner in Washington yesterday.

You gotta feel good for He's a good kicker, right. Oh, I was fired I was fired up for him. Actually, it shot him a text after I saw the highlights and just tell him we're proud of him. I mean, you know, but this is what we always say. If you're not going to make our team, we want you to make somebody else's team. And he texts back, He's said, Coach, I appreciate it. You always told me to hit those I just can't make them. If it's a team called

the Bears, I can't make them. And I said, you're right. So no, he's a real proud for him. Hopefully he can just kind of keep that going, which I believe deep down in my hearty camp and ye pineto back in the league with the New York Jets as of today. Now it's time to look ahead, brought to you by Bette Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Bears.

So what are we looking at with the Green Bay Packers as you get ready to go up to lambeau Field for yet another primetime matchup ten times in eleven years with those guys in their kicking operation and return game. Well, obviously they have Mason Crosby who's been obviously one of consummate pros in this league, and I know he's They've had some misses due to some other things not his fault, but they'll you know, they're they're good cover team. They've

improved since we've played them. But you know, I mean, it is it's a rivalry game and that's Uh, this is a big game for us, you know, and in our world special teams, we need to play well. And we're still we're still always chasing what I always call the perfect game. And it's it's fun to chase that because if you're chasing it, then you're working to get better. And that's what we'll kind of keep keep doing here as we prepare for these guys. But we gotta we'll

have our work cutout for us. All right, Well, good luck, we have preparation. Chris, appreciate the time as always, Thank you, take care and that's gonna do it. For tonight's show, I want to thank our producers Keith Johnson, Katie Tuber, Dan BURRELLI, and for head coach Matt Naggie and Coach Tabor. I'm Jeff Joniak. Will bring you the Bears and Packers from lambeau Field. Four o'clock, the pregame show, seven twenty the kickoff from lambeau Field. This is News Radio one

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