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this morning with what kind of feeling in your belly? Yeah, it's just, you know, it's not a good it's not a good feeling, just because you know the sense of pride that we all have, and when you lose five in a row, it's never funny. And no matter what's four or what game you play, you know, that's just that's just not what it's all about. So we gotta we have to. There's nothing we can do but go out and do it. No more talk about it. We

just gotta go do it. Yeah. As a head coach, end coach, period and a play you face a mountain of challenging moments over your career. You got forty four games into this thing. Are you at your most challenging moment as a head coach. Yeah, for sure. I think last year, you know, we hit we had a four game losing shriek, and what it was like to get that win, and it just it makes everything go away for at least a week until you get to the next opportunity. So that's a that's kind of been the message.

What it was yesterday, last night after the game, and what it's going to be moving forward here is again we we we lean in, we pull together with everybody that we have. We don't make excuses, we don't point fingers. We just jumped together. We get back on to say the next chance they give us and we grow out and we get a win. Raw after the game, you mentioned, you know, team wide team wide defeat. A lot of it on defense. Obviously the turnovers on offense a lot

at play here. But you alluded to the messaging after the game. Can you share what the messaging was in that locker room? And you said your players know what they feel about what was specifically the messaging from you, Yeah, just exactly that is to feel it and what kind of pride do you have, you know, like it's uh, there comes a point where uh, you know, we we we play, we do what we do, we coach, we

you know, we play, we do this game. In the end, you do it to win and and so, uh, there's gonna be loss as usually, and when you when you lose, you got to try to figure out what's the why part and then you rebound from it. And so when when there's you know, five in a row, that's when you know, there comes a point in time where you

just say enough is enough. And I think that's probably the final message last night was the personal pride enough is enough and uh, it's time that we go out there and just do it and should do it with actions. Did you do all the talking or did any players step up and speak? No? I didn't. I just did. I did some talking, you know, and and it wasn't

any yelling and scream and it's just real talk. And then um, we were able to uh you know, to to let the guys kind of talk a little bit, and Khalil had some some things to say, and I thought it was really good. And that's why he's a leader. You know, he's been in this league a long time. He's been a part of different teams win winners and losing teams and winning and losing teams, and um, I think his you know, overall, his his message was really

really good. Kind of what I just said, you know about personal pride, and and that's inevitably what it comes down to. You know, that's a benefit to have a guy like that, because I believe he doesn't really do that often. But when a guy doesn't do it often, it probably has more of an impact. But you could even just see it on the field, you know, trying to talk to guys during the game, pulling guys away from conversations with the packers. And he's not a guy

that he doesn't dance around on the field. He's all old school business. Is that beneficial to you at this moment? That's who he is, and that's how he goes about his business, and he does it with actions, so he doesn't have to say much. And I think those when when guys like when leaders like him do speak, it means a lot more than the ones that talk all the time. And so that's that's kind of where where we're at in this point in time. You want to rely on your leaders, and um that's what we did

last night. I think yeah, this morning, you really emphasize the underscore just to need to do more across the board, not as if people aren't putting in the work, but just do more, do the extra things because this requires some extra attention. Who are you're relying on specifically to also carry that batient for you to get the entire unit on both sides of the all three phases to do exactly what you're asking. Well, just it's the really everybody,

I mean, it's literally it doesn't matter who you are. Uh, you just got to dig down a little bit deeper, right, and not just the players, but the coaches and make sure we take a step back and put them in great, great positions. And then the players were out and they are the ones that got to make the plays and

the other ones that got to execute. So whatever it is, you gotta we all got to start with ourselves and then we gotta we gotta you know, we gotta just get that that confidence and that that energy and all that stuff that we've had. We just got to get that. The way you get that is by winning. Do you feel it all the team has lost confidence? No? Well, I mean they haven't. It's natural when you're when you lose five games in a row, you start, you know, you just want to figure out, okay, what is it?

And I think the biggest thing that you run into. And again this isn't the first time. And you know, I was a part of this in in another organization where you lose five in a row, we bound back in one ten in a row. And so what happens is is you just got to be able to understand that this is Sometimes you get some crazy challenges and then we're in one. Right now, we're knee deep in one.

So the confidence part comes back by just one play at a time at playing well, trusting each other, trusting what's going on, and then again ultimately in the end when when you find a way to get a win, it just it takes a lot of that off. It had to be a jarring experience to watch a defense that you have a lot of belief in give up sixteen make that eighteen first downs in the first thirty six plays of the game. Yeah, you know, that's just

it was uncommon for us. And we you know, the Packers have a tremendous offense and they've been doing really well all year long, but our standards with our defense. Those guys, they're the ones that set the standards on defense. It's the players that set it. They have very very high standards. So I don't even need to say anything for them to know where we're at and how we need to play better. So that that's, you know, everything I discussed this morning with the team in regards to

the and with the media is nothing. You know, that's that's no news to them. We got tremendous leaders on that defensive side of the ball that care a lot and they have a lot of personal pride. So I'm excited to see what they do this week. At times, though, you do have to give it to the cap to the other guy, and they did. They did have a

great plan that kept you off balance. Yes, there were mistackles sometimes out of position and mistakes made, But in terms of that, do you think that the defense played out its heels a bit because everything seemed to be working in they had they right down the middle on the opening drive seven orrun seven passes each back had

seventeen carries. I mean, it was pretty fifty. They were really well balanced and they were able to they got us up the middle a little bit there, you know, with with some of the inside zone stuff and some of the waxen and back schemes that we talk about.

Then they hit nakeds at the right time. And then I thought that that third and third and ten from the twelve yard line, you know, drop eight and we had eight guys in coverage, and you know he was back there able to just find DeVante and make a good throw and catch, and so you know, you fight hard to get down there into that position and we gave up a touchdown. It was a little bit deflating, and we had to come back and get a stop.

Unfortunately we did. And so again you look at the other side of the ball though, too is you know, hey, we said, you know this this offensively, you got to score touchdowns. And so even even if it is a team like Green Bay where they're going to score points, right and our defense is gonna have a game like that, we gotta offensively be able to match up Troubisky in the short gunny hands off David Montgomery blast into the forty, like the fifty to the forty, up the hash thirty

twenty down to ten. David Montgomery simply went north and south, baby, David Montgomery with a blast right up up the hash marks fifty seven yards a thing of beauty. Matt Naggi's we Welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner at the Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whippley dot com. Nice duel there with Cody white Hair and Sam Musta for

clearing lane fin he just went north and south. He Yeah, that was nice early on in that to get one, it felt great, you know, and I know David was was really you could feel the how how excited he was to see that hole and just get vertical and made some nice plays there. Being able to stiff for him and do different things, and again we want to be able to finish that with a touchdown. Was certainly

a great start. Well you look at that, and I'm sure you got all jacked up inside, But in the end it was one of only sixteen plays in that first half. Can't do much with that, Yeah, sixteen plays, you know, we had three three drives in and after you know, you look up in his twenty seven to three and that's when we ended up going down. At the end of the second quarter and had the four

team play drive that resulted in a touchdown. So that felt good knowing that we were going to get a possession there to start the third, which you know, you go down there and before you know you can get it to twenty seven seventeen and have a lot of ballgame left. But we just weren't able to do that in the third quarter and it got out of hand and before you know it, you're playing major catch up,

playing a game like Aaron Rodgers. I know it's tenuous and it's only the first drive, but is it monumental when on that opening drive you don't get the touchdown to cap it off because you had the juice, you had the momentum, Mitch's back and you do settle with the field goal. What effect does that have? Is is it psychological? A little bit like, ah, we did it again,

we didn't finish well. I think the energy was there and that that part was really good, But it's it's more about, like you said, I just just understanding, like, hey, we we got guys and playmakers down here that we want to be able to make plays and uh, you know both really even to throw to to a rob um that he had as it came down, it got

got knocked out. Uh, there's a little bit of a sense to that, because you want to touchdown, you know, you know you're gonna have to score touchdowns against this offense. So that's that's the part there. Well, okay, you come back and get another opportunity. And we ended up having uh, you know, a penalty that uh negated uh some stuff. And then we threw that pick and we knew we were going to kind of take some shots and it just ended up going that way for us and the shots.

How'd you feel about that in terms of Mitch's decision making on those plays, Yeah, he was you know that ball there, the decision. We knew that it was gonna end up being a one on one throw on either the nick or the safety. The safety that's down, but that's safety that played over the top. He ended up getting his his his he backced on and made a nice, nice play, and we wanted to kind of get that throw a little bit more outside, but it didn't end

up that way. So we're gonna take shots and sometimes you got to be able to do that to stretch the defense. And we had another one there that we had Mooney over the middle for about twenty yards and he slipped. So we just got to continue to pick and choose when there has come. You know, Tom and I got into a little bit of a discussion on the air about slipping. I thought there was a slip of gym both sides. It looked like a Christine field.

You know better than I. But when when players slip, and I know some even at the high school level, coach just want no excuses for slipping. But did you feel there was some of that or was it some of it just some of the throws were not with the velocity or the direction that that needed to be. No, yeah, no,

there were slipping on both sides last night. I think there was something there with the field because it was really you know, it was offense defense and it was our team end their team they were slipping too, So there was definitely something to that. We've known net in the past before, you know, and we were aware of that and uh we you know, we had the same issue last year. All right. Overall, how would you evaluate Mitche's performance and is it is it worthy of another

start against the Lions? Yeah? I would say this. I think that early on I really liked where he was at. We became a little bit one dimensional as the game went on, and that's to any quarterback in this league. It's that's never easy when you have to drop back every play and make throws and they can just see off. So decision making, I thought, um, you know, he did

a good job. There were some some some things here there that you know, you can always say are a little bit gray on where you go with the football, But he did make a couple of plays with his legs. Protecting the football and staying away from turnovers is important. And again and we as a staff, myself, everybody included, will continue to just keep evaluating him. See where Nick's

at in regards to his health. But as I said this morning too, I feel like, uh, you know, it was it was certainly a game where I know Mitch wanted to play better just to be able to help out. It didn't happen, But we're going to stay positive through it all. Six different group of offensive lineman in the first eleven games, fourth and four games up. How did you think they did up there and that reconfiguration? Were

you happy with generally the results of that? I was, I was actually really happy and pleased with the way that those guys played. I thought that they did a great job in the run game. They opened up some nice lanes and then pass protection wise against some of those those defensive ends that they have and Kenny Clark on the inside, I thought they handled themselves really really well, so that that was definitely a plus coming out of this.

We feel good about where we're at with those guys, and I was pleased with him and Charles Lenno hates mission snaps, let alone games, and how he handle that with the right toe. Yeah he did. He I commend him for doing everything in Kenny, get back to the game. You know, there's a couple of times you got pushed back.

I don't know how much anchor he can put on an outside foot, but um again, I think each day he'll get better and better to be able to come out of this game with really no injuries across the board as a positive. And uh so that you know, head into this this next game with with with some guys that have finally played together the Chicago Bears and

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big thing obviously to to focus on. But just the circumstances and where we're at with COVID and I mean, how do you make sure that the focus remains and have that persistence over resistance? Yeah, Well, just like last night, uh, in regards to the people that we have in our building, is for times like this is being able to rally around each other and pull together. Um, when you don't have that, it can it can definitely go the other way.

And that that's kind of what my messaging was for last night was Hey, um, there's gonna be some fire here. There's gonna be some some ability for us to be able to get out there and have some juice and energy and get get that back and um, and I just feel like with the people that we have, the leaders that we have the culture of who we are when you have times like this of lots of resistance. That's when you pull together and you you persist and

you just keep going. You keep going, and it seems it can seem very frustrating, but you just keep going. And uh that that's where I have a lot of trust in our players and coaches. Do you feel over the time you've been here that when the noise starts cranking up, this team is good about the blinders and air muffs. And maybe now more than ever I do. And you know, we we we were we went through

this last year. And again all of this is because of everybody caring, you know, you know, all all the fans and all the you know, the city and everyone cares. You know, you gotta you gotta love that. And so when they care, there's a there's a feeling of let's go out and that That's what I think is very important for us is to understand that and that we we know that, we feel that we want that and

we got to do it together. And so, um, I really just believe that, Uh, that's where we're at, and we got to just continue to just keep going and find a way to get a win. One thing I feel that I don't often hear, but you also hold your coaching staff accountable almost every single week with comments and especially this morning, was that received. And do you guys have that kind of working relationship where you know you're the CEO of the football team and they they

also have to do what you're asking the players to do. Yeah. No, they do a great job with that. And um, it's kind of the same deal with with the player that we bring in. It's very similar with the coaches too, that we build these relationships and trust. And one thing that I believe wholeheartedly in is is a lot of pure honest conversations. And I just I don't believe in just saying things the people that I think they want to hear. I just tell them exactly what I feel.

I really don't care if it if it hurts your feelings, I don't care if you hurt my feelings. But let's at least get it. Let's let's see where we're at. And so that's those guys. Our coaches know that, and they do a great job with that. They accept that they care. And when you have that, it's I feel like it's healthy and it helps you in times like this where there can be frustration. Frustration you need to have really great communication so that everyone's speaking the same language.

And if you do that, then you know, okay, where we can get better where we're not doing well right now, and then let's make sure we're speaking the same language. Some people can easily dismiss it and say, well, everything's broken, can't fix it. But are there corrections that are simple to complicated that are still on the table for this Bears team here in the final five games? Yeah? Absolutely, And our guys know, uh, you know, with with these final five games, Uh, every game that goes by, you

start losing the controlling your own destiny deal. And so but we can't worry about that. The only thing we can worry about, Jeff, right now is making sure that we have a great week of practice and then and then we got to have those four quarters. And so again I said it, talk doesn't mean anything. It's about doing it. So it gets redundant just keep saying it. Uh, it's you know, as a as a coach, as a player. They don't want to keep saying or keep talking about it.

They want Sunday to get here so they can do it. We all want Sunday to get here so we can do it and get back on track. Well, you get the Lions week one to win in Detroit. They come to Soldier Field with a new head coach at the moment. The interim coach, Darryl Bebel has been a head coaching candidate in his life as a as a very prominent assistant coach throughout his career. What do you expect from the Lions? Well? Again, Uh, first of all, I know, I know Daryl Belvill well and I think he's a

great coach, a great person and a great leader. And so u those guys are gonna play hard. And again, they got a great quarterback that I have a lot of respect for. MTT staff are great players on that offense and the defensively. We obviously know that. Um, they're they're always close games with us, and we've we've been fortunate, uh you know, winning those games. But they're they're playing tough right now, and so we just got to be prepared for anything, and we got to just go out

and play a solid game. All right, Matt, have a good week of preparation and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, that's Bears head coach Mattneggie. This segment of Bears All Access brought to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletical dot com to request an appointment in clinic or virtually

and start feeling better tomorrow. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley CPAs and consultants Jeff Jonny Ac now joined by the Bears Venoman defensive coordinator Chuck Pogatto could even eat Chuck, How you holding up, buddy? Because that was some kind of game. Wow. Yeah, No, that's uh, that's definitely one that that that that stung, to say the least, and hurt and you could feel it, you know, during that entire game on the sideline in

the locker room afterwards. We got a bunch of guys that uh, um, that are hurting, a bunch of coaches that are hurting because you know, definitely, you know on the defensive side, that that's not us. That's not you know, what we expect from ourselves, not what I expect from myself, what the players expect. We know, uh, we're better than that. We can play better than that, and we will play better and we will bounce back. But but that one stung,

you know, especially in that game and that rivalry. Um, you know, uh that that that that hurts. But thank god it's not the last game. And we got another another opportunity ahead of us and and got full confidence and and uh and our guys and we'll bounce back from this and and get back to playing Bears football. How did you personally take this loss? No, it kills you. It rips your rips your uh, your heart out, rips your guts out, you know, because um, you know, you're

just you're looking for something. You're scratching around for something just to stop to you know, try to stop the bleeding. Um, you know, and it just it just was, you know, one thing after after another, you know, and and uh, you know, I gotta be better, and I got to find a way to uh to to do something, to call something to put these guys in position to stop the bleeding, you know, and then the hard half falls on all of us at some point. You know, I

gotta I gotta make a better call. We can execute better. Guy's got to get off the block, make a tackle. Guy's got to make a you know, be in one on one on one match up. And there's a lot of especially against that outfit in that quarterback. I mean, he's gonna go down as one of the best they

ever playing. Um, you got to do so many great things, you know against them, and uh you got to try to make them one to mentional and we didn't we you know, we weren't able to do that, you know, so they and then you know, once we once we got you know, so far behind, it was like whole playbooks open and do whatever you want to do. And that that becomes extremely frustrating, you know, and our guys are are. I love our guys, and I love their fight and in their grit and their toughness and and uh,

you know, I just I gotta be better. You know. You kind of joked on Thursday when you met the media, and I said it was one of the funniest quotes I ever heard, because it was it was tongue in cheek with a little bit of truth to it. But Colin, Aaron, Rodgers, Michael Angelo and Picasso and gosh, don't even want to go up there, because there there is a dread sometimes when you face great quarterbacks in addition to the challenge of it. Every player loves facing the very best, but uh,

way the way he's playing right now. This hearkens back to his MVP days because he really wasn't complete control yesterday, wasn't he No, he just he knows, you know, and uh, you know you're in you know, single high defense. You know, got an extra guy down the box to stop the run. He knows, and he knows right where the matchup he wants to go, and he goes to it. You know. Um, he's you know, run away from a down safety you're

in split safety. Um, he knows that he knows exactly the matchup he wants, and he and he exploits, exploits it, and he's um, you know, uh, he's so damn accurate and and mobile, And right when you think you've got him, he gets outside, he breaks contain and runs for a first down. And um, you try some different things, some drop eight and and and you know, just to change throw him a curveball and a guy gets free and and and he finds him and he and he and he throws it on a rope and finds you know,

seventeen for the first touchdown. So um, he's as good as they get. And and you know, you've got to be in such great sync and we've had success and this team's had success over the years, you know, against him, and uh, yesterday just wasn't our day. The running game make a huge difference. Yeah, there's no doubt about it, because you know when when that's when that thing gets going, you know, and you know a's second and four second

and five those those are hard downs to defend. The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by veriz At, Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover the world of Bears football on and off the field, every Sunday night at eleven o five pm on Fox thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot com or on the bears official app. Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano with US reviewing yesterday's loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Khalil mac, who doesn't often do a ton of interviews, called this a low point fifty two, Isn't you know? He's hurting. All those guys are hurting in that locker room. And that's the great thing about the locker room that coaches built. You know, there's a bunch of high character guys in there. Guys that love football, guys that care, and guys that, like he said after the game that hey, losing more than they like winning, you know, and and

it stinks and it stings, and we didn't. Um, you know, we know how tough this business can be, UM, how tough it is, and how hard it is to win win games. But uh but yeah, and uh but I know this. They're fighters, you know, and they're and because they care and because they have character. Um, because our coaching staff UM is led by a guy that that is a fighter and has character, and all of our guys have that. Um. We're going to go back to work on Wednesday and do the things that we need

to do, uh, to get out of this run. Is the only thing that cures us is winning, you know, and you know you do It just starts with one. We got five games up, but the only thing that matters is is Detroit and that's that's the next one. And we've got to prepare and then we've got to go play. And uh, we all we all have to we all have to do our jobs and we have to we have to do them better and uh and we know we can. But that's the only thing that's going to get this this bad taste you know out

of our mouth. Uh, that that that pit, that burnie, that that thing that's killing You're just ripping your guts out right now, what's ripping his guts out? And the rest of that defense and the entire team for that matter, is a win. Matt Naggie did talk to the media this morning, was very very direct about the defense, was

very pointed about it. Do you feel that the defense is strong enough mentally and with a bunch of leaders that you have on it to take that kind of challenge and to again get back to the level that is required really for this This is this is a defensive oriented team at the moment until the offense finds its way, no doubt about it. And you know they nothing is personal. It just is what it is. And

the expectations are what the expectations are. And we all we all know that you know what's expected out of a Chicago Bear defense and that's weekend and week out, and they're not be no lolls and there can't be a game like that. And so our guys understand that. I understand it, Our coaches understand that. And again it's not it's it's it's never it's never personal. It's just

a matter of fact, you know. And and the facts were that that was that was bad, you know, and uh, you know I I stunk and and we we didn't play well. And um, you know, we we got uh, we got great careac like I said, we got great character guys, we got great pros. Um they're they're grown men and they get this business and they've been through the fire before. And we're uh, we're all getting tested

right now, you know. And like I always said, you know, we've all been through some stuff outside of ball, some things that that that harden you, um, that prepare you for for you know, this game will prepare you for real life stuff because there's real life stuff coming. We just don't know when it's going to come. But circumstances don't make you. They reveal you. And I guarantee of these circumstances right now are going to reveal to everybody

that that we've got great dudes. We got great we got great players, and we got great men, and we got tough son of a guns, you know, on the defensive side of the football. And we'll get this fixed. It's easy to say because he is a great player, and he demands double teams and he brings fire to the table. But missing a chem Hicks, especially with those runs up the middle yesterday, how do you fill the

absence of somebody like a chem Hicks. Yeah, again, you you look at the tape and when you put the tape on, here's the technique that you need to play. And here here's what happened. And physically we've got we've got big bodies, big you know, John was in there, Um, you know, Dan was in there, Big herb was in there. Um And there was some really good football played. But then there was, like you said, there was some gases in there. We don't give up one hundred and fifty

plus yards rushing. Ever, we can't do that. And the and that's that's not that's not us, And that's again that's my responsibility to make sure that, uh, you know, we're in the right the right personnel group, the right scheme, the right call, uh you know. And then it's everybody else's job. They know this, They tell you the same thing.

Then it comes down to really a simple game blocking, tackling, throwing, catching, you know, communicating, you know, and you got to take on blocks and you've got to get off blocks, and you've got to tackle, and you've got to be on the same page, and you have to fit all this misdirection stuff. So it's all stuff that's correctible. It isn't like a holy crap, we got to start from ground zero.

Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. It's brought to you by Whipley CPAs and consultant Jeff Johnny acc with Check Pagano our remaining moments with the Bears defensive coordinator. When DeVante Adams, you know what he can do, and you know how they deploy him because they move him all over the place, and they did again yesterday, created a lot of a lot of matchups. How do you think that was managed overall? He didn't do a ton of damage just that one play when he had six

plus seconds to throw the football on that drop eight. Yeah. Yeah, So again we all know that that play is going to get extended because you are, you know, rushing three and dropping eight. If I had had to do it all over again, I'd run the same I'd run the same call, run the same defense. It took away everything. Now it's just a matter of okay, once the play extends.

Now everybody's got a plaster. They got to find guys in their zones and they got they got a plaster, and they ran a route that was a little bit of an underneath route and then a vertical by Davante, you know, and nobody does, you know, the plaster drill better, the extended play better than that group up in Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers, you know, obviously running it at the quarterback spot and shoo, we looked at it and we knew as soon as we come off that we

can play it better, you know. But I wouldn't take that one back ever, you know, because I know, I know it just comes down to, uh, they understand that it isn't the first three seconds of that call that matter.

It's probably the second three. You mentioned six, right, So the first three, um, they're going to run a route and then it's going to be the second three, you know, and the guys the three men rush still working, trying to do a good job of getting something on and just to get them to throw it and then have a body on that guy so when the balls up there, we can break it up. Do you have anything to draw on from your coaching career that you could share with these guys to give them some boost here in

the final five. Yeah, I think you know, you can go you can go back and just say, look, we play for for a couple of things. We play for that decal, you know on the side of our helmet, you know, the McCaskey family. We understand what what what that means. We understand what Missus McCaskey wants and expects, what this what our fan base um expects, what this

community expects. And then the names on the back of our jersey, you know, and you're going to go through some adversity, and you're going to go through some tough times. Every it happens, you know, every season, you're gonna you're gonna face it. Uh, you know, and now it's it's it's a matter of of of pride, it's a matter of of fight. It's a matter of sticking together. It's a matter of going out and pray, uh, you know,

playing for one another. That old story we show him that that Derek Redmond tape about the Olympian who you know was you know, the British Olympian that he's running around a track. You know, he's in the semis getting ready for the Olympics. You know, he's in the semis and he's got a great chance to win, going he rips his hamstring. I don't know if you remember that, you know, and his dad came out of the stands.

You know. It was in Barcelona and ninety six, and dad came out of the stands and helped him finish and get across the finish line, you know, and and and lost the opportunity. Obviously, you trained four years and all of a sudden something like that happens. But the lesson that he taught the kids. You know, you can take a you know, you can take an A or you can take an F. But we take no eyes in this family growing up, so there are no incompletes,

So we don't take any eyes. We finish everything, and no matter what the circumstances are, no matter what the odds are, you finish everything. So our guys, our guys understand that. They know that, and we'll finish this thing the right way. We got five games left division rival at home against another great quarterback and a great offensive system. You know, it's going to be a huge challenge for us.

So again, tough times don't last. Tough people do. And so we got we got the right guys, you know, we got the right coaches, the assistants, and we got the right players. And we'll dust ourselves off, we'll pick ourselves up, and we'll continue to prepare and we'll continue to fight and we'll go play well and we'll get this win. Great way to end our segment with you, Check Paganto, appreciate it. Good luck in your preparation this week, and I appreciate you being on. Thank you. That's Bears

defensive coordinator, Check Pagotto. That's a wrap on tonight's Bears Coach the Show. I want to thank our producers Jordan tread Up, Dan Early, Andy Gercer, and Keith Johnson for Bears head coach Mattonagge and defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano. I'm Jeff Joniac, wishing you a pleasant, good evening. This is News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM WBBM. Good night, everybody,