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the Vikings. So much about this game. Again, We've had these scenarios where if someone was not at the game, someone did not watch the game, someone did not listen the game, and you looked at just the stats and you wondered, how in the world could the Bears have not won this game. It'd be one of these games. Yeah, it would be you know, it's the red zone, not being effective in there and trying to get points, and

there was a lot of sudden change yesterday. I thought our defense did a phenomenal job, which a sudden change. We've been harpening on that all year. But offensively, it was just, you know, we were ineffective there and in the NFL, to be effective and to be a championship team, you got to be great in the red zone. You've got to score touchdowns, and when you score three points essentially in the game, you know that just that you're

not going to win the games that way. It seems to me it's just such a fine line, as always of winning or losing. In the National Football League, everything turns on a player two in a game at a minimum a half dozen plays. But do you feel the player's frustration at all in those moments? Yeah, I mean you feel it when you have penalties, the first penalty to start the game, ten yard run and a penalty. You feel it when there's turnovers. You you know, there's

there's there's just you gotta be clean. You got to have effective plays. You gotta be We talk about at twelve of twelve. It's eleven of eleven players and then the coaching. The coaching part is the twelve aspect twelve and twelve. You can't have ten to twelve. You can't have eleven to twelve, and offensively we have knock been twelve or twelve. Simply put so, in order to be a great team to win games, you gotta be twelve

to twelve and you can't have negative plays. If you do, you got to be able to recover, and we're not recovering right now. To have four third downs that were third and seventeen plus in an NFL game is hard to do. It's certainly hard as hell to convert. And you know, so you look at four downs, you look at third downs, you look at situational football, you look at protecting and respecting the football. If you look at getting touchdowns in the red zone, and you know, we

just didn't do that. As a head coach and with your staff affecting that change to avoid these situations only go so far. You can't play the game. Is that a level of frustration that us as fans and us looking at this thing from a different perspective can't really appreciate.

I hear what you're saying. I think we're all a part of this, and I know we are, And there's there's there's times as you go through these learning instances and these plays and scenarios and everything that goes on, it really makes you have to laser in as a player and a coach to be great. And we've proven that this year. We haven't been able to overcome negative yards. That's been a struggle for us. So when there is a third and one, you can't have a false start.

You gotta be locked in. When when you you know, have the ball um and you're in a position to be able to try to make a good play call, you got to make a good play call right from from our own When you have a chance to make a catch, you gotta make a catch. When you have a chance with ball security, you know you gotta ball. You got to do it. And when when that's not happening, you score three points. And it's not a heart equation, it's really it's actually fairly simple. But good teams and

good offenses do that. And when you don't do that, you score three points. What have you done with your staff to try to bridge that gap? Because players obviously want to be put in a position to succeed. If they feel they are, they play faster, they play better, they feel confident. Do you feel that connection has been solid there? Yeah? I think our coaches and players have

really really good relationship hips. I just I think are you know the offensive if you're talking specifically about offense, the offensive coaches the relationships that they've dealt with these guys. We've got some young guys, right now on offense, and I think it's great for them to learn through some of these experiences. These guys are playing hard. I think that's the one thing in all this as we talk through real talk, the one thing that we all need

to understand is that these players are playing hard. And as a coach, when you see players that play hard in that care, that means that means a lot. And so now you've got to be able to play hard care and be successful and succeed and work together as a group. And you know that's where it's been a little bit hard for us. And so you go through particular scenarios and these guys they talk about it, they

practice it, and we just got to do it. You're basically saying last night, in particular, with the defense included here, you felt you were in a fight and you had a bunch of guys behind you, no doubt. I mean, I mean that was and anybody that was in that game to see it, we could feel it. Um, did the emotions get going and for sure what it was, you know what some of the personal fouls mine included. Um, But we all have to understand the balance of where

to draw the line. And once once we had too many. Um then we had to pull that back in and we understand, like too many is one, right, I understand that that one is too many. But it it got to a point where it was important to talk to the guys and say, okay, let's be let's make sure that we're being smart and we're you know, this comes to an end, right, Every action has a reaction. Let's

not be the reaction. Let's keep playing hard. We're in this fight, and offensively, we get that touchdown and make it a one score game. In seventeen to ten, we'll get another stop, we'll get the ball and go down to score. And we just couldn't. We couldn't catch up. And it wasn't that we were in in areas to do it because we were moving the football. It was just the situational red zone football wasn't good enough for you, and that as you're flashing through it in the moment.

Is it a compilation of all of the frustration of an entire season coming out. I would say probably there's a little bit of that. And I also think that that that's okay, you know, I think that we're all a little bit human here and you get to a point where you know, you know me, Jeff. You know I'm an emotional guy, and that's the first one I've ever had. But at the same point in time, I think the players understood that just as much as they're

fighting for us, we're fighting for them too. And you could feel the energy on the sideline pick up, and I think it's just there's a little bit there that it shows it togetherness. And again I'll be the first to tell you I don't regret it. I would if I was in the same situation and yesterday and you said hit the repeat button, I would hit the repeat button, plain and simple. I think snapback Cousins gonna laugh it down the right side going for Marcet Smith in complete

fairy tight coverage. Thomas Graham again, the young rookie sixth rounder out of Oregon, is rising to the challenge of taking out the bike gags tonight. That's his second pass breakup. He set several tackles as well in the run game.

Welcome to the NFL, Big Boy, Welcome back to the Bears coaching show, brought to you by a Whiffley CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears learned more at whipfley dot com with Bears head coach Matt Naggie breaking down last night's a game against the Vikings and looking ahead to Seattle. Here in just moments, just had a compilation of plays right there from Thomas Graham.

What a night. Seven tackles, three pass breakups. It never looked for one second like he hadn't played all year. I mean, honestly, I brought it up to Tom in the broadcast, Matt that during minicamp and training camp there were times he flashed and there were times he looked like he wasn't playing to his top speed. So therefore I was assuming he was thinking a lot. But he did not play like that last night. No, he didn't. I thought you should really tell he seemed like a

gamer yesterday and we weren't really sure. You love seeing stories like that where a guy comes in and they're able to step up, and you know, he was going against some really good wide receivers and a great offense. So for him to be able to have that, I can only imagine what that means for his confidence. And

that's how careers get started. So you know, we appreciate that from him, and there's other guys too behind the scenes is stepped up, but he was certainly one that had the production searching for the right chemistry on the back end of the defense pre COVID issues. Did he flash during his time throughout the course of the season on the practice squad and what he did for the look squad and so far, Yeah, he's done a great job.

He cares, you know, so when he's out there on the look on the look team, giving us looks on offense, he really does a good job. And you never know when your time is going to come, especially now with all the COVID protocols and guys missing games. So you got to give him credit. He was prepared, he was ready. He stepped up to the challenge. He said, next man up, I'm up. And that's what he did now that he started and faced, as you said, a premier offense in

the National Football League. I'm not insinuating that he's not a good practice player, but do you know, uh that there are guys that are okay practice players and you have to trust they take of the Sunday or that there are some players that that's you know, I felt Brian Urlacher might have been a similar guy. He loves Sundays, So whatever happened during the week, you knew he was going to be there on Sundays. That's that's a play. That's a Hall of Famer. But do you know that

you have some of those guys? Yeah, I mean you know, I would say the one that is that that practices one hundred miles an hour and it shows up on table on Sundays is Robert Quinn. I mean, he's that's one guy that you want to talk about how to practice. He only has one speed. And I'm so excited to be able to see what he's done this year and to see how how that works and for our for all of our younger players to see how you're supposed to practice. Um and Roque well Que that's been day

one as well. So those are those two guys and then you see it on tape, and so I think it's been great for these younger guys to see that because practicing is how you're going to play. So are there a couple of guys Hall of Fame guys maybe here there that you get away with it when they

get a little older. But these guys, they fly around and our young guys see that not to get too deep into it, you know, for obvious reasons, the referees, I think most observers felt it was some questionable situations there, and Robert Quinn after the game basically urging the refs to let guys play ball had you back in his statements. But is there an infuriating level here of guys just

trying to make plays and it's more interpretation. Yeah, you know, I just think that again, there's a lot that goes on. There's a lot in that rule book. You know, there's a lot in there, and that's part of the rules and you've got to follow the rules. And then the referees, I'll also say that they have a difficult time because it's so fast. Everything is so quick when it happens, and so that's where you know, we're able to see the replays and seeing its slow motion and it makes

it a lot easier for us to see. Um. But these are you know, these penalties can be plays that impact games, as we've seen throughout the year and years, and so you just gotta it's just again, I tie it back into it's an emotional game, it's a physical game. These guys are doing a lot of stuff out on that field. They're sacrificing their bodies. And you know when you when you have a penalty that goes a certain way, there's an emotion, that emotion attached to that, and there's

a certainly a lot of rules under that. As you roll back the tape, do you stand by your feelings on some of them or can you see the dilemma for the officiating crew in some of those situations that hurt you last night? No, I think, uh, you know, the unnecessary roughness with with with theon um, you know,

I do stand by what I saw. Um. The one that's really unfortunate is the third and seventeen tackle by Tease Tabor, you know, but you know that's in the rule book with that, so that's again that the referees are own the rules there. And then you know the little issue on the side with the down and distance

and be challenging and all that. So you know, it's just uh, I think there's the one thing that I will say is that I thought that that Scott did a great job of explaining everything to me in a really good job throughout the game of explaining to me everything that was going on and as heated as I was at times, he was very calm and did a great job too, and I appreciate that. You know, he understands from our side, so um, you know that's that's

where that's at. I was Referee Scott Novac last night snapped the Cousins here on third down, jack the football, he goes down, he goes, yes, he does, and it's Robert Quinn on third and ten with the sack of eight yards. The pro bowler at it again has sack for the sick consecutive game. Download the Chicago Bears. You 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. It's in a custom

Bears jersey back with Bears head coach Matteggie. One of two sacks by Robert Quinn. Now with sixteen. Tracking down that single season record of Richard Dent at seventeen and a half, Tom Thayer got a text message from Richard Dent yesterday Matt saying that, you know, because Tom was wondering, you know, some of these records means something that to old Bears, old players, even at the high school level. We kind of embraced those things and hope they never

get broken. But you know, he's all about he said, hey, records are made to be broken, the old cliche. And a guy like that Quinn, who's been in the league a long time, has played the game the right way. Hey, if it happens, it happens. And he is tracking towards that and also named of the Pro Bowl. And how do you feel all about that it's the first Pro

Bowl for him since twenty fourteen. Yeah. No, I'm really happy for Robert because he works so hard, you know, on the field and practice in the offin field as well, and so when you see the results on game day. It was really cool breaking the news to him yesterday that he made the Pro Bowl. If you know Robert, you understand that. The next thing he'll say to you is I'm just glad, I'm breathing, you know, and he'll just he's simple. He's a simple man, but he certainly

plays art and he's having a great year. And to be able to bounce back to from all the stuff that he went through last year too, I think it just goes to show his uh, you know, mental fortitude and just his resiliency of being able to take all distractions, put it aside, come here and just every single day act like he's a rookie, and that's what you appreciate most about him. The shame of it all defensively, obviously, is the injuries. And you can't bemoan it. It's a

part of the game. It happens. Every team's getting bit by it in some form or fashion. But with Khalil and Akeem Akeem, you know Van Jine was wrapped up. He made a difference. You could feel it throughout the defense. His emotion was there. He loves playing at home, loves playing in NFC North games, loves playing in prime time. You know, you wonder what would have been. It must leave you feeling and also wondering what if. Yeah, I

think he makes a good point. And as I was watching the tape last night, of all three sides of the ball, you could really really feel and it was it was really neat to see the swarm of the defense and I know what the energy felt like last night on that sideline, but then to see it on tape and just to see guys chasing down the football, to see guys trying to rip the ball out to see guys making a stop in the backfield, shooting the A gap and B gap and just you know, like

you said, just these guys there's front seven set the tone and then the guys on the back end when they had to make the play. I just think, you know, I think about that third down throw that Kirk had across the middle to Justin and Marquis Christian made a good breakup on it, and uh, you know, we had a little delayed blitz by forty four with Ogletree, and it just was exactly it was a great call by Sean, and so getting those guys in a position to make plays,

they made the play and got off the field. And the other part of that too was a sudden change. There was a lot of sudden change moments yesterday, whether it's an interception or fumble, a muffpunt, and the defense never they never blinked. And that's a sneaky, sneaky good trait that they had yesterday that I was really appreciative of. Sean decided to a heck of a job there. All right, let's turn to Justin Fields and talk about his performance. The good the bad and where he grew where he

maybe still isn't growing. No, he you know, justin again you can see what he can do when he's outside of the pocket. He can make some really good plays. I thought his vision was good, a couple of progressions that he really did a good job of going from one to two to three. Um, and I think, you know, situationally, there'll be sometimes as he looks at the tape and just goes through, Okay, where are we at and how defenses are going to try to trick them with coverages,

U with some with some stunts and blitzes. But for the most part, again, I thought he grew. And it's never easy, but he's he's done a good job. There was really no issues of in and out of the huddle. Um, he did a good job with that making plays. He just understands he's more competitive than anybody. You know, he wants to put more points on the board. And uh, you know he's a leader being the quarterback position to that offense, and the guys are gonna follow him. So, uh,

you know he's got to continue to keep playing harder. Well, can't tell I'm about fumbling right now. Yeah, Well, he knew. He knew it right away. When he came off the sideline, he said, he put his chest, said, my bad, my bad. That's something in this league the people are going to go after and when you put the ball in the ground and they see it and there it's on tape and they can show highlights to their defense, that's not

going to stop. So we just have to be smart with how we use him, and then he's gonna have to be smart at all times understanding that ball security is huge in this league. And these guys hit a little bit harder and they run a little bit faster. You said, it starts with you, ends with you. Do you have more answers in the tank? Well, I mean it's it's for all of us and for me to

understand that you know, everything that's gone on this year. Um, the only way that that I'm wired is to make sure that that I'm doing everything possible to give um, these players in all three phases an opportunity to win. And you know, being able to have that connectivity of all three is to win is not easy. And you got you gotta lock in and the four phases with the coaching staff. So, um, nothing's gonna change in regards

to the fight. We just the results got to be different, and we're well aware of that, and so we just gotta put together, you know, really good days of practice and just keep keep throwing punches. Yattle's playing right now, so can't really get into them too much. We know what they are. Good coach team by Pete care On, a great quarterback in Russell Wilson, and that will begin your preparation for that on a Christmas holiday week, so

it should be very interesting for sure. Yep. There they're you know, it's always difficult to play out there in Seattle, and they're gonna they're gonna be fighting, and they got a great quarterback in Russell. So we'll have our handsful boat. We'll be ready, all right, Matt, thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. See Jeff Hi snap pressure coming from Damian Williams. He partially blocks it. It's puzzling around at the thirty yard line and the Bears we'll

get the football right there. Damian Williams, he's having a star role tonight on special team. Come watch the Bears game at Edison Park in in Chicago on Sunday night at this week's official Miller Light Chicago Bears watch party. Visit Chicago Bears dot com, slash fan Zone slash wash Parties for more information. Joined by Chris Tabor, the Bear

Special Teams coordinator. After the loss of the Vikings last night at Soldier, Phil, welcome and Chris, obviously you are not there last night, could not get cleared to return because of the COVID situation. A Number one, how you feeling? And number two a unique experience for a coach? No way, no, how can you like that scenario? How'd you handle it? Uh? Well, feeling feeling well? Thank you? You know it's it's obviously this is a weird time, but you know, with regards

to handle it last night, it was definitely weird. When I've turned on the had the pregame show going, and you can see him down on the sidelines, you know, Moss and Young and and everybody and and there, you know, you can see it, you can picture it, and I can see the people in the background, and I know exactly what's going on. You know, I see paddle down and those guys are starting to warm up and those type of things. But yet you're sitting in a room

talking to no one. It is it's very surreal, doesn't it's it's just it's weird, probably the weirdest thing I've ever I've ever been through. And then uh, once the game started, I found myself just standing and pacing the whole time. And then uh, I think I finally sat down right at the end of the game. Did you did you feel like you felt the emotion of the game through that tube and were you getting up and pumping your fist and doing crazy stuff when things were

going Okay, yeah, I did good and bad. You know, Uh, the you know, the roller coaster wasn't as extreme as obviously what it's like on the sideline. It's just you you feel helpless, and I guess that's maybe the best ways to describe it, at least when you're on the sidelines and whether things go good or add you're making adjustments, you're going you're in the now, You're in the moment when you're just watching it on television. Uh, you're in the I don't know what you're in. You're you're you're

in a helpless uh area. You know you can there's there's nothing you can do, so you know, I you know, like before they kick off, I could see Minnesota's lineup. I knew exactly what was coming, and you know that guy's a really good returner, and it's just it's just a it's just a different feeling. And then obviously on special teams, the camera angles what television does, it it hides a lot of things, so it's sometimes harder to

see things. Yeah, you can't see the intricacies. And you have to compartmentalize when you're on the sidelines because that's what you do. It's your unit broad scope. You see the game from different lens, don't you. Yeah, I really did.

That was you know, I guess it took me back to probably you know, my dad was a long time high school football coach, and I remember after Friday nights and then on Saturdays and Sundays, we'd watched college football in the NFL, and you you know, you sit down and you're talking, and you're you're talking the situations and how the team's playing, and it's a big general overview. That's kind of how it felt last night. It was just it was it was different. Are you confident you'll

be back this week? Yes? Yeah, because you know I'll definitely hit my ten day window, so I will you know, I'll be available. All right, sounds good coming into this. We heard the black Punt by Damian Williams and boy, he played with his hair on fire last night. He has a unique skill set that you know, he's a good football player, you know, besides you know, he's a really good running back. But he's he's a good football

but he gets football. Uh you know, he stepped in for us at personal protector, uh for DHC, who obviously we think the world of. But but d Dubbs is a guy that I mean, he was Tob's personal protector in Kansas City and and uh Toe braved about him, and you know, he jumps right in for us and he's he's always been as a backup because he's been playing offense and those type of things. But just jump right in and knows exactly what to do. So it's

it's very comforting from our end. And then we always knew that, uh he he can he can put pressure on a punter. Now he's talented. He almost got another one too. Yeah, No, he's uh, he just he has a you know, some guys have it and and some

guys don't. He has it. He he you know, he can go speed to bowl, he can go up and under, he's good with his hands, and then just just that whole common sense, uh factor of you know, I got a shot to get this one right, don't and I'm I'm buzzing the tower or I'm committed to it, you know. I mean, he just he's he's good football player. So I'm glad he's here, and uh uh, you know, he really he helps our group quite a bit. Selet Single game Bears tickets are available to cheer on the Monsters

of the Midway live at Soldier Field this season. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets for more information. With Bear special teams coordinator Chris Taber Jeff Joni acc with you until the top of the hour. Let's talk about the changes that were necessitated when Jachim Grant went out with a concussion. Demere Bird goes in. There has been upon returner in his career. Let's break down the muff on that one that's always a tough spot to go into.

Has to catch the football. I mean, at the end of the day, we got to have we got to have possession of the football. And you know, he had time, He had plenty of time. He's chasing it over towards our sideline. I assume that's the way the wind was going last night, the way everybody was kicking. But you know, the mistake that he that that has made that we got to get corrected. You know, we always say, don't

chase the ball. The ball's chasing you. And you can see that he's chasing the ball as opposed to and what I mean by that you want to get to your spot and be waiting for it and get your ball. Read that means that the ball is coming to you, it's chasing you. And that's the mistake that we made there. And that's uh, you know that hurts. That's critical because I think that you know, maybe he gets a maybe that first first down that we're looking for, but at the end of the day, even if he didn't, we

got to have the football. So that's a mistake that has to get corrected and we'll work hard at that this week. Can I go deeper into that just to understanding for people who who have never caught a punt, simplified it even a little more for us because they you can't control where they're kicking. The football. No, But

but what I mean by that. For example, let's say the winds blowing over towards our sideline, and we have him said at whatever that number was last night, depending upon you know what what Barry's number is going into the game, and then you watch him in three game, then you factor win and all those type of things. So he set but just for him to anticipate that, yes, the ball, mother nature is going to take her over there,

so I have to beat that. Let's say we think that the ball is going to land at the forty year hardline, Well, then I need to at the top of the numbers. I need to sprint to that spot. And I'm waiting for it. I'm beating the ball to the spot. And and I think that's the that's the critical thing for any punt returner, and that's always uh, catching upon it is a lot harder than it is catching a kick. It really is the those of the

football and the wind and those type of things. Then obviously you don't have as much time as what a kick returner would. But uh, you know, you can see him, he's he's catching it sideways, so you there. Therefore it tells you I never and he's still movie. So there there, there, there's a lot of problems that just kind of uh, you know, stacked stacked itself there. And then when that happens, bad things are going to take place. And that's what

that's what happened. I may have told you this before, and you can have a good chuckle if you wish, But I'm a non athlete wearing uh wingtips and a suit. And I tried to catch bred Mannard punts in the Walter Peyton Center and he had the tail down spiral going and I could not, ever, not one time negotiate where that ball was going on. He kept diving away from me. I would dare say that a taildown spiralal

is harder than a tumbler out of the air. What do you think is there's there's no doubt about it. And that's why when you see those punt returners, like you know Jachem when he takes a chance, or when you saw Devin take a chance, it really makes you appreciate how good at catchers they are and how fearless that is. Because obviously, like I said, at the end of the day, we have to have the football at the end of the play no excuses. That's what has

to get done. And when you do, you got a bunch of people coming around you, and you're trying to read all that and the wind and those things. I mean, that's that's a tough deal. Jachim goes out with a concussion on the day he was named to the Pro Bowl. The ninety seven yard return certainly put him on the national spotlight. In a game against the Green Bay Packers. What's he meant to this team? Well, he's meant a lot.

He's obviously he's a He's a guy that I think that opposing coordinators when they go home at night to lay their head on their pillow, they don't have sweet dreams because they're, you know there, they are worried that this guy is going to take a shot on goal and h and has the ability to what I say, has long speed and finishing speed. And that'll leave you up at night as as a coach. And I think that when you have those things, I mean, then you can you can get bad punts from from the punter.

I mean he might not field it or might not be able to field one, but if it's a short punt, that's a direct reflection of him being a good returner. So you picked up let's say the guy's punting the ball forty five yards and all of a sudden he hits a thirty five yard or a thirty two yard or I mean, you just picked up a thirteen yard or ten yard return. In my opinion, at least, that's how I view it. I've always viewed it that way, And you know, I think guys take pride in that.

So he's meant a lot to us. I'm really proud of his honor. But I think that honor he'd be first to tell you he's proud of the guys that are block and form and giving him an opportunity. Final segment of the Bears Coaches Show tonight, here with Chris Tabor, Bear special teams coordinator kind enough to join us. Not at the game last night, he'll be back. They're coming

up on the trip to Seattle. So to amplify we're talking about but with Jachem Grant and just your history with you know, Devin Hester and Josh Cribs in Cleveland and Johnny Knox here with the Bears, Devin Hester, Cordell Patterson, a lot of different playmakers on your special teams units, and that must be a great deal of pride for you. I'm always happy for those guys. I'm happy for the guys to block form. I mean, those are some of

those names you've listed, I mean, Jerike and Tariq. Yeah, you feel fortunate and you feel lucky to be around players like that, because as a coach, you're always looking to grow yourself and there's no better way to learn than from learning from the player and to have I mean, obviously, Devin Uh. You know, when I came here in two thousand and eighteen, I remember studying Tarik, but I had never had a player like Tarik, a smaller, dynamic, strong,

fast uh type player. It was a totally different skill set because when I was in Cleveland, I had Cribbs, who was a bigger guy like Cordell, and then we had a Travis Benjamin also who is built more like Mooney.

So it's it's been it's been fun just to be able to coach different guys with different skill sets and then being able to learn from them, and so hopefully as you're developing returners, you can maybe see some of those qualities and players that you're trying to developer and also be able to say, hey, you know, Tarik did this, Jachine did this, Devin did this, Cordell did this. You know, Josh Cribbs love doing this right here, This fits your game right here. This might be something that we can

expand upon on and grow. Uh. But at the same time, I want the player always to be himself, you know. I think it's our job as a coach to identify the skills that put them in the position and then and then keep growing them. And and I think the players always they'll they'll tell you how fast they can grow by what they do on the field. So it's like I say, I've I've been I've been blessed to be around a lot of guys that can impact the game. How many of you guys around that unit last night

that hadn't played for you this season? There were some, There were some guys. But I'll tell you what, I sure was proud of them, you know, just the opening kickoff itself. I think they got it to the twenty two. No one ever, you know, no one says anything, and I'm good with all that. That That returner, you know, has two touchdowns on the year, and he's electric and uh, and we got guys on the back side that they haven't played together. Now there's there's a bunch of guys

that haven't played a lot. But but they came in and the thing I was really pre they understood what

they needed to do. I've got coach again, did a great job throughout the week with with those guys and they and they responded and they played well and they said, you know what, here's our standard on special teams and we need to we need to play to this standard and keep it there because in our room, we always like to think that we're always playing for something and that's set in field position and trying to make a positive impact. And then you know, now we got work

to do. We gotta get rid of those negative plays that took place last night. So it'll be another fun week with regards of trying to get better. Now it's time to look ahead, brought to you by Bette Rivers, the official sports book partner of the Bears Seattle. On the docket, they get two Pro Bowlers announced, including Michael Dixon. The punter Nick Bellar is on the special teams unit as well. For the Seattle Seahawks. What's our early prognosis

they're playing right now as we speak. Belower you mentioned he's been in the league a long time, very well deserving, and then obviously the punter. He's a guy that he's an Awese player that can move the ball all around, has all the kicks. So kind of going back to our earlier discussion with regards to fielding the ball and beating the ball to the spot, it becomes even more important this week because you're not always going to know

where this guy's going to put the football. Another big task, but I think our guys will be up for it, so it'll be a lot fun. Appreciate it all your time, Good luck this week, and welcome back. All right, thank you, all right. That's gonna do it for tonight's show. Want to thank Lisa Fielding, Tama Really, Jordan tread Up and Katie Tuber our producers for head coach Matteggie and coach Tabor.

I'm Jeff Joniak. Will bring the Bears and Seahawks from Seattle noon pregame three h five kickoff from the Great Northwest. That'll do it for tonight show. Thanks for listening, everybody, Marry Christmas, Happy holidays. This is news Radio one oh five nine WBB. I'm good night, everybody,