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well it's good to be here again. I think for us, you go back and you watch the tape and you realize a few things stand out, and you know the for the defense really stepping up on third down yesterday jumped out to me. They had one the one drive where were the Giants went ninety five yards and only had one third down, which meant they were getting some chunks there and ended up in the touchdown on fourth

and golf from the one. But for the most part, I was really happy with the way the defense played offensively again in the first half was really good. I thought it was solid. We put points up on the board, we were moving to football, We were great on third down, and then in the second half, to have two interceptions, to have a missfield goal, and to have a punt as your four possessions. That's how it felt at the end of the game. Even though we won, there was

still frustration there. But I'm okay with that. I think that the guys understand that were we want to really get that four quarter string where we're putting this whole thing together, and when we do, I think it would be pretty good. Is it a gnawing feeling when that happens a little bit in your belly, It is just because you want to You know, it was different than last week when we played in Detroit and you scored

twenty one points in the fourth. You gotta turnover on defense and you were doing things on special teams, and so it's a little different feeling at the end. But as I told the team, you know, yesterday was hey, guys, we're two and oh right now, and yeah it was an ugly win, but we won, and don't lose sight of that. These things aren't easy. And now, now how do we get better? This is the Bears Culture Show. Brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants Mattneggie, Jeff

Joni Eck with you until eight o'clock. What gets lost in your opinion in games like this and how they're won like this A few things. I think when you look at it from the offensive perspective, you say, okay, when teams like this know that you have a lead, when they start seeing a little bit of what your identity is, and you got to run the football. I thought the first half we were just okay at that and then in the second half we got a lot better.

And again some of that is just repeating calls and being able to let these guys go out there and do it again. And as execution, they did a great job executing. Defensively, you know you have that pick six that's called back. You gotta respond now to some adversity, Okay, didn't go our way. Myself included, we all got to, okay, bounce back. What do we do? How do we get a stop? And we did that and then to come out with the win at the very last play of the game, to be able to hold these guys off,

I think we all felt the same way. But at the end we're half of we won. Let's talk about that play because Eddie Jackson, he's had two of these now were taken away by penalty in his career, So with a ball in his hands, he's something to watch. That was a terrific return regardless of what happened and called back. But do you like the aggressiveness because it is a debatable thing, and you like the aggressive nature by which he's attacking the football in that scenario. Yeah,

you have to play it exactly like he did. I mean, that's such a bang bang play that you can't possibly tell Eddie to not pay to play it any different. You have to play it the way he did, and it's it's unfortunate, but it's a part of the game, and it's it's not the first one and certainly isn't going to be the last one. So I just I love the way that Eddie Jackson has been playing the last two games. He's really tackling well, he's seeing the football,

he's making plays, and he's being a great leader. There's a lot of discussion already about the tight ends through two weeks, twelve targets, five catches, one touchdown, fifty five yards However, watching the tape and watching the run game and how it's working and David Montgomery averaging five point one to carry, it's not just the guy's up front or his vision and his patients. It's it's the tight ends when you go to two and three tight end

packages in it without a doubt. And that's what I think is very important for everybody to understand, is that as a important as it is to be able to have a bunch of catches from that tight end room and do different things there, it's just equally important to be able to help us in the run game. They're doing a phenomenal job at that right now. The numbers feak for themselves, and we wouldn't want to change anything

in regards to that. You've always maintained that you know each week's different, you don't know how it's gonna work in terms of who's getting targets. So yesterday there's ten guys to touch the football, including Bobby Massey, as we talked about in the postgame show, and the fun part of it making that big and and let's not joke about that, because it saved a minute and forty seconds off of their ledger. That they could have used at the end of the game. So that that was very,

very very important, wasn't it. It really was, And they decided to zone us out there on that fourth down, and for that past to happen, you got to get a little bit lucky the way squeezing between the two defenders popped up in the air, and then for Bobby to have the awareness to catch that football and get and fall forward for the first that's awesome. That was a big play for us. So again back what I originally was pointing out about the spread, do you prefer

that is that Mitch seeing the field the way you want? Yeah, Seven to the backs, eight to the receivers due to the tight ends, and one offensive linement. Yeah. Because what that does, Jeff, is that makes it difficult for the defense is just trying to take one guy out of the game. And that's always been a part of this offense is some games you might have somebody that has twelve targets, and the next week they might have that

same person might have four targets. It's all based off of what the defense wants to do, and then we adjust to that. And I think that's that's what you start to see that's not the first time you've seen that. Mitch has talked about the trap eight and that happened a fair amount yesterday, and that's an invitation for him to move, and he was moving to your satisfaction. Yeah, absolutely, And you can see that they had a drop eight type of play on that scramble there at the end

of the half. When he scrambled back, he's kept his eyes down field. He didn't put his eyes on the defensive linemen or linebackers. He actually pointed to Mooney to strike back, and then he made a great throw across the field and Mooney made a great cap. So you saw that, and then you also saw it Jeff on the first touchdown, he scrambled out of the pocket, invited to defender to take him, and then he just lobbed it over the top to David Montgomery. Highs and lows.

You hope to even out, obviously, but you know, you look at what his production is right now in terms of Mitch five touchdowns, you seven weeks a year ago, so there is change in the way the offense is working. And basically a whole game when you take each half of the two games of positiveness that you can build around as an offense. Yeah, that part we like. And again we're trying to figure out too as a coaching staff each week as we go, Okay, what do we

do well? We know what our identity wants to be, but what do we do well? And now that we're kind of seeing what we do well what we don't do well. We got some new players on offense. How they fit now it makes it a little bit easier for us to start scheming and do what you just said, which is trying to put four quarters in good football together. Montgomery to the left that Tribisky takes the snap, Mitch

looking to throw. Mitch with time, Mitch a rod it was right, Mitch gonna toss it down to David Montgomery down the sideline. He's inside the ten, works in the middle of the fill left, He's in for the touchdown. Touchdown. Bears third and six, twenty seven yards catch and run David Montgomery Bears in front. Six second career touchdown catch for David Montgomery finished with three for forty five of

the touchdown plus five. Want to carry on his sixteen attempts back on The Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Naggy Bears with a win over the Giants. So his involvement in the passing game, I always felt that that's an underrated aspect. Tom and I talked about it a great deal this week leading up to the game, that you know, that's that's a part of the game. Yes you have Tariko and yes you have Cordorill Patterson

to compliment that out of the backfield. But David David could do some damage now he can, and he has the ability to make plays after the catch two so he's you saw that yesterday. And to be able to catch it on the sideline, stick his right foot in the ground, make a couple moves, make some guys, missus score a touchdown just speaks to who he is and how he does things. So we liked out about him. We want to keep growing area and the beauty of that.

It caps up a twelve play, eighty two yard driving seven and a half minutes to open the game, and that's certainly what you'd like to have your identity b isn't it it is? And starting the game with a touchdown. It was refreshing for us yesterday just for us to be able to do that making plays. I think we were four for four on third down, which was a big emphasis for us heading into that week. So it's

a start. It gets the defense going to they go out, they get a sack, you know, they get a fumble, and it just really gets you going the right way. Not something you want to think about, but it only happened two times last season, So yeah, I mean, doesn't that change the way you call games? Then? Even from that opening drive. I mean, I know it's a long game and it's sixty minutes, but that opening drive must impact you in some way as a play call does, and Jeffrey, it allows you as a play caller to

get into a rhythm. Plus, when you don't go three and out and you're able to get some first downs, you can see what they're going to try to do personnel matching, So if you're in a certain personnel, what are they going to do to That just gives you

more plays, more opportunities. And you know, the last two weeks now we've started the game with the football and it's it's it's our job on offense to have a fast start two weeks or you know, last week it was three and out and now this week was get a touchdown, So let's keep getting touchdowns that first drive.

Now let's go to David's run game now, because that end of the game, you know, there's seven thirty six to go, you've got a four point lead, and he has a possession on a eleven yard run to start, he's got a ten, he's got a nine. A couple of plays later, then a penalty set you back. Then he goes off on another twenty three. This is a perfect scenario to close out a game with a back

who can pick up that kind of potential yardage. But the key to me was not only those guys up front coming off the ball, but is he a lot more patient this year at waiting for blocks to set up and then moving in the right direction. I think you could say that. And again that goes with that communication that those running backs have with the offensive line

and tight ends. They get together and they meet throughout the week and they talk through different run schemes and the way that they see different fronts and the way that they see the linebackers moving on different places and calls that they have. And so again what I think is important is you have a defense yesterday that knows

that the run is coming. You're in four minute mode essentially, and when you're getting ten, nine, ten eleven yards per pop, you got to keep it going and they know that, and we were still able to run. So that part feels good, and I think that Dave is doing a great job at growing in that area to play a Kyle Fuller, I thought, really set a tone early because those Giants, those receivers, and I know people are dinging the Giants. You certainly didn't. Leading up to the game.

You sent the warning out that this is a team that plays fast, but they get a lot of yards after the catch in their careers, some of these receivers, and I thought he had a blanket coverage type of day and Jalen Johnson wasn't far behind him on that. Now that they've played really well and it helps when you got guys up front getting into that quarterbacks lap,

which I thought we did yesterday some nice breakups. I think really the only the only true negative and pass coverage when you look at yesterday was probably those last two plays of that first half when they hit the dagger over the middle for about a twenty five thirty yard game and came back and hit another one, you know, to be able to give them a fifty eight yeard

field goal attempts. So other than that, though, I thought they did a great job, and I thought that Chuck Pagana did a really good job at calling the game. I'm about to play a barkivous mingo showing you he does have pass rush. He was a high draft pick obviously, and his up played his career in a variety of roles and certainly on special teams four year as well. Yeah, Barkivas has done a really good job at fitting our scheme, you know, especially on first and second down. He has

a good feel for what we like to do. And I think he's a guy that you see every single play. His motor is just rolling. I mean he is attacking and going after in the run game, in the pass game, and he's really helping us out in that area. Yan Bush in there and the dime the interception, Any chance he could have taken it outside and gone, I thought, maybe maybe it would have been nice, But at the

same time, I will take that interception. I thought he did a phenomenal job at reading the route of the wide receiver and he timed it up just right to be able to step in front make that play. The Chicago Bears are teaming up with proven It to help support local small businesses as part of the Small Business All Pros initiative. Visit Chicago Bears dot com to apply.

Back on the Bears Coaching Show brought to you by Whipplely CPAs a consultants, Matt Naggie one more segment to go, and again Chris Taber joining us here at the bottom of the hour. Matt, and as you look at what you looked at it at yourself in the offseason as a play caller, how is it all evolving for you? Two games in so far? I feel it's pretty good, you know. I like the communication with our coaches throughout the week, especially on Monday and Tuesday when we really

start game planning. I love the way that that's going. We're taking that to the week for the players to be able to put into practice and see what we do well, what we like and don't like, and then it's on the players to be able to execute. Didn't for us to be able to put it out there to do everything we can to get to win. So so far, it's been really, really good. Darnell Mooney got himself half the amount of snaps in this game and

delivered with his first NFL touchdown. What I loved about it is just the ability to recognize the situation Mitch was buying some time coming back to the quarterback and shedding his receiver to get to the football. Yeah, Darnell has done a great job at really making this game slow for a rookie. Love where he's at kids playing really fast, I mean getting in there in some blocks. He was a lead blocker yesterday in the run game. And then to make that touchdown, that touchdown catch at

a crucial moment on a scramble by Mitch. That's what you love to see. And I think that this kid's arrow is majorly up right now and it's gonna be fun to see what he does arrest of the season. I was playing around Toss, I say, I swear Levin's leading the way on this play, and he goes, well, you know, maybe just providing some No, he was the lead blocker on the play. Yeah, it wasn't really scripted that way, but it looked pretty sweets. So maybe they'll

be scheming for that play next week. Hey, you'd love to have tough receivers like that that are willing to dig out guys no matter their size, get in the way, creating interference that extends your running plays. It does, and those guys, those running backs, trust me, they love seeing that. When you got little guys in there making blocks on linebackers, that's what it's all about. Let's stock pass rush for the big three when they're when they're jelling, when they're

gonna have more time together. I can't even imagine how it's gonna look because a bigger cheam's got a couple already. Matc had is yesterday, and of course the return of Robert Quinn or the debut of Robert Quinn. So as he gets more and more time with these guys, the types of stunts and twists and things you guys can do. It really is an endless library. I would imagine. Yeah, it should only get better. And I think for Robert to have, you know, a little over twenty plays yesterday,

but you felt him when he was in there. I know, you gotta know where he's at when you scheme offensively. And now what that does is taste a little bit of pressure on the other edge off of fifty two wheel. So you know, as we get further and further into this season, hopefully we see more and more of that. By my math, fifteen teams scored thirty or more in Week two. I don't know why, but it's blowing up

a little bit on the scoreboard. But it does underscore the importance of taking advantage of every opportunity to put points on the board. So if you do the Anthony Miller that would have been a tough catch, but an unbelievable throw by Mitch right where you want it to make a big play there, the missfield goal. You know, you can talk about some other things like that. Is this a paramount example, especially going in against Atlanta, a team that does have the ability to score points, to

take advantage of every single scoring opportunity you can. It does. It does. And when you talk about our upcoming opponent here with Atlanta, they're scoring a lot of points. And so what I like about our defense right now, regardless of who you're playing, is our defense isn't given up you know, a lot of points. So we're we're pretty good in that category right now. That'll be a challenge for us this week. But I know our guys will be ready for it offensively, knowing that that should always

be the goal. And we have that and we want to stay attacking and aggressive, and it's going to be a really good chance for us to try to put these four quarters together and score as many points as we possibly can. Ye. I saw a tweet on Twitter from Daniel Jeremiah from NFL Network. He was studying the games and he said, if you're linebacker, safeties can't cover,

you're gonna be exposed as a defense. Do you feel you have that part ratcheted down as well because of guys like Roquan Smith, Eddie Jackson and your secondary Kyle Fuller among the leagues leaders and pass breakups the last three plus years now and Jalen's coming on strong. Yeah, we do. We like our guys that can cover. Of course, when you have a safety like Eddie Jackson and a guy like Tshaun Gibson, they're pretty good matchups advantage us

when they're out there covering it. There's tight ends and that part is great. To have a guy like Roquan who can fly around and do different things and still be able to blitz and stop the run game. I like that part and they accept the challenge. They want that. So there's gonna be games we have our hands full, but they'll be ready. Matt Ryan's eye's gonna be good, isn't he Yeah, he's he's um. He's seen a lot

of different defenses. He's been in some big time games. Uh, He's always been a really really good quarterback that he's deadly accurate um and you know, playing he's always been a part of high scoring offenses. So I think that our guys are gonna have to be ready for the challenge again. Like always, you got to be able to affect these quarterbacks in the pocket and make them get off rhythm, and if you do that, you always have

a chance. They now are looking at two star receivers Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley's on a tear at the moment, number one in the league and yards four touchdowns out of the gate. They've got a whole trio of of of talent there guy on third down two and Russell Gage. So big challenge for your defense here, no doubt about it. And I think those two wide receivers complement each other

really well. You got Julio, who's who's big, strong, tall and fast, and you got Alvin who's super fast, becoming a really good route runner and can score a touchdown on any play when he has that ball in his hand. So our gods will be ready though, they're gonna look forward to the challenge. And we got a lot of respect for our opponent. We know we're gonna have to have our a game. All right, Good luck, Matt, Thank

you so much. Talk to you next week, all right, Jeff see, welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought to you by a whiple Cepas and Consultants, a proud partner at the Chicago Bears. Learn more at whipp league dot com. Jeff, Joni Aclong, Chris Tabor, good to talk to you. How you doing, man nice win doing well? Thanks for having me. I want to get right to the play of Cordell Patterson in the kick return game.

Because one hundred and ten yards in week one, another eighty three in week two last year led the league in yards. If I'm not mistaken and is one ninety three already leads the league, then you add the average into it. It's sexy. It looks good at thirty two point six. He's taking those chances deep as they go and you're still comfortable with that, I'd imagine. No, we are, We're real comfortable with it. I mean, anytime the ball is in his hands, he's a he's a threat to score.

He puts a lot of pressure on the opposing team's kickoff team and they got to get down and cover, whereas a lot of teams see a guy's five yards dep six his arms out and it's a touchback. I mean, we want to apply pressure, and I mean it's like anything, the more times you do stuff, the better you get as you get going. And uh, you know, we didn't hit as big as big as one as we wanted yesterday, but you could tell on tape where we were getting closer and closer. New York did a good job also

in coverage. So that was that was good matchup and uh, you know we'll have another good one this week too. Yeahs. As the time goes, do you believe teams will start trying to pop fly it short like they did with Ryan Noll this past week? No, I think I think that they will, And I told the guys we need to get better in that area. We've worked that, but obviously where it's not even close to a finished product in that area. But I said, when teams bloop you,

that's a sign of respect. Now what we need to do is we have to be able to to really dent it and set field position and give the offense a shorter field because if you know, they score or or we move it some and if we stall out, then we can pin them down there. Patio can pin them down there. And then just so I call it the circle of life. I mean, then do you really want to keep doing that to us? And so that's we got to get better on the short kicks and

we're gonna work hard at that. The circle of life. Huh, circle of life, yes, you know that's uh, defense stops them. You know, we get we get a point return hopefully either score sets up the score, and then then we kick off an established field position. It's just kind of a it's a it's a revolving circle all the time. Let's talk about Patio, pat O'Donnell, that sky high tumbler that Sheriff McMann has settled under. Those are are just

wonderful plays that they excite me. I know a lot of fans, you know, may dismiss it as no to me, They're just they're just beautifully orchestrated and executed. No different than that play last year when when Cordell ran it down and tapped it inside the one. To me, it was one of the top plays of the year by

any player on the team. Well, I'm real proud of the guys and real proud of Patio and that whole unit, because when you get into those pooch areas, especially, is the winds blowing in those types of things, and Patio having to control the ball, being able to hang it up there, and then Mac finding the ball, recognizing that the returner's not going to catch it, and then he feels it himself. That's a that's a big time play and hopefully we can keep that going. What was the

wind like yesterday? Because I had it down as double digits, So was it an interesting wind? Again at Soldier Field? What was it like down there? It was? It was, It was interesting, but it was consistent. I would say it was blowing towards their bench, so for example, to the left of our bench or towards our tunnel the north side there wind was a little bit at the back and when you kicked the other way. It was kind of you were into it, but at times it

did die down. We went down to the stadium on Friday, it was the same wind. There was gus up to thirty miles an hour that day, So it was it was much tougher on Friday than what it was yesterday. But it's still it's it's still tricky, and we just got to keep blogging in miles down there. You truly never know what you're gonna get. But what happens out of Friday may not happen out of Sunday. What happens on a Friday, does it potentially cause a player to

think about what happened on Friday on Sunday? Um, no, I think you know, we really what we when we go down we talk about just kind of charting the moment and charting that day and kind of kind of putting in our books and saying, Okay, hey, this is this is what it is, and if you know, it's always nice, if it's it's a lot more difficult earlier than the week than what it is on Sunday. But just having that that recall of where he wants to play the ball and those type of things is really important.

During the twenty twenty season, the Chicago Bears are giving away one hundred one thousand dollars to a deserving nonprofit organization in the Chicago Land area. Visit Chicago Bears dot com slash community all Pros for more information and how you can help out. Pleased to be joined by Chris Tabor, the Bears veteran special teams coordinator, here at the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley CPAs and Consultants, break down the kicks of Kiro Santos yesterday and just

how he's how he's been doing overall. I think he's been performing well. Uh you know, I was pleased with his touchbacks yesterday, and I know they brought a couple out. That's fine, you know, to be quite honest with you, without having the preseason games and you're able to cover some kicks right now, I think that that's going to help you in the end. With regards to his field goals, you know, I know he's one of two and we missed that fifty yarder and he'd like to have that back.

I thought he struck the ball well, that was that left or right and he played it a little too much left and hit such a good ball and actually just stayed on his line instead of just fading on in there. So that's lesson learned. But you know, those are those are kicks obviously that we want to make and he wants to make. And I know that given

another opportunity, he'll do that. Yeah. I read a quote from Joe Judge prior to them, talking about Graham Gano veteran kicker obviously, but he said, you know, in general, he says, you really see the best ball from kickers, any specialist that matter, kicker, punter, snapper, when they get toward their thirties. This is Joe Judge's opinion, they've had their time to really develop, to understand the league, to really understand how their body works, to structure it for

the duration of a season. They understand situationally, how they have to stay fresh and in the moment. Young guys may have a little more pop in their lengths at times, but young guys may have a little bit more raw ability. But when it comes to NFL specialists, they really start peeking around those thirties ages right there. Do you agree with that assessment or is that a particular flavor that a coach may like for their football. I think there's

some truth to that statement. I would also say that there's a little bit of flavor in that also, you know. I mean you could go around the league. For example, Buckner in Kansas City as a young player that is I consider one of the best, along with Tucker who now is an older player. But you know, I think it just depends. It depends on the player, I really believe that, and how they strike the ball. And and then I think also it's it's the patience of an organization.

I mean, there is that fine line of do you move on from a guy after so many misses or do you work through those those trials right there? I mean, that's that's that's the tricky part. That's the tricky part, because you'll you'll see some guys that have missed. Uh for example of the Carlson kid that was up in Minnesota. You know, he had a couple of rough weeks there and now he's he's doing well out in out in Oakland.

I mean, I mean, it's just it's it's a little bit of a crapshoot the times you know, you're just not really for sure what you get and just have to kind of uh you got to know your player and and uh and just kind of go from there and keep developing them. Yeah, what I like is I like consistency, so and to live within grow so you get and I'm talking about the whole operation, which you're fortunate to be able to resign and keep investing in

Patrick O'Donnell and Patrick Scales keeps coming back. So you know, two thirds of the operation, you know you're feeling really good at which would help the other third part of it in the in the kicking game for confidence and whatnot, no question because those those two guys just and no one will talk about it, but Scales snaps us on the shorts, naps we're just money. I mean, he catches the ball. We don't mess up the lace as we

get it down fast. And Patty, oh I call him Patty the Caddy because he understands that stadium and he can help you know, a Cairo who hasn't kicked a lot in there, and he's helped Eddie who is developing in there. Just hey, where you want to play it? This is this is going to be the lean on the ball. This is how I'm going to fix it a little bit for you and those type of things as the ball flies through the air. So it's great having those two players as part of our battery. You know,

people look at numbers all the time. They are all okay, averages and whatnot. How do you define the quality and the performance of a punter when you look at their averages and whatnot and what plays in it, because there's many different factors and analysis of it. I think a lot of I think a lot of people like to look at numbers because that's an easy thing to look at and they understand people understand numbers. But for example, the Giants net punt wise had a higher net punt

than what we did. Well. Ours was also shorter because our offense got us closer down there and we were hitting some coochballs, and Patio hit two inside the twenties, one obviously being inside the five where their punter hit two touchbacks. So I think, you know, and when you hit those those shorter pooch punts, obviously your numbers are not going to be high. So I don't get all stuck on numbers. I get stuck on on what the field position is that at the end at the end

of the day. And I think that's to me, that's that's that's that's reality, because it's our job to set field position and in those type of things, not look at not look at numbers and say, boy, you know we had a we had a fifty yard right, Well, I tell where I look. I like the fair catch number because you're you do get there's no hidden yardage there then, and you got and the down the number of down punts telling you you got a good chemistry

going with your punter and your and your coverage unit. No, no, no question. I like it. I'll be honest with I view I view it the same way because those fair catches, that is that is all met and you are eliminating the return, which is which is important because the returners in this league are so good. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor as he gets ready to get his fellows headed to Atlanta to take on the Falcons. Let's first talk about Terry Cohen.

He hasn't had any opportunities yet in the in the punt game, but he's gonna be here a while. A new contractor statue how do you feel about that, because he's just a big a part of you as he is the offense. No question, I'm excited about it. I was really fired up to see that, and I think the organization has done a great job uh signing him back. I mean, he's an electric player and uh, you know, we're we're going to expect big things out of him and hopefully we can get our punt return game going

here in week three? What's it mean to him? Because he was a fourth round pick, he was from a smaller school, and there's no guarantee when that happens. Obviously, no matter what your skill set is, your situation has to be ideal to get that kind of contract. Oh, you know, just knowing Tarik, he's very appreciative. He's he's a he's a confident but yet humble guy and uh and a great teammate and a great kid to be around.

And it's a lot of fun coaching them. But I know he's excited, and you know, I think it's it's just human instant that that probably takes a lot of pressure off of him and he can go out there and play and and uh and do the things that that he can do with the football. So glad we got it done. I'm glad he's gonna be a part of this organization for a while. Up Nut, the Falcons and the on site kick that they were unable to recover is a big topic of conversation and there set

back to Dallas. So I read somewhere that somebody's opinion was that when you have an onsight kick like that and Dallas in this case, it was fortunate that the kick rolls towards their bench, because if it's the other way, those coaches and players are screaming to get on the ball. The Falcon's kind of watched it, go what's your coaching point on that? That's a tough kick. But you know, and I'm still getting into it. I just saw the

highlights on ESPN there. But what I saw was, you know, I think they're thinking that the ball is not going to go ten yards, and at that moment, I think there's probably there has to be that common sense factor. Can I just go ahead and get on it even though it hasn't gone to ten yards, not blocked, it's right there by me. It's safe to do because obviously it's it's coached. Hey, don't touch it if it doesn't

go ten. So there's and I think that's where the common sense of football comes into play a little bit. But that was that was a tough play and you know, a good kick it turn it into a mad scramble, which in today's world of on site kicks, that's what you have to turn it into. All right, real quick before we let you go. A man who's made also

of his kicks so far, tell us about young Hoku Falcons. Oh, he's a good football player, you know, and he can move the ball around and he has range, and uh you know he's going to be a challenge for us just in the return game and and then being able to apply pressure on him in the field goal area. So we have our hands uh full with with this group because this this is a good foot and just in our area alone, I know they're good in the other areas, but just in our long our area, I mean,

they grab our attention. Just when you watch the tape, they play hard. Are your new additions and coverage units doing. We're getting better, still, not where we need to be. I think we're still a work in progress. And uh you know, the nice thing is we got another week to get better and we'll we'll we'll evaluate it. We we took a few strides this past week, but it's it's not where it needs to be yet, so we'll keep working. Appreciate it. Chris, good luck this week in

your preparation. And that's a wrap out tonight's Paris Coaching Show. Want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up, Dan Berilli, Eddie Grisher and Lisa Fielding, and most of all you for listening for Bears head coach Matt Naggie and special teams coordinator Chris Tabor. I'm Jeff Joniak. We'll have the game for you from Atlanta nine am pre game noon kickoff Sunday right here on News Radio seven eighty one oh five point nine FM w BBM. Have a good night, everybody,