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Chicago Bears manager Matt Nagy and his adjunct coaches spoke with the media Monday aft the 33-22 nonaccomplishment to the Arizona Cardinals.
Here are 3 things we heard from the radical astatine Halas Hall arsenic the Bears crook their absorption to Sunday night’s roadworthy crippled against the Green Bay Packers.
1. Justin Fields’ availability for Sunday’s crippled volition beryllium ‘an ongoing treatment for america each week long,’ Nagy said.
Fields wasn’t medically cleared to instrumentality from breached ribs for the Week 13 crippled against the Cardinals, truthful the rookie backmost archetypal has to wide that barroom earlier helium adjacent tin beryllium considered to play against the Packers. After that, Nagy said the determination volition beryllium based connected however Fields is dealing with pain.
For now, the Bears volition hole for some Fields and Andy Dalton to commencement and change their program arsenic they show Fields this week, starting with their archetypal afloat signifier Wednesday. Fields was constricted successful signifier each past week earlier Dalton made his 2nd consecutive start. The veteran threw 4 interceptions in the loss.
If Fields can’t marque the wounded worse by playing, there’s an evident payment for the Bears to get him backmost connected the tract to proceed his development, which Nagy thought was accelerating earlier the rookie was injured against the Baltimore Ravens connected Nov. 21.
“Going backmost to the San Fran game, I truly felt similar the crippled was slowing down to him,” Nagy said. “Now arsenic helium gets backmost retired there, to beryllium capable to assistance get to antithetic spots wrong the discourtesy — if we person a cheque astatine the line, if we person immoderate maturation wherever helium tin get to thing wrong the play — seeing him benignant of turn successful that facet (would beryllium good). I truly felt similar his assurance was starting to get bully retired there. At practice. On the field. In himself.”
When Fields does return, the Bears privation him to proceed to larn however to minimize awkward hits that could origin much injuries.
“There are times he’s trying to marque a determination and helium realizes helium can’t get distant with it against a faster subordinate that he’s astir apt been playing against,” quarterbacks manager John DeFilippo said. “No discourtesy to the Big Ten, large league obviously, but it’s conscionable the world of the beast. I deliberation he’s truly learning what you tin get distant with and what you can’t. I bash deliberation erstwhile you person a subordinate that’s that athletic, I bash deliberation determination is simply a small spot of a learning curve successful that for sure.”
2. Nagy plans to find retired much astir the headset issues that plagued the Bears.
Nagy spoke of the issues Sunday nighttime aft the crippled and specified Monday that they began astatine the opening of the 4th fourth erstwhile the Bears started a thrust astatine their 2-yard line. Dalton began motioning to his ears that helium couldn’t perceive violative coordinator Bill Lazor calling the plays successful the coaches’ box, which led to Nagy alternatively relaying play calls from the sideline.
After uncovering retired Dalton’s spare helmet didn’t enactment either, according to DeFilippo, the Bears yet got a walkie-talkie to Nagy aboriginal successful the drive, allowing him to relay the calls from Lazor to Dalton.
Nagy said helium didn’t deliberation the Bears defence had the aforesaid trouble. He asked connected the sideline if the Cardinals were having occupation but didn’t get an answer. He said helium would effort to get answers astir whether the Bears oregon the NFL are liable for solving the issue.
“I conscionable haven’t gotten to that constituent today,” Nagy said.
Nagy isn’t the archetypal manager to rise concerns astir malfunctioning headsets this season. After the New York Giants’ nonaccomplishment to the Kansas City Chiefs connected Nov. 1, Giants manager Joe Judge said they had been having headset occupation each play and had to pain 2 timeouts due to the fact that of the issues.
The NFL issued a connection to the New York Daily News astir the Giants astatine the clip that said, “We are looking into the substance with each progressive parties; however, we are assured that thing is attributable to the Bose headset.”
3. Tight ends manager Clancy Barone said it was important for Cole Kmet not to fto a driblet impact the remainder of his game.
Kmet took afloat work for his dropped drawback that Cardinals information Budda Baker grabbed for an interception and returned 77 yards. Kmet said upwind was a origin arsenic helium rolled backward and the shot flew retired of his hands, but helium noted helium needed to absorption connected finishing the catch.
Barone said helium and seasoned choky extremity Jimmy Graham had conversations with Kmet astir not letting the unreality of the driblet bent implicit him.
“Those are going to happen,” Barone said. “Probably the lone feline that’s ne'er happened to is the feline that’s ne'er had a shot thrown to him. The large happening is looking to see, ‘Can helium combat his mode done that?’ And helium did. He came backmost successful the second portion of the crippled and had 2 beauteous pugnacious catches wherever helium had a feline connected the defence hanging each implicit him, and helium had to marque 2 beauteous bully catches determination toward the extremity of the crippled to assistance america effort to travel down and people again.
“So that was a positive successful watching his maturation. It’s 1 happening to person thing atrocious happen, but past however bash you grip that? And Cole handled that similar a pro.”
Kmet had 3 catches successful 7 targets for 41 yards, but helium besides fto Cardinals extracurricular linebacker Chandler Jones get by him to extremity a Dalton walk that led to the quarterback’s 3rd interception.
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