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- 0:00Speaker 1: Advantage is just hitting somebody else. I mean, just something new,
- 0:03Speaker 1: new scheme, new challenge of a different player, things like that.
- 0:08Speaker 1: You know, we didn't do a lot of you know,
- 0:10Speaker 1: when you play a game, there's a lot of self
- 0:12Speaker 1: scouting things like that. You know, this is about us
- 0:15Speaker 1: doing our job, you know, going out and playing our fundamentals, technique,
- 0:18Speaker 1: our scheme, those type of things, and not really we're
- 0:21Speaker 1: not scouting these guys or game planning them sort of speak.
- 0:25Speaker 1: We're just playing our game today and just seeing what
- 0:27Speaker 1: our guys can do.
- 0:27Speaker 2: So it's it is a good evaluation.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Good morning to.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Some good pressure against Kansas City. Were you happy with
- 0:36Speaker 2: that on Saturday night? Yeah, the guys did a good
- 0:39Speaker 2: job pass rushing, they did.
- 0:40Speaker 1: I thought our coverage was really good too, So the
- 0:42Speaker 1: combination of the coverage and the rush together.
- 0:46Speaker 2: You know, the guys played together. They played hard.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot of things we need to clean up,
- 0:51Speaker 1: but overall it was a good.
- 0:52Speaker 2: First starts off the pup list.
- 0:56Speaker 3: You know, what has over the last few months has been.
- 0:58Speaker 1: On the disbanding, like what had been your interactions with
- 1:02Speaker 1: Caron but also how long have you known him per se?
- 1:06Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's been here since. You know, he came
- 1:08Speaker 2: here in.
- 1:09Speaker 1: The off season, so we spent a lot of time
- 1:10Speaker 1: together just kind of in and out, you know, have
- 1:13Speaker 1: breakfast for lunch and they see him around the building.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Awesome guy, you know, football guy. He's a really good person,
- 1:20Speaker 2: really into it.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Helps the players a lot, you know, a lot of
- 1:23Speaker 1: ten year career, you know, a lot of success, a
- 1:25Speaker 1: couple of Super Bowls that he's gone to, and so
- 1:28Speaker 1: you get that whole experience.
- 1:30Speaker 2: It's it's invaluable.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Looking forward to getting them back, you know, and get
- 1:34Speaker 1: him through some walkthroughs and things like that.
- 1:35Speaker 2: But he's been all locked in. Couldn't say enough good
- 1:39Speaker 2: things about him.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Really, you didn't know him before he goes down here. No, no,
- 1:44Speaker 1: whenn't we sign him in February March is somewhere, Yeah,
- 1:47Speaker 1: something like that.
- 1:48Speaker 2: So he's been but he's been around. Give the guy
- 1:50Speaker 2: a lot of credit.
- 1:51Speaker 1: He's been around a lot of a lot of time
- 1:52Speaker 1: just doing everything he can to get back and he
- 1:55Speaker 1: has been helping our young.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Players a lot. So it's been good to see good. Yeah.
- 2:04Speaker 1: So a new player just got him a couple of
- 2:06Speaker 1: days ago. Some experience, very athletic Uh, smart player sees
- 2:12Speaker 1: the game really well in the back end, can play
- 2:16Speaker 1: down safety, can play in the middle of the field.
- 2:18Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things.
- 2:18Speaker 1: But you know, we're still getting to know each other
- 2:21Speaker 1: a little bit and and with the scheme and everything,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and so just a couple of days, so so far,
- 2:26Speaker 1: so good.
- 2:27Speaker 2: I was chatting a bit for you in and training account. Yeah,
- 2:30Speaker 2: good good.
- 2:31Speaker 1: I think he's had a good camp, improved from the
- 2:35Speaker 1: beginning of camp. Made some plays the other night which
- 2:38Speaker 1: was really good to see in the run game and
- 2:40Speaker 1: also you know, covering some guys and out in space,
- 2:43Speaker 1: so that was really good.
- 2:46Speaker 2: One of the things.
- 2:47Speaker 1: We didn't rush Chad very much, but he provides some
- 2:49Speaker 1: pass rush for us to up the middle and also
- 2:52Speaker 1: off the edge.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Uh.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Smart player does a lot of jobs, you know, special teams,
- 2:56Speaker 1: can play on the ball, stack back. So you know,
- 3:00Speaker 1: we'll just continue to get better with him. But he's
- 3:03Speaker 1: doing pretty.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Good job with Trayvon so far. What are your impressions
- 3:06Speaker 2: of him and compare making to some of the guys
- 3:09Speaker 2: you've had to pass that.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Sure, I don't like to do a lot of comparisons.
- 3:12Speaker 1: You know, guys are different and things like that. But
- 3:16Speaker 1: we'll tell you this. He has everything that you need
- 3:21Speaker 1: in terms of a skill set to be a very
- 3:23Speaker 1: successful player in this league. You know, tall, he's got
- 3:27Speaker 1: great speed, he's twitchy, strong player, he gets out of
- 3:31Speaker 1: trouble really well. He understands the game. You know, we're
- 3:36Speaker 1: playing him a little bit more hand in the grass,
- 3:38Speaker 1: you know, up the field type thing, and I think
- 3:40Speaker 1: that's going to help him, you know, in terms of
- 3:43Speaker 1: set in the edge of the defense, in the run
- 3:44Speaker 1: game and things like that. But I'll tell you this,
- 3:48Speaker 1: credit to him. He works extremely hard. I mean he's
- 3:51Speaker 1: out there early every little thing, and I mean he's
- 3:54Speaker 1: trying to do it exactly right. He's a perfectionist, which
- 3:57Speaker 1: you really like. And then and you know, he goes
- 4:00Speaker 1: out there and he does everything you ask him to do.
- 4:03Speaker 1: And then there's you you turn on the tape, he's like, Wow,
- 4:06Speaker 1: you didn't see that in practice, and you see it
- 4:08Speaker 1: in the tape and you're like, man, he made that play.
- 4:10Speaker 1: And so there's that element to the to the player too.
- 4:13Speaker 1: So yeah, just being excited about him, just being around
- 4:17Speaker 1: him every day.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Under your belt with this crew, how well do you
- 4:21Speaker 3: think they've acclimated and what has been the key for
- 4:23Speaker 3: them doing sense of your scheme.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yeah, focus on us. We always it's about us.
- 4:27Speaker 1: It's about the Jags, you know, it's about the individual
- 4:30Speaker 1: player at the position doesn't matter, you know, whatever position.
- 4:33Speaker 1: This is from coach Peterson. You know it's it's always
- 4:36Speaker 1: been about us. It'll always be about us every single
- 4:38Speaker 1: it's a we don't focus on the opponent. We focus
- 4:41Speaker 1: on our fundamentals, our technique, our scheme, execution, things like that.
- 4:46Speaker 1: We haven't changed a lot in what we do in
- 4:48Speaker 1: terms of the installation and kept everything pretty much the
- 4:51Speaker 1: same for the guys. And so that's what we we
- 4:54Speaker 1: evaluate what we do every day, how we act, think, energy, effort,
- 4:59Speaker 1: all the those type of things.
- 5:00Speaker 2: But it will always be about us.
- 5:02Speaker 1: And if we keep it like that, then then the
- 5:04Speaker 1: guys can continue to get better instead of focusing on
- 5:07Speaker 1: too many other things.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Giving them on you in your pass rush, with your guard,
- 5:12Speaker 2: your skips. We brought your service and a to provide that.
- 5:16Speaker 1: You think Armstead can sertainly help that whole thing, well,
- 5:19Speaker 1: I think Eric can help a lot. I mean it's
- 5:21Speaker 1: a really good pass rusher, you know, so that'll add
- 5:23Speaker 1: to that group. But I don't think you ever can
- 5:27Speaker 1: get just hey, we've got enough, because you always want more, right,
- 5:30Speaker 1: And so there's other players at other positions that we
- 5:32Speaker 1: may be pressuring or blitzing to help, you know, and
- 5:36Speaker 1: not just have four guys rushing all the time. But
- 5:38Speaker 1: that being said, I do think that we do have
- 5:40Speaker 1: some good rushers, some guys that can win some individual
- 5:43Speaker 1: one on one matchups, you know, and a lot of
- 5:46Speaker 1: the times we try to create a one on one
- 5:48Speaker 1: for one guy here, one guy there in the matchup
- 5:50Speaker 1: that we like. But so we do have a bunch
- 5:52Speaker 1: of guys that can do that. You add Eric to
- 5:54Speaker 1: that mix, and it's just another rusher that can you know,
- 5:57Speaker 1: where do you put them in an end inside? You know,
- 6:00Speaker 1: and so now they have to guess where he's going
- 6:02Speaker 1: to be.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Every time you get the feeling that Travis Bean reacted with,
- 6:06Speaker 2: surely will sort of be a help elevate his game
- 6:10Speaker 2: a little bit more.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Well, that helps right the past relationships, your knowledge of
- 6:15Speaker 1: what the player can do and you.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Kind of figure out, you know, what his strengths.
- 6:18Speaker 1: And what he can do to really help in it
- 6:22Speaker 1: within the scheme and things like that. So that's you know,
- 6:25Speaker 1: Bill coach who has been really good about you know, hey,
- 6:27Speaker 1: this is my experience with them, and and here's kind
- 6:30Speaker 1: of how we played them.
- 6:31Speaker 2: And so we've tried to take that and continue on
- 6:34Speaker 2: with that role.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Right And a lot of a lot of guys that
- 6:36Speaker 1: put on weight in the offseason are at it pretty
- 6:38Speaker 1: signific get away now, even Devin the linebacker spot, but
- 6:41Speaker 1: a lot of guys up front. Can that be a
- 6:45Speaker 1: tough things sometimes to get used to it. Why did
- 6:47Speaker 1: you see the guys getting used to that and practice
- 6:49Speaker 1: and then the game and the night. Sure, So it's
- 6:51Speaker 1: always we try to put on good weight, you know,
- 6:53Speaker 1: muscle and not you know, not bad weight. You know,
- 6:56Speaker 1: so when you're looking at him, like if you look
- 6:58Speaker 1: at trayvon Den, they don't look out of shape. They're
- 7:03Speaker 1: just bigger, you know, the muscle that they've put on.
- 7:06Speaker 1: They've done a really good job in the weight room.
- 7:08Speaker 1: And so that's what we always you know, bigger is
- 7:11Speaker 1: not necessarily bad weight.
- 7:12Speaker 2: It's good you know, we want the muscle.
- 7:14Speaker 1: And a lot of times the guys would get faster
- 7:17Speaker 1: because it's it's really good weight. They're getting stronger there,
- 7:20Speaker 1: able to use their hands better. Sometimes the games get
- 7:23Speaker 1: game is easier because when you hit people and you
- 7:25Speaker 1: add added ten pounds, it's like, wow, you know this
- 7:29Speaker 1: is hey, I'm a little bit stronger here.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You know, it gives you a little bit of confidence.
- 7:32Speaker 1: So I would just talk about the guys and a
- 7:34Speaker 1: lot of times, as you get mature and your body mature,
- 7:37Speaker 1: is you're gonna gain some of that weight.
- 7:39Speaker 2: So it's a combination of everything.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Effort fumble the other night, is that kind of some
- 7:45Speaker 1: of what you want to see from the entire declaim?
- 7:46Speaker 1: Absolutely as a heck of a play, wasn't it. I mean,
- 7:49Speaker 1: he just the whole play, everything that happened.
- 7:51Speaker 2: You guys saw it.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I mean, in the way he finished it and the
- 7:55Speaker 1: emphasis to take the football away, I mean is a
- 7:57Speaker 1: pretty big time football play. And so you know, we
- 8:00Speaker 1: showed our guys, hey, let's just you know, never give
- 8:02Speaker 1: up on the play.
- 8:02Speaker 2: And there's so many coaching things that you can.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Say about that particular football play, but it was really
- 8:09Speaker 1: good play by him. Great emphasis of just taking the
- 8:12Speaker 1: football and then turning into offense. And you saw, you know,
- 8:15Speaker 1: the defense turn and run and now we're the offense
- 8:17Speaker 1: and going down and scoring everything.
- 8:18Speaker 2: So it was pretty cool to see.
- 8:19Speaker 1: You back off of that, there's a thought that Braswell
- 8:22Speaker 1: and Ben treum Miller both had really good camps.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Would you agree with that? Yeah, I think so.
- 8:28Speaker 1: You know, the body of work has been pretty good.
- 8:31Speaker 1: You know, if not to there, there's not han't been
- 8:35Speaker 1: like a bad day. It's always been you know, the
- 8:37Speaker 1: guys keep getting better and better and better.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It's a credit to.
- 8:41Speaker 1: The players, you know, they're they've really those two guys
- 8:45Speaker 1: and with the whole they've really focused in on doing
- 8:48Speaker 1: their job and fundamentals and technique at their position within
- 8:51Speaker 1: the scheme, and those two guys are a great example
- 8:54Speaker 1: of you know, where we started OTAs and then in
- 8:57Speaker 1: the last couple of.
- 8:58Speaker 2: Weeks they've you've seen them take.
- 9:00Speaker 1: The next step and the next step and the next step,
- 9:01Speaker 1: and then you know, on Saturday night they made some
- 9:03Speaker 1: really good football plays and things that they've done in practice.
- 9:06Speaker 1: So as we're watching it, it's like, hey, they did
- 9:08Speaker 1: that in practice, and then there it shows up in
- 9:10Speaker 1: the game.
- 9:10Speaker 2: So it's really cool to.
- 9:12Speaker 3: See another guy who I think was one of those
- 9:16Speaker 3: where he was a project inherently when he got here.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Miles Hole. Yeah, when you.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Watch the sas he flashed as much as the box
- 9:23Speaker 3: scores he did.
- 9:24Speaker 2: He did he played hard the thing. Okay, so if
- 9:27Speaker 2: you just look at him.
- 9:28Speaker 1: He did you know, he played hard, came off the ball,
- 9:31Speaker 1: played with good fundamentals, pad level. He was a violent
- 9:35Speaker 1: you know, he played violent at the point of the attack.
- 9:38Speaker 1: His effort was really good. There's a couple of effort
- 9:40Speaker 1: plays like that showed up in there. He made a
- 9:41Speaker 1: couple of tacks just effort play. So, uh, it's really
- 9:44Speaker 1: good to see a young player, you know, really buying
- 9:46Speaker 1: into the effort part, the physical part, the violent part
- 9:49Speaker 1: of the game. And you know, we just got to
- 9:51Speaker 1: continue to go take another.
- 9:53Speaker 2: One the v room.
- 9:55Speaker 3: You guys have signed, uh this over the last week.
- 9:59Speaker 3: He signed gives them within the last few days. How
- 10:02Speaker 3: does that change your coaching strategy when the inslation was
- 10:05Speaker 3: reasonably wrapping up around this time, like when they're behind
- 10:08Speaker 3: the guys seasons.
- 10:10Speaker 1: So Chris Ashard, Corey Robinson and my great are all
- 10:13Speaker 1: in that room, and so what they'll do is they'll
- 10:15Speaker 1: take them at certain times of the day and have
- 10:18Speaker 1: extra meetings with them and within the but there's the schedules.
- 10:23Speaker 1: There are times in the day that they can fit
- 10:25Speaker 1: in an extra meeting or just and when it's one
- 10:27Speaker 1: on one, it goes a lot faster than when you're
- 10:29Speaker 1: with the whole group.
- 10:30Speaker 2: So those guys have done a really good job.
- 10:32Speaker 1: And then when you watch them, they'll be standing by
- 10:35Speaker 1: the coaches on the field at practice and they're kind
- 10:38Speaker 1: of coaching them through, Hey, this is what's happening on
- 10:41Speaker 1: that rep. So they can we're speeding up the learning curve.
- 10:46Speaker 1: But I'll tell you most the other day, you know,
- 10:47Speaker 1: he was out there flying around. It's like, man, it
- 10:49Speaker 1: feels like he's been here for a while.
- 10:51Speaker 2: Now. Gibson will be the same thing.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Smart players, you know, they'll be able to fit right
- 10:56Speaker 1: in and contribute you know where they can and in
- 11:00Speaker 1: that so it's it's yeah, it is a little bit tougher.
- 11:02Speaker 1: But then the other thing is is they're vets and
- 11:04Speaker 1: so they you know, they've done this before and they've
- 11:06Speaker 1: played a lot of NFL football, so that that also
- 11:08Speaker 1: has something to go into it.
- 11:09Speaker 2: So I appreciate you guys. You guys have a great day. Okay,