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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, Doug, how are we doing?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Guess I'll start with the obvious, what's what do you
- 0:06Speaker 2: think Trevor's status will be as week goes by?
- 0:09Speaker 1: And something on jamal Zay and would Christian have a
- 0:14Speaker 1: hoot of any chance at all playing? Beginning with Trevor,
- 0:24Speaker 1: you know, he is, he is progressing.
- 0:27Speaker 3: He was in today getting his getting his treatment and
- 0:30Speaker 3: rehab all that.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We'll see.
- 0:31Speaker 3: It's kind of day to day right now, so we'll
- 0:32Speaker 3: see how he is on Wednesday. Uh see, you know
- 0:36Speaker 3: what his limitations or whatever it might be, but he
- 0:41Speaker 3: is definitely, you know, improving.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I would I would expect day uh to.
- 0:49Speaker 3: Potentially get more practice time this week and and hopefully
- 0:54Speaker 3: he's in a position by the end of the week too, uh,
- 0:58Speaker 3: you know, play in this game. So we'll where he's at, Christian,
- 1:04Speaker 3: I'll get more information more. He's doing well, He's doing
- 1:07Speaker 3: really well. And you know, yes, I would say there's
- 1:11Speaker 3: a potential to activate his window come Wednesday. So we'll see,
- 1:19Speaker 3: we'll see where he's at there, you know, in a
- 1:22Speaker 3: couple of days, which which which would be positive you know,
- 1:25Speaker 3: if if he can if he can do something uh
- 1:27Speaker 3: this week, you know, we we'll wait and see and
- 1:30Speaker 3: then Jamal unfortunately, Jamal has the uh the little little
- 1:37Speaker 3: fracture in his in his lower leg, and and he's
- 1:41Speaker 3: gonna he's gonna be out. He'll be he'll be missed,
- 1:44Speaker 3: you know, the remainder of the season. So uh, unfortunate
- 1:47Speaker 3: injury yesterday.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, coach.
- 1:50Speaker 1: You bet.
- 1:53Speaker 4: Hey, coach.
- 1:54Speaker 5: If we told you before the year that the season
- 1:56Speaker 5: was going to come down to a game against Tennessee,
- 1:59Speaker 5: just like it did last year, would you have seen
- 2:02Speaker 5: it kind of coming down to this the final week?
- 2:06Speaker 3: You know, we're just uh, we're just we're just obviously
- 2:09Speaker 3: fortunate and and and blessed to be in this position,
- 2:13Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the year. And and
- 2:14Speaker 3: it's always been our goal, as you know too, you know,
- 2:17Speaker 3: to be in the conversation and and and to uh
- 2:20Speaker 3: you know, playing these play in these these meaningful games.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You know, this late in the year.
- 2:24Speaker 3: But you know, we we obviously could have done better
- 2:27Speaker 3: in a few few games uh here recently, and and
- 2:30Speaker 3: and we wouldn't be in this situation.
- 2:32Speaker 1: But you know what we are.
- 2:34Speaker 3: We embrace it, and we own it and looking forward
- 2:36Speaker 3: to the opportunity Sunday.
- 2:38Speaker 5: And Antonio Johnson has been getting a little bit more
- 2:41Speaker 5: play for you lately. Can you just talk about the
- 2:44Speaker 5: rookie and what he's shown you to earn that bigger
- 2:46Speaker 5: role in the defense.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean he's he's showing up every week. Uh,
- 2:51Speaker 1: you know, end game, he's he's making plays, uh he
- 2:55Speaker 1: he he.
- 2:55Speaker 3: He shows that he's very capable of, you know, executing
- 2:59Speaker 3: the defense and being in the right positions and and
- 3:02Speaker 3: you know, so just just he's he's getting he's getting
- 3:05Speaker 3: better each week. He's playing with more confidence, obviously, and
- 3:09Speaker 3: he had a he had a good, a good solid
- 3:11Speaker 3: game yesterday. Uh and then and then capped it off
- 3:13Speaker 3: with the you know with the takeaway there at the
- 3:15Speaker 3: end of the game.
- 3:16Speaker 4: And last one for me.
- 3:17Speaker 5: How much confidence can one win give to a team
- 3:19Speaker 5: this time of year?
- 3:21Speaker 3: Oh, I think it can give a team a lot
- 3:22Speaker 3: of confidence, you know. And it's what it's what we needed,
- 3:27Speaker 3: you know, we needed something to go right for us,
- 3:30Speaker 3: and it did, and you know, it was a good
- 3:32Speaker 3: good It wasn't a I would say a pretty win.
- 3:35Speaker 3: I don't think there's any any win or any losses
- 3:38Speaker 3: is pretty or or ugly.
- 3:39Speaker 1: But the fact that we got the win and the
- 3:41Speaker 1: way we did it.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Proud of the guys, and yeah, it can, it can
- 3:44Speaker 3: definitely spark your team, you know at this time, Thanks.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Coach, you bet.
- 3:51Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna go with Mark and then d Rock.
- 3:54Speaker 6: Yeah, following up on that, Doug a little bit. Is
- 3:56Speaker 6: that just is winning like that the way you guys
- 4:00Speaker 6: had said, stop the turnovers and we'll be fine. Turnovers
- 4:04Speaker 6: and tackles. Does that maybe justify maybe what what you're
- 4:09Speaker 6: preaching in terms of, you know, getting the exact result,
- 4:13Speaker 6: maybe even better result than what you could have imagined.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, markets, it's it's, it's.
- 4:20Speaker 3: It's you know, listen, it's football is not a not
- 4:22Speaker 3: a hard game, not a complicated game. Sometimes we as
- 4:26Speaker 3: coaches and players complicate things a little bit too much.
- 4:28Speaker 3: But I think if you just focus on the basics
- 4:31Speaker 3: and and that's just it, you know, you could you
- 4:33Speaker 3: don't turn the ball over, You don't have a lot
- 4:34Speaker 3: of penalties or pre snap penalties on offense, right, you
- 4:38Speaker 3: make open field tackles, you're you're in the right position,
- 4:41Speaker 3: You control the line of scrimmage both sides. You know,
- 4:45Speaker 3: you run the ball effectively enough in the game, you know,
- 4:48Speaker 3: to control, to control the game. I just think those
- 4:52Speaker 3: are those are recipes for any football team, you know,
- 4:55Speaker 3: but but obviously for ours and where we are and
- 4:58Speaker 3: and you know you can you can win games that way,
- 5:01Speaker 3: you know, in this league, and and there's games when
- 5:04Speaker 3: you know, yeah, you're gonna have to put the ball
- 5:06Speaker 3: in the air thirty five plus times, you know, something
- 5:09Speaker 3: like that to win, because there's there's teams that you know,
- 5:12Speaker 3: can score every.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Time they touched the football.
- 5:14Speaker 3: But I think it's proof to our players that you know,
- 5:20Speaker 3: we take care of our business.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Then then yeah, you have a chance to win games.
- 5:24Speaker 6: And then real quick Trevor last week last Thursday indicated
- 5:27Speaker 6: that you thought he was going to at least get
- 5:28Speaker 6: on the field and limited capacity. Did he have some
- 5:31Speaker 6: sort of setback or just realized he couldn't throw yet.
- 5:34Speaker 3: No, he didn't have a set back, just you know,
- 5:36Speaker 3: he wasn't there as far as you know, throwing the
- 5:39Speaker 3: football at the end of the week, so just kind
- 5:41Speaker 3: of kept him insight. He did come out for some
- 5:43Speaker 3: of the team stuff and it was around for that,
- 5:46Speaker 3: but just just wanted to get extra extra time in
- 5:49Speaker 3: the in the training room before he.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Came out.
- 5:54Speaker 7: And Doug Josha said after the game last night that
- 5:58Speaker 7: last week was by far the best week the preparation
- 6:00Speaker 7: you guys have had all year.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Do you agree with that?
- 6:03Speaker 7: And and how can you ensure that that level kind
- 6:06Speaker 7: of keeps that well, stays at that level going forward,
- 6:09Speaker 7: you know, when you're basically playing win or you're you're done.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was one of our better weeks.
- 6:16Speaker 1: You know, last week. I put a lot of that too, on.
- 6:19Speaker 3: On on the coaches, the individual coaches right preparing their
- 6:22Speaker 3: players for practice and getting them getting them ready for uh,
- 6:26Speaker 3: you know, obviously for the game. But you know, the
- 6:29Speaker 3: players have a lot of pride and and they take
- 6:31Speaker 3: that stuff to heart and they you know, they understand
- 6:34Speaker 3: they need to they need to practice better right and
- 6:36Speaker 3: and and eliminate some of the mistakes. And if you
- 6:39Speaker 3: can do it in practice, then then chances are you're
- 6:43Speaker 3: going to eliminate the mistakes in game.
- 6:45Speaker 1: So, uh, it was a good week.
- 6:47Speaker 3: And this week we got to have, you know, just
- 6:50Speaker 3: the same type of focus and intensity and and.
- 6:53Speaker 1: And be intentional with with everything that we're doing.
- 6:57Speaker 7: And back to Christian real quick when he initially went down,
- 7:01Speaker 7: was this the best case scenario you could have hoped
- 7:04Speaker 7: for is that he could potentially be back after missing
- 7:07Speaker 7: four weeks, because I know the initial reports could be
- 7:09Speaker 7: six to eight weeks, depending on you know, the severity
- 7:11Speaker 7: of the injury.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was definitely a bad injury for
- 7:18Speaker 3: him and obviously bad for for our offense. But you know,
- 7:22Speaker 3: he's in a position right now to maybe help us
- 7:25Speaker 3: this week, and we'll see where he's at, you know,
- 7:27Speaker 3: if if you know, if we we go ahead and
- 7:30Speaker 3: open his window on Wednesday and get him out there
- 7:32Speaker 3: and see what see what he can do. But yeah,
- 7:36Speaker 3: it's you know, you definitely wants your best players on
- 7:39Speaker 3: the field this time of year, and he's one of those.
- 7:42Speaker 1: He's one of those players for us.
- 7:44Speaker 7: One more real quick, I think you're the only guy that's,
- 7:47Speaker 7: you know, been a head coach for two tight ends
- 7:49Speaker 7: that have caught one hundred passes in a season, And
- 7:52Speaker 7: I'm just wondering if you take some pride in that.
- 7:55Speaker 7: I mean, obviously you have that reputation as a guy
- 7:56Speaker 7: who likes to use the tight end, and clearly that's
- 7:59Speaker 7: pretty good notch on the resume.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Yeah you know, I mean I grew up in a
- 8:04Speaker 3: in an offense when I played that, we utilize the
- 8:06Speaker 3: tight ends quite a bit. So I've been around, you know,
- 8:09Speaker 3: I've been around great tight ends, whether I was a
- 8:11Speaker 3: player and now as a coach. And and you know
- 8:14Speaker 3: zach Ertzevan ingram Or and obviously Dallas Goddard, you know
- 8:17Speaker 3: in Philly. Now, those are three guys that have been
- 8:21Speaker 3: instrumental to the offenses. And Evan's a big part of
- 8:25Speaker 3: our system, and and you know, we try to find
- 8:27Speaker 3: ways to get him, get him the ball every week.
- 8:29Speaker 3: But you know, it's a credit though to those to
- 8:31Speaker 3: those guys.
- 8:32Speaker 4: For.
- 8:34Speaker 3: You know, the type of teammates they are, leaders, they are,
- 8:37Speaker 3: how hard they work on and off the football field,
- 8:40Speaker 3: and and and they set a good, good example for
- 8:42Speaker 3: the rest of your team.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Thanks Doug, you bet.
- 8:47Speaker 7: All right.
- 8:47Speaker 4: We're gonna go to Mia and then John Shipley.
- 8:51Speaker 8: Hey, Doug. A bit of a surprise I think for
- 8:54Speaker 8: some to hear Tyler Shaltley announced as the starting left guard.
- 8:57Speaker 8: I know, obviously Walker and Azra a little bang up
- 9:00Speaker 8: went into that decision and looking at the health of
- 9:02Speaker 8: those guys, but also how Tyler played. How do you
- 9:04Speaker 8: prepare heading into this final week of the regular season.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you just said it right there.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Walker and Ezra were a little banged up and we
- 9:12Speaker 3: needed to get them some rest and if we could,
- 9:16Speaker 3: you know, and Tyler's done a great job and really
- 9:18Speaker 3: done a nice job when he's in there. So you know,
- 9:20Speaker 3: we didn't feel like there was any kind of letdown
- 9:23Speaker 3: or let up, let off, whatever you may want to
- 9:25Speaker 3: call it. We felt good, you know, both Walker and Ezra.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Walker played at the end of the game when when
- 9:30Speaker 3: Cam you know, was was you know, removed from the game,
- 9:35Speaker 3: you know, but both those guys, it was good. It
- 9:38Speaker 3: was good for us as a team. We got through,
- 9:40Speaker 3: you know, we got through Sunday. Now we can prepare
- 9:41Speaker 3: this week and we'll see moving forward, you know, if
- 9:45Speaker 3: it's Ezra back there, or if it's Walker back there,
- 9:47Speaker 3: or if it's Titler, you know, and just really the
- 9:49Speaker 3: health of the guys is the biggest concern at this time.
- 9:52Speaker 8: And just since you brought up Cam number one, have
- 9:55Speaker 8: we heard anything from the league as far as any
- 9:58Speaker 8: sort of disciplinary action, And then number two to the
- 10:01Speaker 8: on field part of it, A lot has been made
- 10:03Speaker 8: of course about how the team. I think it's now
- 10:05Speaker 8: seven and one when Cam does play. But I think
- 10:09Speaker 8: what's interesting is so much of the run success was
- 10:11Speaker 8: actually running off to the right. So if you could
- 10:13Speaker 8: just speak to what Cam brought, but also maybe some
- 10:15Speaker 8: of the other guys that stepped up in the run game.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Yeah, first thing, we have not heard anything yet from
- 10:20Speaker 3: the league on Cam, and I'm assuming that that he'll
- 10:23Speaker 3: definitely hear something this week pretty pretty quickly on that.
- 10:28Speaker 1: But it was good to have Cam back.
- 10:30Speaker 3: He he brings a level of excitement, enthusiasm, physicality to
- 10:34Speaker 3: the offensive line, you know. I think too, there's some
- 10:37Speaker 3: there was some rust with him, much like guys like Tyson,
- 10:40Speaker 3: you know, getting back out there, there was some there
- 10:42Speaker 3: were some plays that that that just weren't Cam like
- 10:46Speaker 3: you know type plays. But listen, he battled through it
- 10:49Speaker 3: and and for the most part played up, you know,
- 10:51Speaker 3: played a big part. And then as far as you know,
- 10:53Speaker 3: plays to the right. I think I think sometimes you
- 10:56Speaker 3: go in and you know, when you look at the
- 10:58Speaker 3: run game too, you think, Okay, who's better on the
- 11:01Speaker 3: backside cut off blocks as opposed to maybe the front side,
- 11:04Speaker 3: you know, and things of that nature go into your
- 11:07Speaker 3: run game a little bit and he does a nice
- 11:09Speaker 3: job with his athleticism to cut people off on the
- 11:11Speaker 3: back side. So it's just kind of the nature of
- 11:14Speaker 3: how the run game went yesterday and kind of week
- 11:17Speaker 3: to week as to who is going to have kind
- 11:19Speaker 3: of the hot hand, either the left side or the
- 11:21Speaker 3: right side.
- 11:22Speaker 8: Awesome, thank you.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Bet.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Doug was yesterday with Travis breaking that long run late.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Was that kind of an example what you've been talking about,
- 11:32Speaker 2: sticking with the run game and eventually something good will
- 11:34Speaker 2: come from it.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and that was right there at the
- 11:37Speaker 3: beginning of the third I think it was our first
- 11:39Speaker 3: drive in the third quarter, had that big run for
- 11:41Speaker 3: the touchdown. But you know, that was a little bit
- 11:43Speaker 3: too about a halftime adjustment and what we had seen
- 11:46Speaker 3: in the first half from Carolina defensively, and and how
- 11:50Speaker 3: we could you know, maybe utilize some of the perimeter
- 11:53Speaker 3: runs and Travis is really good at that, you know,
- 11:56Speaker 3: and just but again, that's just the thing when you
- 12:01Speaker 3: stick to the run game, you know, like I said,
- 12:04Speaker 3: it may not be pretty. I think we had twenty
- 12:05Speaker 3: seven or twenty eight yards in the first half. It's
- 12:08Speaker 3: not pretty, but then things begin to open up in
- 12:11Speaker 3: the second half. And you get those longer runs that
- 12:14Speaker 3: that really help and spark your offense. So it's something
- 12:17Speaker 3: that you know, sometimes coaches, we get a little impatient,
- 12:20Speaker 3: you know, with the run game. But it was a
- 12:22Speaker 3: great example of us, you know, sticking with it yesterday.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Thanks Tod.
- 12:27Speaker 4: Yep, all right, we're gonna go to Ashley and then Brent.
- 12:34Speaker 9: Thanks hey. Coach with guys like cam Devon, Hamilton, Tyson
- 12:38Speaker 9: and now maybe Kirk, does it feel like some of
- 12:42Speaker 9: the big puzzle pieces are coming together at the perfect
- 12:45Speaker 9: time and does that come with any challenges at all?
- 12:48Speaker 7: If any?
- 12:50Speaker 1: I do think that things are beginning.
- 12:52Speaker 3: The guys are getting healthy, which is good this time
- 12:55Speaker 3: of year, especially with the opportunity that we have this weekend.
- 13:00Speaker 3: And and so yeah, it's it's good to have It's
- 13:03Speaker 3: good to have these guys, you know, back in the lineup,
- 13:06Speaker 3: you know, and it's on I guess on the flip
- 13:08Speaker 3: side too, is unfortunate that you know, Jamal is going
- 13:10Speaker 3: to be missed and not only offensively but also in
- 13:13Speaker 3: the kicking game right there, and and and I think
- 13:16Speaker 3: the challenge really is just getting getting guys like Tyson
- 13:21Speaker 3: and and if Christian has a chance to play. You know,
- 13:24Speaker 3: they've had they've had four games of non you know,
- 13:27Speaker 3: not playing, and and it's just that rust and getting
- 13:30Speaker 3: back into kind of the game shape and and and
- 13:33Speaker 3: you know, the speed of the game just a little bit.
- 13:35Speaker 1: That's kind of the challenge.
- 13:36Speaker 3: How you're gonna you know, get him into your offense
- 13:39Speaker 3: or defense and and you know, incorporate.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Them at your game plan.
- 13:43Speaker 3: But you know, but overall, yes, it's uh, it's a
- 13:47Speaker 3: good time to get you know, get these guys healthy.
- 13:51Speaker 4: Thanks coach, you bet.
- 13:54Speaker 6: Uh.
- 13:54Speaker 2: We we see the physical side of the game so much.
- 13:58Speaker 2: But you guys have mentioned so many times about agnew
- 14:02Speaker 2: and and Kirk, how smart they are. How much do
- 14:05Speaker 2: you miss guys like that from an IQ standpoint, what
- 14:09Speaker 2: you guys are trying to do on the field, whether
- 14:11Speaker 2: that's offense or defense.
- 14:12Speaker 1: When you lose players like that, yeah, I mean it's tough.
- 14:15Speaker 3: It's tough because you know, and it's nothing against the
- 14:18Speaker 3: young player. They just haven't had the experience of playing
- 14:21Speaker 3: as much at this level. And guys like Christian and
- 14:24Speaker 3: Tyson they've had a lot of games and they can
- 14:26Speaker 3: see things and they can anticipate.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And Jamal, as you mentioned, Jamal you know.
- 14:30Speaker 3: He can see things defensively and anticipate, you know, a
- 14:34Speaker 3: route or something of that nature. And it's it's it's
- 14:40Speaker 3: where your quarterback is.
- 14:41Speaker 1: It's the level of of uh, you know, kind of
- 14:45Speaker 1: the brain power.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Of where your quarterback is a little bit with that
- 14:47Speaker 3: and and being on the same page with each other,
- 14:50Speaker 3: and and you know, it's just it's just the growing
- 14:54Speaker 3: the growing up and the growing pains of getting guys
- 14:56Speaker 3: like Parker, you know, more opportunity, right, a lot as
- 15:00Speaker 3: you coax, more opportunity, uh, Tim Jones, more opportunities you know,
- 15:04Speaker 3: in these football games, because these are great opportunities for them,
- 15:07Speaker 3: you know, to to continue to showcase and and show us.
- 15:10Speaker 1: What they can do.
- 15:11Speaker 3: But yeah, it's I think it is critical when when
- 15:15Speaker 3: guys like Christian you know, offensively or are out there
- 15:18Speaker 3: because they they can definitely be on the same page
- 15:21Speaker 3: with your quarterback.
- 15:22Speaker 2: And a little fun one here, maybe better than Cam's
- 15:25Speaker 2: helmet toss?
- 15:26Speaker 1: Was was your challenge? Flag toss? Uh?
- 15:29Speaker 4: Do you do you work on that?
- 15:30Speaker 1: You're pretty good at cornhole?
- 15:33Speaker 3: No, my sons are actually better than I am. Uh,
- 15:35Speaker 3: but but yeah, that thing kind of flipped out of
- 15:37Speaker 3: my hand pretty good. Uh I didn't really need to
- 15:40Speaker 3: throw it quite that far, but uh, I'm glad I
- 15:44Speaker 3: did it because we got we got two challenges right yesterday.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Thanks mat.
- 15:50Speaker 4: All right, we have time for one more. We're gonna
- 15:52Speaker 4: go ahead and end with Adam.
- 15:57Speaker 10: Hey, coach, I know you talked a little bit about
- 16:00Speaker 10: Im Robinson earlier. I'm curious what you thought about that injection.
- 16:04Speaker 10: I obviously you don't want your guys getting ejected, but
- 16:07Speaker 10: in a way that you're getting that fire, getting that energy,
- 16:10Speaker 10: is that something that can kind of be a boost.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it can definitely be a boost. I mean, we listen.
- 16:15Speaker 3: You gotta players know too, they got to control their
- 16:18Speaker 3: emotions out there. It gets things are getting, you know,
- 16:21Speaker 3: a little testy, and obviously the game was was kind
- 16:23Speaker 3: of one sided at that point, and you know there
- 16:26Speaker 3: was some pushing and shove in and you just gotta,
- 16:29Speaker 3: you know, control your emotions.
- 16:30Speaker 1: And obviously the injection.
- 16:31Speaker 3: Came because you know, he threw the helmet and he
- 16:34Speaker 3: threw the helmet about twenty yards.
- 16:36Speaker 1: And you just can't.
- 16:38Speaker 3: You just can't do that, you know, and he understands that,
- 16:40Speaker 3: and and you know, uh he'll obviously, you know, pay
- 16:44Speaker 3: for it out of the pocketbook.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I'm assuming and uh you know it won't happen again.
- 16:53Speaker 4: All right, thanks coach, all right, thanks guys.