Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Liam Coen Gives Final Updates Before Wild Card vs. Bills

Transcript

Press Pass | Liam Coen Gives Final Updates Before Wild Card vs. Bills · Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Cool. How'd you feel about the week of practice and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: focus this week.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: In the building, same as it's been for the last
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: you know, ten weeks or so, whatever it is, it's
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: been good.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Guys have been on it.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Good concentration, details and practice and walk through, good.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Stuff to coach off of.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: And uh, today we'll finish up with a little fast
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: Friday tomorrow walk through. Get that feeling of the normalcy,
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: like it is just another week for the guys. Yeah,
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: I do, you know, I think that they understand what's
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: at stake without having to go and say, oh, this
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: could be our last practice, this could be our last
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: walk through, or you know, you go through those comments
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: or or thought process is just not where we're at.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: So just keep going through the week. And that's what
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: it's kind of been, same as I know.
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: There was a video or part of it last night
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: where you said you never mentioned the word super Bowl.
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: You really didn't mention the work playoffs as you told
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: us to. So now this week, how do you balance
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: that finale of playoff games with the.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: One no mentality? Yeah, I think that's just a result
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: that will come on Sunday that we'll have to figure
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: out what it is I mean, you don't put yourself
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: there at all. I have not put myself there at
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: all personally. Is you just keep trying to do what
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: you've been doing to the best of your ability, and
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: then let the results be what they may and go
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: play your asses off on Sunday and for sixty minutes
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: and see what the heck happens. So it's just the
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: way that this game works, the way that you have
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: to stay so singularly focused on your job, your execution,
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: your responsibilities, your details, the game plan, knowing your opponent
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: to the best of your ability, and then go play.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Because you let anything else get into your mind, it
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: just starts to cloud it and you start to think
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: about things that really don't matter.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: Would you call it a play to Trevor and say,
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: like risk spand twenty three? What does that allow you
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: to add to.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Checkwise reminders on the play or you know, different things
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: to think about for that specific player situation. More so
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: based like all right, hey you got four downs here
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: being smart right or whatever it is, It just kind
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: of allows you to throw a couple of pointers into them.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: I haven't really had to give them too much, to
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, Outside of you know the preparation
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: that we have and go through the process. Or if
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: something's coming in that's not in the game plan, that's
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: just being called, you may want to give them a
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: little heads up as to what you're thinking quickly if
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: you can, if you have time. But you know, for
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: the most part that work is all done previous too,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: right like when you go through the game plan, when
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: we he and I and Grant and Spence go through
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: the call sheet tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon and go through it.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: What we're thinking, What are going to be our first
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: third down calls, short yardage, red zone, when.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: We get to this area of the field, What are
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: we thinking.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: You try to stick to those thought processes because that's
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: what he's now anticipating, unless things completely have changed based
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: on how they play and what they're doing in the game,
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: and so you try to keep it as rhythmic as possible.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: But the wriskband at times does allow you to give
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: a couple more coaching points. They will start a call
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: sheet meeting Saturday morning. They'll probably go for about an
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: hour and then we go again before mass and Chapel
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: usually starts for about another hour or so, or we're
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: just going through priority calls. Here's the top calls in
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: both the play actions, the keepers, quick game screens, blah
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: blah blah, all that stuff, and then get into some
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: situational thought process for each third down window. All right, hey,
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: what's the first call? What's your order of these third downs?
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Knowing that it could get tweaked a little bit in
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: game based on what you're getting, but you try to
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: go through a little bit of a process of how
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: you're gonna almost call it, or what's what he can
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: anticipate to hear in some of those situations, so that
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: when Sunday comes, it's not just like, well, I thought
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: you said we were calling that play fourth and now
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: you're gonna use it, you know. So it's just more
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: so to get on the same page ahead.
• 4:20
  Speaker 4: I know you don't have time for all the good
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: Tom more stories, but he talked about his retirement. Just
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: se your experience with him.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: So much respect for Tom Moore. I mean to be
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: doing it and do it as long as he's He's
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: been a pioneer in offensive football, like the levels concepts
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: in the past game, so much that I learned from him,
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: not even last just last year, Like if you go
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: back and watch their tape from all those years in Indy.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: Everybody in the NFL now is running the levels concepts
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: because of what they were doing and how much freedom
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: he gave the quarterback the line of scrimmage. Sometimes he
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: was telling me like they'd have three four calls right,
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: it was like run to run the pass. And Peyton
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: was getting to those things based on the looks that
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: he was being presented. And Tom had a great presentation
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: to our players and coaches that he would do every year,
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: and it was, you know, just talking about the seven
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: deadly sins of coaching and playing.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: I can't rattle them all off.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: The top of my head right now, but it was
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: just about, hey, keep the main thing the main thing,
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: and teaching young players and young coaches how to kind
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: of survive in this league. And I think that was
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: really cool knowledge coming from him. Got a lot of
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: respect and appreciate what he's done for our game. I
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm fortunate enough to write, I mean
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: he's been. I mean Tom Moore is he All he's
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: wanted to do is why he's done it this long
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: is because he wants to help people.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Like That's it. There's no ego involved.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: There's no I'm doing this for my accolades or for
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: me or for any of those things. It's truly because
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: he wants to teach and help. Bucky Irving was in
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: his office every single day at five point thirty in
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: the morning, hanging out with Tom. I mean, if you're
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: not helping mentor somebody and get somebody through their rookie
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: year and be a part of success, I don't know
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: what it is. And so that's what Tom Moore is.
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: That's what he's about, and that's what you hope to
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: take from him. Guys like him that are really trying
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: to help our game. Foyer has been on the field
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: for well over one thousand defensive snaps this season. How
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: important it has his consistent presence been out there for
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: the growth of the defense and the excellence of the defense. Yeah, critical, critical,
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: the communication, his understanding of the game plan. He takes
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: the defense through a bunch of calls. Before we get
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: to Sunday, they do multiple film session meetings that Foyer
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: is taking the guys through, you know, calls versus looks
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: when they're watching tape and they start to anticipate.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, some of those.
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: Calls and what they can do within those roles and
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: within those calls, and then the energy that he plays
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: with on Sunday.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: And you know, you have so many of the.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: Clips that we show our guys of him, uh you know, laughing,
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: cackling on the field, just like hooting and hollering, having
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: a blast that's infectious. And the way that he continues
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: to lead our group. I mean, the guy carries around
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: tape in his pocket literally as a roll of tape
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: in his pocket at all times. He just carries it
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: around here and he'll start taping something up before we
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: go out to practice and he's ready to go. So
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: a bit of a throwback that way, in the way
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: that he prepares, the way that he plays on Sundays, It's.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Really fun to watch him play football.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: Britain Strange said yesterday when he came back from him injury,
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: he was but he wasn't right. Yeah, where did you
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: see him really turn a corner to get back to
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: where he was?
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think obviously getting going against Arizona was nice, right,
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: like that first drive where he caught the the big
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: one that kind of got him in the game early,
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: and that previous week of practice I think that's maybe
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: what he was referring to, Like he definitely wasn't back yet,
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: Like he was back, but he wasn't feeling himself, and uh,
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: it took an extra week to get him really back
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: to feeling better. And there was some frustration on his
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: part during the course of that week of practice, and
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: I think he just needed to get out there and
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: get some of those cobwebs right, you know, kind of
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: brushed off, get a little bit of the anxiety out,
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: and just go play, because that's the type he is,
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour every play. Like That's the
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: thing about Brenton is a lot of guys play this
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: game probably at about eighty five to ninety percent max velocity.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: I would think, you know, I don't know if you're
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: quite at one hundred every single play for the entire season,
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: like that would be probably really difficult to do. He's
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: at one hundred percent every single snap, every single play
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: for the entire season, So you know, I think for
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: him there was frustration because he didn't feel like he
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: could do that. And to see though, how he's worked
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: through it, to see the way that he's continued to
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: impact and affect our offense and both the run in
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: the past, and he's got leadership qualities. He does like
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: he's not the most vocal all the time, but he's tough,
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of players respect tough.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: They see it, they know it when they see it.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: You don't have to say much to be tough, and
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: that's something that he's continued to bring to our offense.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Gregns guys and I m just since.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: He's Yeah, I mean Greg, he's got a lot of confidence.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: He's got a lot of confidence. He's seen a lot
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: of football. He's smart, he's intentional with the way that
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: he practices, the way that he tries to do things.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: You know, there's been a lot of guys playing in
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: the back end for us this year, and to see
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: that room specifically settle in, get a little bit of
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: that rotation that we've had with obviously Greg and Buster
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: and Jarring and then when Jordan was still playing healthy
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: him as well, and have no ego about it, right,
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: Like everybody kind of points to you, point to dbs
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: and widouts as being your I guess you'd call it divas,
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: right or that's not on our team, But I do
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: feel like that's a general consensus, right that not this
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: group like this group just they've been extremely selfless with
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: the way that they've gone about their business and the
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: way that other guys have success. They're they're excited for
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: they appreciate each other. They've worked their asses off as
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: a group to continue to get better, and I think
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: that's showing up on Sunday, and Greg's a big part
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: of that lot.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: To change or to guard against not changing your aggressiveness
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: in terms of you know, like fourth down stuff and
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: where when you know that you can't try and field
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: goal instead of a fourth down thing, is it easy
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: to kind of guard against that because points are such
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: a premium. Yeah.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: So I mean, look, you're trying to win this game, right,
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: and so you can't think about the next one. You
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: can't think about what if or what could happen if
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: we don't do I think it's just look, the flow
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: of the game always kind of dictates what you're going
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: to do from a decision making process. You have a philosophy,
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: you have something that you believe in, but the flow
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: of the game is going to have to determine how
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: aggressive we are in some of those moments. And is
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: it a high scoring game. Do we need every possession
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: we can get? Is it one of those games that, look,
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: we're stopping each other. Points are hard to come by.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: This is what we may need to be more of
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: a kick mindset here. So, like, I don't have any
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: idea where we rank in terms of aggressiveness or anything
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: like that. And for fourth downs, I know we've tried
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: to be aggressive, but that's going to be a game
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: time decision with that. We talk about it in our
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: game management meeting tomorrow a little bit of like John
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: and Shane and I will talk through Okay, coin top.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: We talked about the weather, right, we talk about the stadium,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: the kicking their kicker versus our kicker, and then obviously
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: the fourth downs.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Right Like we talked about some of those.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: We talk about two point conversion situations, overtime rules now
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: that we're in the playoffs, got communicated to our players
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: and what our thought process will be regarding overtime and
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: whether we're going to kick or see you.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: So we've had a lot of these.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Conversations and ultimately it comes down to trusting your gut
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: and trusting the field from in game and seeing what's happening.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Talk about guys, never known what their numbers called, keeping
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: them engaged. For a guy like Walker Little, who's had
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: i mean some rough matches over the course of the season,
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: you've needed in the past couple of weeks, might need
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: him at a different.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Position this week.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: How important is that coaching part, that managing the people
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: part to keep those guys engaged. Yeah, Look, we wouldn't
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: be in the position we're at without Walker Little, right,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: like without a lot of these guys that have obviously
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: helped us.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Get to where we are.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: And you know, he's been able to play multiple positions
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: for us, be flexible with kind of that rotation, be
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: able to step in, play right guard, force play it
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: at a pre a good click for us for a
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: few games, never haven't really played it before, and then
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: have to, you know, potentially slide back over the left
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: at times like that's just the way it goes. And
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I think that that's something that you appreciate
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: an offensive lignment, like you appreciate the selflessness, You appreciate
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: the team first mentality typically of offensive lignment, because their
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: number one job is to protect right, to protect the back,
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: to protect the quarterback, and to protect this team and
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: this organization So when you have a selfless group that
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: has a team first mentality like Walker does and like
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: the rest of that group does, it typically helps you succeed.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: How have you seen.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: The interior defensive lineman and Grace what I think they
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: know the assignment is this week and when the bread.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: And butter of the dls.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I think those guys understand the task at hand.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: We showed them a good enough clips in my team
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: meeting and the defensive meetings of their run game and
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: what that can do both when they as an offensive
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: line and get going and the techniques and fundamentals in
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: which they try to use and things that we need
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: to do to combat that. And also when we've got
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: our opportunities to tackle the ball carriers, whether it's the
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: backs or the quarterback, what that needs to look like
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: in the way that which we need to play to
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: get after.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Those guys to do those things. And so you know,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I think we're ready for the task at hand.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Whether we you know, make every single tackle on Sunday,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: who knows, you know what I mean, Like, that's just
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: the game. So it's more about the relentless effort. The
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: relentless effort, the relentless strain, you know, wood blocks, you know.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Continue to play with that mindset of mentality upfront, and
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: good things will happen.