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- 0:00Speaker 1: How do you describe that guy?
- 0:02Speaker 2: Really good? He's a great player.
- 0:06Speaker 3: You know, when I was in Miami for a bunch
- 0:09Speaker 3: of years, we would play him at least twice a year,
- 0:11Speaker 3: so one season ever played three times. But he's a
- 0:14Speaker 3: phenomenal player, you know, just every facet of what he
- 0:17Speaker 3: does is elite. So he's elite in the pocket, elite grower,
- 0:23Speaker 3: hard to tackle, you know, obviously in his career, but
- 0:27Speaker 3: a smart guy too. He's kind of running the show
- 0:30Speaker 3: up there, as you know. You know, he gets him
- 0:32Speaker 3: into great plays. You know, I think he's got all
- 0:36Speaker 3: the skill sets of any elite, elite player in this
- 0:39Speaker 3: league at that position, and he makes you stay up
- 0:43Speaker 3: late at night to try and get it right, that's
- 0:44Speaker 3: for sure. Facing the league's number one rushing offense with
- 0:49Speaker 3: the number one rushing defense, what kind of opportunity does.
- 0:52Speaker 2: That present for you guys?
- 0:54Speaker 3: I think it's just an opportunity for us to play
- 0:58Speaker 3: with technique and our job. That's kind of the way
- 1:01Speaker 3: we're looking at it. That's the way the guys in
- 1:03Speaker 3: the room we're looking at it. That's how I'm looking
- 1:04Speaker 3: at it. They challenge it in so many ways with
- 1:08Speaker 3: their run game. They make everybody tackle. They do a
- 1:11Speaker 3: really good job in their combinations, do a good job
- 1:13Speaker 3: playing with their hands as an offensive line, really everybody.
- 1:16Speaker 3: I always say, I think their perimeter does a very
- 1:18Speaker 3: good job blocking, and that's generated a lot of the
- 1:21Speaker 3: big runs for them down the field. Even in the
- 1:23Speaker 3: screen game, you know, they they've which are an extension
- 1:26Speaker 3: of the run game. They've done a great job of
- 1:27Speaker 3: the perimeter blocking. So it's a challenge at every level
- 1:31Speaker 3: of the defense. And the running back obviously is elite.
- 1:35Speaker 3: I think he does a tremendous job. Cook does a
- 1:37Speaker 3: tremendous job of finding cracks. You know, you look at
- 1:39Speaker 3: some of the stuff on Tabam there's nowhere to go
- 1:41Speaker 3: and he.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Pops through there.
- 1:43Speaker 3: So he's an elite back. And obviously the quarterbacks is
- 1:46Speaker 3: an elite runner as well. But they have a bunch
- 1:48Speaker 3: of good backs, you know. So they've they've really given
- 1:52Speaker 3: everybody fits this point in the season in the run game.
- 1:55Speaker 3: So it's a great challenge for us here. What kind
- 1:57Speaker 3: of challenges see with the extent, Yeah, he's a guy
- 2:01Speaker 3: they move around quite a bit, but he's just so
- 2:03Speaker 3: elusive and in my opinion, he's got great stop start
- 2:08Speaker 3: you know, and that's what's really.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Challenging about him.
- 2:10Speaker 3: So and man the man, he's a challenge to cover,
- 2:13Speaker 3: and you got to know where he is really every
- 2:15Speaker 3: down because he becomes an issue in terms of them,
- 2:18Speaker 3: like you said, moving him around and them trying to
- 2:21Speaker 3: get numbers issues in their favor in the run game two.
- 2:24Speaker 4: You guys have been able to put Josh and Treevon
- 2:26Speaker 4: next to each other in pass rushdowns a few times
- 2:28Speaker 4: in the last couple of weeks just working happen to
- 2:29Speaker 4: you guys next to each other like that kind of
- 2:31Speaker 4: market guys.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Yeah, they work pretty well together, like even when we're
- 2:34Speaker 3: running the pass rush games, and again sometimes that's just
- 2:38Speaker 3: trying to find the right matchup that we want in
- 2:40Speaker 3: the rush and I think that that's.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Been pretty productive for us also.
- 2:44Speaker 3: So they've done a great job with that, those two guys,
- 2:46Speaker 3: and that's something I think they enjoy doing as well,
- 2:47Speaker 3: you know, working together, working right next to each other.
- 2:49Speaker 1: I feel like we've asked you about Antonio Johnson quite
- 2:53Speaker 1: a bit lately.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Keep asking because every time you do, he keeps playing good.
- 2:56Speaker 1: So you like looking at your chest pieces, You've got
- 3:02Speaker 1: a guy with his size and speed ball skills that
- 3:04Speaker 1: you can put down in the box if you want.
- 3:06Speaker 1: You can move him around the defense, and he excel.
- 3:08Speaker 3: He's done so much for us because of that, you know,
- 3:11Speaker 3: because he has a very unique skill set, because he's
- 3:14Speaker 3: a big guy, big enough to play on the line
- 3:17Speaker 3: of scrimmage down on line scrimmage, like you said, has
- 3:20Speaker 3: really good coverage skills, so he can cover the skill
- 3:22Speaker 3: guys and does a good job on tight ends as well.
- 3:25Speaker 3: And he's got range when he plays in the post
- 3:27Speaker 3: or plays in the half, so his football intelligence is
- 3:31Speaker 3: really high.
- 3:32Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I think I've said.
- 3:34Speaker 3: In here before just how hard he's worked doing the
- 3:37Speaker 3: extra stuff, meeting with other guys on the team and coaches.
- 3:41Speaker 3: He's really he's improved so much, and he really gives us,
- 3:45Speaker 3: to your point, gives us a lot of options with
- 3:47Speaker 3: him in the game TV.
- 3:48Speaker 1: This week when you go against a team like the
- 3:50Speaker 1: Bills that has a couple of really good tight.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Ends, Yeah, he's important every week, but their tight ends,
- 3:56Speaker 3: they have a very good tight end room, as you know.
- 3:58Speaker 3: You know, I think Knox just had a tremendous has
- 4:01Speaker 3: had a tremendous career.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Uh Kincaid's an elite athlete.
- 4:04Speaker 3: You know, they're doing a great job in the run
- 4:06Speaker 3: game and in the past game, so it's a challenge.
- 4:08Speaker 3: And you know, Antonio's a guy throughout our season who's
- 4:12Speaker 3: helped us a whole lot in that way. Coaches said,
- 4:17Speaker 3: keep the main thing of anything at this time, you're
- 4:18Speaker 3: with their calls and listen you throner career and there
- 4:23Speaker 3: to keep that focus. I think, you know, a lot
- 4:30Speaker 3: of people had a huge influence on me, you know,
- 4:34Speaker 3: I'd say recently, you know, obviously working with Jeff Affley,
- 4:38Speaker 3: I thought we had a very similar belief system and style.
- 4:43Speaker 2: We see things very similarly.
- 4:45Speaker 3: And then Vic Fango is probably a guy who he
- 4:48Speaker 3: had a tremendous impact on me just in seeing certain
- 4:52Speaker 3: things in the game and how you call the game,
- 4:56Speaker 3: uh and even in terms of how you practice things.
- 5:00Speaker 3: So he's been somebody that was has been a great
- 5:04Speaker 3: resource for me, was a huge help to me, and
- 5:06Speaker 3: he definitely had a big effect on me as well.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Jeff's one of those guys and flow to you know,
- 5:10Speaker 3: Brian coach Flores had a huge impact on me.
- 5:13Speaker 2: And you probably see a lot of the things that
- 5:16Speaker 2: we do or.
- 5:18Speaker 3: They may show up and for some of those teams
- 5:20Speaker 3: as well.
- 5:23Speaker 2: When you watch that tap, is that.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Yeah, you're always looking at that stuff where there's if
- 5:29Speaker 3: there's any similarity, for sure. But you know, I've pretty
- 5:33Speaker 3: much went through all the games, and that's that's usually
- 5:36Speaker 3: what is my process, you know what I do. And
- 5:40Speaker 3: I think that our coaches have done a great job.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Our assistant coaches have done a great job kind of
- 5:45Speaker 3: raising points and looking at certain things that They've been
- 5:48Speaker 3: a huge resource as well.
- 5:49Speaker 2: But yeah, all the games, you know, usually you.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Do that five game breakdown, you know, five most recent,
- 5:54Speaker 3: and then we kind of just have gone through everything.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Liam mentioned yesterday that you made it hard on him
- 6:00Speaker 1: to get you here just because of how close you
- 6:02Speaker 1: were with some of your players up in Green Bay.
- 6:04Speaker 1: How important is that relationship with the guys in this
- 6:06Speaker 1: locker room for you as a coach.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Yeah, that was probably just more I struggle with that
- 6:12Speaker 3: just in general, you know, which is probably maybe not
- 6:14Speaker 3: a good thing in coaching. I don't know, but that
- 6:17Speaker 3: that was hard for me. I just made it hard
- 6:19Speaker 3: on me, to be honest. I was really close with
- 6:22Speaker 3: the guys in that room, but not just the guys
- 6:24Speaker 3: in the room, the team and the coaches. You know,
- 6:28Speaker 3: you spend so much time together in this business. You
- 6:31Speaker 3: spend more time with the people in the room than
- 6:34Speaker 3: you do with your family throughout the season.
- 6:36Speaker 2: So that is super important. That really is.
- 6:41Speaker 3: I mean, for you to be great at something, I
- 6:44Speaker 3: think you really gotta almost have an obsession with making
- 6:48Speaker 3: it right. And if you care about people, you're gonna
- 6:50Speaker 3: want to see them be successful. And we have a
- 6:53Speaker 3: great group of people here too, so I was like
- 6:55Speaker 3: super fortunate, you know, to leave, that was something I
- 6:58Speaker 3: struggle with making that decision. But being here, there's been
- 7:01Speaker 3: so many you know, everywhere you go you meet great
- 7:05Speaker 3: people in.
- 7:05Speaker 2: This game, you really do. But this place is special.
- 7:08Speaker 3: We got a great group of guys, and this place
- 7:11Speaker 3: has certainly made it easy on me, you know, our
- 7:13Speaker 3: players and coaches, because they're hard guys not to love
- 7:16Speaker 3: being around.
- 7:17Speaker 1: So helpful?
- 7:17Speaker 4: Can it be having a guy like Carter Brightley for
- 7:19Speaker 4: a Scout team quarterback?
- 7:21Speaker 2: He's awesome.
- 7:23Speaker 3: I'm glad you asked me that because I cut you
- 7:25Speaker 3: off for you and finish the question, I apologize, Yeah,
- 7:29Speaker 3: that he's been so good for us in terms of
- 7:33Speaker 3: giving us like the exact look, even the communication of things,
- 7:38Speaker 3: you know, at the line of scrimmage.
- 7:39Speaker 2: He takes it so seriously.
- 7:42Speaker 3: He's got great leadership qualities at the line of scrimmage,
- 7:44Speaker 3: you know, and just you can see him driving the
- 7:47Speaker 3: scout guys, you know, and he's a he's a great
- 7:51Speaker 3: he's great help to me because I'm kind of like
- 7:53Speaker 3: that in practice too. You know, we're want the thing
- 7:55Speaker 3: going on, everybody going flying around, and he really does
- 7:57Speaker 3: a great job of controlling the tempo of the practice
- 7:59Speaker 3: and giving us such an accurate look of what not
- 8:03Speaker 3: only the players are going to be, but the pre
- 8:05Speaker 3: snap process is going to be.
- 8:07Speaker 2: He's been awesome. He's a stud. He's been awesome. I appreciate.
- 8:11Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I assume that you had a little
- 8:16Speaker 4: bit to do with Sean coming over here with you
- 8:18Speaker 4: from Minnesota.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Was that kind of the way it evolved.
- 8:21Speaker 3: Did we ask for input about an offensive line coach
- 8:25Speaker 3: and didn't work.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Out that way?
- 8:27Speaker 5: Well, funny enough, the process actually happened at the same
- 8:30Speaker 5: time where Lean was in the search for an offensive
- 8:33Speaker 5: line coach while he was also in look for an
- 8:35Speaker 5: offensive coordinator, so he actually came down together, well not
- 8:38Speaker 5: together but we were down here at the same time
- 8:39Speaker 5: we were both interviewing, so it worked out really well
- 8:42Speaker 5: where I was able.
- 8:42Speaker 2: To talk about Seawan.
- 8:43Speaker 5: I'm sure he asked questions to Sean about me during
- 8:46Speaker 5: that interview process, and then Sean was brought on very
- 8:48Speaker 5: shortly after I joined the staff, so I was super
- 8:51Speaker 5: fired up to get to continue working with Sean. It
- 8:54Speaker 5: was great to have that experience in that background with him.
- 8:56Speaker 5: But he's done a phenomenal job working with the O line,
- 8:58Speaker 5: working with our staff. Bunch of different things that he's
- 9:01Speaker 5: managed and juggle. We've talked about the different guys at
- 9:03Speaker 5: different positions at the offensive line. That's not an easy
- 9:06Speaker 5: task to have guys playing left tackle, right tackle, blocking
- 9:09Speaker 5: run schemes that are gap scheme one week, wide zone
- 9:11Speaker 5: the next week, tight zone the week after that. Handling
- 9:14Speaker 5: all that stuff, he's done a great job along with
- 9:15Speaker 5: the rest of the offensive line. A lot of stands
- 9:20Speaker 5: out about the Bills defense. You're not going to be
- 9:21Speaker 5: number one in past defense without having really a great
- 9:25Speaker 5: group across the board that's highly coordinated, plays hard, great technique,
- 9:28Speaker 5: great fundamentals, and they've really mastered that scheme. They do
- 9:33Speaker 5: a great job matching route concept, passing different things off
- 9:36Speaker 5: making it challenging. Not only post snap, they make a
- 9:39Speaker 5: challenging pre snap. They present a bunch of different looks
- 9:41Speaker 5: for the quarterbacks and that causes different issues that show up,
- 9:44Speaker 5: whether it's the pass game or the run game. So
- 9:46Speaker 5: they present you a lot of issues. Then you get
- 9:48Speaker 5: into the front. They do a great job attacking blocks.
- 9:51Speaker 5: They do a great job getting off the ball. They've
- 9:53Speaker 5: got guys that they can rotate in and out, so
- 9:55Speaker 5: they're always fresh on the defensive line. And then you
- 9:57Speaker 5: see the athleticism the linebackers. They have great command of defense.
- 10:00Speaker 5: They're all sidelined to sideline guys. They all can cover backs,
- 10:03Speaker 5: they can cover tight ends. Then they're out there. They're
- 10:06Speaker 5: great in the zone. They make plays on the ball.
- 10:08Speaker 5: So it's a solid group across the board.
- 10:11Speaker 2: McDermott, major and nickel. For a lot of years.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Are they playing more bass recently, Cardi or guys.
- 10:17Speaker 5: They've certainly evolved in base this year and this just
- 10:21Speaker 5: like anybody on offense, on defense, we've evolved as well.
- 10:24Speaker 5: Throughout the season. They continue to evolve. So they start
- 10:27Speaker 5: to play some bass, they play some nickel. They're able
- 10:29Speaker 5: to play both, and they've got the guys to play both.
- 10:32Speaker 5: They really have more than enough guys to play both
- 10:33Speaker 5: because they have more than three. They got five, five
- 10:36Speaker 5: or more quality linebackers, so they play some bass. It's
- 10:39Speaker 5: one of the challenges that they present is they could
- 10:41Speaker 5: be in nickel versus certain personnels. They could be in
- 10:43Speaker 5: base versus certain personals, So we have to have a
- 10:45Speaker 5: plan for both.
- 10:46Speaker 1: A couple of offensive line guys on the injury report,
- 10:48Speaker 1: I mean, if you look up and both of them
- 10:50Speaker 1: can't go, how do you decide where you deployed Walker Little,
- 10:53Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a guy who's been playing at guard,
- 10:55Speaker 1: but he historically a tackle.
- 10:58Speaker 5: Yeah, the luxury is that he can play both. Chuma
- 11:02Speaker 5: has played both, Cole's played all over the place. These
- 11:05Speaker 5: guys have gotten these reps starting at all these different positions.
- 11:08Speaker 5: So it's unfortunate that we've had to be in those
- 11:10Speaker 5: situations and get those guys certain spots. I would love
- 11:12Speaker 5: to be in here and say we had the same
- 11:14Speaker 5: five offensive lines start every single game at the same
- 11:16Speaker 5: spot all year, but that's not the case, and it's
- 11:18Speaker 5: probably never going.
- 11:19Speaker 2: To be the case.
- 11:20Speaker 5: So the luxury of that is or the benefit of
- 11:22Speaker 5: that is now guys have reps on both sides. Walker's
- 11:25Speaker 5: comfortable playing with Anton. He's played all year with ESRs,
- 11:28Speaker 5: so he's played on both sides. He's played inside and outside,
- 11:30Speaker 5: and that's really really a really valuable trait for us
- 11:33Speaker 5: to have and an asset to the offensive line of
- 11:35Speaker 5: the offense as a whole.
- 11:37Speaker 2: I've been asking you see the reponstrate. It's just in
- 11:40Speaker 2: terms of rob running, understanding the coverage is.
- 11:44Speaker 5: Yeah, he's improved in all areas the game throughout the
- 11:46Speaker 5: course of the year. The one thing I wish maybe
- 11:48Speaker 5: we could have done a better job was to showcasing
- 11:50Speaker 5: some of that talent earlier in the year. I think
- 11:53Speaker 5: he's been talented even from the offseason, from the time
- 11:55Speaker 5: we got here. Now, it takes time for anybody to
- 11:58Speaker 5: learn the system and continue to understand and the timing
- 12:00Speaker 5: of routes, the space and the routes where guys are
- 12:02Speaker 5: going to be at certain times, and kind of the
- 12:03Speaker 5: little nuances of when a defense plays it this way,
- 12:06Speaker 5: I adjust the route slightly at a higher angle, or
- 12:09Speaker 5: I dive and go inside of a defender. And he's
- 12:11Speaker 5: done a great job continuing to mass through those nuances,
- 12:14Speaker 5: but he's had a lot of ability in the past
- 12:16Speaker 5: game in a one on one matchup zone or man.
- 12:19Speaker 5: Really all year, I think we've just continued to try
- 12:21Speaker 5: to build and find our stride at deploying improperly well.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, is he a guy you've seen kind of
- 12:26Speaker 1: take those same steps.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Over the course of the season.
- 12:28Speaker 5: Absolutely. Absolutely, He's another guy a lot of physical talent,
- 12:31Speaker 5: and he's had some injuries earlier in the year, banged
- 12:33Speaker 5: up here there, and he's fought through and played through
- 12:35Speaker 5: that stuff. So I'm grateful for his commitment to sticking
- 12:39Speaker 5: with us as we continue to try to find what
- 12:42Speaker 5: he does best, what's our best way to use him.
- 12:44Speaker 5: He's run a really wide route s Trean lined up
- 12:46Speaker 5: at a bunch of different spots. He's played different positions,
- 12:48Speaker 5: been asked to do multiple things, and a lot of
- 12:50Speaker 5: those things are things that he hasn't done in the past.
- 12:52Speaker 5: So it's only natural that with time, as he continues
- 12:55Speaker 5: to get reps, continues to get practiced at those things,
- 12:57Speaker 5: he gets more comfortable and you see him playing faster,
- 13:00Speaker 5: going off the ball, attacking the ball in the air,
- 13:02Speaker 5: and then making plays after the catch. I think that's
- 13:04Speaker 5: just a product of hopefully our work continue to try
- 13:06Speaker 5: to improve things, but really his work on the practice field,
- 13:09Speaker 5: continue to improve and be comfortable.
- 13:10Speaker 4: I did receiver and tight end and call the pass
- 13:12Speaker 4: last week. I mean, just what kind of benefit is
- 13:14Speaker 4: that when you have a roster where you know, at
- 13:16Speaker 4: some point everybody.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Kind of do something.
- 13:18Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tremendous luxury. It's the same situation as
- 13:21Speaker 5: the offensive line in a sense, having that versatility of
- 13:24Speaker 5: guys who can go in there and play and make plays.
- 13:27Speaker 5: Dealli makes an awesome play on the slant at the
- 13:29Speaker 5: end of the game. A contested catch. Guys are making
- 13:31Speaker 5: catches outside the numbers down the field shallows catching and runs.
- 13:35Speaker 5: So having a wide receiver room that can play different
- 13:38Speaker 5: positions and you can mix and match guys and line
- 13:40Speaker 5: up those guys at different spots, and then not only that,
- 13:42Speaker 5: play with different groups of guys and complement their release
- 13:45Speaker 5: patterns or complement their route spacing is a huge advantage
- 13:49Speaker 5: for us. It's also a great testament that to their
- 13:52Speaker 5: preparation their work ethic throughout the course of the week,
- 13:55Speaker 5: because there are a lot of times guys go into
- 13:57Speaker 5: a week and they don't know necessarily, I'm going to
- 13:59Speaker 5: get forty snaps? So am I going to get two snaps?
- 14:01Speaker 2: And I get fifteen?
- 14:02Speaker 5: What's gonna happen? But you're always a play away, And
- 14:04Speaker 5: that's a true test of a player's character, their preparation,
- 14:08Speaker 5: their work ethic when they're not expecting to play. They're
- 14:11Speaker 5: not going in there anticipating to play a certain letter position.
- 14:14Speaker 5: They're not going to be the excitent, not gonna be
- 14:15Speaker 5: the Z this week. But they've done the extra work
- 14:17Speaker 5: just in case. There's no guarantee of a reward, but
- 14:20Speaker 5: they stick to the process anyway. So that's the type
- 14:22Speaker 5: of stuff that really lights me up that I love
- 14:24Speaker 5: to see what from those guys, and I'm glad they're
- 14:26Speaker 5: able to get a catch when they do that.
- 14:28Speaker 4: Going back for a training camp more so than going
- 14:30Speaker 4: against coach camps defense every day, Just how's that been
- 14:34Speaker 4: and how's that going to influence you and help you
- 14:35Speaker 4: improve as coaches?
- 14:36Speaker 5: That's a great question. I'm beyond fortunate to have. We're
- 14:40Speaker 5: all beyond fortunate to have camp here. Liam's done a
- 14:43Speaker 5: phenomenal job of building not just an offensive unit and
- 14:46Speaker 5: a defensive unit, especially since unit. He's really built a team,
- 14:50Speaker 5: and he's built a culture of all of a sudden
- 14:52Speaker 5: here working together and all of us working towards the
- 14:54Speaker 5: same goal. We try to go out there and play
- 14:56Speaker 5: complimentary football every week. A lot of times they may
- 14:58Speaker 5: pull their weight more than we do. Sometimes we're giving
- 15:00Speaker 5: us the ball in great situations, but we try our
- 15:02Speaker 5: best to compliment that. When you talk about the practice field,
- 15:05Speaker 5: I love the opportunity to go against such a variety
- 15:08Speaker 5: of schemes and such a challenge each week. Camp's not
- 15:11Speaker 5: going to make it easy on us, and I wouldn't
- 15:12Speaker 5: want it either way. I want somebody who's going to
- 15:14Speaker 5: go out there and test your rules, who's going to
- 15:16Speaker 5: try to force issues, force challenges, because it only improves us.
- 15:19Speaker 5: Iron sharpening Iron is kind of one of those things
- 15:21Speaker 5: that we get to see every day out there, not
- 15:24Speaker 5: only from a schematic standpoint, from what camp challenges, but
- 15:27Speaker 5: also from a cultural and an effort and a strained standpoint.
- 15:29Speaker 5: He has those guys playing so hard that it helps
- 15:32Speaker 5: raise the stand That's something that Liam's kind of created
- 15:34Speaker 5: through the entire culture here, not just out there on
- 15:37Speaker 5: the Practiceld're talking about the weight room everybody's bought in,
- 15:39Speaker 5: but the defense and the level they've played out in
- 15:41Speaker 5: the effort that they've played at only elevates the offense.