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- 0:00Speaker 1: You feel like he is to take hard even more
- 0:03Speaker 1: of the literally maybe you know.
- 0:05Speaker 2: More stats on people, some more such office. Yeah, I
- 0:07Speaker 2: think we have a plan place for his progression. You know,
- 0:11Speaker 2: he's done pretty well to.
- 0:12Speaker 3: This point, and I like the way we've handled that.
- 0:15Speaker 3: You know, really that's coach Cohen. He's done a great job,
- 0:18Speaker 3: like I said, through the summer, just kind of getting
- 0:20Speaker 3: them ramped up and getting acclimated and everything. So I
- 0:24Speaker 3: think he's trending the right way. And obviously the more
- 0:27Speaker 3: he plays, the better and better he's gonna be with
- 0:29Speaker 3: the end.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Game communication life with him.
- 0:31Speaker 4: When you're talking to your guys while he's with the
- 0:33Speaker 4: offensive guys, how do you find time to talk to
- 0:37Speaker 4: him about the next drive?
- 0:39Speaker 5: He's gotta be on, you know, he's gotta be I
- 0:42Speaker 5: like red alert every second in a game, I guess,
- 0:44Speaker 5: just because he's getting information from the offense, getting informations
- 0:47Speaker 5: from us, and he does a very good job in
- 0:50Speaker 5: between series even when we're making corrections and there on offense.
- 0:54Speaker 3: We have some coaches who get them any of our
- 0:55Speaker 3: changes during the game day. So he's done a great
- 0:58Speaker 3: job with that. He's really locked in the game.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Him and I thought he did a good job on Sunday,
- 1:02Speaker 2: So I did.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Avoided the blitzer.
- 1:06Speaker 3: All the way back through when you watch him in college.
- 1:07Speaker 3: I remember evaluating him in college. He's a big body,
- 1:12Speaker 3: you know in general, but he really is blessed with
- 1:16Speaker 3: a skill set to pass rush and he's physical.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Uh when he does blitz, you know what I mean.
- 1:21Speaker 3: I think he takes pride in that, takes it personally
- 1:24Speaker 3: when he comes down hill and blitze, and I think
- 1:26Speaker 3: he's done a pretty good job with that to this
- 1:28Speaker 3: point in the season.
- 1:30Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, he works at it.
- 1:31Speaker 2: He works at it hard.
- 1:32Speaker 3: You know, he puts extra effort into that, watching tape
- 1:35Speaker 3: and doing extra stuff. He will coach Luca Boo after
- 1:37Speaker 3: the practice. You know, you could see that every day.
- 1:39Speaker 3: So he spent time and done a good job that way.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Idea of him kind of wire all at the last
- 1:46Speaker 1: scram and showing blitz that back out or they rush.
- 1:49Speaker 4: What kind of discipline does it take to not show
- 1:51Speaker 4: your hand truly?
- 1:53Speaker 3: Yeah, they've done a good job. With all the stuff
- 1:56Speaker 3: we has him to do. We kind of have some
- 1:58Speaker 3: multiplicity of that stuff, and you know, we're fortunate we've
- 2:02Speaker 3: got some guys that can rush the passer and do
- 2:04Speaker 3: a good job and coverage, and I think overall we
- 2:08Speaker 3: try to keep you know, an eye on that how
- 2:11Speaker 3: we're doing with all that stuff and the different packages.
- 2:14Speaker 2: And I think they've all done a pretty good job.
- 2:16Speaker 3: But I think it does take a sense of discipline
- 2:18Speaker 3: and it's uh a level of football intelligence, if you will,
- 2:22Speaker 3: and they all have that.
- 2:24Speaker 1: What are you saying for Antonio just to be confident?
- 2:26Speaker 3: Since I mean, yeah, I thought he really had a
- 2:30Speaker 3: good spring and a good summer. He's a big guy
- 2:35Speaker 3: that can run, can cover ground. Antonio has ball skills
- 2:39Speaker 3: and they'll hit you. You know, he's tough, So to me,
- 2:42Speaker 3: that's always the most important thing. You know, do you
- 2:44Speaker 3: have guys that love football, you know, love to play
- 2:46Speaker 3: good teammates and it tough And he's a tough kid.
- 2:50Speaker 3: So that's important to me. And I've seen that out
- 2:53Speaker 3: of him, so excited for him. Without Savage, does it
- 2:56Speaker 3: change I'm sorry, without Savage, does it change anything you
- 3:00Speaker 3: guys do on defense?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Is because the type of player he was.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Or they've all kind of just been in those roles
- 3:07Speaker 3: throughout the whole summer. I would say, you know, what
- 3:08Speaker 3: I mean, it kind of had a little bit of
- 3:10Speaker 3: musical chairs, and everybody has played different spots. And I
- 3:14Speaker 3: think if you watch us, what we're always trying to
- 3:16Speaker 3: get is, you know, have some multiplicity to everybody's game
- 3:21Speaker 3: and hopefully guys can do different jobs and that gives
- 3:23Speaker 3: you a little bit more leeway in terms of who
- 3:27Speaker 3: you play with.
- 3:27Speaker 2: And so.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's you know, when I was in Miami,
- 3:34Speaker 3: we practiced him his rookie year, So even watching him
- 3:37Speaker 3: in practice back then, I was super impressed with him.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Great arm, great athlete, and I think he's the kids,
- 3:43Speaker 3: really a good leader, uh smart football player too, So
- 3:48Speaker 3: I've been impressed with him throughout his career. We played
- 3:51Speaker 3: them when I was in Green Bay last year too,
- 3:54Speaker 3: So yeah, I think he's a really good football player.
- 3:57Speaker 3: And I think they have some tough dudes on the offense,
- 3:59Speaker 3: some physical guys, and some guys I've coached against in
- 4:01Speaker 3: the past. You know that I have respect for just
- 4:03Speaker 3: from coaching against.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Is there a little bit of an against new offensive scheme.
- 4:07Speaker 2: They've only had two games must pre seasons.
- 4:11Speaker 3: Yeah, probably similar to us where you know what I mean,
- 4:13Speaker 3: it's two games ago on us two games of them,
- 4:16Speaker 3: and you just try and get the information you know,
- 4:19Speaker 3: as it's coming. They play Monday night and try and
- 4:22Speaker 3: do the best job you can figuring out what they're
- 4:24Speaker 3: doing in all the different situations. So we're probably in
- 4:26Speaker 3: similar situations, you know, offensively and defensively, the both of us.
- 4:30Speaker 6: You talk so much about getting off blocks point of attack.
- 4:34Speaker 6: Do you like where your guys are right now? Is
- 4:36Speaker 6: there more to go on that front?
- 4:38Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always more to go. I'm never gonna say
- 4:43Speaker 3: it's not, so there's definitely a lot to improve on.
- 4:46Speaker 2: But I felt that.
- 4:46Speaker 3: There was improvement in that area from week one, even
- 4:50Speaker 3: from week one to week two.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I thought d.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Ham really did a good job in the game. I
- 4:56Speaker 3: thought Eric did a really good job in the game
- 5:00Speaker 3: in terms of a run game and not staying blocked.
- 5:01Speaker 3: And then trey Von and Josh both really did a
- 5:05Speaker 3: really a great job. And Uh, Trey I thought, played
- 5:08Speaker 3: overall a really really good game. And we're trending, uh,
- 5:12Speaker 3: the way we want to play. We're trending in the
- 5:13Speaker 3: right direction in terms of play style. You know, it's
- 5:15Speaker 3: got to be every snap, every day, every practice, so
- 5:18Speaker 3: you know, you're never not working on that and you
- 5:20Speaker 3: never have it.
- 5:21Speaker 2: Games got away humbling, so you gotta keep working at it. Yeah.
- 5:29Speaker 3: So when I was in Miami, he was in Cleveland
- 5:33Speaker 3: and we had played them and saying twenty twenty two.
- 5:35Speaker 2: I remember getting ready for that game. I think he's
- 5:38Speaker 2: a great back.
- 5:39Speaker 3: He's a downhill runner, he's physical, tough kid, uh, tough guy,
- 5:43Speaker 3: should say, and he just really does a great job
- 5:46Speaker 3: of running in between the tackles and you know it
- 5:49Speaker 3: has the speed and ability to get out of there
- 5:51Speaker 3: outside the tackle box. So he is a great running back.
- 5:55Speaker 3: And he has been in this league for quite a while.
- 5:56Speaker 3: So yeah, I've seen a lot of good things out
- 5:58Speaker 3: of him over the years.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Smith got some reps.
- 6:01Speaker 5: Yeah last week, just just how did you see him?
- 6:04Speaker 3: I thought he did a good job overall, you know,
- 6:06Speaker 3: with the reps that was in, he played detailed.
- 6:09Speaker 2: I thought he played really hard.
- 6:12Speaker 3: And again, like I said last week, you know, every
- 6:13Speaker 3: game is different, but uh, for what we asked him
- 6:16Speaker 3: to do in the game, I thought Mason did a
- 6:17Speaker 3: good job overall.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Turn last game, the game before.
- 6:22Speaker 6: Yeah, that's how encouraging is that you kind.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Of see those turn I guess you always said.
- 6:26Speaker 3: They come to bunches. Yeah, they they I think that's
- 6:29Speaker 3: that's true, but like anything else, you gotta work at that.
- 6:33Speaker 2: That is encouraging.
- 6:34Speaker 3: Guys are playing with vision on the ball. We gotta
- 6:37Speaker 3: continue to do that, got to attack the football. But
- 6:39Speaker 3: if we don't do that in practice and we don't
- 6:41Speaker 3: drill that as position coaches and and myself, uh, the
- 6:44Speaker 3: position I'm in like it, it it ain't gonna continue
- 6:48Speaker 3: to happen. So it's doing the work every day. And
- 6:51Speaker 3: our guys I think have been seeing results because they're
- 6:54Speaker 3: doing the work every day. So I'm I'm pleased with
- 6:56Speaker 3: that at this point, but still work to do there
- 6:58Speaker 3: too as well.
- 7:00Speaker 6: Cert practice yesterday, we're getting him back and just kind
- 7:02Speaker 6: of give your guy's death in rotation.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Buster had a great spring for us and obviously got
- 7:08Speaker 3: hurt early in the summer, so we were excited about
- 7:10Speaker 3: him coming into the summer. And anytime you get a
- 7:14Speaker 3: really good player back, it's a shot in the arm
- 7:16Speaker 3: for the defense.
- 7:17Speaker 2: So I think Buster is a really good player.
- 7:19Speaker 3: He's a detailed guy, physical, I think he's got good
- 7:23Speaker 3: line of scrimmage skills, So I think it will help us.
- 7:26Speaker 3: And like I said, anytime you get somebody like that back,
- 7:28Speaker 3: you're excited about it.
- 7:31Speaker 6: Obviously, Travis got more stats on defense last week, just
- 7:34Speaker 6: in terms.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Of where you think he is at. How confident are
- 7:36Speaker 1: you that you can take hard even.
- 7:37Speaker 2: More of a load, and like, even on those.
- 7:39Speaker 6: Side of the ball, I probably can't speak for the
- 7:41Speaker 6: defensive side of the ball, but the offensive progression has
- 7:44Speaker 6: been great. We're certainly trying to use him in controlled
- 7:46Speaker 6: settings in certain certain situations that apply for his skill set,
- 7:50Speaker 6: but he's embraced that role and continue to grow up
- 7:52Speaker 6: kind of week the week.
- 7:53Speaker 1: What's the challenge from series and series just being able
- 7:55Speaker 1: to communicate with him on the sideline. You know, if
- 7:58Speaker 1: he's on defense, you can't give him the adjustments on offense,
- 8:02Speaker 1: so when when you guys have time to do that.
- 8:04Speaker 6: That's part of the reason why we're trying to control
- 8:07Speaker 6: when he's out there and where he's out there or
- 8:09Speaker 6: the certain things he's doing, so that way he doesn't
- 8:12Speaker 6: have to play every single snap on defense or every
- 8:14Speaker 6: single snap on offense. So even if he's on offense
- 8:17Speaker 6: and playing the entire series on defense, he's not in
- 8:19Speaker 6: every single play and you can't make those adjustments. So
- 8:21Speaker 6: you find those times in the plays that he's not
- 8:23Speaker 6: in the special teams times to try to prioritize that communication.
- 8:27Speaker 1: The legal shift pilties last week, how do you clean
- 8:29Speaker 1: that up?
- 8:30Speaker 6: Starts in practice, starts in the way we're coaching it.
- 8:32Speaker 6: We got to do a better job of emphasizing those
- 8:35Speaker 6: details and putting guys in position to go out there
- 8:37Speaker 6: and play fast and play clean. Certainly, as coaches and players,
- 8:40Speaker 6: we all know that that's unacceptable. So it's always a
- 8:43Speaker 6: point of emphasis and should always be a point of emphasis.
- 8:45Speaker 6: But certainly going into this week, there's extra intention around
- 8:49Speaker 6: making sure those don't happen again.
- 8:50Speaker 4: Something that is still early going to learn in the offense,
- 8:53Speaker 4: learning the playbook rest of the season and kind of
- 8:55Speaker 4: five teams stuff.
- 8:56Speaker 5: Or is that just.
- 8:57Speaker 6: Something that I certainly think that the course of the
- 9:00Speaker 6: season that will improve just by the nature of getting
- 9:03Speaker 6: more reps and more practice with our operation different formations,
- 9:06Speaker 6: different shifts, different motions, different ways of lining up and
- 9:09Speaker 6: executing certain plays.
- 9:11Speaker 2: So with reps that will prove.
- 9:13Speaker 6: But that doesn't necessarily mean that those are mistakes we
- 9:16Speaker 6: should have. You know, we all know that we got
- 9:18Speaker 6: to do a better job in those what makes scares.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Thing lead such a good corner.
- 9:24Speaker 6: There are a lot of things that he does a
- 9:25Speaker 6: great job of, whether it's playing man or zone. He's
- 9:28Speaker 6: got an ability to track the football, challenge guys at
- 9:31Speaker 6: the line of scrimmage off with vision without vision, match routes,
- 9:35Speaker 6: like I said, recovering to track the ball, make plays
- 9:38Speaker 6: on the ball, whether it's him going up and getting
- 9:40Speaker 6: the ball or breaking up passes, find in it. So
- 9:42Speaker 6: it does a lot of things really well, and that's
- 9:43Speaker 6: why you see him able to play and a lot
- 9:45Speaker 6: of different coverages and make plays.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Yes, course, you guys quit a really good at last week.
- 9:50Speaker 2: We're kind of challenging it with the team like.
- 9:51Speaker 6: Easton to those guys, certainly a challenge in the sense
- 9:56Speaker 6: that you know there's not one guy that you're always
- 9:58Speaker 6: going to be throwing at. But it's not because it
- 10:00Speaker 6: allows you to kind of distribute the ball across your
- 10:03Speaker 6: receiver's tight ends backs, because you're not focused on trying
- 10:06Speaker 6: to force things to one player as opposed to another.
- 10:09Speaker 6: So there are challenges to it, but they're positives to
- 10:11Speaker 6: it as well.
- 10:13Speaker 2: You gave a hoop for.
- 10:13Speaker 4: Some big easy in Cincinnati. Liam Cullen there's a three
- 10:17Speaker 4: step screen and two strips screen, and a sett and go.
- 10:20Speaker 4: Is the sett and go exactly what it sounds like.
- 10:22Speaker 4: It just happens quicker than the other two. How does
- 10:25Speaker 4: that work? Essentially?
- 10:26Speaker 6: Yes, setting and going just trying to get that thing
- 10:29Speaker 6: ball out or ball to wherever we're going. With those
- 10:31Speaker 6: type of set and go screens, the different timing of
- 10:34Speaker 6: those screens complement kind of each other and different run
- 10:37Speaker 6: plays or pass plays. So changing up that timing helps
- 10:40Speaker 6: not only get the ball in space, but neutralize the
- 10:43Speaker 6: rush a little bit with those guys, especially a team
- 10:45Speaker 6: like Houston or whoever you're playing, and you got those
- 10:47Speaker 6: guys flying off the ball.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Are those plays you can only really hone in on
- 10:52Speaker 1: when you're any game It pads because it's lucky you
- 10:56Speaker 1: get it in a walk.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Through as well.
- 10:58Speaker 6: It's definitely difficult in the walk through really because of
- 11:00Speaker 6: the timing. It's a great point about that, since the
- 11:03Speaker 6: defense and certain players on the defense might be going
- 11:06Speaker 6: a little bit faster than another player. For example, if
- 11:09Speaker 6: you say we're practicing in a walk through or walking
- 11:11Speaker 6: through at a fifty percent tempo, one guy's fifty percent
- 11:13Speaker 6: might be closer to seventy percent. One guys might be
- 11:16Speaker 6: closer to forty percent. So the challenge in walkthrough is
- 11:20Speaker 6: real for the offensive line, the blockers, anybody in those
- 11:22Speaker 6: screens to find the timing of that. When you get
- 11:25Speaker 6: out in the live settings, it's certainly much easier to
- 11:27Speaker 6: coach off of those and improve those because you get
- 11:29Speaker 6: a real feel for the spacing and the reactions of
- 11:32Speaker 6: the defense. Finn Bryant has a game like he had.
- 11:35Speaker 2: What do you guys do as offensive coaches to.
- 11:37Speaker 4: Sort of keep him involved, keep him motivated?
- 11:41Speaker 6: I think the way you approach the game plan is
- 11:45Speaker 6: always kind of evolving depending on a week to week
- 11:47Speaker 6: basis on who we're playing, what we do well, how
- 11:50Speaker 6: we can get guys in the best positions to do
- 11:53Speaker 6: what they do best. So you kind of go back
- 11:56Speaker 6: to the game and reassess what do we do well,
- 11:58Speaker 6: what do we not do well, and how can we
- 11:59Speaker 6: improve on that? And certainly he's a guy who we
- 12:01Speaker 6: want to feature and try to give opportunities to make
- 12:03Speaker 6: plays because he does a great job when the ball's
- 12:05Speaker 6: in his hand.
- 12:07Speaker 1: I got my look back in practice Friday that limited today.
- 12:10Speaker 2: What's the ramp up look like for him? This week.
- 12:13Speaker 6: Well, I'll let Liam kind of touch on some of
- 12:15Speaker 6: those injury things, but it's been great to have him
- 12:17Speaker 6: back there as we continue to progress, great to see
- 12:19Speaker 6: him out there running, moving around. We'll see how he feels.
- 12:22Speaker 6: And he's been doing a great job working at that
- 12:24Speaker 6: rehab process and.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Following somebody you guys, challenges the staff this offseason just
- 12:29Speaker 4: in consistency.
- 12:30Speaker 2: How do you see him kind of respond in these
- 12:31Speaker 2: first two weeks.
- 12:32Speaker 6: I think he's an improvement from the spring or when
- 12:35Speaker 6: we first started evening training camp. Is evident on tape
- 12:38Speaker 6: with some of the techniques, some of the finish, some
- 12:41Speaker 6: of that strain that you see pass protection, run game.
- 12:44Speaker 6: He does a great job with a lot of that stuff.
- 12:46Speaker 6: Love to see it. I mean it pops out on
- 12:48Speaker 6: tape when you see him finishing guys, finishing downfield, coming
- 12:51Speaker 6: off the ball in the run game, with his great
- 12:52Speaker 6: sets striking guys in the pass protection game. So it's
- 12:55Speaker 6: been exciting to see his progression and as we continue
- 12:58Speaker 6: to work throughout the season, hopefully we can continue to
- 12:59Speaker 6: build on that. A physic without which awesome past blocking
- 13:04Speaker 6: to have out there because in the sense that he
- 13:06Speaker 6: will go out there and strike and is a physical
- 13:09Speaker 6: guy who's not afraid of contact by any stretching imagination,
- 13:11Speaker 6: obviously probably probably the opposite of afraid of contact. He
- 13:14Speaker 6: almost embraces it. For a guy that size to be
- 13:17Speaker 6: that physical and that aggressive is is awesome to see
- 13:24Speaker 6: for anybody contact the way he does. But I know
- 13:28Speaker 6: it's a lot of fun for me to watch and
- 13:29Speaker 6: the rest of the guys to see it.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Howl is that for.
- 13:32Speaker 4: You didn't have a guy that's like that with that
- 13:35Speaker 4: sort of skill set to work with.
- 13:37Speaker 6: What he's done in that protection game is exciting. But
- 13:39Speaker 6: what he's done in the run game too, and the
- 13:41Speaker 6: past game catch and passes really everything. The way he's
- 13:43Speaker 6: embraced the offense, learning all of his different roles as
- 13:47Speaker 6: a back who might not be the guy in first
- 13:48Speaker 6: and second down again, every carry has been a ton
- 13:51Speaker 6: of fun. He comes to work with a smile on
- 13:52Speaker 6: his face, a ton of energy. I wouldn't say he
- 13:55Speaker 6: attacks his studying the same way because it's not quite
- 13:58Speaker 6: as physical as he does his pass protection, but he
- 14:00Speaker 6: has the same enthusiasm for it, which is awesome.
- 14:03Speaker 4: Parker had a lot of yak on his blog catch
- 14:05Speaker 4: last week. How pressman sort of his shiftingess when he
- 14:08Speaker 4: does get into space like that.
- 14:11Speaker 6: Yeah, his shiftiness poses a challenge for defenders, whether it's safeties, corners,
- 14:15Speaker 6: linebackers matched up against them, they're The great thing that
- 14:18Speaker 6: he's done is go up and be able to track
- 14:19Speaker 6: the ball and get the ball. We talked about it
- 14:21Speaker 6: a little bit in training camp. Him making plays when
- 14:24Speaker 6: the ball is thrown his way, making acrobatic catches, going
- 14:26Speaker 6: up there and competing for the ball when it's in
- 14:27Speaker 6: the air, but when the ball's in his hand, getting vertical,
- 14:30Speaker 6: trying to make plays run after the catch is just
- 14:32Speaker 6: another facet to his game and what makes him one
- 14:35Speaker 6: of our guys we want to get the ball to.
- 14:37Speaker 1: He's like Bacheal, just the boys negative ruggs. He's always
- 14:40Speaker 1: getting some kind of positive yardage.
- 14:41Speaker 2: How valuable is that the offense.
- 14:43Speaker 6: You're saying ahead of change, Absolutely usually valuable. I don't
- 14:46Speaker 6: have the percentages off the top of my head, but
- 14:47Speaker 6: when you look at an offense that's second and eight
- 14:50Speaker 6: versus second and twelve, your chances of conversion are drastically
- 14:53Speaker 6: different to get a first down there. So his ability
- 14:56Speaker 6: to keep those chains moving or keep positive runs on
- 15:00Speaker 6: the table for us has been great. And then of
- 15:02Speaker 6: course you see the speed to hit the big one
- 15:03Speaker 6: when he has that opportunity. M.