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- 0:00Speaker 1: You doing good? Good?
- 0:03Speaker 2: All right, that's good?
- 0:05Speaker 3: Uh? Can you Let's grab some of injuries first real quickly?
- 0:08Speaker 3: On one like.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Name one, Devin. Yeah, it was his his knee.
- 0:15Speaker 3: You know, he had a like a just a contusion
- 0:19Speaker 3: the week before.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's kind of sore. During the week, hopeful that he
- 0:22Speaker 1: would make it.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Just went to warm up, you know, prior to the
- 0:26Speaker 3: game and just felt like he couldn't give a hundred percent.
- 0:29Speaker 1: So we put him, put him.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Down, Savage and Evan back this week.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'm hoping Savage.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Uh, he he went, yes, last week, pushed it pretty hard.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Didn't feel like he could really open up, you know.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Last week didn't set not a setback, nothing like that.
- 0:45Speaker 3: We just got to get him to burst.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Evan.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Evan I think is gonna be day to day right now.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Felt good today. We'll see where he's that here in
- 0:54Speaker 3: a couple of days.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Josh protocol, Josh protocol.
- 1:00Speaker 3: E TN shoulder, He'll be fine. I'm trying to think,
- 1:05Speaker 3: is there another one? Yeah, Anton's ankle, he'll be fine.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody else, everybody else should be good.
- 1:19Speaker 2: How well did your tackles play yesterday?
- 1:25Speaker 3: I thought, okay, I'll say this as an offensive line.
- 1:27Speaker 3: I thought it was their best game. I thought the
- 1:30Speaker 3: tackles played played much better than the week before. They
- 1:35Speaker 3: were physical, uh one of the things that you know,
- 1:39Speaker 3: with that wide nine scheme, they moved their ends a
- 1:43Speaker 3: little bit more and so as the game, as the
- 1:46Speaker 3: game progressed, I thought they and us made made the
- 1:51Speaker 3: necessary adjudge.
- 1:52Speaker 1: They started, you know, spiking and pinching the dns.
- 1:54Speaker 3: They were upfield rushers on you know, passing situations things that,
- 1:57Speaker 3: so we we adjusted both ways.
- 1:59Speaker 1: I thought both tackles played good.
- 2:01Speaker 3: In your first year here, we talked about closing games
- 2:03Speaker 3: and the team needs to learn how to close.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Why does it.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Feel like that kind of popped up after they learned
- 2:08Speaker 3: how to do it and now you're back to Yeah,
- 2:11Speaker 3: that's a great question, because you know the things I
- 2:15Speaker 3: talk about to them. You know, we talk about finish
- 2:18Speaker 3: a lot, especially in sports, right, you have to finish
- 2:21Speaker 3: and you got to finish the play, you got to
- 2:23Speaker 3: finish the series, the quarter, the half, the game ultimately,
- 2:27Speaker 3: and really yesterday that was our you know, that was
- 2:31Speaker 3: our our breakdown was the end of the game. Offensively,
- 2:35Speaker 3: we didn't stay on the field convert up you know,
- 2:37Speaker 3: on third down to stay on the field, and then
- 2:39Speaker 3: defensively we couldn't.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Get off the field.
- 2:40Speaker 3: It just as great as the defense played in the
- 2:42Speaker 3: second half, you know, I think it was five drives,
- 2:45Speaker 3: five punts, it was that one drive where we couldn't
- 2:48Speaker 3: get off the field and make enough plays there. So
- 2:50Speaker 3: those are things, again, that you know, have kept us
- 2:55Speaker 3: from winning these games.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Even with all the attrition that you've had on defense.
- 3:00Speaker 1: It's it seems like, at least in two or three
- 3:04Speaker 1: of the games, is.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Something you could have overcome, as you allude to, by
- 3:07Speaker 2: just staying on the I mean you're eleven or forty
- 3:09Speaker 2: four on third down.
- 3:10Speaker 3: I mean, that's it's just not good enough.
- 3:11Speaker 1: You know, we know that.
- 3:13Speaker 3: You know that's not that's not good enough, and that's
- 3:15Speaker 3: something we're gonna we're gonna take a look at. We
- 3:18Speaker 3: I felt like early in the game though, we were
- 3:20Speaker 3: better third down manageable situation.
- 3:24Speaker 1: You know, we missed the big one early.
- 3:25Speaker 3: You know, we had we had Christian behind the defense,
- 3:27Speaker 3: and we just overthrew it. I mean, that's those are
- 3:29Speaker 3: huge plays. We came back later, we made the connection
- 3:32Speaker 3: you know with Christian on third down. BT had a
- 3:36Speaker 3: huge third down reception.
- 3:37Speaker 1: I think I was third and ten.
- 3:39Speaker 3: You know, but you know, things that we've got to
- 3:43Speaker 3: be better there and protection really for the for the
- 3:55Speaker 3: I mean, nine percent of the game was really good.
- 3:58Speaker 3: I thought I thought Trevor you know, was clean, you know,
- 4:01Speaker 3: most of the game up until there at the end
- 4:03Speaker 3: when they were you know, doing some exotic pressures. But
- 4:07Speaker 3: I thought protection was good and even on even on
- 4:09Speaker 3: those those third downs.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Game officials have told you what they're going to be
- 4:14Speaker 2: calling this year, and you look at what BT did
- 4:17Speaker 2: after converting that one first down. Uh, did you kind
- 4:21Speaker 2: of think that that was kind of a hazy gray
- 4:22Speaker 2: area or do you think they're gonna call that you
- 4:25Speaker 2: can't do it?
- 4:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've shown our players the different you know,
- 4:28Speaker 3: gestures and things that they can't do after after big plays,
- 4:32Speaker 3: after sacks, things like that.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, they know you know listen, Yes, we're we're aware.
- 4:41Speaker 1: I just eyes have to be.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Open, right, I mean, we just got to see everything
- 4:48Speaker 3: both sides, things of that nature, you know, But we
- 4:51Speaker 3: can't do that, bottom line, we can't do that. And
- 4:54Speaker 3: it fortunately, I mean I think that was the drive
- 4:58Speaker 3: to did we end up hunting the ball on that drive,
- 5:02Speaker 3: I think, yeah, so big completion, you know, setback, we
- 5:08Speaker 3: didn't overcome it. So those are again, those are things
- 5:11Speaker 3: that we just can't do. Brian does he is game
- 5:17Speaker 3: flowing down form?
- 5:17Speaker 1: Is he? Do you see improvement every week? Yes? Each week?
- 5:24Speaker 3: You know, we challenge him as a staff, we challenge
- 5:27Speaker 3: him more and more on his plate. I think we're
- 5:30Speaker 3: we're seeing you're seeing obviously the type of receiver that
- 5:34Speaker 3: he he is and why we drafted him, you know,
- 5:37Speaker 3: and and he's gosh, he's such a competitor. I love
- 5:40Speaker 3: I love that about him, you know, the way he
- 5:42Speaker 3: competes out there, and and he plays he plays hard,
- 5:46Speaker 3: he plays fast.
- 5:48Speaker 1: He'll go in there and block a safety if he
- 5:50Speaker 1: has to.
- 5:52Speaker 3: Nice job on the around yesterday, and you know, so
- 5:55Speaker 3: he's he's very capable, and we're gonna continue to you know,
- 6:01Speaker 3: keep keep throwing the ball his way run.
- 6:04Speaker 2: You know.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Did you like the patience he exhibited.
- 6:07Speaker 3: By not really the only gang busters around there and
- 6:10Speaker 3: having some vision? Yeah, I mean he had when you
- 6:13Speaker 3: look at this college film, he had some rounds and
- 6:16Speaker 3: reverses and things like that, and you just don't know,
- 6:20Speaker 3: you know, sometimes he's just the fastest guy in the field, right,
- 6:22Speaker 3: so he just outruns the defense. Well, here, you can't.
- 6:25Speaker 3: And what I've seen a couple of times we've done
- 6:28Speaker 3: this now is how patient he is. You know. I
- 6:32Speaker 3: know Brenton was out there and I think we had
- 6:35Speaker 3: a ton or one of the linemen out out in
- 6:38Speaker 3: front of he just does he does a nice job,
- 6:40Speaker 3: does a nice job in space, and and you know
- 6:42Speaker 3: he's patient.
- 6:44Speaker 2: What can you guys to do out of the gates
- 6:45Speaker 2: defensively a little bit better? And I think it's twelve
- 6:49Speaker 2: drives the last three games and eleven scores in the
- 6:51Speaker 2: first half. Is you guys can do to force the issue?
- 6:58Speaker 2: Is it during the week stuff? You know?
- 7:01Speaker 1: I think.
- 7:06Speaker 3: You know, when you go back to the Buffalo game,
- 7:08Speaker 3: a lot of that too was the ball out fast,
- 7:10Speaker 3: a lot of quick passes so you're not affecting the quarterback.
- 7:13Speaker 3: And then they affected our defense by movement, right, I
- 7:17Speaker 3: mean that that was the way that they they attacked us,
- 7:20Speaker 3: you know, in Buffalo, and they go down to score.
- 7:24Speaker 3: You know, obviously our start yesterday, you know, yeah, we pump,
- 7:31Speaker 3: but we get the turnover, we score, we're up seven.
- 7:33Speaker 1: But you know, we've got to find a way.
- 7:36Speaker 3: I mean, I know you're trying to settle in as
- 7:41Speaker 3: coaches and players. You're trying to see how the offense
- 7:43Speaker 3: is gonna, you know, attack you whether what they're trying
- 7:46Speaker 3: to do, kind of see their game plan a little bit.
- 7:49Speaker 3: But you know, again, if you get them in third down,
- 7:54Speaker 3: you know, we've got to either affect the quarterback somehow,
- 7:58Speaker 3: which I think is the game we're on.
- 8:00Speaker 1: We did a better job of that.
- 8:02Speaker 3: We just didn't get them on the ground, you know,
- 8:07Speaker 3: but something you know, I know Ryan is looking at
- 8:09Speaker 3: it and and uh trying to figure out why, you know,
- 8:14Speaker 3: but we've got to We've got to be better there too.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Do you have any concerns about how the locker room
- 8:18Speaker 2: is handling the adversity, Doug?
- 8:20Speaker 1: And if you do, is.
- 8:21Speaker 2: It your philosophy to get more involved or to back
- 8:25Speaker 2: off a little bit and let them handle it themselves.
- 8:27Speaker 1: I think the locker room is.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Having been with them today, I mean, they're they're disappointed
- 8:35Speaker 3: like I am.
- 8:35Speaker 1: They're frustrated like I am.
- 8:37Speaker 3: And it's our job as coaches is we have to
- 8:41Speaker 3: point out the good and the bad right when we
- 8:43Speaker 3: That's what That's why we watch tape and that's why
- 8:45Speaker 3: we make the correction so that that we can, you know,
- 8:48Speaker 3: help the players be better players, you know, on Sundays
- 8:51Speaker 3: and things just aren't carrying over from practice to the games.
- 8:57Speaker 3: And that's that's been our achilles heel these first obviously
- 9:01Speaker 3: month of the season. So yes, they're disappointed and frustrated,
- 9:07Speaker 3: but no from the standpoint of are are they turning
- 9:13Speaker 3: and going in the other direction? Talk to several of
- 9:16Speaker 3: them today, I mean, they see it just like we
- 9:22Speaker 3: see it. I mean, it's one of the things that
- 9:25Speaker 3: I'll always do with the players, is one that I'm
- 9:28Speaker 3: always going to be. I'm always going to have their
- 9:30Speaker 3: back and always going to be upfront with them. So
- 9:34Speaker 3: you know, I have to support them and at the
- 9:36Speaker 3: same time, I got.
- 9:37Speaker 1: To show them.
- 9:38Speaker 3: It's it's easy for us as coaches to criticize the negative.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Even as reporters, it's easy to criticize the negative, right
- 9:47Speaker 3: It's hard to find the positive when things are bad.
- 9:50Speaker 3: I mean it's just kind of human nature. I personally
- 9:58Speaker 3: try to find the good in everything because if I
- 10:02Speaker 3: don't them, I'm always the Debbie Downer. I'm always the
- 10:06Speaker 3: negative one, and I don't want to be the negative one.
- 10:08Speaker 3: I will still hold them accountable. I will still hold
- 10:11Speaker 3: my coaches accountable. I'll hold myself accountable. But at the
- 10:15Speaker 3: same time, I better come Wednesday make them feel like
- 10:18Speaker 3: they could run through that wall. Right, That's that's my job.
- 10:22Speaker 3: That's part of my job. So I don't necessarily back away.
- 10:29Speaker 3: I don't necessarily have to raise my voice and yell
- 10:33Speaker 3: and scream.
- 10:36Speaker 1: But I think you can.
- 10:37Speaker 3: You can get your message across where they understand where
- 10:40Speaker 3: you're coming from and what we need to do moving forward.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Big your picture, what is some of the good maybe
- 10:48Speaker 3: that you've held onto.
- 10:50Speaker 1: But I think you look at offensively.
- 10:53Speaker 3: I think the run game has been positive, right, I
- 10:56Speaker 3: think it's I think that's one hundred and fifty eight
- 10:59Speaker 3: yards or so yes day day, you know, rattled off
- 11:01Speaker 3: a couple tank had a couple of nice runs yesterday.
- 11:06Speaker 3: I do like the fact, even though we may not
- 11:09Speaker 3: be connecting on everything, I do like the fact that
- 11:12Speaker 3: we are getting guys open down the field, our our
- 11:14Speaker 3: our explosive passes. You know, we we obviously get yeah,
- 11:18Speaker 3: we missed, we missed our fair share yesterday, and and
- 11:22Speaker 3: it and it and it hurt us. But getting BT
- 11:25Speaker 3: open down the Field and Christian yesterday, and you know
- 11:29Speaker 3: we had Gabe a couple of times these last couple
- 11:31Speaker 3: of weeks. I mean, it's that stuff is very positive. Now,
- 11:34Speaker 3: do we have to improve pitch and catch better? Yes,
- 11:38Speaker 3: we do. Defensively, I think with the amount of young
- 11:46Speaker 3: players that are.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Playing, you're you're, you're, you're not seeing a ton of like.
- 11:55Speaker 3: First progression wide open quarterback, put my foot in the ground,
- 11:59Speaker 3: throw it to the open guy. It's usually the quarterback
- 12:02Speaker 3: has to move or get to a second and third guy.
- 12:05Speaker 1: So we're covering guys up.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Now, did we make a coverage assignment a blown assignment
- 12:10Speaker 3: in Miami?
- 12:11Speaker 1: Yeah, we did. You know, all things we can have
- 12:13Speaker 1: we fixed it since.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Yes, So there's there's a lot of positive that comes
- 12:20Speaker 3: out of that, that kind of stuff, right, and we
- 12:22Speaker 3: can continue to show our players, you know, these things
- 12:25Speaker 3: and in the effort is there you know, you know, tackling.
- 12:31Speaker 3: How how close are we you know to getting the
- 12:34Speaker 3: quarterback on the ground. It, Yeah, it might be a negative,
- 12:37Speaker 3: but it's a positive to the fact that we've we've
- 12:39Speaker 3: affected these guys. Now we've got to take the extra
- 12:42Speaker 3: step and get them, get them on the ground. So
- 12:44Speaker 3: there's there's quite a few things I think that that,
- 12:49Speaker 3: you know, we can continue to show our players that
- 12:51Speaker 3: are that are good.
- 12:53Speaker 2: You've got Travers in a bit of a slump just
- 12:56Speaker 2: throwing it or would you say could have be more
- 13:00Speaker 2: of a mentality thing for him right now? Confidence?
- 13:04Speaker 1: How do you describe it?
- 13:10Speaker 3: So we missed great example for me with him and
- 13:14Speaker 3: with any really with any quarterback. But so we missed
- 13:17Speaker 3: Christian early in the third quarter. I think it was
- 13:21Speaker 3: the second play, right, we missed him on a deep
- 13:24Speaker 3: I mean maybe scores.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I don't know. The easy thing would have been second ten,
- 13:32Speaker 1: run the football. I'm not gonna do that.
- 13:34Speaker 3: I mean, yes I will, but in this case, no,
- 13:37Speaker 3: I want Trevor. You got to put the ball in
- 13:40Speaker 3: his hands, right, he's our guy, and you got to
- 13:43Speaker 3: put the ball in his hands. And we're going to
- 13:45Speaker 3: continue to trust him. I'm going to continue to do that.
- 13:47Speaker 3: So the next play we throw it again. But he
- 13:50Speaker 3: was high to Gabe. So these are all lessons that
- 13:55Speaker 3: he is a player has to understand, right, and the
- 13:58Speaker 3: adversity that's going to come with Oh shoot, I just
- 14:00Speaker 3: missed that one.
- 14:02Speaker 1: But coach might dial up another one on this play.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Let me make that. He got it.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to kind of flush the first one
- 14:08Speaker 3: to make the next one. And so I don't he's
- 14:15Speaker 3: seeing the field. Well, we're just not hitting and.
- 14:24Speaker 1: You know, as as coaches is, but those are plays
- 14:27Speaker 1: we have to we just we just have to make.
- 14:29Speaker 1: And he listened.
- 14:31Speaker 3: He would stand up here and tell you the same thing.
- 14:33Speaker 3: So I'm not I don't think I'm speaking out of
- 14:35Speaker 3: turn right when I say that. He he knows he's
- 14:37Speaker 3: got to make those throats. Those are NFL big time,
- 14:40Speaker 3: big time throws and and so we just got to
- 14:42Speaker 3: keep working. He doesn't in practice during the week. He
- 14:47Speaker 3: works with those guys when special teams are going or
- 14:50Speaker 3: defense is going.
- 14:53Speaker 1: And uh.
- 14:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think the more we keep working
- 14:58Speaker 3: at it, better chances of hitting him in the future.
- 15:01Speaker 2: And then for a second, those two plays. The next
- 15:03Speaker 2: one was third and ten I think, and he delivered
- 15:05Speaker 2: a rifle to Brian.
- 15:07Speaker 1: The third one was third and ten to Brian. Yeah,
- 15:09Speaker 1: so what does that tell you.
- 15:10Speaker 2: About his ability to where is that and flushing and all?
- 15:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a great example of just how
- 15:19Speaker 3: you know, you put the ball in his hands.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Three plays in a row.
- 15:23Speaker 3: And how you know how he can flush the first
- 15:26Speaker 3: two and come back and deliver a strike on you know,
- 15:29Speaker 3: on third and ten with guys you know.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Around his legs.
- 15:33Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's obviously, that's if you probably take
- 15:37Speaker 3: just those three plays. That's sometimes playing quarterback in the NFL.
- 15:41Speaker 3: You know, yeah, you want to hit the first two
- 15:43Speaker 3: or at least hit the first one. But you standing
- 15:46Speaker 3: there on third down knowing you're possibly going to take
- 15:48Speaker 3: a shot, and you deliver that pass.
- 15:51Speaker 2: When it doesn't translate from the practice field to the
- 15:54Speaker 2: game field on Sundays.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Like, how do you I don't know how you fix that?
- 16:00Speaker 1: How do you feel like it's done correctly during the
- 16:03Speaker 1: week and it's not done on Sunday? Like what more
- 16:06Speaker 1: can you do as coaches to kind of make sure
- 16:08Speaker 1: that it does?
- 16:09Speaker 3: Is?
- 16:09Speaker 1: I guess what I'm lasting? I think I think I
- 16:12Speaker 1: think a great example to that point. I'm glad you
- 16:17Speaker 1: brought this up. Did you watch the President's Cup?
- 16:22Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I believe it was Friday afternoon and Scheffler
- 16:33Speaker 3: and Henley, I think it was right.
- 16:34Speaker 1: They were coming down.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Eighteen and the galleries had started to kind of amass
- 16:41Speaker 3: themselves on Friday, and they were following this group. I
- 16:44Speaker 3: think they were one of the last groups to play
- 16:45Speaker 3: on Friday, right, and they had to they either could
- 16:48Speaker 3: tie the whole or maybe win the hole whatever for
- 16:51Speaker 3: half point or a tie.
- 16:54Speaker 1: And Scheffler had a distance that he.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Easily you know, has been for two years making those shots, right,
- 17:07Speaker 3: And so the commentators actually talked about adrenaline and talked.
- 17:15Speaker 1: About the emotion of the game and that shot and
- 17:18Speaker 1: making that shot.
- 17:20Speaker 3: And he took one less club knowing that adrenaline is
- 17:26Speaker 3: going to push this ball further.
- 17:29Speaker 1: It makes sense.
- 17:30Speaker 3: So in Trevor's case, sometimes adrenaline takes over and the
- 17:36Speaker 3: excitement of the game, and I see it and I just,
- 17:42Speaker 3: you know, I just I took one one club too long, right,
- 17:48Speaker 3: So to that point, I guess, I mean sometimes sometimes
- 17:53Speaker 3: the emotion of the game, feeling the game, the adrenaline
- 17:57Speaker 3: of the of the adrenaline of the game, those things.
- 18:01Speaker 3: And I'm not a sports sports psychologist. Sometimes I feel
- 18:04Speaker 3: like I have to be, but I'm not. And I
- 18:06Speaker 3: think we got to somehow get all of that just
- 18:10Speaker 3: to if you want to translate it, just calm down,
- 18:12Speaker 3: take a deep breath in hell exhal you know, try
- 18:16Speaker 3: to try to control the brain a little bit, if
- 18:18Speaker 3: that makes sense, to be able to see it, deliver it,
- 18:20Speaker 3: make the throw just like Schefer Scheffler did and he
- 18:24Speaker 3: hit it to you know, twenty five feet, you know.
- 18:26Speaker 1: On eighteen.
- 18:26Speaker 3: So I think I think it applies to everybody. I
- 18:32Speaker 3: think it applies to everybody, applies to coaches, applies to
- 18:34Speaker 3: players in those types of moments like that, every moment
- 18:39Speaker 3: is big. You never know when that opportunity to make
- 18:44Speaker 3: that important play is going to come in a football game.
- 18:47Speaker 3: That's why every play is important. And being able to
- 18:50Speaker 3: control you and that's what we talk about, right, control
- 18:52Speaker 3: your emotions, that's part of that. I don't know if
- 18:57Speaker 3: that makes sense or not, but thanks coach.
- 19:00Speaker 1: All right,