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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, good, Yeah, getting better, getting better. Nobody cares what
- 0:09Speaker 1: you do. I appreciate it, thank you.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, my dad too. Everybody's kind of been
- 0:17Speaker 2: feeling it. But guys are doing a good job of
- 0:20Speaker 2: staying washing hands, making sure we bring up some of
- 0:24Speaker 2: those germ spreading philosophies.
- 0:30Speaker 3: You have to deal with the locker room full of that.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's look, you've been dealing with that
- 0:35Speaker 2: since high school, right, like high school football, I remember,
- 0:39Speaker 2: it's so much just spreads, you know, and similar to
- 0:44Speaker 2: in college, same thing. So it's you deal with it,
- 0:47Speaker 2: you know, It's it's just the way it is, locker rooms, football, sports,
- 0:50Speaker 2: whatever it is. That just got to take extra precautions.
- 0:53Speaker 1: That's all.
- 0:55Speaker 3: Going into this last game obviously next week. Do you
- 0:57Speaker 3: like where Brian Thomas is at? Yeah, how he fits?
- 1:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know, I think him and Trevor
- 1:05Speaker 2: a little frustrated last week. I'm not connecting on a
- 1:07Speaker 2: few of those that we had last week that we
- 1:10Speaker 2: had connected on I think kind of dating back to
- 1:13Speaker 2: the first Indie game. So some great ops for that
- 1:17Speaker 2: to continue to evolve and continue to be a part
- 1:20Speaker 2: of our offense being explosives made a few big catches
- 1:24Speaker 2: corner Ross last week and need to continue to be
- 1:27Speaker 2: able to get him involved. I mean, the more he's
- 1:30Speaker 2: going Jacoby Parker strange and you get the defense to
- 1:34Speaker 2: have to defend every blade of grass, that's when your
- 1:37Speaker 2: offense can truly be as explosive as it needs to be.
- 1:40Speaker 1: A lot about him that sauces follow him last week
- 1:42Speaker 1: the week before that starts, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we assume.
- 1:46Speaker 2: I mean, when you have a guy that can do
- 1:48Speaker 2: that and you score quick, I think that's the big
- 1:52Speaker 2: respect Avenue is like, we can't let people just score fast.
- 1:57Speaker 2: That's the hardest, I think way to go in a
- 2:00Speaker 2: lot of ways, right because now it just becomes those
- 2:03Speaker 2: kind of games and you know he can he can
- 2:07Speaker 2: do that to you, right, And so we're gaining more
- 2:09Speaker 2: and more confidence with that group in the past game.
- 2:12Speaker 2: I mean, yesterday him and Treuv connected on one that
- 2:16Speaker 2: was arguably one of the better ones I've seen in
- 2:18Speaker 2: practice of those guys really of the whole group all season.
- 2:22Speaker 2: So excited about those guys continuing to evolve.
- 2:26Speaker 3: In terms of.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Devon Hamilton, how would you describe his approach as a
- 2:29Speaker 4: pro and the job that he's done for you.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Guys.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just like you said, he's a PROS pro
- 2:35Speaker 2: doesn't say a whole time what he does speak guys, listen,
- 2:40Speaker 2: you know, he just very unselfish plays. I think fits
- 2:45Speaker 2: very well within Campy scheme and what they ask him
- 2:49Speaker 2: to do. I think he's made others around him so
- 2:53Speaker 2: much better. You know, you look at the production our
- 2:56Speaker 2: linebackers have been able to have because of his unsell
- 3:00Speaker 2: fishness and in the way that he's made plays just
- 3:03Speaker 2: defeating blocks, getting off double teams, pushing the pocket. I mean,
- 3:07Speaker 2: those are all things that when you've got to knowse
- 3:10Speaker 2: that can demand double teams and demand respect inside. He's
- 3:15Speaker 2: a huge reason why our defense is leading the National
- 3:18Speaker 2: Football League against the rush.
- 3:20Speaker 3: I asked Grat about this play. Trevor had the thirty
- 3:23Speaker 3: seven yarder to Parker where he got hit rad.
- 3:26Speaker 1: As the troop.
- 3:26Speaker 3: Yeah, of you, I'm sure that happened to you as
- 3:29Speaker 3: a quarterback. What is that last second.
- 3:32Speaker 1: You know it's coming.
- 3:36Speaker 2: You kind of know like there's a large percent chance
- 3:40Speaker 2: you're about to lose your air. You're going to lose
- 3:44Speaker 2: your air there for a couple of moments. Oxygen is
- 3:46Speaker 2: not going to be easy to come by, and those
- 3:50Speaker 2: are the type of throws that ultimately, I think define
- 3:52Speaker 2: quarterbacks in a lot of ways, especially at this level,
- 3:56Speaker 2: on critical down in distances money, money downs, red zone,
- 3:59Speaker 2: third down, two minute, got to have it moments type
- 4:03Speaker 2: deal and you're staring down the barrel, you know you're
- 4:05Speaker 2: going to take a shot, and you deliver a strike.
- 4:09Speaker 2: I mean, that's what that's the selflessness of this position, right,
- 4:13Speaker 2: that's the that's what you get, you know. I mean,
- 4:16Speaker 2: that's what you get playing this position and this at
- 4:18Speaker 2: this level. You get the glory, you get all the
- 4:20Speaker 2: you know, the good things that come with it. But
- 4:22Speaker 2: you got to stand in there and make those kind
- 4:24Speaker 2: of throws, you know. That's something that that play in particular,
- 4:29Speaker 2: looking at his leadership, his competitiveness, his toughness, I think
- 4:36Speaker 2: goes extremely undervalued is how tough he is and how
- 4:40Speaker 2: willing he is to stand in the pocket and take
- 4:42Speaker 2: shots and then ultimately be able to also use his
- 4:45Speaker 2: legs and be able to run and take shots that way.
- 4:48Speaker 2: So you want to try to limit as many hits
- 4:51Speaker 2: you can on your quarterback.
- 4:52Speaker 1: But when a six' five are you.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Almost sixty six two hundred and thirty pound quarterbacks feet
- 4:57Speaker 2: are above his. Head you, know that's a pretty physical
- 5:02Speaker 2: shot that he. Took AND i think a lot of
- 5:05Speaker 2: people looked at that clip in this building and, said you,
- 5:08Speaker 2: know this guy's a.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Dog i'm sure it's. Toughness is something an idea of
- 5:12Speaker 1: before you started working with. Him how you're actually gone
- 5:14Speaker 1: through the full season with? Them what does that stream
- 5:17Speaker 1: said to?
- 5:17Speaker 2: You?
- 5:18Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 5:18Speaker 2: Huge that was the first thing THAT i looked at
- 5:22Speaker 2: with him WHEN i watched him play from all those years,
- 5:26Speaker 2: prior was, like, YEAH i know he's had some injuries
- 5:29Speaker 2: and missed some, games but this Dude's this dude's. Tough
- 5:32Speaker 2: and if you can start there with your, quarterback, RIGHT i,
- 5:36Speaker 2: mean you want all your players to be mentally and physically,
- 5:38Speaker 2: tough but specifically at the quarterback. Position if he can
- 5:41Speaker 2: be mentally and physically tough and kind of set the
- 5:44Speaker 2: example for the rest of your, team your, offense that's
- 5:49Speaker 2: the standard that gets upheld every single day and every
- 5:53Speaker 2: game that you walk out on the. Field and you
- 5:56Speaker 2: know he's definitely taken some shots throughout the.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Season you want to try to protect him as best you.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Can you want him to protect himself as he gets
- 6:04Speaker 2: out of the pocket as best you, can but instincts take,
- 6:08Speaker 2: over competitiveness takes, over and it just speaks to who he,
- 6:12Speaker 2: IS i, mean who his teammates know he, is the
- 6:16Speaker 2: leadership that he, has the confidence that the players have in.
- 6:20Speaker 2: HIM i think you're in a lot of respect in
- 6:23Speaker 2: this league by taking shots on the chin and getting
- 6:26Speaker 2: up and doing it.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Again in terms of the thing in this, LEAGUE i
- 6:29Speaker 4: don't carrying that into what's.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Next oh, YEAH i mean you feel.
- 6:34Speaker 2: IT i mean knowing that every entity is its, Own
- 6:37Speaker 2: every game is its, own every play is its, own every,
- 6:39Speaker 2: drive every, series it's all its own, entity and you
- 6:42Speaker 2: have to treat it that. Way but, yeah you can
- 6:45Speaker 2: feel momentum for. SURE i mean you can film momentum
- 6:47Speaker 2: swings in a, game you can fill him on a,
- 6:49Speaker 2: drive you can fil him in a. Season SO i
- 6:52Speaker 2: don't think that you take that momentum and, say, Well,
- 6:56Speaker 2: okay this is just gonna happen now because we have.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Momentum that's not the. Case you earn everything that you
- 7:02Speaker 2: get in this. League you earn every opportunity that you
- 7:04Speaker 2: get in this, league and you've got to take advantage
- 7:07Speaker 2: of those moments when you do have. Momentum you got
- 7:09Speaker 2: to take advantage of. Him your opponent can feel. IT
- 7:13Speaker 2: i know you can feel it as a coach on
- 7:15Speaker 2: during a, game.
- 7:16Speaker 1: You can feel those.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Things but you, know we haven't really talked too much about.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Momentum it's more so just, like, hey you know we're
- 7:23Speaker 2: doing some good. Things we've got to continue to seize the,
- 7:27Speaker 2: moment take advantage of the opportunity that we do have
- 7:30Speaker 2: and THAT i think will in turn ride that.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Momentum as you, mentioned.
- 7:34Speaker 3: You got straighted For, jacobe how long did it take
- 7:36Speaker 3: before you kind of realized everything you.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Could do with?
- 7:39Speaker 2: Him very, quickly very early. On you could just see
- 7:44Speaker 2: how well he picked up the, offense how much time
- 7:48Speaker 2: that he spent putting into, It the relationship that he
- 7:52Speaker 2: already had With, Edgar you, know With eb really helps
- 7:56Speaker 2: Because eb has a good feel for what the strengths
- 7:59Speaker 2: the week, is what he can handle, mentally and continue
- 8:04Speaker 2: to push him past those limitations as. Well so you,
- 8:08Speaker 2: know he's given us the ability to move him inside,
- 8:12Speaker 2: out you, know do different things with him within the
- 8:14Speaker 2: route tree and in the blocking is really where you
- 8:17Speaker 2: continue to earn respect in this league as a.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Receiver, obviously the.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Catches the, tough grimy sideline toe taps over the middle
- 8:27Speaker 2: like those players are are huge for. Us but also
- 8:30Speaker 2: what he does without the ball in his hands is,
- 8:32Speaker 2: important and he's extremely intelligent as a football, player which
- 8:36Speaker 2: allows us to move him.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Around Attribute trevor's surge To jacobi's.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Arrival you, KNOW i think there's Probably, YEAH i think
- 8:48Speaker 2: there's obvious similarity or coincidences there that you know who we,
- 8:53Speaker 2: Were he's able to attack a part of the field
- 8:56Speaker 2: that we were missing a little. Bit BUT i think
- 9:00Speaker 2: just having somebody that you trust to be able to
- 9:03Speaker 2: make some of those plays in the, middle LIKE i
- 9:06Speaker 2: kind of mentioned last, week it then now Allows, parker,
- 9:10Speaker 2: Bt Strange etn those guys to truly do what they're good.
- 9:16Speaker 1: At and what they're best.
- 9:17Speaker 2: At and now you can spread the ball around on
- 9:21Speaker 2: any given, play regardless of who is designed, for the
- 9:26Speaker 2: ball can go, anywhere and that's WHAT i think those guys, want,
- 9:29Speaker 2: right you want as a, player especially a skill, player
- 9:32Speaker 2: with how much you, run whether it's in practice or a,
- 9:35Speaker 2: game and how many times you actually touch the.
- 9:38Speaker 1: BALL i think it's good for.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Them to know that in any given, concept regardless of
- 9:43Speaker 2: who it's schemed, for the ball could go your way
- 9:46Speaker 2: because now the quarterback is truly just he's.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Playing he's playing.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Free he's trusting the, protection the scheme and the guys
- 9:54Speaker 2: to go make. Plays and so you, KNOW i think
- 9:57Speaker 2: that that's helped not Just jaco be In, trevor but
- 10:01Speaker 2: it's also helped our offense evolve to, say, well you
- 10:05Speaker 2: got to defend us, now both vertically and.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Horizontally do a bunch.
- 10:10Speaker 4: About trevor's progress through the. System learned, everything your confidence
- 10:13Speaker 4: level early on and it taking. Time was there a
- 10:16Speaker 4: moment when you, said, up the flip is, Switched he's got.
- 10:18Speaker 1: IT i feel great.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Now, honestly at the end of The rams, GAME i
- 10:24Speaker 2: THINK i started to see just like dude just kind
- 10:28Speaker 2: of kind of loose a little, bit you, know with
- 10:30Speaker 2: him And travis were gaining a little bit of a
- 10:32Speaker 2: report towards the end of the game where we're throwing.
- 10:35Speaker 2: It you, know we're not, scoring but he Made he
- 10:38Speaker 2: stood in there and made some big time throws against
- 10:41Speaker 2: a really good, rush even though it was time where you,
- 10:45Speaker 2: know we weren't necessarily going to win the football, game
- 10:48Speaker 2: BUT i saw a COMPETITOR i saw a guy that
- 10:51Speaker 2: didn't just like ask, me, man, like can you just
- 10:53Speaker 2: throw some quick, games some screens so we can.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Get up out of? Here like that was Not trevor at.
- 10:59Speaker 1: All it was a.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Competitor it was we were standing in there throwing five
- 11:03Speaker 2: step you, know, concepts seven step concepts and trying to
- 11:07Speaker 2: push the ball down the field and. Compete then, okay
- 11:11Speaker 2: you hit the buy and you go To. Houston we
- 11:13Speaker 2: don't have the success we're looking for after The raiders.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Game AND i thought in The raiders, game though he
- 11:20Speaker 2: also took steps in the right. DIRECTION i thought he
- 11:23Speaker 2: was trusting to cut it loose a little bit, more
- 11:26Speaker 2: trusting the guys to make. Plays and, then you, KNOW
- 11:29Speaker 2: i think that that's really where we after The houston,
- 11:32Speaker 2: game had some of those, conversations and THEN i think
- 11:35Speaker 2: it's really just kind of clicked from.
- 11:37Speaker 3: There we've been the run game kind of up and
- 11:39Speaker 3: down the last few, weeks going up Against Jeffers simmons
- 11:42Speaker 3: happening this.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Week how do you evaluate we just need to be
- 11:46Speaker 4: a multi dimensional. Offense we need to have the presence
- 11:49Speaker 4: of the run pass versus we really need to start
- 11:52Speaker 4: generating something on.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Them BUT i think what do we rush for last?
- 11:55Speaker 2: Week, YEAH i mean it was and there was a
- 11:58Speaker 2: lot of meat on that, bone you. KNOW i think
- 12:00Speaker 2: out we blocked much better in the run game this
- 12:04Speaker 2: Past sunday Against. INDY i think we Were we missed
- 12:08Speaker 2: a few things from the running back, position a couple
- 12:11Speaker 2: of blocks, outside a couple of communication. Things BUT i
- 12:15Speaker 2: did think that it was a step in the right.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Direction like there was more. Holes there was bigger holes
- 12:20Speaker 2: that we need to can you, know take a little
- 12:23Speaker 2: bit more advantage of with some. Explosives BUT i thought
- 12:26Speaker 2: we took a step in the right direction last. Week,
- 12:30Speaker 2: look you never want to force. SOMETHING i think we run,
- 12:33Speaker 2: it you. KNOW i guess you could say good enough
- 12:36Speaker 2: to keep, people you, know, HONEST i think that that's
- 12:39Speaker 2: where you, know play action continues to be something That
- 12:43Speaker 2: trevor's successful. With and when you can demand single high,
- 12:48Speaker 2: still like when you can get people to play single,
- 12:51Speaker 2: high well you're going to be able to dictate some
- 12:53Speaker 2: of the terms in the past. Game so, yeah look
- 12:57Speaker 2: you want to be able TO i want to rush
- 12:59Speaker 2: for one hundred and fifty plus every. WEEK i want
- 13:01Speaker 2: to throw it for two fifty plus every.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Week that's.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Goal, Absolutely but And i'm going to continue to run the.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Football it's SOMETHING i believe.
- 13:09Speaker 2: IN i think that you have to be able to do,
- 13:11Speaker 2: it especially this time of year and as you head
- 13:15Speaker 2: Into December.
- 13:17Speaker 1: January.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Football you've got to be able to run the football
- 13:20Speaker 2: and stop the. Run but you're also not going to
- 13:22Speaker 2: bang your head against the wall and do something that's
- 13:24Speaker 2: ultimately in game maybe not working as much as maybe
- 13:28Speaker 2: the pass or the screen or whatever it is to
- 13:31Speaker 2: be able to give your guys a chance to win that.
- 13:33Speaker 1: Game you weren't here last.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Year you were here the year before, that but short
- 13:38Speaker 4: yardage was something that was a struggle for a lot
- 13:40Speaker 4: of the guys who were.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Here the last few. Years how much had was that
- 13:43Speaker 3: a talking point when you first?
- 13:45Speaker 4: Arrived, yeah BECAUSE i actually don't think we've asked your
- 13:48Speaker 4: question about short yar a eighteen, weeks which is pretty.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Wild. YEAH i think we were really good at.
- 13:53Speaker 2: It we shuttled events who was it a couple of
- 13:57Speaker 2: weeks back where we didn't convert was It?
- 13:59Speaker 1: Arizona we had like the fourth and two right to
- 14:02Speaker 1: close it, out didn't get.
- 14:04Speaker 2: It was not really a great play call by, me
- 14:07Speaker 2: and we didn't execute it, great and then last week
- 14:11Speaker 2: not getting that one was. Frustrating BUT i think, OVERALL
- 14:15Speaker 2: i have a lot of confidence in us in short.
- 14:18Speaker 2: YARDAGE i think our staff does a nice job of
- 14:20Speaker 2: mixing whether it's inside run, versus you, know getting the
- 14:25Speaker 2: ball in the perimeter if you need, to if they're
- 14:27Speaker 2: packing it, in having play calls that ultimately give the
- 14:31Speaker 2: players options if they present a look that takes something away,
- 14:36Speaker 2: inside give us the flexibility to go. Outside you, know
- 14:41Speaker 2: we haven't taken probably a ton of shots in short,
- 14:45Speaker 2: yardage which i'd like, to you, know be able to
- 14:47Speaker 2: do a little bit more, of depending on if you
- 14:49Speaker 2: have four downs or. Not BUT i do think our
- 14:52Speaker 2: guys have done a nice job. OVERALL i don't know
- 14:54Speaker 2: what our percentage is right now in short, yardage but
- 14:56Speaker 2: it should. Be you should be in the eighty percent
- 15:00Speaker 2: tyle or so at. Least BUT i do think we've
- 15:03Speaker 2: done a nice. JOB i wouldn't say we're like absolutely dominant,
- 15:06Speaker 2: there BUT i do think it's. Improved i'm not sure
- 15:09Speaker 2: what the numbers were in past, years but it's an
- 15:13Speaker 2: area of the field that you want to. Continue it's
- 15:16Speaker 2: they're huge because you get another set of downs and
- 15:19Speaker 2: it's sometimes demoralizing for a defense as, well especially if
- 15:23Speaker 2: it's fourth down right fourth and one and you convert
- 15:26Speaker 2: and you're able to go close out a. Game, well,
- 15:29Speaker 2: man that's that that. Hurts that's a tough position to
- 15:32Speaker 2: be in on the other side of the. Football so
- 15:34Speaker 2: it's a huge point of emphasis we talk. About we
- 15:37Speaker 2: spent a lot of time in short yardage as a
- 15:40Speaker 2: staff and with the, players so you, know hopefully we
- 15:44Speaker 2: can continue to take steps in the short yardage.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Work that's a couple.
- 15:49Speaker 3: Of interceptions in the last couple of.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Games what have you seen out of jarians game in
- 15:54Speaker 2: terms of him elevating and how much upside does he
- 15:56Speaker 2: still have as a young. Player, yeah, YEAH i think
- 16:00Speaker 2: and preparation has really upticked over the. COURSE i can't
- 16:05Speaker 2: say how many, weeks but like even at practice, YESTERDAY
- 16:09Speaker 2: i would say he was one of the most you know,
- 16:13Speaker 2: guys talking the most on, it you, know saying things
- 16:16Speaker 2: before the, play communicating to his. Teammates practice energy is
- 16:23Speaker 2: something THAT i do appreciate as a. Coach intentional energy
- 16:28Speaker 2: of wanting to make sure that you're doing the right things,
- 16:32Speaker 2: right like you're not just out there in a crappy.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Stance this is another practice or walk through. Rep and,
- 16:39Speaker 2: look we can all get into that at, times like
- 16:42Speaker 2: it's pretty natural. Behavior BUT i Think jarian has done
- 16:46Speaker 2: a really nice job of being intentional about his work
- 16:49Speaker 2: throughout the week of, practice through the week of, preparation
- 16:52Speaker 2: and then On sundays he's made. PLAYS i, mean he's got.
- 16:56Speaker 2: CONFIDENCE i, think you, KNOW i saw that video of
- 17:00Speaker 2: those guys post game right coming back from the field
- 17:03Speaker 2: to the locker room and think it was Crazy lequent
- 17:07Speaker 2: And Josh Heinz allen And cam talking and Then jarian,
- 17:11Speaker 2: comes you, know into the camera there and was, like you,
- 17:14Speaker 2: Know i'm like. That i'm, like, yeah, dude you're playing
- 17:17Speaker 2: like that for. Sure you, KNOW i want you to
- 17:19Speaker 2: feel that. WAY i want you to have that. Confidence
- 17:21Speaker 2: AND i think his teammates have appreciated that because it's
- 17:25Speaker 2: a guy, that you, know early on the season like
- 17:29Speaker 2: just wasn't playing as much because we did have depth
- 17:31Speaker 2: in the, secondary, Right we Had, travis we Had Tyson,
- 17:34Speaker 2: campbell we Had Jordan, lewis we had all these guys
- 17:36Speaker 2: playing buster and then we ended up making a move
- 17:41Speaker 2: and he wasn't playing right, away like he didn't just
- 17:44Speaker 2: slide into that, position and that was. Hard that was
- 17:46Speaker 2: hard For jarian for a little. While and credit him
- 17:50Speaker 2: for staying the, course for trusting the, process for trusting
- 17:54Speaker 2: himself and believing in, himself and also the staff doing
- 17:57Speaker 2: a great job of keeping them going and keeping them,
- 18:00Speaker 2: confident in keeping him, engaged, saying, dude you're going to
- 18:04Speaker 2: help us win football. Games, here we promise you you're
- 18:07Speaker 2: going to help us.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Win and he, has and So i've Been i've been
- 18:11Speaker 1: really appreciative of. That