Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Liam Coen on Greg Newsome II, Travon Walker Ahead of Seahawks Matchup

Transcript

Press Pass | Liam Coen on Greg Newsome II, Travon Walker Ahead of Seahawks Matchup · Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's up there kind of figure out the electronics situation,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: and I mean, dude, it's just the height.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: He's just oh yeah.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: I had to teach him how.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I sent him a video recently, you know, screenshot video
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: of a conversation, and he kept like tapping it and
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't Like I'm like, no, dude, you can hit play
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: and then hit pause again and still be able to
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: read and then hit play again, so you can finish
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: just like.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: The best, absolute the best, the best. So alright, yeah,
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: that's that's.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: The plan right now, is to be able to continue
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: to onboard him as much as we can through the
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: next a few days here. And you know, it seems
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: like there is maybe some carryover from some of the
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: terms he's used in the past, and and that's kind
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: of what that part is for the next few days
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: is what can he correlate from where he's been in
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: the past, you know, from Cleveland to here, things that
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: may be similar that he can try to connect the
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: dots on. So, you know, I definitely feel like he
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: has an opportunity to play though. Yeah, I think smart
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: football player. I watched him be put in a lot
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: of difficult downs at times. This year, I mean against
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: some really quality opponents and competed his tailoff. You know,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: had the force fumble obviously last week on the second
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: drive of the game, and run support, but feisty in
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: the in defense in the past, can stick his foot
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: in the ground and trigger. You know, has done a
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: nice job I think finding the football and I do
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: believe he's got a lot of confidence as a player
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: just in general, and I appreciate that guy. Yeah, we
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: did it with Baker you know, a couple of years back,
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: which was obviously the crazy one because it's the quarterback position.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: So you know, I do think it's doable.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: It's just we have to be smart about, you know,
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: putting it, making sure we have the right calls for
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: when he is in and making sure we're doing things
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: that ultimately he's comfortable with.
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: That doesn't just hinder.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Our defense either, Like we're not going to change our
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: calls because Greg's in the game.
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: That's not how it'll go.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of making sure we put him
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: in a position to be successful as well.
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: But typicult Dallas for to strictly down at distance or red.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Zone or yes one they play a lot of man.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: They played a ton of just man free you know,
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: coverage and just say like, dude, go win and go compete.
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: And I think they've played against some high.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: Level receivers over the you know, first five games or
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: whatever it's been for those guys, So that does take
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: a mentality and a mindset as a corner to go
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: and do. And then especially in like some of the
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: red zone third nouns like those are tough. You know,
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: when you're going one on one with some of the
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: better receivers in this league and competing at a high level, I.
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: Think that those are hard downs.
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: And you make a trade in the middle of the season,
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: especially with the guy who's been here a while, you
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: address it immediately the next morning or whatever like that
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: with the.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Team or I addressed it with the with a lot
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: of the guys individually, and then I did talk to
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: the team quickly after practice, and it was just like,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: you know, Tyson, unbelievable human. Like I have a lot
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: of respect for ticing HAMLLL and everybody else does in
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: this building. So those weren't That wasn't one of the
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: cultural undertones, and so it's hard, you know, it's hard
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: to lose a guy that every you know, everybody likes
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: So it's that's something you have to be aware of
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: as a coach.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: I think and have some conversations with the guys so
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: that they understand fully some of the reasoning and but also, hey,
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: we got a job.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: To go do.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: We have a game to go win, and you know,
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: we're trying to do what we think is best for
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: the for the team and for the organization.
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: And we have a huge opportunity this weekend through it.
• 4:13
  Speaker 5: But lee expectation is right basically slides into what Tyson's
• 4:18
  Speaker 5: role was.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Is he playing inside outside?
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: I mean we haven't gone that far.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: We're hoping he can just help us win on this
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Sunday coming up doing an excellent.
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: Job of the return game. I think their second and
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: pun second and kickoff what stands out when you watch
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: those two units.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they're very well coached on in their special teams.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: They have very good effort and play. It's just a
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: it's another great test for our special teams unit that
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I think is just getting better and better each week.
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: Keith and Luke have done a really nice job.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: But if you look at Horton and Young, I've both
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: had huge returns on the year in their own right
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: in both phases. So anytime you've got a dynamic returner
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: or a guy that has show to put it on
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: tape to be able to create explosives and special teams,
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: our phase has to take that personally. And I think
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: they you know, have for the last few weeks taking
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: some of that stuff personally in terms of the matchups
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: and going and winning that phase. We absolutely won that
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: phase last weekend and that was the other night that
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: was a huge reason why we won the game. So
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: another great test for these guys to be disciplined in
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: their lanes, especially in the kicking game and spreading the
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: net when we are in some of our punts. And
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be really good on teams this
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: week again.
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: Of the Seattle's offensive balance, it seems like they're doing
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: a good job really in all.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: Phases of the Yeah, yeah, a lot of you know,
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: you can tell they they went out obviously made a
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: chance at the coordinator position this year, got a lot
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: of respect from Mike McDonald as a head coach and
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: going out and making a decision that he wanted to
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: find some you know a little bit more balance physical
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: nature up front running the football.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: That makes it hard on.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Any defense when you're able to be balanced and create
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: explosives in both the run and the past.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: I think you see so much of some San fran
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: in there. Rams.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Look, you just see a good mix of good ball
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: being done on their offensive side of the football, and
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: then they've got some guys that can score from anywhere,
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: so that that helps as well special teams.
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: That guy.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Every week makes a play makes it difficult, I think
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: maybe on our opponent to to have to make a
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: decision to double them, because if if you don't, is
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: there's a hot there's an opportunity that he could make
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: the play relentless. He's strong, athletic, can run special teams.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: Makes a lot of sense to this guy, like going
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: out and being a physical athlete and.
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: Football player that he is.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: It just he flies around, he's got a he's got
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: an edge, plays hard, plays tough. He brings in energy
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: to that group, and I think there's a lot of
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: confidence for Ray right now in terms of him in himself,
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: but also the guys in that room for a young
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: player to kind of step up and be one of
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: our better special teams players at the moment, I think
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool for that room.
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: If any have you seen out of Trayvon this week
• 7:20
  Speaker 4: in terms of dealing with the.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Rest, Yeah, I think we're getting him out there yesterday
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: just moving in a more full speed pace than we
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: were really able to do at times last week. I
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: think that's helpful, being able to see him use it
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. And although it's a you know,
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: it's just still awkward using your hand. We don't have
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: a handy you really use, so he's doing everything he
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: can right now. That was that was really good to
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: see yesterday. Hopefully you see another step today with more
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: and more comfort level of using it, and you know,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: they're definitely very hopeful. There's this kind of scheduling window
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: for your Monday night.
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: Short week the Sunday, and you got it right around
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: the court.
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: I think obviously that it was quick turnaround post game,
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: so hey, you didn't get to try to, you know,
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: enjoy that win very long. We had to move on
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: to the next opponent. But I think now it has
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: settled a little bit more. Right Like when we brought
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: the players back in this week, it was just one
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: kind of funky day and then we just got back
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: right on to our normal schedule, which I think has
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: helped all of us just take a deep breath after
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: that game, and now you're in a normal rhythm and routine.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: And I addressed that the London it was them early.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: I go, guys, this, I'm.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: Gonna give you a couple of tipbits on information next week.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: And this is the last time we're talking about London
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: until we play this game.
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: Besides giving tremors to play call Day News helmet, what
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: other information do you feel you have to give it without.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Overallading have Yeah, I mean you're more so just trying
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit situational, all right, Hey think
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: it may be four downs here, right, Like just being
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: smart with this decision if I am calling a pass play,
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: you know, two minute type situational stuff like hey, but
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: remember we got two timeouts like during that, you know,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: during that whole sequence, or hey we got one time out,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: or we got no timeouts and this is where the ball,
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Hey we got to get the ball to bounce here.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: Can't take a sack here.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Just little notes like that that you're trying to give
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: any quarterback throughout but also trying not to take away
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: from him, maybe not hearing something of the play call.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: So you know that that dialogue continues to grow and
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: you ultimately find out throughout a game. Well, I don't
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: have to say much to him at all in these
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: moments because we've we've already done this, or we've gotten
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: to this place where we've had this conversation, or that's
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: kind of how the dynamic works.
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: This week.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Getting over Jonah. Yeah, Jonah, Like all through training camp,
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: I think had gotten better and better earned a lot
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: of trust and respect around here in the building. He
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: is prepared like a pro all throughout this process, so
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: you know, and they stepped up the other night and
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: in a couple of moments where we needed him too.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: So if he has to be the guy, if he's
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: going to.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: Be the guy, we got a lot of a lot
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: of trust that that's gonna be a good deal for us.
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: He's the guy I hains he can't go is Acari
• 10:23
  Speaker 5: then the backup center.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: You know, we got a couple of guys McCurry, Colvin Landon,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of guys that are taking snaps like making
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: sure they understand the calls and hear some of this
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: stuff just so that you maybe don't have to make
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: a few other changes. But Patrick or Cole, will you know,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: be that next guy.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: You look at, this team played Sam Donald last year, the.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Jackson, different team, different.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: System and all that stuff.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Do you draw back on what the defense did against
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald last year or is it like completely reframing
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: because it's so much newness.
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: I think anytime you have maybe a good plan or
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: compete well against a player specific player or unit, you
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: can always use that and draw back on some of that. Okay,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: what did help affect him or from a dB standpoint,
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: or what would have helped me play justin Jefferson or
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: these guys.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: You can always go.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Back and draw on some of those experiences. But very
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: different schematically obviously on the other on our side of
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the football now than it was. So a little bit
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: different probably in how Campy and the defense the staff
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: may look at it, but they'll absolutely draw on that
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: game to look at maybe how are the ways that
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: we were able to affect them, Affect the quarterback, affect
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: the pocket, affect the receivers. You always want to have
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: a little bit of idea of what worked right and
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: maybe something you can go back to the well on.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: But He's he's accurate, he's playing off schedule a little
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: bit more than he probably has in the past, and
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: then the run game balance I think has really helped him.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: Jackson Smith and Jibbo what stands out about his skill
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: set and why is he such a tough cover.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: And he's really smooth but I think faster and more
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: sudden than sometimes you would appear because he's a smooth mover.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: He's run by some guys, he's gotten behind the defense
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: a few times, and then when he does give him
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: some one on one opportunities down the field if there
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: is some coverage there, I think he's done a nice
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: job of making plays when the ball's in the air.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: And some one on one opportunities.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: They'll also hand them jet sweeps and under rounds and
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: get them the ball in space. So I know Shane
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: was a part of obviously drafting him at the time
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: and always always spoke very highly of him, his football knowledge,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: his ability to play inside and outside and then shoot,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: He's he's really had a nice year so far this year.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: I know this is obviously up for the game, but
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: the honorary kid captain is going to be Josha's son.
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: Just what does that mean for knowing that you and
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: your staff team have been so supportive behind.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Josh's family during us Yeah, really a cool moment for
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Josh and for his family and for for us because
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: we've right when getting here. That was one of the
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: first when I had a first conversation with my first
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: player on this team was Josh einz Allen, and within
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: a two hour phone call conversation, he waited till the
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: last ten minutes to tell me about his son, and
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: so that conversation stuck with me for a long time.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: Made a really strong first impression on the man, the father,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the husband, the player, and to see the players, the
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: other guys in that room, not just in that room,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: on the whole team support him and his family.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: Throughout this process.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Really really cool moment for us as a team and
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: as an organization.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Curse, Thank you.