Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Etienne, Kirk, Hines-Allen, Engram Look Forward to Week 2 vs. Browns
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Up against this defensive front. Do you have any you know,
- 0:02Speaker 1: do you go back to your previous meetings with the
- 0:04Speaker 1: Browns for your personally to see what where you had success?
- 0:08Speaker 2: I mean, not really to see what it has to says,
- 0:10Speaker 2: but to see what the failures were is and see
- 0:11Speaker 2: what I need to look out for and just understanding
- 0:14Speaker 2: that ninety five he's alive each and every play and
- 0:16Speaker 2: trying to get trying to get a chip on him
- 0:18Speaker 2: each and every time, and just understand where ninety five
- 0:21Speaker 2: is every play. I feel like this going to just
- 0:22Speaker 2: make us this to force a game so much better?
- 0:25Speaker 3: Was sticking in the run in the second half there,
- 0:27Speaker 3: Doug had mentioned that he thought the offensive line was
- 0:29Speaker 3: kind of taking over besides the fumble up until that point.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Did you feel as though things were really starting to
- 0:34Speaker 1: come together for the rushing offense.
- 0:36Speaker 4: Ah, for sure.
- 0:37Speaker 2: I feel like just an NFL, I feel like, especially
- 0:39Speaker 2: for our team, we get better as the game goes,
- 0:42Speaker 2: you know, And I feel like when we came out
- 0:44Speaker 2: on the second half, I feel like we were kind
- 0:46Speaker 2: of wearing them down. It was a hot game and
- 0:48Speaker 2: then the defense kind of gets tied and that's when
- 0:50Speaker 2: the offense sposed to impost that will we posted the
- 0:52Speaker 2: finish to close the game, and unfortunately we didn't do that.
- 0:54Speaker 2: But I feel like that's a great recipe for success
- 0:56Speaker 2: in the NFL, and we're going to continue to improve
- 0:58Speaker 2: on that and get better.
- 1:00Speaker 4: What are you seeing your tank?
- 1:01Speaker 5: That just allowed him to accelerate his game from where
- 1:05Speaker 5: from where it was last season?
- 1:07Speaker 4: Uh?
- 1:08Speaker 2: Just coach j Mac. I feel like the way coach
- 1:09Speaker 2: j Max just approaches the game and uh, the way
- 1:11Speaker 2: that he kind of stills thinks in us is, uh,
- 1:14Speaker 2: this is the way you see that night and day,
- 1:15Speaker 2: the kind of things, and uh just is confidence just
- 1:18Speaker 2: not letting hi. He he's not letting the outside world
- 1:20Speaker 2: get into uh getting his head. He's kind of just
- 1:22Speaker 2: sticking in here with the team, uh him, and we
- 1:25Speaker 2: got to say and just letting the outside no, it
- 1:27Speaker 2: just stay outside. And I feel like, uh with uh
- 1:29Speaker 2: coach Mack and that the way that he's approaching the
- 1:31Speaker 2: game this year, I feel like, Uh, Skot's a lemba.
- 1:33Speaker 6: How does it take? How long does it take you
- 1:35Speaker 6: to flash a.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Fumble like that?
- 1:38Speaker 2: I it It definitely was a hard uh uh Uh.
- 1:40Speaker 2: I would like to say first forty eight this one
- 1:46Speaker 2: to forty eight. Then when hit me deep down in
- 1:47Speaker 2: the core, you know, uh ju d D just because
- 1:50Speaker 2: you know, we worked hard all all season, all off season,
- 1:53Speaker 2: all training camp. Nobody sees that. Nobody sees the grind
- 1:55Speaker 2: that we put in day in and day out. Man,
- 1:57Speaker 2: we hear each and every day just grinding our butts
- 1:59Speaker 2: off and now fuss to come out there and play
- 2:01Speaker 2: that that well. And I just just kind of lose
- 2:03Speaker 2: the game as unfortunate. But in the NFL, you have
- 2:06Speaker 2: to continue to move. You have to go forward, and
- 2:07Speaker 2: I had to learn from that mistake, move forward, just
- 2:09Speaker 2: we so I don't have the same mistake bite me twice,
- 2:11Speaker 2: you know. And I feel like we have a great
- 2:14Speaker 2: team around us, just the brotherhood that we have. I
- 2:16Speaker 2: feel like a bunch of people on the team just
- 2:18Speaker 2: can to me man, like you're the one.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Just keep believing yourself.
- 2:20Speaker 2: We believe in you, We know what you can do.
- 2:22Speaker 2: And I feel like that's what's going to get us
- 2:24Speaker 2: over the hump this year, and that's what going to
- 2:25Speaker 2: make us such a great team on the back end.
- 2:27Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm just proud to be with
- 2:28Speaker 2: these guys and playing for these Guys.
- 2:30Speaker 6: Do you even remember the last time you felt like
- 2:32Speaker 6: you lost a game for your team?
- 2:35Speaker 4: Now? Honestly, not really. I try to stab that situation.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You know.
- 2:41Speaker 4: I can't remember one, So that's why I.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Try to stay that situation. Just keep taking it one
- 2:45Speaker 2: player at a time, you know. And I feel like,
- 2:48Speaker 2: just understand that the team has full confidence in me,
- 2:50Speaker 2: kind of just helped me. And I feel like just
- 2:52Speaker 2: everybody reaching out to me after the game. My mom,
- 2:54Speaker 2: my mom, calm me. She know how much I wear
- 2:57Speaker 2: my heart on my sleeve. She's kind of just reached me.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Shake it off. Now, just continue to be who you are,
- 3:01Speaker 2: you know, and be ware your feet are and be
- 3:03Speaker 2: great and uh just glad and showing you are next week.
- 3:06Speaker 5: You've been watching Brian for weeks obviously, but to see
- 3:09Speaker 5: him impact the game that way, Yeah, what does that mean?
- 3:13Speaker 3: What does it mean for him?
- 3:14Speaker 6: Was it mean for you?
- 3:14Speaker 7: Guys?
- 3:15Speaker 8: I think it means a lot, just with his explosive
- 3:19Speaker 8: ability obviously stretching the field, but you know, also being
- 3:22Speaker 8: able to separate at the top of routes and you'll
- 3:25Speaker 8: just be unable to do, you know, all the certain
- 3:27Speaker 8: things that he's asked to do. And I think as
- 3:28Speaker 8: the season goes on, he'll be asked to do more
- 3:30Speaker 8: and before young guy to go out there and you know,
- 3:32Speaker 8: make the plays that he did, and I thought he
- 3:34Speaker 8: played with very calm demeanor but also some energy. I
- 3:38Speaker 8: think a lot of people, including us, love to see him,
- 3:40Speaker 8: you know, kind of get a little bit emotional during
- 3:42Speaker 8: the game and that that was good kind of set
- 3:44Speaker 8: the tone. So like I said, each week, he's just
- 3:46Speaker 8: gonna keep on getting better.
- 3:47Speaker 4: Okay, when he does that.
- 3:50Speaker 8: A little bit, just because he's been a little quiet,
- 3:52Speaker 8: that's just his demeanor.
- 3:53Speaker 6: But I love to see it against that guy. I mean,
- 3:57Speaker 6: that's the highest paid cornerback in league Street, one of
- 4:01Speaker 6: the big time trash talkers. But for him to go
- 4:03Speaker 6: toe to toe kind of thing, beating him off the line,
- 4:05Speaker 6: beat him deep. What does that say about where he's
- 4:09Speaker 6: maybe is headed.
- 4:10Speaker 8: I just think it's confidence, and that's a big It's
- 4:12Speaker 8: a big thing for you know, especially a young receiver,
- 4:15Speaker 8: is to have that confidence. So that's definitely something that
- 4:18Speaker 8: he's never lacked. But it's just good to see that
- 4:21Speaker 8: and see him out there play with some emotion and uh,
- 4:24Speaker 8: you know, kind of use that confidence well.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Stands out about the Browns defense.
- 4:28Speaker 8: You know they're they're front for sure. You know that
- 4:30Speaker 8: front is probably one of the better fronts in the league.
- 4:32Speaker 8: And then on the back end, you know Greg Newsome,
- 4:34Speaker 8: Denzel Ward, you know they have Emerson as well. Uh,
- 4:38Speaker 8: I think all those guys are are great, great players.
- 4:41Speaker 8: So you know, we're we're just gonna have to you know,
- 4:43Speaker 8: be on it when or comes to our communication and
- 4:46Speaker 8: details when it comes to protections and whatnot. And then
- 4:48Speaker 8: you know, on the perimeter, we're just gonna have to
- 4:50Speaker 8: you know, beat man coverage. They like to run a
- 4:52Speaker 8: lot of man coverage and you know, kind of get
- 4:54Speaker 8: up in your face. So you know it's gonna be
- 4:56Speaker 8: the challenge for.
- 4:56Speaker 5: Us outside of the long grabbing the second half of
- 4:59Speaker 5: the small sample side for you guys on offense, but
- 5:01Speaker 5: Trevor playing in your opinion, in that first halt to
- 5:06Speaker 5: be able to get the explosives that you guys are doing,
- 5:08Speaker 5: and I guess just execute what you guys were trying
- 5:10Speaker 5: to in the game plan.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he did a great job.
- 5:12Speaker 8: You know, obviously it was a little hard for us
- 5:14Speaker 8: to you know, kind of get in a rhythm offensively
- 5:17Speaker 8: just with we got behind the chains a couple of times,
- 5:19Speaker 8: and you know, put ourselves in some bad positions. But
- 5:21Speaker 8: I thought he was smart with the football, and I
- 5:23Speaker 8: thought he did, you know, everything that he could do,
- 5:25Speaker 8: you know, put the football in the right place, you know,
- 5:26Speaker 8: for us to go make plays. Some players weren't made
- 5:28Speaker 8: and some players were and so I think as long
- 5:30Speaker 8: as he does that gives guys opportunities, So we're gonna
- 5:32Speaker 8: be just fine. But I thought, for you know, week one,
- 5:35Speaker 8: I thought he did a great job.
- 5:37Speaker 7: How correctable are the mistakes that you guys made last week.
- 5:40Speaker 4: Going to this week?
- 5:41Speaker 8: I think they are mistakes that I guess you, I
- 5:45Speaker 8: guess would want to have, if that makes sense, because
- 5:48Speaker 8: they're all controllables. They're all things that we can control.
- 5:51Speaker 8: It's not a lack of effort. It's not a lack
- 5:53Speaker 8: of skill, it's not a lack of talent. You know,
- 5:56Speaker 8: it's just all things that we can control. And you
- 5:58Speaker 8: just have to go in and during the game and
- 6:00Speaker 8: during that play, you just have to you know, make
- 6:02Speaker 8: the opportunities. You have to do what you're supposed to
- 6:04Speaker 8: do on that give and play. And you know, that's
- 6:06Speaker 8: all things that we have in this locker room. So
- 6:08Speaker 8: I know, like I said, we were a critical on
- 6:10Speaker 8: ourselves yesterday. I learned from it and be better from
- 6:12Speaker 8: it defensively.
- 6:13Speaker 1: When you watch the tape back, obviously, you know, you
- 6:15Speaker 1: guys said in the locker room after the game on Sunday,
- 6:18Speaker 1: it's a loss, and that's what that game will be
- 6:19Speaker 1: remembered by. What positives did you take away for the
- 6:22Speaker 1: defensive line.
- 6:23Speaker 4: I mean, there's no more victories than anything. I think.
- 6:26Speaker 7: You know, the thing that they did differently and we
- 6:28Speaker 7: didn't do is take the ball away. You know, if
- 6:31Speaker 7: you take that takeaway away, you know, we control the
- 6:33Speaker 7: rest of that game. You know, like you know what
- 6:36Speaker 7: we've been doing. But you know, I think they took
- 6:40Speaker 7: the ball away.
- 6:40Speaker 4: We didn't. They're the better defense that day.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Dallas defense got after the Shan a little bit last week.
- 6:47Speaker 3: So I mean, is there's something that stood out why
- 6:50Speaker 3: and and something you guys can do to replicate that.
- 6:52Speaker 7: Stopping the run, stopping the running first down, get them
- 6:54Speaker 7: in passing situations, and just allowing your guys just to
- 6:57Speaker 7: go get it. And you know having you know, they
- 7:00Speaker 7: have some really good receivers on their end. I know,
- 7:04Speaker 7: David is a good tight end for them and uh,
- 7:07Speaker 7: you know in their line.
- 7:09Speaker 4: I think there.
- 7:09Speaker 7: Hopefully their line comes back and you know, we get
- 7:12Speaker 7: a good look at you know, what they're capable of
- 7:14Speaker 7: doing and you know, stopping to run. But we can
- 7:18Speaker 7: be able to do that. Do what we did last week,
- 7:21Speaker 7: continue to do that and uh this time, just take
- 7:23Speaker 7: the ball away and I think we can.
- 7:26Speaker 4: You know, we'll control this game and the way we
- 7:27Speaker 4: want to.
- 7:28Speaker 3: He's still a weapon, the dual threat right to Shawn.
- 7:31Speaker 3: He can still move around. What kind of athlete does
- 7:33Speaker 3: he bring to that position?
- 7:34Speaker 4: I mean you could see just from last week too.
- 7:36Speaker 7: Uh you know, you know rushers having them wrapped up
- 7:40Speaker 7: and him still having that capability to get away. So
- 7:43Speaker 7: just being dialed in on you know, when you have them,
- 7:46Speaker 7: it's gonna take probably more than you know, one two
- 7:48Speaker 7: people to get him down. So you know, just just
- 7:51Speaker 7: jump on them and hold on for dear life, because
- 7:54Speaker 7: he still has all capability of getting out at any tackle.
- 7:57Speaker 5: You you've seen play a high level here, yeah, I mean.
- 8:00Speaker 3: Earlier in your career.
- 8:01Speaker 5: It's so how dangerous is he still is?
- 8:04Speaker 4: Is that?
- 8:04Speaker 5: Is that guy still in there?
- 8:07Speaker 7: I hope now he don't come up this week.
- 8:10Speaker 8: How important is it to get a doub at home?
- 8:13Speaker 7: I mean, did want to know? Each week you know,
- 8:19Speaker 7: you gotta get go want to know? That's that's every week,
- 8:22Speaker 7: you know, home or away in London, you know, in
- 8:26Speaker 7: Germany and Japan hopefully you know, it's you know, want
- 8:30Speaker 7: to know. And it starts today, Well it started Monday,
- 8:33Speaker 7: you know, getting your rate, giving your rest yesterday, and
- 8:35Speaker 7: you know, coming out today to get the install you know,
- 8:38Speaker 7: executing what's need to be had, and you know then
- 8:40Speaker 7: it's gonna continue tomorrow and Friday and Saturday and you
- 8:43Speaker 7: know Sunday we just put all together and try to
- 8:45Speaker 7: go on to know. But as a defense, you know,
- 8:48Speaker 7: gotta get takeaways.
- 8:49Speaker 1: You start something already for Japan.
- 8:51Speaker 5: Give you the next location.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Hey man, I'm just throwing it out there. You know,
- 8:54Speaker 4: you never know.
- 8:55Speaker 5: Hopefully Trayvon's gone. But I mean he does have ten
- 8:57Speaker 5: sacks in his last game.
- 8:59Speaker 7: That's a great He's off to a great start, something
- 9:01Speaker 7: that you wanna, you know, as any rusher, you want
- 9:04Speaker 7: to start off hot, and so for him, it's just
- 9:07Speaker 7: to keep going, you know, and it doesn't have to
- 9:10Speaker 7: be a clean sack.
- 9:12Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
- 9:13Speaker 7: Like my first game last year, I had two sacks
- 9:15Speaker 7: with a quarterback around about that I was.
- 9:17Speaker 4: Just the last one to touch him. Those are sacks.
- 9:20Speaker 7: So just keep piling those up and and you know,
- 9:23Speaker 7: stay relentless, which I know he is, and he can
- 9:26Speaker 7: also win one of the ones when the times needed to.
- 9:28Speaker 7: So I'm really excited, you know, playing a little catch
- 9:31Speaker 7: up right now. So I gotta I'm gonna get me
- 9:33Speaker 7: a big one here soon, him and Eric both. But
- 9:36Speaker 7: you know that's what that's what we're supposed to do,
- 9:39Speaker 7: and I'm happy for him. I wanted to continue to
- 9:40Speaker 7: find success in any ways impossible and you know, just
- 9:44Speaker 7: keep it going from like.
- 9:45Speaker 9: I said earlier, that's kind of the main frustration of Sundays.
- 9:49Speaker 4: You know.
- 9:49Speaker 9: We came out there and we started how we wanted
- 9:51Speaker 9: to start. Got Roland was able to score points at will.
- 9:55Speaker 9: Uh yeah, that's a that's a frustrating part. We were there,
- 9:58Speaker 9: just got just gotta get a little closer.
- 10:00Speaker 6: So easy to flush.
- 10:02Speaker 4: Uh yeah.
- 10:03Speaker 9: With the with the mindset of this locker room, the
- 10:05Speaker 9: way we working, the way we uh we prepare, obviously
- 10:08Speaker 9: we wanna win 'em all, you know. We don't like
- 10:11Speaker 9: uh you know, having this feeling of trying to bounce back.
- 10:13Speaker 9: But that's the you know, credit to the leadership in
- 10:16Speaker 9: this locker room. Uh, you know, the the forward minus
- 10:19Speaker 9: that we're gonna work with. It's definitely easy to uh
- 10:21Speaker 9: one to let go.
- 10:22Speaker 5: You guys have tried to build that.
- 10:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 10:24Speaker 5: Uh that part of it, that bounce back. Uh have
- 10:26Speaker 5: you already seen it this week?
- 10:27Speaker 1: For sure?
- 10:28Speaker 9: I mean that's that's the growth of this team. Is
- 10:30Speaker 9: we understand there's gonna be adversity. Uh, there's gonna be
- 10:33Speaker 9: adversity in a play, adversity in the game, Uh, adversity
- 10:36Speaker 9: in the season. So that's kind of uh our mottol
- 10:40Speaker 9: is you know we're gonna respond to it. Uh, We're
- 10:42Speaker 9: gonna attack it. And that's the pra kind of practice
- 10:44Speaker 9: we had today.
- 10:45Speaker 4: Uh, everybody was flying around. Had a good day.
- 10:47Speaker 5: Gotta be better on third downs, yeah, simply.
- 10:50Speaker 9: Yeah for sure. Uh big day for us tomorrow. Third
- 10:53Speaker 9: down prep. Uh got to come in and get it right,
- 10:56Speaker 9: get it right in practice and get you know, make
- 10:58Speaker 9: it count on Sunday.
- 10:59Speaker 3: It may not show land week, but how good is
- 11:00Speaker 3: the Sprowns defense they have? Seems like they have guys
- 11:03Speaker 3: at every level.
- 11:03Speaker 9: Right, every level, every level. Uh in week one, Uh,
- 11:07Speaker 9: they're gonna learn from and they're gonna be a better
- 11:09Speaker 9: product week too. So uh we gotta come ready literally
- 11:12Speaker 9: every level. Uh, they have a game rerecord, so we
- 11:15Speaker 9: gotta come prepare. Uh, we gotta execute at a very
- 11:18Speaker 9: high level all game.
- 11:19Speaker 5: What's it like to see Brian perform the way he
- 11:22Speaker 5: did at right out.
- 11:23Speaker 4: Of the gates?
- 11:24Speaker 9: I mean, uh, I mean, it's it's a It's a
- 11:29Speaker 9: huge spark for our team, a huge spark. And I
- 11:31Speaker 9: told him, you know, I told him today, Actually he
- 11:33Speaker 9: might be a rookie. Uh, he might be quiet, but
- 11:36Speaker 9: that energy you had on Sunday, the confidence that we
- 11:38Speaker 9: saw come out of you, Uh, that's gonna help our team.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Uh.
- 11:42Speaker 9: We see it and we feel it. So uh, whatever
- 11:44Speaker 9: he's been doing, uh, he needs to keep doing it.
- 11:46Speaker 7: Uh.
- 11:47Speaker 9: And uh he has a bright future ahead. Uh it's
- 11:49Speaker 9: only his first game. He's gonna continue to learn. He's
- 11:51Speaker 9: gonna continue to get better and get more accustomed to
- 11:54Speaker 9: the game and our offense. So uh man, I can't
- 11:57Speaker 9: wait to you know, play alongside him for the rest
- 11:59Speaker 9: of the season and just watching and grow for.
- 12:01Speaker 5: Sure, that's quiet as a guy as we've seen around here.
- 12:03Speaker 4: So how unexpected was some.
- 12:04Speaker 9: Of the I mean it's just like I said, It's
- 12:08Speaker 9: just it's what we need as a too, for sure.
- 12:10Speaker 9: I mean, uh, he'll he'll come around.
- 12:12Speaker 4: Uh, he'll definitely.
- 12:14Speaker 9: Uh every rookie that I When I was a rookie,
- 12:16Speaker 9: I said, nothing around. Uh you know, Uh in New
- 12:19Speaker 9: York when I was up there, I was really quiet
- 12:21Speaker 9: and it took me a while to come by on
- 12:22Speaker 9: my shell. Even when I came here. Honestly, I was, uh,
- 12:25Speaker 9: really quiet. So he'll come around. He'll definitely come around.
- 12:27Speaker 9: You see it every now and then. Gabe gets it
- 12:29Speaker 9: out of him the most, for sure. But uh, yeah,
- 12:32Speaker 9: he's Uh, he's awesome to be around. He's awesome to
- 12:34Speaker 9: work with, and uh, I can't wait to see him.
- 12:36Speaker 9: Uh excel, I think.
- 12:37Speaker 5: Real difficulty on the Trevor throw him in.
- 12:39Speaker 9: The end zone, ah man, I mean yeah, you know,
- 12:43Speaker 9: you slow down the tape, you see where he throws
- 12:45Speaker 9: at and where BT is at.
- 12:47Speaker 4: I mean that's just.
- 12:48Speaker 9: What we do. We rep it and practicing, we go
- 12:50Speaker 9: out and execute it in the game. We just gotta
- 12:52Speaker 9: we gotta do more of those great throw, great rout
- 12:55Speaker 9: by BT and just we can make more of those
- 12:57Speaker 9: players that stuff. Like I said, I'll come back to it.
- 12:59Speaker 9: That's frustrating. Part of it is we have that type
- 13:01Speaker 9: of capability. I just gotta just do it more.
- 13:04Speaker 3: A lot of football after this week. But how big
- 13:07Speaker 3: is this week to get back considering the schedule ahead
- 13:10Speaker 3: the next month or so.
- 13:11Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, we gotta get this one. And you
- 13:14Speaker 9: know we're not looking, We're not trying to plan ahead,
- 13:17Speaker 9: We're not trying to scope out what's next. We gotta
- 13:19Speaker 9: beat the Cleveland Browns our home opener. Fans gonna be
- 13:21Speaker 9: here excited. It's gonna be a great atmosphere. We're gonna
- 13:25Speaker 9: go out and protect our house.