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- 0:00Speaker 1: Afternoon, Doug, can we just get injury update on Evan, Tank, Gabe,
- 0:06Speaker 1: Cisco and maybe Anton too, if there's something with Anton.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah.
- 0:11Speaker 3: So Evan obviously, as you know, prior to pregame warm ups, Uh,
- 0:17Speaker 3: he's out there running, running around getting himself loose for
- 0:22Speaker 3: the game and obviously felt something you know, in his
- 0:25Speaker 3: hamstring and and so it was significant enough to keep
- 0:29Speaker 3: him out and hold him out of the football game yesterday.
- 0:31Speaker 3: We'll see, uh where he is this week. Uh, you know, optimistic,
- 0:38Speaker 3: but uh, we just got to see. Ham strings can
- 0:41Speaker 3: be funny, you know. So so it's it's kind of
- 0:45Speaker 3: a week to week deal right now with him all
- 0:47Speaker 3: the other guys. Tank, Tank, actually you know, just uh
- 0:50Speaker 3: he got hit on his shoulder on the kickoff return.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Had a little bit of a shoulder injury there. Took
- 0:56Speaker 2: him in, you know, did some X rays on him.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Everything was good, got him back kind of loosened up,
- 1:03Speaker 3: and uh, you know, was was sort of available, you know,
- 1:07Speaker 3: in the second half of the football game yesterday. Gabe
- 1:12Speaker 3: just landed on his on his shoulder on the sideline
- 1:15Speaker 3: there late in the game.
- 1:16Speaker 2: He's fine. Anton is fine, and was there one more
- 1:21Speaker 2: that you asked me about Cisco.
- 1:23Speaker 3: I think, uh, Cisco, Cisco's okay, He's fine.
- 1:29Speaker 1: What can you do to jump start this offense?
- 1:32Speaker 2: Is there?
- 1:33Speaker 1: Is it as simple as simplifying it even more changing?
- 1:37Speaker 1: I don't know the way you approach the game plan
- 1:40Speaker 1: or what can you do to kind of jump start
- 1:42Speaker 1: this group?
- 1:44Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something we got to look at, you know,
- 1:46Speaker 3: these next couple of days. You know, I think it
- 1:48Speaker 3: starts in practice. I think we can we can do
- 1:50Speaker 3: some things differently in practice and and how we you know,
- 1:54Speaker 3: attack that you know, each period in practice, that's one.
- 1:58Speaker 3: You know, obviously, the game plans, game plan, you can
- 2:00Speaker 3: you can simplify as much as you want, but it
- 2:02Speaker 3: doesn't change the fact that you gotta you gotta start fast, right,
- 2:05Speaker 3: I mean that that that just goes without saying. And
- 2:08Speaker 3: and it just has to be an awareness just a
- 2:11Speaker 3: sense of urgency by everybody, the entire football team really,
- 2:15Speaker 3: you know, when we when we head into these games.
- 2:17Speaker 3: But I think we can we can maybe mix some
- 2:21Speaker 3: things up and and just just you know, uh a
- 2:24Speaker 3: little more attention to detail and practice as we go
- 2:27Speaker 3: each week.
- 2:28Speaker 1: And I know the ball goes where the open guy is,
- 2:31Speaker 1: But are you're a little surprised that Christian has not
- 2:33Speaker 1: been more involved at this point.
- 2:36Speaker 3: Well, as you know, the ball goes where it goes,
- 2:40Speaker 3: and and you know there were opportunities, but but the
- 2:42Speaker 3: ball was going going somewhere else in the progression.
- 2:44Speaker 2: So you know, we're we're going to.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Continue to to find ways to get Christian the football
- 2:48Speaker 3: and and he'll be a big part of the offense.
- 2:51Speaker 4: Thanks So, yeah, John Shipley than Jean.
- 3:00Speaker 5: Mason yesterday, and maybe what he needs to do, what
- 3:03Speaker 5: has to happen moving forward for that to change.
- 3:06Speaker 3: Say that again, the first part was kind of kind
- 3:08Speaker 3: of low volume.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Not bad.
- 3:11Speaker 5: Can you talk a little bit about the decision to
- 3:13Speaker 5: have Mason in active yesterday and what kind of needs
- 3:15Speaker 5: to happen for him for that to change moving forward?
- 3:17Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's you got fifty three players each week,
- 3:21Speaker 3: and and I get a chance to select the forty
- 3:24Speaker 3: eight and obviously I you know, visit with the defensive
- 3:27Speaker 3: staff and and and it kind of goes too off
- 3:29Speaker 3: of the prior the prior.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Week, So it's not necessarily what Mason did.
- 3:33Speaker 3: I think I think guys like Big O and and
- 3:36Speaker 3: Jeremiah also had had good weeks.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Of preparation and practice.
- 3:39Speaker 3: And and it's it's just an opportunity for Mason to
- 3:43Speaker 3: to learn and and and you know put himself in
- 3:47Speaker 3: a position this week to to try to be to
- 3:49Speaker 3: be elevated.
- 3:49Speaker 2: So it was nothing that he didn't do.
- 3:52Speaker 3: I just think it was a fact that that Jeremiah
- 3:55Speaker 3: and and and Big O had had opportunities to be
- 3:59Speaker 3: up this week.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Step We'll go to Gene then to Gary. Hey, Doug.
- 4:08Speaker 6: Uh, the players in the locker room often talk about
- 4:11Speaker 6: how together and bonded they are and the chemistry is
- 4:16Speaker 6: there regardless of whether it's adversity or things are going well.
- 4:20Speaker 6: How much do you think that that will serve them
- 4:23Speaker 6: well as they, you know, deal with this early season
- 4:27Speaker 6: adversity of just not playing up the par.
- 4:31Speaker 3: I think it's everything the fact that they are, you know,
- 4:35Speaker 3: and we've had listen, Jane, we've had many guys in
- 4:38Speaker 3: here today already, and and you know they've come up
- 4:41Speaker 3: and talked to the coaches and want them to sit
- 4:43Speaker 3: down and go through the tape, and and uh, they're
- 4:45Speaker 3: on they're on board. I mean it's it's they understand.
- 4:48Speaker 3: I mean, they understand they have to play better. We
- 4:49Speaker 3: have to coach better. It's it's a group effort. It's
- 4:51Speaker 3: it's no particular one person or one position, group or
- 4:55Speaker 3: one side of the ball. I think I think there's
- 4:58Speaker 3: enough obviously enough mistakes to fix enough.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Things we can we can get better at.
- 5:03Speaker 3: But but the fact that the players are united and
- 5:06Speaker 3: and locked in and and uh focused that way as
- 5:09Speaker 3: a good sign.
- 5:10Speaker 6: As a follow up, could you talk about the performance
- 5:13Speaker 6: of your secondary yesterday? Missing all the pieces they were missing,
- 5:16Speaker 6: but seemed to hold up pretty well.
- 5:19Speaker 3: I'll tell you the secondary has been been really a
- 5:23Speaker 3: bright spot.
- 5:24Speaker 2: I mean, I know we had some some some mishaps.
- 5:26Speaker 3: You know week one in Miami and and uh, you know,
- 5:30Speaker 3: things of that nature. But I thought, I thought buster
- 5:32Speaker 3: played an excellent football game yesterday. You know, you saw
- 5:38Speaker 3: DeAndre Prince come in and and make make a play
- 5:41Speaker 3: on Amari Cooper.
- 5:42Speaker 2: I mean, they're best receiver and you.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Know, just they continue to gain confidence the more they're
- 5:48Speaker 3: out there. We we still have some communication things we
- 5:50Speaker 3: got to clean up, you know, and and and some
- 5:53Speaker 3: leverage things, but uh, that's been a that's been a
- 5:56Speaker 3: bright spot for us.
- 5:58Speaker 6: One last thing, if I may, you like, communication is
- 6:02Speaker 6: the biggest or miscommunication is the biggest issue with this
- 6:05Speaker 6: offense right now, because it was mentioned quite a bit
- 6:07Speaker 6: in the locker room yesterday.
- 6:09Speaker 2: I do it's it's it's one aspect.
- 6:11Speaker 3: I mean, listen, there's there's a there's a lot of
- 6:13Speaker 3: things that have to go on, and there's a lot
- 6:15Speaker 3: of talking that goes on for you know, for.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Each individual play.
- 6:18Speaker 3: And and you know, we missed some things in the
- 6:20Speaker 3: run game, we missed some things in protection, but all
- 6:22Speaker 3: things are very fixable and correctable, and and you know, uh,
- 6:27Speaker 3: but yes, that is definitely something we've gotta we've got
- 6:30Speaker 3: to correct.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Thanks Bet.
- 6:34Speaker 7: Kerry, followed by Mia and Doug. Yesterday, you're asked about
- 6:39Speaker 7: your confidence in the offensive line and you gave him
- 6:41Speaker 7: brief but positive answer that you did. Can you elaborate
- 6:45Speaker 7: on why you have as much confidence as you do
- 6:48Speaker 7: in the offensive line?
- 6:50Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I guess I guess I would need
- 6:54Speaker 2: from you. I would need what what what do you?
- 6:56Speaker 2: What do you mean? You know, is there something that
- 6:58Speaker 2: specifically stands out.
- 6:59Speaker 7: To you or or well the protection issues, for instance,
- 7:03Speaker 7: on the safety you know, Ezra and Cam got split
- 7:07Speaker 7: on that side, and it just looks like there's some
- 7:10Speaker 7: guys are kind of last two weeks are running free.
- 7:12Speaker 7: There's a couple of instances of h and again it
- 7:16Speaker 7: goes back to miscommunication possibly. But you know, why do
- 7:19Speaker 7: you have confidence in this offensive line right now that
- 7:21Speaker 7: they can get better?
- 7:22Speaker 3: Well, I think I think that's the number one thing.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I think the confidences uh is still there, That's the thing.
- 7:27Speaker 2: And I think the.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Communication is is probably the biggest issue. Some of the
- 7:31Speaker 3: hits yesterday was the fact that whether it was Trevor
- 7:34Speaker 3: or Mitch, I mean, these are things we gotta we
- 7:36Speaker 3: gotta fix, you know, making making protection calls and letting guys,
- 7:40Speaker 3: letting guys free. And then the one on the safety
- 7:43Speaker 3: is just a matter of you know, just just execution
- 7:47Speaker 3: down there.
- 7:47Speaker 2: It wasn't it wasn't necessarily a communication issue.
- 7:49Speaker 3: And and then just having a sense of awares because
- 7:52Speaker 3: we we if we pick up that that that defensive
- 7:55Speaker 3: tackle right there, Uh, there's a there's a big play
- 7:58Speaker 3: uh to to Brian. So those are all things that
- 8:02Speaker 3: we've we've got to fix. And then even in the
- 8:03Speaker 3: run game, you know, this is probably going to be
- 8:09Speaker 3: the fastest sort of downhill linebacker group we may see
- 8:14Speaker 3: all season, you know, and these guys really attacked the
- 8:16Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. And there were some good things, some
- 8:18Speaker 3: good positive things, some good, nice, nice.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Uh you know runs that were in there.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And then there were some some ones that that we
- 8:26Speaker 3: we just we failed to execute on.
- 8:28Speaker 2: So you know, confidence is.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Still high and and it's it's going to remain high,
- 8:34Speaker 3: and you know, we just continue to gell these these
- 8:37Speaker 3: five guys together.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Thank you, Mia, followed by Hayes.
- 8:44Speaker 8: Hey, Doug certainly trevored in mince words at the podium yesterday.
- 8:48Speaker 8: I'm just curious the fire you've seen from him in
- 8:51Speaker 8: the last twenty four hours or so. How do you
- 8:54Speaker 8: react to that as a as a head coach?
- 8:58Speaker 2: When you say fire, what do you what do you
- 9:00Speaker 2: talk about?
- 9:01Speaker 3: Uh?
- 9:01Speaker 8: He stood at the podium and said we suck right
- 9:06Speaker 8: now and did not mince words, and certainly uh yeah,
- 9:10Speaker 8: he was very forward, very poignant, talked about accountability and
- 9:15Speaker 8: saying to guys, hey, if I'm calling you out, if
- 9:18Speaker 8: you can't handle the heat, kind of get out of
- 9:19Speaker 8: the street.
- 9:21Speaker 2: You know, that's that's what you want from your leader.
- 9:25Speaker 3: I don't want I don't want anybody to sugarcoat anything.
- 9:28Speaker 3: I think that's that's that's stuff that gets swept under
- 9:31Speaker 3: the rug, is is what kind of gets you bet.
- 9:33Speaker 3: We've got to keep everything in the forefront. We've got
- 9:35Speaker 3: to keep it in the front of our minds, you know.
- 9:37Speaker 3: And and listen, he's he's he's the franchise, right, he's
- 9:41Speaker 3: the starting quarterback and and he's the one back there
- 9:44Speaker 3: with the football making the decision. So I appreciate the
- 9:48Speaker 3: fact that he, you know, he's taking that role and
- 9:50Speaker 3: that lead. And it may not be in his his
- 9:53Speaker 3: nature to do it, but you know what, he's got
- 9:55Speaker 3: to do it. And I'm excited for that. And I
- 9:58Speaker 3: think I think the players will respond. I mean there,
- 10:00Speaker 3: they're going to support him a hundred times over and
- 10:04Speaker 3: and if if if they're not, you know, uh And
- 10:07Speaker 3: and I think I think it's too.
- 10:08Speaker 2: I think it's a two way street.
- 10:09Speaker 8: Me.
- 10:09Speaker 3: I think it's the players will hold him accountable too,
- 10:12Speaker 3: you know. And and I think it's a two way street.
- 10:14Speaker 3: So I can appreciate that from him.
- 10:17Speaker 8: I'm just curious. Have you felt that sort of fire
- 10:21Speaker 8: from him away from the podium, that he has been
- 10:24Speaker 8: much more deliberate in his conversations and his words.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think that's part of the maturity,
- 10:30Speaker 3: you know, growing up in this league. And and you know, listen,
- 10:34Speaker 3: he's a competitor and he wants to win, and we
- 10:35Speaker 3: all want to win. And sometimes you have to you
- 10:39Speaker 3: have to be assertive, you know, in your leadership.
- 10:42Speaker 2: And and it's good to see he's followed by Jumal.
- 10:51Speaker 9: Hey, Doug being one in seven in your in your
- 10:54Speaker 9: last eight games, have you ever gone through a stretch
- 10:56Speaker 9: like that?
- 10:57Speaker 2: And and how do you not let it affect your confident?
- 11:02Speaker 3: Well, I hadn't thought about it until you said it, so, uh, yeah,
- 11:08Speaker 3: you know what, I don't let it affect me. I
- 11:11Speaker 3: just know it's a it's a it's a business that
- 11:14Speaker 3: it's a one week you know, it's a week to
- 11:16Speaker 3: week business. We've talked about this a lot, and and
- 11:19Speaker 3: you know, I I I gotta find thing for me too,
- 11:22Speaker 3: is yes, we got to correct the negative h and
- 11:24Speaker 3: the and the things that are going wrong, but I
- 11:26Speaker 3: also got to look at the positive and and what's.
- 11:28Speaker 2: What's being put out there.
- 11:29Speaker 3: And you know, I think I think it's a different
- 11:33Speaker 3: ballgame in Miami, as you guys know, if we don't
- 11:35Speaker 3: if we don't fumble, you know, on the on the
- 11:37Speaker 3: two yard line, and I think this week, if we
- 11:39Speaker 3: get a chance to score uh and not kick that
- 11:42Speaker 3: field goal there, uh, you know, we take the lead
- 11:45Speaker 3: and and potentially when when yesterday's game, despite you know,
- 11:48Speaker 3: the mistake.
- 11:49Speaker 2: So it's it's a little bit of a fine line.
- 11:52Speaker 3: I understand that. But we are you know, we are
- 11:55Speaker 3: where we are right now, as you mentioned one and
- 11:57Speaker 3: seven and and it's something that you know, we just
- 12:01Speaker 3: got to focus on focus on Buffalo this week.
- 12:04Speaker 2: And then how did you think Brenton Strange played for you?
- 12:07Speaker 3: He played really good, played tough, played physical, made some
- 12:10Speaker 3: great catches.
- 12:12Speaker 2: You know, somebody that we we we knew, you know,
- 12:15Speaker 2: he had it in him.
- 12:16Speaker 3: We've seen it in practice and it was good for
- 12:17Speaker 3: him to show up yesterday with Evan's absence.
- 12:21Speaker 2: Cool.
- 12:22Speaker 6: Thank you, Yeah, Jamal.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Hey Doug, when you you got a team that's kind
- 12:30Speaker 4: of looking for a spark, can Monday night football primetime
- 12:33Speaker 4: game be be the spark that you're kind of looking for?
- 12:35Speaker 4: Do you guys get up a little different for those
- 12:37Speaker 4: kind of games?
- 12:38Speaker 3: Oh, they definitely get up for Monday night, your primetime
- 12:41Speaker 3: You're the only you know game on around the league,
- 12:44Speaker 3: and everybody's watching.
- 12:45Speaker 2: So, uh, it's a great.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Opportunity for us to go on the road play good
- 12:48Speaker 3: good Bills football team obviously, and uh they've had they've
- 12:51Speaker 3: had some rest now, you know with their Thursday night
- 12:54Speaker 3: game with Miami, and but yeah, it's it's definitely a
- 12:58Speaker 3: great opportunity for our guys to to kind of get
- 13:00Speaker 3: fired up and look forward to play.
- 13:03Speaker 4: And you've been with this group for a little while now,
- 13:06Speaker 4: is it frustrating when this team seems to play their
- 13:09Speaker 4: best football when their backs against the wall, Like at
- 13:12Speaker 4: some point, do you want them.
- 13:13Speaker 2: To put that foot forward before they get in the corner?
- 13:17Speaker 3: Definitely, you know, you definitely want them to start the
- 13:21Speaker 3: game faster, start the second half faster, and and and
- 13:23Speaker 3: not wait, you know, not wait two and a half
- 13:25Speaker 3: quarters to to to you know, kind of get fired up.
- 13:28Speaker 2: But again, that's you.
- 13:31Speaker 3: Know, that's something we gotta we we got to focus
- 13:33Speaker 3: on and talk about it and then really talk about
- 13:36Speaker 3: it internally, I think, and see what we can do
- 13:38Speaker 3: to you know, jump jump sort of jump start and
- 13:42Speaker 3: spark spark the team.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Thank groach, be this will be the last one.
- 13:51Speaker 9: Travis, Hey, coach, could you touch on the impact of
- 13:56Speaker 9: losing Ingram during the pregame, and did they have any
- 14:00Speaker 9: you know, significant impacts as far as the play calls
- 14:02Speaker 9: we're concerned or the offensive performance coming out.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Obviously, when you lose, you lose a player like like Evan,
- 14:10Speaker 3: it can definitely take you know, uh, it can take
- 14:13Speaker 3: a little wind out of your sale.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Just a little bit.
- 14:15Speaker 3: He's a leader, he's he's obviously a starter, he's a captain.
- 14:18Speaker 3: I mean, it's uh, it's it's a big, big, big loss.
- 14:21Speaker 2: But you know that's the thing.
- 14:22Speaker 3: We could have lost him in pregame, We could have
- 14:25Speaker 3: lost him the first play of the game.
- 14:26Speaker 2: And and you've got to continue to play. So we
- 14:29Speaker 2: can't let things like that affect us.
- 14:31Speaker 3: You know, we we definitely hate it and and don't
- 14:33Speaker 3: like it for Evan obviously, and and now we've got
- 14:35Speaker 3: to see moving forward where he's at. But it's always
- 14:39Speaker 3: been a next man up mentality and and that's something
- 14:42Speaker 3: that we continue to preach and and you know we're
- 14:45Speaker 3: going to continue, uh to to keep that role. And
- 14:47Speaker 3: then you know, if we if we bring somebody up,
- 14:50Speaker 3: you know, Josiah or Sean off the practice squad this
- 14:52Speaker 3: this week, if that's the case, then then we got
- 14:55Speaker 3: to get them ready to go. So you know, it'll
- 14:58Speaker 3: always be the next man up. And but uh, as
- 15:03Speaker 3: far as the game yesterday, I don't think it necessarily
- 15:05Speaker 3: affected us as much. Maybe maybe a little more big
- 15:10Speaker 3: nickel or three safety type, you know, the Browns could
- 15:14Speaker 3: have presented with Evan on the field, you know, with
- 15:16Speaker 3: two tight ends. But other than that, it didn't really
- 15:19Speaker 3: it didn't really affect us.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Too much, gotcha.
- 15:22Speaker 9: And also as far as the red zones were concerned,
- 15:24Speaker 9: you guys had two opportunities first and two, first and
- 15:27Speaker 9: goal from the two yard line, and both times came
- 15:30Speaker 9: away with field goals. I know that's been a kind
- 15:32Speaker 9: of an ongoing thing as far as trying to get
- 15:33Speaker 9: the red zone right. What were you take away from that?
- 15:36Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was frustrating.
- 15:39Speaker 3: You know, we we came out random ball, I think,
- 15:40Speaker 3: with two yard loss right there.
- 15:42Speaker 2: Then wen we line.
- 15:42Speaker 3: Up and empty and and we had an opportunity to uh,
- 15:46Speaker 3: you know, I think score even on the empty play,
- 15:49Speaker 3: and we didn't.
- 15:50Speaker 2: We didn't capitalize.
- 15:51Speaker 3: There and and and then ultimately the third down play,
- 15:53Speaker 3: they they the Browns you know, covered us up pretty good.
- 15:56Speaker 3: So we so we settled for the three, and then
- 15:59Speaker 3: you know the other one, and you look at that
- 16:00Speaker 3: one and and you know we had the illegal shift.
- 16:04Speaker 3: Can't happen. We got to make sure everybody's set on
- 16:07Speaker 3: the touchdown there. Even then, we had a chance I
- 16:10Speaker 3: think prior to that, or no, I think after that,
- 16:13Speaker 3: had a chance to run the ball in, got us
- 16:15Speaker 3: down to or maybe it was played before I can't
- 16:16Speaker 3: remember now, but got to like the two yard line.
- 16:20Speaker 3: So the opportunities are there. We just we just are
- 16:22Speaker 3: making a few mistakes and as we know, in this league,
- 16:27Speaker 3: you gotta score touchdowns, especially when you get inside the
- 16:29Speaker 3: ten