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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "We're going back to the basics..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: During the bye week, you go back in your review
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  Speaker 1: everything you've done and you take out the good and
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  Speaker 1: you study the bad and try to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to correct the bad. And what we see is just
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  Speaker 1: going back to the basics, getting guys doing what they
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  Speaker 1: what we did from day one in camp as far
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  Speaker 1: as running off the ball, maintaining the gaps, and playing coverage.
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  Speaker 1: So that's really what the bye week is about, just
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  Speaker 1: going back in kind of self scout yourself in trying
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  Speaker 1: to come up with ways to improve. Can help a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Devin Lloyd, who coach Peterson said might be
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  Speaker 1: hitting sort of a rookie wall um in the ladder
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  Speaker 1: portion of the season. Can I help a guy out
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  Speaker 1: like that? I think so anytime you're going back to
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing, like in NFL, you game playing weekly.
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  Speaker 1: Different opponents cause different problems, so you want to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and try to put yourself in best position
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  Speaker 1: to stop that team. But then you all always have
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  Speaker 1: to go back in understand that we have an identity,
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  Speaker 1: we need to stick to that. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what the bye week did got us back to, al Right,
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  Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna you know, still
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  Speaker 1: game plan, but we're gonna mainly focus on ourselves, correcting
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  Speaker 1: ourselves our mistakes and go from there as much as
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  Speaker 1: Chad movement arrest to the point that you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Dark said earlier, he's gonna probably split time that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job because of he came in
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  Speaker 1: early on in the season, got a bunch of reps,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you see it at practice when he
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  Speaker 1: does get a rep, it's what he's supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And you see him making plays on special teams. You
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  Speaker 1: see him making plays when he gets opportunities on defense.
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  Speaker 1: So we just want to see more of that. Devon's
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  Speaker 1: heads just swimming a little bit. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: heads swimming. I think Devin uh, he's making plays for us.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some things that you know, every rookie
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  Speaker 1: goes through it, and you're gonna gonna keep battling and
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  Speaker 1: get his opportunities to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue to make plays. What type of player is Lamar Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: He's uh, outstanding quarterbacks contain a quarterback with his particular
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  Speaker 1: skill set. That's the thing. He's a quarterback that does
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  Speaker 1: have a skill set that typical quarterbacks don't have. And
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  Speaker 1: it's it's tough because you have to have enough guys
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  Speaker 1: on the field that can catch him, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: on the field that are bigger than him have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to understand how to keep him in the
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  Speaker 1: pocket and not let him get out there. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a challenge. You you face it. But we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: plan on how we want to rush him, how we
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  Speaker 1: want to try to contain him and go do it
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  Speaker 1: that that that's the thing. We got to eleven and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna use all eleven at one time. Coach, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just how much influence did he really have on you?
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  Speaker 1: It was a great influence. Um, he's a guy I
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  Speaker 1: was thinkinghen we got together with his first year as
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  Speaker 1: a coach and I was his well special teams captain
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  Speaker 1: and we kind of had a bond and it was
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  Speaker 1: he's a true player's coach and he says, uh, something
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  Speaker 1: that always got me going, And it was just what
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  Speaker 1: he meant, how how he cared about his players, and
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  Speaker 1: how he went about being energetic and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the best out of you. And it's stuck with me.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a guy that you know we talk. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I've looked up to and you know, happy to see him,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we gotta go there and get a victory.
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  Speaker 1: I got to come here just a little off topic,
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  Speaker 1: but Fred Taylor semifinallence with a Hall of Fame? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have any memories of playing against him? I really don't,
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  Speaker 1: And that's a good thing because, yeah, but he's uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that as coaches and former players, you
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  Speaker 1: sitting around in the locker room and you say, like
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  Speaker 1: he should have been in a long time ago because
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  Speaker 1: you remember the type of player he was and the
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  Speaker 1: amount of great things he did. And at the defensive player,
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  Speaker 1: there are certain guys that, yeah, you like to play
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  Speaker 1: every week. Then the other guy that you look on
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  Speaker 1: the schedule, Okay, I'm glad I'm missing him this week,
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  Speaker 1: and he was one of those guys. How difficult is
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  Speaker 1: it going up against a quarterback like Lamar but also
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  Speaker 1: a tied in like Mark Andrews and the things that
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  Speaker 1: that they can do with just those two players. That's
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  Speaker 1: the thing about that combination there. You know you always
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  Speaker 1: talk about a quarterback receiver combination. His top guy is
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  Speaker 1: a tight end and they do things really well. So
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough because he looks for him. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a quarterback looks for the number one receiver. He
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  Speaker 1: looks for him. Man, he's a big target, and you
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  Speaker 1: know it'll be a tough day for us. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: our work cutout for us. You always talking about stopping
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  Speaker 1: the running game first, to stop in the running game
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  Speaker 1: this week against the team with so much misdirection where
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  Speaker 1: they'll do a lot of different things, handing the ball
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  Speaker 1: off kind of take a different meaning or almost have
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  Speaker 1: a different level of importance. It's important every week, but
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  Speaker 1: this week even more so because, like you said, the
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  Speaker 1: type of running game it is, and we preach discipline
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  Speaker 1: all the time. This week you better be disciplined because
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  Speaker 1: if you're out of your gap or you're not in
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  Speaker 1: the right spot, you don't have the right fit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's dynamic enough to hit a long one, and that's
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  Speaker 1: something you don't want to do. But you know, just
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  Speaker 1: going back to the basics, focus, focusing and on gap, discipline,
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  Speaker 1: staying in your lane, and you know, getting off blocks
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  Speaker 1: and getting a bunch of people to the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's how defense is supposed to be played, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how we play it. And you know, we go out
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  Speaker 1: there and do our best. The past rusher kind of
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  Speaker 1: slowed down over the last couple of weeks. Is was
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  Speaker 1: there something when you look back at it at the
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  Speaker 1: bye week that you can kind of do differently to
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  Speaker 1: kind of spark it down the stretch? Really? Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: put it back on them, like there are guys that
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  Speaker 1: have pass rush ability and can get after the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and we're like, we're gonna go back to the basics,
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  Speaker 1: continue to jump off the ball up front. And those guys, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they know it and I think they want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and the sacks haven't come, so they're gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: work on it. And you know, they come in bunches
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll get a bunch