Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Hamilton and Van Lanen Discuss Positional Versatility, Team Improvement

Transcript

Press Pass | Hamilton and Van Lanen Discuss Positional Versatility, Team Improvement · Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, Devine, how you doing doing good?
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Yourself?
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Pretty good? Divine?
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 0:05
  Speaker 3: At what point, when you're maybe a hoigh score college,
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: had you ever been at a long snapper or gotten
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: any snaps in.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: The past before yesterday other than the practice?
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: Uh yeah in high school? Actually that was the last
• 0:18
  Speaker 4: time I actually snapped any game.
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: So okay, was that your full time job in high
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: school addition to playing tackle?
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Well, were you also the team's full time long snapper?
• 0:28
  Speaker 4: I was not even then, I was, I was. Uh,
• 0:30
  Speaker 4: we split time. So it was interesting.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Okay. And is there anything about dat Chickler job that
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: you enjoy? Uh?
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty cool. It seemed like a different
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: side of football, you know. I never I haven't ran
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: down on the punt before in the NFL, so that
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: was interesting. But uh yeah, I think uh I have
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: a new found respect for Ross for sure, and I
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: hope he uh doesn't get hurt ever again.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Go to Jamal, then to Shipley.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: What was harder to von the punt of the field goal?
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: The punt I feel like, especially when we were backed
• 1:09
  Speaker 4: up a little bit, like I can't snap it over
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: his head. There's a lot of things that could go wrong.
• 1:15
  Speaker 5: But how much practice had you actually gotten it being
• 1:18
  Speaker 5: a long snapper, Like you probably knew you were the
• 1:20
  Speaker 5: emergency guy, but how much did you had, Like was
• 1:24
  Speaker 5: that days during training camp at some point? Was it
• 1:26
  Speaker 5: just like five minutes here or there?
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably during training camps the last time I snapped.
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's been been a little minute.
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: And for the defense, I mean, how much pride can
• 1:40
  Speaker 5: you guys take And I mean the game you guys
• 1:42
  Speaker 5: played yesterday, and I mean how this defense has kind
• 1:45
  Speaker 5: of progressed over the course of the season, just kind
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: of continually finding ways to improve.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like we could take a lot of
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: pride in that. I mean, I think we're just scanning
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: confidence in ourselves and a confidence in the call and
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: the confidence where we need to be at in the game.
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: And I think is just starting to build week after week.
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: Especially we love this to happen like later on in
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: the season or we're getting ready to try to do
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: things up towards the end of the season. But yeah,
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: it's working out for us right now.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: We'll go to Shipley, been to morek long Hetolon.
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: Thanks for doing this man, You've been here, you know
• 2:22
  Speaker 6: a long time. You've seen kind of the lows and
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: the highs playing meaningful football in December. Just what does
• 2:27
  Speaker 6: it mean to you to see that that's where this
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: franchise is right now.
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is something we've been working towards. I mean,
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: we said we're going to do this at the beginning
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: of the season, and that's what we're we're doing. I mean,
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: I think, like I told before, like it's this is
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: a confidence boost for our team to be able to
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: play these type of games, and we know where we
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: want to head, we know where our goals are and
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: we're just kind of trying to solidify those.
• 2:51
  Speaker 6: And then it seems like the defensive line had a
• 2:53
  Speaker 6: really good game yesterday de fight not having Trayvon and Eric,
• 2:56
  Speaker 6: Just what does that say about your guys, realm and
• 2:58
  Speaker 6: how the guys stepped up?
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think with just a very confident group.
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, we have a lot of good guys, good
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: players in our room, and you know, somebody goes down,
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: we got to step up and make plays. That's what
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: we did.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Eksllent, We'll go to Mark and then back around to Gary.
• 3:16
  Speaker 7: Hey, Devon, thanks again for doing this. Get you get
• 3:19
  Speaker 7: more attention from the long snapping than you do, like
• 3:22
  Speaker 7: maybe from a sack.
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: Uh probably, you know, I mean a defense tackle stepping
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: out there and long snapping, and you know I play nose,
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: so it's not a lot of the praise going on
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: there usually, So yeah, probably a little bit more from snapper.
• 3:37
  Speaker 7: Long snappers are supposed to get protected. It looked like
• 3:40
  Speaker 7: on a couple of those plays that Simmons and those
• 3:43
  Speaker 7: guys were.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Like all over you.
• 3:45
  Speaker 7: Did you feel like there was not a lot of
• 3:47
  Speaker 7: protection for the long snapper there.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: It was very interesting. Like I said, it's a different
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: view from what being on the other side usually and
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: usually rushing. So you know, yeah, they got me a
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: couple of times, but it's okay.
• 4:03
  Speaker 7: Now, Will you go in and practice more this week
• 4:07
  Speaker 7: knowing that well Ross has this back injury that could
• 4:10
  Speaker 7: flare up, do you think you spend a little extra
• 4:12
  Speaker 7: time on it this week?
• 4:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but I definitely would get a few
• 4:16
  Speaker 4: snaps in throughout the week, like just by myself of anything.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: But yeah, cool, thank you.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: We can take one more from Gary and then another
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: one from Jamal.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Hey Devon, do you recall going against Cole Van Atlanta
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: and college vaguely, yes, okay, And I'm just.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: Wondering a guy like Cole and the number of positions
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: he can play, the versatility he shows, you know, how
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: much value does that bring to the team and in
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: practice scrimmaging things like that and everything is is Cole
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: just as good at guard or tackle or oh whatever.
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: I think Cole is a very He's a great player, honestly.
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously hasn't started a lot of games and whatnot,
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: but I think he's been a great player since college. Honestly,
• 5:07
  Speaker 4: he's Uh, I go against him all the time. He
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: makes me better, so he's a good player for me.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: Jamal.
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: Hey, you've been in a handful of these Colts games
• 5:19
  Speaker 5: in Jacksonville, looking ahead a little bit.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: This one A lot on the line this week.
• 5:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, how big can having the home field in
• 5:25
  Speaker 5: a divisional game like that be.
• 5:28
  Speaker 4: It's very big for us. I mean, obviously they're a
• 5:30
  Speaker 4: very good team this year. We're a very good team
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: this year. I think it's just going to come down
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: to us playing confident, playing the way we know how
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: to play, and finishing the game.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: That's everyone. Thanks to him.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: See you Hey, Cole, Hey doing good?
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: I beg Cole, you.
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: Played for three coaches with this team, and I wonder,
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: at what point, maybe that year on the practice squad
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: shortly after, did you start.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Playing so many positions.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: It was up that you went to the coaches, the
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: O line coach at the time, and offered to do.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: Is this something they approached you about? Was it a
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: way of you getting on the field? How did that evolve?
• 6:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah? Early in my career when I was with Green Bay,
• 6:16
  Speaker 8: I kind of played everywhere for a year on my
• 6:18
  Speaker 8: year on p squad, and then when I got traded here,
• 6:21
  Speaker 8: it was mainly for guard and then they switched me
• 6:24
  Speaker 8: over to tackle and I just kind of throw my
• 6:27
  Speaker 8: career of kind of been put in those situations, and
• 6:31
  Speaker 8: you know, with this new staff, that was something I
• 6:33
  Speaker 8: harp like, I just really no matter what it takes
• 6:36
  Speaker 8: to see the field, I'll do whatever it takes with
• 6:37
  Speaker 8: this team. And that's inside outside, whatever that takes. And
• 6:40
  Speaker 8: it's kind of just evolved into that and I take
• 6:43
  Speaker 8: a lot of pride into it, and you know, it
• 6:46
  Speaker 8: is challenging, but at the same time, I've had raps
• 6:49
  Speaker 8: at all these positions in the past and the end
• 6:51
  Speaker 8: of the day, it's playing football.
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: Is it more challenging in practice or in meetings where
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: you have to learn and know and watch video?
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: You know so many different defensive linemen depending on who
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: you're gonna block. Is there's a there's a preparation difficult Yeah.
• 7:10
  Speaker 8: I mean absolutely, I think the preparation part of it.
• 7:13
  Speaker 8: There's definitely a different type of load when it comes
• 7:16
  Speaker 8: to that, you know, compared to starting honing in on
• 7:19
  Speaker 8: your role who you're gonna be going against. When you're
• 7:22
  Speaker 8: a backup, especially back up at every position, you really
• 7:27
  Speaker 8: can't just study one spot. You truly got to understand
• 7:30
  Speaker 8: and know everywhere along the line. They've had me play
• 7:34
  Speaker 8: some center here. That's really helped me with the playbook too,
• 7:36
  Speaker 8: because I feel like everything starts from the center spot,
• 7:39
  Speaker 8: and if you can learn it that way, it really
• 7:41
  Speaker 8: helps you out.
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: Every spot on the line.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you, yep shiple you followed by d Rock Hey.
• 7:48
  Speaker 6: Cool, thanks for doing this. You've been you know, the
• 7:50
  Speaker 6: team for a couple of years now. You've seen some
• 7:52
  Speaker 6: highs and lows as the team has well. What does
• 7:54
  Speaker 6: it mean to you just that the franchise now is
• 7:56
  Speaker 6: in this position where you guys are playing meaningful games.
• 7:59
  Speaker 8: It's all awesome. You know, at the end of the day,
• 8:02
  Speaker 8: you do this for that. You know you're getting towards
• 8:05
  Speaker 8: the back end of the year where games do matter,
• 8:08
  Speaker 8: and ultimately you play this to win a Super Bowl.
• 8:10
  Speaker 8: You know, as a player, it's exciting to play games
• 8:14
  Speaker 8: and they really do mean that much more. And yeah,
• 8:17
  Speaker 8: it's just very exciting and it's exciting to do it
• 8:19
  Speaker 8: with this group.
• 8:20
  Speaker 6: And then every guy on the active roster, on the
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: offensive lot has had to step in at some point
• 8:25
  Speaker 6: this season and play a role. What does it say
• 8:27
  Speaker 6: to you just about your guys rope?
• 8:29
  Speaker 8: Uh, yeah, I think it shows a lot about our room.
• 8:32
  Speaker 8: We do have a very resilient.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Room and a great room.
• 8:36
  Speaker 8: We do have a lot of guys that can play
• 8:37
  Speaker 8: a lot of spots, and I think that just ultimately
• 8:40
  Speaker 8: really helps our group a lot. And you know, we're
• 8:44
  Speaker 8: just gonna keep pushing doing our thing and continue to
• 8:46
  Speaker 8: be a tough group and we just gotta keep working
• 8:48
  Speaker 8: every week to be better.
• 8:49
  Speaker 6: And then last one for me, Cole whyt Mylom got
• 8:52
  Speaker 6: his first real extended snaps on Sunday. What have you
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: kind of seen from him throughout practice, kind of getting
• 8:56
  Speaker 6: to know him since he got drafted.
• 8:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, why why it's a great, great kid. And he's
• 9:01
  Speaker 8: been doing really really well, and you know, he's just
• 9:03
  Speaker 8: he's been taking his time. You know, him and I
• 9:05
  Speaker 8: battled injuries together, you know, early on, and I've got
• 9:08
  Speaker 8: to know him really well, and he's just you know,
• 9:11
  Speaker 8: he's waiting for his opportunity and he got it, and
• 9:13
  Speaker 8: he got it against a really good player in this league.
• 9:15
  Speaker 8: And I thought he played solid for you know, just
• 9:17
  Speaker 8: kind of getting thrown in there in the situation that's tough,
• 9:20
  Speaker 8: and you know, I know what it's like to you know,
• 9:22
  Speaker 8: you finally get your feet wet in there. And I
• 9:24
  Speaker 8: just think he did a good jobs.
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: We'll go to d Rock and then back to Gary. Okicle.
• 9:33
  Speaker 9: What's the biggest difference that Liam has made here this year?
• 9:39
  Speaker 8: It's aod question, you know, I just think it's it's
• 9:44
  Speaker 8: for one, it's all about us, you know, everything we do,
• 9:47
  Speaker 8: we're not we're not worried about the outside. We're not
• 9:49
  Speaker 8: worried about I mean, we are worried about our opponents,
• 9:52
  Speaker 8: but at the end of the day, it's about what
• 9:53
  Speaker 8: we're doing. And who we are as a as a group,
• 9:56
  Speaker 8: and I think it's really important and I've really enjoyed
• 9:59
  Speaker 8: the to the trajectory of what this group is, the
• 10:05
  Speaker 8: path around, and what we've been able to do so far.
• 10:09
  Speaker 8: I just think ultimately that's what it's been. It's I
• 10:11
  Speaker 8: don't want to say the word culture, but you know,
• 10:13
  Speaker 8: really turning this group around into a way where we
• 10:16
  Speaker 8: play for each other and play with each other and
• 10:19
  Speaker 8: really you know, we all have our mind on an
• 10:21
  Speaker 8: ultimate goal as one. And it's been it's been a blast,
• 10:25
  Speaker 8: and I've been just very grateful to be part of this.
• 10:29
  Speaker 9: Was that something you kind of were hoping he would
• 10:31
  Speaker 9: bring when he first got here and your first meeting
• 10:34
  Speaker 9: him and the first time you guys interact with him.
• 10:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean for me, like there's some other guys
• 10:39
  Speaker 8: that have gone through this type of change before, for me,
• 10:42
  Speaker 8: I've never been a part of something new like this
• 10:46
  Speaker 8: where you know, the turnover and everything else. I didn't
• 10:49
  Speaker 8: really know what to expect, but yeah, absolutely, you know,
• 10:53
  Speaker 8: you always hope for changing. It's for the better, obviously,
• 10:55
  Speaker 8: and I definitely think it has been. And like I
• 10:58
  Speaker 8: said before, I just really enjoy the way things have
• 11:01
  Speaker 8: been and how they're going, and we just got to
• 11:03
  Speaker 8: keep you know, worrying about us and just keep pushing forward.
• 11:07
  Speaker 9: What impresses you about the way he calls plays.
• 11:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I just think Liam has a great offensive mind.
• 11:15
  Speaker 8: You know, he loves screens, he loves the run game.
• 11:18
  Speaker 8: You know, we really complimenting the run pass, everything together.
• 11:23
  Speaker 8: You know, he's very involved with us and talking with
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: us and what we like don't like. You know, it's
• 11:27
  Speaker 8: just it's different. I like it a lot, and I
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: really enjoy it. He's a really good head coach. He's
• 11:33
  Speaker 8: really taking control of the room and it's it's been great.
• 11:36
  Speaker 9: How much difference is there when you guys step out
• 11:39
  Speaker 9: on the field now to where there's this confidence that
• 11:42
  Speaker 9: maybe was missing you know last year at times.
• 11:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know if it's confidence. I just think,
• 11:50
  Speaker 8: you know, like I've been saying, like all about us,
• 11:53
  Speaker 8: you know, there isn't that poll of when things go
• 11:56
  Speaker 8: wrong or you know, like at the end of the day,
• 11:58
  Speaker 8: there's adversity. You got to fight through it. You know,
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: it's it's a long game, it's a long season. You know,
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: we have to play complimentary football offense. Stevens special teams
• 12:06
  Speaker 8: and sometimes that has lacked in the past, and I
• 12:09
  Speaker 8: think that is something we're continuing growing and getting better at.
• 12:13
  Speaker 8: In the sky's the limit when we can really do that.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: Last one, we'll go back to Gary H.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Cole used to block for the guy. What makes Jonathan
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Taylor great?
• 12:28
  Speaker 8: JT's for one as a person and a players. He's
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: a great teammate, a great person to be around. As
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: an offensive lineman. You love the blocking for him.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: His vision is.
• 12:38
  Speaker 8: Explosiveness, his speed, he's faster than you think. He's just
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: sort of all around really good running back and like
• 12:45
  Speaker 8: I said before, just he was awesome to be a
• 12:46
  Speaker 8: teammate with someone that you enjoyed being in the huddle with.
• 12:50
  Speaker 8: And I've been extremely happy with all Jat's success. He's
• 12:53
  Speaker 8: been great and he's a great player.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you.