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- 0:00Speaker 1: I know how we don't pretty good?
- 0:02Speaker 2: How you doing good? So when you were in college,
- 0:05Speaker 2: you may remember playing against Levante.
- 0:08Speaker 1: David did Yeah, Levante David same team as Jason Pierre Paul.
- 0:14Speaker 1: They had another guy that was really good that went
- 0:15Speaker 1: to Texas and m played corner. That was a really
- 0:17Speaker 1: good team.
- 0:18Speaker 2: So anything about him when he was let.
- 0:22Speaker 1: He averaged like twenty tackles a game. So they went
- 0:24Speaker 1: to Nebraska kind of just always followed him, was always
- 0:27Speaker 1: super productive. But yeah, they had a really good team
- 0:30Speaker 1: that had a really good defense, a lot of good players.
- 0:32Speaker 1: So when you played against a lot of those guys
- 0:34Speaker 1: in junior college, you kind of keep track of a
- 0:35Speaker 1: lot of them and just watch them as they go
- 0:36Speaker 1: through college. If you go through your week, you always
- 0:39Speaker 1: plan just as part of your routine for a backup.
- 0:43Speaker 1: I mean, you always have a plan that you're working
- 0:45Speaker 1: just in case.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Or is this a different week for you.
- 0:47Speaker 1: No, I mean we've we've been through this where we're
- 0:50Speaker 1: not sure of Trevor status going into a game. Uh
- 0:53Speaker 1: So we always kind of put together a plan that
- 0:56Speaker 1: I think fits both guys and a lot of things,
- 0:58Speaker 1: just the way they play quarterback now they have different
- 1:00Speaker 1: skill sets, and so you may feature different things based
- 1:04Speaker 1: on the timing of the way they get the ball out,
- 1:05Speaker 1: their movement skills, different things like that that maybe you
- 1:08Speaker 1: feature one way or the other. But I think this
- 1:10Speaker 1: is it's not as probably chaotic as people would think
- 1:15Speaker 1: of just you know, he's a quarterback. They both operate
- 1:17Speaker 1: really well from the pocket. The things we want to do,
- 1:20Speaker 1: the things they see well, and then utilizing the guys
- 1:23Speaker 1: around them is a big part of it.
- 1:24Speaker 3: The guys around them.
- 1:25Speaker 1: You have to say anything this week, or do these
- 1:28Speaker 1: guys just.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Intrinsically know that they've got to make every block, make
- 1:32Speaker 3: every catch, they've got to help him? Is that they're
- 1:35Speaker 3: just pro as they get it, or you say no.
- 1:37Speaker 1: No, there's not much else you need to say. I mean,
- 1:39Speaker 1: we want to go out every single day, every single
- 1:41Speaker 1: week and operate each play to the best of our ability.
- 1:44Speaker 1: So you don't need to put any more on anything
- 1:46Speaker 1: based on who's playing quarterback or wherever anybody is at
- 1:48Speaker 1: any point in time.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Here, they can't go this week, what receivers are you
- 1:52Speaker 2: looking for a step up?
- 1:53Speaker 1: It's a rotation of everybody. I mean, really going into
- 1:55Speaker 1: the tight end room, the running back room of you know,
- 1:58Speaker 1: each personnel grouping on each play is civic to you know,
- 2:01Speaker 1: who we think does each thing well, Uh, you'll lean
- 2:04Speaker 1: on a little bit more of you know, ag Tim
- 2:06Speaker 1: Elijah Parker. That kind of rotation of young guys stepping
- 2:09Speaker 1: into their role. Ideally getting Britten back healthy would help
- 2:13Speaker 1: us out. Luke has continued to come on in all
- 2:15Speaker 1: aspects of the game. So, uh, you know it's kind
- 2:18Speaker 1: of by committee off everybody stepping in and filling those roles.
- 2:20Speaker 1: That that's kind of what you expect a week to
- 2:22Speaker 1: week in the NFL.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Anyways, I know you said it's by committee, but Calvin
- 2:27Speaker 3: just is Are you guys going to need him to
- 2:29Speaker 3: be that best version of him the guy that you
- 2:31Speaker 3: guys see on tape. Yeah?
- 2:35Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean Calvin and Evan obviously the mainstays that
- 2:39Speaker 1: have continued to stay healthy and be available to us.
- 2:41Speaker 1: And we'll do everything we can to utilize our best
- 2:44Speaker 1: players all the time.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Different combinations and different phases on the offensive line you
- 2:49Speaker 3: think has played a big part of the run game.
- 2:51Speaker 3: How big that is affected to you just to continue
- 2:54Speaker 3: to along that line.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a big part. I think having
- 2:57Speaker 1: comfort of who you're playing next to, how they communicate,
- 3:00Speaker 1: how you guys play together is a factor. But at
- 3:03Speaker 1: the same time, we expect whoever is in there and
- 3:05Speaker 1: whatever combination of guys to produce, play well, communicate, effectively,
- 3:09Speaker 1: do their job at a high level. We've got to
- 3:11Speaker 1: continue to put them in the best possible position to
- 3:13Speaker 1: do that.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Even Trevor like a lot of the same things, and
- 3:17Speaker 3: he didn't think that would mean having to overhaul a
- 3:19Speaker 3: lot of stuff to you as a play caller and
- 3:21Speaker 3: just putting together game play. How hopeful is that to you?
- 3:23Speaker 3: Just if they, you know, kind of operate the same.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Time of way, that's a big deal. I mean, obviously
- 3:27Speaker 1: we spend a lot of time in that room talking
- 3:28Speaker 1: through the entire plan. So we've been doing this now
- 3:32Speaker 1: for two years of building plans, talking through concepts all
- 3:35Speaker 1: the time from training camp all that so good feel
- 3:37Speaker 1: for what they each like individually, but then both like collectively.
- 3:41Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it's too conversation about
- 3:45Speaker 1: using the pieces around you of this guy does this
- 3:47Speaker 1: really well. I'm confident in this, how he runs this,
- 3:49Speaker 1: how he sees this. So it's putting guys in that position,
- 3:52Speaker 1: and then regardless of the quarterback, they both kind of
- 3:55Speaker 1: they think, very similar in that aspect, and I think
- 3:57Speaker 1: that's part of what he was.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Getting at eighteen different teams starting multiple quarterbacks so far
- 4:01Speaker 3: this year. How rare is that to you? Just as
- 4:04Speaker 3: offensive guys seen around the league, so many backups have
- 4:06Speaker 3: to play.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of just commonplace.
- 4:09Speaker 2: You see the.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Speed and the power of these defensive guys, and guys
- 4:11Speaker 1: tend to get hurt. I mean, that's just how the
- 4:13Speaker 1: game goes, whatever it may be, so the next guy's
- 4:15Speaker 1: always ready. I don't know the numbers wise, if it's
- 4:19Speaker 1: more or less. Probably feels like a lot more in
- 4:21Speaker 1: terms of just starts, but I think you see a
- 4:23Speaker 1: lot of guys coming and play well as well.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Calling card of the Todd Bowles defense.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Pressure, I mean, it's the same thing you see with
- 4:30Speaker 1: our defense. There's five on the line, there's five guys
- 4:33Speaker 1: pressuring a lot of times, and depending on where that
- 4:35Speaker 1: fifth guy's coming from or you know, the other two
- 4:38Speaker 1: coming from, guys dropping out. But you know, there's a
- 4:41Speaker 1: lot of loaded boxes that are really good against the run.
- 4:43Speaker 1: This defense particularly has been really good for pretty long
- 4:46Speaker 1: time since coach Bowles has been there doing a good
- 4:49Speaker 1: job crowding the line, stopping the run, making things hard,
- 4:52Speaker 1: identifying pressure, picking up pressure. Yeah, they do a really
- 4:56Speaker 1: good job. It's not an easy task.
- 4:58Speaker 2: That it has the similarities to the defense you've seen
- 5:01Speaker 2: throughout training camp and during practice. Yeah, I think.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I mean, there's certain elements that our guys aren't unfamiliar with,
- 5:06Speaker 1: you know, the five man fronts and the different things
- 5:08Speaker 1: they get to. So there's some of that that I
- 5:11Speaker 1: do think helps, you know, that's that's one of the
- 5:13Speaker 1: things we always talk about in the off season of
- 5:15Speaker 1: we weren't going to see a three down front until
- 5:17Speaker 1: we played Pittsburgh week eight, week nine, So there's some
- 5:19Speaker 1: of it where you're dealing with training camp, off season
- 5:22Speaker 1: of all right, how's this going to help us for
- 5:23Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. Well, now, it's going to
- 5:25Speaker 1: help us as we get into these fronts now that
- 5:27Speaker 1: we want to play the three four and play the
- 5:29Speaker 1: five man fronts early on. Now it's hopefully, hopefully it
- 5:33Speaker 1: benefits what we've been seeing for a spring in a
- 5:35Speaker 1: camp or two springs and two camps.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Now there have been some turnovers and scoring position that
- 5:41Speaker 2: you have played the offense all season long. How do
- 5:44Speaker 2: you get rid of those mistakes? I mean you're deep
- 5:45Speaker 2: into the season. Is they're a way to I guess,
- 5:47Speaker 2: re emphasize and trying to not have those show up
- 5:51Speaker 2: on the field.
- 5:52Speaker 1: I mean, we feel like we're doing everything possible to
- 5:55Speaker 1: emphasize the importance of all security things are going to happen.
- 5:58Speaker 1: We understand that. We also understand how important it is
- 6:01Speaker 1: when you're in scoring position to leave with points and
- 6:04Speaker 1: we want to end every drive with a kick. We've
- 6:05Speaker 1: tried to say it every way possible. I think our
- 6:08Speaker 1: guys understand the importance of it. But that's got to
- 6:10Speaker 1: show up, and we've got to continue to work to
- 6:13Speaker 1: protect the football and do a better job of that.