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- 0:00Speaker 1: Josh Wett has been doing a really good junket after
- 0:03Speaker 1: the quarterback. What stands out when you watched his game
- 0:05Speaker 1: and how important will it be He's got three forced
- 0:08Speaker 1: bumbles to have the ball, hide hid everything like that
- 0:11Speaker 1: last period.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's a great player, done a good job
- 0:15Speaker 2: obviously this year and in the past two just for
- 0:18Speaker 2: a while, he's been a really good pass rusher and
- 0:20Speaker 2: good player. So he's a guy that you know, you
- 0:23Speaker 2: game plan for and you have a plan you know,
- 0:25Speaker 2: to help with him and to secure him. Obviously, he's
- 0:29Speaker 2: a good player for their defense. So you know, he's great.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Really can play the run as well. You know, it
- 0:33Speaker 2: does a lot of good things, but great pass rusher.
- 0:34Speaker 2: How much as the play sheet being on your wrist
- 0:37Speaker 2: Sunday come up over the last three four days, is
- 0:41Speaker 2: maybe something that helped something that people keep picking up
- 0:44Speaker 2: on or not really. I mean, we talked about it,
- 0:46Speaker 2: you know, in here, I guess in there after the
- 0:48Speaker 2: game with you guys.
- 0:50Speaker 3: But not really much more than that.
- 0:52Speaker 2: You know, we've talked about, I guess internally about you know,
- 0:55Speaker 2: the ways that it might have helped or whatever kind
- 0:58Speaker 2: of just assessed how it was using it and I
- 1:00Speaker 2: thought it was. There were some positives that came from it,
- 1:03Speaker 2: for sure. So you know, I think you look at
- 1:05Speaker 2: the clean operation we had on offense, it's I don't
- 1:07Speaker 2: think it's.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Just because of that.
- 1:09Speaker 2: You know, there's more moving parts, but I don't think
- 1:11Speaker 2: you can deny that that probably helped. You know, we
- 1:14Speaker 2: played really cleaned, didn't have any penalties, which is something
- 1:16Speaker 2: that you know, we've wanted to improve on all season long.
- 1:18Speaker 3: So that was a that was a positive, and it woulout.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Being getting away too much.
- 1:22Speaker 3: What is the.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Instation of how it helps?
- 1:26Speaker 2: You say, you can just get the you can just
- 1:29Speaker 2: get calls in faster, really is all it is. Because
- 1:32Speaker 2: you got a number on your wristband and then you
- 1:34Speaker 2: you read it off to the guys instead of you know,
- 1:37Speaker 2: calls get pretty long in certain situations, so Liam's got
- 1:40Speaker 2: to call it. You's got to get the personnel in.
- 1:42Speaker 2: You gotta call that, you gotta call the play. And
- 1:44Speaker 2: then if you miss something and he has to call
- 1:46Speaker 2: the play again, and then you're saying this whole long
- 1:48Speaker 2: sentence again, and then you're saying it in the huddle,
- 1:50Speaker 2: and then you're breaking it instead of just hey, riskband
- 1:52Speaker 2: ten and then you go in there, call it to
- 1:55Speaker 2: the guys and get out of there. Then you can
- 1:56Speaker 2: you have usually five more seconds or something. It just depends,
- 2:00Speaker 2: maybe not that much sometimes, but that's really all it does.
- 2:04Speaker 4: The idea was to be able to visualize the play
- 2:06Speaker 4: as is coming in as that part helped throughout the
- 2:09Speaker 4: year as well when you didn't have the risk band.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's something that definitely I learned
- 2:14Speaker 2: how to do that I hadn't done in the past,
- 2:16Speaker 2: so that was something I got used to and I
- 2:18Speaker 2: do think it helped. And then now as you grow
- 2:21Speaker 2: more and more in the system now using the riskband
- 2:23Speaker 2: to kind of pick up our operation a little bit
- 2:25Speaker 2: and see, you know, get a bit better look at
- 2:27Speaker 2: the defense when are at the line scrimmer, especially on
- 2:29Speaker 2: third down, and having some more time that is obviously
- 2:32Speaker 2: really important. So I've been in the system long enough
- 2:35Speaker 2: now to where I can I know what's going on,
- 2:38Speaker 2: I can picture everything.
- 2:39Speaker 3: You know.
- 2:39Speaker 2: It's it's not, as I guess, big of a deal
- 2:42Speaker 2: to have it on the riskband to where you're picturing
- 2:43Speaker 2: in a little bit later, so it's you know, not
- 2:46Speaker 2: a not a huge deal. I mean, either way, really
- 2:48Speaker 2: it's we've got the same game plan. We're gonna go
- 2:50Speaker 2: run the plays, and if it helps us get out
- 2:52Speaker 2: a little bit sooner of the huddle and have some
- 2:53Speaker 2: more time to operate, I think, you know, I'm all
- 2:55Speaker 2: for it.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Yes, you should.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Actually the end of day, exactly why you're.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Not sliding play.
- 3:04Speaker 4: What I said like, I'm I feel like I'm more
- 3:06Speaker 4: prone to get a.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Hit when I slide.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just hard. And you know, Denzel
- 3:13Speaker 2: I played against him a few times. I mean, he's
- 3:16Speaker 2: I actually you know, I don't think he was trying
- 3:18Speaker 2: to hit me later, didn't really hit me lated on
- 3:20Speaker 2: that one, and it was kind of a late slide
- 3:21Speaker 2: and he did a good job of pulling off. So
- 3:23Speaker 2: I appreciated that. You know, we talked about it after
- 3:26Speaker 2: so but yeah, man, that's a perfect example of it's
- 3:29Speaker 2: just hard to it's hard to get down early enough
- 3:31Speaker 2: for the defenders to not take a shot on you,
- 3:33Speaker 2: and it's hard to protect yourself. And you know, so
- 3:35Speaker 2: you've seen the kind of limited that this year, and
- 3:38Speaker 2: that's that's one where I probably want to do the
- 3:41Speaker 2: same and try to avoid that because I could have
- 3:42Speaker 2: been you know, if it's a guy that really tries
- 3:44Speaker 2: to take you out. He could have had a clean
- 3:45Speaker 2: shot where I really can't defend myself.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Pint Morse kind.
- 3:49Speaker 4: Of one of the guys in this journey of practice.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Fawd, especially in offense, kind of defined if they want
- 3:54Speaker 1: what do you see winnings?
- 3:56Speaker 2: Since you got is that he's been awesome just I mean,
- 4:00Speaker 2: he's super hard worker, really can do anything he's asked of.
- 4:03Speaker 2: I mean, he can block, he can run all the routes,
- 4:06Speaker 2: he's got great hands, just shows up when you need him.
- 4:08Speaker 2: And obviously at tight end, we've been a little banged
- 4:10Speaker 2: up this year, so him being able to step up
- 4:12Speaker 2: and do a lot of different things for us. I
- 4:14Speaker 2: mean we only had him and Johnny last week that
- 4:18Speaker 2: were up and those guys having to learn, you know,
- 4:21Speaker 2: pretty much every thing that tight end can do.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Whether we're in eleven twelve.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Twelve jumbo with an extra offensive line and there's a
- 4:28Speaker 2: lot of moving parts for those guys, and for them
- 4:29Speaker 2: to be able to move around and do everything that's
- 4:31Speaker 2: asked to them, it's pretty impressive.
- 4:33Speaker 3: You know.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Obviously Johnny's in that group two and he's done a
- 4:35Speaker 2: nice job. But Quinton was great. I mean seeing some
- 4:37Speaker 2: of the blocks he had on Sunday, I'm sure you
- 4:39Speaker 2: guys saw some of them. And he played really well
- 4:41Speaker 2: and obviously had you know, a catch and I should
- 4:43Speaker 2: have had a big one too, if it could have
- 4:45Speaker 2: got the ball out there too him, he would have
- 4:46Speaker 2: had a big touchdown as well. So he's doing some
- 4:49Speaker 2: great things and just good teammate. I think it's been
- 4:51Speaker 2: fun having him around.
- 4:54Speaker 4: How much hell the offense had a two guys kind
- 4:57Speaker 4: of carried him in the running.
- 4:58Speaker 2: Game as opposed to Yeah, I mean, I think all
- 5:01Speaker 2: of our guys you look at you know, leaquint too,
- 5:03Speaker 2: like what he did at the end of the game.
- 5:04Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's he's a guy that we trust,
- 5:07Speaker 2: and I think that's the biggest thing is you trust
- 5:09Speaker 2: all of them and they're all talented and can make plays,
- 5:12Speaker 2: and that's important. But as far as doing the right
- 5:14Speaker 2: thing all the time, knowing what they're doing, whether it's
- 5:17Speaker 2: protection or you know, running the ball and hitting hitting
- 5:21Speaker 2: the right spot, getting behind the line, you know, hitting
- 5:22Speaker 2: the right gap, all that stuff. You know, all those
- 5:25Speaker 2: guys do a great job and they take a lot
- 5:26Speaker 2: of pride in it, you know, Chad's done a great
- 5:28Speaker 2: job coaching them up as well.
- 5:29Speaker 3: And I think that's the biggest thing.
- 5:31Speaker 2: You see, guys can come in and you know, obviously
- 5:33Speaker 2: Travis is having a great year and he's he's playing great,
- 5:37Speaker 2: and Baseel's playing great too, But if it's the quint
- 5:39Speaker 2: that has to step up, no matter who it is,
- 5:41Speaker 2: we feel confident and whoever it is to.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Go in there and get it done.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Obviously I said it's been Travis getting the bulk, but
- 5:47Speaker 2: he's played awesome, but having guys that can step up
- 5:50Speaker 2: because I mean, this game it's you know, if someone
- 5:53Speaker 2: needs a breather or if someone goes down for a
- 5:54Speaker 2: few plays, like you need to have depth, and those
- 5:57Speaker 2: guys have done a great job with that.
- 5:59Speaker 3: The guys he said that.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Liam is really relatable because they can sometimes even more
- 6:04Speaker 1: relatable than anyone else they play for him. And I
- 6:06Speaker 1: know QB and coach relationships are different, but what is
- 6:09Speaker 1: it that you see it makes it relatable.
- 6:13Speaker 3: In your relationship.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think just the way he
- 6:17Speaker 2: talks to his players, the way he communicates it's, you know,
- 6:22Speaker 2: really honest and upfront. I think he's he's just kind
- 6:26Speaker 2: of gets right to it whatever he's feeling or wants
- 6:29Speaker 2: to say, and and not not in a bad way,
- 6:31Speaker 2: just as very honest, up front communicates. It's you can
- 6:34Speaker 2: tell that communicating is really important to him and he
- 6:37Speaker 2: wants to there. He doesn't want there to be any
- 6:38Speaker 2: mixed messages. So I think that's the biggest thing. And then,
- 6:43Speaker 2: like I've talked about too, how passionate he.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Is, the way he approaches the game.
- 6:46Speaker 2: I mean, you can see how much he cares about,
- 6:48Speaker 2: how much he puts into it, and it means something
- 6:50Speaker 2: to him. So I think that makes guys, you know,
- 6:52Speaker 2: want to play for him. And then, like we talked
- 6:54Speaker 2: about it's relatable. I think just the way he talks
- 6:56Speaker 2: to players, and he's always talking to guys. He's he's
- 6:59Speaker 2: not just off by himself kind of you know, stand
- 7:01Speaker 2: in the corner watching practice, like he's.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Involved all the time.
- 7:05Speaker 2: And I think that's something that guys appreciate, is him
- 7:08Speaker 2: keeping the conversation going consistently.
- 7:12Speaker 4: That part of the culture where we all talk about cultures.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Is that kind of a thing that sets it, and
- 7:17Speaker 1: that the major part of it.
- 7:18Speaker 4: But the way he ails on that.
- 7:20Speaker 3: Stuff, that's a big part of it.
- 7:21Speaker 2: You know, I think him being our head coach, the
- 7:25Speaker 2: way he talks, talks to the team you know a
- 7:27Speaker 2: lot during the week and the messaging, and then talks
- 7:30Speaker 2: to you guys. He represents our team every time he
- 7:32Speaker 2: steps up here. And I think when you have someone
- 7:35Speaker 2: that is very clear in his message and you know,
- 7:37Speaker 2: very honest and upfront and communicates clearly, I think that's huge.
- 7:41Speaker 2: But obviously the players have to take it and run
- 7:43Speaker 2: with it. I mean, that's really what sets the culture,
- 7:45Speaker 2: is the buy in from the players and everyone really
- 7:49Speaker 2: being on the same page, making it about the team
- 7:51Speaker 2: having that love for one another and for this game
- 7:54Speaker 2: and realizing how fortunate we already get to do what
- 7:57Speaker 2: we do, and just enjoying it. I think that's what
- 7:58Speaker 2: is That's really the culture is buying in from all
- 8:00Speaker 2: the players, but coach sets it. And I think that's
- 8:03Speaker 2: where you've seen he's done a great job of just
- 8:06Speaker 2: leading the charge that would be.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Too evaculating so quickly in the yas.
- 8:10Speaker 4: How unusual is that for receiver?
- 8:13Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's he's done an awesome job. I think
- 8:17Speaker 2: the way he just the way he runs and moves,
- 8:20Speaker 2: I think, like that's something I've noticed right when he
- 8:23Speaker 2: got here, and I've seen him play a lot too,
- 8:24Speaker 2: But it's like I like throwing to him. He's just
- 8:26Speaker 2: an easy guy to throw to it from a quarterback perspective,
- 8:28Speaker 2: I don't it's kind of hard to describe sometimes just
- 8:30Speaker 2: the way he moves it seems very clear what he's
- 8:32Speaker 2: gonna do. So that's something I really like. And then
- 8:35Speaker 2: he's smart too. He's picked up the offense really quickly
- 8:38Speaker 2: for for it being a pretty complicated offense and having
- 8:41Speaker 2: to come in and play three four days after getting here,
- 8:44Speaker 2: and now he's played a few games with us, and
- 8:46Speaker 2: he's done an awesome job. So I really give a
- 8:48Speaker 2: lot of credit to him.
- 8:50Speaker 4: The receivers and you had to learn a lot of
- 8:52Speaker 4: new past catchers, but it's just like these how is
- 8:55Speaker 4: he as a team, how is he kind of going
- 8:56Speaker 4: to you know, letting his personality come through them, even
- 9:00Speaker 4: for the upcouns.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Has been awesome.
- 9:03Speaker 2: I mean, ever since he's come in, I think he's
- 9:05Speaker 2: a guy that's worked really hard. You know, he's really smart.
- 9:08Speaker 2: I think since we started and we all were all
- 9:10Speaker 2: learning this new system together, guys are coming from different places,
- 9:12Speaker 2: Guys that were here it's still new for us too,
- 9:14Speaker 2: so we're all learning it from scratch. And I think
- 9:17Speaker 2: he's always stood out as a guy that was really
- 9:19Speaker 2: sharp and it was I felt like, put a lot
- 9:21Speaker 2: of work in to learn the offense and knew all
- 9:23Speaker 2: the different positions really early on. So I was always
- 9:25Speaker 2: impressed by that. And then see what he's done this year.
- 9:28Speaker 2: I mean, obviously had a little shoulder deal earlier in
- 9:31Speaker 2: the season and I missed a little bit of time
- 9:33Speaker 2: for that.
- 9:33Speaker 3: And then you know, it's football there.
- 9:35Speaker 2: You're gonna have weeks where guys have have big weeks
- 9:38Speaker 2: and and other weeks where the man I'd get the
- 9:39Speaker 2: same amount of opportunities. And I think the way he's
- 9:41Speaker 2: handled that has been has been really cool to see.
- 9:43Speaker 2: You know, he's been a good teammate. He's been there
- 9:45Speaker 2: for the guys. He's always been willing to do whatever
- 9:48Speaker 2: it takes, you know, for us to win or just
- 9:50Speaker 2: to do his part. And you know, there's gonna be
- 9:52Speaker 2: weeks where it's more than others as far as catching
- 9:54Speaker 2: the ball, and that's just the way it goes. I mean,
- 9:56Speaker 2: I wish every week it was everybody getting, you know,
- 9:59Speaker 2: everything they wanted.
- 9:59Speaker 3: I mean that's just part of it. That's the hard
- 10:01Speaker 3: part about this game.
- 10:02Speaker 2: But he's handled it really well and I've respected the
- 10:04Speaker 2: way he's gone about it as a pro, and I
- 10:06Speaker 2: know there's going to be a lot more opportunities in
- 10:08Speaker 2: front of them.
- 10:09Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate