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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen on Player Growth, Defensive Play Calling Ahead of Week 9 vs. Eagles · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You know, they do a great job of I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the conversion rate is at an all time high, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's so they've been stopped and you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta it's a strain play and you just got to
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  Speaker 1: outstrain them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's really what it comes down to. You
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  Speaker 2: got to play lower than them, you got to push.
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  Speaker 1: Harder than them, and and uh, they executed at a
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  Speaker 1: high level. We're gonna have to do a really good
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  Speaker 1: job of just executing and pushing and and.
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  Speaker 2: Then the other thing. And let's let's not get into
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  Speaker 2: that situation.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot easier said than done. But let's keep
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  Speaker 1: him out of the third and fourth and ones.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, J Brown's been eating up a lot of man
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  Speaker 3: coverage this year. How do you combat trying to cover
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  Speaker 3: him and Demante Smith and all this talent they have.
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  Speaker 1: They've got some really good talent, really good talent. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing at a high level since he've been back. Physical receiver,
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  Speaker 1: really physical catch points, strong hands. You know, he's really
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  Speaker 1: good on a press coverage and getting off the line,
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  Speaker 1: and he has great speed, you know, so it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a good challenge. We've We've just got to play
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  Speaker 1: our game. We've got to get in and you know,
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  Speaker 1: make it a physical game for him. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got play some coverage over the top so it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just catch fade balls and things like that people are doing.
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  Speaker 1: But two really good receivers and then the speed that
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  Speaker 1: DeVante has, I mean, he take the top off any coverage,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so just executing, we're gonna have to play
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  Speaker 1: some shell to it. You know, definitely have to to
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  Speaker 1: stay over the top of those guys and and then
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  Speaker 1: mix it up, just keep mixing up the coverages on him,
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  Speaker 1: and just so he doesn't get a single high read
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  Speaker 1: and goes out to the ex or zy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every play, how much if.
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  Speaker 3: You get as your wing go back, how much does
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  Speaker 3: that change your rotation?
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  Speaker 2: That's safety a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we've got the guys that have you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been out for a long time and so's he's
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  Speaker 1: working his way back and so you know, we'd like
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  Speaker 1: to have him out there and get a certain number
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  Speaker 1: of snaps and see how that goes. But he's pushing,
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  Speaker 1: he's pushing really hard. Yesterday he had a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Today will be good, another good tests and by the
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  Speaker 1: end of a week we'll have an idea of how.
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  Speaker 2: Much exactly, you know, as he goes through the process
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  Speaker 2: of the week.
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  Speaker 1: It gives it a lot to start practicing.
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  Speaker 3: I guess they just announced way to go. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 3: how good is it.
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  Speaker 2: To have a veteran guy back there?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you know he has played all again either, but
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  Speaker 3: I mean having a veteran guy back there that's done
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  Speaker 3: for a while, how much will that kind of factor
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  Speaker 3: in all of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to have him back. We're excited, really excited, but.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't done you know, he hasn't practiced yet, so
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  Speaker 1: that it all goes into it, you know, And so
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  Speaker 1: we'll get him out there, get him moving around. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we got to knock the rust off, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: type of things, and then get him in in you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the rotation and get him some plays and sees
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  Speaker 1: where he's at, and then and then take it from there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and where where it all the pieces fault.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't know. He's so so early, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't even practiced. So we'll go, you know, through
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  Speaker 2: the week and then figure it out from there.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from jar in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks that's kind of settled into.
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  Speaker 2: The nickel confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Really, he's his confidence every game, you know, he even
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  Speaker 1: said it after the game. Is he's feeling more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: out there. He's playing more snaps, you know, the different
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  Speaker 1: coverages and the things that position has to do, and
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  Speaker 1: just how he's moving around and playing.
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  Speaker 2: Physical and you know, the the.
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  Speaker 1: Play made in the in the red zone was a
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  Speaker 1: big time play, really really good. So, but it just
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  Speaker 1: continued to continue to see him grow with that position.
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  Speaker 1: And he could still go outside if we need him
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  Speaker 1: to spell, but he's kind of settling into that nickel
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  Speaker 1: position and and he's doing a good job right now
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  Speaker 1: at it.
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  Speaker 3: And then when he went back to film, were able
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  Speaker 3: to kind of pinpoint what happened on that last week
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  Speaker 3: past by Green Bay and how you guys can kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of address it and moving forward. Yeah, sure, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: change up the cover. It's all me, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta change up the coverage. Don't play different coverage in
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  Speaker 2: that situation.
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge to get Eric on the field more
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  Speaker 3: than maybe twenty three snaps he played? And have you
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  Speaker 3: guys thought about just having to play defensive tackle at
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  Speaker 3: three tech just just where he's been comfortable at in
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  Speaker 3: his career so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we discussed inside outside, you know, kind of with
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  Speaker 1: the guy and when we signed him, it was more
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  Speaker 1: of an outside vision and move him inside on third down,
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  Speaker 1: just depth chart wise and things and kind of where
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to play and things like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the situational stuff putting him inside, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's where he's playing it two minute things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But he definitely can go inside. It's just when when
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  Speaker 1: do we want to start working them in there? And
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  Speaker 1: you may see him, you know, coming up here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving inside and Nickels situations, things like that, but he's
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to play the left end position and
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  Speaker 1: that takes a little time of playing from inside and outside,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just get him. We got to get
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  Speaker 1: him a few more snaps out there and get him.
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  Speaker 1: He's comfortable at it, just more snaps at it.