Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Liam Coen and Trevor Lawrence Recap Mandatory Minicamp
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here over these last month or so.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're always you're you're always pleased and
- 0:04Speaker 2: you're always wanting a little bit more, right.
- 0:06Speaker 3: I mean, that's the beauty of this time is.
- 0:10Speaker 2: You're you're trying to establish a foundation of fundamentals, techniques, alignment, assignment, right,
- 0:18Speaker 2: And we're not really judging as much as much did
- 0:23Speaker 2: he make the player not? It's more, hey, can we
- 0:25Speaker 2: break the huddle or can we get a call in
- 0:27Speaker 2: and go execute? And you know, I think you're you're,
- 0:31Speaker 2: you're fairly pleased with where you're.
- 0:32Speaker 3: At right now.
- 0:33Speaker 4: Has had a chance to switch jerseys there and then
- 0:35Speaker 4: with the defense. Just was that just a little bit
- 0:38Speaker 4: of what to expect, Yeah.
- 0:40Speaker 2: I think so that's definitely what we have to build
- 0:42Speaker 2: towards for training camp and then obviously in season, knowing
- 0:46Speaker 2: that during practice he's going to have to do both
- 0:50Speaker 2: and so you know, he wants to do it. It's
- 0:53Speaker 2: not as if it's something where he can't handle. He
- 0:56Speaker 2: wants to go and do that more. He wants more,
- 0:58Speaker 2: and and that's a good thing, but ultimately we have
- 1:01Speaker 2: to also protect him from from himself at times as
- 1:04Speaker 2: well and make sure we get out of this phase healthy,
- 1:06Speaker 2: But that is absolutely the plan moving forward.
- 1:08Speaker 5: What's your message to the guys now that you know
- 1:11Speaker 5: everything's sort of wrapping up, they're about to go on break.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Uh, you know, the work doesn't stop.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Go enjoy family and get away from it a little bit.
- 1:19Speaker 2: But you know, we've got a lot of work to
- 1:21Speaker 2: do this summer. We've got to come back in the
- 1:23Speaker 2: best possible physical shape that we can be in coming
- 1:26Speaker 2: into training camp. Not use training camp to get in shape.
- 1:31Speaker 2: That's got to be something that we're hitting the ground
- 1:33Speaker 2: running and able to just go once we get in here.
- 1:36Speaker 3: And so.
- 1:38Speaker 2: And they've got a lot of studying to do, right,
- 1:39Speaker 2: They've got a lot of material to continue to cover,
- 1:42Speaker 2: so that again we're not starting back at square one
- 1:45Speaker 2: when we come back in training camp. We will in
- 1:48Speaker 2: fact go back to Install one, but Install one maybe
- 1:51Speaker 2: a little heavier than Install one this spring. So ultimately
- 1:55Speaker 2: they've got some work to do this summer. And that
- 1:57Speaker 2: was the message your.
- 1:59Speaker 5: First off season for as a head coach.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Just what was that experience like now it's all wrapped up, Yeah,
- 2:03Speaker 3: it was cool.
- 2:04Speaker 2: I mean it's the highs and lows your ride a
- 2:07Speaker 2: little bit as a head coach in terms of offense,
- 2:09Speaker 2: doing well, defense, special teams, all that, but in terms
- 2:13Speaker 2: of the connection with the guys and getting to know
- 2:16Speaker 2: them a little bit more on a personal level and ultimately.
- 2:19Speaker 3: To gain trust.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Right, That's what this whole phase was for us as coaches,
- 2:25Speaker 2: to implement a foundation, but also get to know these
- 2:28Speaker 2: guys a little bit more on a personal level so
- 2:30Speaker 2: that we gain a little bit more trust. Ultimately, they're
- 2:33Speaker 2: not going to just go do what you say because
- 2:36Speaker 2: you're a coach, right, we have to build a relationship
- 2:39Speaker 2: and a foundation in order for those guys to trust us.
- 2:42Speaker 6: Actor Rookie Minicamp sixteen sessions out here, did it go
- 2:47Speaker 6: as expected or did something surprise you?
- 2:51Speaker 3: Or yeah, no surprises.
- 2:53Speaker 2: It was very much what you would expect just from learning, growing.
- 2:58Speaker 2: But I have seen some improvement for sure out a
- 3:02Speaker 2: number of players.
- 3:03Speaker 7: Right.
- 3:03Speaker 2: I don't have a true specific person that really stands
- 3:06Speaker 2: out like, oh my god, there was huge strides here,
- 3:09Speaker 2: but you just saw like a gradual understanding. Gradual guys
- 3:13Speaker 2: get more comfortable in this setting, especially some of the
- 3:16Speaker 2: younger guys. You know, the speed of this game practices
- 3:20Speaker 2: a lot faster than what they've maybe been used to
- 3:22Speaker 2: at their college, and you know, the guys are picking
- 3:25Speaker 2: it all up right, And if they don't know, you know,
- 3:28Speaker 2: that's been the cool part is they.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Haven't been afraid to ask.
- 3:30Speaker 2: You see these guys up in our coach's offices all
- 3:33Speaker 2: the time, all the time, every morning. I mean, Devin
- 3:36Speaker 2: Lloyd's in here every single day, right, these guys are
- 3:38Speaker 2: they're trying to learn and.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Get as much out of it as possible.
- 3:43Speaker 7: Mumble.
- 3:44Speaker 1: You and your staff now work on until training camp
- 3:47Speaker 1: ag ends.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Yeah, So continuing to trim the install and adjust our
- 3:53Speaker 2: installs and say, okay, what do we really want to
- 3:56Speaker 2: focus on and install one through three?
- 3:58Speaker 3: What do we want the next three install to be.
- 4:00Speaker 2: We typically go in threes because that's how we'll kind
- 4:03Speaker 2: of practice in a lot of ways with an off day,
- 4:05Speaker 2: So tweak some of those and then also getting a
- 4:09Speaker 2: lot of the seasonal prep organized with whether it be
- 4:13Speaker 2: the video staff, analytics personnel. We've had a lot of
- 4:17Speaker 2: those meetings already over the last few weeks, but just
- 4:20Speaker 2: making sure that those things are getting a little bit
- 4:23Speaker 2: tightened up and ready to go for training camp.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Good both, Trevor, could you I know you've done it
- 4:30Speaker 4: a few times already, this obtusly could you just talk
- 4:32Speaker 4: about his growth from where it kind of started in
- 4:34Speaker 4: your system to where he is now.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just calling a play right, like you
- 4:39Speaker 2: go out here on day one of Phase two and
- 4:42Speaker 2: you're calling plays, and whether it be a call and
- 4:46Speaker 2: run it play or a play with two calls or
- 4:48Speaker 2: a play with two calls and maybe a third adjustment
- 4:51Speaker 2: just his ability to go in and command the huddle,
- 4:55Speaker 2: call plays, communicate to his teammates, make protection adjustments.
- 4:59Speaker 3: I mean, defense, like I mentioned the other day, has.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Thrown so many different blitz packages at us that that
- 5:06Speaker 2: multiplicity is great, it'll be really good for our foundation
- 5:08Speaker 2: this fall. But he has to think every single play,
- 5:12Speaker 2: like there's not a ton of plays that he can
- 5:14Speaker 2: just shut his brain off and go hand it off.
- 5:17Speaker 2: So that has been a huge kind of adjustment in
- 5:19Speaker 2: some ways, but also growth where he's showing the ability
- 5:22Speaker 2: to go get us in the right plays, can to
- 5:25Speaker 2: the right call and make the proper calls. I think
- 5:28Speaker 2: that's where you've seen the most growth.
- 5:30Speaker 1: For what you can get out of Danny Brown Tea.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
- 5:34Speaker 2: I mean I think when you watched him last year
- 5:37Speaker 2: and you saw a little bit more of a ball
- 5:39Speaker 2: in hand slash deep threat, and you didn't really see
- 5:43Speaker 2: him work the intermediate that much. And I think over
- 5:47Speaker 2: the course of this spring, Trevor and him have gained
- 5:50Speaker 2: a little bit of a chemistry on some of those
- 5:53Speaker 2: you know, intermediate inbreakers, curls, maybe outcuts. I just think
- 5:57Speaker 2: that they have a little bit of a chemistry and
- 6:00Speaker 2: that that was part of the selling point to have
- 6:02Speaker 2: him come here was, man, we really want to continue
- 6:05Speaker 2: to diversify your rout tree and have you do more right.
- 6:08Speaker 3: You're not just a.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Screen jet sweep vertical threat. We want to continue to
- 6:13Speaker 2: diversify his route tree. And I think that those two
- 6:16Speaker 2: have built a little bit of a chemistry out here.
- 6:19Speaker 4: First get you, you probably have an idea about what you
- 6:21Speaker 4: want your offense to look.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Like and what you think it'll look like. But after
- 6:24Speaker 1: you go through spring, does that change markedly?
- 6:27Speaker 3: No, not so much.
- 6:29Speaker 2: But I think that really comes when the pads come on,
- 6:32Speaker 2: because like out here, we're not really trying to emphasize
- 6:36Speaker 2: gap schemes too much because that's when those collisions can
- 6:40Speaker 2: occur when you're pulling people, trapping, whamming, pulling two. I mean,
- 6:45Speaker 2: that's where a lot of those things that occur that
- 6:48Speaker 2: you aren't really supposed to occur in this phase, right,
- 6:51Speaker 2: So we're trying to stay within the rules but continue
- 6:54Speaker 2: to get better at the zone game.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Right.
- 6:57Speaker 2: That's obviously a little bit more of a safe run
- 7:00Speaker 2: in this phase, but also something that we want to
- 7:02Speaker 2: be able to do.
- 7:02Speaker 7: Right.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Everybody runs zone in the NFL game, So I think
- 7:06Speaker 2: today was actually some of our better hits on zone
- 7:08Speaker 2: that we've had.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Had a couple better ones yesterday.
- 7:11Speaker 2: But I think once you get into training camp the
- 7:14Speaker 2: run game, we'll have to diversify a little bit more
- 7:17Speaker 2: in terms of all right, we got the pads on,
- 7:19Speaker 2: where are toss cracks now coming out? I'm not going
- 7:22Speaker 2: to go crack one of our personal our players on
- 7:24Speaker 2: our team, So those kind of schemes are a little
- 7:27Speaker 2: bit more. We've practiced them and walked through settings so
- 7:31Speaker 2: that we're getting the installed and we're getting it repped,
- 7:34Speaker 2: so we have some muscle memory. But ultimately that'll come
- 7:37Speaker 2: a little bit more. In training camp yesterday we.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Talked about wanting a clearer day from your offense.
- 7:42Speaker 2: I think today I heard camp curse a little too
- 7:44Speaker 2: many times with completed passes.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Do you feel like you got that cleaner day from Uffens? Definitely? Yeah.
- 7:49Speaker 2: I thought it was just less balls on the ground
- 7:52Speaker 2: in general, less procedures. There was less flags on the
- 7:56Speaker 2: ground today, thrown by our lovely referees that came from
- 7:59Speaker 2: the NFL. It was right, you know, once those refs come,
- 8:03Speaker 2: NFL guys come, it's real. They're throwing the real flags.
- 8:06Speaker 2: And it was great having those guys in the building
- 8:09Speaker 2: and hearing their reasons why and so that definitely helped
- 8:12Speaker 2: clean it up a little bit and specifically offensively.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I felt like it was just a better overall day.
- 8:18Speaker 3: We wanted to.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Leave here with good momentum and confidence that these guys
- 8:21Speaker 2: can go and have and take through the offseason program.
- 8:25Speaker 1: On special teams today. Your thoughts on came a little long.
- 8:28Speaker 2: What your man, he's a stud. You should see him
- 8:31Speaker 2: hit a golf ball. I mean it's like the same
- 8:34Speaker 2: that you see out here. I mean, he's just he's explosive,
- 8:38Speaker 2: the ball jumps off his foot. He's got multiple different
- 8:42Speaker 2: kicks in his repertoire and the kickoff game as well,
- 8:45Speaker 2: which obviously we know with the new rule changes will
- 8:47Speaker 2: be really imperative for us to be able to take
- 8:50Speaker 2: advantage of some of those rules with the different type
- 8:53Speaker 2: of kicks and styles of play. So he's been great,
- 8:56Speaker 2: been really consistent, and he's really fun to be around.
- 9:00Speaker 1: Your first day in Florida, are you looking forward to right?
- 9:04Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 9:04Speaker 4: I am.
- 9:05Speaker 2: And we're we're heading out of here on Sunday here,
- 9:08Speaker 2: so I'll be we'll be flying, We're traveling a little
- 9:11Speaker 2: bit up north and going overseas to go hit the.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Golf ball a little bit. So, uh, it'll be cool.
- 9:16Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's always nice to be with the
- 9:19Speaker 2: family get away from it for a few days, but
- 9:22Speaker 2: also it's really hard to get away from it in
- 9:25Speaker 2: the mind. Like a nine. Yeah, a nine, So I.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Mean I can hit it.
- 9:32Speaker 2: I can't putt, but uh, you know, usually it's something
- 9:35Speaker 2: that you practice and I don't much have much time
- 9:38Speaker 2: to practice it. I like to drive, I like to
- 9:40Speaker 2: hit irons. I don't love the putter. Chip played the
- 9:43Speaker 2: yards last week though. That was cool with Travis.
- 9:47Speaker 4: I know obviously you've talked about him a lot, but
- 9:49Speaker 4: just after spending the last two months with him, where
- 9:51Speaker 4: do you think he's grown the most?
- 9:55Speaker 3: I think he's physically grown. I mean, I think.
- 9:57Speaker 2: You you know, you looked at we had the weight
- 9:59Speaker 2: room goals and accomplishments that we had this spring, and
- 10:03Speaker 2: he was up there with some of the guys that
- 10:05Speaker 2: have put on the most muscle mass since getting here
- 10:08Speaker 2: this spring. So I think I've seen a little bit
- 10:10Speaker 2: of a physical growth, specifically in his upper half. And
- 10:13Speaker 2: also just I mean, that's a lot of volume, man,
- 10:16Speaker 2: you know, it's a lot of volume. This is not
- 10:19Speaker 2: an offense specifically that just go out, line up and
- 10:22Speaker 2: play right. There's a lot of shifts and motions and
- 10:25Speaker 2: two play calls, sometimes three calls, so it is a
- 10:28Speaker 2: lot and then him having to obviously do defense as well.
- 10:31Speaker 2: So you know, you see the type of guy that
- 10:34Speaker 2: he is. He's in here early, he stays late, and
- 10:37Speaker 2: he wants to work. He loves the game. And the
- 10:40Speaker 2: growth will continue. I think we'll see a little bit
- 10:42Speaker 2: more of a jump once we get into training camp
- 10:44Speaker 2: as well.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Pretty good, all good.
- 10:47Speaker 7: He used me throughout all spring and that's just yeah,
- 10:50Speaker 7: I thought it was really good. You know, some good days,
- 10:52Speaker 7: some days were a little sloppier, and that's just that's
- 10:54Speaker 7: part of it, especially a new system. A lot of
- 10:57Speaker 7: new guys. Everyone's playing together kind of for the first
- 10:59Speaker 7: time for a lot of us. So overall, I thought
- 11:03Speaker 7: it was really good. I thought we learned a lot,
- 11:05Speaker 7: took some really big steps of improvement throughout OTAs, and
- 11:08Speaker 7: you know, I'm proud of the guys how they worked. Everyone,
- 11:11Speaker 7: you know, worked their tail off all off season, really
- 11:13Speaker 7: pushed ourselves. You know, there's a lot of times where
- 11:15Speaker 7: this is a period where some people can kind of
- 11:17Speaker 7: take it easy, and I felt like every day we
- 11:18Speaker 7: really came out here, you know, busted our ass and
- 11:22Speaker 7: really were intentional about what we were doing.
- 11:25Speaker 4: Was just because a general soreness could just talk about that.
- 11:28Speaker 7: Yeah, just you know, you gotta think about it. I
- 11:31Speaker 7: hadn't thrown since before OTA, since December, so or really yeah, December,
- 11:37Speaker 7: So it was about four months of not throwing. And
- 11:40Speaker 7: that's like I've never I don't know the last time.
- 11:42Speaker 7: I couldn't tell you last time I didn't throw up
- 11:44Speaker 7: for four months. I guess four years ago when I
- 11:46Speaker 7: got surgery. So I think just going from that to
- 11:49Speaker 7: through I started throwing a couple of weeks before we
- 11:51Speaker 7: started the off season program, but then we jumped into
- 11:54Speaker 7: practice in heavy volume, and I think just over time.
- 11:57Speaker 7: You know, obviously you got adjustin, got to get in
- 11:58Speaker 7: shape for that. So just a little bit to soreness.
- 12:00Speaker 7: The compression helps just relieve some of that. But that's
- 12:03Speaker 7: all it is. So nothing I'm concerned about.
- 12:06Speaker 5: Where do you feel like you've maybe grown the most
- 12:08Speaker 5: within the system over the course of OTAs and everything.
- 12:11Speaker 7: You know, Like I've said, change some of my footwork,
- 12:13Speaker 7: so I feel a lot more comfortable with that, just
- 12:16Speaker 7: some subtle changes. I think footwork my eyes just where
- 12:19Speaker 7: I'm starting, you know, using my eyes as a weapon
- 12:22Speaker 7: and manipulating the defense. I thought there was some great
- 12:24Speaker 7: stuff on tape throughout the spring of me being able
- 12:27Speaker 7: to do that and the ways I wanted to. So
- 12:29Speaker 7: that was a big step just overall being comfortable with
- 12:32Speaker 7: the system, not thinking as much. You know, when you
- 12:34Speaker 7: hear a play call, it's not like I'm straining to
- 12:36Speaker 7: think about what I'm doing. You know, at first, when
- 12:38Speaker 7: you get the system that you're you're kind of doing that.
- 12:40Speaker 7: But towards the end it felt a lot more second
- 12:42Speaker 7: nature and felt like I could just go and play
- 12:44Speaker 7: and communicate and move fast.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Like working with Spencer.
- 12:47Speaker 7: Whipple he's been awesome, just has a lot of great insight.
- 12:51Speaker 7: He's really smart. We have a great relationship. It's been
- 12:53Speaker 7: fun working with him and love his personality very even keel,
- 12:57Speaker 7: calm demeanor. That's always something I appreciate QB coach, so
- 13:01Speaker 7: that's important to me, and he's been great to work with.
- 13:03Speaker 7: I think the alignment between him and Liam and Grant
- 13:06Speaker 7: and everybody and myself is is right on point. You know,
- 13:09Speaker 7: we're all on the same page. And even if there's
- 13:11Speaker 7: things where we might see a little differently, the conversation
- 13:14Speaker 7: and dialogue in the in the meeting rooms has been
- 13:16Speaker 7: awesome and with like, we always get to a place
- 13:18Speaker 7: where we're on the same page, which is which is
- 13:20Speaker 7: really important. How do you see Travis Hunter sort of grow?
- 13:24Speaker 7: I guess throughout the Port's OTAs he's grown a lot.
- 13:27Speaker 7: You know, there's uh, there's a lot obviously being thrown
- 13:29Speaker 7: on him. H being a being a high pick, you know,
- 13:32Speaker 7: playing both ways, there's a lot. You know, I was
- 13:34Speaker 7: I can understand being drafted high in the expectations, but
- 13:37Speaker 7: as far as I didn't play both ways, so uh,
- 13:39Speaker 7: that's that's another world. I think he's done a great job. Obviously,
- 13:42Speaker 7: this is going to be a big opportunity for him
- 13:45Speaker 7: during this break. You know, you want to you want
- 13:46Speaker 7: to you know, get your mind right and be ready
- 13:48Speaker 7: to go and be rejuvenated for camp. But you also
- 13:50Speaker 7: got to really be prepared and be ready. And he's
- 13:53Speaker 7: got some time to kind of get in the getting
- 13:55Speaker 7: his playbook and learn the system. Because rookies have a
- 13:58Speaker 7: tough job coming in when we're already half way through
- 14:00Speaker 7: the install So they come in and have the playbooks
- 14:02Speaker 7: in and they're just jumping in on a rand, you know,
- 14:04Speaker 7: so they don't get to start off like all of
- 14:05Speaker 7: us do kind of with the soft balls and work
- 14:08Speaker 7: their way in. They jump in right in the middle
- 14:09Speaker 7: of it. So I'm excited to just spend some time
- 14:11Speaker 7: with him this summer. You know, we plan on getting
- 14:13Speaker 7: together quite a bit and throwing, getting some timing down,
- 14:16Speaker 7: but also just talking through the system. And I got
- 14:19Speaker 7: no concerns about him. I'm really excited to see him
- 14:21Speaker 7: continue to get better. And I mean he's a special
- 14:23Speaker 7: player on both sides of the ball.
- 14:26Speaker 6: You can't learn anything about the offensive line until the
- 14:28Speaker 6: pads go on. What are your thoughts on that? Did
- 14:31Speaker 6: you learn anything over these thirteen practices.
- 14:34Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I agree with that a little bit.
- 14:36Speaker 7: I think not totally though. I think it's still important
- 14:40Speaker 7: just for communication, identification with the defense, you know, working games,
- 14:45Speaker 7: passing off games. Yes, the physical side of some of
- 14:48Speaker 7: the one on one blocks. I think the defensive line
- 14:51Speaker 7: is always at an advantage when you're in no pads.
- 14:53Speaker 7: It's just it's hard. You know, there's nothing to grab
- 14:55Speaker 7: on too, there's nothing to really anchor in on, so
- 14:58Speaker 7: that's difficult. But as far as just the a mental
- 15:00Speaker 7: part of the game, your steps, your footwork, get into linebackers,
- 15:03Speaker 7: you know, being physical, violent with your hands, all that stuff.
- 15:07Speaker 7: I think the guys have been awesome. They've been great,
- 15:09Speaker 7: and yes there's some stuff to clean up, but that's
- 15:11Speaker 7: for all of us, so you know, I'm excited. Obviously,
- 15:13Speaker 7: you learn a lot more once the pads go on
- 15:15Speaker 7: one hundred percent, but I think those guys took some
- 15:17Speaker 7: big steps, and like I said, the system puts a
- 15:20Speaker 7: lot on those guys up front to really communicate and
- 15:22Speaker 7: know what they're doing. And there's a lot of adjustments
- 15:24Speaker 7: and it gives us a lot of answers, but you
- 15:26Speaker 7: have to know it and I think those guys have
- 15:27Speaker 7: done a great job of being prepared what Dami Brown
- 15:31Speaker 7: should do in the soft sid Diami. Yeah. Man, he's
- 15:35Speaker 7: I've been super impressed with him. His speed obviously is
- 15:38Speaker 7: a threat down the field, which is important as a
- 15:40Speaker 7: receiver can stretch the field. But also he's a really
- 15:43Speaker 7: really smart football player. You know, he's picked up the
- 15:45Speaker 7: system really quickly. He's always in the right spot. I
- 15:48Speaker 7: think that's something about him. I don't know, if you
- 15:50Speaker 7: guys watched plenty of practice, He's gotten the ball a lot.
- 15:52Speaker 7: It seems like he's always in the right spot. He's
- 15:54Speaker 7: always has a feel for the zone, like where to sit,
- 15:56Speaker 7: where to throttle, you know, kind of those voids. And
- 15:59Speaker 7: I just think he's he's really smart, and I'm really
- 16:01Speaker 7: excited adding him to the offense, to the weapons that
- 16:03Speaker 7: we already have. You know, it's it's exciting running backs.
- 16:07Speaker 1: What is tooting in all and showing.
- 16:09Speaker 7: You if anything, obviously Basi's fast, you can fly, and
- 16:14Speaker 7: that's a weapon. And I think just for those guys,
- 16:17Speaker 7: like I said, coming in and you're learning so much
- 16:19Speaker 7: and so much is changing, and just for them to
- 16:21Speaker 7: get comfortable thing and go play running back is such
- 16:23Speaker 7: a feel position and you got to get in the
- 16:25Speaker 7: flow of a game, and without pads it can be tough,
- 16:28Speaker 7: and so it's hard to say, but I've been impressed
- 16:30Speaker 7: with those guys just how they picked it up. Like
- 16:33Speaker 7: I said, bacial speed, I think le Quin's been awesome
- 16:35Speaker 7: and pass protection seems like he really understands it. Great hands,
- 16:40Speaker 7: hard worker. I mean, I've been impressed with just his
- 16:42Speaker 7: attitude and the way he carries himself.
- 16:44Speaker 4: A lot of new pass catchers obviously, just how has
- 16:47Speaker 4: that been getting down to time and end the reupts
- 16:49Speaker 4: with them?
- 16:51Speaker 7: It's been good. You know, there's there's things where it's
- 16:54Speaker 7: not always perfect, and especially at practice when you first
- 16:57Speaker 7: are learning guys timing and how they run routes and
- 17:00Speaker 7: trying to get your anticipation down. Like I love to
- 17:02Speaker 7: throw with anticipation, So I'm not gonna come out here
- 17:04Speaker 7: and practice waiting on guys to come out of breaks
- 17:07Speaker 7: Like that's not realistic. You know, in the games, you're
- 17:09Speaker 7: throwing it early, You're throwing a poor guy's breaks. So
- 17:12Speaker 7: I think sometimes you leave the fields some days you're like,
- 17:15Speaker 7: I wasn't the cleanest because maybe you miss some or
- 17:17Speaker 7: maybe the timing was off or a guy took an
- 17:19Speaker 7: extra step, but that stuff, once that happens, you learn
- 17:21Speaker 7: from it. If you just wait on guys to come
- 17:23Speaker 7: out of breaks every time, every ball is and gon
- 17:25Speaker 7: be is gonna look good, then in a game when
- 17:27Speaker 7: you have to throw with anticipation, you're gonna miss a
- 17:29Speaker 7: lot of them. So I think this is the time
- 17:31Speaker 7: to really nail down that timing and work on it
- 17:35Speaker 7: instead of waiting. So, you know, I think overall I'd
- 17:37Speaker 7: improved drastically over the over the off season. There's still
- 17:40Speaker 7: some stuff that we can work on, but we got
- 17:41Speaker 7: we have a few weeks to do it before camp
- 17:43Speaker 7: and then obviously camp.
- 17:44Speaker 5: So we're your colleges.
- 17:47Speaker 7: What you say, I'm sorry you really excited? Yeah, obviously
- 17:52Speaker 7: a first Follower's day. For for me, it's just been
- 17:55Speaker 7: the coolest thing becoming a dad and just the perspective
- 17:58Speaker 7: change that I've I've had from that and it's definitely
- 18:02Speaker 7: balanced my life out in a lot of ways. Uh.
- 18:05Speaker 7: You know, something that's hard is I feel like my
- 18:07Speaker 7: mind is always going and you go home and you
- 18:10Speaker 7: can't take any of that stuff home, you know, trying
- 18:12Speaker 7: to be the best husband and dad you can be.
- 18:13Speaker 7: It's really helped me kind of compartmentalize a little bit
- 18:17Speaker 7: and be able to go home and and just just
- 18:18Speaker 7: be a dad and enjoy that so instead of taking
- 18:21Speaker 7: stuff home with me. So it's been good. It's it's
- 18:25Speaker 7: just incredible seeing her grow up and you know, she's
- 18:27Speaker 7: starting to crawl and change. It's it's just crazy. I'm
- 18:30Speaker 7: sure as all all you guys that are parents out
- 18:32Speaker 7: there now, but it's it's awesome.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Doing this the longest year.
- 18:37Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a couple you know, family trips, stuff
- 18:40Speaker 7: with really both of our families, trying to get some
- 18:42Speaker 7: downtime and that's that's really about it. That's those are
- 18:46Speaker 7: the big things. And yeah, so we got some stuff
- 18:49Speaker 7: that try to try to get a little bit of
- 18:50Speaker 7: time with them before it gets crazy. And you know,
- 18:52Speaker 7: once training camp starts, you're not seeing not seeing the
- 18:55Speaker 7: family much, so it'll be good to spend some time
- 18:57Speaker 7: with our families. Good, awesome. I appreciate you guys. Thank
- 19:01Speaker 7: you all.