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- 0:00Speaker 1: An Anton.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Tyson's just day to day and then Anton had an
- 0:04Speaker 2: excuse personal absence.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Okay Tyson as far as the injury, it is just
- 0:09Speaker 1: day today, Yeah, just day today.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Where'd you want to get out.
- 0:14Speaker 4: Of through his proctors alignment assignment, getting our cleats in
- 0:20Speaker 4: the ground when we have a call.
- 0:23Speaker 2: On both sides of the ball.
- 0:24Speaker 4: You know, fundamentals, we did a forty play alignment assignment
- 0:30Speaker 4: period of just getting the call, getting our cleats in
- 0:33Speaker 4: the ground, making loud guttural communication, getting the calls in quickly.
- 0:41Speaker 2: That was what we were really kind of focusing on
- 0:43Speaker 2: from an emphasis standpoint.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Obviously, some of these guys are gonna be a little
- 0:46Speaker 4: bit sore that played a lot of snaps in the game,
- 0:48Speaker 4: so we were trying to really hone in on the
- 0:53Speaker 4: mind got conditioning out of it kind of as well.
- 0:56Speaker 4: So that was kind of the thought of today.
- 0:59Speaker 5: Obviously, you know one next time you guys play against
- 1:01Speaker 5: the Saints. But you feel like guys are kind of
- 1:03Speaker 5: taking their heart and realized there's some of the issues
- 1:05Speaker 5: that hey there's something when.
- 1:05Speaker 2: You clean up right now, i'd hope.
- 1:07Speaker 4: So ultimately we're not playing the game as coaches, so
- 1:12Speaker 4: the we can only say so much. At some point,
- 1:15Speaker 4: the players, you know, they do need to take the
- 1:18Speaker 4: ownership being out there, you know, and so so much
- 1:22Speaker 4: of what we talked about is until we kind of
- 1:25Speaker 4: don't beat ourselves, and then we're not going to probably
- 1:28Speaker 4: be able to consistently beat anybody.
- 1:29Speaker 5: And then when he went back to the film, because
- 1:31Speaker 5: were your impressions of two and seeing him in a
- 1:32Speaker 5: live setting, for.
- 1:33Speaker 2: I thought he ran it pretty well.
- 1:35Speaker 4: Actually, you know, I thought from a physicality standpoint, if
- 1:37Speaker 4: you're going to take the positive from the other night,
- 1:40Speaker 4: was on both sides.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Of the ball. Was physical.
- 1:42Speaker 4: We stopped the run and we ran it okay, but
- 1:44Speaker 4: we ran it when we kind of needed to and
- 1:46Speaker 4: became a little bit more of a throat game. But
- 1:48Speaker 4: I thought he, uh, he did some nice things. He
- 1:51Speaker 4: was able to make some guys missing the hole. He
- 1:53Speaker 4: ran hard, he had good ball security.
- 1:55Speaker 3: So I was pleased with two. When you look back
- 1:57Speaker 3: at Trevor, what'd you think? Yeah?
- 1:59Speaker 2: It was solid. It was he went out and did
- 2:01Speaker 2: his job.
- 2:02Speaker 3: You know. The one.
- 2:05Speaker 4: To BT was something that was kind of a scheme
- 2:08Speaker 4: error in a way. You know, he could maybe see
- 2:11Speaker 4: that safety and move on and progress don't force it
- 2:14Speaker 4: in there.
- 2:14Speaker 2: But that was also a crappy play call, so I'll
- 2:19Speaker 2: take some of that one.
- 2:20Speaker 4: But I thought he, you know, he operated well. You know,
- 2:22Speaker 4: we didn't ask him to go and do too much.
- 2:24Speaker 4: But it was just solid from an operation standpoint for sure.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Talk about the defense after the game just in terms
- 2:30Speaker 5: of what you saw on film, how how do you.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Feel about it now?
- 2:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was disappointing to see some of
- 2:37Speaker 4: the communication errors that we did have, but also just
- 2:40Speaker 4: you know, alignment assignment issues. You know, you know, we
- 2:44Speaker 4: had new systems on both sides of the ball. It's
- 2:47Speaker 4: going to probably take a little bit more than a
- 2:49Speaker 4: preseason game to to maybe correct some of the things
- 2:53Speaker 4: that we wanted to get corrected and play as sound
- 2:56Speaker 4: as we would like to play.
- 2:58Speaker 2: But I was proud.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Of a couple of moments, specifically the fourth down stop
- 3:03Speaker 4: when we score a couple of plays later on, which
- 3:05Speaker 4: was a huge play in the game. And then at
- 3:07Speaker 4: the end of the game when you needed to get
- 3:08Speaker 4: a stop in four minute, they stopped the run three
- 3:11Speaker 4: times in a row, force a punt and give us
- 3:13Speaker 4: a chance to go win the game.
- 3:14Speaker 2: So when it mattered, there.
- 3:17Speaker 4: Was some some nice plays, you know, some good effort
- 3:20Speaker 4: all around, but we need to get some of that
- 3:22Speaker 4: stuff fixed and.
- 3:23Speaker 3: Interesting Pravis Hunter, what he was able to do? What
- 3:26Speaker 3: did you get out of that?
- 3:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a couple of his just route technique
- 3:31Speaker 4: we got to work on, you know, continue to work
- 3:33Speaker 4: on it. But I thought he was he made the
- 3:35Speaker 4: right decisions. He was his alignment assignment was all proper
- 3:38Speaker 4: and clean. Uh, defensively, just got to clean up a
- 3:42Speaker 4: few things from an alignment standpoint, and just you know,
- 3:45Speaker 4: staying in the run in the fit a little bit
- 3:48Speaker 4: tighter on that one run that got out.
- 3:50Speaker 2: But you know, that's practice and repetition.
- 3:54Speaker 6: If you want to see the starter for this week,
- 3:56Speaker 6: too early to tell, what's your practice?
- 3:58Speaker 4: Too early to tell? Yeah, we got to pads on tomorrow.
- 4:01Speaker 4: We'll have another scrimmage if you will on Thursday. I
- 4:06Speaker 4: believe where we'll be able to kind of get after
- 4:08Speaker 4: a little bit more see and maybe like make a
- 4:11Speaker 4: decision after that.
- 4:12Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, as.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Far as goes, today was a bit of a frustrating day,
- 4:17Speaker 1: or at least it looked like. And he's had a
- 4:18Speaker 1: couple of those.
- 4:19Speaker 2: What do you say to him?
- 4:20Speaker 1: What do you see from him both in drills and
- 4:22Speaker 1: then off ball.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's not much. You know, I try not to.
- 4:27Speaker 4: He's pretty hard on himself and in ways, so I
- 4:31Speaker 4: try not to pile on in those moments. And sometimes
- 4:35Speaker 4: it's better to let him be and sometimes you got,
- 4:38Speaker 4: you know, go and you know, love him up. But
- 4:41Speaker 4: you know, I think something that's kind of been consistent is,
- 4:45Speaker 4: you know, when the lights come on, he does show up.
- 4:48Speaker 4: And that's something that I do enjoy about players that
- 4:52Speaker 4: it is different in the game. But things we've mentioned
- 4:55Speaker 4: to him is he's not going to surprise anybody this year.
- 4:58Speaker 4: But you know, he took the lead by storm in
- 5:00Speaker 4: a lot of ways last year and and bald out,
- 5:03Speaker 4: but people are going to have more of a plan, doubles,
- 5:07Speaker 4: cloud coverages, different things. So just continuing to work on
- 5:11Speaker 4: taking your game to the next level.
- 5:13Speaker 5: Have you had.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Players like that in the past where the lights come on,
- 5:16Speaker 1: maybe in practice it's not showing for whatever the reason,
- 5:19Speaker 1: but the games happen.
- 5:20Speaker 4: And nobody that like really sticks out. But yes, answer,
- 5:24Speaker 4: excuse me, answer your question. Yes, like it's you've definitely
- 5:27Speaker 4: seen it. I think this may be a little bit
- 5:31Speaker 4: just my first time with it at the NFL level, maybe.
- 5:34Speaker 2: In a little ways, but I still have a lot
- 5:37Speaker 2: of confidence in them.
- 5:39Speaker 4: I mean I firmly believe that when when it's really
- 5:43Speaker 4: rolling and he's going I have a lot of confidence
- 5:46Speaker 4: in BT.
- 5:46Speaker 1: And his relationship with Trevor, the connection.
- 5:48Speaker 7: How would you evaluate that at a I mean.
- 5:50Speaker 4: I think he doesn't stop throwing him and you know,
- 5:53Speaker 4: they continue to work at it and there's no uh anks.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Or ill feelings. It's just like man, play the next play,
- 6:02Speaker 2: move on and keep rolling.
- 6:03Speaker 3: What have you seen it on Christian Brawsworld?
- 6:05Speaker 5: What kind of opportunity can this be for him? Just
- 6:07Speaker 5: with a couple of other corners kind of banged up?
- 6:09Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean braz has done everything we've asked him
- 6:13Speaker 4: from from the beginning. He works his tail off. You know,
- 6:17Speaker 4: he's quick twitch, he's strong.
- 6:19Speaker 2: He failed to run nicely the other night.
- 6:22Speaker 4: You know, I think he can has an opportunity to
- 6:25Speaker 4: continue to take advantage of those ops. And you know,
- 6:28Speaker 4: he's a smart player. He understands, you know, maybe where
- 6:31Speaker 4: his strengths and weaknesses are and needs to continue to
- 6:35Speaker 4: do good things on special teams as well to continue
- 6:37Speaker 4: to try to make this team, and.
- 6:39Speaker 5: Then after seeing Dennis card Deck working to the side
- 6:41Speaker 5: as long as he has to get back, I wasn't
- 6:42Speaker 5: seeing him today, you know, really kind of get immersing things.
- 6:45Speaker 4: It's great, you know, he's he's got a great energy,
- 6:47Speaker 4: and like I've said before, I really have always respected
- 6:51Speaker 4: his game and the way that he approaches things, and
- 6:54Speaker 4: so hopefully he can continue to get more and more
- 6:57Speaker 4: comfortable to get to a position where.
- 7:00Speaker 2: You know, we can get him out on the grass.
- 7:01Speaker 8: With the injuries to Buster and Tyson, does that change
- 7:04Speaker 8: anything about how you guys use Travis or the plan
- 7:07Speaker 8: for him.
- 7:08Speaker 1: No.
- 7:08Speaker 4: No, We'll continue to do kind of what we've been
- 7:11Speaker 4: doing out here, where it's offense defense, offense defense, getting
- 7:15Speaker 4: reps on both sides of the ball throughout the course
- 7:16Speaker 4: of practice, and maybe I think he's going to be
- 7:19Speaker 4: primarily more on defense tomorrow and subbing in a little
- 7:23Speaker 4: bit on offense, and then Thursday and the scrimmage he'll
- 7:26Speaker 4: do both as well. Again, I mean, just do you
- 7:28Speaker 4: let the one seventy yard field goal like move your
- 7:32Speaker 4: range back for him at all?
- 7:33Speaker 8: Or no?
- 7:33Speaker 2: I mean it's hard not to, right, I'm assuming it's
- 7:35Speaker 2: hard not to.
- 7:37Speaker 4: I think Trevor kind of summed it up well, where
- 7:39Speaker 4: it's like, I don't know if we're going to be
- 7:40Speaker 4: going for seventy yarders in the first and second quarter
- 7:42Speaker 4: of the game, but maybe the kick line to gain
- 7:47Speaker 4: is maybe a little bit.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Moved back for us in some ways.
- 7:52Speaker 4: But it was such a cool moment, obviously, as we've
- 7:55Speaker 4: talked about, and to have the ability to do it,
- 7:59Speaker 4: whether it's the end to half and the game critical
- 8:01Speaker 4: moments we need points, you feel like you got a
- 8:04Speaker 4: weapon to go and give yourselves a chance eric.
- 8:08Speaker 6: Play call at all.
- 8:09Speaker 3: To have a kicker like that, Yeah.
- 8:12Speaker 4: It's an interesting study because you know, we've talked about
- 8:18Speaker 4: the analytics behind obviously the fourth downs and being aggressive
- 8:22Speaker 4: while also having a guy that can can make kicks
- 8:25Speaker 4: from that range and then also having a punter who
- 8:29Speaker 4: can put the ball in multiple spots. So those are
- 8:33Speaker 4: some decisions that we're going to have to make as
- 8:36Speaker 4: a staff and to work through those some of those dynamics,
- 8:39Speaker 4: because yeah, you'd love to be aggressive, especially on the
- 8:42Speaker 4: plus side of the fifty, to go for it and
- 8:45Speaker 4: continue to keep your offense on the grass and then
- 8:47Speaker 4: he's you got a guy that can kick it from
- 8:49Speaker 4: seventy and you got a punter that can pin it.
- 8:51Speaker 2: So we'll have to make some decisions when the time comes.
- 8:54Speaker 1: I know Eric was working off to the side inside.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Do you have any update on him? And can you
- 8:58Speaker 1: evaluate the interior defensive line from.
- 9:01Speaker 2: No update right now on Eric.
- 9:04Speaker 4: The interior d line I thought played fairly well the
- 9:08Speaker 4: other night, you know, especially against the run. You know,
- 9:12Speaker 4: from a pass rush standpoint, we weren't doing much like
- 9:15Speaker 4: from schematically we were just four man rush I would
- 9:19Speaker 4: say eighty five.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Percent of the time.
- 9:21Speaker 4: So you're not going to probably see a ton when
- 9:24Speaker 4: you're not stunting. You know, there's no stunts, there's really
- 9:26Speaker 4: no pressures. There's not a lot of movement going on
- 9:28Speaker 4: to help them get moving right. But I thought they
- 9:32Speaker 4: played the run nicely at times. There's some definitely some
- 9:36Speaker 4: things to clean up, but I was pleased with their
- 9:39Speaker 4: run defense.
- 9:41Speaker 9: Last coach, are given the fifty three, where you thought
- 9:44Speaker 9: you would be during this particular process or I think
- 9:48Speaker 9: still some surprises and it maybe more competition for open spots.
- 9:52Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the games always help you a little
- 9:55Speaker 4: bit just to see, okay, if there's guys that really
- 9:59Speaker 4: stand out and shot and the in the game atmosphere
- 10:02Speaker 4: that don't maybe get a ton of ops in practice.
- 10:05Speaker 4: I don't necessarily feel like anything changed from the game
- 10:08Speaker 4: from last week to now, but we still have two
- 10:11Speaker 4: more opportunities to do so. So yeah, I think you
- 10:15Speaker 4: feel pretty confident about maybe fifty or so, and then
- 10:19Speaker 4: there's a couple of spots here and there that you
- 10:21Speaker 4: feel like are going to probably go a couple more weeks.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Why if you have that versatility characteristic that you really
- 10:27Speaker 1: liked plugging playing, and what are you seeing I don't him.
- 10:29Speaker 4: Yeah, he definitely showed that be able to go from
- 10:32Speaker 4: tackle to tackle, go in at guard. You know, he
- 10:35Speaker 4: had the one jailbreak screen where he took the guy
- 10:37Speaker 4: to the sidelines, which.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Was cool to see.
- 10:40Speaker 4: And he's displayed some of that physicality, toughness finish throughout
- 10:44Speaker 4: the course of training camp and you know, really pleased
- 10:47Speaker 4: with his maturation and his style of play. So definitely
- 10:51Speaker 4: somebody that's going to continue to earn more reps.
- 10:54Speaker 1: His person in Jacksonville, FLA. On a Saturday night, just describe.
- 10:59Speaker 1: I mean, Leo was the talking about the interesting decision
- 11:02Speaker 1: that you have when you have a punter who can
- 11:04Speaker 1: penited inside the five yard line, but then also a
- 11:06Speaker 1: kicker who can obviously kick from.
- 11:07Speaker 8: Seventy That was a special moment. I mean, I think
- 11:10Speaker 8: the group, you know, not only the specialist realize how
- 11:13Speaker 8: how cool that was, but you saw the team just
- 11:16Speaker 8: get behind Cam and they realized how talented he is
- 11:20Speaker 8: and the type of person he is, so they love
- 11:23Speaker 8: him to death.
- 11:24Speaker 3: And you could just see that the.
- 11:25Speaker 8: Excitement not only for the for the team, but for
- 11:28Speaker 8: him and in our group.
- 11:29Speaker 3: So pretty cool moment.
- 11:31Speaker 8: Obviously it's preseason, h you know, we understand that, but
- 11:35Speaker 8: it was so cool to be a part of that.
- 11:36Speaker 8: And again, because he's so talented, because the operation is
- 11:40Speaker 8: so great, you feel comfortable cent him out there and
- 11:43Speaker 8: those kind of unique positions of of like that.
- 11:47Speaker 1: So you're, in your opinion, that's now the record in
- 11:49Speaker 1: the NFL. Or are you saying it's pre season?
- 11:52Speaker 3: It's pre season.
- 11:53Speaker 8: You know, it's really cool, but regular season would be
- 11:57Speaker 8: would be even better, So you know that's the goal.
- 12:00Speaker 8: Bit regular Tea's a little bit different. So but it
- 12:03Speaker 8: was really really really cool moment for us each.
- 12:05Speaker 6: From all aspects, from Cam to Logan to coverage to
- 12:09Speaker 6: the returners. You know, this unit has been operating at
- 12:13Speaker 6: a pretty high efficiency for as long as those specials
- 12:16Speaker 6: to have been together. What kind of comfort does they give
- 12:19Speaker 6: the offensive and defensive coaches knowing that that kind of
- 12:23Speaker 6: a production is going to exist in a special teams?
- 12:25Speaker 8: I mean, hopefully it does. I mean I think that's
- 12:27Speaker 8: part of it. You know, three phases of the game.
- 12:29Speaker 8: How can we kind of work hand in hand to
- 12:31Speaker 8: help each other. You know, hopefully we can pin them deep,
- 12:35Speaker 8: you know, in our coverage groups, whether it's kickoff or punt,
- 12:38Speaker 8: uh and make teams go eighty plus you know, ninety
- 12:41Speaker 8: yards against our defense, and then offensively hopefully can shorten
- 12:44Speaker 8: some fields and you know, you get in that fringe
- 12:47Speaker 8: area where it's you know, forty yard line, is it
- 12:49Speaker 8: a go for?
- 12:50Speaker 3: It?
- 12:50Speaker 8: Is that you know a punt situation, you know you
- 12:53Speaker 8: can kick some of those longer kicks obviously with our kicker.
- 12:56Speaker 8: But our punter's really good as well, So he's he's
- 12:59Speaker 8: you know, the best in the en fell and the
- 13:00Speaker 8: you know inside the uh, inside the ten, and so
- 13:03Speaker 8: he's as talented as as anybody.
- 13:05Speaker 3: So we're very very fortunate. Coaches love it when you
- 13:08Speaker 3: have options.
- 13:09Speaker 6: I mean that your two kickers give give Liam options
- 13:12Speaker 6: to me.
- 13:13Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're they're they're the best in the game.
- 13:15Speaker 8: And uh and throw ross and there was a two
- 13:17Speaker 8: time Pro Bowl or so, Uh, we're we're, we're we're
- 13:21Speaker 8: amongst some.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Really good players.
- 13:22Speaker 8: And uh, you know, they work every day and that's
- 13:24Speaker 8: the cool thing is you see them every day, the
- 13:26Speaker 8: way they work, the way they prepare. They want to
- 13:28Speaker 8: be great every single day. Uh, and it shows up.
- 13:31Speaker 8: Uh come, you know, come game days in the stadium
- 13:34Speaker 8: as far as.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Coverage goes behind d T at Gunner who if you
- 13:37Speaker 1: kind of see emerge.
- 13:39Speaker 8: Oh, Antonio Johnson's obviously been a core guy for US.
- 13:41Speaker 8: Uh and Antonio has been fantastic in all phases really,
- 13:44Speaker 8: not just gunner.
- 13:46Speaker 3: He's a stud.
- 13:47Speaker 8: But you know, we have some young players done really well.
- 13:50Speaker 8: I mean, I think I was a good display what
- 13:52Speaker 8: Rayon Lane did in the game. I mean, that's something
- 13:54Speaker 8: we've seen all training camp and it didn't surprise me
- 13:57Speaker 8: he was going to show up as a gunner. Outside that,
- 14:01Speaker 8: we have such good competition outside Chandler Brave boys done
- 14:05Speaker 8: a good job as well. So there's a bunch of
- 14:07Speaker 8: good players mixed between their veteran core guys that have
- 14:10Speaker 8: been really studs for us to these young players that
- 14:13Speaker 8: are super competitive that that are looking for a job.
- 14:16Speaker 8: So it's gonna come down. You know, we got two
- 14:18Speaker 8: more preseason games of evals as well as out here
- 14:21Speaker 8: at practice that's gonna be so so important.
- 14:24Speaker 4: We have approached the game or his craft a little
- 14:27Speaker 4: bit maybe mature beyond his ears for just a second
- 14:30Speaker 4: year guy.
- 14:31Speaker 8: Yeah, and you well said, is he he's not a
- 14:34Speaker 8: rookie and he wasn't even last year. There was times
- 14:36Speaker 8: when I had to kind of remind myself of don't
- 14:38Speaker 8: forget this guy as a rookie. I don't have, you know,
- 14:41Speaker 8: because I kind of took it for granted at times
- 14:43Speaker 8: of all those little things that he had never seen
- 14:45Speaker 8: or never done.
- 14:46Speaker 3: But I think it's a.
- 14:47Speaker 8: Big part of those two guys, those two leaders that
- 14:50Speaker 8: are next to him.
- 14:50Speaker 3: Those guys just lead them big time. They're his big brother.
- 14:53Speaker 8: I mean, they just look after him, you know, they
- 14:56Speaker 8: you know, they pick on him like a little brother,
- 14:58Speaker 8: but they also take him out of their wing and
- 15:00Speaker 8: they've just been great leadership for him.
- 15:02Speaker 3: And uh, but yeah, he's so mature. So what are
- 15:05Speaker 3: is the areas that he gets better.
- 15:07Speaker 4: I mean I would assume if you're just in your
- 15:08Speaker 4: second year, that there's still a lot more room for.
- 15:10Speaker 5: Growth with this kid.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think there's always room for growth.
- 15:12Speaker 8: I mean I think start with kickoffs, you know those
- 15:14Speaker 8: you know, we're trying to hang up some kicks uh
- 15:16Speaker 8: in the game and you know he's you know sometimes
- 15:18Speaker 8: is you know he put him too deep. You know
- 15:20Speaker 8: he's kicking him. He's kicking long field goals, He's kicking
- 15:22Speaker 8: a long kickoffs. So, uh, those are some of the
- 15:24Speaker 8: things be sure we work on. And you know that's Uh,
- 15:28Speaker 8: there's always room for how can we be more efficient.
- 15:30Speaker 8: We've got to get the operation time down, you know,
- 15:32Speaker 8: stuff like that, all those things.
- 15:34Speaker 3: Uh, we're always working.
- 15:35Speaker 8: There's never a time when we're I know we're celebrating,
- 15:38Speaker 8: uh you know that last that that that field goal.
- 15:40Speaker 8: But uh, there's there's definitely we got to get better.
- 15:44Speaker 3: What does the cable rule change do for specialists?
- 15:47Speaker 8: And then but you know, not take away for subtenly
- 15:49Speaker 8: our field goal still, but does that help specialists out
- 15:52Speaker 8: to have it all week long and get it ready
- 15:54Speaker 8: or how different is I think it's gonna give the
- 15:56Speaker 8: equipment guys more, you know, more time on game day.
- 15:58Speaker 3: You know that, you know, the equipment got Colin.
- 16:00Speaker 8: He's working his butt off every day the past few
- 16:03Speaker 8: years of making sure that ball and that's and that
- 16:05Speaker 8: allowed you know, allowed time to get ready. Well, now
- 16:08Speaker 8: he has time to do it. As far as the ball,
- 16:11Speaker 8: it's the exact same ball. You know, they're having him,
- 16:13Speaker 8: they're having him prepared just like it was before. Uh,
- 16:16Speaker 8: there's no difference in that. You know, that's not why
- 16:18Speaker 8: he made seventy. He's been making seventies uh in practice
- 16:22Speaker 8: and you know, in in last season. You know, so
- 16:25Speaker 8: it's not that that that's not why.
- 16:29Speaker 3: Yep.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Back to coverage, Liam specifically mentioned Christian Braswell and the
- 16:33Speaker 1: opportunity he has in front of him, and then Danny Strigau,
- 16:35Speaker 1: I know, was a guy who got in pretty early
- 16:38Speaker 1: on coverage Unit two on Saturday.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Yeah. Both this guy's done really really well.
- 16:41Speaker 8: Braswell I thought did a good job at you know,
- 16:43Speaker 8: at corner he had some gunner reps. I mean, he's
- 16:45Speaker 8: done a good job. You know obviously with uh, you
- 16:49Speaker 8: know the opportunity to take advantage of but he's done
- 16:51Speaker 8: that since he's been here, he's been he's done a
- 16:53Speaker 8: good job. And uh, you know I saw him this
- 16:55Speaker 8: morning and and and said, you know, told him how
- 16:57Speaker 8: well he played.
- 16:57Speaker 3: So, uh, he's done well.
- 16:59Speaker 8: But there's a bunch of guys you know, Danny's done.
- 17:01Speaker 8: Danny did really well, you know. Uh, Jake Kaiser's you know,
- 17:05Speaker 8: Jack Kaiser has done a well good job.
- 17:07Speaker 3: So we've done.
- 17:08Speaker 8: We've got good young players that are mixing with our
- 17:10Speaker 8: veteran players. Uh, you know that are all competing for
- 17:14Speaker 8: for a tough roster to make.
- 17:16Speaker 5: I know he's been off the side for the most part,
- 17:18Speaker 5: keeling up from his injury. But getting Dennis Gardick, how
- 17:21Speaker 5: much does I excite you? And to see a guy
- 17:22Speaker 5: just as a coordinator you know around the league is
- 17:24Speaker 5: just one of those dudes as a special teams player.
- 17:26Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been watching Dennis for for a ton of years.
- 17:30Speaker 8: He shows up every every time he turned his tape on.
- 17:34Speaker 8: H he can take over games.
- 17:36Speaker 3: You know.
- 17:36Speaker 8: I don't know if I had more special teams coaches
- 17:39Speaker 8: to you know, text me after we signed them than
- 17:42Speaker 8: any other time.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Uh.
- 17:43Speaker 8: You know, he's a guy that's been a marquee player.
- 17:46Speaker 8: And I see why he's so good, the way he prepares,
- 17:50Speaker 8: just communicating with him, he's very very smart and detailed.
- 17:54Speaker 8: You know, we're kind of bringing him in slowly, but
- 17:56Speaker 8: he's in the meeting rooms he h. You know, he
- 17:59Speaker 8: does everything you ask and you know, comes for extra
- 18:01Speaker 8: meetings and all the extra stuff. So you see why
- 18:04Speaker 8: he's been a talented player, you know, a force in
- 18:08Speaker 8: all phases.
- 18:09Speaker 5: You're always active during practice, like not just during the
- 18:11Speaker 5: special team period.
- 18:12Speaker 3: You're helping out with offense, You're helping out with defense.
- 18:14Speaker 5: Is that something or asked to do or is that
- 18:16Speaker 5: just you trying to, you know, help out.
- 18:19Speaker 3: I think it's a little both.
- 18:20Speaker 8: I think a new staff came in liam As you know,
- 18:22Speaker 8: if i'd run the whistle for him, and so it's
- 18:25Speaker 8: a little bit of that.
- 18:26Speaker 3: You know.
- 18:26Speaker 8: In the past, I've helped Rich Angoula with tight ends.
- 18:28Speaker 8: Rich has been a was a teammate of mine back
- 18:30Speaker 8: with the Minnesota Vikings, you know, fifteen twenty years ago,
- 18:33Speaker 8: so a long time friend of mine. So I've always
- 18:35Speaker 8: you know, enjoyed it. And I can't sit around the
- 18:38Speaker 8: sidelins and just watch practice. I got too much, too
- 18:41Speaker 8: much energy, So I just run around as best I can,
- 18:43Speaker 8: so a lot of it's just voluntary.
- 18:44Speaker 3: I feel great.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Did you get did you feel like you got enough working?
- 18:48Speaker 7: I know it was only I definitely didn't feel like
- 18:50Speaker 7: I got enough when we only had I only had
- 18:53Speaker 7: like seven plays. Kind of got warmed up a little bit.
- 18:56Speaker 7: But like you said, like I said, it feel good
- 18:58Speaker 7: to be back out there.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Now that you're into your fourth year. How important is
- 19:00Speaker 3: the preseason for you? Just getting ready for Week one?
- 19:02Speaker 1: Uh?
- 19:02Speaker 7: Me, personally, I take the preseason serious, just like going
- 19:05Speaker 7: into any other game, cause, uh, obviously I don't wanna
- 19:07Speaker 7: come into the season slow stepping, so I'm gonna treat
- 19:09Speaker 7: it as if it's a regular season game regardless.
- 19:13Speaker 1: I think we've asked you, what have you seen from
- 19:14Speaker 1: some of the younger defensive linemen behind you? Josh Smooth,
- 19:17Speaker 1: Hoda Man, A.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Lot a lot of those guys. They come in and
- 19:20Speaker 3: work hard every day.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Uh.
- 19:21Speaker 7: They get their extreme high energy players, And I feel
- 19:24Speaker 7: like just l being in the NFL, playing with higher
- 19:26Speaker 7: energy is gonna take you a long way when it
- 19:28Speaker 7: especially when it comes to Russian and stopping to run
- 19:30Speaker 7: as well.
- 19:32Speaker 5: How do you feel like you're command of the defense
- 19:34Speaker 5: or at least from your perspective has grown over the
- 19:36Speaker 5: last few weeks and drinking.
- 19:38Speaker 7: Uh me me personally, I f still feel like I'm
- 19:40Speaker 7: the same person.
- 19:41Speaker 3: But as far as like being.
- 19:42Speaker 7: Able to dissect the playbook, our plays, and things of
- 19:45Speaker 7: that nature, I feel like now I'm got a real
- 19:47Speaker 7: good feel on the plays and I'm playing a lot faster,
- 19:49Speaker 7: just going out there playing free. When guys come up
- 19:51Speaker 7: to me ask me questions about certain plays, and I
- 19:53Speaker 7: have to ask, for how.
- 19:55Speaker 8: Do you feel about estabushing of defensive identity?
- 19:58Speaker 1: Like?
- 19:59Speaker 7: What does that ta uh takes us just coming in
- 20:02Speaker 7: and being ourselves every day, being true to ourselves. As
- 20:04Speaker 7: far as uh, we obviously know it's a physical sport.
- 20:07Speaker 7: We all wanna come up here and be physical, but uh,
- 20:09Speaker 7: at the end of the day, it's either you gonna
- 20:12Speaker 7: win or you're gonna lose. Uh, and don't nobody wanna lose.
- 20:14Speaker 7: So coming in with that mindset, I feel like as
- 20:16Speaker 7: far as with our defensive perspective, we wanna be physical,
- 20:19Speaker 7: we wanna stop the run, and that's our main focus. First,
- 20:22Speaker 7: what did it lake see that cat of the yarder man?
- 20:25Speaker 7: That was that was something special? That was It would
- 20:27Speaker 7: have been a record in the NFL well in the
- 20:29Speaker 7: regular season. But uh, obviously we all knew Cam had
- 20:32Speaker 7: it in them, and then just to see it in person.
- 20:34Speaker 3: It was great to see.
- 20:34Speaker 1: William said. The focus today's practice assignment alignment coming out
- 20:38Speaker 1: of Saturday, how would you evaluate for the first time
- 20:41Speaker 1: this group under coach Camp, how would you evaluate the
- 20:44Speaker 1: execution let's say during the seven or.
- 20:46Speaker 7: So places round. Uh, speaking on that first drive specifically,
- 20:48Speaker 7: that definitely caught us with some tempo. So I feel
- 20:50Speaker 7: like that's where the that came into practice to play
- 20:52Speaker 7: at practice to day, I feel like we did a
- 20:53Speaker 7: great job in practice to day, and we watched the
- 20:55Speaker 7: film earlier, so I feel like now we just have
- 20:57Speaker 7: to continuously get on the ball, be ready to set
- 21:00Speaker 7: that way we don't get caught off guard like that.
- 21:03Speaker 5: Having guys like a Manuel Ogball and doing you know,
- 21:06Speaker 5: behind you and Josh this year, just how much could
- 21:08Speaker 5: having that more depth at defensive end kind of helping
- 21:11Speaker 5: you personally?
- 21:11Speaker 3: Man, it really help us out just that way. It's
- 21:14Speaker 3: no drop off.
- 21:14Speaker 7: I feel like both of those guys are great players,
- 21:16Speaker 7: great run stop its, great pass rushes, and I feel
- 21:18Speaker 7: like they'll take a lot off once we do maybe
- 21:20Speaker 7: need to come out for a player too, just for
- 21:22Speaker 7: us to catch our breath and then be able to
- 21:23Speaker 7: get back in or we all in at the same time.
- 21:25Speaker 3: What kind of resources kind of ogbah Ben just for you.
- 21:27Speaker 7: The guy who's been around there, he's been, like I said,
- 21:29Speaker 7: he's been. He's like a eric as well. He's been
- 21:31Speaker 7: in the league ten ten eleven years. Uh, he has
- 21:34Speaker 7: a lot of experience playing in a couple of different defenses.
- 21:36Speaker 7: Obviously he's played up on the camp but before so. Uh,
- 21:39Speaker 7: he knows the mindset that camp is bringing. That he
- 21:41Speaker 7: helps it instill it in the me and all of
- 21:43Speaker 7: the younger guys as well. Set it again the field
- 21:48Speaker 7: goal man, that was something special to see. Man, it's
- 21:50Speaker 7: really once in a lifetime. You really don't get to
- 21:52Speaker 7: see that much. Pats out to camp. He's a great kicker,
- 21:55Speaker 7: he's doing a great job. Just keep his head down,
- 21:57Speaker 7: keep going. You guns paid.
- 21:58Speaker 4: Attention to him at all, Like out here when he's banging,
- 22:01Speaker 4: like just messing around and the nails most of it.
- 22:03Speaker 3: We won't see him a lot.
- 22:04Speaker 7: But like when we go to field goal, we know,
- 22:06Speaker 7: we know, we know he can kick fifty yards as easy.
- 22:08Speaker 7: We see that every now and then. But he's a
- 22:11Speaker 7: great kicker. He works his ass off.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Do you feel like you need to play more in
- 22:15Speaker 1: the second game and then because there's a joint practice
- 22:17Speaker 1: for the third preseason game, do you say, okay, maybe
- 22:20Speaker 1: we back off that one or kind of where where
- 22:21Speaker 1: is your hat and turn ahead at in terms of
- 22:24Speaker 1: how many reps you need in these next two games.
- 22:26Speaker 7: Me personally, it's not about the reps I want to say.
- 22:32Speaker 7: I'll just say I'm whatever the coach wants us to do.
- 22:34Speaker 7: That's the type of player the coach want me out there.
- 22:36Speaker 7: There's many plays, That's how many plays I'm gonna be
- 22:38Speaker 7: out there. If you don't want me out there playing
- 22:40Speaker 7: that game, then so what