Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "This Is Where We Are and Now It's up to Us To Get Ourselves Out of It and Fix It"

Transcript

Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "This Is Where We Are and Now It's up to Us To Get Ourselves Out of It and Fix It" · Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Practice, you think at least go through our individual portion
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: you know today, Yes, do you have.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: To be careful with how you handle a shoulder injury
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: or more so than maybe some of the other injuries
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Stru's dealt.
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: With this year because it is his shoulder as opposed
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: to like a near an angel.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, obviously if it were a defensive guy,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: say like Andre Cisco had a shoulder earlier, you know,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: you can harness those things and kind of keep things
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: nice and tight and he can still practice right as
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: long as you don't bang him around and all that.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: With the quarterback, you're handing the ball off, you know,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: with that right arm, you're throwing with the right arm,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: you're you're stressing the shoulder a little bit more so,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: those are all things you got to be careful of.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: It's really a tolerance thing, you know, more than anything else.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: But you still want to be careful.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: You know, every day you're out there, when you look
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: at the Spanthers team, what stands.
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: Out of them?
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the one thing that stands out is
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: this team. This team plays hard. Excuse me, this team
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: plays fast. It's a physical group.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: It's a it's a it's a four quarter game.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: You know, quite honestly, Coach Tabor, he's done a nice
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: job of keeping everybody together, keeping everybody on the same page,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: and just kind of locked in week to week.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: You know, who cares about the win loss record right now?
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: These guys are They played obviously much better last week
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: against Green Bay. But uh, it's a physical, fast group
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: that that you know, they're they're competing every day.
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: What do you see from Bryce Young this year? Obviously
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: it's a up and down the I think I think.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: You know, you see improvement obviously from beginning of the
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: year to this, you know, to where they are now.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: The team around him is playing, playing better, obviously getting
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: more out of the obviously the skilled position guys, and
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: and you know they've done a nice job, you know,
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: with it. And you know he's he's doing obviously, settled
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: in and you know the things that they're asking him
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: to do, he's been he's been good, you know.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: And and teams that that.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Try to rush him, he does a nice job of,
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: you know, getting out of it and escape in the
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: pocket where he can he their run extend, you know,
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: drives with first downs or complete a pass.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: So you're just seeing that that constant improvement that I
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: know they want to see, you know, throughout the year.
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: Let's see the decision on your number one guy and
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: the number two guy getting all the reps.
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: In practice and seeing how important that is.
• 2:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, is there a point on Friday or Saturday
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: where even if he's clear, you still have to decide
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: that there's more value in the reps or is it
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: just Trevor's number one.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: You put them out there.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: I think you've got to consider it. You know, where
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: we are in the season, what we have moving forward. Obviously,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: you know, the biggest thing, and we've talked about this too,
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: is you don't want to risk further injury, right, and
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: so that's the big thing. And you know, if Trevor plays,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: we're all in on that. If CJ plays, we're all
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: in on that. The one thing about CJ is, you know,
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: in Trevor's absence during the week, it's valuable that CEG
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: he's gotten all the all the reps and and he's
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: prepared that way, and and you know he's ready to go,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: you know, at a moment's notice. He stepped in last
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: last week and obviously did a nice job for us
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: last week.
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: At the end of that game. But it's a.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a tough decision, but sometimes you got
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: to make, you know, or I have to make those
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: decisions based on Trevor's health and obviously where we are
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: as a team.
• 3:24
  Speaker 5: Fred Taylor being named the finalists, Yeah, your your career
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: is obviously crossed. You can play against a coach against
• 3:30
  Speaker 5: him per se.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: But you saw his talent.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were, we were in the league about the
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: same time, you know. And and obviously just a lot
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: of respect for him and obviously what he's you know, uh,
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: leading running back in JAG's history and and all that,
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: and and just a it was a great, great player,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: great teammate, very explosive, you know, and he was in
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: a he was in a league and a division back
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: then that had a lot of good running backs, you know.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: And and and for him to be one of.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: The finalists, you know for twenty four uh, says a
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: lot about him as a person.
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: Obviously he's a character, and then what he did on
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: the field.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: Very happy for him, and congratulations on being being one
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: of the finalists.
• 4:13
  Speaker 5: You've harped repeatedly on his team getting off the turnover training.
• 4:18
  Speaker 5: How do you think Trevor has he you know, he's
• 4:20
  Speaker 5: tough on the quarterback, right because touching the vault, so
• 4:24
  Speaker 5: so yeah, but sometimes it's sometimes it's sometimes.
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: It's partially his fault.
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: Sometimes it's other people that are involved in How do
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: you think he's handled this rash of turnovers that have
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: just inflicted the team lately?
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: I would I would say he's handled it extremely well.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: I know it bothers him, you know, and and he
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't want to turn the ball over.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: And you're right.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's it's not always the quarterback, but obviously the
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: stats and things.
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: Lean towards the quarterback.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: So we just got to make it and say, we
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: the coaches, we got to make sure that all our
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: players are skill players, are on the same page with
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: our quarterback, and what Trevor sees are the same things
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: that they're seeing. And that just comes through repetition, through practice,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: film study during the week, and then obviously playing playing
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: in games. So some of the mistakes we made in
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: the in the Tampa game, we're just some guys not
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: on the same page and and so that's that's something
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: that we have to look at.
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: As a staff and and fix.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Those but at the same time, you know, embrace the
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: fact that hey, this is where we are right and
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: now it's it's up to us to get ourselves, you know,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: out of it and fix it.
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: What did you see from Cam back on the field
• 5:41
  Speaker 4: yesterday and overall health of the offensive.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Line, Well, we know Walker and Ezra are both sore
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: and beat up, banged up this time of year.
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: Cam, it was great to get Cam out there.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: He brings a lot of energy and excitement out there
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: and enthusiasm, and he did and he did a nice job,
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: and it appears that he's you know, ready to go,
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: So that's that was obviously a positive. And then and
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: then the other two guys are you know, whatever happens,
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: at least one of them, whether it's Walker Ezra gets
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: a chance to kind of heal a little bit, you know,
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: this week, depending on the decision we make there at
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: left guard. So it's a good time for Cam to
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: be back, and then it's also a good time for
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: these guys to to get healthy.
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: No, obviously you said you said about Anton having him,
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: you know, be available on Sunday, But obviously he's battled
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: through a ton of various injuries during his rookie year.
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: If you want to just speak to you know what,
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: how you've been impressed.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I go all the way back to training
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: camp when and really I think it was even the
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: off season, but I know in training camp he had
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: the shoulder issue that was going on, and you know,
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: back then you would have thought that, Okay, this is
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: gonna bother them all year and things.
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: But he fought through that.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: And now he's here at the end of the season
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: and he's battled through, you know, a few more injuries
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: and and I've been really impressed with him how he
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: has one handled it. He's not let it affect him, right,
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: He's he's working through. He still practices every day, right,
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: he practices through the injury, and and he's he's been
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: a pro about it, and and rightfully so, because he's
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: got some really good guys in the old line room
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: to kind of coach him up.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: You know, and get him get him on the right track.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: And so I've been really impressed with him as a
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: young player. He hasn't played this much football, you know,
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: in a long time, and if ever, and he still
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: has a couple of games left, you know, this season.
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: So he's done a.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: He's done a nice job taking care of himself and
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: being available.
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: You know for our team.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: He balanced the decision on the offensive line. You talked
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: about eating continuity. Their injuries so kind of cause these
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: shake ups. How do you balance the decision this week
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: with continuity? Shake something up with Cam then you got
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: the decision at left guard.
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that's where every team is right now.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: You know, this time of year, honestly, there's everybody's battling
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: through injury.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: You know, even some of your top teams are battling
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: through whether it's a loss or an injury, or you know,
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: something's going on. So everybody's kind of shifting and working
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: through different things. And and we're no different obviously. And listen,
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: it's nobody. Nobody cares. You know, Carolina doesn't care. Tennessee
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: is not going to care.
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: We we've got to We've just got to put the
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: best eleven on the field, offense, defense and special teams
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: and go play. And it's up to the coaches to
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: have everybody ready to go. It's up to the player
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: to be prepared, and that's kind of where everybody is
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Trevon Walker he's gotten at least half a second five
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: of the last six games. I know you kind of
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: said before, you know, like he's doing good things and
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: the stats just hadn't been there early on in the season.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: Is this a thing We're late in the season and
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, those zacks are starting to show
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: up on the sat seat.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: You know, he keeps, he keeps battling, he keeps, he
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: keeps fighting, and you know, yeah, good things, good things
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: begin to to take shape. And you know he's doing
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: a nice job of pressuring you know, the quarterback, you know,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: whether it be on a straight rush or a game.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: And you know we need him. We need him to
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: come through this time of year. We need Josh to
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: keep coming this time of year. And and those two
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: together can be tough to stop.
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: Building off the continuity piece. Obviously, there's two games left
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: to go in the regular season. Knowing the point that
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: you guys are in your season, do you think that
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: you make a wholesale change to light a spark or
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: is this about being as you know, continuity and as
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: pull steam ahead and doing what you've been doing.
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: In terms of you say, a wholesale change is something
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: in mind.
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, if it's a if it's a lineup change,
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: if it's schematically anything like that.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: You know, those are all great questions. But I look
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: at it as as things we can control. Number one,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: we can tackle better on defense, that's in our control.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: We can take care of the football better, that's in
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: our control, pre snap penalties, those are things that are
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: in our control, right, So those are we can coach better,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: We can call better offense and defensive plays, put our
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: players in better situations. All things that are within our
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: grasp and within our control. And so you know there's
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: going to be lineup changes based on injury right this
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: time of year.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: But I don't think you have to necessarily.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Our goals are still right in front of us, and
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: and we have to eliminate some of that stuff that
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: I mentioned and get back to figuring out and finding
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: a way just just to win a game.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: And I don't think you have.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: To necessarily make that big spark changed in order to
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: Are you are you saying that they're will? Are you
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: saying that there will not be any uh any changes
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: in with any of the starters this weekend beyond UH
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: for non injury related reasons for performance related reasons.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't anticipate it's all gonna be injury
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: related if if anything, you know.
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: This week, yeah, yeah.
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: Tyson Campbell popped up on an injury with the finger.
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: How serious is that?
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: He He just broke the tip of his finger in
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the game the other day.
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: He can still write.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Is that part of why he didn't play in the
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: second half?
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: No, I mean part of it, but but no, you know.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: And and last week when just to address Tyson, it
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: was his first game back in a while, and wanted
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: to progress him obviously in the game, kind of get
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: his feet back underneath him. There were some things in
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the game with just uncharacteristic of Tyson just from not playing,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: and and so made the switch at halftime, you know.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: And and this week will be different.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: He'll get more opportunity this week, get another full week
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: of practice.
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: So uh, he's he's doing a good job.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: Coach Braddock at.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah Saint Augustine with yellowjackets, right, yeah, high school.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: High school coach the Year.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is pretty special for high school coach
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: to be in this category. And you know, I was
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: once a high school coach obviously, And and no, it's
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: like to coach a bunch of fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: year olds.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: But congratulations to him.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: I know he's one of the finalists or is the
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: actual coach of the Year, So shout out to him
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: and his team and congratulations. I think they were with
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: thirteen to one this past year, almost state champs. Yeah,
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: and he gets a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: So congratulations to Brian.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: Thanks