Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Anthony Campanile on Violent at the Point of Attack and Playing in a Tough Physical Scheme
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So just talk a little bit about just your excitement
- 0:03Speaker 1: for this opportunity and what you see from this defense.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Which you know, quite frankly, really had a lot of
- 0:11Speaker 2: troubles last year.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I'm I couldn't be more excited about
- 0:16Speaker 3: this opportunity really to work with these guys. Just looking
- 0:20Speaker 3: at the players, you know, looking at the roster. That
- 0:23Speaker 3: probably be the most exciting part of it for me,
- 0:26Speaker 3: you know, getting to know some of the guys being
- 0:28Speaker 3: in here.
- 0:29Speaker 2: It's been awesome. So pretty fired up about it.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Obviously, the opportunity to work here, work with Liam. I'm
- 0:36Speaker 3: just I'm mamped up. You know, I'm mamped up in
- 0:39Speaker 3: every which way.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Why do you want to work you know, I think
- 0:44Speaker 2: that's a good question.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Both Northeast guys, you know, but we've known each other
- 0:51Speaker 3: for for quite a bit, you know, working the camps
- 0:54Speaker 3: circuits over the years in college. But really just his energy,
- 1:00Speaker 3: you know what, what what I got from talking to him? Uh,
- 1:04Speaker 3: he's just he's the right type of guy, you know,
- 1:07Speaker 3: his vision, his toughness.
- 1:10Speaker 2: I'm really really fired up about that. What's your vision
- 1:12Speaker 2: for the defense in terms.
- 1:15Speaker 3: Of just in terms of yeah, I think the most
- 1:20Speaker 3: important thing you talk about when you talk about defense
- 1:24Speaker 3: is your play style. You know, my vision for us defensively,
- 1:30Speaker 3: we want to be a tough, fast, physical, violent at
- 1:34Speaker 3: the point of attack team.
- 1:36Speaker 2: What does that mean? All right?
- 1:38Speaker 3: That means that you got guys who take pride and
- 1:41Speaker 3: not getting blocked.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Everybody talks about running to the ball.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I don't think there's another person in the world who
- 1:47Speaker 3: believes in running to the ball more than I do.
- 1:50Speaker 3: But you can't run to the ball if you don't
- 1:52Speaker 3: get all blocks. And that is something that's going to
- 1:56Speaker 3: be celebrated in our room. It's gonna be celebrated in
- 1:59Speaker 3: the culture of our team. You know, there's gonna be
- 2:02Speaker 3: a you know, there's a point in every play where
- 2:04Speaker 3: somebody tries to block you, right.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Uh.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Your passion to not stay blocked is really what makes
- 2:11Speaker 3: plays on defense, you know. Uh, coaching scheme, all that
- 2:15Speaker 3: stuff that's great, like really important, But at the end
- 2:19Speaker 3: of the day, the players win the game, you know,
- 2:21Speaker 3: and the violence at the point of attack. Uh, the
- 2:23Speaker 3: effort to strain and the finish that it takes to
- 2:25Speaker 3: not stay blocked and run to the football, that's.
- 2:28Speaker 2: What really creates a great defense.
- 2:31Speaker 3: We want guys that are gonna play with their shoulder square,
- 2:34Speaker 3: you know, be able to read everybody's number and name,
- 2:36Speaker 3: tag every play and attack contact, never turn it down.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Those are tenants of a great defense, you know. Those
- 2:43Speaker 3: are tenants all the great defenses in the history of football,
- 2:46Speaker 3: and the great defenses I've ever been around, but we had,
- 2:49Speaker 3: you know, when I watched that on the tape, when
- 2:51Speaker 3: I watched the guys here, I see a lot of that.
- 2:54Speaker 3: I see great effort, great strain, you know, and meeting
- 2:58Speaker 3: these guys, we got a lot of great people in here.
- 3:00Speaker 3: I'm excited to coach. And like you know, you just
- 3:03Speaker 3: asked about Liam. You know, he's about the same things.
- 3:06Speaker 3: You know, he wants strained, he wants an effort, and
- 3:10Speaker 3: you know that's the environment I want to be in
- 3:11Speaker 3: every day, and I know we can succeed in hopefully
- 3:15Speaker 3: answer your question, well, how far are.
- 3:18Speaker 1: You in the roster evaluation process.
- 3:20Speaker 3: That we're all just kind of going through that right now,
- 3:22Speaker 3: you know, all our coaches letting everybody go through through everything.
- 3:27Speaker 3: You know, Positionally I've been able to watch a lot
- 3:30Speaker 3: of guys myself, but obviously with hiring the staff and
- 3:34Speaker 3: evaluating the players right now still, I would say, you know,
- 3:38Speaker 3: relatively on the front end of it, in all fairness,
- 3:42Speaker 3: and we're kind of collaborating a meeting on that as
- 3:44Speaker 3: a defensive staff right now as well.
- 3:46Speaker 1: You know, you have to be done with that full
- 3:48Speaker 1: evaluation before you go to the.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Combine or now. Uh yeah, i'd like to be.
- 3:52Speaker 3: I mean, I think we're close to that, you know,
- 3:55Speaker 3: And obviously there's a lot coming up down or coming
- 3:57Speaker 3: down to pipe right, free agents and obviously the draft
- 4:00Speaker 3: with the combine coming up.
- 4:01Speaker 2: So guys are working hard.
- 4:03Speaker 3: You know, they're in here honestly, they're in here early
- 4:06Speaker 3: and we're grinding until late night.
- 4:08Speaker 2: And I know I am trying to.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Make sure we put the best group of guys together
- 4:12Speaker 3: and obviously do the best job in our evaluations.
- 4:15Speaker 1: How much take would you say you watched so far
- 4:18Speaker 1: from last year?
- 4:19Speaker 2: I watched a fair amount.
- 4:20Speaker 3: I watched quite a bit of it, to be honest
- 4:22Speaker 3: with you, And I have a lot of respect for
- 4:26Speaker 3: the guys who coached here and the guys who played
- 4:29Speaker 3: here last year, because I see strain, I do, I
- 4:32Speaker 3: see effort.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I know maybe there wasn't the result that everybody wanted.
- 4:35Speaker 3: All the time, but I knew and coming here there
- 4:39Speaker 3: was a lot of guys that I did or was
- 4:40Speaker 3: excited with the opportunity to coach specifically.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Who I'm pursuing the past rushers, cornerback, sure.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, absolutely there's guys, and then you know, at linebacker,
- 4:52Speaker 3: I would say I've evaluated a lot of these guys,
- 4:54Speaker 3: probably know them a little bit better because you evaluated
- 4:56Speaker 3: pretty closely going into the draft every year, you know,
- 4:58Speaker 3: and that was my position. So there's really a bunch
- 5:02Speaker 3: of guys. I'm pretty familiar with the way they play
- 5:04Speaker 3: their play style as college players. And then you know,
- 5:07Speaker 3: you usually keep up with guys in the NFL and
- 5:08Speaker 3: you see guys in crossover tape. But absolutely we got
- 5:12Speaker 3: some pass rushers, we have some interior dlignement, we have
- 5:15Speaker 3: some toughness, and linebacker, we got some guys in the.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Back end that I've been really impressed with the tape
- 5:21Speaker 2: that you watched. What would you say was the biggest issues.
- 5:24Speaker 1: It's simply a matter of just not winning enough one
- 5:27Speaker 1: on one battles.
- 5:29Speaker 3: No, I mean, I've gotten lesson to that in terms
- 5:31Speaker 3: of like schematics. You know, we're kind of like moving
- 5:34Speaker 3: forward on that and just looking at everybody plugs into
- 5:37Speaker 3: what we want to do moving forward. So I've probably
- 5:41Speaker 3: spent less time on, you know, what all the issues are,
- 5:45Speaker 3: and more time on evaluating the players and their their
- 5:49Speaker 3: play style, their playability, to be honest with you, because
- 5:52Speaker 3: that to me is like the most important thing for
- 5:54Speaker 3: us right now that we know our players and then
- 5:57Speaker 3: we know our roster.
- 5:58Speaker 1: How many decisions do he makes wise now as opposed
- 6:01Speaker 1: to maybe the offseason when you get really get hands
- 6:03Speaker 1: on the guys on the field.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Yeah, I think where you look at whenever you come
- 6:06Speaker 3: into a place, you know, a new environment like that
- 6:10Speaker 3: kind of happened in Green Bay last year. To be
- 6:12Speaker 3: honest with it, for me, right, I was in Miami
- 6:13Speaker 3: for a bunch of years and went there and as
- 6:16Speaker 3: Jeff and I were kind of ripping it down to
- 6:17Speaker 3: the studs and our defensive stabblished building it from the
- 6:20Speaker 3: ground up. You always evaluate what's in the building, you
- 6:23Speaker 3: know what I mean, what do the guys do well
- 6:25Speaker 3: and how does that.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Fit into our scheme?
- 6:27Speaker 3: And I think great coaches always have the ability to
- 6:31Speaker 3: be malleable with the scheme to fit what the players
- 6:35Speaker 3: do best. So yeah, that's part of it, and then
- 6:38Speaker 3: as you go for sure, like as your roster changes,
- 6:41Speaker 3: you know, sometimes that affords you the opportunity to do
- 6:43Speaker 3: a little bit more stuff or less. What if the
- 6:46Speaker 3: defense doesn't get turnovers for the reasons for that, I
- 6:49Speaker 3: think one of the I could probably answer it better
- 6:51Speaker 3: by saying the reason in my opinion.
- 6:54Speaker 2: For turnovers, I think a lot of that comes from
- 6:58Speaker 2: vision on the ball.
- 6:58Speaker 3: If you look at a statistics over the years in
- 7:01Speaker 3: the NFL, a lot of takeaways occur with vision on
- 7:05Speaker 3: the ball. I think like some of those happen in
- 7:06Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, you know, some like you just think
- 7:08Speaker 3: about some of the playoff games and the games that
- 7:10Speaker 3: you've watched most recently. When you have vision on the ball,
- 7:13Speaker 3: you have an opportunity to create or better opportunity to
- 7:16Speaker 3: create takeaways.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I also think that the guys that have great ball.
- 7:20Speaker 3: Awareness and the guys that strain that as a team,
- 7:23Speaker 3: you know, the units that really strain that.
- 7:26Speaker 2: It's you go back and look at it.
- 7:27Speaker 3: How many attempts are you making on the ball, whether
- 7:30Speaker 3: that's punching the ball right, whether that's violent contact on
- 7:34Speaker 3: the ball, how I'm clamping on a tackle. All those
- 7:36Speaker 3: things can factor in to takeaways, and to me, you
- 7:39Speaker 3: have to do a really really good job studying that
- 7:41Speaker 3: and presenting that information visually to the players, get as
- 7:44Speaker 3: many great visuals for them, knowing how people carry the ball, right,
- 7:49Speaker 3: Is a guy late to the tuck after he catches
- 7:50Speaker 3: the ball. Does he carry the ball on his inside
- 7:52Speaker 3: arm near sideline? Is the guy switches the ball in traffic?
- 7:55Speaker 3: Is the ball off his body? Is he an elbowl outrunner?
- 7:57Speaker 3: Those are the guys that you want to target, and
- 7:59Speaker 3: you want to target.
- 7:59Speaker 2: The specific ways.
- 8:01Speaker 3: So me that so to me, uh, there is a
- 8:04Speaker 3: little bit of a I don't want to say a
- 8:06Speaker 3: science to that, but certainly a technique and a coaching
- 8:09Speaker 3: philosophy to that. Absolutely, you know, and I think every
- 8:15Speaker 3: drill you do. You know, like we've talked about this.
- 8:18Speaker 3: As a defensive staff, I don't want any drills that
- 8:21Speaker 3: don't end without a tackle or a takeaway or an
- 8:24Speaker 3: attempt at a take away. I don't because every play
- 8:26Speaker 3: is going to end that way, you know, That's what
- 8:27Speaker 3: we're shooting for or shooting for, you know, violent finish
- 8:30Speaker 3: on a tackle, uh, violently trying to separate somebody from
- 8:33Speaker 3: the ball when the ball's in the air or violently
- 8:35Speaker 3: trying to take the ball away at the point of attack.
- 8:37Speaker 3: So we need to be drilling that every day, you know,
- 8:40Speaker 3: And that's on me to make sure we are being
- 8:43Speaker 3: with a coach.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Berkin's a great band last year. What was it about
- 8:45Speaker 1: him that you know, manport for him to be on
- 8:47Speaker 1: the staff with him?
- 8:48Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a great perks got it. You guys
- 8:51Speaker 3: will meet him. He's got a great disposition. He's just
- 8:54Speaker 3: super easy to talk to, great communicator. He's a really
- 8:58Speaker 3: really good teacher. And the dude is just like a
- 9:02Speaker 3: tireless worker. I don't know if he sleeps, so he's
- 9:06Speaker 3: he might be a vampire, but he works like he
- 9:10Speaker 3: works like an animal. So I just I have like
- 9:13Speaker 3: such a deep respect for that, you know. And those
- 9:16Speaker 3: are the guys like I always kind of gravitate to,
- 9:19Speaker 3: you know. I love the guys that like do more,
- 9:21Speaker 3: find a way and just super detailed, like really clear, concise,
- 9:24Speaker 3: direct and easy to talk to.
- 9:27Speaker 2: So the players really, you know, got.
- 9:29Speaker 3: Along with him really really well, and they were able
- 9:31Speaker 3: to learn from him because he presents the information in
- 9:33Speaker 3: a way that is easy to learn.
- 9:35Speaker 1: From your perspective, out board can a guy like Eric
- 9:38Speaker 1: Rmstead being with a new staff, just his leadership off
- 9:41Speaker 1: the field, that kind of stuff.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:42Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you look at you know him
- 9:45Speaker 3: and winning the Man of the Year award and all that.
- 9:47Speaker 3: He speaks to the character of him, you know, the
- 9:49Speaker 3: type of guy he is. I've gotten a chance to
- 9:51Speaker 3: talk to Eric, so been awesome and been around a
- 9:54Speaker 3: bunch of guys who have coached him too, which is cool.
- 9:57Speaker 3: But he's Yeah, absolutely, you know, the leadership qualities that's
- 10:00Speaker 3: super you know, that excites you, keeps you super excited
- 10:03Speaker 3: about that. But also you know, watching the guy play
- 10:05Speaker 3: over the years, he's got a great play style, big
- 10:09Speaker 3: explosive guy, and he's had a ton of success in his.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Career because of that. So excited to coach him, without
- 10:14Speaker 2: a doubt. One of the guys. I'm definitely excited about
- 10:16Speaker 2: him as a defensive tackle.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I think for the majority of his career
- 10:21Speaker 3: he's had so much success doing that.
- 10:23Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy that's obviously, as you've seen last.
- 10:26Speaker 3: Year, was able to move around a little bit, you know,
- 10:28Speaker 3: so he's got some multiplicity to his skill set. But
- 10:31Speaker 3: he's just a problem honestly, wherever he is. You know,
- 10:34Speaker 3: you watch him there as he lines up on a
- 10:36Speaker 3: tight end that's not a great matchup. He lines up
- 10:38Speaker 3: on a guard, that's a tough matchup. So it's good
- 10:41Speaker 3: to have guys that are that are a matchup problem.
- 10:43Speaker 3: And he's had so much productivity inside over his career. Tough.
- 10:47Speaker 3: Is it to said, I guess the tone or the
- 10:49Speaker 3: mentality that you want to build for this defense. I
- 10:52Speaker 3: mean from maybe scratches.
- 10:54Speaker 1: It stuff through the off season. Is it bringing in
- 10:56Speaker 1: the right.
- 10:57Speaker 3: Kind of guys?
- 10:57Speaker 2: What is it? That's a great question.
- 11:02Speaker 3: I think that's just your effort and enthusiasm you come
- 11:06Speaker 3: into building with every day, you know what I mean,
- 11:09Speaker 3: Like me.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Personally, the coaches, the players.
- 11:12Speaker 3: It's making sure that our mindset is right every day
- 11:14Speaker 3: and we're on it every day. It's not something you
- 11:16Speaker 3: could talk about though, you know what I mean, Like
- 11:18Speaker 3: your meeting's got to be that way, the practice has
- 11:21Speaker 3: got to be that way.
- 11:22Speaker 2: Individuals got to be that way.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Everything you want to go through with a fine toothed
- 11:25Speaker 3: comb with the intention of getting guys better. You know
- 11:29Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like everything you do is about getting
- 11:32Speaker 3: guys better. Everything we do has to have a purpose, right,
- 11:37Speaker 3: So like that's how we walk through.
- 11:38Speaker 2: We walk through with detail.
- 11:39Speaker 3: We're all just kind of like swintering in there and
- 11:42Speaker 3: you know, milling around.
- 11:43Speaker 2: That can't be the case.
- 11:44Speaker 3: It's got to be done with detail and everything that
- 11:47Speaker 3: we do individually with these guys every you know, look, we.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Film the individual for a reason, right, You film the
- 11:52Speaker 2: drills for a reason.
- 11:54Speaker 3: You're watching those every day trying to pick up little
- 11:57Speaker 3: things that can help the guys play better, improve their
- 12:00Speaker 3: technique so they can go out on a Sunday and produce.
- 12:02Speaker 3: But that that environment, Yeah, it's got to be about strain, uh,
- 12:07Speaker 3: in everything we do.
- 12:08Speaker 2: In my opinion, every coordinator.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Has kind of like different levels of flexibility when it
- 12:14Speaker 1: comes to game plans on a week by week faces.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Since this is your first foray into.
- 12:21Speaker 1: This, how flexible do you think you will be as
- 12:24Speaker 1: things move along, whether it's with players suggestions, coach suggestions,
- 12:30Speaker 1: things like that that might be different from what you
- 12:32Speaker 1: had intended to do.
- 12:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you have to be flexible. I think
- 12:37Speaker 3: I've been really fortunate being a lot of systems. Defensively,
- 12:40Speaker 3: I've been with some guys who, you know, one of
- 12:45Speaker 3: their ger some of their best qualities are their flexibility
- 12:48Speaker 3: and the system's flexibility, meaning that I think a lot
- 12:52Speaker 3: of people get into the hair.
- 12:53Speaker 2: Ye three four, you're four to three or four to
- 12:55Speaker 2: two five. What do you guys do on defense?
- 12:57Speaker 3: I think when you look at all the teams, even
- 12:59Speaker 3: the three four teams, they play a bunch of four down.
- 13:01Speaker 3: So like, if you're looking at that, you'd be aware
- 13:04Speaker 3: of that and you see that there's flexibility within everybody's scheme.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Sometimes the offenses personnel grouping forces you to be flexible, right,
- 13:12Speaker 3: and then defensively, how do you make it hard on them?
- 13:15Speaker 2: You know?
- 13:15Speaker 3: Do you play different groupings to those personnels, maybe some
- 13:18Speaker 3: stuff that they're not expecting and playing to the strengths
- 13:21Speaker 3: of your defense. So like even in Green Bay last year,
- 13:25Speaker 3: we played, you know, a bunch of four down. We
- 13:27Speaker 3: played a lot of three down spacing with four down people,
- 13:30Speaker 3: you know, because we felt that gave us a better
- 13:33Speaker 3: answer versus some of the things that we were seeing
- 13:35Speaker 3: and let us be pretty flexible. So I think in
- 13:38Speaker 3: this league you have to be able to adjust, like
- 13:41Speaker 3: in the game. In the game, you have to be
- 13:43Speaker 3: able to adjust to me, you know. I think Brian
- 13:46Speaker 3: Floor as I would say the guy worked for I
- 13:48Speaker 3: thought he did a great job, you know, of making
- 13:52Speaker 3: sure everybody was seeing it that way. You know that
- 13:55Speaker 3: in the game the information is so valuable and from
- 13:58Speaker 3: drive to drive we all have to be in great
- 14:01Speaker 3: communication with each other to get into the next best
- 14:04Speaker 3: call or the next you know, the next call, next
- 14:06Speaker 3: series that's going to help us get off the field.
- 14:09Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean some of those guys I've learned
- 14:11Speaker 3: a bunch from. You know, I would say is Vic
- 14:13Speaker 3: Fangel is the same way, just super adaptable and you know,
- 14:18Speaker 3: super intelligent, great guys to be around.
- 14:22Speaker 1: So you've worked with a variety of different coaches and defenses.
- 14:26Speaker 1: How challenging is it for you to run the defense
- 14:30Speaker 1: that you desire with the personnel.
- 14:32Speaker 3: That you have.
- 14:34Speaker 2: I don't think it's that challenging.
- 14:36Speaker 3: I mean, maybe I shouldn't say that, but I have
- 14:38Speaker 3: a very good idea there's probably a better way to
- 14:39Speaker 3: say that of what I want to do and with
- 14:42Speaker 3: and doing that with the people we have in the building.
- 14:45Speaker 3: You know, I think what we want to do. Part
- 14:48Speaker 3: of the reason why this job was appealing is I
- 14:50Speaker 3: think with the people in the building what I want
- 14:53Speaker 3: this defense to be. It's it's a pretty good match.
- 14:56Speaker 3: It's a pretty good fit. I feel like a lot
- 14:57Speaker 3: of those guys fit into what we want to do
- 15:01Speaker 3: and they're going to have an opportunity to do it really,
- 15:02Speaker 3: really well, you know, And to me, like that's on us,
- 15:05Speaker 3: how hard we coach them, how well we coach them.
- 15:07Speaker 3: I feel like we got some really good pieces in
- 15:09Speaker 3: place to do that, to execute the scheme you.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Prepped, So you were looking primarily at Jackson those offense.
- 15:16Speaker 1: So did you want things about the defense that you
- 15:19Speaker 1: maybe didn't even recognize or you faced.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Them this year? Say that again. I'm sorry, I just
- 15:22Speaker 2: want to make sure i'm.
- 15:24Speaker 1: During the regular season matchup, primarily you look at a
- 15:27Speaker 1: Jackson those offense. Yes, you learn stuff about the defense
- 15:30Speaker 1: when you knew you got to take this interview that
- 15:32Speaker 1: maybe you weren't aware of it before.
- 15:34Speaker 3: No, I think you know really in the preparation for
- 15:36Speaker 3: the game obviously, Like you said, primarily with the offense,
- 15:39Speaker 3: I learned a lot about some of the personnel on offense.
- 15:41Speaker 3: That excited me too, and the otherest with you because
- 15:44Speaker 3: we had to go out and defense some of those
- 15:46Speaker 3: guys and they're very good players, So that part of
- 15:49Speaker 3: it excited me also, but really more so, and you
- 15:53Speaker 3: watch them crossover tape and then getting ready, you know,
- 15:55Speaker 3: when you start interviewing, you start that process, you really
- 15:58Speaker 3: start to do a deeper dive and the personnel, uh,
- 16:02Speaker 3: and the pieces that are in the locker room that
- 16:04Speaker 3: you would be working with. Yeah, that's that's really really
- 16:06Speaker 3: where I got most of my h you know, info
- 16:09Speaker 3: and probably a better feel for that.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks,