Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Liam Coen on Team Approach Following Bye Week

Transcript

Press Pass | Liam Coen on Team Approach Following Bye Week · Press Pass

0:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take during violence to take a look back.
0:03
Speaker 1: I guess the first games of the seasons, did you
0:05
Speaker 1: see anything different from the team or kind.
0:07
Speaker 2: Of take anything away from her?
0:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, we did pretty extensive self
0:12
Speaker 1: scout in all three phases. And you look at when,
0:17
Speaker 1: especially offensively, you're on schedule, usually good things have occurred,
0:22
Speaker 1: and when you're off schedule, it's tough sledding. And we've
0:25
Speaker 1: got a couple, you know, different tweaks of how we
0:29
Speaker 1: want to try to get guys the ball and get
0:31
Speaker 1: the get our best players the ball in space, and
0:35
Speaker 1: how to stay a little bit better ahead of the
0:37
Speaker 1: chains and executing first and second down a little bit
0:41
Speaker 1: better so that third downs are a little bit more manageable.
0:44
Speaker 1: And we also looked at okay, uh, pass rush and
0:49
Speaker 1: coverage in terms of limiting explosives, but also getting home
0:54
Speaker 1: a little bit more as well. So you look at
0:56
Speaker 1: all those things and and so much of it goes
0:58
Speaker 1: into it these guys that a lot of work as
1:00
Speaker 1: a staff from a report and communicating that now to
1:04
Speaker 1: the players, and some of those things that you want
1:07
Speaker 1: to end up getting maybe tweaked. But we're not going
1:09
Speaker 1: to go and reinvent the wheel.
1:13
Speaker 2: Not just the self scout part, but also the guys
1:15
Speaker 2: kind of getting yeah.
1:17
Speaker 3: It's huge.
1:18
Speaker 1: We we obviously had some guys a little nicked, and
1:21
Speaker 1: you go through some physical football games in the early
1:25
Speaker 1: part of the season, and so you need it. Everybody
1:28
Speaker 1: needs a reset and an opportunity to get away from it,
1:32
Speaker 1: spend some quality time with family and friends and have
1:35
Speaker 1: that nice little mental and physical reset to now come
1:39
Speaker 1: into the building with everything ahead of us.
1:42
Speaker 4: When you do meet as a staff last week and
1:44
Speaker 4: look at everything, how much does it confirming what you thought?
1:48
Speaker 4: Or how much is it groundbreaking?
1:50
Speaker 1: Not much is groundbreaking, Like you have a feeling, right
1:54
Speaker 1: and what comes out is statistics you're looking at, but
2:00
Speaker 1: also the big picture of you know, every game is
2:05
Speaker 1: its own entity, like the stats don't always align with
2:09
Speaker 1: the flow of a football game and what actually could
2:12
Speaker 1: have occurred or did occur within games. So so much
2:17
Speaker 1: of it is looking at it from a big picture lens,
2:21
Speaker 1: but then dissecting individually per side of ball. Okay, where
2:26
Speaker 1: can we improve, right, and then where are the things
2:28
Speaker 1: that we have done well? What are the things we've
2:30
Speaker 1: done well that we can now just all right, change
2:34
Speaker 1: the presentation to the opponent to be able to continue
2:37
Speaker 1: to have success doing a go ahead give you the
2:42
Speaker 1: sample size you needed to see.
2:44
Speaker 3: How you want to look at where? Yeah, I think so.
2:47
Speaker 1: I think you look at the end of the last
2:50
Speaker 1: game against the Rams with he and Trevor building on
2:53
Speaker 1: a connection and making some plays towards the end of
2:56
Speaker 1: the game.
2:57
Speaker 3: Obviously it was a lot.
2:58
Speaker 1: Of reach at the time, but you're still seeing competitive
3:02
Speaker 1: throws and catches in live action, which is something we've needed.
3:06
Speaker 1: So you know, you definitely look at how much more
3:10
Speaker 1: can he handle?
3:12
Speaker 3: How much more.
3:13
Speaker 1: Can we put them in a position to be successful
3:16
Speaker 1: on both offense and defense, and what does that look like.
3:19
Speaker 1: So it definitely gave us an opportunity as a staff
3:23
Speaker 1: to look at how we can continue to use him.
3:26
Speaker 2: How physical do you want these practices to be coming
3:29
Speaker 2: out of the buy making sure they're ready for the Raiders.
3:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll tweak our practice a little where we'll go
3:34
Speaker 1: pads on Wednesday this week, just because there was no
3:37
Speaker 1: game this past Sunday, so we'll go pads on Wednesday.
3:42
Speaker 1: Be able to get these guys going a little bit
3:44
Speaker 1: earlier on in the week, and then just go Spiders
3:46
Speaker 1: on Thursday, Helmets on Fridays. Today will be a Helmets
3:50
Speaker 1: practice about an hour on the grass.
3:52
Speaker 3: Just get these guys back up.
3:54
Speaker 1: And running here in the calls again, fundamentals, a lot.
3:57
Speaker 3: Of individual work.
3:58
Speaker 1: We'll do alignment, assignment and just get them buzzing a
4:01
Speaker 1: little bit.
4:02
Speaker 2: You look at when you're doing yourself scout stuff you
4:04
Speaker 2: look at as a whole or do you break down
4:06
Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to spend two hours look at
4:08
Speaker 2: what's trippers on it, then two hours look at what
4:10
Speaker 2: pt and stuff stuff like that.
4:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more as a whole, but then it does
4:14
Speaker 1: get broken down to okay, run pass protection, and so
4:20
Speaker 1: you're end up watching it a little bit more detailed
4:23
Speaker 1: that way as a staff where you're saying, okay, run game.
4:27
Speaker 1: These are our stats by run concept. These are the
4:31
Speaker 1: stats or what show on the tape specifically versus stats.
4:36
Speaker 1: What are we best at, what is our runner best at,
4:38
Speaker 1: what is our O line best at, what is our
4:41
Speaker 1: receivers best at running? And what is the quarterback ultimately
4:45
Speaker 1: most comfortable doing? So you get that information when you
4:49
Speaker 1: break it by all right, what is our run data
4:52
Speaker 1: and stats on mid zone, wide zone draws, transportations. You
4:57
Speaker 1: get a little bit more detail in the we of
5:00
Speaker 1: what those things that our players do best when you
5:03
Speaker 1: watch it that way that he needs to see it
5:07
Speaker 1: several times.
5:08
Speaker 4: Get a game situation before.
5:10
Speaker 2: It really kind of.
5:12
Speaker 1: You know, I think no, I think that's that's fair
5:16
Speaker 1: for you know, anytime you may see something that fits
5:21
Speaker 1: in a game plan that you can take advantage of
5:24
Speaker 1: on the defense. But maybe it's like a one time
5:27
Speaker 1: play call or you want to get something off versus
5:31
Speaker 1: a specific.
5:32
Speaker 3: Look, and you may not.
5:33
Speaker 1: You may be hunting up that look all game and
5:35
Speaker 1: not see it till a different time where you don't
5:38
Speaker 1: have that play call. So we're trying to get away
5:40
Speaker 1: from some of the game plan specific plays or looks,
5:46
Speaker 1: and hey man, let's try to go operate and execute
5:50
Speaker 1: our core principles, foundations concepts, because the more times you
5:54
Speaker 1: rep something, the better off you are at any position,
5:58
Speaker 1: especially though the quarterback position, because it's not just okay,
6:01
Speaker 1: we want to throw it to number one because we
6:04
Speaker 1: want to manipulate the defense some way. Well what if
6:07
Speaker 1: that's not open and you dialed that up for a
6:10
Speaker 1: different look.
6:11
Speaker 3: And you just didn't get the right look. You wanted, well,
6:14
Speaker 3: now what's the other reads? Where does the checkdown go?
6:16
Speaker 1: And if you start creating new every week, I don't
6:20
Speaker 1: think that's usually a good thing for the quarterback.
6:23
Speaker 4: A tough slip for Brian Thomas throw it this season
6:25
Speaker 4: with the drops and other things. I'm sure you've tried
6:28
Speaker 4: a lot of different things. That's how optimistic are you
6:31
Speaker 4: that the light will turn on?
6:32
Speaker 3: Friends?
6:33
Speaker 1: I am very optimistic. You know, we have we have
6:36
Speaker 1: no plans on moving Brian Thomas Junior at all. Saw
6:41
Speaker 1: something about that over the weekend, but I mean I
6:44
Speaker 1: talked to him for a.
6:45
Speaker 3: Good amount of time this morning, and.
6:49
Speaker 1: It's just a good reset for a lot of these
6:51
Speaker 1: guys to come in fresh four and three with everything
6:55
Speaker 1: ahead of us, regardless, good batterre and different what's happened
6:59
Speaker 1: in the first seven games. We all have an opportunity
7:02
Speaker 1: to write a narrative. We own the narrative and so
7:06
Speaker 1: I got a lot of confidence in them. I really
7:07
Speaker 1: do believe that we can turn the corner and get
7:10
Speaker 1: better in the pass game.
7:11
Speaker 3: That way something you can put your finger on.
7:14
Speaker 2: In terms of why the screen game great question.
7:17
Speaker 1: We just got done talking screens today. You know, I
7:21
Speaker 1: think it's a combination of a when they're being called
7:26
Speaker 1: and the timing of them. Like every screen has a
7:30
Speaker 1: little bit of a different count to it. Is it
7:32
Speaker 1: a one count, two count, three count screen? You look
7:36
Speaker 1: at screens around the league in terms of when they're
7:38
Speaker 1: being called, you definitely there's a trend there, and so
7:42
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination. We have athletic offensive alignment
7:46
Speaker 1: and skilled players that can do some things in space.
7:48
Speaker 1: We have got to improve there, but it's just like
7:51
Speaker 1: anything you're trying to improve but not go reinvent the
7:55
Speaker 1: wheel with them. I think there's some fundamentals and techniques
7:58
Speaker 1: we can improve, Like.
8:00
Speaker 2: Do the players? Is there something they're doing that is it?
8:03
Speaker 2: Tell from what you're saying now.
8:08
Speaker 1: I think again it's probably some some crap luck on
8:11
Speaker 1: some of them. There's some ones that if you know
8:14
Speaker 1: it's second and twenty and you're running a screen, I
8:18
Speaker 1: mean there's probably an idea by the defense if they're
8:21
Speaker 1: yelling screen draw, you know, knowing that you're trying to
8:24
Speaker 1: get half back or whatever it is. So you know,
8:28
Speaker 1: I do we were a very good screen team last
8:30
Speaker 1: year in Tampa. You know, there's definitely maybe you know
8:34
Speaker 1: a little bit more time on task, I would say
8:36
Speaker 1: throughout the week in practice. And so those are things
8:39
Speaker 1: that we're looking at. Okay, if we want to improve in.
8:42
Speaker 3: These areas, we need to put time on task in
8:44
Speaker 3: these areas.
8:45
Speaker 4: So in the run game, we have how tough is
8:49
Speaker 4: it to be stubborn with it? And you've said a
8:51
Speaker 4: couple of times maybe you got away from it, but
8:53
Speaker 4: is it even if it's not working, you do you
8:56
Speaker 4: feel like you something to keep calling it?
8:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, I call more runs, and Jenner or when we
9:00
Speaker 1: when we run the football, you know we're a little
9:03
Speaker 1: bit more balanced. Anytime you're more balanced, you have the
9:06
Speaker 1: defense on their toes, you know. So it's a matter
9:09
Speaker 1: of like you said, winning first and second. Now you
9:12
Speaker 1: start drives and you have a run, you get a
9:15
Speaker 1: hold in your first and twenty now on probably not
9:17
Speaker 1: going to run it on for you know, who knows,
9:19
Speaker 1: but you're trying to just look for the balance. And
9:23
Speaker 1: when you're able to run the football. You see around
9:25
Speaker 1: the league all day yesterday points being scored, and you know,
9:29
Speaker 1: when you can run the ball and be effective running
9:32
Speaker 1: the football, it's something that we've got to get back
9:34
Speaker 1: to being able to do a little bit more.
9:38
Speaker 3: As a process for you to play called figuring out
9:41
Speaker 3: just what.
9:41
Speaker 1: Kind of plays guys need to see or feel early
9:44
Speaker 1: to get settled in. Absolutely, we looked at that as
9:47
Speaker 1: well as you know, the starting fast element and games
9:52
Speaker 1: that we've started fast on offense, we've been able to
9:55
Speaker 1: I don't want to say control the game, but just
9:57
Speaker 1: have a better feel. Early gets to guys in a rhythm. Early,
10:01
Speaker 1: gets the quarterback confidence early, you know. So we're looking
10:05
Speaker 1: at how can we kind of tweak you know, practice
10:08
Speaker 1: later in the week a little bit to say, hey,
10:10
Speaker 1: these are the openers guys on Friday, maybe get it
10:13
Speaker 1: to them a little bit early or whatever it is,
10:15
Speaker 1: so that, hey, they have a little bit better idea
10:17
Speaker 1: of what's gonna get called earlier in the game and
10:21
Speaker 1: try to get some of those things repped on Fridays.
10:26
Speaker 4: How much did you appreciate what the coach said that
10:29
Speaker 4: play call?
10:31
Speaker 2: Yeah?
10:34
Speaker 3: It did? You know?
10:36
Speaker 1: I thought when I was a player, Don Brown did
10:39
Speaker 1: it a lot. As as the head coach at UMass,
10:42
Speaker 1: he did a really nice job of just man and
10:47
Speaker 1: we asked them to be accountable, right the players. We
10:50
Speaker 1: want accountability from the players, not to say their fault.
10:54
Speaker 1: It's just because then we can fix it and move on.
10:59
Speaker 1: When you just say like, yeah, that was me, I
11:01
Speaker 1: got to fix that, and so then you can there's
11:03
Speaker 1: an openness now to learn and grow from the mistake.
11:08
Speaker 1: And everybody can learn from that mistake. It's not you're
11:12
Speaker 1: not correcting the player, You're correcting the play and ultimately
11:16
Speaker 1: everybody can learn something from that. And then I thought
11:19
Speaker 1: Sean did a nice job of it as well when
11:21
Speaker 1: I when I was in LA in terms of like, yeah,
11:24
Speaker 1: there's a standard of execution that we hold and that
11:27
Speaker 1: we have and that everybody is held to and we're
11:32
Speaker 1: no different as coaches, and so we've I just think
11:35
Speaker 1: that when you can put a little bit on yourself
11:37
Speaker 1: and show like guys like I gotta you know, this
11:40
Speaker 1: isn't good enough by me either, it continues to hold
11:43
Speaker 1: each other accountable.
11:46
Speaker 4: It's his knowledge of the scheme a big.
11:49
Speaker 3: Role this weekend.
11:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like, can't you've talked about this morning
11:52
Speaker 1: that Greg's getting more and more comfortable. He did have
11:55
Speaker 1: some really good matchups last week. He had, you know,
11:58
Speaker 1: a couple of balls caught on his way where he's
12:00
Speaker 1: maybe a little deep in his zone, but man, when
12:03
Speaker 1: he's getting more and more comfortable. You saw him in
12:06
Speaker 1: man coverage a few times on DeVante and have some
12:09
Speaker 1: really good reps. So I think, you know, you're starting
12:12
Speaker 1: to see a little bit more comfort level. He's very
12:15
Speaker 1: engaged in the meetings. Like the guy sits on the
12:19
Speaker 1: edge of his chair, he's looking right at you in
12:20
Speaker 1: the eyes. You can tell it's important to him. So
12:24
Speaker 1: I got a lot of a lot of belief that
12:26
Speaker 1: will continue to improve.
12:28
Speaker 2: And is it for the defensive tackles to come out
12:30
Speaker 2: of buy and give you a little bit more now?
12:32
Speaker 3: We need it, you know, we need to.
12:34
Speaker 1: You know, we've looked at, okay, how do we help
12:37
Speaker 1: them on early downs create more of an edge and
12:40
Speaker 1: get some favorable matchups. We've looked at in the known
12:44
Speaker 1: passing situations, where are we putting these guys and how
12:48
Speaker 1: can we continue or how can we put him in
12:51
Speaker 1: better positions to be successful and get more ops on
12:54
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And also those guys have got to continue
12:58
Speaker 1: to do it on their own as well. Right if
12:59
Speaker 1: you're to rush with some four, we got to go win.
13:02
Speaker 1: And so we're going to make an emphasis of it
13:05
Speaker 1: and continue to coach.
13:06
Speaker 3: The heck out of it.
13:07
Speaker 1: But we did do a little bit of think tanking
13:10
Speaker 1: as a staff over the week on how we can
13:12
Speaker 1: do that and creating our angles and matchups and also
13:17
Speaker 1: being able to in base defense. You know, how are
13:20
Speaker 1: we moving some of these pieces around in order to
13:23
Speaker 1: give us favorable matchups on who we think we can
13:26
Speaker 1: win on versus the O line. Kind of take a
13:30
Speaker 1: set back and see what other people, what other teams
13:33
Speaker 1: are kind of doing in frontly.
13:34
Speaker 3: Oh that's yeah.
13:35
Speaker 1: I mean I probably I watched every game of around
13:38
Speaker 1: the NFL last week, you know, during the time off,
13:41
Speaker 1: and so you know, you're trying to look at teams
13:45
Speaker 1: that you're I guess you cold say quote unquote similar
13:47
Speaker 1: to in ways, but also taking around a look around
13:50
Speaker 1: the league at other teams that maybe aren't using the
13:53
Speaker 1: similar system or the same system, and just see what.
13:57
Speaker 3: Trends are going around. And it's not just about that.
14:00
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, if you're playing a coverage Cover three, right,
14:05
Speaker 1: we're gonna see coversion of Cover three almost weekly. Well
14:08
Speaker 1: what concepts around the league are attacking that coverage or
14:13
Speaker 1: Cover four or Cover six. It's not like, all right,
14:16
Speaker 1: we want to steal what they is sorry. What are
14:18
Speaker 1: good concepts that are continuing to show up around the
14:20
Speaker 1: league that attack people's core? You know, principles and fundamentals
14:24
Speaker 1: and techniques.
14:26
Speaker 4: Last utch every game around the league, even every game
14:29
Speaker 4: six week.
14:29
Speaker 1: One or every game last last Yeah, I just did
14:32
Speaker 1: the weeks you know, last week. You know I typically
14:36
Speaker 1: do that throughout the week, like Monday Tuesday, try to
14:41
Speaker 1: get a little bit ahead of around the league tape.
14:45
Speaker 3: You know, we get we do a great job.
14:47
Speaker 1: The video staff and our offensive assistance and defensive assistants
14:50
Speaker 1: will somewhat.
14:52
Speaker 3: Break down there around the league.
14:53
Speaker 1: You know, we use PFF data to be able to
14:56
Speaker 1: all right, let me just pull up all the explosive
14:58
Speaker 1: passes from this week around the league, explosive runs, red
15:02
Speaker 1: zone touchdowns, things like that that help you sort it
15:06
Speaker 1: a little bit better so you're not just sitting there
15:07
Speaker 1: like watching every play.
15:11
Speaker 3: So thank God for that because I'd be lost. Thanks guys,