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- 0:01Speaker 1: I know last week you talked about the rotation at quarterback.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:04Speaker 3: But just could you break down sort of what the
- 0:06Speaker 3: philosophy behind that is?
- 0:09Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said last week, we feel like we
- 0:11Speaker 2: had a bunch of good players there. Guys that do
- 0:14Speaker 2: a good job and have worked their tail off. We
- 0:18Speaker 2: feel good about all those guys. So keeping them fresh
- 0:21Speaker 2: and rotating them all, that's kind of been the philosophy
- 0:23Speaker 2: behind it.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Is there a challenge in particular with Travis just because
- 0:28Speaker 3: he didn't play much last year?
- 0:29Speaker 1: To sort of get him more reps? Like what's the
- 0:31Speaker 1: balance there between rotating and also helping you?
- 0:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's always a challenge to a degree.
- 0:37Speaker 2: You know, the more reps obviously you get, the better
- 0:39Speaker 2: you're going to be. So I think as time goes,
- 0:42Speaker 2: you're always looking at those things. Every game's a little
- 0:44Speaker 2: bit different, you know, and those conversations are always being
- 0:47Speaker 2: had every game.
- 0:48Speaker 4: It can change week to week. But, yeah, that's always
- 0:51Speaker 4: a challenge. The way the Broncos.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Offense kind of attacked with some of the quick sets,
- 0:54Speaker 1: quick throws, and reset in.
- 0:56Speaker 3: The pocket, how can you impact the quarterback a little
- 0:58Speaker 3: bit when they're doing that stuff to kind of negate.
- 1:00Speaker 4: Some of the rush?
- 1:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I've got to do a better job,
- 1:02Speaker 2: first and foremost. You know, you go back and you
- 1:05Speaker 2: look at that, I think probably just too loose in
- 1:09Speaker 2: some situations.
- 1:10Speaker 4: Not probably.
- 1:10Speaker 2: I think we were too loose in some situations. And ultimately,
- 1:13Speaker 2: you know, that's on me. I've got to do a
- 1:15Speaker 2: better job with that. We have mentioned on Monday there's
- 1:18Speaker 2: a lot of maybe too much volume in the plan
- 1:20Speaker 2: against Denver.
- 1:22Speaker 5: Did you feel that way, or was.
- 1:24Speaker 4: It just right? Yeah, I think you're always looking at
- 1:25Speaker 4: that every game.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Obviously, when you don't get the result that you want,
- 1:29Speaker 2: you go back and you look at it and you say, hey,
- 1:31Speaker 2: if there was any time you have a miscommunication or
- 1:36Speaker 2: we have an eye violation or something like that, I
- 1:38Speaker 2: always look at that, and you've got to look inward first.
- 1:42Speaker 2: That's possibly the issue, having too much volume in the
- 1:45Speaker 2: game plan. and paring it down at times has been
- 1:48Speaker 2: good for us, you know, in the past. That's something
- 1:50Speaker 2: you're always looking at. But, yeah, coming out of that game,
- 1:52Speaker 2: I think that's, I would agree with Coach's sentiment.
- 1:56Speaker 5: How did your practice go yesterday?
- 1:58Speaker 4: I thought we had a great practice yesterday.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I thought a bunch of guys in particular had a
- 2:03Speaker 2: really good practice, you know, that jumped out to me.
- 2:05Speaker 2: I thought Travis had a great practice. He's one of
- 2:07Speaker 2: those guys yesterday. So, yeah, I was pleased with our practice,
- 2:11Speaker 2: our effort. Seemed like there was a little bit of
- 2:13Speaker 2: anger out there, which is always a good thing. You know,
- 2:15Speaker 2: football is a game of a lot of emotions, and
- 2:18Speaker 2: mad is usually a good one.
- 2:20Speaker 1: When you look at that Patriots offense, what do you see?
- 2:23Speaker 4: I see a really good unit.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I see a really athletic quarterback who's super accurate on
- 2:30Speaker 2: the deep ball. It's honestly, it's been a great system
- 2:35Speaker 2: for 20-some-odd years. You know, and I think Coach McDaniel's
- 2:39Speaker 2: done an unbelievable job in his career, you know, everywhere
- 2:43Speaker 2: he's been, but certainly in New England. of making you
- 2:47Speaker 2: be sound defensively, you know, and he has a great
- 2:49Speaker 2: eye for seeing what he can take advantage of. And
- 2:51Speaker 2: I think they've done a great job of that. Certainly
- 2:53Speaker 2: last year, the whole season and this year starting out.
- 2:56Speaker 1: What kind of challenges that when a team has two
- 2:58Speaker 1: running backs, they would kind of lead on instead of
- 2:59Speaker 1: just a one.
- 3:00Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:01Speaker 2: And they're, they're both great players, a little bit different,
- 3:05Speaker 2: but that's a challenge, you know, getting in there. And
- 3:08Speaker 2: I think Stevenson is a physical runner. I think they're
- 3:10Speaker 2: both physical runners. Um, but yeah, that's, that's definitely a
- 3:14Speaker 2: challenge because you got some guys that can, can break it.
- 3:16Speaker 2: You know, if you don't get your eyes right, you're
- 3:18Speaker 2: not playing with gap integrity. There's not a team tackling mentality.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Those things are going to show up and they're going
- 3:23Speaker 2: to get you. And they've gotten people that way. Uh,
- 3:26Speaker 2: you know, since Josh has been back there, I think
- 3:28Speaker 2: they've done a good job getting those guys touches, uh,
- 3:31Speaker 2: because they're guys that can get the ball down the
- 3:32Speaker 2: field for them.
- 3:33Speaker 4: I know Devon's played really well for you guys since
- 3:35Speaker 4: you got there.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Was Sunday one of his best games that you think
- 3:37Speaker 3: he's had?
- 3:38Speaker 4: Devon, yeah.
- 3:40Speaker 2: He actually was one of the guys I felt like
- 3:41Speaker 2: played really, really well the other day. And like everybody,
- 3:45Speaker 2: there's things you want to improve, but I thought he
- 3:48Speaker 2: was very consistent.
- 3:50Speaker 4: He's been really good for us.
- 3:52Speaker 2: He's a team leader for us, in my opinion, and
- 3:55Speaker 2: certainly a guy on our side of the ball that
- 3:58Speaker 2: has done a really good job and been practicing his
- 4:01Speaker 2: ass off, and he's just getting better and better.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I basically got to see Romeo Dobbs on the practice
- 4:05Speaker 1: field at Green Bay.
- 4:06Speaker 4: Good man. What type of challenge does he present now
- 4:09Speaker 4: that you're on the other.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Side of that?
- 4:11Speaker 2: Yeah, Romeo can really run. You know, he's a deep
- 4:15Speaker 2: threat type of guy. And he's, in my opinion, a very,
- 4:19Speaker 2: very good route runner, especially at the top of the route.
- 4:21Speaker 2: He's got great body control and a really good stop start.
- 4:25Speaker 2: So that's the biggest challenge with a guy like that.
- 4:28Speaker 2: You know, you're going to have to play with great
- 4:30Speaker 2: eye discipline on the line of scrimmage and in the
- 4:32Speaker 2: break area. when you're in man-to-man situations against him, because
- 4:35Speaker 2: he really is.
- 4:36Speaker 4: He does all those things well.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Does it feel like your DBs are responding to what
- 4:42Speaker 1: happened last week?
- 4:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody's responding. I've responded a certain way.
- 4:47Speaker 2: The unit has responded a certain way. Nobody's happy about it.
- 4:50Speaker 2: I think everybody's got a level of pissed off in here,
- 4:54Speaker 2: which is a good thing. That's just me being honest.
- 4:57Speaker 2: You've got to practice that way. There's only one way.
- 5:02Speaker 2: To fix anything, it's get back to work. It's not
- 5:06Speaker 2: get sad. It's get back to work. You can have
- 5:09Speaker 2: a little bit of anger about the result, but the
- 5:12Speaker 2: reality is you've got to move on and you've got
- 5:14Speaker 2: to focus on what can get you better and get
- 5:16Speaker 2: you the result that you're looking for, and that's practice
- 5:18Speaker 2: and the way that you practice, doing things intentionally, doing
- 5:20Speaker 2: things with detail, and just being a maniac about it
- 5:25Speaker 2: every day. That's the only way I know. That's the
- 5:26Speaker 2: only way these guys know, and we have to respond
- 5:29Speaker 2: that way.
- 5:29Speaker 4: We have to.
- 5:31Speaker 3: You talked about tricks, athleticism and being able to break
- 5:34Speaker 3: the pocket. Does it help you that the two quarterbacks
- 5:36Speaker 3: that you played previously also have those same tricks and
- 5:39Speaker 3: able to move a little bit?
- 5:40Speaker 4: Yeah, two other elusive guys.
- 5:42Speaker 2: But, you know, this game, obviously every game is a
- 5:44Speaker 2: little bit different, but he certainly presents a challenge. He's
- 5:47Speaker 2: done an unbelievable job with his legs and his arm,
- 5:50Speaker 2: but he's been able to extend plays and hurt people,
- 5:53Speaker 2: you know, in big games getting out of the pocket.
- 5:56Speaker 4: So that's definitely a challenge this week for us. Moses,
- 5:59Speaker 4: an old pro, I might tackle for that. How does
- 6:01Speaker 4: he use that experience at his age?
- 6:05Speaker 2: Yeah, he's, I mean, I've coached against him a few
- 6:08Speaker 2: times in the past. I just think he's a really
- 6:09Speaker 2: good player. They got a bunch of good guys.
- 6:11Speaker 4: In the front.
- 6:12Speaker 2: You know, Vera Tucker's another guy who's with the Jets, too,
- 6:15Speaker 2: when I was in Miami. So I think they've got
- 6:17Speaker 2: some physical guys, and Moses definitely brings that to their
- 6:21Speaker 2: offensive line.
- 6:21Speaker 4: He's got a certain physicality that they benefit from.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Ventrell had another solid game. How's his kind of track
- 6:28Speaker 3: been since the season started?
- 6:30Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a really good job overall. I felt
- 6:34Speaker 2: like even in the last game, he did a good job.
- 6:37Speaker 2: He's a guy you can rely on to set the
- 6:42Speaker 2: tone physically for the defense. And that's one thing that
- 6:46Speaker 2: I feel like he's done over the first two games.
- 6:49Speaker 2: He's looking to improve. He's trying to do extra. Um,
- 6:53Speaker 2: and I think all of our teammates, all of his
- 6:55Speaker 2: teammates see that, you know, and that's been a good
- 6:57Speaker 2: thing for our defense.
- 6:58Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:59Speaker 2: I thought Dennis, um, the other day, I thought he
- 7:04Speaker 2: had a pretty good game overall. Um, you know, he's
- 7:08Speaker 2: a guy that's always going to give you a constant effort. And, uh,
- 7:11Speaker 2: we got a bunch of effort out of Dennis the
- 7:13Speaker 2: other day and, uh, you know, just talking to him.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I mean, everybody, everybody wants to, get a little bit
- 7:18Speaker 2: better and get the product better and get the result
- 7:21Speaker 2: that we want. So he's back to work and, but
- 7:23Speaker 2: I appreciate his effort.
- 7:24Speaker 4: I thought he did a good job the other day too.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Early in practice yesterday, you guys kind of did, I
- 7:29Speaker 1: don't know the exact name of it, but it was
- 7:31Speaker 1: like a special team circuit.
- 7:33Speaker 3: And I noticed the defense does it a lot.
- 7:34Speaker 1: What was kind of the purpose of having, you know,
- 7:38Speaker 1: offensive guys mix in with some of those other guys?
- 7:41Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just really a fundamental thing.
- 7:43Speaker 2: And coach Cohen, um, that's one of the things he
- 7:47Speaker 2: believes in, I think is something that has helped us
- 7:50Speaker 2: as a, as a team. You know, look, both sides
- 7:54Speaker 2: are involved in special teams, you know? So for the
- 7:57Speaker 2: offensive players, it's important that they have, you know, they're
- 8:01Speaker 2: being coached on some of that stuff also. And I
- 8:04Speaker 2: think it gives us a chance to coach those guys also.
- 8:07Speaker 2: And just to work on some of the fundamental things
- 8:09Speaker 2: and block destruction and tackling for those guys who are
- 8:11Speaker 2: offensive players that play special teams for us, you know,
- 8:14Speaker 2: and help us, uh, win games. I don't think he
- 8:17Speaker 2: can ever do enough of that stuff. Uh, you know,
- 8:19Speaker 2: I know coach believes that too. Um, so I, I honestly,
- 8:22Speaker 2: I enjoy that part of the practice. That's, that's a
- 8:23Speaker 2: cool thing that we get a chance to work with
- 8:25Speaker 2: them that way. Uh, and I think it's beneficial for
- 8:27Speaker 2: those guys too.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Is that something that's unique in your experience? Like in
- 8:31Speaker 1: different places, have you had like head coaches say, yeah,
- 8:35Speaker 1: I need you to go get hands on with the
- 8:37Speaker 1: offensive guys on.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Special teams or is that, it is kind of unique.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Um, I want to say my first two years in Miami,
- 8:44Speaker 2: we had something a little bit similar. Um, when, uh,
- 8:49Speaker 2: flow was there, we did something similar where there was
- 8:51Speaker 2: a little bit of carry over, you know, for special teams. Um,
- 8:55Speaker 2: but I know Liam really values all of that. You know,
- 8:58Speaker 2: he's got an eye on all that stuff. And, um,
- 9:01Speaker 2: that was kind of his idea. He wanted to make
- 9:03Speaker 2: sure that we're all working with the guys, hands on
- 9:05Speaker 2: talking about fundamentals of tackling and block destruction. Um, And
- 9:09Speaker 2: there is a lot to it, so there's a lot
- 9:11Speaker 2: to coach and there's a lot to learn from for
- 9:13Speaker 2: those guys. And I think it's really good to get
- 9:15Speaker 2: a chance to work with some of our defensive coaches
- 9:17Speaker 2: as well.
- 9:18Speaker 3: When you look back at the tape, just what sort
- 9:20Speaker 3: of went wrong, I guess, during.
- 9:22Speaker 5: The Denver game? I think there's a lot of things
- 9:26Speaker 5: that we can do better as coaches, and I know
- 9:29Speaker 5: the players feel the same way too. Ultimately, it comes
- 9:31Speaker 5: down to our execution. I think as coaches, we're always
- 9:34Speaker 5: going to go back and look at the things we
- 9:35Speaker 5: did in the plan and say, how could we have
- 9:37Speaker 5: built plays differently? How can we have package formations or
- 9:40Speaker 5: motions differently to try to put guys in a better
- 9:43Speaker 5: position to be successful? Or maybe what was it a
- 9:45Speaker 5: personnel issue where we played in 12 personnel or 11
- 9:48Speaker 5: personnel or three tight ends on the field and we
- 9:50Speaker 5: should have been in other personnel. So we examine all
- 9:53Speaker 5: of it. I think that as a coaching staff, I
- 9:55Speaker 5: know for me personally, at least there are certain things
- 9:57Speaker 5: that we did that I would have loved to have
- 9:59Speaker 5: maybe tweaked now looking back and there are certain things
- 10:02Speaker 5: that we didn't get to that i would have loved
- 10:04Speaker 5: to have gotten to or different ways even we deployed
- 10:06Speaker 5: the plan trying to get into a rhythm and get
- 10:08Speaker 5: things going but that that tends to happen you play
- 10:10Speaker 5: a good defense you don't fully get the plan executed
- 10:12Speaker 5: as you envision maybe throughout the week so I know
- 10:15Speaker 5: there's a lot of things as coaches, myself personally, that
- 10:17Speaker 5: I would love to have gone back and say, man,
- 10:19Speaker 5: I wish this guy was in a better position to
- 10:21Speaker 5: be successful. And then ultimately as an offense collectively, it
- 10:24Speaker 5: really just came down to our execution on all the
- 10:27Speaker 5: different phases of the game, whether it was a couple
- 10:28Speaker 5: of third downs that were critical, the red zone, trying
- 10:31Speaker 5: to get touchdowns every time we get down there, or
- 10:33Speaker 5: even early in drives on first down, too many second
- 10:35Speaker 5: and long situations for us.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Some of the issues in pass protection, was it just
- 10:40Speaker 1: identifying or was it, you know, good on good, somebody's
- 10:45Speaker 1: got to win?
- 10:45Speaker 5: I think it was a combination of things. That's probably
- 10:47Speaker 5: one of the things that I look back on and say, man,
- 10:49Speaker 5: could I have put those guys in a better spot
- 10:50Speaker 5: to be successful? Because we try to stay aggressive even
- 10:54Speaker 5: in the protection game. We want to feel like we're
- 10:56Speaker 5: attacking defenses. And there are certain elements of that where
- 11:00Speaker 5: you try to design a protection to attack what the
- 11:03Speaker 5: defense does from a rush standpoint. Who are their premier rushers?
- 11:06Speaker 5: What are their best rush packages? And what is their
- 11:08Speaker 5: rush plan? And I think looking back at it, you
- 11:12Speaker 5: see that they did an excellent job deploying that plan
- 11:14Speaker 5: and their guys made plays in some of those early
- 11:18Speaker 5: downs earlier in the game. And I think having a
- 11:20Speaker 5: plan going into that where I put the guys in
- 11:22Speaker 5: a better position to be successful would have helped those
- 11:24Speaker 5: guys out. It was encouraging to see them make the
- 11:27Speaker 5: adjustments and settle in there later in the game. And
- 11:30Speaker 5: even a couple plays, you saw the long throw down
- 11:32Speaker 5: to Parker that got us down to the one-yard line.
- 11:34Speaker 5: That was phenomenal protection. So they had their reps of
- 11:36Speaker 5: showing the ability to do it. It was just the
- 11:38Speaker 5: consistent execution early and maybe some things that I look
- 11:41Speaker 5: at that would have loved to adjust it from the
- 11:43Speaker 5: way we attacked them from a protection standpoint that I
- 11:45Speaker 5: think would have helped us.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Did the Broncos make some adjustments in coverage throughout the
- 11:49Speaker 1: game that made it a little difficult to execute later on?
- 11:54Speaker 5: They certainly tweaked things throughout the game. I think they
- 11:57Speaker 5: also tweaked things to our personnel from a game plan
- 12:01Speaker 5: standpoint that presented challenges for us, the way they treated
- 12:04Speaker 5: our different receivers and the way they kind of treated
- 12:06Speaker 5: our route distributions in different situations, whether it was third
- 12:10Speaker 5: down being treated different than first down and then 12%
- 12:12Speaker 5: when we have two tight ends on the field being
- 12:14Speaker 5: treated than when we have one tight end on the field. Now,
- 12:17Speaker 5: those were things that we had a plan for and
- 12:19Speaker 5: anticipated that, but I think they did a great job
- 12:21Speaker 5: of executing that plan and made it challenging for us.
- 12:24Speaker 5: And it's something that is a great opportunity for our
- 12:26Speaker 5: guys to learn from seeing some of those different coverages,
- 12:29Speaker 5: whether they're playing cloud or cover two to a certain side,
- 12:31Speaker 5: or whether they're adjusting their coverages on the run, you
- 12:34Speaker 5: probably know and recognize we use a lot of shift
- 12:36Speaker 5: in motion. And they were able to change their coverages
- 12:38Speaker 5: based on our formations as we're motioning and shifting. And
- 12:41Speaker 5: that's a challenge to them and a credit to them,
- 12:43Speaker 5: but it's something that we've got to do a better
- 12:44Speaker 5: job of having the plan and having the answers as
- 12:47Speaker 5: we continue to shift in motion to still be able
- 12:49Speaker 5: to execute plays as they get in and out of
- 12:50Speaker 5: their coverages. I think in the run game, the runs
- 12:57Speaker 5: probably speak for themselves. The yards after contact, being able
- 12:59Speaker 5: to find the reads. I think his reads themselves have improved.
- 13:02Speaker 4: You see it.
- 13:03Speaker 5: In some of the wide zone and some of those
- 13:05Speaker 5: toss plays where he's getting out on the edge, it
- 13:07Speaker 5: highlights his speed and his ability to find those creases
- 13:10Speaker 5: or navigate those blocks at the second and third levels,
- 13:12Speaker 5: whether it's on a corner or on a safety. And
- 13:15Speaker 5: I think in the protection game, we haven't got to
- 13:17Speaker 5: feature him quite as much as we would like to
- 13:19Speaker 5: in the route game as a pass catcher, but you
- 13:22Speaker 5: see him more out there in the protection game and
- 13:23Speaker 5: in passing situations feel really comfortable with him out there
- 13:26Speaker 5: picking up blitzes and recognizing the different pressures that I
- 13:29Speaker 5: mentioned that teams like Denver, teams like New England bring.
- 13:32Speaker 5: So I think the growth has been pretty consistent in
- 13:35Speaker 5: all areas. It just doesn't always show up on Sunday.
- 13:37Speaker 5: Like would have loved to have seen a couple more
- 13:39Speaker 5: targets to them at this point in week two. But
- 13:41Speaker 5: like I mentioned, when you don't kind of get in
- 13:42Speaker 5: a rhythm, you limit some of those opportunities, but really
- 13:45Speaker 5: pleased with the way those guys, that room collectively have
- 13:47Speaker 5: attacked the growth as complete backs. Well, It's kind of
- 13:57Speaker 5: like the opposite of what I talked about for us
- 13:59Speaker 5: with the lack of execution. They do a phenomenal job
- 14:01Speaker 5: of executing that scheme, whether it's the man coverage, the
- 14:04Speaker 5: zone coverages, they can mix and match a bunch of
- 14:06Speaker 5: different things that they do to you. They have a
- 14:07Speaker 5: bunch of different fronts and pressure presentations. They're not afraid
- 14:10Speaker 5: to attack you from a pressure standpoint and any down
- 14:13Speaker 5: and distance, you get pressure really from any direction. It
- 14:16Speaker 5: could be a corner outside. It could be a linebacker
- 14:17Speaker 5: inside corner on the opposite side. And then all the
- 14:20Speaker 5: guys can rush. All the guys can cover. So that
- 14:22Speaker 5: makes it really challenging on a down where most of
- 14:24Speaker 5: the time they know you're throwing the ball. So, They
- 14:26Speaker 5: get groups out there that are really well-coordinated up front
- 14:29Speaker 5: with their rush, their plans, their twists, their games, and
- 14:31Speaker 5: then they can combine that with the pressure packages. You're
- 14:34Speaker 5: basically preparing for what you might see over the course
- 14:37Speaker 5: of four weeks in one week, if that makes sense.
- 14:40Speaker 1: This week it was Sartain, this week it's Christian Gonzalez.
- 14:42Speaker 1: What is it about the highest-paid cornerback in the league?
- 14:46Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it's probably all those things I just talked about.
- 14:48Speaker 5: When you get a guy who is great in man
- 14:51Speaker 5: coverage and then can turn around and play great in
- 14:53Speaker 5: vision zone coverage and get his hands on the balls,
- 14:56Speaker 5: And then you look at the run game, and he's
- 14:57Speaker 5: one of the surest tacklers from a corner standpoint, getting
- 15:00Speaker 5: up there and fitting the run and attacking people. He
- 15:02Speaker 5: can do so many things. When you have a man
- 15:05Speaker 5: corner like that who's been able to match top receivers
- 15:08Speaker 5: and play man the whole game and then do those
- 15:10Speaker 5: other things, that's exceptionally rare.
- 15:13Speaker 3: What's the thought process of when you guys deploy Travis
- 15:15Speaker 3: on offense?
- 15:17Speaker 5: I think that's still evolving. One of those things that
- 15:19Speaker 5: we're trying to find, whether it's Travis or any of
- 15:21Speaker 5: our offensive guys, what's the best way to use those
- 15:23Speaker 5: guys and get the best 11 on the field, given
- 15:25Speaker 5: the situation we know first and 10 is different than
- 15:27Speaker 5: third and 10. And the red zone is different than
- 15:30Speaker 5: when we're at the minus 20. We're trying to find
- 15:32Speaker 5: a balance with Travis, just like any other player on
- 15:35Speaker 5: what he's doing on defense with offense, just like you
- 15:37Speaker 5: would with a running back who might have special teams
- 15:39Speaker 5: responsibilities or, as opposed to giving a guy 40 touches
- 15:42Speaker 5: as much as we'd love to give the two in
- 15:44Speaker 5: the ball every play, trying to find the balance with him. Well,
- 15:46Speaker 5: it's the same thing for Travis, but he's just got
- 15:48Speaker 5: that extra workload on defense. So I think it's something
- 15:51Speaker 5: we'll continue to look at and say, is it better
- 15:54Speaker 5: on more first and second down, more third down? Is
- 15:56Speaker 5: it better in 11 personnel, 12 personnel? We've got tight
- 15:58Speaker 5: ends on the field. Is he better running these routes
- 16:00Speaker 5: or those routes? So that's something that I think whatever
- 16:03Speaker 5: the answer is for what it looks like this year,
- 16:05Speaker 5: excuse me, at this week, may be different by the
- 16:07Speaker 5: end of the year as we continue to try to
- 16:09Speaker 5: find that for.
- 16:12Speaker 3: Him.
- 16:20Speaker 5: I think there's certainly an element of game planning going
- 16:24Speaker 5: into games where you want to make sure that you've
- 16:26Speaker 5: got something for everybody, where we want to feature Bretton
- 16:30Speaker 5: on a couple plays and Jacoby on a couple plays
- 16:32Speaker 5: and Parker on a couple plays and Tootin on a
- 16:34Speaker 5: couple plays. And the nice thing is we have so
- 16:36Speaker 5: many guys that we want to get the ball. The
- 16:37Speaker 5: downside of it is, especially when you don't get into
- 16:40Speaker 5: a rhythm in a game and you're facing a lot
- 16:42Speaker 5: of second alongs and third alongs, you lose the ability
- 16:44Speaker 5: to distribute the ball maybe the way you want it
- 16:46Speaker 5: to going into the week. And I think we felt
- 16:48Speaker 5: that a little bit on Sunday. So from a game
- 16:50Speaker 5: plan perspective, we certainly have that mindset going into the week.
- 16:54Speaker 5: But once you get into the game, you've got to
- 16:56Speaker 5: call the best plays for that situation, for the team,
- 16:59Speaker 5: for the offense. The great thing about those guys is
- 17:02Speaker 5: they're so selfless that they're willing to do what's best
- 17:04Speaker 5: for the team. at all times. And I, I really
- 17:07Speaker 5: appreciate that about them because not everybody's built like that,
- 17:10Speaker 5: even though, you know, as coaches, we say the cliches
- 17:12Speaker 5: of putting the team before yourself and all of those
- 17:14Speaker 5: different things, those guys, whether it's Brenton and Jacoby, those
- 17:18Speaker 5: guys you mentioned, or even Parker and BT, all those guys,
- 17:21Speaker 5: we're really, really fortunate here to have a group that
- 17:23Speaker 5: actually lives that every day. So it makes it fun
- 17:26Speaker 5: for the quarterback. It makes it fun for those guys,
- 17:28Speaker 5: makes it fun for the teammates when they see each
- 17:30Speaker 5: other scoring and they're all out there celebrating where they've
- 17:32Speaker 5: gotten their touches or not. Now, like, You mentioned it's
- 17:34Speaker 5: our job as coaches to continue to find ways to
- 17:36Speaker 5: distribute the ball because we have the skill guys that
- 17:38Speaker 5: can all do so much with the ball in their hands.
- 17:53Speaker 5: That's a great point. Not only from Hainsey and Jonah,
- 17:56Speaker 5: but really the whole offensive line. They've done a great
- 17:58Speaker 5: job of communicating the things that they're seeing and how
- 18:01Speaker 5: they're being played from a defensive standpoint. because like you
- 18:05Speaker 5: mentioned about the coverage you go into a game expecting
- 18:07Speaker 5: them to play a certain way but they from a
- 18:09Speaker 5: tech the defense from a technique standpoint may have adjusted
- 18:12Speaker 5: some things to the way we're playing so we may
- 18:15Speaker 5: run a certain screen or a certain run play based
- 18:18Speaker 5: on the way those guys feel like they're hitting blocks
- 18:20Speaker 5: or we may try to get to a certain series
- 18:22Speaker 5: of runs or a certain protection adjustment based on how
- 18:24Speaker 5: they feel those guys are rushing them so When you're
- 18:28Speaker 5: a coach, you can see things on the picture, you
- 18:29Speaker 5: can see things live, but it's really difficult to see
- 18:32Speaker 5: all 22 on the field at the same time and
- 18:34Speaker 5: the depth and detail that those guys field out there
- 18:36Speaker 5: on the field. So to get that feedback from the
- 18:38Speaker 5: guys is a huge crucial element of making those in-game
- 18:41Speaker 5: adjustments or just getting to a certain play call based
- 18:44Speaker 5: on the way they're playing us. So the growth from
- 18:47Speaker 5: those guys from year one to year two across the board,
- 18:49Speaker 5: whether it's Hainsey and Jonah or the whole offensive line
- 18:51Speaker 5: is really valuable for us.
- 18:53Speaker 1: We're talking about Parker. You said you didn't want to
- 18:56Speaker 1: take like what he's doing for granted, but to see
- 18:59Speaker 1: what he's been able to do, just kind of keep ascending.
- 19:02Speaker 1: How special is that?
- 19:04Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a, it's, it's exciting to see. Like I say,
- 19:08Speaker 5: when those guys are celebrating for each other, getting touchdowns,
- 19:11Speaker 5: I mean, I feel the same way as watching Parker
- 19:13Speaker 5: go out there and light it up when he gets those.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Opportunities, because you see how hard he works.
- 19:17Speaker 5: I'm sure you guys have heard it from everyone else
- 19:19Speaker 5: that he's in here so early in the morning. never complains,
- 19:22Speaker 5: never has a bad word to say, excited to be here,
- 19:24Speaker 5: has great energy, works his tail off on the field,
- 19:27Speaker 5: is willing to get any extra routes after practice, any
- 19:29Speaker 5: work you need. He's always putting in the extra work,
- 19:31Speaker 5: whether it's taking care of his body, studying the film,
- 19:34Speaker 5: talking with Trevor. You see him talking in between reps
- 19:36Speaker 5: at practice all the time. So he's a guy that
- 19:39Speaker 5: probably deserves all of the success he's had and more.
- 19:43Speaker 5: So I don't have enough good things to say about
- 19:45Speaker 5: him and really that group as a whole. Have you
- 19:48Speaker 5: been pleased with the response this week last week in practice?
- 19:52Speaker 4: Please, whew.
- 19:53Speaker 5: That's an interesting question. Yeah, I don't know that I
- 19:56Speaker 5: would use the word pleased ever for anything, so that's
- 20:00Speaker 5: probably a bad answer by me. I've been excited to
- 20:02Speaker 5: get back to work with the guys, and I appreciate
- 20:04Speaker 5: the effort and the intensity that they've had, because you
- 20:07Speaker 5: certainly feel those guys being intentional about the way they
- 20:10Speaker 5: practice and the way they come into meeting rooms. I mean,
- 20:13Speaker 5: the guys are locked in. They're spitting out answers left
- 20:15Speaker 5: and right. They're staying focused. Then we go through the walkthrough.
- 20:17Speaker 5: They're very detailed and intentional about those things. So there
- 20:20Speaker 5: certainly is a level of urgency, a level of intention,
- 20:22Speaker 5: a level of detail that those guys have brought. Pleased is, yeah,
- 20:27Speaker 5: that's an interesting word for me to say, but I
- 20:29Speaker 5: appreciate their work without a doubt.
- 20:32Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it, guys.
- 20:34Speaker 5: Thank you.