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- 0:00Speaker 1: Do you feel about that? Scrim interesting? Just what you
- 0:01Speaker 1: guys are have to accomplish.
- 0:03Speaker 2: It's good work.
- 0:04Speaker 3: Good to get the work in a lot to improve.
- 0:05Speaker 3: I think the guys know that. We know that, so
- 0:07Speaker 3: I'm excited to.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Dig into the tape and see what we can work on.
- 0:10Speaker 1: How concerning would it be that, you know, just having
- 0:12Speaker 1: all the drops of the picks and d the disjointed
- 0:15Speaker 1: this like, how concerning would that be moving forward?
- 0:17Speaker 3: Or is this one from one piece of many things
- 0:20Speaker 3: that we're working on trying to improve, whether it's fundamentals, communication,
- 0:24Speaker 3: just simple execution, a place here and there, alignment, assignment,
- 0:27Speaker 3: all of those details are important. So we're trying to
- 0:29Speaker 3: improve everything, not just a drop here.
- 0:32Speaker 2: There is the.
- 0:35Speaker 4: Offensive line still at work in progress. I mean you
- 0:37Speaker 4: got I think we used I think you used seven
- 0:39Speaker 4: different six different left tackles or right tackles in there.
- 0:42Speaker 4: Is it still piece mealing this thing together?
- 0:45Speaker 2: I don't know that I would frame it necessarily as
- 0:46Speaker 2: piece mealing.
- 0:47Speaker 3: I think one of the questions you guys asked last
- 0:49Speaker 3: week was about the flexibility the offensive line. I would
- 0:52Speaker 3: probably still look at it like that. We have had
- 0:54Speaker 3: some injuries, guys, go in and out, even temporary injuries
- 0:57Speaker 3: where guys miss a drive, and those have been opportunities
- 0:59Speaker 3: for other guys to step up and play different positions.
- 1:01Speaker 3: So you probably see out there today we have multiple
- 1:03Speaker 3: guys play on different sides, play guard, play tackle, inside outside,
- 1:06Speaker 3: different centers. So it's great that those guys have the
- 1:09Speaker 3: ability to do that and we have the chance to
- 1:11Speaker 3: get that type of work.
- 1:12Speaker 4: So is there a point, though, with the season three
- 1:14Speaker 4: weeks wa point where you want to get the five
- 1:18Speaker 4: solidified and let them work together.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think so, But I think at the same
- 1:24Speaker 3: time you recognize that over the course of the year,
- 1:26Speaker 3: it's very rare nowadays for the five same starters to
- 1:29Speaker 3: play every single play for an entire season. So this
- 1:32Speaker 3: work to get guys working with each other that might
- 1:34Speaker 3: not always work together on week one or week two
- 1:37Speaker 3: is invaluable to have right now.
- 1:39Speaker 5: How would you evaluate Beachiel Tutor and kind of how
- 1:41Speaker 5: he's come along in camp.
- 1:43Speaker 3: I think the growth has been encouraging, a testament to
- 1:46Speaker 3: his work, Coach Morten's work with him and really all
- 1:49Speaker 3: the running backs their ability to improve, whether it's in
- 1:51Speaker 3: the run game as runners, in the pass protection game,
- 1:54Speaker 3: or as pass catchers. The entire room, all those guys
- 1:56Speaker 3: have really embraced all fast to that position and what
- 1:59Speaker 3: we're asking them to do.
- 2:00Speaker 2: So between him, TJ.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Tank, you know, the Quinn to Quinn and all of
- 2:04Speaker 3: those guys have been awesome to work with, a lot
- 2:07Speaker 3: of fun to work with, and it's great to see
- 2:08Speaker 3: their improvement kind of day over day.
- 2:10Speaker 1: What have you seen from from Trevor just over the
- 2:13Speaker 1: last few weeks and obviously during the preseason game as well.
- 2:17Speaker 3: I think you see that growth in terms of the
- 2:20Speaker 3: master of the offense. We talked about it a little
- 2:21Speaker 3: bit at the very beginning of training camp and even
- 2:23Speaker 3: a little bit in the spring.
- 2:24Speaker 2: I think you see that starting to click.
- 2:26Speaker 6: Now.
- 2:26Speaker 3: There are still things around him that can improve, and
- 2:28Speaker 3: there are still areas that he can improve, and he
- 2:30Speaker 3: knows that. But each day, in a different setting or
- 2:33Speaker 3: a different play, you see one little thing or two
- 2:35Speaker 3: little things, or sometimes it's a lot of things that
- 2:37Speaker 3: come together where you see that improvement in terms of
- 2:39Speaker 3: that mastery of his role.
- 2:40Speaker 1: If you could just pick one one thing that he's
- 2:42Speaker 1: really improved on greatly over the last few weeks, what
- 2:45Speaker 1: would that be.
- 2:47Speaker 3: It's hard to pick just one. I try to try
- 2:49Speaker 3: to count all the things that he improved on and
- 2:50Speaker 3: appreciate all of them. So I don't know that I
- 2:52Speaker 3: would just pick just pick one. But I think when
- 2:54Speaker 3: we look at the operation of the offense and his
- 2:57Speaker 3: control of the line of scrimmage, the cadence, some of
- 3:00Speaker 3: those things that we still are working to improve as
- 3:02Speaker 3: a unit, but his personal growth is evident in that stuff.
- 3:06Speaker 3: The footwork, some of the reads, playing fast completion. So
- 3:09Speaker 3: there's a lot of things.
- 3:10Speaker 2: That they see. It makes it tough to pick one
- 3:12Speaker 2: that you guys.
- 3:13Speaker 7: Gave him to work on. Do you see him I
- 3:16Speaker 7: guess missing that less, you know what I mean, like
- 3:18Speaker 7: not doing it less and less as camp goes, I'm
- 3:20Speaker 7: not making mistakes.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I would say he's improved and he will probably continue
- 3:24Speaker 3: to improve.
- 3:25Speaker 2: I mean that's our goal.
- 3:26Speaker 3: There really is no point where you take your foot
- 3:28Speaker 3: off the gas on that stuff. You're always building the
- 3:30Speaker 3: fundamentals even throughout the season. Now, the time you can
- 3:32Speaker 3: allocate towards that shrinks as the season continues. But he's
- 3:35Speaker 3: improved and the goal is that he continues to prove
- 3:37Speaker 3: throughout the year.
- 3:38Speaker 8: It seems like the Quins kind of stood out in
- 3:40Speaker 8: pass pro is it rare for rookiees come in and
- 3:42Speaker 8: able to handle that responsibility right away.
- 3:45Speaker 3: I think it kind of depends on the guy, But
- 3:47Speaker 3: like I mentioned, he's done a great job of learning
- 3:49Speaker 3: the system his willingness to go in there and pass
- 3:52Speaker 3: protect in a bunch of difficult situations. The defense throws
- 3:54Speaker 3: a lot at those guys, not just from a mental standpoint,
- 3:57Speaker 3: but physically. They're asked to do a lot of different
- 3:59Speaker 3: things when it comes to picking up twists or getting
- 4:01Speaker 3: up in the a gap and taking on a back
- 4:03Speaker 3: or defensive end at times. But all of those guys,
- 4:06Speaker 3: whether it's him or the rest of the room, have
- 4:07Speaker 3: really embraced that role because we're asking them to do
- 4:10Speaker 3: things that maybe they haven't done before, play techniques that
- 4:12Speaker 3: they haven't done before.
- 4:14Speaker 9: What do you like about Tank Bigsby?
- 4:16Speaker 2: There's a lot to like about Tank.
- 4:17Speaker 3: I think you see the style of runner he is
- 4:21Speaker 3: and it almost pops out at times on tape with
- 4:24Speaker 3: the physicality and his ability to take one cut and
- 4:28Speaker 3: really attack lanes or holes depending on the run scheme.
- 4:30Speaker 3: It is I think his explosiveness in the run game
- 4:34Speaker 3: and hopefully that's something that we can say about all
- 4:35Speaker 3: the running backs in the room, whether it's him, Twoton, LeQuinn,
- 4:38Speaker 3: or tj all of those guys have that ability to
- 4:41Speaker 3: take a two yard run, three yard run in the
- 4:44Speaker 3: five yard run, ten yard run, explosive run beyond that,
- 4:47Speaker 3: with their ability to break tackles or accelerate opening space,
- 4:50Speaker 3: probably have Thomas is.
- 4:51Speaker 7: Frustration's pretty evident for those who also watching.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Is that at a concern level for you?
- 4:56Speaker 9: Where is the concern level?
- 4:58Speaker 5: Or that?
- 4:59Speaker 2: I don't know that I would listed like that. I
- 5:01Speaker 2: think that he holds himself to.
- 5:04Speaker 3: A high standard, which we appreciate, and when he doesn't
- 5:08Speaker 3: play to the standard that he holds himself to, sometimes
- 5:10Speaker 3: that comes out in frustration. But this is what practice
- 5:12Speaker 3: is about. You're trying to improve on things. You're trying
- 5:15Speaker 3: to put yourself in challenging situations. If you're going out
- 5:18Speaker 3: there and just succeeding at everything every single day, you're
- 5:20Speaker 3: probably not pushing yourself hard enough. So we expect there
- 5:23Speaker 3: to be some element of frustration.
- 5:25Speaker 2: With every position.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Whether it's a receiver, whether it's an offensive line, whether
- 5:28Speaker 3: it's mentally or physically. Most guys are going to be
- 5:31Speaker 3: in a situation at some point throughout the course of
- 5:32Speaker 3: a practice, throughout the course of a training camp, where
- 5:35Speaker 3: they probably push themselves, maybe beyond their limits, or maybe
- 5:37Speaker 3: they just don't perform to their standard. So I think
- 5:39Speaker 3: that frustration for all of us coaches, players included, it
- 5:42Speaker 3: becomes a part of the process of growth.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Whatever we're doing.
- 5:45Speaker 7: I'd assume you'd want them to stop slam and the
- 5:48Speaker 7: helmet down there. Maybe not like bury the frustration, but yeah,
- 5:53Speaker 7: release it a little more constructively.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I would love to see. I think
- 5:58Speaker 3: the equipment guys more are morencerned about that portion of
- 6:01Speaker 3: it than me in terms of the helmets. But but yeah,
- 6:03Speaker 3: there's a way we handle things, and we want to
- 6:05Speaker 3: have kind of a what now mindset in terms of
- 6:07Speaker 3: be able to learn from things and move on and
- 6:09Speaker 3: be in the present. So we're all working on that.
- 6:11Speaker 3: None of us are perfect at it.
- 6:13Speaker 8: When you see a guy at Parker Washington just make
- 6:15Speaker 8: big plays throughout the entire course of a camp, how
- 6:17Speaker 8: much confidence does that.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Give in you on game day?
- 6:19Speaker 2: They can translate it from practice to the game. I
- 6:21Speaker 2: mentioned it last time.
- 6:22Speaker 3: I think that when you see a guy execute something
- 6:25Speaker 3: consistently in practice, it gives you the confidence that he
- 6:28Speaker 3: can go out there in the game situation. Now, the
- 6:30Speaker 3: practice setting is a little different than the game, but
- 6:32Speaker 3: like I just mentioned previously, we're trying to put these
- 6:34Speaker 3: guys in challenging positions and for him to go out
- 6:37Speaker 3: and execute those things in the most challenging positions when
- 6:40Speaker 3: he's tired, and the heat gives you the confidence, whether
- 6:42Speaker 3: it's him or anybody, to go out and do those things.
- 6:44Speaker 2: On game day, what'd.
- 6:45Speaker 9: You make of it?
- 6:46Speaker 1: What'd you feel out there?
- 6:48Speaker 6: You know, it was good competitiveness out here, guys going
- 6:50Speaker 6: at it, you know, competing, trying to make each other better.
- 6:53Speaker 6: So I thought that was the I guess the positive.
- 6:55Speaker 6: And today a little sloppy offensively. I thought we started
- 6:57Speaker 6: a great head of long I don't know how many
- 6:59Speaker 6: plays it was at a long drive to start, went
- 7:00Speaker 6: and scored and then from there, defense, you know, picked
- 7:03Speaker 6: it up a little bit and we had some some mistakes,
- 7:06Speaker 6: just self inflicted wounds. Kind of been the story of
- 7:08Speaker 6: camp of trying to clean up some of that stuff
- 7:10Speaker 6: pre snap. So just got to clean up the operation.
- 7:13Speaker 6: The mistakes that you know, the defense doesn't inflict on
- 7:18Speaker 6: you, you do on yourself so that all those mistakes are
- 7:21Speaker 6: we just got to get better and cleaner. But I
- 7:23Speaker 6: thought there were some good competition guys flying around, so
- 7:26Speaker 6: there were some goods and bad We'll watch it, we'll
- 7:28Speaker 6: learn from it all.
- 7:28Speaker 9: You sort of talked about it.
- 7:29Speaker 1: But just at these mistakes that can just be cleaned up,
- 7:32Speaker 1: you know, these are these are correct ful mistakes offers
- 7:35Speaker 1: for sure.
- 7:35Speaker 6: I mean it's you know, pre snap stuff. It's uh,
- 7:39Speaker 6: you know, there's always a little bit of that in camp,
- 7:42Speaker 6: but the amount we've had has been a little too
- 7:44Speaker 6: sloppy for the offense that we want to be. You know,
- 7:47Speaker 6: if we want to be a great offense, you have
- 7:48Speaker 6: to be really smart not make those mistakes that hurt yourself. Obviously,
- 7:53Speaker 6: execute and I think the execution has been actually decent
- 7:57Speaker 6: once the ball snapped. But the other stuff before the snap,
- 7:59Speaker 6: you don't ever get a chance if you don't do
- 8:00Speaker 6: that right. So there's been some stuff that we just
- 8:03Speaker 6: have to lock in on the details, you know. For
- 8:04Speaker 6: me as a quarterback, got to operate a little cleaner.
- 8:06Speaker 6: Let's get up to the line faster so guys can
- 8:08Speaker 6: communicate and think and have time to you know, process
- 8:11Speaker 6: and you know, remind each other of the cadence, all
- 8:13Speaker 6: those things.
- 8:14Speaker 9: It's all of us in it. We just have to
- 8:16Speaker 9: be sharper.
- 8:17Speaker 5: I saw William was kind of talking to you and
- 8:19Speaker 5: Parker just now. I've seen it a few times act
- 8:20Speaker 5: like after practice where he'll kind of debrief just what
- 8:23Speaker 5: is it like having a coach that doesn't mind showing you, Hey,
- 8:26Speaker 5: this is exactly how I want it.
- 8:27Speaker 9: It's great, you know, his communication.
- 8:30Speaker 6: He's very i'd say thorough too, just with the details
- 8:33Speaker 6: of every play, of what he's thinking, the way he
- 8:35Speaker 6: communicates with me on the sideline from play to play,
- 8:38Speaker 6: between series and practice, and he does a great job
- 8:40Speaker 6: of talking to me and see seeing what I'm seeing.
- 8:43Speaker 6: And I think we're really starting to get on the
- 8:45Speaker 6: same page as far as I'm thinking, how he's thinking
- 8:47Speaker 6: in certain concepts and playing faster, and you know that's
- 8:50Speaker 6: going to be something that just continues to grow as
- 8:52Speaker 6: we play more together and obviously as we get in
- 8:54Speaker 6: the season and start playing these real games. But it's
- 8:57Speaker 6: been awesome having them as our coach and just the
- 9:00Speaker 6: teaching he's been able to do for our group, not
- 9:02Speaker 6: just the quarterbacks, but the whole offense. You know, the
- 9:04Speaker 6: offensive line there running backs to the white outs. He's
- 9:07Speaker 6: he's done a great job of just teaching us all
- 9:08Speaker 6: a lot.
- 9:09Speaker 9: And where's the.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Concern level with the drops?
- 9:11Speaker 4: Seven of them I think today, had some last week.
- 9:14Speaker 1: And the.
- 9:17Speaker 9: Well, yeah, i'd have to watch it. You know, some
- 9:19Speaker 9: of those.
- 9:21Speaker 6: You know it's in for some of them, but then
- 9:23Speaker 6: on the sideline looking at the dip out with some
- 9:25Speaker 6: of the guys here in between series when the other
- 9:26Speaker 6: groups were in, so i'd have to see him. It's just,
- 9:29Speaker 6: you know, some of its focus obviously, guys just looking
- 9:31Speaker 6: at the ball and focus and not trying to get
- 9:33Speaker 6: up feel too fast. Some good contested catches by our
- 9:37Speaker 6: defense to breaking up some passes, but we got we
- 9:38Speaker 6: got to treat all of them like their ours. And
- 9:39Speaker 6: then sometimes the throws aren't always perfect. You know, they
- 9:42Speaker 6: got to be in the right spot at the right
- 9:43Speaker 6: time and give guys a chance to catch tuck and
- 9:45Speaker 6: get upfield. And if you're late against the good defense
- 9:48Speaker 6: like ours and give them time to close and make
- 9:50Speaker 6: a play on the ball, it makes it tougher. So
- 9:51Speaker 6: there's there's a lot of factors that could be involved
- 9:54Speaker 6: in that. It's not all on just guys catching the ball,
- 9:56Speaker 6: but that is part of it, is just you know,
- 9:58Speaker 6: focusing looking it in, not trying to get up field
- 10:01Speaker 6: too quickly, and making sure we secure it. But yeah,
- 10:03Speaker 6: you know, we got to do our job as quarterbacks
- 10:04Speaker 6: too and give them the ball accurate on time.
- 10:06Speaker 8: Because there were mistakes today with the drops and penalties.
- 10:10Speaker 8: Does that change the outlook for Sunday? I mean, if
- 10:13Speaker 8: this was a perfect practice, you guys probably wouldn't go.
- 10:16Speaker 7: Do you expect to play?
- 10:18Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 10:18Speaker 9: I expect to play.
- 10:19Speaker 6: And that's the kind of the mindset in the preseason
- 10:22Speaker 6: is expecting to play, and it's always kind of a
- 10:24Speaker 6: very variable or whatever, very number of snaps you don't
- 10:28Speaker 6: really know exactly what it's gonna be, but expecting to play.
- 10:31Speaker 6: I'm not sure if there was old it, today's practice
- 10:34Speaker 6: would or wouldn't have changed it. I don't know as
- 10:36Speaker 6: far as what coach is thinking, but I'm prepared to play,
- 10:38Speaker 6: and from always communicated to us, we're prepared to go
- 10:41Speaker 6: and play a little bit. So it's just another opportunity
- 10:44Speaker 6: for us to get better.
- 10:45Speaker 9: You know.
- 10:45Speaker 6: I think it's you got to take it for what
- 10:48Speaker 6: it is and learn from it and watch the tape,
- 10:50Speaker 6: and you know, you can't be doom and gloom come
- 10:52Speaker 6: game time because we had a rough practice. You gotta
- 10:54Speaker 6: be able to bounce back. But we do have to
- 10:55Speaker 6: clean this stuff up, some of the stuff showing up
- 10:57Speaker 6: all camps. So we got to be deliberate and how
- 10:59Speaker 6: we and what we do to change it. You do
- 11:01Speaker 6: something different in order to get different results.
- 11:05Speaker 7: I think you talked to us earlier in camp and
- 11:06Speaker 7: you said those footwork change and stuff that you guys
- 11:09Speaker 7: that you made and worked on, you wanted to see,
- 11:11Speaker 7: like would you revert back to some of the old
- 11:13Speaker 7: stuff when you're in a game or a scrimmage or
- 11:14Speaker 7: something like that. So what did you less than you
- 11:18Speaker 7: thought you would or how have you like manage that.
- 11:21Speaker 9: A little bit?
- 11:21Speaker 6: I felt like in the game a little bit reverted
- 11:24Speaker 6: to some of this old stuff I used to do,
- 11:26Speaker 6: not a ton though I thought it's about what I
- 11:29Speaker 6: would expect. You know, some snaps where it wasn't perfect,
- 11:32Speaker 6: like it's practice, and where you're not gonna get hit
- 11:34Speaker 6: and you're not in the tight pocket, you know all
- 11:36Speaker 6: those things. It's obviously easier to control that out here
- 11:40Speaker 6: because of this for the Red Jersey.
- 11:42Speaker 9: You're not going to get hit.
- 11:43Speaker 6: So I think that's great practice for me, is keeping
- 11:46Speaker 6: calm feet, keeping calm eyes, being disciplined with my feet
- 11:49Speaker 6: in the pocket, staying in the safe spots, finding those
- 11:51Speaker 6: safe spots. And I thought overall the game was pretty good,
- 11:54Speaker 6: but there's a couple snaps of just bouncing around a
- 11:57Speaker 6: little bit that I want to clean up and that
- 11:59Speaker 6: stuff that we already watched and kind of started working
- 12:01Speaker 6: on for this week.
- 12:02Speaker 7: Is it start to feel most of time the like
- 12:04Speaker 7: second Natures at this.
- 12:05Speaker 9: Point, Yeah, No, it does.
- 12:06Speaker 6: It's starting to feel starting to feel a lot more
- 12:09Speaker 6: comfortable and natural.
- 12:10Speaker 9: I'm not having to think about it.
- 12:10Speaker 6: I'm not having to say, okay, let's you know, it's
- 12:12Speaker 6: my footwork on this play. You know none of that
- 12:14Speaker 6: stuff anymore obviously, so I feel comfortable with it. Some
- 12:17Speaker 6: of the just mechanical stuff that you've done for years
- 12:19Speaker 6: is just the way you hitch, the way you transfer way,
- 12:21Speaker 6: and some of that stuff takes a little longer to
- 12:23Speaker 6: train out. But we do such a good job of
- 12:25Speaker 6: working in Indie in all the periods that aren't team
- 12:27Speaker 6: periods to where I'm starting to build that muscle memory
- 12:30Speaker 6: where I see it carrying over, but I don't think
- 12:31Speaker 6: about it when I'm playing and when I'm in team
- 12:33Speaker 6: periods or in a game, because you don't want to
- 12:35Speaker 6: be thinking about what am I doing with my mechanics?
- 12:37Speaker 6: That's you can't play that way. You got enough to
- 12:39Speaker 6: think about. So we've done a great job of working
- 12:41Speaker 6: on it, really really detailed work in Indie and trying
- 12:46Speaker 6: to pinpoint the issues in those periods.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Sorry, is it like rebuilding a golf swing?
- 12:55Speaker 6: I should, That's something I need to do. I don't
- 13:00Speaker 6: know to answer your question. I'm not good enough at
- 13:02Speaker 6: golf to answer that. Where I haven't changed my swing,
- 13:05Speaker 6: I probably should for all the people watch and probably
- 13:07Speaker 6: think I need to, But I don't know.
- 13:10Speaker 9: That's a tough question.
- 13:10Speaker 4: But like when you when you shotgun, to his point,
- 13:12Speaker 4: you don't ever walk up there going reminding yourself left before.
- 13:15Speaker 9: Not anymore. Okay, in the spring, it was a little bit.
- 13:17Speaker 6: I'd get up there and I'd have to, you know,
- 13:19Speaker 6: switch my feedback, you know, because I've done it for years.
- 13:24Speaker 9: Not that long, but a long team.
- 13:27Speaker 6: I don't remember what I did when I was seven
- 13:30Speaker 6: or eight or whatever.
- 13:32Speaker 7: From your perspective, when does the starting offensive line, So
- 13:35Speaker 7: I need to be set so that you can start
- 13:36Speaker 7: building the rhythm with that group.
- 13:39Speaker 6: I mean, that's not really a question for me to answer.
- 13:43Speaker 6: I think continuity is important. But the way this game is,
- 13:48Speaker 6: you know, guys get hurt and injured and you got
- 13:50Speaker 6: to O line is a group where I don't know
- 13:53Speaker 6: what the stats are, but typically you don't have the
- 13:55Speaker 6: same five guys every single game for the whole season.
- 13:57Speaker 6: So there's value in getting other people in there and
- 14:00Speaker 6: playing and building that chemistry with more than just five guys,
- 14:04Speaker 6: because the reality is something could happen and you might
- 14:07Speaker 6: not have one of those guys too.
- 14:08Speaker 9: Those guys who knows. I mean, it just depends on
- 14:09Speaker 9: the type of year you have.
- 14:10Speaker 6: But and hopefully, you know, pray all our guys are
- 14:14Speaker 6: healthy all year. But I think I think we have
- 14:18Speaker 6: a good feel for the five up front and who
- 14:21Speaker 6: it's going to be and and those guys are working
- 14:23Speaker 6: well together. But we have a lot of guys that
- 14:26Speaker 6: can play, which is encouraging. But we just got to
- 14:28Speaker 6: get a little bit more on the same page. When
- 14:29Speaker 6: guys come in at these different positions, and like we
- 14:31Speaker 6: talked about before, it's not always the most comfortable thing
- 14:33Speaker 6: for those guys to bounce around, but it's valuable for us.
- 14:36Speaker 6: So I think they've done a good job of doing
- 14:39Speaker 6: it and doing it pretty well for the most part.
- 14:40Speaker 6: We just got to clean up some of the simple
- 14:42Speaker 6: stuff that we could fix.
- 14:43Speaker 8: Leaves said last week. They've took into consideration of what
- 14:46Speaker 8: guys like Hainesy and herself said about.
- 14:48Speaker 9: Wanting to play.
- 14:49Speaker 8: What does it mean do you have a coach you
- 14:50Speaker 8: want your guys in put when it goes decision making process.
- 14:53Speaker 9: He's been awesome, you know.
- 14:54Speaker 6: I feel like there's been a lot of I couldn't
- 14:57Speaker 6: name all of them, but there's been a lot of
- 14:59Speaker 6: just little things where he's taken something to players said
- 15:02Speaker 6: or suggested and implemented it. And I think as players
- 15:05Speaker 6: that goes a long way, because you're like, all right,
- 15:06Speaker 6: we're in this together and he wants us to be
- 15:10Speaker 6: And it's not all about being comfortable, but it's also
- 15:14Speaker 6: listening to your players and taking that feedback and using
- 15:16Speaker 6: it to make your team better.
- 15:17Speaker 9: And whether it's the schedule or practice.
- 15:20Speaker 6: Or whatever, how guys are feeling. I think he just
- 15:22Speaker 6: has a really good pulse on the team and it
- 15:25Speaker 6: goes along way with the guys, like even some of
- 15:26Speaker 6: the stuff in training camp, the way he structured things,
- 15:29Speaker 6: we've been able to get our bodies back, and I
- 15:31Speaker 6: think guys are very one appreciative of that. And notice that,
- 15:35Speaker 6: especially when you've been in the league now for a
- 15:37Speaker 6: few years, you see how other places work, how other
- 15:39Speaker 6: training camps are, and you're appreciative of the stuff he does.
- 15:42Speaker 6: And then on the flip side, we have to take
- 15:44Speaker 6: care of him and come out here and be clean
- 15:47Speaker 6: and crisp and practice hard because he's done a great
- 15:50Speaker 6: job of really helping us feel good coming into these
- 15:52Speaker 6: I mean, you never feel great in training camp, but
- 15:54Speaker 6: for training camp, I think everyone would say, we feel
- 15:57Speaker 6: pretty good for you for it being training camp.
- 16:00Speaker 8: And how much Cross says the point happened or from
- 16:02Speaker 8: you guys and pass where it seems like he's kind
- 16:03Speaker 8: of sit out there.
- 16:04Speaker 6: He's done a great job ever since he came in.
- 16:06Speaker 6: It's it's been something I've noticed is his pass protection.
- 16:08Speaker 6: He's picked it up really quickly. But the biggest thing is, yeah,
- 16:12Speaker 6: he knows what to do, but the way he does
- 16:14Speaker 6: he's really physical, violent, meeting linebackers in the line of scrimmage,
- 16:18Speaker 6: and that's huge. You get these games inside with these
- 16:20Speaker 6: linebackers trying to pick off our centers and guards, and
- 16:23Speaker 6: if you can, the sooner you can meet them, the
- 16:24Speaker 6: more physically you are, it knocks them off their game.
- 16:26Speaker 6: They're trying to run and you can pass it off.
- 16:28Speaker 6: And that's a that's a killer for a group up front,
- 16:30Speaker 6: is if you get picked on a game, it could
- 16:32Speaker 6: be a four man five man rush and you should
- 16:35Speaker 6: be blocked. And if we get picked and it's an
- 16:37Speaker 6: unblocked hitter on you. So he's been he's been a
- 16:40Speaker 6: really you know, key blocker for us in pass protection.
- 16:44Speaker 5: He likes top.
- 16:46Speaker 9: Yeah, that was that was a good stuff.
- 16:48Speaker 6: I love how we Yeah, obviously we don't want to
- 16:51Speaker 6: make a habit of that, but the competitiveness and then
- 16:52Speaker 6: right after both of them are great and like like
- 16:54Speaker 6: nothing happens. So that's what you want to see. I mean,
- 16:56Speaker 6: it gets competitive out here and it should be. Uh
- 16:59Speaker 6: don't want to cross the that line too often, but
- 17:01Speaker 6: we're all teammates at the end of the day.
- 17:04Speaker 9: For sure. Would