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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, Doug, could you could you just give us an
- 0:01Speaker 1: update on Trevor.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Uh.
- 0:04Speaker 3: Yeah, Trevor's progressing obviously, you know, he's a little bit sore, but.
- 0:11Speaker 4: Doing doing better today than he did yesterday.
- 0:14Speaker 3: And and you know, we'll see, we'll see where he's
- 0:16Speaker 3: at again again tomorrow.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Do you anticipate him practicing much this week or.
- 0:22Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a little bit early to tell.
- 0:26Speaker 3: May may do a little something tomorrow, but but I
- 0:29Speaker 3: I would doubt that tomorrow.
- 0:31Speaker 4: Just it's you know, you know a little bit a
- 0:34Speaker 4: little bit too soon. But we'll see it as the day,
- 0:37Speaker 4: as the week goes on.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And then just lasts for me. After the game, you
- 0:41Speaker 1: said that it seemed like the game didn't mean as
- 0:43Speaker 1: much to your team as it did to the Bucks.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 0:46Speaker 1: How do you sort of remedy that situation? And do
- 0:49Speaker 1: you lean on the leadership council? What do you have
- 0:52Speaker 1: to do?
- 0:53Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 0:53Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's just you get in situations
- 0:56Speaker 3: like that where where you feel or you come away
- 0:58Speaker 3: with you know a fewling that that you know a team,
- 1:03Speaker 3: you know they were they were playing for the same
- 1:05Speaker 3: things that we were playing for, right, and and they
- 1:07Speaker 3: did everything they needed to do to win the game,
- 1:10Speaker 3: and we didn't.
- 1:11Speaker 4: But yeah, you you.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Know, you lean on the leadership council, the leaders of
- 1:15Speaker 3: your team, lean on the coaches more and you know,
- 1:20Speaker 3: just just lock in and focus, uh, during the week,
- 1:22Speaker 3: and then prepare for another game this Sunday.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Thank you, Andy, Doug.
- 1:31Speaker 5: Outside of Trevor, did you otherwise make it out pretty
- 1:34Speaker 5: healthy from the game?
- 1:36Speaker 3: Actually no, Daniel Thomas broke his forearm and he's he's good.
- 1:43Speaker 3: I think it's you know, if it was left or right,
- 1:48Speaker 3: possibly is right anyway broke us will verify it. But
- 1:51Speaker 3: he broke his forearm in the game, and so he's
- 1:53Speaker 3: gonna miss.
- 1:54Speaker 4: He's gonna miss some time.
- 1:56Speaker 3: Everybody else, everybody else came out, came out okay.
- 2:00Speaker 5: And at this point in the season, when you have
- 2:02Speaker 5: a slide like this one and you start talking about
- 2:05Speaker 5: whether or not the team was maybe as focused as
- 2:07Speaker 5: they should have been, uh, is it tough to snap
- 2:10Speaker 5: them out of it or get the confidence back in
- 2:12Speaker 5: the locker room after I mean, at this point in
- 2:14Speaker 5: the year.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Well no, not really.
- 2:17Speaker 3: You know, I just got to keep reminding him of
- 2:19Speaker 3: our goals, right, and and keep keep encouraging the guys
- 2:23Speaker 3: that to stay focused on that. You know, everything's still
- 2:26Speaker 3: right in front of us. Got a great opportunity this week,
- 2:29Speaker 3: you know, to to just go one and oh and
- 2:31Speaker 3: and that's our goal.
- 2:34Speaker 5: And even with everything still being in control of your destiny,
- 2:37Speaker 5: will win this week and a little bit of helping
- 2:39Speaker 5: you could lock up the AFC South.
- 2:41Speaker 6: How important is it for them to keep that in perspective?
- 2:44Speaker 3: I think it's I think you got to keep that
- 2:46Speaker 3: in perspective. But you know the bottom line too, is
- 2:48Speaker 3: we just gotta we got to play better.
- 2:51Speaker 4: We didn't. We didn't play good, you know.
- 2:53Speaker 3: On Sunday, and uh, you know, too many mistakes that
- 2:56Speaker 3: that we have to we have to fix as coaches
- 2:59Speaker 3: and players. And you know, it's something that we've got
- 3:03Speaker 3: to we've got to address and we and we've got
- 3:05Speaker 3: to make a conscious effort to do that this week.
- 3:09Speaker 4: Thanks Cook.
- 3:12Speaker 6: All right, we can go to d Rock and then Mia.
- 3:16Speaker 7: Hey, Doug, can you confirm is it a strain or
- 3:19Speaker 7: a sprain of his right throwing shoulder for Trevor?
- 3:23Speaker 3: I believe the technical word is a sprain. AC sprain
- 3:27Speaker 3: I think is a technical word for it.
- 3:29Speaker 7: Okay, so at this point it's too early to tell
- 3:31Speaker 7: if he's going to be able to play against Carolina Sunday, right, correct, Okay,
- 3:37Speaker 7: is there what's your concern level that maybe the team
- 3:41Speaker 7: is starting to tune out a little bit. I don't
- 3:43Speaker 7: know if it's tune out your message or tune out
- 3:45Speaker 7: the coach's message, because you know, again we've asked every
- 3:48Speaker 7: week and it's it's been sort of the same issues
- 3:51Speaker 7: that have cropped up every week.
- 3:54Speaker 4: I don't I don't think. I don't think that's happening.
- 3:57Speaker 4: You know.
- 3:58Speaker 3: I've had conversations with players the last couple of days,
- 4:00Speaker 3: and guys are still locked in and focused and they
- 4:02Speaker 3: they know listen, I might have said this after the game,
- 4:05Speaker 3: and it's not like they're going out there and trying to,
- 4:08Speaker 3: you know, make these mistakes, right. I mean, we just
- 4:11Speaker 3: have to be more aware of what's happening, and and
- 4:15Speaker 3: as coaches, we got to keep continuing to coach them
- 4:17Speaker 3: up and put them in put our players in positions
- 4:20Speaker 3: to be to be successful on game day. So I
- 4:23Speaker 3: don't I don't feel like they're uh, you know, tuning
- 4:26Speaker 3: out you know at all?
- 4:29Speaker 7: What do you attribute I mean, this, I guess is
- 4:30Speaker 7: the fourth injury that Trevor's had this year, which is
- 4:33Speaker 7: kind of unusual.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Is it just bad luck?
- 4:37Speaker 6: Is there you know other issues.
- 4:38Speaker 7: That are going on, you know, that are contributing to
- 4:41Speaker 7: that or or what do you kind of I guess
- 4:43Speaker 7: attributed to Well?
- 4:45Speaker 3: No, I mean, we know this game is uh, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 3: it's a physical and and and it's a it's a tough,
- 4:50Speaker 3: violent sport and and you know injuries are going to happen,
- 4:52Speaker 3: and especially to the quarterback position. You know, all the
- 4:58Speaker 3: all the injuries that that he has sustained are all
- 5:00Speaker 3: you know, all all hits, you know, all contact stuff,
- 5:03Speaker 3: and and it's it's part of it, you know, And
- 5:06Speaker 3: that's that's his style, and that's his aggressiveness. And and
- 5:10Speaker 3: you know he's he's been fortunate enough to bounce back
- 5:12Speaker 3: from all of them. So you know, we'll see as
- 5:14Speaker 3: he goes this week where he's at. But you know, uh,
- 5:18Speaker 3: we've been fortunate that he's been able to be available
- 5:21Speaker 3: every every week so far.
- 5:24Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 5:25Speaker 8: Yep, Hey, Doug, I'm going to read this quote from
- 5:30Speaker 8: Trevor post game, just curious your reaction. He said, you know,
- 5:34Speaker 8: it looks like we don't even practice the stuff that
- 5:36Speaker 8: we're doing we look lost no sense of urgency for
- 5:39Speaker 8: you to hear that from your quarterback. What do you
- 5:41Speaker 8: make of that? Obviously knowing that he really hasn't practiced,
- 5:44Speaker 8: and obviously we're at that juncture in the season too
- 5:46Speaker 8: where you guys really can't go live that much. But
- 5:48Speaker 8: obviously a pretty jarring comment.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, and and and obviously you know, you're
- 5:54Speaker 3: absolutely right. You know, when he when he doesn't practice,
- 5:57Speaker 3: maybe he feels that way, you know, And I can
- 5:59Speaker 3: I can see that, right when when when your quarterback
- 6:02Speaker 3: doesn't get the reps he needs during the week, and
- 6:04Speaker 3: and you're trying to get the mental reps for him,
- 6:05Speaker 3: and he's also working on you know, the concussion protocol and.
- 6:09Speaker 4: And getting cleared from that.
- 6:10Speaker 3: So there I can see where he would say something
- 6:13Speaker 3: like that. But listen, you guys are you guys are
- 6:16Speaker 3: at practice. You see the way the way we go
- 6:18Speaker 3: and and what we've done, and you know, the guys
- 6:21Speaker 3: are working hard and and but you know we've got
- 6:25Speaker 3: some new faces on offense that yeah, they they've they've
- 6:28Speaker 3: got to they've got to you know, they've got to
- 6:31Speaker 3: pay attention to if if we're doing kills and alerts
- 6:34Speaker 3: and different things at the quarterback you know, wants to
- 6:37Speaker 3: get us into Uh, they've got to pay attention. They've
- 6:39Speaker 3: got to focus and lock in. So you know, we've
- 6:41Speaker 3: got to coach them up better. We've got to make
- 6:43Speaker 3: sure that they're on the same page with with Trevor
- 6:45Speaker 3: and our quarterbacks. And and we can't make those we
- 6:48Speaker 3: can't make those mistakes in game because obviously, as you know,
- 6:51Speaker 3: they they compound and and that's where that's where negative
- 6:54Speaker 3: plays and or turnovers you know, have occurred. And and
- 6:59Speaker 3: you know, so we we got to do what we
- 7:00Speaker 3: got to do our part as a staff to make
- 7:02Speaker 3: sure that uh, you know, these things don't happen, you know,
- 7:05Speaker 3: in the future.
- 7:06Speaker 8: And then just to follow up, I know you said
- 7:08Speaker 8: you guys made it out clean outside of DT's injury.
- 7:12Speaker 8: I know, Andre and Tyson returning for the first time
- 7:14Speaker 8: in two weeks, bretton back the first time in three weeks.
- 7:17Speaker 8: What did you think of those three's performance and health wise?
- 7:19Speaker 8: Where are they at?
- 7:20Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think in in all three cases,
- 7:24Speaker 3: you know, I think I think, you know, because they've
- 7:26Speaker 3: missed some football and they missed some time. I think
- 7:28Speaker 3: it's just getting back into game shape and and you know,
- 7:31Speaker 3: understanding that and uh but all of them came out healthy,
- 7:35Speaker 3: you know, and and it'll be a big week for
- 7:36Speaker 3: him this week in practice to get to get you know,
- 7:39Speaker 3: to knock off some of the call it rust or whatever,
- 7:44Speaker 3: you know, to to get back out there again and
- 7:46Speaker 3: continue to help our team.
- 7:48Speaker 4: So you know, they all did, They all did well.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Look forward to getting back on the field, you know,
- 7:54Speaker 3: tomorrow with these guys and and continuing to work.
- 7:57Speaker 8: Thank you.
- 8:00Speaker 3: Left Yeah d T DTS was left left forearm left
- 8:03Speaker 3: for him.
- 8:14Speaker 9: Jacob was muted. But I'll just go Anton.
- 8:18Speaker 3: He's good, Yes, yeah, yeah, he's fine. Everything checked out.
- 8:22Speaker 3: Just he got hit in the back, was just sore.
- 8:26Speaker 3: But yeah, he's fine.
- 8:27Speaker 9: And then can Cam you think you see Cam potentially playing?
- 8:31Speaker 9: I think this would be weak.
- 8:33Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the week we can open his window.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Uh.
- 8:35Speaker 3: So we'll get him back on the practice field tomorrow.
- 8:37Speaker 9: Yes, and you think he'll play assuming everything goes well
- 8:40Speaker 9: this week.
- 8:41Speaker 3: I hope, so you know, again, you know it's it's
- 8:44Speaker 3: still a ways away, but but hopeful that an optimistic
- 8:46Speaker 3: that he'll be ready to go. Yes, and zay, they
- 8:50Speaker 3: they will be back on the practice field tomorrow as well,
- 8:52Speaker 3: and again same thing. Optimistic, hopeful that he can uh,
- 8:57Speaker 3: you know, get back out there.
- 8:58Speaker 9: And Doug, just do you think you guys did enough
- 9:01Speaker 9: to four to five or build up this offensive line
- 9:04Speaker 9: going into the season.
- 9:07Speaker 4: I do.
- 9:08Speaker 3: Look, we've had we've had our share of uh you know,
- 9:12Speaker 3: obviously lineup changes, right, I mean, you know, Cam Cam
- 9:15Speaker 3: was going in as our starter, but had the four
- 9:17Speaker 3: game suspension, and Walker's out there and then you know,
- 9:20Speaker 3: Walker goes to guard and he he gets hurt, and
- 9:22Speaker 3: Shatley's back.
- 9:23Speaker 4: In there, and you know, we we trade for you know, for.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Ezra Cleveland, and we moved Walker back to tackle, and
- 9:28Speaker 3: here's Ezra now playing left guard, and you know, and
- 9:31Speaker 3: then bang, here comes Cam back.
- 9:33Speaker 4: And you know, so there's there's been uh.
- 9:35Speaker 3: You know, no share of of a of a revolving door,
- 9:38Speaker 3: I guess over there on the left side. So I
- 9:40Speaker 3: think we got the right guys, you know, the right
- 9:43Speaker 3: guys up front. We just got to get them all
- 9:45Speaker 3: playing together, the same five guys playing together, and and
- 9:50Speaker 3: that's where you get the.
- 9:50Speaker 4: Continuity and consistency.
- 9:52Speaker 3: So you know, we're hopeful this week, you know, we
- 9:56Speaker 3: get Cam and and and plug him back in and
- 9:58Speaker 3: and listen, Cam brings you know, he brings a level
- 10:02Speaker 3: of physicality, he brings some excitement and enthusiasm to that
- 10:04Speaker 3: O line. So, uh something that uh you know we're
- 10:07Speaker 3: looking forward.
- 10:08Speaker 9: To, and it's just wants follow up. If all goes well,
- 10:13Speaker 9: Walker Little then is your swing tackle.
- 10:17Speaker 3: I believe at this time, Yes, as we head, as
- 10:19Speaker 3: we head into it, you know, we'll see, we'll see
- 10:22Speaker 3: where he's at. You know, obviously he's he's really sore
- 10:25Speaker 3: right now too, and and Ezra's sore, and and you know,
- 10:28Speaker 3: so we've got we've got some opportunities whether whether he's
- 10:31Speaker 3: the left guard or Ezra or Shatley, you know, moving forward.
- 10:34Speaker 3: So but if if, uh if need be, obviously Walker
- 10:38Speaker 3: and Blake Camps could be could be those two uhl
- 10:40Speaker 3: be those two tackles.
- 10:44Speaker 6: All right, We're gonna go to Brent and then John.
- 10:48Speaker 10: Doug, do you have us You feel like you don't
- 10:52Speaker 10: know this football team right now a little bit because
- 10:54Speaker 10: of all the inconsistencies from the mistackles and everything on
- 10:58Speaker 10: defense to what you're seeing on offense. I mean, is
- 11:01Speaker 10: it hard to kind of build an identity or the
- 11:05Speaker 10: team that you saw a month ago. Who are they now?
- 11:10Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's tough.
- 11:11Speaker 3: It's it's tough because it's the it's the things that
- 11:14Speaker 3: that that are within our grasp or within our control.
- 11:18Speaker 3: We're we're not doing And you know, a month or
- 11:22Speaker 3: so ago, we were, we were, we were doing some
- 11:24Speaker 3: things extremely well. And and you know right now, right now,
- 11:27Speaker 3: we're not. And and you know we can't. You know,
- 11:31Speaker 3: the turnovers are the biggest thing. That's the biggest thing
- 11:33Speaker 3: right now. That's what's kept us from scoring points in
- 11:36Speaker 3: the red zone and kicking field goals and you know,
- 11:40Speaker 3: you know, putting ourselves in chances and positions to win
- 11:43Speaker 3: some of these games here and and so to me,
- 11:46Speaker 3: that's that's kind of the glaring, the glaring statistic. And
- 11:49Speaker 3: then you know, we get behind in these football games,
- 11:52Speaker 3: especially these last two and and you got to.
- 11:54Speaker 4: Throw the ball a little bit more.
- 11:55Speaker 3: So, you know, it's it's been tough, you know, but
- 12:00Speaker 3: the bottom line is we got to do a better job.
- 12:02Speaker 4: At taking care of the football. And you know, go
- 12:06Speaker 4: from there. Do you have.
- 12:07Speaker 10: To settle Trevor down at all a little bit?
- 12:10Speaker 4: Right now? I mean, with with all.
- 12:11Speaker 10: The turnovers, with all the injuries with maybe even it
- 12:14Speaker 10: seems like he was pretty frustrated after the game Sunday.
- 12:17Speaker 10: And still I know he's played a lot of football,
- 12:19Speaker 10: but he's still a young player. Do you have some
- 12:20Speaker 10: of those conversations with him.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I want to make sure that he's
- 12:23Speaker 3: that he's good, he's in a good, good frame of mind.
- 12:25Speaker 3: But yeah, we got to, you know, continue to talk
- 12:28Speaker 3: to him. And the emphasis is always always on ball security.
- 12:31Speaker 3: You know, you're the quarterback that touches, touches the ball,
- 12:35Speaker 3: you and Luke. Luke touched the ball every every snap.
- 12:38Speaker 3: So making sure that he's right, you know, making sure
- 12:43Speaker 3: that he's seeing things, have great communication with him, put
- 12:46Speaker 3: him in position to be successful too, and and not
- 12:50Speaker 3: you know, not not yeah, put him in, put him
- 12:53Speaker 3: in you know, I guess bad places are bad situations, right,
- 12:57Speaker 3: Making sure that he's comfortable with everything that we're doing,
- 12:59Speaker 3: have great community with them, and and you know, but
- 13:03Speaker 3: it's the one thing I know about this team. We've
- 13:06Speaker 3: seen it in the past. Uh, you know, we we
- 13:08Speaker 3: we dig ourselves out of a hole, and it looks
- 13:11Speaker 3: like we're going to have to do that.
- 13:12Speaker 10: Again one more. If you don't mind. I know last
- 13:15Speaker 10: week we spoke about desperation. You don't want to get there.
- 13:18Speaker 10: But what's the difference between that maybe a spark and
- 13:21Speaker 10: could that even be like would you consider taking like
- 13:24Speaker 10: calling duties over again just just to say, hey, I'm
- 13:28Speaker 10: going to try something here to get things going.
- 13:32Speaker 4: You know.
- 13:32Speaker 3: The one thing that I I know being around this league, Look,
- 13:38Speaker 3: everybody wants to point the finger somewhere and and you know,
- 13:41Speaker 3: we've got to do a better job at taking care
- 13:43Speaker 3: of the football. It's not about the plays, it's not
- 13:46Speaker 3: about all that. You know, We've got to tackle better
- 13:48Speaker 3: and we got to take care of the football. Bottom line,
- 13:50Speaker 3: we do those two things, those give us a chance
- 13:53Speaker 3: to win football games.
- 13:54Speaker 4: If we don't, then.
- 13:56Speaker 3: Then we're gonna be sitting here, you know, talking about
- 13:58Speaker 3: this again. So to me, that's that's the glaring, the
- 14:03Speaker 3: glaring differences right now between between winning and losing.
- 14:07Speaker 6: Thanks go ahead, John Doug.
- 14:12Speaker 1: You you mentioned tackling. Just how much of a factor
- 14:15Speaker 1: has that been over this kid and how much does
- 14:17Speaker 1: that surprise you Considering at the start of the year,
- 14:19Speaker 1: it seemed like that was where you guys have maybe
- 14:21Speaker 1: kind of turned a corner.
- 14:21Speaker 6: Compared last year.
- 14:23Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Thought, just again, a month or so ago, we were,
- 14:26Speaker 3: you know, a good tackling football team and and you know,
- 14:30Speaker 3: doing some doing some good things, stopping a run at
- 14:32Speaker 3: least slowing the rundown.
- 14:33Speaker 4: And you know, it's it's.
- 14:36Speaker 3: It's again, it's a conscious effort, right, It's it's making
- 14:39Speaker 3: making sure you're doing those things in practice. You're drilling
- 14:42Speaker 3: those even though you're you're out of out of pad,
- 14:44Speaker 3: you're not doing live tackling drills in practice, but you
- 14:47Speaker 3: can still work the fundamentals and the details of drills
- 14:51Speaker 3: and things of that nature. And and again, it's just
- 14:53Speaker 3: a it's a mindset. It's the you know, playing defense
- 14:56Speaker 3: is a level of physicality and and having a mindset
- 14:58Speaker 3: that that you know, h you're gonna make that tack
- 15:01Speaker 3: So you know, we've got to get back to doing that.
- 15:05Speaker 3: You got to get all eleven guys swarm into the football.
- 15:08Speaker 3: And you know that's also where where takeaways can come,
- 15:12Speaker 3: right when they're punching at the ball or swiping at
- 15:15Speaker 3: the ball. You know, are all are all positives when
- 15:19Speaker 3: you're when you're gang tackling like that.
- 15:21Speaker 6: Thanks job, all right, we got time for one more
- 15:25Speaker 6: go ahead, Adam.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Coach, you talked about younger players that had to come
- 15:31Speaker 2: in as past catchers and they need to get on
- 15:34Speaker 2: the same page with Trevor. There was that the issue
- 15:37Speaker 2: on the pair of interceptions was was that he was
- 15:40Speaker 2: making checks to the line and guys weren't on the
- 15:42Speaker 2: same page there.
- 15:44Speaker 4: Yeah, it was, you know, we were.
- 15:46Speaker 3: We we always give Trevor some some outs when it
- 15:50Speaker 3: comes to the passing, particularly on third down, and we
- 15:53Speaker 3: we just missed, we just missed the signal. And you know,
- 15:57Speaker 3: those are the things that that can't happen, you know,
- 15:59Speaker 3: because again it it makes.
- 16:03Speaker 4: It makes the play worse.
- 16:04Speaker 3: And so again you know, to me that falls back
- 16:08Speaker 3: on coaches, uh, to make sure that our players are
- 16:11Speaker 3: prepared that way that we've covered them in meetings, we've
- 16:13Speaker 3: covered them in practice so that when they get in
- 16:15Speaker 3: the game, you know that they have all eyes on
- 16:18Speaker 3: the quarterback is you know, we have to we have
- 16:23Speaker 3: to do that. We have to get ourselves into better plays,
- 16:26Speaker 3: uh and out of out of bad ones and and
- 16:28Speaker 3: UH a lot of the a lot of the non
- 16:31Speaker 3: verbal hand signal communication has to take place. So something
- 16:35Speaker 3: that we're going to continue to review Continue to you know,
- 16:38Speaker 3: have in our game plan and we've got to get better.