Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry for the delay. What can I help you with?
Speaker 1: The offense? Thirty seven mens a game? How valuable is that? Well,
Speaker 1: that obviously means a lot of the less number of
Speaker 1: snaps you play, the us opportunity the offense has to
Speaker 1: get a beat on you. I think there's a combination
Speaker 1: of a couple of things. Offense has done a good
Speaker 1: job keeping drives alive. We've also won a lot of
Speaker 1: third downs. Sometimes it's a defense. It's easy to complain
Speaker 1: about an offense keeping you on the field, but if
Speaker 1: you're out there for twelve and fifteen play drives, sometimes
Speaker 1: you're gonna get yourself to blame. You know, that's not
Speaker 1: the offense is fault if you're out there for twelve
Speaker 1: or fifteen play drives. So I think that it's been
Speaker 1: a combination. The offense has certainly done a good job
Speaker 1: not turning the ball over and also, um, you know,
Speaker 1: keeping drives alive. And then we've done a good job
Speaker 1: of getting off the field on third down or creating turnovers.
Speaker 1: And you know that combinations work. So far, you guys
Speaker 1: have gotten more and more effective in both games as
Speaker 1: the game has gone along. How much is that? It
Speaker 1: is just kind of wearing people down physically and how
Speaker 1: much these maybe adjustments and scheme. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: adjust after every series. I mean I've said this before.
Speaker 1: People talk about halftime adjustments. There's there's really no such
Speaker 1: thing in this league. You adjust after every series, and
Speaker 1: you know, depending on what injuries happened, what an offense
Speaker 1: is having success with, where they're breaking their tendencies, where
Speaker 1: they're playing ended their tendencies. Those things are discussed after
Speaker 1: every drive. So the idea, obviously as the game goes
Speaker 1: on is you have to figure out ways to you know,
Speaker 1: put out fires and also not go too far away
Speaker 1: from you know what you're what you're strong at. Alshon
Speaker 1: Jeffrey gave us a couple big plays, and you know
Speaker 1: we were able to get that fire put out a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, I think that some of our
Speaker 1: coverage stuff had to do with it. You know, some
Speaker 1: of it had to do with physical play. I mean
Speaker 1: till we put a big hit on him, and um,
Speaker 1: you know that tends to take a toll on opponents. Also,
Speaker 1: Dway Jaellen played when watching the film, Um, you know
Speaker 1: he was out there. Um, you know, and again I'll
Speaker 1: leave the evaluation stuff you guys can reference Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus for stuff like that. I never Yeah, well, um,
Speaker 1: here's the one thing I would like. And I've already
Speaker 1: told him this, this is no secret. The only thing
Speaker 1: I was disappointed with him is finding the football in
Speaker 1: the air. And that's something he did a really good
Speaker 1: job of in training camp. And that's sort of a
Speaker 1: calling card for a corner. You can't play with your
Speaker 1: back to the ball too much. You're gonna get beat
Speaker 1: on a double move. Yeah, if you're aggressive and you're covering.
Speaker 1: Guess what. You know that that's that's something that happens.
Speaker 1: And you know he needs to learn from it. And
Speaker 1: you know, we need to get a little more safety
Speaker 1: help and everything else. But the whole thing of locating
Speaker 1: the ball and keeping your technique, I think that's the
Speaker 1: most important thing that to come out of this game. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he heat one and and I just another
Speaker 1: thing in general, Um, he showed a short memory in
Speaker 1: a good way. You know, there's some guys that you know,
Speaker 1: give up a play, miss a tackle and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden become tentative and become um conservative out there.
Speaker 1: And he kept his kept a stinger up, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And we'd like to see him that. Yeah, we know
Speaker 1: what number he wears, so we want to have problem
Speaker 1: find them. Um, but it's not just him. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they got they got a track meet at
Speaker 1: wide receiver. They got some guys that can fly, they
Speaker 1: can take the top off defense. Um, seventeen's a really
Speaker 1: shifty guy in the slot. They're tight ends, you know, big,
Speaker 1: they got a couple of different tight ends they can
Speaker 1: work in there. Or running back that's leading the NFL
Speaker 1: and rushing and um, you know, future Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know. So if we concentrate too much on eighty four,
Speaker 1: and he's going to get a lot of our attention
Speaker 1: for sure, But there's a lot of other guys that
Speaker 1: can make us play. We're gonna have to to play a
Speaker 1: good total team um game, We're gonna play total team defense.
Speaker 1: It's not just going to be about stopping one guy.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of other matchups that we need to
Speaker 1: win in this game. Back Daniel Williams is thirty three
Speaker 1: years old. Does he look like a thirty three year
Speaker 1: old running back? Only? Only I can only go by
Speaker 1: what goes on tape. They don't ask for birth certificate
Speaker 1: before the game. And um, if you gain a yard,
Speaker 1: you don't get you I mean, you don't pick up.
Speaker 1: They don't give you nine yards to go. If you're
Speaker 1: over thirty, he's still got to get ten. And you
Speaker 1: know he's he's he's patient runner, he's compact, he's strong. Um,
Speaker 1: he can test every area of your run gaps. If
Speaker 1: we're nosy, if we um, if we get out of
Speaker 1: our gaps, he's a guy that can make you pay.
Speaker 1: And a lot of that comes from his um, from
Speaker 1: his experience, you know. So I think that that served
Speaker 1: him well. He's been in the league for a while. Um,
Speaker 1: he understands the run game and he's gonna it's not
Speaker 1: just where the ball supposed to go. He can test
Speaker 1: every gap. And we have to play sound defense use
Speaker 1: only for seven snaps. Yeah, and that was a that
Speaker 1: was a critical point of the game. And you know
Speaker 1: we've said this before. We haven't had to rotate as
Speaker 1: much upfront as you know you'd anticipate, just because of
Speaker 1: our snaps being so low. And you know, we've been
Speaker 1: lucky a little bit with the weather hasn't been terribly
Speaker 1: hot for any of those so he hasn't had you know,
Speaker 1: we haven't had to rotate those gays enough. But when
Speaker 1: you're out there, it doesn't matter what the situation is.
Speaker 1: They might be third and ten, it might be fourth
Speaker 1: and one. Um, you know that you have to be
Speaker 1: relied on to be able to make plays to come
Speaker 1: to you. The thing I was proud us of him
Speaker 1: with that play is he was blocked pretty good on
Speaker 1: that play, but that was really a second effort play
Speaker 1: that he made, you know, to keep coming. You know,
Speaker 1: Cutler extended to play Vinny sort of got him flow
Speaker 1: ushed a little bit, and then he stepped up and
Speaker 1: finished it. Um. You know, some players, you know, might
Speaker 1: have a tendency to stop if they if they got
Speaker 1: blocked on a play. He played with great effort. And
Speaker 1: we need that from guys, and that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons we have those guys in there. They have to
Speaker 1: be relied on to make the play that happens. And
Speaker 1: that might have been the most critical play the game
Speaker 1: because they were driving a little bit and that stopped
Speaker 1: it and um and shifted momentum to us. For sure.
Speaker 1: Decision when you when you go with three d d
Speaker 1: ns by moving Vinnie inside, what kind of kind of
Speaker 1: trouble is that need to go to give all offenses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it just goes week by week. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Vinnie was coming off of the knee the week before.
Speaker 1: We like him inside, we like him outside. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just trying to find our best matchups on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: There might be some weeks we do it, there might
Speaker 1: be some we don't. Um, you know, I mean there'll
Speaker 1: be times where you'll see three defensive tackles out there,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, it just depends on what the
Speaker 1: matchups are and and and how they go. But Vinnie's
Speaker 1: a multidimensional guy that can rush inside and outside. And
Speaker 1: you know it hasn't shown on the stafboard yet, but
Speaker 1: he's rushed very effectively forced these first two games. It
Speaker 1: was coaching decision. Um, you know, he made big hit
Speaker 1: on that on that play. Just leave it at that. Well,
Speaker 1: we see his role maybe increase. I don't, Well, we'll see, guys.
Speaker 1: You know one thing I'm not I'm not big on
Speaker 1: you know, who's gonna who's going to play, who's in
Speaker 1: which package. You know, hey, we're just trying to do
Speaker 1: whatever we can that best helps us win that game.
Speaker 1: And you know, I just I just leave it at
Speaker 1: that I try not to, you know, talk too much
Speaker 1: about who's going to be matched up on who or
Speaker 1: you know, what packages we want to feature and things
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, I'm sorry, It's not that I'm
Speaker 1: trying to keep stuff from you. I just feel like that's, uh,
Speaker 1: that's stuff that's best for the opponent to figure out.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, he didn't lets a bunch of kids the
Speaker 1: ground and what when it did the decision to just
Speaker 1: send Jenkins on the second play. Again, we just thought
Speaker 1: it was best at the time. I can't give you
Speaker 1: any Well, well, I mean if we if we if
Speaker 1: we sit here and pat ourselves on the back about
Speaker 1: what a what a smart move that was, then the
Speaker 1: opponents know what we were looking at. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and again I don't mean to be coy
Speaker 1: or anything else. But if it, if it worked, it worked,
Speaker 1: and that's the proof of the pudding. If he got blocked,
Speaker 1: y'all would have been said, well, what do you call
Speaker 1: that was to blitz him? You know, the tight end
Speaker 1: blocked his and he gave up a big play. You know,
Speaker 1: what were you thinking. I was thinking the same thing
Speaker 1: as when he came free and got the sack. You know,
Speaker 1: and Um, you know again, I don't like to go
Speaker 1: too far into reasons behind stuff. I mean, obviously there
Speaker 1: are reasons behind, but you know, I think that the
Speaker 1: whole thing is did it work or not? And you know,
Speaker 1: if it worked, it was a good call. If it didn't,
Speaker 1: it was a crappy call for you. Um started seeing
Speaker 1: him in practice in terms of evaluating the film from
Speaker 1: last year and also from previously when he was in
Speaker 1: a similar scheme, although he really didn't get the opportunity
Speaker 1: in that scheme. He's always been a good rusher. I
Speaker 1: don't want to jump ahead of your question there, but
Speaker 1: he's compact, he's strong, he plays with great effort. UM
Speaker 1: got to coach him at the Senior Bowl. We saw
Speaker 1: it firsthand. Um, he's tough matchup for some offensive tackles.
Speaker 1: You know, just watching the film last year, he gave
Speaker 1: some of them. The offensive lineman, our offensive tackles in
Speaker 1: our own division, he gave those guys a handful. Um.
Speaker 1: I think his biggest thing is the tempo he plays
Speaker 1: with his effort. He's a tough guy and and he's
Speaker 1: he's one of our tempo setters, you know, up front,
Speaker 1: And as for our whole team. He's been that way
Speaker 1: since um Ota, since training camps, in preseason games and
Speaker 1: in the first two games, much more than just rushed
Speaker 1: the I mean he's run defending has been pretty Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean we got played a run too. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean he's not a one trick pony, and all our
Speaker 1: guys up front we expected to do both. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's been a little bit more just the
Speaker 1: way teams have played and stuff like that. There are
Speaker 1: some things he's not in there for. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was a couple of plays he was out. Um. He's
Speaker 1: been good against the run, been good against the Platt pass.
Speaker 1: Um made a big play in the game. A little
Speaker 1: more on Sunday about sticking on their man since Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: has ten to extend play so much. Yeah, we emphasize
Speaker 1: sticking on our man at all times, so, you know,
Speaker 1: but but I do get your point, Um, you have
Speaker 1: to cover longer against Roethlisberger because he is capable of
Speaker 1: extending plays. He doesn't do it outside of the pocket
Speaker 1: very much anymore. But he is, if not the best,
Speaker 1: he's one of the best in the business at sliding
Speaker 1: and picking and just working his way around the pocket.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a giant man and he's not afraid
Speaker 1: of contact in there, and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: the plays get extended and it does put more pressure
Speaker 1: on coverage. And it's not just coverage. Our pass rush
Speaker 1: has to keep going. He doesn't have a clock when
Speaker 1: he throws. Some guys you know, throw it quick and
Speaker 1: the ball is delivered on time all the time he can,
Speaker 1: but he also has the ability to extend, so we
Speaker 1: need to keep our rush going. It's not just two
Speaker 1: seconds you're rushing for. You've got to keep going. And
Speaker 1: he's not coming down on an arm tackle. You know,
Speaker 1: you can grab a jersey and he's still going to
Speaker 1: throw it. Yeah. You know three X plays in the
Speaker 1: two games, all three have been on scoring drives. Those
Speaker 1: are your only scoring drives you've allowed. How much emphasis
Speaker 1: is there? I know there are all different circumstances on
Speaker 1: the three plays, but how much emphasis not eliminating those
Speaker 1: kind of plants. Yeah, you know I think that you
Speaker 1: look at it just what our job is to keep
Speaker 1: scoring down the best we can. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: run I don't want to call him risky, but more
Speaker 1: aggressive schemes and you know they can look really good,
Speaker 1: and you could potentially give up a big play. Big
Speaker 1: plays do equal scoring, It's like twenty yard plays equal scoring.
Speaker 1: But we could also overreact the other way. And and
Speaker 1: and I've you know, you've seen a lot of times
Speaker 1: guys say, hey, we can't give up to big play. Well, hell,
Speaker 1: then you just keep up giving up you know, first
Speaker 1: down churners, first down churners and third down conversions. Well,
Speaker 1: you go through a drive, you haven't given up a
Speaker 1: big play, but you know, they still got eighty yards
Speaker 1: and they still scored a touchdown. The thing with the
Speaker 1: thing with the plays we have given up. I like
Speaker 1: the fact that we've gotten those guys on the ground
Speaker 1: and given us a chance to play again. We held
Speaker 1: one to a field goal, and we've got a couple
Speaker 1: penalties in the end zone that that sort of led
Speaker 1: to our touchdowns. I thought we had a chance to
Speaker 1: be able to get off the field with those. You know,
Speaker 1: if he give us a chance to play again, I
Speaker 1: like that. But you got to balance both of those.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta you know, you gotta keep your edge,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay aggressive. I don't think, um, I don't
Speaker 1: think we want to lose that edge. And you know
Speaker 1: and and just be able to know that there are
Speaker 1: going to be times where we're going to be in
Speaker 1: difficult positions. And as long as it's not very many.
Speaker 1: I mean again, you know points, a touchdown still counts
Speaker 1: as seven, whether they did it on a twelve play drive,
Speaker 1: running at every snap, or they did it on one play.
Speaker 1: You know, um going to eighty yards. You know, our
Speaker 1: jobs keep scoring down whatever way we can. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try to do that, all right,