Speaker 1: It's just a handoff. So not every shotgun run is
Speaker 1: its own read play. So we didn't run any his
Speaker 1: own reads. We don't run in that side. So we've
Speaker 1: had this conversation last year. We don't run as much
Speaker 1: as own read as everybody thinks we do. I mean
Speaker 1: we're blocking the backside. That's he's not reading anything. He
Speaker 1: was just handing the ball off. So so it was
Speaker 1: definitely he was that was that was rocking fast. I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought the interpretation on the field was was correct
Speaker 1: to the league was about gating clarification on that play,
Speaker 1: and I haven't talked it was a deliberate I didn't
Speaker 1: think it was deliberate. I just didn't. But I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to the league. So I thought it was a penalty,
Speaker 1: and I thought Jerome Boger called it right to ruling
Speaker 1: here today. I haven't talked to the deans, so I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know what the ruling is, to be
Speaker 1: honest with completely. Well, I think Derek gave me what
Speaker 1: he thought he said, but he said it was a
Speaker 1: read option play. It wasn't a read option play. I
Speaker 1: know our quarterbacks can be hit on a read option play,
Speaker 1: but not every run we have as a read option
Speaker 1: or on I mean, we sweet, power, counter trap, all
Speaker 1: those things out of the gun. So are you concerned
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be difficult for officials to decide whether
Speaker 1: a play is his own replay or not, and then
Speaker 1: that therefore the quarterback could could be susceptible to contact. No,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody everybody in the league I think runs
Speaker 1: shotgun runs, So I mean I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: promac We No, we don't happen. We don't run more
Speaker 1: in Seattle, we don't run more. In San Francisco, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't run it as much as you guys think
Speaker 1: we run it. Every shotgun run is not his own replay,
Speaker 1: so we don't run much. The only people we've run
Speaker 1: zwe read with since we've been here is this offseason
Speaker 1: or this past season is Timmy, So we don't run.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I mean, if I haven't talked, I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to the league less, So you have to
Speaker 1: talk full league to tell them what you just told us,
Speaker 1: to make them aware so this doesn't happen again, or
Speaker 1: just a whole run, I don't know. I mean, are
Speaker 1: they going to hit every quarter back in the league
Speaker 1: when they end up in the shotgun. That's up to
Speaker 1: the league. So if you tell your quarterback not to fake,
Speaker 1: Sam wasn't going anywhere. And if you're watching me, hid
Speaker 1: in the ball off, So so you plan italy going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's their deal. They'll they'll talk and if
Speaker 1: they want to get to the coaches, they send out
Speaker 1: a video and all that and they can discuss it.
Speaker 1: So so how can the officials determine what the difference is? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what Jerome's answer was, but
Speaker 1: our quarterback, from what we were told, if your quarterback's
Speaker 1: not carrying out any fake, he wasn't carrying out any fake.
Speaker 1: He wasn't going anywhere. So so the way to distinguish it,
Speaker 1: if that's the question for them, I think it's better
Speaker 1: ask you could ask an say officials as the as
Speaker 1: the play caller. I'm sure you don't want your your
Speaker 1: quarterback getting hit after he hands off. So how would
Speaker 1: you distinguish it if that we're not running his own
Speaker 1: replay on his own replay, a quarterback and be hit
Speaker 1: that's not his own replay. So that's the way we
Speaker 1: determine it. That's the way it was explained to us.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like you've change your offense a
Speaker 1: little bit too? I know you don't do much of
Speaker 1: the zone read, but would you do less of it
Speaker 1: because it's Sam? He said it even more, You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna do more of it because Sam's it's
Speaker 1: not not a runner. No, I mean I did the same,
Speaker 1: We did the same, We're on the same offense. We
Speaker 1: remember Nick, So I think Nick had sixteen carries and
Speaker 1: I think a couple run scrambles and eight games last year,
Speaker 1: the eight games Nick played, Nick's credited with six sixteen rushes.
Speaker 1: So you know and and and I didn't. You can
Speaker 1: go back and look at all of them, some of
Speaker 1: them on you know, quarterbacks scrambles where he went over
Speaker 1: the line of scrammage, so it turns into a rush.
Speaker 1: So I reference to the fact that Sam's coming off
Speaker 1: two aco injuries, do you so? And you said it
Speaker 1: was not a deliberate hit from her. I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to Tarrell. I don't know what he did, and we've
Speaker 1: moved on. So it's not a big deal for us.
Speaker 1: Are are you concerned because Sam acknowledgists. Are you concerned
Speaker 1: that defensive players are going to be going into Sam's nick?
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody in this league knows what
Speaker 1: people have for injuries. So if that's what their choices,
Speaker 1: that's what their choices. So but I'm not saying sucks
Speaker 1: did that, so they don't. Don't don't say that. But
Speaker 1: is is there anything you can do? I don't know
Speaker 1: about preventing it, but to at least all avoid it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we put them in a glass case. I mean you
Speaker 1: have to go out and play football, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't call any design runs for Sam
Speaker 1: if that's the question, So so let me how probably
Speaker 1: would put quarterbacks. I think it would be troubling for
Speaker 1: the league. If every quarterback in the shotgun can get hit,
Speaker 1: then I mean that's that's their determination. They can they
Speaker 1: can talk to them on how they want to addle it.
Speaker 1: So if yeah, sure, I mean I haven't talked to
Speaker 1: Dean since last year or so, but it is something
Speaker 1: you want too. We know the rules. If it's if
Speaker 1: our quarterback hands a ball often isn't going anywhere, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to add them from the way the
Speaker 1: rule has been explained to us, So I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't If they want to get into that, they can
Speaker 1: get into that. But then every other quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: when they get back on the shotgun, can be hit
Speaker 1: when they hand the ball off. So if that's what
Speaker 1: they want to do, then we'll we'll all have to
Speaker 1: adjust because everybody in the league has runs out of
Speaker 1: the shotgun. So whether Q or somebody else in the organization,
Speaker 1: doesn't somebody have to talk to Team Bland. You know
Speaker 1: the question why he made this real? Yeah, he video
Speaker 1: and talks to the coaches at the end of every week,
Speaker 1: so he tells you what went on the week before,
Speaker 1: and that's where we get interpretations of it. So talk
Speaker 1: to him, man, he'll I'll get the video that he
Speaker 1: sends out this week. I think sad it as a
Speaker 1: throwing specifically getting the ball out quickly too. He's opened
Speaker 1: he's opened his years. I thought Sam did a good job.
Speaker 1: You know, we got rushed on the one where he
Speaker 1: get hit in the chastis he missed I think it
Speaker 1: was Nelson. Um. We just had a we were running
Speaker 1: a post and he threw it a little bit to
Speaker 1: the outside on Riley's but besideside I thought it was good.
Speaker 1: Miles Auston, how's he doing? And is he gonna be
Speaker 1: practicing this week? Yes, yea out there today. Pardon I thought,
Speaker 1: and played another good game, you know, or we're real
Speaker 1: pleased with how he's playing right now? And um played well,
Speaker 1: how would you we've got time? He go ahead? No,
Speaker 1: I mean we we're not. We're still going. We got
Speaker 1: the Packers game and the Jets game before we have
Speaker 1: to do anything, so there's no reason to rush to anything.
Speaker 1: But he's doing a really good job the other night.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like a long kind of held the
Speaker 1: ball for a while. Yeah, people are covered too, you know.
Speaker 1: Any the one he held, I think for a while, Um,
Speaker 1: everybody was covered. Then they end up getting a penalty
Speaker 1: for defensive holding. So I mean, I think he got
Speaker 1: to look at it. He missed one on his own
Speaker 1: raid where on his own play, his own drop where
Speaker 1: he could have hit it. But um, I thought both
Speaker 1: those guys were just up and down. What do you
Speaker 1: think your running game is going so well? It's do preseason.
Speaker 1: I think our line is doing a really good job
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, and uh, I think our
Speaker 1: running backs were hitting it pay a lot. It's really
Speaker 1: it was just happen to get him back out in
Speaker 1: the field. It was unfortunate that he had the appendicitis
Speaker 1: and UM and then the appendeck to me, so you
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to play him in the first game. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know he was behind a little bit just
Speaker 1: because he hadn't gotten those game reps. But I thought, um,
Speaker 1: in the run game he was really good. A couple
Speaker 1: of things he can clean up in the past game
Speaker 1: out in the run game is really good and he
Speaker 1: did a good job on special teams. Sure get heard
Speaker 1: about some injuries this weekend. Is Jordian Elson, You've been
Speaker 1: a little I guess need conservative with how you've You've
Speaker 1: had some of your starters and first teamers play and
Speaker 1: do you look at the preseason differently now three years
Speaker 1: and in terms of the value of playing in those
Speaker 1: games versus the possibility of having a you know, the
Speaker 1: seasons Britain and injury. I think he just weighed on
Speaker 1: what they did and who needs walk out of the
Speaker 1: whole deal. You know, we my first year here, we
Speaker 1: had a quarterback battle. That's why those guys were playing
Speaker 1: because we don't know who our quarterback was um, but
Speaker 1: we haven't played our guys haven't played a lot of
Speaker 1: reps in the first two games. If you your your
Speaker 1: quote unquote guys that would would you consider starters. So um,
Speaker 1: but it's a fine line in uh, how you play them.
Speaker 1: You know. You look at what happened in Washington. I
Speaker 1: said it, you know, after the first game, they lost
Speaker 1: both their tight ends, you know, and it's it's tough
Speaker 1: you lose someone, you know, a player like Jody Nelson,
Speaker 1: what a great player and does everything right. And it
Speaker 1: looked like the quick thing I saw on TV was
Speaker 1: a non contact injury because kind of turn and spun,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Pouncey went down in that game
Speaker 1: from what I heard. I mean, it's it's a fine line.
Speaker 1: But there are many discussions about having half the preseason
Speaker 1: games and maybe two more regular season season games. How
Speaker 1: would you feel about that? I mean, in college football,
Speaker 1: they don't have a preseason and everyone just plays the
Speaker 1: first season. I mean, would you think that would be
Speaker 1: a little more make more gas In the NFL? It's
Speaker 1: above my pay grade. So Marcus Smith has not returned
Speaker 1: this preseason. Have you seen enough from him to get
Speaker 1: a sense of of how he to fit in this year. No,
Speaker 1: not really. I mean we got one game, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's tough to project. I mean he's obviously this
Speaker 1: camp is better than last camp, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: with one game, it's tough to project you know, where
Speaker 1: that whole thing will check itself out, and it's just
Speaker 1: unfortunate for him. So impressing us about a sheet, Dam well,
Speaker 1: I messed it. I just heard something about Bailey, would
Speaker 1: you say, just uh, you know, I thought coming in
Speaker 1: here that it may be a little bit too big
Speaker 1: for him just because of coming from Delaware Valley and um,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of handled everything really well, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh you know, first game in the link or
Speaker 1: first two games in the link, I thought he's he's
Speaker 1: show him up in both games, and um, you know
Speaker 1: he's he's works extremely hard at it's got a great
Speaker 1: work ethic. We knew that. Um. But then what you
Speaker 1: don't know when you have players um like that, is
Speaker 1: it is the game going to be too big for him? Um?
Speaker 1: But he has a skill set to play, and I
Speaker 1: think he's shown us that sonsis of Sam here in
Speaker 1: camp and how how the ball quickly comes out in
Speaker 1: terms of release from snap to the past, and it
Speaker 1: is that something you saw prior in the rams um.
Speaker 1: He's a part of his skill set the pack and
Speaker 1: he does get rid of it quicker. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, I mean we were, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons we traded for him. We're very
Speaker 1: impressed with that. Whether it's from college or the or
Speaker 1: the time he was with the RAMS so and we're
Speaker 1: seeing the same things here. Does it come from how
Speaker 1: he processes a play when he gets it from you,
Speaker 1: or does that come from physical physical I think it
Speaker 1: comes from both. But he is really sharp at processing things.
Speaker 1: You know, and and and that's part of the thing
Speaker 1: about being a being a great quarterback. I'd be a
Speaker 1: great decision maker, and I think he really makes good decisions.
Speaker 1: Nast Presents was a sharp declient full for week one
Speaker 1: was the very reason for then. Yeah, they were just
Speaker 1: holding them back a little bit. We'll see if you
Speaker 1: can go full this week. The way that he's been
Speaker 1: returning is a lot of that vision acceleration what has
Speaker 1: made him so effective as a return man. You know,
Speaker 1: it's part of what being a good running back is
Speaker 1: all about. I think it is vision it is his
Speaker 1: ability to make people miss on both returns for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's there's been a couple of unblock eyes that he's
Speaker 1: he's made miss. You know, you can't block them all
Speaker 1: coming down the field. Um, but the unblocked guys he's
Speaker 1: made miss and then um and on both players gotten
Speaker 1: to where we were trying to get it returned and
Speaker 1: it was blocked up pretty good. But he he's done
Speaker 1: a great job of making those initial guys miss uh
Speaker 1: while moving forward, and that's which always a returner. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys can try to do it,
Speaker 1: but they're always working east and west. You know. The
Speaker 1: one thing with Kenyan and he's a lot like Darren
Speaker 1: in terms of he's always hitting it and going downhill
Speaker 1: and we're going to get positive yardage out of him,
Speaker 1: whether it be a five yard game or a ten
Speaker 1: yard gain or he can break one for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: There's he's not a dance guy back there. Let's kind
Speaker 1: of try to figure out how to hit a home run.
Speaker 1: But then that losing yards on the thing. I think
Speaker 1: He's always advancing the football and that's what we want
Speaker 1: our returners to do. H Bailey, you coached at a
Speaker 1: lot of different levels of college. For somebody making a
Speaker 1: jump like that, what is the biggest problem, what's the
Speaker 1: biggest hurdle? I think the thing I just talked about
Speaker 1: is really between the years, you know, can they handle it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys that at all levels that
Speaker 1: you see have the athletic ability in the skill set
Speaker 1: to play at this level, but they kind of get
Speaker 1: overwhelmed by it and for some reason they hold themselves
Speaker 1: back and they don't play with confidence. They kind of
Speaker 1: you know, talk themselves out of it instead of talking
Speaker 1: themselves into it. And that's the thing that's impressed me
Speaker 1: with him is that he doesn't he hasn't been overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by the situation, you know, and I it's a credit
Speaker 1: to him. You know a lot of guys you don't
Speaker 1: see him see that happen. But for him, I think
Speaker 1: he's he's got a sense of maturity to him and
Speaker 1: it hasn't been too big for him. So turnovers that
Speaker 1: Dermott has fours throughout the summer, is there something about
Speaker 1: him that that that gives him a knack for those turnovers? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think he's smart. You know, he always seems to
Speaker 1: be around the ball. He's very rarely is he out
Speaker 1: of place? Um, you know, so he's got an intuitive
Speaker 1: feel for for where the football is going to be. Um.
Speaker 1: And then he's got he's got outstanding hands, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think when the ball's out you watch the
Speaker 1: interception is a one hand and uh, he's done that
Speaker 1: a couple of times out here. You can see him
Speaker 1: catching football, um, in a wide variety of ways. Um.
Speaker 1: And he just he's really really a smart football person.
Speaker 1: He always seems to be around the ball. Ny Curry
Speaker 1: and Jones, dude, they both did well. You know. I
Speaker 1: think Vinny Vinnie had been practicing there for about a
Speaker 1: week and a half, almost two weeks, so it was
Speaker 1: his first real game experience out there. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I know Billy and and uh, Govs and as and
Speaker 1: all those guys are really happy with where he is
Speaker 1: and and Brad's played it, so he's got a real
Speaker 1: good understanding. Um, he's just a real smart football player.
Speaker 1: But both those guys, we thought they did well. A
Speaker 1: little three inside backers do everything today, Yeah they should.
Speaker 1: They're out there, there's they're full go so work them
Speaker 1: back in and hopefully get them out on the field. Um,
Speaker 1: barring any setbacks, you know, where we keep what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten into that. I mean, we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: the fifty three best football players, So okay, thanks, yeah,