Speaker 1: You knows absolutely. Uh, You're right. Tight ends is a
Speaker 1: strength of this of this roster, of this offensive unit.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you look at Doug System and
Speaker 1: what they did in Kansas City with their tight ends
Speaker 1: and how we'll utilize them here, it'll be very consistent
Speaker 1: with that. Um. And we got the players to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, we can mix it up. They're all really
Speaker 1: good smart route runners, every one of them. And uh,
Speaker 1: and so we expect really good production from that unit.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, absolutely, yeah, I mean we do. We feel
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean Zach, Zach has a great
Speaker 1: feeling route running. You know, Um, he just knows how
Speaker 1: to create leverage. He knows how to use his body,
Speaker 1: he knows you know, he's a big catch catch radius,
Speaker 1: you know, tray trays like a wide receiver out there.
Speaker 1: You get him out there. He's got the speed, he's
Speaker 1: got natural instinctive moves for a tight end. And one
Speaker 1: of the surprises to me though, it's been Brent, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I came in here thinking, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: Brent Star blocking tight end. But the guy knows how
Speaker 1: to run routes. He's really smart receive. He's a really
Speaker 1: smart route runner. And uh, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in him so and I know the quarterbacks do
Speaker 1: as well. So that's a really good thing for us.
Speaker 1: Doesn't give him a lot of priest and Paul Turner,
Speaker 1: you know what, he has been as consistent as you
Speaker 1: can be at that position. I mean, he's been impressive
Speaker 1: and there's no lie. I mean he's he's tough. You
Speaker 1: can just tell he's a mentally and physically tough guy.
Speaker 1: He competes very hard. Um, he's an instinctive route runner.
Speaker 1: He has really good feet, you know, as we coaches say,
Speaker 1: he can put his foot in the ground and stop
Speaker 1: on a dine. Um, so he's done it. He's done
Speaker 1: a nice job. He's obviously changing positions. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: big switch, you know. I mean, here's the guy who
Speaker 1: played tight end. But he's got all the tools, you know, explosive,
Speaker 1: he's explosive for that position, attic for the position. There's
Speaker 1: a big learning curve though, there's a big learning curve,
Speaker 1: and so it's a it's a slow process. But um,
Speaker 1: you know he's showing all the right signs. He's showing
Speaker 1: all the right signs of a guy who can develop
Speaker 1: into a legitimate you know, offensive alignment in this so
Speaker 1: you're making that transition and men mentally, he's extremely sharp.
Speaker 1: So and that's you've got to be to play upfront. Frank,
Speaker 1: a couple of guys are downs to the minor interest,
Speaker 1: at least that we know of, with hitting a practice.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz kind of came out and said, there was
Speaker 1: frustratus of the bowerheads your what's your philosophy on getting him?
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what my philosophy isn't
Speaker 1: matters what the head coaches was. Now, I happen to
Speaker 1: align with the head coach. But you know that's what
Speaker 1: we do. We follow our leader, you know, and Doug
Speaker 1: sets the tone. And uh, that's one thing about Doug.
Speaker 1: You know, you can just tell the guy. He's a
Speaker 1: tough man. You know, he's mentally and physically a tough guy.
Speaker 1: You just know that. You know, he played a long time,
Speaker 1: he's he grinded it out coaching and that's just the
Speaker 1: mentality he's bringing. That's what he's used to. And and
Speaker 1: so we're all in. You know, we're all in. And
Speaker 1: it's a physical game and you know, players were we
Speaker 1: play the players play this game. Because they want to hit,
Speaker 1: and yeah, do we have to protect ourselves even when
Speaker 1: we go live. You have to be a little bit smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but you learn from it and hopefully you
Speaker 1: cross your fingers when you have those few live periods,
Speaker 1: you crush your fingers and you know that nothing crazy happens.
Speaker 1: But it's just part of the game because you look
Speaker 1: at your three tight end personnel and what's your confidence
Speaker 1: that will be able to say, yeah, our three tight
Speaker 1: end personnel package is a really strong package for us,
Speaker 1: just because of the versatility of those players. Um, they're
Speaker 1: all very instinctive route runners. They're all good block you know,
Speaker 1: they can all block. Um, So it's a way to
Speaker 1: it's a different way to try to create a mismatch.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you can create a mismatch by getting
Speaker 1: us a guy who's bigger and stronger than a than
Speaker 1: a corner covering them. You know, those corners are used
Speaker 1: to covering small, fast guys. Now all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you get a big you know, someone like Trey Burton
Speaker 1: or zach Ertz, who are big guys, big catching radius,
Speaker 1: and you know sometimes dB struggle with that a little bit.
Speaker 1: And those guys know how to use their body and
Speaker 1: their catch radius to their advantage. So we gotta find
Speaker 1: ways to continue to use that to our advantage. You
Speaker 1: guys wanted to see how chrismal hand will be in a
Speaker 1: a lead longer and pull backs about it. Have you
Speaker 1: seen that he's doing well? You know? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: two things you look for when you when you take
Speaker 1: a tight end and you put him in the backfield.
Speaker 1: And one thing is you look for first and foremost
Speaker 1: is is he nasty? Is the aggressive? Will he will
Speaker 1: he go after it? Because when you play that position,
Speaker 1: you gotta be physical, you gotta you gotta love content,
Speaker 1: and he's shown that. And then secondly, um for tight
Speaker 1: ends who are always playing on a line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: it's a different feel from the backfield. So how to
Speaker 1: insert you know, how to find how to find your
Speaker 1: backer having an instinct to see it. You almost have
Speaker 1: to see it like you're the tailback because the tailback's
Speaker 1: kind of following you most of the time. So and
Speaker 1: he's really shown good vision. So on both those fronts,
Speaker 1: which you are very key, he's been doing very well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Ryan having Ryan Backman just today, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it was only a ten ten ten day.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, you guys saw it too. He
Speaker 1: just looks explosive out there. He just looked explosive. He
Speaker 1: looked quick, he was seeing things. And I know it
Speaker 1: was a toned down practice in some you know, with
Speaker 1: no pads, but we're still playing fast and he just
Speaker 1: looks good. He's he's an explosive, physical runner. And so
Speaker 1: we got we got a good array of backs. You
Speaker 1: want to mix it in and uh, you know, Ryan
Speaker 1: certainly is going to be prominent in that mix, and
Speaker 1: you want to get him a guy like that with uh,
Speaker 1: with the track record he has in the way he's
Speaker 1: run the ball over the last few years. We want
Speaker 1: to get him as many touches as we can. Especially
Speaker 1: he's a guys practice, he's making him play. Who's something
Speaker 1: the positive Trey really has. He's made so many big
Speaker 1: plays out here, and that's what you look for. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of talent, a lot
Speaker 1: of talented guys playing in the NFL, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: see flashes of great plays, but really what you're looking
Speaker 1: for as a coach is the consistency of it. You know,
Speaker 1: anybody can do it one time, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: we could all go out there and make somebody could
Speaker 1: throw us a ball and we can make a nice
Speaker 1: one handed catch intet of man, we feel we feel
Speaker 1: like we can do it. But really what separates these
Speaker 1: guys out here, and really what we're looking for is
Speaker 1: guys who can make those kind of plays routine. That's
Speaker 1: what great players do. They make the hard things look easy.
Speaker 1: And really that's that's what we're looking for, not only
Speaker 1: from Trey, he's certainly done that, but that's what we
Speaker 1: as an offense need to do. We need to make
Speaker 1: the hard things look easy and make it look routine.
Speaker 1: And that only can happen by challenging yourself and by
Speaker 1: doing it on the practice field and having the mental
Speaker 1: toughness and tenacity to have that mentality to go after
Speaker 1: every play so that it becomes routine. That's the whole goal, right,
Speaker 1: h