1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Welcome into the studio. Another edition of the official podcast, 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Eric Ellen joined by wide receivers coach Miles Austin. What's 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: it like for you to be coaching a professional football 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: team here in Flora Park, just a couple of miles 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: away from where you grew up in Summit. Oh, it's uh, 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: it's really uh, really special. That's why when this opportunity 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: came about, something that you really can't pass up at all. 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: So uh yeah, but being born in Summit, growing up 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: in Garfield, going to Mommouth University, which is all here 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: in Jersey. Uh, it's just great to be back home 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,959 Speaker 1: and have a chance to help the home team win 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: finally for the first time instead of trying to beat 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: him every time going against him? Miles, how much time 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: do you spend down on the shore since you did 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: go to school at Mammouth And obviously you don't have 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: time to do it right now it's training camp gets gone. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: But like during your downtime, we lived down so we 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: live my family and I lived down in Rumps and 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: so that's like where home is. So right now during camp, 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I obviously stay up here as as much as I 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: can with the long hours that we're working and during 22 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: the season, probably two nights a week I'll stay up here. 23 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, we're right down there by the shore. Uh live. 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: And that's the reason why we chose that area when 25 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: we moved back to Jersey because it was next to 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: Mamouth and we just love the shore. So for people 27 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: who don't know too much about the shore, you, as 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: a guy who lives there, who played collegially down there, 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: what would you say, especially mom, it's specifically you're saying, well, 30 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: mamth rumps in all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the area 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: is just it's it's awesome, you know. Uh. I think 32 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: the the tagline for the Mamoth football team that they 33 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: send out to their cruises, we we train where you 34 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: were other people vacation or something like that. So yeah, no, 35 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's it's a it's a great area down there. 36 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: You got the shore right there, the weather is awesome. 37 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: Being able to hit the be whenever you can is 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: is always a great thing. So we took advantage of it. 39 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: We we should have taken advantage of it more when 40 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: we were in school, but uh, whenever you did get 41 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: out there to the boardwalk of the beach, it was 42 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: it was just awesome. Undrafted free agent here in training camp? 43 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: What do you tell the guys about your experience? I 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: try to tell them things I wish, things I learned, 45 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: the mistakes I've made, and things that I've done right. 46 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: Things I wish people have told me, things that people 47 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: had told me. So I just try to uh impart 48 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: on them. How important, especially as uh the undrafted guys, 49 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: how attention to detail matters. How the way you are 50 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: in meetings matter, the way you uh, the way you 51 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: walk through matters, the special teams, reps, every everything that 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: you do matters, because essentially you got to go in 53 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: with the mindset if they're trying to do anything they 54 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: can to get me out of here, and I have 55 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: to make it as hard as I can on them 56 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: when the time comes. Why didn't you make it though? 57 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: In terms of being that guy who comes out of 58 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: momouth big fish, little pond and you come into the 59 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: National Football League and you have a long career. Uh. 60 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: The thing that helped me was I just have a 61 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: big fear of failure almost you know. So it's like 62 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do whatever I can, like I'm not gonna 63 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: fail like I have to, you know, I'm gonna just 64 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to uh make it work out. 65 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: So that's really the approach I took. So what did 66 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: I need to do to make that happen. I had 67 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: to on special teams, whatever you had me block some money, 68 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: had to go hit somebody as hard as I can. 69 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: I had to know what I was doing. I was 70 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: there on time, you know, just trying to do all 71 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: those things I could to make Like I said that, 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: the decision at the end of the camp that much 73 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: more difficult. Whether you're gonna try to release me or 74 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: put me on practice, I'm gonna make you have to 75 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: almost sign me to to the team. So that's that 76 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: was the mindset that I have, and it's the kind 77 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: of wisdom I try to impart on those guys, UH 78 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: day in and day out. What's unique about this offense 79 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: from a wide receiver's perspective. I was in other offenses 80 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: in Dallas and UH the first time I experienced this 81 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: offense was in Cleveland with Kyle Shanahan being the offensive 82 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: coordinator over there, and I really honestly just fell in 83 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: love with it. Just how the um, how the formations 84 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: are set up, what are rules were in the run game, um, 85 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: and just the way we try to find ways to 86 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: attack uh defenses. So that's when I really fell in 87 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: love with it. And then I got it again when 88 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: I was out there in San France and having it here. 89 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: Obviously I'm I'm a lot more familiar with it, but 90 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: I fell in love with it, uh in twenty fourteen 91 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: when I was when I was first kind of introduced 92 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: to it. What's the expectation for WI vers see for 93 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: you as a guy who thrived in the system yourself 94 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: who fell in love with it. One thing that stuck 95 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: out to me last year about MICHAELA Fleur when he 96 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: was explaining the offensive system is you guys require the 97 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: receivers to learn all the different positions. You can't just 98 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: be an outside guy. You can't just be a guy 99 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: who's gonna live in the slot. Yes, Uh, that's that's 100 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: really the way our offense is set up. So we 101 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: have concepts, obviously, but we have formations, and we have 102 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of formations. So all of our formations 103 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: can get uh two to three people in a specific 104 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: cluster let's call it, that have a combination to run. 105 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: So as long as you know the combinations and you 106 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: know where you're lined up. You have what we have 107 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: the ability to put you at number one, number two, 108 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: or number three options in that combination based on our formations. 109 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: So that's if you just know what our offenses and 110 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: you know where to line up, and you know our concepts, 111 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: you shouldn't have any problem, you know, I mean, and 112 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: now at this point, now it just takes ability, It 113 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: takes strain, it takes effort, all the other things we 114 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: ask them for. But as far as schematically, if you 115 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: know where to line up and what our concepts are, 116 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: you should be able to kind of handle everything because 117 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: we can put you anywhere. We're gonna get back to 118 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 1: that in a second. That's a key word around here though. 119 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: Strain from a coaching perspective, What does that mean when 120 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: Solid is talking about that all the time, A Miles 121 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: Austin is in the wide receiver's room saying, hey, guys, 122 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: we gotta strain. Strain is the thing that takes a 123 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: guy from good degrade. It takes a team from good 124 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: degrade or or bad to better, or you know, it 125 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: moves you up a notch strain and uh it really 126 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: takes nothing other than uh, you wanting to do it. 127 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't take any You don't have to 128 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: be fast to strain. You can be the slowest person 129 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: in the world and still strain, you know. So just 130 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: kind of imparting that on our guys, Uh, to constantly 131 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: keep that in the forefront of their mind. I think 132 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna get not only them better individually, but us 133 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: individually as a group better and then ultimately, uh, team wise, 134 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: get the whole team. But what do Corey Davis and 135 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: Braxton and Burials mean for you with this young group? Oh, 136 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: it's awesome because they they've been in this system. Uh, 137 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: they know it so and they pretty much do everything 138 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: you ask them to do. So having those guys dad, 139 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, you can put in and get consistency out 140 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: of is uh is a It really makes it easy 141 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: on my end. And I gotta script the day out, 142 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta put guys in different spots, 143 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: and uh, whenever you put those two guys down on 144 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: the sheet, you just feel like, all it's gonna this 145 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: is gonna be handled right here, you know. So it 146 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: feels great to have those guys. Yeah, So there was 147 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: a play today in practice. We're taping this but Zach 148 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: drew an off side from a defender, rolls out to 149 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: his left, froze fifty plus yards and Elijah Moore makes 150 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: to catch eighty yards. That play covered in all something 151 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: like that. Does that speak to familiarity in the system 152 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: and how these guys are growing up together because maybe 153 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: we want to saw that play last summer. Yeah, I think, uh, 154 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: especially in Elijah's case and and all of our receivers cases, 155 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: especially the ones that we're here last year. The first 156 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: year you're kind of implementing something, it's the first time 157 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: a lot of guys have just been in a huddle 158 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: in general. You know, it's a lot of times they've 159 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: heard the type of verbage that we've uh that we 160 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: have for them. So being their second year hearing the 161 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: same type of verbiage, the things that you're correcting last year, 162 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: you kinda don't have to correct as much because more 163 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: people know it, and the fact that more people know 164 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: it and are doing it, the younger guys that come 165 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: in kind of see the right example more often than not. 166 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: So that's kind of how that kind of flows naturally 167 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: to UH too to get us better scheme wise on 168 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: those plays. I mean, that was just that play. Right. 169 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: There was just a connection of us realizing they've jumped offsides. 170 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: My original route was already cut off. So let's just 171 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: let's just make a play. And uh Elijah can do that, 172 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: Uh pretty much as good as anybody in our in 173 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: our whole in our whole receiver room. What's his next step? 174 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: He's so competitive and we saw the skills that he 175 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: brought to the table last year. I only played a 176 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: lot of games, we still had five touchdowns, and I 177 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: thought you saw that chemistry really take off with him 178 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: and the formatted Zack Wilson done stretch. Yeah, he uh, 179 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: he really like took off in the right in the 180 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: middle of the year and then obviously you know, tailed 181 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: off with with the injury. But um, in the beginning 182 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: of the year, it was just kind of like again 183 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: like I was mentioning, hearing those concepts and understanding exactly 184 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: what he had to do. There was just a little 185 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: bit off. It was just a little bit off, and 186 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: then he kind of hit his stride. I don't know 187 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: if it was like week five to ten or something 188 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: like that, he just hit his stride and and really 189 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: was playing at the level that he expects to play. 190 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: And and we expect him to play and I think 191 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: hopefully he can start at at that level of better 192 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: and uh and still continue to climb to to push 193 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: even further. So he's he's been, He's been a pleasure 194 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: to coach. He's ultra competitive. He wants to win every rep. Uh, 195 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: and a lot of times I gotta pull him back 196 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: to say, listen, let's just take a big picture of 197 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: this thing and take it play by play, regardless of 198 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: what happened on the last one. But I'll tell you 199 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: what he's Uh, he's a pleasure to coach because he's 200 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: he has that strain that we're talking about to help 201 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: you as a coach that similar situations. Maybe Garrett Wilson's 202 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: drafted a little bit earlier. We know Elijah was drafted 203 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: at the top of the second round, whereas Garrett comes 204 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: in number ten overall. But you're you're coaching up a 205 00:10:54,840 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: guy in his first year who similar skill set. I 206 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: think in some ways totally different players. I know that, 207 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: but in terms of the versatility that you coached up 208 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: a guy like Elijah last year and now you have 209 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: a guy like Garrett who seems the same in the 210 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: way he approaches things that he's going to be a 211 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,839 Speaker 1: sponge and he's gonna learn from his teammates, and he's 212 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: alter competitive as wealth. He's very competitive and uh and 213 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: he's another one. Um, he's specially you know, he's just 214 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: his body movement. Obviously, he's unbelievably athletic. It's like now 215 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: taking that athleticism and still being able to use that 216 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: athleticism within the uh framework of of what we have 217 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: as an offense. And we're working that blend right now. 218 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: But I mean a lot of the place he's making 219 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: and the amount of time and energy he's he's putting 220 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 1: into improving not only in the classroom but out here 221 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: on the field. UM, I can tell he's gonna be 222 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: he's gonna be a special player for us as long 223 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: as he continues to do exactly what he's doing, and 224 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: he's gonna really help us out. He's gonna really help 225 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 1: us if he's fast and he's quick. And one of 226 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: the most impressive plays or efforts he had out here 227 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: I think in training camp was actually a catch he 228 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: didn't come down with, but it just spoke to he 229 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: He jumped through the gym, he went up two defenders 230 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: in the area and he was mad at himself for 231 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: not coming down with it. But that basketball background, you 232 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: can see that a little bit. Huh, yeah, you can 233 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: see it at the line of scrimmage at the top 234 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: of routes. Um. I like to see it less sometimes 235 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: when the balls and there, unless you really have to 236 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: go up and go get it, because really, as as 237 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: receivers were trying to keep our feet on the ground 238 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: to be able to continue to move after we catch it. 239 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: So we worked out with all of our guys are 240 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: just like jumping when you have to, but also being 241 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: heavy to the ground so you can so you can 242 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: do something with it instantly. But yeah, that play like 243 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 1: going up, it looked like it was one of those 244 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: It was it DeAndre uh dedre Jordan's who kind of 245 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: like maybe it was like, you know, it was like 246 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: um Blake Griffin. Yeah, you know, anyone's got pushed up 247 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: a little higher as he jumped up there. Yeah, no, 248 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: he went up. He went really really high, and I 249 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: don't know what his vertical was. I'm sure it was 250 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: around forty but it was about forty five on that 251 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: It felt like that and he's in helmet and shorts. 252 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: How cool is it for you guys, the possibilities now 253 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: that this is a group that can kind of grow 254 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: up together. Because you're working with a quarterback in his 255 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: second year and Zach, it is special. Uh those guys 256 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: are are together. I saw they were out there and 257 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: uh in Idaho working together. So whenever you get a 258 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: core group um around similar age or at least similar 259 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: interests or at least that are just that connected together, uh, 260 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: there's so much more of a bond that can happen 261 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: off the field. But that translates to how you practice. 262 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: That translates to games. Trusting the guy across from you, 263 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: knowing the guy across from you, Uh, it makes you 264 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: work that much harder as a as a player. I've 265 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: been in that situation UM with my teammates as a player, 266 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: and I just know that there were times like Layton games, 267 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: you're you're with you, with you guys, and you know, 268 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: as long as you're connected in that way, you feel 269 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: like you've got a chance lating games to do things special. 270 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to go Rob Calabrie's here and 271 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: give me your complete evaluation on Zach, but from your 272 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: guys eyes, what's different about him here that second summer 273 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: because one of the things that I caught my eyes 274 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: again today was that it seemed like you're gone Temple 275 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: and maybe last year at this time, that's not something 276 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: you guys are doing where he maybe he's processing the 277 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: play and take some time to hear what's coming in 278 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: from La fleur, but he really seems like he's getting 279 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: to the line quicker and going through everything quicker and 280 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: hitting your guys. Yeah, it's and it goes back to too, 281 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: even with our receiver room familiarity, just hearing the play 282 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: calls here and here in the concepts knowing them. The 283 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: more you do anything, you know ten thousand hour, The 284 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: more you do anything, and the more you are practicing 285 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: the right way, the better you get. So uh, not 286 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: only him, but our entire receiver room, our entire offensive line, 287 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: everyone hearing it another year and being able to digest 288 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: what they're hearing from from the huddle, uh, and being 289 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: able to execute it. Because you've had those looks. You 290 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: have memories in your head of what happened the last 291 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: time I faced this look, or I faced faced this 292 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: coverage and this leverage in front of me. Um, you 293 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: can go back to those memories and and kind of 294 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: figure out answers faster than you did when it's the 295 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: first time you're hearing it versus the first look that 296 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: you're seeing. All Right, you gotta roll. You've been gracious 297 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: with your time. I gotta get a quick one in though. 298 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: UM with Zach Robert Sali was talking about the second play. 299 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: There's the first play and then there's the sec can 300 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: play when he breaks the pocket. Um. From receiver's view, 301 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: what do you guys have to do when you see 302 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: the athletic guy get out? What's what's the move next? 303 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: They're like just general rules. A lot of times when 304 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: when ball scrambles out right, you're obviously trying to find 305 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: space out there, uh, and you're trying to find that 306 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: space again, kind of like I was saying almost with Garrett, 307 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: within the confines of how we're all going to get there, 308 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: So without getting in too much too uh specifics, there's 309 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: spaces we have to get to based on how we're 310 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: running there or who's in what spot. So every time, uh, 311 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: that Zach ever does break out the pocket, it's a 312 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: great way we can practice those rules and kind of 313 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: tweak them as we go or realize, oh, I should 314 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: have came down on this one, or I should have ran, 315 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: I should have taken the top off first, this look 316 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: on the sideline, and I thought, Elijah is uh playing. 317 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: It was a great example of like what to do 318 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: kind of when a play breaks down. So we're getting 319 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: repsitted every single day. So, uh, those second plays happened 320 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: pretty often in games. You know a lot of guys, 321 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 1: a lot of big, good quarterbacks out there kind of 322 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: make their hay on on those second second places. So 323 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: hopefully we can be one of those teams that they 324 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: can make something out of those as well. Yeah, I 325 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: appreciate your time and hopefully we can catch up again 326 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: real soon. It sounds good. Thank you, thanks for having me.