1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Um, you know, coming off of coming off a great 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: trip to go six hours across the country and guys 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: just go play hard and and find a find a 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: way just to make just enough plays on defense. UM, 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: And I was really proud of our guys and happy 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: for him. These guys have been working really hard and 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: they haven't flinched one bit. And and UM kind of 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: said that last week, you know, last time we visited 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: about this group of guys and have a chance to 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: coach them. Is no matter good, bad and different. These 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: guys have been running to it, and they've taken the criticism, 12 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: and they've taken the coaching, and they've taken the ownership 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: of of their play UM to heart. And UM, they 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: continue to play hard. And I think that says a 15 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: lot about the guy's characters. That says a lot about 16 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: the leadership on you know, the defensive side of the ball. 17 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: As I'm speaking about that, UM, you know know, I was 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: happy for those guys. This week's will be a great challenge. 19 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: You know, as we all know, one of the best 20 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: offenses in the league five dred yards this past week, 21 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: if I remember rights, three or four times this year 22 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: they put up five yards on people. UM, two perimeter 23 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: receivers who are extremely talented Jackson and Evans. Great tandem 24 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: of guys really compliment each other skill sets. One guy 25 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: can take the top off and and and get on 26 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: top of the other guys. A very aggressive, um powerful, 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: sure handed big receiver. Then it's a tight end position. 28 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: Two guys that are really talented and Howard and Bright 29 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: and Um, there's the guys gonna it's gonna be a 30 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: great challenge for our guys and um, just like every week, 31 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: work in the process. You know, coming out of the game. 32 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: One of the things I know that there's really two 33 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: things that we say, Hey, we here's things we have 34 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: to do better. We have to play better on third down, 35 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: and that's calls and execution. I call it a little better. 36 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: We got actually a little better. Then the second thing 37 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: is we gotta find a way to get some more pressure. 38 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: We gotta win some more one on ones. Um, we 39 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: gotta beat the back when we get on the back 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: end protection if we get a free runner. We gotta 41 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: time up our pressures a little bit better. We had 42 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: a couple of those this past week. Our timing just 43 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. We were a little late in the 44 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: press ushers, and we got to clean that up and 45 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: play better on third down and those two things. I 46 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: think if we do that, UM will continue to stack 47 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 1: and we'll get a little bit better each week. So 48 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: many weapons like that in the passing game. Was it 49 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: more important with a three four man rush so that 50 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: you don't have to dedicate you know, blitzers or you 51 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: can pay more attention over the top two you know, 52 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: going through and watching every pass in the whole season, 53 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: you see everything everyone's tried to do to find a 54 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: way to slow him down, to maybe double a guy, 55 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: to play coverage, to bring pressure, and I think it's 56 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: it's that good balance of the mix, finding downs in 57 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: places where you can bring extra guys and speed up 58 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: the process. Um, create some one on ones and win 59 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: those one on ones. And then in the back end, 60 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: you know, you can play zone or you can play man, 61 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of times the one 62 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: on one you gotta win them. And UM, I think 63 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: all that said, let's play fundamentally sound football and play fast, 64 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: and that's that's really a point events force. There's a 65 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: lot more of Michael Thomas on defense. What does that 66 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: safety look give you? What does he give you specifically, 67 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: and then what does that give you as far as 68 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: schematically what you can do with Landing? Yeah, um, I 69 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: think even if you go back to time when when 70 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: I was in Arizona, one thing I really love to 71 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: do is get dvs on the field when we can. UM. 72 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: The game has, as we've kind of all talked about before, 73 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: the game has become so horizontal and um in terms 74 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: of spacing of formations and um splitting receivers out tight 75 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: ends out tight ends really becoming fourth receivers on the field, 76 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: and the quality of the backs in this league in 77 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: terms of pass catchers not just runners. It allows you 78 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: to create different matchups. You know, for Landing particularly, you asked, 79 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: if we need to put Landing on the back, we 80 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: can do that. We need to put him on the 81 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: tight end that particular week, we can do that. Um. 82 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: You know this past week with San fran Um coach Shanahan, 83 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: he's he's one of the best in the league and 84 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: does a great job of spreading you out in big 85 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: personnel group things and trying to find matchups and take 86 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: advantage of you. So we had to have some things 87 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: to counter that, and that was a too safety look 88 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: where we were in a base defense and able to 89 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: have safeties on both sides, to be able to handle 90 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: that spacing and those shifts and those motions and and 91 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: try to create good matchups in the game and more. 92 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: I know you don't necessarily look ahead, but howard and 93 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: break and then you're gonna face a lot of really 94 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: good tight ends in the last six games after what 95 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: Kittle did to you, guys, where where do you make 96 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: the adjustments of that tight ends don't become a problem 97 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: for this defense? Yeah, Um, you know, I think one 98 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: of the answers you know is Landing. I love the 99 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: match up with him on great tight ends, I really do. 100 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: And um, I think that's one thing he's built to do. Um, 101 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: I think it's not just on his plate, though, it's 102 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: on the other guys. If we're bringing for and we're 103 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: playing coverage, someone's got we got. We gotta win some 104 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: one on once and um, we're just each and every 105 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: week I get a little bit better. And and at 106 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: the end of the day, at the beginning I said 107 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: to play fundamentally sound, played better fundamentals feet and eyes. 108 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: We watched the rounds of car through the year and 109 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: seeing the Growers player and the instinct leads the field more. 110 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: Do you think his production is because he's in that 111 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: rotation and you're not putting too much on him, or 112 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: has he grown enough where you have to get him 113 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, I think it's one of those 114 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: things where you're really anxious, Hey, let's playing fifty snaps 115 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: and um at the same time, I see a young 116 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: player at a position that not often do you see 117 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: high production out of young players at that position. I 118 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 1: think this year we're seeing out of the young man 119 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: in Denver from NC State. That's a rarity, right to 120 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: see that product kind of production on an edge player. 121 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: And I love how he's growing, and we don't want 122 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: to stunt his growth. We want to continue to add 123 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: things here and there on his plate. You saw him 124 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: coming the back out of the backfield on the wheel. 125 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: We haven't asked him to do anything like that to 126 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: that to this point. And the more of those kind 127 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: of things that we kind of get him his repertoire 128 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: being able to do other than just rushing the passer um, 129 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: the more dynamic of a player he's gonna be. And 130 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: over time, yeah, we will act more plays, But right 131 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: now I love the rotation he has. I think he 132 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: was thirty two or four plays right around there, right, 133 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: and I think that's a great number. And we just 134 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: find other places we can get him on the field, 135 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: and without putting too much on this place, As you said, 136 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: what do you think I think that was? That was 137 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: pretty then good