Speaker 1: The news of the Sam Bradford trade comes down to you,
Speaker 1: what's the the immediate thought process of how to get
Speaker 1: the rookie ready? You know, one step at a time.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a long process that started, you know,
Speaker 1: the day we drafted Carson. That preparation process starts, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it just continues with obviously a different role
Speaker 1: from him moving from third team up to first team. Um,
Speaker 1: no one was expecting it. But you look every move
Speaker 1: that that gets made, you find you look forward to
Speaker 1: the moves that are made, You look forward to working
Speaker 1: with the guys that are going to be here, and
Speaker 1: so that that's the mindset going forward. Um yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's why he's here. That's you know they
Speaker 1: were when you when you're look and evaluate Carson and
Speaker 1: the process. You know, if there's five to seven key
Speaker 1: boxes that you're trying to check all for a guy
Speaker 1: that can come in and be an elite quarterback, he
Speaker 1: checks off all the boxes. And you know, furthermore, if
Speaker 1: you're scoring on all those boxes on a one to
Speaker 1: ten scale, he scores nine or ten on a lot
Speaker 1: of those boxes. And but all that being said, it's
Speaker 1: probably the most difficult position to play in sports, and
Speaker 1: there's so many factors that go into it that there's
Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind he's ready to play. UM,
Speaker 1: But there's so many factors that can happen, and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it all plays out. Which is very confident
Speaker 1: and excited about what's coming up over the last three
Speaker 1: weeks or so, where you realize, Hey, this kid's ready
Speaker 1: and when this when this came down from the personnel department,
Speaker 1: where you felt comfortable going to Carson. You know, I
Speaker 1: felt he's when we evaluated him. You know, I felt
Speaker 1: he was always ready. UM that didn't always meet. You know,
Speaker 1: I was always one hundred percent behind coach Peterson's plan.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great plan. I think that
Speaker 1: plan was working out actually how Coach Peterson wanted it
Speaker 1: to work out. And I think the steadfastness of his
Speaker 1: leadership and the vision that he had was playing out
Speaker 1: just how he envisioned it. Nobody can predict the things
Speaker 1: that happens in the moves that you have to make
Speaker 1: that you think that Howie and Doug had to make
Speaker 1: to think what was best for the team at the time.
Speaker 1: He can't predict some of those things. But I think
Speaker 1: Doug's leadership was clear and the vision was good. And
Speaker 1: now you just adapt and you know that's the ongoing
Speaker 1: part of this business that you have to be able
Speaker 1: to do. And I've always felt that whenever Carson got
Speaker 1: his chance, whether it was next year or Game three
Speaker 1: or Game ten, I've always felt he would be ready.
Speaker 1: Or Game one, I feel he'll be ready. You know,
Speaker 1: just the Edmund flow of the game. You know, the
Speaker 1: ups and downs, the speed of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: he's seeing it against our defense all the time. I
Speaker 1: mean not that it's some guys just have that. Just
Speaker 1: some guys have what it takes. Some guys can translate
Speaker 1: it. It It doesn't matter what level you've played on. You
Speaker 1: have qualities that make you a great player. And that's
Speaker 1: what we think we have in Carson. But he's like
Speaker 1: anybody else. He has to go out and prove it.
Speaker 1: And um, it's a long season. It begins this Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we're all excited about that. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, he's he's sixty five, two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty pounds and and he's got very very good athletic
Speaker 1: ability for the position, I mean for any position. But
Speaker 1: this is a big man's game. This is a physical game.
Speaker 1: This is a game that you know, and so when
Speaker 1: you have that kind of athleticism and that kind of
Speaker 1: size and then and then you work that along with
Speaker 1: what I would say very high grades in processing speed
Speaker 1: and intelligence and then leadership and you know, and playmaking
Speaker 1: ability and all those other X factors. I just think
Speaker 1: that's a good form that those are a lot of
Speaker 1: good things to check off. Yeah, I'm just to continue
Speaker 1: to build, you know. I mean if you've again we've
Speaker 1: said before, when he's out on the field, I think
Speaker 1: defenses know he's on the field. I think our quarterbacks
Speaker 1: know he's I think our whole team knows he's on
Speaker 1: the field. He's that kind of a presence. So you know,
Speaker 1: we just have to we had playmakers. It comes down
Speaker 1: to playmakers, and really the way we define that is
Speaker 1: how do you make an explosive play on first or
Speaker 1: second down? And then playmaking really gets defined on third
Speaker 1: down and in the red zone, keeping drives alive and
Speaker 1: getting the ball in the end zone. And that's where
Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to start to piece meal
Speaker 1: a guy in who has that kind of ability, you
Speaker 1: know you want them to be you know, they want
Speaker 1: to be difference making kind of plays, so those will
Speaker 1: those will be key. He saw that play in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: the jump ball. That's all about timing. How often to us,
Speaker 1: Carson and Real worked on that. You know, throwing fade
Speaker 1: ball is yeah, there's a certain thing. You got to
Speaker 1: throw it to the same guy again and again. But
Speaker 1: some of it is a fade ball is a fade ball,
Speaker 1: and some quarterbacks have a natural touch and feel for it.
Speaker 1: I think Carson loves throwing the fade ball, has a
Speaker 1: natural touch and feel for it. So the confidence will
Speaker 1: build with a guy like DGB more and more you
Speaker 1: throw it to him. But some of it is just
Speaker 1: dgb's ability to go up and get it. He's been
Speaker 1: doing this for a long time, so he's been running
Speaker 1: those kind of routes for a long time. So it's
Speaker 1: a it's a quick transition. I think talked about not
Speaker 1: having um you know, coached with Ray for one year
Speaker 1: in Arizona, so, uh, you know he's from that pitch.
Speaker 1: You know he's from that dick lebau Tree have a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for a raise for early good football
Speaker 1: coach know him well and uh you know he's he
Speaker 1: has a pretty sophisticated blitz package. You know, Pittsburgh has
Speaker 1: always having that. Ray has put his own little twist
Speaker 1: on it. Um and he's you know, not afraid to
Speaker 1: be aggressive an attack, um, but just very well coached,
Speaker 1: very good schemes for a lot of years. I think,
Speaker 1: um a little bit, you know, because part of the
Speaker 1: game is scheme. Part of the game is matchups. You know,
Speaker 1: when you play earlier in the year, you just don't
Speaker 1: have as much tape on teams as obviously as you
Speaker 1: do when you get into it further. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: you get what you can. They have the same problem.
Speaker 1: They have the same problem looking at us. So h
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's just part of the nature of it.
Speaker 1: Talked about with Carson Waits not fighting for that extra
Speaker 1: yard right now, it's not the NFC title game. With
Speaker 1: a guy with his ability to run, how much do
Speaker 1: you need to manage within his game to not fight
Speaker 1: for that extra yard because your mentality takes over in
Speaker 1: the heat of the home. You know, I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I know Coach has been talking to Carson
Speaker 1: about that from the he got here. I know I've
Speaker 1: been talking to him about that and so as coach
Speaker 1: d Filippo. Um So, you know, I mean Carson hasn't
Speaker 1: played as much in preseason as we all thought he
Speaker 1: was going to play to show that he's kind of
Speaker 1: got that message. Um, so we'll see. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think he has gotten the message. I think he's a
Speaker 1: very smart guy and he understands the role and responsibility
Speaker 1: that he has to stay to give himself the best
Speaker 1: chance to stay healthy. And you know, and I expect
Speaker 1: him to do that now, you know, I mean, he
Speaker 1: is who he is. Son. Some times you're going to
Speaker 1: try to make an aggressive play. But I think we'll
Speaker 1: see that he's gotten that message now that christ mentality
Speaker 1: didn't make it. You know, we'll we'll mix some things up.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll use our three tight end package in
Speaker 1: ways that we have always used it and that you see, Um,
Speaker 1: you can always move you can always move Trey back there.
Speaker 1: We can find other offensive or defensive lineman to kind
Speaker 1: of put back there in specialty situations. So you know,
Speaker 1: we'll just continue to build that full back package small,
Speaker 1: small piece by piece as we go. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a good thing about a guy who's
Speaker 1: been around playing at a high level. As long as
Speaker 1: Sprowls has been a lot of things on tape, you know,
Speaker 1: another kind of routes that he's good at, and know
Speaker 1: how we can isolate him and and use his strengths,
Speaker 1: and certainly plan on trying to do that in every
Speaker 1: way we can. First team, you have to balance a
Speaker 1: little bit getting the game plan ready, but maybe keeping
Speaker 1: something simple, especially because he can get to play much
Speaker 1: of the preseason. Yeah, and I think that would have
Speaker 1: been most teams game plan for week one is you
Speaker 1: know you've got all this install and training camp, you
Speaker 1: know you've run all your base offense, you don't show
Speaker 1: a whole lot in preseason, so um, you know you
Speaker 1: want to keep it simple and play fast. So that
Speaker 1: would have been the case anyway, no matter who was
Speaker 1: playing quarterbacks. Certainly it's true with Carson and but as
Speaker 1: for all of our players, and um, I don't think
Speaker 1: the amount of stuff that's in the plan is going
Speaker 1: to be an issue for Carson. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: is I can't emphasize how smart this guy is. I
Speaker 1: mean he is off the charts smart just playing smart.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like smart smart. But then on
Speaker 1: top of that, the football IQ and the acumen is
Speaker 1: just way way high, way high. That comes with having
Speaker 1: him start so early. It's the biggest concern for you
Speaker 1: having him starts at early, like any young player, trying
Speaker 1: to do too much too fast, trying to understand that
Speaker 1: not every you know, not every play is the play
Speaker 1: of the game. You know that you got to sometimes
Speaker 1: live to play another and play another play. So um
Speaker 1: and use the guy and don't This is true for
Speaker 1: any young player. You don't have to be the hero.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to be the hero. Just
Speaker 1: play good football. Be discipline. You know, you can be
Speaker 1: a great instinctive athlete and be able to do all
Speaker 1: kinds of things, but you still have to play good
Speaker 1: discipline football, Play within the system. You've got good players
Speaker 1: around you, You're on a good team, you're in a
Speaker 1: good organization. Just do your job and do it well. Execute.
Speaker 1: You know, coach Stout says all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: execution fuels emotion. You know, we know he's a passionate,
Speaker 1: high energy guy. Well, there's nothing that builds excitement and
Speaker 1: energy and passion on the football field like execution. So
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you can bring all
Speaker 1: those things to the table. But you have to execute
Speaker 1: the offense play by play, first down by first down,
Speaker 1: and then you know, get the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 1: And so we just want to keep it simple, keep
Speaker 1: focused on executing, execute the offense, whatever it calls for.
Speaker 1: There's a Dougs brought a great system. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of reps in it, a lot of mental reps,
Speaker 1: a lot of tape study. Just run our offense and
Speaker 1: execute it well and good things will happen. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know when to me that one of the things
Speaker 1: that jumps out the first time I watched Carson's college
Speaker 1: tape was you know he just his size and his
Speaker 1: strength and his athleticism, you know, just make him and
Speaker 1: then just this natural playmaking ability. You know, just had
Speaker 1: that instinct and feel that you look for in a guy.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't He wasn't all. It just wasn't a
Speaker 1: guy who was big and strong and could run and
Speaker 1: was athletic. This was a guy that you could tell
Speaker 1: was in control when you watched his film and you
Speaker 1: look at his body movements, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: the body language. You know, when you're around this game
Speaker 1: a long time and you see the elite guys do
Speaker 1: it a long time. There's a body language, there's body movements,
Speaker 1: there's certain you know, you watch eighty plays in a
Speaker 1: college game and there and then there's ten plays that
Speaker 1: you say, no one else can do that, and that's
Speaker 1: what that's what an NFL quarterback looks like. And that's
Speaker 1: just what continually jumped off the tape. You know, you
Speaker 1: watch ten games, and each game there's ten plays that
Speaker 1: you say, that's what makes him the number two pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, and that's you know, he gets a
Speaker 1: chance to show that now at the next level. Raw
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