Speaker 1: This might be the best line you guys go against,
Speaker 1: and Sewell is considered the best rest right tackle. What
Speaker 1: do you think of Decker and Sewol when you watch them?
Speaker 2: They're really good, played good all year. Decker has been
Speaker 2: doing it since ten years plus now. He used to
Speaker 2: watch him battle my brother in camp and at Ohio State,
Speaker 2: and then Sewell has gotten better each year, really good
Speaker 2: in the run game.
Speaker 3: So it'd be a good challenge.
Speaker 1: You heard just Fred talk about, you know, as soon
Speaker 1: as last season ended, the goal was to get back
Speaker 1: to where you are right now. Do those past experiences
Speaker 1: do they have any impact on what's.
Speaker 4: Going to happen on Saturday Sunday night.
Speaker 2: It's hard to say if it's going to impact what
Speaker 2: goes down for three hours on Sunday, but definitely is
Speaker 2: good experience for us. Been here a lot so, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's really a new year every year, so gotta
Speaker 2: play good.
Speaker 3: Extremely familiar with Jared Goff.
Speaker 5: Is he the same guy in Detroit that he was
Speaker 5: in LA and was the keid to defending him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think he is the same guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's played great in LA and he's
Speaker 2: played great with Detroit. Uh, but the key is obviously
Speaker 2: getting pressure on him. He's got a really good O line,
Speaker 2: so it makes it tough. But you you cover up
Speaker 2: his first couple of reads and and you get after him.
Speaker 3: Hit it hit him a few times. It changes things
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 1: What was your assessment of you guys in the run
Speaker 1: game the other night and what kind of challenges Detroit's
Speaker 1: run game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely got hit on a on a lot
Speaker 2: of cracked tosses weren't fitting him great. But it's a
Speaker 2: play that we're gonna see with them for sure with
Speaker 2: twenty six. So we're gonna emphasize that this week, hopefully
Speaker 2: put it out early and and but overall, I think
Speaker 2: we played really physical. I think the the Edge guys
Speaker 2: are starting to get a really good feel for this team, Chase,
Speaker 2: Randy and Rob and I was happy to see Eric
Speaker 2: out there feeling good, feeling healthy. And I think JK
Speaker 2: had one of his best games. So yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 2: need another one difference in terms of.
Speaker 1: You know, setting the edge. You mentioned like the guys
Speaker 1: that are maybe playing more rundown, specifically without Clee out there.
Speaker 1: Did you feel a difference in terms of the guys
Speaker 1: having to kind of, you know, get into that mode
Speaker 1: of setting the edge a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more. Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 2: Obviously, losing Clee is tough, but just overall, I think
Speaker 2: we've gotten better at edge just getting the scheme down.
Speaker 2: Having new guys who haven't been here for a camp
Speaker 2: is takes some time to really just take your seatbelt
Speaker 2: off and and penetrate like we're coached to do.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it sounds if you as a defensive line
Speaker 4: didn't affect particularly some key moments like in the game
Speaker 4: when you look at the end of the game is
Speaker 4: zero sas do you guys say this is unaccepted?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Not when the scoreboards in our favor. So, uh, we
Speaker 2: affect the game in different ways. Uh, sacks are good.
Speaker 2: I feel like I talked about this a lot. I
Speaker 2: wish I didn't have to, but uh, that's what we're
Speaker 2: paid to do. So, but affecting the quarterback in different
Speaker 2: ways could be just as valuable as sacks. They're hard
Speaker 2: to come by lately, but we're gonna keep working our
Speaker 2: ass off to get get them as many as we can.
Speaker 1: The key to getting a pressure on Jordan Lovely, He
Speaker 1: obviously had a lot of really good rows early on,
Speaker 1: but obviously the interceptions later in the game. What was
Speaker 1: the key to getting more pressure on him as the
Speaker 1: game went on.
Speaker 3: I don't think much changed it was.
Speaker 2: It was, uh, definitely a game where they stayed in
Speaker 2: their offense. They were able to keep running the ball,
Speaker 2: stayed on the field for really long drives. They kept
Speaker 2: the chip protections in almost all day. So we didn't
Speaker 2: really get them where exactly where we wanted them, but
Speaker 2: just keep on trucking and some some key pressures pressures
Speaker 2: towards the end, and yeah, dre Drey got under one.
Speaker 1: Chases. Seemed to fit in pretty well since he's been here,
Speaker 1: but the numbers haven't necessarily, you know, shown up. Do
Speaker 1: you get the senset that he's ready for that kind
Speaker 1: of breakout game that with so much attention on you,
Speaker 1: that that he can kind of have the performance that
Speaker 1: can make game changing plays in this way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has the ability, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: And you see it in pass rush on certain plays
Speaker 2: where he's beaten guys quick.
Speaker 3: The other night he had a couple where the ball
Speaker 3: was out but he was winning.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna need it if they're gonna slide a
Speaker 2: certain way and ship a certain way, whether it's my.
Speaker 3: Side or.
Speaker 2: Eric or Grave or whoever it is who they're focusing
Speaker 2: on on a certain play.
Speaker 3: Uh, those one on ones have to come alive.
Speaker 1: You line this year more five minute front of a
Speaker 1: couple of games. The Giants game comes to line. How
Speaker 1: does your role in mentality stretch from a four man
Speaker 1: line to a five min front?
Speaker 2: The bearefront is definitely a change up for our run
Speaker 2: stuff stop the run if we need it, But uh,
Speaker 2: it doesn't change my mindset as an edge guy very much.
Speaker 4: On Jones's fifty three yard run, it looked like five
Speaker 4: six yards bend line that you had a shot at him.
Speaker 4: I caught in between steps or what.
Speaker 2: Happened on that Yeah, I definitely felt like it was
Speaker 2: a weird I was running my ass off all game,
Speaker 2: trying to hit anything that moved, and I think Logan
Speaker 2: flashed on my inside and I didn't dive for him.
Speaker 2: And I was definitely not happy about that play. It's
Speaker 2: hard to say in real time, especially on when a
Speaker 2: guy's moving that fast, and but yeah, thank god he
Speaker 2: missed that field.
Speaker 3: All of you know, Closs had that stop on Jones
Speaker 3: in Green Bay. Did that you know, tackle by Charvari's
Speaker 3: remind you of all of that. But yeah, similar that
Speaker 3: you've been through this a few.
Speaker 5: Times, do you talk to some of the younger guys
Speaker 5: on the team just kind of to try to tell
Speaker 5: them what you expect in terms of the level of
Speaker 5: competition in a championship game or is that something that
Speaker 5: you just expected kind of absorbed throughout the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I definitely talked to some of the
Speaker 2: guys who haven't been through it. We have a lot
Speaker 2: of guys that have been through it, so it's kind
Speaker 2: of like a whole culture that they've been.
Speaker 3: Been around for a while now.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, I think I've I've talked to the
Speaker 2: new guys chase being a big one, just how you
Speaker 2: need to step it up a notch. And I think
Speaker 2: I saw that as a d line, like the physicality
Speaker 2: and the effort. I think we did take that step
Speaker 2: last week, and we're gonna have to take another one.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you get I don't know if
Speaker 5: you get pregame butterflies until that first hit, But are
Speaker 5: your emotions different this being your NFC championship game in
Speaker 5: the last five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely different. In the playoffs, you kind of
Speaker 2: have that mentality early in the week that that.
Speaker 3: You're just ready to go.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes till game day to get going, but
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, you're ready to play on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: So thanks,