Speaker 1: Kyle, do you plan on announcing a number two quarterback
Speaker 1: or you're gonna wait till right before the game.
Speaker 2: And he's had something that could rotate week to week
Speaker 2: throughout the season.
Speaker 1: How do you see that?
Speaker 3: Yes? Saw that positive.
Speaker 4: I mean I would think probably announced it before we
Speaker 4: played Pittsburgh, but not this game.
Speaker 1: Do you think you would you could rotate throughout the week?
Speaker 3: Definitely, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: That's on the order you're gonna play the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: I haven't decided.
Speaker 4: No, today's a big part of that and tomorrow, but
Speaker 4: we'll decide for these two practices have really gotten in
Speaker 4: much and.
Speaker 1: Has a practiced a ton? Is there a reason? Is
Speaker 1: just to get more renounced with other guys.
Speaker 5: There is the reason why he hasn't been playing too much.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's just hard to play for guys. It's a challenge.
Speaker 4: We got him a lot earlier in camp knowing that,
Speaker 4: especially when we had more threes. But I mean, we
Speaker 4: don't even do really threes now. Our ones are consistent
Speaker 4: of ones and twos, and our twos are consistent of
Speaker 4: twos and threes. It's just tough to get those of
Speaker 4: This time.
Speaker 1: The procedure will work with the third quarterback role.
Speaker 6: Are you gonna have to designate a guy or is
Speaker 6: it just one of your seven inactives can theoretically playing.
Speaker 3: No. I believe they sent the memo last night.
Speaker 4: I have not read through it all yet, but I
Speaker 4: believe we're gonna have to designate him.
Speaker 3: It'll be a specific guy. You can't go back and forth.
Speaker 5: Oh you said, answer was fifteen days ago. Now you
Speaker 5: were not at all stressed about nig posting not being here.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling today?
Speaker 3: Nothing's changed.
Speaker 6: I know John was just saying for himself that you
Speaker 6: usually thought he needed three weeks of practices to be
Speaker 6: ready for We went for the means for everybody.
Speaker 1: But in your general I know we're insigning three wee
Speaker 1: We're right about three weeks now. He thinks about three weeks,
Speaker 1: two weeks. What does a player generally mean?
Speaker 3: You never know until you put him through that.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, I think Bos his first year here,
Speaker 4: he got I think it was a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 4: I think he went like the first week of practice
Speaker 4: and then we didn't see him again ntil Wednesday verse
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay, and he played in that game. So it's
Speaker 4: I mean, it's different for every player I was much
Speaker 4: confidence with Nick. As any player I've ever been around,
Speaker 4: you always wanted to be more time. I wish it
Speaker 4: was three weeks. I wish it was five weeks. But
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how many weeks it's going to be.
Speaker 4: But you always would like more.
Speaker 1: Kyle, the last couple of weeks, No, I haven't. What
Speaker 1: would you like to see Saturday or Friday that makes
Speaker 1: you feel good about the kicking situation going to the season.
Speaker 4: I mean, usually if they make them, I got no
Speaker 4: thoughts after that. When they miss them, then you then
Speaker 4: you think about it and you evaluate it. You think
Speaker 4: of why it's not always that. Sometimes it's the snaps,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's the rush, but you look into all of it.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty confident with what I see in practice every day.
Speaker 4: I know we've had two outings, and I wish those
Speaker 4: two are a little bit better. But if practice was the.
Speaker 3: Same, I think i'd feel a little bit different.
Speaker 2: With Christian McCaffrey kind of get through Camp Wick and
Speaker 2: pretty don't good. I mean, how much more meaningful can
Speaker 2: you be with this offense as opposed to it last
Speaker 2: year when he kind of.
Speaker 1: Came in on the fly and obviously did pretty darn well.
Speaker 2: And I guess how hesitant were you to pull the
Speaker 2: trigger on that trade, to give up so many picks.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're always hesitant just because there's risks and everything.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's you know, how good of a player
Speaker 4: he is, and when you have an opportunity to get
Speaker 4: a player like that, you want to look into it
Speaker 4: at all, all of it, not just the player, but
Speaker 4: how it fits to the whole contract, of your whole
Speaker 4: salary cap and everything. You got to look at what
Speaker 4: it means by giving up those picks, and you don't
Speaker 4: worry at all about it in terms of how good
Speaker 4: he is and stuff and things like that. But there's
Speaker 4: also luck to it. You got to stay healthy, things
Speaker 4: got to go. So it's it's always a risk. I mean,
Speaker 4: you look back at it last year, it's thank god,
Speaker 4: how could you even hesitate on anything. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: a no brainer, but you never know the future of it.
Speaker 4: But when you have a chance to get a guy
Speaker 4: like him the way he looks on tape, and we
Speaker 4: didn't know him that well. People act like I knew
Speaker 4: him before, but I I numerous parents and having him
Speaker 4: since then, not just how he's been on the field
Speaker 4: and in practice, but understanding the person feels so good
Speaker 4: of what we gave up to get him, and knowing
Speaker 4: that he's a forty nine er.
Speaker 5: You guys have a good track record of you giving
Speaker 5: these big deals done warnered uh so forth, Nick is
Speaker 5: an outmire in this case. Is there any frustration that
Speaker 5: you know, you guys.
Speaker 1: Haven't reached it? Grammar N.
Speaker 4: Now it's going r pretty much exactly how I expected
Speaker 4: it to go. That's so now it's kind of just
Speaker 4: been exactly what.
Speaker 1: I thought you expected it to go this long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a feeling it would.
Speaker 1: When do you expect it to end?
Speaker 3: Hopefully sooner than later?
Speaker 1: How how different is it to have your DC up
Speaker 1: in the booth? I know you haven't had that previous.
Speaker 1: Is it any different for you at all?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I forgot about it until after the game, cause I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't need to go talk to many people face
Speaker 4: to face unless I want to know one else to hear.
Speaker 4: Since we're all attached through technology, none of that stuff
Speaker 4: matters to me. I mean, you can communicate with everyone
Speaker 4: so easily. You know, need to go have one on
Speaker 4: ones with people, and you can do it all through
Speaker 4: your microphone, so it's it's not much difference at all.
Speaker 6: Sam Donald, the team is established as this point that's
Speaker 6: going into the season. Why play him in the third
Speaker 6: preseason game at all of the starters? I mean, what
Speaker 6: what goes into that decision.
Speaker 4: It's all about having guys ready to play a real
Speaker 4: football game, and there's so much that goes into mentally
Speaker 4: being ready, physically being ready. I mean this is you
Speaker 4: can't have any hesitation in this game, and week one starts,
Speaker 4: it's people see that, and you can lose games very
Speaker 4: fast just being a little bit off. I've you kind
Speaker 4: of build that with experience over your career, but I've
Speaker 4: had guys that I've sat for a whole preseason games
Speaker 4: and then then fumble their first play that they get
Speaker 4: in and then you kill you kick yourself in the
Speaker 4: butt for it.
Speaker 3: It's just like wolves I do.
Speaker 4: And you've also played guys and they get hurt and
Speaker 4: you're like, what the hell was I thinking? So there's
Speaker 4: zero absolutes in any of it. That's why I don't
Speaker 4: sit here and tell you guys what we're doing way
Speaker 4: in advance. I look at each thing day to day.
Speaker 4: I look at our practices, I look at our reps,
Speaker 4: I look at the individual, how he is and where
Speaker 4: he's at in his career, how he is just with
Speaker 4: the week, and where he is in terms of being
Speaker 4: ready for week one. All that stuff goes into it
Speaker 4: and you don't really know until it's over what the
Speaker 4: right decision was. So that's why it's not always fun
Speaker 4: to make those decisions. But I also know when you
Speaker 4: just sit at everyone and you don't practice football, you.
Speaker 3: Do, your guys are pretty big disservice.
Speaker 1: Where Sam Donald make the biggest.
Speaker 4: Improvement is just each day, I mean coming here not
Speaker 4: knowing the offense, not playing an often similar to it,
Speaker 4: just his command getting in and out of the huddle.
Speaker 4: Where he is now compared to day one, he's been
Speaker 4: real consistent in everything that he didn't come in the
Speaker 4: first day just owning it all because you can't when
Speaker 4: you haven don't have the experience. But each day that
Speaker 4: he's done it, he's gone better and better and he
Speaker 4: just looks more and more comfortable and everything he's doing.
Speaker 1: Much you portray, where do you see him make the
Speaker 1: biggest improvement this offseason?
Speaker 4: This offseason was just kind of getting healthy again and
Speaker 4: redefining you know, how he throws, get in his balance.
Speaker 4: I think Trey from when he got hurt to where
Speaker 4: he is now completely I think.
Speaker 3: It helped him.
Speaker 4: It always helps to play through things and go through
Speaker 4: that stuff, but for him to sit back last year
Speaker 4: and really get to watch some stuff and know what
Speaker 4: he needed to focus on. Because he did get that
Speaker 4: week and a half of plan, he did get the
Speaker 4: whole training camp, the whole preseason. He knew exactly what
Speaker 4: he was in for, and unfortunately he got hurt and
Speaker 4: didn't get to go through it. But I think he
Speaker 4: made a positive out of it because mentally he really
Speaker 4: saw what he had to improve on just watching other
Speaker 4: guys go through it. And it's been pretty well documented,
Speaker 4: but I think he did improve on that stuff before
Speaker 4: he came back, and now improving on it before he came.
Speaker 3: Back has allowed him to get a lot better through
Speaker 3: all his reps.
Speaker 1: Ahead yet about who he'd like to see running the
Speaker 1: scout team and who could benefit from you know, the
Speaker 1: extra reps that that that provides throughout.
Speaker 4: The courts of the season. I mean, yeah, but then again,
Speaker 4: you're this is the NFL, so you don't you think
Speaker 4: about how to get your team ready to win that week.
Speaker 4: And most of that has to do with who's best
Speaker 4: for our defense, who gets them the right look and
Speaker 4: prepares our team the best way for what they're about
Speaker 4: to face on Sunday, uh and then the and after that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you try to get everyone reps because you know to
Speaker 4: get better with reps.
Speaker 6: Alternate week between Sam and.
Speaker 1: And Yep, we have three quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: I don't think at all before are you pretty much
Speaker 6: committed you're gonna keep at least three.
Speaker 3: On this fifty three we kept three. I think we
Speaker 3: had CJ and Nick, all three of them.
Speaker 4: After after I think Nick started playing, I think we
Speaker 4: kept all three of them. I mean, you keep three
Speaker 4: when when you have three it's and everyone in the
Speaker 4: NFL it's hard with the fifty three man roster, so
Speaker 4: you'd like to keep You like to keep two so
Speaker 4: you can get another position somewhere.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The new rule I don't think is gonna change anyone.
Speaker 4: That's just the bonus. It's not like you get an
Speaker 4: extra fifty fourth. It still takes away from that. You
Speaker 4: just get extra one up on game day. But for
Speaker 4: what happened to us the one time out of ten
Speaker 4: thousand games or whatever, it is you know, I don't
Speaker 4: think people are going to change.
Speaker 3: Their rosters because of that. But if you do have
Speaker 3: a third one that you don't want.
Speaker 4: To lose because guys are it's hard to have quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: it's hard to keep them on practice squad two, then
Speaker 4: that's what you got to do.
Speaker 1: What you saw? What are the traits you saw in
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller that led you guys to bring him in.
Speaker 4: I mean I remember studying them coming out of college.
Speaker 4: We were big fans of them coming out of college.
Speaker 4: I remember him what the Bears doing some good things,
Speaker 4: but we had to work out with guys. I didn't
Speaker 4: even go out to it, but they were the most
Speaker 4: impressive with him out of the four people, I think
Speaker 4: we had four, maybe three. But he's a guy I
Speaker 4: remember being a big fan of in college.
Speaker 1: You know, your wide receiver corps, you've lost a couple
Speaker 1: of year vertical speed. How important has a play caller
Speaker 1: is it to have that vertical threat? And does it
Speaker 1: change how teams defend you.
Speaker 4: If you don't, Yeah, definitely, you know it's extremely important.
Speaker 4: You have some people with that Forty times people know
Speaker 4: when you don't, and it changes a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: Makes it tighter.
Speaker 1: H Kyle, Uh, what do you think of Elijah in
Speaker 1: a first practice back?
Speaker 2: And do you anticipate him seeing a decent amount of
Speaker 2: playing time on Friday?
Speaker 3: I doubt it, and we got to ease him back
Speaker 3: in yesterday.
Speaker 4: It was his first day back. I thought he looked awesome.
Speaker 4: We'll see how he is today. We'll kind of factor
Speaker 4: that in after two more days of practice. But I mean,
Speaker 4: I'll picture Elijah with just getting these two and a
Speaker 4: half days in being a big thing this week.
Speaker 3: But we'll see. I'll give one more.
Speaker 1: Ahead follow up on the UH wide receiver speed question.
Speaker 1: Where is Chris Conley in that? I mean, does he
Speaker 1: still have that speed he had coming out?
Speaker 5: And how close is he to replicating what what Danny
Speaker 5: Gray can do?
Speaker 4: I mean Chris since he's I mean, I remember we
Speaker 4: worked Chris out in the local trial day when I
Speaker 4: was in Atlanta, and you just look at the cards
Speaker 4: and I didn't know any of the local guys until
Speaker 4: I saw a guy with four to three on it
Speaker 4: and that was him, and then he went in the
Speaker 4: third round.
Speaker 3: I believed.
Speaker 4: But you know, Chris has always been a speedster, which
Speaker 4: is what you know got him drafted. And helped him
Speaker 4: a lot in his career. And he can still run
Speaker 4: without a doubt. I don't know if this is exact same,
Speaker 4: but I know he can still run. But where Chris
Speaker 4: has been the best is he's been a true veteran
Speaker 4: receiver for us. You know him an Willie. This guy
Speaker 4: is very reliable. When you throw it to him, he
Speaker 4: catches it. He's in the right spot, and you know
Speaker 4: he's had a grind through camp. He's grinding and try
Speaker 4: to make this team. But usually once those guys get
Speaker 4: past camp and they can get their legs back and stuff,
Speaker 4: Chris is one of our faster guys.
Speaker 3: I guess, thanks Dave.