Speaker 1: Knowing you're going up against one of the if not
Speaker 1: the best defensive line in all the football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, excuse me. It's a great challenge. I mean, the
Speaker 2: guys are it's a great rush group. You're on the
Speaker 2: road with silent count. Just a lot of things that
Speaker 2: go into it. And uh, you know, we always have
Speaker 2: individual matchups every week. There's always a good rusher or
Speaker 2: two in every group. They just every single guy across
Speaker 2: our front and even when they start rolling in second
Speaker 2: team guys, they can rush the pass really, really well.
Speaker 2: And it's it's a real challenge. I mean, it's exciting
Speaker 2: to have that challenge. It's a great challenge. It's a
Speaker 2: it's a challenge though, you really got to dig in
Speaker 2: and be ready to go read a unique challenge. Speed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's he just as his son, has a very very
Speaker 2: uh great great get off, great speed. He's got a
Speaker 2: real good ability to finish at the top of the pocket.
Speaker 2: A lot of guys can get the top of the
Speaker 2: pocket with speed, but it's really hard to turn and
Speaker 2: make that last turn to the quarterback and make the play.
Speaker 2: And he can just keep running with great speed and
Speaker 2: make that turn at the top of the pocket, which
Speaker 2: is really really good. And when you just when you think, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get out there and make sure he can't
Speaker 2: run around the corner, he can beat inside. He's he's
Speaker 2: got a little bit of everything. He's really developed his game.
Speaker 2: It's really cool to watch a player that he really
Speaker 2: didn't give much mind to when he was in Arizona
Speaker 2: and then and then all of a sudden, his time's
Speaker 2: gone on. He just keeps working at his craft, working
Speaker 2: at his craft and becomes this really elite pass rusher,
Speaker 2: which is which is really cool to see for me anyway,
Speaker 2: to watch a guy developed Colton probably wishes he didn't
Speaker 2: develop quite as fast.
Speaker 1: They have a three four defense, but do they ever
Speaker 1: do any of the wide nine stuff that they've gone
Speaker 1: in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, definitely when they get to nickel, when they
Speaker 2: go to their nickel four down package, and really, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, those two guys that are
Speaker 2: the outside linebackers really play like wide nines anyway, But
Speaker 2: when they get to the four down it looks much
Speaker 2: more like our defense with a two I and a
Speaker 2: three technique inside and then the two guys that are
Speaker 2: the outside linebackers playing those end positions, So it's very
Speaker 2: similar to what they've always done.
Speaker 1: But does he play like a kind of a bigger, stronger.
Speaker 2: And he plays with great leverage. Both those guys who
Speaker 2: are a really nice job of setting the edge with lever,
Speaker 2: use their arm length, use their use their you know, anchor.
Speaker 2: They can bend and sit down and they do a
Speaker 2: good job. Both those guys are are good edgectters.
Speaker 1: Is John Fliciano upgrade from Burford? And if so, how
Speaker 1: is he the superior.
Speaker 2: Player right now? I say that everybody's great about the
Speaker 2: same this season. There's it's a there's a very fine
Speaker 2: line between all of them, so to say that one
Speaker 2: is an upgrade over another, and they all bring something
Speaker 2: different to the table. All the guys that are in
Speaker 2: their trends. The only guy that kind of is an outlier.
Speaker 2: It's probably you know, cut above everybody else as far
Speaker 2: as ability and the things he does. But when you
Speaker 2: look at the rest of the guys, you can get
Speaker 2: any any given game and you can say, oh, this week,
Speaker 2: Colton's better this week, Spencer's better this week, John's better
Speaker 2: this week, Trent uh Jake do it. It's it's we're
Speaker 2: all about the same. They all play well together, they
Speaker 2: work well together, and it's just what they bring to
Speaker 2: the table on a given week. Well, John's thing is
Speaker 2: he's in past protection. He's pretty reliable, he's very very
Speaker 2: his his experience level is I guess the thing that
Speaker 2: would be the most. You know, he's been there, done that,
Speaker 2: played in the games, has experienced all the things, has
Speaker 2: played against these players that we're playing against this week,
Speaker 2: you know, being in the division against them the last
Speaker 2: couple of years. So every like I say, every week,
Speaker 2: it's a different thing. And then so John, John brings
Speaker 2: that experience level, and I'd say as past protection part
Speaker 2: of the thing, he's probably doing the best job of.
Speaker 1: Right now, where is your offensive line, both individually and
Speaker 1: working together, compared to like or what you hoped or
Speaker 1: expected they would be at this point in the season
Speaker 1: to where they actually are right now? Are you pleased
Speaker 1: with the way the offensive line is coming along?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, you know, I just I just say
Speaker 2: we're still we're still trying to get better. I mean pleased,
Speaker 2: you know, gosh, you know we've been okay, you know,
Speaker 2: we were productive. Offense has been productive and running the
Speaker 2: ball protection wise, but but there's just so many things
Speaker 2: we can do better. We're just not there yet. We're
Speaker 2: working progress, man, we are. Each individual is getting a
Speaker 2: little bit better every week. That's the I did notice
Speaker 2: over the bye week and it's continued these last three
Speaker 2: weeks since the buye that I did notice like it
Speaker 2: was it was incremental, it was small. But Spencer, Colton, Jake,
Speaker 2: you know Banks to a degree that he got hurt,
Speaker 2: you saw him getting better. Even Trent. You know, Trent
Speaker 2: has to get himself back into playing shape from early
Speaker 2: in the season. As we go through the year, he
Speaker 2: gets better and better as the year goes on, as
Speaker 2: long as he stays healthy. And so I think we're
Speaker 2: progressing and working to get better. But man, there's a
Speaker 2: lot to do. What I like seeing as a group
Speaker 2: is I do think they're beginning to work better as
Speaker 2: a group as each week goes on. That's the thing
Speaker 2: that I hope continues. You know, there's so many things
Speaker 2: that go into playing well together as a group, and
Speaker 2: it's not just line up next to the same guy.
Speaker 2: It's just understanding the concept of a play and understand
Speaker 2: how the defense, you know, how we apply our techniques
Speaker 2: and fundamentals to that play against this particular defense and
Speaker 2: then having the guys being on the same page with it.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's really exciting to watch is it
Speaker 2: goes on. And as I've stayed here before, it's you know,
Speaker 2: you play football every day, and we play six days
Speaker 2: a week or whatever it is. We get to practice
Speaker 2: and do all that we get to do, and guys
Speaker 2: can get better. And our guys, you know, because of
Speaker 2: Kyle and how we do things here, they're always working.
Speaker 2: We're always making sure that they they have to work
Speaker 2: and when they work at it, and they tend to
Speaker 2: get better if they have the ability to do it.
Speaker 2: So it's been incremental. Not there yet, I mean not
Speaker 2: at all. I'm glad, you know we got these We
Speaker 2: got six regular season games left to see how we do.
Speaker 2: This will be a great test to see where we.
Speaker 1: Are a lot of the lines. Are you happy that
Speaker 1: this game's coming, you know, first week in December and
Speaker 1: not the middle of September.
Speaker 2: I'm good either way. I'm good either way. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a tough opponent. They'd have been tough in September,
Speaker 2: They'd have been tough in December. They're They're a really
Speaker 2: really good opponent, good.
Speaker 1: Team to run on the Eagles defensive you.
Speaker 2: Know that they like Like when we played Jacksonville, the
Speaker 2: thing that we commented on was that it wasn't like
Speaker 2: it was confusing. It wasn't like they had a bunch
Speaker 2: of crazy things to pick up and block. They just
Speaker 2: defeat blocks. Well, they just are good players, you know,
Speaker 2: the big guys inside get off blocks and make tackles
Speaker 2: the edge set or set edges and get rid of
Speaker 2: the guys trying to block him on the edge and
Speaker 2: make tackles. The inside linebackers, although they've lost one of them.
Speaker 2: The more you study them, man, they're hard to get
Speaker 2: blocked on a second level. They do a good job
Speaker 2: of either running around or running over the top of
Speaker 2: and making lineman miss them on the second level and
Speaker 2: they get to make tackles and they do a good
Speaker 2: job of not getting blocked. And I guess that's what
Speaker 2: makes you pretty good on defense.
Speaker 1: Feeling Carter does some amazing things. What does he What
Speaker 1: do you see when you watch.
Speaker 2: Him, Well, just the thing as you see obviously you
Speaker 2: know the run defense, and we just talked about it.
Speaker 2: How strong and physical the guys are upfront. They do
Speaker 2: a good job of dealing with blockers and getting off
Speaker 2: blocks and making plays. But the explosiveness with which he
Speaker 2: can rush the passer. He's just got. This tremendous explosion
Speaker 2: is side to side movement, the way he can gets
Speaker 2: into a guy and all of a sudden bam, a
Speaker 2: quick movement. He's he's off the guy and in the
Speaker 2: quarterback's face. Just tremendously explosive for a big man. Thanks guy,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks guys,