Speaker 1: All right, so let me just update you real quick
Speaker 1: on injuries coming out of this football game. UM. Brian
Speaker 1: Brayman suffered at left left shoulder AC sprain and UM
Speaker 1: as of right now, he's just gonna miss Wednesday's practice,
Speaker 1: but UH I expect him for the game. Uh. Leodis
Speaker 1: McKelvin same thing. That hamstring, UH got a little tight
Speaker 1: on him and sore on him. So he'll he'll he'll
Speaker 1: keep him out of Wednesday's practice UH and rest and
Speaker 1: then uh he'll be available for the game as well.
Speaker 1: The other ones that got injured that are that are okay.
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox had the left ankle, Uh, he's fine. Uh,
Speaker 1: Dorio Green Beckham left knee. Pateeller he had just some
Speaker 1: tennanitis there in the game late in the game. Actually
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Uh. Lane Johnson right elbow hyper extension
Speaker 1: of that of this group. And then Ben Logan left
Speaker 1: calf spasm. He'll be fine. The one he had from
Speaker 1: practice the other day. Lanes is probably the more significant,
Speaker 1: but he'll be fine. He'll he'll be a little bit
Speaker 1: limited Wednesday, but but it'll be good too, good for
Speaker 1: the game. And then Ertz, Margos, Matthews and Isaac, are
Speaker 1: all are all fine? It, Doug so sounded like you
Speaker 1: said for the interception, Wentz at the end that it
Speaker 1: was his third progression, but he indicated that it was
Speaker 1: an alert that he saw coming out of the huddle.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering if you could just kind of
Speaker 1: walk us through that. And what's what? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a shallow basic post combination and
Speaker 1: it's it's really uh, it's an alerted post. Um. Really
Speaker 1: the primary is the shallow to the basic on the
Speaker 1: play to the back, I mean, and again that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of the design of the play. Um. They ran
Speaker 1: a thief coverage, which means they they they robbed the
Speaker 1: free safety played cover one and um, um he ended
Speaker 1: up having to he moved a bit in the pocket.
Speaker 1: I saw the guy cut, um, and it really took
Speaker 1: Urt's away. And at that point, um, when he by
Speaker 1: the time he hitched back up into the pocket, his
Speaker 1: eyes went to Nelson on the post and uh decided
Speaker 1: to throw it at that time, when in fact, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan on the shallow could have been the
Speaker 1: throw at that time, but uh, you know, hey, give
Speaker 1: give our guys an opportunity to make plays down the
Speaker 1: field and and and hope for either catch or an
Speaker 1: intercept PI of a wide receiver in that situation. Well, there,
Speaker 1: there's really there's multiple things. One um, you know, from
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks pant standpoint late down the middle obviously is
Speaker 1: is not a not a good thing. Um. That goes
Speaker 1: all the way back to my days in Green Bay
Speaker 1: with Brett Farve, I mean talking about that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and those are things you learn. The second thing is
Speaker 1: when the ball goes up, it's it's our ball or
Speaker 1: nobody's ball. I mean, that's the mentality, that's the mindset,
Speaker 1: that's what we code, that's what we teach um. And
Speaker 1: then being just being able to track the football and uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know Nelson had an opportunity to make a make
Speaker 1: a play there from where the ball you know, was
Speaker 1: thrown slightly outside. I mean, you know it is a
Speaker 1: deep throw, um, but typically it's either our ball or
Speaker 1: nobody's ball on that play. Also was to that kind
Speaker 1: of remind you, like it seemed like Carson was doing
Speaker 1: that quite a bit, like doing the OTAs and maybe
Speaker 1: early in training camp where you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: throwing the ball deep and stuff like that. Was that
Speaker 1: something you noticed too? Well? Um, I think early in
Speaker 1: OTA's just getting an idea of the offense. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: can you can make those those types of throws early
Speaker 1: trying to understand the complexity of the offense. Um. But
Speaker 1: he you know, listen, it's a teachable moment for him. Um,
Speaker 1: next time in that situation, he'll definitely uh understand what's
Speaker 1: going on. I think, and and uh and and not
Speaker 1: make those not make those uh those decisions. He's the
Speaker 1: one thing about Carson is is he it's a it's
Speaker 1: a short term mentality. It happens. Once he forgets that,
Speaker 1: he moves on and and uh that's what we got
Speaker 1: to do in this situation. Um and and and get
Speaker 1: ready for this week. He loves you have gone to
Speaker 1: Matthews for me if it's the next time, the next
Speaker 1: time or had he had he uh uh seen the
Speaker 1: rotation of the safeties and whatnot? Yeah, I would, I
Speaker 1: would suggest that he teach off the film and find Jordan.
Speaker 1: He's where he's he's maybe a little too aggressive. Is
Speaker 1: that you have to kind of rain him in? Not
Speaker 1: at all, not at all, um, you know, uh no, no,
Speaker 1: And I won't I won't rain him in that situation.
Speaker 1: Were you only need to feel well Kayleb being a dome,
Speaker 1: I mean he was kicking well. Uh, I mean do
Speaker 1: you do you need to before he goes out for
Speaker 1: the series kind of go over the situational awareness of
Speaker 1: and we did. We listen, I was down there calling
Speaker 1: timehouse when the defense was on the ball, and I
Speaker 1: was on the radio with Frank. We're getting ready for
Speaker 1: our two minute drive, and we knew that we were
Speaker 1: going to have time. Chances are we were going to
Speaker 1: be out of timeouts obviously, and so we were covering
Speaker 1: all the situations and and again they listen, this is
Speaker 1: his fourth start where we're beating him up over his
Speaker 1: fourth NFL start, and and uh, he did some great things.
Speaker 1: Now in this football game, not one play is gonna
Speaker 1: magnify him or or our performance in this football game.
Speaker 1: Stumbled should even get pulling the ball on the outside um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh again it goes back to that you know,
Speaker 1: throwing it laid down the middle of the field rule
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. You'd usually like to carry it on
Speaker 1: your outside arm. Um. There was a you know, Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews had a block kind of got blown up there,
Speaker 1: lane was pulling around the edge and it just uh, Detroit,
Speaker 1: I mean they made they made a tremendous play, UM,
Speaker 1: and just kind of caught us kind of bang bang
Speaker 1: in that situation. UM. But ideally, I think as a runner, yeah,
Speaker 1: you would, you would want to carry it in your house.
Speaker 1: Side are a lot of people have asked me on
Speaker 1: Twitter and in emails, what's the rule when the ball?
Speaker 1: You know, we all saw how the ball was recovered.
Speaker 1: The guy snapped it back between his legs to to
Speaker 1: a guy in bounds, but it was touching Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: who was lying partly out of bounds. First, is it
Speaker 1: not dead? Then it is dead ball out of bounds.
Speaker 1: That's the rule. And I that was one of the
Speaker 1: things I wanted to make sure this morning, UM that
Speaker 1: I was correct and accurate in that in that ruling. UM.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's just one of those things.
Speaker 1: But we can't we can't cost the ball up. Did
Speaker 1: you check that with the league? Then John Ferrari, who
Speaker 1: is a very versed on on the rules, and and
Speaker 1: he and I, he and I talked about it. We
Speaker 1: actually discussed it during the game because these situations come
Speaker 1: up throughout the league, and we see video of this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff all the time, and and uh, you
Speaker 1: know it's something that it's obviously it's it's a turnover,
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a booth booth situation, booth review.
Speaker 1: And um, it's out of our hands that you got
Speaker 1: after the booth reveal play. He didn't touch it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't not touch but it wasn't touched by usage. That well,
Speaker 1: well we'll send we'll send you know, a few clips
Speaker 1: in you know, out of this game. But again that
Speaker 1: that's not the that's not why we lost this football game.
Speaker 1: Kind of least fourteen to two. We almost overcame it
Speaker 1: and won it. And and that's a tribute to the
Speaker 1: football team. And um, the way the guy's battled, you know,
Speaker 1: to have as many plays on defense to start this
Speaker 1: game three you know, three drives, it was like thirty
Speaker 1: two plays and if you count penalties and everything, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a bunch of football. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know that was there. That was their game. Our game
Speaker 1: was we we battled, We hung in there, and uh,
Speaker 1: defense played outstanding in the second half. We made plays
Speaker 1: on offense and um had a chance to win, you
Speaker 1: know with two minutes ago in a game, was that
Speaker 1: did the play get in a little late? And either
Speaker 1: of those we want delay a game correct? Did the
Speaker 1: play get in later? Or was Carson maybe I don't
Speaker 1: want to say overadjusting, what was the overadjusting? And team
Speaker 1: well the one in the red zone. Yeah, the one
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. Um, you know, all week long,
Speaker 1: this is this is a team. They liked the zero
Speaker 1: blitz you down there, and so we had some kills
Speaker 1: and some audibles this week that we wanted to put
Speaker 1: in to maximize the blitz and protect the throw or
Speaker 1: protect the run. And uh, and he was trying to
Speaker 1: get us into that protection and get guys, get guys
Speaker 1: lined up that we had practiced. It was just you know, time, noise,
Speaker 1: all of that factored into those those delay games and
Speaker 1: number of representative officiating. I'm not going to get into officiating. Um,
Speaker 1: we have to we have to correct them. We have
Speaker 1: to play smarter obviously. Um, you know, the face mask
Speaker 1: on Fletcher is is always going to be an unsportsmanlike
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a personal foul, you know, those types
Speaker 1: of things, and and um, you know we just uh
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta play smart, you know, and and
Speaker 1: um you knows. As I mentioned, I think that how
Speaker 1: we came back in this game, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it just shows the character of this football team and
Speaker 1: where we are from from even a year ago. You know,
Speaker 1: I think this game a year ago got out of
Speaker 1: hand and it got shut down and it got blown out.
Speaker 1: This group didn't do that yesterday. This group was resilient.
Speaker 1: This group battled sideline, was calm, they were you know,
Speaker 1: whatever adversity came our way, we were able to overcome it.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like that two minute drive before
Speaker 1: they end of the half. I mean we were in
Speaker 1: first and twenty five, second, twenty third and we were
Speaker 1: you know, overcame that and got the three. So um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a sign of a sign of a good
Speaker 1: football team. Well, um, I think it comes from the coaches.
Speaker 1: Number one. There's no panic on the sideline there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the communication the thing is with the better
Speaker 1: the better communication you have um with your players on
Speaker 1: the sideline, it just kind of just eases. If we're
Speaker 1: not prepared as a staff, players are gonna know it,
Speaker 1: players are gonna see it. And then there's chaos and
Speaker 1: our staff and my staff is prepared on game day
Speaker 1: and and we're able to make make the necessary adjustments
Speaker 1: and and uh, I think it starts with the staff
Speaker 1: and then it works itself down to the players. What
Speaker 1: do you want from Nelson at this point? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he again he made uh gosh, he made a nice
Speaker 1: nice couple couple of contested catches. He's he's putting himself
Speaker 1: in a position, um to make plays. You know, uh
Speaker 1: it you know, with with with play calling and and
Speaker 1: different as the game kind of unfolds. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily feature one guy over another.
Speaker 1: I just I just think you just play that you
Speaker 1: play the game as it is, and you you ask
Speaker 1: your quarterback to progression read and all that. But you know, Nelson,
Speaker 1: Nelson has has put himself in a position to help us.
Speaker 1: And again yesterday he had he had a couple of
Speaker 1: nice catches. DGB stood up, you know, uh stood out yesterday,
Speaker 1: a couple of nice quick throws and runs. And you
Speaker 1: can see the strength that he has. So as a group, yeah,
Speaker 1: as a group, it was, um, it was a good
Speaker 1: performance by them. Sixteen to thirty sixty one. Nass while
Speaker 1: farming and GRAHAMI fifty three fifty two. What's going on there? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, again, it it comes down to um, the
Speaker 1: way we rotate, and and sometimes it's personnel on offense
Speaker 1: and and uh you know whether a team is going
Speaker 1: to hurry up or not or huddling quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and and and uh, you know, Vinnie's a big Vinnie's
Speaker 1: a big part of that that that group and and um,
Speaker 1: um it's just a matter of the rotating basis and
Speaker 1: keeping keeping guys as fresh as we can uh throughout
Speaker 1: the game. But there's nothing nothing other than that to
Speaker 1: read into year or forty seven the continent in the
Speaker 1: off season to play well. I mean you're you're asking
Speaker 1: a question that we rotate so much at the defensive
Speaker 1: line position that that you know, h Fletcher obviously gets
Speaker 1: his gets his uh gets his snaps. I mean, Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham gets his snaps. Connor, you know, these guys are
Speaker 1: getting their reps and and um. When you're in there,
Speaker 1: you're called upon to make plays and and you have
Speaker 1: to make the most of those opportunities. Rotation. Do you
Speaker 1: anticipate it'll be Ryan and Darren moving forward? I mean
Speaker 1: Is there going to be a role for Wendell, Wendell
Speaker 1: and uh and Kenyon moving forward or is it? Are
Speaker 1: you just gonna stick with those two guys as long
Speaker 1: as there help. Yeah, you know, Ryan, Ryan and Darren
Speaker 1: are the you know, as I've said before, the two
Speaker 1: primary guys. You know, Wendelle had a role against the
Speaker 1: Steelers obviously when Ryan was out, and and Uh we're
Speaker 1: able to h pick up sort of the slack there.
Speaker 1: And and Kenyon's the same way. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: get opportunities to put him in a game, we will.
Speaker 1: But as as going forward, it's it's Ryan and Darren
Speaker 1: and uh uh you know, we'll spell those other two
Speaker 1: guys when when we need to. What made this to
Speaker 1: be exactly do that? Well, if you saw the third
Speaker 1: series of the game, it was a fourteen play drive,
Speaker 1: twelve total plays. There were three third downs. Ones was
Speaker 1: a false start and the other two were dime personnel
Speaker 1: or one was nickel, one was dime. We had an
Speaker 1: opportunity on third and eleven to make the play. Michael
Speaker 1: was in position, just just didn't make just didn't make
Speaker 1: the play. I mean, you know, Riddick's a great back
Speaker 1: and he made a miss. The other one was in
Speaker 1: the red zone and it was Dimond and Tullok was
Speaker 1: on the field. The defense had previously been on the
Speaker 1: field twenty two plays, you know, basically offense kind of
Speaker 1: you know, we were we were a thing eight plays
Speaker 1: and out that that first drive, and UM just needs
Speaker 1: to give guys a break and just give him a blow,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It was. It was a long,
Speaker 1: long first half of our defense staying on the field.
Speaker 1: Laid Johnson seems to think he'll hear something Wednesday or
Speaker 1: Thursday on a suspension. Will you go ahead and give
Speaker 1: someone else alent? Or how a body rapport that right
Speaker 1: tackle or how's that going to work again? You know,
Speaker 1: and until until we get the final word. Lane Lanes
Speaker 1: my right tackle, and I'm just gonna keep I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep going that route. Um. If Lane is limited due
Speaker 1: to his injury on Wednesday, then then as I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: we'll probably probably have Big V you know, step up
Speaker 1: and get some reps this week, particularly maybe on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: There's not much more, you know what this is. And
Speaker 1: that's a great question because I saw how ticked off
Speaker 1: this team was at the end of this football game,
Speaker 1: despite everything that went on in in this game, negative, positive,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. This This is a this is a
Speaker 1: different football team than a year ago. This is a
Speaker 1: resilient football team. This is a team that when I
Speaker 1: walked on the plane last night when we were halfway home,
Speaker 1: and everybody's on their iPads watching the game, they're watching,
Speaker 1: they're they're watching, they're correcting the mistakes, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: wanting to get back out on the football field, and
Speaker 1: and uh that that's great from a coach's perspective, that's
Speaker 1: that's great to see. It's great to see your players
Speaker 1: take ownership that way. Um, the leaders of your team really,
Speaker 1: you know, really step up and and and I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: as bad as it hurts, at the same time, they
Speaker 1: understand that, hey we let one slide. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: my message to them was that that every week is
Speaker 1: going to be a challenge and and you know, every
Speaker 1: week has its own circumstances and and uh, but it
Speaker 1: was great to see the veteran, veteran guys and really
Speaker 1: all the guys back there, from from Carson to Malcolm
Speaker 1: to Fletcher to you know, um Connor, Brent Sellig and
Speaker 1: everybody's back there making let me looking at the game
Speaker 1: and um, so this this thing, it won't spiral, It
Speaker 1: won't spiral. They're they're they're taking ownership of it. This
Speaker 1: is your first laws with when you look back at
Speaker 1: how things on bolded, is there anything you'd have done differently,
Speaker 1: mistakes that you or your staff maybe you know, we
Speaker 1: just like players and maybe more so we look at it.
Speaker 1: We look at it from that perspective. And I got
Speaker 1: to look at it as a play caller and did
Speaker 1: I put our guys in a in a proper spot?
Speaker 1: You know? And um, you know, obviously hindsight's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and you can sit now with the fresh set of
Speaker 1: eyes and go maybe maybe that call there or this
Speaker 1: call there. But coming away, you know, coming away from
Speaker 1: this game, even even under the um all the all
Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding this football game, I felt like, uh
Speaker 1: and we felt as a staff this morning that that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, um, we gave ourselves an opportunity and we
Speaker 1: gave ourselves a chance. Um. You know, I felt like
Speaker 1: going into this game that that uh, you know, our
Speaker 1: tight ends against their linebackers for instance, was it was
Speaker 1: was a matchup in our favor. Could I have called more,
Speaker 1: you know, middle of the field with our tight it ends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we were getting a couple of calls against us
Speaker 1: at that time too, So you know, you always look
Speaker 1: at that kind of stuff and come away thinking maybe this,
Speaker 1: maybe that. But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, um about how I called the game and
Speaker 1: how our staff handled, you know, some of the adversity
Speaker 1: and and what we overcame. There were two, um, and
Speaker 1: they were towards the end of the game when he
Speaker 1: hit Jordan Matthews on a dagger route. It was a big,
Speaker 1: big play for us. And then he had Jordan again
Speaker 1: on a third and six right before the end of
Speaker 1: the game. That were two big third down throws that
Speaker 1: not many, you know, not many rookie quarterbacks are going
Speaker 1: to make right now, and he's been able to make those. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you guys,