Speaker 1: Alan Barbery Um, so as a left hamstring strings getting better.
Speaker 1: We'll see where he's at obviously by the end of
Speaker 1: this week. Terrence Brooks the right hamstring strain in the game. Um,
Speaker 1: it looks like week to week with him, so we
Speaker 1: just gotta again just kind of see where he's he's
Speaker 1: at later in the week. He won't practice obviously on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Camu is still right hamstring, still nursing that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: put him through a few more drills today and see
Speaker 1: where he's at. Might be available for the game, but
Speaker 1: we'll see, uh come Wednesday on that and then the
Speaker 1: ones that are they got nicked in the game that
Speaker 1: are are good to go. Nolan Carroll had the hamstring,
Speaker 1: he's fine. Brent Selik actually has a rib fracture, but
Speaker 1: it's not nothing's displaced, nothing like that. So um, he'll
Speaker 1: miss Wednesday's practice but should be available for the game.
Speaker 1: To Yer Heart's doing good. Jordan Hicks, Um, just a
Speaker 1: just a mild ankle sprain, he's fine. Benny Logan's doing
Speaker 1: doing better. He'll practice Wednesday, and then Chris Maragos, Leo
Speaker 1: McKelvin and then uh are good to go. And then
Speaker 1: Big v Um has a shin contusion. Basically got leg
Speaker 1: whipped in the game, and he's gonna be fine, uh,
Speaker 1: for for the week and for the game. After the
Speaker 1: game that he felt his hamstring was keeping him from
Speaker 1: running full speed and that's why he was getting beat.
Speaker 1: So that's not I'm not in Leo's body, but that's
Speaker 1: it could be. Yeah, it could be. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not Leo, so all I know is what the doctors
Speaker 1: tell me. But it's possible, Yes, Roster real good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it was late in the week last week.
Speaker 1: We felt comfortable going into the game with with what
Speaker 1: we had and I know offensively with Bryce we were
Speaker 1: we were good there. So um, didn't feel they You
Speaker 1: mentioned that Ryan Matthews was still your guy last week,
Speaker 1: but the numbers certainly don't look like he's the guy
Speaker 1: right now. Is Darren Sproles the lead back for this team?
Speaker 1: Well right now? Yeah, by stats and by what you're seeing,
Speaker 1: I would say that Darren is is the number one
Speaker 1: back right now. Um, you know Ryan is still a
Speaker 1: big part. You saw the touchdown running head yesterday and
Speaker 1: Kenyon had a nice run when Dale had a nice run,
Speaker 1: So it's still it's still a little bit of the
Speaker 1: running back by committee. Obviously, we haven't hung our hat
Speaker 1: on one guy, but we tend to lean more towards
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles. Is hard to take him off the field
Speaker 1: right now too much moving forward. That's how many snapsy
Speaker 1: Darren guy. Yeah, I mean, that's that's a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: we we talked about it coming out of the Dallas
Speaker 1: game and just got to make sure we're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. Make sure the with Darren is just just
Speaker 1: keeping him, you know, keeping him available, especially as a
Speaker 1: season season wears on, keep him, keep him healthy, and
Speaker 1: keep him going. You're ran the ball enough yesterday, well
Speaker 1: twenty one TIMPs. If you take Carson's four out of it,
Speaker 1: um probably could you know, probably could run a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Obviously, in each each one of these games,
Speaker 1: you know, you get yourself into a fourteen nothing hole
Speaker 1: right away, and you feel like sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: kind of press and get it all back in one play.
Speaker 1: I did feel like we were effective in the run game.
Speaker 1: Some of the things we did. We just watching the
Speaker 1: tape again this morning. We just missed on a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks and a couple of signment errors and uh
Speaker 1: things we got to clean up this week In general,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you're you're not running enough? You know,
Speaker 1: you talked about limiting Carson to three. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: know it's it's a good question. You know, I would
Speaker 1: love to run the ball more. Obviously, I think it
Speaker 1: does help Carson where you're not putting everything the whole game,
Speaker 1: let's say, on his shoulders. Um, and and that's a
Speaker 1: that's a full you know, that's the run game. We
Speaker 1: do a lot in the run game. We ask Carson
Speaker 1: to do a lot with RPO things with the red
Speaker 1: read options, uh, you know, making some checks there. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know I think going forward, yeah, probably probably should
Speaker 1: rely on the run just a little bit more. Mcclevin
Speaker 1: was saying that, um, he came out in the second
Speaker 1: quarter because like you guys have a rotation now at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Is that something new? And is that also because like
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills or is that because mckelevin ornything. Well, it
Speaker 1: really started when when Ron Brooks, um, you know, got it,
Speaker 1: got hurt and we didn't have him. So now we're
Speaker 1: we're we're you know, having to you see that Nickel spot.
Speaker 1: You know, Malcolm's been down in there a little bit,
Speaker 1: and and um, you know we've we've had Jalen in
Speaker 1: there and so and then and then obviously understanding where
Speaker 1: where Leo's at right now with his with his uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, his his injury. UM, just kind of keeping
Speaker 1: everybody fresh and keeping everybody as uh as healthy as
Speaker 1: you can, not only during the course of the game,
Speaker 1: but but during you know, during the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: When Carson his missed receivers or throwing interceptions, generally it's
Speaker 1: been balls and sale Highland. And this is something that
Speaker 1: we've seen since the spring. You guys changed some of
Speaker 1: his mechanics since then. Is that is that a still
Speaker 1: a byproduct of that or is there something else that's bothering? No,
Speaker 1: A couple of you know, those those two picks early
Speaker 1: in the football game. Obviously he had he had pressure
Speaker 1: on one and and you know he was he was
Speaker 1: trying to throw it actually the DGB I think it
Speaker 1: was the second pick. The first one, Um again just
Speaker 1: sailed high. He was, you know, out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: which you know, I felt like he didn't have to move.
Speaker 1: He could have stayed stayed right there in the pocket
Speaker 1: and and uh uh delivered the football. But you know,
Speaker 1: those those aren't necessarily UM mechanical things as they are
Speaker 1: just the way the way he reacted to a little
Speaker 1: bit of color or pressure in the pocket. How do
Speaker 1: you really You're just go ahead? UM. So it's pressure
Speaker 1: that that's affecting him. He's some of it. Some of
Speaker 1: it's pressure, some of it's like a game, a te
Speaker 1: game or an ET game or something quick that flashes.
Speaker 1: And he had to slide a couple of times. One
Speaker 1: time he stepped up into the pocket and he was
Speaker 1: on a third down and uh the second interception I believe,
Speaker 1: and he ended up trying to come back to DGB,
Speaker 1: but he had a guy right in his face and
Speaker 1: he made the pocket. Was was clean enough to deliver
Speaker 1: the football. But that that quick pressure from a quarterback
Speaker 1: standpoint makes you makes you makes you feel a bit high.
Speaker 1: You've had time to reflect on it. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about your decisions to go for it on fourth
Speaker 1: down twice in that first half? You know what, I
Speaker 1: still feel strong about those, UM. I think the decisions
Speaker 1: to go for it UM just shows confidence and the
Speaker 1: belief in the guys at that time. I felt like
Speaker 1: we were we were we were moving the ball. And
Speaker 1: and again at the end of the day, when you
Speaker 1: look at it, um, you know, we had opportunity, more
Speaker 1: more opportunities in this game. To me and my opinion
Speaker 1: didn't come down to those two plays. There were enough
Speaker 1: things in this game. And you know again, uh that
Speaker 1: that costs us this football game. But um, I still
Speaker 1: stick by what I, what I did, how I how
Speaker 1: I chose to go for it. In both of those situations.
Speaker 1: On the Carson Wentz run to the left, it just
Speaker 1: seemed like the Giants were moving up before the ball
Speaker 1: was snapped and that there was never any chance of
Speaker 1: that working. What what did you see there? When yeah,
Speaker 1: it would they zero bliss us and they came actually
Speaker 1: off of the tight end side when we ran to
Speaker 1: the left side. And and we um, we missed missed
Speaker 1: an assignment again assignment air on on the play. And
Speaker 1: you know, in critical situations like that, if something if
Speaker 1: one piece of it fails, then the rest of it
Speaker 1: has to kind of pick up that piece, meaning there's
Speaker 1: there's other pieces on defense that are free and and
Speaker 1: it just happened on that play again, Um that uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we just we just missed it. We just
Speaker 1: failed on a block and it was just just it
Speaker 1: wasn't a mental thing. It was just a physical air
Speaker 1: that we just missed on a block and it caused
Speaker 1: us not to get the first half. More of Carson's
Speaker 1: five picks have been early early games in the first quarter. Uh,
Speaker 1: the only second half one, the only one after the
Speaker 1: first quarters. At the end of the Detroit game, is
Speaker 1: he coming out trying to do too much, trying to
Speaker 1: kind of be too aggressive? What do you see from
Speaker 1: him early? I don't think so. I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the case. Um. You know, I go
Speaker 1: back to the Minnesota game. The two picks there referenced
Speaker 1: those real quick UM. One he was trying to throw
Speaker 1: a quick, little outbreaking route to to uh Selikum and
Speaker 1: and was just wide of the mark and got picked.
Speaker 1: The second one in that game, UM felt like he
Speaker 1: might have forced the ball, actually just forced it down
Speaker 1: the field. He threw it into coverage and it got intercepted.
Speaker 1: The ones yesterday, Um, he had opportunities. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: whether the you know, the progression of the play to
Speaker 1: go other places with the ball. I think sometimes especially
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, and these are the things that we're working
Speaker 1: and dealing with with Carson. Is is is making sure
Speaker 1: he understands that the whole contour or the play and
Speaker 1: what the what the initial play is, what is what
Speaker 1: is designed to do, what's the cover, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the coverage beater that it's best against? And and if
Speaker 1: it's not that coverage, where do I go with the football?
Speaker 1: These are the things that we keep constantly, keep talking
Speaker 1: with and working through. And this is all part of
Speaker 1: the growth process that he's that he's going through. And
Speaker 1: the two yesterday were kind of that just the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, just gets a little tunnel vision sometimes
Speaker 1: focused in or locked in on on one receiver when
Speaker 1: when there are other opportunities to go somewhere with the
Speaker 1: football and either it's either gonna be incomplete and we punt. Um,
Speaker 1: you just can't have obviously the interception. You know, five
Speaker 1: plays of the game and two of them are to
Speaker 1: the other team decisions. Second guest, No, um, not yesterday.
Speaker 1: I felt comfortable and everything we did, um the way
Speaker 1: I called the game. UM. You know, even down the stretch,
Speaker 1: we had opportunities. You know, in that last last four
Speaker 1: plays of the game, you know, to have to have
Speaker 1: opportunities to to to extend that drive and potentially score.
Speaker 1: And I mean, we just missed on the last play
Speaker 1: of the game, the play that we actually completed earlier
Speaker 1: to the same receiver earlier in the game in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, same play, fourth quarter. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: just we gotta we gotta keep working and keep keep
Speaker 1: making those making those plays. It's probably it's a little
Speaker 1: of both. One, Jordan could look a little sooner. Uh two,
Speaker 1: the ball could be it's fourth down. You got to
Speaker 1: give you know, as a quarterback, you just got to
Speaker 1: give our guy an opportunity, you know, to make to
Speaker 1: make the play. And that that's just that's just again
Speaker 1: understanding the situation and and um you know, putting yourself
Speaker 1: in those in those spots and excuse me, and those
Speaker 1: are the things that you know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: in Carson's case, and I don't want to speak for him,
Speaker 1: but I know after the game he was very down,
Speaker 1: you know, about that last that whole last series, about
Speaker 1: some of the decision and throws that he made. And
Speaker 1: you know, he makes that play in practice ninety nine
Speaker 1: out of one hundred times. And those two guys are
Speaker 1: on the same page with that particular route we've seen
Speaker 1: at the Cleveland game. The touchdown is the same route
Speaker 1: and he makes that play. So these are just things
Speaker 1: that uh, um again, would you we're just continuing to
Speaker 1: work through and uh you know, UM, we're obviously obviously
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction, and we're going to make
Speaker 1: more of those down the stretch. Five drives now, the
Speaker 1: latent games under five minutes that you could have taken
Speaker 1: the lead, um and potentially won those games, but you
Speaker 1: had nineteen plays on those drives and gamed only twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards. Are the players tensing up in those situations?
Speaker 1: Why aren't they producing? Well? You know, UM, I don't
Speaker 1: think the players are tensing up. I think I think
Speaker 1: our sense of urgency on offense has to pick up. UM,
Speaker 1: just knowing the situation again where you know, when you
Speaker 1: when you have a few year in and again you
Speaker 1: got some young guys out there that are that are
Speaker 1: that are kind of learning these situations and and UM,
Speaker 1: you know, the more we show them and the more
Speaker 1: again just kind of working through UM decisions, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: route combinations, UM, you know, just just the execution of
Speaker 1: the play and just understanding the play itself. UM has
Speaker 1: a has a big part of um, you know, the
Speaker 1: success in the end of the end of football games
Speaker 1: and then the bottom line and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it just comes down to you know, um,
Speaker 1: as professional athletes who just make a play. Somebody just
Speaker 1: make a play and uh and that's what we gotta
Speaker 1: We gotta find out who who's going to be that
Speaker 1: guy and and uh, um you know, as we as
Speaker 1: we build and as we grow, those are things well
Speaker 1: we'll figure out and get better at. Wendell Smallwood was
Speaker 1: a productive earlier in the game this year when I
Speaker 1: think Brian Matthews had the ankle is shoe. I think
Speaker 1: as they had two productive carries, isn't there a temptation
Speaker 1: to see more of what he can do? As there
Speaker 1: there is there is you know when you get to
Speaker 1: that point where you definitely you definitely want to see it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's hard because you got you gott
Speaker 1: Ryan sitting there, you got you got obviously Sprowles, who
Speaker 1: we've we've given him the ball the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, Wendell obviously and Kenyon are our
Speaker 1: special teams players who have those backup roles on off
Speaker 1: fence and and a lot of times. You know, the
Speaker 1: temptation I guess is, yeah, you do want it. You
Speaker 1: do definitely want to see You want to see your
Speaker 1: young players perform and put them in those situations and
Speaker 1: see what to see what they can do. And and
Speaker 1: hopefully now this you know, second half of the season,
Speaker 1: we'll get a chance to do that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I do, I do, um, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: that Obviously, he went into this game, he was very
Speaker 1: excited to play, obviously the first time to be active,
Speaker 1: and um made uh. He had two two big catches
Speaker 1: for us. Obviously, the explosive played down the field. And
Speaker 1: I think I think you'll see, you know, more of
Speaker 1: a role for him, you know, in the next at
Speaker 1: least in the coming weeks. Get down, get down early
Speaker 1: in that game. You're chasing that game all afternoon. Does
Speaker 1: that cause you or do you have to guard against
Speaker 1: that making you get out of character? And some things
Speaker 1: you do. And I guess specifically, I'm wondering if fourth
Speaker 1: and two and a half, if no score on the board,
Speaker 1: if if you go ahead and take three, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you could we could always, you know, speculate those situations.
Speaker 1: It was so early though in the football game that
Speaker 1: that it didn't really get us out of our game plan. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: you know, even down fourteen, Uh, there was there was
Speaker 1: no panic. I mean, there was just the the eagerness
Speaker 1: to actually offensively, to get back out on the field
Speaker 1: and just sort of right this ship at that time.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you put your defense in a
Speaker 1: bind early in that game. You just something you can't do. Um.
Speaker 1: But it didn't have an effect um on the decisions
Speaker 1: because so early in the football game Ryan Matthews Outdarren
Speaker 1: suppose being uber that well obviously the Dallas game. You know,
Speaker 1: you go back to the Dallas game. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you remember during the you know, we came out.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a he had that infected tooth
Speaker 1: in that in that Dallas game in it and it
Speaker 1: his cheeks has got swollen and there was things there
Speaker 1: that we're working and and you know, listen, those are
Speaker 1: those are painful things to put a helmet on and
Speaker 1: you know, around your cheek and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And and um, Darren was obviously the hot hot hand
Speaker 1: at the time, and uh, um just just kept feeding,
Speaker 1: just kept feeding Darren and keeping them going and the
Speaker 1: same thing. You know this week Ryan, Ryan was we're
Speaker 1: going into this game plan with certain personnel groups that
Speaker 1: Ryan was going to be in on, Darren was going
Speaker 1: to be in on. And you know, you saw the
Speaker 1: one touchdown run that Ryan had in this game. That
Speaker 1: was that was a nice, nice little cute times that
Speaker 1: the teams had you in the right direction. You've also
Speaker 1: mentioned the relative youth of the team. Do you think
Speaker 1: this team is built to win right now halfway through
Speaker 1: the sing or do you think that it's still building
Speaker 1: towards that we're obviously building something here. But when you
Speaker 1: look at these games that we've been in at the end,
Speaker 1: the encouraging thing is that we really should have won
Speaker 1: those games. Um the Detroit game we had to lead, Dallas,
Speaker 1: we had the lead, and then and then yesterday had opportunities,
Speaker 1: you know late in the game to um to to
Speaker 1: take the lead and or win win the football game.
Speaker 1: So these are these are all things that that that
Speaker 1: as we build this thing, we're gonna we're gonna win
Speaker 1: these games down the stretch as we go. We're again
Speaker 1: that's that's part of hitting in the right direction for me,
Speaker 1: Um And and the fact that that that Carson continues
Speaker 1: to make plays and yeah, sure we don't we don't
Speaker 1: like the interceptions and all that, but relatively speaking, he
Speaker 1: protects the football and you know, we've done a good
Speaker 1: job there and our tight ends had a little bigger
Speaker 1: impact yesterday and we got to continue to work that
Speaker 1: and um, you know, just overall, you know, keep keep
Speaker 1: keep working, keep working, and keep grinding because I'd like,
Speaker 1: I'd like I tell the team, you know, after games
Speaker 1: like this, I promise them, if they keep working the
Speaker 1: way they've been working, good things are going to happen
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Thanks guys. H