Speaker 1: News up here.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe a couple of weeks ago about McCaffrey and
Speaker 2: the patient hitting holes, and I think you talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, there are some runs in which there might.
Speaker 3: Be a hole, but you need to wait and not
Speaker 3: hit the hole because there are things that are developing.
Speaker 3: And I took it to me maybe downfield blockers, my
Speaker 3: proceivers or whatever.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're referencing in regard to like what
Speaker 1: McCaffrey maybe.
Speaker 3: Last year, like, hey, you see all run through the hole, right,
Speaker 3: but like he was being taught for the first time,
Speaker 3: like maybe not in display you need to actually wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 3: and then sure, yeah, because you might have downfield blocking,
Speaker 3: which anyway I just want to Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'd say very few times this year has he been
Speaker 1: impatient and say this year that that's not happened now?
Speaker 1: Is that why there's more yards? Is that why he's
Speaker 1: having the year he's had up to, you know, through
Speaker 1: four games. I don't know that that's exactly, but I
Speaker 1: would say that there's there's fewer misses and his perspective,
Speaker 1: there's better understanding of every plays we put it in
Speaker 1: every week. He's got a much better feel for what
Speaker 1: we're doing. Through training camp, offseason and everything. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say that's probably a part of it. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's missed anything this year. I think he's
Speaker 1: been on point with all the runs. In fact, when
Speaker 1: this past week a couple of plays were supposed to
Speaker 1: do something and it wasn't there, and he took what
Speaker 1: was available and scored. So I mean, he did a
Speaker 1: great job this week.
Speaker 3: What is that my concept of Like, I'm sure a
Speaker 3: lot of running backs in the NFL like run through
Speaker 3: the open hole, and you know, you don't wait to
Speaker 3: run through the open hole because what you guys teaching
Speaker 3: like UNI different.
Speaker 1: No, it's just a it's certain styles of plays. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's uh, there's a thing called with running backs.
Speaker 1: It's called U. I mean every in zone running, I
Speaker 1: can say this, in zone running, inside and outside zone running,
Speaker 1: there's a big coaching point to press the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: to press the landmark. So if your landmark is the
Speaker 1: outside leg of the tight end, if your landmarks the
Speaker 1: inside leg of the guard, you want to get as
Speaker 1: close to the line of scrimmage to set the zone
Speaker 1: blocks before you make your break. So there might be
Speaker 1: a big hole that expresses itself really early in the play.
Speaker 1: But your three yards deep in the backfield, that hole
Speaker 1: looks like it's there. But if you cut back to
Speaker 1: that hole, not everybody's been able to set their blocks
Speaker 1: because it's not like everybody's going to block man man, man,
Speaker 1: man man. We're zoning, and he needs to draw defenders
Speaker 1: to the zone block and then he can then whatever
Speaker 1: holes there will beyond people. But if he does it
Speaker 1: too soon, Let's say I'm going to block. I'm double
Speaker 1: teaming someone here and I'm getting ready to come off
Speaker 1: and block you, but the ball isn't here and you're
Speaker 1: not there, and so if he cuts back, you just
Speaker 1: go over there, and I'm stuck over here. I can't
Speaker 1: block you. But if we saw a microphone, but if
Speaker 1: he keeps coming, you come to me. He draws the
Speaker 1: blockers to me. That's what zone running is, and that's
Speaker 1: that patient piece that sometimes you go, holy cow, there
Speaker 1: it is. But when you hit it, we don't have
Speaker 1: half the guy's block because you didn't draw the It's
Speaker 1: his job in zone running to bring the blockers. Just now,
Speaker 1: when everybody's man blocking, bang bang bang bang bang, everybody's
Speaker 1: on a man whatever hole shows you hit that hole
Speaker 1: and Frank Gore. I always say Frank Gore is a
Speaker 1: great gap scheme, runner and man scheme because what hole
Speaker 1: was there was what you hit and Frank could get
Speaker 1: through a slither that was that big. But if he
Speaker 1: saw it and he knew what he knew the play,
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm going to hit that hole and eventually
Speaker 1: that hole may get a little bit bigger because I
Speaker 1: know the concept of play. But it's not so much
Speaker 1: drawing what zone blocking is, which is you need to
Speaker 1: press to draw the blocker the defenders to the blockers.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yeah? Is he reading the hole
Speaker 1: or read the landmark? He presses the landmark and he
Speaker 1: reads it. How we do it is he reads like
Speaker 1: the like a gap. He just reads it what starts
Speaker 1: to come op. So, for example, if you're gonna run
Speaker 1: it at the outside leg of the tight end, if
Speaker 1: there's no defender there, he's just gonna run there and
Speaker 1: just keep running. But all of a sudden the defender's
Speaker 1: there and we're blocking him out there, then he's going
Speaker 1: to kind of start to work back and then one
Speaker 1: gap at a time, there'll eventually we hope there's a
Speaker 1: hole if there's not, then you just run and fall
Speaker 1: down and get three yards. You know you're set off.
Speaker 4: And with the way to to attack Parsons is to
Speaker 4: run right at him. I assume that's easier said than done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who said that? Somebody? People people analysts have said that, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, I mean they can. Yeah, you can run
Speaker 1: at him. He's a good player. We tried to run
Speaker 1: at him, and he beats blockers and make tackles, so
Speaker 1: you can run away from He's gonna run really really
Speaker 1: fast and catch up to you when you're run away
Speaker 1: from him. There's a lot of different things you get.
Speaker 1: You just have to make sure you account for him,
Speaker 1: like we have every other good player we play against,
Speaker 1: and he's a great player. These other great players just
Speaker 1: to have to have a plan as to how you're
Speaker 1: gonna deal with them, right. You can't. You can't say
Speaker 1: every single player you run away, every single player you
Speaker 1: run at him. That wears itself out as well. There
Speaker 1: has to be a balance that you have to decide
Speaker 1: what kind of plays you run at him, what kind
Speaker 1: of plays you don't run at him, and what how
Speaker 1: he defends things, what position they move them all over
Speaker 1: the place, so the position matters too. You think, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run this play at Micael Parsons take advantage
Speaker 1: of X Y Z, and oh crap, he's lined up
Speaker 1: at the three technique or he's lined up over the
Speaker 1: center and you're like, oh, well, that's so much for
Speaker 1: that plan. So you just have to have a well
Speaker 1: balanced plan to take care of a great player, and
Speaker 1: that's what we'll hope to hope to try to do it.
Speaker 1: It's really really hard because he's a great one.
Speaker 4: Chris, how would you evaluate Colvi? The numbers seem to
Speaker 4: indicate that he struggled a little bit as a pass protector,
Speaker 4: but it also shows that you guys are averaging like
Speaker 4: force having to carry running behind him.
Speaker 1: How would you a film show? No, he's doing a
Speaker 1: good job. He's had he's had the bad play, he's
Speaker 1: had the you know, the Pittsburgh game is was a
Speaker 1: was an outlier. We you know, we we left him,
Speaker 1: We left him alone, and he he fought the best
Speaker 1: fight he could and he lost some battles and obviously
Speaker 1: the guy had a good day and he got beat
Speaker 1: once on Sunday, and you know the rest of the day,
Speaker 1: he had a really good day against the same players
Speaker 1: and so whatever. I don't know the evaluation process and
Speaker 1: how it goes. He's not great, any better or any
Speaker 1: worse runner pass Obviously you'd like to not have the
Speaker 1: sack he gave up. But he did a bunch of
Speaker 1: really good things in the game as well. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: room to improve. Our whole group up front. Man, we
Speaker 1: got room to improve it. Obviously Sunday there were some
Speaker 1: nice things in the protection game. We had a good game,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. But there's just still
Speaker 1: we got so much work to do to improve. And
Speaker 1: Colton's part of that process. He's got to get better. Jake,
Speaker 1: all of them do. They all got work to do, Trent,
Speaker 1: all of us. We just it's the season. It's just different.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 1: But as well as we may or may not be
Speaker 1: playing that our records good, we can play better. And
Speaker 1: I think it's just the off season training camp. You
Speaker 1: play your way into the year to see what you are.
Speaker 1: The good thing is, you know, I had a very
Speaker 1: high expectation. I was really hard on him in training camp.
Speaker 1: I was I feel we should have hit this ground
Speaker 1: running this year. But you got to play in the games.
Speaker 1: You got to get back in the game condition. You
Speaker 1: gotta gotta we gotta get a feel for how things
Speaker 1: are going this year. The defense is how they're defending
Speaker 1: us differently based on what we did a year ago.
Speaker 1: And it's just a process. And the good thing is
Speaker 1: that I think that our jump off spot different than
Speaker 1: a year ago is higher. You know where Colton is,
Speaker 1: where the inside tier three players are, we jump off
Speaker 1: at a higher spot. So as we go through the
Speaker 1: season four games in now, we keep progressing. I think
Speaker 1: it gets better and better. So I'm not down on
Speaker 1: Colton in any stretch of the imagination, pass protection, run
Speaker 1: game wise, He's just got he's got some work.
Speaker 5: To do, Frank or he could have had affinity for
Speaker 5: not running right into defenders. He didn't take the big hits.
Speaker 5: And is that something that it's a running back quality
Speaker 5: or a tendency And does Christian have that same type
Speaker 5: of maybe a tendency did not go straight onto.
Speaker 1: A guy and he saw two plays. Okay, yeah, he
Speaker 1: a Christian's not afraid to take a guy on. But
Speaker 1: Christian also knows how to you know, to take a
Speaker 1: hit as as you're kind of alluding to or not
Speaker 1: make a guy and his ability to make a guy miss,
Speaker 1: I mean, unbelievable. We ran the play where Trent was leading,
Speaker 1: We kind of ran a counterplay in Trent and he
Speaker 1: were going through the whole in the first second quarter
Speaker 1: of the game. I don't remember where it was, and
Speaker 1: there was a backside safety that came down later and
Speaker 1: was free, and he kind of just jumped over him,
Speaker 1: kind of like he jumped over the guy on the
Speaker 1: swing screen we threw to him that he scored the
Speaker 1: touchdown on. There was a free guy that over at
Speaker 1: his leg and he just naturally picks his leg up
Speaker 1: and makes him miss and goes on the next guy.
Speaker 1: That's the uncoachable trait. That's the trait of Holy Ca.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. We don't stand out there and
Speaker 1: throw bags at him and make him jump over him.
Speaker 1: I mean a heck. He has that trait, and that's
Speaker 1: what he's great. You see that on tape, You see
Speaker 1: that as you evaluate the kid. He's just got a
Speaker 1: tremendous ability to make people miss. And obviously they all do.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to avoid the big hit
Speaker 1: and no when to fight the good fight and when
Speaker 1: when the fight's over you I think.
Speaker 6: You have one target to George and Debos and targeted
Speaker 6: in passing him. Obviously it's coming back from injury a
Speaker 6: little bit. This is an offense where you have so
Speaker 6: many weapons. What do you make of that when you
Speaker 6: when you have a game where one of them is
Speaker 6: almost not involved at all, and are guys okay with that?
Speaker 6: Knowing that in the grand scheme the offense is executed.
Speaker 1: Very dog has his day. I think in our offense,
Speaker 1: I think there are days that all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Deebo comes out. He didn't think You didn't think you
Speaker 1: could a couple of weeks ago, comes back from injury.
Speaker 1: You didn't expect that day. They just sometimes they just happen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's where the defense plays. Sometimes it's a play
Speaker 1: called at just the right time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: Other times you have the play design for George and
Speaker 1: you call four of them and you catch the wrong defense.
Speaker 1: Or you know, you have the play design for Deebo
Speaker 1: last week and oh darn you catch it just wasn't right,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, everyone you called fryu thingo.
Speaker 1: We had the right we hit the right coverage and
Speaker 1: the right play. So it's not like the plays aren't
Speaker 1: designed to get to everybody. And that's what the players understand.
Speaker 1: We put this play in for this coverage, we put
Speaker 1: this play in for this defense, and oh here we
Speaker 1: call it and guess what, it's not there or guess what,
Speaker 1: You're wide open for a touchdown and the right tackle
Speaker 1: isn't good enough for the running back, or the quarterback
Speaker 1: misses the throw or X, Y or Z happens. The
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it isn't there. So it's not
Speaker 1: it's not well, I don't know what I've never played
Speaker 1: the Madden gamer in that stuff. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they are. But you can say I'm throwing it to
Speaker 1: George and you get to throw it to George. You know,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't It doesn't work like that. There is
Speaker 1: a coverage. You read it and you do the best
Speaker 1: you can, and some of them you can design. That's
Speaker 1: why sometimes not not forcing. But you can always say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a screen to Debo, right, I can
Speaker 1: hand Deebo the ball. You can always, but it's a
Speaker 1: little bit harder to do that with George. A little
Speaker 1: bit hard to do though with BA and and with
Speaker 1: Christians the same thing. You can. You can throw them
Speaker 1: a screen, you can throw them a check down, you
Speaker 1: can hand them the football. You can guarantee his touches.
Speaker 1: With the other guys, it sometimes gets harder, but they
Speaker 1: know their day's coming. And next thing, you know, George,
Speaker 1: one of these days will have a breakout day, and
Speaker 1: and some will be by design and some will just
Speaker 1: because that's the way the play played out.
Speaker 5: Well short of a time Rocks been a starting quarterback
Speaker 5: in the NFL. Is his processing to go through what
Speaker 5: you just talked about pretty rumble?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's he just the guy plays the
Speaker 1: position really well. I mean that's all I can say that.
Speaker 1: He's just a quarterback. I mean from the time whenever
Speaker 1: he started playing it, he just sees the field, his
Speaker 1: ability to nowhere to go with the football. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that's a product of. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's his previous coaching, don't know if it's his coaching now.
Speaker 1: It's probably a culmination of everything together. I always think
Speaker 1: some of it is when you look at a guy's
Speaker 1: physical abilities, you look at his height, weight, you look
Speaker 1: at his speed, you look at you you realize it
Speaker 1: as a shorter it's a little bit shorter guy. You know,
Speaker 1: certain things you have to be pretty quick to do
Speaker 1: because as that pocket, you're not six ' for Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: they can stand there like a statue as the world's
Speaker 1: coming at you and still deliver the ball. You have
Speaker 1: to make quick. I don't know that that's it. I
Speaker 1: really don't, but I'm saying there's Sometimes it's a byproduct
Speaker 1: of a your coaching is growing up you as a kid,
Speaker 1: and just how you survive and play the position, and
Speaker 1: you learn to play the position. You learn I need
Speaker 1: to get through my progression properly. If I'm going to
Speaker 1: have the space and in the pocket, I need to
Speaker 1: deliver the football. And now he's taking a step to
Speaker 1: this level where now the defenders are bigger, the rush
Speaker 1: is more intense. This week, you know, he'll know he
Speaker 1: did play against these guys last year. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: very intense. And being able to make decisions and deliver
Speaker 1: the ball accurately. It's just something that he's learned to
Speaker 1: do over time. And it is remarkable because you know,
Speaker 1: some guys never learn it. Some guys are always late
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. They're just gonna rely more on
Speaker 1: arm talent. They're gonna wait for a guy to get
Speaker 1: out before the throat and still get away with it,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna li on their feet and say, I
Speaker 1: don't care if the pocket's coming in around me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a play. That was manning. I mean, when
Speaker 1: I was with Peyton, sometimes you would say he didn't
Speaker 1: even let the play developed develop. He'd say, well, it's
Speaker 1: cover too, this ball's going to the checkdown. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: going to checkout of cover two plays out like cover
Speaker 1: two and literally they get back there and they stop this,
Speaker 1: So then you're gonna go to the checkdown. Peyton would
Speaker 1: sometimes say, because he'd say, if this rush it was
Speaker 1: a really big rush team, I'm not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to lose this rush. So I have to make the
Speaker 1: decision now. So it's covered two, bang bang bang, that
Speaker 1: ball's going to checkdown. It's single high. This is where
Speaker 1: the ball should go. I'm gonna believe what I see.
Speaker 1: I'm letting the ball rip on single high. Can wait.
Speaker 1: Because of his who he was right, he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be able to extend plays like a Mahomes or or guys.
Speaker 1: See what I'm saying, So there's there's all those physical
Speaker 1: limitations with a guy that then tie into how they
Speaker 1: have to play the position, understanding everything that goes into it.
Speaker 1: So sometimes that you know, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you could leave the you could leave the tight
Speaker 4: end in the block. You could use your backs to
Speaker 4: block you. Guys looking at the numbers in the first
Speaker 4: month have allowed the offensive line to be on an
Speaker 4: island largely. When you're getting five out in the pattern,
Speaker 4: you're making them defend the entire field and brocks getting
Speaker 4: rid of it quick. Why is that the plan? Why
Speaker 4: is that the preferred plan? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of different reasons to do something. Again,
Speaker 1: Coule's got a lot of different reasons for doing it.
Speaker 1: One thing is, you know when you're not certain to me,
Speaker 1: this is me talking when you're not certain what they're
Speaker 1: going to be in. If I know they're going to
Speaker 1: be in single high and I know I I can
Speaker 1: probably get fewer guy. When I don't know if I
Speaker 1: may get a three man rush, a four man rush,
Speaker 1: I may get covered two. I mean, I need all
Speaker 1: my eyes out so I can progress and have someone
Speaker 1: to go to. I leave a tight end in all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's not the right coverage, and I
Speaker 1: want to throw the ball to Iu, but now I
Speaker 1: don't have the flare control underneath it. I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: holding the ball because this guy's blocking. I may have
Speaker 1: ten days to throw the ball, but there's nobody open.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's And I can't answer that question as
Speaker 1: to why we decide to do that more I'm assuming
Speaker 1: it is for some of those reasons, because maybe you
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what they're gonna be and you're trying
Speaker 1: to give your quarterback the most options. Maybe it's the
Speaker 1: way Kyle feels best about attacking a defense. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: the way we feel Brock. Those are good plays for
Speaker 1: Brock and getting the guys out with the options. And
Speaker 1: then sometimes you know it's the it's there's so many
Speaker 1: variables that go into it, but that's a good observation
Speaker 1: and usually what it is. And I think that led
Speaker 1: a little bit to the Pittsburgh game where there was
Speaker 1: a little bit uncertainly. All of a sudden, boy, they're
Speaker 1: not playing like we thought they were going to play.
Speaker 1: We need to get these guys out to be sure,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden. Now you're leaving Colt maybe
Speaker 1: in some more one on ones that we hadn't planned
Speaker 1: on doing. But boy, if we leave the chippern there,
Speaker 1: sure TJ Watt, but then there's nowhere to go with
Speaker 1: the ball. You're holding the ball longer and then the
Speaker 1: other guys start showing up and then it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you took care of TJ. But the quarterback they want
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. So that's that constant trade off,
Speaker 1: and it's that cat and mouse game of what are
Speaker 1: they in? What do we have called? How do we
Speaker 1: get to the right place. It's not like we come
Speaker 1: to line scrimmage every play and we aren't Payton manning
Speaker 1: it right. We're not omaha omaha, checking some other play
Speaker 1: and then throwing the ball. You know, we know what
Speaker 1: they're in, or we're able to see what they're in.
Speaker 1: We're calling it and he's executing it, and that's why
Speaker 1: we end up. So thank you