1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Corey Coleman did a good job, did a good job. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: It was refreshing to make an explosive play and kick 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: off a train game. So it was it was fun 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: to watch what would be able to do that. He 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: did it in college. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did in college. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's that's part of our job 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: as coaches. We gotta do our research. And you know, I, 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: you know, I I work with Art Browse, so I 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: always followed Baylor kind of closely. Uh so I knew 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: about him and I knew about his past. So kicking 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: run an so he ain't showed him self valuable, definitely, 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: She's supposed to bring that one out. Uh yeah, yeah yeah, 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: I mean we're trying to make plays. I mean, this 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,319 Speaker 1: is this is not one of those deals where we're 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: just sitting back and waiting for the offense to make 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: a play for the defense to make a play. We're 17 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: an intricral part of it, you know. And and it's 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: three phases. Working is one and you gotta have one 19 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: working with the other. So it's not you know, we're 20 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: just not gonna give way to one phase the other. 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: We're out to make place. That's the weather gets cold 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: or will there be more opportunities to Absolutely, you know, 23 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: the ball doesn't flies far, especially in the Northeast, it 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: doesn't flies far. So you're gonna get those opportunities, and uh, 25 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta be ready for him when 26 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: they come. What have you learned about Corey? And you 27 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: know he Chad came in with a little bit of 28 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: baggage and some perceptions about him. What do you mean, 29 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: what are you worried about him as a as a 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: play I don't. I don't get into all of that 31 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: the stuff that happened before. You know, all I can 32 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: do is take him for what's going on in front 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: of me. He's been great in our meetings. You know, 34 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: he's been very receptive to coaching. He listens to everything 35 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: that we say, and uh, you know, he's doing a 36 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: good job. Don't worry that you might lose him to 37 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: the offense, to more offensive stuff. I mean, that's that's 38 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: part of my job. I mean, I don't. I don't 39 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: worry about that stuff. I mean, as my jobs get 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: him ready to go to offense and defense, you know, 41 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: so I don't worry about losing one way the other. 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: We just you know, if he's gone in the next 43 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: guy up. I mean, it's just the reality Hill, I mean, 44 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: how much of it is speed? Is there more to 45 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: it because he seems like a kick return that's probably 46 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: the most important trade. But yeah, speed vision, you know, 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 1: you gotta be able to see it and obviously you 48 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: got to be able to get there, right. So and 49 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: Corey possesses both. He does a good job fielding the 50 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: ball and uh, you know, he has some ability and 51 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: he's a first round draft pick for a reason, you know, 52 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: so definitely had some big time ability, been really accurate 53 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: on the field goal best kickoffs out about it. What's 54 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: what's kind of going on on those? I mean that, 55 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 1: I mean, it happens. He's a young player, you know 56 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, it's it would be different 57 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: if if you know, if I had Graham to know, 58 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: you know, guy that's been doing it for ten years. 59 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: But people got to realize that. But he's a he's 60 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: a young player, and young players make mistakes from time 61 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: to time. But you know, he's had a lot more touchbacks, 62 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: a lot more good things than bad. So we're just 63 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: gonna we'll fix that little issue that he's that he's having, 64 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I think it was more, honestly, 65 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: I think it was more of the field conditions a 66 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: little bit there. He didn't if you, if you watch 67 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: all trick every day in our practice fields, when he 68 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: plants and puts his foot in the ground, he puts 69 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: a crater in the ground that's probably about six eight inches. 70 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big strong man, right, So if 71 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: if the grounds slipping underneath you a little bit, you're 72 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna have a tendency that you know, he 73 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: he wasn't really want to playing his foot in the 74 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: ground because he didn't want to slide. But you know, 75 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: that's just it happened. You know, how do you clean 76 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: up their early penalties? It's technique. It's this technique stuff. 77 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: I mean, some of the stuff is self inflicted. You know, 78 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: we shouldn't have done it, and we've been told not 79 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: to do it, and we did it anyway, right, So 80 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta do a better job of 81 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: listening when the coach tells you to do something. And 82 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: then some of the things are just you know, just 83 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: technique things. You know, Scott got caught in the crossover. 84 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: You gotta stay square a little bit more. But other 85 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: than that. I mean, we've been playing pretty cleaned up 86 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: until the last couple of weeks. So we just got 87 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: to make sure that those little small details, as far 88 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: as the penalties are concerned, we gotta make sure we 89 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: get that cleaned up. Plunter was kind of a concern 90 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: here last year and you brought Riley and which what 91 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: what did you expect for him? How does he match 92 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: after that? Uh? You know, we we expected Riley to 93 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: come in and just fit in. I mean, he's he's 94 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: shown he showed really good direction. Uh in Denver, he 95 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: was just a little bit inconsistent. And again, these these 96 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: guys are young players, and you just can't you know, 97 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: you just can't give up on a young guy. Eventually, 98 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna go you know, they're gonna fail their way 99 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: to success. They're gonna make mistakes, they're gonna make mistakes, 100 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna learn from their mistakes, and then they're gonna, 101 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna have success. You know, that's what 102 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: you hope anyway, you know, But that that's been the 103 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: case with Riley. He's done a really good job of 104 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: working and again, uh, you know, accepting coaching and just 105 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: maturing as a as a young player when you're scouting 106 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: a guy like Riley, like through that trade or whatever 107 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: to take into camp down for the altitude? Was he 108 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: getting anything from like do you look more at his 109 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: road game for how he's going to prepare here? How 110 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: did that play? Absolutely? I mean I coaching Denver for 111 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,119 Speaker 1: two years and you know people, you know, they always 112 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: talk about the altitude. Well, the altitude doesn't make the 113 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: ball hang, It just makes it go further faster, you know. 114 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: So when you compare the two from on the road 115 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: and what he did at home, it wasn't a whole 116 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: At a matter of fact, he was a little bit 117 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: better on the road, you know. So, but he he's 118 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: a young player. Again, he's a young player, and we're 119 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 1: just happy that the maturation process is taking place with 120 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: him and we look forward to great things from Michael 121 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: thomas um as a captain of yours, do you see 122 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: a noticeable impact from him on the younger players on 123 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: your unit? Absolutely? I mean, Mike t Is is unbelievable 124 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: for our room. Uh. He is an outstanding leader, he's 125 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: an outstanding person, and he does everything he can possibly 126 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: do to help this football team win. Uh. You don't 127 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: get they don't get any better than him. Me. He is, 128 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite guys and one of my 129 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: favorite guys that I've ever coached. I mean, he he 130 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: brings that much juice to the room and he's always 131 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: coaching the young guys. He's always encouraging the young guys, 132 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: and he's he's the type of guy that you want 133 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: with the sea on his chest. I know you said 134 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: you don't pay much attention to guy's reputation, but is 135 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: that what you're expected with him? Because I seemed to 136 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: kind of be, you know, what he was known for us. Yeah, 137 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: you know the thing with Mike. You know, the guy 138 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: who gave me my first job name, his name is 139 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: David Suggs was Mike's high school coach, and he's always 140 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: talked about Mike. So I've known about Mike since he was, 141 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: you know, in high school. So and I followed him 142 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: his whole career, and when we got a chance to 143 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: pick him up, I was definitely on board with it. 144 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: You know, you love to have a guy like that 145 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: in the room. And he's he's he's fun to work. 146 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: How was uh so Carter? How is Laurenzo adjusted to 147 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: as many snaps as you're giving him out special teams? 148 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: Have you seen him a guy developed that you know 149 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: in the roles you're asking? Absolutely, Lorenzo is one of 150 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: our top tacklers. Uh, you know, six five, he's two 151 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds and he runs four four. You 152 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: know what I mean? You know, he's just a he's 153 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: a big talented guy. You know, if you go out inside, 154 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: how many of those you want? I want to eleven 155 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: of them? You know. So, No, he's he's a good 156 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: young player, and he's he's coming along. I foresee him 157 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: graduating here pretty quick. His his special teams reps probably 158 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: go down a little bit moving forward, but he's a 159 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: he's a very special player. Kind of reminded me of 160 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: JPP a little bit.