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Speaker 1: How difficult is it to get the running game going

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Speaker 1: with so many changes in the offensive line because of

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Speaker 1: the injuries? Is a continuity and communication that might be

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Speaker 1: lacking at times? That affects that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, every time you're playing next to somebody

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Speaker 2: who you have and I mean we had Ezra out

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Speaker 2: there playing left tackle. He did a great job. You know,

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Speaker 2: every time the communication is different. You know, their footwork's different.

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Speaker 2: I played with a bunch of right tackles, a bunch

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Speaker 2: of centers, and it's all just you know, just getting

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Speaker 2: those practice reps. So uh and I think, uh, Phil

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Speaker 2: does a great job at getting to that, but wouldn't

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Speaker 2: expect Ezra to go out And I thought Blake stepped

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Speaker 2: in into a good job. But uh, it's just about

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Speaker 2: getting extra reps and maybe getting anx few extras with

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Speaker 2: a few different combinations to so we know who's you know,

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Speaker 2: if you're if you like to go outside, if you're

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Speaker 2: a short stepper, if you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 2: it's just, uh, like you said, continuity and just just

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Speaker 2: knowing what everybody else does.

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Speaker 1: And last year the offensive line was pretty much intact, yes,

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Speaker 1: the entire season, and you know, is is it? I

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Speaker 1: guess every team in the NFL hits this. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have years where you stay healthy and years

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna get a bit.

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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, you know, And like last year, Walker came in,

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Speaker 2: did a great job, and then when Ben went out,

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Speaker 2: Shat came in did a great job. And Walker and

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Speaker 2: Chat played you know together for eight, eight or nine games,

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Speaker 2: so they had that continuity there, and they played together

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Speaker 2: before with each other. So you know, we just got

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Speaker 2: to keep repping it and keep keep playing.

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Speaker 1: Now that we're just deep into the season, how have

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Speaker 1: you seen Anton really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's being he's communicating a lot more.

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Speaker 2: You know, the first couple of games he was quiet.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's playing a lot more physical, he's playing

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Speaker 2: with a lot more what do you call it, swagger.

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Speaker 2: So it's fun to see him, you know, knock people

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Speaker 2: on his butt and celebrate. So, you know, he's he's

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Speaker 2: got really good feet, he's really long, and he's only

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Speaker 2: twenty one years old, which is absolutely crazy that I'm

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Speaker 2: ten years older than him. But he's got a bright

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Speaker 2: future for him and I'm excited to get to play

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Speaker 2: next to him.

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Speaker 1: It seems like he's like lining up against the pro

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Speaker 1: bowler like every other week. How much does that kind

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Speaker 1: of help a rookie kind of just realizes the NFL?

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I think that's the I mean I've told

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Speaker 2: him a couple of times. You know that it's never

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Speaker 2: gonna to get really easier. The best guys you played

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Speaker 2: against in college you practice against every day in the NFL. So, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, just continue to you know, if you if

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Speaker 2: you uh lose a rep, you know, don't let one

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Speaker 2: rep bad repturn too bad reps. Just continue to to uh,

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Speaker 2: just fight and you know, get past it and move on.

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Speaker 2: So that's what that's what the good players doing. That's

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Speaker 2: what he's doing.

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Speaker 3: How frustrating? How sorry? The second time this year the

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks played on a short week coming off an injury.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what does that do for the locker room? To

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Speaker 2: see him fight through and go after It's great? You know.

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Speaker 2: Uh when I saw him on crutches on Sunday out

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Speaker 2: of the locker room, you know, I felt I felt

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Speaker 2: terrible for him, and I mean, he's he's a warrior.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden Wednesday, he walks in

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Speaker 2: with the shoe and I said, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: And uh yeah, So I mean it's just it's cool

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Speaker 2: to see you know, he's he's putting himself out there

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Speaker 2: for us, and you know we're doing the same thing

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Speaker 2: for him. So uh we have all all but nothing

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Speaker 2: but respect for him. And he's a true warrior and

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Speaker 2: we're we're glad he's right behind us.

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Speaker 3: I was talking here a little while ago about a

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Speaker 3: lot of it, I guess self inflicted issues that you

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Speaker 3: guys are having overall, and he says he's seen them

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Speaker 3: in practice too much this week. Where does that consistency

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Speaker 3: have to I mean, how do you get that consistency

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Speaker 3: back where you're not having those in practice as much?

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Speaker 2: I mean, just it all goes down to just, uh

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Speaker 2: you know, Phil always talks about knowing what to do,

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Speaker 2: know how to do it, and be the same guy

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Speaker 2: every day. So uh, it's just going back and and

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Speaker 2: just knowing your game plan, knowing the details, you know,

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Speaker 2: the ins and outs, and what if what if you

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Speaker 2: get this look, you know, the the if he's gonna

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Speaker 2: if he's gonna kill a play, what's he killing it for?

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Speaker 2: And just really just knowing your game plan and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, we just got to continue to uh just

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Speaker 2: improve on those been in the league.

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Speaker 3: While you mentioned a little bit ago, how hard is

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Speaker 3: it to keep the offensive consistency all year when you're

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Speaker 3: battling through different defensive fronts and injuries and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Is it is it almost impossible to be consistent the

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Speaker 3: whole year because of all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say impossible, but it's hard, you know,

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Speaker 2: like the continuity between the offensive line. You know, it's hard,

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Speaker 2: hard to be on the same page, you know, if

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Speaker 2: if somebody's coming in coming out. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're not making those excuses, and you know, we want

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Speaker 2: to be the best unit out there each and every game,

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Speaker 2: and that's what we're striving to be. So we're there's

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Speaker 2: no excuses. So we just got to keep playing