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Speaker 1: to welcome Titans head coach Brian Callahan back to the
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Speaker 2: Welcome on this Monday.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian. Sometimes when you watch the game tape,
Speaker 3: it confirms what you saw. Sometimes it presents different things
Speaker 3: that you didn't suspect, maybe some surprises. After watching Sunday's
Speaker 3: game tape, what did you see?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: The old adage is usually it's never as good as
Speaker 4: it seems, and it's usually never as bad as it seems.
Speaker 4: I would say that a lot of the things I
Speaker 4: felt during the game were confirmed in watching the game.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: What I mean by that is there's a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of really strong performances from a lot of
Speaker 4: different groups on the tape, and particularly on defense. I
Speaker 4: thought of special teams as well. I think those those
Speaker 4: areas at a really really nice game. Offensively, we ran
Speaker 4: the ball really well, we moved the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 4: we were the more physical team for most stretches of
Speaker 4: that game, and it just it comes down to, just
Speaker 4: like a lot of games come down to, but this
Speaker 4: one in particular, a set of like really really critical
Speaker 4: plays that you make and you win or you don't
Speaker 4: and you lose. And there was probably three or four
Speaker 4: of them, those two fourth down low red zone plays
Speaker 4: for sure that you you convert one of those for sure,
Speaker 4: and two of them you can almost guarantee yourself you're
Speaker 4: gonna win. Those are very high leverage spots that that
Speaker 4: we didn't come away with the points that we wanted.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of things about how we played,
Speaker 4: some of the individual performances the linebackers and particular the
Speaker 4: way that our guys covered on special teams with a
Speaker 4: bunch of young players playing. I just there was a
Speaker 4: lot of things that I was encouraged about. If you're
Speaker 4: just stepping back from the the loss, there's things that
Speaker 4: I that I can point to that that are what
Speaker 4: we want to be about and that that's encouraging.
Speaker 1: The loss is not Are there specific things that the
Speaker 1: Titans are doing or not doing well that are leading
Speaker 1: to the problems in the red zone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we didn't execute down there very well.
Speaker 4: We had you know, I think it's the hard part
Speaker 4: is when you when you have open guys down there
Speaker 4: that we just don't get to. I thought that the
Speaker 4: first fourth down, you know, is chick is open and
Speaker 4: the balls should go damn And that's just that's that's
Speaker 4: red zone football. And you know, those are the things
Speaker 4: that happened sometimes. And then the second one was a
Speaker 4: really pretty decent throat at the n w I and
Speaker 4: you know, he goes up in the air to go
Speaker 4: get in. It's a catch that I bet he makes,
Speaker 4: you know, seven six, seven out of ten times. You know,
Speaker 4: it's a degree of difficulty is high. It's not an
Speaker 4: easy catch, but he's a big, strong, physical receiver and
Speaker 4: the ball was put in a spot where he get
Speaker 4: a chance to get it. And then there's also other
Speaker 4: guys in the progression that had a chance if he
Speaker 4: didn't get that ball, that they could have got it.
Speaker 4: So it's just the passing game down there is all
Speaker 4: about timing. It's all about accuracy. Because the windows are tight,
Speaker 4: the field shrinks, there's no threat of anything vertical. Everybody
Speaker 4: is right there, so it can be challenging and you
Speaker 4: have to be really disciplined with your decision making process.
Speaker 4: You're really disciplined with your accuracy where you put the
Speaker 4: ball to have a really good red zone and then
Speaker 4: things break down, you got to be able to make
Speaker 4: a play. And most red zones, I think if you
Speaker 4: watch over the league the red zone scores, I bet
Speaker 4: you about half of them are just off schedule plays.
Speaker 4: It's just players making plays. It's quarterback extending, it's receivers
Speaker 4: working in a scramble drill. Those things are all part
Speaker 4: of that process. And disappointing to come away at too
Speaker 4: for two down there when we had opportunities to win
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: Will Levis's shoulder injury been through this once before. He
Speaker 1: came back and played against Indianapolis and then you sat
Speaker 1: him for three games. So with having had that experience
Speaker 1: with Will and that injury, will you do anything differently
Speaker 1: this time in terms of how you handled him and
Speaker 1: or your decision to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if he's not healthy enough to do a job,
Speaker 4: I won't put him out there. I don't think this one,
Speaker 4: at least as of right now, felt like it was
Speaker 4: It's anywhere near as bad as the Miami initial injury.
Speaker 4: I think it hurt. I think it didn't feel very good,
Speaker 4: but I don't know that the effects are going to
Speaker 4: be the same. We'll find out. I don't know for
Speaker 4: sure how he's going to come back, you know, tomorrow
Speaker 4: and then in a Wednesday. Usually guys are really mother
Speaker 4: most sore the second day after the game. It's tomorrow's
Speaker 4: where you really find out what it feels like. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll have the same process. If you can't go out
Speaker 4: and do it, you know, I'll make sure that that
Speaker 4: we don't put him in arm's way, because that's not
Speaker 4: fair to him or for the team to to go
Speaker 4: out there and not be able to perform the job
Speaker 4: to the level you're required. So I'll have to be
Speaker 4: smart about that. We'll be smart with him, and then
Speaker 4: how we evaluate where he's at. I feel pretty good
Speaker 4: right now that there shouldn't be an issue, But again
Speaker 4: I've spoken too soon before, so I'll uh, well, we'll see,
Speaker 4: well we saw her, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Well from watching the tape, was there any sign that
Speaker 3: that injury limited the way that he was able to
Speaker 3: play within the offense on Sunday?
Speaker 4: No, there was nothing that That's why I didn't I
Speaker 4: don't feel as you know, he couldn't throw the football
Speaker 4: in Miami when he got hurt, and he couldn't even
Speaker 4: he couldn't really do much of anything, So it was different.
Speaker 4: It wasn't maybe as I think I said, I could
Speaker 4: get hurt pretty good, but I don't know if it
Speaker 4: was as severe of an actual injury as it was
Speaker 4: just the way it felt. So didn't see anything in
Speaker 4: the game that would have let me believe it was
Speaker 4: his effectiveness had had Wayne and we were ready to
Speaker 4: put Mason in, and he came out of her halftime
Speaker 4: and said he's good to go, and Todd gave him
Speaker 4: the all good athletic trainer gave him the all clear,
Speaker 4: And so I trust those guys, especially in those moments.
Speaker 4: And then we'll see, you know, when we get into
Speaker 4: the rhythm of the week in practice with what that looks.
Speaker 1: Like, does Will Levice need to be running more to
Speaker 1: help this offense.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say there's a lot of opportunities in the
Speaker 4: in the game on Sunday, but there's been times we
Speaker 4: pointed out on one and where you can you can escape,
Speaker 4: and I thought it was one third down where he
Speaker 4: he escapes left, moves himself out of the pocket, gets
Speaker 4: in position to be a runner, and then Tyler Boyd
Speaker 4: does an excellent job of working up the field and
Speaker 4: coming back downhill for the first down. It's a really
Speaker 4: nice throw on the run. That's you know, that's that's
Speaker 4: where the plays, the bigger plays can be created. You
Speaker 4: can create some and there's a balance between trying to
Speaker 4: get him to play the position the sort of right way,
Speaker 4: and then it's it's awkward how it works. Sometimes it's like, here,
Speaker 4: learn how to do this right, and then when you
Speaker 4: feel really good about that, you know, then go do
Speaker 4: it all the way. You know, there's right, it's a
Speaker 4: weird progression, but that's sort of how it works, is
Speaker 4: that you you you find these opportunities to extend a play,
Speaker 4: to use your legs, and we've worked a bunch in
Speaker 4: practice with Escape the Pocket with the intent to extend,
Speaker 4: you know, that's sort of the next step is, you know,
Speaker 4: when you pull up, don't just run right down the
Speaker 4: middle of the pocket. See if you can find a
Speaker 4: side door scape and get out on the perimeter. And
Speaker 4: then if you can run run, if you can create
Speaker 4: exposive played on the field to create it that way
Speaker 4: as well. So it's a fine line in a balance,
Speaker 4: but it's something that we're definitely working on.
Speaker 3: Let's switch over to defense for a minute. How did
Speaker 3: Luke Gifford play at middle linebacker.
Speaker 4: I thought he played really well. There's a lot going
Speaker 4: on there with him, you know, first time probably playing
Speaker 4: that many steps at linebacker in a long time, having
Speaker 4: the green dot, and being the communicator on game day
Speaker 4: with the with the calls of the defense. I really
Speaker 4: thought that was a smooth process. It was one that
Speaker 4: we were concerned in the sense that he just hadn't
Speaker 4: done that very often, and so there's always a concern.
Speaker 4: But he did a great job. And I thought he
Speaker 4: played physical. I thought he played fast. I thought him
Speaker 4: and Otis really did a nice job, you know, stepping
Speaker 4: up in the moment. And I you know, I think
Speaker 4: I give a lot of credit to Get doesn't probably
Speaker 4: get as much as he should as Frank Bush. I
Speaker 4: think Frank Bush is one of the premier linebacker coaches
Speaker 4: in football. And I think you see that with the
Speaker 4: amount of guys he's had to get ready to play
Speaker 4: and the young players he has, He's he's as good
Speaker 4: a football coaches I've ever been around. And I think
Speaker 4: he's he's a large part of why those guys were
Speaker 4: put in position to play so well.
Speaker 1: So we talked about this on the radio. Luke Gifford
Speaker 1: had made one other start in his career at Cleveland
Speaker 1: last year when the Titans used an extra linebacker package.
Speaker 1: So he had never and I mean that was just
Speaker 1: for a handful of snaps. He heard a hamstring in
Speaker 1: that game anyway, Yea, in his six year NFL career,
Speaker 1: he had never played fifty nine snaps in a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you surprised that he was able to hold up
Speaker 1: and be that effective in that way?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I just I see who Luke is every day here.
Speaker 4: You see what I mean, he's playing As a side note,
Speaker 4: he's playing at like special teams Pro Bowl level linebacker.
Speaker 4: Like he is as good as specialties player as you
Speaker 4: can find in football, which is why he's here and
Speaker 4: why he was brought here initially. Like he's he is
Speaker 4: a very very good special teams linebacker. And as most
Speaker 4: special teams linebackers go, they usually don't get a lot
Speaker 4: of playing time. They usually they're they're kind of built
Speaker 4: for that purpose and they're really good at it. But
Speaker 4: Luke just the way he prepares, his professionalism super impressive
Speaker 4: and everything about how he goes by his business. I
Speaker 4: am not surprised at all that you go in there
Speaker 4: and play like that.
Speaker 1: All right, So you mentioned Otis rees you wanted him
Speaker 1: in there because Otis likes to hit stuff. He is
Speaker 1: very enthusiastic about hitting stuff. You see he did to
Speaker 1: the guard and the one play. Yeah, so I'm accurate
Speaker 1: that cur statement. I'm guessing that you got what you
Speaker 1: wanted from Otis in terms of the enthusiasm, the aggression,
Speaker 1: the thump.
Speaker 4: Absolutely he was all of that, and that's what he's
Speaker 4: always been. And now he's got an opportunity again. He's
Speaker 4: another guy who's really performing well for us on special
Speaker 4: teams too. But for him to step in and play
Speaker 4: that those guys the night before the game that you know,
Speaker 4: both him and Luke and Otis had a huge opportunity
Speaker 4: in front of him, you know, to play a meaningful
Speaker 4: NFL football in a starting role and just to see
Speaker 4: how hungry and how physical they could be. And they
Speaker 4: were fantastic in that regard.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 4: They did those two things as good as you can
Speaker 4: ask for anybody to do. And you know, Otis is
Speaker 4: is that's the one thing. He's going to play as
Speaker 4: fast as he can, and he is going to hit
Speaker 4: whatever's in front of him and it's going to hurt.
Speaker 4: And that's what you love about him. And there's things
Speaker 4: that he can clean up and get better at. But
Speaker 4: I was really impressed with both those guys.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a guy that, like certain players are in basketball,
Speaker 1: you want to see a guy dunk, doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: he can shoot or do anything else. Everybody on the
Speaker 1: team's like, oh, so and so's good a dunk. Let's
Speaker 1: all watch. Everybody on the team wants to see Otis
Speaker 1: hit somebody.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they enjoy it when he does.
Speaker 1: I know, but he's that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's he was like that in the preseason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of the reasons why you want a
Speaker 4: guy like Otis on your team. And he's got athletic
Speaker 4: a so he can be good and kick coverage and
Speaker 4: those things are all important. And to see him get
Speaker 4: an oportunity to play in the game and play well
Speaker 4: was was really cool. I think a lot of guys
Speaker 4: root for him.
Speaker 1: Did Jarvis Brownlee play as well at the Nickel as
Speaker 1: you hoped?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's he was playing outside and bass defense,
Speaker 4: and then he kick inside when when we went to nickel,
Speaker 4: and I thought that was a really impressive thing to do.
Speaker 4: I mean, he hadn't been inside in a long time,
Speaker 4: and there is nuance to play nickel.
Speaker 2: It is not easy.
Speaker 4: There's run fits, there's coverage, leverage, there's uh there's a
Speaker 4: lot of things that go with it. Takes us a
Speaker 4: really smart player to play nickel well. And I think
Speaker 4: Jarvis just showed his versatility. And you got to be
Speaker 4: physical in there. It's a it's a it's it's a
Speaker 4: usually a smaller dB, but it's a big man's position.
Speaker 4: You have to play big in there, which is what
Speaker 4: Roger does so well. Is you got to be physical,
Speaker 4: you got to fit the run, you got to be
Speaker 4: able to do a lot of things. And I thought
Speaker 4: Jarvis did a really nice job going in between both spots,
Speaker 4: playing outside and playing inside, and I think he was
Speaker 4: It was good to see him be able to do that.
Speaker 3: You mentioned special teams players earlier. Was this the most
Speaker 3: complete special teams performance you've seen so far this season?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 4: I think we covered as in all coverage phases as
Speaker 4: good as we've covered major challenge issue to them. I
Speaker 4: told them Saturday night that the challenge this week is
Speaker 4: I don't want to see I don't want to see
Speaker 4: the starting field position past the thirty. Too many times
Speaker 4: we've given people field position. It's just like a figure
Speaker 4: out a way to get him, and we stopped him
Speaker 4: inside the thirty every time except for one touchback. They
Speaker 4: wanted to thirty. So I thought that our coverage units
Speaker 4: were fantastic. They played fast, they played physical. I think
Speaker 4: the two guys that get a lot of shouldn't deserve
Speaker 4: some creditors are two gunners. I think Justin Hardee has been.
Speaker 4: He was not in the stat sheet, but his presence
Speaker 4: is he gets the double, he gets, he draws penalties,
Speaker 4: he's a presence people aware. And then Bryce Oliver continues
Speaker 4: to really make an impact on special teams as a gunner.
Speaker 4: I thought he was fantastic in the game. Drew a penalty,
Speaker 4: was down for some fair catches, he got the single,
Speaker 4: he was winning. That's a that's a really awesome thing
Speaker 4: to see. He's a guy like Bryce step up and
Speaker 4: make special teams plays.
Speaker 3: What do you think led to that consistency in the
Speaker 3: play was it the challenge that you issued.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not gonna take credit for that necessarily.
Speaker 4: I just think I think we've actually played, you know,
Speaker 4: pretty good on Special Teams over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: And again there's been you know, a particularly a punk
Speaker 4: coverage phase I think has been really pretty good for
Speaker 4: a while now. The kick coverage has had moments, but
Speaker 4: again now we've got some guys get some opportunities to
Speaker 4: play in there. You know, think Julius Chestnut's playing really
Speaker 4: well in there and kickoff cover. You know, we we've
Speaker 4: thrown d m R played this this week on Special Teams.
Speaker 4: Tomy Otacoy play like. There's a bunch of guys in
Speaker 4: there playing. I think James Williams is really starting to
Speaker 4: come on as a Special Teams player. So these guys
Speaker 4: are getting better as the year goes on, particularly the
Speaker 4: young players that have had opportunities to play. They're getting
Speaker 4: better every week. And I think you're seeing the result
Speaker 4: of time on task for a lot of these guys
Speaker 4: that are that are new to that that world.
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Speaker 1: continue with Titans head coach Brian Callahan. You mentioned in
Speaker 1: your Monday press conference that you were very frank with
Speaker 1: your football team when they came back to work. Mind
Speaker 1: sharing some of the gist of what you were getting
Speaker 1: at with that frankness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the gist of it is that there was really
Speaker 4: a lot of good football on that tape, and there
Speaker 4: was a handful of plays that lost the game for us.
Speaker 4: And you know, you try to show how how we
Speaker 4: lose games or how you win games every week and
Speaker 4: where the critical factors are. And at the end of
Speaker 4: the DA you have the messages. You got to step back.
Speaker 4: We're knocked out a playoff contention. You got to acknowledge it.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's not where we wanted to be,
Speaker 4: where I thought we would be, but we are we're
Speaker 4: here where we've won three games, we haven't won enough games,
Speaker 4: and so you got a month left to play. And
Speaker 4: I think that's important to be straightforward about that that
Speaker 4: this isn't important. This is important. It's important for a
Speaker 4: couple of reasons. Because there is a future aspect to this.
Speaker 4: There is a building for what's next. And look, no
Speaker 4: one wants to hear that with four games to play,
Speaker 4: but there's only four games left in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: and then the focus will shift to twenty five, and
Speaker 4: that's an important stretch for us. These are games. You know,
Speaker 4: we got three more divisional games in this stretch. We
Speaker 4: got a game against a really good football team that's
Speaker 4: had some struggles as well this year, but in the Bengals.
Speaker 4: And I just very much believe that this how you
Speaker 4: finish this season sets sets the kind of course and
Speaker 4: the foundation for what's next. And I think it's okay
Speaker 4: to say that, it's okay to acknowledge that. And the
Speaker 4: other part of it is that we're all paid professionals.
Speaker 4: Our job is to coach and play football, and the
Speaker 4: expectation is that we do everything we do this week.
Speaker 4: In the next four weeks, the exact same way we
Speaker 4: did the first four weeks, and that we go out
Speaker 4: and play and prepare and do everything exactly the same,
Speaker 4: and to trust that this process is making we are
Speaker 4: making the progress we need to make. We're not necessarily
Speaker 4: having wins and losses a show for it, but we
Speaker 4: have a process in place, and to trust that, and
Speaker 4: to trust in the coaches, and trust in different office,
Speaker 4: and trust each other because we have a lot of
Speaker 4: young players that are all going to be here next year.
Speaker 4: We got guys in our contract, so these are important games,
Speaker 4: and to think anything other than that would be would
Speaker 4: ultimately be unprofessional. And so I just want to make
Speaker 4: sure that message was very clear to them and that
Speaker 4: they knew how I felt about it, and that the
Speaker 4: expectation is for them to feel the same. And we've
Speaker 4: played well. This team has been connected all year long.
Speaker 4: They play for each other, they do things the right way,
Speaker 4: and I love them for it, and I love everything
Speaker 4: about the stuff that not everybody gets to see every day.
Speaker 4: And I think you guys see a little bit of
Speaker 4: that too. But ultimately that was the main message, like, look,
Speaker 4: it's you know, we're not where we want to be.
Speaker 4: It's not where we thought we'd be. But there are
Speaker 4: an expectation for what for what remains of this season,
Speaker 4: and the expectation is to play well and to do
Speaker 4: the things we've done all year long in the same manner.
Speaker 4: And you know, again it's it's it's honest, and but
Speaker 4: you have to be sometimes.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's turn to Cincinnati, which they can throw,
Speaker 3: they can score. Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase are both
Speaker 3: having statistically really strong seasons. Why do you think that.
Speaker 2: Is the two best players at their position?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, Joe, Joe is Joe has now I
Speaker 4: think officially, not that anybody needed to know, but I
Speaker 4: think he's He's been in this spot for two or
Speaker 4: three years now, but now I think this year it's
Speaker 4: it's he's he's totally become a guy that can take
Speaker 4: over a game and there's only a couple of those.
Speaker 4: I think he's the best quarterback in football this year.
Speaker 4: I think the way he's played, both statistically and what
Speaker 4: he's done offensively, he is is is playing as the
Speaker 4: best player in football. And I don't I don't vote
Speaker 4: for MVPs, but you know, everything about how he's played
Speaker 4: would point to him being the most Valuable player in
Speaker 4: football this year based on what he's done, and he's
Speaker 4: he's fantastic. He's one of one of probably five quarterbacks
Speaker 4: in this league that can that can truly take over
Speaker 4: a game. And then he's he's really, really, really good
Speaker 4: at playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a second on a motion that I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make to outlaw wide receivers from LSU in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Brian, I'm wondering, would you go with me
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially since we have to play against them, So, yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Just played against one who had quite a second half. Correct,
Speaker 1: Young Thomas. Why is Jamar Chase so good?
Speaker 4: How much time you want to spend? I'll say this,
Speaker 4: this is what I'll give you. My personal opinion is
Speaker 4: one is he is. He is an incredible worker. He's
Speaker 4: probably one of our hardest workers in Cincinnati while I
Speaker 4: was there. He almost never misses practice. He can run
Speaker 4: all day long, so he's he can, he's capable putting
Speaker 4: the work in. He's incredibly intelligent, like his football intelligence
Speaker 4: on where to be, how to get there, what lever
Speaker 4: like fantastic, like off the charts. And then he's got
Speaker 4: a play strength that I think is unique to just
Speaker 4: about maybe him. His ability to stay stacked and not
Speaker 4: get moved off the point and play physical are really unique.
Speaker 4: He's got incredibly strong hands, incredibly strong contact balance, He's
Speaker 4: a he's a freak athlete on top of it. So
Speaker 4: he just has this package of things physically that are
Speaker 4: better than most people on the planet.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then he's got the mindset to go with it.
Speaker 4: And and that's what makes him great. And that's what
Speaker 4: all great players are like. And you know, one of
Speaker 4: the things that that I think sets him apart from
Speaker 4: everybody in the league is you know, when he puts
Speaker 4: his helmet on and puts a chin strap on, you
Speaker 4: know he's going to go on the field and he's
Speaker 4: going to try to take your soul. And I think
Speaker 4: the quarterback's the same way. And you got two guys
Speaker 4: like that, and and and it shows what with their production,
Speaker 4: what they do on a week to week.
Speaker 3: Basis watching these guys as the opponent, is that the
Speaker 3: weirdest part about this week getting ready to go up
Speaker 3: against your former team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that that part is weird because it's
Speaker 4: like I've spent you know, I spent five years in
Speaker 4: the NFL is a lifetime. I mean, that's a long
Speaker 4: time to be anywhere, and you're lucky if you can
Speaker 4: get to that point. And I've also seen them grow up,
Speaker 4: you know. I was with both those guys as rookies
Speaker 4: and a lot of those players for a long time
Speaker 4: and to see where they're at and what they've turned
Speaker 4: into and the types of players that we thought they
Speaker 4: were capable of being, and now that they are. You
Speaker 4: see it weekly that they're the best in football. It's
Speaker 4: it's a weird thing. It's like, I'm proud and I'm
Speaker 4: happy for him, and then I'm like, oh, we got
Speaker 4: to play these guys and we got to defend them,
Speaker 4: so that part is not as exciting. I can see
Speaker 4: why people had had trouble trying to get ready for
Speaker 4: those years in Cincinnati and how how hard it was
Speaker 4: to get ready for those guys.
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Speaker 3: Understanding that the Bengals are averaging twenty eight points per game,
Speaker 3: will that change the way that you call plays or
Speaker 3: call your offense on Sunday?
Speaker 4: It's certainly part of it. You know, there's a there's
Speaker 4: a complimentary aspect of the game, and you know, defensively
Speaker 4: they've they've had their struggles this year and an offensive
Speaker 4: move we had ore So we have to find a
Speaker 4: way to complement our defense, do our best to keep
Speaker 4: them off the field where we can. It's hard to
Speaker 4: play a game where you can. You think you're just
Speaker 4: gonna like run the ball every play and take the clock.
Speaker 2: That's hard to do. You still got to be aggressive
Speaker 2: and all that.
Speaker 4: But there's gonna be a complimentary aspect offensively and defensively.
Speaker 4: Special teams of the field, position part of it. The
Speaker 4: running of the football, the clock keeping them off the field.
Speaker 4: All those things are when you play a great offense,
Speaker 4: you have to do well, but we have to play
Speaker 4: a complete game as a full team to minimize their
Speaker 4: ability to score points.
Speaker 1: We'll see you throughout the course of the week as
Speaker 1: you prepare.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for having me.