Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you know, what are the challenges for
Speaker 1: defense presents for you? You know, when you go up
Speaker 1: against a coach Zimmer defense, it's always the biggest challenge
Speaker 1: of the year. They're so well coached, very disciplined, tough, fast,
Speaker 1: good challenge for us this week. Great schemes, very well coached,
Speaker 1: and good personnel. So we have our work cut out
Speaker 1: for us at home playing you know, obviously playing tackle
Speaker 1: at home is easier because you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the noise, a little bit better on the snap
Speaker 1: count the quarterback. We can mix our snap counts up more,
Speaker 1: which that that helps them out as well. That first
Speaker 1: game mental you know, I think it's fine. You know,
Speaker 1: it was not our best performance as an offensive whole unit,
Speaker 1: and so that tends to accentuate everything, you know, anybody
Speaker 1: who had a negative play here or there. So I
Speaker 1: think we all learned from it, including Big V. I
Speaker 1: think we want to in any business, certainly in our business,
Speaker 1: we want to have the maturity to understand, you know,
Speaker 1: not to overreact, but yet to still have a sense
Speaker 1: of urgency. And so it wasn't a great performance, like
Speaker 1: I said, as a unit, have a sense of urgency,
Speaker 1: to get better individually collectively and make improvements this week
Speaker 1: A lot earlier in the game. Did that have an
Speaker 1: effect on him? Sorry, was hit pretty early in the game,
Speaker 1: But early did that happen affect on it? It usually
Speaker 1: has an effect on most quarterbacks, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I mean that's everybody knows that you play this business
Speaker 1: and you know you got to regroup from it. But
Speaker 1: it's hard to stand back there and get hit early
Speaker 1: and not let it affect you. Carson's tough. He can
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket with poise with the best of them.
Speaker 1: We've seen that. That's one of I think his strengths.
Speaker 1: One of the things that so impressed me early on
Speaker 1: in his games, where the poison confidence he had in
Speaker 1: the pocket. We got to hit a couple of times early,
Speaker 1: and you know, your footwork gets a little bit shaky
Speaker 1: at times on a couple of things. That's for everybody,
Speaker 1: and so we just got to clean up the pocket.
Speaker 1: We got to do a better job help him out.
Speaker 1: We have to help him out as much as we can,
Speaker 1: and because we know that when when we do that,
Speaker 1: he'll stand back there with confidence. When you have that
Speaker 1: poise and you don't get ancy. Is there all tendency
Speaker 1: sometimes to hold the wall a little bit too long,
Speaker 1: you know. I think, uh, some quarterbacks have that tendency
Speaker 1: more than others. One of the things I like about Carson,
Speaker 1: I think he has a good internal clock. As we
Speaker 1: all talk about, um, he's not a guy. He has
Speaker 1: that clock that I think it comes out quickly for
Speaker 1: him naturally, and that's one of the things we really
Speaker 1: like about him. So I think if we protect it well,
Speaker 1: he has a natural clock to get it out on time.
Speaker 1: His difficulty in getting very deep into his progressions one
Speaker 1: of the reasons Zach was not targeted very often, now,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean again, you know Zach being out
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks I think, and getting back in
Speaker 1: sometimes it just takes a couple of weeks to get
Speaker 1: work back in. Again, different games dictate different things, so
Speaker 1: I tend not to I tend not to overanalyze targets,
Speaker 1: you know, in a in a microscopic sense. I need
Speaker 1: to see it over three or four weeks. And then
Speaker 1: if if a guy's not getting target over three or
Speaker 1: four weeks, then I say, maybe we're not doing enough
Speaker 1: for him. If it's just one or two weeks, I
Speaker 1: tend to just say that's just the flow of the
Speaker 1: game that you guys will start to try to do
Speaker 1: to get Zach more involved in the passing game. We
Speaker 1: we literally sit down every week, you know, coach, when
Speaker 1: we sit down and we talk about the game plan,
Speaker 1: and we look at plays, every play that we have
Speaker 1: in our offense. Even though it's they're all the basic plays,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving parts where we change personnel groups,
Speaker 1: we change formations, we still run the same concepts. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we do that. Sometimes we do that just to give
Speaker 1: the defense a different look. Sometimes we do that to
Speaker 1: accentuate a matchup. So, yes, the answer is yes, we're
Speaker 1: always looking at that every week for all of our
Speaker 1: players when we find the right matchups that we want
Speaker 1: to try to that you were talking about, is there
Speaker 1: a tendency to hang on to it a little longer
Speaker 1: when you're playing from behind and looking for the better play?
Speaker 1: You know, got him a little bit of trouble. I
Speaker 1: mean that possibly, I mean at times, at times at times,
Speaker 1: but I think as a general rule, you know, you
Speaker 1: he just has that it wants to come out. You know.
Speaker 1: Part of that is, you know, just just getting in
Speaker 1: that rhythm part of that is, you know, not trying
Speaker 1: to create the big play. You do get behind and
Speaker 1: you maybe you're trying to make that chunk play like
Speaker 1: you're talking about, and you're looking for the down the
Speaker 1: field throw. I think that might be one of the
Speaker 1: lessons learned, you know, from the game, is when you're
Speaker 1: behind five and six yard games, getting it to your
Speaker 1: check downs, there's still all ought to be said for that.
Speaker 1: Do you the highest percentage of snaps he's played this season,
Speaker 1: how is he coming along in particular with the routes
Speaker 1: that he's asked to run DGB. I think is just
Speaker 1: playing very well. And I think he looks fast, he
Speaker 1: looks strong. I mean we see it every time he
Speaker 1: gets the ball in his hands. He's hard to tackle.
Speaker 1: He's a big man who can run fast. He's gaining
Speaker 1: more and more confidence. You know, he's another guy you
Speaker 1: sit down and you say, how do we continue to
Speaker 1: get him the ball more and more without doubt? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a big play guy. The routes that
Speaker 1: he's being asked to run, isn't you know, doing what
Speaker 1: you guys want to do and tack absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're grading if I'm grading him out
Speaker 1: on his route technique and his assignments, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as being one hundred percent on his assignments, as
Speaker 1: far as the route technique that he's using, he's playing
Speaker 1: very well on the offensive. Why you want to barber over?
Speaker 1: But why not try to run that? Why those stripping?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, I think that we're always going
Speaker 1: to collectively as a staff sit down and talk through
Speaker 1: what's the best five that gives us a chance to win.
Speaker 1: And that's really what it's all about. And it's not
Speaker 1: a building project. It's to win this week. And that's
Speaker 1: not We think we have good depth at our offensive line.
Speaker 1: We think Big Vegas is the best chance to win.
Speaker 1: Valuable is it for Carson to have the experience he's
Speaker 1: had in the last two weeks, you know, playing from
Speaker 1: behind in a close game in the finementens I mean,
Speaker 1: I know obviously hasn't been perfect in situations. To how
Speaker 1: much does that help? Is development? I think it really helps.
Speaker 1: You know, coach has a frame, you know, Doug as
Speaker 1: saying that he says to the quarterbacks, you know, you've
Speaker 1: got to find where every bone is buried in this offense.
Speaker 1: And you know you can tell guys where these bones
Speaker 1: are buried within a play, you know, how to get
Speaker 1: to your second or third or where's that check down at?
Speaker 1: And on paper we understand that, but until you actually
Speaker 1: get out there in the field or having to find
Speaker 1: those bones under pressure, that takes it to another level
Speaker 1: of experiential learning. So I think it's been good for him,
Speaker 1: a good opportunity for him to learn and grow in
Speaker 1: those like final minutes of close games. Because really, I mean,
Speaker 1: the last two weeks of the only times has really
Speaker 1: had that experiences very poise. I mean, talking to him
Speaker 1: on the sideline before those drives, I see no change
Speaker 1: in his demeanor. I see no panic in his eyes.
Speaker 1: I see a young man who has a lot of confidence,
Speaker 1: who believes we're gonna win. We just, you know, we've
Speaker 1: got two weeks where we just didn't get it done.
Speaker 1: Explain for the third down situations Sunday, eight of them
Speaker 1: were nine yards or more. It's kind of a season
Speaker 1: long thing with you guys as far as trying to
Speaker 1: get into third and manageables. I mean, how big of
Speaker 1: a concern is that it's a concern. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a big concern. I mean, you can't do. It's it's
Speaker 1: a simple it's simple math. I mean, it's simple math,
Speaker 1: and it that holds up forever. In this league, you
Speaker 1: have for every yard you have to go, your percentages
Speaker 1: are going to go down. So we have to do
Speaker 1: a better job as an offensive unit. All of us
Speaker 1: have to find ways to get in third and manageable,
Speaker 1: especially against this team this week. Explain the double A
Speaker 1: gap system that you'll be going up against. What makes
Speaker 1: it such a challenge. You know everybody has, everybody runs
Speaker 1: a double A gap system, But in my mind, you know,
Speaker 1: this guy's the master of it. Zimmer's the master of it.
Speaker 1: It's his baby. I don't know if he probably didn't
Speaker 1: invent it, but he's mastered it. They run every kind
Speaker 1: of combination there is known to man, and they know
Speaker 1: exactly what you're doing. They know what you're trying. What
Speaker 1: takes it to a different level is they know what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do. They know what teams have done
Speaker 1: to try to counter it. So they've tried to counter that,
Speaker 1: and it's just a cat and mouse game that you play.
Speaker 1: You know, we have our things that you try to
Speaker 1: plan to do to it, and that will do. But
Speaker 1: you can't do the same thing every time because they're
Speaker 1: making in game adjustments to what you're doing. We're making
Speaker 1: in game adjustments to what they're doing. And sometimes you're
Speaker 1: going to hit it right and we'll get the big play.
Speaker 1: Other times, you know, we tell our guys, hey, they
Speaker 1: might get us once or twice. You play this team,
Speaker 1: they might get you once or twice. We got to
Speaker 1: get up off the canvas and then you know, get
Speaker 1: back in the third manageable or punt the ball, don't
Speaker 1: turn it over and let's just keep playing ball. It's done.
Speaker 1: They move the pocket or to combat that well, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a variety of things, you know, you see,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't obviously want to go into too
Speaker 1: much detail because there's things that you want to try
Speaker 1: to do, but you try to block, try to match
Speaker 1: protect and throw it down the field, try to throw
Speaker 1: it short, try to mix in different things, you know,
Speaker 1: quick pet you know, I mean there's you got to
Speaker 1: do it all. Yeah, I mean you have to. You
Speaker 1: have to. I should say, a better way to say
Speaker 1: it is you got to pick two or three things
Speaker 1: that you're going to do, be very proficient at it,
Speaker 1: and mix it up a little bit so that they
Speaker 1: can zone in on what it is that you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. Zimmer, it's sort of a master like you say,
Speaker 1: you know the whole you got? Is this kind of
Speaker 1: a less than ideal week for Jason Kelswidy missing practice? Um? No,
Speaker 1: well yeah, it's always not ideal for one of your
Speaker 1: starters to miss practice. But you know, with Whizz stepping
Speaker 1: in there, you know, Whiz is really really mark, so um,
Speaker 1: you know it's good. I don't think missing a day
Speaker 1: or two of practice for Jason will physically hurt him,
Speaker 1: just because he hasn't missed anything and he's obviously still
Speaker 1: very involved in every meeting and everything we're doing, so
Speaker 1: I'm not that concerned about it. Get him back to DGB.
Speaker 1: I know he came here late, as he completely caught
Speaker 1: up in terms of knowing the offense and everything. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like there's any limitations anymore. I really don't
Speaker 1: feel like there's any limitations. So I think he's full speed. Right.
Speaker 1: That's somebody who played the position on a particular game
Speaker 1: day when the past protection isn't necessarily there point he
Speaker 1: usually is. How much is on the quarterback to get
Speaker 1: the football out even quicker than maybe he usually does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean some of it is, and but it's it's
Speaker 1: on everybody, it really is. And that's not just where
Speaker 1: you know, let's just not talk. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: on a quarterback. It's on it's on a line to
Speaker 1: protect better, the backs to protect better. It's on us
Speaker 1: to kind of you know, you start calling shorter, you know,
Speaker 1: quick or stuff to get it out quick, or call
Speaker 1: rhythm stuff. Um, and that's kind of what we tried
Speaker 1: to do or try to. You know, everybody, you find
Speaker 1: your ways, your chip, you know your chip helps, Um,
Speaker 1: you do quick game, you mix up those things you
Speaker 1: do to try to get your back on rhythm questions place.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks, you've had late drives in in
Speaker 1: games that were very close games, and the late drives
Speaker 1: haven't produced for you that turnovers a couple of times.
Speaker 1: So what do you see any common thread there? What
Speaker 1: do you have to do better late in games? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's botherishing, you know. I mean, when you have two
Speaker 1: opportunities you'd like to you'd like to do execute better
Speaker 1: than we have. Um, you know I don't have in
Speaker 1: two the two games, I can't say that I've seen
Speaker 1: a common thread because the one it was so short
Speaker 1: of a drive. So, you know, I think we have
Speaker 1: I'm very confident in the way we approach those situations
Speaker 1: and how we prepare situationally for that. And so I
Speaker 1: think the key is we just got to get in
Speaker 1: one of these situations, have some success, built some confidence.
Speaker 1: Then there's a lot to be said for the confidence
Speaker 1: in it, you know, just getting out there and you learn,
Speaker 1: you're learning those situations. Just get it going, get the
Speaker 1: drive going, and get those first couple of completions that
Speaker 1: get the defense on their heels a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then hopefully good things happen from there. Execution was how
Speaker 1: much different can you think he's passed by the leaders?
Speaker 1: He's pass by Lease would have been if Sam was
Speaker 1: your rather than personal and maybe not too you know,
Speaker 1: maybe ten percent different. You know, maybe ten percent different. Um,
Speaker 1: that's just a number, but uh, you know, you probably
Speaker 1: have a few more RPO stuff in the game with Carson. Um,
Speaker 1: Sam had a few you know, maybe Sam would have
Speaker 1: had a few things that he'd liked in the past
Speaker 1: game as opposed to what Carson. You know, Carson, that's
Speaker 1: one thing about Carson for a young guy, he's very uh,
Speaker 1: he knows what he likes. You know. A lot of
Speaker 1: times you get a young guy in and and he'll
Speaker 1: just you know, some of the young quarterbacks I've been
Speaker 1: around or you're you're just they'll just run whatever you
Speaker 1: tell him to run. Carson has a very strong opinion
Speaker 1: of what he likes and uh, and he's got to
Speaker 1: build a good relationship with us and with obviously coach,
Speaker 1: so that plays into it. So that probably has a
Speaker 1: little bit to do with the variant step we would
Speaker 1: see and the two guys playing quarterback