Speaker 1: All right, guys injuries for practice today. Jake Moody right ankle,
Speaker 1: won't practice, Juwan jennings Hip won't practice, Givens Growing won't practice,
Speaker 1: kittle foot won't practice, Odomnee won't practice, Debo wristslash illness
Speaker 1: won't practice. Trent Williams getting a ved day, Chris Connley
Speaker 1: ankle limited, Nick Bosa elbow limited, Jordan Mason shoulder limited.
Speaker 2: God was Deebo Samuel in fact?
Speaker 3: Pneumonia? Pneumonia? And what is his prognosis?
Speaker 4: Um? Pneumonia?
Speaker 5: He's out of the hospital, who got in here yesterday,
Speaker 5: doing better than you'd expect of that stuff.
Speaker 4: And let's see how he goes throughout the week.
Speaker 3: He's still got a chance to play on something. Yes,
Speaker 3: when I watched the film, there were some miscommunications between
Speaker 3: it looked like Brock and Pale and Brock and I you,
Speaker 3: but it seems like Can't. City's defense sped him up
Speaker 3: quite quite a bit, and he had some things open underneath,
Speaker 3: and he got aggressive down the field. What did you
Speaker 3: see when you watched the film of Brock and how
Speaker 3: would you evaluate them?
Speaker 5: I think I've already said that I don't remember any
Speaker 5: of the miscommunications that you mentioned. There was a couple
Speaker 5: of shots that you had, just like you do through
Speaker 5: every game.
Speaker 4: We didn't hit any of them.
Speaker 6: Though.
Speaker 2: You've had a number of rookies that have already played
Speaker 2: kind of prominent roles and maybe more coming here with
Speaker 2: some of the injuries and stuff. What is your sense
Speaker 2: of just kind of the confidence level of that group
Speaker 2: as a whole, and maybe the way they push each
Speaker 2: other to kind of produce.
Speaker 5: I really liked our rookie class. They've been strong since
Speaker 5: the beginning, the way they came to OTAs. I was
Speaker 5: really impressed with them through a training camp.
Speaker 4: I am now you know.
Speaker 5: It was none of them really, you know, with the
Speaker 5: thought of drafting and didn't have starting roles, but we
Speaker 5: were excited how they practice and everything they knew. They
Speaker 5: we'd give them, they'd give us some depth and Nolson
Speaker 5: are again some opportunities because of injury, and I'm glad
Speaker 5: we have a good group there. I think they'll be
Speaker 5: ready for the challenge and they seem like a tight group.
Speaker 2: When those other guys see a guy like Prudy who
Speaker 2: does step into the role pretty quickly, And did you
Speaker 2: give the sense that those guys are like, hey, this
Speaker 2: is there is opportunity out here for me, even on
Speaker 2: a team that has a roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, I mean I think.
Speaker 5: I mean with Poony, you know, I don't think he
Speaker 5: thought it the first week or so, or at least
Speaker 5: OTAs And then you have two guys go down on
Speaker 5: the first four days of practice and it happens fast.
Speaker 5: So that's a perfect example for everybody. You try to
Speaker 5: tell stories like that all the time to these guys.
Speaker 5: Don't ever think it's a red shirt year. There there's
Speaker 5: no such thing in this league. And it's not just rookies.
Speaker 5: It's the same for practice squad guys. Your only is
Speaker 5: usually it's one injury away, but sometimes it's two. But
Speaker 5: it's it's a matter of time. Some guys can get
Speaker 5: lucky and people stay healthy the whole time and.
Speaker 4: They can really develop the right way. But usually in
Speaker 4: this league you rarely get that.
Speaker 7: How much room do you feel like there is to
Speaker 7: improve on? Maybe sitting protections against.
Speaker 4: The blood on what?
Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean by setting protections against
Speaker 5: the blitz one play.
Speaker 4: In particular, where there were two unblocked. Oh yeah, when
Speaker 4: people blitz more than you have got to throw.
Speaker 7: Hot I mean in finding hot answers. Do you feel
Speaker 7: like rocket the offense has done well?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're usually pretty good versus the blitz. Sometimes they
Speaker 5: get you, they bring to to the back, and sometimes
Speaker 5: your quarterback doesn't see it and catches you off and
Speaker 5: that's where you're hoping for.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't have a sack fumble.
Speaker 5: Usually there's a whole right there and you get to it.
Speaker 5: And but I think we've been pretty good versus that usually.
Speaker 5: We had a chance for a huge one last week
Speaker 5: that was kind of what we wanted and we were
Speaker 5: just about three yards off on the throw and the
Speaker 5: catch by Ba probably would have been a house call
Speaker 5: if we got it. I know we've talked about special
Speaker 5: teams like every week for the last six or seven weeks.
Speaker 4: So what have you guys?
Speaker 2: I guess going into this week focused on improving and
Speaker 2: it's it doesn't seem like there's one culvert each week.
Speaker 2: It just it's something.
Speaker 4: Different each time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just continuing to work with all these guys.
Speaker 5: You know, we've had to move a lot of guys
Speaker 5: around from our our starting gunners at the beginning of
Speaker 5: the year and now starting on defense. You know, we've
Speaker 5: had to change our pp or wings, you know, I
Speaker 5: think our right guard, I think we've changed.
Speaker 4: About four times. So there's a bunch of movement on
Speaker 4: those guys. So you just keep developing them.
Speaker 5: You keep working with the individual drills and do all
Speaker 5: stuff full speed, especially tackling and things like that. But
Speaker 5: I mean we're emphasizing everything and trying to get our
Speaker 5: group better.
Speaker 2: We've seen from the Cowboys on film they're coming off
Speaker 2: a pretty big loss.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're coming off a big loss, you know, right
Speaker 5: after their bye week, and they're in a situation similar
Speaker 5: to ours. I mean they want to win and need
Speaker 5: to win as bad as us, So I see it
Speaker 5: a very similar situation.
Speaker 2: Well, how has the mood been in the locker room
Speaker 2: and meetings?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 3: People pretty much flashed Sunday.
Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, I felt good today.
Speaker 5: I mean Monday is always a rough day, but we
Speaker 5: spend a long time on Monday, and when we do
Speaker 5: that from early in the morning till really right when
Speaker 5: I'm done with you guys after that press conference is
Speaker 5: the first time we move on. And then we see
Speaker 5: the players today. So they do their own thing on Tuesdays,
Speaker 5: and they came in today and we've had good meetings.
Speaker 5: We've just had a good walkthrough and guys are ready
Speaker 5: for the week.
Speaker 2: Malc missed up.
Speaker 5: I let the team in tackles, except for that one
Speaker 5: time where he kind of went head to headway with
Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes, and he dealt with that in a kind
Speaker 5: of comical way on social media. What have you seen
Speaker 5: from him in his attitude throughout his working Oh, he's
Speaker 5: been awesome. I thought he played really really good game.
Speaker 5: I thought he had one of the better games on
Speaker 5: our team. I thought he had some really good hits.
Speaker 5: He got an unfortunate position on the goal line, but
Speaker 5: that's what I like about him. He's not gonna sit
Speaker 5: there and take a creative angle, even if he's not
Speaker 5: in a position to have his legs under him. He's
Speaker 5: gonna just throw his body out there and do whatever
Speaker 5: he can. And unfortunately, you got to deal with social
Speaker 5: media these days, but I haven't had to deal with it,
Speaker 5: so I don't know how bad it is for him.
Speaker 5: But I thought he had one of his better games.
Speaker 3: I said afterwards that hey, I'm ready to go again,
Speaker 3: But it could have been adrenaline talk. And after he
Speaker 3: played way more than he thought he have you talked
Speaker 3: to him what his pounce back then like after playing
Speaker 3: as much as.
Speaker 5: He did well, I mean, he was healthy going into
Speaker 5: the week, so you know, he's just getting him back
Speaker 5: in the stuff. And I mean the more he plays,
Speaker 5: the better he's gonna get. So he got that you
Speaker 5: could see throughout the week in practice, and then it's
Speaker 5: only going to help him going forward, getting more reps
Speaker 5: in the game than anticipated with the guys going down,
Speaker 5: So I expect him to get more comfortable each week
Speaker 5: on the hits.
Speaker 8: That Malex delivering.
Speaker 6: Can you hear a difference on the sideline?
Speaker 3: They look vicious from up top?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can hear it, you can see it. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's one of those guys that we called a sprint tackle.
Speaker 5: He doesn't really you know, you have a long stride
Speaker 5: to eat up the grass and a short stride to
Speaker 5: kind of hit guys, and he's just long stride. He
Speaker 5: kind of goes right through him and there's one speed
Speaker 5: and uh, that's the best way to tackle guys as
Speaker 5: long as.
Speaker 4: You don't miss when you guys get off to a
Speaker 4: slower stut.
Speaker 6: Like how much do you rely on like the leadership
Speaker 6: and the captains to kind of keep the calm or
Speaker 6: keep you guys point in the right direction.
Speaker 4: I mean, we got great captains, We've got a great team.
Speaker 5: I mean there's not you know, we've been in the
Speaker 5: situation before where not everything's going perfect and you're a
Speaker 5: little backs against the wall. But our group, our culture,
Speaker 5: it's never really been an issue. I've never had to
Speaker 5: make a big deal about stuff, And anytime that there is,
Speaker 5: I'll call guys and address it. But our team's got
Speaker 5: to We know each other pretty well. I think they
Speaker 5: know me pretty well. And we got a group that
Speaker 5: a bunch of good people that don't blame each other
Speaker 5: and know what you got to do after stuff like this,
Speaker 5: there's only one thing.
Speaker 4: You can sit and.
Speaker 5: Talk and evaluate all this stuff, or you can get
Speaker 5: to work and find a way to be better the
Speaker 5: next week.
Speaker 2: All right out.
Speaker 5: Special teams to rank their first overall in the league.
Speaker 6: I know numbers don't always.
Speaker 7: Tell the whole story.
Speaker 8: What's what's your take on the.
Speaker 5: State of special teams right now? It's similar to what
Speaker 5: everyone's been saying. Similar to the numbers, we've been struggling
Speaker 5: with it. We gotta especially in the punt return and
Speaker 5: uh are sorry inst the punt and the kickoff. You know,
Speaker 5: guys have gotten two bigger returns on us. I know
Speaker 5: we gave us some blocks early in the year, which, uh,
Speaker 5: you got to get that corrected with certain techniques and everything.
Speaker 5: But we got to get a lot better at it.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's pretty obvious to everybody. It's obvious to us.
Speaker 5: It's been that way for a few weeks. And I
Speaker 5: can't give you guys one narrative on it, cause there's
Speaker 5: not one narrative. It's about working with everyone, holding people accountable,
Speaker 5: and coach them up the best we can to get
Speaker 5: them better.
Speaker 2: His numbers are down this year compared to last year.
Speaker 2: Is that just a function of the injuries around him?
Speaker 4: Or are the things he needs to improve on.
Speaker 5: I think last year is one of the best years
Speaker 5: statistically ever, Like when you look at just efficiency of
Speaker 5: a whole offense, So I think it's hard to do
Speaker 5: that every year. I think when you're missing then FLMVP,
Speaker 5: that doesn't help you know, missing some receivers doesn't help them.
Speaker 5: But I think Brocks having a hell of a year
Speaker 5: statistically all so.
Speaker 3: You guys are struggling to run it in the low
Speaker 3: red zone. Is it more on the backs. Do you
Speaker 3: think more on the line. What is the film showing there?
Speaker 5: It's everybody takes eleven guys to run the ball and
Speaker 5: coaches work on that too, so it's all of us.
Speaker 5: You know, it gets harder as you get down there
Speaker 5: when you don't run it in on first and second down.
Speaker 5: It puts a lot more pressure on the pass game.
Speaker 5: When you do better in the past game, you get
Speaker 5: better run looks. So it's all tied together.
Speaker 3: The practice window for Christians.
Speaker 8: So is their timetable here kind of over the bye
Speaker 8: week to reevaluate that.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's not this week, so hopefully'll be next week.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 8: With Ricky, he seems to be kind of a unique
Speaker 8: skill set guy. Do you put in stuff specifically for
Speaker 8: him or is he just or as part of your offense?
Speaker 2: Do you just kind of plug him in the spots?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's wired to run every route
Speaker 5: as a receiver, you know, like most of I mean,
Speaker 5: I think Devo is the one is more unique just
Speaker 5: in terms of using them as a running back and
Speaker 5: things like that. But Ricky is a plug and play
Speaker 5: with all routes. It's not like he has a small
Speaker 5: route tree and only can do certain things so he
Speaker 5: can run the whole tree three spots.
Speaker 4: I mean he hasn't practiced a lot.
Speaker 5: I mean he knows how to do it on paper
Speaker 5: and stuff, but just like everyone, you need a lot
Speaker 5: more reps to be able to do all three spots.
Speaker 5: But he did a good job of justin in the game.
Speaker 5: He went in the game only playing one spot, and
Speaker 5: a couple of injuries happened, just like always, so you
Speaker 5: got to be prepared for next man up. And uh,
Speaker 5: he didn't have any bus at the new position. So
Speaker 5: that's what you always do. I mean, you only get
Speaker 5: five up on game day, sometimes four. H We try
Speaker 5: to get six if we can roster wise, if we
Speaker 5: got some injuries.
Speaker 4: But I mean that's that's how white outs are.
Speaker 5: You got specific spots for guys, but someone goes down
Speaker 5: and you gotta roll every one to the other spots.
Speaker 6: Question, on return, you are eight guys on that side
Speaker 6: of the field, guy, that was that? Was that overloading
Speaker 6: or is that how it's.
Speaker 8: Supposed to be.
Speaker 5: No, it's because that's where their offensive guys were and
Speaker 5: that's where their return was. They were going that way
Speaker 5: and so there was nothing there. So he just went
Speaker 5: on his own other way. And when he goes on
Speaker 5: his own other way, and the whole offense and defense
Speaker 5: of special teams is on the left, we get ever
Speaker 5: two on block guys on the right turn it back in,
Speaker 5: and they both slipped, so they weren't able to do that.
Speaker 3: Any indication whether Kittle's foot spring could be something that.
Speaker 4: Could keep them out, I hope not. They can't go
Speaker 4: to day. Thank you all right, Thanks guys,