Speaker 1: A little too much made of having you know, all
Speaker 1: the secrets the ingredients because it was at the Redskins
Speaker 1: last year, and how much will you dive into that
Speaker 1: with him to get kind of an idea of what
Speaker 1: they like to do beyond you know, all the study
Speaker 1: that you guys have done. You know, I think there's
Speaker 1: been around in a part of this kind of dynamic
Speaker 1: many times over the years. There's usually a general debriefing
Speaker 1: my experiences, it's usually a little bit overrated. Um, so
Speaker 1: you still debrief, that's the thing to do, but you
Speaker 1: you still focus on on your plan and what you know.
Speaker 1: You only got in the end zone against the Redskins
Speaker 1: once in the two games. Um, what was it about
Speaker 1: their defense that where you weren't able to score more?
Speaker 1: They played well? They put pressure on us. Uh, they
Speaker 1: put pressure on the quarterback. We were in a lot
Speaker 1: of long yardage situations, you know, didn't We weren't in
Speaker 1: sync really in any of our faces. So, um, we
Speaker 1: have to be better in all areas against this team.
Speaker 1: I mean there they can be a good defense. They
Speaker 1: have good players that they had a good plan against
Speaker 1: us last year. Um, we just need to be better
Speaker 1: this year. Providing that you know. I think for every quarterback,
Speaker 1: there's a great feeling that you have as a quarterback
Speaker 1: when you're either in the shotgun or under center and
Speaker 1: you kind of look out there and you see your guy,
Speaker 1: and you look across and you see who's covering them.
Speaker 1: And when you have a feeling as a quarterback like
Speaker 1: he's always open, he can always win, it gives a
Speaker 1: quarterback a lot of confidence. And that's you can't can't
Speaker 1: underestimate how important that is. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: primary thing that now Sean brings to the table as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. When you have a guy like that, does
Speaker 1: it take a little while to understand that in game
Speaker 1: situations that even if he's not open, he's open. I
Speaker 1: do think it's I do think it's always developing and
Speaker 1: where you can throw it and where those windows are.
Speaker 1: And certainly you know he's got big catch radius and
Speaker 1: excellent ball skills u and versus different corners on certain
Speaker 1: different routes, on contested catches, on a slant route, it
Speaker 1: looks different than on the go route and where you
Speaker 1: place that ball. So some of that you do grow
Speaker 1: and developing and reading his body language and finding just
Speaker 1: how far you can stretch him because he does have
Speaker 1: a big catch radius. Lane's first game of his suspension
Speaker 1: was the at Washington game last year. What have you
Speaker 1: noticed from him as he's gearing up for, you know,
Speaker 1: a season where it looks like he's he's up for
Speaker 1: a little bit of redemption. I mean, I think Lane
Speaker 1: has you know, Lane just looked great. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: had a great offseason, great camp. Lane is in a
Speaker 1: he's a leader in a lot of ways. He's not
Speaker 1: the most vocal leader, but love the way he practices.
Speaker 1: Love is intensity. You know, he's a very intense individual,
Speaker 1: and I think you can see that when he's in
Speaker 1: the meeting room, when he's on the practice field, and
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to a great game and a great
Speaker 1: season from him, for sure. Visit a more balanced game plan,
Speaker 1: I suppose the last year bought to this year with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins line plans, we envisiting play yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you know, we go in every week wanting
Speaker 1: to be balanced, you know, and there's always a ten
Speaker 1: percent margin either way on that is what balanced is.
Speaker 1: Let's just say for example, and you just don't want
Speaker 1: to go to the extremes very often, you know, it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. In the course of sixteen games. You
Speaker 1: know there's going to be games where you're a little
Speaker 1: run heavy, and there's going to be some games where
Speaker 1: you end up being pass heavy. It usually usually always happens,
Speaker 1: but in the perfect world, you know, we can keep
Speaker 1: them off balance. As an offense, every offense wants to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. You want to dictate the tempo
Speaker 1: and you want todt and you want to impose your
Speaker 1: will on the defense. And what that means is that
Speaker 1: you want to be able to run the ball when
Speaker 1: you want to run it, and throw it when you
Speaker 1: want to throw it, and do the different kind of
Speaker 1: things that you know, the drop back stuff, the empties,
Speaker 1: the movements, play pass, you know all those things. You
Speaker 1: want to mix those and you have a plan on
Speaker 1: how you're gonna tack. You have every phase of this.
Speaker 1: You emphasize certain things certain certain weeks based on the
Speaker 1: opponent you're planning and who you have, and then as
Speaker 1: the course of the game goes, you adjust and you
Speaker 1: get a feel as a play caller, and which I
Speaker 1: think coach does a great job of where where we're
Speaker 1: excelling at and so yeah, I think we want to
Speaker 1: we want to be balanced, like going into this week
Speaker 1: knowing you have your quarterback in place. He has a
Speaker 1: full year of experience under the belt as opposed to
Speaker 1: last year, when you know the trader was just made
Speaker 1: and here they talked, well, Carson su quarterback, you got
Speaker 1: to get him ready. I mean, how much of a
Speaker 1: difference is that. There's a huge difference in every way.
Speaker 1: It's not that he's you know, I mean, he's Carson.
Speaker 1: He's prepared, he's emotionally and physically and in every way
Speaker 1: he's a better player. And you still got to go
Speaker 1: improve that and it starts this week. But he's proving
Speaker 1: it in every phase of the off season. We've been
Speaker 1: able to see it. Everyone can see it. I mean
Speaker 1: everyone can see um the improvements that are made, his
Speaker 1: complete command of the offense, his leadership on the team.
Speaker 1: I think those are of all been expected strides. But
Speaker 1: I would say he's exceeded he you know, at some
Speaker 1: incremental level, he's exceeded the strides that you want. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't go from here to here. You can't jump
Speaker 1: to three steps in a year. No, no player just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. You'd like to think that, but you can
Speaker 1: go in small increments and and uh and I think
Speaker 1: that he has done that and really exceeded where I
Speaker 1: think you would expect him to be. Like last year
Speaker 1: at this time, you know, put together a game plan
Speaker 1: for the opener, and like with a quarterback who barely
Speaker 1: played like during the preseason and wondering if he can
Speaker 1: handle all this stuff and everything. Yeah, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: there was a real big focus on keeping it extremely simple.
Speaker 1: You always want to be able to play fast, but
Speaker 1: certainly when you have a rookie quarterback like we did
Speaker 1: last year who really didn't play much in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But a credit to Carson was he was prepared. He
Speaker 1: was mentally prepared. I mean, he's off the charts smart.
Speaker 1: I mean that's been well documented and discussed. But even
Speaker 1: though he wasn't getting physical reps, even while he was
Speaker 1: hurt in preseason, he was a real pro and extremely
Speaker 1: gifted and talented in that area to have a pretty
Speaker 1: good embrace on the offense. Had players that talent was
Speaker 1: the ideal number of targets that they want to get
Speaker 1: to this repea you know, I think if you're looking
Speaker 1: at an ideal number of targets again, the flow of
Speaker 1: the game is going to dictate that, but I can
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I would say, is that we go
Speaker 1: through the game plan and you guys have heard us
Speaker 1: say this before. Is you know, we have our seventeen plays.
Speaker 1: You know, here's the plays that are designed to go
Speaker 1: to seventeen. And sometimes in the course of a play calling,
Speaker 1: you can't you know, like we might have X number
Speaker 1: of plays that are that are where he's the primary guy,
Speaker 1: and you envision getting ten or twelve of those two
Speaker 1: him and the flow of the game goes a little
Speaker 1: different than you anticipated. So it's hard to put a
Speaker 1: direct number on it. But certainly he he is a
Speaker 1: primary playmaker for us who we're going to make a
Speaker 1: conscious effort to get the football. A good sense Brancat,
Speaker 1: how you're going to deploy this this running back group.
Speaker 1: You have a guy to sort of hang your hat on.
Speaker 1: And when you I think it's I think I think
Speaker 1: it's exciting to think about how to deploy this running
Speaker 1: back group. Um, you know the by by committee thing
Speaker 1: and as coaches alluded to the hot hand thing. Um,
Speaker 1: again that saw for the flow of the game. But again,
Speaker 1: when you're when you're putting together that plan, and you're
Speaker 1: and you're looking through and we literally at every skilled position,
Speaker 1: go through every play and say who do we win
Speaker 1: in on this play? Who who is utilized best on
Speaker 1: this play? And sometimes the answers, well, hey, we can
Speaker 1: have Lea Garrett m Wendo. You know, they both would
Speaker 1: be suitable for this play. So sometimes there's more than
Speaker 1: one guy and we kind of keep that in mind
Speaker 1: and one time we'll run the play with one the
Speaker 1: next time we might run it with the other guy.
Speaker 1: If the one guy hits it hard and good the
Speaker 1: first time, we might just let him roll with it
Speaker 1: again the second time. And then there's things where obviously
Speaker 1: we're using Darren and mixing things up like that. So
Speaker 1: it's exciting to do to look through. It's not hard
Speaker 1: to do, it's it's very tedious. It's the kind of
Speaker 1: detail that you have to do in game planning to
Speaker 1: go through every play, every position. Are we best utilizing
Speaker 1: our players? Because ultimately it's about players making plays, and
Speaker 1: we got it. It's our job to put him in
Speaker 1: position to do that. Carson's ability to expand plays, Frank,
Speaker 1: how much more time did you spend this summer on
Speaker 1: scrambled drills and things like that with him and the
Speaker 1: receivers than maybe you did last year with Sam. And
Speaker 1: where are they right now as far as being in
Speaker 1: sync on that? You know, I think we've spent an
Speaker 1: appropriate amount of time drilling it in the off season.
Speaker 1: In seven on seven drills, we mix in scrambles, so
Speaker 1: we're obviously you know you're in the seven seven drill,
Speaker 1: there's no rush, but you know you you fake scrambles
Speaker 1: to get guys and try to get it SYNCD up,
Speaker 1: something that's hard to do without really being live. Preseason
Speaker 1: games are the best for that. But and in practice
Speaker 1: when we have manufactured scrambler drills, you've seen some improvement
Speaker 1: we can coach off the tape on those things. So
Speaker 1: I think we've made progress there, But obviously be put
Speaker 1: to the test coming up here and be Parson down
Speaker 1: in his development as a player. Are you guys going
Speaker 1: to do more? Are you're going to go to the
Speaker 1: line and run the play or there will be time
Speaker 1: to run pass checks or or does he ad ability
Speaker 1: to change a play if he sees something. Is he
Speaker 1: that far in his development? Yeah, he's absolutely that. He
Speaker 1: was doing a lot of that last year just because
Speaker 1: of you know, he has he has I think special
Speaker 1: ability in that area. But some of us not just
Speaker 1: a mat smart. Some of it's a matter of feel
Speaker 1: and reading body language and you know, hearing what the
Speaker 1: defense is saying and just feeling certain things that the
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks feel. You know, when they're showing you one
Speaker 1: look and you know you're laughing inside saying they're not
Speaker 1: doing that. I know what they're doing, and but that's
Speaker 1: what great players do. And there was a lot of
Speaker 1: evidence that Carson has those instincts and abilities, not only
Speaker 1: the intellectual abilities, but the instinctive things that you need
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. So that comes very that comes in
Speaker 1: very handy. You know, teams fake a big and all
Speaker 1: outblits and then they're going into coverage or they look
Speaker 1: like coverage and they're going all outblits, and as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't you don't want to put too
Speaker 1: much on them, but you have to be able to
Speaker 1: do enough to get you in and out of certain plays.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to do that thirty forty
Speaker 1: times a game, but there might be five or ten
Speaker 1: times that are absolutely critical and essential that you get
Speaker 1: You get us out of this play and get us
Speaker 1: to something that's going to work and then the runch
Speaker 1: X In the past, you know, we check run to run,
Speaker 1: run to pass, pass to run. We always mix that
Speaker 1: up so defense can't narrow in on us on what
Speaker 1: we're doing with our checks because they're all keeping all
Speaker 1: those stats of when you're checking plays are you're always
Speaker 1: checking the run or you're always checking the pass. We
Speaker 1: track that pretty good ourselves, and we always make sure
Speaker 1: that they can't get too much on us in that area.
Speaker 1: There's a sprules that night's ferry leisure obviously, is that
Speaker 1: where you want to use them or to focus for
Speaker 1: our terms of space? Yeah, I think you know, obviously
Speaker 1: Darren is a great space. You know, get him out
Speaker 1: of space. We can great route run or great hands
Speaker 1: do that as much as we can, but he can
Speaker 1: run the football and so and obviously you know we
Speaker 1: want to hand, we want to get to me and
Speaker 1: to us as a staff. He's one of our playmate,
Speaker 1: he's one of our primary he's another one of our
Speaker 1: primary playmakers. And we got to get in the ball
Speaker 1: and uh in the run game in the past game
Speaker 1: and they're certainly more certain runs that are a little
Speaker 1: bit more suited to him. But Darren's so strong. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody knows. Everybody knows that the legendary, right, this guy
Speaker 1: is one of the strongest guy's pound for pound probably
Speaker 1: in the league. So um, yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: run him up inside a zillion times. But he's not
Speaker 1: a slight guy. This guy's a powerful a powerful man,
Speaker 1: and so we have no problem mixing up the kind
Speaker 1: of runs we use. Certainly some more conducive for him
Speaker 1: than others, but at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: want to get him as touches. We've seen Nelson have
Speaker 1: a really strong spring and kind of summer, and he
Speaker 1: could be the first to tell you that it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter until the games start coming. Is there still
Speaker 1: a level of skepticism that he's gotten over that hump
Speaker 1: heading into this season. I don't think there's any skepticism
Speaker 1: in here. I mean, you have seen him day after
Speaker 1: day after day after day put together solid practices that
Speaker 1: he's looked great, So I have no reason to believe
Speaker 1: that that's not what's going to be what we see
Speaker 1: this season. There's always sort of unknown going until week
Speaker 1: one off off the off season, where are you most
Speaker 1: curious to see how it translates from from the off
Speaker 1: season preseason until we've won fast start and just score
Speaker 1: more points early. You know, I just think we need
Speaker 1: to be more productive. We want to be more productive
Speaker 1: early in games. You know, obviously everybody wants to get
Speaker 1: ahead early and you want to score a lot of points.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, we we did some good things
Speaker 1: last year. We just need we need better production and
Speaker 1: situational football and at the end of the day, that
Speaker 1: needs to result in just more points scored. And certainly
Speaker 1: we want to get off to a fast start. And
Speaker 1: because it needless to say, that just puts our whole
Speaker 1: team in a good position.