Speaker 1: All the injuries for today. Eric Armstead for knee won't practice,
Speaker 1: Dwelly ankle won't practice, Hardgrave hamstring won't practice, Tarvarius Ward
Speaker 1: growing won't practice, Burkes knee won't practice, green Law Hippen
Speaker 1: ankle won't practice, Burford knee won't practice, Elijah Mitchell nee
Speaker 1: will be limited in Luters full back go ahead.
Speaker 2: How difficult does it make? Make it the practice when
Speaker 2: you have seven.
Speaker 1: Guys out not as bad at this time of year,
Speaker 1: just because we're going to have speed anyways on Wednesdays regardless,
Speaker 1: if this was earlier in the year, we'd probably have
Speaker 1: to go have speed just by default.
Speaker 2: And it obviously helps with a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: adding the sixteenth sixteen.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's everything. Yeah, that's helped in so many ways.
Speaker 1: So it's been crucial.
Speaker 3: You obviously don't want Lenord to get good out of games,
Speaker 3: but he is notably like Feist year, I guess you
Speaker 3: know this is in a good way. Does that come
Speaker 3: with confidence just growing up in this league or what
Speaker 3: are your impressions?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I think I mean just knowing Demo's history, I think
Speaker 1: he's always I mean just how he was in college
Speaker 1: and well we had him on him coming out. He's
Speaker 1: always been a pretty feisty guy. But I think the
Speaker 1: more in this league, you learn to play with an edge.
Speaker 1: Whatever that edge is, you need something, and he's found
Speaker 1: that a lot of guys do it that way. Some
Speaker 1: guys do it separate ways, but you got to have
Speaker 1: an edge in this league to kind of get you
Speaker 1: over the top. And Demos found a good way of
Speaker 1: doing that cause he's playing at a higher level each
Speaker 1: and every year. But that's the line you can't cross.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's something i've Our team takes a lot
Speaker 1: of pride in our team. We feel we are as
Speaker 1: physical as you can be, but we don't think that's
Speaker 1: something we ever do. So that was disappointing with him.
Speaker 1: He knew it, Our team knows it. But that's never
Speaker 1: the goal. If you get a penalty, you're wrong. If
Speaker 1: you get ejected, you're twice is wrong?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 3: What do you apologize out?
Speaker 1: How they all do?
Speaker 4: Text?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You text?
Speaker 1: No, That's usually what I do to them, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't answer, but they'll call back and just be
Speaker 1: like I have a bad service, or text back. I'd
Speaker 1: do it to my kids sometimes and they're like what
Speaker 1: the hell is this? We don't look at each other.
Speaker 4: We text.
Speaker 5: Recently that Christian McCaffrey is the best player without the
Speaker 5: ball in his hands that you've ever coached. How would
Speaker 5: you assess Debo Samuel hip department.
Speaker 1: I think he's getting there. I'm not giving him the
Speaker 1: best ever, but Deebo is such a big factor. First
Speaker 1: of all, to be that good without the ball, everyone's
Speaker 1: got to be concerned with you. So people are concerned
Speaker 1: with de bow all the time. That's why we're constantly
Speaker 1: stressing to him the importance of doing stuff on the backside,
Speaker 1: cause people will watch him hard. I think Debo has
Speaker 1: struggled with it when he's been banged up. Anytime you
Speaker 1: can't practice and stuff, it's hard to do that playing
Speaker 1: and play out. That's what I love when you can
Speaker 1: string together some weeks, stay healthy, be able to continue practicing,
Speaker 1: which he's done here for about a month, and now
Speaker 1: he's a big effect without the ball.
Speaker 3: Well, you said one of the favorite passes you sawt
Speaker 3: of Rock was a checkdown uh to deepot. But he
Speaker 3: also had a a pass where he rolled to the
Speaker 3: left and shot it over you'd down the side. What
Speaker 3: makes him so proficient and able to move to his left.
Speaker 5: And make that throw.
Speaker 1: Uh, I th I think he knows where he's going
Speaker 1: with the ball. And then sometimes when color flashes and
Speaker 1: you don't have time to wait for that to show,
Speaker 1: you gotta take your eyes off the look and find
Speaker 1: a way to buy time. And once she does, by
Speaker 1: time he already saw where to go. So then he
Speaker 1: goes to a spot and now the time he's a
Speaker 1: little bit off. So he did a great job of
Speaker 1: fading him away cause you wanna catch that about twenty
Speaker 1: yards and he was. Brock was late to it cause
Speaker 1: he had to be, but it was the right spot
Speaker 1: to go, and then he had to fade him to
Speaker 1: turn it in about thirty something. And that was so
Speaker 1: was so huge by Chris Conley just continuing to run
Speaker 1: down the field. It was a three level throw where
Speaker 1: they're separate from each other. But because Brock broke, I
Speaker 1: U had to go deeper and Conley was still so deep.
Speaker 1: So we still got those three levels and worked out good.
Speaker 2: He'd mentioned the the one throw he made. I think
Speaker 2: it was the debo where he noticed that the safety
Speaker 2: was flat. Put like, how next level is that? At
Speaker 2: what point in the quarterbacks NFL development. Is he not
Speaker 2: just looking at a blurry picture and he can actually
Speaker 2: see a guy's feet.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's stuff that he does very now.
Speaker 1: I think that's the talent in Brock that you can't
Speaker 1: always judge. Like I think vision and stuff is very
Speaker 1: important and doesn't just go into like is he twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: Like there's different types of vision of like looking outside
Speaker 1: wide coming in, like just the the words I never know,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a big deal how your eyes see things.
Speaker 1: And I think Brock recognized the stuff and the speed
Speaker 1: of things and levels, and he knows the whole and
Speaker 1: the people, the defenders and what they should defend. But
Speaker 1: it's always there's a progression. It's like, yeah, this play
Speaker 1: is going to go to here, but that guy might
Speaker 1: not do his job, and so you got to feel
Speaker 1: that make sure if he does his job, we're going
Speaker 1: to number two. That's what he usually does. And Brock
Speaker 1: went to number one, which hadn't been there on tape.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't backing up and we had a fast
Speaker 1: guy in the slot, and you better back up. And
Speaker 1: he hesitated a little bit, and Brocks all that, and
Speaker 1: so he doesn't memorize and guests. He kind of sees
Speaker 1: it and reacts, and that's the cool thing about him.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the defensive guy, like you draw it
Speaker 2: up and pay the defense is played sound soundly, this
Speaker 2: is what this guy should do. But there are times
Speaker 2: where it's it makes it more difficult on the offense
Speaker 2: because the defense isn't doing.
Speaker 1: That's how everything. There's always progression. But you might call
Speaker 1: a play where this guy's number one and the progression,
Speaker 1: but the coverage that they play, he's never opened, so
Speaker 1: you should see he's covered, and then that means number
Speaker 1: two is open. But if you get that coverage and
Speaker 1: you just go right to number two and he's covered,
Speaker 1: you can't go back to number one. So you've got
Speaker 1: to verify things, and so you find I mean, if
Speaker 1: I got in there and played quarterback, I want to
Speaker 1: know anything that's going on. I'd memorize coverages and I
Speaker 1: would try to program before and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I think it's sis. Let me go to number three,
Speaker 1: and then you get fooled, and once you try to
Speaker 1: come back to number one, you're throwing picks or getting sacked.
Speaker 1: So it's it's knowing what's going on, but also still
Speaker 1: playing the game and trying not to get overwhelmed with
Speaker 1: code talk or a film and all that. You got
Speaker 1: to be in a pocket and read things and react,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's it's really tough to play the position.
Speaker 4: Yesterday that Nick Mullins and told him that his arm
Speaker 4: might not be fully normal again until halfway through the season,
Speaker 4: and rockshed that indeed happened.
Speaker 6: Can you see that on film with his throwing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think just like, it's not like
Speaker 1: you can't. It's not that you can see it on film.
Speaker 1: It's not like, wow, it's got a lot more zip.
Speaker 1: He's throwing a lot farther. I think it's about being
Speaker 1: in shape. And like when when receivers go like a
Speaker 1: month without catching a football, they come back and they
Speaker 1: drop balls and it's not because they're their hands aren't
Speaker 1: in shape, because their eyes aren't they're not used to
Speaker 1: running full speed and tracking things that fast, and they
Speaker 1: just don't see it. As well, if a quarterback's not
Speaker 1: throwing in the offseason, he can still. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: they're born to throw, and he throws it right, and
Speaker 1: he can once he was cleared, he was throwing it normal,
Speaker 1: but it's he hasn't. It's not in true shape. He's
Speaker 1: not just doing a day in and day out and
Speaker 1: putting all those reps. And that's why sometimes guys get
Speaker 1: hurt and they can't throw for a few weeks, and
Speaker 1: they come back, they sell their arm strength, but it's
Speaker 1: just not consistent. And I think Brock his consistency's there.
Speaker 1: I think trying to get his arm back in shape
Speaker 1: and building up and ramping all that up with just
Speaker 1: the number of throws and stuff eventually catches up to you.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why that week off he just
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I remember him coming back after the
Speaker 1: week off and he was rusty that Monday, just didn't
Speaker 1: throw it that great. But by the end of that Thursday,
Speaker 1: I thought he was throwing it better than he had
Speaker 1: all year, which means it's just part of getting in shape.
Speaker 1: We know how he can throw, but when you take
Speaker 1: a whole off season off, the conditioning is not quite there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean his arm's not, but just the consistency over
Speaker 1: all the throws has changed, and I think it's back.
Speaker 6: What ways do the Cardinals look different than when you
Speaker 6: saw them earlier?
Speaker 1: In the season. They're doing the exact same stuff. They're
Speaker 1: just better at everything. I got a lot of respect
Speaker 1: of how that they've done this year. I thought they
Speaker 1: were real tough. At the beginning of the year, I
Speaker 1: thought we had to play flawless on offense to beat him,
Speaker 1: and but that that was a real tight game. And
Speaker 1: since then they have how many other games it is,
Speaker 1: nine more games of reps. They're playing very hard, they're
Speaker 1: playing together. They've added some really good players, especially Buddha,
Speaker 1: who they didn't have. I think it's they've always been
Speaker 1: real talented on special teams. They've also gotten a very
Speaker 1: great talented quarterback back. So they remind me of a
Speaker 1: lot of us our first year where we started out
Speaker 1: ZHO nine and finished six and ten. And I think
Speaker 1: everything they're doing is the right way, and I think
Speaker 1: they're a real tough football team.
Speaker 7: The defensive principles you did to keep Jalen Hurts in
Speaker 7: the pocket for Kyler Murray or are they different?
Speaker 1: They're different. I mean, he's still a huge threat to
Speaker 1: run every time, but there's there's a little different style
Speaker 1: on how they play and stuff. So but he has
Speaker 1: a problem anyway. We all know how fast and quick
Speaker 1: he is, and if you give him, no matter what
Speaker 1: you do in coverage, if if you give him those
Speaker 1: open gaps, he's going to get fifteen fast in anybody
Speaker 1: is very much.
Speaker 7: In the MVP conversation.
Speaker 5: But when you have someone like Christian on the team,
Speaker 5: how hard is it to decipher that?
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on that? That's I mean trying
Speaker 1: to get me in trouble with those two guys. That's
Speaker 1: the only reason I want it overly comment on either
Speaker 1: one of them, because I don't want them to cancel
Speaker 1: each other out. But if any quarter if any non quarterback,
Speaker 1: is gonna get an MVP, I don't get how Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey can't. I mean, he's amazing and what he's done
Speaker 1: all year. If it's going to a quarterback, then I
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about Christian. I can talk about
Speaker 1: our quarterback. And I'm still as if his numbers is
Speaker 1: all you see, then I think that solves it up.
Speaker 1: But if you watch the film then it makes it
Speaker 1: even stronger, which to me is the most important thing.
Speaker 7: If you more than one occasion, we see Rock drop
Speaker 7: back and kind of use lefty footwork, kind of drop
Speaker 7: and then flip the hips and as throwing aside is
Speaker 7: that I would imagine that's by design. What's the coaching
Speaker 7: point on the lefty drop for the right quarterback?
Speaker 1: Just parts of their action guards are pulling where our
Speaker 1: backs are going. It's you know, you got to be
Speaker 1: able to move both ways, and I'd rather move to
Speaker 1: the left and throw left hand if he can't do
Speaker 1: that yet, so he's got to turn around. But you
Speaker 1: try to balance everything out so we you know, you
Speaker 1: just don't want to be one dimensional, so it's probably
Speaker 1: easier to go the right, but once you get used
Speaker 1: to doing it both ways and ends up being the same.
Speaker 4: Well, what are your.
Speaker 5: Coaching points for your wide receivers when they line up?
Speaker 5: See what happened to the k seat Buffalo game? How
Speaker 5: you coach him on that? What's your expectation for them
Speaker 5: and the reps? And did you learn something from that play?
Speaker 1: That's just out football always as you as soon as
Speaker 1: it's broke, the white House's got to sprint and get
Speaker 1: lined up as fast as they can. Sometimes the receiver
Speaker 1: doesn't have the ball sets, so they guess where it is,
Speaker 1: They put their foot there, they check with the ref
Speaker 1: and then they move on with their life. Then there's
Speaker 1: a motion something like that. But that's why you got
Speaker 1: to get up there, get set, look to the ref.
Speaker 1: Usually he gives you a thumbs up or something, and
Speaker 1: then you go on.
Speaker 7: You're twenty sixteen offense on paper, seems like it might
Speaker 7: be your best. You've got five top fives.
Speaker 4: How does this one compare.
Speaker 6: To that and the best offenses?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure the uh, I'm not sure at all
Speaker 1: with the numbers, I would assume they're close, and I'm
Speaker 1: still not done with this year yet, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's got a chance to be like that.
Speaker 5: You uh, we're regarding that.
Speaker 3: I know this is not a perfect comparison because Matt
Speaker 3: Ryan was where he was in his career and other differences,
Speaker 3: but the fact that Brock is in his second season
Speaker 3: with you and Matt was in his second season with.
Speaker 7: You, are there similarities and.
Speaker 3: Now what they can do their understanding the offense and
Speaker 3: what they can see, uh within the offense now that
Speaker 3: they have more reps.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, everybody gets better with reps. You know,
Speaker 1: Matt was a lot more comfortable the second year definitely
Speaker 1: than the first year. But I think one thing that
Speaker 1: was harder for Matt is that, you know. I think
Speaker 1: I got there as eighth year, you know, and he
Speaker 1: had played for like six different coordinators, so that's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of more football in his head. So like
Speaker 1: you go through stuff, and you know, Brock was pretty
Speaker 1: clean slate, so it was a Brock was always just
Speaker 1: doing the offense and learning and reacting and playing like
Speaker 1: he's always played. You know, it's different when you do
Speaker 1: a lot more schemes before you give with someone.
Speaker 7: Out of the first match of Arizona, they played tempo
Speaker 7: in a non two minute drill against your defense and
Speaker 7: it seemed to have some effect. Did you guys practice
Speaker 7: up tempo? Have you considered changing the tempo and with
Speaker 7: all the weapons you have, maybe trying to play fast
Speaker 7: in the middle of the game as opposed to just
Speaker 7: a two minutes trump.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, we used to. We used to do that
Speaker 1: all the time twenty sixteen, and we did that probably
Speaker 1: as much as anyone. It's we do it sometimes we
Speaker 1: think it's effective. That's we don't feel like we like
Speaker 1: what we're doing right now, but doesn't mean that we
Speaker 1: want to do it. I think we have done it
Speaker 1: a couple of times.
Speaker 4: This year.
Speaker 1: It just hasn't been that obvious because we don't stay
Speaker 1: in it too long. But we have a whole turbo
Speaker 1: package that we can go to it anytime. It's just
Speaker 1: a couple of words, and we're capable of running our
Speaker 1: offense on the line scrimmage anytime too.
Speaker 3: So it's.
Speaker 1: I feel like we haven't done it in a month,
Speaker 1: but we've always mixed it randomly into game. It's just
Speaker 1: not enough for you guys to notice.
Speaker 7: More bars and uh branch that person.
Speaker 5: One more one more arm arm question.
Speaker 6: He broke missed a couple of deep throws in in
Speaker 6: week two in in LA. I do you think that
Speaker 6: that is kind of uh related to what you were
Speaker 6: describing as you know, maybe throws that he wouldn't fish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I don't, but could be. I there weren't
Speaker 1: easy throws. I remember the one in La he had
Speaker 1: to go all the way across the board to debot
Speaker 1: and just missed him on a post. But no, I
Speaker 1: don't think that had to do with arm fatigue. I
Speaker 1: just wasn't the few he hasn't hit.
Speaker 7: H two quick minutia.
Speaker 4: Uh but probably uh when when you.
Speaker 3: Guys audible and guy's types are helmet, like why why
Speaker 3: is it? Why is that the thing types or helmet?
Speaker 3: And then the the.
Speaker 1: Motion it's pretty lame.
Speaker 3: Worse the motion where Afro, maccafriar or Debo will loop
Speaker 3: back around the quarterback or in motion but then move
Speaker 3: back around. That seems lewish or not. And you know
Speaker 3: what's the idea behind it?
Speaker 1: No, we started I think the first time we did
Speaker 1: it twenty nineteen. Yeah, the idea is just is it slot?
Speaker 1: Is it trips? Is it pro? Is it two back?
Speaker 1: Is he going back into two back? Is he going across?
Speaker 1: It's some people have calls out of two by two,
Speaker 1: then the defense changes to three by one, then it's empty,
Speaker 1: then it's back to and it's just makes it hard
Speaker 1: on the defense, and you just try to balance everything out.
Speaker 1: And we just letting everyone know we're on the same
Speaker 1: page changing our play. We used to go like this
Speaker 1: and it was a little too drastic, so we just
Speaker 1: made it simpler in this and I think some people
Speaker 1: do this. It's just whatever you decide, all right, guess