Speaker 1: Injuries for today.
Speaker 2: Huff Risk won't practice, flant again, fouls calf won't practice,
Speaker 2: Jake Moody right ankle won't practice, Jordan Elliott knee won't practice,
Speaker 2: Tarvarius Ward knee will be limited, Conley oblique limited, Kittle
Speaker 2: ribs limited, Fred Warner ankle limited, Gyre ankle limited.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Um tore some ligaments in his wrist. Yeah, it would
Speaker 2: be at least a month, probably longer. We haven't could be.
Speaker 2: We haven't decided whether do it or not. Though get
Speaker 2: hurt during the game, had a bruise on his knee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys have to say whether they're questionable today
Speaker 4: because it's Friday, or.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. That's someone messed up with just
Speaker 1: Ron bergendi this thing.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people make a lot about McDonald's
Speaker 5: defense and what happened last year on Christmas. What can
Speaker 5: you tell us about McDonald's scheme and and what makes
Speaker 5: it special?
Speaker 2: I mean, does a real good job mixing all the
Speaker 2: schemes up fronts coverages as players play real hard, their
Speaker 2: coach well, their techniques are good, good tacklers, and they
Speaker 2: mix up the looks.
Speaker 4: Different between that Seahawks squad and a Pete Carroll Seahawks squad.
Speaker 2: I mean the schemes have changed. They run different schemes.
Speaker 6: Like you know, Smith is throwing the ball probably, I
Speaker 6: think maybe more than some people.
Speaker 3: He's throwing it more than any quarterback in the UNFUS.
Speaker 2: So how is he doing and how much.
Speaker 5: Of their offense maybe calls it more around him than
Speaker 5: their running game.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's so early, so you never know, but they
Speaker 2: definitely started out that way. I think Gino's doing a
Speaker 2: hell of a job. He's got three big weapons in
Speaker 2: the past game, including his tight ends. Also, his running
Speaker 2: back is as good as it gets also, so uh,
Speaker 2: they got some talent over there, and they can stretch
Speaker 2: the field and Gino can get hot.
Speaker 4: Do you have a reaction to Robert Solid's dismiss a
Speaker 4: lot of you guys changed texts?
Speaker 2: Then I have a yet, just because of how backed
Speaker 2: up we've been. I might send him a text, but
Speaker 2: I haven't got to talk to him. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: was pretty shocked. You know, that stuff throws you off.
Speaker 2: Especially I think they're competing for first in the division
Speaker 2: this week, and I think they're up there on defense
Speaker 2: and got a pretty good team and a chance to
Speaker 2: have a hell of a year. So that was pretty surprising.
Speaker 3: What has Malleton's job done well so far and how
Speaker 3: has he been in the sort of communication aspect of
Speaker 3: his job.
Speaker 2: I think communication is one of the hardest things, especially
Speaker 2: for a young guy coming in. I think he's been
Speaker 2: getting better at that the more he's been out there.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, just as lack of not has.
Speaker 2: I think I saw that a little in preseason, just
Speaker 2: with some of the hits he had, especially he saw
Speaker 2: a couple in that Tennessee game from what I remember,
Speaker 2: and when he's coming he's done the same stuff. I
Speaker 2: think he gets faster each week, just recognizing things and
Speaker 2: not breaking down and trying to run through his tackles.
Speaker 3: You have the same volume of plays and the same
Speaker 3: size of a playbook on a Thursday game as you
Speaker 3: do for a Sunday game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say the same size.
Speaker 2: You don't try to put it in as much new
Speaker 2: stuff for things that take a while to get down.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we overwhelm.
Speaker 2: Guys on Wednesday, but you can repeat it on a
Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday and come back to it and eventually
Speaker 2: it sticks. So you try not to do that with
Speaker 2: new stuff, but volume wise is much different.
Speaker 6: Kay, I do no harm approach to special teams, which
Speaker 6: can be read as like, well, why would you want
Speaker 6: to make it as great as possible and make a difference?
Speaker 6: Is that an accurate reading and kind of what is
Speaker 6: your philosophy? As far as I guess we want referring
Speaker 6: to it, sometimes you said, you know, we don't want
Speaker 6: them to screw it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I always had the right words
Speaker 2: for that, But what I'm trying to say is you'd
Speaker 2: like to build a team to where you don't feel
Speaker 2: you have to return a kick a punt or have
Speaker 2: a fake kick or a fake punt, or you don't
Speaker 2: have to rely on something like that to get a win.
Speaker 2: I like to feel that you feel like you can
Speaker 2: do it between the offensive defense of just beating someone.
Speaker 2: And I think in this league one of the best
Speaker 2: ways to win games is to not lose a game.
Speaker 1: To not find a way to lose it.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of games are given away, and
Speaker 2: when it comes to special teams with amount of touchbacks
Speaker 2: there are and stuff just extra points, getting a punt off,
Speaker 2: those are opportunities to lose it with any of those
Speaker 2: are blocked. There's only so many special teams plays that
Speaker 2: go into a game, and so you don't want to
Speaker 2: be overly risky on trying to win it there when
Speaker 2: you're only going to have ten to fifteen plays. You
Speaker 2: take out all the touchbacks and stuff. It's even less
Speaker 2: than that, So you don't want to go out of
Speaker 2: your way to to be risky to try to get
Speaker 2: your stuff there. You'd rather do it with people who
Speaker 2: are out there for seventy straight plays.
Speaker 1: This would be a galvanizing moment for your team.
Speaker 3: I understand it's really early, but you have a short
Speaker 3: week at Seattle and then kind of that mini buy
Speaker 3: to just get yourselves right before the two home games
Speaker 3: before the buyers.
Speaker 2: Like where you're at the schedule, Yeah, and I mean
Speaker 2: so many situations. I mean, losing our last two divisional games,
Speaker 2: haven't won this week's huge. Playing against Seattle is always huge.
Speaker 2: Going up, there's always huge, and then always in the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's it's tough to get ready for a Thursday night game,
Speaker 2: but I think everyone enjoys them because.
Speaker 1: There's very rare.
Speaker 2: It's very rare that you get to sit back and
Speaker 2: kind of enjoy that for three days and watch the
Speaker 2: rest of the league, and there are a lot more
Speaker 2: fun when you win, and when you get to sit
Speaker 2: back and be pissed off for three days, it's not
Speaker 2: nearly as much fun.
Speaker 4: It's like we've asked these questions with you know, Robert
Speaker 4: and with Tamiko early in their ten years as defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: But with did is it kind of a similar thing,
Speaker 4: just kind of figuring things out? And you know, how
Speaker 4: would you evaluate just the early part of his tenure
Speaker 4: as deep asive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I think Nick's doing a real good job.
Speaker 2: Then pressed with him since the beginning each week, U
Speaker 2: like how he handles the defensive staff, like how they
Speaker 2: set up the practices, and I've liked his game plans
Speaker 2: and I liked how he's called it. So I've been
Speaker 2: real happy with Nick so far.
Speaker 5: Got the red zone? Is it, you know, creating space
Speaker 5: in the red zone? Is it more about your personnel
Speaker 5: or is it play design?
Speaker 3: Is it quickness?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: What's the key to get in that space in that
Speaker 5: tight area?
Speaker 1: Everything?
Speaker 2: I wish I could give you guys a theme for
Speaker 2: the red zone. But you know, you get three tries
Speaker 2: when you're inside the ten and depending on what you
Speaker 2: do when we run the ball there. I think we
Speaker 2: need to be much more effective running it. You know,
Speaker 2: when you run run the ball twice, you'd like to
Speaker 2: get in and not just put one pressure third down
Speaker 2: on the the past game. And when you do throw
Speaker 2: it more then you got to make sure you come
Speaker 2: through with those, especially not having a negative play with those.
Speaker 2: So running the ball better takes a lot of pressure off.
Speaker 2: Also give some better passing looks. We've tried both and
Speaker 2: haven't been good enough with both though, So it's all
Speaker 2: aspects of offense.
Speaker 1: A couple of really productive games against Seattle last year.
Speaker 1: How would you, I guess assess how he's performing specifically
Speaker 1: as a receiver. I think Deepo is doing a good job.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you know, he had his best game,
Speaker 2: you know, at least statistically, right before he got hurt.
Speaker 2: You know, missed a week and a half and thought
Speaker 2: it was tough for him to come back for the
Speaker 2: New England game, but we were he was able to
Speaker 2: get out there and play, and I think it involved
Speaker 2: a ton last week. But it's usually a matter of
Speaker 2: time with that stuff. That stuff comes full circle and
Speaker 2: Depo's too good to not eventually have a big one.
Speaker 4: Do you have a timeline on Moody is I are
Speaker 4: a possibility?
Speaker 1: It's high ankle sprain.
Speaker 2: So usually with those, I usually say about a month.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they can surprise you and go quicker, sometimes they
Speaker 2: can go longer. So we're not exactly sure yet.
Speaker 1: So ir is an option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just with the how quick this happened, having
Speaker 2: Hugh in that situation where we got to decide Moony
Speaker 2: could be a possible decision. We have a number of
Speaker 2: guys already on it, so we're just trying to weigh
Speaker 2: in all that stuff. Talked a lot.
Speaker 3: About Rock's ability to create with his feet and scramble
Speaker 3: and by time, the fact that he's doing it so
Speaker 3: much mean that you need to be doing a better
Speaker 3: job on offense to get the ball out of his hand.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I mean it goes
Speaker 2: both ways. It's you know, most of the ones that
Speaker 2: we're doing that are deeper plays.
Speaker 1: In the deeper plays and they.
Speaker 2: Get deep people and it's a three man rush that
Speaker 2: usually cover your checkdowns. Plays we've been pretty effective with
Speaker 2: and when they don't do it, and I think that's
Speaker 2: where you see us hit some big crossers, so but
Speaker 2: they have There's times that you want to get rid
Speaker 2: of it quick, but people got to be open quick too,
Speaker 2: which usually has to do with blitzers. If people blitz
Speaker 2: and you get rid of it quick, you will get
Speaker 2: rid of it quick you have to. But when they don't.
Speaker 2: There's sometimes your checkdowns are covered, and when your checkdowns
Speaker 2: are covered, I'm glad we have another option.
Speaker 1: All right, guess thanks, they