Speaker 1: You know who will practice today and who won't. So
Speaker 1: who will not practice? Terrence Brooks um still with that
Speaker 1: right hamstring a strain again, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a week to week deal. Um, he won't practice. Nolan
Speaker 1: Carroll is in the concussion protocol, he will not uh,
Speaker 1: he will not practice today. And then Jordan Matthews, UM
Speaker 1: won't practice. He had some back spasms yesterday that flared
Speaker 1: up on him. So we'll just hold him from today's practice.
Speaker 1: Should be uh, should be good for the game. And
Speaker 1: then everybody else will uh will practice today. When you
Speaker 1: ever hear the first time as a coach, BREDA. Graham
Speaker 1: was kind of still trying to find his way. What
Speaker 1: did he always have that in him? Or did he
Speaker 1: just have to what do you have to do to
Speaker 1: get to this left? I think he just had to
Speaker 1: extremely uh just had to work, you know, had to
Speaker 1: put in the time. You know, he was obviously a
Speaker 1: top draft picked by the Eagles and and you know
Speaker 1: sort of struggled, you know, to play and see the field.
Speaker 1: He was sort of you know, uh, delegated more towards
Speaker 1: special teams. You know, he's a special teams contributor and
Speaker 1: then the thing is he just started making plays on
Speaker 1: special teams, and then it carried over to his confidence,
Speaker 1: his ability to to to make plays on defense. And
Speaker 1: and um, he's definitely a pro's pro. And he's worked
Speaker 1: at his he's worked at his craft and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, UH, love where he's at as a player,
Speaker 1: love him as a person, and and he's he's playing
Speaker 1: at a at a high level today. I'm sorry with
Speaker 1: Nolan and the uh as he moved forward in the
Speaker 1: concussion we have for you know what, I I can't
Speaker 1: comment out he I just got he's in the he's
Speaker 1: in the protocol. We'll find out and I'll find out
Speaker 1: when he when he comes out. Yeah, obviously a really
Speaker 1: tough place to play. Um, with the amount of false
Speaker 1: starts and delays of games you guys have had, how
Speaker 1: important will that aspect of the game being on something?
Speaker 1: It's critical going into this uh into this stadium. You
Speaker 1: know this twelfth Man. Um, It's it's real. And um,
Speaker 1: you know the last time that I was up there
Speaker 1: was h with the with the Eagles a few years back.
Speaker 1: And and um it's a loud place and uh, you
Speaker 1: know those things are the things that that that keep
Speaker 1: your offense, uh from executing and staying on the field.
Speaker 1: And uh, this team definitely feeds off of that and
Speaker 1: and tries to get you in those second, long, third,
Speaker 1: and long situations. And you know, the point of emphasis
Speaker 1: this week obviously is to to be able to handle
Speaker 1: that and and minimize minimize those those penalties with getting
Speaker 1: those first team reps. Shouldn't you know, will not be
Speaker 1: able to go? Is it? Who's kind of a head there?
Speaker 1: And from the corner position, it'd be more CJ. You know,
Speaker 1: he's had a little more time there. Um, and uh,
Speaker 1: he'd be the one that would get little little more,
Speaker 1: a little more attention there. Does he give you than
Speaker 1: the know experience and we've played there so well obviously
Speaker 1: special teams as we know, but uh, you know he
Speaker 1: he you know, played uh played well in preseason. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a speed guy. He's a guy that plays extremely smart.
Speaker 1: There's not many throws that get over the top of him.
Speaker 1: You know, he knows how to play and use his
Speaker 1: technique and um, those are the things that we've seen
Speaker 1: in practice, even when he's on the service team, those
Speaker 1: are the things that have shown up and and uh
Speaker 1: give him an edge you know if he has an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play all of our home you played very
Speaker 1: very well at home, especially defense and getting started fast.
Speaker 1: On the road, Steve had some slow starts and then
Speaker 1: chasing the games those situations. What have you seen at
Speaker 1: the beginning of games of what's happened? And how do
Speaker 1: you improve on that when you go out to Seattle.
Speaker 1: I think, I think when you're on the road, you try,
Speaker 1: you try to press just a little bit. You try
Speaker 1: to you try to get that quick early lead, try
Speaker 1: to take the crowd out of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: you maybe do some things a little that are uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: of what you do at home, and and you know,
Speaker 1: we just we just can't do that. We gotta stick
Speaker 1: to the game plan. We gotta we gotta approach it
Speaker 1: much like a home game and trust, you know, trust
Speaker 1: the players, trust the trust the plan. You know, let
Speaker 1: the game sort of come to us a little bit
Speaker 1: as opposed to trying to make something happen, even though
Speaker 1: we talk about that all the time. You know, we
Speaker 1: got to make plays on that. That's that goes without saying.
Speaker 1: But you can't force them, you know, you just gotta
Speaker 1: let those types of things happen. I think you know
Speaker 1: that go back to that Giants game. I think I
Speaker 1: think early on we we uh, you know, I had
Speaker 1: some quick pressure obviously the two turnovers in that game,
Speaker 1: you know, um and got us down early. You know,
Speaker 1: in in fourteen, nothing but Washington. You go back to
Speaker 1: Washington and just to kind of a slow start. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to handle the crowd noise better. There's there's
Speaker 1: quite a few factors that that uh, that that that
Speaker 1: we've got to We've got to address and clean up
Speaker 1: going into these road games, practicing to the bubble and
Speaker 1: all these two days to yeah, we'll go in, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll go in this week. I'm thinking maybe tomorrow and
Speaker 1: Friday for the next two days possibly go in and
Speaker 1: just just get used to that noise a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is it just a noise factor there were I mean
Speaker 1: because a lot of stadium are loud, and it was
Speaker 1: loud in Seattle when they were in the dome too. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Do you have any particular insight on like why that
Speaker 1: atmosphere there is so different. I mean, you you grew
Speaker 1: up in the area, or people just treat the games
Speaker 1: different here. I just think that you know, the one
Speaker 1: that's a championship caliber football team, and so people are
Speaker 1: gonna support and rally and you know it's, um, it's
Speaker 1: a great fan base up there, you know, and they
Speaker 1: as a kid growing up, I was a part of it.
Speaker 1: You know. I was a part of the kingdom and
Speaker 1: parents took me to the Seahawk games and growing up
Speaker 1: doing that. So you know, I've experienced it firsthand from
Speaker 1: a fan's perspective, you know, as as a kid in
Speaker 1: high school. But um, you know, I can also kind
Speaker 1: of recall our days in Kansas City when we were
Speaker 1: having success at home and you know, going for the
Speaker 1: the loudest crowd in the NFL or the world record
Speaker 1: and all that kind of and the and these fans
Speaker 1: they're passionate about it and they love it and they
Speaker 1: take pride in it and they you know when when
Speaker 1: they when we talk about it, they they come out
Speaker 1: and droves again. You know. So it's a great place. Um,
Speaker 1: tough place to play obviously, the way that stadium is
Speaker 1: designed to build that little cover right there, everything's kind
Speaker 1: of right on top of you and then it's just
Speaker 1: a it's a great atmosphere. Alan switching give problem. He's
Speaker 1: the starter going board. Yeah, yeah, yeah, set All. I
Speaker 1: mean obviously they've been knowing for they're for a number
Speaker 1: of years and stuff, but like, are you finding that
Speaker 1: they're you know, giving Russell Wilson like, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot more to do this year, especially with Marshawn Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know he's to that point of his career
Speaker 1: where they can they can begin to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran player, He's obviously won a bunch of games.
Speaker 1: He utilizes his personnel. Well, um, you know, he was
Speaker 1: injured earlier in this season, so he may not be
Speaker 1: running around and using his legs as much, which he
Speaker 1: still has the ability to extend plays obviously we saw
Speaker 1: it in the New England game. Um. But and he's
Speaker 1: a smart kid. I mean, he is extremely smart. He's
Speaker 1: gonna know the game plan that they have prepared. He's
Speaker 1: gonna know our defense. Uh, you know, it just comes
Speaker 1: down to execution on our side to effectively, um, you know,
Speaker 1: attack and try to disrupt any timing that he might have.
Speaker 1: If you don't seen the number of good tight ends,
Speaker 1: where does Jimmy Graham ranking what sort of challenges he
Speaker 1: and working at the bo Jackson Brian Bosworth game chas
Speaker 1: I was not at that game. Actually we were on
Speaker 1: a rotating basis in our family and I've actually missed
Speaker 1: that game. Um, but Jimmy Graham is obviously he's big,
Speaker 1: he's physical. Um, he's probably more of a receiving receiver
Speaker 1: type tight end than anything else. He just he's such
Speaker 1: a a lot like Gronk in a sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's very he's very powerful, basketball player, can jump, he
Speaker 1: elevates extremely well. He's a he's a target in the
Speaker 1: red zone end and he's and he can run. I
Speaker 1: mean that you know from a tight ends when you
Speaker 1: look at tight ends, those are the type of that's
Speaker 1: the mold you want. You know when you look at
Speaker 1: these tight ends and um, he does now standing job.
Speaker 1: He's a he's more of a mismatch even on safeties,
Speaker 1: even some linebackers. He's he's definitely a matchup nightmare there.
Speaker 1: And you know it takes uh, it's you, it's your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks best friends sometimes, you know, having tight ends like
Speaker 1: that that can get open and you can just kind
Speaker 1: of throw it in a general area and he can
Speaker 1: he can go get it. Lots of tight ends when
Speaker 1: when you it seems like when Artz is involved like
Speaker 1: he was the last couple of weeks sword of the the
Speaker 1: Cleveland game, it seems like everything runs smoother, The whole
Speaker 1: offense has more rhythms. He sensed that, And how important
Speaker 1: is it to you to kind of keep him as
Speaker 1: involved as he has been the last couple weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's important that Zach stays involved. And I
Speaker 1: got to keep him involved with the play calling, and
Speaker 1: obviously the between that and the running game last week
Speaker 1: was what it was critical, you know, And there's there's
Speaker 1: space again. Like I was was mentioning with Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: I mean, our tight ends have the ability. A lot
Speaker 1: of the middle of the field area is tight end area,
Speaker 1: and we have a couple of guys and Zach being
Speaker 1: one of them that know how to get open in
Speaker 1: that area. Carson has has done in these last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks done a really good job of trying to
Speaker 1: find those guys and and understanding scheme and um, Zach's
Speaker 1: done a good job of again finding those zones and
Speaker 1: then and then getting open in that area. And what's
Speaker 1: the process like of sitting down and trying to construct
Speaker 1: a game plan for against the defense, Like Seattle. What's
Speaker 1: that first meeting, like, what's the well, you know, I
Speaker 1: sit down. First thing I do is I, um, I
Speaker 1: want to see and kind of go through you know,
Speaker 1: we do a three game breakdown, and and then not
Speaker 1: only go through the breakdown, but the rest of the
Speaker 1: games for the season. I start with coverage and just
Speaker 1: want to want to see what types of coverages they're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, one high too high, and then within that
Speaker 1: is at man's own and then just kind of get
Speaker 1: get an idea and a feel for you know, percentages
Speaker 1: that way, and then then knowing that taking our who
Speaker 1: we consider playmakers on offense and going okay, how can
Speaker 1: we get this guy in this position that position and
Speaker 1: then kind of come up with a with a game
Speaker 1: plan that way, see what carries over from the plan
Speaker 1: from Atlanta that we didn't use in in that game. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that's important to have carry over that you're
Speaker 1: not reinventing the wheel every day. And then you know,
Speaker 1: every offense or defensive coach is going to have a
Speaker 1: wrinkle or two in their game plan that to try
Speaker 1: to keep them off balance. But you know, and then
Speaker 1: and then you look at their you look at their
Speaker 1: blitz package. Third downs become critical later in the week,
Speaker 1: you'll spend some time with the red zone. But um,
Speaker 1: you know this this group is fast. Obviously they feed
Speaker 1: off of their their crowd at home. They want you
Speaker 1: in third downs, they want you in third and longs,
Speaker 1: and that's where they get They get most of their
Speaker 1: hits on the quarterback in those situations. So game planning,
Speaker 1: we got to be, uh, we gotta be a little
Speaker 1: more specific in those areas and how we're gonna attack
Speaker 1: and how we're gonna you know, handle that type of
Speaker 1: rush your running game. How is this defense different to
Speaker 1: run against? In Atlanta's defense? This this group, this group
Speaker 1: stunts and games and and they're fast flow. Their linebackers
Speaker 1: are downhill. Um, safeties are involved still an eight man box.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna see uh, you know, thirty one
Speaker 1: down round a box a lot and and and he's
Speaker 1: he's an extremely big, physical player. And then that's what
Speaker 1: they do. And then they they try to take that
Speaker 1: run game away from you. And that's that's and they've
Speaker 1: they've been successful doing that and and then that's why
Speaker 1: they get you into those longer yard situations where you
Speaker 1: you you might have to throw the ball and then
Speaker 1: they get that pass rush after you. So it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a fast group, but aggressive group. UM.
Speaker 1: A little more man coverage too than than what we
Speaker 1: saw this past week. Back the way the way you
Speaker 1: did against a very good football team. What kind of
Speaker 1: impact do you think they'll have on a young quarterback
Speaker 1: and this offense that had been struggling when you go
Speaker 1: to Seattle, Well, it gives us, gives you, It gives
Speaker 1: the guys confidence knowing they that you know, they were
Speaker 1: able to go finish the football game. And and I
Speaker 1: guess a good football team, um number one. And and
Speaker 1: just it just shows a little sign of the maturity
Speaker 1: of some of our younger players in those situations. You know,
Speaker 1: giving the ball to Wendell and he stays in bounds
Speaker 1: in a four minute situation, and if we're going to
Speaker 1: throw the ball, you know we're completing it. And and um,
Speaker 1: you know, guys are we're not We're not turning the
Speaker 1: ball over in situations And guys are guys are learning
Speaker 1: from from all the mistakes we made earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: They're they're learning from that. And and it just gives you,
Speaker 1: gives you a little more confidence gives you a little
Speaker 1: more um, I think stability, knowing when you get in
Speaker 1: those situations, you've learned how to handle it, um even
Speaker 1: from my standpoint, you know, managing the game that way,
Speaker 1: calling it went, you, lizing timeouts and making sure we're
Speaker 1: doing things from a management standpoint, from my standpoint right
Speaker 1: in those situations, he said, do you feel like your
Speaker 1: defense deserves to be mentioned in that same breathless Seattle
Speaker 1: and the top defense is in the league? I think
Speaker 1: so if you look at the numbers, you know, defensively
Speaker 1: it's one of the top defenses in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and not giving up many points, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know it's yeah, it should we should be we should
Speaker 1: be mentioned. You know. Sometimes it's you get overshadowed a
Speaker 1: lot by how your offense is performing. But but that
Speaker 1: is by no means overshadowed anything that our defense is done.
Speaker 1: In the first nine weeks, Parson has just six rushing
Speaker 1: first downs. Doug even on the thirteen yard run the
Speaker 1: other day, he clearly was wanted to prefer to keep
Speaker 1: looking down field. Is there a fine line with a
Speaker 1: guy with his mobility, as far as you know, keeping
Speaker 1: his eyes down field rather than taking those yards when
Speaker 1: they're open like that. There is um I always mentioned.
Speaker 1: I always talk to him about, you know, be a
Speaker 1: thrower first, but don't throw first, and use your eyes
Speaker 1: in those situations. And and you can scramble and still
Speaker 1: keep your eyes down field. And if somebody pops um
Speaker 1: like Darren did against the Steelers, that type of thing, Um,
Speaker 1: you know you want to be able to make those
Speaker 1: plays as well. But you know he understands too that
Speaker 1: and we understand that. Hey listen, anytime a team gives
Speaker 1: you some man coverage or avoid zones, uh, and you
Speaker 1: got the ability to scramble and even if it's not
Speaker 1: for a first down, but it's picking up five to
Speaker 1: six seven yards and protect yourself. Those are things that uh,
Speaker 1: UM defenses get get a little frustrated at when your
Speaker 1: quarterback is mobile that way, don't He's got mob the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: He's Wilson guy. You spent time and what was your
Speaker 1: I did? I went to I went to Wisconsin, worked
Speaker 1: him out and spent a day up there with him
Speaker 1: and came away just uh saying, you know what, this
Speaker 1: guy's this guy's a special kid. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: got it you know, he's he's a pro's pro. He
Speaker 1: knows how to work, he knows how to practice, he
Speaker 1: knows how to lead. The things that you see on
Speaker 1: the field are also the things he does off the field.
Speaker 1: And uh um, you know he's a man of his
Speaker 1: word and integrity and all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: when I I came away feeling like, you know, if
Speaker 1: if we didn't have an opportunity to take him, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody was going to have a special special player. No good.
Speaker 1: He's getting better, you know, he's getting better. He hasn't
Speaker 1: been in there a ton on on passed protection. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, he uh, he understands our protection schemes.
Speaker 1: We ask a lot of our backs. They visually have
Speaker 1: to scan a lot from side to side, and um,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to have the occasional you know,
Speaker 1: mishap and all that, But for the most party, he
Speaker 1: understands the protection. He knows he's in the right right,
Speaker 1: right spot. You know, it's a lot of it comes
Speaker 1: down to just technique and being physical with either linebacker, safety,
Speaker 1: and sometimes even a defensive lineman. Okay,