Speaker 1: Got a couple of injury situations that we have one
Speaker 1: coming out of the football game, and obviously moving forward,
Speaker 1: m Jordan Matthews will actually practice today, warm up, individual group,
Speaker 1: install and give him a repertoo in in our seven
Speaker 1: on seven today. So he's he's on track, doing doing
Speaker 1: doing great job with his recovery and should be ready
Speaker 1: to go. Obviously next week. Isaac Simala, we're still gonna
Speaker 1: day to day. Is still gonna hold him and rest
Speaker 1: him and make sure that he's one hundred percent before
Speaker 1: we put him back out there. Wendell, as you know
Speaker 1: from the game, he's in the h he's in the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. He's got to go through all the steps
Speaker 1: there and and make sure that he's one hundred percent
Speaker 1: before we bring him back out to the practice field.
Speaker 1: Vinnie and Taylor Hart. Vinny Curry and Taylor Hart both
Speaker 1: with the knee. Taylor also had the ankle as part
Speaker 1: of THEIRS. Fully expect them next week for for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And then in Carson situation, Um just got word he
Speaker 1: had a CT scan a done Um and came back.
Speaker 1: He had you know, he had the two ribs there.
Speaker 1: So the tenth one is completely healed. The eleventh one
Speaker 1: still shows about sixty percent. So uh, there's there's still
Speaker 1: some injury there with him going forward. So with that
Speaker 1: will open up for questions. If he's sixty percent with
Speaker 1: that rib, probably not. So there's two two ribs that
Speaker 1: were injured. Yes, yes, that's correct, that's correct. How much
Speaker 1: will do he'll continue to work? Uh? You know, he
Speaker 1: got two good workouts in last week one at the stadium,
Speaker 1: did did a great job. He's still obviously sore from that,
Speaker 1: but he'll he'll continue to get his rehab and continue
Speaker 1: to work. And um, well, uh, we'll just keep day
Speaker 1: by day just giving him a little more here and there.
Speaker 1: In the big picture, how much is that concern you
Speaker 1: at all? Just for him not to get those rests. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously where we are in the in the in this
Speaker 1: late and in the process as far as training camp goes,
Speaker 1: it definitely you know, hurts from a young young quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 1: his you know, his position to fully grasp and understand
Speaker 1: the offense. But again, I just go back to what
Speaker 1: I see in the classroom. What I see off the
Speaker 1: field is work havoc here, work work ethic here, you know, Um,
Speaker 1: and just what he knows and what he understands, Um,
Speaker 1: And and uh, you know the situation where it is
Speaker 1: right now, you know, with Sam and Chase and and
Speaker 1: then and then him obviously going into the season as
Speaker 1: the third UM. You know, it doesn't it doesn't concern
Speaker 1: me as much right now during the sea to replace
Speaker 1: those reps. It's hard in the regular season to replace
Speaker 1: those types of reps, UM, because our our focus is
Speaker 1: with the ones and getting Sam and the starters ready
Speaker 1: to go offensively and defensively. So it's hard to replace
Speaker 1: those reps the veteran wide receivers. I could do yesterday.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of a necessary message to the younger guys,
Speaker 1: the younger receivers that yeah, they have a fair shot.
Speaker 1: You're not playing favorites. Well, I think the the you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, Um, you appreciate everybody's hard work. And
Speaker 1: I listen, I've been in those situations. I've been released
Speaker 1: before as a player and as a veteran player, and
Speaker 1: so I understand the business. And it's obviously the tough
Speaker 1: side of what we do as coaches and personnel, UM.
Speaker 1: But at the same same time, we all we are,
Speaker 1: you know, looking for the for the for the best
Speaker 1: fifty three that we're going to take into the regular season.
Speaker 1: So you know, we've got some young guys that have
Speaker 1: performed well and and UH want to give them another
Speaker 1: opportunity here this week coming up to UH to solidify
Speaker 1: those positions and and uh, you know, it's one thing
Speaker 1: that we set out to do way back when Ota
Speaker 1: has opened up, was create competition at every every position.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we've done that. What a guy's
Speaker 1: doing like right now and you know, every day here
Speaker 1: and in the games versus what they've done adversus Like
Speaker 1: it was saying like there are guys that you're having
Speaker 1: a team now and maybe they've done stuff in the
Speaker 1: past that you know, but maybe they're not having as
Speaker 1: good a can with a younger guy who's ever done
Speaker 1: an eight and before. That's the tous of fine line,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, And and you know they're obviously
Speaker 1: there there's a lot of history, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of film on those players, and and you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of circumstances. I mean, just it
Speaker 1: can just come down to you know, who's performing right now.
Speaker 1: Just like you mentioned, I mean, the guys that that
Speaker 1: that are playing at a high level. And and you know,
Speaker 1: you want guys that are all on board and and
Speaker 1: and doing the doing the things right and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, you got
Speaker 1: to make tough decisions and and um, you know again
Speaker 1: it's it's not not something that we enjoy doing. You'd
Speaker 1: love to keep them all, but but the nature of
Speaker 1: the business as you can't. And and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to find the best feature well again, you know,
Speaker 1: with you with the competition that we had, and and
Speaker 1: obviously right now, with with a week left to go,
Speaker 1: I mean, these are two veteran guys that that potentially
Speaker 1: could could get picked up on on another another roster.
Speaker 1: So doing it now then later is is obviously a
Speaker 1: an advantage for them. And to get picked up And
Speaker 1: you know, we've got guys that hum again, that are
Speaker 1: equal to you know, and and um you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times you when you look at your roster
Speaker 1: as a whole, um and if you can build with
Speaker 1: youth and you can begin to um, sort of shape
Speaker 1: your team in a certain direction. Um you know, you
Speaker 1: feel comfortable obviously with your with your top three or
Speaker 1: four guys, and then it all comes down to that
Speaker 1: fifth spot. Particularly in that receiver room, and they did
Speaker 1: they did by end, um, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: it's just unfortunate, you know. I mean again, we've got
Speaker 1: we've got some young guys that created some competition, and
Speaker 1: that's what we wanted, and that's that's what we got
Speaker 1: out of this decision. Is there anything is your background
Speaker 1: as a player in the nature of how you guys
Speaker 1: in the NFL in your career play, any role in
Speaker 1: how you might evaluate a guy. You know, I keep
Speaker 1: it in the back of my mind. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I was an undrafted free agent that that ended up
Speaker 1: playing several years in the league. And I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just think every situation is different, every player is different.
Speaker 1: You know, circumstances are different, Guys approach things differently, and
Speaker 1: and you know, you want to find the guys that
Speaker 1: are that are all are all in and you want
Speaker 1: to see them every day out here work hard and
Speaker 1: practice hard and do the things right. And you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: make You're gonna make tough decisions. But it doesn't factor
Speaker 1: into the decision making. Although I know I've been in
Speaker 1: that situation before, so I understand what both the veteran
Speaker 1: players going through and a and an undrafted rookie might
Speaker 1: be going through anything. Do you think it also from
Speaker 1: the flip side of that defines you. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: a first year coach. You can say anything you want
Speaker 1: to the room, but when you do something like this,
Speaker 1: it tells them A you know just what you're talent
Speaker 1: to play hard, you know, show up and you do well.
Speaker 1: And that's I think that's what you've seen throughout preseason.
Speaker 1: You've seen how um I think each week we've gotten
Speaker 1: better fundamentally, UM tackling has gotten better, offensive line play
Speaker 1: has gotten better the past, protection of the D line, rush,
Speaker 1: I mean, the turnovers. You know, we eliminated a ton
Speaker 1: of penalties this past week. I just think you're seeing
Speaker 1: the guys buying into the whole process and and they're
Speaker 1: buying into the message and and listen, I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not here to sell anything to anybody. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have to do it. This is their livelihood, this
Speaker 1: is their profession, their professional athletes. They get paid well
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, Um, they know
Speaker 1: what it takes, you know. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, I just know that that you have to
Speaker 1: push them right up to the end, you know, right
Speaker 1: up to the to the nth and the degree. You
Speaker 1: got to keep pushing them every single day and and
Speaker 1: and allowing them to get better and try to be
Speaker 1: great every single day. And that's a tough thing to do. Um.
Speaker 1: But but the guys have really responded well. And uh um,
Speaker 1: you know, we still have another round it cuts obviously
Speaker 1: coming up, but right now where we are, we're in
Speaker 1: a good position as far as Michael, Why was he
Speaker 1: on the field in the fourth quarter. Why because he
Speaker 1: hasn't played. He hasn't played, and we just want to
Speaker 1: see him, see him get game in my reps. That's
Speaker 1: bottom line. He's still your starter. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you might you might, uh you know, he's another
Speaker 1: one that that we'd love to see again this Thursday night,
Speaker 1: you know, in a short role. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played all preseason, so you know, Stephen Tolik's
Speaker 1: another one that that we need to see play and
Speaker 1: and uh um, so there's there's an opportunity for these
Speaker 1: two to get some more reps on Thursday. Either excuse me,
Speaker 1: Michael wasn't defense before the right he had been out there.
Speaker 1: That's why we wanted to get him some more reps
Speaker 1: just in the base defense and and uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we haven't really put our plan yet together for for
Speaker 1: this week, but you'll we'll probably see him more in
Speaker 1: nickel situations. I would think on Thursday, Michael Kendricks. There's
Speaker 1: a chance, Yeah, there's a chance he plays. I mean
Speaker 1: just because again he hasn't played all preseason, and still
Speaker 1: want to get him, still want to get him those
Speaker 1: live reps and uh and get him ready for Please
Speaker 1: Tree Furdon has had a good game the other night
Speaker 1: catching the ball. Has he developed enough as a blocker
Speaker 1: for you to have confidence in him starting Week one
Speaker 1: with him in two and three wide receiver at tight insets? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but but I'm not going to ask him to
Speaker 1: necessarily block a ton. You know, that's just not his chemistry,
Speaker 1: that's not his makeup. He's he's better route runner, and
Speaker 1: he's very good in space, you know, away from the ball,
Speaker 1: which which you saw the other night. And and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so you know, his strength is definitely not
Speaker 1: not blocking. But but we're still going to ask him
Speaker 1: and put him in those situations. But I mean, the
Speaker 1: three tights to be able to sell the fact that
Speaker 1: he can blocks. Yeah, and where we put him in
Speaker 1: those alignments too, I mean, yeah, we did rubber stars
Speaker 1: that chased to play Thursday night, Nelson night. Yeah, Nelson
Speaker 1: probably not, um, you know, probably not. Um you know
Speaker 1: right now, I think you're looking at um, you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Huff might get a might get a play or
Speaker 1: two here there early in this game. Plus we gotta
Speaker 1: we got a factor in special teams too. With some
Speaker 1: of this, I mean you just can't sit everybody. Special
Speaker 1: teams becomes a big factor, uh in what we do
Speaker 1: Thursday night. But um, of course d GB we get
Speaker 1: we get some more reps um and then we want
Speaker 1: to see all the young guys. That's just my decision.
Speaker 1: Why why well, one, you don't one, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to risk an injury necessarily too. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's right on track where he needs to be. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, And so I'm not I'm not concerned with Nelson.
Speaker 1: Why struggling right now, seems like he's struggling. Drop passes consistency.
Speaker 1: Why you know, every day he comes out here and
Speaker 1: he puts in a quality day's work, and he works
Speaker 1: extremely hard, and I've seen what he can do in practice,
Speaker 1: and um, is there the occasional you know, drop here there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But but you know what, it doesn't led him what
Speaker 1: he did after the drop. You probably didn't notice the
Speaker 1: blocking he did down the field, the things he did
Speaker 1: away from the ball, you know, more than being a
Speaker 1: receiver is obviously catching the balls number one. But you know,
Speaker 1: we pride ourselves and being physical in the run game
Speaker 1: and blocks down the field, and the things he did
Speaker 1: in this football game put him in a really good
Speaker 1: position going into the regular season. So he's everybody's working
Speaker 1: through some things right now. We were we perfect, No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don' want to. You're never going to
Speaker 1: be perfect. We strive for it, but you're never going
Speaker 1: to be perfect. And and you know, I challenged him
Speaker 1: the other night just to be great. You know who
Speaker 1: wants to be great, you know, And if you strive
Speaker 1: for it and you come up a little bit short,
Speaker 1: that's all I can ask for, you know. But collectively,
Speaker 1: we did a nice job and ended up winning the
Speaker 1: game and cut the turnover down, we cut the penalties down,
Speaker 1: our red zone efficiencies great, third down's great. So it's
Speaker 1: a team sport and um, we'll continue to work every
Speaker 1: single day for the common goal. Are you expecting Isaac
Speaker 1: Beck will be And how did Whiz a little ad
Speaker 1: left carnage play will just look great. Whizz filled in
Speaker 1: and wonderfully got all the reps during the week. UM,
Speaker 1: I thought the offensive line played extremely well. He's a
Speaker 1: veteran guy, played a lot of games in this league,
Speaker 1: so he fitted in really well. UM. In Isaac's situation,
Speaker 1: you know right now, he day to day, but we
Speaker 1: would expect him, along with those other guys I mentioned,
Speaker 1: to be back next week. UM, and then obviously we'll
Speaker 1: make a we'll make a determination going forward who will
Speaker 1: be the who will be the starting five? You know
Speaker 1: against Cleveland with Josh, you had given him the ball
Speaker 1: choice one handoffs and I got him want to quick
Speaker 1: splat with that by design, trying to get find easy
Speaker 1: ways to get him the ball so that he uses Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I went into that game. I wanted to
Speaker 1: put some guys in different positions, and that's why you
Speaker 1: saw guys like Josh and Trey and you know in
Speaker 1: those types of uh situations for us to want to
Speaker 1: see him in that spot. We've seen him out here
Speaker 1: in practice do it, and wanted to expose him during
Speaker 1: the game that way. And and uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Josh is that type of guy. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: short intermediate receiver, good quickness, uh, great with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. Obviously a hum it as a runner.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got that in from college. And and
Speaker 1: just wanted to, um, you know, put the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands as fast as we could, you know, in
Speaker 1: those situations, and and and see what he could do.
Speaker 1: And he had, he had his best game in the preseason.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks guys. Thanks