Speaker 1: What was your evaluation of a poony in the game?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: He's been He's played well. He's kind of been consistent
Speaker 3: throughout the way he started camp and has continued to
Speaker 3: work every week. It's been pretty consistent performers. So he
Speaker 3: did everything we saw him doing practicing did in the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he pulled on that on the touchdown. I mean
Speaker 1: that's something that you do a lot with banks. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he is he good at that? Is that something
Speaker 1: that's good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got some I mean there's some things about
Speaker 3: him moving to move inside.
Speaker 2: There's some little things that he.
Speaker 3: Needs to work on, and pulling is going to be
Speaker 3: one of them. But he's done a really good job
Speaker 3: and everything he's developing in all his areas. He's very
Speaker 3: diligent in studying and what to do next and listening
Speaker 3: and taking coaching and he's doing a nice job. But
Speaker 3: that is going to be something you have to work on.
Speaker 3: Chris Hubbard, how did he grade out?
Speaker 4: And can he play comfortably both sides?
Speaker 2: Chris can play both sides.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where we're working him primarily on the left
Speaker 3: because he's more he's uncomfortable there.
Speaker 2: He's more comfortable on the right side in my opinion,
Speaker 2: So we have.
Speaker 3: Decided to dedicate those two guys kind of opposite where
Speaker 3: they're used to doing, he and Harker, and then if
Speaker 3: we get to whichever, however the thing shakes out, when
Speaker 3: if one of them is here to be a swing
Speaker 3: or something like that, it would be they could go
Speaker 3: back to working both.
Speaker 2: But right now it kind of I think they can.
Speaker 3: I can let them put their best foot forward working
Speaker 3: in his position to get better where their weaknesses are.
Speaker 3: And also they'd stay in one spot every single day
Speaker 3: he performed, he performed well, you know there was every
Speaker 3: player would like a few plays back, and I think
Speaker 3: Hubbard would would like one or two back for.
Speaker 4: Sure, as Jalen played enough. At this point we're missing
Speaker 4: that game for being ill. Is not that big a deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it the first pre season game he
Speaker 3: was going to play the series, so it end up
Speaker 3: play like eleven or eleven play drive, wasn't it. The
Speaker 3: penalty was the twelfth play, so he had eleven plays.
Speaker 3: I mean, for what that's worth, I think I shared
Speaker 3: it last week. It is there's something to that full
Speaker 3: speed work that, regardless of when you get it, you
Speaker 3: do need it at some point. It's not like he's
Speaker 3: what he did, whatever the date was, is going to
Speaker 3: make a difference opening day, but it does in the big.
Speaker 2: Scheme of things.
Speaker 5: I got kind of a big picture run game question,
Speaker 5: you know, last year with Christian winning the NFL rushing
Speaker 5: title for the year, kind of goes under the raidar
Speaker 5: when you're in the middle of a Super Bowl run.
Speaker 5: Is there a way that you guys kind of honored
Speaker 5: it or celebrated it, and then how what's it going
Speaker 5: to take to kind of repeat that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if the guys did anything. We
Speaker 2: don't do.
Speaker 3: You know, we're congratulations all those honors because so many
Speaker 3: guys that a lot of good players in this team
Speaker 3: and want a lot of things.
Speaker 2: We don't do anything for that. Say, he went in
Speaker 2: is a rushing title.
Speaker 3: I know that he did take care of the guys
Speaker 3: at Christmas or I don't know, there's something there was
Speaker 3: a gift or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so line coach didn't see it, but all the
Speaker 2: players did. I don't do any blocking, so I don't
Speaker 2: deserve any of them, but I don't like off so but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely, Uh, he's we all obviously congratulations go around,
Speaker 3: But it's nothing big like that for for the individual merit, and.
Speaker 5: Then what's it going to take to just kind of
Speaker 5: repeat that success, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I mean it's different. The cliche answer is a
Speaker 3: cliche for a reason. I mean, every year it's a
Speaker 3: brand new year. You have to get out there and
Speaker 3: start doing things and and see where it goes. I mean,
Speaker 3: how defenses play you. There's so many different things that
Speaker 3: can come into it. That that how well your quarterback plays,
Speaker 3: if your receivers are healthy, that you can throw the
Speaker 3: ball and keep them off your running game, and there's
Speaker 3: just so many, so many things. I mean, you look
Speaker 3: at the run we had to open in Pittsburgh. We
Speaker 3: watched it the other day and the big fifty or
Speaker 3: six yeard run start in second half, and it was
Speaker 3: an incredible run with incredible Maybe maybe that guy tackles
Speaker 3: him this year and you have four or five of
Speaker 3: those in the.
Speaker 2: Unit, it looks different.
Speaker 3: You just don't know how it goes and and how
Speaker 3: the season plays out. We were able to get a
Speaker 3: lot of runs in the fourth quarter of games, is
Speaker 3: Shuel were a lot of games that we don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of two minute drives. We sure have a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, trying to kill the clock at
Speaker 3: the end of the game.
Speaker 2: In the past, sometimes rotated guys at a position. One
Speaker 2: are the benefits of that for a young guy. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's huge job. And I don't even know why.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I prepare, how I decide to
Speaker 3: do it. But you can kind of tell I even
Speaker 3: did it. Uh with Feliciano, who I didn't think. I
Speaker 3: didn't think Burford I don't think is going to play
Speaker 3: as much in the in the it was a Green
Speaker 3: Bay game in the playoffs. But also I noticed, I said,
Speaker 3: ninety seven was giving him some issues. So instead of
Speaker 3: getting in a routine of rushing John Feliciana, he puts
Speaker 3: Burford in there and the defender has to deal with
Speaker 3: a different guy. For young players, that that was the sidelite.
Speaker 3: It can help anybody. For a young player, what is
Speaker 3: is those plays start mounting up where you start doing
Speaker 3: some bad that you get out and just take a
Speaker 3: step away. It stops whatever's going on and you get
Speaker 3: to go back in and restart. That guy then has
Speaker 3: to deal with a different player, and over the course
Speaker 3: of time. Usually what happens is you have a veteran
Speaker 3: player and a younger player. The younger player who you
Speaker 3: think has more talent. That's why you're alternating. He's just
Speaker 3: not quite ready to play sixty plays a game, and
Speaker 3: our position is won. Like some other positions on the field.
Speaker 3: That defensive line, for example, you can get a rookie
Speaker 3: twenty thirty forty plays because they rotate so much. That's
Speaker 3: what starters do. Offensive lineman, you can't. People think it's
Speaker 3: you shouldn't. I know you can do it, and it does.
Speaker 3: That's a great way to work a player in just
Speaker 3: because he doesn't get exposed. Analytics was were they would
Speaker 3: say every time we took him out, they were saying,
Speaker 3: that was about the time his play was starting to
Speaker 3: do this. Now, I'm not saying I did it because
Speaker 3: that I kind of had a in my mind.
Speaker 2: Two serious three series.
Speaker 3: But you can kind of feel that, and you talk
Speaker 3: to theimut the sidew You feel that things are getting
Speaker 3: little loose.
Speaker 2: Let's bring them back over here.
Speaker 3: And they stand for a minute, catch their breath, and
Speaker 3: they can usually get back into a rhythm.
Speaker 2: I just preached the continuity.
Speaker 3: When did you first maybe do that with the figuring
Speaker 3: out how it was worth well.
Speaker 2: Here's what I saw.
Speaker 3: I saw and when I was with the Vikings, we
Speaker 3: drafted a rookie tackle that I watched him be completely destroyed,
Speaker 3: like just day, week after week, game after game. He
Speaker 3: wasn't quite good enough, he wasn't quite ready, and by
Speaker 3: mid to the end of season he went an ir because
Speaker 3: he just was he was beat up. He was just
Speaker 3: hanging on for dear life. And we didn't have somebody
Speaker 3: to rotate, but we talked to it. We did have
Speaker 3: somebody that would have helped him.
Speaker 2: You know. When I went to.
Speaker 3: Tampa, we drafted ah we had a veteran player there
Speaker 3: at right tackle that came from another team, and we
Speaker 3: had a right tackle that I thought could be as good,
Speaker 3: and we just started we just started rotating. That was
Speaker 3: the first time I did it, was back and I
Speaker 3: think we were an Orange. I think it was nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety six. I did it, and then I did it
Speaker 3: again in Baltimore, and I did a couple of different places
Speaker 3: where it's been managed through it. We've been lucky, you
Speaker 3: know that it's worked out, but it does. It's worked
Speaker 3: out that way that you can help the development.
Speaker 1: Where do things stand at backup?
Speaker 3: Shenna well, right now, it's you know, you have Barti
Speaker 3: and Sekel that are batting out with Nugent there as well.
Speaker 2: You got three guys there.
Speaker 3: They can do it, and that will work the backup
Speaker 3: and we'll see how it plays out as the year
Speaker 3: goes on. Sekel obviously took the starting reps. I would
Speaker 3: say that if you looked at him and said what
Speaker 3: Cekel's strengths and what barches are I think that Sekel
Speaker 3: is probably playing a little bit better. Center suited him better,
Speaker 3: and guard probably suits barts better and not the other
Speaker 3: one who plays. That's the first game Sequl's ever played
Speaker 3: in a game center and it was that was it
Speaker 3: uh in college anywhere?
Speaker 2: So and I'd stayd that. So I give him the
Speaker 2: edge right now.
Speaker 3: But they're both right there because then if he moves
Speaker 3: to Kel to guard, Bart's the center.
Speaker 2: It just depends on what you're looking at.
Speaker 3: You look at, say, okay, one of those guys will
Speaker 3: be your third or fourth guard, backup center. It's just
Speaker 3: it's a lot of pieces board moving there. But right
Speaker 3: that's what it sits.
Speaker 1: Right now, you decided who's going to play what in
Speaker 1: against the Saints.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, we kind of I briefly talked about it.
Speaker 3: I think some of it leads up to discussions on
Speaker 3: the last game. Because you have a small window of
Speaker 3: time between Sunday and Friday. Is you have to be
Speaker 3: careful how many guys you want to playing. So you
Speaker 3: look forward to that game and you work back and say, okay,
Speaker 3: if we have a lot of a lot of players
Speaker 3: playing in that game, then maybe not as many. This
Speaker 3: week is a short turnaround. You don't want to give
Speaker 3: him a dag up a short week in the preseason
Speaker 3: if you can help it.
Speaker 2: First, what does Kingston look like to you?
Speaker 3: He's getting better all the time, He's improved. I ring
Speaker 3: out of love about these young guys. John Lynch and
Speaker 3: I were talking about this morning. Is these guys are
Speaker 3: really they're working hard to improve and they've made they've
Speaker 3: made some good strides. It's not it's a tribute to them,
Speaker 3: not to me, and we just do what we do.
Speaker 3: We go out there to do the same thing every day.
Speaker 3: But these guys have grabbed onto it and he has
Speaker 3: gotten better. The things that we saw that were limitations
Speaker 3: with him were we felt were fixable, and so he's
Speaker 3: been able to fix some of them. It's still not consistent. Uh,
Speaker 3: but it's gotten better. So they were things that were
Speaker 3: they get addressed, you know, and we addressed him and
Speaker 3: he's he's address him.
Speaker 2: Which is good.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's hard to break a habit, and we've talked
Speaker 3: about it in here before, where you know those those
Speaker 3: in a game when you start creating bad habits.
Speaker 2: Are hard to break.
Speaker 3: And these guys, over the course of their college career,
Speaker 3: have some bad habits that you have to break. And
Speaker 3: the things he had wrong he's really fixed. And so
Speaker 3: that's helped elevate his game. Every week guard or more
Speaker 3: tackle more guard. He's played tackle out of necessity and
Speaker 3: uh and and can still in the pinch. But he's
Speaker 3: really he's a guard, although he's got to he's got issues.
Speaker 3: He's got to work on his anchor and things like
Speaker 3: that inside because he doesn't you know, there's pluses of
Speaker 3: minds that both positions for him.
Speaker 2: So he's got to make up some space at guard
Speaker 2: to get better there.
Speaker 4: You ran the ball so well with Mason on the
Speaker 4: opening series and then it was considerably tougher for Schrader
Speaker 4: and and Brita. Was that just being behind a second line,
Speaker 4: were there things they didn't see that Mason did see.
Speaker 2: No, we didn't block. We didn't block. We didn't block
Speaker 2: well at all. We didn't block.
Speaker 3: We all and and I and I want to get
Speaker 3: you know, I would tell me it's no, it's look,
Speaker 3: we're we're down, and it's not. These aren't excuses, it's
Speaker 3: an explanation for me. I'm looking at saying why, holy cow. Well, really,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, when you take Trent
Speaker 3: uh Jalen, Feliciano and Burford of the equation, you've taken
Speaker 3: four or five people that really started caliber players. So
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, your starting group becomes a little
Speaker 3: bit more of a second tier group, and then you're
Speaker 3: the next group becomes more of a you know, later
Speaker 3: in the game group. And so by that point, that
Speaker 3: second third quarter, they we weren't. It was a good
Speaker 3: challenge for those guys. It was good to watch against
Speaker 3: that caliber player they probably wouldn't see in the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter of the game when most of them would have
Speaker 3: been playing. Everybody's been pushed up to play at a
Speaker 3: little bit higher level than what they would have if
Speaker 3: our starters were here, all healthy in there in playing.
Speaker 2: So it's been a it's huge.
Speaker 3: It's benefit, but the drawback is they're put in there
Speaker 3: in situations and we didn't give the backs enough good looks. Fortunately,
Speaker 3: and we'll see how this week's a whole different thing.
Speaker 2: We'll protect it. We protected decently.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was decent that the last and the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter got a little bit looser the two tackles,
Speaker 3: but but we protected good enough, which then at least
Speaker 3: we could do that, you know, because we weren't running
Speaker 3: the ball very well.
Speaker 1: It used to be that defenses didn't do a lot
Speaker 1: of blitzing in the preseason. I guess that's changed somewhat recently.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? I mean, are you
Speaker 1: sort of glad that the Titans blitched quite a bit
Speaker 1: just to give your guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: I remember I was in Baltimore with Rex Ryan and
Speaker 3: Brian Billick. There was always discussion in Rex Ryan was,
Speaker 3: you know, he'd throw the kitchen sink at everybody, and
Speaker 3: they always have a discussion do we show them what
Speaker 3: we do or do we not show them?
Speaker 2: Hold it till the season, and Brian was like, you know.
Speaker 3: Do everything in the preseason because that means everybody has
Speaker 3: to prepare for everything. Sometimes you realize in the fourth
Speaker 3: course some of these games defense courters are calling things
Speaker 3: just they know you're going to play them in two
Speaker 3: weeks that you have to prep for, not not in
Speaker 3: the regular season, but in the preseason because you don't
Speaker 3: have a lot of tape on them, so you're scouring.
Speaker 3: We're gonna work on all these blitzes and then may
Speaker 3: never do it again that all year. So sometimes it's
Speaker 3: a prep time some people. Every defense courding uses different things.
Speaker 3: My philosophy is, I want to see everything we can see.
Speaker 3: I want those guys to be prepped in In other words,
Speaker 3: if Poony, if whoever these guys are that we're trying
Speaker 3: to evaluate, If they just see one front, one defense
Speaker 3: all the time, what evaluation are getting other than their
Speaker 3: physical This gives them a mental challenge.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys,