WEBVTT - Chris Foerster Talks Preparations for ‘MNF’ Against the Ravens | Press Pass 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:05.600 Because it's a challenge for blocking along the offensive line 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.160 when the linebackers near their team. There are two guys 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.879 that Kyle was talking about yesterday, Smith and Queen, who 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.560 were kind of like your guys Warner and Greenlow. How 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.400 much tougher is it to block these guys and say 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.959 was blocking linebackers ten fifteen years ago. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.439 It's always been hard. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.919 I mean, there's always been quality linebackers on every team 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.000 I've ever been associated with. When we play somebody, there's 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.479 always a good player on the other side. You know, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.000 you go back to when we were in Tampa with 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.560 Derrek Brooks and Hardy Nickerson and guys like that. They're 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.680 out standing. And when you come to the first level, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.160 you get through Sap and you get through the guys. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.800 Next thing, you know, Booger McFarlane, next thing, you're trying 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.040 to block Derek Brooks, right same thing we had Jack 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.280 Delreel was playing middle linebacker and Adie McDaniel in Minnesota. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.320 You know, there's always been a quality quality. These two 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.960 guys are outstanding inside linebackers. I mean when I was 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.520 in Baltimore back in the day, Ray Lewis and Bart 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.120 Scott were the two inside linebackers. You know, there's always 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.840 there's always quality inside linebackers. Now there's probably been a 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.400 little bit more of a trend. I don't want, but 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:02.840 I don't want to say those guys weren't athletic. I 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.080 mean those guys were fast, and it's there's maybe a 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.000 little different style back in the day, but not much. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.920 It's it's it's always been a challenge. Very rarely does 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.760 somebody have two guys, you know, three four defense that 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.800 are both the quality of the two that guys they 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.360 have here. Most teams have one and the other guys 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.720 a guy that's up and coming. But this team has two, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.120 and it does make that that part of it is 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:21.800 a challenge. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.360 As far as Spencer Burfer, I realize he's I think 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.759 he's the third youngest guy in the roster and he's 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.160 got tons of room to grow. But what does he 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:38.000 need to do to sort of solidify a spot as 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.120 a starter. What are you looking for from him? 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.440 Well, the consistency factor is is number one thing. I 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.040 mean an offensive line play, it's it's throughout. As the 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.840 year goes on and the season gets longer and people 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.960 see what you do and they see as we talked 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.040 about earlier in the year they start, you start developing 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.280 a game, right, they see what your game is, and 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.720 they see what they can take advantage of, and and 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.680 so that happens. You have to have to play with 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.680 to a level of consistency, and with him, it's some 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.880 physical consistency, but so much of it comes back to 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.680 there's just a lot of parts to the. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.720 Offense that and he knows it. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.560 It's just in the spur of the moment in the 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.280 game sometimes it's not quite right, and then all of 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.840 a sudden you're a little bit off with your technique, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.040 and then all of a sudden there's a player. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.080 Too that just aren't that aren't what they need to be. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.520 So in the offensive line, sometimes consistency weighs out way 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.000 over a big play. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.400 Because a big play for a right guard, okay, he 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.120 reaches the three technique in pancakes and virtues, he reaches 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.200 the three technique and the guy just can't make the tackle, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.920 And both plays are running around the corner eight yards 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.680 away from him. One of them is a dominant play, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.080 the other one is just an okay play. Neither one 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.320 of them is going to make that big a difference 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.400 in the outcome of the game. If he falls in 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.080 his face and misses him, it will whereas a running 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.160 back that same difference. If he makes an outstanding play 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.079 in the open field and makes a free safety miss 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.320 and as opposed to just a guy that gets tackled 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.280 by the free safety, that's a huge difference in the 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.040 outcome of the game. So with offensive line, you're like, yeah, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.680 you love the splash plays, but you have to see 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:01.440 the consistency. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.160 And that's what's hard as an offensive lineman. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.680 It is a grind day in and day out, weekend 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.480 week out, especially when I say you start establishing maybe 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.080 some things that they see about you and things that 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.560 they'll try and take advantage of and you didn't have 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.240 to counter. So it's just a consistency thing. It's he's 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.200 played very good football for us. He's gotten better every 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.000 single week and he continues to progress. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.200 You play a team like the Ravens that put a 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.960 lot of guys up up you know, the line of 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.760 scream ageing. You don't know which guys are coming and 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.799 which guys are dropping. What are the pros and cons 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.560 of that from your standpoint? What what are the downfalls 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.320 and what are the potential rewards when if you figure 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.840 it out writing do everything you need to. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.160 Well, the downside is is that you you for us 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.560 everything that we do as we coach. It's fundamentals. Okay, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.040 so you have a play of a protection call. Lets 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.640 say we're talking about pass protection. Throw on the line 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.840 of scrimmage and you have protection called okay, I got him, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.400 I got him, at him and then and then if 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.800 they're stationary, if they're just stagnant, if they're just lined up, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.240 you're like, Okay, here's how we're going to pass set, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.960 and here's how the helps work, and here's who we're 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.760 working to, and we're gonna try and slide out and 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.280 help our tackler, help our double team, our guard based 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.960 on the people and where Aaron donald is affects things 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.720 and things like that. So you can kind of set, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.120 You can set your feet and say. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.520 Okay, here I go. Now you have eight nine guys. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.280 In the line of scrimmage and it appears to be 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.680 one thing, and then all of a sudden it becomes 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.119 something else, and you have to adjust on a fly, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.800 or you have to set the guy differently. Because there's 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.720 three there's two players standing one in either gap. You 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.480 can't just set the one without being conscious to the 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:23.960 other because you might get picked or some other things 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.520 can happen. So there are some real there's there's some 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.479 real challenges for us the disadvantage. And I'm not a 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.840 defensive coach, so I have seen sometimes. You know, obviously 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.840 they have all the guys line of scrimmage. And I 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.480 remember one time we were playing. This goes back to 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.960 a story I mentioned Jack do Rio and we were 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.160 in Minnesota. We played in New England a long long 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.320 time ago. Why anyway, it doesn't matter. But on a 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.440 third and twelve in a game that we had, we 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.039 decided to bluff. He decided to bluff as the inside 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.240 linebacker in the a gap. I don't know if it 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.880 was Jack or somebod else. I'm not gonna put on Jack, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.800 but and all of a sudden and we dropped back 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.479 and they threw a ball right over his head and 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.960 he was probably three inches from tipping the ball, probably 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.800 have been an interception into the game, end up being 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.200 a play that got them a big first down and 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.440 end up beating us in a comeback victory. The point is, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.640 you're up in the line of scrimmage and you have 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.200 to go do your coverage. There sometimes is that little 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.680 bit of gap where you can't quite get where you're 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.839 supposed to be, and so you know, there can be 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.520 that disadvantage. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:12.760 I'm not just speaking to them. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.840 I have no idea exactly what they tell their guys 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.279 and every single when it comes to coverage. But that 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.159 can be the disadvantage and where we can take advantage. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.600 I've seen it some on receiver screens. You know, they 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.760 play screens very very well, but every now and then 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.680 the receiver screen goes out the way, then they're kind 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.920 of dropping guys the other direction. That's what want to do. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.200 The Ravens, they go out the other direction and then 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:32.520 you throw the screen out there. All of a sudden, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.240 you got these guys. There's nobody over there to help 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:35.799 make the play. So there's there's a there's a plus 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.360 minus and all that stuff. But it does it makes 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.359 it really really hard fundamentally to zone in and lock in, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.280 and you have to have a lot of experience to 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.360 and start seeing, Okay, how can I sit and block 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.360 these guys given the different parameters they're they're they's well 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.000 coached the defenses as as as the record indicates they've 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:54.840 been there for a long time. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:55.600 They know what they're doing. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.880 They're very their veteran players, they're they're they're one of 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.000 the better coach defenses that we faced all year. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.799 You've been around so many great players. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.960 Where is Christian McCaffrey sort of rank among the best 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:05.640 running backs? 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:06.880 You've been around? Lot? 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.040 Well, the thing is is that the think when I 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.039 got in the NFL, what I noticed, Okay, so you're coming. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.760 I coaching college for ten years. I was a big 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.720 I grew up a Green Bay Packer fan. I mean 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.640 I grew up in the sixties with the Packers. I mean, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.240 I remember Bart Starr. We relived the Quarterback Sneak twenty 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.160 times in my family room the day it happened. I'm 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.400 diving over pillows and who's gonna be Starr? And who's 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.600 gonna be Chuck Mersine with his hands up in Jerry 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.400 Cray all that stuff, and we did all that. It 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.320 was it was cool, And so I grew up and 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.160 I remember my dad taking me down and watching these 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.160 players walk by, Bart Starr, Rain Nichkey, Willie Davis, all 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.240 of them. I'm like, holy couch, Jim Taylor, this is 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.520 the great I mean, a starstruck kid, right, like all 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.599 of us. And then you fast forward, you know whatever, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.200 how many years. I'm thirty years old, I get my 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.520 first job in the NFL, and I'm coaching for the Vikings. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.599 I remember my mom the first question, she said, this 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.240 is old. Sorry my mom, she goes, she goes, Chris, what. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.000 Are you doing? You guys play the Packers, I said, Mom, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:57.719 the Vikings. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:58.200 Pay me. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.440 We're gonna beat the shit out of them. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.480 What we're gonna do, sorry, We're gonna try and do anyway, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.520 you know, but anyway, So get to the long story. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.000 Short is when I get the NFL, I had in 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.160 my mind Trent Williams, you know, Jerry, Jerry, you know, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.200 always got Bart Starr. You have these these starlike images. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.560 Then you get on the field and you realize so 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.800 much of the NFL it's guys that aren't as big 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.720 as you think they are. They're not as what it is. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.760 It's the work ethic, it's the it's the talents there. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.240 You got to have, as caw says, you gotta be 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.360 able to get in the club. Right, We're all sitting 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.080 where we sit because we didn't we I mean, maybe 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.040 you guys couldn't you passed on it? But I couldn't 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.240 get in the club. I couldn't get in the club 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.960 of playing in the NFL, right, So I couldn't get 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:33.320 into the club. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.320 But once you're in the club, it's the guys that 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.560 worked the hardest. Is Peyton Man? Did Peyton Man have 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.080 the greatest arm of all time? Or did he just 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.000 work at. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.440 An extremely incredible level to understand defenses and do what 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.760 he did with the offense that he did and how 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.720 he manipulated protections and how he ran his offense right? 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.440 Every single player I went as I started in to 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.600 the league, it's it's the guys that work, yes, every 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.200 now and then there are the guys that have just 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.800 incredible talent that don't do it. Now, let's get back 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.080 to Christian. Christian's that guy that does have the talent 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.160 to get in the club. He's obviously fast, he's big enough, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.560 he's strong enough. But his attention to detail and every 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.240 little thing that he does is like I say, it's 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.640 it's Manning. Like I mean, he's the only guy that 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.360 I know that I can say I was with that 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.280 is that I've never seen anything like it. You know, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:22.880 I've never seen the detail he went in to went 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.400 into everything that he did. And that's what I see 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.440 with Christian. That's what sets him apart. And then the 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.160 other thing is which is all of them. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:30.480 There has to be a level. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.880 There's an incredible competitive drive and toughness like that first 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.240 guy's not getting him down. And there were some things 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.280 said this week about some other running backs running against 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.440 how hard they ran against this defense. I can promise 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.400 you Christian steaming as somebody saying, oh, this guy ran 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.320 really hard. I mean they did a great job. That 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.400 running back really got after he ran hard against the Ravens. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.760 And if you think that's hard, Christians thinking himself, I'll 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:55.480 show you what hard is. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.520 You know. And there's still that I'm going to show 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.640 you mentality with this guy. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.360 So not on is he a great a tension of tail? 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.480 He freaking works his tail off and everything every single 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.160 minute of every single day. He's fired up. I give 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.000 you one another story about Chrisian. Okay, so yesterday we're 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.880 gonna start practice. We're doing team takeoff. You guys are 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.600 out there early. We do two simple little plays were 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.560 kind of running screens on air or something like that, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.920 and Christian we. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.680 Got about forty seconds before the period starts to go. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.240 Christian I said, Man, we're gonna have to these guys. Man, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.440 we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna play fast, we're gonna 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.080 play physical. I really feel good, I mean, you know, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.240 and I don't know. Shoot, the Ravens are a great defense. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.679 We'll do the best we can. But I was being positive, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.800 pumping them up, you know, And literally it was like 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.280 we were in the locker room getting ready to play 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:33.480 the game. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:34.160 He was so fired up. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.000 He's like, I agree, coach, and you can see his 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.720 eyes get big and he started to twitch a little bit, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.480 and he's like, I think we're gonna get these guys. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.000 You know, I really think we can get these guys. Like, yeah, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:41.400 I think we can. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:41.760 Christian. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.079 I'm like, dude, I was just kind of giving you 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.520 a little banter before we start the period, and he's 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.439 ready to go run out the tunnel and play the game. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.960 So it's not it's not fake, it's legit. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.839 It's just who he is. It oozes out of him, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.680 his preparation, all the things he does. So I could 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.240 talk forever about Christian McCaffrey because he's one. He's like 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.160 I said, he's almost one of a kind. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.520 Monday night, I didn't get to watch it. I know 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:03.960 the man, and I didn't hear what he said. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.800 Though he was able to identify basically at a Philadelphia 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:13.160 Eagles play before it happened, just based on formation and 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.880 you know whatever. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.120 Who was Peyton or Christian? Of course he did. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.920 Yeah, because those two guys right there, there are two 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.600 peas in a pod right there. If you they'd be 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.439 arguing in the backfield as to what they should be doing. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.000 I'm sure if they both run the same team. But 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.080 it's it's outstanding. It's really cool. Did no idea, I know, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.679 I just knew he was a good player. Carolina played 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.680 hard Stanford. I knew the guys that stadt coaching Stanford, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.120 so I knew the people there. They spoke so highly. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.439 I actually when I was at Stanford back in the 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.840 day with Denny Green, Ed McCaffrey's dad played for US, 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:40.880 so I knew Ed. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:42.840 I didn't know Christian, so. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.280 Yeah, I coached with Denny at I coached with Denny 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.840 at Stanford and then UH for three years. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:50.240 I was. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.800 I was there with Jack Alway for one then that 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.880 Jack they fired Jack and They kept me around because 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.080 I was the lowest paint guy in the staff, so 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.600 they kept me around. And then when Danny went to 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.000 the Vikings, he said I was too young to go 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.240 to the NFL. So I was out for a year 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.760 and I went to University of Minnesota. Conveniently and luckily, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.480 I kept in touch with Denny and the guys that 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.280 went from the Stanford staff to the Vikings. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.880 The next year he hired me with the Vikings. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.080 So thank you, guys, appreciate it.