WEBVTT - Press Pass: Doug Pederson 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.160 I just want to update you a couple injuries from 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.880 yesterday's game. UM. First one is Leotis McKelvin. He's got 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.599 a left hamstring strain that's gonna be weak to week 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.639 with him. Uh, so we'll monitor that. And then Zach 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.000 Ertz has ah it's it's on his left shoulder. It's 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.920 a first rib displacement, UM and he's also weak to week. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:33.320 So those two UM are are in that situation. Everybody else, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.520 Trey Burton, Vinny, Ryan Matthews, Isaac Bryce, Tregs, Fletcher Jordan, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:47.600 those guys are all all good and uh practice this week. Yeah, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.560 it's a little bit, it's a little bit longer obviously, UM, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.000 and we just gotta continue. It's it's it is day 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.240 to day, but it's it's more of that week. We 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:56.960 gotta we gotta kind of get him through the week, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.360 uh to see where where they're at game time, uh 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:06.400 coming up Monday. No, a displacement is not a broken 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.679 bone at all. It just means that the rib is 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.679 has displaced itself underneath the collar bone and UM, but 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:21.600 it's not it's not a fracture or a broken bone. Yeah, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.399 it's something we're gonna address today. Um, you know, with 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.800 Howie and and and make it make a decision there. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.840 You know, we got C. J. Smith as well right 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.360 now in the practice squad that that could obviously come up. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.559 But we'll see where we're at. We'll talk to Jim 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.680 and and and look at it further. We got a 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.200 couple of days this week, so um, you know it's 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:45.720 good that we got a little time. Yeah, you know 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.520 it was just a decision, game time. Decision yesterday with 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.720 Trey and and felt in his best interest and where 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.640 we were as a team. Uh that just rest him 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.720 yesterday and and then again he's got a couple of 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.120 good days here now to to get ready. But I 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.920 feel comfortable and uh confident that Tray will be ready 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:11.720 to go. He had he had several Um. Obviously that 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.600 first touchdown pass what was tremendous, you know, uh making 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.839 that making that throw. Um, it was great to see 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.320 him throw the ball down the field a couple of 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.800 times to Jordan and also to uh to Nelson. You 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.440 know that that play really really sparked us there. But 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.320 uh two throws that kind of stick out one too, uh, 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.680 Um Jordan Matthews was a quick slamt pattern to his 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.639 left um just made a tight window throw and then 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.840 of course the fourth and fourth played his zac was 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.840 was a big time, big time throw with with them, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.320 you know, rushing six guys with five to block, so 0:02:49.360 --> 0:03:06.200 it was it was it was a big time throw yesterday. No, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.679 I think every every quarterback in the national football you 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.920 can make those throws. Um, it's just the recognition and 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.240 how fast you can recognize number one to protection and 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.520 then then the leverage of the defender on our receiver 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.239 on Zach at the time. And um, you know, it's 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.040 something that we've worked quite a bit actually with those guys, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.720 even against our defense through through training camp. So um, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.000 you know, it's just a great play, great play at 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.600 the right time. And credit those two guys for for 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:40.040 making it. Did you want to go in that way 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:49.840 because you know, the guy in the boxe to do something. Yeah, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:51.680 you know, we we felt going in. I felt going 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.960 in that that we would have h the ability to 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:59.040 run the football and and and I didn't want to overload. Uh. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.680 You know, car we had thirty seven attempts and that's 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.560 that's that's quite a few. You know, you try to 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.480 you try to keep it thirty ish, you know, if 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.240 you can. Obviously you're not monitoring that during the game. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.600 But um, I think I think it's a credit to 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.640 our guys. I mean, the balance was there. We had 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.000 to throw it when we needed to throw it, made 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.200 some great plays down the field. The running game. The 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.400 running game was really I mean one hundred and thirty 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.279 three yards. But at the same time it's very close 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.200 to be even even being better than that. Uh, some 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.159 things we got to clean up there and detail that 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.680 and then and then just get better this week again 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.760 we got the extra day and and uh chance the 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.120 guys that come in and watch this film make the 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:48.880 corrections and get ready for Chicago. Look like that was 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.240 a successful day for yesterday. And how much is that? 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.800 It just it helps the back end so much when 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.000 you can you can you know, affect the quarterbacks eyes 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.040 with four guys and make him, make him get off 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.000 of his launch point in the pocket. And and and I 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.000 thought that as the day kind of went on, as 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.920 the game more on, I think we got better and 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.800 better in a pass rush area. Um. And and then 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.479 our our guys on the back end, you know, uh, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.960 it forced RG three to make a couple of behind 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 the you know, the receiver type throws. Of course, the 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.320 interception that Rodney gott was was that Jordan Hicks got 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.479 a hand on the ball. So you know, it's just 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.080 it's great. It allows your defense to uh to really 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.720 make more plays that way, and um, uh you know, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.680 a credit to credit to. And then the rotation too, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.640 I mean that you're seeing a d line that's rotating 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:54.599 uh every few plays. It keeps those guys fresh. Well. Again, 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.960 I think sometimes you have to, Um, you never go 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.919 into a football game, hey we gotta we gotta have 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.880 the ball thirty minutes. I don't think you ever you 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.120 ever do that. Sometimes it's just the way way it works. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.400 We had some we had some pretty long drives out there, 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.680 which we we we get we stayed on the field 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.279 a little bit by penalty. Um, you know, defensive penalties 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.719 kept us on the field. Making some third downs kept 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.360 us on the field. Uh. And then your run game. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.680 I'm telling you, the run game really helps in keeping 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.159 your offense on the football field by keeping yourself in 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.520 third and more manageable shorter situations that we had in 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.039 the game. And um, you know when you look away 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.880 and come away and look at thirty minutes, they're almost 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.240 thirty one minutes of of ball control. You know that. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.640 That's great. I mean you should and hopefully you win 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.839 the football game. It'd be sad to be here today 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.200 and say you had thirty minutes of football and you lost. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.800 You know, that'd be that'd be the negative to that 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.880 with cars obviously took some shots. And while you're like, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.600 you know that he's tall, he stands, it's trying to 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.640 make him play. He's that going to be a god 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.120 a conversation with him about you know, well, yeah, I 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.920 mean obviously, um, you know the one on the fourth 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.760 down play took took a shot there again they rushed 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.120 an extra guy and and uh with five protectors. There's 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.160 a couple other situations where it's just going to come 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.720 down to just the more he plays and the more 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.680 he recognizes defense to be able to shift the protection 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.480 to pick up some of the other play. And then 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.400 again they listen, you know, the offensive line did a 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.240 heck of the job and and every now and then 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.280 they're gonna get beat. I mean, that's just the nature 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.640 of the game. And you're going to take a shot, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.880 which happened uh once yesterday as well. Um, but the 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.120 more he plays and The more he gets comfortable and 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.360 what he's seeing, the better he's going to become and recognizing, uh, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.080 you know, the pressures. And the other thing too, is 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.760 is you know, you set up plays with personnel and 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.800 formations during the game so you can get a good 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.640 idea how they're going to defend a certain formation and 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.160 then it just comes down to reckon mission and recall 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.200 for him. But again, the more he plays, the better 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.720 he'll get there. Forty four yesterday, are you going based 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.360 on staff probabilities? Were already trusting your puition? It's both 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.280 and then I got to trust the guys too, you know. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.280 I mean that's where we were at the forty yard line, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.800 you know, fourth and four. I mean, it was to me, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.560 it was it was it was a you know, five 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.040 point game at the time. I felt like we were 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.240 we were we were moving the ball and it right 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.120 right there. I mean, if if you punt the but 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.880 you're outside of field goal range so you can't kick 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.960 the field goal. Um, if you punt the ball, the 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.800 chances of it going in the end zone and having 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.200 a touchback comes back out, You're only you know, what 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.600 are you gaining about fifteen yards? And if you don't 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.040 make it. Okay, the defense is playing well, Um, they 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.160 get the ball at the forty yard line and and 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.440 let's go play. So I just felt felt comfortable with 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.480 the with the guys and the way we were moving 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.559 the ball and um, just just a great trust and 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.960 the guys to make that make that decision. But you're 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:11.200 still getting out of pretty quick pat of time. Oh 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.319 it's tremendous, you know, for for us to get to 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.280 play into him quickly, get to the line of cameras 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.560 because we do a lot of kill kill package plays 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.599 and and uh, it just gives him time at the 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.000 line to to see what he's seeing defensively and then 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.080 put us in the right the right play. So you know, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.319 it's on me to get the play in. It's obviously, uh, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.400 something that I pride myself in to get because I 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.640 know being in that position having more time at the 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.839 line is very beneficial. So it's just it's my job 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:45.880 to get to play into him. Appreciate. Yeah, no, it uh, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.080 it felt it felt good. You know, I felt felt 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.040 like we were in a pretty good rhythm and uh. Um, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.160 you know, obviously to score on the opening possession was 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.320 was was huge and then you know, again the run 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.760 game helps that. But yeah, I felt good. I felt 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.559 felt comfortable with with with what we were the information 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.800 that I was receiving from the coaches upstairs, and what 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.520 we were seeing on the on the sidelines, and just 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.920 just the communication was was good. And and believe me, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.280 it's not all about just me calling the plays. I'm 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.160 getting a lot of information and uh, you know from 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.560 coach Stout, you know, in the running game and the 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.200 runs he liked. So we're just piecing that all together 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.120 and and uh, you know, trying to make this thing work. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.480 Getting but how do you think he will go to 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.520 get it out? Yeah? I thought he I thought he played. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.480 I thought he played well, you know, um coming in 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.440 there and and and and filling in for for for Leo. Um. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.000 You know, there's a good chance that he gets more 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.719 work obviously this week. And very comfortable with with with 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.400 what he has has done, you know so far through 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:55.400 training camp. Um, and and again he's another another one 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.360 of those young players that we have that that will 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:04.600 just get better with more reps. When quarterback just staying there, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.600 I'll tell you, you you know, when you when you obviously 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.800 watching the tape this morning and going back and and 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.400 watching the guys, you know, for him to have that 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.160 kind of poise in the pocket for his first start 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.120 and really only having about four series you know throughout 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.480 the entire training camp. Um, you just you just can't, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.680 you just can't teach that, you know, And the patience 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.640 that he had to let receivers come open. Um. I 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.079 remember at one third down play, hit Jordan on a 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.440 backside dagger out. I mean, just hung in there, hung 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.360 in there, and it was a nice tight window throw. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.560 And those are the things you see from from a 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.319 more veteran type quarterback, where young guys tend to kind 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.000 of want to scramble in those situations. But the poise 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.360 was was tremendous and um uh, that's just that's just 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.760 who he is. And and look forward to another opportunity 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:03.040 to work with him again this week. Happened in the 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.960 first quarter on their sideline, he caught a pass. It 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.800 wasn't the one hand to catch, but he caught a 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.520 he caught a ball kind of kind of left to right, 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.719 and he turned up the sideline right on the right, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.240 on the boundary and went to protect himself and you know, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.560 right on the sideline, lowered the shoulder and took it, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.520 took a drag blow on his left shoulder. For that, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.560 we knew when he came off he got you know 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.840 right away, Um, when he came off after that series, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.080 but doos he came and said, hey, you know he's 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.720 he's got a left shoulder strain. Um, we could tell 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.280 that at the time, but as he as the game 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.319 wore on, UM, I didn't know obviously anything anything was 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:49.600 more serious than that, probably gonna have to be cleared him. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.480 It's a dangerous situation with a displaced buon. There's a 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.120 lot of you know, you know, you're talking up around 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.520 the neck and head area, so so any type of 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.160 blow again could do for their damage to that. That's 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.839 why that's why it's a week to week deal to 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.280 see how it see how it heals and recovers after 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.760 Burton's injury or did you have used him before? Um, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.839 you know, the only time we've used him in a 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.440 tight end situation is is a short yarder's goal line 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.439 situations as as a third tight end. You know, so 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:27.199 he got um uh on on Friday last week. Um, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.440 he was able to to get some reps at that spot. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.720 And again a credit to him and you know how 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.240 he got himself ready to play h in in that 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.040 in that position because it's a little bit different for him. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.280 I mean, he did a great job for us, and uh, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.280 that's something that we'll we'll continue to look at from 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:55.959 a from a package standpoint down the road. You know, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.000 it was, it was, it was great. It was great. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.199 I uh, you know, stand on their whole in the 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.319 flag and just kind of looking around the stadium and 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.480 just kind of soaking everything in. Was was was a 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.559 great feeling for me, you know, to stand here and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.880 see the people, what a great crowd we had, and 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:15.560 and um, you know it was I was calm. You know, yeah, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.720 I had the internal butterflies like like probably every coaching 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.200 player in the National Football League has on any game. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.800 But you know, it was it was calm. I was excited. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.080 I was ready to watch our guys perform. Um, you know, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.760 I was excited for Carson and uh to see him 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.560 play and and it's the game unfolded. Um, you know, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.080 obviously as he made it nice to go down and 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.240 get seven points on the first on the first drive, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.800 but you know then you kind of settled into the 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.360 game and then you know, for me, after that, you 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.640 start showing a little more emotion because you're like, yeah, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.600 you just you're so close on a few plays and 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.320 he just you know, you want so so badly for 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.680 the guys to do well. But but overall felt felt 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:01.600 really good and pleased with their performance. But from my standpoint, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.680 I was I was pretty calm. Ryan Matthews didn't have 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:12.080 a super high average, but a philosophy, if it's not 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:18.840 getting well again, it just it aids and everything you 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.640 do offensively. And uh, he's such a powerful back. You 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.840 know a lot of times those runs are are up 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.840 inside the tackle box area. And had a couple of 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.120 chances just off tackle to make some some big gains. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.800 You know, Kenyon made a couple of nice runs. Darren 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.760 made a couple of nice runs. But you know, to 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.240 keep feeding the guy like Ryan. At some point it's 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.160 he's so powerful and punishing that it's going to take 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.920 a toll defensively, and uh, you just got to hang 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.800 with it. The I think the hard thing for any 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.040 play caller is to stay patient with the run game. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.680 Sometimes you abandoned it too soon even when things maybe 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.000 aren't going so well. And uh that if if you 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.680 don't keep throwing as they say, you know, mud against 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.880 the wall, eventually something's gonna stick and and you know 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.320 you just got to keep hammering away and chiseling away 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.440 and eventually, uh uh, something's going to give and it 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.680 just opens up the rest of your game plan. Defensive 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.640 players said they thought that tackling the cleaned up a 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.600 little as you guys moved forward. There's two yards at 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:23.480 least I did. I did. And you know it's usually uh, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.160 you know, the first first game of the regular season, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.680 these guys again are playing sixty minutes and angles are 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.280 a little bit different. The speed is obviously different than 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.560 training camp, um and preseason games. So you know, other 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.960 other than that, yeah, there's I mean, definitely have to 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.760 clean up some of the some of the tackling, but 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.000 it all comes down to angles and and and uh 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.920 uh the type of lanes that they that they take 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:54.120 in order to make those tackles. If you so. Isaac 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.520 again with his with his injury, um, you know, we 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.400 we're day to day with him. He's real close to 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.640 coming back and so we felt good with Whiz and Tobin. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.240 He had fun out there. Uh he he came off 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.320 the after we scored and he was like he didn't 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.040 realize that the defense was going to cut him. I said, well, dude, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.119 you're you know, you're a big guy running through there, 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.800 and I guess, a little dB, where do you expect 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.520 him to go? You know? But he he had fun 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.560 out there, and you know he's obviously he saw his athleticism, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.280 how well he comes off the ball, and you know 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.440 he's obviously a former fullback. So gave him an opportunity. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.960 My message to Carson obviously, enjoy it. Um. You know, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.119 this business is short lived. You get a chance to 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.399 watch the film and make the corrections and we're right 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.800 onto the next opponent. And and it's a it's a 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.560 different set of circumstances, you know. It's uh, um, it's 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.080 like it's like every one of our golf games in here. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.159 One day you shoot seventy five, the next day you 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.840 shoot eighty five, and and you just have to take 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.560 each game and stride and you know, another set of circumstances. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.879 And Monday night game coming up, uh National Spotlight. You know, Um, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.199 it's a road game. You know, noise, the whole thing. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.639 So uh, enjoy this one. But we got to come 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.400 to work ready to play again. What are you guys 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.399 that worked down version after What were your thoughts from 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:24.600 people found out? Well, it just shows the toughness, you know, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.960 the tough and physical toughness that that he has once 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.000 once we found out the extent of the injury for 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.679 him to play through it and uh um, you know again, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.560 it's just it's a credit to him to be able 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.400 to fight through and battle through and keep himself available 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:50.879 for the games to numbers. Ye had numbers and the 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.680 Wendell you know, uh kick returns um his availability there 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.280 and then of course he got a couple of couple 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:12.320 of carries and a couple of snaps. Actually offensively too, yeah, quite, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.320 I mean quite a bit. You know, I'm always listening 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.280 to the players, whether the offensive line is is telling me, hey, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.440 we need to keep running the football. We got these guys, 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.119 or you know, the quarterback in this case, Carson is 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.040 seeing something, you know, defensively, and and uh it's great 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.119 to uh uh kind of take all that information in 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.560 and as I mentioned after the game, you know, I'm 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.679 sitting there constantly with those cards, you know, coming up 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.359 with with another set of plays, you know, putting another 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.760 drive together and taking all that information in and just 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.639 absorbing and just you know, exhausting the game plan, you know, uh, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.119 whether we go back and execute plays we've already called 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.679 or find something new that's on the plan that they 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.840 haven't seen. So, um, it's great to get all that information. Uh, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.200 you know. And one thing about Carson too, is he 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.520 he sees the field um well. And and for him 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.760 to have that kind of dialogue in his first game, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.359 I think just shows the type of kid that he 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:14.960 is and the way he prepares himself each week. Obviously 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:20.440 the field. But is that yes, yeah, I mean that's 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.960 exactly how how right now that that he's going to 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.640 be used? Yeah, you used four running backs receivers obviously, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:39.240 what's the importance of having quick Well, that's important, you know, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.479 you know it just uh, these if these guys, if 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.160 we have nineteen or twenty guys up offensively every week, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:47.960 I mean you want to use them all, whether it 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.040 be on offense or special teams. So you know, um, 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.160 having four backs obviously can take a little heat off 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.240 of maybe like Darren Sproles taking a lot of a 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.680 lot of carries. Uh, you still want him to get 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.879 his tough That's just the same thing with with Ryan, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:03.960 you know, too young, and Kenyon came in there I 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.080 had some explosive runs. So you know, it's it's just, Um, 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.520 it's something that when you look at the entire the 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:16.159 entire UH roster on game day, you know, everybody's got 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.159 to contribute. And again that's that's kind of what I 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.080 told the team after the game, that that that this 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.159 was a team effort team win, and everybody contributed, and 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.359 that's what it takes to win. You know, in the 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:33.240 national football leg usually by personnel and how we rotate 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.080 and how we want to get certain guys in certain positions. Uh. 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:40.480 You know, sometimes in our eleven personnel it was Jordan 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.440 in the slot and sometimes it was Josh Huff in 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.960 the slot. So it just depends on the play that's 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:46.720 called at the time and who we want in the game. 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.520 Michael Kendricks limited role. Well, you know again when teams, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.240 when teams are playing a lot of that eleven called 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:04.000 zebra personnel, Um, you know, we keep we keep Jordan 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.120 and Nigel on the field, you know, and and as 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.280 good an athlete as Michael is, um, it's just unfortunate 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.200 that that you know, we have to take one guy 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.760 off and and uh, right now, he's the guy that 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.320 you know, he's the odd man out and he ends 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:25.480 up coming off the field. But sorry, but but I'm done. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:33.840 I guess I'm done. Yes, mister rudeness, there was a 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.719 stretching of series. It obviously weren't successful. You got right. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:49.359 Was it was that Carson were playing job. You know, 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:55.560 we um, we came out. We obviously after the touchdown, 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.439 we we kind of we kind of spit and sputtered 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.800 there a little bit and uh false start, you know, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.920 um didn't execute quite the way we should have. Uh. 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.240 Then the second quarter, boom we hit Jordan and we're 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.159 down inside the ten yard line, you know, on a 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.840 great great throw and catch uh there and then and 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:17.359 then the next play. Um, it's really it was really 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:21.800 the play was there, The play was there. Um. It's 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:23.760 something that the guy when they see it, they're gonna go, 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:25.800 oh my goodness. It's one of those It's one of 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.560