Speaker 1: I just want to update you a couple injuries from
Speaker 1: yesterday's game. UM. First one is Leotis McKelvin. He's got
Speaker 1: a left hamstring strain that's gonna be weak to week
Speaker 1: with him. Uh, so we'll monitor that. And then Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz has ah it's it's on his left shoulder. It's
Speaker 1: a first rib displacement, UM and he's also weak to week.
Speaker 1: So those two UM are are in that situation. Everybody else,
Speaker 1: Trey Burton, Vinny, Ryan Matthews, Isaac Bryce, Tregs, Fletcher Jordan,
Speaker 1: those guys are all all good and uh practice this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit, it's a little bit longer obviously, UM,
Speaker 1: and we just gotta continue. It's it's it is day
Speaker 1: to day, but it's it's more of that week. We
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta kind of get him through the week,
Speaker 1: uh to see where where they're at game time, uh
Speaker 1: coming up Monday. No, a displacement is not a broken
Speaker 1: bone at all. It just means that the rib is
Speaker 1: has displaced itself underneath the collar bone and UM, but
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a fracture or a broken bone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something we're gonna address today. Um, you know, with
Speaker 1: Howie and and and make it make a decision there.
Speaker 1: You know, we got C. J. Smith as well right
Speaker 1: now in the practice squad that that could obviously come up.
Speaker 1: But we'll see where we're at. We'll talk to Jim
Speaker 1: and and and look at it further. We got a
Speaker 1: couple of days this week, so um, you know it's
Speaker 1: good that we got a little time. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: it was just a decision, game time. Decision yesterday with
Speaker 1: Trey and and felt in his best interest and where
Speaker 1: we were as a team. Uh that just rest him
Speaker 1: yesterday and and then again he's got a couple of
Speaker 1: good days here now to to get ready. But I
Speaker 1: feel comfortable and uh confident that Tray will be ready
Speaker 1: to go. He had he had several Um. Obviously that
Speaker 1: first touchdown pass what was tremendous, you know, uh making
Speaker 1: that making that throw. Um, it was great to see
Speaker 1: him throw the ball down the field a couple of
Speaker 1: times to Jordan and also to uh to Nelson. You
Speaker 1: know that that play really really sparked us there. But
Speaker 1: uh two throws that kind of stick out one too, uh,
Speaker 1: Um Jordan Matthews was a quick slamt pattern to his
Speaker 1: left um just made a tight window throw and then
Speaker 1: of course the fourth and fourth played his zac was
Speaker 1: was a big time, big time throw with with them,
Speaker 1: you know, rushing six guys with five to block, so
Speaker 1: it was it was it was a big time throw yesterday. No,
Speaker 1: I think every every quarterback in the national football you
Speaker 1: can make those throws. Um, it's just the recognition and
Speaker 1: how fast you can recognize number one to protection and
Speaker 1: then then the leverage of the defender on our receiver
Speaker 1: on Zach at the time. And um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: something that we've worked quite a bit actually with those guys,
Speaker 1: even against our defense through through training camp. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a great play, great play at
Speaker 1: the right time. And credit those two guys for for
Speaker 1: making it. Did you want to go in that way
Speaker 1: because you know, the guy in the boxe to do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we we felt going in. I felt going
Speaker 1: in that that we would have h the ability to
Speaker 1: run the football and and and I didn't want to overload. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, car we had thirty seven attempts and that's
Speaker 1: that's that's quite a few. You know, you try to
Speaker 1: you try to keep it thirty ish, you know, if
Speaker 1: you can. Obviously you're not monitoring that during the game.
Speaker 1: But um, I think I think it's a credit to
Speaker 1: our guys. I mean, the balance was there. We had
Speaker 1: to throw it when we needed to throw it, made
Speaker 1: some great plays down the field. The running game. The
Speaker 1: running game was really I mean one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three yards. But at the same time it's very close
Speaker 1: to be even even being better than that. Uh, some
Speaker 1: things we got to clean up there and detail that
Speaker 1: and then and then just get better this week again
Speaker 1: we got the extra day and and uh chance the
Speaker 1: guys that come in and watch this film make the
Speaker 1: corrections and get ready for Chicago. Look like that was
Speaker 1: a successful day for yesterday. And how much is that?
Speaker 1: It just it helps the back end so much when
Speaker 1: you can you can you know, affect the quarterbacks eyes
Speaker 1: with four guys and make him, make him get off
Speaker 1: of his launch point in the pocket. And and and I
Speaker 1: thought that as the day kind of went on, as
Speaker 1: the game more on, I think we got better and
Speaker 1: better in a pass rush area. Um. And and then
Speaker 1: our our guys on the back end, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: it forced RG three to make a couple of behind
Speaker 1: the you know, the receiver type throws. Of course, the
Speaker 1: interception that Rodney gott was was that Jordan Hicks got
Speaker 1: a hand on the ball. So you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's great. It allows your defense to uh to really
Speaker 1: make more plays that way, and um, uh you know,
Speaker 1: a credit to credit to. And then the rotation too,
Speaker 1: I mean that you're seeing a d line that's rotating
Speaker 1: uh every few plays. It keeps those guys fresh. Well. Again,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you have to, Um, you never go
Speaker 1: into a football game, hey we gotta we gotta have
Speaker 1: the ball thirty minutes. I don't think you ever you
Speaker 1: ever do that. Sometimes it's just the way way it works.
Speaker 1: We had some we had some pretty long drives out there,
Speaker 1: which we we we get we stayed on the field
Speaker 1: a little bit by penalty. Um, you know, defensive penalties
Speaker 1: kept us on the field. Making some third downs kept
Speaker 1: us on the field. Uh. And then your run game.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the run game really helps in keeping
Speaker 1: your offense on the football field by keeping yourself in
Speaker 1: third and more manageable shorter situations that we had in
Speaker 1: the game. And um, you know when you look away
Speaker 1: and come away and look at thirty minutes, they're almost
Speaker 1: thirty one minutes of of ball control. You know that.
Speaker 1: That's great. I mean you should and hopefully you win
Speaker 1: the football game. It'd be sad to be here today
Speaker 1: and say you had thirty minutes of football and you lost.
Speaker 1: You know, that'd be that'd be the negative to that
Speaker 1: with cars obviously took some shots. And while you're like,
Speaker 1: you know that he's tall, he stands, it's trying to
Speaker 1: make him play. He's that going to be a god
Speaker 1: a conversation with him about you know, well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously, um, you know the one on the fourth
Speaker 1: down play took took a shot there again they rushed
Speaker 1: an extra guy and and uh with five protectors. There's
Speaker 1: a couple other situations where it's just going to come
Speaker 1: down to just the more he plays and the more
Speaker 1: he recognizes defense to be able to shift the protection
Speaker 1: to pick up some of the other play. And then
Speaker 1: again they listen, you know, the offensive line did a
Speaker 1: heck of the job and and every now and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna get beat. I mean, that's just the nature
Speaker 1: of the game. And you're going to take a shot,
Speaker 1: which happened uh once yesterday as well. Um, but the
Speaker 1: more he plays and The more he gets comfortable and
Speaker 1: what he's seeing, the better he's going to become and recognizing, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the pressures. And the other thing too, is
Speaker 1: is you know, you set up plays with personnel and
Speaker 1: formations during the game so you can get a good
Speaker 1: idea how they're going to defend a certain formation and
Speaker 1: then it just comes down to reckon mission and recall
Speaker 1: for him. But again, the more he plays, the better
Speaker 1: he'll get there. Forty four yesterday, are you going based
Speaker 1: on staff probabilities? Were already trusting your puition? It's both
Speaker 1: and then I got to trust the guys too, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean that's where we were at the forty yard line,
Speaker 1: you know, fourth and four. I mean, it was to me,
Speaker 1: it was it was it was a you know, five
Speaker 1: point game at the time. I felt like we were
Speaker 1: we were we were moving the ball and it right
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, if if you punt the but
Speaker 1: you're outside of field goal range so you can't kick
Speaker 1: the field goal. Um, if you punt the ball, the
Speaker 1: chances of it going in the end zone and having
Speaker 1: a touchback comes back out, You're only you know, what
Speaker 1: are you gaining about fifteen yards? And if you don't
Speaker 1: make it. Okay, the defense is playing well, Um, they
Speaker 1: get the ball at the forty yard line and and
Speaker 1: let's go play. So I just felt felt comfortable with
Speaker 1: the with the guys and the way we were moving
Speaker 1: the ball and um, just just a great trust and
Speaker 1: the guys to make that make that decision. But you're
Speaker 1: still getting out of pretty quick pat of time. Oh
Speaker 1: it's tremendous, you know, for for us to get to
Speaker 1: play into him quickly, get to the line of cameras
Speaker 1: because we do a lot of kill kill package plays
Speaker 1: and and uh, it just gives him time at the
Speaker 1: line to to see what he's seeing defensively and then
Speaker 1: put us in the right the right play. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's on me to get the play in. It's obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: something that I pride myself in to get because I
Speaker 1: know being in that position having more time at the
Speaker 1: line is very beneficial. So it's just it's my job
Speaker 1: to get to play into him. Appreciate. Yeah, no, it uh,
Speaker 1: it felt it felt good. You know, I felt felt
Speaker 1: like we were in a pretty good rhythm and uh. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously to score on the opening possession was
Speaker 1: was was huge and then you know, again the run
Speaker 1: game helps that. But yeah, I felt good. I felt
Speaker 1: felt comfortable with with with what we were the information
Speaker 1: that I was receiving from the coaches upstairs, and what
Speaker 1: we were seeing on the on the sidelines, and just
Speaker 1: just the communication was was good. And and believe me,
Speaker 1: it's not all about just me calling the plays. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a lot of information and uh, you know from
Speaker 1: coach Stout, you know, in the running game and the
Speaker 1: runs he liked. So we're just piecing that all together
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, trying to make this thing work.
Speaker 1: Getting but how do you think he will go to
Speaker 1: get it out? Yeah? I thought he I thought he played.
Speaker 1: I thought he played well, you know, um coming in
Speaker 1: there and and and and filling in for for for Leo. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a good chance that he gets more
Speaker 1: work obviously this week. And very comfortable with with with
Speaker 1: what he has has done, you know so far through
Speaker 1: training camp. Um, and and again he's another another one
Speaker 1: of those young players that we have that that will
Speaker 1: just get better with more reps. When quarterback just staying there,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, you you know, when you when you obviously
Speaker 1: watching the tape this morning and going back and and
Speaker 1: watching the guys, you know, for him to have that
Speaker 1: kind of poise in the pocket for his first start
Speaker 1: and really only having about four series you know throughout
Speaker 1: the entire training camp. Um, you just you just can't,
Speaker 1: you just can't teach that, you know, And the patience
Speaker 1: that he had to let receivers come open. Um. I
Speaker 1: remember at one third down play, hit Jordan on a
Speaker 1: backside dagger out. I mean, just hung in there, hung
Speaker 1: in there, and it was a nice tight window throw.
Speaker 1: And those are the things you see from from a
Speaker 1: more veteran type quarterback, where young guys tend to kind
Speaker 1: of want to scramble in those situations. But the poise
Speaker 1: was was tremendous and um uh, that's just that's just
Speaker 1: who he is. And and look forward to another opportunity
Speaker 1: to work with him again this week. Happened in the
Speaker 1: first quarter on their sideline, he caught a pass. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the one hand to catch, but he caught a
Speaker 1: he caught a ball kind of kind of left to right,
Speaker 1: and he turned up the sideline right on the right,
Speaker 1: on the boundary and went to protect himself and you know,
Speaker 1: right on the sideline, lowered the shoulder and took it,
Speaker 1: took a drag blow on his left shoulder. For that,
Speaker 1: we knew when he came off he got you know
Speaker 1: right away, Um, when he came off after that series,
Speaker 1: but doos he came and said, hey, you know he's
Speaker 1: he's got a left shoulder strain. Um, we could tell
Speaker 1: that at the time, but as he as the game
Speaker 1: wore on, UM, I didn't know obviously anything anything was
Speaker 1: more serious than that, probably gonna have to be cleared him.
Speaker 1: It's a dangerous situation with a displaced buon. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, you know, you're talking up around
Speaker 1: the neck and head area, so so any type of
Speaker 1: blow again could do for their damage to that. That's
Speaker 1: why that's why it's a week to week deal to
Speaker 1: see how it see how it heals and recovers after
Speaker 1: Burton's injury or did you have used him before? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the only time we've used him in a
Speaker 1: tight end situation is is a short yarder's goal line
Speaker 1: situations as as a third tight end. You know, so
Speaker 1: he got um uh on on Friday last week. Um,
Speaker 1: he was able to to get some reps at that spot.
Speaker 1: And again a credit to him and you know how
Speaker 1: he got himself ready to play h in in that
Speaker 1: in that position because it's a little bit different for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he did a great job for us, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's something that we'll we'll continue to look at from
Speaker 1: a from a package standpoint down the road. You know,
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was great. It was great.
Speaker 1: I uh, you know, stand on their whole in the
Speaker 1: flag and just kind of looking around the stadium and
Speaker 1: just kind of soaking everything in. Was was was a
Speaker 1: great feeling for me, you know, to stand here and
Speaker 1: see the people, what a great crowd we had, and
Speaker 1: and um, you know it was I was calm. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had the internal butterflies like like probably every coaching
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League has on any game.
Speaker 1: But you know, it was it was calm. I was excited.
Speaker 1: I was ready to watch our guys perform. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I was excited for Carson and uh to see him
Speaker 1: play and and it's the game unfolded. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously as he made it nice to go down and
Speaker 1: get seven points on the first on the first drive,
Speaker 1: but you know then you kind of settled into the
Speaker 1: game and then you know, for me, after that, you
Speaker 1: start showing a little more emotion because you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just you're so close on a few plays and
Speaker 1: he just you know, you want so so badly for
Speaker 1: the guys to do well. But but overall felt felt
Speaker 1: really good and pleased with their performance. But from my standpoint,
Speaker 1: I was I was pretty calm. Ryan Matthews didn't have
Speaker 1: a super high average, but a philosophy, if it's not
Speaker 1: getting well again, it just it aids and everything you
Speaker 1: do offensively. And uh, he's such a powerful back. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of times those runs are are up
Speaker 1: inside the tackle box area. And had a couple of
Speaker 1: chances just off tackle to make some some big gains.
Speaker 1: You know, Kenyon made a couple of nice runs. Darren
Speaker 1: made a couple of nice runs. But you know, to
Speaker 1: keep feeding the guy like Ryan. At some point it's
Speaker 1: he's so powerful and punishing that it's going to take
Speaker 1: a toll defensively, and uh, you just got to hang
Speaker 1: with it. The I think the hard thing for any
Speaker 1: play caller is to stay patient with the run game.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you abandoned it too soon even when things maybe
Speaker 1: aren't going so well. And uh that if if you
Speaker 1: don't keep throwing as they say, you know, mud against
Speaker 1: the wall, eventually something's gonna stick and and you know
Speaker 1: you just got to keep hammering away and chiseling away
Speaker 1: and eventually, uh uh, something's going to give and it
Speaker 1: just opens up the rest of your game plan. Defensive
Speaker 1: players said they thought that tackling the cleaned up a
Speaker 1: little as you guys moved forward. There's two yards at
Speaker 1: least I did. I did. And you know it's usually uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the first first game of the regular season,
Speaker 1: these guys again are playing sixty minutes and angles are
Speaker 1: a little bit different. The speed is obviously different than
Speaker 1: training camp, um and preseason games. So you know, other
Speaker 1: other than that, yeah, there's I mean, definitely have to
Speaker 1: clean up some of the some of the tackling, but
Speaker 1: it all comes down to angles and and and uh
Speaker 1: uh the type of lanes that they that they take
Speaker 1: in order to make those tackles. If you so. Isaac
Speaker 1: again with his with his injury, um, you know, we
Speaker 1: we're day to day with him. He's real close to
Speaker 1: coming back and so we felt good with Whiz and Tobin.
Speaker 1: He had fun out there. Uh he he came off
Speaker 1: the after we scored and he was like he didn't
Speaker 1: realize that the defense was going to cut him. I said, well, dude,
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're a big guy running through there,
Speaker 1: and I guess, a little dB, where do you expect
Speaker 1: him to go? You know? But he he had fun
Speaker 1: out there, and you know he's obviously he saw his athleticism,
Speaker 1: how well he comes off the ball, and you know
Speaker 1: he's obviously a former fullback. So gave him an opportunity.
Speaker 1: My message to Carson obviously, enjoy it. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: this business is short lived. You get a chance to
Speaker 1: watch the film and make the corrections and we're right
Speaker 1: onto the next opponent. And and it's a it's a
Speaker 1: different set of circumstances, you know. It's uh, um, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like every one of our golf games in here.
Speaker 1: One day you shoot seventy five, the next day you
Speaker 1: shoot eighty five, and and you just have to take
Speaker 1: each game and stride and you know, another set of circumstances.
Speaker 1: And Monday night game coming up, uh National Spotlight. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: it's a road game. You know, noise, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So uh, enjoy this one. But we got to come
Speaker 1: to work ready to play again. What are you guys
Speaker 1: that worked down version after What were your thoughts from
Speaker 1: people found out? Well, it just shows the toughness, you know,
Speaker 1: the tough and physical toughness that that he has once
Speaker 1: once we found out the extent of the injury for
Speaker 1: him to play through it and uh um, you know again,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a credit to him to be able
Speaker 1: to fight through and battle through and keep himself available
Speaker 1: for the games to numbers. Ye had numbers and the
Speaker 1: Wendell you know, uh kick returns um his availability there
Speaker 1: and then of course he got a couple of couple
Speaker 1: of carries and a couple of snaps. Actually offensively too, yeah, quite,
Speaker 1: I mean quite a bit. You know, I'm always listening
Speaker 1: to the players, whether the offensive line is is telling me, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to keep running the football. We got these guys,
Speaker 1: or you know, the quarterback in this case, Carson is
Speaker 1: seeing something, you know, defensively, and and uh it's great
Speaker 1: to uh uh kind of take all that information in
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned after the game, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there constantly with those cards, you know, coming up
Speaker 1: with with another set of plays, you know, putting another
Speaker 1: drive together and taking all that information in and just
Speaker 1: absorbing and just you know, exhausting the game plan, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: whether we go back and execute plays we've already called
Speaker 1: or find something new that's on the plan that they
Speaker 1: haven't seen. So, um, it's great to get all that information. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And one thing about Carson too, is he
Speaker 1: he sees the field um well. And and for him
Speaker 1: to have that kind of dialogue in his first game,
Speaker 1: I think just shows the type of kid that he
Speaker 1: is and the way he prepares himself each week. Obviously
Speaker 1: the field. But is that yes, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: exactly how how right now that that he's going to
Speaker 1: be used? Yeah, you used four running backs receivers obviously,
Speaker 1: what's the importance of having quick Well, that's important, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it just uh, these if these guys, if
Speaker 1: we have nineteen or twenty guys up offensively every week,
Speaker 1: I mean you want to use them all, whether it
Speaker 1: be on offense or special teams. So you know, um,
Speaker 1: having four backs obviously can take a little heat off
Speaker 1: of maybe like Darren Sproles taking a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of carries. Uh, you still want him to get
Speaker 1: his tough That's just the same thing with with Ryan,
Speaker 1: you know, too young, and Kenyon came in there I
Speaker 1: had some explosive runs. So you know, it's it's just, Um,
Speaker 1: it's something that when you look at the entire the
Speaker 1: entire UH roster on game day, you know, everybody's got
Speaker 1: to contribute. And again that's that's kind of what I
Speaker 1: told the team after the game, that that that this
Speaker 1: was a team effort team win, and everybody contributed, and
Speaker 1: that's what it takes to win. You know, in the
Speaker 1: national football leg usually by personnel and how we rotate
Speaker 1: and how we want to get certain guys in certain positions. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes in our eleven personnel it was Jordan
Speaker 1: in the slot and sometimes it was Josh Huff in
Speaker 1: the slot. So it just depends on the play that's
Speaker 1: called at the time and who we want in the game.
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks limited role. Well, you know again when teams,
Speaker 1: when teams are playing a lot of that eleven called
Speaker 1: zebra personnel, Um, you know, we keep we keep Jordan
Speaker 1: and Nigel on the field, you know, and and as
Speaker 1: good an athlete as Michael is, um, it's just unfortunate
Speaker 1: that that you know, we have to take one guy
Speaker 1: off and and uh, right now, he's the guy that
Speaker 1: you know, he's the odd man out and he ends
Speaker 1: up coming off the field. But sorry, but but I'm done.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm done. Yes, mister rudeness, there was a
Speaker 1: stretching of series. It obviously weren't successful. You got right.
Speaker 1: Was it was that Carson were playing job. You know,
Speaker 1: we um, we came out. We obviously after the touchdown,
Speaker 1: we we kind of we kind of spit and sputtered
Speaker 1: there a little bit and uh false start, you know,
Speaker 1: um didn't execute quite the way we should have. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then the second quarter, boom we hit Jordan and we're
Speaker 1: down inside the ten yard line, you know, on a
Speaker 1: great great throw and catch uh there and then and
Speaker 1: then the next play. Um, it's really it was really
Speaker 1: the play was there, The play was there. Um. It's
Speaker 1: something that the guy when they see it, they're gonna go,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness. It's one of those It's one of
Speaker 1: those deals. We had a hat for a hat, um,
Speaker 1: and Ryan actually turned it up inside he followed Kelsey.
Speaker 1: You know. So it's just those things now that when
Speaker 1: you get into these games, things are a little bit faster,
Speaker 1: and and they just got to see it. And the
Speaker 1: next time they're in that position, they'll make that play.
Speaker 1: Carson on the on the incomplete to uh to uh
Speaker 1: to Jordan, you know, in the right part, right side
Speaker 1: of the end zone there. It's just one of those
Speaker 1: things where you know, the progression took him left, but
Speaker 1: then when he got his he his eyes weren't back
Speaker 1: to Jordan fast enough and he didn't really see the
Speaker 1: leverage and it was just one of those who just
Speaker 1: just sailed it high. So again, those are all teachable,
Speaker 1: very correctable moments. And um, that's what these guys will
Speaker 1: see and move on. Weaponist Donnie Jones at this point,
Speaker 1: the ability, it's tremendous to have a guy like Donnie Jones. Um,
Speaker 1: he saw it yesterday, I think, I think early in
Speaker 1: the in the season and really all season long anytime
Speaker 1: you can you can trade field position, you know, and
Speaker 1: and make a team drive you know, ninety yards plus
Speaker 1: makes it makes it real hard on them. And and um,
Speaker 1: did he did a good job for us yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks guys,