Speaker 1: Give us the timeline for for Drake Shackcent.
Speaker 2: We don't have a timeline.
Speaker 1: I know it won't be any time in camp, so
Speaker 1: we got to see how rehab continues to go.
Speaker 2: But definitely not any time in camp. Worse than you
Speaker 2: know initially expect.
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you do that type of surgery that
Speaker 1: he had. McGlinchey I think had a similar one. But
Speaker 1: it's those are those are big surgeries. They're tough to
Speaker 1: come back from and you never know how they're gonna react,
Speaker 1: and we always know what's possibility to take a long time,
Speaker 1: and it's taken a long time.
Speaker 2: Looked pretty substantial. Did he have surgery, No, he hasn't
Speaker 2: had surgery yet.
Speaker 1: He's still got one more doctor to talk to today.
Speaker 1: I'll answer for you guys next time I speak with you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: A lot of your top offensive guys not right because
Speaker 1: it was in the team stuff, but just from r IV,
Speaker 1: you looked like the defense really was all over. Did
Speaker 1: you feel like defense at the edge today? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say so, you know, especially down there in the
Speaker 1: red zone where it's tighter.
Speaker 2: Just the tighter coverages and stuff. They definitely did.
Speaker 1: First day of pads, I thought it helped with our
Speaker 1: protections and stuff a little bit.
Speaker 2: Definitely thought the.
Speaker 1: Offense got the better half in the run period at
Speaker 1: the beginning, but the way the rest of practice when
Speaker 1: I'd say it was obvious with the d you said
Speaker 1: the first day of pads, you know, when you have
Speaker 1: that here and obviously the intensity, energy and everything that
Speaker 1: comes with that. Did you see more explosiveness from them
Speaker 1: today or more energy or you know what?
Speaker 2: Did what did that bring?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's always there's always a different
Speaker 1: element when pads go on. I think there's a little
Speaker 1: more butterflies for guys and stuff like that, But you
Speaker 1: try to make it the same stuff that we've done
Speaker 1: the last four days. You can thud running backs up,
Speaker 1: which is nicer you don't just have to tag them off.
Speaker 1: But there were more thuds you heard of the pads
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But uh, you know, we show
Speaker 1: a lot of clips before we get out to practice
Speaker 1: to make sure they're not anyone's going out there and
Speaker 1: just acting like it's game day because we got pads on,
Speaker 1: So we practiced pretty hard without them, and we like
Speaker 1: to know nothing to change. But it feels a little
Speaker 1: bit safer for having those on today here, so all
Speaker 1: just kind of ease them in then get.
Speaker 2: Them into team drills. Yeah, we're hoping. You know, we
Speaker 2: wanted him to go today.
Speaker 1: See how a response tonight in tomorrow morning when he
Speaker 1: comes in. If if that's good, he should be in
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What do you say from Trent Taylor? It seems like
Speaker 2: he's pretty involved in the turns and then he.
Speaker 1: Was also the ones today on offense. Yeah, Trent is
Speaker 1: I love having Trend back here. You know, Trent can
Speaker 1: help out anywhere. Trent such good football player. The moment's
Speaker 1: never too big for him. He knows the offense well,
Speaker 1: he can hop in at all three spots, competes his
Speaker 1: ass off and everything he does. And he's very valid
Speaker 1: valuable as returner too. So you know, especially having a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in and out, it's good to have
Speaker 1: some versatility there with Trent.
Speaker 2: Can you bring him back as a returner at first
Speaker 2: or just all around?
Speaker 1: No, I mean, you always want a group of receivers
Speaker 1: in camp, and you know you're gonna get a few
Speaker 1: in the draft, possibly a free agency after the draft.
Speaker 2: You got the guys that you already have on the
Speaker 2: roster and you want.
Speaker 1: To add a harder competition, and I always love getting
Speaker 1: some veterans in here who know how to play, who
Speaker 1: the game's not too big for that hopefully can add
Speaker 1: competition and possibly make your team or make guys better
Speaker 1: who have to be very good to beat out some
Speaker 1: guys like that. And you always like as like that
Speaker 1: was possible practice squad players too, because you know when
Speaker 1: they have experience and something happens on a Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 2: The game's never too big for him. You can get
Speaker 2: him up and they don't blink.
Speaker 1: Two had a nice chunk play today because to get
Speaker 1: him out there and.
Speaker 2: After last year we hit the drops and then he
Speaker 2: got hurt. It was kind of almost like a lost
Speaker 2: year for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know that was frustrating for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: to go through camp. You know a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you guys, you go through camp and you got to
Speaker 1: get worse before you get better. But the stuff when
Speaker 1: you have a big injury like he did, he's been
Speaker 1: working his butt off to get back and I know
Speaker 1: he did that throughout OTAs and for him to you know,
Speaker 1: get his fifth practice in a day and to finally
Speaker 1: make it to get the pads On to get some
Speaker 1: catches too. I was happy for him, and hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: continue like.
Speaker 2: The timeline to be through counting and Grenda.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there those are grade ones. I
Speaker 1: think so, oh, no, Isaac was worse. You know that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a few weeks. Jake is in a
Speaker 1: similar boatist Tay. I think it was like a ten
Speaker 1: day guess whenever that started.
Speaker 2: So hopefully sometime next week.
Speaker 1: We're watching your kickoff returns, seeing a number of reps,
Speaker 1: do you do you feel like you have a good
Speaker 1: idea of what traits you like in your return guys.
Speaker 2: You want bigger guys, smaller guys, not totally. You want
Speaker 2: the best guy.
Speaker 1: You know, they come in all shapes and sizes, but
Speaker 1: it's you want to You want the fastest, quickest, biggest
Speaker 1: guy possible.
Speaker 2: But they usually don't make it exactly like that.
Speaker 1: So you also want some smart guys too, and just
Speaker 1: how they can not necessarily smart, but how they track
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be different. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: We don't know what type of balls are coming back there.
Speaker 1: And you almost need like a shortstop too, because the
Speaker 1: quicker you can pick those balls up and judge it right.
Speaker 1: The more you can get in track with the blockers
Speaker 1: and in line with them, which is gonna happen real fast.
Speaker 1: So there's so many variables that are going into it.
Speaker 1: So we're just trying to learn by watching it and
Speaker 1: thinking about it, but we're not truly going to learn,
Speaker 1: so we get some experience at it. Coach last week
Speaker 1: Brock said, you noticed intensity and the step always in
Speaker 1: the veterans based on where you guys have been. How
Speaker 1: close in the Super Bowl? Do you notice a different
Speaker 1: intensity this time in training camp? And I'll look in
Speaker 1: the guy's eyes that they're hunger to get to get
Speaker 1: back and over the top. I mean, I don't no
Speaker 1: different than last year. I mean, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can have that look much more than we have had.
Speaker 1: So I think guys that's always on their mind, you know,
Speaker 1: especially with our history and stuff, but you also want
Speaker 1: to you like that on guy's mind, but you also
Speaker 1: want it off their mind. I mean, it's about getting
Speaker 1: better each day. I mean, everyone knows our goal and
Speaker 1: what we expect, but you can't think totally how it ends.
Speaker 1: You gotta start with where it begins, and you got
Speaker 1: to get better each day all the way to the end,
Speaker 1: and you got to play your best on the last
Speaker 1: day of the season, whatever that is.
Speaker 2: So that's what we're focusing on. Now.
Speaker 1: Are there a benefit at all with I watch it
Speaker 1: on the sideline versus.
Speaker 2: Not being here and what do you hope that he
Speaker 2: gets out of there physically even know it's not participate.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just, I just I think it's good when
Speaker 1: you know, any of these guys had the business part
Speaker 1: of the contracts going on and everything. I think it's
Speaker 1: always good to not get too far away from football.
Speaker 1: You know, at least he can be with his teammates
Speaker 1: here meetings, get some work with the strength and condition
Speaker 1: and coaches, things like that, and so hopefully when things
Speaker 1: work out, it just makes a little bit of a
Speaker 1: smooth transition. Like the last two years, Elijah Mintril was
Speaker 1: a pretty clear cut number two tailback and that started
Speaker 1: to blur at all with Jordan Mason playing like he has.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd say nothing against Elijah, and there's been
Speaker 1: no fall off in Elijah at all, but JP runs
Speaker 1: at a very high level. I mean, I see both
Speaker 1: of those guys that if Christian's not in there, not
Speaker 1: going and we always expect, no matter who we've had
Speaker 1: in the past, that that number two, number three, sometimes
Speaker 1: our fourth guy comes in and if their numbers called,
Speaker 1: we expect them to run like a starting back. Just
Speaker 1: how many reps do they get at it, how long
Speaker 1: do they last, and things like that. And JP wasn't
Speaker 1: there right away, but he got there pretty quick, and
Speaker 1: he did a hell of a job for us last year.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how camp plays out. But I love
Speaker 1: both of those guys and got some death behind him too.
Speaker 1: He was really specifical with the branch ause, like did
Speaker 1: he look back on the Super Bowl and have any
Speaker 1: regrets or he looks at a couple of third down
Speaker 1: passed offs to the one at the end another one
Speaker 1: later in the regulation. Have you gone over with them
Speaker 1: that specifically, like plate live plays and those the two
Speaker 1: plays you would circle to. Yeah, that's yeah, that's one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things, you know. I take like a
Speaker 1: month off of it before I can handle it, But
Speaker 1: then I get a couple of month head start before
Speaker 1: those guys do. And by the time they've gone here,
Speaker 1: I've seen it a thousand times, not just in game order,
Speaker 1: but cut ups things like that, and so they get
Speaker 1: here and sometime in phase one where you're going through
Speaker 1: cutups and stuff, and then it's hey, there's only one
Speaker 1: game that we haven't reviewed from last year because the
Speaker 1: season ended after it, and we always review games together,
Speaker 1: so we took a time where I reviewed it all
Speaker 1: with him and the other quarterbacks were in the meeting
Speaker 1: room the other coaches. And it's always hard to watch
Speaker 1: that stuff because so many emotions are attached to it,
Speaker 1: But after you do, when you start to assess it
Speaker 1: and look at things, you put in perspective and find
Speaker 1: a way to get better from it. Talking about hungry,
Speaker 1: we know it's Nick Bosa's stay up with him as
Speaker 1: a rookie's coach. Note, what do you think about that?
Speaker 2: And who is him that important to Nick?
Speaker 1: Nick is mioks the man I like when he has
Speaker 1: days off and makes it's a little more efficient for offense.
Speaker 2: We can get some more work in.
Speaker 1: But Nick nicks also he's got a standard his routine
Speaker 1: so he can keep being Nick and continuing to take
Speaker 1: it to another level. But he handled everything the right way.
Speaker 1: I think it was hard on him just missing all
Speaker 1: of camp last year. And you know Nick's very he
Speaker 1: thinks about everything, every rep, everything he does, and so
Speaker 1: do we, and we've got a good plan for him
Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of working so far, a
Speaker 1: lot more than last year at this time, and we
Speaker 1: believe that will continue.
Speaker 2: Are there any other defense to see just how the
Speaker 2: depth is? Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 1: For the depth is because we talked to Drake's not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to participate, So focus on those guys reps.
Speaker 1: I mean, we knew that coming in with Drake, and
Speaker 1: you know we've also you know, bringing in Tour and
Speaker 1: bringing them Leonard. You know, we've we've addressed that and
Speaker 1: especially with some of the.
Speaker 2: Guys that we lost.
Speaker 1: So we feel good about what we came in with
Speaker 1: our D line and five practices in feel just as good,
Speaker 1: if not better today beginning the second week of training camp.
Speaker 2: So far, has there.
Speaker 1: Been anything or any player in particular that has surprised
Speaker 1: you or impressed you in a way that you're like, wow, Okay, No,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of guys have impressed me. But
Speaker 1: it's also so early in camp, and you know it's
Speaker 1: I try to I don't try to get too high
Speaker 1: or low on anybody.
Speaker 2: We're not through our install.
Speaker 1: Yet today it was our first day of pads, So
Speaker 1: some guys will look real good one day and tail
Speaker 1: off a little bit the next day. But we've got
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more into it before, especially
Speaker 1: with the pads on, before guys start separating themselves. Had
Speaker 1: a pretty good hip start on jobs in terms of
Speaker 1: the system.
Speaker 2: How do you see that playing out?
Speaker 1: Determining which one's gonna be just them continuing to get
Speaker 1: equal reps and usually plays itself out. You know, you
Speaker 1: like it for one of them not to make it
Speaker 1: to they make the decision. You know, usually we all
Speaker 1: can see it and it eventually takes care of itself
Speaker 1: and the players know, the coaches know, and it's not
Speaker 1: a tough decision.
Speaker 2: If it is a real tough decision.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that's a good problem because they're both playing so
Speaker 1: well that they eventually got to make a decision. But
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident one of them will separate themselves as
Speaker 1: it goes all right, Thanks guys,