Speaker 1: All right. Injuries for today, Cleve Farrell knee won't practice,
Speaker 1: Greenlaw Achilles won't practice, Logan Ryan Growing won't practice, Armstead
Speaker 1: foot knee limited, Odem bicep limited. All the other guys
Speaker 1: who've been hurt are full full.
Speaker 2: Ye tell us about Joe Berry and one are the
Speaker 2: characteristics of his defense?
Speaker 3: And how do they look? On filming against Dallas?
Speaker 1: To you, they looked a real good versusallis. I think
Speaker 1: they've looked, you know. I haven't got to watch much
Speaker 1: of them until these last ten days, and obviously picked
Speaker 1: it up a lot more of these last two days.
Speaker 1: But I think they're a very good defense. The numbers
Speaker 1: don't always tell the truth. They had a couple of
Speaker 1: games that got some cheap yards, but they're good in
Speaker 1: the run, good in the past. They can get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. They're extremely sound, they're getting healthier. A ton
Speaker 1: of respect for Joe. Got to work with them my
Speaker 1: first couple of years of my career in Tampa, and
Speaker 1: he's been involved in a number of different defenses and
Speaker 1: playing against him a few times with the Rams and
Speaker 1: then in Green Bay. His scheme just keeps getting sounder
Speaker 1: and better.
Speaker 2: After Sunday you know, after learning at four, how quickly
Speaker 2: did you guys get.
Speaker 3: To work on the packers?
Speaker 1: And we were already in here, so you know, we
Speaker 1: were doing it that day. We had mixed in a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the week, hit up a couple
Speaker 1: of teams, but started really focusing on him halfway through
Speaker 1: the second quarter. Then they scored at the end of
Speaker 1: the second quarter, so I kind of did both at
Speaker 1: halftime and then third quarter. I was set on one
Speaker 1: team throughout the season. I mean, he's he's come a
Speaker 1: long way because he's playing at such a high level.
Speaker 1: To get thrown in there early in this year and
Speaker 1: have to go through some ups and downs, which he
Speaker 1: did some good things earlier in this year too, but
Speaker 1: to not win all those games kind of when you're
Speaker 1: with a tough record in your first year, the pressure
Speaker 1: that comes with that, and just to watch him each game.
Speaker 1: He's been consistent. For him to take care of the ball,
Speaker 1: the way he's done has been unbelievable. I mean, the
Speaker 1: twenty one touchdowns and one pick I think over the
Speaker 1: last ten games is unbelievable. He's extremely consistent on what
Speaker 1: they're asking him to do. Matt's is very good at
Speaker 1: coaching the quarterback, and you can see that their quarterback
Speaker 1: is buying in and you know, plays very well in
Speaker 1: their system and makes a lot of plays, has a
Speaker 1: big arm and it's a big dude tood probably not
Speaker 1: turning it over. And when you don't turn it over,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, you got a chance to win
Speaker 1: every game. And the fact they've only had one pick
Speaker 1: in ten games is unbelievable. And when you start getting
Speaker 1: a running game going with that with a real good
Speaker 1: defense too, doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 3: To get a head start on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll tell you. I'll tell you after
Speaker 1: our game Saturday. Sometimes it can be a benefit, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, all just depends on how the
Speaker 1: game unwinds. But sometimes having a short rest can help.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it hurts, so you see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: But I don't really overthink that stuff much.
Speaker 3: Always on the yet.
Speaker 2: But so much attention of the season was on Eagles Cowboys,
Speaker 2: you guys, maybe shaping it up some amount of surprise
Speaker 2: for both those teams to be gone before.
Speaker 3: You start playing.
Speaker 1: I would say so before we got into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: just because you know, we hadn't really studied Green Bay
Speaker 1: and watched them. Once we had those ten days kind
Speaker 1: of view a lot of people, it's then you realize
Speaker 1: that they had a good shot. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: didn't know who was gonna win, but so it didn't
Speaker 1: surprise me what happened. Dallas is a good team, so
Speaker 1: you know, just the way it started out was a
Speaker 1: little surprising. But once you watch the tape and you
Speaker 1: really get into Green Bay and you really think of
Speaker 1: their numbers and you really watch their players and how
Speaker 1: they're doing it, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 3: Now of a Mattlin floor offense and a Mat.
Speaker 1: Flour team, I'm not sure. I mean, I think they
Speaker 1: changed each year, and it's definitely different with Aaron not there,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it looks a little bit more
Speaker 1: similar to how I know Matt and his offense, and
Speaker 1: that was always mixed in with Aaron too. Anytime you
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that's played a long time, you're always
Speaker 1: gonna just mix all that stuff in. But it looks
Speaker 1: a little more consistent with but he's done earlier in
Speaker 1: his career and just how they're balancing it out and
Speaker 1: Matt's gonna get his guys to play hard. He's always
Speaker 1: going to be honest with them. And that's a very
Speaker 1: high character guy who understands scheme very well.
Speaker 3: Green laws Achilles issue. He said ten and nine ers
Speaker 3: last week, And is it somewhere you might be able
Speaker 3: to practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be able to go tomorrow. We just pushed
Speaker 1: them hard yesterday just so we want to take a
Speaker 1: day off before we push them again. He should be
Speaker 1: good by tomorrow. It's gonna pass a couple more things.
Speaker 3: That be activated for the first game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a hope. He's given himself a chance
Speaker 1: just being able to watch them a little bit last week.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how these two go. And you could
Speaker 1: have a chance this week since.
Speaker 3: You coached with Matt.
Speaker 4: But how much when you watch when you watch them,
Speaker 4: do you see Oh yeah, I know that, I know,
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 3: How much has it changed?
Speaker 1: Similar? I mean it's like that with a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: I mean, you scheme changes just like ours does. All
Speaker 1: the time. Things evolve, and especially with your players. But
Speaker 1: it's fun watching them with the young quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean Matt and Night coach quarterbacks together for a while,
Speaker 1: just technique and certain things, and you can definitely see
Speaker 1: his how he's been coaching this guy and he's done
Speaker 1: a hell of a job with them. And it seems
Speaker 1: like the quarterbacks made a pretty easy for him too.
Speaker 3: Question from before the thing with the playoffs that you
Speaker 3: almost have to take out all your free and Steve
Speaker 3: notions from the regular season instance in your season so much.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean you you prepare off the film
Speaker 1: that you have. But man, just keep telling our guys,
Speaker 1: no matter what I mean, we clinched the one seed.
Speaker 1: It feels like a hundred days ago. But and you
Speaker 1: got all this time and everyone wants to talk about
Speaker 1: all this stuff that leads up to and then there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to think about. But it comes
Speaker 1: down to what you do in three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: And if you got a little amount of time to
Speaker 1: prepare for that a lot of amount of time. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's a team you've played for three times, the
Speaker 1: plage you haven't, the team you haven't played in two years,
Speaker 1: there's lots of things to think about and talk about.
Speaker 1: All we try to do is study the film, prepare
Speaker 1: and prepare for how those three and a half hours
Speaker 1: will go. But once it starts. You just cut it
Speaker 1: loose and you ride. And I think that's the the
Speaker 1: hard thing about the weeks and stuff is you just
Speaker 1: tell guys, don't don't have preconceived notions. Don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be these teams because either the ones you've
Speaker 1: heard about, just we'll watch the film, we'll put in
Speaker 1: the scheme and stuff, and you guys take care of
Speaker 1: your bodies and get ready to come and learn it.
Speaker 3: Wanted to push the guys a little bit of practice
Speaker 3: on Thursday. How did you think that they responded to,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of coming off the buy and all that.
Speaker 1: I think there, I think it was awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always tough because they hear when you call it
Speaker 1: a bye week. People have an idea what a bye
Speaker 1: week's like. And that's why it wasn't technically a bye week,
Speaker 1: but we weren't playing, and I thought it was good
Speaker 1: that the guys prepared the week before like they were
Speaker 1: going that whole game, and a lot of them did,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them we got to take take
Speaker 1: out at the half, so we got a good weekend
Speaker 1: before that. A lot of them got half a game,
Speaker 1: some just got about a quarter. So it was crucial
Speaker 1: to get two days in and we had a real
Speaker 1: hard practice on Thursday, we went full pads on Friday,
Speaker 1: got all the work in. Didn't lose anybody for sure,
Speaker 1: So that that was really the goal. And also to
Speaker 1: get as much work as we can and we'll get
Speaker 1: We got two days this week to do really the
Speaker 1: exact same thing stuff. He got a good, good amount,
Speaker 1: a little on Thursday and a little on Friday. What's up?
Speaker 1: He went? I got it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: I mean all I already answered another question while you
Speaker 1: just did that with guy. But did you go ones
Speaker 1: versus ones in practice or did you do game plan stuff?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: We did ones were so ones. Yeah, no game plan
Speaker 1: stuff because we would have watered it down with four
Speaker 1: game plans.
Speaker 2: I think maybe going in to keep giving week seventeen
Speaker 2: week eighteen off that you were confident that he's come
Speaker 2: off rest before pretty well, how much of that in
Speaker 2: your mind as you went into this, and how much
Speaker 2: do you I got to push him with his practice?
Speaker 3: Where do you think Rock is just coming off some
Speaker 3: a bunch of weeks now long?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, it's not in my mind really much
Speaker 1: at all, because he hasn't been on a bye week.
Speaker 1: We pushed the heck out of Brock meetings practice. I mean,
Speaker 1: we knew Sam was playing that whole game and Brock
Speaker 1: was still splitting reps with him. So Brock got a
Speaker 1: good weekend. We just didn't want to put him out
Speaker 1: there in the first half of that game, so he
Speaker 1: did miss the first half verst the Rams, but he
Speaker 1: got that whole weekend and he came back. He's been here,
Speaker 1: he's worked on his days off. We got two bigger
Speaker 1: practices last week than we do it a normal week.
Speaker 1: So and Brock went out with the guys on Monday,
Speaker 1: did a bunch of stuff with them, and now we're
Speaker 1: gonna get two practices in again. So in terms of
Speaker 1: time off, I mean, he did up two quarters off
Speaker 1: to what we could have done with him. But we
Speaker 1: definitely think that was worth it. And I don't worry
Speaker 1: about that effect and Brock at all for Saturday last week.
Speaker 3: That I think he was talking about in my team
Speaker 3: leeting to the night.
Speaker 4: Before a game that he would often have players talk
Speaker 4: during those sessions, and increasingly you've done the talking.
Speaker 3: He said, this is a complimentary way. It was good.
Speaker 3: If I've got the story straight.
Speaker 1: Well, our first year, we started zero nine, so about
Speaker 1: the first six weeks I was out of stuff, So
Speaker 1: I gave anybody who wanted to get up their a chance.
Speaker 1: Tried a couple of coaches, tried players. But you just
Speaker 1: start experimenting with stuff once you lose your first nine
Speaker 1: games in a row. Second year was a tough year.
Speaker 1: They get sick of hearing you the whole year, and
Speaker 1: so you started to switch it up. Sometimes you get
Speaker 1: players talk, sometimes other coaches. And then in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: we started eight to zero and never changed and didn't
Speaker 1: really have to switch it up, but all did it
Speaker 1: all eight out of those games and really never stopped.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I've had anyone talk since,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't been thought out, and it's not like
Speaker 1: I consciously made a decision on it. I just I
Speaker 1: like to talk if I have something to say, and
Speaker 1: usually I do.
Speaker 4: Maybe they're wide ranging, but are there like kind of
Speaker 4: talking about the upcoming game?
Speaker 3: Are talking about.
Speaker 1: Themes whatever is important at that moment, Like that's I
Speaker 1: really have no pre Like I have a I usually
Speaker 1: on Saturdays, I get to the hotel early. I usually
Speaker 1: watch the offensive game that we played the Sunday before
Speaker 1: the defensive game that we played the Sunday before the
Speaker 1: special teams won. We did the Sunday before to get
Speaker 1: any things from those that I want to show the guys,
Speaker 1: remind them of how I want them to look. And
Speaker 1: then I watched all three phases of the team are
Speaker 1: playing from a game just to see if there's any
Speaker 1: things I want to remind him of. Sometimes that can
Speaker 1: go from ten clips to one hundred clips. They usually
Speaker 1: count them all and then I just go with what
Speaker 1: I feel like that whatever team needs at the moment.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a good storyteller or anything like that
Speaker 1: unless there's story to be told at the moment. So
Speaker 1: to see what we need.
Speaker 3: Have you oppressed approached Kyle? You check about getting a
Speaker 3: custom jacket from his wife?
Speaker 1: No, I haven't. But my wife actually was talking about that,
Speaker 1: but I told her I don't have a number, so
Speaker 1: you better not wear. That'll be so embarrassing for us.
Speaker 1: But now that was cool. She's awesome and she does
Speaker 1: she does that stuff all the time. She's my daughter.
Speaker 1: My daughter likes to make clothes and she was like
Speaker 1: seven years old, so she's always sending her some stuff
Speaker 1: too that they try to make those. It's awesome, it's cool.
Speaker 3: Green Bay is unique. I mean, has had two really
Speaker 3: great drafts back to back.
Speaker 2: They don't have one tight end they get to and
Speaker 2: off two receivers they get five. Does that make it
Speaker 2: more difficult, you think for Wilks and the defensive staff
Speaker 2: to prepare knowing that they have any number of guys
Speaker 2: that could go off.
Speaker 3: In this game.
Speaker 1: I mean that's usually the case to me, on most
Speaker 1: good offenses. I mean, whoever is a good player, you
Speaker 1: still can't force the ball to people. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you do, it's usually not gonna be that good of
Speaker 1: an offense. So and when you do want to spread
Speaker 1: it around, you're not gonna be that scared unless you
Speaker 1: have talent on all those positions. So they've always done
Speaker 1: a good job. They rarely have a player who shouldn't
Speaker 1: be out there. They draft well, they keep their own
Speaker 1: pretty well, and they've done it consistently for a long
Speaker 1: time and always when you give young guys opportunities. Sometimes
Speaker 1: there's some bumps in the road, which it sounds like
Speaker 1: they've gone through with this year a little bit, but
Speaker 1: you get through those and they find a way to
Speaker 1: win that last game. And get in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: now they got a good team that you don't look
Speaker 1: at as a bunch of rookies. You look at a
Speaker 1: guy almost in their second and third year and they're
Speaker 1: playing like it.
Speaker 3: You know, last year he.
Speaker 1: Had a couple of months to kind of get in
Speaker 1: the system and get ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Now that he's been in it even this much longer,
Speaker 3: how do you see him going into these playoffs? And
Speaker 3: was he able to practice Friday or Thursday last week?
Speaker 3: Last week?
Speaker 1: No, he didn't do anything last week. I think he's
Speaker 1: geared up and ready to go the same way he
Speaker 1: was last year. Probably the same way he was in
Speaker 1: his playoff game when he was five years old too,
Speaker 1: or scrimmage that week. Christians always the same. He's always
Speaker 1: waiting for that moment, and he's been waiting for this
Speaker 1: moment for a while. All right, Thanks guys,