Speaker 1: Ship Matt the city had not asked for a release.
Speaker 1: What was the last time we were in constant contact
Speaker 1: with his agents, ed in myself personally March apromy June.
Speaker 1: So he also indicated that he planned to come to
Speaker 1: the street. No, I didn't get that. When I talked
Speaker 1: to him on Thursday, I told him why we were
Speaker 1: releasing him, and I told him I wished him the vest,
Speaker 1: and I hope he gets what he's looking for. So
Speaker 1: turning another conversation, some people look at this, they say, well,
Speaker 1: he didn't fitted culture and ship Telly has here And secondly, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. That's not true. You know, it was
Speaker 1: a money issue and we just didn't come to terms
Speaker 1: of the money issue. So culture, I really don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think about what it is. It's there are a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys that are working very hard, and that's
Speaker 1: what we're looking for. So and Evan works very hard.
Speaker 1: We just we weren't. It was a money decision and
Speaker 1: we just weren't on the same page on the money.
Speaker 1: So how's Ryan Magic looking. Yeah, Ryan's been a really
Speaker 1: good addition to us, um big physical running back. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think you really know how actually big he
Speaker 1: is to you kind of pull up next to him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's almost two hundred and thirty pounds, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he can really run. He's explosive. I think when
Speaker 1: he sees a hole he can change gears and accelerate
Speaker 1: through it. Um. You know, we're using him a little
Speaker 1: bit on kickoff return. I think because of taking advantage
Speaker 1: of that speed. There's not a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: have that speed to go along with that size. Um.
Speaker 1: But we're really excited about having him. He's worked extremely
Speaker 1: hard here since we got him. Came in right after
Speaker 1: we acquired him, has been working really hard. That whole
Speaker 1: group is doing a great job, a bunch of running backs.
Speaker 1: But we're excited to see see what he's like. And
Speaker 1: it'll be a lot different too with the pads on,
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously they're letting him go. But I
Speaker 1: think he's one of those guys when the pads on
Speaker 1: that will will become even bigger because he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a real tough guy to tackle and bring down. Your scheme,
Speaker 1: how interchange will backs and safeties or how much do
Speaker 1: they have to be? I can you envision a day
Speaker 1: then we just say defensive or backs. Um. I think
Speaker 1: you have to be somewhat interchangeable because our safeties have
Speaker 1: to cover. You know, we're not a one guy free safety,
Speaker 1: one guy in the box safety. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: what we do. We're not a single gap defense. When
Speaker 1: you're a single gap defense, you got to have a
Speaker 1: guy that's from the secondary that's devoted to fitting into
Speaker 1: the front, whether it's at the linebacker position or at
Speaker 1: a down safety position. You know, we're we're more of
Speaker 1: a right and left safety. Operation and coverage skills are
Speaker 1: are a premium, you know, to go along with tackling,
Speaker 1: to go along with the other things. I don't think
Speaker 1: there there's a lot of carryover. But you know, obviously
Speaker 1: I think you're better cover guys are on the outside. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, but you'd like to get four guys if
Speaker 1: you're playing with a you know, a base defense, four
Speaker 1: guys that can do it all, that can cover and
Speaker 1: can tackle. Where do you think he's best based on
Speaker 1: Eric's corner, you know, that's where we have him at.
Speaker 1: That's where he'll be UM for the fisiable future. In
Speaker 1: terms of where we are, it's it's very difficult for
Speaker 1: someone to learn multiple positions in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to fit in UM. But he's done an outstanding job
Speaker 1: at corner. He's tall, he's long, he gets his hands
Speaker 1: on guys, he can disrupt routes, he can, but he's
Speaker 1: also got outstanding feet. Change of direction. Uh, seems to
Speaker 1: be around the ball a lot's causing a has caused
Speaker 1: a lot of turn and overs in the the ten
Speaker 1: OTAs in the one mini camp practice we had yesterday. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, always kind of punching the ball out. Seems
Speaker 1: to be around the ball. I think he's really picking
Speaker 1: up on a really well position safety. Walts doing a
Speaker 1: real good job. You know. I think Waltz has experience
Speaker 1: in there because a lot of his time in the
Speaker 1: National Football League has been as a nickel. So if
Speaker 1: you're a nickel, uh, you're an inside player, and that's
Speaker 1: really what you know. You're another safety. You're kind of
Speaker 1: playing down safety, but you're playing a lot of match
Speaker 1: coverage on UM open number two receivers and Walts fit in.
Speaker 1: He's a real smart um pick things up very quickly. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think he's really done a really nice job
Speaker 1: there at the other safety spot. He defends of line.
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't really add anybody on right, where
Speaker 1: do you guys? Yeah, we're excited about that position. I
Speaker 1: think it was probably one of our strong one of
Speaker 1: our strongest, if not our strongest position last year. Um,
Speaker 1: as you go through the entire season, Um, we've got
Speaker 1: we we we think we provided a little bit more
Speaker 1: depth forward. But you know, all those guys in another
Speaker 1: year in the system. You know, Fletch and and Vinnie
Speaker 1: and said and those guys have been here for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. But then you throw bo Allen and
Speaker 1: Taylor hard into the mix with those guys, and we
Speaker 1: think we'll have a good rotation and excited about where
Speaker 1: we are from a defensive line standpoint, Yeah, can you
Speaker 1: see it expanded? You know, but just wait still ways
Speaker 1: to get him on the field more different way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it depends on the situation. But if he's doing a
Speaker 1: hell of a job, you know, he's playing a little
Speaker 1: bit outside, a little bit of inside. I think he's
Speaker 1: expanded his role in terms of where we can deploy him.
Speaker 1: But I see that happening again outside on the line,
Speaker 1: not on the bench, I mean outside on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you start a little outside linebacker guy. Yeah, Taylor has
Speaker 1: done a really good job now. You know, almost last
Speaker 1: year was almost like a red shirt year for him
Speaker 1: if you look at what happened to him. Um came
Speaker 1: in at two hundred and eighty one pounds and when
Speaker 1: we first drafted him, it's probably up the little bit
Speaker 1: over three hundred right now. Has really kind of changed
Speaker 1: his body around in the in the weight room. Um
Speaker 1: and and really one of those guys that with Bo
Speaker 1: Allen and kind of looking at him moving into a
Speaker 1: second year that we're really counting on to help us
Speaker 1: with with Flash, with Vinnie Um, with Benny Logan, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we uh, with Cedric, we got we feel
Speaker 1: like we got a lot of guys there that can
Speaker 1: that we can keep fresh and kind of rotate through
Speaker 1: in which we're trying to do on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: like like Evan and Todd this offseason. And you also
Speaker 1: have to have confidence see the guys that could step
Speaker 1: in forward, those guys and be a productive offense in line.
Speaker 1: What have you seen from these guys so far even
Speaker 1: last year that gives you that confidence. Well, I've seen
Speaker 1: We've seen Allan play, I've seen Allen playing games, and
Speaker 1: I think have been very very productive in games, So
Speaker 1: we're very confident in him. And I've seen also seen
Speaker 1: Matt and h Gardner playing games and been productive in them.
Speaker 1: Kevin Grafs another guy that's really has come along here
Speaker 1: in the offseason. Denis Kelly has played productive football for US.
Speaker 1: So we're real confident on all those guys that we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to go out there and coach every day. Specifically,
Speaker 1: I know the sack numbers weren't huge last year, but
Speaker 1: what did you see from him from a past rushing prospect.
Speaker 1: Just a disruptive force, you know, can really put the
Speaker 1: pocket from the inside. And I think, uh, sometimes the
Speaker 1: sack numbers aren't the whole indication in terms of what
Speaker 1: you can do. But I think if you can make
Speaker 1: the pocket collapse the way Fletcher makes a pocket collapse,
Speaker 1: and a lot of you ask Connor, carn will be
Speaker 1: the first one to tell you some of his sacks
Speaker 1: were beneficial because Fletch moved the pockets so much inside
Speaker 1: that the quarterback had a flush out to where Connor was,
Speaker 1: you know. So I think sack total sometimes are are
Speaker 1: a little misleading in terms of it's not an individual thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a it's a group thing, and I think
Speaker 1: in terms of what he can do on the inside,
Speaker 1: there's not many guys in the league that have that
Speaker 1: type of explosion uh in pass rush moves that can
Speaker 1: really disrupt things on the inside. Starts to wonder if
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts as to why I don't spend
Speaker 1: any time thinking about it. When we watch him out
Speaker 1: in the field training, I'm we're very excited about him.
Speaker 1: When he got an opportunity play against Green Bay, when
Speaker 1: he played against Jacksonville, when he's gone in games for us,
Speaker 1: he's he's been a really good football player. So Zat
Speaker 1: just talked about me best tighter lead. What's in a
Speaker 1: team for him to get in the level of different
Speaker 1: that's up to you guys to figure out. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't really care where where he's rated. I know
Speaker 1: he's doing a great job for us. It's got an
Speaker 1: unbelievable work ethic because it really had no offseason in
Speaker 1: terms of what he did this past you know, from
Speaker 1: when our season ended against the Giants to when we
Speaker 1: started the offseason program in terms of what he did
Speaker 1: to to work on his craft and um make himself
Speaker 1: better not only as a receiver but as a blocker,
Speaker 1: you know, sought out. You know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: do things and try to go get with a coach
Speaker 1: to prepare them for the combine, but then they forget
Speaker 1: about that. Zach's not that type. You know. He was
Speaker 1: traveling all over the country trying to make himself a
Speaker 1: better blocker or a better receiver. Uh, doing all the
Speaker 1: little teeny things that's going to make him, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of take that next step, and that's that's what
Speaker 1: we're excited to see where he goes with that. There
Speaker 1: was a report that San Francisco for year layers to
Speaker 1: kind of account for the norms of the Lenny in generation,
Speaker 1: keep meeting shorter. Allowed players time to check their life
Speaker 1: for teaching things like that, do you take any of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and meeting serrations when you deal
Speaker 1: with your team the past that you Yeah, our meetings
Speaker 1: have always been structured in a very short manner. We
Speaker 1: understand exactly how much time a meeting should be devoted to.
Speaker 1: There are a lot different Our meetings have always been
Speaker 1: a lot shorter since I've been there, and even when
Speaker 1: I was at Oregon, so you know, we've never met
Speaker 1: for more than an hour. I'm We've never had an
Speaker 1: hour and a half meeting, which I think was the
Speaker 1: norm in this league. But we've been doing that for
Speaker 1: a long time. So your ten years having full control,
Speaker 1: do you foresee a diffical bounce between having basis decisions
Speaker 1: and how your reputation will be a lot of room
Speaker 1: to players being a couge and being there daily basis Now,
Speaker 1: I don't at some point though, on hearing to be
Speaker 1: players are going to be happy. I think that happens everywhere,
Speaker 1: happens in any type of business. You know, you may
Speaker 1: not be happy with your contact or an inquirer. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just you got to go talk to your boss
Speaker 1: about it, you know, And that's part of the job.
Speaker 1: When you're the boss, you have to make those decisions
Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about. So also had type
Speaker 1: of control someone before talk to be money guy and
Speaker 1: also met the coach to be able to play you
Speaker 1: really want to Yeah, I don't see a problem with
Speaker 1: that question now. It's a good point. I think he
Speaker 1: has progressed, you know. I think the one thing that's difficult,
Speaker 1: especially on a first year quarterback. You kind of saw
Speaker 1: it a little bit with Mark last year, is you know,
Speaker 1: we throw our guys in the deep end and they
Speaker 1: get everything and then they got to go. And then
Speaker 1: they may drop back ready to throw, but they have
Speaker 1: a rookie receiver that ran the wrong route. They're expecting
Speaker 1: a guy to be here, and when he's at the
Speaker 1: top of this drop the guy he's actually on the
Speaker 1: other side of the field because he didn't know what
Speaker 1: he was doing. So you got to deal with a
Speaker 1: little bit more variables when you're you're you're working out
Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys that have actually been there, coach,
Speaker 1: so it takes a little bit of time to get
Speaker 1: him on the same page. But I have seen, um,
Speaker 1: you know, an improvement from Tim since the day we
Speaker 1: got him, you know, in terms of his his knowledge
Speaker 1: of what we're doing, understanding where everybody is. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a whole process and for him, what
Speaker 1: we have done is dif then what he's done anywhere else.
Speaker 1: So in terms of learning our terminology and how we
Speaker 1: do things, I think he's really each week you've seen
Speaker 1: an incremental bumping him. So excited to see where that
Speaker 1: takes him. And it'll be a good competition as we
Speaker 1: get into August. Yeah, I think mechanically has improved, but
Speaker 1: I think he did a lot of that, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot on his own. We usually when we're out
Speaker 1: here the first phase of phase two, we do a
Speaker 1: little bit of mechanic works, but then once we really
Speaker 1: get into it, you know, we're talking about coverages, spacing
Speaker 1: where the ball is supposed to go, on all his
Speaker 1: other things. We're not spending a whole lot of time,
Speaker 1: and especially with a quarterback, talking about warrior arms, slot
Speaker 1: is or any of those things. So okay, thanks,