Speaker 1: Anyway, it's good to see you too. Okay, Um, you
Speaker 1: know what, I just wanted to kind of make myself
Speaker 1: available a little here, share my excitement for the season
Speaker 1: with our fans. And really that's the reason it's sort
Speaker 1: of impromptu. I didn't give any notice. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys coming on short notice too. Kind of woke up
Speaker 1: this morning and said, you know, uh, talked in March
Speaker 1: extensively about the state of the team, but some of
Speaker 1: you don't get to the owner's meetings in March, so
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Okay, a good time to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm excited share it with the fans. And it's not
Speaker 1: meant to be a state of the team or anything,
Speaker 1: just sort of an impromptu thing and have fun like
Speaker 1: we did last time. Okay, open up to any questions
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, oh, okay, Hey, Jeff, other than twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: how he's been the GM since twenty ten, no playoff
Speaker 1: wins during that span. What's your evaluation of him going
Speaker 1: into this year, through this offseason, and what gives you
Speaker 1: the confidence he's the guy to build a championship. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think how he's done a tremendous job. I have
Speaker 1: real total confidence in Howe the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: remarkable franchise changing decisions, and as I've said before, it
Speaker 1: is not easy to not tank and be able to
Speaker 1: accomplish the goals you want to make. In the NFL,
Speaker 1: it's so hard to get quarterbacks and the maneuvering the
Speaker 1: use of assets the way we did, the identification of
Speaker 1: the one player that we you know, had a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence in Carson Wentz at a time when other
Speaker 1: teams all needed quarterbacks. That's just one of many many
Speaker 1: Keith things that Howee, the player personnel department, analytics, everybody
Speaker 1: has participated in, and the coaches in a big way.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, it's like been one domino after another
Speaker 1: in terms of smart moves. Really happy with the additions
Speaker 1: this offseason, as was last offseason. In today's NFL, and
Speaker 1: I've said this before, it's not simply having Okay, this
Speaker 1: is your scout or this is your GM or whatever.
Speaker 1: Football operations requires enormous processing and identifying of key data.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have great player personnel department, excellent
Speaker 1: analytics department, really good sports science, top notch player development,
Speaker 1: excellent teaching, you're not going to be the team you
Speaker 1: want to be, and Howe's primary function is to organize that,
Speaker 1: to be the final decision maker when it comes to
Speaker 1: the key moves we make, and also to structure contracts
Speaker 1: so that we can maximize our assets. And you know,
Speaker 1: the way he structured the Sam Bradford contract allowed us
Speaker 1: to retrieve a first round draft choice and a fourth
Speaker 1: round draft choice, very hard to accomplish in this league.
Speaker 1: We also didn't have a lot of assets to be
Speaker 1: able to trade up in terms of getting Carson and
Speaker 1: to that number two pick. You know, we were not
Speaker 1: a two and fourteen team. We were going to be
Speaker 1: drafting thirteen, I think, And how do you get there?
Speaker 1: How do you get up there? We could get to eight.
Speaker 1: It was a double move, very rare, you know, when
Speaker 1: you look back on the last couple of years, very
Speaker 1: impressive performance. And I couldn't have more confidence in how
Speaker 1: he Jever, Yeah, sure of cover Rob's going to ask,
Speaker 1: but I'll say ask specifically about, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the things that how He's done since that owners being, Yeah,
Speaker 1: shoring up the secondary kind of turning a surplus of
Speaker 1: wide receivers into a strength or maybe close to building
Speaker 1: a strength there. I'm satisfied with that. Yeah, there's the key,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think it's being philosophically sharp, which
Speaker 1: is this, can you have take a patient, mid term
Speaker 1: and long term view and at the same time maximize
Speaker 1: short term opportunities And that's also not hard to do,
Speaker 1: and that's not easy to do in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: what we've been able to do I think this offseason
Speaker 1: is really improve with a lot of good young players,
Speaker 1: position ourselves to be able to have the flexibility to
Speaker 1: resign every good player we have, and at the same
Speaker 1: time adding some one year players that are very good
Speaker 1: players like Alicean Jeffrey and Timmy Journegan, where you have
Speaker 1: the ability to potentially have their rights, extend them, see
Speaker 1: how they are, and go forward that dual purpose. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, some franchises, you can see it happening now
Speaker 1: with this potential quarterback draft choice draft class. They're just
Speaker 1: trading away assets and trying to get draft picks. We've
Speaker 1: taken the philosophy that we can try to find a
Speaker 1: way to get a franchise quarterback and then try to
Speaker 1: really maximize both the short term and the long term
Speaker 1: as best you can and consistently every decision for the
Speaker 1: short term has been where we don't sacrifice any midterm
Speaker 1: or long term flexibility. And that was the absolute standard
Speaker 1: that we believed in and do believe in. So what
Speaker 1: specifically is the expectation this year for Doug Peterson and
Speaker 1: for the team? Okay, the expectation this year is that
Speaker 1: we have improved the team. Who knows how the season's
Speaker 1: going to go in terms of injuries, whether chemistry comes
Speaker 1: together every season to marathon, it's not determined until you
Speaker 1: really look back on it and what happened and how
Speaker 1: successful were you. But you know, I think I love
Speaker 1: the blueprint we have. I think that we are headed
Speaker 1: in a terrific direction. And look, I think honestly, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with a team that's pretty young team. You have
Speaker 1: some veterans that select, you know, positions like punter and
Speaker 1: things like that, but and left tackle. But basically a
Speaker 1: young team that has resigned a lot of players, a
Speaker 1: lot of the core players, ability to acquire future players
Speaker 1: will will evolve and have a great, you know, opportunity
Speaker 1: there to do that. But the key is that we
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to compete strongly now and that's
Speaker 1: that's what I expect. I expect us to compete strongly,
Speaker 1: and we're in the second year of a of a
Speaker 1: very potentially special young quarterback. We don't even know that it.
Speaker 1: So you look around the league, we're not you know,
Speaker 1: like all of us. We look around, we see the
Speaker 1: good young quarterbacks. How they do in their second year,
Speaker 1: how the teams do in their second year. It's not
Speaker 1: so much these young quarterbacks don't evolve. I think there's
Speaker 1: a similarity to the way Marcus Mariota, Derek Carr, Jameis Winston,
Speaker 1: you name it. The ones that are successful. You can
Speaker 1: see year one, year two, year three. My expectation with
Speaker 1: Carson is he will be better in year two than
Speaker 1: year one. He'll be significantly better in year three than
Speaker 1: year two, and he'll be significantly better in year four
Speaker 1: than year three. Where that's where we're at. The difference
Speaker 1: in records of the teams with all those you can
Speaker 1: research it yourself, but it typically, I think, is how
Speaker 1: terrific do you surround him? And you know, you have
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks that join teams and take them to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, But those are teams basically that have top two,
Speaker 1: top three defenses and whatever we hope to be there.
Speaker 1: We hope to be there. But uh, that's the rarity.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know, I see us as a team
Speaker 1: with an excellent blueprint, great opportunity, terrific direction. But we're
Speaker 1: in year two of the plan. Jeff, a former NFL
Speaker 1: GM recently came out strongly criticizing Doug Peterson in terms
Speaker 1: of his qualifications and made it seem as if he
Speaker 1: was under the gun in terms of his tenure. Here
Speaker 1: you mentioned improvement and how this is going to be
Speaker 1: a long haul. What's your endorsement of Doug and you
Speaker 1: will you stay with him and see and see this through.
Speaker 1: I have a strong endorsement of Doug. I think first
Speaker 1: of all those comments, I kind of you guys call
Speaker 1: it clickbait or hot takes. Uh that that's that's how
Speaker 1: I saw that. But you know, I Doug think about this.
Speaker 1: I mean, Doug took over a team that had um
Speaker 1: some locker room issues with the previous head coach, lost
Speaker 1: his starting quarterback ten days before the start of the season,
Speaker 1: and was asked to use our young third string quarterback,
Speaker 1: had to put together a coaching staff and you know,
Speaker 1: my personal evaluation of the coaching staff that he put
Speaker 1: together or inherited, but was open to Inherit is outstanding.
Speaker 1: I mean really outstanding. And that is a that's a
Speaker 1: huge credit because quarterback analysis, locker room chemistry, and the
Speaker 1: ability to put together a top notch coaching staff, those
Speaker 1: are three real key ingredients and I think he aced
Speaker 1: them all. Yes, there's going to be growing pains with
Speaker 1: any first year head coach. We've We've had that with Andy,
Speaker 1: We've had it with Chip, We've had it, you know,
Speaker 1: no matter who it is. I see him as someone
Speaker 1: who can keep improving. And he's a listener, he's a collaborator,
Speaker 1: and I think he has terrific relationships with the players,
Speaker 1: and you know, the futures in front of him and
Speaker 1: it's there for the taking. Jeff, would you sign Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick if you had a need at quarterback? And what
Speaker 1: do you think the owners around the league's responsibility is
Speaker 1: when it comes to players who are demonstrating in the
Speaker 1: name of social injustice. It's you know, it's that's kind
Speaker 1: of two questions in one. Let me just focus on
Speaker 1: social injustice because it's a big problem in America. Social injustice,
Speaker 1: it's a big problem around the globe and anybody who
Speaker 1: wants to do proactive things to try to reverse social injustice,
Speaker 1: I'm all in favor of. It has to be respectful.
Speaker 1: It certainly has to respect the military and the people
Speaker 1: that serve, the women and men that serve our country,
Speaker 1: emergency responders. Whoever that is, you've got to, I think,
Speaker 1: do it in a respectful way. But I applaud anybody
Speaker 1: that you know can find respectful ways of trying to
Speaker 1: use their platform in some way, UM to discuss social injustice.
Speaker 1: We all need to discuss it. We've all seen it
Speaker 1: around us. We live in a city that has a
Speaker 1: lot of it, and it's multiple issues. They're not just
Speaker 1: you know, they're not racial and simply racial issues. They are.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of economic issues and players have
Speaker 1: gritten determination. There's no boundary on how that gritten determination,
Speaker 1: UM gets expressed. I'm not talking about calling here. I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about the concept of social injustice in America
Speaker 1: and elsewhere. And uh, you know, sports is an opportunity
Speaker 1: to bring people together, and I see it as an opportunity.
Speaker 1: I applaud you know, um, when players can bring communities together.
Speaker 1: We see it all the time, and I think it's great.
Speaker 1: You know, I have no idea, but that's that's you know,
Speaker 1: we are completely happy with our quarterback situation. So like
Speaker 1: every position situation, I mean, if that happened, we'd have
Speaker 1: to fully evaluate it. With Michael Vick, there was a
Speaker 1: complete vetting of how is he as a teammate, what
Speaker 1: is his character, what's his potential, what's his football intelligence?
Speaker 1: Could he can he be a backup in Michael situation
Speaker 1: or a third string in that time period. It's a
Speaker 1: whole series of evaluations. Um So anyway, that's that's how
Speaker 1: we'd approach any player acquisition. I don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about any specific player. Jeffrey, how have you seen Howie
Speaker 1: Roseman and Joe Douglass work together and why are you
Speaker 1: confident that partnership can work and be the one to
Speaker 1: lead this organization going forward. Yeah, I've been incredibly impressed
Speaker 1: with the two of them. How he has, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, been a terrific um manager and really kind
Speaker 1: of I think, with a lot of self reflection, has
Speaker 1: become somebody that has organized those multiple departments in a
Speaker 1: very good way. Attracting Joe, Andy and that whole group
Speaker 1: has been terrific Joe has just been wonderful to work with,
Speaker 1: and you know, they seem to be working great together.
Speaker 1: And the nice thing about them is I think they
Speaker 1: can have a lot of open discussion on every issue
Speaker 1: and and and that's how you reach the best decisions,
Speaker 1: and that that's what I've seen. It was very happy with,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole process in the draft this year,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was very thorough, It was very strategic.
Speaker 1: We knew exactly at what we would do if X
Speaker 1: player wasn't there, and it was. It was simply great
Speaker 1: discussion about what to do in the second round. That
Speaker 1: was an upside decision. Obviously the organization hurt the short term,
Speaker 1: but we thought it was looking forward. We don't expect
Speaker 1: to be drafting in the top ten for a while,
Speaker 1: hopefully for a decade or more. And it's hard to
Speaker 1: get cornerbacks that you rate, you know, in the top
Speaker 1: one or two in the draft, very hard to get.
Speaker 1: So did a lot of research. Howie Joe led the
Speaker 1: way and basically made the gamble that Sydney can be,
Speaker 1: you know, the premier cornerback we think he can be
Speaker 1: and healthy and it's a gamble, but it was something
Speaker 1: we thought was a good strategy Jeffrey, as an owner
Speaker 1: in this league. Yeah, as a follow up to Colin Sure,
Speaker 1: there are a number of people who believe he's been
Speaker 1: blacklisted as an owner. How would you, Yeah, Well, I
Speaker 1: think the definition of blacklist is some discussion amongst people
Speaker 1: to not hire or not approve or something like that.
Speaker 1: I've never had a discussion with anybody, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. I mean, there's no communication. We're very
Speaker 1: competitive against each other, the thirty two owners. I don't
Speaker 1: reveal anything, They don't reveal anything. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: no discussion that ever takes place about any player. In
Speaker 1: my twenty three years in the league, I've never heard
Speaker 1: any discussion of a player like that. You keep it
Speaker 1: to yourself and you have your own strategy, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's that's the way it works. Jeffrey. I
Speaker 1: heard you speak a little while ago about keeping a
Speaker 1: long term vision while maximizing the short terms. And I
Speaker 1: know in March you spoke of needing multiple drafts to
Speaker 1: really get to the point where you have the team
Speaker 1: you want. But now that you run the threshold of
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen season, is this a playoff team. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think so much happens in any given season that
Speaker 1: you can never say that. I mean I've never in
Speaker 1: twenty three year, three years, even if coming off all
Speaker 1: those multiple NFC nfcast championship games and NFC East titles
Speaker 1: and all that, I've never come and said, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: we're obviously a playoff team. It just doesn't work that
Speaker 1: way in the NFL. I mean, look at last year, Uh,
Speaker 1: what what was his Atlanta's record going into the season
Speaker 1: and what was Dallas's record going into that season? Last year,
Speaker 1: I think Dallas became the number one seed, and what
Speaker 1: was Atlanta six and ten going into last year? With
Speaker 1: with Maddie Ice, who's a very good quarterback. But we'd
Speaker 1: be sitting here talking about how could you have Maddie
Speaker 1: Ice and b six and ten and they you know,
Speaker 1: developed one hell of a team. Uh So it's it's
Speaker 1: sort of foolhardy to make any predictions whatsoever. You you
Speaker 1: mentioned the analytics department. Yeah, um, I don't think fans
Speaker 1: have a ton of insight into that group. What role
Speaker 1: does it play in player personnel and how what sort
Speaker 1: of the scope of that group. Yeah, we've been, we've
Speaker 1: been you know, uh, utilizing analytics for a long long time,
Speaker 1: but um now, I guess it's it's probably more codified
Speaker 1: where there's just so much data to gain when you
Speaker 1: do the research, and this is on college players pro players,
Speaker 1: when you can really correlate and figure out what creates success.
Speaker 1: All you're trying to do really is beat the odds.
Speaker 1: Anyone who studies the NFL draft knows the odds of
Speaker 1: hitting on draft picks is not high. Whether whatever round
Speaker 1: you're in first is the highest, but it's not high.
Speaker 1: And I know Washington Post did a pretty interesting study
Speaker 1: of the draft over the last was at ten fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty interesting and very accurate. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's so all all you try to do is
Speaker 1: bring analytics, medical, everything together psychological to try to up
Speaker 1: your odds. So if the odds in a fourth round
Speaker 1: are twenty one percent of a team ever getting a
Speaker 1: player that can start for five years, you're trying to
Speaker 1: get it to thirty percent or forty percent or something
Speaker 1: like that. That's the only way to you know, improve
Speaker 1: your performance. And that's so analytics, I think increasingly around
Speaker 1: sports is very important. But it's a tool, that's all.
Speaker 1: It is you know, if you're looking at Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: we do analytics, but it took a lot more than
Speaker 1: analytics to decide that we were going to select Carson. Hey, Jeff, Um,
Speaker 1: if I could follow up with something about Kaepernick when
Speaker 1: you said you applaud anyone who respectfully find respectful ways,
Speaker 1: you know, to have their platform. Does kneeling for the
Speaker 1: national anthem? Does that? Is that respectful to you know what? I? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that anybody who is protesting the national
Speaker 1: anthem in and of itself is very respectful. If that's
Speaker 1: all their platform is is to protest the national anthem,
Speaker 1: then what's the proactive nature of it? Okay, it's it's
Speaker 1: sort of but I think we sometimes can misinterpret what
Speaker 1: those are and uh, you know, I've talked to Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins about it, and uh you know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: there's he's involved, very involved in our community here, and
Speaker 1: uh that's that's my involvement with Malcolm. It's it's what
Speaker 1: can you do as a player, um, to be involved
Speaker 1: in the community, whether it's social injustice, whether it's autism,
Speaker 1: you name it. There's opportunities to really be proactive. We
Speaker 1: as a franchise, try to be as proactive as you
Speaker 1: can be as a sports franchise, and we hope we'll
Speaker 1: get more and more proactive, um, you know, and particularly
Speaker 1: on issues that we think are company wide, like autism
Speaker 1: and things like that. So, UM, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's all about respect. It's respect and uh,
Speaker 1: anyone you know I think doesn't have respect for the
Speaker 1: servicemen that support the country, UM loses me. So it's
Speaker 1: like very important to show respect for the flag, for
Speaker 1: the anthem, but it can be misinterpreted that certain people
Speaker 1: are not showing respect. We got to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of what are they trying to accomplish and are
Speaker 1: they being proactive in the community and what are they doing?
Speaker 1: And that's you know, I think you got to take
Speaker 1: a more holistic view of it. Jeff. When when Jason
Speaker 1: Peters got his extension earlier a few months ago, he mentioned,
Speaker 1: I said, you guys were best friends. So just curious
Speaker 1: about what your relationship is like with him, and have
Speaker 1: you changed the way you try to be in relationships
Speaker 1: with or your relationships with players over the years. Knowing
Speaker 1: that it is a business and you guys come and go, well,
Speaker 1: you know, first one, Jason Jason I are very close. Um.
Speaker 1: I have unbelievable respect for him as a player and
Speaker 1: as a teammate as a person, and we just you know,
Speaker 1: we've had a close relationship for a long time. I've
Speaker 1: had close relationships with so many players. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've changed my philosophy on that whatsoever. It's um it's
Speaker 1: sometimes really hard when you have to trade a player
Speaker 1: recently John Dornbass. He's like a family member. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it goes with the territory. You try to become
Speaker 1: as real and genuine as you can be with your
Speaker 1: fellow teammates, your players, your partners here. You're all in
Speaker 1: this together. And I've never shied away from it. I've been,
Speaker 1: you know, as you may or may not know, close
Speaker 1: with a lot a lot of players, a lot of coaches,
Speaker 1: and you know, maintain that friendship where regardless of whether
Speaker 1: they're still an Eagles family or not. But um, so, no,
Speaker 1: there's been no change, And I love Jason. Jason's just
Speaker 1: very special. Treffer. You've talked a lot about draft well
Speaker 1: in the value in terms of team building and building
Speaker 1: the talent around Carson Wentz. This offseason, the decision to
Speaker 1: bring in guys like al Shan Jeffrey lager Blond on
Speaker 1: short term deals. Is there any concern about any upeval
Speaker 1: moving forward given the salary cap, about keeping those guys
Speaker 1: and finding that balance of building around the quarterback that
Speaker 1: you're ultimately going to have to extend to a long
Speaker 1: term deal. It's well said, it's a balance. But I
Speaker 1: mean al Sean provided the opportunity to get a young player.
Speaker 1: You know, if all show them were thirty three or something,
Speaker 1: we probably would have had very little interest in doing
Speaker 1: a one year deal like that. This was a twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old, very good, young receiver that we thought
Speaker 1: could be something that we would potentially be able to resign.
Speaker 1: We never signed anybody that we couldn't potentially resign going forward.
Speaker 1: That was the standard. If there was somebody that was
Speaker 1: only going to be here and he was twenty seven
Speaker 1: and we couldn't resign him, why do that, you know,
Speaker 1: give up assets or give up a significant cap room
Speaker 1: or something thing like that. Yeah. Any more thought to
Speaker 1: a pitting for a Super Bowl? I know you mentioned
Speaker 1: that when they were in New York bidding for a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yeah, I'd love to. I mean, I really
Speaker 1: want to get the draft again. We can talk about
Speaker 1: the draft. The draft was one huge Philly success. You know, personally,
Speaker 1: it meant a lot to me. I love showcasing Philly
Speaker 1: across the country. I tell people wherever I go how
Speaker 1: incredible our fans are. But you know, they're fans of
Speaker 1: other teams. There's owners I talk to you about it,
Speaker 1: but they have their teams. It's very special here. It's
Speaker 1: it's incredibly special to own a team, and it's incredibly
Speaker 1: special to have this fan base. And the draft kind
Speaker 1: of showed it to the rest of the country, which
Speaker 1: I loved. I think it was great economically for the city,
Speaker 1: and I hope the city in the NFL can you know,
Speaker 1: come together and bring another draft to Philly. Super Bowl wise,
Speaker 1: it's a lot more difficult. You know, if we were
Speaker 1: able to build a retractable dome stadium, I think we
Speaker 1: would have had a Super Bowl by now. It was
Speaker 1: attempted in New York. It was successful, but it's it's
Speaker 1: it's not something I think the league is, you know,
Speaker 1: plotting to repeat. It may happen, but it's it's it's
Speaker 1: more iffy. Yeah, Obviously, Howie and Doug report to you,
Speaker 1: But what's your level of involvement on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis in terms of the decisions in the dynamics
Speaker 1: within the building. You know, um, as I said, I
Speaker 1: ask a lot of questions. You've known that I engage
Speaker 1: with them all the time. Great relationship with both Howie
Speaker 1: I probably uh, I don't know, talk to a couple
Speaker 1: times a day at a minimum at different times because
Speaker 1: we're dealing not just with players, We're dealing with the
Speaker 1: whole football operations, you know. So the technology, we want
Speaker 1: to be at the forefront of every form of technology
Speaker 1: that can give our players or coaches a better resource.
Speaker 1: We're constantly looking for what's what can give us a
Speaker 1: leg up on everything, So we're talking about all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Doug as you know, very genuine, friendly
Speaker 1: person that's easy to talk to. I can easily ask him,
Speaker 1: and he can ask me, and and I want to
Speaker 1: share experiences I've had in the league and with other
Speaker 1: coaches and whatever. Just want to be a support system.
Speaker 1: You know. There's not a lot of critical decisions that
Speaker 1: get made in those conversations, but it could lead to,
Speaker 1: you know, critical decisions and strategies that we form for
Speaker 1: the draft or free agency. So and then you know,
Speaker 1: you'll have the coach will go over his game planning
Speaker 1: for a future game, and uh, it's I might have
Speaker 1: some questions and uh, it's not anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: It's just being all part of a collaborative effort, part
Speaker 1: of a collaborative effort and a good situation if I up,
Speaker 1: Is that any different that then it's been under pre
Speaker 1: you said coaches, No, not really. Um, well it's always
Speaker 1: had that with uh, with pretty much the key football executives. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just uh no, very very genuine previous coaches and
Speaker 1: each other. You don't go over game plans. You just
Speaker 1: go over you know what, what are what are some
Speaker 1: of the strengths and weaknesses of the opponent, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's about it. That's it's not not
Speaker 1: you're not going over detailed game plans. That's that would
Speaker 1: be a waste of their time. With me, it's it's
Speaker 1: more like, Uh, I think we can attack this player.
Speaker 1: This is a Mitch mismatch. I want to go after Um. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know this defensive coordinator is new at that team.
Speaker 1: This is uh, we look at film from X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z, try to evaluate him see how it applies
Speaker 1: to the personnel they have, um like for example this
Speaker 1: week on the Redskins. So it's, uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's really it's kind of uh good stuff, but
Speaker 1: it's it's not meant to take up a lot of time.
Speaker 1: I really believe in having their coaches spend their time
Speaker 1: trying to defeat the team we're playing and not discussing
Speaker 1: a lot with me that you said that you can't
Speaker 1: foreshadow the playoffs. What's up? You said you can't foreshadow
Speaker 1: whether the team is going to make the postseason or
Speaker 1: would anything other than the playoffs be a disappointment for
Speaker 1: you? You You know what, thirty one teams are going to
Speaker 1: be disappointed. That's the way it works in this league.
Speaker 1: We all have the same goal. Thirty one teams want
Speaker 1: to win the super Bowl. Thirty two teams want to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. One will And if you talk
Speaker 1: to any of the thirty one of us, we're going
Speaker 1: to say we're disappointed. That's the way the NFL works.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, Yeah, yeah, thanks