Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well sorry that you guys can't see my
Speaker 1: shorts in this uh on this podium. Can you stay
Speaker 1: up stay up top now I need I'll need that
Speaker 1: presentational TV. All right, we talk about this and how
Speaker 1: that can benefit you. A lot of times people like
Speaker 1: to keep their best the best players on the field more.
Speaker 1: But this is going to atle well, I think if
Speaker 1: you want your best players to play well over the
Speaker 1: course of the game, over course of the season, UM,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to rotate them a little bit. And UM,
Speaker 1: we expect our guys to play wide open. We don't
Speaker 1: expect them to conserve any energy. UM. And that's a
Speaker 1: very very difficult thing to do. It's hard to rush
Speaker 1: to pass or it's hard to play the run. You
Speaker 1: got seven hundred pounds of guys pushing on you on
Speaker 1: every play in the run game, you have contact on
Speaker 1: every single play. Just makes sense for us if we're
Speaker 1: gonna play that way to UM, you know, to have
Speaker 1: a good rotation, we have to trust the rotational players
Speaker 1: that they're going to go in and perform at a
Speaker 1: high level m regardless of when their ass But I've
Speaker 1: always compared it to UM, you know, the bullpen in baseball.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard if you're a starter and you're
Speaker 1: pacing yourself. Um, there's not many guys that can guess
Speaker 1: at one hundred miles an hour, you're coming out of bullpen,
Speaker 1: you're throwing an inning, you can heat it up pretty good,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we want to just keep rolling
Speaker 1: fresh bodies out there, have the backup guys. Earn. It's preseason. UM,
Speaker 1: I like where we're I like where we're trending, and
Speaker 1: I think that you know, I think you saw some Um,
Speaker 1: you saw some signs of that, but nothing matters until
Speaker 1: we get to the season. So um, you know, well,
Speaker 1: well we'll see. But you know they've been trending the
Speaker 1: right way in preseason and practice, but that doesn't matter
Speaker 1: right now. You know, we were in a situation. UM,
Speaker 1: I think the development of Jalen Mills had a lot
Speaker 1: to do with it. You know, Jalen was a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick and really exceeded our expectations and probably anybody's
Speaker 1: expectations for him. We're looking at a situation we're gonna
Speaker 1: have four corners active m Jalen has played some nickel
Speaker 1: Forrest also that really wasn't on Eric's played, Eric worked
Speaker 1: really hard and UM, you know did everything we asked
Speaker 1: from him. We certainly wish him the best, but um
Speaker 1: in our personnel decided to, um, you know, use him
Speaker 1: as an asset. And you know, as coaches, we just
Speaker 1: deal with that and keep playing the safety. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's been you know, sort of a thought that
Speaker 1: was tried last year. UM. And I think he's a corner.
Speaker 1: The schematic changes. Um, did you ask him to press
Speaker 1: more than he typically had? No, he's he's a good
Speaker 1: press corner. I mean that's what his that's what his
Speaker 1: strengths are. UM. You know, schematically, all those guys have
Speaker 1: taken to it. So you are kind of short a
Speaker 1: corner him. I mean, can you sustain a well? I
Speaker 1: mean I want a game by game basis. We're not short.
Speaker 1: But like you said, UM, you know, we'll see how
Speaker 1: the season goes. I mean, there's it doesn't matter any
Speaker 1: position you think you're deep at, it's going to come
Speaker 1: a time where you're where you're shocked at how thin
Speaker 1: you are. And UM, you know, sometimes you're able to
Speaker 1: get through injuries or part of this game. UM. You
Speaker 1: know we're a little bit thin right now, not for
Speaker 1: me a game basis. We'll be fine for Sunday. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's only so many guys you can take active into
Speaker 1: the game. UM. But depth becomes certainly important as the
Speaker 1: season goes on and um and as injuries and other
Speaker 1: situations come to light. Carson Wentz's first start not be
Speaker 1: something where he has to be superman. UM. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know that we really look at
Speaker 1: it that way. As defense, you know, our job is
Speaker 1: to go stop the opponent. UM. You know, not to
Speaker 1: you know, not to take anything else or not not
Speaker 1: to carry any other other flag other than going out
Speaker 1: and stopping RG three and stopping Prior and Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: and Barnage. I mean, they have some good players on offense,
Speaker 1: and we're going to play our very best to stop
Speaker 1: those guys and get off the field on third down,
Speaker 1: create negative plays, create turnovers. Um. You know, if we're
Speaker 1: getting off the field on third down, if we're creating turnovers,
Speaker 1: that's certainly going to help our offense. You know, I
Speaker 1: think I go back to the same thing with the preseason.
Speaker 1: It's hard to read too much into the preseason positive
Speaker 1: or negative. Um. You know, a lot of guys taking
Speaker 1: different approaches in preseason. Coaches take different approaches in pete preseason.
Speaker 1: The proof is going to be the regular season, and
Speaker 1: we're only you know, we're not to the first game yet,
Speaker 1: so that story really hasn't been written yet, to tell
Speaker 1: you the truth came back from his Hampshire injury and
Speaker 1: it is a role going to change any well, everybody's
Speaker 1: role is sort of fluid, you know, depending on how
Speaker 1: their plan, depending on injuries at other positions, depending on
Speaker 1: the opponent. UM, but you're asked to do one week
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily what you're going to be abs to do
Speaker 1: every week, because you're going to tailor a plan for
Speaker 1: a specific opponent. UM. He stayed active in the defense
Speaker 1: when his um when he was hurt, which is difficult
Speaker 1: to do. But he's a veteran player, a young veteran player. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, was that you know, we we played him
Speaker 1: a little bit in the preseason, UM, particularly late in
Speaker 1: some of those games, just to get him some playtime
Speaker 1: because he had missed so much time. UM, you know,
Speaker 1: early on in training camp. I think that helped him,
Speaker 1: you know, to see two veteran guys out there like
Speaker 1: Tulloch and h and Kendrick in the fourth preseason game.
Speaker 1: But both of those guys needed that work. Both of
Speaker 1: them needed to, you know, get a little closer to
Speaker 1: game shape because they had missed so much time. Linebacker. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of different packages at linebacker. Um.
Speaker 1: We have four linebacker packages. We have three linebacker nickel,
Speaker 1: we have three linebacker base. Um. You know, we have
Speaker 1: different nickel sets, we have different dyme packages. Each guy
Speaker 1: has a little different purpose in all of those, so
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of packages with different linebackers on
Speaker 1: the field. The rotation kind of didn't allow him to
Speaker 1: get in a rhythm. Do you have to take that
Speaker 1: an account too, that a rotation could negatively affect some
Speaker 1: of these guys. Yeah. I mean I wasn't here last year,
Speaker 1: so I really don't know. Um, you know how that
Speaker 1: played out. But you know, I view I view using
Speaker 1: guys with their particular talents as a positive. I view
Speaker 1: keeping guys fresh over the course of a season and
Speaker 1: over the course of the game as a positive. You know,
Speaker 1: it's up to players to perform the biggest challenge that
Speaker 1: the Browns offense presents. UM. You know, I think first
Speaker 1: you got to start with some of the readoption stuff
Speaker 1: that they do, you know, and we expect him to
Speaker 1: run a lot. They ran some of it in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of big gainers in the preseason.
Speaker 1: So you have to account for the quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: they they're very good at taking deep shots. You saw
Speaker 1: that in the preseason. You know prior Gordon stopped playing
Speaker 1: in this game, but he made a couple of plays
Speaker 1: for him. It's that's what their offense is. Um. They
Speaker 1: run a lot of unbalanced line. They run a lot
Speaker 1: of extra offensive lineman at tight ends to try to
Speaker 1: assist their running game. Um. You know, those are all
Speaker 1: challenges for us defensively in things that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to work very hard to stop. Your defense led it
Speaker 1: in rushing at points, in interceptions. What was in preseason.
Speaker 1: But can the confidence that your players will get from that,
Speaker 1: can that carry over into a week one? Where do
Speaker 1: you think it's a complete clean slate and it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I just o my bio. Does this say
Speaker 1: anything about preseason stats anywhere? Yeah? I don't carry those
Speaker 1: with me, man Um. I think it goes to what
Speaker 1: we talked about with the defensive with the defensive line,
Speaker 1: and what we saw from some of those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's positive signs. Yeah, I think we we we show
Speaker 1: them signs that we can execute the schemes and we're
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: let's not let's not start getting ahead of ourselves. We
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do and it's a
Speaker 1: long season, and how we perform, there's there's going to
Speaker 1: be no asterists and say, yeah they were you know,
Speaker 1: they were crappy this year, but they played really good
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I mean, you any you guys going
Speaker 1: to write that, I'm not going I'm not gonna put
Speaker 1: that on my wall. Believe me to somebody. Somebody else
Speaker 1: was over here, all right, not a whole lot. He's
Speaker 1: he's really good on film, and um, he continues to
Speaker 1: be really good players. A difficult matchup one on one.
Speaker 1: I plays to run well, places to pass well. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a reason we gave him all that money.
Speaker 1: It's not because he fits up, you know, a certain
Speaker 1: scheme or anything else. He's just a really good players.
Speaker 1: Out about Carson Wentz working opposite of him, and have
Speaker 1: you noticed anything developmental wise in the months since he
Speaker 1: was acquired, and I'm just trying to form my own land.
Speaker 1: Let me, let me just let me just stay with
Speaker 1: the defense. I think, I go. I think we can
Speaker 1: help any quarterback by keeping the score down. We can
Speaker 1: help any quarterback by giving them good field position. We
Speaker 1: can help any quarterback by giving them the ball back,
Speaker 1: whether it's a third down stop or red zone stop,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's the part that we're going to play. We need
Speaker 1: to worry about our own selves, and we need to
Speaker 1: worry about stopping the opponent and not really worry about
Speaker 1: too much of what's happening on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. There's always going to be things. We'll score points,
Speaker 1: we might turn the ball over. Our jobs to go
Speaker 1: out and get them stopped, regardless of what happens. But
Speaker 1: are you ever brought into the conversation with Dougall come
Speaker 1: to you and say this is what I want you
Speaker 1: to throw at Ed Carson this week versus last week, etc.
Speaker 1: Now we talk about a lot of things as the staff.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I don't. I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's right to talk about any of those
Speaker 1: things in this in this setting. Ye that is part
Speaker 1: of their job. They need to be tone setters, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons we need those guys playing
Speaker 1: wide open. You know, they have to be their mode
Speaker 1: has to be running every play from a pursuit standpoint,
Speaker 1: stopping the run, creating negative plays, getting after the password.
Speaker 1: It's a very difficult thing to do. Um, but when
Speaker 1: we're playing well, that'll be the engine that that that'll
Speaker 1: keep us going