Speaker 1: In the offensive line. How much do they need preseason
Speaker 1: games to really get a feel for each other. Can
Speaker 1: you do that in practice with the running back in
Speaker 1: an offensive lines, Yeah, we certainly can get a lot
Speaker 1: done in practice. I think, no matter how how much
Speaker 1: or how limited, I think it's important that we all
Speaker 1: play in the preseason games if if we're able to,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see that happen. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: much from Marco Passed have you seen Have you seen
Speaker 1: enough of him the team drills and seven months seven
Speaker 1: to have an observation of it. Yeah, No, certainly we
Speaker 1: have a strong, good, good feeling about what he's able
Speaker 1: to do. And he was out there last couple of days.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been able to execute our basic runs
Speaker 1: and really kind of display a running style that fits
Speaker 1: what we want to do. Feeling. Boy, if you well,
Speaker 1: I think he's a you know, he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: got very good vision. And I think by having good vision,
Speaker 1: you know when it's time to hit the whole or
Speaker 1: time to do something else. And I think that can
Speaker 1: be said also Ryan Matthews, and then certainly Darren Sprowles
Speaker 1: and you know, and actually uh Kevin and Raheem have
Speaker 1: done a good job with that as well, So that crew,
Speaker 1: I think, and as you run the plays more and
Speaker 1: more and more, and you know, you get used to
Speaker 1: blocking against a certain front. You know where the creases
Speaker 1: are going to be or where you expect them to be,
Speaker 1: and then you hit them, and I think they've done
Speaker 1: a good job with that. No, No, he's in there
Speaker 1: working and you know we're gonna have this, uh that
Speaker 1: question later in the year. How come you don't have
Speaker 1: them all in the field all the time? You know?
Speaker 1: So they each got their workload, um, and some of
Speaker 1: the work comes into drill work where we're getting as
Speaker 1: much kind of explosive running as you might see in team.
Speaker 1: So we certainly are were happy where he's at. Last season,
Speaker 1: Lashawan came out at certain times, maybe because if Fa
Speaker 1: Tiger he was getting tired. Do you have a plan
Speaker 1: specifically with the Marco and Ryan to we're you know
Speaker 1: they're fresh with the first quarter all the way throughout. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the plan is is we're excited if both or either
Speaker 1: of them in there at any time and you know
Speaker 1: it's well they're running back. You know, I've said it before,
Speaker 1: It takes a village so it takes a group of
Speaker 1: running backs when you want to run the ball like
Speaker 1: we do. And we're just very fortunate that every guy
Speaker 1: we put in there can run the ball the way
Speaker 1: we want it run, can pass protect, and then certainly
Speaker 1: have good enough hands to catch it when we throw
Speaker 1: it to him. So, um, we don't feel all that
Speaker 1: stressed out about it right now because we feel good
Speaker 1: about all the guys being in there. You have to
Speaker 1: watch it everything he did last year close to five touches. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: we're aware of what last year was all about. But
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of train and we monitor our
Speaker 1: training and we kind of know what we expack from
Speaker 1: all of our players, and um, we feel good about
Speaker 1: where he's at. You have on the team. Is there anything?
Speaker 1: Is there any way you can get a feel for
Speaker 1: how well they blocking? Told they playing that first game? Well,
Speaker 1: I think certainly the preseason games are important for tight
Speaker 1: ends because you get to block you know, live looks
Speaker 1: and there's times when you you know, can go low
Speaker 1: on a guy or whatever. But we feel good about
Speaker 1: what we're seeing in training. You know, we've we've got
Speaker 1: some very stout guys that know how to set the
Speaker 1: edge well. So we're getting a really good feel for
Speaker 1: what our guys can do here in our training sessions. Ideally, yeah,
Speaker 1: ideally sooner than later. You know, anytime you can say
Speaker 1: these are the eleven guys you're playing with, the sooner
Speaker 1: the better. But we need to make that decision at
Speaker 1: the right time, and I think the preseason games will
Speaker 1: be a pretty good gauge or monitor as to who
Speaker 1: that guy's going to be often do yesterday in his
Speaker 1: first team reps that spot, yeah, you know what, he
Speaker 1: had quite a few team reps yesterday, first team reps,
Speaker 1: and but he said had him sprinkled in. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's making he's making greater improvements, steady
Speaker 1: improvements because he's had so far to come. You know,
Speaker 1: he'd you know, he didn't have the benefit of being
Speaker 1: here in the spring, but I thought he had pretty
Speaker 1: good day yesterday. Separation. As far as those right guard kididates,
Speaker 1: so far there is really home. Yeah. Again, it goes
Speaker 1: back to a little bit about what I said about
Speaker 1: the running backs. You know, we've got some guys in
Speaker 1: there that are candidates to be the starting right guard
Speaker 1: that we feel good about. It's just a matter of
Speaker 1: us picking one, And I think as we go through
Speaker 1: the preseason games here, you know that'll probably play itself out.
Speaker 1: What happens to find yourself in the stud situation where
Speaker 1: it's really tough to choose between two all three or
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of separation. Um, how do
Speaker 1: you're gonna go about? Did you start splitting hairs? Sense?
Speaker 1: I mean, as a coach, what do we have ways
Speaker 1: that we make our decisions? And basically it's based on
Speaker 1: what player gives us the best chance to win football games.
Speaker 1: And so that's where it all comes down to. Is
Speaker 1: that is always obvious when it's it's not always obvious
Speaker 1: when you have, you know, a competitive roster and guys competing,
Speaker 1: and that's good. I think that's really good. You want
Speaker 1: to have a you want to have a roster where
Speaker 1: guys are competing at every position, and you know that's
Speaker 1: certainly where our focus is now, all of us, and
Speaker 1: you know we'll get it sorted out. Exact identity questions,
Speaker 1: He specifically hurts, You've got a great deal of emphasis
Speaker 1: off season and technique and blocking. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: you can't see everything out here. What are you seeing
Speaker 1: as a payoff? Specifically, for him out here. Are you
Speaker 1: seeing that? We're seeing it? Certainly. I think he's a
Speaker 1: more efficient blocker. You know. Obviously his um his redeeming
Speaker 1: quality as a tight end is as a pass receiver.
Speaker 1: We all know that. But what's important is what what
Speaker 1: was maybe not considered a redeeming quality. You improve that
Speaker 1: and we've seen those improvements that he's focused on in
Speaker 1: the offseason. Um. Again, he's better with his feet, He's
Speaker 1: doing a better job of hitting his target, and then
Speaker 1: depending on where the play is being run, he has
Speaker 1: a little better idea of how the defender is going
Speaker 1: to try to beat him, and then how to finish
Speaker 1: the block, and those are all things that happen on
Speaker 1: every play. Getting your day, Yeah he was in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing going on with him to be out there.
Speaker 1: Last year, Jordan Matt has played a lot of in practice.
Speaker 1: You know, I started off with the second team a lot.
Speaker 1: Think Mark Niger you have running right now with the
Speaker 1: first team a lot also, Sure is he just a
Speaker 1: rookie the head of the face or you just felt
Speaker 1: comfortable then now I think you know, our core is
Speaker 1: a little different now, our receiving cores, you know, and
Speaker 1: the way we have it set up, we got we
Speaker 1: got a really good rotation going in our opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: you got Coop and Miles going over there. You've got
Speaker 1: you know, on the inside, we got a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: In fact, we played most of our guys and anytime
Speaker 1: we create a slot, a wright or left receiver could
Speaker 1: be in there anyways. And then on the right side,
Speaker 1: we got a good rotation. And but you're trying to
Speaker 1: create again, it takes a village. We need fresh bodies
Speaker 1: out there, and we want to get to where weekend,
Speaker 1: all the guys that are active, we want to be
Speaker 1: able to count on them to go out there and
Speaker 1: play so that we don't look out there and call
Speaker 1: a pass and say, oh darn it, that guy's in there.
Speaker 1: We don't want that. And we feel like we're better
Speaker 1: this year from that standpoint opportunities. He's done good and
Speaker 1: again he's made steady improvements. Um. I thought he came
Speaker 1: here in the spring. We met, We've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: You know, you come off the h oh I don't know,
Speaker 1: the draft parade, you know, and then you're thrown into
Speaker 1: training and you're probably not quite as ready as somebody
Speaker 1: that's been here before. And uh, he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys who say, Wow, what a big difference now as
Speaker 1: compared to then, you know, kind of like what we thought,
Speaker 1: get here, undrafted local guy. You know, he played well
Speaker 1: in Division three. You know what he's done. I mean
Speaker 1: early in spring, he didn't know Diadley. He was out
Speaker 1: there running around. Um, but you can see now he
Speaker 1: makes very few errors. So he's making improvements schematically. And
Speaker 1: you know he's kind of a thick body, tough guy. Um,
Speaker 1: so he shows up in those kind of uncontrolled situations
Speaker 1: when we're scrimmaging and such, and he catches the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you had one attribute as
Speaker 1: a receiver, being able to catch the ball is where
Speaker 1: you would start. And so, um, yeah, he's done some
Speaker 1: good things. He's tough, going to be tough for him
Speaker 1: to make the team, and the receivers, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we encourage our guys to get
Speaker 1: better every day and if you don't make this team,
Speaker 1: prepare yourself where you're gonna be good enough to make
Speaker 1: somebody else's and and then whatever happens happened. So much
Speaker 1: like the other positions we've talked about there's so much,
Speaker 1: so much water that's got run under the bridge. It's
Speaker 1: hard to say, Well, I know, I've seen it in
Speaker 1: the past. I think I think he throws that ball well.
Speaker 1: And I think, um, you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's a reaction throw. In other words, we're trying to
Speaker 1: run by somebody and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: see it and boom you throw it and they react
Speaker 1: to it, you know, I think, but I think he
Speaker 1: throws it well. You see false quarterbacks too. What have
Speaker 1: you see for Pratt from year one to year two?
Speaker 1: I mean last year and year because he came in,
Speaker 1: didn't make the team, but yeah, sorry, oh Corren, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just from last year to this year. But
Speaker 1: he would be trying to man to stake. I think
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's obviously more certain about what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and the more you know what you're doing with more confidence,
Speaker 1: and so he's playing with more confidence. And he's made
Speaker 1: more plays down the field this year than he did
Speaker 1: a year ago. And you know, he was I guess
Speaker 1: you could have considered him a developmental player a year ago,
Speaker 1: and now he's showing up in a way where you
Speaker 1: see obviously, I George mattheus maas it's the end the
Speaker 1: last season. I mean, what have you kind of seen
Speaker 1: from his hand so far to kind of make you
Speaker 1: thinking it would be even better than it was? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I think behind the scenes is where you
Speaker 1: see it more instead of just running routes, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're more aware of how to release
Speaker 1: a guy and how to get open. You know, do
Speaker 1: I have the leverage I want? And if I do,
Speaker 1: I got to do something to keep it if I
Speaker 1: have to. If I don't have the leverage I want,
Speaker 1: I got to do something to get it. And so
Speaker 1: instead of just running a flag route, now we're talking
Speaker 1: about more of the details of how to really get
Speaker 1: open on a flag route. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know if that's a good example, but
Speaker 1: that's what you get from a guy in his second year.
Speaker 1: And I think we're seeing that from Jordan being like
Speaker 1: a guy who can you know, replace a longer numbers
Speaker 1: at Matlin had last year. I mean, I know you
Speaker 1: probably started around, so I don't know. I think he's
Speaker 1: got to worry about getting the improving on the production
Speaker 1: he got, you know, and I think production when we
Speaker 1: throw it at you and make a play, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think, um, you know, even as we're going along,
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of build on what we do,
Speaker 1: and you know, we expect him to just improve on
Speaker 1: what he did a year ago because of that production
Speaker 1: from the Jordan last year and the rest of that
Speaker 1: rookie receiver class that we're so good, you feel like
Speaker 1: that has thrown expectations come out of whack for a
Speaker 1: guy like Nelson Agalore coming in with the high expectations
Speaker 1: or is the bar set that high internal free gets
Speaker 1: outside of the building or maybe under this tent. You
Speaker 1: know that, but hey come out here every day and
Speaker 1: become a better version of your former self. And so
Speaker 1: each time they go out there and train, just get
Speaker 1: better and better and better. And then we really don't
Speaker 1: focus on the expectations. We certainly can't worry about the
Speaker 1: good or bad things that we just got to try
Speaker 1: to get better. And I think that's the approach arranged
Speaker 1: for the outible number of snaps you'd like to see
Speaker 1: Bradford get Sunday. Yet we you know, we're we haven't
Speaker 1: finally discuss that. I'm sure you could expect me to
Speaker 1: give you that answer. Um, but that is that is
Speaker 1: very accurate, That's very accurate. We want to see we've
Speaker 1: got a couple solid days of training here and then
Speaker 1: we'll regroup at that time and you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you'll get a shot at coach. He'll give he'll let
Speaker 1: you know. We'll see, we'll see. Yeah, maybe a whole preseason.
Speaker 1: Last year, I think, boy ahead, you knew when you
Speaker 1: had any is it can be see with Marvel this
Speaker 1: year where it's hard to say, it's hard to say,
Speaker 1: you know, when we put it all together and you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of cuts. We have an idea of what
Speaker 1: we want to do with each player, you know, as
Speaker 1: as the games go on, or what we want to
Speaker 1: do with the ones and the twos and the threes
Speaker 1: and who we want to feature. We have a you know,
Speaker 1: it's in pencil, you know, a broad stroke idea of
Speaker 1: how we want the preseason to look. But as you
Speaker 1: get toward each game, then then you're writing in pen's
Speaker 1: about Alan Barber. Barbar Alan is uh. I think his
Speaker 1: redeeming quality is he's very sturdy, He's very physical. Uh.
Speaker 1: If he gets his hands on you, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's certainly got the advantage and uh, as he's
Speaker 1: getting used to playing next to JP. You know, you're
Speaker 1: starting to see the camaraderie there where they're they're they're
Speaker 1: working well together and so um, again we feel good
Speaker 1: about his progress. But he's a big, sturdy guy. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you're when you're throwing a football, you
Speaker 1: like firmness in the pocket. You know, you know, we
Speaker 1: expect edge pressure and the quarterback and step up. But
Speaker 1: when the quarterback can't step up, I don't care how
Speaker 1: tall you are, that that puts pressure on you. And
Speaker 1: he's a firm guy. What is that redeeming him from?
Speaker 1: Like what is what is that overcoming that he maybe
Speaker 1: needs to work on or might be a shortcoming from
Speaker 1: You're backing into a question. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of him getting used to playing playing there and
Speaker 1: and playing amongst uh, you know, between Kelsey and JP.
Speaker 1: But he's he's doing a good job. And again he's
Speaker 1: just coming back. He I mean, he missed all last year,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's just a matter of him being
Speaker 1: out there and playing. It's kind of the sense that
Speaker 1: you really value athleticism up front, absolute athletic ailly just go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it goes without saying that our guys are
Speaker 1: are athletic. So when I say he's big and sturdy,
Speaker 1: that's you know, uh an add on to that. And
Speaker 1: so no, he moves his feet well, he's able to
Speaker 1: block the line of scrimmage, and then when we combo
Speaker 1: off to the second level, he's able to deal with
Speaker 1: guys that are a little bit more athletic than maybe
Speaker 1: he would be a bigger role the passing game this year,
Speaker 1: we like to get him the ball steadily and consistently,
Speaker 1: and you know, he certainly is uh. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a he's a unique outstanding player. I mean, he's as
Speaker 1: good as any receiver you have. And then you can
Speaker 1: hand him the football and you can extend them and
Speaker 1: throw them the ball, or you can throw it to
Speaker 1: him out of the backfield. So you know, we just
Speaker 1: needed to make sure we get them the ball and
Speaker 1: we have a plan to do that. Last year, how
Speaker 1: much talk about a captain obvious answer. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I didn't help you with that. How much when
Speaker 1: you when you went back and watch even freaked a
Speaker 1: week how much attention that he draw on the field.
Speaker 1: Did Darren attract on the field and defense. Last year,
Speaker 1: Oh a great deal. You know a lot of times
Speaker 1: when when teams were playing matchup coverages, so we would
Speaker 1: get situations where they try to double Darren and double Urtsey,
Speaker 1: you know, and so we have you know, we see that,
Speaker 1: We see that quite a bit. It's where they can
Speaker 1: double you know, kind of their inside receivers. That's why
Speaker 1: it's important we move them around, you know, spread the
Speaker 1: ball up. Running back kind of free you up to
Speaker 1: use him more. See like last year because of Chris
Speaker 1: being hurt, he was almost like a backup catcher. You
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to get him hurt with McCoy being you're
Speaker 1: only running back. That's a good that's a good way
Speaker 1: to say it. I don't know if that went into
Speaker 1: our thinking, but um, you know, I think we got
Speaker 1: to just find that smooth mix between you know, DeMarco,
Speaker 1: Ryan and Darren, and nothing says we can't put all
Speaker 1: three of them in there at the same time. Should
Speaker 1: be kind of cool, you know, I do for you,
Speaker 1: would you rather have him you haven't available? Or for you, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't have a horse in that race. I mean,
Speaker 1: I really, we just need we just think it's smart
Speaker 1: to play him on offense. You know, what do you
Speaker 1: say to see different games that the doom cost practice
Speaker 1: that that type of that type of deal. You know,
Speaker 1: I can see Tim Zone reading something, pulling it and
Speaker 1: then you know, the whistle sort of gets blown. Here
Speaker 1: he he he might run a guy over you never know.
Speaker 1: I mean, so that kind of uncontrolled type stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: we could run a could run a naked and he
Speaker 1: gets out on the perimeter and you know, guy hanging
Speaker 1: off him and making a throw. You know, all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff that you say, Wow, that was really
Speaker 1: a terrific athletic play. That kind of stuff. Is it
Speaker 1: also possible that some of the attributes he brings and
Speaker 1: the possibilities he brings you might not go on film
Speaker 1: very in the preseason. I don't know. I think there's
Speaker 1: pretty good evidence of what Tim. He's been doing this
Speaker 1: for a long time. I got home, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a couple of nights ago. I was late, and I'm
Speaker 1: catching up on the college football stuff. So the SEC
Speaker 1: channel he's anyway, So they and they had a bowl game,
Speaker 1: Florida playing Michigan in two thousands. Lloyd Carr's last game
Speaker 1: and they're standing there and empty and Tim got the
Speaker 1: I mean, he got the crap knocked out of him.
Speaker 1: But he was making plays and throwing it to Percy
Speaker 1: Harving and it was all this crazy stuff where it
Speaker 1: looks like it shouldn't work, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown. You know, So what Tim can
Speaker 1: do is on tape. I don't know if we're hying
Speaker 1: anything statically than physically. Yeah, and again we're not so
Speaker 1: worried about that because we can do with Tim technically.
Speaker 1: You know what we can do with the other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So from a scheme standpoint, not that big a deal.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, h