Speaker 1: For today.
Speaker 2: You got Aaron Banks for the shoulder, he'll be limited,
Speaker 2: Elijah Mitchell nee will not practice, and Trent and George
Speaker 2: have vet days.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Probably when you check out the Brown defense, obviously Miles
Speaker 3: Garrett stands out, So I mean you faced TJ.
Speaker 4: Why face Michael Parsons some of the best. What stands
Speaker 4: out about Miles Garrett's camp.
Speaker 2: Just to mean he's one of the most talented guys
Speaker 2: I think anyone's seen. And the style they play on
Speaker 2: defense is very similar to ours. They rush the pastor
Speaker 2: every play and then react to everything else. Him combined
Speaker 2: with Schwartz scheme and the guys around him, it's it's
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 1: It's obvious why they're a top defense right now.
Speaker 4: Expect Randy Gregory to play.
Speaker 2: We'll see how he is today, say it will be
Speaker 2: the first day we see him on the field, and
Speaker 2: we'll decide that over the next three practices, not today.
Speaker 2: He spoke to some people who spoke very highly about him,
Speaker 2: which with Dan Quinn one of those guys.
Speaker 4: Or did you talk to Dan you know after the game?
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't right time to talk to him, But
Speaker 2: I'm sure we will lay this week on it, but guys
Speaker 2: close to him and guys that I know vouch for him,
Speaker 2: So feel good.
Speaker 5: How's Cleveland look on the back end with Denzel Award
Speaker 5: and news of some of the guys.
Speaker 4: They have back there.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you have the D line, they have
Speaker 2: the downhill linebackers, you better have some good corners, and
Speaker 2: they have very good ones. They play a lot of
Speaker 2: Mando man coverage, so mixing some zone. But when you
Speaker 2: play that much Mando Man and you're also the number
Speaker 2: one past defense in the league, you gotta have some
Speaker 2: good corners.
Speaker 3: What do you remember about your year there?
Speaker 2: I really liked living out there. Some good people and
Speaker 2: it was cold. My car was always dirty because snow
Speaker 2: was on the ground. A lot never melted, it seemed like.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed the stadium. I enjoyed the people
Speaker 2: and it was It's just it was just one year,
Speaker 2: though it wasn't very low.
Speaker 6: Tu next Gen stats had said rock perty is four
Speaker 6: touchdowns on coming outside the tackle box. First time that's
Speaker 6: happened and in the next gen era that think since
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen? Help me, what does that mean? What's to
Speaker 6: be made at that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't think of that in the game. It didn't
Speaker 2: seem like they weren't all boot legs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I guess, you know the tackle box one. I know,
Speaker 2: the first one in Georgie stepped up and moved a
Speaker 2: little to the right and hit him going there. So
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of weird stats that I don't
Speaker 2: know about that people have these days. But when you're
Speaker 2: the first one to do it, it must be something
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 6: If the four touchdown plays had happened just as they
Speaker 6: were drawn up, how many of those would have been
Speaker 6: outside the tackle box?
Speaker 1: I think all four of those. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: Watched a lot of films since Sunday, so I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think what all four were. I mean the two
Speaker 2: to Kittle one one was a flea flicker that was
Speaker 2: just like it was. The other one was like it
Speaker 2: was what other one to Kittle score on the goal line.
Speaker 2: One to Juice was intended for him. It's just all
Speaker 2: out pressure, so you got to run outside of there.
Speaker 2: At the fleet flicker, you had to drift away from
Speaker 2: pressure killer, you had to buy time.
Speaker 1: And what was the fourth one?
Speaker 4: Action left little?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were they were all number one. Yeah, all
Speaker 1: four of.
Speaker 4: Them come back after uh after every game, and all
Speaker 4: of them pretty convincing and pretty impressive, and still has
Speaker 4: had plenty of stuff that you gotta work on, plenty
Speaker 4: of stuff get better. How about this game?
Speaker 2: I mean, this game is to me the biggest challenge
Speaker 2: we've had so far. I mean thought that was gonna
Speaker 2: be Dallas too going into it, But then you look
Speaker 2: at this and you, you know, the defensive numbers just
Speaker 2: jump out. You don't see very much that they're number
Speaker 2: one or two and everything. Red zone is the only
Speaker 2: thing they're not. But that's only because I think they've
Speaker 2: had to eat plays there all year and Baltimore ran
Speaker 2: it in so that didn't help their rankings there. But
Speaker 2: everything else is top notch. We're doing that to on
Speaker 2: offensively right now, so it should be all of a battle.
Speaker 2: When you look at a defense like that, a team
Speaker 2: who's committed a running the ball like they are, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's like the prime best way to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And that's why I expect this team to be there
Speaker 2: throughout this year.
Speaker 4: In terms of Dallas. When you look back at that game,
Speaker 4: there are coaching points to be made because it seems
Speaker 4: so impressive from the outside and even afterwards to think
Speaker 4: you thought it was your best game of the season.
Speaker 2: It was. I mean, there's lots of coaching points. We
Speaker 2: gave the guys Monday off, so we started a day
Speaker 2: with that. We gave the coaches an hour to go
Speaker 2: through that game, and that's why we're an hour behind
Speaker 2: right now. But once we finished, I forgot about Dallas
Speaker 2: U till I got in here and our guys are
Speaker 2: ready for Cleveland.
Speaker 3: George, how long was he here before you realize you
Speaker 3: potentially had something pretty special in that position.
Speaker 1: We were pretty excited in training camp.
Speaker 2: I mean you go back to like our I still
Speaker 2: remember openers versus Carolina. I think our first play we
Speaker 2: threw him a LOOKI for like thirty yards or twenty yards,
Speaker 2: and we were real excited about him in camp thought
Speaker 2: had chanced to be a real good tight end and
Speaker 2: battled some injuries, but fought through it all and we
Speaker 2: didn't know how especially be, but we knew we got
Speaker 2: to steal right away. And then I think his second
Speaker 2: year is when he broke all those records. But it's
Speaker 2: funny you go back and watch this film from the
Speaker 2: first year and had no ponytails, socks were pulled up perfect,
Speaker 2: no wristbands. It was now you watch them Nowaday's w
Speaker 2: W rockstar, So it's been fun to be with him
Speaker 2: this whole time. You think it was undershirt, not much
Speaker 2: just kiddle w W stuff, entertainment, not really much to.
Speaker 1: Smile at it.
Speaker 5: You had to play in this first half where it
Speaker 5: looked like you guys did some something that dolphins do
Speaker 5: where you kind of that sprint motion right before the
Speaker 5: snap and then pretty threw a slant Ti Yuk and
Speaker 5: there was no defender within like five yards ago. Is
Speaker 5: that something that little wrinkle does that create the space
Speaker 5: and is that something that you introduced to McDaniel. McDaniel
Speaker 5: showed it and you're copying it. What's now?
Speaker 2: The first time we saw the quick cheap motion was
Speaker 2: Miami Week one, But that's what all That's what everyone
Speaker 2: motions for.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a quick one or went across.
Speaker 2: It's everyone's been playing coverages for a long time, and
Speaker 2: when you move people a lot of ways, you still
Speaker 2: play the same coverages. But it's sometimes it's eye candy
Speaker 2: and you just got to make people think adjust a
Speaker 2: hair and sometimes they adjust too much. And you can
Speaker 2: create a little bit of space. But that's what one
Speaker 2: of the main reasons you do motions. But sometimes you
Speaker 2: can put people on the wrong spot and mess a
Speaker 2: play up too, So there's a very fine line with
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 3: Over the offseason, I think it was at the Dwight
Speaker 3: Clark event you spoke about Christian and how he is
Speaker 3: like a gravitational force for defense is almost like Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: Over time, has he created more room, has the impact
Speaker 3: on opposing defense has changed as he's become more involved
Speaker 3: with their offense here over the past year.
Speaker 2: I think it's about the same. I mean, he started
Speaker 2: doing it last year and he's done the same this year.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like he was similar when he
Speaker 2: was at Carolina. Whenever you have a back who's a
Speaker 2: threat in the past game like he is, it's just
Speaker 2: and a tight end. I mean, those guys are guarded
Speaker 2: by linebackers and safeties, and it's tough to put a
Speaker 2: safety on both of them, So usually get linebackers and stuff.
Speaker 2: And when you have guys who are built to stop
Speaker 2: the run but have to stop a running back who's
Speaker 2: like a receiver, they usually need help. And so when
Speaker 2: they're in position to get beat, they get help, and
Speaker 2: that still doesn't always work, but it definitely gives all
Speaker 2: the other guys no help, which helps other four.
Speaker 4: Eligibles responsibility pretty early on when you got here.
Speaker 3: How have you seen him all over the years?
Speaker 2: Fred?
Speaker 1: I mean, Fred has been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: He came in.
Speaker 1: And we got a lot un just played his rookie year.
Speaker 2: It's been the quarterback of our building really since halfway
Speaker 2: through his rookie year and his second year he owned it.
Speaker 2: I think his second year was the year we became
Speaker 2: a real dominant defense from the super Bowl that year
Speaker 2: and each year that I think we rewarded him after
Speaker 2: that year, but each year he's only gotten better.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's doesn't change.
Speaker 2: He's out here every day throughout the year and very
Speaker 2: thankful to have Fred. Have been remarkably injury free, I
Speaker 2: assume you know. I mean we can meet for like
Speaker 2: three days and go over what we've done throughout seven years,
Speaker 2: cause we're always working on that stuff. Any injury that happens,
Speaker 2: we look into it and always bounce reps out and stuff.
Speaker 2: But not much has changed over the last four years.
Speaker 2: I mean subtle things, but not really.
Speaker 4: Or first, had a pretty bad luck here with injuries,
Speaker 4: short period of time. He's in the rotation now at Cleveland.
Speaker 4: And did you formulate any opinions of him as a
Speaker 4: person as a player when he was here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we loved mo you know, we thought he was
Speaker 2: a really good player, just had some bad luck to
Speaker 2: two years in a row with us, had some bad
Speaker 2: luck in in Oakland.
Speaker 1: I think he was when he was there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he was great.
Speaker 2: We loved moing. I wish you could have worked out
Speaker 2: for him here, but very happy for him right now.
Speaker 5: Still in any way an issue, is there anything that
Speaker 5: you're doing?
Speaker 2: This is what the beginning? Oh what's good to me? Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no issues. That was a neat thing about that
Speaker 2: injury that there's lots of questions until he started throwing,
Speaker 2: which was three or four months. But all the information
Speaker 2: on that injury is once he passed that area, as
Speaker 2: long as you brought him back at the right speed
Speaker 2: most quarterbacks, once it heals.
Speaker 1: At heels surrounding Deshawn's health and whether or not he's
Speaker 1: playing on Sunday, do you have to have two game plans?
Speaker 4: Obviously there are a much different team if he's able
Speaker 4: to play.
Speaker 2: No, we gotta be ready for all of them. We
Speaker 2: know they like to run the ball, we know their
Speaker 2: quarterbacks can make plays. And we'll be ready for all
Speaker 2: three though.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Scott,