Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: September twelfth, and the Ravens are preparing for Sundays home
Speaker 1: opener coming up against the Las Vegas Raiders. As we
Speaker 1: get ready for that game, today we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from the coordinators, so let's kick things off
Speaker 1: of Special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone. Hope everyone's doing well today.
Speaker 3: I thought we had a really good two days, just
Speaker 3: really trying to really focus up so we can go
Speaker 3: out and put our best foot forward. Thought from the
Speaker 3: game just you know, in the very limited amount of
Speaker 3: plays that we played, I thought our guys played hard,
Speaker 3: they played physical. There's always some things that we're going
Speaker 3: to continue to work on, so we could just really
Speaker 3: try to improve how we go out there.
Speaker 2: Weekly questions with your.
Speaker 4: Personal pression In the new kickoff of yours.
Speaker 2: You know, I like the play. I think it's a
Speaker 2: it's an opportunity.
Speaker 3: I said this before you know there's a there's a
Speaker 3: ball being kicked off and there's a ball being tackled.
Speaker 2: That's that's football.
Speaker 3: So you know, anytime that could happen, you give the
Speaker 3: guys on the field an opportunity to go play a play.
Speaker 3: Those guys are fired up, they're excited, So I feel
Speaker 3: pretty good about the play.
Speaker 4: That to be a little bit of an overreactor here,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't.
Speaker 5: Didn't seem like there was a lot of difference in
Speaker 5: the Chiefs certainly seem more willing to give up that
Speaker 5: thirty yards on the kickoffs. I mean, do you think
Speaker 5: that will change based on situations in various you know,
Speaker 5: scores or games.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I can't really speak for the other teams across the league.
Speaker 3: I think I said this last week. Every team's gonna
Speaker 3: be different. Every team's gonna do what they feel is
Speaker 3: best for their team, or they're gonna do what they
Speaker 3: think they want to do right for the other coaches.
Speaker 2: But I think for.
Speaker 3: Us, any chance, any chance we get, I think to
Speaker 3: play the play. If I feel good about what we're
Speaker 3: putting out there, we'll continue to play the play.
Speaker 4: Chris, you guys have made just one of your last
Speaker 4: six fifty yard plus field litt attempts.
Speaker 6: Do you see any pattern to those, to the operations
Speaker 6: on those kicks, any anything that you're concerned.
Speaker 4: About going forward?
Speaker 2: Not at all.
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think there's anything to be
Speaker 3: concerns earned about. I think I think the thing with
Speaker 3: Justin is, as always, let's just let's just play the
Speaker 3: next play, right, And I think I think when you
Speaker 3: when you think about those those last six kicks, uh,
Speaker 3: there's every kicks different, Every situation is different, right, every
Speaker 3: every element is different. Obviously, the object is to get
Speaker 3: the goal, get the ball between the goal posts, right.
Speaker 3: So when something doesn't go right, I think I think
Speaker 3: the one thing Justin does is he comes back, he
Speaker 3: looks at you see what could he.
Speaker 2: Have done better?
Speaker 3: But I don't think there's anything to be to be
Speaker 3: concerned about because I think every kick, when you look
Speaker 3: at those misses, they're they're different. Every the someone were
Speaker 3: sixty seven. Some are the end of the games, you know,
Speaker 3: and things like that. So I don't like, again, I
Speaker 3: don't think there's anything to be concerned about. He's in
Speaker 3: a good spot. He's still a heck of a kicker.
Speaker 4: Chris, do you feel that there's concerns party?
Speaker 5: Maybe the detection unit since point since a point point shoot,
Speaker 5: there's been four fifty plus attempts that loss anything makes just.
Speaker 4: An entire operation.
Speaker 2: Again, No, not at all I think.
Speaker 3: Uh, I think again, when you look at you look
Speaker 3: at the situations. Uh, if it's a if it's a
Speaker 3: colder day, right, the ball is gonna be a little
Speaker 3: bit lower the ball, you know. So I think I
Speaker 3: think for us man, we're just focusing on, like, obviously
Speaker 3: being as good as.
Speaker 2: We possibly can on that play.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's getting a getting a field goal, block, getting
Speaker 3: upon block.
Speaker 2: Those those aren't things that we want to see.
Speaker 3: Obviously there's something that might have happened in those situations,
Speaker 3: but I don't think there's any concern with protection or
Speaker 3: anything like that.
Speaker 4: I think feels out.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought Jordan was good.
Speaker 3: You know, he had those two punts inside the inside
Speaker 3: of the twenty, you know, and again we had very
Speaker 3: we had very limited opportunities.
Speaker 2: Right, and that's that's good.
Speaker 3: I I encourage that if you're only punting the ball twice,
Speaker 3: that means your offense is moving the ball, right, So
Speaker 3: I'm I'm encouraging that. But then when he does go
Speaker 3: out there, he does it, he's doing a really good job.
Speaker 3: I thought he had a great a great spring in
Speaker 3: a great camp, and uh, I think that's gonna continue
Speaker 3: to carry over the more opportunities he get on the field.
Speaker 7: Up as defensive coordinator Zach.
Speaker 8: For one, obviously you guys had the coverage mixed up
Speaker 8: for on the second Touchhown was worthy. But how overall,
Speaker 8: how do you think communication went as far as getting
Speaker 8: the getting the call in the rope on and I
Speaker 8: mean everything you guys like to do pre snap at
Speaker 8: defensive line.
Speaker 9: I thought it.
Speaker 10: I thought it was all right. I don't think it
Speaker 10: was good enough. I don't think it was up to
Speaker 10: our standard. And you know, me personally, just I look
Speaker 10: at it as a coach. You I look at yourself first,
Speaker 10: so you know, I look I take full responsibility of that.
Speaker 10: And you know, we look forward to the challenge of
Speaker 10: responding and and doing things to our standard. But it
Speaker 10: was okay, but you know here in Baltimore, okay, it
Speaker 10: is not good enough. So you know, it's a learning
Speaker 10: experience for for myself and for everybody, and we look, right,
Speaker 10: we look forward to getting out their Sunday right in
Speaker 10: our wrongs.
Speaker 11: Whatd you what did you learn from that experience? Obviously
Speaker 11: the first time in that spot too, Like you just
Speaker 11: said that, you sort of put it on some of
Speaker 11: it on yourself. Would I guess what what's your biggest
Speaker 11: takeaway from during the week one to week two.
Speaker 10: I'll just say, man, just you know, keep keep us simple,
Speaker 10: keep it simple, keep it simple. Felt like, you know,
Speaker 10: try to do too much in certain situations and you know,
Speaker 10: cost us.
Speaker 2: To play a little slow.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: We got great players here.
Speaker 10: Just allow him to go out there, play fast, do
Speaker 10: their thing, and everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 4: John pointed to the substitution in particular. Snowship.
Speaker 12: Was that an area where you think you maybe could
Speaker 12: have simplified a little bit or where did you come around?
Speaker 10: Definitely, definitely we had we had we had a couple
Speaker 10: of different personnel groups going in and uh credit to
Speaker 10: the chiefs, they did some things that were kind of
Speaker 10: messing with us a little bit. But I definitely feel
Speaker 10: like the substitution, uh thing could definitely get cleaned up
Speaker 10: because I look at it, like, you know, we cost us,
Speaker 10: uh two timeouts that we could've used towards the end
Speaker 10: of the game that you know, offense could have used.
Speaker 2: So it's it was, like I.
Speaker 10: Said, it was a learning experience and uh, something we
Speaker 10: learned from.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 5: Obviously not really surprised that that Trenton didn't play for
Speaker 5: percentage that snaps the peak you did last year.
Speaker 4: Still some really good players linking deflection inpourtant quarter.
Speaker 5: You know, does the intention to get Trenton develop him
Speaker 5: to a level where he can be sort of an
Speaker 5: every every down linebacker.
Speaker 10: Oh, definitely, definitely. I mean Trent did Turnt to the
Speaker 10: heck of a job in the game. Like you said,
Speaker 10: he made some plays, especially in key moments that that
Speaker 10: third downplay was big. Gave us a chance to u
Speaker 10: uh go down either tie or win the game. And
Speaker 10: I think, like you said, he's going into his second
Speaker 10: year and he's gonna continue to play more and more
Speaker 10: as we g as we get going, what do you wanna.
Speaker 4: See from him to get that trust.
Speaker 10: And that then just keep coming out here working, Just
Speaker 10: keep coming out here working. We got a lot of
Speaker 10: good play, We got a lot of good players, and
Speaker 10: you know a lot of them are gonna play.
Speaker 8: Similarly, we saw Neighborings play a little bit more on
Speaker 8: defense trams as in the game, but not too much.
Speaker 7: What does he need to do to get more.
Speaker 10: Of those stabs during just aside, tru uh Nig's gonna
Speaker 10: They's gonna be fine. There's gonna play a lot a
Speaker 10: lot of football, uh for us. Gona play a lot
Speaker 10: of great football for us. So I think, just like
Speaker 10: you said, just continue, Uh like I said with Trent,
Speaker 10: just continue to come in and continue to work. And
Speaker 10: uh he played, he played. He played well in the
Speaker 10: game as well. So uh, the better he plays, the
Speaker 10: the more he's gonna be out there. But Nig's gonna
Speaker 10: play a lot of football for us.
Speaker 5: I know there's a lot more to to it, but yeah,
Speaker 5: what is it like to see a guy like David the.
Speaker 4: Job os or like wait.
Speaker 5: Birth the way he did kind of come out with
Speaker 5: her for some pass or some success.
Speaker 10: For I'm I'm proud. I'm proud of uh job man
Speaker 10: like job. All he's done is work so hard to
Speaker 10: get back. I mean he's came back earlier than what
Speaker 10: uh people thought he was gonna be uh back, And
Speaker 10: the biggest thing I said with him is just staying healthy.
Speaker 10: He's he's very talented. When he plays, he's productive. You
Speaker 10: guys saw that on uh last Thursday. So Uh, I
Speaker 10: think he's been doing the heck of a job of
Speaker 10: with his body, his mindset, approaching practice, approaching uh, his prehab,
Speaker 10: making sure that he could stay as healthy as possible.
Speaker 10: And like I said, long as he's healthy and he's
Speaker 10: on the field, he's he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Play real good football for us.
Speaker 10: I think we got a just a glimpse of what
Speaker 10: he could, uh, what he's gonna be for us this year.
Speaker 13: Render to him after getting that sack, and it's very us.
Speaker 4: What has that?
Speaker 2: I mean, it means a lot to him.
Speaker 10: Man, You're gonna just imagine a guy who's who's come
Speaker 10: in with high expectations, who hasn't been able to play
Speaker 10: a lot for things that are out of his control.
Speaker 10: I mean, you can't really control a lot of injuries
Speaker 10: he's had, and for two years he's had to sit
Speaker 10: on the sideline and watch and I'm pretty sure hear
Speaker 10: all the noise about about him and how he's not
Speaker 10: been out there. So we love it. We love that
Speaker 10: he expressed himself. We love that he was fired up.
Speaker 10: And he's already an energetic guy. So you know, after
Speaker 10: that sack, IM pretty sure all the emotions just came
Speaker 10: out of that.
Speaker 4: He asked you and again into the game and then
Speaker 4: what you expected it to be like your first game
Speaker 4: in real game. Now you've done it.
Speaker 14: Are there any takeaways from the inside from the substitution stuff.
Speaker 9: I would say that it happens faster.
Speaker 10: It happens a lot faster in the regular season than
Speaker 10: the preseason, which I try to anticipate. But you know,
Speaker 10: I have just said when you don't know until you know,
Speaker 10: so now I kind of get a gauge of real
Speaker 10: like regular season speed. And like I said, it's something
Speaker 10: that I that I'm learning, I've learned, I've learned from
Speaker 10: and look forward to, uh, you know, getting better this
Speaker 10: this week coming up?
Speaker 2: Is there's one the.
Speaker 5: Relief thinking about sort of the curve of NFL offenses.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're going against Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid
Speaker 5: in the Week one. It doesn't get more challenging than that.
Speaker 5: I mean, is there some relief from like, okay, like
Speaker 5: e everything else.
Speaker 4: I can handle.
Speaker 10: Nah, there's there's no relief. It's a week to week league, man,
Speaker 10: And like I said, I respect every single player and
Speaker 10: coach in this league, respect every offense in this league,
Speaker 10: and every every game is different in its own so
Speaker 10: you don't know, uh what you're gonna have to do
Speaker 10: to to come away with a win in this game.
Speaker 10: So it's not a relief. Like you said, Uh, what
Speaker 10: happened happened. Now we're looking forward to his next challenge.
Speaker 10: We know it's a good football team coming in here.
Speaker 10: They feeling probably the same way we felt after after losing,
Speaker 10: so U we we expecting UH them to give us
Speaker 10: their best shot.
Speaker 2: Zach, talking about the.
Speaker 6: Raiders they had, you know, they were pretty efficient offensively
Speaker 6: except for the turnovers.
Speaker 2: I was you know, looking at their dose.
Speaker 6: Do you think, all right, well, there's ways to help
Speaker 6: maybe continue that, trying to force those or otherwise, you
Speaker 6: know what, it's the key to trying to keep them
Speaker 6: from being as efficient as they were.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we have to.
Speaker 10: We have to try to limit the ex limit the
Speaker 10: explosive plays. Like we gave up too many exposive plays
Speaker 10: in in UH week one. We had to limit those.
Speaker 10: They have great playmakers. We have to be able to
Speaker 10: cover their skill and then stop the run. So I
Speaker 10: think we stopped to run and cover their skill obviously.
Speaker 10: You know you speak about Davonte Adams, he's one of
Speaker 10: the top receivers in this league has and then you
Speaker 10: know they got some good young pieces as well, good
Speaker 10: running back, solid offensive line, So we have to limit
Speaker 10: the explosive plays make them have to go to down
Speaker 10: the field and make them have to dry drive the ball,
Speaker 10: and then if the ball is in the air as
Speaker 10: opportunities for us to take it away, we have to
Speaker 10: take the football away.
Speaker 13: I think a lot of people when they took Bowers
Speaker 13: kind of expected that they're to be a twelve personnel team.
Speaker 4: But I think Bowers in Mayland got like fifteen snaps together.
Speaker 13: I guess what we're kind of stuck out to you
Speaker 13: about maybe how they use their personnel in that week.
Speaker 10: One man, I thought they probably would play more twelve
Speaker 10: personnel thirteen personnel, But like I say, it's week to week,
Speaker 10: so they could come out and flip the script this week.
Speaker 2: So we're preparing.
Speaker 10: We're preparing for that, We're preparing for what they did
Speaker 10: in the first game as well.
Speaker 1: We also heard from offensive coordinator Todd Munkett, well, with
Speaker 1: the new.
Speaker 4: Offensive line, it kind of helped up them one at
Speaker 4: the first game.
Speaker 9: The ship They're good. I'm excited moving forward, you know.
Speaker 12: So there there's a lot to build off of really,
Speaker 12: to be honest, with all the guys that played.
Speaker 6: So often here week one and week two, especially for
Speaker 6: young players, the root for improvement is really you often
Speaker 6: see really big jumps.
Speaker 2: Do you expect that?
Speaker 9: What I do? We saw it last year from US.
Speaker 12: I can't speak to other teams, but I can speak
Speaker 12: from the Texans games to the Bengals game on the road.
Speaker 12: We were significantly better, significantly cleaner. Our operation was better,
Speaker 12: our execution was better. Time will tell, but we had
Speaker 12: a great practice today. So I'm excited to see you
Speaker 12: know where we've come in a couple of days.
Speaker 15: Tiger said, there was a lot.
Speaker 16: To do at all.
Speaker 10: What are some of the things that you saw that
Speaker 10: making hopeful going into the two?
Speaker 12: Just being cleaner, you know, that's probably as much as anything.
Speaker 12: I mean, what makes it hard to stack plays? Penalties,
Speaker 12: you know, missed assignments. Call's got to be better. I
Speaker 12: got to do it better during the week because the
Speaker 12: the points didn't match the yards, and you need to
Speaker 12: have a match.
Speaker 9: It's it's about points, not about yards.
Speaker 13: It looked like Lamar was pre active before his snap,
Speaker 13: but all the point and then you know, using the
Speaker 13: pre snap weapons that he has available. I guess just
Speaker 13: from your kind of view, how did he do and
Speaker 13: getting you guys into that best play that.
Speaker 4: You have on the menu.
Speaker 9: He was great. He was great. He did a great job.
Speaker 12: Really tough environment, you know for all of us, you know,
Speaker 12: to start the year off there loud, you know, silent cadence.
Speaker 12: I thought he did a great job. But although I
Speaker 12: thought all the guys handled it, we weren't. We weren't
Speaker 12: clean by any means where we want to be. But
Speaker 12: from that standpoint, I thought he did a great job
Speaker 12: and the guys did a great job.
Speaker 5: We were asking John earlier this week about Roger rose Garden.
Speaker 5: He said, makes sense to kind of keep developing him,
Speaker 5: especially in these early weeks. Obviously, I'm sure you worry
Speaker 5: about him basing an elite pass rushers, rushers like he
Speaker 5: did against Chris Jones last week, but is it also
Speaker 5: does the staff feel like it's part of the process
Speaker 5: to expose him to some of these elite pass rushers.
Speaker 9: Some of that.
Speaker 12: Rodgers is going to be a heck of a football player.
Speaker 12: It's not a matter of if, it's just a matter
Speaker 12: of when. So we got to continue to develop him,
Speaker 12: keep keep you know, getting him in the game. You know,
Speaker 12: he's going to get out here every day and practice
Speaker 12: against a really good defensive line.
Speaker 9: And We're going to continue to seek growth.
Speaker 12: We really don't want any of our guys on an
Speaker 12: island against a great pass rusher, so he's not the
Speaker 12: only one.
Speaker 9: We got to do a great job.
Speaker 12: Of change of protections and chipping and doing all the
Speaker 12: things you have to do against some of the elite
Speaker 12: players in this league.
Speaker 8: Her partnership kind of work the way you wanted it to,
Speaker 8: or Mark got double teamed a lot.
Speaker 4: So Lamar has a big game.
Speaker 12: With Well, there was no thought that that's how it
Speaker 12: would turn out. Did we intend on playing the tight
Speaker 12: ends a bunch?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 12: Did we anticipate we'd have that amount of snaps? No,
Speaker 12: you know, we didn't anticipate that, and that's not the norm.
Speaker 12: You're not gonna have eighty snaps or something like that
Speaker 12: in a given game, you know, per se. But I
Speaker 12: think we do a really good job of trying to
Speaker 12: find ways to distribute the ball, and we're gonna have
Speaker 12: to continue to do that. We've got a number of
Speaker 12: excellent skill players that deserve to get the ball, and
Speaker 12: that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 9: Sometimes the ball just finds them and sometimes the game
Speaker 9: goes that way.
Speaker 12: You know, we didn't have a ton of two minutes.
Speaker 12: Last year, we had two in that game, you know,
Speaker 12: and they were extended two minutes. I mean there was
Speaker 12: probably a total of fifteen snaps in two minutes, which
Speaker 12: at that point, the whiteouts are happy and the running
Speaker 12: backs aren't happy. And when you're winning, the running backs
Speaker 12: are happy and the whiteouts aren't happy. So that's just
Speaker 12: the way it goes now, I'll tell you. And that's
Speaker 12: that's the way it works in this business.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 12: The good news is we have a lot of really
Speaker 12: talented skill guys that they give you a lot of
Speaker 12: you know, a lot of opportunity to move the spread
Speaker 12: the ball round.
Speaker 1: We also heard from offensive line coach George Warhawk.
Speaker 16: Tell us a little bit about when when we heard
Speaker 16: you out there with the team, you had this.
Speaker 9: Call after you say hi you Yeah, that's a nervous tick.
Speaker 9: Oh that's a nervous that's just me being excited. Right.
Speaker 16: So, uh, when we're an individual and we're going, I go.
Speaker 16: If you notice, I'm right behind them when they're going.
Speaker 16: So it's a nervous stick. I've had it for forever.
Speaker 16: But it's about being intent and playing with some intensity.
Speaker 8: Okay, George Obviously there's a very human element to what's
Speaker 8: transpired the last month of you know, what has this
Speaker 8: process been like for you as far as you know,
Speaker 8: the Ravens reaching out to you joining the team and
Speaker 8: just you know, from a football standpoint, kind of joining
Speaker 8: this in the in the midst of it already.
Speaker 4: Yeah, being pretty ramped up.
Speaker 16: That's that's a big question, first and foremost. I mean,
Speaker 16: the situation was tragic. Uh, Joe and I were both
Speaker 16: in the World League together. I'm not saying we were
Speaker 16: close close friends, but we're a very good acquaintances. If
Speaker 16: he had a question, he called me at calling back.
Speaker 16: If I had a question, I call him, he called
Speaker 16: me back. So what happened here was tragic. The fact
Speaker 16: that John trusted me enough to call me, I'm impressed
Speaker 16: with that.
Speaker 9: And I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 16: But the situation I walked into, what Joe had done
Speaker 16: here made it very very easy. The group is well trained,
Speaker 16: they're very smart. They work their tails off. It's important
Speaker 16: to them, and that's what he did before I got here.
Speaker 16: That's what he built as a foundation. So the whole
Speaker 16: deal is tough, and we're just trying to make the
Speaker 16: best of it.
Speaker 4: So Georgia.
Speaker 5: I mean along those lines, I mean, how much of
Speaker 5: your job do you feel like is getting this offensive line.
Speaker 4: Kind of schematically ready to go and how much is
Speaker 4: being there for.
Speaker 5: Guys who probably pretty down still from loss.
Speaker 16: Well, in terms of the football side of it, I mean,
Speaker 16: the situation doesn't matter. I mean when you come in,
Speaker 16: you got to get guys ready to play and the deals.
Speaker 16: You got to win games, right in my opinion, for
Speaker 16: us to have a chance to win games, we have
Speaker 16: to be exception what front and we have to play hard.
Speaker 16: We got to play fist go, we got to play smart.
Speaker 16: That's that part of it. The grief part of it.
Speaker 16: Anybody that's dealt with death, I've dealt with it in
Speaker 16: my family. Everybody grieves differently. You just got to make
Speaker 16: yourself available to them when they're grieving. So I made
Speaker 16: myself available to them if they need to call me.
Speaker 16: If there's certain guys that struggle, I'll reach out to them.
Speaker 16: But grief is different for every person that's dealing with it.
Speaker 6: As far as the action, you have, the coaching aspect
Speaker 6: of it, and working with so many young players, I
Speaker 6: would expect you have the opportunity You've got all these
Speaker 6: young pieces in some new spots and trying to really
Speaker 6: a chance to mold and help these these young men
Speaker 6: grow into what you want to be.
Speaker 9: What's that process been like so far?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 16: The first thing was me just trying to figure it
Speaker 16: out what the foundation was, right, what they've been taught,
Speaker 16: how they communicate, what the schemes are.
Speaker 9: I've got a pretty.
Speaker 16: Good feel for that now, and so now it's just
Speaker 16: a matter of me getting them to function the way
Speaker 16: I want them to functions.
Speaker 9: Some aspects it's different than Joe's.
Speaker 16: Some aspects is very much the same, but just getting
Speaker 16: them to buy into that and to go about it
Speaker 16: that way.
Speaker 7: We're in a similar vein Pretici.
Speaker 5: We're just you need to know you how would you
Speaker 5: describe your coaching?
Speaker 9: A lot.
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: Intent?
Speaker 16: Aggressive, h And we want to be dominant, and so
Speaker 16: when we're at practice, we want to practice in that manner.
Speaker 16: We're an individual, we want to go about it in
Speaker 16: that manner. And when we played football, we want to
Speaker 16: play football.
Speaker 9: In that manner.
Speaker 4: Did your background odd also? I mean you had sort
Speaker 4: of a natural report with him coming in.
Speaker 16: I love Todd, Uh, I'm so impressed with him. I
Speaker 16: was impressed with him in Tampa, and I'm more impressed
Speaker 16: with him since I've been here. The job he's doing,
Speaker 16: he's much different than he was in Tampa, how he
Speaker 16: calls the game, how he looks at the offense.
Speaker 9: So yes, his him.
Speaker 16: Being here helped me be here, and then him being
Speaker 16: here is helping me adjust quite a bit.
Speaker 4: George.
Speaker 5: To know that there was such a source of frustration
Speaker 5: in the game about these illegal formation penalties that you
Speaker 5: guys got dinged up, I mean, are you pretty confident
Speaker 5: after looking at that that all that's behind you guys?
Speaker 9: More as I certainly hope so?
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 9: I would say that was my fault though, because.
Speaker 16: I knew they were going to be sticklers about it,
Speaker 16: I didn't know how big a stickler there was gonna be,
Speaker 16: all right, I mean, I thought in practice we had
Speaker 16: done a pretty good job of being legal, and apparently
Speaker 16: we didn't do a good enough job.
Speaker 9: So before I.
Speaker 16: Blame our players, it's my responsibility to make sure we're
Speaker 16: doing it right, and I didn't do a good enough
Speaker 16: job in that regard.
Speaker 8: Beyond that element, what did you like about the the
Speaker 8: offensive lines performance week wanted? And what would you like
Speaker 8: to see a focus on it, cleaning up.
Speaker 4: For going in.
Speaker 16: I love the mentality and how we played. I thought
Speaker 16: they were physical. I thought they played the whole game.
Speaker 16: They never blinked, which gave us a chance at the
Speaker 16: end to have a chance to take it into overtime.
Speaker 16: I think technically we had to clean up some stuff.
Speaker 16: It's not those aren't big cleanups. It's just being consistent
Speaker 16: with footwork, being consistent with hat placement. I'm straining to
Speaker 16: finish a little bit more.
Speaker 13: Of course, it looked like the Greater spent a lot
Speaker 13: of time in Week one lining up Christian Wilkins next
Speaker 13: to Max Crosby and over the.
Speaker 4: Right side of the line. How inclosing challenges that and
Speaker 4: you know what kind of with the guys here to
Speaker 4: do this.
Speaker 16: Those are good players, I mean, and sometimes there's not
Speaker 16: much you can do but block them right. So with
Speaker 16: ninety eight right Crosby, they're gonna move him.
Speaker 9: All over the place.
Speaker 16: So it's based on the defense, based on the call,
Speaker 16: based on what they're in.
Speaker 9: He does like to play on the.
Speaker 16: Right side, and I'd say he's probably over there seventy
Speaker 16: five to eighty percent of the time, but he will
Speaker 16: be on the left side. Ninety four is a good
Speaker 16: player as well, So we're gonna do our best the
Speaker 16: scheme anyway we can get to them to help those
Speaker 16: guys out. But at the end of the day, when
Speaker 16: it's third down and we're throwing the ball, we can't
Speaker 16: worry about where those guys are. We gonna worry about
Speaker 16: worry about how we go about our business and us
Speaker 16: blocking them.
Speaker 4: So those guys who were starting for the first time
Speaker 4: fullaway and.
Speaker 6: Whereas, did you feel like they were even maybe better
Speaker 6: players at the end of that first game than.
Speaker 4: They were at the beginning of it. I mean, did
Speaker 4: you see progress over the course of the game.
Speaker 16: I would say no. I would say they've been doing
Speaker 16: that in practice, right. I'm really impressed with Voorhees, just
Speaker 16: how he goes about it. I practice. You guys watch
Speaker 16: him every day. I mean, he goes hard all day time.
Speaker 16: He's very intent about how he wants to play. And
Speaker 16: Daniel was growing into the position. I thought he did
Speaker 16: some really good things, so I wasn't surprised at all.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 9: I expected him to play well for I don't know
Speaker 9: if you.
Speaker 13: Were able to look at the study Ronni's Familey early
Speaker 13: in his career, but it seemed like he had a
Speaker 13: really impressive opener. I guess, what have you kind of
Speaker 13: seen from him? And what kind of player you know,
Speaker 13: can he be at this stage of his career.
Speaker 16: The miles that he has, Well, it's funny because I
Speaker 16: don't look at Ronnie as a nine year vet.
Speaker 9: I was thinking about that today. I knew I had
Speaker 9: to talk to you guys.
Speaker 16: I think I got all these young guys, and then
Speaker 16: I thought, Ronnie's in this ninth year. Ronnie feels like
Speaker 16: the way he moves like he's a fourth or fifth
Speaker 16: year player. All right, So I still think his healing
Speaker 16: is extremely high, and I still think he's an excellent
Speaker 16: player right now, and I still think he can be
Speaker 16: a better player. So it's not a matter of wear
Speaker 16: and tear or age.
Speaker 9: On the tire.
Speaker 16: Is just us getting to play a little bit better
Speaker 16: than he is and just taking in an inch at
Speaker 16: a time, a week at a time.
Speaker 14: What do you say to Roger rose Garden when he
Speaker 14: has it's how first rep you know that his NFL
Speaker 14: create comes to the bench, How do you coach him
Speaker 14: and get him that gather there.
Speaker 9: Welcome to the NFL. It was bound to happen at
Speaker 9: some point in time. It was just a tough situation.
Speaker 9: It was an unusual look.
Speaker 16: And again, this is something we didn't expose him to.
Speaker 16: If he was a veteran, we would expect him to
Speaker 16: handle that a little bit better. But he's a rookie
Speaker 16: and he set on him how he thought he should
Speaker 16: have and he didn't let Daniel help him enough.
Speaker 9: So that happens.
Speaker 8: When you talk about all these new starters, new pieces,
Speaker 8: a lot of change from last.
Speaker 4: Year to this year.
Speaker 8: How valuable is it having Tyler Linderbaum at center kind
Speaker 8: of just anchoring the whole thing and being in charge
Speaker 8: of the operation.
Speaker 16: It makes it very, very easy. But it's just not Tyler.
Speaker 16: I mean, the whole room is plugged in. So when
Speaker 16: you go in there again, I still have questions. I'll ask, Okay,
Speaker 16: how'd you guys communicate this? And they'll explain it to me,
Speaker 16: and I'll look at it and I'll think about it.
Speaker 16: I'm like, okay, can we look at it this way?
Speaker 16: Would that be a problem? So that W'll come from Ronnie,
Speaker 16: I'll come from Patrick, right. All of them will give
Speaker 16: me input on how they how they have played and
Speaker 16: how we're playing.
Speaker 14: Now I apologize, this guy asked, but I'm just scarious.
Speaker 14: You know, day one on the job, when you come in.
Speaker 14: Then when you came in, there's tough circumstances like how
Speaker 14: did you approach the room?
Speaker 4: How'd you go about that?
Speaker 16: I just said, listen, I don't know what you guys
Speaker 16: are doing exactly. I'm gonna listen as much as I can.
Speaker 16: From a schematic standpoint, Uh, from a technique standpoint, I'm
Speaker 16: gonna ask you to do some different stuff. And that's
Speaker 16: pretty much how we approached it. So like on the
Speaker 16: practice field, the techniques we're doing. It's hard to come
Speaker 16: in here and coach football the way somebody else did.
Speaker 16: All right, so uh, technically we're gonna do it the
Speaker 16: way that I believe. But schematically, it's what Joe had
Speaker 16: brought in, had hit that he had built, and what
Speaker 16: they had what they know. So my emphasis was technically
Speaker 16: will change some. Schematically, we're going to pretty much stay
Speaker 16: the same.
Speaker 13: In the locker room.
Speaker 7: We also heard from two tight ends. Let's kick things
Speaker 7: off with Mark Andrews.
Speaker 4: What is it about Isaiah that makes him? They're dangerous?
Speaker 17: There's a lot, you know, there's a lot you know
Speaker 17: when I say that he's got a natural or act
Speaker 17: for football, he does. I think that he and I
Speaker 17: have a similar way of you know, running routes are
Speaker 17: getting open and you know, but in different ways. I
Speaker 17: think that something that's special about him is his yak.
Speaker 17: He's extremely competitive and he's an incredible teammate too. Everybody
Speaker 17: wants to be around him.
Speaker 14: How many questions does he ask you on the daily?
Speaker 4: Is he constantly picking your break?
Speaker 17: I feel like we think the same way now.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, Mark, if you recommend him getting at the
Speaker 13: smaller year size after after Thursday's game.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you know, it's uh. He we worked the toe
Speaker 17: drag and all that stuff all the time. Things are
Speaker 17: going to come our away park.
Speaker 13: I think a lot of people might not recognize that
Speaker 13: the Breakers defense last year was pretty dang good at
Speaker 13: the top ten.
Speaker 4: A lot of metrics that they did pretty well at
Speaker 4: Week one.
Speaker 13: I just what kind of things out to you about
Speaker 13: how they go about their business.
Speaker 17: They got a lot of guys, you know, they got
Speaker 17: a lot of really good players, and it's gonna be
Speaker 17: a tough matchup for us, you know, but it's one.
Speaker 4: That we're excited about.
Speaker 7: Next up is tight end I say, likely what did uh?
Speaker 7: What it was your takeaway from the game last week?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 15: I say, really just finishing. I mean, just be able
Speaker 15: to finish drives, finish plays, finishing little details within everything,
Speaker 15: and just be always, you know, when we go out
Speaker 15: there to put points on every drive that we have.
Speaker 15: I mean, you're playing a great team like them. I mean,
Speaker 15: every drive counts, and that's just you know, something we
Speaker 15: gotta harp on going into the next game.
Speaker 1: You have that kind of performance, you know, But I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's it's to your point, there's the the end
Speaker 1: that you know.
Speaker 7: How do you how do you kind of look at it?
Speaker 7: I mean you look at as a you know, a
Speaker 7: great game. How do you how do you kind of
Speaker 7: view that?
Speaker 15: I say, just incomplete? I mean just understanding that everything
Speaker 15: I did good, everything you know that happened good in
Speaker 15: the game, it wasn't enough. I mean, so just harping on,
Speaker 15: you know, the little things going into that game when
Speaker 15: you know you're watching over it or you know when
Speaker 15: you play them again.
Speaker 2: I mean, just understand that.
Speaker 15: Every rep, every little thing in that game matters, and
Speaker 15: that to take every play as serious as it could be,
Speaker 15: the one that costs us.
Speaker 16: I hear Patrick Mahomes's advice about the Waite cleats, Yeah,
Speaker 16: I did.
Speaker 15: I did hear the White cleat coming. I mean that's
Speaker 15: obviously you know news.
Speaker 4: Coming from a vent.
Speaker 15: Is that something you might pursue in the future, Yeah,
Speaker 15: I mean I look into it, But I like my cleats.
Speaker 1: Do you think teams will play you differently after a
Speaker 1: game like that?
Speaker 15: I feel like, I mean, you know, I feel like
Speaker 15: everybody in our offense can go the distance, can have it,
Speaker 15: you know, a career game. So I understand that, you know,
Speaker 15: anybody in our offense, whether it's from Lamar and Derrick,
Speaker 15: Henry bay z Mark, I mean, anybody can have that
Speaker 15: type of day to be able to take over a game,
Speaker 15: to be able to put our you know, our team.
Speaker 4: In the best possibility to win.
Speaker 15: So I mean just having you know, those type of
Speaker 15: guys in the offense where you guys have to play
Speaker 15: everybody you know correct or you know, responsible to be
Speaker 15: able to go to distance.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just something you gotta prepare for.
Speaker 6: To have you get the home game final really must
Speaker 6: win is not right, but it's you gotta get home
Speaker 6: after coming a loss. You're gonna have this support behind you.
Speaker 6: How important do you feel someday is for you guys
Speaker 6: to get to where you want to go?
Speaker 15: I mean I feel like every week's important. I mean
Speaker 15: our mantra every week is to be one to know
Speaker 15: when the weekend. So treating every game, you know, like
Speaker 15: it's the last one to be able to just you know,
Speaker 15: always start that winning streak and keep it. I mean,
Speaker 15: we preach on momentum, so you know, this week would
Speaker 15: definitely be a right step to building that momentum.
Speaker 14: Was there any part of you after the game that
Speaker 14: thought if I wore one size shoe lowerdown?
Speaker 15: I really just say, just you know, just always making sure,
Speaker 15: I mean, just taking that next you know, millisecond to
Speaker 15: make sure I'm in bounced to be able to you know,
Speaker 15: celebrate and have that type of moment to be able to.
Speaker 2: Go for two.
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