Speaker 1: Practice against the Ragan's Chip kind of mentioned this is
Speaker 1: something of an intermediate step, you know, getting it more
Speaker 1: toward a game. How does it get him closer to
Speaker 1: game action? Well, I think this at this part of
Speaker 1: training camp, and this is really good that we're doing
Speaker 1: this because we really we really enjoy doing it. The
Speaker 1: last two years with the Patriots. Um, we're about getting
Speaker 1: to that point where we want to see other opponents
Speaker 1: and so for us to do this here prior to
Speaker 1: the game in a controlled setting, I think is very important.
Speaker 1: We're going to see another defense, another group of the
Speaker 1: defensive players, different philosophy defensively, and it'll be good for
Speaker 1: him to kind of get almost a pregame type setting.
Speaker 1: We get the point tomorrow, but keep relevant today. Accepts
Speaker 1: endpoint given that all the theres a bad bet l
Speaker 1: and the joint. Yeah, practices that you guys re emphasize
Speaker 1: or you say, leading enough the important to trying to
Speaker 1: keep you cool and well, we're only going to go
Speaker 1: on what we the last two years with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: We we kind of made our statements up front and
Speaker 1: said that we we just don't want it to happen,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna expect both teams to be professional and
Speaker 1: um and guard against it. I think we can't really
Speaker 1: worry about other teams, but they happens. I mean there
Speaker 1: we'd like to think that we're not going to have them,
Speaker 1: but we've certainly talked about it. I mean that's part
Speaker 1: of what you do when you when you plan to
Speaker 1: practice together or trained together, because you set the schedule
Speaker 1: and then you set the ground rules and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this in this period and then certainly as
Speaker 1: the overriding part of that is, we're all going to
Speaker 1: be professional and try to get better. Josh Hump wasn't
Speaker 1: targeted at all. If it takes the culture, there are
Speaker 1: reasons for that, or just because it was only a
Speaker 1: handful of play. No, it's just he was only in
Speaker 1: there for a handful and uh, there was no reason
Speaker 1: for it. Sometimes that sometimes that happens. We've been there
Speaker 1: in the team rules today. Yeah, he'll be out here
Speaker 1: training today, UM as much. And we got a little
Speaker 1: rotate going. We're gonna try to use our whole roster,
Speaker 1: so the ones, twos, and threes we'll all get reps
Speaker 1: throughout the training session. We said last week that he's
Speaker 1: holding murrayed back because of his workload in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen. How do you implement a guy into the
Speaker 1: offensive learning it um, yet the same time don't allow
Speaker 1: him to work full time. Well, I think here's here's
Speaker 1: the way I like to look at it is we've
Speaker 1: had almost two thousand reps in the spring that he
Speaker 1: was involved in, and in many of those, we've got
Speaker 1: a long line of running backs that need to get
Speaker 1: work and we're just kind of balancing it out. You know,
Speaker 1: they're when they're in there, they're trying to get explosive
Speaker 1: efforts and play hard. And that can be said for
Speaker 1: all guys kind of skilled positions that you have this year.
Speaker 1: I'm running back in. We see what you get in.
Speaker 1: What does that give you? Guys from a gate planning
Speaker 1: in the way calling standpoint that maybe you haven't had
Speaker 1: the last years. Well, we'd like to be able to
Speaker 1: whatever the forty five man roster of forty six man
Speaker 1: roster works out to be, we want that to be.
Speaker 1: We want every offensive player, especially skilled player, we want
Speaker 1: to be able to rotate them in and go um.
Speaker 1: Certainly you could see some of the benefits of playing
Speaker 1: with tempo last week and we were just rolling guys.
Speaker 1: And so when you have a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: you count on and you feel good about um, then
Speaker 1: you don't worry about what plays you call. You just
Speaker 1: you just call him and oh gee, that's a good
Speaker 1: one for him, and you know, you worry less about
Speaker 1: being so strategic about where things are going and then
Speaker 1: just get the ball spread out in album. But Matthews
Speaker 1: is an album. He's always in. Why that really? That? Really?
Speaker 1: Not always? I mean we have a we have a
Speaker 1: rotation at the running back position, much like we do
Speaker 1: at tight end or receiver. And again, I think you
Speaker 1: gotta be careful. You gotta be careful, to say, with
Speaker 1: the ones, with the twos, with the you know, we
Speaker 1: have drills out there where we run play one after
Speaker 1: the other and it's just the next the next guys
Speaker 1: are in. So you can see Sam Bradford with guys
Speaker 1: that you might consider to be backups and vice versa.
Speaker 1: So I think you got to be careful when you're
Speaker 1: watching our training sessions. There's some is that well if
Speaker 1: that's the question, well, my questions fly the sea rash
Speaker 1: Marko is not well, I think he's out there and
Speaker 1: he's practicing and I wouldn't say he's doing anything anymore
Speaker 1: than if if DeMarco was out there, he'd be in
Speaker 1: the rotation smoothly with him. At the same time, you
Speaker 1: guys kind of will get like this week and next
Speaker 1: week is kind of a you know, I guess a
Speaker 1: chance to like kind of get him ready for the season. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran player and and and he'll get himself
Speaker 1: ready to go, and it'll be within the structure that
Speaker 1: we have for him. We're not we're not as concerned
Speaker 1: about it as I feel this lineup questioning one on Saturday,
Speaker 1: Am I sensing something here? Huh? On Saturday night when
Speaker 1: you see from graduated get confidence back, Well, we feel
Speaker 1: like he's back. We just want to see him go
Speaker 1: out and execute efficiently and move the team and get
Speaker 1: us in the end zone. That's that's what we want
Speaker 1: him to do, obviously, not conditions personally, that's so so
Speaker 1: what in your mind for a children being here. We
Speaker 1: want him to go out, execute efficiently, move our team
Speaker 1: and get us in the end zone. That's what we're
Speaker 1: looking for. I don't mean to be trite, but that's
Speaker 1: that's really what we want from our quarterbacks set John
Speaker 1: in terms of in the context, if you're being away
Speaker 1: from sport a while, do you see a guy who's
Speaker 1: we committed. Do you see a guy who's suggesting to
Speaker 1: get back? Do you see guys right in? I just
Speaker 1: see a guy that's probably made the most improvements of anybody.
Speaker 1: But he had the furthest to come because he didn't
Speaker 1: have the benefit of the spring. But he's done a
Speaker 1: good job. He battled in there on Sunday and he
Speaker 1: had more, way more good plays than bad. Anybody that
Speaker 1: played a lot the other night made mistakes, but I
Speaker 1: thought like he Uh, in our eyes, we feel like
Speaker 1: he made progress. Tibo played with the fourth uned a
Speaker 1: lot and Parfley was the third. Is there any plans
Speaker 1: to get a fair evaluation for them and maybe switch
Speaker 1: that around in the game the situation, it's in pencil.
Speaker 1: We have some ideas about how we're going to change
Speaker 1: the quarterback rotation this coming week, but we haven't solidified
Speaker 1: it yet. You know, we really expect the quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: go out and perform regardless of who they're playing with.
Speaker 1: You know, it goes back to the using all the
Speaker 1: guys on the roster, and so you know, we feel
Speaker 1: like we can. Whether you're playing behind the second, third
Speaker 1: or fourth line, we expect the quarterbacks to perform. So
Speaker 1: and I did caught some balls soday. Did he show
Speaker 1: you anything that? Yeah, you know he was. He was
Speaker 1: targeted quite a bit. And again it comes in bunches.
Speaker 1: You know, Huff didn't get any, but he got a
Speaker 1: bunch and who would have thought, um, But he did
Speaker 1: a good job. There was some there were some catches
Speaker 1: he made where his run after catch was terrific. He
Speaker 1: caught a couple of balls in a crowd. Um, And
Speaker 1: so he you know, he did some really really good
Speaker 1: things in our minds. And like he said, he got
Speaker 1: targeted and he made the best of them those opportunities.
Speaker 1: So he just needs to build on that now. Not
Speaker 1: really well, again, he wasn't targeted, but I'm assuming if
Speaker 1: they'd have thrown it to him, whatever their offensive scheme is,
Speaker 1: he would have caught it. Are you guys comfortable with
Speaker 1: Huff and that you know, he only played fourteen snaps
Speaker 1: in that first game, like a lot of the starters.
Speaker 1: Are you comfortable with a guy who getting really played
Speaker 1: a lot last year, missed four games, he was almost
Speaker 1: all the preseason put it having him in that kind
Speaker 1: of um er No, I think we're we're comfortable with him,
Speaker 1: and we're comfortable with the progress he's making through through
Speaker 1: the training. You know, there's a lot that goes out
Speaker 1: here on the goes on out here on the practice field,
Speaker 1: and there's still a lot of preseason football to be
Speaker 1: played and he's going to get a lot of that. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think when you look at the first
Speaker 1: preseason game, you know, we all want to try to
Speaker 1: quantify how much is and the how goods Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a lot left to do here. There's a lot of water.
Speaker 1: It's got to run unto the bridge before we put
Speaker 1: that final roster together, and these guys are going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunities. That's the beauty of what
Speaker 1: we're doing here. We're going to be able to compete
Speaker 1: in a team environment against another opponent, and so some
Speaker 1: of the guys that are only going to play partially
Speaker 1: in the game are going to get a lot of
Speaker 1: another you know, a lot of good reps against a
Speaker 1: really good opponent. I wouldn't say that I think he's
Speaker 1: performed well when he's been in there, but again that
Speaker 1: that decision hasn't been made yet. I think Andrew's doing
Speaker 1: a good job. And I think the other guys that
Speaker 1: that you're going to ask me about are also making progress.
Speaker 1: It still kind of you know, and even come to
Speaker 1: I mean, so you don't think there's any separation of
Speaker 1: all yet. I just said he's doing a good job.
Speaker 1: We haven't. We haven't decided yet what's happening there. We're
Speaker 1: still rotating guys through. And keep in mind when you
Speaker 1: see and again you're I'm sure you're all keeping track
Speaker 1: of who's in there at all. If you're not one
Speaker 1: of the five, then you have to be you have
Speaker 1: to have position, you know, flexibility, and so you're seeing
Speaker 1: guys training at different positions because if you line up
Speaker 1: on game day and you're six or seven, you may
Speaker 1: have to back up the center and the guard or
Speaker 1: the guard and the tackle, and you know, all the
Speaker 1: different combinations that we go through. So that's part of
Speaker 1: the training. When you find a starter, is until you
Speaker 1: become that guy, you know, because until you become Ason Peters,
Speaker 1: you got to you gotta move around and do the
Speaker 1: other things as well. Uh, it's sin pencil. We'll see,
Speaker 1: We'll see. Chances are making the day because the Ordnay
Speaker 1: schools play right guard is opposed to training at tackle
Speaker 1: or center. I don't know that he has history of
Speaker 1: playing other positions right now for him, and really what
Speaker 1: we have to do for him to catch up on
Speaker 1: all the stuff that we you know, that we've done
Speaker 1: in the spring and in the two years prior, it
Speaker 1: helps him to do it by learning one spot now
Speaker 1: certainly he's learning all the other positions as well. Just
Speaker 1: kind of get him up to speed. Locations regards to
Speaker 1: how how much home Poor would play raward, obviously guards
Speaker 1: to be ordered. No, I think everything with regards to
Speaker 1: the quarterback is in pencil right now, and order and
Speaker 1: how much I guess, I don't you know, But we haven't,
Speaker 1: like I said, we haven't solidified or really you know,
Speaker 1: totally decided how we're going to play that. Yet it
Speaker 1: seems like a lot of the offensive rolls, I don't know,
Speaker 1: the way presented the self different. But the short passing
Speaker 1: us going deep a lot. Is that by design or
Speaker 1: just the way the quarterbacks you're seeing the open guys
Speaker 1: or no, I mean, we have plenty of short intermediate
Speaker 1: concepts and we have deep to short concepts and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think I feel like we're throwing the
Speaker 1: ball deep at times in practice. You know, most de
Speaker 1: seasons of four backs on the balls of last year
Speaker 1: wouldn't go for Well, those are decisions we have to make,
Speaker 1: you know, and you did you two examples of years
Speaker 1: when the rosters are different. So we'll just have to see.
Speaker 1: And again we're gonna try to pick the best fifty
Speaker 1: three guys and then within that, you know, we'll have
Speaker 1: a certain number of skill players and then we'll play offense.
Speaker 1: It's based on what they can do best, and that's
Speaker 1: sort of what we do. Yeah, would you evaluate Kitty
Speaker 1: is it? How is it a fair evaluation? Because he's
Speaker 1: moving to a position you have to play the plague
Speaker 1: at the NFL level and obviously involved technique and different
Speaker 1: things that he is not accustomed doing at a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So when you're evaluating, you know he's a more un
Speaker 1: potential or can you look for more more to improvements.
Speaker 1: I suppose for some reason playing wide receiver for a
Speaker 1: while and may have that now. So I don't think
Speaker 1: you said it's not fair. I think what we're doing
Speaker 1: is fair. I think he's out there competing and what
Speaker 1: he's showing us is that he can play, be a guy,
Speaker 1: play a lot of different positions, and the more you
Speaker 1: can do, you know, the more valuable you become. So, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where you're getting at, but just
Speaker 1: you know, for a guy who hasn't played some of
Speaker 1: the things you're asking to do in the NFL, I
Speaker 1: was a football player and he's out there playing football. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, so what do you judging though, as a
Speaker 1: player who's played at we're asking Scrolls to play wide
Speaker 1: receiver and running back. Is that fair? Well, he's built
Speaker 1: in the NFL, fight a lot, it's career well, but
Speaker 1: we're asking him to do two things, right. We're asking
Speaker 1: guards to play tackle, centers to play guard, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's there's kind of that multiplicity that you try
Speaker 1: to build in a player, and really the more you
Speaker 1: can do, the more valuable you are to the team.
Speaker 1: So that's that's sort of the way we look at it.
Speaker 1: When you were when you were here as an assistant
Speaker 1: in the JOBIC here, you guys ever talked about being
Speaker 1: a head coach together and what have you admired about
Speaker 1: him as a head coach since Yeah, we were certainly,
Speaker 1: we're all back in the VET together on coach on
Speaker 1: Andy's original staff, so we had a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going on. We didn't have much time to talk about
Speaker 1: much at that time. We were just trying to get
Speaker 1: this thing figured out the best we could. UM. But
Speaker 1: certainly John has done an outstanding job. Is this this
Speaker 1: eighth eighth season? Um? Um super Bowls? You know, I
Speaker 1: competed against them four times when I was in Cleveland. UM,
Speaker 1: And he's just a solid he's a solid football coach.
Speaker 1: That it really provides a very clear direction for their organization.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what that's what it starts with.
Speaker 1: And UM, he's done a great job, and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. We're friends, you know, we talk
Speaker 1: frequently in the offseason or at NFL functions, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to uh being around him and competing
Speaker 1: against this team. Team. Let's see, Well, they've got a
Speaker 1: really fine quarterback. You know, they do a good job
Speaker 1: of scoring points. And then they've always been very stout
Speaker 1: on defense, you know, I think that can be said.
Speaker 1: And then with his special team's backgrounds, you know, they're
Speaker 1: always very solid on special teams. So it's a good rounded,
Speaker 1: hard nosed football team, and that's what gives him a chance. Well,
Speaker 1: he'll have to get up to you know, get back
Speaker 1: to to full speed when he comes back, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's got a memory bank of reps and he's
Speaker 1: been around for two years now, so he'll get back
Speaker 1: to full speed quicker than most h