Speaker 1: Yes, oh, Lane. Obviously the other dad was in there
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks early in the morning. Lane kind of
Speaker 1: walked by, walked in to say hello to the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and it was a good sight and they were happy
Speaker 1: to see him as well. Look great video. I know
Speaker 1: it sounds corny, but you could feel the energy. You
Speaker 1: could feel it bottled up, you could sense it ready
Speaker 1: to go. Yead, Isaac played right tackle. How did you look?
Speaker 1: Isaac looked really good, really good. I mean I think
Speaker 1: at this point, you know, there's been uh, some ups
Speaker 1: and downs to the season. Um, certainly a few more
Speaker 1: downs than we wanted. But one of the real positives
Speaker 1: is all of our draft picks have really I think
Speaker 1: showed looked good, played well, have continued to get better
Speaker 1: and show a lot of promise going forward. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: rotate guys through and then coach, I'll ultimately make that
Speaker 1: decision that you get drafted Isaac because he's so worthful.
Speaker 1: What is the best position? Um, you know, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: he is virtually extremely athletic. You look natural out there
Speaker 1: at right tackle. But I think you know, originally we
Speaker 1: had drafted him to play guard. In the short term,
Speaker 1: what does that give you to have big v and
Speaker 1: and Isaac moving forward, to have two young guys like that,
Speaker 1: um that you know, you can build around with him
Speaker 1: a lot. Um, It gives us a lot, It gives
Speaker 1: us versatility, gives us depth, UM, gives us options, you know,
Speaker 1: with those guys. And like I said, Isaac, Isaac can
Speaker 1: play tackle, you can play guard, and you can play center.
Speaker 1: I mean these guys and Stout and Eugene do a
Speaker 1: great job of cross training them all and they really
Speaker 1: feed off of each other, so they're getting better all
Speaker 1: the time. These next two games were laying going into
Speaker 1: the next, next year, into the future as a leader
Speaker 1: on this office left and two or three years that
Speaker 1: he hasn't been but he's got to go for them
Speaker 1: words last two teams. Yeah, absolutely. You know. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: Lane was here at the beginning of the year, we
Speaker 1: got off to a pretty good start, so for him
Speaker 1: to kind of bring back and he was playing at
Speaker 1: a very high level. So, um, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways to lead, but the number one way to lead
Speaker 1: is by great play on the field and lead by
Speaker 1: example by the way you play in the field. So
Speaker 1: we expect him to come back and set the bar
Speaker 1: very high. Like he did for himself, um going forward.
Speaker 1: So it's great to have him back. The boost of
Speaker 1: energy that you get from having him here, is it
Speaker 1: tough not to think about where the offense would be,
Speaker 1: where the team would be if if he hadn't had
Speaker 1: the ten game suspension, you know, I mean it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it would be easy to go there, but
Speaker 1: you're so always so wrapped up into the next opponent
Speaker 1: that you really don't have time to go there mentally, Um,
Speaker 1: but certainly a good player that we've missed. He hadn't
Speaker 1: played all season and comes in and he sudden field
Speaker 1: like a screed players in full floor and everything. You know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Byron shows explosiveness. I thought he
Speaker 1: looked a little amped up early on, but made some
Speaker 1: good decisions. You know, we think he's a talented guy.
Speaker 1: Got called into action due to injury, and you know,
Speaker 1: like the other guys who've gotten called in, those other
Speaker 1: young guys have gotten called in, you could tell it's
Speaker 1: their first time in action, and as the longer they
Speaker 1: get in, the better they get. Ryan Matthews this season,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it seemed like injuries of office is
Speaker 1: a little bit big with the fumble as well. But
Speaker 1: when he's been successful, the team for the most part
Speaker 1: has been as well. Yeah, I mean Ryan, We all
Speaker 1: know Ryan's talent as a runner, his strength, his size,
Speaker 1: his explosiveness. When he's in there, Um, it feels a
Speaker 1: little different. And but obviously all those backs are really
Speaker 1: riding the coattails of good play up front on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. But Ryan does add a dimension of physicality
Speaker 1: back there, and he's done a good job been Certainly
Speaker 1: there has been a correlation when he's when he's humming, Um,
Speaker 1: it's been good. You guys leave the league in the
Speaker 1: time of possession right now, you haven't scored more than
Speaker 1: two offensive touchdowns in the game since Pittsburgh in Week three?
Speaker 1: Is it all about the red zone? And if it is,
Speaker 1: I mean, what what do you see as the major
Speaker 1: problem down there right now? Um? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think some of it's the red zone, some of
Speaker 1: it's the lack of big plays. Um, you know, you
Speaker 1: want some explosive play touchdowns. We need a few more
Speaker 1: of those. So we just have to keep I just
Speaker 1: know this that you know, amidst the negatives and amongst
Speaker 1: the negatives, Um, leading the league after fourteen weeks in
Speaker 1: time of possession, there's something positive about that. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not good enough because we haven't scored enough points. We
Speaker 1: got to be better in the red zone. We got
Speaker 1: to get more explosive plays. But we're showing signs that
Speaker 1: we can control and possess the ball, that we can
Speaker 1: make first downs. Um, those have to be good signs. Valuable.
Speaker 1: Parson's interceptions, you know, the first drive, Secretary, I've I
Speaker 1: think six out of the thirteen in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: What do you make of that? Is Is there anything
Speaker 1: too that is he too jacked up early in the game?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I mean, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: there's a lot of factors that go I'd have to
Speaker 1: break each one down individually, which we'll kind of do
Speaker 1: at the you know, at the end of the year
Speaker 1: when you go back and evaluate. You know, we always
Speaker 1: start with the beds. So we'll go back and we'll
Speaker 1: look at every interception, you know, we'll look at every sack.
Speaker 1: That's the way we always start off with the quarter
Speaker 1: and then we get to the good stuff and evaluate it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot a lot of things are going to play.
Speaker 1: Is it possible that guy's amped up or you're a
Speaker 1: little juiced up. Sometimes I don't think that's always the case.
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty poised. Could have it happened in
Speaker 1: the game or two. Maybe I've seen it happen to
Speaker 1: really experience guys. I've been around some really experienced quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who get really jacked up for a particular game, go out,
Speaker 1: maybe try to do something too much early on. That's
Speaker 1: probably happened, you know, once or twice, But I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a recurring problem. Valuable was it that, even
Speaker 1: though the two point conversion wasn't converted, were cardson to
Speaker 1: take the team down the field, because you've had a
Speaker 1: bunch of those situations this year and actually score and
Speaker 1: finish the job? Yeah, I mean I think it was important. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we wanted to finish it off the right way. I
Speaker 1: think everybody I don't know, I think everybody on that
Speaker 1: sidelines there was no doubt in our mind we were
Speaker 1: scoring on that play. I thought this was the moment.
Speaker 1: You know, we're all I think we've all been thinking
Speaker 1: and you've seen it, and we would talk a lot
Speaker 1: about incremental growth and getting and you know, I certainly
Speaker 1: not journaling his progress in that sense, but you can
Speaker 1: you could feel it each time we get that situation,
Speaker 1: we're getting a little bit further. Now we go in
Speaker 1: and we're standing on him. This is it, We're making
Speaker 1: this play. This is this is the one. This is
Speaker 1: gonna And there wrote a lot of good signs down
Speaker 1: the stretch, but those good signs need to finish with
Speaker 1: a touchdown that win or a two point conversion that
Speaker 1: wins the games. What have you learned about Bill Peterson
Speaker 1: as a coach going to be You know, he's got
Speaker 1: no fear, he's steady, he's aggressive, he's tough, he's accountable,
Speaker 1: fun to be with, you know, he's he's open minded.
Speaker 1: He's very confident in what he knows and what he
Speaker 1: believes in, and he knows what he believes in. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's hired a good staff, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he takes good input from everybody on the staff
Speaker 1: and he's fun to work with. But four hundred some
Speaker 1: yards against the Giants last time he played him, what's different?
Speaker 1: What has become different about that defense? And the weeks
Speaker 1: since then, they've obviously gone that way, and you guys
Speaker 1: are going on this way. Their defense playing really well.
Speaker 1: They're getting after the passer. Uh, you know, Russian passer
Speaker 1: very well. They have two really good corners, obviously a
Speaker 1: good safety, you know, good good secondary. They have good
Speaker 1: personnel on their defense, and it just seems like they're
Speaker 1: hitting their stride um defensively. You know, we know Spags
Speaker 1: is a very good coordinator. So um, they're playing with
Speaker 1: a lot of momentum right now. I'm playing at a
Speaker 1: high level, really good in the red zone, really good
Speaker 1: on third down, pretty good against the run. So be
Speaker 1: a good challenge for us. What does lack big plays?
Speaker 1: I know when you were hired, Doug said, that's kind
Speaker 1: of what you brought, was that the downfield passing attack.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that hasn't been able to kind
Speaker 1: of take hold this year? You know, I mean I
Speaker 1: I just think we have to. You just got to
Speaker 1: keep working at it. I mean, there's no magical answer.
Speaker 1: We believe in our players. We believe we got a
Speaker 1: quarterback who's a big play quarterback. He likes he likes
Speaker 1: to throw the ball down the field. You know, we
Speaker 1: try more and more to you know, build stuff in
Speaker 1: a fine ways to give guys an advantage or leverage
Speaker 1: down the field. Take some shots we just have to
Speaker 1: keep believing it and keep and keep giving them opportunities
Speaker 1: down the field, the circumstances that you probably wouldn't have preferred.
Speaker 1: The way guys have come in with the offensive line,
Speaker 1: has it gone from an area that was questioned is
Speaker 1: something that might be promised? I always from you know,
Speaker 1: from day one, that the offensive line was a strength
Speaker 1: of this team. I think I've said that all year long.
Speaker 1: You know, I know we've been beat up and a lot,
Speaker 1: but I've never felt I've been at other places where
Speaker 1: we've been really beat up at the offensive line before,
Speaker 1: and this has just felt different. I just feel like
Speaker 1: we really have good depth. We you know, the goal
Speaker 1: Howie and Dugs that down in the offseasons that the
Speaker 1: goal is to build some depth on this offensive line.
Speaker 1: We drafted a couple of guys, we signed a guy.
Speaker 1: I think all of those things were really good for us,
Speaker 1: and I think it is an area of strength. I
Speaker 1: think Jason Peters is a dominant football player and still
Speaker 1: playing at a dominant level, and now we got laid
Speaker 1: back and some other young guys have played more. I
Speaker 1: think it puts us in a good position going forward.
Speaker 1: Process behind not having active this week, you know every week.
Speaker 1: You know, there's certain things plays that we had in
Speaker 1: you know, we had one couple things in for you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of things in last week for Bryce Um
Speaker 1: that I don't want to get into that. You know,
Speaker 1: some of them we got to, some we didn't get to.
Speaker 1: That's just a week to week decision players that they
Speaker 1: weren't the rushing attacks. It seemed like you still had
Speaker 1: a lot of the same wivezone concepts, just stuck to it. Board.
Speaker 1: Was there anything different as we did that this past week?
Speaker 1: Guess the rays, the finances, you know, it just came
Speaker 1: down to execution and physical you know, I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line has been playing well all year. Um, there's
Speaker 1: been no quit, no quit in them, you know. And
Speaker 1: in the run game we had some success early, and
Speaker 1: that just everybody feeds off. I know, it's a play
Speaker 1: call or your feed off that when you can get
Speaker 1: some success early in the run game, they felt it,
Speaker 1: and you know they're calling forward on the sideline. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, I just think the mental challenge of
Speaker 1: going against going up against the number one defense that's
Speaker 1: always that was always a good thing. And I think
Speaker 1: Jason Peters really led the way with the way he played.
Speaker 1: His physical nature really helped lead the way in that game.
Speaker 1: Running the football, yeah,