Speaker 1: Play. I haven't made that decision yet. Brandon Brooks right
Speaker 1: now has an ankle sprain. I what's that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check with the docs here when when we get done,
Speaker 1: I'll find out. Again, I haven't set that. Um, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have meetings this afternoon actually to decide that offensively
Speaker 1: and defensible series of Oh for sure. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: start the game. Yeah, we get out of the first season.
Speaker 1: The first thing is I, uh, you know, UM, I
Speaker 1: want everybody to play. I want to see uh. I
Speaker 1: want to see our our veterans, uh, you know, play
Speaker 1: and execute and pick up kind of where they left
Speaker 1: off at the end of the season. But yet, you know,
Speaker 1: we continue to evaluate our our roster. So um, now
Speaker 1: the evaluation really really picks up now in these games.
Speaker 1: And and UM, I just want to see execution. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously you go in it, you want to
Speaker 1: you want to win the game. But but obviously that's uh, um,
Speaker 1: that's something that everybody, everybody strives to do. But but
Speaker 1: the overall execution and uh, and watch our watch our
Speaker 1: players develop. Last year, when Ron Rooks got hurt, Malcolm
Speaker 1: had to play a lot more. He had incorporate channel
Speaker 1: and maybe both Janelon and jailing a little bit more.
Speaker 1: What was the trickle down effect to your defense? Listen
Speaker 1: to a guy like Ron Brooks, who you know kind
Speaker 1: of seems like an afterthought, but if it affects Malcolm Jackets,
Speaker 1: it seems to affected everything. Yeah, it effects affects a
Speaker 1: couple of positions obviously, and and uh, you know, leading
Speaker 1: up to that point, Malcolm and Rodney McLeod, we're having
Speaker 1: a really good start to the season. Great communication back there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's a lot like Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: on offense. You know, it disrupts several positions. Uh, you
Speaker 1: have to move some guys around. But the thing is
Speaker 1: these guys are professionals. They're pro Malcolm's played that spot before. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Jalen has played some corner obviously safety and
Speaker 1: getting a good chance at uh getting in there. Um,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I thought overall didn't did a nice job.
Speaker 1: And it's great to see Ron back again this year
Speaker 1: as Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ron is ron is uh is
Speaker 1: looking really good in practices. He's competing and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to watch him play in these next couple of games.
Speaker 1: Certain players who said I had it over thirty. I
Speaker 1: never had an over thirty. I've never I've never said
Speaker 1: I haven't over thirty. Um, it's just my Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just my discretion. I rested Chris Long last week. Fletcher
Speaker 1: Jason Peters gets time. He even though he dresses, he
Speaker 1: gets time, you know, during some of our live periods.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's just my discretion. Um. Listening to
Speaker 1: the guys, listening to the players, and uh, I want
Speaker 1: to keep them ready, ready to go for Washington. Figure
Speaker 1: out the first four or five white receivers. But have
Speaker 1: you ever seen a group of young guys fighting for
Speaker 1: a spot talent? You know what? I I love watching
Speaker 1: that position. I mean it is there are young guys
Speaker 1: are competing and and that's what that's what we've said
Speaker 1: all along, Right, they're competing as a group and competing
Speaker 1: as a whole, and it's exciting to see the uh
Speaker 1: uh these young guys really step up and and uh
Speaker 1: and and perform and so again these these games are
Speaker 1: going to be huge for them. From from that standpoint
Speaker 1: and just the overall evaluation the game. He is healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play the game, yes, And in the determination
Speaker 1: whether the playing or not it's just my discretion. Um.
Speaker 1: And and again I'm not concerned. We don't play Washington
Speaker 1: for a few weeks and and that's really the bottom line.
Speaker 1: Just made a free agents coming in and can they
Speaker 1: build the chemistry quick enough? Year one. Where does that
Speaker 1: stand with Carson? Well, obviously it started, uh you know
Speaker 1: way back when we you know, back in the spring,
Speaker 1: back in the winter, when when when we signed all
Speaker 1: Sean and Carson started building that relationship, in that chemistry
Speaker 1: then and then it carried over into OTAs and you
Speaker 1: saw how how how they worked during OTAs, those ten
Speaker 1: practices that we had, and and then early early here
Speaker 1: in camp and and you know you saw him again
Speaker 1: today working together. So um, that chemistry is going to
Speaker 1: be there, it continues to develop, and uh you know, um,
Speaker 1: I gotta get both of those guys you know, to
Speaker 1: Washington and and that opening day. That'll be me decision, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that same with same with Fletcher, same with Chris, same
Speaker 1: with Jason Peter, same with Denis Proles. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been my decision so extreme. Why again, it's just my discretion.
Speaker 1: You know, there's nothing other than than trying to keep
Speaker 1: him healthy and and keep him, keep him focused on
Speaker 1: on Washington and where we need to go. You've seen
Speaker 1: him practice, he was there yesterday, he's been in, he's
Speaker 1: been in our group install periods. Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's with any player, it's it's an individual basis and uh,
Speaker 1: and I'll continue to use discretion in that area. I
Speaker 1: haven't made that decision. But the question was he's healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play? I said, yes, he is healthy enough,
Speaker 1: but it's my discretion whether or not he plays. Come
Speaker 1: back where he looks good. He had a good day today. Again,
Speaker 1: he's another one that will evaluate later on today and
Speaker 1: then see where he's at for the game. Excuse me, Uh,
Speaker 1: day to day, Um, he's he's he's working hard obviously
Speaker 1: with the misstime. Um, you know, it's a it's it's
Speaker 1: um a situation where again he's one that he kind
Speaker 1: of goes in that that that all shan boat for me.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that he's ready to go,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we'll see where he's at in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. I'd like to be about
Speaker 1: reps Carson's getting because I know, like at one point
Speaker 1: you say you kind of want to pitch count see him. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and and let me let me pitch count is is
Speaker 1: is we got a clicker out there, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'd say, okay, you only get twelve throws. We're not
Speaker 1: on a pitch count per se. I mean, he finishes
Speaker 1: all the practices, he takes all his reps. Do we
Speaker 1: monitor how many throws he gets? Yes, we do, um,
Speaker 1: but we don't pull him out after he gets an
Speaker 1: X amount of amount of throws. So it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a pitch count. Um. But the one thing that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, it's gonna it's gonna stress all three guys,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're all getting But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it helps Dane and it helps Matt because they're getting
Speaker 1: more reps um and helps them helps them learn our system.
Speaker 1: He's doing well, he's doing well. He's he still has
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a lot to learn. He's still
Speaker 1: learning a sort of the intricacies of the details of
Speaker 1: route running. So he's still getting better there. Uh, it
Speaker 1: was great to see him out here today working and
Speaker 1: and uh, I'll be exciting in these games. He's filling
Speaker 1: in for Brandon Brooks right now, a right guard. What
Speaker 1: is he done Matt, what do you get me started
Speaker 1: branding of a Um, yeah, Chance is another one that's
Speaker 1: in that in that mix. You know, he's he's done
Speaker 1: a great job with uh you know Wiz and Isaac
Speaker 1: and the guys that have been rotating at the at
Speaker 1: the guard spot, and UM be a great opportunity, you know.
Speaker 1: UM got to see where Brandon is at obviously, but uh,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's worked himself in in the mix
Speaker 1: and and that's that's where he's at right now. Again,
Speaker 1: UM just gonna evaluate his performance and and uh see
Speaker 1: you've got to make that decision. You know in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Guards like back up left guard, back
Speaker 1: up break guard, and you have like a swing guard,
Speaker 1: it would not really most of these guys can swing
Speaker 1: either side. UM and and he's one of the guys
Speaker 1: that can do that a reduced role. I don't foresee that. No,
Speaker 1: how do you get a galoreduce? But one thing about
Speaker 1: Nelson that that that I like and what I've seen
Speaker 1: is he's obviously he can he can play inside and outside,
Speaker 1: you know, so you can get him some touches, you know,
Speaker 1: on on on the outside. You can get him some
Speaker 1: touches on the inside. And it goes back to what
Speaker 1: I've said many times with our offense, we move these
Speaker 1: guys around by position that they have to know inside
Speaker 1: and outside. So Nelson's gonna get get his touches. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch him him perform again and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get his confidence level back to where to
Speaker 1: where it needs to be. All right, thanks guys,