Speaker 1: I said the same thing. You know, Hollie and Joe,
Speaker 1: those guys, all the scouts are always looking for ways
Speaker 1: to improve our team. So whoever's out there that can
Speaker 1: improve our team, whether it's a guy like Tulley who's unsigned,
Speaker 1: or guys on other teams that are looking at roster numbers,
Speaker 1: and um, you know we're gonna watch preseason games and
Speaker 1: you know, be looking at wave of wire who might
Speaker 1: be cap casualties. That's what that's what the personnel department does.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know I trust those guys to explore
Speaker 1: every option that would that would help us. When you
Speaker 1: were a head coach, did you, guys, your team's ever
Speaker 1: hit And if not, what do you learned? What do
Speaker 1: you learn from parting players hit that maybe you wouldn't
Speaker 1: get out of Yeah, I I'm my phone for that
Speaker 1: one again. When I was a head coach leading, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not the head coach. I'm defense coordinator. My job
Speaker 1: is to do what coach Peterson wants And did you
Speaker 1: ever do? Um, what's in the past is in the past. Um,
Speaker 1: here's here's what Here's what I want to say from
Speaker 1: a defensive mentality, it's nice to have a head coach
Speaker 1: that wants to have a physical practice, that wants to um,
Speaker 1: you know the thud guys up. A lot of offensive
Speaker 1: coaches shy away from that, but I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: pay all for us, not just defensively, it'll pay all
Speaker 1: for us offensively. You know, coach wants to build a tough,
Speaker 1: physical team, and um, that doesn't happen by accident. You know,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen with um, you know, with you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, hoping that it happens. Hope it isn't
Speaker 1: a very good strategy. Got to go out and do
Speaker 1: it and we embrace it. Will you good? Look at
Speaker 1: the film afterwards? Are there things you can see when
Speaker 1: you guys are hitting it? Maybe? Oh, no question, no question. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's one thing when um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're like, say you're in a live period. It's one
Speaker 1: thing where a guy to say, yeah, i'd have made that.
Speaker 1: You know, you know you're thudding a running back or
Speaker 1: you know, thudding a ball carrier out and made it.
Speaker 1: And you're sitting there looking at film, it's like and
Speaker 1: I don't like your angle right here. Well, when you're
Speaker 1: in some of those periods, it shows, Um, you can.
Speaker 1: There's no gray area whether you could make it or not. Plus, um,
Speaker 1: you know this game is built with tough physical players
Speaker 1: and and that that sort of shows through when you
Speaker 1: get tough physical practices, you know, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a reveal. And when it comes to who the guys
Speaker 1: that you know they can execute that most of the the
Speaker 1: death our rookies are first year of players. Would you
Speaker 1: like to see see see a veteran death there? Um,
Speaker 1: you know we have some good veterans on here. Um.
Speaker 1: Nausey Good is a young veteran, but you know, I
Speaker 1: think he does a great job in that role. And
Speaker 1: I think we've got a good mix of younger players
Speaker 1: and older players. Um. You know, I don't think you
Speaker 1: go in with with preconceiving um notions that way. I
Speaker 1: don't think you sit there and say, yeah, we have
Speaker 1: X number of vets and X number of of rookies. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we leave that to Howie and Joe and
Speaker 1: the personnel guys, and we'll coach who's out there. Smaller safety.
Speaker 1: But he seems to have no problem throwing his body around.
Speaker 1: A little video. Yeah, if you watched him Alburn in Michigan,
Speaker 1: that was that was obvious during the physical practices here
Speaker 1: that um, you know, that was part of his resume.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right, he's not the biggest guy in
Speaker 1: the world. UM, but you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: safeties that aren't big, you know. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: I've experienced with a guy and uh, I mean Rodney
Speaker 1: Ronny Mcloud's not that big. I mean, Rodney's not even
Speaker 1: peanuts off of Blake's head. But every time he's out here,
Speaker 1: you know, I think you guys know, I mean, does
Speaker 1: Rodney look small when he's out here? M You know,
Speaker 1: it's all about you know, you're positioning, your leverage, your toughness,
Speaker 1: those things. And I think Blake has those young linebackers
Speaker 1: video based with young linebackers that they have walk m
Speaker 1: gals steppe all at times. Um. But you know, like
Speaker 1: a lot of young players, they're all trying to um
Speaker 1: work through inconsistencies. I think Joe Walker has done a
Speaker 1: very good job of, um, you know, handling all the
Speaker 1: stuff that goes along with being a mic linebacker, you know.
Speaker 1: And I I said a couple of days ago, I
Speaker 1: wasn't given gold stars to Jordan Hicks for you know
Speaker 1: for doing that, but Jordan's not a rookie and um,
Speaker 1: and Joe is so um you know, when he's out there,
Speaker 1: he does he does a nice shout with it done.
Speaker 1: Since the pads went on. We talked to you about
Speaker 1: it earlier. Yeah, you know, he's he showed up every day. Um.
Speaker 1: He's had some ups and downs. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: have been documenting those. But you know what I like
Speaker 1: about him is he's very competitive and he comes back.
Speaker 1: He doesn't shy away from uh, he doesn't shy away
Speaker 1: from contact. Um, he doesn't shy away from matchups. You
Speaker 1: need that in a corner. Um. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: on the if you're on the edge and you're not
Speaker 1: and you don't embrace being on that island, you're in
Speaker 1: the wrong business. And you know you go around here.
Speaker 1: I mean, Philly's had great history of some some corners
Speaker 1: that we're on islands that um you know that embrace that.
Speaker 1: And I think Jalen has shown signs that he can
Speaker 1: that he can do those things. He's still he's still young,
Speaker 1: he's still inconsistent. He's got his ups and his downs,
Speaker 1: but he comes he comes ready to ready to battle.
Speaker 1: Every day. I think that he was seeing some No now,
Speaker 1: we got some guys down, we got some different things,
Speaker 1: and we rolled guys through a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing that could you look at
Speaker 1: it this way. It doesn't mean he's running with the
Speaker 1: first group, because we just sort of melt our groups
Speaker 1: together anyway. But it does show that we want to
Speaker 1: see him match up against some of the different wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I think you could you could read that into it.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you do you feel like
Speaker 1: it's right open? You know, were wide open everywhere, including
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. You know, we can find somebody better. Let's
Speaker 1: do it. It makes it better. I mean it's going
Speaker 1: to be about the production of the group. So you
Speaker 1: know out there there's nothing set in stone. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of jobs to be earned. Um. Eric has
Speaker 1: done a good job. Eric. Eric has some very good strengths.
Speaker 1: He's tall, he's hard to throw over top of UM,
Speaker 1: he can be physical. UM. I think we've seen that
Speaker 1: there was a backed up period. He came up, made
Speaker 1: a big hit on the on the on the flat route,
Speaker 1: a tight end to the flat route that might have
Speaker 1: been a safety. That's what you want to see corner
Speaker 1: if you don't want to see corners back down from
Speaker 1: tight ends going to the flat and you know, Eric
Speaker 1: s flashed those things, you know, and again we get
Speaker 1: a little ahead of ourselves with him being a you know,
Speaker 1: too much of a season player. He's got about a
Speaker 1: half a year or less and starting thing. There's still
Speaker 1: a lot of things he's learning. Well, I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you about well the question, but I'll ask
Speaker 1: you about Thursday night. What are you what are some
Speaker 1: things you're looking for from this defense? I'm about making
Speaker 1: it through today to tell you the truth, if you
Speaker 1: circle back next week on on that. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: still in training camp, but we're thinking about preseason games.
Speaker 1: We're thinking about the wrong thing right now. Stand up page,
Speaker 1: russurants hand in the dirt. What are some of the
Speaker 1: things that you've seen from him? Because he seems to
Speaker 1: be coming on list uh pun pun intended. He means business,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, he comes to work. Uh. He's physical,
Speaker 1: he fits the scheme. He's tall, he's got long arms,
Speaker 1: he can build some power with speed. Might want to
Speaker 1: ask the tight ends about him because he's been giving
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys. Uh, you know, some some
Speaker 1: tough situations to handle come. You know, probably like anything else.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's good ones, there's there's bad ones. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we had a couple of tough matchups there.
Speaker 1: You know, selic Urts, Um Burton. Burton's made plays, you
Speaker 1: know a lot. He's tough matchup for US Sprowls, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean those are tough matchups for anybody. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean we're gonna win something, We're gonna
Speaker 1: lose something about Are you anxious to see after seeing
Speaker 1: all these practice how they guys played three that's a
Speaker 1: little way more. Yeah, I'm gonna stay on message there. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm anxious to see how to respond to
Speaker 1: the walk through today. We had a pretty good day
Speaker 1: this morning, and um, but we don't need to get
Speaker 1: you know, we don't need to be pattent guys on
Speaker 1: the back for that. I mean that's their job. It's
Speaker 1: training camp. They need to go do that and they
Speaker 1: need to you know, I've been well documented saying that
Speaker 1: we got to put the inconsistencies behind us. If we
Speaker 1: start talking about preseason games, we're talking about the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: We got a training camp practice today, we got to
Speaker 1: walk through today. We got meetings today, we got another
Speaker 1: padded practice tomorrow. You start looking too far ahead, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and you're gonna lose sight of
Speaker 1: what our real objective here, and that's to improve every day,
Speaker 1: all right,