Speaker 1: He's down there until Friday, from what I understand, so
Speaker 1: we'll come back and see him on Friday. They're doing
Speaker 1: some rehab work with him, so not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1: I just know he's down there. That Derek said, I mean,
Speaker 1: Chris said it'd be back. I don't think it's surgery.
Speaker 1: I mean he's coming back on Friday, So we'll see
Speaker 1: where he is then. He said they're rehabing him, is
Speaker 1: what I was told. He did a couple of things yesterday.
Speaker 1: We'll see how he progresses today. So he's limited in
Speaker 1: practice yesterday and we'll see, you know, to what extent
Speaker 1: he can go today. With Cody Parkey, as I understand,
Speaker 1: he had an MRI like the Wednesday before the Atlantic
Speaker 1: games and showed that this gronded heel, what do you
Speaker 1: make of that? I mean, is he just predisposed to
Speaker 1: car up? As I said yesterday, it was a new injury,
Speaker 1: So it's in a different spot of or the other
Speaker 1: injury that he had, you know, pre Packers game or
Speaker 1: whatever um or whatever preseason game he did it. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the whatever game it was,
Speaker 1: but it was. This is a different injury. So what
Speaker 1: do I make of it is it's unfortunate for Cody.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for him. He's just such a works
Speaker 1: extremely hard at what he does. Us most conscientious could
Speaker 1: I've been around in terms of what he does from
Speaker 1: a kicking standpoint, but um, he had a great attitude
Speaker 1: when I talked to him the other day, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be here every day. He's gonna help kale about you know,
Speaker 1: explain kind of where he's kicked before, kind of what
Speaker 1: the situations are. He's been down in Washington Stadium, he's
Speaker 1: been in our stadium, and just kind of help from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. But you know, he's he's he's gonna be here.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start rehab and he's ever already started his
Speaker 1: rehab process. But because of the nature of the injury, Um,
Speaker 1: it was at least eight weeks um before we'd be
Speaker 1: back to doing anything, which kind of eliminated the point
Speaker 1: that we could bring him back from anything. The other Uh,
Speaker 1: he kicked the ball through the uprights? Why was he better?
Speaker 1: He kicked more field goals and those guys did What
Speaker 1: do you know about his mental part of his people?
Speaker 1: I know fifth on a lot of research on him.
Speaker 1: Chris was on our staff with him when he was
Speaker 1: at Miami and was very confident in him. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a heck of a leg. I mean it
Speaker 1: explodes off his foot. So he was the best in
Speaker 1: both kickoffs and field goals. And we had in our
Speaker 1: tryouts Jason Peters and Ryan Cooper sister. Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: a nagging thing. I think, uh, they'll probably not go
Speaker 1: full today and then we expect them back this week though, Ship,
Speaker 1: what are your concern level with Sam Bradford? You know,
Speaker 1: moving the ball, getting it down the field is a
Speaker 1: lot of it on him? Is it? Is it partially
Speaker 1: the receiver's dropping some balls. It's a combination of everything,
Speaker 1: so you know, I mean we've had some jobs, but
Speaker 1: there's been some times where guys are open and we
Speaker 1: didn't put it on him at their appropriate times. What's
Speaker 1: a combination of both that he's just coming back from
Speaker 1: the injury, he's learning the offense is in the combination
Speaker 1: of everything. Where do you think a specific thing that's Sam?
Speaker 1: I think he missed two throws, so he probably wants
Speaker 1: back in the Jets game. Does the red his offense
Speaker 1: changed much with DeShawn in it versus when he kind of.
Speaker 1: I think the offense has changed different than it was
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, we played two different quarterbacks last
Speaker 1: year and haven't seen DeShawn this year, so I think, um,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more run oriented this year because
Speaker 1: of their backs. But I don't know if that's because
Speaker 1: Deshaan's not in or not. You know, so I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean they threw the ball a little bit differently
Speaker 1: in both games we played him last year, so he
Speaker 1: got through, you know, so we'll see how much more
Speaker 1: he can do today. But he looked he looked good yesterday.
Speaker 1: But I think with an injury like that Michael had,
Speaker 1: that it's a progression thing. How does he progress during
Speaker 1: the weeks. But um, you know, we're encouraging where he
Speaker 1: is now. Ye But until you had him, why not?
Speaker 1: Price tag of what was available in free agency was
Speaker 1: more than we were willing to play, Yet you had
Speaker 1: in turn? What did you think? I thought it was good,
Speaker 1: But I also don't think you can just take players
Speaker 1: for the sake of take him players. You know, if
Speaker 1: we drafted, we didn't have an offensive linement drafted to
Speaker 1: the third round grade. If we took them, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have Jordan Hicks right now. So, I mean there's there's
Speaker 1: always after the fact that you can say this, you
Speaker 1: can say that, but I mean, we're not going to
Speaker 1: reach and take things just before the sake of taking
Speaker 1: things this year season said last year, when he's progressed,
Speaker 1: I think just because he's third year here, you know,
Speaker 1: he's got more experience, We've got a better understanding what's
Speaker 1: going on. You're just fade adding to the offensive lind
Speaker 1: at all, we'll see. I mean, we'd like to have nine,
Speaker 1: that's that's the ideal number four us, but because of
Speaker 1: the we had two linebackers down that aren't on injured
Speaker 1: reserved candidate Tepe guys. You know when Michael Kiko, so
Speaker 1: you know, you're you got to kind of figure out
Speaker 1: where do I get that extra spot right now? And
Speaker 1: for us at this current time, it was it was
Speaker 1: in the offensive line. You know, there's there's you get
Speaker 1: another injury somewhere, you may have to compensate somewhere else.
Speaker 1: If in the ideal world, we'd like to have nine
Speaker 1: offensive linement in the in the fifty three, but right
Speaker 1: now we could we couldn't do that just because of
Speaker 1: those two two injuries. At the inside linebacker position. After
Speaker 1: the last couple of drafts, there was nobody available in
Speaker 1: the rounds where we were thinking about drafting offensive line
Speaker 1: and who was fourth a pick? Is that remarkable? Dude?
Speaker 1: Were you surprised by that two years in a row
Speaker 1: that there wasn't real good offensive one value and second,
Speaker 1: three or fourth round? Now, I mean, I I just
Speaker 1: think it unfolds away. It unfolds and then you know
Speaker 1: when when you picked, there probably a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that go a couple of picks before you that yugs,
Speaker 1: I wish that guy was there. If he was there,
Speaker 1: he's probably rated higher than the guy we had. But
Speaker 1: you know when when when we look at the draft itself,
Speaker 1: it's we're always just kind of going all the way
Speaker 1: down and as the names get picked, to take him off,
Speaker 1: and then you look at him and just say, who's
Speaker 1: the best available? And at the time when and I
Speaker 1: said it then and it really was when we saw
Speaker 1: Jordan was the highest rated guy we had in the
Speaker 1: third round. So that's where we went within the third round.
Speaker 1: You know when then we decided in the fourth um
Speaker 1: we traded our pick, you know, which got us a
Speaker 1: third This year, you know, so you know, there were
Speaker 1: some there's a lot of Indans and outs that I
Speaker 1: went in the draft day. But you know, we're still
Speaker 1: going to take what's the best at a position. And
Speaker 1: I think when you reach at a position, you end
Speaker 1: up getting in trouble. You've always had a very good
Speaker 1: offense here that you put up a lot of points,
Speaker 1: a lot of yards. What is your concern level now
Speaker 1: with the offense? I know, what's early? Just three games in.
Speaker 1: I'm just concerned with Washington. You know, I don't care
Speaker 1: if we score two points and win two nothing or
Speaker 1: we score fifty two points and win fifty two fifty one.
Speaker 1: We're concerned with beating Washington. We don't look at it
Speaker 1: as we need to do this, we need to do that,
Speaker 1: as what do we do? We do we what do
Speaker 1: we need to do in the football game on Sunday
Speaker 1: to win the football game? Are the off season are
Speaker 1: I've been limited to the exployees. What have you seen
Speaker 1: out of that secondary these first three games in regards
Speaker 1: to keeping new keep plays from not having They're doing
Speaker 1: a better job, you know than we did a year ago.
Speaker 1: We still need to clean that up, though, But I
Speaker 1: think it's the whole defense. You know, it's a combination
Speaker 1: of the rush, coverage, all of that. All those elements
Speaker 1: add to what it is. Obviously, if if the quarterback
Speaker 1: has a ton of time back there, then he's got
Speaker 1: time to really push the ball down the field, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's what we kind of saw a little bit
Speaker 1: in the first week in the Atlanta game. And we
Speaker 1: didn't get a great rush on on Matt in the
Speaker 1: first game, and we also so weren't great in coverage
Speaker 1: in that game. So you know, I think it's a
Speaker 1: combination of both. I see, I've seen improvement, Um, you
Speaker 1: know from game one to Game two to game three,
Speaker 1: so we just need to continue. Um, there's they took
Speaker 1: a couple of shots, you know, eric Row made a
Speaker 1: nice play on a breakup and then eric Row had
Speaker 1: an interception. Then they took a shout on Nolan, and
Speaker 1: I thought Nolan made a really nice play on the
Speaker 1: deep bowl of Brandon Marshall. So, you know, I've seen improvement,
Speaker 1: but we need to continue to get better secondary strictly
Speaker 1: technique things. Oh it's everything. I mean, it's matchups and
Speaker 1: how do you match up with who you're at? You
Speaker 1: know who they are, You know, and is there a
Speaker 1: double is there a safety over the top, but it's
Speaker 1: it's safety over the top? Are you lighting them? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different combinations or reasons that go
Speaker 1: into it so different. Well, they're a little bit they
Speaker 1: they were a little bit more four down at times.
Speaker 1: Um now then they were under coach Haslet But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the big thing with Joe's group
Speaker 1: and Joe's they're always sound, you know, and uh they
Speaker 1: don't their second rank defense in the NFL right now.
Speaker 1: There they can stop the run with their guys up front,
Speaker 1: their gigantic upfront. You know. I think n Knight may
Speaker 1: be the biggest inside guy in the league right now. Um,
Speaker 1: They've got another real talented guy. And Hatcher, who's been
Speaker 1: whether we played against him in Dallas or on Washington,
Speaker 1: is a guy we have great respect for. He's a
Speaker 1: tremendous inside defensive lineman this league. And when they go
Speaker 1: to their four down package, they got Ryan Carragunos, one
Speaker 1: of the better defensive and outside linebackers in the league.
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy's playing really well for him. They have a
Speaker 1: young rookie and Preston Smith that's playing a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps for him. Um, so they can They've stopped the
Speaker 1: run with just their front and they got two really
Speaker 1: good inside linebackers and Perry Riding and Keenan Robinson. They've
Speaker 1: been able to stop the run with that. So they're
Speaker 1: keeping the ball in front of them. They're not allowing
Speaker 1: really big explosive players just because their front can handle
Speaker 1: the run defense. And I think that's that's a big
Speaker 1: challenge for our offensive line going into this game. Agency
Speaker 1: a year or little year and a half ago, how
Speaker 1: much did you take into account like game I guess
Speaker 1: because obviously playing he's fine PLA. I think you go
Speaker 1: back to a lot of times because you don't have
Speaker 1: exposure to him when he was with the Saints, but
Speaker 1: go back to what our scouts looked at him when
Speaker 1: he was at Ohio State, and you know that's where
Speaker 1: you kind of get that information from the evaluation of
Speaker 1: the NFL stuff is really just off a film and tape.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get a chance to go in
Speaker 1: and interview a guy in free agency and say, hey,
Speaker 1: ask the coach to coached him, tell us about him,
Speaker 1: because you know that team may want him back. So
Speaker 1: you know there's not a lot. There weren't conversations between
Speaker 1: our staff and the Saints from that standpoint, But the
Speaker 1: one thing that stuck out to us in terms of
Speaker 1: what we're looking for for safety is that you have
Speaker 1: to be able to play down and you also have
Speaker 1: to be able to play high. And I think it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's not coincidence that both of our safeties
Speaker 1: were both corners to start their career, because you need
Speaker 1: to be able to cover. We're not a traditional one
Speaker 1: high safety, another guy in the box type of defensive operation.
Speaker 1: You know, we play right and left safety, and they
Speaker 1: they both could be down at times, they both could
Speaker 1: be high at times, and it really takes a guy
Speaker 1: that's got some versatility and we saw that. That's why
Speaker 1: he he was our number one free safety that we
Speaker 1: were looking at um in free agency two years ago.
Speaker 1: So you guys do a lot of preventative stuff with injuries,
Speaker 1: but what were the numbers showing you with with parking?
Speaker 1: You know, we're flags leading out to this or now.
Speaker 1: He actually said he was feeling as good as he
Speaker 1: was just before the week leading up to the Jets game.
Speaker 1: So connection between the league season las an injury and
Speaker 1: the one now I don't think so, but I didn't
Speaker 1: investigate it. You know, we do a whole when a
Speaker 1: guy's injured that goes on ir they'll go back and
Speaker 1: look at everything and try to see, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of the reason why. But I didn't. We haven't haven't
Speaker 1: gotten any information on that right now, say he got
Speaker 1: a lean and yeah, they go through Ryan and Sam,
Speaker 1: go through every throw that he makes in every game.
Speaker 1: And I've sat down and visited on all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I know Cal hadn't the most player. A good question
Speaker 1: for him exactly what he did before he got here,
Speaker 1: But when he got here on April twentieth, he was
Speaker 1: our most competitive guy in the weight room. He was
Speaker 1: our most consistent. You talk about a guy that just
Speaker 1: kept hitting prs, whether it be in bench squad, all
Speaker 1: of our lifts, prs and our runs. I think, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys take that time from at
Speaker 1: the end of the season till April. Maybe his time off.
Speaker 1: I think he was obvious to everybody that that he
Speaker 1: didn't take that time off. He worked extremely hard. So
Speaker 1: when he got here in a chip what excuse me,
Speaker 1: it's definitely showing up. Now. I think he's doing a
Speaker 1: heck of a job. He earned the starting corner job.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked to those guys that were coming back.
Speaker 1: It was wide open. Really. The only guy that was
Speaker 1: an established player gup was coming in for us was
Speaker 1: Malcolm and then the rest of it. You know, let's
Speaker 1: go see how it chakes itself out, you know. And
Speaker 1: Nolan's experience was as a nume mostly for us. You know,
Speaker 1: it was really good at it. But you know, could
Speaker 1: he be an outside corner? And I think he showed
Speaker 1: to us that he could be an outside corner was
Speaker 1: playing really well. Right now. We didn't know exactly what
Speaker 1: he was. We knew he was an outstanding special teams player,
Speaker 1: and we thought he had not ttunity to be a
Speaker 1: corner for us. And we'd see how he developed. And
Speaker 1: the credit really goes to him in terms of how
Speaker 1: hard he's worked and making himself not only and he
Speaker 1: was a great special things player for us Slasher, but
Speaker 1: not just a good special things player, but then taking
Speaker 1: that step to becoming a starting starting corner in this league.
Speaker 1: He's doing a really good job at it right now.
Speaker 1: Sad now we're still looking at that. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: got we haven't been in pads yet. So you know
Speaker 1: we got two days are two big work days are
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow. But um, you know Matt will get
Speaker 1: the first shot at it, but we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at at how that goes. He's next two days, so
Speaker 1: thanks