Speaker 1: Helen Moore has gotten a lot of opportunity beings between
Speaker 1: May and and now. Have you seen growth from him
Speaker 1: over that span?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's you know, Jalen has always been a consistent
Speaker 2: performer for us. He really has.
Speaker 3: When he's filled in, he's done. I think it's been
Speaker 3: more so this year because now we're however many practices
Speaker 3: in and there's there's been no trend. So, uh, Jalen's
Speaker 3: gotten all the work and uh, he's always you know, Jalen.
Speaker 3: Jalen has a place in the NFL because he is
Speaker 3: a good pass blocker. He's competed well in pass blocking
Speaker 3: this year with with all the guys they have over
Speaker 3: their Russian run game is always something that he's challenged with.
Speaker 3: Not that he doesn't like the run block or can
Speaker 3: it's just as how he's made up his body type.
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not the it's explosive quick or it
Speaker 2: gets under people as well.
Speaker 3: But but the guy's don't really He's always done a
Speaker 3: good job, always been proud of him, and yet he
Speaker 3: is he's gotten even better.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 3: He's just he's a low burned guy and sometimes you
Speaker 3: think is he really getting it? But then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden you realize you see steady improvement in certain areas,
Speaker 3: and I've seen that continue.
Speaker 1: Is that a challenge for both of your starting tackle
Speaker 1: right now? And we give its hand more the.
Speaker 3: Run blocking Colton, Colton's a good run blocker. Colton's Colton's
Speaker 3: a better run blocker. Colton is a I won't put
Speaker 3: him quite in mcleinchy's categories a run blocker. Mike was
Speaker 3: the elite run blocker. Colton, Colton's not quite at that level,
Speaker 3: although he's getting there. He's really worked hard. Colton takes
Speaker 3: so much pride in everything he does. He gets better
Speaker 3: at everything.
Speaker 2: The swing tackle.
Speaker 4: If Jalen's the starting left tackle, if he had a
Speaker 4: game tonight.
Speaker 2: Well still it's still up in the air.
Speaker 3: I mean Hubbard and uh and uh Parker are the
Speaker 3: two guys competing for it.
Speaker 2: So they're both working hard.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll find out when we find out healthy.
Speaker 2: What does he at, what does he bring his off
Speaker 2: the one you know John brings.
Speaker 3: It's funny when John started playing more in the huddle,
Speaker 3: in the huddle of guys would come over and say,
Speaker 3: the guys didn't know johnas our first year with us.
Speaker 3: They're like, man, this guy, this guy's dog out there.
Speaker 3: This guy competes this guy if it's tough. This guy
Speaker 3: is good in the huddle, he's encouraging, he's gets fired up.
Speaker 3: I mean he's he's out there to win the game
Speaker 3: and plays really hard.
Speaker 2: So he adds that level.
Speaker 3: He adds a level of toughness from the line perspective,
Speaker 3: it's flex ability. I mean, that's the thing that you know,
Speaker 3: when we lost him on the field goal.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're one week.
Speaker 3: Last year, it's like, I remember the game since I remember,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, we lost a guy that plays
Speaker 3: three spots on the inside. So he has flexibility, leadership, toughness,
Speaker 3: all the things that John Felician whiz. A guy that
Speaker 3: I remember when he came out of college, we had
Speaker 3: a local pro day and I was I was there
Speaker 3: working them out and every since, this guy's not gonna
Speaker 3: make it, and ten years later he is still going,
Speaker 3: and that that's kind of is a testament to the
Speaker 3: kind of guy he is.
Speaker 5: McCaffrey Offensive Player of the Year. You know, he is
Speaker 5: the top of his position. So what do you look for,
Speaker 5: what do you work on with him to make him
Speaker 5: even better?
Speaker 1: In the coming year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's like he came to me, he said,
Speaker 3: give me so many days and I'll stop missing some cuts.
Speaker 3: He misses cuts and h he you know, sometimes is
Speaker 3: in the sharp. Like we've said, I think I mentioned
Speaker 3: with all these players, you have to keep practicing, and
Speaker 3: football is a hard game to keep practicing because there's
Speaker 3: the hitting and the hitting and the heating. So you
Speaker 3: have to find line between getting ready and not beating
Speaker 3: yourself up. It's it's there's always stuff to work on,
Speaker 3: and we add something to the offense, the defense presents
Speaker 3: something different. I mean, that's what I see from Christian
Speaker 3: is that you know, he's the common he's going to be.
Speaker 2: He wants to be.
Speaker 3: Perfect, so he's never he's never satisfied, and he's always
Speaker 3: hard on himself, and so he will just continue to
Speaker 3: work hard at everything he does and work and he'll
Speaker 3: make mistakes, you know, beat himself up and then do
Speaker 3: the best he can to fix it.
Speaker 5: Trying to not let him get too down on when
Speaker 5: he does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his is not that because I've always said I
Speaker 3: don't like I've come around to not like coaching perfectionists
Speaker 3: because it's an imperfect game and I'm like, and you
Speaker 3: go in the tank because you're not perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get in line. Nobody.
Speaker 3: None of us are coaches, played, none of us Christian.
Speaker 3: Christian is more. He's hard himself, but it isn't He's
Speaker 3: really really good. So when those hard plays come, there's
Speaker 3: not many of them. He probably overdes it, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't put him in a downward spile. It actually motivates him.
Speaker 3: Other guys, I'm not going to make names those. I'm
Speaker 3: like when they're reading a college report and they say
Speaker 3: this guy's a perfectionist, and I'm like, I almost want
Speaker 3: to cross him off my list.
Speaker 2: In the offensive line.
Speaker 1: World, John, do you envision a scenario like a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago where you're platooning him and one of
Speaker 1: the younger guys in a right guard.
Speaker 2: You know it's not ideal, I I I I've said,
Speaker 2: but I do it.
Speaker 3: I've done it. I've done a lot, and I've done
Speaker 3: it more with the idea like the old guy's in there,
Speaker 3: and then the young guy.
Speaker 2: You put him in for a series.
Speaker 3: You put him in for a series, and as the
Speaker 3: old guy goes to the season, he may start to
Speaker 3: descend because he is an aging veteran player, and as
Speaker 3: he descends, you're hoping that experience that you're giving a
Speaker 3: young guy in spurts help him get better. We did
Speaker 3: that with Spencer and Dan. We we reversed it. I
Speaker 3: think Spencer started and Dan Runsko gave him a rep.
Speaker 3: But you would hope that the off the young player
Speaker 3: would get better through the course. Enough they don't. The
Speaker 3: old guy takes over. You try not to do it.
Speaker 3: You try to make a decision and say, hey, whoever
Speaker 3: that's starting right guard is or let whatever it is,
Speaker 3: whatever situation, that.
Speaker 2: Guy's gonna be our starter, and you try to get
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 3: But if you can't get it, if two guys are
Speaker 3: equal talent, it doesn't hurt to platoon him. I know
Speaker 3: the guys don't like it, cause I think they get
Speaker 3: they they feel like they get on a rhythm.
Speaker 1: But as to say, do you think that Spencer Berger
Speaker 1: is still in the mix for a week one given
Speaker 1: his injury? Will you have enough?
Speaker 2: We'll see when you get there. I mean I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna, you know, go there and try to
Speaker 2: figure out what what it looks like. At that point,
Speaker 2: we don't know.
Speaker 3: Who will be up, you know, you're saying, if everybody
Speaker 3: says healthy and Spencer comes back, odds are the guys
Speaker 3: that have been there. But I'm not gonna rule Spencer out.
Speaker 3: You just don't know how it plays out. And and
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: Know there is something too Monday night football, right is
Speaker 2: Monday right? Really?
Speaker 3: Mona Yeah, and bright lights and Aaron Rod, you know
Speaker 3: the whole thing. And if you're a young player, you
Speaker 3: might hell, you never know, right, It's it's it's it's
Speaker 3: just it's tough things.
Speaker 2: Williams will be available week one. Have you kept in
Speaker 2: touch with him at all? I haven't heard from Trent recently. No, No.
Speaker 3: I heard from in the off season a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then, like I know, the off season was fairly
Speaker 3: normal until it got time to this the things start
Speaker 3: doing whatever it's doing, and I haven't heard from it.
Speaker 4: Like with his with his game film, obviously, it is
Speaker 4: on such a different level than a lot of tackles.
Speaker 4: Is there is there still teachable stuff that he does
Speaker 4: because he is it's a different caliber tackle that guys
Speaker 4: can pick up on and try to replicate.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: When you're just showing game film trends.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, no, yeah, no, it's yeah, there's stuff
Speaker 3: out there. I'm sorry, there's stuff both ways, pros and cons.
Speaker 3: I mean I go through the cutups now and Trend's
Speaker 3: not there. But you know, hey, if left tackle would
Speaker 3: have done this here would have been better for Look
Speaker 3: how this is a really good job by Trends. So
Speaker 3: like every other player, Trent just has some more elite
Speaker 3: plays and other guys, and as the years have gone on,
Speaker 3: maybe those have been a little less.
Speaker 2: Still a very consistent performer and a great player.
Speaker 3: Obviously won best in this generation, but but he definitely
Speaker 3: was a uh, you know, there's definitely stuff to point.
Speaker 2: Out pro and con.
Speaker 3: The center is in charge of setting the protections of
Speaker 3: the minuscrimmage on other teams that seem like the quarterback
Speaker 3: has that some other team.
Speaker 2: Why do you like to give that responsibility to the Senate?
Speaker 3: Well, the two things that we've eliminated, and this has
Speaker 3: always been a discussion in different systems to put the
Speaker 3: quarterback to point to Mike or let's center point the mic.
Speaker 3: It's always been age old. The teams that wanted the
Speaker 3: quarterback to do it or I don't know what they
Speaker 3: did because i've been I mean I was with Peyton,
Speaker 3: so he did everything. But the idea is to tell
Speaker 3: it the quarback to worry about playing quarterback, and you
Speaker 3: know he'll understand the protection. I'll understands hostives and things
Speaker 3: like that. But to remike and do things like that.
Speaker 3: Those teams are very very you know, they're good at it,
Speaker 3: but it does take time away from other things. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean they do won't be great quarterbacks. Tom Brady did
Speaker 3: and all those guys. So, but our system, I think
Speaker 3: one of the reasons that I bought one hundred percent
Speaker 3: believe it has to be the center is the moving pieces.
Speaker 3: One of things that the way we set our protections
Speaker 3: up and Kyle did a great job of this, and
Speaker 3: we were doing it back in Washington and it kind
Speaker 3: of came that way from Houston. We move all the time,
Speaker 3: and it started on third downs, a little bit on
Speaker 3: first and second and it's just exploded over the last
Speaker 3: fifteen years. And all that movement. Think of doing all
Speaker 3: that double movement, triple movements and making a mic point.
Speaker 3: Of course quarterback, you can't do all that. I mean,
Speaker 3: you just you can make one and then the picture changes.
Speaker 3: I made the comment the other day I was Jake
Speaker 3: Brendle had a you know, X number. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: go into how many, but X number of mental areas,
Speaker 3: which is a lot higher, you know, than I'm used
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 2: And then I went back and looked at Alex Mack.
Speaker 3: Then I called a couple of the guys that coach
Speaker 3: in the system, and you realize they're gonna have more
Speaker 3: because you just can't, you know, and imagine the quarterback
Speaker 3: can't do it, there's too much going on, the wristband,
Speaker 3: everything else.
Speaker 2: Imagine you're I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the center gets down, he's like a
Speaker 3: feet on the ground and we've got three guys in motion,
Speaker 3: and he's like he's crooking his neck out like a turtle,
Speaker 3: trying to see where the heck are these guys all
Speaker 3: lined up? Not an excuse, but they end up having
Speaker 3: a lot more a lot more mental layers because of that.
Speaker 3: It's easy now, you know, I'm stagnant. I'll tell you, sorry, Peyton.
Speaker 3: They were playing it. I wasn't there for this one,
Speaker 3: but they played the Jets. The playoffs was Rex Ryane.
Speaker 3: It was a championship game. I remember which one was.
Speaker 2: By the way, Rex was so blitzed everywhere. He goes, look, stop,
Speaker 2: don't I want to line up in one formation the
Speaker 2: whole game? And I want I've been.
Speaker 3: Done too by whatever whatever he said it was, or
Speaker 3: the rest of the second half. He goes, I'll be
Speaker 3: able to see what they're doing and I'll be able
Speaker 3: to get us in the right play. But that's how,
Speaker 3: that's that's why. So then every step you could go
Speaker 3: beyond the one formation puts it more and more in
Speaker 3: the quarterback and this system and what we do.
Speaker 2: It's just not it's really that feasible to make a quarterback.
Speaker 5: Point experienced tight ends and Ross Dulla and Charlie Warner,
Speaker 5: how have you seen in these young tight ends going
Speaker 5: to get a customer to the blocking scheme?
Speaker 2: They've been good, man, these guys.
Speaker 3: I was telling the other day, I mean, everybody's talking
Speaker 3: about how how nine's doing so well and in the
Speaker 3: eighty two all these guys are they just all of
Speaker 3: them are doing a good job. And you stand out
Speaker 3: all the time. I'm looking up the guy's doing a
Speaker 3: good Guys do a good job. I'm not playing. They're
Speaker 3: doing a really really good job. They all the fact
Speaker 3: that George Kittle is embraces the run game and blocking.
Speaker 3: You do it here or you're not here. And that's
Speaker 3: been the one thing that I really love about Kyle
Speaker 3: demands that the tight end coaches have that's the position,
Speaker 3: and we have a guy that lead dog that does it.
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, Charlie was was a great
Speaker 2: player here.
Speaker 3: And we'll miss Charlie and these guys have a lot
Speaker 3: of work to do to catch up to Charlie, but
Speaker 3: I think they're signs that will get there.
Speaker 4: They have about seven different guys that can play center
Speaker 4: in this camp.
Speaker 2: Wise, Brendel at the top of that depth chart.
Speaker 4: Is is he the best run blocker, past blocker.
Speaker 2: He's one of the or is there any area where
Speaker 2: the other guys are better or approach him. I made
Speaker 2: a comment the other day of the guys. I said,
Speaker 2: I said, here's I said, Jake.
Speaker 3: I was coaching Jake and he did a great He
Speaker 3: did a great job on a plane and I said,
Speaker 3: I said, guys, take note of this. I've known Jake
Speaker 3: Brendle since two thousand and something. I've known him for
Speaker 3: a while, and I said, he does everything I asked
Speaker 3: him to do, and that's why he's been here for
Speaker 3: three years.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: He does everything we asked him to do, and he
Speaker 3: does it well. He has really good measurables. If you
Speaker 3: held up his card, which have all the times and
Speaker 3: everything on it, right, you're like, how's this guy not
Speaker 3: is one of the top guys being drafted and he
Speaker 3: was undrafted free agent. One of the major indicators for
Speaker 3: center is arm length. He's had to overcome his arm
Speaker 3: length a little bit, which because he was below the line,
Speaker 3: and that was like, it's a huge one for offensive center. Said,
Speaker 3: if you blow that line, most of those guys don't
Speaker 3: make it. He just seemed like a couple anyway. So
Speaker 3: whatever those little limitations are, he's learned how to overcome.
Speaker 3: He struggled on the second level when when I first
Speaker 3: got back with him here and he's fixed that. He's
Speaker 3: done an excellent job on a secondle we taught addressed
Speaker 3: how he because think about it. You go in to
Speaker 3: block a guy, all of a sudden, Fred sticks out
Speaker 3: his long arm and you're like, you know, you're like
Speaker 3: a little brother trying to get to the big brother. Right,
Speaker 3: he holds you off and you're I can't get to him.
Speaker 3: That's what short arms do for you, and well, then
Speaker 3: Jake's figured out how to how to how to overcome that.
Speaker 3: He's he's very good in the run game, but his
Speaker 3: past game has been really good. Teams now are putting
Speaker 3: you in a lot of five O situations, meaning that
Speaker 3: they put they try to somehow some way cover up
Speaker 3: all five guys. It used to be pressures and now
Speaker 3: it's not so much that there's replaces. They're pressuring once
Speaker 3: I drop, you know, they're doing different things, but they
Speaker 3: gets you in five guys blocking five guys. And now
Speaker 3: Jake and Joe uh, Joe Graves, one of my guys
Speaker 3: works with me. He said, said, you know, you really
Speaker 3: go through Jake probably is one of the better five
Speaker 3: O centers that he holds up pretty good. So he's
Speaker 3: an athletic guy like that. He can hold up in
Speaker 3: five Oh, he's got again deal with He's not the
Speaker 3: biggest guy, so when they put their put their head
Speaker 3: here and try and drive him back, it is a
Speaker 3: challenge for him. So but he's he's learned to do it.
Speaker 3: And that's what I realize about it. We keep trump,
Speaker 3: you know, we troubleshoot it. And then he goes out
Speaker 3: and he's able to do it. So that's why I
Speaker 3: would say the level of success, everybody has limitations. How
Speaker 3: do you become those limitations? Jake done a great job
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: Dominant Pooty handled his first training campgn.
Speaker 3: Awesome as good as is one of the better rookies.
Speaker 3: I'm not ready to crown him yet as far as
Speaker 3: one of the better rookies, but he is.
Speaker 2: One of the better rookies.
Speaker 3: And the day we drafted him, or right after we
Speaker 3: drafted him, the video guy said that he called right
Speaker 3: away when he got his iPad. They'd been sent him
Speaker 3: out as soon as we get the kids signed and
Speaker 3: or whenever, but they sent out to him. He said,
Speaker 3: where do I get all of coaches teaching mets? We
Speaker 3: record everything, and he wanted every single meeting. He's by
Speaker 3: the time he showed up for rookie Minie Camp, which
Speaker 3: I think was the week two weeks after the draft,
Speaker 3: he'd watched all of my install meetings from phase one,
Speaker 3: phase two and everything we've done to that point.
Speaker 2: He'd watched them all and he answers every question. Right.
Speaker 3: He is a very very intelligent kid, doesn't say a word,
Speaker 3: very very smart, and very tough, strong and he's not
Speaker 3: you know, he doesn't sway or he just steady Eddy,
Speaker 3: but he works extremely hard and he's very diligent. And
Speaker 3: that's I don't think I've had an off. It's a lineman.
Speaker 2: I know. I couldn't sit through all those meetings.
Speaker 3: Okay, he grabbed him and ate him up, so good
Speaker 3: for him. Thank you guys,