Speaker 1: I was a bob el Frank last week when I
Speaker 1: ask you about Hurts and his lack of catch as
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, you know, I mean, it was only
Speaker 1: two weeks since he's been bashed from his injury, and
Speaker 1: now it's another week. What are your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: fact that he's not getting the ball or the tight
Speaker 1: ends in general. Yeah, I mean, I think it's Uh,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of good players. Last two games
Speaker 1: have been plays, you know games. We've had fifty snaps
Speaker 1: in each of those games. So we just have to
Speaker 1: as a unit, played better offensively, get more snaps, played
Speaker 1: better on third down, and so we can get a
Speaker 1: chance to give coach a chance to call a few
Speaker 1: more plays. If we can convert on third down. In
Speaker 1: that way, the ball can get spread around a little
Speaker 1: bit more. One play of thirty ords are more than
Speaker 1: the least three weeks. Do you feel like just plays
Speaker 1: out there to be made down the field or you
Speaker 1: just got to take it with what you're given. No,
Speaker 1: I think there's plays, and I think when we look
Speaker 1: back on the film from the last few weeks, there's
Speaker 1: a few plays, just a little something here, maybe we
Speaker 1: missed something here. There were opportunities. I just say this way,
Speaker 1: there have been opportunities that we've just missed for one
Speaker 1: reason or another. When tight ends are required to do
Speaker 1: a little bit of pass pro help here and there
Speaker 1: are they put them later in the progression as they
Speaker 1: get out down the field and the quarterback has made
Speaker 1: a decisions that could that play into part of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a fair statement that you know, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're going to give Chip help, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to limit you, but it does change certain dynamics and
Speaker 1: soum So maybe if you have a chance to be
Speaker 1: vertically down the field on twenty plays, now if you're
Speaker 1: Chip helping, it's only fifteen, So you know, just by
Speaker 1: sheer numbers, there's a few less opportunities. But I think again,
Speaker 1: the whole key is just being more efficient, getting more plays,
Speaker 1: being more efficient overall, and I think the ball distribution
Speaker 1: will take care of itself. I think he did watching
Speaker 1: the film, Yeah, made really good improvements. He played aggressive,
Speaker 1: he played with confidence. Um you know, he still got
Speaker 1: a little help, not as much help, just seemed to
Speaker 1: get into rhythm. Um, so that was that was good,
Speaker 1: good for all of us. For him, I guess during
Speaker 1: the week leading up to it to again, I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit set on down was a little
Speaker 1: bit playing at home, a little bit playing playing with
Speaker 1: the lead, you know, Um, a little bit, just a
Speaker 1: few a little bit of him just gaining more confidence
Speaker 1: and getting coached up, even a little bit more learning
Speaker 1: from the mistakes that he made and attacking and playing
Speaker 1: aggressive experience. When a quarterback slips a little bit with
Speaker 1: his mechanics, what can that be attributed to? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: if a quarterbacks slips in his mechanics, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's you know pressure, you know, the pressure of the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, putting pressure on you. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I really think in our in our case, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever we said about how Carson's been playing, I look
Speaker 1: at last week going up against that defense. I just
Speaker 1: I didn't look at the exact numbers, but they've gone
Speaker 1: up against them. That defense has gone up against some
Speaker 1: pretty good quarterbacks, and I don't think anybody's had a
Speaker 1: very good quarterback rating against them. And so it's always
Speaker 1: a question of just taking care of the little things,
Speaker 1: getting completions, making plays. I think mechanically, um, I think
Speaker 1: everything is in good shape. Well there was fun interception
Speaker 1: last week that that wasn't Carson's fault. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a receiver get impeded on his way to
Speaker 1: where you know, the ball's gonna probably hit him right
Speaker 1: in stride, and he was impeded and wasn't able to
Speaker 1: get to the spot that he was supposed to get to.
Speaker 1: So we made a throw that probably normally would have
Speaker 1: been a completion and instead it ended up at an interception.
Speaker 1: The other one, the other one was just a forced interception.
Speaker 1: Cars and said that you know, every now and then,
Speaker 1: it happens to the best of them. First, you would
Speaker 1: not want to reign in Parson's uh, you know, aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: But when you go against a team like this and
Speaker 1: they play play some soft zone at times, it is
Speaker 1: important to just try to not take too much and
Speaker 1: try to go on all these guys. I think, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this team, although they play zone, I think they play aggressive.
Speaker 1: You know they you know, just because you're playing zone
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily equate to soft. They have vision. It's a
Speaker 1: different mentality. Uh, they have vision on the quarterback. So
Speaker 1: now like you know you can if you're playing zone,
Speaker 1: it's a gay vision on the quarterback and once he
Speaker 1: let's go to the ball, it's jail break to the ball.
Speaker 1: That's an aggressive mindset, um, but just a slightly different
Speaker 1: way than playing man and playing pressure. UM. So in
Speaker 1: either case, as a quarterback, you got to take what
Speaker 1: the defense gives you. When it's a zone. You got
Speaker 1: to be patient enough to hey, when when when the
Speaker 1: underneath routes there, take if they if if you can
Speaker 1: get them to bite up on the underneath route and
Speaker 1: you could hit in behind them, You got to be patient.
Speaker 1: You gotta trust your instincts. When it's man coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta take with you still gotta take what's the
Speaker 1: defense gives you. But that that many times is predicated
Speaker 1: on a matchup. It gives you a chance to go
Speaker 1: down the field. So um, either case, it's quarterbacks making
Speaker 1: good decisions and as players making plays down the field
Speaker 1: when you're grading out. So when you're grading out that
Speaker 1: first interception, you would say that that wasn't any any
Speaker 1: I would say had nothing. I say Carson had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that interception. He was going to the
Speaker 1: right place with the ball. The throw maybe wasn't perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, but if the receiver's not impeded. It's in
Speaker 1: my opinion, it's a catch. You find any reason for
Speaker 1: the myriad of fumble snaps last week, different reasons, the
Speaker 1: same reason. Yeah, yeah, I think coaches addressed that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of you just can't take those
Speaker 1: things for granted. Um, you got to make sure sometimes
Speaker 1: as a quarterback when you're in the shotgun. The advantage
Speaker 1: being in the shotgun as you can get your eyes
Speaker 1: down field sooner, but if you're not careful, sometimes your
Speaker 1: eyes come up a little bit quicker than they should.
Speaker 1: Because you're such a good athlete, you catch you can
Speaker 1: catch a million balls looking here, and as long as
Speaker 1: a snap is right there, it's never going to be
Speaker 1: a problem. But if the snaps a little bit off in,
Speaker 1: your eyes aren't disciplined. So that's why we teach you
Speaker 1: you got to have disciplined eyes in the shotgun, you know,
Speaker 1: to make the catch first, and then you know, make
Speaker 1: the catch first and then play football from there. Last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, you know, Carson's play is due the
Speaker 1: fact that teams now I've got five six games to
Speaker 1: look at on bailment ten and offense. The case like
Speaker 1: as a rookie, like, how do you kind of adjust
Speaker 1: to offset that? I think you know, in fact, the
Speaker 1: more games you get on tape, at some level that's
Speaker 1: true of every you know, defense has learned, they adjust,
Speaker 1: But I think the same goes true for offenses. We
Speaker 1: learn more about the defense. Yes, are they learning more
Speaker 1: about us? Are they learning more about Carson? Yes they are.
Speaker 1: Do they try to make some adjustments to do things
Speaker 1: that we have attendance to do? Yes, they do. At
Speaker 1: the same time, we're looking at the more film we
Speaker 1: get to them, we see where their work week points
Speaker 1: are that we're going to attack them and we're going
Speaker 1: to make adjustments. So it's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: game that goes back and forth. But without question that
Speaker 1: is true. What your what's your level of confidence in
Speaker 1: Ryan with the ball late in the game, fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: close game, at this point. I mean, when a guys
Speaker 1: on the field. I love our guys. I wouldn't trade
Speaker 1: our guys for anybody. You know, we we use a
Speaker 1: word around here a lot, and I know sometimes it
Speaker 1: gets thrown around, but as family, and you know, not
Speaker 1: every family's perfect and we all make mistakes. But when
Speaker 1: we put guys out in the field, I can't play
Speaker 1: like that. I can't coach like that. You got to
Speaker 1: have confidence. And you know, now, coaches, it's a business.
Speaker 1: Coaches make decisions based on things, and you know, when
Speaker 1: those decisions get made, they get made. But when a
Speaker 1: guy's in the game, we have to play with confidence
Speaker 1: and we have to coach with confidence. And I don't
Speaker 1: see any other way to do it. Shotgun under center
Speaker 1: where you want it to be, and as maybe use
Speaker 1: some shotgun for Carson being a little more you're stealing
Speaker 1: from the running game a little bit, but not being
Speaker 1: under centered. I think our percentages in the breakdown of
Speaker 1: one of our self scaut of where we are shotgun
Speaker 1: understand or run passed from each is. Some of it's
Speaker 1: very good, some of it's a little bit close, it's borderline. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of it's out of control. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know, we tweak it here and there, we
Speaker 1: look we look at that each week. Problems. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we just not you know. The first problem was
Speaker 1: just third and too long, you know, third and the
Speaker 1: distance just being a little bit longer than you want it.
Speaker 1: This last week we did a better job of keeping
Speaker 1: it in the manageable situation. Um, and we've just missed
Speaker 1: some opportunities. I mean, you know, And that's the thing
Speaker 1: you go, I don't if you go four for eleven
Speaker 1: and you have two misques, you can look at it
Speaker 1: and say, oh, we could have been fifty percent and
Speaker 1: we would have been great. Instead we stink. So that's
Speaker 1: just the nature of third downs. You're gonna get ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen of them a game, and they're you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna convert four or five, and then there's and
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be two or three in there that
Speaker 1: are gonna be tightly. You got to make those plays,
Speaker 1: and we just haven't been making those plays. So, um,
Speaker 1: we just got to bear down, tighten up, and do
Speaker 1: a better job. Matthews mentioned yesterday, Seawan Lee has to
Speaker 1: be account is he kind of the key Sean all
Speaker 1: over the field. Now he's he's a smart guy. He
Speaker 1: plays fast on his feet, he understands the game. He's
Speaker 1: doing all kinds of things. So he preussures a lot.
Speaker 1: They don't pressure a ton, but when they do pressure,
Speaker 1: he's a guy who he shows up a lot in
Speaker 1: the backfield, So you definitely have to account for him.
Speaker 1: Pretty good at covering Yeah, you know, it's smart, good
Speaker 1: pattern recognition. You know, understands the concepts, good at looking
Speaker 1: at the quarterback size, reading the quarterback size, see out
Speaker 1: of a quarterback. As a coach, is it um? Is
Speaker 1: it the poor decisions or is it the flipping mechanics?
Speaker 1: And which is easier to fix? Um? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not ready to say that there's been
Speaker 1: a bunch of poor decisions or a bunch of poor mechanics.
Speaker 1: I'm not going that far. I'm saying this is the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, just I watched the tape of guys all
Speaker 1: around the league, and you know, when you're under pressure,
Speaker 1: it's always have It's hard to have perfect mechanics. Now,
Speaker 1: are there times that we can be a little bit
Speaker 1: better here and there and other times that we're making
Speaker 1: a poor decision at any position? Sure, but that's that's
Speaker 1: life in the NFL. So we're four and two. We've
Speaker 1: made a lot of good decisions to get to four
Speaker 1: and two, and certainly our defense is special. Teams has
Speaker 1: carried today for for us for a lot. But we're
Speaker 1: still doing a lot of good things and Carson's doing
Speaker 1: a lot of great things. Understand But to correct some mistakes.
Speaker 1: And when you have which of those two areas I
Speaker 1: guess worries a coach more the decision making or fundamentals,
Speaker 1: you know, decision Yeah, I mean they're both important. I
Speaker 1: mean it's you know, they're both critically important. You gotta
Speaker 1: have both. It's a both and it's not an either
Speaker 1: or in my in my opinion, you did a lot
Speaker 1: of work on took a hard look at Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: Would you think of him coming out? And I don't
Speaker 1: think about a chance? Was strong fast? Um, you know
Speaker 1: he he've it's not a surprise what he's doing. Very frank,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,