Speaker 1: About he's rolling that. But is there ever a point
Speaker 1: where you need to overrule him or take take it
Speaker 1: at your own No, No, not at all. I think
Speaker 1: Douce does a great job. Because Ryan was hurt yesterday
Speaker 1: and so when I talked to Deuce about it, and
Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time. As Ryan Hurd
Speaker 1: is growing on a twenty two yard run before he
Speaker 1: broke the long run and really couldn't go, so Deuce's
Speaker 1: monitor him on the sideline what he could do and
Speaker 1: what he couldn't do. So I think Deuce does a
Speaker 1: great job with those guys, and I have full trust
Speaker 1: Induce doing that. So heard him Rose hurt himself on
Speaker 1: the twenty two yard run. Yeah, if you watch him,
Speaker 1: he kind of pulled by when he pulled by Keiklely,
Speaker 1: he said he felt it again, he didn't think he
Speaker 1: was gonna make it in the end zone. So and
Speaker 1: then Deuce monitor him after that. So Deuce is dealing
Speaker 1: with that in terms of whether he can't go in
Speaker 1: the game after that or can't go in the game
Speaker 1: after that. We used him a little bit, but you
Speaker 1: know that's really the whole status of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you guys, exactly what's going on that
Speaker 1: wipe the Matthew's out there warm? I mean yeah, I
Speaker 1: talked to Deuce on the headset all the time and
Speaker 1: he just said I got him. So I'm good with it.
Speaker 1: Outside of that growing injury though, did the overall sable
Speaker 1: size is that Matthews has said thirty two Pewer cars
Speaker 1: and more yards and as mark and he's been hurt
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, so he was questionable going into
Speaker 1: the Giants game. Uh, and then he got hurt again
Speaker 1: last night. So outside of injury, do you feel like
Speaker 1: he needs to have a bigger role and they'll just
Speaker 1: deal with the present case. He's injured right now and
Speaker 1: we'll see if he'll be available for the Cowboys game.
Speaker 1: So how did Kendricks players? Michael was okay. I think
Speaker 1: a little rusty, you know, just because of the lack
Speaker 1: of reps in terms of seeing things king and diagnosing.
Speaker 1: He's obviously once he recognizes that can take off, can
Speaker 1: go made some plays, you know, I had a sack
Speaker 1: um all the things we expect out of Michael. We
Speaker 1: just need to get him back into the flow, more
Speaker 1: practice time and more reps so that when he gets
Speaker 1: out there, he's back back back. One of the issues
Speaker 1: at a wide receiver are those related to always were
Speaker 1: concent free. I don't think it's talent. I just think
Speaker 1: it's a you know, sometimes a concentration issue with some
Speaker 1: of those guys. And I think sometimes they may actually
Speaker 1: be thinking too much, you know, and uh instead of
Speaker 1: just relaxing and going to play. Someone need to just
Speaker 1: take a big deep breath and do what we know
Speaker 1: they can do. And they've made some big time catches
Speaker 1: in games for us and can continue to do that
Speaker 1: for us. But I think sometimes they're overthinking it a
Speaker 1: little bit. The talent level at that position is said
Speaker 1: back in Yeah, why broker only come three pass me?
Speaker 1: On twenty hours? Pen and coverage expressed itself. They're playing
Speaker 1: again a lot of top down coverage. Uh, safeties were
Speaker 1: high over the top, weren't giving us anything there. Um,
Speaker 1: So it really just kind of how people are playing us,
Speaker 1: pending on week to week, who's playing in what they're
Speaker 1: doing to you. So playing the safeties were deep in
Speaker 1: both sometimes it was two. They do a good job
Speaker 1: shoun as, a good job mixing coverage as we saw
Speaker 1: both two three man. You know they were very very
Speaker 1: but all the man's were man freeze or twenty two man.
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of that, so usually there was
Speaker 1: some help over the top of those situations. You trouble
Speaker 1: the funny space, well, there was no space deep on that.
Speaker 1: Not when you have safeties over the top of everything,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna throw it, throw it up for the
Speaker 1: sake of throwing it up. That doesn't really work. One
Speaker 1: of the previous vis singer and evaluate everything, person out
Speaker 1: coaching the same things. Time sort of changes coming out
Speaker 1: of it by here. No. I mean, I've told our
Speaker 1: guys after the game, I think we're a good football team.
Speaker 1: We just we need to clean things up, you know.
Speaker 1: I think we had two procedural penalties that that that
Speaker 1: hurt drives. You know. We had a first down that
Speaker 1: was called back because we had no legal procedure. We
Speaker 1: had to hold uh two uncharacteristic special teams penalties that
Speaker 1: we normally don't get. One of them, we had the
Speaker 1: ball pinned on the fair catch on the twelve yard line,
Speaker 1: but now the drive gets out and starts in the
Speaker 1: twenty seven because we have an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Um.
Speaker 1: We had two encroachment penalties, which we haven't had in
Speaker 1: our d line. I think they've been very disciplined. So um,
Speaker 1: you know it's again it's it's uh are close, But
Speaker 1: when you're playing a really good football team like Carolina,
Speaker 1: close isn't good enough. You gotta you gotta started, stop
Speaker 1: getting in your own way and uh and stop stopping yourselves.
Speaker 1: It should be even when you're winning games and doing well,
Speaker 1: you want to clean things up. But now at three
Speaker 1: and four, how much more cleaning can there be? Is
Speaker 1: it's just it's every week because every week it's a battle,
Speaker 1: you know, or right in the middle of everything, and
Speaker 1: so is in everybody else. So it's it's literally a
Speaker 1: one game season. As you keep going and did you
Speaker 1: do good enough to win on on Sunday or or
Speaker 1: did you lose on Sunday? And then you assess it,
Speaker 1: take a look at the film, make the proper corrections,
Speaker 1: and then get ready play your next opponent. You know,
Speaker 1: we had two drops uh that hurt us. You know,
Speaker 1: we were down in there. We had another one where
Speaker 1: we we threw it over the top. We caught it,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't get second foot down, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different story, Um, if we do
Speaker 1: catch us, but we didn't execute the way we need
Speaker 1: to execute in those situations, and we gotta come away
Speaker 1: with seven stead of come in sead of coming away
Speaker 1: with threes. What can you guys do the help eliminate
Speaker 1: some of those drops would be different reps, different different
Speaker 1: drills and practice when you get that, Yeah, fundamental stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. I think with some of those guys again,
Speaker 1: I said, I think sometimes they're probably thinking too much.
Speaker 1: You know, Jordan's a guy that that's I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody catches more balls during the week than him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's here at seven a. I'm working on the jugs machine.
Speaker 1: So uh, sometimes I think he just overthinks and he's
Speaker 1: just take a deep breath and go play because he's
Speaker 1: got outstanding hands and then uh has been a very
Speaker 1: clutch receiver for us. So but no, not that they
Speaker 1: gave it five sacks. The poster hand seventy seven yards
Speaker 1: on the ground. See, you know, Covid, I thought those
Speaker 1: guys competed. You know, two of those sacks were late
Speaker 1: in the game, and it's you know, we're we're down
Speaker 1: two scores and we're throwing and everybody in the stadium
Speaker 1: knows we're throwing, you know. So, um I didn't put
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot onto those two. But
Speaker 1: um I thought buying large. They fought, Uh, they competed
Speaker 1: against a good front. That short is a really good
Speaker 1: football player. And I said, the two best linebackers that
Speaker 1: will face that can run sideline to sideline. But um
Speaker 1: I thought overall, especially after losing Jason, you know, and
Speaker 1: then Tobin's got to go from right guard where he's
Speaker 1: really been training out to left tackle, and Dennis has
Speaker 1: got to step in. I thought those guys competed and
Speaker 1: played well basically no more linebacker. No, yeah, because Marcus
Speaker 1: came back, so just reps in practice. Um you know,
Speaker 1: were and especially and we've lost we had lost a
Speaker 1: couple of defensive linemen, so we had to shuttle on back.
Speaker 1: We lost said and Taylor um for an extended period there,
Speaker 1: and then we lost brand embarrassed. I mean, he's kind
Speaker 1: of back inside at the D line. Now, what about
Speaker 1: that combination did you like in that situation, did you
Speaker 1: think about using a different No, I mean, you only
Speaker 1: have seven guys active on game day, so the only
Speaker 1: only guy available to us was Josh Andrews. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know Tobin is the backup left tackle. UM. If
Speaker 1: if we were to you know, to get through a game. Um,
Speaker 1: and then Dennis comes in a card. So that's just
Speaker 1: kind of how we do things reverse. You just get
Speaker 1: your cap to them and making a good call at
Speaker 1: the right time. Or did was there was there somebody
Speaker 1: that WI will pursue whatever. Now, I mean, we should
Speaker 1: have had contained on the back side. The ball should
Speaker 1: never get back outside of us on that side, you know,
Speaker 1: the side where the ball went away from originally. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to kind of contain it and force it
Speaker 1: back to our help. And that was where our biggest
Speaker 1: breakdown in that play was. After the game sounded like
Speaker 1: you put the ball where he do on this shraps
Speaker 1: get the film from. Yeah, I mean I think we
Speaker 1: had you could argue two of them, but we had
Speaker 1: at least eight, could have been ten, um and and
Speaker 1: that's that. Obviously we're not gonna win if for doing that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's too many for us
Speaker 1: to to We got to be able to sustain things
Speaker 1: and we gotta be able to make catches out there.
Speaker 1: So I didn't hear it. Those fancies our ball through seniors.
Speaker 1: In our opinion, Yes, would you ever tell guys not
Speaker 1: not through the jugs machine as much? Not yet? You know,
Speaker 1: maybe back off and just go, you know, to catch.
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody that when you talk about overthinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if there's a way to
Speaker 1: you know, just do it too, Just go out there
Speaker 1: and do too much, and it's always on your mind
Speaker 1: that I've been dropping the balls and dropped the balls. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they'll get away a little bit this week.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of being on a bye week.
Speaker 1: So um, I expect them all to come back on
Speaker 1: next Tuesday when a good frame of mind ready to
Speaker 1: go and play the Cowboys. Do you feel like if
Speaker 1: you have guys that get drawn, Yeah, I mean Darren
Speaker 1: draws a double team every time he's in there, So um,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to dry anybody needs to
Speaker 1: dry anything. I mean, we didn't. Doesn't that take somebody?
Speaker 1: Doesn't that over the field for other guys? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess so, I mean, but we never had anybody else
Speaker 1: that drew double teams that receiver, so I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's still single coverage. So I don't
Speaker 1: think no one just doesn't not cover someone else. So, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna double this guy but not cover someone else.
Speaker 1: So even if they do double one person, the other
Speaker 1: guys still have single coverage that they have to get open.
Speaker 1: So I don't think us not having a guy that
Speaker 1: got doubled last night was any issue. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we had guys open. We didn't catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Is single coverage because they don't see it covered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't, so I'm unsure of I
Speaker 1: don't understand a lot of questioning what do you what
Speaker 1: do you need to I don't understand what you want
Speaker 1: us to do you okay on that level? Word doesn't that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we haven't had that here in my three years,
Speaker 1: so everybody's been single covered and got When guys have
Speaker 1: opportunity to make plays, they need to make plays. I
Speaker 1: think we had guys open last night. I don't think
Speaker 1: that was an issue in terms of guys not being opened.
Speaker 1: I think it was a guy we didn't We didn't
Speaker 1: do a good job of securing to catch it. I
Speaker 1: was a being charge personnel change players. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's changed it at all because I was in charge
Speaker 1: of the fifty three man roster the last two years.
Speaker 1: Signing I'm responsible for the ninety. That's the only real difference,
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, so it is different. I was responsible
Speaker 1: to who we bought the camp. Now i'm responsible for
Speaker 1: the fifty three also, so I was always responsible for
Speaker 1: the fifty three. You decided that you're going to get
Speaker 1: to Marco Marie his contract? Is that, Gene? How you
Speaker 1: you're going to utilize running backs? No? Not at all.
Speaker 1: In two thirteen, I think you had the guys here
Speaker 1: for a training session before the bye week. Is that correct? No?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. So I was wondering why you
Speaker 1: are the same schedule we had last year, but but
Speaker 1: not two years ago. So so, so what we need?
Speaker 1: Not thinking of giving them a full week? I don't
Speaker 1: recall that we didn't bring them back the other day.
Speaker 1: I think maybe they came in and lifted. So you
Speaker 1: said weeks here Lee Johnson could be used as left tackle,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like it's going to be okay. But
Speaker 1: it's just the time that maybe to get him ready
Speaker 1: just in case you need him a left tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: just these two weeks. So they're off this week, So yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's not an experiment. We'll just see who's available
Speaker 1: when we get back together next Tuesday. So's he getting
Speaker 1: any reps left back practice? No? I mean he's getting
Speaker 1: reps with the ones at right tackle. So we're not
Speaker 1: gonna when when our twos go in lane can't go
Speaker 1: over at the twos and play left tackle, or he
Speaker 1: wouldn't be ready to play a game and needs a
Speaker 1: break when they're in there. So he's de Marco bouncing
Speaker 1: Russia tackle and he's running where places DeMarco. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: running one ball where it's designed to go to, say outside,
Speaker 1: and watches that he has those are the playbols. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Understanding that that the problems go beyond Sam, do you
Speaker 1: contemplated all the idea of putting in a different quarterback
Speaker 1: to see how the offense responds given consistent because I
Speaker 1: think our quarterbacks playing well over the seven games, I
Speaker 1: think our quarterbacks playing well. Yeah, I've been pleased. Would
Speaker 1: say I'm very pleased with Sam. When you evaluate the
Speaker 1: problems early, the lack of scoring in the first quorder
Speaker 1: for concentrate on the first quarter, what do you see
Speaker 1: other than the mistakes because it seems to be consistent
Speaker 1: early in the game. What have you seen to be
Speaker 1: in the problem. I think there's a few things, you know,
Speaker 1: that that expressed themselves in different ways depending on who
Speaker 1: we're playing and who the opponent was. You know, we
Speaker 1: ran forty I think it was forty seven plays in
Speaker 1: the first half against Carolina, which is totally different than
Speaker 1: I think we ran like twenty plays in the first
Speaker 1: half against Dallas. So it's you know, we executed and
Speaker 1: stayed on the field against UM Carolina. But then there
Speaker 1: really the things that stopped to start. A couple of
Speaker 1: those penalties really that knocked us back and got us
Speaker 1: out of scoring range were the issues that happened to
Speaker 1: in the Carolina game as opposed to we didn't block
Speaker 1: people in the Dallas game. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: different when you go game to game. So the problems
Speaker 1: in the first quarter are different that these games. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's you know, in Dallas, we didn't block anybody, you know,
Speaker 1: and in this game, I think we got we were
Speaker 1: off track, we would move the ball, but then a
Speaker 1: penalty or you know, we had a Keith first down,
Speaker 1: UM we threw the ball to arts On on a
Speaker 1: little spin route. We had a first down goal, but
Speaker 1: we jumped outside of my tackle, So now we got back.
Speaker 1: Instead of being third and five where we convert for
Speaker 1: a first down and we're moving, now we're back in
Speaker 1: the third and eleven. Next play we get sacked, so
Speaker 1: now we're off the field. You know, So I think, uh,
Speaker 1: in that game that that was an example in that game.
Speaker 1: In other games Dallas specifically, we didn't block it very well,
Speaker 1: so allowed yard of our Yeah, what were some of
Speaker 1: the issues. Two of them, I think, you know, eighty
Speaker 1: yards came on two plays. You know, the counter played
Speaker 1: to Stuart. You know that they bounced, Um, we didn't
Speaker 1: fit it well. Um, and the backer didn't get over
Speaker 1: the top. We didn't post it the way we're supposed
Speaker 1: to post it. And then the reverse. You know, those
Speaker 1: two plays, right, there were two kind of backbreakers for us,
Speaker 1: and um, kind of uncharacteristic for what we we've been
Speaker 1: like defensively and stopping the run. You know, we we
Speaker 1: haven't given up a lot of X runs just because
Speaker 1: of how we play and everybody swarms the ball and
Speaker 1: our guys ever pretty good understanding we're doing. But those
Speaker 1: are two runs, those specific two runs I think really
Speaker 1: kind of tilted things in terms of Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: if you take those two runs out, what is that
Speaker 1: what they run for? Yeah, you know, but I think
Speaker 1: but you can't you unfortunately, you can't take those two
Speaker 1: runs out then. I mean, those are mistakes that that
Speaker 1: we made. We didn't containu it that we were supposed
Speaker 1: to on on the reverse, and we didn't split it
Speaker 1: the way and how the backers come over the top
Speaker 1: of the way we're supposed to on the on the
Speaker 1: counter that went for forty something so and and we
Speaker 1: knew going in. I mean, I know Jonathan really well,
Speaker 1: you know, right, I coached them in college, YOURNT for
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred and I said it before we knew. Number one,
Speaker 1: he's tough to bring down. And two he's a lot
Speaker 1: faster than I think people get credit for. Is a
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pound back, but he can pick
Speaker 1: him up and put them down. And you looked on
Speaker 1: that counter run where he took off, and I've I've
Speaker 1: seen that in person many a time. But you know,
Speaker 1: that's the type of player he is. But you can't
Speaker 1: miss you can't misfit it that way where um against
Speaker 1: a really good back like that or is gonna make
Speaker 1: you pay. Um, you know they'll see him when monitor
Speaker 1: them this week. I think some of those guys, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll all stay here, the guys that need to get treatment,
Speaker 1: and I'll stay here with uh where Chris and get treatment.
Speaker 1: But they said that, Um, from what I understand, he
Speaker 1: should be good, good to go for next Tuesday. Saw
Speaker 1: in a way, did that show the importance of the
Speaker 1: Miko ryans, him not being the narrating offensive being able
Speaker 1: to you know, hit some big runs guys out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't that we were
Speaker 1: in the run call. You know. I think Jordan did
Speaker 1: a really nice chap at getting us lined up all
Speaker 1: night long, you know, in terms of where we were
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Um, you know, it was an outside
Speaker 1: linebacker situation on the on the reverse, it wasn't an
Speaker 1: inside linebacker situation. So, um, you know, we need Tom
Speaker 1: go back. He's a very pivotable guy in terms of
Speaker 1: everything that we do here. But I don't look at
Speaker 1: those two specific runs and say, if Demiko was here,
Speaker 1: they would they wouldn't happen. So yeah, yeah,