Speaker 1: So I'll start as far as injuries go, everybody will
Speaker 1: will be at practice today. Nobody is uh out of practice.
Speaker 1: Vinny Curry will go through um warm up, individual and
Speaker 1: group install and then we'll just monitor him from there.
Speaker 1: But but everybody is going to practice today. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: He and Chase Daniel both got in here about eight
Speaker 1: o'clock yesterday morning and they stayed to roughly tuition and
Speaker 1: and just start breaking down the tape. In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm walking in at five forty five this morning and
Speaker 1: he's already in the in the film room. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's just the type of person. That's the type of
Speaker 1: quarterback that we have. That's the type of guy that
Speaker 1: we knew we we have. And Carson Wentz and the
Speaker 1: way he uh led the huddle on Monday at practice,
Speaker 1: and and you know, just just what he's done in
Speaker 1: the last couple of days just getting himself ready to go.
Speaker 1: It just shows you the type of leader and and um,
Speaker 1: the type of person that he is. Excuse me, well,
Speaker 1: um again, you know a situation where where you know, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let me just start by saying that
Speaker 1: that that I appreciate everything Eric Eric has done for
Speaker 1: this organization UM. And then and then with the guys
Speaker 1: that we have UM and then bringing back CJ. Smith
Speaker 1: and different things. It was another good opportunity for our
Speaker 1: organization to UM, you know, to to to make some
Speaker 1: moves and and and to to further his career UM
Speaker 1: as you know, uh, you know, he he would he'd
Speaker 1: like for us possibly the the fourth corner, fifth corner
Speaker 1: right now going into the season. And this gives him
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play. And then that's that's what you
Speaker 1: want from your players in the National Football League, is
Speaker 1: to play. And and uh, this gives him an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Not right away, no, not right away, not right now.
Speaker 1: We haven't filled it, UM, not in a hurry to
Speaker 1: fill it just yet. And and you know that's where
Speaker 1: that's just where we're at right now. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that in his case, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills was having a good camp. You bring in
Speaker 1: uh Leo, you bring in Ron Brooks, you bring in
Speaker 1: you know, Nolan's back healthy. UM, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of competition at that position, and and it's what we
Speaker 1: wanted way back in the spring and going into training
Speaker 1: camp and and it's just again it's an opportunity that
Speaker 1: that that you know, players have to embrace and and
Speaker 1: you know, he did put himself in a position to
Speaker 1: to compete and and uh, you know, be a part
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, and and it was just we just
Speaker 1: felt at this time, this is not only a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for him, but for some of our young players
Speaker 1: that were playing well during camp to make this roster
Speaker 1: as well. Maybe you invest four time and yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think there's some there's some validity to that.
Speaker 1: I think too. You you got to look at where
Speaker 1: you currently are and where that player is currently and
Speaker 1: you got to address the whole, the whole, the big
Speaker 1: picture of everything. And this is such a you know,
Speaker 1: um can you win now mentality and you're always constantly
Speaker 1: shifting and moving your roster around that that that this
Speaker 1: definitely gives him an opportunity to go play and and
Speaker 1: and potentially be a starter there and and compete and
Speaker 1: and and uh and do some good things. But you know,
Speaker 1: um as as a big picture, you definitely, um, you
Speaker 1: definitely got to take a look at that, you know
Speaker 1: going forward. You know there there there that's a great
Speaker 1: question too, because uh, you know, I just I go
Speaker 1: off of the belief and this is what I've done.
Speaker 1: And you know, you've been coaching nine Kansas City did
Speaker 1: the same thing. Where you want to go in with
Speaker 1: the plays you've been repping all offseason and training camp.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no need to to to reinvent the
Speaker 1: wheel now. UM, So Carson's been exposed to everything in
Speaker 1: our game plan that we put in today, what we'll
Speaker 1: put in tomorrow and on Friday. Um, you want to
Speaker 1: and it's not so much just for the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: but but we also have some other positions. DGB is
Speaker 1: still learning the system. We got some young receivers. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, defensively, how Jim Jim attacks, it's very it's
Speaker 1: very simple and basic to the extent of guys can
Speaker 1: play fast and that's what you want. You want guys
Speaker 1: to be able to not do a lot of thinking
Speaker 1: on the football field, just go react and play. UM.
Speaker 1: And obviously the quarterback position is key to that because
Speaker 1: he's communicating place to the entire offense. But this game plan, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, utilizing carson strength. You know, obviously his ability
Speaker 1: to run, I mean we know him over Sam. I
Speaker 1: mean there's the ability to run and and it may
Speaker 1: open up a run or two there that that we
Speaker 1: can utilize. But again, we got to be smart with
Speaker 1: that and and uh and just protect him early and
Speaker 1: and keep him from uh. You know, I just know
Speaker 1: having been in the position that that when quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: hit early, it affects you the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: And so again, protecting him early, keeping him upright, h
Speaker 1: is the key to to notly hit success and longevity,
Speaker 1: but to our success as a team. That no, you know,
Speaker 1: even even with Carson and his mentality, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to again, Um, I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to harness that aggression. UM. I don't want
Speaker 1: to harness that uh, that ability to throw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, you know. Um again, I think I
Speaker 1: think we were capable of doing that. He's good at
Speaker 1: doing that. Um. And so I just you know, you
Speaker 1: want to obviously get into the flow of the game
Speaker 1: and see how defensively, how they're gonna you know, scheme
Speaker 1: him and scheme us, and then and then you let
Speaker 1: your game plan sort of unfold from there. The contact,
Speaker 1: which is something that he did a lot of in
Speaker 1: North Dakota and did a little bit of in the
Speaker 1: Tampa game when he got hurt. We kind of talked
Speaker 1: to him about that. Well, he understands, you know that
Speaker 1: that um you know, um, in this day and age
Speaker 1: of the football game, and especially with the run pass
Speaker 1: options that teams are doing, that that that defenses are
Speaker 1: attacking the quarterback in that manner. I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: the style that you're seeing. So we we've communicated that
Speaker 1: to him myself, Frank John M. D Filippo that said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you gotta protect yourself at all costs, whether it's a
Speaker 1: run or a pass, and and and whether you're outside
Speaker 1: the pocket or not. You know, sometimes it's out of
Speaker 1: your control. But at the same time, knowing where you
Speaker 1: are on the field, Um, I don't need that extra yard.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not playing for the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: This Sunday is Game one. I don't need necessarily that
Speaker 1: extra yard. Somewhere in the season. Well I need the yard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need the yard, But protect yourself, get out
Speaker 1: of bound, slide, get down, um, you know, and really
Speaker 1: just having one conversation with him, you know, um, he's
Speaker 1: very aware of that. You know, this is a team,
Speaker 1: it's kind of gone through some changes, personnel changes, Uh
Speaker 1: you know, obviously both sides of the ball, and then
Speaker 1: uh offensively speaking with with r G three, we've we
Speaker 1: obviously we know who he is. We played against him
Speaker 1: in the past, you know when he's with the Redskins,
Speaker 1: and and know the type of talent that he is
Speaker 1: and and he he is shown to be able to
Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field at times and complete
Speaker 1: some balls and have some some success there. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I've coached against Ray Horton before, Um when he you know,
Speaker 1: was at Tennessee, when he was at Cleveland before and
Speaker 1: now back in Cleveland, and and and he's a he's
Speaker 1: a guy that that that'll uh give you some multiple looks.
Speaker 1: So he's he's a three four type guy that that
Speaker 1: can mix the under, the over and then straight thirty four.
Speaker 1: So we have to be sharp upfront what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: The quarterback's got to be on point. Um. He likes
Speaker 1: to bring pressure and key situations and and um, you
Speaker 1: know he's a band don't break type of guy. And
Speaker 1: and he's he's gone through some personnel changes, as I've
Speaker 1: said on defense, he's he's gotten a little bit younger
Speaker 1: back there, and and I'm assuming that he's going to
Speaker 1: just let these kids play and play fast and for
Speaker 1: him too, I think, you know, by keeping it simple
Speaker 1: and keeping it to where they can do the things
Speaker 1: that they've worked on in OTAs and training camp will
Speaker 1: allow those guys to you know, to play fast on
Speaker 1: Sunday preparing for the Browns since I took the job
Speaker 1: and the schedule came out. Um, but just on the field,
Speaker 1: we we spent some yeah, we spent we spend a
Speaker 1: day sort of just looking at them in the spring. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we spend a day in training camp looking
Speaker 1: at them. But but really until you get to this
Speaker 1: week and you know who they're going to be and
Speaker 1: from a personnel standpoint, uh, is when you really get
Speaker 1: into your game plan uh specific stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: even though we peaked at them, uh, you know throughout
Speaker 1: the summer, this is really the first time that we've
Speaker 1: we've really detailed it. I mean, they're they're in the
Speaker 1: same kind of situation because you guys are new, but
Speaker 1: when you have a new the Browns are all new,
Speaker 1: new head coach and new coordinators, so you really can't
Speaker 1: watch what they did last year because you watch old
Speaker 1: like what Hugh Jackson did in Cincinnati or Ray Horton didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you have to and and it just goes
Speaker 1: back to the history of and I'm sure they're going
Speaker 1: to go back and look at all our Kansas City film,
Speaker 1: you know, from an offensive perspective, and and go back
Speaker 1: and look at Jim's Buffalo days and ten Detroit days
Speaker 1: and and things like that. So, um, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back and look. I mean it would
Speaker 1: it would be who was not to and and just
Speaker 1: just go back and just see if if what we're
Speaker 1: seeing today matches up with where they've been in the past,
Speaker 1: and and you know, put your plan together from there.
Speaker 1: So you know, you see some plays on tape that
Speaker 1: that kind of say, hey he is he is back.
Speaker 1: You know he's in that position. Um, you know they
Speaker 1: they're going to continue to run the zone read game
Speaker 1: with him and utilize his strengths. I mean there's there's
Speaker 1: a couple I believe it was against the Atlanta game.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a nice run off of a
Speaker 1: off of his own read. He's been able to throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field and he's elusive. The other
Speaker 1: you're seeing is he's protecting himself now you're seeing him
Speaker 1: get out of bounds, you're seeing him slide, You're seeing
Speaker 1: him do the things that that you know, quarterback of
Speaker 1: the National Football League needs to do. So you can
Speaker 1: see the maturity there, um, And that's something that that
Speaker 1: that showing up on tape raining a mountain. Carson's reps
Speaker 1: are have been limited, especially with the ones. How much
Speaker 1: can you accelerate that just and he said he was
Speaker 1: in year five forty five. How much can you kind
Speaker 1: of make up for that in the film room? And
Speaker 1: how much is just kind of unknown? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean there's gonna be a little unknown. But but
Speaker 1: the fact is that he took all the reps Monday,
Speaker 1: He'll take all the reps the rest of the rest
Speaker 1: of the week and then and then we just have
Speaker 1: to be smart with how we you know, how how
Speaker 1: he's studying tape. Is he seeing the right things? Is
Speaker 1: is what he's what we're putting together as a game plan.
Speaker 1: Is he matching that up to what the film says, um,
Speaker 1: and what we're seeing you know, also as coaches and
Speaker 1: and uh, we just detail detail at that, you know
Speaker 1: it fine kind of a kind of a all the
Speaker 1: fine points and the detail points that that your game
Speaker 1: play and possesses and and um, you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to match up everything with what we're doing to what
Speaker 1: he's seeing. He's seeing or is he seeing the right
Speaker 1: things and if so, then putting our game plan into
Speaker 1: play that way. About this moment his entire license, he said,
Speaker 1: I believe he's that he was in second grade. Has
Speaker 1: a former quarterback who's played in this league as his coach.
Speaker 1: Do you need to try to keep help keep his
Speaker 1: emotions and check? Will you talk to him leading up
Speaker 1: to game time? Where is he a guy that you
Speaker 1: know what you know, that can handle this moment and
Speaker 1: not get you know, too excited either way? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think there's a there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a fine line there. He's been in some big games
Speaker 1: in college and in his past, and um, so he's
Speaker 1: used to that. But at the same time, this is
Speaker 1: this is a different animal. Uh, this is the National
Speaker 1: Football League. It's day one, home crowd, home game. Um,
Speaker 1: all eyes are on you, so you know, I can
Speaker 1: I can talk to him, Frank can talk to him.
Speaker 1: But it's just human nature. I mean, my butterflies will
Speaker 1: be going to you know what I mean, It's my
Speaker 1: first game as well. So butterflies will be flowing. But
Speaker 1: you get into the course of the game, you get
Speaker 1: past that, you know, one, two, three plays into the
Speaker 1: game and it settles in and and and it's football
Speaker 1: from there. Um. But but you know, he's such a
Speaker 1: mature guy that that that I don't anticipate anything being
Speaker 1: too big for him, you know, going into this first game,
Speaker 1: you know what, not necessarily in practice. But um, one
Speaker 1: of the things that we do every week is is
Speaker 1: we go through and we look at all the challenges
Speaker 1: throughout the National Football League from the previous week and
Speaker 1: see if we'd have done the same thing in those situations.
Speaker 1: And and a lot of times too, you're getting a
Speaker 1: lot of information from your coaches in the press box,
Speaker 1: and you know, as far as challenges goes, do we
Speaker 1: have enough information to make the to make the challenge? Um?
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of communication that goes goes
Speaker 1: into play. And but but looking at the previous week
Speaker 1: and seeing all the challenge flags that were thrown, you know,
Speaker 1: and then making those decisions, would we have done that
Speaker 1: at that time? Those are all things that I can
Speaker 1: do and and and uh and and take a look
Speaker 1: at those situations to prepare myself for you know, this
Speaker 1: regular season coming up. Yeah too, just like the players.
Speaker 1: I mean, one, we're glad that the training camps over
Speaker 1: and and you know we're into a normal routine now
Speaker 1: and normal schedule and and and so from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you know, and plus we now we get to game
Speaker 1: plan a little bit. So um, you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: the fun part, and that's the that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: why we're in this business to be able to take
Speaker 1: a game plan and teach it to your players and
Speaker 1: then go watch them not only practice, but play on
Speaker 1: Sunday and and so I'm excited for that, you know,
Speaker 1: and and just looking forward to to getting out there
Speaker 1: this weekend and and just watching our guys performing giving
Speaker 1: the most into the offense. And how do you think
Speaker 1: he played during the preseason. I think Brandon's really you know, um,
Speaker 1: he's really come on here lately. I mean, he's such
Speaker 1: a powerful guy, you know, Um, he he's he's he's
Speaker 1: an experienced veteran player that that has worked well with
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Lane to his right, Kelsey at center,
Speaker 1: or Alan Barberie was right Kelsey. Mean, he's really worked
Speaker 1: well in there, and um, he does he does a
Speaker 1: nice things. He's a sort of a you know, the
Speaker 1: he's kind of a silent leader up there, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, he's he's he's getting the job done
Speaker 1: and he's getting he's made himself better since he's come
Speaker 1: back from that injury he had early in camp, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's really uh playing, playing well going
Speaker 1: into the regular season. Guys that you picked up over
Speaker 1: the weekend far enough along that they could be active
Speaker 1: for this game. Um no, you know, special teams, Um
Speaker 1: Brooks is a guy that could make some special teams
Speaker 1: uh potentially, you know, offensively, defensively. It's it's it's hard
Speaker 1: because you're trying to throw everything at him. They got
Speaker 1: to learn. But special teams is one area that that
Speaker 1: that will need a few of these guys to to
Speaker 1: make an impact this this week. Okay, thanks guys. Zero