Speaker 1: I won't practice. That's all we got.
Speaker 2: When that happened in the game.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's I mean, it's just wear and tear. It's
Speaker 1: just still sore.
Speaker 3: Had I had a question about when to pulls forrest starters,
Speaker 3: let me ask, because I think Warner played every at
Speaker 3: every snap, Christian have like three carries when you're up
Speaker 3: twenty from midway through the fourth quarter in Rosa, got
Speaker 3: at least one snap with like three minutes to go,
Speaker 3: and you're up twenty three, and you know, so, I
Speaker 3: guess would be easy to say, get him out of there
Speaker 3: and get hurt. Why what's your philosophy on that? And
Speaker 3: and is it is it tough to figure out when
Speaker 3: you do it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you pull guys when you think the game's over,
Speaker 1: and you do that off of experience. And we don't
Speaker 1: think the game's over when it's at that point. Now
Speaker 1: it's sometime in that drive, cause it took so long,
Speaker 1: it was we debated whether it take them out but
Speaker 1: for that driver or not. We'd been in that situation before.
Speaker 1: We decided not to. We kept both out just for
Speaker 1: a third down, but it ended up going longer, and
Speaker 1: then we don't want to pull him out in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. So we kept that drive, but that
Speaker 1: was the last drive of the game. We decided that
Speaker 1: before it just went long, No, just he helps Leus
Speaker 1: get him off on third down, so we thought he
Speaker 1: could at least do a third down in that drive
Speaker 1: pretty quick. Oh we didn't, how mure.
Speaker 5: That week one experience to Detroit a couple of years
Speaker 5: ago kind of shape the way you view that.
Speaker 1: That's huge. I mean that happened to us personally. It
Speaker 1: was I think forty one to seventeen with a minute
Speaker 1: fifty eight left, and they had the ball was seventeen seconds,
Speaker 1: twenty yards away, down seven points. So you know, that's
Speaker 1: a lot more than that was. And it's not just
Speaker 1: that's personal situation, but I see it happened a lot
Speaker 1: a lot of places.
Speaker 5: Will you guys use your nickelbacks that nickel defense with
Speaker 5: Leonora first being that guy and then later Oliver was
Speaker 5: at something that was pre planned? Or did the circumstances
Speaker 5: of the game dictate the change?
Speaker 1: I mean, every things dictate the change. We thought they'd
Speaker 1: all play in the game, but stuff happened in the
Speaker 1: game that as I suggest, stuff that's between me and
Speaker 1: our team just watch the film. You might have figured
Speaker 1: out stuff I can't say, sorry, like a divisional punt.
Speaker 3: I usually know these guys really well. Just kind of
Speaker 3: looking at the Rams rosters, there are a lot of
Speaker 3: familiarity there with them being such.
Speaker 1: A young Oh we have such a history, and just
Speaker 1: you know, the coaching staff's being similar for so long
Speaker 1: and the players being similar for so long. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of new guys out there. You know
Speaker 1: them playing in one game, and you know, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out some of their new players that you don't
Speaker 1: have a history with. But once you turn on the
Speaker 1: tape and try to see it, yeah, you don't know
Speaker 1: some of the guys, but you definitely know ninety nine
Speaker 1: and you know the quarterback. And then you watch the
Speaker 1: schemes and nothing's really different. I mean, it's two really
Speaker 1: good schemes on both sides of the ball and two
Speaker 1: great players and looks very similar, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: the result was very similar with what they've had in the past.
Speaker 2: Rock me a few plays with his feet on Sunday,
Speaker 2: including that at seventeen yard or right up in the middle.
Speaker 6: Is that an aspect of him that is surprising to you?
Speaker 2: Did you foresee that.
Speaker 3: When you were drafting him that he'd be able to
Speaker 3: make as many plays with.
Speaker 6: His feet as he has?
Speaker 1: And you never know at the next level. But that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how he played in college. You know,
Speaker 1: he did it a lot and I think it's one
Speaker 1: of his first games he had his own red play
Speaker 1: for like sixty yards or something. So Rocks always had
Speaker 1: a knack for making plays with his feet. He has
Speaker 1: the quickness to do it. Yeah, you never know how
Speaker 1: to equate at this level, but look that way in
Speaker 1: practice and stuff, and he's carried it over to games.
Speaker 5: Much of his success is a product of the fact
Speaker 5: that he's a lot more experienced than most quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: His agent, I don't know, it's how you played quarterback
Speaker 1: at a high level. What does that come from? Sometimes
Speaker 1: experience sometimes because you're just good at it. But uh,
Speaker 1: he's playing at a high level because he's good at quarterback.
Speaker 6: You and put a performance like that in week one,
Speaker 6: Is there an need on your card to kind of
Speaker 6: all right, now, we gotta got to bring bring him
Speaker 6: back down a little bit because they played so well,
Speaker 6: or is this such a Victorian group that they kind
Speaker 6: of policed that themselves.
Speaker 1: I mean usually it's off the tape, and the tape
Speaker 1: to me, wasn't totally what everyone thinks. You know, there's
Speaker 1: lots of yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't our best performance,
Speaker 1: you know, it's there's a lot of things in there
Speaker 1: that could have gone a different way a bunch. I mean,
Speaker 1: the way we ended at the second quarter, not scoring
Speaker 1: on offense, not running the clock out before you gave
Speaker 1: it back to him, giving up an eighty yard drive
Speaker 1: before half, giving up a forty yarder on a third
Speaker 1: and one possible touchdown on the third play of the game.
Speaker 1: Fortunately they missed it. They tried to come back to
Speaker 1: it like four times, but they got their wrong coverages.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's lots of stuff that goes into it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes games just get away. And it got away
Speaker 1: real fast because we broke a sixty yarder on play
Speaker 1: two in the third quarter, and after that it was
Speaker 1: pretty easy Texas.
Speaker 2: You ever run on the backside seventy yards to blog
Speaker 2: for Seth Benson and would you think of there? I
Speaker 2: mean it seemed like a culture play.
Speaker 6: Did you get a game.
Speaker 2: Ball you talk to him about it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I always tried to do that, but I
Speaker 1: was never fast enough. I could have caught the sore fullback,
Speaker 1: but not Cedric. You know, that was awesome by Ray.
Speaker 1: Ray was awesome by Ba. It was awesome by We
Speaker 1: didn't give a game ball for it because that's that's
Speaker 1: what we expect. I feel like that's what those guys
Speaker 1: do every play. Those guys run hard every play. It
Speaker 1: just happened that Christian broke one and there would be
Speaker 1: put in the spotlight as lead blockers, so it looks
Speaker 1: really cool. It was really cool, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what those guys try to do every play.
Speaker 5: Game.
Speaker 3: No, he had ten tackles, but he had that rough drive.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a good game. You know, he
Speaker 1: had that personal foul in the sidelines and then you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't totally see it the same way with the
Speaker 1: defensive holding that he got down there. But I thought
Speaker 1: he had a solid first game, playing inside and outside
Speaker 1: and good start to the season.
Speaker 5: What do you think of Vanka's decision to try to lateral?
Speaker 1: Not great because he didn't lateral it. I also thought
Speaker 1: the guy in front of him he could have just
Speaker 1: ran around because they think he was faster than them.
Speaker 1: But I mean it was a good setup for the
Speaker 1: option right out of dude if the guy was behind him.
Speaker 1: So I no, I didn't think it was that smart
Speaker 1: of a play.
Speaker 5: One of the most challenging of what.
Speaker 1: I mean, just Aaron Donald bey on it would be
Speaker 1: the number one thing. But you know, they got some
Speaker 1: really good players, but they're always going to be sound,
Speaker 1: They're always going to have a good scheme. They're always
Speaker 1: going to put their players in good positions, starting with
Speaker 1: the offense, which is where it starts with Sean, but
Speaker 1: it's been no different with the defense and special teams either.
Speaker 1: Those guys are always coached up well, they're ready to go,
Speaker 1: and they know how to put their really good players
Speaker 1: in real good situations as good as it can be.
Speaker 1: You know, that was evident why they played so well.
Speaker 1: And he looked like Matt Stafford, which is one of
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks to play over the last couple of
Speaker 1: decades from TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt.
Speaker 6: After that play, you came back to the bench.
Speaker 2: And looked like in part of something to Brock just
Speaker 2: kind of looked like a one way conversation.
Speaker 5: Do you remember what you.
Speaker 2: Shared with them right there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just coaching on when we don't get what we expect,
Speaker 1: and we did get what the second thing we expect.
Speaker 1: It was just taking too long, and Brock was waiting
Speaker 1: on he sawid all right, and it was could have
Speaker 1: been a big play. We just didn't have the time
Speaker 1: for it. And I told Brock, did my last thing
Speaker 1: I want to do is put you in that situation.
Speaker 1: I thought we'd be able to get rid of it quicker,
Speaker 1: But when you can't, you can't wait on it for
Speaker 1: that long. Sometimes you just got to tuck it away
Speaker 1: and take the sack because we didn't have time to
Speaker 1: wait on the look.
Speaker 2: Season the value of running backs, obviously you always valued
Speaker 2: that position.
Speaker 1: Your dad did as well.
Speaker 5: Can you remember how and how and why that position
Speaker 5: has always been so important to what you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's important almost what everybody does.
Speaker 1: I think it's really hard to win in this league
Speaker 1: without a good running game. And you know, you can
Speaker 1: have good running game by having all eleven people dedicate
Speaker 1: to it and be real good at it, but you
Speaker 1: really don't make a difference until you've got a difference
Speaker 1: maker back there. I always think we've always committed to
Speaker 1: the run, regardless who's back there. I think my dad
Speaker 1: I know, my dad did that in his career. But
Speaker 1: when you look at when teams have really won, and
Speaker 1: I think my dad had one really good one and
Speaker 1: those are the years he won super Bowls. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at our success here, our super Bowl run,
Speaker 1: the way Raheem did that in the playoffs, our next
Speaker 1: championship deal game, the way Debo and Elijah were running
Speaker 1: at the end of that year, and then last year.
Speaker 1: The combination of Christian Elijah Mixing and Debo to me
Speaker 1: is why you go into twelve game win streak. So
Speaker 1: regardless of who your run running backs are, you're gonna always,
Speaker 1: I believe in, always committed to it because that's what
Speaker 1: makes a football team good. But when you have a
Speaker 1: difference maker back there, it's a huge difference.
Speaker 5: How did you spend in recent drafts looking at a
Speaker 5: well in the coup and what are their their qualities?
Speaker 5: Would kind of the compliment of them, what is it defense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, looked at him a lot in college too. Too
Speaker 1: is as fast as anyone, and he's one of those
Speaker 1: premiere play action top level guys. You know that we
Speaker 1: always everyone in this type of offense ours there, you know,
Speaker 1: play action offense. They really want a guy like that.
Speaker 1: You can tell that's why they took him. He's premier
Speaker 1: at that. When you look at Nakua, he's he's a
Speaker 1: very tough, physical football player. Reminds me a lot of Juwan.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get after it on every play. The game's
Speaker 1: not too big for him. And when you can put
Speaker 1: those guys in the right spots and you've got a
Speaker 1: quarterback like they do, it can be pretty lethal.
Speaker 3: Did you have another similar experience that.
Speaker 1: Where, yeah, I've watched guys take I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest one. That was like never again because I took
Speaker 1: a lot of people out and I still can't believe
Speaker 1: how that happened. I've had to go back and keep
Speaker 1: watching it because it doesn't sound believable, but it is.
Speaker 1: But but to me in particular, I've seen things get
Speaker 1: out of hand. I'm in close, but nothing as scary
Speaker 1: as at Detroit one. But it's something I always watch
Speaker 1: around the league. We see it. Stuff happens fast and
Speaker 1: you just go three and out and the clock's different. Now,
Speaker 1: when they went on that long, we were trying to
Speaker 1: do it. Then we thought we could stop on our
Speaker 1: three and out, and they went longer, so it's different,
Speaker 1: but I don't have a specific one for you, but
Speaker 1: it's something you gotta be aware of.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the game is over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should get a soundtrack to our headsets. That's
Speaker 1: all we're talking about. Trust me, we want guys out
Speaker 1: of there. If we want to go, put them in
Speaker 1: bubble wrap and wait them for next week. But once
Speaker 1: you start to go there, bad things happen a lot.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we wish we could have gone there sooner,
Speaker 1: but we didn't.
Speaker 4: With regards to starting two games on the road, is
Speaker 4: there any positives or benefits that you can take team
Speaker 4: building off the field and if you can get to
Speaker 4: rug wins to start your how that kind of like
Speaker 4: starts jump starts your year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's been as team building
Speaker 1: stuff when we go, we've sometimes stayed a week away
Speaker 1: and these times we didn't. We haven't done that this year.
Speaker 1: But I think when you start on the road and
Speaker 1: if you can start out to and oh there's only
Speaker 1: so many road games and you'd always rather than be
Speaker 1: at home. So when you have that good record to start,
Speaker 1: it's just more momentum going forward. All right, Thanks guys.
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