Speaker 1: I like this on your interview, all three new kids
Speaker 1: on your How has it changed your younger guys though,
Speaker 1: having their first You know, I don't know right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously this week Jake and his wife had
Speaker 1: had a baby, and uh have great story with that,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's I don't know. I do think
Speaker 1: I don't notice anything, you know, I really don't. I
Speaker 1: really don't see it. And they mature more, I don't
Speaker 1: see it. They've all these guys are all pretty hard working,
Speaker 1: good guys, and and so I don't seem much change.
Speaker 1: And the guys and obviously we all know that it's
Speaker 1: a huge change, huge life change to have a baby
Speaker 1: and and all that they go with and the and
Speaker 1: there there you know, their commitment to things they need
Speaker 1: to do. But I think these guys have been good
Speaker 1: all along with it. So throughout the game, well, I
Speaker 1: didn't even know until after the game. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys heard the story, but it was,
Speaker 1: you know, seriously, we found out just he went and
Speaker 1: early in the morning and his wife wanted to April.
Speaker 1: They went to hospital, had the baby, and he was
Speaker 1: back over here dressing for the game, and nobody knew
Speaker 1: that they had a baby, and uh, pretty soon we're like,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody say, hey, Brenda and his wife, they
Speaker 1: just they had a baby, and we're like, well, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do first Center today? It was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: he's in the locker room changing, and so he went.
Speaker 1: They did it. Luckily that everything went smoothly and they
Speaker 1: were able to you know, she was able to deliver,
Speaker 1: stay there for about an hour or so. Came over,
Speaker 1: suited up and played the game, and I did. I
Speaker 1: didn't know the whole game. You I would have never noticed.
Speaker 1: And then after the game, I heard the story and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And he did
Speaker 1: a great job. He hadn't take into account of fact
Speaker 1: that it's probably gonna board when your game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's The unfortunate thing is we've had some rain here
Speaker 1: obviously in Northern California lately, so we practiced it a lot.
Speaker 1: We had some rain games early. The first Seattle game
Speaker 1: had some rain, obviously not the extent that we're gonna
Speaker 1: get probably this weekend. And then obviously the Chicago game.
Speaker 1: The first day was the first game was great until
Speaker 1: the end. It was fine, you know, you could manage,
Speaker 1: and we got we Everything was going along pretty smoothly
Speaker 1: till the end, and then it just became an absolute
Speaker 1: there was no way you could play. And I don't
Speaker 1: think we're going to see that, So I just think
Speaker 1: you just have to practice in it, which we're doing,
Speaker 1: which is really fortunate, and you just get used to
Speaker 1: dealing with a wet ball. I was noticing the quarterback
Speaker 1: center exchanges today. We're you know, they were good knock
Speaker 1: on wood and uh and and then the guys did
Speaker 1: they do a good job with It's really good to
Speaker 1: be able to practidant. You get to deal with the
Speaker 1: weather and deal with the elements to wind, things like that.
Speaker 1: So there was a good practice day that way. Seem
Speaker 1: like the elements shake rock Pery either. Does it seem
Speaker 1: like he's just still even heeled throughout everything. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you what they called mutters, You know they're good. They're
Speaker 1: good in the mud right there. You have like running
Speaker 1: backs like Raheemos. Start was much more of a you know,
Speaker 1: like the fast track right and things like that, where
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson was more of a guy that could sludge
Speaker 1: it out in the mud. That kind of I think
Speaker 1: brock Purty. Having played at Iowa State, we have to
Speaker 1: assume he played in bad weather there, and uh so
Speaker 1: he's probably gotten used to it through the years. And
Speaker 1: it is it's it is an adjustment. I mean, it
Speaker 1: definitely is. You you play that weather. I mean, having
Speaker 1: coached in Tampa and having coached in Miami, Um, you
Speaker 1: go up in those cold weather games, you're just no
Speaker 1: matter how hard you try, it's hard to acclimate in
Speaker 1: that short period of time. UM reigns the same thing.
Speaker 1: But fortunately we've had enough of it. I think guys
Speaker 1: have had a chance. Four sacks allowed in this game
Speaker 1: seem like characteristically struggle of a game for the offensive.
Speaker 1: Why would you see in the breakdowns here? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: breakdown was we had uh this is not pointing fingers.
Speaker 1: We didn't execute our plan well enough. You know, we
Speaker 1: had two of the j J's two sacks. We actually
Speaker 1: had a chance to double team him, and we we
Speaker 1: missed the opportunities. We did just didn't quite do what
Speaker 1: we should do on it. And and the guy and
Speaker 1: he's a good player, and he made place and you
Speaker 1: know his last game, Gosh, if you're gonna say he
Speaker 1: got us on two, we still won the game. He
Speaker 1: got two sacks for his last game. Good for him.
Speaker 1: We tried not to give it to him, but he
Speaker 1: still got us in and it wasn't the one on
Speaker 1: one matchups that he won. It was the it was
Speaker 1: it was chances that we had to kind of neutralize
Speaker 1: him and we didn't take advantage of him, and he
Speaker 1: was still able to get to the quarterback. The other
Speaker 1: two sacks, um, I'm trying to think. I know, the
Speaker 1: one uh was just uh they ran a good stunt
Speaker 1: on it, and then the other the other one, Brock
Speaker 1: scrambled backwards and probably could have thrown the ball away
Speaker 1: on that one where it didn't need to. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, those those things are always you know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of games this year, Rob Bitch and Jimmy,
Speaker 1: even Brock or or even Trade. The first game avoided
Speaker 1: some and then this one you think you've got it
Speaker 1: locked down, and next thing you know, you give up
Speaker 1: for sacks and it just it's the ebb and flow
Speaker 1: of the whole thing. So obviously it's a big point
Speaker 1: of emphasis this week. You don't want that to start
Speaker 1: being a factor because those sacks can take they take
Speaker 1: you out of drives, especially first and second down sacks.
Speaker 1: You've gotta be sure you can you can tighten up
Speaker 1: and make sure it was good. It was a good
Speaker 1: lesson for us to say, let's get this detailed up
Speaker 1: when we when we say this, it means this, and
Speaker 1: we weren't quite on the details and we missed those ops.
Speaker 1: You don't want to take your quarterback to take a
Speaker 1: seventeen year at sack. Kyle said, he probably knew exactly
Speaker 1: what happened when he hit the ground, And Kyle, is
Speaker 1: it easier? What is Kyle like in the headset when
Speaker 1: he's talking to Rock after a play like that? This
Speaker 1: is PG here, right, this is a PG thirteen audience.
Speaker 1: You know it's he's he's uh Kyle. Obviously we all
Speaker 1: get animated on games. You know, he's he's great. He
Speaker 1: just uh um. He'll always, you know, tell the guy
Speaker 1: what he should have done. And he's just very straightforward
Speaker 1: with guys. The one thing about Kyle is very honest
Speaker 1: with the players and straightforward on game days. All it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of emotion behind it, but man, dude,
Speaker 1: you gotta get rid of the the ball, you know, dude,
Speaker 1: we can't take us We can't take that kind of sack.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of field position that we're giving away
Speaker 1: that we possibly could back them up inside the five
Speaker 1: or ten yard line, and uh, we lose those seventeen
Speaker 1: yards on a third on a sack, and it's really
Speaker 1: hard to overcome. I don't I'm not. I think he's
Speaker 1: pretty good. You know, you guys see bros demeanor. He's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a pretty serious minded guy. So sometimes
Speaker 1: you can't really tell what he's thinking. You can't feel
Speaker 1: if he's mad, or if he's happy or what he is. UM,
Speaker 1: so he seems to take it well. I think he's
Speaker 1: a pretty tough minded kid and uh and and can
Speaker 1: handle tough coaching. Um. But you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: and no matter how tough you are, you're going through
Speaker 1: a lot every single day at that position. You're learning
Speaker 1: a lot. A lot falls on your shoulders. So sometimes
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's hard, but these are lessons
Speaker 1: he has to learn. And we've talked about before. These
Speaker 1: these these are invaluable lessons when you go out on
Speaker 1: game day and you get to experience these things. Playing
Speaker 1: a lot for Pete Carroll's defense challenging or unique about
Speaker 1: against him in particular. Well, they're they're just very, very
Speaker 1: very sound, and they're well coached, so there are gonna
Speaker 1: be where they're supposed to be. And then even when
Speaker 1: you are know where they are and you go block them,
Speaker 1: you have a good play, you still gotta block them.
Speaker 1: You still gotta you still gotta break Italian guys gotta
Speaker 1: break a tackle, or you gotta you gotta finish them
Speaker 1: so they don't come off and make a play. I mean,
Speaker 1: they they're well coached, not just in the scheme itself,
Speaker 1: but and then playing their techniques and fundamentals, and they're
Speaker 1: very very good at doing it, and they're they've been
Speaker 1: through the years. Pete has always been always his defenses
Speaker 1: from back I remember back when he was in New England.
Speaker 1: I mean it's always been sound. Came from like the
Speaker 1: he and Monty Kiffen came from the now. The defense
Speaker 1: is how they put the defense together is changed through
Speaker 1: the years as to what they're running, but the base
Speaker 1: fundamentals of how you stop the run and the gap
Speaker 1: control and the fits and how they do things has
Speaker 1: been so consistent through the years, and it's a challenge.
Speaker 1: It's a real challenge. You have to be on point
Speaker 1: with how you block them. It's not just enough to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a guy from a guy from a guy
Speaker 1: from It's not just having a guy from it's how
Speaker 1: you're gonna get them blocked. Because they got some challenging guys.
Speaker 1: Without Wood's back, he wasn't there the first game. Uh,
Speaker 1: they lost ninety in our game, but ninety seven's back.
Speaker 1: I'm back and playing well. Ninety three the inside linebacker
Speaker 1: really lost their their leading tackler. Those other two guys
Speaker 1: are really good special team have been good special teams players.
Speaker 1: They're two inside linebackers now, and they are good in space.
Speaker 1: They're hard to block. Special teams right there in open
Speaker 1: areas are used to dealing with things, and so you
Speaker 1: have to get on them and you have to work
Speaker 1: to finish or it might look like, oh, there's a
Speaker 1: play it's gonna break out in it's five yards, it's
Speaker 1: four yards, and then when you get through it, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is six at free safety. That guy makes
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna to make sure that you know that
Speaker 1: that nothing gets through the big run. At the end
Speaker 1: of our last game, six I'm sorry six was that's
Speaker 1: my first time at them, Podium six was blitzing, and
Speaker 1: so they had a different guy in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. So when our runner broke through Mace, he
Speaker 1: was able to make that guy miss Worth was six.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would have or not. I
Speaker 1: hope he would have and we had a big run
Speaker 1: dice the game. Either way, it was the first down.
Speaker 1: But uh, but it is that that That's what that
Speaker 1: defense is. And so you can imagine even though the
Speaker 1: style of defense has changed, imagine back when was the
Speaker 1: Legion of what whatever they call it, Boom Doom whatever
Speaker 1: they are boom, Yeah, they were, they were there. Then
Speaker 1: you have all these great players in every single position,
Speaker 1: and so they've gone through a little bit of transition.
Speaker 1: But these guys still play very, very sound. The fundamentals
Speaker 1: are there. Long answer, but I'm telling you have a
Speaker 1: ton of respect for Pete and the defenses that they've
Speaker 1: run through the years, and it just really makes you
Speaker 1: locked down and say, guys, I'm telling you, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not just the normal dis block or that block.
Speaker 1: You better be on on your details. Kind of attacking
Speaker 1: Rock up the middle to chase him because he's a
Speaker 1: shorter quarterback. You want to take away that cleanness and
Speaker 1: the front of you know. Uh, they really, they really did.
Speaker 1: I mean that's how that's what they did. It's what happened.
Speaker 1: But it was more just what there was normal rushes.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they had a scheme to attack Brock
Speaker 1: a certain way because they weren't doing a lot. It
Speaker 1: was just that what came free, what we didn't pick up,
Speaker 1: who got beat It happened to be in that area
Speaker 1: that It wasn't around the corner. It was up the middle.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like by design they were pouring three
Speaker 1: up the it all or all that. There wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Actually, there was a single backer, dogs
Speaker 1: and a couple of little things that they did in
Speaker 1: there that created some of it. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it was trying to force him to do one where
Speaker 1: the other. The pressures came every other way or differently. Nope, No,
Speaker 1: it's been because there's just I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: more right now with um I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not on the other side of the ball, but
Speaker 1: at the defense, but I think there's a lot more
Speaker 1: with who you gotta cover and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit more of I don't know,
Speaker 1: we're seeing I don't know how to say it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just there's there's not as much of
Speaker 1: that right now. I think they're more concerned about, you know,
Speaker 1: just they run their five man rushes. They do what
Speaker 1: they do to come free when they pressure. It's well
Speaker 1: thought out, hoping to get a guy free. But they
Speaker 1: have issues with covering our guys as well. So I
Speaker 1: think that comes it's a little bit harder to just
Speaker 1: say we're gonna sell out to make sure party can't
Speaker 1: step up in the pocket, or if he do, you
Speaker 1: think because he's shorter he can't see or whatever that
Speaker 1: might be. There's I think there's more to it with
Speaker 1: the coverage of our players and making sure that it
Speaker 1: won't matter what you're doing in the middle. If you
Speaker 1: can't cover, the ball is gonna come out and a
Speaker 1: play is gonna be made. So but it could be
Speaker 1: that we might see some of that at some point.
Speaker 1: He's outstanding his he goes through his progressions really really fast.
Speaker 1: He gets the ball out of Stanley and does a
Speaker 1: good job. And like everybody, he could be a little
Speaker 1: better on some and some of me. It is just
Speaker 1: it's amazing how he gets the ball out. The play
Speaker 1: he made against Miami to Kittle his first game when
Speaker 1: he came in for for Jimmy on a hot throw
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. It really turned the game for us. It
Speaker 1: was one of the better throws of the season that
Speaker 1: we've had this year from any quarterback. And uh, he's
Speaker 1: got that in him. But he's still got to go
Speaker 1: through this still the same thing. You know, maybe a
Speaker 1: little late to this one. Literally this one. Didn't see
Speaker 1: this scrambles when he should, all those things season. How
Speaker 1: to have him back for this game. I love Elijah.
Speaker 1: You know, Elijah is just such a physical runner. He
Speaker 1: just you know, the touchdown running had where were you know,
Speaker 1: Randy guy over at the goal line or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And he just does a great job with un the
Speaker 1: football is nice to have he and Christian. As we've
Speaker 1: talked about it here before, it's always nice to have
Speaker 1: two backs, and then you have twenty four as well
Speaker 1: to get in there. Thirty two gets in a little bit.
Speaker 1: We've got it nice. So now there's a rotation. You
Speaker 1: don't have to wear a guy out. A guy doesn't
Speaker 1: have to have twenty eight years now, he might because
Speaker 1: he's got the hot hand at day. But it's nice
Speaker 1: to have guys to roll through there. It's a different style.
Speaker 1: You're gearing up to tackle Elijah and then next time
Speaker 1: it's Christian to the whole is not going to attack
Speaker 1: you the same way as Elijah does. And they all
Speaker 1: have a different skill set, so it's nice for us
Speaker 1: to be able to utilize them in different ways and
Speaker 1: also just in certain parts of the field. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot that goes into it. But um, it's nice
Speaker 1: to have those two guys, really nice to have them back.
Speaker 1: Those guys work together, so sort of counteract the old
Speaker 1: saying of a running back needs a certain number of
Speaker 1: carriers in a rhythm. It seems like you're able to
Speaker 1: put guys in. They are sharp right from our initial
Speaker 1: carry the thing. Yeah, they're not having to feel their
Speaker 1: way through the that's pretty accurate. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: with with our system, and again Kyle has done such
Speaker 1: a great job through the years of how we coach
Speaker 1: the runners. So it's not a yes, there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a field, but it is not one game
Speaker 1: stre within another game. Our run games are run game
Speaker 1: and how we read it, how we key it, what
Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, there might be a field to how
Speaker 1: a defense is playing at that day a little bit,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, they've seen that at some
Speaker 1: point during the year because everybody, even though the defensive
Speaker 1: structure may change, the techniques, how they play it, how
Speaker 1: they fit the runs, it's kind of consistent or they've
Speaker 1: seen it somewhere, right Miami doesn't like, Chicago doesn't like
Speaker 1: this team, and then there's another group of teams that
Speaker 1: kind of fit it the same way. So once you've
Speaker 1: seen it a few times, Yeah, the backs may tell
Speaker 1: you that I'm not a runner. Hey, I need a rhythm,
Speaker 1: I need this and that, But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the way we coach them, I think the
Speaker 1: guy can kind of rotate through and and kind of
Speaker 1: pick right up where they left off. Hey, thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.