Speaker 1: Second three days now to watch Sam Bradford got back.
Speaker 1: Where do you think he is in terms of sharp
Speaker 1: meets and terms of the speed of things. I think
Speaker 1: he's just getting back into the speed of things. You know.
Speaker 1: The one thing he hadn't done, Um he did a
Speaker 1: little seven on seven, but there's no pass rush in
Speaker 1: the um in the offseason program. So during OTAs and
Speaker 1: in mini camp he did a little bit of seven
Speaker 1: on seven, but obviously you have time as a quarterback
Speaker 1: and seven on to kind of set your feet and
Speaker 1: work yourself through progressions in terms of where you're going
Speaker 1: with the football. So, um, it's just good to see
Speaker 1: him back out in eleven on with a rush around
Speaker 1: him having to adjust to move up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Actually took off and ran I think yesterday in the
Speaker 1: or two days ago in the link you know, on
Speaker 1: a one where everybody was covered and made a good
Speaker 1: decision there. So it's it's just a process of him
Speaker 1: getting a lot more, just getting more familiar with the
Speaker 1: speed and tempo with things mechanic standpoint. Trust, he's been
Speaker 1: fine in terms of the way he's delivering the football
Speaker 1: and stepping and throwing. He's been fine from that sampoint
Speaker 1: six weeks. They had a plan for him from a
Speaker 1: rehabilitation standpoint, which um, he was all on board with.
Speaker 1: So it was everything. You know, he's the one that,
Speaker 1: obviously because of the CBA, that he determines what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do for those six weeks. But UM, I think
Speaker 1: he felt really comfortable with our training staff and um,
Speaker 1: how the rehabilitation had gone since he got here in April.
Speaker 1: So he just continued that how we see those situations.
Speaker 1: It was the first time we saw it. So he's
Speaker 1: a pretty athletic guy. I mean, I think I don't
Speaker 1: think people forget about that in terms of the same
Speaker 1: was very athletic coming out of college. It's a real
Speaker 1: good AU basketball player coming out of Oklahoma. Actually played
Speaker 1: on the same team with Blake Griffin. Um, he's a
Speaker 1: scratch golfer. He's a hell of an athlete. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that's a question in terms
Speaker 1: of him being from an athletic standpoint. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of him just getting back up to speed and
Speaker 1: getting used to how every how we're doing everything. I
Speaker 1: think he's really sharp with it. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he feels confident, especially because of the work he put
Speaker 1: in over the last six weeks from when we broke
Speaker 1: on June eighteenth, and now he felt great in terms
Speaker 1: of what he did over the summer. And I don't
Speaker 1: see him. We don't see him when when you're watching
Speaker 1: film or doing anything that he's favoring that leg at all.
Speaker 1: What do you look for when you watching out here
Speaker 1: and on the film to see just how comfortable he
Speaker 1: is in terms of what we're doing offensively and how
Speaker 1: he fits into it. And um, I think each day
Speaker 1: he's progressed and gotten better. So it's right on track
Speaker 1: for where we thought he would be. After three days
Speaker 1: being on the roster. You see someone that you can
Speaker 1: use in a creative, creative ways on the game days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tim obviously has a lot of skills that other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: don't have because of his ability to run the football.
Speaker 1: So um, but we haven't delved into any of that
Speaker 1: right now. We're just competing getting reps. You know, guys
Speaker 1: are with the ones. Guys it was twos, guys with
Speaker 1: the threes that saw Salmon with the threes. I've seen
Speaker 1: Mark with the threes. I've seen Tim with the twos
Speaker 1: and the ones. So we're just rolling guys, but we
Speaker 1: haven't spent any time as an offensive staff, you know,
Speaker 1: looking at hey, how do we do this or what
Speaker 1: can we do in terms of working out how the
Speaker 1: final roster is going to express itself while we're on
Speaker 1: quarter Matt Barkley, I thought he had a really good, uh,
Speaker 1: really really good um April to June for us. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought there was a big improvement in terms of
Speaker 1: where he was. UM. It was interesting when we got
Speaker 1: into the beginning of the offseason program. He was the
Speaker 1: quarterback with the most experience in our offense. You know,
Speaker 1: it was here longer than Mark, obviously longer than both
Speaker 1: Tim and and Sam. So UM. I think he's progressed
Speaker 1: at times, it's it's it's difficult for all those guys
Speaker 1: because they're not really getting into a rhythm because we're
Speaker 1: just getting reps right now. But I think Matt's really
Speaker 1: made a lot of really good strides and we're excited
Speaker 1: to see what he is. And the big performance for
Speaker 1: Matt and all those other guys are when we finally
Speaker 1: get a chance to go against the Colts in that
Speaker 1: first preseason game, and then the Ravens and then the
Speaker 1: Packers and then the Jets because, um, for any quarterback,
Speaker 1: you're still wearing a red jersey and they're still even
Speaker 1: when the rush comes clean, they're gonna pull up and
Speaker 1: kind of get away from me. But it's it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be like that when we get into those preseason games.
Speaker 1: So that'll be the that'll be the test for all
Speaker 1: those guys. He's tough, hard, physical runner, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's what we've really when when this when we had
Speaker 1: it rolling at Oregon, we had guys like Jonathan Stewart
Speaker 1: was playing for Carolina, like Garrett Blunt. You know, we're
Speaker 1: looking for downhill guys that can that can really kind
Speaker 1: of trade a defense. And um, you know, and Ryan
Speaker 1: fit that mold and the difference I think between Ryan
Speaker 1: and a lot of backs and the reason he was
Speaker 1: the first round draft pick is that a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are that size don't have that home run speed.
Speaker 1: You know, he ran four three seven at the combine.
Speaker 1: You know you saw him just you guys had a
Speaker 1: first opportunity I think to see him, um two days
Speaker 1: ago returning kickoffs. You know, I think that's a big,
Speaker 1: explosive body of two hundred and thirty pounds that can
Speaker 1: run that fast. There's it's kind of a unique combination
Speaker 1: to have. There aren't many guys that are that big,
Speaker 1: that are that fast. So you know, when we had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get him, he was always in our
Speaker 1: plans in free agency running back, he was one of
Speaker 1: the guys a target. Very early, Bill Davis were saying,
Speaker 1: you guys get like two to three times more reps
Speaker 1: in practice than other teams. How do you think that helps,
Speaker 1: Like young guys like you know, Eric Row to Corey Nelson,
Speaker 1: aglare depth. I think that's what it does help. And
Speaker 1: I think one of the misconceptions is our ones get
Speaker 1: the same around of reps as every other team's ones
Speaker 1: across the league. It's just the way we format our
Speaker 1: training sessions are twos and threes get to get more
Speaker 1: reps and everybody else, you know, in a lot of places,
Speaker 1: the ones get you know, twelve reps, the twos get
Speaker 1: six reps, and the threes may get two. For us,
Speaker 1: it's even across the board, you know, so we're just
Speaker 1: rotating and sets of four. So right now in a
Speaker 1: team period, the ones will get twelve reps, the twos
Speaker 1: will get twelve reps. And the threes will get twelve reps.
Speaker 1: We've always felt that it's accelerated the younger guys in
Speaker 1: terms of not only there, they get experience. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they're sitting in the classroom, they're learning, they're going
Speaker 1: through everything from a drill standpoint. But a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys just don't get a chance to show it
Speaker 1: to you in the training session because they only get
Speaker 1: one or two reps. All of those guys are getting
Speaker 1: a ton of reps, and it pays off in the end,
Speaker 1: especially for when you're trying to develop young players like
Speaker 1: Coy Height. You know, I end up it helps because
Speaker 1: you know, our educational philosophy is I hear and I forget,
Speaker 1: I see, and I remember, I do when I understand,
Speaker 1: So you can talk about it and show it to
Speaker 1: him on tape as much as you know that that's
Speaker 1: that's all good and great, but they got to do it,
Speaker 1: and then our decisions in terms of our evaluations of
Speaker 1: them as players has to be based on demonstrated evidence.
Speaker 1: It just can't be like, I think he's a good player.
Speaker 1: You know, he's only been in there for a couple
Speaker 1: of snaps, but I think he's going to be able
Speaker 1: to do it. You know, we're trying to put him
Speaker 1: in as many situations as we can where it can
Speaker 1: reveal itself. So now that it was the same exactly thing,
Speaker 1: I don't do anything. But I didn't take over a
Speaker 1: player personnel. The only difference is I have final say
Speaker 1: in terms of are we going to take you John?
Speaker 1: Are we going to take Zack? I mean, I'm like
Speaker 1: the final decision on that. But my day to day
Speaker 1: hasn't changed. Ed runs a personnel department. He's done a
Speaker 1: fantastic job with that. But I don't. I don't. My
Speaker 1: day hasn't changed, nor will it change. What have you
Speaker 1: seen from Nelson since the first day at three practice?
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's um getting better every day.
Speaker 1: I think he's he catch the ball away from his body.
Speaker 1: It's always seems like he even though he's six foot
Speaker 1: maybe six foot and a half inch, he plays bigger
Speaker 1: and taller and longer. Made a great catch on the
Speaker 1: sideline because he can extend, he can put his body
Speaker 1: in a lot of different situations. Um, he's got an
Speaker 1: extra gear that a lot of guys don't have. I
Speaker 1: think when he beats press coverage and takes off. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, you you got to make sure you're you
Speaker 1: understand how fast he is. And I think sometimes we've
Speaker 1: underthrown him a couple of times just because we know
Speaker 1: how well he can accelerate. Uh. Does a great job
Speaker 1: of catching the ball and getting north and south and
Speaker 1: getting up field. And he's also in presses as a
Speaker 1: returner in the first three days, just as an apartment
Speaker 1: returner and kick returner. So UM been really pleased with
Speaker 1: him in the last three days. Go back and watch
Speaker 1: the papers. Same thing when we drafted him. A very,
Speaker 1: very athletic linebacker that has the potential to be a
Speaker 1: three down linebacker in the Michael Kendricks Um Keiko Alonzo mole.
Speaker 1: You know he can he can cover. Uh, He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of skills from that standpoint. He's really stood
Speaker 1: out in the last couple of days on special teams.
Speaker 1: So UM, a real athletic three down linebackers what we've
Speaker 1: seen in the last couple of days. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know he was a guy we had targeted high. Um.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a seventh round pick, so we were
Speaker 1: kind of we did have a seventh round pick, but
Speaker 1: we took a defensive linement at that situation. But he
Speaker 1: was a guy we were very very high on, spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time within the offseason. Um, it seems
Speaker 1: to happen every year. Malcolm Butler was a guy last
Speaker 1: year for the Patriots that no one drafted and ended up,
Speaker 1: you know, making the key play in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But it happens all the time. Why, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was at a little bit smaller school. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, we was a guy we were very
Speaker 1: excited about when we got the evaluation presents. He just
Speaker 1: keeps showing up. You know, you look at the play Timmy.
Speaker 1: Timmy kept it and ran and has a big gainer
Speaker 1: about ten yards and then Denzel comes up and a
Speaker 1: cous fumble picked up, scooped up in fumble recovery. At
Speaker 1: the same time, he seems to be he seems to
Speaker 1: have a unique knact, always being around the ball. So
Speaker 1: there are parallel now with Jeremy not being here in Nelson.
Speaker 1: Now it's not a parallel. I mean, we wanted to
Speaker 1: keep Jeremy. We just we just got outbid, you know,
Speaker 1: from a pricing standpoint, But we always wanted to keep Jeremy,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't a plan of ours that you know,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna let Jeremy walk and then we'll replace
Speaker 1: them with this. It was just and again, the draft.
Speaker 1: You can't predict how the draft is going to go
Speaker 1: and where you're gonna go to to say hey, when
Speaker 1: free agency starts, because it's so much before the draft,
Speaker 1: to say hey, it's okay, we'll let him walk because
Speaker 1: we know we're gonna get Nelson. You know, you have
Speaker 1: no idea where they're going to go or when they're
Speaker 1: gonna go. But um, obviously, I think he bolstered our
Speaker 1: receiver corps. You know, when we've added to to Hof
Speaker 1: and Coop and um, adding Miles in in Uh in
Speaker 1: the off season, adding two in the off season, and
Speaker 1: then already having Jordan here. But we felt like he
Speaker 1: was just too good a play at that position for
Speaker 1: us to pass ups. They were a parallel between what
Speaker 1: Jersey now and I think everybody's reaching with the whole
Speaker 1: parallels between guys. I mean, he's still a rookie and
Speaker 1: he's gonna play inside, gonna play outside, gonna return kicks.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna find, you know, where he fits best.
Speaker 1: But we're not we didn't target Nelson when we drafted
Speaker 1: him to say he's our replacement for Jeremy, just another
Speaker 1: versatile player. And as we you know, we sat in
Speaker 1: the offseason, it's it's year two for him. So I
Speaker 1: think he feels real comfortable in terms of what our
Speaker 1: running backs are doing. So we're just kind of cross
Speaker 1: training him like we do some other guys in terms
Speaker 1: of how do we get our best players on the
Speaker 1: field and put him in a different situations. So the
Speaker 1: four of your rookie corners have had more than twenty
Speaker 1: pass break ups over the last two years. Obviously you
Speaker 1: want players that can get their hands on the ball,
Speaker 1: but do you guys have uh, you know, an added
Speaker 1: focus on bringing those kind of guys in. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a it's a great stat and obviously you
Speaker 1: want a deep well. And it's also a misleading stat
Speaker 1: because there are some of the best defensive backs that
Speaker 1: don't have pass breakups because no one throws the ball
Speaker 1: at him. You know. C's say, well, statistically he's not
Speaker 1: a very good corner. He's a really good corner because
Speaker 1: when the offense looks out to they go, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna throw it over there, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: get a pass breakup, he doesn't get an interception, doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything. He can have a in a quote unquote statistical,
Speaker 1: very quiet year, but coaching wise, everybody knows what a
Speaker 1: great talented corner he is. But obviously that's what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. And I think in the last three days
Speaker 1: we feel as a staff we're a lot closer in
Speaker 1: coverage and we've been. I think our guys are closer
Speaker 1: and routes. I think it's more challenging for our receivers,
Speaker 1: more challenging for our quarterbacks in terms of seven on seven,
Speaker 1: one on ones and things like that, because we've added
Speaker 1: depth and I think we've got some players right now.
Speaker 1: But we'll continue to work on that. Thanks guys,