Speaker 1: And he's obviously on track and doing well. Um, Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews again, just a little sore in his ankles. We're
Speaker 1: gonna just hold him, uh today and make sure he's
Speaker 1: again good for it. He'll be fine for the game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hold Darren Sprowls. He's in the protocol still
Speaker 1: so um nothing nothing really new there until he until
Speaker 1: he clears all that and then big V as well,
Speaker 1: we'll hold. We'll hold him again today today, well just today,
Speaker 1: just today. Yeah, we'll see where he's at tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry about that. You're expecting to be able to play
Speaker 1: right now. I'm expecting him to play. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: right now we're gonna give Isaac all those reps over
Speaker 1: there and uh and see where see where he's at.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Alan's a veteran guy that has
Speaker 1: played there, so he doesn't need a ton of reps
Speaker 1: necessarily get himself aady to go. More mounted for him.
Speaker 1: How much has he practiced at tackle before this and
Speaker 1: would he be ready to play if we got a
Speaker 1: little bit way back in the spring, if that's in
Speaker 1: the indication. Um, you know, he's been more guard, he's
Speaker 1: gotten some tackle on the service team, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: going against our defense things like that over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But but obviously nothing with our our
Speaker 1: offense has been more guard in that tight end position.
Speaker 1: Random book, what's going on with random Books? Um? Not
Speaker 1: right now? You know we're still and we're still kind
Speaker 1: of diving into the bottom of it. It's it's you know,
Speaker 1: in the hands of our medical staff and they're they're
Speaker 1: dealing with it today. Tackle a little Isaac start at
Speaker 1: left guard, that's left guard to be with. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: what have you learned? And all this time playing with
Speaker 1: that Lane Johnson? What have you learn? Have you learned
Speaker 1: anything about Lane and his value? And does a disappointment
Speaker 1: row is things unfolded the way they do. Well, I
Speaker 1: think that the biggest thing, the glaring thing is we're
Speaker 1: on our fifth right tackle and with Lane and you
Speaker 1: know we didn't we weren't going through this, So you're
Speaker 1: asking guys to kind of play out of position. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Alan's been been a guard and then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, big v young rookie player and gets hurt
Speaker 1: and then you know Matt Tobin gets hurt and and
Speaker 1: uh you know, so so now we're on our fifth
Speaker 1: but um, you know, he's a he's a veteran player,
Speaker 1: and and uh, he is a tackle and and you know, um,
Speaker 1: we're just looking forward to to next week and getting
Speaker 1: him back. The last two games, Carson has dropped back
Speaker 1: fifty or more times, and then over the last seven
Speaker 1: I think it's forty seven pass attempts for an averager.
Speaker 1: Do you want to manage that better? I know there's
Speaker 1: circumstances in each different game in Cincinnati get down, but
Speaker 1: do you want to manage that better? The amount I
Speaker 1: love to manage that a little bit, a little bit
Speaker 1: more for him, you know, I think it's putting him
Speaker 1: in a in a tough situation. And as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know we've we've gotten behind. You know, last week
Speaker 1: we had the two minute drive to to to go
Speaker 1: down and everything was a throw. And then the week
Speaker 1: before war down so early and so so fast that
Speaker 1: we had to we had to throw the ball. But
Speaker 1: I would love to be able to manage it. You know,
Speaker 1: you lean on that offensive line more with the with
Speaker 1: the run game. Obviously, you know we're going against a
Speaker 1: tough run defense this week, and and uh, and yet
Speaker 1: we still have to be patient with with that to
Speaker 1: help our quarterback starting Baltimore is number one in the
Speaker 1: league games to run? Does that I know you want
Speaker 1: the balance that you just talked about, but does that
Speaker 1: play on your mind that we're going against the number
Speaker 1: one run defense? We go, Yeah, and there's ways to
Speaker 1: run the ball. You just don't have to necessarily line
Speaker 1: up and try to run at them, you know, um
Speaker 1: we do. We do some things with our rpo game.
Speaker 1: I even think the three step passing game, the quick
Speaker 1: passing game can can kind of offset your run game
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it keeps your quarterback from being hit.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, you're still gonna have to line up
Speaker 1: and and and and try to go toe to toe
Speaker 1: with uh with it with a good defense named him
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. You obviously had a long term plan for
Speaker 1: this season with Carson, and games dictated different things. But
Speaker 1: did you foresee him passing it's much it's late in
Speaker 1: the season, or did it kind of change and involved
Speaker 1: as a seasons? Yeah, you know, I didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: anticipate him him throwing the ball quite as much. You know,
Speaker 1: we felt or I felt that he was capable of
Speaker 1: doing it. But you never want to expose a young
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback to that. And and listen, he's done some
Speaker 1: outstanding things for us in the run game and in
Speaker 1: the passing game. And you know, have we asked a
Speaker 1: lot of him? Yeah, we have, and he's handled it
Speaker 1: extremely well. And um, you know, it's just making him
Speaker 1: a better, better quarterback for not only the rest of
Speaker 1: this season, but for the for the future. Pretty early
Speaker 1: that that Carson was very vocal about what plays he wanted,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And he did a good job of expressing
Speaker 1: that to you. You've also said recently that he's done
Speaker 1: a good job of telling you in terms of person
Speaker 1: noble guys. Maybe you know he was to see we
Speaker 1: see a little more trait berd. How's he gone about
Speaker 1: for voicing more of that? Um with the coaches, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's open dialogue, you know, and I welcome
Speaker 1: that and and um, you know, within within a obviously
Speaker 1: as coaches, we we tend to have the final final
Speaker 1: say on certain things. But listen, he's the quarterback, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's comfortable with with with all his receivers.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he's got more time invested
Speaker 1: with with guys like Urtz and and Trey and and
Speaker 1: so you know, we keep we keep working with with everybody,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know dgb's missed the last two, so
Speaker 1: you know we're really a game and a half. So
Speaker 1: you know, we get him back and now he can
Speaker 1: he can get back in the fold. So UM, I
Speaker 1: I enjoy you know, those conversations, whether during the week
Speaker 1: or on the sideline, Um as we as we piece
Speaker 1: a game playing together. You have any memories of Harbs
Speaker 1: from the year you were special teams at ninety nine,
Speaker 1: but could you for see him having a kind of
Speaker 1: coaching career he's going on that. You know, it's one
Speaker 1: thing about special teams, uh coaches and Harves was was
Speaker 1: definitely this way. He's with the team as much as
Speaker 1: I am, you know, because he's with everybody, and and
Speaker 1: uh a lot of times special teams coaches can can
Speaker 1: make good head coaches. And and he's he's definitely done that.
Speaker 1: And Baltimore and and UM, you know I think too,
Speaker 1: Um he's over the years, he's brought in uh great
Speaker 1: assistant coaches, good coordinators, UM offensively, defensively and on special teams,
Speaker 1: and uh, the way he the way he leads, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the same same things that you know, just
Speaker 1: for that one year that I was here that I
Speaker 1: can remember the things he did with special teams and
Speaker 1: those meetings. Obviously you see him doing it with this
Speaker 1: with this football team, and and um, very smart guy.
Speaker 1: Um and look forward to shaking his hand this weekend
Speaker 1: this week What kind of sticks out of that you
Speaker 1: notice similar? Yeah, as far as you know, obviously their
Speaker 1: size and arm strength are um are are are very similar.
Speaker 1: I think you know, Joe throws the deep ball extremely well.
Speaker 1: He's very accurate with the deep with the deep pass,
Speaker 1: and and uh you know he's another one that can
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hand extremely fast. You know,
Speaker 1: he can set his feet and and and get the
Speaker 1: ball out and um, you know he's I think I
Speaker 1: think you know one thing that uh, you know, watching
Speaker 1: this offense, you know, with with Marty, you know, calling
Speaker 1: the plays, you see him you see a little bit
Speaker 1: more of what we do a little bit you know
Speaker 1: with the with the quote unquote West Coast stuff, the
Speaker 1: core plays that are there, and um, utilizing the personnel.
Speaker 1: He understands his personnel and and uh, um you know
Speaker 1: he's very patient quarterback and and he just sort of
Speaker 1: lets the game unfold and takes what the defense can
Speaker 1: give him and manages it that way. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: if he gets an opportunity to shoot the ball down
Speaker 1: the field, he's going to do it. And he's very
Speaker 1: accurate doing that to the offensive one. It's kind of
Speaker 1: been mix and match as lane has gone. How much
Speaker 1: has that impacted this team works? It's today's five names. Um,
Speaker 1: it can definitely u affect you, uh, the cohesiveness, the
Speaker 1: especially with those five guys you know up front, because
Speaker 1: that's such a close unit. You know, they have to
Speaker 1: communicate every every play on every play, run or pass,
Speaker 1: and and that's always as group and anytime it gets disrupted,
Speaker 1: it just sort of it just sort of you know,
Speaker 1: takes a little bit out of them a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, the one thing, Um, I think that
Speaker 1: this group is just really hung together. You know, there's
Speaker 1: some great leaders there with Kelsey and Jason Peters, and
Speaker 1: I think these guys have really kind of kept the
Speaker 1: you know, kept it all together. And then you know
Speaker 1: Whiz is another one that's had a lot of games
Speaker 1: and again just just you know, putting all those pieces
Speaker 1: together can be a little disruptive for your offense and
Speaker 1: yet they're they're they're fighting and battling and working through it.
Speaker 1: Full star panelties this year drug including I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry twenty four and fifteen at Home, would suggests that
Speaker 1: it's not just the noise that's causing a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Uh is there a common threat there that I mean,
Speaker 1: is there any kind of cadence situation with Carson the people? Again? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it it goes back. I think a little
Speaker 1: bit too. You know, we we utilize and we use
Speaker 1: so many cadences. Um. The other thing too is as
Speaker 1: playing when you play the quarterback position and you see
Speaker 1: the defense react in a certain way, you sort of
Speaker 1: you can pause your cadence and and redirect protection. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you might as alignment, you might hear something that
Speaker 1: might simulate the snap count and and and it triggers
Speaker 1: triggers a false start. Um. You know, when we use
Speaker 1: the silent count, it's obviously predicated on on the tap
Speaker 1: and the head movement by Kelsey and and uh, you
Speaker 1: know we we as as tackles, we um, we teach
Speaker 1: them to anticipate that. So you know, it's a you know,
Speaker 1: again with a with a new quarterback, a young quarterback, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you keep working through it, and you keep
Speaker 1: working on it in practice, and um, it's something uh
Speaker 1: that that we know we have to address and and
Speaker 1: and fix it. All parts of the game are obviously connected.
Speaker 1: You feel like what's been happening on offense is is
Speaker 1: having a direct impact on the defense to where you
Speaker 1: know their productivity has gone down as this as the
Speaker 1: season has gone away. It can affect, it can affect that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they're you know mid season, we um,
Speaker 1: we struggled on third down obviously, so our defense was
Speaker 1: out there a little bit more more. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things that we've done a little bit
Speaker 1: better here in the last couple of weeks is third
Speaker 1: down efficiency has been better. We've stayed on the field,
Speaker 1: time of possession, all that stuff. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at the the game Sunday, the time of possession and
Speaker 1: the number of plays you know that we're run by
Speaker 1: both teams was was was really skewed, you know, but
Speaker 1: it should it should indicate that you should win those games.
Speaker 1: But obviously we had a couple of red zone turnovers offensively,
Speaker 1: Um that negated some touchdowns and uh, we just can't
Speaker 1: we can't do that you know, we can't shoot ourselves
Speaker 1: in a foot that way. And um, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: do believe that sometimes if you can't get off the
Speaker 1: field on third down defensively but yet same way offensively,
Speaker 1: if you can't convert those third downs, it's going to
Speaker 1: affect you in the long runs. Have you talked to him,
Speaker 1: and do you have any reason to believe this won't happen?
Speaker 1: He can? Do you have any I mean, can you
Speaker 1: go into Sunday thinking, you know, feeling secure about having
Speaker 1: them out there? We talked again yesterday and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, the only thing I know
Speaker 1: and and really is that, uh you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: helping him and getting him, getting him ready. I I'm
Speaker 1: I have full confidence in him that that he'll be ready,
Speaker 1: and and uh you know obviously you you I think
Speaker 1: now we can maybe anticipate, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, um, we expect him to now that now
Speaker 1: that we're kind of on the right track, I think,
Speaker 1: um that this hopefully doesn't doesn't happen again. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you can do Friday Saturday, leaving up to Sunday?
Speaker 1: I mean that just no, I mean with him, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: do you I mean, you can't you know, it's just
Speaker 1: you can't. You don't know, so you don't know what's
Speaker 1: caused him to feel good that I want happen again.
Speaker 1: I mean, when do you feel sick? I don't know,
Speaker 1: mister day work, you go, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's a weird thing. It is a weird thing,
Speaker 1: and that's why we're you know, our medical team is
Speaker 1: on it all right, Thanks guys. Mm hm h m
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