Speaker 1: On a three point win. Let's start with the negative. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of focus on the Kibbots. That usual
Speaker 1: why it's not.
Speaker 2: A terrible player, But over kind, what was your.
Speaker 1: Assessment about overall?
Speaker 3: The offensive line didn't play good enough as a whole.
Speaker 3: Mckivots and Burford, Jake, Banks and Trent everybody could have
Speaker 3: played a lot better. So as a hole we need
Speaker 3: to play better. Obviously we did enough thing as well
Speaker 3: to have some production on offense, but it's not to
Speaker 3: the standard that the guys want to play to, and
Speaker 3: we play against a good front on the road and
Speaker 3: the game got the way he got. But it's still
Speaker 3: our guys. We have to play. We have to play
Speaker 3: a higher level and play better. And first game of
Speaker 3: the year, you don't until you get out there how
Speaker 3: you're going to be. So we obviously have to play
Speaker 3: a little bit more consistently is the key. There were
Speaker 3: some really good snaps, there's some really good things. There's
Speaker 3: times where all of them were playing at a very
Speaker 3: high level. There's other times where each guy would take
Speaker 3: their turn and have just a little bit off, you know,
Speaker 3: some more than others. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it wasn't a consistent enough performance by the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Colton, When you go out to practice for the first
Speaker 2: time on Wednesday, what are the points of emphasis for him?
Speaker 3: Same things as always. There's no change. There's no change,
Speaker 3: nothing's changed. So same reason you get beat on Sundays,
Speaker 3: the same reason you get beat on in August, the
Speaker 3: same reason you get beat in April. They're all the
Speaker 3: same things. There's no there's no oh, oh gosh, this happened.
Speaker 3: Now we'll fix this now, it's the same points of emphasis.
Speaker 3: And during the course of a game, a guy can
Speaker 3: fall back off and h and fall back into bad habits,
Speaker 3: or a guy can, uh, just in the course of
Speaker 3: a game loose sight of it. He seems to set
Speaker 3: a little bit deeper or set a little bit wider,
Speaker 3: or he's pulling back his outside hand too quickly. Whatever,
Speaker 3: there's a there's one hundred different things, but it's no
Speaker 3: different than you just look said, this is what's wrong.
Speaker 1: And it's that simple.
Speaker 3: It's it's simple, but it's not easy to do and
Speaker 3: to perform when you're in the heat of battle against
Speaker 3: a great rush or silent count all the things that
Speaker 3: went into the game, but no excuses.
Speaker 1: That's what we have to do.
Speaker 3: We'll be doing it this week, and we'll do it
Speaker 3: every week for the next seventeen hire man weeks are left,
Speaker 3: and if we get to play after that, then we'll
Speaker 3: have to do it then. So but really there's nothing
Speaker 3: like there's no oh hey cool, now we'll go out
Speaker 3: and now that will never happen again. Shoot, no, it's
Speaker 3: going to happen again. The same things that when Trent
Speaker 3: struggles with something, it's the same stuff. It's it's all
Speaker 3: the same. It's very rare that a guy stops having
Speaker 3: whatever that whatever his achilles heel is bad analogy after
Speaker 3: the Monday night game. But whatever that is, that guy
Speaker 3: definitely you have to it's going to kind of stick
Speaker 3: around for his whole career.
Speaker 1: It's hard to finally put it to bed.
Speaker 3: You're always going to have something in you that that
Speaker 3: you have to continue to address and sometimes new things
Speaker 3: crop up, though, is what.
Speaker 2: The mistakes that he made were. The easy fixes are
Speaker 2: the difficult faces.
Speaker 3: You know, they're they're all They're all the typical when
Speaker 3: a guy runs around the corner on you, there's you.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of different reasons for it. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: because you don't sit deep enough. Sometimes it's because you
Speaker 3: lean at the point of contact. Sometimes it's because you
Speaker 3: don't use your outside hand properly. Sometimes it's because you
Speaker 3: you do something with your footwork sometimes that you reach
Speaker 3: across with your inside hand to I mean, I could
Speaker 3: go down a list of fifteen things, twenty things that
Speaker 3: that all of them could lead to a guy turning
Speaker 3: the corner and spinning at the top and getting getting
Speaker 3: the pressures that he got from that, which is how
Speaker 3: he rushed the which is what you work on, which
Speaker 3: is really hard to replicate during the week. But as
Speaker 3: the game goes on, you would hope that it would
Speaker 3: get better, and it just didn't. It didn't get We
Speaker 3: just didn't make those steps during the game that you
Speaker 3: hope to make. But a great learning experience for him
Speaker 3: and for our team, and obviously it's got to be
Speaker 3: better and we'll keep working to make it better.
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald, over the last four years, eight times or
Speaker 2: nine times, you've seen him?
Speaker 4: How many different places that you've seen him?
Speaker 3: Every spot, all five spots I've seen him. I've seen
Speaker 3: him even saw him off the ball. I think at
Speaker 3: one point in our game a couple of years ago
Speaker 3: when Mack was here. We were looking at it the
Speaker 3: other day. But I've seen him on all five spots
Speaker 3: across the line, and they just put him in a
Speaker 3: position where they think they can get him in a
Speaker 3: one on one matchup without somebody helping trying to create
Speaker 3: one on one rushes for him, and you se him
Speaker 3: everywhere everbody's gonna see him.
Speaker 1: I I think he'll.
Speaker 3: Favor our right side, and based on how we set
Speaker 3: things up too, because they they kind of know what
Speaker 3: we're trying to do to them, so when we show
Speaker 3: a certain formation, they may put him somewhere else thinking
Speaker 3: that's where the one.
Speaker 1: On one is going to be.
Speaker 4: Nineteen when Debo got here, those kind of when Kyle
Speaker 4: John shifted more receivers, and particularly as it relates to
Speaker 4: the run game, how have you seen that commitment to
Speaker 4: getting physical guys, especially on the edges in the run game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I know one thing in this offense
Speaker 3: since I was involved in twenty ten with coach Shanahan
Speaker 3: and Washington, is that receivers are required to block. Receivers
Speaker 3: are required to be physical. Receivers are required to be
Speaker 3: the guy that is a that they're not going to
Speaker 3: be say well, that's acceptable. Everybody blocks everybody. Everybody's held
Speaker 3: to Iice center, and he takes all eleven guys to
Speaker 3: run the football. And if we don't have all eleven
Speaker 3: doing it, we're not gonna be a EFFECTI running the ball.
Speaker 3: That's always been the expectation here. So the physicality and
Speaker 3: the blocking, I think those guys have done a phenomenal
Speaker 3: job as far as the physicality and running. We're drafting
Speaker 3: receivers to be receivers if they happen to be Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 3: who's a running back and receiver whatever he's called himself
Speaker 3: the wide back or something like that, but he is
Speaker 3: a tremendous at both.
Speaker 1: And we've got physical guys.
Speaker 3: Whether that's the I don't I think if you asked Kyle,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure he'd say that's the mold that we're
Speaker 3: trying to fit guys into. We're gonna go get good
Speaker 3: receivers and then whatever they can do from there, they'll
Speaker 3: do them.
Speaker 4: Setting it to guys like Debo and Juwan, you know
Speaker 4: when when other younger guys come in where they're setting
Speaker 4: it tall.
Speaker 3: Though, in terms of absolutely our guys are asked to
Speaker 3: block linebackers on a lot of plays and and uh
Speaker 3: and because of that, they're not They don't turn it down.
Speaker 3: They do a nice job. It's a challenge for him too.
Speaker 3: They've blocked defensive ends in our Toss Crack game and
Speaker 3: they take it as a challenge and they work really hard.
Speaker 1: To do it, and I'm very proud of the way
Speaker 1: they execute it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it shows the other guys that, well, if
Speaker 3: Debo's doing it, if I was doing it, if JJ
Speaker 3: is doing it, then I need to do it.
Speaker 2: So Brandall yesterday he said that what makes Donald so
Speaker 2: hard to block is that he's small, but strong and fast,
Speaker 2: so he doesn't give you a big target. You guys
Speaker 2: have had some success against him. How would you describe him?
Speaker 2: What makes him the special player that he is?
Speaker 1: In your Jake nailed it.
Speaker 3: I mean he's he's a guy that's by no means uh,
Speaker 3: you know, he's just he's hard to get your hands on,
Speaker 3: which that's the key to protection. If you can get
Speaker 3: your hands on a guy and keep mona guy. Have
Speaker 3: a guy like Alden Smith who is tall and linear
Speaker 3: and slippery, you just could never get your hands on him.
Speaker 3: Right this guy's shorter and stock, you're and hard to
Speaker 3: get your hands on. What's funny is you can put
Speaker 3: together a highlight reel of some players that you probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't know who they were blocking him at times because
Speaker 3: when you do the right things against Aaron, he is
Speaker 3: a smaller guy, but getting your hands to that spot
Speaker 3: are almost impossible, and he makes it impossible to do it.
Speaker 3: Even when you do, he has the counter moves to
Speaker 3: take it off of him. So he's just got a
Speaker 3: complete package. There's just not a lot of surface to hit,
Speaker 3: and he's so strong and sol o to the ground
Speaker 3: that once he gets an edge, once he gets something
Speaker 3: on you, you don't recover from it.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 3: It's over when it's over, and so you've got to
Speaker 3: make sure you make it not be over as long
Speaker 3: as it can be.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, guys,