Speaker 1: S part to UH training camp the first two days.
Speaker 1: UH A lot of.
Speaker 2: Energy and the way the guys are flying around, and
Speaker 2: I think that's definitely a great start for us defensively,
Speaker 2: UH pretty much trying to pick up what we left
Speaker 2: off in the spring.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 2: Communication is always the key early on and really trying
Speaker 2: to avoid uh the mishaps right here for its miscommunication.
Speaker 2: I think the guys are doing the outsetting job number
Speaker 2: one of communicating to one another and as you can
Speaker 2: see being out there, UH flying around and getting to
Speaker 2: the football.
Speaker 1: So UH with that, I'll take you questions. H.
Speaker 2: How's the acclimation process going for you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Coming in here with UH basically a holdover staff UH
Speaker 3: and just learning things as you go to UH.
Speaker 2: I think that's the key thing that you just said,
Speaker 2: is UH having an open mind to learn. You know,
Speaker 2: been around quite a bit, I've done a lot of
Speaker 2: different things, but UH it's not my way as the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers way. So easy transition from the spring
Speaker 2: to now and just trying to continue to build onto
Speaker 2: the things that we've uh stopped was in the spring.
Speaker 1: I sure like that here sooner than later.
Speaker 4: But in the meantimes, is it helpful to get a chance.
Speaker 3: To get a better look at some of those other
Speaker 3: guys who are kind of chocking position around him or
Speaker 3: beside him.
Speaker 2: I I it's a long season, and uh, you're always
Speaker 2: gonna have guys step up and have to play. I
Speaker 2: go back, and I look at the spring with the
Speaker 2: opportunity that uh those other other corners had with Money
Speaker 2: not being here. Uh, he had opportunity right now for
Speaker 2: uh Amory to get better. He saw Demo progressing, getting better.
Speaker 2: So I agree totally. You know, it's a change for
Speaker 2: you know, Drake to step up along with Austin Bryant
Speaker 2: and uh a lot of other guys.
Speaker 3: See, I I get the sense that Kim Law's got
Speaker 3: some momentum going.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing from him?
Speaker 2: Well, y, you know from day one, I've I've been
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, Ken Law and his progression.
Speaker 1: Uh. He stayed here all summer.
Speaker 2: Uh, dedicated himself for us, trying to continue to get
Speaker 2: his body right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Mentally he's in a great spot and just a love
Speaker 2: the way he's playing, violent hands up front, getting off
Speaker 2: the ball, and the way he's turning and running and
Speaker 2: getting to the football is amazing.
Speaker 1: I know. Uh, Kyle showed one of the players in the.
Speaker 2: Team meeting this morning with him just coming out of
Speaker 2: the stack as we call it, and I'm just excited
Speaker 2: right now and just uh looking for him to have
Speaker 2: a great year.
Speaker 1: You our great appear to have a sack at one point.
Speaker 1: What makes him so difficult to block, particularly on passways?
Speaker 2: Uh, pad level, very explosive, a low center and gravity
Speaker 2: to the ground. He has a great quick first step
Speaker 2: coming off the ball, and he's very powerful defense.
Speaker 4: But yeah, pretty back pick your y defense picks 'em
Speaker 4: all r right away?
Speaker 1: Is there had energy when when party's bad? What what
Speaker 1: does the defense pick up against?
Speaker 2: Well, Uh, I think it's it's great energy. Uh across
Speaker 2: the board. We we know what he can do. We
Speaker 2: know what he was able to establish last year. So uh,
Speaker 2: guy's feet off him. You know, just my perspective. I
Speaker 2: I've seen all those guys progressing get better trades. One
Speaker 2: a tremendous job back in the spring as well. But
Speaker 2: perty does bring U a level of excitement.
Speaker 3: Yesterday who fung up made a play And Kyle said
Speaker 3: he'd have to go back and watch the film on
Speaker 3: the pass break up on the depault figure.
Speaker 1: Out how we got over there. What happened? What did
Speaker 1: you see on that plant? Uh? Great read, good anticipation.
Speaker 2: You know, we always teach those guys it's not so
Speaker 2: much where the quarterback is looking when he's dropping back,
Speaker 2: cause when he get to the top of his drop
Speaker 2: and he did a tr he he did a tremendous
Speaker 2: job really reading the quarterback's eyes anticipated had a great
Speaker 2: break and also understanding the formation. So we always say
Speaker 2: the formation is talking to you. Gotta listen with your eyes.
Speaker 2: So it's certain things that he saw pre snap right
Speaker 2: that gave him a jump on the ball.
Speaker 1: You talk about wanting to yuh cut down the explosive.
Speaker 3: Uh in the secondary all if you went up trying
Speaker 3: to go over the top of those times today?
Speaker 1: Uh, how was that working? How was it all tied together? Uh?
Speaker 1: It's time together.
Speaker 2: Just everybody understanding that I'm gonna make my play when
Speaker 2: the opportunity comes that. Uh, if they catch something inside
Speaker 2: and in front of us, it's not gonna beat us.
Speaker 2: You know, we gotta line up and play again. But
Speaker 2: we can't give up the big play. And you know
Speaker 2: we talked about that day one when we came back.
Speaker 2: You know, the Miami game was something that I talked about,
Speaker 2: uh and showed clips from last year. In the first
Speaker 2: play the game seventy five yards, So, uh, we weathered
Speaker 2: the storm there, but we wanna make sure we're not
Speaker 2: giving those up.
Speaker 4: So, uh, shall your brown get a a first team rep?
Speaker 4: And then he immediately came off the field.
Speaker 2: Uh are y are you.
Speaker 4: Doing that to give him specific looks against you know?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Is it thick alignment?
Speaker 2: Not not so much that you know, h we just
Speaker 2: got him in the rotation and and really uh long term,
Speaker 2: also trying to take some pressure off you know Gibson,
Speaker 2: you know, who's a seasoned veteran, and uh, we're looking
Speaker 2: at the long haul and and making sure that he's
Speaker 2: he's there at the end of the season, but also
Speaker 2: opportunity for those young guys to progress because again, at
Speaker 2: some point in time, we're gonna need him.
Speaker 4: Well, I was just having a a veteran like Ibsen
Speaker 4: and not CD's help that.
Speaker 2: Group just develop us.
Speaker 1: Uh. It's great.
Speaker 2: You know, we had some veterans that that left us,
Speaker 2: uh that were great players for us. But and uh,
Speaker 2: with Gibson being there, Uh, it's been a tremendous boost
Speaker 2: for us. You know, uh, God that's been around quite
Speaker 2: a bit can really be that vocal piece extension of
Speaker 2: the coach in that meeting room as well as the
Speaker 2: locker room. You know, you know Huff third year, but
Speaker 2: he's progressing and he's starting to learn and come along
Speaker 2: as well. Uh So I like his leadership in the
Speaker 2: way he communicates out there as an goal for you
Speaker 2: as or uh I he does because number one, he
Speaker 2: controls a lot based off formations and the communication that
Speaker 2: the nickel has to talk to the linebackers, particularly when
Speaker 2: we start getting motion and things that that are changing.
Speaker 2: So uh, we emphasize that the other day that you know,
Speaker 2: he has to be vocal, he has to take control,
Speaker 2: and he's done a tremendous job of that thus far.
Speaker 1: Well has has played outside so recently did you.
Speaker 4: See him blames and all sizes.
Speaker 1: He gives us that flexibility.
Speaker 2: I I think, you know, uh, the rotation that we
Speaker 2: have outside right now I think.
Speaker 1: Is pretty good, pretty deep.
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, you never wanna get to the
Speaker 2: situation where injuries come up. It happens, but he gives
Speaker 2: you opportunity to be able to go outside and play
Speaker 2: right now inside man, I mean I probably probably never
Speaker 2: been around a a a group like this on defense,
Speaker 2: particularly up front. The talent level that we have. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: see he plays three you know at times right there
Speaker 2: we can put him at you know, the the two
Speaker 2: ey and the nose as well.
Speaker 1: But uh, he's pretty effective. We just have the three technique.
Speaker 3: Armstead was saying yesterday that he's not really a real
Speaker 3: overly vocal R guy.
Speaker 2: You know, Nick pos is pretty low key and dead man.
Speaker 3: John Hargrave is a really amble, hardworking guy.
Speaker 1: Is there like a a s a presence in there
Speaker 1: that this kind of guy.
Speaker 3: That serves things up or I think they said it's
Speaker 3: up as the.
Speaker 1: Way we play. You know what, what do you see
Speaker 1: about that front seven? The sites? That's what I was
Speaker 1: a great echo.
Speaker 2: I I think, you know, the way they play speaks
Speaker 2: speaks volumes. You know, our vocal guys, Fred he's gonna
Speaker 2: get everybody going from the front and the back.
Speaker 1: So, uh, the the.
Speaker 2: Way those guys play up front, uh speaks speaks loud,
Speaker 2: you know. So Uh, I want them to continue to
Speaker 2: play hard, get off the ball, and do the things
Speaker 2: that we're asking them to do.
Speaker 4: What's been your impression of just seeing Fred and that
Speaker 4: energy you know in the first two days of camp
Speaker 4: when that things are maybe a little.
Speaker 2: Slow, and you know he's beating that vocal Uh again,
Speaker 2: he just brings the juice. I think it it It
Speaker 2: excites the uh the defense.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I I I go back and I think about a
Speaker 2: guy like, uh Thomas Davis in Carolina.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know that Fred's.
Speaker 2: That guy, you know, Uh, very vocal, but also his
Speaker 2: play is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: But if you've m you mentioned that the the guys
Speaker 3: at the front are unique in terms of how they played.
Speaker 3: They have really been around a group like that. You
Speaker 3: look at your path and other different stots. Is there
Speaker 3: anybody that they mind you of in terms of the group?
Speaker 1: Right? Well?
Speaker 2: Well, I I mean I don't like to compare, you know. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the thing with me. I think these
Speaker 2: guys are unique.
Speaker 1: Uh. And when I say it, n haven't been around
Speaker 1: a group like this. That's what I mean. A group.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got we have depth, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's not when one guy comes out that you
Speaker 2: feel like, Okay, we're gonna drop off.
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: So Uh, the depth that we have across the board
Speaker 2: inside and out. Man that that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: IVE never been around anything like this, so, uh, we've
Speaker 2: done a tremendous job starting with you know, with John
Speaker 2: and Kyle, you know, building this roster and and getting
Speaker 2: us the guys that we need to.
Speaker 1: To to uh play and succeed with. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that, right.
Speaker 4: I apologize, uh in advance for my questions, but.
Speaker 1: Uh you never had a side. Shall say that again,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well.
Speaker 4: You know, apologize for my question in advanced who you
Speaker 4: adurs and your stories we have to write so here
Speaker 4: it comes. Are you or any family members members and
Speaker 4: the coaching staff that you know pretty jacked up?
Speaker 2: Or Taylor swith Well, I would say this, Uh My
Speaker 2: wife was pretty upset, uh cause she's back in North
Speaker 2: Carolina right now, so she was pretty upset the matter
Speaker 2: of fact that she wasn't gonna be able to go
Speaker 2: to the concert, so she thought about flying out here
Speaker 2: and yeah, so I'm not a real big fan, but
Speaker 2: she was definitely upset about it.
Speaker 1: Alright, appreciate you guys, take care. Thank you.