Speaker 1: Starting quarterbacks you worked with at those times were guys
Speaker 1: who you know, Peyton at the time, he's already on
Speaker 1: his way. It's going to be a Hall of fame
Speaker 1: career in Philip Rivers, you know, borderline kind of guy,
Speaker 1: well established. How does experience working with those kinds of
Speaker 1: guys at that stage of their careers impact what you
Speaker 1: do with Carson and the quarterbacks here in a day
Speaker 1: to day basis. I think it gives you a vision
Speaker 1: for where you want to be. You know, when you've
Speaker 1: worked with elite quarterbacks and then now you get a
Speaker 1: young guy who you believe is going to get there
Speaker 1: one day, and you understand what it took for these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, the Peyton Mannings and the Philip Rivers of
Speaker 1: the world to get to that point, the work that
Speaker 1: it took, the process that it went through, the ups
Speaker 1: and downs that they had. It kind of gives you
Speaker 1: a vision for that and it enables you to stay
Speaker 1: focused on that vision. Possession thirty seven minutes. I don't
Speaker 1: think the team has been particularly been on third down conversions,
Speaker 1: which kind of just seems an odds are kind of possession.
Speaker 1: I know, you're fourth and four on fourth down, but
Speaker 1: how do you how do you explain? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think some of the explanation of the of the
Speaker 1: time of possession we had as a credit to the defense,
Speaker 1: for they just keep giving it back to us. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, some of us been the fourth down conversions
Speaker 1: that have kept drives alive. You know, um so that
Speaker 1: the third down numbers aren't good, but um you factor
Speaker 1: in those fourth down numbers, now it starts to at
Speaker 1: least get up there a little bit. Um so. But
Speaker 1: it's just it's a team thing. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: defense and um you know, holding them to three play
Speaker 1: drives and then us making a few plays here and there.
Speaker 1: Better work third downs, stay in phase. I mean, I
Speaker 1: really I haven't looked at it. Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: just made a cut up the other day of all
Speaker 1: of our third downs, and and as I started to
Speaker 1: look back, I just know there's a lot of third
Speaker 1: and really long. Um. I don't know the exact numbers. Um,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to that point. But you got to
Speaker 1: stay in phase. You gotta get third and manageable. That's
Speaker 1: going to be key. And penalties put you in third
Speaker 1: and long. And if you get a second and long
Speaker 1: you've got to be good on second and long to
Speaker 1: kind of get it back in phase. Carson is so
Speaker 1: successful against the Blitz, like he is the highest confusion
Speaker 1: percentage against the Blitz and the league. What goes into him?
Speaker 1: I think it starts, you know, with he and Kelsey
Speaker 1: being on the same page in protections, and I can't
Speaker 1: I can't even begin to tell you how how much
Speaker 1: of a benefit it is to Carson to have a
Speaker 1: guy like Jason Kelsey as a center. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy is brilliant. He's absolutely brilliant in past protection calls
Speaker 1: and scheme and he just has this air of confidence
Speaker 1: about him that I think sets the tone for what
Speaker 1: we do in the protection world. So and then Carson
Speaker 1: has that himself. He's just a little bit younger than Kelsey,
Speaker 1: so I think those two are on the same page.
Speaker 1: I think Carson is extremely confident that Kelsey is going
Speaker 1: to get the right things communicated up front. And then
Speaker 1: I think Carson has he has a fearlessness in the pocket.
Speaker 1: The guy's not afraid. He'll stand in the pocket, make
Speaker 1: to throw versus pressure. He doesn't have an ounce of
Speaker 1: fear in him in the pocket, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things I really love about him, and that's why
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why it's good against the Blitz.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty much I guess this way with
Speaker 1: every back. But you know, can he be effective just
Speaker 1: carrying at night times? Gets no? I mean you know no.
Speaker 1: I mean I think backs you want to get fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty carries? So, um, you know, we we ran the
Speaker 1: ball fairly well in the second half, you know, Monday night.
Speaker 1: But still where I really believe that we're gonna our
Speaker 1: running game is just going to continue to get better.
Speaker 1: We've run it okay at times. I think we have
Speaker 1: a really good offensive line. I think our backs are good. Uh,
Speaker 1: I just think it's early in the process. We need
Speaker 1: to just keep handing in the footballs, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: our guys are our guys. You know you you you drill,
Speaker 1: you teach, and you encourage, you rebuke you know when.
Speaker 1: But um, I don't think you over emphasize it. You know,
Speaker 1: I just think you just keep playing football. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: no one wants to drop the ball. No one wants
Speaker 1: to throw a bad pass or miss a block or
Speaker 1: miss an assignment. So it's gonna happen. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of evidence of positive things. So, um, I I
Speaker 1: don't get two worked out. I don't like it when
Speaker 1: it happens, but you just got to move on to
Speaker 1: the next play played a night and you can pay
Speaker 1: into exactly what I think. We thought he was gonna do,
Speaker 1: make some plays and uh, what we thought the whole
Speaker 1: off season. You know, he worked. What he showed us
Speaker 1: the whole off season kind of put him in position
Speaker 1: where when Zach went down that he wasn't just filling in.
Speaker 1: This is a guy He's not just gonna fill in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna go to him. I mean, Carson
Speaker 1: has a ton of confidence in him. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: so we'll bounce it out. You know, we'll bounce it out.
Speaker 1: We got we gotta. We feel like we got a
Speaker 1: good staple guys that can make plays. Trey adds to mix.
Speaker 1: It's the way this is in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: it spreads around. You know, it's two weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: one guy gets the ball a lot, and then two
Speaker 1: weeks later, all of a sudden, hufs making all the
Speaker 1: plays or dgb's making It's just kind of you just
Speaker 1: get a feel for when that's kind of the way
Speaker 1: it ends up working out. Usually it's all the running
Speaker 1: game back so far? Do you think, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the running You know, we ran
Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty three yards in the first
Speaker 1: game and you know, one hundred last games. So that's
Speaker 1: that's okay. I mean, that's that's acceptable. Um, it needs
Speaker 1: it needs to be better. We expect it to be better.
Speaker 1: But that's certainly in the acceptable range. Uh. We just
Speaker 1: have like to have a few more explosive runs and
Speaker 1: keep it in phase. And but I think we're on
Speaker 1: our way to that more given cars in the option
Speaker 1: to run a little more and not a lot, maybe
Speaker 1: one or two times. And can people all open things
Speaker 1: up more for the run game or has there been
Speaker 1: a reluctance to do that because you're just afraid of
Speaker 1: getting your army? Um? You know, I think there has
Speaker 1: been and a little bit of thought into not putting
Speaker 1: him in that position to too much too early. UM.
Speaker 1: I would envision as the season goes on, you know
Speaker 1: that that has brought more and more into it. But
Speaker 1: you're just starting out, and I want to make sure
Speaker 1: he gets the message, um, which he needs to prove
Speaker 1: that he's gotten the message that he can that we
Speaker 1: can give him that responsibility and he can protect himself. Um,
Speaker 1: and he was coming off an injury and we knew
Speaker 1: he was fine. You know, we knew he was fine.
Speaker 1: But as a coach, there's still that little bit in
Speaker 1: the back of your mind of hey, let's just play
Speaker 1: it safe for a week or two until we know
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, you guys have used pretty much
Speaker 1: all play backs in both games. Again, is that difficult
Speaker 1: to manage? I mean, Kennell work something. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think it can work. You got to have unselfish players,
Speaker 1: and we do. Duce does a great job with those guys.
Speaker 1: Some of the some of the carrier, some of the
Speaker 1: different use of the backs is very specific where Coach
Speaker 1: Peterson puts it into the game plan that he won
Speaker 1: Sprawls in on this plane, and Ryan in on this play,
Speaker 1: and ken Yon in and this play of small Wooden
Speaker 1: on this play, and then some of it is just
Speaker 1: the rotation and you know that really comes from the
Speaker 1: position coach. So that's kind of Deuce, And you know,
Speaker 1: Douce will talk to coach primarily and say, hey, here's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about rotate how I'm going to rotate
Speaker 1: these guys this week, and Coach he kind of gives
Speaker 1: his plan to Coach Peterson tells him how he's going
Speaker 1: to rotate him. Coach kind of signs off on that plan,
Speaker 1: and then Dous kind of he has the freedom to
Speaker 1: rotate his guys as he sees fit. Like I said, though,
Speaker 1: other plays are very specific, and so that's just the
Speaker 1: way it normally rolls. You mentioned Manning and Rivers as
Speaker 1: kind of the end goal, you know, for for Carson,
Speaker 1: how specific and kind of granular at all? Do you
Speaker 1: get with him about you know, hey, when Peyton saw
Speaker 1: this or defenses try to do that, he had, you know,
Speaker 1: this little thing that nobody could pick up on that
Speaker 1: he did, Or the same thing with Philip, I mean,
Speaker 1: does he get to that level of detail with yes,
Speaker 1: but very selectively, you know. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: really important that we focus on our guys and as coaches,
Speaker 1: we've all had experience with great players at every all
Speaker 1: of our position, coaches of we've all coached great players
Speaker 1: in our career, a lot of great players in this game,
Speaker 1: and you certainly would be ridiculous to not use those
Speaker 1: experiences but you know, you just try to keep Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll make general statements that I have something experience with
Speaker 1: Peyton or Philip in mind, but I don't have to
Speaker 1: say it was with Peyton. They know, guys know. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're bringing our experiences to the table, just like they're
Speaker 1: bringing theirs to the table. But every now and then
Speaker 1: you pull something out just very selectively. Hey, everything, you
Speaker 1: pull something out of a Peyton story or a Philip story,
Speaker 1: or take whatever the position is for their guy. You
Speaker 1: pull one out that you think can be effective and
Speaker 1: trying to get a point across run stopping the run.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't know for sure, but
Speaker 1: you could look over the last twenty years, this defense
Speaker 1: is continually in the top five versus the run. You know,
Speaker 1: they got great schemes to stop the run, they got
Speaker 1: great personnel to stop the run, and that that's they
Speaker 1: put you into a pass only mode and then they
Speaker 1: can run some of their exotic stuff. But I think
Speaker 1: that's their strength. Yes, yes, no, I mean he should
Speaker 1: there's a couple of hits he shouldn't have taken. There's
Speaker 1: ones on the sideline, you know that he shouldn't have took.
Speaker 1: Last week that were not good plays. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just can't do that. And he knows that we've taught,
Speaker 1: you know, coach, we've all talked to him about that
Speaker 1: you just can't do that and uh so, but some
Speaker 1: of the hits in the pocket, that's just now. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're protecting well, there's been one or two miss protection
Speaker 1: calls that he's had um that are on him, But
Speaker 1: other than that, I think it's normal course of business.