Speaker 1: Welcome into the game plan logan.
Speaker 2: This one's extra specially and it seems wild called baby.
Speaker 1: We are in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We catch up with here coaches dan Quinn and talk
Speaker 2: all about our matchup today in Tampa. Back and we're
Speaker 2: talking matches as always to end the show and hopefully
Speaker 2: these matches.
Speaker 1: Hope we'll get the advantage and get this w today
Speaker 1: on Tampa.
Speaker 3: All that more on the game plan.
Speaker 2: Welcome you in head coach to the game playing dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: You made it to the playoffs in your first year.
Speaker 2: How great does that feel, especially doing in your first
Speaker 2: year with the Commanders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool man.
Speaker 4: It's good to be on with you guys and our
Speaker 4: postseason editions you need to have some more so it's
Speaker 4: all good man, guys doing well and the energy does
Speaker 4: ramp up, and that's natural, you know, when you get
Speaker 4: to the postseason and using that energy and make it
Speaker 4: normal to know that, like, hey, it's the execution, the
Speaker 4: focus to going into it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we're ready to rip.
Speaker 5: And imagine you're kind of a unique position having been
Speaker 5: there a couple of times, Like how do you kind
Speaker 5: of draw on that experience to kind of say, hey,
Speaker 5: this is this is some things to expect. This is
Speaker 5: some things we should just be thinking about in the season.
Speaker 4: The first thing I did was, hey, man, the weeks
Speaker 4: are all planned out for it. You don't have worry
Speaker 4: about anything. All you have to worry about it And
Speaker 4: I actually showed the calendar, like that's all squared away.
Speaker 3: All you have to do is is this week.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Just make sure that's all that matters. Like when you
Speaker 4: get into a tournament setting, it's all it is this game,
Speaker 4: this matchup. How do you dig in the focus for
Speaker 4: the game plan and use that energy little turbo boost
Speaker 4: you know, it's a good thing for you. And so
Speaker 4: knowing that that's normal to have that kind of good
Speaker 4: energy and then put it right back into the plan,
Speaker 4: he can play, can play better the game plan, and
Speaker 4: so make it feel a normal energy like you're supposed
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 3: A little a little more juice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Culch will be taking on the type of
Speaker 2: a Buccaneers today face them in week one.
Speaker 1: Yep, I notice is a loaded questionable. What's changed since then?
Speaker 3: Well, it's very rare that you get to go full circle.
Speaker 4: In one season that's not a division opponent, And so
Speaker 4: I think there's It's interesting started our season with there
Speaker 4: and we're beginning our second season there, and so I
Speaker 4: hope a lot's changed in eighteen weeks. I know we're
Speaker 4: not the same, but it's a great measuring stick to
Speaker 4: see how much we have improved and the things we've
Speaker 4: gotten better at the scheme we knew that would develop.
Speaker 4: But to see the players, their connection, their love for
Speaker 4: one another, how hard they play situation football, that's something
Speaker 4: that I couldn't tell them eighteen weeks from now, You're.
Speaker 3: Going to get a lot better, you know. But I
Speaker 3: knew that they had a lot of areas that we
Speaker 3: would grow.
Speaker 4: And now that we've been through some tests together, they're
Speaker 4: a tough team, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: But we're not also the same team from that week.
Speaker 5: So like, how do you look at the eval you know,
Speaker 5: because like weak one seems like a lifetime ago, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So when you're evaluating Tampa Bay,
Speaker 5: you're like, oh, these are some things they did well
Speaker 5: that we can kind of make sure we double click
Speaker 5: on in the week of practice, or you say, hey,
Speaker 5: that was so long ago. They've changed a lot to
Speaker 5: like where do you draw that line in terms of
Speaker 5: kind of getting ready for the game.
Speaker 4: You want to make use the game obviously, but you
Speaker 4: also want to make sure that nothing's going to be
Speaker 4: just rinse and repeating. These are some concepts they did.
Speaker 4: This was successful. I would expect them to try that again.
Speaker 4: These are also a number of things on all three
Speaker 4: phases over the last you know, seventeen weeks that we've
Speaker 4: got to be prepared for. But like most things, you know,
Speaker 4: they're slogan in the postseason like it's explosive plays and
Speaker 4: tackling and things that it's fundamentals really like, that's why
Speaker 4: we do work so hard at that so when we
Speaker 4: do get to this time of season, you're not making
Speaker 4: things up. And so it's like I went in Monday
Speaker 4: and said, you know, I had a great idea. We're
Speaker 4: going to change a bunch of things this week. We're
Speaker 4: going to practice at night, and they're kind of looking
Speaker 4: at me like with their head tilt.
Speaker 3: They said, no, man, I'm just bullshitting. We're going to
Speaker 3: do everything in the same fashion.
Speaker 4: You know what we're do on Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays,
Speaker 4: and knowing that, you know when that gets you ready to.
Speaker 2: Play, and our rookie quarterback Jay and Daniels has looked
Speaker 2: so impressive this year, but now this is first time
Speaker 2: on that big playoff stage.
Speaker 1: What has been your messaging to him as we go
Speaker 1: in since today's game.
Speaker 3: More than anything, he's got some really good leaders around
Speaker 3: him too. Hey, this is what you should expect.
Speaker 4: There'll be some more heightened media and that type of thing,
Speaker 4: but this is a guy that has handled a lot,
Speaker 4: you know, in the last few years, and so I've
Speaker 4: got a lot of confidence in him, a lot of
Speaker 4: belief and trust based on the work that he's done
Speaker 4: with us, and so he doesn't have to put the
Speaker 4: cape on those cape. Moments will come and he'll deliver
Speaker 4: in those times. So it's got a bunch of good
Speaker 4: guys here to you know, distribute the ball and do
Speaker 4: all the things. So he's just got to play unique
Speaker 4: to himself.
Speaker 5: Well, he said that, because I think, you know, like
Speaker 5: when you look at his season, it's been really special,
Speaker 5: and he's a guy that just seems to kind of
Speaker 5: match the moment in a really special way. If you
Speaker 5: coach anybody else that's kind of had that knack, because
Speaker 5: it does seem like a skill to a certain extent
Speaker 5: will get that.
Speaker 3: There's definitely an X factor to this game.
Speaker 4: There're no doubt about it is it's a scramble on
Speaker 4: a third or fourth down, it's making a play in
Speaker 4: the crucial moment. I do think a lot of that
Speaker 4: comes logan from the preparation, Like he really puts it
Speaker 4: in and so in these moments, yep, we call this play.
Speaker 3: We're ready for this one.
Speaker 4: So he has a little bit of a combination of
Speaker 4: the preparation which allows you to be confident and then
Speaker 4: also like the competitor does take over in some of
Speaker 4: those moments and he has been in a lot.
Speaker 2: Of those, and Coach, we've talked a lot about all
Speaker 2: season winning that battle in the trenches.
Speaker 1: Well, the Bucks they have a really tough.
Speaker 2: Rushing attack, I mean really tough rushing defense. We have
Speaker 2: a really tough rushing attack. How do we get that
Speaker 2: going against a defense like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's They're very unique in that way.
Speaker 4: They're aggressive, they blitz a lot, and so the size
Speaker 4: alone inside, so you have to be able to find
Speaker 4: some lanes and find some space for us to get
Speaker 4: our backs outside, to get our quarterback on the run
Speaker 4: as well, and so the run game in this one
Speaker 4: will be everybody involved, from receivers, running backs, tight ends,
Speaker 4: the blocking, the quarterbacks, you know, carrying out fakes, carrying
Speaker 4: the ball, and so knowing that it takes all eleven,
Speaker 4: there'll be some balance.
Speaker 3: With that, but you're right, it's an excellent front.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And I think one of the things that sticks
Speaker 5: out to me about this as I feel like Cliff
Speaker 5: and Anthony Linne have done a great job kind of
Speaker 5: schematically getting the guys ready each week, trying to find
Speaker 5: those little wrinkles to say, hey, this is this is
Speaker 5: where you can get an inch. Can you talk about
Speaker 5: their role and making sure these guys are ready to
Speaker 5: rock a up.
Speaker 4: Well, as you know that some teams play four down structure,
Speaker 4: five down structure, you know, blitzing team, you want to
Speaker 4: have some rules that you can follow clearly, you know
Speaker 4: this person's not normally there.
Speaker 3: Why is the next person here?
Speaker 4: And so knowing there's some ones by a structure, this
Speaker 4: is the run that we can call and if we
Speaker 4: don't like it, it, hey let's get out of that
Speaker 4: run and get.
Speaker 3: Into a play that we like. And we call those
Speaker 3: premiere looks.
Speaker 4: And so if we can get to a run of
Speaker 4: something that we like that's at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 4: and that's part of being in no huddle. You can
Speaker 4: get to some looks that you like and maybe not
Speaker 4: run into some that you don't. And so having the
Speaker 4: balance to be able to do both of those that's
Speaker 4: a big deal. And then a team that blitzes a lot.
Speaker 4: RPOs are a factor. You know, if you're gonna blitz,
Speaker 4: you've got to be able to make somebody pay.
Speaker 5: I think that's so interesting because like I think fans
Speaker 5: just like, oh, you just got to run your but
Speaker 5: the idea of you can kind of play that chess
Speaker 5: checkers game beforehand, I think it's really it's huge. I
Speaker 5: didn't really think about that.
Speaker 4: But that's also and that's part of the fun of
Speaker 4: being at the line of scrimmage and working through it.
Speaker 4: But there's a whole complement of plays that go, you know,
Speaker 4: with certain looks and the reps.
Speaker 3: Over and over and over again. You really dig into it.
Speaker 1: And before we move on to the defense, we have
Speaker 1: to give one seven.
Speaker 2: Sarah McLaurin his Flowers made history thirteenth touchdown, but the
Speaker 2: way he did it in the final seconds of the game,
Speaker 2: how do you take that momentum from such a big play,
Speaker 2: bring it into tonight's game.
Speaker 4: And I think so many people, because if Terry's history,
Speaker 4: have this the vision of all the deep ball throws
Speaker 4: and that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: He's also excellentized contested catchup. Yes, he's got really strong hands,
Speaker 4: and that's what playing receiver in our league a lot
Speaker 4: of times is like it has to be thrown to
Speaker 4: a certain spot the defenders going to make and he
Speaker 4: has such an aggressive nature to go get the ball.
Speaker 4: I think that's an under appreciated part of his game
Speaker 4: because we see so many big, long shot plays, but
Speaker 4: he had some third downs that were absolutely critical for us.
Speaker 5: I got him on the film Coach, don't you. I
Speaker 5: got him on the film right because they're about the
Speaker 5: Flowers man.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 5: But yeah, but I think like to see him in
Speaker 5: that moment kind of do what he's done all year,
Speaker 5: Like what what was the locker room like for him?
Speaker 5: Because again, that's a that's a pretty prestigious record. There's
Speaker 5: some pretty big names.
Speaker 3: On that list.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 4: In fact, I told him that we're just sitting at
Speaker 4: his locker after the game. I said, we've been playing
Speaker 4: football for a long time around here. Some black and
Speaker 4: white photos out in that hall, I said, So to
Speaker 4: have your name at the top of that list with
Speaker 4: some real heavy hitters, job well done.
Speaker 2: And our defense we've seen them. We talk about Jane's progress.
Speaker 2: We've seen our defense progress each and every week. Now
Speaker 2: they're going against Baker Mayfield and all of these weapons.
Speaker 2: How do you best prepare them? How have you prepared
Speaker 2: them for such a self battle tonight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a tough battle, and but it is
Speaker 4: the improvement that you see. You know, I think of
Speaker 4: a guy like Seymer still, you know, that continues to
Speaker 4: level up his game and again and again, and so
Speaker 4: that type of improvement. When we're talking about where were
Speaker 4: we from week one to week eighteen, it's players like
Speaker 4: Mike that are making significant jumps in their game to
Speaker 4: show their improvement, and Frankie's and Kwan's and there's a
Speaker 4: number of others I could list, Jeremy Chin and so
Speaker 4: to see them develop, I think that's a big piece
Speaker 4: to this to in their preparation and how they get ready.
Speaker 5: It's so funny you mentioned all those names because to me,
Speaker 5: when you watch the first game, compared to you know,
Speaker 5: even the Dallas game, just the structure of the defense
Speaker 5: and what guys are doing is so much. It's like
Speaker 5: night and day, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 5: think just like the development of everybody kind of understanding
Speaker 5: their role and finding opportunities has been really cool. And
Speaker 5: it's funny when people say, oh, what's different from week
Speaker 5: one to now, it's like kind of everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, And give a lot of credit to
Speaker 4: Joe and the guys to understand how to feature guys,
Speaker 4: put them in the right spots and doing the things
Speaker 4: that we do well, and it'll be a battle they
Speaker 4: all are. Yeah, But like I said, that's what's fun
Speaker 4: about you know, the playoffs is like everything that.
Speaker 3: You put in is just this game. It's just this matchup.
Speaker 4: And if you do that and you trust all the
Speaker 4: training and you go into that, by the time you
Speaker 4: get to day, man like, I'm ready for this game
Speaker 4: to get rolling and.
Speaker 1: Coach, I'm sure you've felt it on the road at home.
Speaker 1: How much the success of this team means that this
Speaker 1: community means to the DMV.
Speaker 2: Can you give a message in closing to the fans
Speaker 2: for their first time being in a playoffs since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Can you give a message for the best fans in
Speaker 1: the NFL it as well?
Speaker 4: It is and I felt it more than any other
Speaker 4: game two weeks ago on a Sunday night against Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was special man to be on the field and
Speaker 4: to feel that type of energy behind the team. It's
Speaker 4: exactly what I hoped, you know, the team and the
Speaker 4: fans that type of connection could take place. And so
Speaker 4: to see it come full circle for that, that was
Speaker 4: like a highlight for me to know that was there.
Speaker 4: And then the second part of that after to see
Speaker 4: Burgundy and Gold, you know at AT and T last
Speaker 4: week coming off the field, Like for Adam and I,
Speaker 4: that was a really big deal to see, you know,
Speaker 4: our fans there in Texas, you know, knowing like they've
Speaker 4: got a big stadium and usually not a whole lot
Speaker 4: of other teams are in there. So to see at
Speaker 4: the end all the Burgundy and Gold as the team
Speaker 4: was walking off the field, that meant a hell of
Speaker 4: a lot to us.
Speaker 3: It's crazy how life works.
Speaker 2: You've got a standing ovation in that arena by Burgundy
Speaker 2: and Gold fans. Coach has been so great to see
Speaker 2: what you guys have done congratulations. We can't wait to
Speaker 2: see the game tonight, and I'm excited to se y'all get.
Speaker 3: In the from room.
Speaker 1: Logan's already to tease it up.
Speaker 3: Cat y'all, I appreciate you gs. Get on this plane
Speaker 3: and get down.
Speaker 1: The Commanded family. We know you are enjoying the game plan.
Speaker 2: However, if you want to see coach and Logan Paul
Speaker 2: said break down plays in the film room, you can
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Speaker 1: Commander's family is always the ticket to a win? Are
Speaker 1: these must watch matchup? Logan as usually got sixty seconds?
Speaker 3: Brothers wait the firl one.
Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels versus the mind of Todd Bowles in his defense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So to me, this all comes down to pressure.
Speaker 5: Todd Bowles wants the pressure on first down, once pressure
Speaker 5: on third down. He's really good at it. There. The
Speaker 5: Second lead the second League in terms of unblocked pressures.
Speaker 5: How does Jane Daniels handle that? We saw him scramble
Speaker 5: around the first matchup. How we see seeing these opportunities
Speaker 5: on the field. This to me is one that's going
Speaker 5: to dictate this game. Big test for JD five.
Speaker 2: Next up, we got the wild Wars taking on b
Speaker 2: to Va and those big guys up front from Bay
Speaker 2: And to.
Speaker 5: Me, this is really really kind of the crux of
Speaker 5: it because these guys want to stop the run. We
Speaker 5: run and won the football and it's really a battle
Speaker 5: of whills and hopefully clicks. Cliff Kingsbury can help these
Speaker 5: guys be the best version of themselves because this is
Speaker 5: a tough matchup for sure, one of.
Speaker 2: The best rushing defenses in the NFL, last but not
Speaker 2: least Logan Potty Wagner verse Bucky Irv.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to me, this is it because this is really
Speaker 5: the driver of their offense. Now, he does a great
Speaker 5: job in terms of, you know, finding explosive opportunity. He's
Speaker 5: really increased the rushing efficiency. And he's got to leave
Speaker 5: the defense k because they're gonna motion, They're gona shift
Speaker 5: and do all sorts of crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: He's gotta get everybody lined up, but I think he can.
Speaker 2: These are your must watch match ups for today's playoff
Speaker 2: game for head.
Speaker 1: Coach Dan Quinn, Logan Pauls and I'm Briancklevi Jr.
Speaker 3: And this is the game plan.
Speaker 1: Let's get this winning the playoffs.
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