Speaker 1: Recently been a lot made of how many teams are
Speaker 1: playing too high safeties, a lot what it's doing to
Speaker 1: the passing game and what it might mean for I'm
Speaker 1: curious what you're seeing when you watch obviously your all
Speaker 1: run game, but around the league in terms of how
Speaker 1: that's a.
Speaker 2: Funding things, you know, I don't. It's hard for me
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 3: I know it's in a trend, I'm not really so
Speaker 3: whatever people are saying, they're saying, I look at our stuff.
Speaker 3: I look at the stuff where we've got to prepare it,
Speaker 3: look at teams that are like us, and and so
Speaker 3: you know, it's everybody decides to stop the run game
Speaker 3: different ways. Some people pressure, some people deep to short,
Speaker 3: some people show eight man Front's based defense everybody, and
Speaker 3: then most times with us it's something different that they
Speaker 3: haven't shown. So every week it's there's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a variance. I think they've always been that way
Speaker 3: with Kyle. I think over the least it's been a
Speaker 3: long time now. I think where they just don't want
Speaker 3: Kyle to really have a beat on what they're doing,
Speaker 3: so we'll get a lot of different things sometimes and
Speaker 3: they'll change a pace just to keep us from getting
Speaker 3: in a rhythm and and.
Speaker 2: You know, the first four weeks in terms of a
Speaker 2: team defending you different without Ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's different. It's different, not not
Speaker 3: not not something I want.
Speaker 2: To really talk about, but it is. It is. It
Speaker 2: is different.
Speaker 3: And obviously because you have to there's a lot of
Speaker 3: things you need to do to take care of what
Speaker 3: all all the places.
Speaker 2: Christian can line up.
Speaker 3: So it does kind of limit the things you can do,
Speaker 3: or it opens up your playbook a little bit when
Speaker 3: he's not out there, because you know, as good as
Speaker 3: JP and and the other backs are, they're just not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to be Christian.
Speaker 2: And then that does does does have an effect in a.
Speaker 1: General sense about specific necessarily like how do you go
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: And you know, kind of working through.
Speaker 3: That, well, we already assumed that because he's not there,
Speaker 3: certain things aren't gonna happen, and so certain teams aren't
Speaker 3: gonna want to do certain things because Christians in the game.
Speaker 3: You kind of know what those things are because we
Speaker 3: saw it happen when he was there. That when he
Speaker 3: showed up, When he showed up, all of a sudden
Speaker 3: things changed and we noticed how defense has changed how
Speaker 3: they played this and things that we used to see
Speaker 3: we didn't see as much. Now that he's not there,
Speaker 3: we're seeing things again that we used to see that
Speaker 3: we didn't see before, you know, that we saw before
Speaker 3: Christian was here.
Speaker 2: So it's a bounds.
Speaker 3: And then then it's based on the team and their matchups.
Speaker 3: And some people can do what they do anyway. It
Speaker 3: didn't matter whether Christmas there or not. So it's just
Speaker 3: there's so many variables too. It's hard to just put
Speaker 3: your finger on it. I don't want to say it's
Speaker 3: it's they play more this, they play less that they
Speaker 3: play with who knows, but it's different.
Speaker 1: You generally had a pretty good continuity of the line
Speaker 1: from last year this year early one new starter.
Speaker 3: Can you see that? Can you tell how that that group.
Speaker 1: Has continued to develop and get tighter and maybe more kind.
Speaker 2: Of locked down. Oh, it does.
Speaker 3: It helps a lot, you know, And I've I've always
Speaker 3: you know, you know, we've talked about the past. I
Speaker 3: don't mind rotating a guy. So you know it's like,
Speaker 3: well that ruins the continuity. It really doesn't. It's it's
Speaker 3: still just they practice rotating so they get the continuity.
Speaker 2: That way.
Speaker 3: It is nice when two guys can play like Trenton
Speaker 3: and Aaron and and you get the continuity with Jake
Speaker 3: in there and then obviously Colton and now you have
Speaker 3: have domin there, and it's it's a good it's a
Speaker 3: good balance. But yeah, they do have a chance to
Speaker 3: develop and get better. They do if they stay healthy
Speaker 3: and they work and we see things week in and
Speaker 3: week out. That's the goal, and that's that's why winning
Speaker 3: is important, and it's very important. Obviously it's the most
Speaker 3: important thing. We have to win these games, but but
Speaker 3: within that we have to get better every week.
Speaker 2: We all know that.
Speaker 3: You know, winning winning, you know, win the super Bowl
Speaker 3: in September and October you win the super Bowl, you know,
Speaker 3: get in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You got to win your division. There's so many steps
Speaker 2: before you get to that point.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is you're not judged by how
Speaker 3: many games you win in September.
Speaker 2: It helps, but you have to get better and that's
Speaker 2: the key.
Speaker 3: The key is improving through the course of the season,
Speaker 3: learning from what's happened, drawing upon these things. So many
Speaker 3: times I'll spend I'll spend like here, I'll spend more
Speaker 3: time talking about something that isn't necessarily your question. I
Speaker 3: do the same thing in my meeting room. It's like
Speaker 3: it might start us down a road of Now, look, guys,
Speaker 3: this really doesn't talk about this week. But I'm telling
Speaker 3: you this thing that's we're talking about right now, it
Speaker 3: will be bigger in six weeks. And this thing that
Speaker 3: we're talking about, we have to build on this. So
Speaker 3: this just isn't don't just learn this for okay, I
Speaker 3: got this for this game plan. This is something that's
Speaker 3: going to continue to show up through the year, something
Speaker 3: that's consistently showing up that we need to continue to
Speaker 3: get better at. And there's other things that will fit
Speaker 3: along with this that we'll see as well. And that's
Speaker 3: the that's that's where my job is. It's, yes, we
Speaker 3: got to win the game. Yes we have to do
Speaker 3: everything we can to shoot all our it's in this game.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's a building process. And
Speaker 3: that's what's that's for me is what's so much fun
Speaker 3: is to kind of get guys to see the game.
Speaker 3: As I've always said, I don't want them to you know,
Speaker 3: I want them to own it. They should have to game.
Speaker 3: They should walk in and say, you know it was
Speaker 3: that month. It wasn't It wasn't me, it was They've
Speaker 3: learned the offense and they make adjustments themselves during the game,
Speaker 3: and they come to silent and they suggest things. I
Speaker 3: suggest things, but then the game it's their adjustment. They're
Speaker 3: owning it. That's when we become a real football team.
Speaker 3: That's when on Sunday you're in the last drive of
Speaker 3: the fifth quarter of the Super Bowl and everybody comes
Speaker 3: together to pull it off together as a group. Because
Speaker 3: I can't be out there, Kyle can't be out there.
Speaker 3: They have to pull it together. And that's that's what's
Speaker 3: cool about having a group that's played together.
Speaker 1: Early last year, a lot of questions about cultin mckivit's
Speaker 1: and those questions kind of died down a little bit
Speaker 1: as the season went on.
Speaker 4: How has he come back in year or two?
Speaker 2: Is the starter? How's he playing really well?
Speaker 3: I mean, how's he had a rough rough out in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, and and he's he bounced
Speaker 3: back like he always he has. Last week, you know,
Speaker 3: he bounced back again. I remember last year, I'd have
Speaker 3: to talk to him after the Pittsburgh game. We talked
Speaker 3: about it last year. How we had a plan and
Speaker 3: we had to get away from that plan to help him,
Speaker 3: and so we just had to take our chances with
Speaker 3: he on what and.
Speaker 2: What got you know, some sacks and stuff, and I
Speaker 2: to make sure he's okay.
Speaker 3: You know, Hey, the plan was to chip every time,
Speaker 3: but they went to some different coverages.
Speaker 2: We need the guys out and so how are you?
Speaker 3: And that's the point we've said in here before where
Speaker 3: when guys fail, when they when they don't have success,
Speaker 3: how do they bounce back? That's the good thing about him.
Speaker 3: He has bounced back. And he has had some up
Speaker 3: and down games. He needs to be more consistent, but
Speaker 3: he has bounced back. And I think he has learned
Speaker 3: from last season and he's learned to accept that wasn't
Speaker 3: a good game. And why, you know, it's the whys
Speaker 3: behind it are very important for him as far as hey,
Speaker 3: I'm doing this, this.
Speaker 2: Is why I'm going to be.
Speaker 3: It's not any major big like I'm not good enough
Speaker 3: or the team that. It's just I'm doing this fundamental
Speaker 3: flaw that I need to fix.
Speaker 4: Production up for touchdowns anyway, it is down like he's
Speaker 4: fifty percent last year, it was like sixty eight. It's
Speaker 4: only four games. I get that, But what's making it
Speaker 4: tough for you to kick more short field goals than
Speaker 4: you'd like? I'm sure what makes it tougher to get
Speaker 4: in the end Z on this show.
Speaker 3: I could speak to the run game and say we're
Speaker 3: not running ball well down there. Whatever the looks are,
Speaker 3: whatever's been happening, I don't want to talk about. But
Speaker 3: there's been some things that just we haven't been and
Speaker 3: I blame myself.
Speaker 2: Number one, we've.
Speaker 3: Had a call the last three weeks Minnesota, LA and
Speaker 3: New England, three calls that we made early and are
Speaker 3: in a series in the red zone and just were
Speaker 3: bad calls on my part to suggest to have them
Speaker 3: on the list, to even think we could run the plays,
Speaker 3: not having enough foresight to think they might do something different.
Speaker 2: And that's what they did.
Speaker 3: We had plays prep for what we thought they were
Speaker 3: going to do, the came with something different. They were
Speaker 3: bad calls and so not cousefold my fault. I said,
Speaker 3: I put them on the list is number one call.
Speaker 3: I said, call it, stayed to the list, and then
Speaker 3: they show up with the defense. It doesn't work out,
Speaker 3: and so we end up with some it doesn't take
Speaker 3: much right, you know, reds, and there's so a few
Speaker 3: possions off and you have one bad call, you're behind
Speaker 3: the eight ball. The next play you don't quite complete
Speaker 3: the past, and then third down here you are where
Speaker 3: you are. So we've just had some you know, it's
Speaker 3: been a combination of everything. But at least it's fifty percent.
Speaker 2: It could have been.
Speaker 3: It could be worse right now, and sixty eight is
Speaker 3: a very high percentage, and and we need to get
Speaker 3: back to that. But again it starts a ends. I
Speaker 3: think with the running, we've got to be more consistent.
Speaker 3: We've had a lot of rushing touchdowns over the last
Speaker 3: couple years. I think we need to keep working hard
Speaker 3: at that. You're averaging five seven to carry run into
Speaker 3: the right.
Speaker 1: Just Pooney and mckivitt's look like they're doing a good
Speaker 1: job in the run game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing a very good job. I love the
Speaker 3: way those guys are playing. Colt's a very good run blockers,
Speaker 3: as is Dom. They both do a good job with that.
Speaker 3: As Trent and Aaron, We've got a good guys are
Speaker 3: a good run blocking you and you know Tim Mahtam.
Speaker 3: They do a nice job. They work really hard. And
Speaker 3: this organization, Kyle, I'm start of this offense. We take
Speaker 3: a lot of pride trying to run the ball well.
Speaker 3: So those guys do work hard at it, and that's
Speaker 3: that's something that they do. And the right left thing,
Speaker 3: and I'm telling you it can be misleading go to
Speaker 3: the right cut back. Maybe it's the left side is
Speaker 3: doing a better job this year or the right vice versa.
Speaker 3: When we get all the credits to the left side
Speaker 3: getting the yardage. It's how they determine the whole hit
Speaker 3: and where the ball is. I guess it's consistent through
Speaker 3: the league, but i'd have you know, all the guys
Speaker 3: have done it, and it's kind of a little bit
Speaker 3: of a crapshoots. Some guys do some things better than
Speaker 3: others vice versa. But yeah, they've done a really nice job.
Speaker 5: Really, I mean, like a lot of these guys, but
Speaker 5: like he's very very serious about taking care of himself,
Speaker 5: taking care of his body and trying to play as
Speaker 5: for as long as possible. Do you have any insight
Speaker 5: into kind of his passion for that part of it?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I mean, I don't have any like details.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have all the details. I just know he's
Speaker 3: obsessed with it, and as he should be. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you think about it, right, I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to stay healthy and stay alive long enough to keep
Speaker 3: working and do my job. You know, but my ad
Speaker 3: doesn't depend on me blocking guys and tackling guys and
Speaker 3: staying healthy into my playing fifteen sixteen, seventeen years in
Speaker 3: this league.
Speaker 2: The things they have to do is stay healthy.
Speaker 3: All the different therapies from red light therapy to you
Speaker 3: know where they get thee to.
Speaker 2: The cell thing where they do they don't know what
Speaker 2: they call this stuff. What's that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all that stuff they do, all that stuff, I
Speaker 3: mean all they do. Guys are and they should be
Speaker 3: and why wouldn't you.
Speaker 2: That's the thing I like.
Speaker 3: I want to call Don, called Doman and Puney and said,
Speaker 3: you know this thing where you have to take care
Speaker 3: of your body over this seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: three twenty four weeks, you know, from July till possibly February.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of that's a lot of banging, a
Speaker 3: lot of things. You get to take care of body,
Speaker 3: and it's cumulative. It starts now it's y're one, and okay,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna look like in your six? And
Speaker 3: I've seen guys, veteran players just they here's the cliff,
Speaker 3: and they fall right off it if they don't take
Speaker 3: care of themselves in the off season and properly trained
Speaker 3: and properly prepare their bodies and take care of themselves,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden when their career ends, that
Speaker 3: decline happens fast.
Speaker 2: Kind of what's happened to me in the last two years.
Speaker 3: It feels like, oh my gosh, I've aged ten in
Speaker 3: the last two How did all this stuff?
Speaker 2: I thought I was getting old? Now I really know it.
Speaker 3: But truly these guys, and I really admire how hard
Speaker 3: he and like guys like Fred and him Christian, they're
Speaker 3: obsessed with taking care of their bodies. And you think
Speaker 3: it's over the top, it really isn't. If you think
Speaker 3: about what they're trying to do and squeezing you know,
Speaker 3: one more year out. It's a lot, right, it's a
Speaker 3: lot of money, A lot of things go into squeeze
Speaker 3: that one more year out. And so I really respect
Speaker 3: the guys how hard they work to do that and
Speaker 3: it's hard.
Speaker 2: That is the thing I've said that I'm sorry ramble,
Speaker 2: but they the guys've.
Speaker 3: Always said to me in the off seasons, the thing
Speaker 3: that chases guys out of this thing is the off season.
Speaker 3: The end season great. They all want to play the games,
Speaker 3: and the games are finding. The games are great, but
Speaker 3: but all the work it takes to get ready to
Speaker 3: play that season. Whether you're here for OTAs or not,
Speaker 3: it doesn't change what those Sundays are, how violent they are,
Speaker 3: how physical they are, the demand that puts on the players,
Speaker 3: and now with short weeks, long weeks, eighteen game schedules,
Speaker 3: that's what gets They're saying.
Speaker 2: I just can't do all that anymore. And then ultimately
Speaker 2: when they get older, it catches up with them and
Speaker 2: they can't. They can't play a young man's game anymore.
Speaker 2: So that's the part that is really hard to do.
Speaker 3: So a guy that can do it to the extent
Speaker 3: that they do it, I'm going on on because I
Speaker 3: really really respect those guys.
Speaker 6: Is that testiment, like to like Trent Williams who is
Speaker 6: now in year fifteen, early in the NFL, and you know,
Speaker 6: has it be or a rest day on Wednesday, but
Speaker 6: because of that example to take care of his body
Speaker 6: and get extra years out of his career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trent is different, Trent.
Speaker 3: Trent just is learning that all of a sudden at
Speaker 3: thirty hell is trend. Now thirty six, Trent is just
Speaker 3: now learning that he needs to take care of himself.
Speaker 3: I'll bet step out, I think one step back from that.
Speaker 2: Trent.
Speaker 3: Trent is really since I remember when I left the
Speaker 3: watch and he changed his diet, really changed his body,
Speaker 3: started taking care of what he ate. But Trent is
Speaker 3: never He's always recovered from injury faster. He's always very
Speaker 3: little treatment and time, very little time doing the traditional
Speaker 3: you know these things that Juice and those guys do.
Speaker 2: He looks like, what's that crap?
Speaker 3: Trent just works out and trains and he's just he's
Speaker 3: a phenom, right, But he's at that point down his
Speaker 3: career that he does understand that those things become more important.
Speaker 3: So he has he's kind of Juices kind of brought
Speaker 3: him along on a couple of things, and Trent realizes
Speaker 3: it does have some value. His is purely he's a
Speaker 3: genetic wonder and that that that Vet day is what
Speaker 3: he needs. And then a couple of little things here
Speaker 3: and there, But I think if he's going to make
Speaker 3: it then and he's talked about it, he's not quite
Speaker 3: bouncing back as quick as he did six years ago.
Speaker 3: It's just not that he's not healthy, he's not team
Speaker 3: it's just you're older that that ankle injury just doesn't
Speaker 3: you know. I get up in the morning, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit harder every morning. The same thing with him.
Speaker 3: It just eventually, after all those snaps, it doesn't He's
Speaker 3: he's right now, looks as good as I've seen. I
Speaker 3: keep saying that, you know, he's probably what am I
Speaker 3: doing practicimate guy, it's just how.
Speaker 2: Good he is. But his is more genetic. He's blessed
Speaker 2: with it more than it is what he's doing away.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys,