Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: For a couple of years.
Speaker 3: What have you noticed differently about him this year?
Speaker 4: You know it started to see him progress in last year,
Speaker 4: just how he operates in the pocket and how he
Speaker 4: gets through his progressions. He's still dynamic, is anything is
Speaker 4: as far as being able to move get outside the
Speaker 4: pocket create. But I think you know, you're seeing him,
Speaker 4: you know, grow like any quarterback. And he has the
Speaker 4: arm strength he always has, He's had the mobility he
Speaker 4: still he always has. But like seeing how he can
Speaker 4: work through his progression and make all those throws and
Speaker 4: has improved.
Speaker 1: Kind of Harrison. What has that done to the Excuse me?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean really good route runner. He's obviously
Speaker 4: polished and you know, they've got really a lot of
Speaker 4: weapons along with obviously Connor in the run game and
Speaker 4: m McBride. You know, I think he should be getting
Speaker 4: him back. He's a really good young tight end. And
Speaker 4: then even Wilson on the other side. I just think
Speaker 4: they have a balance of weapons, you know, starting at
Speaker 4: the quarterback spot. That makes them, you know, a tough
Speaker 4: team to go against. And they and they run the
Speaker 4: ball really well. They have an identity and that's what
Speaker 4: they want to do. You can see it with how
Speaker 4: many yards they get, how many carries they you know,
Speaker 4: desire to get what seems like and shoot, they did
Speaker 4: it to us last year, last time they played us.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a way to quantify this,
Speaker 2: but how well is dialmodor Lenor playing now that he
Speaker 2: knows exactly what he's going to be doing every weeks?
Speaker 2: Last week, dealer last year. There's a lot of different
Speaker 2: guys in the nickel and all that, but how well
Speaker 2: is he playing?
Speaker 4: He's improved a ton. I think he's playing great, and
Speaker 4: you said it really good. Actually that it's hard to
Speaker 4: quantify if you're just looking at stats like a lot
Speaker 4: of people, you don't realize it until you actually really
Speaker 4: watch the tape and understand what he's doing for us
Speaker 4: and what he allows us to do defensively.
Speaker 1: Really please with demo.
Speaker 5: How's Malik Gustafa looking to you? You guys played him sixty
Speaker 5: two snaps last week?
Speaker 4: He did a great job. You know, Huff couldn't go
Speaker 4: and he stepped in and did great.
Speaker 3: Grab Water has been playing lights out every game, but
Speaker 3: now he's dealing with that injury. He's been kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, not really in practice so far, what are
Speaker 3: you kind of doing to kind of counteract dealing with
Speaker 3: it this week against the Cardinals and they having a
Speaker 3: short week next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's not really counteract. It's just next
Speaker 4: man up. And you'll never fully replace Fred. I mean
Speaker 4: not saying we are, it's just you know, the next
Speaker 4: guy's got to practice and he's got to operate. And
Speaker 4: you know, we've had some injuries and guys have had
Speaker 4: you know, there's adversity and there's opportunity. So with that,
Speaker 4: you know, the next guy gets a chance and they
Speaker 4: step up. And you saw that even losing Grave, and
Speaker 4: you know we've had guys step in and like Campbell
Speaker 4: play and you know, not having Law, I mean, there's
Speaker 4: been different And like you just asked about Malik Mustafa
Speaker 4: playing without having Huff, Huff's played one game. So guys
Speaker 4: get opportunities and we expect and perform and they expect
Speaker 4: themselves to too. So at practice that's really where you
Speaker 4: get those reps. And you know, hone your skills and
Speaker 4: with Fred and without Fred, you got to communicate, and
Speaker 4: guys are doing that.
Speaker 2: What has impressed you most about strong?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: What has impressed you most about Upper one, about who
Speaker 2: okawana sam oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah see Sam oh see, We're just yeah, sam oh.
Speaker 4: He impressed me a ton last year actually just watching
Speaker 4: him in even it's tough with d Lyman and I
Speaker 4: think we might have talked about this in the offseason
Speaker 4: because they're not going against anybody, but with Sam you
Speaker 4: could see I was excited seeing just watching him in
Speaker 4: his individual and how explosive he was. So that's one
Speaker 4: thing you want to see with with d Liman is
Speaker 4: how explosive they are, especially ends, because you can kind
Speaker 4: of project, like, what's this guy going to do against
Speaker 4: an old lineman?
Speaker 1: Can he get off the ball?
Speaker 4: And then with that explosion, is he going to be
Speaker 4: able to set an edge and be as violent as
Speaker 4: you would expect based on what you're seeing. So now
Speaker 4: we get to training camp and he's starting to do it.
Speaker 4: Then he gets hurt, so you don't fully get to
Speaker 4: see it. So now we're getting to see him do
Speaker 4: it in the games. I'm not surprised. I'm pleased, but
Speaker 4: this is kind of what we imagined he could be,
Speaker 4: you know, based on what he had shown us in
Speaker 4: a short amount of time. Because he got here late
Speaker 4: in the year last year. So with him playing hard,
Speaker 4: being explosive, and just being himself, it's been really cool
Speaker 4: to see.
Speaker 2: Grow in him with every practice rep.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Like I said, it was, he got here and
Speaker 4: then you saw him in the in the spring, and
Speaker 4: then in training camp he was doing a nice job
Speaker 4: and got injured pretty quickly and you lost all that time.
Speaker 4: So with him, he's still growing. I mean he's still
Speaker 4: young to football. You know, his story is pretty cool
Speaker 4: story about how he came here. I think he was
Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen. But he's he's still new to football,
Speaker 4: and he keeps growing and keeps getting better. So I
Speaker 4: think with him, he's got a really high ceiling.
Speaker 6: Got about nine pressures last game. Yeah, he didn't get
Speaker 6: a sack and tall about two and a half minutes
Speaker 6: later in the game. Was that him wanting to stay
Speaker 6: in to get that sack. What was the to reward
Speaker 6: him for a hard day's work.
Speaker 1: No, I think he just missed like three of them.
Speaker 4: I think it was Yeah, I mean he was in
Speaker 4: there and where he was finishing the game, I don't
Speaker 4: think it was anything like that. I mean a lot
Speaker 4: of times the other guy's cleaned it up, but you know,
Speaker 4: Nick can always get better.
Speaker 1: He could have finished those. We knew going in that
Speaker 1: when you watched.
Speaker 4: Brissett, he was like it was getting flashbacks of Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just the number either, it was just the
Speaker 1: way he moved.
Speaker 4: And we knew it was going to be tough and
Speaker 4: we had to get guys like the second guy to
Speaker 4: get there, and you know, you always want to strain
Speaker 4: to finish, but it was it was visible with with Brissette,
Speaker 4: so it was tough that you know, he fell off
Speaker 4: a few times and it was good that he got
Speaker 4: it at the end.
Speaker 6: Tyler is almost an opposite because he'll he can escape a.
Speaker 1: Lot right him. With him, you're not touching him.
Speaker 4: You know, with Brissett, a lot of times it was
Speaker 4: you know, he can get off and get he can
Speaker 4: break tackles. I mean Kyler can too, but with Kyler
Speaker 4: it's it's tough. It's tough. He's extremely dynamic, really really quick.
Speaker 2: You're putting together a game plan and you know the
Speaker 2: other team doesn't know who you're gonna be lining up there,
Speaker 2: and linebacker specifically, Fred are there certain things that you think, like, well,
Speaker 2: friend's on the field, they're not going to do this,
Speaker 2: But if he's not in the field, this is an
Speaker 2: area where they might do some different things.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll find out, I guess in the game.
Speaker 1: You know there's air for anything like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, we were preparing for what we have and
Speaker 4: it doesn't change a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit, but we'll see your guess.
Speaker 5: Blitz rates going up every week. I think it start
Speaker 5: at nine. It's like thirty three. When you watch Kyler
Speaker 5: against the blitz, what does he look like? What's the
Speaker 5: challenge this week? You bring extra pressure against a guy
Speaker 5: like him.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's always it's famine our feasts with any
Speaker 4: any call. Really, you could think something's really good. There's
Speaker 4: always calls you want back, Oh this would have been
Speaker 4: good there. I think offenses feel the same way. There's
Speaker 4: certain things you like if they don't do this or
Speaker 4: they do do this. So I think it just depends
Speaker 4: on the situation really, and you know the plan, and
Speaker 4: sometimes that does change in game based on how we
Speaker 4: are playing and our guys are playing and some of
Speaker 4: the things they're doing.
Speaker 6: Cool is it to contain a quarterback like Kyler in
Speaker 6: the pocket and is rushing five sometimes help that effort.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it can absolutely. I think a lot of guys
Speaker 4: do do that, and he's just he's hard.
Speaker 1: I mean he is.
Speaker 4: Those guys are hard to deal with, you know, because
Speaker 4: he does have the arm strength and he can escape
Speaker 4: like a freaking pump returner, you know, like he's got
Speaker 4: elea quickness and doesn't have to have his feet set
Speaker 4: to throw the ball. So you just you have to
Speaker 4: be disciplined and you have to just keep running. You
Speaker 4: just have to keep going regardless of who's going. Even
Speaker 4: if you got four, three, five, six, you have to
Speaker 4: keep going. And in coverage too, it really everybody, you know,
Speaker 4: any of those guys that can extend plays. It's one
Speaker 4: of those track shoes type days.
Speaker 1: It's straight.
Speaker 4: You're Malik, what are some of the challenges of being
Speaker 4: a young safety in this league?
Speaker 1: A young safety?
Speaker 4: I would say the toughest thing maybe in being somewhere
Speaker 4: new and being young, is having your voice and taking
Speaker 4: control because you do have to be a good communicator
Speaker 4: back there. And I think both of them have done
Speaker 4: a great job. I think that was something we noticed
Speaker 4: really early with take He's got great command, he's very confident,
Speaker 4: he puts the time in and he's very smart. So
Speaker 4: that was something also with Malick that we saw is
Speaker 4: that those these guys were they stepped right in and
Speaker 4: uh huff was the same way as a young safety.
Speaker 4: And those are those are really important qualities as a safety,
Speaker 4: cause you're kind of back there seeing things you gotta
Speaker 4: help direct. So I think those are things you look
Speaker 4: for guys that can lead and make calls and make
Speaker 4: sure that they're communicating across the board, cause you gotta
Speaker 4: get from corner to corner and everyone in between to
Speaker 4: be on the same page with the backers.
Speaker 1: Avon Anderson progressing, really really pleased with Evan.
Speaker 4: We made a decision last week and you know, he's
Speaker 4: consistently gotten better and the nineteen snaps, you gotta did
Speaker 4: a nice job for us.