Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the amount of injuries? Uh, not concerned.
Speaker 1: You know that injuries happened or whatever. Every year, injuries
Speaker 1: happened over times. It seems like we've had more this year,
Speaker 1: and we had a lot of guys go down, you know,
Speaker 1: in the game on Sunday, which is unfortunate, but you know,
Speaker 1: injuries happened. Unfortunately. It's a part of our game where
Speaker 1: the injury rate is. You know, you play long enough,
Speaker 1: the injury rate is one hundred percent. So it's it's
Speaker 1: something that comes with the game, mixing and matching different
Speaker 1: guys in it out. Because of this reason, communication problems
Speaker 1: you guys ever did together every years he's had some
Speaker 1: of that or pretty working that kind of stuff. Our
Speaker 1: communication is good, you know, all the guys that step
Speaker 1: in do a good job of communicating. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't see where we had any lack of communication
Speaker 1: issues amongst any of our guys. Louis Davis thought the
Speaker 1: best of fact that when you face a quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: a Drew Brees, you're really facing an offensive warden. They
Speaker 1: were on the field and get out. How difficult to
Speaker 1: does that make your job as the defensive signal court Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes it tough because Drew is such a great player,
Speaker 1: smart player when when you can change the plays at
Speaker 1: the line, he always gets his offense and favorable plays.
Speaker 1: So no matter what defense we present to him, he
Speaker 1: always has a check to get them in another play
Speaker 1: or a better plays, so to say. So, it's tough.
Speaker 1: But for us as a defense, you can't. We can't
Speaker 1: really focus much on it. We just know we have
Speaker 1: to play solid in our We have to play our
Speaker 1: defense well. You know, we can't try to mix and
Speaker 1: matter everything that they do, but we have to play
Speaker 1: our technique and our defense as great as we can.
Speaker 1: I think you guys in the playoffs two years ago,
Speaker 1: three four times, right, it's pretty difficult because of what
Speaker 1: he can. Yeah, I think it's tough to blissen because
Speaker 1: he gets the ball out so fast. You look at
Speaker 1: their offense, it's a lot of rhythm, a lot of
Speaker 1: time in the ball comes out fairly quickly, a lot
Speaker 1: of three step drops and uh, you know, if you
Speaker 1: do pressure them, you just have to get pressure up
Speaker 1: the middle, which I think will work moving him off
Speaker 1: the spot a little bit. They don't give me anymore.
Speaker 1: It was a big part of their office, Billy said,
Speaker 1: and this just watching they see look thro to the
Speaker 1: back spot more album. They're pretty challenge the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that you have to worry about. It if you
Speaker 1: ran about the sea, you get short. But there's a
Speaker 1: different break. Yeah, they have a lot of weapons. It's
Speaker 1: one thing in the backs, you know they are they
Speaker 1: have become more of a go to guys in the
Speaker 1: in the offense now you know with Spiller Ingram all
Speaker 1: those guys are doing a really good They do a
Speaker 1: good job of catching the ball. So you see a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of screens on take all Over,
Speaker 1: and they were on a lot of screens and a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of times try to get mismatches
Speaker 1: against you know, the faster backs on linebackers or safeties.
Speaker 1: So well are we have you know, our antenna's up.
Speaker 1: We're alert of what they try to do with their
Speaker 1: running backs because you know what they do, they get
Speaker 1: the ball in the playmaker's hands. So we have to
Speaker 1: definitely be ready for the for the screen game. Demko's
Speaker 1: impossible to be a dominant defense opposite of a temple
Speaker 1: of offense. You can be a dominant defense no matter
Speaker 1: what the offense does. You know, the offense doesn't dictate
Speaker 1: what the defense does. We we always dictate how long
Speaker 1: we're on the field, you know, causing turnovers, scoring defense
Speaker 1: can do at all. If you're a dominant defense, you
Speaker 1: know all of that lies in your hands. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the offense. You guys have made
Speaker 1: the bottom of the league in the plays against for
Speaker 1: all three years under Chip. I would think that's not
Speaker 1: all just because you guys can't get off. The third
Speaker 1: downs are part of the place. Run on that sun too, right.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of third down, a lot
Speaker 1: of third down. We're just not making plays. And you know,
Speaker 1: like the drive in Washington, they hit us with the draw.
Speaker 1: Now we're on the field, extra play we get off
Speaker 1: the get off the field on third and long. When
Speaker 1: they're running the draw, they're pretty much conceding, Hey we
Speaker 1: make a tackle. We don't play all those extra plays.
Speaker 1: So a lot of that I think is on us.
Speaker 1: A lot of people put it on the offense. But
Speaker 1: I look at his defense. You control, you control how
Speaker 1: long you're out there, You control, you know, how many
Speaker 1: players you can make out there tackles on Sunday. What
Speaker 1: did you see from him in that game, and how
Speaker 1: does he help you do what you have to do.
Speaker 1: Bennie is playing outstanding. I think he's he's playing with
Speaker 1: really a lot of energy, a lot of tanassy like
Speaker 1: he's meaning up front, and he's making a lot of
Speaker 1: plays for us, beating up a lot of offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: getting off of blocks, making plays. He's very disruptive and
Speaker 1: for me sometimes he steals a lot of tackles because
Speaker 1: he's he's making too many plays, but he does. He
Speaker 1: does a really good job man just penetrating uh and
Speaker 1: he causes a lot of disruption up front, so it
Speaker 1: makes it tough on offensive lineman sometimes to get up
Speaker 1: to the second level because Benny is so disruptive, a
Speaker 1: great leader, being able to read the locker room and
Speaker 1: one of three right now, how is the locker room
Speaker 1: right now? Our locker room is fine. Everybody is everybody
Speaker 1: is locked in. I feel like I feel the focus
Speaker 1: is really locked in this week. Everybody is ready to,
Speaker 1: you know, go into battle, gets the Saints and get
Speaker 1: a win. And I think that's what it's all about. Men.
Speaker 1: We work every week, working hard every week. These guys
Speaker 1: bring the same attitude you know every week. You don't
Speaker 1: see a big up and down with our locker room.
Speaker 1: It's pretty even killed. But the guys are locked in
Speaker 1: this week attitude. But is there maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: more humility in the building? You know these last this
Speaker 1: last week players, coaches kind of maybe looking at themselves
Speaker 1: and a little bit more. I mean you should always be.
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, it's always a sense of humility.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said, I don't see you know,
Speaker 1: where guys got too high or anything. You know, there's
Speaker 1: always been, like I said, a sense of humility around
Speaker 1: here because again, you know, it's just that's the nature
Speaker 1: of the game, and you can't get too high, too
Speaker 1: low one weekend, one week out. Things change with your lunebackers,
Speaker 1: particularly having to pay attention to those screen games, you know,
Speaker 1: being heavily visits on the sill. Said put more on
Speaker 1: the inside guys like yourself to create that pressure to Swood,
Speaker 1: especially since you want to get pressure in the middle
Speaker 1: of a right It's predicated on the calls, whatever casts
Speaker 1: we have. Sometimes it's it's called for us, it's inside
Speaker 1: line bikers to get pressure up the middle and sometimes
Speaker 1: the outside pressure. So it's all predicated on different calls
Speaker 1: that Billy Mays, Jordan has been very productive for rookie
Speaker 1: year early on. How much of you had to help
Speaker 1: him as far as wanting things like that, not much.
Speaker 1: A smart kid, Jordan's really smart. He knows you know
Speaker 1: where to be, knows his position, he knows his technique.
Speaker 1: So there's not there's not much that I have to
Speaker 1: tell Jordan when we're out there on the field together.
Speaker 1: You know, Jordan is, He's done a really good job.
Speaker 1: He stepped in and play really well for So there's
Speaker 1: not much on my end that I have to tell
Speaker 1: him that he doesn't know already. Really said, if you're
Speaker 1: in that situation again, trying to protect the league for
Speaker 1: twelve rest of twelve games, and you win the next
Speaker 1: twelve games. But when you look back at it, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot had to go wrong for you guys
Speaker 1: to give up that league. Had He kind of balanced
Speaker 1: how much you know they did versus how much did
Speaker 1: you let happen. Yeah, I always look at it as
Speaker 1: us we let we let a lot of stuff slip.
Speaker 1: We let a lot of things happen, a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of those big runs that we
Speaker 1: let get out. That's why I look at the most
Speaker 1: those runs. It shouldn't have happened. I feel like we
Speaker 1: set the run down for most of the game and
Speaker 1: then to let those two runs out the last drive.
Speaker 1: That's more so on us than them. The respect how
Speaker 1: there's not that many emotional episode flows with this team
Speaker 1: kind of even kid, what do you contribute do? I
Speaker 1: think it's just just maturity. I think for the leaders
Speaker 1: and locker rooms, just knowing the maturity of the guys
Speaker 1: and just relaying that to the younger guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't win a season just because you win one game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything. Just because you lose three, there's
Speaker 1: still there's still a long season. So you can't You
Speaker 1: can't ride the wave of the outside world, what everybody
Speaker 1: talks about on the outside. You can't ride the wave.
Speaker 1: You just have to stay even kill, have to stay
Speaker 1: focused on the task at hand, all right, Thanks guys,