Speaker 1: Where are some of the more remarkable improvements. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen Tim improved since he got here. He's improved in
Speaker 1: his throwing motion, improved in uh since we got him
Speaker 1: in April. You know, I think he's really worked very
Speaker 1: hard at that um sequencing is his throwing motion. So
Speaker 1: I think he's been a lot more accurate with his passes.
Speaker 1: Something is there a good camp. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: a big week again this week and uh, you know
Speaker 1: the guys are gonna play against the Jets, have a
Speaker 1: big week, so um, you know, anticipate him working real
Speaker 1: hard like he always has. For the first free game,
Speaker 1: Cooper hasn't gotten a whole lot of targets or snaps.
Speaker 1: Is that just a product of he's a veteran you
Speaker 1: know you've got or the way that's gone while he's
Speaker 1: been out there, or I just think it's the way
Speaker 1: he's gone when he was out there, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's not We're not We haven't scripted or game planned
Speaker 1: for any of our first three opponents. Were just colin
Speaker 1: plays and however they express themselves, they express themselves on
Speaker 1: Josh Chuff hasn't really seen a lot of work. He's
Speaker 1: not a veteran. Yeah, Josh had obviously a very personal
Speaker 1: situation last week with the passing of our dear friends,
Speaker 1: so that had nothing to do with being a veteran
Speaker 1: or not a veteran. So but going forward with him,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the plan for him? Will play Thirst?
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about anybody playing anything. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: go out and train today and we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at what we got healthwise and then make some adjustments
Speaker 1: tomorrow with that. I think Andrew has has has played
Speaker 1: really well here in the preseason, but we haven't finalized anything.
Speaker 1: Same thing. He's still got a slight growing um. We'll
Speaker 1: see where he is after tomorrow before we're making any
Speaker 1: decisions in terms of what we're doing. Yeah, he should
Speaker 1: practice today. Would you like to see Keiko play Thursday night?
Speaker 1: I mean just because you're gonna evaluate everybody after Tuesday
Speaker 1: session and we'll make a decision on what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't mean anything for me to say I
Speaker 1: want this or that. If someone can go or can't go,
Speaker 1: well we'll find out after we're done Tuesday. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think any in ordinate amount, though I'm not saying
Speaker 1: person nothing like, what do you see at I've seen
Speaker 1: improvement from him, you know. I think Taylor's had a
Speaker 1: really good camp. I think he's he's um, you know,
Speaker 1: a year older. I think he's really made some plays,
Speaker 1: a hit, a couple real big plays for us against
Speaker 1: the Packers in the run game on Saturday. But I
Speaker 1: think he's improved from a year ago. I'm really happy
Speaker 1: where his development is right now. Watching to take from
Speaker 1: Saturday night, anything on the defensive end in the second
Speaker 1: third quarter bother you at all in terms of coverage
Speaker 1: and things like that. No, I just think, well, even
Speaker 1: with the first group, I think on their touchdown that
Speaker 1: the one thing that was really concerning for all of
Speaker 1: us was we had three major penalties on that drive.
Speaker 1: One of those one of those penalties negated an interception,
Speaker 1: so um, you know, we got to clean up clean
Speaker 1: up that aspect of it. I think there were too
Speaker 1: many penalties on the defensive side that extended drives. And
Speaker 1: then a lot of things Billy was doing just in
Speaker 1: the second half was playing a lot of coverage. Not
Speaker 1: blit some people. I think we've blissed less than ten
Speaker 1: percent of the time, you know, trying to see if
Speaker 1: guys could get home and one on one four man Russias,
Speaker 1: So just a chance to have really good evaluation for us,
Speaker 1: And UM, that's kind of what we saw. How hard
Speaker 1: is the process for you to get down the fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty three and how much time you're going to
Speaker 1: spend just looking it over and agonizing all those decisions.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's hard because you have a deadline.
Speaker 1: So it's it is what it is. You know, we
Speaker 1: talk probably every other day about personnel and each side
Speaker 1: of the ball, um and special teams. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: we sit in with our personnel guys and coaches talk
Speaker 1: about these individual guys at their positions. So it's it's
Speaker 1: an every other day thing that we continue to go through.
Speaker 1: And UM, we'll use our full a lot mint of
Speaker 1: time here as we go through. We got one more
Speaker 1: big test this week against the Jets to make that
Speaker 1: final decision. The cut process itself is the hard part.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have to tell kids like we
Speaker 1: did yesterday, Uh, tell players that they're no longer members
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, I think that's a that's a difficult
Speaker 1: part of it. So, but the decisions itself, maybe you
Speaker 1: find that very difficult to No, I mean you have
Speaker 1: to make them so you can. You got to make
Speaker 1: a decision. You have to choose between player A and
Speaker 1: player B because there's a time when you got to
Speaker 1: do it. So um, but it's based on the full
Speaker 1: body of work that they've done since since they've been here.
Speaker 1: So this is a critical week for a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys because you got to go from seventy five
Speaker 1: to fifty three. So we're gonna have to release twenty
Speaker 1: two guys um after the Jets game. So Jackson of
Speaker 1: good job, were having't uh feel real comfortable with him
Speaker 1: right now? Could be yeah he should. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna try to go fishing things today. I think he'll
Speaker 1: be fine. So he could have gone I know he
Speaker 1: could have gone back in the game on on Saturday,
Speaker 1: so that again, yeah, if it was a regular season game,
Speaker 1: we would have gone back in. I think Marcus Smith
Speaker 1: is not packing today. You have some tough decisions down
Speaker 1: the roster earli wide receiver, etcetera. And you've talked about
Speaker 1: the reports of special teams. How do you also factor in, um,
Speaker 1: what they can do in case it's part I mean
Speaker 1: is that in factor in everything everything factors in. So
Speaker 1: it's not a he's better than special teams, so he plays.
Speaker 1: It's you gotta put it. You gotta put it all together,
Speaker 1: you know, so where if an injury comes about, who
Speaker 1: can who can play? Just because the guy's great on
Speaker 1: special teams, but he can't contribute at another position, can't
Speaker 1: contribute at that position as a factor also, So it's
Speaker 1: gotta it's gotta all come into play and we'll put
Speaker 1: this together. Let's sell sell its value to this offense huge. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's underrated in terms of kind
Speaker 1: of everything he does. I think he may be one
Speaker 1: of the best blocking tight ends in the league. But
Speaker 1: I think when if uh, you know, you saw it,
Speaker 1: he made a great catch on on the touchdown pass
Speaker 1: from Sam on uh, you know, going in there in
Speaker 1: the red zone. I think he's a big target. Um.
Speaker 1: He's got real good range in terms of UM, if
Speaker 1: the ball's not exactly thrown on him, he can he
Speaker 1: can catch it. UM. I think his run after the
Speaker 1: catch is a little bit underrated. You know, we've hit
Speaker 1: him on a couple of screens here in the last
Speaker 1: two years that he's taken uh pretty far. So UM,
Speaker 1: I think his his his value is huge here. How
Speaker 1: much have been it was? I think Trey's done a
Speaker 1: great job. You know, he's another guy who's in year two.
Speaker 1: I think he's he obviously stood out early in his
Speaker 1: career here as a special teams splayer. That's why we
Speaker 1: kept four tight ends, even though we had you know,
Speaker 1: Zach and uh plant in James. But you know, Trey
Speaker 1: was just an integral special team splayer for us. But
Speaker 1: we also felt like we could develop him in a
Speaker 1: m you know, after we release James, and I think
Speaker 1: you're seeing that. I think he's a he's good with
Speaker 1: the ball after the catch. Um, he's got really good hands.
Speaker 1: He has a great understanding of what he's doing, and
Speaker 1: he's still relatively new to the position because it really
Speaker 1: didn't play tight end. You know, he played quarterback, played
Speaker 1: running back, that it played receiver, did a lot of
Speaker 1: different things when he was at Florida. But I think
Speaker 1: he's he's adapted really well to what we've asked him
Speaker 1: to do. Sure, what were your takeaways from the video
Speaker 1: that the NFL is sent out regarding the slugs hit.
Speaker 1: Those are the rules, So if you're handing the ball off,
Speaker 1: then you could be hit whether you're underneath the center,
Speaker 1: no matter what run play you have. So it was
Speaker 1: explained to us you could have your back turn to
Speaker 1: the defense and if there's potential for you to bootleg
Speaker 1: out of it, then you could be hit. So I
Speaker 1: feel like your interpretationists has changed or their enforcement has changed,
Speaker 1: and if so, does that alter the way that you
Speaker 1: think about now it has nothing to do with the play.
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest thing we come away from.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what play you're running. It's that if
Speaker 1: you're handing the ball off and there's a potential that
Speaker 1: you could keep it on a bootleg or whatever, you
Speaker 1: can be hit. So those are the rules we'll practice with.
Speaker 1: The rules they got giving two quarterbacks consideration or you
Speaker 1: want to keep Fred, we haven't really discussed that the
Speaker 1: exact number of anything. We have another we get these
Speaker 1: two days and then we got the big game against
Speaker 1: the Jets. Before we start to say I'm keeping four
Speaker 1: tight ends or three running backs or two quarterbacks or
Speaker 1: nine dbs, we haven't haven't really got to that point yet.
Speaker 1: So in four weeks here, what have you seen to see? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, I think it took a little bit of
Speaker 1: a hit when couple was down just because he wasn't involved.
Speaker 1: So was it tough evaluation of that. UM feel real
Speaker 1: confident with Walter in and Malcolm. And then I still
Speaker 1: think we got to figure out who our core, our
Speaker 1: third and four safeties are. So it's still a big
Speaker 1: question mark going into um Thursday's game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: He did he did? You know? I think they've all
Speaker 1: they've all shown up at times and and uh, it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of kind of figuring out which which
Speaker 1: of that group, UM, we're gonna be able to keep
Speaker 1: still kind of up in the year. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: You know, we got we got time. We got two
Speaker 1: weeks from today before we play. We'd like to solidify
Speaker 1: that before we get ready to play a Landa and
Speaker 1: start to put in our game plan and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But um, there's still some real valuable reps for those
Speaker 1: for who the fifth dB is gonna be coming up here?
Speaker 1: So that he didn't really play Nickel. He played outside
Speaker 1: the other night, so I thought he did some good things.
Speaker 1: But he also did some things that we can teach
Speaker 1: him off of fall, but would if he did use it,
Speaker 1: he would be the guy, right, I mean then he
Speaker 1: would move. We got a lot of options, so there's
Speaker 1: not a set option in terms of being able to
Speaker 1: do that's gonna fail you gun hanging around. Dennis has
Speaker 1: been uh, really consistent. I think this has been his
Speaker 1: best camp, to be honest with you, UM, but he's
Speaker 1: been really consistent of both guard and tackle. You know,
Speaker 1: we've used him on the left side, we've used him
Speaker 1: on the right side. UM, he's got experience. He started
Speaker 1: in games for us. I'm a big Dennis fan. I
Speaker 1: think you know, the one thing you know is this
Speaker 1: is what you're gonna get from every day. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of mystic simons. There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: mental mistakes out of Dennis. UM. He's always dialed into
Speaker 1: what he's done. And we've asked him to play, you know,
Speaker 1: both guards. You've asked him to play both tackles. The
Speaker 1: only thing he hasn't played to us the center. But
Speaker 1: I think he's been really consistent and fits in really
Speaker 1: nice in terms of what we're doing. Gets. I don't
Speaker 1: know what do you guys give him credit for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean hent things always he's big, and he's tough,
Speaker 1: he's physical, but maybe not the greatest tackle. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not what we say, So you tell me, you guys
Speaker 1: write it. I don't care. I mean, I don't write things.
Speaker 1: I think Dennis fits perfectly and what we're doing offensively.
Speaker 1: So he stared. He said that there's a breakdown on
Speaker 1: the first two point of the kurage, but you have
Speaker 1: to look at the film to see what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had penetration up front, you know, so Tim had
Speaker 1: to cut it back and then we had a nun
Speaker 1: block guy coming off the backside edge, so um, we
Speaker 1: got to kind of solidify the penetration up there so
Speaker 1: we can press it a little bit more longer than
Speaker 1: the front side. He's been twenty months since he don't played.
Speaker 1: He played Juice rough and all into really coming bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's looked sharp in practice, but games in practice are
Speaker 1: a little bit different. So you know, we'll see where
Speaker 1: he is. But you know, we'll hopefully get him back
Speaker 1: out there and he's just you know, it really been
Speaker 1: a disruptive force in the run game for uce Um.
Speaker 1: I think he's been difficult to block in all three
Speaker 1: of these preseason games, you know, uh, causing a lot
Speaker 1: of havoc getting penetration into the backfield, disrupting the timing
Speaker 1: of plays. But I think he's he's played really well.
Speaker 1: May maybe maybe playing as well as anybody on our
Speaker 1: defensive line right now. It's only been a preseason obviously,
Speaker 1: But your team's out scoring on its fifty two to
Speaker 1: three in the first quarter, eighte six seventeen in the
Speaker 1: first half. What does that say about this team? And
Speaker 1: we scored a lot of points and haven't give him
Speaker 1: money up. I mean, we're just trying to get better
Speaker 1: every day and and uh improve as a group, you know,
Speaker 1: And and it's I don't think people are game planning
Speaker 1: for us, nor have we game planned for them. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're all trying to get our
Speaker 1: players to get opportunities on film where you can teach
Speaker 1: him off of and also make full evaluations of guys. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm happy with how we've performed in certain situations.
Speaker 1: But you know, looking at you know, just specifically our
Speaker 1: defense the other night, those penalties are you know, if
Speaker 1: that's a real football game, you have three major penalties
Speaker 1: on one drive, you know, um, and one that negates
Speaker 1: a turnover. You know that that could be the determining
Speaker 1: factor and win him losing a football game. So there's
Speaker 1: some real teachable moments that came out of that Packers
Speaker 1: game for you. One more spot mentioned, yeah, because we're
Speaker 1: not sure who's going to be healthy for the game.
Speaker 1: So as you quaite really well the other night. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he had that one blitz where he hit
Speaker 1: the a gap on the backside and abably kind of
Speaker 1: tackled the ball carrier and the quarterback at the same time.
Speaker 1: But I think, um, there's certainly the Packers game was
Speaker 1: his best game to date out of the three preseason
Speaker 1: games we played. So, um, you know, again a guy
Speaker 1: that was hurt last fall. Um, you know, once we
Speaker 1: started the season, you know, he got hurt pretty early. Um,
Speaker 1: but to come back and starting to kind of hit
Speaker 1: his stride, so it was really good to see Nigie
Speaker 1: back out there running around. Was it just a little
Speaker 1: rust I'm sorry, you're done.