WEBVTT - Press Pass: Chip Kelly 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.680 Where are some of the more remarkable improvements. Yeah, I've 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.680 seen Tim improved since he got here. He's improved in 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.120 his throwing motion, improved in uh since we got him 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:18.840 in April. You know, I think he's really worked very 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.079 hard at that um sequencing is his throwing motion. So 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:23.919 I think he's been a lot more accurate with his passes. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.520 Something is there a good camp. You know, he's got 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.560 a big week again this week and uh, you know 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.120 the guys are gonna play against the Jets, have a 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.320 big week, so um, you know, anticipate him working real 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.639 hard like he always has. For the first free game, 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.320 Cooper hasn't gotten a whole lot of targets or snaps. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.440 Is that just a product of he's a veteran you 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.400 know you've got or the way that's gone while he's 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.440 been out there, or I just think it's the way 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.159 he's gone when he was out there, you know. So 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.880 it's not We're not We haven't scripted or game planned 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.200 for any of our first three opponents. Were just colin 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.600 plays and however they express themselves, they express themselves on 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.720 Josh Chuff hasn't really seen a lot of work. He's 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.560 not a veteran. Yeah, Josh had obviously a very personal 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.120 situation last week with the passing of our dear friends, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.720 so that had nothing to do with being a veteran 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.240 or not a veteran. So but going forward with him, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.199 you know, what's the plan for him? Will play Thirst? 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.800 We haven't talked about anybody playing anything. We're just gonna 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.200 go out and train today and we'll take a look 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.520 at what we got healthwise and then make some adjustments 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:24.119 tomorrow with that. I think Andrew has has has played 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.280 really well here in the preseason, but we haven't finalized anything. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.360 Same thing. He's still got a slight growing um. We'll 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.080 see where he is after tomorrow before we're making any 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.720 decisions in terms of what we're doing. Yeah, he should 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:42.119 practice today. Would you like to see Keiko play Thursday night? 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.040 I mean just because you're gonna evaluate everybody after Tuesday 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.240 session and we'll make a decision on what they're gonna do. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.200 So it doesn't mean anything for me to say I 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.480 want this or that. If someone can go or can't go, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:57.240 well we'll find out after we're done Tuesday. Yeah, I 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.920 don't think any in ordinate amount, though I'm not saying 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.440 person nothing like, what do you see at I've seen 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.480 improvement from him, you know. I think Taylor's had a 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.440 really good camp. I think he's he's um, you know, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.919 a year older. I think he's really made some plays, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.320 a hit, a couple real big plays for us against 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.080 the Packers in the run game on Saturday. But I 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.080 think he's improved from a year ago. I'm really happy 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.119 where his development is right now. Watching to take from 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.280 Saturday night, anything on the defensive end in the second 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.440 third quarter bother you at all in terms of coverage 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.480 and things like that. No, I just think, well, even 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.280 with the first group, I think on their touchdown that 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.959 the one thing that was really concerning for all of 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.359 us was we had three major penalties on that drive. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.520 One of those one of those penalties negated an interception, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.000 so um, you know, we got to clean up clean 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.560 up that aspect of it. I think there were too 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.480 many penalties on the defensive side that extended drives. And 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:50.960 then a lot of things Billy was doing just in 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.080 the second half was playing a lot of coverage. Not 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.920 blit some people. I think we've blissed less than ten 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.520 percent of the time, you know, trying to see if 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.120 guys could get home and one on one four man Russias, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.240 So just a chance to have really good evaluation for us, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.799 And UM, that's kind of what we saw. How hard 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.800 is the process for you to get down the fifty 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.359 to fifty three and how much time you're going to 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.440 spend just looking it over and agonizing all those decisions. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.480 I don't think it's hard because you have a deadline. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.680 So it's it is what it is. You know, we 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.359 talk probably every other day about personnel and each side 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.720 of the ball, um and special teams. So um, you know, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.799 we sit in with our personnel guys and coaches talk 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.160 about these individual guys at their positions. So it's it's 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.640 an every other day thing that we continue to go through. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.960 And UM, we'll use our full a lot mint of 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.440 time here as we go through. We got one more 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.960 big test this week against the Jets to make that 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.880 final decision. The cut process itself is the hard part. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.200 You know, when you have to tell kids like we 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.440 did yesterday, Uh, tell players that they're no longer members 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.280 of the Eagles, I think that's a that's a difficult 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.080 part of it. So, but the decisions itself, maybe you 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.200 find that very difficult to No, I mean you have 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.280 to make them so you can. You got to make 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.000 a decision. You have to choose between player A and 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.400 player B because there's a time when you got to 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.320 do it. So um, but it's based on the full 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.040 body of work that they've done since since they've been here. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.160 So this is a critical week for a lot of 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.800 those guys because you got to go from seventy five 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.440 to fifty three. So we're gonna have to release twenty 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.880 two guys um after the Jets game. So Jackson of 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.680 good job, were having't uh feel real comfortable with him 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:32.000 right now? Could be yeah he should. I think he's 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.600 gonna try to go fishing things today. I think he'll 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.360 be fine. So he could have gone I know he 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.799 could have gone back in the game on on Saturday, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.240 so that again, yeah, if it was a regular season game, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.760 we would have gone back in. I think Marcus Smith 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.760 is not packing today. You have some tough decisions down 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.520 the roster earli wide receiver, etcetera. And you've talked about 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.239 the reports of special teams. How do you also factor in, um, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.160 what they can do in case it's part I mean 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.279 is that in factor in everything everything factors in. So 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.919 it's not a he's better than special teams, so he plays. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.239 It's you gotta put it. You gotta put it all together, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.279 you know, so where if an injury comes about, who 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.599 can who can play? Just because the guy's great on 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.080 special teams, but he can't contribute at another position, can't 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.440 contribute at that position as a factor also, So it's 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.040 gotta it's gotta all come into play and we'll put 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:25.360 this together. Let's sell sell its value to this offense huge. Um. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.920 You know, I think he's underrated in terms of kind 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.320 of everything he does. I think he may be one 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:31.839 of the best blocking tight ends in the league. But 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.359 I think when if uh, you know, you saw it, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.360 he made a great catch on on the touchdown pass 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.320 from Sam on uh, you know, going in there in 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.360 the red zone. I think he's a big target. Um. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.080 He's got real good range in terms of UM, if 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.000 the ball's not exactly thrown on him, he can he 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.400 can catch it. UM. I think his run after the 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.120 catch is a little bit underrated. You know, we've hit 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.440 him on a couple of screens here in the last 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.520 two years that he's taken uh pretty far. So UM, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:59.280 I think his his his value is huge here. How 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.080 much have been it was? I think Trey's done a 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.800 great job. You know, he's another guy who's in year two. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.440 I think he's he obviously stood out early in his 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.360 career here as a special teams splayer. That's why we 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.680 kept four tight ends, even though we had you know, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.880 Zach and uh plant in James. But you know, Trey 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.240 was just an integral special team splayer for us. But 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.960 we also felt like we could develop him in a 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.720 m you know, after we release James, and I think 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.960 you're seeing that. I think he's a he's good with 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.479 the ball after the catch. Um, he's got really good hands. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.120 He has a great understanding of what he's doing, and 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.000 he's still relatively new to the position because it really 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.600 didn't play tight end. You know, he played quarterback, played 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.200 running back, that it played receiver, did a lot of 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.840 different things when he was at Florida. But I think 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.920 he's he's adapted really well to what we've asked him 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.039 to do. Sure, what were your takeaways from the video 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.640 that the NFL is sent out regarding the slugs hit. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.240 Those are the rules, So if you're handing the ball off, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.240 then you could be hit whether you're underneath the center, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.320 no matter what run play you have. So it was 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:55.919 explained to us you could have your back turn to 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.960 the defense and if there's potential for you to bootleg 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.800 out of it, then you could be hit. So I 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.080 feel like your interpretationists has changed or their enforcement has changed, 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.159 and if so, does that alter the way that you 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.000 think about now it has nothing to do with the play. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.720 I think that was the biggest thing we come away from. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.000 It doesn't matter what play you're running. It's that if 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.840 you're handing the ball off and there's a potential that 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.480 you could keep it on a bootleg or whatever, you 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.480 can be hit. So those are the rules we'll practice with. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.760 The rules they got giving two quarterbacks consideration or you 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.400 want to keep Fred, we haven't really discussed that the 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.040 exact number of anything. We have another we get these 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.559 two days and then we got the big game against 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.880 the Jets. Before we start to say I'm keeping four 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.400 tight ends or three running backs or two quarterbacks or 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.720 nine dbs, we haven't haven't really got to that point yet. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.760 So in four weeks here, what have you seen to see? Um? 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.760 You know, I think it took a little bit of 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.160 a hit when couple was down just because he wasn't involved. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.800 So was it tough evaluation of that. UM feel real 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.680 confident with Walter in and Malcolm. And then I still 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.240 think we got to figure out who our core, our 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.160 third and four safeties are. So it's still a big 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.000 question mark going into um Thursday's game against the Jets. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.040 He did he did? You know? I think they've all 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.160 they've all shown up at times and and uh, it's 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:13.880 just a matter of kind of figuring out which which 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.280 of that group, UM, we're gonna be able to keep 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.120 still kind of up in the year. Yeah it is. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.800 You know, we got we got time. We got two 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.160 weeks from today before we play. We'd like to solidify 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.840 that before we get ready to play a Landa and 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.559 start to put in our game plan and all that stuff. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.280 But um, there's still some real valuable reps for those 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.400 for who the fifth dB is gonna be coming up here? 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:41.480 So that he didn't really play Nickel. He played outside 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.560 the other night, so I thought he did some good things. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:44.840 But he also did some things that we can teach 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.319 him off of fall, but would if he did use it, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.880 he would be the guy, right, I mean then he 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.080 would move. We got a lot of options, so there's 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.920 not a set option in terms of being able to 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.840 do that's gonna fail you gun hanging around. Dennis has 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.040 been uh, really consistent. I think this has been his 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.400 best camp, to be honest with you, UM, but he's 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.319 been really consistent of both guard and tackle. You know, 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.959 we've used him on the left side, we've used him 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.640 on the right side. UM, he's got experience. He started 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.720 in games for us. I'm a big Dennis fan. I 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.920 think you know, the one thing you know is this 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.439 is what you're gonna get from every day. There's not 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.800 a lot of mystic simons. There's not a lot of 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.440 mental mistakes out of Dennis. UM. He's always dialed into 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.800 what he's done. And we've asked him to play, you know, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.959 both guards. You've asked him to play both tackles. The 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.560 only thing he hasn't played to us the center. But 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.800 I think he's been really consistent and fits in really 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:35.440 nice in terms of what we're doing. Gets. I don't 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.120 know what do you guys give him credit for. Yeah, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.240 I mean hent things always he's big, and he's tough, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.920 he's physical, but maybe not the greatest tackle. Yeah, that's 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.199 not what we say, So you tell me, you guys 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.800 write it. I don't care. I mean, I don't write things. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.640 I think Dennis fits perfectly and what we're doing offensively. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.160 So he stared. He said that there's a breakdown on 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:56.480 the first two point of the kurage, but you have 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.200 to look at the film to see what it was. Yeah, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.360 we had penetration up front, you know, so Tim had 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:01.400 to cut it back and then we had a nun 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.640 block guy coming off the backside edge, so um, we 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.640 got to kind of solidify the penetration up there so 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.080 we can press it a little bit more longer than 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.560 the front side. He's been twenty months since he don't played. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:14.200 He played Juice rough and all into really coming bad. Yeah, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.520 he's looked sharp in practice, but games in practice are 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.760 a little bit different. So you know, we'll see where 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.600 he is. But you know, we'll hopefully get him back 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:27.679 out there and he's just you know, it really been 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.320 a disruptive force in the run game for uce Um. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.760 I think he's been difficult to block in all three 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.199 of these preseason games, you know, uh, causing a lot 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.439 of havoc getting penetration into the backfield, disrupting the timing 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.719 of plays. But I think he's he's played really well. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.800 May maybe maybe playing as well as anybody on our 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.520 defensive line right now. It's only been a preseason obviously, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.840 But your team's out scoring on its fifty two to 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.560 three in the first quarter, eighte six seventeen in the 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.959 first half. What does that say about this team? And 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.880 we scored a lot of points and haven't give him 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.520 money up. I mean, we're just trying to get better 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.280 every day and and uh improve as a group, you know, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.440 And and it's I don't think people are game planning 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.520 for us, nor have we game planned for them. Um, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.960 you know, I think we're all trying to get our 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.839 players to get opportunities on film where you can teach 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:19.440 him off of and also make full evaluations of guys. So, um, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.359 you know, I'm happy with how we've performed in certain situations. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.280 But you know, looking at you know, just specifically our 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.640 defense the other night, those penalties are you know, if 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.880 that's a real football game, you have three major penalties 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.720 on one drive, you know, um, and one that negates 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.600 a turnover. You know that that could be the determining 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.000 factor and win him losing a football game. So there's 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.920 some real teachable moments that came out of that Packers 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:51.600 game for you. One more spot mentioned, yeah, because we're 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.040 not sure who's going to be healthy for the game. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.760 So as you quaite really well the other night. You know, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.679 I think he had that one blitz where he hit 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.439 the a gap on the backside and abably kind of 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.680 tackled the ball carrier and the quarterback at the same time. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.600 But I think, um, there's certainly the Packers game was 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.320 his best game to date out of the three preseason 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.679 games we played. So, um, you know, again a guy 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.640 that was hurt last fall. Um, you know, once we 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.840 started the season, you know, he got hurt pretty early. Um, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.640 but to come back and starting to kind of hit 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.600 his stride, so it was really good to see Nigie 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.000 back out there running around. Was it just a little 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:31.560 rust I'm sorry, you're done.