Speaker 1: For holding Bradford back that you know, you're good, You're
Speaker 1: right whatever you want. I really don't care what you
Speaker 1: guys right, to be honest with you reason because I
Speaker 1: said I held him back. I just answered that question.
Speaker 1: So a lot of guys showed up, a lot of
Speaker 1: first year guys. You know, Hicks had a nice block
Speaker 1: on the front return. Can you just talk about the
Speaker 1: contribution you might see from the you know, the worldies
Speaker 1: this year. The previous two years didn't see a whole
Speaker 1: lot from a lot of guys. You know, the one
Speaker 1: thing you don't know about any of those guys or
Speaker 1: what are they gonna be like when until you get
Speaker 1: him into a game. And that's the encouraging thing. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the guys stand out in practice, um that's been history,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you get in the
Speaker 1: game and they're not the same player. And then other
Speaker 1: guys that weren't so good standing out in practice stand
Speaker 1: out in the game. But I you know, just from
Speaker 1: before you get a chance to look at the film,
Speaker 1: some of those guys I thought really stepped up and
Speaker 1: made some players. Eric Row had a big fumble cause
Speaker 1: on one of those receptions on the crossing. Now came
Speaker 1: in from behind, did a great job of stripping him.
Speaker 1: So um Nelson made it, you know obviously big catch
Speaker 1: on our bench and on their bench and you know,
Speaker 1: turn it into a touchdown and we had another catch. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, So we're excited about those guys. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: just one step force. But we feel like we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of really good film to teach off of,
Speaker 1: you know, officials, legitimate down and distance, all those things,
Speaker 1: a lot of good situations that we can Uh, we
Speaker 1: can get a meeting room with those guys when they
Speaker 1: come back on Tuesday and and and really start to
Speaker 1: grow this team. Would the starting secondary, I mean they
Speaker 1: give up it's everything it's not. And again it's not
Speaker 1: just a secondary, it's what type of rush should we have?
Speaker 1: You know, did we generate Russia on on them on
Speaker 1: those plays. There's a lot of different combinations when it
Speaker 1: comes to past defense. But we'll look at everything generally,
Speaker 1: look like the pretty quickly Matt, Yeah, Tim, you know
Speaker 1: ran for a touchdown. Yeah, is there one particular set
Speaker 1: of skills that you know they got to be able
Speaker 1: to do it all? But you also have to look
Speaker 1: at who's in with who, you know, what I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's different set of receivers that we're in
Speaker 1: where Matt than than when Timmy used than Timmy had
Speaker 1: and then you know, really a different line at times.
Speaker 1: So there's you know, you gotta have to take some
Speaker 1: of that into there's a couple of those where Timmy
Speaker 1: held the ball and it looks like, why is he
Speaker 1: doing that? Well, the receiver in the wrong route. You know,
Speaker 1: he's looking for a receiver to run a shalla across.
Speaker 1: We didn't get any show across, so you know, we
Speaker 1: don't we don't get that a lot in training sessions
Speaker 1: where if the receiver doesn't run the right route, now
Speaker 1: what do we do. So there were a couple of
Speaker 1: bus out there. We have some young receivers that we
Speaker 1: think are going to be good, but we three of
Speaker 1: those guys just got here about a week ago. So
Speaker 1: there were a couple of mental mistakes. Um whether it
Speaker 1: was up front or at the receiver's plot who thought
Speaker 1: I thought, uh, he did a real nice job. You know.
Speaker 1: We screwed up a little bit on that one naked
Speaker 1: where it ended up getting tipped, but that guy should
Speaker 1: have been blocked. You know, our tight end was lined
Speaker 1: up too tight. We should have had a pin block
Speaker 1: on him and got him to the corner and giving
Speaker 1: him an opportunity to throw it. But I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought he did a really nice job out there. Uh
Speaker 1: hit a couple of high throws. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he's got to get his feet set a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I thought we played with good tempo um. You know,
Speaker 1: as a group, we were all on the same page.
Speaker 1: You know, guys were clicking and guys were hitting. But uh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd want too a couple of those throws
Speaker 1: back just because they were a little high. Bring the
Speaker 1: game now. I did not talk with Cody during a guy.
Speaker 1: I just talked to Flipper and now I would I
Speaker 1: will see the film and gets straightened out, you know,
Speaker 1: playing a different player this year, I could this uh birthday.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a year older. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: not all new for him. I think he's you know,
Speaker 1: been there, done that. This isn't this isn't his first
Speaker 1: preseason game, this isn't his first training camp. I just
Speaker 1: think there's a you know, there's a kind of a
Speaker 1: common sense around him. I think, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: got a better grasp of what we're trying to do
Speaker 1: um and he's really showed up in our training sessions
Speaker 1: and he showed up today, so we're encouraged with his growth.
Speaker 1: Today was suppressive. I just think there's just a different
Speaker 1: he's carrying himself in a different manner. You know, he
Speaker 1: was excited about going out and playing in the football
Speaker 1: game today, So you know, we're excited to see where
Speaker 1: this goes, bringing into competition for Cody. And it's not
Speaker 1: why now we're not. I mean, he was an All
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl kicker last year. He missed in his first
Speaker 1: exhibition game, he missed an extra point in a field goal.
Speaker 1: So he's hit three from forty two. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put the panic button right now. So there's
Speaker 1: a couple of peoples practiced. Is he battling anything mentally
Speaker 1: right now? He made a mistake in practice. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's not go crazy. Now. He's pretty good kicker, So hey,
Speaker 1: he's a Pro Bowl I've seen Pro bowlers miss kicks.
Speaker 1: I've seen Adam Adam's a Hall of Fame kicker. I've
Speaker 1: seen him miskicks before too, So let's let's just not
Speaker 1: hit the panic button on coded right now. When we're
Speaker 1: the first preseason game down. You know, a great catch
Speaker 1: and a great run after. Is that what you've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of Dorian Camp? Yeah. I mean the one
Speaker 1: thing with Nelson when he gets the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: he's real explosive, you know, so you're you're you're anticipating
Speaker 1: run after the catch with him, and that's what, um,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things we knew about him
Speaker 1: because you could see it when you watch him playing college.
Speaker 1: He did that a ton in college. He was also
Speaker 1: a great returner in college, so you can see him
Speaker 1: when he has the ball in his hands. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic player. And I think what you saw
Speaker 1: today is kind of what one of one of the
Speaker 1: reasons we drafted him so high. From the first team
Speaker 1: defense when they were up there against you just a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, I wouldn't put way too much
Speaker 1: into it. You know, just how many series you know,
Speaker 1: Andrew came out I think actual in the middle of
Speaker 1: that second series, and Matt came in, So, um, there's
Speaker 1: there's tape for us to coach off of, and that's
Speaker 1: really what we're looking at. But we're not you know,
Speaker 1: making any predictions or you know, any lofty goals in
Speaker 1: terms of coming out of this. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: one step. It's our first preseason game. Was a good
Speaker 1: opportunity to go against another team. You get the live
Speaker 1: tackle to the ground. Um, we did miss a couple
Speaker 1: tackles on the defensive side of the ball, and we
Speaker 1: need to clean that up. You know that one touchdown run,
Speaker 1: we should have had the back down, you know on
Speaker 1: the on the long third down that they ran in
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. But um, you know that's those are
Speaker 1: things that um, you know, Corey and the other coaches
Speaker 1: will get a chance to get into film room with
Speaker 1: those guys and and coach him up off of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was, Yeah, what about this progress? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought he showed up today. You know, he showed up
Speaker 1: not only these two interceptions, had a big kick on
Speaker 1: the big tackle on the kickoff return after that late
Speaker 1: in the game. I think he's he's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's pushing to to to make the
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster and I'm happy for it right now.
Speaker 1: I think he's, you know, part of it. The big
Speaker 1: We put a big emphasis and how you playing the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just our training sessions. Is how
Speaker 1: do you play when it's live, full go and let's go.
Speaker 1: And I thought it did a nice job and put
Speaker 1: him put himself in a pretty good situation coming out
Speaker 1: of game one. So we'll see how he grows from
Speaker 1: the spot. He's obviously you for graduated the important one.
Speaker 1: If you have one of those seats, he's go down
Speaker 1: into the nickel. Um, how do you see that? I mean, woof,
Speaker 1: he hasn't playing, and um, how do you see who's
Speaker 1: ever plays? Are the guys we evaluate? So that's that's
Speaker 1: what the deal is. You know, we've got a deadline
Speaker 1: coming up when um, you know, right after that Packers
Speaker 1: game that we got to make our cuts, and then
Speaker 1: we got another deadline coming up immediately right after the
Speaker 1: Jets game. We've got to make our cuts. But it's
Speaker 1: got to be based on who's playing, and who's out
Speaker 1: there and who's who's who's uh, who's putting on tape
Speaker 1: for us? So Ed's Ed's had a really nice camp.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's he's a lot like Marcus
Speaker 1: year two. You know, it's not all new for him. Um,
Speaker 1: he spent the entire offseason here you know, it was
Speaker 1: here every day, um, even when we weren't allowed to
Speaker 1: be with him until April twentieth, but he was in
Speaker 1: the building working on his own and I think it's
Speaker 1: showing right now. So this game a couple of mistakes,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of miss assignments in terms of routes.
Speaker 1: Thought Miles had a big catch. Air did nice job
Speaker 1: bodying the receiver, showing you you know, whiley veteran, a
Speaker 1: lot of guys maybe would to outrun the throw. Knew
Speaker 1: it was a little bit behind him, so slow down,
Speaker 1: let the defensive back kind of hang on his back,
Speaker 1: and then they made the catch over his shoulder. Jordan
Speaker 1: made a big catch coming across the middle, so you're
Speaker 1: happy with him. Nelson obviously was someone that kind of
Speaker 1: showed up today. So um, I've been pleased with our
Speaker 1: receiver so far in camp. We did have a couple
Speaker 1: of drops today though there's a few there, you know
Speaker 1: that we that we wish we kind of had in
Speaker 1: Nelson Dad to drop in front of our bench. I
Speaker 1: think Sprawlsy had a drop. We had a couple other
Speaker 1: think Trey May had a drop. So, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple too many drops for us, But um, we'll get
Speaker 1: that corrected. Separated Gardner and hearned him to start today,
Speaker 1: he's just rotated. It wasn't a separation, it was just
Speaker 1: I think that's who had in there for the last
Speaker 1: day or so. So, um, it could be a new
Speaker 1: We're gonna give all those guys an opportunity before we
Speaker 1: make a decision on what's going to go on there.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, there was there was an aggressiveness about
Speaker 1: your team. There was a sense of competition, energy, enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Where did not all come from in this call game? Today?
Speaker 1: Death we got a lot of depth there and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys fighting for spots. So um, I
Speaker 1: think everybody's aware of that. You know, you don't really
Speaker 1: when like we're getting big Rod Ross speach before we
Speaker 1: went out in the the field, you know, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: we put a lot of emphasis because of how we
Speaker 1: train on what goes on. When you get a chance
Speaker 1: to go in a game and it's live, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no excuses when you're playing in the game and
Speaker 1: you can't say, well, I would have had that guy,
Speaker 1: but you blew the whistle coach too quick, coach or
Speaker 1: you know, I pulled off because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: have a big collision. It was you know, this is
Speaker 1: this is live, this is real, this is going. So
Speaker 1: I think our depth has really um given us a
Speaker 1: sense of urgency a lot of different positions. So um,
Speaker 1: we're excited to see that and that's what that's what
Speaker 1: we wanted from from those guys today. Corner into the
Speaker 1: puzzle here, I have to performance, but we if he
Speaker 1: continues to perform like that, we have to fit him in.
Speaker 1: So we'll you know, we're gonna find a way to
Speaker 1: keep the best fifty three players here. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's when you give you when you get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do something, you step up and do it.
Speaker 1: So it's not a you know, well if I had
Speaker 1: my chance, A lot of everybody gets their chance. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys played a lot of football today. So um,
Speaker 1: he continues to play like that, then he's gonna put
Speaker 1: himself in a mix. Last in the preseason, we got
Speaker 1: heard of you talking about the difference between him last
Speaker 1: year and this year. When you see last he did
Speaker 1: well in the preseason. We did get him late and
Speaker 1: then he got hurt in that last preseason game. So
Speaker 1: you know, we really it was. It wasn't a decision
Speaker 1: we could make in terms of keeping him on the
Speaker 1: fifty three. He was hurt, so we waved him injured. Um.
Speaker 1: Then we had an opportunity after he got healthy to
Speaker 1: bring him back and put him on a practice squad.
Speaker 1: So UM, I think he's taken advantage of his opportunities now.
Speaker 1: So talk about the receiver drops where Shet Bailey seeing
Speaker 1: the catch. Yeah, yeah, two tough catches and I want
Speaker 1: to traffic just you know, we kind of had and
Speaker 1: he's been really good. You know, that's the one thing
Speaker 1: about Rashid. He's got outstanding hands. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: he may not be as fast as some of those
Speaker 1: other guys, but I think he's a really good route runner,
Speaker 1: you know. And you talk about the jump that he made,
Speaker 1: you know, coming from Rocksboro High School and playing at
Speaker 1: Del Valle and then all of a sudden he's playing
Speaker 1: in the link against the Indianapolis Colts. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty big jump for anybody, and I was anxious
Speaker 1: to see what his response would be with you know,
Speaker 1: if there was any kid or any player on our
Speaker 1: team that could be a little story. It would have
Speaker 1: been him, but he wasn't. He was out there. It
Speaker 1: was all about business. We wanted to make plays and
Speaker 1: Um made a nice catch on our sideline on a
Speaker 1: you know, a key out route. And then that catch
Speaker 1: he made coming down on the on the steam ball
Speaker 1: from Timmy and I thought him put it the only
Speaker 1: place he could put it because it was really good coverage.
Speaker 1: But friend to come up with it was a was
Speaker 1: a big time catch on his part. So did you
Speaker 1: watching tim tebo? I mean it seemed like he can
Speaker 1: you know, he's able to ron He was able to
Speaker 1: you know. I liked how Timmy threw it. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, that's the big concern with everybody
Speaker 1: coming in is is has he really changed? And I
Speaker 1: think is, uh, he's sequencing better. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: his feet underneath him. And when guys ran the right
Speaker 1: routes and he had an opportunity to throw the football,
Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball really well.