Speaker 1: I'll announce that, but he hasn't. He won't go today,
Speaker 1: so kind of looks fine. Yeah number four right, did
Speaker 1: the same thing in relationship too with as de Marco. Hiration,
Speaker 1: cow vibration and loads in terms of practice are two
Speaker 1: entirely different things. Just kind of what he was from
Speaker 1: a body standpoint, So just backed off him a little bit.
Speaker 1: Just your workload, pretty significant injury before you going just
Speaker 1: bat you know, your first and foremost. You just feel
Speaker 1: so bad for him because he's worked so hard and
Speaker 1: had invested so much into this. Um great young man.
Speaker 1: You know, it was tough talk talking to him yesterday.
Speaker 1: It got his MRI in the morning and then came
Speaker 1: back and uh, I just got in there right after Chris.
Speaker 1: I told him what the outcome was. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: just one of those freak things. His foot was planned
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit awkwardly when you see the
Speaker 1: ape and when when the contact happened and it just
Speaker 1: it went so um, feel for him. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: operated on. He'll be with us and we'll put him
Speaker 1: on into reserve and he'll stay with us for the
Speaker 1: entire year. We'll we'll get him in all the meetings
Speaker 1: and get him up to speed in terms of what
Speaker 1: we are. Hopefully, as we talk to him about he
Speaker 1: won't use this as a rookie year and that next
Speaker 1: year won't be as rookie year. This will be it.
Speaker 1: He'll learn everything he needs to learn from mental standpoint,
Speaker 1: and we'll start to rehab as soon as possible with him. So, um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna rotate a lot of guys in there. Watkins
Speaker 1: will be in there, eric Or will be in there,
Speaker 1: Biggers will be in there, and then we all we
Speaker 1: all we all know that we have Walter and uh
Speaker 1: and Malcolm, but we had already planned for the first
Speaker 1: two weeks of just using corners in there anyway. So um,
Speaker 1: we'll make an adjustment if need be after this cult week.
Speaker 1: It was the second guy on the field very much
Speaker 1: as a rookie. Why was that you had? You know,
Speaker 1: you struggled at quarter and yet he still didn't really play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he just wasn't better than Uh
Speaker 1: Nolan and who was our dime in our fifth and
Speaker 1: six and Boykin at that point in time. So was
Speaker 1: there a reason why? Um, you had you before? We
Speaker 1: can trade when you did before camp? Now that's just
Speaker 1: when Pittsburgh contacted us, so there's no reason to rhyme
Speaker 1: to it again. We weren't um shopping him to anybody.
Speaker 1: They called, you know, as I said last year at
Speaker 1: draft time, and we turned them down. Then they called
Speaker 1: just about a week before camp and we didn't accept it,
Speaker 1: and then they up their offer just um when we
Speaker 1: were headed the camp. So it was really what they
Speaker 1: were looking to do, but we weren't. We weren't shopping
Speaker 1: Brandon at all, So you could have gotten the same
Speaker 1: offer if you waited two weeks. No idea. You feel
Speaker 1: like you have guys here who were you comfortable with
Speaker 1: when you have Yeah, we're comfortable in terms of what
Speaker 1: we have right now. One of the names that you mentioned, yes, yeah, Roe,
Speaker 1: Watkins and Biggers are the three nickels today that happened
Speaker 1: on the outside. So yeah, we've been a week into
Speaker 1: camp here. Initial plan was always to use corner, so
Speaker 1: we were gonna move Eric anyway, so find out who
Speaker 1: the best option was. Gis We're gonna put out your
Speaker 1: depth chart. Should we read into put out what yea chart?
Speaker 1: Eric Boko put out the depth shot, So I hope
Speaker 1: that answers your question. Are you are you gonna hold
Speaker 1: that spot? We're holding his spot. We're not going to
Speaker 1: expose him to the wave wire. So he's with us,
Speaker 1: just on the Jalons a nice shop, you know, the
Speaker 1: nice shot. Um. You know since campus started, so I
Speaker 1: know Billy and Corey have been happy with him. Um,
Speaker 1: he's got some versatility, he's got nickel, he's got corner,
Speaker 1: he's got safety ability. So um, but we feel like
Speaker 1: Jale's done nice job since we got here. He's got
Speaker 1: he's gotten a lot better from a technical sampoint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's in the mix. You know, we're not gonna you
Speaker 1: only got a certain amount of snaps. So um, we're
Speaker 1: still working at looking at what they're still looking at.
Speaker 1: Biggers there now Eric, Eric will kind of move into
Speaker 1: that spot and then um, at some point in time
Speaker 1: it'll be Denzel, it'll be Walter. I mean we you know,
Speaker 1: we still have to play a preseason game. So we
Speaker 1: got we got a long way to go here. So
Speaker 1: as much to how Rex go pers sect, but for
Speaker 1: those of us you do we basically being san nine
Speaker 1: percent market and the first team, how has that been
Speaker 1: playing out? You talked about a quarterback competition. Ryan just
Speaker 1: rolls those guys, so Ken, we're just when you're in there,
Speaker 1: are you moving the group? Are you completing the ball?
Speaker 1: Are you are you putting the ball where it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Are you making good decisions? Are you doing
Speaker 1: all that? So it's not a really good his impression
Speaker 1: of how well the quarterbacks now, he just rolls him.
Speaker 1: So I don't you can ask him when you talk
Speaker 1: to him from Thurman Safety. Very productive. You know, if
Speaker 1: you watched him sunday in the link, I think he
Speaker 1: had two interceptions and caused a fumble. Um. I think
Speaker 1: he leads the defensive backs right now and turnovers caused,
Speaker 1: whether it be interceptions or fumbles, cause he just kind
Speaker 1: of has a knack of being around the ball. I
Speaker 1: think he's a real uh savvy player back there. Has
Speaker 1: fit in really well. Has been kind of seamless for
Speaker 1: him in that transition um from one or two safety,
Speaker 1: but he just always seems to be around a ball
Speaker 1: making plays at this point. Now we got four more games.
Speaker 1: I mean he could hurt his leg tomorrow, so I
Speaker 1: mean you consider them the starter today for today's practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he didn't have time. So were you leading
Speaker 1: on Jay Shepherds helped build we can control and now
Speaker 1: we just felt like we had really good depth every
Speaker 1: in the secondary, better than we've ever had since we've
Speaker 1: been here. So you know, with kids like Eric and
Speaker 1: Jacorey that you're throw into the mix, with Evans, with Denzel,
Speaker 1: Rice and then bringing in Walter, bringing in uh Biggers,
Speaker 1: bringing in Max Man. We just felt like we were
Speaker 1: a lot deeper in the in the secondary than we've
Speaker 1: ever been so and then what we were offered, you know,
Speaker 1: when we finally they finally got it up to a fourth,
Speaker 1: we just felt like we couldn't pass up that opportunity.
Speaker 1: So we first week, did you have any musicians? Now,
Speaker 1: because it was a plan all along. All those guys
Speaker 1: have to be versatile if they're not gonna end up
Speaker 1: being the starter, and then they got to be able
Speaker 1: to play everywhere, so that that's part of the whole plan.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think through the spring we kept
Speaker 1: him in one position specifically um, just to get his
Speaker 1: feet wet. I thought he did a really nice job
Speaker 1: competing with Nolan out there. He's taking a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, Corey, Corey's repetitions out there. He lets those
Speaker 1: guys kind of go with the first team. Sometimes. I
Speaker 1: think he's done a really good job and matchups from
Speaker 1: when we're in one on ones of three on two.
Speaker 1: So I thought Eric had really good first week since
Speaker 1: he had a couple. Chris is doing a really nice job.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be an interesting battle with you know,
Speaker 1: with the safety position. When you got Chank and Maragos
Speaker 1: and Walt and Chris and then you throw Cup and
Speaker 1: Earl and Ed Reynolds on there, it's gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: again the snow the position. We're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: some difficult decisions when it comes down to the end.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be cleared, he'll start doing something. He'll
Speaker 1: be cleared. Him back on the field the month from
Speaker 1: Monday after the Colts, so he won't play in the
Speaker 1: cold game play to give playing times. We haven't had
Speaker 1: any discussions about what we're doing Sunday until we get through.
Speaker 1: We got uh today and then two more big days
Speaker 1: of practice on Wednesday Thursday, and then we'll start to
Speaker 1: kind of hone in on the Colts game when we
Speaker 1: get Friday or Saturday. In the spring about it, Mark
Speaker 1: Sante a year later in the system and how jewelry
Speaker 1: order and how he looked different. Do you see something
Speaker 1: different miscamper the last year the same with I think
Speaker 1: all those guys that are in year two. I think
Speaker 1: he just has a better command. You know, this isn't
Speaker 1: his first preseason training camp with us UM. You know,
Speaker 1: in our system, understanding how we train, how we call plays,
Speaker 1: how we uh run drills, and things like that. I
Speaker 1: just think you can see that he's I think he's
Speaker 1: a lot more comfortable. Did he surprise you with the
Speaker 1: way he played last week? In the fact that he
Speaker 1: has this practice? Did that surprise me? Now? What happened? Amazing?
Speaker 1: What you plan? Amazing? Ruptured attending in his finger, So
Speaker 1: he's a scheduled for surgery at some point in Yeah, Nat,
Speaker 1: did you into the different outside corner? Yeah, after one
Speaker 1: week of practice, we've thought of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: So we got four more weeks to go in preseason
Speaker 1: and then another week of preparation until we play Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So any guy that lines up at nickel today, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, kind of write it down that he's
Speaker 1: going to be the starting Nickel when we play the Falcons.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different combinations that can that can
Speaker 1: express themselves a lot of the you know, some other
Speaker 1: guys could get hurt and decisions don't even have to
Speaker 1: be made because now you're down to X. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. He played safety in college and then he
Speaker 1: moved out. Yeah, it does help him and he moved
Speaker 1: out to corner just a senior year. So that was
Speaker 1: one of the things that we were attracted to him
Speaker 1: about when we got to uh, you know, in the draft,
Speaker 1: was his position versatility. But we we felt he was
Speaker 1: a corner you know when um, when Corey worked him
Speaker 1: out and then I was out there with Ed at
Speaker 1: his pro day. You know, we felt he had NFL
Speaker 1: corner skills and um, we always want to start on
Speaker 1: the outside and then be able to move in. So
Speaker 1: um we felt it because he had played safety and
Speaker 1: has demand of man cover skills that he would be
Speaker 1: a natural nickel anyway. So Brady Graham doesn't fit a
Speaker 1: lot of your size. He actually does. But the only
Speaker 1: thing he's short is just height. But weight wise, he does,
Speaker 1: arm length, he does uh strength strength numbers, We look
Speaker 1: at those, he fits all those. He's just not the
Speaker 1: the height that you want. But I think his arm
Speaker 1: length and his power and his UH and his weight
Speaker 1: or exactly what we're looking for to offset perhaps what
Speaker 1: he lacks his power. You know, I think he's you
Speaker 1: know a lot of times he's a very difficult He
Speaker 1: can he can really set an edge, um and turn
Speaker 1: the ball back inside, especially in the run game. Sometimes
Speaker 1: when you're taking a shorter outside linebacker, you'll worry about
Speaker 1: them being able to set the edge. But he's outstanding
Speaker 1: of that. That's really one of his strengths. Who I mean,
Speaker 1: I just like all those guys, they're all progressing. I
Speaker 1: think he's been fantastic for so um. You know, all
Speaker 1: of them are never in their opinion or in our opinion,
Speaker 1: what they can be. You know, I think they're always
Speaker 1: striving to get better. But that's I think that entire
Speaker 1: D line is kind of has that same mindset, whether
Speaker 1: it's Benny said or or Fletch. You know, I think
Speaker 1: they're continuing to grow, continuing to to um a little
Speaker 1: bit stronger, develop more pass rush moves, you know, add
Speaker 1: a little bit more of their game. But I think
Speaker 1: he's been outstanding, so which is value and having that
Speaker 1: group and last year you're all back, you're all together,
Speaker 1: just that you don't worry about it, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: We don't spend a whole heck of a lot of
Speaker 1: time when we're making defensive personnel meetings on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: just because you have so many veterans in those positions,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's uh, and they're young, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. It's not like they're long in
Speaker 1: the tooth. You know, fled And said in Fletch of
Speaker 1: the older guys in the group, you know, Benny's just
Speaker 1: going into year three. Um that that whole group as
Speaker 1: a whole is very consistent in terms of their production
Speaker 1: on a day in and day out basis. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of something you can always just kind of
Speaker 1: count on as it. Our our d line right now,
Speaker 1: barring any any type of injury, is in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: Are really tall tree probably like the Armstead. How do
Speaker 1: they happen? Fletch is pretty tall now six four six
Speaker 1: four plus. But if you mean Fletch very long arm Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Fletch is ideal for what we're looking forward. So, um,
Speaker 1: Brandon Barrett is up there, but I think Taylor Heart
Speaker 1: six six. We just took a six nine kids, So
Speaker 1: I think our defensive ends match up pretty well for
Speaker 1: what up. Yeah, I think Fletch is Fletch can play
Speaker 1: any position on the defensive line in any system in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So he could be a nose,
Speaker 1: he could be a three technique, he could be a
Speaker 1: one technique, he could be a five technique, in a
Speaker 1: four three, he could be a four technique. I think
Speaker 1: anybody out there would take his size, height and weight
Speaker 1: parameters for what he's doing. So more guys, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys do look forward as you go forward and
Speaker 1: granting team you are really look some things the other areas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we away. Have you seen Darren Sprowls. I mean you
Speaker 1: still have to be a productive, productive player. I mean
Speaker 1: he doesn't fit the prototype for anything, but um, you
Speaker 1: know you would always take a Darrence Bowls. I mean
Speaker 1: it's we have parameters and what we're gonna do, but
Speaker 1: there's still production standpoints that you look at that um
Speaker 1: we feel you know you're always going to look at.
Speaker 1: So is there anybody than key going couple in all practice?
Speaker 1: Right now? That's just us two. Thanks yess y,