Speaker 1: Go inside for practice. First thing. Second thing injuries for today, UM,
Speaker 1: Dorio Greenbeckham will will we'll hold him uh from practice,
Speaker 1: still still real sore in that uh oblique area. And
Speaker 1: then big v again he's doing well, but we'll hold
Speaker 1: him from practice. Um, he's still a little bit away
Speaker 1: from from returning. But everybody else Uh Ryan Ryan will
Speaker 1: practice today, Jordan Matthews will practice today, um, and everybody
Speaker 1: else will go Ryan Matthews. No, he's good, he's good
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, he's good to play well. And again
Speaker 1: we'll find out today. But he's he's cleared and ready
Speaker 1: to go back. There are there are, there are and
Speaker 1: and and then these are things that we talked about
Speaker 1: this these last couple of days and staff, you know,
Speaker 1: getting getting Paul in there. Um, even with Jordan, you
Speaker 1: know coming back. I think it can be a benefit
Speaker 1: to the offense to have both of those guys ready
Speaker 1: to go. So many games this year we kind of
Speaker 1: follow the same temple where you guys getting beyond early
Speaker 1: ten points, fourteen points in the first quarter, um, and
Speaker 1: it kind of takes you out of being able to
Speaker 1: row involved and throwing different times. Any thoughts on why
Speaker 1: you guys keep digging these early hot even out swartly
Speaker 1: sixty five for every three and first four. Why does
Speaker 1: that happen? Well, one, Um, you know it start the games.
Speaker 1: It's a mindset. It is truly a mindset. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things where you know, as as a team,
Speaker 1: you want to come out and you want to kind
Speaker 1: of you know, make the first punch, so to speak,
Speaker 1: or swing first. And you know, we did it against
Speaker 1: Green Bay. We went down and scored, we matched, we
Speaker 1: matched the touchdown for touchdown there and we've done it
Speaker 1: throughout the courses of the season. But we got to
Speaker 1: be a little more consistent offensively too. Um, that can
Speaker 1: also help. And then and then defensively, it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of just you know, working to get off the field,
Speaker 1: you know, try to on third downs, just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: do what we can by scheme, through through the play,
Speaker 1: through a PBu whatever we can to to get off
Speaker 1: the field on third down. Um, becomes a becomes a
Speaker 1: mindset and it kind of sets the tone for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. If you can do that early
Speaker 1: in football game, do you do you look at the preparation,
Speaker 1: but what you guys are doing somebody morning before jakeof
Speaker 1: you feel like they're mentally ready to go. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously I I do look at all that, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's part of part of my job is is
Speaker 1: is the schedule and all. But um, you know, these
Speaker 1: guys are these guys are in a great frame of mind,
Speaker 1: you know on game day and and uh, they're they're loose,
Speaker 1: they're energetic, They're they're ready to go, They're they're focused.
Speaker 1: You see it in pregame and um, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's it's been unfortunate, but something we gotta you know,
Speaker 1: focus in a little bit more. Obviously this week division
Speaker 1: opponent and uh and try to try to strike first
Speaker 1: the liner's sperience to help a person that I think
Speaker 1: the experience can help everybody. Uh, with these last four weeks,
Speaker 1: not just the quarterback position, but obviously with our with
Speaker 1: our backgrounds, we can definitely help help Carson and continue
Speaker 1: to coach and and uh. Um, but I think too
Speaker 1: with with Frank's been on some some great teams. I've
Speaker 1: been on some great teams in the past, and how
Speaker 1: how we practice, how how our work ethic is during
Speaker 1: the end of the you know, this last last four
Speaker 1: weeks of the season become become very important and we
Speaker 1: can lean on those experiences with our guys. You're technically
Speaker 1: still obviously in contention for the playoffs, but in a
Speaker 1: great yeah, yeah, I don't feel it from you guys though,
Speaker 1: I just don't feel it yet. Come on. That being said,
Speaker 1: that being said, Carson, who's on pace to throw high
Speaker 1: amount of pasts for for a wokie quarterback, and we've
Speaker 1: seen how it's affected him, how do you counter going
Speaker 1: for it versus protecting the future of your franchise going
Speaker 1: for it as listen, Yeah, no, it's and that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. But I think is this is
Speaker 1: not the time to pull off obviously, you know, we
Speaker 1: got to continue we like you said, we have. We're
Speaker 1: still in the conversation. Even though it's you know, the
Speaker 1: it's it's down there, We're still in the conversation. And
Speaker 1: and uh, four games is a lot of football, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a quarter of your season. And and by no
Speaker 1: means do we want to ease up now? You know
Speaker 1: this is not the time. This is actually the time
Speaker 1: to push forward and and still be aggressive and do
Speaker 1: the things that we uh we did earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: And try to get back to that level of play.
Speaker 1: And um, you know that's the beauty of uh having
Speaker 1: an opportunity. And you know the other thing too, with
Speaker 1: with three out of the next four at home becomes
Speaker 1: uh becomes huge for us, you know, down the stretch
Speaker 1: in hopes of getting to where we want to be.
Speaker 1: Parson is still I mean, is he being effected by
Speaker 1: throwing too much? I don't think so. I think the
Speaker 1: effect is is we have to do better in the
Speaker 1: run game. You know, I've got to I've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job. They're calling calling more runs and
Speaker 1: trying to trying to, you know, maintain or limit the
Speaker 1: number of throws. Again. Um, you know you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't ever want to throw sixty times. Uh kind of
Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster. But you know I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have any concern with where Carson. I think
Speaker 1: Carson's right on track and right where he needs to be,
Speaker 1: and any he does an outstanding job every week and
Speaker 1: and that makes it. You know, you look at some
Speaker 1: of the throws he's made. So I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: concern myself with the number of number of throws. Just
Speaker 1: try to limit them if we can. Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson back in a couple of weeks. You have
Speaker 1: a plan for him to be at it if you
Speaker 1: worked even trying to throw him back in there, well, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: and it comes back on a short week too, you know,
Speaker 1: against the Giants in a couple of weeks. But you know, um,
Speaker 1: you got to see where big vs at, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously coming off an injury, hopefully in a week or so,
Speaker 1: and see where that's at. But you know, we're beginning
Speaker 1: the conversations right now. When when he does return. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, we'll have to see, you know, we
Speaker 1: still got two games. We've got to get through these
Speaker 1: two games. See, we'll see how Alan does. But uh, listen,
Speaker 1: you know he was a big part of our our
Speaker 1: success earlier in the season. So, um, I wouldn't hesitate
Speaker 1: to put him back in there. He really hasn't had
Speaker 1: too big of a break from the football. Maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit from June after Mini campus for training camp.
Speaker 1: You do you see any sort of mental fatigue with
Speaker 1: him with him at all? You know, I don't, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's also he's played a lot of football,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of college. Like you mentioned, because
Speaker 1: you know, he's always obviously been in the in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you know, with his school and and now now playing
Speaker 1: a you know, a sixteen game or at this point
Speaker 1: though you know, a twelve game schedule. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: see the fatigue. I see him. I see him still
Speaker 1: in the building early, he and chasing the quarterback, studying
Speaker 1: the tape, getting himself ready to go. He's still he's
Speaker 1: still doing everything to prepare himself. And I don't see
Speaker 1: that fatigue right now. The players, least off all of
Speaker 1: your comments Monday, they have been great. The players are positive.
Speaker 1: They're um, the players know, I mean, they're players, they understand,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I've been in that chair before,
Speaker 1: and so I get it. And and that's uh. I
Speaker 1: think that's the great thing about having played the game
Speaker 1: is you can relate to those guys and you know
Speaker 1: exactly what they're going through. And we've had great response
Speaker 1: and look forward to a great week. About that conversation, well,
Speaker 1: if you really go back and look at the play,
Speaker 1: you know Carson was ahead of him at that time,
Speaker 1: and and it wouldn't have been a factor because he
Speaker 1: was going to go out of bounds at the time.
Speaker 1: So you know, obviously, you know Zach is he's taking
Speaker 1: a lot of heat for it. But at the same
Speaker 1: time he understands too that um, those those those players
Speaker 1: will come up again, and he knows he needs to
Speaker 1: make one. When you look at the running game in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, do you feel like you kind
Speaker 1: of got enough out of that position with with Ryan
Speaker 1: being out or I mean obviously you fell behind, so
Speaker 1: you have it, fell behind, so it's hard. It kind
Speaker 1: of gets us out of that mode just a little bit. Um,
Speaker 1: But I like, I like, I like where we're at.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like, um, I do. I do lean
Speaker 1: on that offensive line quite a bit. You know. I
Speaker 1: talk to him during the week and say, hey, this
Speaker 1: might be the week that we need to you know,
Speaker 1: rush the ball thirty thirty five times, and uh, they're
Speaker 1: up for the challenge. Obviously. Um with the addition of
Speaker 1: Ryan coming back, it definitely gives us depth and a bigger,
Speaker 1: bigger back back there and and hopefully we can get
Speaker 1: back to to running the ball like we did a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Having the chance to see one, you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of like to lead back the last two
Speaker 1: weeks and and how he might have done yeah. There.
Speaker 1: You know again, windell Um has has done everything we've
Speaker 1: asked him to do. He's learning too, you know, just
Speaker 1: like a lot of our young players. He's learning the game.
Speaker 1: He's learning how to be patient and the run game,
Speaker 1: using his eyes more than more than his his god
Speaker 1: given ability, which is which is obviously great. Um. And
Speaker 1: and he keeps working every day. And uh, again it's
Speaker 1: a it's a learning process, you know. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was looking just just thinking again this morning. We've
Speaker 1: had five rookies, five drafted rookies that have had a
Speaker 1: lot of playtime this week, and that's that's valuable, that's
Speaker 1: great experience for them. You know, going forward, your conversations
Speaker 1: with Jim Schwartz about how to sort of proceed let's
Speaker 1: him more or not or said you're going to talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked and listen, you know, we um um kind
Speaker 1: of both agree that sometimes if you if you if
Speaker 1: you're gonna blitz more, you're gonna ask your back end
Speaker 1: to hold up or or whatever. You're gonna give something
Speaker 1: to get something. And and uh, it was a fine
Speaker 1: line there obviously. You know. Going back to the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, there were there were seventeen pressures in that game,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we just got to make sure
Speaker 1: that when those are dialed up, we either a lot
Speaker 1: of them can be run pressures as well, you know,
Speaker 1: to stop the run. Others are obviously you know, pass
Speaker 1: pressures to put put pressure on your quarterback. And and
Speaker 1: we just you know, we just gotta listen, We gotta
Speaker 1: trust the process. We're not going to reinvent the wheel.
Speaker 1: We're not going to change, you know at this point,
Speaker 1: just for sake of change. If if it benefits us,
Speaker 1: obviously we will. Um and uh, you know, I trust
Speaker 1: Jim and the defensive staff obviously to uh to have
Speaker 1: a great game plan going forward. First meeting in the Mexicans,
Speaker 1: what stands out a list of what they got to
Speaker 1: stand that you want to change regards to this a
Speaker 1: meeting them up, Well, you know that was Big V's
Speaker 1: first start, and uh, you know, so that was obviously
Speaker 1: one of the one of the things going into the game,
Speaker 1: you know, um, how well he was going to play
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, protection and things like that
Speaker 1: and no one going down there. Um, you know it's
Speaker 1: a tough place to play. Obviously, UM, felt like we
Speaker 1: had opportunities in the game. We didn't capitalize on a
Speaker 1: few things in the football game, you know, fell behind again.
Speaker 1: Defense we had you know, Malcolm had to pick six
Speaker 1: and kind of kept us right in there. Special teams
Speaker 1: had a big play, you know, So those are those
Speaker 1: are things that kind of kept us in that football game.
Speaker 1: I know, offensively, we have to we have to do
Speaker 1: a little bit better executing our game plan. Just understanding
Speaker 1: it's great to now finally have a home game here
Speaker 1: with them, and UH a great opportunity against against a
Speaker 1: good football team that's that's playing extremely well. Do so
Speaker 1: certainything you can do to help him manage the losing
Speaker 1: something he's not used to, or you talk to him
Speaker 1: about it, the essence any frustration because you know, I
Speaker 1: obviously I was a part of UH, and I mentioned this,
Speaker 1: you know, to the guys. I was a part of
Speaker 1: two teams, you know, in Cleveland we were three and thirteen,
Speaker 1: and then Philadelphia my first year, you know, being five
Speaker 1: and eleven, and and just kind of leaning back on
Speaker 1: those experiences and how I how we fought through, how
Speaker 1: we fought through adversity, how how you know, people try
Speaker 1: to divide the team or or say negative things about
Speaker 1: players or whatever. We just kind of kept that thing,
Speaker 1: kept that thing nice and tight. And so those are
Speaker 1: the things that I can I can lean back when
Speaker 1: you talk about the experience factor. Um, I leaned back
Speaker 1: on those experiences to to kind of just relay to
Speaker 1: Carson how we how we went about our business, you know,
Speaker 1: during the during those following weeks to come and and
Speaker 1: UH kept that team to get a great leadership on
Speaker 1: the team like we do now. And UM, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just UH with him, it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: just you know, keeping keeping him grounded, keeping him level headed.
Speaker 1: He's the leader of this football team. And and he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do it all himself. You know, That's
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of it. There's there's a there's ten
Speaker 1: other guys on offense, and there's an eleven on defense
Speaker 1: and special teams that have a big part in in
Speaker 1: this whole process. All Right, Thanks guys,