Speaker 1: It's a you know, it's not gonna be out here
Speaker 1: this week. It's gonna be a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: I'm glad it wouldn't any major, but it's still something
Speaker 1: that keeps them out, which is disappointing, probably to him
Speaker 1: more than anybody. But he really was taking some gross
Speaker 1: steps and coming along and now he's got a setback,
Speaker 1: and that's all it is. It's a setback. We don't
Speaker 1: know how long the setback is, but we'll know as
Speaker 1: we get more information. But it's a setback that he
Speaker 1: wasn't looking for. Neither were we, But we'll deal with it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really don't really answer that it's
Speaker 1: gonna be close. It's gonna be close. I don't know
Speaker 1: the extent of it. They are different grades, but it's,
Speaker 1: you know, something with a ham and the degree is
Speaker 1: what they're kind of trying to now figure out, you
Speaker 1: know what it is. And then you know, everybody's different
Speaker 1: on how they come back from those two. I don't
Speaker 1: think those one muscles injuries over the years, and one
Speaker 1: guy it takes two weeks when that three, you don't
Speaker 1: know the severity. It's a lot goes into it. So
Speaker 1: so where are you through depth out Well, we've been
Speaker 1: cross training guys like Brad Jones and Oucho, and we've
Speaker 1: got Vinnie out there cross training and Viny will get
Speaker 1: some work now. We'll we'll accelerate Vinnie's move out there
Speaker 1: now because of the depth. So I'm excited and Vinny's
Speaker 1: excited about seeing him out there. Uh. We we know,
Speaker 1: we worked all the offseason. We just kind of slowly
Speaker 1: leaked him in and the last couple of weeks he's
Speaker 1: got more and more and then this week we were
Speaker 1: gave him a lot and then the game will give
Speaker 1: him something. So Vinny's excited. I'm excited about seeing Vinnie
Speaker 1: out there in that role. I did drop and it
Speaker 1: seemed like you're dropping more than Yeah, he's doing a
Speaker 1: good job. You know, it's it's a process. It's a
Speaker 1: you know, the more reps we give him, the better
Speaker 1: will get at it. Vinnie's a bright eyed, very excited
Speaker 1: about the project and he's diving into an attacking it.
Speaker 1: So he'll he'll probably get it quicker than flashing last
Speaker 1: a week ago. Sticks. Is that reflective of how he's
Speaker 1: been developing? Is he that good? Ed is coming along?
Speaker 1: He's getting better he works so hard at it. He's
Speaker 1: a highly intelligent young man that he's getting better and
Speaker 1: better the more he understands the scheme, which he's at
Speaker 1: a really good understanding right now. It enabled him to
Speaker 1: break and make some plays the other night. Excited about ed,
Speaker 1: but he's still in the middle of the of the
Speaker 1: competition with all the guys. Is one of the guys
Speaker 1: that's working out there. Yeah, out in the off season
Speaker 1: we did a little bit more than lately, but because
Speaker 1: the injury, we're kind of dancing around with and moving
Speaker 1: guys around injury. We've kept them more inside because we
Speaker 1: really played last week with only four inside backers. Aucho
Speaker 1: can move out there right now. Brad Jones would go
Speaker 1: out there and take some snaps tomorrow night for us
Speaker 1: and Outo will remain inside, but he has the ability
Speaker 1: to swing. He still curry at the role and this
Speaker 1: kind of situation one of them long, how does it this,
Speaker 1: Zule It won't affect that role, It really won't. He'll
Speaker 1: still hold onto that role because he's so effective in it.
Speaker 1: Just a piece of can we expand his role and
Speaker 1: when we can expand his role a little bit or
Speaker 1: a lot, depending on how fast. It makes sense he could, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could a slot position. You keep having, bro, he says,
Speaker 1: you have the option to having. Yes. If that starts, Tony,
Speaker 1: you know, it starts to become necessary to have these guys.
Speaker 1: When will you start working again practice? It'll be next
Speaker 1: week or beyond that. You know, we'll probably get Nolan
Speaker 1: Carroll in there a little bit next week to take
Speaker 1: a look at that. Uh. And that way all the
Speaker 1: corners will be uh, you know, kind of well versed
Speaker 1: in there. Uh. And then the Malcolm and Walt have
Speaker 1: so much experience in there, and we you know, we
Speaker 1: we walk through, they'll jump in there a little bit
Speaker 1: so they understand it and know it. So they really
Speaker 1: don't need as many reps, although you do need reps.
Speaker 1: If that's what you're gonna do in this week's game,
Speaker 1: then you absolutely need reps of we're not there yet.
Speaker 1: We want to see the corners take it, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully one of the corners will take that spot. With regards,
Speaker 1: do you see him kind of having the same type
Speaker 1: of learning cursions trading brand new brand dude learning position. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think Trent. Trent is probably the most
Speaker 1: accurate comparison with Vinnie, because there's so much alike. They
Speaker 1: really are big, powerful defensive lineman to go forward um
Speaker 1: and they need to learn to go backwards. Brandon kind
Speaker 1: of it came natural to Brandon the backward movement. So
Speaker 1: I think Vinnie and Trent are probably a closer comparison.
Speaker 1: And I think Vinnie's really you know, he's he's been
Speaker 1: in the system, so the words make sense to him.
Speaker 1: Where that first year, you know, all the words renewed.
Speaker 1: Everybody listeners that you are a cross training or are
Speaker 1: you doing them only behind Brandon spot or they also
Speaker 1: get a week at the jack. It's both Vinny, you
Speaker 1: start him into one, but for instance, Jones can play
Speaker 1: both Outro can play both. The predator in our system
Speaker 1: has been the bigger defensive lineman, so you know, the
Speaker 1: bigger defensive lineman always start over there. The inside backers
Speaker 1: will start at the jack, but we have the ability
Speaker 1: to move them over there if we need to be
Speaker 1: the time of three side linebackers will be available for Saturday.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not positive that yet that that meeting
Speaker 1: we have this afternoon. I don't know if any of them,
Speaker 1: I don't know if all of them will be I
Speaker 1: really don't. Well, we'll have that meeting this afternoon and
Speaker 1: then we'll decide who plays. The majority of the game
Speaker 1: will be played by the probably the same guys that did.
Speaker 1: No matter what those guys their availability is, it will
Speaker 1: be millitermalus. How's it been watching Eric and so the
Speaker 1: other young quarterbacks working against Steve Smiths aus been great.
Speaker 1: They're learning a lot. You know, Steve Smiths, he's such
Speaker 1: a well rounded receiver. It's great to work our press
Speaker 1: technique on him, our releases. He can stop and start
Speaker 1: as quick as anyone. Even he's getting up there in age,
Speaker 1: but he still has that burst. So it's been a
Speaker 1: challenge for the guys. They're wide eyed and excited about it,
Speaker 1: and it's good for those guys who get that. You
Speaker 1: know that, you know when your first year in the
Speaker 1: NFL sometimes you go across from the guy you're playing,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's Steve smith Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, that's Joe Flacco. You grew up watching them.
Speaker 1: So the more times they can get through that experience
Speaker 1: to where when we do hit the regular season games,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more calm and they know they
Speaker 1: can handle it. So It's been a great work for
Speaker 1: our young guys. Really, you've got some younger guys, younger
Speaker 1: corners working in the slot, like an Eric Row and
Speaker 1: Jayley Watkins. But what is the veteran like EJ Vigers
Speaker 1: three expect experience like most veterans do. EJ has been
Speaker 1: in there a lot. J's played three positions in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's played nickel, he's played safety, and he's played corner. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he's got the understanding of the concepts. We all
Speaker 1: call the same coverages different things, but really you have
Speaker 1: inside leverage, outside leverage, press or off. Those are really
Speaker 1: the three the four things you gotta wrap your mind around.
Speaker 1: And he understands it, and I think he uh he
Speaker 1: brings back to the slot position. Last practices against what
Speaker 1: kind of persons? As I think what we've seen into
Speaker 1: two practices is a lot like what we saw in
Speaker 1: the coach game. You know, the run technique and the
Speaker 1: run fits have been really solid. We're building nice walls
Speaker 1: and a run game is what we try to do
Speaker 1: as a two gap based defense. And then in the secondary,
Speaker 1: our communication is at a real high level. I'm really
Speaker 1: comfortable with the way the guys talk to each other
Speaker 1: and the techniques, you know, the press techniques we've been
Speaker 1: working on. It's nice to work against other receivers and
Speaker 1: other releases and other sizes and shapes of the receivers.
Speaker 1: So we're really focused on the fundamentals and the techniques
Speaker 1: and all these positions. That's what the preseason is about us,
Speaker 1: is developing those techniques and fundamentals and evaluating guys and
Speaker 1: that this was like an extra two preseason games, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, because you can evaluate although it's
Speaker 1: not the tackle to the ground part, but the rest
Speaker 1: of it is. It is great for us this year. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're left and round. They were with Night two.
Speaker 1: I mean it was more right and left than anything.
Speaker 1: But we had we have game plans that sometimes we
Speaker 1: say down and back, but we try to base out
Speaker 1: of our right and left safety position. But it can
Speaker 1: change as the game changes. We can talk about work
Speaker 1: technique called all these may well from Sunday as you
Speaker 1: reviewed the the technique of press coverage, How was it,
Speaker 1: how how the guys sponsor? We took a big step,
Speaker 1: It really did, and I think it showed in the
Speaker 1: uh the light. We had zero plus twenty our passes.
Speaker 1: I think the one that did hit us for twenty
Speaker 1: was Eric Rose deep crosser that we punched out. So
Speaker 1: we were real pleased with that because that's the goal.
Speaker 1: And in practice now we've they did a couple on us,
Speaker 1: but not at the rate they were they were last year,
Speaker 1: So we're and we think that starts with the press technique.
Speaker 1: So uh, we're pleased with where that is now. It's
Speaker 1: not where it needs to be, but it's going in
Speaker 1: the right direction. Row seems like he's been making a
Speaker 1: feeling plays that it's still run a lot of ours.
Speaker 1: What is it figst challenge for a damn Yeah, regulars.
Speaker 1: The technique and the understanding of the talent level he's covering,
Speaker 1: and I think that's for all the young guys. I
Speaker 1: don't think you really realize. And there's practice speed of
Speaker 1: Steve Smith and then there's gonna be game speed you
Speaker 1: know when it's on the line. So there it's a
Speaker 1: natural progression that you go through. Uh. It's very encouraging
Speaker 1: that he's very calm at all times. Eric, whether he's
Speaker 1: getting beat, had a bad down, a good down, he
Speaker 1: finishes it right. He finishes it calm at the ball
Speaker 1: so those are all good things. But he's just got
Speaker 1: to get the reps and fight through these top notch
Speaker 1: receivers and see what it's like to cover doctor n
Speaker 1: I really I don't I don't have anything on Earl.
Speaker 1: I think i'll find out a little bit later on today.
Speaker 1: But I've been out of I mean, he hasn't been
Speaker 1: in the conversation because he's been away at the Doctor.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that Jacer. I really don't like it, tho.
Speaker 1: It's all it's all bunched up still. I don't have that.
Speaker 1: There's not a guy that's separating themselves. And they're all
Speaker 1: actually all are encouraging the way they played. They've had
Speaker 1: some interceptions. Chris and Chris are both they made a
Speaker 1: lot of plays the other night, did some great jobs
Speaker 1: getting us in and out of some coverages. So I
Speaker 1: was really encouraging. I'm actually see cup now, you know,
Speaker 1: we get drawn back out there, you know, and see
Speaker 1: where you can do. We're good, all right, guys. Thank
Speaker 1: you