Speaker 1: With your process when you have the buy week, just
Speaker 1: to get ready and make sure you're sharp for the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs for your first game. I
Speaker 1: think Kyle kind of set it up well for us.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of days off to get feeling good,
Speaker 1: and then the game obviously wasn't too much for me.
Speaker 1: I think I had like five plays, so yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a little time there, and then we have two
Speaker 1: solid practices to felt good and fresh. Today, just work
Speaker 1: on our stuff a little bit, and then tomorrow will
Speaker 1: be pads and then we'll have another.
Speaker 2: Two days off.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a perfect perfect mix of getting
Speaker 1: fresh but also staying sharp.
Speaker 3: Watching the games this weekend. Will you have any rooting
Speaker 3: interest maybe for Tamiko or any other teams?
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely for Damiko. Only talk to McDaniel a couple
Speaker 1: of times.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No Other than that, just see who we're playing.
Speaker 3: An early scouting at all when you're watching the game
Speaker 3: kind of as a fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've seen a lot of these teams already,
Speaker 1: especially the NFC, so uh now just watching and enjoy
Speaker 1: not beating my body up for a week. I could
Speaker 1: get a bigger role here in his first couple of
Speaker 1: playoff games.
Speaker 2: Have you seen a change in him, just, you know, as.
Speaker 4: He's gotten more accustomed to the defense since he's gotten here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna have to play more. All the ends
Speaker 1: are gonna have to step it up for Cleveland, whether
Speaker 1: he misses one game or whatever it is. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we just have to hone in on the technique of things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes towards the end of the year you lose it
Speaker 1: a little bit, but now it's there's no excuse. You
Speaker 1: got to get fresh and and uh and really play
Speaker 1: the scheme the way it's supposed to be played. And
Speaker 1: we're really focusing on that as a D line group
Speaker 1: and D N group. So yeah, I'm excited for him
Speaker 1: to have this opportunity.
Speaker 3: Got all the starts this year and he's sort of
Speaker 3: the base down guy.
Speaker 2: What what did he do well to sort of earn
Speaker 2: that role And what what does Chase need to do
Speaker 2: to kind of shill those shoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just the having a camp here and being in
Speaker 1: the scheme and and just understanding the aiming points and
Speaker 1: all this stuff that Chris preaches.
Speaker 2: And it's tough to come in and get it right
Speaker 2: right away.
Speaker 1: And Randy and Chase are still learning, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to kind of learn quick on the run.
Speaker 2: And be ready to fill those shoes.
Speaker 1: And Cleveland brought probably the best effort of anybody on
Speaker 1: the team, So I think that was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things he brought.
Speaker 2: Eric being back, give you guys run, It'll be huge.
Speaker 1: I think I was really happy with how Javon and
Speaker 1: Kevin played last game. So having Eric back and then
Speaker 1: those two playing well and kind of back to their
Speaker 1: role of not taking fifty snaps but taking twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty will be better for everybody.
Speaker 4: What's your I guess playoff goals going into this trying
Speaker 4: to in terms of making sacks and pressure and quarterbacks
Speaker 4: maybe more than you have in past playoffs.
Speaker 2: I just want to help my team win and win
Speaker 2: three games.
Speaker 1: That's that's my focus for sure.
Speaker 4: With Steve Will's guy here, he said he's kind of
Speaker 4: a unique spot where he was learning the defense here
Speaker 4: and trying to kind of implement stuff with it rather
Speaker 4: than you know, putting in his own system. How have
Speaker 4: you seen him maybe grow more comfortable through the course
Speaker 4: of the year and how has it kind of manifested
Speaker 4: on the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he was trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: a little bit with what kind of defense are going
Speaker 1: to be And at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: do we do what we do, and we've done it
Speaker 1: since I've been here. Zone coverage and rushing for and
Speaker 1: and there's tons of different levels to doing it, and
Speaker 1: we need to be at the highest level possible of
Speaker 1: doing that, and if we are, then we're going to
Speaker 1: be really good defense.
Speaker 3: He said that he.
Speaker 4: Feels more relaxed now that he's on the on the
Speaker 4: field and having more fun. Have you have you noticed that?
Speaker 4: How has that shown up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it was stressful in the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: It seems like everybody was coming after him. But I
Speaker 1: kind of felt for him just because it's not one
Speaker 1: guy's fault ever in football. So I'm happy that it's
Speaker 1: kind of calm down and we've figured out our recipe
Speaker 1: and we just need to get fresh and be flying
Speaker 1: around when time comes.
Speaker 3: Longstanding coaches have stepped down the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: Now Kyle's here for a seventh year now, fifth with you,
Speaker 3: how have you noticed him keeping things fresh? I mean,
Speaker 3: to get consistency, but at the same time, maybe change
Speaker 3: the message up enough just to keep everybody interested.
Speaker 2: Has he changed over the years. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: Actually, he's very unpredictable with how he's going to approach things.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, his system is his systems. He's kind
Speaker 1: of old school with new school stuff to him. But
Speaker 1: I think I think he's just consistent in the sense
Speaker 1: that he's he's always looking for ways to improve, and
Speaker 1: he knows that you can't stay the same in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You have to keep improving, and especially when we've been
Speaker 1: so close, there has to be some other amount of
Speaker 1: of uh like improvement that we could reach. And I
Speaker 1: kind of see him looking for it, and I think,
Speaker 1: hopefully this is this is the year we find it.
Speaker 2: You guys have played you know, he could be four opponents.
Speaker 2: You've played three of them.
Speaker 4: Have you spent any time this week looking at Green
Speaker 4: Bay's up with their tackles Walker and Tom?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 3: Some times brock Berdy has not had one of these
Speaker 3: great games, most recently against the Ravens. When he talks
Speaker 3: to us, he's not at all defensive, never even tries
Speaker 3: to settle.
Speaker 2: It playing, and he's like very openly.
Speaker 3: Oxby his mistakes, like what he did wrong what. It
Speaker 3: seems unique the way he does that. What does that
Speaker 3: say to you about him just as a leaders a person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely unique.
Speaker 1: In today's game, people feel attacked and uh, I want
Speaker 1: to be defensive about certain things, but shows his maturity
Speaker 1: and his understanding that.
Speaker 2: There's a reason things happened on the.
Speaker 1: Field, and and being honest is is.
Speaker 2: A good way to go about it.
Speaker 1: And you almost every play you could explain exactly what
Speaker 1: went wrong, and I think there was I find it
Speaker 1: interesting when when Kyle explains the offensive stuff to us,
Speaker 1: and it's simple stuff, simple like like motion stuff that
Speaker 1: maybe was a little bit late and threw off the
Speaker 1: play or somebody missing one block.
Speaker 2: So I think just being honest is a good way
Speaker 2: to go about your life.
Speaker 1: And he's kind of mature beyond his years.
Speaker 3: Brandon the offense won the practice today, but Fred.
Speaker 2: Said, I feel like it was pretty even. Ye