Speaker 1: Yeah, through in a punt return drill and he uh
Speaker 1: he literally it wasn't really a contact drill. He was
Speaker 1: just getting fit up and kind of stepped the wrong way.
Speaker 1: And I think he knew it when had happened, just
Speaker 1: because it's happened to him before. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a real explanation for it, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, just feel awful because we've watched him
Speaker 1: through the whole process. He's been here the whole time.
Speaker 1: You watched him rehab. I think all the players felt
Speaker 1: the same way because they know how much he's got
Speaker 1: invested in this and it's you know, as I when
Speaker 1: I talked to him and you know, on the field
Speaker 1: and then when we got to finally answer last night
Speaker 1: in terms of what it was is, you really can't
Speaker 1: put it into words in terms of what it is.
Speaker 1: But um, he's gonna get operated on soon, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll they'll make a decision in terms of where
Speaker 1: they're doing that, and then he's just gonna start the
Speaker 1: rehab process again. So same thing. We're just one one
Speaker 1: guy down. We have six guys there, we have five.
Speaker 1: We also have Brandon Hepburn. We'll move out there a
Speaker 1: little bit, and we did that in the spring, and
Speaker 1: the same with Brad Jones. Will take some reps out there,
Speaker 1: and we're looking to bring another guy in right now
Speaker 1: there now, Brandon hepburn and and Brad Jones will be
Speaker 1: the first two guys that will go out there right
Speaker 1: now to try to keep playing. Yeah, that that's exactly
Speaker 1: what he expressed. I mean, the kids got a passion
Speaker 1: for this game, and um, we're gonna do everything we
Speaker 1: can to help him and support him. And um again
Speaker 1: I excited thinking last year I said the same thing.
Speaker 1: This year, he wouldn't He would have made this football
Speaker 1: team if he was healthy. We're out there that you
Speaker 1: guys are talking to Sam Bradford again and not trying
Speaker 1: to get a possible extension. Maybe you shorter one done.
Speaker 1: Is that important for you guys to lock him up
Speaker 1: beyond this year or would you guys be comfortable with
Speaker 1: splitting kind of the play out. I never discussed contracts publicly,
Speaker 1: but there was a report last week that we weren't
Speaker 1: doing it. So believe what you want to believe. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a for him for us to have a great
Speaker 1: day today. So we're never going to talk about contract
Speaker 1: and I never will. So on Sunday, why didn't Mars?
Speaker 1: That was our decision. There's a we do have a
Speaker 1: hydration status test and he was a little bit high.
Speaker 1: And obviously when you see guys that are high from
Speaker 1: a hydration standpoint, then you kind of pull them back
Speaker 1: a little bit because that's when they're susceptible for an injury.
Speaker 1: So that was a training staff coaching decision. Fire that
Speaker 1: injuries and recurag um and now it relates to someone
Speaker 1: like Sam Brown, you just say that this is not
Speaker 1: not related or do you look at its further proof
Speaker 1: that guys and having deals more prone to have this
Speaker 1: injury together. That's probably a better question for doctor de Luca.
Speaker 1: But in our talks with him, um the chances ten
Speaker 1: to twelve percent of re injury, So I would say
Speaker 1: Travis fell in that ten to twelve percent. So much
Speaker 1: speculation of banter. But the change is grade to this
Speaker 1: team with the season. Does that change your approach to
Speaker 1: know that there's perhaps more of a microscope or more
Speaker 1: commentary just the janesus for your roster being season more
Speaker 1: of a microscope in Philadelphia? You know, all right, there's
Speaker 1: not any press conference in the in the league with
Speaker 1: this many people in it right now, we're all aware
Speaker 1: of that. He made as much news as off season
Speaker 1: as anyone could have with Yeah, we weren't trying to
Speaker 1: make news. We're just trying to make a team better.
Speaker 1: So after it was two because the way it was
Speaker 1: subscribed to us, jif do you play Radford like he
Speaker 1: would normally play a quarterback, you do? They awareness, right,
Speaker 1: I may have the back off because were we monitor
Speaker 1: Sam just like we do just like the Marco every
Speaker 1: player on a daily basis, So all decisions are made
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. So there's not a plan hey
Speaker 1: when we go two weeks from now where we are
Speaker 1: because two weeks from now it could be different from today.
Speaker 1: So today he's full going, going to go out and
Speaker 1: do everything you can, and we'll continue to monitor him
Speaker 1: like we do everybody else in the team to practices.
Speaker 1: But with Marcus Smith, can you tell at all where
Speaker 1: he is from a mental standpoint compared to last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's obviously way advanced from last year and
Speaker 1: he's not a rookie. But you could say that about
Speaker 1: Josh Hoff and all those other guys that are in
Speaker 1: the second year that you know, it's it's neat to
Speaker 1: see them taking the young guys and kind of explaining
Speaker 1: things how they go because it's not there. This won't
Speaker 1: be Marcus's first time going into the link. It's other
Speaker 1: guys first time going to the link. But I think
Speaker 1: he feels more comfortable. He came back in really good shape.
Speaker 1: Um did a great job in a conditioning test ran
Speaker 1: around the last two days, so you know, we're excited
Speaker 1: to see how that progresses and what goes on. You know,
Speaker 1: with with the outside linebackers go along with Brandon and
Speaker 1: Connors of some raps outside. What's the thinking there that
Speaker 1: I understand the Bills were interested in that are well,
Speaker 1: we're not the Bills. So um, he just got here
Speaker 1: and in uh is still learning our system as an
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. So the first two days it's opening your
Speaker 1: eyes more than maybe somebody else, just a surprise of
Speaker 1: the first couple days of camp. Surprises status is pretty
Speaker 1: I think everybody. Everybody has trained really well in the
Speaker 1: last two days, so it's not that they didn't. I
Speaker 1: think they've done a really good job in the last
Speaker 1: two days. But that's where we expected out of them
Speaker 1: years about how he came back to camp. What has
Speaker 1: he done differently too. I just think he's and he
Speaker 1: came in in the best shape he's come in his career.
Speaker 1: You know, he's at the best way when you talk
Speaker 1: to him, I think he feels the best. He's worked
Speaker 1: extremely hard on the strength and conditioning aspects, taking care
Speaker 1: of his body. I think, which as you start to
Speaker 1: get older in this league, you know, that's the key
Speaker 1: to a lot of it is. You know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you're twenty one, twenty two, you can do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to get as much sleep, and
Speaker 1: you can do all those things. But as you start
Speaker 1: to get a little bit older, he really got to
Speaker 1: be conscious of everything you're doing. And JP's been great
Speaker 1: with that. And I think he's in the best shape
Speaker 1: coming into camp as he's been this being year three,
Speaker 1: better than year one and better than year two. So
Speaker 1: we're excited to see where he goes. It's only been
Speaker 1: two days. Can you assess Tim Tebow's performance? So more
Speaker 1: but see what you like. Yeah, again, it's been two days.
Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball worly well yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple stretches in there where he's it seems
Speaker 1: like he's got a little bit more zip on the
Speaker 1: ball than he did when he was in the springtime.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see how that manifests itself. But
Speaker 1: for those guys, especially them wearing jerseys, you're not going
Speaker 1: to know anything with those guys. So you get him
Speaker 1: into a game and there's a chance that you know,
Speaker 1: with contact coming and all those other things. So Tomhouse, now,
Speaker 1: that wasn't to scout him. That was just to gather
Speaker 1: information on quarterback play from Tom. So it wasn't had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with him at all, regular currents that
Speaker 1: we've done that before, you know, it was I mean,
Speaker 1: you see, guys are we monitor guys you know in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways, and there's a reason we
Speaker 1: do it. So if I guys we feel like isn't
Speaker 1: hydrated enough, which puts him in a more susceptible situation injury,
Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to do. That's part of the
Speaker 1: kind of what our sports science thing is is we're
Speaker 1: trying to prevent injuries instead of saying afterwards, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Jones just pulled his hamster and what was the
Speaker 1: hydration level? It was he was really dehydrated. Well, why
Speaker 1: didn't we know that before we went out the field.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why we do what we do. So
Speaker 1: it's just to checks and balance system so that you
Speaker 1: can prevent things, because once it happens, you can't really
Speaker 1: get it back. So it's now it's just it's a day.
Speaker 1: It's a daily, it's a daily basis, so your hydration
Speaker 1: is a daily thing. So it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with six weeks on six weeks off. He's probably the
Speaker 1: most conditioned athlete on our team. But if if you
Speaker 1: don't drink the requisite amount of water and electro lights
Speaker 1: and have him in your system, it doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: how fit you are, and especially the weather that it
Speaker 1: was a big factor for us too. We had fed
Speaker 1: back to back going into three ninety degree days, so
Speaker 1: you know, just being real conscious of if you don't
Speaker 1: want to lose a guy in the first day. So
Speaker 1: just a medical staff, coach and staff decision just to
Speaker 1: held amount. He went through individual so he started out
Speaker 1: in practice and then and we would do the same
Speaker 1: with anybody. It's not that just we're treating him different
Speaker 1: than anybody else, but we have full monitors on everybody
Speaker 1: that's why we have GPS systems and heart rate monitors
Speaker 1: and all those other things, so we try to we
Speaker 1: can try to prevent injuries before they happened instead of
Speaker 1: after the facts say that probably happened because he was dehydrated. Well,
Speaker 1: we should have done something about it. On the front end.
Speaker 1: What's up now, they're only on the training field. And
Speaker 1: then your car actually because you had a really bad
Speaker 1: parking job when you come in here. Correct. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: so the biliary about big brother because he's everywhere. Did
Speaker 1: you see his parker job by the way, Oh my
Speaker 1: God of changes. There's obviously somewhat of a learning curve.
Speaker 1: And when you have a lot of new players, as
Speaker 1: you guys put on the pads today, do you feel
Speaker 1: like everyone's at where you want this team to be
Speaker 1: at this point? I do know. We think they're ahead,
Speaker 1: and I think what Billy put in defensively and we
Speaker 1: put in offensively, we're way ahead of where we've ever
Speaker 1: been from an installation standpoint. But I think it's because
Speaker 1: of the amount of reps we get in the spring,
Speaker 1: and we go pretty hard in the spring. But there's
Speaker 1: a reason for that so that when we come back, Um,
Speaker 1: it's not starting over again, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: picking up where we left off. So we look at
Speaker 1: that break from June eighteenth to July thirty first, like
Speaker 1: we just had a long weekend off and our guys
Speaker 1: picked back up. And you know, the the the limited
Speaker 1: amount ofmental areas we had in those first two days
Speaker 1: is really for us as a coaching staff was impressive.
Speaker 1: So I think we got a group that studies hard,
Speaker 1: and they spent a lot of time and if they
Speaker 1: didn't take six weeks off, I can tell you that
Speaker 1: just from a conditioning example point and seeing what they
Speaker 1: did in the first two days from a mental standpoint,
Speaker 1: was John so far I mean, you know, meaning two
Speaker 1: two years away. Yeah. The one thing that was interesting
Speaker 1: with John is how quickly he's picked things up. He's uh,
Speaker 1: he's intelligent, you know, and stout will tell you the
Speaker 1: first thing. And now for those guys, we haven't had
Speaker 1: pads on, so to say he can do this and this.
Speaker 1: He looks good moving around in individual drills without pads on.
Speaker 1: So today will be a better chance to evaluate him.
Speaker 1: But I think the first thing that kind of stuck
Speaker 1: out to me, stuck out to us as a staff was.
Speaker 1: You know how quickly he's picked things up. He can.
Speaker 1: He's been in a couple of different systems in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, so it's it's a matter of transferring
Speaker 1: it into how we call it. But he's done it before. Jones,
Speaker 1: you liked them and inside outside guy, he's done it,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think there's there's tape out there
Speaker 1: when he was in Green Bay. He did both. So
Speaker 1: it's not teaching him a new it's putting it just
Speaker 1: like I was talking with John, putting it into his
Speaker 1: our terminology. So he understan ends what the call is.
Speaker 1: But he actually has NFL experience of playing both inside
Speaker 1: and outside linebackers. So he rotated more players at the
Speaker 1: right guard to Gardner yesterday. Yeah, well literally, And I
Speaker 1: say this, and I'm not of those guys roll them.
Speaker 1: The position coaches are in charge. I don't care who's
Speaker 1: at right guard with the first group. I don't care
Speaker 1: who's at right guard with a third group. I don't
Speaker 1: care the quarterbacks with the first group. I just we
Speaker 1: want to get reps in and we want to get
Speaker 1: taped down. We're going into training session three. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot more before we even get ready
Speaker 1: to go play the Colts. But from now until we
Speaker 1: play the Colts, you're going to see a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys in there, and um, you know, we'll figure
Speaker 1: out who it's going to be as we get going.
Speaker 1: But we also have four preseason games to evaluate him
Speaker 1: and and the games are the most important thing. You know,
Speaker 1: this is training them and preparing him to get ready
Speaker 1: to go playing the games. But it's live and for
Speaker 1: real when you get in the game, and that's where
Speaker 1: a lot of the emphasis from the evaluation standpoint will
Speaker 1: come from. Year. Yeah, well we've got four times to
Speaker 1: tackle tom So against the Colts and the Packers and
Speaker 1: the Jets and whoever lume techniques who Zach. He's done
Speaker 1: a great job from a technique standpoint, has worked extremely
Speaker 1: hard on it. But we've never had pads on, so
Speaker 1: you know, to his footwork and hand placement and things
Speaker 1: like that have really improved. But now when you get
Speaker 1: to days like this is now we'll be hopefully be
Speaker 1: able to take the next step with them. But I
Speaker 1: think he's really worked extremely hard at it and what
Speaker 1: we could get accomplished from a blocking standpoint, we just
Speaker 1: helmets on in the offseason program and in the last
Speaker 1: two days, I think he's done a real good jobs
Speaker 1: in that secondary and so much change in the secondary.
Speaker 1: Do you need to accelerate the process of communication and
Speaker 1: getting guys or to do reps? Just take care of that.
Speaker 1: I think the reps is what the key is because
Speaker 1: you can talk about it all you want at at
Speaker 1: slowed down rate, but that's not how the game is played.
Speaker 1: So the way we've structure our walkthroughs, in the way
Speaker 1: we've structured our training sessions, I think it's it helps.
Speaker 1: And then all the three on twos and formation periods
Speaker 1: and all that. And then if you just watch I
Speaker 1: know some of you guys because Billy's in front of you,
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing in those teach periods of changing
Speaker 1: formations and it's really that communication, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: really key for those guys in the back end. They've
Speaker 1: done a good job, but that both will continue to
Speaker 1: train that way between now and the last time you
Speaker 1: spo publicly. Brandon boy getting expanded on his jo initially
Speaker 1: and kind of break away from race and put it
Speaker 1: more on just you relating to players and head his
Speaker 1: expressive concern, is there any concerning your part about that perception,
Speaker 1: eat your locker room, and and do you need to
Speaker 1: address it in any way now said, they talk to
Speaker 1: the players we have in our current team, but we
Speaker 1: have an open door policy. I had a long talk
Speaker 1: with Brandon last spring. Then he came in and sat
Speaker 1: down and talk with me. You know, you can come
Speaker 1: talk to me whenever you want to come talk to me.
Speaker 1: But we also have a pretty structured day where guys
Speaker 1: are in meetings and you know, I don't just sit
Speaker 1: and walk around and say, hey, let me go grab
Speaker 1: him and we'd sit down and let's have a coffee together.
Speaker 1: I mean when they get here, they're doing stuff, and
Speaker 1: especially in the offseason, we're limited with our time. You
Speaker 1: got guys for four hours. There's not a time where
Speaker 1: you know, we're all sitting around holding handsing and come
Speaker 1: buy all together. I mean we're in a meeting rooms,
Speaker 1: we're getting stuff done. They're in a wait room getting
Speaker 1: stuff on, there on the training field getting stuffed one
Speaker 1: and then they're out of there. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think maybe if they expand our time or we
Speaker 1: could spend more time, but I don't think it's any
Speaker 1: different than any other head coaches in terms of where
Speaker 1: you are. I think position coaches. That's one of the
Speaker 1: things I miss about being a position coach. You get
Speaker 1: to be pretty close to your players because you're with
Speaker 1: your players all the time, you know, and that's a
Speaker 1: great bond to have. But as a head coach, you're
Speaker 1: not in those meetings on their personality. I'll treat everybody
Speaker 1: just like I I think I treat everybody how we
Speaker 1: should be treated. I think, you know, we respect everybody. Yes,
Speaker 1: some guys talk more, you know, I mean you I
Speaker 1: could sit with Kiko for three or four hours and
Speaker 1: we may not say where do we each other? But
Speaker 1: Kiko doesn't talk, you know what I mean, That's just
Speaker 1: the way Kiko is. But I mean I talk. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've coached those guys I coached organ I've been longer
Speaker 1: conversations with Kenyon, but that's because that's what Kenyon was like.
Speaker 1: Keiko doesn't really talk to people, but that's what their
Speaker 1: personalities are all about. So that year ago, back come
Speaker 1: back to the team. I wonder you in some of
Speaker 1: the comments that back way, and now that I think it,
Speaker 1: Riley made a mistake and I think, you know that's
Speaker 1: part of it, and we all packed him. Michael backed him,
Speaker 1: Jason Avant backed him. I think that's part of being
Speaker 1: in an organization and the team, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: I look at that as a specific incident, and he
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent wrong, and it's those are things
Speaker 1: that should never be said. And I hope he learned
Speaker 1: his lesson, you know. And and I think he regrets
Speaker 1: what he did that day every single day. I mean,
Speaker 1: I see that in him. But do I regret what
Speaker 1: I did in terms of how we handled Riley? No,
Speaker 1: we don't. Connection. There could be, but I don't literally,
Speaker 1: I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how to connect X to his why do Z
Speaker 1: and all those other things. We have other things that
Speaker 1: we need to take care of. So thanks guys,