Speaker 1: Like, we've had two good days of practice this week.
Speaker 1: Consistency is always the key with anything that you're doing. Again,
Speaker 1: we're preparing for a good football team and uh Stealers
Speaker 1: Uh well, coach very talented and definitely have weapons all
Speaker 1: across the board.
Speaker 2: So uh with that, I know you have a lot
Speaker 2: of questions. So I opened up the floor.
Speaker 3: What was your first order of business when you found
Speaker 3: out that Nick most Who's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be here?
Speaker 1: Uh? You know, excited number one that he's back in
Speaker 1: the building. We all know that he makes us a
Speaker 1: better football team, not just a better defense. So uh,
Speaker 1: business as usual regards for his preparation, but understand that
Speaker 1: he brings a little bit more to the game plan.
Speaker 4: What did from an energy perspective?
Speaker 3: What is he kind of brought even the short times
Speaker 3: with that?
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's excited that he's back in the building.
Speaker 1: I mean, coaches, players, You saw the energy uh that
Speaker 1: we had on Monday when we came in and just
Speaker 1: magnified you know when he got here. So uh, once again,
Speaker 1: excited that he's back and looking forward to him being
Speaker 1: on the field.
Speaker 3: The Steelers this offseason made a big deal about trying
Speaker 3: to be more explosive offensively for for all you've seen
Speaker 3: from Picket in the preseason, have you seen that that's something.
Speaker 1: I think they living up to that. Yeah, for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's pushing the ball down the field quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Definitely have weapons and uh pickings and you know, I
Speaker 1: think he is phenomenal in in everything that he does.
Speaker 1: For his catch radius, you throw the ball anywhere close
Speaker 1: to him, he's pulling it in so uh solid run
Speaker 1: game and they compliment that with play action down the field.
Speaker 4: Did they do any uh work with the team today
Speaker 4: or was it just individual stuff too? Uh?
Speaker 2: He was just individual yep?
Speaker 3: Or do you think it's a realistic stap count for him?
Speaker 2: Uh, It's it's hard to say.
Speaker 1: And I I think each player is different, and and
Speaker 1: I say that in in a uh meaningful way. He's different.
Speaker 1: So it's not really trying to put a limit on
Speaker 1: what he can do. It's just trying to get a
Speaker 1: feel and once we get into the game and then
Speaker 1: go from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Obviously then I I in training camp hasn't kind
Speaker 4: of gone through the sore that everybody else goes through.
Speaker 3: Is that at all concerned.
Speaker 4: That you might be able to play a lot of snaps,
Speaker 4: but there might be something on the back end that
Speaker 4: he would deal with.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you always have to judge that with
Speaker 1: all your players. A guy that hasn't been here, as
Speaker 1: you stated, guys that have multiple years in the league.
Speaker 1: You're always trying to foresee things. We got a quick
Speaker 1: Thursday night game. That's things to think about, you know,
Speaker 1: for his reps on the on the front end as well.
Speaker 1: So yes, we have thought about that.
Speaker 3: Canada, how does he use his He's got three different backs,
Speaker 3: how does he use them? How does he used them
Speaker 3: in the preseason? What do you know about Canada?
Speaker 1: Uh, great coach, good offensive mind. Played them last year.
Speaker 1: I thought they do a great job uh, and and
Speaker 1: everything they're doing. You know, Harris is more uh in
Speaker 1: between the tackles, a power runner, UH, but I think
Speaker 1: he has the ability to be able to get on
Speaker 1: the outside as well. So uh, I think he does
Speaker 1: a great job in using all three of those guys.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you look at uh their game,
Speaker 1: I think is the simplicity of it from a standpoint
Speaker 1: of what they do, but the magnitude and how they
Speaker 1: do it is some somewhat complicated. So uh, they hit
Speaker 1: you inside in between the tower cause they get on
Speaker 1: the outside with uh the jet sweeps the bounce play.
Speaker 1: So we gotta do a great job of setting edges
Speaker 1: this week, say the least us.
Speaker 2: We're not practicing today.
Speaker 3: Is there any concern.
Speaker 1: About Uh No, I'm not concerned at all.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll be ready to play, so it's
Speaker 2: not a issue with me.
Speaker 3: What about Kuponga?
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, I know that he missed today cause
Speaker 4: of a personal matter, But was the the the knee
Speaker 4: is shitsh problematic?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: In yesterrday practice at all?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Again, yeah, as you stated, it is personal, so I
Speaker 1: won't go into detail about that. I just understand and
Speaker 1: know when guys like that uh aren't here, Boat's uh
Speaker 1: uh Mooni's out.
Speaker 2: Huff is not here.
Speaker 1: It just gives us a opportunity to get other guys reps,
Speaker 1: as we've seen, and at some point in times those
Speaker 1: reps are gonna come into play rather week one, this
Speaker 1: week or week ten. So uh, I look at it
Speaker 1: as a positive sometimes.
Speaker 3: With those two safeties not practicing.
Speaker 4: How's Jay Brown and everything?
Speaker 1: I think giants getting better. I think he's becoming a
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable in the things that we asking
Speaker 1: him to do.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think you saw that in preseason again, Uh, the
Speaker 1: transition with a lot of these rookies, just understanding how
Speaker 1: we do things and most importantly, just trying to operate
Speaker 1: under consistency because at some point in time, I hope
Speaker 1: it's no time soon they will hit that rookie wall.
Speaker 3: Have you met Melsa before he arrived.
Speaker 2: At Mini camp? Manitory mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 3: When he was here, coach Forrester was talked about the
Speaker 3: first extended drive that an offense gets in the first
Speaker 3: regular season game is as tired as as he'll see
Speaker 3: them all year because it's their you know, first real
Speaker 3: strain that a regular season game that cannot be replicated
Speaker 3: even in preseason because it's same. Is it the same
Speaker 3: for the defense?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 1: And I think uh Kyle does a great job in
Speaker 1: how we practice and trying to orchestrate those different looks
Speaker 1: and uh, you know there's times that we've gone, you know,
Speaker 1: ten play drives, twelve play drives, just.
Speaker 2: Trying to create that game like similarity.
Speaker 3: You pick it has gone five drives and five touchdowns
Speaker 3: in the preseason. Obviously you looked at him this preseason.
Speaker 3: But you looked at his film last year. How's he
Speaker 3: different from last.
Speaker 1: Year over when he saw the I I think he's
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable and uh in the offense
Speaker 1: and what they asks him to do. He makes great
Speaker 1: decisions with the ball. Again, I think they have a
Speaker 1: solid run game, which I think really takes a lot
Speaker 1: of the burden pressure off of him having to constantly
Speaker 1: push the ball down the field and go win a game.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: They create a lot of balance in what they do. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think again the play action down the field has
Speaker 1: definitely been a difference and it it jumps out at
Speaker 1: your own tape.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 1: And the receivers again they have and the pickings and
Speaker 1: Johnson I think are outstanding. Are Thank you guys, Appreciate
Speaker 1: you