Speaker 1: And Jim, what did you expect out by grand and
Speaker 1: quarterback is something he's still and I was talking about
Speaker 1: that with him yesterday or two days ago when when
Speaker 1: he had come in. We're gonna start him off at safety.
Speaker 1: But one of the things we like about him is
Speaker 1: he is a multidimensional player. Um, he's even played nickel
Speaker 1: in the past. Um, you know, he's played corner. He's
Speaker 1: got the ability to match up against wide receivers. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of his strong points. He made a
Speaker 1: hundred tackles I think a couple of years ago, you know,
Speaker 1: So he's a reliable player. I think that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: He's smart, he makes quick adjustments. I was only with
Speaker 1: him one year, but um, you know, he played in
Speaker 1: the Division when I was in Detroit, he played in
Speaker 1: division in Chicago. Always been a good special teams player.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different ways. Um. But that being said, Um,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been in camp, so you know, we'll evaluate
Speaker 1: him as we go forward. He's been he started the
Speaker 1: sixteen years age. Of the last two years, I think
Speaker 1: I think he's played in sixteen games. I think his
Speaker 1: entire I'm not sure his rookie year. I think he
Speaker 1: only played like thirteen. I'm not sure if he was
Speaker 1: heard or he was brought up or whatever. But you
Speaker 1: know when I said reliable, that's more than just knowing
Speaker 1: what to do. That's being reliable physically to go out
Speaker 1: and play. Also starting him out of the safety is
Speaker 1: there a way? I know he said he's dynamically feel
Speaker 1: out of them, but can you get him on the
Speaker 1: field with Malcolm and Rod All? Well, Malcolm has played
Speaker 1: some nickel in the past, particularly when we like some
Speaker 1: of those matchups in there, So there's potential for that
Speaker 1: opportunity for a safety um to come in and a
Speaker 1: three safety package, which we played probably more due to
Speaker 1: um necessity last year. Some was on our terms, but
Speaker 1: some was due to necessity. But it allows us potentially
Speaker 1: to do it more on our terms. Guys, you who
Speaker 1: are older, you know, guys slowed down a little bit
Speaker 1: because he still have the wheels to play Horner. I think, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see that now. I mean, that's that's why, that's
Speaker 1: why you practice, and that's why you played preseason games
Speaker 1: and those kind of things. I know that he's a
Speaker 1: good pro, takes care of himself. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: has had he's UM. It's he's played a long time
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but he's also been available to play
Speaker 1: all that time and parted as a testament to his preparation,
Speaker 1: UM physically and mentally, his ability to do those things.
Speaker 1: So I would you know, you never want to you
Speaker 1: never want to bet before you know or or determined
Speaker 1: results before it happens. But if you base it on
Speaker 1: his past, his past history, he's been very reliable that way,
Speaker 1: So I would hope that um same thing would happen.
Speaker 1: That looks like he has the ability to still play corner.
Speaker 1: Would you like to move him there to UM? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean we'll we'll probably you know, get
Speaker 1: him some you know, guest appearances and things like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, the thing is with our safeties and
Speaker 1: I think you guys see it with Malcolm and you
Speaker 1: see it with with Rodney times. Those guys are matched
Speaker 1: up on wide receivers quite a bit. So I think
Speaker 1: we'll be able to see some of those things without
Speaker 1: even playing him at corner. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: we'll be open to um, you know, to everything. You
Speaker 1: don't want to close your mind to anything. But again,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be it's not going to be
Speaker 1: based on thought process going in. It's going to be
Speaker 1: it's going to be the results of training camp and
Speaker 1: four preseason games. I think one of the good parts
Speaker 1: of this is it would be it would be much
Speaker 1: more difficult to evaluate those kind of things, his ability
Speaker 1: to play corn or Nickels safety, whatever it would be
Speaker 1: if this was the fourth preseason game now and we
Speaker 1: were signing him, you know what I mean. But you know,
Speaker 1: now he's got he's got some days of practice before
Speaker 1: the first preseason game. We'll be able to get a
Speaker 1: good body of work and be able to you know,
Speaker 1: truly identify or truly evaluate where he is. The other
Speaker 1: the corners of the other guys coming back, you know
Speaker 1: ce J Smith and Kail those maybe even Aaron Brimes,
Speaker 1: if they shown you any kind of ubeny consistency that
Speaker 1: you've been looking for the same as week. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think all those guys have. All those guys have shown something. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody is consistent enough where we
Speaker 1: don't look at anybody else. And I and I said
Speaker 1: the same thing coming into camp or maybe back in
Speaker 1: OTAs that it would be nice to have, you know,
Speaker 1: solid guys or solid starters in those positions. But we're
Speaker 1: still in the middle of a competition. Everybody's striving to
Speaker 1: be consistent. UM. I think you know, not only tell
Speaker 1: against our offense, and you know, particularly you know, against
Speaker 1: some of the guys like al Sean and Tory that
Speaker 1: are you know, established NFL players, when we can watch
Speaker 1: them against those, but preseason games, I think that it's
Speaker 1: a lot to do with it. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of times you go into preseason games, UM, and you
Speaker 1: know you're you're there to evaluate players. And we had
Speaker 1: a couple of times last year where we played man
Speaker 1: to man just about every snap just to see those guys. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, you call a preseason game a lot different
Speaker 1: than you call a regular season game because you know,
Speaker 1: you want to see players compete, You want to see
Speaker 1: players win. You know, if your blitz and you sacked
Speaker 1: the quarterback, I mean it's good, But would you rather
Speaker 1: see four man pass Russian sack quarterback? You know, would
Speaker 1: rather play cover two and not no over corner can
Speaker 1: play or play cover one even in situations that maybe
Speaker 1: you wouldn't play. So UM, all those guys have have
Speaker 1: shown up somewhere. Everybody going our UM, ninety man roster
Speaker 1: showing up somewhere, but being consistent and winning winning matchups consistently. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're still working progress there. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's any secret doubt yourself. After what we called up
Speaker 1: terrible practice take all the day is going to be
Speaker 1: a new sense that he's kind of going through it,
Speaker 1: but from a competent stem one right now, and what
Speaker 1: are you doing to try to get him better? You know?
Speaker 1: I just think that the thing is when you have
Speaker 1: players like that, and Patrick has some good experience in
Speaker 1: the NFL, he has high standards for himself and what
Speaker 1: I don't want to say what might be expected from
Speaker 1: a younger player, but you know, you get you get
Speaker 1: a younger player like those guys that we were talking about,
Speaker 1: and you know there's going to be some ups and downs.
Speaker 1: And it just shows you to say that he's hold
Speaker 1: himself too. You know, he doesn't want those up and
Speaker 1: ups and downs, you know, and you know, you everybody's
Speaker 1: going to have a tough day somewhere along the line.
Speaker 1: To competitors, UM, the guys you can rely on the
Speaker 1: guys that come back and correct those things. UM. I
Speaker 1: like what I've seen Patrick that way, you know, put
Speaker 1: it the other way, he has a he has a
Speaker 1: really bad day, and it just water water goes off
Speaker 1: his back. I don't know what the analogy is, but
Speaker 1: I'd be more concerned about that than a guy that
Speaker 1: takes it personal and has a lot of pride pretty
Speaker 1: sure right now and started quarterback for a new or
Speaker 1: whatever we want or other off right now. I think
Speaker 1: that's why we play preseason games and practice. We're really
Speaker 1: on the corners, aren't we pass rush, linebackers, nothing else?
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys, you state the think, so we're
Speaker 1: hitting them all uh, inconsistent, you know, And I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would tell you the same way. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's not only trying to learn all the nuances
Speaker 1: of the scheme, he's trying to be consistent with technique. Um.
Speaker 1: You know sometimes um, you know, I think it feels
Speaker 1: like every time he gets you know, like a finger
Speaker 1: in the dike, so to speak, Um, another league pops
Speaker 1: somewhere else, and that's you know that, that's what that's
Speaker 1: what happens with rookies. And I think somewhere along the
Speaker 1: line for Russell, the game will slow down a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know. I think you guys, did you guys see
Speaker 1: were you guys out there for rookie Mini camp? Okay, now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys. He was very confident.
Speaker 1: We had nothing in I mean nothing. It was simple
Speaker 1: as could be. But he was very confident. He was
Speaker 1: very competitive and he showed really well. And what happened
Speaker 1: is the more stuff that you put in, it took
Speaker 1: away from some of that other stuff. Eventually it all
Speaker 1: circles back. It does for every player. Eventually it circles
Speaker 1: back that he can start going back to the other
Speaker 1: things and not worry about what to do on every
Speaker 1: single play. And you know, I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to single him out. It's the exact same for every
Speaker 1: other position on the football field, whether you're a quarterback
Speaker 1: or you know, um, offensive lineman. You know, it's got
Speaker 1: to it's got to get to the point where you
Speaker 1: know the scheme so well that now the game slows
Speaker 1: down for you. I think it's a it's a well
Speaker 1: used um idiom or whatever it is, but there's a
Speaker 1: reason for it. And because the game does slow down
Speaker 1: for guys, Brussel's not there yet, are reporters last year
Speaker 1: and now it has slowed down for him a little bit,
Speaker 1: um compared to last year at this time. Last year,
Speaker 1: at this time, his head was swimming. He's coming from
Speaker 1: you know, North Dakota State, and you know everything was
Speaker 1: new to him. Um. Now he's been able to work
Speaker 1: more on technique, he's been you know, able to win
Speaker 1: matchups and things like that. Um, you know, so he's
Speaker 1: he's an improved player from year one to year two.
Speaker 1: And I think that's you know, the sign sign that
Speaker 1: he's on the right track. You know, Um, all rookies,
Speaker 1: all players are inconsistent, particularly young players. But um, you
Speaker 1: know he's been very assignment sound and I think that's
Speaker 1: and when you can do that, then you can start working.
Speaker 1: You can start working on the other things to go
Speaker 1: about Nick Jerry that you aren't concerning acessarily about visibility
Speaker 1: and courage. You can even called my city did show
Speaker 1: the guy Brooks for example, one of these see um
Speaker 1: very encouraged. Um, he's he's he's done those things. He's
Speaker 1: responded to every challenge we put in front of him.
Speaker 1: When we've had some of those live contact practices is
Speaker 1: when he's showed up the most. And I think there
Speaker 1: is some football player and in quotation marks to him. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you know, he expect him
Speaker 1: to be good in coverage. UM, but he's played very tough,
Speaker 1: very physical. Um. You know, you don't get very many
Speaker 1: live periods in practice, but when it has, he showed up.
Speaker 1: He's been an assignment sound and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a big preseason for him to um, you know, to
Speaker 1: continue to show that progress and show But been very
Speaker 1: encouraged by him. All Right, Okay, I guess see the
Speaker 1: out