Speaker 1: The longer this thing plays out with Brandon, do you
Speaker 1: have to do anything in camp to kind of adjust
Speaker 1: to the possibility or likelihood that he won't.
Speaker 2: Be with the team.
Speaker 3: And I think, like I said at the beginning of camp,
Speaker 3: like you know, I've kind of planned for everything, you know,
Speaker 3: not knowing it could go any direction. So we've been
Speaker 3: doing the same stuff. If that continues, we'll keep doing
Speaker 3: what we planned on. And you know, the hardest thing
Speaker 3: is just not as much wide outs out there, So
Speaker 3: we got to make sure we get through that with
Speaker 3: some of the injuries and stuff.
Speaker 2: But no, nothing changing right now.
Speaker 4: There needs to be resolved pretty soon.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, you always want it to be badly,
Speaker 3: but this stuff does take time, and you know, every
Speaker 3: day I hope it gets resolved, but I have no
Speaker 3: timetable on it. Like it didn't surprise me coming into this,
Speaker 3: going about coaching our team, getting ready for week one
Speaker 3: and hopefully you'll get resolved though sooner than later.
Speaker 2: Yes, yep, there's.
Speaker 4: An area where you do a long term deal with him.
Speaker 3: There's this there's a scenario for everything, so I want
Speaker 3: to rule anything out.
Speaker 4: Would his team be better if you trade it?
Speaker 3: Ran?
Speaker 4: Now you see a scenario where you're better because of that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Brand's a great player, so it's real hard
Speaker 3: to to be.
Speaker 2: Better when you lose a great player. So we got
Speaker 2: to look into anything.
Speaker 3: We got to understand the situation we're in what that
Speaker 3: looks like, and that does take time. So hopefully it'll
Speaker 3: all work out best for him and best for us
Speaker 3: in the long run.
Speaker 4: He has the permission to talk to other teams. Is
Speaker 4: that correct? Yes, there disappointment it's reached this point. I
Speaker 4: know it could be resolved.
Speaker 2: I mean it's been.
Speaker 3: It's been at this point for a little bit, so
Speaker 3: it's nothing really new to me. I mean, you're always
Speaker 3: disappointed when you can't keep ahold of all your players
Speaker 3: or it's not going exactly right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't like losing anybody.
Speaker 3: So that's why I'm hoping it does work out here.
Speaker 3: But right now we don't have that solve JET, so
Speaker 3: I hope it does.
Speaker 4: It's the offer you guys made in may have final offer.
Speaker 2: Or is there a chance.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm not getting any specifics with offers, contracts, trades,
Speaker 3: anything like that. But what I can't tell you guys
Speaker 3: is nothing has changed. I know a lot was out
Speaker 3: yesterday and stuff. But from the situation that we're in
Speaker 3: with Brandon, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1: The veteran receiver walked off the street into this offense,
Speaker 1: how long would it take that player tech you'd have
Speaker 1: to speed and be ready at all.
Speaker 2: Two and a half days.
Speaker 3: It depends who it is, you know, it depends the
Speaker 3: situation experience of the offense, where he's at in his career.
Speaker 2: So I got no absolutes for you.
Speaker 4: Deal took a while last year obviously, all the way
Speaker 4: to the red. Why is this one different?
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into that.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's every each one's different, and I'm not
Speaker 3: going to compare voses to brandness, a.
Speaker 1: Current of comfortability level with the wide receivers that you
Speaker 1: have obviously debos there, you have joinings there and stuff.
Speaker 4: But with the younger guys, where there's.
Speaker 2: Your comfortability level with them. I love the guys that
Speaker 2: we have in the building. I love the vets that
Speaker 2: we've had here that have played a high level.
Speaker 3: Love the new ones we brought in for competition, and
Speaker 3: I love the young guys. You know, they have been
Speaker 3: banged up trying to get healthy, you know, battle on
Speaker 3: the shoulder battle on a hamstring. But when they're out there,
Speaker 3: they're getting better and I hope, I hope that they
Speaker 3: can get healthy continue to stay healthy so they can't
Speaker 3: get the time in that they need to be ready.
Speaker 3: I know they will be if they get that time in,
Speaker 3: but that's the risky and hard.
Speaker 2: Thing about football.
Speaker 3: Football is tough thing to practice, tough thing to get
Speaker 3: prepared for, and you've got to do that at a
Speaker 3: very high level. And you hope they have no setbacks
Speaker 3: as they go along, and if they don't, I feel
Speaker 3: very good about the guys because they got what it takes.
Speaker 2: His perspective, is.
Speaker 1: It potentially detrimental to the team to keep how you
Speaker 1: care if he's unhappy and doesn't have an extension?
Speaker 3: I mean, everything can be I mean totally. It's we're
Speaker 3: trying to figure out what the situations are. They're always
Speaker 3: moving and what the best one will be. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there's there's pluses and minuses every situations.
Speaker 4: Random talk to you a lot about this or is this?
Speaker 1: Are that?
Speaker 3: No, it's I think we did at the beginning, and
Speaker 3: but we've kept we haven't been talking about it much
Speaker 3: with each other, and most of that goes through his
Speaker 3: agent and John Christian. Christian has a calf strain, did
Speaker 3: a couple of days ago. That's all right, you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't pull it or anything, but you guys probably
Speaker 3: won't see him this preseason.
Speaker 2: Matt Rita and we haven't seen Elijah Mitchell lately Matt.
Speaker 3: Elijah has a strained hamstring too. Didn't pull it, but
Speaker 3: we're gonna be safe with him. So he's gonna miss
Speaker 3: probably a week or so. So we had to bring Madden,
Speaker 3: which was awesome to have that available. We need some
Speaker 3: numbers out there and to be able to get a
Speaker 3: legit player who's had a hell of a career, who's
Speaker 3: been here before too.
Speaker 2: I felt pretty fortunate.
Speaker 4: Are you communication with Trent Williams at all? And and
Speaker 4: do you know what he's doing right now?
Speaker 2: I don't know what he's doing. I believe he's in Houston.
Speaker 3: I know that's where he lives an off season, but
Speaker 3: confident Tren's working out, getting ready and stuff, and hopefully
Speaker 3: that'll be resolved as tests possible to Christian missed practice,
Speaker 3: what's that You expect Christian to be out probably a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks with the team. I'm not sure how
Speaker 3: don't even discussed that. Yeah, he tweets his shoulder something
Speaker 3: that he did in O t as. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's too serious, but that's why we removed him
Speaker 3: halfway through practice.
Speaker 4: Players are a team like Jalen Moore.
Speaker 3: Seems like he's in a tough position where obviously ahead
Speaker 3: of him, but you're you're able to run your offense.
Speaker 3: How role players are huge on our team and in
Speaker 3: every team because I mean it's it's always next man up,
Speaker 3: and you can lose a guy at any time, and
Speaker 3: if you don't have a guy who can come in
Speaker 3: and do that job at some important positions, I mean,
Speaker 3: that can take the whole team down.
Speaker 2: So it's not just Jalen, but you.
Speaker 3: Know guys who back up George, Guys who backup are
Speaker 3: wide outs or quarterback. You guys have seen it over
Speaker 3: the years. You keep your fingers crossed, but you're always
Speaker 3: gonna lose some real good players and usually your season
Speaker 3: depends on how good those backups are.
Speaker 1: When when he first came in that he connect right
Speaker 1: away with Bobby Turner and that he didn't really know
Speaker 1: he found out later he didn't really know how to
Speaker 1: be a pro. But it is that unusual for an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent coming and not connect, But you guys
Speaker 1: still see enough in him to hang on to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just relationships.
Speaker 3: With everyone, whether you're young or older or I mean,
Speaker 3: it takes time to get to know people and really
Speaker 3: want make some tick. And I mean, Bobby's going to
Speaker 3: be Bobby regardless. He has a coaching style to himself
Speaker 3: and that is very successful. He has a standard and
Speaker 3: he demands a lot out of people, and sometimes I
Speaker 3: don't know if that comes off always the right way
Speaker 3: to every single person. But I think when you're consistent
Speaker 3: each day and people realize you're a good coach, you
Speaker 3: eventually don't care.
Speaker 2: About that style.
Speaker 3: You just respect that they're making you better each day
Speaker 3: and challenging that way to and hopefully you look at
Speaker 3: it as that will help your career. And sometimes especially
Speaker 3: on your history, how people have coached you, maybe in
Speaker 3: high school or college or before. Sometimes that can shock
Speaker 3: some guys, but usually the guy once he realizes that
Speaker 3: this pert since real and why he's doing it, usually
Speaker 3: it's not a problem.
Speaker 2: And JP's been great, Ricky.
Speaker 3: If he were you were to be unavailable for week one,
Speaker 3: regards of the situation, how comfortable would you feel with
Speaker 3: Ricky potentially slotting in for him and the start of
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 2: I feel comfortable with whoever it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just it's issue as a coach, you
Speaker 3: always I mean there's times that I think I missed
Speaker 3: a game last year and we had to do that,
Speaker 3: So it's something.
Speaker 2: You're always prepared for.
Speaker 3: You could also be with us and everything could be great,
Speaker 3: and he could get hurt like has happened plenty of times.
Speaker 3: I Mean, we lost a running back on a walk
Speaker 3: through the practice before our first game a few years
Speaker 3: ago with Jet McKinnon and didn't have him for the
Speaker 3: whole year. So we had a quarterback towards ACL in
Speaker 3: Week three one year. So that's stuff that you're always
Speaker 3: used to and ready for.
Speaker 1: Have you mapped out how much you want the starters
Speaker 1: to play in the first preseason game and what the.
Speaker 2: Quarterback rotation is going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I talked about it with our staff yesterday when
Speaker 3: the players were off, but I haven't told any of
Speaker 3: the players yet, so I'm not gonna say exactly here,
Speaker 3: but we don't plan on many of the starters to play.
Speaker 3: I know some guys will have to, but for the
Speaker 3: most part, starters shouldn't be in much If it all.
Speaker 1: D Clark Dad, it is curious of maybe your first
Speaker 1: interaction or fun story you have.
Speaker 4: With Dwight over the years.
Speaker 3: I just always remember Dwight at all the camps up
Speaker 3: in Rockland when I was in middle school, running around
Speaker 3: and just I didn't realize how good of a player
Speaker 3: he was at that time because I was too young,
Speaker 3: and I just thought he was one of the coolest
Speaker 3: guys in the world, just walking around like he was
Speaker 3: the man like where everyone.
Speaker 2: Just respected him. I was like, why is that guy
Speaker 2: so special?
Speaker 3: And I remember my mom crushing me for not knowing
Speaker 3: what the catch was when I was in sixth grade.
Speaker 3: I didn't grow up here and didn't totally know from
Speaker 3: I think I was two or one and a half
Speaker 3: at the time, so she should have been softer on me,
Speaker 3: but she wasn't, and she made me feel stupid. And
Speaker 3: now I get why, because it's one of the best
Speaker 3: plays ever.
Speaker 1: Now that you're experienced a hold in for the first time,
Speaker 1: do you have any thoughts whether you prefer that to
Speaker 1: a holdout?
Speaker 3: No, I mean it's nice not having a it's nice
Speaker 3: not finding guys, you know, so it's but I mean
Speaker 3: it's there's not much of a difference he has the
Speaker 3: irritation or taking it easy on him, have him not
Speaker 3: pun here for a little bit, and want to figure
Speaker 3: out something for the game.
Speaker 4: He as a coach, obviously you want I assume you
Speaker 4: purchase brandon value is on the field and taking there
Speaker 4: a contractually. Obviously I know that you don't ignore the financial.
Speaker 2: Part of it. But I don't know how frustrating is.
Speaker 4: It, you know, because I think, as you've said, you're
Speaker 4: a better team that kid's here. You don't probably don't
Speaker 4: want him to not be here.
Speaker 3: What's the frustration level in your emotions as you've gone
Speaker 3: through this calculated and prepared. I mean, you want everybody
Speaker 3: out there. I'm frustrated guys are hurt and can't get
Speaker 3: out there. All you want to do is practice and
Speaker 3: get ready for the tough season that's ahead. But you
Speaker 3: also truly understand the business side of our league and
Speaker 3: what these guys do and put themselves through what they
Speaker 3: have to go through.
Speaker 2: In these deals.
Speaker 3: So whether it's a hold in or whether it's a holdout,
Speaker 3: I mean, this stuff is pretty common and you just
Speaker 3: got to be patient with it as a coach, all right, guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks