WEBVTT - The OTP | Week 3 with Brian Callahan 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:13.240 But Andy Wells. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.079 I'm Mike Keith and this is the OTP with Titans 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.240 head coach Brian Callahan, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.640 In the Game of Health Coverage, Farm Bureau Health Plans 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.840 is the MVP. Tennesseeans have relied on their unmatched rates, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:32.040 coverage and service for nearly eighty years. We welcome in 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.320 head coach Brian Callahan. Coach, good to see you again 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:36.920 this week. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:37.760 Good to be here. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.360 I wish it was under better circumstance. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.800 No, I know it'll happen. We promise it'll be a 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:43.360 lot more fun. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:43.920 I promise. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.120 You mentioned in your press conference that you thought overall 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.479 Will Levis played better in a lot of facets against 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.880 the Jets than he did against the Bears. One thing 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.160 that stuck out to me in kind of watching some 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.600 things back, will Levis was not afraid to go at 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.120 Sauce Gardner, one of the best cornerbacks in the league. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.640 A lot of young quarterbacks would would not do that. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.039 But will Levis is not afraid. We know he's not afraid. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.720 When he runs. He's averaging over nine yards of carry 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.080 guys on pace for over five hundred rushing yards. This season. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.520 Sometimes he doesn't slide, and that's not always the greatest 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:25.479 thing in the world, but. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.880 He did twice. He did, He did get better. We 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:29.319 got better. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.280 I guess what I'm getting down to. As we like 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:38.440 to say, he ain't scared. And we know this that 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:46.160 fearlessness is a tremendous attribute to an NFL quarterback. Fearlessness 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.600 can lead to recklessness, though the two are sort of intertwined. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.840 So how do you, as a quarterback guru, accentuate the 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:05.200 quarterback's fearlessness and mitigate the recklessness while still keeping him 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.320 being who he really is. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.520 Yeah, that's the trick, because you have to be able 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.320 to be fearless enough to stand in that pocket and 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.440 make a throw, and you have to be fearless enough 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.000 to pull the ball down and run and not be 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.400 worried about getting hit and standing in the pocket when 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.880 people are bearing down on you. Those things are all 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.200 traits that Will has that are going to serve him 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.120 well in his career. And then you just have to 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.480 mitigate the mistake part of it, where there is a 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.880 time to cut your losses and not every play has 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:43.480 to be this hero creation, get out of trouble, make 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.040 a crazy throw, off platform, off balance. That's not really 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.639 what you need to do. A lot of playing quarterback 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:55.840 in the NFL is doing boring things, doing mundane tasks, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:03:00.760 and that's completing the football, taking a check down and 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.200 holding onto the ball when you're getting sacked and just 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.800 take the sack. Well, we'll live for the next plays. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.600 I've said a million times to over my careers. There's 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.760 a time and a place for trying to extend to play, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:18.720 for playing off schedule and off structure with a little 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.320 bit of recklessness, which requires and then there's a time 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.360 where just sometimes the sack is the best play and. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:27.760 You have to learn that. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.000 And I think I think we are on track to 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.840 learn that at this point with Will, and he understands 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.240 the situational part of it versus just the purely I 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.280 need to make a play part. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.560 But you understand my question though, in terms of I'm 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.240 watching it back and I'm going he's going right at 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:46.920 sauce card. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.920 Yeah. We felt good about our matchup too. I don't 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.240 know that there's a whole lot of people that can 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.960 cover Calvin Ridley right, and we felt like Calvin's Calvin's 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.840 ability to run vertically with speed and to change the direction, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.240 make cuts and get out of the break. Makes him 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.160 a really unique player and there's not a lot of 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.080 guys that can do what Calvin does, and so we 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.120 weren't afraid that that would be a hard matchup. We 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.240 knew that Sauce would probably at points beyond Calvin and 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.839 we weren't going to be afraid to throw it to him. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.200 And sometimes Sauce is going to win, but as we saw, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.560 sometimes when you take those chances, you're able to win 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:22.520 as well, and win. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.160 Big correct like on the touchdown. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.120 Yeah, there was some really nice There was some really 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.800 nice plays. There was the one out route that we 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.960 threw in that last drive as well on a third down, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:35.640 that pretty ball, beautiful timing, footwork, protection, throw route, I mean, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.719 the whole thing. And that's sort of what my message 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.039 was today with our team is that there's a lot 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.280 of that, which is all of the things that we 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.479 look for, all the things on all three phases. There's 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.480 really good things happening. We just have to mitigate the 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.480 ones that have hurt us, and I think we'd like 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:54.360 the result. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.240 So have you noticed after reviewing the tape from week 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.760 two that some of your younger players are making those improvements, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.159 are continuing to make some of those changes from week 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:04.839 one to week two. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.000 Yeah, that's the most noticeable was the two offensive lineman 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.680 on the left side for US on offense was But 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.159 Jc's improvement from week one to week two was pretty 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.280 pretty dramatic. He did a much better job. Same with Pete. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 Peter was really really good on the second part of 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.040 this progression. And to see those guys make those adjustments 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.200 and improvements is really positive. I think, you know, defensively, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.080 we don't have a lot of young players on defense 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.400 right now. You know, That's that's probably why our defense 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.000 has played so well at the Stars because we have 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.040 so many veteran players that have played a lot of 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.000 football and they understand how to play together. And but 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.440 I think that you know, even Jarvis Brownly continues to 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.880 develop and play a role and play good and plays 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.000 well in special teams for US. So yeah, we've got 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.880 young players doing good things and contributing obviously to Andres 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.719 another young player that plays a lot for us. So 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.320 those are all exciting things that young players are developing. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.440 And there's there's there is a jump week to week 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.239 to week for those those guys and it's not always linear, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.360 it's not just they're just constantly improving, but there's weeks 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:05.720 where they do really nice things. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.160 Was there any difference in how the Jets chose to 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.160 block or handle to and Andre sweat. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.960 No, they tried to run their offense the way they 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.000 tried to run it. But I think they were just 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.680 our guys were disruptive and you could see the difference 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.240 this week. Whereas Devandre had some splash plays last week, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.040 this week he was doing a little more of the 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.839 dirty work. I mean he was eating up double teams 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.120 and you could see Ernest and Kenneth just ripping through 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.160 gaps because there was nobody on the second level to 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.520 block them. And that's the other part of his job 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.960 that it's not going to be as exciting to watch 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.560 on TV, but it's just as important, just as effective 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.960 to eat up those double teams and let the linebackers 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:45.960 run overall. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.240 Did the Jets offensive line make some of those adjustments, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.680 like bigger picture, did you see that there was some 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.320 difference from week one to week two? 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.400 No, not anything out of the ordinary. I mean they 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.640 did a nice job. They got they were little more empty, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.600 you know, kind of five man protection got the ball 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.520 out quick because I think our our defensive line puts 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.240 some pressure on him early. You could see their adjustment 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.320 was to let Aaron get it back there and check 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.120 it out and see it and make a couple of 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.040 quick throws and get the ball out of his hand 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.360 because the pressure was pretty relentless to start the game 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.120 on their offense. So I didn't see anything dramatically different 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.040 schematically that would have changed what they did. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.080 There's a lot of conversation about the big guys on 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.080 this Titans defense, but Harold Landry had two sacks in 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.400 this last game against the Jets, and he kind of 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.240 continues to be this presence within the defense. What does 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.520 he contribute just that. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.400 I mean, there's a when you have an edge rusher 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.600 that gets production on the quarterback and then you have 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.360 two interior players that are difficult to handle, and then 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.440 Arden has done a really nice job and his role 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.240 it affects the way that the quarterback feels. I mean, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.480 we all know that when the quarterback feels pressure and 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.760 they get hit, they don't like it. And Harold's done 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.360 a really good job of producing on the quarter back 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.120 and a lot of to one of the sacks this week, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.000 and one of them last week was really because of 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.880 the unselfishness of jeff Simmons rush. You know, they're in 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.320 they're in a game, and just all Jeff's jobs do 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.400 is just to occupy and penetrate vertically and Harold's looping, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.520 and Harold is a great job finishing the loop and 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.160 finishing on the quarterback. But a lot of that's because 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.160 there's other guys working to help get them open, just 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.280 like on offense, when your receivers are running arounds to 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.240 clear space, just clear in space so Harold can go rush. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.360 And I think that's what makes that unit really good, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.000 is they're all really unselfish. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.120 It feels like in watching them too. Jeffrey Simmons hit 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.920 five tackles in the game. But it feels like his 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.240 time is coming very quickly in terms of being able 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.640 to get to the quarterback. Based on what he's been 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:42.240 able to do. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.400 Yeah, there's no doubt, I mean, and again part of 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.959 that is because he's been asked to do some other 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.840 things to help because he garners so much attention. Boy 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.760 that short yardage play though you want to talk about 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.240 impact play, I mean, he swims the guard and then 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.480 ejects the or he swims the center and he jects 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.120 the guard back into the backfield and then makes the 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.559 tackle that allowed Ernest to go fit it on top 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.160 of it, and the two of them hit him for 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.760 a two yard loss on a third and one. I mean, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.880 those are the Those are way more impactful than a 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.840 sack sometimes, you know. And that's what he does. He 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.760 just he impacts the game in a lot of different levels. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.080 Ernist Jones got his first starts that you traded for him. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.360 Nine tackles, two tackles for lost yardage. It feels like 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.840 he's everything he was cracked up to be. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.360 I mean it was. He was a four year starter 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.360 and a team captain and a you know, I don't 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.280 know the reasoning for what I wanted to make the move, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.880 but I'm glad they called, and I'm glad we made 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.079 the move because he's We felt like he was a 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.439 player that could really help our defense and help that position. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.079 We were a little bit thin after some injuries and 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.920 training camp, and we had a need there and to 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.680 get a player at his caliber. We knew it would 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.599 eventually have an impact once she got more comfortable. And 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.800 I think as he gets another week comfortable, He's gonna 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.040 be another week better in the system. But man, I'm 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:51.920 really glad we have him. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.520 Is explosion The main thing he adds. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.280 Yeah, He's is a physicality. He's kind of similar to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:03.559 like how Kenneth is in terms of heavy downhill physical 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.000 still can run well, it still can cover southel on 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.440 the sideline, but just the physicality is the part that 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:11.520 you see from him a lot. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.600 It's like an AFC North linebacker. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.400 Sure is. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:16.960 That's what the That's what they look like. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:23.000 Hey, Titans fans, celebrate each Titans when and enjoy the 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.200 sweet taste of victory with a free donut at Kroger 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.920 the very next day. 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What does he continue to bring 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.079 to this Titans offense? 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.560 Versatility and he's he's a really good running back. He's 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.080 really good as a runner. He's got great vision and 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.680 patience and then burst to pick up yards after contact. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.080 He's got some elusiveness. And then in the past game, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.600 I mean, we hit him on a twenty yard vertical 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.920 down the field pass, and we hit him on the 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.520 use him in the screen game and use him out 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.360 of the back of the So there's he just has 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.959 the ability to be like that's what I envisioned when 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:40.680 when Tony got here, was a guy like that that 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.960 could have, you know, twelve rushes and six catches and 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.880 he's going to account for one hundred and something yards 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.840 every week he steps out there, and it's that's very valuable. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.680 He's he's and he's a he's I love everything about 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.240 how he plays football. He's he's a really really good 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.000 football player. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.559 You touched on Calvin Ridley in our last segment. What 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.479 we saw yesterday four catches seventy seven yards and a touchdown. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.160 One rush for a touchdown. Is that just kind of 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.040 the tip of the iceberg in terms of how you 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.320 see him being able to be used in this offense. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.080 I sure hope. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.720 So, yeah, he's all the different ways. I mean, we 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.160 move him all over the place, We put a lot 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.800 on his plate mentally, does a great job handling it, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.080 both in the run game, man in the pass game. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.160 The fact that we could get that, you know, he's 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.160 done a lot of those motions over the first part 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.160 of the preseason. In the first regular season game, and 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.160 to get him a jet sweep was really really good, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.800 worked really well, exactly how we hoped it would. But 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.360 that's what I see. And then really we left some 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.200 plays on the field to him too. And I think 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.440 he's he's a catcher two away from having a you know, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.920 one hundred and something yard game as opposed to those 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.560 you know, the sixties and seventies. I think we find 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.880 another way. Two three more completions, and you know he 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.280 has the one that he dropped on the third down. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.200 You call that a drop That one was, yes, yeah, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.160 that one was. I just yeah, I just wonder how 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.960 you we have not heard how you grade. Yet he 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.760 would he would call it a drop to I would 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.240 imagine that one was that one could have been that 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.920 was that was the hundred something yarder to big third down, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.600 put us down the red zone again, chance to win 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.800 the game. That was a big play. And I think 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.280 that there's gonna be more and more of that, and 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.800 he's getting more comfortable. Will is getting more comfortable with him, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.120 and I think that, uh, this is just the beginning 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.319 for what he can be. He's such a dynamic player. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.960 You're a tough grader, I hope. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:35.720 So it's just the way it is. I mean, you know, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:42.400 there's the teams that are really playing well make those plays, right, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.760 they make the they make the contested catch that Burke's had. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.760 They think we were just we're we're so close, We're 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.600 so close to being really good, and so the only 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:59.160 way to get better is to be critical and hopefully 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.920 you make those adjustments and you make those coaching points 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.080 and we're better the next time. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.200 So from that standpoint, just to follow one further bit, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.880 if you have that level of expectation that you expect 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.120 that catch to be made, do you find as time 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.119 goes on that catch ends up getting. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.160 Made absolutely okay. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.440 There's a there's a there's always standard, there's always an expectation, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.920 and I think that most guys rise to meet those. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.360 All the great competitors I've been around always end up 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.280 they want to be held to that high standard. They 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.120 want they want the expectation to be they're going to 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.440 make the play, and I think the more that you 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.760 do that, the more it becomes part of who you 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.000 are as an offense, and everyone sort of responds to 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:40.600 those things. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.320 So when we talk about standards on offense, it seems 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.840 as though the run game is closer to the standard. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.200 What is it going to take to get the passing 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.920 game on the same level. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.480 I think the more we play, the better we're going 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.960 to get. That's just natural progression of things. I think 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.280 Will has done a really nice job in a lot 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.800 of areas, and there's some areas that he needs to 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.680 get better at, and I think he has. I think 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.320 the Week one improvement to week two to me was 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.960 really encouraging. You take the silly play that he made 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.360 out of it, and there's a lot of really positives 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.080 from the game that were better than they were the 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.280 week before. And I told him before I came up 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.880 here that that's all we're looking for is be better 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.400 the next week. If you made a mistake the first week, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.720 don't make it again. If you had to correct something 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.760 the second week, don't do in the third week. And 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.560 I think that progression is really going to help him. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.840 And then as hop gets gets back to form, and 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.160 I said in my press conference, I do a better 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.920 job of getting him involved earlier in the game, and 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.360 I think the ball gets distributed a little bit more 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.760 evenly and makes it a little bit harder to defend. Overall, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.480 it's not just throwing the Calvin I think will be 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:53.240 a lot better for it. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.960 All Right, So there is a trend around the league though, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.400 teams running games seemed to be far ahead of their 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:04.720 passing get through two weeks, fourteen one hundred yard rushers 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.000 and only five three hundred yard passers. Do you have 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:10.880 a theory as to why. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.080 I don't, And I think that that's really it is 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 really interesting in the beginning of this season compared to 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.240 seasons past, And I'm sure at the end of the 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.080 season it will all sort of bear out, but this 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.320 early part you're just you're seeing such an emphasis on 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:30.119 limiting explosive plays and making offenses rightfully. So making offenses 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.920 drive the field and do it do it the hard way. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.560 Complete you have to go five for five and rush 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.280 for forty yards to get the score touchdown every time 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.280 you touch the ball, and that that's hard to sustain 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.920 that kind of success series by series. And so yeah, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.720 there's there's something happening right now in the NFL that's 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.400 that's different, and I can't quite put my finger on it, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.560 but there definitely is a it's a different style that's 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.800 being played. Whether people are running the ball more because 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.520 there's more two high shells, but they're running it better 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.560 against those two high shells. And maybe there's some teams 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.280 playing with the two high shells that aren't built to 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.800 stop the run with a two high shell, and so 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.280 there's more runs, more rushes happening more often. You have 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.679 a lot more young quarterbacks playing early in the season. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.800 So there's probably a bunch of factors that a lot 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.399 of people that are way smarter than me have a 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.480 better idea about. But there definitely is a change in 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.560 dynamic on offensive football this early part of the year. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.000 So let's talk about Sunday's opponent in the Green Bay 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.199 Packers because teams that rush. They had fifty three rushes 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.359 for two hundred and sixty one yards against Indianapolis yesterday, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.679 and that's a lot. You don't really see NFL teams 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.639 that committed to running the football. How hard does that 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.080 make game planning on your defensive staff. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.399 It's it's not totally. It's a little bit different for 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.160 us on the other side because they have a new coordinator, 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.480 but for them, like at least Matt's been there for 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.080 a while, the style of offenses is. You can go 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:58.879 back and watch some things on what they like to 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.080 do and all that. But yeah, I mean you you're 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.760 getting ready for a team that's gonna try to run 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.360 it right at you. And our team has responded well 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.320 to that for the most part through two games. And 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.399 that's gonna be a tough That's gonna be a tough 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.200 matchup when you just mean it's going to be an 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.840 almost old school approach and that red they're gonna run 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.240 it that many times, and you've got to be ready 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.400 to go defend it that many times and make it 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.520 so they don't want to run it that many times. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.479 You have if there's no production in the run game, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.000 you're not going to keep handing it off. You're gonna 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.560 try to find other ways to gain yards, and it'll 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:33.959 be a tough test. I mean, they did a really 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.280 good job. I mean, that's an impressive outing on the 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.560 ground for any team at any point, and they did 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.120 a really nice job. Well, Indy's defense is not chop 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.640 liver either, No, not at all. They've They've been better 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:49.120 defenses up front in the league. And yeah, that's an 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.600 impressive performance by the Packers offensively for sure. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:57.159 So philosophically, do you go into this week with the thought, Okay, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.280 we're going to prepare for Jordan Love? Is that how 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.439 you Is that how you think about it? Or do 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.399 you even think about it? 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:04.960 You have to be ready for it, absolutely, I know, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.560 we'll we'll watch, We'll watch all that. Jordan's been turned 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.000 into a really nice quarterback in the league, and that's 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.159 had really finished this season really well last year and 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.960 had a good opening game. And I do believe that 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.720 if he's got a chance to play, he'll try to 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.560 be out there for his team. We have to be 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:26.159 ready for that prospect, and then you just get you 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.280