Speaker 1: We're doing. Good morning, guys. All right, everybody's still healthy
Speaker 1: as of this week going into yes, yes, which is
Speaker 1: a great thing going into Week one for you guys. UM,
Speaker 1: it's I would say it's more normal than than than anything.
Speaker 1: You know, most teams are usually I mean, guys are
Speaker 1: a little beat up, but for the most part, uh,
Speaker 1: I think around the league, everybody's pretty healthy going into
Speaker 1: the first game. Saints just reported that John Doran Boss
Speaker 1: had aortic aneurism and require surgeries. It's something Eagles new
Speaker 1: before you traded him. It's the first I've heard of it.
Speaker 1: What um, was there anywhere or any tests about his
Speaker 1: uh physical don't have to check with our medical staff
Speaker 1: on that. That sets out of my jurisdiction. Last year
Speaker 1: of the season, the first quarters were your lowest scoring quarters.
Speaker 1: How much of an emphasis was that this offseason and
Speaker 1: one of the things you found you think you can
Speaker 1: correct one into this year? The person, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think that's part of the reason, you know, with some
Speaker 1: of the additions offensively, um to help us uh um
Speaker 1: score more points early in football games. And and then
Speaker 1: and then some of the takeaways from last year is
Speaker 1: you know, we we were we were a good uh
Speaker 1: in Carson. One of Carson's strength obviously was him on
Speaker 1: the run, uh, play action pass uh, you know, running
Speaker 1: the ball efficiently a little bit better. Things like that
Speaker 1: starting starting games and and and just finishing drives and
Speaker 1: those are things that uh. Um you know that that
Speaker 1: that we looked at, that I looked at, and ways
Speaker 1: of um focusing on that even in practice, because you
Speaker 1: can simulate that in practice uh by by the type
Speaker 1: of play calls and and the and the uh the
Speaker 1: effort and the execution offensively to help increase those those points.
Speaker 1: It really was a striking difference in the first quarter
Speaker 1: and the other quarters in terms of both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. For you guys, really, uh is that? Does
Speaker 1: that speak to preparation? What is it really? Um? Now?
Speaker 1: Not not really? UM. I think I think it can.
Speaker 1: It can. It comes down to to, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the the execution. Uh. Sometimes what you see on film
Speaker 1: during the week is not necessarily what the defense presents
Speaker 1: you or the offense presents you on game day. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know our personnel, I know in the past, and
Speaker 1: you see Cover three all week and then they come
Speaker 1: out and they play Cover two. So it sort of
Speaker 1: throws you a little bit off of your what you
Speaker 1: initially would think going into a game, and so you
Speaker 1: got to make those quick end game adjustments and and
Speaker 1: and correct that. But some of it is that and um,
Speaker 1: you know, it just comes down to execution and uh
Speaker 1: and making sure too that that when when when I
Speaker 1: put openers together, that I'm that I'm also right with
Speaker 1: what with what I'm studying and what I'm seeing. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Laurie speaking yesterday, he said that your guy's interaction during
Speaker 1: a week part of it. As you go over strengths
Speaker 1: and weaknesses of a team, maybe look at film and
Speaker 1: look at X y Z. What's that process been like
Speaker 1: with the owner since you I think it's been great.
Speaker 1: I mean, we did it all last season. Um, we'll
Speaker 1: continue it again this year. You know, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to dive in those are those are obviously some private conversations,
Speaker 1: but but I think that, you know, our owner is
Speaker 1: so passionate about about this team and this organization that uh,
Speaker 1: part of my job is just keeping him informed on
Speaker 1: on on what we're doing. And uh, um, you know
Speaker 1: he may not be around, you know, every day of
Speaker 1: the week, but this is our chance to kind of uh,
Speaker 1: recap the game, you know, from Sunday and then and
Speaker 1: then going forward. Um sort of uh, the scouting report
Speaker 1: if you would, um on the on the upcoming opponent,
Speaker 1: once a week type of type of deal. I mean,
Speaker 1: they could be fifteen minutes, they could be two hours.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just just depends on on the the
Speaker 1: information that we're that we're talking about something that you
Speaker 1: initiated or is it Jeff He's done it, um all
Speaker 1: the way back to coach read you know. UM, so
Speaker 1: it's something he's done in his past. It was obviously
Speaker 1: new to me because I was new last year. So
Speaker 1: I I welcome that. I enjoy it. I love the
Speaker 1: conversation with him, the dialogue with him because again he's
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's so excited and passionate about this team
Speaker 1: that uh, um, he just wants to wants to be
Speaker 1: in the loop. Has he ever made suggestions or questions
Speaker 1: that have led to you guys making some changes or no,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's the thing. I think that's the
Speaker 1: one of the one of the great things about him
Speaker 1: is is is I think he understands, you know, from
Speaker 1: the football side. He doesn't get into the XS and
Speaker 1: I was part of it, um, And and so he
Speaker 1: kind of leaves that up to us, you know, from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. So, um, you know, he doesn't recommend plays
Speaker 1: or anything anything like that. Um, But uh, they're they're
Speaker 1: great conversations. Though. Downs were also discussed, and um, you
Speaker 1: know he said that essentially the decisions are made based
Speaker 1: on analytics and math in the offseason, which would um,
Speaker 1: you know, the implication is that when it's in game,
Speaker 1: that the decision is kind of out of out of
Speaker 1: your hands or has already been made based on math.
Speaker 1: Is that Yeah, I wouldn't say it's out of my hands.
Speaker 1: I would say that it's more calculated a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: And then listen, there's also times where I just have
Speaker 1: to go on gut, gut instinct, gut feel. How how
Speaker 1: is the offense playing, our defense things I've mentioned in
Speaker 1: the past, how are our special teams playing at the time?
Speaker 1: And uh, is it the right time you know, to
Speaker 1: to go forth outside of the end of the game
Speaker 1: fourth down, you know, to keep your offense alive, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Um. Yeah, So I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: of it is calculated, but a lot of it too
Speaker 1: can be based on some of those other circumstances, you know,
Speaker 1: during the game, if we have a chart, UM that
Speaker 1: kind of has if if you're on acts, I mean,
Speaker 1: is it like that? I mean we have we have
Speaker 1: pages of UH and documents of reports and studies and things.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't go into it with We don't
Speaker 1: take the whole chart or the whole whatever twenty page
Speaker 1: document with us. But it's a lot of good in
Speaker 1: for It's more about scenarios and situations that have come
Speaker 1: up in in past games prior years that that we
Speaker 1: can study the numbers on those field position UM Again,
Speaker 1: how well is a team performing UM, you know, is
Speaker 1: it UH is three points better than going for it?
Speaker 1: You know, all those decisions factor in and all those
Speaker 1: are based on the numbers that we've that we've studied
Speaker 1: over over time. To kind of throw the paperwork away
Speaker 1: and go with your gut probably the times when you
Speaker 1: go for it, gut instinct, gut feel is just how
Speaker 1: how well I feel like our offense is doing. We
Speaker 1: could be you know, three or four or five good
Speaker 1: run plays in a row, and we're getting that fourth
Speaker 1: and one, fourth and two, and I feel like we're
Speaker 1: in a good situation. I'm gonna. I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: probably pull the trigger and go for it. Um. A
Speaker 1: lot of it to me is is predicated to on
Speaker 1: on field position and uh, you know, the percentages of
Speaker 1: a of a punt into the end zone versus uh,
Speaker 1: not making it on fourth down but yet keeping your
Speaker 1: opponent you know, on their side of the field, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Those are all those are all things that
Speaker 1: they kind of factor in. But yeah, I've really based
Speaker 1: on how our offense is playing at the time. The
Speaker 1: offense kind of sputtered down there at Washington. They you
Speaker 1: starting to go at the tempo offense and the things
Speaker 1: start to roll. What is it about that temple offense?
Speaker 1: Because we saw it in a preseason two What is
Speaker 1: it about that that gets that offense gone? You know?
Speaker 1: The thing and I learned this is when I was
Speaker 1: a player. The tempo offense. Players don't have time to think.
Speaker 1: They just react and and that's probably the simplistic of it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, things are are up tempo, um, they're basic,
Speaker 1: not a lot of motions and shifts and guys having
Speaker 1: to line up you know in certain spots. If we
Speaker 1: you know, broke the huddle for per se with a
Speaker 1: with a call, and really it's just, uh, it's the
Speaker 1: it's the it's the simplicity of it and uh, things
Speaker 1: that we that we work on. Um, the calls are simple.
Speaker 1: You know, they can play fast, they don't have to
Speaker 1: think and and uh, it's just it's more about reaction. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Back whel Frank wright was a player the kid gun
Speaker 1: with the Bills. That was a very successful, simple offense.
Speaker 1: That do you find yourself kind of going over some
Speaker 1: of the things that that work in that offense with
Speaker 1: Frank Wrighting Institute of now Man. That was a one
Speaker 1: hundred years ago. Um, but now you know a lot
Speaker 1: of the Saint listen, a lot of the same principles
Speaker 1: and concepts that that we ran or he ran back
Speaker 1: then still applied today. Obviously, we don't go back and
Speaker 1: break out a bunch of Jim Kelly Buffalo Bill's offense,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, we do reminisce on those
Speaker 1: times and even my times in Green Bay when we
Speaker 1: did hurry up and and you know, some of those
Speaker 1: same concepts and philosophies still apply today. What are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that platform? And why is that? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: I leave it up player to player. Um, decisions. On
Speaker 1: my part, I just want him involved. UM. I want
Speaker 1: him to constantly be around the team, be around the
Speaker 1: meeting room. It's one more time, one more opportunity for
Speaker 1: him to hear the information and then to watch his
Speaker 1: teammates go play. So UM I will continue that with him,
Speaker 1: carry him on the road and uh I want him
Speaker 1: to be a part of that. Uh that that that room.
Speaker 1: It was Carson's out of pocket accuracy last year as
Speaker 1: a rookie and how is where is it right now?
Speaker 1: I think it's better now than it was yet last year. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, because it's something that he's worked on, something
Speaker 1: that we've even uh addressed in the offseason and during
Speaker 1: during training camp. Um. He is an extremely accurate pastor
Speaker 1: though overall out of the pocket uh um, whether it's short, intermediate, long,
Speaker 1: and and then you know you throw in the scramble,
Speaker 1: um where he has has the ability to throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. But that accuracy has increased. UM.
Speaker 1: It's something that uh um as we go throughout this
Speaker 1: season now we've got to um take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a big, tall guy that's athletic, can
Speaker 1: see better outside the pocket. Dug In the preseason, it
Speaker 1: looked like in the red zone with those run pass
Speaker 1: option plays, you guys had a lot of success. It
Speaker 1: is there's something that makes those tougher to defend in
Speaker 1: the red zone or more effective from an offensive perspective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you when you when you study team, every team,
Speaker 1: every defensive team is different in the red zone. Um.
Speaker 1: You know it's uh sometimes they they they try to
Speaker 1: force you into into running situations, so crowd the box.
Speaker 1: And you got to have an answer for all that,
Speaker 1: um and and and for us, it's it's the it's
Speaker 1: the the read pass, you know, the run pass option.
Speaker 1: They read the d N read the linebacker whoever it
Speaker 1: might be on that particular scheme. And I think it's
Speaker 1: it's imperative that you stay ahead of the chains in
Speaker 1: the red zone whatever you can do to to keep
Speaker 1: the to keep advancing forward closer to the to the
Speaker 1: goal line. So we'll continue, we'll continue with those those concepts.
Speaker 1: Watch the game last night, I did, I did, um
Speaker 1: I was a great football game. Um. You know it's uh,
Speaker 1: obviously the way the game started, you felt like it
Speaker 1: might swing one way. Um and then and then you
Speaker 1: just saw the the patients the resiliency, the you know
Speaker 1: by by Kansas City, and it just kind of went
Speaker 1: back and forth. It's just a great, well coached on
Speaker 1: both sides football game, and um, you know great too
Speaker 1: the next game. And think about how you may I've listened.
Speaker 1: I watched it more as a fan than anything else.
Speaker 1: Um my focus is on obviously on Washington this weekend
Speaker 1: at all. I liked him, I did. I liked him,
Speaker 1: you know, and and uh, I thought he'd had some
Speaker 1: some great uh a good career there in college. And
Speaker 1: you know, one of the guys that was uh you know,
Speaker 1: uh definitely someone that we had our own. Yeah. Thanks, thanks,