WEBVTT - Press Pass: Frank Reich 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:11.280 Yea earlier in the week about we asked him if 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.120 what you did last Sunday against Atlanta was sort of 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.360 a template for success going forward, and he said, it's always, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.800 you know, a blueprint to win, to run the ball 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.919 well and so forth. But can you do that against Seattle? 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:25.439 I mean they're only given up three and a half 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.160 yards of carry. I think can you carry that kind 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.080 of mindset into I think you can carry I think 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.320 that's the key what you said there. It's a mindset, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.320 and that's really you know it might play out. You 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.320 never know how it's going to play out. You go 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.560 up against a team that's that's good against the run 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.920 in their home place, and you still have expectations to 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.720 run the ball efficiently, run it enough to win. That 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.040 looks different from game to game, But I think what 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.839 you're saying is a good thing that we got to 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.000 go on with the mindset that we can run the 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.440 ball effectively against this group. You've used them Isaac sam 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.240 as a fullback and the extra tackle. Obviously, you guys 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.000 think that helps the team. But how much of that 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.160 is just wanting to get him some valuable reps at 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.720 this point in his career? Um, you know, I think 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.880 it's serving. It's first and foremost what you said, there 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.760 is just a question of need. You know, he's it's 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.120 always put the best eleven that we think we can 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.240 on the field for whatever the particular play design and 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.360 call is, and we think that he gives us that 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.199 there is the added benefit that you know, this guy, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.880 he's we believe he's a good football player, and he's 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.720 getting him reps that can help him develop. Obviously not 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.360 at his position, but I think they'll still carry over 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:46.000 supposed back slightly, you know. I mean, obviously with Allan 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.120 coming back in and being the starter, you know, I 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.960 guess you're one step further down the totem pole, um. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.720 But you know, still look for him to contributeivers at 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.880 only five targets in the past game. Was that five 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.120 design or is that product of the way the game developed? 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.560 M you know, it's a little bit of both. I mean, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.120 there were certainly designs. We saw some things that we 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.720 could wanted to get the ball inside the zach and 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.240 and to Darren m in ways that we thought we 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.079 had good matchups and to doing some things versus their defense, um, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:20.919 you know, but at the same and then it was 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.160 just a little bit of flow of the game. We 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.040 ran the ball out, so you know, you're kind of 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.799 hitting them in the mid section. As you say, Uh, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.359 you know, running the ball good inside. Anytime you can 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.440 be effective inside, I think there. I think that's good. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.640 How many targets they get over the long run, I 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.080 don't know. I guess I've I've just seen it over 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.960 the years. I've been on teams where you know, or 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.960 even in Ryan Matthew's position out the receiver position, but 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.679 you know, for a couple of weeks nothing and then 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.160 a great game. You see that all the time at receiver. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.240 In my opinion, I see that all the time. I've 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.600 been on teams with two Hall of Fame receivers and 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.320 one guy's not getting targets for two or three weeks, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.160 and he's a little bit upset, and but then we 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.480 comes and he's fine and back things are back to normal. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.639 So I just think that's part of it, the part 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.840 of the flow. Nelson only had two catches and seventy 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.600 two snaps. How do you get more out of them? Um, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.840 you know, we just keep plugging away. I mean, like 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.840 we've said it, I really believe in our guys. I 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.040 like our guys. I mean, I love our guys, and 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.600 we go in with a lot of confidence. UM. So 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.800 you know, the more players you call, like you said, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.840 the more chances you get. UM. We just keep dialing 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.280 them up and we figure that the ball is going 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.520 to get distributed where it has to get distributed to 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.960 win the game. What you saw last week in Atlanta. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.360 Third advantage of that A and the what is the 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:50.920 difference between you? Yeah, there's there's an advantage both ways. Obviously, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.520 you know they Seattle's defense, they get to see what 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.440 we designed against their particular scheme because their scheme is 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.400 a little bit unique. Um, the zone coverage that they play, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.080 UM is very similar. So we designed a couple of 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.440 things last week that we have to change up, do 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.680 something a little different, find a couple of other wrinkles 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.600 to attack. You know, their zone defense and the and 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.320 the challenges that it presents. But certainly it helps us 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.640 as well. We know what worked. We can switch things up, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.680 make things look different. UM, find ways to get the 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.400 same thing done just in a slightly different way. And 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.760 so I think that's what that's what we try to do, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.360 is to get the receivers off to a really quick 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.880 jump at the snap without a false start, particularly the 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.200 stadium where you're probably going to have a lot of 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.200 silent camps a challenge for us. I mean, obviously, you 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.560 know we had we had the penalties last week, which 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.839 is you know, which is unacceptable and you don't you 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.159 don't want to see that, And then you go on 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.280 the road in this environment, which is we all know 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.200 about this environment. It's challenging. So it's just a matter 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.680 of concentration. Um, it's a matter of trusting it and 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.760 being focused, and you still got to be able to 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.880 get off the ball. The good thing is we practice 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.080 this all the time. We just have to do better 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:12.200 as far as eliminating those pre snap penalties. If you 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.600 attack Campbell and you kind of stay away from him 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.960 where you picture, suppose, what does philosophy change anything? You 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.560 have someone from that side of the balls healthy respect 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.400 for him. He's a very good player, UM, And I 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.440 think there's you know, I think there's certain things that 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.440 you you run, your play that you have called that 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.520 you feel good against anybody, and then there are other 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.360 plays that he has strengths that you think I might 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.880 just if I have a choice, if I'm a quarterback 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.320 and I have a choice on that one. I might 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.400 go the other way. I think most quarterbacks think that 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.800 they go into the game and they study the film. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.920 But then there's to be honest, there's a lot. There's 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.680 more than just a few plays where we just call 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.520 the plays and we run them and we have confidence 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.719 in our guys. But sometimes there's a choice, and sometimes 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.240 you take you choose to throw away from a corner 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.719 that you have a lot of respect from. That happens 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:02.320 all the time. It's just six rushing first downs? Is 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.920 that enough from him? Yeah? I mean I love the 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.240 way you know we've said. I love the fact that 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:10.880 we've talked all the time about One of the things 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.600 that is a strength of Carson is his athleticism, is 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.400 his size. But in this league, over the long haul, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.600 you have to you have to be able to do 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.520 it from the pocket. Now, as he grows and develops 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.560 as a quarterback, will he find his way to make 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.600 a few more rushing first downs. I'd rather have him 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.760 start off this way. The way he's starting off in 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.440 his career, be thinking of the mindset of staying in 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.400 the pocket, getting down there. He has the natural athlete. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.080 I think our offensive line has been doing a good 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.160 job of protecting for the most part, to be honest 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.760 with you, and he hasn't had to run out of 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.960 there too many times, so that's a good thing for us. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.120 So we don't want him around there running around trying 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.120 to find lanes. We've been doing a pretty good job 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.960 and pass protection. We're not flawless and not perfect, but 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.320 overall pretty good. I like his mindset, I like his 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.120 instincts in the pocket. I'm comfortable with where he's at. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.760 But with his athleticism, I do expect that over the 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.360 course of time he will make some more first downs. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:15.480 Running football challenge for a young boy back and what 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.520 to take to be successful. You got to keep your poise, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.640 and the challenge is, you know, we'll simulate it. We'll 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.120 go inside today, we'll crank the noise up, but it's 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.880 really hard to totally simulate this environment. And but that's 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.080 the fun part of it, really is. I mean, when 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:32.760 you've been around this league and you kind of get 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.160 environments like this as challenging as it is, it's fun. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:37.880 I mean, it's fun and that's what the play. So 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.760 this will be a good experience for carson Um in 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.960 one respect. It's just another road game. It's just the 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.560 next opponent on your schedule. But everybody knows when you 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.240 go to Seattle that is a tough environment to play in, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.000 mainly because they got a good football team. Um. So 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.600 you know, to me, you look, you look forward to it, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.600 but you got to keep your poise. You got to 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.920 really be able to You got to be able to 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.840 bounce back from bad play. I mean, there's going to be, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.240 however many offensive plays in the game. You're gonna have 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.600 a bad player or two. You got to have the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.920 four to two to get back up and just stay aggressive. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.640 I'm still like Cam Newton Crunk on Sunday. Does he 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.040 just cover big, bigger tight ends or does he does 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.120 he generally um cover guy let's say, like zac Arts 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.400 or do they do they throw someone else on him? Um? 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.800 You know, I'm not sure what their formula is. I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.080 think they have you know, they can they can match 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.960 him up at any time anywhere that they want to. Um. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.800 So again, we go in. If you have a play 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.640 that's designed to go where or where Earth's is a 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.920 primary read, and you get a matchup that on a 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.960 particular kind of route, if you've got somebody guarding him 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.000 that you don't feel it's there's option you know, progression two, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.880 progression three, so on, so forth. You've got your Your 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.800 quarterback is six six Carson Russell Wilson might be six 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.960 feet tall. In general, how much does a quarterback's height 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.480 affect time of an offense? The kind of plays you 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.280 call that sort of thing because Wilson has to take 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.360 a deeper drop to get better site lines, that sort 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.160 of thing. You have to account for them, you know. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.280 I think, yeah, I think the height of a quarterback 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.000 is a factor. I don't you know. I think it's 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.240 one factor of however many factors that there are advantages 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.719 to be in taller. You know, Russell Wilson is a 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.800 you know, he just has so many other factors. You know, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.160 if however many there are, if that's the one factor 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.880 that he's um you know where he's not not at 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.920 hot you know, obviously not the same height. He's just 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.640 so great in so many other areas. But the line 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.160 of vision I think is a factor, and he just 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.360 you have a way I think when you're since you've 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.760 been that height your whole life, you just you're used 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.959 to finding the throwing lanes. I remember talking to Doug 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.040 Flutie about this long time ago. You know, you're used 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.920 to it. I mean that's all you've ever known, and 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.839 so it's it's natural, and you you adapt and you 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.480 learn to be a great player through it, and that's 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.719 what he's done. Right, So you talked about the earlier 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.319 by swishing things up because you're basically similar defense that 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.920 is last week. But a lot of people say that 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 that they're you know, especially their secondary it seems like 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.360 they play almost in the offensive team tunnel. They know 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.880 what's coming a lot. Are they the best in the 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.240 league at that? They're pretty good. One of the reasons 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.400 is they play you know, everyone knows they play a 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.680 lot of middlefield, closed zone and then you know they're 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.880 playing more man now than what they used to play 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.040 when they first started coming on the scene and coming 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.199 on as a team. But when you play the same 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.199 zone all the time, there's only so many ways to 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.280 attack it. So if you're not going to play, for instance, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.880 cover two, then when a team plays cover two, there 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.520 are plays that are designed to be good against cover two. Well, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.600 by not playing cover two, they don't have to worry 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.480 about ever practicing against those plays because we don't run 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.280 our cover two plays against the Seattle defense, so they 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.599 know how teams attack them and so what So the 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.480 advantage that they try to play is, hey, here's the 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.439 twenty concepts over the last ten years. The teams run 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.520 against this defense. If we can identify them quickly, then 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.040 we can guard against them more effectively. And so that's 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.880 the advantage that they have. Of course, one of the 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.000 effectiveness of their covers three is that it often looks 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.520 like man, um, yeah, I mean it kind of looks 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.880 the same in the corners press Baale sometimes and so 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.240 that that that can help it somewhat as well. That 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.600 playing on the road, especially early in the games, it's 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.000 been kind of an issue for Carson as far as 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.959 to not get off to like really get starts and 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.520 havingthing so fast. You know, obviously we haven't gotten off 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.640 the good starts on the road. I'm not so sure 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.719 it's been an environment as much as just overall, you know, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.480 we just haven't been as efficient offensively as we as 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.120 we need to be, you know, to get off on 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.600 a good start and get more confidence, you know, early 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.360 on on the road and quiet the crowd down. Um 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.640 you know. So yeah, I'm not sure I have the 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.000 answer for that other than we just got to be 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.559 better coming out of the gate on the road. Thank you.