Speaker 1: Yea earlier in the week about we asked him if
Speaker 1: what you did last Sunday against Atlanta was sort of
Speaker 1: a template for success going forward, and he said, it's always,
Speaker 1: you know, a blueprint to win, to run the ball
Speaker 1: well and so forth. But can you do that against Seattle?
Speaker 1: I mean they're only given up three and a half
Speaker 1: yards of carry. I think can you carry that kind
Speaker 1: of mindset into I think you can carry I think
Speaker 1: that's the key what you said there. It's a mindset,
Speaker 1: and that's really you know it might play out. You
Speaker 1: never know how it's going to play out. You go
Speaker 1: up against a team that's that's good against the run
Speaker 1: in their home place, and you still have expectations to
Speaker 1: run the ball efficiently, run it enough to win. That
Speaker 1: looks different from game to game, But I think what
Speaker 1: you're saying is a good thing that we got to
Speaker 1: go on with the mindset that we can run the
Speaker 1: ball effectively against this group. You've used them Isaac sam
Speaker 1: as a fullback and the extra tackle. Obviously, you guys
Speaker 1: think that helps the team. But how much of that
Speaker 1: is just wanting to get him some valuable reps at
Speaker 1: this point in his career? Um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's serving. It's first and foremost what you said, there
Speaker 1: is just a question of need. You know, he's it's
Speaker 1: always put the best eleven that we think we can
Speaker 1: on the field for whatever the particular play design and
Speaker 1: call is, and we think that he gives us that
Speaker 1: there is the added benefit that you know, this guy,
Speaker 1: he's we believe he's a good football player, and he's
Speaker 1: getting him reps that can help him develop. Obviously not
Speaker 1: at his position, but I think they'll still carry over
Speaker 1: supposed back slightly, you know. I mean, obviously with Allan
Speaker 1: coming back in and being the starter, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess you're one step further down the totem pole, um.
Speaker 1: But you know, still look for him to contributeivers at
Speaker 1: only five targets in the past game. Was that five
Speaker 1: design or is that product of the way the game developed?
Speaker 1: M you know, it's a little bit of both. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were certainly designs. We saw some things that we
Speaker 1: could wanted to get the ball inside the zach and
Speaker 1: and to Darren m in ways that we thought we
Speaker 1: had good matchups and to doing some things versus their defense, um,
Speaker 1: you know, but at the same and then it was
Speaker 1: just a little bit of flow of the game. We
Speaker 1: ran the ball out, so you know, you're kind of
Speaker 1: hitting them in the mid section. As you say, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, running the ball good inside. Anytime you can
Speaker 1: be effective inside, I think there. I think that's good.
Speaker 1: How many targets they get over the long run, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I've I've just seen it over
Speaker 1: the years. I've been on teams where you know, or
Speaker 1: even in Ryan Matthew's position out the receiver position, but
Speaker 1: you know, for a couple of weeks nothing and then
Speaker 1: a great game. You see that all the time at receiver.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I see that all the time. I've
Speaker 1: been on teams with two Hall of Fame receivers and
Speaker 1: one guy's not getting targets for two or three weeks,
Speaker 1: and he's a little bit upset, and but then we
Speaker 1: comes and he's fine and back things are back to normal.
Speaker 1: So I just think that's part of it, the part
Speaker 1: of the flow. Nelson only had two catches and seventy
Speaker 1: two snaps. How do you get more out of them? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we just keep plugging away. I mean, like
Speaker 1: we've said it, I really believe in our guys. I
Speaker 1: like our guys. I mean, I love our guys, and
Speaker 1: we go in with a lot of confidence. UM. So
Speaker 1: you know, the more players you call, like you said,
Speaker 1: the more chances you get. UM. We just keep dialing
Speaker 1: them up and we figure that the ball is going
Speaker 1: to get distributed where it has to get distributed to
Speaker 1: win the game. What you saw last week in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Third advantage of that A and the what is the
Speaker 1: difference between you? Yeah, there's there's an advantage both ways. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know they Seattle's defense, they get to see what
Speaker 1: we designed against their particular scheme because their scheme is
Speaker 1: a little bit unique. Um, the zone coverage that they play,
Speaker 1: UM is very similar. So we designed a couple of
Speaker 1: things last week that we have to change up, do
Speaker 1: something a little different, find a couple of other wrinkles
Speaker 1: to attack. You know, their zone defense and the and
Speaker 1: the challenges that it presents. But certainly it helps us
Speaker 1: as well. We know what worked. We can switch things up,
Speaker 1: make things look different. UM, find ways to get the
Speaker 1: same thing done just in a slightly different way. And
Speaker 1: so I think that's what that's what we try to do,
Speaker 1: is to get the receivers off to a really quick
Speaker 1: jump at the snap without a false start, particularly the
Speaker 1: stadium where you're probably going to have a lot of
Speaker 1: silent camps a challenge for us. I mean, obviously, you
Speaker 1: know we had we had the penalties last week, which
Speaker 1: is you know, which is unacceptable and you don't you
Speaker 1: don't want to see that, And then you go on
Speaker 1: the road in this environment, which is we all know
Speaker 1: about this environment. It's challenging. So it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of concentration. Um, it's a matter of trusting it and
Speaker 1: being focused, and you still got to be able to
Speaker 1: get off the ball. The good thing is we practice
Speaker 1: this all the time. We just have to do better
Speaker 1: as far as eliminating those pre snap penalties. If you
Speaker 1: attack Campbell and you kind of stay away from him
Speaker 1: where you picture, suppose, what does philosophy change anything? You
Speaker 1: have someone from that side of the balls healthy respect
Speaker 1: for him. He's a very good player, UM, And I
Speaker 1: think there's you know, I think there's certain things that
Speaker 1: you you run, your play that you have called that
Speaker 1: you feel good against anybody, and then there are other
Speaker 1: plays that he has strengths that you think I might
Speaker 1: just if I have a choice, if I'm a quarterback
Speaker 1: and I have a choice on that one. I might
Speaker 1: go the other way. I think most quarterbacks think that
Speaker 1: they go into the game and they study the film.
Speaker 1: But then there's to be honest, there's a lot. There's
Speaker 1: more than just a few plays where we just call
Speaker 1: the plays and we run them and we have confidence
Speaker 1: in our guys. But sometimes there's a choice, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you take you choose to throw away from a corner
Speaker 1: that you have a lot of respect from. That happens
Speaker 1: all the time. It's just six rushing first downs? Is
Speaker 1: that enough from him? Yeah? I mean I love the
Speaker 1: way you know we've said. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: we've talked all the time about One of the things
Speaker 1: that is a strength of Carson is his athleticism, is
Speaker 1: his size. But in this league, over the long haul,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to be able to do
Speaker 1: it from the pocket. Now, as he grows and develops
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, will he find his way to make
Speaker 1: a few more rushing first downs. I'd rather have him
Speaker 1: start off this way. The way he's starting off in
Speaker 1: his career, be thinking of the mindset of staying in
Speaker 1: the pocket, getting down there. He has the natural athlete.
Speaker 1: I think our offensive line has been doing a good
Speaker 1: job of protecting for the most part, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, and he hasn't had to run out of
Speaker 1: there too many times, so that's a good thing for us.
Speaker 1: So we don't want him around there running around trying
Speaker 1: to find lanes. We've been doing a pretty good job
Speaker 1: and pass protection. We're not flawless and not perfect, but
Speaker 1: overall pretty good. I like his mindset, I like his
Speaker 1: instincts in the pocket. I'm comfortable with where he's at.
Speaker 1: But with his athleticism, I do expect that over the
Speaker 1: course of time he will make some more first downs.
Speaker 1: Running football challenge for a young boy back and what
Speaker 1: to take to be successful. You got to keep your poise,
Speaker 1: and the challenge is, you know, we'll simulate it. We'll
Speaker 1: go inside today, we'll crank the noise up, but it's
Speaker 1: really hard to totally simulate this environment. And but that's
Speaker 1: the fun part of it, really is. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you've been around this league and you kind of get
Speaker 1: environments like this as challenging as it is, it's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's fun and that's what the play. So
Speaker 1: this will be a good experience for carson Um in
Speaker 1: one respect. It's just another road game. It's just the
Speaker 1: next opponent on your schedule. But everybody knows when you
Speaker 1: go to Seattle that is a tough environment to play in,
Speaker 1: mainly because they got a good football team. Um. So
Speaker 1: you know, to me, you look, you look forward to it,
Speaker 1: but you got to keep your poise. You got to
Speaker 1: really be able to You got to be able to
Speaker 1: bounce back from bad play. I mean, there's going to be,
Speaker 1: however many offensive plays in the game. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a bad player or two. You got to have the
Speaker 1: four to two to get back up and just stay aggressive.
Speaker 1: I'm still like Cam Newton Crunk on Sunday. Does he
Speaker 1: just cover big, bigger tight ends or does he does
Speaker 1: he generally um cover guy let's say, like zac Arts
Speaker 1: or do they do they throw someone else on him? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure what their formula is. I
Speaker 1: think they have you know, they can they can match
Speaker 1: him up at any time anywhere that they want to. Um.
Speaker 1: So again, we go in. If you have a play
Speaker 1: that's designed to go where or where Earth's is a
Speaker 1: primary read, and you get a matchup that on a
Speaker 1: particular kind of route, if you've got somebody guarding him
Speaker 1: that you don't feel it's there's option you know, progression two,
Speaker 1: progression three, so on, so forth. You've got your Your
Speaker 1: quarterback is six six Carson Russell Wilson might be six
Speaker 1: feet tall. In general, how much does a quarterback's height
Speaker 1: affect time of an offense? The kind of plays you
Speaker 1: call that sort of thing because Wilson has to take
Speaker 1: a deeper drop to get better site lines, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. You have to account for them, you know.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think the height of a quarterback
Speaker 1: is a factor. I don't you know. I think it's
Speaker 1: one factor of however many factors that there are advantages
Speaker 1: to be in taller. You know, Russell Wilson is a
Speaker 1: you know, he just has so many other factors. You know,
Speaker 1: if however many there are, if that's the one factor
Speaker 1: that he's um you know where he's not not at
Speaker 1: hot you know, obviously not the same height. He's just
Speaker 1: so great in so many other areas. But the line
Speaker 1: of vision I think is a factor, and he just
Speaker 1: you have a way I think when you're since you've
Speaker 1: been that height your whole life, you just you're used
Speaker 1: to finding the throwing lanes. I remember talking to Doug
Speaker 1: Flutie about this long time ago. You know, you're used
Speaker 1: to it. I mean that's all you've ever known, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's natural, and you you adapt and you
Speaker 1: learn to be a great player through it, and that's
Speaker 1: what he's done. Right, So you talked about the earlier
Speaker 1: by swishing things up because you're basically similar defense that
Speaker 1: is last week. But a lot of people say that
Speaker 1: that they're you know, especially their secondary it seems like
Speaker 1: they play almost in the offensive team tunnel. They know
Speaker 1: what's coming a lot. Are they the best in the
Speaker 1: league at that? They're pretty good. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: is they play you know, everyone knows they play a
Speaker 1: lot of middlefield, closed zone and then you know they're
Speaker 1: playing more man now than what they used to play
Speaker 1: when they first started coming on the scene and coming
Speaker 1: on as a team. But when you play the same
Speaker 1: zone all the time, there's only so many ways to
Speaker 1: attack it. So if you're not going to play, for instance,
Speaker 1: cover two, then when a team plays cover two, there
Speaker 1: are plays that are designed to be good against cover two. Well,
Speaker 1: by not playing cover two, they don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about ever practicing against those plays because we don't run
Speaker 1: our cover two plays against the Seattle defense, so they
Speaker 1: know how teams attack them and so what So the
Speaker 1: advantage that they try to play is, hey, here's the
Speaker 1: twenty concepts over the last ten years. The teams run
Speaker 1: against this defense. If we can identify them quickly, then
Speaker 1: we can guard against them more effectively. And so that's
Speaker 1: the advantage that they have. Of course, one of the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of their covers three is that it often looks
Speaker 1: like man, um, yeah, I mean it kind of looks
Speaker 1: the same in the corners press Baale sometimes and so
Speaker 1: that that that can help it somewhat as well. That
Speaker 1: playing on the road, especially early in the games, it's
Speaker 1: been kind of an issue for Carson as far as
Speaker 1: to not get off to like really get starts and
Speaker 1: havingthing so fast. You know, obviously we haven't gotten off
Speaker 1: the good starts on the road. I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: it's been an environment as much as just overall, you know,
Speaker 1: we just haven't been as efficient offensively as we as
Speaker 1: we need to be, you know, to get off on
Speaker 1: a good start and get more confidence, you know, early
Speaker 1: on on the road and quiet the crowd down. Um
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I'm not sure I have the
Speaker 1: answer for that other than we just got to be
Speaker 1: better coming out of the gate on the road. Thank you.