Speaker 1: It's been a little minute since I've seen you, guys.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back into the fold. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: coming off the bye week, I think it was at
Speaker 1: the perfect time for us as a team, particularly as
Speaker 1: a defense. In getting back this week, I saw a
Speaker 1: difference in the guys, just a great level of energy.
Speaker 1: Seemed like they were recharged, refreshed mentally as well as
Speaker 1: typically and I think they're.
Speaker 2: Ready to go. We've had a good week of practice
Speaker 2: thus far.
Speaker 1: We got to finish on the right note today and
Speaker 1: tomorrow before we get on the plane. We're playing a
Speaker 1: good football team, a real good football team, a playoff
Speaker 1: team that I think is well coached.
Speaker 2: They have some dynamic.
Speaker 1: Football players ETN and my opinion is one of the
Speaker 1: top backs. He probably don't get the recognition that he deserves,
Speaker 1: but three down back that can make it happen in
Speaker 1: all phases of the game. You look at the tight end, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's phenomenal, you know Ingram just like, I mean, what
Speaker 1: what can he do? You know when you watch him
Speaker 1: on tape, he does it all. He's out at number
Speaker 1: one at receiver. Uh.
Speaker 2: They put him in a slot uh. Inline blocking for.
Speaker 1: Us the run game I think he's phenomenal and of
Speaker 1: course Christian Kirk drafting him in Arizona, uh, still playing
Speaker 1: at a high level. Definitely got to know exactly where
Speaker 1: he is at all times, and I think really has
Speaker 1: you know, revitalized his career going down there with Peterson.
Speaker 1: He's doing some good things. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: look at the quarterback, he does a great job number one,
Speaker 1: protecting the football, turn it over, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think they have a great balance in running and passing
Speaker 1: and not trying to put a lot on him, and
Speaker 1: he does an extremely great job for us getting the
Speaker 1: ball out quickly, so and giving an overview of those guys.
Speaker 2: We got to go execute, you know.
Speaker 1: It's about everything we do up front, number one, stopping
Speaker 1: this run game, and you know, when they are in
Speaker 1: the opportunity where they're going to pass the we got
Speaker 1: to execute on the back end. So uh, with that,
Speaker 1: I'll take your questions. You mentioned the the energy this week.
Speaker 3: I mean, looking back before the the Bengals game, was
Speaker 3: dead noticeable to you that there was a dip in.
Speaker 2: Energy at that point? Uh Y you could say that,
Speaker 2: uh that we noticed it.
Speaker 1: I noticed it, but we got we got a good group,
Speaker 1: and you know sometime for fatigue sets in. So again,
Speaker 1: I thought it came at the right time. It it
Speaker 1: It's definitely never been a question of effort, uh from
Speaker 1: our guys and how we practice. I think they go
Speaker 1: out and give us everything each and every day. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at nine weeks in into it,
Speaker 1: I think it came at the right time.
Speaker 2: Yesterday that you moved out to the field. Uh.
Speaker 3: What what was kind of your input into that decision
Speaker 3: and how do you think it can help?
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, I mean, guys t to me, I
Speaker 1: think I think just very canon. I think we're making
Speaker 1: a bigger deal out of it then than it needs
Speaker 1: to be, to be honest. But uh, I just want
Speaker 1: to be able to communicate with the guys a little
Speaker 1: bit more doing the game. You know, certain things that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, I'd rather be able to talk to them
Speaker 1: directly than.
Speaker 2: You know, to communicate with coaches.
Speaker 1: I think our coaches do a great job number one,
Speaker 1: throughout the week, but also in game adjustments. You know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things I've really you know, pride
Speaker 1: ourselves on and how we communicate as a staff and
Speaker 1: making the right things throughout the game. So it's just
Speaker 1: really with me just wanting to be able to communicate
Speaker 1: with those guys a little bit more. You mentioned in
Speaker 1: the spring that you you're gonna go cutting her off
Speaker 1: too follows, Yeah, did.
Speaker 3: You just mentioned in the spring that you get a
Speaker 3: little too emotional or you know, we wanted to kind
Speaker 3: of ring that in or whatever when you are on
Speaker 3: the field that do you feel like maybe that could
Speaker 3: be a good thing though, that you can break some
Speaker 3: of that emotion that well.
Speaker 1: Well, to be honest, when when you look at our
Speaker 1: guys and I've been doing this for a while, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's part of what they're missing and
Speaker 1: what they need.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes it can be good.
Speaker 1: I think you know, we all feed off each other,
Speaker 1: you know, coaches, we feed off one another.
Speaker 2: I feed off the players.
Speaker 1: Uh so you know it depends, but I think it's
Speaker 1: more or less than the communication part that we can,
Speaker 1: you know, have that dialogue direct face to face and
Speaker 1: try to make the adjustment that we need to make
Speaker 1: throughout the game.
Speaker 3: Pane, as you're looking at the film, what do you
Speaker 3: think he's maybe so successful this season?
Speaker 1: H I think again, I think coach Peterson, Doug does
Speaker 1: a good job just with the scheme and and the
Speaker 1: things that they're doing. Uh, he has a lot of
Speaker 1: weapons around him that that sort of compliments him a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, Like I said, a ramp and
Speaker 1: rave about the tight end and the receiving core that
Speaker 1: they have. So and he's a powerful runner and it
Speaker 1: has the ability to be able to also take it
Speaker 1: outside and has good speed.
Speaker 2: So I think he again three down back given what's
Speaker 2: happened the last three weeks. You know, I try to
Speaker 2: stay out of the past.
Speaker 1: When when I say that the obvious is the obvious,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, dwelling on the past three weeks,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna really change what we try and to
Speaker 1: get done.
Speaker 2: And our focus been since we've been back.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's just you know, one at
Speaker 1: a time, you know, let's just go, you know, refocus
Speaker 1: ourselves to do what we got to do to get
Speaker 1: this game. And I think we know in the in
Speaker 1: the previous games we were there, we played hard. We
Speaker 1: got to go execute, you know, we gotta we got
Speaker 1: to make plays when given the opportunity. I got to
Speaker 1: do a better job again, just put them in better positions,
Speaker 1: which I think is gonna, you know, help them go execute.
Speaker 1: But you know, third down it's been hurting us. We
Speaker 1: got to get off the field. You know, we've had
Speaker 1: those guys in both games third and long and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, Borrow, great job of him
Speaker 1: being athletic, he gets out of it third and long.
Speaker 1: Going back to Minnesota, opportunity to get off the fielding
Speaker 1: we did and just sort of spout right there with
Speaker 1: the first drive. So those are things that we have
Speaker 1: to correct things.
Speaker 3: If you could just clear up on the communications stuff.
Speaker 2: One, when you are upstairs and we.
Speaker 3: Would be calling plays, you have to go through like
Speaker 3: Johnny Holland to.
Speaker 2: Get the plays in.
Speaker 3: Was there any communication issues with that in terms of
Speaker 3: timing or anything.
Speaker 1: No, no, none, whatsoever. Again, Uh, the coaches do a
Speaker 1: tremendous job and communicating with those guys. I just felt
Speaker 1: the need, you know, to be able to wanna, you know,
Speaker 1: communicate directly you know nothing what Uh the coaches have
Speaker 1: been doing and like I said before, doing a great job. Uh,
Speaker 1: I just wanna feel a little bit more presence on
Speaker 1: the sideline.
Speaker 2: Another part of that is in terms of the different
Speaker 2: position groups.
Speaker 3: Obviously you work a lot with the secondary and so
Speaker 3: I'm I'm imagining that's those are the guys you wanna
Speaker 3: speak more directly.
Speaker 1: With the To be quite honest, I wanna talk to
Speaker 1: all the guys because I have certain thoughts that are
Speaker 1: going through my mind as I'm sitting there going through
Speaker 1: the game and trying to call things, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my call sheet and I say, man, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about this. Well, now I can go right over
Speaker 1: to the D line and say, okay, I'm looking and
Speaker 1: change this up next series. You know, uh, it could
Speaker 1: be with the the back seven forwards, the past concepts
Speaker 1: where where maybe getting hurt on a certain route and
Speaker 1: you know, it could be empty and I want, okay,
Speaker 1: I wanna change this. So again, it's just a little
Speaker 1: bit more dialogue coming directly from me, so so more.
Speaker 3: Not breaking news that you know, as the defense, it
Speaker 3: has it quite looked like itself last three games. You've
Speaker 3: been receiving criticism or skepticism. You've been doing this for
Speaker 3: a while. I'm sure this is nothing it new to you,
Speaker 3: But how you handling you know, this level of kind
Speaker 3: of personal adversity.
Speaker 1: I can I can honestly say, I'm sort of built
Speaker 1: for this, you know, not not in an arrogant way,
Speaker 1: but uh, I've always believe it is is certain.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's two things. It's what you hear and what
Speaker 1: you listen to. You know, So I hear a lot
Speaker 1: of the outside noise. I don't listen to it good
Speaker 1: or bad, you know. Uh, as you mentioned, I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for a while, and I understand the emotions,
Speaker 1: uh of this game and and what we play at
Speaker 1: this level.
Speaker 2: Uh. I try not to be emotional, you know. Uh,
Speaker 2: We're five and three.
Speaker 1: The standard is so high here alright, and we lost
Speaker 1: three in a row that everybody feel like the settling
Speaker 1: is collapsing on us.
Speaker 2: Uh. We're in a good position. Uh.
Speaker 1: We need to turn it around. So uh, we got
Speaker 1: a lot of football ahead of us. You know. We
Speaker 1: wanted to start progressing, get better in November and start
Speaker 1: playing our best in December. So I've seen this, I've
Speaker 1: been around this. I can take it. I'm the new
Speaker 1: guy in you know. Uh, it is what it is. Uh.
Speaker 1: I have confidence in myself, most importantly, I have confidence
Speaker 1: in those players and the coaches that we're together, uh,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna come through this.
Speaker 3: And how it's his relationship with Nicholas that helped him
Speaker 3: come along.
Speaker 1: Uh, great relationship those guys, of course, as you all know,
Speaker 1: played together. I think he has truly come in and
Speaker 1: fit into the culture that these guys have set.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think Bosh has made that transition seamless form Uh
Speaker 1: and Uh, I think he's excited just because Uh he's
Speaker 1: in a different climate, different element, you know. And Uh
Speaker 1: he came in and A and in Washington and was
Speaker 1: thrust in a situation where he had to be a
Speaker 1: leader as a rookie. And that's tough when you have
Speaker 1: no one to really look to the right or the
Speaker 1: left of to try to pattern yourself out of. So
Speaker 1: he has a lot of guys here in this locker
Speaker 1: room that he can lean on.
Speaker 3: How are players able to communicate to you? Do they
Speaker 3: have to go to a coach or are they able
Speaker 3: to directly communicate with you when.
Speaker 1: You're up there? Uh, well, there's a lot of times
Speaker 1: either I talk to him either on the phone or
Speaker 1: I have the coaches put the headsets on. So Uh, again,
Speaker 1: it's just U a great opportunity for me to be
Speaker 1: able to look at certain things on the on the Uh,
Speaker 1: surface the iPad, and then I can go directly to
Speaker 1: that guy and say, Okay, this is what I'm seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, and then we can have that dialogue and
Speaker 1: communicate and talk, and you know, I like to also
Speaker 1: know how they're seeing things, you know, and when the
Speaker 1: flow and the course of a game. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: allow me to be able to call certain things differently, uh,
Speaker 1: according to how they see it as well or right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, okay,