1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: What happens is don't they yesday you go some of 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: his hamstring? Yeah, a little bit. So I just got 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: he's fine. You know, he'll be He'll just be a 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: short time before he's back out there. Not today though, 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see a short time. Let's see. 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: Did you talk about the center position, Frett Jones shaping 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: up Brett Jones and p o uh and then we 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: have some other guys that are in there working as well. Um, yeah, 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: it's they're doing a good job. You know. We talked 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: yesterday about how important it is for the center to 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: communicate and communicate well and then block their guy and 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: then certainly work in conjunction with the guards. And I 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: think those guys are all doing that. Um, they're going 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: through the first phase of the padded practices, which are important. 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: We'll get through the second phase after the off day tomorrow, 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: and then certainly the preseason games will be kind of 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: the final piece of that evaluation. What have you seen 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: out of Olivia Vernon moving, you know, primarily to being 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: a pass rusher and now the paths have come on you. Yeah, well, 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: I mean we all know he's a dynamic pass rusher, 21 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: but he does a very good job of playing to 22 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: run as well. Um, he was here all spring, really 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: engaged in everything we're doing, learning the new defense, and 24 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: I've really, especially behind the scenes, gained a great appreciation 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: for for what a pro he is. God. You mentioned 26 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: the other day that you're kind of a hard marker 27 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: on centers, you know, you really look at them. What 28 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: about quarterbacks because you work with them so much. Any 29 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: special fair too, and especially with a rookie like the Letta, 30 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,279 Speaker 1: I'm sure kind of have a high bar for him. Well, 31 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: I mean, we we have expectations and demands and we 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: have standards and so you know when you when you're 33 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: out there watching them play, you know too the naked eye, 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: it may look like something was a good play when 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: there's maybe some things he could have done better. There's 36 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: there's always fundamentals to talk about when it's in terms 37 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: of you know, taking a snap, dropping back and throwing 38 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: and so we're just there's constant community sation there. And 39 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: the one thing, you know, you mentioned the fact you're 40 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: hard on quarterbacks, I don't know about that. We're very 41 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: demanding and if you've been around enough quarterbacks, they're hard 42 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: on themselves because they're just driven to get it right. 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: And I think with regard to Kyle, he has that 44 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: now when you look at him and evaluate him in 45 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: your head, he's a fourth round pick from Richmond, or 46 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 1: would you say he might as well be a first 47 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,839 Speaker 1: round He's a New York football giant, and we're trying 48 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: to get him ready to play. I mean, and really, 49 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: anybody on our ninety man roster could be out there 50 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: playing against Jacksonville. So you see that we get reps 51 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: for the ones, the twos, and the threes, and we 52 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: certainly you know, do a lot to get the quarterbacks ready. Um. 53 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: And so I really don't care where he was picked. 54 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: What did you What did you like yesterday about Eli 55 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: and Davis's play? They will see he's throwing the ball. Yeah, 56 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: I think they've consistently performed well throughout the camp. Um. Again, 57 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: you know, I've I've watched it with a little different 58 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: as you know, what we want to get done. But yeah, 59 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: they did throw the ball. Well, they did some good things. 60 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: Uh there was What's good about our our practice sessions 61 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: is we get a lot of different blitz combinations and concepts, 62 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: and it's the real mental gymnastics that quarterbacks need to 63 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: go through and I thought they did a good job 64 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: with you know, sometimes knowing if they were blocked properly, 65 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: if there was an extra guy, or making those adjustments 66 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: necessary to fix the problem. And so that's what we're 67 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: constantly trying to do. That do is that what your 68 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: offensive want? You mentioned the blitzes and the concepts. Does 69 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: that put your offensive line at a disadvantage of this 70 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: early you can because you're not necessarily scheme for that stuff. 71 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: I don't think so. And again I think, you know, 72 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: everybody's kind of given play by play, day by day 73 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: analysis of what's going on. I get it. You know, 74 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: there's a there's a you know, there's a craving for 75 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: that type of information by the old lines doing great 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: or the D lines doing you know, I get that. 77 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: I get that. I see it differently. I think it's 78 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: important that we go out there and work on certain things. 79 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: If we're only running one play against one defense and 80 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: everybody's getting it right all the time, then we're not 81 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: getting enough done. And so the more that we can 82 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: see in practice, anything you do in practice, you get 83 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: better at. The more we see in practice, the better 84 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: will be Jacksonville Houston, Dallas, so on what is it 85 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: maybe you're working on with the offensive line? The network, 86 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: We don't see what are some of those everything everything, 87 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: I think you know thirty one other teams are doing 88 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: the same thing. Um, you know, but all the fundamentals 89 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: that are necessary to play the position, um involvement in 90 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: all the schemes we want to run, and then you know, 91 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: you match that against the different variations of defenses and 92 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: pressures that you get. And um, that's that's basically from 93 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: the offensive learning you encouraged at the I am I am, 94 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: And again I don't have anything from a year ago 95 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: to compare it to. I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing 96 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 1: from the guys that are in there. And we've already 97 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: written a lot of articles and done a lot of 98 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: interviews about how we've made big change up there, and 99 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: so um, yeah, I like how they're working together. Let's 100 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: talking about your your offensive line and from your perspective, 101 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: uh knowing one on one drills are tending to be tills. 102 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: It to war one side and in particularly to the drill, 103 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: but oldline needline drills. From your perspective, what are you 104 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: looking at the game from the offensive line in the drill. Yeah, 105 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: the drill work tends to be skewed sometimes towards one 106 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: side or the other. When we're going one on one 107 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: against the defensive backs, that's court sort of skewed, you know, 108 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: skewed towards the receivers. You know, there's times when the 109 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: one on one pass rush drill is skewed towards the rushers. Okay, 110 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 1: so we get that. So within the drill, you know, 111 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: you may not see it. But on this day, Will 112 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: Hernandez maybe working on short setting, right, so he does 113 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: three or four well, and then maybe he gets beat 114 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: on one. Maybe on this next drill, you know, he's 115 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: working on vertical setting, and so they're working on their 116 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: techniques within the drills. I think you gotta be really, 117 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: really careful and I and I know, uh, there's a 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: lot of the evaluators in the world that will just say, boy, 119 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: he did a great job in one on one. Well, 120 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: we play the game eleven on eleven, and I think 121 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: that's the drill work is one thing. But that's why 122 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: it's so critical to see the eleven on eleven drills 123 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 1: the preseason games and one we scheme it up and 124 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: play real football. You mentioned yesterday that the idea is 125 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: to have a three down tight end. Is Evan that 126 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: guy already in his career and we've seen him make 127 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: great catches. Obviously, how's his blocking coming. Yeah, we feel 128 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: like he's a three down tight end and you know 129 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: he's improved his blocking. He works on it constantly. You know, 130 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: obviously his redeeming quality is as a past receiver and 131 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: he's works on that constantly. So you know, it's um 132 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: tight ends every day. It's like a quarterback. You say, okay, 133 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: what does a quarterback do? Right? They get to play 134 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: from the coach right, they make sure everybody's lined up, 135 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: they execute a cadence. Uh, they take a snap either 136 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: hand the ball off or drop back throw it. And 137 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: then when things don't go right, they fix it. So 138 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: those that's what a quarterback does. And so then throughout 139 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: his day he works on those things. As a tight end, 140 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: you work on run blocking, if you work on running routes, 141 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: catching passes, and pass protection, and so they work on 142 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: all those things. And um, they've been doing it. What 143 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: have you seen from We've been out here four or 144 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: five days of practice, a couple of days of pads. 145 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: What do you what do you see from odellas a 146 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: player coming back obviously from a serious injury last year. Well, 147 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: I see what I expected to see when we started 148 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: to communicate back in February. You know, um, this guy 149 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: loves to play football all he trains extremely hard, He's 150 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: totally engaged in the meetings behind the scenes, the things 151 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,239 Speaker 1: that you know, the world is not aware of, and 152 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: he's got a lot of passion for the game. You know. 153 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: I think we were just out in a walk through 154 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: and I saw three or four times when he was 155 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: talking to different players about certain techniques within a play. 156 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: So that's all good stuff. A lot about offensive in 157 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: the defense. But we haven't really asked you much about 158 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: special teams. Is that kind of still scattered right now? 159 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: Or you're starting to get an idea on your core guys, 160 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: and yeah, we have an idea who are core guys 161 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: might be, you know, within the ninety man roster here 162 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: as we get ready to pick the fifty three. Got 163 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: a pretty good idea on the specialists, and we just 164 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: keep working on it and and honing it and some 165 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: of it will be determined. There are guys that will 166 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: make this team because of special teams and really they're 167 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: gonna be fourth down players first, and then we'll find 168 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: a role in for a second and third down. So 169 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 1: we're there's gonna be a few guys that will do that, um, 170 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: and then there's other guys that are first, second, third 171 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: down players that will contribute on special teams. And so 172 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: you know, every guy has their role and they've got 173 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: to do their job well, and so that's sort of 174 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: how we're practicing it.