Speaker 1: I don't know if you can say or not whether
Speaker 1: you know or not. Like there's is do you expect
Speaker 1: to have Jayleen more for this game?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Jayalen was able to practice today and I think he was.
Speaker 3: I think he was a full participant in practice.
Speaker 4: So you've talked a little bit about and Barks and
Speaker 4: warning him or or liking him as a center profit beact.
Speaker 4: Is he has he done even work there? And is
Speaker 4: he a possibility at center on Sunday?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He works.
Speaker 3: He works at every day he's been here. He's been
Speaker 3: working on the scout team. He also worked at some
Speaker 3: with our group today.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Feliciano was didn't work doing some other things and so
Speaker 3: he was able to get some center work. He's been
Speaker 3: doing it all along. We've been trying to rotate in
Speaker 3: a guard and center. Not natural for him yet, but
Speaker 3: he's working really hard at it. And so it's a
Speaker 3: it's a very very good possibility on Sunday that you'll
Speaker 3: see him some at center. You had brun Skill obviously
Speaker 3: you could do a little bit of everything, and you
Speaker 3: had replace him this off season.
Speaker 2: Fliciano was kind of that guy. How how important has
Speaker 2: he been.
Speaker 1: To have just a tendable guy who can be kind
Speaker 1: of your sixth man, but then.
Speaker 2: Start Yeah, no, it's it's it's huge.
Speaker 3: I mean, you get these guys, these veterans that they
Speaker 3: understand the game, they understand the positions. They've had a
Speaker 3: career of starting at left guard, right guard, center, so
Speaker 3: they're not you know, it doesn't trip them out when
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, one week you're at right guard,
Speaker 3: one week at your left guard, next week you're at center.
Speaker 2: You're going in the game at center.
Speaker 3: They've done all that stuff before, so it's invaluable and
Speaker 3: and and you at the same time, they can start
Speaker 3: and player they you know, it's it's cool, it's really good.
Speaker 3: And it seems like every team you're on you have
Speaker 3: that guy. You need to really find that guy because
Speaker 3: they really are invaluable. It does sometimes you you'd love
Speaker 3: it to all be young guys. You'd love that position,
Speaker 3: the six, seven, eight linemen to all be young and
Speaker 3: developing players, because you know, there's for a lot of
Speaker 3: different reasons, and you hope they develop into starters as
Speaker 3: opposed to having three or four old heads in there
Speaker 3: that are just you know, you know what they are
Speaker 3: and they're solid, but like we talked about the other day.
Speaker 3: We were talking about the splash plays for a gardener,
Speaker 3: splash plays for running back right, and sometimes just the
Speaker 3: good old, dependable you know, the comfortable shoe works for you.
Speaker 3: And that's what for lack of better termaments with Feliciano
Speaker 3: is like, what did you like about.
Speaker 1: Him when you were looking him in the offseason and
Speaker 1: has he made seeded your expectations?
Speaker 3: E Here's the thing I think when you study, when
Speaker 3: we study film, there's not a lot of teams that
Speaker 3: do what we.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if you guys know.
Speaker 3: I mean we look a little different us to dolphins,
Speaker 3: and we kind of have a style of Kyle and
Speaker 3: Mike and the guys do it, so it looks a
Speaker 3: little bit different and we kind of do a little
Speaker 3: bit more outside zone and run a little bit more.
Speaker 3: So when you study other teams, you just don't see
Speaker 3: them do that as much. So you have to look hard,
Speaker 3: whether you're evaluating college film, free agent film, you have
Speaker 3: to look a little bit harder to say, where do
Speaker 3: I see glimpses of what we do? And then you say,
Speaker 3: how many times do you think you can do this?
Speaker 3: For a sustained amount of time in a game, and
Speaker 3: really you didn't see it at all until we to.
Speaker 3: What I saw is I saw him pull on some
Speaker 3: plays at center or get out in space and some
Speaker 3: of the toss crack plays, and I said, you know what,
Speaker 3: it's in there. And John's not a guy coming out
Speaker 3: of college or through his pro career. He said, he'd
Speaker 3: be a great scheme fit for our offense. But it's
Speaker 3: in there, and if you drill it every single day
Speaker 3: and it's there, you can pull it out of them
Speaker 3: and and he can do it consistently. So we saw
Speaker 3: that that little that little glimpse, and when he got here,
Speaker 3: even Kyle would say earlier, you're like, oh, this feliciattle guy,
Speaker 3: you know, But then when you give an opportunity to
Speaker 3: play and he practiced it, he got kind of used
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 2: It's there, and it's kind of cool to see.
Speaker 5: There's there's a motion you do mostly with Christian that
Speaker 5: looks kind of funky, and he ends up in some
Speaker 5: buggy sposors sorts of shuffles to the side and you
Speaker 5: can end up in some weird areas. What is the
Speaker 5: benefit of that motion in particular and sort of how
Speaker 5: did that come come to be?
Speaker 3: Well, some of it is, you know, you your motion
Speaker 3: for coverage tells others. You just get him in a
Speaker 3: position where he can best release to do what we
Speaker 3: need to do for a pattern. So, I mean, I
Speaker 3: think it's all play driven and depend upon what we
Speaker 3: need from the back. And it gives a little different
Speaker 3: look to the defense at times, or undresses the defense
Speaker 3: or tells us something. So there's a lot of different
Speaker 3: reasons to do it.
Speaker 6: Play the balance that the guys maybe sitting out I
Speaker 6: know you've mentioned before, like when Trent Williams, he didn't
Speaker 6: play his best when he came back. So how do
Speaker 6: you find the balance in that when you've got guys
Speaker 6: that they sit out this week and then by week
Speaker 6: next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing is is that you really wanted these
Speaker 3: practices become important.
Speaker 2: You need to practice.
Speaker 3: Everybody needs to practice, and everybody needs to practice hard
Speaker 3: because you can't just take weeks off.
Speaker 2: Nobody can.
Speaker 3: It's it's any sport, you know, you just don't take
Speaker 3: weeks off and jump back and play at the level
Speaker 3: we've been playing, you know, pretty solid football through the season.
Speaker 3: You want guys to stay at that level. Yeah, at
Speaker 3: some point you realize a guy doesn't need to play
Speaker 3: a game to risk injury because of where the game is.
Speaker 3: It could be the end of a game that you're
Speaker 3: getting killed in, or it could be a game you're
Speaker 3: way ahead in, or it could be a game that
Speaker 3: doesn't have as much consequence in the big picture. At
Speaker 3: the same time, you still want a guy to get ready.
Speaker 3: Same thing in the preseason games, you're like, okay, should
Speaker 3: they never play a preseason game? How many snaps are?
Speaker 3: There's a thirty snaps?
Speaker 6: Is it for?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: What is that number?
Speaker 3: So it's that balancing act between what's the health of
Speaker 3: the player, Now, where's he in his development? Where does
Speaker 3: he need to do to keep his edge and keep
Speaker 3: himself ready to go?
Speaker 2: Because if you look at it, you.
Speaker 3: Say, okay, if a guy practiced once a week, you
Speaker 3: know Trent usually practice. Let's use him for example, usually
Speaker 3: practice on Thursdays and Fridays. Fridays is more of a
Speaker 3: down temple practice for us. Thursday's at full speed practice.
Speaker 3: Wednesdays he doesn't practice. He's with strength and conditioning. So
Speaker 3: if you say you take that and say three weeks,
Speaker 3: you know, this week, next week, the following week. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's three practices and no games. Is that enough time
Speaker 3: in twenty Is that enough work in twenty one days
Speaker 3: to be able to play at the highest level. It
Speaker 3: could be for Trent, or you might need to have
Speaker 3: a few more reps than that to be sure you're
Speaker 3: ready to play. Same thing with Preseeds. It's a balancing
Speaker 3: act and how many those reps are to a point
Speaker 3: where like Trent would say to me, we're scrimmaging against
Speaker 3: the Raiders and he's getting bull rushed a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, hey, dude, you need to sit out
Speaker 3: an anchor. He goes, go, I only got so many
Speaker 3: anchors left in this body, he said, So I'm going
Speaker 3: to waste them all in training camp against the Raiders.
Speaker 3: I'm will save him for the season. And I said, understood,
Speaker 3: big fellow, you know. And so he does the best
Speaker 3: he can.
Speaker 2: But it's right.
Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons he's been able to play
Speaker 3: as long as he has. Is not every rep is
Speaker 3: a you know, full it's he understands the big picture,
Speaker 3: and so it's us talking to him. And this is
Speaker 3: that's my relationship with him. Conlen's relationship with him.
Speaker 2: We're able to.
Speaker 3: Say, hey, you know, Trent, we think you need this,
Speaker 3: and I think as he's gotten older, he's appreciated that
Speaker 3: he does. You know, everybody needs to stay sharp, everybody,
Speaker 3: you know, I think I always go back to other sports.
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant or Magic John, all of them. They still
Speaker 3: shoot free throws. They don't stop shooting free throws because
Speaker 3: they're great players. Still shooting free throws, right They still
Speaker 3: have to practice.
Speaker 1: Colten mckimmit's into the starting lineup right away, and he
Speaker 1: obviously held the position he's played through all these games.
Speaker 1: In the first three sack game with DJ Want, everybody
Speaker 1: was little nervous about it, and outside the building, you
Speaker 1: guys didn't seem to be so much. What have you
Speaker 1: seen from Is he about what you've expected?
Speaker 2: Colt's really doing a good job this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously there's always room for improvement, and he's
Speaker 3: getting better every week.
Speaker 2: He works really, really hard.
Speaker 3: He's got a great attitude about getting better, and he's
Speaker 3: got a great, you know, colts great response is I'll
Speaker 3: ask him, hey, Colt, what happened on that play? And
Speaker 3: Colt with me said yeah, I didn't do what you've
Speaker 3: told me to do a thousand times, it's okay, what.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna do about it? You know?
Speaker 3: So the point is he understands what he needs to
Speaker 3: do and how he needs to do it to fix
Speaker 3: And that's not like, oh, coach knows everything, but it's
Speaker 3: like he's like, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2: I didn't do what I'm supposed to do, and I
Speaker 2: gotta do it.
Speaker 3: And so he's got that workman like attitude that every
Speaker 3: single day I'm gonna get out here, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Work, I'm gonna do things well.
Speaker 3: And and when that was I was worried after the
Speaker 3: first game because I think I explained you guys, we
Speaker 3: did have a set of we did have a chip
Speaker 3: system sell to help them, but sometimes the chip system
Speaker 3: based on coverages is not You need to get those
Speaker 3: guys out and sometimes chippines isn't the best thing, So
Speaker 3: you have to take your chances. And we did more
Speaker 3: of that than we would have than I would have
Speaker 3: thought we were gonna do, but we.
Speaker 2: Had to do it.
Speaker 3: So Cole had to hold up on some one on
Speaker 3: ones and he lost them and gave up the three
Speaker 3: sacks the first game, and I had to be sure
Speaker 3: that he understood that if we put anybody out there
Speaker 3: and give him that many one on ones against that player,
Speaker 3: he's gonna get beat and someone we could have got
Speaker 3: the ball out others the guy beat him and got
Speaker 3: a sack, and so I had to make sure he's
Speaker 3: okay coming out of that.
Speaker 2: He was. He's the right.
Speaker 3: But some guys it's hard, you know, you the bright
Speaker 3: lights come on and you're like, you know, you just
Speaker 3: you don't want to be the guy that everybody sees,
Speaker 3: Oh crap, that was the sack that cost us the drive,
Speaker 3: the game, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: And Colton's got that tough mindset to get himself through it.
Speaker 2: Brendall was a streak free agent.
Speaker 3: He's now been a Pro Bowl alternate back to back years.
Speaker 4: Did you envision that for him and talk to us
Speaker 4: a little bit about what his strengths are as a player.
Speaker 3: Well, Jake Brenda when the first time when he and
Speaker 3: Jesse Davis and they came to us in Miami when
Speaker 3: I was there in practice squad and we h the
Speaker 3: head coach at the time, cut three starters, three draft
Speaker 3: picks for the Miami Dolphins. After like the fifth or
Speaker 3: sixth week of the season. He just cut him he
Speaker 3: was tired and done with him. Want to make a change.
Speaker 3: So Adam Gay's cut three guys and we poached three
Speaker 3: practice squad players, one of them being Jesse Davis, the
Speaker 3: other being Jake Brendle on some other I don't remember.
Speaker 2: The other player.
Speaker 3: And the day he got out there with Jake, You're like, Wow,
Speaker 3: this guy's got some quickness, this guy's got some strength,
Speaker 3: he's got some toughness. He's got He's intelligent and intelligent
Speaker 3: and and I just liked the way he played, and
Speaker 3: he saw everything that you would want. Now, we didn't
Speaker 3: do everything in that and in Miami, and subsequently they
Speaker 3: didn't that we do here. And I knew that in
Speaker 3: this system. He was kind of a prototypical center for
Speaker 3: the system. The quickness to speed, the strength and and
Speaker 3: things like that, and intelligence, the importance to how he
Speaker 3: can run a line, leadership qualities and things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, who's to say, I didn't, you know who
Speaker 3: envisions Pro Bowl not Pro Bowl? I really think, you know,
Speaker 3: I love the guys, they play really, really, really really well.
Speaker 3: I just think the system, Kyle, how we do things,
Speaker 3: how we build what plays build upon each other, allows
Speaker 3: guys to maximize their abilities, right, they get to show
Speaker 3: everything that they are. They can be highlighted in this
Speaker 3: offense if they're willing to use the places, because the
Speaker 3: plays work together and so you can help yourself if
Speaker 3: you understand the offense. And that's kind of what these
Speaker 3: guys have done. Not to diminish that they're not Pro
Speaker 3: Bowl players, but they're you know that it's it all
Speaker 3: fits together for them here and that's why these guys
Speaker 3: have all been able to flourish and have some success
Speaker 3: in the system because they are the right guys for
Speaker 3: what we do, not just temperament, not just intelligence, but
Speaker 3: but physically the quickness and things that we need.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys,