Speaker 1: Guys can ask opening up for questions.
Speaker 2: The last two days, two days previous, the seven interceptions
Speaker 2: off of your starting quarterback, What were you guys doing
Speaker 2: defensively to create those kind of takeaways?
Speaker 1: We always stress the ball, it's always everything like that's
Speaker 1: hugely what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: But as far as like scheme, we're just every day
Speaker 1: is just work hard, get better. I mean that's really it,
Speaker 1: taking it day by day. There's no outlandish scheme or
Speaker 1: anything like that. It's just being detailed in what we do,
Speaker 1: and that's playing hard, playing physical, violent, you know, having
Speaker 1: that speed and communication that we have to have. And
Speaker 1: then it's just executing. But the main thing is our
Speaker 1: guys are just competing every day. Just work hard, get better.
Speaker 1: That's that's your focus every day. Then stuff like that
Speaker 1: works out and you get the ball because you're executing
Speaker 1: and you know, you create some confusion up front, you know,
Speaker 1: with guys in his face and everything just rushing coverage
Speaker 1: ties together. So it's just about the work and you know,
Speaker 1: guys made plays. We got guys are making plays and
Speaker 1: that's important.
Speaker 2: Your early impressions and through the defensive tackles you have
Speaker 2: Collins and Elliott there.
Speaker 1: It's been great. I mean, the whole group's been really
Speaker 1: fun to work with and watch and see how they work.
Speaker 1: And you know, Elliott is so exploded, he's so powerful,
Speaker 1: and you know he's got some movement too, but he's explosive.
Speaker 1: He's so big, he's a lot bigger than you think
Speaker 1: you stand next to him, and he does a very
Speaker 1: powerful hands and and you know, Malik is very dynamic,
Speaker 1: moves really well, but he also has that power too.
Speaker 1: And you're seeing that from hard Grave and from from
Speaker 1: Kevin and Kalia and really all those t y I mean,
Speaker 1: just the whole group. You're seeing them compete and you know,
Speaker 1: seeing those explosive dynamic you know, guys that we like
Speaker 1: that can move but also have power, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch them all compete. Your role in
Speaker 1: the hip hop Hip Hop Tackle, do you guys have
Speaker 1: to coach guys up on that or how do you
Speaker 1: approach that? Watch some stuff on it. I think we'll
Speaker 1: address it in the future probably at some point.
Speaker 3: I often talked about the leaps that a player can
Speaker 3: make from year one to year two. You've got a
Speaker 3: lot of your two defenders under you. What do you
Speaker 3: tell them when their rookie season is over and they're
Speaker 3: going into the off season about you know, what to
Speaker 3: do in the off season and to come in, you know,
Speaker 3: having made that leap.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is just it's just
Speaker 1: a comfort thing. I vividly remember even myself, like from
Speaker 1: year one to year two, just jogging on the field
Speaker 1: that second year. It's just it's nine and day difference
Speaker 1: just in where you were at. You just played college,
Speaker 1: you had bowl game, you trained for this combine and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then it was like a full year and then
Speaker 1: now you learned what it was to be a pro.
Speaker 1: And really it's about being in the system, being in
Speaker 1: the building. It's like, I'm not a student athlete anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm a professional football player. So you've already kind of
Speaker 1: have your system, so there's a comfort level. You've got
Speaker 1: plans in place, You've got people around you who you
Speaker 1: trust as far as teammates and coaches and staff. So
Speaker 1: I think it's more of it's a comfort level that
Speaker 1: they learn, and a lot of guys it's you know,
Speaker 1: just being around you know, these veteran guys that can
Speaker 1: help them as well. But for us, it is it's
Speaker 1: about Okay, here's where you were. How good can you be?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of time you see them start to
Speaker 1: ascend during that first year anyway, So it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see the jump and you just challenge them.
Speaker 3: Like the two second year linebackers, Graham and Winters both
Speaker 3: had nice place today, I mean, and you've seen that
Speaker 3: leap from from both of them. To talk about where
Speaker 3: each of.
Speaker 1: Them meet absolutely, I mean, d winners play fast. So
Speaker 1: when you and so does Jalen. The way to play
Speaker 1: fast is to know what you're doing and to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable in that, and then you're anticipating it. You got
Speaker 1: to learn a whole new system. You know, it's totally
Speaker 1: different in college. There's a lot of differences and then
Speaker 1: the details of what we do. So it's understanding the
Speaker 1: differences in the offenses and then understand the details of
Speaker 1: the defense. And once you start to ask that, it
Speaker 1: starts to become second nature and your brain's not slowing
Speaker 1: you down. Then you can see that speed and you
Speaker 1: can fully cut it loose. And that's where they're at.
Speaker 1: They're taking that jump, both of them. It's cool.
Speaker 4: A lot of the nickel stuff last year, So you
Speaker 4: work with Demo a lot. Fred Corner saying last year
Speaker 4: that the guys that can play in the same game
Speaker 4: outside of insight are really rare. Yeah, are they for?
Speaker 4: First of all, and what enables Demo to do that?
Speaker 1: It is hard, it's tough, it's rare to it happens
Speaker 1: so fast inside, and then you have to have a
Speaker 1: different skill set in there as far as just the
Speaker 1: tackling and being able to all right, we're playing this coverage,
Speaker 1: you know this Stone coverage. Now I'm playing it inside.
Speaker 1: It's different. You have different run fits. You've got to
Speaker 1: get your run passory and then you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to man up outside where their space and that
Speaker 1: guy can work. So it is impressive that he could
Speaker 1: do it. Not a lot of guys can, especially in
Speaker 1: the game. But that's something we like our guys that
Speaker 1: have versatility. You know, it teaches you a lot. And
Speaker 1: then also add to you know, who we can have
Speaker 1: up and you know you've got to be prepared for
Speaker 1: that too based on positions. You know, just like we
Speaker 1: talked about last time, I think with you know, Gross
Speaker 1: Matos having the inside pass rush versatility, you know, it's
Speaker 1: big for your team. Really talk about.
Speaker 3: Ronaldo Green, He's give me a shot.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: I'm happy with the progress. I mean he's picking it
Speaker 1: up quick. He's again same thing as Demo. We're working
Speaker 1: him inside and outside. We're doing that with a few guys.
Speaker 1: He's doing good, really good.
Speaker 2: If Staley is going to be in the booth from.
Speaker 1: Games, yeah, he's going to be upstairs.
Speaker 4: The biggest challenge for you in this promotion and becoming
Speaker 4: the defensive course you're having that top spot.
Speaker 1: I think it's you just your days different now you
Speaker 1: have different responsibilities. So it's just you know, planning that out,
Speaker 1: working through it and just understanding that all right, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm charge of my staff and the entire defense and
Speaker 1: what we want to look like. These are the changes
Speaker 1: I may want to do. This is how I want
Speaker 1: today to look, and these are how I want everyone
Speaker 1: to coach a position and you know, do certain things.
Speaker 1: I'm the final say really on that. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's just been fun. You know, once you get to
Speaker 1: the games, it's you know, making the calls and but
Speaker 1: it's really the preparation. It's the preparation of the week
Speaker 1: and the off season and training camp. It's been really
Speaker 1: really fund.
Speaker 4: Is there a certain dynamic of the relationship.
Speaker 2: You and Fred kind of be on the same tape,
Speaker 2: so we can I don't know what's your relationship.
Speaker 1: With Yeah, Fred, it's good, it's good. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a great guy. It's I mean, he's really really smart.
Speaker 1: He knows every part of this defense. He understands. So
Speaker 1: I do like to talk through what I'm thinking on
Speaker 1: certain things, and you know, while we're doing something today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow, and so the keep developing the relationship and
Speaker 1: talking through that with him has been good. So earlier
Speaker 1: this week said the defensive the society pretty much one
Speaker 1: practice on Monday, and then it seems.
Speaker 3: Kind of the same happen yesterday.
Speaker 1: What's the reason for that? I I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was talking about this with some of the coaches. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the standard of and now my
Speaker 1: mindset always I never I don't really think of it
Speaker 1: like that. I always feel like I see what we
Speaker 1: can be, so I f I don't feel like we're
Speaker 1: just winning the day like you say, I expect to
Speaker 1: be like that, and we have a great offense, and
Speaker 1: I see the problems they give us too, and it
Speaker 1: makes us better and I enjoy when they have something
Speaker 1: that gives us trouble cause it challenges us to think
Speaker 1: and to play better, and I just know where we
Speaker 1: can be. So it's, you know, win the day, whatever,
Speaker 1: do we get better? That's all I care about really
Speaker 1: that day, Like did we work hard, did we get better?
Speaker 1: Did we finish? Did we play with that speed violence
Speaker 1: and finished that we Really it's about that every day.
Speaker 4: Emo was talking about strategizing with Staley and some of
Speaker 4: the things that he's taught am already in terms of
Speaker 4: percentages and window looks. I think on a radio interview
Speaker 4: even said he was like the defense of Kyle in
Speaker 4: terms of knowing strategies to be in your position and
Speaker 4: have an offensive strategist and a defensive strategist of that caliber.
Speaker 4: What's that like?
Speaker 1: It's great, Like I said, it's been great having them here.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's really smart, he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: experience and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's huge.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been awesome. Thank you.