Speaker 1: Um, I mean the biggest thing was Benny Logan was
Speaker 1: probably the only only guy who had a good game
Speaker 1: and he got hurt. Um. Everybody kind of took their turn,
Speaker 1: either blown in as timon or just making mistakes and
Speaker 1: and collectively when you add them all up, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just slot of bad football. UM. So stuff that
Speaker 1: that we can correct, um. And And I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is when you have a team running ball
Speaker 1: like they did, um and to keep the ball every
Speaker 1: time of possession and the amount of players you're out there,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you start getting tired, and then
Speaker 1: the effort gets low and then it's snowballs into something worse. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is is not letting that get um
Speaker 1: out of control. Everybody doing their job every single play,
Speaker 1: regardless if you're a starter, backup, whoever, um, just just
Speaker 1: doing your job. Nobody has to do anything spectacular um.
Speaker 1: And and we can stop things like that from happening.
Speaker 1: So but obviously a lot of things are correct from
Speaker 1: from the tape tackles. How do you guys overcome that?
Speaker 1: It seems like every once in a while it just
Speaker 1: happens for the team where they is it contagious or
Speaker 1: how do you get over those time you I mean,
Speaker 1: you practice. It's all about you know, what you do,
Speaker 1: your standards during practice and a lot of the things.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time, especially in the pros is
Speaker 1: not many teams practice tackling, you know. Once the season starts,
Speaker 1: it's most people are just you know, tagging off or
Speaker 1: or whatever. And so it's just about deliberately being or
Speaker 1: put yourself in the right position so that in the
Speaker 1: game you're not um, you know, out of position to
Speaker 1: make it tackles. Everybody wants to make the tackle. Everybody
Speaker 1: you know, uh is trying. It's just about practicing. Those
Speaker 1: happens just like anything else. Tackling during UM now, I
Speaker 1: mean you get more so on your own on a
Speaker 1: looted linebackers do uh the dbs No, not so much.
Speaker 1: I mean you can do. Some guys stay out and
Speaker 1: do some do extra after practice. UM. But it's just
Speaker 1: one of those things. It's more once you get to
Speaker 1: the season, it's more about install coverage and things like that.
Speaker 1: Throw September playing him six weeks later. Who has the
Speaker 1: advantage there? The guy who knows the playbooks so to speak,
Speaker 1: or the defensive song throughout the song. I think that
Speaker 1: we'll see that on Sunday. Um. You know it's weird
Speaker 1: to you know, a few weeks back, Sam was getting
Speaker 1: ready to be our starting quarterback, and now we're getting
Speaker 1: ready to play him. Um. I think he obviously knows
Speaker 1: a lot about us. We know a lot about him. Um,
Speaker 1: So it'd be it'd be fun to get to play
Speaker 1: play against. And one thing we know all too well
Speaker 1: is that he can sling the ball, especially when he's
Speaker 1: when he's upright and comfortable, he can make all the throws. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's savvy enough to look off safeties. He knows how
Speaker 1: to manipulate the coverage with his eyes. Uh. And he
Speaker 1: knows his playbook. He knows where his checkdowns and everything are.
Speaker 1: So he's a smart, bright quarterback with a live arm.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to gonna have to show up surprising.
Speaker 1: You would rather these playing as well as he dude?
Speaker 1: Or did you kind of see that from him drying training?
Speaker 1: We expected a huge year out of out of Sam
Speaker 1: for us. You know, going into the season, I thought
Speaker 1: he was he was poised to really, um take hold
Speaker 1: of this offense and do element um. So no seeing
Speaker 1: him in Minnesota. Playing as well as he is is
Speaker 1: no surprise when he looks at you and Rodney preetnapum
Speaker 1: and looks at the coverage. Other things you guys can
Speaker 1: do to you know, see. I mean guess it's if
Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, this means one thing and yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean the good thing about me and Rodney are
Speaker 1: we're interchangeable, so whenever we want, we can switch who's
Speaker 1: who or you know, and and muddy up those looks
Speaker 1: from a quarterback standpoint. So, um, you know, hopefully he
Speaker 1: won't be able to look at either me or Rodney
Speaker 1: and know from us what we're in. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to look somewhere else. Um. You know, sometimes we'll just say, hey,
Speaker 1: play well. Sometimes we'll play left and right. Sometimes we'll
Speaker 1: play free and strong. Sometimes you know, we'll we'll mix
Speaker 1: it up. Um, that's yet to be seen right now
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. But I doubt he'll be able
Speaker 1: to get the tip from us this week and even
Speaker 1: in the game. Will you kind of recall some of
Speaker 1: the tendencies you've noticed from him over the last year plus.
Speaker 1: I keep a book on everybody I play with, everybody
Speaker 1: play against, so Uh, you know those notes are already taken. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the course of the season, three wins then two losses.
Speaker 1: How important is this game to re establish the positive momentum.
Speaker 1: I mean it's huge. You know you're talking about coming back,
Speaker 1: um from from two row losses. You're back at home. Um,
Speaker 1: you know the goal is win all your home games.
Speaker 1: Obviously when you lose two in a row, getting a
Speaker 1: win to stop the bleeding is huge. And we got
Speaker 1: a great challenge and the only undefeated team left in
Speaker 1: his league with a with a really good defense, offense
Speaker 1: that is doing really well, and that doesn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, with a quarterback that can make all the throws,
Speaker 1: receivers that can that can make plays in a solid
Speaker 1: running game. Um, you know, it's a it's a big challenge.
Speaker 1: And so but we also understand what um, would a
Speaker 1: win against a team like this does for for your
Speaker 1: organization does for a season, especially at this point in
Speaker 1: the year. So, uh, it is we're trying to do
Speaker 1: as much as we can to to get better, improved
Speaker 1: from last week, correct those mistakes, h and put our
Speaker 1: and work to putting ourselves in a position to compete
Speaker 1: and win this game. Offensive the couple that Pam is
Speaker 1: that we can see you watch the fucking defense, But
Speaker 1: there are other pieces besides Sam out there. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not out there. You know, he's got a nice
Speaker 1: supporting cast. Uh. They've got two running backs that they
Speaker 1: rotate in and out that give you a kind of
Speaker 1: a change of pace. One shifty and quick, the other
Speaker 1: ones downhill. They can get into some wildcat formations that
Speaker 1: get in hurry up tempo. Uh. They'll do some reverses
Speaker 1: with Eddie four. He's doing jet sweeps, he's doing screens. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's a strong runner with the football. Then they've got
Speaker 1: guys that convertically stretch, stretch the field with play action pass. Uh.
Speaker 1: They got a tight end that's very crafty and gets
Speaker 1: open um, whether it be getting behind linebackers a hard
Speaker 1: play action or running some double moves down the field.
Speaker 1: So he's he's got weapons and they've got a good
Speaker 1: scheme that that presents enough issues for you to have
Speaker 1: to game plan for for a lot of different looks
Speaker 1: um in plays that you might only get two or
Speaker 1: three times a game, but you still have to be
Speaker 1: prepared for him. So uh, you know it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of preparation, to solid plan
Speaker 1: and a lot of execution in order to have some success.
Speaker 1: Sam's looking to run off the way he used to.
Speaker 1: Earth's here. What's the responsibility for you? And it being
Speaker 1: a matchup like that? Yeah, I mean, you know he's
Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of targets. Um. And you know
Speaker 1: those those catchers usually keep the drives going. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: move the ball, getting them out of some bad situations.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a huge responsibility for not only me,
Speaker 1: but Ride and the other linebackers whoever it might be
Speaker 1: on him. Um, because it's the easiest throw is right
Speaker 1: over the middle, and and a lot of the times
Speaker 1: it's hard play action. He get those backers to step
Speaker 1: up and then you know he's running away from the
Speaker 1: safety or away from a linebacker and one false step
Speaker 1: or you know, one step behind, Sam's accurate enough to
Speaker 1: put it right on him and throw them open. So
Speaker 1: that's a huge matchup. And in something that you know,
Speaker 1: I think myself and Ranny are looking forward to Sunday
Speaker 1: is the Eagles tackling breast cancer game. What does it
Speaker 1: mean to you with your mom being a breast cancer spot?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's huge my mom. You know, it's been
Speaker 1: cancer free for five years now, Um, and you know
Speaker 1: it's a lot of this this month for hers, it's
Speaker 1: her birthday month. It's also the month that she was diagnosed,
Speaker 1: so you know, the month of October is big for her.
Speaker 1: So you know, whenever, I mean, obviously in light of
Speaker 1: all that that's going on this season, it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to get down or feel sorry for myself when
Speaker 1: I when I look at my mom. So it's an
Speaker 1: opportunity to, um, you know, kind of honor her and
Speaker 1: those who are fighting or survive breast cancer and kind
Speaker 1: of shed a little light on their situation. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Kings was obviously unfeated and in the class of the
Speaker 1: NFC right now. Look around how the conference is shaking
Speaker 1: out so far. You've got a lot of these teams
Speaker 1: on your guys schedule this year. Is that something that's
Speaker 1: encouraging for you that you guys are gonna have a
Speaker 1: chance to come show where you stand. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have many blowout games, and so when
Speaker 1: you're talking about you know, every week, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to come with our a game, um, which I think
Speaker 1: is a good thing. We'll get a chance to see um,
Speaker 1: you know, the best and not only our division, but
Speaker 1: you know in the NFC and around US league. So
Speaker 1: you know, we look forward to look at it as
Speaker 1: an opportunity. We don't want an easy way out. We
Speaker 1: want to be able to take on those teams and
Speaker 1: know that you know, we're at the top of the league.
Speaker 1: Um so. But but at the same time, you got
Speaker 1: to take it one game at a time. You know,
Speaker 1: you started looking down the road, UM. You know it's
Speaker 1: you get punish them out for out who you standing
Speaker 1: in front of. So right now we got a big
Speaker 1: um opportunity in front of us, um, and we're excited
Speaker 1: about it. You know. Cool