Speaker 1: Trying to get ready for this Thursday night game facing
Speaker 1: a good football team that just came off a very
Speaker 1: impressive win with Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Just showed really their.
Speaker 1: Resilience and how they fought back. Got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for the coach known them for a long time.
Speaker 1: He's definitely gonna have these guys prepared and ready to play,
Speaker 1: as you saw what they were capable of doing last week.
Speaker 1: And again, quick turnaround, We get ready go out on
Speaker 1: the field now just a second, trying to get the guys,
Speaker 1: you know, acclimated to some of the things that we
Speaker 1: know we're gonna see Thursday night. But I always say
Speaker 1: this particular week is all about us fundamentally and what
Speaker 1: we can do with a quick turnaround and just making
Speaker 1: sure that we take care of our business and be
Speaker 1: in detailing the things that we asks the guys to do.
Speaker 2: And with that, I'll take your questions.
Speaker 1: How challenging is it to face Daniel Jones and the
Speaker 1: zone read in particular on a quick turn around.
Speaker 2: He's very challenging.
Speaker 1: Uh, extremely athletic, does a great job, uh with that
Speaker 1: format of that offense. They love to you know, run
Speaker 1: his own readers. You mentioned, uh that's part of day
Speaker 1: Bo day Ball's uh offense. He did the same thing
Speaker 1: in Buffalo of aalence, So it's definitely something that we're
Speaker 1: gonna see. It's definitely something that we put on tape
Speaker 1: during pre season, so we definitely gotta be prepared for it.
Speaker 3: Been like for you to just you know, be up
Speaker 3: in the mood calling the past two games and just
Speaker 3: getting a feel for your guys and what positions to
Speaker 3: put them in, which which buttons to push.
Speaker 2: Is it just a.
Speaker 3: Year long process or do you get more kind of
Speaker 3: in the focus of what you expect.
Speaker 2: Out of your guys.
Speaker 1: Well, Uh, I think it's it's gonna constantly be evolving
Speaker 1: throughout the year. But I don't think it's gonna take
Speaker 1: if I'm following your cor uh question correctly. Uh uh
Speaker 1: a season uh to to get a feel for what
Speaker 1: we want to do. I think you get a feel
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game. And I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you saw it at the second half and the adjustments
Speaker 1: that we made when we came out, uh with with
Speaker 1: our defensive line.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I try to allow those guys to settle in and
Speaker 1: go play and try not to do a lot. But
Speaker 1: it turned into a game that Stafford was getting rid
Speaker 1: of the ball quickly. Uh, So you didn't really see
Speaker 1: the effect of what we were capable of doing up
Speaker 1: front because they didn't have an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: So uh, I had to adjust to be able to
Speaker 1: get those guys time. And the only way you can
Speaker 1: give them time is to get stickier and coverage on
Speaker 1: the back end.
Speaker 3: The fact that you did him to dial up more
Speaker 3: butzes which as ideally want to just get pressure with.
Speaker 3: For I mean, Stafford one of the few quarterbacks in
Speaker 3: the NFL that can force this defense to make that
Speaker 3: type of adjustment.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's a season vet. I think he
Speaker 1: understands in those where where he wants to go with
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He does a great job and getting the ball out
Speaker 1: quickly and uh does a tremendous job and looking you
Speaker 1: off at times. So again I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: can do a better job as we did in the
Speaker 1: second half and tightening things up, and that starts with me.
Speaker 1: And then also I think when you get a guy
Speaker 1: that caliber, you can't show your hand all the time.
Speaker 1: You got to make him guess post snap by showing
Speaker 1: the one thing pre snap do.
Speaker 3: You prep for Barkley or and do they look the same.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll look the same with Bragwell or
Speaker 1: Gray or Brita those I mean, I think the offense
Speaker 1: and what he wants to do is gonna be consistent.
Speaker 1: Barkley is disappointing that you know for him that he's
Speaker 1: not out, that he's out. But I think all those
Speaker 1: guys are capable. But when you really look at their offense,
Speaker 1: I think the question started earlier with his own read.
Speaker 1: I mean that that to me is their run game
Speaker 1: and and what he's capable of doing, not only from
Speaker 1: that point, but also just scrambling, you know, buying time
Speaker 1: in the pocket and doing things with his feet.
Speaker 3: Oliver, do you feel on Sunday that he took a step?
Speaker 2: I think all you guys can answer that question.
Speaker 1: And in the place that he made out there, particularly
Speaker 1: that third down tackle, I think it was phenomenal. We
Speaker 1: open field tackle, and uh, that was huge at that
Speaker 1: point in time of the game. Uh, he came up
Speaker 1: with an interception. You can see just his length and
Speaker 1: the way he grabbed the ball out of the air,
Speaker 1: and then the fourth down play where he shot the gap.
Speaker 1: I can't I couldn't be more proud of him and
Speaker 1: how he's uh stayed the course. You know, we moved
Speaker 1: some things around. He didn't waiver, he didn't blink. Uh,
Speaker 1: kept working hard and it paid off for him.
Speaker 2: Up the coverage.
Speaker 1: Is it m M just getting them outside coverage a
Speaker 1: little tighter or is it other? O?
Speaker 2: No, it's it's different.
Speaker 1: You know when we play certain zone coverages and and
Speaker 1: the receiver splits are tight, you know, Uh, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't get down impressed because a lot of times
Speaker 1: if you sit here and run the ball and now
Speaker 1: they getting two for one, they got edges on you.
Speaker 1: So it's a give and take and it's a flow
Speaker 1: of the game that you gotta get a feel for
Speaker 1: or and that's what I did. And uh, once I
Speaker 1: got a feel for the game, I adjusted on the
Speaker 1: back end. It will allow our guys to have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to get a little stickier in coverage. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's mostly with the corners. Has had a bit of
Speaker 1: an issue containing scrambling quarterbacks for years, expending multiple coordinators.
Speaker 2: What's the key to containing a scrambling quarterback? What makes
Speaker 2: it so difficult? Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh? I think number one, we just gotta maintain our
Speaker 1: rush lanes. You know, I think sometimes that uh, our
Speaker 1: guys and that that position itself is just so aggressive, right,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're trying to tell those
Speaker 1: guys to slow down, and uh, that's not what they
Speaker 1: do naturally. So we just gotta be able to again, uh,
Speaker 1: with our different stunts that we wanna call up front,
Speaker 1: allow us to be able to clog through rush lanes.
Speaker 1: So he has nowhere to step up and then once again, uh,
Speaker 1: just trying to be tied on the back end to
Speaker 1: make them hold the football, Oliver, as.
Speaker 3: You just said in the locker room. But obviously, as
Speaker 3: a competitor, you want to be known as the first
Speaker 3: train that we and so he wasn't amused. Maybe that
Speaker 3: wasn't you know, quite quite the case. It seems like
Speaker 3: he has handled that process well. I mean, is he
Speaker 3: very professional about Uh?
Speaker 1: Total class, total class guy handled the right way.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: That was the first thing I said after the game
Speaker 1: that you know, it could have gone differently, but you know,
Speaker 1: uh didn't complain, just went out each and every day
Speaker 1: did his job, and when the opportunity came, he stepped
Speaker 1: up and made play.
Speaker 2: So very proud of his performance. The defensive ends in particular,
Speaker 2: start with the mobile quarterback.
Speaker 3: Do you have to remind them like don't rush past
Speaker 3: the quarterback or.
Speaker 1: Does that go without saying It somewhat goes about saying,
Speaker 1: you know, we always use the term, you know, the
Speaker 1: depth of the QB, you know, and being able to
Speaker 1: step up and come underneath.
Speaker 2: So again, you know, Daniel is extremely mobile.
Speaker 1: He does some great things again with his own reading
Speaker 1: and buying time getting outside the pocket, you know, big
Speaker 1: boot team, you know, trying to give him the option
Speaker 1: to get on the perimeter. If it's not there, then
Speaker 1: he gonna win with his legs. So we gotta do
Speaker 1: a great job containing him.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 3: I want to read on on Bosa and how how
Speaker 3: he feels he's done the first two games, and I
Speaker 3: guess how hungry need to go after him?
Speaker 1: Well, I think you probably have to ask him and
Speaker 1: he'll tell you he's definitely not satisfied with with where
Speaker 1: he is. But as a coach, understanding that he wasn't
Speaker 1: here all off season and and to come in and
Speaker 1: take thirty two snaps in the first game, I believe
Speaker 1: it was uh and play last week, so uh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna come.
Speaker 2: Uh. You saw the effort there. Uh.
Speaker 1: You saw the push across the board with those guys.
Speaker 1: Uh again, Stafford was getting rid of the ball so fast.
Speaker 1: So I think it's only a time on a maoutter
Speaker 1: of time question.
Speaker 2: Base in LA. Can you talk about that? Say that
Speaker 2: one more time, Base in in in l A.
Speaker 1: Uh, I can talk about then when they came to
Speaker 1: Carolina last year, we travel well.
Speaker 3: Thankish