Speaker 1: What did you think about the defense as a whole,
Speaker 1: And it seemed like you guys can throw the live
Speaker 1: scrimmage and stop the run pretty quickly, even though they
Speaker 1: they kept trying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm really proud of how we came out
Speaker 2: with energy and Fred making that play early kind of
Speaker 2: set the tone. But yeah, if we could stop the
Speaker 2: run like that, we'll obviously clean up more things and
Speaker 2: we'll have a lot more rush ups in the future.
Speaker 1: Guys, but against the run particularly, you've been five top seven.
Speaker 3: What what drive?
Speaker 2: Well, that's just our main focus every year because if
Speaker 2: you can make teams one dimensional, it's it's huge. And uh,
Speaker 2: it's always a number one focus every single year, especially
Speaker 2: with our d line scheme and the way we play
Speaker 2: our linebackers. So so yeah, we take a lot of
Speaker 2: pride in it. And last year we weren't as good
Speaker 2: as we needed to be, so we had to improve.
Speaker 2: How many yards was it tonight? You know I stopped it.
Speaker 1: It was it was like thirty one late quarterly fourth
Speaker 1: before those last two drives.
Speaker 2: So under one hundred for sure.
Speaker 3: I think it makes his team to outside influences and talk.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have you know, you held out Last year,
Speaker 3: you guys hit the ground running and find you get
Speaker 3: two holdouts. This year, stuff's going on deep. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: kind of a bad vibe this year, and you come
Speaker 3: out and play like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, our our ownership really takes care of us,
Speaker 2: and you have to when you have really good players,
Speaker 2: and we have really good players at every position. And
Speaker 2: when guys aren't there, I mean, we have their back.
Speaker 2: We know that when they get back, they're going to
Speaker 2: work their butts off, so so it doesn't change when
Speaker 2: they when they're not here, we're working, and when they come,
Speaker 2: we're working. So it's a good day.
Speaker 4: I said that you guys are just really sketching the
Speaker 4: service of what the potential of this defensive line could do.
Speaker 4: How did you feel out there with that?
Speaker 2: I agree? Yeah, I think having him on the other
Speaker 2: side is going to open up a lot of things
Speaker 2: for for all the guys rushing and and Malik played
Speaker 2: an awesome game in the run and and he's he's
Speaker 2: a great vet to have and he me and him
Speaker 2: are gonna are gonna work really well together on the
Speaker 2: left there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it about the changes? I mean, because
Speaker 1: obviously you lost record was such a main stay here
Speaker 1: and you got a couple of injuries with Drey and
Speaker 1: your it sounds like you're you're topping and comfortable with
Speaker 1: the new new faces.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah. No, that's a testament to Kyle and
Speaker 2: John and all the scouts finding guys who fit us
Speaker 2: and fit our culture. And you really have no choice
Speaker 2: when you come into this building to uh not play
Speaker 2: with great effort and play Niner football. And I think
Speaker 2: tonight it was the epitome of a Niner win.
Speaker 4: Like to have Nick Werdenson out there in his first
Speaker 4: game in defensive coordinator, and how do you think he's
Speaker 4: kind of changed the defense?
Speaker 2: He hasn't changed much. We have a few things that
Speaker 2: we really didn't get to that are a little different,
Speaker 2: but I think just keeping it simple, doing what we
Speaker 2: do best and it works out usually.
Speaker 1: A few referenced these guys earlier, But what specifically about
Speaker 1: Colins and Floyd makes them fit this? Why are they
Speaker 1: good matches?
Speaker 2: Well, Floyd is just a ball of energy and he
Speaker 2: could run. And people think he's a smaller, skinnier guy
Speaker 2: that can't play the run, but he could. He's explosive
Speaker 2: as heck, so he could really play the run like
Speaker 2: we need him to. And obviously he could rush his speed,
Speaker 2: rush his uh, he's he's proved it throughout his career.
Speaker 2: And then Malik just a beast in the run game,
Speaker 2: big big guy, and if he could do that all year,
Speaker 2: then we're gonna to be in good shape.
Speaker 4: Coincidence that he had last Aaron's last sack and then
Speaker 4: got his first sack this.
Speaker 2: Year, yeah, no, he's he's uh. He gets to the
Speaker 2: quarterback and we're gonna need him to here.
Speaker 4: I mean, because you weren't here during training camp, it
Speaker 4: didn't seem like as fast as a start. Do you
Speaker 4: feel like this is a more cohesive group because everybody
Speaker 4: was here through training camp?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you definitely build some cohesiveness. And like
Speaker 2: you said, we're just scratching the surface. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of fun games. I think. Thank
Speaker 2: you