Speaker 1: All right, injuries from this for this practice, Aaron Banks
Speaker 1: is out, Trent Williams ankle, won't practice, Ray Ray Sick
Speaker 1: won't practice, Drake Jackson knee will be eliminated limited. Everyone
Speaker 1: else will go.
Speaker 2: On Wednesday. Do you expect him at practice tomorrow?
Speaker 1: I hope so. I know you can't today though, Well,
Speaker 1: I think your initially said it was a low ankle sprame.
Speaker 2: Is there anything more going on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think obviously there is. I mean, just when you
Speaker 1: have he's got a lot of history in there with stuff.
Speaker 1: It didn't show up as a high or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but when you've had that over your career, there's a
Speaker 1: number of things that, with how it's taken longer than
Speaker 1: expected to heal, it's more than a low. Sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk too much.
Speaker 2: You've talked in the past about looking at each week
Speaker 2: as a one game season, especially in the years where
Speaker 2: you guys had started a little slower. How important is
Speaker 2: this week to really get in mind?
Speaker 1: I think it's important every week, but especially you've lost
Speaker 1: three in a row. You got to get back to
Speaker 1: the part of that's all that ever matters, and it's
Speaker 1: always a one week season. And it's not about going
Speaker 1: on a run or anything like that. It's about trying
Speaker 1: to beat a really good football team this week.
Speaker 2: Of the chase, Ben And how do you see him
Speaker 2: fitting in here right away?
Speaker 1: I think he's going to jump in right away. First
Speaker 1: time we saw him was Monday. We had a slight,
Speaker 1: small practice and we'll see him out there today really
Speaker 1: for a real practice, and hopeful you'll pick up the
Speaker 1: stuff throughout the weekend. I'm get to be out there
Speaker 1: a good bit on Sunday, yes, hope.
Speaker 2: So ask about Looter and Robert Beale. What what's the
Speaker 2: hope for them? I know that neither of them practice much.
Speaker 1: In the summer that they can show that they can
Speaker 1: help us. I mean, the little that they did practice
Speaker 1: this summer, we saw two really good players we're excited
Speaker 1: to have. They didn't get to go through a lot.
Speaker 1: They got hurt pretty early, but what we saw with
Speaker 1: them in college and what we saw in them in
Speaker 1: the first practices, we're really excited to get him back.
Speaker 1: You know, they're healthy now. It'll be their first time
Speaker 1: getting into football, but hopefully they can get a number
Speaker 1: of practices in just so they can get used to
Speaker 1: the NFL how we do it, and but there are
Speaker 1: guys that were looking forward to being.
Speaker 2: Here, given that you thought they looked tired in the
Speaker 2: Bengal game. Is there anything you can do to conserve
Speaker 2: energy with this.
Speaker 1: Team or or things like that, Yeah, definitely haven't. Bye
Speaker 1: week really helps. We conserved a lot of energy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you always do once you get through the halfway point
Speaker 1: of the year. I mean we always change the reps
Speaker 1: up as we go, we change up walk throughs of
Speaker 1: as we go. Eventually we change up our full speed stuff,
Speaker 1: which is coming real soon. So there's always an adjustment
Speaker 1: throughout the year. Sometimes you change a week to week
Speaker 1: based off how your team is, where they're at, but
Speaker 1: just always it's always evolving.
Speaker 2: Back to what you said about a one game season.
Speaker 2: As much as this is a veteran team and guys
Speaker 2: understand that what things go so well as they did
Speaker 2: for five weeks, that do you have to kind of
Speaker 2: remind everybody every week that you still have to show
Speaker 2: up every single week?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. I mean I think you get reminded
Speaker 1: that almost every week in the league. I think we
Speaker 1: went a while without getting reminded that, which I think
Speaker 1: it's good to get reminded, But I always tell guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, getting a pat on the back or getting
Speaker 1: Hayden on it is all the same because none of
Speaker 1: it matters and both affect you. So you need to
Speaker 1: not let those help you or hurt you because they
Speaker 1: really have nothing to pertain with what we do on
Speaker 1: the field and things like that. So you always got
Speaker 1: to focus. Whether you've won fifteen in a row, whether
Speaker 1: you've lost three in a row, nothing changes. It's it's
Speaker 1: about how you play and the intense you play with
Speaker 1: and how well prepared you are.
Speaker 2: You were doing some self scouting last week. What topped
Speaker 2: out of you? I guess offensively, either what you guys
Speaker 2: were doing or what defenses were doing to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's everything, and defenses do everything, and we
Speaker 1: do everything. Each quarter is different, each week's different. I
Speaker 1: think we've done a lot of good things, you know
Speaker 1: when you just look at it, numbers wise and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think we've got to really eliminate some of
Speaker 1: the times we kill ourself. You know, you don't ever
Speaker 1: want to take stuff away from other teams because other
Speaker 1: teams always make it harder. But I do feel the
Speaker 1: times we've struggled We've just made some key mistakes that
Speaker 1: I think we're capable of not making, and I think
Speaker 1: we're the ones who have slown herself down. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think when you look at how little we've
Speaker 1: punned and things like that, you should have points to
Speaker 1: match with that. I don't think we have the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, We've gotta get more points.
Speaker 2: Your team look fatigued and slow after the Bengal game.
Speaker 2: Is there is slow an off season type of thing?
Speaker 2: Is there any area on either side of the ball
Speaker 2: you can inject some speed before the off season?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything I can inject? I mean that
Speaker 1: makes one person faster, but no, it's overall team speed,
Speaker 1: and it's not just one play. It's for a overall game.
Speaker 1: I think I think that happens several one through the season.
Speaker 1: I think it showed up more on our tape in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati than it had the other in a while, which
Speaker 1: was concerning. So I was glad for the break, But
Speaker 1: I also think the trip got to us a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are all reasons slash excuses, which are
Speaker 1: the exact same thing to me. But yeah, our guys
Speaker 1: are a lot fresher, right know, they look good to
Speaker 1: go and hopefully ILL have a good week of practice,
Speaker 1: play the right way on Sunday and keep it that way.
Speaker 1: You know, we got twelve We got three games in
Speaker 1: twelve days, which doesn't help. So that's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But I look, and then you get three days off
Speaker 1: after that Thursday night game to kind of recover and
Speaker 1: get ready for the run. You get to practice two
Speaker 1: minute drills in late game situations where you're down a
Speaker 1: couple of scores. During the season, I know, practice time
Speaker 1: is extremely limited. Never no one, No one does. Yeah
Speaker 1: you don't just say you're down two scores and just scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but everybody runs a two minute drill. We always run
Speaker 1: it on Wednesdays. Uh.
Speaker 2: You guys made a decision, or as Steve Wilkes made
Speaker 2: a decision where he's gonna be game day.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put him on the field this week. Something
Speaker 1: we've talked about for a little bit. Uh. I think,
Speaker 1: uh some there's pluses too and minuses to it. But
Speaker 1: we'll see what we like about this week.
Speaker 2: What what is your personal feeling on it?
Speaker 1: Uh? I love being the box. I think that's the
Speaker 1: best spot. If I feel like you guys would judge
Speaker 1: me too hard if I went up there never gets
Speaker 1: cold enough, I might be I just I like a
Speaker 1: chair in a desk and a lot of stuff write
Speaker 1: down and things like that. And but you know, I
Speaker 1: was had to do this for nine years before I
Speaker 1: got here. I was only the box one year, my
Speaker 1: last year, so I was eight on the field before that.
Speaker 1: There's pluses and minuses to both. So yeah, you usually
Speaker 1: go with your preference.
Speaker 2: Why move Steve.
Speaker 1: Just because of some of the stuff you do in
Speaker 1: the box. You know all the advantages to it, which
Speaker 1: are great. But I kind of wanted to be down
Speaker 1: and be near our players a little bit. They've had
Speaker 1: that more just with the linebacker communication in the past,
Speaker 1: and I want him to be down there so you
Speaker 1: can talk to guys a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Red zone scoring for you, guys is up for the league.
Speaker 1: It's down.
Speaker 2: There are something happening league wide tendency that you're.
Speaker 1: See global warming, No, it's it's all. I'd see all
Speaker 1: that stuff, random and everything, even I mean, the league
Speaker 1: always evolves. I think defenses. I think offenses have so
Speaker 1: many things that they do these days, not just a
Speaker 1: couple teams or half the teams, all the teams. I
Speaker 1: think it makes defenses have to be a lot more sound,
Speaker 1: not take as many risks, and stuff gets tighter down there.
Speaker 1: And when you're not taking as many risks and you're
Speaker 1: extremely sound, there's not as many freebies. And if you
Speaker 1: try to make a living off throwing jump balls or
Speaker 1: just running into loaded boxes, that's really tough too. And
Speaker 1: then when you sit back and you drop back when
Speaker 1: people are being sound, there's seven to eight guys in
Speaker 1: a tight, tight area, and there's only three to five
Speaker 1: offensive guys in a tight area. So I think defenses
Speaker 1: are getting better in that area, and offenses they just
Speaker 1: they catch up, and you've got to get creative or
Speaker 1: you got to get guys who can run it in.
Speaker 2: I forgot here. Deebo's production has been kind of off
Speaker 2: and on a lot of its injuries. What would it
Speaker 2: mean to get him back full strength and get them
Speaker 2: both going at the same.
Speaker 1: Time, I think be huge. I don't think we've really
Speaker 1: had that. You know, Christian came in the middle of
Speaker 1: last year. Deebo was banged up throughout almost to all
Speaker 1: last year and hasn't really had his exact role or
Speaker 1: been healthy since the year prior to that, and I
Speaker 1: thought Devo started out great this year with how healthy
Speaker 1: it was, how good he was playing, and then he
Speaker 1: got some bad injuries which have kind of set him back,
Speaker 1: and I think he's about ready to get back out
Speaker 1: there full and hopefully we can keep him that way.
Speaker 1: In Chase's relationship with Nick, they benefit him in a
Speaker 1: transition like getting every solemn money I practice. They're obviously friends.
Speaker 1: So how does that maybe help the player who's traded
Speaker 1: in the middle of season. I think anytime you go
Speaker 1: to a new place, that's always a little weird for people.
Speaker 1: Football players just like anybody else, and you want to
Speaker 1: go in there and meet everyone and stuff. But I
Speaker 1: think it's always nice to have someone of your known
Speaker 1: prior to kind of show you the ropes and understand
Speaker 1: who you are, let other guys know, and it's just
Speaker 1: an easier transition for people.
Speaker 2: How does Trevor Lawrence look compared to the guy you're
Speaker 2: prepared for the last time you play?
Speaker 1: I mean very similar. I mean I think Trevor's on
Speaker 1: one of the more talented quarterbacks in this league. He's
Speaker 1: a problem at any time. He's the height, he has,
Speaker 1: the size, he has in that pocket and he can
Speaker 1: make any throw and what he can do with his
Speaker 1: legs on any type of play, whether it's a design
Speaker 1: run for him or just getting out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and doing off schedule stuff us. He's always a problem.
Speaker 2: With Colwell's defense. They held Pittsburgh two hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: yards or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's the best. I mean, them and
Speaker 1: Cleveland are definitely the best two defenses we played this year.
Speaker 1: I think they're playing at extremely high level. They're not
Speaker 1: giving up yards. They're one of the hardest teams in
Speaker 1: the league to run the ball against. I think they're
Speaker 1: number one and getting turnovers. I think they're number three
Speaker 1: and giving up explosives, So they're a ben But don't
Speaker 1: break defense because they're not giving up explosives and it's
Speaker 1: really tough to run the ball against them. Man, they
Speaker 1: lead the league in turnovers, so they're it's not surprised
Speaker 1: if one five in a row. Thanks guys.