Speaker 1: Because en run around yes year might be a little practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the case. We'll see what he can do.
Speaker 1: You know, he did run around a little bit yesterday
Speaker 1: and then they'll monitor as he goes through today. So
Speaker 1: I don't have any other update. That's exactly what he
Speaker 1: just said self. We'll see what he can do. Are
Speaker 1: you're spoking about how highly you've got a oldell and
Speaker 1: last year was a trade cosslit all in the interpet
Speaker 1: getting up. You know it's something store there was no trade.
Speaker 1: He's not practicing again today. You know what's the the
Speaker 1: approach from from your standpoint? And you have gotten sure
Speaker 1: it happens every week. Where have the kind of monitor
Speaker 1: whether he's got a player or not. Yeah, our approaches
Speaker 1: he's playing, that's our approach. We'll see thirteen on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Very competitive player, know him very well. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: against us. You've you've left players um in the past,
Speaker 1: players very significant injuries taught for that whole last year.
Speaker 1: What's your theory and changing that when sometimes player maybe
Speaker 1: don't push themselves from coming from any come back and
Speaker 1: there's no theory with mine. It's all done through the
Speaker 1: athletic training room and our doctor, so I have I
Speaker 1: don't weigh in on any injuries or that's not my
Speaker 1: expertise and that's all up to those guys, So I
Speaker 1: don't weigh in one way or another round any of
Speaker 1: that suns down to that and it never comes down
Speaker 1: to the head coach. Never should come down on the
Speaker 1: head coach. I'm not in charge. I'm not a medical doctor,
Speaker 1: so I don't never get cleared anybody to play, and
Speaker 1: never will clear anybody to play. It's between the player
Speaker 1: and the trainer then to decide or the doctor. The doctor,
Speaker 1: not the trainer. It's the doctor. The doctors say who
Speaker 1: plays and who doesn't play. I think Barr has played
Speaker 1: well in the last couple of weeks, you know, getting settled,
Speaker 1: getting an understanding of um, you know what we're doing defensively.
Speaker 1: But I thought he's played well in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I know we said that news handles all
Speaker 1: the running back rotations, but Ryan Matthews playing really well.
Speaker 1: You guys as a team haven't made a concerted that. Again,
Speaker 1: we just work on a daily basis here, so I'm
Speaker 1: not concerned with you know, we'll see you have no idea.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm never a hypothetical guy. Ryan could be
Speaker 1: the only healthy back in the second quarter tomorrow night
Speaker 1: on Monday night. So there's we don't ever have conversations
Speaker 1: about what happens, if this happens or that happens. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna take it as it come. So Friday question
Speaker 1: it sufficient. You only have to shave once a week,
Speaker 1: so later in the week we have more time. So
Speaker 1: George miss pleased. I think we're STAPs than any other
Speaker 1: side linebacker. For you guys, how much has there been
Speaker 1: instances where he's been in charge of kind of running
Speaker 1: the show getting the signal? Yeah, there has you know,
Speaker 1: he gets to um you know when Demiko's out. Really
Speaker 1: he's the guy making the calls when when we're in
Speaker 1: uh in a lot of our packages, and he's done
Speaker 1: a great job of that. I mean, he's really in
Speaker 1: tune to the game plan every week. He's you know,
Speaker 1: I've said it, and I say it as a compliment.
Speaker 1: He's never since he got here, he's never acted like
Speaker 1: a rookie. He's just been really mature in his approach
Speaker 1: and his understanding of what we're trying to do. And
Speaker 1: I know, billion wreck the extreme confidence in him. So
Speaker 1: if he's in charge calling everything and making any calls,
Speaker 1: and he can certainly do that and has done that.
Speaker 1: We've heard the term before a good route runner or
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, but I'm not really sure exactly what
Speaker 1: that means and what makes a good receiver a very
Speaker 1: good route runner. I think how crisp and clean they
Speaker 1: are on their routes. You know, it's not sloppy. You know,
Speaker 1: if he's supposed to get sixteen yards and break at
Speaker 1: a forty five degree angle, he gets to sixteen yards
Speaker 1: and breaks at a forty five degree angle. He doesn't
Speaker 1: start rounding his cut at thirteen and kind of lean
Speaker 1: into it or kind of give the route away in
Speaker 1: terms of you know, some guy's peak. You know, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I got to run a comeback, but
Speaker 1: at thirteen I start looking back. Now you've given a
Speaker 1: clue to the defender. You know, you want the defender
Speaker 1: to think that you're going vertical and you're running a
Speaker 1: jet route when you're running a comeback route, so to speak.
Speaker 1: So the guys that can do that, not everybody can
Speaker 1: do that. Not everybody can run full speed through sixteen
Speaker 1: sync plant driving come back out of the cut. At
Speaker 1: some point in time, they got to give a telaway
Speaker 1: to the defensive back to slow themselves down. So the
Speaker 1: guys that are the real good route runners make you
Speaker 1: think you're doing one thing when they're actually doing something else.
Speaker 1: Miles were as good at that. I just think in
Speaker 1: Miles situation, he's got such a vast experience in terms
Speaker 1: of where he was and I know he spoke to
Speaker 1: me about it in terms of, you know, he came
Speaker 1: into the league as an undrafted free agent, said he
Speaker 1: learned a lot, you know when when he was an
Speaker 1: undrafted guy, just studying the guys and one on ones
Speaker 1: that were getting open when he was a rookie. He
Speaker 1: said it was Terry Glenn that he watched a lot
Speaker 1: when he was at Dallas, watched a lot of what
Speaker 1: Witten does in his routes and has really just became
Speaker 1: a student because he knew he had to be a
Speaker 1: great route runner, great guy with releases for him to
Speaker 1: make it in the league and understood what it took
Speaker 1: for him, so spent a lot of time studying releases,
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time studying the different techniques and
Speaker 1: how to run routes so that he could perfect himself.
Speaker 1: What do you I just think he lies. It's his
Speaker 1: second year in Ben McAdoo system, and you can see
Speaker 1: there's a comfort level anyliant in the whole system. He
Speaker 1: not only has he only thrown two interceptions, he's only
Speaker 1: been sacked four times. Um, you know, he's getting the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hand quickly. He can recognize how
Speaker 1: people are defending their team. You know, if coverage's role
Speaker 1: one way, he's automatically going another way. He doesn't stay
Speaker 1: on a receiver and say, hey, I got to throw
Speaker 1: the ball to this guy, so I'm gonna wait for
Speaker 1: him to get open. He makes He's really going rapidly
Speaker 1: through his progressions and putting themselves in a really good
Speaker 1: situation offensively, and they're throwing the ball ton. You know,
Speaker 1: we had fair forty one completions last week, so it's
Speaker 1: not like some guys aren't throwing a ton of interceptions,
Speaker 1: but they haven't had a lot of attempts. He's had
Speaker 1: a ton of attempts, so there have been opportunities to
Speaker 1: pick him. There have been opportunities to sack him, but
Speaker 1: those haven't happened Because I really think his comfort level
Speaker 1: is is very very good in that offense right now,
Speaker 1: especially being in the second year for FAM, A certain
Speaker 1: style stands out of that now. I think he's a
Speaker 1: good play caller, you know. I think Ben's got a
Speaker 1: real good I think he understands his system. He doesn't
Speaker 1: try to do things that are out of what their
Speaker 1: system is. UM. You know, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: multiple you got to have good quarterback to run the system.
Speaker 1: But there's there's multiple guys on each out. I mean
Speaker 1: there could be there's a lot of five out, so
Speaker 1: there's five eligible receivers. And the thing that happens is
Speaker 1: when you have a quarterback that can quickly diagnose that
Speaker 1: this is the coverage and there they are. Then bang,
Speaker 1: I'm going over here, even though my initial read may
Speaker 1: have started over there, and that takes you know, it's
Speaker 1: a special match between a coordinator in a system and
Speaker 1: the quarterback that can implement that stuff so well. Well
Speaker 1: their second in the league in run defense, you know,
Speaker 1: they've done an outstanding jab at stopping the rush UM
Speaker 1: in the first five games, you know, and they've they've
Speaker 1: done it against everybody they played. Um. They're big inside,
Speaker 1: you know, with Hankins and Cullen Jakins in there. Their
Speaker 1: linebackers are downhill, physical linebackers, you know that that are
Speaker 1: that are really geared towards stopping the run. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think for that reason, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people have tried to throw the ball on them
Speaker 1: a little bit more, just because you know, you may
Speaker 1: be banging your head against the wall in terms of
Speaker 1: trying to run the football against that look. So um,
Speaker 1: that's the first thing. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: coaches on the defensive side of the the ball will tell
Speaker 1: you that, hey, we're gonna stop the run first, establish
Speaker 1: what we can do, and try to make it too
Speaker 1: one dimensional. And that's how they've been successful on the
Speaker 1: defensive side. When you choose or when you let and
Speaker 1: having go, Like, how much were you relying on guys
Speaker 1: like you know, Peters and laying at Kelsey kind of
Speaker 1: you know, help whoever would be sorry at the guard position.
Speaker 1: I mean that happens all the time. Whenever you lose
Speaker 1: in experienced veterans like those guys, you rely on the
Speaker 1: other experience veterans to to help out. And we felt
Speaker 1: very confident in Jason and laying in in Kelse that
Speaker 1: that those guys could foster those the younger players that
Speaker 1: we're going to come in there and give them, give him,
Speaker 1: you know, the experience and the knowledge that they have
Speaker 1: and share that with himself before ten position on your
Speaker 1: goals one of those thanks us football. Do you agree
Speaker 1: with that? And why I think the entire field goal
Speaker 1: unit itself is a thankless position because and why do
Speaker 1: I believe that is that basically your job is to
Speaker 1: put your both hands on the ground, close your eyes,
Speaker 1: and let people take a running start at you. And
Speaker 1: the only way you ever get noticed is if you
Speaker 1: get knocked awards and the ball gets blocked. You know,
Speaker 1: so no one ever says, you know, when someone hits
Speaker 1: a fifty two yarder to win a game, boy, what
Speaker 1: a great protection by the right tight end on that play.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't notice them. The only time you
Speaker 1: do notice them is when the ball's blocked. So, you know,
Speaker 1: those guys in those situations, whether it be the guards
Speaker 1: through the tight ends, everybody in that front that's protected
Speaker 1: on the on the on the field goal or the
Speaker 1: extra point. You know, um, you know, it's really kind
Speaker 1: of a thing. Not not a lot of guys want
Speaker 1: to sign up for that. You know, you put a
Speaker 1: job wanted, you know, job want up there and just said, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a job. You get to put your hand on
Speaker 1: the ground and have someone three and twenty pounds run
Speaker 1: full speed and knock you over. And if you do
Speaker 1: you can you're not good at it, you know, just
Speaker 1: stand your ground. That's not not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: want to sign up for that job. So but it's
Speaker 1: necessary in terms of how our game is played. So
Speaker 1: you're not afraid to use starters on special teams more
Speaker 1: than most coaches. Maybe I don't know about more than
Speaker 1: most because we haven't saided that, but I think yet
Speaker 1: with the with the roster you have to. Now we'll
Speaker 1: never have a starter that's a four special teams guy.
Speaker 1: But if if a Malcolm Jenkins can be a kickoff
Speaker 1: cover guy and we can get one out of Malcolm
Speaker 1: Um or we can get something out of a Nolan Carroll,
Speaker 1: or we can get something out of Walter Thumb, and
Speaker 1: you kind of share that through your starters. You know,
Speaker 1: Coope is playing wing on our punt team, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's it's I think just with the numbers at
Speaker 1: forty six, you have to do that. Um if not,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to be successful from a
Speaker 1: special team standpoint. If if you're just continually using just
Speaker 1: the backups and always kind of thing, then you're going
Speaker 1: to be worn down a little bit. You know. I
Speaker 1: think we try to rotate those guys a little bit,
Speaker 1: a lot of it. You'll see we get different gunners
Speaker 1: out there, just because if if you're putting a lot
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, guys have covered
Speaker 1: three or four kicks, you know, it makes it difficult now,
Speaker 1: So you've got to be able to kind of rotate
Speaker 1: and keep those guys fresh as you kind of go
Speaker 1: through that. Yeah, it's been great. It doesn't miss to
Speaker 1: kick this week. Yeah you haven't kicked yet, so has
Speaker 1: a mess kick. So we'll go tonight. Seam