1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: How much more do you get out of past protection 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: when you have Christian? 3 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Mccaffit on how much more pro you got like past 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 2: protection help or like how good does he do? I 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 2: think all the guys do a really good job. I'd 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: put him in the category Christians always done a good 7 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: job with protection, but I think the other guys do 8 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: a good job as well. So I think there's much 9 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 2: of an uptick. Everything's an uptick with Christian. I'm not 10 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 2: going to joke, right, he gets a little bit, Everything 11 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: gets a little bit better with him, obviously, but I'd 12 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: say I wouldn't say it's that big a difference. 13 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: Is there a player in the league quite like Vida 14 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: Veya in terms of no side? 15 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: No? Now, I'm trying to think of one big guy 16 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: from Baltimore last year, Pierce, I think his name is. 17 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: He was a similar player, big guy, beta based, one 18 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: of the kind I remember last time we played him 19 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: up here. It was his last year and last year 20 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: two years AG don't remember which game it was, might 21 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: have been two years ago. They said he was sick 22 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: pre game, like he wasn't going to play, Like we're 23 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: all hopeful, and I go out there and he's playing 24 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: what's that game where they kicked the bag around Hackey Sack. 25 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: I mean, he looks like he looks like a middle 26 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: school or playing Hackey Sack. He's threting fifty pounds kicking 27 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: the ball in the air. It's unbelievable how good he is. 28 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: He's really really talented, very very agile for such a big, 29 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: gigantic man. 30 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 3: Like when they line him up sometimes like as as 31 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 3: an edge rusher, what kind of challenge is that? 32 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: And is it? 33 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: It's hard? Yeah, you can. You can get some more help. 34 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: Sometimes you get a little more help to him with 35 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: a back or a tight end as well. It is 36 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: scary to think that he has a running head start 37 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: at the quarterback. But I did say this morning, it's 38 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: like we don't want him. You know, he's got that 39 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: direct line of the quarterback right out of the center 40 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: in the a gap. It makes it difficult. He's a 41 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 2: challenge for everybody. 42 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: Does he remind you of anyone? Maybe not in the NFL. 43 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: But well, the thing is, these guys today have become 44 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 2: better pass rushers. I mean, there's some great players in 45 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: the past. I'm not quite sure there was as big 46 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 2: as him, but but I won't go through the list 47 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: of guys due to time today, but there the guy 48 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: is an edge you know, he gets he can get 49 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: on an edge and be a good rusher as well 50 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 2: as a power guy, which makes him unique. 51 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 4: Elijah Kntsey, he had a couple of sacks last week. 52 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 4: He's not the same build, but he's a really effective player. 53 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: Guys are excellent pass rushers on the edge. They they've 54 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: got good length, they've got good speed. They're great speed 55 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: to power guys kind of like the guys from the 56 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: Rams do a good job with that. There up the 57 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: field to have long arms, they're able to push the 58 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: pocket and condense the pocket. This team can condense the pocket, 59 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 2: make a collapse right. And then Todd Bowles does a 60 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: great job with his pressure package as well, where guys 61 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: come free and uh and create some issues as well. 62 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 4: As Feliciano looked in practice and have you been looking 63 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 4: at him more as a center this year versus a 64 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 4: year ago? 65 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: Uh? 66 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: Nope, he's same, he's right now, he's competing, he's trying 67 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: to get well. Uh and see where he is progressions 68 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 2: as far as rehabilitation towards being active. We're looking at 69 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 2: him right now as a backup center guard, so if 70 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 2: we somewhere happen to guard, he could go and some 71 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: of the center go in. Definitely not looking at him 72 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: at this point in a starting capacity. He's in a 73 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: backup capacity at this time for as well as the 74 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 2: guys that are playing in the interior three at this point. 75 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 2: But yet we're great, great to have Jocks. We have 76 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: a true starter in a backup role, Nick Sequel, who's 77 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: been playing that role as a backup center and then 78 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: and then Spencer being the backup third guard. I think 79 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 2: we feel like we have a guy that's started and 80 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: played more football at both positions, and it's great to 81 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: have as a backup. 82 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 5: I know it was a little before you got here 83 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen, Jarck McKinnon signed here and got heard 84 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 5: right before the season. Kyle had said at the time, 85 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 5: like really kind of blew up all of her plans 86 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 5: of what we did the whole season. Has there been 87 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 5: a similar thing with Christian this year where it's made 88 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 5: it difficult to kind of just readapt your offense because 89 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 5: you don't have as many variables with what you can 90 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 5: do with him. 91 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 2: I don't think it feels the same way I think 92 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 2: that there's other players that have kind of learned from Christian. 93 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: A year ago. We had you know, Christian was not 94 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: in and out last year, but the guys had to 95 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 2: step in and we had to continue to play with 96 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: JP or whoever if Christian was in and out of 97 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: the game and things like that. So I think we 98 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: felt real confident that without Christian there, we all know 99 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 2: that he brings to a whole different dynamic to how 100 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: we can game plan and how we can do how 101 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: defenses approach us. So yeah, the defense may approach us differently, 102 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: but I don't think it caught us quite as I 103 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: think at that point, and I wasn't here to remember exactly, 104 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: but I think it was a little bit more like, gosh, 105 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: we really counted on him, and without him, there really 106 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 2: wasn't somebody else that was going to pick up that 107 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: slack that we encounted for him to do. I think 108 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: we have guys now that can kind of do a 109 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: little bit, albeit not as much. 110 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: Is good wise here differently than maybe in other places 111 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: you've been need the record here with those buys pretty good. 112 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: You know what, It's changed because the league kind of 113 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 2: said what to do. I remember our first year in Tampa. 114 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: Going back does is back in the dark ages, but 115 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties, holy cow. Yeah. But we had we 116 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 2: actually full practices because we were like, we were one 117 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 2: and eight. We didn't play. So Doungee was like, let's 118 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 2: go out there. We're starting from square one, and we 119 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 2: just did full padded practices all the way till Friday. Right. 120 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: How time has changed, right, So now now the league 121 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 2: slowly mandates less and less and less time for us 122 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 2: to be able to be available, that the players are 123 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 2: able to work. So we kind of go off with 124 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: what the league does and what they say, and we're 125 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: really hesitant to do much banging around in the bye weeks. 126 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: And I think it's paid off. Okay, I think it's 127 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: coming back from the buy that's so critical important as 128 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: tw you can take care of your players coming back. 129 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: How's Christian looking, how's he feeling? And then how's the 130 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: team responding to him being back? 131 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: You know, everybody's always positive to have him back. It's 132 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 2: always good to have a great player on the field 133 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: working with you and he's out there. It's just you know, 134 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: it's he practices so hard and he and everything's right. 135 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing you see is that like 136 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he run his own play and 137 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: as well as Christian and Isaac have done and the 138 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: other guys. It's like all of a sudden, it's just bam, bam, 139 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 2: and he hits the whole right in time, perfect timing, 140 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 2: perfect perfect pacing of the play, catches some balls down 141 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: the field and sing things like that, and then so 142 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 2: it's nice. He's again, he's it's a process getting ready 143 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 2: to play, so his coll there will be no decisions 144 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 2: made until until you know, later in the week, obviously, 145 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 2: but but but having him back out being just being 146 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 2: out there and practicing like you've asked, this is really 147 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 2: really cool for the whole team. It energizes everybody at 148 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 2: the same sense. You always got a temper that too, 149 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 2: because you just don't know as a guy's trying to 150 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: get his feedback on him, is he gonna be ready 151 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 2: to go Bulls. 152 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 4: Like blitz heavy scheme. Is it different than what Minnesota does? 153 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 4: Both are kind of blits heavy teams. 154 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: Different different they it's it's different. I can't explain it 155 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: exactly why, but there's some similarities and and I think 156 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: there's a little bit of give and take like Todd's 157 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 2: gravitated a little bit towards some of the things, uh 158 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 2: that that he's seen he's seen, uh you know, Flores 159 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: doing and and vice versa. So there's a that. I mean, 160 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 2: Flores has always kind of done what he's done. Uh 161 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: but similar, similar, but it's not not not like identical 162 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: for Christian on. 163 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 3: The practice field, help those younger guys in terms of 164 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 3: whether it's route running or just a little technique to 165 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 3: have hit a hole. 166 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 2: They've all seen it before the first time. For Isaac, 167 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 2: get in a full full dose of it. So I 168 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: think it will help to see him and see how 169 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: he practices, see how he plays, how he prepares all 170 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 2: those things. Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate it.