Speaker 1: How much more do you get out of past protection
Speaker 1: when you have Christian?
Speaker 2: Mccaffit on how much more pro you got like past
Speaker 2: protection help or like how good does he do? I
Speaker 2: think all the guys do a really good job. I'd
Speaker 2: put him in the category Christians always done a good
Speaker 2: job with protection, but I think the other guys do
Speaker 2: a good job as well. So I think there's much
Speaker 2: of an uptick. Everything's an uptick with Christian. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to joke, right, he gets a little bit, Everything
Speaker 2: gets a little bit better with him, obviously, but I'd
Speaker 2: say I wouldn't say it's that big a difference.
Speaker 1: Is there a player in the league quite like Vida
Speaker 1: Veya in terms of no side?
Speaker 2: No? Now, I'm trying to think of one big guy
Speaker 2: from Baltimore last year, Pierce, I think his name is.
Speaker 2: He was a similar player, big guy, beta based, one
Speaker 2: of the kind I remember last time we played him
Speaker 2: up here. It was his last year and last year
Speaker 2: two years AG don't remember which game it was, might
Speaker 2: have been two years ago. They said he was sick
Speaker 2: pre game, like he wasn't going to play, Like we're
Speaker 2: all hopeful, and I go out there and he's playing
Speaker 2: what's that game where they kicked the bag around Hackey Sack.
Speaker 2: I mean, he looks like he looks like a middle
Speaker 2: school or playing Hackey Sack. He's threting fifty pounds kicking
Speaker 2: the ball in the air. It's unbelievable how good he is.
Speaker 2: He's really really talented, very very agile for such a big,
Speaker 2: gigantic man.
Speaker 3: Like when they line him up sometimes like as as
Speaker 3: an edge rusher, what kind of challenge is that?
Speaker 1: And is it?
Speaker 2: It's hard? Yeah, you can. You can get some more help.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get a little more help to him with
Speaker 2: a back or a tight end as well. It is
Speaker 2: scary to think that he has a running head start
Speaker 2: at the quarterback. But I did say this morning, it's
Speaker 2: like we don't want him. You know, he's got that
Speaker 2: direct line of the quarterback right out of the center
Speaker 2: in the a gap. It makes it difficult. He's a
Speaker 2: challenge for everybody.
Speaker 3: Does he remind you of anyone? Maybe not in the NFL.
Speaker 2: But well, the thing is, these guys today have become
Speaker 2: better pass rushers. I mean, there's some great players in
Speaker 2: the past. I'm not quite sure there was as big
Speaker 2: as him, but but I won't go through the list
Speaker 2: of guys due to time today, but there the guy
Speaker 2: is an edge you know, he gets he can get
Speaker 2: on an edge and be a good rusher as well
Speaker 2: as a power guy, which makes him unique.
Speaker 4: Elijah Kntsey, he had a couple of sacks last week.
Speaker 4: He's not the same build, but he's a really effective player.
Speaker 2: Guys are excellent pass rushers on the edge. They they've
Speaker 2: got good length, they've got good speed. They're great speed
Speaker 2: to power guys kind of like the guys from the
Speaker 2: Rams do a good job with that. There up the
Speaker 2: field to have long arms, they're able to push the
Speaker 2: pocket and condense the pocket. This team can condense the pocket,
Speaker 2: make a collapse right. And then Todd Bowles does a
Speaker 2: great job with his pressure package as well, where guys
Speaker 2: come free and uh and create some issues as well.
Speaker 4: As Feliciano looked in practice and have you been looking
Speaker 4: at him more as a center this year versus a
Speaker 4: year ago?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Nope, he's same, he's right now, he's competing, he's trying
Speaker 2: to get well. Uh and see where he is progressions
Speaker 2: as far as rehabilitation towards being active. We're looking at
Speaker 2: him right now as a backup center guard, so if
Speaker 2: we somewhere happen to guard, he could go and some
Speaker 2: of the center go in. Definitely not looking at him
Speaker 2: at this point in a starting capacity. He's in a
Speaker 2: backup capacity at this time for as well as the
Speaker 2: guys that are playing in the interior three at this point.
Speaker 2: But yet we're great, great to have Jocks. We have
Speaker 2: a true starter in a backup role, Nick Sequel, who's
Speaker 2: been playing that role as a backup center and then
Speaker 2: and then Spencer being the backup third guard. I think
Speaker 2: we feel like we have a guy that's started and
Speaker 2: played more football at both positions, and it's great to
Speaker 2: have as a backup.
Speaker 5: I know it was a little before you got here
Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen, Jarck McKinnon signed here and got heard
Speaker 5: right before the season. Kyle had said at the time,
Speaker 5: like really kind of blew up all of her plans
Speaker 5: of what we did the whole season. Has there been
Speaker 5: a similar thing with Christian this year where it's made
Speaker 5: it difficult to kind of just readapt your offense because
Speaker 5: you don't have as many variables with what you can
Speaker 5: do with him.
Speaker 2: I don't think it feels the same way I think
Speaker 2: that there's other players that have kind of learned from Christian.
Speaker 2: A year ago. We had you know, Christian was not
Speaker 2: in and out last year, but the guys had to
Speaker 2: step in and we had to continue to play with
Speaker 2: JP or whoever if Christian was in and out of
Speaker 2: the game and things like that. So I think we
Speaker 2: felt real confident that without Christian there, we all know
Speaker 2: that he brings to a whole different dynamic to how
Speaker 2: we can game plan and how we can do how
Speaker 2: defenses approach us. So yeah, the defense may approach us differently,
Speaker 2: but I don't think it caught us quite as I
Speaker 2: think at that point, and I wasn't here to remember exactly,
Speaker 2: but I think it was a little bit more like, gosh,
Speaker 2: we really counted on him, and without him, there really
Speaker 2: wasn't somebody else that was going to pick up that
Speaker 2: slack that we encounted for him to do. I think
Speaker 2: we have guys now that can kind of do a
Speaker 2: little bit, albeit not as much.
Speaker 1: Is good wise here differently than maybe in other places
Speaker 1: you've been need the record here with those buys pretty good.
Speaker 2: You know what, It's changed because the league kind of
Speaker 2: said what to do. I remember our first year in Tampa.
Speaker 2: Going back does is back in the dark ages, but
Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties, holy cow. Yeah. But we had we
Speaker 2: actually full practices because we were like, we were one
Speaker 2: and eight. We didn't play. So Doungee was like, let's
Speaker 2: go out there. We're starting from square one, and we
Speaker 2: just did full padded practices all the way till Friday. Right.
Speaker 2: How time has changed, right, So now now the league
Speaker 2: slowly mandates less and less and less time for us
Speaker 2: to be able to be available, that the players are
Speaker 2: able to work. So we kind of go off with
Speaker 2: what the league does and what they say, and we're
Speaker 2: really hesitant to do much banging around in the bye weeks.
Speaker 2: And I think it's paid off. Okay, I think it's
Speaker 2: coming back from the buy that's so critical important as
Speaker 2: tw you can take care of your players coming back.
Speaker 1: How's Christian looking, how's he feeling? And then how's the
Speaker 1: team responding to him being back?
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's always positive to have him back. It's
Speaker 2: always good to have a great player on the field
Speaker 2: working with you and he's out there. It's just you know,
Speaker 2: it's he practices so hard and he and everything's right.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing you see is that like
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he run his own play and
Speaker 2: as well as Christian and Isaac have done and the
Speaker 2: other guys. It's like all of a sudden, it's just bam, bam,
Speaker 2: and he hits the whole right in time, perfect timing,
Speaker 2: perfect perfect pacing of the play, catches some balls down
Speaker 2: the field and sing things like that, and then so
Speaker 2: it's nice. He's again, he's it's a process getting ready
Speaker 2: to play, so his coll there will be no decisions
Speaker 2: made until until you know, later in the week, obviously,
Speaker 2: but but but having him back out being just being
Speaker 2: out there and practicing like you've asked, this is really
Speaker 2: really cool for the whole team. It energizes everybody at
Speaker 2: the same sense. You always got a temper that too,
Speaker 2: because you just don't know as a guy's trying to
Speaker 2: get his feedback on him, is he gonna be ready
Speaker 2: to go Bulls.
Speaker 4: Like blitz heavy scheme. Is it different than what Minnesota does?
Speaker 4: Both are kind of blits heavy teams.
Speaker 2: Different different they it's it's different. I can't explain it
Speaker 2: exactly why, but there's some similarities and and I think
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of give and take like Todd's
Speaker 2: gravitated a little bit towards some of the things, uh
Speaker 2: that that he's seen he's seen, uh you know, Flores
Speaker 2: doing and and vice versa. So there's a that. I mean,
Speaker 2: Flores has always kind of done what he's done. Uh
Speaker 2: but similar, similar, but it's not not not like identical
Speaker 2: for Christian on.
Speaker 3: The practice field, help those younger guys in terms of
Speaker 3: whether it's route running or just a little technique to
Speaker 3: have hit a hole.
Speaker 2: They've all seen it before the first time. For Isaac,
Speaker 2: get in a full full dose of it. So I
Speaker 2: think it will help to see him and see how
Speaker 2: he practices, see how he plays, how he prepares all
Speaker 2: those things. Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate it.