WEBVTT - Chris Foerster Highlights the Offense's Performance | Press Pass

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<v Speaker 1>How much more do you get out of past protection

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<v Speaker 1>when you have Christian?

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<v Speaker 2>Mccaffit on how much more pro you got like past

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<v Speaker 2>protection help or like how good does he do? I

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<v Speaker 2>think all the guys do a really good job. I'd

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<v Speaker 2>put him in the category Christians always done a good

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<v Speaker 2>job with protection, but I think the other guys do

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<v Speaker 2>a good job as well. So I think there's much

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<v Speaker 2>of an uptick. Everything's an uptick with Christian. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to joke, right, he gets a little bit, Everything

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<v Speaker 2>gets a little bit better with him, obviously, but I'd

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<v Speaker 2>say I wouldn't say it's that big a difference.

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<v Speaker 1>Is there a player in the league quite like Vida

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<v Speaker 1>Veya in terms of no side?

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<v Speaker 2>No? Now, I'm trying to think of one big guy

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<v Speaker 2>from Baltimore last year, Pierce, I think his name is.

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<v Speaker 2>He was a similar player, big guy, beta based, one

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<v Speaker 2>of the kind I remember last time we played him

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<v Speaker 2>up here. It was his last year and last year

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<v Speaker 2>two years AG don't remember which game it was, might

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<v Speaker 2>have been two years ago. They said he was sick

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<v Speaker 2>pre game, like he wasn't going to play, Like we're

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<v Speaker 2>all hopeful, and I go out there and he's playing

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<v Speaker 2>what's that game where they kicked the bag around Hackey Sack.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, he looks like he looks like a middle

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<v Speaker 2>school or playing Hackey Sack. He's threting fifty pounds kicking

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<v Speaker 2>the ball in the air. It's unbelievable how good he is.

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<v Speaker 2>He's really really talented, very very agile for such a big,

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<v Speaker 2>gigantic man.

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<v Speaker 3>Like when they line him up sometimes like as as

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<v Speaker 3>an edge rusher, what kind of challenge is that?

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<v Speaker 1>And is it?

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<v Speaker 2>It's hard? Yeah, you can. You can get some more help.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you get a little more help to him with

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<v Speaker 2>a back or a tight end as well. It is

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<v Speaker 2>scary to think that he has a running head start

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<v Speaker 2>at the quarterback. But I did say this morning, it's

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<v Speaker 2>like we don't want him. You know, he's got that

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<v Speaker 2>direct line of the quarterback right out of the center

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<v Speaker 2>in the a gap. It makes it difficult. He's a

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<v Speaker 2>challenge for everybody.

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<v Speaker 3>Does he remind you of anyone? Maybe not in the NFL.

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<v Speaker 2>But well, the thing is, these guys today have become

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<v Speaker 2>better pass rushers. I mean, there's some great players in

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<v Speaker 2>the past. I'm not quite sure there was as big

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<v Speaker 2>as him, but but I won't go through the list

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<v Speaker 2>of guys due to time today, but there the guy

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<v Speaker 2>is an edge you know, he gets he can get

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<v Speaker 2>on an edge and be a good rusher as well

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<v Speaker 2>as a power guy, which makes him unique.

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<v Speaker 4>Elijah Kntsey, he had a couple of sacks last week.

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<v Speaker 4>He's not the same build, but he's a really effective player.

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<v Speaker 2>Guys are excellent pass rushers on the edge. They they've

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<v Speaker 2>got good length, they've got good speed. They're great speed

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<v Speaker 2>to power guys kind of like the guys from the

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<v Speaker 2>Rams do a good job with that. There up the

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<v Speaker 2>field to have long arms, they're able to push the

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<v Speaker 2>pocket and condense the pocket. This team can condense the pocket,

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<v Speaker 2>make a collapse right. And then Todd Bowles does a

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<v Speaker 2>great job with his pressure package as well, where guys

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<v Speaker 2>come free and uh and create some issues as well.

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<v Speaker 4>As Feliciano looked in practice and have you been looking

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<v Speaker 4>at him more as a center this year versus a

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<v Speaker 4>year ago?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>Nope, he's same, he's right now, he's competing, he's trying

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<v Speaker 2>to get well. Uh and see where he is progressions

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<v Speaker 2>as far as rehabilitation towards being active. We're looking at

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<v Speaker 2>him right now as a backup center guard, so if

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<v Speaker 2>we somewhere happen to guard, he could go and some

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<v Speaker 2>of the center go in. Definitely not looking at him

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<v Speaker 2>at this point in a starting capacity. He's in a

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<v Speaker 2>backup capacity at this time for as well as the

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<v Speaker 2>guys that are playing in the interior three at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>But yet we're great, great to have Jocks. We have

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<v Speaker 2>a true starter in a backup role, Nick Sequel, who's

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<v Speaker 2>been playing that role as a backup center and then

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<v Speaker 2>and then Spencer being the backup third guard. I think

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<v Speaker 2>we feel like we have a guy that's started and

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<v Speaker 2>played more football at both positions, and it's great to

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<v Speaker 2>have as a backup.

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<v Speaker 5>I know it was a little before you got here

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<v Speaker 5>in twenty eighteen, Jarck McKinnon signed here and got heard

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<v Speaker 5>right before the season. Kyle had said at the time,

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<v Speaker 5>like really kind of blew up all of her plans

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<v Speaker 5>of what we did the whole season. Has there been

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<v Speaker 5>a similar thing with Christian this year where it's made

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<v Speaker 5>it difficult to kind of just readapt your offense because

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<v Speaker 5>you don't have as many variables with what you can

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<v Speaker 5>do with him.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it feels the same way I think

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<v Speaker 2>that there's other players that have kind of learned from Christian.

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<v Speaker 2>A year ago. We had you know, Christian was not

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<v Speaker 2>in and out last year, but the guys had to

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<v Speaker 2>step in and we had to continue to play with

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<v Speaker 2>JP or whoever if Christian was in and out of

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<v Speaker 2>the game and things like that. So I think we

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<v Speaker 2>felt real confident that without Christian there, we all know

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<v Speaker 2>that he brings to a whole different dynamic to how

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<v Speaker 2>we can game plan and how we can do how

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<v Speaker 2>defenses approach us. So yeah, the defense may approach us differently,

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<v Speaker 2>but I don't think it caught us quite as I

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<v Speaker 2>think at that point, and I wasn't here to remember exactly,

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<v Speaker 2>but I think it was a little bit more like, gosh,

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<v Speaker 2>we really counted on him, and without him, there really

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't somebody else that was going to pick up that

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<v Speaker 2>slack that we encounted for him to do. I think

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<v Speaker 2>we have guys now that can kind of do a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit, albeit not as much.

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<v Speaker 1>Is good wise here differently than maybe in other places

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<v Speaker 1>you've been need the record here with those buys pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what, It's changed because the league kind of

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<v Speaker 2>said what to do. I remember our first year in Tampa.

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<v Speaker 2>Going back does is back in the dark ages, but

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen nineties, holy cow. Yeah. But we had we

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<v Speaker 2>actually full practices because we were like, we were one

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<v Speaker 2>and eight. We didn't play. So Doungee was like, let's

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<v Speaker 2>go out there. We're starting from square one, and we

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<v Speaker 2>just did full padded practices all the way till Friday. Right.

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<v Speaker 2>How time has changed, right, So now now the league

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<v Speaker 2>slowly mandates less and less and less time for us

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to be available, that the players are

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<v Speaker 2>able to work. So we kind of go off with

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<v Speaker 2>what the league does and what they say, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>really hesitant to do much banging around in the bye weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think it's paid off. Okay, I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>coming back from the buy that's so critical important as

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<v Speaker 2>tw you can take care of your players coming back.

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<v Speaker 1>How's Christian looking, how's he feeling? And then how's the

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<v Speaker 1>team responding to him being back?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, everybody's always positive to have him back. It's

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<v Speaker 2>always good to have a great player on the field

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<v Speaker 2>working with you and he's out there. It's just you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's he practices so hard and he and everything's right.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's the thing you see is that like

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, he run his own play and

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<v Speaker 2>as well as Christian and Isaac have done and the

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<v Speaker 2>other guys. It's like all of a sudden, it's just bam, bam,

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<v Speaker 2>and he hits the whole right in time, perfect timing,

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<v Speaker 2>perfect perfect pacing of the play, catches some balls down

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<v Speaker 2>the field and sing things like that, and then so

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<v Speaker 2>it's nice. He's again, he's it's a process getting ready

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<v Speaker 2>to play, so his coll there will be no decisions

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<v Speaker 2>made until until you know, later in the week, obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>but but but having him back out being just being

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<v Speaker 2>out there and practicing like you've asked, this is really

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<v Speaker 2>really cool for the whole team. It energizes everybody at

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<v Speaker 2>the same sense. You always got a temper that too,

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<v Speaker 2>because you just don't know as a guy's trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get his feedback on him, is he gonna be ready

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<v Speaker 2>to go Bulls.

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<v Speaker 4>Like blitz heavy scheme. Is it different than what Minnesota does?

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<v Speaker 4>Both are kind of blits heavy teams.

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<v Speaker 2>Different different they it's it's different. I can't explain it

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<v Speaker 2>exactly why, but there's some similarities and and I think

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<v Speaker 2>there's a little bit of give and take like Todd's

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<v Speaker 2>gravitated a little bit towards some of the things, uh

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<v Speaker 2>that that he's seen he's seen, uh you know, Flores

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<v Speaker 2>doing and and vice versa. So there's a that. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>Flores has always kind of done what he's done. Uh

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<v Speaker 2>but similar, similar, but it's not not not like identical

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<v Speaker 2>for Christian on.

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<v Speaker 3>The practice field, help those younger guys in terms of

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<v Speaker 3>whether it's route running or just a little technique to

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<v Speaker 3>have hit a hole.

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<v Speaker 2>They've all seen it before the first time. For Isaac,

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<v Speaker 2>get in a full full dose of it. So I

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<v Speaker 2>think it will help to see him and see how

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<v Speaker 2>he practices, see how he plays, how he prepares all

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<v Speaker 2>those things. Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate it.