Speaker 1: Well did play we're outside linebacker, and have you seen
Speaker 1: enough to sign whether he skills it better to being
Speaker 1: a kind of really good three. He's defense ven for us.
Speaker 1: That's that's his possession. Um. You know the thing it's
Speaker 1: good about him and guys like Connor and Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: Plavin's a background three four the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: It makes some of our zone dogs, some of our
Speaker 1: you know, sort of third down stuff where um, you
Speaker 1: know you're running some some blitz stuff. Using those guys
Speaker 1: in coverage makes a little bit easier to use those
Speaker 1: those guys, those guys are used to doing it. Um,
Speaker 1: But he's defense ven for us. We'd like a skill
Speaker 1: set there through. Uh uh, Graham and Curry, they didn't
Speaker 1: they lined up on the last side. Yeah, we'll be
Speaker 1: switching them. Yeah, we'll be switching them. Um. We've already
Speaker 1: the same thing with our corners. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: get those guys moved around an awful lot. You know,
Speaker 1: with corners, there might be a week where we want
Speaker 1: to match a certain guy on a certain player and
Speaker 1: he's got to be used to playing right and left. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe an injury forces us to do something like that,
Speaker 1: and the same thing upfront. Um, we'll use rotation up front.
Speaker 1: You know, we want to try to get as much
Speaker 1: production as we can out of guys. And I've said
Speaker 1: this before, it's a little bit like those excuse me,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like those relievers coming out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen, you know that are heating it up ninety
Speaker 1: eight ninety nine. It's hard to do that for seven innings,
Speaker 1: but you can do it for you know, a couple innings.
Speaker 1: And that's what we expect from from those guys. So
Speaker 1: they have to be able to play multiple positions, multiple sides,
Speaker 1: if we're going to have that kind of rotation up
Speaker 1: front to get that starting. Just like everybody else, needs
Speaker 1: to be consistent from practice to practice, needs to make
Speaker 1: plays on ball, needs to be physical in the run game.
Speaker 1: And that's that's Eric, that's we otus, that's Brookes, that's
Speaker 1: noting Carol. You guys might get only or whoever I forget,
Speaker 1: but let's just put his all the corners, all the corners,
Speaker 1: all the corners, Um, they're all gonna be judged on
Speaker 1: the same thing, Um, all of them in a little
Speaker 1: different spot. All of them have different strengths, different weaknesses.
Speaker 1: One of the things for us in training camp is
Speaker 1: trying to find that best combination of guys that you
Speaker 1: know and use them in the best way. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: so he's no different than anybody going to out there
Speaker 1: skills compliment. Yeah, I think that's that's corners. I think
Speaker 1: that it's also you could also consider that corner in safety.
Speaker 1: I think linebackers, UM, defensive end, defensive tackles. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's sort of a cornery cliche, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you really look, we got to find
Speaker 1: a way that that our whole is greater than some
Speaker 1: of our parts. You know, that's good team play. Um,
Speaker 1: that's our job as coaches, and that's the job of
Speaker 1: the players. But if we can find a way to
Speaker 1: lack of a better back, of better expression, to make
Speaker 1: one plus one equal three, then we've done our job.
Speaker 1: And the way you do that is have complimentary players. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I told our guys the other night, Um,
Speaker 1: we have the Olympics coming up, and the record for
Speaker 1: the four hundred meters is like forty three seconds or something.
Speaker 1: The record for the four by one hundred, same same distance,
Speaker 1: But the record for the four by one Hundre's like
Speaker 1: thirty six seconds and it's not socause well no, not
Speaker 1: the first one, not the first one. I mean, but
Speaker 1: the idea there is teamwork and trump individual play. And
Speaker 1: I think if we're doing our job in training camp,
Speaker 1: if our players or UM, you know, responding well in
Speaker 1: the scheme, if if we have a scheme that matches
Speaker 1: the players, you'll see the sum should be greater than
Speaker 1: UM than the individual parts. UM. We're not there yet,
Speaker 1: I believe me, we're not there yet. Running around shorts.
Speaker 1: What if you have to do the pad on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, there's really not a whole lot different for
Speaker 1: those guys when it comes to coverage. Whether they're in
Speaker 1: four pads are not. UM probably the biggest thing because
Speaker 1: they're very rarely using their shoulder pads in coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: they're using hands, they're using feet. You know, the contact
Speaker 1: that comes out of corners is usually hands and feet.
Speaker 1: The thing with UM with pads is stepping up and
Speaker 1: playing in the run game. Because you can't play with corners,
Speaker 1: they won't attack the run UM, you know, and those
Speaker 1: guys have to all prove that they can step up
Speaker 1: and and thought of running back and go take on
Speaker 1: a pulling guard at times. That's part of their job description.
Speaker 1: What the Dumb Show got in tackler? You know, it
Speaker 1: was good because he played a lot of different positions,
Speaker 1: played in a nickel. Um, there's even some thought to him,
Speaker 1: um playing safety here. You know he's he's done those things,
Speaker 1: and you don't put a bad tackler in at those
Speaker 1: nickel and safety positions. Um. But what he did at college, honestly, Oh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a whole lot of effect on what
Speaker 1: he's what's going to go on? Now? You don't You
Speaker 1: don't get any points for that. See what happens? Yeah,
Speaker 1: guy finished, Yeah, you're not gonna catch me on injuries? Brother,
Speaker 1: what's that? Yeah, he's a pretty high pick. And we
Speaker 1: looked at his career. What's kind of held him back
Speaker 1: from being a year in, year out of starter? Kind
Speaker 1: of holding that well, it took him a little while
Speaker 1: to get started. I thought he really came onto his
Speaker 1: own the year before I got to Buffalo twenty and twelve,
Speaker 1: he had a really good year. And the year I
Speaker 1: was there, he was playing at a Pro Bowl level.
Speaker 1: I thought. Until he broke his lay ankle whatever it
Speaker 1: was in the Miami game. Um, so you know what
Speaker 1: happened before that. I really can't speak to um. Last
Speaker 1: year it was an injury thing. He started on the
Speaker 1: pup and then um when they came out, you know
Speaker 1: that that was a team that was blessed with a
Speaker 1: lot of corners. Um. You know it's just a fact
Speaker 1: of Um you know where they've been the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. But UM, he's responded, well, here he's a
Speaker 1: veteran player. UM. You know, it's nice having guys like Leo.
Speaker 1: This guy's like knowing Carroll, guys like Malcolm Jenkins, Rodney,
Speaker 1: Rodney McCleod. Um, you know, if I forget anybody, just
Speaker 1: fill fill in the name of the veteran, you know,
Speaker 1: so that you guys don't try to read between lines
Speaker 1: that aren't there. But Sam will outside factor you can
Speaker 1: right that. Yeah, right now we're flipping them and it
Speaker 1: sort of falls into the question before getting guys used
Speaker 1: to both sides, UM, And it also compartmentalizes their learning
Speaker 1: a little bit at this point, UM, and just trying
Speaker 1: to get those guys sort of up to speed right away.
Speaker 1: So UM, right now we're doing it. There might come
Speaker 1: a time when we get a little bit farther in that.
Speaker 1: We tell them on the practice just stay on their
Speaker 1: side so they get used to playing, you know, different techniques.
Speaker 1: But right now it helps compartmentalize what they're being asked
Speaker 1: to do with with the with the referees here, that's
Speaker 1: a couple of days. What are you looking at to
Speaker 1: get out of the time. You know, the communication between
Speaker 1: the officials and the coaches, it's probably already always there,
Speaker 1: but the communication between the players and the officials this
Speaker 1: time of year is it's really good those guys be
Speaker 1: in our meetings out here on the practice field. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they it's not just a flag gets thrown,
Speaker 1: it's why, and that communication back and forth. Then you know,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what the coach thinks. It really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what a player thinks. It's what the officials
Speaker 1: saw on the field. And it's our job to educate
Speaker 1: ourselves on to play the game the way they're seeing it,
Speaker 1: because that's the way they're going to officiate. So we can,
Speaker 1: you know, complain all the time, maybe that's not a
Speaker 1: foul if they're gonna throw If they're gonna throw the flag,
Speaker 1: well we have to play this. If it's going to
Speaker 1: be a foul and the same thing. If we think
Speaker 1: it's clean or we think it's a foul and they don't,
Speaker 1: well we have to play to that standard. That's the
Speaker 1: standard and helps us in a non competitive situation to
Speaker 1: get educated on the way they see things. We don't
Speaker 1: have a full staff out here, but there's great communication.
Speaker 1: We have meetings together with the players and the officials,
Speaker 1: and it's always my favorite time of the year with
Speaker 1: the officials. You know, Um, that called didn't cost you
Speaker 1: a game, you know, and you can learn a lot
Speaker 1: when it comes when you don't have a horse in
Speaker 1: the race, Dalton to hunt whatever that um whatever that
Speaker 1: the expression is. But you know when they throw it
Speaker 1: out here on one on ones and they can say, hey,
Speaker 1: you aren't barred the guy that that's a lot different
Speaker 1: than in the game because in the game you never
Speaker 1: think of fouls against you, and you think the opponent
Speaker 1: foul every play. So it helps us better than most here.
Speaker 1: What kind of players here? What kind of person would
Speaker 1: you say about not you know, better than most here?
Speaker 1: What kind of players? I think I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: like the way he plays football. Um, he's a tough,
Speaker 1: physical player, he plays fast. Um, you know, he's gut.
Speaker 1: He has a little bit of injuries last year and
Speaker 1: one day able to finish the year. Um, but he
Speaker 1: fits it fits what we're doing. Um, he's a professional.
Speaker 1: He's young, but he's he's as a right, he's it's
Speaker 1: hard to call it that, but I guess he isn't that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I call Ronnie McLoud at I gotta call,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call Nigel or that. UM good to have
Speaker 1: him here value A Yeah, you know, just because he
Speaker 1: was drafted for that doesn't mean and that's the only
Speaker 1: thing he can do, you know that, But doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that's his only skill set. When um, when he played
Speaker 1: at LSU, he was in their past rushing in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, I think he's come out on
Speaker 1: a lot of past situations. We're gonna give him the opportunity,
Speaker 1: stay gosh, he's going to have to take advantage of
Speaker 1: that opportunity and show that he can win the one
Speaker 1: on once and uh, you know he can compliment Fletch
Speaker 1: and he can compliment all our other defensive ends. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, one trick ponies are tough to play with
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And I lie, I mean again, just
Speaker 1: because he was drafted that way doesn't mean that's the
Speaker 1: only thing he can do. I'm excited about him, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to watch him sort of expand
Speaker 1: his horizon. It's a little better. There's no, no question,
Speaker 1: no question. One