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Speaker 1: area all of the questions. We're already getting a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that are in here in the chat. So again,
Speaker 1: we love hearing where everybody's watching from as well, which
Speaker 1: is always great, so as we give people a chance
Speaker 1: to actually start asking some of the questions. Um, we
Speaker 1: know that that was the not the way the team
Speaker 1: wanted to start the season for sure. Um, what were
Speaker 1: some of the big takeaways that you got that that
Speaker 1: especially we could see where they could have it already,
Speaker 1: you know, potentially even turned around before Thursday. Is it
Speaker 1: is this stuff that's easily fixable? Is it a little
Speaker 1: bit longer term? Just kind of your initial thoughts on
Speaker 1: on what that game is. I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: anything's easy in the NFL. The good things to build
Speaker 1: on was that the offensive line played pretty well. I
Speaker 1: know there were moments where James was under durest, but
Speaker 1: a lot of those were with the ball held for
Speaker 1: a decent amount of time. And I think the biggest
Speaker 1: problem for the Bucks offense in that game, and it's
Speaker 1: it created a bunch of ancillary problems, was the past
Speaker 1: catch is really weren't getting a lot of separation. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know how you fix that other than
Speaker 1: to play better, run routes better or whatever. But considering
Speaker 1: what we think of our past catching corps, our receivers
Speaker 1: and our tight ends and even our running backs, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect that to be a persistent problem. Can you
Speaker 1: would you expect us to have trouble getting separation with
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and O. J. Howard and
Speaker 1: all that. So it didn't seem like there are hardly
Speaker 1: any times, even with play action, when Jamis was throwing
Speaker 1: to just wide open guys, which you tend to get
Speaker 1: from time to time during the game. I watched other
Speaker 1: games last night, and you see that from time and time,
Speaker 1: and I didn't see a lot of that. So there
Speaker 1: were a lot of Jamis holding the ball, Jami's having
Speaker 1: to throw into tight windows, and sometimes that worked out
Speaker 1: and sometimes it didn't. UM. Obviously, the biggest problem in
Speaker 1: the game, as everybody knows, was the turnovers. Uh, And
Speaker 1: you want to your menia reaction, it's fair is to
Speaker 1: say this is what we were trying to get out
Speaker 1: of Jamis Winston's game. This is the big thing. You
Speaker 1: look at it. You don't want to make excuse is.
Speaker 1: But one of the interceptions went right through a person's hands,
Speaker 1: and another one, according to coach Arians, and he would
Speaker 1: know better than I would, was a perfectly thrown ball
Speaker 1: right to where it was supposed to be. That was
Speaker 1: the one that Richard Sherman took the house because Peyton
Speaker 1: Barber apparently ran his route about two yards too deep.
Speaker 1: And you see that he turns around late and too far,
Speaker 1: and the ball is in front of him, and Richard Sherman,
Speaker 1: because he has his eyes on the quarterback, sees where
Speaker 1: the pass is going in the pass catcher doesn't and
Speaker 1: ends up being an easy pick six. And you think
Speaker 1: James just threw one right to the other guy. Now,
Speaker 1: the last one was his fault according to Bruce Arians,
Speaker 1: and it was just a bad decision. He thinks he
Speaker 1: was trying to throw it away when screen pass just
Speaker 1: didn't work and he needed to find a better way
Speaker 1: to get rid of that ball, so live to find
Speaker 1: another day. So that's the one. And is that easily fixable? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think anything like that is easy. Playing quarterback
Speaker 1: isn't easy, but it's certainly something you can stress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a really great point. And then the defense, Um,
Speaker 1: that was something we were really excited to see coming
Speaker 1: into the game, just because again, they we know they
Speaker 1: hold a lot back in preseason, you know, they don't
Speaker 1: want to show their whole hand, and we had this
Speaker 1: whole new scheme with Todd Bowls coming in and and
Speaker 1: then they really I mean, if you looked at just
Speaker 1: the score and didn't watch the game, you'd say the
Speaker 1: defense played terrible. But I feel like it's really important
Speaker 1: to stress, you know, how well they played and how
Speaker 1: some of those things weren't there. Well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: right there in the numbers. The defense played great. They
Speaker 1: gave up one touchdown that was after a third and
Speaker 1: ten past interference call on a deep ball deep down
Speaker 1: the middle of the field where the ball was well overthrown. Um,
Speaker 1: here's another thing. The penalties were a problem, and they
Speaker 1: were a problem for the defense, and they kept him
Speaker 1: from getting out the field. Several times, and you do
Speaker 1: want to harp on them, don't do certain things. But
Speaker 1: penalties are a little bit hard to control because sometimes
Speaker 1: you get calls that you don't necessarily agree with. So
Speaker 1: did you did you do something wrong? We had two
Speaker 1: touchdowns to Cambray called back on penalties to Damar Dotson. Now,
Speaker 1: the officials are right there on the field. They know
Speaker 1: better than I do. But to the naked eye, it
Speaker 1: certainly looked like that was just a really good play
Speaker 1: by DeMar. He's supposed to kick out on that play
Speaker 1: and that guy and it looks like he just drives
Speaker 1: him and that's it, and it worked. Cambridge scores. He
Speaker 1: gets by that guy in the first second and and
Speaker 1: and uh, DeMar keeps pushing his guy. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a hold there. But again, the officials are there, so
Speaker 1: maybe they know better than me. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You want to say, man, they really hurt themselves with
Speaker 1: penalties offense and defense. And it's true, but how much
Speaker 1: of that could you really help? If dMar actually did
Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do there, how could you
Speaker 1: really help that? Um? But the defense, as you asked,
Speaker 1: I think two sixty four yards allowed. Here's one big thing,
Speaker 1: and this is a problem. Last year oh for three
Speaker 1: in the red zone. We were the worst red zone
Speaker 1: defense in in the league last year, and it seemed
Speaker 1: like anytime a team got there, they scored um a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean to say, oh for three is fantastic. I
Speaker 1: went back three years. It took me back to the
Speaker 1: first game of two thousand sixteen or the second game
Speaker 1: to find another game where we held an imponent to
Speaker 1: no touchdowns and at least three red zone trips. It's
Speaker 1: it's a big thing. Uh. The pass rush only generated
Speaker 1: one sack and one other quarterback hit, but Todd Boll
Speaker 1: said he was happy with the pass rush considering how
Speaker 1: the game went. There was a lot of quick throws
Speaker 1: and a lot of running place. So um, really, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot bad to say about the defense. They
Speaker 1: look good, Yeah, which is great. Um. Francois asked do
Speaker 1: you think Rojo would be starting moving forward? I knew
Speaker 1: that question is come and I would have bet anything,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get that. You know, it could just
Speaker 1: be a matter of time if he continues to play
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think they make that decision one
Speaker 1: week that That's an interesting question though, because coach Arian
Speaker 1: said several times during the offseason in training camp, when
Speaker 1: Royal Jones was looking really good, he said, if somebody
Speaker 1: has the hot hand, we will stick with him, and
Speaker 1: that clearly happened. Uh. Peyton Barber started the game. At
Speaker 1: one point in the third quarter, he had maybe eight carries,
Speaker 1: nine carries to four for Rojo, and then the rest
Speaker 1: of the game, Rojo got all the carries and he
Speaker 1: got hot. You know, he's ripping off eleven and sixteen
Speaker 1: yard runs. They were all up the middle practically, because
Speaker 1: he's a bigger guy now, he's got more muscular, he's
Speaker 1: he was breaking tackles. So he's stuck with a hot
Speaker 1: hand in that game. Does that strategy also apply across
Speaker 1: from one game to the next. You say Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: is the hot hands, the start him in week two,
Speaker 1: it's probably a little bit too soon. That's probably a
Speaker 1: quicker reaction than I would expect. But if he keeps
Speaker 1: playing like that, it's just a matter of time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Jay had said, I'm happy the
Speaker 1: defense is playing better. How do we improve our red
Speaker 1: zone scoring? Though? So we talked about how we held
Speaker 1: the other team in the red zone. But then we
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit, which is it's hard to say
Speaker 1: because yes, because the penalties, but technically it's like Cambraid
Speaker 1: gout to red zone touchdowns back to back. So we
Speaker 1: clearly have the plays that will work in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Is that's sort of the optimism there, But then the penalties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Donald Donovan Smith was asked this exact question yesterday and
Speaker 1: he just said two words and then went on the
Speaker 1: next question. He said, execution, execution. So they, like you said,
Speaker 1: they think they have the right strategy, they have the
Speaker 1: right plays, they had the right place called on several occasions,
Speaker 1: they just didn't execute again twice on penalties on plays
Speaker 1: that did work. Um, the fourth down play, remember that
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, it was almost intercepted. Apparently according to Bruce Arians,
Speaker 1: that was a player where Chris Godwin is supposed to
Speaker 1: stop a little sooner, and if he had, then Jamis
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been dragged into throwing the ball into danger
Speaker 1: like he did. Now that's as to say it was
Speaker 1: a good decision to throw that ball because the safety
Speaker 1: jumped it and could have gone about one yards. But um,
Speaker 1: so little things like that. Now, Chris Godwin had a
Speaker 1: good game and he made a nice touchdown catch and all,
Speaker 1: but apparently he was supposed to stop a little sooner.
Speaker 1: That That's the thing you see in practice. You'll see, uh,
Speaker 1: the receivers running routes and the coaches will say zone
Speaker 1: or man, and they're supposed to They're supposed to react
Speaker 1: based on if they see that the defense is zone
Speaker 1: or man. And if it's zone, oftentimes you stop and
Speaker 1: sit down in a in an open area, and if
Speaker 1: it's man, you keep going because you're trying to beat
Speaker 1: your man. Right. Yeah, that's a great point. Um. Another
Speaker 1: area that I wanted to talk about with special teams,
Speaker 1: very much a mixed bag there in some ways. But um,
Speaker 1: first of all, let's talk about Matt Gay. That I
Speaker 1: feel like that's that's got to be something that fans
Speaker 1: are excited about. So what you've seen from him and
Speaker 1: then some of the struggles on the special team side
Speaker 1: of a blocked punt and you know, the return game
Speaker 1: never really got going to overall that that whole unit,
Speaker 1: How would you kind of grade the game and where
Speaker 1: you feel like they could go movie, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: Matt Gay didn't have any really high different high level
Speaker 1: of difficulty kicks, but he made all what three he
Speaker 1: made two extra points and I think a thirty one
Speaker 1: yard or so. They're all about the same range of kicks,
Speaker 1: but he made him. I mean, you know, that's his
Speaker 1: first game as rookie. He didn't seem like a guy
Speaker 1: in the preseason that was bothered by jitters. But you
Speaker 1: never know. First game that actually counts, first kicks that
Speaker 1: are really really important. Although I suppose the preseason kicks
Speaker 1: were important to him because he was fighting for a job. Right, Um,
Speaker 1: so that was fine, there's nothing, nothing bad to see.
Speaker 1: We still haven't had a chance to see him kick
Speaker 1: a long one, but I'm sure that he will. Um
Speaker 1: the punt obviously, getting the punt blocked deflected, I guess
Speaker 1: it's technically a deflection because the ball went forward about
Speaker 1: three yards, but we all know it was a punt block.
Speaker 1: That's bad. Um. It looked like one guy got run
Speaker 1: over on the play. Um And yeah, the return game
Speaker 1: was kind of man, but that we're kind of used
Speaker 1: to that at this point. We'd like to see some
Speaker 1: breakout there, right. We had a few different questions about
Speaker 1: Um injury updates. People asked about how Blaine Gabbert's doing.
Speaker 1: Justin Evans I saw a few more so overall, Um,
Speaker 1: what do we know about injury situations? And when will
Speaker 1: we know a little bit more for the Thursday. This
Speaker 1: is the week where you actually get information early. Since
Speaker 1: we're playing on Thursday. We actually had an official injury
Speaker 1: report on Monday, didn't have to wait until Wednesday. Well,
Speaker 1: Justin Evans is done. He's on I R now. I
Speaker 1: suppose with today's roles he could come back at some
Speaker 1: point if he's designated to return. But they put Justin
Speaker 1: on i R yesterday with that Achilles problem. It's just
Speaker 1: been a long rule back for him. Um, Blaine Gabbert
Speaker 1: still is not practicing as of yesterday, so one would
Speaker 1: suspect that for at least one more week. Ryan Griffin
Speaker 1: is still your number two and then when Blaine's healthy,
Speaker 1: they'll have to make a decision. Other than that, though
Speaker 1: the teams in really good shape. There wasn't a single
Speaker 1: other person who was even limited in practice yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: the guys that were sick are better now, and there
Speaker 1: was some You're not going to come out of a
Speaker 1: game without some bumps and bruises. So you had guys
Speaker 1: like O. J. Howard with an ankle and Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: with a toe injury, but they practice without problems. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and market asked, is Mike Evans percent healthy. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: just had like a twenty four hour bug, right, which
Speaker 1: is a lot better. So for you looking at I
Speaker 1: think he was a little affected by it though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine because especially with it being so
Speaker 1: incredibly hot down on the field, that even if you're
Speaker 1: over it, like you're not having the symptoms anymore. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody knows when you've been saying, yeah, you don't feel
Speaker 1: hard to say exactly. Yeah, you're probably lesson in jetty.
Speaker 1: Yeah you aren't completely hundred percent in just one day. Um.
Speaker 1: I know they do a great job with the training
Speaker 1: staff and everything, getting them, you know, ready to go.
Speaker 1: But there's a shame because he loves Richard Sherman. He
Speaker 1: loves going against Sherman, and he actually had a couple
Speaker 1: of really good games against Richie. Yeah, that is when
Speaker 1: Mike tends to be at his best. I mean he
Speaker 1: is one of the most competitive people. Well, this week
Speaker 1: should be good then, because James Bradberry has had some
Speaker 1: good games against him, and now he's got another shot
Speaker 1: at him, right, and that was gonna actually be So
Speaker 1: the next question I was gonna ask, is this matchup
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I think it's an interesting point that Um,
Speaker 1: Dave Moore actually made on the radio show that we
Speaker 1: had last night, how normally you talked about a short
Speaker 1: game week and it's hard to prepare. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, at least it's a more familiar opponent in Carolina,
Speaker 1: But normally people would just say, well, they're familiar with
Speaker 1: us too, so it's not really advantage. But he pointed out, well,
Speaker 1: we're the ones with new schemes, new coaches and all
Speaker 1: of that, So do you feel like there could be
Speaker 1: some advantage there in terms of preparing for that game?
Speaker 1: Familiarity our end? Right, they have a lot less of
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls as tape to work with, although they can
Speaker 1: go back and look at former Todd Bowls teams and
Speaker 1: bigot an idea of his schemes, and they I'm sure
Speaker 1: they will do that. We probably did a short week.
Speaker 1: They knew that preparing, so they probably did some preparation
Speaker 1: ahead of time. Um, yeah, I could see that being
Speaker 1: a slide advantage. Another thing. Last year, Carolina's offense was
Speaker 1: new with Norv Turner. Now it's the second year and
Speaker 1: they had a lot of misdirection stuff. Remember some of
Speaker 1: those plays right and thens and things like that that
Speaker 1: really got ye, they really got us in. Um Vidave
Speaker 1: was asked about that yesterday and he said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're preparing for that. But also we're a different team.
Speaker 1: It's like we've got a totally different scheme. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll be approaching this in different way. So one can
Speaker 1: hope that that the defense is better equipped to handle
Speaker 1: those plays now, because that's a problem, and Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: is a problem, right, yeah, as always, So for you
Speaker 1: looking at Cam Newton and Christian McCaffrey especially first and foremost,
Speaker 1: who on our defense will most have to step up
Speaker 1: to contain them? And how does this new scheme match
Speaker 1: up against that? Carolina? I think you saw it with
Speaker 1: George Kittle, And I know that George Kittle and Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey are played different positions, but both of them are
Speaker 1: are non wide receivers who are the obvious focal point
Speaker 1: of their team's passing attack. And when you have somebody
Speaker 1: in the backfield or a tight end on the line
Speaker 1: becoming you know, going out and running routes and becoming
Speaker 1: a focal point of the past attack. You generally don't
Speaker 1: have just one guy you don't take. You know, you
Speaker 1: could say Richard Sherman's gonna cover Mike Evans the whole game.
Speaker 1: You don't. You can't do that with a tight end
Speaker 1: or especially a running back. Uh, it's going to be
Speaker 1: so Christian McAffrey is going to stress various parts of
Speaker 1: this defense, all of it at some point during the game.
Speaker 1: But I do think that the linebackers Lavonte David and
Speaker 1: Devin White are gonna be the most important players and
Speaker 1: stopping him particularly run. You saw Lavonte David, I assume
Speaker 1: you saw it too. He looked like he was a
Speaker 1: great fit in this defense. I mean, especially in the
Speaker 1: first half. He was free to fly around. He made
Speaker 1: five tackles, I think all of them are most of
Speaker 1: them were in the first half on running plays, and
Speaker 1: those plays gained one yard, zero yards, Negati tive yards,
Speaker 1: one yard and four yards. So he he's free to
Speaker 1: run around clearly, and we all know he diagnoses plays
Speaker 1: quickly and gets there quickly, and so he's the guy
Speaker 1: that in the running game with McCaffrey, him and Devin
Speaker 1: White are gonna probably be the most important players when
Speaker 1: it comes to stopping in the passing game. It could
Speaker 1: just it could be just about anybody. Um France while
Speaker 1: had also asked, is there any update on the new
Speaker 1: veteran offensive tackle that was signed. Does he seem like
Speaker 1: he could be a contributor? Well? Yeah, he I think
Speaker 1: the problem he had in Jacksonville is he was injured.
Speaker 1: He had some bad injury luck. He went on the
Speaker 1: i R like four times in three years, which doesn't
Speaker 1: seem possible, but he came back once and then went
Speaker 1: back on i R. So he did when he was
Speaker 1: on the field. He did start nine games the last
Speaker 1: two years for Jacksonville. Um, so that's an experienced guy,
Speaker 1: has been in the league five years already. It's it's
Speaker 1: a guy that has a lot of experience and starting experience.
Speaker 1: And so I think that is a nice edition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll close on this. We had two questions almost
Speaker 1: backed back about the offensive game plan essentially where Brian
Speaker 1: had asked, with the defense playing better than the offense
Speaker 1: in that first game, does that mean you game plan differently?
Speaker 1: And then Rodney had asked, do you think it was
Speaker 1: a balanced offensive game plan last week? Or should they
Speaker 1: have run the ball more? No, we ran the ball
Speaker 1: twenty six times. I think that's and there weren't a
Speaker 1: ton of plays. I think we had around sixty alan sixties,
Speaker 1: so sixties sixty two something like that, so that that
Speaker 1: was pretty balanced. We ran. I noticed that we ran
Speaker 1: on first and ten quite a bit, especially in the
Speaker 1: early going. Now at the very end you're down one
Speaker 1: touchdown with not much time, and then of course two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So to throwing the ball. It's before we had to
Speaker 1: throw the ball on virtually every snap the last few drives.
Speaker 1: It was a really balanced attack, so and that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. So it's a good question. But no, I
Speaker 1: think we're already balanced. And no, I don't think you
Speaker 1: changed the game plan because you think we're a defensive
Speaker 1: lead team. Now. You don't expect your offense to struggle again.
Speaker 1: You plan to succeed, and I think that they will
Speaker 1: plan to succeed and hopefully we'll see a better output
Speaker 1: on that part of that side of ball this week.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks so much for joining us, and
Speaker 1: we'll be back next week and hope you guys enjoy
Speaker 1: watching the game in Carolina. We'll see you then