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Speaker 1: Hey, Brian, Howra, how's it going good?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: Sorry for the audio only here, but I was kind

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Speaker 1: of curious as we get late in the season, going

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Speaker 1: from you know, preparing a scout team defense to be

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Speaker 1: the Steelers one week and the Chiefs an X. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you'll have many more multiple defenses aside from

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Speaker 1: your own. Can You just got to take it behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes of the process that goes into the scout

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Speaker 1: team defense and everything that those guys go through, as

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Speaker 1: well as the coaches to prepare them with the cards

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Speaker 1: and then getting into practice Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really really happy you asked about that, because

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Speaker 2: those guys don't get the credit they deserve talking about

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Speaker 2: the practice squad players throughout the season.

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Speaker 3: You know, they really put a lot into it. We

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Speaker 3: have meetings about the looks.

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Speaker 2: And and they're trying to get their games better personally,

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Speaker 2: uh individually so they can have a chance to get

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Speaker 2: to the game and you know, help our own defense.

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Speaker 3: So there's really a lot going on for those guys

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Speaker 3: to juggle, and.

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Speaker 2: They just have to you know, have a great attitude

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Speaker 2: going out every day and trying to get the other

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Speaker 2: side of the ball. Better and making the most of

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Speaker 2: that so that to help us win and then trying

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Speaker 2: to get themselves better too. If we need them at

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Speaker 2: the game, that they'll be ready to go. And they've

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Speaker 2: done a great job of that this year, Like you know,

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Speaker 2: I've seen from the practice squads every year have been

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Speaker 2: here and it's been you know, I really appreciate those guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, this year on defense, we've guys like Josh

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Speaker 2: Bledsoe Orders It's easy, Joe Giles, Tristan Bradley King, So

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of there's you know, a lot of

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Speaker 2: guys given name, and all the guys on offense are

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Speaker 2: doing the same thing. You know, Matt's I work a

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Speaker 2: lot with Matt's Hohle because he's the tight end giving

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Speaker 2: the look for the offense of the tight end we're

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Speaker 2: going out against this week, and the other tight ends

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Speaker 2: do a great job helping out with that, helping out

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Speaker 2: with that as well, like Mike and Hunter and Pharaoh

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Speaker 2: and those guys too. But there's got to be someone

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Speaker 2: who can take you know, the majority of the reps

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Speaker 2: and the offensive guys do a great job helping us

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Speaker 2: out and committing to those roles and trying to do

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Speaker 2: their best to give us a great look. And the

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Speaker 2: defensive guys we're trying to do the same thing. And

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Speaker 2: it's fun, you know, to try to learn different defenses

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Speaker 2: every week there being run around the league and try

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Speaker 2: to replicate them the best we can to help team win.

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Speaker 2: So it's a it's an aspect of the preparation each

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Speaker 2: week that I really appreciate and I appreciate the question.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for us.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, and we'll get to you know, see these guys

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Speaker 1: locker room pretty much every day when you guys practice

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Speaker 1: for interviews. But are there any you know, coaches who

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Speaker 1: we don't get to speak to, you know, once every

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Speaker 1: two weeks here on Zoom that kind of contribute to that.

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Speaker 1: Like I imagine your hands are full of preparing for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs as it is, so, like how involved are

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Speaker 1: you in scout team versus maybe some of the QCs

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Speaker 1: or anybody else on staff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, the Usually it's the younger coaches who who

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Speaker 2: help with the the scout teams. And I've you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm thirty two now, so I'm getting I'm getting there,

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Speaker 2: and I've actually been here for a minute or joined

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Speaker 2: the defensive coaching staff in twenty seventeen, So.

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of more of the.

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Speaker 2: Veteran type coach who helps the scout team a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But really it's uh the Angel Bentley and uh Keith

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Speaker 2: who run the scout team for the defense and do

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Speaker 2: a great job of that. And you know, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of you know, different offensive coaches who help out

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Speaker 2: with the scout team too, and and pitchin.

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Speaker 3: And as a collectively, you know, they do a great

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Speaker 3: job of that.

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Speaker 2: All the position coaches over there on offense all, you know,

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Speaker 2: help out to get those guys ready.

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Speaker 3: On offense to try to give us the luck that

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Speaker 3: we're we're.

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Speaker 2: Preparing for that week the best they can. So it's

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Speaker 2: something we do every week for seventeen weeks straight or whatever.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't get talked talked about a lot in the

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Speaker 2: media obviously because you guys go a chance to don't

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Speaker 2: have a chance to see it.

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Speaker 3: But it's a big part of the week and we

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Speaker 3: enjoy it, players.

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Speaker 2: And coaches trying to you know, just get the team

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Speaker 2: in the best position to win.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciated man, Thanks Andrew.

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Speaker 2: I don't see any other hands raised, So we'll give

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Speaker 2: it a couple of seconds here to see if we

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Speaker 2: have any more questions.

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Speaker 1: I'll jump it with one more, Aaron, because I mean

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Speaker 1: Brian for you. I know, I wrote a Jalen Rager

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Speaker 1: and I was talking to him about like how he

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Speaker 1: wore a certain sleeve that like Stefan Diggs would wear

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Speaker 1: before the Buffalo game when he was helping simulate him.

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Speaker 1: Can you do you have any memorable examples on defensive

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Speaker 1: guys kind of going the extra mile to simulate body

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Speaker 1: mannerisms in addition to like the execution of the assignments

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Speaker 1: and the covered structure, et cetera, et cetera. But like

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Speaker 1: this guy, does you know x as just kind of

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Speaker 1: who he is as a player he dresses up like this,

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Speaker 1: does anything stand out like that?

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Speaker 3: The one that stands out in my mind initially is.

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Speaker 2: From Mike Rabel's Hall Fame ceremony where they were talking.

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Speaker 3: About how he would, you know, he's.

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Speaker 2: Mister versail on the field and so he would do whatever,

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Speaker 2: and so when they played the Steelers, he would.

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Speaker 3: Want to jump in and beat Troy palm Molo, which.

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Speaker 2: Is which was a I would say, in that era,

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Speaker 2: pretty enviable.

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Speaker 3: Spot to play because.

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Speaker 2: You can not do whatever you want, but you could do,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of whatever you want to try and

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Speaker 2: make it an instinctive play, because that's what.

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Speaker 3: Palm Ola did.

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Speaker 2: He made a lot of good plays where it looked

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Speaker 2: like he was freelancing a little bit.

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Speaker 3: So that's that's one that sticks out of my head.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: Defensively, you know, there's some mannerism type things, but it's

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Speaker 2: really more about like making sure you're in the right

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Speaker 2: spot so the offense, you know, or you're disguising the

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Speaker 2: way that their defense disguises or whatever, just to try

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Speaker 2: to get the right the right simulated look. And then

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Speaker 2: obviously playing you know, the style that they play, or

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Speaker 2: covering the way they cover, stuff like that. But based

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Speaker 2: on your question, something that it makes me think of

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Speaker 2: is the quarterbacks have done a great job trying to

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Speaker 2: help us give the opposing quarterback looks because that gets

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Speaker 2: into stuff like, you know, mannerisms like you're asking about,

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Speaker 2: or you know, signals, stuff.

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Speaker 3: Like that that can.

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Speaker 2: That you obviously everyone on defense is seeing the quarterback

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Speaker 2: on every play, so those details can be a little

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Speaker 2: more applicable for someone like the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks again, Brian, Thank you