Speaker 1: Yea far away, Doug, can you confront it? Stephen talk
Speaker 1: is gonna sign here? Um, yes, yes, he'll be in
Speaker 1: later tonight here. Well yeah, yeah, you know, UM, obviously
Speaker 1: he's familiar with UH with Coach Schwartz's defense. Um. At
Speaker 1: the same time, he's coming in to compete for that
Speaker 1: linebacker spot there in the middle. And it's just unfortunate
Speaker 1: with the loss of you know, with Joe right now,
Speaker 1: we just need depth to fill that spot. So, UM,
Speaker 1: we just got to see where he's at, what is
Speaker 1: what is uh, what his health is when he gets here,
Speaker 1: you know, physical all that stuff that we do with
Speaker 1: players and and uh and then and then slowly working
Speaker 1: in the spot competing the Jordan he's he's competing. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's competing for the spot you know right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan's a starter. And and it just goes
Speaker 1: without saying that, you know, in every position. UM. And
Speaker 1: and just with the with the loss of Joe right now,
Speaker 1: we just needed we needed, you know, a linebacker and uh,
Speaker 1: and he was the best available for us. And then
Speaker 1: look forward to working with him. If Stephen comes in
Speaker 1: and wins the middle line, could he I think he's
Speaker 1: athletic enough and smart enough possibly, but right now, that's
Speaker 1: not the plan. He's player that played for Jim that
Speaker 1: you've brought in, which seems indicated a high amount of
Speaker 1: trust and a jew's opinion from both you and how
Speaker 1: can you kind of Well, I mean, you know, Jim's
Speaker 1: had great success with defenses in the National Football League
Speaker 1: and and his players always played a high level. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, any time offensively, defensively, or even in in
Speaker 1: special teams, if you can grab a player that you've
Speaker 1: worked with in the past, UM that knows your terminology
Speaker 1: and knows your system. Um, I think it's no different
Speaker 1: than Chase Daniel on offense for me, and and and
Speaker 1: having guys like that that are very comfortable with your
Speaker 1: with your with your with your defense or offense. I
Speaker 1: think I think just just helps um helps the overall
Speaker 1: learning and helps the overall process of of of the defense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two and a half weeks ago or whatever, it was like,
Speaker 1: what why, why dude, he's signing? Then? Did you feel
Speaker 1: like you can get a pilou what you have? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we wanted to give an opportunity
Speaker 1: these young guys that we had and Joe was actually playing,
Speaker 1: playing well and uh and doing some nice things for us,
Speaker 1: So we just didn't feel the need to do it
Speaker 1: at that time. So Nigel choice, are you concerned at
Speaker 1: all that comicity time? I am not, and I haven't
Speaker 1: had any updates on that. Joe has been a core
Speaker 1: contributor on special teams backup linebackers usually have to do.
Speaker 1: That is not a concern of Kine is brought in
Speaker 1: his backgroup. Well, it's something that when when when I
Speaker 1: get a chance to sit down with him and coach fifth,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is a again, it's a
Speaker 1: team sport and everybody has to um play a big
Speaker 1: role in special teams and and and I know his past,
Speaker 1: you know he hasn't played a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of areas. But if he can, if he can come
Speaker 1: in at least give us one one special team's unit
Speaker 1: right now to begin with um and then and then
Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes from there. But you know
Speaker 1: that is a that is a linebackers in general play
Speaker 1: and tight ends definitely play you know, the bulk of
Speaker 1: your special team. So it's something that we have to
Speaker 1: we have to consider and and get him on at
Speaker 1: least one core team. How much the role you can
Speaker 1: Carson do on Saturday? What's the plan for him this
Speaker 1: week is in the persons a day. He threw a
Speaker 1: little bit pre practice, he threw some during the practice,
Speaker 1: but but not in the drills. You know, he was
Speaker 1: on the side. Um again he soare you know, which
Speaker 1: is expected. So we're just going to back him down
Speaker 1: again today and and and it's just still still a
Speaker 1: day to day injury. So he won't throw today. If
Speaker 1: he won't throw today, Um, he threw, he threw saturday, Uh,
Speaker 1: through through a little bit yesterday and and and sore today.
Speaker 1: So we'll uh, we'll just keep getting treatment and monitor that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's hitting closer that he had to make good for
Speaker 1: us decisions. What area you think is the compass right
Speaker 1: for you? Kind of whittled down to where you have
Speaker 1: to get to like yeah, you know, it's it's the
Speaker 1: it's I'll tell you this, it's the unfortunate part of
Speaker 1: this business because you want to be able to keep
Speaker 1: everybody number one. Um. You know, I think if you
Speaker 1: just look at positions on the football team, I mean
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive line, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: bodies there. And there's a lot of um, a lot
Speaker 1: of uh, good competition at those two spots, you know,
Speaker 1: corners another one that that's having having tremendous work there. Um.
Speaker 1: And and you know, bottom line is it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's the nature of the business. Um. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this. I mean just I've never been a part
Speaker 1: of this process before obviously, but a lot of times, uh,
Speaker 1: you end up cutting players that are good players for you,
Speaker 1: that obviously have success other places. That's again that's just
Speaker 1: the nature of this business. And and um, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, myself and Howie and
Speaker 1: the coordinators and you know, we got to make the
Speaker 1: best decisions for for our team. I don't know's it
Speaker 1: a good wide receiver position? Obviously you gotta find somebody.
Speaker 1: But up tough, is it? It seems like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that's seen there are And again that's
Speaker 1: that's probably another position that uh, you know we look
Speaker 1: at here. Um, you know, particularly the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and it's tough because you know, you don't you don't
Speaker 1: carry a ton of receivers and and um, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what number that's gonna be whether it's
Speaker 1: full five or six guys. Um, and it's it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: you again you want to keep them all. But we
Speaker 1: got to find the best the best players at every
Speaker 1: position that you know are going to help us on
Speaker 1: a game day. And that's that's just the bottom line.
Speaker 1: I'm putting together the three in terms of is it
Speaker 1: all merit based as out before two or do you
Speaker 1: take an account potential and financials and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: you look at you look at everything, and especially with
Speaker 1: young players, you know, their their roles usually our special
Speaker 1: team's value for us. And then and then do they
Speaker 1: have practice quad eligibility you know, I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: a way to keep uh, to keep guys that that
Speaker 1: that you want on your team is as solid backups
Speaker 1: if if the need arises during the regular season, and
Speaker 1: and um, you know, uh, I don't get into all
Speaker 1: the number stuff. I mean, I leave that up to
Speaker 1: Howie and and and you know his team to do that.
Speaker 1: But again, at the end of the day, we're gonna
Speaker 1: find the best. Fifty three going into Cleveland comes to
Speaker 1: you with a player, Uh, do you have the right
Speaker 1: to over over for the fifty three to override with.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if it's an override as
Speaker 1: much as you know, I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: voice my opinion on on players obviously, Um I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm first But first of all, I'm gonna gather all
Speaker 1: the information on that player. I'm gonna study that player
Speaker 1: from an X is an over standpoint. I'm gonna, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find history, you know, a personal history. I want.
Speaker 1: I want to find out about the guy before I
Speaker 1: bring him into the into the fold. And and um,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's a if it's a strong recommendation
Speaker 1: by Howie and his team, then then uh uh. And
Speaker 1: if it's a definite it's a definite need uh, then
Speaker 1: then you know you pull the trigger. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can. I can definitely voice voice an opinion. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna be one guy or the other as a
Speaker 1: starter or as the possibility of you know, having some
Speaker 1: kind of rotation more talk. Maybe he plays every third
Speaker 1: or fourth series or something like that, just to keep
Speaker 1: picks for USh. Yeah, right now, I really can't. It's
Speaker 1: hard to answer that question until we get him in
Speaker 1: here and see where he's at physically. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he did play you know, a full schedule last year
Speaker 1: and should be relatively healthy. And then how how well
Speaker 1: he fits into the into the system. So, um, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna get him here one day at a time
Speaker 1: with him and then get him caught up as fast
Speaker 1: as we can as as far as I'll bring back
Speaker 1: where you gonna mix ann with the ones and twos
Speaker 1: this week? What have you learned about? Yeah, a couple
Speaker 1: of things that I've learned. Number One, he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's eager to learn, he's wanting to learn. Um,
Speaker 1: great personality in the room. You know, the guys really
Speaker 1: embraced him here and which is good to see. And
Speaker 1: then and then we just keep you know, I just
Speaker 1: gotta keep feeding him a little bit of information. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of whatever he was taught in Tennessee
Speaker 1: kind of you know, it's a little different here. You know,
Speaker 1: what we're teaching and everybody's teaching styles are different and
Speaker 1: what we're teaching is different. So we have to kind
Speaker 1: of find out what he knows. And then and then
Speaker 1: take what we are running offensively from from routes and
Speaker 1: and and uh run game and everything, and then just
Speaker 1: start piecing things together for him and put him in
Speaker 1: and putting him in a little small packages and just
Speaker 1: giving him small increments of information so so that we're
Speaker 1: not overwhelming him, you know. Right here, after about three
Speaker 1: or four days described working of course and yesterdays we're
Speaker 1: going to test him because see where he's at now
Speaker 1: that he's he's not going to be practicing days I
Speaker 1: say anything about so he's availability for the rest of
Speaker 1: the preseasons. What's the plan for him? Now? It still
Speaker 1: doesn't it still doesn't affect that, you know, with these
Speaker 1: injuries against a rib cage injury. So it's a rib
Speaker 1: and it's it's going to be sore because everything you
Speaker 1: do and you know, every time you turn the corner
Speaker 1: and it's affect you. So we just got to continue
Speaker 1: to monitor, uh, continue to get the treatment, you know,
Speaker 1: night and day and and uh you know again fully
Speaker 1: expect him to go to potential. Um. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: to say, you have two guys that one might be better.
Speaker 1: Single that help you right now, but you'll really like
Speaker 1: you've seen a guy think he might be developed kind
Speaker 1: of like wins. Well, you know, yeah, it's case by
Speaker 1: case and everybody's a little different. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: I I gotta see who can help us right now.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, I mean we we play, we play in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and and you know, do you
Speaker 1: want to plan for the future. Obviously you want to
Speaker 1: do that, But at the same time, you gotta have
Speaker 1: fifty three guys that you can plug in at any
Speaker 1: any and given given uh you know, notice and moment
Speaker 1: and expect him to play. So um, A lot of
Speaker 1: times it comes down to special teams value and how
Speaker 1: well that that and how many you know, core units
Speaker 1: after that player is is a part of josha is
Speaker 1: three characters? Thys about forty STAPs first two preseason games
Speaker 1: we talked about special teams value? Is his value on
Speaker 1: special teams? Is it enough for him to feel secure
Speaker 1: about a roster spout right now or does he need
Speaker 1: to pick it up offense? Yeah? And you know this
Speaker 1: week is is different again. You know, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's it's more of a more of an in season
Speaker 1: structure and we got to start getting those players. Josh
Speaker 1: Huff being in that group, um more touches more reps
Speaker 1: offensively and on special teams. So I would expect his
Speaker 1: workload to uh potentially increase. Uh this week, you like
Speaker 1: to see brand would improved on Saturday night. First, you
Speaker 1: know what he did first against Pittsburgh. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean he did. He did a nice job
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. And and uh uh you know, obviously the
Speaker 1: penalties and things like that we have to eliminate, but
Speaker 1: the fact that uh, you know, put him in situations
Speaker 1: where he had the ability to uh I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say audible because they weren't audible, but based on what
Speaker 1: the defense um gave him, he was able to adjust
Speaker 1: to play and and and things like that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: give him more of those things this week, you know,
Speaker 1: more of a more of a game, game plan type
Speaker 1: a game for him, and and just just moving moving
Speaker 1: the team. I want to see the completion percentage be
Speaker 1: you know, sixty five, sixty seven percent. You'd love to
Speaker 1: see a touchdown pass or two in there. Um, But again,
Speaker 1: you can't press the issue. You gotta let the game
Speaker 1: unfold and and again put him in positions to be successful.
Speaker 1: Dorson us after your draft A post nine heels aggressive
Speaker 1: and he took shots down the fields, something that you'd
Speaker 1: like to see Sam the world. Yeah, and a lot
Speaker 1: of times too, comes down to the play caller, you know,
Speaker 1: calling those shots and and how the game is going.
Speaker 1: And um, you know Sam's mentality, if it's there, he's
Speaker 1: gonna pull the trigger. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not going to force it down the field when
Speaker 1: sometimes a back or a tight end underneath can be
Speaker 1: can be the best alternative, you know, in situations like that.
Speaker 1: But we'll continue to shoot the ball down the field
Speaker 1: with Lane and again until I get notice from the
Speaker 1: league office. You know, I'm not going to comment on
Speaker 1: that any any further. Is that gonna be the way
Speaker 1: you would have it this year? Exactly? No, I can't.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna say one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, those first two games we played,
Speaker 1: we're playing a lot of people. You know, we're playing
Speaker 1: a lot of people. We didn't have a specific you
Speaker 1: know role for one guy or the next over the
Speaker 1: next you know. Again, this week, we'll begin utilizing some
Speaker 1: of our players, you know, differently, um, and the tight
Speaker 1: ends will be used a little different this week. Thank you.