Speaker 1: Every handoff can be a dive at the needs. Have
Speaker 1: you guys discussed that at all and what you might
Speaker 1: be able to do. No, I think I think it's important.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's getting hits as sort of an occupational
Speaker 1: hazard of playing football, and we just got to do
Speaker 1: a good job of making sure we protect ourselves, you know,
Speaker 1: in that situation there, you know, when the edge rusher
Speaker 1: over commits to the quarterback, as long as there's a
Speaker 1: single safety in the middle, then there's running room and
Speaker 1: probably the backside see or d gap depending on whether
Speaker 1: it's two or three surface and that specific play, Darren
Speaker 1: found the cutback and we got a five yard game.
Speaker 1: So we move on. So we run plays and they
Speaker 1: get officiated. That's it. Or do you think it is
Speaker 1: for him to be here with stand a hit and
Speaker 1: how much that helped his confidence you think after everything
Speaker 1: he's been Yeah, well, the unintended consequence of being hit
Speaker 1: is that you get to see that you can handle him,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think he had a couple of
Speaker 1: times in the game where he took some shots and
Speaker 1: he was able to bounce up and that'll help him
Speaker 1: check off some more boxes to be ready to play
Speaker 1: and will be ahead of the wrestled that Gardner's done
Speaker 1: a good job. You know, I think it's too early
Speaker 1: to tell who that guy is going to be, but
Speaker 1: we feel good about his progress. You know. Well, we've
Speaker 1: still got a couple of games, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think we get we get a lot of reps out here.
Speaker 1: The guys that are potentially going to play in that
Speaker 1: spot get a chance to practice. Got a great deal
Speaker 1: and so get them. Yeah, other guys getting prest the
Speaker 1: first week. Sure, we're just we got a little good
Speaker 1: little rotation there. So we got you know, a few
Speaker 1: guys there that could potentially play there. We're going to
Speaker 1: buy language. Are you working with quarterbacks post post hand off?
Speaker 1: They're not so yeah. Well, you know, typically when you
Speaker 1: hand the ball off, you either set up and show
Speaker 1: pass or in most runs, whether you're under center or
Speaker 1: in the shotgun, you typically will fake the naked to
Speaker 1: try to help control that edge defender. And so, um,
Speaker 1: the good news. We're in the shotgun so you can
Speaker 1: see it all. You know. I think it's probably a
Speaker 1: little bit tougher for the guys under center with their
Speaker 1: backs turned on it, but just got to protect yourself.
Speaker 1: I mean is it troubling to you personally that that
Speaker 1: the NFL could come out and say that that particular
Speaker 1: head even bad in the east of Legal You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't really seen or I don't
Speaker 1: worry about what's been said. You know, we just we
Speaker 1: just know that when you're out on the field, you
Speaker 1: got you got to do your job and you gotta
Speaker 1: protect yourself. Why don't you worry about what being said
Speaker 1: about the issue anything, because we just coach plays and
Speaker 1: then they beat, then they're officiated, and then um, as
Speaker 1: times change, things come up. There was a time when
Speaker 1: when you lined up in victory, everybody just stayed high.
Speaker 1: Well two years ago somebody went low. So now part
Speaker 1: of that coaching process says, hey, when we're in victory,
Speaker 1: for tect yourself, they could go low. So we just
Speaker 1: as coaches, we sort of just respond to it and
Speaker 1: then coach our guys to protect themselves. Getting hit his
Speaker 1: side with Sam, how did he look, you know, with
Speaker 1: mechanically with his friend accuracy that kind of thing. You know,
Speaker 1: he missed a couple of throws and it was just
Speaker 1: more of just them getting a little bit more work
Speaker 1: here and training. But his terms of his mechanics and
Speaker 1: the way he threw and the way he handled himself.
Speaker 1: We felt like he did a good job enough Bond
Speaker 1: did the guy there for quietly, he's done a really
Speaker 1: really good job. And you know a little bit broader
Speaker 1: view of things is he's really helping that left side
Speaker 1: be really solid. We feel good about where he's at
Speaker 1: and we feel good about the work he's doing with
Speaker 1: with Kelsey and Peters there. So he's done a really
Speaker 1: really good job. Were running backspaces, we maybe going through
Speaker 1: this one spot what beyond pople she just on the
Speaker 1: field goes too well thout it such go to helpful
Speaker 1: pick all of the decision that going to be well,
Speaker 1: we just keep watching them play, you know, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to pick the best fifty three guys. And
Speaker 1: you know, two years, you know we've had different combinations
Speaker 1: of skill players. You know, we can have four running backs,
Speaker 1: three tight ends, four tight ends, three running backs. So um,
Speaker 1: that's the decision that that we'll have to make as
Speaker 1: we get near the end. In the meantime, we just
Speaker 1: get them all reps and get them all as good
Speaker 1: as they can be and then we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Then that just playing right guard. He taking snaps at
Speaker 1: all the seas that position. Versatility. Yeah, he's pretty much
Speaker 1: playing at right guard right now. Still you're still here. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we thought maybe that, like t you said before, just
Speaker 1: because of the size of John Block and maybe do
Speaker 1: something that you know he said, we think, sorrylistically, whether
Speaker 1: he's get into the offense, we still hear again, Um,
Speaker 1: what does he do? Um effectively? Two QB A guy
Speaker 1: that I guess the next Well, Dennis has played guard
Speaker 1: and he's played tackle of lad he's probably played more
Speaker 1: tackle than guard, and he's done a really good job.
Speaker 1: He's had quietly had a very good, very good training camp.
Speaker 1: So um, he's just continuing to develop himself as a player.
Speaker 1: And if he can develop, you know, the ability to
Speaker 1: play multiple positions, that's something you have to do if
Speaker 1: you're going to be that sixth or seventh guy on
Speaker 1: game day. And I think he's he's closer to being
Speaker 1: that guy if he's not the starter. Since we're talking
Speaker 1: about like offensive liney and everything, have you noticed anything
Speaker 1: different than out Jason Peters. I mean he's shop waiting
Speaker 1: everything for this like affect to the way he's playing
Speaker 1: it on I mean do you think he's Well, he's
Speaker 1: three years you know, into into our system, so he's
Speaker 1: really really tied into what he has to do mentally,
Speaker 1: you know, he knows the whys and the what for
Speaker 1: is other than just do that, you know, and so
Speaker 1: and that comes with experience within the system. Uh. You
Speaker 1: mentioned that he's come back a little bit lighter. He's
Speaker 1: a huge man anyway, so being a little bit lighter
Speaker 1: is a good thing. And his preparation has been terrific,
Speaker 1: and I think he feels good about Alan being next
Speaker 1: to him. You know, there's a lot of communication that
Speaker 1: goes on. You know, you have individual guys certainly, and
Speaker 1: then you have the line as a unit, but then
Speaker 1: then it kind of goes down the sides and so
Speaker 1: on that left side. Those two guys working together has
Speaker 1: been terrific. What sort of work is zach Ertz been
Speaker 1: able to do? And what do you think is Atlanta
Speaker 1: still possibility? I don't know, I'm assuming. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's behind the scenes, he's taking care of all his
Speaker 1: treatment obligations, he's in all the meetings, and he's doing
Speaker 1: everything he can physically. So he's right there mentally, and again,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's been around here a while. He
Speaker 1: knows what we're doing, so he'll be It'll just be
Speaker 1: a matter of him getting out there and practice him.
Speaker 1: What do you need to see out of Sam ingreen Man?
Speaker 1: Know that this guy is ready. The injury thing is
Speaker 1: way behind him and he's ready to go for the
Speaker 1: old ros. Well, he's he's out there playing, so we
Speaker 1: just need him to, you know, to just play as
Speaker 1: well as he can. Hey, and when we go on
Speaker 1: the field, all we're trying to do is score touchdowns
Speaker 1: and get get in the end zone. So he led
Speaker 1: us to a touchdown scoring drive when he was in
Speaker 1: the game the other night, So we just want him
Speaker 1: to do that. Jordan was able to take care of
Speaker 1: size mismatches in the side last year. Pat, do you
Speaker 1: expect teams to adjust this year to him? And how
Speaker 1: really if they don't have to size him hatch up
Speaker 1: with him? Well, the advantage to being big is that's
Speaker 1: what you want, you know, and he is. He's a
Speaker 1: big receiver and so if he gets matched up on
Speaker 1: a little guy, that's obviously a physical advantage that we
Speaker 1: want to exploit. So I don't know, it'd be a
Speaker 1: question for the defensive coordinators how they're gonna want to
Speaker 1: handle it. But he's also worked outside. We could move
Speaker 1: him around, and he's done a good job in the
Speaker 1: run game. So we're just looking forward to seeing what
Speaker 1: he can do. He had great production a year ago.
Speaker 1: Just seeing what he can do in your tools have
Speaker 1: been relative to what you had seen on film and
Speaker 1: bringing steps, well, he's had He's had a really fine camp.
Speaker 1: You know, he's missed a couple of days here, but
Speaker 1: very veteran player who's out here yesterday again and running
Speaker 1: routes and he knows how to get open and I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing you can say for Miles And really,
Speaker 1: you know, he had that kind of one year in Dallas,
Speaker 1: but last year in Cleveland, I think he had one
Speaker 1: of his better years, and we're trying to get the
Speaker 1: same thing from him this year. That um, you guys,
Speaker 1: you know that people und his playbook six two run
Speaker 1: Concerts six. You know, but do you open it up
Speaker 1: a little more in game three? Do you even watch
Speaker 1: any film with the Green Bay defense in that game? Well,
Speaker 1: we're aware of what they what they do because we
Speaker 1: played him a year ago. You know, we went through
Speaker 1: an extensive game plan, but typically, you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to run the plays we run. You know, we we
Speaker 1: have a very large playbook, and then we'll just keep
Speaker 1: picking and poking and try to find the things that
Speaker 1: work in each game. And if you don't have to
Speaker 1: go beyond a few then and they're working. You know,
Speaker 1: we really like plays that work well. So if we
Speaker 1: stumble on a couple early in the game that are
Speaker 1: working well, then we'll just stick with them. We're running back.
Speaker 1: What's the adjustina If you're going from playing an offense
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks, most of the understanding playing a shot then
Speaker 1: and were getting the ball out of the shot, well,
Speaker 1: you have to get used to certainly the ball handling
Speaker 1: part of it. Typically, you know, when you're behind the quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, it's more of a downhill, you know, and
Speaker 1: he'll come to meet you. You know. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just the feel of kind of receiving the ball from
Speaker 1: the side. And most running backs have experience with it.
Speaker 1: They just got to do it over and over and over. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the way we train, they get a lot of reps.
Speaker 1: It surprised at all and anything you've seen from Nelson now,
Speaker 1: I think he's really he's really made great strides in
Speaker 1: this training camp. He's proven he can make a play,
Speaker 1: and that's really critical for a receiver. You know. We
Speaker 1: teach them to run these very specific routes and then
Speaker 1: we teach him that this is the way it should
Speaker 1: look like ideally. Um. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you get downfield somehow, when the ball comes your way,
Speaker 1: you gotta catch it. And he's displayed in ability to
Speaker 1: do that, and that's I think what you'll help him
Speaker 1: kind of help start him on his way. He hasn't
Speaker 1: he too involved, you know in the first two games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gotten a great deal of work in practice or
Speaker 1: in training here. So um, same thing. We feel like
Speaker 1: he can make a play. And you know, he's probably
Speaker 1: in the same boat with Nelson. You know, if you
Speaker 1: throw them, the boy'll catch it. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Matt Barkley and to the Kebo.
Speaker 1: Would you see from many they battled, you know, I
Speaker 1: think they each had more good plays than bad, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, again, they just continue to
Speaker 1: get better and better, you know, And each situation is different.
Speaker 1: When you're playing in the back half of the game sometimes, um,
Speaker 1: every once in a while you see a player you
Speaker 1: don't recognize, and so they got to improvise a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so that kind of accounts for what's going on. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: all right,