1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Hey, coached, just wanted to ask you about to run 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: defense last night. Obviously strength at the game, it seems 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: like and it seems to be improved across the board. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Oh well, again that it's all about team defense. UM, 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: you know, everybody taking care of their responsibility. UM. I 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: think the defensive staff did did a real good job 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: this week of UM fundamentally working on some things that 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: we feel like we need to do better, and I 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: think some of those things showed up in the game. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: But really it's it's being able to play play good 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: across the board. UM. Ivory and McCoy are excellent runners 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: and teach in a lot of different ways. So if 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: anybody's not where they're supposed to be, those guys can 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: confine them and make a pain ory. Thanks sketch, Sure 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: you're welcome. Next question Andrew Callahan, followed by William Benn 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Bill. Yeah. Uh, in your experience, how often 17 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: do trade conversations or price points for players changed significantly, 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: you know, when you're in the last hour a few 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: minutes leading up to the trade deadline. Yeah, I don't know. 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: That's a good question. UM. Most of those situations all 21 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: are are different. UM. And usually Nick Nixon bold and 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: handles a lot more of those than than I do. Um. 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: You know, I'm in meetings with players and staff trying 24 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: to get ready for the game. So really we have 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: other people on our staff that I would say handle 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: the majority of those those calls in that discussion. Next 27 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: question William Bennison, followed by Doug cot Oh, coach, how 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: are you, um, how have you seen Tray Flowers improved 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,559 Speaker 1: his ability in the run against the rut just since 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: you've started coaching him? Well, Tredy has always been been 31 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: a pretty pretty good run player. He does a very 32 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: good job he using his hands and and uh, he's athletic, 33 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: he's got good, good speed, and I think the play 34 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: made there when McCoy balanced bounced to run outside and 35 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: looked like there was some space there, and you know 36 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: trades they look to push him out of bounds after 37 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: he only gained a couple of yards. So, UM, it's 38 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: overall playing strength, technique and quickness and athleticism on the 39 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: edge on the end of the line, or he does 40 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: a good job with all that, and um he really 41 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: always has UM. I mean, certainly he's improved like every 42 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: player has and every player does that, works hard and 43 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: gets more experienced. But he did a pretty good job 44 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: of that. Un really his second year. I mean his 45 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: first year he missed the majority of the year and 46 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: and it wasn't all that healthy and training camp when 47 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: he was out there. But from that point on he's 48 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: been pretty pretty good with it. Thanks, you're welcome. Next question, 49 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: Don Kai, followed by Michael Track. We jump ahead to 50 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: Michael Shagmill. We'll come back to dock. Go ahead, Mike. Thanks, 51 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: Stacy bill Um afternoon. M Josh was Josh was talking earlier, 52 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: and I thought it was an interesting point, whether it's 53 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: through a trade or off waivers, whenever you bring in 54 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: a player that's new to the system. He said, it's 55 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: a good practice for the whole staff, the whole football 56 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: staff to kind of revisit what they're trying to coach 57 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: up with players and from from the beginning, from from 58 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: like a UM ground zero type of point, if you 59 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm just like to get your 60 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: your thoughts and perspective on UM. You know the value 61 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: of doing that not only for the players benefits, but 62 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: for the coaching staff as well. Uh yeah, absolutely, I 63 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: think anytime you UM you go to a process like 64 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: that where you take a new player and you condense 65 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: information and accelerate them the time of the teaching that 66 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: it forces you maybe to be a little bit more efficient. 67 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: So there are things in our terminology, for example, that 68 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: we've had through the years, and those that have those 69 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: of us that have been here and have used those 70 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: terms are very familiar with them, and they're they're kind 71 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: of maybe ingrained, but they're not ingrained to a new player. 72 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: And sometimes the teaching progression for a new player when 73 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: you try to teach them things like that, there's no 74 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: good correlation for it. So it's, you know, players trying 75 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: to learn it, but it's hard for him to learn 76 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: it because it doesn't mean anything to them. Whereas if 77 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: you could use another word or another phrase that was 78 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: more let's say, synonymous to what the meaning of the player, 79 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: the technique or the concept was, that it might be 80 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: easier and quickly learn and to learn. So a lot 81 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: of times will come back on that and maybe in 82 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: the old season and so you know, we were going 83 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: over this and it's actually it's kind of hard to learn. 84 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: We know it, so it's easy for us, but for 85 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: a new player it's it's kind of hard to learn. 86 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: When we see we can take a look at its 87 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: streamline and maybe change some of the verbiage around so 88 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: that it's more consistent or there's a pattern to it, 89 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: it's easier to remember the words had more meaning when 90 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: they're when they're said, rather than it kind of just 91 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: being understood through experience and things like that. So, um, yeah, 92 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that. I think that's true. And 93 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 1: um i'd say that's where a lot of are I 94 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: would say upgrades and terminology or upgrades and are systematic 95 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: teaching have come from, and then where we had to 96 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: try to teach it in a short amount of time, 97 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: so you have to be more efficient. Sometimes if you 98 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: have a lot of time, even if you're inefficient, you 99 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: can still get through it. You don't realize that it's, 100 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: um you know, maybe that's as outdated as as what 101 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: it is sometimes. So yeah, that's it's a really good point, 102 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: and I absolutely I think there's a lot of value 103 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: in that for us and then for the next new 104 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: players that come out and have to go through the 105 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: same thing. Great, Thanks, Bill, welcome. That's like the last 106 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: question we Doug Kai Doug Key here is Okay, yeah, 107 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: am I immuted to time? All right? Bill? I guess 108 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: this goes back to Andrew's question a little bit um, 109 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: But does having the trade deadline fall in a short 110 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: week create any more of an any more of a challenge, 111 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: I guess for you or the coaching staff or even 112 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: uh oh no, I don't think so. I think if 113 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: you have a later game like we had this week, 114 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: then you use a little bit of the extra time 115 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,119 Speaker 1: last week to maybe to check on a couple of things, 116 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: or teams that want to communicate with us, can and 117 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: did do that knowing that we had a game on 118 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: Monday night. They might have initiated a conversation on Friday 119 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: or Saturday last week, or I mean sometimes these conversations 120 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: go back several weeks, so you just never know how 121 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: it's gonna Each situation is different, and I don't think 122 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: there's any set formula. But yeah, I don't think it's 123 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: that big of a deal. Well, everybody's pretty accessible by phone, 124 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: so we can get ahold of whoever we need to 125 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: get ahold of. Anybody needs to get ahold of us, 126 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: they can they can do that too.