1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: All right, back to back to work this week after 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Sunday night West coast trip, So we'll have a modified 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: week of practice. Today, we'll be a walk through. Tomorrow. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be a modified practice. You know, we'll get 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: some some speed and and then a little bit of 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: a jock do as well, and then Friday or Friday 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: will be full speed. But really just trying to focus 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: on getting the guys ready physically and mentally. What we 9 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: talked about today is no matter the tempo of our practice, 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: you know, fast or slow, this standard is the same, right, 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: the standard for practice is always very high. The tempo 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: of practice should never change that. So we'll look forward 13 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: to a good week of practice. How did you go 14 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: about how did you do this go about kind of 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: deciding how to play that out? I mean, obviously the 16 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: long trip, but is that what it balls down to 17 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 1: or more? Yeah, it's it's the it's the trip, it's 18 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: the health of the team. It's you know, talking to 19 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: our sports science people, uh, you know, getting a feel 20 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: from player, you know, just the general sense from players, 21 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: um where we are in the year. Really, it's a 22 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: group thing. I end up having to make the call. 23 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: It's just a gut feeling of what I think is 24 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: best to get us right. One of the things I 25 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: learned from Marv Levy, you know, back in the day, 26 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: was when you get to this time of year on 27 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: these kind of things, you're always better off to air 28 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: on this side of getting them more rested rather than 29 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: driving them into the ground. So kind of taking a 30 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: lesson from his playbook. There your own experience. Now four 31 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 1: years in, you've had some of these instances we've pulled 32 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: back and gone the other way as well. What have 33 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: you learned from those experiences and hasn't usually gone the 34 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: way you've anticipated? Yeah, our experience here has been when 35 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: we've pulled back, it's been it's usually been good. I 36 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: mean not one hundred percent, but it's been good because 37 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: the guys they just really dial in mentally to what 38 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: like what we'll do today, understand how important every rep is. 39 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: You know, we try to make an emphasis on even 40 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: though we're not going full speed, we can still have 41 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: good pad level, we can still have our hat in 42 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: the right place, we can still our footwork can still 43 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: be good. But then physically get reached and get ready 44 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: to go. All right now you are, are you starting 45 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: to see some of the Carsons of twenty seventeen twenty 46 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: eighteen come back a little bit. Yeah, I think that's 47 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: fair to set that way, Bob. You know, I probably 48 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,839 Speaker 1: this is and this is my fault. I probably want 49 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: to start talking in terms of you know, those were 50 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,679 Speaker 1: that was a great year, you know, when I was 51 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: with him. But you know, I probably need to do 52 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: a better job of focusing on, Hey, he's here now. 53 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm really looking for the new verb, you know, the 54 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: Colts version of him that can you know, where this 55 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: he just keeps getting better and better and m but 56 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: what we are seeing is, um, he's playing good football, 57 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: you know. And but what we talk about is every 58 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: week is a new week, you know, and we can 59 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: we can always get better, and we have to get better, 60 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: and he has to get better. We all do so. UM. 61 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: I really like the way he's pushing the ball down 62 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: the field, how aggressively he's thinking, is still making good decisions, 63 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: checking it down when he needs to. He's doing a 64 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: great job in the run game, you know, when we 65 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: need to get to the right checks in the run game, 66 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: managing the game the right way and making plays and 67 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: being good situationally. And then last week we saw him 68 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: making a couple of plays with his feet, but without 69 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: going crazy doing that. So we're trying to find that 70 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: right balance he developed from week one until until right now. 71 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: I just think a lot of it's just getting more confidence, 72 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: you know, in the system and the players, you know, 73 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: and then just the more reps, more practice reps. I 74 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: just think has breeded more confidence not only in him, 75 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: but in our whole team. And it's been good for me, 76 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: you know, as the play caller and working with him again, 77 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: just getting a feel for our offense with him as 78 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: our quarterback. You know, it's not you know, it doesn't 79 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: just happen like that. You know, it's just a little 80 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: bit of a feel as we go and you talk 81 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: to your analytics guys a lot about in game stuff. 82 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: Do you talk to them this week about the division 83 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: and like what would happen with the win, what would 84 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: happen with the loss? And if you do, you tell 85 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: you the team. Yeah, those guys feed me all that information. 86 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: You know, what happens in the time, you know, I mean, 87 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: what happens in the tie, all those scenarios. It's a 88 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: little soon for some of that stuff. We haven't had 89 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: those discussions at this point, but before too long, I'm 90 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: sure we will. Right now, it's one and oh, I mean, 91 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: you know, we knew we put ourselves in a hole 92 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: and we're still digging ourselves out of that hole. That 93 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: guys made a decision on right guard for this week. No, 94 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna those guys are gonna at some level, those 95 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: guys are gonna split. The reps haven't made you know, 96 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: we'll make a decision later in the week as far 97 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: as the starter, but either way we go, those guys 98 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: are going to split. The reps are not to think 99 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: about the magnitude of this game, because it is the 100 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: team that is in first place in the division, that 101 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: has already beaten once this year, that you know, went 102 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: into the division becomes the bigger obstacle because they've swept you. 103 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: If you guys lose this game, yeah, I mean, I 104 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: think we all understand, Mike exactly what you're saying, the 105 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: magnitude of the game. But really the challenge is to 106 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: stay focused on preparation. You know, blowing up the magnitude 107 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: of the game, you know, in our day to day 108 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: preparations probably doesn't really do a lot. I mean, we're 109 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: pretty these these guys are pretty motivated. We're all work 110 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: very hard. Really, all that's going to win this game 111 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: is execution. So actually the emotion sometimes what my experience 112 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: is the emotion of a game can become a distraction. 113 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: You know, you want to find a way to use 114 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: the emotion in a positive way to give you a 115 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: little bit extra juice. But that I just think that 116 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: can be overplayed and if you and if you get 117 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: too amped up, it doesn't normally end well. I mean, 118 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: because you get amped up. For what to play a series, 119 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: you got to play well for sixty minutes. So that's 120 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: really what we're focused on, you know, doing the little 121 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: things right, being smart, being good situationally, being physical, being tough. 122 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: We know we're going up against that kind of a 123 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: team and so we need to be at our best. 124 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: With the analytics. I mean, you guys drew like four 125 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: or five DPIs last week. You don't look at your 126 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: shark say third and two. Okay, let's pull up the DPI. 127 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: But is there something to drawing those I mean with 128 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: Pittman and Curson and throw it up and say either 129 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,679 Speaker 1: you get it or yeah, you know there's no doubt, 130 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: And um, you know a lot of times you say, hey, 131 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: we throw a ball deep and a couple there's you 132 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: know a few things that can happen. A lot of 133 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: them are good for the offense, you know, Um that 134 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: And what you hope is the percentage of interception is 135 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: low because then your guy can play defender if he 136 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: has to. Um, but you can, we can get a reception, 137 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: we can get dpi. UM. Hopefully the worst thing that 138 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: happens isn't incompletion. So um. But it takes an aggressive mindset, 139 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: and it takes a quarterback and a receiver who who 140 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: know how to make those plays? And you know right 141 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: now we're making them. But again, UM, no guarantees we 142 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: got to. And there is an art and his guilt 143 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: to it. There's an instinct and there's an instinct and 144 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: a savvyness to it. And obviously Pitt did a good 145 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: job on that last week, and so did you know, 146 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: so Kiki? You know, Kiki did a real good job 147 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: down in the middle. I mean, it was obviously very legit, 148 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: legit call, but um, he still did a very good job. Uh. 149 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Has it just been taking some time to get him 150 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: into the offense. But what do you see out of him? 151 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: Obviously the guy who's played a lot, He's made a 152 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: lot of catching. Yeah, it's fast, he's quick, he's tough, 153 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: he's smart. But we like him, you know, we like him. 154 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: I mean it's a good room. You know. I've been 155 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: bragging about this room from the very started training camp 156 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: and um, you know we've been Chris's Chris and I've 157 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: been talking about man. Would love to get him on 158 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: the field. So this is you know, his opportunity came 159 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: up last week and he did well on the Knocks 160 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: on Jay coming out that you can catch a lot 161 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,559 Speaker 1: of passes in Wisconsin. Now what you're running into Dollan yards, 162 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: you're not committing a lot of passing. Did you challenge 163 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: him to get better in that area? And I talked 164 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: to Scottie he said kind of the same thing, and 165 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: how has he changed in that regard? He just committed 166 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 1: to it, you know. I mean we had a pretty 167 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: good sense of him coming out that that he did 168 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: have good ball skills. Um, you know, I had another 169 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: back that came you know, Melvin Gordon come out of 170 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: there and same thing with him, and he's he's good 171 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So I wasn't we weren't Chris 172 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: and I were not distracted by the fact that he 173 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: didn't catch a lot of balls in college. We saw 174 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: enough in the workout. We could tell through the interviews 175 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: a really smart guy, guy who's got a great work ethic, 176 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: is going to Hey, you ask him, Hey, we need 177 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: you to learn this. You know, here's our here's our 178 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: route tree for running backs. We need you to become 179 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: an expert at it. Here's the way we do protections. 180 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: And we want you to be a three down back, 181 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to become an expert at this. 182 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: And um, you know he's just willing to put in 183 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: the work. This much from him, this it's one of those. Yeah, 184 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: I would say it's fair to say that. I would 185 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: fair to say he's exceeding my expectations. Um, I think 186 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: he's outstanding. I think he's one of the best players 187 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: in the league. Um. I give Chris a lot of credit. 188 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: I think, not that I didn't think he was going 189 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: to be great, but I think Chris saw this in 190 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: him from the very start. I remember Chris telling me 191 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, exactly. He was a little biased, but 192 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: he was He happened to be right. You guys are 193 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: so much on situational like selling in situations you guys 194 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: are winning the turnover battle, but you're off the charts 195 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: and scoring off turnovers offensively. It's just got my chances 196 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: and I mean you're like plus fifty or sixty wherever 197 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, I mean no, not much by chance 198 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: in this league. You know, Um, it really comes down 199 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: to players understanding the situation and then you know, making 200 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: the plays that are needed to take capitalizing on opportunity. Know, 201 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: we talk a lot about opportunity, right, you know, all 202 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: those present our opportunities this week as an opportunity. We 203 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: get a turnover, it's an opportunity. There's no guarantees what's 204 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: happens with those with those opportunities you get. We got 205 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: to make something happen with them. I think the players 206 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: own that buy into that and do a good job 207 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: with it.