Speaker 1: Different guys on the line. That's because the preparation going
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, thanks down. Yeah, he's doing a good job.
Speaker 1: It's been a preparation has been great. The guys have
Speaker 1: been They always get work. The second team guys always
Speaker 1: get a handful of reps. Every single team periods have
Speaker 1: always been prepared. John for example, every week would get uh.
Speaker 1: In some periods you'd get too at right guard, to
Speaker 1: at center, to it left guard. The other periers you
Speaker 1: get one at center, one at right guard when it
Speaker 1: depend upon the length of the period.
Speaker 2: Uh. And then service scout team you take reps as well.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, we make sure
Speaker 1: that those guys get almost as much work as many
Speaker 1: reps as they would get if they were starters. They
Speaker 1: get them between the splitting time with the starters and
Speaker 1: the scout team. So it's a we try to always
Speaker 1: have them prepared that way so that when they do
Speaker 1: have to step in, there's.
Speaker 2: A they got a chance.
Speaker 1: So, uh, the injury thing's not in my the balls
Speaker 1: not in my court on the injury thing, So I
Speaker 1: just uh, whoever's there, we get them coached up and
Speaker 1: let's go play. Just see in the room when you
Speaker 1: guys are going through film and talking about how much
Speaker 1: what how much? Coaches? He also in the realm, Trent Trent,
Speaker 1: Trent is, uh, yeah, I mean my meaning room is
Speaker 1: the mean rooms.
Speaker 2: Here's a shocker.
Speaker 1: I talk a lot, Okay, I like to I like
Speaker 1: to talk, So I tell I talk a lot in there.
Speaker 1: I'm always on the way I coaches, is I kind
Speaker 1: of you know, not just do that's got to tell stories,
Speaker 1: you know, And I talk through the play and and
Speaker 1: then every time and then I'll have an offshoot to
Speaker 1: tell a story about a player I used to coach,
Speaker 1: and it's just just kind of like this this thing
Speaker 1: turns out to be and uh and then but Trent,
Speaker 1: will you know, all of a sudden, if he's whispering
Speaker 1: over there in the corner to Jalen or to Mkivotz
Speaker 1: or somebody, and I'll just say, speak up and say
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: Well, I was just saying da da da da.
Speaker 1: So he's always looking, always thinking that I always he's
Speaker 1: always respectful and doesn't want to like overstep his bounds.
Speaker 1: But I'm always like trying just say say what you
Speaker 1: want to say, man, And if I don't agree, I
Speaker 1: mean he and I have a great related I say, Trent,
Speaker 1: I think I don't agree with you, and he may
Speaker 1: still disagree. I mean, we may agree to disagree, or
Speaker 1: later on he's like, I'm writer, or later on I'll say, no.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 1: That was a great idea, and uh, oftentimes the guys
Speaker 1: do it. I just want to tell me so that
Speaker 1: we can because I don't you know, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of answers, but I definitely don't claim to have
Speaker 1: them all. So a halfway point here, how would you
Speaker 1: evaluate the right side of your line?
Speaker 2: Is playing through the version of the dat. You know,
Speaker 2: it was really cool to do this the study. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I told Kyle when I came back, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, losing three games in a row, obviously this
Speaker 1: is you know, this an NFL season. This is when
Speaker 1: you really find out what you're made of when you
Speaker 1: go through the tough times. And it's been really cool
Speaker 1: to to you know, to not cool, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been interesting to see how we've come through it and
Speaker 1: where we're gonna end up with this whole thing, being
Speaker 1: where we are today. When you evaluate the guys, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, what's really funny is like take Spencer Berford
Speaker 1: for example, take Colton, They've gotten better. You know, you
Speaker 1: watch the cutups. You're like, gosh, look at him in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: look at him and whatever. I don't remember the second,
Speaker 1: but look at him each week and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, look at him today and and then I
Speaker 1: remember last season. Uh, and they've they've gotten better. Does
Speaker 1: it always show up? And you know, like you say
Speaker 1: the stat line, right, you'd say, does it always show up?
Speaker 1: And wins and losses always show up in their production
Speaker 1: during a game?
Speaker 2: Not always?
Speaker 1: But yet you see the little things that that that
Speaker 1: the building blocks of what make a better football player.
Speaker 1: And I said, I said to Kylle the other day,
Speaker 1: I said, and this is here, here's another, here's a
Speaker 1: here's a shocker who we play football every day. They
Speaker 1: get a chance to get better, and they playing games.
Speaker 1: You get a chance to get better else. And you
Speaker 1: take away football in the offseason, the developmental time, it's harder.
Speaker 2: And so it it just this is when they should improve.
Speaker 2: And if you go.
Speaker 1: About it the right way, if they approach it the
Speaker 1: right way, you don't get stuck on w's and l's
Speaker 1: and it's stuck on how do we improve and then
Speaker 1: what's that, Well, what's my role in not helping us
Speaker 1: win games? I'm very happy with their progress, is it?
Speaker 1: You'll always hear me say there's not a guy up
Speaker 1: there that's playing well enough.
Speaker 2: Everybody can get better, including me coming game.
Speaker 1: You given the fact that you're in the midst of their.
Speaker 2: Game, you just alluded to. Yeah, No, it's it's anytime.
Speaker 2: You don't you don't want the more one in row.
Speaker 1: I mean you don't. You don't want to stack. You
Speaker 1: want to stack wins. You know, no matter how you're playing,
Speaker 1: you just want to win games. It's things is about winning,
Speaker 1: and so you got to win a game, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens. Is it's it's the most important game right now.
Speaker 1: The most important thing is getting having great Thursday practice
Speaker 1: and getting ourselves ready in this phase of what we
Speaker 1: prepare for because that's going to do the best thing
Speaker 1: to help us again and preparing it on Friday, preparing
Speaker 1: on Saturday, that'll give us the best chance to have
Speaker 1: a chance to win the game on Sunday. But you've
Speaker 1: got to do the things that takes in the situations,
Speaker 1: and that's normally what it comes down to, there's a
Speaker 1: handful of plays in situations that you do or don't
Speaker 1: execute that end up winning to lose the game. For
Speaker 1: the most part in the NFL, and it's very important
Speaker 1: obviously that you win every game. The issues with the
Speaker 1: running game the last few games have to do with
Speaker 1: opponents coming up and say, we're taking this away, and
Speaker 1: how much you have to do with now there was
Speaker 1: lanes there, we just didn't. I mean, it's been the same.
Speaker 1: It's almost been the same every week. I mean, we
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of weeks ago. We haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk since the Cincinnati game. We talked
Speaker 1: about how the possessions went in the Minnesota game. We
Speaker 1: talked about the Cleveland game and how we were always
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball and second and longs. We never
Speaker 1: could get any rhythm going. And the Cincinnati game, what
Speaker 1: happened was just start a second half, you come out,
Speaker 1: you have an eight, nine, ten yeard run and then
Speaker 1: you get called holdings first and twenty. We overcame it,
Speaker 1: but but you know, same thing happens the first play
Speaker 1: the game. We get eight yards on a player, nine
Speaker 1: yards on a play, and then we run, run, a
Speaker 1: power and we don't get a yard and we'reunna short
Speaker 1: yards run. We don't get a yard? Now, is that
Speaker 1: the fault to run is at us? We didn't block
Speaker 1: it good enough. The defense played well, but we didn't
Speaker 1: get another set of we're not getting that next set
Speaker 1: of downs to keep that thing going and to get
Speaker 1: a couple more runs called.
Speaker 2: And then whatever's been going on.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always a team thing, you know, whatever's
Speaker 1: whatever's going on as far as possessions, whatever's going on,
Speaker 1: as far as time in the game, whatever's going on
Speaker 1: with score, it can kind of affect how you do things.
Speaker 1: So I think it's not I don't look at as
Speaker 1: a bad trenks when I look at practice, when I study.
Speaker 2: The cutups, it's not like, oh crap, man, I got it.
Speaker 2: We're not you know, so and so is not.
Speaker 1: Hitting the hole, or we're not blocking this guy, or
Speaker 1: the defenses. Oh my god, this is the hardest defense
Speaker 1: we've ever faced. No, it's it's not. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: just the way it's kind of falling right now without
Speaker 1: and obviously we have to do a better job.
Speaker 2: I said it last week, is well, we've.
Speaker 1: Got to do a better job, first and foremost, because
Speaker 1: if we block better, create big holes.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's easy.
Speaker 1: To run with Jackson, Bill b Line, Draymon Walker, and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: Off the edges. What do you see?
Speaker 1: Yeah again, we face them every week. It seems like
Speaker 1: great pass rushers off the edge. So Colton and the
Speaker 1: tackle Trent or Jalen have a great challenge in front
Speaker 1: of them. Everybody's got to do their part to help
Speaker 1: make sure that we don't you know, we keep our
Speaker 1: quarterback up right and doing what we's got to do.
Speaker 1: They are they play great team defense. You know, those
Speaker 1: guys are good players. The interior players. They haven't had
Speaker 1: the production with the sacks, but they pressure the quarterback
Speaker 1: and and they get They're just they're very very good
Speaker 1: team defense.
Speaker 2: They're very well coached. They get the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, with the last three defenses when you take
Speaker 1: the all of them in well coach. But you go
Speaker 1: back to Cleveland, Cleveland is one of the top defense
Speaker 1: in the league. You look at how you know, Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: team played last week and this team this week, very
Speaker 1: very very well coordinated.
Speaker 2: Good jobs.
Speaker 1: Minnesota is in the first year with Floores up there
Speaker 1: and they did a good job, but it's a little bit.
Speaker 1: They're a little different place in the development of their
Speaker 1: defense than those are the three teams. These are really
Speaker 1: well coached defenses that are on point and there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of holes in them. So you got to
Speaker 1: be you got to be really good at what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and you have to make plays and converts.
Speaker 2: You can get more sets of downs.
Speaker 1: You get more sets of downs, you're gonna have chances,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what we've got to be able
Speaker 1: to do. I think good treshers every week are there're
Speaker 1: more definite pass rusher around the league that just at
Speaker 1: a different level.
Speaker 2: And maybe it was you know, I don't know. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was funny their day.
Speaker 1: Trent and I were talking to he goes you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned DeMarcus where to these guys and they don't
Speaker 1: even know who DeMarcus Ware is.
Speaker 2: You know, he shocks him and so it's like getting
Speaker 2: old bro.
Speaker 1: But uh, but you sit there just like, hey man,
Speaker 1: this guy. Uh, you go through the league and everybody
Speaker 1: has somebody who flashes. I don't know that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say. It's just the generational thing, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the Kobe Michael Jordan. It's the Reggie White versus
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith versus the air of the guys today. It's
Speaker 1: just so hard to say, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of talented rushers. I would say that college football right there.
Speaker 1: I guess they're throwing the ball more and I don't
Speaker 1: know if they or not, but it seems like it.
Speaker 1: So there's more chances to.
Speaker 2: Rush the past or there's going to be more opportunities for.
Speaker 1: Guys to develop his past rushers and there's more, you know,
Speaker 1: we get guys that are more developed as pass blockers
Speaker 1: they are than they are as run blockers. So I
Speaker 1: think the whole game has kind of gone that way.
Speaker 2: So there may be a few more better. I don't
Speaker 2: know if they're the elite elite, but man, it.
Speaker 1: Seems like every week somebody has one, and you have
Speaker 1: to I think that's where people invest their picks. You all,
Speaker 1: everybody knows if you can, you know, get after a
Speaker 1: quarterback good. The best way to stop a good quarterback
Speaker 1: is if you can get in his face and rush him.
Speaker 1: And the more guys you have that can rush, the better,
Speaker 1: the better the defense. Addressing the team right after the
Speaker 1: Bengals loss, And what's struck you about his message? Oh,
Speaker 1: I just you know he you know, he's a great
Speaker 1: he's a great guy, a great leader. And it was heartfelt.
Speaker 1: It wasn't lip service in my opinion. That's what I
Speaker 1: liked about it. Whatever he would have said, it was heartfelt.
Speaker 2: He meant it. You know, I touched the football every play.
Speaker 2: I'm responsible.
Speaker 1: I gotta take care of football, you know, And that
Speaker 1: was I think that was the crux of it. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't don't remember at all exactly, but
Speaker 1: I just like the fact that he's accountable and not you're
Speaker 1: not afraid to say.
Speaker 2: It's my fault.
Speaker 1: He's not pouring the finger at anybody saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta take responsibility for this. I gotta make sure
Speaker 1: I do better job. You guys have trusted me to
Speaker 1: do this, and I gotta do better. And it's the
Speaker 1: response you would hope a guy would have when things
Speaker 1: aren't when things didn't go as well, to say it
Speaker 1: was bad or who's fault. I'm not kicking at all that,
Speaker 1: but at least in his mind, what he felt was
Speaker 1: his responsibility. He needed to do a better job of
Speaker 1: and he addressed it with the team, which then you
Speaker 1: know who's gonna tell you know, what is it the
Speaker 1: Emperor's close or whatever? The elephant in the room, right,
Speaker 1: who's gonna say that it's the elephants in the room
Speaker 1: as there were interceptions and they have cost us the
Speaker 1: last couple of games or whatever it.
Speaker 2: Is that has happened, and he took accountability for what
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 1: Playing?
Speaker 2: Chase Young?
Speaker 1: In the previous seasons, Chase Young was a you know,
Speaker 1: I'm always involved in the in the draft process with
Speaker 1: the d line and the linebackers, and then Kyle knows
Speaker 1: to have me leave the room when the dbs show
Speaker 1: up because I'll fall asleep. So but when the when
Speaker 1: the rushers are there, man, I'm there watching and I
Speaker 1: remember Chase coming out, and I thought, Chase a really
Speaker 1: really good player, great athleticism, great speed, great length. It
Speaker 1: just for whatever reason, it hasn't all come together consistently.
Speaker 1: You know, you could make a cut of a highlight
Speaker 1: reel of the guy that's like, holy cow, this guy's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: But then the playing and play out and I don't
Speaker 1: I can't put my finger actually don't play him.
Speaker 2: Much over the last couple of years once or twice.
Speaker 1: I haven't studied him that much, but he's a very
Speaker 1: very good player and it's just a matter of, I think,
Speaker 1: in the opt to be consistent.
Speaker 2: HI guys, thank you