Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he just briefly walking out there. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I think I went talking to him last night.
Speaker 1: I think he was stunned. Um, he was disappointed. I
Speaker 1: think he really liked it here, very close with his teammates.
Speaker 1: Um I and I told him I thought the timing
Speaker 1: itself wasn't a real good time. But uh, they actively
Speaker 1: pursued him. They tried to They wanted to trade for
Speaker 1: him at the draft, and we turned it down, and
Speaker 1: they had called last week and turned it down again.
Speaker 1: And then when we sat down with Corey and Billy
Speaker 1: and Ed and has a group and you know, looked
Speaker 1: at the offer that they made for us, and kind
Speaker 1: of really it's more speaks to what our depth was
Speaker 1: UM at the position. UM, we felt like it was
Speaker 1: a move to make so I would get released all
Speaker 1: the time, you know, put a couple of times. Why
Speaker 1: is it when you got when you get rid of
Speaker 1: a guy like that, it always seems to come back
Speaker 1: to you different way. You know, that's a question for
Speaker 1: those guys. I really don't know, you know, I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: I did it, really did. I mean, when he left
Speaker 1: here last night, Uh shook my end. Gave me a
Speaker 1: hug so I didn't say anything. Billy felt the same
Speaker 1: way when he left, you know, And I like Brandon.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I really don't know. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not I mean, talk to our players. Those are the
Speaker 1: guys I'm concerned with. And I have great confidence in
Speaker 1: those guys in that in that locker room that are
Speaker 1: getting ready to come train it right now. So this
Speaker 1: job and how yeah, he had a great Brandon has
Speaker 1: a great work ethic. You know, he did everything that
Speaker 1: we asked him to do here and never had an
Speaker 1: issue with him. It was a great teammate, very well
Speaker 1: liked here. So we got a lot of depth to
Speaker 1: depth position. I think it's it's more to our confidence
Speaker 1: and in Byron, Maxwell and Carol and Row and Shepherd
Speaker 1: and Biggers and Watkins and Rice and Evans. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to make some tough decisions at corner
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna be able to keep them all.
Speaker 1: And we had nine and we're probably gonna keep five,
Speaker 1: you know. So the fact that you don't get to
Speaker 1: the end of camp and you're releasing somebody you had
Speaker 1: a chance to to get a trade acquisition for him,
Speaker 1: or you got something on on the other end of it,
Speaker 1: you know, And he was the one. Um. We had
Speaker 1: another call in the summer about Nolan, but we weren't
Speaker 1: trade and Nolan, so he was the one guy I
Speaker 1: think that was attractive to people and other teams out there.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot. I mean, we're gonna run everybody
Speaker 1: through there to be also honest with you, and we'll
Speaker 1: figure that out. We have so many training sessions between
Speaker 1: now and when we play against the Falcons. Um, well,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll get enough ups at at who will end
Speaker 1: up being the Nickel at that point in time. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of candidates. Will we'll stay at safety
Speaker 1: right now. You won't see him at Nickel, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Jacorey Shephard will be in there. You'll see uh Watkins
Speaker 1: in there, who's done a lot of thing. E J.
Speaker 1: Biggers just played in there, you know. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll mix and match and try to get as
Speaker 1: many as we possibly can for those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: Malcolm has played it before, um, so we got some
Speaker 1: versatility we feel in that position. So if Brandon weren't
Speaker 1: entering the last few year, would the thinking be a
Speaker 1: little bit different time probably. Yeah, yeah, that probably would
Speaker 1: have been. That's a factor that that weighs into it
Speaker 1: all, all all those things way inward. That's a good question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it got better from it just kept progressing. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a now we're not interested, but it just
Speaker 1: kept getting better. So considering how much time these guys,
Speaker 1: does it bother you personally that they you know, multiple
Speaker 1: guys have made these comments on the way out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does. But you know the reality is we have
Speaker 1: ninety guys and you're gonna have to cut to fifty three.
Speaker 1: So thirty seven guys are going to be disappointed. And
Speaker 1: obviously I would imagine all thirty seven of those guys
Speaker 1: have a different opinion than we have as a staff.
Speaker 1: But that's what you have to do, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're charged to do. So Sam will do everything. Sam's
Speaker 1: cleared to go full go. Every every guy we have,
Speaker 1: all eighty nine guys are full go. They're up and
Speaker 1: they're going. So there's not anybody that has any restrictions
Speaker 1: or is being held back today at all. We haven't
Speaker 1: even taught. Ryan's just gonna roll him, so they'll they'll
Speaker 1: all go through there. I think, I mean, I we
Speaker 1: didn't even have a We're gonna try to get as
Speaker 1: many reps as we can in today and in the
Speaker 1: amount of time around the field. And you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about I don't care if he's were the ones,
Speaker 1: the twos are the threes. We're just ripping and running
Speaker 1: and let's get let's let's get some stuff on tape
Speaker 1: to get in the meetings this afternoon and coach him
Speaker 1: up on. Part of Brady's quote was that thinks that
Speaker 1: you're uncomfortable around brown man of our culture and that
Speaker 1: you need total control. And just wonder what your interpretation
Speaker 1: of that quote is and what you're so. I haven't
Speaker 1: really had time to digest that, but I don't I
Speaker 1: don't believe that. I mean, talk to Demiko, talk to
Speaker 1: the other guys here. I think those are the guys
Speaker 1: you should talk to. It's it's too easy the first
Speaker 1: season games. Bradford, yeah, barring anything happened to now. But
Speaker 1: he's full go one hundred percent. You know when you
Speaker 1: talk to him, he had a great offseason. I think
Speaker 1: from when we left on June eighteenth to now, he
Speaker 1: feels really confident. You know, he's not going to play
Speaker 1: with a brace, not gonna at least in our training
Speaker 1: sessions out here. It feels comfortable without it. He's ready
Speaker 1: to go. So John, what that, UM, I have no
Speaker 1: idea about the starting part of it. You know. Well,
Speaker 1: our first chance to see him live will be today.
Speaker 1: You know, didn't didn't uh do anything with him before
Speaker 1: that because it came after the the offseason program ended.
Speaker 1: So UM, you know obviously has gone through some things. UM,
Speaker 1: but felt confident when he came here and visited in
Speaker 1: June and met with myself, We met with uh, Jeff Stoutlin.
Speaker 1: He felt really comfortable with him, James Harris had everybody
Speaker 1: that was around him. Felt like he's made some mistakes
Speaker 1: in the past, and we're hopeful, you know that he's
Speaker 1: gone beyond that. I think he's got a plan in
Speaker 1: place to be successful and we'll see. We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: him into the mix there with with the rest of
Speaker 1: those guys and see how it plays itself out. We're
Speaker 1: really really impressed with him. I think he slipt probably
Speaker 1: a little bit in the draft because he was hurt.
Speaker 1: UM had a hamstring kind of a lingering thing. UM
Speaker 1: didn't work out as well as probably people expected. In
Speaker 1: the off season. You know in the testing time when
Speaker 1: all the college coach around didn't run a great time,
Speaker 1: But when you turn the tape on, he's a legitimate
Speaker 1: football player. And then what we saw on tape is
Speaker 1: what we saw during OTA's and mini camp in the
Speaker 1: off season program. So I think we're excited about his
Speaker 1: development and his growth to go along with those other guys.
Speaker 1: I think we've we really believe we've got some really
Speaker 1: good young corners here, um, and that that gave us
Speaker 1: I think a little bit more of a comfort level
Speaker 1: when when the opportunity to get something for Brandon came up,
Speaker 1: is that you know we're gonna we got some young guys.
Speaker 1: I think that we can rely on. So he's explosive,
Speaker 1: he's got great ball skills. It was really quick in
Speaker 1: and out of cuts. Um. He seems like he's got
Speaker 1: a real knack to being around the ball all the time.
Speaker 1: Uh showed up a lot when you when you turn
Speaker 1: the tape on, and I think, um, we were surprised
Speaker 1: that he was still around on the six. We kind
Speaker 1: of held our breath. If I think back, I don't
Speaker 1: think we had a fifth we did it, so U
Speaker 1: we were kind of holding our breath but he was
Speaker 1: a guy that we had targeted and we were excited
Speaker 1: that when he was still there on the sixth, we
Speaker 1: had a chance to get him. He's gonna stay at
Speaker 1: corner right now, Paul and Nicol. Right now, he's not
Speaker 1: I mean for the first we we we've kind of
Speaker 1: planned these first three days before we take that first
Speaker 1: day off, So for the next three days he'll stay outside.
Speaker 1: But um, all those guys are in the same room,
Speaker 1: so they're taught corner. Nicol's safety there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not like when Corey's teaching. He just talks to these
Speaker 1: guys here and then says, Okay, you guys be quiet,
Speaker 1: and now we'll talk to these guys. So he's good.
Speaker 1: He's a real sharp kid. He's got a great understanding
Speaker 1: of um of the defense so far, and he's another
Speaker 1: guy that we're excited about how he's going to progress
Speaker 1: and compete with Nolan for that spot across from Byron. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll go to a fourth if he plays sixty percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps. So that was the part that I thought,
Speaker 1: uh kind of put it over the top for us.
Speaker 1: I'm always been a Brandon Boyco fan, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's he did an unbelievable job in the two
Speaker 1: and two and a half years I was with him,
Speaker 1: and UM, I wish him nothing but success. You know,
Speaker 1: I still go back to the pick he had against Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you know, to seal it for us to win a
Speaker 1: division uh, two years ago. But I wish him the best.
Speaker 1: I told him that last night. I wipe be successful. Um.
Speaker 1: They seem like they've got a couple of guys banged
Speaker 1: up in the secondary right now. We may have a
Speaker 1: shot at me and not only a nickel for them,
Speaker 1: but an outside corner. Their nickel last year is with Miami. Um,
Speaker 1: but there nickel played sixty percent of snaps from last year,
Speaker 1: so we thought it was probably too good a deal
Speaker 1: for us to turn down at that point in time.
Speaker 1: I think Nolan really grew uh in his year in
Speaker 1: this program. He watched him when we first got here,
Speaker 1: um to where he is now. He's made some great strides.
Speaker 1: If you ask any guy you know, any of these
Speaker 1: players who was uh. We talk about our competitions in
Speaker 1: the Waiterman all these other things, the guy who won
Speaker 1: him all was Nolan. I mean, he really kind of
Speaker 1: set the tone for the defensive backgroup, and I think
Speaker 1: his game really stepped up, and we're excited to see
Speaker 1: kind of where he can can he take that next
Speaker 1: step into becoming a full time starter out there, And
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really good battle to
Speaker 1: watch because I think Eric rose right in that mix too.
Speaker 1: But they're, you know, kind of what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: A corner, taller, longer, um physical guys, and UM, we're
Speaker 1: excited to see what he can do situations. Now, we
Speaker 1: haven't any haven't had any other questions. But Mike Hendricks
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere. I can tell you that right
Speaker 1: now and write that down in ink, not pencil. Mike's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. You said multiple times you want guys
Speaker 1: you love playing football with one of those guys. What happened?
Speaker 1: I think he and it's love for you guys to
Speaker 1: sit down and talk with him. I think he's, uh,
Speaker 1: he made some mistakes in his life, and I think
Speaker 1: he's he understands him, he owns them. Um, he didn't
Speaker 1: deflect him, he didn't blame anybody else. He takes full
Speaker 1: responsibility for what's gone on. UM. And I feel like
Speaker 1: after meeting with him, you know that that that he
Speaker 1: deserves a second chance, and I think us investigating him
Speaker 1: and talking to other people that been around him and
Speaker 1: who we worked. They actually worked out with Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: extensively in the offseason. We talked to Lane about him
Speaker 1: and his interactions with him and spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with UM. They're kind of figuring out what he's
Speaker 1: all about. UM. We felt comfortable in it, and we're
Speaker 1: hopeful that that he has turned the corner and he's
Speaker 1: got an opportunity and then really the balls in his court.
Speaker 1: It's it's up to him in terms of what he
Speaker 1: wants to do with his career in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: We're giving him an opportunity, UM to come in Area's
Speaker 1: on a one year contract. UM, there's no incensors, no guarantees.
Speaker 1: It's just we'll give you a shot and see what
Speaker 1: you can do. And several other players trained in MMA
Speaker 1: during the offseason. I was curious what your attitude is
Speaker 1: towards that. As far as being helpful, I think it's
Speaker 1: really helpful. I actually had gone out there. UM it
Speaker 1: took a visit to go talk to Tom House and
Speaker 1: then went by were those guys trained. They were done
Speaker 1: during the day, and I obviously didn't see them training,
Speaker 1: but spent some time with the people that they were
Speaker 1: training with, and I was there's a lot of flexibility,
Speaker 1: hip stuff, there's a lot of leverage that they earned. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mental toughness. UM. I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Zach Hurtz was there also. But remember Zach and he
Speaker 1: can share the story with you. But I think when
Speaker 1: he lined up and he was either agust across from
Speaker 1: Randy Kator or Chuck Ladell, that's a pretty good matchup
Speaker 1: for a guy that's never been involved in any MMA competitions.
Speaker 1: But uh, Jay Glazier and Brian Urlacher haveing a gym
Speaker 1: out there and they've they've done a great job and
Speaker 1: they have really, uh, you know, given these guys a
Speaker 1: solid foundation when it comes to leverage, hips and a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. So I'm a big proponent of it.
Speaker 1: He's one hundred percent to go in training in practice.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll tell you what exactly it is,
Speaker 1: but he's full go. We'll see you know he didn't
Speaker 1: he did. He passed the conditioning test yesterday. UM. We
Speaker 1: don't have any restrictions in talking to the trainers and
Speaker 1: the doctors on him right now, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: two days from now, something flares up, we're gon we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to handle it. But right now we're not anticipating. Hey,
Speaker 1: he's gonna practice today and then tomorrow we're gonna take
Speaker 1: him off. Right now, he's gonna go until you know,
Speaker 1: we see how is his knee response. But he's had
Speaker 1: a great When you talk to him, he feels really confident. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's right on track to where he wanted
Speaker 1: to be. And as we said, we expected, uh, we
Speaker 1: expected Donnie coming over the walls there. Um when Matthew Tucker,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about your death? Obviously a tough break,
Speaker 1: and really felt bad for talk. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: a I think it's a tendon not not just a
Speaker 1: muscle tear. So he's out for he would be out
Speaker 1: for six to nine months. How to have surgery on it.
Speaker 1: So um first thought has felt bad for him, But
Speaker 1: we feel like we have some depth there and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it plays out. Obviously with DeMarco and Ryan
Speaker 1: and there, and you feel really confident and then really
Speaker 1: what the battle is for number four? Um, Kenyon's been
Speaker 1: here for a year been on the practice squad with us,
Speaker 1: real comfortable and know all about him. And then uh,
Speaker 1: Mostre did a really good job and and we're excited
Speaker 1: about him. You know, he's a real speed guy. Could
Speaker 1: could factor in the kick return game. You know, was
Speaker 1: the one hundred met your champ in the Big ten.
Speaker 1: I think he's a is an interesting guy to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on here in the in this in this
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