WEBVTT - Press Pass: Chip Kelly At Owner's Meetings 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.880 So yesterday Jeffrey said that in explaining the power restructure, 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.119 he wanted to support your vision. He felt that obviously 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.840 you needed you needed a guy you were comfortable with, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.560 you hired it. Why is Ed more a better fit 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.360 for your than what Howe was builable? Why are you 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:16.800 more comfortable with it? I think we just try to 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.320 maximize everybody's strikes and how he does an unbelievable job 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.000 from the contract side and capside, and we're just moving 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.040 into different directions from the personnel stand point. But you 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.440 were he did not do an unbelievable job on the 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.040 personnel side. As far as what now, I just think 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.720 we're trying. It's the same thing with our staff. Sometimes 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.279 you shuffle those guys around. We're just trying to find 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.080 a put everybody in the right position. Would you think 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.360 of values counted out of there? I thought it was 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.920 good two years with team and whether he was even 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.960 kind of getting jeff who marked out previous team with 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.240 blue and maybe with more skied guys, and now he's 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.800 Drac to get different blues guy. He kind of getting 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.120 you old players and felt now I think some of 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.040 that it depends on what players are available. You know 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.360 it doesn't You know, you can all evaluate and say 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.480 that whoever the top pick of the draft was, that 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.080 Sammy Watkins really talented, But you don't have an opportunity 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.120 to get Sammy Watkins. So a lot of it also 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.399 depends on where you have an opportunity to make selections. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.759 So it's easy to look at it and say, I mean, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:14.959 I said it a year ago, I thought Odell Beckham 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.200 was the best player in the draft. I was right. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:18.759 We didn't have a chance to get at Odell Beckham. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.679 But you know that a lot of it depends on 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.320 where you're selecting. So have you felt that in a 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.720 few years because you didn't have finals, say that if 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.680 you had a feeling on a certain guy you didn't 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.440 always get you weren't able to get that guy even 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.240 if he was available. Yeah, I mean I didn't. I 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.800 didn't have the final say so, I mean you always 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.040 defer to losing charges. I mean, was that trub Was 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.640 that disappointing for you? Wasn't? No? Those are the those 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.000 those are the rules going in. So did you try 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.680 to get those rules changed over earlier? No? Why no, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.000 that's not the way I operate. We have a meaning 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.360 at the end of the year every year with mister 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.800 Lori and I. He gets my views on things, I 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.680 get his view on things, and then he ultimately makes 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.440 the decisions on what he wants to do moving forward. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:56.920 When you said ship, when you said you wanted to 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.000 maximize everybody's strengths if you didn't know your new guy was, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.960 so how did you know you didn't you strands? That wasn't. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.920 I didn't go in with a plan saying we need 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.760 to make all these maneuvers. I just said, this is 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.280 how I think my vision is of how this organization 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.120 should be. But it's mister Lorrie's decision on what he 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.120 wants to do. If he came back and said, I 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.639 want to do this, this, and this, and I want 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.639 you to just concentrate on that, then that's what I 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.800 would have done. So why wasn't Tom Gamble who you 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.320 brought in a string? I didn't bring Tom Gamble in. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.320 How we brought Tom Gamble in, so he and he wasn't. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.520 How he was in charge of the personnel department for 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.680 the last two years, so I didn't. I've never made 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.480 a hire in the personnel department or a fire in 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:41.360 the personnel I wasn't involved in that, You had input, Joe, right, No, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.400 I have no input. I had no input in who 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.800 was hired or fired in the personnel department, Nor do 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.600 I have it now. Ed's in charge of personnel. I mean, 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.280 we've maximized everybody. So if it's something were to go 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.480 on in personnel now, then that's that's under Ed's domain. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.440 That's what I hired him to do. It's no different 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.880 than I hired Billy Davis to run our defense. I 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.320 don't turn around and ask someone else, you know, what 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.880 do you think about what Billy's doing defensively? Our defensive 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.720 coaches of a certain role, our offensive coaches of a 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.920 certain role, our personnel department as a certain role. So, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.200 I mean, I think there's a big misconception. I never 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:10.840 hired Tim againble. I was never in a position to 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.920 hire a Tim again. About that made you think that 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.120 he would brave? You know? It was an interesting process 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.520 for me. I went out for probably three weeks and 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.760 visited with a lot of people, talked to a lot 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.400 of people, and um Ed was the one guy in 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.000 house that I really wanted to talk to, and I 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.799 actually interviewed him last you know too, we had never 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.760 really sat down. I was impressed with his work ethic 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.440 and pressed with his knowledge, you know, just sitting in 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.560 draft meetings, sitting in free agent meetings, just listen to 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.880 him talk, listen to him to described players, and was 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.120 always like, Hey, that guy's really sharp. And then he 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.960 was the last guy I interviewed, and then the last guy, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.520 mister Lorry interviewed, so you know, kind of came away. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.520 I think he blew both of us away. It was like, wow, 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.440 you know, this guy's extremely organized, extremely detailed, has a 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.720 real good vision of what we're trying to get accomplished. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.480 And I thought he was outstanding. You made two major trades. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.280 Are you physically on the phone and working these deals 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.560 in theogotiating those two trades? Well, sometimes it was a 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.760 speaker phone, So but I mean, what's that like, First 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.080 time you know, actually on the phone deals, first time 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:15.760 on the phone talking to a person, it was you know, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.800 it was scary. I did not operate the phone itself. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.320 I mean, it's just how it's normally, how you do it. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.880 I mean, we have conversations all the time, and it's 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.240 not I don't think it's I mean the biggest thing, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.279 it's like these league meetings, like, don't peek behind the 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:30.920 curtain because it's not what you think it is. I mean, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.039 just having a conversation. Who do you have? What do 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.760 you have? What do you want to do? Can you 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.200 accept somebody from your cap standpoint? You know, a lot 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.159 of decisions are made, most of the decisions from a 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.800 trade standpoint. Are those decisions is you'd like to acquire 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.040 a ton of players, but you can't fit them in 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.159 under your cap, you know, so it really kind of 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.360 limits which teams you're dealing with, how you're dealing with them, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.000 and then what they're trying to give back. Some of 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.920 them don't have draft picks. You'd like to get draft picks, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.800 but they may not have draft picks. So now take 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.120 a look at your roster. Who do you like on 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.520 the roster? Since we talked to you last, have you 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.240 received any more phone calls about Sam Bradford? I know 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.560 you said other teams we're interested. No, Given the fact 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.279 that thank you and d don't have a lot of 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.920 experience in your current roles, are you leaning on on 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.680 other people or whether it's trade evaluations, whether it's the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:20.320 upcoming draft. People that are more active, No, safety what's 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.600 the planet next to Malcolm gen is that spot that 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.719 Nat and occupied? Mils? Well, that's we'll go through OTAs, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.479 we go through the draft, we'll go through preseason camp 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.600 and then figure that out internal off Yeah, that's well, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:34.919 we'll take a look at that. I mean, that's what 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.560 this process is all about. The offseason. You get a 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.120 chance to see guys on the field. What's are alike 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.480 in year three. I mean there's guys on and on 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.800 our team right now that can certainly play that role, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.400 but it depends on where they are when you get 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.720 a chance to see him through OTAs, through mini camp, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.200 through preseason camps, the process of what's going to happen 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.560 next and the next couple of months. Sam Brad, we 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.760 didn't get him back on the football field functioning as 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.560 cool as that. You know, well, he's back. I mean 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.719 he when we got him on a Wednesday, he was 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.200 there the following Sunday. So he's been with our training 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.920 staff every day rehabbing, and then uh, we get a 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.800 chance to finally meet with him on April twentieth, which 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.320 is the first day of Phase one, you know, and 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.440 then it's, uh, the normal process it is for anybody 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.960 on our our team, whether it's Uh. Sam's obviously new, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.800 but it's no different than what Demiko Ryan's is going 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.760 through right now. So, UM, it's pretty detailed. I mean 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.920 it's just straightforward. Phase one, you can talk to him, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.719 but you can't be on the field with him. Phase 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.000 two you get to go on the field with him, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.600 but there's no defense across from him. Phase three is 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.040 the beginning of ootas in minicamp, and we'll go from that. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.279 What do you hope to see for him physically? Um, 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.520 it sounds like he's on target to be fully recovered. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.960 I just don't know exactly what day he'll be clear 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.320 to be a one hundred percent, but I know he's 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.000 running and uh moving around right now. I don't we're 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.919 not allowed to be be there when any of that 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.240 stuff's going on, so I couldn't tell you what he 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.839 looks like movement wise or anything like that. I don't 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:05.200 know that exactly. No, I don't. He should be ready 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.040 to go UM because his was UH was done earlier 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.440 than Sam. So I think sometime during OTAs will be 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.080 able to see Kiko moving around a little bit A 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.080 lot of most of the now, all our quarterbacks take 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.080 reps in the off season, So we don't. I don't. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.520 We never care in an ota if if G. J. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.520 Kenny or Mark or or matter in there that you know, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.040 you never look up and say, why is that guy 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.239 with that guy? That's why we've we just rotate. Somebody 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.320 grabbed the snap, but that's not a big deal. At 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.200 some point during this it's all all depend all depending 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.600 on what the doctors say. So Jeffrey obviously very fine, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.560 show what do you have to do convince him that 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.160 it was better for the team. Well, I'm very fond 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.880 of Lesha McCoy. I think we all are. But when 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.200 you look at moving forward and that was just a 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.520 really big number, you know, when they weren't moving off 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.200 the numbers, so that that that was where the decision 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.920 was made. But I mean, you're talking about the all 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.000 time leading running back for the Philadelphia Eagles. He led 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.760 the league in rushing two years ago. Um, it was 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.280 a real difficult decision, but it was a decision we 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.760 felt we had to make. We had too much money 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.640 at the running back spot, so we had to move 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.360 in a different direction. Would you have to explain all 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.760 that Jeffrey Lourie, Now he understood. He's pretty sharp guy. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.000 But with the most said and done, is the money 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:29.840 any different? Now? Yeah? Art right? Now? UM to Marco's 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.520 five million dollars this year. Uh, Ryan's two million dollars 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:40.240 this year, and I think um Darren's four point one. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.560 So but with that adds up to less than eleven 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.120 point nine. So it was about the cap number this year. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.360 And you approached him about trying to get that number. Now, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.840 our guys talked to his agent, but I don't, I 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.840 don't have I don't negotiate with him. So I didn't 0:08:51.840 --> 0:09:08.120 speak specifically with Drew. But prior day no, I think 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.120 you can't. I mean, I've done it everyone. I was 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.960 at Oregon, I at Johnson Stewart in the Garrett Plant, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.320 both two thirty plus, so I also had La Michael 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.599 James and Kenyan Barnard. I mean, we can work with 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.719 whatever we have. It's just depending on what you want 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.280 to do and how do you want to scheme it up. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.839 But I think what was available if you if you 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.560 move Lashawan, what's available? The guys that were available are 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.160 one cut downhill runners, so can they fit into what 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:35.400 we do offensively? Yeah? About finding a franchise quarterback being 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.920 one of the most important things as far as going 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.840 from good to great. Can Sam be that franchise quarterback 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.480 if you can stay healthy? I hope so, But I 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.360 mean I'm not I'm not a predictor guy, So I 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.600 don't mean I'm not going to put a label on anybody. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.920 So we're saying about how much research did you look 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.880 into players, especially a quarterback you're touring the same yea 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.240 twice and how productive day. I think we looked at everybody. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.720 I mean, look at our starting receiver who had eighty 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.959 five catches, So specifically a quarterback, yeah, I would say 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.160 it's probably easier for a quarterback with a knee injury 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:09.880 than it is with a shoulder injury. As we went 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.959 through the history of it. You know, you know, we're 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.079 not We didn't bring Sam to run the ball seventy 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.080 five times a game. So I think it's a lot 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.040 easier for a quarterback with an ACL than it is 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.640 for a receiver with an a cl But you know, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.559 you look at I think the history right now in 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.880 terms of sports science and what doctors are doing now 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.760 has moved forward. It's unbelievable. You know, look at the 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.240 year Jeremy mclanad coming off with two acls. You know, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.120 look at our center Jason Kelsey came off in a 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.679 cl when I first got there, was just coming off 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.880 in ACL had a sports NIU surgery in the middle 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.480 of the season and still made the Pro Bowl. Our 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.559 left tackle, who's arguably a Hall of Famer, is coming 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.040 off with two achilles and has played at an outstanding level. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.640 So to follow up with question, and basically I don't, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.600 I don't have that answer right now, So I don't 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.160 know exactly where he is. I haven't talked to Chris 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.120 or you know, we'll take that when it comes. I 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.880 don't know when his final meeting with doctor Andrews is, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.080 but I know he's progressing the way he normally should 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.360 progress from that injury trying. You don't deal with the contract, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.640 But if you guys approached Sam Bradford about redoing his 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.400 dealer you no, I and if if any of that 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.839 is I'm not going to discuss any current players. I'm 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.360 comfortable with you with Sam as our quarterback. Did you 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.840 reach out to the Rams, were Sam Bradford or did 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.880 they reach out to you about trade? I think it 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.439 was a mutual thing. You know, went on for a 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.440 couple of weeks. You know, we were trying to keep 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.840 Nick if we could, and that was we were trying 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.679 to keep Nick. You know. It was just at the 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.199 at the last second they wanted players. We were trying 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.960 to get it done with draft pick. But it didn't work. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:37.800 It didn't work out that way. Outside. I don't know. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.480 I mean, that's it's a spring. Everybody plays everywhere in 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.480 the spring and we'll figure it out. I don't know 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.400 if we add anybody and what are their strengths and 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.760 what are their weaknesses. And I mean it's not playing 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.000 inside receive. Well, he was a rookie, so we just 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.240 wanted him to play one position and learn one position 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.160 and come in. Yeah, he can do It's just like 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.880 Josh can do it. You know, it's Riley Cooper could 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.480 move into the slot for us. I mean, once you're 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.160 in there. The biggest thing we do is when we 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.040 get rookies in there, it's hey, you're playing one spot. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.040 Let's not put a lot on your plate. It's no 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.160 different than zach Ertz. We you know, his package was 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.440 expanded in year two than it was in year one. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.040 But because when they first get in there, it's a 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.720 totally different world for him. Once they get comfortable there, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.839 you start to see him move around and play a 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.720 lot of different spots. So I can envision Jordan playing 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.439 in a lot of different spots for us. Which most 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.480 of the guys in your scouting department were brought in 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.719 by how not if not most of them were with 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.839 Ed in charge of it now and with Jeffrey is 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.440 saying that you you attack scouting with a different way 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.240 that he's ever seen before. Does Ed have to train 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.880 the scout? I mean is does there have to be 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.760 changes in the scouting department or really so that they're 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.480 getting your type of guy? I think that happens no 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.680 matter what coaches are. If you change from one scheme 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.920 to another, than what you're looking for in a player 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.360 is different. Four three world linebackers different than three four 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.120 outside linebacker. That's just that's football, right. But he's but 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.560 Jeffrey employee saying, it's you're doing so uniquely and so differently. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.559 So I was wondering if you think we're very specific 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.520 in what we're looking for. But I think you already 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.679 transfer our guys. Guys have done a great job on 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.560 now in terms of identifying it. So you don't see 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.360 yourself making Ed making sweeping changes in the scouting department. No, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.160 I mean that's a question for Ed. But he you know, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.360 when I hire him run its personnel department, you go 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.360 make it the way you want to make it look. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.520 Two weeks ago you said it. You spoke against philosophically 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.520 trading way up in the draft learning resources that you 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:28.880 needed for the future. If Marcus Mariota didn't go back 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.199 in the top five. Is there a point and can 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.400 you give any idea of the point where it would 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:40.679 be reasonable to try to trade out? No? Yeah, Ever, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.400 Matthiss name is big men. Well, I mean I could 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.520 deal with hypotheticals all the time. I mean, give me 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.440 a scenario. If he goes to twelve and it's gonna 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.280 cost us a seventh rong conditional pick, then that would 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.880 be very I mean, you can go throw it back 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.640 and forth. That's what that's what this is all about. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.760 So philosophically, I want to keep all our draft picks. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.959 I think you build your team through the draft. So 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.760 if you got yourself for one year and for one guy, Philosophically, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.640 I don't think that's the right thing to do. Does 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:21.440 that mean you don't do that? Yeah, Marcus yeah, coach here, yeah, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.560 don't answer hypothetical. So what's it costs out? Give me 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.760 a number two first round picks? Where am I going 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:37.480 from where to where? Never get you there? Took two 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.960 first round picks to go from six to two three 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:46.800 years ago. I consider mortgage in the future, giving up 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 your draft, like for Ricky Williams. What I give up 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 a whole draft for Ricky Williams in my opinion? Now 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.840 do you think do you think he's the best quarterback? 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.280 Do you think because no word draft, I have no idea. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.680 I thought Odell Beckham was the best player in the draft. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.000 He went at twelve. He ended up a Rookie of 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.360 the Year. What do you think of the quarterback? I 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.680 think there's two really good ones, two really good ones. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.520 Jamis is really good. Do I what do I like 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.840 Jamis more? I don't know Jamis as well. Jamis is 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.240 a really good quarterback, really good quarterback. His name will 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.200 go very quickly, I would imagine. But the history of 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.880 the league. Look at the quarterbacks that have been drafting 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.040 the top. Mark Sanchez was a top five pick, Jake 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.640 Glocker was a top ten pick. Gabbett went at ten, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.360 um Ponder went at twelve. Quarterbacks school really fast in 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:43.080 this league, said in Philadelphia introducing the Breadford back then 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.960 a teammate a offer for a first round pick. Day. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.400 Have there been others since the No, you may changes 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.920 at the running back position, obviously, what about from the 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.880 scheme perspective, other changes you need to be excuse me? 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.600 Are there changes you need to make from a scheme 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.400 perspective with the run game this offseason? No? I mean 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.640 we run the same play, we run power, we run zone, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.240 we run outside zone. Of those guys, Ryan and DeMarco 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.920 both have done all those things, so they fit in 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.920 in terms of what we do. Oh, we're talking more 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.480 about what worked and what hasn't worked last year. I 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.840 know I need to make additions, regardless of the persadel 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.720 just from what we worked from the scheme perspective. Scheme. No, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.600 We'll havn Matthews be on the team next year, I hope. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.480 So his name's come up a good Mountain trade speculation 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.280 to see are you guys actively trading them? No, shop intive. No, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.480 But I mean, as I said the other day, everybody 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.200 on our roster is available. If someone wants skull. You 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.480 know when we'll when if the scenario comes up and 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.760 someone says, I want to give you two first round 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.120 draft picks for somebody, then yeah, we would listen. I mean, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.600 we traded Lasham and that was a very difficult decision 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.760 to do. But we felt at the end of the day, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.440 we're gonna listen to every offer we have, and then 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.600 you'd be crazy to say, no, this isn't gonna happen. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:57.960 This is gonna happen because you have no idea what 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.000 you're gonna get offered for somebody. I was given permission 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.000 to seek a trade again like he was last year. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.119 Yes he was, and there hadn't been anything come of that, No, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:11.240 not at all besides familiar counter We felt he deserved it. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.840 I mean, I think his performance in the last two 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.440 years since I've been here was exceeded what his contract was. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:23.120 That something that moved. Is that something that you feel 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.800 you bring a different approach to given contracts, you guys 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.760 to do that. There's no what I must then do 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.720 it for you to give him, I mean, there was 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.920 the reason for you. I believe you earn earn what 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.600 you do, and and I think we all believed what 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.679 Connor did h for us has has exceeded what he did, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:54.439 what his contract was working. I'm not going to discuss 0:17:54.480 --> 0:18:00.200 anybody's contract on our team. What else about kno him? 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.040 I must get one hundred and fifty nine tackles in 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.520 sixteen games, four interceptions played every defensive snap. I mean, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.120 just turn the tape on and you know what type 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:16.760 of player are you getting for such a ship? Yeah? No, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.240 it's it's what makes it, what's what makes sports great. 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.280 I mean, you've got nothing to talk about on sports radio. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.880 Let's talk about trades, and everybody's gonna go I want 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.120 this guy, that guy, and this guy. You know what's 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.199 unique about it? Though? How come no one asked Jim 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:35.520 Harbaw about trading up for Andrew Luck? Same scenario, identical scenario. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.040 I never heard a word about Jim are you trading 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:45.919 up to get Andrew Luck? I don't know what. I think. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.480 I think he actually may have. I think he compared. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.760 Figure out what he said about Andrew Luck. I know 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:59.840 how Jimmy feels about Andrew Luck before the draft, like 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.159 in January, like when you guys started all these conversations January. No, 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:10.600 but okay, it's just to just to carry us question 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.480 I'm answering, Okay, I was just curious why no one 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.840 talked about Jimmy and Andrew, and Jimmy's professed love for Andrew. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.760 I can tell you that. And he's right, because that 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.920 guy's pretty good to him. Heading back to the question, yeah, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.240 you can understand why we want to talk to you, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.879 and you can understand why I'm not going to answer you. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:38.600 So we've heard a lot of things about Maria's not talk. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.040 What can you know about this player's specific character visibility. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.000