Speaker 1: How you doing.
Speaker 2: It's weird without injury report.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the only way I open it up. So go ahead.
Speaker 1: You have two players in the top five vote getting
Speaker 1: for the MVP. I mean this is a very wide
Speaker 1: question here, a broad question. But can you put into
Speaker 1: perspective just how unique that is to have two players
Speaker 1: such as Rock Party and Christian McCaffrey who have played
Speaker 1: at such a high level for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is unusual. I mean, I think to get
Speaker 2: to where we have been, to where we've gotten, and
Speaker 2: to do it at the level we've had, you should
Speaker 2: have some players. And I know we got some defensive
Speaker 2: guys up for some awards too. But having both of
Speaker 2: those guys in the run and the past game, what
Speaker 2: Christian does them both and really what brocks down them
Speaker 2: both have both been unbelievable and the biggest parts of
Speaker 2: our offense.
Speaker 4: Right, Hey, Fred and George in a lot of ways
Speaker 4: with you team leaders for you guys on their respective
Speaker 4: side of the ball, what'd you see in them as
Speaker 4: prospects and how they developed that leadership as they've.
Speaker 2: Got out in the NFL. I mean, I think they
Speaker 2: developed it the more they played. I mean they didn't
Speaker 2: come in and they weren't like that right away. They
Speaker 2: came in and they were both pretty quiet, but they
Speaker 2: both worked as hard as anyone. They were the same
Speaker 2: every single day, offseason, regular season. I always mess with George.
Speaker 2: You go back and watch them as first year he
Speaker 2: didn't have wristbands on or socks real weird, had a
Speaker 2: clean cut, haircut like and in the second year he
Speaker 2: was the WWE champ. So once this guys start playing
Speaker 2: and you play at a high level, you kind of
Speaker 2: get comfortable in your own skin. And when you play
Speaker 2: that well and you work that hard and you're that consistent,
Speaker 2: it makes it pretty easy to be a leader.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kyle, You've been asked a lot about how being
Speaker 5: the son of Mike Shanahan was an advantage for you
Speaker 5: to get here, but there's been hundreds of kid coaches
Speaker 5: for coaches, kids who didn't get to where you are.
Speaker 5: Is there any thing that was unique about advice he
Speaker 5: gave you or lessons he taught you that may have been,
Speaker 5: you know, helped you more here or anything you did.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think, I mean being a coach's son
Speaker 2: very fortunate to just be around it so much, especially
Speaker 2: at the NFL level. My dad went to the NFL
Speaker 2: when I was four years old, So just being around
Speaker 2: it almost my whole life. You don't realize how much
Speaker 2: it helps you till you get in it, and you
Speaker 2: just realize a lot of the stuff you've been around,
Speaker 2: and it makes a little easier. But I mean, I
Speaker 2: think not only was the son of a coach, but
Speaker 2: my dad's the best coach I've ever been around, and
Speaker 2: so to be around that good of one, I think
Speaker 2: also was a huge advantage for me. And I mean
Speaker 2: he never was really training me to be a coach.
Speaker 2: He was just being my dad, and just the way
Speaker 2: he went about everything, just how direct he was with people,
Speaker 2: how honest he was with people, how hard he worked.
Speaker 2: Maybe that you didn't always liked what he had to say,
Speaker 2: but he was going to tell you the truth. And
Speaker 2: just as a son and as someone you work with, that,
Speaker 2: to me, that's all you can ask for people. Hey, Kyle,
Speaker 2: how you doing good? Thanks?
Speaker 6: Follow up on that same theme of you and your dad,
Speaker 6: was there a moment where you just kind of had
Speaker 6: an epiphany that you wanted to be a coach and
Speaker 6: that you wanted to follow in your dad's footsteps. And
Speaker 6: did you talk to him about that, and what did
Speaker 6: he give what kind of advice did he give you
Speaker 6: about pursuing it as a career.
Speaker 2: I mean I was always in my dad's ear every second,
Speaker 2: annoying the heck out of my sister and my mom
Speaker 2: every meal we probably ever had together a car ride,
Speaker 2: just asking questions about football. I love football just as
Speaker 2: a true fan, loved playing in the backyard all the time.
Speaker 2: I remember ride in eighth grade telling them how I
Speaker 2: wanted to play professional sports, I wanted to earn a scholarship,
Speaker 2: and which sports should I try? And I know football
Speaker 2: will probably be the hardest one for me, and I
Speaker 2: member him telling me on this long car ride how
Speaker 2: you just got to commit to it and do it.
Speaker 2: And I remember setting up a plan then on how
Speaker 2: to work out and do all this stuff. And from
Speaker 2: that standpoint on, I was always trying to be a player,
Speaker 2: trying to get a scholarship, trying to play in college,
Speaker 2: things like that. And I think once my fifth year
Speaker 2: hit and three of what it was as a player hit,
Speaker 2: then I think and I started think about it. I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what, I think I want to coach.
Speaker 2: I don't want to stop being around football right now.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I think I've actually kind of
Speaker 2: been working out this my whole life because it's a
Speaker 2: little bit easier than playing, and I think it just
Speaker 2: kind of naturally happened. Kyle, what do you think it
Speaker 2: is about Brock Party that he's able to adjust his
Speaker 2: mental focus on crazy media circuses like this and then
Speaker 2: the biggest game of his NFL career. That's I think
Speaker 2: the most special thing about Brock. I mean, just he
Speaker 2: doesn't have to change much because that's really who he is.
Speaker 2: I mean, Brock is as humble of a person as
Speaker 2: I've ever been around. I talk about him having just
Speaker 2: a strong set foundation on who he is, and it's rare.
Speaker 2: I think people have that coming out of high school.
Speaker 2: I bet he had it just looking at what he
Speaker 2: did in college and how people speak of him. I
Speaker 2: know when he came to the league you could see
Speaker 2: it on him right away. You've seen it through everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, the third string quarterback, the starting quarterback, what
Speaker 2: he's done this year. I mean, he's still the same
Speaker 2: guy as he was the first day, and you can
Speaker 2: ask him. I think he has a lot to do
Speaker 2: with his faith, how he leads his life, but it
Speaker 2: carries in everything he does.
Speaker 5: At Florida National News here you talk about the relationship
Speaker 5: with your dad and getting into coaching. It's a little
Speaker 5: unique because you got Christian and his dad and they
Speaker 5: won three.
Speaker 2: Super Bowls together.
Speaker 5: Is that add to the.
Speaker 4: Relationship that you have with a special player like Christian?
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I was so close with Christian's
Speaker 2: dad growing up. I mean he was Him and Rod
Speaker 2: Smith were the two receivers on the Broncos when I
Speaker 2: was throughout high school trying to be a receiver. Those
Speaker 2: are the guys I tried to cut my shoes, like,
Speaker 2: wear the same shoulder pads, meet him after school to
Speaker 2: run routes and do workouts throughout the summer everything. So
Speaker 2: those were like his dad was such a gym rat
Speaker 2: and just such a technician, and him and Rod taught
Speaker 2: me almost everything I know about playing, which gave me
Speaker 2: a chance to play. And then it was just so
Speaker 2: funny watching Christian over the years, hearing about him in
Speaker 2: high schools at Stanford to going through the draft and everything,
Speaker 2: and just couldn't believe how talented he was. But I
Speaker 2: also knew his dad and how psychotic his dad was
Speaker 2: with his work ethic and just attention to detail, and
Speaker 2: that's what's been so neat trading for Christian and actually
Speaker 2: getting to know him, and just I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: watching ed half the time. At least to the other half,
Speaker 2: she had probably a little better personality, which is in Christian.
Speaker 2: But it's it's funny how they put us on fall
Speaker 2: too far from the tree, and I'm sure they got
Speaker 2: some similarities watching me with my dad. Kyle's right right here. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's well documented.
Speaker 5: You've obviously had to go through some excruciating postseason losses,
Speaker 5: the loss of the Chiefs and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Kind of where does that rank as far as levels
Speaker 2: of pain? I mean, I think anyone who loses the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl probably rings that up there. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know remember her always seeing my dad as a coordinator
Speaker 2: and stuff after those three Super Bowls when he was
Speaker 2: in Denver when I was younger, and how how hard
Speaker 2: it was on him. So I think anytime you get
Speaker 2: that close and you lose it the last one, that's
Speaker 2: definitely the hardest. But it's you Also, all football games
Speaker 2: are hard to lose. Each week you put so much
Speaker 2: into them. That's why the more you coach, the more
Speaker 2: you realize, like when you win, you're just kind of relieved,
Speaker 2: so you can get right to the next Monday and
Speaker 2: get ready. Everything's trying to get to that last week,
Speaker 2: and we did get to this last week, and this
Speaker 2: will be our last Wednesday. This is tomorrow, I mean
Speaker 2: our last Tuesday. I mean Friday will be our last practice,
Speaker 2: and Sunday will be our last game. And you're always
Speaker 2: hoping you're the team that wins that last game, and
Speaker 2: that's our goal is win.
Speaker 3: That coach, is there anything in particular your feeling about
Speaker 3: going into the chess match that is going to be against.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid, same as you always do. I mean Andy
Speaker 2: as good as there is, especially you know him running
Speaker 2: the offense and spags on the defense as good as
Speaker 2: there is. And they've both been doing it for a
Speaker 2: long time. We've all gone against each other a number
Speaker 2: of times, so I think the schematics can get a
Speaker 2: little overrated. We all have real sound systems and we
Speaker 2: all have real good players, so we'll see how unfolds
Speaker 2: on Sunday.
Speaker 3: There's been talk over the last week about a lack
Speaker 3: of defensive effort in the last couple of games and
Speaker 3: that was going to change.
Speaker 7: And how have you seen that group really change their
Speaker 7: focus this week?
Speaker 2: I think they've been about the same, you know. I
Speaker 2: know there's been a lot of talk about effort, which
Speaker 2: showed up on a couple of plays in particular, but
Speaker 2: you know that wasn't our best on those couple plays.
Speaker 2: But that definitely wasn't why we struggled stopping the run.
Speaker 2: There was a number of other things we had to
Speaker 2: detail up. You know, when you play an eight man front,
Speaker 2: just takes one guy to get out of a gap
Speaker 2: for there's only be one guy left, and that stuff
Speaker 2: we got to do a lot better at. But our
Speaker 2: guys take a lot of pride in what they do.
Speaker 2: They work hard and every every day practice games since
Speaker 2: I've known them, So I don't expect to be any
Speaker 2: difference on Sunday.
Speaker 8: Kyle, So you left, how much did it help when
Speaker 8: you were developing Brock that you had so many pieces
Speaker 8: in place on the offensive line and at the skill
Speaker 8: positions to where you didn't have as much of a
Speaker 8: concern about bad habits forming because of protection or because
Speaker 8: of lack of options in the passing game.
Speaker 2: Not much. I mean, last year we went into the year.
Speaker 2: But with this a guy starting center for the first
Speaker 2: time in his career, never started a game before. Our
Speaker 2: right guard had never started a game before. Our left
Speaker 2: guard was going into his second year, you know. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we did have some inexperienced guys
Speaker 2: and it wasn't really about developing Brockets. Brock was a
Speaker 2: really good player when he got here, and he got
Speaker 2: thrown into a position and he competed with other guys,
Speaker 2: and then he got his opportunity because he was hurt,
Speaker 2: and when he came in he played at a high
Speaker 2: level right away. There was no time to develop him.
Speaker 2: We just had to throw him in. We were trying
Speaker 2: to win, had a chance to make him run to
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and he came in and we thought, we
Speaker 2: hoped he would be good because he was in practice,
Speaker 2: but he was even better in the games and he
Speaker 2: didn't lose a game that year that he finished and
Speaker 2: did a hell of a job. And now he's developing
Speaker 2: with everyone else. I think as he gets better, the
Speaker 2: whole group gets better. And we've got a bunch of guys.
Speaker 2: Now we've played over a year together and I think
Speaker 2: it's shown.
Speaker 9: Okay, three more coaches who have back coaches who've worked
Speaker 9: with you in the past say you require a lot
Speaker 9: from them in terms of answers when they're suggesting a play.
Speaker 9: First of all, where does that come from? And second,
Speaker 9: what does it mean to you that a lot of
Speaker 9: them say that that's kind of an integral part of
Speaker 9: what has made them better individually successful.
Speaker 2: I guess, I mean that's just how I am. I
Speaker 2: don't come up with anything very fast. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can come up a lot of stuff just looking at
Speaker 2: one thing or having one idea, but you got to
Speaker 2: check it with everything. You got to go through all fronts,
Speaker 2: all coverages, all formations, all adjustments, contingency plans. Are guys
Speaker 2: good enough to do it? It's the second choice good enough?
Speaker 2: What's the percentage of hitting it? There's just so many
Speaker 2: things that go into it that I feel like I've
Speaker 2: always kind of been ocd about. And it can kind
Speaker 2: of be exhausted in the week to finally decide on
Speaker 2: some things because of all the stuff you got to check.
Speaker 2: But people who tell you that story are probably guys
Speaker 2: who came at stuff a little too fast, and once
Speaker 2: you start asking them a question two, three, and four,
Speaker 2: if they haven't thought about those stuff. I kind of
Speaker 2: have no patience for how they even brought it to
Speaker 2: you because I torture myself like that, so I feel
Speaker 2: like I should torture those guys too, Yes, Kyle, levels
Speaker 2: of pain. Where does fifty one fit?
Speaker 6: And then you know, Radhiem coming back to Atlanta, maybe
Speaker 6: he can go back and maybe fix that.
Speaker 7: One for you all.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's just right there with the other
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I mean, I've been able to coach in
Speaker 2: two Super Bowls and you lose either one of them.
Speaker 2: Both of them are heartbreaking. So in terms of pain,
Speaker 2: I've I mean, I've broken my arm, my collarbone, a
Speaker 2: lot of things, so those are more painful, but those
Speaker 2: things last a while. But it's all about getting back
Speaker 2: there again. And that's what I'm excited for today. And Raheem,
Speaker 2: I'm more than excited for Raheem. Raheem's to me been
Speaker 2: one of the one of the best coaches I've ever
Speaker 2: been around, especially as a defensive coach. It was unbelievable
Speaker 2: he did for me the year and sixteen on offense,
Speaker 2: and Raheems is studd You guys are in good hands, Kyle.
Speaker 7: Right here, you alluded to this when you got up
Speaker 7: there no injuries to reports, so I'm just double checking
Speaker 7: Kittle is good to go, and are you expecting full
Speaker 7: participation in Wednesday's practice and just what is that?
Speaker 2: How valuable will that be? I am, but since I
Speaker 2: didn't have to give a report today, I haven't talked
Speaker 2: to the trainers yet, so but I'm expecting to be
Speaker 2: pretty positive. Lasson.
Speaker 3: Hey, coach Stacy Dale's NFL network Greasey was talking to me,
Speaker 3: I'm back here yesterday about Brock playing with conviction and
Speaker 3: you have to have an aggressive mindset to do that.
Speaker 3: How much more aggressive have you become as a play
Speaker 3: caller because of Brock and how has he elevated you
Speaker 3: in many ways?
Speaker 2: I mean definitely your EBB and flow with how you
Speaker 2: call plays changes with your players, of course with a quarterback,
Speaker 2: but also with everyone else. I mean, the O line
Speaker 2: has a factor, the eligibles you're trying to get the
Speaker 2: ball to, how the defense is playing, so everything affects
Speaker 2: your play calling. And I've been fortunate enough to be
Speaker 2: able to call plays for a long time and have
Speaker 2: been in a lot of different situations, but having Brock
Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun. And you could feel
Speaker 2: it last year. Just each game I got more comfortable
Speaker 2: with him, seeing what he could do and how aggressive
Speaker 2: he is. And sometimes guys are aggressive. You get a
Speaker 2: little too aggressive and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 2: get them in trouble and you got to pull it back.
Speaker 2: And but Brock's been pretty impressive with that stuff. Usually
Speaker 2: when it's not there, he makes the right decision as
Speaker 2: consistently as anyone I've been around. And he's been real
Speaker 2: fun to call play for all Right, guys, thanks