Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Spags last week. You have Sean Sewn this week. Um,
Speaker 1: two guys that you worked with, you familiar with mar A.
Speaker 1: Are their similarities with with what they run and be
Speaker 1: knowing him so well and going against him and being
Speaker 1: with him? Right? Yeah, that original staff with Coachree, there's
Speaker 1: there's guys all over the place and we interact quite
Speaker 1: a bit, very similar. How they deploy the defense, UM,
Speaker 1: some of the techniques of how they play upfront, some
Speaker 1: of the coverage concepts are different. Um. And again you
Speaker 1: just have to follow the path of the guy we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Sean kind of reconnected with Ron Rivera, who
Speaker 1: was involved with the Lovey Smith Tampa two type stuff
Speaker 1: and configuration, and so you see some of that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know where Spags was kind of out of the
Speaker 1: nest on his own and then interacted with John Down
Speaker 1: and Ball the more. And so you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of take on and you kind of add to yourself
Speaker 1: based on the experiences you've had, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think that's that can be said for Sean Drum Drum
Speaker 1: Balls happened, bad passes happened. That's football. But quarterback and
Speaker 1: receiver not agreeing on what the play is that's that
Speaker 1: shouldn't happen with the miscommunications? Yea, how he traced these things?
Speaker 1: Is it from the sideline where it's not being communicated
Speaker 1: properly or no. I think they both knew the play.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not going to really tell you why
Speaker 1: it got miscommunicated because that leads to scheme and we're
Speaker 1: going to run that play again. We actually ran that
Speaker 1: play numerous times in the game. And but what it
Speaker 1: is is this guy's making the right decisions and then
Speaker 1: throwing the ball accurately. And in that case there they
Speaker 1: both fell victim to not doing the right thing properly.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll just leave it at that. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it had anything to come coming from
Speaker 1: the sideline or not knowing what the play was. And
Speaker 1: you know, we were running Apple and they all knew
Speaker 1: it was Apple. They just didn't execute it the right
Speaker 1: way earlier with Sprowls on the first possession, right, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think I think that that's just another example. You know,
Speaker 1: uh Sprosi was the first look in the flat, but
Speaker 1: then he had another part to the route that he
Speaker 1: was going to run and he just got into it
Speaker 1: a little too quick. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know. What happens is is we kind of get
Speaker 1: an initial report in the morning and then these guys
Speaker 1: are training, you know, and doing their rehab. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if he'll be out here or not. We'll see.
Speaker 1: The last two games, you run running and thrown it
Speaker 1: for a lot of yards. How big is that when
Speaker 1: you're you're able to do both well From a yardist standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's more of what we're used to. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we just got to tidy up the turnovers,
Speaker 1: you know. I think when you're we're able to run
Speaker 1: the football, then play actions meaningful. Um not lost on us.
Speaker 1: When we were running the ball, we hit a couple
Speaker 1: of deep play actions which which are which are really helpful.
Speaker 1: King become the kind of a linebacker who you have
Speaker 1: to really be aware of really is on a recent ever. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean Keithley and Davis. I mean both both as
Speaker 1: a pair. They're very instinctive. Um, they diagnose very well,
Speaker 1: and they run extremely fast. So they show up in
Speaker 1: concepts that you know they because they saw it and
Speaker 1: they get it, they get a jump on it. So certainly,
Speaker 1: uh there, that's where the defense is extremely talented in
Speaker 1: that linebacker level. They've got really good players up front
Speaker 1: and in the back end, but the highlight of their
Speaker 1: defense would be the linebackers, especially Luke. Is that something
Speaker 1: you see, No, I don't. I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's true. So there's no why to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what kind of job? Or the receivers doing blocking and
Speaker 1: Disraeli Cooper kind of stuff. The tobal I think our
Speaker 1: guys especially and they've got highlighted in the last game,
Speaker 1: have done a good job with perimeter blocks and that
Speaker 1: really helps you know, whether we're just throwing a simple bubble,
Speaker 1: you know, with two blockers out front, or you know,
Speaker 1: if a ball splits out. Sometimes we talk about turning
Speaker 1: bad into good, and good into great, and great into touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times it's the perimeter blocks that
Speaker 1: do that. So you may have a good run that's
Speaker 1: going to go for six or eight if the ball
Speaker 1: spits out to the perimeter, and then that can go
Speaker 1: for eight to twenty, and then sometimes that goes from
Speaker 1: twenty to a touchdown. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: that has to do with the receivers. A lot of
Speaker 1: time blocking on the perimeter is all about effort and angles.
Speaker 1: You know, you just got to fight to the whistle
Speaker 1: and take the right angle on your guys. And I
Speaker 1: think our guys have done a good job. I think
Speaker 1: there anyone who's really kind of step up this year
Speaker 1: that they really made a profressman. You know, I think
Speaker 1: they've all done a good job. What comes to mind
Speaker 1: in the last game was Miles Austin. I thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job. Coop has been has been a
Speaker 1: good blocker, Huff's an extremely tough competitive guy, and then
Speaker 1: certainly Jordan. So I think they all have done They've
Speaker 1: all done a good job, uh to get that combination
Speaker 1: and and and get put all the backs enough reps
Speaker 1: and and get them a tour rhythm, and it's like
Speaker 1: they're all kind of starting to click a little let.
Speaker 1: It's a little easier than you think when we get
Speaker 1: a lot of plays. You know, when we get up,
Speaker 1: we get you know, close to eighty plays or ninety plays,
Speaker 1: and you get a good rotation. Um, so we have
Speaker 1: an idea of how we want it to flow, and
Speaker 1: then you know, we just get it executed from the sideline.
Speaker 1: A little easier than you might think when you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of plays. When you're not getting a lot
Speaker 1: of plays, that's when it you know, it affects the
Speaker 1: whole offense and especially substitution patterns. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: more than you did last year. We have comfortable to
Speaker 1: the early two years. So what's what's kind of going
Speaker 1: on there? Everybodies Well, Again, I think sometimes when you
Speaker 1: when you're able to get open deep it's because you've
Speaker 1: found a way to run the football. And when you're
Speaker 1: running the football, then play actions meaningful, you know, And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times a lot of the
Speaker 1: deep throws that we've gotten have come off play actions
Speaker 1: and I think that's just that's just part of what
Speaker 1: football is. And then you know, his baseball brought background.
Speaker 1: You know, he tracks the ball well in the deep
Speaker 1: part of the field, so typically if the ball is
Speaker 1: thrown down around Riley, he'll do a good job downfield.
Speaker 1: That wasn't happening, Yeah, I don't, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. You know, we took his you know,
Speaker 1: the schemes the same. You know, maybe the ball just
Speaker 1: didn't get there as much. Now that he guys have
Speaker 1: had the misfortune that Sam has two back to back acos.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's mentally over the two injuries now?
Speaker 1: I think so. I think he's mentally over it. I
Speaker 1: think he's physically able to play. The big thing with
Speaker 1: Sam and I mentioned this to the production guys last week,
Speaker 1: you know, he's just got to keep keep training and
Speaker 1: keep playing. And you know there's certainly when he plays
Speaker 1: the game, there's way more good plays than bad, and
Speaker 1: and as you play each game, you got to eliminate
Speaker 1: the bad ones, and then everybody outside the building will
Speaker 1: start talking about that was a good performance because he
Speaker 1: did a lot of things to help us win the game.
Speaker 1: But I do think there's some things that become glaring
Speaker 1: because they're significant plays that we just got to eliminate.
Speaker 1: And I think he understands that. How much do you
Speaker 1: have to make sure that things don't get in his
Speaker 1: head as far as criticism, the interceptions, the up and
Speaker 1: down play, I think you just wanted to go out there,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's part of what we do as coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, we try to encourage them to focus on
Speaker 1: the training, focus on Carolina. I don't think good or bad,
Speaker 1: any of us can focus on what's said outside the
Speaker 1: building and I think I think that's natural. We as coaches,
Speaker 1: it's a little easier because we're in here all the time,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as we can keep our wives
Speaker 1: from telling us what's being said, and they're driving around
Speaker 1: town listening, just don't tell me, you know. But these
Speaker 1: guys leave the building a little bit more. And you know,
Speaker 1: we're in a new age now where they've always got
Speaker 1: their device in their hand, you know. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that whole So when you watch the gay, I saw,
Speaker 1: like I said, I saw a lot of I saw
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: things that we didn't see earlier. There were times when
Speaker 1: he was running around in the pocket that we didn't
Speaker 1: see earlier in the game or earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: I think they're you know, the obvious. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a couple of interceptions which you got to eliminate
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. And I think he will. I think
Speaker 1: he'll do that, and I think he'll continue to get better.
Speaker 1: You know, he hadn't played a lot of football in
Speaker 1: the last two years, and we're bringing him back. You know,
Speaker 1: we're fortunate enough to be winning games. However, we're doing it,
Speaker 1: and this thing is a sixteen game journey until hopefully
Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs competing to win it all. And
Speaker 1: so as we go through the journey, every one of
Speaker 1: us just keeps getting better. You keep training and you
Speaker 1: keep playing. And you know it sounds cliche, you know,
Speaker 1: as coaches to say that, but that's really what it is,
Speaker 1: you know, And I know everybody has to evaluate what's
Speaker 1: going on and give praise and assign blame as we go,
Speaker 1: but we're just all training and getting better so that
Speaker 1: we give ourselves a chance to win it all. Is
Speaker 1: that a product of his comfort fun back from the
Speaker 1: injury or his comfort in all? I think both. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's he's certainly healthy enough to play. But
Speaker 1: as you go along, you know, I have that injury,
Speaker 1: and as you come back from surgery. You know, you're
Speaker 1: out there and you're fine, but you become more and
Speaker 1: more fine as you go. You know, you get used
Speaker 1: to your body a little bit. More games are uncontrolled.
Speaker 1: Guys show up and pop up out of the ground
Speaker 1: sometimes and you got to avoid him. And where there's
Speaker 1: a guy there standing there getting ready to tip the ball,
Speaker 1: and you got to adjust, and so all those little
Speaker 1: movements that happen when you're in an uncontrolled setting. You
Speaker 1: just get more and more used to it as you
Speaker 1: get further and further away from the injury and the surgery.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing are you seeing moments where his wide
Speaker 1: receivers and played ends can can maybe help him out
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm thinking particularly on the passag George
Speaker 1: Matthews where he was kind of scram on the pocket
Speaker 1: and yeah, he kind of peeled off. It seemed like
Speaker 1: Jordan didn't well to me on that one. That was
Speaker 1: one where the pocket movement was great. He kept it
Speaker 1: alive and then he came But I still think that
Speaker 1: that falls on both of them. Jordan certainly could come
Speaker 1: back to the ball a little bit more, and then
Speaker 1: Sam could have thrown him a little bit higher ball.
Speaker 1: So there's an example where there's some good stuff going
Speaker 1: on on that play. We just just got to connect
Speaker 1: on it, you know, And I think that's it. And
Speaker 1: then certainly, the way receivers helped the quarterback is they
Speaker 1: don't drop balls, you know, and where the receiver where
Speaker 1: the quarterback helps the receivers is they throw them perfectly accurate,
Speaker 1: you know. And then we all help each other and
Speaker 1: we keep going on our journey. You know what happened
Speaker 1: on the interception in the second quarter. Who was either
Speaker 1: overthrow of Zach Ertz an underthrow of Rodway Cooper. What happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just missed the throw. He missed the throw. I
Speaker 1: think the ball was intended for Zach, that's all I throw.
Speaker 1: Train it up, get his feet right, make it the
Speaker 1: next time out like you did the bog week. I
Speaker 1: know you run the ball the second half a lot. Sure, yea.
Speaker 1: The advantages of that are obvious, but the disadvantages of
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to take a skill guy out wide
Speaker 1: off the field. How does that change your offense? Well,
Speaker 1: we like to think we're when we're in one back,
Speaker 1: we can run every play we run, whether we're in
Speaker 1: two tight ends or you know, or one tight end.
Speaker 1: The other night we fell victim. We had some receivers
Speaker 1: in and out of the game, as you saw, and
Speaker 1: so the roster kind of changed on us throughout the game,
Speaker 1: and so we used it, probably a little more than
Speaker 1: we had planned, but it was working for us. And
Speaker 1: then we got into a game where we were running
Speaker 1: the ball and you know, kind of played into that.
Speaker 1: But you know, we really at this time of the
Speaker 1: year when you got guys a little bit nicked, they're
Speaker 1: out there fighting and battling. We got to use the
Speaker 1: whole roster, all the way down to Trey Burton at
Speaker 1: the tight end level, and even you know, we trained
Speaker 1: Kenyan Barner to play running back and wide receiver. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to use the whole roster. You know. We
Speaker 1: have a conceptual offense where you line up at one,
Speaker 1: two or three and you got to know what to do,
Speaker 1: and that allows us to play fast and I think
Speaker 1: all our skill players got to be involved have been
Speaker 1: with adjustments that are post staff um with with the suffense.
Speaker 1: Is it more reliable things like that compared to other systems.
Speaker 1: You've been in some plays, but not all, you know.
Speaker 1: I think the one the other night was one where
Speaker 1: that's an adjusted route and a decision to be made.
Speaker 1: And I won't tell you what number Riley was in
Speaker 1: the progression. But you have a progression. Typically you want
Speaker 1: to throw it to the guys that are one on
Speaker 1: one are wide open, and then if they're not, you
Speaker 1: move on. I mean, I'm trying to sati fight again.
Speaker 1: You're looking for one on ones. If you catch a
Speaker 1: none on one you like that better, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: just talk about the routes themselves sometimes like a, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't. We have a few routes that are adjusted,
Speaker 1: but and then we have other ones that are locked
Speaker 1: or fixed. So it's just part of it. And I
Speaker 1: think all offenses are the same. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have more or less here, even going back to the
Speaker 1: West Coast routes and seeing albeit this work a year,
Speaker 1: like were you seeing the same in the seas that
Speaker 1: you're seeing now? Or you know, we get same mistakes?
Speaker 1: You know, we you know, we weren't very good and
Speaker 1: we're really not that many changes other than add and
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. We went from winning one game to winning
Speaker 1: seven and almost went in the division. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we made mention of what people say,
Speaker 1: you got to just let it go and go play.
Speaker 1: That's why I say, hey, you're training, you play. And
Speaker 1: I think he'll continue to do better things and make
Speaker 1: less mistakes as we go. And I think I saw
Speaker 1: that process when we were together the first year. If
Speaker 1: you have a route that has adjustment built into it
Speaker 1: depending on the coverage that the receivers seeing, doesn't that
Speaker 1: adjustment have to be made? X yards into it. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you're committed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's time. Football and route
Speaker 1: running is all time and distance and spacing, so down
Speaker 1: the field, as you're making an adjustment, it has to
Speaker 1: be on time. That general concept might be part correct correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good, it's very insightful. Good h