WEBVTT - Inside Coverage: Preseason Recap 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.200 This episode of Inside Coverage was recorded before the news 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.600 of Brian Robinson Junior on behalf of Braham, myself and 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.200 the Washington Commander's media team. We wish him the best 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:14.160 of health and a full speedy recovery. He's a guy. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.560 When the lights came on for the game, he played better. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.160 And they have what I would call the oddest streak 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.400 in sport. That offensive line group is especial. When I 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:30.080 go to a Broadway show, I assume they practiced the line. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.680 All right, welcome into the Unnamed Show, Bram Whitsteined, Logan Paulson. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.400 All Right, today we're gonna talk the end of the 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.040 preseason here, what the summer has meant to you, what 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.040 it's meant to you in the past, what you look for, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.159 and the things that have stood out to us this 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.879 summer as we get set for the start of the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.640 twenty twenty two seasons. So just generally, when I say, like, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.920 what's important in training camp, training, preseason? Yeah, yeah, so 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.720 I think just general off season thoughts like it kind 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.640 of ramps up in terms of importance obviously, like OTAs 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.480 are important just to kind of confirm evaluations. See generally 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.080 where the team is at mini camp, intensity ramps up 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.080 training camp, you're kind to take a step up, right, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.240 And I always thought, I like, even when I played, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.200 that the preseason was kind of the next natural progression 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:14.880 of that. It's just it's a little bit more than 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.640 a practice. It's significantly less than a regular season game. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.039 But it just kind of helps you see how guys 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.200 handle live bullets for lack of a better word, right, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.640 like how they are kind of with the prep, how 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.039 they are when the lights come on, how they are 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.920 when they're getting the calls from the sideline and they're 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.520 on the field. They have to make their own decisions. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.560 And I think that stuff is very important, will always 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.880 be important. I think a lot of teams in the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.160 NFL now have found other ways to get that evaluation 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.039 part out in terms of like utilizing joint practices right 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.920 where they can run bigger swaths of their offense or 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.840 defense against a different opponent and they don't have to 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.760 worry about kind of guys getting hurt in the same 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.200 way because there are parameters to practice. So I think 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.840 I just think it's a it's a really important evaluation tool, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.840 if especially for this team, because they don't use they 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.760 don't utilize that joint practice model, which as a player, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.880 I couldn't stand joint practices, but as a coach or 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.040 a scout, you definitely see why those things are important. Yeah, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.000 So for me, like in the spring, it's the beginning 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.240 of the hype train. Yeah, it's guys in shorts and 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.760 T shirts. Everybody looks great. Everybody feels like, oh, we 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 got it right on this. This this, this trading camp 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.960 to be starts to give you a little hint of 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.839 are those people that are new are they really going 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.520 to fit in the way that they did? Are they 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.040 going to be able to do the things that they're 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.600 suggesting they were going to be able to do? And 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.800 in the case of like Johan Dotson, it's obvious that 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.560 there's a carryover and he belongs right. There are others 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.320 that where I go, I've heard all the hype, I 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.520 still need to see this in real games, and the 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.799 trading camp can kind of be eye opening in that 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.240 way where you watch one how much they're being utilized 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.840 for real now, and two do they look comfortable in 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.639 the things they're being asked to do? And so there 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.680 are and I won't name any of those players, but 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.400 there are players that I go. I heard a lot 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.680 about them. I'm still waiting to see it when we 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.160 get into real games. And I think that's that's essentially 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.639 what the preseason game for this team means, right. It's 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.800 it's not a regular it's not a regular season game obviously, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.600 but at least it's kind of the next natural maturation 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.680 of that process where you can say, oh, you know, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.560 how does the old line pass off games without knowing 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.600 the games are coming? Because I think people often forget 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.960 that practice is scripted. Like I remember when I was playing, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.480 you could go to the defensive call sheet, look up 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.200 all their defensive calls and be like, a team run, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.440 They're gonna run these stunts and we're gonna be ready 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.360 for this, and we're gonna game plan this. What happens 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.720 when the structure it's a little bit less structured, can 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.720 guys see and digest information at a high level, and again, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.000 it just stresses them in a way that they haven't 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.160 been stressed so far. So again, that's one of the 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.040 things I enjoy about preseason football is because it just 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.240 kind of ticks it up a little bit and for 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.560 some of those guys that are maybe flashing, maybe it's 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.120 kind of saying, oh, there's this is why they're not starting, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.480 or this is why they were two, this is why 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.120 they're rotational people, or you'll see these are the parts 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.400 I think they're going to need to improve on. And 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.560 you'll see that a lot with the younger players, Like 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.440 last summer, Jammy Brown, there was some obvious there was 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.280 a big hype trade about after his selection in trading camp, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.640 it became pretty clear that like there's a ways to 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.600 go for him that you see the upside, you see 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.520 what they're talking about. You know he could have a 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.560 big role for them, but you could see some of 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.080 the things that were still needed to come along. That 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.200 was one major example for me a year ago that 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.320 I saw in camp. Yeah, and he's a good example 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.240 too because like he's a guy and again you mentioned 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.520 consistency at the start of the show, and I think that, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.000 like he's a guy that is good for two days 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.279 and then kind of goes quiet for three and good 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.640 for two days, goes quiet, And I think for the 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.120 young guys that the off season is a long process 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.920 and how consistent can you be in that process, because again, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.200 that shows me who you are and what you're about, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.240 and if you're super inconsistent. I think there's something either 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.880 from like a mental standpoint that isn't quite working out, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.239 from like a classroom standpoint, or just like how much 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.000 do you love it in terms of being able to 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.640 bring your top level every single day to and treat 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.520 it like it's a game. I think that's also important 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.919 for people. I mean, there's a couple of guys, like 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.680 in the secondary this year, clearly younger players are going 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.120 to make this team. Percy Butler is gonna make the team, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.680 probably play a lot. There's probably going to be a 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.159 very young corner that makes it as the fifth corner 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.479 on this behind Johnson, Saint Juice, Jackson, and Fuller. Somebody's 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.359 going to make the team here because there is no 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.080 other veteran really out there unless Cornelder makes it. Someone 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.320 like Christian Holmes is probably going to make it. So 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.839 I'm watching people like that, and you see the rookie 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.000 moments like yeah, there are these times during the trading 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.440 camp where you're like, man, that guy's got it, like yeah, boy, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.159 they got a hit. He's a seventh round pick. And 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.680 then there are other days where you see it and 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.920 you go, he's gonna have to fix this, or he's 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.839 gonna have to fix that because it's a long season here. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.159 These are pros. You're gonna be covering professional receivers. We 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.040 don't have time for you to learn it. Well. I 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.680 think that's the other thing with Christian Holmes is a 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.760 great example, Like he's looked pretty dang good throughout training 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.640 camp minus a couple of plays here and there, and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.360 then you get to you get to the preseason game 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.680 and he looks a little nervous. You know, it looks 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.760 a little reserved and obviously like everyone handles games differently, right, 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.240 But I think that that again, that's why that kind 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.320 of escalation is so important, because you get to see 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.800 who's got that competitive It's it's like, you know, you 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.440 mentioned Forrest in our draft, like he's a guy when 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.400 the lights came on for the game, he played better, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.479 like he was more physical, Like you get to show 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.240 other elements of his game, and other guys kind of 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.760 get quiet and get nervous and they shy away from that. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.760 And so again I think that's why that preseason process 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.760 is so like that it escalates a little bit is 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.119 so important for just finalizing what you think about the roster. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.880 You know, the other thing it really stands out to 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.920 me in preseason now is just how structured, how it's 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.160 just so different than what I was accustomed to two 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.920 years ago and probably what even what you were accustomed 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.480 to not even that long ago, where it's been negotiated, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.479 the physicality of it's been negotiated out, Yeah, through the 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.000 collective bargaining agreement. And you know, listen, like I'm not 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.400 sitting here like pining for the time when we saw 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.279 two days and these guys are killing each other, you know, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.800 in the middle of August. But it's gone a different 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.719 direction where the first week of camp league wide, you 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.000 can't hit yeah, right everyway. So and then you know, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.880 when I asked Rod Rivera about it, he would say 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.440 things like, you know, well, we did do some live practices, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.320 but you can hear in his voice he's like, it's 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.040 a different time there, and to actually ramp up and 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.640 get ready to play football, you have to hit each other, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.680 and there's just a limitation on it, and that secondarily, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.840 you don't want to get people injured. Yeah, it's a 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.880 really it's dicey, Like I think, like I look at 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.320 this and I look at the coaches, and I go, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.600 I don't know how you get these guys ready to 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.960 do this based on how this thing is structured right now. Yeah, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.120 I think that's another interesting thing, like when are they 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.800 going to tackle? When are they gonna block? When are 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.840 they gonna cut block? When the when do those things happen? 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.480 And they don't happen enjoying practices, They happen in the 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.160 preseason game. That's the first kind of scrimmage element that 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.160 they have. And I think, you know, like I remember 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.240 talking to Iron after the game and he was like, well, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:48.880 it was nice to see that they tackled well because 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.000 we weren't able to see that, you know, like we 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.000 weren't able to see that from the defense. So it is. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.200 It's a totally different animal now, and I think in 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.200 some ways it makes the preseason games a little bit 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.680 more important because you get to kind of truly understand, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.360 you know, what your team and what your guys are about, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.760 especially if you're a young team. Like obviously everyone points 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.920 to the La Rams and says, oh, well, they don't 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.520 play anybody in the preseam that's like a very experienced 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.880 old roster in a lot of ways, and here this, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.520 you know, like the oldest guy is Tress Way, you 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.320 know what I mean, who's a punter, and everybody else 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.320 is very young and kind of developing as professionals. And 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.760 so I think that's why joint practices, preseason games, all 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.800 that stuff is so important. I mean, I think down 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.240 the road, the way it's structured, I would almost argue 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.440 that joint practices and controlled scrimmages are a better option 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.360 than have the preseason games. Yeah, and you know what, like, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.640 guess what I know about football fans. They'll watch them. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.720 they'll go to a stadium for them. And I actually 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.440 think both teams would get more out of it if 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.079 they were in communication with one another and said, this 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.120 is what we plan to do. Now, tell us what 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.720 you plan to do, and we'll accommodate each other and 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.480 do the things that we want to get accomplished in 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.360 something like this. Right now, these like these games seem 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.960 to not have I don't know the effect that I 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.400 think that both teams could probably if it from right. Yeah, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.800 I think that's a great point, like, because it's becoming 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.160 the preseason games specifically are becoming so diluted, you know, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.760 like you're not getting kind of the pushing of the 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.560 game planning. You're not getting these kind of things you 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.240 used to get, you know, back when I was a 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.280 rookie in twenty two thousand and ten. Geez, and um, obviously, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.640 like that's that's important. And then, like you mentioned, now 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.280 we can work our cover three beaters when you're running 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.320 running your cover three because we're talking about it, we 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.520 can say this is this, these are our cover three 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.240 beaters as an offense. Can you guys run cover three 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.000 for us? Yes? Yes, and we'll get there's a benefit there. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.640 And also the most important thing of a joint practices 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.000 you protect your quarterback. There's a reason that Tom Brady 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.320 doesn't do preseason games and only does, um, you know 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.000 whatever joint practices is because you can't touch the quarterback 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.000 and you're less likely to get injured. And that, you know, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.120 one hundred million dollars investment that the team has made 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.360 is not at risk in a game that doesn't matter. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.520 And they're getting looks against other defenses that are getting 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.840 the speed of other defenses. And I think, again, I 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.400 don't disagree with you. I think that that's a good 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.320 I mean, I mean, you know, like take this, they're 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.920 playing the Ravens this weekend. They're right up the street obviously, region. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.000 It's the right thing to do, it's easiest thing to do. Well, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.760 what if they put you know, a controlled scrimmage in 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.079 either one of their stadiums or Navy Stadium. Well you 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.040 think they wouldn't sell tickets to that, Yeah, you know, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.960 and that both teams are actually getting out what they 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.240 want to get out of this instead of what's happening 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.199 right now, which is for some weird reason, the Ravens 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.840 want to win these games, you know, like it really 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.480 actually matters to them, and they have what I would 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.280 call the oddest streak in sports. Yeah, that's not a coincidence. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.960 That's their thing. Now, they haven't lost the preseason game 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.079 in five years or six years or whatever it is. Well, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.199 that's because you want to Yeah, that's a weird priority, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.040 but that's their priority, and so that isn't this team's priority. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.760 We're walking into a stadium on Saturday where these two 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.640 teams aren't even thinking about it in the same way. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.439 You know. I think that's a undred percent right. And 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.120 I think you know a lot of fans freak out 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.960 about like the record in preseason or whatever it is. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.720 I think that's like the worst thing to be worried about, Like, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.400 this is not a time to be worried about winning 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.160 and losing football games. It's a time to be worried 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.320 about where's my roster at. And then I personally think 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.880 that more there should be more emphasis on, like the 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.120 game plan per week, like that second preseason game should 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.959 be pretty like a pretty serious game plan, because you 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.719 want to see how guys handle and digest what you're 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.240 trying to do. You want to make sure as a 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.000 coordinator that you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.600 of your side of the football. So I think that's 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.920 something that could be emphasized a little bit again roster evaluation. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.760 But I think winning these football games is the like 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.880 you said, it's the oddish streak in all of sports 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.680 in terms of what Baltimore is doing. And I couldn't 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 agree more. It's the who cares? These games don't count? 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.679 One doesn't matter. And I'm not saying winning winning the 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.360 game is like if you get into two minute drill 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:39.840 with Sam how at the end of the game, Like, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.000 go execute you two minute drill. But I'm not executing 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.320 it to win the game. I want to see how 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.839 Sam Howell handles that situation. Yeah, and then it's something 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.520 that like, again tending to your point about joint practices, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.240 It's like earlier this week or earlier before the before 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.480 the first Presea game against Carolina, Ron was like, I 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.640 want to see Sam how on a two minute. It's like, well, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.800 why don't you just go to the other coach and 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.199 be like, we're gonna run a two minute with Sam 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.280 Hell in the game, Like run your two minute defense? Like, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.320 why can't you do that? You told them upfront We're 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.000 going to go no huddle. I don't care what the 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.240 clock says. Yeah, when he comes in, we're gonna go 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.080 no huddle and pretend it's a two minute because we 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.320 want to see him react. This way, you should know, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.280 because we want ten minutes on the clock, you're not 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.360 going to think we're yeah right. And I think that 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.640 kind of thing would would just be beneficial because then 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.960 there's no doubt about I'm not like waiting for the 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.600 end of the game. Oh we're gonna get the ball back. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.560 Is it gonna be the right situation? It's like, we 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.960 dictate this situation, so let's run a two minute if 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:32.280 you want to see Taylor Howny. You do it like 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.760 it's the middle of the second quarter. Hey, just phone over, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.080 be like, hey, we're gonna run two minute right now, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.040 Like run your two minute defense. Boom, and we got 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.360 we gotta take care of a controlled scrimmage. You could 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.280 lay these things out absolutely each team could have an 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.200 opportunity to do it. You could say we're doing red 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.360 zone now, you could say we could do whatever cover 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.679 we're working on specific coverages. That's it, right, and then 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.640 both coaches are on the same page about it. You 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.120 protect everybody as much as you possible again, which is 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.480 what the whole point of the fans will watch it. Yeah, well, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:56.959 I mean, like you know, when we did this the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.160 scrimmage at the stadium, like there was a lot of 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.120 people there, and you imagine if there was another team 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.160 there and you can watch your seven on seven, what's 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.160 your nine on seven, what's your one on one pass rushes, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.640 like get to see those points of evaluation. I think 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.480 that's I think that would be excellent. But again, like 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.079 I don't know if people are ready to kind of 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.400 shift gears like that. Yeah. Now, in the games, there 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.079 are a few things that stood out to me and 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.360 I'll be specific about this team, because you know, I've 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.360 watched some of the other preseason games, but mainly I'm 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.480 watching ours. And there are a couple of things that 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.520 I do take out of them and I go those 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.880 are at least interesting to think about, And one of 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.959 them is one of the things that's concerning to me 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.480 is it's not a coincidence when after every half, would 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.600 you come out of the locker room, the other team, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.240 no matter who their personnel is, goes down the field 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.080 and along on a long driving scores. This happened four 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.760 times each half. It has happened no matter who the 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.079 quarterback was for the Panthers or the Chiefs, or who 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.959 the defensive unit was for Washington. So while it's preseason, 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.840 and while that score doesn't matter, I do look at 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.760 things like that and go, what's happening here, because that's 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.719 it's not a coincidence anymore when it happens every single time. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.120 And again to your point, like you get out of 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.679 preseason what you emphasize, and so you mentioned Baltimore, they 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.319 want to win the games, right, so twenty four or 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.400 whatever it is, twenty three consecutive games, Like if if 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.520 that's something that you as a staff want to work on, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.800 Like wouldn't you make that a point of emphasis, Like 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.360 maybe we're scripting the first ten plays coming out of halftime, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.320 where we're scripting our first ten and we want those 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.560 to be Chris when we're talking about that all week 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.760 and we're talking about starting fast, like you are in 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.000 control of this. Treat it like a practice. Get get 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.400 out of that what you want to get out of it. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.200 Because people say all the time, like why why are 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.360 we slow starters? Why is the team a slow starter? 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.440 And offensively there seems to be an element of conservatism, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.280 and I think on defense it's the same thing. You're 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.480 just playing kind of you're playing not it seems like 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.560 they don't know what the offense is going to run. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.640 But you've had all week to prep. You know, in 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.040 both cases, your offense to their defense and our defense 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.360 of their offense. Said, I mean it's Pat Mahomes. Yeah, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.680 and it's that offense and they win twelve games every year, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.960 so like you know, I it's a different animal. And 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.720 that's an interesting test for a preseason game. But still 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.200 they announced in the middle of the week, we're playing 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.360 our guys for boards of a half, So It wasn't 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.280 like they weren't going to hold back. You played him 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.480 last year. It was a slow start again, and I 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.840 you know, and it was slow start for a reason 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.360 that I think it was kind of unexpected, at least 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.040 in my opinion, And it was the pass rush wasn't there. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.360 Because if you watched Carolina and again a different team, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.840 the past rush was outstanding and then all of a 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.320 sudden they could add four sacks on Mayfield. Yeah, it 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.720 gets really quiet against Mahomes and Mahomes because of the 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.200 style of play that he has, because of you know, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.320 his ability to kind of his arm strength and ability 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.560 to get all those things, they dictate a different style 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.200 of rush. But that should show you if you're jack, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.400 if you're the defensive staff, that like that plan needs 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.240 to be cultivated and developed a little bit more, a 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.160 little bit more fleshed out. Now. I do think that 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.960 in the context of Kansas City, I think this staff 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.080 would probably say we're gonna run more five man rushes. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.920 We're going to eliminate the double team on the nose 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.680 player so that Patrick Mahomes can't step up, innovate and 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.720 innovate the pocket like we'll get more one on ones 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.480 will contain him with kind of more volume run because 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:01.880 I actually thought the coverage had a good job, but 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.640 the rush just couldn't get home. So it's just weird 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.480 how that was the reason for the slow start against 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.480 Kansas City, while the reason for the slow start against 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.120 Carolina was the fact that the coverage was kind of 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.400 misaligned and not communicating effectively. So again it's it's not 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.080 like one thing, and maybe that's fanshi to take solace 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.400 in that, but also it's annoying because it's a different 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.920 thing in two weeks, and it's a carryover because how 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.240 many times over these last two years have they been 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.960 behind in games? They very rarely have a lead, they 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.080 very rarely score on their opening drive, So maybe that's conservative. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.000 So these are things that, like eighty year three, I 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.560 would like to see change. And while these games I 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.640 realized don't matter, it is something that was happening in 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.560 the past, it is something I think it's considered else. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.120 And also, like you know, with the offense specifically, like 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.520 you know, Brian Robinson did a great job getting too 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.840 a lot of second and shorts, and in every offense 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.960 I've been in, like second and short, you're taking a shot, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.800 but they Scott seemed to be more concerned about just 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.800 getting getting the ball to a first down distance. You 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.600 know what I'm saying, So like, instead of a second 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.000 and one, instead of saying, oh, we're gonna run a 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.800 play action pass here, we're gonna see what Jahan withold Terry, 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.000