Speaker 1: These Aaron Grimes and we're gonna sign Paul Turner to
Speaker 1: the active so, UM, we're gonna make that, make that move,
Speaker 1: UM today Actually I already made that move, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do that. And then, UM, let me just update
Speaker 1: you on the injuries out of this football game. Ryan
Speaker 1: Matthews has a right a right knee, UM, and uh
Speaker 1: his his day to day UM Leo is in the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. Big v Um has a Grade two UM
Speaker 1: MCL sprain and again his his is more week to week,
Speaker 1: so we'll evaluate him later in the week obviously. And
Speaker 1: then Connor Barwin UM just has a bone bruise and uh,
Speaker 1: he'll we're gonna hold him out of He'll be fine
Speaker 1: for the game, but we're gonna hold him out of
Speaker 1: our work Wednesday and Thursday, UM this week, and then uh,
Speaker 1: Terrence Brooks will be good to go. Zach is fine, UM,
Speaker 1: and Darren Sprowls just update you on him real quick. UM.
Speaker 1: His is a seventh much like Brent Sellick. His is
Speaker 1: a seventh rib fracture, but it's not as UM, it's
Speaker 1: more in a safe area. I guess it sounds bad,
Speaker 1: but it's more in a safer area than than what
Speaker 1: Brent Selex is and so he should be We'll hold
Speaker 1: him from practice Wednesday Thursday and just see where he's
Speaker 1: at later in the week. But he should be fine
Speaker 1: for the game. It's non displaying at all. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny where it's at, but it's actually in
Speaker 1: a safe area. So he'll be okay for the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he should be fine for the game. Um. And then
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins just has a little little kneeber situs. He'll be,
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. He came in this morning a little
Speaker 1: bit sore behind the knee, so he'll be he'll be okay.
Speaker 1: And then uh, everybody else, Um, it's good. Well, moving forward,
Speaker 1: it looks like we'll go back to our preseason uh thought,
Speaker 1: you know, move Allan over there and give him, give
Speaker 1: him the week you know of reps over at right
Speaker 1: tackle and then and then you get whiz and Isaac
Speaker 1: get the guard spot and then keep keep Tobin available.
Speaker 1: It'll be whiz um, but Isaac will get get some
Speaker 1: reps to Yeah. The reason by us from doing so,
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know right now with some of
Speaker 1: the injuries that we have at other spots, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're constantly and I'm constantly evaluating the roster
Speaker 1: and just kind of uh seeing seeing where we are there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we gave him some work last week in practice,
Speaker 1: and just feel like this is a good opportunity now
Speaker 1: and not only for him but for us to uh
Speaker 1: uh see see where he's at, see what he can do,
Speaker 1: and give him, give him an opportunity. So we'll give
Speaker 1: him some work this week and then and then we'll
Speaker 1: make a decision whether he'll be up or not later
Speaker 1: in the week. Butter game, Nelson and I go are admitted,
Speaker 1: uh that pressure is getting to him and that he's
Speaker 1: using confidence and he's in his head. Do you have
Speaker 1: to take him now and stepping back from from playing
Speaker 1: much because of that. We we will. I will definitely
Speaker 1: have a conversation with Nelson and and and I'll address
Speaker 1: that as as we get later into the week. But
Speaker 1: you know, that's those are definitely concerns that I have,
Speaker 1: you know now that now that obviously he's come out
Speaker 1: and said that publicly. Um, you know, my my concern
Speaker 1: is for him as as an individual, you know, as
Speaker 1: a person. I want to make sure that he's he's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, in a good spot. You know, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: put football aside. We all know about that, but I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that him as a person is uh,
Speaker 1: he's doing good. So we'll have that conversation during the before,
Speaker 1: either as a teammate of a guy or as a
Speaker 1: coach of a guy who's been in his head this
Speaker 1: bad and if so, how did they get out of it.
Speaker 1: I can't recall off off the top of my head
Speaker 1: a situation or a scenario, you know, and sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, and this is not this is just me speaking.
Speaker 1: It's not a decision by any means. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to take a step back in order to go forward.
Speaker 1: Um and and uh sometimes that that can help clear
Speaker 1: clear your head. You know. I remember as a quarterback
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety nine when when Andy you know,
Speaker 1: pulled me out and put Donovan in, It was a
Speaker 1: step back to to possibly go forward and to see it,
Speaker 1: you know, see it differently. So um, you know those
Speaker 1: are and and and then that way too, you can
Speaker 1: begin to clear clear your head and then see it,
Speaker 1: see it where you don't have the pressure you know,
Speaker 1: of of performing on you all the time. Are you
Speaker 1: thinking about sitting him or pulling back on him to
Speaker 1: give him that opportunity to step out. I'm gonna wait
Speaker 1: till after I talk with Nelson. I'm gonna wait and
Speaker 1: see where we're at during the week and and and
Speaker 1: you know, um and make that decision, you know, down
Speaker 1: down later later, and we've got a longer week, and
Speaker 1: I just want to see where he's at. So who
Speaker 1: takes first th on on our Wednesday? Well, we still
Speaker 1: still have the four, you know, and then we just
Speaker 1: will interject pt you know, Paul Turner and and and
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just keep much like we did yet
Speaker 1: last week is a is we we we kind of
Speaker 1: got everybody equal opportunity in there, you know, and and
Speaker 1: uh so, so Nelson will be a part of that
Speaker 1: and then we'll again all evaluate it later in a week.
Speaker 1: Why has it taken so returner to get an opportunity? Well,
Speaker 1: I just think you know, when you're when you're when
Speaker 1: you're shuffling, and I say shuffling when you're when you're
Speaker 1: having to get guys active for games. Um, it's all
Speaker 1: about numbers, you know, to get guys deactivated and activated
Speaker 1: for games, And a lot of times it comes down
Speaker 1: to injury. And and just by sheer number. Um, it
Speaker 1: just hasn't been in the works to uh um, to
Speaker 1: get him, to get him up. I think Nelson beyond
Speaker 1: beyond just being in his head, as he said, were
Speaker 1: there are things beyond out into your mind that he's
Speaker 1: actually he's struggled with, you mean, away from football or
Speaker 1: just fuel girl back to you know why he's struggling.
Speaker 1: Is it all? Is it all a mental thing? Or
Speaker 1: is there or are there things that he's not doing
Speaker 1: that he needs to be doing well? I I again,
Speaker 1: I you know, um, it's all speculation obviously, but but um,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes as athletes, you put so much pressure
Speaker 1: on yourself to perform and and then when it when
Speaker 1: it maybe doesn't quite work out in your favor, you know, um.
Speaker 1: And then and then outside influences you know, I e.
Speaker 1: The media, fans, um put more pressure on you to perform.
Speaker 1: And and you're you're you're a top pick and you
Speaker 1: need to perform. All that pressure on a player, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, is is not good and uh um. And
Speaker 1: so you know, in in in Nelson's case, sometimes so
Speaker 1: times it's uh um. You know you'd like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe you have to take a step back, and
Speaker 1: maybe you have to see it um differently, view it differently.
Speaker 1: And these are all conversations that he and I will
Speaker 1: have this week. And and uh and again I'm it's
Speaker 1: it's the it's the well being of the player and
Speaker 1: the person for me than it is that as him
Speaker 1: as him as an athlete and as a receiver pressing.
Speaker 1: Have you seen him have you the stuff he talked
Speaker 1: about after the game? Have you seen that over the
Speaker 1: last time I've seen him. I've seen him trying to
Speaker 1: just do things a little out of character for him,
Speaker 1: you know. And and and that's obviously a sign that
Speaker 1: that maybe things are um not going not going well
Speaker 1: for him, and you just as an athlete again, as athletes,
Speaker 1: we just can't. You gotta let the game sort of
Speaker 1: come to you. And and I feel like he's maybe
Speaker 1: pressing just a little bit and trying to do things
Speaker 1: and he's doing everything right. Listen, it's he's working hard,
Speaker 1: he's getting work after practice and doing all doing everything right.
Speaker 1: And uh, um, we're just gonna, you know, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna continue to work. When you call the time out,
Speaker 1: why didn't you like that situation to call it time out?
Speaker 1: You know? At the time. Um, I guess, I guess
Speaker 1: in my mind at that at that point it was
Speaker 1: third and six and and I guess the easiest thing
Speaker 1: might have been yet to call the time out. But
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times, as I mentioned after
Speaker 1: the game, you know, receivers looked to the sideline to
Speaker 1: get the to get the okay by the official, and
Speaker 1: the official was obviously waving his hand to move him up.
Speaker 1: And um, you know pre snap, you know, as quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were wired in our first white vision is to make
Speaker 1: sure everybody's legal and and um, you know, I just
Speaker 1: didn't at that time, just didn't feel like, um where
Speaker 1: we were at the time, and didn't want to just
Speaker 1: save the time out, so I just didn't call it.
Speaker 1: Or did you see greg who we saw it? We
Speaker 1: were we were we we saw it initially right away.
Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, did you think Carson a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit on a quarterback but of
Speaker 1: course he was focused in on on you know, the
Speaker 1: defense at the time too. But uh, um, there were
Speaker 1: two other receivers there also, um and and and again
Speaker 1: it comes back to me, I got to make sure
Speaker 1: that these guys are are prepared in all all those
Speaker 1: situations and just know, you know, um, sometimes receivers are
Speaker 1: displaced a lot, and they're in those bunches and clusters
Speaker 1: and just got to keep talking to him to make
Speaker 1: sure they're on the ball. There was a time of
Speaker 1: the league where young receivers we're expected to struggle, especially rookies.
Speaker 1: He's not a rookie, but he's the second year guys
Speaker 1: now and then some guys there were some period whereas
Speaker 1: some rookies had a lot of success. Has that changed
Speaker 1: the expectations for young receivers in this league? Do you
Speaker 1: think to uh to succeed quicker? You know, it's obviously
Speaker 1: a league where where you know, we ask guys to
Speaker 1: perform right away, you know, and and whether they're they're
Speaker 1: drafted or undrafted. Um, you know you're you're the pressure
Speaker 1: to play, I guess is right now. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: back when I played, it was more let's develop these players,
Speaker 1: you know, and you get time where where now it's
Speaker 1: it's okay, you know, what have you done from me lately?
Speaker 1: Mentality and and uh, we expect, we expect a lot
Speaker 1: from these young players. And and it's probably a disjustice
Speaker 1: on our part, you know, maybe maybe we need to
Speaker 1: take a step back as coaches and and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: let's keep developing these guys, let's keep working, and let's
Speaker 1: let's let's try to figure out ways to to use
Speaker 1: them number one and help them be successful on the
Speaker 1: football field. Much like our young quarterback. You know, how
Speaker 1: can we help him? How can I help him be successful? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a there is a fine line. You know, we
Speaker 1: asked him to do a lot early. Um, but we
Speaker 1: also know that in the long run, if there is
Speaker 1: success there, then then that benefits not only them but
Speaker 1: the team down the road. Young quarterback, what have you
Speaker 1: seen full of the last than a half or so? Uh,
Speaker 1: it seems like, at least statistically, his production has been
Speaker 1: kind of steadily going down. How much of that is him?
Speaker 1: How much of that is the people around him? And
Speaker 1: and how do you get them to kind of back
Speaker 1: on back on track? Well, the way to get him
Speaker 1: back on track is is is I've got to I've
Speaker 1: got to do a better job, you know with the
Speaker 1: run game. I gotta I gotta we got to handle
Speaker 1: the run a little bit better and and and manage
Speaker 1: it like you know, like we did in the Atlanta game.
Speaker 1: And um, that's obviously for a young quarterback. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I've said all long, you can't put you know,
Speaker 1: forty five past attempts on a young quarterback in this
Speaker 1: league against that defense in that stadium. It's, uh, you're
Speaker 1: doing him a disservice. But you know, we've we've got
Speaker 1: to do a better job, you know, as coaches. Um
Speaker 1: I said after the game, you know, this this one
Speaker 1: is UM, we're all disappointed. But I look at myself
Speaker 1: hard at this one and make sure that again I'm
Speaker 1: doing I'm doing everything I can to make sure this
Speaker 1: team is number one ready to go, UM putting our
Speaker 1: players in the right positions and UM. And so you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's all part of the evaluation process that that
Speaker 1: I go through. Frustration on his part. It seems like
Speaker 1: there's times he's forcing things, especially deep that may not
Speaker 1: be there. Is that somebody's going to there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of that, um, you know, and and and those
Speaker 1: are all things that we work with. Those are those
Speaker 1: are game management situations. And again you know, with myself
Speaker 1: who played in this league and Frank Wright played in
Speaker 1: this league a long time, we keep constantly talking about
Speaker 1: those situations with him and you know, um, I keep
Speaker 1: saying that they're learning experiences, and they are. And um
Speaker 1: anytime you go against h find defense like like Seattle, Um,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Sometimes it checked the ball down and we
Speaker 1: just got to continue to talk and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: work through those work through those situations with him. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen Paul Turner since training camp in the preseason.
Speaker 1: How has he done the last few months? He Uh,
Speaker 1: he's done well, you know, he's um, gosh, he's made
Speaker 1: plays on service team, you know, going against our defense.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times when you're going against starters practice,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a good uh, get a good
Speaker 1: look at your young players that way. And he's done.
Speaker 1: He's done a nice job. And um, even last week,
Speaker 1: Uh in practice we were able to kind of interject
Speaker 1: him in some of our offensive practice work and and
Speaker 1: and and see where he's at. And he's obviously a
Speaker 1: sharp kid and and uh, you know, looking forward to
Speaker 1: give him some more time this week as a as
Speaker 1: as as players have struggled, you think very supportive publicly
Speaker 1: as opposed to putting pressure on. Is that a philosophy
Speaker 1: of yours? And is in the same way behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: look there's enough pressure to win and to perform in
Speaker 1: this game. And you know it's my job to encourage.
Speaker 1: It's my job to teach and instruct and and and
Speaker 1: get our guys to game day. Um, you know this
Speaker 1: this games it's hard enough to win a game. I mean,
Speaker 1: Carson is We've talked about that, you know, it's this
Speaker 1: is the most losses he's had in his career, and
Speaker 1: and it's and we keep talking every week how hard
Speaker 1: it is win games in this in this in this league.
Speaker 1: And it's it's all based on your your how well
Speaker 1: you you know you you um prepared during the week.
Speaker 1: So I don't you know, I can, I can individually
Speaker 1: talk to guys and pull guys aside. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, part of my job is to
Speaker 1: encourage them too, and to support them and to get
Speaker 1: them better. It's you know, we get you know, we
Speaker 1: get paid to teach. And and because because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of negative out there, and uh um, I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that they've got they've got positive from
Speaker 1: from me and from the staff. Wendell has kind of
Speaker 1: progressed enough to a point where if Ryan can't go
Speaker 1: on Monday, that he can kind of be you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, I think so you know what again,
Speaker 1: we'll uh uh you know, evaluate Ryan later in the week.
Speaker 1: But but Wendell has done a nice job and and
Speaker 1: uh um, I think I think if you know, if,
Speaker 1: if if need be, I think Wendell would be would
Speaker 1: be okay, you know, taking the brunt of the load
Speaker 1: bidding fault. Has there's been any thought of bringing somebody
Speaker 1: in from the outside of that position out of this time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: h