Speaker 1: It's been a while.
Speaker 2: It seems like it's been forever since we since we
Speaker 2: played on Thanksgiving, And in regards to that, it was
Speaker 2: a great performance. But I must say that's not gonna
Speaker 2: do anything to help us this week. You know, we
Speaker 2: got a great opponent and U NFC champs great, a
Speaker 2: good football team, well coached, a lot of talent across
Speaker 2: the board, probably the best offensive line that we've faced
Speaker 2: all year, you know, and it starts up front with Kelsey.
Speaker 2: I consider him to be first ballot Hall of Famer
Speaker 2: outstanding player and he really makes that show go up front.
Speaker 2: Tremendous run game, does a great job in protection as well,
Speaker 2: Uh Swift, I mean their their run games. I just mentioned,
Speaker 2: it's phenomenal along with Hertz. Uh, you know, it's hard
Speaker 2: to stop. And then once you start talking about their
Speaker 2: outside threats with Brown and Smith, tremendous threats down in
Speaker 2: the field. Uh, they're great after the catch for us,
Speaker 2: making guys miss. So there's no question we gonna have
Speaker 2: our hands for this week. And with that, I take
Speaker 2: your questions and GC Kelsey, what is it that makes
Speaker 2: him just so so different and special? Definition?
Speaker 1: Uh? I I just really just his uh knowledge of
Speaker 1: the game. Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know him personally, uh, but I know that
Speaker 2: Uh he spends a lot of time uh watching a
Speaker 2: lot of tape, uh, really studying his opponent, uh, listening
Speaker 2: to the TV copy, trying to get any opponents he
Speaker 2: can get for his you know, uh calls adjustments and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And he's just you know, phenomenal in and really putting
Speaker 2: him in the best position to be successful up front.
Speaker 1: You the key to the ru brotherly shove play that
Speaker 1: they do. Uh. I don't know if he's the key.
Speaker 2: I know right now he's He's definitely uh a major
Speaker 2: component of it. Definitely hard to uh defend, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: based off what they do. And I was talking to
Speaker 2: the coaches. The only way to defend is not allow
Speaker 2: those guys to get in that position.
Speaker 1: Is is there a way if you drew it up
Speaker 1: on paper, you know, uh attacked for stopping it, and
Speaker 1: we would would be quickness from your interior.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I I think that's that's a complete study with physics
Speaker 2: and you know, dynamics and everything, to be quite honest,
Speaker 2: because it's about leverage, uh, you know, power and whatnot.
Speaker 2: They have leverage, then they push and they shoving. So uh,
Speaker 2: I think it's real tough right here to uh to
Speaker 2: limit that for one yard. I mean, I mean, I
Speaker 2: know it's it's funny, but you can't allow him to
Speaker 2: get in that situation. We got to try to find
Speaker 2: a way to win. On first and second down. I mean,
Speaker 2: they operate off. I think he said, you know, first
Speaker 2: and eight for them, you know, because it's automatic they
Speaker 2: going forward on fourth down if it's fourth and one,
Speaker 2: fourth and two because of that, knowing that if if
Speaker 2: you get him in fourth and one or fourth, they
Speaker 2: might still be going forth you have third down. Well,
Speaker 2: I I I I I feel like anytime we can
Speaker 2: get him in the fourth, fourth down, it's still encouraging.
Speaker 2: You know, we still have an opportunity, you know. Uh,
Speaker 2: regardless that we know that they're going forward. So uh,
Speaker 2: it's something that we've talked about as a staff. It's
Speaker 2: something that we definitely uh have worked on. So I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna conceide that we can't stop it. We're gonna
Speaker 2: be prepared and ready for it.
Speaker 1: Withdora, how has he kind.
Speaker 2: Of grasped the challenge of going back and forth between
Speaker 2: slot and outside and what's made.
Speaker 1: Him so successful to us.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think you know, his ability number one
Speaker 2: going back in the spring, uh is just number one
Speaker 2: showing us that he wants to do it u and
Speaker 2: has put the time and the effort in. You know
Speaker 2: a lot of things that I know you guys don't see.
Speaker 2: He spends a lot of time with coach Daniel Bullock,
Speaker 2: you know, extra meetings, coming in and just really wanting
Speaker 2: to understand all the nuances of that inside Nickel position.
Speaker 2: He's done a tremendous job with his run fits. That
Speaker 2: was one of the things that we wanted to make
Speaker 2: sure that he improved on from the spring. His ability
Speaker 2: to cover and play out in space. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: one of the best guys that that we have that
Speaker 2: can do that. So but in the run game, he's
Speaker 2: a linebacker and that's what he's improved.
Speaker 1: If you got you.
Speaker 2: Got five really talented young defensive backs, how do you
Speaker 2: prepare them for this stage in this environment?
Speaker 1: Can you talk more about it this week?
Speaker 2: You know, it's a cliche and it's funny. I just
Speaker 2: finished talking to the guys about it. You know, we
Speaker 2: can't allow it to getting away, you know, whatever that
Speaker 2: it may be. You know, I know it was throwing
Speaker 2: earlier this week, could be snowing a raining this weekend.
Speaker 2: You can't make any excuses the the the environment there
Speaker 2: is hostile.
Speaker 1: The crowd. Uh, they got uh great fans. Uh that
Speaker 1: can't be an excuse. Uh.
Speaker 2: I feel like our players uh uh has rose to
Speaker 2: the cage in each and every time, particularly Mooney, those
Speaker 2: guys Ambry's stepped up. You know, Seattle's a very tough
Speaker 2: place to play as well, and uh, I thought those
Speaker 2: guys handle that environment well.
Speaker 1: So UH, it's not really about them.
Speaker 2: It's about keeping the focus on us and uh going
Speaker 2: to do what we need to do to win this
Speaker 2: football games.
Speaker 1: About Jalen Hurdson was the key to defending him.
Speaker 2: I think number one just as a person. I don't
Speaker 2: know him personally, so don't don't take this wrong. I
Speaker 2: think he just shows a lot of poors. Very confident.
Speaker 2: You can see that over the years and what he's
Speaker 2: been able to accomplish. Has a great command of that offense,
Speaker 2: and as we've seen the last couple of weeks, Uh,
Speaker 2: he has the ability to never be out of it.
Speaker 1: He can bring those guys back.
Speaker 2: I think they do a great job in really putting
Speaker 2: him in a position to be successful. You know, no,
Speaker 2: no slight to this offense because it's phenomenal. But you
Speaker 2: know it's a RPO college type deal, so you know
Speaker 2: there's certain reads that they tell him to look for it.
Speaker 2: That's why we got to do a great job on
Speaker 2: the back end and not tipping those reads.
Speaker 1: Off, says Gyre. Brown's first start, I thought JayR did
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 2: You know, it was nothing glaring that I felt like
Speaker 2: he was out of place again. I felt confident with
Speaker 2: Gibson back there along with you know, Fred and the
Speaker 2: guys that we surrounded him with, that he was gonna
Speaker 2: do well. Uh, he's doing a great job with his communication.
Speaker 2: I saw that yesterday in practice, just been assertive and
Speaker 2: certain things on the back end. I feel very confident
Speaker 2: when I can hear and see that he thought, how
Speaker 2: much thought that he thought. Eric Arms and Javon Hargrave
Speaker 2: really started to work together much better.
Speaker 1: What have you seen from them since? By Oh, well,
Speaker 1: I see that there.
Speaker 2: Uh they got their legs back. You know, they're fresh.
Speaker 2: They have completely in my opinion, uh, controlled the line
Speaker 2: of swimmers the last couple of weeks. You know, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a challenge this week, But that's one thing
Speaker 2: that we talked about. You know, we gotta do a
Speaker 2: great job inside with our tackles. I know you guys
Speaker 2: probably have talked to hard Grave you haven't already know
Speaker 2: he's excited about this game, But in the same token,
Speaker 2: it's just another game, you know. So, uh, we got
Speaker 2: to go and do the things we got to do
Speaker 2: upfront to be successful to help us win this game.
Speaker 2: Various travel with TK obviously last week hadn't done that
Speaker 2: to my knowledge this season. How hard a decision is
Speaker 2: that to make?
Speaker 1: How complicated is it? And we did hear that John
Speaker 1: Lynch and Kyle kind of had some input on that.
Speaker 1: How did it all work well?
Speaker 2: To be quite honest with you, we talked about this
Speaker 2: back in the spring because we knew at some point
Speaker 2: in time that he was gonna have to match up
Speaker 2: and we started going left and right. Mooney came to
Speaker 2: my office partly about a month ago talking about can
Speaker 2: he eventually get to that point? And we looked at
Speaker 2: it against Evans, against Tampa. We had the mindset of
Speaker 2: doing it. We talked a lot of part of the
Speaker 2: week and they felt more comfortable staying left and right. Uh,
Speaker 2: that was our mindset going into it when I first
Speaker 2: got here watching cutups. He and that was one of
Speaker 2: the things that jumped out to me was his complete
Speaker 2: domination of DK when they matched up. So that was
Speaker 2: something that we wanted to do all week, and I
Speaker 2: think it was just a conversation of U a misque
Speaker 2: and what we wanted.
Speaker 1: He went out, you know, and and got it done.
Speaker 2: So U, I think he's fine and we'll see exactly
Speaker 2: where where he is this week.
Speaker 1: For was matching up.
Speaker 2: What's your philosophy on your philosophy on having a spy
Speaker 2: against a running quarterback.
Speaker 1: Is that anything that you've done in the past.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm trying to advocate for for twelve this week,
Speaker 2: but uh, they I didn't get that rule pass. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you know, anytime that you know Kyler Murray,
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, you know, you better have someone
Speaker 2: that's allocated for him because at any point in time,
Speaker 2: he can win with his feed and make things happen.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The great thing about him, he's not looking to run.
Speaker 2: Uh he can you know, escape, but his eyes will
Speaker 2: stay down field and he's still trying to put the
Speaker 2: ball in the air celebrate on Moody just getting to
Speaker 2: the point. What did you want to see from him
Speaker 2: to get to the point where he's following a receiver?
Speaker 2: I it's it's it's not really anything I wanted to see.
Speaker 2: I just feel like, you know, uh, he's one of
Speaker 2: our better cover guys.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason why you know, we paid him,
Speaker 2: That's the reason why he came here. And uh, he's
Speaker 2: he has stepped up uh to to that responsibility. And
Speaker 2: for him, like I said before a month ago, to
Speaker 2: come and asks me for that, Uh, it just shows
Speaker 2: me where he is and what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: So Uh, I'm looking forward to once again as we
Speaker 2: progress and move forward to see exactly uh what teams
Speaker 2: is it this week of moving forward that he would
Speaker 2: match up again?
Speaker 1: What makes Brown such a handful uh size?
Speaker 2: Strength, his ability after they catch, He's just so strong.
Speaker 2: Uh you put him in the in the class of
Speaker 2: the guys the last two weeks d K and Evans
Speaker 2: you know, uh, and very deceptive speed you know as
Speaker 2: he gets down the field, he's a you know, a
Speaker 2: gold ball kind of guy, can create separation and then
Speaker 2: uh at the point of attack. You know he's strong
Speaker 2: going up and trying to you know, push you off
Speaker 2: to go get the ball. So again, great challenge for
Speaker 2: us this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you a beast or