Speaker 1: I have no opening statement ready to go.
Speaker 2: Steve was just talking about how Kyle was talking about
Speaker 2: they're three and ten, but.
Speaker 3: Please don't you know to message with the team. Do
Speaker 3: now look at three and ten?
Speaker 2: These guys can actually you know that they're on the
Speaker 2: I guess I'll swing. Does that resonate with you from
Speaker 2: what you see?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I records. Really, you know, when losing games comes
Speaker 1: down to a lot of things that happen in a game.
Speaker 1: You know it turnovers and you make a kick, you
Speaker 1: don't make a kick, things like that. You look at
Speaker 1: the team, You look at the players that your guys
Speaker 1: are going against. You look at the side of the
Speaker 1: ball you're out going against them. You evaluate those players,
Speaker 1: you evaluate the scheme, and you look at what the
Speaker 1: challenges and what you have to do every week, and
Speaker 1: it's just you get so I think ground down on
Speaker 1: the minutia and you try to just stay in that
Speaker 1: world of, hey, we got to take care of this,
Speaker 1: where I got to do with my job, that the
Speaker 1: big picture thing just really doesn't doesn't weigh that heavily
Speaker 1: on what the record is, are where they're headed or
Speaker 1: what they're doing, And so you know there's tons of
Speaker 1: stories about past teams on where you have you know,
Speaker 1: you've been in a situation where your record isn't quite
Speaker 1: as good, and shoot, these games become like playoff games
Speaker 1: for you at the end of the season. Your team's
Speaker 1: building towards something next season, and so on and so.
Speaker 1: But all that stuff really doesn't matter. What we got
Speaker 1: to do is take care of business. What our job
Speaker 1: is every single play and do the best that we can.
Speaker 1: And that's where the focus is.
Speaker 3: Okay in Rock said.
Speaker 4: He noticed that Jama Autives was flat footed and the
Speaker 4: fact that he recognized that before the play on Deevo's touchdown.
Speaker 3: Is that something that you don't see as often in
Speaker 3: a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, every every guy, you know, you look
Speaker 1: at some different every single play. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's an experienced thrower. You know, he's played
Speaker 1: quarter you know, we've talked about what a good quarterback
Speaker 1: he's been through the years. As far as he's played
Speaker 1: the position. He understands the position and these are things
Speaker 1: who knows when he picked that up during the course
Speaker 1: of his career. You know, you never know. Every guy's different.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're amazed when a guy comes in from college
Speaker 1: football and the things he's he knows and then you're
Speaker 1: a maaze sometimes the things they don't know and you're
Speaker 1: having to teach them that. So you never know, he
Speaker 1: might have picked that up in you know, sophomore year
Speaker 1: high school football, noticing flat footed defenders and things like that,
Speaker 1: or he might have just you know, picked it up
Speaker 1: recently hearing it from somebody else talks. So you just
Speaker 1: don't know. You'd have to ask him that, but you
Speaker 1: know he does continue to do really really good things
Speaker 1: and and things that seem to put him, you know,
Speaker 1: a little probably head of head of the curve for
Speaker 1: work guy with his experience in ages.
Speaker 4: Is the culture here made things self sustaining sort of
Speaker 4: for a coach. I mean, do you not have to
Speaker 4: spend a lot of time or I got to get
Speaker 4: this guy going today because you know they're they're looking
Speaker 4: at their teammates to get going.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's it's it's both things. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, you always go back to
Speaker 1: we've talked about I know John and Kyle have talked
Speaker 1: about a lot, you know, the way we have decided
Speaker 1: to draft players and you know he braw players in
Speaker 1: they haven't worked out, they've worked out. But the type
Speaker 1: of player that we bring in traditionally has been the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that we feel really good about and
Speaker 1: a guy that that is self motivated and does fit
Speaker 1: what our quote unquote culture is. I go back to
Speaker 1: it starts. It really does start with how Kyle. The
Speaker 1: expectation of cale sets for everybody, and that I expectation
Speaker 1: if you it's in every part of the building, whether
Speaker 1: it be in the you know, the on field, off field,
Speaker 1: the way people work all those things, there's just an
Speaker 1: expectation level that it's just there's not there's not any
Speaker 1: there's not much variance or given it, and so that
Speaker 1: it kind of then becomes you know, self suttaining to
Speaker 1: a degree. But we have to stay on it every
Speaker 1: single day. It's not like that don't come to work.
Speaker 1: I know that if I'm not doing something right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hear about it. If one of my players isn't
Speaker 1: doing something right, if there's a drop off ter in practice,
Speaker 1: they're gonna hear about it. For me, they're gonna hear
Speaker 1: about from other players. So there is that, you know,
Speaker 1: they work with each other. We've got a good veteran
Speaker 1: team that way, but it starts at the top and
Speaker 1: it really does. Kyle is just very demanding of all
Speaker 1: of us and and that that expectation level is why
Speaker 1: it is the way it is. And then you bring
Speaker 1: in players that that that like that, so then they
Speaker 1: thrive in that environment, so then they do keep it going.
Speaker 5: You see guy like Kyle you Check and tries to
Speaker 5: show you every day all the different things that he
Speaker 5: can do, and and other fullbacks around the league that
Speaker 5: seems like they've kind of embreased that more. You've been
Speaker 5: around for a while, You've seen that position kind of evolve.
Speaker 5: How much do you think versatility and being able to
Speaker 5: do that, especially at that position is kind of key
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 1: Well for us, You know, it really is, because the
Speaker 1: game is as everybody wants to take the game and
Speaker 1: become a spread and you know that's been the trend
Speaker 1: over time, and so then you you can stay with
Speaker 1: the eye formation and do the things, but being able
Speaker 1: to break out of the eye and use your full
Speaker 1: back in those other ways allows you to kind of
Speaker 1: do some of the spread things, some of the things
Speaker 1: that other teams are doing without a fullback, and yet
Speaker 1: still put the guy the full back in the backfield.
Speaker 1: This thing is shaking and and and put you in
Speaker 1: a position that you can run some of the traditional
Speaker 1: plays that you use a traditional fullback on. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of advantages to have in a fullback, and so
Speaker 1: put him in the backfield there and be able to
Speaker 1: do things we do with him or the other tight ends.
Speaker 1: There's an advantage to how you can cut the defense,
Speaker 1: different things you can do. When you're a one back offense,
Speaker 1: you really don't there's a lot of you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of leverage and things like that. That's why
Speaker 1: the quarterback runs and the zone reach stuff becomes such
Speaker 1: a big thing because you regain an advantage that you
Speaker 1: don't have with one back in the backfield. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that that advantage that Kyle gives us, and that it
Speaker 1: lets you do a little bit of everything, and that's
Speaker 1: really really cool, and that does I think the kid
Speaker 1: I know that I've talked to the guys in Miami,
Speaker 1: the guy they have their in England, whoever his name is,
Speaker 1: he he has a heck of a job doing some
Speaker 1: of the same things. So he's probably not quite as
Speaker 1: versatile athletically, but he still does a lot of those
Speaker 1: same things. And then it's still a good fullback. That
Speaker 1: position had.
Speaker 5: To had to evolve it away because it used to
Speaker 5: just be like, you know, the sledgehammers going well.
Speaker 1: I think what happened was I ran into it when
Speaker 1: I was in Tampa. There's a really good guy in fact,
Speaker 1: with Frank Wychek's passing the Music City Miracle. One of
Speaker 1: the pieces of that was Lorenzo Neil, and Lorenzo was
Speaker 1: with us in Tampa, and Lorenzo was the definition of leverage.
Speaker 1: You say, what is the FIW do you get leverage? Well,
Speaker 1: you'd be about five to nine and weigh aout two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds and be built like a fire hydrant.
Speaker 1: You have leverage on everybody's going to block. Well, Zoe
Speaker 1: was that. But the problem was is that even in Tampa,
Speaker 1: where we weren't going to throw the ball a lot
Speaker 1: back in the day, he played fifteen snaps. You're paying
Speaker 1: an X amount of dollars to play that limited number
Speaker 1: of snaps, and so all of a sudden you're like,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it, and then you want to throw
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more, do different things with
Speaker 1: different positions. So I think that that it if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be on the roster if you're going to you
Speaker 1: can't have somebody that's that limited. So the having that
Speaker 1: be more versatile, uh, it more you know, fits, the
Speaker 1: you know, the salary, everything that goes into.
Speaker 4: It, more blocking combinations with the.
Speaker 1: Fullback on the field, there's more things available there really are.
Speaker 1: There's just more end moving tight ends. It's all the
Speaker 1: same thing that HVAC type position. But you're having guys
Speaker 1: that can you know, you just can cut the defense
Speaker 1: in different ways. Things that you see sometimes we have
Speaker 1: these plays that you know, you just see like it
Speaker 1: just kind of opens up because we've cut it. You
Speaker 1: know that we build a wall this way, we knock
Speaker 1: things out this but that allows with the full back
Speaker 1: when it's one back here always and we've had one
Speaker 1: of our most productive play is a one back play
Speaker 1: without the way. I mean, the fullback might be up
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage, but it's we are not
Speaker 1: we don't have the cut of the defense, we don't
Speaker 1: have angles. And it's been a productive play for us
Speaker 1: this season, more productive than ever but and it's still
Speaker 1: probably our best play. But those plays do all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're doing this doing it as in Bam Bam.
Speaker 1: You cut the defense and with the fullback and it
Speaker 1: gives you some more flexibility.
Speaker 6: A prominent downfield blocking by wide receivers in this last
Speaker 6: game as they're having been throughout the season and imploring
Speaker 6: how how Kyle, how you or how Leonard kind of
Speaker 6: highlights that is that something that after a game like that,
Speaker 6: that that is sort of you know underscore.
Speaker 1: You caught me in a minute with Leonard called Hanes Hank.
Speaker 1: I don't I've been thinking, remember Hank Hank. Okay, Hank
Speaker 1: has a hard hat in his in his meeting room
Speaker 1: and if they get a good block or heart, they
Speaker 1: get to sign the hard hat. So you know, like
Speaker 1: Jwan's on there a bunch this year, they all do.
Speaker 1: I'll go back when I was when I first started
Speaker 1: working with Kyle and Mike Shanahan and Washington. Every Friday
Speaker 1: we had what we called the run Meeting. And what
Speaker 1: you did is you took Thursday's team run period and
Speaker 1: it started with Alex gibbson Denver and you would go
Speaker 1: He'd go in there and it would be his chance
Speaker 1: to coach all eleven guys in the run game. And
Speaker 1: that's when he would, you know, for Alex, and I
Speaker 1: can't speak for him. He rests in peace, but he would.
Speaker 1: He would get to rip everybody in the room, you know,
Speaker 1: not that he just rip his lineman. Now he get
Speaker 1: to chew out the receivers, chew out the quarterback for
Speaker 1: not carrying out the fake. And it became his chance
Speaker 1: to kind of bring everybody together in the run game.
Speaker 1: And so I get the meeting and I'm like, oh, am,
Speaker 1: I gonna yell at Santana. I do you know all
Speaker 1: these guys. So I'm running the meeting and Coach Shanahan,
Speaker 1: as he did, he recorded all the meetings so he
Speaker 1: could he could actually punch in on a screen and
Speaker 1: watch everybody's meetings. He could go from meeting room to
Speaker 1: meeting room and listen on a video screen. So he's
Speaker 1: listening to my meeting, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: door flies open and he comes in from his office.
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of trying to run this meeting,
Speaker 1: like I didn't know how Alex did it. And he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: Coach the Santana, that's unacceptable. You got to get your
Speaker 1: ass in there and block that guy. And Coach, you
Speaker 1: got to coach him harder to go do it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh crap, here we go. So so I'm like, I
Speaker 1: gotta figure out how to do this meeting because there
Speaker 1: was a very high This is a roundabout way to
Speaker 1: tell you the story, but this guy, they had a
Speaker 1: high expectation level for receiver blocking and from that point forward,
Speaker 1: now I said, I can't do it that way. So
Speaker 1: what I would do when Santana miss his block? I
Speaker 1: started going back and find another film clips of game
Speaker 1: tape where Santana did, Hey Santana, hey man, look at this,
Speaker 1: look a look at a great job. Great job. And
Speaker 1: then this, Hey Tanner, we know you can do better
Speaker 1: thanut in this place. Same thing here. You could show
Speaker 1: Debo doing things excellent, you know, and or you and
Speaker 1: those guys, and so it's just it's the expectation, Like
Speaker 1: we spoke earlier about the expectation of the building. When
Speaker 1: we run the football, it's all eleven guys, the quarterback
Speaker 1: care not to fake, the receivers doing their part. That
Speaker 1: expectation level was set a long time ago, and it's
Speaker 1: all of us handcaster to stay on and we all do.
Speaker 1: It's not acceptable to not do your job in the
Speaker 1: running game because as huge part of what we do.
Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, knock on wood, we've had
Speaker 1: some success. You're running the football. It's it's it's all
Speaker 1: eleven doing it.
Speaker 2: Not just made of the Niners in pre staff motion
Speaker 2: and other names of Dolphins. I mean you know another
Speaker 2: list Kyles talked about.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't put a defense in a vine
Speaker 3: then they have to adjust. Why doesn't because there are
Speaker 3: you know, some teams really don't.
Speaker 1: Need to use it that much.
Speaker 2: Why is that like when you see the effect it
Speaker 2: can have d teams like saying that's not that's.
Speaker 6: Not for us.
Speaker 1: Well, some systems you've heard, uh you've heard quarterbacks miked
Speaker 1: up right making mic points Mike fifty two, Mike, you know,
Speaker 1: and the more you move. Peyton Manning was when they
Speaker 1: when they beat the cheat when maybe Rex Ryan's defense
Speaker 1: and in a championship game, I think it was when
Speaker 1: the Jets made it the one year and the Colts
Speaker 1: went it was they lost it anyway he went Pole
Speaker 1: second happens. Not only do I not want to move,
Speaker 1: I want to be in one the same formation every
Speaker 1: single step because I'll be able to know exactly what
Speaker 1: they're doing. If I just stay in this formation, I
Speaker 1: have all the tells so I can put us in
Speaker 1: the right play. So any motion would make it really
Speaker 1: hard for him to audible or check with me or
Speaker 1: do plays like that. Other teams have to have a
Speaker 1: mic point. Everything's moving right, so you have to move
Speaker 1: and get set and and it's impossible to make the identification.
Speaker 1: So you know, we've built the system through. The quarterback
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do all that, and so the plays
Speaker 1: and we've gone through the years, it's evolved. I mean
Speaker 1: because I was with Kyle in twenty ten and then
Speaker 1: was apart for a little bit and came back together.
Speaker 1: It's just evolved. And how we identify people. You know,
Speaker 1: we came up with a way in twenty ten. Some
Speaker 1: of that has changed with motion and movement. We've had
Speaker 1: to come up with different words as to how we
Speaker 1: do it to fix things when you have jet sweeps
Speaker 1: going this win in that way, to tell the center
Speaker 1: how to identify it properly. But because teams are their
Speaker 1: dedicate on we at the quarterback. Everybody gets set. Quarterbacks
Speaker 1: says we're going here. Everybody goes here. It sets the
Speaker 1: table cleanly, you know, we're not always clean, it's not
Speaker 1: always perfect, but there's a trade off that neither neither
Speaker 1: are they and it's just a real challenge. And that
Speaker 1: challenge is it is it's real. I mean, Jake Brendle
Speaker 1: is challenged and as we're the centers before him and
Speaker 1: the systems to really get up there and and make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody's going in the right direction. They do
Speaker 1: a heck of a job with it. We got to
Speaker 1: still do better because there is but we and sometimes
Speaker 1: we're like, we have all these moving pieces and you're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen that before, and you got to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, start backst maybe we have to adjust how
Speaker 1: we're doing this or the other thing. It's all the
Speaker 1: nickel defense being played to base now. It's there's always
Speaker 1: a challenge as defenses evolved and we evolve with the
Speaker 1: moving pieces. It's a chess match always. What do you
Speaker 1: think of Ben Barge so far and where does he
Speaker 1: fit best on your line? If you had to project,
Speaker 1: Ben's doing a great job. I was a real good
Speaker 1: friend of mine. George Warhap, who was the line coach
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, had him and actually when we played Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: George and I got together for a breakfast and we
Speaker 1: just talked, and he's not in coaching this year. He's
Speaker 1: hopefully gets back. He should get back in next year.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach. And George said, hey, man, they
Speaker 1: just traded for Ezra Cleveland, the Jacksonville Jaguars did, and
Speaker 1: they bumped my guy, Benny BArch down to practice squad.
Speaker 1: He said, if you get a chance to pick him up,
Speaker 1: he'd be really really good guy to pick up. And
Speaker 1: so I watched the tape and he was really good.
Speaker 1: That had a knee injury. And so when you watch
Speaker 1: this year's tape, you're, like I said, George, he's struggling. Man.
Speaker 1: But when you went back and watched the year before,
Speaker 1: and some guys takes a guy a year after the
Speaker 1: knee takes another year. And so when you watch him
Speaker 1: and I got him here, he fits our system. He's
Speaker 1: quick guard, probably not yet anchoring well enough. At guard
Speaker 1: you're a little bit concerned as anchor and passport. That's
Speaker 1: what concern man the Jacksonville tape. But at center he's
Speaker 1: a good so he can play center as well those
Speaker 1: interior three positions. Man, he's got the quickness he's got
Speaker 1: the length, he's got some size, and as he gets
Speaker 1: into our system, we keep working with him. I think
Speaker 1: he's got a real good fit for inside three and
Speaker 1: it gives us a chance to another good quality player inside.
Speaker 1: I really like the guy. Thank you very much, guys,