Speaker 1: Practice today.
Speaker 2: Aaron Banks concussion will be out, Jordan Ellie concussion will
Speaker 2: be out playing again, Fowls knee out, Demo Leonora knee out,
Speaker 2: Nick Bosa hipp oblique out, Trent William's ankle out, Christian
Speaker 2: McCaffrey just rest, brock Perty right shoulder limited, Pooney's shoulder limited,
Speaker 2: Green Law Achilles limited, Kevin Gibbons growing limited.
Speaker 1: That's it? Or what was the diagnosis? Just bang the
Speaker 1: uh it's I mean, what's.
Speaker 3: That out today?
Speaker 4: But just is it?
Speaker 5: Concerned that it could be long term?
Speaker 1: You can't go today, so I mean, but no, we're
Speaker 1: not rolling out for this week. Hope you'll be able
Speaker 1: to go tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Rock. I think there's limited Black Wednesday didn't do any throwing?
Speaker 3: Would be like that?
Speaker 6: Or will he actually be.
Speaker 2: Throwing the ball well side when we get out there.
Speaker 1: Jacob Yes.
Speaker 6: Signed with the Vikings today. I was been reported. I
Speaker 6: think that you guys may have had some level of interest.
Speaker 6: How would you describe your guys interested in him?
Speaker 1: We discussed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1: But when you said counting is out of the protocol.
Speaker 3: When do you think if Ricky Pear saw how he
Speaker 3: looked back there?
Speaker 6: Feeling punts and would you consider making him your full
Speaker 6: time guy.
Speaker 2: I thought he did a good job, but no, I
Speaker 2: mean we don't then consider making a change or anything.
Speaker 2: Jake's healthy, you'll probably go and but we got two
Speaker 2: good options there.
Speaker 1: He did a real good job.
Speaker 6: I know you guys are off tomorrow, but how much time?
Speaker 6: How much work will you put in despite it being Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Oh, we're not off tomorrow. I don't know anyone who
Speaker 2: gets Thanksgiving off. You know, you just you start a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier. You cram a lot in, there's less
Speaker 2: time in between. Everyone has different ways to do it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know anyone who gets it off unless
Speaker 2: maybe you have like a Monday night game, you.
Speaker 1: Have an eight day week.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could do that, but you just start a
Speaker 2: lot earlier. You get the players out. Usually don't watch
Speaker 2: film right after. You usually picked that up the next
Speaker 2: morning pretty early.
Speaker 1: So is just when I get out.
Speaker 6: I did work here.
Speaker 1: I knew you were going to be working by No.
Speaker 2: Usually, I mean we cram everything in and the players
Speaker 2: get out earlier, so it allows us to start. You know,
Speaker 2: we usually do on Thursday nights our red zone. We
Speaker 2: prepare for our team meetings and everything that we do
Speaker 2: a Friday morning, but everyone gets out tries to be
Speaker 2: home with the family by five.
Speaker 1: I usually get home around seven and.
Speaker 2: They're all mad at me, and then I eat my
Speaker 2: dinner and get back to the red zone.
Speaker 3: On canb are discussed Tray green Law doing some mock games.
Speaker 6: Out there on the practice field. What what's that all about?
Speaker 3: What went into those sort of you know sessions to
Speaker 3: get ready for opening his.
Speaker 6: Window this week?
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't watch them or anything, but I
Speaker 2: mean that's what all our guys kind of go through
Speaker 2: are on I are like, Huff's doing that this week.
Speaker 2: You know, you're just not allowed to be with coaches
Speaker 2: or anything like that until you're off of until you
Speaker 2: open their window. So they don't like their first time
Speaker 2: doing true football drills and everything to be that. So
Speaker 2: then they go out on their own with their training staff.
Speaker 2: They're doing less like rehab stuff and more doing like
Speaker 2: what they would do an individual, a trainer taking them
Speaker 2: through that, doing the reps of what they do in practice.
Speaker 1: They try to get a normal practice.
Speaker 2: Weekend so they can get their yards, all their output
Speaker 2: and input whatever it is for the GPS is and
Speaker 2: everything they do in a normal Wednesday practice to see
Speaker 2: how sword they are on Thursday. Then they do that
Speaker 2: same thing on Thursday to see how sword they are
Speaker 2: on Friday. Then they try to have a workout on
Speaker 2: Sunday to see that and they do that and then
Speaker 2: we open up their window, and then they have three
Speaker 2: weeks to go through that before we can make a decision.
Speaker 3: Igno that Uponga's window might be opening up soon as well.
Speaker 1: It signals that it's got a chance to.
Speaker 3: Right after a game.
Speaker 6: So you didn't feel like the defenses are prepared for
Speaker 6: some of the packers run looks and then it's out
Speaker 6: there and get detail and it's an indictment of.
Speaker 5: The coaching staff and so on, said, I mean, is
Speaker 5: that a fair characterization of what happened? And he disappointed
Speaker 5: with level preparation.
Speaker 2: No, not at all. They didn't two two new runs
Speaker 2: that they hadn't done before. They're not new runs or
Speaker 2: just formations which happens every week. I mean, that's all
Speaker 2: we really do. You know, we could try to come
Speaker 2: up with a new formation around the same run and
Speaker 2: try to get guys to take the bait on something.
Speaker 1: And they had a new one and they took the
Speaker 1: bait twice and got our guys out of a gap.
Speaker 1: But that's that's every week.
Speaker 4: What do you think it's gonna be to get Dray
Speaker 4: back out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see how it goes. So, I mean
Speaker 1: it'll be awesome. Just have 'em on the field today. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We we love when Drey's around, whether it's on the
Speaker 2: field and meeting rooms like, I mean, he's a hundred
Speaker 2: percent ball. Everyone loves them in here and just watch
Speaker 2: them fly around out there today will be real fun.
Speaker 5: If you have to watching field from the past game
Speaker 5: against the Packers, knowing that you're preparing for Buffalo, what
Speaker 5: have you kind of reflected.
Speaker 3: All when it comes to the miscues and the self
Speaker 3: inflicted wounds that you kind of harping on and practice
Speaker 3: if any taking it to Laflow this weekend.
Speaker 1: I means there's not much secret to it.
Speaker 2: We gotta tackle better and we can't turn it over
Speaker 2: three times and three drives in a row. The penalties
Speaker 2: that we can change a couple of pre snap penalties,
Speaker 2: one twelve on the field, one bath holding that we had.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that, uh, we got to fix.
Speaker 5: Weather possibly snowing. How does that impact your just I
Speaker 5: guess your plan, your scheme. Do you have to do
Speaker 5: extra preparations for that contingency or you just shift.
Speaker 3: On the fly.
Speaker 2: No, I mean you got to have an idea of
Speaker 2: how the game is going to play out and how
Speaker 2: it's going to go what you do in every situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have an idea of that. If you
Speaker 2: have certain guys get hurt, you have an idea of that.
Speaker 2: With the weather always changes, you know, when you go
Speaker 2: into and you hear that it could be the weather
Speaker 2: that it is, you take that in your mind a
Speaker 2: lot understanding how the game can be.
Speaker 1: But you don't make a full game plan.
Speaker 2: For that because I've listened to plenty of weatherports that
Speaker 2: change that day too. So you got to be ready
Speaker 2: for anything, just like you are with injuries. But we
Speaker 2: fully understand what elements may be.
Speaker 6: CFC came back. You're not really using Grenda or Mason
Speaker 6: that much. I think seven carries combined through three games.
Speaker 6: Is it their ball security issues an issue or is
Speaker 6: it just the greatness of McCaffrey procudes them from getting
Speaker 6: on the field.
Speaker 2: No, I just think I mean even when Mason was
Speaker 2: going a ton, we didn't get Isaac a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: So I mean we're not just a big three men
Speaker 2: rotation team, especially when you have a solidified starter. You know,
Speaker 2: we're not trying to get Christian off the field more.
Speaker 2: I mean, we want to keep him fresh and keep
Speaker 2: him at his best. But Christian's also a guy who
Speaker 2: gets better as he goes. He's a guy who feels
Speaker 2: a lot more comfortable being out there. I also don't
Speaker 2: think the way these games have gone. I mean, we
Speaker 2: didn't run the ball much last week at all in general,
Speaker 2: so not many people didn't. I think we got fourteen runs.
Speaker 2: So when that's the case, you're not going on long drives.
Speaker 2: You only have thirteen plays or fourteen plays in the
Speaker 2: whole first half, with one of them being close to
Speaker 2: a two minute drive the others being four and out.
Speaker 1: It's just not going to work out that way.
Speaker 5: If you talked to him in terms of just how
Speaker 5: he's feeling, if he feels like he's kind of has
Speaker 5: the same steps that he had in the past tw years,
Speaker 5: and I mean that first game looked like it's like
Speaker 5: an afrit that he usually plays with was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, we haven't been we haven't played
Speaker 2: that well these last two weeks, or we haven't got
Speaker 2: the running game going these last two weeks. Thought it
Speaker 2: was better versus Tampa, and we just didn't get a
Speaker 2: big one. But I mean, the speculation on Christian, I
Speaker 2: think is a little bit unfair to him.
Speaker 1: Christian's playing very well.
Speaker 2: He's playing his ass off, But to think a guy
Speaker 2: who misses an entire offseason is just going to be
Speaker 2: the exact same the day he gets back would be
Speaker 2: unfair to any player in the world, I feel like.
Speaker 2: I mean, guys who miss offseasons and miss training camp
Speaker 2: usually takes them a little bit of time at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the year to get back into how they
Speaker 2: were the year before, let alone missing half the season
Speaker 2: also on top of that, so I think Christian's doing
Speaker 2: a hell of a job. But to just think him
Speaker 2: coming back in week eight with not being able to
Speaker 2: do anything for the last nine months or whatever it is,
Speaker 2: and to think he's just going to be an MVP
Speaker 2: form is a very unrealistic expectation him.
Speaker 5: Is it more physical things that he's still trying to
Speaker 5: get back, or is it just vision or was it
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit above everything?
Speaker 2: I think he looks real good. I think he's playing
Speaker 2: very well. I don't think he's had a bunch of
Speaker 2: clean lanes. I think he had a couple verse. When
Speaker 2: I say a couple, I actually mean two verse Tampa.
Speaker 2: And if he hits those two, which maybe is just
Speaker 2: half a step off just with seeing it, but you
Speaker 2: hit those two and it will completely change yards per carry,
Speaker 2: which will look better from an outside perspective, but it
Speaker 2: won't change anything.
Speaker 1: And actually, what's happening.
Speaker 2: So to sit here and talk like he's struggling, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna do that at all, but for us to
Speaker 2: be disappointed that he's not exactly how he was, or
Speaker 2: just write an MVP form that'd be unfair with any player.
Speaker 6: A matter of fact and direct approach in times when
Speaker 6: you're winning, I'm curious, do you think when times you're struggling,
Speaker 6: like now, do you have to do you choose your
Speaker 6: words differently?
Speaker 5: Do you want to be the same guy every day?
Speaker 4: Or how do you approach that.
Speaker 2: I don't plan anything really like that and have a
Speaker 2: I don't like turn the page chapter four in a
Speaker 2: book and say how to act this week.
Speaker 1: I look at what's happening. I look at who we're playing.
Speaker 2: I look at every situation that it is, and that's
Speaker 2: the stuff I address like.
Speaker 1: It's not a movie, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm a football coach and I address our team for
Speaker 2: the reality that we're in. And the reality that you're
Speaker 2: in is in a story. It's what we see on
Speaker 2: that tape. That's what we do in practice, it's what
Speaker 2: our situation is with injuries, it's who we're playing. And
Speaker 2: that's really what you do day in and day out
Speaker 2: for an entire season, for preseason, offseason too, winning to losing,
Speaker 2: it's really all the same. You just coach and do
Speaker 2: everything you can to get everyone's skills right.
Speaker 3: Christian seems like a.
Speaker 2: Guy that takes maybe his lack of production very personally.
Speaker 4: And he's sat in his locker for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: After the game on Sunday, and do you have to
Speaker 2: talk to him and make sure.
Speaker 3: That he's okay mentally.
Speaker 2: And that's what makes Christian great. I mean, Christian, I've
Speaker 2: told you guys, he's a psycho in the best way possible.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I mean Christian had a fumble there
Speaker 2: at the end of the game. No matter what I
Speaker 2: say to him, he's not going to forgive himself for
Speaker 2: a fumble for probably the rest of his life, he'll
Speaker 2: still be mad at himself for that. That's just how
Speaker 2: he rolls. That's his mindset and everything. You can choose
Speaker 2: to see him in OTAs if he drops the ball
Speaker 2: and how he acts after that and apologizing to us
Speaker 2: later in the day for a drop ball in OTAs
Speaker 2: on period one.
Speaker 1: So like, that's what makes them great.
Speaker 2: And it means a lot to them.
Speaker 5: Six In this situation, you're being criticized, You should do this,
Speaker 5: you should do that.
Speaker 6: When you live in your performance.
Speaker 5: You know this season, how would you.
Speaker 1: Belie yourself or how are you doing? That's up to
Speaker 1: you guys to grade me.
Speaker 2: You know, I work as hard as I can to
Speaker 2: get a win that week, and we haven't won as
Speaker 2: much as I believe we should have.
Speaker 1: We've lost three.
Speaker 2: Games that I feel we were capable of winning and
Speaker 2: should have won. Those are the ones that are the
Speaker 2: toughest in terms of grade in myself. Like, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna grade myself. I'm gonna work as hard as I
Speaker 2: can and I'm the same guy I am right now
Speaker 2: that I've always been. We got to overcome some things
Speaker 2: that we're in right now, and I believe we can
Speaker 2: overcome them, but we put ourselves in a tough bind
Speaker 2: and that's why we've got to be extremely good and
Speaker 2: successful here going forward to be able to overcome that stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, I know there's a lot of people online who
Speaker 4: are saying a lot of things. I know you don't
Speaker 4: always look at that, but a lot of those people
Speaker 4: are in your locker room. What do you make of
Speaker 4: the vibe in your locker room right now?
Speaker 2: By our locker room is I mean, exactly how you
Speaker 2: would think it'd be. I mean, we're upset with where
Speaker 2: we're at in our record, but we got a tight
Speaker 2: group and we play together. And I mean I think
Speaker 2: when you if you live in the world online, that's
Speaker 2: whether you're dealing with our profession or your kids dealing
Speaker 2: with social issues in school. I mean, that's you're not
Speaker 2: gonna be happy if you're dealing in a world online.
Speaker 2: And I've definitely coached long enough that I don't deal
Speaker 2: in that world.
Speaker 1: Only online I look at.
Speaker 2: Is usually movie stuff and rap battles and funny things
Speaker 2: that animals do. So it's good or bad. When you
Speaker 2: listen to good stuff like that'll mass show up more
Speaker 2: than anything, and then when you listen to the bad stuff,
Speaker 2: it'll crush you.
Speaker 1: So that's not why any of us do this.
Speaker 2: And you know you gotta work with younger guys on that.
Speaker 2: I think it's harder just because of the world that
Speaker 2: they've been brought up in. But that's don't make someone
Speaker 2: else's reality your reality.
Speaker 1: You gotta focus on what your job is and never
Speaker 1: get away from that.
Speaker 3: I know that right now, and we keep hears all
Speaker 3: must not have. Sorry, I have had a lot of
Speaker 3: reps together, but yours wasn't targeted in the game. Is
Speaker 3: he getting open as well as you like? I mean,
Speaker 3: where where has he been the last few weeks?
Speaker 1: As far as I think he's been fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out that way.
Speaker 2: And they played we talk about getting open, I mean
Speaker 2: I talk about getting open as in do you beat
Speaker 2: man coverage? It played two snaps of man coverage in
Speaker 2: that game on our drive at the end of the
Speaker 2: third quarter where we went down and scored, and they
Speaker 2: didn't do it after. So that's about high lowing people
Speaker 2: when they play deep, you check it down.
Speaker 1: It's about getting screens to people.
Speaker 2: Is really the only way you can dictate they get
Speaker 2: a touch, but when you go to z own defenses,
Speaker 2: I don't really look at that as can guys get open.
Speaker 1: It's how we just first in the field.
Speaker 2: What's the time to go through a progression and do
Speaker 2: they catch it when we go to them we get
Speaker 2: up the field
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks guys,