Speaker 1: Bounds our guys and see what they can handle. And
Speaker 1: when you see that they can handle it, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 1: It gives you that flexibility. And he's just a competitive
Speaker 1: kid that's smart, that wants to do it right.
Speaker 2: That it's cleared his mind and allowed him to play
Speaker 2: a little bit faster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime you can. We told him in that block,
Speaker 1: it was like, we just want you to focus on
Speaker 1: corner this block. So, yeah, that's gonna for anybody. It's
Speaker 1: just like when you're learning you have a linebacker who's
Speaker 1: just playing one spot. It doesn't seem like a lot,
Speaker 1: but it's like moving an old linement to a different position.
Speaker 1: Anytime you do any of that, it's just harder than
Speaker 1: you think. It may sound not that hard on paper
Speaker 1: when you just talk about it, but it is. It's
Speaker 1: a big difference. So yeah, it definitely cleared Hi about
Speaker 1: to play faster, and it was good to see how
Speaker 1: much time has you got a tough fee excuse me.
Speaker 1: We've got guys that they've got all that they've been
Speaker 1: doing this for a long time and they're really good
Speaker 1: at it. So they have all the metrics and the
Speaker 1: measurements and all the checkpoints, which he's been going through
Speaker 1: that process. There's so much years and years of data
Speaker 1: and they've and with them they'll let us know. So
Speaker 1: I think it's just the amount of time a guy
Speaker 1: needs just to be comfortable in the I think it
Speaker 1: just depends on the player. He's got a lot of experience.
Speaker 1: So with someone like Huff, you would trust him, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as you know once he comes back and
Speaker 1: he's communicating like he did, he's moving like he did,
Speaker 1: and you can trust you know what you're seeing, but
Speaker 1: also what they're telling you in their comfort level, it
Speaker 1: would be different than someone who's new or someone who's
Speaker 1: played eight years, you know. So I think with him
Speaker 1: it once he feels good and ready to go, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll go with that, we're going.
Speaker 3: To start having conversations to cut down to fifty three.
Speaker 3: And so you're deciding between a guy who's been around
Speaker 3: a veteran a little while and a younger guy who
Speaker 3: maybe you have some upside there. What kind of goes
Speaker 3: into that and how much does now that you can
Speaker 3: keep veterans in the practice squad maybe change the equation.
Speaker 2: Of what he used to do.
Speaker 1: Oh, it makes a huge difference. I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 1: too long ago you only had five practice squad players
Speaker 1: and there were so many limitations on that. The standard
Speaker 1: elevations now that you can do with players and how
Speaker 1: many times you can do it, I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's smart because back in the day, or even
Speaker 1: in those days not too long ago, you would play
Speaker 1: through injuries. You know, you wouldn't report them or you
Speaker 1: would just play through them, where now it's you can
Speaker 1: be smarter because you can standard elevate guys and you've
Speaker 1: got guys that are in your program that you're developing.
Speaker 1: You know, the sixteen and six of them are veterans,
Speaker 1: which I think also extends the careers of these guys
Speaker 1: that all feel like you could play longer if you
Speaker 1: just had a chance that you could hang around. So
Speaker 1: it also makes the whole onboarding of players a lot
Speaker 1: better too, where they're not just showing up on a
Speaker 1: Monday workout and then you sign them in meeting with
Speaker 1: them on Tuesday, and shoot, they could play that week.
Speaker 1: That still happens, but you usually want to keep guys
Speaker 1: that are in your program, and I think that permeates
Speaker 1: throughout the league. And not only is it good, for injuries.
Speaker 1: It's good for the product of football. In the NFL.
Speaker 1: You see guys that already know what they're doing because
Speaker 1: they've been on your team on practice.
Speaker 4: Squad clean in terms of injuries, knock on wood, that
Speaker 4: are you do? You feel good about where you're at
Speaker 4: and you said before You're never going to be totally satisfied,
Speaker 4: but it's just about where you hope you'd be at
Speaker 4: this point.
Speaker 1: It is because of the mindset of the guys. I
Speaker 1: think everyone likes who they're playing with and they likes
Speaker 1: they like how everything is progressing. Like I said, we
Speaker 1: try to make stuff harder for guys, and the communication
Speaker 1: is good, the energy is good, and in that respect
Speaker 1: I am pleased. You're never totally happy, but as far
Speaker 1: as our progress, how our guys are. You know, our
Speaker 1: coaches are coaching, how the players are getting coached, and
Speaker 1: how they're working together and getting closer together. They work
Speaker 1: hard every single day and that's really to me. It's
Speaker 1: a day by day I know I've said it before,
Speaker 1: I work hard, get better. It's just and being shortsighted
Speaker 1: like that's a good thing. I think as.
Speaker 5: A playholder, how much flexibility is is Fred give you
Speaker 5: and what he can do.
Speaker 1: And as a what you said.
Speaker 5: Play caller, how much flexibility is Fred Warner give you
Speaker 5: in terms of kind of put him in any position
Speaker 5: and maybe experiment they give you.
Speaker 1: And what makes him so well makes Fred unique, He's
Speaker 1: just he's a machine. He's I think he's the best
Speaker 1: linebacker in the NFL. I mean, he does it every
Speaker 1: single day. He's a he's so consistent. He's a leader.
Speaker 1: He plays fast, he plays physical, he plays he attacks
Speaker 1: the ball. He's a good tackler, he's good in coverage.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just to me, he's complete. But what
Speaker 1: he does is he plays. He practices like that every
Speaker 1: single day. That's why you know reference that he's kind
Speaker 1: of like a machine. It's just an every single day
Speaker 1: thing with him. And he's trained and it's very serious.
Speaker 1: I don't think any player ever played with or have coached.
Speaker 1: It's never an accident, it's never a coincidence. There a
Speaker 1: lot of times. They are extremely dedicated. They have a
Speaker 1: clear plan, and they probably work the hardest.
Speaker 2: You've had a month now to look at your new
Speaker 2: front four with Bosa and hard Grave and Collins and Floyd.
Speaker 2: What are you seeing out of those guys, and I
Speaker 2: know you like to rotate am front, but it seems
Speaker 2: like with those four they might be able to handle
Speaker 2: a bigger.
Speaker 3: Workload than normal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're fun because they do have such good movement
Speaker 1: and power. I think they really work well together. I
Speaker 1: think they enjoy, you know, working together on the stunts,
Speaker 1: but also you know, taking pride in the run game
Speaker 1: that you got to earn your pass rushes by being
Speaker 1: good in the run game, and just excited, excited to
Speaker 1: see those guys play together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ram looks pretty special and what does what does
Speaker 3: he need to do as far as development to get
Speaker 3: to that next level?
Speaker 4: So he's running with the ones.
Speaker 1: You're talking about. Jalen Graham, Yeah, it's the linebacker room
Speaker 1: is really a competitive group right now. As you've seen
Speaker 1: those like day Dean Jalen from last year to this
Speaker 1: year progressed a lot after that rookie season. But it's
Speaker 1: just all of them together have kind of made it
Speaker 1: competitive and progressed together. It's really gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: decision for us now.
Speaker 3: Like obviously plays like a one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 3: That's great, I'm sure, but I.
Speaker 5: Knew they were.
Speaker 2: Kind of dial obviously you don't want to take away
Speaker 2: his aggression. What it's so excellent.
Speaker 1: But no, I think there are two of them. You
Speaker 1: probably think of one was like both of them are
Speaker 1: kind of on the sideline. One of them kind of
Speaker 1: got tripped a little bit if you watch it, and
Speaker 1: then another one he just he just gotta trust it
Speaker 1: and keep going. I don't think he overran it. I
Speaker 1: think he just needs to trust And that's our tackling
Speaker 1: style of understanding that he can just keep triggering and go.
Speaker 1: He's already shown that he can do that, so now
Speaker 1: it's when someone shows that they can do something. All right,
Speaker 1: We're more concerned with what you can do. Let's try
Speaker 1: and do that as much as possible, right, Thanks guys,