Speaker 1: Play somebody would be pulling and a defender would just
Speaker 1: go right by his backside and pull up the play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't do a great job on our down blocks
Speaker 1: in the sweep game, you know, so there was obviously
Speaker 1: too much penetration, whether it's from the defensive end of
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle. Do you think the plays before they
Speaker 1: were sacking. No, people like they're picking up on one
Speaker 1: tendencies in the run game at all them as I
Speaker 1: hadn't attacking them. Now. I mean we didn't run a
Speaker 1: lot of plays, but I mean we ran sweep from uh,
Speaker 1: running back on one side of the quarterback. We ran
Speaker 1: sweep from running back on the same side as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So we ran sweep with motion, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of three different ways we were running it. But we
Speaker 1: still didn't block them up front. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's how we were handing it off or what in
Speaker 1: the formations we were running them out of him. I
Speaker 1: think we're you know, they were all varied, but we
Speaker 1: still didn't. The biggest thing is we didn't stop penetration
Speaker 1: all night, all night long, especially in the ring games.
Speaker 1: Kelsey and the two guards right out because you're getting
Speaker 1: defenstration against you old day. Yeah, And it wasn't all them,
Speaker 1: you know, there were some times where it was the
Speaker 1: defensive end, you know, that was up the field, but
Speaker 1: no one on the offensive side of the ball grant
Speaker 1: it out very well. So it's that harder to watch
Speaker 1: today that it was seeing you in person yesterday. Now,
Speaker 1: it was pretty hard yesterday in person. So, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's a today. When you watch a film, it's
Speaker 1: just you're you're analyzing what went on, what was the situation,
Speaker 1: where's the breakdown, why was the breakdown? Um, So it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different than watching it in person. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like it can be fixed? Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like it can be fixed. You know, we've we've we've
Speaker 1: had a couple of games here since since we've been
Speaker 1: here where we haven't run the ball well. But we've
Speaker 1: we've rectified that. You know, we didn't run the ball
Speaker 1: well against San Francisco a year ago. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought that was it. That's a game that kind of
Speaker 1: stood out that we didn't. We didn't do a very
Speaker 1: good job running the football in that game. Um, but
Speaker 1: we straightened things out as it went along. So in
Speaker 1: that particular game, I couldn't. I'll go back and look
Speaker 1: at our notes. You know, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it comes down to fundamentals. You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's it's still you know, it's a fundamental football game.
Speaker 1: I think the blocking, throwing and catching aspect of things
Speaker 1: are the ones that you know, we didn't catch them
Speaker 1: all very well last night, um and at times we
Speaker 1: didn't throw it very well. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a combination of all those things,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately one of them would rear tuggly head, you know,
Speaker 1: on a particular play. So it wasn't one specific person
Speaker 1: or one specific scheme. Um. But a lot of that
Speaker 1: just comes down to fundamentals. I think maybe overthinking things
Speaker 1: a little bit too much and I'm just going out
Speaker 1: and playing. You did do different things last year in
Speaker 1: the Giants game, which was two weeks after this four
Speaker 1: nurs game, but the rand game before they tinkered with
Speaker 1: a few things, and the Giants team he didn't the most.
Speaker 1: You didn't done differently to your run game. Do you
Speaker 1: have to go back and look at games like that
Speaker 1: in terms of what you're doing game planning? Well, now
Speaker 1: we game plan versus specific defenses. So you know, what
Speaker 1: the Jets present us coming up with Todd is not
Speaker 1: anything close to what the Giants played asively, So I'm
Speaker 1: planning any changes on the old line versus r No.
Speaker 1: You've you've made a lot of changes this all season,
Speaker 1: and everything in the preseason looked like it was going
Speaker 1: okay with Bradford and Bury and everyone else. How much
Speaker 1: do you have to look in the mirror at yourself
Speaker 1: at all the change and say, you know what, this
Speaker 1: may or may not work the way it's gone the
Speaker 1: first two games. Well, the guys we have where the
Speaker 1: guys were playing with for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's not about a change thing. It's
Speaker 1: about putting in a game plan that will be effective
Speaker 1: against the Jets. And that's really what we're focuses on.
Speaker 1: What second of the now we're putting We're talking about
Speaker 1: putting in a game plan to get ready and focus
Speaker 1: for the Jets. So that's what we're talking about. Peters
Speaker 1: left like both games. You know, for players, I guess
Speaker 1: an injury or something, No, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean it could be kicked in the shin and
Speaker 1: how to go out for a play. But you know,
Speaker 1: there wasn't anything post game last night where there was
Speaker 1: any concern from our training staff with Jason souls to
Speaker 1: evaluate everything and you look, how do you evaluate yourself
Speaker 1: and you what are some things you can do? We're
Speaker 1: not we're not putting together a plan that's good enough
Speaker 1: for us to execute offensively because we're not executing it.
Speaker 1: So that that that kind of falls on the coaching
Speaker 1: staff on the offensive side of the ball. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's where we have to spend our time
Speaker 1: on this afternoon. Eventually, we say towards the end of
Speaker 1: the broadcast yesterday, so is this team should be embarrassed?
Speaker 1: Do you feel that way? You know, you see what
Speaker 1: after Yeah, I mean I don't know the players. Well
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed. Yeah, and that's not the way we
Speaker 1: were supposed to play football, and that's not what we're
Speaker 1: all about. But we we didn't. Uh, we didn't play
Speaker 1: well yesterday, and I was embarrassing how we played yesterday.
Speaker 1: Samets have multiple options posting of both in the passing
Speaker 1: the run. Those Packers played in the normal runs. Do
Speaker 1: you still run those options? I'm confused what you got
Speaker 1: a particular player or just in general, just in general. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has us is he is he making the right
Speaker 1: reason that those plays? Yeah's a high level player for him.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing in these two games? It might
Speaker 1: be different than what he's done. Um, I think some
Speaker 1: of the things that are gone out product. We're just
Speaker 1: overthinking things, trying to predict that. We think they're doing
Speaker 1: this because they're doing that and not doing that instead
Speaker 1: of just going out and playing. And I think in
Speaker 1: a lot of situations we're just kind of overtaking a
Speaker 1: few things and just going out and playing fundamental football
Speaker 1: is what we really need to be doing instead of
Speaker 1: trying to outthink the opponent. Fire Maxwell Fire Maxwell twenty
Speaker 1: two five team. And when we're talking about the touchdown
Speaker 1: any game up, do you think that that was a factor.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Yeah, we are saying we uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was a factor. They were on the
Speaker 1: field for eighty five snaps, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: that's a byproduct of us not moving the ball offensively,
Speaker 1: So we weren't on the field offensively, and that's a
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a time of possession guy, but
Speaker 1: I am a snap guy. You know. You look at
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game, he was sixty eight seven, and you
Speaker 1: know that's an even football game both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: Everybody played the kind of the same amount. But this
Speaker 1: one was an eighty five sixty game. You know that
Speaker 1: that can't happen. And that's where our offense has to
Speaker 1: be able to help our defense out by We we
Speaker 1: need to continue drives and we can't go three and out.
Speaker 1: So is the only answer getting first downds though? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, if your offense is not going the way
Speaker 1: that you wanted to is isn't there a philost We say, well,
Speaker 1: you pull back and do milk the clock more so
Speaker 1: you're not exposing the defense that play still three and outs?
Speaker 1: Still three and out. You know when they had a
Speaker 1: day had a twenty three play drive. Um, Cowboys had
Speaker 1: a twenty three play drive. I mean offense going three
Speaker 1: and out, kid, do anything about that drive. It's our
Speaker 1: defense has to get them off the field on third
Speaker 1: down and we have to stay on the field on
Speaker 1: third Downzo and tendered to hear anything I do I
Speaker 1: do in the first shortening of games, there's still consideration. Yet,
Speaker 1: are you changing off to try to shorten We're trying
Speaker 1: to get first down, So I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: hold on to the ball and a couple of start
Speaker 1: downs early in the game, then there's a different dynamic
Speaker 1: than we stay on the field for uh x amount
Speaker 1: of players, and when we stay on the field, then
Speaker 1: they're not on the field. Well, on thir third and
Speaker 1: more thing the first quarter, Sam did take off. That
Speaker 1: was a drop back pass. It was a styeah, what
Speaker 1: do you what is your message to the fan base
Speaker 1: that is obviously very upset with the way the team
Speaker 1: has come out and started this season. Yeah, we're as
Speaker 1: upset too when we got to get it straightened out
Speaker 1: this week when we go play against the Jets struggles.
Speaker 1: Does any of that have to do with the fact
Speaker 1: maybe that's been so long since he's played he's still
Speaker 1: kind of you know, getting used to playing you know,
Speaker 1: full sixteen in a game again, or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just think in all instances, just like with the
Speaker 1: offensive line or with the receivers on a drop of whatnot,
Speaker 1: I think they're all specific to we look at it
Speaker 1: that specifically. I don't look at it as he's missed this,
Speaker 1: you know, because he was extremely sharp in preseason, so
Speaker 1: it's not like he can say Hey, he's been rusty,
Speaker 1: so we got to knock some rust off. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was as sharp as anybody in the how we
Speaker 1: threw the ball in the preseason. But we're not doing
Speaker 1: that right now. But some of that drop, some of
Speaker 1: that's protection, some of that Sam, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: combination of all three. Sam's only thrown it deep something
Speaker 1: like five times in the first two games. How much
Speaker 1: of that is him just tentative to throw deeper, the
Speaker 1: wide receivers just not getting over. I think it's a
Speaker 1: lot of times it isn't. I think if you look
Speaker 1: at everybody has played us with a big, high post safety.
Speaker 1: We try to take a shot with Nelson, but Wilcox
Speaker 1: was really deep. The one Sam held a little bit,
Speaker 1: DeMarco got tackled in the flats. We tried, we took
Speaker 1: a shot. Nelly did a really good job a getting separation,
Speaker 1: but there was a free safety deep in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. So I think people are defending us
Speaker 1: to not allow us to throw the ball over the
Speaker 1: top right now, to the defense, rather than haven't dictate
Speaker 1: to you, how do you change it? Starts with the
Speaker 1: run game, you know, and you've got to establish a
Speaker 1: run so that that they have to commit more people
Speaker 1: to the run right now, Right now, we haven't done
Speaker 1: anything in the run game where a lot of times
Speaker 1: we saw it we saw all single higher two high safeties,
Speaker 1: and those safeties were not involved in the run game
Speaker 1: at all because they didn't have to be in the
Speaker 1: run game at all. So I think, you know, it
Speaker 1: kind of goes hand in hand. When you start to
Speaker 1: run the football, well you need to now take people
Speaker 1: from deep and bring them up a little bit closer
Speaker 1: to the the line of scrimmage. When that happens, now you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to throw the ball over the top.
Speaker 1: But we haven't had the opportunity to throw the ball
Speaker 1: over the top because we haven't established a run game
Speaker 1: and and blocked well against a fourman you know, for
Speaker 1: two bocks basically is what we're seeing right now, two
Speaker 1: linebackers and for defensive linement, people get hurt. I did not,
Speaker 1: you know, looking at the film today, we don't You
Speaker 1: really couldn't tell what player it was on. Um, so
Speaker 1: that there wasn't a specific play at least from us
Speaker 1: watching it. And I haven't talked to Kiko today, so um,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll we'll see when when he gets back
Speaker 1: here tomorrow, season end or not. I don't have any
Speaker 1: sense at all that, and I don't think the doctors
Speaker 1: have any sense at all either. It would have changed
Speaker 1: the game. But one that fumble on his staff, he
Speaker 1: isn't then it dead ball foul and in the play. Shoot, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not how it was explained to us. So I
Speaker 1: was explained that the ball was snapped, so it was
Speaker 1: a live ball. But do not sense. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you how it was explained to me. I'm just that's
Speaker 1: I was how it was explained to me. It's how
Speaker 1: it was ruled. So well, how disturbing are the drops?
Speaker 1: I think Georgie's got a great You guys have eight
Speaker 1: to two games. Yeah, they're there are a problem, but
Speaker 1: it's no different than an offensive linement, not blocking, you know,
Speaker 1: missing a guy with on a slant or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: just it's there are things we need to continue to
Speaker 1: work on. There are guys that we know are really
Speaker 1: sure handed, guys that have done it, made some outstanding
Speaker 1: catch us here so far, and um, but it's it's
Speaker 1: one thing that that adds on you know that we
Speaker 1: do put ourselves in a situation and convert it third
Speaker 1: down then we have a drop, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: it's one of those where, um, you know we need
Speaker 1: to continue to to to drill it, to work on it,
Speaker 1: to get our feet set to secure the catch all
Speaker 1: the way through the tuck. Um, they're important, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's hurting us on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball wheel when you feel what's that go
Speaker 1: down thirteen? Nothing? Um, well there was because there was
Speaker 1: plenty enough time at that point in time we needed
Speaker 1: we needed points, so we're just trying toccumulate points at
Speaker 1: that point in time. You know, there was enough time
Speaker 1: left in the clock where knowing how many drives we
Speaker 1: had left, we felt well we had an opportunity. Are
Speaker 1: you confident with Sam going forward as you're starting quarterback? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm confident in Sam. How do you what is your
Speaker 1: message to your players to avoid them, you know, getting
Speaker 1: into a run here you guys have lost five and
Speaker 1: six d eighty back to last year, is there a
Speaker 1: message to your players kind of keep this going so
Speaker 1: they don't get into Yeah, well I don't think we
Speaker 1: an't talked about last year because a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys weren't even here. So you know, our message is, um,
Speaker 1: we felt like we've pared well and played well in
Speaker 1: the preseason and now we've and uh, we didn't play
Speaker 1: well in the first half against Atlanta, we played well
Speaker 1: in the second half against Atlanta, and we didn't play
Speaker 1: well at all against Dallas. So, um, that team that
Speaker 1: played in the second half against Atlanta as a team
Speaker 1: that we need to show up this week against the
Speaker 1: Jets defense. Back to back games on the ground, how
Speaker 1: do you think that defense? I think our run defense
Speaker 1: is has actually been pretty good, you know. I think
Speaker 1: for for for what people are trying to do to
Speaker 1: us and what those guys have done out there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know some of those runs at the end of
Speaker 1: those games because they were up, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think we got worn down a little bit. But I
Speaker 1: think when they were trying to run the football, I
Speaker 1: thought our our run defense had a good job. Last
Speaker 1: yesterday innocent branding. So you had rainage starters on the
Speaker 1: interior of the line and were cod fund right that
Speaker 1: So so that was a line. Now you had your
Speaker 1: five starters, personnel, podingteam, you get the pushing the Yeah,
Speaker 1: the personnel is good enough, but the execution isn't good
Speaker 1: enough and the two guards and what gave me the
Speaker 1: confidence this off season that issue st I've seen them perform.
Speaker 1: Andrew played last year and eight games for US, and
Speaker 1: we've seen Allen performed since um, you know, going back
Speaker 1: to Green Bay game a couple of years ago when
Speaker 1: he when he filled in. And I've seen Allen every
Speaker 1: day in practice and in training. So you mentioned the
Speaker 1: new faces a lot. Do you rely more on your
Speaker 1: core leaders that have been your throughout the process to
Speaker 1: keep on board? But what's happening is like slow stars Now.
Speaker 1: I think all of those guys, um are really good leaders.
Speaker 1: That the new guys that we brought in, and I
Speaker 1: think they've they've been vocal in the locker room along
Speaker 1: with Connor and Malcolm and Demiko and the guys that
Speaker 1: have been here for a while. Soative place and the
Speaker 1: third quarter six and then next ninety two comes in
Speaker 1: between Peters and Barbara. You just take us through those
Speaker 1: two places, and it was fist and half. The first
Speaker 1: play was a sweet play. We missed the defense of
Speaker 1: any signed inside caused penetration, and then we had a
Speaker 1: combination block between Allen and uh Jason Peters on the
Speaker 1: on the one where he signthed inside. Marco was pretty
Speaker 1: hard on himself, laid himself for the issues in the
Speaker 1: running game, which is a classy thing for him to say,
Speaker 1: But did you really see anywhere for him to go?
Speaker 1: And you put blame on him as well, And in
Speaker 1: most situations, I don't put the blame on the running
Speaker 1: back because it was just too much penetration for those guys.
Speaker 1: But there was times there were some things blocked up
Speaker 1: and we could have probably hit it a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but by and large we didn't. We didn't block it
Speaker 1: very well. There needs to be more. I guess more time,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the new players brought you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, maybe overestimated. No, I think that's overestimated.
Speaker 1: I mean we played two years ago and everybody was
Speaker 1: brand new. I mean, coaching staff, players, everybody was new.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, they're not going to give you more time.
Speaker 1: I mean we all have the same amount of time
Speaker 1: to prepare us. So I mean as far as the
Speaker 1: expectations didn't preseason, yeah, we don't talk about expectations. We
Speaker 1: talk about executing. So you know, I know the team
Speaker 1: we played in Game one was that was a brand
Speaker 1: new coaching staff and they had all new faces right
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So you know, I think one on the
Speaker 1: play we have to talked about in particularly the defensive
Speaker 1: end lined up out wide and then slanted across his face,
Speaker 1: so you know, mishandled a slant you know, not knowing
Speaker 1: and it was a single block. It wasn't a combination blocks,
Speaker 1: It wasn't getting any help from the inside. So, um,
Speaker 1: it was really just some of the movement things. What's
Speaker 1: that um In terms of our determination whether he was
Speaker 1: active or no, I think he's he's probably back healthy,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't practiced a full week, so I think
Speaker 1: there's probably some stamina issues with him in terms that
Speaker 1: could he play a full sixty minutes And then, um,
Speaker 1: whenever we make the decisions on the guys that aren't
Speaker 1: the starting linebackers, which would be Connor and uh in BG,
Speaker 1: it all comes down to special teams and in Brad's
Speaker 1: and integral special teams player for us right now,