Speaker 1: What does you mean to get a Brandon brand back
Speaker 1: in the mix? And well, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: we'll be back in the mix. I mean there's there's
Speaker 1: steps he's got to take along the way. This is
Speaker 1: an important UM step is getting back in on the
Speaker 1: practice with his teammates. Probably probably be limited to just
Speaker 1: some individual stuff and we'll you know, sort of work
Speaker 1: him along. Um. But it is it is great to
Speaker 1: happen back. We haven't really missed him. He's been in
Speaker 1: all our meetings. UM. You know, he's been around quite
Speaker 1: a bit, and obviously he's a guy that um has
Speaker 1: done a lot for our defense. So UM, it's nice
Speaker 1: happing back on the field. But it's not like we
Speaker 1: lost him. You get Brandon back full into the mix.
Speaker 1: It's a good problem to have. But is it a
Speaker 1: problem to have so many nickel rushers that are so
Speaker 1: good to get those snaps and make everybody happy? Yeah? UM,
Speaker 1: things that have never been said in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: have too many pass rushers. Um, I have too many
Speaker 1: good corners. You know, those are things, Those are things
Speaker 1: that defense coordinators, defenses in general value. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to be built for a long haul. There's
Speaker 1: going to be injuries. It was well documented last year,
Speaker 1: UM injuries that we had. UM. Part of filling those
Speaker 1: was having good depth and UM, you're not going to
Speaker 1: find a coach in the world that's going to complain
Speaker 1: about that DEPENDI backs in that slot role. How do
Speaker 1: you think that they all performed on Thursday against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, just like everything, we're still work
Speaker 1: in progress. Nothing's been settled there. Each guy brings a
Speaker 1: little bit different UM skill set, a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: different strengths and weaknesses to the to the position. UM,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, well, I think I think the competition
Speaker 1: is good and I think, um, it'll go. This game
Speaker 1: will go a long way to decide who's going to
Speaker 1: be out there. In the opener, frustration among the players
Speaker 1: about the rules. What kind of dialogue have you had
Speaker 1: about the penalty since the last game? Yeah, we actually have.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a meeting this afternoon where we look
Speaker 1: at a lot of the fouls that not just us,
Speaker 1: but across the league, and again we're trying to be
Speaker 1: educated on what's going to get called and what's not.
Speaker 1: The instructions we've given guys is trying not to lower
Speaker 1: your head and try to take your head out of it,
Speaker 1: and I think our guys are trying to do that.
Speaker 1: The other thing we say is you want to lower
Speaker 1: your target, But along with lowering the target and trying
Speaker 1: to stay away from the head, sometimes that causes you
Speaker 1: to dip your head. I think I can confidently say
Speaker 1: we don't have any players that are trying to play
Speaker 1: outside the balance. We don't have any guys that are headhunting,
Speaker 1: that are, you know, being selfish. They're trying to play
Speaker 1: amongst or within the rules. I think you can see
Speaker 1: Nigel's play, he's trying to get his head out. I
Speaker 1: think even Rodney's play, he's trying to get his head
Speaker 1: across and get it out. The problem is they're dealing
Speaker 1: with world class athletes who are moving targets a little
Speaker 1: bit easier said than done, and those fouls have hurt
Speaker 1: us in these first couple preseason games, and we just
Speaker 1: got to get to a point where they don't hurt
Speaker 1: us in the regular season. It's gonna be very important
Speaker 1: work over the next couple of weeks, not just learning
Speaker 1: from our own mistakes, but learning from other teams. And
Speaker 1: I think there's some other good feedback. You know, we
Speaker 1: get we get clips from the league that shows not
Speaker 1: just penalties that were called, but penalties that that should
Speaker 1: have been called. So there's a learning process and that
Speaker 1: goes to all different things. You try to learn from
Speaker 1: defensive pass interference and defensive holding and you know, different
Speaker 1: things and try to learn. We need to do our
Speaker 1: best to avoid penalties. UM, some are going to happen.
Speaker 1: Nobody's trying to get a face mask, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: reach out and that's the first thing you grab, you know,
Speaker 1: so you know, we just we need the feedback is
Speaker 1: good and coming from other teams, coming from the directional League,
Speaker 1: coming from the officiated department. UM, it'll you know, we
Speaker 1: need it. To settle down on the play with Rodney words,
Speaker 1: kind of the open field in the back is maybe
Speaker 1: trying to get low as well, and he's a moving target.
Speaker 1: What's the proper way he's supposed to go about tackling
Speaker 1: the ball carrier there? As far as you'll understand, I'll
Speaker 1: just go and say the same things. We're trying to
Speaker 1: take our head out of it. We're we're trying to
Speaker 1: lower our target and we're trying to keep our eyes
Speaker 1: from dropping to the ground. Those are the things. Those
Speaker 1: are things that we're trying to emphasize. UM. But again,
Speaker 1: not all of those will equal not getting a not
Speaker 1: getting a foul, particularly if you get a moving target
Speaker 1: that's that works into your path. So UM, we're still
Speaker 1: we're we're trying our very best, and the players are
Speaker 1: trying their very best, UM to comply with the role
Speaker 1: that your video guys put together that you watch or
Speaker 1: some of the league sent out or oh no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just stuff we do on our own. We
Speaker 1: do it. We not just this, but we do a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff with defensive foul Sometimes you can learn
Speaker 1: best from looking at opponents and during the week we
Speaker 1: carve out time over the course of our regular season
Speaker 1: where we watch certain fouls DPIs, roughen the pass or
Speaker 1: um you know, illegal use of hands fouls like that
Speaker 1: and try to learn what triggered the foul, what situation
Speaker 1: the guy was in. So that's nothing new. This just
Speaker 1: adds another another thing to those UM to those clips
Speaker 1: when there's a new interpretation like this to get guys
Speaker 1: out there not thinking about what I can do and
Speaker 1: what I can't do and just playing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's something today. You want to play fast,
Speaker 1: you want to play confidently on the field. Um. But
Speaker 1: anytime there's something new, there is going to be there
Speaker 1: is going to be adjustment, and speak not just for
Speaker 1: coaches but for players, for officials. UM, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of adjustment that's going on right now. It is tackling
Speaker 1: going to be now if the you know, for the
Speaker 1: defensive players to react the way they're supposed to react
Speaker 1: when the especially when the offensive guy lovers is tark
Speaker 1: which is pretty much every time. Yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a difficult thing. Like I said, we're trying our best
Speaker 1: to work through it, but it does. It does add
Speaker 1: a layer of difficulty to what we're trying to do
Speaker 1: from league that they might consider adjusting the rule or
Speaker 1: adjusting the way it's it's uh, the minister no, that
Speaker 1: that's well, I'm not in that loop. Um. When it
Speaker 1: comes to our our loop is our direction from officiating
Speaker 1: and then like I said, from coaches down to players
Speaker 1: and then that feedback that works its way. UM. Back up,
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a defense coordinator. I don't have um
Speaker 1: contact with league officials and don't know what the league's
Speaker 1: up to. You've got here, you spent that year in
Speaker 1: the league office. Uh does that help you as far
Speaker 1: as kind of understanding their thinking and be able to
Speaker 1: teach it to your players? Now, well again, I UM,
Speaker 1: there's a difference between officiating and then also competition community
Speaker 1: officials don't make the rules. The rules come from competition
Speaker 1: committee in the NFL, and then the officials have to
Speaker 1: officiate those um, those rules. I think the thing that
Speaker 1: was most valuable contest seems like another lifetime ago, um,
Speaker 1: But the thing that was most valuable in that was
Speaker 1: was seeing things through an official's eyes and what triggered
Speaker 1: a flag to get thrown? Um. Then just hearing hearing
Speaker 1: those guys, because you know, there's a lot of times
Speaker 1: you would you'd argue, how that shouldn't have been called?
Speaker 1: That shouldn't have been called, But I think the better
Speaker 1: understanding is why it got called and what was the
Speaker 1: what was the trigger that caused the official to throw
Speaker 1: the flag? So I think that it was it was
Speaker 1: valuable that way talked about wild Darby is probably playing
Speaker 1: out faster speed this year because came in last year
Speaker 1: and that had the ankle, But what is it about
Speaker 1: his skill set that that isn't ability to really lock
Speaker 1: down on the corner of a lockdown on receivers. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he obviously has he has great speed. UM,
Speaker 1: he's he's UM, I would probably put it in this classification. Also,
Speaker 1: he's he's had, if not the best one, at the
Speaker 1: best all seasons of any of our players. UM, going
Speaker 1: back to first day of UM Phase one and then
Speaker 1: Phase two, Phase three, Mini camp, training camp, been very consistent.
Speaker 1: UM came to us late last year, was sort of
Speaker 1: thrown into into the fire, then got hurt and missed
Speaker 1: a lot of time. It was difficult situation. UM. We're
Speaker 1: really excited about where he is and UM and you know,
Speaker 1: to fine for that. By the way, you'd like we'd
Speaker 1: like smash your phone, like throw it against the wall. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure you got the insurance. UM. But back to Darby,
Speaker 1: he uh, he's he's been very consistent and coaches see
Speaker 1: at the players see it. He's playing with confidence. I
Speaker 1: think that that the last step he needs to do
Speaker 1: is he needs to turn those PBUs into interceptions. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, PBUs are great, but in receptions of game
Speaker 1: changing plays and he's working really hard at it. UM.
Speaker 1: We're excited where he is. The younger guy, yes, and
Speaker 1: twos going against Brady the other night, which can be
Speaker 1: you look at like at Z there, how much can
Speaker 1: those guys get out of facing it guy like Tom Brady. Well,
Speaker 1: anytime you compete against great players, it's gonna raise your
Speaker 1: game up a little bit. And I think that whether
Speaker 1: it's in a preseason game like that, um going against
Speaker 1: our offense. You know a lot of times we don't
Speaker 1: match groups, you'll see a lot of different things. And
Speaker 1: you know, you guys don't watch practice anymore, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure you saw a lot of times it was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's threes against ones and UM, that's part of the
Speaker 1: evaluation process. You want guys that they can raise their
Speaker 1: or maintain the same level play regardless who's out there.
Speaker 1: When it's all said and done, if you make our
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, you're gonna be on the forty
Speaker 1: six somewhere along the line. And if you're on our
Speaker 1: forty six, you're gonna play. And if you're gonna play,
Speaker 1: you're gonna play against guys like Tom Brady and um
Speaker 1: everybody else. And we have to know if you're going
Speaker 1: to perform, and UM, you know what what chances you
Speaker 1: have to look good linebacker competition going, is anybody stepping
Speaker 1: forward there? Yeah, but the same as the nickel. We
Speaker 1: got different guys with different different skill sets, different strengths,
Speaker 1: and this week, um, maybe next, but this week will
Speaker 1: go a long way to determine how we line up.
Speaker 1: We have a we have another layer to that is
Speaker 1: that Nigel Brandham is going to be suspended for the opener.
Speaker 1: So it's not just you know, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: one but trying to figure out your best combinations. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of different personnel packages. What skill set
Speaker 1: fits best in short yardage, what skill fits set, skill
Speaker 1: set fits best, and um, you know third down, what
Speaker 1: one fits best, and you know all these different things.
Speaker 1: So um, you know we're we're I think that will
Speaker 1: continue Again, it's not just one spot, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: two spots. There means just for energy and effort during practice.
Speaker 1: Kind of what has he meant to this group over
Speaker 1: the last two years and what do you see from
Speaker 1: him this summer. Yeah, I think that's been documented by everybody.
Speaker 1: Stevens a guy that raises everybody's love, will play, um,
Speaker 1: not just the defense, but the offense. I think lane
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson. If if I'm not mistaken, it's been strong
Speaker 1: and complimenting him and him getting him ready to play
Speaker 1: UM and speak on what he's done in training camp
Speaker 1: this year. He's done the same thing when he went
Speaker 1: into the game early in the game against UM against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, it was quote first groups and UH, and
Speaker 1: he was effective and was around the quarterback. Those are
Speaker 1: the things that those things you look for. Kayent