Speaker 1: One game going again. You know, we really just kind
Speaker 1: of went back to basics in terms of what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Run wise, I thought, you know, Ryan hit it in
Speaker 1: there a few times. Give him credit. I think he
Speaker 1: um like his style in terms of how it fits
Speaker 1: in terms of what we're doing. Um. They they got
Speaker 1: some big bodies up front, you know, so we had
Speaker 1: to try to get outside a little bit more, run,
Speaker 1: a little bit more outside zone than um, but just
Speaker 1: trying to get away from those big bodies. But I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, um, in the first half, we gotta go
Speaker 1: one of the second half, we we you know, there's
Speaker 1: a little bit more guys in the box. You got
Speaker 1: a big lead. You know, everybody knows you're trying to
Speaker 1: run and trying to work the clock a little bit.
Speaker 1: We need to be better at that aspect of it.
Speaker 1: But in the first half I thought it helped us.
Speaker 1: How would you describe where you just the overall performance today?
Speaker 1: I thought it was gritty, you know it was. We
Speaker 1: knew going in that this was just going to be
Speaker 1: one of those kind of us a box and analogy two.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna stay in the middle of the
Speaker 1: ring and just start swinging at each other and that's
Speaker 1: what happened. I mean that that defense that they have
Speaker 1: and we talked about it earlier in a week with
Speaker 1: outstanding corners, you know that the you know, can really
Speaker 1: cover and then they so they can devote a lot
Speaker 1: of people in there um to the run game and
Speaker 1: then just you know, I just kind of want to
Speaker 1: pretty win, but it was, you know, kind of ugly,
Speaker 1: but it's what we had to do to um to
Speaker 1: win this football game. And then I think our defense
Speaker 1: played really really well. You know, he created a lot
Speaker 1: of turnovers over there. We knew what they were gonna do.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of empty sets that they run, UM
Speaker 1: trying to figure out if you're in manner zone, if
Speaker 1: you're in man there's you know, Marshall's such a big target.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a difficult matchup at times. Uh and
Speaker 1: fits he's so smart he kind of gets the ball
Speaker 1: out quick, so the RuSHA doesn't really get to him. UM.
Speaker 1: But I thought our defense, especially some of those young guys,
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to pay kind of stepped up today,
Speaker 1: so made some big plays, got the turnovers, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1: You know, we were really excited about Jordan when we
Speaker 1: got him when we talked about him being a third
Speaker 1: down linebacker, and I think you're starting to see that
Speaker 1: he's got great coverage skills, um, and he's really got
Speaker 1: to there's a calmness to Jordan. He's got a real
Speaker 1: good awareness out there. So I don't think anything was
Speaker 1: really too big for him. The obviously made a you know,
Speaker 1: big catch on the tip ball and I think it
Speaker 1: was Brandon Barrow at the tip um and then Eric.
Speaker 1: I thought they had really good coverage a couple of
Speaker 1: times they broke up one on our sideline and then
Speaker 1: come up with a pick on our sideline, So you know,
Speaker 1: it was good to see. You know, the two of
Speaker 1: those guys contribute to the victory on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: So getting out, you know, the first one. So what
Speaker 1: can you do for Tea top that it's going forward? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, It's really like everything, it's got to
Speaker 1: be the same mentality is that obviously, Um, you got
Speaker 1: to make your corrections on Tuesday, and then you got
Speaker 1: to go because what happened the week before in this league,
Speaker 1: you know sometimes really doesn't have a real big impact
Speaker 1: on the next week. You know, every week's going to
Speaker 1: be kind of a street fight, you know, and you
Speaker 1: got to be prepared. We still have a lot of
Speaker 1: corrections we have to make, um, But it's obviously easier
Speaker 1: on Tuesday when you're talking to a team after after
Speaker 1: a win than it is after a loss. So um,
Speaker 1: but we still have a lot of work today. Could
Speaker 1: you see of the scrolls touchdown? Yeah? Again, and we
Speaker 1: it's another thing. We're just trying to talk about getting there,
Speaker 1: getting there and started back there and I thought we
Speaker 1: had a great hold up, you know, and um, I
Speaker 1: had some gave him an opportunity to catch it clean
Speaker 1: and then once he gets a head of steam, he's
Speaker 1: very difficult to block. But I thought, um, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we kind of expect out of our punt
Speaker 1: return team because we have such a dynamic return back there.
Speaker 1: If we can we can kind of get him started.
Speaker 1: We're hoping good things can happen. And that's what that's
Speaker 1: what happ Can you see when he has a chance
Speaker 1: to catch a clean and us Yeah, everybody, I think
Speaker 1: everybody's like that on on our team, you know, just
Speaker 1: because of the impact he can he can make on
Speaker 1: a football football play, just being able to flip the field. Um,
Speaker 1: you know and and and you could tell him that
Speaker 1: one he gotta he was he was gonna get We're
Speaker 1: gonna get something out of it because he was gonna
Speaker 1: get a chance to get started. To Ryan Matthews running
Speaker 1: staff compliments, what you're trying to do? What do you
Speaker 1: mean exactly? He's a real decisive what kind of one
Speaker 1: cut runner, stuck us foot in the ground and go.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have to run through some arm tackles
Speaker 1: at times, um, and he did. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: some uh some size to go along with his explosion
Speaker 1: and and he can you know, there there are times
Speaker 1: where guys are kind of running off the tackles and
Speaker 1: he's you know, it's it's not a um, make you
Speaker 1: miss thing, it's you got to be physical through there.
Speaker 1: And he was really physical. I thought today running the football.
Speaker 1: Two weeks the Jets were plus and in turnover? Is
Speaker 1: that something you left We did? We really did, and
Speaker 1: I think they were plus ten in the first two
Speaker 1: weeks they had ten. Yeah, they created a ten. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's really what we talked about, is creating
Speaker 1: turnovers on our side of the ball. It's been something
Speaker 1: since we talked about last April is that we turned
Speaker 1: the ball over too much last year offensively, and we
Speaker 1: got to create more on the defensive side of him.
Speaker 1: And then obviously, um it had a huge impact on
Speaker 1: the game today. Yeah, we tried. He tried pregame and
Speaker 1: just couldn't go so ran the Bears impact at the line.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really seems like he does a good
Speaker 1: job coming in and getting his hands up and get
Speaker 1: to know, passing lanes somewhere. He does he and a
Speaker 1: lot of that. He has a knack for that, but
Speaker 1: it was part of what we talked about with what
Speaker 1: fits he does. You know, one of Billy's emphasis is
Speaker 1: this week with those guys is that if the ball's
Speaker 1: out so quick, we may not be able to get
Speaker 1: to him in a pass rush. So we need to
Speaker 1: cloud throwing lanes for him and be able to you know,
Speaker 1: it takes a kind of a little bit of a
Speaker 1: knack to start to pass rush and then get a
Speaker 1: field for the timing in your head and get your
Speaker 1: hands up and hum. Brandon does have a knack for it,
Speaker 1: but I think he got too today and one of
Speaker 1: them resulted in the three yeah three today And I
Speaker 1: saw too, you know, so and I know they resulted
Speaker 1: in a turnovers for him. But again that's that's a
Speaker 1: big impact. You know, if you're not going to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, can you disrupt his timing and can
Speaker 1: you disrupt the throwing land? And I thought he did
Speaker 1: that soever where you got the big lead, So look
Speaker 1: like you slowed down the offense a little bit, sort
Speaker 1: of picking picture spots where you picked up the tenhottle
Speaker 1: orney just trying to figure out they were giving you
Speaker 1: so many different looks so you can kind of get
Speaker 1: into you know, we tried to get in some formations
Speaker 1: and see what they were doing and then you know,
Speaker 1: just get us into the appropriate pliers. I thought Sam
Speaker 1: did a nice job considering what they brought. They think
Speaker 1: they can bring a rush um unlike any team we
Speaker 1: play they bring they bring seven. You know they're gonna
Speaker 1: play zero man behind it. Um. You know, I think
Speaker 1: there are a few of those drops. I think all
Speaker 1: those guys would like back. You know, they had the
Speaker 1: one down the far sideline that when he released it spoils.
Speaker 1: He hadn't even turned the corner again, and then he
Speaker 1: turns the corner and it drops right into his hands.
Speaker 1: So um, but he kept battling just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's probably a couple of throws he'd like back,
Speaker 1: and there's probably some catches that I think our receivers
Speaker 1: which they made so taking away stuff in twenties and
Speaker 1: twenty arts. These guys did a good job. But I
Speaker 1: mean you're talking about Rivas and Kramarti, so I you know,
Speaker 1: when you go back, we'll look at the film in
Speaker 1: terms of where we are. But you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think there was there was. They were pretty close and
Speaker 1: coverage out day long. But that may be the best
Speaker 1: tandem we play um and this year, so it could
Speaker 1: have word, there's so many three and outs of the
Speaker 1: second half. Were you disappointed by that? Now? I was
Speaker 1: really excited, actually, I mean I was fired out now.
Speaker 1: I mean it's something we have to get better at.
Speaker 1: We have to be able to run the ball when
Speaker 1: everybody knows we're gonna run the ball, and uh um,
Speaker 1: you know, we just got behind schedule. Come times, we'd
Speaker 1: have a big game on first and first and ten,
Speaker 1: but then not real good. Probably maybe play selection on
Speaker 1: second down to get us you know, kind of that
Speaker 1: first first down. So you know a lot of that
Speaker 1: falls on my shoulders. In terms of calling plays. I
Speaker 1: had to do a better job in the second half.
Speaker 1: Could you had six guys are six guys are prior
Speaker 1: to game two more guys get hurt jouring the game.
Speaker 1: Is that what you meant by by gritty win? Well,
Speaker 1: that's part of it, you know. I think some other guys,
Speaker 1: some guys had some opportunities to step up and make plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously Jordan in terms of what he
Speaker 1: did because we had Michael and Keiko weren't playing today,
Speaker 1: Brandon bar as a prime example, you know, was said.
Speaker 1: And Taylor Hart, you know, being able to step up
Speaker 1: in there. Uh, Chris Marrigos went down during the game.
Speaker 1: So Eric role gets pressed into you know, gets pressed
Speaker 1: into service. And when he gets pressed into service, he responds,
Speaker 1: So um, you know it's a it's it's a tough
Speaker 1: league from that, you know, Ryan, because you know, we
Speaker 1: get a little bit more of the shoulders because it's
Speaker 1: Demrco being out. So um, there's a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about it. You know, the injury rates probably
Speaker 1: about one hundred percent in this league. So um, when
Speaker 1: you when you have an opportunity, if you're dressed and
Speaker 1: you're part of the forty six, you got to contribute.
Speaker 1: And I thought the guys that that took advantage of
Speaker 1: their opportunities because they got a chance to play. So
Speaker 1: the outside zone pay today. I think they were playing
Speaker 1: a lot of double three techniques, a lot of bear looks,
Speaker 1: nose guard two three techniques trying to take away the insight.
Speaker 1: So we had to try to get the ball to
Speaker 1: the perimeter. So when you when you acquired and extended scrolls,
Speaker 1: was this the division you had in mind for ever?
Speaker 1: What was now? I mean, there's so many different things
Speaker 1: he can do, you know, and um, we probably still
Speaker 1: haven't utilized them to the role we can. But I
Speaker 1: think he his ability to change a game as a
Speaker 1: returner also as a running back. Um, you know, didn't
Speaker 1: hesitate when we had the ball in the half yard
Speaker 1: and to give it to him, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people would why are you giving it to him there?
Speaker 1: But he's got a knack for finding his way through um,
Speaker 1: and he's just such a weapon trying to come out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. We had one third down there where um,
Speaker 1: you know, he they came all out in the blitz.
Speaker 1: We end up throwing it deep but he kind of
Speaker 1: got tackled trying to run through and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys devoted to him, so offensive line show. Um,
Speaker 1: they battled. You know, we can still improve there. Um,
Speaker 1: But I thought they battled this week, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: especially we we you know, Garner went down, so Toben's
Speaker 1: got to come in the game. And then JP was
Speaker 1: on in the last series. Um, and then Dennis came
Speaker 1: in the game. But you know, so he had to
Speaker 1: kind of use everybody in that situation. But I thought
Speaker 1: they battled and against a against a really good front,
Speaker 1: you know, with with Leonard Williams and Couples and uh
Speaker 1: Muhammad Wokerson. You know that's that's a pretty formidable group
Speaker 1: that you're playing against right there. He didn't Yeah, he
Speaker 1: got I don't know exactly what it was lest to
Speaker 1: be honest with it, I know he got hit and
Speaker 1: so with Dennis went up, we kind of flipped Tobin over.
Speaker 1: Dennis went into right guard and don't Tobin flipped over
Speaker 1: to left tackle. But I haven't gotten I don't know exactly.
Speaker 1: He looked happy in the locker room. Souff injury. Was
Speaker 1: it during the practice, It was during yesterday Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was just running around until something in his hamstring, so
Speaker 1: he tried to see if he could go today. But
Speaker 1: I couldn't go. So what was the message? Was gay
Speaker 1: for the day to day? Um, we're getting ready to
Speaker 1: go back. But you know, we talked about it kind
Speaker 1: of being a gritty game. We knew it was gonna
Speaker 1: be a gritty game going into it, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to kind of stand toe to toe and take
Speaker 1: their best shot and then we're gonna give our best shot.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I think everybody all phases offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and special names contributed to the win. So defensive cos
Speaker 1: I you know, we did Billy did about devoted a
Speaker 1: lot of guys to coverage, you know, so we were
Speaker 1: only gonna rush, you know, four and three at times.
Speaker 1: Uh so can those four and three kind of disrupt
Speaker 1: the throwing lanes a little bit? And I thought they did.
Speaker 1: They got a good push on the pocket, um, and
Speaker 1: I thought we did a decent job in coverage. You know.
Speaker 1: I think probably the only drive we'd like back is
Speaker 1: that last drive right at the end of the first half.