Speaker 1: You get better, the ball doesn't. There's only one ball,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, there's three or four guys going
Speaker 1: out for a route. So we want to be able
Speaker 1: to evaluate every play all the time, whether the balls
Speaker 1: come into them or not. And uh so, and I've
Speaker 1: always found over the years that you can get a
Speaker 1: lot out of evaluation even in a short period of time.
Speaker 1: And I want to see an unselfishness just in their
Speaker 1: attitude and kind of pull them for the other guys,
Speaker 1: and an excitement and energy. And then there's always that
Speaker 1: part of the evaluation processes can you run all day?
Speaker 1: Can you run all day? And can you go when
Speaker 1: you're tired. So that's that's what we're in the process
Speaker 1: of getting into right now. Well, as a coach, you
Speaker 1: want you don't want any drops, so no, I mean
Speaker 1: you know, you know you want one hundred percent catches. Um. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something that you get into, get into groove. Uh
Speaker 1: we always got to demand the best of ourselves. We
Speaker 1: expect perfection with wide receivers. It's a big different team
Speaker 1: in the top read foots between their first and second years.
Speaker 1: I think there is some I think there is something
Speaker 1: too that you know, you see that in receivers, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is just a confidence
Speaker 1: and the game slows down and those two go hand
Speaker 1: in hand. So, um, we've said it all off season.
Speaker 1: You know that that's our expectation of Nelson. You know
Speaker 1: one thing that does pop up on the film, even
Speaker 1: just in a couple of practices here with the pads on,
Speaker 1: He's got a quickness off the line of scrimmage. He
Speaker 1: has some vertical speed to challenge you deep and he
Speaker 1: just has very good footwork. And in this league, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to beat press coverage. You have
Speaker 1: to have to have to beat press coverage, and he
Speaker 1: had and he has a natural ability to get off
Speaker 1: the line versus press. And he's got to be able
Speaker 1: to use that to his advantage to help our team.
Speaker 1: So why wasn't that apparent last season? I knew you
Speaker 1: were here, but you seem to fill Why wasn't he
Speaker 1: able to accomplish that? I mean I did watch most
Speaker 1: of the film from last year. Um, I will say
Speaker 1: this is the film that I saw last year. I
Speaker 1: saw flashes of it. I mean you saw it. So
Speaker 1: as we come into your VA and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy can beat press coverage he can get off
Speaker 1: the line of screamage versus press coverage. So I didn't
Speaker 1: really get into evaluating their scheme and what they were
Speaker 1: trying to do a whole lot, but you could see
Speaker 1: flashes of it, and a lot of times when you're
Speaker 1: in that tempo offense that they were and you don't
Speaker 1: get quite as much press coverage, you know, that play
Speaker 1: a little soft there, just trying to get lined up
Speaker 1: because they were going so fast. So I would anticipate, well,
Speaker 1: he'll have more opportunities to do that this year as president.
Speaker 1: His accuracy timing, he just uh. I think Sam wanted
Speaker 1: Sam's strength to get many But he keeps it real simple,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's not because he has to. It's
Speaker 1: because that's the best way to play football that you
Speaker 1: want to be. You want to have a sophisticated understanding
Speaker 1: of everything, but yet still keep it simple. And that's
Speaker 1: really what we try to teach and engraining the guys.
Speaker 1: You want to teach when you teach a system, and
Speaker 1: when you teach all the options that are available, you know,
Speaker 1: you tell a quarterback, here's all the options, here's the progression,
Speaker 1: here's all the protection checks. But his job is to
Speaker 1: keep it simple to see, to see the coverage, but
Speaker 1: yet to narrow it down into his progression, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's about matchups. It's about
Speaker 1: finding little windows, and I think he has a very
Speaker 1: instinctive and natural way of doing that. And then he's
Speaker 1: very accurate with the ball business, you know, and point
Speaker 1: considering the offensive line, I mean offensive line is probably
Speaker 1: you know, the one area, I mean every area, but
Speaker 1: certainly not. They got a gel together and they're impads now,
Speaker 1: so you want them out there. But you know, the
Speaker 1: last thing I would say to Brandon is don't I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want them to rush you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: them to rush it because we need them for the
Speaker 1: long haul. So you don't want to do anything stupid.
Speaker 1: So you got to be patient and trust the trainers,
Speaker 1: trust Brandon. Um, but certainly you don't like to miss anytime.
Speaker 1: Miss Newsky's looked great. I mean he's really looking. He's
Speaker 1: incredibly smart, he's very stout. Um. Yeah, he's been I
Speaker 1: don't want to say a surprise. That's why that's why
Speaker 1: we signed him. Um. But he's met and exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1: What do you see from them they're all kind of
Speaker 1: the same guy. He's different. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: you know, Smallwood has maybe a little bit more size
Speaker 1: to him, but you know he I think he has
Speaker 1: a really good vision. He's patient in the hole, but
Speaker 1: then he's got speed through the hole. Um. You know, Kenyon,
Speaker 1: I just I think is a really good all round back.
Speaker 1: I think he's he can make him miss in the
Speaker 1: open field. I like his vision, he's doing great in
Speaker 1: protections and uh, I've been very impressed with him the
Speaker 1: whole offseason. Of course when we got here, everyone was
Speaker 1: in your ear. It was in my ear about how
Speaker 1: good this this guy is going to be a player.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're seeing. Um, you know, Marshall has
Speaker 1: really showed me a couple of things here to last
Speaker 1: couple of days. I think he has natural running ability
Speaker 1: in the open field. He's very elusive and uh, you
Speaker 1: see good instincts and envisioned by him. Um said said.
Speaker 1: It's got a little bit more size to him, plays
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, plays a little bit more stout.
Speaker 1: And then of course you know Ryan has not been
Speaker 1: on the field yet. But you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: good group. It's a good group. And Sprawls is you know,
Speaker 1: I mean Sprawls is Sprowls. I mean, you know it's
Speaker 1: the best with Marshall, how deal is? You know, it
Speaker 1: seems like he's caught up pretty quick, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I haven't really noticed it hasn't jumped off the
Speaker 1: film a whole bunch with mental errors. I mean, Ducee
Speaker 1: is gonna. He's done a good job, and Duke has
Speaker 1: done a good job with him and you know, kind
Speaker 1: of keeping it all tight and the system. But he's
Speaker 1: looked good and you know, he can't do anything about
Speaker 1: what he's missed. He's just got to make sure you
Speaker 1: accelerate the process. Now, ye full back on h back.
Speaker 1: It may not be there now, I'm sorry to hear
Speaker 1: the first part the full Well, you know we got
Speaker 1: Chris and Tree working there. You can always work in
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, and you know, sometimes you know, when it
Speaker 1: just depends the roster, you gotta you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to you know, when you get down to fifty three,
Speaker 1: it gets it gets tough, and so you know, you
Speaker 1: always hope you have one offensive lineman or sometimes even
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman that you can bring in and using
Speaker 1: special situations. But Um, but we expect Chris and Tree
Speaker 1: to carry the ball at that load. And UM, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna it's not a huge part of what we do. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely it's definitely something that we're that we
Speaker 1: have a system of play. You know, we have a
Speaker 1: system of place for our two back stuff that they
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta be in there for The first was
Speaker 1: that Gallan Barman. I mean, you know, it's competition. You know,
Speaker 1: Allan's a starter right now, but it's like every position,
Speaker 1: it is competitive, and he's done a great Alan's done
Speaker 1: a great job. So UM, been very impressed with Alan,
Speaker 1: very impressed with the whole line as a group. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny when I look at line. Obviously
Speaker 1: you have to evaluate them individually, but there's a side,
Speaker 1: you know, as you want to they're a unit. They
Speaker 1: gotta they just got to work together and at some
Speaker 1: level of just my experience has been they got to
Speaker 1: be interchangeable parts. So I really we really, you know,
Speaker 1: Doug and I really rely on Stout a lot to
Speaker 1: get those guys where you can mix and move parts,
Speaker 1: and you got you gotta cross train them because guys
Speaker 1: get dinged and they're out for a game or two,
Speaker 1: so they they just as a unit have to they
Speaker 1: have to continue to cross train. We gotta mix guys
Speaker 1: in at all those positions in the final fifty line.
Speaker 1: What's a comfortable number, you know? Maybe you know that's
Speaker 1: really uh. I mean, we always want as many as
Speaker 1: we can, you know, I always want as many as
Speaker 1: you can. But that really comes down to the head
Speaker 1: coach and how he you know, Doug, and how he
Speaker 1: making that decision on how the roster will shape out
Speaker 1: in the end. Frank, can you get more from the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a both. You know. As far as corrections on
Speaker 1: the field, how do you hand them? There are different philosophies.
Speaker 1: You know, some coaches will say, let him play, will
Speaker 1: correct in the film room. I really, I really am
Speaker 1: all in on Doug's belief in philosophy and system of
Speaker 1: make quick corrections on the field. Don't belabor it, but
Speaker 1: immediate feet. There's nothing like immediate feedback. So but you
Speaker 1: got to find the balance, and that's where he has
Speaker 1: the head coach kind of he reigns us in. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want us to get you go crazy with corrections
Speaker 1: on the field, but he wants quick, immediate feedback, and
Speaker 1: then in the film room we can kind of talk
Speaker 1: it out a little bit more with the players. You
Speaker 1: have the overall athleticism do everything that you want to
Speaker 1: do is in the structure of this outfields. Absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at how this system performed in
Speaker 1: Kansas City in the last three years, you know, playoff team.
Speaker 1: So we're you know, I think we're gonna be very
Speaker 1: very strong upfront. We're very strong, you know, quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: our running back and wide receiver mix. You know, we
Speaker 1: got we got playmakers. You know, we got playmakers, and
Speaker 1: uh but it's got to develop, you know, it's got
Speaker 1: to develop. And obviously we're always going to be optimistic
Speaker 1: and uh but I just know you can't you can't
Speaker 1: assume anything. I mean, I gotta see it day in
Speaker 1: and day out on the practice field, and then when
Speaker 1: game time comes, we got to see who those guys
Speaker 1: are are going to step up in the big moments. Guys. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, well TJ. You know, obviously TJ got thinged early,
Speaker 1: you know, but he's got he's got speed. You know,
Speaker 1: Chris has you know, Chris Givens has good speed. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a. He's a guy who's proven he can get
Speaker 1: vertical and make plays down the field in this league. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Marcus Johnson, young guys got some speed. You know,
Speaker 1: Jordan made a nice play. The speed thing. It's funny. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely there's raw speed. You can't coach it, you
Speaker 1: can't buy it. Um. But there's also a way, you know,
Speaker 1: there's just certain guys that have a knack. There's certain
Speaker 1: guys that have a knack, and and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways to kind of scheme things up to try
Speaker 1: to get guys down the field. So we we got
Speaker 1: to do that. And then at times it's gonna come
Speaker 1: down to somebody having the raw speed to run by somebody.
Speaker 1: But there's not many times in this league where you're
Speaker 1: running five yards behind people. It's finding little windows, making
Speaker 1: accurate throws as a receiver, using leverage, having a good
Speaker 1: move at the line of scrimmage, creating something down field
Speaker 1: for them that they can find a little window down
Speaker 1: the field. Um. You know, Carson has been good. You know,
Speaker 1: he's had a great start in my opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: he's his grasp of the offense is as good as
Speaker 1: you can expect. For this time. Um fundamentally he looks
Speaker 1: rock solid you know, always always getting better throwing the
Speaker 1: ball well, so very pleased with his progress. Thank you