Speaker 1: Yeah, but he saw another ball. It seems like that's
Speaker 1: kind of become a little bit of a trend with him.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you kind of break that
Speaker 1: and get him not doing those things anymore? You know,
Speaker 1: I think like with each of our players, working on
Speaker 1: your mechanics, working on fundamentals and technique is it's always
Speaker 1: a priority. You know. I'm real happy with the way
Speaker 1: Carson goes about working at that, as I am with
Speaker 1: all the players. It's really important to us. We put
Speaker 1: a lot of time into it. Uh. Coach Peterson schedules,
Speaker 1: you know, has a good chunk of time in practice. Um.
Speaker 1: On that particular play, I mean he did have a
Speaker 1: little bit of heat in his face. Um, So I
Speaker 1: don't think you could quite finish it. But it's definitely
Speaker 1: important and we definitely keep working on it. As noted,
Speaker 1: twenty four points since week three. Why do you think
Speaker 1: that lack of explosiveness that has been an on going problem?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, as an offense, our job is to
Speaker 1: point put points on the board, and um, you know
Speaker 1: that just comes from executing one play at a time
Speaker 1: and we have to score more points. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's no question so um, you know, as coaches, it's
Speaker 1: our job to put our players in the best position,
Speaker 1: um to make plays and to be able to sustain drives,
Speaker 1: um to you know, to be good in the red zone,
Speaker 1: be good on third down, to be able to sustain
Speaker 1: drives and obviously players job. But really we're all in
Speaker 1: it together as an offense. So uh, we just have
Speaker 1: to find ways to, you know, to be better. I
Speaker 1: mean overall, um, you know, every week you got to
Speaker 1: find ways to score four touchdowns. So, I mean it's
Speaker 1: always an asked to block much in college. How's he
Speaker 1: doing in that regard. I think he's doing well. I
Speaker 1: think he's doing well. He does well in past protection.
Speaker 1: He shows a willingness not only willingness, but he shows
Speaker 1: the aptitude to know who to block. He knows who
Speaker 1: is assignment is the thing that stands out in that
Speaker 1: failure to score more than twenty four bikes is or anything,
Speaker 1: if anything that sticks out and fill them or in
Speaker 1: your evaluation. You know, it's like every game, Um, you
Speaker 1: go back and there's always five or six plays that
Speaker 1: you say, we just missed one here, we could have
Speaker 1: done a little bit better here, and then sometimes or
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta do. You gotta find that way
Speaker 1: to extend that drive. Sometimes, you know, sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: bad break. We don't get a call that we get,
Speaker 1: you know. You see sometimes if you get a call
Speaker 1: sometimes on a third down to extend a drive, maybe
Speaker 1: they interfere. It doesn't get called. You see, it happen
Speaker 1: all the time the other way. But we have to
Speaker 1: find ways. We have to control what we can control
Speaker 1: to find ways to get that one key first down.
Speaker 1: It just kind of propels you on unusual because your
Speaker 1: three biggest scoring games of the first three games, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's when you look at those games, those three games,
Speaker 1: what do you seeing that happened in those games that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened? A few big plays. Obviously, we have a
Speaker 1: good field position, you know, really exceptional field position in
Speaker 1: those games. We've had games where the special teams have
Speaker 1: scored in the defense has scored that obviously, you know
Speaker 1: when they score points at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, it goes on point and scored, which somewhat
Speaker 1: reflects on offense. So that helped um. Field position is
Speaker 1: always a big thing. But and big plays, big plays
Speaker 1: and field position, and then proficiency, proficiency in situational football
Speaker 1: third down red zone of the Keys has head eleven
Speaker 1: catches last two weeks, nine for first downs. Where is
Speaker 1: he right now in his development? And are you pretty
Speaker 1: happy with the way he's played the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks that, yeah, Yeah, aside from the you know, aside
Speaker 1: from the penalties. Yeah, he's really making good progress and
Speaker 1: making plays. And you just see it in practice even yesterday.
Speaker 1: You just I feel like he's playing with more confidence
Speaker 1: and he's making plays. So very happy with his development
Speaker 1: and he needs to be a big part of what
Speaker 1: we're doing going forward. All rank, What is it about
Speaker 1: that screen pass blocking thing that seems hard for him
Speaker 1: to pick up? He's had that same penalty. You know,
Speaker 1: it was just we all sometimes make a mistake that
Speaker 1: we you know, the first time kind of you know,
Speaker 1: the first time it's just kind of a fluke. The
Speaker 1: second time it's just elapse, elapse, It happens to all
Speaker 1: of us, kind of elapse of judgment on his part
Speaker 1: on that one, learn from it and move on. We
Speaker 1: all do, uh not, We all kind of do the
Speaker 1: same thing in our own little way. That's a mistake
Speaker 1: that we have to try to avoid. Block on that plane.
Speaker 1: It all depends on what coverage it is. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes when it's covered two and it's a screen, you know,
Speaker 1: you release the you release the receiver up. If you
Speaker 1: recognize it's covered two, you go up past, you know,
Speaker 1: run past the corner and then possibly peel back on
Speaker 1: them if you block them too early. If it's a
Speaker 1: loose cover two, sometimes you can you can get a
Speaker 1: piece of them early, and it's not too early. There's
Speaker 1: a little bit of gray area in there. So um,
Speaker 1: like I said, it was just poor judgment and we
Speaker 1: need to clean that up. You've had experience of as
Speaker 1: a play caller, your previous stuff, you know, with the
Speaker 1: challenge is, like Doug says, it's a process for him
Speaker 1: in terms of the personnel that you have, your own philosophy,
Speaker 1: what the other guy is showing you, can you talk.
Speaker 1: It's about that challenge and learning through experience to become
Speaker 1: a good play caller. Yeah, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of it. You know, you instinctively are gifted and are
Speaker 1: good at it, I think like coaches. But then there's
Speaker 1: also a learning process involved in it as well, and
Speaker 1: it's always being tweaked. But one thing I know I've
Speaker 1: learned in a few years. I've called plays um. You know,
Speaker 1: when you win, they're all good, and when you don't
Speaker 1: win it it doesn't matter. You know when you when
Speaker 1: you lose, you should have thrown it more or run it,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the case may be. So um, I've
Speaker 1: learned over the years as a player and coach. You know,
Speaker 1: not to get in the business from our end. You know,
Speaker 1: I understand from the outside why thinks our questioned, but
Speaker 1: from from the perspective that we sit, I know the
Speaker 1: process that we have going into it. I know what
Speaker 1: we talk about. I know there's a clear plan. I
Speaker 1: know we know what the weaknesses of the defense are.
Speaker 1: But there's the way you stated the question was a
Speaker 1: good way, and that there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: go into it. The other quarterback was incredibly hot. You
Speaker 1: know this or that, there's so many factors that go
Speaker 1: into it. It's easier to second guess afterwards, and sometimes
Speaker 1: we second guess ourselves, and we always want to find
Speaker 1: ways to tweak it and get better. But when you lose,
Speaker 1: you're never going to be happy with it. Carson escape
Speaker 1: from the pocket several times and pick up yards in
Speaker 1: the ground. It's something he's done for the most part
Speaker 1: in terms of feeling pressure around him. You know, we've
Speaker 1: seen the best players, like quarterbacks like Aaron Rodger Bill
Speaker 1: do that on a consistent basis. How do you do
Speaker 1: you teach that? Is that something that's just instinctive or
Speaker 1: is it a combo? It's a combo, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a combo. It's something a lot of it's instinctive. But
Speaker 1: you know, like coach d Filippo does a lot of
Speaker 1: drills with Carson, you know, where he's escaped in the
Speaker 1: pocket looking for avenues. You know, we talk about it
Speaker 1: even in practice when a play breaks down in practice,
Speaker 1: don't waste to play, you know, Coach d Filippo is
Speaker 1: always on Carson about that. Hey, sometimes something happens in practice,
Speaker 1: the player doesn't work out. You want, let's not waste
Speaker 1: the rep. Let's look for a whole, let's look to scramble.
Speaker 1: So that's ongoing. Cast is instinctively. I think he has
Speaker 1: that vision and sees it and has the athleticism to
Speaker 1: do it. But we still kind of coach get it
Speaker 1: done from the pocket first, then react after that the
Speaker 1: way Isaac played considering you know, but well, I mean
Speaker 1: you know, there's always that, there's always that little buffer
Speaker 1: going in. I mean, it wasn't you know, it needs
Speaker 1: to be better. It will be better. It was kind
Speaker 1: of like a little bit not completely like when v
Speaker 1: came in. There's a little bit of that shock and
Speaker 1: all when you first go in. He handled himself well,
Speaker 1: but you can still a little bit tell first game.
Speaker 1: But you can see the signs. You can all the
Speaker 1: signs that you see out in practice, how smart he is,
Speaker 1: how explosive he is. Um, I think it was a
Speaker 1: really good start for him. I think it'll just get better.
Speaker 1: Get a whole lot of production out of Bryce Tregs
Speaker 1: or Paul Turner. In that game, how much did the
Speaker 1: offense just miss having Nelson available? Um, you know I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, I mean Nelson had some unique elements.
Speaker 1: He is a great route runner, and you know, we
Speaker 1: want to get him involved, you know, when he's up
Speaker 1: and if he's up this week, whenever coach makes that decision.
Speaker 1: We believe he's a We believe he can be a playmaker.
Speaker 1: You know, we haven't hit our stride together. We I
Speaker 1: say we, you know, all of us together, because you
Speaker 1: know we're all with Nelson and he's with us. You know,
Speaker 1: we're a team, so together, we want to find a
Speaker 1: way to hit our stride, and which includes involving everybody,
Speaker 1: and everybody needs to be a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Number in mind, thirty points going into every game that
Speaker 1: you kind of shoot for is it? Does it depend
Speaker 1: on the game devoted, not a specific number. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, y'all, I just think four touchdowns. You know,
Speaker 1: you expect to get a field goal or two. I
Speaker 1: don't the ultimate goal score one one more obviously, then
Speaker 1: the other team goes without saying. And you know, we
Speaker 1: know our defense and special teams have played very well
Speaker 1: this year. So but we want to be explosive. You
Speaker 1: want to be proficient, We want to execute. Really, for us,
Speaker 1: the focus is on executing, one player at a time,
Speaker 1: winning results, scoring points results. If we focus on execution,
Speaker 1: that's really the best way we have to approach. Just
Speaker 1: focus on executing the next play and then the next
Speaker 1: play that should produce the most points if we can
Speaker 1: get better there. In your experience, teams that are in
Speaker 1: the situation day thank you guys, are in in the
Speaker 1: final month of the year. What does it take for
Speaker 1: a team to stay together as opposed word to go
Speaker 1: on the other one. You know, it's to me, it's easy.
Speaker 1: It's all about and coach talks about this all the time.
Speaker 1: We talked about it today. You know, as an offense,
Speaker 1: it's about creating continuing to create good habits. That's just
Speaker 1: part of the process. No man becomes suddenly different from
Speaker 1: his habits and cherished thoughts, and so you have to
Speaker 1: create good habits. You have to create good habits, and
Speaker 1: there's never a break from that. It never goes away.
Speaker 1: Every day is a new opper day, a new day
Speaker 1: to create good habits. And then those cherished thoughts. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to win the championship, and that's the big
Speaker 1: that is, without question, ve goal. But you know there's
Speaker 1: also something in that room about camaraderie, about love for
Speaker 1: your love for your teammates, and that's a big part
Speaker 1: of how we think. You know, at all times of
Speaker 1: the year, but sometimes when things don't go exactly the
Speaker 1: way you want, it reminds you of you that it
Speaker 1: reminds you of that, and so that's how I think
Speaker 1: how we approach it down the stretch. So many rookies,
Speaker 1: you have so many rookies who are playing big roles. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you look for from them
Speaker 1: to make sure they're kind of when they're going through
Speaker 1: stuff they've never been through, to make sure they're kind
Speaker 1: of staying on track. Yeah, I mean the rookies, you know,
Speaker 1: they're in an unchartered territory for some of them, but
Speaker 1: really for us, it's you know, in one respect, we
Speaker 1: say there are no more rookies. You know, you've been
Speaker 1: into it this far. Uh, the expectations are high from
Speaker 1: on themselves and of course as coaches, we put high
Speaker 1: expectations on them. So we just want to focus on today.
Speaker 1: You know, let's let's go out there today and have
Speaker 1: a good practice today because we believe what we do
Speaker 1: today will show up on Sunday as the factors we're
Speaker 1: able to stretch and field bars out. They had a
Speaker 1: couple of drives and it's ten twelve lads drives. As
Speaker 1: a play caller for yourself, you know, how do you
Speaker 1: have that patience to call that type of drive that
Speaker 1: will set up some of the big players like it
Speaker 1: did a bunchet. Yeah, you know, I mean there's no question.
Speaker 1: I mean when uh, you know, it was like one
Speaker 1: of the thing that I said to a buddy of mine.
Speaker 1: It was like we played it. It's like you're playing
Speaker 1: a basketball game against Steph Curry and he's hitting every
Speaker 1: you know you can have you can have him guarded perfect,
Speaker 1: and he's still knocking down threes everywhere he goes. And
Speaker 1: you know, we faced a guy who was a hot shooter.
Speaker 1: And sometimes on the other side as a play caller,
Speaker 1: you know, you you have to we have to match that.
Speaker 1: You know, our quarterback has to match that, our offense
Speaker 1: has to match that, and uh, you know that day
Speaker 1: you just gotta you gotta try to just do the
Speaker 1: best you can to execute and and not stretch out
Speaker 1: after things. Um you know, so that I think that's
Speaker 1: the goal going in every week and uh just find
Speaker 1: ways to you know, be good one play at a time.
Speaker 1: Thanks very