Speaker 1: The guys won't won't practice today. Ron Brooks the calfkinto,
Speaker 1: he's feeling much better, but we'll hold him out today.
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey his left foot, the plantar fasciitis. Uh, he
Speaker 1: will will hold him today. Benny Logan the groin strain,
Speaker 1: will hold him also, and then Marcus Smith has the
Speaker 1: right groin strain and we'll we'll also hold hold him.
Speaker 1: But all of those guys are getting better. And then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Michael Kendricks, Jordan Matthews, Leo Rodney will
Speaker 1: all practice today. Um, for the teams, you can players
Speaker 1: at the last couple of weeks that you're prepared this
Speaker 1: week in terms of getting back on traffic where you
Speaker 1: will look forward the body. Yeah, you know, my focus
Speaker 1: with the team has just been you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: stay positive. You know we we obviously have to make
Speaker 1: the necessarily necessary corrections and and and you know, um,
Speaker 1: uh moved past obviously, UM got a lot of football left,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of games in your season, a
Speaker 1: couple of hiccups. You know, we just gotta, we just
Speaker 1: gotta Every day is a challenge because it's a it's
Speaker 1: a new set of circumstances. Um, gotta gotta go to
Speaker 1: work today, the the hard work, the preparation all has
Speaker 1: to start over again today for for another for another
Speaker 1: good opponent. But from my standpoint, just staying staying positive,
Speaker 1: you know, staying up beat the energy level. Um, just
Speaker 1: keep reminding them that they're a good football team and
Speaker 1: they've got to believe in one another. And and put
Speaker 1: the thing, put the thing back on track. But stood
Speaker 1: out saying, well, you know, I always thought he was
Speaker 1: a very accurate thrower. And he throws a good ball,
Speaker 1: good football. And and the other thing you're seeing is, uh,
Speaker 1: a lot of familiar concepts that he's that he's used
Speaker 1: to throwing, and he's not he's not hanging onto the
Speaker 1: football back there. He's getting good pass protection and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most parts, delivering a delivering a
Speaker 1: good football. And the guys are working down the field,
Speaker 1: I mean you're seeing, you're seeing these guys separate and
Speaker 1: make make good plays for him. And and the ability
Speaker 1: to run the ball, you know, has helped him. But
Speaker 1: you know, Sam's always been very accurate. He's he's smart,
Speaker 1: he understands defense and gets the ball out of his hand.
Speaker 1: We talk about Sam on Monday. Knowing your offense and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, but your defense, knowing his tendency
Speaker 1: is having faced him for the last year, can that
Speaker 1: help them in the game. I think so. I think so.
Speaker 1: I think I think they know that the type of
Speaker 1: athletes that Sammy has, a type of quarterback that he is.
Speaker 1: And and um, you know, it's hard to get to
Speaker 1: a guy like Sam as I mentioned, because he gets
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hand so fast, and he
Speaker 1: utilizes the quick game, and and it's it's tough to
Speaker 1: it's tough to defend sometimes, you know, from a pass
Speaker 1: rush standpoint. But you know, we got to do the
Speaker 1: best we can to to to you know, our pass
Speaker 1: rush has got to it's got to show up this
Speaker 1: week obviously, and and uh we got to match the
Speaker 1: intensity on their side of the ball. And and um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, with with any game in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, if you can disrupt timing from a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think it's an advantage. How to digest the trade?
Speaker 1: Looking back, now, what do you make of how it's
Speaker 1: affected those teams? I think it's been a win win honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: you know in our case, uh, you know, our our
Speaker 1: first round, second overall pick, getting a chance to play
Speaker 1: this early, getting his feet wet, learning, putting us in
Speaker 1: a great spot three and two. He's played a lot
Speaker 1: of football. He's getting better every week. And in their standpoint,
Speaker 1: they they they got a good quarterback and he went
Speaker 1: to he went to a playoff caliber football team with
Speaker 1: a tremendous defense. And um, I know Adrian Peterson's not there,
Speaker 1: but but a good run game and and you know
Speaker 1: it was a win win for both sides. Will you
Speaker 1: so confident day, Big Bat will play better in your
Speaker 1: second game game? I just think you learn, Um, you
Speaker 1: just learned from the good and the bad. You kind
Speaker 1: of get your your feet wet, you settle into the game.
Speaker 1: He got better as the game went on. Um, we
Speaker 1: had other breakdowns, you know, offensively other than other than
Speaker 1: than than Big V. So you know, I feel comfortable
Speaker 1: with uh with him going again this week. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a type of kid that's hard on himself. He
Speaker 1: uh makes the corrections, he moves on. He'll work as
Speaker 1: fundamentals and technique this week. You know, well again this
Speaker 1: is a this is a good pass rush again this
Speaker 1: week and and uh, well you know we'll help them
Speaker 1: do the things that that that you're seeing teams do
Speaker 1: and that we'll do. And um, so we still have,
Speaker 1: you know, full one hundred percent confidence that he'll he'll
Speaker 1: be able to get the job done to himself. Um,
Speaker 1: how has he handled a few days since not having
Speaker 1: a great debut? Fine? You know fine? I mean the
Speaker 1: thing is in this business and uh, players and coaches
Speaker 1: and you just have a short term memory. Man, You
Speaker 1: just you just you just forget about it on Monday
Speaker 1: and you move on and and uh that's that's what
Speaker 1: players do. And you know, Um, these guys are these
Speaker 1: guys are resilient guys. They bounced back, I can. You know,
Speaker 1: they might take a few lumps early, but but they
Speaker 1: all they're professionals and they know how to handle their
Speaker 1: business and and uh, he knows how to handle this,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he's he's gonna be fine. Obviously
Speaker 1: having the best season VISI careers so far. I mean
Speaker 1: before the trade was made, were you pretty competently needed
Speaker 1: to have similar success at how he stayed here? I was.
Speaker 1: I was fully confident that he was going to have
Speaker 1: the type of success that he's having now with Minnesota.
Speaker 1: He he came off the preseason with us here um
Speaker 1: at an all time high. He was he was throwing
Speaker 1: the ball with accuracy, with with uh, you know, with decisiveness.
Speaker 1: He was feeling comfortable with the offense. And that's why
Speaker 1: I fully I fully expected him having him with our starter,
Speaker 1: you know, to have the same type of numbers that
Speaker 1: he that he has there. So it's not a shock
Speaker 1: the original decision to start making, I know, it's a
Speaker 1: claborative effort. Claborative that port in terms of office development,
Speaker 1: Like when you whittled down to your time at three,
Speaker 1: what's how you were in the front office staff involved
Speaker 1: in the decision for Particul to start. No, No, they weren't. Um.
Speaker 1: This was truly a coach's decision, you know, on my
Speaker 1: part and Coach Stout and Eugene Chung and just Frank
Speaker 1: Reich and collectively just kind of taking in all the
Speaker 1: information and making this decision. Rush. He didn't have any
Speaker 1: sexes passed some day. How do you get that thing
Speaker 1: back one track? You know, it's a pride thing. Number one.
Speaker 1: These guys, uh, you know, I know this group, it's
Speaker 1: a veteran group that we have here, and they don't
Speaker 1: like to stay down long. Um, you know they they've
Speaker 1: they had a little bit of a set back, and
Speaker 1: I know they'll come out, they'll come out fighting this
Speaker 1: week and they'll find ways to get it done. I know,
Speaker 1: you know Schwartz schemes, the aggressive mentality on defense and
Speaker 1: and and coach Wilson, we'll have we'll have these guys
Speaker 1: ready to play and and uh, they'll they'll bounce back.
Speaker 1: But you know, a little bit of a setback, but
Speaker 1: you know, hey, they got to come out swinging and
Speaker 1: fighting and be ready to go. Giving your familiarity with
Speaker 1: with Sam, how are you gonna take advantage of that
Speaker 1: when it comes to the defense of scheming? Well, just
Speaker 1: knowing who he is, knowing the type of player is
Speaker 1: obviously is uh in an advantage to us, just like
Speaker 1: he might have an advantage, you know with some of
Speaker 1: the things that that we're doing here or personnel. But
Speaker 1: you know, our our focus is just getting ready for
Speaker 1: the Vikings as a team and uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: know he's playing playing well. And it goes without saying
Speaker 1: I mean any any you have to put pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, whether it's with four guys, five guys, six guys,
Speaker 1: and and Uh, you know, we've got to be able
Speaker 1: to do that this week. It's just it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who's standing back there, you know, at quarterback, and and
Speaker 1: it just so this week we know we know this
Speaker 1: guy and um, um, so that gives us a little
Speaker 1: bit of a of an advantage just kind of knowing
Speaker 1: his demeanor in his chemistry. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, he he gets the ball out of his hand,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit harder to get to him.
Speaker 1: Their their defense has done a real good job against
Speaker 1: some pretty good quarterbacks this year. Is it the scheme,
Speaker 1: is it personnel? A little bit of both. It's a
Speaker 1: little both. I mean they got they got a great
Speaker 1: personnel and defense, and they're healthy. They're coming off of
Speaker 1: buy obviously, um you know coach Zimmer and and and
Speaker 1: they really they fly off the ball. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a good This is a good defense and good defense
Speaker 1: for a reason. And um, you know that it's one
Speaker 1: of those one of those schemes where they don't do
Speaker 1: a lot. They kind of kind of just line up
Speaker 1: and play defense. But their their sound and what they do,
Speaker 1: and you know, again it's it's an aggressive style. They
Speaker 1: let their defensive line just come off the ball and
Speaker 1: put pressure on the quarterback. They got two good ends
Speaker 1: and um, you know we gotta be we gotta be
Speaker 1: ready for for another for another test upfront. What do
Speaker 1: you identify as the reasons for just tacking? You identify
Speaker 1: the reason for tacking moving such an issue against the residents.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is just uh, slightly being behind blocks,
Speaker 1: being out of position, stopping our feet, dropping our heads.
Speaker 1: You know, just fundamental things things that we can continue
Speaker 1: to teach and practice and and um, you know, the
Speaker 1: bag work and the drill work that that uh, the
Speaker 1: defense teaches. We just got to continue to stay on it.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's all about details. I reminded
Speaker 1: the team again this morning. It's it's about the fundamentals
Speaker 1: and the details. And each person coaching player has to
Speaker 1: detail their work. Meaning you can't you know, I can't
Speaker 1: let anything slide. Um, I've got to I've got to
Speaker 1: stay on top of everything and and and it just
Speaker 1: goes and it just carries over to each player. But
Speaker 1: it's just fundamental work that we got to continue doing
Speaker 1: practice at bits percentage. In the NFL, when you were
Speaker 1: studying the shorts, would you say to him there's gotta
Speaker 1: be more opportunities where we can bring extra bodies at
Speaker 1: the quarterback during the game and going forward. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's a fine line with with putting pressure blitzing
Speaker 1: because you end up, you know, kind of kind of
Speaker 1: taking one guy out of the secondary. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and and you start exposing different different elements of your coverage.
Speaker 1: If if I felt like it was a necessary thing
Speaker 1: to do, Um, again, you know, we won't panic over
Speaker 1: one football game because our pass rush. We know what
Speaker 1: type of guys we have upfront. We know Fletcher can
Speaker 1: be disruptive. We know Brandon Graham can come off the
Speaker 1: edge and bend the edge along with Vinnie and Connor.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's just it's it's one game.
Speaker 1: It's one little setback. Um. If this were the third, fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth game in a row, you know, maybe then you
Speaker 1: have to reevaluate. But but hey, we gotta we just
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for this game and um, continue the process.
Speaker 1: We have a process, a plan in place, and and
Speaker 1: we'll continue to stick to that and the storylines will
Speaker 1: be Obviously this game could be a left random on
Speaker 1: the trade before. How will you handle the cars of
Speaker 1: the profession it will be on day this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I there's there's pressure every week, and I
Speaker 1: get the fact that the trade happened and and but
Speaker 1: our focus is within our building the guys we have
Speaker 1: and getting our guys ready to play. And you know, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put any added pressure, you know. And
Speaker 1: on Carson, I was just gonna let him play. And
Speaker 1: I need to be smart and how I handle this
Speaker 1: game from a play calling standpoint too, and and how
Speaker 1: I handle the offense that way. And you know, we
Speaker 1: got to rely on the ten other guys out there.
Speaker 1: And I know there's gonna be a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of peripheral stuff, you know, probably said or written
Speaker 1: about these two. Whoever plays or whoever wins, this one
Speaker 1: played better than that one, this and that and the
Speaker 1: other and the decisions and I get all that, Um,
Speaker 1: but the decision has been made and he's our guy,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get him ready to play each and
Speaker 1: every week. And his preparation every week that that I
Speaker 1: see and what we've seen on offense, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: headed in the right direct and for really for both teams,
Speaker 1: it's it's a win win. As I mentioned, earlier. It's
Speaker 1: a win win for both teams. I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like Sam given this opportunity, he's excelled, He's done well.
Speaker 1: He went to went to a fabulous football team, a
Speaker 1: playoff football team, and uh, you know we we're taking
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. Who's I mean, we're three and two
Speaker 1: start out three and oh and and we just got
Speaker 1: to get back to that. We're just we're close in
Speaker 1: a lot of areas, um, and we just gotta keep
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep that focus to be smart. Um
Speaker 1: order at times last week that you thought you were smart.
Speaker 1: No I'm not. I'm not saying I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you just gotta you just gotta understand,
Speaker 1: you know, how a defense is is defending you, um,
Speaker 1: you know, um knowing some tendencies a little bit um.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we got to stay out of second
Speaker 1: and third and long situations. That goes without saying, because
Speaker 1: there's it's it's hard. You know. Then then defenses can
Speaker 1: just pin their ears and and and that's where they
Speaker 1: get a ton of their sacks, you know, So so
Speaker 1: handling handling that that way, UM. From my standpoint, as
Speaker 1: a play caller and and and helping our offense in
Speaker 1: those situations to be successful. Is that being the smart
Speaker 1: part of the statement? Carson wentz his decision making the
Speaker 1: last couple of minutes of last game. He has been
Speaker 1: the greatest. Is that just part of the ad maturation
Speaker 1: process and trying to continue. You know, it's not a
Speaker 1: concern just because I know I know Carson and how
Speaker 1: he handles that and how tough he is on himself. Um,
Speaker 1: it is part of a learning process. Each again, each
Speaker 1: week is a different set of circumstances. It might be
Speaker 1: in the same game situation, you know, two minute, but
Speaker 1: the actual play designed to play, call, the scenario, the
Speaker 1: whole deef, everything's different week to week. So these are
Speaker 1: things that he's you know, um, he's learning through and
Speaker 1: we're teaching him through and how to handle it and
Speaker 1: how to be more prepared each and every week. And uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know that's the that's the That's the great thing
Speaker 1: about Carson is how how well he is able to
Speaker 1: just you know, remember something, fix it, move on and
Speaker 1: then and then not do that again. Kind of voiced
Speaker 1: his disappointment over uh not being the guy to start. Um,
Speaker 1: have you spoken him individually about that, and uh, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you want him to approach a
Speaker 1: situation like that? Listen, you know he's a good player,
Speaker 1: and he's he's a big part of our our offensive line,
Speaker 1: and you know, um, it's just it's this, It's what
Speaker 1: it is right now. It's our decision and we've made
Speaker 1: that decision and and um, you know, he's he's a
Speaker 1: valuable asset to our team. If if if Kelsey goes down,
Speaker 1: or if Barbara or one of the guards to go down,
Speaker 1: he's the next guy in. And that's just uh, that's
Speaker 1: just where we're at. And you know, um, we just
Speaker 1: continue to go that that that route each week an
Speaker 1: offense with Sam to get ready for the season. I'm
Speaker 1: much of the differences are now with Carson running and
Speaker 1: whereas you know, you you come up with plays of
Speaker 1: Carson likes. How much variation is there from that offense
Speaker 1: as you set out for this season. Um, it's we
Speaker 1: have a lot of the same concepts in every week.
Speaker 1: We just sort of you know, put new formations to them,
Speaker 1: emotions or whatever we can to kind of window address them,
Speaker 1: you know, I try to. The thing is about game
Speaker 1: planning is obviously you find out defensively, you know, their
Speaker 1: top two or three or four coverages, and then you
Speaker 1: find you know, you look at your offense and what
Speaker 1: you've done that has been successful and what are good
Speaker 1: versus all those coverages, and and then for this, you know,
Speaker 1: I got to keep in mind that it's still a
Speaker 1: young quarterback and I don't want to overload them with
Speaker 1: a lot of information, a lot of new plays, a
Speaker 1: lot of new designs, this and that, and plus we
Speaker 1: got young receivers, and you know, so I don't just
Speaker 1: look at the quarterback position. I got to consider the
Speaker 1: entire offense when when when redesigning or putting in new
Speaker 1: new plays. And so we try to keep things very familiar,
Speaker 1: stuff that we've used in OTA's training camp, Concepts that
Speaker 1: are familiar to the guys. Because I'm a big believer
Speaker 1: that if you don't have to think about number one,
Speaker 1: where I'm lined up, Okay, what route is it, what's
Speaker 1: the protection? Then you know you got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be successful on that on that play. So we haven't
Speaker 1: changed or deviated much from from the first part of
Speaker 1: the season. Um, and we got to continue to uh
Speaker 1: to just execute a little bit better. Thanks guys,