Speaker 1: When you hurt your back.
Speaker 2: Was it one player or just cumulative?
Speaker 3: No, I was probably cumulative just in terms of, you know,
Speaker 3: the whole game. It's all the stuff that sort of
Speaker 3: went on as a physical game. So you know, sort
Speaker 3: of after the game is when I started feeling some
Speaker 3: stuff and whatnot. And but the last couple days have
Speaker 3: been good, just getting some rest and obviously treatment and stuff.
Speaker 4: So feel good.
Speaker 2: Now. He had a tough drop and you you talk
Speaker 2: to him after the game. What did what did you
Speaker 2: say to try to lift up a teammate in that spot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm like, you know, it's I told him.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's this is a team sport, dude, So
Speaker 3: like for you to uh hang your hat on it
Speaker 3: was all my fault kind of thing. Like I just
Speaker 3: sat down next to him. I'm like, bro, it's it
Speaker 3: takes everybody for four quarters. Everybody has the moments and
Speaker 3: plays and and it's why it's a team support. Man,
Speaker 3: you got ten other guys on the field with you,
Speaker 3: and more than anything, man, I just you know, he's a.
Speaker 4: Brother of all of all of ours and we got
Speaker 4: his back. Man.
Speaker 3: We go through some stuff like this and it's a
Speaker 3: long season, man, So you're gonna need everybody. It takes everybody,
Speaker 3: So you know, keep your head up, learn from it.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that that's okay, Like we have standard
Speaker 3: here to be great and excellent and that goes for
Speaker 3: myself and so learn from it.
Speaker 4: We got your back and keep your head up. Man.
Speaker 4: It's a long season. So he's a good kid.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: We love love going to war with him, and he's
Speaker 4: gonna be just fine.
Speaker 5: When a quarterback is having rough times, a lot of
Speaker 5: times it's because teams are bringing so much pressure at him,
Speaker 5: doesn't have time to throw the rams game. It seemed
Speaker 5: like there was a handful of times where they've only
Speaker 5: said three.
Speaker 2: And you had a lot of time.
Speaker 5: What is that like, I mean, it's fairly unusual, right
Speaker 5: to have that much time to throw and to be
Speaker 5: able to pick one guy out.
Speaker 2: What are the challenges of that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, throughout the week when we're
Speaker 3: game planning and stuff, it's you know, we're going through
Speaker 3: our progressions per cover.
Speaker 4: This is our answer and this is how we we
Speaker 4: have to get to it.
Speaker 3: And then there's times where we're like in this situation,
Speaker 3: they might drop eight and only blitz three and then
Speaker 3: in one case they only blitz too, and so those
Speaker 3: are the kinds of cases that we're talking. We're like,
Speaker 3: if that kind of stuff happens, then go through your progression,
Speaker 3: but be ready to you know, go off schedule. You know,
Speaker 3: so mine ten is up once I feel that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff happening and knowing that I'm probably gonna have
Speaker 3: to move around here and find some ope in space
Speaker 3: ether use my legs or hit someone off schedule. So
Speaker 3: it's something that we talk about, and you know, we've
Speaker 3: seen it from time to time here and there, so
Speaker 3: I just, you know, got to be ready in those
Speaker 3: moments to use my legs.
Speaker 6: You've seen three or fewer rushers more than almost twice
Speaker 6: as many dropbacks as the next quarterback.
Speaker 1: Leg Any reason you think why why they might be
Speaker 1: doing it to you guys more than other teams.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, blitz it. You're in terms of.
Speaker 6: Teams rushing just three or a fewer guys, I think
Speaker 6: you had almost double the drop backs of the next
Speaker 6: closest guy. And any reason that you think that teams
Speaker 6: might be doing.
Speaker 4: That to you guys, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess we have I guess you could say,
Speaker 3: you know, because of the amount of playmakers that we have.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're rushing forward to.
Speaker 3: Five to six and you're blitzing, and if we complete
Speaker 3: a pass man, it's one or two broken tackles away
Speaker 3: from you know, a really big game. And so when
Speaker 3: you have playmakers like we do, I mean, that's the
Speaker 3: that's the chance that you take as a defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: of calling those kinds of you know, blitzeres and stuff.
Speaker 3: So but at the same time you have to be
Speaker 3: on top of it. But I mean that could be
Speaker 3: a reason outside of that. Maybe it's you know, just
Speaker 3: trying to make me play quarterback and go through reads
Speaker 3: and progressions, because when you're only rushing three man, then
Speaker 3: you can drop a lot of guys in different directions
Speaker 3: and coverages. So I'm not really sure why, but it's
Speaker 3: something that's popped up for sure time and time again.
Speaker 4: Last couple of games.
Speaker 2: The game the.
Speaker 6: Rams busted a coverage brand and he was open deep.
Speaker 6: You look at them and didn't throw it. When you
Speaker 6: watch the film, like, how do you what do you
Speaker 6: what do you assessed? What do you see on that play?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm going through my read.
Speaker 3: Obviously there was a route that I thought he was
Speaker 3: gonna run, but he felt grass man and went and
Speaker 3: took it. And you know, when we're watching it after,
Speaker 3: it's like, yes, that's that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 3: In that moment. For me, I'm going through my read
Speaker 3: and progression and I'm concerned about a safety and and
Speaker 3: then I see him go deep and I feel like
Speaker 3: he's open, and I'm like, like, something's not right, you
Speaker 3: know in my mind per what we have drawn up.
Speaker 3: And so but that's something that you know, we both
Speaker 3: have to be on the same page moving forward with
Speaker 3: if he has stuff like that that happens, and it's
Speaker 3: not being dumb and just running deep every time, but like, actually,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a reason for why you're going deep.
Speaker 3: There's some communication stuff that we've talked about where we
Speaker 3: can't take that opportunity. He did the right thing. I
Speaker 3: have to pull the trigger in that moment and be
Speaker 3: ready for it. So, you know, something that we had
Speaker 3: to learn. And then the heat of the moment that
Speaker 3: time of the game, situational football, I'm trying to protect
Speaker 3: the ball. I'll be smart with it, but also be
Speaker 3: aggressive and then that happens, and it's like, man, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly.
Speaker 4: Where the safety's at.
Speaker 3: So all of those put together, you know that that's
Speaker 3: what happened in the moment.
Speaker 6: Being on the same page. Is that something that's lost
Speaker 6: a little bit when the off season isn't there?
Speaker 3: Uh No, No, that's not what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, if if that was Juwan Jennings and that
Speaker 3: would have happened.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm throwing that ball either.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, in the heat of the moment,
Speaker 3: when you have a route on, you end up taking
Speaker 3: some grass and going deep for the right reasons. You know,
Speaker 3: how are we on the same page so that I
Speaker 3: can let that go? That was a new situation for
Speaker 3: myself and all the receivers and everybody in the room.
Speaker 2: So what's it like?
Speaker 5: What goes through your mind when you see him, you know,
Speaker 5: with a fifty to fifty ball you put it up
Speaker 5: and you see him go over a DV and make
Speaker 5: that kind of catch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's he's a playmaker. Man.
Speaker 3: He's obviously got you know, the big frame and in
Speaker 3: really good hands. So for me, like in that kind
Speaker 3: of situation, the last thing that I think is I
Speaker 3: just need to give him a shot and give him
Speaker 3: a chance and then he can he can bring it
Speaker 3: down and he's shown that time and time again the
Speaker 3: last couple of seasons. So you know, for me in
Speaker 3: that moment, it was obviously the trust factor of trying
Speaker 3: to get it over the defender and give him my
Speaker 3: receiver a chance, but also knowing that Juwan is a
Speaker 3: baller and he's gonna, you know, do what it takes,
Speaker 3: and so you know, hopefully down the road we can
Speaker 3: get some more shots and opportunities with him down the field.
Speaker 3: And it's nice as a quarterback knowing that you know,
Speaker 3: with his size and his mentality that he's gonna do
Speaker 3: what it takes and he's shown that time and time again.
Speaker 1: So, uh, there are three throws to Brandon. There was
Speaker 1: a slant, there was a little time in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and then there are two short sideline thros where what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just looked off out of their air completions
Speaker 1: is that I'm sure you love these questions.
Speaker 7: But you know, is that you know because you're don't
Speaker 7: have training camp, or is.
Speaker 1: It just could have liked Well, No, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of fluked and having to be thrown damaged.
Speaker 3: I would say more like the fluke side of things.
Speaker 3: I think that slant I should have been more aggressive
Speaker 3: and just let him.
Speaker 4: I think it was just a bad ball. It was
Speaker 4: behind him.
Speaker 3: And then the one there was another short game one
Speaker 3: I didn't see the safety rotation and I'm trying to
Speaker 3: force it outside and and I should have progressed the juice.
Speaker 3: So in those two scenarios that I can think of,
Speaker 3: that's on me. You know, that has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with Brandon so or are timing or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So obviously we're still continuing to build that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: and I am with all my receivers, it's not just him,
Speaker 3: and so you know, but those couple of examples right there,
Speaker 3: those are areas for me to grow and be better.
Speaker 3: And so it just happened to be Brandon in the situation.
Speaker 3: Your conversation with Ronnie is that's something that you do
Speaker 3: frequently with with guys, especially an offense that you think
Speaker 3: maybe need a little extra talking up et Did you.
Speaker 6: Do one on one of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I just think when the when
Speaker 3: it's the right time and the right moment with whoever,
Speaker 3: especially you know, young players, man, just because I know
Speaker 3: how it felt and how they feel, because you know,
Speaker 3: I still go through stuff right now, like when I
Speaker 3: don't play my best or I could have done better,
Speaker 3: I missed a couple of plays and you're just you know,
Speaker 3: you just want it back. And it's it's nice having
Speaker 3: a guy come up to you and a teammate that
Speaker 3: that goes to war with you being able to say, hey, man,
Speaker 3: like it's okay, like let's learn from it, but I
Speaker 3: got your back, bro. Like it takes so much to
Speaker 3: win in this league and and it takes everybody, and
Speaker 3: so you know, when I was a rookie, it was
Speaker 3: really nice, you know, having fred or Bosa or Dre
Speaker 3: Greenlaw like these guys that come up to me and
Speaker 3: just tell me that you know, they got my back,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, dang. Like it just gives you a
Speaker 3: perception of a perspective of I don't have to go
Speaker 3: out there and do it all on my own. You know,
Speaker 3: I got other guys around me, and I got a
Speaker 3: team around me to help be successful. So it's just
Speaker 3: sort of reinforcing that time and time again when I
Speaker 3: see it with with some guys this week with.
Speaker 1: The Patriots defense, I mean pretty sound defense, But what
Speaker 1: does it look like on film?
Speaker 2: What do you notice?
Speaker 3: I mean exactly that they're their sound and what they do.
Speaker 3: You know, I think they've been running this type of
Speaker 3: defense for a long time, obviously going back to like
Speaker 3: Belichick and everything, and so these guys like know the
Speaker 3: scheme really well, and you know, they're just their leverages
Speaker 3: and forcing the ball to go in certain spots. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think you know, it's it's easy
Speaker 3: as a quarterback when you need to drop back, and
Speaker 3: they can do a lot of different things too, and
Speaker 3: but they make you be smart as a quarterback, go
Speaker 3: through progressions and be accurate. It's that kind of game.
Speaker 3: And so the guys up front are going to bring
Speaker 3: it and then the guys in the secondary all tied
Speaker 3: together and they play tight, really good coverage if you
Speaker 3: ask me, and it's it's sound. So that's the challenge
Speaker 3: this week. But morning and we just got to focus
Speaker 3: on what our scheme is and what we're trying to
Speaker 3: do and take what the defense gives us.
Speaker 1: So today's practice rock and you're seeing teammates cartered off
Speaker 1: what emotions course through you and the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's uh, you know, it sucks anytime
Speaker 3: you see a teammate go down or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to practice, get ready for this game
Speaker 3: and everything, and then you look over and you see.
Speaker 4: Like a car on the field. So it's like, all right,
Speaker 4: like dang it, who is that? What happened?
Speaker 3: And then we got to keep going and finish practice
Speaker 3: and so but it sucks, man, because these are the
Speaker 3: brothers that you come to work with every single day,
Speaker 3: You're going to war with every Sunday and just going
Speaker 3: through all of this together. And so when you see
Speaker 3: a guy go down, man, obviously it sucks and you
Speaker 3: want nothing but the best for that person.
Speaker 4: So but we got to have the perspective.
Speaker 3: Of, you know, you got to be grateful for when
Speaker 3: you're healthy and take advantage of your opportunity. And but
Speaker 3: more than anything, man, the culture that we have here.
Speaker 3: Whoever goes down, we always got there back, and we'll
Speaker 3: be there for them and continue to build them up
Speaker 3: and try to get them back as fast as possible.
Speaker 5: So sorry, Lust three in a row last year, right
Speaker 5: to buy a week right at this ship got it
Speaker 5: turned around.
Speaker 2: It's way earlier this time.
Speaker 5: But how would you describe the feeling when you guys
Speaker 5: are performing to your own standard. It's not necessarily what
Speaker 5: people on the outside think, but what you guys think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, there's been games like that. Even
Speaker 3: when we win, you know, there's games where we haven't
Speaker 3: played our best and we come in here just like
Speaker 3: with the chip on our shoulder again like, yeah, we
Speaker 3: might have won that game, but we know we need
Speaker 3: to play at this level. And so obviously it gets
Speaker 3: more brought to light when you lose, because then you're
Speaker 3: real with yourself and you're like, man, like that's the
Speaker 3: reason why we lost or whatever, and we need you better.
Speaker 3: But more than anything, man, I think it just gives us,
Speaker 3: you know, a reality check of every game matters, every
Speaker 3: play matters, every drive matters, and you can't take it
Speaker 3: for granted because you know, especially at the end, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to get in the playoffs and everything, you wish
Speaker 3: you could have had those couple of plays back to
Speaker 3: win that game, to then have that game towards the end,
Speaker 3: all of it matters and it ties together. So but
Speaker 3: more than anything, we have a standard here and that's
Speaker 3: what we're focused on every single day. And you know,
Speaker 3: we hold each other each other to that standard and
Speaker 3: we're hard on ourselves. But that's that's I think why
Speaker 3: this is a successful organization.
Speaker 1: So you never played with McCaffrey and Deebo and Kittle
Speaker 1: you at once, I'm sure you're not like freaking out like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know what am I gonna do?
Speaker 7: But I mean, was there an element of just like
Speaker 7: curiosity of like how this might how might this offense
Speaker 7: look different, or just give any thoughts like that going
Speaker 7: into that game without that much talent.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, sometimes there's some plays where you know,
Speaker 3: we're trying to draw stuff up for Christian out of
Speaker 3: the backfield or George to get a certain matchup, same
Speaker 3: with Debo. And so when you have those guys out,
Speaker 3: you know, I think we go back to who we
Speaker 3: are as an offense, what are our base plays and
Speaker 3: and what we're really good at, and let's run those
Speaker 3: plays and we have good guys to step up in
Speaker 3: those moments and execute well. Use Jordan Mason, use Juwan
Speaker 3: obviously Ba. So we have guys that are that are
Speaker 3: dogs and are willing to step up in those those
Speaker 3: spots and perform really well. So it was a question
Speaker 3: for me, you know, like, all right, what's our game
Speaker 3: plan gonna look like, because every week it's a little different.
Speaker 3: Try to get Debo ball a little bit more here
Speaker 3: because of this matchup, try to get Christian the ball here.
Speaker 3: So last week, not having three of those guys that
Speaker 3: you listed, you know, it's sort of just kept things
Speaker 3: a little bit more simple game plan wise. But we're
Speaker 3: still going to get the ball to our playmakers JJ
Speaker 3: b A, Jordan Mason, you know, and and go about
Speaker 3: it that way. So that's how I that's how I
Speaker 3: looked at it and thought about it.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys,