Speaker 1: What well Jennings is working on the side field. Did
Speaker 1: you have any issues? They just had a little tightness,
Speaker 1: I mean saved from them like tightness, samoth ba both
Speaker 1: of them same boat.
Speaker 2: The thought process behind that last real you guys do
Speaker 2: eleven on eleven, no homes.
Speaker 1: Just try to ease 'em into that, something that I
Speaker 1: never wanted to do. We did a last year to
Speaker 1: have the easing of going slower. We'll eventually put those
Speaker 1: helmets on those and no one busts their face up.
Speaker 1: But just making sure guys learn how to use their hands.
Speaker 3: And when you're when you're evaluating quarterbacks, this's early OTAs,
Speaker 3: are you judging.
Speaker 4: Off of timing accuracy for work? What?
Speaker 1: What do you really look at? Timing accuracy? Where the
Speaker 1: ball should go? What play they have? Who makes the
Speaker 1: consistent right play the most? Who plays the most realistically
Speaker 1: that gives you a chance to win?
Speaker 4: Right and Sam do for the most part.
Speaker 5: They have.
Speaker 1: They've had two days. I thought they've they've done a
Speaker 1: great job. You know, we're just putting our base stuff
Speaker 1: in on offense and defense, and that has been two
Speaker 1: real good days for him. I think he did for
Speaker 1: today and yesterday so far, yea, yes, but it no,
Speaker 1: it'll it'll even out. We'll make sure to get that right.
Speaker 4: That's good. Different ideas of whether they, you know, should
Speaker 4: be here and work.
Speaker 1: And the first team is kind of funny cause there's
Speaker 1: no line out there and most of our receivers are
Speaker 1: second and third team on the first team today, So
Speaker 1: I'm curious what everyone thinks first and second and third
Speaker 1: team is uh the snap, Yeah, he was out there.
Speaker 4: The first snaps whether they should be out here or not.
Speaker 4: And you guys sure don't mind as long as they're
Speaker 4: taking care of their business away from here. But when
Speaker 4: you have a guy like McCaffrey who's out there setting
Speaker 4: a pretty torrent pace for a for an ota, it appeared,
Speaker 4: what does that do for the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the team. I mean not just Christian, but I
Speaker 1: mean the majority of our players. That's I think it's
Speaker 1: been rare that we have had guys miss so I
Speaker 1: think we do as good of that as most teams.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's huge. It's it's a voluntary thing. So
Speaker 1: you sit there and you I mean, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But I think it's really hard to practice
Speaker 1: football compared to other sports. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: rules that don't allow you to practice football. So it's
Speaker 1: very good if guys can prepare to practice, so they
Speaker 1: got a chance to get better, and it's cool all
Speaker 1: the guys to try to work with.
Speaker 3: That reference betrayed in the past that that finger injury
Speaker 3: kind of out slowed his development a little bit. Where
Speaker 3: is he now in terms of being you know, kind
Speaker 3: of far away from removed from that And how much
Speaker 3: did it impact his first couple of years.
Speaker 1: I think impact him a ton because he had to
Speaker 1: adjusted during the season just to be able to get
Speaker 1: through and adjust how you know, he was healthy, but
Speaker 1: it didn't heal healthy, so he had to change how
Speaker 1: he played in the middle of a year while mainly
Speaker 1: taking scout team reps and being prepared as a number
Speaker 1: two except for a couple of games. So going to
Speaker 1: the off season have to recorrect that. I think it
Speaker 1: took him all off season. So he worked at recorrecting
Speaker 1: that throughout the whole offseason and then he was just
Speaker 1: thrown into practice with us going into this year. That
Speaker 1: was corrected throughout last year, his grip and everything, and
Speaker 1: so I thought he'd got to go in this time
Speaker 1: with his time away just he knew what he had
Speaker 1: to focus on. He had known what he had struggled with,
Speaker 1: he had known what he had done good with. He'd
Speaker 1: gonna see two different quarterbacks playing our offense two different ways.
Speaker 1: And I just think his time away was a lot
Speaker 1: more deliberate and in a position where he knew what
Speaker 1: he could isolate on, which I think helped him compare
Speaker 1: to last.
Speaker 3: Year, even up to like week one of last season.
Speaker 1: No, I think when you spend four months trying to recorrect,
Speaker 1: I mean, everything's about muscle memory and stuff and how
Speaker 1: you develop things to repetition, and when you throw a
Speaker 1: certain way for an entire football season, and justin because
Speaker 1: of how a finger feels, that becomes your muscle memory.
Speaker 1: It takes a while to correct that. You got to
Speaker 1: work and isolate on just that for a long time.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of other stuff you need to
Speaker 1: isolate on besides that, which allows you not to do
Speaker 1: that other stuff. So I think he spent most of
Speaker 1: his time working on a grip and things like that,
Speaker 1: trying to get it back, which is usually a prerequisite,
Speaker 1: but because of his circumstances, he got in that, so
Speaker 1: he was just late to working on other things.
Speaker 4: This year.
Speaker 1: He went into this offseason knowing exactly just football wise,
Speaker 1: what he had to work on, and I think that's
Speaker 1: why he's ahead of last year.
Speaker 5: He had to carry himself he differently inside the building
Speaker 5: as opposed to last year, where he was the starter.
Speaker 5: Everybody knew he was a starter, and now he's competing
Speaker 5: for this spot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Tray's been the same guy this
Speaker 1: offseason he was last offseason. Trey is a very special
Speaker 1: person that I don't think has to try to act anyway.
Speaker 1: I think guys have the respect of Trey whether he
Speaker 1: played any other position, whether he was the one, two,
Speaker 1: or the three. Yeah, obviously, when you're the number one
Speaker 1: quarterback and you've done that and had experience, that carries
Speaker 1: more weight. But also when you're number one quarterback and
Speaker 1: you haven't played that, stuff still isn't real till you
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. That's all just outside perception.
Speaker 1: So Trey's been the same since he's been here. The
Speaker 1: guys respect the hell out of them, and they'll continue
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: The finger issue have a domino effect where you know,
Speaker 2: it effected his arm to the point where it wasn't
Speaker 2: a natural motion anymore. Can that maybe where some of
Speaker 2: the fatigue or soreness.
Speaker 1: At all, that everything if it was a hit that
Speaker 1: bother and would lead everything. So I mean you're throwing
Speaker 1: motion as your whole body is connected from the ground up,
Speaker 1: similar to golf swing. So anything that gets thrown off
Speaker 1: it can definitely adjust you. I mean adjust things and
Speaker 1: when you overcompensate it, whatever it is. Watch any quarterback
Speaker 1: throughout the year, that's when things start to hurt and
Speaker 1: then you got to go back and recalibrate it. Quarterback
Speaker 1: room you've had since being coached forty yers, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to compare it to
Speaker 1: other years, but I mean we got three guys. We
Speaker 1: got two guys who are talented enough to be taken
Speaker 1: in the top five of the draft, and we have
Speaker 1: another guy who played like it last year. So I
Speaker 1: like the three guys we got. And I've always been
Speaker 1: a fan of Brandon Allen just watching him throughout his
Speaker 1: career and to be able to get him in here. Also,
Speaker 1: I feel real fortunate with her for pretty doing on
Speaker 1: his recovery. He's doing good, still staying the same, Yeah, yep, on.
Speaker 5: Schedule here in the next week or so yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think he's allowed to throw sometime next week.
Speaker 4: Like a veteran presence, he's still young or is he
Speaker 4: kind of a younger quarterback still?
Speaker 1: I mean I met Sam just when he came out
Speaker 1: of college, just interviewing him at Indy. He's then he
Speaker 1: seemed like he had a veteran presence. I mean, just
Speaker 1: the way he carries himself. I think whether he's in
Speaker 1: the football building or whoever his peers are off the field,
Speaker 1: and he seems almost like the same guy I met
Speaker 1: four years ago. So he is a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a veteran being in a couple of places. But
Speaker 1: Sam's come in here with to me being the same
Speaker 1: guy he's always been. That's why he's had such a
Speaker 1: good reputation. And he's coming here acting like he's learning
Speaker 1: everything from scratch, which he is, and trying to act
Speaker 1: like a rookie in that way because it is all
Speaker 1: new to him. He doesn't want to make any assumptions.
Speaker 1: And he's been awesome in Phase and one. In Phase
Speaker 1: two trying to just do techniques. He's not used to
Speaker 1: things like that, and it's been cool that he put
Speaker 1: the work in those two phases that he's been able
Speaker 1: to use some of it here in these last two practices.
Speaker 1: He was a mobile quarterback, you know, not running on
Speaker 1: like crazy.
Speaker 5: He's not a big feature in what you like about him.
Speaker 4: Now, can you get some of that in him this season?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean that all happens usually with reactions and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean there's two types of mobile quarterbacks. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a type that he tried to design runs for
Speaker 1: or is there a type who's got the athletic ability
Speaker 1: or just knack for making some off schedule plays. And
Speaker 1: I think his knack for off schedule plays has always
Speaker 1: been good. When something's not there and he feels space
Speaker 1: in the pocket and he doesn't hesitate to run, he's
Speaker 1: been able to do it very well. You know that's
Speaker 1: usually a bonus. I mean you want that anytime you
Speaker 1: have that. He's also got to be very good at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position too, and Sam bringing that element something
Speaker 1: that helps a lot of stuff as long as he
Speaker 1: doesn't miss other elements with it. And I think that's
Speaker 1: something you saw with Brock a good amount last year
Speaker 1: when he came in. I Mean, people want to think
Speaker 1: of Brock as a runner, but he is quick, is
Speaker 1: athletic in the pocket and he makes place very similar
Speaker 1: to the way Sam does scrambling, and that's all we
Speaker 1: see in Sam too. It's a moving target.
Speaker 2: But but if you and John have mentioned training camp
Speaker 2: or Brock does that, I mean you can see what
Speaker 2: he could be ready to start a.
Speaker 1: Training Yes, it's not really moving target. It's that only
Speaker 1: God knows. And that's all estimates. So it depends what
Speaker 1: quote people have got for me. But I mean we're
Speaker 1: hoping for week one and I feel pretty optimistic about that.
Speaker 1: That's what we're hoping for. He'll be ready to play
Speaker 1: in week one, and usually that doesn't mean that's the
Speaker 1: day he comes back. Usually you got to come before
Speaker 1: that to make that goal. And that's kind of the
Speaker 1: goal we're hoping for and don't have any reason to
Speaker 1: think differently. You're missing a few guys out there. Sorry,
Speaker 1: But are you generally please with the level of participation
Speaker 1: and energy today? Oh yeah, I'm real pleased with it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's always different. I mean it's always different
Speaker 1: for O line and D line because just the way
Speaker 1: it is now, it's hard Verstus set up those guys
Speaker 1: to get as much. So it is more of a
Speaker 1: passing deal and skill position type thing. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, I mean, I think we had five guys
Speaker 1: not here, so I mean I wanted to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, but pretty realistic with that, and I mean
Speaker 1: I'll take five.
Speaker 4: Here, all of them expected.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I communicate with all of them, So I got
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea your thoughts, I mean, probably the
Speaker 1: same as all the other special teams coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you don't have experience of it, you don't know
Speaker 1: which way it's going to go. And I think the
Speaker 1: point is for probably to eliminate more kick costs and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is for safety. So if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: I think everyone's for that. But you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: not sure that it is. So we'll have to see
Speaker 1: how it plays out now and how it goes and
Speaker 1: how we adjust to it. But that's the rule now.
Speaker 1: So now we'll start trying to make estimates about what
Speaker 1: our philosophies will be, but any philosophy will be developed
Speaker 1: through the experience of watching how it works out throughout
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: You said that the Droy Clark event that Brock was
Speaker 2: working out with a towel. Can you explain what exactly
Speaker 2: he's doing with the towel to sort of mimic the
Speaker 2: throwing motion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just, I mean everything that we work on when
Speaker 1: it comes for the NFL guys, throwing just is usually
Speaker 1: from the ground up, and how to time their feet,
Speaker 1: their drops, their eyes and everything. I rarely even look
Speaker 1: at where the ball goes. You just expect it to
Speaker 1: be there. And these are NFL quarterbacks. So it's tough
Speaker 1: when you can't pick up the weight of a ball
Speaker 1: and throw because your elbow, how do you work at
Speaker 1: everything else? And Brock's healthy in every other aspect and
Speaker 1: you can't move his arm. We just don't want to
Speaker 1: put that weight on it. So for Brock to still
Speaker 1: be able to do his drops, all his footwork and stuff,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to simulate a throwing motion,
Speaker 1: and that's hard with nothing in your arm. So he
Speaker 1: uses a towel instead. And that's what a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do when you try to throw every day and
Speaker 1: work on things every day, but you don't want to
Speaker 1: wear your arm down, so sometimes you use a towel,
Speaker 1: sometimes you use a football. And Frock just in a
Speaker 1: situation where you only can use a towel.
Speaker 3: Right now, the Dwight Clark legacy event that Trey Lance
Speaker 3: had cleaned up his base a little bit, could you
Speaker 3: explain a little bit what that means.
Speaker 1: It means playing with your feet wide, are apart, always
Speaker 1: be in a position to throw. When you're a quarterback,
Speaker 1: your feet aren't together. When you turn into a runner,
Speaker 1: your feet are together and you look to run, but
Speaker 1: then it takes you a second and a half to
Speaker 1: throw where defenders can tee off on and things like that.
Speaker 1: And it's about always being in having to be in
Speaker 1: a certain position to throw in so when the O
Speaker 1: line is bad, you're not one of those guys who's
Speaker 1: just going to get sacked. Every time the line's bad.
Speaker 1: You know how to get rid of the ball or
Speaker 1: you know how to turn into a runner and go.
Speaker 1: And that has to do with how you balance your
Speaker 1: feet out, how far you keep them apart, and how
Speaker 1: you can progress in a pocket.
Speaker 4: Stand out in particular to you today, not.
Speaker 1: Really just two days. So I mean, even if they did,
Speaker 1: I make sure I don't even say anything to the
Speaker 1: coaches because I've coached too much to get very excited
Speaker 1: about guys on day one and not feel the same
Speaker 1: way in day three. And vice versas. So it's early
Speaker 1: out there and somewhat OTAs is like for the most part,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the better ideas we get towards
Speaker 1: the end of this, and then that's the best art
Speaker 1: because we get away for forty days. And I've also
Speaker 1: learned do not make any concrete decisions, because you get
Speaker 1: away for forty days and you come back and that's
Speaker 1: when you really see who got better or worse, and
Speaker 1: who's really gonna make a play for this team. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks guys,