Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the temple offense. I mean it's not exactly
Speaker 1: the key gun like we were in Buffalore, but I've
Speaker 1: noticed that that has allowed you guys to find more
Speaker 1: rhythms offense. That's something that you guys are considering doing
Speaker 1: more often. Like in the embarrassment, I think the tempo offense, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, really is a great change of pace. We
Speaker 1: worked a lot on it this offseason. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it in every game, waiting for the right opportunity to
Speaker 1: use it. We thought this was the week, you know,
Speaker 1: Coach Coach made a comment to me early last week
Speaker 1: like he felt watching the tape early, just knowing the situation,
Speaker 1: he felt like this was the week. He we wanted
Speaker 1: to do it, and it was effective and we executed
Speaker 1: well with it. It certainly has its advantages. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a every plaything, but it is certainly it
Speaker 1: does afford you if you can execute rhythm. But that's
Speaker 1: the whole key. You got to execute to have rhythm.
Speaker 1: The past three years in the quarterback I see, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's I think there's some help to that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're, you know, the guys that have been here,
Speaker 1: we're used to it. You know, I think Carson is
Speaker 1: really likes it and handles it well. So I think
Speaker 1: there was some benefit to that Carson game drive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, finishing these games. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: it's a team thing. You know, your quarterback, you're gonna
Speaker 1: when you win it, it's gonna be you one it.
Speaker 1: So there's all we all get that, you know, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: in general, you know, I think over the years, just
Speaker 1: making a general statement about it. I don't know the
Speaker 1: exact stat, but it's remember a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: here in the stats saying like seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: games are decided by one score or less. Maybe you
Speaker 1: guys can check that stat or something, but so it's
Speaker 1: not a surprise that games are going to come down
Speaker 1: to a last drive. You're either going to be almost
Speaker 1: if that stat's right, seventy five or eighty percent of games,
Speaker 1: that's the norm that is coming down to the last drive.
Speaker 1: What's probably a little bit of the different is we've
Speaker 1: had some of the margin of some of our victories.
Speaker 1: So back to your question, which is a great question,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's just execution and it's a team thing,
Speaker 1: and experience tells me, been in hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: close games that I don't know eighty or ninety percent
Speaker 1: of it is just execution, staying on the field long enough,
Speaker 1: making enough good plays so that somebody can make a
Speaker 1: great play to win the game. You gotta just play
Speaker 1: good football. Eighty percent of it, make a play, make
Speaker 1: another first down, boom, and then somebody on your team,
Speaker 1: you know, ten percent of it or twenty percent of
Speaker 1: it is somebody making a play that they shouldn't make,
Speaker 1: breaking a tackle, making a catch, making a throw that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be able to make. And that's what ends
Speaker 1: up winning those games a lot of times. All those
Speaker 1: lines Carson talked yesterday about, there was so much focus
Speaker 1: on them, not on you guys not being able to
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field and the passing game
Speaker 1: against Dallas. But if you had been able to like
Speaker 1: convert that third down when you were ready to kick
Speaker 1: a field goal to up ten late in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: you know, nobody would be talking about that if you'd
Speaker 1: won the game. What's your perspective on that? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and that's that's true. I mean, there's no question we
Speaker 1: want to get the ball down the field. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I will say, going into let going and we had
Speaker 1: stuff called and they're plan soft, and there's other times
Speaker 1: there are other things are happening. But still we you know,
Speaker 1: we want to we we talk about it each week.
Speaker 1: How do we get our matchups? How do we get
Speaker 1: the ball down the field? And in general, most most
Speaker 1: most offensive teams going say, you want to take one
Speaker 1: shot per quarter. That's usually a general mindset that most
Speaker 1: play callers have. We want to get one deep shot
Speaker 1: of quarter that you want to at least call one
Speaker 1: of those, and sometimes you don't, but you don't want
Speaker 1: to force it. But back to your back to your question.
Speaker 1: You know, we go up against a game. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're going up against a team that we were
Speaker 1: going up against last week, a prolific offense, an explosive offense,
Speaker 1: a team that had been controlling the ball maybe number
Speaker 1: one in the NFL and time of possession. One school
Speaker 1: of thought that I think is legitimate that we were
Speaker 1: talking about his offense. Let's turn the tables, let's us
Speaker 1: run the football, Let's us control the ball and see
Speaker 1: how this team does playing from the other side of it.
Speaker 1: That would be nice thing. We know we have the
Speaker 1: D and for three quarters of that game. It was
Speaker 1: playing out not perfectly. We left a lot of plays
Speaker 1: on the field. We could have scored more points. It
Speaker 1: wasn't pretty, but we were controlling the time of possession,
Speaker 1: our defense was playing good, and it was a pretty
Speaker 1: good formula. We were, you know, but it's not good enough.
Speaker 1: That's where at the end of the day, you're sick
Speaker 1: and there's no answer. I mean, there's no answer that
Speaker 1: gonna make any of us feel any better and make
Speaker 1: our fans feel better. We just as a team, as
Speaker 1: a team, we just have to finish those whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, We just have to keep fighting and
Speaker 1: scratching and clawn and finish these games and win and
Speaker 1: win a close one. Your receivers lead the league in jobs.
Speaker 1: And my question to you is, as a quarterback, how
Speaker 1: do you mean keep Carson have confidence in throwing to them?
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if it does affect his psyche when
Speaker 1: guys are putinue driving balls and a lot of them
Speaker 1: actually are coming down the field. Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, you know, if you have a drop out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's sometimes you get frustrated, especially when you're
Speaker 1: you know, when we're trying to make a play down
Speaker 1: the field, there's no question. But Carson is such a
Speaker 1: he's such a team guy. Uh for a guy who
Speaker 1: a guy who's got you know he's young, but he's
Speaker 1: not a stat guy. You know, he wants to win.
Speaker 1: He's really a team more any guys, so as much
Speaker 1: as any quarterback I've been around. I know he's very
Speaker 1: early in his career and maybe he'll get tainted as
Speaker 1: he gets down the road a little bit further, but
Speaker 1: right now it doesn't seem to face him very much.
Speaker 1: You know, he's extremely positive and supportive. UM, as are
Speaker 1: we as coaches. I mean, you know, our guys are
Speaker 1: our guys, and we all realize that we you know,
Speaker 1: each one of us make a mistake and we're never
Speaker 1: happy about it. And you're pressing your press and your press. Um.
Speaker 1: But as a quarterback, I know from experience, you can't
Speaker 1: let it affect your psyche. As far as thrown to
Speaker 1: the guy, you have to read the play out, you
Speaker 1: have to attack the defense, UM. And I think Carson
Speaker 1: does that and I think he has the confidence in
Speaker 1: our receivers. Did Wiznski looked once he came in last
Speaker 1: week and Housing, as I thought was, did exactly what
Speaker 1: we thought he would do. He came in and he
Speaker 1: played well, smart, dependable, Glad to have him. Right. When
Speaker 1: you look at the Giants defense, let tape, why haven't
Speaker 1: they been more successful getting to the quarterback? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: that's a good question because you know, Spaggs has man.
Speaker 1: He brings every kind of pressure imaginable. They have great disguise,
Speaker 1: they have good personnel. You know, Vernon is a great
Speaker 1: pass right you know, in my opinion, I played against
Speaker 1: him a couple of years ago and he wrecked the
Speaker 1: game with his pass rushing ability. We know Jpp's an
Speaker 1: excellent pass rusher. So yeah, I mean, I think other
Speaker 1: teams have just done a good job of getting the
Speaker 1: ball out quick. It's a fair statement say that Carson
Speaker 1: and zach Ertz haven't gotten in sync yet. What do
Speaker 1: you see going? What's your theory behind it? What's what's
Speaker 1: going on there? Yeah? I think it's a fair statement,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, yeah, I think it's a fair statement.
Speaker 1: I just think that we have to continue. I think
Speaker 1: we have to stay the course, stay the course, stay
Speaker 1: the course, have a sense of urgency, keep thinking about
Speaker 1: it keep trying to get the ball to him and
Speaker 1: just have a breakthrough one of these games and get
Speaker 1: things back on track. But I think that's fair, and
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, we're pushing to that, We're
Speaker 1: thinking about it, we're planning for it. I can tell
Speaker 1: you each week you go in and there's X number
Speaker 1: of players geared to go to Earth since he's been back,
Speaker 1: and then the flow of the game or they're holding
Speaker 1: him at the line of scrimmage on one or two
Speaker 1: of them, and you know it's ridiculous, but whatever, um
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. And then too, you know, the flow
Speaker 1: of the game. And I know that seems like an
Speaker 1: out that you hear a lot the flow of the game,
Speaker 1: and guys are probably tired of hear and flow of
Speaker 1: the game, But uh so are we. We just gett
Speaker 1: need to make more first downs and get him the ball.
Speaker 1: He's a great he's a great tight end, and that's
Speaker 1: our plans. I think that's I think that's a part
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, I mean, I you know, I do
Speaker 1: think you know, early on, you could tell I felt
Speaker 1: like they had a natural connection. It's easy to have
Speaker 1: a natural connection with Earths. It really is because he's
Speaker 1: such a good route runner, and he's so smart and
Speaker 1: he understands leverage and how to get open. So um,
Speaker 1: he's a kind of guy. And Carson's equally smart and
Speaker 1: understands all that stuff. So those two, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: should hit it off. You know, they should hit it off.
Speaker 1: And we need more production and so that's what we'll
Speaker 1: keep fighting for that. Have you noticed about the way
Speaker 1: Doug is kind of handled look like off the field
Speaker 1: incidents that were Josh happin also you know, urn the
Speaker 1: game on a Sunday criticism for that screen pass as
Speaker 1: fall as a lost specials. But how is he kind
Speaker 1: of delab You know, I've been around a lot of
Speaker 1: great leaders in football, not in football, a lot of
Speaker 1: great coaches. And I do not exaggerate one bit when
Speaker 1: I tell you, when I look at our head coach,
Speaker 1: he has all the qualities that you want to see
Speaker 1: in a leader and in a head coach. He's steady,
Speaker 1: he's unfazed by it all. He's competitive as all get out.
Speaker 1: He can't you know, he works as long hours as
Speaker 1: anybody else in this building. He's grinding, but yet he's steady.
Speaker 1: He's he's a very self disciplined man. He requires a
Speaker 1: lot of himself. I think you're around him, you rub
Speaker 1: should with him, that just rubs off on you. But
Speaker 1: it's just like raising Hafam. You know, things don't happen overnight.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't control everything overnight. I think what
Speaker 1: coach can control is doing a great job. And he's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that you want to follow. Of
Speaker 1: being a wide receivers coach as well, what kind of
Speaker 1: involvement do you have in helping them and where do
Speaker 1: you think some of the intension more attension needs were
Speaker 1: placed on to help those young guys out. Yeah, coach
Speaker 1: receivers a few years and as as the coordinator, especially
Speaker 1: with having the head coach that we do, who is
Speaker 1: you know, really the big coordinator and so yeah, I
Speaker 1: try to be hands on with the receivers as much
Speaker 1: as I can, you know, out on the field and
Speaker 1: in meeting room. We watch tape together after every practice
Speaker 1: we go in there and coach allows me to kind
Speaker 1: of show a tape of some of the passes that
Speaker 1: we threw to kind of coach some stuff up, you know,
Speaker 1: post practice in meetings with the quarterbacks and receivers and
Speaker 1: tight ends and backs all in there together, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of I get to say out there talk out
Speaker 1: in the field. Greg and I are always talking pull
Speaker 1: receivers aside one on one and talking. Uh. That's a
Speaker 1: fun part about it. You know, that's a fun part
Speaker 1: of you know, being a coordinator and being a past
Speaker 1: quarterback and a receiver coach. You know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I have something to offer there and just got to
Speaker 1: keep coaching guys up and it's a fun group to
Speaker 1: coach the wide receiver. US see a change coming in
Speaker 1: terms of maybe activating a Brice Tracks or moving up
Speaker 1: and Paul Turner, or just changing the way that you know,
Speaker 1: if you're rotating guys on Sunday. UM. You know, I
Speaker 1: mean I think that it's a very competitive league. You know,
Speaker 1: coach ultimately makes those decisions. It's a league where sometimes
Speaker 1: you get injuries and you know, you only put four
Speaker 1: or five receivers up normally. Sometimes in rare cases you
Speaker 1: only put three up, but usually it's four or five.
Speaker 1: Have been on a lot of teams that have had
Speaker 1: five up. UM. So that's a week end and week
Speaker 1: out decision based on what coach thinks, based on the
Speaker 1: injury situation, based on performance. Of course, this is a
Speaker 1: performance business, so that's always a factor. But yeah, those
Speaker 1: are all all considerations. What have you seen from them
Speaker 1: so far? And what makes you confident that the guys
Speaker 1: you have in the room right now we'll be able
Speaker 1: to get better as a season goes on. I've just
Speaker 1: seen a lot. I seem to make a lot of
Speaker 1: plays out in the field. I know how hard they work.
Speaker 1: I know what it means to them, you know. I
Speaker 1: see the effort they're putting. I know this sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but I see the effort for instance, that Nelson is
Speaker 1: putting in all of our receivers, but in the run game.
Speaker 1: I mean, Nelson is blocking as good as any receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. And you say, well he's
Speaker 1: a receiver, Well yeah, but you need eleven guys in
Speaker 1: the run game. And the intensity that he's putting into
Speaker 1: the run And I say this all time and receivers.
Speaker 1: I think it's just my personal philosophy that when you
Speaker 1: put the effort into the run game, good things are
Speaker 1: going to come to you when you will give of yourself.
Speaker 1: A Stout always says to the when you give of
Speaker 1: yourself to your teammates, when you lay it on a
Speaker 1: line for them in the run game. I just think
Speaker 1: over the long run, I might be wrong, but I
Speaker 1: just think over the long run, good things will come
Speaker 1: to you and you've got to make the plays come
Speaker 1: to you. And um, So that's just what I believe,
Speaker 1: and I believe in the guys that we got in
Speaker 1: that room. And we've had a few bumps, but there's
Speaker 1: still are guys and we still believe. You don't seem
Speaker 1: to have any concerns with using Darren the way he
Speaker 1: had twenty touches. Can you talk about why you don't
Speaker 1: have concerns about that. I mean, you know, probably last
Speaker 1: week might be the max that you you know, that's
Speaker 1: a lot. But he's a I mean this in the
Speaker 1: most complimentary way possible. He's a freak, you know, as
Speaker 1: they say, Um, he is a genetic and physical specimen
Speaker 1: the guy. You know, we all know the size thing,
Speaker 1: but he's probably the strongest guy pound for pound on
Speaker 1: the team and that's something to be said. There's something
Speaker 1: to be said for that. So he can handle he
Speaker 1: can handle a lot. Now, as you said, his age,
Speaker 1: is that a factor? Absolutely? And I know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I know coaches mentioned that to me, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: probably the max we want to use Darren in the game,
Speaker 1: but he needs to stay in the mix. He's an
Speaker 1: explosive playmaker. It's fun to see him out there. He
Speaker 1: creates energy for the whole team. I think he creates
Speaker 1: energy for our fans. You see him, he draws attention
Speaker 1: from defenses. So he's got to be on the field,
Speaker 1: his line share, and when he can't handle anymore, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll retire. But in the meantime we have to
Speaker 1: find that blend of how much can we use him
Speaker 1: without overusing him? And so yeah, that is a factor.