WEBVTT - The OTP | Week 7 with Brian Callahan 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.680 With Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith and this is the 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.279 OTP with Titan, said coach Brian Callahan, presented by Farm 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.640 Bureau Health Plans in the Game of Health Coverage. Farm 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.000 Bureau Health Plans is the MVP. Tennesseeans have relied on 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:32.120 their unmatched rates, coverage and service for nearly eighty years. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.680 Let's bring them on in, Coach Brian Callahan. Welcome, Thanks, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.599 good to be here. All right, let's dive in. Titans 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.720 fall to the Colts twenty to seventeen. It's your ball 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.680 club's third one score loss all games that you've led, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.960 two of them in the fourth quarter. So you don't 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.520 want overall frustration to creep in on your team with 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.800 this having happened multiple times, because it could. But is 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.200 there a balance of anger that you kind of do 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.959 want to see out of your football team at a 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:05.679 moment like this. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.959 Yeah, anger is probably the wrong word, I think. I 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.280 think frustration, Okay, probably is probably more apt. I think, uh, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:15.800 you know, you felt it from the guys in the 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.640 post game in the locker room. Some of the things 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.479 that that got said, and that that all that tells 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.040 me is that we got a bunch of guys that 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.240 that care and want to win, and they're frustrated by 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.720 being so close but yet not being able to get 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.000 it done. And it's a team but I think is 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.080 fully capable of getting it done. And that's I think 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.440 what makes it frustrating. It's we We We do a 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.440 lot of things well for a lot of the game, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.200 and we have to find a way to make the 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.520 game turning play, which we have yet to be able 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.319 to do in these tight games in the fourth quarter. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.600 We haven't scored many points on offense, we've given up 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.280 points on defense. You know, our fourth quarter point differential 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.400 is what what looks like a one and four team 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.920 would look like. And that's where we have to find 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.680 a way to be better. Is where where do we 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.920 Where do we find that play that turns the game? 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.880 Because we are close, and we are doing a lot 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.279 of good things, things that I feel very confident about, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.600 things that that are really positive. We've improved week to 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.560 week in a lot of areas, and the unfortunate part 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.360 is we don't have results and outcomes to show for it. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.040 But there's a lot of things that are going in 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.520 the right direction and things that I feel very confident 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.799 about and so to see guys frustrated after a game, Yes, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.440 that makes me feel good that we got a bunch 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.040 of guys that care and want to win and interre 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.679 willing to do what it takes to figure it out. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.240 After the game ended yesterday and since you've been asked 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:40.320 about a lot of specific, specific players, specific plays, specific decisions, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.720 so on, so on. But as the head coach, do 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.720 you have to zoom out a little bit and focus 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.760 on more broader themes as you move your team forward. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.760 Absolutely, that's my job as the head coach. You know, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.240 I'm not I'm the play caller, but I'm not just 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.679 I'm not the offensive coordinator. That's what that's next job. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.320 I don't call the defensive plays. That's Denard's job, don't. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.440 I don't manage the day to day special team, that's 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.000 colt job. These are all things that I have a 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.280 hand and I pay attention to, and I have input into. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.760 But at the end of the day, there's that's their 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.520 job is to handle those specific players and the specific outcome. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.920 My job is to make sure that every part of 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.440 the of the football team and the football operation is 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.120 pointed in the direction that it needs to go and 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.480 Certainly I have many conversations with individual players and all 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.960 those things, but to me, there is a there is 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.200 a there is a thirty thousand foot view that I 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.480 have to take because that's my job and my role 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.760 is to is to manage the entirety of the football 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.920 team and not just one side of the ball or 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.600 one player or one position. So those are the things 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.119 that I have to I have to consciously step back 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.280 from and make sure that my messaging is is appropriate 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.000 for the entire team and where we're headed and what 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.080 we need to get done. So that's a very different 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.200 role than I've been in I've been very offense focused. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.720 And again, even though I'm the play caller and I'm 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.920 focused with the offense, my job is not just that. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.560 I have a lot of other things that I have 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.680 to do as a head coach, and one of those 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.160 main main jobs is to message the football team and 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.840 make sure we're all steering the same direction as not 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.920 all I don't get. I have to not get lost 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.640 in the weeds sometimes of offensive football because that's what 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.000 that's what I know, and that's what I love, and 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.640 that's what I like to do, and so I do 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.240 have to step out of that role a lot and 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.279 make sure I'm doing the right thing for the entirety 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:23.680 of the team. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.040 Well, let's talk about that offense a little bit, because 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.599 after the game and since really you've said that the 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.400 biggest issue on offense is that you haven't been able 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.400 to establish consistency from drive to drive. What are some 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.479 of the things that you can do throughout the week 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:43.120 to address that and help establish that consistency. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.560 You have to be able to set that standard of 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.320 what consistency looks like. And we have. We've done We've 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:55.360 had really nice drives. We've beneficient and we've mixed run 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.960 and pass, and we've action and we've done all the 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.600 things that good offenses do. We just don't do it enough. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.359 And so we know what it's supposed to look like 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.200 when we're when we're operating at our probably highest level. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.919 And the key is to find that in practice and 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.840 to find it again in games. And look, we look 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.880 at all parts of the operation as do we have 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.560 too many plays in, do we not have enough plays in? 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.919 Do we have too much motion? Do we have not 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.920 enough motion? All those things we can sort of look 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.520 at and we try to keep trying to find that 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.760 sweet spot for us to be able to consistently play 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.760 a brand of football that's going to again score more 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.480 than seventeen points. Since you're gonna have a hard time 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.000 winning a lot of games scoring seventeen points. You score, 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.240 you start getting into twenty one to twenty four to 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.520 twenty seven. Now you're in a range where you're going 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.520 to be pretty competitive in the win lost column as 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.320 opposed to one win. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.560 You mentioned that you need more explosive plays, more big plays. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.760 Two longest plays yesterday we're twenty three yards. Those were 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:58.200 your only two over twenty Was that, at least in 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.320 part a result of the fact that the Colts were 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.520 playing a type of defense that was going to take 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.640 away many opportunities for big plays. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.200 Yeah, that's their MO. That's Gus Bradley's m O. He's 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.880 always been really good at that. Forces you into play 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.719 in a very patient style of football. And that's what 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.240 that's what we saw. I mean, and they and I'll 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.880 give a lot of credit to Gus. I think he's 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.560 a fantastic coordinator schematically, really does a nice job of 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.760 keeping you a little bit off balance. He does a 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.440 really good job. But I thought we had plenty of 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.839 moments where we could have capitalized on looks that we 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:39.320 had and we didn't quite get that done. And they 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.040 do play style that that limits explosives. But and we 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.320 had to be patients. So that's where two fourteen play 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.359 drives come from. Is that sort of patience and methodical execution. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.599 And it's hard to do that over the course of 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.960 a game for seven or eight possessions. Sure, and so yeah, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.560 we have to find ways to be more explosive, and 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.880 that's that goes that There's a lot of different ways 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.960 that we can probe that. But at the end of 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.320 the day, if you have seven to eight explosives, that's 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.039 probably going to mean you're winning the football game. Probably 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.600 it's not one hundred percent, but there's going to be 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.679 a high likelihood that you've performed well enough with seven 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.680 explosives that you've chewed up enough yards and field that 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:16.680 you have points to show for. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.440 It's hard to drive fourteen plays against any defense in 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.040 the NFL. Yeah, at some point they have enough athletes. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.040 Guys are going to get you. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.840 Yeah, And it's and just the nature of NFL football 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.080 is a lot and why teams play this way sometimes 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.440 is that they count on you making a mistake somewhere 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.480 along the way where you have a false start or 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.320 you have a penalty and now you're buying the sticks, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.560 and it's just it is. You have to be able 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.440 to do that, but you also have to find ways 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.760 to generate and create explosives, and we didn't have enough 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.480 of them in that game, which is why we know 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.440 only scored probably seventeen points. Is a big part of. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.120 It is the current situation where this whole team finds 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.480 themselves right now, one where you are extra thankful maybe 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.800 that you have your dad on this staff for no 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.760 other reason than he's been in your shoes. He's had 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.800 this role before. I would imagine there aren't too many 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.480 people that you encounter just in the world who understand 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.840 what it is that you are trying to kind of 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.240 navigate through right now. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.640 Yeah, there's not many people that know it. It's a 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.040 huge help to me. His value is as a as 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.280 a mentor, not just if you just take my the 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.200 father son part out of it, but just as a 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.080 professional mentor. Yeah, he's seen it all. He's been through 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.480 every bit of this every which way, has learned with 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.520 some lessons and maybe would advise me to do something 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.839 different than he did, and because he's already seen it 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.640 and been through it, so he he's been a huge, huge, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.720 huge help. I don't know that it's Yeah, it's hard 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.080 to do without someone that has that experience. And I 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.080 lean out other guys on the staff too that also have, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.400 you know, the experience of being in the NFL for 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.640 a long time and seeing these these things happen where 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.640 you're on a team that's good and they we do 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.959 a lot of good things, but we don't finish and 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.679 our results haven't come and year one and what that 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.400 looks like. There's just there's guys that have all experienced that. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.800 I do lean on all those guys, but my dad 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.680 has been pretty invaluable when it comes to working through 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:17.440 some of these things. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.560 Speaking of offensive line, you mentioned that Leroy Watson did 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.600 okay at right tackle. You were not ready to say 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.000 that he is the right tackle going forward. So what 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:33.199 does Leroy or somebody else have to do to nail 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.280 that spot down? 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.840 The same thing that I that I said about Nick 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.320 Petit was, you know, there just needs to be a 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.920 more consistent play and when we have to go block somebody, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.880 we can go block them, whether it's in pass pro 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.400 or the run game. There just needs to be a 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.360 consistency that we haven't been able to achieve yet at 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.160 that spot. And again, like I said, there was Lee 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.880 Roy had some good moments and he had some not 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.040 so good moments, which is I guess the best way 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.320 to define what okay means, you know, But yeah, I 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.120 think that there's there's We were just looking for more. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.520 We need more consistency, more performance from that spot than 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.400 than we've had thus far. And again, maybe maybe it's 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.160 still Leroy this week. Maybe Jalen Duncan is up to 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.480 the task. Maybe maybe Nick is up to the task. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.360 So we'll work through that over the next couple of 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.400 days and see where that lands. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.800 All right, Will Levis got the ball out very quickly 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.840 on Sunday, which was your design because you did not 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.040 want him to take it. Levis was not sacked in 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.960 the game. Were you more satisfied overall with your protection 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.160 based on okay? 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.239 I think we. I think we are making weekly improvements 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.680 up front, and that's all five of those guys. I 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.079 think JC Latham, I think every week he goes out 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.520 there gets better. It's never perfect, it's never gonna be 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.440 I think Peter's done a nice Peter's grown every week. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.640 I think Lloyd's been very solid for us. I think 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.440 Dylls really come on a bit. I think he's improving. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.320 So we're after that week to week improvement upfront, and 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.160 there's it takes time to get good upfront. It takes 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.480 time to learn a new system and new language and 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.240 new ways of doing things. And I think those guys 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.080 have done a nice job. They've put the time and 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.719 work in and the improvements has been noticeable. I mean 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.240 that's two back to back games where I thought we've 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.520 been really physical and run the ball well, and we've 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.480 been better in pass pro. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.120 Dave McGinnis on Titans Radio yesterday was impressed with the 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.240 left side of your line moving some people in the 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.640 run game. Was it as noticeable on tape? 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.120 I certainly was. Yeah, those guys have done a really 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.560 nice job. You know, that combination is one with with 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.040 JC and Pete on the left side that we've always 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.920 felt like was an advantage for us. They do a 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.400 really good job. They're they're physical, they're powerful, they can 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.280 move the line of scrimmage. We certainly try to get 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.440 behind those guys when when we can, as much as possible. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.160 But they've done a really nice job in a run game, 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.400 and it's they've opened some lanes and some really big 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:00.000 runs for us. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.080 Hey Titans fans, with a Kroger Boost membership, you'll score 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.760 big with double fuel points, free delivery, and lots more. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.520 Go to Kroger dot com slash Boost for details. Kroger 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.400 Official grocer of the Tennessee Titans. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.080 Tighten Up Holm is at the forefront of all that 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.360 we do. It's why we're so committed to caring for 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.200 the places and spaces in which we work and live. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:31.680 Ashley the official furniture provider of the Tennessee Titans. As 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.880 we continue with coach Brian Callahan, let's talk about some 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.000 of the good things from Sunday that he mentioned. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.080 You could start, I can start, all right, Let's talk 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.920 about the touchdown pass to Nick Westbrook Akine. It was 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:48.920 a very well designed play. Was that designed specifically for Nick? 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.960 It was, Yes, it was, it was. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:52.640 There. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.000 There were some things about Nick being in the game, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.160 running pass and all that stuff that obviously we were 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.480 aware of, and putting him in the game and then 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.199 putting Calvin in a spot where he would potentially get 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.400 the ball was was sort of the intent. And really 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.280 what the two of them did was such a great 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.320 job of selling it. Really was we were trying to 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.360 sell essentially throwing a bubble screen to Calvin with Nick 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.400 being the point blocker, and they they did a great 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:23.080 job of selling that horizontal speed they're both are, They're 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.160 both flying out of there, and so the dB things, oh, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.520 here comes the bubble, and they both just and they 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.600 react not on the pump or the or or on 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.240 anything that will does. They react purely based on the 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.640 speed that the two were running. And I and the 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.280 point made all a week for Nick was like, just 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.480 keep stretching and as soon as you feel the stretch 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.640 and he triggers, just slip them. And that's exactly what happened. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.559 And it was it was a play I felt good 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.600 about all all through the process. I mean, I told 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.160 those guys that it was that that was going to 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.120 score and I knew and I felt very very good 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.240 that that was going to be a touchdown play and 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.760 it would be as open as it was in the game. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.440 And so when it works like that, that makes you 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.840 feel good every night, every Saturday night. With the quarterbacks, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.880 we as we go through the call sheet in their favorites. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.080 We The last thing we do after we go through 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.320 that whole process is we we we all pick our 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.000 touchdown play, and it's everyone just picks what they think 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.760 the first play to score was. And I was very 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.760 adamant that that was the one that I was glad 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.280 they left it for me because I picked near the 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:19.960 end because I'm one of the older ones in the room. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.160 We picked by you know, youngest to oldest, and that 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.280 was my touchdown pick, and I felt that's how confident 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.120 I felt in the play. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.720 Is that fair because you call the plays, Yeah, it 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.120 would feel like it feels like you could control. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.360 That well, you'd be I mean, Mason Mason won. Mason 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.080 won last week against Miami. The last game. Mason had 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.480 had pegged that run that Taja had as the play 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.040 that would score. So it's not fully it's not fully rigged. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.600 I mean, I I certainly wouldn't. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.120 It's a pretty It was a pretty play in practice, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.640 if you don't mind me saying just. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.760 I mean, it looked just like it didn't practice in 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.360 the game, which is always a nice feeling. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.200 Tony Pollard is someone else who has looked very pretty 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.000 recently and I feel like we need to talk about 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.440 it because he has been the most consistent weapon on 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.680 this offense. At what point do you expect opposing defenses 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:12.120 to start specifically planning to stop Tony Pollard? 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.280 That is that they've done that. That's not something that's uh, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.960 that's that's new. People are trying are aware now that 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.800 we could that we're a pretty solid rushing football team, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.920 and they're trying to find ways to slow that down. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.480 But Tony is so dynamic and so versatile that you 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.440 don't you know, we throw the ball with him in 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.600 the game, He passed, protects great, He never really has 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.960 to ever come out and and so there it's hard 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.360 for people to pin down necessarily just because he's in 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.640 if if we're going to run the football or not 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.320 run a football, or what's is he going to release 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.160 in a pattern? What all those things? So that part 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.320 helps him. But he has been just an absolutely fantastic 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.520 playmaker for our offense. He's been a great leader. Uh, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:54.360 he's been a great uh locker room presence, and on 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.880 top of that, he's made and especially yesterday, most of 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.960 our plays it was fantastic. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.120 I know you have things you want to talk about too. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.760 But before we move off of Tony Pollard, would you 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.880 mind talking about his blitz pick up on ZAYR. Franklin 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.080 just for a second, just to kind of talk about it. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.880 I'm an incredible effort. You know, we generally would not 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.640 like to be They timed that up really nicely. We 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.760 generate to not be in an under center play action 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.360 with that pressure coming right down the middle of the pocket. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.160 That's his pickup. It's a very difficult pickup from the 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.240 dot where you have to wrap around the quarterback and 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.840 go get it. And it was the effort, the intensity 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.720 and then the desire to go get him cut. I mean, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.560 we don't like to cut and pass pro, but to 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.400 go in there and cut him and give us a 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.000 chance to get the ball off was pretty remarkable effort. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:42.840 And he had a second one later in a game too, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.720 on a third down. That's what makes him so unique 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.200 is he is a he is a three down, three 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.760 pronged back that is rare that can do everything at 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.480 a really really high level, pass pro, run routes, and 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.800 catch and then run the football. So he is he's 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.640 a he's I'm so happy that he's on our football 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.440 team because he's a really, really good football player. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.040 You mentioned Taja Spears hamstring makes him weak to weak. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.280 If Spears can't go at Buffalo, will Julius Chestnut get 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.560 a chance to pick up some of those reps right now? 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:15.399 He's in line for that. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:16.359 You know. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.000 Obviously we'll do our due diligence on what is available 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.760 out there in the world to us, just because if 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.760 it ends up being an absence longer than a week 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:24.960 or two, we want to make sure we have a 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.120 third back that's maybe played in the NFL as well, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.080 So we'll see where that lands. There's no no full 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.000 answer for that at this point, but certainly Julius will 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.360 have his his opportunities to carry the ball a bit 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.840 more because again, no, no, you know, we don't want 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.359 to have Tony carry the ball thirty times. It's not 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.440 really his thing. He'll do it, but I think you 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.960 still need to have some division of labor in the 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.160 running back room over time. So we'll see where that lands. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:51.560 But Julia should have an opportunity. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.400 Jarvis Brownlee at corner. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:55.080 What a game. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.320 Okay, That's what I wanted to know from just our perspective. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.080 Look like he played really well. When you watch the tape, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.359 maybe even more impressive. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.640 Yeah, he was fantastic for a young player, and he's 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.159 been he's always been a guy that we felt like 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.120 had the potential to be a good player. And now 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.359 that he's getting an opportunity due to injury, he's really 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.639 shown what he's capable of. And then the key for 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.760 him now is going to be do it again. You know, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.720 That's what separates guys in the league is really really 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.080 nice building into a really nice performance, had a really 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.240 really nice performance against the Colts, and now can you 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.560 do that multiple weeks in a row. 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