Speaker 1: Told us the other day that probably not a lot
Speaker 1: of starters are going to be playing in this upcoming game.
Speaker 2: But what about somebody like Poony that's been working with
Speaker 2: the first string but who needs experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't gone through the final I know, I've
Speaker 1: made my suggestions. I think most of the guys will
Speaker 1: play up front for a little bit anyway, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what we'll do. There's a couple of spots
Speaker 1: maybe that won't but we'll look at it and see.
Speaker 1: And obviously Poony's going to play. I think he's play
Speaker 1: some extended time. In my opinion, he should. But we'll
Speaker 1: make that evaluation as a staff and make sure. I'll
Speaker 1: make my recommendations which I think he should play. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much that's gonna end up being, but
Speaker 1: we'll take a good look at it and see. But
Speaker 1: he needs some playing time. I mean, it'd be good
Speaker 1: him go against other people and it'll be great for him.
Speaker 1: All the guys really good.
Speaker 2: Of course, you got three rookies here. You've watched some
Speaker 2: practice now for a few weeks. What traits stand out
Speaker 2: about Kingston, Pooney.
Speaker 1: And Nuchen, you know everything. It's really really good. This year.
Speaker 1: I was talking with one of our scouts this morning
Speaker 1: and we're just discussing that these guys have all they've
Speaker 1: kind of played out the way we've thought I mean,
Speaker 1: Poony obviously maybe a little bit better from the fact
Speaker 1: that how much he's mentally picked up and able to
Speaker 1: step into this role right now and has done a
Speaker 1: good job. Although we saw that in potential in him obviously,
Speaker 1: the other two guys about what we thought very you know, Kingston,
Speaker 1: very athletic, quick has the potential to move inside and
Speaker 1: play guards center for us, and has done that. It's
Speaker 1: got to learn to anchor some things. And then all
Speaker 1: that has shown up has showed up on his college tape.
Speaker 1: It's not a surprise it showed up here today. Same
Speaker 1: thing with a nugent I mean, tough, tenacious, hard nose,
Speaker 1: good guy, more of a center than a guard. But
Speaker 1: he's filled and done a good job. So all the
Speaker 1: guys have kind of checked all the boxes that we
Speaker 1: kind of thought they had, and it's kind of cool
Speaker 1: to see that that we didn't miss. As far as
Speaker 1: that goes what their potentials and all that will do,
Speaker 1: it's still yet to be seen. But as far as
Speaker 1: the traits and things they had. We like all of them.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you want to see Saturday
Speaker 2: night that you haven't been able to see up to
Speaker 2: now against each other?
Speaker 1: Well, what's a good good thing is our defense does
Speaker 1: present different things, but we were familiar with our defense.
Speaker 1: So now you get a new defense, new set of challenges.
Speaker 1: You want to see how guys adjust on game day.
Speaker 1: You want to see if you can make some game
Speaker 1: you know on sideline adjustments, See if they can go
Speaker 1: out and adjust and do it. See how they play
Speaker 1: against different people, different techniques. Well, we won't be able
Speaker 1: to give them as much prep time. That's just a
Speaker 1: disappointing thing. You're trying to evaluate these guys and you
Speaker 1: don't give them the same prep time that you do
Speaker 1: during the season. You can't spend the whole week on
Speaker 1: Tennessee and you don't even know who's going to be
Speaker 1: playing for them. So the guys have to be able
Speaker 1: to go out there and adjust two different techniques, different fundamentals,
Speaker 1: and then you see how they do that, especially for
Speaker 1: the rookies, does it feel like they're kind of itching
Speaker 1: to get to go against some other people. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't felt that way. I mean the young guys.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the older guys. Well, the older guys don't
Speaker 1: love preseason games, but they do love the chance to
Speaker 1: go against other guys. It does get a little bit
Speaker 1: old going against the same guys all the time. I
Speaker 1: really think that the young guys just looking for whatever
Speaker 1: we ask them to do. They've been good, and I
Speaker 1: think it will be cool to see another journey. I
Speaker 1: remember my first preseason game when I was coaching and
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing, but I was coaching in Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: we played against the Cowboys in Dallas Stadium and and
Speaker 1: to me, it felt like it was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't believe it was an NFL stadium,
Speaker 1: and I quickly realized it was just a preseason game.
Speaker 1: But there's that initial moment where they're going to see
Speaker 1: another team and another uniform, a helmet they've seen on
Speaker 1: television on Madden or wherever forever, and uh, and it's
Speaker 1: been like, wow, this is this is pretty cool. And
Speaker 1: then it'll it'll soon settle down to be a good game,
Speaker 1: but it'll be exciting for me. It's that first preseason game.
Speaker 3: How much value do you think the preseason still has
Speaker 3: I know, like the kind of down from four to three.
Speaker 3: There's talk of cutting it down to two or getting
Speaker 3: rid of it completely. How much value do you think
Speaker 3: the preseason still still has these guys.
Speaker 1: I've always thought it has value. I mean again, I
Speaker 1: don't say old school, but I do think it has
Speaker 1: value obviously. And you know the risk reward playing starters
Speaker 1: that that you know, you risk injury in a game
Speaker 1: that doesn't that doesn't count. But as far as development
Speaker 1: of a player going against other players, competing against other players,
Speaker 1: having the opportunity to show what you can do against
Speaker 1: somebody you know else and you kind of get into
Speaker 1: a routine with guys. You kind of get to know
Speaker 1: the guy against you, and that's that's important, and that
Speaker 1: familiarity things. Sometimes you see it happening within the course
Speaker 1: of a game. A guy becomes familiar with the player,
Speaker 1: and so how we may start a game and how
Speaker 1: you end a game. When you get used to a
Speaker 1: guy or he gets used to you can challenge you.
Speaker 1: And that's what's good for these guys is to get
Speaker 1: different opponents, different looks, different things like that. It totally
Speaker 1: changes the just the atmosphere of a game. It helps
Speaker 1: for the younger players. It gives them game rep experience
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't get. It's now, it's not the same.
Speaker 1: You notice a tick up from preseason to season, obviously
Speaker 1: a big jump this season to the postseason, and then
Speaker 1: every week of the postseason that intensity level goes up
Speaker 1: even more. The pressure of the stakes and all those
Speaker 1: things get bigger. But this is different than being out here.
Speaker 1: Even though the crowd at four nine four nine is
Speaker 1: pretty intense, it's not going to be quite like it
Speaker 1: is in Tennessee. Two of your more experienced guys are
Speaker 1: Chris Hubbard and Brandon Parker. What have you seen out
Speaker 1: of them in camp and what do you need to
Speaker 1: see out of them in the preseason. You know, we've
Speaker 1: seen what we need I think in camp. Obviously in
Speaker 1: the preseason will be nice to see him go out
Speaker 1: and play in our system because they haven't played in
Speaker 1: our system before, so seeing that transition will be good
Speaker 1: to see. But I think we've seen what they will
Speaker 1: be there there Obviously could be a jump, maybe positive
Speaker 1: or negative ways, but I don't think there will be.
Speaker 1: I think these guys are pretty tried and true vets
Speaker 1: we brought there. They're fulfilling the role we brought him
Speaker 1: in for. They're kind of there. It's you know, to
Speaker 1: steady things. If there would be something go wrong, you
Speaker 1: have some some some stable veteran backup type players there
Speaker 1: that are competing and doing a good job. Hopefully they'll
Speaker 1: be able to just keep doing the same.
Speaker 2: Hubard also more versatile.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe, like could you move them inside of
Speaker 1: Maybe it could, it could. I don't see him doing
Speaker 1: that for us though, I think he's primarily a tackle.
Speaker 1: Just just after being with the guy for a little
Speaker 1: while here, I think he's primarily a tackle.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Trent continues to hold out. We know what kind of
Speaker 2: player he is. Does it concern you? And at what
Speaker 2: point what does he need to get ready for week
Speaker 2: one in the Jets? And when in this process? Would
Speaker 2: you be concerned if he's not here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's every guy's different. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'd have to talk to our strength conditioning
Speaker 1: people know the exact ramp up time that a guy
Speaker 1: needs to be ready to play in the regular season game.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it is hard that those sixties something
Speaker 1: plays you play that first week? I've stated that's the
Speaker 1: most tired of ever seen NFL players is when they
Speaker 1: come to the sideline, if the first drive of the
Speaker 1: first game. I mean they no matter how hard they've conditioned,
Speaker 1: no matter how hard they've trained, they've never competed, you know,
Speaker 1: full speed competition, which goes back to the question about
Speaker 1: a preseason game that is more full speed competition than
Speaker 1: once you get out here. There's that snap to whistle,
Speaker 1: all the way through the whistle, all the way from
Speaker 1: the snap to it's never quite you know, and we
Speaker 1: always pull off. There's not tackling. There's that little bit
Speaker 1: left in practice that you don't go the full speed
Speaker 1: and there's not that one hundred percent strain. They're strained,
Speaker 1: but each guy lets off a little bit to protect
Speaker 1: the team and everything else. So that getting a guy
Speaker 1: ready for that, there's a level that has to be
Speaker 1: You have to go through practices and I don't know
Speaker 1: what the exact number is for any any player, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what's Trent or any other player. You have
Speaker 1: to prepare properly. We found that when in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: we came back. Mclinche and Staley came back from injuries
Speaker 1: the same week against Seattle, and we've played a long
Speaker 1: games and an overtime game against Seattle here and boy really
Speaker 1: found out with offensive lineman it's different than than receivers, Like,
Speaker 1: for example, you can get a receiver and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run so many you know yards over the
Speaker 1: course of your rehab time to get their strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning back. But it's really hard to get that drive
Speaker 1: on a player, you know, that hit and that total
Speaker 1: strain that you get as alignment that how do you
Speaker 1: measure that getting them ready to play in a game.
Speaker 1: And so after thirty forty plays, Joe, both Joe and
Speaker 1: Mike were gassed. I mean, it was unbelievable to see
Speaker 1: how fast that you hit the wall and then fell off.
Speaker 1: So it became really imperative that we figured out how
Speaker 1: to train guys properly to come off injury and experience
Speaker 1: that that that push, pull and strain without risking them.
Speaker 1: It happened to Trent might have been the COVID year
Speaker 1: we played in LA and he was coming off of
Speaker 1: an injury and man we played it was we were
Speaker 1: in the last drive. I think Robbie kicked the field
Speaker 1: goal to win the game, and he said, I mean,
Speaker 1: he said, I don't know if he said I barely
Speaker 1: made it through the dry you know, about the beginning
Speaker 1: of the second half he said I was done. You know,
Speaker 1: there's that level of and he'd come off injury where
Speaker 1: you know, I think he practiced a little bit that week,
Speaker 1: We say, oh, yeah, he'll be fine for the games.
Speaker 1: He practiced on Friday. Well, there's more to it than
Speaker 1: that long answer here. I don't have the exact thing,
Speaker 1: but there's something to that strain that pushed that pull.
Speaker 1: No matter how many games you played in that you
Speaker 1: have to prep for it because even when you've done
Speaker 1: the full process, opening days.
Speaker 2: Hard, how long after opening day do you see them
Speaker 2: kind of hit their stride.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take long. It's amazing that by the next
Speaker 1: week it's pretty good. If they've played a game, they
Speaker 1: kind of know what to expect. They're in great shape.
Speaker 1: It's just I guess it's that last little you know,
Speaker 1: over to get over the hump, to try to finish it.
Speaker 1: It's not like you see it week two or it's
Speaker 1: just it's always amazed me that that first series, that
Speaker 1: first game is if you have any plays obviously three
Speaker 1: and out they're not retired, but if you play well,
Speaker 1: you can you can get.
Speaker 3: Some How often does a guy in a preseason game
Speaker 3: surprise you completely? Is that something that that happens.
Speaker 1: All it can happen, you know, I tell you it happens.
Speaker 1: It happened with Banks, you know, not in a preseason.
Speaker 1: In the regular season, he just was okay, he was
Speaker 1: doing well in camp. But and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden we started playing, and then Chicago that year and
Speaker 1: then on after that, and he just the energy played with,
Speaker 1: the finish he played with, the consistency was just different
Speaker 1: than in practice. I think that you know, the grind
Speaker 1: of period period period after you know, you don't come
Speaker 1: to sideline and arrest. You just going and going and
Speaker 1: going and going. And sometimes some guys don't whether that
Speaker 1: as well as in any game, you've got the energy
Speaker 1: of the stadium. You go, plays, you come over, your
Speaker 1: defense plays, there's just the whole feeling of a game.
Speaker 1: And so that can happen preseason games. It has too.
Speaker 1: It's I can't remember offhand guys, but there's always that
Speaker 1: that guy that when you get in the competition, he
Speaker 1: just lights up. It's different. He can go full speed,
Speaker 1: he can dive over piles, and things like that, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun to watch thank you guys.