Speaker 1: The difference again instead of yesterday. We just blocked better
Speaker 1: in the run game. And obviously if we can get
Speaker 1: our run game going, then our pass game with our
Speaker 1: quick game and our play action passes off of that,
Speaker 1: I think we kept Sam clean, gave an opportunity to
Speaker 1: throw the football, but it starts with us being able
Speaker 1: to run the football. We did a good job of that.
Speaker 1: Is there anything to be that we're chemistreat the guys
Speaker 1: playing together a little a little more with each week,
Speaker 1: and um there should be improvement. Yes, look like there
Speaker 1: was more straight ahead man demand blocking not as much
Speaker 1: outside Zode And I don't know if you watched the
Speaker 1: same game we watched, we ran sweep more than any
Speaker 1: play we ran there less. So we had the ball
Speaker 1: outside more than I think we've had any any game
Speaker 1: we played this year. So we ran the ball outside
Speaker 1: more than any game we played the year. So you
Speaker 1: pitched back words a little bit using the pass to
Speaker 1: open up the run and on some occasions, is this
Speaker 1: something you thought you need to do just to switch
Speaker 1: up your your patterns now? I mean, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we did switch up any patterns in
Speaker 1: terms of going backwards or something. I just think um,
Speaker 1: when the pass was there, sand took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: When the run was there, sent take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So you guys had first and goal. I think it
Speaker 1: was at the two, you know, with Matthews. Why Matthews
Speaker 1: instead of you are again I don't rotate the back,
Speaker 1: so Dud just rolling those guys through there. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't a set formation where he was in or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was just that's what was up at the time,
Speaker 1: just thinking that. I don't know. I mean the next
Speaker 1: time we had the ball down on the goal line,
Speaker 1: DeMarco ran it in for a touchdown. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't really look into it. I think we think
Speaker 1: of both of those guys as the same player, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect what we're doing from a play calls standpoints.
Speaker 1: You were more actually out of the words guy, What
Speaker 1: did you make of fan uh dating the offense and
Speaker 1: talking to him before the game delivering message. I think
Speaker 1: that happens a lot on this team in a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways, So I don't think anything of it.
Speaker 1: To be honest with better in the second half of
Speaker 1: each team the first half, maybe he just needs to
Speaker 1: see the looks a little bit more. You know, he
Speaker 1: settles down a little bit. Um. You know, I know
Speaker 1: he has been statistically when you look at it, and
Speaker 1: he really has been better. But I think maybe he
Speaker 1: just gets settled a little bit more. That's a probably
Speaker 1: a good question for him. Is there a way to
Speaker 1: I mean, had he jumped start him in earlier, we
Speaker 1: could play a game earlier, you know, maybe see if
Speaker 1: you see if you get a scrimmage going before it
Speaker 1: a doubleheader, he'd be great. A doubleheader'd be awesome. That's
Speaker 1: a good suggestion. I don't know. I mean, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to him a little bit about it, but I think
Speaker 1: what he needs to see some things and kind of
Speaker 1: it seems like he gets settled. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys I think if he gets hit, he feels a
Speaker 1: little bit better. So but you also don't want to
Speaker 1: give him get hit. So um, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have an answer for that. But I think offensively as
Speaker 1: a group, we moved the ball well in the first half.
Speaker 1: We just didn't capitalize. Those two red zone turnover has
Speaker 1: really hurt us. Understands the reef just what the New
Speaker 1: Orleans was doing in terms of where the back was offset.
Speaker 1: So so what the offensive. Why was it more? But
Speaker 1: were there any kind of blocking teams that were kind
Speaker 1: of a a simple fins? I mean, you look at the
Speaker 1: type we run, the same place we always run. We
Speaker 1: just executed him. So I know he said that a
Speaker 1: lot of guys are vocal about being leaders. But is
Speaker 1: it more important when it comes from the quarterback? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, I don't way where is
Speaker 1: it more important than another person being, you know, speaking.
Speaker 1: I just think, um, you know, it's a It's obviously
Speaker 1: the guys that speak also have to be able to
Speaker 1: back it up, so you know, you can be huh.
Speaker 1: You know sometimes they say the empty barrel makes the
Speaker 1: most noise. You know that you're not gonna get anything out.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of guys who talk all the
Speaker 1: time and they don't perform. It's it's a matter of uh,
Speaker 1: kind of matching it up. But I know our players
Speaker 1: listening to Sam and get to have a good feel
Speaker 1: for Sam with him. Was it a matter if he
Speaker 1: had to be here for a few weeks to be
Speaker 1: able to perform before he could speak. No, I think
Speaker 1: he's performed since he's been here, So I don't And
Speaker 1: it's not like he hasn't spoken before, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: make it a really big yell out of that sore
Speaker 1: out beyond that, like you know, just like just the
Speaker 1: way I really think for for us, it's what's what
Speaker 1: Fletch has done here since we've been here. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been a very disruptive for so along the defensive
Speaker 1: line since we've been here. Um, I think he's just
Speaker 1: starting to get noticed where he probably um probably should
Speaker 1: have gotten before. You know, I think you even you
Speaker 1: go back to last year and opponents talking about going
Speaker 1: in getting ready to play us, and they're talking about
Speaker 1: Fletcher's name. So, um, he was close and in a
Speaker 1: couple of our earlier games, really close a couple of
Speaker 1: times in the Washington game to get in some sacks
Speaker 1: and you know, I know Billy says it, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it happens. Sometimes they just come in bunches. But I
Speaker 1: think he's played at a really high level for a
Speaker 1: while here. It's just you know, yesterday it kind of
Speaker 1: all came together for him. But I still remember him
Speaker 1: picking up scoring one against Jacksonville. I mean, he's made
Speaker 1: some really big plays. This wasn't this wasn't his first
Speaker 1: big game for us. But um, it's something that we've
Speaker 1: become kind of accustomed to because the type of player fletches.
Speaker 1: But also you kept them out at the ends. Yeah, again,
Speaker 1: we talked about it. We probably gave up too many
Speaker 1: X plays. There was a couple of them, Um, the
Speaker 1: long one down their sideline, I think to Steve hurt Us, Um,
Speaker 1: we had one where we thought Walt was in position,
Speaker 1: but it got thrown over his head to Cooks, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to really kind of clean that up. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think our guys did a really good job
Speaker 1: in red zone defense. You know, they scored the one
Speaker 1: where we would just misaligned. Um, Jordan started going out
Speaker 1: on the tight end. He wasn't supposed to be out
Speaker 1: that way, but we called it down the other way,
Speaker 1: so they got to he's got to play the call,
Speaker 1: even though the call was the wrong way, and they
Speaker 1: got that one of them. They just got the one
Speaker 1: at the end with no time left on the clock.
Speaker 1: Those are there two touchdowns that they scored in the
Speaker 1: red zone. But I thought overall, our defense did a
Speaker 1: really good job and in the red zone of preventing
Speaker 1: them from really scoring so ull technique wise, on that
Speaker 1: one path where you dropped in the coverage an we
Speaker 1: got two hands on it. It was just vision and
Speaker 1: break on the football. I think he did a really
Speaker 1: good job. He was actually bluffing a blitz to start
Speaker 1: to play and then got back into a into a
Speaker 1: good spot where he could, um, you know, read the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks eyes, and then he just made a real good
Speaker 1: break in the ball. I don't think Drew expected him
Speaker 1: to be there because literally when he started to play,
Speaker 1: he was actually up in the eight, up in the
Speaker 1: B gap, you know, showing blitz, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's fifteen yards deep underneath the big route.
Speaker 1: So um, it's just really getting a feel of how
Speaker 1: he can present different looks to the defense to the
Speaker 1: offense and still be able to execute his assignment. About
Speaker 1: what about I mean, did you know that he was
Speaker 1: as a wedding Yeah, yeah, that's what we thought coming out.
Speaker 1: I know some people looked at us, why are we
Speaker 1: drafted him in the third round. We thought we got
Speaker 1: to steal in the third round. He was our highest
Speaker 1: rated guy for a reason. We talked about him. He's
Speaker 1: a three down linebacker. We thought he could committed early
Speaker 1: and contribute on special teams. Which he was doing. But
Speaker 1: he's playing a lot now on defense because of Kendricks
Speaker 1: and uh Kiko being out. But you know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of what we thought he was going to be coming
Speaker 1: in here, and we were excited about himself. Jim, does
Speaker 1: it say about a player like Fletcher Cotts? You don't
Speaker 1: see many times where a guy gets the sack and
Speaker 1: gets the fumble recovery. Yeah, what does that say about
Speaker 1: a player that just does just st just the motor
Speaker 1: that Fletch plays with, you know, I think, uh, it's
Speaker 1: always running with him, you know, and and uh, you
Speaker 1: know he's been close in a couple of games. Like
Speaker 1: I said, but you know, to make a play like that,
Speaker 1: that's it, you know, not only does he force the play,
Speaker 1: he gets the sack, he causes the fumble and then
Speaker 1: recovers the fumble. It's just um yeah, it's it's It
Speaker 1: was a really big play for us, especially at that
Speaker 1: point in time in the game too. But I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the type of player he is. And um,
Speaker 1: and I think I keep seeing we keep seeing him
Speaker 1: getting a little bit better every week, so uh that
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for us as we're moving forward here.
Speaker 1: What did New Orleans do when you had the offset?
Speaker 1: That different from when everybody does different things. Sometimes they shade,
Speaker 1: sometimes they slant, you know, sometimes when you put them
Speaker 1: back in the dot, they can't shade or slant. So
Speaker 1: when you do get your two side backers back fully healthy,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to try to find time. After all.
Speaker 1: Board the three and fling, maybe him wasn't horrible play,
Speaker 1: but now after you've been there, I hope we get
Speaker 1: to that point. I mean, you could say the same thing,
Speaker 1: but Demiko and Hicks could get hurt next week. That's
Speaker 1: why we never worry about it. Just tell us who's
Speaker 1: available and then we'll go from there. But having too
Speaker 1: many good players is a good problem to have, So
Speaker 1: Kivid the nice job, you know. I think he kind
Speaker 1: of get into a groove there, especially in the kickoffs.
Speaker 1: A couple of them were short early. Um, But the
Speaker 1: last couple he hit, I think he really hit really well. Um.
Speaker 1: We had a slightly high snap and a you know,
Speaker 1: a snaphold operation on the missed extra point. Um, But
Speaker 1: besides that, I thought he hit the ball well. I started,
Speaker 1: he's starting to get a little bit more comfortable, um,
Speaker 1: him and Phip and Donnie and John are getting on
Speaker 1: the same page, and um, you know, to come in
Speaker 1: in terms of where he's been hit a short week,
Speaker 1: the week we brought him in here in terms of
Speaker 1: getting ready for the first game, and now he's starting
Speaker 1: to get into a little bit of a rhythm. So
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see where that goes. But I thought
Speaker 1: he had a good game. We're not going to roll.
Speaker 1: We're not working out any kickers this week. We're gonna
Speaker 1: roll with Kallim. Did Sam Bradford ruling him out? Was
Speaker 1: that just the function of what the Saints were doing
Speaker 1: or did was there something that really helped him? See?
Speaker 1: I think it was a function of what the Saints
Speaker 1: were doing. That was part of our game plan going
Speaker 1: in to see if we could move the pocket a
Speaker 1: little bit. He sure seemed incredibly effective. Something you want
Speaker 1: to incorporate if defense, if teams defense are trying to
Speaker 1: defense us the same way, then yeah, yeah. Trainer said
Speaker 1: he was out in the second half, so Bob, he
Speaker 1: wasn't in the rotation with Bob, you could choose at
Speaker 1: josh Off as part of your team as on the
Speaker 1: college and pro level. Is there a specific trait um
Speaker 1: about him that they kind of grab pay course. No,
Speaker 1: I just Joshed in general as a player is an
Speaker 1: extremely dynamic player. I think he's got a ability to
Speaker 1: change direction, stop and start. Um. He really good with
Speaker 1: the football in his hands there. That's why he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job returning for US. UM. We've used him
Speaker 1: as a running back when he was back in college. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he can make people miss. But the other
Speaker 1: thing with Josh, he's extremely tough. I mean he's one
Speaker 1: of the better blockers in this league. I mean he's
Speaker 1: a tough, physical person at the point of attack. That's
Speaker 1: what makes him such a good special teams parys such
Speaker 1: a good gunner because you know, sometimes there are guys
Speaker 1: that are good receivers, but they're not good on teams
Speaker 1: because of the physical nature of teams. I think Josh
Speaker 1: can do it all. The thing with Josh is just
Speaker 1: he missed an extended period of time at the beginning
Speaker 1: of last season, just kind of getting the reps and
Speaker 1: getting them more comfortable in terms of what we're doing.
Speaker 1: He was playing well. I think he played thirty six
Speaker 1: or thirty seven snaps and then get hurt and missed
Speaker 1: the Jets game. You know, so then coming back off
Speaker 1: of the injury, didn't practice full on the Washington week,
Speaker 1: but had a really good week of training this week
Speaker 1: going into the Saints game, so, you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to get him back out there. He played I think
Speaker 1: right around between thirty and forty snaps, just getting him
Speaker 1: maclimated in terms of what we're doing. But there's some
Speaker 1: versatility with Josh in terms of what you can doing,
Speaker 1: and he obviously can do some things with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands after the catch, which is beneficial to us. Yesterday, yeah,
Speaker 1: Marcus played twenty two snaps and overall, I think he's
Speaker 1: showing improvement. You know, on the interception on um Walter's interception,
Speaker 1: as you asked me yesterday, he did do a good
Speaker 1: job of you know, one arm bull rush and the
Speaker 1: offensive tack Will kind of bringing him back into Drew's face,
Speaker 1: and you know, Drew couldn't really follow through on the throw. So, um,
Speaker 1: we were placed first time getting him out there. I thought,
Speaker 1: we thought he did a good job. How do you
Speaker 1: send the extra day that could get team come in
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and team comes in on the team comes
Speaker 1: in on Wednesday. We're working. We've been in all day today,
Speaker 1: we'll be in all day tomorrow. So it's just we
Speaker 1: just push it one day in terms of our Wednesday
Speaker 1: will be our normal Tuesday and then just an extra
Speaker 1: day to watch tape. Yeah that much. Just pay attention
Speaker 1: to what you say so you don't get angry. How
Speaker 1: much do they pay attention? Yeah, obviously be a good
Speaker 1: question for them. Well, your perception, my perception, Yeah, they do,
Speaker 1: they listen. Obviously you got angry. Yeah, okay, you got
Speaker 1: angry over things. Yeah, and I was one d percent.
Speaker 1: That's me. That's got nothing to do with them. That's
Speaker 1: my fault and it shouldn't have happen. Well, one formation
Speaker 1: where you had two backs in the backfield along with
Speaker 1: Bradford and I believe it turned into a flat pass
Speaker 1: and strolls on the left side. Is at a different look?
Speaker 1: Ridge is something you like? It's a different look, you
Speaker 1: know from a protection standpoint on how we can do
Speaker 1: some things. Yeah, you know which back is free releasing?
Speaker 1: You know, one back can be a protection, another back
Speaker 1: can be free release. And we've run you can run
Speaker 1: out of that formation. Um, but we wanted to see
Speaker 1: what we could get. We end up with it. It
Speaker 1: was a third down. We got a completion it Darren
Speaker 1: for a first down on third and ten. But um,
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of given presenting a different look
Speaker 1: um and it helped. It helped on that play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see where we can go with that.
Speaker 1: Every every time we do anything personnel wise, it's because
Speaker 1: of what the defense has shown that they dictate in
Speaker 1: terms of how they try to play it. So you
Speaker 1: try to predict what you're gonna get when we put
Speaker 1: this in the game and line up in this formation.
Speaker 1: This is what we anticipate seeing when we do that
Speaker 1: in a game. Do they do that? And if they do,
Speaker 1: then all of this now you hey, we can run this,
Speaker 1: this and this. If they don't, you know, that's kind
Speaker 1: of that chess matcheck goes on within the game. So, um,
Speaker 1: the field is that in certain teams, Yeah, and certain
Speaker 1: teams now and then with the Saints they varied it,
Speaker 1: so you know, sometimes we played dains base, sometimes we
Speaker 1: played against Nichols, So you've got to be prepared for both.
Speaker 1: But you're just no matter what you're doing formation wise
Speaker 1: or personnel wise, you're trying to elicit or response from
Speaker 1: the defense. And that's what the tape watching in the
Speaker 1: film is based on the last five games. You've broken
Speaker 1: down whenever twelve personnel was in the game, how did
Speaker 1: they defend twelve personnel? You know, but again people can
Speaker 1: change during the week too, so you have to see
Speaker 1: is what you saw on film confirmed and are they
Speaker 1: continuing to do that. If that's the case, then at
Speaker 1: least you know what you're going to get, and then
Speaker 1: then it's a matter of going out and executing. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't, because I said they played both Based and
Speaker 1: Nickel versus our twelve personnel. What do you think of
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey's performance compared to the first four games? Do
Speaker 1: you think it was the best in the season. I thought,
Speaker 1: we thought Jason graded out really well and played really well.
Speaker 1: But I think he's also I thought he played well
Speaker 1: over is Washington. Also, um uh, he's gotten better as
Speaker 1: this as the season's gone along. I thought, But he's played,
Speaker 1: he's played in the last two games, He's really played
Speaker 1: a really high level. Drops are going to happen off
Speaker 1: the visit History game where multiple drops? How do you
Speaker 1: how do you address that? Yeah? Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: got guys on the Jugs Machine. I mean Jordan and
Speaker 1: Nelly come in here every morning at seven o'clock and
Speaker 1: around the jugs machines and are really working on the
Speaker 1: mechanics fundamentally catching the football. But it's it's something that
Speaker 1: has hurt us. Um. In every game we've played, we've
Speaker 1: had drops that you know, those we call those siwes.
Speaker 1: Those are self inflicting wounds. That's Austin dropping the football.
Speaker 1: That's not the defense making a good play. You know,
Speaker 1: it's if it's a tip or um, you know it's
Speaker 1: a it's it's it's out of our reach. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: we understand that. But we we've got to we've got
Speaker 1: to clean up the drops and when we do, I
Speaker 1: think we can be an even more explosive offense. But um,
Speaker 1: they have hurt us and we need to continue to
Speaker 1: address it. It's it's a focus issue. It's a concentration
Speaker 1: issue in terms of just um going back to the
Speaker 1: fundamental Sometimes it's trying to run before you catch it.
Speaker 1: But you have to have the eyes through the tuck,
Speaker 1: um and then and finish with the football before you
Speaker 1: ever start to think about turning up or running. So
Speaker 1: the eyes have to see the football the way through
Speaker 1: the tuck, so you can't catch the ball and turn
Speaker 1: away like that. You have the eyes through the talk,
Speaker 1: secure the football and then start running. Happened? Which one?
Speaker 1: First one? Yeah, I just said that earlier. Is a miscommunication.
Speaker 1: We were we called a defense. Um, we should have
Speaker 1: been down to the right. We were down to the left.
Speaker 1: If we make that call, then Jordan has to compensate
Speaker 1: for it. If we don't make that call, it was
Speaker 1: the wrong call. So instead of the discussion about it
Speaker 1: being the wrong call, play the call because it's not
Speaker 1: a wrong call if we all line up the right way.
Speaker 1: And that was just really a miscommunication issue. Would the
Speaker 1: injuries at them at all? Now? I thought both those
Speaker 1: guys played really well, um, you know, especially considering what
Speaker 1: we thought they were going to be during the game.
Speaker 1: But uh, um, both of those guys graded up pretty
Speaker 1: well for us up from the Giant team. Was like, nah,
Speaker 1: I watched it on tape. I didn't watch the game
Speaker 1: on television. The Giants defense I've watched so far. I
Speaker 1: haven't watched the full game game. So was the mean
Speaker 1: Was there anything different than on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball versus what do you see out of it
Speaker 1: last year? Yeah, they have a new defensive coordinator, So
Speaker 1: it's a totally new scheme with Stags in there, and
Speaker 1: it's very similar to the schemes that he ran when
Speaker 1: Pat was with him at Saint Louis and what he
Speaker 1: was doing here when he was in Philadelphia. So thanks
Speaker 1: Ye