Speaker 1: Coming up on the game plan. Your commanders are out
Speaker 1: here in the desert being that Coach Dan point catch
Speaker 1: up for an interview.
Speaker 2: Out in sunny Arizona, and at the.
Speaker 1: End of the show our command center Coop talks about
Speaker 1: keys to a victory, how we can bring that, w
Speaker 1: come all day and more starts on the game plan.
Speaker 2: Welcoming in Coach to the game plan. Coach.
Speaker 1: First things first, congratulations on a huge prime time when.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun man, really fun.
Speaker 1: The fans were there, they showed up, There was so
Speaker 1: much burgundy and gold up and it just looked like
Speaker 1: such an exciting time.
Speaker 2: Just paint that atmosphere for us, and how much funny
Speaker 2: you had out there. Yeah, we had an absolute blast.
Speaker 3: We knew going into it there were certain markers that
Speaker 3: we'd have to do to go win. And the best
Speaker 3: part about games like that where maybe outside voices would say, no,
Speaker 3: this isn't going to happen, but the people inside that
Speaker 3: building all week in the preparation to get ready for
Speaker 3: that go time, they had the belief and that's the
Speaker 3: most important thing. So it was really good Man to
Speaker 3: have some of our fans there on the road in
Speaker 3: that kind of environment. It was an absolute blast of
Speaker 3: the locker room was lit up for sure. Is that
Speaker 3: outside know it is a little extra motivation for you
Speaker 3: that you mentioned. I think I wouldn't say it's motivation,
Speaker 3: but there is something when you get to go prove it,
Speaker 3: you know, when people think you can't do something and
Speaker 3: you get to go do it. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's showing them as much as like, okay, you know,
Speaker 3: like we're ready for that too, and so to Sanat's
Speaker 3: good team, you know, and we knew it was going
Speaker 3: to be a hard fought all the way through, but
Speaker 3: there is that chip on your shoulder just to show
Speaker 3: you can prove it. And that's what I do like
Speaker 3: about our guys, that we're not going to ride this
Speaker 3: roller coaster of up and down when people think we
Speaker 3: can or we can't. The main thing is what inside
Speaker 3: those walls and what the locker room thinks.
Speaker 1: That mentality is something. It seems like you and Jade
Speaker 1: and Daniel's share like he's out there to prove it,
Speaker 1: but he knows what he's there to do. Proke record
Speaker 1: highest completion percentage for a working quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: How great is it to be there?
Speaker 1: And watch Jade and go through these milestones and just
Speaker 1: continues to succeed.
Speaker 3: He's always down for anything, the bigger the challenge, usually
Speaker 3: a bigger to smile, you know, he absolutely wants to
Speaker 3: go do it, and so he's always down for it.
Speaker 3: And I love that about him. But he plays the
Speaker 3: position with smarts. He takes care of the ball, he
Speaker 3: knows where to put it, he can make plays with
Speaker 3: his leg and extend them. So it's just awesome to
Speaker 3: see like him play in this position. But like, if
Speaker 3: you want a big challenge, that you'll get a big
Speaker 3: smile as well, Like he is down for that.
Speaker 1: And certain we're seeing this offense expand and open and
Speaker 1: see the different things you can do. But I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody would have expected Shade's first touchdown to go
Speaker 1: to an offensive alignment. What went into that decision making
Speaker 1: and seeing Trent Scott the big man yes.
Speaker 3: In for a few weeks and so sometimes you get
Speaker 3: there but it may not show up in the game.
Speaker 3: And so when it comes, and we knew Trent would
Speaker 3: be ready to deliver on that one because he had
Speaker 3: talked about you, I got my celebration already said, and
Speaker 3: he said, what you know, so he was very confident
Speaker 3: at the moment came that he'd be able to deliver.
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, it was really cool. Just you could
Speaker 3: feel the energy, uh, and the team erupted for Trent.
Speaker 2: On that play.
Speaker 1: And I mean you guys on the sideline as well,
Speaker 1: there's so much energy from you and the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Where is all that excitement before just from implementing the
Speaker 1: game planning and working out or was it just seeing
Speaker 1: guys succeed?
Speaker 2: I think probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 3: I think like you probably saw the sideline and rup
Speaker 3: for Terry so and I think what I feel for
Speaker 3: Terry is like he's a pros pro and if you
Speaker 3: want to study somebody, don't study him when the times
Speaker 3: are going good. You want to study him during the
Speaker 3: times of adversity. Yes, And so for Terry, where a
Speaker 3: lot of different quarterbacks, things around him may have changed,
Speaker 3: but he never did. And he's got a standard about
Speaker 3: him that I really admire. And so I would say
Speaker 3: for him on that touchdown, the joy was also for him,
Speaker 3: you know, for what he stands for. For the other
Speaker 3: guys make from those big plays, it's just you know,
Speaker 3: teams supporting one another, and so we do in this game,
Speaker 3: it would have to be all three phases looting one
Speaker 3: another up, and that's what a brotherhood does.
Speaker 2: So that was really really cool to see.
Speaker 1: And going back to Terry, that moment where you guys
Speaker 1: embraced another one sideline, everybody saw a huge smile on
Speaker 1: your face. That's the kind of guy you are, the
Speaker 1: let's kind of coach you are. Why is that important
Speaker 1: for you to give that emotion and that love to
Speaker 1: these guys where it's not just business, it's also a family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, we spend so much time
Speaker 3: together and the relationships run deep because we want it
Speaker 3: so badly for them as well, and we know what
Speaker 3: they put into it. And so sometimes our families may
Speaker 3: not know, our friends may not know, but the ones
Speaker 3: that we're in there with, like, we know, we know
Speaker 3: how much work he puts in. And so that was
Speaker 3: probably the expression that I was trying to get across
Speaker 3: to him, man, like the.
Speaker 1: Work that you put in is worth it. And another
Speaker 1: guy that's putting in a ton of work and it's
Speaker 1: starting to show. Luke McCaffrey somewhat of a breakout game
Speaker 1: for him. What has it been like watching him grow
Speaker 1: into this role because there's a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: him too, he has a big name. This has been
Speaker 1: like watching him kind of mature into this offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for him, especially like we know the
Speaker 3: competitor he is, and so you're going to see guys
Speaker 3: continue to improve as they get more experience.
Speaker 2: Like this is Luke's third game.
Speaker 3: You know that he's been in on and so you
Speaker 3: make mistakes, you improve on him, and you have to
Speaker 3: be willing to go make some of those mistakes early
Speaker 3: because that's how you grow and you get better.
Speaker 2: And he had some in the first couple of games.
Speaker 3: But the sign of a true competitor that you don't
Speaker 3: make him again and you get another shot and you
Speaker 3: go dig again. And so seeing that with Luke come
Speaker 3: through like he is tough and he's always down for it.
Speaker 3: So he's another guy that's just like a true competitor.
Speaker 3: And use the word mistakes, so let's look forward.
Speaker 1: So the Arizona Cardinals, because they can force some turnovers,
Speaker 1: they can cause offices to make mistakes and that so
Speaker 1: sharing young offense has not made many mistakes. How you've
Speaker 1: kept the guys locked in and fulcused like that I
Speaker 1: think It's really like our whole philosophy. You know that
Speaker 1: the ball will determine, you know, the game, and so
Speaker 1: can we knock a few out on defense?
Speaker 2: Can we control it on offense?
Speaker 3: Going against a good team like Arizona, you don't want
Speaker 3: to give them extra possessions. And that was the same
Speaker 3: thing with Cincinnati with their explosive offense, because you limit
Speaker 3: their number of possessions in the game. Making sure you
Speaker 3: take care of the ball and have the ability to
Speaker 3: make sure they have to do it a long way
Speaker 3: and on a long field, and so having the discipline
Speaker 3: to do that is something that we coach, you know,
Speaker 3: every day, every play, just how we get down.
Speaker 1: And coach, you made a decision to have the surface
Speaker 1: Cincinnati come out here to Arizona. We'll be spending the
Speaker 1: week out here until the game. What goes into that
Speaker 1: is that a team bonding things, that a chemistry thing.
Speaker 1: What makes you say, you know what, let's spend the
Speaker 1: week out in Arizona. Well, I think, first thing, it's
Speaker 1: good just to stay in this pocket together. We had
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, Monday night game.
Speaker 3: We've been back in Virginia early in the morning and
Speaker 3: then have to leave again on a Friday.
Speaker 2: We're accustomed to having these trips together.
Speaker 3: We did a few in training camp, but just here,
Speaker 3: just focus on our getting better. Is there the chemistry
Speaker 3: that takes place on that absolutely, but by design it's
Speaker 3: to get us ready for Sunday and that's the main thing, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And then you have guys that are ready, that are
Speaker 1: just waiting to get on on that field. And it
Speaker 1: shows last week you will missing some big guys claning
Speaker 1: for Emmanuel Forbes. How did the guys step up in
Speaker 1: their place for our defense? That's part of being on
Speaker 1: a good team.
Speaker 3: And as you go through the season, whether it's practice,
Speaker 3: squad elevations or guys taking more reps, when it comes,
Speaker 3: they're ready for those moments and you don't want to
Speaker 3: miss them. And so that's why the practice is so important,
Speaker 3: the development is so important. So when your opportunity does
Speaker 3: get called, that you're ready to deliver for your teammates.
Speaker 3: And that's a really powerful feeling. And I gotta delivered
Speaker 3: Monday night. Johnny k Newman, he made his impact felt
Speaker 3: on the game.
Speaker 1: What did you see from him in practice and leaning
Speaker 1: up that made you say, you know what you're going
Speaker 1: to play a big role for us tonight.
Speaker 2: I felt in practice.
Speaker 3: This week two young players stood out to me defensively,
Speaker 3: he and Baptiste to where their legs runnerneath them. I
Speaker 3: felt their speed, I felt their quickness, and so now
Speaker 3: they're ready to take off.
Speaker 2: And so when you kind of get your legs underneath you, that.
Speaker 3: Means you're a little more explosive, you're a little you're
Speaker 3: less thinking, and you're really ready to deliver.
Speaker 2: And so for both of.
Speaker 3: Them, I was really pumped to get you know, their
Speaker 3: play ramped up and make them have an impact in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 1: And you've been on standings and Baptist's work. Not many
Speaker 1: coaches put that kind of belief in a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick so early, but he came out and he had
Speaker 1: a second what about standing team deaptists? Have you seen
Speaker 1: that's rare from a seventh round guy that shows you
Speaker 1: that you know what this guy's ready to play now.
Speaker 3: He has a great length and the ability to change
Speaker 3: direction for a taller guy. A lot of people don't
Speaker 3: have that. Oftentimes just the smaller, shorter guy that has
Speaker 3: good change direction, but he can bend. He's athletic, He's
Speaker 3: got similar traits to Dorance in some ways where he
Speaker 3: can take it up and bend. He's got good football,
Speaker 3: you know, IQ, He's tough, and so I just will
Speaker 3: continue to see guys like him and McCaffrey and Johnny
Speaker 3: Newton and others just continue to make these strives as
Speaker 3: this season progresses along the game reps for them are
Speaker 3: really really valuable because that's where they grow. When you
Speaker 3: mentioned a guy like Dorrence Armstrong, him and Thala, you
Speaker 3: have a relationship with him.
Speaker 2: These guys now they're here with a new look pass rush.
Speaker 2: How we feel they.
Speaker 3: Fare so far in these defense first three weeks thought,
Speaker 3: it's one of the areas that you know, we're emphasizing
Speaker 3: hard to make sure that part can develop because as
Speaker 3: a defense, it's you know, balance of one another. It's
Speaker 3: the coverage, it's rush, it's rush, it's coverage. How do
Speaker 3: those mesh together? So making sure we're always on the
Speaker 3: same page. But Da and Dante both great experience, great
Speaker 3: you know, knowledge of how to do it, and so
Speaker 3: like everything, the more turns we get.
Speaker 2: Together, you know, the better it'll be. And the Cardinals of.
Speaker 1: Should the ability can put up a lot of points
Speaker 1: as how do you plans to contain this offense.
Speaker 3: And a guy like calam Yeah, they've got real weapons,
Speaker 3: you know, from the running back spot and who's tough
Speaker 3: as hell, you know, wide receiver who they've added to.
Speaker 3: They got a fantastic tight end and then a quarterback
Speaker 3: that can extend plays. So they do have the ability
Speaker 3: to get big plays to get you know, get points.
Speaker 3: And so that'll be the challenge for us to make
Speaker 3: sure that we limit those big plays and find ways
Speaker 3: for our offense, you know, get the ball again, get
Speaker 3: the ball again, and allow them to go do some
Speaker 3: work too.
Speaker 1: You've got a level win, right, but there's always things
Speaker 1: you can learn from and grow from. What did you
Speaker 1: see from week three that you want to implement into
Speaker 1: week four but also grow from any.
Speaker 2: Fourth Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 3: And I would say what I liked is offensively, we
Speaker 3: really did a good job with the football, you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of taking care of it, to making sure
Speaker 3: we weren't going to give Cincinnati extra possessions on it.
Speaker 2: I love the energy on special teams.
Speaker 3: I thought our guys really ran and hit and created
Speaker 3: a decided field position edge. Austin Eckler had a long
Speaker 3: return to start the second half, so those set it
Speaker 3: off moments on special teams can be the difference and
Speaker 3: be the key that lights the whole thing off to
Speaker 3: make sure like.
Speaker 2: You can go make big plays.
Speaker 3: Arizona's got a good special teams group too, good return
Speaker 3: as well, so like that could be one of the
Speaker 3: battles the game within the game things we'd like to
Speaker 3: see us improve on, quite honestly, is us the offensively
Speaker 3: finding some ways to knock the ball out to create
Speaker 3: a few takeaways, and then offensively, you know, we're happy
Speaker 3: down the red zone, but let's make sure every time man,
Speaker 3: we're finishing in the end zone and.
Speaker 2: Sure and coach going on win streak right now?
Speaker 1: Is that true that there's momentum that comes with being
Speaker 1: on one street being talking the NFC East? Is there
Speaker 1: momentum coming into this game?
Speaker 2: Was just busines as usual?
Speaker 3: I think there's lessons to learn. The thing that we're
Speaker 3: not going to do is ride the roller coaster. You know,
Speaker 3: we're not going to go up, we're not going to
Speaker 3: go down. The highs and lows they can both be
Speaker 3: equally dangerous, and so we just want to make sure
Speaker 3: nobody here is by the ticket to the roller coaster.
Speaker 3: You know they're fun to beyond when it's high, but
Speaker 3: like you don't need the lows either. So stay consistent,
Speaker 3: do what we do and go find this just this
Speaker 3: week and just this game. Stay consistent coaching, you're as consistent.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you. Thanks for your time coaching. Good luck
Speaker 2: this weekend. All right, thanks.
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Speaker 4: All right, this is take it to winn and these
Speaker 4: are your must want match up. Let's start with the
Speaker 4: first one, guys, and it is Joe Wood Junior versus
Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison and really the entire Cardell's offense, right, because
Speaker 4: they present a whole bunch of different challenges. What do
Speaker 4: we think?
Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, you have
Speaker 5: to keep Kyler bottled up, You have to keep him
Speaker 5: in the pocket. And if you're gonna beat us Kyler Murray,
Speaker 5: you're gonna do it from inside of the pocket.
Speaker 2: And that's where the defensive line come up. Get your
Speaker 2: hands in there.
Speaker 4: You're not very tall, right, He's not very tall. Just
Speaker 4: want to see us.
Speaker 6: Finally play coverage over somebody who I feel like can
Speaker 6: beat us, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: One of the things about you you can't be scared
Speaker 2: of no one.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And this was a young guy.
Speaker 6: He has to you know, earn his key. But I
Speaker 6: feel like he's.
Speaker 2: The guy that's capable of, you know, the game.
Speaker 6: If he gets man the man, they're gonna go at them.
Speaker 6: So I want to see I want to see us
Speaker 6: play coverage more towards him and then make those other
Speaker 6: guys beat us, because I feel like every week when
Speaker 6: we get a guy like that with this potential, we
Speaker 6: seem to let him go out there and do his thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think, you know, he's a good football player,
Speaker 4: but a young player. I think we can definitely be
Speaker 4: a little bit more aggressive with him. All Right, So
Speaker 4: we got our linebackers versus James Connor, who's actually a
Speaker 4: very effective running How do we slow him down?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, when he runs, they win, like
Speaker 5: so at the end of the day, you have to
Speaker 5: stop that ground game for it's Kyler Murray to be
Speaker 5: their ground game on erradic plays. But I me myself
Speaker 5: if I'm coach with I want to introduce Frankie Louvu
Speaker 5: like time after time after time and not no pass blitzing,
Speaker 5: run blitzing. I think if you run blisch early, they
Speaker 5: have to throw late.
Speaker 2: I think you got a battle of these guys up.
Speaker 6: I think these dogs here, these two dogs gotta got
Speaker 6: they gotta go eat, they gotta go go out to
Speaker 6: this guy. I think one of the things that they
Speaker 6: do special is running the ball. Well, we've seen that,
Speaker 6: we won. We've seen that we too, We've seen this
Speaker 6: week three, So that week four, they're gonna take the
Speaker 6: same resct of me, try to do the same thing.
Speaker 6: They got to go out there and and not only
Speaker 6: you know, set the tone, but they have to be
Speaker 6: be active all day because they're going to try to.
Speaker 4: Run the ball, yeah, one hundred percent. And then that
Speaker 4: offense goes as he goes, So thinking saw them down,
Speaker 4: that's gonna really help us out. And then this is
Speaker 4: maybe the most important one. It's the quarterback versus Jonathan Ganning.
Speaker 4: This guy is throwing everything with the kitchen sat and
Speaker 4: how does this guy handle that? To be a huge matchup.
Speaker 2: Don't let them play the mind games. The mind is
Speaker 2: gonna come.
Speaker 6: They're gonna show different curves, they're gonna show different looks
Speaker 6: and try to.
Speaker 2: Try to mess him up.
Speaker 6: Because he's a young guy, you know.
Speaker 2: Play the game that he knows best.
Speaker 6: I think one of the things that he can do
Speaker 6: is allow Cliff to go out there and do all
Speaker 6: that against him. Cliff is gonna put him in situations
Speaker 6: where you don't have to worry about nothing. Just do
Speaker 6: as I say, and when you see the guy open,
Speaker 6: take advantage of it. So that's all I say. Don't
Speaker 6: let him get into your head. Let me clip well
Speaker 6: to think about it. This guy is a mester Jedi.
Speaker 6: He's gonna play Jedi mind tricks with a yochster right there.
Speaker 6: He's gonna try to show him everything but the kitchen sink. Jaded,
Speaker 6: come down, process things and follow through.
Speaker 4: Guys, Thanks for hanging out. That does it for the
Speaker 4: game plan.
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