Speaker 1: Six sacks of said he was holding onto the ball
Speaker 1: too long. The old line kind of took the blame
Speaker 1: for it. How did you see is shaping up when
Speaker 1: you looked at the film? You know, we talk about
Speaker 1: we talk about past protection as an offensive unit. It
Speaker 1: involves all of us quarterback, offensive line, tight ends backs,
Speaker 1: and so when it goes when you go to a
Speaker 1: game and you have six sacks, we're not internally, we're
Speaker 1: not looking to point to finger. We're looking at each
Speaker 1: one of us as coaches. Did we help him enough?
Speaker 1: Did we put him in the right protection scheme? Each
Speaker 1: players looking at his own deal. So, although that gets
Speaker 1: evaluated on an individual basis in the position rooms, I
Speaker 1: can tell you usually when you have a game where
Speaker 1: you have six sacks, it's not one guy, it's not
Speaker 1: just the offensive line, it's not just it's spread out
Speaker 1: and you go into that environment obviously tougher environment, but
Speaker 1: you had a lot of trouble running the running back screens,
Speaker 1: which is just one specific play. Why aren't why aren't
Speaker 1: why aren't they working in wine teams able to blow
Speaker 1: them up? You know, we hit the one screen for
Speaker 1: we hit the one screen for fifteen or so yards
Speaker 1: to Sproles. We had the interception, which was a bad play,
Speaker 1: you know, which ended up a bad negative result. Um,
Speaker 1: if you run a number of screens in the year,
Speaker 1: usually you're gonna end up with one on the year,
Speaker 1: one fluke interception like we ended up. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you run enough screens in sixteen games, that's probably going
Speaker 1: to happen to you. We had three or four other
Speaker 1: screens called. Two of them were potentially big plays that
Speaker 1: we just uh, the one, the one their defender made
Speaker 1: a great play. We had it set up to perfection,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a huge play. There's one guy
Speaker 1: defender and he slipped a block and and and gotten
Speaker 1: away of what would have been a big play. And
Speaker 1: then the other one, Um, we just we just missed
Speaker 1: it. It It was set up nice. But talk about yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: in regards to the elfits of line, I know, you
Speaker 1: say there's a team unit, there's other factors like holding
Speaker 1: the ball, getting help in whatever. But Isaac did have
Speaker 1: a number of one on one blogging opportunities that he
Speaker 1: just got flat meat at least three or four. So
Speaker 1: are there any concerns about him going forward? And has
Speaker 1: there been any consideration toward maybe he's starting somebody else
Speaker 1: against the Giants this week. And I think the way
Speaker 1: we look at it is one thing every player knows
Speaker 1: and every coach knows. You line up in that environment
Speaker 1: against really good players on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get beat every now and then. And
Speaker 1: you know, at every position, and not just at guard
Speaker 1: or at tackle or at center or your corner. You know,
Speaker 1: a receiver getting beat beat up by a corner, it happens.
Speaker 1: So when we look at stuff like that, when we
Speaker 1: see you know, when you see an individual get beat
Speaker 1: once or twice in a game, you don't like it,
Speaker 1: but it happens to literally everybody who suits up and
Speaker 1: goes out there and play. You know, now, if that
Speaker 1: happens over six, if that happens over five, six, seven games,
Speaker 1: becomes a problem and you evaluate it. When it happens
Speaker 1: in one game, you say, okay, we take note of it,
Speaker 1: but we got a lot of confidence and we've been
Speaker 1: working hard. We believe in our guys. So um, whether
Speaker 1: it's Isaac or whether it's another guy, it happens in
Speaker 1: this league. We fight to get better and uh, and
Speaker 1: then you evaluate over the long haul, were there a
Speaker 1: number of players that Carson would have checked out of
Speaker 1: run calls or was that just the way the game
Speaker 1: played out? You know, I think it was just the
Speaker 1: way the game played out. I know that's sometimes said,
Speaker 1: but you know, we came out, we schemed some things up.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. We schemed some things up
Speaker 1: in the past game and hit a few things early
Speaker 1: on a few chunk players that felt good about um
Speaker 1: try to keep the mix. Of course, then you get
Speaker 1: late in that game, and I know the ratio was
Speaker 1: probably a little bit more past than you ideally want,
Speaker 1: you know, But then you're down fourteen points, and so
Speaker 1: we throw what ten fifteen passes straight at the end
Speaker 1: of the game because we're down by two score wars
Speaker 1: and you have to throw because we're trying to win.
Speaker 1: So even if it was a little bit out of
Speaker 1: proportion at that point, it gets it ends up looking worse,
Speaker 1: and I just my experience is when you look around
Speaker 1: the league, it pretty much happens every week to one
Speaker 1: team or two teams are going to find themselves in
Speaker 1: the same kind of situation three thirteen before they went
Speaker 1: up fourteen points, So I mean, just throw those last
Speaker 1: two drives and it was still forty three out of
Speaker 1: fifty six were past plays. So I mean that is
Speaker 1: that too much? You know? I mean I think you know,
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't I'm assuming, okay, I assume
Speaker 1: you're right. At halftime, I remember, you know, getting the
Speaker 1: number at halftime. I think we were eighteen to nine
Speaker 1: or something like that at halftime when it got the number.
Speaker 1: We go out and we had we hit a couple
Speaker 1: of plays in the passing game. So all I can
Speaker 1: tell you is as a play caller, you're you're calling
Speaker 1: what you think is going to get the team down
Speaker 1: the field and in that situation, and so that's what
Speaker 1: we were doing. How do you think you guys did? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were some good There were some good things in
Speaker 1: the run game. We had a few nice runs and um,
Speaker 1: you know, darn Darren's Darren. I mean, Darren made some
Speaker 1: plays and offensive line did a good job at times,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, there were some good flashes. As far
Speaker 1: as the ratio goes, though, is there something to it?
Speaker 1: Like Week one took some shots to tore it down
Speaker 1: the field that didn't work, but it helps other aspects
Speaker 1: because stretches the field sometimes even if the running game
Speaker 1: isn't as effective, you have to do it, just for instance,
Speaker 1: to keep Carson upright for sixteen games because driver, I
Speaker 1: think every play caller, every coaching staff, you know, offensive
Speaker 1: coaching staff goes in and says, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to be patient with the running game. I mean, every staff,
Speaker 1: you have to be patient with the running game. But
Speaker 1: it's like I've said in here before, it's like getting
Speaker 1: this is literally the best analogy I can come up
Speaker 1: with it. It's like a boxing match. You get hit
Speaker 1: a few times, you get in the middle of a
Speaker 1: fight and you're trying to win the fight, and so
Speaker 1: you call you You're you're dialing up what you think
Speaker 1: is the knockout blow or what you can you know,
Speaker 1: the play that you think that will give you the
Speaker 1: best chance for success. And um, yeah, do you need
Speaker 1: Is there a balance if you want to keep calling
Speaker 1: runs even when they don't we're always work, Yes, but
Speaker 1: there has an asterisk next to it. You know. The
Speaker 1: overriding factor as the play caller is you're doing what
Speaker 1: you think is best for the team to win the game.
Speaker 1: On that screen that you mentioned with the defensive player,
Speaker 1: So you felt like Isaac couldn't have gotten him on
Speaker 1: a on a screen to Smallwood. It was it was tough.
Speaker 1: The defensive player made a good play, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I'm just wondering if yeah, you look at that.
Speaker 1: You know, usually on a screen, the offensive lineman are
Speaker 1: used to kind of getting out with a little bit
Speaker 1: of with this guy kind of ducked in behind, and
Speaker 1: you know, he made a very good play, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, And Isaac's athletic enough that sometimes he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna make that when other guys have no
Speaker 1: chance of making that play. Um, but that particular one,
Speaker 1: the defender did a really good job. You mentioned his
Speaker 1: athleticism when he has struggled, particularly in pass pro is
Speaker 1: a is it a mental thing, a physical thing, or
Speaker 1: is it a technical thing? Mean? Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: like any player. When when a player gets beat, it's
Speaker 1: usually a combination of things. It's hard to boil it
Speaker 1: down to one thing. Um, it's usually a combination. And
Speaker 1: within that combination is there's a guy lined up against
Speaker 1: me that's pretty good. He gets paid a lot of
Speaker 1: money as well, And so I think it's all those
Speaker 1: things combine. The decision was made and starting left guard
Speaker 1: at the end of the the camp. Why did you go
Speaker 1: in that direction as opposed to have a competition with
Speaker 1: the other guards for a startling experience. Yeah, I think Isaac.
Speaker 1: Could you know, Isaac had showed a lot of progress
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. Isaac is a versatile, smart player. UM,
Speaker 1: you know who were very high on so um. He
Speaker 1: had earned a position, he had earned the right to
Speaker 1: kind of get put in the position. And uh, and
Speaker 1: we're just proceeding with that from Parson playing deep balls?
Speaker 1: Is that here's the only one so far? You know,
Speaker 1: I think when I when you there hasn't been enough
Speaker 1: in game situations yet to evaluate as much as you want.
Speaker 1: But I think we did a couple of nice things
Speaker 1: this week, Carson. I like the fact that we hit
Speaker 1: a couple of back shoulder fades that's not necessarily the
Speaker 1: deep ball, but still kind of go routes that are
Speaker 1: back shoulders. I thought that was two really good throws
Speaker 1: by him there. Um. As far as the deep throws
Speaker 1: down the field, I think when I look at the
Speaker 1: whole spring, in the whole training camp and early on,
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in the way we're receivers
Speaker 1: are running those routes and throwing them. We just got
Speaker 1: to keep throwing them and then we'll hit our share
Speaker 1: of them enough. Yet, in Carey Clement's past blocking to
Speaker 1: consider using him more. Yeah, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in Corey's good good in protection showed that good
Speaker 1: aptitude for it. U is that the right place blocking
Speaker 1: the right guy and then physically a strong enough to
Speaker 1: hold up against most of the backers that are that
Speaker 1: are rushing. Right that he's in communication with people upstairs
Speaker 1: as it goes to the run pass ratio in game.
Speaker 1: Are you the person that he's in communication with and
Speaker 1: how did those conversations go on Sunday? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I've h the people upstairs. I talk to the people
Speaker 1: upstairs for the most part. As far as that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, you know, Coach, he's worried about calling the game,
Speaker 1: thinking about that, managing the defensive side of it, being
Speaker 1: over that side a little bit, listening to what's going
Speaker 1: on over there. I'm gathering information in between series and
Speaker 1: then from up top and then I'll talk to Stout
Speaker 1: on the sideline as far as a run game here,
Speaker 1: what he's talking to his guys about with the offensive line,
Speaker 1: talk to Mike row in the past game, h what
Speaker 1: are the receivers saying? Is there one corner that we
Speaker 1: think we can you know, are we feeling anything down low?
Speaker 1: Trying to get hands on approach? So we would literally
Speaker 1: have a pretty thorough process that we kind of go
Speaker 1: through after each series where I'm talking to the offensive
Speaker 1: line coach, I'm talk up into the receiver coach, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to the guys upstairs for the stats, and then
Speaker 1: it's my responsibility to filter that information and kind of
Speaker 1: give coach what I think is necessary for the next drive,
Speaker 1: include the past run ratio. Did you guys have that
Speaker 1: conversation at all on Sunday? Yeah, I mean that conversation.
Speaker 1: You know, we have that conversation you know all Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean all the time. I mean sometimes the conversation
Speaker 1: is yeah, Sometimes the conversation is a specific number. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the conversation is, hey, here's our runs for the next series.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it varies every time. The first run play of
Speaker 1: the game, you had Lane and Jason out on the
Speaker 1: left side. Where did that come from? And I know
Speaker 1: you can't do that obviously a lot, but is that
Speaker 1: something you could use again going forward? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's just a little changeup, a little
Speaker 1: changeup that you throw in there, and typically you have
Speaker 1: a couple of play package off of it. But it
Speaker 1: was something that we saw that we thought we could
Speaker 1: specifically use to attack their defensive front and their scheme
Speaker 1: third and long an awful lot. Uh the first two games.
Speaker 1: What do you make of that? You it worked out
Speaker 1: well against Washington you kept converting third and longs. But
Speaker 1: is that something you can sustain and why does it happened? Well,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have to sustain it, for sure,
Speaker 1: but the obvious the obvious answer is, you know, just
Speaker 1: be more productive on first and second down, avoid penalties,
Speaker 1: avoid negative plays. Looked at the Detroit game, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know last night against the Giants, it was crazy how
Speaker 1: they overcame. They were in third and eleven plus something
Speaker 1: like nine times, I mean, don't somewhere in the northern amount,
Speaker 1: third and eleven plus last night and they were able
Speaker 1: to overcome it. So as an offense, to win and
Speaker 1: that's all that matters is to win. So you got
Speaker 1: to overcome it. But we got to find a way
Speaker 1: to stay at a third and long shoulder pass. Carson's
Speaker 1: been able to throw more successful this year versus last year?
Speaker 1: What has been the difference there? And I'm sorry the
Speaker 1: back shoulder passes that he's thrown more of it and
Speaker 1: themistry feel just keep you gotta keep throwing those. You
Speaker 1: just gotta keep throwing him. You've got timing, the timing
Speaker 1: and rhythm of it, Um, seeing the leverage of the defender,
Speaker 1: trusting it, trusting the receiver because there's always the option
Speaker 1: to still throw it over the top. It's something that
Speaker 1: you have to trust that the receivers feeling the same
Speaker 1: thing that you're feeling. And then the accuracy of the throw.
Speaker 1: How much is that a part of your offense? And
Speaker 1: would you like to incorporate design runs in addition to
Speaker 1: its frond us? You know, with the quarterback like Carson,
Speaker 1: those designed runs are always in your back pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: It's I think it's something that every team has to
Speaker 1: think about when they play US. Um. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't want to put him in harm's way too many
Speaker 1: times on designed quarterback runs, but they're always available to us.
Speaker 1: And then coach d Filippo is you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things he always preaches the cars and is won
Speaker 1: a game, meaning you know, make one convert one third
Speaker 1: a game with your feet, you know, and uh says
Speaker 1: that to him all the time, and um, you know
Speaker 1: he's got the athleticism to do that. What does the
Speaker 1: Giants defense They Well, I think the Giants defense probably
Speaker 1: has the best or one of the better pressure packages
Speaker 1: that we face. They do a good job of disguising.
Speaker 1: They do a good job of presenting a similar presentation
Speaker 1: and have multiple looks off of it. Safeties do a
Speaker 1: very good job of disguising. They'll be all the way
Speaker 1: down one way and kick back the other way. They
Speaker 1: make a lot of things look the same. They'll give
Speaker 1: you a pressure look and bail out. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's nothing that you don't see every week. I just
Speaker 1: think that that Spags does a particularly good job coaching
Speaker 1: as guys and having the full complement of pressures that
Speaker 1: go with the different presentations that he gives you. With
Speaker 1: Windell the games he had success last year or running
Speaker 1: the ball Atlanta Pittsburgh, a Seattle tune extent, he had
Speaker 1: twelve to fourteen fifteen carries. People talk about the running
Speaker 1: back getting at a rhythm. Do you feel like a
Speaker 1: guy like him needs, you know, more than two or
Speaker 1: three carries to really get an evaluation of where he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that not just for running back,
Speaker 1: for a quarterback or an offensive lineman. The more reps
Speaker 1: you get, the better. So I think that's a fair
Speaker 1: assessment that you know, you wouldn't look at one day
Speaker 1: and say, well, he had however many rushes and and
Speaker 1: his average was down. You know, you need to evaluate
Speaker 1: that over the long haul and there will be some
Speaker 1: weeks hopefully that he'll get twelve or fourteen carries. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the way we're doing it. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a role for all of our backs, and it's a
Speaker 1: game plan thing, and we attack it week by week
Speaker 1: and coach and we sit down coach this down with
Speaker 1: the offensive staff and we work through what is the
Speaker 1: plan to utilize our personnel at that position each week