Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, this preseason, you're gonna be facing some
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks Andrew Love, Joe Flacco, Aaron Rodgers. What are
Speaker 1: you looking to see from you know, secondary as a whole.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the better competition. You know, it's
Speaker 1: great rest for us. You know, it's, um, none of
Speaker 1: these preseason games count, but we all we're going out
Speaker 1: there to compete. And so when you go to compete,
Speaker 1: you want to go against the best. And so not
Speaker 1: only do we go against good quarterbacks, but all these
Speaker 1: teams have really good receivers as well, and so it'd
Speaker 1: be cool for us to see how we match up
Speaker 1: on the outsides some of these tight ends that we
Speaker 1: got going on. And um, you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: good dry run for us pretty much. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're working hard and looking forward to the petition, second
Speaker 1: years years, the playbooks, what he can call when all options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the more guys he brings in, the more
Speaker 1: versatile the packages get, um, the more ideas get thrown
Speaker 1: on the table that we can add from different places.
Speaker 1: So there are some things that I brought in with
Speaker 1: me last year that we were able to install. Corey
Speaker 1: Underland brings some stuff this year that he had, you know,
Speaker 1: with other teams that we've installed, UM, even Byron Maxwell
Speaker 1: being you know in a team that plays a lot
Speaker 1: of three deep and in single high, he's able to
Speaker 1: you know, add some of his expertise to it. And
Speaker 1: so when you take all of these um different ideas
Speaker 1: from veterans and coaches, you put them all together, you
Speaker 1: get to expand your playbook. You get to change it up,
Speaker 1: tweak it to where it's advantageous for us as players.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know we've seen that the scheme take
Speaker 1: that next step, UM to where we're um keeping our identity.
Speaker 1: We still want to be in your face, single high,
Speaker 1: disruptive on the outside, get after the quarterback, but also
Speaker 1: be able to do some other things that are um,
Speaker 1: you know, surprise some quarterbacks. One Maxwell got No. I
Speaker 1: mean you just kind of know who you're working with.
Speaker 1: I mean, regardless, I really feel good about our matchups, UM,
Speaker 1: whether it's Nolan or Maxwell. But UM, you know, the
Speaker 1: Maxwell's a guy we brought in uh to to really
Speaker 1: be that that lockdown corner for us. So we'll let
Speaker 1: him travel and you know we think Nolan a lot
Speaker 1: of these people we play it is you got one
Speaker 1: premier receiver, but then that next guy is also pretty good.
Speaker 1: We got the Falcons week one where you got Julio
Speaker 1: on one side and Ride Wide another. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's they're both quality number one receiver. So you know,
Speaker 1: although you make you probably make Maxwell travel with Julio,
Speaker 1: it's it's not a slouter on the other side of that.
Speaker 1: So we all got to be good. I'm able to
Speaker 1: hold up in our own matchups complaining slot and because
Speaker 1: the firing has that it is really good at it.
Speaker 1: What are we maybe making too much about who's out
Speaker 1: there commuting for the quote quote you know, the boinking spot,
Speaker 1: and then it's like I think so I think I
Speaker 1: think that's the spot that we're not really worried about.
Speaker 1: Like you said, from myself to Maxwell to Walter Nolan
Speaker 1: played dime last year. UM, any of us can drop
Speaker 1: down in that position at any point in time. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest question is who's the third safety, because
Speaker 1: if you do take me or Walter and put us
Speaker 1: down there, somebody else has got to come in at safety.
Speaker 1: And and I think that's that's where the most competition
Speaker 1: is at right now, is just who's the next best
Speaker 1: defense about to come in. Eric Rothe is taking some
Speaker 1: reps that the nicggle this past week. He's getting a
Speaker 1: lot a lot more comfortable with it and it's making plays. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a lot of young guys that
Speaker 1: are are stepping up to it was obviously uh I
Speaker 1: loss having a course Shephard go down, but um, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys that can go play that position. Also,
Speaker 1: Satan bates because of your ability to play. Yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: have to worry about Yeah, that's what we did last year.
Speaker 1: We played base to a lot of through receiver formations
Speaker 1: and just let me play the receiver. We don't want
Speaker 1: to live in that, but we can very easily get
Speaker 1: through games just like that. And guy more than heavy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we don't necessarily if we didn't want to
Speaker 1: play nickel, we didn't have to because it's essentially the
Speaker 1: same package, primarily you playing that fat guy. Yeah. Now
Speaker 1: we got a guy that worried you can fly before Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they can use more quasility to stay based. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: well last year it was it was me and Nate
Speaker 1: and then I just Nate was more comfortable playing deep
Speaker 1: and so I just whenever we were in saying wahai,
Speaker 1: I just went down on either side. Now we don't
Speaker 1: have to do that. We'll just play true left and right,
Speaker 1: and you know, you never know where we'll be at
Speaker 1: and so that does give us more flexibility with that
Speaker 1: where we don't have to kind of show our hand, um,
Speaker 1: and then we can play nickel, we can play dime.
Speaker 1: You know. Right now we're just trying to see who
Speaker 1: our best dvs are and then we'll figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get all of them on the field. Changed
Speaker 1: contensive line shout a, secondary trends not there anymore, brandings
Speaker 1: fully exchanged. It's your goody, okay, shouldn't take a little
Speaker 1: time Poles to shoot down. Who do you exchec hey
Speaker 1: t fool teeth A gets the plant. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: right where we can, doug where we need to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, the growing pains happen here in the preseason,
Speaker 1: so whatever those are, we're trying to work out all
Speaker 1: the kinks. Um. Not to say that I expect, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody the Brandon Graham will go in there and produce
Speaker 1: like Trent Cole Concernt Coles obviously an awesome player, and
Speaker 1: it's done a whole bunch in this league. But I
Speaker 1: want the best of Brandon Graham, and I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be just as much. That's all we need, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be He's gonna feel that real
Speaker 1: nice and I think as long as we can get
Speaker 1: the best that he has, I'm completely confident in our
Speaker 1: d lions covered corner. How important is that he can
Speaker 1: play both sides in the field against the opposition's conversation,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's gonna be essential for any corner
Speaker 1: that's going to travel with somebody, that he can play
Speaker 1: both sides. I think he's comfortable with playing both sides.
Speaker 1: We rotated them throughout camp on left and right, and
Speaker 1: so I don't think that's gonna be an issue. Um
Speaker 1: and and I don't think we'll travel unless we have to,
Speaker 1: unless we go to a game where we really feel
Speaker 1: like we're outmatched. Um yeah. But otherwise, if we don't
Speaker 1: we like the matchups, we'll stay left and right practice. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, we had a lot of guys that, you know,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, took a little day off. So I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure that you know, they had
Speaker 1: a nice little seat and a place in the shade.
Speaker 1: You know, while we all were working out here, Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I got all those guys. De Marco was the last one.
Speaker 1: Nothing funny little joke. And when you see guys, you know,
Speaker 1: all of them obviously have reasons they're saying out. But
Speaker 1: when you're warming up and they're just they got the
Speaker 1: advisors on this, you gotta laugh where you get upset
Speaker 1: one of in those big plays over the top about
Speaker 1: why how big is it to have that played in
Speaker 1: covered coming down the middle of the the field and not yet.
Speaker 1: I mean it's to be honest that I don't think
Speaker 1: the tight end really has anything to do with it
Speaker 1: because the post safety is only going to make plays
Speaker 1: between the numbers. You know, he can get to you know,
Speaker 1: from one number to the next. So anything outside of
Speaker 1: that the corner and uh, you know that's why we
Speaker 1: pay him. And and when you play a lot of
Speaker 1: single high that's their area field and that's where they
Speaker 1: gotta take care of above anything else. This summer, his
Speaker 1: confidence has gotten a lot higher. He's running his routes
Speaker 1: a lot of these are is catching the ball a
Speaker 1: lot better than he did last year. Um, and I
Speaker 1: think he's he's ready to make plays and that's I
Speaker 1: can see that his demeanor, the way it goes about
Speaker 1: practice and every day. Um, it just has a lot
Speaker 1: more confidence about the self and about his games. Happening
Speaker 1: in the preseason. That said, how excited you to see
Speaker 1: what you guys can do against another team? And what
Speaker 1: do you look for from this new look defense? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm very excited. You know, when you at
Speaker 1: this point in training camp, you're kind of tired of
Speaker 1: going against your own offense. Um, you've installed everything three
Speaker 1: or four times and now you're really you know, you're
Speaker 1: ready to take the show in the road. So we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to going against you know, a t Y
Speaker 1: Hill and Andre Johnson, Andrew Luck, Uh, you know all
Speaker 1: the tight ends they got, Dwayne Allen, all of them, Um,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore. So it's gonna be a great little matchup
Speaker 1: we have and to see where we act. Although it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be short, you still want to get out there,
Speaker 1: fly around, get your timing right, get your communications right. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of it. You want to see
Speaker 1: these young guys. You want to see who can play,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is all an evaluation period for them,
Speaker 1: and so they get out there they compete and show
Speaker 1: what they got, and you know, as the preseason goes along,
Speaker 1: you start to figure out who you're gonna have on
Speaker 1: your fifty three man roster and who you're taking into
Speaker 1: the season. I mean, so right now, it's just an
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to compete and continue to evaluate ourselves.
Speaker 1: All yeah, yeah, yeah,