Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to touch any of those. All right,
Speaker 1: you guys got a really good stretch there where you're
Speaker 1: confounding Dak for a while and then um to the
Speaker 1: last three drives they scored touchdowns. What were some of
Speaker 1: the issues you saw during that span. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know it was. I think it was two out
Speaker 1: of last four. Yeah, two out because it was the overtime.
Speaker 1: We gave up the one and then they got the
Speaker 1: ball back twice. Um. But anyway, yeah, doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: I think a little bit of Um, we were blitz
Speaker 1: in an awful lot and a couple of plays we
Speaker 1: gave up where blitz And you know, I think there
Speaker 1: is a there's a little bit of truth to the
Speaker 1: old adage lived by the sword, died by the sword. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they made a couple of plays, and it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of time sometimes when they do. We
Speaker 1: gotta we had chances to be able to get off
Speaker 1: the field, particularly the overtime drive. Um. You know, we
Speaker 1: stopped him on the third down and one, and then
Speaker 1: we got a chance to get off the field on
Speaker 1: the fourth down in one, and I think that would
Speaker 1: have been a great chance to win the game, right,
Speaker 1: there because they go for it, we stop them, and
Speaker 1: now field goal wins the game. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: you'd do a couple of good things in the game,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter because we didn't do enough to
Speaker 1: win the game. We didn't make that play we needed,
Speaker 1: you know, to make one of those interceptions. We needed, um,
Speaker 1: you know, to strip the ball out. We need a
Speaker 1: couple of those balls that were floating. We need to
Speaker 1: find a way to pick one of those balls off.
Speaker 1: We didn't make that game change and play in the game,
Speaker 1: and as a result, we didn't win it. At the
Speaker 1: last two games, is your forming rush getting home enough
Speaker 1: for you? Well, it's been different, U in the games.
Speaker 1: I mean this game, um was a lot more man blitz.
Speaker 1: The week before that was a lot more zone blitz.
Speaker 1: You know, it's different quarterbacks, it's different game situations, it's
Speaker 1: different personnel. Um. You know, so every week it's going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit different. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought our four man pass rush it was it
Speaker 1: was it's difficult to get pressure and also contained the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And there were times where you know, we got pressure,
Speaker 1: but we spilled him out of the pocket and we
Speaker 1: didn't do a good job of containing him after that,
Speaker 1: and he made some plays with his feet. One of
Speaker 1: the ways that you can keep guys or try to
Speaker 1: keep guys from making plays with their feet as the
Speaker 1: pressure room in blitz and sort of take that option
Speaker 1: away from him. Um, it goes hand in hand. We
Speaker 1: got to do a better job in coverage when we did,
Speaker 1: and you know, pass rush, we got to be able
Speaker 1: to chase that guy down. That's that's tough duty, but
Speaker 1: it's our job to do it. The receiver lack room, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's tough. We've had some good receivers this year. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, really starting with prior. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he flew a little bit below the radar in that
Speaker 1: first game, but you know, I made a couple of plays.
Speaker 1: I think that maybe we sort of looked at his
Speaker 1: flute plays and now we've seen over the course of the
Speaker 1: the season they weren't flute plays. But you know, whether
Speaker 1: it was him alshon Jeffrey Antonio Brown, it seems like
Speaker 1: every week there's a guy like that. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: Beckham's you know, similar to Brown in some ways. He's
Speaker 1: got extreme quickness. Um, he can take a short pass
Speaker 1: and go to distance with it. He can threaten every
Speaker 1: every inch of the field lengthwise and width wise. And
Speaker 1: it's not just him down the field. We got to
Speaker 1: do a great job of tackle on him. I said
Speaker 1: before he this, this guy might be the best hitch
Speaker 1: runner in the NFL, um just meaning a three step hitch.
Speaker 1: And he's strong, he can stop on a dime, he's
Speaker 1: strong coming back to make the catch, and then he
Speaker 1: can run after the catch, and all those things make
Speaker 1: him very dangerous, not just down the field, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people see, but in that short area. So
Speaker 1: you know, we have our work cut out for us,
Speaker 1: and um, we're going to mix our coverages up. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to tackle when he does catch the ball
Speaker 1: because you know sometimes he is going to catch it
Speaker 1: and we have to limit those big plays. He makes
Speaker 1: plays all over the field. And it's not just him though. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they've their receiving crew has made a lot
Speaker 1: of plays and they obviously have a Super Bowl winning
Speaker 1: quarterback that that you know that puts those guys in position,
Speaker 1: So it's not just him. Apart from just the schematics
Speaker 1: of trying to defend Beckham, is there anything do you
Speaker 1: take any consideration that there have been times where it
Speaker 1: looks like he's been agitated, that opposing defensive backs defenses
Speaker 1: kind of got him frustrated, and that maybe you can
Speaker 1: use that to give to your advantage. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the only thing. I mean, we certainly want to frustrate
Speaker 1: every receiver and the way we do that is keep
Speaker 1: him from catching the ball and limited his ability after
Speaker 1: the ball. But that's the only thing that or after
Speaker 1: the catch. That's the only thing we've talked about with him.
Speaker 1: And that's no different than you know, like every week
Speaker 1: when we talk about guys, particularly guys that are marquee players,
Speaker 1: you certainly want to take them out of the game plan.
Speaker 1: You want to make the quarterback press to have to
Speaker 1: throw it to him, you know, And I think that
Speaker 1: goes into everybody. But the rest of it, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been an item of conversation this week. Defensive played against
Speaker 1: stars thing I'm just worried about this week. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, those guys are going to
Speaker 1: make plays and it's our job to find ways to
Speaker 1: stop them from making plays. Um, I think we're Um,
Speaker 1: the way we played receivers is four and three, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's our record, and that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that really matters. It doesn't matter how many yards
Speaker 1: you give up, it doesn't matter how many points you
Speaker 1: give up. It's how many times you've won the game.
Speaker 1: And we're four and three right now. Offensive A lot
Speaker 1: of the path lays talk about trying to make teams
Speaker 1: one dimension is if you were there, that's different. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's a little bit different. They
Speaker 1: have some skilled players that can make plays. They obviously
Speaker 1: had an injury at running back and I think that
Speaker 1: um affected them a little bit. UM, But I think
Speaker 1: their running game has been more than choosing to pass
Speaker 1: rather than not being able to run. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are no huddle team, there are a call to play
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage team um, you know, and
Speaker 1: Elie is going to almost called him Peyton, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of similarities, you know, different offense, but similarities
Speaker 1: in that he's going to try to put the offense
Speaker 1: in the right play. They have very few third down
Speaker 1: and extra longs, you know, which is a lot of
Speaker 1: times the sign of a quarterback staying out at bad plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes a run for one or two
Speaker 1: yards isn't a isn't a bad play, it's better than
Speaker 1: a sack. It's better than a lost yardage run stuff
Speaker 1: like that. And I think that the quarterback has done
Speaker 1: a really good job of keeping them on track and
Speaker 1: they've made enough plays in the passing game to, you know,
Speaker 1: to make up for the lack of run. But a
Speaker 1: little bit before with Beckham and it's not just him,
Speaker 1: but you know, all those guys Crews and Cheff and
Speaker 1: all those guys are good short pass runners, and the
Speaker 1: ball comes out of the quarterback's hand fast, and some
Speaker 1: of their passing game is an extension of the run game.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can be in a good position
Speaker 1: to stop the run. They can throw a short pass
Speaker 1: and you know, even if they get four or five yards,
Speaker 1: that's really a good run. But Eli is so good
Speaker 1: at getting that ball out quick and eliminate and avoiding
Speaker 1: the bad plays that it's what it makes up for
Speaker 1: their lack of run game. And um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that that's probably you know, that's just as important.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how they gain yards. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: matter of gaining yards and scoring points. And if you
Speaker 1: do it all passing, you know, there's no there's no
Speaker 1: extra points or you know, anything else for running it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's more of a decision they've made
Speaker 1: and their number of run attempts than it is lack
Speaker 1: of confidence or lack of production in their run game.
Speaker 1: Feels a chance to play a lot, play some nickel
Speaker 1: last week? How is he coming along? How's he developing
Speaker 1: in your rice? Yeah, you know, he's he's Uh, he's
Speaker 1: done a good job of just about everything that we've
Speaker 1: asked him to do. And it is we're starting to
Speaker 1: spread him. I don't want to say spread him, spread
Speaker 1: him thin, but his role is increased just because of
Speaker 1: some of our injuries and you know, rich and we
Speaker 1: wanted to keep him in one position. He played a
Speaker 1: lot of nickel at LSU, so it's a position he's
Speaker 1: played before. But um, you know, we wanted to leave
Speaker 1: him at one position, let him settle in. I thought
Speaker 1: that was a good Uh, that was a good philosophy
Speaker 1: and it served him well to develop. But now he's
Speaker 1: going to be asked to do different things and I
Speaker 1: think he's ready for it. Um. Jalen is extremely competitive,
Speaker 1: and you know that's the thing that probably serves him
Speaker 1: the best as he goes forward, not just this year,
Speaker 1: but in his career, if Jalen's in the slot or Malcolm, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that game, there was a lot of difference.
Speaker 1: We were using Malcolm the blitz, um, and he was
Speaker 1: also in some of our run fronts and you know
Speaker 1: some of our man coverage. They were going for wide
Speaker 1: receivers at times. When I say that, I mean Dallas Cowboys. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, so there was different matchups with you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get um, you know, different wide receivers and
Speaker 1: things like that. So, yes, that that that goes into it.
Speaker 1: There's other things that go into it too, whether it's
Speaker 1: the call all um, you know what you're doing. You know,
Speaker 1: even um Jalen Watkins played some nickel in that last
Speaker 1: game too. He was down covering some of those guys.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just where we are when we
Speaker 1: lost Brooks. We got to sort of compartmentalize it and
Speaker 1: you know, eventually it'll settle down. But right now we're
Speaker 1: sort of handling it with three, maybe even four different
Speaker 1: guys in there. As he continued, it seems like you're
Speaker 1: giving a little more playing time. Has he has he
Speaker 1: earned it? And has he earned it anymore? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: Marcus has been a consistent player when it comes to
Speaker 1: rushing into pass or for us this year, it's just been,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been hard to get playing time. It's
Speaker 1: been hard, hard to get a lot of reps. First
Speaker 1: of all, early in the season, we weren't playing a
Speaker 1: lot of reps. But these last couple of games we
Speaker 1: have played more and therefore a snap count's gone up. Um.
Speaker 1: But he has been productive when he's been out there.
Speaker 1: It's made some tackles for loss and uh and had
Speaker 1: had that sack which was you know, which was you know,
Speaker 1: big and getting a drive stopped as Jordan Hicks's playoff
Speaker 1: made the last two weeks. What you said, yeah, at
Speaker 1: the game he played against Minnesota was was big and
Speaker 1: he played well last week. Um, so I think that's
Speaker 1: fair to say. I mean, I think he's been a
Speaker 1: consistent player this year. But um, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: he's made us. He's made a definite impact these last
Speaker 1: couple of games. And there's probably a difference between doing
Speaker 1: your job and doing your job well and making an impact,
Speaker 1: and he has made an impact these last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and we look forward to him doing more of it. Um.
Speaker 1: He has a lot on his plate. We've said that before,
Speaker 1: not just physically but mentally, and um, you know there's
Speaker 1: been no challenge that he hasn't been up for. How difficult.
Speaker 1: There's two questions. Get ready to pass on this one,
Speaker 1: so go ahead. Yeah, you guys got me on that
Speaker 1: one in the spring. So like how physical visites to
Speaker 1: deal with, like off the deal and stuff. Oh, not
Speaker 1: touching that one. Thanks yeah, thanks. Line. You know, with
Speaker 1: Benny being out, how did they hold up? Allowing and
Speaker 1: Dusty BLI. Yeah, you know, we we had a couple
Speaker 1: of plays and it's tough. We went in with three
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, which we had the week before. Um, you
Speaker 1: know it starts to you know, it's tough when you're
Speaker 1: in there and you've got two guys pushing on you
Speaker 1: every play. You can wear it down a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought bos played well the last couple of weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it puts a little bit more pressure on
Speaker 1: those guys that are in there. Um. You know, our
Speaker 1: running game against Dallas was a mixed bag. You know,
Speaker 1: there were times we stopped to run very well for
Speaker 1: a team that was leading the NFL and rushing we
Speaker 1: got after it good, but then there were a couple
Speaker 1: of times they got some ten yard runs in there,
Speaker 1: and you know, um, we can do we can do
Speaker 1: those things better. So I probably just put our defensive
Speaker 1: tackles as everybody else. We're four and three right now,
Speaker 1: so there's been some good and there's been some bad.
Speaker 1: And for us to get where we want to we
Speaker 1: need to even out. We need to even out the
Speaker 1: rough spots and uh and and find a way to
Speaker 1: improve over the course of the year. Thanks h