Speaker 1: Today's training and tomorrow's training, and then we'll sit down
Speaker 1: as a staff tomorrow afternoon and outline who's playing what
Speaker 1: and what's going on on Saturday nights game. What are
Speaker 1: you so there's you know arms before all this, and
Speaker 1: what are your pricing team? Just out of practice sesterday.
Speaker 1: I didn't know John. I know, I knew Jim just
Speaker 1: because I played a coach against him when he was
Speaker 1: at Stanford, So I know Jim a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: very well, but I didn't. I didn't know John. I
Speaker 1: know of John's reputation and done unbelieable job at Baltimore UM.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday, really interaction was we just got a
Speaker 1: chance to talk before, but he was on his field
Speaker 1: and I was on our field, so I didn't really
Speaker 1: get a chance. And then followed up with him afterwards.
Speaker 1: But obviously done unbelievable job at Baltimore, won a Super Bowl. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're always in the playoffs, they are always one of
Speaker 1: the top teams in the league. So I've got a
Speaker 1: great respect from from that same point being ready to
Speaker 1: you and how he looked better. I thought Sam did
Speaker 1: a real nice job yesterday, and we were excited where
Speaker 1: he's going and I hope we can put another game
Speaker 1: another day together. Today. What you talked about having him
Speaker 1: out there with another team rushing and did you see
Speaker 1: him in h did you get that kind of fam Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Baltimore's front is very formidable with Sugs
Speaker 1: and Tumerville and Kanty and the rest of the guys
Speaker 1: in there. So um, but again they're still not hitting them,
Speaker 1: so you know, there's great respect for both teams. We
Speaker 1: you know, we're staying off for Flak, other staying out
Speaker 1: for Sam and and all the other quarterbacks. So um.
Speaker 1: You know, but I thought the work we got in
Speaker 1: with him yesterday was good. Yeah, he'll continue to do more.
Speaker 1: As you know, he was out for almost a week
Speaker 1: and a half, two weeks, so we're just bringing easing
Speaker 1: him back in. But he looked he looked good yesterday
Speaker 1: and there were no effects. So um, we'll continue to
Speaker 1: easing back in more. Here. He played against the brains
Speaker 1: versus showing him too much on film. He didn't do
Speaker 1: all the tembo um person two or three team team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just so everybody can get a line. It's got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with not showing anybody anything. We're just
Speaker 1: scripting the scenarios that we're going through. So, um, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're showing anything to the Ravens on film.
Speaker 1: We're not playing the Ravens this year, so I don't
Speaker 1: that's not a concern for us or what's that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if we play in the Super Bowl, I don't think
Speaker 1: we're going back and looking at the practice. There'll there'll
Speaker 1: be sixteen games for us to look at in the
Speaker 1: regular season and then playoff games. But I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think you'll be going back and looking at plays
Speaker 1: that happened in a preseason scrimmage in August. So he
Speaker 1: went to go see the doctor. So and he's still
Speaker 1: at the doctor, so he won't be here today either. Ideally,
Speaker 1: how many staffs would you like to get Bradford for
Speaker 1: the regat season. We haven't talked about a number there,
Speaker 1: so I don't. Ideally you don't have one of your
Speaker 1: youd like to see him, especially one hundred and six. Ideally,
Speaker 1: we'll see if we can get the matter of getting
Speaker 1: him feeding game and so at least it's hommable about
Speaker 1: hurdle as me you know, currently as formable as his name.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's a big hurdle to get over.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think it's a big
Speaker 1: hurdle to get over now having a guy like Flacco,
Speaker 1: a guy that's accomplished in his prime, and it seems
Speaker 1: to be kind of the basic branded What does that
Speaker 1: mean for a team and what are your impressions in
Speaker 1: the Gilman last year. It's a great test, you know,
Speaker 1: and we experienced at the last two years because we
Speaker 1: got to run these practices with the Patriots and get
Speaker 1: a chance to see Tom Brady up close to personal.
Speaker 1: But you know, I was excited when our preseason schedule
Speaker 1: came out because our guys get an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: against Andrew Luck, then Joe Flacco, and then Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: So you know, you're talking about three of the top
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this league. So it's uh, you know, our
Speaker 1: secondary will be tested and uh and it's good for him.
Speaker 1: It's good, real good work for him. So we were
Speaker 1: excited about getting this opportunity not only to play him
Speaker 1: in the preseason game on Saturday, but to get these
Speaker 1: uh training sessions in against him in these three days.
Speaker 1: So I think he's one of the lead quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this league. You know, he's he's got a big time arm.
Speaker 1: He's obviously a big you know when you when you
Speaker 1: kind of roll up on Joe, he's a big He's
Speaker 1: a big human being. You know, He's tough to break down,
Speaker 1: tough to bring down. Um, he's also just so poised
Speaker 1: when he plays back then. You know, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about when guys got really got it.
Speaker 1: The game is so down for him, but he just
Speaker 1: he's such a good decision maker. Uh he's an unbelievably
Speaker 1: cutch player. You know, you look at him in all
Speaker 1: the situations that he's been in, he always just seems
Speaker 1: to have poise and nothing seems to rattle them. But uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had the opportunity when I was at
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, we played against when he was at Delaware,
Speaker 1: so I knew how good Joe was going to be
Speaker 1: a long time ago. So opportunity. How line one on
Speaker 1: one day, I mean it's the previously the line's pretty
Speaker 1: commutably one. How'd you feel it? I thought it was good.
Speaker 1: It's just a great give and take. You know, there
Speaker 1: were there were you know, and that's what happens with
Speaker 1: one of ones. I think The one thing with one
Speaker 1: on ones is it's a little bit different than obviously
Speaker 1: a game, but it's it's more of a defensive drill
Speaker 1: than it's an offensive drill because there's gonna be people
Speaker 1: setting with him and maybe a slide protection where they
Speaker 1: have helped to a gap and they can overset and
Speaker 1: do some of those things. But um, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a really good battle and we're excited about seeing
Speaker 1: it again today. Did you see from some of your
Speaker 1: younger secondary players? Let yesterday was not to see against
Speaker 1: the ladies receivers. I just saw him competing, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's what I think, trying to get those guys
Speaker 1: because they are young, as much exposure as we can.
Speaker 1: When you have someone like Steve Smith, who's I've got
Speaker 1: tremendous respect for. I mean, how many years he's been
Speaker 1: in the league and still playing at the level he's
Speaker 1: playing at, the toughness that he brings, how physically is
Speaker 1: uh in terms of trying to get off for pressing
Speaker 1: things like that. We were excited about that matchup, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was impressed with the young guys. You know,
Speaker 1: when Eric and Denzel Thos, the rookies that we have
Speaker 1: that we brought in here. I thought that did nice
Speaker 1: job and um, it'll be it's good that you get
Speaker 1: a chance to do that. You know, we'll get one
Speaker 1: on ones in again today and and some of those
Speaker 1: reps that I think are really valuable to those guys
Speaker 1: from Sam Bradford camp it says he's making specifically, I've
Speaker 1: just seen a mechological progression. You know. It's kind of
Speaker 1: what we anticipated. It's the plan we had for him
Speaker 1: all along, you know, would that he would be ready
Speaker 1: to go at the starter preseason camp. Um, and he's
Speaker 1: and he's done it. You know, he's had no ill effects.
Speaker 1: There's never been any day where we've had to go, hey,
Speaker 1: his knees bothered him, we need to take days off
Speaker 1: or anything like that. And I just think he's getting
Speaker 1: more comfortable in terms of what we're doing. Scheme. Was
Speaker 1: he lost me with that? I didn't see the first place.
Speaker 1: I know it was only for a year, but how
Speaker 1: beneficial is the year it's been an OPI at Johns Hopkins.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, you know, it's just a that's a
Speaker 1: truly special place. You know. Um, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the coaches at an opportunity UM in all sports
Speaker 1: there are still there. You know, Jimmy Margrah is still
Speaker 1: the head coach. Bob bab is still the baseball coach.
Speaker 1: Used to coach our linebackers when we're there. Bill Nelson
Speaker 1: is still the basketball coach. Tom Calder, who's the A D,
Speaker 1: was the assistant a D when I was there. It's
Speaker 1: a you know, a unique place. I think they've got
Speaker 1: a UM. It was a Division three school and every
Speaker 1: sport except for lacrosse, but I think it had a
Speaker 1: Division one mentality, maybe because of the lacrosse program. You know,
Speaker 1: Bob Scott was the AD when I was there, and
Speaker 1: he's a legend as a as a in terms of
Speaker 1: being one of the best lacrosse coaches ever. So it
Speaker 1: was a great experience. Sam. He suggested that he would
Speaker 1: be getting ready on the players to play against qualifiers.
Speaker 1: Anything changed, No, but we have training today and training tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So if Sam rolls his ankle today, then he's not
Speaker 1: going to play on side today. So do you evaluate
Speaker 1: Trey Burton's camp? Trey stepped up I think year two
Speaker 1: for him. UM was a key special team's player for
Speaker 1: us last year. UM. Really he's putting a little bit
Speaker 1: more on his played as a tight end because he's
Speaker 1: moving into that third tight end roll with James Casey
Speaker 1: not being here, So you know, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: exactly how he can fit into being one of our
Speaker 1: weapons because he is a real he's a really good
Speaker 1: offensive player, you know. I think when he was at Florida,
Speaker 1: he played multiple positions, there was a lot of versatility
Speaker 1: coming out. I think he still holds a record. I
Speaker 1: think he scored six touchdowns against Kentucky for touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a game rights as a Florida player. So, um, just
Speaker 1: trying to fit him in and see where he fits
Speaker 1: into our rotation at the tight end spot between behind
Speaker 1: Selic and Arts Biggs. He's done a really nice job.
Speaker 1: You know, I think is competing. He's got versatility because
Speaker 1: he's played safety before, he's played nickel before, he's played
Speaker 1: outside corner. But he's a guy that I think has
Speaker 1: has really shown up really on a consistent basis for us,
Speaker 1: and someone that's got some experience, another guy that doesn't
Speaker 1: get rattled back there has seen it, you know, been
Speaker 1: through it, played in NFL games. But I've been really
Speaker 1: happy with what Biggs has done so far at this
Speaker 1: point do you anticipate any special teams reps? Now Tim's
Speaker 1: not involved in special teams. You talked on Sunday about
Speaker 1: a couple of throws that Market Sanchez might have liked
Speaker 1: to have back. But it's not just mechanical things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just setting your feet and throwing them all the right
Speaker 1: way and making sure you're you're scre sequencing the right
Speaker 1: way to your target or is it just just repetition not?
Speaker 1: You know what, do you get anything? Really? Just the
Speaker 1: first day we had him was yesterday, so um, you know,
Speaker 1: he showed up, he got he got a lot of reps.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he was twenty plus reps out there,
Speaker 1: and and so it's just a matter of kind of
Speaker 1: see how he fits in the mix there a um,
Speaker 1: you know, because we got we had some issues at
Speaker 1: outside linebacker and moving some guys around, Brad Jones swinging
Speaker 1: inside and outside. You know, Demiko had been down, but
Speaker 1: he'll be back today. You know, We've got some uh,
Speaker 1: we lost help and that was the biggest reason we
Speaker 1: brought him in is um but he's played in games,
Speaker 1: so it's it'll be interesting to see how it plays
Speaker 1: out for him. Your a lot of production out of
Speaker 1: that at three minute outside linebacker rotation last year. He's
Speaker 1: a concerned area with all about how you can kind
Speaker 1: of get a similar I don't say it's a concern.
Speaker 1: I just think it's trying to figure out who all
Speaker 1: those guys are. We know two proven ones in Brandon
Speaker 1: and and and Connor, and then who's the third is
Speaker 1: really going to be the big question for us, and um,
Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to find out here in this preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could be. He's definitely a candidate for that third
Speaker 1: outside linebacker spot. There's been a rash of injuries throughout
Speaker 1: especially a lot of these joint practices. Do you take
Speaker 1: notice of anything you do? Yeah, I mean that's why
Speaker 1: we have the sports science staff that we have. I
Speaker 1: mean that's a huge part of this league is can
Speaker 1: your good players make it to the games and are
Speaker 1: they healthy? And we spend uh in inordinate amount of
Speaker 1: time in terms of monitoring and maintaining our players. So
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the reality of what you deal with.
Speaker 1: But you also, um, you know, we think about it,
Speaker 1: talk about it and try to troubleshoot injuries and situations
Speaker 1: that come up all the time. I mean the players
Speaker 1: a little bit more prone injuries joining these We didn't
Speaker 1: find that. I mean in our last two years of
Speaker 1: the Patriots, we didn't find that. So you know through
Speaker 1: our studies that I don't see that statistically bearing out
Speaker 1: the Pats the case we do we do. They're right here,
Speaker 1: They're all written down. No calls him into the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But every play, every every play we have is already called,
Speaker 1: so we've already met in the meeting. So all pat
Speaker 1: is doing is talking to the quarterback because I have
Speaker 1: the referee. So it's very difficult to blow the whistle
Speaker 1: and talk to the quarterback at the same time other things. Really,
Speaker 1: it's just because I can't blow the whistle and call
Speaker 1: play at the same time. I'm not that good. That's now.
Speaker 1: We love better shape than I am, and I miss
Speaker 1: a lot of things because I get distracted. Wolfer he
Speaker 1: started the game. I don't look at its frustrating. I
Speaker 1: just look at I think for Earl it's frustrating, but
Speaker 1: for us, we just have to make evaluations based upon
Speaker 1: how they're presented. It's the same thing with Travis Law.
Speaker 1: You know, I we had tremendous uh hope for Travis
Speaker 1: and then I feel bad for the player, but we
Speaker 1: have to the only thing we can do is evaluate
Speaker 1: who's available to you, and um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's the hard part. There's that part of how much
Speaker 1: you care about the individual player and it's tough, but
Speaker 1: you you still have to move on. We still have
Speaker 1: to be able to find eight or nine dbs that
Speaker 1: are ready to play when we go play the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: and I hope is healthy and is in that mix,
Speaker 1: but you never know. And that's that's just a hard
Speaker 1: part of this league. It's you know, we've talked about
Speaker 1: it a lot of times, is that the injury rate
Speaker 1: in this league is one hundred percent. It's just it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating for Earle. But we just evaluate what's out
Speaker 1: there working with the injury versus you know, you need
Speaker 1: that roster fun when you make that. You've done it
Speaker 1: before when you need Yeah, it's just what do you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen? Is anybody else going to
Speaker 1: pick him up? Does he revert back to you? You know,
Speaker 1: it's really just when you expose him, is someone going
Speaker 1: to grab him? And if you're afraid someone's going to
Speaker 1: grab him and sometimes you don't do it. That's what
Speaker 1: you're worried about, losing that player. But if you waive
Speaker 1: him injured and he clears waivers, then he can revert
Speaker 1: back to your team. The way the Ravens practice their
Speaker 1: physicality and their intensity, and that's one of the things
Speaker 1: we wanted to, you know, work with them, I think,
Speaker 1: because they're so stout and strong, you know, especially in
Speaker 1: their offensive and defensive lines. That was something we were
Speaker 1: excited about and what they were advertised at what we saw.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a tough, hard nosed, physical front seven
Speaker 1: that we were have an opportunity to go against offensively.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing. Great work for our d
Speaker 1: line against our offensive line. Yeah, who comes to a
Speaker 1: nice shop. You know. I think he's he was behind
Speaker 1: a little bit just because of the time off, but uh,
Speaker 1: there's no ill effects from the injury and he Uh,
Speaker 1: I think you'll just see him getting better and better
Speaker 1: each day out here. Okay,