Speaker 1: Game. Um Camu has a right hamstring strain. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be weeked Weekum Michael Kendricks came out of the game
Speaker 1: fine with the rib concusion from the week before and
Speaker 1: he's he's sore, but he's gonna be okay. Benny Logan
Speaker 1: obviously is getting better with the growing strain. Ron Brooks
Speaker 1: ruptured his uh right quad tending, so he'll be missed
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. He's gonna have surgery
Speaker 1: here in the next few days, so we're gonna miss
Speaker 1: We're gonna miss him, obviously. And then Jordan Matthews just
Speaker 1: has some tendonitis in his left knee. He's gonna be fine. Uh.
Speaker 1: Leo came out of the game actually exceptionally well. He's
Speaker 1: a little short today, but he's he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: And then Jason Peters right biceps strain. Nothing structure or
Speaker 1: structurally anything, no muscle tears anything like that, so he's
Speaker 1: just a strain. He'll be fine, he'll be good for
Speaker 1: for this week. So those are those are the injuries
Speaker 1: plan for replacing Ron Brooks at cornerback. Yeah, right now,
Speaker 1: we're we're taking a look at that obviously. Uh we
Speaker 1: have c J. Smith there, Um that we've that we've activated,
Speaker 1: so um, we'll continue to to to look there. But uh,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the plan going forward. For Malcolm Jenkins
Speaker 1: who played in the slot when when Ron was down
Speaker 1: during the game, is that going to be his role
Speaker 1: going forward? Yeah, Um, you know, I would think that
Speaker 1: it would be very similar to what we've seen, you
Speaker 1: know with uh, um, you know Jaylen on the outside
Speaker 1: and then and then and then Malcolm coming down inside
Speaker 1: and playing the nickel spot, and you know, Jaylen Watkins
Speaker 1: being back there a little bit, and um and with
Speaker 1: with the with with Leo being healthy now, um gives
Speaker 1: you a little more depth. But um, we got to
Speaker 1: continue to look at getting getting c J some more reps,
Speaker 1: probably during the week, to have a full compliment of
Speaker 1: secondary secondary help, exploring trade options. That would be something
Speaker 1: for howie Aaron Grimes someone you're talking to Aaron Grimes. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know right now, until until I hear anymore, I
Speaker 1: mean he's he was, you know, we had him in
Speaker 1: camp and uh and uh um you know he hasn't
Speaker 1: played ball, so you know it's you gotta see where
Speaker 1: he's at. Jalen Watkins to serve guys and played the
Speaker 1: third same team, Jalen. Jalen came in and played played good,
Speaker 1: played well. Um, you know he he was in on
Speaker 1: a few plays, um around the quarterback a few times
Speaker 1: and you know, a couple of blitzes and and um,
Speaker 1: you know he's a guy that can that. Obviously, now
Speaker 1: he's going to have to increase his workload. But I
Speaker 1: think he uh, I think he stepped up and did it,
Speaker 1: did a nice job. You know, watching the tape this morning.
Speaker 1: As much as you guys struggled the week before, when
Speaker 1: at the line of screwments on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: yesterday seemed like you guys won both of those battles
Speaker 1: or at least helped your own war. How do you
Speaker 1: account for one week did the next. You know, it's just, um,
Speaker 1: that's why this business works. You know. It's it's uh,
Speaker 1: the National Football League, it's it's it's sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: it's a struggle each week. It's the competition, the way
Speaker 1: the game goes, how you're feeling that particular day. But
Speaker 1: both units really took it upon themselves to play better,
Speaker 1: and um, we saw that right away in the game
Speaker 1: and Um, it just carried over for four quarters and um,
Speaker 1: both units really um again, our our defensive line getting
Speaker 1: after the offensive line of Minnesota and putting pressure on
Speaker 1: Sam and being disruptive there. And then UM our offensive line,
Speaker 1: UM pass protecting and run blocking against in my opinion,
Speaker 1: a great, great defensive front. So yeah, it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: every man, each unit did a nice job. What's your
Speaker 1: level of concern with Ryan Matthews fucking little? Well, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a concern, and we don't want to we don't
Speaker 1: want to see especially in those situations, four minute situations.
Speaker 1: You know they're at the end of the game, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to continue to either either um,
Speaker 1: you know, find out if he's if he's tired, if
Speaker 1: he's you know, where he's at at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, if we need to put Wyndell in there
Speaker 1: or put Darren in there. We'll find out more about that.
Speaker 1: But by no means a mind down on on on
Speaker 1: Ryan at all, um, And we just have to make
Speaker 1: sure that he uh, he understands that he can't obviously
Speaker 1: do that and put put ourselves in a situation where
Speaker 1: you know, we're giving the ball back to the opponent.
Speaker 1: On the offensive line. Did you make scenario? Did not?
Speaker 1: Did not know. We actually went into this game, UM,
Speaker 1: very similar to the week before, you know, and um
Speaker 1: also under the mindset of potentially helping if we needed
Speaker 1: to help with protection. But actually, um, as game went,
Speaker 1: we didn't. Um, we didn't do probably you know, as
Speaker 1: much as the week before the Grand Matthis fumbles, it
Speaker 1: looked like he's fighting for yardage. That in that situation
Speaker 1: that you could argue, you guys don't really need it.
Speaker 1: You need him to get down, you need him the
Speaker 1: same bound. Can you coach that or is that just
Speaker 1: inherent him the guy that it's an instinctive thing for
Speaker 1: a runner obviously to get to get as many yards
Speaker 1: as you can. But in that situation, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: he was also fighting to get down. It was a
Speaker 1: four minute trying to protect the sideline, staying bounds all that,
Speaker 1: and then the secondary you know defender came in and
Speaker 1: punched the ball out and UM, you know, just got
Speaker 1: to be cognizant or that's what defenses are are instructed
Speaker 1: to do, and we have to hang out of the
Speaker 1: ball to be able to finish the game that way. Also, UM,
Speaker 1: you know Carson didn't take a lot of seven step drops. Um,
Speaker 1: there weren't any deep throws. Um, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of screens, play action and make a boot set and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you curtailing the offense a little bit though,
Speaker 1: because perhaps you re aligne. You know, there is certainly
Speaker 1: a personnel change to some extent, I would agree, UM,
Speaker 1: but also utilize in our team strength and Carson's ability
Speaker 1: to to throw out of the pocket. And UM, he
Speaker 1: usually makes those throws. We had a couple to the
Speaker 1: left that we're a little a little, UM, a little
Speaker 1: off the mark. But for the most part, I feel
Speaker 1: like moving Carson around and as much as much moving
Speaker 1: parts as we have in the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: with a lot of the zone stuff and backblocks and
Speaker 1: things like that. We just take advantage of UM an
Speaker 1: overactive defense sometimes. But you know, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily curtail it to to one particular player or you know,
Speaker 1: if a position or something like that. It's UM, it's
Speaker 1: just something that each week we take a look at
Speaker 1: and see how we can best defeat our opponent. It's
Speaker 1: two games his numbers have dropped down I think around
Speaker 1: and fifty four percent completion rate and a touchdown. The
Speaker 1: three terms. There's what what are you saying out of
Speaker 1: the quarterback? What's what's he going through right now? Well,
Speaker 1: they's still winning football games, you know, and that's um,
Speaker 1: that's obviously the ultimate stat Um. He missed some throws yesterday,
Speaker 1: and this is something that you know now as we
Speaker 1: get deeper into the season, he is he is a
Speaker 1: first time starter, he's a rookie, UM, and and just
Speaker 1: the longevity now of the season, and we got to
Speaker 1: make sure that I got to make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're keeping things UM very familiar for him where
Speaker 1: he can just execute and play. UM. You know, there
Speaker 1: were again a couple opportunities to make catches and we
Speaker 1: didn't had a couple of drobs, so it would have
Speaker 1: helped in those situations. But you know, he continues to
Speaker 1: manage the game extremely well and puts our puts our
Speaker 1: team in good situations in the run game, uh, specifically,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, in the passing game, we had
Speaker 1: some sense, you know, dialed up some quick game early
Speaker 1: which are usually completion throws. Had a nice slant to
Speaker 1: Jordan early and Nelson made a nice, nice catch on
Speaker 1: a on a hitch route. So you know, we continue
Speaker 1: to do that. And and the other thing too is,
Speaker 1: you know, wanted to take advantage a little bit of
Speaker 1: um you know, Minnesota has an extensive third down blitz
Speaker 1: package and so we we were very cognizant of that
Speaker 1: going into this football game as well. Yeah, because he
Speaker 1: banged up a little bit, Carson's taking some hits. Uh no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's fine. You calibrate a little bit when the six
Speaker 1: or five quarterbacks handing off to a five six running
Speaker 1: back to not give him the ball up here on
Speaker 1: the pads and give him lower Yeah, it's all about, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta lower your eyes. You gotta lower
Speaker 1: your target, you know. And and it it appeared the
Speaker 1: ball was actually slipping out of his hand on the
Speaker 1: fumble to Darren prior to the to the exchange, and
Speaker 1: something that Carson has to um, you know with with
Speaker 1: again with a one handed handoff like that, which which
Speaker 1: we all do as quarterbacks. I just got to make
Speaker 1: sure that we seed it properly and just know who
Speaker 1: the back is. And in Darren's case, he got to
Speaker 1: lower your target and your eyes and and I make
Speaker 1: sure you get a clean, clean pocket what was the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know there were um, you know, a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit center, a little bit quarterback actually, Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's something as a quarterback again, he just
Speaker 1: took his eyes off the ball. I was looking at
Speaker 1: his read whether it was a defensive line or a
Speaker 1: linebacker and just didn't just didn't secure the football. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kelsey wasn't perfect. The balls were off to the right
Speaker 1: just to touch and um, you know, so it was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a little bit of the center,
Speaker 1: a little bit more of the quarterback just taking his
Speaker 1: eyes off the ball of struggling a little Is Carson
Speaker 1: in a Is he trying to do too much? You think?
Speaker 1: Trying to No? And um, no, he's not, he's not.
Speaker 1: I mean he's some home games a lot. Uh the
Speaker 1: kill kill kill comes across when you're watching the TV
Speaker 1: and say, obviously you can't hear it when he's away.
Speaker 1: Does he Is he able to do that yet at
Speaker 1: his level kill a play as easily as he can
Speaker 1: do it home because they can hear him, because he
Speaker 1: can use it. Yeah, And it's also there's a signal
Speaker 1: attached to it usually, you know, mechanical signal that the
Speaker 1: outside guys really don't need to hear the actual kill.
Speaker 1: The signal itself takes care of it. It's more for
Speaker 1: the inside, you know, the interior linement tight ends and
Speaker 1: running backs to hear that and see that. Like so
Speaker 1: in the road you had more penalties at seeing in that. Well,
Speaker 1: they weren't due to that though. They weren't due to that, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Frank Wright had said last week that
Speaker 1: those early hits, the pressure that he took Carson, that
Speaker 1: is against the Redskins, it would have been hard for
Speaker 1: any quarterback not to have that effect him. And he
Speaker 1: said maybe mechanically there were some issues. Did we see
Speaker 1: that again yesterday? I know he can get his his
Speaker 1: much earlier, but someone no, you know, yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: a matter of him just setting his target line a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Uh, just something he's got to work through.
Speaker 1: Practice each again, each That's why we practice and we
Speaker 1: work on these things because it's you think it would
Speaker 1: just be second nature, um for any player in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. But if we're not continuing to work
Speaker 1: on the little things, the detail things and things that
Speaker 1: payoff in games, which setting the target line, especially throws
Speaker 1: to your left as a right handed quarterback setting your feet. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we just got to keep working that stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's just where you set your lower your lower body,
Speaker 1: your feet on your on the on the your direct
Speaker 1: line to the to the to the receiver. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's putting your lower body in position to make
Speaker 1: the throw, being able to drive off your back hip,
Speaker 1: especially when it's a clean pocket. And sometimes when your
Speaker 1: feet are not on the target line. Um, you tend
Speaker 1: to throw high. You can tend to throw inside of
Speaker 1: a receiver, which which we saw a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 1: So we got to just continue to drill it and
Speaker 1: drill it down to where um, you get in the
Speaker 1: game and it's just, um, it does become second nature.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a lost burning But yeah, Brandon, he's
Speaker 1: a He's a tremendous player, a great team leader. Um
Speaker 1: just uh, he kind of he vowed yesterday not to
Speaker 1: be not to be blocked, and he um, he wanted
Speaker 1: to sort of redeem himself from the week before. He
Speaker 1: felt like himself personally didn't have a good game against
Speaker 1: Washington and wanted to make sure that he came out
Speaker 1: yesterday and helped our team win it. An outstanding job
Speaker 1: obviously played like your best games. It's in times like Pittsburnon,
Speaker 1: so that not so well, that's Washington and Detroit. Is
Speaker 1: that just part of like the inconsistencies with the yellow team.
Speaker 1: I think some of it has to do with that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just think, uh, for whatever reason, you know,
Speaker 1: we we we obviously didn't have our best performance. Uh
Speaker 1: you know against Washington, execution was not there. Detroit, you know,
Speaker 1: we had the lead late in the game two minutes
Speaker 1: to go and didn't finish the game offense to Lee. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, we just have to It's it takes
Speaker 1: a full sixty minute game concentration, focus on your job,
Speaker 1: do your assignments, and and I come away with these winners.
Speaker 1: Learn how to finish at the end. Um. It's something
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, our guys we've got to learned
Speaker 1: to do. As the season goes on. Do you think yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're going to try to get
Speaker 1: out of that, but do you think right at this
Speaker 1: point of the season, being on the road affects your
Speaker 1: team in a non positive manner. I'd rather be on
Speaker 1: the road earlier in this season, honestly, um, and have
Speaker 1: more home games towards the end of the year, I think,
Speaker 1: and especially here with the weather starting to come in
Speaker 1: and all that, I think it just I think it
Speaker 1: just helps us, you know a little bit down down
Speaker 1: the stretch. But we just gotta learn how to handle
Speaker 1: the road. I mean, it's, uh, it's a business trip.
Speaker 1: There can be there can be some distractions with family
Speaker 1: and friends that come to games and all for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And you know, just coaches and players have to learn to,
Speaker 1: you know, say hey, this is we're here for a
Speaker 1: reason and um, you know, we're trying to trying to
Speaker 1: win a football game. I had a much cleaner game
Speaker 1: his second time around. What do you think led to that?
Speaker 1: I just think learning from the week before, quite honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: he really again detailed his work during the week. He
Speaker 1: practiced extremely well, he used his hands better, he was
Speaker 1: able to calm kind of calm the storm, so to speak,
Speaker 1: and played a um you know, played a play, played
Speaker 1: a fine football game. Really really, uh was he played
Speaker 1: the type of game that we saw him and he's
Speaker 1: very capable of doing. And and now it's something that
Speaker 1: he can he can continue to build on. Need more
Speaker 1: from your wide receivers. I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we need more from everybody, quite honestly. Um, tight ends,
Speaker 1: running backs, wide receivers, quarterback, old line. I mean, we need,
Speaker 1: we need, we need everybody. And uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we had opportunities yesterday. There were there were some uh
Speaker 1: you know again kind of kept ourselves in some third
Speaker 1: and long situations. You know, even though there's eleven attempts
Speaker 1: we had, there were some you know, or half of
Speaker 1: them were long yard situations there. And you know, we
Speaker 1: got to eliminate that with some penalties and early in
Speaker 1: the game the turnovers. But we all just need to
Speaker 1: we all need to step up. The one thing, the
Speaker 1: one thing I will say is this that it's a
Speaker 1: very unselfish group. This group is very unselfish. They don't
Speaker 1: they don't fight for the ball, they don't ask for
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, whenever the ball comes their way,
Speaker 1: they do the best they can to make the play.
Speaker 1: And um, that's what we need, that's what we need
Speaker 1: to in order to win tough games like we did yesterday.
Speaker 1: You've been aggressive these first six games in terms of
Speaker 1: fourth down a two book conversion. Um. Yesterday, before you
Speaker 1: were a head coaching the NFL, did you find yourself
Speaker 1: during games thinking how you would approach those situations and thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I actually would have would have
Speaker 1: tried yeah, I went. You know, you definitely put yourself
Speaker 1: in those situations when you you know, as a coordinator,
Speaker 1: a position coach, Um, you know, putting yourself in those spots.
Speaker 1: It's a lot easier when you're not making the decision
Speaker 1: obviously to go, oh yeah, I would have gone for
Speaker 1: it there or not gone for it there, and and
Speaker 1: now being in this position, it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's my tail on the line if we don't if
Speaker 1: we don't cont you know, convert. But um, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done that over over my career, put myself in those situations.
Speaker 1: Did you think you'd end up being when it actually
Speaker 1: came time to be the head coach? Did you think
Speaker 1: you would end up being as aggressive as you have
Speaker 1: been specistrictly on the numbers you're getting from upstairs. I
Speaker 1: think it's a both. I think it's both. I you know,
Speaker 1: my my my personality is probably not is a little
Speaker 1: more conservative by nature. I think, um, you'd probably agree
Speaker 1: with that. But you know, I trust our guys, I
Speaker 1: trust uh, I trust the offensive line. I think it
Speaker 1: sends a great message, um, to the rest of the team,
Speaker 1: to our defense, to special teams that hey, you know,
Speaker 1: if we convert this and stay on the field, Um,
Speaker 1: it sends a good message. And and then and then
Speaker 1: on the other side of that, if you do convert,
Speaker 1: the message you send to the other team and and
Speaker 1: the fact that you're going to stay aggressive and and um,
Speaker 1: um you know it's it's it's kind of a crazy
Speaker 1: deal when you're you know, not great on third down,
Speaker 1: but you can be five or five on fourth down
Speaker 1: and convert. It mean, it's it's a it's a weird deal.
Speaker 1: But um, it's credit to the guys, you know, for
Speaker 1: for the execution. Obviously, Uh you know, we dropped the
Speaker 1: ball or bobbled the snap yesterday and still converted. So um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna continue to look at it.
Speaker 1: And I don't ever want to be in a position
Speaker 1: though I don't want to jeopardize the team at that time.
Speaker 1: But I didn't feel like, uh uh, looking at the
Speaker 1: five fourth down decisions this year put us in any
Speaker 1: any harm at that time with the running team. I
Speaker 1: think Ryan against the rounds and Windel against Pittsburgh, the
Speaker 1: only games a back has had more than twelve carries
Speaker 1: in a game. Would you like to kind of establish
Speaker 1: do you feel like you're running the ball enough when
Speaker 1: you've gotta self scout? And do you think there's a
Speaker 1: benefit in getting a back an X number of carries
Speaker 1: to kind of get into a rhythm and or is
Speaker 1: that overrated? Yeah, you know, I probably lean more towards
Speaker 1: I don't want Carson to throw the ball thirty five
Speaker 1: times in a game or forty times in a game,
Speaker 1: So I probably manage that one a little bit more
Speaker 1: than I do the run. I would lean more towards
Speaker 1: running the ball probably, you know, with the with the
Speaker 1: runners that we have, and I don't, um, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily get into you know, Ryan's got to
Speaker 1: have X amount of touches or Darien's got to get
Speaker 1: X amount of touches. I think we just got by
Speaker 1: a by a committee and collectively they do they do
Speaker 1: a good job. And we've been around that you know,
Speaker 1: hundred yard mark each week, um, you know, so far,
Speaker 1: and that's it's been. It's been efficient. You know, we
Speaker 1: weren't as efficient necessarily maybe running the ball yards per
Speaker 1: attempting all that yesterday, but it was still um against
Speaker 1: a good defense. Though we were still able to do
Speaker 1: some good things in the run game. So we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to do it. Um. There are certain runs
Speaker 1: for certain running backs that we that we put in
Speaker 1: the game, but overall it's going to be a sort
Speaker 1: of a running back by committee. Um design. Graham had
Speaker 1: a you mentioned Graham's game. Barwin on the other side,
Speaker 1: also had a step up game and he said he
Speaker 1: really needed one. You know, he's at the point of
Speaker 1: his career where people started, you know, as he still
Speaker 1: got so that was a big, big game for him
Speaker 1: to Can you talk about just what you saw from
Speaker 1: Connor Barwins? Yeah again, Um, great explosion off the explosion
Speaker 1: off the ball, Um, his ability to to to push
Speaker 1: the pocket and collapse the pocket back to the quarterback
Speaker 1: and Connor just like like Brandon, I mean, these are
Speaker 1: these are hustle effort guys all the way to the
Speaker 1: whis and that's what we saw yesterday. And I think
Speaker 1: you know, to the man, if you talk to him,
Speaker 1: they'd also they'd all agree that they needed to play better.
Speaker 1: And Um, you know, Connor prides himself and being a
Speaker 1: leader of this football teams, as does Brandon and um
Speaker 1: as does Fletcher and all those guys up there. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he played. He played extremely well and he's
Speaker 1: definitely an inspirational leader to that, you know, to that
Speaker 1: defensive line group. You were through receiver, sel What was
Speaker 1: the reason for one more time? It was more because
Speaker 1: you were Greg reser self. The reason, um felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, was Celik. In the game we had we
Speaker 1: had a little more run pass kills based on some
Speaker 1: of the things that Minnesota had shown, you know, in
Speaker 1: the previous weeks, and so we wanted Selik in there
Speaker 1: if it was a protection deal, but we were also
Speaker 1: okay obviously with him being able to run routes things
Speaker 1: of that nature. So um plus it was it was
Speaker 1: another thing too where he felt like keeping them. We
Speaker 1: played a little bit more on our three tight ends
Speaker 1: and heavier packages a little bit more in some certain
Speaker 1: situations too, um, because we were we were really coming
Speaker 1: off the ball as an offensive unit and getting some
Speaker 1: positive yards in the run game. But some of that
Speaker 1: design was based on some of the run kill pass
Speaker 1: checks that we had in the game. Four times the
Speaker 1: game is that because he's a rookie or is that
Speaker 1: just draw offensive philosophy. It's a little both, it's a
Speaker 1: little both. And I also feel like at this at
Speaker 1: this um um, at this level, and can first of all,
Speaker 1: can he do that? Yeah, he could do that, And
Speaker 1: if we're gonna have to probably do that at some
Speaker 1: point this season and throw the ball, you know, to
Speaker 1: to win the game. And and I just feel like
Speaker 1: if we're not if we're not being real efficient on
Speaker 1: first and second down and uh meaning running the ball,
Speaker 1: play action pass, moving the quarterback, moving his launch launch points. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, if we're not good at that and we're
Speaker 1: not being efficient there, then then you can expose your
Speaker 1: quarterback to two more hits than you need. And and
Speaker 1: right now, I'm trying to build and get, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to build his confidence each and every week. And
Speaker 1: I thought our guys yesterday didn't outstanding job of no
Speaker 1: sacks against a team that had nineteen coming in, protected him,
Speaker 1: kept him clean, and it just gives him confidence now
Speaker 1: and gives our whole unit confidence moving forward and then
Speaker 1: coming away even with the four turnovers in the negative
Speaker 1: plays that we had, still having the ability to win
Speaker 1: that football game. Thanks guys,