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Speaker 1: It makes the Steelers so good at blocking kicks.

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Speaker 2: Number One, their coach up really well. Danny Smith has

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Speaker 2: been doing a hell of a job in this league

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Speaker 2: for a long time. So I got tremendous respect for him.

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Speaker 2: And their players play the game the right way. They're

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Speaker 2: very fundamentally sound, they play together, they play with purpose,

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Speaker 2: and obviously, like you guys know, they've been able to

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Speaker 2: pressure and block kicks very well. So again, tremendous respect

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Speaker 2: for them. Tremendous challenge for us this week.

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Speaker 1: What is it about your return game that you look

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Speaker 1: at and say we have why we haven't been able

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Speaker 1: to you know, break anything or get anything really out

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Speaker 1: of that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it starts when you want to get

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Speaker 2: your return game going. You got to hold up on

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Speaker 2: the perimeter number one, to knockle hole in it. And

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Speaker 2: when I say knock a hole in it, you got

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Speaker 2: to get your return games started. So when you're talking

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Speaker 2: about punt return, that's the first priority is we got

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Speaker 2: to improve on the perimeter. The second thing, based off

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Speaker 2: of a certain situation and game down in distances, there

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Speaker 2: are certain things that we may feel more inclined to

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Speaker 2: do based off of press string or return in some cases,

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Speaker 2: you may get a return out of a pressure, you

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Speaker 2: may get a you may get no return out of

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Speaker 2: a pressure. But the number one thing is we got

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Speaker 2: to improve in terms of our perimeter play, and then

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Speaker 2: our guys have to do a better job of sticking

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Speaker 2: and staying on their blocks for a longer period of time.

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Speaker 2: The nature of any punt play, it's it's really the

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Speaker 2: toughest seven to ten seconds of any football play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's so long when you think about what you're asking

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Speaker 2: your return team to do and what you're asking your

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Speaker 2: punt team to do at what point at what At

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Speaker 2: one point you don't have the ball, so you got

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Speaker 2: to make sure you're playing defense first, all right, because

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Speaker 2: you don't want to give up a fake. And at

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Speaker 2: another point you're getting the ball. So it's that transitional

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Speaker 2: period where it is a long time to do right.

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Speaker 2: So we got to put our guys in better position.

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Speaker 2: That starts with me in practice in terms of feeling

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Speaker 2: what that length of a play feels like to be

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Speaker 2: able to execute the early down part of it and

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Speaker 2: the later down part of it.

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Speaker 1: How do you get better at that personnel's scheme or like,

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Speaker 1: what's the change that make that be better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the personnel is that's what we have.

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Speaker 2: My job is to get those guys better. So when

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Speaker 2: we're on the field, it is legitimately practiced, practicing that

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Speaker 2: play for that entirety, whether it's a full cover, understanding

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Speaker 2: that you still are trying to get your guys ready

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Speaker 2: to play a game, so not necessarily burning them out

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Speaker 2: as well. There's balance to that, and I think that's

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Speaker 2: what coaching is is at what point are you pressing

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Speaker 2: these guys to make sure that they're ready to play

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Speaker 2: physically to where you might have to take off a

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Speaker 2: little bit of that physical element, but also understand there

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Speaker 2: is a mental clock in this game. They understand, you know,

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Speaker 2: the the length of that play as well, but they

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Speaker 2: also have to feel what that feels like. So you

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Speaker 2: could do it at a tempoed pace, but just making

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Speaker 2: certain they understand these are your block mechanics. As we

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Speaker 2: get closer and closer to the return.

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Speaker 1: How's Graham doing.

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Speaker 2: All injury questioning and go to Dave's.

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Speaker 1: You were able to at least see him kick at

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Speaker 1: any point in or it is just still like.

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Speaker 2: I haven't had the opportunitly, Yeah, I haven't had the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to to see him do the physical stuff. You know,

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Speaker 2: my my focus has been on been on our guys.

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Speaker 2: I see Graham around, he's got a smile on his face,

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Speaker 2: and I know he's chomping in the bid to get

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Speaker 2: ready to get going again