Speaker 1: All right, injuries Ray Ray McLeod. He got cleared, so
Speaker 1: he's limited, I mean at least by the doctors to
Speaker 1: practice and everything. Orren Burke's Limited, Gipson Limited, how Limited,
Speaker 1: Kittle Limited, Mason Limited, Jake Mooney Limited.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: And you confirmed that. Nicholas says signed.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can no.
Speaker 1: He's gonna try to get here today though, so hopefully
Speaker 1: maybe I actually was preparing to talk to you guys
Speaker 1: about how I have nothing to tell you guys, and
Speaker 1: I was three minutes late because I just got told
Speaker 1: of the news, so obviously pumped up about it and
Speaker 1: try to hit him up after this.
Speaker 2: And figured it out.
Speaker 1: But I know he's trying to get here as fast
Speaker 1: as possible.
Speaker 3: Reef, is this for you? Like? What were your thoughts
Speaker 3: as we were getting closer to Game one?
Speaker 2: Not good thoughts.
Speaker 1: So but you know, when it feels kind of you
Speaker 1: don't you try not to think about them much because
Speaker 1: it's not it's not really in my control and you
Speaker 1: just got to let the process play itself out. Once
Speaker 1: it kind of went through the weekend, I just kind
Speaker 1: of got in my mind that we weren't playing with them,
Speaker 1: so because if I would have gone back and forth,
Speaker 1: I would have been miserable.
Speaker 2: So I just decided we weren't.
Speaker 1: I think our team was ready to or not, and
Speaker 1: that was our mindset this way, and it was a
Speaker 1: hell of a bonus to just get told that coming
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 2: So we're obviously real excited about.
Speaker 3: It, realistic come out of snaps for Sunday.
Speaker 1: How many snaps are in the game. I'm just joking.
Speaker 1: We got to see when he gets here. I know
Speaker 1: Nick will come in shape. I know he'll be good.
Speaker 1: It'd be great if he could get into something today.
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's gonna get here or where he's.
Speaker 2: Fine from, but I know which it. We'll be smart
Speaker 2: with it, and that'll be based over these next two
Speaker 2: and out practices.
Speaker 4: Plenty of stuff that you got to take care of.
Speaker 4: But how much do you get involved? How did you
Speaker 4: get involved generally in this specifically? Did you ever just say, hey, guy,
Speaker 4: let's just get this done.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I always want to get it done,
Speaker 1: and that's that's how we feel too. But I didn't
Speaker 1: get involved in this one at all. I try not
Speaker 1: to at all. It's I mean, we kind of had
Speaker 1: an idea it was going to be like this. I
Speaker 1: thought I would come to Fruish sometime last week and
Speaker 1: it didn't, which made me nervous, made me kind of
Speaker 1: move on with it just because I thought I had to.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we all knew Nick was gonna get
Speaker 1: rewarded like he did. I don't know the exact details
Speaker 1: of it, but I knew it would be like that.
Speaker 1: Eventually our organization did, and I think Nick did, and
Speaker 1: I'm just glad we got it worked out on everyone's
Speaker 1: side because we love Nick. I think he loves being
Speaker 1: here and he's definitely earned this and he's gonna earn
Speaker 1: it going forward to.
Speaker 3: You literally just learn or did you get the indication
Speaker 3: that things are getting closer and closer and it could
Speaker 3: pop any second.
Speaker 2: No, literally just learned. Yeah, what was the first.
Speaker 3: Thing you thought of when when you heard that news?
Speaker 1: Since it was right before I came in here, it
Speaker 1: was Corey, why you wasting my time with these questions?
Speaker 1: Because they're not gonna ask me these questions anymore.
Speaker 2: So that was it.
Speaker 1: And now I'm really excited to go out there and
Speaker 1: have some other thoughts, start talking to the coaches and
Speaker 1: things like that. But once this weekend ended, we kind
Speaker 1: of had to stop thinking that way. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you start half in, half out when you don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean that can really that can mess up at
Speaker 1: the plans and things like that get people in the
Speaker 1: wrong position. So we've kind of been just one track,
Speaker 1: just hoping it would work out, but ready for not
Speaker 1: to and the fact it did.
Speaker 2: Obviously everyone knows how pump we are.
Speaker 5: No you, Chris Steve, have you? You guys work on
Speaker 5: like a plan for what he was going to be
Speaker 5: doing in Florida these weeks that he wasn't playing with
Speaker 5: the team. Is he doing D line drills? What kinds
Speaker 5: of things was he doing?
Speaker 1: You know, probably the same stuff he does every other
Speaker 1: days down there, which is stuff that he knows how
Speaker 1: to do for D line.
Speaker 2: Nick is a smart player in our scheme.
Speaker 1: It's not the most complicated thing for the D line,
Speaker 1: but he's very good at it. So Nick's been on
Speaker 1: his own completely, and that's why I don't want to
Speaker 1: answer too much. I got to see when he gets here,
Speaker 1: But we've got to know Nick pretty well, and I
Speaker 1: kind of expect when he gets here to look and
Speaker 1: act and be in the same spot he's been since
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: We met him corresponding move yet or is or does
Speaker 3: that happen when he puts pen to paper?
Speaker 2: No, we haven't. Just I can't believe you guys know,
Speaker 2: I thought we were the only ones that know.
Speaker 3: So any question and this at this point, whether he's
Speaker 3: going to be in uniform.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, I mean there is question because we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him. But I think you guys know how I'm talking,
Speaker 1: like I have to be. You have to have a
Speaker 1: beer belly and be out of shape or something that's
Speaker 1: switch that's not in in Bosa's DNA.
Speaker 4: Don't know if you justed, but do you tell players do?
Speaker 4: What do you do when you hear this?
Speaker 2: I'd love to tell guys. They'd be excited.
Speaker 1: By the time I tell everyone, they'll probably think it's
Speaker 1: old news and ask why I don't get that. Everyone
Speaker 1: gets stuff a lot faster than that. So they all know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure by now, and I know they'll be excited.
Speaker 5: Picture, you have a group of guys who have a
Speaker 5: veteran nucleus that's been around for a while, bit older,
Speaker 5: and then you have some young guys kind of emergent.
Speaker 5: Bolst is like right in the middle of that at
Speaker 5: twenty five years old. How important is it to have
Speaker 5: somebody like him who can set the standard for maybe
Speaker 5: kind of that next nucleus.
Speaker 2: So to speak. I think it's huge.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what we've been trying to do
Speaker 1: since we've gone here, and we've had some free agents
Speaker 1: that we've gone and paid for, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: I know we did hard great this year, and you
Speaker 1: go back to Mooney a couple of years ago, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, we got trend in
Speaker 1: the trade who ended up getting that after being here
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the goal of.
Speaker 1: How you want to do it. You want your players
Speaker 1: to see that. You hope you get the guys who
Speaker 1: play the right way and at a certain level and you.
Speaker 2: Can reward them.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it started with I want
Speaker 1: to go back to Fred and Debo and Kittle and
Speaker 1: all those guys, and Nick was either the year after them, right,
Speaker 1: I think the year after So I like to have
Speaker 1: one each year.
Speaker 3: Guys following Nicked lead already in terms of, like, you know,
Speaker 3: I aspire to that kind of you know, the work
Speaker 3: ethic and the.
Speaker 2: Discipline and all those times.
Speaker 1: I think it just I think everyone's a product in
Speaker 1: their environment. So everyone thinks they are based off of
Speaker 1: people they're around. And then when you get around different
Speaker 1: people or you, you think you're one way or another.
Speaker 1: And then you see when someone like how Fred Warner
Speaker 1: comes in every day and works. You see how dedicated
Speaker 1: Bosa is to his craft, not just here but a
Speaker 1: year around. You see things like that from people you
Speaker 1: knew before you came, and I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: everyone change. I mean, everyone has a certain standard, and
Speaker 1: then when you see other people at a higher standard
Speaker 1: who also play at a higher level, that kind of
Speaker 1: brings everybody up and shows you what it takes to
Speaker 1: be this good in this league, to make it this league,
Speaker 1: and when you have that ability to be in a
Speaker 1: situation like this to be great.
Speaker 3: What are your guidelines for Moody to decide whether.
Speaker 2: He plays, Just as long as he doesn't have a setback.
Speaker 1: He's looking good now and I feel good about him
Speaker 1: and I'd be surprised if he's not there. So we'll
Speaker 1: keep going at the pace we're at. As long as
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a setback, we should be all right.
Speaker 2: Captain season, yes we have.
Speaker 1: It was Armstead brock Purty George Kittle, Deebo, Fred Warner,
Speaker 1: and Trim Williams.
Speaker 4: Captain pretty early as careers, Like Trey wasn't We're going
Speaker 4: to pick train? Wasn't the last season? Did you want
Speaker 4: to see that? Is it important to you that your
Speaker 4: starting quarterbacks a captain?
Speaker 2: It really isn't to me. I thought about this when
Speaker 2: I became a head coach.
Speaker 1: I mean when you think really hard about the captains
Speaker 1: and stuff, and I mean, be cool if there was
Speaker 1: just one on each, which I kind of like and stuff,
Speaker 1: But then it becomes a little bit of a popularity
Speaker 1: contest with the players. I never have to want to
Speaker 1: get involved and tell them I disagree or anything.
Speaker 2: So I always just get their top guys. I have
Speaker 2: them all vote for four people.
Speaker 1: You get a first place, second place, third place, and
Speaker 1: fourth place vote.
Speaker 2: I get the top eight, and then you just signe
Speaker 2: off of that.
Speaker 1: And we went one through six, and I think the
Speaker 1: most we've kept as seven before. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: lots there's a lot more than six guys on our
Speaker 1: team who could do it. And so that's why it's
Speaker 1: kind of thing I tried not to make too big
Speaker 1: a deal about because you're gonna find someone on your team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I mean that's I mean, I definitely do. It's when
Speaker 1: you go out and you play like he did last year,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I mean, it's hard to be
Speaker 1: seen as a leader when you haven't been out there before.
Speaker 1: Guys can think you're a leader. You can act like
Speaker 1: a leader, but guys don't follow many people who don't
Speaker 1: produce on the field. And I think that's why he
Speaker 1: got so many votes this year, because I think they
Speaker 1: bleed him and felt he was one of the leaders
Speaker 1: last year, not because he's being some vet and talking
Speaker 1: to guys a certain way, just because I have a
Speaker 1: how he prepares that they can count on him, and
Speaker 1: how he handled a number of situations when he.
Speaker 3: Got in there, like after he admittedly wasn't.
Speaker 2: I think it says a ton.
Speaker 1: I think it says how I was happy for DBO
Speaker 1: we got that. I think he was disappointed he did
Speaker 1: last year. I know he was, and for him to
Speaker 1: be one of those guys, especially a last year ended
Speaker 1: a little bit for him. I think it shows how
Speaker 1: dedicated he's been. You guys have seen it out on
Speaker 1: the field, and you guys have written about and stuff
Speaker 1: and players field strongly also one of them.
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh's defense, What do they look like on film? What's
Speaker 5: the traits of a throw Austin Mike Tomlin defense.
Speaker 1: They they play as hard as anyone. Their d line,
Speaker 1: their linebackers, their secondary they all get after it and
Speaker 1: they're extremely physical group. We haven't played him for a
Speaker 1: number of years, but I mean just watching Hayward, watching
Speaker 1: Watt Minka, I mean those guys not only they're as
Speaker 1: talented as it gets, but the mindset they play with,
Speaker 1: the effort they play with. You know, when we don't
Speaker 1: see a team for a while because you know, not
Speaker 1: being the AFC, and it's been like three three four
Speaker 1: years since we've gone against them, you don't know how
Speaker 1: where they've come. And it's very obvious why they won
Speaker 1: seven out of the last nine games. It's just watching
Speaker 1: the defense side of the ball, and then get into
Speaker 1: their offense, seeing some of the players they have, and
Speaker 1: the way that quarterback has been playing, and the way
Speaker 1: you played last year at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: it's been real impressive.
Speaker 6: You're more of a realist. John Ledge seems a little
Speaker 6: bit more like he's a little bit more positive. Did
Speaker 6: you guys did that help you.
Speaker 2: I love how you said that. I'm not a negative guy,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 6: This whole process with like most of that, he's kind
Speaker 6: of seems more eternally positive.
Speaker 1: I prepared myself from the beginning, so I never was
Speaker 1: expecting it right away, so which helps me stay more positive.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, I got a little different in these
Speaker 1: last couple of days.
Speaker 2: But I haven't been doing it for a while.
Speaker 1: John John has the personality for this stuff. He does
Speaker 1: a good job with it. I know it's been hard
Speaker 1: because I know how bad John leaves and Nick and
Speaker 1: wanted him here for our team, so I know how
Speaker 1: much stressed he was feeling that pressure to try to
Speaker 1: get it done, not only him, but Prague and hamp
Speaker 1: and I could tell when they walked in my door
Speaker 1: before I came in here, on their face and really
Speaker 1: just their energy that they had got it done because
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was weighing on him a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was important to get him in here, just not
Speaker 1: for us to just have a better chance to win,
Speaker 1: but because the person we know and how big a
Speaker 1: part of a team he is for us.
Speaker 3: How long they've been allowed to stay in the office,
Speaker 3: if they.
Speaker 5: Hadn't gotten done.
Speaker 2: If they what if they hadn't gotten it done.
Speaker 1: They came, it wouldn't have been very long. They probably
Speaker 1: want to come down. It's when it's Wednesday, things are
Speaker 1: a little tighter.
Speaker 6: Many celebrations. Between the four of me.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of bro hugs and congratulations and
Speaker 1: now I told them to go enjoy their day.
Speaker 2: No, we gotta get on to real football. Have to
Speaker 2: get involved at the last minute. What's that?
Speaker 3: Did you ever think you'd have to get involved in
Speaker 3: this at the last minute or uh?
Speaker 2: Not really? I mean when I, if I do, it's
Speaker 2: always just to talk to.
Speaker 1: The player, and I didn't have to do that, So
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks guys,