Speaker 1: Pretty good.
Speaker 2: How are you, well, I guess what stood out most
Speaker 2: when you're watching the film at the Green Bay game?
Speaker 1: Is it the best tackles or I guess that's one
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: I mean it was just you know, the tail of
Speaker 2: the halfs with the the run game, you know, especially
Speaker 2: in the first half, tackling was apart. Some was you
Speaker 2: know one early on I got you know, got got
Speaker 2: with a call. We tried to pressure there early and
Speaker 2: just it worked for them and not for us, So
Speaker 2: they got us. We could have tackled him for eight
Speaker 2: and then there was a really really good open field
Speaker 2: spin move. Yeah, and they got eighteen out of it.
Speaker 2: So it's like you'd like it to cut it to
Speaker 2: eight and not being explosive, but you know, they had
Speaker 2: got us there. And then just some other you know
Speaker 2: plays in the in the run game early. I mean,
Speaker 2: we made some adjustments and you know, fix that in
Speaker 2: the second half. But it's hard when you get behind
Speaker 2: like that, and you know, we didn't take the ball.
Speaker 2: I think we had multiple ops, so they made their
Speaker 2: ops we didn't. It makes a huge difference in the game.
Speaker 2: So when they can control every aspect of it, starting
Speaker 2: with the run game and then we didn't you know,
Speaker 2: five or five in the red zone. You can't do that.
Speaker 2: I don't care how they get down there, we can't.
Speaker 2: So the list is pretty long in my book. You know,
Speaker 2: we did something's good, but there's a lot that we
Speaker 2: can be better at, and our guys know it.
Speaker 1: We're determined and we got to fix it.
Speaker 3: What's your coaching style? You missed nineteen tackles? You're the coordinator.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you start you lose it, you start
Speaker 3: throwing stuff, or are you calm or you start calling
Speaker 3: guys out? I mean, what's your what's the process?
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not a yeller. I mean it's you're
Speaker 2: It's pretty pretty evident. It's coach it up and we
Speaker 2: got to fix it or find someone else, you know
Speaker 2: that can do it. But I think in that game,
Speaker 2: there was just it was a consistent not running our feet.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it came down to
Speaker 2: the running back too. I think we knew going into
Speaker 2: it was we had to get body on body. But
Speaker 2: he was really good. He's a really good jump cutter,
Speaker 2: he's good on the spin. I mean he's as good
Speaker 2: as they got or good as they get in the league.
Speaker 2: I think so with us. It's why I continue to
Speaker 2: work tackling circuit every every week. It's hard when you
Speaker 2: don't have the pads on, and so even when we
Speaker 2: take them off, we're still going to do it because
Speaker 2: you can go whole practice and not really get that.
Speaker 2: So it's emphasizing running your feet, wrap, squeeze, drive for
Speaker 2: five and it showed up in the game.
Speaker 3: So there are no acceptable excuses. But now, are you
Speaker 3: seeing fatigue with the players, because sometimes when guys fall
Speaker 3: off tackles, sometimes it's just they get to a certain
Speaker 3: point they're running out of gas.
Speaker 1: I mean you could. I don't see that.
Speaker 2: I don't think that because our guys trained hard and
Speaker 2: they're they're prepared. I just think it's it's the consciousness
Speaker 2: of you see so many times people approach a tackle
Speaker 2: and we talked about you know, sprint tackling earlier in
Speaker 2: the year, when we talked about the tackling and you
Speaker 2: know runners like that that can jump cut. They want
Speaker 2: you to come up and come to balance, where a
Speaker 2: lot of people think you need to come up, come
Speaker 2: to balance, sit in a chair. But the best thing
Speaker 2: you can do is just keep going, keep running your feet.
Speaker 2: It's just continually wrapping it and having that mindset of
Speaker 2: just accelerating through and not if you stop, he will
Speaker 2: juke you. He will catch you on a jump cut
Speaker 2: and get you moved and then be able to especially
Speaker 2: with him because he could you know, run through an edge,
Speaker 2: like run through his shoulder because how fast he could reaccelerate.
Speaker 2: So it's it's just applying what we already know and
Speaker 2: being as detailed as possible on executing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, after the game, Fred said they presented different run
Speaker 3: looks than what we had prepared for in the first half.
Speaker 1: What did I think? There was some there were some formations.
Speaker 2: I mean they didn't do it quite as much you know,
Speaker 2: leading up to it, and they did it a few
Speaker 2: times in the game. We had wrapped him during the week,
Speaker 2: but not like quite as much. So that was part
Speaker 2: of the stuff that we had to fix and you know,
Speaker 2: make those adjustments.
Speaker 1: But yeah, austments are thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're just we're always talking through stuff and you know,
Speaker 2: do we need to you know, change a call, do
Speaker 2: we need to you know, we see it this way.
Speaker 2: That's why you have the little pads on the sideline.
Speaker 2: And we talked through stuff how we saw it. You know,
Speaker 2: we're talking with the guys upstairs, talking with the players.
Speaker 2: You know, some games you adjust, some times you don't.
Speaker 2: It just there's always continuous. It just depends.
Speaker 1: Address the twelve men on the field. Penalties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's pure communication. I mean, it's starts
Speaker 2: with me. We emphasize and we have to fix it.
Speaker 2: Were doing all we can to do. It starts with nonverbal,
Speaker 2: then it turns to verbal. Know who's in, know who's out,
Speaker 2: and what personnel grouping, whether it's nickel bass or you
Speaker 2: go with bigger, you know, more d linemen. I think
Speaker 2: the first one was more they were approaching the huddle
Speaker 2: in a way that you know, to me, it seemed
Speaker 2: quicker because they had subbed got to the huddle, and
Speaker 2: that's something for me. I feel like we were should
Speaker 2: be allowed to sub you know, I'm just we're still
Speaker 2: working through what the exact rules on that are because
Speaker 2: they subbed late into the huddle, so we you know,
Speaker 2: need to be able to sub That's what there's kind
Speaker 2: of an argument about it. And then the second one,
Speaker 2: there's no excuse. There's no excuse, players, coaches, all of us.
Speaker 1: That's the red zone and the goal line you talked about. Yep,
Speaker 1: what have you seen out of the goal line defense
Speaker 1: this year? That is?
Speaker 3: Are there any strides or is it simple breakdowns or
Speaker 3: what's gone wrong?
Speaker 2: I mean it's some I feel like we're getting hits
Speaker 2: on guys. It's not like super easy, you know, it's
Speaker 2: they you just can't let them get them any shots.
Speaker 1: And the closer you get, the harder it gets.
Speaker 2: Like we can be We're like hitting a guy, and
Speaker 2: but it's on the one or the two, and you
Speaker 2: keep getting a yard and a yard.
Speaker 1: It's really cool.
Speaker 2: If it was on the fifteen and you hit them
Speaker 2: and they get a yard, you're like, all right, it's
Speaker 2: second and nine. Or if they do it again, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: it's you know, third and eight. But you're down low.
Speaker 2: So we got to do our best to not let
Speaker 2: them get in the low low and continue to find
Speaker 2: ways to execute the right way so they don't get
Speaker 2: point a touchdown. It's a four point difference, huge difference,
Speaker 2: especially with that many of them.
Speaker 3: What's the challenge this week? Buffalo's scored thirty I think
Speaker 3: in six straight games or five straight games, they got
Speaker 3: a couple of.
Speaker 2: Look like it's all that. I think it starts with
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. I think he continues to get better. He's
Speaker 2: all the you know what he's always been, you know,
Speaker 2: effective in being able to run and scramble and find guys.
Speaker 2: The difference I think with him this year he's just
Speaker 2: being more effective. He's grown as far as being able
Speaker 2: to throw on time. If you give him something, he
Speaker 2: has the arm to be able to rip it, you know,
Speaker 2: wherever that you know given throw is. But he can
Speaker 2: also he's really good at moving guys, you know, in
Speaker 2: zones and you know, being pinpoint accurate with it. But
Speaker 2: how fast and how he can accelerate the throws. And
Speaker 2: then you know, with him, it's his size and his speed,
Speaker 2: the ability to throw it on the run, especially down
Speaker 2: the field. A lot of guys don't have that vision downfield.
Speaker 2: I feel like he sees that really really well and
Speaker 2: he can throw it really really well and he can
Speaker 2: find the gap that he needs to escape, but then
Speaker 2: also still stay alive and in certain situations, you know,
Speaker 2: he can run you over or he can slide, So
Speaker 2: you have to be ready for both and be able
Speaker 2: to act to both.
Speaker 1: Doing this long time as a player and a coach.
Speaker 1: You know how this works because the super.
Speaker 2: Bowl and the other five and six all sorts of
Speaker 2: criticism for everybody.
Speaker 1: Yes, get hey, what's wrong with you? It's coordinated? How
Speaker 1: would you assess your performance? And you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of how you've done this.
Speaker 2: I'm just focused on each week. I honestly, that's the truth.
Speaker 2: If we don't win, I feel like it's not good enough.
Speaker 2: That's the truth. That's all I care about. I don't
Speaker 2: know all the numbers whatever, I don't not here to
Speaker 2: assess where I'm at. I'm about are we winning and
Speaker 2: then are we getting better? You know, are we working
Speaker 2: hard to get better? And are we winning the game.
Speaker 2: So if we don't win, it's not good enough. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's never gonna be perfect, so we can always coach
Speaker 2: it and get better. I feel like our guys have
Speaker 2: gotten better because we've had some new guys and I'd
Speaker 2: like to see the development of them. But it's not
Speaker 2: about moral victories in that way. It's it's good to
Speaker 2: see our guys grow. I'm really proud of them and
Speaker 2: that they battle and they get better. And I think
Speaker 2: as a unit we are getting better. You want to
Speaker 2: see it applied and you know, win the game yep,
Speaker 2: thanks guys,