Speaker 1: Injuries from the game.
Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings had an ankle, he returned, Aaron Banks had
Speaker 2: a calf contusion.
Speaker 1: Did not that was it.
Speaker 3: Johnson ran with a ton of conviction against a really
Speaker 3: good defense.
Speaker 1: Wove was your thoughts of his performance? I thought he
Speaker 1: runs like he always does.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you get him the ball, he breaks tackles,
Speaker 2: usually gets more than we block.
Speaker 1: Then we blocked four.
Speaker 2: When we had the good lanes, he always hit him
Speaker 2: and got a bunch. But JP was awesome today. Uh,
Speaker 2: just the same stuff that was bothering them all week.
Speaker 2: There was a little too much today. Game time decision.
Speaker 2: He came in just talking to him about it.
Speaker 1: It was still there.
Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna be smart to keep him out,
Speaker 2: and glad we did. Jordan's said after the game he
Speaker 2: was told on Friday night and he was gonna start.
Speaker 1: When did Christian start.
Speaker 3: Feeling a ry?
Speaker 1: I never told Jordan he was gonna start.
Speaker 2: Told him he had to be ready a bunch, but
Speaker 2: that might have been Bobby or somebody trying to pump
Speaker 2: him up. But uh, I knew he was gonna have
Speaker 2: to play a lot. I told him that he was
Speaker 2: gonna have to it wasn't gonna be like usual. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be a number two back that was splitting a
Speaker 2: lot of the time, but now he didn't know he
Speaker 2: for sure was doing that till.
Speaker 1: The day setback on Friday.
Speaker 2: Is that No, he didn't have a setback. I mean
Speaker 2: it was it was on and off throughout the week.
Speaker 2: He was able to practice throughout the week, just it
Speaker 2: was always bothering him to a degree, and sometimes it
Speaker 2: goes away, sometimes it comes back, and today was bothering
Speaker 2: a little too much to where we didn't feel good
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: Those situations where if there's anything a linger over the
Speaker 3: next several weeks, what's up is this?
Speaker 1: Is there a concern that there's something that's going to
Speaker 1: linger over the next always.
Speaker 2: I mean it's been lingering the last few weeks, and
Speaker 2: but it's getting better and better and hopefully it'll be
Speaker 2: better next week. He's one of those situations where if
Speaker 2: there's any soreness pregame, you lay on the.
Speaker 1: Side of caution. Not any soreness, but there was too much.
Speaker 2: Soreness performance tonight kind of give you some reassurance that
Speaker 2: you could allow Christian to maybe heal more than not. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean we always, we feel think very highly a
Speaker 2: JP when he's been in those situations.
Speaker 1: That's what he's always done.
Speaker 2: And you know, you always want Christian out there what
Speaker 2: he brings to the run game, also what he brings
Speaker 2: to the past game. So it's huge you have Christian,
Speaker 2: but but not as expensive losing for more games along
Speaker 2: with his team this summer of the holdouts and then
Speaker 2: obviously you're shooting and so much is going on in.
Speaker 3: The last few weeks.
Speaker 2: Did you ever worry about the name that you understand
Speaker 2: this is what could be possible? Only yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: our I mean I'm with our team every day. So
Speaker 2: I know there's lots of news stories and stuff with
Speaker 2: holdouts and things like that and when are people coming back.
Speaker 2: But our guys have been awesome in practice. They've been
Speaker 2: very focused. You know, anytime guys don't get a lot
Speaker 2: of practice in, you know, I wish we could have more,
Speaker 2: so I wanted to mesh more with those guys who
Speaker 2: just got here this week. But being able to get
Speaker 2: four practices in with those guys having the extra day
Speaker 2: things like that was great for them.
Speaker 1: Still got a long way to go.
Speaker 2: Today, by no means was perfect, and there were some
Speaker 2: parts that were sloppy, but just overall, three phases played
Speaker 2: really well together, being able to score there at the
Speaker 2: end of the half and with the field will run
Speaker 2: the clock out, score the opening drive of the third quarter,
Speaker 2: our defense get the two turnovers, our kicker going six
Speaker 2: for six, being able to have thirty seven runs.
Speaker 1: I look at that as a complete team goal that
Speaker 1: we tried to do. So I was real happy with
Speaker 1: just the team overall. I'm sorry, just Trent and you
Speaker 1: look to you, I mean, they seem fine.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure we'll see some things when we
Speaker 2: watch the tape, but I mean nothing that cost us.
Speaker 1: He gets the run. I mean, you guys have some
Speaker 1: changes over the offseason on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: It's majories. Obviously, it seemed like a strong persons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was really happy watching the de from the sidelines.
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought they were running and hitting, that's
Speaker 2: the thing that jumps out the most. And they got
Speaker 2: a few big plays on us and a couple of
Speaker 2: drives that got it moving. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: I thought we were winning most of the downs and
Speaker 2: gave up a couple of big ones that we got
Speaker 2: to clean up.
Speaker 1: But I was real impressed with our defense today offense.
Speaker 3: But you guys started three and out and then he
Speaker 3: scored I think on eight straight possessions after that. Is
Speaker 3: that I don't want to say, did you expect it
Speaker 3: to go that productive without Christian?
Speaker 1: Someone spilled on myself. Sorry, what's that?
Speaker 3: It's a tough question.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. You don't really have expectations like that.
Speaker 2: You just can try to score every time you get
Speaker 2: the ball, and I don't expect to go three and
Speaker 2: out ever, But it still happened. So I didn't know
Speaker 2: that we did that until they just told me, and
Speaker 2: it kind of made sense that I don't remember seeing
Speaker 2: Mitch very much and so that did make sense. Not
Speaker 2: having Christian is huge. But you know, we've got a
Speaker 2: team that really commits to running the ball. We got
Speaker 2: ten guys out there who block for whoever the running
Speaker 2: back is, and we got some running backs and some
Speaker 2: receivers who know how to lower their pads and run
Speaker 2: the ball to rock.
Speaker 1: In his first full game without Christian.
Speaker 2: He seemed very very good. I mean there was many
Speaker 2: plays that he left out there. I thought he made
Speaker 2: some big time plays. I mean they're towards the end,
Speaker 2: you know, got a little conservative, just felt that we
Speaker 2: had the game and wanted to focus on win in
Speaker 2: the game, so we didn't have him do a lot
Speaker 2: there at the end, and he was very smart with
Speaker 2: the ball and made sure that there was no chance
Speaker 2: for them to get back in the game.
Speaker 3: Got a lot of snaps in the summer, a lot
Speaker 3: of first team snaps. Did he get better throughout the
Speaker 3: summer and did your confidence in him row throughout the summer?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think Jordan's looked the same as he always has,
Speaker 2: you know, not just as in Christian But we lost
Speaker 2: a number of backs. And the coolest thing for JP
Speaker 2: that he was in such good jape shape going to
Speaker 2: camp that when a lot of guys go down and
Speaker 2: a guy's got to do a little bit more in practice,
Speaker 2: then the next thing you worry about is him going down.
Speaker 2: And if he wanted to come to camp in such
Speaker 2: good shape and so ready to go, and it would
Speaker 2: have been hard for that not to wear him out.
Speaker 1: And he never never faced him at all. I mean
Speaker 1: every day in.
Speaker 2: Practice he was the same as he's been in the
Speaker 2: past and carried it over to the games.
Speaker 1: And to me, it looks like he always does.
Speaker 3: Comporrole as you've ever been going for field goals of fifty.
Speaker 1: Yards or longer.
Speaker 2: Probably for the distance. Yeah, I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 2: difference with Jake. He does have a big leg and
Speaker 2: I get a number and where we can attempt it from,
Speaker 2: and I don't really think much different of it whether
Speaker 2: it's fifty or forty seven. I don't think it's too
Speaker 2: big of a difference for them.
Speaker 1: Pretty much a turnover to start each half.
Speaker 3: How did that energize the entire team?
Speaker 1: It's huge.
Speaker 2: Anytime you get a turnover, it fires everyone up. I
Speaker 2: wish we could have scored touchdowns off of both of them,
Speaker 2: but to still get points. That was one of the
Speaker 2: reasons we got the two score lead and never give
Speaker 2: it back.
Speaker 1: Like a Sorenson's game call. It was his first time
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator. What'd you think of some of
Speaker 1: the dialogue there. I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been on those that side of the
Speaker 2: headsets throughout the preseason. I am a lot during the
Speaker 2: games and just listen to communication before those with those
Speaker 2: guys next done a great job with all the position
Speaker 2: coaches and everyone there. They got a real understanding of
Speaker 2: what we're trying to do, and they communicate well and
Speaker 2: I've been very happy with that side of the ball camp.
Speaker 3: Bobby Turner said, you know, look at it at Jordan's
Speaker 3: rookie year that he needed to grow up. And maybe
Speaker 3: Bobby Turner says about every running back, but I mean,
Speaker 3: in what ways has Jordan kind of mature? Not just
Speaker 3: you know, as a player.
Speaker 1: But off the field.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jordan's always had a ton of confidence since
Speaker 2: the first day he got here. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: I think the most part is getting used to Bobby
Speaker 2: coaching them, realizing that he's not always angry. He just
Speaker 2: kind of stays that way and kind of learned to
Speaker 2: appreciate it. And I think Jordan's really pushed himself each
Speaker 2: year of just the way he's worked off the field,
Speaker 2: being more conditioned. He's never been badly conditioned, but he's
Speaker 2: you know, we got some guys in our building, like
Speaker 2: Christian guys like Fred Juice, George, guys who are very
Speaker 2: obsessive with how they work out, how they condition themselves,
Speaker 2: how they eat, how they sleep, and I think that
Speaker 2: stuff's really rubbed off on JP over the years.
Speaker 3: Oh there's a report that you guys were ready to
Speaker 3: trade how you before it all came together, that even
Speaker 3: he had a had a meeting with you, and then
Speaker 3: you had to like trying to run up the stairs
Speaker 3: and try to make sure he was in trade.
Speaker 1: Is that all true?
Speaker 2: I mean most of it. Yeah, that sounds a lot
Speaker 2: more aggressive. You just pointed at me and said to you, No, No,
Speaker 2: it was that I wanted to make sure it wasn't
Speaker 2: traded already. But no, it's how I kind of reported
Speaker 2: you guys throughout the whole time. You guys would ask
Speaker 2: me stuff about it, and I say, anything could happen,
Speaker 2: Like there were reports that we almost traded in with
Speaker 2: some teams and then we did it, and some were true,
Speaker 2: some weren't. But it's the all options were open, and
Speaker 2: it was a tough thing to kind of get to
Speaker 2: the final spot.
Speaker 1: Of it on both sides.
Speaker 2: And when it was all said and done, I'm glad
Speaker 2: that we had the patience. I'm glad that it worked
Speaker 2: out the way it did because I love having Ba here.
Speaker 2: With the next two games on artificial services play the
Speaker 2: factor into what you do with Christian particularly you know, the.
Speaker 1: Last time you played on.
Speaker 2: Not totally yet. I don't think that was because of Dre.
Speaker 2: I mean the game I had to do more with
Speaker 2: the practice week. But you know, you can make the
Speaker 2: stuff with turf and everything. It's you know, I'll ask
Speaker 2: the player how he's feeling. If they feel good and
Speaker 2: they're ready to go, they're ready to go. If they
Speaker 2: say I feel good on grasp but not on turf,
Speaker 2: that's usually the way of saying that you don't really
Speaker 2: feel that good. So we'll see how he feels tomorrow'll
Speaker 2: see how it feels the next day, and we'll see
Speaker 2: how it feels on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Christian probably wouldn't play against Minnesota just because it's a
Speaker 3: short week.
Speaker 1: You're saying, I'm saying, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: That person must be God, because we just found out
Speaker 2: he wasn't playing today, and I have no idea how
Speaker 2: he's gonna feel tomorrow or the next day. I thought
Speaker 2: he was playing this whole week until today, So I
Speaker 2: don't know who knows that he's playing not playing next week.
Speaker 3: So given what you expected of them to.
Speaker 2: I thought they did a good job. I'm glad they
Speaker 2: got through it healthy. You know, it's always easier to
Speaker 2: rotate skill. Guys have never been in that position with
Speaker 2: a tackle before, so I didn't totally have an idea
Speaker 2: of how to handle it. Yeah, it would have felt
Speaker 2: really weird rotating a tackle throughout the game, and it
Speaker 2: would have felt even weirder Trent standing next to us
Speaker 2: with the offense out there, and I think he managed
Speaker 2: most of the game.
Speaker 1: He went in for an IV I believe.
Speaker 2: Sometime in the second half and missed a couple of plays,
Speaker 2: but not too much. I thought it worked out real
Speaker 2: well for the first time back.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, thanks guys,