Speaker 1: With practice. Think the guys are progressing and moving in
Speaker 1: the right direction.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Got another difficult task this week in the uh Ravens. Uh.
Speaker 1: That offense is high, UH, high volume, UH, very explosive.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is playing at that uh MVP level as
Speaker 1: he did a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: All the weapons around him are exceeding.
Speaker 1: UH. Odell is still playing high and you know, I
Speaker 1: love uh just watching flowers uh an the things that
Speaker 1: he can do. It's gonna be a difficult task. And
Speaker 1: with that, I take your questions.
Speaker 2: See you wanna makes Lamar Jackson different and perhaps more
Speaker 2: difficult to defend than the other mobile quarterbacks you've seen
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I I think just his ability uh to make guys
Speaker 1: missing space.
Speaker 3: Uh. He's very elusive and UH to be.
Speaker 1: Honest, I think you know uh h he's he's p
Speaker 1: He's playing so much better from a standpoint of uh.
Speaker 1: Uh the passing game as well, which I think creates
Speaker 1: other elements of his ability to be able to scramble
Speaker 1: when things aren't there.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 1: So he's really playing good football, not turning the ball over, uh,
Speaker 1: which is the key for them. And UH again we
Speaker 1: gotta do a much better job than we did last
Speaker 1: week from a standpoint of tracking the ball carrier and
Speaker 1: most importantly, you know, tackling.
Speaker 2: When you said the refer to your own team, the
Speaker 2: guys are progressing, Like what areas do you do? You
Speaker 2: wanna see them continue to get better? Uh?
Speaker 1: Most definitely from what we did last week. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt like we had too many missed tackles. Uh,
Speaker 1: just what I just alluded to. I I think it
Speaker 1: was more us and and and not executing our technique,
Speaker 1: not understanding where our help was coming from. You had
Speaker 1: a couple of times we had a situation where it
Speaker 1: could have been you know, really fourth and nine and
Speaker 1: I and all of a sudden, now we missed a
Speaker 1: tackle cause we we're not tracking the right way. It's
Speaker 1: fourth and three and they go for it. So, uh,
Speaker 1: just a little things like that we have.
Speaker 3: To improve on. And that's the progression that I'm seeing
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 2: I think we asked you about your various every week basically,
Speaker 2: but going back to when you got here, what was
Speaker 2: your assessment of what his skill set was and in
Speaker 2: what ways has he.
Speaker 3: Maybe even exceeded that? Well?
Speaker 1: I think it was it was high from what I saw,
Speaker 1: and that was the reason why John and Kyle you know,
Speaker 1: brought him over. I think he's now playing at that
Speaker 1: probo all pro excuse me, calber level. And you saw that,
Speaker 1: and I seen it all all year, and you saw
Speaker 1: it definitely last week with his two picks. And the
Speaker 1: one thing that I pointed out this week, and I
Speaker 1: believe it was yesterday with the defense, I took that
Speaker 1: exact same clip that we had in practice, the exact
Speaker 1: same route, the exact same break. And what I always
Speaker 1: talk to those guys about is just how we practice.
Speaker 1: You know, what you're doing in practice is going to
Speaker 1: be just a reflection of what you do in the game.
Speaker 3: And so he got that rep early.
Speaker 1: He made that play in practice and it was just
Speaker 1: routine when it happened in the game.
Speaker 2: Working with Sam Donald and catching tamp Donald and catching
Speaker 2: balls from him.
Speaker 1: Was that something he came to on his own?
Speaker 2: It was suggested to him.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 1: That's another area of his growth where you know he
Speaker 1: he gets you know, extra work in after practice. Uh
Speaker 1: it was something that he went to Donald, uh on
Speaker 1: his own to be able to get that assistance. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: Sam did a great job last week and preparing him.
Speaker 2: When you talk about that clip from practice salas in
Speaker 2: per preparation to face the Cardinals, Yes, something like that
Speaker 2: happens exactly like that.
Speaker 1: Uh it is and and in a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, in our teaching progression, we will always try
Speaker 1: to you know, show that for as plays back to back,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just very fortunate that we're able
Speaker 1: to get that exact clip.
Speaker 2: I was saying, uh yesterday that there are two linebackers
Speaker 2: Smith and Queen are pretty similar to what you've got
Speaker 2: in in Warner in Green Lawn, I.
Speaker 3: Would ask you to speak to their linebackers.
Speaker 2: But when you have two like you do, they can cover.
Speaker 3: That much ground sideline to sideline and be that athletic.
Speaker 2: What does that do for your defense in terms of
Speaker 2: what you can.
Speaker 1: Call that sort of thing, Well, it it It makes
Speaker 1: our defense so much better when you when you have
Speaker 1: suh that kind of speed. And I think you know
Speaker 1: that's really where the game is now. You know, you
Speaker 1: play so much out in space where offenses try to
Speaker 1: spread you out and get you in those different looks.
Speaker 1: That's why the old school traditional mic linebacker is not
Speaker 1: the case anymore. You know, we look for three wheels
Speaker 1: that can play Mike and and Sam.
Speaker 3: So uh their ability allows.
Speaker 1: Not only you know me, but everybody around them to
Speaker 1: play better.
Speaker 2: Does it? Kind of an example of four modern linebackers
Speaker 2: there too.
Speaker 3: And you two, I mean that what it's what the
Speaker 3: position is involved to.
Speaker 1: Uh. I I think it's gonna you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: showcase a lot of speed and talent on that field
Speaker 1: on Monday night. And you know, a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for those guys, you know, I I know of them
Speaker 1: coming out of the draft and just watching them, you
Speaker 1: know and cross uh you know tape. But I definitely
Speaker 1: love the guys that we have and and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, our guys gonna go out and perform well.
Speaker 3: Game so efficient? What's the kids slowing it down?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just really uh all the gap scheme you know.
Speaker 1: Uh then his own read uh Lamar with his ability
Speaker 1: to be able to pull it at any time, you know. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a very discipline uh football game.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Uh A lot of times you see talent on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, but it's a team that's real
Speaker 1: disciplined in their assignments. You know, when you take the dive,
Speaker 1: take the dive. When you have quarterback, have the quarterback
Speaker 1: vice versa. You know, so we gotta m uh do
Speaker 1: a great job communicating on on uh every snap and uh,
Speaker 1: as we did today and yesterday, I'll be very detailed
Speaker 1: in our assignments.
Speaker 2: Particularly tricky is that for for the nickelback, whether he's
Speaker 2: watching the quarterback and also has a pretty good slot
Speaker 2: receiver to chase around.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Uh It it's definitely, ah uh a difficult task and uh,
Speaker 1: I think Demo is up for it. Uh, And we
Speaker 1: can't put everything on him. That's why based off the call,
Speaker 1: you always have different assignments and uh putting him in
Speaker 1: a situation to where you know, I if he's part
Speaker 1: of the run game, he gotta execute that, and then
Speaker 1: there's times where he's not a part of it, he
Speaker 1: has to play pass first. So uh again, I think
Speaker 1: it just goes back to being disciplined and executing your assignment.
Speaker 2: You encourage might what you saw or a great today.
Speaker 1: Uh yes, you know, it definitely encourage, but you know
Speaker 1: it's still you know, wait and see kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So uh, but I'm definitely encouraged about what I saw today.
Speaker 2: How's k how's j uh Jason Wrtt coming along?
Speaker 1: Uh, he's looking well each and every day, So uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see rather or not he's gonna have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be up and and if so, how many reps
Speaker 1: he'll get?
Speaker 3: I just w made away the wide receivers here. You
Speaker 3: know block at other teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it unique or do you see other
Speaker 1: teams that have the same commitment to all of them
Speaker 1: to be partner to run well? I think it's extremely unique.
Speaker 1: And in in uh how a guy's block. I was
Speaker 1: very impressed with that when I first got here. You know,
Speaker 1: we get a lot of good work going against those
Speaker 1: guys in OTAs and training camp. And you know, I
Speaker 1: talked to Debo uh one time and I aks 'em
Speaker 1: about that and his his uh answer to me was
Speaker 1: if we don't block, we don't get the ball.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So uh, I think, you know, there's a certain culture
Speaker 1: that Kyle has created that it's not just about catching
Speaker 1: the football. It's you know, you can see it throughout
Speaker 1: this team, very unselfish individuals.
Speaker 3: And uh you go back to.
Speaker 1: IU, you know on that play against Seat, don't I
Speaker 1: believe it was where you know, h he went down
Speaker 1: there and made that block inside the fire, So just
Speaker 1: very unselfish play. And those guys prepare us for every
Speaker 1: every every every game and every week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, appreciate you. Merry Christmas to your group.