1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Sion One always talks about like past protection, one of 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: the biggest things you need to work on inst proof. 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Where do you think sure that's that right now? Well, 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: I think that Um as a back, I always talk 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: to him then about there's four phases. One you gotta 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: be able to protectable to you gotta be all run it, 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,760 Speaker 1: Three you gotta be able to catch it with routes, 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: and four you gotta be you'll protect. And so we 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: work on that all the time. Um, every day, I 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: believe that you have to try to get better in 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: that phase. So we we give a little time to 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: all those phases. And I've learned as a coach, Um, 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: there's always something to work on. Either we're not quite 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: where we want to be in a running game, we're 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: not right we're going to be in a route running, 16 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: but we're not where we're going to be in the 17 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: past protection. So we're going to continue to work all 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: of our fundamentals. I know that's the usually the biggest 19 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: transition for a back coming from college to pro is 20 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: in past protection. And that's one of the big things 21 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: that we're gonna work on. But I won't over emphasize 22 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: that more than others because then other things fall off 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: once you do that. There's been a handful of moment 24 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: so in the less two games, I think where maybe 25 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: they weren't his best past blocking moments. What do you 26 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: what do you make of that? Is it? Yeah? Is 27 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: what I make of that? When I make of that 28 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: is the coach needs to do a better job right 29 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: here of putting him in situations where that he's going 30 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: to hold up and protect. Obviously, he gives us a 31 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: lot um and a lot of areas defenses are going 32 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: to try to attack them. I would and try to 33 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: keep him in the pocket, and he'll have to make 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: sure he finds a way to hold up and will 35 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: continue to work on that as the other things that 36 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: we have to do too, because that's again that's one 37 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: part of his game that had thug in UM. As 38 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: I said before, I think that's the biggest and the 39 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: hardest hurdle for most backs coming from college to the protein. 40 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: It was more recognition than than or technique when you 41 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: looked at those and I think, I think it's a 42 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Um. He wants to be able obviously, 43 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: no who he's got to block, but that's know who 44 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: you gotta block in past protection and then block. I 45 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: think you've gotta be able to do that, just like 46 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: you got to know who you're keen in the run 47 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: game and make sure you can make your runs where 48 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: you need to. And so what does uh you know 49 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Buck Allen bring to the table? Well, um, right now, 50 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: I am obviously get a chance to see him in 51 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: the game. But he's a big, strong guy, got a 52 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: lot of skills, runs really good routes. He has run 53 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 1: the ball well in practice. Um, you have to obviously 54 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: see that transition to the game. But he is a veteran, 55 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: so um, he's got a good history with that. And 56 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: when his time comes, I'm interested to see how he's 57 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: gonna do. I think he'll do it really fine. But 58 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: that time will come because the tape will show everything 59 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: you need to see. In my mind, how tough was 60 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: that stretch when you had, you know, really inexperienced guys 61 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: where you know, second goes down way and goes down 62 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: and you didn't have a guy like Buck to a 63 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: veteran to step in. It's always tough. But guess what 64 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: we're gonna play who we have. So as a coach 65 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: that I've been through, I don't care who we though 66 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: out there. You have to be ready to prepared to play, 67 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: be ready to play. And um, every team goes through injuries, 68 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: we do too, and so with this is the next man. 69 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: I've always believed that, So I'll never whoever we have 70 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: on the field, I expect to play at the Hello, 71 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: what do you say to John Hillman? Now he did 72 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: get that opportunity, didn't probably go how you guys wanted, 73 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: and then ends up coming back. What you what's your 74 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: advice to a guy in that situation. Well, I tell 75 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: him is just keep your chin up. You've got an opportunity, 76 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: You've been blessed to get another chance to still be 77 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: on our team. You'll get another opportunity, hopefully, and when 78 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: that time comes, as I told my guys all the time, 79 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: keep the good. There's a lot of good things that 80 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: he did when he played lose the bad. And if 81 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: you do that, good things will happen for you in 82 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: the future. So you're not going to be defined necessarily 83 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: by one game, one play, which you're gonna can you 84 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: stack success and when you have adversity, can you overcome that? 85 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: Every player has got to be able to do that. Um. 86 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: From him to the best, Well, it is, but I 87 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: don't really think it's that hard. The great thing about football, 88 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: one of the great things I think about this sport, 89 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: right or wrong, and every football team I think goes 90 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: through this. You have success, it's the next week. You 91 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: come up short and run out of time, it's the 92 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: next week. So regardless of what happens, you have to 93 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: have the passes in the past. And again I believe 94 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: strongly keep the good from what you learn from the past. 95 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: You're gonna have some bad moments and you want to 96 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: lose those moments, but you need to learn from those 97 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: moments or that would be repeated again. What do you 98 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: say with Wayne, because it's kind of a different situation 99 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: than him, and he Wayne had success in his opportunity 100 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: and looked like this was going to be his chance, 101 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: maybe for three or four games, and then he gets 102 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: hurt and now he's you know, no one would argue this, 103 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: but he's back to the two or three four snaps 104 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: a game because sake quans back. What do you say 105 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: to him because he kind of missed his opportunity through 106 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: no fault of his own. Right, well, with the back 107 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: specific typically but in general in the NFL, injuries are 108 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: part of the game. Every back goes through it. Every 109 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: back on every team I've been through it goes through it. 110 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to learn how to recover. Do 111 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: the best you can when you play. Um if and 112 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: when you get nicked up, get in the training room, 113 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: get yourself back and continue to play at a high 114 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: level when you get your opportunities. If you're not the starter, 115 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: um you, I think you have to have the mentality 116 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: that when I go in, I'm gonna make something happen 117 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: without pressing. I have to go, I have to do something. No, 118 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: just do what you do and do it well and 119 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: you'll be fine. And just continue to play and keep 120 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: your confidence up that way and you because you never 121 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: know in this game. Uh, everybody is a play away 122 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: from playing a lot. As Wayne and others have found out. 123 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: One of the four things you mentioned with Sakan was 124 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: protect the ball. You might want to knock on wood 125 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: when I'm done with this. But he's still never lost 126 00:05:53,600 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: a fumble. How crazy is that? I mean, he's I 127 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: think it's a tribute to him. Um again, that's he 128 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: brought that here from Penn Stay has done a really 129 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: good job there. But when he has been here, he's 130 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: done a good job of taking care of the ball. 131 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: But I don't lose that just because he has. We 132 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: still practice that as one of the four phases all 133 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: the time. Ball security is critical obviously for teams and 134 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: their success, and so we're going to practice that, and 135 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna practice to make sure we get in phase 136 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: with our runs and the past protection and catching the ball. 137 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: That's again, that's I think that's what when you're back 138 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: in modern football, you want to be able to do 139 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of each and that's why I think 140 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: our guys have been able to do. I get you. 141 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: You don't want to take a talent like fee field 142 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: the need to maybe give him some more breathers and 143 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: get Wayne and Moore. Is that something that you would 144 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: like to do or you're always all the time? Man? 145 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: You know what I as a coach and self critique, 146 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: Maybe you played too much, maybe you played too little. 147 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you go through all the time. 148 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: And you have a player of a talent like that, 149 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: So we just go through and I really believe that 150 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: goes game by game. UM we don't get an account 151 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: and plays or how much he should be playing obviously, UM, 152 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: most everybody. I want to play every play, but he 153 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: better never get tired. So that's what you've got to 154 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: find that fine line, and we I bet I think 155 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: every game situation is a little bit unique, and we 156 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: do the best. We can. Put him out there, show 157 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: what he can do, and when he needs time to 158 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: come off, we can try to make that. We look 159 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: at it at the end of the day. Well, I 160 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: as a self critique in I always wonder how much 161 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: is too much you talk to him. It's never too much, 162 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: So again you see what I mean. That's the bottom 163 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: line is we want to have him to be in 164 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: good shape and late in the game that can help 165 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: us win the game. I think that's this point, and 166 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: that's my point as as safe One has always said, 167 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: I don't care about any stats. That's why I of 168 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: this kid. I'll let's find a way to win. That's 169 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: all he cares about. That's what I care about, and 170 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to do.