Speaker 1: All right. Injuries for practice today, Banks concussion, will not practice.
Speaker 1: Trent Williams ankle, no practice, Jordan Mason innkle, no practice,
Speaker 1: Bosa hipp oblique no practice, planning again, fouls, knee no practice,
Speaker 1: Demo knee limited, green Law, Achilles limited, huff wrist limited.
Speaker 2: Everyone else good, Jordan Mason improved, No, he most likely
Speaker 2: will later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gonna practice with As far as his risk.
Speaker 1: He's got some stuff covering it up. Club similar like
Speaker 1: I think it's similar to Jimmy Ward's. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet. There will be.
Speaker 3: Similar to that green Law you noted last week that
Speaker 3: you've got a quick turnaround after this Bears game. Does
Speaker 3: that make the Rams game the more realistic game that
Speaker 3: he could?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it does more likely. I mean, we
Speaker 1: haven't decided fully yet. We'll see how this week goes,
Speaker 1: but most likely Rams hopefully. What kind of growth have
Speaker 1: you see from Isaac Carrendo this year and what's kind
Speaker 1: of his state of readiness for expand it.
Speaker 2: I think he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: I mean we were excited about you know, he got
Speaker 1: off to late start with injuries and preseason. I thought
Speaker 1: he finished in those games well, especially at kick return
Speaker 1: you know you have versus the Raiders. I think did
Speaker 1: some decent things when he started out thinking a lot
Speaker 1: of carries, have some ups and downs, but got better
Speaker 1: through everything. And then when he got the bulk of
Speaker 1: the carries, I want to say some more versus Seattle. Uh,
Speaker 1: he only got better and he's got better throughout the year.
Speaker 1: So I think he's ready for this.
Speaker 4: Specific things that you've seen from him.
Speaker 2: But is it just maybe getting the reps or getting
Speaker 2: the snaps?
Speaker 1: I think just the urgency of running the ball in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, I think it takes the guy
Speaker 1: some time. You start to get a feel for it.
Speaker 1: The more if you got the right stuff, the more
Speaker 1: you get reps, the more you can adjust to it.
Speaker 1: How hard you got to hit stuff, How quick those
Speaker 1: holes close, How when there is a whole, how you
Speaker 1: have to hit a full speed and can't hesitate at
Speaker 1: all or it closes like that. So you've seen that
Speaker 1: stuff get better in practice, and we've seen a carry
Speaker 1: over to games.
Speaker 2: Includes in high school as being a wide receiver.
Speaker 5: Does he have hands the good receiving skills.
Speaker 2: That you've seen, Yeah, he catch it yep, I.
Speaker 4: Mean not of Uh, Ricky Piersol last three game for
Speaker 4: me as a had a catch and has him had
Speaker 4: many cargets.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Ricky got a little banged up,
Speaker 1: and you know, and green Bay battled through that a
Speaker 1: lot still was able to play a lot through it
Speaker 1: and helped us.
Speaker 2: Out of pon return.
Speaker 1: And and I don't judge much from the Buffalo game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we had six completions that were
Speaker 1: screens and I think four other guys had like a
Speaker 1: four yard catch except for Jawan on the skinny, So
Speaker 1: like there was nothing really with Ricky there. We had
Speaker 1: a chance to hit him downfield one time and he slipped,
Speaker 1: but that was uh nothing against him for that game. O.
Speaker 5: You said it on Monday, you hadn't yet had a
Speaker 5: chance to kind of talk to the Christian after getting
Speaker 5: the news. How is he kind of doing his clearly
Speaker 5: with a taxing year on his body and more than
Speaker 5: likely mentally, how is Christian McAffrey no long that he
Speaker 5: now for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Uh, I think he's doing alright. I mean I think
Speaker 1: he was extremely disappointed. I mean right when it happened.
Speaker 1: For a couple of days, you know, just talking to him, yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think he's accepting it, you know, just not his yearbviously,
Speaker 1: the way it started out, how hard he worked to
Speaker 1: get back, and then having that random injury that he
Speaker 1: had in Buffalo. So I know he's disappointed about the year,
Speaker 1: but I know he's excited and hungary is hell to
Speaker 1: get back to work and get ready.
Speaker 2: For next year.
Speaker 4: There again this season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not God, but I think he's got
Speaker 1: a chance to play this week, so I would think
Speaker 1: that would lead to getting a better chance each week.
Speaker 2: But I don't know the answer that.
Speaker 5: What do you know about your new running back?
Speaker 3: What do you like about?
Speaker 2: I mean, I liked him coming out of college.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm study him a ton of the NFL,
Speaker 1: but he was a guy that had good notes on
Speaker 1: from college and liked and you know and in our
Speaker 1: scouting department thought his best guy out there being available
Speaker 1: in stuff. So in our situation especially glad to get him. Here.
Speaker 3: Was he one of the running backs that Bobby was
Speaker 3: onto in the twenty three draft during the phone calls
Speaker 3: and things like.
Speaker 1: That, if Bobby's on every single one, so like, yes, definitely,
Speaker 1: what's that? What do you see from kyleb Bois. I
Speaker 1: mean as talented as there is. I mean just the
Speaker 1: stuff that you saw in college you can see in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean as good as a throwers there is,
Speaker 1: born to play the position, got the athletic ability to
Speaker 1: do whatever. It's got the speed to do whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gotten a lot of playing time. He's getting better
Speaker 1: as this year goes. I think he's get a lot
Speaker 1: more consistent. I think he's been playing his ball, the
Speaker 1: best ball probably here the last few weeks. He's put
Speaker 1: him in a chance to win here in these last
Speaker 1: few games.
Speaker 2: Coach that during only so much they yeah, a little
Speaker 2: of both.
Speaker 1: I mean there's only so much new coaches can do.
Speaker 1: I mean they're not going to change a ton up,
Speaker 1: but I mean they can have a different approach. You
Speaker 1: can have a different vibe from the team and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and it's got to be prepared for everything.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's only so much.
Speaker 3: Could McCaffrey potentially be back in a playoffs.
Speaker 2: Scenario, Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1: You know, I think usually they say that injury is
Speaker 1: like a six week injury, So you know, that would
Speaker 1: give a chance.
Speaker 4: Trade deadline, it's a risk to make a move at
Speaker 4: the deadline. It's a risk to kind of regrets. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can't predict what was gonna happen, But regrets not being.
Speaker 1: More aggressive, No, because I don't think I mean, how
Speaker 1: many aggressive moves you want to make, you know, and
Speaker 1: you make one aggressive move and but I don't think
Speaker 1: that and what's happened just one player would have changed
Speaker 1: anything in these last three weeks.
Speaker 2: Then when you do that, it just turns you more
Speaker 2: going forward.
Speaker 1: So no regrets at all on that, not to mention
Speaker 1: there wasn't really something sitting there that was enticing. Unf
Speaker 1: it was considered a big move, So I didn't really
Speaker 1: see that option and you don't ever want to do
Speaker 1: that just.
Speaker 2: To do it either.
Speaker 3: About the Bears defense, when.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're a real good defense, you know,
Speaker 1: I think how good they are on the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think they're ranked number two in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think they're top five at getting turnovers. I think
Speaker 1: they're top five, and they'd down it's you know, when
Speaker 1: they're top five and getting turnovers in their offense, I
Speaker 1: think is number one at giving up of not giving
Speaker 1: up turnovers usually a really good formula for winning it's
Speaker 1: you look at their team as a whole. They started
Speaker 1: out four and two, they went on a buy. They
Speaker 1: lost the next game on a Hail Mary versus good
Speaker 1: team in Washington, which you know, so you'd like to
Speaker 1: say they should have been five and two. And the
Speaker 1: next five games after that, you know they got blown
Speaker 1: out too after that. But these last three games they
Speaker 1: played as good as any team in the league, playing Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and Detroit, losing by a total seven points.
Speaker 1: So I see a defense that is capable of being
Speaker 1: a playoff defense. They've played like it all year. They've
Speaker 1: just come out short here in these last five games.
Speaker 1: Week Christian said that he felt the vibes outside the
Speaker 1: building were a lot lower than the vibes inside the
Speaker 1: building after Sunday.
Speaker 5: Do you feel the same way about that.
Speaker 4: New confidence that you guys have with the vibes to
Speaker 4: pick around.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. We don't go off vibes
Speaker 2: as much.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we were pretty disappointed after that
Speaker 1: game and stuff. That takes time, but you don't need
Speaker 1: much more than forty eight hours we're in here on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: guys are ready to go to work. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think when you compare outside the building inside the building.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're a football team who goes to work
Speaker 1: and tries to get better each day we're here. If
Speaker 1: you spend your day outside the building just reading and stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm sure your vives won't be the same. But our
Speaker 1: vives here are all about work and that's what we
Speaker 1: enjoy doing.
Speaker 3: We're looking at.
Speaker 4: After run defense and all the rushing touchdowns that have
Speaker 4: been given up this season.
Speaker 1: Why is that happening? Is it just breakdowns every level
Speaker 1: of the run.
Speaker 2: Defense When you get down there, yes, I think there's not.
Speaker 1: When you ask why, I mean that's we can go
Speaker 1: in a ton of things, but the bottom line is
Speaker 1: we haven't played good enough run defense. You look at
Speaker 1: all of our losses. I mean, these last two weeks
Speaker 1: have been as bad as it gets. Especially you know,
Speaker 1: when you give up the run game like we have
Speaker 1: in these last two weeks in the first half, the
Speaker 1: game's almost over before it starts.
Speaker 2: Going into that second half.
Speaker 1: I still thought we had every chance to make it
Speaker 1: a game in the second half, but that's when we
Speaker 1: had our three turnovers in both games, which leads to blowouts.
Speaker 1: If you look at all of our losses, this year,
Speaker 1: I think, are you know, the least amount of yards
Speaker 1: who get up in a loss is close to one
Speaker 1: point fifty. So we haven't been stopping the run well
Speaker 1: enough that you know, starts with people being out of gaps.
Speaker 2: It can go to miss tackles. It can go to
Speaker 2: not getting off the field on third downs so they
Speaker 2: get a few more runs.
Speaker 1: Called can go to not getting enough turnovers, and it
Speaker 1: can go to miss assignments.
Speaker 2: So it's all of above.
Speaker 4: You never asked you about Rock and his the fumble
Speaker 4: that happened.
Speaker 5: Is there anything that he could have done?
Speaker 3: Or was it just a slip out of his hand?
Speaker 2: I mean it just slipped out of his hand. I
Speaker 2: mean I wish it didn't.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's not like you put different grip early on your
Speaker 1: hands and stuff, you know, so you gotta change your
Speaker 1: motion up a little bit. But that's also why you
Speaker 1: try to avoid throwing a lot in those situations, and
Speaker 1: that's what you try to do. But sometimes you can't
Speaker 1: avoid it, especially on third downs and things like that,
Speaker 1: and that's the challenges of plane in those conditions.
Speaker 3: A kind of.
Speaker 1: Judge what his performance.
Speaker 2: In Buffalo I mean it is. I mean, you take
Speaker 2: that all with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1: But we watch each clip and we talked through it,
Speaker 1: and I mean that was you know, it's always bad
Speaker 1: play when you lose the ball, but as far as
Speaker 1: going through a progression where the ball should again gone,
Speaker 1: you know, that was his number two in the read.
Speaker 1: He looked at George, they moved his own coverage. He
Speaker 1: took a hitch and was going to rip it to
Speaker 1: the left side and was going to have an explosive
Speaker 1: to JJ and the ball slipped out. So and I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that was one of his better plays,
Speaker 1: but he was doing everything right on that play, and
Speaker 1: I think we.
Speaker 2: All saw why the ball slipped.
Speaker 1: There's plays in this game that we can coach him
Speaker 1: up to be better on, and there's some games there's
Speaker 1: some plays where it's like that, where it's an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: He's had.
Speaker 4: A great game plus catches against the Rams and Seahawks,
Speaker 4: and he doesn't talk to which we would like to
Speaker 4: talk to him. But I don't know, is that reflective
Speaker 4: of anything about him or.
Speaker 1: Is competitive I don't know. I didn't even know he
Speaker 1: wasn't talking to you guys. So that's the first I've heard.
Speaker 2: Can I do that too? Maybe Juan says smarter than
Speaker 2: I am. Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: J Juwan's emotional dude, and that's what makes him so great.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys see how he plays. And Joan's
Speaker 1: my one of my favorite people in the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's unique and just the energy brings to everything. And
Speaker 1: I haven't asked him cause I didn't know that, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure he hasn't been in the mood after games.
Speaker 2: He takes those hard. Okay, I guess.
Speaker 3: That or anything.
Speaker 4: But you're you're not a bad loser. I mean, you
Speaker 4: may be a bad loser, but in public, in press conferences,
Speaker 4: you answer the questions. Not every coach does that. Like
Speaker 4: after a dream day, you're like getting.
Speaker 3: More questions than most coaches are.
Speaker 4: Like is that someone? Is that your dad? Or you
Speaker 4: as how you're supposed.
Speaker 5: To handle things?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's just how I am.
Speaker 1: I I answer questions not a good I don't make
Speaker 1: stuff up. So try to answer you, guys, questions, especially
Speaker 1: if it's not a stupid question. Sometimes I struggle with
Speaker 1: ones that I don't understand, and forgive me if I
Speaker 1: think they're stupid.
Speaker 2: They might not be. I just don't understand them all.
Speaker 2: But that's how I do press conferences.
Speaker 1: I answer the questions, so I always try to do
Speaker 1: that without hurting our own team. And that's really about
Speaker 1: as simple as I keep it.
Speaker 2: But no, I don't take losing well.
Speaker 1: But I'm not showing you guys how I deal with
Speaker 1: my life in these eight great minutes.
Speaker 2: All I guess. Thanks