Speaker 1: Are you doing good? How are you? Yeah, Carson's in
Speaker 1: a stretch where obviously he's scuffling a little bit. Where
Speaker 1: do you start with him? And you know he's taken
Speaker 1: a lot of hits this year. How much of a
Speaker 1: factor do you think all that is in in what
Speaker 1: we're seeing on the field? You know? I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the quarterback position is such a unique position in
Speaker 1: that you're so dependent on the play of everybody else.
Speaker 1: So I think we go up and down together a
Speaker 1: quarterback central of it. I think by and large, Carson's
Speaker 1: still doing a lot of really good things, still a
Speaker 1: lot of positive even in a bad stretch. Two people
Speaker 1: can look at the same thing and see different results,
Speaker 1: and we have to own the negative results, but still
Speaker 1: feel good about a lot of the things that he's doing,
Speaker 1: even in the adversity and in the bad stretch we're in. However,
Speaker 1: do you feel he is one coverage of recognition in
Speaker 1: terms of he sees a guy's he's beating his man,
Speaker 1: he's got a window, but doesn't either see the linebacker
Speaker 1: or the safety or wherever else it might be. In
Speaker 1: secondary coverage. I think Carson's vision is coverage recognition is
Speaker 1: way beyond his years. There's very few plays where he's
Speaker 1: fulled in coverage. You know, Um, you've seen that. You
Speaker 1: see that time and time again. Quarterbacks get fulled by disguise.
Speaker 1: I think he has really good vision. He's shown good vision. Um,
Speaker 1: every quarterback is going to make a bad decision every
Speaker 1: now and then, you know, throw the ball down the
Speaker 1: middle and cover two when maybe you should have come underneath.
Speaker 1: That happens all the time. I mean all the time.
Speaker 1: It's not acceptable. You don't want to do it, but
Speaker 1: sometimes you're trying to make a play and it happens.
Speaker 1: But I think overall, his his vision, his recognition, his
Speaker 1: recognition of coverages has been very good. Now you watch
Speaker 1: mechanically Elliott, Yeah, I mean, you know, as a as
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator and helping out and trying to help
Speaker 1: in that regardless a lot Again for every player, mechanics
Speaker 1: technique fundamental, critically important. You're always working at it. The
Speaker 1: higher level you get, the more you work on it.
Speaker 1: I think he's still completing a very high percentage of
Speaker 1: his passes. You know, when you look at it in
Speaker 1: the big scope of things. Am I ever satisfied with it? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, but I've never satisfied with myself as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've never been satisfied with any quarterback I've ever coached.
Speaker 1: You're always pushing them to get better. You gotta get better.
Speaker 1: You got And as long as a guy has the
Speaker 1: mindset that he's trying to get better, that's the key.
Speaker 1: And I think he and he has that mindset and
Speaker 1: he's proven that time and time again. What's been the
Speaker 1: common thread at all the interceptions that when you look
Speaker 1: at them, you know, I think it's a mixed bag.
Speaker 1: A couple of them are could be a decision, you know,
Speaker 1: like the one going down the middle of this last week.
Speaker 1: Every now and then it's a bad throw, same for
Speaker 1: every other quarterback. And I'm not trying to defend the guy,
Speaker 1: but just trying to have a realistic perspective about what
Speaker 1: happens playing that position with everything going on around you.
Speaker 1: So you have to you have to learn from it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you got to take it hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to hurt because it hurts the
Speaker 1: team when we make it. You know, when you're a
Speaker 1: quarterback and you make a mistake, it's amplified. It's not
Speaker 1: just like you missed a block or drop the balls.
Speaker 1: When you play quarterback, you understand that it's the mistakes
Speaker 1: are amplified. So you've got to have thick skin fight
Speaker 1: through it, but very happy in a lot of respect,
Speaker 1: but also still have a sense of urgency to keep
Speaker 1: working with him to get better pass This thing has
Speaker 1: been kind of common theme that we've seen since the
Speaker 1: spring rookie quarterbacks. I guess go I'll go through this.
Speaker 1: I mean Pete Mane through like twenty interceptions in this
Speaker 1: first year. But what's the expectation of when that needs
Speaker 1: to stop? I mean, you know when does that need
Speaker 1: to stop? Do you need another full off season? You
Speaker 1: stop now? I mean, you know, as far as you know,
Speaker 1: you need to have the mindset that it needs to
Speaker 1: stop now. It can't go another game. I mean there's
Speaker 1: no and as far as the past sailing, um, I
Speaker 1: guess it's true with every player has a you know,
Speaker 1: I like I like golf, so you watch golfers and
Speaker 1: everybody has a miss. You know that, you know I
Speaker 1: tend to miss right you know you tend to miss
Speaker 1: with a little bit right of the fairway. And you know,
Speaker 1: right now, if Carston's miss is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a high ball, Um, is it? I don't think it's
Speaker 1: anything out of the acceptable range. You guys still playing
Speaker 1: a lot of good football and completing a lot of passes. Um,
Speaker 1: do we need to work on it? Do we need
Speaker 1: to get it corrected? Yeah, and we are doing that
Speaker 1: and he is doing that. It seems like earlier in
Speaker 1: the year though, those high passes weren't really happening to
Speaker 1: unt the first three games especially, I mean like it
Speaker 1: might have been a problem like during the summer and everything,
Speaker 1: but it seemed like you got fixed and then and
Speaker 1: now it's happening on How to explain that maybe to
Speaker 1: some degree? I mean, you know, I still see the
Speaker 1: practice always, even even during the hot stretch, you know
Speaker 1: where there weren't very many missed Um, you know there's
Speaker 1: still balls in practice. I mean, just go through a
Speaker 1: good stretch, you get in the zone. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get even the great players get in the zone and
Speaker 1: get even better. So I don't discount it at all.
Speaker 1: I really don't. Um, there's a sense of urgency to
Speaker 1: get better. But he has that. We all have that
Speaker 1: really responsible guy, like he takes responsibility for what's going
Speaker 1: up there. Is there any extent that you are concerned
Speaker 1: that he says to himself, I might not have my
Speaker 1: best receiver, I might not have my best running back.
Speaker 1: My offensive line is patched up a little bit, that
Speaker 1: he takes more responsibility on himself to make things happen.
Speaker 1: Then you know it as a kid, if they do
Speaker 1: that sometimes, can you see anything? Yeah, there's no question.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's why we got to stick
Speaker 1: together as a team, and that's why we you know,
Speaker 1: we have to and he trust me. This guy's a
Speaker 1: mentally tough guy and and very mature guy. He's mentally
Speaker 1: and physically very tough, and he's very mature. So that's
Speaker 1: a good formula for us because you got to be
Speaker 1: to play the position and certainly to play you know
Speaker 1: here in this city. And he well, and we welcome that.
Speaker 1: We're glad we have them. So, but do you still
Speaker 1: have a sense that you know, you want to protect
Speaker 1: your teammates, you know, and you have a sense that
Speaker 1: he could take on you know, you hear it so much. Hey,
Speaker 1: you I've seen the best of them get broken down.
Speaker 1: You know, the most confident quarterbacks in the world lose
Speaker 1: their confidence and get battered. Okay, so that you don't
Speaker 1: take it for granted. You know, these are these are
Speaker 1: our guys, these are our team. That's why we have
Speaker 1: to stick up for each other. Um, you know, especially
Speaker 1: inside this building and we stay we all stick together
Speaker 1: here with our fans and that whole deal. But inside
Speaker 1: in that locker room, it's it's a special bond. And
Speaker 1: I don't know any other way to do it. Was
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't state it's properly. Was Is he
Speaker 1: translating that into trying to do too much on the
Speaker 1: field himself occasionally? Yeah? Probably, at times, every quarterback tries
Speaker 1: to do too much, especially when you know you're not
Speaker 1: generating the points that we want to generate. Um, are
Speaker 1: there going to be times where you try to do
Speaker 1: too much? Yes? Absolutely? MS. Has it happened yet, But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happened as much as it could have.
Speaker 1: To be honest with me, I think he's handled it
Speaker 1: pretty well. I mean, I think during this past game
Speaker 1: on the sideline, when you when you get down points,
Speaker 1: you know you've got a head coach who's played a
Speaker 1: lot and coach d Filippo, we've all been around the
Speaker 1: block a few times. You get behind him, we're on
Speaker 1: the sideline time, Okay, one play at a time, don't
Speaker 1: let's not go crazy here. We can't get it all
Speaker 1: back in one play. Those things were all being talked
Speaker 1: about it on the sidelines. We've all been around the block,
Speaker 1: m But when you're out there doing it, it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's that's a hard position to play. And I think
Speaker 1: he's handled it very well. He's already experienced more losing,
Speaker 1: you know, on this level than he did in college. Essentially,
Speaker 1: how is he What have you noticed behind the scenes
Speaker 1: in that respect of kind of absorbing, you know, repeated
Speaker 1: defeat for the first time. Well, you know, for for
Speaker 1: a while, I thought he seemed, you know, totally unflappable.
Speaker 1: I mean I know, I mean it was like there
Speaker 1: was you know, now in some of the more recent losses,
Speaker 1: do I sense that this is okay, he's feeling this one.
Speaker 1: He's feeling this one. Yeah, I mean we're all feeling it.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I think he was that that
Speaker 1: young naive in a good sense, but still very mature
Speaker 1: guy who came in and it was like, nothing's going
Speaker 1: to get this guy down. But even you know, but
Speaker 1: it wears on you, It wears on you. Losing wears
Speaker 1: on you in this league, and you get that's why
Speaker 1: you got to have the mental toughness. You got to
Speaker 1: have the mental toughness because it's a grind, and especially
Speaker 1: a grind when you're not winning the games that you
Speaker 1: want to win and you lose close games. You have
Speaker 1: to have the tenacity to fight out of it and
Speaker 1: not get too down. And he has that. Let's be
Speaker 1: made about Zach Hurtz. Is failure to block on that
Speaker 1: one backside playing that Lissa Gramvill will lead to thank
Speaker 1: on it is he trying to avoid a penalty there?
Speaker 1: You know, I have learned over the years to trust
Speaker 1: the player's instincts um you know, I look back on it,
Speaker 1: you know after you know, it didn't really jump out
Speaker 1: of me honestly the first time, but because Carson was
Speaker 1: so near to the sideline, it was a non fact.
Speaker 1: The block was a non factor in the play. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you get a shot like that and you take it.
Speaker 1: Other times, to be honest, I played with a guy
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, Barry Sanders, who was famous for avoiding hits.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why he played all the time. It
Speaker 1: was never hurt and you saw when perfect hit DGB.
Speaker 1: You know, he got as hurt almost as DGB did.
Speaker 1: And so there was a side of me when I
Speaker 1: look back when I won Zach plant last four games,
Speaker 1: so did he. It was a non factor in the play.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to tell the player, hey,
Speaker 1: go ahead and knock him out. But sometimes you have
Speaker 1: an instinct as a player, and over the years I've
Speaker 1: just learned to trust the instinct as a player. It
Speaker 1: seems like you guys are like in a ten nothing
Speaker 1: forteen nothing at all, a lot. What can you do
Speaker 1: to get the rhythm back in the offense that you
Speaker 1: had late and get it in the first quarter. There
Speaker 1: was no other answer than to execute one play at
Speaker 1: a time. I mean, it's there's no magic formula. I
Speaker 1: think we've had good energy at practice. I like the
Speaker 1: way we practice. I feel like we're putting together good plans.
Speaker 1: We're showing flashes of being a good football team. We
Speaker 1: need to be more consistent. We need to make more
Speaker 1: big plays. It's hard to sustain four team play drives.
Speaker 1: We've missed a few plays here and there. We just
Speaker 1: all coaches, players together, just need to make it work
Speaker 1: one play at a time. Ye