1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Where you guys good. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: I care if you were a rookie with the Pittsburgh Steelers, 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 2: I believe in your first padded practice you might have 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 2: gotten into a fight. Should I assume that you don't 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: want your rookies doing that. 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: I don't want any of us doing that. It's a 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: long time ago, Karen, you're going to follow up, of course, 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: I mean we don't. I mean we want to be 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: able to practice the same way we have to play, 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: which is physical and within the rules, and I have 11 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: a great play demeanor and finished through the whistle and 12 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: all those things. And you know, if you throw a punch, 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: you're get kicked out of the game, which is going 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: to cross the team. So I don't anticipate any of that. 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: I I want us to celebrate with our team and 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: the defensive unit, celebrate with each other, offensive unit get 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: excited and celebrate with each other, not get into the 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: taunting and the things that we would you know that 19 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: we can't have during the game. I think I did. 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: It's it's it's a it's a good story about don't 21 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: use the fight, but the about a veteran player. Greg 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: Lloyd was a very dominant player, imposing figure and I 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: got drafted in April, and he didn't say a word 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: to me through OTAs and I'm on the defense, mind you, 25 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: and so I didn't say a word to me the 26 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: entire offseason. We go to training camp. You know, there 27 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: was a fight with me and a tight end and 28 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted after practice and I see this like shadow 29 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: coming over me as I'm sitting in the locker room 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: and he's like in his deep voice and he's like, yeah, 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: the next time you want to come up underneath the 32 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: face mask. And I was like, you just now are 33 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: going to talk to me. He's like, yeah, I just 34 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: wanted to make sure you weren't like a punk, and 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: then then I would talk to you. So it's a 36 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: good example of just a veteran make sure that you know, 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: rookies kind of earned their stripes. I guess a little bit, 38 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: but to the point of yeah, I think. So you know, 39 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: this will be you know, truthfold will be down in 40 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: the red zone. We'll be getting a lot of work 41 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: in the red zone. Things happen a lot quicker down there. Uh, 42 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: tighter windows, just the speed of everything it can just 43 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: gets sped up. And so that'll be good for us. 44 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,679 Speaker 1: To move on to that situation as well as to 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: see how we you know, start to practice and pads 46 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: and our pad level, our fundamentals, our hands and those 47 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: types of things. Mike, as you share that story and 48 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: talking about the guy and not talking to you for 49 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: a couple of months while you're together, do you feel 50 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: like it's different in the NFL or with this specific team. Well, 51 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: I just think that that was a Greg That was 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: a Greg Lloyd type of thing. I think that's that 53 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: was certainly his personality. I think that there's you know, 54 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: you're always trying to, you know, prove yourself to to 55 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: your teammates, especially as a young player, and Greg probably 56 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: took it a little to extreme. Four days without pad. 57 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: Your assignment level today maybe on a scale from one 58 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: to ten. I just think coming off of a day off, 59 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: I think this is just another step and in in 60 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: our program. So I try to come out here with 61 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: the same excitement and and give him everything I got 62 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: and and help them. So this is just another important 63 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: step throughout the process of preparation. Go ahead, don't you 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: Williams back out there with the team. Well, you know, 65 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: he has an energy to him, There's there's you know, 66 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: the players are. You know, they respond well to him 67 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: and when he you know, he has his clips that 68 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: he shows them and the things that he thinks are 69 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: important as a coordinator. You know, I think that they're 70 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: believing in what we want to do in our style 71 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: of play, and so just keep moving in ahead. And 72 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: but it's it's great to have him back, just his 73 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: personality and demeanor. 74 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 3: Like if you were in our shoes, what would you 75 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: think you'd say? You know, you guys should really watch this. 76 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: You've been doing this for a long time, you know how. 77 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean if I was the part of the media, Yeah, 78 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: if you would, like say you, I don't think there's 79 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: ever a scenario where that would happen. 80 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 3: Oh, that's absolutely a matter of time. You already did 81 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 3: stuff with Felga fifteen years ago. 82 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: As soon as I'm done with this, I'm gonna be 83 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: in the witness protection and you want to you will 84 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: never find me, all right, Well, you would help us. 85 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: I mean I just think that how maybe some of 86 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: these uh you know, to me, it's that's it's it's 87 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 1: critical at a lot of scrimmage, right just being able 88 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: to make contact. There's gonna be a stalemate. There's two 89 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: professional players lined up across from each other. Who can 90 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: re engage, who can reset their feet, maybe get a 91 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: little extra movement? You know, how do how do we 92 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: play on it? Do we stay on our feet? Can 93 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: we practice like this and stand our feet? We got 94 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of guys falling on the ground and rather 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: not see that. I just don't think that that good 96 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: teams end up practicing that way. Uh. And again, just 97 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: the urgency in which we move around practice that there's 98 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: we're in and out of the huddle, the players are 99 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: running on and off the field. Those are all things 100 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: that I think are critical. I think that translate to 101 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: the field, Uh, to the game. Excuse me? Right where 102 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: you know? You don't you're not standing ten yards behind 103 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: the ball, You're you're coming from the sideline, and we're 104 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: communicating the personnel and the quarterback has to echo that. 105 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: Those are the types of things right now that we're 106 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: trying to build a pretty strong camp soon. What have 107 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: you seen from him? What have you learned about him 108 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: with this offseason? Right? Great energy, great Demeanor're very coachable. 109 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: One of our off season award winners, so we obviously 110 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: worked extremely hard. Was what was here? Uh? Every day, 111 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: ready to learn, ready to you know, earn a role. 112 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: And I love being around pop. He's got a great, 113 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: great energy and has got a lot of respect from 114 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: everybody around here. One a little bit the other day. 115 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 3: How much of that period is for experimentation with new 116 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 3: moves or techniques versus. 117 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: The evaluation where guys are really obviously trying to win 118 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: every ret Yeah, I watch it a little bit. I 119 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: do think that that's probably a great question. One of the 120 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: players I coached in Houston, Whitney Merciless. You know, we 121 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: went through some developmental things with him. He was a 122 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: very talented player. One thing I always respected about Whitney 123 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: was his willingness to try new moves during practice and 124 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: you know, some of them wouldn't work, some of them 125 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: were he needed to see at full speed for him 126 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: to say, you know, that's not something that I'm going 127 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: to commit a lot of time too. And then others 128 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: that you know worked and he would commit time to. 129 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: So that's exactly why you do practice, is so that 130 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: you can, you know, sometimes figure out what doesn't work, 131 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: and you can eliminate some things and you can move on. 132 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: Especially as a pass rusher. Right you're trying to have 133 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: a couple of different pitches, not too many, but I 134 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: certainly needed some a fastball and some off speed pitches 135 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: and some counters. So this is why we practice, is 136 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and do that. 137 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: And I understand, you know a lot of those things, 138 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: and you know when you get to the team periods 139 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: and you get to the games and you can see 140 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: how guys pass rush. But you know, I think that's 141 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: obviously a good thing. The offensive linemen are going to 142 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: work on different techniques and things like that, so they're 143 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: not doing the same thing every single snap. Displayed a 144 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: real level of consistency over the course it was three 145 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: four years here in New England. 146 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 3: What is it from your standpoint that's allowed him to 147 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 3: have that level of consistency. 148 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very, very, very comfortable player. I would very 149 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: similar to Kevin Byron. And you know, I'm not big 150 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: on comparisons and just talking about personalities, right, Like Kevin 151 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: was really confident and comfortable. He never looked stressed. And 152 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: you would look and see some younger players maybe at 153 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: the same position, and they would, I mean they'd be 154 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: sweating before the players start. They were making checks and 155 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: everything else and running and Kevin just always had a 156 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: very calm, confident demeanor and was an excellent player for us. 157 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: And I feel the same about Hunter. I think that 158 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: he's anything that you ask him to do, it comes 159 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: very easy, and he's very instinctive. Uh, and he's got 160 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: a good feel for the game. So yeah, that's that's all. 161 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: Those are all positives, and I think that that leads 162 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: to his consistency. 163 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 3: Get back to those one on one situations with the 164 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 3: guys on the line. 165 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: What are you hoping to see from from Will Campbell today? 166 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: What you know, what would you need to see to 167 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 1: look back on the table we'd go for every one 168 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: of our offensive linemen is that we're getting into the 169 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage when we're running it, we're standing inside 170 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: out when we throw it. You know, the it's gonna 171 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: be the same for for every offensive lineman that we have. 172 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: You asked me a question about mill Williams. I'm gonna 173 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: tell you the same thing for every defensive lineman. You know, 174 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna coach them all the same and continue to 175 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: do what we've been doing here the first couple of days, 176 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: Like when. 177 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: We talked to the guys from the offense here, players 178 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: and coaches, very few of them have experience in Josh 179 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: McDaniel's playing for him and his offense. 180 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: What's that like? Having kind of a whole team learning 181 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: the offense and system together A lows people to stay engaged. 182 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: And there's modifications that we make and you know we'll 183 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: do that defensively and offensively. It puts something in and 184 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: then and then you always have the ability to adjust it. 185 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: And you know Josh is working well and they're all 186 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: working well together offensively about how we want to get 187 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: things done, you know. And that's I think when when 188 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: something's new, put a little bit more time into it 189 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: just so that you can kind of get the details 190 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: and you don't maybe take things for granted. Thank you.