Speaker 1: Tony Dune, Tony Sarah'll talk to the team this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and what's the purpose of that. Anytime I can get
Speaker 1: Tony to talk to anybody I have, then we will
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. So he's around. He had a
Speaker 1: game in New England. He's going to New York. So
Speaker 1: his son who played for me, is up visiting, so
Speaker 1: he came down to see Eric. And then he's obviously
Speaker 1: really close with Josh and Kenyon and uh a couple
Speaker 1: other guys we have here, So I just a chance
Speaker 1: for us to catch up and see him. And he's
Speaker 1: always got um a unique perspective that I think he
Speaker 1: shared with my team when I was at Oregan, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited for him to share with our guys and
Speaker 1: stuff in it changed to watch the game last night
Speaker 1: at all. Now we work, so we were in the
Speaker 1: alphae s I didn't see any of the game. So
Speaker 1: you're one of the few teams the singles who plays
Speaker 1: for the sidelines. You obviously had thinking percautions to have
Speaker 1: teams from trying to decode that, But are you concerned
Speaker 1: ever about that and what kind of moneys had to
Speaker 1: go on to to take that? Now we got a
Speaker 1: pretty good system in place, so we're not worried about that.
Speaker 1: The other broadcast your radio, broadcasting your headphones during a game.
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of things in the headsets. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of frequency issues in someplace. I've
Speaker 1: heard air traffic control and a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens the silent account. Did the green baying
Speaker 1: help with that at all? Or is this really the
Speaker 1: first time you guys had it? Yeah? I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty loud. I mean for a preseason game.
Speaker 1: I think the one thing about going to Lambo is
Speaker 1: there's an unbelievable crowd there. You know, no matter what
Speaker 1: time you play the game or um who's playing them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've just got great crowd support. So we
Speaker 1: work on silent account every other day here, so I
Speaker 1: don't think it's an issue for anything that we do.
Speaker 1: So you could answer, there's not a lot going on today,
Speaker 1: So it's my loss, is it red? It was understandable
Speaker 1: why he had subtributed actions the preseason, but this is
Speaker 1: gonna be quite different. I mean, do you have any
Speaker 1: are you doing anything special this week or do you
Speaker 1: have any concerned about him picking sixty snaps instead of
Speaker 1: fifteen or whatever. Now we're real confident in Sam's conditioning.
Speaker 1: We want to throw our guys every day. Did a
Speaker 1: great job. He was in great shape when he got
Speaker 1: here in August past the conditioning tests. So not concerned
Speaker 1: at all with m the amnest snaps. Sam will take
Speaker 1: all about the fecting teams. White can test him earlier
Speaker 1: with a lot of bringing a lot of heat. Is
Speaker 1: that's something that you factor in, and it's just they're
Speaker 1: gonna do what they're gonna do. What we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. I mean, we have answers when
Speaker 1: people blitz us and part of protection pickups how we
Speaker 1: call things, get the ball out of your hand quick.
Speaker 1: But I mean there's risk rewards on both sides of it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a statement that when you blitz the
Speaker 1: band plays, it's either our band or their band. So
Speaker 1: you know, you can say, hey, let's go after him.
Speaker 1: If you do, but then you expose yourself on the
Speaker 1: back end. It just becomes a mathematical game. How many
Speaker 1: guys are gonna have in coverage, how many guy you're
Speaker 1: gonna bring, you know, and if you do do that,
Speaker 1: are you ready to match up with all the five
Speaker 1: vulitable receivers. So that's the game that goes on within
Speaker 1: the game the offensive line, like beyond you know, the
Speaker 1: starters and and bes with the top backups. I mean,
Speaker 1: you kind of said that you wanted to get like
Speaker 1: young you know, pipeline. I guess young players coming up
Speaker 1: like you since that with Guyl, Malcolm Munch and John
Speaker 1: you know, I guess you told yeah, we hope, so,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's something we'll continue to address as
Speaker 1: we move forward here. But UM, you know, I think
Speaker 1: the one thing you have to look at is you
Speaker 1: can't address every area every year. You know, you only
Speaker 1: have so many draft picks. So, UM, we put a
Speaker 1: lot of our draft picks this past year into our
Speaker 1: defense because we felt like that was the real area
Speaker 1: we had to um show up. So, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: something that we're conscious of having Josh here. Matt Tobin,
Speaker 1: who came in on the first year, was an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: UM that's made our team and been on our active roster.
Speaker 1: Um Dennis is a relatively young guy. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you add the two practice squad players along
Speaker 1: with those guys. But it's something we need to address
Speaker 1: as we move forward, how do you bounce keeping the
Speaker 1: guy that think it's better and where do you can
Speaker 1: shoot it right away versus like planning four down the
Speaker 1: road and perhaps you got to maybe see something to
Speaker 1: some potential line. Yeah, well we get to this point.
Speaker 1: Our concern is this season. So if if we're not
Speaker 1: going to keep a young guy that we think is
Speaker 1: going to help us two or three years down the
Speaker 1: road and sacrifice something that could benefit us right now.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, but each individual case, she'll look
Speaker 1: at and kind of see where's where's the pluses and
Speaker 1: minuses in terms of keeping this player. But it's it's
Speaker 1: really our our main focus is this season. Um, and
Speaker 1: especially with the turnover in the National Football League. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, this team could look drastically different again next year.
Speaker 1: So as much as you can decide to kick backs,
Speaker 1: what do you see Quody Park Cody's been sharp, you know,
Speaker 1: been right on as rhythm is there, the timing is
Speaker 1: there between him and John and Donnie, and um, he
Speaker 1: was good the other day we did field goals. We
Speaker 1: do field goals again today, So um, he's been good.
Speaker 1: Banks two different spots, two different kind of guys, but
Speaker 1: really for us it's a Jara two two replaces kind
Speaker 1: of the Brad Smith role that we had for Brad.
Speaker 1: Um and Jonesy kind of replaced whether it be Nagi
Speaker 1: or really James Casey, which however you want to look
Speaker 1: at him fitting in there. So you know, we lost
Speaker 1: a couple of good special teams players that were really,
Speaker 1: you know, really core players for us and Brad and
Speaker 1: James and Naigi. So, um, you know that he really
Speaker 1: kind of Brad takes that size wise, height wise, speedwise,
Speaker 1: he takes that. You know, he's a guard tackle on
Speaker 1: the punt team. He's a he's a inside guy on
Speaker 1: the kickoff cover team. You know, Brad Smith was a
Speaker 1: perimeter guy on the kickoff cover team. Or Jara two
Speaker 1: two is a perimeter guy. Um. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: you traded out some good players, you know, and just
Speaker 1: what happens with free agency and things like that. Um,
Speaker 1: but we felt we had to replace those guys. So
Speaker 1: that's what we brought those guys in. Now they'll they'll
Speaker 1: go just like I say, every week, we'll make a
Speaker 1: final assessment after our last training session, which will be
Speaker 1: actually Sunday now because we have a Monday game. They've
Speaker 1: been good in practice. Um, we've limited them obviously, so
Speaker 1: they're not taking every single rep and every single drill um,
Speaker 1: but they haven't had any issues that were like, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to back off of them. But we won't
Speaker 1: make any determinations on those guys, just like we do
Speaker 1: in every preseason game and everything until our final training
Speaker 1: sessions over. So don't kind of see driving. Yeah, flex
Speaker 1: loves playing football. I don't think there's any concern about
Speaker 1: all the other things that go on outside of football.
Speaker 1: So he's been great out here in one of our
Speaker 1: our better players when it comes to their approached everything
Speaker 1: he does. You know, he fits in with all the
Speaker 1: other guys we have here him and he loves probably
Speaker 1: loves training. He does a great job with the great
Speaker 1: obvious on page. What makes him so call it? Well,
Speaker 1: you just I mean it's not just a flat line guy.
Speaker 1: I mean he can do everything. Sometimes some guys are
Speaker 1: they're six two, they're two twenty and they can run,
Speaker 1: but they can't change direction. He can change direction. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's got great range, he's got great ball skills. Um,
Speaker 1: you know he really he's a really savvy route runner
Speaker 1: in terms of setting up defensive backs for his move,
Speaker 1: So he's really the total package, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: um that's the challenge that's presented, especially you know, with
Speaker 1: such an accurate quarterback throwing the football, is that um,
Speaker 1: he can gain a little advantage because of his size
Speaker 1: and because of his route running ability, and even if
Speaker 1: he has just a little separation, MAT's gonna put it
Speaker 1: on himself. You are what do you remember a value?
Speaker 1: And I know that with the what was the first
Speaker 1: part on this you are a story? What do you
Speaker 1: remember a value? But the story I just threw a
Speaker 1: softball up to me that I'm not gonna take. But
Speaker 1: what do I remember? I just remember it was just
Speaker 1: I think a day that everybody was just kind of
Speaker 1: stunned by. You know, you didn't really realize what was
Speaker 1: going on when it was going on. I remember we
Speaker 1: were I was in the football offices. I was at
Speaker 1: New Hampshire at the time, and someone, I think our
Speaker 1: secretary Nancy Brown, came in and said, I think a
Speaker 1: plane hit the World Trade Center. And you know, at
Speaker 1: the time, I think you thought it was just one
Speaker 1: of those smaller little prop planes that was just kind
Speaker 1: of vidoff target and didn't know that it was a
Speaker 1: terrorist attack in our own country. So, um, it was
Speaker 1: just a really tragic day that I think kind of
Speaker 1: stunned everybody. So, um, date record home versus A way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think almost every team's home versus away is better.
Speaker 1: Their home is better than their way. You know, I
Speaker 1: think you're in your own environment. But um, I think
Speaker 1: it goes more to the type of player that Matt is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a really good football player. Um,
Speaker 1: and facing him, whether whether it's home orble way, um
Speaker 1: is a tall task, especially with the weapons that he
Speaker 1: has a receiver, But um, he does. You know, when
Speaker 1: you look at it, he does have an outstanding record
Speaker 1: at home. What you know, what are the particulars We
Speaker 1: don't really look at that. You know, we're looking at
Speaker 1: what routes are they running on third down? How do
Speaker 1: we defend them? And you know, what's what's our best
Speaker 1: plan of attacks? Okay,