Speaker 1: In their first ever NFL game, Luciano, No Manning, and
Speaker 1: Jolly Fisher.
Speaker 2: They all had, you know, first game issues. They did.
Speaker 3: They didn't play as well as they could have. There
Speaker 3: were some mental errors, there's some physical breakdowns. Uh Ilm
Speaker 3: is really of the three guys. ILMs really played very
Speaker 3: well this camp and in the preseason game.
Speaker 2: We look at him and you know, he's not tall,
Speaker 2: I mean looks like a guard and he's been playing
Speaker 2: left tackle.
Speaker 1: Is that just a numbers issue that you're short on tackling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what happened post I'm sorry to cut you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry post draft.
Speaker 3: What happens when we would go to the undrafted you
Speaker 3: were going looking to see who we're gonna try and
Speaker 3: size on undrafted free agents, and it was it was
Speaker 3: interesting because we needed to tackle and we look at.
Speaker 2: The tackle list and we're like, gosh, these guys, I
Speaker 2: mean it was thin, it was really thin. And then
Speaker 2: Ilam just stood out.
Speaker 3: He played tackle in college and he's a really really
Speaker 3: good player, and we everybody projected him to guard, and uh,
Speaker 3: we said, you know, most of the time those guys
Speaker 3: they're on the third team, they end up playing in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. Of the games, and they're playing against
Speaker 3: kind of the same guys they played against in college.
Speaker 3: It's not like they're starting yet or in a position
Speaker 3: when they're playing. So let's just set them play it out.
Speaker 3: If he can't do it, we'll juggle the you know,
Speaker 3: shuffle the deck a little bit, moom around.
Speaker 2: And so he's he's done that. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know that his long.
Speaker 3: Term career is a tackle, but he's played very well
Speaker 3: there and you're you're right, he doesn't quite fit the prototype,
Speaker 3: but he's done a good job.
Speaker 2: As preseason.
Speaker 1: I thought Manning Beach speaks pretty bad in that one
Speaker 1: on one. I like the kickstep from Manning. What do
Speaker 1: you see from Manning at guard though, or at center?
Speaker 3: He's got He's got a really good bend, flexibility, balanced
Speaker 3: things that you need inside. He's got good quickness. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, he's he'll have to learn it's quicker things happen.
Speaker 3: The steps have to be shorter.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Burford goes through it a little bit. Still, he still
Speaker 3: sometimes kicks bigger like a tackle and needs to keep
Speaker 3: his feet underneath him a little more under control like
Speaker 3: a guard. So there's just it's more of a quickness,
Speaker 3: And I won't say quickness, it's more of just your
Speaker 3: footwork has to be everything has to happen a little
Speaker 3: bit quicker at guard. And that's what Ilm will have
Speaker 3: to learn if he ever makes a transition in.
Speaker 4: Where do you stand with Matt Pryor? It seems like
Speaker 4: he's obviously pretty comfortable as a pass blocker, but you
Speaker 4: know he's not the typical sort of tackle you look
Speaker 4: for in your run game. Where do you sort of
Speaker 4: view him right now?
Speaker 3: Well, that's excuse me, sorry, something something the other day.
Speaker 3: You know he's doing a great job protection wise, You're
Speaker 3: right in the run game, he's not a prototypical guy.
Speaker 3: But I think over the course of time, what I've
Speaker 3: found out is, even though it's not exactly what this
Speaker 3: offense usually has for a tackle guard center, if you
Speaker 3: just keep drilling it, you just keep working. I just
Speaker 3: keep doing it. They keep working on keeping their weight,
Speaker 3: working on their quickness, and eventually you can find a
Speaker 3: middle ground. Yes, he is he ever going to be,
Speaker 3: you know, the typical tackle in this offense. No, but
Speaker 3: but shoot, being able to play on third down into
Speaker 3: and just being functional enough on first and second down
Speaker 3: as run blocker can be good enough. You know that
Speaker 3: third down and piece of pass protection is a big
Speaker 3: piece that that if you can't play on third down,
Speaker 3: you can't play as an offensive lineman in the NFL.
Speaker 2: So having that.
Speaker 3: Down, you can work back and say, well, we can
Speaker 3: just keep doing is I've coached a few few different
Speaker 3: times in my career where you just you come to
Speaker 3: a new new place and you have two or three
Speaker 3: guys they really can't do the things you ask him
Speaker 3: to do, but if you just keep doing it, you
Speaker 3: believe it. You give him reps in the games, reps
Speaker 3: in practice, they can be good enough.
Speaker 2: But sure he's obviously coming from division to.
Speaker 1: Off the line all that much where he got here.
Speaker 4: You talked about it's a pretty big lead.
Speaker 2: It's been a big lead for him.
Speaker 3: It's been uh, he's the last I say, the last
Speaker 3: two weeks he's really started to some things have improved,
Speaker 3: but there was a long stretch there where just it
Speaker 3: was was really hard for him. It is big, it
Speaker 3: is faster, it's a lot of it's different. And I'll
Speaker 3: say I'll say almost more than I almost say more
Speaker 3: than that, but almost more than that is the fundamentals
Speaker 3: that he was coached. Not bad fundamentals, there's different and
Speaker 3: so he developed whatever habits he had in the length
Speaker 3: of time he's played the position. The those habits are
Speaker 3: hard to break right now, and so he's constantly, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe in practicing when he gets in the game reverts back.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of what happened the other day.
Speaker 3: Man, it was like a lot of reverting back with
Speaker 3: the young guys to the way that always plays things.
Speaker 2: We've worked on things that we said we're gonna try
Speaker 2: and get better. At ALFO.
Speaker 3: Everybody just got in the bright lights and it was
Speaker 3: a you know, great environment.
Speaker 2: There was a it was a it felt like.
Speaker 3: An NFL game, a regular season NFL game for so
Speaker 3: many of those guys, and I think they kind of
Speaker 3: reverted back and didn't quite stick with their fundamentals. And
Speaker 3: that's that right now, Joey. That's he step back and
Speaker 3: forth every day. But he has made progress these last.
Speaker 1: Couple of weeks kind of around that or Saturday.
Speaker 2: So they don't improve back again, well I can't.
Speaker 3: You know, we just keep doing it and you just
Speaker 3: hope with a number of reps. As I've said, you know,
Speaker 3: the game, the game reps are worth so much, and
Speaker 3: unless you take practice reps onto the on the game.
Speaker 2: Day, it won't go away.
Speaker 3: You have to trust and try and do the things
Speaker 3: that we ask you to do on game day, and
Speaker 3: then those reps become the real reps. I mean, you can,
Speaker 3: you can bank some good reps in practice, but it's
Speaker 3: just not the full speed competitive when when when everything's
Speaker 3: going and it's truly truly full speed, those full speed reps,
Speaker 3: that's where you've got to just trust it. That's what's
Speaker 3: great about preseason is win loss doesn't count, so you
Speaker 3: can practice those things. That's why I love one on
Speaker 3: one pass rush. I think too much weight is placed
Speaker 3: on the win loss of the one on one pass
Speaker 3: rush to that we talked about the other day. That's
Speaker 3: another full speed rep. Because team periods there's always that
Speaker 3: their gear back just a little so we don't end
Speaker 3: up with pile ups, there's no tackling.
Speaker 2: But that one on one pass rush.
Speaker 3: Man, that's the time to try things because those reps
Speaker 3: become a little more valid than the than the reps.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll have say in the regular part of practice.
Speaker 3: Is that what makes the difference between a guy that's.
Speaker 4: Going to make it well, you you.
Speaker 2: You, You try to tell them, you know, hey, listen, dude,
Speaker 2: you gotta do it. You gotta let it go.
Speaker 3: And it's hard because they want to they want to
Speaker 3: be productive. And I would tell kids all one thing,
Speaker 3: this small thing. Let's say in pass protection, he's continually
Speaker 3: wrapping a hand and and it's causing them problems. And
Speaker 3: if I don't break, if we don't, if you don't
Speaker 3: break this habit here in this first year or so,
Speaker 3: it'll be there your whole career and it will be
Speaker 3: a flaw and it'll be something that people will take
Speaker 3: advantage of over time. Maybe some guys can play like
Speaker 3: that their whole career and be successful. I just think
Speaker 3: you're always going to have a little a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I say, I always refer back to
Speaker 3: Trent because I've been with Trent so long and there's
Speaker 3: still things. He came in the other day that that's
Speaker 3: just there's little things that you realize if I don't
Speaker 3: correct this now, and he knows, he says something doesn't
Speaker 3: feel right. We looked at it and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it's it's just a little thing. And if he fixes it,
Speaker 3: that doesn't become a problem. But if we don't say
Speaker 3: something about it now, shoot, by week eight, it could
Speaker 3: become a real problem and harder to change for a
Speaker 3: young guy that's compounded you know a bunch, Chris.
Speaker 1: There was a rep yesterday at practice where be I
Speaker 1: think it was eleven on eleven Bial just beat Trent,
Speaker 1: And I'm just kind of wondering. You study all these reps.
Speaker 1: I know you're watching your own guys, but what do
Speaker 1: you think of Beal?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been a good player.
Speaker 3: Obviously, he hasn't be out there a lot with injuries
Speaker 3: and everything, So excuse me, he's uh, he's really doing
Speaker 3: a done nice job from what I've seen. I haven't
Speaker 3: paid much attention, uh to him. It's been the last
Speaker 3: couple of days he's been out there. You do notice
Speaker 3: he's out there. But he's a good player, and like
Speaker 3: I said, I have not enough on tape for me
Speaker 3: to say, oh wow, he's really jumping off the screen.
Speaker 3: He's definitely talented guy.
Speaker 1: So last week, you know a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: his level. But like, if I'm not who I am,
Speaker 1: you know, once I diminished, I've done, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be just guy.
Speaker 2: He said, you know if he was just uh, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe above average kind of tackle.
Speaker 3: He still wants to play and play and play, and
Speaker 3: ethical hopefully speak to his passion for this. You know,
Speaker 3: he has desired to know even if he's diminished, Trent
Speaker 3: Williams to to still stay out him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if that ever happens. But U but
Speaker 2: he uh.
Speaker 3: I was with uh Jonathan Ogden and Baltimore when his
Speaker 3: last year and it's due to an injury to his
Speaker 3: foot toe injury.
Speaker 2: I think it was he he ended up. And I
Speaker 2: think I wasn't there when he had the final conversations
Speaker 2: with Harball. We we've been let go to and decided
Speaker 2: not to play any longer, you know, And I think
Speaker 2: that was part of the I.
Speaker 3: Don't think he wanted to do that. I think is
Speaker 3: if he couldn't play. Now, there were times Jonathan would say, Know,
Speaker 3: Jonathan might had a sore shoulder and he'd say to me,
Speaker 3: he goes. You know, I'd be like, hey, man, can
Speaker 3: you go today? He's like, eh, you know, I'm playing
Speaker 3: against this guy. I can play this guy seventy to
Speaker 3: seventy five percent. Now if it would have been Freeeny
Speaker 3: Dwight freey from the from the Colts. I don't think
Speaker 3: he could have played at that seventy He would probably
Speaker 3: say I can't, I will hurt the team at seventy
Speaker 3: five percent going against this guy, Whereas you know some
Speaker 3: other guys, it wasn't that way. I do know this,
Speaker 3: and this isn't talking about Jonathan. Now back to Trent.
Speaker 3: Trent does the one thing. There were some questions on
Speaker 3: Trent coming out of college, and you know he loved
Speaker 3: the game as much.
Speaker 2: He didn't he did.
Speaker 3: The weight room wasn't a he wasn't a real fan
Speaker 3: of the weight room in Oklahoma. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: things going on then. But when I met Trent, this
Speaker 3: guy love football. I mean, he loves playing football. I've
Speaker 3: told you before. He's a student of the game. He's
Speaker 3: a football junkie man.
Speaker 2: He knows everything about all the players in the league.
Speaker 2: He loves the game of football. And that's why I
Speaker 2: think for him doing that will be will be.
Speaker 3: You know, he'll he'll definitely I could see that happening
Speaker 3: with him playing that long.
Speaker 2: I also think that he you know, when you do.
Speaker 3: Diminish, because I have seen guys diminish, sometimes you change
Speaker 3: your philosophy on that you're like, yeah, I'm not the
Speaker 3: dominant player I used to be. Can I still stand
Speaker 3: getting beat two or three dimes a game and all that?
Speaker 2: You won't know until you get there.
Speaker 3: But I do think that his passion, his love, his commitment,
Speaker 3: the things he has to the game or just are
Speaker 3: just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you know, he's one of.
Speaker 3: Those guys, Trent, where he goes the weight room not
Speaker 3: it's going to be the strongest guy in the weight room.
Speaker 2: That's why the weight room was kind of like not
Speaker 2: the most important thing to He had other things that
Speaker 2: he knew he needed more than that.
Speaker 1: Does he ever leads you to the punch in terms of, look,
Speaker 1: I got to work on this before you can even
Speaker 1: tell him.
Speaker 3: Oh, Trent always he's got thoughts and ideas that are
Speaker 3: well because I've got fourteen other thirteen, other, twelve other
Speaker 3: whatever it is guys to look at, and Trent's usually
Speaker 3: not one of your problems.
Speaker 2: But I did learn early in my career that you know,
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 3: Of people teach that you coach the lowest common denominator
Speaker 3: in the room. And I was fortunate my first a
Speaker 3: lot of early in my career, I wasn't the line coach.
Speaker 3: I was an assistant or something like that. I sat
Speaker 3: and I watched coaches do that. And I also sat
Speaker 3: in a to some very very good players who weren't
Speaker 3: get anything out of the meeting. So so I've learned
Speaker 3: you have to you have to. Yes, you have to
Speaker 3: coach the lowest company. You really coach the highest company.
Speaker 2: You have to. I have to coach every meeting for
Speaker 2: Trent Williams.
Speaker 3: And in that process, I have to work with the
Speaker 3: other guys if I need extra time for the other guys.
Speaker 2: So I'm always challenged to.
Speaker 3: I'm always trying to keep things interesting for Trent, for
Speaker 3: for the veteran players in the room, while still being
Speaker 3: able to reach out to the younger guys. Trent's always
Speaker 3: I mean, all these guys, if they're really on it,
Speaker 3: they're probably I want to say, a half step ahead
Speaker 3: of me. They might be more than that, but you
Speaker 3: have to admit it. They they study themselves. I'm you know,
Speaker 3: we get stuck on a scheme. We're looking at the
Speaker 3: other players, we're looking at the defense, we' looking there's
Speaker 3: so much that we look at. Sometimes the player himself
Speaker 3: can come to you first. A lot of them can't
Speaker 3: and say, coach, what do you think about this? Or
Speaker 3: what do you think about that? Trent's trench really good
Speaker 3: that although sometimes you know it's the other way around.
Speaker 2: I'm able to point somethings out to him.
Speaker 4: This is an objectively silly question, but a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago, you try for a touchdown for Trent, do
Speaker 4: you have any hopes of maybe getting me?
Speaker 2: I hope so. I every day.
Speaker 3: He is so much fun to work with and such
Speaker 3: a great guy, and he sure would be great for
Speaker 3: him to end his career with a touchdown. It's just
Speaker 3: really hard. It's kind of like a big red flag. Hey,
Speaker 3: seventy one reporting it tight end. Okay, let's be sure
Speaker 3: we cover him right, because you know that's that's the
Speaker 3: hard one. I go back to Ogden. He did in
Speaker 3: one of his early years in his career, caught a
Speaker 3: touchdown pass and we always talked about Himano it was
Speaker 3: ten years after the fact that we always talked about
Speaker 3: I hope what Trent that happens.
Speaker 1: You guys are looking at some outside tackles when they
Speaker 1: ask you for your opinion, how many plays you need
Speaker 1: to watch of a guy before and what do you
Speaker 1: go do you go to last year's tape, you go
Speaker 1: to his highlight reel? How much film do you need
Speaker 1: to watch on some of these guys to decide, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I like this guy or don't like that.
Speaker 3: Guy you're talking about? Like tryout guys at this time
Speaker 3: of year. Yeah, usually we just it's to try out
Speaker 3: and then if there's film, they'll they'll put together a
Speaker 3: tape that will have the high highlights and low lights
Speaker 3: you can kind of evaluate. I think it all depends
Speaker 3: on the spot. You know, you're talking about a guy
Speaker 3: that's going to be a third or fourth or fifth,
Speaker 3: you know, it just depends on who they are and uh,
Speaker 3: and what spots you're looking. If you're looking for a
Speaker 3: practice squad player versus a guy that might be a
Speaker 3: rotational player, you might have to dig a little deeper.
Speaker 3: But a lot of times you can kind of see
Speaker 3: what a guys and he's kind of built is, we
Speaker 3: have a grade on him, we've probably evaluated him before.
Speaker 3: In free agency, you might take a quick peek again
Speaker 3: to make sure everything looks the same, but it usually
Speaker 3: some form of a highlight reel, not quite as extensive
Speaker 3: as you do in free agency or the college, and
Speaker 3: then you and then you bring them here for the
Speaker 3: workout and you see if they're still moving around physical
Speaker 3: things like that.
Speaker 1: It's important for the your way of thinking, for the
Speaker 1: first offensive line unit to get snapped for this preseason.
Speaker 2: Over in a game. That's a great question. It's a
Speaker 2: tough question, you know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the number of reps is, but
Speaker 3: on both sides of the coin with that, as far
Speaker 3: as what happens when guys play and don't play, I
Speaker 3: do think the game reps are important. I won't use
Speaker 3: offensive line because it is it is important they play together,
Speaker 3: but they get a lot of reps together. We're together
Speaker 3: a lot, and they play a lot of reps together,
Speaker 3: you know, in practice and things. I do know this
Speaker 3: that some players have been with in the past if
Speaker 3: they didn't get the real live reps like ball hand
Speaker 3: the guys have handled the football like all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it's a lot different when they're punching at that ball
Speaker 3: in the first couple of games of the year that
Speaker 3: you have to adjust to it than it is later
Speaker 3: in the year, you know, or as it is if
Speaker 3: you don't if you don't have those reps in training
Speaker 3: camp or practice.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: The only thing I do know also is that the
Speaker 3: most tired I've ever seen NFL players, and I'll talk
Speaker 3: about the offensive line, is when they come off the
Speaker 3: field after that first eight or ten play drive in
Speaker 3: the first game of the year, they are flat gassed,
Speaker 3: no matter how many games you played in the preseason
Speaker 3: or how many plays you didn't play in the preseason,
Speaker 3: because it's the first real time that you truly exerted
Speaker 3: everything straining from the you know, snap to whistle every
Speaker 3: single play, trying to win, and they just haven't done
Speaker 3: that enough. As hard as practices, even as the preseason
Speaker 3: games are, it's just I've been places whe we've played
Speaker 3: guys as many as a hundred plays in the preseason.
Speaker 2: Other places they haven't played any plays.
Speaker 3: But either way, when they walk off that field after
Speaker 3: those first couple of series, they're gassed. And it takes
Speaker 3: a game or two, ou't how many it is, but
Speaker 3: to start to get in game shape, the real game
Speaker 3: shape where.
Speaker 2: You're playing full speed, full strain.
Speaker 3: And for us, like a receiver, you know he can run,
Speaker 3: they run, they run, they run, they run, they run
Speaker 3: around well, give enough runs and it's like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: in shape, but an offensive lineman is you know, in
Speaker 3: defensive li I mean you're shoving it full. You know,
Speaker 3: it's not just the cardio, it's the strain that goes
Speaker 3: on with it.
Speaker 2: And that's like that takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 3: And it's not the strain in uh team run, the
Speaker 3: strain in pre season two versus the strain in Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: on the road right opening day with the noise and
Speaker 3: the atmosphere and the juices night and day.
Speaker 2: And so that's why, Yes, it's.
Speaker 3: Important, but I always it's cautionary and it's kind of important.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It is nice to get guys some reps and our
Speaker 3: our sports science guys, they'll they'll tell you there's a
Speaker 3: number and there that they think they should play.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you guys,