1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: What did you think Graham had a real chance there 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: from fifty eight or is that just you have no 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: other choice? Yeah, I think it was We really had 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: no other choice in that situation. Uh, you know, the 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: wind was pretty It didn't look like it in the stadium, 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: but it was constant going in that direction. If you 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: look at the kickoffs that were going that way, they 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: were coming up short and uh, you know, obviously Joey 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: missed one early in the game from fifty two or 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: fifty three, whatever it was. But yeah, it was more 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: of a kind of a desperation, you know, kick probably 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: five more yards. It might have been all right, you 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: had a low kick off on the other way or 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a touchbombers that attention or is he that just miss 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: hit it? Yeah, he just miss hit it. It was 16 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: a squirreled touch back. It was not a great what 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: won one of his best efforts. He'll be the first 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: one to tell you that too. Were in Marcus Johnson 19 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: last week returning kicks and practice. Come that was something 20 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: you were thinking about? Or is that just Gary being 21 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: short of under the weather at that point? Exactly, Gary 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: being under the weather, always having a contingency plan. He's 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: done it before. We've worked him throughout the year a 24 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: little bit, uh, and he wanted to do it, so 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: we just you know, you always got to be prepared, 26 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: you know, just in case, and we'll just you know, 27 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: he'll do it again this week, just in case. You 28 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: just never know, we will continue to work him back there. 29 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: But no, you're exactly right. It's slow, Dad, they office. 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: So we've talked a lot about Jamie's kind of inconsistency 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: of his last two weeks. Is this is about as 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: good as he's put together back to back the act 33 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: of continuous improvement. You know. The word that we use 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: in our room is kaisen and uh, that's something that 35 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: he's he's a young player, you know, and he's starting, 36 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: you know, his maturation process is he's coming along and 37 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: we just gotta start stacking those days and then stacking 38 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 1: the game. So No, he's doing a really good job 39 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: just taking care of a little bit of small details 40 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: of his job and he's getting better. What I have 41 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: to be And the Eagles returning in when you when 42 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: you look at them, uh, and how they're built, they've 43 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: always done a good job, Michael Michael Clay has always 44 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: done a good job, Uh, you know, Covey is an issue. 45 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: You know, the little guy uh really good short airy quickness. Um. 46 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: You know, you just always have to be alert for 47 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: those guys. They can get you all kinds of ways. Um. 48 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: You know, we gotta make sure that we're doing our 49 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: job leveraging the ball, keeping the ball inside in front, 50 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: and not letting them break their you know, break the perimeter. Um. 51 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: But they're they're an issue, you know, and you just 52 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: got to make sure that we focus on what we 53 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: do as opposed to you know, with them, because if 54 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: we do what we're supposed to do, we should be okay. 55 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: And we've been doing a pretty good job in our 56 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: in our coverage the last couple of weeks. You know, 57 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: you kidding some more as you can like to get 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: you're talking about it earlier in the year, But is 59 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: it still a matter of of the blocking of the 60 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: opportunity of creating lanes for these guys. It's a lot 61 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: of it has been uh point return wise, we're in 62 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: the plus area a lot. You know, it's a lot 63 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: of what we call great team to where it's you 64 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: don't get a lot of return opportunities and then uh, 65 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: some of the other situations have been. You're up in 66 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: the game, your garden for fake. You're not as aggressive 67 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: as Dublin both gunners, right, so you have to you 68 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: have to manage the game as it comes along. So 69 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: when when that happens, the gunners are singled only outside, 70 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: so now that's a hard block for the corners on 71 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: the outside. So it's it's kind of just a lot 72 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: of that stuff. And then it might be you know, 73 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: over the last two games, maybe one or two legit 74 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: return opportunities. Words, you could vise a guy up on 75 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: the outside and you can maximize you're blocking, if that 76 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: makes sense, kickoff return. It's uh, it's getting better. Um, 77 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: you know we had one I thought that probably could 78 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: have could have got out. But again it's it was timing, 79 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: spacing ball being caught at the ten yard line and 80 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: you know that kind of being awful little bit. But 81 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: it's coming along. It's not exactly what you want for sure, 82 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: but it's it's trending in the right direction. When when 83 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: Julian plays as many snaps as he plays last week. 84 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: I know the gunbow theory, whoever they tell you you 85 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: almost have to go to go to games and be like, look, 86 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: you know you can take some of the other guys, 87 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: but we need Julian as our core guy and some 88 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: of these we had, you know. That's that's that's something 89 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: that we always talk about. You know, it's always a 90 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: a fine line. You know. Julian has really blossomed this 91 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: year and taken off. You know, last year he was 92 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: he's what last two years, he's been a bell cow 93 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: for us, Like he's a core guy for us, and 94 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: he's really taken off as a defensive player and we're 95 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: extremely happy for him, Um, But he's also the quarterback 96 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: of the punting, you know, and and there are some 97 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: other positions that that he's really really good at that 98 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: we don't have him do because obviously he's our starting 99 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: free safety. So it's something that we always try and manage. Uh. 100 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: And when we can give him a break, we're gonna 101 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: give him a break so we can maximize his performance. 102 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: But you're right, he brings a lot of value to 103 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: our football team and he does a lot of jobs 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: for us. You know what I think more than anything, 105 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: just in his leadership. I think that that is he's 106 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: always been a very mature young man, but you see 107 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: him more now as a leader, um, and I think 108 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: that's really helped his game. He's playing with more confidence, um, 109 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: because he knows that people are looking to him, and 110 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: he's always done a great job of preparing, and he's 111 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: always done a great job of being a really good teammate. 112 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: So as a man, he's starting to grow up and 113 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: and as a leader, he's starting to take control of 114 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: the locker room.