Speaker 1: Yea, how things. Um, you know, Malcolm's really good player,
Speaker 1: and I've been very pleased with Malcolm and Rodney through
Speaker 1: training camp. But the facts are, we need those guys
Speaker 1: behind them to step up. We need to find out
Speaker 1: who's going to be our third and fourth and maybe
Speaker 1: even a potential fifth with special teams and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, when a guy goes down, it's
Speaker 1: great opportunity for those other guys to step up. But
Speaker 1: the opportunity only exists if you take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Those guys need to do a better job of taking
Speaker 1: advantage of ups and down. But jess what're gonna do technique?
Speaker 1: What exactly? Yeah, he's still a young player, he's only
Speaker 1: a second year. I mean, everybody wants to make him,
Speaker 1: you know, a season. Vett he started for about a
Speaker 1: half a year, um, and he years changing schemes. Um.
Speaker 1: But we're also through our OTAs and we're through our
Speaker 1: mini camp, and we're through a little bit more than
Speaker 1: a week of week of camp, and we gotta start
Speaker 1: putting those inconsistencies behind us. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about Eric, I'm talking about every guy on defense. You know,
Speaker 1: if you saw you saw what happened today. I mean,
Speaker 1: we make a play, give up a play, make a play,
Speaker 1: give up play. It's not a way to play defense.
Speaker 1: It's not a way to play football. We got to
Speaker 1: be consistent, and that's our challenge, our challenges hirning that out,
Speaker 1: not just individually with guys like Eric or any of
Speaker 1: the other corners, but um, but as a unit, we
Speaker 1: have to be more consistent. And that goes, that goes
Speaker 1: for everybody. Likely give more wretch than he never had
Speaker 1: a career. What will that do for him? Duction? But
Speaker 1: what will that also perfectly how you can play well.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a reason we resigned him. We think
Speaker 1: he's a good player, and you know, I mean certainly
Speaker 1: with good players, you want him on the field more.
Speaker 1: You think he fits the system, and you're right, we
Speaker 1: do have a votation up front. It's hard to pass, rush,
Speaker 1: it's hard to attack. If you're going eight straight snaps,
Speaker 1: you know you got to keep fresh guys coming. I always,
Speaker 1: um always go back to my baseball analogy with guys
Speaker 1: coming out of the bullpen, and you can throw a
Speaker 1: lot harder out of the bullpen than you can if
Speaker 1: you're um, you know, expected to throw six or seven
Speaker 1: innings as a starter. Um, you know, so you know,
Speaker 1: we we we're excited about him. Um. You know, he's
Speaker 1: multidimensional enough, he can rush inside. We haven't done any
Speaker 1: of that yet. We're just trying to just stay outside
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, look forward to those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, getting more reps. You know, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: here for the reason. Um, you know, sort of like
Speaker 1: a lot of other guys on the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think i'll just I won't single any guys out,
Speaker 1: but I'll just say as a defense, we need to
Speaker 1: be more consistent. And you know we've mentioned, we mentioned Eric,
Speaker 1: We could mention you know, probably about fifty guys on
Speaker 1: not fifty, but forty guys over there that we need
Speaker 1: to be more consistent. Michael. Michael's a very very good athlete.
Speaker 1: M he can do some things. He's explosive, he can run,
Speaker 1: he can cover. Um, you know it is a little
Speaker 1: bit new to him, but we're starting to get towards
Speaker 1: the end of being new. You're going, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: sell those guys short. Um, just because that's what they
Speaker 1: were asked to do, doesn't mean their only thing. Taylor's
Speaker 1: been very slippery out here. You know, he's got great size.
Speaker 1: You know, he's might not be real stout, but he's slippery.
Speaker 1: You can get on an edge and he's won his
Speaker 1: fair share of pass rush and bows. Just load in there.
Speaker 1: You know, he's uh, he's hard to move and when
Speaker 1: he can get that, I'll just conservatively say three hundred
Speaker 1: plus going north south. He's hard to stimy, and you
Speaker 1: know we don't want him at the line. Reading really
Speaker 1: want him attacking and driving people back, and he can
Speaker 1: do that very highly. Do you think what you're seeing
Speaker 1: orters team from last year? Yeah, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: really worried. I can't judge anybody on last year. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think every every practice is new, every
Speaker 1: game is new, every season is new. And it's cliche,
Speaker 1: but we really can't judge ourselves on anything last year.
Speaker 1: It's our job to take the pieces we have right
Speaker 1: now and find a way to be consistent and find
Speaker 1: a way to help us win football games. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I have been complimentary to the safeties for good reason.
Speaker 1: Those two guys. Those those guys are good players. They
Speaker 1: come to work every day. They're a great example to
Speaker 1: the secondary on how to be a pro um, how
Speaker 1: to communicate, how to be in the right spots. Um.
Speaker 1: You know those guys when I when I say we
Speaker 1: haven't been consistent as a defense, I'd probably like to
Speaker 1: exempt those two guys because they've played, they played very,
Speaker 1: very consistently. They're great communicators, and we need more guys
Speaker 1: following suit. You mentioned that several times. Yeah, it's your
Speaker 1: patience for inconsistency. Yeah, you know we're getting close. I mean,
Speaker 1: you want to teach, um, and sometimes guys learn best
Speaker 1: from mistakes, you know what I mean. Sometimes when you
Speaker 1: make a mistake, Um, you know it's it gets ingrained
Speaker 1: a little bit and you val not to not to
Speaker 1: make the same one again. So you know that's part
Speaker 1: of training camp. Partnis training camp is going out and
Speaker 1: you know have some you know, trial by fire and
Speaker 1: you know, learning from your mistakes and things like that.
Speaker 1: When I'm really talking about is repeat mistakes. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna make a mistake, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I make a lot, players make a lot. The key
Speaker 1: is don't make the same one twice. Learn from your mistake.
Speaker 1: And that's where our challenge is. And we're probably like
Speaker 1: thirty one other teams in the NFL At this time
Speaker 1: in training camp, everybody's striving for the same thing, you know,
Speaker 1: to be consistent from front to back, to have everybody
Speaker 1: you have, you know, everybody on the same page. And
Speaker 1: then that allows the guys talent the show thak two
Speaker 1: more guys. Jordan is the guy that might get rusted
Speaker 1: as you can't wear it on. It's going off the injury.
Speaker 1: But at the same time it's got a linebacker, so
Speaker 1: you know all the met reps. Yeah, obviously you're helpful.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of an indication that picked up the
Speaker 1: defense really also far, Jordan's smart guy. It didn't take
Speaker 1: him very long. But that's that's coach Peterson's call, whether
Speaker 1: whether guys get rested or not. Um, I know that's
Speaker 1: what Jordan, he's a pro, will come to work if
Speaker 1: he's asked the practice a practice, if he's sit on
Speaker 1: the sideline, he'll get good mental reps. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: not that complicated. So I want to give him any
Speaker 1: gold stars for that? Am I good? All right?