Speaker 1: Lot of people thought he would struggle, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how you felt, but it seemed like he stood
Speaker 1: up pretty strongly. What was your.
Speaker 2: Evaluation, Jaalen had a really good game. Yeah, Jalen and
Speaker 2: Aaron both played very well in the game. On on
Speaker 2: Monday night, Jalen was, Yeah, you know, we talked about
Speaker 2: last week. I said, you know, he'd improved, and I
Speaker 2: think I said, but you still got to go out
Speaker 2: and do it. And and he did. He went out
Speaker 2: and had a nice game and even flip ninety nine
Speaker 2: over there a couple of times, and he held his
Speaker 2: own over there and did a nice job. I was
Speaker 2: happy with Jalen's play, and it's happy for Jalen. You know,
Speaker 2: he's always been in that role where Trent's been down
Speaker 2: a game or two and he's had to play and
Speaker 2: and some some games better than others. It was good
Speaker 2: for there.
Speaker 1: Is there a common theme that you guys need to
Speaker 1: do to kind of spring that running game going again?
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's a little bit of everything, you know,
Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, Kyle talked about the Cleveland game
Speaker 2: just how we were. Everything was long yardage, you know,
Speaker 2: every single time, whether it was a run, whether it
Speaker 2: was a screen pass, whether it was a penalty, you
Speaker 2: just end up behind eight ball and you can't ever generate.
Speaker 2: You can't ever get in that rhythm of you know,
Speaker 2: run first down, run run first down, you know, just
Speaker 2: that rhythm of a of a long sustained driver. Were
Speaker 2: able to keep getting runs and pop one, and then
Speaker 2: we just haven't had the big, the big breakout run recently.
Speaker 2: And then we just haven't been able to sustain as much.
Speaker 2: You know, we moved the ball, we punted one time,
Speaker 2: we turned it over. But turnovers, penalties, negative plays, they
Speaker 2: all stop you from really establishing a run game. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's anything more than that. You just can't
Speaker 2: get into a rhythm of this call. This call leads
Speaker 2: to that call that sets up off of this play.
Speaker 2: And uh, and give the defensive credit. You know, Minnesota
Speaker 2: and Cleveland did a really nice job and uh, and
Speaker 2: we didn't execute as well as we could have. Christian
Speaker 2: in particular, he's so dominant the first four games of
Speaker 2: the season, the last three started with Dallas. His yards
Speaker 2: per carry has been down.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: What are you seeing with Christian in particular? No, it's
Speaker 2: I think it's along the lines of what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: I do think that, uh, if teams do come over
Speaker 2: with the mindset that they're not gonna let him go,
Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna do whatever they can to shoot
Speaker 2: the first player Dallas game and try to rip his
Speaker 2: head off. You know, there's that, there's that feeling of
Speaker 2: we're not gonna let this guy run. Secondly, is we're
Speaker 2: just haven't established we haven't given him the lanes that
Speaker 2: he needs. We haven't give him the space he needs
Speaker 2: space that we did in the first couple of games,
Speaker 2: and that the last couple of games, it just hasn't
Speaker 2: been there. And you create that space by blocking them better.
Speaker 2: You create that space by having more throws. That opens
Speaker 2: up the running game a little bit more, which allows
Speaker 2: him and then and then he's also able to I mean,
Speaker 2: you open up the Cleveland game making about four guys
Speaker 2: missed and having a nice thirty four whatever the run was,
Speaker 2: and they attacked the fifteen on at the end of that.
Speaker 2: But again, it just wasn't there consistently throughout the day
Speaker 2: for all the reasons I stated a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2: But it's not anything they're doing, it's not anything he's doing.
Speaker 2: It's it's we're just not as productive these last couple
Speaker 2: of games, and that's in all areas.
Speaker 3: A lot of speculation outside the building that after Brock
Speaker 3: did the sneak, maybe that's where he used to stand
Speaker 3: the concussion about how his play might have changed after
Speaker 3: that after watching the film. What is your opinion?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. No, I don't know anything about I
Speaker 2: don't I can't speak to when it happened, how I
Speaker 2: don't know anything about that. I really don't, and I'm
Speaker 2: not in that meeting with the medical staff and then
Speaker 2: all the things like that, So it's hard for me
Speaker 2: to say that, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, really dominate in that push push, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, quarterback sneak. Everybody's loaded up. You can
Speaker 1: substitute freely in the NFL, have you guys discussed the
Speaker 1: possibility of putting, you know, your best personnel power wise,
Speaker 1: maybe a Feliciano, maybe a huge check, Maybe you take
Speaker 1: the quarterback off the field and all the different things
Speaker 1: that you potentially could do in a quarterback sneak scenario
Speaker 1: to give yourself the best chance for success.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Our our sneak rate has been has been productive.
Speaker 2: We had the one sneak where we we jumped the
Speaker 2: ball and tried to run it. That's the one we're
Speaker 2: talking about where we didn't get it, and I think
Speaker 2: he took the hit I think on that play, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure, though, I think that was it. And then
Speaker 2: and then we ran another sneak the very next play.
Speaker 2: It was more advantageous. We've been all about running advantageous
Speaker 2: sneaks and not just saying hey, here we come, we're
Speaker 2: running sneak with Jimmy. We could do that a little
Speaker 2: bit more. I think each quarterback is different. Through all
Speaker 2: my years of coaching, there's you know, I always prefer
Speaker 2: to Peyton, but Peyton was not a sneak guy, where
Speaker 2: Steve McNair was a better sneak guy, or Trent Dilfort
Speaker 2: was a good sneak guy, whereas some other guys you know, weren't.
Speaker 2: So there's always that thing of some guys are better
Speaker 2: at it than others. I think, no matter how you
Speaker 2: did it with the guy from Philly, they'd be good
Speaker 2: at it. There is that play right now, that's that's
Speaker 2: going around that everybody's been been working on and doing,
Speaker 2: some with success, some that haven't had as good as success,
Speaker 2: and so I just think it comes back to your
Speaker 2: guy and what your philosophy is on third and one.
Speaker 2: It's been a pretty productive third and one year four
Speaker 2: us up to this point, and knock on wood, we
Speaker 2: got to keep it going. We had a missed last
Speaker 2: week on that play, but we were able to get
Speaker 2: it on the fourth and one. So with a sneak again.
Speaker 2: So we're a little bit more about not so much
Speaker 2: saying hey, here we are, we're running sneak. Everything in
Speaker 2: our offense is about you do this, it builds and
Speaker 2: then we can have this and we do you know,
Speaker 2: we take advantage of what you do and kind of
Speaker 2: build things off each other.
Speaker 3: Mcavy's three film malls. It's not normally something that he does.
Speaker 3: It's is it kind of a fluky thing or is
Speaker 3: it something in particular fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that the only one there was
Speaker 2: one that I would say was probably he wasn't probably
Speaker 2: one down, and he was pretty good with the one
Speaker 2: in Dallas, but it was just taking the guy on
Speaker 2: head on where the ball was he was trying to
Speaker 2: secure it. He's excellent with ball security and sometimes it
Speaker 2: just happens they hit the ball just right. Obviously, they're
Speaker 2: they're coming after him trying to get it out, and
Speaker 2: he really this one was fighting for extra yards. He's
Speaker 2: going down. It's hard to see that he wasn't securing
Speaker 2: the football properly. He just got hit just right this
Speaker 2: past week, and I would say that was kind of
Speaker 2: the same way in the Dallas game.
Speaker 1: How much since he's lying. I mean, readers all load
Speaker 1: and the ends are both real active compared to other
Speaker 1: teams you guys have played, do they play a lot
Speaker 1: of games up front? What stands out when you watch
Speaker 1: the film.
Speaker 2: On the Bengals Bengals defense from the pass rush standpoint
Speaker 2: is the two ends with great effort. I mean, ninety
Speaker 2: one is a great effort. He's a great bull rusher.
Speaker 2: He's a great edge rusher. He plays without standing energy
Speaker 2: and effort. He's got great get off the ball, which
Speaker 2: is a pretty consistent theme of all good rushers. They
Speaker 2: get off on the snap. Whether you see him at
Speaker 2: their home stadium where they're having the advantage of the
Speaker 2: team in silent count, or whether they're at your place.
Speaker 2: They just have great get off. They study the film.
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett was a guy great get off, That's part
Speaker 2: of his game. Where he's a half a step ahead
Speaker 2: of you before you even can can get out of
Speaker 2: your stands. Both those guys and then the guy Hubard
Speaker 2: on the other side, he gave us fits when we
Speaker 2: played there a couple of years ago with Compton. He
Speaker 2: he got after us really good. We had to we
Speaker 2: had to help over there and do some things to
Speaker 2: stay in that game at the end. And uh And
Speaker 2: both those guys inside players are good, solid rushers. They
Speaker 2: have a very very solid, good rush plan, whether it
Speaker 2: be there they're different double A gaps, their fronts that
Speaker 2: they get and things like that on third down games pressures.
Speaker 2: It's very well thought out, very well coached. Uh. So
Speaker 2: you not only have good players doing it, you've got
Speaker 2: a really good scheme to go with it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like this route locker room had a lot of
Speaker 3: took a lot of responsibility for the loss. I mean
Speaker 3: each player said took responsibly for their own particular mistakes.
Speaker 3: Is that special about this locker room, even more so
Speaker 3: than what you experienced the mass?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just these guys are all we all. I
Speaker 2: think the thing about it is starts with our head coach,
Speaker 2: you know, Kyle is about it's football and so instead
Speaker 2: of that, it's never a woe was me. It's never
Speaker 2: it's it's about coaching football. And you're gonna look at
Speaker 2: the You're gonna look at the game. You're gonna say, hey, coverages,
Speaker 2: You're gonna look at blocking schemes, you're gonna look at production,
Speaker 2: you're gonna look at reads, You're gonna look at everything.
Speaker 2: You say. You're gonna coach football. And I think the
Speaker 2: players are that way as well. You're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 2: we're you know, I didn't do as I was coached
Speaker 2: to do. You know Colt mckibbitt's would say to me,
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, I said, what happened? He goes, Well,
Speaker 2: if I'd just done what I was supposed to do,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have had the problem. But I didn't. I
Speaker 2: did X, Y or Z, and I didn't pick them
Speaker 2: up and and and they're very accountable that way that
Speaker 2: we all work together, and it's not like, well do
Speaker 2: what I tell you or that's it's everybody knows exactly
Speaker 2: what we're supposed to do. There's a good understanding of
Speaker 2: our offense, our defense, our special teams, and so when
Speaker 2: it doesn't work, it's never about he said. She said,
Speaker 2: it's very definable. It's very football driven, it's very schematic driven,
Speaker 2: and say, this is what it is. It's never about effort.
Speaker 2: Our guys are. They play their tails off every single week.
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be about the execution of the fundamentals
Speaker 2: or not recognizing something that you know, we worked on
Speaker 2: consistently through the week, or maybe we didn't give enough
Speaker 2: reps and it's our fault that we need to give
Speaker 2: them more reps at it so they can see it.
Speaker 2: But they'll always take the accountabiliy. And you know, I
Speaker 2: can think of a number of plays from the last
Speaker 2: game where it's just you're like, we should have done
Speaker 2: this and we didn't, and uh, why we didn't do
Speaker 2: it packed reps, We just didn't see it, we hadn't
Speaker 2: done it enough, whatever it was, I can't tell you.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of feeling. There's a lot of uh,
Speaker 1: not a lot of feelings in football. Coaches are direct
Speaker 1: with players. Coaches are direct with coaches. Kyle came out
Speaker 1: and said that Steve messed up a call on the podium.
Speaker 1: How does that sit with coaches when when a coach acts,
Speaker 1: you know, criticizes you publicly and kind of directly. Is
Speaker 1: that just part of the territory. Is that something easy
Speaker 1: to deal with hard to deal with?
Speaker 2: It is for me, I mean, I'm it's easy to me.
Speaker 2: It's it's it is what it is. The hardest thing
Speaker 2: is is you can't you say, well, nobody really understands
Speaker 2: when you say that, because I don't know. It's hard
Speaker 2: to explain to people that aren't inside working it every
Speaker 2: single day. It's it's a it's a very you know,
Speaker 2: it's a lot that goes into it. But in the
Speaker 2: same sense, you can't hide and say, well, there's nothing
Speaker 2: wrong and and so you just admit it and you
Speaker 2: live with it, and you understand that the court of
Speaker 2: public opinion is going to be what it's going to be,
Speaker 2: and some will understanding that you have a good understand
Speaker 2: of what you're talking about. Others won't. And that comes
Speaker 2: with the territory. With the job. You know, the more
Speaker 2: people sit out here, the more people fill those stadiums,
Speaker 2: the more people internet, all the things that go on
Speaker 2: with it. I know that one thing's happened through the
Speaker 2: course of that time is salaries have gone up. And
Speaker 2: with that salary comes you have to take the heat
Speaker 2: for the job that you do, and you have to
Speaker 2: stand and be accountable for the things that you do
Speaker 2: because there is more people, There are more people interested,
Speaker 2: There are more people that are analyzing you on television
Speaker 2: and radio and everywhere else. And it comes with the territory. Man,
Speaker 2: It's what it is, and you have to understand it.
Speaker 2: You know, you control what you control, and what you
Speaker 2: do control is the job that you do and whether
Speaker 2: somebody appreciates the job you do or doesn't. And when
Speaker 2: the head coach, if he wants to stand up and
Speaker 2: say the offensive line didn't play well enough, he's the
Speaker 2: head coach. He's in charge, and that's does it bother me?
Speaker 2: You didn't play well enough? So that opens up to
Speaker 2: you guys that then look at it and evaluate the
Speaker 2: film and say, God, they did stink that game. We
Speaker 2: did or we didn't. You know, however, it is and
Speaker 2: that's a fact, and you just got to live with them.
Speaker 2: The guys got to live with them. You got to
Speaker 2: come back and play again. I like it, you can
Speaker 2: tell when I talk to you, guys. I like everybody
Speaker 2: gets to learn in football. Everybody's to know football. It's
Speaker 2: a cool game. It's a cool sport. It's a great
Speaker 2: team sport. It's so it's so hard, eleven guys working
Speaker 2: together to get this thing to go, and it's it's
Speaker 2: really cool. And when it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: And a lot of times you gotta take the heat
Speaker 2: for it, and the players have to take the heat
Speaker 2: for it. That's that comes with the territory, man. But
Speaker 2: but it's it's still the it's still the greatest thing
Speaker 2: to step out there. I tell those players, you know,
Speaker 2: I get to be as close as I can be
Speaker 2: to and I love about you. Guys got the greatest
Speaker 2: thing of all. They can step across that wind line.
Speaker 2: They can compete every single Sunday, and it's a it's
Speaker 2: it's it's amazing how the level of competition, the level
Speaker 2: of talent, how how hard it is and how hard
Speaker 2: is everybody's got to be on point. And if you're
Speaker 2: off just a little bit, just a little bit, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're down fourteen nothing, or you've got
Speaker 2: three tackles for loss, or you've given up two sacks,
Speaker 2: and it's it's the margin of error is so small
Speaker 2: and and it demands that and that's why when somebody
Speaker 2: says he you didn't do enough job. Yeah, we didn't,
Speaker 2: because you have to be on point and that's why
Speaker 2: you just accept In my opinion, you accept it and
Speaker 2: you and you roll with it. So thanks guys,