Speaker 1: No, it didn't did not look better the second time around.
Speaker 1: And fortunately for us, we've got a game on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so we've got to move on and get ready to
Speaker 1: play Detroit right now. Practice today, we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: when it goes out on the field. I'm done by
Speaker 1: the update, so you guys will see him on the field.
Speaker 1: You guys can get it. Then. I gave you an
Speaker 1: update last week. I was wrong, so I don't want
Speaker 1: to be wrong again. So well, you have to head
Speaker 1: coaching team since you're starting quarterback. We'll see what he
Speaker 1: can do on the field today. Yes day he said
Speaker 1: that you guys weren't ready to play on defense this
Speaker 1: morning on the radio, said you didn't remember whatever whatever
Speaker 1: I said, We just didn't say we didn't play well defensively.
Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what I meant. So whether I said
Speaker 1: we weren't ready, however, it was we didn't play well defensively. Uh.
Speaker 1: And obviously it was reflected in what Tavin Day did
Speaker 1: do us off something? Why does he go on to
Speaker 1: the line before snaps. That's the rotation we have at
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker spot play a whole game, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about that what's that moment? Let's still think
Speaker 1: we're bringing him along in terms of his uh him progressing.
Speaker 1: The same thing with Demko too. I don't think Demco
Speaker 1: can play a full game right now down at this
Speaker 1: point or no, there's no thought at that level. How
Speaker 1: was a decision made that Peters will play? What's that?
Speaker 1: How was a decision made it computer? He went out
Speaker 1: and worked out early before the game and felt like
Speaker 1: he was good to go when it was cleared by
Speaker 1: the doctors final Ultimately, I make the final decision on
Speaker 1: who the in actors and actors are. So you make
Speaker 1: that decision, and then how about it in the game.
Speaker 1: Who decided that he would no longer play? We all
Speaker 1: did talked about where we were. Yeah, because I get
Speaker 1: input from him on how he feels, so we have
Speaker 1: a discussion. We have a discussion on how he feels.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to make a player go play
Speaker 1: if he tells me he's hurt. So that's Bill. Bill
Speaker 1: was very hard on beause and the way he coached yesterday.
Speaker 1: His calls um your confidence, that tremendous confidence in Billy
Speaker 1: did so I think as a help football coach, Josh
Speaker 1: was only tour we did one time, and that was
Speaker 1: on the thirty nine yard touch John. Did he have
Speaker 1: some sort of injury during the game or is there
Speaker 1: any other explanation? Not now, just kind of Howard expressed it.
Speaker 1: The game, what coverage dictates how they're doing it. They
Speaker 1: played a lot of cover two against us, so they
Speaker 1: had guys up in the face over outside receivers too,
Speaker 1: safety high over the top. Um, you know, so obviously
Speaker 1: you're gonna work the ball inside a little bit more
Speaker 1: against that coverage. Yeah, when a guy has a big
Speaker 1: play like that to getting involved later, well, they were
Speaker 1: playing man coverage on them. We didn't see much man
Speaker 1: after that. We saw a lot more cover two after that,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe that was the reason for that.
Speaker 1: So UM, to make a concerted effort to throw a
Speaker 1: ball to an outside receiver and cover two is not
Speaker 1: very smart. So to say that they did that on
Speaker 1: that specific player, we caught him in man coverag Josh
Speaker 1: Man were good slant route. Mark put it on and
Speaker 1: we didn't see much man after that. We saw a
Speaker 1: lot a ton of Cover two in that game, which obviously,
Speaker 1: by the score, I think people do that. You know
Speaker 1: they're gonna play back a little bit. They're gonna play
Speaker 1: more zones, try to keep the ball in front of them,
Speaker 1: and they did it very good job of doing it.
Speaker 1: When when you're struggling to make bigger plays and you're
Speaker 1: struggling to gablement him, any thought to move him around
Speaker 1: in the offense, movement to the inside for him in
Speaker 1: the backfield. Just give different as, have a practice in
Speaker 1: the backfield side of to U gam day to say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's move a guy to a position he's never played.
Speaker 1: That's that's just that's just not good football. He only
Speaker 1: got steam snaps yet thirty I thought either more than
Speaker 1: I'll look at the numbers for rot he was rotating
Speaker 1: with Nelson on the other side. Again, a lot of
Speaker 1: its coverage dictator. So if you if you watch tape,
Speaker 1: it's we didn't get much man free after that snap,
Speaker 1: you know, and specifically it was a lot more cover
Speaker 1: to two high safeties and guys rolled up on the
Speaker 1: outside receivers. We need that. We thought the matchups, you know,
Speaker 1: and talking to Billion Corey and what they wanted to
Speaker 1: do the matchups and trying to get bigs on the
Speaker 1: field and keep keeping Miles, I mean, keeping Malcolm at
Speaker 1: safety Is this where you expected to be ten games
Speaker 1: into your third season. No, not at all. I mean
Speaker 1: no one's happy about what our record is right now,
Speaker 1: and um all we can do about us preparing and
Speaker 1: get ready to play too. Wasn't having Malcolm in the
Speaker 1: spot game to suggests every time we play Nickel we
Speaker 1: determine what the matchup is like and who's the best matchup.
Speaker 1: If you look at Biggs, Biggs has done a nice
Speaker 1: job when he's been matched up there and some of
Speaker 1: the things we did in this going into this game,
Speaker 1: that was the game plan going in. We felt the matchup,
Speaker 1: We felt up the matchup with with Biggs in there,
Speaker 1: I don't think the matchup was good for anybody on
Speaker 1: our defensive side of the ball. So why why why
Speaker 1: do you play thirty times this season? We have a
Speaker 1: rotation that goes on on our defensive line in terms
Speaker 1: of who's in and who's out, and that's the way
Speaker 1: they've always rotated. It's been like that most of the season.
Speaker 1: I would think the numbers are pretty close where they
Speaker 1: are most this season. Respect to Jason and making the
Speaker 1: calls to whether he's going a player or not, how
Speaker 1: much consideration do you have to give to Lane and
Speaker 1: the fact that he would have to switch. I give
Speaker 1: it to the injury of the player, so that that's
Speaker 1: not a consideration. And I think the question keeps coming up,
Speaker 1: but if a player tells me he can't play, I
Speaker 1: don't have the trump card to say you can play.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. That's just it doesn't work way.
Speaker 1: So you know, in terms of in terms of where
Speaker 1: we are, we have great confidence and how we do things.
Speaker 1: What Jason gets and walked through and how many times,
Speaker 1: how many reps he got, he did get practice out
Speaker 1: of him last week, and we feel real confident. He's
Speaker 1: been in the league for a long time, so very
Speaker 1: confident in him and playing that Lane has the ability
Speaker 1: to go outsides. Lane is more comfortable playing actually on
Speaker 1: the right side because he's got more experience on the
Speaker 1: right side. Why are these intersectings? Um? Again, as we
Speaker 1: said all the time, every everyone's an individual throw you know,
Speaker 1: and I think, um, you know sometimes as expected coverage
Speaker 1: what he thought? Um, and then you got a chance.
Speaker 1: You gotta get a chance, as you know, as a
Speaker 1: quarterback coach in the coordinator, head coach sit down with
Speaker 1: the film and go through all that with Mark how
Speaker 1: the interception that before they happen, we were just squeezed
Speaker 1: on the tight end, you know, and uh um, I
Speaker 1: think he thought he could have got it in there,
Speaker 1: not throwing at Tampa Bay. Yeah he did. If you
Speaker 1: guys were number three in the league. Un he's just
Speaker 1: going into Carolina, you know, you number twenty five. Now
Speaker 1: after four weeks, when you look at film, what do
Speaker 1: you see having that wasn't that? I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the game specifically, and I'm now just go
Speaker 1: back to the other games. But it was four runs,
Speaker 1: you know, four runs I think fore I know, but
Speaker 1: those four runs were the big and we've not done
Speaker 1: that before. We've been people have have hit us for six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: but we haven't had runs break and get out the backside,
Speaker 1: you know, and go for the distance that they went for.
Speaker 1: And that's ah, you know, that was the thing in
Speaker 1: terms of that, we we got to do a better
Speaker 1: job tackling. We've got to do a better job in
Speaker 1: our fits, in terms of where we're going to be
Speaker 1: in gap defenses. Said after the game, Almost immediately after
Speaker 1: the snap, he knew the screen was coming his way
Speaker 1: on the pick six. Is there any concern. How concert
Speaker 1: are you about the predictability of your offense right now?
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I mean, we're we're talking the
Speaker 1: seventy eighth snap of the game or the sixty eight
Speaker 1: snap at the game, So you know, at that point
Speaker 1: in time, they're playing deep zones. You know, usually when
Speaker 1: we're in that long yardage, we haven't really thrown suff
Speaker 1: with the two daggers we threw to Coup, you know,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get the ball down the field, and
Speaker 1: our most successful thing at that point in time we'd
Speaker 1: hit a screen earlier for a touchdown. For a thirty
Speaker 1: five yard game, we had another big gain on it.
Speaker 1: The one we missed with Darren I think would have
Speaker 1: been another big game. We had an opportunity for it.
Speaker 1: So you know, I would say four times we were
Speaker 1: right and one time he was right and he made
Speaker 1: a great play on the play, So that's a credit
Speaker 1: to him. I don't know Zax and the protocol right now.
Speaker 1: He's been clear to go to meetings and we'll see
Speaker 1: where that clears is the week goes along here. I know,
Speaker 1: we don't. We do know we're on a short week
Speaker 1: though each other. When you now I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: two guys, two two very competitive guys, and Darren and
Speaker 1: Mark and they've patched it up. But I think they're
Speaker 1: both frustrated. But I'm not I'm not worried about that
Speaker 1: overall as a team. I think that happens, and you
Speaker 1: look at it all the time. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: when you win and that happens. Everybody says those two
Speaker 1: guys are really competitive. You know, when Tom Brady yells
Speaker 1: and Julian Edelman and they win the game, it's what
Speaker 1: a competitor the quarterback is. You know, if it happens
Speaker 1: when you're losing, it's you know, there's in fighting. But
Speaker 1: it was an isolated incident between two highly competitive players
Speaker 1: and there's nothing else came of it. And those guys
Speaker 1: have will both tell you the same thing. Because of
Speaker 1: what happened, dude, players like Nage Good and Manuel Watcho,
Speaker 1: maybe Merritts more playing time, were some rush with the
Speaker 1: defense at all. Right now, I think with the short week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with what we had last week. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to prepare and get ready to play a
Speaker 1: game against Detroit, so there's you know, we're not making
Speaker 1: any line up moves at this point in time, Are
Speaker 1: you getting enough production your top two directors? Well, I
Speaker 1: think Nelson's been hurt, so that's that's part of what
Speaker 1: happened in terms of where he is. And then we're
Speaker 1: starting to get Eric and there. He played outside for
Speaker 1: outside corner for US and Dime yesterday. Really depending on
Speaker 1: what packages Bill he's using on that side of the
Speaker 1: all on how we match up with those guys. So
Speaker 1: we'll see where that goes as we continue to go
Speaker 1: through the season. Sure, you're kind of emphasis is put
Speaker 1: on relationship building with the players and you feel like
Speaker 1: you haven't played enough bund then to see through you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we I mean that's what this deals all about.
Speaker 1: We're with our players consistent when we spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time with our players in individual position meetings, group settings,
Speaker 1: all those things. So I think, um, you know, we
Speaker 1: lost a football game. I don't think it's time to say,
Speaker 1: hey that we don't believe this is this. We just
Speaker 1: we got outplayed, we got out didn't do a good
Speaker 1: job um, you know coaching in that football game, and
Speaker 1: that's what it is. But that's that's all it is,
Speaker 1: you know, And we need to move forward. It's not
Speaker 1: we need to change how we set up our day
Speaker 1: or do anything like that. I think that's uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we lost a game to a better team. We were
Speaker 1: out coached, so she's gonna move on and get better
Speaker 1: to play. You said you don't like to race your
Speaker 1: voice to the players because they're grown man. But as
Speaker 1: a head coach, you can make personnel decisions. I understand
Speaker 1: it's just a short week, but over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: have you contemplated anything about making personnel change. Why not?
Speaker 1: Because I feel confident on the guys we have right now.
Speaker 1: You should have a sanded it doing the same things
Speaker 1: over and over again and getting the same I've never
Speaker 1: heard that before. Okay, thanks for sharing that with us.
Speaker 1: Well it's Einstein, so I'm joining Ekstein. So but do
Speaker 1: you ever look I mean, you're we lost two games.
Speaker 1: I mean I think sometimes people panic and throw the
Speaker 1: baby out with the bathwater. I think we have a
Speaker 1: really good football team. I'm very confident those football paars.
Speaker 1: Thanks Zero,