Speaker 1: If I said last week throughout a stat that I
Speaker 1: thought that about seventy five percent, I remember reading or
Speaker 1: hearing the seventy five percent of games we're decided by
Speaker 1: one score left. I found out the answer because I
Speaker 1: wasn't one hundred percent sure. And to quote get smart
Speaker 1: from the old Maxwell Smart things. You know, watched that
Speaker 1: growing up. I missed it by that much. It was
Speaker 1: a little bit less than that. It was about fifty
Speaker 1: some percent. So I just wanted to make that correction,
Speaker 1: hold myself accountable on that one point when he said it.
Speaker 1: I can't quite do it a good imitation of it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, Bryce Treg's active and it seemed like
Speaker 1: he provided that deep threat for you guys. How much
Speaker 1: did that help the other guys just to have him
Speaker 1: kind of stressed the field? Yeah, I think havin Bryce
Speaker 1: was it was an injection of speed, you know, to
Speaker 1: the offense, and I think it helped not only are
Speaker 1: the players. I think that helped us as coaches, helped
Speaker 1: us on our minds. That helped me in my mindset,
Speaker 1: I know, just thinking about the way you know, script
Speaker 1: and plays last week in practice, Let's throw it deep,
Speaker 1: you know, let's throw it deep and everybody kind of
Speaker 1: feeds off that, so that that was good energy he brought.
Speaker 1: And then of course you still got to make the play,
Speaker 1: which he did, and that that was good for our
Speaker 1: offense up some of the other neat stuff and even
Speaker 1: didn't even the run game. It helps them massively. I mean,
Speaker 1: the longer you go, the more games you play and
Speaker 1: don't stretch the field, the field starts shrinking on you.
Speaker 1: And that's a real bad feeling as a quarterback when
Speaker 1: you feel the field shrinking. Um, So you got to
Speaker 1: continue to push the ball down the field. We've been
Speaker 1: calling in numroom. But thankfully last week we got to
Speaker 1: go in in that in that way at least. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of other areas that we didn't
Speaker 1: do so well, but that was an area that was
Speaker 1: a bright spot for us. Sure, what area you're not
Speaker 1: happy with? The third dat conversions? Is that more a
Speaker 1: productive to make third lows? It's certainly that's a part
Speaker 1: of it. But you know it's something that we work
Speaker 1: very hard at. You know, we trust the process, we
Speaker 1: trust the plan, we trust the people. We just got
Speaker 1: to keep working coaches, players together. We just got to
Speaker 1: make a commitment that we're going to find a way
Speaker 1: to get better. Usually you watch third downs, like I
Speaker 1: always go back after every game and watch every third
Speaker 1: down two or three times and to evaluate, first are
Speaker 1: we putting the guys in the right position? What are
Speaker 1: we doing from an execution standpoint? And then what are
Speaker 1: we doing from a playmaking standpoint? And invariably there's a
Speaker 1: you know, there's a handful that you think we just
Speaker 1: should have had that, and if we made two or
Speaker 1: three more, it looks like we're a good day. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's like coach always says,
Speaker 1: there's no excuses. We just have to find better. What
Speaker 1: we have to find ways to get better on third
Speaker 1: down rules done play eight percent of the station. You know,
Speaker 1: I think last week was really was not the plan
Speaker 1: going into the last week's game. The way the game
Speaker 1: plan was divided up, there were certain personnel groups that
Speaker 1: Ryan was going to play. For instance, in our two
Speaker 1: tight end package, Ryan was going to be featured in
Speaker 1: that package, and going into the game, the plan was
Speaker 1: to kind of mix our our three wide receiver package
Speaker 1: and our two tight end package. You know, not fifty fifty,
Speaker 1: but it would be a good mix and then you know,
Speaker 1: we got behind early. It ended up being a game
Speaker 1: in which we were a lot more three wide receiver
Speaker 1: set than what were you plan for, And and Sprowles
Speaker 1: was going to be featured in that personnel group, and
Speaker 1: so that was, honestly, that was one of the reasons
Speaker 1: we really thought it would play out a little bit differently.
Speaker 1: So but then certainly, you know, Darren's a great player,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to want to take him off the field,
Speaker 1: but we just have to keep reminding ourselves that's it's
Speaker 1: good to mix it. We got a lot of talented players.
Speaker 1: Let's use them all right. He's in sample size with
Speaker 1: Carson now at the halfway point. What's your assessment of
Speaker 1: his playing the different things that he's had to work?
Speaker 1: For me, I couldn't be anymore glad we got this guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really he's a he's he's a good player.
Speaker 1: He's you know, the start of his first eight games
Speaker 1: of his career, there's been a lot of really shining moments.
Speaker 1: You know, like all of us, like everybody in this room,
Speaker 1: who goes out and works every week to prepare for
Speaker 1: these games, and then you go out and you play,
Speaker 1: you actually have to play. You can't just do it
Speaker 1: in the meeting room or on the practice field. You
Speaker 1: really got to go out compete in one of the
Speaker 1: highest competitive industries. There is one of the hardest position
Speaker 1: to plays. And you know, I think he's he's done well.
Speaker 1: He's made his mistakes, but we all have and I'm
Speaker 1: just glad he's on our team. And I think the
Speaker 1: future is very bright, and I think the near future
Speaker 1: is very bright. Lest the acron thing he was, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say, well, I don't know. I don't it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel that way to me. Um, it doesn't feel that
Speaker 1: way to me, But I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess we could go back and measure, you know, the
Speaker 1: statistical thing on each throw. I feel like he works
Speaker 1: hard as mechanics. You know, you throw at forty seven times,
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss some throws usually, so they're still making
Speaker 1: a lot of good throws. Well down the field is
Speaker 1: as much Sunday as it has all season. I think
Speaker 1: times he had passes over twenty yards. Um, what was
Speaker 1: New York shelling that kind of encourage you to do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, you know, it was just coverage based, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they played some of those concepts that you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: some of those plays that we hit downfield have been
Speaker 1: in previous game plans. But at for instance, when you
Speaker 1: just play a soft two deep zone, some of those
Speaker 1: aren't as good. But you know, they played we caught
Speaker 1: on the one to Bryce. They were in a blitz
Speaker 1: palms coverage, which everyone around the league understands is a
Speaker 1: kind of four across two under deep, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just hit the right call at the right time,
Speaker 1: and uh and hit the right you know where other
Speaker 1: times we've called a similar play hoping to get that
Speaker 1: and it's not that coverage, and then you got to
Speaker 1: take the underneath stuff. So there were a couple of
Speaker 1: things at work there, um, but certainly that was one
Speaker 1: of them. The coverages dictated its question, you know, because
Speaker 1: he added that speed that you mentioned into lineup. Why
Speaker 1: do you think it took so long to kind of
Speaker 1: get him in the line But it wasn't. The injury
Speaker 1: was a learning the offers Bowl. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: some of it is we got him late. You know,
Speaker 1: you just tend to We worked a whole off season
Speaker 1: with all with our other guys, and we got Bryce late,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know. We get the report from
Speaker 1: how and A scouts. Hey, we like this guy, that's
Speaker 1: why they're bringing him in here. Let's think about how,
Speaker 1: you know, how can we use a guy with this
Speaker 1: kind of speed? And uh, but until you see it,
Speaker 1: until you see it. And it took us being kind
Speaker 1: of forced into having to use him with the situation
Speaker 1: that we had. So that's good for Bryce, um, but
Speaker 1: that that's pretty much I think the answer. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got that whole off season invested with those other guys,
Speaker 1: and you know what you have, and so I think
Speaker 1: there's a comfort in that. Like nine possessions inside the
Speaker 1: twenty three and Carson through fifteen passes in that situation,
Speaker 1: but none of this passes one only one one to
Speaker 1: Decorates goes pretty much a check down. None of them
Speaker 1: have been thrown to him in the end zone. Pretty much.
Speaker 1: It's been it seems like that's been the trend all season.
Speaker 1: What has been the issues of trying to get hurts
Speaker 1: the ball in the in the end zone when you
Speaker 1: guys are in the red zone. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: that's you know, he's he's a guy we want to feature.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously last week was a big week for
Speaker 1: Zach period and um, as you guys have noted, he
Speaker 1: probably wasn't targeted as much into previous games period, not
Speaker 1: just in the red zone. But to your point, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a playmaker. Um, we need to find ways to
Speaker 1: get him the ball in the red zone. I would agree, right.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the deal with the run game, have you, guys?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's who you wanted the big at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, a team that ran the ball,
Speaker 1: and in the wins you pretty much did that. Is
Speaker 1: it just getting behind or have you gotten away from
Speaker 1: the philosophy a little bit? Um? I think some of it.
Speaker 1: Some of it's the flow of the game and getting behind,
Speaker 1: you know, not all of it. I think we've run
Speaker 1: the ball pretty consistently the whole year. You know, we
Speaker 1: haven't had a game where it seemed like we had
Speaker 1: that thirty five carry game yet. Um, you know, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. So um, you know, I know all you
Speaker 1: got to do is look at Doug's past to know
Speaker 1: you know, they run. You know, he runs the football.
Speaker 1: His philosophy is to run the football. His mindset, his
Speaker 1: play caller is to call. You know, So some of
Speaker 1: us just been the flow of the game and feeling
Speaker 1: like where we're making plays and where we're not making plays.
Speaker 1: But you know, we definitely I think every team would
Speaker 1: say this, we want to be a team that can
Speaker 1: run the ball effectively. I don't know what the numbers
Speaker 1: you want to put on it are, but you know
Speaker 1: there's a number that floats around in the NFL that
Speaker 1: if you can get one hundred and twenty five yards rushing,
Speaker 1: you know, usually good things are going to happen in
Speaker 1: a game. Um, we don't live and die by that number,
Speaker 1: but it's a general barometer of where you're at the
Speaker 1: offensive line at all affected the ability to run the ballast,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean obviously losing Lane. Losing Lane was
Speaker 1: a big loss, but I think big vs stepped in there,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then losing Allen for a game
Speaker 1: or two. I really think the guys that played well.
Speaker 1: I think in the off season, you know, I know
Speaker 1: how he had said, Hey, one of our priorities was
Speaker 1: to improve at that position, at the offensive line position.
Speaker 1: Let's get some depth there. Let's get some guys that
Speaker 1: we can develop into long term starters. And I think
Speaker 1: that's paying dividends. I think that that was the right
Speaker 1: move and I think it's showing itself in the way
Speaker 1: it's playing. Out has played well after struggling with injuries
Speaker 1: last year. A doesn't surprise you he's playing so well
Speaker 1: at his age. And B how much emphasis are you
Speaker 1: guys putting on him during the week. I mean for
Speaker 1: Jeff to kind of keep madis some drills that he's
Speaker 1: aren't necessary and things like that. Yeah, I mean, he
Speaker 1: and Stout and coach peterson't have have a good understanding
Speaker 1: of you know, Jason is not looking. You know it's
Speaker 1: not but he doesn't want to work. I love the
Speaker 1: way he works every week. When we at the end
Speaker 1: of the week, when you go back through the practice film,
Speaker 1: I get amazed. And I've shown this to our show
Speaker 1: that's to the offense once or twice. You look at
Speaker 1: how hard he practices on the reps that he's taking
Speaker 1: from a coach's standpoint, you look at the athleticism that
Speaker 1: he still has in his body. I mean, it's really
Speaker 1: astounding to me. I mean, he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: athleticism left in that body. Um. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many players he has left, but I really don't see
Speaker 1: any signs. And I wasn't here when he was in
Speaker 1: his prime prime, but he might be the best offensive
Speaker 1: lineman I've ever coached. I mean, guy's awesome. Where you
Speaker 1: seeing all of this with the size down poundations roles,
Speaker 1: Is there anyone comparable? Yeah? No, He's a unique player.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Danny Woodhead in San Diego is
Speaker 1: a good player, but Sprawls is a different kind of
Speaker 1: player than even like a Woodhead or some of the
Speaker 1: other smaller backs because he's so strong. He's just physically
Speaker 1: a strong man. And I remember when I was in
Speaker 1: San Diego for a couple of years there, he was
Speaker 1: legendary there. You know, in the weight room he's the
Speaker 1: strongest guy pound for pound, how hard he works and
Speaker 1: so and so forth. So I just think he is
Speaker 1: a unique player being up the seed or Playbol. And
Speaker 1: with that, do you find yourself wanted to say more?
Speaker 1: Because obviously, yeah, Bryce is a real smart guy. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's all the way there yet with the playbook.
Speaker 1: I think he's studying hard and um and but there's
Speaker 1: a lot that goes into a lot of little nuances. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's getting there very quickly, and there's I
Speaker 1: think there's something about the mindset of knowing that you're
Speaker 1: going to be active and knowing that you're in there
Speaker 1: that it even accelerates. That's just a different mindset. So UM,
Speaker 1: I would anticipate in the next week or two it'll
Speaker 1: be like he's been here forever. But right now, I
Speaker 1: think there's still a little bit of a ramp up
Speaker 1: as far as learning the offense and all the nuances
Speaker 1: as a fullback and playing. And I used to bow
Speaker 1: Allen earlier in the years, not just because Bo was,
Speaker 1: you know, more involved in the deepense at that point,
Speaker 1: and also how he Feac did Did he get the
Speaker 1: right guy on that play which he supposed to take
Speaker 1: it out? Well, Isaac did a real nice job. Actually
Speaker 1: someone someone else kind of we had leakage and Isaac
Speaker 1: had to clean something up on that play and did
Speaker 1: a nice job. You could tell in practice he's got
Speaker 1: the athleticism, he's got it to do it. And you're
Speaker 1: right and that you know, Bo was in there earlier.
Speaker 1: But then when Bo kind of got called more into action,
Speaker 1: you know, for the defense and playing a little bit
Speaker 1: more there. You know, it's just easier when you can
Speaker 1: use your own guys, And so circumstances kind of dictated
Speaker 1: us experimenting with Isaac back there. He did a nice job,
Speaker 1: so I would anticipate that, you know, he'd be an
Speaker 1: option going forward. When you bring along a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: what markers of growth are you looking for throughout the season,
Speaker 1: like things that you want him to be able to
Speaker 1: deserve do that. Maybe it wasn't the perfect dat from
Speaker 1: the beginning of you know, I think just show an
Speaker 1: unwavering toughness, you know, and mentality that even though this
Speaker 1: is a game with a lot of huge ups and
Speaker 1: downs him this is a very emotional game played by
Speaker 1: passionate players. But you've got to have a steadiness. You
Speaker 1: got to see him go through those ups and downs
Speaker 1: and not waiver and not blink. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of the general thing. And I think
Speaker 1: more specifically, it's get a little bit sharper. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm speaking for all of us now as an offense,
Speaker 1: but certainly, you know, just growing in situational football, and
Speaker 1: and that in no way is meant to say anything
Speaker 1: other than we as an offense need to make improvements,
Speaker 1: and he's our quarterbacks, so he needs to lead away.
Speaker 1: He needs to lead away, and we need to give
Speaker 1: him put him in position to lead away and H
Speaker 1: and so that's really will be an emphasis and a
Speaker 1: focus going forward. We've kind of got all that early
Speaker 1: stuff out. Now let's go. Let's let's really concentrate and
Speaker 1: be great in this area.