Speaker 1: Yea, Sir h. Carson had done a pretty good job
Speaker 1: of protecting himself in the last game. I know their
Speaker 1: only few instances, but is that indicative of what you've
Speaker 1: seen in practice and what you thought would happen after
Speaker 1: the first two games. Yeah, I think he you know,
Speaker 1: I think he did a good job of protecting himself
Speaker 1: last week. And you know, as we've said before, very important.
Speaker 1: It's a good step. But that's one of those you've
Speaker 1: got to be right on those decisions one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the time. I mean, being right on eight out
Speaker 1: of ten of those isn't good enough. You got to
Speaker 1: be right all the time. So hopefully we'll keep going
Speaker 1: down that road and hopefully always need a you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a Alan's an excellent pass protector,
Speaker 1: so um, I think that's his major strength, UM, and
Speaker 1: so he can do he can excel anywhere on the
Speaker 1: offensive line at that position. You know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is a combination blocks and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that naturally, when you're playing one spot more the
Speaker 1: left side, you know, working with the tackle in the
Speaker 1: center more as opposed to being out there at the
Speaker 1: at the right tackle spot, there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different but um, we expect that he can play
Speaker 1: winning football at any five or any four of those positions. Right,
Speaker 1: But you're playing wells and everything seems to be going
Speaker 1: in sync. Is it difficult to get back that certain
Speaker 1: rhythm when you've taken a long break for Avie, I mean,
Speaker 1: it can be, but I think coach, you know, set
Speaker 1: the schedule up right, so you got to buy and
Speaker 1: we kind of got back in here and got after
Speaker 1: it a little bit on Monday, kind of got a
Speaker 1: little bit of rhythm and tempo going on Monday, met
Speaker 1: with the players a little bit, a little bit of
Speaker 1: an introduction, and that's that's intentional because there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a lag, so you kind of get
Speaker 1: that out of your system on Monday so that when
Speaker 1: you come back Wednesday, you're you're back in your normal routine.
Speaker 1: Progress of the house coming along very well. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, what we saw with the big V was
Speaker 1: you know, on his college tape, but just one of
Speaker 1: the things that jumped out was how good of a
Speaker 1: pass protector. He really is unnatural he is at that.
Speaker 1: And then really, to me, what the big improvements that
Speaker 1: I've seen is in the run game. You know, a physicality,
Speaker 1: a toughness, and aggressiveness. He's a very natural pass setting
Speaker 1: pass set or got great fundamentals and technique and pass protection.
Speaker 1: But where you've seen the improvement has been in the
Speaker 1: run game him as a possibility at right tackles should
Speaker 1: should they not be available? How do you how are
Speaker 1: you able to judge, just in a practice setting, whether
Speaker 1: he be able to successfully fill in in such a
Speaker 1: critical spot. Yeah, I mean that's fair, fair, But I
Speaker 1: think one of the answers to that is, you know,
Speaker 1: he's running Scout team all the time, right, so he's
Speaker 1: getting a lot of reps versus a very good defense
Speaker 1: and versus very good defensive line. So um, and when
Speaker 1: when we're running scout team, I mean we're paying attention
Speaker 1: to that, I mean Stout and Eugene or paying attention
Speaker 1: and watching v and coaching him go against our first
Speaker 1: team defensive line. That certainly gives you indicators because when
Speaker 1: you're running scout team, the defense is going full speed,
Speaker 1: they're going hard. So it's really a good measure. That's
Speaker 1: why we push our guys, those guys who are running
Speaker 1: Scout team. Is a good opportunity for them as well,
Speaker 1: it's just been gradual, you know. I mean I started
Speaker 1: to see it in preseason and be honest, with a
Speaker 1: couple of preseason games. As the preseason games went on, Um,
Speaker 1: you could see him getting better and better. Um, and
Speaker 1: again it's what we expected. But you could definitely see
Speaker 1: the progression go as each preseason game. When when we're
Speaker 1: going to get more reps? Sorry, Doug mentioned yesterday that
Speaker 1: he'd like to see Doroyla Green Beckham get more reps
Speaker 1: in the games. What have you seen from them? And uh,
Speaker 1: anticipate using him in different in different spots other than thought, Yeah,
Speaker 1: his package, you know, the way coaches set it up,
Speaker 1: his package has continued to grow. Um, it doesn't always
Speaker 1: translate into catches right away because sometimes they play you know,
Speaker 1: you set something up and against the coverage, the main
Speaker 1: coverage that you're expecting, and then you get a little
Speaker 1: something different and so the ball goes somewhere else. So UM,
Speaker 1: but I think what you would see is over the
Speaker 1: course of time, as that continues to build and and
Speaker 1: you're really trying to target, hit on target, DGB on
Speaker 1: some things, I think that will just continue to show up.
Speaker 1: He's done a great job. I give him a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. I really like our receiver very unselfish. You know,
Speaker 1: when a guy's not getting the ball, you just don't
Speaker 1: hear a lot of you know, noise. Um, they're very
Speaker 1: unselfish group, and that's that's fun to work with. Does
Speaker 1: your three head in set present to defenses? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you got three guys who can block the point of attack,
Speaker 1: but yet they're also very good route runners and they're
Speaker 1: you know, big bodies who present you know, match You know,
Speaker 1: it's a different kind of a matchup dilemma for defenses.
Speaker 1: If you're playing a man coverage orin his own coverage,
Speaker 1: you got the big body. Um So, but yet you know,
Speaker 1: Trey and Zach are almost like receivers. But yet they're
Speaker 1: physical enough and good enough blockers that you can get
Speaker 1: lot of stuff done in the run game. And so, um,
Speaker 1: you know that that's a that's a good thing. Brian
Speaker 1: Matthews is still kind of been bothered on by the
Speaker 1: ankles since you know, before training camps started. Does that
Speaker 1: make like the rotation and running back gave you more
Speaker 1: important for he does going forward? Yeah? I mean, and
Speaker 1: those guys have again, those guys have done a good job,
Speaker 1: you know, Duce rotating them in there and uh again, unselfishness.
Speaker 1: You know, every one of those guys, every one of
Speaker 1: those backs, every one of those receivers, they want they
Speaker 1: want the ball every time, you know what you want
Speaker 1: to But you got to give those guys credit. They've
Speaker 1: been unselfish and uh, you know, it's good that we're
Speaker 1: rotating guys through. And I think it affords a guy
Speaker 1: like Ryan if if the ankles bother them a little bit,
Speaker 1: where it can get to full strength, full autonomy with
Speaker 1: that not full you know, Doug has Doug is you know,
Speaker 1: he'll kind of take it to Doug. Hey, here's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this week. You know, Um, here's the rotation
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of, and then kind of Doug will put
Speaker 1: his stamp on that and then but their Doug deuce
Speaker 1: does have a lot about autonomy within the game to
Speaker 1: rotate it as he sees fit. Your forty third down situations, Frank,
Speaker 1: have been three yards or less. Obviously, it hasn't been
Speaker 1: a big problem in the first three games, but that's
Speaker 1: something that concerns you're going forward as far as needing
Speaker 1: to get in more third and shorts. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's good that we've you know, our third down stats
Speaker 1: haven't been good, but we're we've won. We've still won
Speaker 1: the game. So anytime you can kind of get by
Speaker 1: and cover up an area of weakness and still play
Speaker 1: winning football, UM, that's that's a good sign. Means you're
Speaker 1: doing other things well to kind of cover up for that.
Speaker 1: We're getting some chunk plays, um, you know, on first
Speaker 1: and second down we're picking up. But but it's an
Speaker 1: area that it kind of allows us a little time
Speaker 1: to keep improving there. So and and like you said,
Speaker 1: it's been we're just not in third and short very
Speaker 1: much because of penalties, um, and because of you know,
Speaker 1: some negative play. So we just got to do a
Speaker 1: better job of being disciplined. You know. To me, discipline
Speaker 1: is the big thing with penalty. Some of the calls
Speaker 1: are maybe not great call, you know, maybe not true penalties,
Speaker 1: but you got to live with that, um. And then
Speaker 1: you got to do a good job if you get
Speaker 1: a second along, you got to be efficient on second along,
Speaker 1: whether it's a run or a pass, you got to
Speaker 1: get half of it back and try to get in
Speaker 1: a third manageable. Those are the keys in general, been
Speaker 1: as efficient as you like. I think it's been I
Speaker 1: think it's been solid. You know, I feel it feels
Speaker 1: like every week it's getting better and strong, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it just it feels like it's going well.
Speaker 1: I like, I like the progression of where we're going.
Speaker 1: Potentially Carson design Quebeck forwards is to see him goes
Speaker 1: along with feelings too much they did. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you got a guy like Carson
Speaker 1: who's a dynamic athlete, and the threat of him running
Speaker 1: is as much a weapon for us as anything else.
Speaker 1: And so, um, you know now that you kind of
Speaker 1: feel now that he's kind of over that preseason thing
Speaker 1: and you feel like he's hitting his strength. You know,
Speaker 1: he's hitting his stride in a lot of ways. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those things, you know, could come into more play, but
Speaker 1: it's the threat of those things is just as important
Speaker 1: to us. And you just have to, like you said,
Speaker 1: you have to balance it. You can't overuse it. He's
Speaker 1: got to be smart when you do use it. And
Speaker 1: but it is a good weapon to have. Do you
Speaker 1: see Like on the sproles played, you see defenders coming
Speaker 1: up because they know they have to absolutely, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, absolutely, And I Just think as time goes on,
Speaker 1: he'll make more and more plays like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: guys will start hanging back and he'll run in game ten,
Speaker 1: or he'll running game seven, and you know we'll have
Speaker 1: a we'll have kind some kind of read option on
Speaker 1: where he runs and keeps it. Just when you have
Speaker 1: a guy like that, um, it causes defensive problems. But
Speaker 1: the main thing is is he's still our quarterback. So
Speaker 1: for us to go where we want to go, he
Speaker 1: has to be able to play winning football from the pocket,
Speaker 1: to be able to make the decisions in the past game,
Speaker 1: continue to be disciplined in his progressions, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and protecting the football like he's been doing. Um, and
Speaker 1: then those things are an added bonus. I think daring
Speaker 1: Sproles struggled. I don't know if he struggled, but there
Speaker 1: are struggles to get him more involved in the offense
Speaker 1: than he was early in this season. He's had success
Speaker 1: so far earlier in this season. How do you a
Speaker 1: guy like that, he's probably more of a specialty back,
Speaker 1: how do you keep that from happening there? All right?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean I can tell you right away
Speaker 1: when coach, you know, when coach and I sit down
Speaker 1: and the whole staff and we sit down and start
Speaker 1: talking about the game plan. I mean, Darren is one
Speaker 1: of the How are we going to get Darren the
Speaker 1: ball this week? I mean, that's that's always very early
Speaker 1: in the discussion. So when you got a guy like that,
Speaker 1: that's what we want to do. He's that kind of player.
Speaker 1: So we're going to design plays that are going to
Speaker 1: go to him, and then we figure he's going to
Speaker 1: get three or four in his normal rotation as well.
Speaker 1: But um, you want to look for opportunities. He's a playmaker,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we're thinking about that every week. It
Speaker 1: looks like you'll have three healthy played ends this weekend.
Speaker 1: How does that impact the offense? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's great because they're good football players. You know
Speaker 1: that that's the key where U and now you can
Speaker 1: do things formationally. You know, you can do things formationally
Speaker 1: with three tight ends that you know you can create
Speaker 1: extra gaps, you know for certain things in the run game.
Speaker 1: You know you can shift in motion guys, and you
Speaker 1: know know and you can kind of get an idea
Speaker 1: sometimes how a defense is going to adjust to a
Speaker 1: shift in the motion or how you know, there's certain
Speaker 1: formations that you get in and you can see tendencies
Speaker 1: that sometimes defense out and just speaking in general terms now,
Speaker 1: of course, but that's the advantage that a three tight
Speaker 1: end package gives you in general. So our job as
Speaker 1: coaches each week is to take those generalities about a
Speaker 1: three tight end package and say, how does it work
Speaker 1: against the Detroit line defense? You know specifically, And obviously
Speaker 1: you can't lay that that out what that looks like,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what you do. You know, there's
Speaker 1: certain things that for all teams a three tight end
Speaker 1: package does. But now you've got to narrow it down
Speaker 1: to see what their tendencies are on defense, see their fronts,
Speaker 1: their coverages versus that kind of scheme, and then try
Speaker 1: to find a little holes in it that you can
Speaker 1: and try to accentuate that down to figure out how
Speaker 1: how you're going to get Darren in the ball m
Speaker 1: How does that whole process work? And is that enjoyable
Speaker 1: or is it kind of like a burden to go
Speaker 1: into a game? Blast? I mean, it's a blast, I
Speaker 1: mean you know, um, you know, and it just starts,
Speaker 1: it starts with um, it starts within our core offense.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, we want to take our court.
Speaker 1: You know the system that Doug is brought here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know he had a pretty good playmaker in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: You know that he had to work with. So you
Speaker 1: start how how did they use Jamal Charles in Kansas City?
Speaker 1: You know, boom, let's start there because this is kind
Speaker 1: of already built into the system. And then you sometimes
Speaker 1: see something on tape or maybe somebody else on the step.
Speaker 1: You know, there's an idea too that comes into it,
Speaker 1: and you look for matchups. You look how you can
Speaker 1: get them when they're in man coverage. Um, who's he
Speaker 1: going to be matched up on? What routes? Does Darren
Speaker 1: run best versus man coverage from the backfield, you know,
Speaker 1: from closer to the line of scrimmage, um, And then
Speaker 1: just try to pick one or two or three of
Speaker 1: those each week. You don't want to overdo it. You
Speaker 1: just you don't want to overdo it. You want to
Speaker 1: take a couple and create a couple of big moments
Speaker 1: there and then spread the ball around from there, you know,
Speaker 1: to the other guys as well, like Carson had pretty
Speaker 1: close to I was a perfect game. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys can always find something to coble with. But when
Speaker 1: you have a game like that where there are any
Speaker 1: glaring mistakes, how do you coach them up for the
Speaker 1: following week? I mean, what are the areas that you
Speaker 1: start to focus on? You know? I mean I think,
Speaker 1: you know, even after you come off a big win
Speaker 1: like we had against the Steelers. You know what I
Speaker 1: like is I like our veteran leadership. I like our
Speaker 1: maturity that we understand that it really is over. It
Speaker 1: does not matter if you do not strap it on
Speaker 1: starting Monday in practice and in meetings, if you do
Speaker 1: not strap it on for every meeting, if you are
Speaker 1: just a little bit off your game when you step
Speaker 1: out there on Sunday, you can you can get beat
Speaker 1: in a hurry. And so you know, our job as
Speaker 1: a coaches and as a offense is to stay focused,
Speaker 1: you know, day by day, and it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: happened last week, win or lose. Um, we gotta get
Speaker 1: we gotta get wired. He needed to do it, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think as teams get more film on him.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if it's if it's the kind
Speaker 1: of film that he's been stuff he's been putting on tape. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, we got good players around him. It's not
Speaker 1: a one man show. He's playing good football, but it's
Speaker 1: because we have a good we have good offensive personnel,
Speaker 1: and it starts up front. Those guys up front are
Speaker 1: playing good football, and Stout and Eugene do a good
Speaker 1: job of getting those guys ready. And the whole key
Speaker 1: for Carson is he's got ten guys around him, and
Speaker 1: he's got a defense that's playing great and special teams
Speaker 1: that's great. So um, yeah, he's playing good and we're
Speaker 1: happy with it. But you know, the success that he
Speaker 1: has had is he deserves a lot of credit, but
Speaker 1: it is it is he fully understands that he's benefiting
Speaker 1: from good play around him as well. H