1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: How are you a year out of football, fifteen months 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: of pick a ball? Thank you? As you quarterback, you 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: start from scratch and you can go back to starting. Uh. 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: I think you have to have a starting point. So 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: there's going to be a way to speak, learn a 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: learning of the language. We talked about that, you know, 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: maybe a couple of months ago, and then really it's 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 2: just going to be about giving them some things to 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 2: go out and do on the practice field and then 10 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 2: learning what they do well how much they can process 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 2: what style we should play. 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: Uh. 13 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 2: And I've always kind of believed that the players will 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: dictate what that ends up being. 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: We don't know that today. 16 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: I can tell you that right now, there's a lot 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: we still haven't done. For the first time, we're just 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: getting into third now, we haven't got into the red zone. 19 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many other situational things that we 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: haven't even touched on yet. So we're still in the 21 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 2: learning phase of our of our offense. Guys getting great 22 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: opportunities to go out and I feel like at this 23 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: time of the year, uh, it's either a good play 24 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 2: or we're gonna learn from it. So there's a positive 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: result either direction. And that's the kind of mindset that 26 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 2: we're taking. 27 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: Josh a long time. You know, we we know when 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: the games start. 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 2: Look if if it could be done by now, you know, 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: we would snap our fingers and have it be finished. 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: But I would I would say that's been true. But 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: for every. 33 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: Season that I've ever been a part of a team 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: and an offense, it's just whether you're coming back with 35 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: a bunch of guys that are returning and they kind 36 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: of know it, or you're not. There's always a period 37 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: of relearning and re admitting yourself to the little things 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: the details that it takes to run a good play, 39 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 2: let alone a good drive or a good practice or 40 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: a good game. Uh, there's so many little things that 41 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: everybody needs to do. There's a trust that's being built 42 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: right now on the field. The more we do well, 43 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: the more guys can trust each other. And Uh, we're 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 2: continuing to focus on those things and emphasize the the 45 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 2: kind of identity that we want to create here. 46 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: How concerned that misstic time and what is he missing 47 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? I again, it's a voluntary part of 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: the year. We know that. 49 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if we've ever had perfect 50 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 2: attendance at these things in general. As a coach selfishy, 51 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 2: you love you love it when they're all here because 52 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: you feel like you got them all in the classroom 53 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: and all in the field and all the rest of it. Uh, 54 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: he's here today, and we're excited to have an opportunity 55 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: to work. 56 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: With the guys that are out here and available to us. 57 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 2: So I know he's staying up on the information and 58 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: the material and and there's so many, so many things 59 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: and opportunities for us to teach all our guys going 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: forward between the rest of the practices here in the 61 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: spring and then going into the summer, and and you know, 62 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 2: the many days we have before we actually kick the 63 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: ball off in September. So I'm not concerned about Steph 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: and in that regardest point with. 65 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: Them in the spring. 66 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 2: I mean, he's doing really well. He's very smart, works 67 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: really hard. I think the quarterback room in general is 68 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: really really good in terms of putting the time and 69 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 2: effort in at this point in time of the year, 70 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 2: you know. And and like I said, we either make 71 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 2: a good play or we learn from the result. And 72 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: so sometimes as a coach, and nobody wants to hear 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 2: this but sometimes as a coach, the negative results can 74 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: actually be your best teachers, because you have a play 75 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: where something didn't necessarily go your way or the right way, 76 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: and then you learn from it. And then the biggest 77 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: key for us as we go forward is when we 78 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: learn from a mistake, is can we go out there 79 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: the next day and not repeat the same air. And 80 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 2: so I think he's doing a really good job of 81 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 2: digesting the information, processing the corrections when there is a 82 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: correction to be made, and they go out there with 83 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: the great attitude mindset the next day and excited. 84 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm excited for today. 85 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 2: Sorry, not many, not many. Yeah, he's no, he's uh, 86 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: you know, he he does a generally he does a 87 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: really good job of listening to it. And then when 88 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: you go out there the next time, you know, and 89 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 2: you see the same kind of look or the same 90 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 2: problem that the defense presents to you that that was 91 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 2: presented previously. Generally speaking, he's a quick study on that, 92 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,119 Speaker 2: and that's a good thing for a young player. 93 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: You know, the expectations in Mage and in July and August, 94 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 3: when teams and people saying this guy's gonna have a 95 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 3: great year, that's gonna happen with great because of the 96 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 3: issuement you guys have made on the field, in the sidelines, 97 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 3: et cetera. And because he's a second year player, how 98 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 3: do you prepare him for what could be extremely lofty 99 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 3: expectations that people. 100 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 2: Are I think if I know him very well, which 101 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,559 Speaker 2: I'm learning more and more about him every single day, 102 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 2: he's going to place high expectations on himself. 103 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: I know that for sure. 104 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 2: We're certainly going to want to try to get the 105 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 2: best result out of our quarterback position every play that 106 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 2: we can, and I think that's all we can control. 107 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 2: We can't really control outside expectations. We're certainly going to 108 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: try to do the very best we can with our opportunities. 109 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: And I see a guy that has a great attitude 110 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 2: and mindset about coming out here and trying to be 111 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 2: the best version of himself that he can be. And 112 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: I know that that's what he can control. It's what 113 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: we can control as coaches, and hopefully we meet our expectations, 114 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 2: which will eventually meet. 115 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 3: Yours ability to work for the mistakes and continue to grow. 116 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: How helpful has it been having some veterans have been 117 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: in the system. Maybe help? 118 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's again, I think the mistakes are 119 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 2: are opportunities. That's how I look at them at this 120 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: time of the year. You know, if we make them now, 121 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: you hope that we learn from them, grow from them, 122 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: and then eventually don't make them when when they start 123 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: keeping score. So I think the veteran guys that have 124 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 2: had some experience in our system have have been very helpful. 125 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: You know, they're working hard. 126 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: They give some little bits of advice here and there 127 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: when when it's necessary or applicable. But everybody's going out 128 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 2: there trying to do the best they can with their opportunities. 129 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 2: Everybody's getting reps right now, which is the great part 130 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 2: about this year, about this time of the year, and 131 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 2: go out there and make some good plays, and if 132 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: we make a mistake, we learn from it and get better. 133 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: When it comes to use. In terms of adding things. 134 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 2: To his place and things like that, I think he's 135 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 2: I mean, we've he's known about that for a long time, 136 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: and I think a lot gets overblown, Honestly, if I'm 137 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: being honest with you about you know, what we do 138 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 2: or don't do before the ball is snapped on every 139 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: play in the National Football League, somebody is telling somebody 140 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: where to go. We just so happened to give that 141 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 2: responsibility to the QB. He's he's learned it very very quickly. 142 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: He's studied hard at it. Honestly. You know, there's always 143 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 2: going to be little things we can correct and and try. 144 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: To adjust as we go forward. 145 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: But I feel very comfortable with him doing that right now. 146 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: Especially. 147 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I think all those guys are are are 148 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: out there working their butt off. This is a different 149 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: time of the year, you know, without pads, without the 150 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 2: running game, without those kind of things. Uh, there's some 151 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 2: elements that are missing from the play, which you know 152 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: at times makes it a little bit more difficult on 153 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: those guys because it's a lot of passing, a lot 154 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,679 Speaker 2: of passing right in a row. I mean I don't 155 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 2: I don't think I've called forty one passes in a 156 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: row in a game. 157 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: If I have, I shouldn't have. 158 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 2: But you know, that's a hard thing for those guys 159 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,679 Speaker 2: to deal with on a day in a day out basis. 160 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 2: But I think Will and the entire group has really 161 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: done a nice job of trying to deal with a 162 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: difficult front. We're getting a bunch of different looks this 163 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 2: time of the year is so great for that because 164 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 2: you just you just put those you know, you put 165 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 2: all those reps on the film and then we have 166 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 2: them to teach off of as we go into training 167 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 2: camp in July and August. So he's really grinded away. 168 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of looks against a lot of 169 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 2: good players, a lot of high tempo reps. 170 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 3: Like a month ago, that this scheme is kind of 171 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: new to him too that he's been I'm sure he's 172 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 3: not the only one having a coaching staff. 173 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: I couldn't say enough about our coaching staff, honestly. You know, 174 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 2: we spend a lot of time together. Thomas has been incredible, 175 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 2: and I'm learning from these guys too. 176 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: They have different perspective on different things. 177 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 2: You know, we're putting plays in today that I don't 178 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 2: have much experience doing, but I know that they're good 179 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: for our team. And I know these guys have a 180 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: lot of experience, uh doing those things where they've been too. 181 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: So you know that process. Usually you have some change 182 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 2: or some turnover or something on your staff where somebody's 183 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: getting acclimated. Just so happens this year. We're a first 184 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 2: year staff together, and I think we're all just grinding away, 185 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: trying to make sure that we're ready each day. I 186 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 2: think they've done a tremendous job with their position groups, 187 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: and I've really enjoyed the process. I love the human 188 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 2: beings that we get to work with on a day 189 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 2: to day basis on our offensive staff, and I have 190 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 2: a lot of confidence in what we're going to be 191 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 2: able to try to do. 192 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: A new concepts or aware. 193 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 2: But with percentage you're talking about for me in general, Oh, 194 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 2: I don't. 195 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: Know a percentage. 196 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,479 Speaker 2: I think that would be unfair for me to categorize 197 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 2: it that way, But I would just say it's you know, 198 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: when you when you take a lot of people from 199 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 2: different backgrounds and they have, you know, such good experience 200 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: and wisdom doing things that you don't, I think it 201 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense for me to basically learn 202 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 2: from them and what they can teach me, and and 203 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 2: that stuff is going to be used to help our team, 204 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: you know, produce more points, more yards, more first downs 205 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: and and hopefully good plays. So I don't know, there's 206 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: a good chunk of it that I'm learning and adapting to. 207 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 2: There's certain things that I really like already, and then 208 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: there's certain things that I'm trying to turn the corner on, 209 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 2: which is part of this process, you know, as any 210 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 2: time you go out there, Look we're not running anything. 211 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 2: We're running some things out here for the first time, 212 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: you know. So now, whether it's a player or a coach, 213 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 2: you know, we might be learning together a little bit. 214 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: But that's the fun of this time of the year. 215 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 2: You get to go out there and try some different 216 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 2: things and hopefully grow and learn how to do them 217 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: the best you can. 218 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: Thank yep, thank you appreciate you appreciate it.