Speaker 1: How are you? What's you know on Sunday and what
Speaker 1: happens run? Yeah, well, a lot of bad things. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, we were bad at all three levels,
Speaker 1: let's put it four levels. Um. We were bad at
Speaker 1: the defensive line, we were bad at the linebackers, we
Speaker 1: were bad at the secondary, and we're bad at the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator position. Um. You know, and it was It
Speaker 1: wasn't just one thing in that game. You know, Like
Speaker 1: there was cracked toss and one time we were short
Speaker 1: on all the blocks and it got our edge. Next
Speaker 1: time they ran a crack toss, everybody overran it, overplaying
Speaker 1: for that and the ball cut back on us. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we missed tackles in the back end, we
Speaker 1: didn't get off blocks in the front end. We were
Speaker 1: bad with leverage at times. Um. Yeah, that was. There's
Speaker 1: there's a reason that, uh it looked so bad us
Speaker 1: because we were so bad. You say bad, it defendsive
Speaker 1: coordinate the position to me scheme wise, what you mean
Speaker 1: to do execution? Now you know I think, well, executions,
Speaker 1: not the defense coordinate, And I think, well, I'm in
Speaker 1: charge of execution. I guess you'd say, well, like you
Speaker 1: you would say, um, I think it's my job to
Speaker 1: find a way to put a fire out and to
Speaker 1: find something that when we're not having to be able
Speaker 1: to have a change over the Unfortunately, my changeups didn't
Speaker 1: work either, and it didn't matter like our four man
Speaker 1: pass rush wasn't. If I'm going off of run defense,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to the game in general. But we
Speaker 1: got no sacks in the game. That's not us. We
Speaker 1: got to have pressure. Our front four has to carry us.
Speaker 1: We got good players up there and they got to
Speaker 1: do it when they're not having a good day rushing.
Speaker 1: Our blitz package has to be able to come through,
Speaker 1: and we didn't. You know, we weren't successful in that.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of plays we made in there,
Speaker 1: but not enough. Um. You know, third down percentage means
Speaker 1: a lot for us. A couple of those drives we
Speaker 1: had a chance. We had them backed up on a
Speaker 1: third down in nine, did a good job in coverage,
Speaker 1: got leaky in our past rush quarterback scramble for a
Speaker 1: first down. You know those things. Those things keep drives alive.
Speaker 1: If we're playing at our best, we're rushing the quarterback,
Speaker 1: we're getting off the field on third down. And we
Speaker 1: had opportunities to get off the field on some third downs.
Speaker 1: Started with the very first one of the game. There
Speaker 1: was no points on the drive, but I think that
Speaker 1: set the tone. We did a poor job in a
Speaker 1: blitz on that when they were able to throw the
Speaker 1: ball outside converted. We got him stop later in that drive,
Speaker 1: but I think the damage was done there. So mentioned
Speaker 1: the scramble on that third and eight or third lined.
Speaker 1: Did you notice what was it a pattern that you
Speaker 1: had maybe not discipline pass rush. I wouldn't call it
Speaker 1: on discipline. I mean those guys are trying to sack
Speaker 1: the quarterback and we displaced him. Usually, as a general rule,
Speaker 1: you don't want quarterbacks escaping to their throwing hand side. Okay,
Speaker 1: if they're going to escape, you want to try to
Speaker 1: dictate away, which which we were able to do. But
Speaker 1: there was just too much air in there, and then
Speaker 1: we took a bad angle on the quarterback. UH didn't
Speaker 1: know we had a chance to get him down. Even
Speaker 1: after the d line laws contain, we still had another
Speaker 1: chance to get him down and didn't get it done.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was a critical play in the game.
Speaker 1: We have to play that better. We got to get
Speaker 1: pressure with our with our front and then we have
Speaker 1: to be able to match coverage in the back end
Speaker 1: and uh and keep that quarterback on the clock. Great
Speaker 1: disparity between what you guys have done in the first
Speaker 1: half and the second. If even in this last game,
Speaker 1: you guys were better this in terms of keeping points
Speaker 1: off the board. Is there something about your scheme what
Speaker 1: you call the game that lends to playing from a head? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it lends from playing from a head.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always easier to play with the lead. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to read that, to tell you
Speaker 1: the truth. I mean, I think you can look at it.
Speaker 1: You can look at it a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: You can be positive and say, um, yeah, we've made
Speaker 1: some adjustments. We've been able to, you know, put some
Speaker 1: fires out, even know, I don't I don't think that
Speaker 1: was the case against the Redskins. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: even though we were able to hold the score down
Speaker 1: in the second half and give us a chance, we
Speaker 1: didn't play our best football. I think that was obvious.
Speaker 1: But then if you want to look at it negative,
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, we've given up some plays early
Speaker 1: and had fires to put out, so um, you know,
Speaker 1: we need to strive to be more consistent. And like
Speaker 1: I said, that goes for all three levels of the defense,
Speaker 1: it goes for coaching as well. Yeah, penalties. Penalties have
Speaker 1: cost us eight points the last two games. Both of
Speaker 1: them have been on Flesh, who's one of our better players. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, if we don't learn from them, we're doomed
Speaker 1: to repeat those mistakes. And you know, we had Detroit
Speaker 1: held to a field goal attempt and we had Washington
Speaker 1: held to a field goal attempt and we got penalties
Speaker 1: on both plays. On Roughen the quarterback. You can't hit
Speaker 1: the quarterback high. I mean, I mean, I get you're
Speaker 1: reaching out and you end up grabbing a face mask
Speaker 1: or something like that, and you've got to get off
Speaker 1: of it quick. We noticed a strike zone on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And as much as we want to get after the
Speaker 1: quarterback and we want to we want to affect his
Speaker 1: throws and we want to get sacks, you can't hit
Speaker 1: him in the head. You can't hit him with your head,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's a strike zone. It's it's
Speaker 1: tough for those big guys, but we got to do it.
Speaker 1: It's it's cost us. Um, a couple of all sides
Speaker 1: penalties that put us behind the eight ball. You know,
Speaker 1: it's tough to play it first and five. You know,
Speaker 1: they got three downs to game five yards. That's a
Speaker 1: hard way to start a drive. And those are those
Speaker 1: are certainly issues that we need to do better. When
Speaker 1: we were playing our best early in the season, we
Speaker 1: weren't getting very many fouls. We weren't we weren't taking
Speaker 1: many penalties. And the last couple of the last couple
Speaker 1: of games in particularly, we've taken way too many. We
Speaker 1: got to get a frustration line effective. Without Benny Logan
Speaker 1: in there, Betty was playing well. One of the few
Speaker 1: guys in this game we had that was playing well.
Speaker 1: Benny was Um. Yeah, you know, it'll be more reps
Speaker 1: for guys like bo Um and then maybe even a
Speaker 1: little bit more on a guy like Fletch. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we'd like to rotate those guys as much, but sometimes
Speaker 1: you're not able to Um. And then a guy like
Speaker 1: Destiny who's been a part time player and he's made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays, but also he's given up a
Speaker 1: couple Um, you know, he needs to be more consistent. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we've also used some defensive ends inside the
Speaker 1: rush on third down that that helps alleviate a little bit.
Speaker 1: You have to follow up the Fletcher thing, you see that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they're they're ganging up on him
Speaker 1: every every week. Do you see those penalties as kind
Speaker 1: of the offshoot of a guy fighting so hard just
Speaker 1: to get to the point. I think you might be
Speaker 1: able to say that against Detroit. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: a hold of the guy's jersey, was spinning him around.
Speaker 1: He's just reaching to grab He's not trying to grab
Speaker 1: a face mask there. I mean, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that just falls into stuff happens. But when you're free
Speaker 1: coming around the edge, our defensive end did a good
Speaker 1: job shaving the end and and he's come And that's
Speaker 1: a situation at every defensive lineman ends up in. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's anything to do with him being double
Speaker 1: or him trying to be Actually he's trying to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. But you can't go low. You can't
Speaker 1: hit him in the head, you can't hit him with
Speaker 1: your head with the crown of the helmet. You just
Speaker 1: you know, we just got to get his head out
Speaker 1: of it. Effective of finally getting there after I didn't
Speaker 1: do so much. Do they get too engle? Did they
Speaker 1: get to buck fever? Um, yeah, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't buy it. I don't buy it. We got it.
Speaker 1: We got to be more disciplined. Um, you know, penalties
Speaker 1: of you know that again, I think that was part
Speaker 1: of our formula. In the first three games. We weren't
Speaker 1: penalized very much. And you know these last couple of games,
Speaker 1: we need to take that off our resume, so to speak.
Speaker 1: We need to see it on outside. I need to
Speaker 1: kind of get them away from them. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: if you watch if you watch our all twenty two,
Speaker 1: which I know a lot of you guys do, you'll
Speaker 1: see him aligned out there a decent amount of times,
Speaker 1: just in our in our rushed package, in some of
Speaker 1: our some of our bliss packages, some of the matchup stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a defensive tackle, but there are some changeups where
Speaker 1: we move him around a little bit. What do you
Speaker 1: need to see out of your linebackers relative to what
Speaker 1: you gotta particularly Onsiday with with what I think just
Speaker 1: every week, it's it's the same thing. Those guys need
Speaker 1: to fill gaps in the run game and need to
Speaker 1: take good angles and uh and play the pass. I
Speaker 1: think the challenge this week is a rootolf the tight end.
Speaker 1: He might not be their leading receiver, but he's a
Speaker 1: security blanker for the quarterback. All good tight ends are
Speaker 1: and um catches a lot of balls over in the middle,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those matchups are going to be
Speaker 1: linebacker matchups. I mean, there's gonna be some safeties involved also,
Speaker 1: but it's not just going to be stopping they're run.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to do a good job playing playing
Speaker 1: the inside passing game. And we just like it again.
Speaker 1: We need to, we need to. We need to redeem
Speaker 1: ourselves from last week when it comes to linebacker play.
Speaker 1: From some angles and some mistackles and some some bad technique,
Speaker 1: we shouldered too many blocks in the run game and
Speaker 1: as a result, those guys are just going to grab you.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you guys know thee holding on every play.
Speaker 1: But if you give them a chance to get their
Speaker 1: arms and hold you, it's your own fault. You know.
Speaker 1: We can't blay him anybody but ourselves. When you go
Speaker 1: up and just stick a shoulder in m you're going
Speaker 1: to stick the blocks. We got a hat in hands
Speaker 1: when we did it. We did it well, but we
Speaker 1: didn't do it enough, and we need to see more
Speaker 1: of that tackles. How do you correct that issue during
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, I mean it's I think most of
Speaker 1: it begins with angles, and when your angles are good,
Speaker 1: you don't miss very many tackles, and our angles weren't
Speaker 1: very good. And I think the other part of it
Speaker 1: in this game, and again one of our one of
Speaker 1: our failures in this game is we let one play
Speaker 1: affect the next. And I think that in the first
Speaker 1: three games, even parts of the Detroit game, we didn't
Speaker 1: let a bad play affect our next play. And I've
Speaker 1: referenced one of the tall sweeps. We were short on
Speaker 1: the block and then the next play we came up
Speaker 1: and everybody overran it and the ball cut all the
Speaker 1: way back on us. In other words, we overcorrected. And
Speaker 1: you know, guys were trying rather than just doing their job.
Speaker 1: You know, the oldest adage in the NFL, do your job.
Speaker 1: I think we got guilty of trying to cover up
Speaker 1: and trying to do a little too much. They need to, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just concentrate on theirs and in good accles.
Speaker 1: And like I said, it wasn't just linebackers. Our dbs
Speaker 1: didn't tackle very well. And you know some of those
Speaker 1: runs that in the past might be an eight yard run,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're breaking us for twenty nine
Speaker 1: and forty five and stuff like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: we got we got to get those guys down. They
Speaker 1: were prepared. And I asked that because Benny, when the
Speaker 1: radio said that, he didn't even think that number thirty
Speaker 1: two Rob Kelly was on the scouting before. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was. But did you think that the
Speaker 1: guys were probably prepare for what they threw him and
Speaker 1: run because there was a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: run plays that they threw at you. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think there was. There was no new runs that they
Speaker 1: ran at US. Um. You know, they ran the inside
Speaker 1: zone week or the zone Stretch week, the z own
Speaker 1: stretch Strong actually did a fairly decent job of stop
Speaker 1: in the zone stretch strong. The ZWN stretch week was
Speaker 1: a problem for US. Crack toss Um. You know, they
Speaker 1: were all plays were prepared for. But practicing and preparing
Speaker 1: for him and talking about them and going on in
Speaker 1: the practice field, Um, that doesn't mean anything if you
Speaker 1: don't do it on Sunday. We didn't do a good
Speaker 1: enough job on Sunday. M R. Kelly was on the
Speaker 1: scouting report, lease the teams and snaps play believe his
Speaker 1: nine tackles in the sack. Is he doing things? Um? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he played. Um it was like a lot
Speaker 1: of other our other guys, didn't play his best game
Speaker 1: this last game. UM. We probably he's got a guy
Speaker 1: that can probably benefit from lesser reps and had maybe
Speaker 1: more production with lesser reps. We've been talking about that. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just tough in game situations when when you when
Speaker 1: you're not doing well, everybody starts pressing you start trying
Speaker 1: to do too much. Um, maybe that includes playing too
Speaker 1: many reps. Um. Connor's a good player when he's fresh
Speaker 1: and going, and he's no different than the rest of
Speaker 1: our guys that way. But UM, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're not disappointed in him. Last week you kind
Speaker 1: of talked about getting many carried more part time, because
Speaker 1: that's something you can see when it comes to the routine.
Speaker 1: That about. Yeah, I mean I just think and at
Speaker 1: last in the Detroit game, I think he played eighteen.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't it just wasn't enough and we didn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of chances to rush him inside. And
Speaker 1: you know, and some of those drives were long. It
Speaker 1: was harder to get substitutions and different packages they were using.
Speaker 1: Every game is going to be different as far as
Speaker 1: number of reps that guys play. But just as a
Speaker 1: general rule, you know what, just any it was bo
Speaker 1: we needed to play those guys a little bit more. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he certainly played a lot more
Speaker 1: in this in this last game. Um, you know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's one of our better players. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be productive, and we gotta find a way to
Speaker 1: get those guys on the field. Quarterback that you're going
Speaker 1: up against Jim, what's what have you seen from what
Speaker 1: he's done in Minnesota so far? And what's going to
Speaker 1: be key for you guys? You know, I think a
Speaker 1: little bit like you know, with you'd look at the
Speaker 1: success I mean, their numbers aren't going to boggle you offensively,
Speaker 1: with the exception of turnovers. I think they have one
Speaker 1: turnover rule in the years, right, just one right, So
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's no interceptions, um, and that goes
Speaker 1: a long way. But you look at their you look
Speaker 1: at their you know stats across the board. They're not
Speaker 1: rushing for a very big average. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you would expect losing Adrian Peterson. Um, but
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks completing a lot of passes, a real high
Speaker 1: completion percentage. Um. You know, they're not afraid to you know,
Speaker 1: take a check down. You know, they haven't made very
Speaker 1: many mistakes, and I think that has led in as
Speaker 1: well as their defense is playing. That's been a good
Speaker 1: formula for those guys. Um. You know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot goes into that. We've got to find ways to
Speaker 1: take their security blankets away, make them be more aggressive
Speaker 1: in attacking a defense. And then also it would help
Speaker 1: you know, you make them play from behind. All those
Speaker 1: things to go together, and they haven't done that this year.
Speaker 1: They've they've done a good job of playing from ahead.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, takeaways mean a big, big thing. Um.
Speaker 1: You know the one that we had in that game.
Speaker 1: As poorly as we played against the Redskins, um, that
Speaker 1: one big play takeaway kept us in the ballgame. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to find a way to get
Speaker 1: more of those, not just takeaways, but some lost yardage.
Speaker 1: Plays and being after the quarterback. He's not the most
Speaker 1: mobile guy in the world. Everybody understands that, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: so I think there's some opportunities for us to be
Speaker 1: able to be able to stay after him maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, I think you could probably look
Speaker 1: at it the other way. I mean, he's in a
Speaker 1: new offense, he's in a different offensive scheme. So as
Speaker 1: much as we know his skill set, I mean, it
Speaker 1: doesn't take it. It doesn't take four months to know
Speaker 1: that Sam's not a scrampoint quarterback. I mean a news flash.
Speaker 1: But he's a good pocket quarterback and he's a very
Speaker 1: accurate passer. I mean we saw that in training camp.
Speaker 1: We see you've seen that from these things. I think
Speaker 1: you could probably even look at the other way. He
Speaker 1: had four months to look at us, you know, and
Speaker 1: we haven't changed schemes. We're gonna have to do a
Speaker 1: little bit with some of our calls and change some
Speaker 1: of them up, because you know, a training camp time time,
Speaker 1: everybody's you know, listening to the words that the offense
Speaker 1: and the defense says. It says everybody's competitive. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of insight. But I think that
Speaker 1: works both ways very well, but they still run it
Speaker 1: a lot. How does that impact the play action as
Speaker 1: far as you guys having to be aware of it? Well,
Speaker 1: I think that has been I think that's a defensive
Speaker 1: coach's mentality as a head coach, they've just stayed committed
Speaker 1: to it. It's opened up some tight end stuff in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and you know it's also you know,
Speaker 1: probably helped their defense out a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: that all probably goes into it. But after watching us
Speaker 1: on film last year last week, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're we're they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna test us.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care if they're averaging one yard
Speaker 1: or rush. You watch what we did on film last week.
Speaker 1: You know they're they're in their game plan saying right now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run it sixty five times, and it's our
Speaker 1: job to make sure that they don't have success doing that.
Speaker 1: And if they're not having success doing that, I think
Speaker 1: it's not open enough to play action game. And it's
Speaker 1: also not slowing down our pass rush. And um, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of that comes from you know that
Speaker 1: that's our responsibility. Okay, Podcast