September 16, 2024 • 13 mins
On this episode of the Coach McVay Show, Sean McVay joins J.B. Long and D’Marco Farr to recap the Week 2 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. McVay discusses rookie outside linebacker Jared Verse relentless pursuit to the ball, provides updates on the latest injuries, and looks ahead to the Week 3 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Coach McVeigh Show, presented
by Microsoft Surface.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm JB.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Long with Super Bowl champion DeMarco Farr and the head
coach of your Los Angeles Rams, Sean McVay. Appreciate you
being here, Rain or Shine, as the Rams turn their
attention to the home opener Week three against San Francisco. Well,
you told us last night as we left it in
Glendale that you'd have to reimagine a lot of things
about the twenty twenty four Los Angeles Rams and where
you go from here. In fairness, it's only been twenty
four hours. But what have you come up with so far?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, I mean, we digest really the situation.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Unfortunately we lose three significant starters that are going to
be out for an extended period of time in Jonah Jackson,
Cooper Cup and John Johnson. And so as soon as
I finish up with you, guys you know are planning
for the forty nine ers will start. I feel bad
for these guys, you know, because I think what a
lot of people don't realize. You know, it's tough for
our team, but it's tough for these individuals. The amount
of time and effort and dedication that goes into being
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available and for how it can be quickly taken away
from you. This game is humbling, but it's also you know,
it's tough when the stark reality of some of those
things comes to fruition, you know, for individuals that you
love and care about. But our job is to figure
out how to move forward and we can play better.
We have to be able to play better, and I
expect this to play more quality football than what yesterday
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looked like. I always look at myself first, and I
have to coach better, and we got to have a
better week of preparation, a higher sense of urgency and
figure out, all right, what is the best way to
maximize the guys that we do have available on offense,
on defense. I thought our special teams was a positive
bright spot. We hit all of our kicks. I love
the opening kick return from Blake Korum. I thought it
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was big to be able to pin the punt down
inside the one with Charles Woods. But we have to
play better offensively and defensively. And there's a lot of
and it's not one it's not one thing. It's a
lot of different things. And we're all in this thing together.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Trying to flush it, like you said, get rid of it.
Loshed the feeling, but not the learning you can get
from the tape. Right, It's exactly right. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's one of those deals that you have to acknowledge
it and you have to be able to move forward.
We don't want to live in the past, but we
do want to make sure that we learn from it.
And three hours will never define us unless we allow
it to. And I don't believe that that's what's going
to be the case with our football team. I'm excited
about being able to try to do the next right
thing when they come back in on Wednesday, like the
way that they handled the corrections, the accountability that needed
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to be shared from starting with us as coaches onto
the players, and how we can play better quality football.
That's more in alignment with the way that we want
to have our style of play come to life. And
what does the tape tell you? And yesterday wasn't it
and you give the Cardinals credit for creating that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Let's start with Cooper Cup's ankle spraying on the heels
of pukin Nakula obviously, and really, since you knew what
you had in Cooper Cup. This has been an eleven personnel,
three receiver ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
With those two guys down, is it a fair question
to ask if that's still the best alignment for the
twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, we've got to be able to figure out some
different things. And there's been a lot of lack of
continuity at a lot of spots offensively, whether it be upfront,
whether it be at the skill positions. You know, unfortunately,
you know, you see Davis Allen missed the game last
week with backspasms, and so it's fair to absolutely say,
how do we best utilize our personnel moving forward? Two
key and critical factors of that eleven personal outfit as
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starters aren't part of that equation right now, and so
we do need to reimagine it. Like we said, exactly
what that comes to based on a combination of things
starting with us first and foremost and then going towards
the opponent is something that we've got to be able
to figure out, and it's our job to be able
to maximize that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is that, like who do we have and then what
can we do with the guys we have that reimagining?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, and then you know who are you going against
and what type of responses do you expect that to elicit.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can only imagine what's that like for you during
the game, Like I want to call this, but I'm
not sure if I can. I'm not sure if he knows.
I mean, how does that affect you as a player?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's touff. I mean, here's what I would say, that's
part of our job. But there's a lot of planning
and a lot of detail that goes into it, and
that time is so precious and so those reps, those
they matter so much, and then having to adjust streamline
is part of the job. But there's been a lot
more of that than what I've ever experienced in the
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first two weeks especially. But this is the situation, this
is the hand that we're dealt, and we all care
about one another. I feel terrible for those players. I
know their families and their teammates do, but the outside
world that they you know, this this league goes on
and it's a thankless league, and we've got to continue
to figure out how do we improve and how do
we play a lot better than what we did yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Where do you go next to guard?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know, Logan Bruss is the next man up. He's
done a good job at camp. I think there's been
a lot of improvements there and in both phases, and
so Logan would be the next guy up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, just defensively speaking, this is weird. You you
always attack the problem and not the guy. But when
you're trying to chase around a guy like Kyler Murray
and the coaching point is we'll get him on the ground,
well I'm trying. I mean, that's got to be frustrating
for everybody on the bench and on the field at
the same time. How do you coach that without damaging
your players? Psyche Well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Think there's certain things in terms of the integrity of
how you want to rush him, how it really takes
everybody collectively pursuing where you can leave yourself susceptible to
some of those extended plays, and then sometimes you have
to be able to tip your cap to him and say,
what an amazing job. I mean, the one touchdown that
he throws off schedule in the back of the end zone,
he's almost scrambling around for nine seconds. You know, that's
a strain on our back end. But he extended a
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handful of plays both as a runner and as a
passer and made us pay on all of them.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
If finishing is the challenge for Jared first, and I
guess the good news is through two games he's shown
the ability to create plenty of disruption to be there
around the court.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, I like the way this guy plays the game. JB.
He's a mentally tough guy. He's physically tough. He's a
grown man. He's going to continue to mature. You know,
Joe does a good job with that room. He's going
to continue to own and understand exactly where his play
opportunities arise. But you know, just the way that he
played from start to finish, there was a lot of
positives in terms of the physicality, the relentlessness that you saw.
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He forces a great fumble in it and it falls
into their hands where they recovered for their last touchdown.
It was kind of one of those days yesterday. But
there was a good effort played by him. There's a
lot of positives from Jared verse. Without a doubt, it's
like a truck. JJ is hurt as well, JJ delert.
He is, Oh man, how do you replace? What do
you do with that?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah? That's me.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Kim Kitchens has got to step up. And you know,
he's a guy that we like. He's done some really
good things, but he's going to mature faster than maybe
we had to, you know, we anticipated. But JJ has
done a really good job through the first couple of weeks,
his presence, his calm, his communication. Obviously, we saw the
great pick that he made in week one, making a
great tackle on a play action, you know, and where
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he ended up getting that shoulder. I think there was
the original fears that it was labor him. I think
he was encouraged that it wasn't something more significant where
it was just as scapula. But it still is going
to leave him out for you know, an extended period
of time, and he'll be missed.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You might get him back at something okay for either
of you, given your plan experience too, when you see
more than twenty missed tackles, but you're in the middle
of the season, in the middle of September, you're not
gonna put the pads on and go fix that on
a Wednesday here, I assume, But how do you address
that week over?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I think you look at each one of those
I think they're all separate entities. You know, why are
they occurring? How do we drill it? How do we
fix that?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What are those things? And there are certain ones where
you know you alluded to it with with Kyler scrambling around.
I'd be interested to see, right, let's look at all
of those and let's see there was obviously a few
of them in that overtime period against Detroit that Montgomery
did a great job. But I thought, for the most
part against the Alliance, who have excellent skilled players, with
the exception of that, and you can't I mean, that counts,
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but there were some positives, and then yesterday was not
reflective of the way that we want to tackle as
a whole. Connor broke a bunch of tackles. I think
some of our angles, our approaches, our fits, and our
finishes need to be more in alignment with the standards
that we expect to operate with and that I believe
that we're capable of operating with.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's a big dude me. I'd be out there practicing.
I do it myself, I would. I mean, that's it's
all about effort, it's all about want to, So I
would be practicing how to tackle and not expecting coaching
put it in.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The product a little bit different in your day, if
I'm not mistake.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I mean, they can't stop me from working right there,
you go, see I throw up and do it.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Speaking of tackling, I imagine I don't want to put
words in your mouth, but Buddha Baker's pretty high on
your like Mount rushmore of opposing players you've talked.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the relentlessness at which he plays.
You know, he was he was a factor in a
lot of areas. We knew that going in. That's the
way that they allow him to be able to have
a little bit of free reign within their scheme, and
and he made his presence felt. And we didn't do
a good enough job handling him either.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He smarter, he's guessing right every time.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think he's a good player, good concept trigger, and
he's got some good freedom within their scheme. They do
a good job utilizing his, you know, elite traits.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
With Alaric's return at left tackle, I'm sure you're glad
to have him back, but how frustrating was that to
miss him for off the field reasons? And what can
you do to kind of make up for lost time
here starting.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
With just go back to work.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know, it was frustrating and it hurt us, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not having him.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But but here we are. You know that that's in
the past. We've got to be able to move forward.
And that's not exclusively to him. That's in a lot
of different spots and and collectively, that's what I'm most
interested in seeing as our team, you know, navigates Week three.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I can't wait. Bolimmer. I thought had a pretty good
day at center. I mean, it's hard to say after
forty one to ten, but I thought he had a
pretty good da at center. He did some good things.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You know, he's he's showing some positives. He's a tough guy, uh, smart, conscientious,
there's we need to be better as a whole collectively,
but but there were some positive takeaways to your point.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Not that you need our encouragement, but I like the
fourth down decisions so far, even though they haven't paid off.
Like process over results, you feel good about those ties.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I is, yeah, you know, we've got it. We've had
opportunities to execute on the ones that we've fallen short,
and uh, it just hasn't gone down for us. But
I would not change the decisions on those.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Still, respect level for nine keeps growing. The guy is
just he's he's made of the right stuff. I mean,
this is this is the core the quarterback you want
for your football Teamah, no doubt. He wants to take
every single snap. And I love that. That's true, no question.
What do you mean, like, I'm not coming out yet.
I just I'm not coming out. I just I know
I respect that. I get everybody wants to worry about
his safety, but he cares about his dudes. It's important
to him. Yeah, I thought that was super important, no question.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then Jimmy steps back into the fold this week.
I mean he does hope you do not have to
utilize him, but he's a presence in that room again.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now he is, you know, and it's good. We've had
him back in the meeting rooms and different things like that.
He and Aleric over the last week and now they'll
both be back on the forty eight, which is good
for our team.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well about Blake Korum, we saw him in live action
for the first time on offense. I'll be it against
some reserves. What first impression did you see?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I thought he did a great job. In the kick return.
You know, you felt him that was a good positive
spark for our team. Unfortunately, we weren't able to capitalize
on that momentum. And then I thought he did some
good things. You know, he showed you know, some of
the twitch and some of the good feel. Obviously slipped
on the one that he was trying to cut back on,
but I thought there were some overall positives and we
got to get him going a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Absolutely, you got three running backs to look all the same.
Why not? Does it matter who the opponent is this week?
I know it's San Francisco week. I like to say that,
but it could be anybody. You just want to get
back on the field.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But yeah, we need to get back on the field.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We need to play quality football.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This is an amazing, you know, an excellent opponent coming
in that We have a ton of respect for their
their recognition and the credit that they receive from a
coaching perspective, personnel schematic. It's all earned and and it's
something that we have to focus on playing better football.
We have to figure out what it looks like to
get guys in the right spots, and that's what our
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week will be you know, focused on for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We've talked about Perty's elusiveness within and outside the pocket before.
I get he's not kyler, but in terms of a
next step and shoring up some of the weaknesses from
last week, not a bad next test.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No question, you know. No, he does a great job.
I mean, he's got enough athleticism JB. To be able
to make you pay in a variety of ways. He's
got great escapability. You know, he's more. I mean, he
can certainly make you pay as a scrambler, but he's
moving to keep his eyes downfield to remain a passer.
But I've seen him make multiple plays with his feet
convert and you know, move the sticks and and he's
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a guy that that I you know know you've seen
a bunch of film on him. You've got a tremendous
amount of respect for the body of work that he
has in a short period of time, and his resume
kind of speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I love it in the storm, right, Yeah, we are.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You got to handle it the right way. This is
the separatory. So here we are.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean, what are you looking for out of your team?
Like the next time you hit the field.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm looking for all of us to respond, to play
up to the standards the way that we're capable of,
to play with a mental and a physical toughness, to
play smart. I'm looking for us, you know, starting with myself,
to do a good job of identifying, all right, what
are the things that our guys can do, how do
we accentuate their skill sets and what does it look
like to put a quality product out there that our
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fans can be proud of. But more importantly, you know
that these guys are capable of and what they deserve
based on the work that they put in throughout the
course of the week. Let's go see what that looks like.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Well, let's get to it. Thank you for shopping by it.
Thanks guys for Sean Miche, for DeMarco far I'm JB.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Lung.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
Don't
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Coach McVeigh Show, presented
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm JB.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Long with Super Bowl champion DeMarco Farr and the head
coach of your Los Angeles Rams, Sean McVay. Appreciate you
being here, Rain or Shine, as the Rams turn their
attention to the home opener Week three against San Francisco. Well,
you told us last night as we left it in
Glendale that you'd have to reimagine a lot of things
about the twenty twenty four Los Angeles Rams and where
you go from here. In fairness, it's only been twenty
four hours. But what have you come up with so far?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, I mean, we digest really the situation.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Unfortunately we lose three significant starters that are going to
be out for an extended period of time in Jonah Jackson,
Cooper Cup and John Johnson. And so as soon as
I finish up with you, guys you know are planning
for the forty nine ers will start. I feel bad
for these guys, you know, because I think what a
lot of people don't realize. You know, it's tough for
our team, but it's tough for these individuals. The amount
of time and effort and dedication that goes into being
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available and for how it can be quickly taken away
from you. This game is humbling, but it's also you know,
it's tough when the stark reality of some of those
things comes to fruition, you know, for individuals that you
love and care about. But our job is to figure
out how to move forward and we can play better.
We have to be able to play better, and I
expect this to play more quality football than what yesterday
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looked like. I always look at myself first, and I
have to coach better, and we got to have a
better week of preparation, a higher sense of urgency and
figure out, all right, what is the best way to
maximize the guys that we do have available on offense,
on defense. I thought our special teams was a positive
bright spot. We hit all of our kicks. I love
the opening kick return from Blake Korum. I thought it
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was big to be able to pin the punt down
inside the one with Charles Woods. But we have to
play better offensively and defensively. And there's a lot of
and it's not one it's not one thing. It's a
lot of different things. And we're all in this thing together.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Trying to flush it, like you said, get rid of it.
Loshed the feeling, but not the learning you can get
from the tape. Right, It's exactly right. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's one of those deals that you have to acknowledge
it and you have to be able to move forward.
We don't want to live in the past, but we
do want to make sure that we learn from it.
And three hours will never define us unless we allow
it to. And I don't believe that that's what's going
to be the case with our football team. I'm excited
about being able to try to do the next right
thing when they come back in on Wednesday, like the
way that they handled the corrections, the accountability that needed
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to be shared from starting with us as coaches onto
the players, and how we can play better quality football.
That's more in alignment with the way that we want
to have our style of play come to life. And
what does the tape tell you? And yesterday wasn't it
and you give the Cardinals credit for creating that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Let's start with Cooper Cup's ankle spraying on the heels
of pukin Nakula obviously, and really, since you knew what
you had in Cooper Cup. This has been an eleven personnel,
three receiver ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
With those two guys down, is it a fair question
to ask if that's still the best alignment for the
twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, we've got to be able to figure out some
different things. And there's been a lot of lack of
continuity at a lot of spots offensively, whether it be upfront,
whether it be at the skill positions. You know, unfortunately,
you know, you see Davis Allen missed the game last
week with backspasms, and so it's fair to absolutely say,
how do we best utilize our personnel moving forward? Two
key and critical factors of that eleven personal outfit as
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starters aren't part of that equation right now, and so
we do need to reimagine it. Like we said, exactly
what that comes to based on a combination of things
starting with us first and foremost and then going towards
the opponent is something that we've got to be able
to figure out, and it's our job to be able
to maximize that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is that, like who do we have and then what
can we do with the guys we have that reimagining?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, and then you know who are you going against
and what type of responses do you expect that to elicit.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can only imagine what's that like for you during
the game, Like I want to call this, but I'm
not sure if I can. I'm not sure if he knows.
I mean, how does that affect you as a player?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's touff. I mean, here's what I would say, that's
part of our job. But there's a lot of planning
and a lot of detail that goes into it, and
that time is so precious and so those reps, those
they matter so much, and then having to adjust streamline
is part of the job. But there's been a lot
more of that than what I've ever experienced in the
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first two weeks especially. But this is the situation, this
is the hand that we're dealt, and we all care
about one another. I feel terrible for those players. I
know their families and their teammates do, but the outside
world that they you know, this this league goes on
and it's a thankless league, and we've got to continue
to figure out how do we improve and how do
we play a lot better than what we did yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Where do you go next to guard?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know, Logan Bruss is the next man up. He's
done a good job at camp. I think there's been
a lot of improvements there and in both phases, and
so Logan would be the next guy up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, just defensively speaking, this is weird. You you
always attack the problem and not the guy. But when
you're trying to chase around a guy like Kyler Murray
and the coaching point is we'll get him on the ground,
well I'm trying. I mean, that's got to be frustrating
for everybody on the bench and on the field at
the same time. How do you coach that without damaging
your players? Psyche Well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Think there's certain things in terms of the integrity of
how you want to rush him, how it really takes
everybody collectively pursuing where you can leave yourself susceptible to
some of those extended plays, and then sometimes you have
to be able to tip your cap to him and say,
what an amazing job. I mean, the one touchdown that
he throws off schedule in the back of the end zone,
he's almost scrambling around for nine seconds. You know, that's
a strain on our back end. But he extended a
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handful of plays both as a runner and as a
passer and made us pay on all of them.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
If finishing is the challenge for Jared first, and I
guess the good news is through two games he's shown
the ability to create plenty of disruption to be there
around the court.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, I like the way this guy plays the game. JB.
He's a mentally tough guy. He's physically tough. He's a
grown man. He's going to continue to mature. You know,
Joe does a good job with that room. He's going
to continue to own and understand exactly where his play
opportunities arise. But you know, just the way that he
played from start to finish, there was a lot of
positives in terms of the physicality, the relentlessness that you saw.
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He forces a great fumble in it and it falls
into their hands where they recovered for their last touchdown.
It was kind of one of those days yesterday. But
there was a good effort played by him. There's a
lot of positives from Jared verse. Without a doubt, it's
like a truck. JJ is hurt as well, JJ delert.
He is, Oh man, how do you replace? What do
you do with that?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah? That's me.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Kim Kitchens has got to step up. And you know,
he's a guy that we like. He's done some really
good things, but he's going to mature faster than maybe
we had to, you know, we anticipated. But JJ has
done a really good job through the first couple of weeks,
his presence, his calm, his communication. Obviously, we saw the
great pick that he made in week one, making a
great tackle on a play action, you know, and where
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he ended up getting that shoulder. I think there was
the original fears that it was labor him. I think
he was encouraged that it wasn't something more significant where
it was just as scapula. But it still is going
to leave him out for you know, an extended period
of time, and he'll be missed.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You might get him back at something okay for either
of you, given your plan experience too, when you see
more than twenty missed tackles, but you're in the middle
of the season, in the middle of September, you're not
gonna put the pads on and go fix that on
a Wednesday here, I assume, But how do you address
that week over?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I think you look at each one of those
I think they're all separate entities. You know, why are
they occurring? How do we drill it? How do we
fix that?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What are those things? And there are certain ones where
you know you alluded to it with with Kyler scrambling around.
I'd be interested to see, right, let's look at all
of those and let's see there was obviously a few
of them in that overtime period against Detroit that Montgomery
did a great job. But I thought, for the most
part against the Alliance, who have excellent skilled players, with
the exception of that, and you can't I mean, that counts,
(07:40):
but there were some positives, and then yesterday was not
reflective of the way that we want to tackle as
a whole. Connor broke a bunch of tackles. I think
some of our angles, our approaches, our fits, and our
finishes need to be more in alignment with the standards
that we expect to operate with and that I believe
that we're capable of operating with.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's a big dude me. I'd be out there practicing.
I do it myself, I would. I mean, that's it's
all about effort, it's all about want to, So I
would be practicing how to tackle and not expecting coaching
put it in.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The product a little bit different in your day, if
I'm not mistake.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I mean, they can't stop me from working right there,
you go, see I throw up and do it.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Speaking of tackling, I imagine I don't want to put
words in your mouth, but Buddha Baker's pretty high on
your like Mount rushmore of opposing players you've talked.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the relentlessness at which he plays.
You know, he was he was a factor in a
lot of areas. We knew that going in. That's the
way that they allow him to be able to have
a little bit of free reign within their scheme, and
and he made his presence felt. And we didn't do
a good enough job handling him either.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He smarter, he's guessing right every time.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think he's a good player, good concept trigger, and
he's got some good freedom within their scheme. They do
a good job utilizing his, you know, elite traits.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
With Alaric's return at left tackle, I'm sure you're glad
to have him back, but how frustrating was that to
miss him for off the field reasons? And what can
you do to kind of make up for lost time
here starting.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
With just go back to work.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know, it was frustrating and it hurt us, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not having him.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But but here we are. You know that that's in
the past. We've got to be able to move forward.
And that's not exclusively to him. That's in a lot
of different spots and and collectively, that's what I'm most
interested in seeing as our team, you know, navigates Week three.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I can't wait. Bolimmer. I thought had a pretty good
day at center. I mean, it's hard to say after
forty one to ten, but I thought he had a
pretty good da at center. He did some good things.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You know, he's he's showing some positives. He's a tough guy, uh, smart, conscientious,
there's we need to be better as a whole collectively,
but but there were some positive takeaways to your point.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Not that you need our encouragement, but I like the
fourth down decisions so far, even though they haven't paid off.
Like process over results, you feel good about those ties.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I is, yeah, you know, we've got it. We've had
opportunities to execute on the ones that we've fallen short,
and uh, it just hasn't gone down for us. But
I would not change the decisions on those.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Still, respect level for nine keeps growing. The guy is
just he's he's made of the right stuff. I mean,
this is this is the core the quarterback you want
for your football Teamah, no doubt. He wants to take
every single snap. And I love that. That's true, no question.
What do you mean, like, I'm not coming out yet.
I just I'm not coming out. I just I know
I respect that. I get everybody wants to worry about
his safety, but he cares about his dudes. It's important
to him. Yeah, I thought that was super important, no question.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then Jimmy steps back into the fold this week.
I mean he does hope you do not have to
utilize him, but he's a presence in that room again.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now he is, you know, and it's good. We've had
him back in the meeting rooms and different things like that.
He and Aleric over the last week and now they'll
both be back on the forty eight, which is good
for our team.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well about Blake Korum, we saw him in live action
for the first time on offense. I'll be it against
some reserves. What first impression did you see?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I thought he did a great job. In the kick return.
You know, you felt him that was a good positive
spark for our team. Unfortunately, we weren't able to capitalize
on that momentum. And then I thought he did some
good things. You know, he showed you know, some of
the twitch and some of the good feel. Obviously slipped
on the one that he was trying to cut back on,
but I thought there were some overall positives and we
got to get him going a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Absolutely, you got three running backs to look all the same.
Why not? Does it matter who the opponent is this week?
I know it's San Francisco week. I like to say that,
but it could be anybody. You just want to get
back on the field.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But yeah, we need to get back on the field.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We need to play quality football.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This is an amazing, you know, an excellent opponent coming
in that We have a ton of respect for their
their recognition and the credit that they receive from a
coaching perspective, personnel schematic. It's all earned and and it's
something that we have to focus on playing better football.
We have to figure out what it looks like to
get guys in the right spots, and that's what our
(11:25):
week will be you know, focused on for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We've talked about Perty's elusiveness within and outside the pocket before.
I get he's not kyler, but in terms of a
next step and shoring up some of the weaknesses from
last week, not a bad next test.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No question, you know. No, he does a great job.
I mean, he's got enough athleticism JB. To be able
to make you pay in a variety of ways. He's
got great escapability. You know, he's more. I mean, he
can certainly make you pay as a scrambler, but he's
moving to keep his eyes downfield to remain a passer.
But I've seen him make multiple plays with his feet
convert and you know, move the sticks and and he's
(11:57):
a guy that that I you know know you've seen
a bunch of film on him. You've got a tremendous
amount of respect for the body of work that he
has in a short period of time, and his resume
kind of speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I love it in the storm, right, Yeah, we are.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You got to handle it the right way. This is
the separatory. So here we are.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean, what are you looking for out of your team?
Like the next time you hit the field.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm looking for all of us to respond, to play
up to the standards the way that we're capable of,
to play with a mental and a physical toughness, to
play smart. I'm looking for us, you know, starting with myself,
to do a good job of identifying, all right, what
are the things that our guys can do, how do
we accentuate their skill sets and what does it look
like to put a quality product out there that our
(12:38):
fans can be proud of. But more importantly, you know
that these guys are capable of and what they deserve
based on the work that they put in throughout the
course of the week. Let's go see what that looks like.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Well, let's get to it. Thank you for shopping by it.
Thanks guys for Sean Miche, for DeMarco far I'm JB.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Lung.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
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