November 21, 2025 • 37 mins
On this episode, hear from Browns HC Kevin Stefanski, TE Coach Christian Jones, LB Coach Jason Tarver, DT Mason Graham, and RB Quinshon Judskins from Friday's availability ahead of a Week 12 game in Las Vegas against the Raiders.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to this week twelve Friday edition of the From
the Podium podcast. I'm Gabe Kolera. The Browns will hop
on a plane tomorrow and head to Las Vegas, Nevada,
to take on the Raiders this coming Sunday. On this episode,
you'll hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski, tight ends coach
Christian Jones, linebackers coach Jason Tarver, running back Quinn Shawn Judkins,
and defensive tackle Mason Graham. We'll start with head coach
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Kevin Stefanski, who gave his final thoughts on the Las
Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay, good work out there today. Excited for the opportunity
that we have in front of us. Obviously, got some
work to do tomorrow morning, then we'll get on the airplane.
But the guys had a really nice work week understanding
how important it is to own this plan, own the
details of it so that we can play fast on Sunday.
But with that, I'll take any questions.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Obviously, no longer concerns.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Correct, Yep, Sick.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Dylan's still in the protocol, but just don't want to
put it for Sunday or rolled out, so you just
don't think them.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, just I'm not gonna play him obviously, so it
focuses to get better.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
But he's he continues to do better.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Not fully clear from the concussion.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Proofile, not just yet, but he's doing great. What are
he s?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, what is he brought to that room in
terms of because you know he's got experience, he's got
starting the experience. Just just what is he how much
have they.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Kind of leave done him?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
He fits in great in that room as an awesome personality.
Have m Obviously we've been around Bailey now a couple
of times, haven't had him here last season, but fits
in really well with his teammates, competes really hard out
at practice, does a great job at practice. I think
all the players would attest to that. So, uh, it
just has the right way about him. Has played in
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a lot of football games, and a guy that we
trust him.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
What was yours week?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Like, he did a good job. Obviously for young players,
young quarterbacks, you name it. The work week is structured
so that it's a build up, if you will, so
every single day you're looking to learn, soak it all in,
go perform, learn again. And I think he's handled the
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week really well.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Next forty eight hours.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Just what is your message going to be to Shoulder?
Obviously it's exciting for him to be making his first
start and obviously you know all the kind of intrigue
with it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
What is your message to him?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, he's his focus is to do his job for
the football team, just like it is for everybody, and
he knows that and he's he's again handled the week
really really well. Obviously tomorrow the rest of today tomorrow
about finishing touches when it comes to the game plan
and really locking in and talking about owning all those details.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
But that's where his focus is.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He tackles Jack and Kim. Obviously Kim no designation, but
just where where where? How did you see that? Feel
like they kind of went through the week.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, Cam obviously came out okay, and you know, no
injury designation there obviously with Jack is.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Continuing to to to.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Push it and which I appreciate about him, and we'll
see where it goes. It's just not ready to make
that ruling just yet.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
You can't control it.
Speaker 11 (03:21):
But just the tackle situation in general this year, that
the constant injuries you've had at that position unchallenging, hasn't
been weekend and week out, you know, trying to to
prepare and then also at the same time you go
into games and you know you're losing players.
Speaker 12 (03:38):
In the game too.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's part of the game. Injuries are a part of
the game.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Nothing that we like about that, but that's our job
as coaches to see who's available and get him ready
to play.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So, David, how much do you think it will help
schedule to have him back with no injury status and
be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, I thought, obviously Dave's a big part of of
who we are, what we do, and and so it's
good having him back out there. Good to have his
energy back out there, and you know, looking forward to
obviously having him uh feel like himself. And then as
you know, tight ends for a quarterback are a great
sense of security, if you will. So I think we
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have a bunch of guys that that can affect the game.
Speaker 13 (04:22):
That is that is that need something he's just gonna
have to manage for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, And I think Dave's over the course of his
career has shown to always play through some unique injuries.
But but that knee, certainly he's uh he's a he's
a warrior.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
A lot, Kevin. When you have a new quarterback, is
the prep week different.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
For the for me or for you? For just the
energy of the team. I think our guys.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Really focus on on the process and the structure and
the meeting and the walkthroughs. And you know, I think
I mentioned to you guys before what we trust all
of our guys. If you're up on game day, we
trust you to go do your job. And sometimes it's
the backup tackle, and sometimes it's the backup quarterback, or
sometimes it's a corner that goes with whatever the position is.
We trust our guys, and we really keep our focus
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on the work week. And I think that's the most
important thing. I think that's the best thing you can
do as a player as a coach, is just keep
your focus on what's important, which is all of us
owning our role and doing our job.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is the best miles we've ever played.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Probably unfair for me to say I've had a front
row seat to it all. I think, yeah, the level
at which he's playing is impressive, but I don't Yeah,
I do think there's more there. I think, like we've
talked about over the years with Miles, like, pay attention
to how he plays the run, pay attention to the
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tackles for loss. I think sacks gets so much attention
in our world, in our football world, and duly, you
know that's fine because they're important. But affecting the game
in a variety of ways is so important. So just
pressuring the quarterback, harassing a quarterback, making life hard on
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a quarterback, but also playing the run, playing physical against
the run, getting tackles for loss, taking on a double
team so your teammate can make a play.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So listen.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The stats are what they are, and it's it's it's
you know, so impressive. But the impact on the game
on a down to down basis, I think is what
is probably might be overlooked.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
But by some of the stats.
Speaker 13 (06:35):
Do you think he's all that said, do you think
he's got an eight sac game in it?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I hope so, Tom, it'd be a good, good game
to start that what is the most in a game?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh so yeah, but you.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Can even consider that, I mean that potentially the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Could do it.
Speaker 14 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I don't think we go into games, or Miles goes
into games trying to hit a number. That's I think
he goes into a game trying to do his job
and affect the game in any way he can. And
obviously he has had some games here where there's been
multiple sacks and that's obviously finishing the pressure with taking
the quarterback down. But we look at it at that
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play to play basis what he's doing to affect every
single down, and again, the ability to play the run
should not be overlooked.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
So you mentioned that is really focused on the game
plan on what he has to do. Have you guys
addressed the notion that there could be a lot kind
of a circus atmosphere with him starting his first game
and all the things that come.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Along with that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, Obviously, conversations that I have with Shador i'll keep private.
But Chador is just like all of our guys in
that he has a job to do. He wants to
be there for his teammates and do his job. Everything else,
you know, doesn't really factor into how we go about
our business.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Hand out compliments all that often. Yesterday though, he had
mentioned that Carson as a lookie has you know, picked
up some things in the game that it took ray
Lewis three seasons into his career to get just from
your perspective, what has made Carson so good so fast
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and early on in his career, where those intricate details
of the game he has been able to, you know,
pick up.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's interesting because from day one he's been making plays
on the practice on the practice field, and that's sometimes
it's not that hard.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You just kind of watch what's happening on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And when a linebacker in off season program is showing up,
that typically means this guy's a pretty good player because
it's hard to there's no tackling, there's no run plays
of that type of thing. But immediately it was clear
that he had a great handle on the x's and
o's of football, the cerebral nature of football. And obviously,
when you're playing that middle linebacker position, you are in
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the middle of the nerve center and you're running the
show quote unquote, So to be able to get that
right off the bat, I think is a testament to
the young man. I think it's a testament to coach
Tarboro I think does an amazing job with our young
guys and our veterans. And then the physical aspect of
this of just running, hitting, tackling, intercepting the ball. Those
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are all things that we saw from the jump with him.
Has certainly carried over into this season.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
For granted, but when you see Miles, you know he
passed Regio at a couple of weeks, he would passed
LT last week.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
He's diving what you did for something.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Like do you ever take a step back and think
how special it is for you to get to coach
a guy that's in.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
That upper restaurant.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, there's time to reflect. So now it's not necessarily
the time to reflect on that.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do I marvel at his skill? Yes, you know, and
I marvel at it in practice. There's been many a
practice that he's wand and that's uh, when he's practicing
versus the Browns. That's when he's practicing practicing against another
team like we do in training camp, So we get
to see it day in and day out, even in
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those settings. But yeah, probably not fair to reflect too
much right now, other than to say, uh, you know,
he's he's a great player for us. Uh, he's a
great He's a leader for us that that we follow
and we're counting on him.
Speaker 15 (10:28):
That's on the offense. I think the Raiders are second
in yards could carry. Uh, and of course the field
gets candid, you know, as to go down. So what's
the key there to you know, getting into.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
The team zone in the in the red zone, you're
saying key for our offense. Yeah, you know, it's a
very it's a good defense. It's a very good run defense.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It's it's the scheme. It's a combination of scheming players.
I think they do a really nice job with the
things that they're doing from a front standpoint.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And then just the players that they have.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
The linebackers can run, there's physical defensive lineman. Obviously Max
Crosby can show up anywhere and has the ability to
beat any block whether the blocker has leverage on him
or not. So we have to identify their fronts and
do a great job in that type of way because
they play so many different looks for you.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But at the end of the day, it is.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
A physical defensive line, physical group of linebackers that we
have to match that physicality.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Okay, thanks guys.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
Up next.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Tight Ends coach Christian Jones talked about the rookie season
of Harold Fann and Junior to this point.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Room and then also the play that he made to
Harold there to.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Start off the team.
Speaker 16 (11:38):
Yeah, I think everything that we have to do with
the offense is our job. So no matter who's throwing
the ball, we got to make sure we're open, we're
blocking the right people, we're doing the right things, and
that's the best thing we can do to support the quarterback,
whoever's in there. And addressing the past that Harold kind
of caught late. You know, we had a look that
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called it earlier in the game, kind of wanted to
come back to it. He stuck with it, found Harold
deep and you know, it was a great route from Harold,
great time from Schadur, and it ended up being an
exposed to play to give us an opportunity to win
the game. So it's just being in tune to the
game plan, which you did a good job of doing,
and being prepared for that play.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
When it was when his number was called again, it
was a good execution.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Talked a lot about Herold's versatility, but even on that play,
like like you said, you ran it before, and I
think Isaiah was the one that ran the incut, Like
how does that come together? Maybe like on the on
like in between the break or you're like, Okay, we're
gonna run a game, but we're gonna put Harold, and
do you to kind of go to him and say
that we're gonna put you there?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
And just what does that say.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
About his versatility and his ability to kind of run
whatever type of route you need from wherever.
Speaker 16 (12:38):
I would say what speaks to his versatility probably more
than that, is the fact that probably in that game
he lined up at every spot he could have lined up,
and I'm atty sure you lined up in a tight
ened spot, full back spot, and a receiver spot like he's.
He's asked to block and catch passes from all those spots.
And it's not to mean people in the league that
can do that. So when you have somebody that you
can be kind confident that they're going to go do
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something effective against a nickel personnel, there's running or blocking,
and then also be effective versus a base defense, whether
it's running or running a route, or catching the ball
or blocking like that. That's what gives you versatility, That's
what helps you set up your offense for success. So
I would say it's just everything he does outside of
those big plays. Now, those big plays are great, but
you know, we always talk about being willing and able
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in this offense, and he's willing and able to block
and that helps us create ways for him to get
open in the past game.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So I mean you seen Harold, I mean how do different?
I mean the growth with him? Is it you know
each week? How is it noticeable week by week or
how where do you what do you see? Maybe the
growth most pronounced for it.
Speaker 16 (13:48):
I think it's just he's more and more able to
digest and absorb the not only our offensive information, what
players are running, how we're planning to attack a defense,
but also being able to understand the looks that he
gets from a defense, understand what to anticipate when he
lines up against defenses in different areas and situations. Because
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I think that's the biggest change versus you know, way
in college versus the pros, it's how many looks do
you get? How many defensive coverages can you get, how
many fronts do you get? You know, there's a lot
more variation in what the defense defenses play against you,
and I think it's just being in tuned to all
of that and also your assignments on top of that,
and you also weigh in him being in different spots
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on every play, So we're asking a lot of him
regarding run blocking and pass catching, and I think he's
done a good job, you know, just being able to
manage all of that and be able to be effective
in his assignments.
Speaker 13 (14:46):
What challenges of that position with a guy like Carol
when he first gets here, do you just kind of
throw everything at him and see what he can handle?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
These slow play like how do you kind of how
did you approach that with him?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
At first? We got to slow play it.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
You kind of give him a chance to understand the word,
it's the motions, what everything means.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
And then as you go.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You wrap it up. You keep them going.
Speaker 16 (15:04):
You you push them and you make sure they you
kind of set the tone earlier, like hey, you're gonna
be moving around a lot, and you show them what
you're planning on doing with them, and then you just
continue to grow as they can as they can do it,
you continue to grow. And he's shown a lot very
early that he's able to do those things. And so
this guy's the limit for what we were able to
do with him. And I think everybody's starting to see that.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Now coming along this week and is he enough of
a veteran, savvy veteran that if he only had a
minimal amount of practicing, go in there and help you guy.
Speaker 16 (15:34):
Yeah, I think Dave's a good enough player that no
matter what we get from him, he'll be able to
effectively help us win a game.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
And he's day to day.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
I know Kev's probably talked about this, so I don't,
you know, to have too much to say about what
he's working through.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But he's day to day.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
He's doing a great job.
Speaker 16 (15:47):
He's working hard, and you know, we'll see what happens
on Sunday exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
That when he's not practicing, is the rest of the
week look kind of the same?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
So is he still getting all the same meetings and
doing all those things to get himself prepared if he's ready.
Speaker 16 (16:01):
To go as much as we can, Like, no matter
whether you're practicing or not, you got to approach the
game like you're playing. And that's what we try to do,
is keep him locked in, keep going on all of them,
keep going over all the players we could be running okay,
and make sure that we know what's happening in every area,
like you approaching that the same way no matter what.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
So yeah, sure you're tight in coming to play there
helping out.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So just what kind of challenge his head and how important.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Is it you guys would slow him down?
Speaker 16 (16:33):
Yeah, I mean he is a very effective player, and
I think it's what's most effective about him is that
he plays very hard. And when you play a guy
that plays as hard as he does and they're the
best player on one of the better players on their team,
that that lifts everybody else up in their level of effort.
So we're playing, we're going in and playing against the
defense that plays really hard, and he leads the way
with that, and our job is getting the way, slow
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him down and doing everything we can to help our
team win the game. So he's really good with his hands.
He does a great job with his hands and getting
off black He's very good at that. He's explosive, he's
quick twitch, he's very savvy. He's he's played the game
a long enough time to be able to spot things
that offense is trying to do. So it's really just
being under control, trying to stay connected as long as
we can and be just a nuisance. Like the more
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frustrated we can make him, the better off we all are,
So that's what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Eatnt coat, you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You don't have to worry about him specifically because he's
he's on their offense. But when you look at a
guy like brock Bauers, just what makes him special, what
makes him like no other tight end in the league.
Speaker 16 (17:36):
I mean I watched him in his freshman year. He
is in Georgia and then there's gonna be a dog.
So it's it's great to see what he's doing now.
I think, what's you know, it's it's even funny, like
I would watch some of his target tapes from the
last year with Harold to kind of show him some
of the things that teams are doing, how to run
certain routes, things that we're matching up with on him.
And I mean, he's explosive, he catches the ball really well,
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he knows get he knows how to get open, and
he knows when to use his speed versus his size
right Like he understands the matchup. When can I ricochet
off of a guy? When I use my power to
move a guy off of me? And when am I
just faster? And when can I just run away. And
I think what he really is good at, too, is
he's effective after the catch. He catches the ball, he
gets north and south, he makes people miss. But any
yards that he can gain, he's gonna gain. And I
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think that's how you show up, you know, you're like,
oh wow, how does this guy have so many yards?
So many catches? And that's how it pops up. And
he's efficient, doesn't drop the ball very often. He just
he's consistent. And I think that's when you play at
a high level consistently, it's usually how you end up
being a good player.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Say, the the passing game has has looked at this
this week with Chador out there practicing and getting his
first reps.
Speaker 16 (18:41):
With the how's it looking, Yeah, I think we've done
a good job. It's been a good week of practice.
I think our Titans have been effective. Our Titans have
been effective and doing our job right and making sure
that we're not causing any issues for him in his
thought process and how he processes it looks. So everybody's
been out there doing a job. It's been a good
week of practice, you know, and now we got to
out there next to Kittle.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Sendon linebackers, coach Jason Tarbor piled on praise to Carson
Swessinger and what's been a big week for the young
man out of UCLA.
Speaker 17 (19:07):
Jim Schwartz has a pretty high praise for Carson, saying
that he just his command of the field is something
that it even took, like like Ray Lewis, who he
worked with early in.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
His career of three years to develop.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
Just what can you say about you know, him being
prepared already to obviously a Hall of Famer, And what
you notice about his play through ten games?
Speaker 18 (19:30):
Well, first what I think what's great about Carson? And
he answered Nathan and our radio crew with they asked
him what his favorite play he made, and he said
the next one, And that typifies how he sees the world.
He has a unique ability to focus in the moment
and make quick decisions and then put it away and
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go to the next play. That's one of the hardest
thing to teach. I was fortunate enough as a young
coach to work with to Chaos Ikes and Patrick Willis
and Navarro Bowman and get what to Kato Spikes taught
us was when he was young going through getting it
because it's it's exciting there's all kinds of stuff going
on the field, as you know, and hit. What he
would say to himself is next place my best play.
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Next play is my best play. And that was one
of the things I shared with Carson and I share
with a lot of young linebackers. But he has a
great mental attitude to be able to do that. So
it's special how he can go to the next play
and focus and forget about it and go and usually
after he gets the guy on the ground, which is
special that he's able to do that as well.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Jesus, you don't know that I've ever seen a defender,
at least a rookie defender come in and understand spatial
awareness the way that Carson does. And I remember we
used to talk about it, even with Ja okay figure
out where he needed to be, But Carson like skipped
over all that, didn't. I mean, he just like knows
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that instinctively, doesn't he.
Speaker 18 (20:56):
I think it's it's it's always nature and nurture. Carson
playing a whole bunch of positions, a bunch of different sports,
with all his brothers and sisters growing up and playing
a bunch of different positions, and then how he had
to earn his way onto the field. I think helped
him immensely in the space in the field. And yes,
we talked about Jeremiah a lot. Jeremiah is amazing at
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how well he could feel things. He just didn't have
as much experience of putting it into that box and
applying it quite as quick. But of course once Jeremiah
saw it, there's not many humans that can get as
fast as he can.
Speaker 19 (21:30):
So all of us have a strength and weaknesses.
Speaker 18 (21:32):
But yeah, I think he's just he takes in space
and feel and time and it's naturally who he is,
how he sees the world as a person, but also
his experience and then his ability to like we said,
next play is the best played, lock onto one thing
and use it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What do you think that comes from the ability to
get to the next place?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Can you talk about that every time we talked to you.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Yes, So why is he able to do that quicker than.
Speaker 18 (21:59):
I think it's a little like we said, it's he's
he's so smart that he can put it away and
just how he's he's naturally wired like that.
Speaker 19 (22:07):
He he makes a play and you'll see him.
Speaker 18 (22:10):
He'll get a quick celebration or you know, grab the
back from Miami, throw him down, everybody hits him on
the helmet, runs back to the huddle, and he's already
looking for Jim to get the next call. It's it's
it's it's really unique, and he can. He learns very quickly,
both when when you tell him something, when you show
him something, and then his study comes into play. He's
he's advanced at how much he studies what he studies,
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and he hits the point where he has enough so
that he doesn't overthink it. That's that's advanced as well too.
So it comes it comes from the whole process.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
He didn't start earlier.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
You see, like when you see what he's doing now
that somebody.
Speaker 19 (22:49):
Didn't recognize it, well, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 18 (22:52):
I wasn't there, so I don't know. I know his
weight progression, I know he didn't have I knew he grew.
He was still grown. Senior year into UCLA. And I
think at that time with the year when you were
recruited the athletes in twenty twenty, because of the situation,
because of what was going on, there's a bunch of
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good players in that mix that not as many coaches
could go out to see him. Not as many there's
stories like this out of that class just because of
what was happening in the world.
Speaker 19 (23:25):
Like we may not have been able to find them all.
Speaker 18 (23:27):
But what's cool is is is these young men are
getting a chance and then showing who they are. Because
really it's all about and we talked about it all
the time, and you guys do a good job asking
me all the time. This business as next man up,
no matter what, you don't know when it's going to happen.
So for Carson to be able to get in to
what he did last year and start making plays right
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away and then get on everybody's radar, then to come
in here, stay focused, build his body, come back from
what he came back from after by week and get
in there and make all those tackles. I mean, it's
very impressive taking advantage of the opportunity. And proud of
him for that.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
About NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year for him.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 19 (24:08):
I think mine are the same as him.
Speaker 18 (24:10):
We're going to stay in our what we do each
play each day, how we communicate with our teammates, how
we get eleven of us to go to the ball
because we've we've got to get and we did a
pretty good job of it last week. As a defense,
we've got to get guys on the ground faster. In
the run game, we've got to get you can't run
without your legs. We've got to get legs out of
the ground. That's with with this young back who's really
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good his legs run, and so we got to do
I mean, we got so many things to work on
that if we do that, that stuff falls at the end.
And this is a good challenge. They they they didn't
run the ball as much as as they probably wanted
to last week. So you know, we this is going
to be a lot of the young men on our
defense are going close to home and we need to
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We need to play really well this week to go
one to O and that's our ultimate goal. We haven't
done that on the we haven't done that on the
road for a while, and we need to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
The next one, what is in your favorite person playing
this year?
Speaker 19 (25:09):
Mine? Mine is the next one?
Speaker 18 (25:11):
You know that I don't even uh, there's a lot,
there's a lot. I'll answer that one at the end
of the year. Let's see what let's see where we
can go with that.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
About genty, what are you seeing from from gent?
Speaker 18 (25:24):
It runs already strong, He's trained his body to be
really strong and and he's good. He spins and he
gets positive yards. I don't think I don't think his
yards per Kerry represent who this back is. He's a
good player.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Devon was really good last year. But what has maybe
changed or even clicked more for him this season?
Speaker 18 (25:44):
Thanks for asking about Devon? Uh, A smile comes to
my face. I'm really proud of Devin. How he brings
energy to us every day to the field. He's gotten
better at just every time he takes the field bringing
his energy. Devin has eight positive energy and he loves football.
He's always he's out pre practice playing catch with Carson
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every day and they're like two little kids playing catch,
trying to catch the ball at all different angles. And
you know what, that helped us, So hopefully that continues
to help us. But love his energy, and he is
good working with Carson and the year in the defense,
he's way better on his alignments and then his eyes
are more correct because his alignments are correct. And so
when Devin stays in that process, he's really good because
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he's fast, he's low target tackling well, like kind of
what we were just talking about, because we got it.
You got to get legs out of the ground. There's
no other way to get people on the ground anymore.
They all got stiff arms, they're all quick, they're all fast,
they can all cut back. In the NFL, it's a
cutback league because everybody can run. That's a Joe Woods quote,
but I love that one because it's true. And you
got to prevent cutbacks. And so Devin's done a good
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job of we call it tracking. He's done a good
job of tracking. So I can't say enough about what
he's doing within the scheme of the defense. And then
how willing he is to play with contact right now.
Speaker 12 (27:03):
I feel like with.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
Both him and Carson, there's a bunch of plays where
even if it seems like they're not going to catch
a guy, they're chasing it. You know, the Andrews play
Carson running without his helmet on that screenplay, And I
remember Devin in New Orleans last year.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
What does that say.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
About those guys?
Speaker 18 (27:17):
That's that's that's who we want to be. That's our
number one thing of our linebacker mantras, run it's run,
shed tackle the guy with the ball.
Speaker 19 (27:25):
You gotta run.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
It's the number one thing they they know they don't
like when they read their grade sheet and it says, loaf,
that's the worst thing that we could have in that room.
Speaker 19 (27:34):
We have very few. We want zero. We have very few.
Speaker 18 (27:38):
But that's that is what we pride ourselves on, and
that's what the room and the defense has done a
good job of pointing out to each other, like is
that full speed? And the more times that you say yes,
it was, the better you are. So we emphasize that
in every phase of everything we do.
Speaker 17 (28:00):
And I'm sure there's gonna be different looks that you
give when it comes to rock bauers and different guys
kind of cover and things like that. But what role
does just the linebackers play? And now on Sunday a
guy who obviously as talented.
Speaker 18 (28:15):
As Ease, the as coach short says, the linebackers and
the safeties and our defense at the nerve center.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
So it's our job to get everything lined up.
Speaker 18 (28:23):
They do a great job of moving him or putting
in positions to use his change of direction to ability
in his great hands to make plays. So there's times
where any of us could be around or near him,
and we got to know the leverages where he is
and work. So it's going to be a team effort
to play him, and they do do a very good
job of how they use them. They're different when he
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plays in games, as you've seen from stats and everything.
Speaker 19 (28:48):
As you look through, he's a good player.
Speaker 18 (28:49):
So it's going to take us all and then he's
really good when he gets a ball in his hands.
Kind of where we're talking about getting guys in the ground.
We got to make sure we get as many humans
to the ball because he's good.
Speaker 19 (28:59):
After etch.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
You see Miles on a tear that he is, I
mean just strictly from a sack perspective, but not Alwa's
playing great. Like just how impressor you have you ever
seen anybody put this kind of string together.
Speaker 19 (29:14):
I got a big smile.
Speaker 18 (29:15):
Usually only give that big smile for no I give
a big smile for anybody on defense. Uh, it's very
impressive what Miles is doing. He's really locked. We're talking
a lot about Carson. I can lock his brain into
doing things. Miles has done a very good job of
getting his body and his mind ready to just keep
going this year, and he's been relentless. A lot of
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a lot of the sacks are effort running people down sacks,
and and anytime he does it, he may not know this,
but anytime it's an effort sack, I go over and
make sure I tell him a little extra.
Speaker 19 (29:46):
So, uh, we all want.
Speaker 18 (29:48):
To be great for Miles. We want to be great
with Miles. We want to play great defense around and
with him and everything. And that's we just we just
had that much respect for him and whatever other tenor
on the field, it's our job to go and if
he's getting doubled, that means somebody else isn't. And so
we got to make a play and make a play
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for him and with him.
Speaker 17 (30:15):
And yesterday he's been trying to get Carson to come
up with a signature celebration after it makes big plays.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Do you have any ideas for him?
Speaker 19 (30:22):
Have you?
Speaker 12 (30:22):
Have you helped him out with.
Speaker 19 (30:23):
That at all?
Speaker 18 (30:24):
Uh, We just tell him to have a plan. And
if you tell Carson to have a plan, he does.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
So.
Speaker 18 (30:32):
I don't think it'll be I love Grant's signature celebration,
by the way, but.
Speaker 19 (30:40):
He won't.
Speaker 18 (30:40):
He's gonna make sure it's quick so he can get
back into the next play.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
That's just how he's wired.
Speaker 18 (30:45):
So hopefully everybody runs over and sees it when he
does it really quick.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Running back Quinn Shawn Judkins talked about playing against an
elite defensive lineman like Max Crosby Richard, how.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Well did you you should get to know each other
during the draft process.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Who's Ashton?
Speaker 20 (31:01):
I mean, I don't know him personally, knows.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The drive past the ras against the So what kind
of challenge is.
Speaker 13 (31:12):
This your Sunday?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
I mean this the NFL.
Speaker 20 (31:15):
You're planning against the best of the best every Sunday,
So every Sunday I feel like it's a challenge for
us and just go out there and try to get
the name which time?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
What's it been like going through this week with shouldn't work?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Getting with the you know, all the first team.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Reps that you and seeing him, you know, kind of
take on their model line.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Sure doors it's very talented.
Speaker 20 (31:34):
Uh processes things fast, he learns fast, so nothing was
an issue for him to just go out there just
execute it.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Be the leader that he is. So excited from him.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
How much of an adjustment in your position just kind.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
Of getting on the scene as you can and making sure.
Speaker 17 (31:51):
He always he talking about you knowing the nuances and
the guys.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
Yeah, just you guys kind of working through those things.
Speaker 20 (31:56):
I think reps a lot of reps that helps. That's
one of those things. Especially the quarterback and running back.
You're always together in the backfield. So the better and
the more rest you get, the better you get to.
Speaker 21 (32:07):
Talk about this change that you guys have had it
on the offensive line with all the injuries and things
like that. But as a season's going on, you maybe
see some of like the run blockings step up and
increase from other guys, not just the offensiveto there.
Speaker 20 (32:21):
You know, different guys come in and out, especially on
the line, but just staying to your technique, especially what
coach Dos preaches, and just going on there and doing
your best teaching every week and just handling and doing
your job.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
How much does it mean to you to be the
leading pressure rookie.
Speaker 20 (32:38):
I mean it means a lot. You know, I didn't
do it by myself. Big ups to my own line.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
And my coaches putting me in a position. But you know,
just doing it, you can be a lot better.
Speaker 20 (32:47):
Just trying to go out there and correct yourself each
and every week.
Speaker 22 (32:50):
Kevin was talking about sometimes makes it hard and practice
you kind of experience it.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I can't believe he was back.
Speaker 20 (33:01):
Then, not myself personally, but just seeing the way that
he practiced. You know, he's a good leader on our team.
His attention and detail, so the way he practice has definitely.
Speaker 21 (33:10):
Inspired what the other rookie backs are doing, like with
Gas Ginger, kind of keep an eye on the fact
that got kind of.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Ahead of him in a few ways or anything like that.
And no kind of arrivalry going out any of the movies,
so you can.
Speaker 21 (33:27):
Have copies on this team.
Speaker 19 (33:28):
Persons has been a standout.
Speaker 17 (33:30):
Mason's going to stand out.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
You have stood out.
Speaker 21 (33:32):
What does it say about this group that you guys
have been able to find so much production so so
quickly for this team.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Just gods that want to come and win.
Speaker 20 (33:41):
You know, come from a lot of different team that
we've all been contenders and winning program. So just coming
with the right mindset and the same intentionality.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Why do we defensive tackle? Mason Graham talked about stopping
a unique running back in Ashton Genty.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Mason, what was your first introduction to miles when you
got here? What was what was that that moment where
you you know, at first like, oh, that's that's scared.
Speaker 14 (34:08):
I'd probably just say, you know, from one of the
first practices in training camp, you know, because I didn't
I always hear all of you and stuff, but that
was my first time really.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Seeing him just training camp and the just seeing you know,
kind of the way you practice.
Speaker 14 (34:18):
It was kind of you know, you almost have to
take him out of practice to even practice.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
So that's just type player is.
Speaker 14 (34:26):
Just uh, you know, same stuff we've been doing for
all the backs, you know, recent line of scrimmage, have
tight edges, you know, work together as defense.
Speaker 12 (34:41):
And then obviously he's a good player.
Speaker 14 (34:43):
You might have some players here and there, but I
got to limit him figure back.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (34:47):
Tac one with.
Speaker 22 (34:48):
Urgency was mentioning like he thinks the stats don't tell
the first story with him and how good.
Speaker 19 (34:57):
You see it?
Speaker 17 (34:58):
And I'm like, did you guys? That is.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (35:02):
I mean I feel like, you know, the Raiders are
another team that's you know, trying to get things going too,
just like us, So I feel like.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
They have some stuff they need to work on. But yeah,
there's there's flashes all around Mason.
Speaker 22 (35:14):
I know, you guys have some working class kind of
chick fright what each other do when you see Carson
having hopeful is that too one?
Speaker 14 (35:21):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, you know, just coming in together.
Speaker 12 (35:23):
It's kind of like I always say that.
Speaker 14 (35:24):
But it's kind of like when we come into college
from high school, you know, kind of that's our little.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Class, you know, we all you know, I live right
next to.
Speaker 14 (35:30):
Carson, so I'm always were always talking, hanging out, so
just kind of see him. Good to see him, you know,
keep getting better and better and hopefully gets that. I mean,
I don't think there's anyone else in the race right
now for the Rookie of the Year, So I mean
i'd say it's him.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Talking about how you were up to prison.
Speaker 21 (35:55):
Edged do you feel like maybe able to open up
your game getting better at some of those techniques and
getting into your bag.
Speaker 12 (36:04):
Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 14 (36:05):
You know, like I say, come up here every week
and say, you know, I just want to progress every week,
so you know, whatever that looks like. But I feel
like we all, you know, help each other. We're all
complimented to each other. You know, we all do things
well that you know, everyone's different, you know, leak to
something different than I do.
Speaker 12 (36:19):
You know, Mike, Miles, A Alex.
Speaker 14 (36:22):
You know, we're all different players, but when we find
a way to work together kind of we all compliment
each other.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
I know we're asking you something about this last.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Week, but I mean, you've gotten so much fresher. We
use quarterbacks, and I know it seems like you've had
a huge role.
Speaker 22 (36:35):
Of that, Miles, that third sack where.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You kind of checked the hock.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But how bad do you want that first sacked?
Speaker 12 (36:43):
I mean, yeah, you always you know, chasing. You don't
want to be like chasing after.
Speaker 14 (36:47):
The sack, but you know, it's always cool to have
the status to go with it, you know how you're playing.
Speaker 12 (36:52):
But you know, I'm just worried.
Speaker 14 (36:53):
About getting the quarterback whether you know, I mean it's
getting the sack or not. You know, I just want
to be a factor. And you know, if it leads
to a pick and I don't get the sack, if
you throws the ball last second.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
All right, cool.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
I just want to have some good, you know, tape
that helps our team.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That'll do it.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
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From the Podium podcast
Welcome to this week twelve Friday edition of the From
the Podium podcast. I'm Gabe Kolera. The Browns will hop
on a plane tomorrow and head to Las Vegas, Nevada,
to take on the Raiders this coming Sunday. On this episode,
you'll hear from head coach Kevin Stefanski, tight ends coach
Christian Jones, linebackers coach Jason Tarver, running back Quinn Shawn Judkins,
and defensive tackle Mason Graham. We'll start with head coach
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Kevin Stefanski, who gave his final thoughts on the Las
Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay, good work out there today. Excited for the opportunity
that we have in front of us. Obviously, got some
work to do tomorrow morning, then we'll get on the airplane.
But the guys had a really nice work week understanding
how important it is to own this plan, own the
details of it so that we can play fast on Sunday.
But with that, I'll take any questions.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Obviously, no longer concerns.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Correct, Yep, Sick.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Dylan's still in the protocol, but just don't want to
put it for Sunday or rolled out, so you just
don't think them.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, just I'm not gonna play him obviously, so it
focuses to get better.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
But he's he continues to do better.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Not fully clear from the concussion.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Proofile, not just yet, but he's doing great. What are
he s?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, what is he brought to that room in
terms of because you know he's got experience, he's got
starting the experience. Just just what is he how much
have they.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Kind of leave done him?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
He fits in great in that room as an awesome personality.
Have m Obviously we've been around Bailey now a couple
of times, haven't had him here last season, but fits
in really well with his teammates, competes really hard out
at practice, does a great job at practice. I think
all the players would attest to that. So, uh, it
just has the right way about him. Has played in
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a lot of football games, and a guy that we
trust him.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
What was yours week?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Like, he did a good job. Obviously for young players,
young quarterbacks, you name it. The work week is structured
so that it's a build up, if you will, so
every single day you're looking to learn, soak it all in,
go perform, learn again. And I think he's handled the
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week really well.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
Next forty eight hours.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Just what is your message going to be to Shoulder?
Obviously it's exciting for him to be making his first
start and obviously you know all the kind of intrigue
with it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
What is your message to him?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, he's his focus is to do his job for
the football team, just like it is for everybody, and
he knows that and he's he's again handled the week
really really well. Obviously tomorrow the rest of today tomorrow
about finishing touches when it comes to the game plan
and really locking in and talking about owning all those details.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
But that's where his focus is.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He tackles Jack and Kim. Obviously Kim no designation, but
just where where where? How did you see that? Feel
like they kind of went through the week.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, Cam obviously came out okay, and you know, no
injury designation there obviously with Jack is.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Continuing to to to.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Push it and which I appreciate about him, and we'll
see where it goes. It's just not ready to make
that ruling just yet.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
You can't control it.
Speaker 11 (03:21):
But just the tackle situation in general this year, that
the constant injuries you've had at that position unchallenging, hasn't
been weekend and week out, you know, trying to to
prepare and then also at the same time you go
into games and you know you're losing players.
Speaker 12 (03:38):
In the game too.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's part of the game. Injuries are a part of
the game.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Nothing that we like about that, but that's our job
as coaches to see who's available and get him ready
to play.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
So, David, how much do you think it will help
schedule to have him back with no injury status and
be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, I thought, obviously Dave's a big part of of
who we are, what we do, and and so it's
good having him back out there. Good to have his
energy back out there, and you know, looking forward to
obviously having him uh feel like himself. And then as
you know, tight ends for a quarterback are a great
sense of security, if you will. So I think we
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have a bunch of guys that that can affect the game.
Speaker 13 (04:22):
That is that is that need something he's just gonna
have to manage for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, And I think Dave's over the course of his
career has shown to always play through some unique injuries.
But but that knee, certainly he's uh he's a he's
a warrior.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
A lot, Kevin. When you have a new quarterback, is
the prep week different.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
For the for me or for you? For just the
energy of the team. I think our guys.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Really focus on on the process and the structure and
the meeting and the walkthroughs. And you know, I think
I mentioned to you guys before what we trust all
of our guys. If you're up on game day, we
trust you to go do your job. And sometimes it's
the backup tackle, and sometimes it's the backup quarterback, or
sometimes it's a corner that goes with whatever the position is.
We trust our guys, and we really keep our focus
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on the work week. And I think that's the most
important thing. I think that's the best thing you can
do as a player as a coach, is just keep
your focus on what's important, which is all of us
owning our role and doing our job.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is the best miles we've ever played.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Probably unfair for me to say I've had a front
row seat to it all. I think, yeah, the level
at which he's playing is impressive, but I don't Yeah,
I do think there's more there. I think, like we've
talked about over the years with Miles, like, pay attention
to how he plays the run, pay attention to the
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tackles for loss. I think sacks gets so much attention
in our world, in our football world, and duly, you
know that's fine because they're important. But affecting the game
in a variety of ways is so important. So just
pressuring the quarterback, harassing a quarterback, making life hard on
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a quarterback, but also playing the run, playing physical against
the run, getting tackles for loss, taking on a double
team so your teammate can make a play.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So listen.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The stats are what they are, and it's it's it's
you know, so impressive. But the impact on the game
on a down to down basis, I think is what
is probably might be overlooked.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
But by some of the stats.
Speaker 13 (06:35):
Do you think he's all that said, do you think
he's got an eight sac game in it?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I hope so, Tom, it'd be a good, good game
to start that what is the most in a game?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh so yeah, but you.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Can even consider that, I mean that potentially the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Could do it.
Speaker 14 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I don't think we go into games, or Miles goes
into games trying to hit a number. That's I think
he goes into a game trying to do his job
and affect the game in any way he can. And
obviously he has had some games here where there's been
multiple sacks and that's obviously finishing the pressure with taking
the quarterback down. But we look at it at that
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play to play basis what he's doing to affect every
single down, and again, the ability to play the run
should not be overlooked.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
So you mentioned that is really focused on the game
plan on what he has to do. Have you guys
addressed the notion that there could be a lot kind
of a circus atmosphere with him starting his first game
and all the things that come.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Along with that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, Obviously, conversations that I have with Shador i'll keep private.
But Chador is just like all of our guys in
that he has a job to do. He wants to
be there for his teammates and do his job. Everything else,
you know, doesn't really factor into how we go about
our business.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Hand out compliments all that often. Yesterday though, he had
mentioned that Carson as a lookie has you know, picked
up some things in the game that it took ray
Lewis three seasons into his career to get just from
your perspective, what has made Carson so good so fast
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and early on in his career, where those intricate details
of the game he has been able to, you know,
pick up.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's interesting because from day one he's been making plays
on the practice on the practice field, and that's sometimes
it's not that hard.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You just kind of watch what's happening on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And when a linebacker in off season program is showing up,
that typically means this guy's a pretty good player because
it's hard to there's no tackling, there's no run plays
of that type of thing. But immediately it was clear
that he had a great handle on the x's and
o's of football, the cerebral nature of football. And obviously,
when you're playing that middle linebacker position, you are in
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the middle of the nerve center and you're running the
show quote unquote, So to be able to get that
right off the bat, I think is a testament to
the young man. I think it's a testament to coach
Tarboro I think does an amazing job with our young
guys and our veterans. And then the physical aspect of
this of just running, hitting, tackling, intercepting the ball. Those
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are all things that we saw from the jump with him.
Has certainly carried over into this season.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
For granted, but when you see Miles, you know he
passed Regio at a couple of weeks, he would passed
LT last week.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
He's diving what you did for something.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Like do you ever take a step back and think
how special it is for you to get to coach
a guy that's in.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
That upper restaurant.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, there's time to reflect. So now it's not necessarily
the time to reflect on that.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do I marvel at his skill? Yes, you know, and
I marvel at it in practice. There's been many a
practice that he's wand and that's uh, when he's practicing
versus the Browns. That's when he's practicing practicing against another
team like we do in training camp, So we get
to see it day in and day out, even in
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those settings. But yeah, probably not fair to reflect too
much right now, other than to say, uh, you know,
he's he's a great player for us. Uh, he's a
great He's a leader for us that that we follow
and we're counting on him.
Speaker 15 (10:28):
That's on the offense. I think the Raiders are second
in yards could carry. Uh, and of course the field
gets candid, you know, as to go down. So what's
the key there to you know, getting into.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
The team zone in the in the red zone, you're
saying key for our offense. Yeah, you know, it's a
very it's a good defense. It's a very good run defense.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It's it's the scheme. It's a combination of scheming players.
I think they do a really nice job with the
things that they're doing from a front standpoint.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And then just the players that they have.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
The linebackers can run, there's physical defensive lineman. Obviously Max
Crosby can show up anywhere and has the ability to
beat any block whether the blocker has leverage on him
or not. So we have to identify their fronts and
do a great job in that type of way because
they play so many different looks for you.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But at the end of the day, it is.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
A physical defensive line, physical group of linebackers that we
have to match that physicality.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Okay, thanks guys.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
Up next.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Tight Ends coach Christian Jones talked about the rookie season
of Harold Fann and Junior to this point.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Room and then also the play that he made to
Harold there to.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Start off the team.
Speaker 16 (11:38):
Yeah, I think everything that we have to do with
the offense is our job. So no matter who's throwing
the ball, we got to make sure we're open, we're
blocking the right people, we're doing the right things, and
that's the best thing we can do to support the quarterback,
whoever's in there. And addressing the past that Harold kind
of caught late. You know, we had a look that
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called it earlier in the game, kind of wanted to
come back to it. He stuck with it, found Harold
deep and you know, it was a great route from Harold,
great time from Schadur, and it ended up being an
exposed to play to give us an opportunity to win
the game. So it's just being in tune to the
game plan, which you did a good job of doing,
and being prepared for that play.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
When it was when his number was called again, it
was a good execution.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Talked a lot about Herold's versatility, but even on that play,
like like you said, you ran it before, and I
think Isaiah was the one that ran the incut, Like
how does that come together? Maybe like on the on
like in between the break or you're like, Okay, we're
gonna run a game, but we're gonna put Harold, and
do you to kind of go to him and say
that we're gonna put you there?
Speaker 8 (12:33):
And just what does that say.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
About his versatility and his ability to kind of run
whatever type of route you need from wherever.
Speaker 16 (12:38):
I would say what speaks to his versatility probably more
than that, is the fact that probably in that game
he lined up at every spot he could have lined up,
and I'm atty sure you lined up in a tight
ened spot, full back spot, and a receiver spot like he's.
He's asked to block and catch passes from all those spots.
And it's not to mean people in the league that
can do that. So when you have somebody that you
can be kind confident that they're going to go do
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something effective against a nickel personnel, there's running or blocking,
and then also be effective versus a base defense, whether
it's running or running a route, or catching the ball
or blocking like that. That's what gives you versatility, That's
what helps you set up your offense for success. So
I would say it's just everything he does outside of
those big plays. Now, those big plays are great, but
you know, we always talk about being willing and able
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in this offense, and he's willing and able to block
and that helps us create ways for him to get
open in the past game.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So I mean you seen Harold, I mean how do different?
I mean the growth with him? Is it you know
each week? How is it noticeable week by week or
how where do you what do you see? Maybe the
growth most pronounced for it.
Speaker 16 (13:48):
I think it's just he's more and more able to
digest and absorb the not only our offensive information, what
players are running, how we're planning to attack a defense,
but also being able to understand the looks that he
gets from a defense, understand what to anticipate when he
lines up against defenses in different areas and situations. Because
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I think that's the biggest change versus you know, way
in college versus the pros, it's how many looks do
you get? How many defensive coverages can you get, how
many fronts do you get? You know, there's a lot
more variation in what the defense defenses play against you,
and I think it's just being in tuned to all
of that and also your assignments on top of that,
and you also weigh in him being in different spots
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on every play, So we're asking a lot of him
regarding run blocking and pass catching, and I think he's
done a good job, you know, just being able to
manage all of that and be able to be effective
in his assignments.
Speaker 13 (14:46):
What challenges of that position with a guy like Carol
when he first gets here, do you just kind of
throw everything at him and see what he can handle?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
These slow play like how do you kind of how
did you approach that with him?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
At first? We got to slow play it.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
You kind of give him a chance to understand the word,
it's the motions, what everything means.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
And then as you go.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You wrap it up. You keep them going.
Speaker 16 (15:04):
You you push them and you make sure they you
kind of set the tone earlier, like hey, you're gonna
be moving around a lot, and you show them what
you're planning on doing with them, and then you just
continue to grow as they can as they can do it,
you continue to grow. And he's shown a lot very
early that he's able to do those things. And so
this guy's the limit for what we were able to
do with him. And I think everybody's starting to see that.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Now coming along this week and is he enough of
a veteran, savvy veteran that if he only had a
minimal amount of practicing, go in there and help you guy.
Speaker 16 (15:34):
Yeah, I think Dave's a good enough player that no
matter what we get from him, he'll be able to
effectively help us win a game.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
And he's day to day.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
I know Kev's probably talked about this, so I don't,
you know, to have too much to say about what
he's working through.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But he's day to day.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
He's doing a great job.
Speaker 16 (15:47):
He's working hard, and you know, we'll see what happens
on Sunday exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
That when he's not practicing, is the rest of the
week look kind of the same?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
So is he still getting all the same meetings and
doing all those things to get himself prepared if he's ready.
Speaker 16 (16:01):
To go as much as we can, Like, no matter
whether you're practicing or not, you got to approach the
game like you're playing. And that's what we try to do,
is keep him locked in, keep going on all of them,
keep going over all the players we could be running okay,
and make sure that we know what's happening in every area,
like you approaching that the same way no matter what.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
So yeah, sure you're tight in coming to play there
helping out.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So just what kind of challenge his head and how important.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Is it you guys would slow him down?
Speaker 16 (16:33):
Yeah, I mean he is a very effective player, and
I think it's what's most effective about him is that
he plays very hard. And when you play a guy
that plays as hard as he does and they're the
best player on one of the better players on their team,
that that lifts everybody else up in their level of effort.
So we're playing, we're going in and playing against the
defense that plays really hard, and he leads the way
with that, and our job is getting the way, slow
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him down and doing everything we can to help our
team win the game. So he's really good with his hands.
He does a great job with his hands and getting
off black He's very good at that. He's explosive, he's
quick twitch, he's very savvy. He's he's played the game
a long enough time to be able to spot things
that offense is trying to do. So it's really just
being under control, trying to stay connected as long as
we can and be just a nuisance. Like the more
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frustrated we can make him, the better off we all are,
So that's what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Eatnt coat, you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You don't have to worry about him specifically because he's
he's on their offense. But when you look at a
guy like brock Bauers, just what makes him special, what
makes him like no other tight end in the league.
Speaker 16 (17:36):
I mean I watched him in his freshman year. He
is in Georgia and then there's gonna be a dog.
So it's it's great to see what he's doing now.
I think, what's you know, it's it's even funny, like
I would watch some of his target tapes from the
last year with Harold to kind of show him some
of the things that teams are doing, how to run
certain routes, things that we're matching up with on him.
And I mean, he's explosive, he catches the ball really well,
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he knows get he knows how to get open, and
he knows when to use his speed versus his size
right Like he understands the matchup. When can I ricochet
off of a guy? When I use my power to
move a guy off of me? And when am I
just faster? And when can I just run away. And
I think what he really is good at, too, is
he's effective after the catch. He catches the ball, he
gets north and south, he makes people miss. But any
yards that he can gain, he's gonna gain. And I
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think that's how you show up, you know, you're like,
oh wow, how does this guy have so many yards?
So many catches? And that's how it pops up. And
he's efficient, doesn't drop the ball very often. He just
he's consistent. And I think that's when you play at
a high level consistently, it's usually how you end up
being a good player.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Say, the the passing game has has looked at this
this week with Chador out there practicing and getting his
first reps.
Speaker 16 (18:41):
With the how's it looking, Yeah, I think we've done
a good job. It's been a good week of practice.
I think our Titans have been effective. Our Titans have
been effective and doing our job right and making sure
that we're not causing any issues for him in his
thought process and how he processes it looks. So everybody's
been out there doing a job. It's been a good
week of practice, you know, and now we got to
out there next to Kittle.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Sendon linebackers, coach Jason Tarbor piled on praise to Carson
Swessinger and what's been a big week for the young
man out of UCLA.
Speaker 17 (19:07):
Jim Schwartz has a pretty high praise for Carson, saying
that he just his command of the field is something
that it even took, like like Ray Lewis, who he
worked with early in.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
His career of three years to develop.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
Just what can you say about you know, him being
prepared already to obviously a Hall of Famer, And what
you notice about his play through ten games?
Speaker 18 (19:30):
Well, first what I think what's great about Carson? And
he answered Nathan and our radio crew with they asked
him what his favorite play he made, and he said
the next one, And that typifies how he sees the world.
He has a unique ability to focus in the moment
and make quick decisions and then put it away and
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go to the next play. That's one of the hardest
thing to teach. I was fortunate enough as a young
coach to work with to Chaos Ikes and Patrick Willis
and Navarro Bowman and get what to Kato Spikes taught
us was when he was young going through getting it
because it's it's exciting there's all kinds of stuff going
on the field, as you know, and hit. What he
would say to himself is next place my best play.
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Next play is my best play. And that was one
of the things I shared with Carson and I share
with a lot of young linebackers. But he has a
great mental attitude to be able to do that. So
it's special how he can go to the next play
and focus and forget about it and go and usually
after he gets the guy on the ground, which is
special that he's able to do that as well.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Jesus, you don't know that I've ever seen a defender,
at least a rookie defender come in and understand spatial
awareness the way that Carson does. And I remember we
used to talk about it, even with Ja okay figure
out where he needed to be, But Carson like skipped
over all that, didn't. I mean, he just like knows
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that instinctively, doesn't he.
Speaker 18 (20:56):
I think it's it's it's always nature and nurture. Carson
playing a whole bunch of positions, a bunch of different sports,
with all his brothers and sisters growing up and playing
a bunch of different positions, and then how he had
to earn his way onto the field. I think helped
him immensely in the space in the field. And yes,
we talked about Jeremiah a lot. Jeremiah is amazing at
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how well he could feel things. He just didn't have
as much experience of putting it into that box and
applying it quite as quick. But of course once Jeremiah
saw it, there's not many humans that can get as
fast as he can.
Speaker 19 (21:30):
So all of us have a strength and weaknesses.
Speaker 18 (21:32):
But yeah, I think he's just he takes in space
and feel and time and it's naturally who he is,
how he sees the world as a person, but also
his experience and then his ability to like we said,
next play is the best played, lock onto one thing
and use it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What do you think that comes from the ability to
get to the next place?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Can you talk about that every time we talked to you.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Yes, So why is he able to do that quicker than.
Speaker 18 (21:59):
I think it's a little like we said, it's he's
he's so smart that he can put it away and
just how he's he's naturally wired like that.
Speaker 19 (22:07):
He he makes a play and you'll see him.
Speaker 18 (22:10):
He'll get a quick celebration or you know, grab the
back from Miami, throw him down, everybody hits him on
the helmet, runs back to the huddle, and he's already
looking for Jim to get the next call. It's it's
it's it's really unique, and he can. He learns very quickly,
both when when you tell him something, when you show
him something, and then his study comes into play. He's
he's advanced at how much he studies what he studies,
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and he hits the point where he has enough so
that he doesn't overthink it. That's that's advanced as well too.
So it comes it comes from the whole process.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
He didn't start earlier.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
You see, like when you see what he's doing now
that somebody.
Speaker 19 (22:49):
Didn't recognize it, well, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 18 (22:52):
I wasn't there, so I don't know. I know his
weight progression, I know he didn't have I knew he grew.
He was still grown. Senior year into UCLA. And I
think at that time with the year when you were
recruited the athletes in twenty twenty, because of the situation,
because of what was going on, there's a bunch of
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good players in that mix that not as many coaches
could go out to see him. Not as many there's
stories like this out of that class just because of
what was happening in the world.
Speaker 19 (23:25):
Like we may not have been able to find them all.
Speaker 18 (23:27):
But what's cool is is is these young men are
getting a chance and then showing who they are. Because
really it's all about and we talked about it all
the time, and you guys do a good job asking
me all the time. This business as next man up,
no matter what, you don't know when it's going to happen.
So for Carson to be able to get in to
what he did last year and start making plays right
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away and then get on everybody's radar, then to come
in here, stay focused, build his body, come back from
what he came back from after by week and get
in there and make all those tackles. I mean, it's
very impressive taking advantage of the opportunity. And proud of
him for that.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
About NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year for him.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 19 (24:08):
I think mine are the same as him.
Speaker 18 (24:10):
We're going to stay in our what we do each
play each day, how we communicate with our teammates, how
we get eleven of us to go to the ball
because we've we've got to get and we did a
pretty good job of it last week. As a defense,
we've got to get guys on the ground faster. In
the run game, we've got to get you can't run
without your legs. We've got to get legs out of
the ground. That's with with this young back who's really
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good his legs run, and so we got to do
I mean, we got so many things to work on
that if we do that, that stuff falls at the end.
And this is a good challenge. They they they didn't
run the ball as much as as they probably wanted
to last week. So you know, we this is going
to be a lot of the young men on our
defense are going close to home and we need to
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We need to play really well this week to go
one to O and that's our ultimate goal. We haven't
done that on the we haven't done that on the
road for a while, and we need to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
The next one, what is in your favorite person playing
this year?
Speaker 19 (25:09):
Mine? Mine is the next one?
Speaker 18 (25:11):
You know that I don't even uh, there's a lot,
there's a lot. I'll answer that one at the end
of the year. Let's see what let's see where we
can go with that.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
About genty, what are you seeing from from gent?
Speaker 18 (25:24):
It runs already strong, He's trained his body to be
really strong and and he's good. He spins and he
gets positive yards. I don't think I don't think his
yards per Kerry represent who this back is. He's a
good player.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Devon was really good last year. But what has maybe
changed or even clicked more for him this season?
Speaker 18 (25:44):
Thanks for asking about Devon? Uh, A smile comes to
my face. I'm really proud of Devin. How he brings
energy to us every day to the field. He's gotten
better at just every time he takes the field bringing
his energy. Devin has eight positive energy and he loves football.
He's always he's out pre practice playing catch with Carson
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every day and they're like two little kids playing catch,
trying to catch the ball at all different angles. And
you know what, that helped us, So hopefully that continues
to help us. But love his energy, and he is
good working with Carson and the year in the defense,
he's way better on his alignments and then his eyes
are more correct because his alignments are correct. And so
when Devin stays in that process, he's really good because
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he's fast, he's low target tackling well, like kind of
what we were just talking about, because we got it.
You got to get legs out of the ground. There's
no other way to get people on the ground anymore.
They all got stiff arms, they're all quick, they're all fast,
they can all cut back. In the NFL, it's a
cutback league because everybody can run. That's a Joe Woods quote,
but I love that one because it's true. And you
got to prevent cutbacks. And so Devin's done a good
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job of we call it tracking. He's done a good
job of tracking. So I can't say enough about what
he's doing within the scheme of the defense. And then
how willing he is to play with contact right now.
Speaker 12 (27:03):
I feel like with.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
Both him and Carson, there's a bunch of plays where
even if it seems like they're not going to catch
a guy, they're chasing it. You know, the Andrews play
Carson running without his helmet on that screenplay, And I
remember Devin in New Orleans last year.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
What does that say.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
About those guys?
Speaker 18 (27:17):
That's that's that's who we want to be. That's our
number one thing of our linebacker mantras, run it's run,
shed tackle the guy with the ball.
Speaker 19 (27:25):
You gotta run.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
It's the number one thing they they know they don't
like when they read their grade sheet and it says, loaf,
that's the worst thing that we could have in that room.
Speaker 19 (27:34):
We have very few. We want zero. We have very few.
Speaker 18 (27:38):
But that's that is what we pride ourselves on, and
that's what the room and the defense has done a
good job of pointing out to each other, like is
that full speed? And the more times that you say yes,
it was, the better you are. So we emphasize that
in every phase of everything we do.
Speaker 17 (28:00):
And I'm sure there's gonna be different looks that you
give when it comes to rock bauers and different guys
kind of cover and things like that. But what role
does just the linebackers play? And now on Sunday a
guy who obviously as talented.
Speaker 18 (28:15):
As Ease, the as coach short says, the linebackers and
the safeties and our defense at the nerve center.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
So it's our job to get everything lined up.
Speaker 18 (28:23):
They do a great job of moving him or putting
in positions to use his change of direction to ability
in his great hands to make plays. So there's times
where any of us could be around or near him,
and we got to know the leverages where he is
and work. So it's going to be a team effort
to play him, and they do do a very good
job of how they use them. They're different when he
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plays in games, as you've seen from stats and everything.
Speaker 19 (28:48):
As you look through, he's a good player.
Speaker 18 (28:49):
So it's going to take us all and then he's
really good when he gets a ball in his hands.
Kind of where we're talking about getting guys in the ground.
We got to make sure we get as many humans
to the ball because he's good.
Speaker 19 (28:59):
After etch.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
You see Miles on a tear that he is, I
mean just strictly from a sack perspective, but not Alwa's
playing great. Like just how impressor you have you ever
seen anybody put this kind of string together.
Speaker 19 (29:14):
I got a big smile.
Speaker 18 (29:15):
Usually only give that big smile for no I give
a big smile for anybody on defense. Uh, it's very
impressive what Miles is doing. He's really locked. We're talking
a lot about Carson. I can lock his brain into
doing things. Miles has done a very good job of
getting his body and his mind ready to just keep
going this year, and he's been relentless. A lot of
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a lot of the sacks are effort running people down sacks,
and and anytime he does it, he may not know this,
but anytime it's an effort sack, I go over and
make sure I tell him a little extra.
Speaker 19 (29:46):
So, uh, we all want.
Speaker 18 (29:48):
To be great for Miles. We want to be great
with Miles. We want to play great defense around and
with him and everything. And that's we just we just
had that much respect for him and whatever other tenor
on the field, it's our job to go and if
he's getting doubled, that means somebody else isn't. And so
we got to make a play and make a play
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for him and with him.
Speaker 17 (30:15):
And yesterday he's been trying to get Carson to come
up with a signature celebration after it makes big plays.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Do you have any ideas for him?
Speaker 19 (30:22):
Have you?
Speaker 12 (30:22):
Have you helped him out with.
Speaker 19 (30:23):
That at all?
Speaker 18 (30:24):
Uh, We just tell him to have a plan. And
if you tell Carson to have a plan, he does.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
So.
Speaker 18 (30:32):
I don't think it'll be I love Grant's signature celebration,
by the way, but.
Speaker 19 (30:40):
He won't.
Speaker 18 (30:40):
He's gonna make sure it's quick so he can get
back into the next play.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
That's just how he's wired.
Speaker 18 (30:45):
So hopefully everybody runs over and sees it when he
does it really quick.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Running back Quinn Shawn Judkins talked about playing against an
elite defensive lineman like Max Crosby Richard, how.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Well did you you should get to know each other
during the draft process.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Who's Ashton?
Speaker 20 (31:01):
I mean, I don't know him personally, knows.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The drive past the ras against the So what kind
of challenge is.
Speaker 13 (31:12):
This your Sunday?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
I mean this the NFL.
Speaker 20 (31:15):
You're planning against the best of the best every Sunday,
So every Sunday I feel like it's a challenge for
us and just go out there and try to get
the name which time?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
What's it been like going through this week with shouldn't work?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Getting with the you know, all the first team.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Reps that you and seeing him, you know, kind of
take on their model line.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Sure doors it's very talented.
Speaker 20 (31:34):
Uh processes things fast, he learns fast, so nothing was
an issue for him to just go out there just
execute it.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Be the leader that he is. So excited from him.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
How much of an adjustment in your position just kind.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
Of getting on the scene as you can and making sure.
Speaker 17 (31:51):
He always he talking about you knowing the nuances and
the guys.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
Yeah, just you guys kind of working through those things.
Speaker 20 (31:56):
I think reps a lot of reps that helps. That's
one of those things. Especially the quarterback and running back.
You're always together in the backfield. So the better and
the more rest you get, the better you get to.
Speaker 21 (32:07):
Talk about this change that you guys have had it
on the offensive line with all the injuries and things
like that. But as a season's going on, you maybe
see some of like the run blockings step up and
increase from other guys, not just the offensiveto there.
Speaker 20 (32:21):
You know, different guys come in and out, especially on
the line, but just staying to your technique, especially what
coach Dos preaches, and just going on there and doing
your best teaching every week and just handling and doing
your job.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
How much does it mean to you to be the
leading pressure rookie.
Speaker 20 (32:38):
I mean it means a lot. You know, I didn't
do it by myself. Big ups to my own line.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
And my coaches putting me in a position. But you know,
just doing it, you can be a lot better.
Speaker 20 (32:47):
Just trying to go out there and correct yourself each
and every week.
Speaker 22 (32:50):
Kevin was talking about sometimes makes it hard and practice
you kind of experience it.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I can't believe he was back.
Speaker 20 (33:01):
Then, not myself personally, but just seeing the way that
he practiced. You know, he's a good leader on our team.
His attention and detail, so the way he practice has definitely.
Speaker 21 (33:10):
Inspired what the other rookie backs are doing, like with
Gas Ginger, kind of keep an eye on the fact
that got kind of.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Ahead of him in a few ways or anything like that.
And no kind of arrivalry going out any of the movies,
so you can.
Speaker 21 (33:27):
Have copies on this team.
Speaker 19 (33:28):
Persons has been a standout.
Speaker 17 (33:30):
Mason's going to stand out.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
You have stood out.
Speaker 21 (33:32):
What does it say about this group that you guys
have been able to find so much production so so
quickly for this team.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Just gods that want to come and win.
Speaker 20 (33:41):
You know, come from a lot of different team that
we've all been contenders and winning program. So just coming
with the right mindset and the same intentionality.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Why do we defensive tackle? Mason Graham talked about stopping
a unique running back in Ashton Genty.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Mason, what was your first introduction to miles when you
got here? What was what was that that moment where
you you know, at first like, oh, that's that's scared.
Speaker 14 (34:08):
I'd probably just say, you know, from one of the
first practices in training camp, you know, because I didn't
I always hear all of you and stuff, but that
was my first time really.
Speaker 12 (34:15):
Seeing him just training camp and the just seeing you know,
kind of the way you practice.
Speaker 14 (34:18):
It was kind of you know, you almost have to
take him out of practice to even practice.
Speaker 12 (34:22):
So that's just type player is.
Speaker 14 (34:26):
Just uh, you know, same stuff we've been doing for
all the backs, you know, recent line of scrimmage, have
tight edges, you know, work together as defense.
Speaker 12 (34:41):
And then obviously he's a good player.
Speaker 14 (34:43):
You might have some players here and there, but I
got to limit him figure back.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (34:47):
Tac one with.
Speaker 22 (34:48):
Urgency was mentioning like he thinks the stats don't tell
the first story with him and how good.
Speaker 19 (34:57):
You see it?
Speaker 17 (34:58):
And I'm like, did you guys? That is.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (35:02):
I mean I feel like, you know, the Raiders are
another team that's you know, trying to get things going too,
just like us, So I feel like.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
They have some stuff they need to work on. But yeah,
there's there's flashes all around Mason.
Speaker 22 (35:14):
I know, you guys have some working class kind of
chick fright what each other do when you see Carson
having hopeful is that too one?
Speaker 14 (35:21):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, you know, just coming in together.
Speaker 12 (35:23):
It's kind of like I always say that.
Speaker 14 (35:24):
But it's kind of like when we come into college
from high school, you know, kind of that's our little.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Class, you know, we all you know, I live right
next to.
Speaker 14 (35:30):
Carson, so I'm always were always talking, hanging out, so
just kind of see him. Good to see him, you know,
keep getting better and better and hopefully gets that. I mean,
I don't think there's anyone else in the race right
now for the Rookie of the Year, So I mean
i'd say it's him.
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Talking about how you were up to prison.
Speaker 21 (35:55):
Edged do you feel like maybe able to open up
your game getting better at some of those techniques and
getting into your bag.
Speaker 12 (36:04):
Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 14 (36:05):
You know, like I say, come up here every week
and say, you know, I just want to progress every week,
so you know, whatever that looks like. But I feel
like we all, you know, help each other. We're all
complimented to each other. You know, we all do things
well that you know, everyone's different, you know, leak to
something different than I do.
Speaker 12 (36:19):
You know, Mike, Miles, A Alex.
Speaker 14 (36:22):
You know, we're all different players, but when we find
a way to work together kind of we all compliment
each other.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
I know we're asking you something about this last.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Week, but I mean, you've gotten so much fresher. We
use quarterbacks, and I know it seems like you've had
a huge role.
Speaker 22 (36:35):
Of that, Miles, that third sack where.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You kind of checked the hock.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But how bad do you want that first sacked?
Speaker 12 (36:43):
I mean, yeah, you always you know, chasing. You don't
want to be like chasing after.
Speaker 14 (36:47):
The sack, but you know, it's always cool to have
the status to go with it, you know how you're playing.
Speaker 12 (36:52):
But you know, I'm just worried.
Speaker 14 (36:53):
About getting the quarterback whether you know, I mean it's
getting the sack or not. You know, I just want
to be a factor. And you know, if it leads
to a pick and I don't get the sack, if
you throws the ball last second.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
All right, cool.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
I just want to have some good, you know, tape
that helps our team.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
That'll do it.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
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