November 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Brad Idzik speaks to the media after Wednesday's practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hope on for the review.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Deem's already come out and said that he was very
accountable to the locker room and about the need to
run more and.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
To be more balanced.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What's your perspective on how you guys were on Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I think anytime you're in the forties of play counts,
it's either you're hitting a lot of explosive plays or
you're not extending your drives. And for us as the
ladder and turning the ball over in the red zone
didn't help.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
We're trying to you know, piggyback up what the defense.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Was doing well early and giving us some chances at
short fields, but then just some near misses that didn't
allow us to extend the drives and get into the
bulk of how we were trying to present our call sheet.
So that's the pit in the chest when you come back,
you know, from a game like that, and you you know,
you see the totals of carries and and the lack
of balance that you were able to play with, and
(00:54):
it's just a you know, a near miss here, a
near miss there to extend a couple of drives to
get that stuff going. It just you know, it sits
heavy with you for a little bit. But the guys
know our intent, they know who we want to be.
They know, you know, the games that we've won, we
have been balanced, We've done a good job of you know,
utilizing both sides of it and and they.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Know that's what we want to get back to. So
that's the focus this week.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You and Dave have had a lot of success even
when when you guys were in lesser positions in Seattle,
but also in Tampa Bay with guys who were experienced
at the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Baker obviously had played several years where you'd worked with him.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Gino had worked a lot there, Russ, is there a
different aspect of this thing when you you didn't hear
Bryce in year one and you guys are learning what
kind of makes him tick over the last two years
that you have to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Maybe you didn't have to for a Baker or a Gina.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I would say they were veterans, you know when we
were dealing with with Baker and Gino, but they were
also at you know, interesting times in their career where
they were getting a new chance. So you had to
learn who that guy became. You know, he wasn't the
guy that you might have evaluated in the draft process.
He went through a lot of experiences too. Then you
circle back to the Sunday Night game and they are
interviewing Baker and he's like, yeah, LA was a formal
(02:09):
time for me. Those what five games of and I
changed And the same went with Gino and the same
goes for Bryce.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
His first year before we got.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Here, he wasn't the same guy you know, coming off
of you know, out out of Alabama. So going from
year one with him to year two with him, it's
a continual process to see how the guy's learning. See
you know what things he enjoys doing what you know,
what kind of concepts like really are his you know
wheelhouse and that we need to make sure we incorporate
every week and we're growing together. So you know, you
(02:40):
come off of different style of games and you learn
something every week. And that's alongside of a bunch of
young skill guys too. What works for Bryce, but also
what works for Bryce with the group around him.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A game unfolds the way Monday Night does and maybe
you or others are saying, you know, we're getting a
little imbalanced, as you call it is it up to
you or who is it who can kind of tap
Dave on the shoulder and say, like, hey, might want
to introduce a few more runs.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Again, it's all of us. We're always talking.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Good, He's always you know, he's always pulling the shoulder,
you know, pulling the sleeve and saying, you know, you
only run it thirty five times.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You know we can get the ford, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But no, it truly is like those are conversations that
that are had, you know, every time that there's a
change of possession. We've already had our conversations as an
offensive staff, and then I bring those over to Dave
and there's there's good dialogue and that that includes the players.
So we go into halftime and then we say, okay,
what does it look like? What does it need to
look like going forward, you know, to get things off
(03:42):
on the right foot in the second half, And and
and good he is always great about saying, hey, this
is this is what they're doing up front, this is
how we need to combat some of the things they've
showed early.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you just hope to again.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Extend those drives to be able to piece that together
and get you know, a handful of those play calls
started to see, Okay, where's the second half going to
take us?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That he was frustrating when he put up that emoji
on social Did you see that? And what was your
initial thoughts? What's your conversation with him?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Then only I heard about it. I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I'm not really on on social media either. I think
that's for the betterment of my marriage. And uh, but
I'll let her her cycle through some of that stuff
for me, but no for for Rico, I think he's
probably expressing, you know, all the frustrations that we all
had and uh, again that pitt in the stomach that
I had, you know, getting on the flight where you
(04:33):
feel like you're some of your best players didn't get
a chance to completely showcase in a very important game.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, that's that's on all of us.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And uh, and that's to again make sure that you know,
anytime you only have you know, one to seven on
third down and forty six total plays, like, we want
to make sure that we're extending those drives so that
we can increase that, you know, that load that we're
putting on all of our guys that we know, you know,
the more chances they get they're gonna do something special.
So they helped us in the past game too. I
(05:01):
think I don't think that should go overlooked. There's some
huge plays that Rico and Shuba had, especially down the
stretch when Bryce is going through his progressions and they're
available for him and making big plays.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
So yeah, it's just a.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Continual, you know, diving back into our process when we
get back in here. I know it's got to be
a quick turning in the page when you play on
Monday night. That's a challenge to get those guys to
lock back in today. But they all did. They're all
professional about it, and you know, we had a great
Uh it was like sixty play walkthrough today to keep
their legs fresh. But they get their mentals back in
(05:34):
it and we'll be ready for la.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That's a question.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean the pit in your stomach and not to
continue to speak this, but when when you realize, like, man,
we could have done this better.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Were you on the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Plane and you're watching film and you're like, we had
these opportunities to run the ball?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What did that look like?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Every drive we really separated out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So if you have a three and out or if
you have a ten play drive, you say okay, what
was good?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
What was bad? And there's a constant re evaluation.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You get a chance to take a breath at halftime
obviously and say, okay, what happened? What do we need
to make sure that we're incorporating into the second half.
But yeah, I think it's kind of the natural thing
the postgame press or coaches like I need to go
watch the film, right and and that is true. There's
there's a you get the full truth, the full you know,
(06:21):
view of all eleven when you do get to sit
down and truly watch the tape. And it's not just
coming through avenues of hey, I was watching this guy,
this happened on this play. This is why this one
did or did not work. You only have to you know,
two eyes to put on on the field at a
time and the still shots when you're on the sideline,
but doesn't tell the full story until you can truly
sit down, watch all the views and then talk to
(06:43):
your staff about it.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And you guys had courhan and seat he was primarily
right tackle.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
What what allows him to be effective inside when he
has to come in and jump in in a midstream
like one, Yeah, well, he's really smart. He does a
really good job of picking things up on the fly.
He's played mostly tackle force in Seattle, but then was
available to us, you know, all four spots, not necessarily center.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But the guy's really smart.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He picks things up really fast, and he created a
you know, a good amount of trust with with Joe
and Goodie in a pretty short amount of time. And
then just as a as a player, he covers guys up.
He's a he's a big guy. He walks in the
room and you see it right away.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
He's a big guy.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He can cover guys up and stay attached in his
own way to get guys to the second level.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So we're excited to you.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Know that he came in and he held his own
and and the guys have done that in that room
all year long. Again as a testament to Joe and
Goodie just how they train those guys and how they
have every every single guy ready, uh, you know, on
a weekly basis.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
And Jake's a perfect example of that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Darren's question, You've had so many different offensive line combinations,
but that right guard position seems to be like a
constant turnstyle. How does that impact your blockings?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Energy? Especially in the run game on a week two
week basis.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, well, you know, I'm not going to give all
the hints away to our guys that down here the stretch,
but I would say, you know, there's definitely guys you
can lean on in the run game and you find
different skis to compliment you know, whatever our self scout
is that we put out there of directional runs or
types of schemes that we're running with a certain individual,
(08:23):
we want to make sure we're doing enough to protect it.
But at the same time, we hold a high standard
to that whole room of saying, hey, we want to
hang our hat on running the ball here and that's
left right gap scheme, mid zone, wide zone toss crack.
We want all of you guys to be able to
step in and do that stuff because you really.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Don't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I've been on teams where you know, you lean heavy
to the left side and then you become imbalanced and
you know you've got to do certain things schematically to
protect it. Well, for us, we'd rather just take what
the defense is giving us get our advantageous. Double teams
in certain are based on the fronts and based on
you know what they're doing at the second level and
then just running our schemes accordingly. And our guys have
(09:06):
done a great job of allowing us to be balanced
because they own this the system, uh that's in place,
and then the drop off hasn't hasn't been that significant
because those guys are getting great training
Hope on for the review.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Deem's already come out and said that he was very
accountable to the locker room and about the need to
run more and.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
To be more balanced.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What's your perspective on how you guys were on Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I think anytime you're in the forties of play counts,
it's either you're hitting a lot of explosive plays or
you're not extending your drives. And for us as the
ladder and turning the ball over in the red zone
didn't help.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
We're trying to you know, piggyback up what the defense.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Was doing well early and giving us some chances at
short fields, but then just some near misses that didn't
allow us to extend the drives and get into the
bulk of how we were trying to present our call sheet.
So that's the pit in the chest when you come back,
you know, from a game like that, and you you know,
you see the totals of carries and and the lack
of balance that you were able to play with, and
(00:54):
it's just a you know, a near miss here, a
near miss there to extend a couple of drives to
get that stuff going. It just you know, it sits
heavy with you for a little bit. But the guys
know our intent, they know who we want to be.
They know, you know, the games that we've won, we
have been balanced, We've done a good job of you know,
utilizing both sides of it and and they.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Know that's what we want to get back to. So
that's the focus this week.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You and Dave have had a lot of success even
when when you guys were in lesser positions in Seattle,
but also in Tampa Bay with guys who were experienced
at the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Baker obviously had played several years where you'd worked with him.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Gino had worked a lot there, Russ, is there a
different aspect of this thing when you you didn't hear
Bryce in year one and you guys are learning what
kind of makes him tick over the last two years
that you have to adjust to that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Maybe you didn't have to for a Baker or a Gina.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I would say they were veterans, you know when we
were dealing with with Baker and Gino, but they were
also at you know, interesting times in their career where
they were getting a new chance. So you had to
learn who that guy became. You know, he wasn't the
guy that you might have evaluated in the draft process.
He went through a lot of experiences too. Then you
circle back to the Sunday Night game and they are
interviewing Baker and he's like, yeah, LA was a formal
(02:09):
time for me. Those what five games of and I
changed And the same went with Gino and the same
goes for Bryce.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
His first year before we got.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Here, he wasn't the same guy you know, coming off
of you know, out out of Alabama. So going from
year one with him to year two with him, it's
a continual process to see how the guy's learning. See
you know what things he enjoys doing what you know,
what kind of concepts like really are his you know
wheelhouse and that we need to make sure we incorporate
every week and we're growing together. So you know, you
(02:40):
come off of different style of games and you learn
something every week. And that's alongside of a bunch of
young skill guys too. What works for Bryce, but also
what works for Bryce with the group around him.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A game unfolds the way Monday Night does and maybe
you or others are saying, you know, we're getting a
little imbalanced, as you call it is it up to
you or who is it who can kind of tap
Dave on the shoulder and say, like, hey, might want
to introduce a few more runs.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Again, it's all of us. We're always talking.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Good, He's always you know, he's always pulling the shoulder,
you know, pulling the sleeve and saying, you know, you
only run it thirty five times.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You know we can get the ford, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But no, it truly is like those are conversations that
that are had, you know, every time that there's a
change of possession. We've already had our conversations as an
offensive staff, and then I bring those over to Dave
and there's there's good dialogue and that that includes the players.
So we go into halftime and then we say, okay,
what does it look like? What does it need to
look like going forward, you know, to get things off
(03:42):
on the right foot in the second half, And and
and good he is always great about saying, hey, this
is this is what they're doing up front, this is
how we need to combat some of the things they've
showed early.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you just hope to again.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Extend those drives to be able to piece that together
and get you know, a handful of those play calls
started to see, Okay, where's the second half going to
take us?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That he was frustrating when he put up that emoji
on social Did you see that? And what was your
initial thoughts? What's your conversation with him?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Then only I heard about it. I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I'm not really on on social media either. I think
that's for the betterment of my marriage. And uh, but
I'll let her her cycle through some of that stuff
for me, but no for for Rico, I think he's
probably expressing, you know, all the frustrations that we all
had and uh, again that pitt in the stomach that
I had, you know, getting on the flight where you
(04:33):
feel like you're some of your best players didn't get
a chance to completely showcase in a very important game.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, that's that's on all of us.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And uh, and that's to again make sure that you know,
anytime you only have you know, one to seven on
third down and forty six total plays, like, we want
to make sure that we're extending those drives so that
we can increase that, you know, that load that we're
putting on all of our guys that we know, you know,
the more chances they get they're gonna do something special.
So they helped us in the past game too. I
(05:01):
think I don't think that should go overlooked. There's some
huge plays that Rico and Shuba had, especially down the
stretch when Bryce is going through his progressions and they're
available for him and making big plays.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
So yeah, it's just a.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Continual, you know, diving back into our process when we
get back in here. I know it's got to be
a quick turning in the page when you play on
Monday night. That's a challenge to get those guys to
lock back in today. But they all did. They're all
professional about it, and you know, we had a great
Uh it was like sixty play walkthrough today to keep
their legs fresh. But they get their mentals back in
(05:34):
it and we'll be ready for la.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That's a question.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean the pit in your stomach and not to
continue to speak this, but when when you realize, like, man,
we could have done this better.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Were you on the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Plane and you're watching film and you're like, we had
these opportunities to run the ball?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What did that look like?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Every drive we really separated out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So if you have a three and out or if
you have a ten play drive, you say okay, what
was good?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
What was bad? And there's a constant re evaluation.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You get a chance to take a breath at halftime
obviously and say, okay, what happened? What do we need
to make sure that we're incorporating into the second half.
But yeah, I think it's kind of the natural thing
the postgame press or coaches like I need to go
watch the film, right and and that is true. There's
there's a you get the full truth, the full you know,
(06:21):
view of all eleven when you do get to sit
down and truly watch the tape. And it's not just
coming through avenues of hey, I was watching this guy,
this happened on this play. This is why this one
did or did not work. You only have to you know,
two eyes to put on on the field at a
time and the still shots when you're on the sideline,
but doesn't tell the full story until you can truly
sit down, watch all the views and then talk to
(06:43):
your staff about it.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And you guys had courhan and seat he was primarily
right tackle.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
What what allows him to be effective inside when he
has to come in and jump in in a midstream
like one, Yeah, well, he's really smart. He does a
really good job of picking things up on the fly.
He's played mostly tackle force in Seattle, but then was
available to us, you know, all four spots, not necessarily center.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But the guy's really smart.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He picks things up really fast, and he created a
you know, a good amount of trust with with Joe
and Goodie in a pretty short amount of time. And
then just as a as a player, he covers guys up.
He's a he's a big guy. He walks in the
room and you see it right away.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
He's a big guy.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He can cover guys up and stay attached in his
own way to get guys to the second level.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So we're excited to you.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Know that he came in and he held his own
and and the guys have done that in that room
all year long. Again as a testament to Joe and
Goodie just how they train those guys and how they
have every every single guy ready, uh, you know, on
a weekly basis.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
And Jake's a perfect example of that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Darren's question, You've had so many different offensive line combinations,
but that right guard position seems to be like a
constant turnstyle. How does that impact your blockings?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Energy? Especially in the run game on a week two
week basis.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, well, you know, I'm not going to give all
the hints away to our guys that down here the stretch,
but I would say, you know, there's definitely guys you
can lean on in the run game and you find
different skis to compliment you know, whatever our self scout
is that we put out there of directional runs or
types of schemes that we're running with a certain individual,
(08:23):
we want to make sure we're doing enough to protect it.
But at the same time, we hold a high standard
to that whole room of saying, hey, we want to
hang our hat on running the ball here and that's
left right gap scheme, mid zone, wide zone toss crack.
We want all of you guys to be able to
step in and do that stuff because you really.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Don't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I've been on teams where you know, you lean heavy
to the left side and then you become imbalanced and
you know you've got to do certain things schematically to
protect it. Well, for us, we'd rather just take what
the defense is giving us get our advantageous. Double teams
in certain are based on the fronts and based on
you know what they're doing at the second level and
then just running our schemes accordingly. And our guys have
(09:06):
done a great job of allowing us to be balanced
because they own this the system, uh that's in place,
and then the drop off hasn't hasn't been that significant
because those guys are getting great training
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