October 16, 2025 • 18 mins
Brad Idzik speaks with the media before Thursday's practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just want to say, for like the last couple
of weeks, just really proud of our process, really proud
of the offensive staff digging into you know, next man
up mentality and getting these guys trained the right way.
I think, you know, the obvious thing out there is
like Rico's production in the last two weeks and how
well we've done on the run, you know, running the ball,
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and how that's opened up the past game, but the
little stories behind it of having backup o linemen ready,
backup tight ends ready when guys go down, having Rico ready,
Trevor ready, all these guys being prepared. It's just a
testament to our coaches and a testament to our teaching style,
just making sure that we're pouring into every individual in
(00:41):
our rooms and then conceptually teaching so when the guy
doesn't get the rep, he at least understands what we're
trying to accomplish. So I think that's kind of a
you know, all the production that that's happened is kind
of a microcosm of you know, just the direction we're
going in the way we're teaching, and just really commend
all of our coaches and all of our players behind
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
All right, We'll kick things off with Mike k followed
by cass.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Right, Hey, Brad, good morning with how run centric you
guys have been over the last couple of weeks. How
is Jimmy Horn's president says, a deep threat helped you
guys kind of show the opposing defense a look that
(01:29):
could you know, help with that run game.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, when you're when you're stagnant running the ball, everybody's
gap sound and they get to kind of evaluate and
shoot their gaps and read things out. When you add
a little bit of a like lateral speed from Jimmy,
I think it becomes apparent really quickly that those gaps
change on the fly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And then when you hand it to them a couple
of times and you have play passes off of it,
they also have covered responsibilities added to that which changes
on the fly. So that speed element that that Jimmy's
done a great job with really just it kind of
expands the second level of the defense for us in
both phases. I don't know what the stat is. I
think it was a couple more yards per rush when
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Jimmy's in some sort of motion, And that's just a
testament to what the defense has to honor and that's
why we love having that that element in our offense.
He's done a great job with it, owning it and
it's a good things come to those who run. And
then he was rewarded with a nice little rail route
the previous game and you know a little overlap coverage
there and and uh and Bryce was able to find him.
(02:31):
So it's just, uh, it's just a huge element to
our offense in both phases and really really happy to
have it going.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You brought up the reward kind of of doing your
job away from the ball. Tommy Tremble and Mitchell Evans
have done a really good job blocking over the last
few weeks. Does that present an opportunity where you know
they're on the field, but and the defense is seeing
two blockers there, but they can also make plays in
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the passing game. Do you want to reward them from
a target standpoint when you see them playing as well
as they're blocking.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Absolutely, And I'll throw James Mitchell in there too, just
as you know we've been waiting for JT to come back.
All three of those guys, they they capture an attitude
that Pat wants to bring. Pat McPherson wants to bring
in that tight end room and they take a lot
of pride in it. Just a blocking in and of itself,
but yeah, we have we have ways to combat it.
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Look at Tommy's catch in the fourth quarter there, that's
they start crashing the sea gap. I'm always telling Pat
and like, hey, let me know when they're crashing the
sea gap. Let me know when they're you know, they're
really trying to spill your your cross sift blocks and
and they're trying to get violent, you know, against our
tight ends and set edges. We have all of the
compliments we need for those plays. And that came to
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life in a crucial moment for us when Tommy decided
to do one of his you know, patented karate kicks
down the sideline. That's a testament to the blocking that
he'd had, you know, going for him leading up to
that point where they got to stop the run. They
got to you know, crash a gap, and then Tommy's
able to chuck him aside and get a flat route
and I catch him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Run Hi, Brad, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
This is not what I want to ask, but you
just set me up for this, do y'all like film
review Tommy's hurdles and karate kicks as well.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, we we evaluate everything and as long as
he needs to keep the ball in tight when he's
doing it. But I did bring up to him Antonio
Brown got he got flagged for that a couple of
years back doing that on a punter. So as long
as he's trying to truly hurdle someone and he's protecting
the ball, we want him to protect himself as well.
(04:44):
There's there's a little bit of a chuckle when he
tries it because it's I think it's kind of in
his blood to give it a shot. But he's also
got a couple of really good looks at finishing through
defenders by lowering his shoulder, So I think there's a
compliment there of he knows that some DB's are going
to want to go low on him, and he's got
the athleticism to go over the top. But as long
as he's protecting himself and protecting the ball, we're going
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to make sure that, you know, he's got the discernment
of when to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Love it okay, Now, actual question, y'all have kind of
dominated teams in the fourth quarter. Over the last few weeks,
Bryce's numbers especially have been really good in the fourth quarter.
I know Dave always preaches finished, but from your perspective
on the sidelines, is is it something about guys clicking in?
Is it just knowing that it's the fourth Like, what
is it that has really been working in that quarter?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah? Focus and refocus. So early in the season we
were working on you know, let's let's come out the
gates with true focus going into a game. And then
when bad things, you know, when something unexpected, not necessarily bad,
when something unexpected happens, whether it's good, you know, explosive
play down the field and we got to refocus, or
you know it's a turnover or a change, a sudden
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change situation, we have to refocus. That's been like we've
been putting our thumb down on that culturally on the
offensive side of the ball, you know, since the start
of the season, and those guys are really bought into it.
So and it starts at practice, the tempo in and
out of the huddle, moving on to the next play,
just really clicking them back in when you go back
into that huddle is a new page. And all those
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guys are really bought into it. Bryce is a consummate
leader of that because of his personality and one of
his best traits is how cool he is under pressure
and how he can just stay even keeled even in
the biggest moments, and that inspires those guys to refocus
click back in. It brings out a maturity and the
players of Okay, you can celebrate a success, but now
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we know we're back in the huddle. We're clicking back in.
And you can see the look in Bryce's eye when
he's calling the play. All Right, hey, guys, I need
you here with me. Let's let's get to this next call,
in this next situation. What's the circumstances, what's the context,
Let's move on.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Awesome thing.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yep, Darren Gant, followed by David Newton.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Brad, you talked about all the changes you guys have
dealt with with the offensive line, in particular, does the
call sheet or how does it evolve or change or
adapt when you've got Yash in there instead a Team
O or Brady instead of Rob Hunt. Specific to the personnel.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, I think there's certain things that Dave's touched on it.
We're a mid zone running team, Like, there's certain things
that we want to hang our hat on and then
protect it with other you know, complimentary schemes, gap schemes.
I brought up last week just how those have beneficient
the last couple of weeks. But it's honestly, you don't
you don't always know until you see the live reps
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of what schemes compliment you know, the players you have
on the field the most, so you really were gonna
carry a variety going into every game week and then
until you see how the defense is trying to combat
it and what your guys are fitting right and pointing
right and operating on the same page together with then
you get to go and hit those repeat play calls,
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protect it up and try to try to run it
again a different way. As long as we have that
variety in the game plan, we can kind of see
how where the game takes us. And that's that's really
fun for us as coaches to be able to present
a bunch of different schemes two players, teach it the
right way, the conceptual teaching that everybody's on board with
what we're trying to do, and then watch where the
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game takes you. Right, you hit the early downs to
try to see how they're combating certain elements of your offense,
and then you okay, let's go back to the well
on this one.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Goodie.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Dean and Joe Gilbert are always talking about the runs like, Hey,
this one hit, don't be afraid to come back to
this one in between series asking for top three runs,
and a lot of those are, hey, this one hit,
ready to come back to it, or maybe it's too early,
Let this one settle and then come back to it later.
I just love that part of the game, and I
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love where our coaches are at with their communication and
making sure, hey, this is what they're kind of showing
us how we need to attack this defense.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You also you mentioned Jimmy earlier with kind of renfro.
How rare is it to have a guy who doesn't
get targeted a ton and you don't mind throwing two
on a fourth down.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Absolutely, that's just the testament to who Hunter is a
true pro. Brought it up in front of the team
on Monday, is like, hey, here's a guy who statistically
you would see is it'd be a little bit quieter
of a day. And then now in the biggest moment
we need him. Two weeks prior, that was Jimmy, right.
So fourth down and he goes to Jimmy. That's the
(09:33):
same exact response to what we were just talking about
with the run game. See where the game takes you.
Our guys have to focus and refocus and be ready
for when the game takes it to them, when they
are the target based on what the defense is giving you.
You have to be ready. So that maturity of our
players to be able to click back in every single
play and say, this is my snap, this is my play,
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the ball's coming my way, and then trusting that Bryce
will read it out correctly based on what the defense
is giving it, and trust a guy to go make
the play.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Thanks Bret ye.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Hey Brady, good morning morning, David. I want to go
back to the Jimmy you mentioned about the average a
couple of yards a game, I mean a game, a
play when he's in motion. Can you elaborate on that
what you're seeing and what teams are, how teams are
reacting to him when he's in the game.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, just the lateral speed in general. Anytime you hand
it off to him and he gets he circles the
defense for five, plus he had a couple of good
ones last week on you know, in a round, and
then you hand him a jet sweep that loosens up
the edges a little bit, so it protects Tommy, it
protects Mitch and James who are trying to work the
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edges or the backside blocks that are falling, you know,
the backside players that are falling in on the backside
of our zone schemes. All of those guys now have
to take a second to say, okay, are they handing
this one? And then now I can go and engage,
you know, engaged in linemen. So for us, it's putting
guys in position for potential pin blocks. It's putting guys
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in jet sweeps with legitimate speed and legitimate threat like
we've done with Jimmy, Xavier and all those guys. And
then and then our old lineman taking advantage of the
second they're hesitating. That gives you another little window of
opportunity to close that space, get your hands on them,
and reset the lone of scrimmage. And they've done a
phenomenal job at it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
And what have you learned about the offense that maybe
doubt brought to it or whatever. The last couple of
weeks when Tuba has been out, what have you learned
about this offense that you didn't really know before it needed?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, it's just that again, like they have similar characteristics,
Rico and Tuba and the way they finish their runs.
But we can't be afraid to just go as the
player tells us as well what he's reading out right.
Then I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, tight zone
wasn't necessarily something that is first off, a Tuba's list
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of what he'd like, like the gap scheme in the
mid zone, and he really got groomed in it as
we went through last year and came into this year.
But then Rico is like tight zone sift. We ran
it a couple of times and it allows him to
get downhill. So different elements of what they like as
a runner and then what they're showing in in a game.
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Maybe Rico cuts it back faster than Tuba would, or
maybe there's easier to get to bounce reads for one
guy versus the other. Well, those play calls will come
up when those backs are in the game, and you know,
we'll try to try to compliment to you know what
they're showing us on the field of those they're they're
very small differences. But we still were still going to
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carry enough of a full game plan of complimentary schemes
where we just kind of wait and see, how are
the runs hitting based on these guys and based on
the defense, and then what can we continue to call
to emphasize that that's.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Something y'all didn't say before or you just got them once.
Uh we got in there.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, I just think it's it's time on task with
the guys up front. They've been resetting the line of scrimmage,
doing a good job of creating efficient runs. And then
and then uh, you know, just continuing to pound the rock.
Like we got a great chance to be in games early.
It wasn't like the first couple of weeks where we
were shooting ourselves in the foot. So when you're in
games early and you're running complimentary football run pass and
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playing with the defense, they're getting us stops. It allows
us to play the game we want to play, and
that's just a balanced attack and then guys being efficient
and explosive in both phases. It just it just opens
the opens the play call sheet for you you know,
and that's that's kind of what's happened the last two weeks.
Been fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yep, we had time for a couple more.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We'll go with Jeff Hawkins follow up by Joe Person.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
In Good Morning Coach of Jeff.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hey, I think it's fair to suggest that Bryce has
proved something to the team and coaching staff over the
last two fourth quarter wins. Now, now, like life in
the NFL, you must prove himself all over again by
winning on the road. How important is it for Bryce
to avoid early turnovers and establish a good early rhythm.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, I mean the ball is everything for us, so
you know, just the momentum that you carry of marching
the ball down the field being efficient with it. In
those games that we haven't turned the ball over, we
have gone down the field and put points on the
board and it just sets you off on the right
foot for both sides of the ball. So we put
a huge, huge onus on you know, protecting the ball
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at all times. But then early on, you also just
wanted to create some good momentum for your offense and
your defense of keeping them off the field early. They
got you know, a quick drive stop, you know, last game,
and then we're able to march down the field even
though we don't finish in the end zone. It just
feels like you're setting the momentum for the game. So yeah,
it's huge. It's huge protect the ball, but then also
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be efficient and know that there's gonna be shots involved
in there and no one to take them, and if
the defense is playing top down. There were some great
looks at checkdowns that he got to really quickly there
in the first quarter. We're getting down in the red zone,
he checks that ball. We ran Bryson on a little
insert sale route and then he checked that ball down
to Rico really quickly because the defense got under it.
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And there's a game in thirteen, so no one wanted
to hold him. When to fold him is a huge thing,
and sometimes early on defense want to play top down
the checkdowns. Will you get your yards too?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
And thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Good luck?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yep, thank you, brag good morning. I was a couple
of minutes late. Have you been asked about scheming against
Steve Wilkes already? No? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
This will be it.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm assuming when you were in Seattle
and maybe else or Tampa even not sure, But anyway,
what's your background going against his defenses and what do
you think you might see Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, he was actually here when we were in Seattle,
I think also Arizona, and then we played them in
Tampa as well, so we've got good experience of going
against this, uh, this defense. He's got exotic pressures in
situational football that pop up and it's not necessarily just
the obvious downs when it comes up. So you have
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to have your rules in check if you're gonna have
a drop back pass, and you have to have your
rules in check for some of his abbey fronts, some
of his overloads, and then and then the all out
pressures you see Dallas hit him on one. If you
have your rules in check and you got there's space
on the field to complete some balls and have have
your athletes in space for us, you know, not gonna
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divulge the plan, but we've got experience and how to attack,
you know, the back half as long as your rules
are in check up front. And we just went over
the third down protection plan with Joe Gilbert this morning.
The guys are on it. They're locked in. That's a
huge piece of Bryce's preparation in the week, making sure
that we're solidified up front so we know when we
could take our shots and when we need to get
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that ball out quick to the perimeter to get our
athletes in space.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
I think Dave said there's been a little less of
that exotic pressure from the Jets this year under Wilkes.
What do you seeing kind of in place to that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, sometimes you see a little bit of the mix
of what Aaron Glenn brings from Detroit, dropping down a
jam and just playing press man. They got two physical,
handsy corners outside. I think they're Nickels coming back this week. Potentially.
He does a great job. Brownley is also does a
great job playing physical at the line of scrimmage. So
there's going to be some coupled in there. It's going
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to come up when they play press across the board,
they bring five and they want to play single high man,
and that comes up in all situations as well. Might
not be where they want to live in the whole game,
but again, you got to have your answers when you're
building concepts and saying, hey, guys, we're expecting to run
this first three week, We're expecting to run this first quarters.
But when it's man, this is how you win the route,
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and this is where the quarterback's eyes need to go.
You need to have a sense of urgency for when
they're playing a more grimy press man.
I just want to say, for like the last couple
of weeks, just really proud of our process, really proud
of the offensive staff digging into you know, next man
up mentality and getting these guys trained the right way.
I think, you know, the obvious thing out there is
like Rico's production in the last two weeks and how
well we've done on the run, you know, running the ball,
(00:20):
and how that's opened up the past game, but the
little stories behind it of having backup o linemen ready,
backup tight ends ready when guys go down, having Rico ready,
Trevor ready, all these guys being prepared. It's just a
testament to our coaches and a testament to our teaching style,
just making sure that we're pouring into every individual in
(00:41):
our rooms and then conceptually teaching so when the guy
doesn't get the rep, he at least understands what we're
trying to accomplish. So I think that's kind of a
you know, all the production that that's happened is kind
of a microcosm of you know, just the direction we're
going in the way we're teaching, and just really commend
all of our coaches and all of our players behind
into that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
All right, We'll kick things off with Mike k followed
by cass.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Right, Hey, Brad, good morning with how run centric you
guys have been over the last couple of weeks. How
is Jimmy Horn's president says, a deep threat helped you
guys kind of show the opposing defense a look that
(01:29):
could you know, help with that run game.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, when you're when you're stagnant running the ball, everybody's
gap sound and they get to kind of evaluate and
shoot their gaps and read things out. When you add
a little bit of a like lateral speed from Jimmy,
I think it becomes apparent really quickly that those gaps
change on the fly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And then when you hand it to them a couple
of times and you have play passes off of it,
they also have covered responsibilities added to that which changes
on the fly. So that speed element that that Jimmy's
done a great job with really just it kind of
expands the second level of the defense for us in
both phases. I don't know what the stat is. I
think it was a couple more yards per rush when
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Jimmy's in some sort of motion, And that's just a
testament to what the defense has to honor and that's
why we love having that that element in our offense.
He's done a great job with it, owning it and
it's a good things come to those who run. And
then he was rewarded with a nice little rail route
the previous game and you know a little overlap coverage
there and and uh and Bryce was able to find him.
(02:31):
So it's just, uh, it's just a huge element to
our offense in both phases and really really happy to
have it going.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You brought up the reward kind of of doing your
job away from the ball. Tommy Tremble and Mitchell Evans
have done a really good job blocking over the last
few weeks. Does that present an opportunity where you know
they're on the field, but and the defense is seeing
two blockers there, but they can also make plays in
(02:59):
the passing game. Do you want to reward them from
a target standpoint when you see them playing as well
as they're blocking.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Absolutely, And I'll throw James Mitchell in there too, just
as you know we've been waiting for JT to come back.
All three of those guys, they they capture an attitude
that Pat wants to bring. Pat McPherson wants to bring
in that tight end room and they take a lot
of pride in it. Just a blocking in and of itself,
but yeah, we have we have ways to combat it.
(03:25):
Look at Tommy's catch in the fourth quarter there, that's
they start crashing the sea gap. I'm always telling Pat
and like, hey, let me know when they're crashing the
sea gap. Let me know when they're you know, they're
really trying to spill your your cross sift blocks and
and they're trying to get violent, you know, against our
tight ends and set edges. We have all of the
compliments we need for those plays. And that came to
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life in a crucial moment for us when Tommy decided
to do one of his you know, patented karate kicks
down the sideline. That's a testament to the blocking that
he'd had, you know, going for him leading up to
that point where they got to stop the run. They
got to you know, crash a gap, and then Tommy's
able to chuck him aside and get a flat route
and I catch him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Run Hi, Brad, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
This is not what I want to ask, but you
just set me up for this, do y'all like film
review Tommy's hurdles and karate kicks as well.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know, we we evaluate everything and as long as
he needs to keep the ball in tight when he's
doing it. But I did bring up to him Antonio
Brown got he got flagged for that a couple of
years back doing that on a punter. So as long
as he's trying to truly hurdle someone and he's protecting
the ball, we want him to protect himself as well.
(04:44):
There's there's a little bit of a chuckle when he
tries it because it's I think it's kind of in
his blood to give it a shot. But he's also
got a couple of really good looks at finishing through
defenders by lowering his shoulder, So I think there's a
compliment there of he knows that some DB's are going
to want to go low on him, and he's got
the athleticism to go over the top. But as long
as he's protecting himself and protecting the ball, we're going
(05:06):
to make sure that, you know, he's got the discernment
of when to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Love it okay, Now, actual question, y'all have kind of
dominated teams in the fourth quarter. Over the last few weeks,
Bryce's numbers especially have been really good in the fourth quarter.
I know Dave always preaches finished, but from your perspective
on the sidelines, is is it something about guys clicking in?
Is it just knowing that it's the fourth Like, what
is it that has really been working in that quarter?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah? Focus and refocus. So early in the season we
were working on you know, let's let's come out the
gates with true focus going into a game. And then
when bad things, you know, when something unexpected, not necessarily bad,
when something unexpected happens, whether it's good, you know, explosive
play down the field and we got to refocus, or
you know it's a turnover or a change, a sudden
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change situation, we have to refocus. That's been like we've
been putting our thumb down on that culturally on the
offensive side of the ball, you know, since the start
of the season, and those guys are really bought into it.
So and it starts at practice, the tempo in and
out of the huddle, moving on to the next play,
just really clicking them back in when you go back
into that huddle is a new page. And all those
(06:16):
guys are really bought into it. Bryce is a consummate
leader of that because of his personality and one of
his best traits is how cool he is under pressure
and how he can just stay even keeled even in
the biggest moments, and that inspires those guys to refocus
click back in. It brings out a maturity and the
players of Okay, you can celebrate a success, but now
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we know we're back in the huddle. We're clicking back in.
And you can see the look in Bryce's eye when
he's calling the play. All Right, hey, guys, I need
you here with me. Let's let's get to this next call,
in this next situation. What's the circumstances, what's the context,
Let's move on.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Awesome thing.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yep, Darren Gant, followed by David Newton.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Brad, you talked about all the changes you guys have
dealt with with the offensive line, in particular, does the
call sheet or how does it evolve or change or
adapt when you've got Yash in there instead a Team
O or Brady instead of Rob Hunt. Specific to the personnel.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, I think there's certain things that Dave's touched on it.
We're a mid zone running team, Like, there's certain things
that we want to hang our hat on and then
protect it with other you know, complimentary schemes, gap schemes.
I brought up last week just how those have beneficient
the last couple of weeks. But it's honestly, you don't
you don't always know until you see the live reps
(07:37):
of what schemes compliment you know, the players you have
on the field the most, so you really were gonna
carry a variety going into every game week and then
until you see how the defense is trying to combat
it and what your guys are fitting right and pointing
right and operating on the same page together with then
you get to go and hit those repeat play calls,
(07:59):
protect it up and try to try to run it
again a different way. As long as we have that
variety in the game plan, we can kind of see
how where the game takes us. And that's that's really
fun for us as coaches to be able to present
a bunch of different schemes two players, teach it the
right way, the conceptual teaching that everybody's on board with
what we're trying to do, and then watch where the
(08:20):
game takes you. Right, you hit the early downs to
try to see how they're combating certain elements of your offense,
and then you okay, let's go back to the well
on this one.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Goodie.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Dean and Joe Gilbert are always talking about the runs like, Hey,
this one hit, don't be afraid to come back to
this one in between series asking for top three runs,
and a lot of those are, hey, this one hit,
ready to come back to it, or maybe it's too early,
Let this one settle and then come back to it later.
I just love that part of the game, and I
(08:52):
love where our coaches are at with their communication and
making sure, hey, this is what they're kind of showing
us how we need to attack this defense.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You also you mentioned Jimmy earlier with kind of renfro.
How rare is it to have a guy who doesn't
get targeted a ton and you don't mind throwing two
on a fourth down.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Absolutely, that's just the testament to who Hunter is a
true pro. Brought it up in front of the team
on Monday, is like, hey, here's a guy who statistically
you would see is it'd be a little bit quieter
of a day. And then now in the biggest moment
we need him. Two weeks prior, that was Jimmy, right.
So fourth down and he goes to Jimmy. That's the
(09:33):
same exact response to what we were just talking about
with the run game. See where the game takes you.
Our guys have to focus and refocus and be ready
for when the game takes it to them, when they
are the target based on what the defense is giving you.
You have to be ready. So that maturity of our
players to be able to click back in every single
play and say, this is my snap, this is my play,
(09:56):
the ball's coming my way, and then trusting that Bryce
will read it out correctly based on what the defense
is giving it, and trust a guy to go make
the play.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Thanks Bret ye.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Hey Brady, good morning morning, David. I want to go
back to the Jimmy you mentioned about the average a
couple of yards a game, I mean a game, a
play when he's in motion. Can you elaborate on that
what you're seeing and what teams are, how teams are
reacting to him when he's in the game.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, just the lateral speed in general. Anytime you hand
it off to him and he gets he circles the
defense for five, plus he had a couple of good
ones last week on you know, in a round, and
then you hand him a jet sweep that loosens up
the edges a little bit, so it protects Tommy, it
protects Mitch and James who are trying to work the
(10:45):
edges or the backside blocks that are falling, you know,
the backside players that are falling in on the backside
of our zone schemes. All of those guys now have
to take a second to say, okay, are they handing
this one? And then now I can go and engage,
you know, engaged in linemen. So for us, it's putting
guys in position for potential pin blocks. It's putting guys
(11:06):
in jet sweeps with legitimate speed and legitimate threat like
we've done with Jimmy, Xavier and all those guys. And
then and then our old lineman taking advantage of the
second they're hesitating. That gives you another little window of
opportunity to close that space, get your hands on them,
and reset the lone of scrimmage. And they've done a
phenomenal job at it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
And what have you learned about the offense that maybe
doubt brought to it or whatever. The last couple of
weeks when Tuba has been out, what have you learned
about this offense that you didn't really know before it needed?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, it's just that again, like they have similar characteristics,
Rico and Tuba and the way they finish their runs.
But we can't be afraid to just go as the
player tells us as well what he's reading out right.
Then I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, tight zone
wasn't necessarily something that is first off, a Tuba's list
(12:00):
of what he'd like, like the gap scheme in the
mid zone, and he really got groomed in it as
we went through last year and came into this year.
But then Rico is like tight zone sift. We ran
it a couple of times and it allows him to
get downhill. So different elements of what they like as
a runner and then what they're showing in in a game.
(12:21):
Maybe Rico cuts it back faster than Tuba would, or
maybe there's easier to get to bounce reads for one
guy versus the other. Well, those play calls will come
up when those backs are in the game, and you know,
we'll try to try to compliment to you know what
they're showing us on the field of those they're they're
very small differences. But we still were still going to
(12:43):
carry enough of a full game plan of complimentary schemes
where we just kind of wait and see, how are
the runs hitting based on these guys and based on
the defense, and then what can we continue to call
to emphasize that that's.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Something y'all didn't say before or you just got them once.
Uh we got in there.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, I just think it's it's time on task with
the guys up front. They've been resetting the line of scrimmage,
doing a good job of creating efficient runs. And then
and then uh, you know, just continuing to pound the rock.
Like we got a great chance to be in games early.
It wasn't like the first couple of weeks where we
were shooting ourselves in the foot. So when you're in
games early and you're running complimentary football run pass and
(13:25):
playing with the defense, they're getting us stops. It allows
us to play the game we want to play, and
that's just a balanced attack and then guys being efficient
and explosive in both phases. It just it just opens
the opens the play call sheet for you you know,
and that's that's kind of what's happened the last two weeks.
Been fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yep, we had time for a couple more.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
We'll go with Jeff Hawkins follow up by Joe Person.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
In Good Morning Coach of Jeff.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hey, I think it's fair to suggest that Bryce has
proved something to the team and coaching staff over the
last two fourth quarter wins. Now, now, like life in
the NFL, you must prove himself all over again by
winning on the road. How important is it for Bryce
to avoid early turnovers and establish a good early rhythm.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, I mean the ball is everything for us, so
you know, just the momentum that you carry of marching
the ball down the field being efficient with it. In
those games that we haven't turned the ball over, we
have gone down the field and put points on the
board and it just sets you off on the right
foot for both sides of the ball. So we put
a huge, huge onus on you know, protecting the ball
(14:33):
at all times. But then early on, you also just
wanted to create some good momentum for your offense and
your defense of keeping them off the field early. They
got you know, a quick drive stop, you know, last game,
and then we're able to march down the field even
though we don't finish in the end zone. It just
feels like you're setting the momentum for the game. So yeah,
it's huge. It's huge protect the ball, but then also
(14:56):
be efficient and know that there's gonna be shots involved
in there and no one to take them, and if
the defense is playing top down. There were some great
looks at checkdowns that he got to really quickly there
in the first quarter. We're getting down in the red zone,
he checks that ball. We ran Bryson on a little
insert sale route and then he checked that ball down
to Rico really quickly because the defense got under it.
(15:16):
And there's a game in thirteen, so no one wanted
to hold him. When to fold him is a huge thing,
and sometimes early on defense want to play top down
the checkdowns. Will you get your yards too?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
And thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Good luck?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yep, thank you, brag good morning. I was a couple
of minutes late. Have you been asked about scheming against
Steve Wilkes already? No? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
This will be it.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm assuming when you were in Seattle
and maybe else or Tampa even not sure, But anyway,
what's your background going against his defenses and what do
you think you might see Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, he was actually here when we were in Seattle,
I think also Arizona, and then we played them in
Tampa as well, so we've got good experience of going
against this, uh, this defense. He's got exotic pressures in
situational football that pop up and it's not necessarily just
the obvious downs when it comes up. So you have
(16:17):
to have your rules in check if you're gonna have
a drop back pass, and you have to have your
rules in check for some of his abbey fronts, some
of his overloads, and then and then the all out
pressures you see Dallas hit him on one. If you
have your rules in check and you got there's space
on the field to complete some balls and have have
your athletes in space for us, you know, not gonna
(16:39):
divulge the plan, but we've got experience and how to attack,
you know, the back half as long as your rules
are in check up front. And we just went over
the third down protection plan with Joe Gilbert this morning.
The guys are on it. They're locked in. That's a
huge piece of Bryce's preparation in the week, making sure
that we're solidified up front so we know when we
could take our shots and when we need to get
(17:00):
that ball out quick to the perimeter to get our
athletes in space.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
I think Dave said there's been a little less of
that exotic pressure from the Jets this year under Wilkes.
What do you seeing kind of in place to that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, sometimes you see a little bit of the mix
of what Aaron Glenn brings from Detroit, dropping down a
jam and just playing press man. They got two physical,
handsy corners outside. I think they're Nickels coming back this week. Potentially.
He does a great job. Brownley is also does a
great job playing physical at the line of scrimmage. So
there's going to be some coupled in there. It's going
(17:35):
to come up when they play press across the board,
they bring five and they want to play single high man,
and that comes up in all situations as well. Might
not be where they want to live in the whole game,
but again, you got to have your answers when you're
building concepts and saying, hey, guys, we're expecting to run
this first three week, We're expecting to run this first quarters.
But when it's man, this is how you win the route,
(17:57):
and this is where the quarterback's eyes need to go.
You need to have a sense of urgency for when
they're playing a more grimy press man.
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