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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look at the film from Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Just were some areas that you kind of want see
you guys progress this week.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yeah, I think we got got to do a better
job with communication. I think that's probably the number one thing.
That's just everywhere, you know, even sideline operation, all that stuff.
So I think a.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Lot of that stuff first game, pre season, you know,
you see stuff like that and you get better at everything.
Well as we're focused on right now. I think the
guys have done a great job at that last two days,
so working hard and getting that right. They did a
lot of good things too.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
First time calling a game for you on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Just what was that like? Yeah? I did it at
college a bunch when I was a boss to college.
But it was good.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was fun, you know what I mean, watching the
guys compete. We didn't give them a whole lot. It
was kind of a small menu of what we did.
But you know, you go back, like every other game,
correct what's incorrect, try and get it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Right, walk through it, get out here and practice it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And that's kind of what we're doing in the in
the process of everything here with camp.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What sort of positives did you see from Saturday?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Not just the first team, but everything, yeah, I thought
I thought the positive is probably were I thought we
did a good job in a run game over roll.
You know, we were physical in the front the four
minutes stopped that was that was good to see. At
the end of the game, I thought the guys kept
competing that way.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You know, three and out early in the game was good.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But a lot of things are correct, but definitely some
positives there. And like I said, I thought the run game,
we did a pretty good job.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Overall prety well, so I think got you guys's tempo.
How do you prepare for that here this week?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, I think we've done a good job preparing for that.
Like I said, a lot of that is communication. Is
Kenyr cleats in the ground ready to go, So I think,
you know, the guys have done a great job with
that in the last two days, so I think we'll
be ready for that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So that anything that would communication stuff, anything that was
more than what you would normally expect for a first
preseason game.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean I thought some of it. I wanted
it to be better than it was.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You know, if that's you're asking for sure, but you know,
got new guys out there and new system and we're
working on that and we'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
With Tyson gamble down for a day or however many days.
Christian Bradswell has sort of been put in there. How
it's he performed this whole camp and we're he's progress.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
He's done a great job. He's competed really hard to
hold camp. You know, I thought today he had a
good practice. He's been physical, so please put his effort
at this point.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, Dinnis Gardick, you know, full team drills.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What's it been like? Just starting to see him one day?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Been great. I mean he's a high EF fort guy.
If you've ever watched him play, you know he practices physical.
He had some really physical reps today. I think he
brings a lot of good traits out there on the
field with him. He's a good pass rusher, h physical
in the run game. So excited to have him out there.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Travis Hunter out there a lot on defense today and yeah,
I got to see a draft from him on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, you feel that out he's progressing at the corner.
He's doing a good job. I mean, he's he's progressing
every day.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Like I said, he's he's done a great job with
split in time on offense and defense.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So, uh, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
A tough task, but he's handled it really really well.
And like anything else, you know, those things are correct,
but some things he did really good.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The other day and you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Were sitting down pulled his tract camp started, and you're
trying to come up with the schedule for Travis, and
how are you going to use him and all that
other stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
How who do you call to kind of get advice
on that, you know what I mean, Like, there's no
precedent to look at you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I mean, I think Liam, like I said before a
couple of weeks ago, did a great job just laying
that out and it seemed very very Uh, he had
total clarity as to how he wanted to do it.
He really presented it and he's wait for all of
us to understand and he's managed Travis's time.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Really really well out here every day.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So he really was kind of the the guy that
drove the process on that, and I think he did
a really good job with it.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Interior of the defensive line, obviously, death kind of a
question with no Eric, no Mason right now, what have
you seen from the guys who have been out there.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, they competed hard. I thought Smooth had a good
game the other day. You know, the guys inside I
thought played pretty well overall. Like I said in the
run game, they played physical. We got some knockback, and
we're grinding blocks. But like like everybody else, it's a process.
You know, we're looking to improve every day with all
these guys.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think you guys signed Austin Johnson, what like last Monday.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, he's been great. He's a total pro. I mean,
he's fit right in coming in the room. He's been
working his ass off every day. I'm a really good dude.
I'm happy to have him.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We talked about want to see maybe some tighter coverage
on that third down or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Did you guys just want to play all zone soft
all day or was that not soft?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But no, I think I think some of that is
situational awareness. You know, you want to be tighter on guys,
especially on the third downs. You know you can't give
them that space that we gave him on a couple
reps the other night. But part of that is some
young guys and getting that right over the course of
the game and correcting those things when you come back
in and that's where we're at in camp right now.
You know, still working, still work in progress, and got
(04:29):
to do a better job with some of those things.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
In some ways.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Is it not enough time for these guys to get
in preseason, you know what I mean to kind of
get all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I think I think the beautiful part of football
is you always got to understand times the enemy.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You know, time is the enemy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's what you're working again, So every walk through every meeting,
if you're not paying attention, if you're not dialed in
on all your reps, you know, your opportunities out there,
however many they may be, like you got to make
them count, you know. And I know that's like cliche.
Everybody says, oh, don't count the reps, make the reps count,
but like there's not enough time to not be locked
in what you're doing. So if you don't do that,
(05:05):
you sometimes you're learning on the fly. And I think
we'll learn from that last outing out there on the field.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Berel rotated a little bit with the first team defense
here today, and what do you want to see from
him in order to get more reps?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
His role. What could his role be with the I
think he's a physical guy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think if you go back and watch the tape
the other night, I thought he played very very physical,
played downhill and he's really, like I said, for a
couple of these guys, he's learning it processing it all
right now. And I think he's picked it up pretty well.
He's had a last these last few weeks. He's been
pretty darn good and I thought he played well in
the game. So we just want to see the uptick
in progress, you know, with what he's done to this point,
(05:41):
and his production was pretty good the other.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Night and then Darnell getting a lot of run kind
of you know, pretty safety look coming off as a
pass rusher. What is his role right now for this defense.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You're talking about Savage?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, okay, I mean I think he's done a really
good job because he's moving around. You know, he's played
nickel played safety, like you said, And you have to
be a smart guy to do that, you know, and
he needs smart players and he is certainly that over
his career. He's done that. So he brings h he
brings a lot to us as a defensive guy that
we can count on. We feel like he does a
good job when he's back there at safety, and he's
done a good job at Nickel, you know, like everybody
(06:14):
else got some things to clean up from the game,
but he's working his ass off too, and you expect
him to be ready to go here when we play
the Saints.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
From perspective, what did you see on touchdown play the
Donut Washington high catch?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, on that one, we just had a little bit
of aim there in the coverage, something we got to
clean up and which we cleaned up when we.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Got back in the next day, and that's really what happened.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I know we talked about daring last time at the
opportunity before him, But have you seen kind of the
same flip switch would Travis us now that Tyson's kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Down, Eddie mean that like flip switch, realizing the opportunity
to get more rip that might not have been there.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, he's been He's been pretty locked in the whole
way though, you know, I mean, I think he's been
really serious about doing this and at a high level
on defense the entire time, So he was kind of
steady Eddy as far as that goes the whole way,
he's been locked in the whole time, and I wouldn't
necessarily say I see an uptick, but he's been pretty
disciplined in detail with it the whole way through.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Talking more smack the last few days.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Twenty two, Yeah, twenty two has been competing. He's doing
a good job. And I said this last time I
was up here, though.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He did a good job throughout the summer coming back
knowing the system, and he's competing with our receivers every day,
which is helping him get better. He's playing against good
guys out there, so he's doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
He had some fisticos out there today for the time
in camp.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, I think it means guys are usually competing. You
don't want guys fighting, you know, all day and wrecking
the practice.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
There's not time for that.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But sometimes tempers flair and usually that means there's a
motion out there.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And I don't think that's a necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
We don't want to fighting each other all practice, but
the guys are getting heated and competing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think that's that's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I should or not to maybe throw punches at guys
that are.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Wearing helmets Yeah, you don't want to do that. You
don't want to do that, you don't want to be
throwing punches at all. But you know, it's football. It's
an emotional game. We don't want to be you know,
nobody's worth fifteen is what we say. Nobody's worth fifteen yards.
So we don't want to do that. But in the
heat of the battle in camp, I'd be hard pressed
to say it was ever in a football camp where
there wasn't some emotion and then guys pushing and shoving
and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So yeah, it's kind of status quo. Okay, well it's hurt.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Right now, But just how is that competition at safety gone?
And when do you guys hope to finalize who's starting there.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We're just gonna keep assessing that the whole way through.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know, guys are gonna compete every day in practice,
They're gonna compete in the games. They're gonna compete all
the way through last week of the season. That's the
way I see it. I think that's the best thing
for a defense is to always have competition, you know,
And I think that drives the culture of the room.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
When guys are constantly competing all the time. That's a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We want high effort. We got that today though. We
had a really physical practice, good communication and high effort
and finished from all the guys safeties included.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So yeah, they're gonna be competing all the way through.
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