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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Roberts salivate some comments about legal signs stealing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is there any thoughts to that?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I mean, yeah, I'm not gonna speak on that fully
right now. You know, have a huge game for us
coming up this weekend. Got a great defense that we've
got to go and attack, and that's where our whole
mindset mentality is right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We surprised he went there.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, again, I'm just we're really trying to focus on
a darn good defense that we have to go and
try to go attack and offensively get better about us
getting better putting it together for four quarters and trying
to create some explosives in the past game some of
those things that we're you know, trying to get better
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at as an offense. And so that's where the focus
is right now.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We're getting his comments. Isn't that part of coaching is
trying to figure out whatever tell your opponent has.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, I mean we have kind of typically by formation,
by game plan, by working really hard as a coaching
staff throughout the week, trying to get indicators by your formation, motion, shift,
pre snap. Those are the things that you're trying to
do as a coach if you're you know, trying to
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put your players in the best position to be successful,
whether it's attacking man or zone coverage with your formations, motions,
uh and concepts. So it's a lot of hard, hard
work that goes into game planning and putting trying to
put your players in the best position to be successful.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Offense.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Earlier, you said for the show Game Show up on
the practice field, how you felt about the what you've seen.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
From the team on practicals.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I look, I think we were a little kind of
banged up early in the week, and just in terms
of soreness, right, getting some of the soreness out playing
two weeks of kind of down to the wire ball
in a physical game last Sunday, So you know, we
try to take care of these guys a little bit
throughout the week. But man, they practiced hard again. I mean,
(02:04):
they practiced their tail off. It was hot as heck
out here, but they practiced hard.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We did connect on a few down the field throws
to some of those guys.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That was nice to see, and like we've talked about it,
it has to occur in practice for it to truly
come to life. On Sundays, So excited about the opportunity
to have a lot of confidence in these guys to
go out and make plays on Sunday to evaluate the
week the room, Pat.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh, yeah, I mean I think it was solid.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I think we're trying to take the right steps moving forward.
They're doing a ton of extra in the walkthroughs, They're
doing a ton of extra post practice to ultimately, you know,
go and put ourselves in a position to make those
plays on Sunday. Right, it's just building their confidence to
go out and we've all seen these guys make great
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plays and make the routine ones routine and then also, man,
this is the NFL. We do have to go up
and make plays. And the quarterbacks got a responsibility. The
lion's got a responsibility, uh in the past game.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But I've got a lot of confidence in these guys
to go out and do it on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How much of a challenge of the forty nine ers
on third down on both sides of the ball, because
for all their injuries, they're still converting in a pretty
high percentage on offense and defensively they're only allowing thirty
three percent.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, I think if you look offensively, they do a
nice job of using their eligibles in the past game.
So if they don't think they're maybe getting a pressure
between a certain window, they do a nice job of
getting five out, maybe having the illusion of a six
man or a seven man protection, but then free releasing
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those guys and putting a little bit more stress on
the back end. And then the coverage. You know, obviously
if party plays, he can extend on third downs and
use his legs as well, So you know, definitely a challenge.
And then offensively, I think for us, you know, they
they try to get home with four, but then they
will send some blitzes and play some you know coverage
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in the back end that uh is is like a
little bit more five man in coverage and that will
play some man and get hands on in man coverage
when they do want to rush a little bit more.
So huge week for us to improve obviously. I thought
last week we took a step defensively on third down.
This week we got to take the step as a
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team on third down and really try to win situational football.
Prepare for a team that seems to kind of be
fumbling his passing game.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Through for every time. Yeah, it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know, I think getting DeMarcus Robinson back will obviously
continue to help that. Uh pearceall is doing some good
things out there as well. And when you've got McCaffrey
that you know, is it six man pro is it
five man? Where he's free releasing? Is he out at
receiver position? Is he you know how they motion him
out where he's like almost in between ors ever in
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a running back spot. I mean, that's a challenge to know,
especially if you have anything from a coverage standpoint or
a blitz standpoint based on where the back is located. Right,
that definitely presents those challenges. And then as a player,
he's talented, so when you get the ball in his
hands and maybe short of the sticks and he ends
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up making somebody miss or breaks the tackle, I thought,
like I said, we took a step last week in
terms of tackling as a team. We're gonna have to
be great at it again this week.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This is a little off topic, but when you first
got here, you met with a lot of different.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Guys just to talk to him, get to know.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you see some of those seeds that you play
it way back thing kind of show up now that your.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Vet the blitzer won, You know, I think so.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I think our guys have been very open since we
got here as a team to building relationships. Honestly, you know,
I think it's something that we did put an emphasis
on as a coaching staff. To Look, I've said this
numerous times, We're not going to just get their respect
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just because we're coaches, right. They do have to understand
that there is more to it. They have to feel that,
I think as players, and also respect the situations you're
putting them in in games and if you're constantly if
you're putting them in advantageous situations in the game at times,
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and they know that, I think there's just a little
bit more buy in in relationships to knowing that, man like,
we are truly trying to get the best out all
you guys for the betterment.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Of the team.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But we want to see every player have success, whether
it's for the next contract, whether it's for their career,
for their family, for their personal goals like those all
mean something to us. But at the end of the day,
it is about the team. And I think our guys
have done a nice job of trying to do this
with not just themselves but also with us as coach.
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It's been it's been fun to coach him so far.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
To evaluate Brent Strange's usage for three weeks and where
it could or should go.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean very pleased with Brenton. I mean he
plays his tail off. I mean it's like a car
accident every time he's he's out there, whether he's catching
it and getting hit and staying on his feet and
going and competing to get more or in the run
game when he is blocking and able to spring some
of those runs to get some more explosives. That way,
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He's I just very much respect the way he plays
the game. He kind of embodies so many of the
things that we want to be as an offense and
as a team. And I think, you know, as he
continues to go and gets more comfortable within the role
that he's in, I do believe he's just going to
continue to go in the right direction and get more
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and more.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Spoken about Anton Harrison meeting the challenge from a skill
set at a talent standpoint, how the league maybe is
too strong, but whereas Anton is just in terms of
his athleticism for the position.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Very very talented, very gifted. He has finished I think better,
he has strained more, he has played for himself, his pride,
but also playing for each other and playing for his teammates.
And look, man, when he's playing and moving and there
is hard to get past them.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean, he definitely has.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
A really good feet, he can anchor down speed, the power,
whatever those rushes rushes are. I think he does a
nice job of using his toolbox as well. You know,
it's hard to just say it's raw talent because he's
put a lot of time, I think, into working with
those coaches, working with him, you know, on his individual
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and getting the details of how he wants to set
somebody each week and what maybe is going to be
the counter set to those things. You know, been very
pleased with with Anton so far, yourtory of coaching against
the forty nine ers, and maybe Eric Armstead also have
an experience with San Francisco, Liam com or in James
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Latschom being out there as well.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Does that make it a unique week of preparation for
this more so than some other games.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, and especially off the heels of Houston, because there's
so many similarities there, not just structurally but the way
they play right, their style of play is very similar
to the group that in Houston that we just played,
and so from a mindset, you know going into it
before you even turn the tape on, it's gonna be
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a physical, violent football game. And that's got to be
our mindset going into every week, but especially these games
that you know what their intent is in all three phases,
which is to play physical and violent and get at
for you. And what we have to do to to
continue to take those steps as as a team.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Excuse me, and uh, there is a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, we've played against them a bunch, right like we
we definitely have. We played them last year in Tampa,
so there's definitely some things you can draw.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Back on a little.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
But also every year is a new year, every team's
a new team, and you know, it's just it's definitely
interesting that you play them twice a year in LA
so you get to kind of know each other. What
are the routes that we like against their coverages, but
then they also start to see those and combat that,
and so it's that chess match really in all three
phases that we can kind of draw back on some experience,
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but try not to look too far behind. Came up
with Sean, what is your relationship that are all having
a relationship.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
With Kyle maybe early memories of Kyle Shanahan and that
offensive structure.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, I did get to talk to Kyle a little
bit at the owners meetings. He was, you know, very
supportive and really tried to Over my years being in LA,
you're always watching and watching them, not just when you're
playing them, but I was responsible for breaking down the
opponents explosives right that they had or just around the
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league where you're watching around the league, they're explosives, whether
it's in the run, the pass, the screen, whatever it is.
And you know, you have a lot of there's a
ton of respect for the way that he formations things
to scheme up and attack his specific coverages that he's
thinking he's going to get, you know, built on being
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physical in the run game, which is something I really
appreciate and have learned probably through watching so much of
the way that they've played in the way that we
tried to do things in LA at times. And yeah,
I've got a lot of respect for Kyle, and shoot,
he's won so much there that you're like, you know,
you're gonna have to be on your p's and q's
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in terms of the details the scheme, but also the
way in which we play is going to have to
all come to life this weekend in Washington. Yeah, but
I don't think Kyle was Kyle maybe had just gone
to Atlanta before, I think, but there was all there
was so much there from whether it was you know,
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his dad being there prior and Kyle being there. There
was so much of the the you look at their playbook,
you know, from Washington to when we went to Los
Angeles to what it was in San Franco. Like the playbook,
so much of it's the same from like early installs,
when you talk about installs one through five, whatever it is,
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there was a lot of similarities.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's maybe something's.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Called a little bit differently, but the concepts that you
know in the past and the run, it's almost so
you could say it's a carbon copy. And then over
the years, both of those guys, whether they're Saun or Kyle,
kind of you know, you start to diversify and do
things that ended up fitting your personnel a little bit differently,
but the foundation.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Of both of these systems is eerily similar. Yeah, earlier
helping Hunter out a little bit more offense.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Just have you seen him progress just as a receiver
and then also with what you guys have.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Done, but also how how you felt like he's been
used within this offense in tarns of getting.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Touches all that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So yeah, I thought last week he definitely made a
play with the ball in his hands, and I think
we can continue to get the ball in his hands
as much as it allows from a you know, formation motion,
the concept the coverage sometimes dictates where the ball goes.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Was very nice to see him on.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
A second and long I believe it was catch a
five yard pass and go do something with it, right,
That's so much that's a part of this game, and
it's not something you can necessarily always coach them to do. So,
you know, I think as we continue to go, his
usage will continue to go.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Coach, Thank you very much,