October 10, 2025 • 18 mins
Head Coach Brian Daboll speaks to the media Friday from the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brian, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning, petty Brian.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I don't think we've asked you, and I apologize. My
camera doesn't seem to be working this morning, so I
apologize for that. But can you talk a little bit
about these special teams play. It looks like it's been
really good this season, and I don't think we've talked
a whole lot about it.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, they've been very impactful for us. The special teams
units really in every area, pot, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return,
field goal, field goal block. I think our coaches go
Be and Cam and Steven Thomas have have really done
a good job with these guys, and these guys have
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bought into how important it is for our football team.
They're playing with high energy, high effort, and.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They've done a nice job for us. Thank You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Brian's labe, Hey, Davis going right.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Uh, we've talked a lot about like Scataboo and Dart's
ability and their edge. Do you know that's saying like
they don't know what they don't know. I'm wondering if
there's a level of like uh, naivete or innocence with
those two that it has rubbed off on a locker
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room of a lot of good veteran players, but they've
been through a lot of losses that these two kids
haven't and don't.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Really care about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I don't know if I would use that word.
I would just say that they're very competitive individuals who
have a lot of pride, toughness, and belief in themselves.
And I think that's important for any team when you
have players like that. I know there are two rookies.
We have a number of other rookies that I feel
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are in a similar situation relative to how they compete
and what they do to prepare and how they go
out about play.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I mean, those two.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Guys they care about they care about their teammates, they
prepare very diligently, and they're you know, I trust them
a lot out on the field.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And then from a standpoint of I'm curious, maybe this
is packing a lot into a second question, but what'd
you think of your play on both sides of the
line of scrimmage? And assuming you thought it was pretty
good like I did, how significant is that to do
against that team? Because the Eagles and Cowboys specifically have
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kind of dominated the Giants on the line of the
scrimmage on both sides for a long time. So to
have that performance offensive line defensive line against that team,
that's that's their identity.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I would say we're just we're focused on our
identity of playing a physical brand of football, and that's
you know, it starts up front on both lines of scrimmages.
But you know, I thought that the DB's four first,
the receivers blocked, you know, but it does start up front,
and you know, to be able to run the ball
like that and you know, make some little adjustments here,
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and you know, they get a couple of runs on
us early in the game. But you know, that's the
way we want to play. We want to play physical,
we want to try to control the line of scrimmage.
It's you know, it's a very important part of the
game and we need to continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
And Dog.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hey, hey, Ryan just wanted to have you.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Have you heard from the league about the sideline scene
with Jackson and the tent.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I haven't, but I'll say this.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You know, like I said last night, I just I
went into and actually go in just stuck my head
and to see how our quarterback was doing. Ask them
how you're doing. In no way would I want a
player to come back out there that wasn't ready to play.
I think I have great respect for that process. I
know John is on a competition committee relative to health
and safety, that's very important to him.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We've spoke about that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know, I was wondering if it took ten minutes,
if it takes an hour, if it takes two minutes.
That's really where I was with asking the question that
I asked when I was on the sideline to make
a decision on you know, the game. But health and
safety is important to us, It's important to me, And
that's that's what I'll say with that.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Is there any like explicit rule you know about the
coaches not being allowed in the time. Have you ever
heard that?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I'm not going to get in that. I just I
do have respect for the process. I was more I
peeked in for a couple of seconds to see how
a player that's you know, important to us, important to me,
how he was doing. There was a two second questions
how you doing? But and and then relative to the
you know, the questions I had for our team physician
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was more, is how long is it going to be
and however long it's going to be is how long
it's going to be relative to make a game time decision.
So that's important. Health and safety is important. I know
it's important to job Era and you know we'll buy
by all those rules.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
One more switching gears, attention in that corner cornerback rotation.
What made you just stick with Flot last night?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, part of it was our was our game plan
of what we were going to do. Still have confidence
and take, but just going into the game really really
at the start of the week, that's that's the plan
that we did have. It could change next week based
on what we're doing or how we're doing it. And
you know, Flott did a really good job for us,
made a huge play. So that was that was leading
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up to the week. Then yep, yep, thank you, Brian.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Get getting back to h cam and UH and UH
dart a little bit. You know, every every year you've
been on a lot of teams. I'm sure where rookies contribute,
they add to the offense and the end of the
predicted productivity, how uh how rare is it for rookies
to come in and sort of become the identity of
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a team like these two seem to have well.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Like I said last night, Tom, this is this is
a collective team win. Everybody contributed. I know there's been
a lot made because he is your starting quarterback, and
you know, Cam plays with a certain edge and the style,
but this was a this was a team win.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They're part of it obviously.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You know, quarterback touches the ball on every play and
you know he's done a nice job since he's been
in there. Cam has has executed his role. But you know,
there's a lot of other people that contribute to the
outcome of this game. You know, Burns had I mean,
a lot of guys played well. And you know, I
respect the question. I have a lot of faith in
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those two young guys. I think that's well documented, you
know abdual young guys like But you know, I want
to focus more on our football team, and I know
that's how they would want it to do their job,
you know, lunch lunch pale mentality. Improve on the things
that they can improve on, but they play with an
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edge and they play with a style that you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Know, we want our team to play with. Thank you, yep,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We have a lot of hands raised, So please keep
it to one question and we will come back to
you if there's time.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Evan Barnes, Dave's I'll fall amazing Maddy's advice and keep
it quit. Brian Burns, you've obviously been really high on him.
You've been high on what he's brought since the training camp,
just after those two sacks, but more importantly how he
got those two sacks on third down. What are you
seeing from him as far as his leadership, sitting a
tone on the field, not just in practice, in his
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walk and his talk.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, but I mean he's he's really shown that since
he's come back in the offseason program and you know,
taking a step to me in terms of you know,
his leadership, his example, his practice, habits, his effort, his hustle,
things that he can control that really tank no talent
and then you you know, you add his talent, and
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he's got very good talent. I think that people look
up to him, you know how he does things.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Besides the talent.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, he's in the kickoff huddle almost every time,
encouraging those guys. And you know, Patty asked that question.
You know, when you have a guy like Burns or
Roy who's in there. I think they that shows that
they're really good teammates and understand that it takes a
lot of people to be successful.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
In a game.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And I think Brian is a you know, a true
definition of you know, what it means to be a leader.
He does all the right things and he's talented. So
when you have your talented players, and you know, some
of your better players do things that you know that
helped the team, not just with their talent, but with
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their leadership and how they go about their business, I
think that sets a very good example for you know,
the rest of the team, including the young guys that
Tom asked about that they get to see someone like
that that does have talent. It's been in this league.
It's been productive, but is going out there and practicing
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the way he practices and running to the ball the
way he runs to the ball, and you know, making
plays and critical moments. We could use all that as
we can.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
It when you when you look, I mean you talked
a lot about short week and the preparation and not
having full practices and just walk throughs and guys just
trying to it's cramming a lot into several days work
and then you see the wrinkles that came out last
night that you showed us a lot for the first
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time on both sides of the ball. I'm curious what
do you attribute that to. I know you mentioned about
your staff and the long hours in the office, but
to have the confidence to be able to not only
put that in the game plan really for some of
the first time, and then to trust.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
The players to execute. How do you describe that?
Speaker 10 (10:22):
What do you attribute that to as far as being
able to not only put it in but execute it at.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
A high level.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I have confidence in the guys on our football
team and confidence in our staff. And you know, when
we started, you know, let's say a long plane trip
back from New Orleans, we were really onto this week.
And again I credit the leadership from the coordinators to
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the position coaches to you know, putting together you know,
what we needed to do for that particular game. I
think you balance that art with you know, shorts, you
don't want to add too much, but you know, we
have enough in each area that we can add some things.
And then we you know, we did a little bit
of a different meeting time and extra walkthroughs I thought
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we needed it, and they were dialed in on those.
They were dialed in on them. You know, we gave
we gave more time to the each area special teams, defense, offense,
so they had a little bit more time to go
through that. I thought the guys were dialed in at
the walkthroughs. We got a lot of reps. Even though
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they were walkthroughs. We got a lot of reps, you know,
in the three kind of practices that we did have,
and the guys were dialed in with them. So if
we walked through some things that were new that just
you know, it took three or four times to get
it done. Maybe we scraped that, or if we thought
it was going to be good, we walked through it
a few more times to make sure that, you know,
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we felt comfortable calling it. And then they thought the
coordinators did a good job of calling the game, of
being prepared and then most importantly having their players prepared,
as did the position coaches.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So you know, again there was a lot of time
spent here.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You know, a lot of work put into it, both
from the assistant coaches and the players. And that's why
I'm very happy for both of those groups. The coaches
and the players, because I saw the work they put
into it, the extra meetings the players had, the coaches,
the communication that goes into it, and it was good
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to see that, you know, get the outcome that we
were so desired.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yep, we'll take three more. Paul Schwartz Hey, Brian, Hey, Paul.
Speaker 12 (12:49):
Hey, You've you know, as a head coach, you have
to deal with a lot You've got to deal with,
you know, picking guys up and picking the team up
after losses, when everyone's down, you know, adversity. What about now?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
What about when guys are feeling good, there's some prosperity,
there's some success, I mean, you know, in keeping it
in reason, but everyone felt great about what happened last night.
Dealing with that and having your team handle success and
prosperity and excitement, is that also a challenge moving forward?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You know, again I have I have a lot of
confidence in our guys, players and the coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Again, we understand this is a one week league.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Father's you know, there's there's things that come each week
where you say, oh man, you got to do a
good job of staying consistent when they come into building here,
are the things that went well. Here are the things
that we need to get fixed or it's going to
cost us. I think the players are learning that, you know,
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as we go, particularly our young guys. But I think
they have a level head and they're they're all about ball,
so we know that one game has no reflection on
the next game. If you go out there and turn
the ball over five times, you're not going to have
much success, regardless of the other things that happen. If
you go play a clean game, you give yourself a chance,
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it doesn't guarantee it, and then you have to make
the extra plays that you need to make in those
games to give yourself a chance. You know, you have
to be able to get an interception when they're driving
down after a play. You have to execute in the
red zone. You have to, you know, stay committed to
the run game on both sides of the ball of
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affecting you know, affecting i'd say the line of scrimmage
in a positive way. You have to do those things,
you know, and you know this and everybody knows that
you have to do those things that give you a
chance to win, and then you have to make the
extra play.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I'd say, you know, losing sucks. Winning is a lot better.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But again it doesn't have any bearing on what you
have to do to get ready to play the next week.
You have to prepare the right way, you have to
go out there, and you have to execute and do
a good job of coaching and all those type of things.
So my focus is going to be get us ready
to go for next week, you know, learn from the
things that we can learn from here over the next
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last couple of games, and do everything we can do
to put ourselves in the best possible position next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you, Thanks Bart Canzero.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Hey, Dave's I'm just curious. It's obvious the energy that
that that Dart has brought to your room, uh, and
to the stadium. You know, obviously since since he's he's
had the two stadium starts, you've always been very attached
before you got here to Josh up in Buffalo, and
I'm just curious. I'm not asking in any way physically
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the way they play or anything like that. I'm not
looking for comparisons that way. I'm just curious about the
whole vibe in Buffalo and when Josh came around. If
there are any similarities at all, just with the energy
that he brought to that place. You know that in
relation to what Jackson's brought here.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, Mark, I appreciate that question. What what I don't
want to do is is put anybody into a box.
This person's like this person. I understand the question completely.
I think Jackson is in a you know, in a
different situation. He's his own guy. I obviously have a
tremendous amount of respect for Josh Allen and you know,
grateful for the years that I've had an opportunity to
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work for him, and now I'm grateful for the opportunities
I have to work with Jackson.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
This guy's all football.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
He's very level headed, but he's you know, he's a
fiery competitor, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
He does.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You know, he's humble. He's also very humble. He knows
that there's plenty of things that that we need to
work on to continue to get better, and that each
week it's going to get more difficult based on the
more tape we have out there, the more they're going
to do. We know there's ups and I've said it.
I know it's a broken record, but I think he
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understands all those things. And you know, I think the
thing that his teammates appreciate about him is he is humble.
He does work hard, he does listen to you know,
the older veterans on the team, but he is his
own personality and I don't think he's afraid to show that,
and that's what I appreciate about him. Long road ahead,
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a lot of work to be done, but no one
I'd rather do it with than him.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nice last one.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
Jordan ran on, Hey, Brian, how.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Are you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Jordan?
Speaker 13 (17:35):
No one, guys get test for concussion.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They have to do it again in the morning. Jackson
is all right today, Yeah, I haven't. I'm gonna. I'm
gonna go meet with everybody here. He was in.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know he's been in early watching tape. So you know,
we'll go through that. You know, we'll go through the
rest of that, you know, procedure and see where we're
at after these next few days.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
And then Brian Burns, what do you think of him?
He said, he, you know, all the players only defensive meeting,
and he felt it in his heart that you know,
he wanted to get some things off his chest and
sort of get the details.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Right, Yeah, Look, those guys, those guys work extremely hard
to players. I mean there's a there's a lot of
times where players are just meeting on their own and
I think that's important to develop that that communication that
you need to have. But again with with Burns, I
just say he's he's been a very good leader for
us Jordan. I know I answered the question earlier with it,
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got a lot of respect for him and you know
what he's done this year for us, and we're going
to need to continue to get that from him.
Brian, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning, petty Brian.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I don't think we've asked you, and I apologize. My
camera doesn't seem to be working this morning, so I
apologize for that. But can you talk a little bit
about these special teams play. It looks like it's been
really good this season, and I don't think we've talked
a whole lot about it.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, they've been very impactful for us. The special teams
units really in every area, pot, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return,
field goal, field goal block. I think our coaches go
Be and Cam and Steven Thomas have have really done
a good job with these guys, and these guys have
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bought into how important it is for our football team.
They're playing with high energy, high effort, and.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They've done a nice job for us. Thank You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Brian's labe, Hey, Davis going right.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Uh, we've talked a lot about like Scataboo and Dart's
ability and their edge. Do you know that's saying like
they don't know what they don't know. I'm wondering if
there's a level of like uh, naivete or innocence with
those two that it has rubbed off on a locker
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room of a lot of good veteran players, but they've
been through a lot of losses that these two kids
haven't and don't.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Really care about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I don't know if I would use that word.
I would just say that they're very competitive individuals who
have a lot of pride, toughness, and belief in themselves.
And I think that's important for any team when you
have players like that. I know there are two rookies.
We have a number of other rookies that I feel
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are in a similar situation relative to how they compete
and what they do to prepare and how they go
out about play.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I mean, those two.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Guys they care about they care about their teammates, they
prepare very diligently, and they're you know, I trust them
a lot out on the field.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And then from a standpoint of I'm curious, maybe this
is packing a lot into a second question, but what'd
you think of your play on both sides of the
line of scrimmage? And assuming you thought it was pretty
good like I did, how significant is that to do
against that team? Because the Eagles and Cowboys specifically have
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kind of dominated the Giants on the line of the
scrimmage on both sides for a long time. So to
have that performance offensive line defensive line against that team,
that's that's their identity.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I would say we're just we're focused on our
identity of playing a physical brand of football, and that's
you know, it starts up front on both lines of scrimmages.
But you know, I thought that the DB's four first,
the receivers blocked, you know, but it does start up front,
and you know, to be able to run the ball
like that and you know, make some little adjustments here,
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and you know, they get a couple of runs on
us early in the game. But you know, that's the
way we want to play. We want to play physical,
we want to try to control the line of scrimmage.
It's you know, it's a very important part of the
game and we need to continue to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
And Dog.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hey, hey, Ryan just wanted to have you.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Have you heard from the league about the sideline scene
with Jackson and the tent.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I haven't, but I'll say this.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You know, like I said last night, I just I
went into and actually go in just stuck my head
and to see how our quarterback was doing. Ask them
how you're doing. In no way would I want a
player to come back out there that wasn't ready to play.
I think I have great respect for that process. I
know John is on a competition committee relative to health
and safety, that's very important to him.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We've spoke about that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know, I was wondering if it took ten minutes,
if it takes an hour, if it takes two minutes.
That's really where I was with asking the question that
I asked when I was on the sideline to make
a decision on you know, the game. But health and
safety is important to us, It's important to me, And
that's that's what I'll say with that.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Is there any like explicit rule you know about the
coaches not being allowed in the time. Have you ever
heard that?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I'm not going to get in that. I just I
do have respect for the process. I was more I
peeked in for a couple of seconds to see how
a player that's you know, important to us, important to me,
how he was doing. There was a two second questions
how you doing? But and and then relative to the
you know, the questions I had for our team physician
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was more, is how long is it going to be
and however long it's going to be is how long
it's going to be relative to make a game time decision.
So that's important. Health and safety is important. I know
it's important to job Era and you know we'll buy
by all those rules.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
One more switching gears, attention in that corner cornerback rotation.
What made you just stick with Flot last night?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, part of it was our was our game plan
of what we were going to do. Still have confidence
and take, but just going into the game really really
at the start of the week, that's that's the plan
that we did have. It could change next week based
on what we're doing or how we're doing it. And
you know, Flott did a really good job for us,
made a huge play. So that was that was leading
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up to the week. Then yep, yep, thank you, Brian.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Get getting back to h cam and UH and UH
dart a little bit. You know, every every year you've
been on a lot of teams. I'm sure where rookies contribute,
they add to the offense and the end of the
predicted productivity, how uh how rare is it for rookies
to come in and sort of become the identity of
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a team like these two seem to have well.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Like I said last night, Tom, this is this is
a collective team win. Everybody contributed. I know there's been
a lot made because he is your starting quarterback, and
you know, Cam plays with a certain edge and the style,
but this was a this was a team win.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They're part of it obviously.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You know, quarterback touches the ball on every play and
you know he's done a nice job since he's been
in there. Cam has has executed his role. But you know,
there's a lot of other people that contribute to the
outcome of this game. You know, Burns had I mean,
a lot of guys played well. And you know, I
respect the question. I have a lot of faith in
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those two young guys. I think that's well documented, you
know abdual young guys like But you know, I want
to focus more on our football team, and I know
that's how they would want it to do their job,
you know, lunch lunch pale mentality. Improve on the things
that they can improve on, but they play with an
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edge and they play with a style that you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Know, we want our team to play with. Thank you, yep,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We have a lot of hands raised, So please keep
it to one question and we will come back to
you if there's time.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Evan Barnes, Dave's I'll fall amazing Maddy's advice and keep
it quit. Brian Burns, you've obviously been really high on him.
You've been high on what he's brought since the training camp,
just after those two sacks, but more importantly how he
got those two sacks on third down. What are you
seeing from him as far as his leadership, sitting a
tone on the field, not just in practice, in his
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walk and his talk.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, but I mean he's he's really shown that since
he's come back in the offseason program and you know,
taking a step to me in terms of you know,
his leadership, his example, his practice, habits, his effort, his hustle,
things that he can control that really tank no talent
and then you you know, you add his talent, and
(08:15):
he's got very good talent. I think that people look
up to him, you know how he does things.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Besides the talent.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, he's in the kickoff huddle almost every time,
encouraging those guys. And you know, Patty asked that question.
You know, when you have a guy like Burns or
Roy who's in there. I think they that shows that
they're really good teammates and understand that it takes a
lot of people to be successful.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
In a game.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And I think Brian is a you know, a true
definition of you know, what it means to be a leader.
He does all the right things and he's talented. So
when you have your talented players, and you know, some
of your better players do things that you know that
helped the team, not just with their talent, but with
(09:03):
their leadership and how they go about their business, I
think that sets a very good example for you know,
the rest of the team, including the young guys that
Tom asked about that they get to see someone like
that that does have talent. It's been in this league.
It's been productive, but is going out there and practicing
(09:24):
the way he practices and running to the ball the
way he runs to the ball, and you know, making
plays and critical moments. We could use all that as
we can.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
It when you when you look, I mean you talked
a lot about short week and the preparation and not
having full practices and just walk throughs and guys just
trying to it's cramming a lot into several days work
and then you see the wrinkles that came out last
night that you showed us a lot for the first
(10:00):
time on both sides of the ball. I'm curious what
do you attribute that to. I know you mentioned about
your staff and the long hours in the office, but
to have the confidence to be able to not only
put that in the game plan really for some of
the first time, and then to trust.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
The players to execute. How do you describe that?
Speaker 10 (10:22):
What do you attribute that to as far as being
able to not only put it in but execute it at.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
A high level.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I have confidence in the guys on our football
team and confidence in our staff. And you know, when
we started, you know, let's say a long plane trip
back from New Orleans, we were really onto this week.
And again I credit the leadership from the coordinators to
(10:52):
the position coaches to you know, putting together you know,
what we needed to do for that particular game. I
think you balance that art with you know, shorts, you
don't want to add too much, but you know, we
have enough in each area that we can add some things.
And then we you know, we did a little bit
of a different meeting time and extra walkthroughs I thought
(11:17):
we needed it, and they were dialed in on those.
They were dialed in on them. You know, we gave
we gave more time to the each area special teams, defense, offense,
so they had a little bit more time to go
through that. I thought the guys were dialed in at
the walkthroughs. We got a lot of reps. Even though
(11:39):
they were walkthroughs. We got a lot of reps, you know,
in the three kind of practices that we did have,
and the guys were dialed in with them. So if
we walked through some things that were new that just
you know, it took three or four times to get
it done. Maybe we scraped that, or if we thought
it was going to be good, we walked through it
a few more times to make sure that, you know,
(12:01):
we felt comfortable calling it. And then they thought the
coordinators did a good job of calling the game, of
being prepared and then most importantly having their players prepared,
as did the position coaches.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So you know, again there was a lot of time
spent here.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You know, a lot of work put into it, both
from the assistant coaches and the players. And that's why
I'm very happy for both of those groups. The coaches
and the players, because I saw the work they put
into it, the extra meetings the players had, the coaches,
the communication that goes into it, and it was good
(12:37):
to see that, you know, get the outcome that we
were so desired.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yep, we'll take three more. Paul Schwartz Hey, Brian, Hey, Paul.
Speaker 12 (12:49):
Hey, You've you know, as a head coach, you have
to deal with a lot You've got to deal with,
you know, picking guys up and picking the team up
after losses, when everyone's down, you know, adversity. What about now?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
What about when guys are feeling good, there's some prosperity,
there's some success, I mean, you know, in keeping it
in reason, but everyone felt great about what happened last night.
Dealing with that and having your team handle success and
prosperity and excitement, is that also a challenge moving forward?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You know, again I have I have a lot of
confidence in our guys, players and the coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Again, we understand this is a one week league.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Father's you know, there's there's things that come each week
where you say, oh man, you got to do a
good job of staying consistent when they come into building here,
are the things that went well. Here are the things
that we need to get fixed or it's going to
cost us. I think the players are learning that, you know,
(13:49):
as we go, particularly our young guys. But I think
they have a level head and they're they're all about ball,
so we know that one game has no reflection on
the next game. If you go out there and turn
the ball over five times, you're not going to have
much success, regardless of the other things that happen. If
you go play a clean game, you give yourself a chance,
(14:10):
it doesn't guarantee it, and then you have to make
the extra plays that you need to make in those
games to give yourself a chance. You know, you have
to be able to get an interception when they're driving
down after a play. You have to execute in the
red zone. You have to, you know, stay committed to
the run game on both sides of the ball of
(14:31):
affecting you know, affecting i'd say the line of scrimmage
in a positive way. You have to do those things,
you know, and you know this and everybody knows that
you have to do those things that give you a
chance to win, and then you have to make the
extra play.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I'd say, you know, losing sucks. Winning is a lot better.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But again it doesn't have any bearing on what you
have to do to get ready to play the next week.
You have to prepare the right way, you have to
go out there, and you have to execute and do
a good job of coaching and all those type of things.
So my focus is going to be get us ready
to go for next week, you know, learn from the
things that we can learn from here over the next
(15:13):
last couple of games, and do everything we can do
to put ourselves in the best possible position next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you, Thanks Bart Canzero.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Hey, Dave's I'm just curious. It's obvious the energy that
that that Dart has brought to your room, uh, and
to the stadium. You know, obviously since since he's he's
had the two stadium starts, you've always been very attached
before you got here to Josh up in Buffalo, and
I'm just curious. I'm not asking in any way physically
(15:48):
the way they play or anything like that. I'm not
looking for comparisons that way. I'm just curious about the
whole vibe in Buffalo and when Josh came around. If
there are any similarities at all, just with the energy
that he brought to that place. You know that in
relation to what Jackson's brought here.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, Mark, I appreciate that question. What what I don't
want to do is is put anybody into a box.
This person's like this person. I understand the question completely.
I think Jackson is in a you know, in a
different situation. He's his own guy. I obviously have a
tremendous amount of respect for Josh Allen and you know,
grateful for the years that I've had an opportunity to
(16:27):
work for him, and now I'm grateful for the opportunities
I have to work with Jackson.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
This guy's all football.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
He's very level headed, but he's you know, he's a
fiery competitor, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
He does.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You know, he's humble. He's also very humble. He knows
that there's plenty of things that that we need to
work on to continue to get better, and that each
week it's going to get more difficult based on the
more tape we have out there, the more they're going
to do. We know there's ups and I've said it.
I know it's a broken record, but I think he
(17:03):
understands all those things. And you know, I think the
thing that his teammates appreciate about him is he is humble.
He does work hard, he does listen to you know,
the older veterans on the team, but he is his
own personality and I don't think he's afraid to show that,
and that's what I appreciate about him. Long road ahead,
(17:23):
a lot of work to be done, but no one
I'd rather do it with than him.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nice last one.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
Jordan ran on, Hey, Brian, how.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Are you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Jordan?
Speaker 13 (17:35):
No one, guys get test for concussion.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They have to do it again in the morning. Jackson
is all right today, Yeah, I haven't. I'm gonna. I'm
gonna go meet with everybody here. He was in.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know he's been in early watching tape. So you know,
we'll go through that. You know, we'll go through the
rest of that, you know, procedure and see where we're
at after these next few days.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
And then Brian Burns, what do you think of him?
He said, he, you know, all the players only defensive meeting,
and he felt it in his heart that you know,
he wanted to get some things off his chest and
sort of get the details.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Right, Yeah, Look, those guys, those guys work extremely hard
to players. I mean there's a there's a lot of
times where players are just meeting on their own and
I think that's important to develop that that communication that
you need to have. But again with with Burns, I
just say he's he's been a very good leader for
us Jordan. I know I answered the question earlier with it,
(18:31):
got a lot of respect for him and you know
what he's done this year for us, and we're going
to need to continue to get that from him.
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