OLB Brian Burns: 'The goal is still to go out there Sunday and play our best'

Outside linebacker Brian Burns speaks to the media Wednesday from the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When something like this happens. I mean what changes.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
The goal is still to you know, go out there Sunday,
play our best, win the game.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah. I've been through this, through this a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
How hard is it for you? You know, personally it's tough.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
You know, it's you know, you develop a relationship with somebody,
you know, you get to learn like what they want
their ways, and they need to learn you as well.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So it's tough. It's like a breakup. How did you
find out when? When? When did you kind of get
put the work out and when everybody else found up?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Did you meet like the team or did you see
it on social media?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
That kind of is when.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I mean, I was working out when I guess the
news drop. I came back in and they told me.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Relationship you have with Michael, I mean, you know, Mike's
been on the offensive side of the ball all this time.
How much of a relationship to do the guys the
offensive side with you?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I don't know. I can't speak for everybody but me personally.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
We haven't had like a ton of conversations, but we
we've talked, like you know, throughout the halls and like
out in practice.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But we haven't had like any in depth conversations besides.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Now, so it's a learning process.

Speaker 6 (01:05):
You were pretty demonstrative Brian after the game and support
that it's not the coaches, it's everybody. You know, it's
it's it's one of those things. So is there any
feeling of I guess how do you process the feeling
when you then kind of said what you did and
then come out that they didn't end up making the
coaching change.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
This is the nature of the business.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Like I said, I've been through this a couple of times,
so it's not like it's not like brand new to me.
You know, I kind of understand how the business going
and how things operate. So it's still tough at end
of the days and then you get used to But
I've been through it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Anybody else. That's what I'm saying, Brian. Ches for the defense, anything.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We pretty much got. Obviously we got the same scheme,
same coordinator. Everything is pretty much the same as far
as the game.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
Do you expect, I mean, he's a new head coach.
Should you expect CAF could have want tweaks to the
defense or is that something that was romain to Like
you said, you've been through this out. It does the
interim head coach usually come in and make changes on
the other side of the ball, or just kind of
lets that coordinator run things the way they are.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think it depends on the expertise.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, when I went through the coach of change
with Matt Rule, you know, Wooks kind of took over,
you know, on our defense.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
But that's what he does.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
So I don't know if it's gonna make any tweaks
or not. We'll know the more of a game plan
for the past.

Speaker 8 (02:29):
As a team leader in a company, what would you
hope comes out of this in this locker room? You know,
you know your coach was fired and because of the record,
you've talked about the players responsibility. What would you hope
the reaction is this moving forward in the slock room
and on the field.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, you know, I hope the guys would you know,
stick together, you know, come together, come even closer. I
kind of just told him, like, you know, the situations
like this, you know, everybody's under evaluation, you know, and
you know, even though this is happening, nobody's going to
turn on the film and be like like, oh, this
was after they ball got fired.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's why he's playing his way. Nobody cares. So I
was told him like.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
If if there was ever a time to play your
best ball is now. You know, if there's ever time
to bond together, stick together, is now told that the team.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Did the players after, Brian Leo?

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Did you guys meet together as a whole just players
after the firing?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Brian is sir? Almost a sense of regret. You mentioned
you're all in this together, but still personally speaking, you
feel like you kind of let coach teople down a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I do personally that's just me, though I don't know
about everybody else.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
What are the challenges when the interm coach comes in
from your experience before to kind of keeping together and
then keep playing.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, you know, just dealing with the change.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Obviously a lot of things are different, you know, schedules
and change, just everything that the move might change, you know,
just dealing with that. But if everybody, you know go
about it the.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Right way, professional way, you know, it shouldn't be too
much of a distract.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Have you seen where you know you're talking about guys
going about it the right way. Have you seen, you know,
after a change like this where some guys don't go
about it the right way.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yea, I have Yeah, you don't want that.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Are you going to be more vigilant to keeping an
eye operard with those guys and getting them right?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, you know, I'm just go kind of you know,
lead by example, lead from the front, and you know,
just call guys up to the standard. Pull guys along
with me because I've been Like I said, I've been
through this.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I know I should look and how it should go.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
So the coach has told you guys, anything about am
I change as far as practice regimen or many just
change up to the logistics of practice or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, it's gonna be like a little small nuances like
that to the schedule that that may change your practice
schedule the way it's operated. You know, everybody has their
own I guess, you know, how they how they think
the process, how they think it should go. So he's
we already talked about that. He'll get a little more
in depth. I think as a week goes.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
On, you can I change like this help the team?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You said it can it help Kennedy? They're not changing
it to make it worse.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean, I guess, but I don't know. It's all
it's all in how the team, you know, responds. I
think that's the main thing. I don't think it's necessarily
the coaching change that it makes something work. That's just
how the team responds.