Knowing you're going up against one of the if not the best defensive line in all the football.
Yeah, excuse me. It's a great challenge. I mean, the guys are it's a great rush group. You're on the road with silent count. Just a lot of things that go into it. And uh, you know, we always have individual matchups every week. There's always a good rusher or two in every group. They just every single guy across our front and even when they start rolling in second team guys, they can rush the pass really, really well. And it's it's a real challenge. I mean, it's exciting
to have that challenge. It's a great challenge. It's a it's a challenge though, you really got to dig in and be ready to go read a unique challenge. Speed. Yeah, he's he just as his son, has a very very uh great great get off, great speed. He's got a real good ability to finish at the top of the pocket. A lot of guys can get the top of the pocket with speed, but it's really hard to turn and make that last turn to the quarterback and make the play.
And he can just keep running with great speed and make that turn at the top of the pocket, which is really really good. And when you just when you think, okay, I'm gonna get out there and make sure he can't run around the corner, he can beat inside. He's he's got a little bit of everything. He's really developed his game. It's really cool to watch a player that he really didn't give much mind to when he was in Arizona and then and then all of a sudden, his time's
gone on. He just keeps working at his craft, working at his craft and becomes this really elite pass rusher, which is which is really cool to see for me anyway, to watch a guy developed Colton probably wishes he didn't develop quite as fast.
They have a three four defense, but do they ever do any of the wide nine stuff that they've gone in the past.
Yeah, Oh, definitely when they get to nickel, when they go to their nickel four down package, and really, at the end of the day, those two guys that are the outside linebackers really play like wide nines anyway, But when they get to the four down it looks much more like our defense with a two I and a three technique inside and then the two guys that are the outside linebackers playing those end positions, So it's very similar to what they've always done.
But does he play like a kind of a bigger, stronger.
And he plays with great leverage. Both those guys who are a really nice job of setting the edge with lever, use their arm length, use their use their you know, anchor. They can bend and sit down and they do a good job. Both those guys are are good edgectters.
Is John Fliciano upgrade from Burford? And if so, how is he the superior.
Player right now? I say that everybody's great about the same this season. There's it's a there's a very fine line between all of them, so to say that one is an upgrade over another, and they all bring something different to the table. All the guys that are in their trends. The only guy that kind of is an outlier. It's probably you know, cut above everybody else as far
as ability and the things he does. But when you look at the rest of the guys, you can get any any given game and you can say, oh, this week, Colton's better this week, Spencer's better this week, John's better this week, Trent uh Jake do it. It's it's we're all about the same. They all play well together, they work well together, and it's just what they bring to the table on a given week. Well, John's thing is
he's in past protection. He's pretty reliable, he's very very his his experience level is I guess the thing that would be the most. You know, he's been there, done that, played in the games, has experienced all the things, has played against these players that we're playing against this week, you know, being in the division against them the last couple of years. So every like I say, every week,
it's a different thing. And then so John, John brings that experience level, and I'd say as past protection part of the thing, he's probably doing the best job of.
Right now, where is your offensive line, both individually and working together, compared to like or what you hoped or expected they would be at this point in the season to where they actually are right now? Are you pleased with the way the offensive line is coming along?
Yeah? I mean, you know, I just I just say we're still we're still trying to get better. I mean pleased, you know, gosh, you know we've been okay, you know, we were productive. Offense has been productive and running the ball protection wise, but but there's just so many things we can do better. We're just not there yet. We're working progress, man, we are. Each individual is getting a
little bit better every week. That's the I did notice over the bye week and it's continued these last three weeks since the buye that I did notice like it was it was incremental, it was small. But Spencer, Colton, Jake, you know Banks to a degree that he got hurt, you saw him getting better. Even Trent. You know, Trent has to get himself back into playing shape from early in the season. As we go through the year, he gets better and better as the year goes on, as
long as he stays healthy. And so I think we're progressing and working to get better. But man, there's a lot to do. What I like seeing as a group is I do think they're beginning to work better as a group as each week goes on. That's the thing that I hope continues. You know, there's so many things that go into playing well together as a group, and it's not just line up next to the same guy.
It's just understanding the concept of a play and understand how the defense, you know, how we apply our techniques and fundamentals to that play against this particular defense and then having the guys being on the same page with it. That's the thing that's really exciting to watch is it goes on. And as I've stayed here before, it's you know, you play football every day, and we play six days a week or whatever it is. We get to practice and do all that we get to do, and guys
can get better. And our guys, you know, because of Kyle and how we do things here, they're always working. We're always making sure that they they have to work and when they work at it, and they tend to get better if they have the ability to do it. So it's been incremental. Not there yet, I mean not at all. I'm glad, you know we got these We got six regular season games left to see how we do. This will be a great test to see where we.
Are a lot of the lines. Are you happy that this game's coming, you know, first week in December and not the middle of September.
I'm good either way. I'm good either way. You know, that's a tough opponent. They'd have been tough in September, They'd have been tough in December. They're They're a really really good opponent, good.
Team to run on the Eagles defensive you.
Know that they like Like when we played Jacksonville, the thing that we commented on was that it wasn't like it was confusing. It wasn't like they had a bunch of crazy things to pick up and block. They just defeat blocks. Well, they just are good players, you know, the big guys inside get off blocks and make tackles the edge set or set edges and get rid of the guys trying to block him on the edge and make tackles. The inside linebackers, although they've lost one of them.
The more you study them, man, they're hard to get blocked on a second level. They do a good job of either running around or running over the top of and making lineman miss them on the second level and they get to make tackles and they do a good job of not getting blocked. And I guess that's what makes you pretty good on defense.
Feeling Carter does some amazing things. What does he What do you see when you watch.
Him, Well, just the thing as you see obviously you know the run defense, and we just talked about it. How strong and physical the guys are upfront. They do a good job of dealing with blockers and getting off blocks and making plays. But the explosiveness with which he can rush the passer. He's just got. This tremendous explosion is side to side movement, the way he can gets into a guy and all of a sudden bam, a quick movement. He's he's off the guy and in the
quarterback's face. Just tremendously explosive for a big man. Thanks guy, all right, thanks guys,