Different guys on the line. That's because the preparation going oh yeah, yeah, thanks down. Yeah, he's doing a good job. It's been a preparation has been great. The guys have been They always get work. The second team guys always get a handful of reps. Every single team periods have always been prepared. John for example, every week would get uh. In some periods you'd get too at right guard, to
at center, to it left guard. The other periers you get one at center, one at right guard when it depend upon the length of the period.
Uh. And then service scout team you take reps as well.
So at the end of the day, we make sure that those guys get almost as much work as many reps as they would get if they were starters. They get them between the splitting time with the starters and the scout team. So it's a we try to always have them prepared that way so that when they do have to step in, there's.
A they got a chance.
So, uh, the injury thing's not in my the balls not in my court on the injury thing, So I just uh, whoever's there, we get them coached up and let's go play. Just see in the room when you guys are going through film and talking about how much what how much? Coaches? He also in the realm, Trent Trent, Trent is, uh, yeah, I mean my meaning room is the mean rooms.
Here's a shocker.
I talk a lot, Okay, I like to I like to talk, So I tell I talk a lot in there.
I'm always on the way I coaches, is I kind of you know, not just do that's got to tell stories, you know, And I talk through the play and and then every time and then I'll have an offshoot to tell a story about a player I used to coach, and it's just just kind of like this this thing turns out to be and uh and then but Trent, will you know, all of a sudden, if he's whispering over there in the corner to Jalen or to Mkivotz or somebody, and I'll just say, speak up and say what you're gonna say.
Well, I was just saying da da da da.
So he's always looking, always thinking that I always he's always respectful and doesn't want to like overstep his bounds. But I'm always like trying just say say what you want to say, man, And if I don't agree, I mean he and I have a great related I say, Trent, I think I don't agree with you, and he may still disagree. I mean, we may agree to disagree, or later on he's like, I'm writer, or later on I'll say, no.
You're right.
That was a great idea, and uh, oftentimes the guys do it. I just want to tell me so that we can because I don't you know, I've got a lot of answers, but I definitely don't claim to have them all. So a halfway point here, how would you evaluate the right side of your line?
Is playing through the version of the dat. You know, it was really cool to do this the study. I enjoyed it.
I told Kyle when I came back, I said, you know, you know, losing three games in a row, obviously this is you know, this an NFL season. This is when you really find out what you're made of when you go through the tough times. And it's been really cool to to you know, to not cool, it's been it's been interesting to see how we've come through it and where we're gonna end up with this whole thing, being
where we are today. When you evaluate the guys, I said, you know, what's really funny is like take Spencer Berford for example, take Colton, They've gotten better. You know, you watch the cutups. You're like, gosh, look at him in Pittsburgh, look at him and whatever. I don't remember the second, but look at him each week and then all of a sudden, look at him today and and then I remember last season. Uh, and they've they've gotten better. Does
it always show up? And you know, like you say the stat line, right, you'd say, does it always show up? And wins and losses always show up in their production during a game?
Not always?
But yet you see the little things that that that the building blocks of what make a better football player. And I said, I said to Kylle the other day, I said, and this is here, here's another, here's a here's a shocker who we play football every day. They get a chance to get better, and they playing games. You get a chance to get better else. And you take away football in the offseason, the developmental time, it's harder.
And so it it just this is when they should improve. And if you go.
About it the right way, if they approach it the right way, you don't get stuck on w's and l's and it's stuck on how do we improve and then what's that, Well, what's my role in not helping us win games? I'm very happy with their progress, is it? You'll always hear me say there's not a guy up there that's playing well enough.
Everybody can get better, including me coming game.
You given the fact that you're in the midst of their.
Game, you just alluded to. Yeah, No, it's it's anytime. You don't you don't want the more one in row.
I mean you don't. You don't want to stack. You want to stack wins. You know, no matter how you're playing, you just want to win games. It's things is about winning, and so you got to win a game, no matter what happens. Is it's it's the most important game right now.
The most important thing is getting having great Thursday practice and getting ourselves ready in this phase of what we prepare for because that's going to do the best thing to help us again and preparing it on Friday, preparing on Saturday, that'll give us the best chance to have a chance to win the game on Sunday. But you've got to do the things that takes in the situations, and that's normally what it comes down to, there's a handful of plays in situations that you do or don't
execute that end up winning to lose the game. For the most part in the NFL, and it's very important obviously that you win every game. The issues with the running game the last few games have to do with opponents coming up and say, we're taking this away, and how much you have to do with now there was lanes there, we just didn't. I mean, it's been the same. It's almost been the same every week. I mean, we talked about a couple of weeks ago. We haven't had
a chance to talk since the Cincinnati game. We talked about how the possessions went in the Minnesota game. We talked about the Cleveland game and how we were always behind the eight ball and second and longs. We never could get any rhythm going. And the Cincinnati game, what happened was just start a second half, you come out, you have an eight, nine, ten yeard run and then you get called holdings first and twenty. We overcame it, but but you know, same thing happens the first play
the game. We get eight yards on a player, nine yards on a play, and then we run, run, a power and we don't get a yard and we'reunna short yards run. We don't get a yard? Now, is that the fault to run is at us? We didn't block it good enough. The defense played well, but we didn't get another set of we're not getting that next set of downs to keep that thing going and to get a couple more runs called.
And then whatever's been going on.
You know, it's always a team thing, you know, whatever's whatever's going on as far as possessions, whatever's going on, as far as time in the game, whatever's going on with score, it can kind of affect how you do things. So I think it's not I don't look at as a bad trenks when I look at practice, when I study.
The cutups, it's not like, oh crap, man, I got it. We're not you know, so and so is not.
Hitting the hole, or we're not blocking this guy, or the defenses. Oh my god, this is the hardest defense we've ever faced. No, it's it's not. It's it's it's just the way it's kind of falling right now without and obviously we have to do a better job.
I said it last week, is well, we've.
Got to do a better job, first and foremost, because if we block better, create big holes.
You know, it's it's easy.
To run with Jackson, Bill b Line, Draymon Walker, and Josh Allen.
Off the edges. What do you see?
Yeah again, we face them every week. It seems like great pass rushers off the edge. So Colton and the tackle Trent or Jalen have a great challenge in front of them. Everybody's got to do their part to help make sure that we don't you know, we keep our quarterback up right and doing what we's got to do. They are they play great team defense. You know, those
guys are good players. The interior players. They haven't had the production with the sacks, but they pressure the quarterback and and they get They're just they're very very good team defense.
They're very well coached. They get the ball.
You know, with the last three defenses when you take the all of them in well coach. But you go back to Cleveland, Cleveland is one of the top defense in the league. You look at how you know, Cincinnati's team played last week and this team this week, very very very well coordinated.
Good jobs.
Minnesota is in the first year with Floores up there and they did a good job, but it's a little bit. They're a little different place in the development of their defense than those are the three teams. These are really well coached defenses that are on point and there's not a lot of holes in them. So you got to be you got to be really good at what you're doing, and you have to make plays and converts.
You can get more sets of downs.
You get more sets of downs, you're gonna have chances, you know, And that's what we've got to be able to do. I think good treshers every week are there're more definite pass rusher around the league that just at a different level.
And maybe it was you know, I don't know. I mean, yeah, it was funny their day.
Trent and I were talking to he goes you know, I mentioned DeMarcus where to these guys and they don't even know who DeMarcus Ware is.
You know, he shocks him and so it's like getting old bro.
But uh, but you sit there just like, hey man, this guy. Uh, you go through the league and everybody has somebody who flashes. I don't know that, you know, it's hard to say. It's just the generational thing, you know, it's the Kobe Michael Jordan. It's the Reggie White versus Bruce Smith versus the air of the guys today. It's just so hard to say, but there are a lot of talented rushers. I would say that college football right there.
I guess they're throwing the ball more and I don't know if they or not, but it seems like it. So there's more chances to.
Rush the past or there's going to be more opportunities for.
Guys to develop his past rushers and there's more, you know, we get guys that are more developed as pass blockers they are than they are as run blockers. So I think the whole game has kind of gone that way.
So there may be a few more better. I don't know if they're the elite elite, but man, it.
Seems like every week somebody has one, and you have to I think that's where people invest their picks. You all, everybody knows if you can, you know, get after a quarterback good. The best way to stop a good quarterback is if you can get in his face and rush him. And the more guys you have that can rush, the better, the better the defense. Addressing the team right after the Bengals loss, And what's struck you about his message? Oh, I just you know he you know, he's a great
he's a great guy, a great leader. And it was heartfelt. It wasn't lip service in my opinion. That's what I liked about it. Whatever he would have said, it was heartfelt.
He meant it. You know, I touched the football every play. I'm responsible.
I gotta take care of football, you know, And that was I think that was the crux of it. I don't, I don't, I don't don't remember at all exactly, but I just like the fact that he's accountable and not you're not afraid to say.
It's my fault.
He's not pouring the finger at anybody saying, you know, I gotta take responsibility for this. I gotta make sure I do better job. You guys have trusted me to do this, and I gotta do better. And it's the response you would hope a guy would have when things aren't when things didn't go as well, to say it was bad or who's fault. I'm not kicking at all that, but at least in his mind, what he felt was
his responsibility. He needed to do a better job of and he addressed it with the team, which then you know who's gonna tell you know, what is it the Emperor's close or whatever? The elephant in the room, right, who's gonna say that it's the elephants in the room as there were interceptions and they have cost us the last couple of games or whatever it.
Is that has happened, and he took accountability for what are you.
Playing?
Chase Young?
In the previous seasons, Chase Young was a you know, I'm always involved in the in the draft process with the d line and the linebackers, and then Kyle knows to have me leave the room when the dbs show up because I'll fall asleep. So but when the when the rushers are there, man, I'm there watching and I remember Chase coming out, and I thought, Chase a really really good player, great athleticism, great speed, great length. It just for whatever reason, it hasn't all come together consistently.
You know, you could make a cut of a highlight reel of the guy that's like, holy cow, this guy's phenomenal. But then the playing and play out and I don't I can't put my finger actually don't play him.
Much over the last couple of years once or twice.
I haven't studied him that much, but he's a very very good player and it's just a matter of, I think, in the opt to be consistent.
HI guys, thank you