Injuries for today. E Tour knee will not practice. The Winners ankle will not practice, Huff knee will be limited, Bank's finger slash, calf will be limited, Christian McCaffrey calf slash, achilles will be limited. Juwan Jennings ankle limited.
But in that teacher's session yesterday did not go well or.
As well as hoping could might not. It's not practicing today.
Christian is still limited and not just out. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but I would read that as a positive sign for how he feels.
Not doctor either, but I take that as positive. Yeah, I agree, Yes, I do agree, but I'm not doctor.
Would there be any is way premature to suggest that he could maybe go on I R just to make sure he's good for the rest of the.
No, I've never considered that. Was considered him to play last week. So definitely not thinking about four weeks off.
Sam. When you you had Sam last year for the year, w what did you from him when you had him here?
And and just what did you see from loved having Sam here? For he was an awesome guy. He's been that way everywhere everywhere he's been, and we found it out personally here, but always liked Sam before he got here, just his talent level from college and what he had seen in the NFL, and was exactly as good as advertised. I mean, he's such a good athlete, so tough, can make any throw, and really enjoyed working with him. I
thought he got better throughout the year. I know he was always ready to get more opportunities in the games if something bad happened, and fortunately for Brock, we didn't have to do that til the last week. But he was really good having here as number two.
Who you've addressed this, Do you take me back to the running up the stairs when you thought Brandon might get traded, Like, how was your first on that was that?
Really? Did you really have to sprint to make sure?
I mean I had to sprint because I had a team meeting at eight thirty and I was getting ready for my team meeting and Brandon just randomly walked in and talked to me at eight fifteen. And it's very Brandon liked to pick that type of time because I
was trying to get ready for something else. So about ten minutes and I talk to him, I realized we need to talk a little bit more when the meeting was over, and meetings can go a while and stuff, and I knew we were in discussions a lot with Pittsburgh, so I actually called up to John and he didn't answer picked up on the first ring. So I just wanted to make sure it wasn't on another line making any trades. So I ran up there and just said, hold on, let's talk after this meeting.
You got to bargin No, no, I'm.
Not gonna make it more dramatic than already is. He had randomly walked into your office, he would have been one. Well, no, there was no trade done, but those were you just never knowing that it's gonna happen, you know, when you're going through negotiations, going through trades like that stuff. That's why it's hard to keep up with all the reports and stuff, because stuff is going on. But I mean, nothing was intimate.
Would you assess Brandon's night on Monday in terms of conditioning?
Just I thought he did a good job. I mean, he never felt like he wasn't conditioned. You know, we rotated him more than usual, which definitely helped. But you know, I haven't got to talk to him yet today. But I'm sure he was sore and stuff from it, but now the conditioning, everything was no factor.
Wendy night, I thought watching that thing over was just amazing. The motor football IQ. He's a real special player. Didn't really see him live until last night night.
Yeah, now his motor's been He's like that every day in practice, and especially for a guy like whatever year it is tenth or something to be able to go that hard in practice every day, I don't care how he can keep it up. I remember Staley, who was with him in Chicago and the Rams, telling us he was like that you could always see it on tape. I mean, he's got such a good motor on tape, but he knows no other way. He loves playing football. He keeps it very simple. He likes to come out
there every day. He goes as hard as he can, and on the games he would just cut him loose and he kind of took over in that way, and I think he's a really inspiring guy to watch.
How much have you studied the Vikings offense and what kind of stands out to you about the way Kevin's.
Doing it over there.
I mean they have one game from this year, but you know, it's you know, going off of last year. In this game, it's similar how the rams were. You know, Kevin does a real good job just balancing out his drop back game with his play action. As keepers, they mix in tempo and hurry up at all times. You got to constantly be ready for that. Sometimes they're just going fast. Sometimes they're making a lot of checks with
the line of scrimmages. But it's it's a very good, very good offense player friendly because this guy's a bunch of chances to make plays and got a lot of respect for what he's done there. He's I mean, the way you can cut with his speed, Uh there's not there's not an angle. He can't really run that at full speed and drop his weight. He's also fearless in how he plays. His hands are as good as anyone.
I don't know him personally, but from what I've heard people have been with him, they say, I've heard he's one of the smartest players that people I've not say they've been with. He's the full package.
Did Sam last year get better every week even though.
He wasn't playing, Uh yeah, I did, you know. I think just you know, Sam had been in a lot of different offenses and a few different teams and stuff. So I think just the more he always can make plays and stuff, but the more he got used to while we were asking. And it's hard when you ask some people to do stuff that they haven't done before, because sometimes you gotta get worse before you get better. But Sam came in with such a good mindset. He was so detailed in what he did, really never wavered
and really tried to pick stuff up. And I thought he came in really good, and I thought he got better throughout the year.
He signed with the Vikings and going to Kevin because you was your first reaction, Oh, that's a good spot for him.
Yeah, I thought it was a real good spot for him, and I was happy for him. I was hoping he'd find no good spots and come back here, but I was happy for him. He got this opportunity because Sam more than deserves it. Sam's the starting quarterback in this league and he should run with it. So recently and then the short week in travel, is there anything differently that you're gonna do.
With trend this week?
Nothing different the whole team. We don't do a full speed practice today, so that's unusual for a Wednesday this early in the year, but just two games removed from the from Monday. We'll go half speed today and we'll just have one full speed practice tomorrow.
Number showed that Mason a lot of yards before contact. What did your offensive line look like when you watched it again?
They did a real good job. I mean they cleaned up lanes. There are a lot of good holes for him. And then Mason always got more than there was blocked four So it was a good combination of all eleven doing a really good job and Mason always do an extra on each play too.
Four yard catch?
What do you call that a rail? Would you ask?
Well?
Did you say a red rot? Oh? Yeah, it's wheelish, Yeah, wheel with an R.
Okay, you're good.
Probably play or like haven't you been here?
Man?
No, we've had ju sat on a bunch. It's look at like play three. I think of Philadelphia and COVID year. We just missed it down the sidelines with Nick Mullins. I mean we've I don't know if we hit a Yeah, Pittsburgh twenty nineteen. Yeah, it's been around. I mean, don't you guys have something to just type in the answers that for you, Yeah, Google, exactly my I mean, when I've seen him, he hasn't mentioned it thing, The trainers
haven't mentioned anything. That's what I was kind of explaining on training camp that I thought was so impressive having so many guys out and how hard he went each day and the way he has his body really never changed. So uh, he ran so hard in that game and it seems good to go.
Was it for you to see Moody half the night that he did after some short last year.
I thought it was great. You know, I didn't even realize how many he hit till after the game. And I think he got Player of the Week so he which was more than deserved. Probably should have gave him a game ball, but one hit the crossbar. But no, it was awesome for him, especially that I think there was two fifty yard plus ones and that was huge. All right, thanks guys,