Press Pass: Chip Kelly

as a week goes on. Chip Malcolm Jenkins talked about, you know, after these two back to back blowout losses, maybe it's better it would be better to slow down a little bit this week and talk things over and get some things corrected. What was your take on that, Well, that's what we do every day. I think when we meet individually and position meetings are coaches, we'll go over every single play that was run against us in the

in the past game. So part of our schedule on Tuesday when they get backer is the first thing we do is we address the game that we just played and we go over that in detail and in each position group as a group and they go over everything. So Corey runs a defensive back meeting and goes everything with them. Then we transition and everything from a special team standpoint. Then we come back and start the next meeting after that about our insertion in terms of getting

ready to play the New England Patriots. So that's addressed every Tuesday. We're not doing it in a team setting. Well, I don't understand that. I think that was Malcolm's a point was that in New Orleans they did it in a full team setting when they went over reviewed film. Yeah, I think that why don't I do that? Because my right card doesn't really care what our free safety does, so it's not really efficient for map tobin to listen what the instruction is going on with the free safety.

So I think when you want to get detailed in terms of making corrections, it needs to be done in the position group because those guys are paying attention to what goes on at their position. So there's a lot of different ways to do it to do it, but for us, in our opinion, and I do it in a lot of places. So I think everywhere I've been

it's been done that way. It's all been done in the individual position room to the individual position player, because it doesn't help a guy in this sport, unlike any other sport, it's very not related. You know, goes on for an offensive lineman. It's totally different than what goes on for defensive back about defense, defense and offense, like, I'm sure something that. Yeah, well we start every cornerback half. Yeah,

when we do that, Billy, we start everything. So we go from a team meeting and then we split into offense defense. So then Billy runs, Billy has ten or fifteen minutes with a defense, Pad has ten or fifteen minutes with the offense. Then we split into individual position groups. He was saying that maybe it creates more accountability if someone is getting called out in front of in front of the entire team. I don't that's just not I

don't buy that. I mean, I think Corey does a great job and calling out our guys in the dB rooms and then not calling it out. It's instructing on on what they did right and what they did wrong. So, um, you know, if you need to get called out in front of a group, then you're not getting things accomplishing your individual position meeting. And that's not the case. Brought that to your attention of other players voice concerns about the way things are done around the meter or no,

and and what we do around here. It is kind of what Pat did when he was in Cleveland. It's what Billy's used to. You know, we've got a lot of input from a lot of guys that have done at different places. So um, you know, I haven't been part of that. I don't under I think the efficiency of time it doesn't Again, it doesn't help. You got separate positions, and there's individual things. If a defensive lineman doesn't place his hands right, how does that affect what

the corner's doing. I think our corners need as much work and much instruction. I think our d line needs as much work and as much instruction. I think he can be more specific in doing it in terms of that. And everywhere I've been, I think it's been done that way. I think everywhere Billy has been, that's why it's been done. I think we're talking to Pat. I think that's why it's done where Pat's been in his career. So I think it's similar to what Andy did when he was here.

So you know, that's just what we choose to do. Many you address the point that he made that he said it was hard for him to be the leader that he obviously likes to be without the accountability coming down from the coach, because then he can't be a fact, but I think when you ask him it does. So our linebackers are being held accountable by coach Miner and Demiko Ryots. You know, I think it's all done in an individual position group, so, you know, I think everybody

should worry about their job and do their job. Then to say, you know, I'm not doing this on my aspect, but how come this guy's not doing that? I think that's where you get into kind of fingerpoint and that's not that's not conducive to being successful. I think everybody needs a stretch and everybody needs help out. Um, we all do. And I think the more you can get specific with the individual player and detail that for the

individual player, it's better. But to be in a group setting to say that I don't think the left the left tackle made a mistake here, and I want everybody in the room to know that that's doesn't help the right corner. I mean, the right corner is gonna go okay, great, that's good. Good. Let's I mean, I'm worried about playing press man? Why am I? Why am I listen to what I've had to going on? In a pass rushing like this, when you're struggling and a team's going through

a rough time. How do you deep down stay within what you truly believe in and say, I know this is gonna work. I know this is gonna get us out of this well, because I've seen it work before, and I've seen these players be successful before, and I've had that questions. I've seen us play really good football, right, you know, up until the last two games, I thought we played really well on the defensive side of the ball. Um, I think those guys have done a really good job.

You know. That's where kind of the Tampa Bay game was surprising. And we hadn't had their ball run on us like that since we've been here, the three years we have been here. So so I've seen the successful them and then I've told those guys that I believe in them because I've seen it. I's not believing them because it's fake. I've seen them all play at a really high level. We just need to play at a

high level consistently as a group. A lot of what you've done here in terms of practices in the structure of the day is about being efficient with your time. Um, yeah, why why why don't you want you know, Is it just you digital one guy's wasting time not getting as much out of the day, or are you ever worried about ending to day early for the players? I don't think we ended. I mean they're here from eight to five, so that's kind of prototypical of what goes on. And

why is efficiency so so big to you? Well, I don't. I don't think anybody's a big fan of wasting time, do you. No? I mean no, so I guess I'm not into wasting time. So yeah, that's the first time I've ever heard anybody critique efficiency. So I'm asking you why you I mean, why you've gone to such lengths to I don't think we've gone to such lengths. I think I think your job is to create an environment

where you have an opportunity to be successful. And you can just say, all right, let's how long do we want to meet for? I don't know. We got from now till midnight. I mean that's not really efficient. What do you got to get accomplished? I mean, I think everybody has to have parameters. You have deadlines, right, I mean you got to get a story in. I mean, if you're if your editor said, you know, get me a story sometime. You know, Okay, you're going to be

doing something that's probably not efficient. You know, if he tells I need a story in by noon, I'm probably gonna take care of the task at hand. And so I mean not so okay, I hope that answer it the two summers with the Patriots. What did you get from from that? Besides obviously the typical preseason work. I think that's what we got from it. I think people try to read too much into it. You know, I

don't think we looked at it is. Hey, you know, I know when year three we're going to play them, So let's try to figure out what they're doing or how they're doing it. Because the rosters change and turn over so much much that you can't say, hey, they did a you know, watch what they're doing here with this and in these schemes? Are those schemes because one thing Bill does, it does a great job of is implement a scheme that what players are available to him. So even if I mean, if we had a great

an understanding of what Julian Edelman does, that's great. He's not gonna play against this, you know, So we when we go to those sessions. It was just to get quality work against really good um, a really good team, you know, in an environment. I think we spend a lot of time, myself and Coach Belichick and putting those times together, and I think they were very, very efficient in terms we got accomplished, a lot of great situational work,

got a lot of really good on good work. UM. We did a lot of things on separate fields at the same time, so that again we were actually being efficient. You know, we didn't have you know, guys standing around watching, you know, their guys were working. Our guys were working. I really in those sessions, I didn't haven't much interaction with Bill because he was on his field and I

was on my field. So it was, you know, we thought there was great efficiency in that work, and it was really the good on good and that's what we were trying to get of those things. Why do you think it was important for you to tell the team that you're not going anywhere? I didn't, And I think that was what I was. I was actually having to talk to him about the difference between perception and reality. And I used that as one example of the difference

between perception and reality. But I didn't have a team meeting to say, let me tell you what's going on with me. I mean that that was just an example. I've never been leading, and it's been reported. So that's my point is that the difference between perception and reality is that the reality is this, the perception is this, And here's a couple of examples of reality and perception,

and that's all it was. So it wasn't a team meeting to address anything, because that again, for me, to have a team meeting to address anything would be inefficient. Were some of the other examples? Were some of the other examples. You gave a lot of reports that are put in the media Michael Kendricks that we don't like Michael Kendricks, he doesn't fit our prototype of what we're looking for in a linebacker, and then all of a

sudden resigned Michael Kendricks. Well, what's reported is the perception. What the reality is is we think Michael's a great fit in terms of what we do. So there's a litany of them. The problem is, I think a lot of people can get sidetracked with what perceptions are and we have to really focus on the reality. And the reality for us is the Lonegan Patriots and let's dig into this and let's get after it and prepare for

playing against a really good football team. When the decision to release Um last year myst offseason, just where we were in the secondary and what we were trying to get accomplisher, was it anything with us schematically in terms of him fitting in in terms of what you guys do back there, Now, I wouldn't say it was it

was that much. I just think we're billion and what they wanted to do in a secondary and where they were going, you know, and I think pat understood when you look at when you look at the Patriot secondary, Um, you know, they lost a couple of marquee guys during the offseason and everything, like just the way they've been able to like plug in and keep going, I mean about I think there's some growth there. I think if you watch Malcolm Butler play, you know, he started last

year as an undrafted free agent. Obviously he had the maybe the play ever in the Super Bowl in terms of what he'd done. But he's taken great strides as a corner, and they've had him matched up in a couple of games against Beckham, against some of the really top receivers that they faced, and he's a competitive, aggressive and has done a really nice job. And I think maybe their decisions to let guys go because they felt

like their depth provided them with someone like that. I think Logan Ryan on the other side, is someone that has done a really, really good job, is another quality corner. And then I think McCardy may be one of the best free safeties in the league. So I think they've they've got some quality depth. They may not be the name depth, but when you watch the tape and you're evaluating players and you look at how Malcolm Butler's playing right now, it's whether it's whether he has the premier name.

You know, some of the top corners in the league, but he's playing like that right now. So have you seen enough from Sam Bradford to know that you know he can be effective? He can be efficient in this league for a long period of time. And I'm concerned with the New England Patriots game, so I'm not looking

at that. I know Sam is a really good quarterback and was playing really really well for US before he got injured against Miami, and I'm excited to see how he broke US is this week so that we can get them back out on the field. Thanks, thank you, m H.