He's down there until Friday, from what I understand, so we'll come back and see him on Friday. They're doing some rehab work with him, so not that I'm aware of. I just know he's down there. That Derek said, I mean, Chris said it'd be back. I don't think it's surgery. I mean he's coming back on Friday, So we'll see where he is then. He said they're rehabing him, is what I was told. He did a couple of things yesterday.
We'll see how he progresses today. So he's limited in practice yesterday and we'll see, you know, to what extent he can go today. With Cody Parkey, as I understand, he had an MRI like the Wednesday before the Atlantic games and showed that this gronded heel, what do you make of that? I mean, is he just predisposed to car up? As I said yesterday, it was a new injury, So it's in a different spot of or the other injury that he had, you know, pre Packers game or
whatever um or whatever preseason game he did it. And I don't know if it was the whatever game it was, but it was. This is a different injury. So what do I make of it is it's unfortunate for Cody. I feel bad for him. He's just such a works extremely hard at what he does. Us most conscientious could I've been around in terms of what he does from a kicking standpoint, but um, he had a great attitude when I talked to him the other day, it's gonna
be here every day. He's gonna help kale about you know, explain kind of where he's kicked before, kind of what the situations are. He's been down in Washington Stadium, he's been in our stadium, and just kind of help from that standpoint. But you know, he's he's he's gonna be here. He's gonna start rehab and he's ever already started his
rehab process. But because of the nature of the injury, Um, it was at least eight weeks um before we'd be back to doing anything, which kind of eliminated the point that we could bring him back from anything. The other Uh, he kicked the ball through the uprights? Why was he better? He kicked more field goals and those guys did What do you know about his mental part of his people? I know fifth on a lot of research on him. Chris was on our staff with him when he was
at Miami and was very confident in him. I guess, yeah, he's got a heck of a leg. I mean it explodes off his foot. So he was the best in both kickoffs and field goals. And we had in our tryouts Jason Peters and Ryan Cooper sister. Yeah, they got a nagging thing. I think, uh, they'll probably not go full today and then we expect them back this week though, Ship, what are your concern level with Sam Bradford? You know, moving the ball, getting it down the field is a
lot of it on him? Is it? Is it partially the receiver's dropping some balls. It's a combination of everything, so you know, I mean we've had some jobs, but there's been some times where guys are open and we didn't put it on him at their appropriate times. What's a combination of both that he's just coming back from the injury, he's learning the offense is in the combination of everything. Where do you think a specific thing that's Sam? I think he missed two throws, so he probably wants
back in the Jets game. Does the red his offense changed much with DeShawn in it versus when he kind of. I think the offense has changed different than it was last year. I mean, we played two different quarterbacks last year and haven't seen DeShawn this year, so I think, um, they're a little bit more run oriented this year because of their backs. But I don't know if that's because Deshaan's not in or not. You know, so I couldn't.
I mean they threw the ball a little bit differently in both games we played him last year, so he got through, you know, so we'll see how much more he can do today. But he looked he looked good yesterday. But I think with an injury like that Michael had, that it's a progression thing. How does he progress during the weeks. But um, you know, we're encouraging where he is now. Ye But until you had him, why not?
Price tag of what was available in free agency was more than we were willing to play, Yet you had in turn? What did you think? I thought it was good, But I also don't think you can just take players for the sake of take him players. You know, if we drafted, we didn't have an offensive linement drafted to the third round grade. If we took them, we wouldn't
have Jordan Hicks right now. So, I mean there's there's always after the fact that you can say this, you can say that, but I mean, we're not going to reach and take things just before the sake of taking things this year season said last year, when he's progressed, I think just because he's third year here, you know, he's got more experience, We've got a better understanding what's going on. You're just fade adding to the offensive lind
at all, we'll see. I mean, we'd like to have nine, that's that's the ideal number four us, but because of the we had two linebackers down that aren't on injured reserved candidate Tepe guys. You know when Michael Kiko, so you know, you're you got to kind of figure out where do I get that extra spot right now? And for us at this current time, it was it was in the offensive line. You know, there's there's you get another injury somewhere, you may have to compensate somewhere else.
If in the ideal world, we'd like to have nine offensive linement in the in the fifty three, but right now we could we couldn't do that just because of those two two injuries. At the inside linebacker position. After the last couple of drafts, there was nobody available in the rounds where we were thinking about drafting offensive line and who was fourth a pick? Is that remarkable? Dude? Were you surprised by that two years in a row that there wasn't real good offensive one value and second,
three or fourth round? Now, I mean, I I just think it unfolds away. It unfolds and then you know when when you picked, there probably a couple of guys that go a couple of picks before you that yugs, I wish that guy was there. If he was there, he's probably rated higher than the guy we had. But you know when when when we look at the draft itself, it's we're always just kind of going all the way down and as the names get picked, to take him off, and then you look at him and just say, who's
the best available? And at the time when and I said it then and it really was when we saw Jordan was the highest rated guy we had in the third round. So that's where we went within the third round. You know when then we decided in the fourth um we traded our pick, you know, which got us a third This year, you know, so you know, there were some there's a lot of Indans and outs that I went in the draft day. But you know, we're still
going to take what's the best at a position. And I think when you reach at a position, you end up getting in trouble. You've always had a very good offense here that you put up a lot of points, a lot of yards. What is your concern level now with the offense? I know, what's early? Just three games in. I'm just concerned with Washington. You know, I don't care if we score two points and win two nothing or we score fifty two points and win fifty two fifty one.
We're concerned with beating Washington. We don't look at it as we need to do this, we need to do that, as what do we do? We do we what do we need to do in the football game on Sunday to win the football game? Are the off season are I've been limited to the exployees. What have you seen out of that secondary these first three games in regards to keeping new keep plays from not having They're doing a better job, you know than we did a year ago. We still need to clean that up, though, But I
think it's the whole defense. You know, it's a combination of the rush, coverage, all of that. All those elements add to what it is. Obviously, if if the quarterback has a ton of time back there, then he's got time to really push the ball down the field, you know. And that's what we kind of saw a little bit in the first week in the Atlanta game. And we didn't get a great rush on on Matt in the first game, and we also so weren't great in coverage in that game. So you know, I think it's a
combination of both. I see, I've seen improvement, Um, you know from game one to Game two to game three, so we just need to continue. Um, there's they took a couple of shots, you know, eric Row made a nice play on a breakup and then eric Row had an interception. Then they took a shout on Nolan, and I thought Nolan made a really nice play on the deep bowl of Brandon Marshall. So, you know, I've seen improvement, but we need to continue to get better secondary strictly
technique things. Oh it's everything. I mean, it's matchups and how do you match up with who you're at? You know who they are, You know, and is there a double is there a safety over the top, but it's it's safety over the top? Are you lighting them? I mean, there's a lot of different combinations or reasons that go into it so different. Well, they're a little bit they they were a little bit more four down at times.
Um now then they were under coach Haslet But um, you know, I think the big thing with Joe's group and Joe's they're always sound, you know, and uh they don't their second rank defense in the NFL right now. There they can stop the run with their guys up front, their gigantic upfront. You know. I think n Knight may be the biggest inside guy in the league right now. Um, They've got another real talented guy. And Hatcher, who's been whether we played against him in Dallas or on Washington,
is a guy we have great respect for. He's a tremendous inside defensive lineman this league. And when they go to their four down package, they got Ryan Carragunos, one of the better defensive and outside linebackers in the league. Trent Murphy's playing really well for him. They have a young rookie and Preston Smith that's playing a lot of snaps for him. Um, so they can They've stopped the run with just their front and they got two really
good inside linebackers and Perry Riding and Keenan Robinson. They've been able to stop the run with that. So they're keeping the ball in front of them. They're not allowing really big explosive players just because their front can handle the run defense. And I think that's that's a big challenge for our offensive line going into this game. Agency a year or little year and a half ago, how much did you take into account like game I guess
because obviously playing he's fine PLA. I think you go back to a lot of times because you don't have exposure to him when he was with the Saints, but go back to what our scouts looked at him when he was at Ohio State, and you know that's where you kind of get that information from the evaluation of the NFL stuff is really just off a film and tape. You know, you don't get a chance to go in and interview a guy in free agency and say, hey, ask the coach to coached him, tell us about him,
because you know that team may want him back. So you know there's not a lot. There weren't conversations between our staff and the Saints from that standpoint, But the one thing that stuck out to us in terms of what we're looking for for safety is that you have to be able to play down and you also have to be able to play high. And I think it's you know, it's not coincidence that both of our safeties were both corners to start their career, because you need
to be able to cover. We're not a traditional one high safety, another guy in the box type of defensive operation. You know, we play right and left safety, and they they both could be down at times, they both could be high at times, and it really takes a guy that's got some versatility and we saw that. That's why he he was our number one free safety that we were looking at um in free agency two years ago.
So you guys do a lot of preventative stuff with injuries, but what were the numbers showing you with with parking? You know, we're flags leading out to this or now. He actually said he was feeling as good as he was just before the week leading up to the Jets game. So connection between the league season las an injury and the one now I don't think so, but I didn't
investigate it. You know, we do a whole when a guy's injured that goes on ir they'll go back and look at everything and try to see, you know, kind of the reason why. But I didn't. We haven't haven't gotten any information on that right now, say he got a lean and yeah, they go through Ryan and Sam, go through every throw that he makes in every game. And I've sat down and visited on all that stuff.
I know Cal hadn't the most player. A good question for him exactly what he did before he got here, But when he got here on April twentieth, he was our most competitive guy in the weight room. He was our most consistent. You talk about a guy that just kept hitting prs, whether it be in bench squad, all of our lifts, prs and our runs. I think, you know a lot of guys take that time from at the end of the season till April. Maybe his time off. I think he was obvious to everybody that that he
didn't take that time off. He worked extremely hard. So when he got here in a chip what excuse me, it's definitely showing up. Now. I think he's doing a heck of a job. He earned the starting corner job. You know, we talked to those guys that were coming back. It was wide open. Really. The only guy that was an established player gup was coming in for us was Malcolm and then the rest of it. You know, let's go see how it chakes itself out, you know. And
Nolan's experience was as a nume mostly for us. You know, it was really good at it. But you know, could he be an outside corner? And I think he showed to us that he could be an outside corner was playing really well. Right now. We didn't know exactly what he was. We knew he was an outstanding special teams player, and we thought he had not ttunity to be a
corner for us. And we'd see how he developed. And the credit really goes to him in terms of how hard he's worked and making himself not only and he was a great special things player for us Slasher, but not just a good special things player, but then taking that step to becoming a starting starting corner in this league. He's doing a really good job at it right now. Sad now we're still looking at that. I mean, we've
got we haven't been in pads yet. So you know we got two days are two big work days are today and tomorrow. But um, you know Matt will get the first shot at it, but we'll take a look at at how that goes. He's next two days, so thanks