Because en run around yes year might be a little practice. Yeah, that's gonna be the case. We'll see what he can do. You know, he did run around a little bit yesterday and then they'll monitor as he goes through today. So I don't have any other update. That's exactly what he just said self. We'll see what he can do. Are you're spoking about how highly you've got a oldell and last year was a trade cosslit all in the interpet getting up. You know it's something store there was no trade.
He's not practicing again today. You know what's the the approach from from your standpoint? And you have gotten sure it happens every week. Where have the kind of monitor whether he's got a player or not. Yeah, our approaches he's playing, that's our approach. We'll see thirteen on Monday night. Very competitive player, know him very well. He's gonna play against us. You've you've left players um in the past, players very significant injuries taught for that whole last year.
What's your theory and changing that when sometimes player maybe don't push themselves from coming from any come back and there's no theory with mine. It's all done through the athletic training room and our doctor, so I have I don't weigh in on any injuries or that's not my expertise and that's all up to those guys, So I don't weigh in one way or another round any of that suns down to that and it never comes down to the head coach. Never should come down on the
head coach. I'm not in charge. I'm not a medical doctor, so I don't never get cleared anybody to play, and never will clear anybody to play. It's between the player and the trainer then to decide or the doctor. The doctor, not the trainer. It's the doctor. The doctors say who plays and who doesn't play. I think Barr has played well in the last couple of weeks, you know, getting settled, getting an understanding of um, you know what we're doing defensively.
But I thought he's played well in the last couple of weeks. I know we said that news handles all the running back rotations, but Ryan Matthews playing really well. You guys as a team haven't made a concerted that. Again, we just work on a daily basis here, so I'm not concerned with you know, we'll see you have no idea. That's why I'm never a hypothetical guy. Ryan could be the only healthy back in the second quarter tomorrow night on Monday night. So there's we don't ever have conversations
about what happens, if this happens or that happens. It's just gonna take it as it come. So Friday question it sufficient. You only have to shave once a week, so later in the week we have more time. So George miss pleased. I think we're STAPs than any other side linebacker. For you guys, how much has there been instances where he's been in charge of kind of running the show getting the signal? Yeah, there has you know,
he gets to um you know when Demiko's out. Really he's the guy making the calls when when we're in uh in a lot of our packages, and he's done a great job of that. I mean, he's really in tune to the game plan every week. He's you know, I've said it, and I say it as a compliment. He's never since he got here, he's never acted like a rookie. He's just been really mature in his approach and his understanding of what we're trying to do. And
I know, billion wreck the extreme confidence in him. So if he's in charge calling everything and making any calls, and he can certainly do that and has done that. We've heard the term before a good route runner or a wide receiver, but I'm not really sure exactly what that means and what makes a good receiver a very good route runner. I think how crisp and clean they
are on their routes. You know, it's not sloppy. You know, if he's supposed to get sixteen yards and break at a forty five degree angle, he gets to sixteen yards and breaks at a forty five degree angle. He doesn't start rounding his cut at thirteen and kind of lean into it or kind of give the route away in terms of you know, some guy's peak. You know, all of a sudden, I got to run a comeback, but at thirteen I start looking back. Now you've given a
clue to the defender. You know, you want the defender to think that you're going vertical and you're running a jet route when you're running a comeback route, so to speak. So the guys that can do that, not everybody can do that. Not everybody can run full speed through sixteen sync plant driving come back out of the cut. At some point in time, they got to give a telaway
to the defensive back to slow themselves down. So the guys that are the real good route runners make you think you're doing one thing when they're actually doing something else.
Miles were as good at that. I just think in Miles situation, he's got such a vast experience in terms of where he was and I know he spoke to me about it in terms of, you know, he came into the league as an undrafted free agent, said he learned a lot, you know when when he was an undrafted guy, just studying the guys and one on ones
that were getting open when he was a rookie. He said it was Terry Glenn that he watched a lot when he was at Dallas, watched a lot of what Witten does in his routes and has really just became a student because he knew he had to be a great route runner, great guy with releases for him to make it in the league and understood what it took for him, so spent a lot of time studying releases, spent a lot of time studying the different techniques and how to run routes so that he could perfect himself.
What do you I just think he lies. It's his second year in Ben McAdoo system, and you can see there's a comfort level anyliant in the whole system. He not only has he only thrown two interceptions, he's only been sacked four times. Um, you know, he's getting the ball out of his hand quickly. He can recognize how people are defending their team. You know, if coverage's role
one way, he's automatically going another way. He doesn't stay on a receiver and say, hey, I got to throw the ball to this guy, so I'm gonna wait for him to get open. He makes He's really going rapidly through his progressions and putting themselves in a really good situation offensively, and they're throwing the ball ton. You know, we had fair forty one completions last week, so it's not like some guys aren't throwing a ton of interceptions,
but they haven't had a lot of attempts. He's had a ton of attempts, so there have been opportunities to pick him. There have been opportunities to sack him, but those haven't happened Because I really think his comfort level is is very very good in that offense right now, especially being in the second year for FAM, A certain style stands out of that now. I think he's a good play caller, you know. I think Ben's got a
real good I think he understands his system. He doesn't try to do things that are out of what their system is. UM. You know, and there's a lot of multiple you got to have good quarterback to run the system. But there's there's multiple guys on each out. I mean there could be there's a lot of five out, so there's five eligible receivers. And the thing that happens is when you have a quarterback that can quickly diagnose that
this is the coverage and there they are. Then bang, I'm going over here, even though my initial read may have started over there, and that takes you know, it's a special match between a coordinator in a system and the quarterback that can implement that stuff so well. Well their second in the league in run defense, you know, they've done an outstanding jab at stopping the rush UM in the first five games, you know, and they've they've done it against everybody they played. Um. They're big inside,
you know, with Hankins and Cullen Jakins in there. Their linebackers are downhill, physical linebackers, you know that that are that are really geared towards stopping the run. Um, you know, And I think for that reason, I think a lot of people have tried to throw the ball on them a little bit more, just because you know, you may be banging your head against the wall in terms of trying to run the football against that look. So um,
that's the first thing. And I think a lot of coaches on the defensive side of the the ball will tell you that, hey, we're gonna stop the run first, establish what we can do, and try to make it too one dimensional. And that's how they've been successful on the defensive side. When you choose or when you let and having go, Like, how much were you relying on guys like you know, Peters and laying at Kelsey kind of you know, help whoever would be sorry at the guard position.
I mean that happens all the time. Whenever you lose in experienced veterans like those guys, you rely on the other experience veterans to to help out. And we felt very confident in Jason and laying in in Kelse that that those guys could foster those the younger players that we're going to come in there and give them, give him, you know, the experience and the knowledge that they have and share that with himself before ten position on your goals one of those thanks us football. Do you agree
with that? And why I think the entire field goal unit itself is a thankless position because and why do I believe that is that basically your job is to put your both hands on the ground, close your eyes, and let people take a running start at you. And the only way you ever get noticed is if you get knocked awards and the ball gets blocked. You know, so no one ever says, you know, when someone hits a fifty two yarder to win a game, boy, what a great protection by the right tight end on that play.
You know, you don't notice them. The only time you do notice them is when the ball's blocked. So, you know, those guys in those situations, whether it be the guards through the tight ends, everybody in that front that's protected on the on the on the field goal or the extra point. You know, um, you know, it's really kind of a thing. Not not a lot of guys want to sign up for that. You know, you put a job wanted, you know, job want up there and just said, hey,
here's a job. You get to put your hand on the ground and have someone three and twenty pounds run full speed and knock you over. And if you do you can you're not good at it, you know, just stand your ground. That's not not a lot of guys want to sign up for that job. So but it's necessary in terms of how our game is played. So you're not afraid to use starters on special teams more than most coaches. Maybe I don't know about more than most because we haven't saided that, but I think yet
with the with the roster you have to. Now we'll never have a starter that's a four special teams guy. But if if a Malcolm Jenkins can be a kickoff cover guy and we can get one out of Malcolm Um or we can get something out of a Nolan Carroll, or we can get something out of Walter Thumb, and you kind of share that through your starters. You know, Coope is playing wing on our punt team, you know, and it's it's I think just with the numbers at
forty six, you have to do that. Um if not, I don't think you're going to be successful from a special team standpoint. If if you're just continually using just the backups and always kind of thing, then you're going to be worn down a little bit. You know. I think we try to rotate those guys a little bit,
a lot of it. You'll see we get different gunners out there, just because if if you're putting a lot and all of a sudden, you know, guys have covered three or four kicks, you know, it makes it difficult now, So you've got to be able to kind of rotate and keep those guys fresh as you kind of go through that. Yeah, it's been great. It doesn't miss to kick this week. Yeah you haven't kicked yet, so has a mess kick. So we'll go tonight. Seam