Tony Dune, Tony Sarah'll talk to the team this afternoon, and what's the purpose of that. Anytime I can get Tony to talk to anybody I have, then we will take advantage of that. So he's around. He had a game in New England. He's going to New York. So his son who played for me, is up visiting, so he came down to see Eric. And then he's obviously really close with Josh and Kenyon and uh a couple other guys we have here, So I just a chance
for us to catch up and see him. And he's always got um a unique perspective that I think he shared with my team when I was at Oregan, and I'm excited for him to share with our guys and stuff in it changed to watch the game last night at all. Now we work, so we were in the alphae s I didn't see any of the game. So you're one of the few teams the singles who plays
for the sidelines. You obviously had thinking percautions to have teams from trying to decode that, But are you concerned ever about that and what kind of moneys had to go on to to take that? Now we got a pretty good system in place, so we're not worried about that. The other broadcast your radio, broadcasting your headphones during a game. I've heard a lot of things in the headsets. I
think there's a lot of frequency issues in someplace. I've heard air traffic control and a lot of different things. Sometimes it happens the silent account. Did the green baying help with that at all? Or is this really the first time you guys had it? Yeah? I mean yeah, it was pretty loud. I mean for a preseason game. I think the one thing about going to Lambo is there's an unbelievable crowd there. You know, no matter what time you play the game or um who's playing them.
I mean, they've just got great crowd support. So we work on silent account every other day here, so I don't think it's an issue for anything that we do. So you could answer, there's not a lot going on today, So it's my loss, is it red? It was understandable why he had subtributed actions the preseason, but this is gonna be quite different. I mean, do you have any are you doing anything special this week or do you have any concerned about him picking sixty snaps instead of
fifteen or whatever. Now we're real confident in Sam's conditioning. We want to throw our guys every day. Did a great job. He was in great shape when he got here in August past the conditioning tests. So not concerned at all with m the amnest snaps. Sam will take all about the fecting teams. White can test him earlier with a lot of bringing a lot of heat. Is that's something that you factor in, and it's just they're gonna do what they're gonna do. What we're gonna do,
what we're gonna do. I mean, we have answers when people blitz us and part of protection pickups how we call things, get the ball out of your hand quick. But I mean there's risk rewards on both sides of it. You know, there's a statement that when you blitz the band plays, it's either our band or their band. So you know, you can say, hey, let's go after him. If you do, but then you expose yourself on the
back end. It just becomes a mathematical game. How many guys are gonna have in coverage, how many guy you're gonna bring, you know, and if you do do that, are you ready to match up with all the five vulitable receivers. So that's the game that goes on within the game the offensive line, like beyond you know, the starters and and bes with the top backups. I mean, you kind of said that you wanted to get like
young you know, pipeline. I guess young players coming up like you since that with Guyl, Malcolm Munch and John you know, I guess you told yeah, we hope, so, you know, and it's something we'll continue to address as we move forward here. But UM, you know, I think the one thing you have to look at is you can't address every area every year. You know, you only
have so many draft picks. So, UM, we put a lot of our draft picks this past year into our defense because we felt like that was the real area we had to um show up. So, I mean, it's something that we're conscious of having Josh here. Matt Tobin, who came in on the first year, was an undrafted guy, UM that's made our team and been on our active roster. Um Dennis is a relatively young guy. Um, you know, and then you add the two practice squad players along
with those guys. But it's something we need to address as we move forward, how do you bounce keeping the guy that think it's better and where do you can shoot it right away versus like planning four down the road and perhaps you got to maybe see something to some potential line. Yeah, well we get to this point.
Our concern is this season. So if if we're not going to keep a young guy that we think is going to help us two or three years down the road and sacrifice something that could benefit us right now. So um, you know, but each individual case, she'll look at and kind of see where's where's the pluses and minuses in terms of keeping this player. But it's it's really our our main focus is this season. Um, and
especially with the turnover in the National Football League. Uh, you know, this team could look drastically different again next year. So as much as you can decide to kick backs, what do you see Quody Park Cody's been sharp, you know, been right on as rhythm is there, the timing is there between him and John and Donnie, and um, he was good the other day we did field goals. We do field goals again today, So um, he's been good.
Banks two different spots, two different kind of guys, but really for us it's a Jara two two replaces kind of the Brad Smith role that we had for Brad. Um and Jonesy kind of replaced whether it be Nagi or really James Casey, which however you want to look at him fitting in there. So you know, we lost a couple of good special teams players that were really, you know, really core players for us and Brad and
James and Naigi. So, um, you know that he really kind of Brad takes that size wise, height wise, speedwise, he takes that. You know, he's a guard tackle on the punt team. He's a he's a inside guy on the kickoff cover team. You know, Brad Smith was a perimeter guy on the kickoff cover team. Or Jara two two is a perimeter guy. Um. So it's kind of you traded out some good players, you know, and just what happens with free agency and things like that. Um, but we felt we had to replace those guys. So
that's what we brought those guys in. Now they'll they'll go just like I say, every week, we'll make a final assessment after our last training session, which will be actually Sunday now because we have a Monday game. They've been good in practice. Um, we've limited them obviously, so they're not taking every single rep and every single drill um, but they haven't had any issues that were like, hey,
we need to back off of them. But we won't make any determinations on those guys, just like we do in every preseason game and everything until our final training sessions over. So don't kind of see driving. Yeah, flex loves playing football. I don't think there's any concern about all the other things that go on outside of football. So he's been great out here in one of our our better players when it comes to their approached everything
he does. You know, he fits in with all the other guys we have here him and he loves probably loves training. He does a great job with the great obvious on page. What makes him so call it? Well, you just I mean it's not just a flat line guy. I mean he can do everything. Sometimes some guys are they're six two, they're two twenty and they can run, but they can't change direction. He can change direction. Uh,
he's got great range, he's got great ball skills. Um, you know he really he's a really savvy route runner in terms of setting up defensive backs for his move, So he's really the total package, you know, and it's um that's the challenge that's presented, especially you know, with such an accurate quarterback throwing the football, is that um, he can gain a little advantage because of his size and because of his route running ability, and even if he has just a little separation, MAT's gonna put it
on himself. You are what do you remember a value? And I know that with the what was the first part on this you are a story? What do you remember a value? But the story I just threw a softball up to me that I'm not gonna take. But what do I remember? I just remember it was just I think a day that everybody was just kind of stunned by. You know, you didn't really realize what was going on when it was going on. I remember we
were I was in the football offices. I was at New Hampshire at the time, and someone, I think our secretary Nancy Brown, came in and said, I think a plane hit the World Trade Center. And you know, at the time, I think you thought it was just one of those smaller little prop planes that was just kind of vidoff target and didn't know that it was a terrorist attack in our own country. So, um, it was just a really tragic day that I think kind of
stunned everybody. So, um, date record home versus A way, Yeah, I think almost every team's home versus away is better. Their home is better than their way. You know, I think you're in your own environment. But um, I think it goes more to the type of player that Matt is. I mean, he's a he's a really good football player. Um, and facing him, whether whether it's home orble way, um is a tall task, especially with the weapons that he
has a receiver, But um, he does. You know, when you look at it, he does have an outstanding record at home. What you know, what are the particulars We don't really look at that. You know, we're looking at what routes are they running on third down? How do we defend them? And you know, what's what's our best plan of attacks? Okay,