Press Pass: Chip Kelly

and um there should be improvement. Yes, look like there was more straight ahead man demand blocking not as much outside Zode And I don't know if you watched the same game we watched, we ran sweep more than any play we ran there less. So we had the ball outside more than I think we've had any any game we played this year. So we ran the ball outside

more than any game we played the year. So you pitched back words a little bit using the pass to open up the run and on some occasions, is this something you thought you need to do just to switch up your your patterns now? I mean, and I don't. I don't think we did switch up any patterns in terms of going backwards or something. I just think um, when the pass was there, sand took advantage of it. When the run was there, sent take advantage of it. So you guys had first and goal. I think it

was at the two, you know, with Matthews. Why Matthews instead of you are again I don't rotate the back, so Dud just rolling those guys through there. So it wasn't a set formation where he was in or whatever. It was just that's what was up at the time, just thinking that. I don't know. I mean the next time we had the ball down on the goal line, DeMarco ran it in for a touchdown. So I don't

I don't really look into it. I think we think of both of those guys as the same player, so it doesn't affect what we're doing from a play calls standpoints. You were more actually out of the words guy, What did you make of fan uh dating the offense and talking to him before the game delivering message. I think that happens a lot on this team in a lot of different ways, So I don't think anything of it. To be honest with better in the second half of each team the first half, maybe he just needs to

see the looks a little bit more. You know, he settles down a little bit. Um. You know, I know he has been statistically when you look at it, and he really has been better. But I think maybe he just gets settled a little bit more. That's a probably a good question for him. Is there a way to I mean, had he jumped start him in earlier, we could play a game earlier, you know, maybe see if you see if you get a scrimmage going before it

a doubleheader, he'd be great. A doubleheader'd be awesome. That's a good suggestion. I don't know. I mean, we'll talk to him a little bit about it, but I think what he needs to see some things and kind of it seems like he gets settled. He's one of those guys I think if he gets hit, he feels a little bit better. So but you also don't want to give him get hit. So um, you know, I don't have an answer for that. But I think offensively as a group, we moved the ball well in the first half.

We just didn't capitalize. Those two red zone turnover has really hurt us. Understands the reef just what the New Orleans was doing in terms of where the back was offset. So so what the offensive. Why was it more? But were there any kind of blocking teams that were kind of a a simple fins? I mean, you look at the type we run, the same place we always run. We just executed him. So I know he said that a lot of guys are vocal about being leaders. But is

it more important when it comes from the quarterback? Now? I don't think. I mean, I don't way where is it more important than another person being, you know, speaking. I just think, um, you know, it's a It's obviously the guys that speak also have to be able to back it up, so you know, you can be huh. You know sometimes they say the empty barrel makes the most noise. You know that you're not gonna get anything out. But there's a lot of guys who talk all the

time and they don't perform. It's it's a matter of uh, kind of matching it up. But I know our players listening to Sam and get to have a good feel for Sam with him. Was it a matter if he had to be here for a few weeks to be

able to perform before he could speak. No, I think he's performed since he's been here, So I don't And it's not like he hasn't spoken before, so I wouldn't make it a really big yell out of that sore out beyond that, like you know, just like just the way I really think for for us, it's what's what Fletch has done here since we've been here. I mean, he's been a very disruptive for so along the defensive

line since we've been here. Um, I think he's just starting to get noticed where he probably um probably should have gotten before. You know, I think you even you go back to last year and opponents talking about going in getting ready to play us, and they're talking about Fletcher's name. So, um, he was close and in a couple of our earlier games, really close a couple of times in the Washington game to get in some sacks and you know, I know Billy says it, and sometimes

it happens. Sometimes they just come in bunches. But I think he's played at a really high level for a while here. It's just you know, yesterday it kind of all came together for him. But I still remember him picking up scoring one against Jacksonville. I mean, he's made some really big plays. This wasn't this wasn't his first big game for us. But um, it's something that we've become kind of accustomed to because the type of player fletches. But also you kept them out at the ends. Yeah, again,

we talked about it. We probably gave up too many X plays. There was a couple of them, Um, the long one down their sideline, I think to Steve hurt Us, Um, we had one where we thought Walt was in position, but it got thrown over his head to Cooks, Um, you know, we got to really kind of clean that up. Um. But I think our guys did a really good job in red zone defense. You know, they scored the one where we would just misaligned. Um, Jordan started going out

on the tight end. He wasn't supposed to be out that way, but we called it down the other way, so they got to he's got to play the call, even though the call was the wrong way, and they got that one of them. They just got the one at the end with no time left on the clock. Those are there two touchdowns that they scored in the

red zone. But I thought overall, our defense did a really good job and in the red zone of preventing them from really scoring so ull technique wise, on that one path where you dropped in the coverage an we got two hands on it. It was just vision and break on the football. I think he did a really good job. He was actually bluffing a blitz to start to play and then got back into a into a good spot where he could, um, you know, read the quarterbacks eyes, and then he just made a real good

break in the ball. I don't think Drew expected him to be there because literally when he started to play, he was actually up in the eight, up in the B gap, you know, showing blitz, and then all of a sudden, he's fifteen yards deep underneath the big route. So um, it's just really getting a feel of how he can present different looks to the defense to the

offense and still be able to execute his assignment. About what about I mean, did you know that he was as a wedding Yeah, yeah, that's what we thought coming out. I know some people looked at us, why are we drafted him in the third round. We thought we got to steal in the third round. He was our highest rated guy for a reason. We talked about him. He's a three down linebacker. We thought he could committed early

and contribute on special teams. Which he was doing. But he's playing a lot now on defense because of Kendricks and uh Kiko being out. But you know, he's kind of what we thought he was going to be coming in here, and we were excited about himself. Jim, does it say about a player like Fletcher Cotts? You don't see many times where a guy gets the sack and

gets the fumble recovery. Yeah, what does that say about a player that just does just st just the motor that Fletch plays with, you know, I think, uh, it's always running with him, you know, and and uh, you know he's been close in a couple of games. Like I said, but you know, to make a play like that, that's it, you know, not only does he force the play, he gets the sack, he causes the fumble and then

recovers the fumble. It's just um yeah, it's it's It was a really big play for us, especially at that point in time in the game too. But I think that's that's the type of player he is. And um, and I think I keep seeing we keep seeing him getting a little bit better every week, so uh that that's a good thing for us as we're moving forward here. What did New Orleans do when you had the offset?

That different from when everybody does different things. Sometimes they shade, sometimes they slant, you know, sometimes when you put them back in the dot, they can't shade or slant. So when you do get your two side backers back fully healthy, you're gonna have to try to find time. After all. Board the three and fling, maybe him wasn't horrible play, but now after you've been there, I hope we get to that point. I mean, you could say the same thing,

but Demiko and Hicks could get hurt next week. That's why we never worry about it. Just tell us who's available and then we'll go from there. But having too many good players is a good problem to have, So Kivid the nice job, you know. I think he kind of get into a groove there, especially in the kickoffs. A couple of them were short early. Um, But the last couple he hit, I think he really hit really well. Um. We had a slightly high snap and a you know,

a snaphold operation on the missed extra point. Um, But besides that, I thought he hit the ball well. I started, he's starting to get a little bit more comfortable, um, him and Phip and Donnie and John are getting on the same page, and um, you know, to come in in terms of where he's been hit a short week, the week we brought him in here in terms of getting ready for the first game, and now he's starting to get into a little bit of a rhythm. So you know, we'll see where that goes. But I thought

he had a good game. We're not going to roll. We're not working out any kickers this week. We're gonna roll with Kallim. Did Sam Bradford ruling him out? Was that just the function of what the Saints were doing or did was there something that really helped him? See? I think it was a function of what the Saints were doing. That was part of our game plan going in to see if we could move the pocket a

little bit. He sure seemed incredibly effective. Something you want to incorporate if defense, if teams defense are trying to defense us the same way, then yeah, yeah. Trainer said he was out in the second half, so Bob, he wasn't in the rotation with Bob, you could choose at josh Off as part of your team as on the college and pro level. Is there a specific trait um about him that they kind of grab pay course. No, I just Joshed in general as a player is an

extremely dynamic player. I think he's got a ability to change direction, stop and start. Um. He really good with the football in his hands there. That's why he's doing a great job returning for US. UM. We've used him as a running back when he was back in college. Um. You know, he can make people miss. But the other thing with Josh, he's extremely tough. I mean he's one of the better blockers in this league. I mean he's

a tough, physical person at the point of attack. That's what makes him such a good special teams parys such a good gunner because you know, sometimes there are guys that are good receivers, but they're not good on teams because of the physical nature of teams. I think Josh can do it all. The thing with Josh is just he missed an extended period of time at the beginning of last season, just kind of getting the reps and getting them more comfortable in terms of what we're doing.

He was playing well. I think he played thirty six or thirty seven snaps and then get hurt and missed the Jets game. You know, so then coming back off of the injury, didn't practice full on the Washington week, but had a really good week of training this week going into the Saints game, so, you know, just trying to get him back out there. He played I think right around between thirty and forty snaps, just getting him

maclimated in terms of what we're doing. But there's some versatility with Josh in terms of what you can doing, and he obviously can do some things with the ball in his hands after the catch, which is beneficial to us. Yesterday, yeah, Marcus played twenty two snaps and overall, I think he's

showing improvement. You know, on the interception on um Walter's interception, as you asked me yesterday, he did do a good job of you know, one arm bull rush and the offensive tack Will kind of bringing him back into Drew's face, and you know, Drew couldn't really follow through on the throw. So, um, we were placed first time getting him out there. I thought, we thought he did a good job. How do you send the extra day that could get team come in on Tuesday, and team comes in on the team comes

in on Wednesday. We're working. We've been in all day today, we'll be in all day tomorrow. So it's just we just push it one day in terms of our Wednesday will be our normal Tuesday and then just an extra day to watch tape. Yeah that much. Just pay attention to what you say so you don't get angry. How much do they pay attention? Yeah, obviously be a good question for them. Well, your perception, my perception, Yeah, they do, they listen. Obviously you got angry. Yeah, okay, you got

angry over things. Yeah, and I was one d percent. That's me. That's got nothing to do with them. That's my fault and it shouldn't have happen. Well, one formation where you had two backs in the backfield along with Bradford and I believe it turned into a flat pass and strolls on the left side. Is at a different look? Ridge is something you like? It's a different look, you know from a protection standpoint on how we can do some things. Yeah, you know which back is free releasing?

You know, one back can be a protection, another back can be free release. And we've run you can run out of that formation. Um, but we wanted to see what we could get. We end up with it. It was a third down. We got a completion it Darren for a first down on third and ten. But um, just you know, kind of given presenting a different look um and it helped. It helped on that play. Yeah, you know, we'll see where we can go with that.

Every every time we do anything personnel wise, it's because of what the defense has shown that they dictate in terms of how they try to play it. So you try to predict what you're gonna get when we put this in the game and line up in this formation. This is what we anticipate seeing when we do that in a game. Do they do that? And if they do, then all of this now you hey, we can run this, this and this. If they don't, you know, that's kind

of that chess matcheck goes on within the game. So, um, the field is that in certain teams, Yeah, and certain teams now and then with the Saints they varied it, so you know, sometimes we played dains base, sometimes we played against Nichols, So you've got to be prepared for both. But you're just no matter what you're doing formation wise or personnel wise, you're trying to elicit or response from the defense. And that's what the tape watching in the

film is based on the last five games. You've broken down whenever twelve personnel was in the game, how did they defend twelve personnel? You know, but again people can change during the week too, so you have to see is what you saw on film confirmed and are they continuing to do that. If that's the case, then at least you know what you're going to get, and then then it's a matter of going out and executing. No, it wasn't, because I said they played both Based and

Nickel versus our twelve personnel. What do you think of Jason Kelsey's performance compared to the first four games? Do you think it was the best in the season. I thought, we thought Jason graded out really well and played really well. But I think he's also I thought he played well over is Washington. Also, um uh, he's gotten better as this as the season's gone along. I thought, But he's played, he's played in the last two games, He's really played

a really high level. Drops are going to happen off the visit History game where multiple drops? How do you how do you address that? Yeah? Yeah, I mean we got guys on the Jugs Machine. I mean Jordan and Nelly come in here every morning at seven o'clock and around the jugs machines and are really working on the mechanics fundamentally catching the football. But it's it's something that has hurt us. Um. In every game we've played, we've had drops that you know, those we call those siwes.

Those are self inflicting wounds. That's Austin dropping the football. That's not the defense making a good play. You know, it's if it's a tip or um, you know it's a it's it's it's out of our reach. Then yeah, we understand that. But we we've got to we've got to clean up the drops and when we do, I think we can be an even more explosive offense. But um, they have hurt us and we need to continue to

address it. It's it's a focus issue. It's a concentration issue in terms of just um going back to the fundamental Sometimes it's trying to run before you catch it. But you have to have the eyes through the tuck, um and then and finish with the football before you ever start to think about turning up or running. So the eyes have to see the football the way through the tuck, so you can't catch the ball and turn away like that. You have the eyes through the talk,

secure the football and then start running. Happened? Which one? First one? Yeah, I just said that earlier. Is a miscommunication. We were we called a defense. Um, we should have been down to the right. We were down to the left. If we make that call, then Jordan has to compensate for it. If we don't make that call, it was the wrong call. So instead of the discussion about it being the wrong call, play the call because it's not a wrong call if we all line up the right way.

And that was just really a miscommunication issue. Would the injuries at them at all? Now? I thought both those guys played really well, um, you know, especially considering what we thought they were going to be during the game. But uh, um, both of those guys graded up pretty well for us up from the Giant team. Was like, nah, I watched it on tape. I didn't watch the game on television. The Giants defense I've watched so far. I

haven't watched the full game game. So was the mean Was there anything different than on the defensive side of the ball versus what do you see out of it last year? Yeah, they have a new defensive coordinator, So it's a totally new scheme with Stags in there, and it's very similar to the schemes that he ran when Pat was with him at Saint Louis and what he was doing here when he was in Philadelphia. So thanks Ye