It's just a handoff. So not every shotgun run is its own read play. So we didn't run any his own reads. We don't run in that side. So we've had this conversation last year. We don't run as much as own read as everybody thinks we do. I mean we're blocking the backside. That's he's not reading anything. He was just handing the ball off. So so it was
definitely he was that was that was rocking fast. I thought, yeah, I thought the interpretation on the field was was correct to the league was about gating clarification on that play, and I haven't talked it was a deliberate I didn't think it was deliberate. I just didn't. But I haven't talked to the league. So I thought it was a penalty, and I thought Jerome Boger called it right to ruling here today. I haven't talked to the deans, so I don't I don't know what the ruling is, to be
honest with completely. Well, I think Derek gave me what he thought he said, but he said it was a read option play. It wasn't a read option play. I know our quarterbacks can be hit on a read option play, but not every run we have as a read option or on I mean, we sweet, power, counter trap, all those things out of the gun. So are you concerned that it's gonna be difficult for officials to decide whether a play is his own replay or not, and then
that therefore the quarterback could could be susceptible to contact. No, I mean everybody everybody in the league I think runs shotgun runs, So I mean I don't think it's a promac We No, we don't happen. We don't run more in Seattle, we don't run more. In San Francisco, we don't. We don't run it as much as you guys think we run it. Every shotgun run is not his own replay,
so we don't run much. The only people we've run zwe read with since we've been here is this offseason or this past season is Timmy, So we don't run. It doesn't matter. I mean, if I haven't talked, I haven't talked to the league less, So you have to talk full league to tell them what you just told us, to make them aware so this doesn't happen again, or just a whole run, I don't know. I mean, are they going to hit every quarter back in the league when they end up in the shotgun. That's up to
the league. So if you tell your quarterback not to fake, Sam wasn't going anywhere. And if you're watching me, hid in the ball off, So so you plan italy going on. I mean, that's their deal. They'll they'll talk and if they want to get to the coaches, they send out a video and all that and they can discuss it. So so how can the officials determine what the difference is? Now?
I don't I don't know what Jerome's answer was, but our quarterback, from what we were told, if your quarterback's not carrying out any fake, he wasn't carrying out any fake. He wasn't going anywhere. So so the way to distinguish it, if that's the question for them, I think it's better ask you could ask an say officials as the as the play caller. I'm sure you don't want your your
quarterback getting hit after he hands off. So how would you distinguish it if that we're not running his own replay on his own replay, a quarterback and be hit that's not his own replay. So that's the way we determine it. That's the way it was explained to us. So do you feel like you've change your offense a little bit too? I know you don't do much of the zone read, but would you do less of it
because it's Sam? He said it even more, You're like, yeah, we're not gonna do more of it because Sam's it's not not a runner. No, I mean I did the same, We did the same, We're on the same offense. We remember Nick, So I think Nick had sixteen carries and I think a couple run scrambles and eight games last year, the eight games Nick played, Nick's credited with six sixteen rushes.
So you know and and and I didn't. You can go back and look at all of them, some of them on you know, quarterbacks scrambles where he went over the line of scrammage, so it turns into a rush. So I reference to the fact that Sam's coming off two aco injuries, do you so? And you said it was not a deliberate hit from her. I haven't talked to Tarrell. I don't know what he did, and we've moved on. So it's not a big deal for us.
Are are you concerned because Sam acknowledgists. Are you concerned that defensive players are going to be going into Sam's nick? I think I think everybody in this league knows what people have for injuries. So if that's what their choices, that's what their choices. So but I'm not saying sucks did that, so they don't. Don't don't say that. But is is there anything you can do? I don't know about preventing it, but to at least all avoid it. Yeah,
we put them in a glass case. I mean you have to go out and play football, so I don't. I mean, we didn't call any design runs for Sam if that's the question, So so let me how probably would put quarterbacks. I think it would be troubling for the league. If every quarterback in the shotgun can get hit, then I mean that's that's their determination. They can they can talk to them on how they want to addle it.
So if yeah, sure, I mean I haven't talked to Dean since last year or so, but it is something you want too. We know the rules. If it's if our quarterback hands a ball often isn't going anywhere, you shouldn't be able to add them from the way the rule has been explained to us, So I mean, I don't If they want to get into that, they can get into that. But then every other quarterback in the league, when they get back on the shotgun, can be hit
when they hand the ball off. So if that's what they want to do, then we'll we'll all have to adjust because everybody in the league has runs out of the shotgun. So whether Q or somebody else in the organization, doesn't somebody have to talk to Team Bland. You know the question why he made this real? Yeah, he video and talks to the coaches at the end of every week, so he tells you what went on the week before,
and that's where we get interpretations of it. So talk to him, man, he'll I'll get the video that he sends out this week. I think sad it as a throwing specifically getting the ball out quickly too. He's opened he's opened his years. I thought Sam did a good job. You know, we got rushed on the one where he get hit in the chastis he missed I think it was Nelson. Um. We just had a we were running a post and he threw it a little bit to the outside on Riley's but besideside I thought it was good.
Miles Auston, how's he doing? And is he gonna be practicing this week? Yes, yea out there today. Pardon I thought, and played another good game, you know, or we're real pleased with how he's playing right now? And um played well, how would you we've got time? He go ahead? No, I mean we we're not. We're still going. We got the Packers game and the Jets game before we have to do anything, so there's no reason to rush to anything. But he's doing a really good job the other night.
I mean it's like a long kind of held the ball for a while. Yeah, people are covered too, you know. Any the one he held, I think for a while, Um, everybody was covered. Then they end up getting a penalty for defensive holding. So I mean, I think he got to look at it. He missed one on his own raid where on his own play, his own drop where he could have hit it. But um, I thought both those guys were just up and down. What do you think your running game is going so well? It's do preseason.
I think our line is doing a really good job at the point of attack, and uh, I think our running backs were hitting it pay a lot. It's really it was just happen to get him back out in the field. It was unfortunate that he had the appendicitis and UM and then the appendeck to me, so you didn't get a chance to play him in the first game. Um, but you know he was behind a little bit just because he hadn't gotten those game reps. But I thought, um,
in the run game he was really good. A couple of things he can clean up in the past game out in the run game is really good and he did a good job on special teams. Sure get heard
about some injuries this weekend. Is Jordian Elson, You've been a little I guess need conservative with how you've You've had some of your starters and first teamers play and do you look at the preseason differently now three years and in terms of the value of playing in those games versus the possibility of having a you know, the seasons Britain and injury. I think he just weighed on what they did and who needs walk out of the whole deal. You know, we my first year here, we
had a quarterback battle. That's why those guys were playing because we don't know who our quarterback was um, but we haven't played our guys haven't played a lot of reps in the first two games. If you your your quote unquote guys that would would you consider starters. So um, but it's a fine line in uh, how you play them.
You know. You look at what happened in Washington. I said it, you know, after the first game, they lost both their tight ends, you know, and it's it's tough you lose someone, you know, a player like Jody Nelson, what a great player and does everything right. And it looked like the quick thing I saw on TV was a non contact injury because kind of turn and spun, you know, I think Pouncey went down in that game from what I heard. I mean, it's it's a fine line.
But there are many discussions about having half the preseason games and maybe two more regular season season games. How would you feel about that? I mean, in college football, they don't have a preseason and everyone just plays the first season. I mean, would you think that would be a little more make more gas In the NFL? It's above my pay grade. So Marcus Smith has not returned this preseason. Have you seen enough from him to get a sense of of how he to fit in this year. No,
not really. I mean we got one game, you know, so it's tough to project. I mean he's obviously this camp is better than last camp, but um, you know, with one game, it's tough to project you know, where that whole thing will check itself out, and it's just unfortunate for him. So impressing us about a sheet, Dam well,
I messed it. I just heard something about Bailey, would you say, just uh, you know, I thought coming in here that it may be a little bit too big for him just because of coming from Delaware Valley and um, but he's kind of handled everything really well, you know, and uh you know, first game in the link or first two games in the link, I thought he's he's show him up in both games, and um, you know he's he's works extremely hard at it's got a great
work ethic. We knew that. Um. But then what you don't know when you have players um like that, is it is the game going to be too big for him? Um? But he has a skill set to play, and I think he's shown us that sonsis of Sam here in camp and how how the ball quickly comes out in terms of release from snap to the past, and it is that something you saw prior in the rams um. He's a part of his skill set the pack and he does get rid of it quicker. I don't know
what it is. Yeah, I mean we were, Yeah, that's one of the reasons we traded for him. We're very impressed with that. Whether it's from college or the or the time he was with the RAMS so and we're seeing the same things here. Does it come from how he processes a play when he gets it from you, or does that come from physical physical I think it comes from both. But he is really sharp at processing things. You know, and and and that's part of the thing
about being a being a great quarterback. I'd be a great decision maker, and I think he really makes good decisions. Nast Presents was a sharp declient full for week one was the very reason for then. Yeah, they were just holding them back a little bit. We'll see if you can go full this week. The way that he's been returning is a lot of that vision acceleration what has made him so effective as a return man. You know, it's part of what being a good running back is
all about. I think it is vision it is his ability to make people miss on both returns for touchdowns. He's there's been a couple of unblock eyes that he's he's made miss. You know, you can't block them all coming down the field. Um, but the unblocked guys he's made miss and then um and on both players gotten to where we were trying to get it returned and it was blocked up pretty good. But he he's done a great job of making those initial guys miss uh
while moving forward, and that's which always a returner. You know a lot of guys can try to do it, but they're always working east and west. You know. The one thing with Kenyan and he's a lot like Darren in terms of he's always hitting it and going downhill and we're going to get positive yardage out of him, whether it be a five yard game or a ten yard gain or he can break one for a touchdown. There's he's not a dance guy back there. Let's kind of try to figure out how to hit a home run.
But then that losing yards on the thing. I think He's always advancing the football and that's what we want our returners to do. H Bailey, you coached at a lot of different levels of college. For somebody making a jump like that, what is the biggest problem, what's the biggest hurdle? I think the thing I just talked about is really between the years, you know, can they handle it.
There's a lot of guys that at all levels that you see have the athletic ability in the skill set to play at this level, but they kind of get overwhelmed by it and for some reason they hold themselves back and they don't play with confidence. They kind of you know, talk themselves out of it instead of talking themselves into it. And that's the thing that's impressed me with him is that he doesn't he hasn't been overwhelmed by the situation, you know, and I it's a credit
to him. You know a lot of guys you don't see him see that happen. But for him, I think he's he's got a sense of maturity to him and it hasn't been too big for him. So turnovers that Dermott has fours throughout the summer, is there something about him that that that gives him a knack for those turnovers? Yeah? I think he's smart. You know, he always seems to be around the ball. He's very rarely is he out of place? Um, you know, so he's got an intuitive
feel for for where the football is going to be. Um. And then he's got he's got outstanding hands, you know. So I think when the ball's out you watch the interception is a one hand and uh, he's done that a couple of times out here. You can see him catching football, um, in a wide variety of ways. Um. And he just he's really really a smart football person. He always seems to be around the ball. Ny Curry
and Jones, dude, they both did well. You know. I think Vinny Vinnie had been practicing there for about a week and a half, almost two weeks, so it was his first real game experience out there. But um, you know, I know Billy and and uh, Govs and as and all those guys are really happy with where he is and and Brad's played it, so he's got a real good understanding. Um, he's just a real smart football player.
But both those guys, we thought they did well. A little three inside backers do everything today, Yeah they should. They're out there, there's they're full go so work them back in and hopefully get them out on the field. Um, barring any setbacks, you know, where we keep what? Yeah, we haven't gotten into that. I mean, we're gonna keep the fifty three best football players, So okay, thanks, yeah,