Press Pass: Doug Pederson

to play. Yeah, he's good to play well. And again we'll find out today. But he's he's cleared and ready to go back. There are there are, there are and and and then these are things that we talked about this these last couple of days and staff, you know, getting getting Paul in there. Um, even with Jordan, you know coming back. I think it can be a benefit to the offense to have both of those guys ready

to go. So many games this year we kind of follow the same temple where you guys getting beyond early ten points, fourteen points in the first quarter, um, and it kind of takes you out of being able to row involved and throwing different times. Any thoughts on why you guys keep digging these early hot even out swartly sixty five for every three and first four. Why does that happen? Well, one, Um, you know it start the games.

It's a mindset. It is truly a mindset. It's one of those things where you know, as as a team, you want to come out and you want to kind of you know, make the first punch, so to speak, or swing first. And you know, we did it against Green Bay. We went down and scored, we matched, we matched the touchdown for touchdown there and we've done it throughout the courses of the season. But we got to be a little more consistent offensively too. Um, that can

also help. And then and then defensively, it's just a matter of just you know, working to get off the field, you know, try to on third downs, just uh, you know, do what we can by scheme, through through the play, through a PBu whatever we can to to get off the field on third down. Um, becomes a becomes a mindset and it kind of sets the tone for the

rest of the game. If you can do that early in football game, do you do you look at the preparation, but what you guys are doing somebody morning before jakeof you feel like they're mentally ready to go. Yeah, you know, obviously I I do look at all that, you know, and that's part of part of my job is is

is the schedule and all. But um, you know, these guys are these guys are in a great frame of mind, you know on game day and and uh, they're they're loose, they're energetic, They're they're ready to go, They're they're focused. You see it in pregame and um, you know it's it's it's been unfortunate, but something we gotta you know, focus in a little bit more. Obviously this week division opponent and uh and try to try to strike first the liner's sperience to help a person that I think

the experience can help everybody. Uh, with these last four weeks, not just the quarterback position, but obviously with our with our backgrounds, we can definitely help help Carson and continue to coach and and uh. Um, but I think too with with Frank's been on some some great teams. I've been on some great teams in the past, and how how we practice, how how our work ethic is during the end of the you know, this last last four weeks of the season become become very important and we

can lean on those experiences with our guys. You're technically still obviously in contention for the playoffs, but in a great yeah, yeah, I don't feel it from you guys though, I just don't feel it yet. Come on. That being said, that being said, Carson, who's on pace to throw high amount of pasts for for a wokie quarterback, and we've seen how it's affected him, how do you counter going for it versus protecting the future of your franchise going for it as listen, Yeah, no, it's and that's yeah,

that's a great question. But I think is this is not the time to pull off obviously, you know, we got to continue we like you said, we have. We're still in the conversation. Even though it's you know, the it's it's down there, We're still in the conversation. And and uh, four games is a lot of football, you know, it's a quarter of your season. And and by no means do we want to ease up now? You know

this is not the time. This is actually the time to push forward and and still be aggressive and do the things that we uh we did earlier in the season. And try to get back to that level of play. And um, you know that's the beauty of uh having an opportunity. And you know the other thing too, with with three out of the next four at home becomes uh becomes huge for us, you know, down the stretch in hopes of getting to where we want to be. Parson is still I mean, is he being effected by

throwing too much? I don't think so. I think the effect is is we have to do better in the run game. You know, I've got to I've got to do a better job. They're calling calling more runs and trying to trying to, you know, maintain or limit the number of throws. Again. Um, you know you don't. You don't ever want to throw sixty times. Uh kind of a recipe for disaster. But you know I don't. I don't.

I don't have any concern with where Carson. I think Carson's right on track and right where he needs to be, and any he does an outstanding job every week and and that makes it. You know, you look at some of the throws he's made. So I don't. I don't concern myself with the number of number of throws. Just try to limit them if we can. Yeah, you got

Lane Johnson back in a couple of weeks. You have a plan for him to be at it if you worked even trying to throw him back in there, well, yeah, obviously, and it comes back on a short week too, you know, against the Giants in a couple of weeks. But you know, um, you got to see where big vs at, you know, obviously coming off an injury, hopefully in a week or so, and see where that's at. But you know, we're beginning

the conversations right now. When when he does return. Um, you know, uh, we'll have to see, you know, we still got two games. We've got to get through these two games. See, we'll see how Alan does. But uh, listen, you know he was a big part of our our success earlier in the season. So, um, I wouldn't hesitate to put him back in there. He really hasn't had too big of a break from the football. Maybe a little bit from June after Mini campus for training camp.

You do you see any sort of mental fatigue with him with him at all? You know, I don't, Um, you know, he's also he's played a lot of football, you know, coming out of college. Like you mentioned, because you know, he's always obviously been in the in the playoffs, you know, with his school and and now now playing a you know, a sixteen game or at this point though you know, a twelve game schedule. Um, I don't

see the fatigue. I see him. I see him still in the building early, he and chasing the quarterback, studying the tape, getting himself ready to go. He's still he's still doing everything to prepare himself. And I don't see that fatigue right now. The players, least off all of your comments Monday, they have been great. The players are positive. They're um, the players know, I mean, they're players, they understand, you know, and and I've been in that chair before,

and so I get it. And and that's uh. I think that's the great thing about having played the game is you can relate to those guys and you know exactly what they're going through. And we've had great response and look forward to a great week. About that conversation, well, if you really go back and look at the play, you know Carson was ahead of him at that time, and and it wouldn't have been a factor because he was going to go out of bounds at the time.

So you know, obviously, you know Zach is he's taking a lot of heat for it. But at the same time he understands too that um, those those those players will come up again, and he knows he needs to make one. When you look at the running game in the last two weeks, do you feel like you kind of got enough out of that position with with Ryan being out or I mean obviously you fell behind, so you have it, fell behind, so it's hard. It kind

of gets us out of that mode just a little bit. Um, But I like, I like, I like where we're at. I mean, I like, um, I do. I do lean on that offensive line quite a bit. You know. I talk to him during the week and say, hey, this might be the week that we need to you know, rush the ball thirty thirty five times, and uh, they're

up for the challenge. Obviously. Um with the addition of Ryan coming back, it definitely gives us depth and a bigger, bigger back back there and and hopefully we can get back to to running the ball like we did a few weeks ago. Having the chance to see one, you know, he kind of like to lead back the last two weeks and and how he might have done yeah. There. You know again, windell Um has has done everything we've asked him to do. He's learning too, you know, just

like a lot of our young players. He's learning the game. He's learning how to be patient and the run game, using his eyes more than more than his his god given ability, which is which is obviously great. Um. And and he keeps working every day. And uh, again it's a it's a learning process, you know. And you know, I was looking just just thinking again this morning. We've had five rookies, five drafted rookies that have had a lot of playtime this week, and that's that's valuable, that's

great experience for them. You know, going forward, your conversations with Jim Schwartz about how to sort of proceed let's him more or not or said you're going to talk. Yeah, we talked and listen, you know, we um um kind of both agree that sometimes if you if you if you're gonna blitz more, you're gonna ask your back end to hold up or or whatever. You're gonna give something to get something. And and uh, it was a fine

line there obviously. You know. Going back to the game on Sunday, there were there were seventeen pressures in that game, and um, you know, we just got to make sure that when those are dialed up, we either a lot of them can be run pressures as well, you know, to stop the run. Others are obviously you know, pass pressures to put put pressure on your quarterback. And and we just you know, we just gotta listen, We gotta trust the process. We're not going to reinvent the wheel.

We're not going to change, you know at this point, just for sake of change. If if it benefits us, obviously we will. Um and uh, you know, I trust Jim and the defensive staff obviously to uh to have

a great game plan going forward. First meeting in the Mexicans, what stands out a list of what they got to stand that you want to change regards to this a meeting them up, Well, you know that was Big V's first start, and uh, you know, so that was obviously one of the one of the things going into the game, you know, um, how well he was going to play and and uh, you know, protection and things like that and no one going down there. Um, you know it's

a tough place to play. Obviously, UM, felt like we had opportunities in the game. We didn't capitalize on a few things in the football game, you know, fell behind again. Defense we had you know, Malcolm had to pick six and kind of kept us right in there. Special teams had a big play, you know, So those are those are things that kind of kept us in that football game. I know, offensively, we have to we have to do

a little bit better executing our game plan. Just understanding it's great to now finally have a home game here with them, and UH a great opportunity against against a good football team that's that's playing extremely well. Do so certainything you can do to help him manage the losing something he's not used to, or you talk to him about it, the essence any frustration because you know, I obviously I was a part of UH, and I mentioned this,

you know, to the guys. I was a part of two teams, you know, in Cleveland we were three and thirteen, and then Philadelphia my first year, you know, being five and eleven, and and just kind of leaning back on those experiences and how I how we fought through, how we fought through adversity, how how you know, people try to divide the team or or say negative things about players or whatever. We just kind of kept that thing,

kept that thing nice and tight. And so those are the things that I can I can lean back when you talk about the experience factor. Um, I leaned back on those experiences to to kind of just relay to Carson how we how we went about our business, you know, during the during those following weeks to come and and UH kept that team to get a great leadership on

the team like we do now. And UM, you know, it's just UH with him, it's just a matter of just you know, keeping keeping him grounded, keeping him level headed. He's the leader of this football team. And and he doesn't have to do it all himself. You know, That's that's the beauty of it. There's there's a there's ten other guys on offense, and there's an eleven on defense and special teams that have a big part in in this whole process. All Right, Thanks guys,