Alan Barbery Um, so as a left hamstring strings getting better. We'll see where he's at obviously by the end of this week. Terrence Brooks the right hamstring strain in the game. Um, it looks like week to week with him, so we just gotta again just kind of see where he's he's at later in the week. He won't practice obviously on Wednesday. Camu is still right hamstring, still nursing that. We're gonna put him through a few more drills today and see
where he's at. Might be available for the game, but we'll see, uh come Wednesday on that and then the ones that are they got nicked in the game that are are good to go. Nolan Carroll had the hamstring, he's fine. Brent Selik actually has a rib fracture, but it's not nothing's displaced, nothing like that. So um, he'll miss Wednesday's practice but should be available for the game. To Yer Heart's doing good. Jordan Hicks, Um, just a just a mild ankle sprain, he's fine. Benny Logan's doing
doing better. He'll practice Wednesday, and then Chris Maragos, Leo McKelvin and then uh are good to go. And then Big v Um has a shin contusion. Basically got leg whipped in the game, and he's gonna be fine, uh, for for the week and for the game. After the game that he felt his hamstring was keeping him from running full speed and that's why he was getting beat. So that's not I'm not in Leo's body, but that's
it could be. Yeah, it could be. You know, I'm not Leo, so all I know is what the doctors tell me. But it's possible, Yes, Roster real good. Um, you know it was late in the week last week. We felt comfortable going into the game with with what we had and I know offensively with Bryce we were we were good there. So um, didn't feel they You mentioned that Ryan Matthews was still your guy last week, but the numbers certainly don't look like he's the guy
right now. Is Darren Sproles the lead back for this team? Well right now? Yeah, by stats and by what you're seeing, I would say that Darren is is the number one back right now. Um, you know Ryan is still a big part. You saw the touchdown running head yesterday and Kenyon had a nice run when Dale had a nice run, So it's still it's still a little bit of the running back by committee. Obviously, we haven't hung our hat on one guy, but we tend to lean more towards
Darren Sprowles. Is hard to take him off the field right now too much moving forward. That's how many snapsy Darren guy. Yeah, I mean, that's that's a lot. I mean, we we talked about it coming out of the Dallas game and just got to make sure we're doing the right thing. Make sure the with Darren is just just keeping him, you know, keeping him available, especially as a season season wears on, keep him, keep him healthy, and keep him going. You're ran the ball enough yesterday, well
twenty one TIMPs. If you take Carson's four out of it, um probably could you know, probably could run a little bit more. Obviously, in each each one of these games, you know, you get yourself into a fourteen nothing hole right away, and you feel like sometimes you got to kind of press and get it all back in one play. I did feel like we were effective in the run game. Some of the things we did. We just watching the
tape again this morning. We just missed on a couple of blocks and a couple of signment errors and uh things we got to clean up this week In general, do you feel like you're you're not running enough? You know, you talked about limiting Carson to three. Yeah, and I know it's it's a good question. You know, I would love to run the ball more. Obviously, I think it does help Carson where you're not putting everything the whole game, let's say, on his shoulders. Um, and and that's a
that's a full you know, that's the run game. We do a lot in the run game. We ask Carson to do a lot with RPO things with the red read options, uh, you know, making some checks there. So, um, you know I think going forward, yeah, probably probably should rely on the run just a little bit more. Mcclevin was saying that, um, he came out in the second quarter because like you guys have a rotation now at quarterback. Is that something new? And is that also because like
Jalen Mills or is that because mckelevin ornything. Well, it really started when when Ron Brooks, um, you know, got it, got hurt and we didn't have him. So now we're we're we're you know, having to you see that Nickel spot. You know, Malcolm's been down in there a little bit, and and um, you know we've we've had Jalen in there and so and then and then obviously understanding where where Leo's at right now with his with his uh, um,
you know, his his injury. UM, just kind of keeping everybody fresh and keeping everybody as uh as healthy as you can, not only during the course of the game, but but during you know, during the remainder of the season. When Carson his missed receivers or throwing interceptions, generally it's been balls and sale Highland. And this is something that we've seen since the spring. You guys changed some of his mechanics since then. Is that is that a still
a byproduct of that or is there something else that's bothering? No, A couple of you know, those those two picks early in the football game. Obviously he had he had pressure on one and and you know he was he was trying to throw it actually the DGB I think it was the second pick. The first one, Um again just sailed high. He was, you know, out of the pocket, which you know, I felt like he didn't have to move. He could have stayed stayed right there in the pocket
and and uh uh delivered the football. But you know, those those aren't necessarily UM mechanical things as they are just the way the way he reacted to a little bit of color or pressure in the pocket. How do you really You're just go ahead? UM. So it's pressure that that's affecting him. He's some of it. Some of it's pressure, some of it's like a game, a te game or an ET game or something quick that flashes.
And he had to slide a couple of times. One time he stepped up into the pocket and he was on a third down and uh the second interception I believe, and he ended up trying to come back to DGB, but he had a guy right in his face and he made the pocket. Was was clean enough to deliver the football. But that that quick pressure from a quarterback standpoint makes you makes you makes you feel a bit high. You've had time to reflect on it. How do you feel about your decisions to go for it on fourth
down twice in that first half? You know what, I still feel strong about those, UM. I think the decisions to go for it UM just shows confidence and the belief in the guys at that time. I felt like we were we were we were moving the ball. And and again at the end of the day, when you look at it, um, you know, we had opportunity, more more opportunities in this game. To me and my opinion didn't come down to those two plays. There were enough things in this game. And you know again, uh that
that costs us this football game. But um, I still stick by what I, what I did, how I how I chose to go for it. In both of those situations. On the Carson Wentz run to the left, it just seemed like the Giants were moving up before the ball was snapped and that there was never any chance of that working. What what did you see there? When yeah, it would they zero bliss us and they came actually off of the tight end side when we ran to the left side. And and we um, we missed missed
an assignment again assignment air on on the play. And you know, in critical situations like that, if something if one piece of it fails, then the rest of it has to kind of pick up that piece, meaning there's there's other pieces on defense that are free and and it just happened on that play again, Um that uh, um, you know, we just we just missed it. We just failed on a block and it was just just it wasn't a mental thing. It was just a physical air that we just missed on a block and it caused
us not to get the first half. More of Carson's five picks have been early early games in the first quarter. Uh, the only second half one, the only one after the first quarters. At the end of the Detroit game, is he coming out trying to do too much, trying to kind of be too aggressive? What do you see from him early? I don't think so. I don't think. I don't think that's the case. Um. You know, I go back to the Minnesota game. The two picks there referenced
those real quick UM. One he was trying to throw a quick, little outbreaking route to to uh Selikum and and was just wide of the mark and got picked. The second one in that game, UM felt like he might have forced the ball, actually just forced it down the field. He threw it into coverage and it got intercepted. The ones yesterday, Um, he had opportunities. Uh, you know, whether the you know, the progression of the play to
go other places with the ball. I think sometimes especially young quarterbacks, and these are the things that we're working and dealing with with Carson. Is is is making sure he understands that the whole contour or the play and what the what the initial play is, what is what is designed to do, what's the cover, what's the what's the coverage beater that it's best against? And and if it's not that coverage, where do I go with the football?
These are the things that we keep constantly, keep talking with and working through. And this is all part of the growth process that he's that he's going through. And the two yesterday were kind of that just the fact that you know, just gets a little tunnel vision sometimes focused in or locked in on on one receiver when when there are other opportunities to go somewhere with the football and either it's either gonna be incomplete and we punt. Um,
you just can't have obviously the interception. You know, five plays of the game and two of them are to the other team decisions. Second guest, No, um, not yesterday. I felt comfortable and everything we did, um the way I called the game. UM. You know, even down the stretch, we had opportunities. You know, in that last last four plays of the game, you know, to have to have opportunities to to to extend that drive and potentially score.
And I mean, we just missed on the last play of the game, the play that we actually completed earlier to the same receiver earlier in the game in the third quarter, same play, fourth quarter. You know, it's just just we gotta we gotta keep working and keep keep making those making those plays. It's probably it's a little of both. One, Jordan could look a little sooner. Uh two,
the ball could be it's fourth down. You got to give you know, as a quarterback, you just got to give our guy an opportunity, you know, to make to
make the play. And that that's just that's just again understanding the situation and and um you know, putting yourself in those in those spots and excuse me, and those are the things that you know, I know, I know in Carson's case, and I don't want to speak for him, but I know after the game he was very down, you know, about that last that whole last series, about some of the decision and throws that he made. And you know, he makes that play in practice ninety nine
out of one hundred times. And those two guys are on the same page with that particular route we've seen at the Cleveland game. The touchdown is the same route and he makes that play. So these are just things that uh, um again, would you we're just continuing to work through and uh you know, UM, we're obviously obviously headed in the right direction, and we're going to make
more of those down the stretch. Five drives now, the latent games under five minutes that you could have taken the lead, um and potentially won those games, but you had nineteen plays on those drives and gamed only twenty seven yards. Are the players tensing up in those situations? Why aren't they producing? Well? You know, UM, I don't think the players are tensing up. I think I think
our sense of urgency on offense has to pick up. UM, just knowing the situation again where you know, when you when you have a few year in and again you got some young guys out there that are that are that are kind of learning these situations and and UM, you know, the more we show them and the more again just kind of working through UM decisions, UM, you know, route combinations, UM, you know, just just the execution of
the play and just understanding the play itself. UM has a has a big part of um, you know, the success in the end of the end of football games and then the bottom line and at the end of the day, it just comes down to you know, um, as professional athletes who just make a play. Somebody just make a play and uh and that's what we gotta We gotta find out who who's going to be that guy and and uh, um you know, as we as we build and as we grow, those are things well
we'll figure out and get better at. Wendell Smallwood was a productive earlier in the game this year when I think Brian Matthews had the ankle is shoe. I think as they had two productive carries, isn't there a temptation to see more of what he can do? As there there is there is you know when you get to
that point where you definitely you definitely want to see it. Um. You know, it's it's hard because you got you gott Ryan sitting there, you got you got obviously Sprowles, who we've we've given him the ball the last couple of games. And um, you know, Wendell obviously and Kenyon are our special teams players who have those backup roles on off fence and and a lot of times. You know, the
temptation I guess is, yeah, you do want it. You do definitely want to see You want to see your young players perform and put them in those situations and see what to see what they can do. And and hopefully now this you know, second half of the season, we'll get a chance to do that a little bit more. I do, I do, um, you know, I think that that Obviously, he went into this game, he was very excited to play, obviously the first time to be active, and um made uh. He had two two big catches
for us. Obviously, the explosive played down the field. And I think I think you'll see, you know, more of a role for him, you know, in the next at least in the coming weeks. Get down, get down early in that game. You're chasing that game all afternoon. Does that cause you or do you have to guard against that making you get out of character? And some things
you do. And I guess specifically, I'm wondering if fourth and two and a half, if no score on the board, if if you go ahead and take three, Yeah, I mean you could we could always, you know, speculate those situations. It was so early though in the football game that that it didn't really get us out of our game plan. Um. Again, you know, even down fourteen, Uh, there was there was
no panic. I mean, there was just the the eagerness to actually offensively, to get back out on the field and just sort of right this ship at that time. I mean, you know, you put your defense in a bind early in that game. You just something you can't do. Um. But it didn't have an effect um on the decisions because so early in the football game Ryan Matthews Outdarren suppose being uber that well obviously the Dallas game. You know,
you go back to the Dallas game. Um, you know, and if you remember during the you know, we came out. You know, he had a he had that infected tooth in that in that Dallas game in it and it his cheeks has got swollen and there was things there that we're working and and you know, listen, those are those are painful things to put a helmet on and you know, around your cheek and all that kind of stuff.
And and um, Darren was obviously the hot hot hand at the time, and uh, um just just kept feeding, just kept feeding Darren and keeping them going and the same thing. You know this week Ryan, Ryan was we're going into this game plan with certain personnel groups that Ryan was going to be in on, Darren was going to be in on. And you know, you saw the one touchdown run that Ryan had in this game. That was that was a nice, nice little cute times that
the teams had you in the right direction. You've also mentioned the relative youth of the team. Do you think this team is built to win right now halfway through the sing or do you think that it's still building towards that we're obviously building something here. But when you look at these games that we've been in at the end, the encouraging thing is that we really should have won
those games. Um the Detroit game we had to lead, Dallas, we had the lead, and then and then yesterday had opportunities, you know late in the game to um to to take the lead and or win win the football game. So these are these are all things that that that as we build this thing, we're gonna we're gonna win
these games down the stretch as we go. We're again that's that's part of hitting in the right direction for me, Um And and the fact that that that Carson continues to make plays and yeah, sure we don't we don't like the interceptions and all that, but relatively speaking, he protects the football and you know, we've done a good job there and our tight ends had a little bigger impact yesterday and we got to continue to work that and um, you know, just overall, you know, keep keep
keep working, keep working, and keep grinding because I'd like, I'd like I tell the team, you know, after games like this, I promise them, if they keep working the way they've been working, good things are going to happen down the stretch. Thanks guys. H