Press Pass: Doug Pederson

sorry about that. You're expecting to be able to play right now. I'm expecting him to play. Um, you know, right now we're gonna give Isaac all those reps over there and uh and see where see where he's at. But uh, you know, Alan's a veteran guy that has played there, so he doesn't need a ton of reps necessarily get himself aady to go. More mounted for him. How much has he practiced at tackle before this and would he be ready to play if we got a little bit way back in the spring, if that's in

the indication. Um, you know, he's been more guard, he's gotten some tackle on the service team, you know, uh, going against our defense things like that over the last couple of weeks. But but obviously nothing with our our offense has been more guard in that tight end position. Random book, what's going on with random Books? Um? Not right now? You know we're still and we're still kind of diving into the bottom of it. It's it's you know, in the hands of our medical staff and they're they're

dealing with it today. Tackle a little Isaac start at left guard, that's left guard to be with. Yes, yeah, what have you learned? And all this time playing with that Lane Johnson? What have you learn? Have you learned anything about Lane and his value? And does a disappointment row is things unfolded the way they do. Well, I think that the biggest thing, the glaring thing is we're on our fifth right tackle and with Lane and you know we didn't we weren't going through this, So you're

asking guys to kind of play out of position. Um, you know, Alan's been been a guard and then uh, you know, big v young rookie player and gets hurt and then you know Matt Tobin gets hurt and and uh you know, so so now we're on our fifth but um, you know, he's a he's a veteran player, and and uh, he is a tackle and and you know, um, we're just looking forward to to next week and getting

him back. The last two games, Carson has dropped back fifty or more times, and then over the last seven I think it's forty seven pass attempts for an averager. Do you want to manage that better? I know there's circumstances in each different game in Cincinnati get down, but do you want to manage that better? The amount I love to manage that a little bit, a little bit more for him, you know, I think it's putting him in a in a tough situation. And as you mentioned,

you know we've we've gotten behind. You know, last week we had the two minute drive to to to go down and everything was a throw. And then the week before war down so early and so so fast that we had to we had to throw the ball. But I would love to be able to manage it. You know, you lean on that offensive line more with the with

the run game. Obviously, you know we're going against a tough run defense this week, and and uh, and yet we still have to be patient with with that to help our quarterback starting Baltimore is number one in the league games to run? Does that I know you want the balance that you just talked about, but does that play on your mind that we're going against the number one run defense? We go, Yeah, and there's ways to

run the ball. You just don't have to necessarily line up and try to run at them, you know, um we do. We do some things with our rpo game. I even think the three step passing game, the quick passing game can can kind of offset your run game a little bit, and it keeps your quarterback from being hit. And but yeah, you're still gonna have to line up and and and and try to go toe to toe with uh with it with a good defense named him starting quarterback. You obviously had a long term plan for

this season with Carson, and games dictated different things. But did you foresee him passing it's much it's late in the season, or did it kind of change and involved as a seasons? Yeah, you know, I didn't, you know, anticipate him him throwing the ball quite as much. You know, we felt or I felt that he was capable of doing it. But you never want to expose a young rookie quarterback to that. And and listen, he's done some outstanding things for us in the run game and in

the passing game. And you know, have we asked a lot of him? Yeah, we have, and he's handled it extremely well. And um, you know, it's just making him a better, better quarterback for not only the rest of this season, but for the for the future. Pretty early that that Carson was very vocal about what plays he wanted, et cetera. And he did a good job of expressing that to you. You've also said recently that he's done a good job of telling you in terms of person

noble guys. Maybe you know he was to see we see a little more trait berd. How's he gone about for voicing more of that? Um with the coaches, I mean it's it's open dialogue, you know, and I welcome that and and um, you know, within within a obviously as coaches, we we tend to have the final final say on certain things. But listen, he's the quarterback, and uh, you know, he's comfortable with with with all his receivers.

But at the same time, he's got more time invested with with guys like Urtz and and Trey and and so you know, we keep we keep working with with everybody, and uh, you know dgb's missed the last two, so you know we're really a game and a half. So you know, we get him back and now he can he can get back in the fold. So UM, I I enjoy you know, those conversations, whether during the week or on the sideline, Um as we as we piece

a game playing together. You have any memories of Harbs from the year you were special teams at ninety nine, but could you for see him having a kind of coaching career he's going on that. You know, it's one thing about special teams, uh coaches and Harves was was definitely this way. He's with the team as much as I am, you know, because he's with everybody, and and uh a lot of times special teams coaches can can make good head coaches. And and he's he's definitely done that.

And Baltimore and and UM, you know I think too, Um he's over the years, he's brought in uh great assistant coaches, good coordinators, UM offensively, defensively and on special teams, and uh, the way he the way he leads, you know, some of the same same things that you know, just for that one year that I was here that I can remember the things he did with special teams and those meetings. Obviously you see him doing it with this with this football team, and and um, very smart guy.

Um and look forward to shaking his hand this weekend this week What kind of sticks out of that you notice similar? Yeah, as far as you know, obviously their size and arm strength are um are are are very similar. I think you know, Joe throws the deep ball extremely well. He's very accurate with the deep with the deep pass, and and uh you know he's another one that can

get the ball out of his hand extremely fast. You know, he can set his feet and and and get the ball out and um, you know he's I think I think you know one thing that uh, you know, watching this offense, you know, with with Marty, you know, calling the plays, you see him you see a little bit more of what we do a little bit you know with the with the quote unquote West Coast stuff, the core plays that are there, and um, utilizing the personnel.

He understands his personnel and and uh, um you know he's very patient quarterback and and he just sort of lets the game unfold and takes what the defense can give him and manages it that way. And um, you know, if he gets an opportunity to shoot the ball down the field, he's going to do it. And he's very accurate doing that to the offensive one. It's kind of been mix and match as lane has gone. How much

has that impacted this team works? It's today's five names. Um, it can definitely u affect you, uh, the cohesiveness, the especially with those five guys you know up front, because that's such a close unit. You know, they have to communicate every every play on every play, run or pass, and and that's always as group and anytime it gets disrupted, it just sort of it just sort of you know, takes a little bit out of them a little bit. But you know, the one thing, Um, I think that

this group is just really hung together. You know, there's some great leaders there with Kelsey and Jason Peters, and I think these guys have really kind of kept the you know, kept it all together. And then you know Whiz is another one that's had a lot of games and again just just you know, putting all those pieces together can be a little disruptive for your offense and yet they're they're they're fighting and battling and working through it.

Full star panelties this year drug including I mean, I'm sorry twenty four and fifteen at Home, would suggests that it's not just the noise that's causing a lot of them. Uh is there a common threat there that I mean, is there any kind of cadence situation with Carson the people? Again? Yeah, you know it it goes back. I think a little bit too. You know, we we utilize and we use

so many cadences. Um. The other thing too is as playing when you play the quarterback position and you see the defense react in a certain way, you sort of you can pause your cadence and and redirect protection. And sometimes you might as alignment, you might hear something that might simulate the snap count and and and it triggers

triggers a false start. Um. You know, when we use the silent count, it's obviously predicated on on the tap and the head movement by Kelsey and and uh, you know we we as as tackles, we um, we teach them to anticipate that. So you know, it's a you know, again with a with a new quarterback, a young quarterback, Uh, you know, you keep working through it, and you keep working on it in practice, and um, it's something uh that that we know we have to address and and

and fix it. All parts of the game are obviously connected. You feel like what's been happening on offense is is having a direct impact on the defense to where you know their productivity has gone down as this as the season has gone away. It can affect, it can affect that, you know, I think they're you know mid season, we um, we struggled on third down obviously, so our defense was

out there a little bit more more. Um, you know, one of the things that we've done a little bit better here in the last couple of weeks is third down efficiency has been better. We've stayed on the field, time of possession, all that stuff. I mean, you look at the the game Sunday, the time of possession and the number of plays you know that we're run by both teams was was was really skewed, you know, but it should it should indicate that you should win those games.

But obviously we had a couple of red zone turnovers offensively, Um that negated some touchdowns and uh, we just can't we can't do that you know, we can't shoot ourselves in a foot that way. And um, but yeah, I do believe that sometimes if you can't get off the field on third down defensively but yet same way offensively, if you can't convert those third downs, it's going to affect you in the long runs. Have you talked to him, and do you have any reason to believe this won't happen?

He can? Do you have any I mean, can you go into Sunday thinking, you know, feeling secure about having them out there? We talked again yesterday and and um, you know, uh, you know, the only thing I know and and really is that, uh you know, we're we're

helping him and getting him, getting him ready. I I'm I have full confidence in him that that he'll be ready, and and uh you know obviously you you I think now we can maybe anticipate, but at the same time, you know, um, we expect him to now that now that we're kind of on the right track, I think, um that this hopefully doesn't doesn't happen again. Is there anything you can do Friday Saturday, leaving up to Sunday?

I mean that just no, I mean with him, yeah, no, do you I mean, you can't you know, it's just you can't. You don't know, so you don't know what's caused him to feel good that I want happen again. I mean, when do you feel sick? I don't know, mister day work, you go, I don't know. I don't know. But it's a weird thing. It is a weird thing, and that's why we're you know, our medical team is on it all right, Thanks guys. Mm hm h m hm hm