We're doing. Good morning, guys. All right, everybody's still healthy as of this week going into yes, yes, which is a great thing going into Week one for you guys. UM, it's I would say it's more normal than than than anything. You know, most teams are usually I mean, guys are a little beat up, but for the most part, uh, I think around the league, everybody's pretty healthy going into the first game. Saints just reported that John Doran Boss
had aortic aneurism and require surgeries. It's something Eagles new before you traded him. It's the first I've heard of it. What um, was there anywhere or any tests about his uh physical don't have to check with our medical staff on that. That sets out of my jurisdiction. Last year of the season, the first quarters were your lowest scoring quarters. How much of an emphasis was that this offseason and one of the things you found you think you can
correct one into this year? The person, Yeah, and I think that's part of the reason, you know, with some of the additions offensively, um to help us uh um score more points early in football games. And and then and then some of the takeaways from last year is you know, we we were we were a good uh in Carson. One of Carson's strength obviously was him on the run, uh, play action pass uh, you know, running
the ball efficiently a little bit better. Things like that starting starting games and and and just finishing drives and those are things that uh. Um you know that that that we looked at, that I looked at, and ways of um focusing on that even in practice, because you can simulate that in practice uh by by the type of play calls and and the and the uh the effort and the execution offensively to help increase those those points.
It really was a striking difference in the first quarter and the other quarters in terms of both sides of the ball. For you guys, really, uh is that? Does that speak to preparation? What is it really? Um? Now? Not not really? UM. I think I think it can. It can. It comes down to to, um, you know, the the execution. Uh. Sometimes what you see on film during the week is not necessarily what the defense presents
you or the offense presents you on game day. Uh. You know our personnel, I know in the past, and you see Cover three all week and then they come out and they play Cover two. So it sort of throws you a little bit off of your what you initially would think going into a game, and so you got to make those quick end game adjustments and and
and correct that. But some of it is that and um, you know, it just comes down to execution and uh and making sure too that that when when when I put openers together, that I'm that I'm also right with what with what I'm studying and what I'm seeing. Jeffrey Laurie speaking yesterday, he said that your guy's interaction during
a week part of it. As you go over strengths and weaknesses of a team, maybe look at film and look at X y Z. What's that process been like with the owner since you I think it's been great. I mean, we did it all last season. Um, we'll
continue it again this year. You know, I'm not going to dive in those are those are obviously some private conversations, but but I think that, you know, our owner is so passionate about about this team and this organization that uh, part of my job is just keeping him informed on on on what we're doing. And uh, um, you know he may not be around, you know, every day of the week, but this is our chance to kind of uh, recap the game, you know, from Sunday and then and
then going forward. Um sort of uh, the scouting report if you would, um on the on the upcoming opponent, once a week type of type of deal. I mean, they could be fifteen minutes, they could be two hours. You know, it's just just depends on on the the information that we're that we're talking about something that you initiated or is it Jeff He's done it, um all the way back to coach read you know. UM, so it's something he's done in his past. It was obviously
new to me because I was new last year. So I I welcome that. I enjoy it. I love the conversation with him, the dialogue with him because again he's he's uh, he's so excited and passionate about this team that uh, um, he just wants to wants to be in the loop. Has he ever made suggestions or questions that have led to you guys making some changes or no, you know, And that's the thing. I think that's the one of the one of the great things about him is is is I think he understands, you know, from
the football side. He doesn't get into the XS and I was part of it, um, And and so he kind of leaves that up to us, you know, from that standpoint. So, um, you know, he doesn't recommend plays or anything anything like that. Um, But uh, they're they're
great conversations. Though. Downs were also discussed, and um, you know he said that essentially the decisions are made based on analytics and math in the offseason, which would um, you know, the implication is that when it's in game, that the decision is kind of out of out of your hands or has already been made based on math. Is that Yeah, I wouldn't say it's out of my hands. I would say that it's more calculated a little bit. Um. And then listen, there's also times where I just have
to go on gut, gut instinct, gut feel. How how is the offense playing, our defense things I've mentioned in the past, how are our special teams playing at the time? And uh, is it the right time you know, to to go forth outside of the end of the game fourth down, you know, to keep your offense alive, so
to speak. Um. Yeah, So I think it's a lot of it is calculated, but a lot of it too can be based on some of those other circumstances, you know, during the game, if we have a chart, UM that kind of has if if you're on acts, I mean, is it like that? I mean we have we have pages of UH and documents of reports and studies and things. I mean, we don't go into it with We don't take the whole chart or the whole whatever twenty page
document with us. But it's a lot of good in for It's more about scenarios and situations that have come up in in past games prior years that that we can study the numbers on those field position UM Again, how well is a team performing UM, you know, is it UH is three points better than going for it? You know, all those decisions factor in and all those are based on the numbers that we've that we've studied
over over time. To kind of throw the paperwork away and go with your gut probably the times when you go for it, gut instinct, gut feel is just how how well I feel like our offense is doing. We could be you know, three or four or five good run plays in a row, and we're getting that fourth and one, fourth and two, and I feel like we're in a good situation. I'm gonna. I'm gonna, you know,
probably pull the trigger and go for it. Um. A lot of it to me is is predicated to on on field position and uh, you know, the percentages of a of a punt into the end zone versus uh, not making it on fourth down but yet keeping your opponent you know, on their side of the field, so to speak. Those are all those are all things that they kind of factor in. But yeah, I've really based on how our offense is playing at the time. The
offense kind of sputtered down there at Washington. They you starting to go at the tempo offense and the things start to roll. What is it about that temple offense? Because we saw it in a preseason two What is it about that that gets that offense gone? You know? The thing and I learned this is when I was a player. The tempo offense. Players don't have time to think.
They just react and and that's probably the simplistic of it. Um. You know, things are are up tempo, um, they're basic, not a lot of motions and shifts and guys having to line up you know in certain spots. If we you know, broke the huddle for per se with a with a call, and really it's just, uh, it's the it's the it's the simplicity of it and uh, things that we that we work on. Um, the calls are simple. You know, they can play fast, they don't have to
think and and uh, it's just it's more about reaction. Yeah. Back whel Frank wright was a player the kid gun with the Bills. That was a very successful, simple offense. That do you find yourself kind of going over some of the things that that work in that offense with Frank Wrighting Institute of now Man. That was a one hundred years ago. Um, but now you know a lot of the Saint listen, a lot of the same principles and concepts that that we ran or he ran back
then still applied today. Obviously, we don't go back and break out a bunch of Jim Kelly Buffalo Bill's offense, but at the same time, we do reminisce on those times and even my times in Green Bay when we did hurry up and and you know, some of those same concepts and philosophies still apply today. What are you doing? Yeah? Is that platform? And why is that? Yeah? You know, I leave it up player to player. Um, decisions. On
my part, I just want him involved. UM. I want him to constantly be around the team, be around the meeting room. It's one more time, one more opportunity for him to hear the information and then to watch his teammates go play. So UM I will continue that with him, carry him on the road and uh I want him to be a part of that. Uh that that that room. It was Carson's out of pocket accuracy last year as a rookie and how is where is it right now?
I think it's better now than it was yet last year. UM. You know, because it's something that he's worked on, something that we've even uh addressed in the offseason and during during training camp. Um. He is an extremely accurate pastor though overall out of the pocket uh um, whether it's short, intermediate, long, and and then you know you throw in the scramble, um where he has has the ability to throw the
ball down the field. But that accuracy has increased. UM. It's something that uh um as we go throughout this season now we've got to um take advantage of that. You know, he's a big, tall guy that's athletic, can see better outside the pocket. Dug In the preseason, it looked like in the red zone with those run pass option plays, you guys had a lot of success. It is there's something that makes those tougher to defend in
the red zone or more effective from an offensive perspective. Yeah, you know you when you when you study team, every team, every defensive team is different in the red zone. Um. You know it's uh sometimes they they they try to force you into into running situations, so crowd the box. And you got to have an answer for all that, um and and and for us, it's it's the it's the the read pass, you know, the run pass option. They read the d N read the linebacker whoever it
might be on that particular scheme. And I think it's it's imperative that you stay ahead of the chains in the red zone whatever you can do to to keep the to keep advancing forward closer to the to the goal line. So we'll continue, we'll continue with those those concepts. Watch the game last night, I did, I did, um I was a great football game. Um. You know it's uh, obviously the way the game started, you felt like it
might swing one way. Um and then and then you just saw the the patients the resiliency, the you know by by Kansas City, and it just kind of went back and forth. It's just a great, well coached on both sides football game, and um, you know great too the next game. And think about how you may I've listened. I watched it more as a fan than anything else. Um my focus is on obviously on Washington this weekend at all. I liked him, I did. I liked him, you know, and and uh, I thought he'd had some
some great uh a good career there in college. And you know, one of the guys that was uh you know, uh definitely someone that we had our own. Yeah. Thanks, thanks,