Press Pass: Frank Reich

and an excitement and energy. And then there's always that part of the evaluation processes can you run all day? Can you run all day? And can you go when you're tired. So that's that's what we're in the process of getting into right now. Well, as a coach, you want you don't want any drops, so no, I mean you know, you know you want one hundred percent catches. Um. So, yeah, it's something that you get into, get into groove. Uh we always got to demand the best of ourselves. We

expect perfection with wide receivers. It's a big different team in the top read foots between their first and second years. I think there is some I think there is something too that you know, you see that in receivers, and I think a lot of that is just a confidence and the game slows down and those two go hand in hand. So, um, we've said it all off season.

You know that that's our expectation of Nelson. You know one thing that does pop up on the film, even just in a couple of practices here with the pads on, He's got a quickness off the line of scrimmage. He has some vertical speed to challenge you deep and he just has very good footwork. And in this league, you have to be able to beat press coverage. You have to have to have to beat press coverage, and he had and he has a natural ability to get off

the line versus press. And he's got to be able to use that to his advantage to help our team. So why wasn't that apparent last season? I knew you were here, but you seem to fill Why wasn't he able to accomplish that? I mean I did watch most of the film from last year. Um, I will say this is the film that I saw last year. I saw flashes of it. I mean you saw it. So as we come into your VA and I said, oh, this guy can beat press coverage he can get off

the line of screamage versus press coverage. So I didn't really get into evaluating their scheme and what they were trying to do a whole lot, but you could see flashes of it, and a lot of times when you're in that tempo offense that they were and you don't get quite as much press coverage, you know, that play a little soft there, just trying to get lined up because they were going so fast. So I would anticipate, well, he'll have more opportunities to do that this year as president.

His accuracy timing, he just uh. I think Sam wanted Sam's strength to get many But he keeps it real simple, you know. And it's not because he has to. It's because that's the best way to play football that you want to be. You want to have a sophisticated understanding of everything, but yet still keep it simple. And that's really what we try to teach and engraining the guys.

You want to teach when you teach a system, and when you teach all the options that are available, you know, you tell a quarterback, here's all the options, here's the progression, here's all the protection checks. But his job is to keep it simple to see, to see the coverage, but yet to narrow it down into his progression, because at the end of the day, it's about matchups. It's about finding little windows, and I think he has a very

instinctive and natural way of doing that. And then he's very accurate with the ball business, you know, and point considering the offensive line, I mean offensive line is probably you know, the one area, I mean every area, but certainly not. They got a gel together and they're impads now, so you want them out there. But you know, the last thing I would say to Brandon is don't I wouldn't want them to rush you know, you don't want them to rush it because we need them for the

long haul. So you don't want to do anything stupid. So you got to be patient and trust the trainers, trust Brandon. Um, but certainly you don't like to miss anytime. Miss Newsky's looked great. I mean he's really looking. He's incredibly smart, he's very stout. Um. Yeah, he's been I don't want to say a surprise. That's why that's why we signed him. Um. But he's met and exceeded expectations. What do you see from them they're all kind of

the same guy. He's different. Yeah, I mean I think you know, Smallwood has maybe a little bit more size to him, but you know he I think he has a really good vision. He's patient in the hole, but then he's got speed through the hole. Um. You know, Kenyon, I just I think is a really good all round back. I think he's he can make him miss in the open field. I like his vision, he's doing great in protections and uh, I've been very impressed with him the

whole offseason. Of course when we got here, everyone was in your ear. It was in my ear about how good this this guy is going to be a player. And that's what we're seeing. Um, you know, Marshall has really showed me a couple of things here to last couple of days. I think he has natural running ability in the open field. He's very elusive and uh, you see good instincts and envisioned by him. Um said said.

It's got a little bit more size to him, plays a little bit bigger, plays a little bit more stout. And then of course you know Ryan has not been on the field yet. But you know, it's it's a good group. It's a good group. And Sprawls is you know, I mean Sprawls is Sprowls. I mean, you know it's the best with Marshall, how deal is? You know, it seems like he's caught up pretty quick, you know, I mean I haven't really noticed it hasn't jumped off the

film a whole bunch with mental errors. I mean, Ducee is gonna. He's done a good job, and Duke has done a good job with him and you know, kind of keeping it all tight and the system. But he's looked good and you know, he can't do anything about what he's missed. He's just got to make sure you accelerate the process. Now, ye full back on h back. It may not be there now, I'm sorry to hear the first part the full Well, you know we got

Chris and Tree working there. You can always work in offensive lineman, and you know, sometimes you know, when it just depends the roster, you gotta you gotta be able to you know, when you get down to fifty three, it gets it gets tough, and so you know, you always hope you have one offensive lineman or sometimes even a defensive lineman that you can bring in and using special situations. But Um, but we expect Chris and Tree to carry the ball at that load. And UM, it's

not gonna it's not a huge part of what we do. Um, but it's definitely it's definitely something that we're that we have a system of play. You know, we have a system of place for our two back stuff that they gotta they gotta be in there for The first was that Gallan Barman. I mean, you know, it's competition. You know, Allan's a starter right now, but it's like every position, it is competitive, and he's done a great Alan's done a great job. So UM, been very impressed with Alan,

very impressed with the whole line as a group. And you know, it's funny when I look at line. Obviously you have to evaluate them individually, but there's a side, you know, as you want to they're a unit. They gotta they just got to work together and at some level of just my experience has been they got to

be interchangeable parts. So I really we really, you know, Doug and I really rely on Stout a lot to get those guys where you can mix and move parts, and you got you gotta cross train them because guys get dinged and they're out for a game or two, so they they just as a unit have to they have to continue to cross train. We gotta mix guys in at all those positions in the final fifty line. What's a comfortable number, you know? Maybe you know that's

really uh. I mean, we always want as many as we can, you know, I always want as many as you can. But that really comes down to the head coach and how he you know, Doug, and how he making that decision on how the roster will shape out in the end. Frank, can you get more from the field. Yeah, it's a both. You know. As far as corrections on the field, how do you hand them? There are different philosophies. You know, some coaches will say, let him play, will

correct in the film room. I really, I really am all in on Doug's belief in philosophy and system of make quick corrections on the field. Don't belabor it, but immediate feet. There's nothing like immediate feedback. So but you got to find the balance, and that's where he has the head coach kind of he reigns us in. He doesn't want us to get you go crazy with corrections on the field, but he wants quick, immediate feedback, and then in the film room we can kind of talk

it out a little bit more with the players. You have the overall athleticism do everything that you want to do is in the structure of this outfields. Absolutely. I mean, you know, you look at how this system performed in Kansas City in the last three years, you know, playoff team. So we're you know, I think we're gonna be very very strong upfront. We're very strong, you know, quarterback, you know, our running back and wide receiver mix. You know, we

got we got playmakers. You know, we got playmakers, and uh but it's got to develop, you know, it's got to develop. And obviously we're always going to be optimistic and uh but I just know you can't you can't assume anything. I mean, I gotta see it day in and day out on the practice field, and then when game time comes, we got to see who those guys are are going to step up in the big moments. Guys. Um, you know, well TJ. You know, obviously TJ got thinged early,

you know, but he's got he's got speed. You know, Chris has you know, Chris Givens has good speed. You know, he's a. He's a guy who's proven he can get vertical and make plays down the field in this league. Um, you know, Marcus Johnson, young guys got some speed. You know, Jordan made a nice play. The speed thing. It's funny. Um. Yeah, you definitely there's raw speed. You can't coach it, you can't buy it. Um. But there's also a way, you know,

there's just certain guys that have a knack. There's certain guys that have a knack, and and there's a lot of ways to kind of scheme things up to try to get guys down the field. So we we got to do that. And then at times it's gonna come down to somebody having the raw speed to run by somebody. But there's not many times in this league where you're

running five yards behind people. It's finding little windows, making accurate throws as a receiver, using leverage, having a good move at the line of scrimmage, creating something down field for them that they can find a little window down the field. Um. You know, Carson has been good. You know, he's had a great start in my opinion. You know, he's his grasp of the offense is as good as

you can expect. For this time. Um fundamentally he looks rock solid you know, always always getting better throwing the ball well, so very pleased with his progress. Thank you