Press Pass: Frank Reich

Did we put him in the right protection scheme? Each players looking at his own deal. So, although that gets evaluated on an individual basis in the position rooms, I can tell you usually when you have a game where you have six sacks, it's not one guy, it's not just the offensive line, it's not just it's spread out and you go into that environment obviously tougher environment, but you had a lot of trouble running the running back screens,

which is just one specific play. Why aren't why aren't why aren't they working in wine teams able to blow them up? You know, we hit the one screen for we hit the one screen for fifteen or so yards to Sproles. We had the interception, which was a bad play, you know, which ended up a bad negative result. Um, if you run a number of screens in the year, usually you're gonna end up with one on the year,

one fluke interception like we ended up. I mean, if you run enough screens in sixteen games, that's probably going to happen to you. We had three or four other screens called. Two of them were potentially big plays that we just uh, the one, the one their defender made a great play. We had it set up to perfection, it's going to be a huge play. There's one guy defender and he slipped a block and and and gotten

away of what would have been a big play. And then the other one, Um, we just we just missed it. It It was set up nice. But talk about yeah, yeah, Well, in regards to the elfits of line, I know, you say there's a team unit, there's other factors like holding the ball, getting help in whatever. But Isaac did have a number of one on one blogging opportunities that he just got flat meat at least three or four. So

are there any concerns about him going forward? And has there been any consideration toward maybe he's starting somebody else against the Giants this week. And I think the way we look at it is one thing every player knows and every coach knows. You line up in that environment against really good players on the other side of the ball, and you're gonna get beat every now and then. And you know, at every position, and not just at guard

or at tackle or at center or your corner. You know, a receiver getting beat beat up by a corner, it happens. So when we look at stuff like that, when we see you know, when you see an individual get beat once or twice in a game, you don't like it, but it happens to literally everybody who suits up and goes out there and play. You know, now, if that happens over six, if that happens over five, six, seven games,

becomes a problem and you evaluate it. When it happens in one game, you say, okay, we take note of it, but we got a lot of confidence and we've been working hard. We believe in our guys. So um, whether it's Isaac or whether it's another guy, it happens in this league. We fight to get better and uh, and then you evaluate over the long haul, were there a number of players that Carson would have checked out of run calls or was that just the way the game played out? You know, I think it was just the

way the game played out. I know that's sometimes said, but you know, we came out, we schemed some things up. I'll be honest with you. We schemed some things up in the past game and hit a few things early on a few chunk players that felt good about um

try to keep the mix. Of course, then you get late in that game, and I know the ratio was probably a little bit more past than you ideally want, you know, But then you're down fourteen points, and so we throw what ten fifteen passes straight at the end of the game because we're down by two score wars and you have to throw because we're trying to win.

So even if it was a little bit out of proportion at that point, it gets it ends up looking worse, and I just my experience is when you look around the league, it pretty much happens every week to one team or two teams are going to find themselves in the same kind of situation three thirteen before they went up fourteen points, So I mean, just throw those last two drives and it was still forty three out of fifty six were past plays. So I mean that is

that too much? You know? I mean I think you know, I don't remember. I don't I'm assuming, okay, I assume you're right. At halftime, I remember, you know, getting the number at halftime. I think we were eighteen to nine or something like that at halftime when it got the number. We go out and we had we hit a couple

of plays in the passing game. So all I can tell you is as a play caller, you're you're calling what you think is going to get the team down the field and in that situation, and so that's what we were doing. How do you think you guys did? Um? Yeah, there were some good There were some good things in the run game. We had a few nice runs and um, you know, darn Darren's Darren. I mean, Darren made some plays and offensive line did a good job at times,

and so yeah, there were some good flashes. As far as the ratio goes, though, is there something to it?

Like Week one took some shots to tore it down the field that didn't work, but it helps other aspects because stretches the field sometimes even if the running game isn't as effective, you have to do it, just for instance, to keep Carson upright for sixteen games because driver, I think every play caller, every coaching staff, you know, offensive coaching staff goes in and says, you know, we have to be patient with the running game. I mean, every staff,

you have to be patient with the running game. But it's like I've said in here before, it's like getting this is literally the best analogy I can come up with it. It's like a boxing match. You get hit a few times, you get in the middle of a fight and you're trying to win the fight, and so you call you You're you're dialing up what you think is the knockout blow or what you can you know, the play that you think that will give you the

best chance for success. And um, yeah, do you need Is there a balance if you want to keep calling runs even when they don't we're always work, Yes, but there has an asterisk next to it. You know. The overriding factor as the play caller is you're doing what you think is best for the team to win the game. On that screen that you mentioned with the defensive player, So you felt like Isaac couldn't have gotten him on a on a screen to Smallwood. It was it was tough.

The defensive player made a good play, to be honest with you, I'm just wondering if yeah, you look at that. You know, usually on a screen, the offensive lineman are used to kind of getting out with a little bit of with this guy kind of ducked in behind, and you know, he made a very good play, to be honest with you, And Isaac's athletic enough that sometimes he's gonna he's gonna make that when other guys have no chance of making that play. Um, but that particular one,

the defender did a really good job. You mentioned his athleticism when he has struggled, particularly in pass pro is a is it a mental thing, a physical thing, or is it a technical thing? Mean? Yeah, I mean it's like any player. When when a player gets beat, it's usually a combination of things. It's hard to boil it down to one thing. Um, it's usually a combination. And within that combination is there's a guy lined up against

me that's pretty good. He gets paid a lot of money as well, And so I think it's all those things combine. The decision was made and starting left guard at the end of the the camp. Why did you go in that direction as opposed to have a competition with the other guards for a startling experience. Yeah, I think Isaac. Could you know, Isaac had showed a lot of progress in a lot of ways. Isaac is a versatile, smart player. UM,

you know who were very high on so um. He had earned a position, he had earned the right to kind of get put in the position. And uh, and we're just proceeding with that from Parson playing deep balls? Is that here's the only one so far? You know, I think when I when you there hasn't been enough in game situations yet to evaluate as much as you want. But I think we did a couple of nice things

this week, Carson. I like the fact that we hit a couple of back shoulder fades that's not necessarily the deep ball, but still kind of go routes that are back shoulders. I thought that was two really good throws by him there. Um. As far as the deep throws down the field, I think when I look at the whole spring, in the whole training camp and early on, have a lot of confidence in the way we're receivers

are running those routes and throwing them. We just got to keep throwing them and then we'll hit our share of them enough. Yet, in Carey Clement's past blocking to consider using him more. Yeah, I have a lot of confidence in Corey's good good in protection showed that good aptitude for it. U is that the right place blocking the right guy and then physically a strong enough to hold up against most of the backers that are that

are rushing. Right that he's in communication with people upstairs as it goes to the run pass ratio in game. Are you the person that he's in communication with and how did those conversations go on Sunday? Yeah, I mean I've h the people upstairs. I talk to the people upstairs for the most part. As far as that kind of thing, you know, Coach, he's worried about calling the game, thinking about that, managing the defensive side of it, being over that side a little bit, listening to what's going

on over there. I'm gathering information in between series and then from up top and then I'll talk to Stout on the sideline as far as a run game here, what he's talking to his guys about with the offensive line, talk to Mike row in the past game, h what are the receivers saying? Is there one corner that we think we can you know, are we feeling anything down low?

Trying to get hands on approach? So we would literally have a pretty thorough process that we kind of go through after each series where I'm talking to the offensive line coach, I'm talk up into the receiver coach, I'm talking to the guys upstairs for the stats, and then it's my responsibility to filter that information and kind of give coach what I think is necessary for the next drive, include the past run ratio. Did you guys have that

conversation at all on Sunday? Yeah, I mean that conversation. You know, we have that conversation you know all Yeah, I mean all the time. I mean sometimes the conversation is yeah, Sometimes the conversation is a specific number. Sometimes the conversation is, hey, here's our runs for the next series. Sometimes it varies every time. The first run play of the game, you had Lane and Jason out on the left side. Where did that come from? And I know you can't do that obviously a lot, but is that

something you could use again going forward? Yeah? You know, I mean it's there's just a little changeup, a little changeup that you throw in there, and typically you have a couple of play package off of it. But it was something that we saw that we thought we could specifically use to attack their defensive front and their scheme third and long an awful lot. Uh the first two games. What do you make of that? You it worked out well against Washington you kept converting third and longs. But

is that something you can sustain and why does it happened? Well, you don't want to have to sustain it, for sure, but the obvious the obvious answer is, you know, just be more productive on first and second down, avoid penalties, avoid negative plays. Looked at the Detroit game, Uh, you know last night against the Giants, it was crazy how

they overcame. They were in third and eleven plus something like nine times, I mean, don't somewhere in the northern amount, third and eleven plus last night and they were able to overcome it. So as an offense, to win and that's all that matters is to win. So you got to overcome it. But we got to find a way to stay at a third and long shoulder pass. Carson's been able to throw more successful this year versus last year?

What has been the difference there? And I'm sorry the back shoulder passes that he's thrown more of it and themistry feel just keep you gotta keep throwing those. You just gotta keep throwing him. You've got timing, the timing and rhythm of it, Um, seeing the leverage of the defender, trusting it, trusting the receiver because there's always the option to still throw it over the top. It's something that you have to trust that the receivers feeling the same

thing that you're feeling. And then the accuracy of the throw. How much is that a part of your offense? And would you like to incorporate design runs in addition to its frond us? You know, with the quarterback like Carson, those designed runs are always in your back pocket. Um, It's I think it's something that every team has to think about when they play US. Um. You know, we don't want to put him in harm's way too many times on designed quarterback runs, but they're always available to us.

And then coach d Filippo is you know, one of the things he always preaches the cars and is won a game, meaning you know, make one convert one third a game with your feet, you know, and uh says that to him all the time, and um, you know he's got the athleticism to do that. What does the Giants defense They Well, I think the Giants defense probably has the best or one of the better pressure packages that we face. They do a good job of disguising.

They do a good job of presenting a similar presentation and have multiple looks off of it. Safeties do a very good job of disguising. They'll be all the way down one way and kick back the other way. They make a lot of things look the same. They'll give you a pressure look and bail out. So, I mean, it's nothing that you don't see every week. I just think that that Spags does a particularly good job coaching as guys and having the full complement of pressures that

go with the different presentations that he gives you. With Windell the games he had success last year or running the ball Atlanta Pittsburgh, a Seattle tune extent, he had twelve to fourteen fifteen carries. People talk about the running back getting at a rhythm. Do you feel like a guy like him needs, you know, more than two or three carries to really get an evaluation of where he is. Yeah, I mean I think that not just for running back, for a quarterback or an offensive lineman. The more reps

you get, the better. So I think that's a fair assessment that you know, you wouldn't look at one day and say, well, he had however many rushes and and his average was down. You know, you need to evaluate that over the long haul and there will be some weeks hopefully that he'll get twelve or fourteen carries. I mean,

you know, the way we're doing it. I mean, there's a role for all of our backs, and it's a game plan thing, and we attack it week by week and coach and we sit down coach this down with the offensive staff and we work through what is the plan to utilize our personnel at that position each week