You knows absolutely. Uh, You're right. Tight ends is a strength of this of this roster, of this offensive unit. And you know, if you look at Doug System and what they did in Kansas City with their tight ends and how we'll utilize them here, it'll be very consistent with that. Um. And we got the players to do it, you know, we can mix it up. They're all really good smart route runners, every one of them. And uh, and so we expect really good production from that unit.
Excuse me, absolutely, yeah, I mean we do. We feel like you know, I mean Zach, Zach has a great feeling route running. You know, Um, he just knows how to create leverage. He knows how to use his body, he knows you know, he's a big catch catch radius, you know, tray trays like a wide receiver out there. You get him out there. He's got the speed, he's
got natural instinctive moves for a tight end. And one of the surprises to me though, it's been Brent, you know, I mean I came in here thinking, you know, hey, Brent Star blocking tight end. But the guy knows how to run routes. He's really smart receive. He's a really smart route runner. And uh, I have a lot of confidence in him so and I know the quarterbacks do as well. So that's a really good thing for us.
Doesn't give him a lot of priest and Paul Turner, you know what, he has been as consistent as you can be at that position. I mean, he's been impressive and there's no lie. I mean he's he's tough. You can just tell he's a mentally and physically tough guy. He competes very hard. Um, he's an instinctive route runner. He has really good feet, you know, as we coaches say, he can put his foot in the ground and stop on a dine. Um, so he's done it. He's done
a nice job. He's obviously changing positions. Yeah, that's a big switch, you know. I mean, here's the guy who played tight end. But he's got all the tools, you know, explosive, he's explosive for that position, attic for the position. There's a big learning curve though, there's a big learning curve, and so it's a it's a slow process. But um,
you know he's showing all the right signs. He's showing all the right signs of a guy who can develop into a legitimate you know, offensive alignment in this so you're making that transition and men mentally, he's extremely sharp. So and that's you've got to be to play upfront. Frank, a couple of guys are downs to the minor interest, at least that we know of, with hitting a practice.
Zach Ertz kind of came out and said, there was frustratus of the bowerheads your what's your philosophy on getting him? That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what my philosophy isn't matters what the head coaches was. Now, I happen to align with the head coach. But you know that's what we do. We follow our leader, you know, and Doug sets the tone. And uh, that's one thing about Doug. You know, you can just tell the guy. He's a tough man. You know, he's mentally and physically a tough guy.
You just know that. You know, he played a long time, he's he grinded it out coaching and that's just the mentality he's bringing. That's what he's used to. And and so we're all in. You know, we're all in. And it's a physical game and you know, players were we play the players play this game. Because they want to hit, and yeah, do we have to protect ourselves even when
we go live. You have to be a little bit smart. Yeah, you know, but you learn from it and hopefully you cross your fingers when you have those few live periods, you crush your fingers and you know that nothing crazy happens. But it's just part of the game because you look at your three tight end personnel and what's your confidence that will be able to say, yeah, our three tight end personnel package is a really strong package for us, just because of the versatility of those players. Um, they're
all very instinctive route runners. They're all good block you know, they can all block. Um, So it's a way to it's a different way to try to create a mismatch. You know, sometimes you can create a mismatch by getting us a guy who's bigger and stronger than a than a corner covering them. You know, those corners are used
to covering small, fast guys. Now all of a sudden you get a big you know, someone like Trey Burton or zach Ertz, who are big guys, big catching radius, and you know sometimes dB struggle with that a little bit. And those guys know how to use their body and their catch radius to their advantage. So we gotta find ways to continue to use that to our advantage. You guys wanted to see how chrismal hand will be in a a lead longer and pull backs about it. Have you
seen that he's doing well? You know? I mean, there's two things you look for when you when you take a tight end and you put him in the backfield. And one thing is you look for first and foremost is is he nasty? Is the aggressive? Will he will he go after it? Because when you play that position, you gotta be physical, you gotta you gotta love content, and he's shown that. And then secondly, um for tight ends who are always playing on a line of scrimmage,
it's a different feel from the backfield. So how to insert you know, how to find how to find your backer having an instinct to see it. You almost have to see it like you're the tailback because the tailback's kind of following you most of the time. So and he's really shown good vision. So on both those fronts, which you are very key, he's been doing very well. Yeah, I mean Ryan having Ryan Backman just today, I mean, I know it was only a ten ten ten day. But I don't know, you guys saw it too. He
just looks explosive out there. He just looked explosive. He looked quick, he was seeing things. And I know it was a toned down practice in some you know, with no pads, but we're still playing fast and he just looks good. He's he's an explosive, physical runner. And so we got we got a good array of backs. You want to mix it in and uh, you know, Ryan certainly is going to be prominent in that mix, and you want to get him a guy like that with uh, with the track record he has in the way he's
run the ball over the last few years. We want to get him as many touches as we can. Especially he's a guys practice, he's making him play. Who's something the positive Trey really has. He's made so many big plays out here, and that's what you look for. I mean, you know, we have a lot of talent, a lot of talented guys playing in the NFL, so you're gonna see flashes of great plays, but really what you're looking for as a coach is the consistency of it. You know,
anybody can do it one time, you know. I mean, we could all go out there and make somebody could throw us a ball and we can make a nice one handed catch intet of man, we feel we feel like we can do it. But really what separates these guys out here, and really what we're looking for is guys who can make those kind of plays routine. That's what great players do. They make the hard things look easy.
And really that's that's what we're looking for, not only from Trey, he's certainly done that, but that's what we as an offense need to do. We need to make the hard things look easy and make it look routine. And that only can happen by challenging yourself and by doing it on the practice field and having the mental toughness and tenacity to have that mentality to go after every play so that it becomes routine. That's the whole goal, right, h