Press Pass: Frank Reich

and good personnel. So we have our work cut out for us at home playing you know, obviously playing tackle at home is easier because you don't have to worry about the noise, a little bit better on the snap count the quarterback. We can mix our snap counts up more, which that that helps them out as well. That first game mental you know, I think it's fine. You know, it was not our best performance as an offensive whole unit, and so that tends to accentuate everything, you know, anybody

who had a negative play here or there. So I think we all learned from it, including Big V. I think we want to in any business, certainly in our business, we want to have the maturity to understand, you know, not to overreact, but yet to still have a sense of urgency. And so it wasn't a great performance, like I said, as a unit, have a sense of urgency, to get better individually collectively and make improvements this week A lot earlier in the game. Did that have an

effect on him? Sorry, was hit pretty early in the game, But early did that happen affect on it? It usually has an effect on most quarterbacks, to be honest with you, I mean that's everybody knows that you play this business and you know you got to regroup from it. But it's hard to stand back there and get hit early and not let it affect you. Carson's tough. He can stand in the pocket with poise with the best of them. We've seen that. That's one of I think his strengths.

One of the things that so impressed me early on in his games, where the poison confidence he had in the pocket. We got to hit a couple of times early, and you know, your footwork gets a little bit shaky at times on a couple of things. That's for everybody, and so we just got to clean up the pocket. We got to do a better job help him out. We have to help him out as much as we can, and because we know that when when we do that, he'll stand back there with confidence. When you have that

poise and you don't get ancy. Is there all tendency sometimes to hold the wall a little bit too long, you know. I think, uh, some quarterbacks have that tendency more than others. One of the things I like about Carson, I think he has a good internal clock. As we all talk about, um, he's not a guy. He has that clock that I think it comes out quickly for him naturally, and that's one of the things we really

like about him. So I think if we protect it well, he has a natural clock to get it out on time. His difficulty in getting very deep into his progressions one of the reasons Zach was not targeted very often, now, you know. I mean again, you know Zach being out a couple of weeks I think, and getting back in sometimes it just takes a couple of weeks to get work back in. Again, different games dictate different things, so I tend not to I tend not to overanalyze targets,

you know, in a in a microscopic sense. I need to see it over three or four weeks. And then if if a guy's not getting target over three or four weeks, then I say, maybe we're not doing enough for him. If it's just one or two weeks, I tend to just say that's just the flow of the game that you guys will start to try to do

to get Zach more involved in the passing game. We we literally sit down every week, you know, coach, when we sit down and we talk about the game plan, and we look at plays, every play that we have in our offense. Even though it's they're all the basic plays, there's a lot of moving parts where we change personnel groups, we change formations, we still run the same concepts. Sometimes we do that. Sometimes we do that just to give the defense a different look. Sometimes we do that to

accentuate a matchup. So, yes, the answer is yes, we're always looking at that every week for all of our players when we find the right matchups that we want to try to that you were talking about, is there a tendency to hang on to it a little longer when you're playing from behind and looking for the better play? You know, got him a little bit of trouble. I mean that possibly, I mean at times, at times at times, but I think as a general rule, you know, you

he just has that it wants to come out. You know. Part of that is, you know, just just getting in that rhythm part of that is, you know, not trying to create the big play. You do get behind and you maybe you're trying to make that chunk play like you're talking about, and you're looking for the down the

field throw. I think that might be one of the lessons learned, you know, from the game, is when you're behind five and six yard games, getting it to your check downs, there's still all ought to be said for that. Do you the highest percentage of snaps he's played this season, how is he coming along in particular with the routes that he's asked to run DGB. I think is just playing very well. And I think he looks fast, he looks strong. I mean we see it every time he

gets the ball in his hands. He's hard to tackle. He's a big man who can run fast. He's gaining more and more confidence. You know, he's another guy you sit down and you say, how do we continue to get him the ball more and more without doubt? I mean, he's a he's a big play guy. The routes that he's being asked to run, isn't you know, doing what

you guys want to do and tack absolutely. I mean, you know, if you're grading if I'm grading him out on his route technique and his assignments, you know, as far as being one hundred percent on his assignments, as far as the route technique that he's using, he's playing very well on the offensive. Why you want to barber over? But why not try to run that? Why those stripping?

You know? I mean, I think that we're always going to collectively as a staff sit down and talk through what's the best five that gives us a chance to win. And that's really what it's all about. And it's not a building project. It's to win this week. And that's not We think we have good depth at our offensive line. We think Big Vegas is the best chance to win.

Valuable is it for Carson to have the experience he's had in the last two weeks, you know, playing from behind in a close game in the finementens I mean, I know obviously hasn't been perfect in situations. To how much does that help? Is development? I think it really helps. You know, coach has a frame, you know, Doug as saying that he says to the quarterbacks, you know, you've got to find where every bone is buried in this offense.

And you know you can tell guys where these bones are buried within a play, you know, how to get to your second or third or where's that check down at? And on paper we understand that, but until you actually get out there in the field or having to find those bones under pressure, that takes it to another level of experiential learning. So I think it's been good for him, a good opportunity for him to learn and grow in

those like final minutes of close games. Because really, I mean, the last two weeks of the only times has really had that experiences very poise. I mean, talking to him on the sideline before those drives, I see no change in his demeanor. I see no panic in his eyes. I see a young man who has a lot of confidence, who believes we're gonna win. We just, you know, we've got two weeks where we just didn't get it done. Explain for the third down situations Sunday, eight of them

were nine yards or more. It's kind of a season long thing with you guys as far as trying to get into third and manageables. I mean, how big of a concern is that it's a concern. I mean it's a big concern. I mean, you can't do. It's it's a simple it's simple math. I mean, it's simple math, and it that holds up forever. In this league, you have for every yard you have to go, your percentages are going to go down. So we have to do

a better job as an offensive unit. All of us have to find ways to get in third and manageable, especially against this team this week. Explain the double A gap system that you'll be going up against. What makes it such a challenge. You know everybody has, everybody runs a double A gap system, But in my mind, you know, this guy's the master of it. Zimmer's the master of it. It's his baby. I don't know if he probably didn't

invent it, but he's mastered it. They run every kind of combination there is known to man, and they know exactly what you're doing. They know what you're trying. What takes it to a different level is they know what you're trying to do. They know what teams have done to try to counter it. So they've tried to counter that, and it's just a cat and mouse game that you play. You know, we have our things that you try to

plan to do to it, and that will do. But you can't do the same thing every time because they're making in game adjustments to what you're doing. We're making in game adjustments to what they're doing. And sometimes you're going to hit it right and we'll get the big play. Other times, you know, we tell our guys, hey, they might get us once or twice. You play this team,

they might get you once or twice. We got to get up off the canvas and then you know, get back in the third manageable or punt the ball, don't turn it over and let's just keep playing ball. It's done.

They move the pocket or to combat that well, you know, you know, there's a variety of things, you know, you see, you know, I don't obviously want to go into too much detail because there's things that you want to try to do, but you try to block, try to match protect and throw it down the field, try to throw it short, try to mix in different things, you know, quick pet you know, I mean there's you got to do it all. Yeah, I mean you have to. You

have to. I should say, a better way to say it is you got to pick two or three things that you're going to do, be very proficient at it, and mix it up a little bit so that they can zone in on what it is that you're trying to do. Zimmer, it's sort of a master like you say, you know the whole you got? Is this kind of a less than ideal week for Jason Kelswidy missing practice? Um? No, well yeah, it's always not ideal for one of your

starters to miss practice. But you know, with Whizz stepping in there, you know, Whiz is really really mark, so um, you know it's good. I don't think missing a day or two of practice for Jason will physically hurt him, just because he hasn't missed anything and he's obviously still very involved in every meeting and everything we're doing, so I'm not that concerned about it. Get him back to DGB. I know he came here late, as he completely caught

up in terms of knowing the offense and everything. I don't feel like there's any limitations anymore. I really don't feel like there's any limitations. So I think he's full speed. Right. That's somebody who played the position on a particular game day when the past protection isn't necessarily there point he usually is. How much is on the quarterback to get the football out even quicker than maybe he usually does. Yeah, I mean some of it is, and but it's it's

on everybody, it really is. And that's not just where you know, let's just not talk. I mean, it's it's on a quarterback. It's on it's on a line to protect better, the backs to protect better. It's on us to kind of you know, you start calling shorter, you know, quick or stuff to get it out quick, or call rhythm stuff. Um, and that's kind of what we tried

to do or try to. You know, everybody, you find your ways, your chip, you know your chip helps, Um, you do quick game, you mix up those things you do to try to get your back on rhythm questions place. The last two weeks, you've had late drives in in games that were very close games, and the late drives haven't produced for you that turnovers a couple of times. So what do you see any common thread there? What do you have to do better late in games? Yeah?

It's botherishing, you know. I mean, when you have two opportunities you'd like to you'd like to do execute better than we have. Um, you know I don't have in two the two games, I can't say that I've seen a common thread because the one it was so short of a drive. So, you know, I think we have I'm very confident in the way we approach those situations

and how we prepare situationally for that. And so I think the key is we just got to get in one of these situations, have some success, built some confidence. Then there's a lot to be said for the confidence in it, you know, just getting out there and you learn, you're learning those situations. Just get it going, get the drive going, and get those first couple of completions that get the defense on their heels a little bit, and

then hopefully good things happen from there. Execution was how much different can you think he's passed by the leaders? He's pass by Lease would have been if Sam was your rather than personal and maybe not too you know, maybe ten percent different. You know, maybe ten percent different. Um, that's just a number, but uh, you know, you probably have a few more RPO stuff in the game with Carson. Um, Sam had a few you know, maybe Sam would have had a few things that he'd liked in the past

game as opposed to what Carson. You know, Carson, that's one thing about Carson for a young guy, he's very uh, he knows what he likes. You know. A lot of times you get a young guy in and and he'll just you know, some of the young quarterbacks I've been around or you're you're just they'll just run whatever you tell him to run. Carson has a very strong opinion of what he likes and uh, and he's got to build a good relationship with us and with obviously coach,

so that plays into it. So that probably has a little bit to do with the variant step we would see and the two guys playing quarterback