Press Pass: Frank Reich

and that's really you know it might play out. You never know how it's going to play out. You go up against a team that's that's good against the run in their home place, and you still have expectations to run the ball efficiently, run it enough to win. That looks different from game to game, But I think what you're saying is a good thing that we got to go on with the mindset that we can run the ball effectively against this group. You've used them Isaac sam

as a fullback and the extra tackle. Obviously, you guys think that helps the team. But how much of that is just wanting to get him some valuable reps at this point in his career? Um, you know, I think it's serving. It's first and foremost what you said, there

is just a question of need. You know, he's it's always put the best eleven that we think we can on the field for whatever the particular play design and call is, and we think that he gives us that there is the added benefit that you know, this guy, he's we believe he's a good football player, and he's getting him reps that can help him develop. Obviously not at his position, but I think they'll still carry over

supposed back slightly, you know. I mean, obviously with Allan coming back in and being the starter, you know, I guess you're one step further down the totem pole, um. But you know, still look for him to contributeivers at only five targets in the past game. Was that five design or is that product of the way the game developed? M you know, it's a little bit of both. I mean,

there were certainly designs. We saw some things that we could wanted to get the ball inside the zach and and to Darren m in ways that we thought we had good matchups and to doing some things versus their defense, um, you know, but at the same and then it was just a little bit of flow of the game. We ran the ball out, so you know, you're kind of hitting them in the mid section. As you say, Uh, you know, running the ball good inside. Anytime you can

be effective inside, I think there. I think that's good. How many targets they get over the long run, I don't know. I guess I've I've just seen it over the years. I've been on teams where you know, or even in Ryan Matthew's position out the receiver position, but you know, for a couple of weeks nothing and then a great game. You see that all the time at receiver.

In my opinion, I see that all the time. I've been on teams with two Hall of Fame receivers and one guy's not getting targets for two or three weeks, and he's a little bit upset, and but then we comes and he's fine and back things are back to normal. So I just think that's part of it, the part of the flow. Nelson only had two catches and seventy two snaps. How do you get more out of them? Um, you know, we just keep plugging away. I mean, like we've said it, I really believe in our guys. I

like our guys. I mean, I love our guys, and we go in with a lot of confidence. UM. So you know, the more players you call, like you said, the more chances you get. UM. We just keep dialing them up and we figure that the ball is going to get distributed where it has to get distributed to win the game. What you saw last week in Atlanta. Third advantage of that A and the what is the

difference between you? Yeah, there's there's an advantage both ways. Obviously, you know they Seattle's defense, they get to see what we designed against their particular scheme because their scheme is a little bit unique. Um, the zone coverage that they play, UM is very similar. So we designed a couple of things last week that we have to change up, do something a little different, find a couple of other wrinkles to attack. You know, their zone defense and the and

the challenges that it presents. But certainly it helps us as well. We know what worked. We can switch things up, make things look different. UM, find ways to get the same thing done just in a slightly different way. And so I think that's what that's what we try to do, is to get the receivers off to a really quick jump at the snap without a false start, particularly the stadium where you're probably going to have a lot of

silent camps a challenge for us. I mean, obviously, you know we had we had the penalties last week, which is you know, which is unacceptable and you don't you don't want to see that, And then you go on the road in this environment, which is we all know about this environment. It's challenging. So it's just a matter of concentration. Um, it's a matter of trusting it and being focused, and you still got to be able to get off the ball. The good thing is we practice

this all the time. We just have to do better as far as eliminating those pre snap penalties. If you attack Campbell and you kind of stay away from him where you picture, suppose, what does philosophy change anything? You have someone from that side of the balls healthy respect

for him. He's a very good player, UM, And I think there's you know, I think there's certain things that you you run, your play that you have called that you feel good against anybody, and then there are other plays that he has strengths that you think I might just if I have a choice, if I'm a quarterback and I have a choice on that one. I might go the other way. I think most quarterbacks think that they go into the game and they study the film.

But then there's to be honest, there's a lot. There's more than just a few plays where we just call the plays and we run them and we have confidence in our guys. But sometimes there's a choice, and sometimes you take you choose to throw away from a corner that you have a lot of respect from. That happens all the time. It's just six rushing first downs? Is that enough from him? Yeah? I mean I love the

way you know we've said. I love the fact that we've talked all the time about One of the things that is a strength of Carson is his athleticism, is his size. But in this league, over the long haul, you have to you have to be able to do it from the pocket. Now, as he grows and develops as a quarterback, will he find his way to make a few more rushing first downs. I'd rather have him start off this way. The way he's starting off in his career, be thinking of the mindset of staying in

the pocket, getting down there. He has the natural athlete. I think our offensive line has been doing a good job of protecting for the most part, to be honest with you, and he hasn't had to run out of there too many times, so that's a good thing for us. So we don't want him around there running around trying to find lanes. We've been doing a pretty good job and pass protection. We're not flawless and not perfect, but overall pretty good. I like his mindset, I like his

instincts in the pocket. I'm comfortable with where he's at. But with his athleticism, I do expect that over the course of time he will make some more first downs. Running football challenge for a young boy back and what to take to be successful. You got to keep your poise, and the challenge is, you know, we'll simulate it. We'll go inside today, we'll crank the noise up, but it's really hard to totally simulate this environment. And but that's

the fun part of it, really is. I mean, when you've been around this league and you kind of get environments like this as challenging as it is, it's fun. I mean, it's fun and that's what the play. So this will be a good experience for carson Um in one respect. It's just another road game. It's just the next opponent on your schedule. But everybody knows when you go to Seattle that is a tough environment to play in,

mainly because they got a good football team. Um. So you know, to me, you look, you look forward to it, but you got to keep your poise. You got to really be able to You got to be able to bounce back from bad play. I mean, there's going to be, however many offensive plays in the game. You're gonna have a bad player or two. You got to have the four to two to get back up and just stay aggressive.

I'm still like Cam Newton Crunk on Sunday. Does he just cover big, bigger tight ends or does he does he generally um cover guy let's say, like zac Arts or do they do they throw someone else on him? Um? You know, I'm not sure what their formula is. I think they have you know, they can they can match him up at any time anywhere that they want to. Um.

So again, we go in. If you have a play that's designed to go where or where Earth's is a primary read, and you get a matchup that on a particular kind of route, if you've got somebody guarding him that you don't feel it's there's option you know, progression two, progression three, so on, so forth. You've got your Your quarterback is six six Carson Russell Wilson might be six feet tall. In general, how much does a quarterback's height

affect time of an offense? The kind of plays you call that sort of thing because Wilson has to take a deeper drop to get better site lines, that sort of thing. You have to account for them, you know. I think, yeah, I think the height of a quarterback is a factor. I don't you know. I think it's one factor of however many factors that there are advantages to be in taller. You know, Russell Wilson is a

you know, he just has so many other factors. You know, if however many there are, if that's the one factor that he's um you know where he's not not at hot you know, obviously not the same height. He's just so great in so many other areas. But the line of vision I think is a factor, and he just you have a way I think when you're since you've been that height your whole life, you just you're used to finding the throwing lanes. I remember talking to Doug

Flutie about this long time ago. You know, you're used to it. I mean that's all you've ever known, and so it's it's natural, and you you adapt and you learn to be a great player through it, and that's what he's done. Right, So you talked about the earlier by swishing things up because you're basically similar defense that is last week. But a lot of people say that that they're you know, especially their secondary it seems like they play almost in the offensive team tunnel. They know

what's coming a lot. Are they the best in the league at that? They're pretty good. One of the reasons is they play you know, everyone knows they play a lot of middlefield, closed zone and then you know they're playing more man now than what they used to play when they first started coming on the scene and coming on as a team. But when you play the same zone all the time, there's only so many ways to

attack it. So if you're not going to play, for instance, cover two, then when a team plays cover two, there are plays that are designed to be good against cover two. Well, by not playing cover two, they don't have to worry about ever practicing against those plays because we don't run our cover two plays against the Seattle defense, so they know how teams attack them and so what So the advantage that they try to play is, hey, here's the twenty concepts over the last ten years. The teams run

against this defense. If we can identify them quickly, then we can guard against them more effectively. And so that's the advantage that they have. Of course, one of the effectiveness of their covers three is that it often looks like man, um, yeah, I mean it kind of looks the same in the corners press Baale sometimes and so

that that that can help it somewhat as well. That playing on the road, especially early in the games, it's been kind of an issue for Carson as far as to not get off to like really get starts and havingthing so fast. You know, obviously we haven't gotten off

the good starts on the road. I'm not so sure it's been an environment as much as just overall, you know, we just haven't been as efficient offensively as we as we need to be, you know, to get off on a good start and get more confidence, you know, early on on the road and quiet the crowd down. Um you know. So yeah, I'm not sure I have the answer for that other than we just got to be better coming out of the gate on the road. Thank you.