Yea, how things. Um, you know, Malcolm's really good player, and I've been very pleased with Malcolm and Rodney through training camp. But the facts are, we need those guys behind them to step up. We need to find out who's going to be our third and fourth and maybe even a potential fifth with special teams and stuff like that. And uh, you know, when a guy goes down, it's great opportunity for those other guys to step up. But the opportunity only exists if you take advantage of it.
Those guys need to do a better job of taking advantage of ups and down. But jess what're gonna do technique? What exactly? Yeah, he's still a young player, he's only a second year. I mean, everybody wants to make him, you know, a season. Vett he started for about a half a year, um, and he years changing schemes. Um. But we're also through our OTAs and we're through our mini camp, and we're through a little bit more than a week of week of camp, and we gotta start
putting those inconsistencies behind us. And I'm not just talking about Eric, I'm talking about every guy on defense. You know, if you saw you saw what happened today. I mean, we make a play, give up a play, make a play, give up play. It's not a way to play defense. It's not a way to play football. We got to be consistent, and that's our challenge, our challenges hirning that out, not just individually with guys like Eric or any of the other corners, but um, but as a unit, we
have to be more consistent. And that goes, that goes for everybody. Likely give more wretch than he never had a career. What will that do for him? Duction? But what will that also perfectly how you can play well. I mean there's a reason we resigned him. We think he's a good player, and you know, I mean certainly with good players, you want him on the field more. You think he fits the system, and you're right, we do have a votation up front. It's hard to pass, rush,
it's hard to attack. If you're going eight straight snaps, you know you got to keep fresh guys coming. I always, um always go back to my baseball analogy with guys coming out of the bullpen, and you can throw a lot harder out of the bullpen than you can if you're um, you know, expected to throw six or seven innings as a starter. Um, you know, so you know, we we we're excited about him. Um. You know, he's multidimensional enough, he can rush inside. We haven't done any
of that yet. We're just trying to just stay outside right now. But you know, look forward to those guys, you know, getting more reps. You know, they're they're they're here for the reason. Um, you know, sort of like a lot of other guys on the team. I mean, I think i'll just I won't single any guys out, but I'll just say as a defense, we need to
be more consistent. And you know we've mentioned, we mentioned Eric, We could mention you know, probably about fifty guys on not fifty, but forty guys over there that we need to be more consistent. Michael. Michael's a very very good athlete. M he can do some things. He's explosive, he can run, he can cover. Um, you know it is a little bit new to him, but we're starting to get towards the end of being new. You're going, yeah, I don't sell those guys short. Um, just because that's what they
were asked to do, doesn't mean their only thing. Taylor's been very slippery out here. You know, he's got great size. You know, he's might not be real stout, but he's slippery. You can get on an edge and he's won his fair share of pass rush and bows. Just load in there. You know, he's uh, he's hard to move and when he can get that, I'll just conservatively say three hundred plus going north south. He's hard to stimy, and you
know we don't want him at the line. Reading really want him attacking and driving people back, and he can do that very highly. Do you think what you're seeing orters team from last year? Yeah, you know, we're not really worried. I can't judge anybody on last year. Um, you know, I think every every practice is new, every game is new, every season is new. And it's cliche, but we really can't judge ourselves on anything last year.
It's our job to take the pieces we have right now and find a way to be consistent and find a way to help us win football games. Um. You know, I have been complimentary to the safeties for good reason. Those two guys. Those those guys are good players. They come to work every day. They're a great example to the secondary on how to be a pro um, how
to communicate, how to be in the right spots. Um. You know those guys when I when I say we haven't been consistent as a defense, I'd probably like to exempt those two guys because they've played, they played very, very consistently. They're great communicators, and we need more guys following suit. You mentioned that several times. Yeah, it's your patience for inconsistency. Yeah, you know we're getting close. I mean, you want to teach, um, and sometimes guys learn best
from mistakes, you know what I mean. Sometimes when you make a mistake, Um, you know it's it gets ingrained a little bit and you val not to not to make the same one again. So you know that's part of training camp. Partnis training camp is going out and you know have some you know, trial by fire and you know, learning from your mistakes and things like that. When I'm really talking about is repeat mistakes. You know, everybody's gonna make a mistake, you know what I mean.
I make a lot, players make a lot. The key is don't make the same one twice. Learn from your mistake. And that's where our challenge is. And we're probably like thirty one other teams in the NFL At this time in training camp, everybody's striving for the same thing, you know, to be consistent from front to back, to have everybody you have, you know, everybody on the same page. And then that allows the guys talent the show thak two more guys. Jordan is the guy that might get rusted
as you can't wear it on. It's going off the injury. But at the same time it's got a linebacker, so you know all the met reps. Yeah, obviously you're helpful. It's that kind of an indication that picked up the defense really also far, Jordan's smart guy. It didn't take him very long. But that's that's coach Peterson's call, whether whether guys get rested or not. Um, I know that's what Jordan, he's a pro, will come to work if he's asked the practice a practice, if he's sit on
the sideline, he'll get good mental reps. Yeah, it's really not that complicated. So I want to give him any gold stars for that? Am I good? All right?