Well did play we're outside linebacker, and have you seen enough to sign whether he skills it better to being a kind of really good three. He's defense ven for us. That's that's his possession. Um. You know the thing it's good about him and guys like Connor and Brandon Graham, Plavin's a background three four the last couple of years. It makes some of our zone dogs, some of our you know, sort of third down stuff where um, you
know you're running some some blitz stuff. Using those guys in coverage makes a little bit easier to use those those guys, those guys are used to doing it. Um, But he's defense ven for us. We'd like a skill set there through. Uh uh, Graham and Curry, they didn't they lined up on the last side. Yeah, we'll be switching them. Yeah, we'll be switching them. Um. We've already the same thing with our corners. Um, you know, we
get those guys moved around an awful lot. You know, with corners, there might be a week where we want to match a certain guy on a certain player and he's got to be used to playing right and left. Um, maybe an injury forces us to do something like that, and the same thing upfront. Um, we'll use rotation up front. You know, we want to try to get as much
production as we can out of guys. And I've said this before, it's a little bit like those excuse me, it's a little bit like those relievers coming out of the bullpen, you know that are heating it up ninety eight ninety nine. It's hard to do that for seven innings, but you can do it for you know, a couple innings. And that's what we expect from from those guys. So they have to be able to play multiple positions, multiple sides, if we're going to have that kind of rotation up
front to get that starting. Just like everybody else, needs to be consistent from practice to practice, needs to make plays on ball, needs to be physical in the run game. And that's that's Eric, that's we otus, that's Brookes, that's noting Carol. You guys might get only or whoever I forget, but let's just put his all the corners, all the corners, all the corners, Um, they're all gonna be judged on the same thing, Um, all of them in a little
different spot. All of them have different strengths, different weaknesses. One of the things for us in training camp is trying to find that best combination of guys that you know and use them in the best way. Um. You know, so he's no different than anybody going to out there skills compliment. Yeah, I think that's that's corners. I think that it's also you could also consider that corner in safety.
I think linebackers, UM, defensive end, defensive tackles. Um. You know, it's it's sort of a cornery cliche, but you know, if you if you really look, we got to find a way that that our whole is greater than some of our parts. You know, that's good team play. Um, that's our job as coaches, and that's the job of the players. But if we can find a way to lack of a better back, of better expression, to make one plus one equal three, then we've done our job.
And the way you do that is have complimentary players. Um. You know, I told our guys the other night, Um, we have the Olympics coming up, and the record for the four hundred meters is like forty three seconds or something. The record for the four by one hundred, same same distance, But the record for the four by one Hundre's like thirty six seconds and it's not socause well no, not the first one, not the first one. I mean, but
the idea there is teamwork and trump individual play. And I think if we're doing our job in training camp, if our players or UM, you know, responding well in the scheme, if if we have a scheme that matches the players, you'll see the sum should be greater than UM than the individual parts. UM. We're not there yet, I believe me, we're not there yet. Running around shorts. What if you have to do the pad on, Yeah, you know, there's really not a whole lot different for
those guys when it comes to coverage. Whether they're in four pads are not. UM probably the biggest thing because they're very rarely using their shoulder pads in coverage. You know, they're using hands, they're using feet. You know, the contact that comes out of corners is usually hands and feet. The thing with UM with pads is stepping up and
playing in the run game. Because you can't play with corners, they won't attack the run UM, you know, and those guys have to all prove that they can step up and and thought of running back and go take on a pulling guard at times. That's part of their job description. What the Dumb Show got in tackler? You know, it was good because he played a lot of different positions, played in a nickel. Um, there's even some thought to him,
um playing safety here. You know he's he's done those things, and you don't put a bad tackler in at those nickel and safety positions. Um. But what he did at college, honestly, Oh, he doesn't have a whole lot of effect on what he's what's going to go on? Now? You don't You don't get any points for that. See what happens? Yeah, guy finished, Yeah, you're not gonna catch me on injuries? Brother, what's that? Yeah, he's a pretty high pick. And we looked at his career. What's kind of held him back
from being a year in, year out of starter? Kind of holding that well, it took him a little while to get started. I thought he really came onto his own the year before I got to Buffalo twenty and twelve, he had a really good year. And the year I was there, he was playing at a Pro Bowl level. I thought. Until he broke his lay ankle whatever it was in the Miami game. Um, so you know what happened before that. I really can't speak to um. Last
year it was an injury thing. He started on the pup and then um when they came out, you know that that was a team that was blessed with a lot of corners. Um. You know it's just a fact of Um you know where they've been the last couple of years. But UM, he's responded, well, here he's a veteran player. UM. You know, it's nice having guys like Leo. This guy's like knowing Carroll, guys like Malcolm Jenkins, Rodney,
Rodney McCleod. Um, you know, if I forget anybody, just fill fill in the name of the veteran, you know, so that you guys don't try to read between lines that aren't there. But Sam will outside factor you can right that. Yeah, right now we're flipping them and it sort of falls into the question before getting guys used to both sides, UM, And it also compartmentalizes their learning a little bit at this point, UM, and just trying to get those guys sort of up to speed right away.
So UM, right now we're doing it. There might come a time when we get a little bit farther in that. We tell them on the practice just stay on their side so they get used to playing, you know, different techniques. But right now it helps compartmentalize what they're being asked to do with with the with the referees here, that's a couple of days. What are you looking at to
get out of the time. You know, the communication between the officials and the coaches, it's probably already always there, but the communication between the players and the officials this time of year is it's really good those guys be in our meetings out here on the practice field. Um, you know they it's not just a flag gets thrown, it's why, and that communication back and forth. Then you know, it really doesn't matter what the coach thinks. It really
doesn't matter what a player thinks. It's what the officials saw on the field. And it's our job to educate ourselves on to play the game the way they're seeing it, because that's the way they're going to officiate. So we can, you know, complain all the time, maybe that's not a foul if they're gonna throw If they're gonna throw the flag, well we have to play this. If it's going to be a foul and the same thing. If we think it's clean or we think it's a foul and they don't,
well we have to play to that standard. That's the standard and helps us in a non competitive situation to get educated on the way they see things. We don't have a full staff out here, but there's great communication. We have meetings together with the players and the officials, and it's always my favorite time of the year with
the officials. You know, Um, that called didn't cost you a game, you know, and you can learn a lot when it comes when you don't have a horse in the race, Dalton to hunt whatever that um whatever that the expression is. But you know when they throw it out here on one on ones and they can say, hey, you aren't barred the guy that that's a lot different than in the game because in the game you never think of fouls against you, and you think the opponent
foul every play. So it helps us better than most here. What kind of players here? What kind of person would you say about not you know, better than most here? What kind of players? I think I think you're gonna like the way he plays football. Um, he's a tough, physical player, he plays fast. Um, you know, he's gut. He has a little bit of injuries last year and one day able to finish the year. Um, but he fits it fits what we're doing. Um, he's a professional.
He's young, but he's he's as a right, he's it's hard to call it that, but I guess he isn't that. I mean, if I call Ronnie McLoud at I gotta call, I'm gonna call Nigel or that. UM good to have him here value A Yeah, you know, just because he was drafted for that doesn't mean and that's the only thing he can do, you know that, But doesn't mean that's his only skill set. When um, when he played at LSU, he was in their past rushing in the last couple of years, I think he's come out on
a lot of past situations. We're gonna give him the opportunity, stay gosh, he's going to have to take advantage of that opportunity and show that he can win the one on once and uh, you know he can compliment Fletch and he can compliment all our other defensive ends. Um. You know, one trick ponies are tough to play with in the NFL. And I lie, I mean again, just because he was drafted that way doesn't mean that's the
only thing he can do. I'm excited about him, and it's gonna be fun to watch him sort of expand his horizon. It's a little better. There's no, no question, no question. One