Ye see, when you looked at your quarterbacking over the bye week, how did you evaluate what Sam has done so far and what he needs to do. I think Sam is is making improvements each week, you know, and we look at it from the fundamental standpoint, from the accuracy of the throws, being more familiar with the concepts and the progressions, and I think he's making improvement. You've last three games playing nearly forty percent of the offensive
snaps have been out of twelve personnel. Let's kind of precipitated that. Well, again, it was the opponents that we're playing against. We felt like it would be a smart thing to do. We have our reasons for it. It was also the utilization of our roster and getting getting those tight ends in the game, which you know, I think we did a good job with that. And so it's just a matter of the matching up who we're playing against and then trying to use our roster to
the best of our ability. Or do you think the line is now compared to maybe that first Dallas game? Much better? Much better? You can see we're a little bit more coordinated in our blocking schemes, whether it be run plays or pass protection. We're doing a little bit better job of working together and getting to the second level in the run game. And I just think we're just more coordinated, which comes with guys playing together a
longer stretch of time. When you look at the film, how much are they moving Greg Hardy around and how much has a health their defense. Well, he's obviously their best pass rusher, and he'll play on the edge, he'll play inside. They'll stem them at times, and they're trying to utilize his strength where he gets to rush against various different offensive linemen, you know, So they move them around. They're doing a good job with it. In bad we'll
see ideal distribution Marco environmentals. I think each game is different. I think they both need to play. I think they both can be efficient, dynamic, and so we just got to try to get them both in there. I you know, I don't know if it's equal, but I think they both need to play. Help on the radio and uh, we'll do in terms of how this, yeah, I don't know. I think that was I think that's been misunderstood. You know. I think when we go into a game, you know,
we said and we plan how we're going to do things. Um, and then we utilize the backs throughout the game based on how they're doing, how they're feeling at times, and you know, it changes as the as the game goes on. You know, if a guy's having a little bit of an issue, maybe not nobody knows that, and so you play the other guy more so. Uh, we talk about it constantly. It's a constant communication. It's like the old fallacy that you just make halftime adjustments. Adjustments are being
made constantly, so we go. Yeah, we all talk about it all the time. Absolutely. Uh. With a running back sometimes, if running backs in the groove, you know, you let them go, maybe a snapper two more than you had planned. But that still doesn't mean you don't sub in the other guys. Now, you mentioned the second level blocking by the offensive line. What was it that was preventing them
from doing that? You know it was there anything specifically, It's just I'm getting acclimated to the scheme or yeah, well it's a combination. You know, usually if you're just blocking one guy, you're not working with anyone. But typically on on mate blocks or zone blocks, where you're working at you know, a first level defender to a second
level defender. You know, it takes a while to kind of coordinate the path of the back and then how the linebackers running based on whether we're under center in the shotgun, and so it just takes a while to coordinate that. It's just as you work together with somebody, just like we're getting better working together here. You know, the longer you're around somebody and the and the more you work together, the better the better you become. You had a whole week to look at numbers, then you
you use that. So at what point do does the production on the field factor into how useful tech we play the guys? And I think, like I said, I think that the production numbers after the fact are easy to look at. We go into a game anticipating certain things are going to happen, and then you play the guys and we try to do what we can to win the game. And I think that's the way. You know,
it takes a village. You know, you've got to play all the running backs when you're running the ball like like we want to, and so you know, whether one gets a handful more than the other, it really in our minds, it really doesn't quite matter as long as they're both playing and they're both contributing. And let's not forget Darren too. He needs to be involved in a wide receiver receiver time to adaptive at this level of
the speed of the game. Do you expect Agilor to make a bigger impact in the second half of the season. I think so much like we saw Jordan a year ago now. And Nelson's been dealing with an injury as well, which you know may slow things down just a touch, but you know, we feel like the second half of the year is going to be good for him once he gets back on the field. How do you expect
to have Jason Peters this week? We're hoping too. He was out here yesterday and then uh, you know, we anticipate we'll be out here today and again I'm not I'm waiting to see what comes through the door a little bit. How do you fix the drops? And there was a lot of fun going into the bay with these guys getting away. Maybe that cures the mental aspect of it, But is there something different that you guys
will do moving forward to try to alleviate that. Now, we just keep working on it, try to try to just keep eyes and fingers, you know, focus on a small point, catch it, pluck it, tuck it, all the things you work on. And these guys are pros. They're here because they've displayed the ability to catch the football. We know they can do it, and they just got to go out and do it and just keep wrapping it and practicing it like they do, and then just make it happen in the games. Do you see these
problems showing up on the front practice field? Now? I think you know there's always an occasional drop on the practice field, but not not like it's happened. And so, you know, we just keep working on it, and you keep talking to the guys about how to catch the football in our training sessions you haven't executed, and and then when they're done, we talk about why it was good or why it was bad. And then you just keep going through that process, and you know, we anticipate, um,
it'll it'll go away. Looking at that first first Dallas, keep like, how many how much change did you guys did you have to home in? Gosh, sorry, like, how much did you have to change things? It's like it's far somatically you know happen. Yeah, you know, we did a lot of things. You know, we heard ourselves in a lot of ways. You know, we had some really bizarre bad things happened to us or we allowed to happen that. You know, it doesn't matter who you're playing.
And Dallas give them credit. They did a good job. You know, the score was in within reach into the fourth quarter, and you know, we had our opportunities to score, and we had a snap issue and then we had a turnover, and so you know, we just go back when we anytime you play the opponent the second time within the division, you go back and you look at the game and if you wont you try to recreate what you did, and if you lost, you try to really dig in and look at why and try to
keep that from happening. But I've always believed its first things first. And you know, as cliche as it sounds, we got to get lined up properly. We got to snap the football. You know, we gotta guys, whoever's responsible for the match's got to take care of it. We got to block our guys. Quarterbacks got to throw, and receivers got to catch. And if we do all the first things first, then I think it doesn't matter who
our opponent is, our results will be much better. And I think that's sort of what we fell victim too in our first Dallas game. Inside zone run has not been a real productive play for DeMarco outside you mentioned outside zone run. Yeah, when you've looked at the film
during the buywink, I mean, what do you see in there? Yeah, I think that's probably you know, that's that's We're an inside zone kind of a man block sweep type team where we feature the mid zone or the outside zone run against teams where it we feel like it's going
to be effective. And uh, I think we're making improvements there. Um, you know, and I think you know, when you talk about DeMarco specifically, he's much healthier now than he was early in the season, so you know, we anticipate that, Um, he'll he'll you know, make make better runs than he
did early. So holding back, I wouldn't say that he's healthier than now though than you know, he was healthy enough to play when he played, but nobody's totally healthy when they're out there after the first snap of the game. But he's doing health issues now he was. He's healthier now and he's feeling better about things. You can't be healthier now if you were. At least I feel better now than I did earlier in the year. But I wasn't hurt, you know what I mean. So, you know,
I think that's that's I'm going with it. You view, the drops is more of a statistical nomaly than anything else. We gotta get them corrected, you know, just like sometimes you hit the red lights coming to work, sometimes ship the green lights. It's just just something that happens, you know. It's a good way to put it. Or you just run them all, you know. Yeah, and you can do
that in South Philly. I guess you just run them all. Um. No, No, I think so, you know, i'd like to I like to hope that's the case, because we've seen these guys catch the ball very, very well and at a high level throughout their careers, and they've done it for us, and we just gotta get those bad plays out of their system. Then there's a challenge to keep it from getting up here. Yeah, I think so, you know, I think everything starts with the thought, and they got to
get those those bad ones out of there. Tas doing different things with their linemen and linebackers, to prevent your lineman from getting to that second level or is it just a communication, it's just working together, you know, it's I don't think there's anything specific we're seeing when we play the team that we didn't see prior to preparing,
you know, preparing for him. So I don't think it said changes when you have to move a guy and a get in the middle of the game, like Toba from Garden Tack that's always that's always a challenge when you you got to kind of move guys around like we've had to the last couple of weeks. But that's
why we're out here training. You know. Everybody just doesn't play their same spot, and especially that six and seventh guy, they're getting reps at all the spots that they could play in the game, and that's what these sessions are for. I think he said that if Lane ever played tackles or left tackle in the game, you want to getting reps and rackt at what point, yeah, case it couldn't be healthy. At what point would you need to get
in those reps? Like how late in the week. We do it throughout, you know, and you know, well we'll make sure we do get his reps at left tackle, um so that he's ready to play there if need be. So we do it throughout the week. It's not it's not like absolutely absolutely our tackles, all our tackles work
both right and left. So there was a For example, there's a play in in that last Dallas game where Kelsey, after the snaps, step back and steps back the pole and he just gets blasted in the backfield and it's unable to then getting the second level. Is that just a defensive tackle beating a guy to a spot and
knocking it backwards. There's nothing. Yeah, no that And I think the player you're talking about, he was going to the right and we were running his own play and he kind of made a man block adjustment and there was penetration there and that's why he got knocked off. That that just happens. It's just a bad play. Get back in the huttle, call another one has a bad play, all right, Well you get on the line whatever, get another one called and do it better. That's all. Listen.
They're good, all right.