Deari what have you seen just from early tape and bej Robinson and what makes him such a special Runner is just a rookie um you got all the tools uh I think he can be a really Dynamic runner for a long time um great speed quickness power can do it all um run
Block Katch pass out the back field um you know I think he just has all the making to be an elite weapon for a long time knowing that you guys are getting Desmond mder instead of Taylor hinei on Sunday how does does the preparation change at all knowing the two different
Styles of quarterback uh a little bit different styles but you know kind of if you look at the tape they’ve been asked to do the same things both of them uh can expense 10 plays with their legs um both of them are smart players um both of them are Rhythm players keep the
Offense on track um and so it’s definitely going to be a good challenge for us uh we know that um you know R Ritter can can can run run pretty well um and so I think that’s the challenge of being a able to week to week stop these quarterbacks who can extend plays
With their legs do you feel like you guys were able to maybe address that this week on the bye and take a closer look at that why you guys have haven’t been able to stop mobile quarterbacks um I think at the end of the day you’re just trying to find a way
To limit the offense offenses um you know schematically offenses are are finding ways to create one-on-one matchups um you know they do a good job of you know uh rolling rolling their quarterbacks out um it’s not always just um you know Zone reads or quarterback
Runs um you know and so you got to find ways to limit them I think uh getting off the field uh early in the game helps I think creating third and long situations help um and then taking the ball away you know makes them a little
More hesitancy and uh you know week to week is different and uh we got to I know at this time of year it’s about playing your best football and that’s what we got to find a way to do how how do you feel like your run defense is
Doing against running back like teams like Atlanta that you know you’re probably going to see 20 plus running back touches from this team what do you think is the state of your run defense against against that I think we’ve done a um a really good job as far as our run
Defense um other than quarterbacks um I think that’s just the type of game that you play now um you can have a really good game defensively but it doesn’t look like that’s the statistically because you gave up you know three or four explosive plays just because
Offenses can do a good job of creating a one-on-one matchup or getting a guy um eyes in the wrong place and you know they make a you know they make a big play and and it hurts your whole defense and I think that’s a lot what’s happened
With us as far as the Run game is you know doing great against running backs but allowing quarterbacks to to to to be able to scramble in and we got to find a way to get it fixed but I think that’s the level of focus that it requires um
In this game you know it it just requires a a great level of detail and and knowing your assignment and being able to do your job at a high level how are you guys looking at this string of slow starts because it’s obviously not something you guys have dealt with a lot
In the past and then after it happens a couple of times like was there a moment when it became kind of eye opening like we need to identify what’s what’s leading to this no I think you it’s easy to to to create a narrative um every
Game is different and um you got to take the game one by one and play the game that’s in front of you um if coincidentally it seems as that’s what’s going on you know some of the games are are are are starting slow or that’s
Become you know a thematic it can be it can become a narrative um but it’s it’s it’s a different set of circumstances different plays um you know I think you just find a way to be be consistent at doing the right thing and that’s what we’re trying to focus on you think it’s
All better then this classied is like a soci start issue then like kind of I mean you you can classify how you want to classify it I just say I’m asking you like you guys don’t don’t view it that way is what you’re saying um I personally don’t I’ve never been a
Narrative person um you know uh I think a narrative can be created out of anything um and it and it makes a better story to tell um and I think some of the information can be coincidental um but every game is different and uh it’s a different set of
Plays it’s different players um um and so if you were to have you know in week one you start slow in week five you start slow in week nine you start slow it wouldn’t be a theme of you had slow starts but you had multiple games with slow starts but if they’re
Back to back is the story is oh you’re starting slow and so I’m just that’s just an example of how narratives can be what’s talked about um but I think you’re trying to find a way to play your best football and as long as you’re not playing your best football like we’re
Not stopping runs the way we want to we’re not getting off you know being efficient in the Red Zone the way we want to um in one game you can do it in one game you canot do it and you’re just trying to figure out how to fix that and
I think that’s how you find success is by F finding the areas that you that you’re not being as successful in and working on them to make them your strength and then if something else happen do that same process over again and I think so you have to isolate the
Issue and just focus where where you need to focus you guys technically in the driver’s seat what do you kind of just make of the opportunity you have especially in this one um coming up that if you guys win you’ll be two games up in the
Division just I mean it’s the next game and it’s important that this time of year anybody who’s had you know playoff experience or I’ve been on a contending team know that every game matters every game matters this time of year for everybody and um that’s our mentality we
Know that’s going to be their mentality coming in and and so it’s going to be a dog fight um and when we see we get inside those lines we’re gonna come out on top never seen him play against Ryan or Kaden but is it gonna be kind of cool
To catch up with those guys uh after the game yeah I mean um every team that you play you got guys that you know that you play with on the other side could be coaches could be players um that’s the camaraderie of this league that’s the the kind of fraternity that exists and
And why it’s such a great game and Brotherhood um you know being in this game 12 years you you got friends friends and some guys feel like family on the other Sidelines every game um and so that’s just another one
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