 So Michael is done with the Yankees who have taken a 5-4 lead on the diamond backs So as soon as that game is over Michael will join us Peter's off because of the holiday So I'm flying solo here with Robert Salas now time with Robert Salah report brought to you by slowmans and infinity Com it's just me coach. Hopefully you can handle just down the crack. I hope it's enough for you Hey Don, how you doing man? I'm doing well. I mean, I know it's tough to lose games Especially again to the New England Patriots So just play pop psychologist because that's part of your job as a head coach having to deal with the psyche of your team of Not only a another loss, but just another loss to New England Is it gonna be difficult as your team like struggles to find it here early on in the season to try to keep everybody together and not Get too down on themselves No, there's always the disappointment of losing I mean, it's I feel like every Monday in the NFL There's 16 teams that feel like they've got the world ended and then there's 16 teams that feel like their Their world is just beginning. So and then they're resets that the fall of Monday but We got a group of competitors a lot of guys who just want to win and and I know that will bounce back and and continue to work with the With the passion that I know our guys work with all right Obviously the topic of conversation as it is every week is with the play of Zach Wilson. You've defended him You still believe in him. What what do you see that the rest of the world just doesn't seem to see in the kid? Oh, it's easy to look at a box score You know dissecting the tape and trying to figure out where we can be better not only him But as coaches and and his players around them You know we're and then of course and I and I get it, you know, like practices practice You know the practice of great practice doesn't always translate to Great play on Sunday, but it does let you know whether or not a guy's trending in the right direction and Zach's practices his preparation even his demeanor on game day is a heck of a lot better than it was a year ago He's still continuing to improve and then as an offense, you know down it's you know, we designed an offense over the course of this offseason OTA's and training camp for for Aaron and And so now we're all adjusting on the fly and trying to find this identity within the within this current group and And I think we're all we're all working together to try to find out what's best for us in this moment And you know, we knew there was going to be hiccups along the way with air in that quarterback And now there's just those same hiccups are are are showing up with with this adjustment that we're trying to make and everyone's working relentlessly hard to to get on the same page and to figure out who we are and And I think with every passing week. We're getting a little bit closer. We're three weeks into a very long season and You know, we've played three really really good football teams And we've got another one coming up this week and the biggest thing is to get back in here. They Find out what we did wrong See where we can get better make the schematic adjustments that fit fit this at the mold of the direction we want to go with this group and And see if we can get better now I'm like all the the fans. All right, I've watched football for a long time But I can't possibly know it as well as you but when when I see it and just try to walk me through it because I was at the game yesterday It that it just seems like he's holding the ball too long at times just not seeing the field is Is that the way you look at it that there's things that are being missed that he's just not seeing or is he being confused by the defense? Why does it look like there were times where he had time but just was not getting rid of the ball? There there's gonna be times that every quarterback goes through it where They might hold that a hitch longer They might they might be waiting on a kid one of his teammates to get open just a hitch longer than he needs to But it wasn't a consistent theme throughout the day, you know There was a lot of things that could have done we done we could have done a lot better for him Run game wasn't nearly as good as it needed to be you know some of the you know, we had opportunities to Be a lot more productive on third down which has been a detriment to our toward team right now You know, there's a lot of little things that are putting him in very difficult situations You know, we're not efficient enough on first and second down. I talked about in my press conference, you know down were I Think 50% of our third down opportunities have been 10 yards or more, which is an impossible task for any quarterback and And especially a quarterback going against New England who's who's got a very formal formidable defense And so there's a lot of things that we can do better. Whether it's run game Staying ahead of the chains not losing yards and giving us a chance to have our run and plaques and pass system to So we can execute the game plan as we see it but And then from a player to player standpoint just just finding ways to make the easy easy plays and catch the ball and thrown Dia and gain extra yards when you have the opportunity and And then for Zach, you know, it's never gonna be a hundred percent. There's a quarterback in football. That's a hundred percent But but he is getting better and he is seeing the field a lot better It's just trust, you know, you see on a playing and play-out basis and get rid of the football when you need to Now to back up everything you said was that drive in the fourth quarter that gets you back into the game Like it all just seemed to click yet some big throws. He just looked like a different quarterback. Why? Why did it click on that drive and not on the others? You know, that's a that's a good one is and we trust me we we came in the meetings today, we talked about that drive and we went through it all together and You know when when he is in rhythm and on the game. He is it is pretty he's he's pretty damn good and You know, he I thought our old line did a really nice job protecting He was hitting his back foot and let the ball rip. He threw a honey hole shot to cover two to Lazard on the sideline You know, all of it looked good and he wasn't he was he was feeling and he was seeing it really well got the ball to Coby in the flat immediately and Coby made his guy miss get inside the five He did a lot of really good things on that drives and You know and it's why when we took over at midfield with 140 in two timeouts I don't think there was a person on the sideline that thought we weren't gonna win that football game, you know And it just it didn't work out yesterday But I do think there was a lot of things in the fourth quarter that we could build off those now You mentioned Nathaniel Hackett had designed an offense for Aaron Rodgers You lose Aaron Rodgers four plays into the season So how long could it feasibly take him to put something together that more fits that style, you know, it's It's a good question Don it and it's you know, we were expecting to have adjustments And hiccups along the way even with Aaron at quarterback I don't think anyone in this in this building thought it was it's gonna be a smooth transition new coordinator new players on offense new Quarterback new playcaller new online coach new quarterback coach There's a lot of new new receivers coaches a lot of new and so we knew that there was gonna be some adjustments along the way Even with Aaron and so this is just a another wrench, you know, we're you're doing it on the fly. What's the timetable? I wish I had a crystal ball But I know that guys are we're all working tirelessly as coaches and players and With every passing day and every rep we get we're I do feel like we're getting a lot closer to the answers that we need to Come up with to become more efficient on all sides Now the line needs to be better you've talked about that there were times Zach didn't have a lot of time and the running game You know 37 yards just isn't gonna cut it How much of that is the amount of men in the box the ability of the Patriots to stop the runner or how much is it on you? Just not getting the run blocking you need You know a lot of credit to New England I mean they they they play there to five down front and they're they're big and strong on the inside and they just they make it hard to move you I do think we left a lot of yards out there from a From both a player standpoint and a schematic standpoint You know we can be a lot better a lot more efficient obviously but You know it's things we got to get better at and in the reality is you you gain more yards in the run game And it's gonna sound odd But you gain more yards in the run game by converting third downs Because you get more opportunities to run the balls if that makes sense and our third down Production has been putrid over the past over the course of the season. I think we're last And we're just not giving ourselves a chance to string together good drives We did in the fourth quarter where we had that 13 play 87 yard drive or whatever it was We did have one in the first half where I think we called eight consecutive runs We're staying ahead of the change. We're getting positive yards. We had a good fourth down conversion You know, so there's there we're showing signs of the Consistency that we need has not been there But but I like I said, it's so very confident that we're moving in the right direction It's just I know it's not happening as fast as everybody wants, but but it's it's so early in the season and So a lot of progress is to be made talking to Robert solid our weekly spot here on the Michael K show a Defensively it I use this in the open coach that you can't get on a defense for allowing 13 points But can I get on the defense for not getting a sack? Can I get on them for not turning the Patriots over or getting off the field on third down because it did feel like The Patriots move the ball a little bit better than I thought they would against this jet defense. Is that fair? Fair the sacks I'd say unfair. I'll explain that one later You know, they definitely came out and move the ball Better than we would have liked again third down conversions early We did have the busted coverage. That was a big six year touchdown, which was a majority of their big chunky of their yards But in the second half, I thought the defense was outstanding third down defense was outstanding Run game defense was outstanding. They defense continually got the ball back for the offense You know offense had a lot of three and out so the defense going out there over and over and over again and punching blow for blow I thought they did a great job Living up to the the idea that our job is to go get the ball back for the offense what they do with it is is Whatever they do with it the job of the defense to get the ball back for the offense now We had a couple of really good opportunities to get some takeaways. I think I think Mack threw ahead about four turnover worthy throws. We just couldn't come down with it. I think Michael Carter had one Jordan might have had one. I think Amos could have had one. No, so there were some opportunities there We just didn't come out. We just didn't come away with it We've got to we got to figure out how to come home with those, you know, that's if we're truly going to be a great defense So those are those are the plays that I'm always going to challenge our guys on the to come home with those and flip the field As far as the sacks go You know, it's a second week in a row. They're they're just not letting us get to them The Mac did a really nice job getting rid of the ball If you go back and watch the tape, you know He was he was throwing the check downs before the check down So we're even getting around getting their head around the to look because we're winning so fast up front So really good credit to him I think he was some like 15 or 29 He's he was ditching a lot of balls because he didn't want to get hit but he also because of that Almost threw us the ball a couple of times. So but again credit to him credit to To the quarterback and and and the things that he was doing to get the ball out of his hands from a sack perspective but overall, I do think I think our defense played a really good game overall and You can't ask for much when when you especially in that fourth quarter. I thought they did a really nice job giving our offense a chance to To win the football game and it didn't happen, but but defense defensive national, you know You went through it last year with the with the Mike White stuff and the team's comments about Zach I mean, what did you learn from last year to not allow? Any of the negativity to kind of creep in this year because you see it I've covered football teams where the defense feels like they're doing more than they have to because the offense is struggling or even vice versa Did you learn anything from last year that can help you make sure that that divide? Doesn't become an issue as the season wears on You know, I don't know there's a divide last year when you when you say divide You're I'm assuming that you think the offense was just that the defense and defense percent Well, I'm actually talking about the divide that seemed to be created around Zach You know so or just any adversity back and for like just it felt like they bailed on Zach to support Mike Why it just it from afar it just seemed like the room kind of got ugly against Zach How do you stop that from happening to the offensive to happen to Zach again? No, again another fair question down. I don't think that that's the thing is like whatever the Perception and narratives outside the building is Isn't always necessarily the reality, you know, it's yes, did they wear shirts of another quarterback? Well, the quarterback was starting. They're trying to get him excited so he can go produce It wasn't necessarily a lucky screw Zach. It's just like all right. You're our guy. Let's roll and Did you know so it wasn't Reflection on Zach as much as it was a let's get Mike white all excited to go play with confidence so we can move the ball Guys like Zach Zach is a good young man. He works his tail off He stands for everything you want out of a human You'd want your daughter to the marriage that the young man He's a tremendous young man Then he puts in all the work and he says all the right stuff and he's a great teammate So these no one in the locker room just like Zach or lacks confidence in Zach So yes, I get what it looked like on the outside. Mm-hmm, but it was not the case Oh, but it's it could be two different things. I'm a very likable guy I believe me they'd hate me if I was the quarterback of the New York Jets because I would be God awful at it because I think I just want to win Robert, right? I mean, I'm not gonna rip those guys Just they realize they've got stats They've got a short it could all be over in one day, right? That's the way these professional athletes have to think of things. So yeah, they can they can love them They can have them be the best man at their wedding But they're gonna want to gravitate to the guy that gives them the best chance to win 100% you're a hundred percent right down But like I think the difference between if you're if you're gonna ask me from a teen confidence level with regards to that The difference between this year and last year is in the day-to-day operating terms of You know when you're at practice and and you're looking at a quarterback and you're watching them go play-to-play Is his accuracy his decision-making his foot his presence is command of the huddle everything is so much more improved Over the over what it was a year ago now Does it matter because it needs to translate to Sunday and do we need to win to for people to really buy into that that theory? Yeah, that's that's obviously but I think players in this building see that and they have a lot of confidence in them now Are we getting these that's that we want not yet? But I do think guys are confident in the fact that he is a way different dude than he was a year ago And that if we stay the course and we continue to find out what we need to get done from a schematic standpoint We'll start seeing the the statistical production now We ask you this every week, but we any closer to having another quarterback come in here like I said Zach's our quarterback Timmy's the backup and And that's the way we're rolling out this could be completely unfair, but just to play pop psychologist Is part of the motivation of not bringing in a veteran? Because of the fact that now that's who the fans can call for that to the players Maybe can start making comments about maybe he should play is that part of the motivation why you haven't brought a veteran in? No, no not at all you because again like Outside noise is uncontrollable if you allow it whether you're a player or not like it's it's no different than now I mean you guys are you know everyone's clamoring for a veteran backup and all that stuff that it So there's always going to be noise It doesn't matter he could we can say the sky is blue and after people say no it's green the other after say it's So there's always going to be noise you just got to turn your phone off and ignore it and they focus and keep the main thing the main thing so There the amount of noise will be no different Whether there's a veteran here or not they end at the end of the day We've got a prediction. We've got to find ways to win now You had said in your press conference today that Zach is not the reason you lost But can you get to a point? It sounds like you think that you can that he can win you a game Say that one more time. I'm sorry You said that in your press conference today that he's not the reason you lost the game But when when can we get to a point that he's the reason you win a game? No, that's fair you know, it's like I said there's You know in that last and here's how I feel like We had the ball at midfield like I said minute 42 timeouts. I I do believe that The next time we get those opportunities that I think he's gonna do it You know, he's proven that he can move the ball down the field. There's a consistency obviously with the entire offense, but you know from from Coaches always will always look in a word and always say from coaching all the way down We just got to find ways to be more efficient and find ways to put everybody in position to To be more successful and then the player from a player standpoint when you're in those positions you go make play and I Think Zach is is at the doorstep. We just got to keep kicking that door down and and when we break through it's gonna be awesome All right, so what's the plan against Kansas City? Looks like they kind of found their mojo against Chicago yesterday Yeah, they look good about the flip the film on now. I buzzed through some of it, but Another really freaking good defense. I think they're they ranked top 10 in defense and They played some really good offenses along the way You know offensively Obviously that one of the best quarterbacks in the entire game. He's he's a magician with the ball on his hands So again another tremendous challenge Both offensively and defensively if you had to bet you think Taylor Swift set the MetLife on Sunday Did she just do a concert here the month ago and then she was in Kansas City yesterday Yesterday for Kelsey all of a sudden she was really excited. So I'm wondering if she's gonna travel to MetLife We'll see And how about Al Michaels talking about how many kids you and Dave will have did you hear him say that they're in the the game on Thursday Did he talk I loved a ball man, but I did not I didn't hear that one, but No Dave's Dave's has a beautiful family man, so But I didn't hear yeah, because because Al Michaels brought up how you know Dave's got to go home to six kids, but you know only topped by Robert Salo's got seven We both love chaos. I think that's why that's why we enjoyed to be here so much. We love the chaos I I feel I took my son to his first football game yesterday and He definitely enjoyed it. Although he's not even six yet. So it's it's a lot. I got twins I can't imagine that five others. I mean your wife is St. Hood I'm assuming I always tell people after two it becomes zone defense and so It's all the same two three four five six seven eventually by the time you get to five or six They're they're all taking care of one another anyway at the time. I don't know where the heck any of them are Is it difficult to to not take this home? I mean you live and die as a coach and every loss and win defines you as a coach So how difficult is it to not take it home? It's not at all be honest with you like it hurts you watch a tape you go through all that but But at the end of the day those those seven kids are why we do this and my wife and my seven kids And so when when I get home and they run up to me and they're giving me hugs and kisses It's all that football stuff goes away. Well, what's the age range again? Well the two Well, I 13 to two 13 birthday for one of my Now when I when I pulled up to met life to park yesterday my son just out of nowhere says daddy you're the best dad in the world What when is that gonna stop because I treasured it and I know there's gonna be a day It's gonna stop it. How much longer will I have that attitude do you think? So so I'll say that my oldest will still come greet me at the door My second third not so much and then the rest of them run like little puppies, but But what from what I'm told right around 13 14 it's over so I'm still waiting I'm the same boat as you yeah fishing every moment. Everybody says just just treasure these moments because once they hit 12 or 13 It's gone. So I'm gonna hold on to it for as long as I can Anymore you're the stale way you're embarrassing And believe me, I'm the kind of father that will embarrass him. So I'll have my radar up for that coach. Good luck. We'll talk to you next week Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. 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