 organization and as an offense certainly and so getting those guys back and seeing them out there flying around bringing that energy you know I think it was contagious and I think that it was a good shot in the arm force. We got to see Julio Jones continue to work his way back. How important is that just for the timing and just get on the same page? Yeah it's important that that we spend time together you know kind of talking about the details of concepts and I think that he's been working really hard in meetings working with Rob you know doing everything that he's able to do and we've kind of taken the approach that when we're told what he's allowed to do we're going to do that to the you know best of our ability and as full throttle as we can and so as we get more and more I think you know we'll get closer and closer to where we need to be. You know we have done a lot of different situations throughout camp and coach gave us an opportunity to work a couple of different looks not necessarily specifically a different opponent but you know just some looks that maybe we don't get from our defense and so we were able to work some concepts that may not be very good against Shane's defense but better against other types of defenses. Kenzie shown in these first two games that he's more than just a D3 guy now who can run? Yeah you know I think I think he's grown a lot every month that he's been here every week that he's been able to practice you know he's just taking a step and you know I'm confident that he's going to continue to develop you know he's a guy that's a competitive hard-working tough-nosed player and he don't want to take no for an answer so you know I hope that we continue to see the growth that we've seen him and staying on that trajectory and I'm proud of Mason he should be proud of what he's put in this far. Has Dez been able to build off that performance in Tampa this week with these two practices? Yeah you know I think I've mentioned before up here that confidence is a huge thing right and when you have confidence you start to play with confidence you play faster and the rest of the game slows down a little bit for you and I think that that's what Dez is experiencing you know Dez has a long way to go he knows things that that he needs to improve upon but it's always great to see a young player like that have some accomplishments and get a little bit more pep in his step you know as he comes back to the practice field Westbrook said that he knows he's got to make his mark on special teams but what have you seen from him as a wide receiver that shows you he's improved? Yeah Nick's versatility and availability are two traits that have been incredibly important for us since Nick got here and you know his ability to contribute on special teams makes him available on Sundays and that gives us the the chance to have another body in that room in that receiver room a guy that's willing to go do some of the dirty work a guy that can stretch the field a guy that's a size match up you know and so Nick brings a lot of attributes that we like and you know we're fortunate to have him here. Was it the plan all along to have Radins work so much at guard or was that something that just kind of came up out of necessity with the injuries and veterans? You know I think probably a little bit of both you know we've worked through that process you know through coach Brable and J-Rob and just working through the rotations there and and I think we've hit some ebbs and flows at camp and it's been a little bit of both those scenarios you know but Dylan's doing a nice job plugging in wherever we ask him to play and knows his stuff and you know we just got to continue to watch him grow and develop. Do you think that's kind of making it tough for him to transition from North Dakota State to here? I think there's a lot of things that are tough about transition from college and not playing for as long as he didn't play but you'd have to ask him about the transition inside-outside that would be a personal question for him. Have any conversations with whether young guys or guys who've been through the process before when you have obviously cuts taking place some coming next week hey don't think about it too much just go out and play and do some guys handle that better than others you know as you get close to those type of decisions? Yeah I think it's human nature to try to you know see around the corner right and guys can fall into the trap of counting numbers in their room but I think one of the things that's been really impressive about our group is we've handled the adversity of some of the nicks and bruises as opportunities right and those guys have seen how quickly the numbers or the dynamic in a room can change because of injury and so you know you're one misstep away from climbing that depth chart whether you wanted to or not right and so those guys have I think as a whole all those young guys have really done a nice job of just focusing on the task at hand you know trying to win the day and put their best product out there and it's been a little inconsistent at times but I think they they understand the big picture that you know they can only control what they can control. It used to always be the expectation that game 3 was kind of the dress rehearsal starters would get probably a half or more and then game 4 was that game where it was kind of the final tryout with it sort of all being merged into one how do you think that plays out what's the balance for you as a coaching staff to try to get both of those things accomplished as much as you want? Yeah we're just focuses on you know trying to improve the details each day and really still in the the system foundation laying mode if you will and and I'll you know talk with coach very well he'll let me know what he wants to do approaching this game and you know we'll kind of make those adjustments accordingly but right now we're just focused on getting better each day at at the things that we need to improve to become a consistent and efficient offense. Your job Todd come with some pretty high expectations this year given what the self-instead last year and the weapons that you have this year as well? Yeah you know there are going to be expectations I understand that but there are no higher expectations by anybody on the outside of this building than you know the inside of this body I expect a lot of myself and you know I will work really hard to fulfill what coach Vrabel and and John Robinson you know won out of this role and if I were to focus on outside voices I'd be cheating everybody inside this building and so I really try to focus on day by day you know fulfilling the role that they hired me to do and if I do that to the best of my abilities I believe that'll that'll be enough. Matt Barkley kind of handled his opportunity here and maybe how was Logan handled somebody coming in and maybe pushed him a little bit? I tell you it's been great to watch those guys work together you know they they complement one another you know they bounce ideas off of one another it's really a good dynamic in the room you know there's no distraction because the competition you know speaking specifically to Matt I think he's done a nice job of working hard to be more comfortable with the system with the verbiage they understand that that you know the Tampa week caused a little bit of a kind of deluded exposure for them and the playbook if you will you know there's some plays that Matt went out and ran that he didn't run in practice and same with Logan you know so as those guys get more comfortable with the system Matt in particular you know I think that competition will continue to get tighter and tighter and it'll be fun to see who comes out ahead. How does that help you in the evaluation process when they're maybe running stuff that they're not not done before I mean does that give you something else to consider is it throw some of that stuff out or how does it yeah in most cases they've run it at some point right either in the off season or before we got down there for the week or what have you Matt's a little bit of a unique situation because he got here just recently so you know like I said is he gets more time on task and more shots on goal in practice you know I think his his kind of wide view of the offense will be a little bit cleaner. Because Ryan and Julio have not had a lot of time together on the practice field how confident are you that with both of them being veterans that they'll click pretty quickly once it's time to play. Yeah they're both vets they're both pros they handle their job with extreme professionalism I'm confident that they will do everything that's needed to be on the same page by the time we kick off and as I mentioned earlier as as Julio is allowed to do more and more we'll take full advantage of those opportunities and they know that we have you know ways to go before clicking on all cylinders so I'm confident that their professionalism will shine through. Even when Julio hasn't been able to to be out there what's what's he able to do kind of maybe in the building you know with Ryan to kind of build rapport even if you're not necessarily able to kind of throw passes them and what not like what how can you build that connection. Yeah you know he's seen a lot of defenses seen a lot of coverages run run very similar offense to this in his past and so that dialogue while they're watching film being able to talk about okay versus look I'm anticipating this and so on it's been good and you know he has great communication skills with the quarterback so you know I think that that's been very beneficial along the way.