 Yeah, good morning coach morning. Happy new year. Yeah, happy new year you too, sir Hey, how do you stop Josh Allen? Just get right to the point here. Don't let him get off the bus By the way, I know right But for your guy You know, you were up a little bit, but I'm sure you've seen his development What makes him so dangerous as a dual threat quarterback? Well, he's a big guy. He's just really talented. I mean he guy can run he's hard to bring down. He's big. He breaks tackles You know, he's got a strong arm. He can throw every ball. He can throw it 75 yards I mean, he just a just a extremely extremely talented talented young man Thanks coach Mike Ross team Hey, hey Dean, how are you doing? Happy new year? Same to you. Thanks. I want to get we talked a bit about Richie Grant a couple weeks ago And I want to jump back into that a little bit of in a bigger Kind of macro sense Where do you think the steps need to happen for him from year from this year to next year? He's got the system now. He knows it in the offseason He's got to study it watch a bunch of film on what happened this year and just take it to a new level Hey, he needs to spend time in the offseason Studying the film and all that kind of stuff. He's got the physical tools It's more about just knowing the system lurking at it and not just looking at him looking at the hole every down Here's the call. What do we do? It's not just studying yourself. That doesn't really do you good You got to study, you know when we did it right when we did it wrong. Who did it? It's just you got to study the system and get it down so that it's it's second nature to him and where is take quangra maybe Improved or taken steps to where he's become more of a part of it looks like the defensive rotation Or some of that just injury or in this case, I guess COVID situation for you guys No, he's he's been the guy that we felt like Early on he started developing. He was playing good. So we wanted to get him in the rotation We didn't put him in there just to gain experience We put him in there because he was playing good enough and we had a bunch of guys that were probably pretty equal So we just kind of rotated them all he's got to do the same thing All these rookies got to do the same thing in the offseason if they want to be and develop next year And take another step. They need to study the film. Like I said, it's not just of them It's of how you do it and what it's done right and what it was done wrong Why it was wrong and just really get the whole system down So, I mean for you and you feel in your defense, it's more of a from year one year two with these guys It's much more of a maybe a mental thing than Then anything that you've seen from them physically when we're the other well They had no idea coming into this season and what we were gonna run They didn't have any idea what we were gonna call stuff what we were gonna run well now they do, you know And so now they it's got to become second nature to them. They got to know exactly This is what I'm this is what is expected of me on this call Sometimes, you know, they knew it, but they didn't do it and maybe they didn't do it because they've seen something for the first time But now when you got 17 games under your belt, there's no excuse for you and in a whole season in the offseason There's no excuse if you're a pro you're gonna take that stuff and you're gonna study it and you're gonna become better And the last thing I've got is do you know Jones when he was talking to us on Monday, you know Explain more of kind of what he's been really asked to do this year What was it that you saw in him that maybe had him more of as he put it a guy on the edges versus being the guy in the middle? Well, the thing of it is the guy in the middle is a guy It's gonna take on a heck of a lot of blocks by linemen and full backs if there is a full back But a lot more of the direct hits, you know, he's not a real big guy. He's a fast guy He's a very athletic guy for he's a bigger guy, you know, he's a I think he's a fast athletic guy, too But I mean the deans game to me has always been when I watched him before and when I watched him in college And when I still watch him, he's a fast guy that's talented that can cover a lot of ground make tackles do that kind of stuff But he's you know under 220 pounds You don't want to be taken on 320 pound linemen all the time and big tight ends and all that stuff You don't you don't want to put a guy in that position. That's hard So that's what we've that's why we thought like he was gonna play the position. We wanted him to play Appreciate it. Thank you, Dean Josh Hey, Dane, do you have a do you come down one side of the other on whether whether an adverse weather game Impacts the offense or defense more or helps one side more than the other. I really don't Because you know, everybody talks about well, you know a bad weather game will help the defense Well, you know your back pedaling As a D-50 back not running forward and then you got a plan at some point in time and change direction Well, that's not a little fun on a bad field or a wet field or icy field or anything like that That's hard to do. It's easier to run forward at the same time. I think it's just as hard on offense They got to go out and run around and make a cut and I don't know that there's any advantage one way or the other I don't think there's any if that were the case every team that's down south goes up north would never win and every team down Up north going down south and the heat would never win guys that play indoors would never win outside guys that are outside We never went inside. I don't think it has any bearing on it whatsoever. I think it's all how you prepare and you play that day Does it ever get to the point that it affects the way you would call a game or how extreme would it how extreme would it have to be? Absolutely the wind has more of a factor on it than that does the rain or the snow We played up in Buffalo one year when I was at New England and it was like 40 mile an hour winds and we basically I played one coverage and Really told the the defensive backs If they were pointing on the right side to play inside the numbers and cover three enough there I'll plan on the left side play outside the numbers because the thing of it is that had a crosswind You couldn't throw the ball outside. You couldn't get it there. I mean you couldn't get there And so there's no sense in playing wide out there If the guy can't throw it out there and then on the other side the ball is going to carry when he throws it It's gonna really kind of probably carry higher and kind of and farther so you want to play outside So yeah, there certainly is factors and especially in the back end and coverage especially on the wind not Not necessarily ice or snow or rain But you know Hey looking New England when they played Buffalo a couple weeks ago what they throw the ball two times in the first half About three or four times for the whole game Well, they definitely not gonna even not gonna let the quarterback throw it because the wind had a big factor So I'm sure Buffalo being smart said, okay We're not gonna sit there and play all these exotic coverages because we don't need them because there's no there's no Sense in playing them because he's not gonna throw the ball Thanks, Dave. Yeah, you're welcome Scott Hey coach You guys have used a lot of different people in that in that slot spot and a lot of people of different sizes and skill sets How is that impacted the way that you like to run the defense? Has that had any impact at all? It's had a lot of impact You know, that's not generally what I really like to do I generally if you look at all the old film of Baltimore or Tennessee of New England If Isaiah was here, he'd still be in a slot I'd rather have one guy in there where I can do all the stuff then try to piecemeal Certain guys can do certain things certain guys can do other things It's not gonna be hard for an offense to watch the film and say, okay, if this guy's in the game Here's what they're really trying to do if this guy's in the game Here's what they're trying to do you want you need to have a guy's like the safeties You know and everybody so you want this corner to do that and this corner didn't know you want both of them to do it equally Well equally the same thing so that they can't pinpoint Okay Well if if 21 is down in the but he's always gonna be down in the box safety and this guy's always gonna be the high safety This corner is always gonna go match up on the best receiver This guy is not he don't the perfect world for us is that you want to right and left safety You want to right left corner? I want a nickel a nickel and that's what we want and so we haven't been able to do that because of whether it be injuries and just Certain guys and not been able to kind of do certain things that we need to do so we've had to switch them out But I that's not what we prefer. I know that you're that you're on to the bills But if we go back to the last game that the game stealing interception like what did you see from that play? And what did you like about how he was able to make that pick after that sudden change? Well, the biggest thing is first of all It was great to get a sudden change and come off the in that two-minute deal and get the win But the thing I like the most about it is the fact that the guys they just did what the defense called for him to do We were in man coverage and yet foyer. He's not he's a guy That's a free guy and he's the one guy's playing zone Everybody else is playing man and he's to read the quarterback and that's where he's supposed to go And he did exactly what he's supposed to do he dropped right where he's supposed to drop He read the quarterback and he picked it. It's just it's great to see a defense executed the way You know, it's drawn up to execute and so I was very proud of all of them I thought they all did a great job on that and the other thing is is Dante Fowler don't go unnoticed Had a little pressure in the quarterback space You know, he had a good pressure rush on that that thing so everybody did their job and it came out good You guys are on a a bit of a streak and in in terms of getting Takeaways is there anything that you've seen where you guys have been better in that area Did you think that you guys are better? Taking the ball better and we're just I think we're more comfortable doing the stuff that we're asked to do I just it's still a long ways from where it needs to be. I mean, we don't have nearly Enough takeaways not nearly enough. We don't have enough sacks. We run enough takeaways we got to get better in that area in the future and But at the same time we have gotten better especially on the takeaways I think just because we're learning the coverage is more and more and feeling more comfortable That's the way it always is. I mean, you know, we were Really good at Baltimore and takeaways for a couple years that we had over 20 picks two year two or three years in a row But prior that we didn't but the more you play the system the more you feel good about the Coverage is the target, you know, everybody still just got to realize it's the first year for all these guys in this system And I think that they they're gonna take a lot of that to heart in the offseason next year And and we should be a lot better or not then it's my fault Thank you. Yep Chris rim Was my hand up. I'm good Okay, Dila, do you have a follow-up? Yeah, coach. Um Just the running back single Terry and Moss where some problems they present for you, too Well, they're just good hard runners and what I really see the problem is that they fit the system that they run all this RPO stuff, you know, the quarterback is still the guy that drives this offense Whether he's running or whether he's throwing it But it sets up the running game and these guys do a great job in this running game of being able to run that RPO system they just fit it, you know, I think they've done a great job Sean and and Daybowl they've done a great job of getting guys to fit the system that they want to run and hey, that's why they're having success Thank you. All right Michael Yeah, hey Dean. This is a bit Kind of off general topic here, but you've coached in a few different Super Bowls. I'm curious Is there a different level of anxiety pregame or a different feeling pregame that you get as a coach as a coordinator when you're When you're going to a Super Bowl versus other games Yeah, but you know, there's two there's two thoughts on that Roy is that the thing about it is is that you kind of got two weeks there To prepare yourself for it. It's not like all of a sudden you're turning around and playing the next week You really kind of have everything kind of down the week before you go so that when you go You're not really putting anything in you kind of got everything all set you go You have media day that is kind of like You know, you don't do a whole out on that day other than the media and then the next day You know, you're back into it, but all the game plan is already set So it's not like you're staying up late that week before the game Hadn't who put stuff together and thinking of a bunch of ideas You really kind of got them all done the week ahead I will say this though the very first Super Bowl that I went to with with New England Bill Balachek did an incredible job of talking to the players because they had already just been the one that you even a year before and two years prior to that of telling the guys in the pregame don't go out and Get all hyped up and spend all your energy in pregame because it's a Super Bowl Guys go out there. They're all amped up and all this stuff and they're all excited and they're going 110 miles an hour in pregame do your normal routine He really emphasized that and I always thought that was an advantage that his teams had because he kind of had him toned down And you see other teams out there just jumping around going crazy And and yeah, they look good for about the first two series and about the third series half of them are hyperventilating because they They've spent all their energy in pregame and at the start He always did a good job of keeping everybody calm and staying your routine. I just thought he did a great job at that For you personally was there any Anything extra anything added in terms of like that type of jitters or anxiety or anything like that Well, the first one I was a linebacker coach So I wasn't a coordinator So I think I had a little bit it was a little easier on me because I wouldn't call on the defenses or wasn't you know What the only stress was I just want to make sure my linebackers played okay I was pretty good with Vrable and Willie McGinnis and Bruce. Yeah, I felt pretty confident with those guys But then the ones when you're the coordinator. Yeah, it's a little different. I mean, hey Anybody tells you there's not a lot of stress on you in the Super Bowl, especially the one when we were 18 and 0 You know, you know one of the you know one we were unfortunately, but yeah, hey It's you're there's a lot of stress. You want to you want to finish the job That's what you want to do you go all that way you make it that way, you know, you want to finish the job So sure, hey absolutely has added pressure on you. How did you deal with that? You just got to deal with it. I mean, what are you gonna do? I can't I can't call in a reliever. So it's just you You just do you just kind of try to calm yourself down You just got you got to believe in the game plan you put together that that's the key to me is That's the advantage of having two weeks is because you put the game plan together like what you know We practice today. Hey, hopefully this stuff that we practice today You're gonna work on Sunday the good thing about Super Bowl is I practiced it today But a Super Bowl wouldn't be played for another week So I practice it the same stuff another couple times to make sure it works So, you know, you only get so many reps in a practice when you go Super Bowl You really get double the amount of reps So you feel you just got to feel confident in what you're gonna What you're gonna do and what you're gonna call and how you're gonna call it and you don't feel confident in it And that's gonna that's that's not a good feeling. So Unfortunate that way appreciate it. Happy new year again, man. Yeah, same to you guys. Happy new year I'm good. Thank you, Dane. Happy new year. Thank you