On the injury front, made it out decently, but Kingsley Opara will have an MRI tomorrow. No additional info yet on Damian Prince or Levern Jacobs as the team will not practice today. But he expects both to be able when they go out on Tuesday.
On the freshmen yesterday, says Derwin gray played about 25 reps and didn't miss any assignments and played well looking at the tape. Still want to see him be more physical coming off of the football but he made some strides.
On Brett Zanotto, says he has some natural instincts as a LB and he played about 12-15 snaps and he'll continue to get better.
On Brandon Ross and Wes Brown, Wes played 30 snaps and Brandon played 22. So Wes is already playing quite a bit. What they told Brandon is that when you're in the 'trouble zone' you've got to keep two hands on the ball. You've got to put your off hand on the ball there. But beyond the fumble by Brandon, want to see DJ Moore do a better job blocking so that hit doesn't happen. Protecting the football is priority number one and they continue to not do that and they will keep working on it.
On Brad Craddock's leadership, says he wants to go out in the right way just like all of the other seniors on the team. Says it's very rare that a kicker ends up one of your leaders and he's embraced that roll. And right now, this team needs as much leadership as possible going forward the rest of the season. The big thing with leadership is communicating and doing your job. He's been pretty consistent doing his job. He had an opportunity where he didn't execute like he should yesterday, but he didn't hang his head and came back out and executed later on. And this team needs that and that is where most leadership starts from.
With Prince being out, opened up some other opportunities along the offensive line for some other guys that haven't played, like Maurice Shelton and Brendan Moore. Doyle moved back out to right tackle and Derwin got some meaningful reps. When Derwin got in at right tackle it allowed Doyle to get some reps at left guard. Doyle has been very versatile and it also allowed them to see Brendan Moore.
On Perry turning the ball over, says you just keep showing them film and tape and just try to coach them through it. Obviously, our execution needs to get better at quarterback, especially in the passing game.
On punting on 4th down, if you look at our execution, we're 1 of 10 on third down and we're not executing in the passing game at a level even close to what we need to. And our quarterback needs to be able to execute the game plan in obvious passing downs. That means we need to keep working with Perry and doing things so that he's comfortable throwing the ball and knowing where it needs to go.
On the freshmen yesterday, says Derwin gray played about 25 reps and didn't miss any assignments and played well looking at the tape. Still want to see him be more physical coming off of the football but he made some strides.
On Brett Zanotto, says he has some natural instincts as a LB and he played about 12-15 snaps and he'll continue to get better.
On Brandon Ross and Wes Brown, Wes played 30 snaps and Brandon played 22. So Wes is already playing quite a bit. What they told Brandon is that when you're in the 'trouble zone' you've got to keep two hands on the ball. You've got to put your off hand on the ball there. But beyond the fumble by Brandon, want to see DJ Moore do a better job blocking so that hit doesn't happen. Protecting the football is priority number one and they continue to not do that and they will keep working on it.
On Brad Craddock's leadership, says he wants to go out in the right way just like all of the other seniors on the team. Says it's very rare that a kicker ends up one of your leaders and he's embraced that roll. And right now, this team needs as much leadership as possible going forward the rest of the season. The big thing with leadership is communicating and doing your job. He's been pretty consistent doing his job. He had an opportunity where he didn't execute like he should yesterday, but he didn't hang his head and came back out and executed later on. And this team needs that and that is where most leadership starts from.
With Prince being out, opened up some other opportunities along the offensive line for some other guys that haven't played, like Maurice Shelton and Brendan Moore. Doyle moved back out to right tackle and Derwin got some meaningful reps. When Derwin got in at right tackle it allowed Doyle to get some reps at left guard. Doyle has been very versatile and it also allowed them to see Brendan Moore.
On Perry turning the ball over, says you just keep showing them film and tape and just try to coach them through it. Obviously, our execution needs to get better at quarterback, especially in the passing game.
On punting on 4th down, if you look at our execution, we're 1 of 10 on third down and we're not executing in the passing game at a level even close to what we need to. And our quarterback needs to be able to execute the game plan in obvious passing downs. That means we need to keep working with Perry and doing things so that he's comfortable throwing the ball and knowing where it needs to go.
