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Danny Crossman – October 26, 2021 Download PDF version

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Asst. Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman

(Since the WR Jakeem Grant Sr. trade, we’ve seen a few different guys it the return game. You started with WR Jaylen Waddle, last game we saw RB Myles Gaskin on kickoffs and S Jevon Holland on punts. Can you take us through what you do or don’t like about each of those in those spots and also with a healthy CB Noah Igbinoghene, would he be involved last Sunday as well?) – “Not to get into the goods and the bads, but we like all those players. As the game evolves, how certain guys are being used and roles, a lot times that a little bit to do with it. But again, we feel comfortable with those players. Obviously, we have to get more production when we get opportunities out of those phases.”

(Was S Jevon Holland used on returns last week entirely because WR Jaylen Waddle was a little banged up or do you intend to get him involved in returns regardless of that?) – “We intended to get him involved. He’s been working hard, he’s been doing a good job and he’s a player that we really like, that’s why he’s here. We wanted to get him some opportunities.”

(I was going to ask you to teach me about blocking for field goals. Obviously, you had the blocked kick this week. Just curious what happened there and what the goal was that didn’t get accomplished that you were trying to get accomplished on that field goal?) – ”I’ll answer it in two parts. No. 1, the goal is to score. The way we teach it, that’s the one play in football where its sole purpose is to score points. Every other play, whether it’s on offense or defense, there’s strengths and weaknesses to it. That play is to score points and we didn’t get that done. It was strictly a matter or poor technique. We have to make sure that we are sound with our technique and fundamentals on every play. We didn’t get it done there and we paid the consequence.”

(Wanted to get your assessment and evaluation on how P Michael Palardy is doing. I know he had a better game last week but overall, what have you seen from him this season?) – “I’m going to take it one step further and put it in with the whole kicking game. We have not been consistent enough. We haven’t taken advantage of certain opportunities when we’ve gotten them. Whether it’s in the return game, whether it’s in the kicking phase where we’re trying to pin somebody deep. Whatever it is, we’ve got to be more consistent across the board and you can put a lot of people in that bucket. Obviously, it always starts with coaching and what we are asking them to do and how we are asking them to do it. We need to be better across the board.”

(I wanted to ask a question that I didn’t know too much about relative to the way you choose which players go into what position on field goal block. I think I saw that T Liam Eichenberg and G/T Austin Jackson are on the right side of field goal block even though they play the left side on the offensive snaps. Please explain to me, is it a thing where you just try to leave guys in the same position as often as possible throughout the year and not move them around even if they move around on offense?) – “There’s a lot of things that go into it. From a simplicity standpoint, I’m not going to get into a lot of it, but just think about stances. If you think about stances and where guys spend most of the time in their stances, that ties into a little but about where they end up. Then, it’s a matter of we’ve had several guys playing the right guard position (on field goal) because of injuries. When that happens, you have the possibility of multiple moves, single moves and that’s across the board. Obviously for us in the kicking game, that’s probably a bigger transition thing than some other spots. But you deal with that week in and week out on all three phases, offense, defense and in the kicking game.”

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