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Danny Crossman – October 31, 2024 Download PDF version

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman

(You got good results with WR Dee Eskridge on kicks and WR Malik Washington on punts. Obviously, you always allow yourself flexibility with that, but generally is that the way that you want to move forward at this point?) – “Again, it’s going to be a continual fluid situation. I was really happy with how both those guys performed. It was good to see carry over from preseason with Malik (Washington) and then a good start for D’Wayne (Dee Eskridge). But as always, the roster and play time and all that stuff is always going to be a fluid situation.”

(I know you never have a perfect game, was that your best game of the season last week?) – “There’s a lot of different ways – it depends how you want to look at it. I look at myself as a teacher, and if one guy gets an F and everybody else gets an A, I still think that’s a poor job. As you look, we didn’t have any negative plays, so I guess in the way (of) your visual or however you look at it, that could be one – no negative plays, that’s a good thing. There’s a lot of different ways to look at it. I was happy with how we played, but not content at all. There’s things that we need to do a lot better in just about every single phase just because it’s not always as good or bad as it seems. If there’s one mistake, it’s crucial; everybody else could be doing a great job but it’s a negative. So happy but not content.”

(WR River Cracraft has not returned a punt in a regular season game since 2020. Do you want him during this 21-day window or however long he is practicing before activated to field punts just to have as an option? Or do you guys want him just focusing on offense?) – “No, he does that continually. He’s back there catching punts for the last couple of years. That’s always something that’s part of his daily, so it’s something he’ll continue to do.”

(So you don’t grade on a curve like–?) – “No, as you guys well know, there are no curves in the National Football League. Whose student gets the poor grade is even just as important.”

(As far as the wide receivers go, and I know you don’t have the final say, how much will special teams matter in WR River Cracraft coming up and when he comes up?) – “It depends on a lot, there’s so many moving parts. When you talk about one specific player, you’re really talking about a group position and then you’re talking about a side of the ball, so there’s a lot of things that go into those decisions. It’s not always just a, ‘There’s one player, well why isn’t his happening?’ There’s a lot of things tied into how that group is set up for the week, how the offense or defense is set up for the week, so there’s a lot of moving parts before those decisions are really ever made.”

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