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Austin Clark – September 2, 2020

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Outside Linebackers  Coach Austin Clark

(I just wanted to clarify with you, that beyond LB Andrew Van Ginkel, and LB Trent Harris who exactly is in your room and if you could comment on those guys and how they’ve looked? Not those two but the others?) – “I would say I work with whoever they ask me to work with. It’s not really a room or position or anything like that. Day-by-day I come into work and fired up about all the guys on our front.”

(I wanted to ask you about LB Tyshun Render and how you’ve just kind of noticed his progress so far through training camp. He won some awards in college about best effort, best hustle guy. I’m curious to get your take on him and if you’ve seen that same effort here in camp so far?) – “I would say those awards are accurate. He’s a grinder, he’s a tough guy. He plays really, really hard and I would say that’s probably his best attribute. I love the kid. I think he’s getting better each day. Got a lot of work to do, but I think he’s on the right track.”

(Coaching philosophy question. I know that you guys – one of the big things you do is find like opponent weaknesses and find matchup advantages. I’m kind of curious in general, what’s the best way for a coach to help a player and a player on his own to identify advantages that mgiht help them in a game?) – “I would say the first thing and we’re big on this here and I personally believe technique and fundamentals are the most important thing that goes into any front play, any defensive play that you do. As a coach, identifying what we want them to do and how we want them to do it and holding that standard each and every day. So there may be a time where they make a great play doing it wrong. You say hey, ‘that’s a hell of a play right there. Here’s how we want you to do it and if you were going against an All Pro here that might not work.’ So I would say the biggest thing for me personally is technique and fundamentals. As far as matchups and different things that you could use depending on an opponent scheme or what they’re showing or what they’re doing; I think that goes into it as well, and I think film and background, I think what we have here with our head coach and defensive coordinator especially in the division and their background with opponents, and even players. With some of the players we have that have backgrounds with a lot of these teams we’re playing is big.”   

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