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Brian Flores – December 20, 2019 Download PDF version

Friday, December 20, 2019

Head Coach Brian Flores

(We saw I guess the last couple days, WR Allen Hurns and DT Zach Sieler were limited. Are they good to go Sunday? Do you expect to have all 53 available?) – “Yeah, we expect to have everybody for Sunday. You said 53 – (I’m thinking) 46 (active). It kind of threw me off a little bit. I knew you what you meant. It took me a second.”

(Who is the team’s best weather person? Who do you lean on for weather reports?) – “I just go with the weather report we get from Joe Cimino, our equipment guy. He does a great job from that standpoint, whether it’s lightning, or if we’re about to get lightning, rain. I’d say it’s him, Joe.”

(How do you think heavy rain can impact the game?) – “Start in the kicking game. Just ball security. It’s something that’s obviously got to be a high priority whether it’s regardless of the weather – inclement weather whether it’s rain or snow or wind, whatever it happens to be. So taking care of the football – that’s anyone who touches the football – snapper, punter, holder, receivers, backs, quarterback obviously, making good decisions at that position and then just making it more of a priority to take care of the football when we’re running with it, catching it, putting it away. You’ve just got to have a high awareness of that in bad weather.”

(How do you that? Do you do wet ball drills?) – “I wish we’d have more days to practice in the rain. Those are always – that’s probably the best practice, looks or reps you can get. There was some drizzle today a little bit; so yeah, we spray water down the balls a little bit, but that’s all you can do. You’ve got to practice in it or just water down the balls a little bit just to kind of get them ready for that.”

(I know we’ve talked a lot obviously about running to the edges, setting the edge, runs toward the sides of the field. As far as teams running up the gut on you, has that do you think been an issue or do you think the interior of your line and your middle linebacker play has been generally okay?) – “I think we’ve had both success and struggles on the edge, inside, in the C-gap which is basically right in between the middle and outside. All of it’s important. So you want to be strong inside, really out and I think we need to do a good job – a better job – of being more consistent across the board in the run game.”

(Can we expect to see more of DT Zach Sieler in the d-tackle rotation this week?) – “He’s done a good job. We really like his length, his athleticism, his toughness. We got him in there a little bit last week and hopefully more in the coming weeks.”

(We saw more of like an even split between RB Myles Gaskin and RB Patrick Laird this week. Did you learn more about Myles and what he can bring to the game that made you go that route and do you anticipate it being similar this week?) – “He’s done a good job all year. He’s been inactive for a good chunk of the early part of the season, but he did a really good job in practice. We saw him kind of grow over the course of OTAs to training camp to even in the early part of the season when he just practiced better and got a better grasp of what we were doing offensively, so getting him in there and getting a few more touches last week has been good. I think Patrick has done a good job as well, and we’ve gotten some good production out of ‘D. Turner’ (De’Lance Turner) in the kicking game as well. Three good young backs, and we’ll just keep getting them reps and hopefully they can improve.”

(Do you anticipate seeing RB De’Lance Turner on the offensive side of the ball?) – “His bull role has been primarily in the kicking game. I think we like what we’ve seen out of Myles (Gaskin) and Patrick (Laird), but he’s ready to go.”

(Of the five guards you’ve rotated the last couple weeks, have any two emerged at all? I know as you said Monday there’s been some good and bad from each of them.) – “That’s really been the case. It’s some ups, some downs, but each one of them has made improvements, I would say. We just need to keep working through that group and try to find the best five guys who can get us some consistent play.”

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