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Chan Gailey – December 15, 2020 Download PDF version

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Offensive Coordinator Chan Gailey

(How do you assess the play of WR Lynn Bowden Jr. on Sunday and his development in the past few weeks?) – “He did some really good things in the game. He made some plays on the field. We asked him to do a lot last week and he responded very well. He’s learning. He’s getting more comfortable. He’s understanding what we’re trying to get done. I think he’s going to be a part of what we’re trying to do going forward. He’s done a good job.”

(When you went back to watch the tape, the third quarter when you guys really couldn’t get it going, was there a common theme then? And then the fourth quarter, was it just the nature of the game that you were going to throw every down and play up-tempo?) – “Lack of execution is the No. 1 thing that I can tell you. We made mental mistakes that we have not been making, and you can’t make against a good football team. We just didn’t make the plays we needed to in the third quarter there and then in the fourth quarter, we were trying to rally back into the ball game, which our guys fought back and did. We had several different guys make plays after our receivers went down. We had some guys step up. I thought (Wide Receivers Coach) Josh Grizzard did a great job of getting those guys organized and where they needed to be and running the routes they needed to run, doing a patch work job there. We had a lot of guys step up and do some good things and step up and Tua (Tagovailoa) took a good step there bringing us back into the ball game.”

(I know you’ve experienced just about everything there is to experience in the game, but can you recall a time a time where your offense has evolved as much as this offense has over the course of the year? I’m not talking about quarterback, but when you look at running back, receiver, not so much on the line – what do you see in terms of how much this offense has evolved?) – “We’ve had a lot of different people playing and people in different spots and totally different people as well. There has been more change on this team than probably most any team I’ve been around. I think our guys have handled it fairly well. We’ve got a long way to go. You play a long season and these guys have got to learn that with as many young guys as we have. They’ve got to learn that they’ve got to fight through some things. We have some more evolving to do, I’m sure. We’ve got to keep pressing forward with what we’re trying to get done not only this week but today. It’s a day-by-day process when you have situations like this.”

(You referenced the rally in the fourth quarter earlier. It looked like the Chiefs really turned the heat up in the fourth quarter with some blitzes. What can you say about QB Tua Tagovailoa’s ability to find the answers to all of those pressure packages they showed late in that game?)  – “I wasn’t sure he’d be able to do that because he hadn’t had to do that yet. I thought he handled that part of it really well. He saw things that you can’t simulate in practice – at the speed – and handled it well. I thought that was encouraging from our standpoint to know that he’s seeing things and understanding where to go with the ball and making plays when they are bringing all of that pressure. That’s not an easy thing to do for a young quarterback. As I said earlier, I think that was a real positive for him. They did – they turned up the pressure and he handled it. I thought that was good.”

(I’ll ask about a specific play that I thought was interesting – the one where QB Tua Tagovailoa was an option to catch the ball with WR Lynn Bowden Jr. I was kind of surprised that the Chiefs covered him. Maybe you were thinking they wouldn’t. But the fact that he was out there as a receiver, what should that tell us about how you and he and the medical staff are feeling about how far he’s come since his injury?) – “We think he’s full go. I don’t see any restrictions whatsoever. I think he’s full go and that’s what he’s shown. There have been no residual effects from anything that we have been able to see or that he has talked about. To me, we’ve got to use every option that we can use to try to score points. We tried that one. It didn’t work, but we tried it.”

(We never asked you back when you were hired about your vision for this team, about how long you wanted to do this and what your plan is. I don’t know if you had a three-year plan, five-year plan. If you want to share that plan, great. Has it changed? And how have you enjoyed the experience being back here coaching?) – “It’s been very interesting with COVID and everything that’s going on. It has been so interesting this year. It’s been a challenging year in many ways. No, I don’t have a plan. I’m taking it really one day at a time right now. I just take it one day at a time. I haven’t thought about that.”

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