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Danny Crossman – August 1, 2019 Download PDF version

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman

(How’s it coming? How’s it going? How are your teams looking?) – “(It’s) early. (There is a) long way to go. (There’s a) lot of fluid things going on at a lot of positions, but they’re working their butts off.

(You made a decision yesterday at punter – is that a decision, or are you going to start looking around for someone else to compete?) – “No. Stone (Wilson) did a nice job. Matt’s (Haack) doing an outstanding job. It’s just an opportunity of getting Matt more of the work.”

(Can I ask you – not a roster question, but I was sitting up there with Kim Bokamper. You guys are doing the punt thing, and P Matt Haack is not kicking. You’ve got the JUGS machine – why?) – “You can’t do it every day. It’s as simple as that. So he punted a lot of footballs yesterday and we’ve got a lot of them coming forward, so we’re still working our body into being able to handle the workload that it’s going to take.”

(S Walt Aikens has been a core special teams guy for a while. What do you think of him? What do you like? What does he need to improve on?) – “He needs to improve on everything, just like very player; but Walt’s a dynamic player. (He’s) had a lot of success in this league. We have very high expectations for Walt on the football field.”

(Is S Walt Aikens going to continue to do just about everything?) – “He’ll do as much as he can handle. That’s one thing you’ll hear ‘Coach Flo’ (Head Coach Brian Flores) say: show you can make plays, and your menu’s going to open up for more things; but you’ve got to show you can make plays. He’s done it in the past. He’s got to continue to do it.”

(Do you have an idea of how many core guys you’re going to be able to have?) – “You never do, and the minute you start to think that way – we’ve got four preseason games to play and a lot of practices – and you start thinking you have things earmarked, things are going to change. You just try and get everybody opportunities. Obviously you have some things in mind that you’re trying to think of how it’s going to play out, but you’re never sure.”

(What does P Matt Haack need to improve on?) – “Just being consistent throughout the field. We need to be good backed up. We need to be good in the middle of the field. We need to be good at pinning people. (He was) off to a good start last year. (He’s) off to a good offseason in the spring (and has been) better here in fall camp, so hopefully his arrow just continues to keep going up and improving in all of those areas.”

(A lot of guys, they talk about players making a jump year over year and especially early in their careers – one to two – do you see that as a possibility for P Matt Haack?) – “As a hope and a desire and the idea of to help our team? Yeah, that’d be ideal, and we think he’s a guy that can do that. Time will tell. It’s early.”

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