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Danny Crossman – November 23, 2021 Download PDF version

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Assistant Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman

(I wanted to ask you a little bit about K Jason Sanders coming off the All-Pro season he had last year. Where do you see him this year? Obviously we’ve seen him miss a few short ones this season.) – “Obviously we have complete confidence in Jason, first and foremost. But as you know in this profession, and especially in that job, it’s a fine line between being successful and not being successful. That’s twice now that at the end of the half we’ve banged them off the upright. Again, we have complete confidence in him. It’s small things. We’ll keep working and Jason will be fine.”

(Do you see any difference in his kicking motion or anything that you can pinpoint?) – “No. There’s nothing different. He’s been the same for the three years that I’ve had him. We’ll just keep fine-tuning and keep working and keep grinding. One thing about Jason is he’s a worker. We’ll get that taken care of.”

(We’re starting to see all of these short kicks now. Is that just teams figuring out – not just against you guys but is that just teams figuring out that the return game could possibly not be as sharp as it has been in past years because teams aren’t used to returning it anymore?) – “I think it’s a combination of things. I think No. 1, in our particular game, I think weather was a little bit of a factor. But I think more importantly, to your point, I agree with you that people aren’t getting as many opportunities and maybe aren’t as crisp and clean, because you can practice as much as you want but that live speed repetition, when you don’t get as many of them, it sometimes makes it a different scene for the players.”

(Going back to K Jason Sanders, are you noticing any in the operation? Is his lack of being able to duplicate the success that he had last year attributed to the entire operation?) – “No. There’s nothing wrong with the operation. There’s nothing wrong with Jason. Again, it’s the small subtleties of what that guy, you’re asking him to do. The slightest little thing – in our room we refer to it as splitting hairs. Things have such a small margin that you can’t even see them but when those little things do crop up, that can be the difference between a make and a miss. Then you throw the rest of the elements into it whether it be the distance of the kick, the weather, the wind, or whatever it may be, you may run into some misses. But again, we have complete confidence in Jason and we’ll get this sorted out.”

(Somebody brought up the idea that maybe he has a different holder this year, that could be playing a factor.) – “Nah, that has nothing to do with it.”

(I know WR Jaylen Waddle had a pretty dynamic career as a college returner but he just doesn’t seem – to my amateur eye – very comfortable back there. Is there something that you guys can do other than just reps that can get him kind of greased up and going and looking back like he did in college?) – “No. Jaylen Waddle is going to be absolutely fine. He’s going to be a special player. I think to combo this question along with your earlier point, when there are limited opportunities, it’s hard to get that rhythm. We have complete confidence that he’s going to be a special player in everything that we ask him to do.”

(I wanted to ask you about DB Elijah Campbell. It seems like just about every week, he’s making plays on special teams for you. I was just curious what it says about him to be able to arrive here in September and have an impact pretty much throughout the course of the season on special teams.) – “He’s been good. It was a good get for us. He’s a talented player – a young guy who we think is going to keep getting better and better.”

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