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Danny Crossman – September 14, 2021 Download PDF version

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Assistant Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman

(Obviously you can never go wrong with WR Jakeem Grant as your returner because he’s done a great job with it over many years; but I was wondering was that a clear-cut decision for you or did WR Jaylen Waddle’s presence on the team make it a difficult decision where it could have gone either way?) – “We’re just looking for the best players. The more guys you can have that can do multiple things, you’re going to be happy. We have multiple guys who we feel very confident in the return game. Obviously Jakeem has had an outstanding career so far and we think he has a lot more to give. We think we’ve got a couple of young guys who also have a chance to be really outstanding.”

(I wanted to ask you about the good old term hidden yardage. I know we had the one chipped kickoff that you pinned them deep on. Just overall, how did you feel you guys performed in winning the hidden yardage battle?) – “As you guys know, we did some good things but we can always be a lot better. I thought we missed a couple of opportunities for some better players to even help more in that field position battle. Overall, I thought the guys played hard. We’ll hopefully build on that this week.”

(Obviously you have a lot of returning players on your coverage team, but among new guys that you had for the first time in coverage, who comes to mind as a couple who stood out with their coverage work on Sunday?) – “I think some of the guys that have played in other places and have some experience from around the league, who we had evaluated as guys that could help like (Brennan) Scarlett and players like that; they came in and did what we expected them to do. Duke Riley and the guys that have some experience performed at a level that we had anticipated they would. Those expectations are based on past experiences.”

(Just your thoughts on P Michael Palardy’s punts on Sunday. And the one that ended up going into the end zone, I think I saw WR Mack Hollins kind of signal to him like “my bad.” Should he have gotten that one?) – “It’s hard to say. You’d like to say you make all of those plays; but you give their club and their returner some credit for doing a good job with what he did on the particular play to try to get Mack to hesitate. But yes, in those situations, those are plays again where we need to find a way to make those plays to help ourselves in the field position battle.”

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