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Danny Crossman – September 7, 2020 Download PDF version

Monday, September 7, 2020

Special Teams Coordinator Danny Crossman 

(I’m getting a gauge of going into Week 1 and I talked to a couple of people and asked “what do you think is going to be the biggest unknown?” And a lot of people mentioned special teams because you haven’t had any live drills to kind of prepare. What is sort of your perspective on the unknown of how your unit is going to look because of the offseason?) – “I think you’re always going into the first game – even after having played preseason games – there’s always that ramping up of the regular season compared to the preseason. Now you just add to it that we didn’t even have those preseason games; but I think we’ve done a good job in how we’ve structured practice and how we’ve worked. Obviously true game reps, you really don’t know how guys are going to perform until they get into that situation. I like the way we’ve worked. I like the plan we’ve had. We’ll have a good week of practice hopefully and see what we have on Sunday.”

(You just mentioned you liked how your group has worked. With the three main specialists – K Jason Sanders, P Matt Haack and LS Blake Ferguson, how do you think they’ve done over the past month and just the sense of they didn’t have any outside competition, so do you think they were able to hone in on themselves and get that motivation within themselves throughout camp?) – “I do. I think every guy in this building is self-motivated. I think the big thing that we’ve tried to emphasize with those guys and getting all of the work for those guys is without preseason games, being able to work for really five or six hours. When you think about when you get into a game situation, by the time you warm up for an hour and a half and you’re ready to go for three hours based on the game, it’s all on you. With how we’ve structured practice, involving things very early in practice and being involved in things very late in practice, (we’re) making sure our mindset is right to be able to perform at a high level for a long period of time, which you don’t get without preseason games.”

(Where are you guys with your return situation? I know WR Jakeem Grant has handled a lot of that in the past. Is he still expected to be your primary guy there?) – “Like I’ve said all through camp, we have a couple of guys that we’re very happy we have. Obviously Jakeem has done a good job and had a lot of production in this league. We feel good about where we’re at with our return situation. It’s obviously evolving and especially with Jakeem.”

(What do you think of the acquisition or the opportunity to add a player like WR Lynn Bowden Jr., who has return experience at a pretty successful clip during his days in college?) – “It will be interesting when we get him in the building and really get our hands on him and be able to work with him. He was a player that obviously we had a high level of ‘like’ of his attributes going into the draft. Once we get him in the building and see where he’s at and see where he can help us, it will be a joy to work with him.”

(I know you’ve had different type of players returning. You’ve got a small guy like WR Jakeem Grant and then sometimes you have a big guy like WR Preston Williams. What do you kind of look at in different body sizes and types of players and how that goes into a returner?) – “I’ve been almost in this league for 20 years now and I’ve seen them all. You’ve seen guys that are big, you’ve seen guys that are small. You’ve seen guys that you don’t think are fast but are quick. It’s an innate ability as a return player to be able to make people miss in small places. Regardless of your body type, some guys have that ability and some guys don’t. You mentioned a couple of guys that we have that I think have that ability and have proven it in games that they can make people miss in small areas.”

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