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George Godsey – December 7, 2021 Download PDF version

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Co-Offensive Coordinator/TEs George Godsey

(I wanted to start off asking about WR DeVante Parker. What does his re-insertion in this lineup do for this offense?) – “It creates a lot of defensive issues outside. He does a good job blocking in the run game. He’s got a lot of experience to help out the guys in the meeting room. He hasn’t necessarily been there every day because of his treatment and making sure he’s trying to get back in the lineup. But just having his experience and his productivity out there is definitely a helpful thing for our whole unit.”

(My question was in that same frame but I was curious about the back-shoulder ball that you guys hit to WR DeVante Parker on Sunday. I was just curious about how that process plays out. Is that pre-snap he knows he’s going back shoulder? Is it an adjustment post-snap? How does that work out for QB Tua Tagovailoa and Parker?) – “In my opinion, I think you just throw it to the guy and let him catch it because he’s done that and he’s proven that in his career. There’s a lot of evidence on tape of guys that have his ability that just get up there and catch the ball whether it’s behind them, in front of them or a jump ball. As many times as we can get the ball in his vicinity, we like it. As for dropping back, as you’re deciphering what’s going on defensively before you’re getting ready to throw that ball over to that player, it’s all about where the defender is and how I want to place that ball really on every route. A lot of times on in-cuts, you see them thrown low and that’s really to save the guy of a headache of a guy coming there to knock him out. It’s the same thing on the sideline. A guy that is playing the ball deep, then you want to throw the ball where it’s in a position for just our guy to get it. A lot of that plays into Tua seeing the defense post-snap.”

(In what areas do you feel like the offensive line group is going in the right direction over the last three or so games?) – “I’ve kind of mentioned this throughout the year is we’ve had some moving parts there and putting back Michael Deiter in there at center, so there’s trying to get him back going again and getting the communication inside out. That’s where it starts. It starts with the center identifying the defensive front, the structure and who they’re going to, and then making sure that group play with as much consistency as possible. Michael will be a big part of that, getting the combination blocks and in the protection making sure that we are connected there with all the games that we will see on third down. The tighter that that group can continue to work, the better off we’ll be. I know that we’ve had a couple sacks in the previous games but they are keeping the quarterback a little bit – the ball is coming out but also keeping him upright which is a big part of the passing game.”

(Unrelated, there was an NFL team that won a game last night with only three passing attempts. I was wondering if you’d ever been a part of anything like that where you went into a game knowing that you were pretty much not going to throw at all?) – “No, it just seemed like it was a different game looking at it. Thank God we weren’t feeling it.”

(What’s the bye week like for you as coaches? Do you get a little bit of time off or are you still as busy as normal?) – “I think every club is different, I’m sure, but there’s obviously a lot of things that we need to work on and get better so that’s kind of what we’re focusing on right now. Guys are coming in tomorrow so we’ll inform them on some of the things that we’ve looked at and we try to do that every week. But when the normal schedule of inserting a gameplan, getting that together is not really at the forefront, it’s more of self-inspecting calls, situations, how we’re doing on techniques, tendencies that we have created. That type of stuff, you can dive in a little bit more and at this point in the year, there are a lot of teams that do have tendencies and those teams are the ones that are doing their tendencies well. There’s a lot of that that plays into the game. You’re not going to all of a sudden stop throwing to a guy because you’ve used him. Certainly defenses are going to get ready for him but usually that player is able to perform at a level to either get open or run the ball or block. A lot of that is digesting a lot of information and trying to put it at a focal point for the players so that they can look at their one or two things during the off week that they can get better at.”

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