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Josh Boyer – October 1, 2019 Download PDF version

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Defensive Pass Game Coordinator/Cornerbacks Coach Josh Boyer

(You obviously had options last week with CB Jomal Wiltz out with CB Ken Webster and CB Chris Lammons, etc. What made you opt for Ken? What does he do well?) – “I think the thing with Ken is he’s very consistent in his work habits. He comes in every day. He’s very diligent. He’s in early. He’s out late. I would say from a skillset (standpoint), he’s got pretty good coverage skills. He can play physical. He’s got heavy hands and he can tackle well. He’s just a young player learning in progress, and he’s made improvements each and every day. We’re hoping for that to continue and we’re going to try to help him with that. The good news is he’s a diligent worker. He should be able to improve each day as it goes. He was able to get an opportunity out there and get some snaps and he’ll probably get more opportunities moving forward.”

(CB Eric Rowe – the body of work through four games – he was really good against Dallas and up and down at times. What is your assessment of how he’s done?) – “Again, I would say the one thing with Eric is Eric is a consistent worker. He works pretty hard. We’re working hard to improve the consistency on the field. At times, when he uses his hands and he tackles well, that’s been really good for us. The things that he struggled with, we’re working hard to improve those and make it a pretty consistent basis as we go. The thing that we’re extremely happy with Eric is the work ethic, the mentality of coming in every day and trying to improve and trying to get better. We’ve asked him to do multiple things over the weeks, and I would say the things that he’s had success with, we’ll try to put him in those roles a little bit more often. Then the things that he hasn’t so much (had success with), we’ll try to limit those roles.”

(In terms of tangible stats which I know is not a fair characteristic of how a player is doing; there’s a lot more to it, but in terms of passer rating against, there’s been a huge decline for CB Xavien Howard. It was around 60 last year. It’s about 135 this year. No picks, obviously; last year he had seven before he got hurt. Is there any sense why the fall-off? Does it concern you, or do you say, ‘he’s a great player. He’s going to get back to that level of performance at some point.’) – “Again, whether it’s with Xavien (Howard), Eric (Rowe), Ken (Wesbter) – I think it’s all the same. We’re striving for consistency. I think at points in time, you’ve seen flashes of really good play from a lot of guys, but the thing that we need to improve as a team and as a coaching staff is we need to be more consistent as coaches and they need to be more consistent as players. That should kind of carry over to success individually and as a team.”

(It’s the quarter-mile pole of the season here. How would you rate the defensive back group through four games? Where do you want to see the most improvement going forward?) – “Again, I’m not big into stats. We are where we are. Our record is what our record is. I think the key fundamentals for us are to work hard and try to improve every day. I don’t think that’s changed from Day 1. I think we’re striving to be more consistent. I think we’ve seen flashes of good play from time to time. What we’re working hard to do is to make sure that we can get that good play consistently.”

(Specifically from the cornerbacks – obviously CB Xavien Howard on one side, we know what he’s capable of doing. CB Eric Rowe and what he’s been doing on the other side – where do you see Eric’s game from a development standpoint from opener to heading into the bye week?) – “Again, I think all of it really starts with consistency. I think we’re pushing hard to be consistent. I think we’ve seen flashes of good play. We’ve seen flashes of poor play. I think we’re trying to eliminate the poor play, and we’re trying to keep the good play consistent over time. I would say that a lot of things that go into it the DB play in general is we’re going to ask them to do multiple things. I think that’s our job as a staff – after we’ve asked them to do multiple things, guys that are doing certain things well, try to keep them in those spots or in those situations. Things that we’ve struggled with a little bit (we will) try to eliminate or limit the amount of times that guys could be in those spots. There’s 11 guys working together, and if there’s a perfect call, everybody in the league would make that call every single time. There are always variables of skillset when you’re out there. Ultimately what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to highlight the skillset of the players that you have and sometimes based on situation, you may ask them to do a little bit of things that are outside their skillset and see how that goes. If it’s not going well, then obviously you want to limit doing that, but if it’s going well then obviously you can expand what you’re doing.”

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