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Michael Deiter – September 23, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 23, 2021

C/G Michael Deiter

(What’s the room been like in terms of spirits this week? Obviously as a collective offensive line group, you wanted to put something better on tape than last week. Have you guys been motivated, have you been down, incentivized? What sort of emotions?) – “A little bit of both. Down but the down is motivation to be better. Obviously it wasn’t a good showing and we needed to be a lot better and that’s the focus. What can we do each day to be better, be cleaner with communication, all that stuff, better technique and all of it? It was definitely down at first but use that to fuel you to get better so it doesn’t happen ever again.”

(It seemed like a lot of the issues that you guys had was identification, in terms of the blitzers that were coming. How much responsibility do you take for that? How much of that is on everybody?) – “It definitely starts with the center and quarterback, how are we IDing it, how are we communicating things. But it does come down to all five or all six who are in protection, just making sure the communication is clean. There is no gray are on who’s got what, what front they’re in, what could they possibly bring. I would say it definitely starts with the center and QB and making sure that they are echoing it out to the rest of the guys.

(You mentioned communication. How do you work on that? Is that something that happens from one week to the other? Does it take a little more time?) – “You work on it in meetings, in walkthroughs and then in practice. Then you take it to the game and it has to translate. Obviously, we’ll spend the meetings with the running backs and the quarterbacks talking through third down stuff, early down pressures and all that stuff. We’ll go out, walk through it and then go practice it. It can look clean all week long but then it needs to look clean on Sunday too. It’s got to be the exact same throughout the week and then execution on Sunday.”

(On Tuesday, Offensive Line Coach Lemuel Jeanpierre said that, I asked him about this as well, he said the quarterback and center at the end of the day have to come to an agreement on IDing the front and whether to shift protection. That’s a lot to do in a couple seconds before you have to snap the ball. Are there any cases where you’re not in agreement on who the Mike is or whatever and how do you resolve that in a short amount of time?) – “There’s definitely some instances where we might be seeing the front a little different between center and QB but ultimately we will work it out whether it is the QB overriding everything, getting us to a different ID and the center hearing it and making sure I can get the call to the O-line. The QB gets us right and then I can get the proper call to the rest of the five then we can cut it loose and play fast. It’s just me getting up and getting set, everyone getting up and getting set and getting things IDed quick. Then if something is a little weird, we will have time to adjust it. That way the play clock is not at four seconds and we are trying to switch things and then cadence gets brought into it and it get really ugly. The faster you can get up and get set, start IDing things, center and QB work things out and then it all gets echoed to the rest of the five or six who are protecting. We’ve got to play fast after that.”

(What is your impression of how G/T Liam Eichenberg has handled different roles as a guy, yourself, who has been versatile in his career?) – “He’s been good. He’s been mature about it. Ready to work every day, making sure he’s studying on top of his assignment, on top of his technique no matter where it is he’s playing and whatever his role is. He’s been really impressive to how his approach has been.”

(How would you describe QB Jacoby Brissett’s confidence level and leadership approach?) – “They’re great. Both of them are really high. His confidence is high, his leadership is really good and you can tell he’s a guy who’s been in this league for a while. He’s seen a lot of offense, he’s played in a lot of offense and it’s cool. He’s got a ton of confidence. He’s got a ton of talent and he’s also smart. It gives us a lot of confidence to have him back there with all that knowledge.”

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