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Robby Brown – December 1, 2020 Download PDF version

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Quarterbacks Coach Robby Brown

(What did QB Tua Tagovailoa do on Sunday while he was on the sidelines? I saw he made the trip and he was out there even though he didn’t play. What instructions did you give him for Sunday?) – “What we did, the backup quarterbacks and the guys that are down there, we always have things for them to look at. Just for him, per (Offensive Coordinator) Chan (Gailey) and ‘Flo’ (Head Coach Brian Flores), just use it as a learning experience. Look at all the pictures, try to look at it as if you are playing – in that way. So you go over all of that and he just tried to treat it as if he were playing or as if he were trying to help out. He saw some things and really did a good job of trying to use it as a learning experience.”

(I’m curious, we talked to QB Tua Tagovailoa a little bit about the balance between throwing it into tight windows versus waiting for receivers to separate. How do you teach a young quarterback when is the right time to take that chance for maybe a 50/50 ball versus holding on to it?) – “We stress a lot of things to him and he has a great feel for football in general. He’s a competitive guy. So I think the more and more reps he gets – whether it’s routes versus air in practice, 7-on-7 reps, team reps in practice, game reps – all of that kind of stuff is where you get a feel for that and I think his natural instinct will come in. You talk about it, you watch it on film, you pull those up, (and say) ‘hey, what did you think here or what did you think there?’ I think his natural instinct, he’ll get better and better at it as he goes. I think he has a wonderful natural instinct for the game of football.”

(During the Broncos game, it looked like QB Tua Tagovailoa was very uncomfortable. He didn’t show that he had a great feel of the offense or you didn’t see those natural instincts like you’re talking about there. What were some of the things the Broncos were doing that really affected him, in your opinion?) – “If I had the answer to that, I’d probably be the richest man on earth. You have games where you play good, you have games where you aren’t feeling great and those types of things. I’d say for us as coaches, we just go back and look at it. ‘How can we do a better job to make him more comfortable? How can he do a better job?’ I think the great thing about this team, and more so than some I’ve been on, but what’s really good with this team is everybody looks at themselves and says ‘how can we help, how can we make this better?’ I think that’s what makes this team special. It starts from the top. We’ve just got to try to figure out how to fix that when it comes about, and it comes about. It’s the National Football League, so there are going to be games where you play great and hang 38 (points), and there are going to be games where they get you. We’ve just got to figure out how to fix that.”

(I was curious about QB Reid Sinnett, obviously a developmental quarterback who dressed for the first time. I have no idea anything at all about Reid Sinnett. What do you think are his strengths, upside? What does he seem to do ok?) – “We brought Reid in for a workout early on in the year and signed him. Reid does a really good job on the mental aspect of the game. He studies like he’s supposed to. He does everything the right way. He really works hard when he is running the look squad. We’ve been pleased with what we’ve seen so far. He’s got to come in and do the same things that we’ve talked about with the other developmental guys. It doesn’t matter what position it is, he needs to come in and try to get better mentally, try to get better when he gets individual throws during special teams and whatever it may be. He just has to continue to try to raise the bar for himself and see what happens.”

(QB Tua Tagovailoa has had four starts, so there is a little bit more tape on him for defenses. How do you guys go about adjusting maybe some tendencies he may be showing that defenses may lock on?) – “You’re going to try to do that. It doesn’t matter who is playing quarterback, you are going to try to look at tendencies that you may have as an offense, that you may have in different areas of the field, that you may have in all kinds of places. We’re always trying to do that, and look at things through the lens of who you are playing against. I don’t think it really matters who the quarterback is. It’s just Coaching 101. You try to figure out the best way to do things and then you go from there. I don’t think the quarterback really plays a role in that. You look at you as an offense and as a football team to try to fix that from a self-scout perspective.”

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