Robby Brown – December 15, 2020
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Quarterbacks Coach Robby Brown
(What does QB Tua Tagovailoa do from a mechanical standpoint that maybe stands out compared to other quarterbacks?) – “That is a good question. Everybody is different. I know that sounds like a goofy answer but as you try to get a feel for what a guy does and what he’s good at, I think that was something I noticed watching him come out. He’s kind of got natural mechanics and those are the best ones. He opens the right way. His arm angles are good, he throws with good arm angles. I would say his mechanics just from a base throwing were pretty good when he got here.”
(Head Coach Brian Flores has talked about this that Tight Ends Coach George Godsey works a little bit with the quarterbacks on Sundays. How has your role evolved a little bit since you were away from the team for a bit and came back? What is your primary goal on Sundays? What do you do?) – “I would say that ‘Flo’ talked about that a little bit and we don’t dive real deep into how we communicate on game day. We did keep that the same when I came back, but there is constant communication between ‘Coach E’ (Running Backs Coach Eric Studesville), me, (Tight Ends Coach) George (Godsey), (Offensive Coordinator) Chan (Gailey), ‘Marsh’ (Offensive Line Coach Steve Marshall). There is constant communication on game day between everybody from up top to down low. Everybody has a role in what they are looking for and what they are doing. Without diving deep into the same thing that ‘Flo’ said, nothing has changed a whole lot there.”
(Given Patriots Head Coach Bill Belicheck’s reputation for disguising things, particularly when he’s going to be facing a rookie quarterback, ehat can you do with QB Tua Tagovailoa this week to prepare him for all of the different kind of things he might be seeing on Sunday?) – “I think it goes back to do you have a base? I talked about it earlier in the year when he was the backup, but he has to really come in – it doesn’t matter if he’s playing the Patriots or whoever it might be. He has to come in and start the same way each week. As an organization, ‘Coach Flo,’ we always start with personnel. Then you go to our personnel, then you go into what is the defense trying to do to you. The biggest thing is you don’t change what you’ve been doing. You try to build that base in the beginning and then go from there. They do do a good job of different sets, different disguises, whatever it may be. They’ve been very good for many years. That does produce a good challenge.”
(The last two weeks QB Tua Tagovailoa has brought light to his execution in the first half being different than his execution in the second half. What have been some things that have been hindering the process of the offense early in games recently?) – “I know that – and I say this all the time, it comes back to coach speak, but it’s really not. It’s execution. It’s execution across the board. Coaches play a part in execution too. We’re always trying to find that special sauce, if you will, that makes everybody execute well at all times in the game. You’re looking for execution on each and every play. The first play you go out there, you want to execute. Then you talk about if you don’t execute, and it goes to second-and-10, here’s how you execute onseocnd-and-10, then you execute on third down. It really does just come back to execution and if you knew the exact answer to get that fixed, it would never happen. We have to work really hard as coaches, really hard as an organization, to try to make that execution a reality.”
(We saw WR Lynn Bowden Jr. as a passer option a couple of times. How would you grade Lynn’s mechanics?) – “(laughter) I don’t know that I’ve spent a lot of time watching Lynn’s mechanics. Lynn is an exciting football player and we’re glad to have him. From a mechanical standpoint, you really just give him a hard time and tell him to get it there in those situations. His mechanics, I don’t know; but I do think he’s a good football player and obviously he played a lot of positions in college. We’re glad to have him.”
(When QB Tua Tagovailoa first started a month and a half ago or whatever it was, I’m sure – and you can tell me if I’m wrong – but there was a set of plays he was comfortable with and you might have focused on those early on. How much has that grown in the six or eight weeks since?) “I can tell you that obviously that grows with experience, with playing. I don’t know if it was necessarily a set of plays or concepts or whatever; but as he gets more comfortable, you want to be able to take on more and more. We’ll see how that goes. He’s done a good job of trusting the process that Chan (Gailey) and ‘Flo’ (Brian Flores) have put together for him. Like I’ve said, going back to that process coming in first day, getting all of their personnel and then learning our personnel, I think he’s done a good job of studying that stuff and working hard to understand what we’re trying to do and then what the defense is trying to do to him. That helps and every bit of experience, whether you’re a coach or writer or whatever it may be, I think any experience helps whether you are extremely successful on that one play or that play doesn’t work out. You can put it in your memory bank and say ‘that works for me,’ or ‘it didn’t work this time.’ Good and bad, you can learn from both.”
