Defense zone 3 mission 92/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Definitely we're on this losing streak, everybody is just more driven and focused. "No matter what, every week it should be a sense of urgency. That doesn't change anything about my preparation." Any position in the backend I know well, it's just getting the physical reps to get it done. "Anything that has to do with DB, no matter if it's cornerback, no matter if it's nickel, no matter if it's safety, I always jot it down in my notes. We just have to finish games, finish drives, and finish halves." I think our defense can be as good as we want it to be as long as we can do the small things like stop the run and stay in our gaps. We've had guys that have stepped up and played tremendous. I think guys are stepping up and playing their role, but at the end of the day, we always know that game time experience is always a little different. "I think we just haven't had all of our guys that we need in there at the same time. On what he has seen from the defense so far It's just preparation and knowing the situation of the game." It's hard and they're not throwing the ball to you. "It's always a confidence boost whenever you can get the ball as a DB. That's what we're struggling at right now, just block destruction and the small things like that." "We did a lot of good-on-good yesterday, so going against our own offense and having it be very simple was good for us to be able to fit up the run. What we did yesterday was good, just building on what we were trying to do." "This bye week is exactly what we needed. ![]() But like I said beforehand, if you do this for a living, every second of every morning to whenever you get home at night, there's urgency throughout it." Getting the bye week at this time right now is a great opportunity for us to get everything aligned and fixed. Obviously from our standpoint, we have to fix the things that are hurting us. "In Division I football, every week there's urgency. "It's just making sure that we stay in our lanes pass rush wise and making sure we don't give escape valves to the QB, and then I think the consistency of what coverage we're playing and guys really executing it, and that's not just corners, that's safeties and linebackers and everybody included." He is what he is because of how much he works at it." I told him it was like an electricity bolt going through our whole sidelines, that really got us going. It was a really good finish too, because that was a long way. When you put in a whole bunch of work, you don't even go out on the field and think about failure. That's the thing I like about Teja, he plays with confidence, but that goes back to how much work he puts into it. But more importantly, after he played inside of his man, he saw the QB drift his eyes out and then he just went for it. He'll be the first person to tell you he came in and understood exactly what the QB was doing. I think anytime you're doing some good things, I think your voice is really heard loud and that's what I want to see him do next." I think it's time to see him take a little bit of more command along with Teja (Young) and the rest of the guys that are in there. I think our guys respect him from that standpoint, but I think they respect him in terms of some of the things that he does on the practice field. Where he can continually grow for us is from a leadership standpoint. Whoever taught him that when he was young, credit to them. "The biggest thing with him is he has a great understanding of football. We will work a little bit of Rice, but just go back to the way we had things structured in fall camp." ![]() But now we're back into it, we'll do the same exact thing today. I think we have taken the approach of getting back to the little things that are necessary: running to the football, getting off of blocks, tackling, all of the things that sometimes when you get into Week 6, you kind of take for granted. "Yesterday's practice was really a lot of good-on-good, a little bit of Rice, but it's been good to go against our guys because it's kind of been simple on both sides. Obviously, you can't be one dimensional and do one thing all the time, but you just continually grow and get better." "I think you can help those guys schematically, and we have at times, and we have on some of the things we have done on third down, but some of those things are just being dialed into the call and then the fundamental and technical part of playing that coverage. We worked just a couple of concepts and went back to just getting off of blocks, hand placement, footwork, all of the things that are necessary to play good defense." QUOTABLE Defensive Coordinator Todd Orlando ![]()
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