00:00initial reaction, what we've seen from the game from the TV copy, right? And then you
00:19get a chance to go back, watch the tape, see things a little bit more clearly. Trey Lance
00:23better, worse, or about the same as what you had seen live on Sunday.
00:29He's gotten better at practices since you guys departed. In the game the other day,
00:33missed some opportunities where his accuracy wasn't very good. He made his receivers have
00:38to work several times to get the football. I think there were a couple of different times
00:42where they set him up to maybe make a throw that would have likely put points on the board.
00:47They had a wheel route that they ran with Princeton Fant that I felt like McCarthy called
00:54it with knowing that without the Rams, we're going to play it down in that section of
00:59the field. And he threw the ball back to his left where it was probably a harder throw.
01:05But there were some throws that he could have made in that game that could have ended up
01:10as scoring plays for this football team. He just missed them.
01:13I know you felt like Mozzie Smith had been overly criticized when you got the chance
01:18to watch the first time. Getting into the tape, watching the tape a little bit. Improvement
01:23looking a little more solid. I know it looked like that third drive he was winded.
01:27Yeah, playing with his hands. It's unfortunate that the screenplay that he made, he plays
01:33off the block of Linder, the center, and does a really nice job of extending his hands,
01:40which is something that they coach him all the time. It's hands, Mozzie, hands, Mozzie.
01:44Not outside, inside, Mozzie. Inside hands, Mozzie. And so his hands were much better.
01:49His extension was much better. He controls the center. And then he reads the screen and
01:54he gets over and makes the play. And then the very next play he does absolutely nothing.
02:00It's like he took a play off. It's like, oh well, hey I made a play so now I get to take
02:04a play off. And what they need him to be is the player that played the screen. They need
02:09him to be the player that fires his hands inside and controls the blocker and plays
02:13square. And those are the things that I think that, you know, that Mozzie's capable of doing.
02:19We talk about him every day in a way of there are flashes of plays that he makes. And I've
02:25always been taught a flash player is not a great player. And so that's the problem. And
02:32they need more consistency from him. He's capable of making plays. He's capable of learning.
02:38But there's times where he does get winded. And it might be a little bit of his conditioning
02:42that is a problem. The shoulder, the rehab, all those things. Maybe he didn't get to work.
02:47But we've been through now two weeks of camp. You know, there's a lot of guys that are in
02:52good condition right now and are playing a lot of snaps and practicing a long time and
02:57not looking, you know, not taking plays off. And that's the unfortunate thing with Mozzie.
03:03Every time you see the two or three really good things, there's probably another one
03:06or two other things where you're going, man, if he could just find a way not to play this
03:11way, he'll be a much better player.
03:13You kind of answered it, but I was going to ask, you know, how often does that like
03:16light stay on? Because I saw some of that in Oxnard where I'm like, did he just give
03:21up right there? Is he half out?
03:22Yeah, it's unfortunate. Yeah, it really is. It's unfortunate because he made a really
03:27good play of controlling the center and getting over on the screen. And you're like, you know,
03:31you're saying that now that's what you need. You're one technique to do to extend play
03:36with power, throw that blocker aside and then get over and make a play. And then the very
03:41next play, I could clip it for you guys and show it to you, where he acts like that, OK,
03:46huh, made a tackle. Now I get to take a little break. No, I mean, hey, you're still fighting
03:53to get off the field. And, you know, when he plays those four or five plays in a row,
03:59you know, he needs to be good on three or four of those plays. He just can't be one
04:03good play and then take three plays off. That's just not going to be good enough for this
04:07football team.
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