00:00There's the key is consistency and it's always important the first game is gonna be about tackling
00:05All right, you have to tackle as a team, right? We saw
00:09Talk about our defense last year as too many missed tackles
00:13So for us to improve and run game and also the passing game
00:16We have to be a better tackling team and it takes just more hats to the ball more guys securing and wrapping up now
00:23That was D'Amico Ryan's yesterday
00:26something that
00:27Something that you've pointed out Seth and I hope I don't butcher this but part of the swarm mentality
00:32It feels like baked into swarming is the fact that there are gonna be some missed tackles when you swarm
00:38the hope is that the quantity of bodies that are being thrown at the ball maybe makes up for the
00:44Lack of quality in the first couple guys that might get to the ball the first time like it's just the swarming is
00:51There are missed tackles that come with swarming, but you get a lot of bodies to the ball. Well, and I and I think
00:57I
00:58And I think that there might be some truth to that except that and maybe last year was more that case
01:03But when you go and you look at the entirety of the season, there was just some flat-out poor tackling
01:10Fundamentally bad tackling last year
01:13And that you realize yeah, the swarm is great, but it's got to be the classic
01:17All right
01:17The first guy the first guy on the spot for sure maybe try to lay a big hit but do it in such a way
01:24That you're not you're not also neglecting tackling
01:27I think when I one of the things that still irks me to this day is when I see people say well
01:33Ronnie a lot couldn't play in today's NFL
01:36If go back and I honestly I felt that same way, too. I went back and I watched a compilation of
01:42Ronnie lots hundred greatest hits in the NFL and I swear
01:46There are only a handful of them that would have been illegal by today's standards. Ronnie a lot was
01:52First and foremost a very fundamentally sound tackler who also happened to
01:59Make a big impact as he was as he was coming in for a fundamental tackle. So they're not mutually exclusive
02:05It's not like you can only go for the big hit at the expense of proper tackling Ronnie
02:10a lot did a really good job of it and
02:13And he did that in an era by the way where the 49ers did not practice in pads ever
02:19They didn't yeah practice the way basically that you're legislated to have to play to play now and he did it with
02:26Fundamentally sound techniques. So I thought the notion that somehow well in this day and age, you can't teach good tackling
02:33It's just it's complete bogus BS because all the drills that you do like rugby rugby players are pretty good tacklers and they do it
02:40no pads, you know, there's there's ways to practice it without going to the ground and
02:45And I think that hopefully that's one of the improvements this year on the text
02:49Are you confident? There'll be a better tackling team this year?
02:51I am based on just what I saw of Jalen Petrie
02:54Which is that you can see even though it's a preseason game the fundamentals show up in there
02:59It's one of the things I like watching for in the preseason. It's alright. Yeah, you might be playing against backups
03:05It's not for real, etc, etc
03:07The fundamentals show up and Jalen Petrie fundamentally is a better tackler now than he was in the in the previous two years
03:14Here's D'Amico hands
03:15We just done talking about Kamari last which by the way, he he he accounts for about half the missed tackles on the team
03:20Yeah, so there'll be a better tackling team of Jalen Petrie's a better tail and Petrie. They'll improve by 50%
03:26Yeah, I'm exaggerating. I'm exaggerating on the percentage, but he had the Lions share a lot of them. No doubt
03:32We talked about Kamari Lassiter rookie cornerback. He's gonna be under a lot of pressure
03:36Especially early in the season is defensive core offensive coordinators opposing offensive coordinators will be testing him
03:42Here's D'Amico Ryan's on Kamari Lassiter. What stood out the most to me about Kamari is his consistency like he shows up every day
03:49Where there was rookie minicamp OTAs like Kamari no matter who lined up across from him
03:55Like I just love that
03:56He never wavered with whoever lined up across from him and he accepted whatever challenge was thrown his way a very smart player
04:04He does he finishes the right way, right? And that's what it's all about in this in this league
04:09Everybody's about the same talent-wise, but you have to make up in your mind
04:13How are you gonna finish each play and he finishes with the right mindset?
04:16Which has allowed him I had to continue to grow as a rookie and be
04:20Consistent because of his mindset of how he finishes things
04:23I think that's where to when people get hung up on the four six forty time or any of that
04:30the
04:32like the lesson in football always is
04:35that
04:36The measurables are are way more overrated than they should be
04:41Just because they're I mean if you look at usually it's very rare that the fastest guy in the NFL is the best wide receiver
04:48It's very rare that the guy with the best bench press at the combine is the best offensive lineman
04:54You know did happen but usually more so than not those are guys that are kind of physical freaks
04:59But don't do the fundamentals well or just don't have the knack for playing football and I think with Kamari
05:04What you've seen is man talk about being fundamentally sound and understanding the finer aspects of it understand and
05:12Recognizing routes and playing them with the right leverage all that kind of stuff
05:15That's a lot more about the polish of playing the actual position. He's
05:20He's got the equivalent of a four three forty when it comes to that stuff. Yeah, and that all matters the guy
05:25I always think of Wayne Gretzky and the way that people talk about when Wayne Gretzky came into the league or even when he was a
05:33Juniors player people would look at him and just maybe like how is this guy so good like he's he's he's
05:41Tiny he's not that fast. Like there's nothing about him that looks like. Oh, yeah, he's gonna be the greatest, but he just saw the game
05:50differently than other people and
05:52You know his skill level with his stick and everything was just so far above and beyond everybody else
05:58That it had very little to do with the measurables and
06:01And I think Kamari is one of those guys that it's you got to kind of throw the measurables out the window because he does
06:06So many other things. Well, I didn't see a Wayne Gretzky Kamari Lasseter analogy coming today. I like that
06:12That's good. I've meditated for nine minutes this morning. It was good
06:15I had a I had a Yordan analogy that I was gonna bounce off Nick
06:20But we you know, we kind of ran out of time
06:22But I did send it to him my Yordan my relevant cross sport Yordan Alvarez analogy
06:27Andre Johnson, did he did he give you an opinion on your?
06:31Did he said it was your what was your opinion was my well my analogy for Yordan across sport was Andre Johnson
06:39Like is like Yordan Alvarez is is like Andre Johnson in that they're both like
06:44Ten out of ten on the freak level like they do freaky things like the highlight reel for Yordan and Andre is five stars
06:51but they are both
06:54Super super technical with their jobs like Yordan Alvarez isn't just some masher like he is a
06:59Highly technical like great
07:01I really good plate discipline like the science of hitting is a thing with Yordan Alvarez similar to Andre Johnson
07:07I think the science of being a receiver like if a route calls for nine yards Andre Johnson is running nine yards like there
07:14Yeah, you know, there's there's
07:16Yeah, and his ability his ability
07:19Like honestly some of Andre's was yeah
07:21He knew so well how to offset the fact that people were scared of his speed and for a bigger guy
07:26This is where I've seen Andre's influence on Nico Collins a little bit. I think in the Nico's a big guy, but who can
07:34Sit down and change direction underneath and get in and out of his brakes way better than most big guys
07:41Can I mean the the physics in the geometry works against you when you're a bigger guy like that?
07:46You're a shorter guy close to the ground. You know, you can you can be a little Zuzu pet out there
07:51Yeah, that's a good way. Yeah, you're done. You're done
07:55When you first look at him, you think oh, of course, he's just this huge power hitter who can crank the ball
08:00458 feet right, but there's a lot more that goes into it than that
08:04And I think Andre's a lot like that like you watch Andre's highlight family
08:06Oh, yeah, this guy's great because he can jump up over everybody guys bounce off of him
08:11But then you listen to people and we've we've deluged with Andre stuff over the last month because of the Hall of Fame
08:16but you hear people like Gary Kubiak his teammates talk about him and
08:21they talk about just like how
08:24Technically sound he is to to go with that. You're done
08:26The freakish thing about your non is his consistency, you know
08:30Other than like a little every now and then you get a two-month stretch at home where he doesn't hit a home run
08:34but even like he very very rarely has stretches where he's
08:39Where he's hitting poorly right like his slump this year
08:43He still had he still had an 800 OPS. That was his slump
08:47That's the freakiest thing about your Don is it can feel like your Don is going through a massive slump
08:51Yeah, and you go you got God when is your Don's OPS gonna get up around 850 again?
08:56And you look and it's 872 or something. Yeah, he's been that way his entire slump. Yeah
09:02He's just not superhero your Don. It just turns out he's like an average major leaguer and above average
09:07Text message Steve Largent was the same way slow, but was always open. Yeah kids. Steve Largent was this guy played for Seattle now
09:15He's like a senator or something like that in the state of somebody should ask Kamari Lassiter that
09:20Express availability. Do you consider yourself as the modern Steve Largent?
09:24Are you like are you like the Steve Largent of the defensive back world?
09:28And then and then you you would be standing in the scrum after that person asked it and Kamari super confused and you'd be like
09:33Hang on Kamari. Let me let me clarify this
09:35Are you deep Wayne Gretzky Kamari?
09:42And actually this is a political question, I want to know where you stand on Steve Largent's political, right?
09:49What is Steve Largent? What's his deal? Is he as your Republican a Democrat? I have zero clue
09:54No, I don't I don't know and I don't care to guess on the radio. Oh, I want to talk about it
10:01Ross Tucker
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