00:00Yeah, you know, I think there's a lot of answers to that.
00:06Defense being ahead of the offense is normal.
00:09You know, I don't know.
00:11I think it all just depends.
00:13There's certainly a lot of familiarity defensively with the guys,
00:16but there's also a handful of guys that hadn't been in the system that are learning.
00:20Offensively, there's a bunch of guys that are familiar with the system,
00:24but certainly not everybody and certainly not up front.
00:27So, I think a lot of ways to look at it.
00:31I think the two factors that go into when you're evaluating it that are unique.
00:37One, the quarterback is not live, and when the quarterback's not live
00:41and naturally you're going to protect that guy, it's a little bit deceiving
00:47because especially a guy like Byram where part of his game and a big part of his game
00:54is the fact that he can move in the pocket, he can create with his feet,
00:59he can extend plays.
01:01Naturally, a lot of that gets blown dead pretty quickly, and rightfully so.
01:06And this is years of being around quarterbacks, and I've said this before,
01:12but you really don't know what a young guy is made of until it's live in the moment.
01:18And whether things are going well or things are not,
01:21you see a guy take over a game, and great ones do.
01:26I think Byram is in that mold, and so you don't get to see just a ton of that.
01:32Now, you can control the whistle as much as you want.
01:33Last night, SEC crew, they controlled the whistle,
01:37and I told them control the whistle really quickly.
01:39Like, zero interest in watching Byram get hawked from behind and trip,
01:45and you are going to protect that guy at every cost.
01:48And same thing with the other cues, too.
01:52And so that's one thing that makes it a little bit unique.
01:56The other piece of it is what we do defensively and how we do it,
02:00and the talent we have over there, it creates a lot of challenges.
02:04You're, I would tell you, for this offensive staff, they've had some long nights
02:11trying to, without overly game planning, because you're still in an install phase.
02:18And you're going to continue to be in an install phase throughout the entire spring.
02:22There's things you've got to get in and things you've got to get accomplished.
02:26Situationally, concepts you want to get in and the run in the pass game.
02:30And I go back to situationally, things you've got to cover.
02:33And everything from third down to red zone, to tight zone, to short yardage,
02:40to end the game situations that as we've started to work two minute,
02:43as we've started to work four minute, there's a lot.
02:46And so as you're installing, and then you're playing a defense that's one, complex,
02:53but two, maybe schematically a little bit ahead, just because there's inevitably less to install.
03:03Um, you're, it's going to be, it's not always going to match up, but that's what you want.
03:07Like you want it to be really, really hard. And you want to have in the perfect world, bright
03:13spots that you could point to and say, man, like when it's done right, this is what it looks like.
03:17At the same time, you want it to be really hard. It's, it's no different than, than anything else.
03:21You want practice to be harder than the game. And so you, you get a ton of different pictures.
03:27There's deceptive pictures. There's a bunch of looks that move on the snap comes.
03:32There's a lot of mechanics you got to have built in to be able to go against this defense.
03:37And, and it's going to make us better in the long run. So I'm not avoiding the question to
03:42tell you one side is ahead of the other. Um, I think we we've had days where it's been back
03:48and
03:48forth, uh, and they've both sides have made each other better. There's athletes on both sides that,
03:53that are challenging both up front and on the perimeter. And honestly, from a head coach perspective,
04:00that's what you want. You want it to be, you want it to be where, where guys have tough days
04:05to be
04:06able to overcome them. You want guys to have good days where, where they can gain confidence. And so
04:10I think it's gone both ways. I wouldn't say one side is ahead of the other. Um, again, there was
04:16some,
04:16some really, really high end plays made on both sides last night. Um, and it was fascinating to watch,
04:22especially the ones, the guys that have played a ton of football. It was really, really cool to watch
04:26when, when it's officiated. Guys are out there on their own. Again, first time for a lot of guys
04:31on that field. Um, it's, it was fascinating to watch.
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