00:00morning brian good morning guys how we doing good how are you i'm great beautiful fall day uh
00:07patriots big victory and uh the new york uh jets come into town which we hate so i hope that
00:14we
00:15keep the momentum going and uh take them on a on a uh big win like they had over the
00:20raiders
00:21um speaking of that couple weeks in a row here where drake may looks completely different than
00:26he did the first three weeks of the season what what are you seeing what what is the difference
00:31when it comes to drake well i just think you know we talked a few weeks ago and everybody was
00:35the sky
00:36was falling you know should we bench this guy and i remember just telling you guys like there's a lot
00:41of good plays there it's just the ones that he's got to eliminate and and how quickly he was able
00:45to do that i thought you know once he had put together a good drive the confidence would change
00:51pretty quickly and i think that's what happened on that first drive in buffalo and since then
00:55i thought he's played really really good football i think this past game against the raiders probably
00:58the best game of his career just the confidence with which he threw the football obviously the
01:04protection was incredible um so it's just one of those games where everything was clicking on his
01:08behalf his feet were really good um he was making good decisions i mean some of the throws the one
01:13that
01:13i was most impressed with was that the throw up the sideline to eli raritan i thought was just
01:17a phenomenal throw yeah they tried to disguise this little tampa too and typically you wouldn't think
01:23about the wheel right wheel route up the sideline but the corner kind of sinks and uh he hit him
01:28perfectly in stride so a lot to be excited about not just with drake but i think just the entire
01:32offense um obviously you're down a few guys due to injury i thought the offensive line stepped up
01:38lomu when he had the opportunity to go in did a good job um and so you know in spite
01:43of all the
01:43injuries they're still putting together really good football brian we talked to vrabel on monday and he
01:48talked about his decision making being better and that they work on that in practice what what does
01:55that mean like how does a quarterback work on decision making in practice practice well you
02:00know i don't know how vrabes is running his practices but i just know you know from experience playing for
02:05josh and obviously bill like don't make it easy in practice don't don't give the looks that are the
02:11premier looks on every single play in practice i mean that's the reality is if you want to work on
02:16decision making during the week you can't just make it everything is is a perfect scenario in
02:21practice because that's not how it's going to go during the games and so i don't know if that's
02:25what they're doing is we always used to joke with josh because on thursday ernie adams would draw the
02:30cards for the scout team and we would have no idea what the defense is going to be i mean
02:34it could be
02:34ernie could find something that a defensive coordinator did back in like 1998 when he was a
02:39defensive coordinator at you know southwest missouri state and throw it in there but it kept you on your
02:44toes and it made you actually go out and and play practice like a game and react and so i
02:49don't know
02:49if that's what they're doing but the only way to me to practice on decision making during the week is
02:53don't just script for success in practice and i know that's something that josh has never done
02:58obviously the head coach has a big say in that as well brian you have the potential of getting aj
03:03brown
03:03back this week what does that do to change this offense what's the biggest thing that he will bring
03:08to change everything well i think the the biggest part is and you saw it this past sunday is just
03:14continue to still spread the football around i think that's when drake is at his best is really when
03:18he's not trying to force it to anyone he wants he reads the defense out he's got time and he
03:23really
03:23lets the defense tell him where to throw the football and i think even when aj gets back uh it's
03:28been great to see guys like pop douglas and chisholm and kyle williams and obviously the tight ends and
03:34rarin and hunter get involved the way they've had and i think the biggest thing is don't just go back
03:39to trying to force it to aj let that come naturally i think the big thing that you'll see is
03:43we never
03:45really got to see it is i think josh will move aj around within the formation which will then present
03:50different opportunities for him to get the football so um i'm not going to compare it to this but i
03:55remember when i played for cleveland we were waiting for josh gordon to come back off his suspension so
03:59very different scenario and the first game he came back it was like every play was designed to go
04:03to him and we i think at that point he had like 17 or 18 attempts his way and so
04:08i i don't think
04:09you should get caught up in that factor um if aj is back this week i think you you go
04:14in with a
04:14game plan you have plays that are obviously specifically designed to go to him but if
04:18they're not there the other guys have shown that they're more than capable to step up and and you
04:22know be be a go-to guy so i think that's the biggest thing is how do you balance your
04:27number one
04:27receiver coming back whatever whenever that may be with also just going through the reads and the
04:32progressions and taking what the defense gives you i'd like to see josh use aj and slot a little
04:36bit more but one of the things that that i did notice is you know more so with romeo dobbs
04:41than
04:42any anybody else and i wonder if this is maybe something we see them do more with aj brown is
04:47when they tend to get in the red zone they like to throw whether it's a fade ball the jump
04:52ball to
04:52dobbs we've seen those situations you think they're going to utilize aj brown in those situations where
04:58you get inside the red zone boom we're calling us number some fades or get inside the five yard line
05:03jump ball back shoulder situations yeah i definitely would and obviously i think wiggy you're kind of
05:08referencing the touchdown in buffalo to dobbs in the red zone that's actually a run play and it just
05:12gives and sometimes when you're in those big personnel groupings in the goal line at the run
05:16you just tag the x fade and and you say hey drake and aj or you know for in that
05:21case it was dobbs
05:22if you like the look you got the freedom to take it so i think that would become a role
05:27that aj
05:27has especially with his back shoulder ability so um and then there's obviously the other you know
05:32pure pass plays that you're going to design down there and using aj size and strength so i think
05:37that's what what makes him so unique and really the way i look at this receiver room is each guy
05:42kind
05:42of has his own thing that he does really well and i think you see josh understanding okay you know
05:48pops our slot guy but he's actually a better vertical route runner let's put him on some deeper stuff
05:52and that's what the first touchdown against the raiders was obviously chisholm has kind of proven he
05:56can do it all whether it's deep in cuts crossing routes the shorter stuff uh kyle williams i think
06:01has one of the best releases when he knows he's going to have a go route now he's got to
06:04use use
06:05that release and translate it to other routes uh obviously you're not going to have matt collins
06:09for a while but he's your big kind of physical guy so they've really assembled a very unique
06:13receiver room where each guy kind of has his own individual trait that he does really well
06:17and then when you can do that is take those guys and put them in the positions to do those
06:21things
06:21and build concepts off of that and dob's thing is dropping balls that are in his hands in the end
06:26zone yeah um yep yes yeah no i mean i the one i thought the other day was a touchdown
06:31i thought
06:32you know and that's kind of what you saw from him in green bay was a contested catch guy and
06:36i think
06:36you just got to have stronger hands we used to call that the top shelf pullback like where you go
06:40up to
06:41the top shelf and you pull it and rip it away from the defender before he can get your your
06:45hands through
06:45that i'm sure you know todd downing and those guys are working with him on that and i think once
06:49he feels you know comfortable doing that and those those plays start really showing up i mean this is
06:54a really dynamic and dangerous receiver group brian we talked a lot about the conclusion to the
07:00commanders giants game who do you put that on you get curtis can i take a break on that real
07:05quick
07:05i'm sorry clockwise i we want to get you on on clock management dan quinn jayden daniels all that also
07:12want to get you on this jets team and what they bring to gillette on sunday so we'll get to
07:18that next
07:18with brian hoyer on the greg hill show at we yeah
