00:00Coach, tonight's ballgame, two good quarterbacks, two really young and talented quarterbacks, too, you got with Drake May and also
00:06with Caleb Williams.
00:07I want to start with Drake May.
00:10You know, really tough start, a lot of interceptions early.
00:13Josh McDaniels, the last three games, his team started turning it around again.
00:17How do you approach a guy that struggles early, and do you just keep feeding him?
00:22And what I mean by that is do you just keep doing the same old, same old?
00:26Because you know eventually the averages are going to play out.
00:30Got out to a tough start.
00:31He's this talented kid.
00:33How do you continue to do that when you see a guy struggling early, and all of a sudden Josh
00:37McDaniels sees him, and he's got him in a better rhythm right now, it seems.
00:41I think what happens with guys like that is they start off with more freedom in their game than they
00:47really need to have.
00:48In other words, they go off script, so to speak, within a play.
00:52And I know the boss will go here, but I like this guy kind of thing.
00:55And that happens with a lot of quarterbacks initially in a system, and they have to learn the discipline of
01:00the system and adopt to it and buy into it.
01:03And I think maybe, and I don't know this, it's just speculation that the buy-in wasn't completely there.
01:08And once you do that with Josh, and of course he's very creative and very good at what he does,
01:12once there's a buy-in, there's a different relationship too.
01:15Now you trust each other, and I think that trust has developed and probably the major reason why he's playing
01:19so well.
01:21Coach, how tough is it to coach a guy, you think, like Caleb Williams?
01:25Or do you think it's easy?
01:27Because here's a guy for me, you know, you don't know where he is in the pocket if you're playing
01:31all the line because he moves around so much back there in the pocket.
01:34You know, he's not going to hit a point.
01:36And he's so athletic, you know, he's going to take the escape doors, one, two, three.
01:42You know, he knows where all to go when it comes to the escape.
01:44But is it easy or hard to coach a guy with a style like that?
01:49It's hard because, you know, he did this in college and really talking to Ben in the offseason.
01:54And I watched Caleb from last year to this year, and he's really remarkably come a long way in terms
02:00of the discipline of the position, what they're asking him to do.
02:02And he got so used to freelance and just making plays because they expected him to do that and play
02:07like that.
02:08And it goes back to Drake May kind of thing, too, that you've got to, the discipline of what they're
02:12asking you to do, you have to play within that.
02:15The plays are going to break down eventually.
02:16You know, it's going to happen where you have to make a play, where you've got to be creative and
02:20do something.
02:20And he'll excel at that.
02:22But you can't get back with the thought that that's how the play is going to unfold.
02:25You have to get back, get the ball out in time quick, get to the right guy on time.
02:30And if something breaks down, then you can beat him with your legs like he does.
02:33And that makes him so much more unusual, but the discipline of what they're asking him to do is so
02:39vital to their success.
02:41And if he'll stay, he'll limit the turnovers, he'll make good plays, and then when the opportunity comes up, he'll
02:47make a big play just because of who he is and what he can do.
02:51Coach, is it tough to mirror up the offensive line when you're play calling with somebody like that?
02:56Because, again, you know, the runs fits and all that, especially when a guy is as RPO as he is,
03:02it seems like there's RPOs in that offense there with him.
03:06Is it tough to match up that offensive line, Coach, and also with your play calling?
03:13You know, one of the things about protections that we were sticklers for, and I know Ben is too, is
03:16you have a launch point in all your protections.
03:19And that's what the offensive line is, Coach, hey, the quarterback's going to be here.
03:22And this is the zone, that two-by-two-yard deal that we've got to make sure he's got clean
03:28feet and can make a play.
03:29And you struggle every snap in the passing game to protect that launch point.
03:35And it's different for different protections, so a five-step, seven-step play action off to the side, behind the
03:40center.
03:41It can change, but that's why I say when I refer to the discipline of the position, the quarterback has
03:47to know that where it's expected to be and get there and get the ball out in time.
03:51And then if something happens and you've got to improvise, then that's fine.
03:55But if you come back and you start floating all over the place, then you're asking the offensive line to
04:00do the impossible.
04:01They don't know where you are.
04:02And I think that part of the discipline in the passing game is what he's learned.
04:06He's come a long ways from the very beginning.
04:08He was all over, you know, like a fart and a skillet there for a while.
04:12But now he's where he needs to be in the passing game.
04:15He's going to be in the passing game.
