How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up.

How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him

Mm-hmm

... and he proved that last year.

And I think he's been done a disservice to start his career, as you just said.

You're talking about multiple head coaches, multiple messaging, different o- offensive coordinators every other year.

Finally, he gets Liam Cohen to come in there and kinda steady the ship a little bit.

He, they obviously had a building out and growth process latch- last year of figuring out early on, but then you saw it just take off.

'Cause Trevor Lawrence has always had the physical talent.

Right

How hard is it to be decisive and trust what you're seeing?

decisiveness comes with confidence and also relying on the abilities of your guy on the outside.

And when I watch this film right now, it hurts that AJ Brown's not out there.

He doesn't have a decisive number one, so to speak.

So maybe it makes you a little bit less decisive when you get those one-on-one matchups on the outside and you're not consistently winning versus man coverage.

There's other times where quite honestly, the defense wins.

And so you've got to know when to get rid of the ball and sometimes those options aren't there.

What would you do? What would you anticipate Josh trying to do to make him more decisive?

How hard is it to be decisive and trust what you're seeing?

Well, decisiveness comes with confidence and also relying on the abilities of your guy on the outside.

And when I watch this film right now, it hurts that AJ Brown's not out there.

He doesn't have a decisive number one, so to speak.

So maybe it makes you a little bit less decisive when you get those one-on-one matchups on the outside and you're not consistently winning versus man coverage.

There's other times where, quite honestly, the defense wins.

And so you've got to know when to get rid of the ball and sometimes those options aren't there.

What would you do? What would you anticipate Josh trying to do to make him more decisive?

want to hit camp

uh i'm ready to hit camp because you know the season's right around the corner so you've you're mentally preparing you're you're checking off all your lists for family if you've moved or done anything like that you're making sure that's all handled so that it's not hectic when you're getting into season and then When you go into camp, obviously, you've got to be prepared physically for your run that they do, you know, your conditioning test, so to speak.

And so the last thing you want to do is show up out of shape.

It just sets the wrong tone.

And as a quarterback, you kind of want to show off a little bit at that point.

Like, I've been working.

I'm ready.

Do you tell her to reschedule?

I'll

never forget.

I was at USC and we go out and it's, we're in camp and it was blitz drill.

Blitz drill.

If you have ever played football, what they do is it's a structured segment and practice, but they're bringing all different types of pressure.

You've got to know where your hots are.

You're either changing protection, you've got to know where your hots are, all these different things.

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How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to

How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up.

How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up.

How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to

What have you seen in, like, your experience around the league of how that kind of works with these guys hiring guys that, you know, they've coached what they've worked with before, elevating

within? The league is based off of relationships, and it's also coaching trees, system, familiarity with certain type of system.

But it's a very incestuous group.

Everybody knows somebody.

And if you have people that you trust in the building and you're the head coach, that's who you're going to gravitate toward.

If you're thinking about bringing in somebody that's a completely different scheme and outside the box and bring in something new, that doesn't always mesh well because, again, you have your philosophies, you have your approaches.

Andy Reid's obviously been wildly successful in his approach, so I would trust him more than think that it might go the opposite direction.

What do you think about this game?

You know, what do you see in Mike as a coach that may be similar to Bill, and what do you see that's a little different?

Well, I think the interesting part about Mike Vrabel is he's taken bits and pieces from everywhere he's been, right? He was with Coach Urban in Ohio State, and he obviously learned a lot from him.

And then he went on, he was position coach.

But obviously the influence of Coach Belichick, holding people accountable, do your job.

Speak for yourself.

All those fundamental principles that we had when we were part of the Patriots are probably still there.

But there's this evolution, too, because Mike Vrabel played the game.

three pick, yep.

How do you handle this?

You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up.

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Like, "Hey, buddy, yeah, you, Adam, [fingers snapping] come on."

And one of my favorite segments we do is called Situational Awareness, where Bobby and I give each other real-life situations and figure out what we'd actually do.

Uh, did you feel like that season was the season you f- you had a firm grasp on what it was like to be a starting quarterback?

quarterback?I did.

And...

And I think part of it also was we were able to do it in New England and when we went 11 and 5 that year, but then you go to a new franchise and you're always trying to prove yourself at that new franchise.

The first year, it got off to a rocky start.

We won four games.

But then that next season, I was able to come out and we were able to win... win the division, win another 10 games that year as a starter.

Like how did you try to find your way through while not starting at quarterback?

Because there is part of me as a Patriots fan that's like, "I get it," and yet at some point, shouldn't they be maybe turning the page instead of trying to rel- live old glory? Tell me your thoughts.

Well, I, I don't think they're trying to relive old glory. What I, I do believe is Josh is, at the core of him, he's a teacher and he's very good with young quarterbacks, old quarterbacks, but he's exceptional in terms of game planning and that's always been one of his strengths is seeing a defense, because he understands the defensive side of the ball so well, designing a game plan to attack their weaknesses. And also for a guy like Drake Maye coming into this situation, somebody that obviously you want to see continuous growth, make that jump from year one to year two. And he's somebody that understands how to do that and he's done that throughout his career. So I think it's a great hire and he's off- also familiar with Mike Vrabel, understands what's going to be expected for him on the offensive side of the ball. But, you know, part of being a good head coach is hiring good talent around you, especially on the coaching side. And Josh McDaniels is one of the best coordinators in the league and has been for a long period of time.

And I was like, "I'm so fired up."

It's the game within the game and there's always those, those moments, and we practice them religiously. But not every organization is as detail-oriented as other organizations. But the two-minute drill at the end of the half, the four-minute drill, running out the clock, when to use your timeouts, when to save those timeouts. All those different situational football is what we call it, it's so important within the game. And that, uh, a lot of times will determine wins and losses because you take, like you said, outfox them, you, you let the, you, you use the right timeout or however you manipulated the game in some way because you're within the rules, but-It's that extra level, it's that mastery of what you're doing situationally that the fo- football game itself sometimes can be determined by that simple-