Thomas Hammock

It is interesting coaching now a little bit, and trying to ask then the question of why.

Why has that happened with George Holani, and with Emmanuel Wilson, and with Ja'Quan Price? If every one of them is having an issue with it, why? Is it a confidence thing? Is Thomas Hammock, you know, r- not reinforcing as the running back coach? Is it, is it, why, why is that message not being received? Are those guys just out over their skis a little bit, talent-wise? The game is too fast for them, right? Thrown into the roles that they're in, that it's too much for them.

I think, you know, that, that, that's the [laughs]...

It's easy to say, "Oh, we make changes, make changes." Well, you better figure out and you better know very explicitly what the why is behind it.

There's not a lot of history.

There's not a great resume, and Thomas Hammock, the running back coach, got some real work cut out in his job to get those guys to elevate.

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Takeaways.

But you talked about Jadarian Price's fumbling issue, and then he had what was, I think, a kind of a rare go to IR during practice, right? Like, that doesn't happen that often a couple days before the game.

We also know that they were working to help him with his fumbling, like, they were gonna have the defense help, like, they're, like Thomas Hammock, the running back.

What are the odds that in the process of guys swiping at the ball and him trying to hold onto the ball, that that caused further aggravation to that injury? Because it was that side of his body, I believe, that got hit and, you know, hurt when he was down.

So, no, they're never gonna tell us that, but I don't think that, that it's totally disconnected that he's got a fumbling, a ball security issue that they were working on, and that it is a shoulder, rib, chest thing, which is all very tied into holding a football.

After listening and talking to Tiki Barber about Jadarian Price, what do you think happens next in this story?

I think Thomas Hammock, the running back coach, as he has been through the entire offseason, training camp into the regular season, continues to hammer home the fundamentals.

I would agree with Tiki.

I don't think you can wholesale change right now and put that kind of emphasis and think, oh, over these next few weeks, we're going to see him Tiki Barber style so high and so tight.

There's a bunch of different things that you can do.

One thing I think for Price, and this is one thing where a lot of running backs tend to struggle with, and I'm sure Thomas Hammock's going to work with him on it, You don't want to fight the contact a little bit when you get in those situations.

And this is something I remember Tiki Barber talking about as a running back.

You want to roll with the contact.