Tim Walton

It's gonna continue to be one.

You know, w- we talked to Tim Walton briefly on The Notebook after the game, and it's like n- no one has lost any faith in Devin Sanchez as a high level, high performing cornerback, but you're not gonna be able to survive with multiple pass interference calls per game from the same guy.

No, uh, it's, it's concerning.

It's not what...

... down the field.

So, you know, sometimes that's gonna happen, and the great players show a, an- a tendency to bounce back.

Now, you don't, you don't want that to become a recurring problem the way that it's been, but to Tim Walton's credit, he has found ways to work through that and enhance it and improve it with a guy like IGB, whether that's putting on the, you know, oven mitts and the punching, um, you know, you know, whatever, you know, whatever they wanna use.

I, I don't remember exactly.

You know, what is it that fits that? And then it's my job as the head coach to make sure it fits complementary football across the board and that the offense is complementing the defense.

Um, and so in terms of the second part of your question, you know, what he brings, um, you know, for me, turning it over, you know, I really wanted to have somebody that, you know, had head coaching experience.

Now, you know, never thought that, you know, you'd have somebody that was a head coach the way he has been in college and in the NFL and that background.

Uh, and so it, it, it allows me a little, you know, more, um, of a peace of mind and certainly a lot of trust there.

Like, you should just go play for their team.

Like, that can't...

You can't be coaching effort, and then you can't have mental errors, 'cause if you have a mental error, then, then they can't trust you.

So those are the two things that I always as a player was like, "All right.

Yeah, but that's why I would put so much on the, like, can Jermaine and Devin win the battle outside? Cause if they can win the, if they're gonna play this much man, that means they're gonna leave them on islands and divert more resources to stopping the run.

And so as Tim Walton said in the spring, he needs to be a dominant player for us.

This is why, because if Matt Patricia.

can spend the day worrying about Lee Beebe and Turbo Richard because, like, Devin and Jermaine got it.

But to me.

It looked like a total BS call, and I was looking in the binoculars at Tim Walton, who, Tim, it looked like a total bogus call.

So you guys can tell me if that call on Devin was a bogus call.

But I am also seeing Devin get called 2024 IGB, and the fact that here we go again with the cornerback who's going to get called for pass interference all the time.

Does Simeon Caldwell play more maybe big nickel against these tight ends and test him out a little bit? What do you do with the corners? Do you play more man? Do you play more zone? How do the safeties play? Does there a little play more coverage? Do you still continue to bring Leroy Roker? Like, Well, there's four games of data points at this point to try and figure out what you think you should do best.

So I'd like to see Matt Patricia, Tim Walton, Matt Guerrero, all these guys really decide on what they want to do best.

Because we're at this point where it should be less about figuring out and more about, like you said, kind of narrowing down, establishing what you want to be on defense.

Because they still have, like, I think once you narrow the personnel down, they still have schematic things on pressures and stunts and do different things that they probably need to add in and do more of.

Like it is-

Because we know Ryan Day feels what about Tim Walton? Enormous amounts of trust.

Yeah.

Why? Well, Tim Walton was an NFL defensive coordinator.

Like, if you have trust ...

If Ryan Day has trust in your coach, he will play your young players.

...

so thanks, thanks Tim Walton for, uh, for all the work you've done not recruiting all of the top 200 Ohio defensive backs in the last three classes, all six of them.

Uh, good work on you.

Yeah.