LOCKER ROOM: Patrick O'Connell Talks Special Teams

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1:03Body's feeling good and mine's ready to work. So one of the things that obviously set you guys apart last year, special teams, and that's a place that you've taken a lot of pride in contributing. What do you see that's working? What do you see? Maybe you guys wanted to do a little differently? Yeah, obviously there's stuff out there showing that we haven't been as good on kickoff. Obviously you look at the tape we haven't been. You know, there's there's stuff that we need to correct on there. But if you look at the tape, we're really close in certain positions. We just really need to make the tackles and just get better swarmed at the ball. Honestly, more hats at the party. I mean, it's kind of a black art, special teams. People spend a lot of time studying offense and defense, but you also want to watch a special team's play. And they don't necessarily know what went right and what went wrong. Like when you diagnose a kick coverage, what are you looking at? There's a lot of things. Honestly, first you're looking at how fast the teams getting off the line. It's really important. And then you're looking at levels and the defense on that.

2:04And then you're looking at block destruction, basically. It's more like one on one block destruction drill and how guys are separating and tearing off and making tackles from there. Are there adjustments that teams do the way that they do on offense and defense where they're like, okay, this is the way the CX cover kicks. We're going to now counter it. Or is it just basically you guys are doing the same thing and you're not quite doing it the same results? I think it's a little bit of both teams kind of are who they are. We're pretty multiple in what we do and that can help us a lot. And it can also it can hurt us at times when we're not doing the things that we're supposed to do. But like we said, teams are going into the game. We know what they're going to do. And we like to be able to mix it up so we can kind of surprise teams. But like you said earlier, that's just a couple of things here and there that we need to clean up and yeah, defensively. You know, I got admit, I was like, man, they're not getting to the quarterback as much as I thought they would against the commanders. And then I look at the numbers. You guys had like the fastest time to pressure of like almost any team in the year this year.

3:10So is it coverage? Like what is what is going to be that keeps you guys like getting to the quarterback and getting some of these takeaways? Um, I think teams know who we are and know what we do. They had a good game plan against us. Obviously getting the ball up pretty quick, having answers for the stuff that we had. And we're going to see that all year long. Teams are going to be throwing their best foot forward when they're going against us. And they see the D line that we have, obviously. And they know a lot of the pressures and stuff that we can bring. So it's a mixture of both. We talk about Russian coverage a lot. We need to complement each other in the front end of the back end. And then, um, yeah, get the pressure and the ways that we can. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. So dude, it's a dream.