Reactions to Quincy Williams

0:00When I first met him, he asked me what I wanted. It's kind of crazy. Most of you here at Coach, he'd tell you a team won for you. And I paid you to come here. But when I first met Rudy, he asked me what I wanted out of this game, what did I want from the team. And I told him I wanted to be our pro. That was basically me trusting him, because he said it and I got the all pro knives. So then when he called me and said the same thing, but like, yo, do you trust me? You want to go all pro again? And I said, yeah, so it was just a trust, all right? So I came to the pros and we're here. Quincy Williams with us on the make a right call call right hotline outstanding, outstanding, looking forward to having him in Cleveland, OTAs and seeing him in person, talking to him in person. That's a fantastic personality right there. Adding to the defense. It doesn't sound to me like they're going to continue, which when they're a top five defense, there's not a problem with it. But you know, we started great. Then what were they? 12th or 13th at one point in the middle in the second year.

1:00And then they got back to top five. When they're doing really well, the choreography is great. People love it. The defense. Because I think a lot of people were able to separate the defense from the offense going, okay, I'm so upset with the offense. If the defense wants to go ahead and do the dancing, the defense could go ahead and do the dancing. That's fine. Go right on ahead. The defense is that good. It sounds like dancing is staying. It sounds like celebrating, celebrating big plays. Choreography may stay. I fans are okay with that as long as they're still. If it's still the dominant defense that we know, I think fans are okay. I think they've made that, that delineation between the offense, the defense, the special teams, like I think that they've done. You're two, it was like, okay, you guys are more closer to the middle of the road now. Maybe you're not allowed to do it. It got on some people's nerves. Plus everyone three games that year. But this last year, yeah, they only won five games, but nobody played the defense. They think I think people had a lot of sympathy for the defense. So is it, well, they won an attitude. And so with the, with a defense, like offense,

2:02like yeah, you celebrate when you score touchdowns, but outside of that, let's not get carried away unless you're, you can't be like bottom three offense in the league and out there hoot and hollering and letting people know and trash talking. Like that's never gonna win fans over the way. On defense, that's an attitude. And I think, you know, when you're defensive coordinator before Jim Schwartz, he promoted it. And this guy, this guy, this new defensive coordinator, it's pretty clear. You got players calling them a friend. I mean, I think that tells you that this guy's going to be an emotional presence. So this is, this is what's interesting here. And we've talked about that in, I'm going to sound like other guys. But when we brought in Mike Petten here, we you look at him for a while. He's just like, I sound like somebody else right there. When we brought Mike, I know who I sound like. When we brought Mike Petten in here, we always talk about, he brought in Jim Leonard, you know, brought in Jim Dre. Who's a coach? No, I think it brought, you know, brought in the guys bringing their guys.

3:02And this is a defensive coordinator. He's not well known by a lot of fans. Like there's some fans who know him, but a lot of general fans. And plus you're replacing a guy, fairer unfair, that I'm willing to use the term beloved with some of the fan base. I mean, some people just want him to get the job. Love Jim Schwartz and wanted him to be, well, I got to a point where I was comfortable with him getting the job. You know, I'm a tread water type of guy. So fine, you want him to give him the chance to be that coach, he can get this team emotional. I think he can get this team to trust him fine. But you notice this, now you bring in a guy, he's a veteran in this league. Like he's going to be 30 in August. He's a veteran in this league. He's likable when it comes to the fans. Obviously he's played at a high level before. You can get him to play at another high level again. I know 2025 kind of got away, injuries, things like that. But you can get him to play at a high level again. And this is a guy who locker rooms trust, who then in turn can get guys who, players of love Jim Schwartz. Maybe you can get them to love him too.

4:04We'll be talking about Mike Rootenberg. At the end of all of this, what he said at the beginning of that clip is still the truth. You're paid to do the job, do the damn job. I don't care how much you don't like the defense of coordinator, head coach, or whatever. Do your job. That's what you're getting paid to do. At the end of all of this, that's where it is. But everything's made easier and easier to game plan, easier to get your philosophy across when we're as close to on the same page as possible. And really that's trust. Doesn't have to be alike. Doesn't have to be best friends. It has to be a trust that people are going to be put in the right position. And here's a guy who's been in the league again, has played at a high level who trusts the sky to put him in the right position. So it could end up being a great move, not just for what we see on the field, but what we see the rest of the team, what we certainly see with the defense here. Because I think a lot of folks, we've talked so much about offensive line, free agency. I think we forgot one of our main concerns back in January when it looked like Jim Schwartz ain't coming back. And anybody who says that they want them, they're just wishing he's not coming back. I think that this is one of those things

5:06that was underrated where we got distracted by QB talk, we got distracted by free agency, that it's like, hey, how are these guys going to play with a new defense coordinator? You know, how is this defense going to play without the guy who, to them, has opened up some of their careers, has opened up a new door for being a good football team, being a good defense and being a better player for a lot of these guys. How are they going to deal with that guy? Not naturally moving on to a bigger, better job becoming a head coach, but you're walking away from the organization and doing so still under contract and just not coaching this year. That is a concerning thing. And so this is probably, this is almost as close to a slam dunk move as you can make. 216474 to below 92. I know I only got 20 more minutes with you. I have to ask guys, why don't you like him anymore? You love these guys last year. What on earth is changed? Who is it?

6:06I'll tell you who in five minutes on the Fed.