Brian Schottenheimer: It’s Important to Recharge | Dallas Cowboys 2025

Brian Schottenheimer: It’s Important to Recharge | Dallas Cowboys 2025

[Music] calvin Watkins Dallas Morning News now that we’re done with the uh offseason how would you assess where you guys are as a group have you gotten everything that you wanted accomplished i don’t know if you ever get it all accomplished i feel really really good about the offseason program i’m going start with the connection of the guys uh offense defense special teams coaches players new faces new personalities feel really good about that uh I feel like we’ve just um spent time doing things in the building away from the building getting to know each other i think there’s been multiple um events all the coaches in different sides of the ball have gotten together away from the building i think every position group uh has done that and that’s so important so I think that’s been amazing i think getting the the system in place in all three of those phases um is really important i love where we’re at you know right now offensively um just in terms of the changes and the adjustments and things that we’re going to do i like I feel really good about that uh defensively I love what Floose has brought from a mentality and a mindset you know it’s hard to see that right now because we’re limited but the intentionality and the aggressive nature and the way they run to the ball is is is fascinating to me and has been well respected by me for a long time and of course with Nick and Carlos with the special teams you know just really with the three pieces coming back Trent Banger and uh and and Brandon you know seeing him put his fingerprint on that has been really really exciting a lot of work to do uh some of the young guys they they’ve got to use these next five weeks to get caught up um there’s a few guys that uh specifically you know know they’re a little bit behind that’s normal this time of year they miss the first what five weeks or four weeks I guess of the offseason program phase one and phase two uh but they uh they have uh uh their work cut out for them in a good way and uh the good news is the way the installations go is OTAA 1 is the same as training camp 1 and OTAA 2 and so on and so on so they’re hearing the information really in you know for multiple times the same way and I think that’s important that’s something that that I’ve believed in for a long time as a first year head coach obviously you have your plan of how you want to do things how much have you had to tweak things as you’ve gone through this process there’s always tweaks i’m always evaluating things i think I’m always looking for better ways to do things i think I’m real big into what I call a ar a afteraction reports after anything that we do we kind of fill out an a okay what did you do well what do you need to do better what did you learn from it um a lot of people do that after games you know but I think you have to do it you know we did it after the draft and we did it after phase one and we did it after phase two and now that you know mini camp and really phase three is over uh we’ll do the same thing as a staff and there’ll be things that we’ll take forward next year when we look back and we’re planning for the offseason program to say “Hey let’s let’s do this let’s implement that hey didn’t really like that let’s let’s move on from that.” So I think uh you got to stay curious clarence Hill DLLS Cowboys uh first of all who’s behind say again who you say was behind black catchup say what who’s behind oh who oh well let me give you the names uh Diggs uh coming in uh certainly the uncertainty around his when he will be ready can you just talk about that how this impacted your plans at quarterback if has at all and what you’re doing and when do you think he’ll be ready to go yeah again you know I’m not going to get into when he’s going to be ready uh you don’t know he’s got to maximize these next 40 days or whatever it is five five weeks and uh it’s been great having him back uh it’s been great having him with Britt um trust his plan trust the work um but to put a timet on it not going to do that in terms of you know the importance of training camp you know when he’s ready he’ll be ready um again it gives opportunities for guys like Kaylin Carson uh Troy Pride um Kyrie Elim’s doing great so it’s given us a chance to evaluate some of the younger players while Trayvon gets gets back and gets ready and um that’s kind of what when a guy gets injured you hate it but it does open the door for other guys and you get a chance to evaluate guys that maybe you don’t get a chance to to see and they’ll get real reps you know in training camp and you’ll see them going against CD Lamb and George Pickkins and and guys like that which is a big part of the evaluation seeing the good guys against the good guys and um I think that’s uh something those guys are excited about there now that Pickin’s been here a month you guys kind had a chance to really be around him more so than just the early stuff everybody’s put the right foot forward what have you learned about him that you didn’t know what what has impressed you about him that you’ve seen he comes to work every day with a smile on his face you know he um he’s he’s very personable when you get to know him i love being around him uh I love talking to him about life um I love shooting baskets against him i love just watching his you know I talked to him a lot about you know ball and his experiences at Pittsburgh and what he likes and what he doesn’t like and um you know he’s he’s been amazing he was the last guy to leave the practice field today i think that speaks volumes of the fact that he’s excited about what we’re building and um you know I just I’m I’m a big GP fan brian Todd with ESPN earlier you said you you like a lot where you are offensively what what do you like the most about where you are um I think you know we got through the installs which was good today was kind of like the final exam what do I mean by that it’s like uh in college when you know you have your your buildup to the the big test at the end we basically took the nine 10 installs that we had and we did a call it period at the end which basically we broke the team up two’s on one side one’s on the other mix and matching different pieces and uh we just put the ball down and called it you know I called one side Clayton called the other flu called one side Andre called the other and just anything was was uh at our beck and call so we could go to whatever we want it could be OTAA 1 install could be OTA 3 install could be OTAA 5 install and I think it’s a good way of checking ourselves with where we are in terms of the command of the system remember the objective is you put all these plays in but when they go play they got to play you know there’s a thing called players mind which means when they go out there to play they can’t be thinking about okay what’s my split what’s my alignment what’s my depth what’s my protection rule it’s it it’s got to be where they’re free to play and think and react they’re the greatest athletes in the world and so if you bog them down with too many things where they’re thinking about being perfect and robotic then they’re not going to play you know a million miles an hour and so I think I felt like that I haven’t seen the film yet with the twos uh I felt like the ones showed great command of what we’ve done and and we pulled from really all the different installs and and that gets me excited and then uh Dak every year takes his skill guys on a trip obviously there’s a camaraderie part of that but is it more important maybe this year because CD’s been around this off season wasn’t around last year dickens is new that that trip maybe takes on added importance at all yeah I think that trip’s just awesome in general Todd i think it’s it’s for a lot of reasons you know they they work i mean you guys probably see some of the videos i know I see some of the videos i mean they they they work they put the time in they talk a lot of ball they do a lot of team building stuff which is great but make no mistakes they’re they’re there to spend time to get to know each other and on a deeper level you know they know each other but again it’s um it’s the time away from the grass that I get excited hearing them talk about you know it’s some of the team building stuff they do some of the conversations they have um those are the things actually when I follow up with Dak you know after they do it you know and just check in with him i mean those are the things when he comes back to training camp I like to ask about that like what’ you guys talk about like what was the cool things like the ball stuff’s the ball you know but it’s really more them spending the time together that that matters to me and I think there’ll be a great turnout like there always is john with the athletic for you personally how different or maybe the same will these next uh you know month and a half be between now and the start of of training camp um I’ll definitely get away a little bit uh I think it’s important to recharge your battery it’s a it’s a long season it’s been a long year you know when you take a job like this you don’t really get a long break um but the biggest change for me is instead of having to look over 45 guys in terms of staying in contact and reaching out now you got 90 guys and and not only 90 guys but you got a full staff and so um I’ll be busy you know making phone calls and checking in i might have a shotty in hand and sitting on the beach somewhere but uh doesn’t mean I can’t you know make a couple phone calls and check in with everybody and um you I called the guys up today and I told them hey you know a couple things is number one you know take care of yourself take care you know your your families hang with the ones you love and then I told them I love them and I got a little emotional these guys gave us everything that uh we’ve asked for this spring and I think they’ll do that when we get started out in Oxnard and OTA’s mini camp combined what what would you say has been the the thing that you’ve enjoyed the most as your first kind of OTAAS mini camp as a head coach yeah the way we ran you know the way we just we the the energy and the effort that we put out on the practice field you know there’s a lot of ways to do it now it’s funny you know you look around and um some teams barely practice at all some teams don’t wear helmets there’s a lot of ways to do it but I would say the way these guys have taken to the way we tried to teach them how to practice has been really really cool and I think we showed that you can throw a hell of a practice in an OTAA tempo without having guys on the ground without having collisions um I just feel like as a whole they took the instruction that we gave them they applied it and they did it at a really really fast level and um that makes me makes me happy makes me uh proud for them nick Nick Harris for Star Telegram when did you start seeing the buying from all the guys and was it player le do you feel like it was something maybe you did or when did that gradually come about uh I don’t think it’s anything I’ve done i think it’s a and and I I don’t know i mean um from the first meeting that we had in the locker room you know I think there was a uh excitement is it about me i don’t know i think it’s about the energy that they feel around the building it’s real it’s tangible you know um we got a great group of guys man and they work i mean to have perfect attendance in mandatory mini camp and whatever it was 90 something% attendance in the offseason program and um that that’s that’s something that we should be proud of i don’t know what the other teams are doing don’t really care quite honestly but th this team and this locker room in general is made up of the right people and that gives you a chance doesn’t guarantee us a damn thing but it gives you a chance and it tells you that okay great we’re gonna go out to Oxnard and then we’re gonna actually be able to put on pads and and practice and play real football and then we’ll know a little bit more about where we stack up against the rest of the league just went to Dak today and he talked a little bit about he’s not really worried about legacy he’s just worried about winning a championship being in this building having that kind of weighing over everything that trophy uh have you had discussions with Dak about legacy and in your many conversations with him and you know what what what does legacy mean for you uh I think legacy well no the first answer is no dak and I haven’t really talked about you know his legacy or a legacy in general we just talk about what it takes to win you know the work ethic and the sacrifice you have to make to win i think that’s that’s relevant in any field that you guys are in you guys are all obviously very successful what you do and there’s sacrifice and there’s time spent and um so we talk a lot about that this is one of the hardest working players I’ve ever been around talking about Dak of course um legacy to me you know I think it it starts with people you know I I to this day I go out on the field for a game and I will have two or three different individuals come up to me and say “Excuse me coach you have a second.” and I know exactly where they’re going and I of course drop what I’m doing because I want to hear it and they say “Your your father changed my life.” And it’s former players and so he never won a Super Bowl won over 200 games in the NFL but I would put his legacy up against anybody that’s ever coached in the National Football League patrick hey Sean patrick Walks.com now as a first year NFL head coach I mean you saw as the OC last year just how Tyler Giden struggled to stay healthy because of just what’s required of guys coming out of college going through the combine process and then going right into an NFL training camp what’s your message to your rookies and your first year as head coach that to tell them hey you can get balance physical rest with staying in shape and staying ready for training yeah great question uh we address it all the time the position coaches address it all the time lean on the veterans talk to them we have mentors and mentees that we kind of align together where you ask a younger player to okay you you’re going to spend some time with this veteran player and talk to them about routine they all need to get away they all need to get a little bit of a break right it’s a long season but if they don’t have a plan then they will not be ready talking about the young players of course so you know um you know Don uh talked to me uh the other day as Raku talked to me and he said “Hey you know coach you know these next five weeks you know what do I need to be doing?” Like you know what do I do and I said I said “I have my thoughts.” I said “And I’ll give you my thoughts but first you go talk to Solomon Thomas because Solomon Thomas has been doing it physically more than I have and so he has a great routine and if you don’t like what Solomon says and go talk to Dak Prescott go talk to Micah Parsons go talk to whoever and so I think that’s the best thing that these guys can do is lean on the guys that have done it and but if they don’t have a plan then they they they will fail and I’ve had a couple of the younger guys not to be named up into my office uh and tried to ask them if they could give me their plan and some were better than others but uh we’re working through it so uh feel really good about this rookie class uh the effort they gave was incredible but these next 40 days are really really important for them skyler Spider Dixon with BAP you just mentioned your dad as you go into your first break as a head coach summer break think back to all those years as an assistant do you feel like you’re you’re in the place you’re supposed to be right now as you get get ready to take a little break and head toward your first camp uh I’m excited you know I’m uh um very excited i’m excited that the offseason program went as well as it did i’m excited with the connection piece that we’ve made i’m excited about how these guys have competed i think it’s a really really special group of young men that have a common purpose a common goal but I’m also really excited to spend some time with my family you know this has been rightfully so a long six and seven months and so I’m going to spend some time with my my son and my daughter and my wife and uh I won’t be too far away from my my iPad and my phone but um you know you have to do this and our players have to do that you know family is important and when you’re hanging around the ones that you love that’s not just your family that’s the guys in our inner circle that’s the guys in the locker room and so there’ll be things that I’m doing with with our players and and their wives and their girlfriends over the break it’s not just where I go disappear i’m not doing that i love these guys i want to be around these guys and so um you know there’ll be some nights I’m sure where I’m laying in bed on vacation and thinking back to you know how this off season has gone has it been perfect no has it been really good yeah it’s been really good and I think we’ve put ourselves in a great position to capitalize on the momentum of a strong um player acquisition piece going back to free agency and the draft and then watching these guys practice for the last four weeks has been incredible brad Sham 1053 the fan you got a new coaching staff with a lot of young guys who don’t know each other have not known each other what’s been the challenges and the progress you’ve seen in them one thing that we pride ourselves on doing as a staff and when I say the staff talking about myself and the coordinators we always want to coach the coaches we look for opportunities for the younger coaches to get up in front of position groups and lead meetings and and do things and we give them projects all the time because we’re going to win and when we win our coaching staff is going to get raided and people are going to come after our coaches because we’re going to win and so the thought is you develop the guys in the building that you believed in enough to hire and bring here and and begin to talk about your culture and your vision and things like that and then you give them opportunities to watch them teach and watch them run the defensive back room or the linebacker room and then you give them feedback and that feedback sometimes is is criticism hey do this better do this better but a lot of times it’s more what were you thinking you know like for example Clayton today he’s not a young coach but him calling plays today you know at the other end of the field like he’s never called plays before so I asked him how it went he said “Man I did good i got I got messed up on one i got would have been a timeout you know would have been a timeout.” But I think um you know we’re always trying to develop everybody and we’ve got some tremendous young coaches and what they bring in energy and juice we want to reward that energy and juice that they bring every day by giving them valuable football knowledge that makes them a better coach more seasoned in fundamentals better with scheme better understanding and I think that’s a a huge part of the position I sit in to make sure you’re always developing your staff from top to bottom is the um familiarity and cooperation between and among them more organic or more or less important than it is for the players you know I think we um we have really hard conversations as a staff and I think what I will say is this group has blended together really really fast think about we’ve got coaches from Chicago of course coaches from Dallas coaches from San Francisco coaches from Arizona coaches from college so I would say you know you bring in all these people into a room and a family i mean that’s I think where the offseason program when I look back I really like you know I could have started the offseason program a week earlier i didn’t um but I think that that decision paid off tremendously because it bought us an extra week as a staff to to blend the the the group together and to get on the same page with how we want to say things like it’s it’s it’s not it’s not who’s talking in front of the room it’s that the message is being delivered the same way and so I feel like you know this group from a relationship standpoint is very strong we trust one another we have really good hard conversations we don’t agree on on uh everything they challenge me which is what I want i don’t want yesmen i don’t have all the answers never have thought I have all the answers but um I love the fact that we can have real conversations and then once the conversation’s over and we decide whatever direction we’re going whether it’s the decision I made someone else made it’s a Cowboys decision and the players will never know that that discussion even happened because it’s what’s best for us to win garrett Garrett Odell CBS Sports brian I know you said you can’t get a lot out of seeing running backs not in pads and things like that but what have been your evaluations of Javvante Miles Jade Blue and the group through the offseason program yeah I’ll start with Javvante can’t say enough great things about him uh the way he practices the way he approaches practice though uh you you guys know I love the word the intentionality i think that’s for a younger player you know a couple years in he’s figured it out i don’t know i’ve never asked him i should ask him you know hey who did you learn from because somebody taught him how to practice um he’s awesome with that uh Miles has been great as well you you feel the veteran side of both those guys like they’re they’re veterans they know how to work they know how to prepare um it was funny i I was talking uh I was calling a play yesterday to Dak and I was telling him remind it was Javvante Miles i think it was Javvante maybe and I said “Hey uh remind Javvante.” And he kind of looked at me he said “He’s a validictorian.” And Javvante looked back and smiled it was Javvante but like there’s something to these veteran players you know that that that does help and so they’ve been great because they’ve been helping Jaden and Phil and again those two young guys again they they have a lot to learn in a good way you know they’re used to most college guys are they get to line scrimmage really fast and they look over and they look for what signs and there’s guys holding up boards and signs and signals and things like that now they’re in a huddle and doing things like that so a lot of it is you got to learn how to break down these lengthy calls and okay what matters to me and what doesn’t and I think those guys have done great deuces deuce is deuce man every day the guy works his ass off every day he knows what he’s doing we love the cross trainining stuff we’re doing with him and Hunter Lepkkey you know we we we have to value these players to where they do more than one thing so whether it’s Duce Vaughn playing receiver Hunter Leky playing tight end uh Turp playing running back you have to cross train these guys because on game day you know we’re only allowed certain amount of guys and unfortunately it’s such a physical game that if we don’t start doing that now it’s going to hurt you when you get uh when you get going in the season and a quick followup you were in the locker room during Michael Parsons and Toya’s pingpong game and you’re pretty locked in is that kind of what you envisioned the whole locker room kind of locked in and yelling and putting holler together a moment like that I think so it’s compete every day and and they were they were um they were having fun with it there was a lot of trash talk going on uh I want to play Micah i beat Dak all the time when I play him so Micah is next i’ll put that out there for Micah see if he wants to accept the challenge over the break but uh yeah I thought Jay had him you know I thought Jay had him and then just couldn’t finish him jonah Jonah Jab WFAA uh you brought up your father Marty uh Sunday is Father’s Day i’m just curious how you celebrate now as a father yourself so how do you honor his life legacy now that he’s strong and if there’s anything that you could say to him now what would it be wow you’re going there huh last day of mini camp um I know he’s proud i miss him um I would tell him that I used all the life lessons that he taught me not just about football but about life and being a good man and a good husband and a good father and that I think um I’m doing okay for myself but uh I know he’s proud i miss him like crazy um I actually lean on some of his friends now you know guys like Bill Cower you know that that he you know coached with and um but Father’s Day will be a special day i’m obviously a father of two amazing kids and um I’ll talk to my mom and I know he’s looking down on me but uh I appreciate you making me get teared up you know up here the last day mini camp and I’m going to change the subject real quick make sure you guys keep this note uh the 2025 offseason program sharpshooting champion is none other than Sam Williams you guys have no idea what that means but he is the 2025 offseason program sharpshooting champion and uh he beat Tyler Gayton so what does he get for winning big trophy can’t believe you guys didn’t see it down there what did he shoot say again baskets baskets yeah baskets okay okay he got hot yeah he got hot big upset coach I want to follow up on the question about your dad when you look at this off season as a whole your first time as a head coach at home is there a particular moment that would be the first story you would tell your dad if you could speak to how uh where my mind went when you first asked that question not really i would say the one thing you know we’re obviously an emotional family um and I was really nervous going into the press conference you know big moment you’ve been waiting for your whole life and uh Tad and them didn’t tell me it was out here i thought it was in here i was like “Oh it’d be cool it be you know 50 or so people in there whatever but I didn’t know it was out there.” But so I kind of came out of you know Jerry and Stephen and walked me down and I saw my fan but when I turned the corner I saw the players all the players that were here and he would know the fact that all those players showed up that that I’m doing it the right way i’m doing it through connection i’m doing it through love i’m doing it through juice and energy and um that actually calmed me down it really did i was I was nervous and excited at the same time when I saw those players waiting for me right around the corner it totally put me at peace so that was cool okay tim Kash Morning News i had a question that kind of got blown away by these last two questions about your dad what I wanted to ask excuse me was It’s not that emotional when you were You’re choking me up already i mean you want my water Tim i’m not on TV anymore i don’t have to worry about talking um when you were when you were 12 or 13 the drive and the fumble those seasons how they ended and I’m just wondering how that impacted seeing those teams that were tremendously successful and the city of Cleveland was going crazy over them see it end like that devastating what’s that meant for you devastating you know the amount of work and effort that goes into putting together a great season i think the I think the year of the drive they were the one seed i think I think they were 12 and four i think I know they’re a really good team and how they got there was crazy i mean people don’t even remember the Jets playoff game right before that mark Mosley missed a couple field goals and then you know he he hit one the last one the game winner just devastating and I remember you know I was fortunate my dad kept me involved in a lot of this stuff which is where the family piece comes in but I remember after the game going down in the locker room and um just the feeling just felt like it was a funeral and then when you get older and you get into the business Tim you’re like you get it i mean the sacrifices that these young men make with their time their body their health all those things to commit to something a dream a vision a goal and to be so close and to have it come up short in one of really two of the most devastating the drive wasn’t as bad as the fumble the fumble was worse because again for those that remember a little bit of a football historian I guess but you know they were down 21 to3 at halftime they came ripping back in Denver the very next year um Ernest Biner the stats I don’t remember the stats but it was incredible like I mean he went crazy in the second half and got them back into the game and to lose the way they did on a on a simple play i mean again it happens but you know Webster Slaughter he’s he’s the single receiver and he’s got manto man with Jeremiah Castillo and he goes to run him off and probably didn’t run him off far enough and so Jeremiah looks back and when Ernest bounced the ball to the left I I remember like it was yesterday it’s crazy i can remember all these things but like literally you know he just he never saw him he came from the side and and Ernest never saw him and when you look at the film if you pull up the highlight today you can see the absolute misery of Ernest which he had laid his heart and soul out on the field and he’s laying there at the one yard line devastated and I think it was Cody Rise and I I won’t be right but a player went and picked him up and supported him and without that you have nothing and that’s why you guys ask me all the time about the connection piece and stuff like that like these things that these young men try to do around the league not just here it’s different i mean they commit something and they give it their all not for money not for for fame and things like that yeah that’s nice you know but they do it because they love one another and uh those are ones that stick with you obviously with the fact I’ve taken up five minutes this press conference rehashing those two those two plays right uh sad with the athletic uh just want to ask you about Cooper B last year he was making the transition from guard to center this year as you see him growing in that role how do you see the mental aspects of iding front setting protections things like that and where he’s at mentally playing the position you know sad he was incredible last year for having never played the position the biggest thing was not learning the learning is easy it’s the communication you know now with some of the things that we’re doing um in terms of movements and stuff like pre- snap movements and stuff um the challenge for him which he’s he’s passing with flying colors has been you sometimes make a point then you got to make a different ID or a point um but the command of what he has now is really cool to see and like he and Dak actually have gone back and forth a couple times where it’s like you know Cooper’s like “We’re going here.” here and D’s like “No I want to go there.” Cooper’s like “No we’re going here.” D like “Yeah go there we’re good.” Yeah you know whereas last year that wouldn’t have happened so there’s a command and a confidence that Cooper has and you know I’m a huge huge Cooper BB fan but I’m also a big big believer on the importance of a center some of the best teams I’ve ever been on I’ll talk about the New York Jets was having a guy like Nick Mangled in the middle driving things and you go back you know to the great Steelers teams Mike Webster i mean the center position some people blow it off they touch the ball on every play and if you don’t have the right one man it’s hard and he’s certainly the right one uh we’ve seen a lot of Brevin Span forward in these offseason availabilities uh him taking a year two jump in the receiving game specifically how big would that be for your tight end be amazing he’s had he had an incredible offseason he really did uh really all the tight ends did but since you asked about Brev I’ll talk about him um the size alone you know he really he he moves really well i think he added like six or seven pounds of lean muscle mass you know this guy is not just a run blocker pass protector this guy can be a weapon because of his size in the middle of the field matched up on linebackers and safeties and you know the thing I’ve loved about Brev from day one is you knew that this was not too big for him you know you knew mentally he knew I belong here doesn’t matter you know how I got here i belong here and he’s pushing Fergie and Sconey and those guys and um he’s already made the jump so you ask me how I feel about it he’s already made the jump and again he’s another guy that when he puts the pads on you’re going to see him and feel him uh Brad uh Brad Town News one more family question if you don’t mind if I’m not mistaken uh so when you go back and spend time with your family you’re going to be an empty neester pretty soon you That means I’m old Brad that means I’m really old thanks how are you mentally prepared for that i I haven’t really had time to think about it to be honest with you my wife probably on the other hand she’s thought about it uh all the time you know it’s uh we’ve obviously had you know a home in Nashville for a long time and we’re so excited to be now plugged here as as uh Texans I guess you call it uh as part of Dallas and um it’s going to be great you know and uh we’ll figure out what we uh still have in common which I’m sure is quite a bit uh there’ll be different conversations we’ll talk about football and our kids uh always uh but uh we also have the dogs man there’s there’s a lot of dogs she’s she when when things go good or bad she buys dogs and I I I don’t know i I really don’t know why i mean literally I come home and hey you got fired yeah let’s get a dog oh you got hired let’s get a dog and so uh there’s a there’s a lot of dogs that uh so we’re really not empty nesters I guess joe Joe D Sports Jake Ferguson obviously dealt with a lot of injuries last year he even talked about how having no touchdowns last year has been a motivating factor have you seen him motivated Jake Ferguson and what are your hopes and expectations for him yeah I I the answer is yes i think last year’s a fluke he definitely dealt with some some some stuff that was hard for him um Jake’s always motivated jake is one of those tone setters where you know he just plays the right way he’s one of those guys that’s able to practice in this format and be competitive but not combative but the look on his eye the way his body looks in terms of you know his physique and uh the way he’s moving has been noticeably um different in a good way he’s really motivated he’s really excited maybe it’s the fact he’s getting married and um you know he’s uh busy with commercials and things like that but he’s been he’s been great that whole tight end group you know Luna Wells does a great job with those guys and uh it’s going to be a really fun battle for you guys and for us as coaches to watch the tight ends and how it play out during this the training camp but uh yeah Fergie’s doing great all righty thanks guys seven

Head coach Brian Schottenheimer speaks with the media after the final day of minicamp about the status of the team on and off the field, how players have attacked the offseason program and more.

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