Josh Grizzard Speaks To The Media | Press Conference Live Stream

What’s happening? Good. Start it off. What do you see from that that defense that you know has concern? It’s a good unit, especially we have a lot of respect for them, especially coming off of last year and dropping two games to them. and then what they’ve done in free agency by adding edge rushers and and stack backers as well as DBs that it’s a good outfit and we know they’re they’re very well coached from the from the top down and it’ll be a good challenge for us. Josh, how much help you just to get the rhythm of calling a game plays at this level? It helped immensely. It it helped in practice being able to do it and then carry that over to the game and and do it live and being able to see it from the field for two games, I guess, two and a half games. And then uh just going from there and I think it helped with the staff continuity, being able to get all of us on the same page, even though they’re not necessarily in a lot of different spots than they were last year, but having in real time, seeing the ball move down the field, adjusting to situations, who’s in the game, it uh it helped a ton. What’s the advantage for you on the field? just the interaction you get with the players or what is it? It is you get instant feedback on how the play goes, who’s going to go into the game on the on the next play, which is huge. The communication with BMAC or Peele or Skip on potential this guy’s out, that guy’s out to be able to adjust what the next play call can be based on who’s in there. And then the real-time fixes. If something didn’t go well, those guys are just right beside you so you can go ahead and get the correction done as well as the communication with coach. He was huge. And especially situational football, what we’re thinking, hearing it upstairs, being able to communicate that out I thought was really good. Do you plan on being down on the sideline going forward or or it will be kind of a mix of both or I do. I do plan on be on the field. Baker said yesterday that um because he didn’t play, being next to you and kind of getting the feel of how you were calling plays was really helpful for him going into the season. How do you think that’s going to pay off as maybe an advantage for you guys that he kind of knows in this scenario you’re looking for this XYZ? Yeah, if we can be aligned in our thought process, it’s only going to help the unit. If he can have an idea what we’re getting to based on if the runs are hitting, passes are hitting, who’s in the game, it just allows him to have the play call quicker so he can then think through what his process is as well as the potential issues so that he can then get us in the best play possible. So that really helped even just talking to him while the other guys are in the game. Which offensive assistance will you have up in the booth kind of the eye of the sky, the perspective up there? Yeah. So there there’s a bunch of them. We have Brian Puchi’s up there. He does the defensive personnel for us. So we communicate who’s in the game. Uh Jeff Castle does the the down and distance. So hey, second and eight on the left hash. Cense Henson, who’s the pass game coordinator, is essentially doing what I did last year on communicating coverages, next best plays, things like that. And then Jordan Somerville’s up there as well, and he kind of looks over all that, and he’s able to have a feel for next next up, what run should we get two passes. So it’s good communication from all his guys. What kind of challenge is it going against a defense that just doesn’t have new players, but also a new coordinator that wasn’t there last season? Yeah, there is an element of seeing what they did in New York with coach Brook as well as what they were doing in Atlanta with with coach Morris. So, you see a little bit of mix and match between both and being able to just watch the tape on both of them and and compare them and just see where they are different and where they are the same. This is a similar offense run by them as well with Zack Robinson and obviously the McMahon trees all over the place there, but what kind of problems does that present to you for someone who knows kind of there’s a similarity in the offense that they’re going against. Um, so they kind of know some of the things that you’re going to like to do. How what what problems does that for them? I think they have an idea and there there are some similarities. just watching them last year, they tailored their scheme to be able to fit Bejon and how he plays and pits and the rest of the receiving crew with London. So, there’s some some similarities, but also some differences. And then us just morphing it around, even though it might have the core principles that are the same, just being able to use different personnel groupings at times, I would say, on our end, just matching how we feel best fit for our guys, but there is definitely an element of of similarity to it. Was going to have a huge role in this team anyway, right? and he could play a bunch of positions, but you know, with Jaylen going down, how does how, if any way does that change his role or elevate sort of what you need from him as a as a number two? You hit on it. It was already going to be a big role and it still is. And what he’s able to do, like we’ve talked about a little bit up here on the ability to play different positions and move around, then you feel better about if somebody does come out of the game, he can take over and take that role. But it’s something that he might not have repped, but he can go out there and not only execute it, but he can win on the route, win on the run block. So that gives us a lot of confidence, especially myself as a play caller to be able to lean on him in those situations. And and he’s been up to the task since he’s been here and just looking forward to doing it on on Sunday for him. I’m sure you’ve started the game plan as soon as you got the job for Atlanta week one. How has that changed and maybe changed back or since I’m sure you started developing with Tristan there um and then obviously Hex got to come in and now you had a whole week month to look at hack couple games and stuff like that. Has that changed your philosophy on the game plan thing going into this week at all? Things maybe you wanted to do differently before or has what you’ve seen maybe just said, “All right, what we’re doing before is going to work just fine.” Yeah, I’d say that we have the confidence in what we’ve seen before going with that and we look at it as well on what on their end of it, who they acquired in free agency and and how does that fit into what they’re doing, who they drafted, but we feel like in a really good spot with it even looking at some of their stuff back in the back in the spring and ready to roll. Are you confident having to use this silent counts going to be loud in an opposing place first game, but these pretty much everybody’s been back other than heck from last year. So, right, you think they’re think they’re ready for that? Absolutely. They’re uh it’s definitely a challenge going into a hostile environment, in division rival, first game of the season, and again with them beating us twice last year. I know the crowd will be ready to roll, but we have plans for that. We work that. It’s not uh overly different to us and some of the environments we played in last year, being able to use some of those reps at that to lean back on on how we operated. And uh we’re ready to go. We talked last year a lot about what a collaboration the offense was and how much he leaned on staff and you kind of delegating roles and collaborating like that. How much how much has that helped you that not only can you do that, but you’re doing that almost all with people you work with at least a year in the past? It it’s a great question because that it’s been huge. It’s been being able to have the conversations with guys knowing certain parts of the game plan that and like you hit on it is very collaborative. We we break up each part of the game plan where everyone has an input in it. But having that memory of last year of how we did it and then integrating fence into how we do it and operate practice and script practice has definitely helped us especially from where we were week one into the playoff game and now getting into week one for this year. It’s been a I won’t call it easy, but it’s been relatively seamless. Baker had no reps during the preseason games, right? You got a lot of work, right? So, how were you able to kind of, you know, get him prepared without actually taking the hits and doing some of those things again? I think in the call up periods that we had here going against our defense where it could be a 20-minute period where we’re moving the ball up and down the field, he’s not getting hit, thank God, but we are out out there playing football and then being able to get into the Tennessee week as well as the Pittsburgh week where you watch a little bit of tape on them and you have an idea what they’re doing, but you’re not game planning for them. that then we get those I don’t know how many reps it was probably 55 or 60 in those practices where he’s now going against another defense seeing it live for the first time there’s no scouted looks and he operated well during those has it set in yet that you’re going to be calling your first game as the offensive coordinator of the Bucks in the regular season definitely I say once you start designing the plays and you start to look at them at practice and then seeing how those things are going to unfold especially today working on some of the third downs and high red area you can start envisioning that happening on Sunday which pretty cool When you look at when you look at Atlanta’s defense, what do you think is more of a challenge? The secondary with AJ Terrell and Jesse Bates or just all the edge rushers that they acquired? I think all three levels of the defense are is a very good unit. Talking about the front and bringing in Floyd and then having the two edge rushers come in in the uh in free agency as well as Ebetti, what he’s been able to do, bringing in Diablo, have some history there with him playing against him and then especially on the back end having those guys starting with Terrell, you know, Bass is a really good player. bringing in Watts in in the draft. Looks like he’s done a good job and through the preseason you can see Bowman too at Nickel. He does a really good job of mixing it up. So, it’s a stout unit. Couple more. Josh, you have a routine on game day that you you’ll do as a coordinator that might be a little different than you. But in the past, it would be meetings with, you know, quarterback or like what just what’s I try to keep it pretty similar. I wouldn’t say there’s much of I do the exact same thing. Probably four egg omelette with some bacon, mushrooms, spinach. try to get that going, get some uh protein. But outside of that, it’s it’s fun being in the locker room with the staff just because, you know, it’s close. Go out there and operate and try to score some points. Kind of going back to the similarities of the offenses that you’re going to be going up against with the Falcons. I think Kirk Cousins said on that quarterback documentary that when you got the playbook, they had like 45 different ways to shift or motion just in their offense. His head was spinning. What is How many do you guys have if you can disclose that? And like what does that what does that do for you to be able to obviously identify, but how does it help the offense? Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you a number. There’s a lot. I don’t know. There’s 45. That’s a ton. But it helps us from every position from the O line through the quarterback, halfback, tight ends, receivers on seeing coverage. Is it man or zone? How they adjust to motions? We just try to gather information by doing that. We feel like if we can do that and have people in motion at times at the snap, it can help undress coverage and create make them communicate which we’re hoping that at times would get them off balance. So that’s kind of how we had it in Miami. Very similar thought process coming here over the last couple years and definitely with what he was seeing as well. Josh, to have two running back that can run and catch, you know, and at least one that’s a really good blocker. Dylan’s working on it, but like what what kind of of a weapon is that if you guys want to go that way? just put your best five, you know, dudes on the field or whatever. It’s huge just the ability of those guys, whether it is in the run game or protections or being able to throw the ball like you saw last year and then especially with Buck catching that that fade uh in Pittsburgh was really cool. So, as flexible as they can be and try to get them the ball in different ways as well as the receivers and utilize their skill sets is huge for us just because we can look at him somewhat as positionless players where he might play halfback but he can catch it so we can use him a little bit like a receiver. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

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