Birkett got from Jameis Winston on new Lions\u2019 offensive coach Mike Kafka\u2014because there are some good ones in there, too. You can read that piece here.<\/a><\/p>\nBut I\u2019ve also transcribed some of the most interesting pulls from those interviews, as well, or just pulled the quotes from Birkett himself if he did not post a video of the interview.<\/p>\n
Trey McBride<\/p>\n
On what he told Sam LaPorta after Petzing was hired: <\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Man, you\u2019re going to love it. You\u2019re going to eat, you\u2019re going to have a great career.\u2019 I\u2019m excited for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the use of 12 and 13 personnel: <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s something that, you\u2019ve got to run the football and you put big bodies in there, tight ends, to do it and he did a great job of getting us open, running, passing, mixing it up with the 13 personnel stuff. I got a lot of respect for Drew and I\u2019m excited to see what he can do at another team.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ameer Abdullah<\/p>\n
On what the Lions are getting in Petzing: <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re getting a guy who is really surgical about making sure guys are on their cues with timing. I remember Kirk Cousins during those years had some of his best and most productive years playing the position of quarterback, and I think Drew was definitely a conduit of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
On why he considers Petzing a \u201cmastermind\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about timing with Drew. Drew understands it about spots. It\u2019s not about where you are at a given time. I think you\u2019ll see a lot of that in the offense where guys will be thrown in an anticipatory space, thrown open a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patriots WR coach Todd Downing<\/p>\n
Birkett also picked up a great quote from Downing, who was on the same coaching staff as Petzing in 2018 when Downing was a tight ends coach, and Petzing was the assistant QB coach:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s always hunting matchups, so if a lot of tight ends on the field hunts some matchups, I think that\u2019s something that he\u2019ll try to do. But I believe he\u2019s going to put the best players out there and put them in the best position to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jameis Winston on Mike Kafka<\/p>\n
On what Mike Kafka brings to the offense: <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re bringing in a coach that played the game, I think he\u2019ll be able to bring back what Ben Johnson had left there, the hunger, the intentionality and will to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
More on Kafka: <\/p>\n
\u201cMike Kafka is the man. His ability to create exciting plays and concepts is going to be very beneficial for Jared Goff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re still in the information-gathering phase of new Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Drew Petzing, while we await his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[12303,375,390,2604,1327,22879,113,24101,7,1801,1029,110,294,11946,6,13240,7472,1161,6042],"class_list":["post-735808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-ameer-abdullah","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-dave-birkett","tag-detroit-lions","tag-drew-petzing","tag-football","tag-jameis-winston","tag-jared-goff","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kirk-cousins","tag-mike-kafka","tag-nfl","tag-petzing","tag-sam-laporta","tag-san-francisco","tag-trey-mcbride"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116029863118241068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}