Coaches, Players Thinking NOW, Peters Thinking Long-term

WJFK-FM / 106.7 The Fan

JP and BMitch lay out the difference between what the coaches and rosters are thinking about every day and where that overlaps, and differs, with how Adam Peters is thinking about the future.

Transcript

00:00the players in that locker room, the coaches on the staff plan on winning now totally period.

00:07But I do think there's been a real reminder to fans. Yo, they went four and 13 last year.

00:13When you go through some of these analytical numerical models, the modeling doesn't look

00:20that great. Yeah. Vegas only has them for six and a half wins. They do play a bunch of teams

00:25that made the playoffs last year. Like what is improvement for Adam Peters and even Dan Quinn,

00:31because he's part of this too. Like Quinn is focused on week one, but it's also looking at

00:36this as a long haul, right? He knows he got to crawl before he walks. I do think the last week

00:41has been a real reminder of all right, man. Jahan's got to go. The Dotson trade doesn't make

00:49them better for that Tampa game, but it makes them better long-term. They also realize we want

00:55a different person in this role, right? Yeah. Sending away John Ridgeway is because they're

01:01going to run their defense different and they want to give Phil Mathis a chance and they don't need

01:06two big bodied, you know, primarily lined up over the center or the center guard gap guys.

01:11Yeah. And you got something back for him. Now you got an extra six, you know, you can do with two

01:17sixes, maybe move up to the fifth round. Like the more options you have going forward, the better.

01:23And I think that's what these guys are all about. I think the ultimate thing is at this point,

01:30we don't know what the round, the picks that they picked up is going to end up being.

01:36Suppose the third that they got into being another Terry McLaurin. How about those two

01:41sevens end up being a fifth or six? Sure. And they get somebody that could go out there and

01:46play eight, nine years for them. I think the thing of it is, you know, we have to understand that.

01:52And I know every time we always talk about, well, like when guys don't have a name or reputation

01:57already, we go, oh man. But those guys, when they started off, they didn't have names or

02:00reputations either. They grew into that and you have to give it a certain period of growth time

02:07to become the team you want to be. But we seem to want, as soon as you plug one or two people in,

02:13oh, we're perfect now. No, we're not. They got to build their chemistry. They got to get their

02:17camaraderie going together and they have to grow. And that normally is going to take a year, two

02:22years for people to start doing it. And then as you can keep having the people enter and people

02:27leave out, now it stays for a long time. Instead of what we used to do, we always go find old

02:32players from other teams. We give them all the money and then we never, ever let the younger

02:38guys even grow and get ready. I don't think this organization, the way they're doing it now,

02:43will be doing that.

Category

Transcript

Recommended