Welcome to this week four Thursday edition of the From the Podium podcast.

I'm Gabe Kaler up.

Brown's got their head ultimate practice of the weekend today as they gear up to head to

head to Detroit to take on the Lions this coming Sunday.

On this episode, you'll hear from offensive coordinator Tommy Reese,

defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, special teams coordinator Bubba Ventron offensive guard Joel Botonio cornerback

Denzel Ward and safety Grant Delpit we'll start with offensive coordinator

Tommy Reese who discussed Detroit's young but talented secondary the the tackle situation just how much I know I think I asked you something along this line last week, but how much does, you know, just the uncertainty at those, at those spots just, is it, you know, hampering what this overall offense can do?

Yeah, I mean, they're important positions, right? I mean, I think that's represented when you look across the league and how those guys are paid and the value put on those spots. You know, we have a group of guys now that we're developing that we feel like can go out and execute for us. Obviously, you hate to see injuries happen, especially with, you know, like we said last week, Duane's still a young player developing in this league. So to, you know, feel like we're trying, you know, we're breaking through with him and getting him into a point and then having an injury happen, you hate to see it. We have confidence in those other guys. You know, we look forward to hopefully getting some guys healthy as the season progresses. But look, it's a group effort up front. It's a group

effort with the tight ends and the backs to help. And we talked about it last week in the passing

game to mitigate a really good rush like Dallas, or excuse me, like Green Bay had, it's a hard

thing to just put on one position group or one spot. Like you got to get open, got to play on time, got to get yourself in the right protection. So, you know, we want to put a plan together to help all those guys. And, you know, we do have confidence in the tackles that we're playing with. We see you chipping a lot with the running backs to tight ends. The passing game is already struggled as it is, but how much does it take away from the passing game when you do have one or two guys who are chipping or double teaming before they even go out to run a route? Yeah, you look across the league. Guys have success throwing the ball and chip. You know, you don't want to use any of those crutches to say that we're limiting ourselves there. Like, there are great pass rushers in this league. We're going to play against another one this week. And if you think you look at our schedule, we play against a handful of the

very best across the NFL. So it's a commonality in the NFL to see guys helping on the perimeter

just with how talented some of those guys are. So, you know, us as coaches have to do a better job

of finding ways to get our guys open and be efficient in the passing game while also starting with the protection.

How Joe has done and what more do you need to see?

Yeah, just got to get him comfortable. You know, like probably felt comfortable early a couple weeks ago, haven't been able to get back into rhythm.

Again, our job as coaches to get him feeling comfortable and confident and, you know, we've been working at that. He's not a guy that gets real up and down, so you wouldn't, you know, sense any of that, but just in the course of a game, allowing him to feel confident that he can rip it. And really, that's our job as a coaching staff to make sure that we get him there. He was talking about, you know, not force the ball and how that, how important that is. So how do you find that balance? You're talking about ripping the ball between, hey, I'm going to check it down versus take a, you know, and that's what I mean by, it's our job as coaches. Like there's going to be Premier looks where we say, hey, this is what we got it dialed up for. This is what we have it designed for. These are the times to take it.

You know, And then here are the times where, hey, we maybe didn't design it for this coverage, here's your outlet, or here's the time to be smart or the pocket's breaking down and it's a late play decision. Like, those are built in. I think it's the during the week, the understanding of, hey, this is exactly what we're trying to attack. When we get this look, let's attack it. And that's why it falls on us as coaches to make sure we get that done.

that done.

Do you build a couple there last week?

There's always a couple there.

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