Q: Have you gotten a chance to talk with Tre Tucker and what have you seen from him on tape?
A: I talked to Tre and actually talked to him quite a bit through the draft process as well. He’s a really fast guy, confident guy, strong guy for his size. His speed is different though. We’re looking forward to hopefully developing some other parts of his game. I think last year he made a lot of strides, and you hope that we can continue to make those strides and do them even more so. But he’s a great kid, so I’m really looking forward to working with him too.
Q: Percy Harvin in high school, DJ Moore in college, Keenan Allen in the NFL, you’ve coached the best of the best at every level. What is it about the best guys that you’ve worked with that makes them as good as they are and what are some of those traits that you’ve seen translate at each level?
A: One is the work ethic. All those guys have similar work ethics. Whether it’s Percy way back when or Jordan Addison and all those guys in college. Then Keenan, obviously, is different. Mike Williams is different. DJ Moore, I’ve had him in college and in the pros. Those guys have a different kind of work ethic than the normal person would. The second thing is their coachability. Those guys are so successful. They could easily sit back and not quite listen to what everyone has to say. But those guys want to be coached, they want to get pushed and want somebody to make them the best they can. Those guys make you better as a coach. You know you have to bring your best to them because they can sit back and tell if you’re BS-ing. Those guys challenge you and hopefully I challenge them the same way.
Q: Part of being able to challenge players comes with trust. When you come into a new place, how do you go about building and maintaining trust with the staff and your position room?
A: I think you want to show consistency. Whether it’s in the meeting room as a staff or with the players, you want to make sure that every day you’re coming with your A-game, that you’re consistent. Your background and your knowledge base has got to be where it needs to be. But you also have to be striving to grow as well. None of us have all the answers, so we need to be able to try to go find them to help those guys get better. It’s one of those things where you want to make sure that you’re trying to find out the newest techniques, trying to find out the newest ways to reach them and to help push them to be better.
Q: Some coaches show motivational speeches, quotes or movie scenes in their meetings. Is there anything like that that you’ve found to be helpful in getting through to your players?
A: You do whatever you have to do to be able to reach them as players. One of the things I’ve learned in the NFL is those guys like to watch the best of their league. So, I’m really big on taking the best of everyone’s game in the league. We’re watching Justin Jefferson’s reps, we’re watching Ja’Marr Chase’s reps, Keenan Allen, DJ Moore. We’re trying to learn from everybody in the league because they’re so competitive. They want to say, ‘If he’s doing this really well, I’m going to do it even better than he does.’ That’s one of the things I’ve learned and try to reach out to these guys. But as a coach, there’s no magic formula or blueprint. You’re always evolving every day, every week, every month, every year.
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