Mike Tomlin

You always say what gives me confidence and I tell you life ditto.

One thing that Johnny said yesterday, having played with Miami last year, he said they're particularly good at getting their fastbacks in space.

Um, from your standpoint, uh, how do they do that?

How do they, how do they manage that?

And from your one game defense standpoint, how do you combat that?

You know, they're really good with their personnel groups.

They'll, they'll go pony backs or two, two running backs in the game.

They got a lot of pre-snap shifts and motions.

They personnel you a lot.

Um, and so with some of those pre-snap movements, they, they gain an advantage on the edge from time to time.

And, um,

They really do a nice job schematically, but as you mentioned, those running backs are dynamic.

They're all, you know, a couple of them are sub 4-4, and you certainly see that in video.

How dynamic is Alex Highsmith and his ability to play the horizontal kind of football you did on the jet sweep and pop pass as the Ravens try to get in here?

You know, that's why we like stand-up edge players.

Their field of vision, their feel for the game is broader than DN's.

And some of the things you mentioned I think is reflective of that.

But I think that's not only characteristic of him.

It's characteristic of all our edge guys, TJ, Herb, Jack Sawyer.

That's the benefit to me of being a hybrid or a stand-up edge group.