Press Pass | Grant Udinski & Jakobi Meyers on Year 2 Offense, WR Depth

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How did Travis’s deep reception on Day 4 reflect his offseason progress?

Reporter (Media) 0:00
Here we go. Travis had the deep reception, just kind of what have you seen out of him for these first four days and kind of how is he looking back on the field?
Grant Udinski 0:08
The deep reception was awesome to see. It's great getting him back out there with the guys. He has such an infectious energy that it affects not just the receivers, probably the offensive line coaches and everybody out there. He's continuing to progress from a route, technique, fundamental standpoint, but also a knowledge of the offense and just the system in general. So it's exciting to see, and that development will hopefully continue. What does he add when he's right and out there to what you want to do? There's so much that he adds, and I think it starts with, like I said, the energy in his play style and what he brings to the huddle, which you don't always see. On the field, it's probably a little bit more apparent that when he has the ball in his hands, he can create something special.
Grant Udinski 0:47
He can make guys miss. He has a great awareness of defenders and space out there on the field, but he also has great ball skills. So those things kind of pop off the tape, but the other elements of it with the details that he tries to execute, his run assignments, alignment splits, those stuff don't always show up on tape, but those are impactful really for the entire offense.
Unknown 1:07
The offense has kind of been established after a year together. Does that make it easier to kind of picture where you see him fitting into things on offense?
Grant Udinski 1:15
Certainly. I think not just for him. I think for everybody. We have a little bit clearer picture of who they are and who we want to be and how we as coaches can help bring the best out of them. As you get a bigger and bigger sample size, that becomes easier. That's one of the challenges of year one where you don't necessarily know where guys fit within our system. And really on us as coaches, it's more about adapting our system to them. So the more reps we get together and the more communication we have about how they see things, how they see defenses, how they like to approach this route or how they like to maybe approach a certain look, allows us to build things around them and hopefully the quarterbacks, wide receivers, offensive line, all feel more comfortable, which accelerates their growth in play.
Unknown 1:56
When you have continuity of quarterback, play card, coordinator, does that allow you to experiment more knowing you have your greatest hits in your pocket or do you want to make those greatest hits even greater?
Grant Udinski 2:08
That's a great question. It's always a tough challenge, especially going into the offseason when you're reevaluating what were we good at and what could we be good at. And I think ultimately you try to strike that balance of not throwing out the good just to bring in some new experimentation, but we're always going to try to continue to evolve. In some areas, it might be something small like technique. We may change one technique of the offensive line or a footwork. But in some areas, it might be a totally different scheme or a totally different way of running a scheme we ran previously. So we have our fair share of experimentation that we'll work through throughout training camp. It might not all be at once, but through the offseason, we have a plan that we work through all these different ideas and things that we want to work towards.

What does the coaching staff say about the offense’s continuity after a year together?

Grant Udinski 2:49
But we ultimately want to balance that back and have that foundation to still rely on, regardless of where we go or where that evolution ends up.
Unknown 2:55
on Wednesday that trying to put Nate, put Tanner in uncomfortable situations, give them a lot of reps early. What have you seen from them early returns through four practices?
Grant Udinski 3:05
The exciting thing is seeing how those guys embrace those challenges because they both really attack it head on. And it's not easy to go out there and be a rookie and operate whether you're in an circumstance that's set up for success or circumstance that's set up for a challenging block or a challenging route or challenging look.

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