Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 9, Provides Injury Updates

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

All right.

Mike Macdonald (0:01)

I thought we were missing...

SPEAKER_3 (0:03)

Brady?

SPEAKER_4 (0:05)

He's stuck in traffic, if you want to know. Do you have...

Mike Macdonald (0:10)

It'll take a while for him to live that one down.

SPEAKER_4 (0:12)

Exactly. Do you have any updates on Charles Cross or Leonard Williams heading into this week?

Mike Macdonald (0:17)

No updates from this morning.

I'd say we haven't rolled anybody out yet, but I think everybody needs to make progress. So, nobody's in, nobody's out.

SPEAKER_4 (0:31)

When there's something like a stinger, like what Leonard has, and I think he had that prior in his career, those seem like they can be really hard to pin down. Do you guys have information that rules out some of the more serious potentials?

Mike Macdonald (0:43)

I think, yeah, I think there's... I mean, have we ruled anything out? No.

But they are, they vary in like severity, you know? And then coming from a guy in my very amateur career that suffered from stingers, it's like how fast you get... It's just, there's not much you can do. It's like, what do you do? You just hope it gets better. So I know we're trying all the things and you just got to have to go with it, you know? If Leo can play, he's not the type of guy that needs a ton of rep. So I think you can use, you can kind of exhaust timelines, things like that. But it's definitely not like a straightforward pathway on how we kind of move forward.

Greg (1:32)

What did the test show on Drew Lock exactly?

Mike Macdonald (1:35)

Say that again, Greg.

Greg (1:35)

The test show on Drew Lock last night?

Mike Macdonald (1:38)

He has some sort of oblique.

But again, we're going to put a game plan together, and we expect him to be able to play. So it should be a similar approach to last week, I would imagine.

Greg (1:53)

In Sam Darnold's case, does it look like he could be back after the buy?

Mike Macdonald (1:58)

I think so. I think so. Yeah. Making progress is just where I need some more time.

SPEAKER_1 (2:05)

On offense. Sorry, Maz, go ahead.

SPEAKER_5 (2:07)

What did you feel? Thanks.

SPEAKER_7 (2:08)

What did you feel from the film? What did you get out of it? You talk about feeling.

Mike Macdonald (2:13)

Yeah, there's a...

There's a...

I was about to be like, there's a lot of great stuff and a lot of great stuff. And then I was like, that's not very insightful.

But that's what it was. So, not a good answer. But yeah, there's a lot of... There's some situational things that... I'd say situational things that I felt like helped us win the game. And there's a lot of details where I feel like, you know, could we be further along at this point in the year? Yeah. Should we be? Yes. But also it's, I guess, an area of excitement to know that if we can improve on those things, that the return is pretty great. And I think it's also a nod to like, and I told our team today, is, you know, the margins in our world are very small. And so, you know, if you just, you go back to the last, you know, call it a month or so, really the whole season, this is really, and you can do this for every team, but, you know, these, it's a, what was it? 14 to three, or was it 17 and three? Okay, so, oh, hey, 14 point win. Now that's a big, that's a play away from being a one possession game. You know, you look at the Bears game last week, as much as we felt like it wasn't us, it's a three point game going into the third, you know, because the Denver game is the same way. It's all small margins. So as a team, I think it's very important right now to step our foot on the gas in terms of like chasing edges and being about that life where we can accumulate those advantages. So when it does come down to the ball bouncing a certain way, we maximize the chances for it to go our way, if that makes sense. And that's where I want our focus to be.

SPEAKER_3 (4:08)

DeMarcus Lawrence's best game maybe this year. What were you seeing out of him that really jumped out?

Mike Macdonald (4:12)

Yeah, D Law, he played a great game. He really did. I thought he dominated his one-on-ones, played with incredible energy, run out of the stack, winning pats rushes, being dominant in the run game.