Jeremy Springer on P Mitch Wishnowsky 10/29: "He's done a great job coming in here and being consistent"

Jeremy Springer (0:02)

Yeah, you see that? I'm full support right now. I wish I could watch it, but at least I'll be on the practice field supporting, and yeah, all support to Veronica, and I hope they kill it right now, and they're killing it, so I'm just excited for them, and hopefully they take care of business right now, and I can come out of practice and be excited to see that, and celebrate with the family.

SPEAKER_2 (0:20)

It'll be awesome.

SPEAKER_3 (0:21)

I know things were kind of trending in the direction for Mitch replaced Bryce when you look at the IR numbers, and we'll be coming back and doing that.

Jeremy Springer (0:29)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (0:30)

You can just kind of share briefly some thoughts about Bryce, and what he meant to this team for the last couple of years.

Jeremy Springer (0:35)

Oh, man, I love Bryce, man. Me and him have a really, really strong relationship. I mean, since day one, he's been a straight supporter of me and helped me so much just kind of get affiliated with the area, with the players.

There's nothing that he ever did that was, you know, he was all for the team. He's always for the team. He works his tail off. He's a great punter. He's going to do some great things for where every team picks him up. I can't say enough good things about him, Bella, his wife, their family.

But I'm always, he's always in my back pocket. He'll be a friend from now on forward. And this business, who knows, I might be coaching her next year or at some point down the road, you know, we'll be linked back up together. But excited for his future. It's just like I told him the other day, I'd say it's a stop on your journey. Like we all have stops. We're all going to meet in different places. This is never forever in this business. So best luck to him and like I said, consider him a friend and always will be a friend.

SPEAKER_4 (1:25)

What has Mitch done well?

Jeremy Springer (1:27)

He's just done a great job coming in here being consistent. You know, we came in on short notice after the injury to Bryce and we've told him what we need out of him and he's kind of just delivered on that consistently and having a presence as well. That guy's been in the league for a while, been in two Super Bowls.

Nothing's ever too big or too low for him. He's easy to work with. So it's been really great working with him as well.

The return game, how close do you feel like you guys are at breaking out?

Man, I just, again, I just want to keep stacking, keep stacking. There's gonna be highs and lows in this business. One week we might have a great game, the next week it might take a little bit of a dip. But as long as our guys just continue to learn, and to me, I just look at it myself, like how can I always just coach it better so that, in this kickoff, kickoff return, every week's different. I mean, it's like, it's new stuff you're going to see, it's new guys in new positions, it's never the same. So as long as our guys keep building the reps from the games in practice, and keep seeing all the looks we're going to see, then at some point you get into games, and maybe we didn't practice the look that they're giving, then we can adjust and pick up what they're doing, or be able to adjust to how a guy's attacking us on kickoff. But I do feel really good about what we're projecting right now, and I'm going to keep building on it, and keep instilling confidence, and then hopefully at some point, we have some breakout games and build some momentum, and that's what we're trying to do on special teams, build momentum for offense and defense, and that's what I'm looking for.

SPEAKER_5 (2:51)

Tell me a little bit about the coverage unit specifically, and what are the keys when you're facing a guy like Malik Washington?

Jeremy Springer (2:56)

Man, just first of all, I'll talk about Malik who got us last year, right, in game two. Man, really good returner, really, really good first step, great contact bounce. I mean, the guy just breaks tackles. He spins out of tackles. He's strong, strong runner. So for us, we have to be really, really disciplined. We can't have guys popping out of gaps. We can't have guys just doing their own thing out there. And we got to play with effort and finish, man. Full tilt to the tackle is what we talk about. It's a culture thing for us. And we need to see that on display this weekend. But I think just a discipline, like do your job. Do your 111 against this guy, even right on kickoff return, who does a really good job.