Klint Kubiak and Joe DeCamillis Presser - 11.13.26

Klint Kubiak (0:00)

Thomas Booker is questionable. I'll take any of your questions.

Joe DeCamillis (0:02)

Treasurer, do you want to go?

Klint Kubiak (0:04)

Yes.

Joe DeCamillis (0:05)

I don't think we saw Dante out there practice today.

Klint Kubiak (0:08)

Questionable as well, he's got to back.

SPEAKER_3 (0:11)

You've talked about this being just another game, but how do you make sure it is just another game, not only for yourself, the staff, the players that were there last year, and everything that you guys accomplished?

Klint Kubiak (0:20)

Yeah, it's easy, because the more experience you have in the NFL, the more you treat them all the same, and it's going to be an important game, because it's the next game for us, and obviously, I see some, you know, a lot of people with a lot of extremely strong bonds that I'll have forever, that I'm so grateful to see and say hello to, and then it's game time.

SPEAKER_3 (0:41)

How much do you like the chess match, the chess match element of coaching on game day?

Klint Kubiak (0:46)

My favorite part of game day is just seeing the players, you know, go out there and put their bodies on the line and play with each other, you know. I know that is a part of the game, but just see things that you've worked on, come to life in the game, see guys battle through adversity, you know, that's the joy, joy of getting to be on the sidelines and coaching.

Joe DeCamillis (1:07)

What advantage has come from having Brock Bowers match step against Corners the way he has been this year?

Klint Kubiak (1:14)

Yeah, you know, Brock demands excellent coverage from the best players every week, and he's earned it.

SPEAKER_4 (1:20)

And you said Fernando is like the same person that he was before versus now when he's a starting quarterback, but did you see him during practice this week? Did you turn it up a notch?

Klint Kubiak (1:28)

Um, you know, I didn't, you know, I think that's that's what you want from coaches you work with and the players you work with is, is that there's no surprises and people are the same all the time. You know, obviously, intensity gets, gets notched up. But you want to go see what they've done in practice. You want to see how it shows up in the game. And usually it's those, you know, emotionally stable individuals that that are able to treat practice in the games the same way.

SPEAKER_5 (1:54)

Klint, you are halfway through your rookie year as a head coach and coaching is coaching. But how are you enjoying the minutia of a head coach? It's a lot different. And it seems like you're adjusting. Well, how are you enjoying it and how are you dealing with it?

Klint Kubiak (2:08)

You know, it's such a blessing to get to work in this league, whatever position that you are, position coach or your quality control, you're one of 32 And I think you realize how special and how unique that is and how it's not for long either.

The NFL will chew you up and spit you out, so you better make sure you're enjoying it on the way.

SPEAKER_3 (2:28)

We talked about the feeling of going against them, but logistically, the challenge of you guys know each other, they know you from a system standpoint, like is there a tendency to maybe overthink that? Or I guess how do you handle that part of the game?

Klint Kubiak (2:40)

Yeah, absolutely. Those are the discussions that you have on game plan nights, and then you break your meeting, and you're on the same page, and now it's about the players. How do we get them ready to go? And I think you take that piece out of it. There's a lot of discussion in game planning every week. Hey, what have we put on tape? What do we think they're seeing? What are they gonna do?

And then you have to make a decision, then you get your butt out in the practice field and then make sure the players are executing.

SPEAKER_3 (3:06)

How much were you able to maybe talk to Rob this week about what you know about their offensive players from last year?

Klint Kubiak (3:12)

Yes, definitely have discussions about that, about personnel and scheme, and that's definitely part of the process this week.

SPEAKER_6 (3:19)

You spent half a season so far trying to run the football effectively.

Your questions will play complimentary football week after week. At this point, what can you do differently to get your running game on track?

Klint Kubiak (3:33)