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Afternoon Blitz, Schein and Miller
Schien and Miller said we cleaned up this weekend
A breakdown -
Whiz says it was a very natural transition for him to become a head coach.
On Levi Brown -
Had Peterson and Brown at the same level. Based on his philosophy of building DLine and OLine they chose Levi Brown. Levi will play at RT at first then will try him at LT.
Thinks Oliver Ross (from memory) and Mike Gandy are solid.
Called Lutui a mauler, and likes to have Levi and Duece on one side.
---Talked about the draft for a while----
On Alan Branch -
Very early as the Cards Head Coach he thought Alan Branch might be their guy at #5. He was #12 overall on our board. Very excited to get Branch.
Says Branch will effect the opposing team's plans on offense, and knew this because of playing players like Kris Jenkins, Casey Hampton, and the Jags DT's
Thinks the reason he fell was pure speculation, and by the rumour mill going around about him. Says Cardinals didn't listen to rumours and would have picked him at 15 or 16 if they had that pick.
Thinks that basing Branch's production on his stats is ridiculous. The fact Branch pushes double teams backwards is more important than stats.
On Ben Patrick and L.Pope -
He was on our board for round #5. Whiz hopes Patrick can learn to block better cause that is what we need, and that goes for Pope as well. Thinks Pope is very talented. Note: Whiz likes 2 TE sets.
On Breaston -
Looking for him to make an immediate impact on special teams. He will be looked at to play some WR as well.
Minicamps -
Whiz is saying it is really hard for him to wait till the 12th to get with the entire team. He wants to get the players into his system as soon as he can. He say guys working hard in wieght room.
Whiz's first question he had for the Cardinals when he came in to interview -
"Why didn't win?" From the responses he got back, Whiz thinks the problem was:
We have good players at skill positions, who thought they were good enough to win games but had been given no direction what they needed to do to get better as a team.
Also, the Cardinals needed to upgrade the offensive line at nearly every position.
On Whiz's philosophy-
He chose coaches that believe in the system, and believes this causes the players will by into it. When it comes to practice he wants competition and physical practices.
About the players' thoughts on the draft -
The players excited about draft.
On Matt Leinart -
Matt Leinart is in everyday working hard, he has literally not missed a day at the office. Whiz really likes Matt as a leader, and is looking for big plays in passing game that are set up by running the football.
On other teams in division -
Not Happy. Thinks teams in our division did very well this weekend (draft) and the division got tough very quickly. He was hoping to have a year or so before it started to be as competitve as the AFC North.
That is it.
Schien and Miller said we cleaned up this weekend
A breakdown -
Whiz says it was a very natural transition for him to become a head coach.
On Levi Brown -
Had Peterson and Brown at the same level. Based on his philosophy of building DLine and OLine they chose Levi Brown. Levi will play at RT at first then will try him at LT.
Thinks Oliver Ross (from memory) and Mike Gandy are solid.
Called Lutui a mauler, and likes to have Levi and Duece on one side.
---Talked about the draft for a while----
On Alan Branch -
Very early as the Cards Head Coach he thought Alan Branch might be their guy at #5. He was #12 overall on our board. Very excited to get Branch.
Says Branch will effect the opposing team's plans on offense, and knew this because of playing players like Kris Jenkins, Casey Hampton, and the Jags DT's
Thinks the reason he fell was pure speculation, and by the rumour mill going around about him. Says Cardinals didn't listen to rumours and would have picked him at 15 or 16 if they had that pick.
Thinks that basing Branch's production on his stats is ridiculous. The fact Branch pushes double teams backwards is more important than stats.
On Ben Patrick and L.Pope -
He was on our board for round #5. Whiz hopes Patrick can learn to block better cause that is what we need, and that goes for Pope as well. Thinks Pope is very talented. Note: Whiz likes 2 TE sets.
On Breaston -
Looking for him to make an immediate impact on special teams. He will be looked at to play some WR as well.
Minicamps -
Whiz is saying it is really hard for him to wait till the 12th to get with the entire team. He wants to get the players into his system as soon as he can. He say guys working hard in wieght room.
Whiz's first question he had for the Cardinals when he came in to interview -
"Why didn't win?" From the responses he got back, Whiz thinks the problem was:
We have good players at skill positions, who thought they were good enough to win games but had been given no direction what they needed to do to get better as a team.
Also, the Cardinals needed to upgrade the offensive line at nearly every position.
On Whiz's philosophy-
He chose coaches that believe in the system, and believes this causes the players will by into it. When it comes to practice he wants competition and physical practices.
About the players' thoughts on the draft -
The players excited about draft.
On Matt Leinart -
Matt Leinart is in everyday working hard, he has literally not missed a day at the office. Whiz really likes Matt as a leader, and is looking for big plays in passing game that are set up by running the football.
On other teams in division -
Not Happy. Thinks teams in our division did very well this weekend (draft) and the division got tough very quickly. He was hoping to have a year or so before it started to be as competitve as the AFC North.
That is it.
