OC Brian Schottenheimer – Press Conference 9/12/13

September 12, 2013

(On the Atlanta Falcons)

“It’ll be fun going against them. (Defensive Coordinator) Mike Nolan does a great job. Obviously, I know (Head) Coach (Mike) Smith is real involved as well. Going down there for their home opener, it’ll be loud. It’ll be fun.”

(On the how the game against the Cardinals went overall)

“I thought it went good. We started fast, did a really good job. Kind of had a little bit of a lull there, we get the sudden change there to start the second half. Should’ve been able to punch that in, but didn’t, but I’m real proud of the guys. Young guys, nobody lost their composure, stayed real poised, calm. (QB) Sam’s (Bradford) kind of made that his deal. He can bring us back when we’re down, and I thought there were just some great plays. (TE) Jared Cook, what can you say about him? Kind of what we thought would happen, and certainly Atlanta will be looking at him this week. We’ve got other guys if they take care of him that will show up.”

(On WR Tavon Austin’s first NFL game)

“I thought he did a good job. We move him in a lot of spots. He’s got a big burden, and I thought he did a very, very good job. He got some catches, and again it doesn’t take much for him to catch a ball and get loose. I think that will continue to show up throughout the course of the season.”

(On if there was a reason WR Stedman Bailey didn’t record any plays from scrimmage against the Cardinals)

“No, it’s hard to get five guys going. Again, those guys are in great shape. They’re ready to roll, but Sted’s had a good couple weeks of practice, and when called upon he’ll be ready to go.”

(On taking advantages of sudden change opportunities to score)

“Well, again we just got a good look from them. First down the ball got batted, had a chance maybe to hit a completion to (RB) Daryl (Richardson). A guy jumped and tipped it, made a nice play. Second down they got us with a blitz, just a really good blitz. We didn’t have much of an answer. Sam left the run on. Then, third down they kind of bluffed us and fooled us. Just execution – we’ve got good plays down there. We’ve been good down there working all spring and training camp. It just comes down to execution, taking one play at a time.”

(On if Bradford has the option to audible on the goal line)

“Yeah, absolutely, but there really wasn’t many good things for him to go to in the formation we were kind of in. So, kind of thought maybe the ball would have a chance to squirt through, which sometimes it does. Give them credit. They did a nice job stopping us.”

(On if the interception return for a touchdown was a fluke play against Arizona)

“It was. We brought ‘Cookie’ (Cook) over to try to protect the edge. Sam snapped it a little bit early, so ‘Cookie’ kind of slipped and stumbled. The guy came up the field, got on Sam a little fast. He has to try to beat that guy, and of course, the ball gets batted up in there air. You don’t think a 340-pound defensive lineman is going to catch it and score. Again, came off the field, nobody lost their composure, just talked about the issue. That’s kind of a fluke deal and let’s bounce back.”

(On what Arizona did to limit WR Chris Givens last week and how much it helped to distribute the ball to other players)

“It did. Obviously they matched (CB) Patrick Peterson on him, and again it’s not one of those things where we were going to try to stay away from him. It’s just that he did a good job. Got him early in the game on the shallow cross, kind of ran through some traffic, Chris. He made a nice cut and made Patrick miss, but again when you do that and you isolate on one guy trying to stop him, they certainly saw the big plays Chris was making in the preseason. That opens up the window for ‘Cookie’ to have the kind of day he did, and Tavon to have the six or seven catches that he did.”

(On if the Arizona defense was playing a ‘soft’ coverage)

“Yeah, they mix it in. Everybody in the league is going to have different packages and stuff. Like we try to adjust offensively, they try to adjust. When we hit a couple of the big plays to ‘Cookie’ they started trying to soften things up. But, I thought Sam did a great job of taking what was there.”

(On how the offense’s yards after catch last week is encouraging)

“Well, I think obviously when you upgrade the speed like we did I think you expect that. Again, it’s important, the hidden yards that show up. You can through a shallow cross to Chris for what should be a three or four-yard completion. He makes a guy miss and makes 18 (yards). You get ‘Cookie’ down the middle on a play and he’s hard to catch. So, it’s something we talk a lot about, and again because of our speed, we’ve been able to upgrade it. But, we’ve got to continue to do that and then certainly secure the ball running with it.”

(On the challenges that Atlanta’s defense presents)

“One-gap penetrators, fast run-and-hit linebackers, good tacklers. They do a great job with trying to strip the ball out. Then, obviously on third down Mike Nolan does a great job mixing things up and trying to confuse you. It’ll be a good challenge for us. The thing for us, hopefully we start fast, but it’ll be a great challenge going down there. I guess they’ll get (CB) Asante (Samuel) back this week. That helps them because they’re pretty young in the secondary. We’ve faced these guys quite a bit – just the people, Asante, Mike Nolan, guys like that – and it will be a tremendous challenge.”

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