Transcript: Minnesota Vikings Defensive Coordinator George Edwards
John Randle Jersey , 14 August On Tuesday afternoon at the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center, Minnesota Vikings Defensive Coordinator George
Edwards got an opportunity to address the media. Quite a few subjects were
talked about, including the progress of Mike Hughes, the upcoming joint
practices with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and some reasoning for why Marcus
Sherels will probably be on this roster for a long time to come.Below is the
full transcript of Edwards’ remarks on Tuesday, courtesy of the Minnesota
Vikings PR Department.Coming back from our first preseason game, getting back to
work yesterday and today. Then we’ve got Jacksonville in here to practice
against the next two days. Guys are coming back in after the game, we got the
stuff corrected. We’re looking forward to try to get better over the next couple
days.Q: What are your thoughts on Mike Hughes performance?A: Mike did a lot of
good things. The attention to detail that he displayed schematically with what
we’re asking him to do, for a rookie, was impressive for the first outing. We
just look for him to keep continuing to compete every day and keep working on
the fundamentals and techniques that we’re asking him to do. Just look for him
to be consistent as we keep working down the road.Q: Is there anybody that you
like to compare Hughes to?A: Well, I’m not really in the comparison business but
I’ll say this, for everything that we’re asking him to do, to play inside and
outside, he’s been as good as any that we’ve had in here with the attention to
detail with what we’re asking out of him as far as an inside nickel and outside
corner. He really has excelled. You could see it carry over from practice right
to the game, it wasn’t big for him at all.Q: Do you like the joint practices and
if so, why?A: I think it’ll be good work against a good football team that had a
lot of success last year. For our guys to come out here and we’ve been working
against our offense since we started
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their personnel and schematics of what they try to do. We’re excited about it.
For us, it’s still an evaluation to get out here and work the techniques and the
fundamentals between each group. Just tie it all together that way. Rather than
going against our offense, which we’ve kind of been going against all offseason
and here at training camp, it’s kind of a break from that and working on
something new schematically.Q: How do you limit the tension and altercations
that have occurred in other joint practices around the league?A: I think coaches
explain to our guys what the purpose of this is and we can’t let emotions be the
driving thing as far as our reactions and our decisions. It’s going to be
competitive but you also have to control your emotions. During the course of the
game, we don’t want penalties. So, we try to simulate all those things out here
at practice and try to get them to understand how important it is and that it’s
imperative that we don’t have penalties that hurt ourselves.Q: What did you make
of the new rules in the first preseason game?A: I think our guys, going in we
have emphasized it, we’ve always kind of emphasized looking at your target and
keeping your head up. So, we didn’t really have a lot of problems with it. I
know the other team had two penalties called, one of them was that. We just keep
emphasizing the fundamentals. The point of emphasis is that for the preseason
and going into the season and rightly so. So, we’re just going to keep preaching
it, we’re going to keep working on it, keep coaching it. Hopefully we don’t have
any problems with guys ducking their heads.Q: Do you think it will have an
impact on the game?A: I think it will but I think it’s a necessary means, it’ll
clean up some of the guys that do lower their helmets. But, at the end of the
day, I think everybody is teaching to keep your head up. We just have to keep
emphasizing it. They know that it’s going to be called so hopefully we can take
out helmet hits to the head
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is talk about what we do. What other guys, how they’re coaching it or how
they’re emphasizing it. There are some really tough calls when you look at it. I
think a part of that is because it is such a big emphasis. But, at the end of
the day, for player safety, I think it’s a tool that we need to make sure we are
on top of as far as our coaching and our teaching.Q: What’s the biggest
challenge for Jalyn Holmes?A: I think Jalyn, right now, is just adjusting to a
new technique, new fundamentals as we’re playing him inside. Just being more
consistent, I think, is the biggest thing with him right now in the run game and
the pass game. He really flashed some good pass rush for us in this past game.
He’s a lot better against the run in this ball game. The consistent factor,
looking for it out here in practice. I don’t think the game was too big for him.
He kind of parlayed what we’ve been teaching him to the game and really did some
nice things for us this past week.Q: How come Anthony Barr didn’t play in
Denver?A: Those questions coach is going to have to answer for you. I refer all
those to him when it comes to the injuries or who is up or who is down. Q: How
has he looked so far in camp?A: He’s had a good camp. He’s done a good camp.
We’ve asked him to do some things pass rush wise and he’s really taken it and
really excelled at it as we’ve been working through the process this offseason
and through training camp.Q: What has it been like as a defensive coach as every
year these point of emphasis seem to regard defenses changing the way they play
the game?A: Well, they’re doing a lot of things for player safety, which is
great. Then just the different things that we’ve had to adjust to. I mean, let’s
face it, this is an offensive driven league when it comes to that. I’ve been
doing it for 21 years, over those 21 years there’s been those points of emphasis
every year. Whether it’s been contact down the field
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a point of emphasis and we don’t want penalties to set us back and stop drives
and do all those things as we progress during the course of the season. I think
it’s all been good for the game and we’ve just got to keep working to clean
things up and make it the best so they can compete at the highest level that
they can.Q: Where do you think Marcus Sherels is at as a cornerback at this
point of his career?A: Marcus has done a tremendous job for us. He’s worn a lot
of hats for us defensively since we’ve been here. You talk about his punt return
ability but he plays the nickel for us, we have no problem sticking him in there
to play nickel, and he plays outside. So, Marcus is an asset to us defensively.
Also, as far as going into the game, having him on the roster, the capabilities
if something happens or package-wise if we want to use his skill set, we know
that he’s right there. It’s been a blessing to have him. EAGAN, Minn. — Seeking
a solution for their longtime kicking trouble, the Minnesota Vikings have
acquired specialist Kaare Vedvik in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens.Vedvik has
kicked and punted for Baltimore, which was set at those positions with standouts
Justin Tucker and Sam Koch. The Ravens announced on Sunday they obtained an
unspecified draft pick in the deal, pending a physical exam for Vedvik, and the
Vikings released veteran long snapper Kevin McDermott later to make room.More
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Counts: Penalties spoil Mattison’s big dayVedvik was expendable to the Ravens
because of the consistency and excellence of Tucker and Koch, and the
league-wide interest in the native of Norway and former Marshall University
kicker and punter increased after Vedvik went 4 for 4 on field goals in
Baltimore’s first preseason game on Thursday. One was from 55 yards, and Vedvik
also made a pair of extra points and punted twice for a 55.5-yard average.The
Ravens announced the trade just minutes before Vikings coach Mike Zimmer spoke
to reporters. He declined to acknowledge the deal.“If we indeed made a trade,
it’s to try to get better guys, wherever we do that,” Zimmer said.Minnesota
currently has veteran kicker Dan Bailey, who missed seven field-goal attempts
last season with a career-worst 75% conversation rate, and punter Matt Wile. By
cutting the incumbent McDermott, the Vikings have turned over the long snapper
role to rookie Austin Cutting, a seventh-round draft pick from Air Force.
They’ve been trying different holders in camp, too, creating more instability in
a kicking unit that has struggled often during Zimmer’s five-plus-year
tenure.Bailey connected on all four of his extra-point attempts and didn’t have
a field-goal try in the first preseason game on Friday.“Honestly, I really like
Dan Bailey,” Zimmer said. “I think he’s a very professional, mature kid. We’ve
been having some issues with the three
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timing is different. The holding we’re working on quite a bit. I like Dan.”Wile,
who was the holder last year, was tied for ninth in the NFL in 2018 with a
41.5-yard net punting average. He punted twice Friday for a 42.5-yard
average.“The first punt was inside the 20, but not by much,” Zimmer said. “I
think he should have got it closer to the end zone on that one. I think he’s
been better this camp. Directionally, he still needs to work on going to his
left. But I think he’s done better this camp.”Vedvik spent the entire 2018
season on the non-football injury list for the Ravens after he suffered serious
injuries to his head and face as the victim of an apparent assault the day
before final cuts were made. He told police then he didn’t remember what
happened.“A lot more emotional than I thought it was going to be,” Vedvik told
the team’s website after Baltimore’s game on Thursday. “A lot of anticipation.
It’s been a long year building up to come back to this moment again. I love
football. I love sports. Getting back on the field, it’s a different
feeling.”
