On Mayfield not running as much this week:
“It is still a feel. It is a still a feel to the game. It is not something to where we say, ‘Do not do it.’ It is the feel of the game. It is the extension of a play. We can see, and I have been able to see for my whole career on quarterbacks one read run, one read run. The really good ones are one read, buy time, run if I have to and can I make a play? He is looking to make that play even when he is extending the pocket.
“Another really positive thing is that is a dominant pass rush they have when you look at those guys and you are on the field with them. Baker, our tight ends, our backs and our linemen did a really good job of negating what was a big topic last week in their pass rush and negating the effectiveness of some of those dominant plays they have there. Our deal was – make no bones about it – we have to protect the football. A big part of the game was our ability to capitalize in the red zone.
“We need to get there more. Our offense has been outstanding in the last month now. When you get them down in the [red zone], they are putting touchdowns on the board, and then what we were able to do on negating touchdowns, even when they get there. Those field goals that they did get were because of a couple of critical third downs that we allowed that field position to happen. Now, they end up getting a field goal or two. We just have to get better in those areas.”
On if Mayfield was impacted by previous hits that has caused him to not be as mobile:
“I do not think it affected him, and I think that his mobility is excellent. Those are things that you can’t teach. You really can’t. You either have that even before you even get up to this level, and nine times out of 10, you have it before anybody ever coaches you. There is just a feel for playing the position and extending the play and a mobility in the pocket when you can and can’t do it. I want you to think back to earlier in the year when the feeling of he can do it when it all collapses on him.
“All of a sudden, he was taking sacks in some of those situations. You do not see that anymore. That is that feel of when I actually can buy time. When there are certain times when you are surrounded and certain times the feel of a quarterback, they can’t tell you and I can’t tell you why – I may be looking here but feel here. I can be looking here but feel here. That is the instincts of playing the position in the pocket. He has very good instincts that way. He really does.”
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