Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr. meets with the media to talk about the Titans game and preparation for the Panthers.
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00:00 How do you think Derek Carr handled being under pressure in week one?
00:06 Yeah, I think that game one there's always a lot of excitement, a lot of unknown.
00:10 I thought that the whole game he was calm, he had a great demeanor.
00:14 And I think that things didn't go great for us offensively in the first half.
00:19 But I think that we got together at halftime and
00:23 made sure that I thought the way they came out in the second half.
00:26 I thought Derek was calm, poised, all those things that you need to be.
00:30 >> Now you have Brian Burns and Derek Brown in week two,
00:32 what type of challenge do they present?
00:34 >> Yeah, obviously I think that another team that's got a great front seven and
00:40 obviously a great team on the back end as well.
00:43 But they obviously present challenges with disruption and
00:46 the pass rush and disruption in the run game.
00:50 So again, we got our work cut out for us.
00:52 >> Are you guys confident that Trevor Penning will be a little bit better in
00:55 week two handling that?
00:56 >> Yeah, I think that was really his first full game.
00:59 And I think that when you look at this, there's gonna be some growing pains.
01:03 But I think that there's a lot of guys that have to be better, including myself.
01:08 >> What was your assessment of the run game?
01:10 What did you do to kind of get that going?
01:11 >> Yeah, I think this, I think that there's maybe more opportunities with it.
01:16 But I think that there were some opportunities we felt like for
01:20 some better plays.
01:23 Or some more yardage on the, that's again part of the first week and
01:27 getting guys making sure that we're getting on our blocks.
01:30 But there was a couple plays that I think we left some yardage out there.
01:33 But overall, it's gotta be better.
01:34 >> Pete, I think maybe people on the outside looking at
01:40 Shaheed just kind of seem to speak guy.
01:43 But it seems like y'all are taking full advantage of all of his skills.
01:48 I hate what exactly this bring to the table and
01:50 besides just that kind of electric speed.
01:53 >> Well, I think he's a playmaker.
01:55 I think when the ball's in his hands,
01:56 he has an opportunity to turn a small game into a big game.
02:00 And I think that he's really grown in the past game just with experience and time.
02:04 So I think that there's guys that we wanna get the ball in their hands and
02:09 he's one of them.
02:10 >> So when you have a quarterback in his debut game, the team coming to you in that
02:14 last drive and saying, I wanna go, give me a go.
02:16 Is that just a level of trust you have with Derek already at this point?
02:20 >> Yeah, absolutely.
02:22 I think that he bought it up and said, I think we'll have an opportunity to learn.
02:27 And there's trust.
02:28 When you call it, there might be more than one guy that he potentially has
02:32 depending on the coverage.
02:33 But I think we got the matchup we liked and we got by him.
02:37 So I think there's always a ton of confidence, particularly when a player
02:41 during a game or even prior to the game says he has a lot of confidence or
02:44 feels great about a play as the game's going on.
02:46 There's a lot of confidence to call it.
02:48 >> I don't know if the offensive production seemed to mesh really well in
02:51 the second half.
02:52 Basically what you can tell us, what exactly went into the halftime analysis and
02:55 how can you carry that into the two?
02:58 >> I think we just did some little things differently as far as
03:01 really starting with my play calling.
03:03 So I think that we've gotta be efficient on first and second.
03:07 We can't be getting ourselves into these third and long situations.
03:10 And I've probably said that in the past year before, but
03:14 all of a sudden you have 10 of our 16 or whatever it was that were third and
03:19 seven plus and that's the area you don't wanna be in.
03:21 So being more efficient on first and second down.
03:25 >> Derek mentioned that the route with Rashid on the double move that went to
03:29 the touchdown earlier on in the game was something that was kind of identified
03:32 in practice.
03:33 What goes into identifying something like that and then knowing when to deploy it?
03:38 >> I think this, I think obviously it's no one maybe wants to down the distance,
03:43 when do we like that for that certain situation?
03:48 And then as you're repping it, you feel good about it.
03:50 I think that it's been something we've actually repped a few times during
03:53 training camp and then it just felt like the right time.
03:58 >> So it was something that was identified even earlier than just practice that week
04:01 that went back to?
04:02 >> I think it was a play that Derek's, we've talked about,
04:05 Derek has a lot of confidence in that play as well.
04:08 And we were on the headsets and the coach said, hey,
04:11 this might not be a bad time if we get enough yardage to get to it.
04:14 So we went with it and scored, so we give Ronald credit.
04:19 >> I was gonna ask, how much does he factor into sort of making those decisions
04:23 in terms of play calling, what's that communication?
04:25 >> Listen, he's a big help on game day and
04:27 he does a lot of communication with the quarterbacks.
04:29 And there's a lot of communication on the headsets.
04:32 We're just being down on the field with them and communicating.
04:37 >> The creative usage of Chris Alave, what went into that?
04:40 Was that knowing defenses were gonna key in and
04:43 trying to figure out how to give him space or what?
04:45 >> Yeah, again, it was some things we worked on throughout training camp and
04:49 had a real high comfort level with.
04:50 And just an opportunity maybe to do some of those things and
04:54 put them on some of the routes that maybe the other things that we've done with
04:57 Alvin in the past as well.
04:58 So I think that ton of confidence in him running a route where he can make
05:04 a decision as he's coming out of the backfield based on coverage and
05:08 we feel confident with that.
05:10 >> When you're going up against a team that changes defense coordinators,
05:13 which is from a 4-3 to a 3-4, but has a lot of the same pieces,
05:16 how do you kind of factor that in with your game planning?
05:18 Is there a lot of stuff you end up throwing out because it just doesn't apply
05:21 anymore?
05:21 How does that go?
05:22 >> Well, I think it starts fresh every week with the game planning and
05:26 then going back and studying previous films of where maybe a coordinator's been.
05:32 And then also using as much of the film as you can from this year,
05:35 obviously, we're limited with that, with one game.
05:37 But peeking at the preseason as well, and then going back to this back history.
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