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00:00What is the status of DeMarcus Covington? I feel like throughout the year, you know, we talk about Mayo every day, we talk about Wolf a good amount, Van Pelt clearly with, you know, him working closely with Drake May, the defense hasn't been very good, you know, Tua is another one of these quarterbacks in a long line this season that had another, you know, great career high type of day.
00:21Covington's name doesn't get brought up a ton. What do you think his sort of status is here now and going forward?
00:30First of all, I think the reason he wasn't brought up so frequently was, you know, the absence of Peppers, Barmore and Bentley for so long was cited as a reason that, of course, is going to be backsliding in the removal of Judon.
00:44So, there was, to me at least, I would say, well, what do you want? That's going to look that way.
00:51But when you see the communication issues and when you see how overmatched they are and the lack of innovation during games, for instance, I still think one of the worst ideas I've seen coaching-wise this year was an all-out blitz on Matthew Stafford when you're down 14-10 on the first possession of the second half.
01:12He's a 16-year veteran and you've already seen this movie with Geno Smith and D.K. Metcalf in Week 2. What did you think was going to happen? What was the reward for the risk that you were going to put out there?
01:22Because the risk was a touchdown, which they got. So, I think as the season has gone along, there's more focus has switched to Covington because of the nature of the mistakes.
01:33They're not physical mistakes. They play hard. They're just confused. And if they're confused, you have to ask, well, are they prepared adequately and why are they not able to switch as adeptly?
01:46And I think the Steve Belichick and Gerard Mayo, Mayo now spending less time, obviously, with the defense because he's more of the CEO and obviously not having Bill there to oversee or at least tinker.
01:57And Bill spent more time on offense the last couple of years because Steve and Gerard would have it locked down.
02:02So, I think Covington was not in a great spot, but sorry. I mean, it is what it is. You're not in a great spot. You can't just say, well, what can you do? You have to do something.