Q. Talk about giving the guys a little bit of a break with the pads coming off today.
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, the pads, that was always really the intent. Yesterday was really the 40-45 play, scrimmage. Today was a mock game, simulation of a game.
Q. Obviously you tweeted something already, but your thoughts on Bobby Bowden passing?
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, Bobby Bowden, he couldn't be more genuine of a person, a man that I respect. Obviously we coached against each other, but compared to the time we spent together on those Nike trips, a dear friend and one of the greatest people I've ever met in my life. What a life he lived, though. 91 years of a great life
Q. You've had some dynasties. His was kind of a little bit further, almost a ridiculous dynasty. Did he really set the standard for all coaches behind him?
URBAN MEYER: Well, you think about Coach Bowden and Coach Spurrier in that era, all young coaches grew up watching Coach Bowden in Tallahassee and Coach Spurrier at the Swamp, and that changed college football.
Q. Is there an update on DJ and his hand?
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, he had surgery, has a minor break, hairline. They plated it, and he should be here for the first game.
Q. You've been out of it for a couple years now. Getting back on the headset, we haven't seen you wear a headset, the play calling on the sideline, how is that going?
URBAN MEYER: You don't usually get wowed by a stadium, but when I walked through there, I was like, oh, my gosh, this is beautiful. Beautiful stadium, great fans. It gets your blood pumping. I heard our players were tired, and then all of a sudden this wakes you up, so appreciate our fans being here, and there's no more excuses. We've got to win some games here.
Q. What's been the progress at quarterback?
URBAN MEYER: (Indiscernible). Not just Trevor but they're all making nice progress.
Q. Walker Little working at both right and left tackle; just discuss his development as camp has gone on.
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, that's Coach Warhop. We're trying to figure out who will be -- just because of sheer numbers, they're cutting this roster down pretty soon. Usually we have three tackles, three inside guys and one flip guy, and we're just trying to find out -- that's been on purpose, why we're trying to see if he can handle the right side.
Q. CJ came back after the COVID and now he's back, he's gone again. Can you talk about what's happening with him?
URBAN MEYER: Personal reasons.
Q. Is it going to be difficult for him to overcome this, like he's missing so much time?
URBAN MEYER: I don't know.
Q. What have you seen from Tyson Campbell?
URBAN MEYER: Tyson Campbell is a very fast guy that plays -- the reason we drafted him, he never panics because he's got elite speed, and he's been really good. He had a tough day on special teams yesterday, but defensively he's been doing very well. We're glad we got him.
Q. Obviously no pads today, just the spiders. In terms of physical contact that you wanted your guys to see, you obviously want to see them giving 100 percent effort, but I know there was one collision with Travis and Dewey. What's your reaction to that?
URBAN MEYER: You know, you'd rather -- I thought our defense did a nice job staying off of people today. Yesterday was a big contact day. Today was not.
Q. You've had Chaisson on almost exclusively at Sam. How have you seen him adapt to this new scheme over the past couple weeks?
URBAN MEYER: Yeah he's Sam in our 1st down defense, which is mostly 3-4, but nickel (indiscernible), so that's mostly two-down, so he's been doing great. He's had a good camp.
Q. Do you like what you've seen from Chaisson over the last two weeks?
URBAN MEYER: I do. I don't know him very well. (Indiscernible) respect because he's a, as we say around here, a Florida six-eighter big guy and he goes hard. He made a couple mistakes yesterday but that's our job. His job is to go hard.
Q. Does anything kind of ramp up internally knowing that Saturday night preseason the calendar starts to kind of tick away?
URBAN MEYER: Well, that's where I'm going to really rely on our veteran coaches. Tomorrow we're going to spend about two hours just discussing Saturday's game. I guess the veteran team sometimes only played one series, the vets, so we're going to work that -- I have an idea, but tomorrow I'm going to have a much better idea, and I'm going to lean on Bevell and Schott and Warhop and Joe Cullen to really just do what's right by our players.
Q. When you're down so many receivers, finding guys like Treadwell and even Tavon Austin, like it's pretty impressive those guys were on the street and able to come in and make plays.
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, it's amazing to me. So what was this guy doing last week? He was at home. Next thing he's playing for the Jaguars. So I admire guys like that, and they've been really good. Treadwell came in, and I'll tell you, he's in the hunt for a spot.
Q. Apologies if this was asked already, but Marvin Jones held out of team drills today?
URBAN MEYER: Marvin Jones had to go back to his family, an issue, all positive, and he came back late last night so we held him out today, but he's good to go.
Q. Can we ask about Josh Allen?
URBAN MEYER: Yeah, I'm going to not steal his thunder, so he's got some really positive cool things going on, but that's between him and his wife.
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