Secondary coach Jerry Gray on Carlos Rogers following Wednesday’s practice:
On where he worked: “He worked with the ones, yep.”
On what role he envisions for Rogers Sunday: “We’ll go out there and compete and the guy is going to go out there and play. It was something that happened in the game and people think he did this, he can’t play anymore. He can play. He just has to go back through the progressions. That’s what we’re working on, so we’ll be ready to go.”
On the double moves: “If you take a look, if you don’t go through your progressions you can’t stop any double move. That’s the thing we’ve worked back on. That’s what you get during offseason and training camp. If you look at the quarterback, you can’t cover any receiver in this league. And that’s what happened.”
On whether or not a decision has been made about who will start: “Not yet. Not yet.”
What he expects from Rogers: “To me if you any type of fighter your espond and fight. That’s’ what I think he’s going to do. We’ll see on Sunday.”
Do you expect him out there Sunday: “Of course. He has too much talent and too much athletic ability and too much fight to not be on the field.”
Why not leave him in the game: “What I do and when I lived that life, if something happens like that I feel to me it’s becoming a trend. It happened in the Philly game, It happened in that game. So I have to protect this guy because sometimes as a corner you can lose confidence. I know those guys over there, I’ve watched enough flim to know that they’re going to pick on guys, they’ll pick on you. And if I left him out there they would pick on him the rest of the game. So I have to be smart enough as a coach to say I’ve got to protecet my guy, we’re tyring to win the game. … It’s all about team.”
On losing more confidence if you get pulled: “No, I don’t think so. I think there’s a period of embarrassment and you get past that and you say coach why did you do that. You explain it and you go on.”
On how Rogers reacted in practice: “He practiced well today so obviously he reacted good.”
On if there was a thoguth to do something to the others who were beaten: “We made the decision at that time. I thought other guys that got beat it was more a mental mistake, it wasn’t so much going through the proper progressions. If you get your depth on the 75-yarder it would have never been a throw. It wasn’t a double cut that the guy was beat on the second time.”
On the double move that Kareem Moore fell for: “We got Kareem, talked to him about it and said to let the underneath coverage take care of that; get your eyes right because what they’re doing, they’re going from the receiver to the quarterback and you can’t stop any routes about that. It’s basic and the great corners know it.”
