Blue Adams | Michigan State Football | Defensive Backs Coach | Preseason Camp Update

so he he allows you to have some flexibility and be able to do some things can't zero in on what he is he's not a nickel he's at corner he's not as safe like he you never know where he's at he's just going to end up somewhere sorry go ahead yeah is what he's brought to you guys after the coming I think I think he's had a he's had a really good camp as well I think most of those dudes have had really good camps um again uh he's everywhere you know what I mean those guys are everywhere they're interchangeable um and I think I think I think as as as a group we're more like a Legos Legos and we just kind of piece things together and get guys out there our Moran obviously had a pretty good spring and kind of show obviously dealing with some other stuff how man you want to talk about inspiring um for him to have gone through what he's gone through and he shows up and he works and doesn't save a whole lot I coach football he's living life um so it's it's it's inspiration to see that young man with is that and you hate to look at it this way but a lot of times when tragedy happens there could be a galvanizing force and that's the showing that you guys had down there it looks like everybody's not just rallying around him but then together I would must rather him not have that tragedy you didn't get to coach him in the spring think what has he showing you this this he's a football player he's a football player it means something to him he leaves his heart and soul out there every time because I think he's a great leader he reached back for the young dudes like I can't say enough about this man here and what he has gone through and what he's still giving us even now um like I say I coach football he's living life and cards that he's dealt he's been dealt I've seen a lot of people not not play those cards and he's doing a really good job and it's it's going to be a battle for a long time for him I just hope I'm there to support him in every way I can blue we talked about your learning the system and whatnot how do you feel like the systems being uh ingrained with the players getting ready for game one obviously how far is that part man they take it and run with it we present the information they gobble it up and they're able to go out there and make it work breathe life into it and that's all you can ask from from from those men you show them new Concepts and different plays and Route Concepts and he take it and breathe life into it so it's been awesome to see how how they've grown throughout this process as long as well as us coaches how we just kind of just make it work yeah with being like a week away from the season just what are some of the biggest uh areas of emphasis what are some of the things that you guys are trying to clean up and get through to them just before the opener just still uh we want to make sure from a fundamental standpoint we stay fundamental fundamentally sound um we're running to the ball like we have effort um assignment sound um just you know the small things that goes a long way as you get towards the get into these Seasons how's Malik Spencer doing Malik's another guy man like I think all of those guys back there good men in the room um Malik's doing well um he's probably another leader back there um Dylan Tatum is is a leader back there that's helping us get better um Angelo gross he's he's I mean I don't I couldn't have inherited a better room from just men and then they great ball players and so yeah I think I think they're doing a good job position you've got Angelo gross who else I assume Angelo's there I'm WR but I don't know who's there yet okay you know um that's the beauty of just what we have it's going to be neck and neck and um I think whoever you put out there going to do a really good job for you I know your safey you coach correct me if I'm wrong but you coach your safey is to have that flexibility to play some nickel against some opponents and some I yeah so the nickels and the safeties are we're in the same room and we speak the same language and some sometimes this guy is not a good matchup for that guy and we should have a matchup that we can win with with with those men in that room so Angelo would be one candidate possibly it's nichel are there some others that are rolling there yeah um it's been a lot of guys I think nikai has played some nickel um Angelo has played some nickel Tatum has played some nickel um Spencer has been down there playing some nickel so it depends on what they're trying to do it might be a Maran down there if you want to get a team that wants to just pound us we want to put put a bigger body down there from a roof standpoint I we try to make it simple where they can digest it and be able to operate out there some guys obviously a little bit better at it but we I think you I think you can win with any one of those combinations that you put out there that's NE about this but is there any freshman who kind of Pop to the point where you're just like I can't we can't not get them on the field like they got to be out there no not so much yet um I think right now for where we are we just know it's going to be a good set of guys and so um um The Freshman have been doing a really good job um Justin Denon has kind of showed up a little bit but when they got the teachers that they have in that room and then the the leaders that they have like that and you see some of those older guys they like invested in the success of these young men of the younger dudes yeah they make plays they flash they show up as a young guy because he's getting top before I can get to him Malik has him or Tatum has have have coached him up and so I'm just when I by the time I get there I'm just like you understand give me the thumbs up and then we can move on a decent chunk of your room of guys that are like Tatum Spencer gross were all here last year and played a lot through everything that was going on do you see that come through in any kind of way whether it's just their excitement or ready to turn the page to terminate you that type of stuff through some stuff here again like the the things that these men have gone through uh last year even now life when we hit the grass when we're in the building like they just find a way to find a way they find a way to make it work and I'm pretty sure it can get stressful outside the building and if it becomes too stressful they always up in our rooms in our in our offices and want to talk and um sometimes it's it's amazing to hear the conversations outside of football once we get up in and we just get an opportunity just to sit back and not really look at football there some funny dudes now some fun are you the most about recruiting the Midwest it's a lot of ball players in a short in a short radius there's some there's some ball players and so sometimes you end up at some schools that you got to get on the plane to go find some players just put some gas in the car you'll find a couple real close one more thing if I could um the most recent scrimmage what were you looking to get done that day and how did it turn out I thought it I thought it turned out well um I was looking for 40 picks I didn't get that um but I thought it well I thought it went well I think the guys just kind of settling in and kind of you can always tell because the disguise is a little bit better the urgency is a little bit better the communication is a little bit better and so if you go out there and you close your eyes you just hear a bunch of chatter and so I I know we're on we're on the right path now um because guys are starting to and you can hear how confident they are how they communicate seems to being so close to start um well for me it's just another another day um to get better so we just got to continue to push the guys I know we have a game coming up but there still a lot of lot of things we got to cover a lot of things we got to do so we just keep pushing them and try to get better on the day day and day in Michigan State Spartan now how much of uh your past coaching experience with uh coach Smith is being infused into this new team right now I think every year you you kind of rebuild the team okay um you kind of have a different perspective in terms of coaching things you want to emphasize so I think we've kind of all becoming Spartans at the same time that new brand of ball and so it it's been it's been awesome it's been awesome to see us kind of kind of melt together and and to produce a new brand of ball Spartan ball going off that a little bit learning what Joe Rousy wants and how he runs things just how's the whole process gone for you man it's good man you want to talk about being around uh a coach that that's a a ball coach a football mind like he has he has the answers um so it's always nice just to kind of sit back and just see how he comes up with with the plan um his adjustments off off you know with the plan so uh from that aspect it's it's been awesome to work with Coach Rossy and and see how his his defense has been so successful FAL was saying like it's almost kind of a fun challenge for guys like in your profession to learn a new system absolutely stretch your mind like some different way is that have you experienced it too yeah yeah I mean you know you you've been around a ball if you've been around bald a lot you know there's so many ways of of getting it done sometimes you know you can kind of get caught in your way um but as long as you have open mind you can always learn and I think that's probably been the the biggest challenge for me and the biggest uh the most exciting for me it's just opening up my mind allowing New Philosophy allowing new techniques just ways of getting it done and so it's it's I'm I'm adding to my to my coaching uh resume so how's your group look we're working we're working it's always a work in progress uh some days are better than others but we continue to try to get better on a day in day out basis with Dylan um has he settled on a position yet or do you kind of I think he's a DB you know I mean so uh the good thing about those guys are it's so interchangeable um and and you know you have some guys with different skill sets so um I just think that's that's the strength of who we are on the back end right now um you're going to always get the best out there even if that guy is playing another position so um that's that's always that's always good when you got guys with flexibility yeah I was going to ask you how much that flexibility maybe helps with different me was talking about being able to have different packages in the corner back but man a guy like Dylan you know want sh outside shut him down oh it doesn't yeah yeah he's a ball player now he's a ball player so he he allows you to have some flexibility and be able to do some things you can't zero in on what he is he's not a nickel he's at corner he's not as safe like he you never know where he's at he's just going to end up somewhere