Coach Brian Daboll on Jaxson Dart’s development

Published Jun 17, 2025, 3:59 PM

Head Coach Brian Daboll speaks to the Media before practice Tuesday at Quest Diagnostics Training Center.

Ryan, is this camp could be any different than what you've been doing as far as teaching or you gonna shift the focus in.

No, it'll look very similar for y'all. We have more meeting time. We had an extra walkthrough, we have meetings after practice. Some of the routine is a little bit different, but as far as the practice field, the rules are still the rules. How has having looked so far just through off the Z two's and cats that pass?

But just how has he looked so far just transitioning in your opinion?

Heah, he's done a nice job. He's picked up things well inside. You know, training camp will be a you know, important time of the year for him. As for all the off that's alignment, we've.

Only seen him on the left side. What was the thought project?

Just familiar there?

Or are you're moving around we're not here?

Yeah, I mean we'll figure all that out by the time, you know, training camp and preseason game starts.

Do you can you establish a foundation in this mini camp?

Is is it an opportunity to do.

That for the upcoming year?

Well, you're trying to establish learning what to do and playing fast and practicing the right way, staying off the ground, staying away from the quarterback, doing the things you need to do to get work done and get things accomplished without pads on. So I think all the guys that put a lot of time and effort and energy into learning some of the systems, some of the systems new, some of the things we're doing are a little bit different. Plus you have the young guys that you drafted and then the free agents that are new players that are working together. The communication process is very important playing with different players, being able to make calls, give a call, get a call, being on the same page, being locked in in that regard. So a very important time of year for us times in terms of laying that foundation of knowing what to do. And then once training camp hits, you know, the trains going pretty quickly. There's not a lot of time for pulling back getting another rep. You know, we're trying to figure out, you know, what side a person's playing on or who they're playing with. Those are those are the things for training camp will get answered.

One of the guys who have been were held out of the ots or in the team portion, any of them do anything this week like the league decks.

Yeah, I'd say they're all different spots, like I said last time, and you know everybody's here and at different stages of what we're asking to do.

Well.

Will anything that you've seen in all the OTAs and the MIDI camp today after you assess that what you liked maybe what you didn't like as much, will any of that affect any of your plan in training camp? Like you know what, we need to work more on this. We don't have to work you know what I'm saying. You have a training camp plan set up, sure, but will anything that you've seen in the spring change.

That a little bit? Yeah, it's a good question, Paul. So we've changed things throughout the OTAs based on you know, really need to get more out of this day or practice this situation. We'll do that every day after a training camp practice of hey, let's make sure we get back to that. Maybe we're going to get back to a practice for let's get back to it a little bit quicker. There's always conversations that take place and we'll do what we think is best.

Brian, and that was Bobby doing and I know he had that back injury last years. Is not practicing anything to do with that? And is it anything to worry about long term.

Yeah, i'd say I'd say with with all the injuries, these guys are working hard.

To get back.

No, not long term, Ran, Have you determined when you're going to start.

Yeah, we're worked. We worked through you know, l Y and I are still going through all the you know, logistics with things. We're close, but you know, it requires a lot of meetings with a lot of different people in the organization, whether it's a strength coach and nutritionist, trading staff. You know, we're still working through, but we're we're really.

Close's talked about how there's a lot they get to throw out a rookie quarterback. How would you describe how Jackson has handled everything the spring and how he's done.

Yeah, he's not excellent, He's picking up information, he's you know, it's really good to have Russ and and even Tommy because Tommy's been in this system for a few years here and it's kind of the head statesmen in terms of that and all the adjustments that that take place or the calls. He's fit right in with those guys. He's smart, he's aggressive with the football, which I like, and then you know, the true test will be once once we start and there's live hitting and preseason games and things like that. But he's progressed, you know, since he's been here to where he's not, he's made he's made good improvement when.

It comes to young quarterbacks quarterbacks, Brian, do you prefer to to kind of give him everything at once and see what sticks? Or do you just a little bit at a time and kind of what your your overall game plan.

Yeah, it's a good question. I'd say philosophy in general is to throw a lot at that all these guys, and then you pull it back and see what kind of sticks, and then you break it down a little bit, and then you throw it all at him again, and then by the third time they hear it, they're usually a lot more comfortable with the information. Again, there's a lot of information for the quarterbacks, I'd say, in any system, but I think throwing it at them, bringing it back, breaking it down in smaller parts, and then throwing it back at them were kind of whole part whole philosophile learning it from coach, saving.

Any specific situation throughout your your coaching career where you took that approach and when you went to go see what stuck a specific player was like why kind of took on a little bit more than I expected.

To turn them out absorbing the information and not not not in not a specific situation. I think they're all a little bit different. You know, our own receivers have done a good job, and you know, coach receivers for a long time. We got you know, some undrafted free agents that have done a really nice job since they've been here of absorbing it and then being able to play fast, so you get, you know, some type of valuation to their skill set. Receivers a little bit easier at this time of year based on how we do things without the pads on. But they're all they're all a little bit different. Veterans included to come in free agents, but they usually have something to you know, relate it back to that they did it another system or someone on knew that called it this way, and then you try to you know, try to put the best product account.

James's got a big personality, tends to keep things loose for a lot of people. Is that is that an important job to.

Kind of keep things loose and fun.

Everybody's different, you know, the most important thing is knowing what to do and then going out there and being able to do it. But he's certainly a fun guy to be around in the meetings outside, but he takes his craft seriously. Obviously a high pick, the highest pick you could have, and been around the block a little bit a couple of different places. He's been a good addition.

So much talk about the.

Mental park for rookie quarterback, but he comes on the field, do you have you break him down and build him up or like you say, this is already does it and work with it like just you know, I mean like fundamentals or just how you replay, Like how do you approach out rooky quarterback?

Yeah, well so he falls back and naturally on his fundamentals of how he throws the football. Are there little tweaks? You can make sure they're little tweaks, But then when you add all the information that goes along with it, you know, sometimes it's overload, which is fine. You know, it happens to all young players. But you you coach them technique wise and individual drills and coach them throughout the practice of movement in the pocket or taking too much or turning the loose when you can turn it loose or avoiding a sack. But there's you know, you understand that there's going to be a lot of things to teach off of for these young guys. But he's he's done a great job with You can give him a lot, he can he can absorb a lot, and then he knows kind of what to weed out and then what to really focus on the next day. So he's he's been good.

We've seen him primarily the last couple times we've been here working with the second team offense. That is that because of the way he's absorbed information. Is that kind of where you want him to settle and get most of his steps? Obviously not all.

Yeah, I'd say he's worked with the second team, the first team, and the third team age.

You said, I'm not going to raft.

You know, you'll have a plan for Jackson and there will be times where he won't know what that plan is and you'll put him in on the spots.

Have you done much of that in the RTAs put? Is that is that more of training camp thing?

And why is that important for you to see how he handles some curve balls.

Well, it's good to get him in with the with the ones. You know, there's usually a level of anxiety at times for young players when they get thrown into the mix. It's not exactly planned in terms of he's getting Rep. Three. Sometimes we'll just say get in there, and then he's he's calling to play in front of veterans that have done it at a high level. I think that's important. Or you know, put him with the threes for a while where he's got to kind of instruct some other guys that are asking questions about things that maybe Wandell already knows the answer to that are asking him in a huddle, and just try to get him as many different situations as you can, uh so when it happens, because inevitably it'll happen at some point that he's went through it at least one or two times all the players in the buildings then there. Do you view Andrew Thomas as you're replaceable on your line? Now? I view him as a really good player for us, and he's doing a good job of rehabbing and you know, get close to getting back out here. Yeah, he's rehabbing. He's doing everything he can do to get better. So we'll see when that time comes

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