DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR ANTHONY CAMPANILE
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025
(On CB Jarrian Jones’ consistency) “Yeah, he’s been really good for us. Like you said, just a
lot of consistency in his play. I thought he played really well the other day and he’s a guy you
can rely on, so he’s just been super locked in, serious in the meetings and out there on the
field. He’s been really good as a communicator too, so I think he’s really comfortable in the
system. He’s definitely taking the strides we were looking for.”
(On how DLs Danny Striggow and B.J. Green II played) “I thought they did a really good job. I
thought they gave us the effort, competitiveness that we were looking for. When you go
back and watch those plays, there’s a lot of plays the guys are not staying blocked and
that’s what makes a good defensive unit, guys not staying blocked. There’s going to be
somebody to account for you. Can you whip that block? Can you get to the football? If you
hit the ground, get up like it’s a hot stove. That type of mentality. They brought that to us out
there the other day and did a good job.”
(On DT Arik Armstead) “He’s doing a good job for us. He made some big plays in the game
the other day, not just in the pass game, but in the run game, even some of the rushes that
didn’t exactly get home he affected the QB. And he’s another guy just from a leadership
perspective, what he’s brought to some of the younger guys on the team and the message
for the defense. I think Arik’s been awesome that way and we appreciate him for the effort
that he’s given us out in the field and also what he’s doing in the building.”
(On what he has learned about DE Josh Hines-Allen) “The person, I just think he cares
about his teammates. He is hyper competitive, wants to be a great player and isn’t satisfied
if he doesn’t think his performance is where he wants it to be. So, guys like that usually get
it to where they want things to go, and he’s always working at it. If you come to practice, I
know you guys are out there for individual, but if you got there early, he’d be out there for a
half hour working rush or working concepts in the run game that we’re trying to get done.
And he does a great job of that every day and he’s brought a lot of the younger guys with him
doing that extra stuff and that stuff is starting to pay off for those guys too. So, from a
leadership perspective, I definitely have learned a lot about him, but he’s a super
competitive guy.”
(On what S Juan Thornhill can bring to the safety room and defense) “He’s great, man. He’s
been awesome. And obviously anytime you get a guy with a veteran presence and has
played a bunch of reps, played a ton of plays in this league, it’s really a good feeling to know
you got a guy back there that’s got a lot of experience and he’s been through a lot of stuff in
different systems across the league, so I’m excited to have him here.”
(On if Cardinals TE Trey McBride is used similarly to Raiders TE Brock Bowers) “Yeah, very
similar. He’s got all the skill sets of a great receiver and much like Bowers can accelerate
after the catch so we have to do a great job against him. That is a point of emphasis. You’ve
got to know what their plan is and how they’re using him and we’ve got to have a good feel
for where he is every snap because he’s really done a tremendous job this year and last
year. He’s one of the better players at that position in the entire league.”
(On how to coach the team to be aggressive but not get penalized in the game) “Yeah, I
think you’ve just got to coach—somebody asked something similar recently, but you’ve just
got to coach the fundamentals of that. Running through the strike zone, trying to get your
head to the side, not slamming the quarterback through the ground, all that. I don’t think
any of that stuff is easy for a defensive player. The game was different when I was playing,
so that stuff that you’re constantly looking at and talking to other people about, like how
you can do a great job of that and not be penalized because when you do make a great play
like B.J. did the other day and Tra [DE Travon Walker] made a great one the other day against
Houston. That’s hard. We’ve got to do a great job of that as coaches trying to put them in a
situation where we don’t want to take the aggressiveness away from our guys. That’s the
bottom line, we want them to go a thousand miles an hour and get right up to the point of
contact and making sure you’re doing it within the rules. That’s really my best answer for
you.”
(On if the roughing the passer penalties are frustrating) “I think it’s all part of it. That’s tough,
but we’ve just got to do a good job coaching it. Smoot [DE Dawuane Smoot] did a great job
on the rush right there and did a really good job with his feet and upper body, got in on one
and those are two right there that we feel like we could have came away with in the game
also. So, it’s a tough deal, but we’ve just got to keep them going the way they’re going, the
way we were going on Sunday. We’ve got to keep that mentality and effort to the
quarterback and do a good job getting them down on the ground.”
(On Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett) “Yeah, so Jacoby was in Miami my second year there.
Really, really bright guy. He knows what’s going on every snap, he could see the defense. He
works at it and obviously started his career up in New England and he’s been well coached
ever since. Everywhere he’s been, he’s been pretty successful. And a guy that you can rely
on, so really just a good veteran quarterback who knows where to go with the football and
he can get it there quickly. He’s still a tough guy to bring down in the pocket because he’s a
big strong dude. But yeah, I think he’s done an unbelievable job this year and really as good
as anybody if you look at it statistically, in the weeks that he’s been playing, he’s played
really well. So, he’s definitely a guy you’ve got to have a plan for. He’s done a good job for
them.”
(On his confidence in CB Christian Braswell) “I always had confidence in him because he
went to Rutgers [laughs]. But yeah, he spent so much time in [New] Jersey, you figured that
would be like a really good thing for him [laughs] but no, he’s been awesome. He was really
competitive in camp. Everybody on our team loves Bras[well] because he doesn’t say too
much, man. He just goes to work. He works hard. He’s competitive. I thought he played
really well the other day. I was happy for him. And happy for our team because I thought he
did a great job. He’s a great competitor, man, so yeah really excited about his performance
the other day.”
(On if he played football on Thanksgiving growing up) “We always played on Thanksgiving. I
grew up, my brothers always played on Thanksgiving and that was like a 10:30 in the
morning game. So, that was the whole day, you went to the high school football game and
then you came home and usually I would rush home, me and my brother would rush home
because [Hall of Fame RB] Barry Sanders was playing that day and you didn’t get to watch
him all the time back then. So, we used to race home to watch the Lions game or
something. But yeah, I got a lot of memories of that going to high school football games and
then playing as a player. And then coaching, when I was a high school coach, so that was a
grind because I used to bartend too and I had to work Wednesday night and then coach the
game on Thursday, that was a big night in that business. So yeah, that was a grind. It was
like a one-hour sleep night for me, but yeah, a lot of memories on that, football and
Thanksgiving.”
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR GRANT UDINSKI
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025
(On seeing RB Bhayshul Tuten play physical) “It’s really cool. Cool to watch all of our
running backs run. When he gets going, he can fly and he’s so physical, like you said that
full head of steam to contact sometimes it almost looks like he’s seeking contact the way
he runs. But it’s awesome when those guys get into a rhythm and when they got space to
work they can all do special things.”
(On if they can call the same plays for Tuten and RB Travis Etienne Jr.) “I think that they’re
certainly unique in the sense that they have different skill sets but they both have the ability
to run the runs we’re trying to get to. And we wouldn’t try to put a guy out there, put a run in
the plan that we don’t feel confident that suits their skill sets. Both those guys are talented
enough to be able to run a wide variety of diverse sets of schemes. So, we’re going to put
runs in that try to feature those guys’ strengths. So, it works out fairly well that both those
guys have so much ability that they’re able to run all those different runs. So yeah, for the
most part, absolutely.”
(On TE Quintin Morris) “Yeah, awesome game. You see the effort and the finish on a lot of
the run game and then he’s still a weapon in the pass game can win his one-on-one
matchups sure handed and will get extra yards after the catcher even after contact. He’s
progressed every week, probably every day since we’ve had him, so it’s great to see as
things have started to slow down for him mentally, learning the system, learning where to
line up all the different positions he can play. Because at tight end you’re not just playing
one position, you’re playing when it’s two tight end set, you’re a totally different position
when it’s a three tight end set, now you’re a completely different position. So, he’s
progressed at all those things and ultimately it culminated in what you guys saw out there
on Sunday. But it’s cool to see it week-to-week, day-to-day and then it actually come to
fruition on a game day. It’s been really special.”
(On OL Cole Van Lanen shifting to different positions on the offensive line) “Wildly
impressive. For him to go and be able to do that, even to do it at a practice I think is
impressive. Let alone to do it and actually do it from a Sunday to the next Sunday because
not only has he gone outside to inside, tackle to guard, guard to tackle, he’s also been
taking center reps. So, during training camp he’s playing center, guys get banged up, he’s in
there at center, then he is outside at left tackle, then he is at right guard, playing side-to-
side and really playing all five spots on the line is unbelievably unique. And for him to go out
there and do it at that level that he did against a really good opponent, it just speaks
volumes to the type of player he is, the way he works, the way he prepares and all those
things.”
(On WR Dyami Brown’s energy) “Dyami’s been super consistent for us with the effort and
the professionalism, the way he works, like you said we try to preach for all of our guys
controlling what we can control and kind of trying to limit the outside noise. You’re the
master of your own energy in that sense and he has done that at practice. You see him
finishing, there were practices in earlier weeks he’s got a red jersey on when he is running
around and still giving it as much effort as he possibly can. Even when he was limited, even
when he might not be playing X or at Z, whatever position he’s at, he’s moving at different
spots. He’s trying to find his way in the game plan. He’s come back from injury, or we got
different guys at different spots like we did last week. He’s been the same guy every day.
Which you truly appreciate not only as a person but as a coach because that’s a true
testament to his preparation and his ability to go out there and execute on Sunday when
you have something that he maybe not has got a bunch of reps at doing or something that
he has to do that he didn’t get to practice that specific assignment.”
(On what that says about Brown as a teammate) “Well, I think first and foremost when you
get a guy who doesn’t have, for anybody, kind of the result that they want because every
player wants to have an unbelievable season and be the best player at their position every
single play for every single game. And that’s what you love about these guys because
they’re so competitive, they’re all competitors and they want to go out there and be the
best. Not everybody can be the best or get the ball on every single play. So the same things
we talk about for Dyami or whoever it may be, it’s probably true for the entire offense that
anytime, especially on offense, you get through a season, you’re going to get to a certain
point of a game or you’re going to get to a certain point of the season where a guy wishes
that things had worked out differently. Same thing for the quarterbacks, even though they’re
playing every single play, but those guys are competitors and when you’re so competitive it
naturally makes you want to say, ‘Alright well, I want to get my shots, my opportunities.’ But
what overrides that for guys like Dyami and guys like the rest of the guys on our team that
you appreciate is their selflessness, how much they care for their teammates. And you see
those guys getting so excited when another player’s getting a touchdown or another
player’s getting a catch, or even when another player, another wide out’s getting a great
block and those guys are fired up for those guys that, that’s so exciting. That’s so special to
see that camaraderie and their true care and love for their teammates. It’s awesome when
you say it as a coach and you want them to do it just innately because they care about
going in there and blocking and doing the dirty work and all those things that are
underappreciated. But when you see them celebrating their teammates, that’s really
special to see those guys because it truly shows how much they care. Because it’s not
them, they’re not getting the shine and then they see someone else who’s putting a bunch
of work in excelling.”
(On QB Trevor Lawrence’s play this season after a mistake) “Yeah, those plays are
challenging to get over for some guys because they are so impactful. But he’s had kind of
that what now mindset, not focusing on ‘What can I do the next play’ or ‘What did I do
wrong the last play?’Just learning from the past and then living in the present and saying
what now? Taking each play as its own. It takes a lot of maturity and a special type of
mental discipline to be able to do that. And he’s been able to do that over some adversity.
And then even when things are good, you can’t go the other way and go too high after a
great play. So, he’s done a great job approaching each play as its own. Each drive as its own
and just living in the present in that regard.”
(On how impressive it is for DE Calais Campbell to still be performing at a high-level) “I wish
I had the words to describe it. To be doing it at his age at that level too is I don’t know, like I
said, I don’t have words to describe it. It seems not human but he’s an unbelievable player
and they’ve got a bunch of guys, really good players up on the front that are playing really
well. But yeah, for him to do that at that level, at that age. I know we talk a lot about the
quarterbacks who have done it at that age and when a quarterback is out there, they’re like,
‘Wow, it’s unbelievable at that age. Look at the quarterback,’ and he’s doing it rushing,
playing the run, doing all these things at a high level in the trenches. Truly speechless on
that one.”
(On what goes right when the offense is operating efficiently) “I think the first key to it is
we’re playing clean football and coaches have different ways of saying that where they say
don’t beat yourself or more games are lost than are won, whatever your version of saying
that form of the expression. We’re trying to stay out of our own harm’s way, when we’re able
to stay on schedule, when we’re playing clean football, we don’t have penalties, we don’t
have turnovers, we don’t have missed assignments, the guys are able to execute at a high
level. We have enough talent, we have talented guys who can go out there and execute the
system and when they’re able to do that, things work and then they get into a rhythm, and
you see those things start to snowball. When you get behind the chains, you’re naturally
going to lose some of that momentum, lose some of that and you can never really get into a
rhythm.”
(On if the wristband worn by Lawrence helped the offense) “I think it helped certainly. It’s
always difficult to establish to what extent it truly helped because there’s so many
confounding variables there. But I certainly think it helped get things just a little bit quicker,
get the plays in a little bit quicker at times for us. It’s something he had experience doing
and something we had talked about doing for a number of weeks and I kind of
experimented back and forth with. So, I’m glad that it worked out well. Certainly the result
was good, but I think there were a lot of things that went into that process to making the
final result good. I would like to believe that the wristband was a part of it for those guys.”
(On if he played football on Thanksgiving growing up) “Unfortunately, the Thanksgiving
game in my hometown stopped by the time I was in high school, but we would always go to
a high school Thanksgiving game, that wasn’t at my high school at that point. So, you
always start the morning with that and then you get in the yard and start playing. So, it’s
kind of two games and then you get the games on the TV afterwards. So, you end up getting,
I guess a full day of football really when you break it down like that but that was certainly a
priority. So, I’m excited to celebrate a Thanksgiving in Jacksonville and see what it’s like.”
