Lovie Smith (DC), Frank Ross (ST), Greg Jackson (Safeties Coach), Bobby King (DL Coach), Dino Vasso (CB Coach), Miles Smith (LB Coach) Press Conference Quotes

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Lovie Smith (DC)

Lovie Smith on his son, linebackers coach Miles Smith: 'Miles got a chance to see it from another point of view. We all started down there, grinding, breaking down video, taking different things from different people. He's intelligent, he knows the game.'

Lovie Smith on working with his son, linebackers coach Miles Smith: 'Very rewarding'

Lovie Smith on coaching in NFL again after working at Illinois: 'A lot of the aspects from college are coming to the NFL.'

Lovie Smith on Jacob Martin, Jon Greenard: 'Both fit the profile for what we're looking for at the defensive end position. Very excited about their futures.'

Lovie Smith on Zach Cunningham: 'You want a guy who's going to be around the football a lot. You don't have to reinvent that with Zach. He'll have an opportunity to blitz, excellent blitzer. Eager to see him take another step in the pass (coverage) part of it.'

Lovie Smith on Bradley Roby: 'Excellent speed, quickness, change of direction, willing tackler. We need him to be our (No.) 1 corner. The division is getting stronger at the wide receiver position.'

Lovie Smith: 'It is a linebacker-friendly system.'

Lovie Smith: 'We want a fast defense' Said that players who can't run well enough won't be on the field.

Lovie Smith on Titans' trade for Julio Jones 'He's just a special player. It seems like every week we'll be saying that. We signed up to play top guys every week. Tennessee got stronger when they added a player like Julio to the roster. We'll have a plan'

Lovie Smith on Whitney Mercilus: 'Whitney can run. He can rush off the edge. We start with that. Whitney has proven he can win on the outside. He's in good shape. He's going to play lighter than he did last year'

Frank Ross (ST Coordinator)

Texans special teams coordinator Frank Ross on special teams emphasis, said Keion Crossen, A.J. Moore 'have a bite to them.' That's the same mentality' noted how Nick Caserio has emphasized speed and aggressiveness in acquisitions for kick coverage

Frank Ross on Texans punter Cam Johnston: 'What a tremendous talent, what a special player, powerful young man, powerful athlete in weight room and on the field.'

Texans special teams coordinator Frank Ross said kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn coming off his best year. Said veteran long snapper Jon Weeks has transitioned quickly to his system

Greg Jackson (Safeties Coach)

Texans safeties coach Greg Jackson on Lonnie Johnson: 'The first thing I saw was the length, how tall and long he was. He's got the size. He has all the ability to come inside and play. He's done tremendous job moving to safety position understanding how to take proper angles'

Texans safeties coach Greg Jackson said that he sees focus and concentration from Lonnie Johnson Jr. during organized team activities

Texans safeties coach Greg Jackson said that Garret Wallow, a former TCU safety who moved to linebacker, is strictly a linebacker and added he's looked good at linebacker

Greg Jackson on safety Justin Reid: 'Really good communicator, really smart, really bright.'

Greg Jackson on Eric Murray; 'With Eric Murray, one of the things we need to do is focus on one position.' Murray played a lot of nickel last year and team ideally wants to utilize him as a pure safety.

Greg Jackson on safety Justin Reid: 'When I watched the tape, I thought he was thinking too much instead of just playing football.'

Texans safeties coach Greg Jackson on Justin Reid and Eric Reid: 'Eric was more of a strong safety type. The only difference is Justin has tremendous speed and can play from sideline to sideline. I see Justin as a new-age safety and Eric as an old-age safety, a bigger safety.'

Texans' Greg Jackson on Jonathan Owens: 'Very athletic safety. Can play multiple positions. Really like his athletic player, he's a smart player, asks a bunch of questions. We see all the athletic ability. It's about giving him the chance to play one position'

Bobby King (DL Coach)

Texans defensive line coach Bobby King on Jon Greenard, Jacob Martin, noted that team has asked Martin to add some weight.

Texans' Bobby King on Ross Blacklock: 'I expect a lot out of him. He has been as advertised with the weight staff and me. I look forward to working with Ross.'

Texans' Bobby King on Omenihu: 'We expect big things from Chuck this year' Emphasized his versatility, pass rush and run stopping skills

Texans' Bobby King on Omenihu: 'Charles is a guy that has versatility just because of his size and length. You can play him at a lot of positions and he can affect the quarterback in a lot of different ways. We expect big things from Chuck this year.'

Texans' Bobby King said other players gravitate to Jordan Jenkins for his leadership skills, enthusiasm, good example he sets

Texans' Bobby King on Maliek Collins: 'Yes, he does have some juice. I'm expecting some good things out of him.'

Dino Vasso (CB Coach)

Texans corners coach Dino Vasso on Tavierre Thomas: 'Speed, tough, instincts, can play in space'

Texans' corners coach Dino Vasso on Keion Crossen: 'He's an athletic player, can run, explosive, long for his height, impressive ball skills, trending in right direction"

Dino Vasso on Vernon Hargreaves: 'Instinctive, tough, good ball skills.'

Miles Smith (LB Coach)

Texans linebackers coach Miles Smith on his dad, Lovie Smith: 'One of the traits respect the most going to be one of the hardest working guys in the building always, definitely something I'm trying to mirror what he's done'

Texans' Miles Smith said that Zach Cunningham has as much talent as the great linebackers who have played for his dad, Lovie Smith, in the past, which includes Derrick Brooks, Brian Urlacher, Lavonte David, etc.

Miles Smith on Lovie Smith: 'He didn't push the football profession on me.'

Texans LBs coach Miles Smith on Garret Wallow: 'Garret had a very good college career. What stood out the most with him was his intelligence. Somebody who can think on the fly. He has grown exponentially since he's been here so far. Very excited about his future'

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