Raiders DC Rob Leonard_ Versatility, Communication & Execution

Thu, Jul 30, 2026

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How much can positional versatility influence schematic versatility with it.

How much can positional versatility guys can actually do different things at different spots.

How much can that influence schematic rooting your younger brother kind of like I want to beat up for everybody, good, bad, it doesn't matter.

Like I'm schematically.

I'm gonna be your best friend.

I'm gonna be your like man.

I'm, I'm pretty much talk about the communication, how it's growing up that secondary.

Obviously it's a young group, but when you look at Hezekiah and Jamad and uh even Darien, what are the benefits would you say to having such a young secondary athletically speaking or just in terms of mentality, um, what are the benefits of them just being.

Just, yeah, just benefits of them being like young and in the position that they're in now.

It's, it's, uh, I was listening to Kurt talk about the quarterback competition .

It's like they're competing, but you're not lined up out there against the other guy.

So in the room, it's like you're competing against yourself, the other guy, if he made a play, you want to make a play.

They all have, are such different players and how they play corner, um.

Um, it's nice to see the brotherhood in there and then watch them out here compete and trying to help each other.

How do you see this?

How do you do that?

It really helps.

All right, we'll do one more, guys.

What's your focus?

What are you looking for?

Uh, clean execution.

How we break the huddle, how we communicate everything before the snap.

And then once the snap, you know, before the pads, it's just pads just expose if your technique's on point.

If you have bad technique, you're gonna be on the ground getting your butt kicked.

So it's, you know, it's gonna expose your trainer.

So, um, sticking with the fun amount.