“I think you anticipate the fact that you can't (assume), 'OK, great, he's gonna know the whole thing after a week, one,'” Arroyo said. “No. 2 is he's working through some things that we know injury-wise are going to be progressing or hampering him a little bit? Yeah, we have to take care of that and manage it the best we can, and he's not 100%. And we have to be smart … We're not going to burden our team or burden an individual or burden our growth by saying, 'Hey, you've got to go do it full speed. Here's everything to get done.' So, we've got to be smart, day to day, and figure out exactly what he can handle. And if he can give us a chance, then let's roll. I think there's some things he can do to help us when he's healthy. He feels confident. That's going to take time and rest, too, which I'm excited about.”
Arroyo was also asked about Martell’s skill with designed runs since he was limited in action against the Cyclones.
“Well, you got a few designed runs ... obviously, the pressures into some of those newly fixed runs that try to get him going,” Arroyo said. “The defense played on a couple of them. Some of the blocking schemes … they started to dial in on him. He had one good setup for the one fourth-and-one, which is probably a lack of just experience running the play. Trying to out athletic a guy brilliant. Like I said, he has to get vertical inside of a run cut. I think it's just time, seeing the plays you know? (First it’s over a) couple of days and all of a sudden now, 'OK, now it's in the light.' So he saw those few plays on film and said, 'OK I kind of see how this is designed now.'”
