 Coach, coming off the loss, looking ahead to the offense, what's kind of the big message of the conversations you're having with your team this week? Well, this was a great opportunity to get in here this morning and to get back at it. I mean, you put a lot into it every week. And sometimes you put a lot into it, and you lose, and you lose a close game. And that's disappointing. But you've got to pick yourself back up. You've got to answer the bell. And nobody is going to feel sorry for us, especially the Dolphins. And it's a very good football team. But we have to get ready to prepare, and a lot of different looks. So there's a lot to cover. I think it's just a process. And it just didn't work out. And Tremonti will go on and have another opportunity. And we'll give other guys opportunities here. I guess Otis getting one of those opportunities is he done good things for you on the practice. Yeah, he did good things. Since he's been here, he'll be a guy that'll get some of those looks and signed Jojo Domen to see special teams potentially help us there. And those are things that will work through as the week goes on to get the best 48, the right 48. What do you guys see out of Taini? Is it nerve-signing him to the practice squad in terms of maybe him coming up to punt? Well, athletic. He can kick off, he can punt. Obviously, that's his number one role will be to punt. I had a bunch of guys in here. And he did a great job considering the circumstances and the outside and the weather and the competition. Excited to work with him. Are you a holder as well? Yes, yes. I did that as well. Five years ago today, Derek had his 99-yard run against the Jags. What do you remember about that? And is it crazy that it's already been five years since that? Yeah, I think probably, yes. It's been, I would say, yeah, that's crazy to think that that's been five years. Just that he's still running. He's still running. I think he's getting tackled. He's still running. And I don't feel like the play lasted five years. So tremendous individual effort, great job by everybody to get involved early, to get him going. And then what he did after that was on his own. So time flies. Does the challenge of the ex-players, this team, is as difficult as anyone trying to defend those? Well, a lot of speed. They've got a good scheme and a lot of speed. And the quarterback too, it is a fantastic job of being able to distribute the football. And sometimes those ex-plays are handoff. Sometimes they're short passes. It's not every single one. I mean, yeah, if you're pressed up on Tyreek, you can guarantee that it's going downtown. But it's not just throw it over your head every time. It's catch and run. It's good ball placement by the quarterback. And then guys breaking tackles. And they lead the league and miss tackles four. So those things will be critical once they have the ball in their hand. That's what he's being so elite that they have. Is that something that you obviously can't simulate? So how do you get ready for that, or something that you just get out there and it's like, oh, I didn't realize that he was that fast? Well, we certainly won't be able to replicate all the speed. I think that being in the right spots and being sound and all those things that will play into the fact that once they have the ball in their hand, we're going to need some extra people to help and to take great angles and use your leverage and your help and all those different things that we talked about when tackling. Does Ryan remain the backup holder? And what's his practice regimen for that now? Yeah, I mean, I think we've had Gibby Snap as a backup snapper. We've had Ryan holding at different times. And I would imagine that Ryan would continue in that regard. How often do you want him doing that? In the game, ever. I mean, I think making sure that those things are, we're covering some of those outliers and making sure that there's a backup at every position, snapper, holder, emergency kicker, quarterback. So just making sure that those things are covered once a week as we go into the game. But also, I would say that Ryan was pretty good in his job. That wasn't the reason that it felt like we missed a kick. Nick made it sound like it wasn't happening once a week, but hadn't done that. Yeah, no, what I'm saying is whether the snap and the hold, Nick missed a kick. Nick's made a lot of kicks. And I thought Ryan did a really nice job. And it has done a nice job whenever we've asked him to do that in practice or in the game. So hopefully, we'll be able to execute all those things, and especially on Monday night. Because Tom's a boyspin, maybe at the start of the week, is just kind of starting to move on. Yeah, I mean, we're in a different situation. But Tom's got a lot of experience and looking forward to a great challenge. We'll have to protect our punter. We'll have to check our returner, kicker when we kick the field goals, and looking forward to that challenge. What stood out about their pass rush? Miami is kind of what has allowed them to have so much success this year. Our mandate, they go and win. And guys inside, they had a bunch of guys with a handful of sacks, six and a half, seven sacks, each, I mean, sit there and tell you how good Chubb is. Obviously, he's done it for a lot of years. Christian Wilkins inside, David O'Blitz, Van Ginkle can rush. He can do games, execute games very well. So yeah, they bring it from everywhere and everybody's producing. What were the people at your office applying to counter that? Outside of blocking them. And just making sure that we're inside out, making a pocket like it is every week. And sometimes the backs are going to be on linebackers. Sometimes that's unavoidable, like step up and stay square and not drop our head. There's a lot of examples of guys blocking them, a lot of examples of guys winning and making a miss. How does he look? You see him wrapping up all the towels. How does he look from what you're seeing from him? David's been active, he runs around, he's instinctive, he triggers, and we'll have to block him. We'll have to block him if we want to run the football. We'll have to block Baker. We'll have to block Wilkins and Seiler and get on their support players and hopefully be able to carry over what we did last week. He was one of the guys who pointed out as a repeat offender was soft to tissue injuries. You see him there. He's healthy for pretty much all of the year. Do you ever look at that and just say, why is that? No, I think I'm not going to go back. I mean, we're just answering questions about injuries, just pointing out that when you list all the injuries that some of those guys had the same injury. I mean, it came back and had the same injury. I really enjoyed my time with David. I don't think that I loved coaching him. I'm excited to see him. I'm happy for him. Of course, I'm happy for him. He's persevered here and he's gone down and a new opportunity. So again, we're going to have to block him. But I think when you, however it was phrased or said, it was just it was the same injury. And I mean, the guy was trying to come back and had the same injury and couldn't play. So that was, I guess, the answer to my question at the time. But we're going to have to block him if we want to gain some yards when we run the ball. With how explosive the Dolphin's offense can be, how important is it for you guys to control the pace and the tempo of the game by having, you know, converting third downs, moving the chains and not letting their offense have excess to the ball. That would be great. Obviously, if you can possess it and drive it and be able to do that, Philly had it for 37 minutes. And again, time of possession just depends what you do with it. Philly had some mistakes, but they also possessed it for 37 minutes. And that would be a great place to start if we can be able to convert and drive the football and end those drives and points most importantly. Maybe down like it was on Sunday. Is there kind of an area there where he may be missing, but he's not missing dangerously. It's not resulting in turnovers. Yeah, we want to move the football. I think that we want to be as accurate and as efficient as possible and going back and looking at some of those that we missed on or just giving guys a chance. And there's also a lot of really accurate good throws. And we have to help them out and protection and being available and being in great spots. And then once in a while, you're going to have to make a good catch to help the quarterback out. So it's a full body of work when you talk about completion percentage. It doesn't seem like many, though, that have been nearly picked off. Is that a good sign? Getting in a little bit of your personal space, I feel. Well, he needs to let somebody follow up once in a while. Yeah, certainly. You want to keep it out of harm's way. We talked about it, Jackson. There's been a couple where we've got to be careful. But also, if you're going to miss, you've got to miss where it's the receiver or nobody. I guess to your question. Along those lines, have there been plays when you've gone back and watched the film where there was a safer throw he could have made? And you'd rather he do that than push it down the field a lot? Well, we want to push it. I mean, if it's there, we want to go make a play. But I think there will always be those opportunities. We talked about the mirrored route, and he looked to Hopkins, and they stayed on top of Hoppin, bid on Westbrook. So we would like him look right. And then I don't know how it goes. At least he didn't try to come back and get the ball knocked out of his hands or throw into coverage. He threw it away. I've never seen a special team sequence as crazy as the last time you guys were down there. It's like back-to-back returns for a touchdown. Yeah, I would like for us to be able to get one and not give up one or just focus on being real sound, protecting our kickers, protecting our returners. We're only going to get one chance, an 85% touchback rate. So we've got to make it. If they give us an opportunity to return, we'll have to try to create some field position and hopefully some momentum. But that's how it goes sometimes. How much of an emotional swing is that? Yeah, Jennings get his, and then Grant got his, and just like. Well, again, I think one thing we always talk about with special teams is the ability to create some of that momentum and field position. And whether you have it, you have to keep it. And if you don't, trying to find a way to get a punt that gets you back to midfield, on the plus side of the field to help the offense, and they score on you and you try to answer. Doesn't always happen, but those special teams moments can be great ways to change momentum, keep momentum in field position. I'm curious if you watch the in-season hard knocks on the Dolphins, or if that's more cinema than film? I haven't, and I wouldn't be able to answer if that's cinema or film. You know what I mean? I was a part of hard knocks in Houston. They have a job to do, and they try to make it as watchable as possible. And have you watched it? Yep. And you feel like it's cinema or film? Cinema. I'm not sure from your perspective. For me, I feel as though it's cinema. There you go. Cinema is. You're still encouraging regarding Derek? Sure, absolutely. Coach, having the extra day with Monday Night Football, especially considering all the injuries, just getting H-Day healthy. Yeah, I don't know if some of the injuries that that'll help, but the preparation, we have to be able to use the preparation. You know, it's a longer week and trying to be smart with how much we do on a speed and how much we show them and try to alternate days and try to come up with the best plan that's gonna help them throughout the week to be prepared and then be ready to play. Are you going to be... Are you going to be back to see more trailing this week and just internal perhaps? Hopefully, yep. Are you going to be without Christian quoting for extended time or what so? Yeah, Christian won't practice today. Stoney won't be out there. Wiley won't be out there. Simmons won't be out there. Joe Jones won't be out there. Mike, how much do you talk to Amy during the season? Is there like a typical schedule for that and what is her message to you and maybe the football team bed during this time? Well, always supportive. You know, we don't have a set. There's not a set day. You know what I mean? I try to keep her updated. Rand keeps her updated. You know, and then when we talk, it's, you know, we're all frustrated that we're in the position that we're in and we're all working hard, extremely hard to figure a way out of it. And so that there's a level of support to what we're trying to do and always... Still have our football team that this is going the direction she wants it to go? I, you know, try to answer those questions consistently as possible and focused on the football team, the players, you know, getting them ready. And, you know, that's all I can focus on. Did she talk to her? Did she talk to you before the Allkerman to see? We talk regularly. You know, after the game, you criticized your play and saying it's probably one of my worst games here in the title uniform. After looking at the tape, do you feel the same way? Oh, yeah, pretty much. I mean, I just think that, you know, there were just certain throws that really I felt like could have changed the outcome of Drives or Games that I missed and sure, I mean, maybe made better plays as a whole than comparison to some of the other games that I played, but I was just more so looking at the missed opportunities. So definitely still a little disappointed, but I think going back, watching it, Denver is bad as you think it is and felt like I, you know, took a lot from it. Mike said that he wants you to push the ball down the field and but not put it in harm's way. How do you feel like you've done with that so far versus maybe taking the safer throw that's there? I think I've done a good job with it. I mean, just continuing to assess what I feel like is appropriate for the situation. I think that's one of the improvements I've made, just even going back to even in college, just how I'm seeing it, assessing the risk and making the throw when I feel like it's necessary or applicable to the situation. So definitely areas to improve in there and how I'm seeing everything, but I just need to keep, you know, doing a good job of protecting the football. Matt, would you say like your inaccuracy has been on the good side of the spectrum in that you haven't put the ball in a lot of danger and the interceptions on? For sure. Yeah, I think I've been relatively pleased with how the balls came out of my hand and I think just that knee-jerk reaction on Sunday was just felt like, you know, just wasn't coming out as accurately or wasn't putting it in the spots that I was wanting to as often as I wanted to, you know. What's the biggest challenge on third downs, you think, well, has it been pressure? Has it been, you know, time? Has it been distance? What's been? Well, going back, I think not necessarily this pass game, but just the operation of things of, you know, pushing us back five more yards or either not getting a snap off or not getting a protection call made clearly to the guys up front so that, you know, that pressure doesn't get there. But going back to this game, you know, it's a combination of everything, but it's hard to really put my finger on one specific thing. But we did, I feel like we did well those first few games that I was playing in those third down situations and we saw that low in these last couple weeks. So we're making that a point of emphasis this week to continue drives. And it's funny how it just feels like we have like a 15-play drive or a three-in-out. And we're just trying to find ways to keep going on those 15-yard drives or 15-play drives and keep giving our defense the rest that they deserve. I know you're talking about, of course, Steve's game, how you can kind of circle that one on the calendar, you know, Thursday night. Looking forward to this one too, a Monday night playing Miami. Is this one you've kind of had as well? For sure, yeah. I knew that we only had a couple, you know, primetime games for the season. And so knowing that we had, you know, Monday night football in Miami, especially expecting them to be a solid team, which they definitely are. And we're excited to go out there and compete with them. But Monday night football doesn't get much better than that. I've been watching it since a kid and being able to go out there on that stage for the first time is going to be really special. How has the process been for you as far as, like, staying away from playing hero ball, like trying to win the game, the whole game on one throat, you know, kind of realizing the journey's over, living to see another play. All those cliches, how's that been for you? I think it's just knowing that my role within the team is, you know, just being the quarterback and doing my job. Whereas maybe in college, there are certain times, like, you know, you can feel like you're supposed to be that guy on the field. You're supposed to be, like, the best player on the field, and you have to go and do things that equate to how people see you and how you feel about yourself. But I think I've just kind of relegated back to knowing my role and that I only need to do my role. And if I do need to, maybe, or if there's an opportunity to do something a little extra to get a couple more yards or to make a throw that might be a little riskier, but I know I can make. It's just continuing to kind of understand in those situations and when it's necessary to not put the ball at risk, but, you know, push the ball downfield or make plays with my legs and decisions in that respect. So it's continuing with the reps that I get to, you know, understand my role and get better within it. What did the guys say to you in the aftermath of you forcing and recovering the fumble on Sunday in the aftermath of that play? What was their reaction? I was, well, I had to, because I had taken off and I didn't hear the whistle and I came back so it took me a while to kind of get everyone to get back and we were just like, what the heck just happened? But I told him, I was like, yeah, I was like, I think he fumbled it. Like, it should be our ball first down. But, you know, we were just focused on continuing the drive and getting down there and scoring points, but I don't remember any specific pass on the back or anything. What did your family say to you on the helicopter hit you took when you ran for first down? Yeah, it's not the first time I've seen it. So, but, you know, my mom definitely is worried about my safety out there sometimes. So I got to make sure that I'm continuing to protect myself and not put myself in harm's way. Who are the people that kind of, when you get down in a curriculum yourself, who are the people that kind of lift you up, whether that's here in this building or outside people? Yeah, I definitely got to thank my coaches in here and coaches and players that have just been able to lift me up after either, you know, games or drives or just even things in practice that have come up and been able to just bring me back to that neutral state that we got to stay. And I just got to thank my coaches, especially for that, to be able to just be those people who understand how my mind ticks and now that I've spent some months with them, they know kind of my personality and how, you know, I can react to certain things and they've done a good job of understanding that and coaching me the right way. You seem to be fairly self-critical and demanding excellence from yourself, but you're also very confident in, you know, your work and your demeanor. Where did you kind of learn to balance criticizing yourself but remaining confident in your ability? I think it starts just with my upbringing with my family and I'd say definitely my mom, dad, and then my grandfather, who's definitely just a big proponent in my life of instilling the values that I live by today and just making me the fierce competitor that I am, I feel like, and keeping, you know, respect and even-killedness and calmness as a priority while also having that fiery edge and just it's going from being a young kid where that fiery edge kind of took the dominance in that respect, but getting older and even in the out and understanding kind of like what to take from each and how to go ahead and be the best leader and competitor that you can. I mean, that's down there. The conversation with the outrageous game last time, but as you look back at that, I wonder any chance you think maybe could or should have been less demonstrative? You know what I mean? Yeah, maybe I forgot that I was on TV, but yeah, but no, it's just one of those things that just happened. If I would have gone back, I would have been more neutral about it for sure, but that's just part of the things about being an NFL quarterback and learning along the way of how to be a leader and how to get your guys going, but definitely would have handled it differently if I would have done it again. When you guys talked about flushing long, is the process any different coming off a game like that one in the way you go about doing that? I'd say it's tougher for sure. I mean, Coach spoke to just how tough these past couple days were in the facility for him and the coaches for not having all the guys in here for all the time. And just when you come off a loss like that, how it just kind of festers for a little bit and it hurts. But I think if anything, it gives you more motivation to go ahead and attack that next week to give you that motivation to go out and get a win even more so. So even though it hurts for maybe that 24, 48 hours afterwards, we've turned the page and we're moving forward and I feel like the energy and the focus that we've brought throughout these past couple of days, going into this week of work has been really good and we're looking forward to get down to Miami to get a win. Dolphins pass, we're looking at the tape, what makes things so difficult, what seems out to you? Yeah, I mean, they're solid all throughout. And the coaches talked about, you know, previous teams that they've had down there. This is a different identity. We feel like especially defensively, like they're coming after the ball. The mentality they play with is strong, as fast, as physical. So I mean, wishing Phillips a quick recovery, but you know, having him and we're expecting Van Ginkel out there on the end too. We know that he's no slouch and even though he's going to be the backup in that position, we know we got to be ready for him and with Chubb on the other side, you know, we got a lot to handle. So coaches have done a good job with the game plan and how we're going to be, you know, attacking them and you know, at all phases of their defense they got good players. So we got to make sure that we're in tune with it. Thank you guys.