 Is Elijah Wilkinson back with you? Should be. So you should see him see him back on Wednesday. Did Colby play well enough that you now have to work on both? And or does Elijah go right back into where he was? I think Gossett played pretty pretty well, but we'll start with Elijah and see how it looks this week. Thanks Charles. Good to see you. I wanted to ask you about Cordell. How did you enter the season in terms of your thoughts on managing his workload? Did you have any concerns based on the second half of last season? And obviously the results have been anything you could have hoped for so far this year. Yeah, Charles, you know, you evaluate everything and put together a plan. Really try to how we wanted to manage the offseason and training camp. And there's still an art to it right now. And he's playing really good football. And I think Tyler is doing a decent job too, supplementing some carries. And we'll see what it takes off, but he's still a valuable piece. And we can still move CP around if we need to. Quite off that subject. Do you have any thoughts on the NFL doing away with the Pro Bowl? How do you think that will be received by players? You know, Charles, I saw that memo. Obviously, you know, we kind of got our focus on Cleveland. I'd be curious, you know, what the players think, you know, that's the one, those are the guys that it affects. So I really, you know, it doesn't affect me one way or the other. Obviously, they did it for a reason. But I'd be curious what the players think. You got your mood above. Mark, you hear it? I'm here, I'm sorry, I didn't hear it. I apologize, sorry about that. Sorry about that, Coach. Mark, you wake up this morning with the fifth best rushing attack in the NFL. You know, respectfully, there weren't like major upgrades made to the offensive line. So through three weeks, how do you grade the improvement that you've had this year versus what you were able to do in the run game last year? Well, you know, that's why I think numbers can be deceiving Mark sometimes. And I don't sit there and make excuses. But privately, I thought we had a lot of progress towards the end of the year. We ran the ball better. And you know, there was a couple of stretches there, I think, starting with Jacksonville and, you know, against some pretty good run fronts, Tampa the second time. And then, you know, you lose, so you're not going to sit there and oh, yeah. But privately, you could see the progress. And there's a lot, there's a, philosophically, how we've changed things up front. I think DeWayne Leverg done a terrific job. And there's a lot of things we've changed behind the scenes that I won't go to really schematically. And when you do that, I knew there would be a little bit of short-term pain. And that's why you stick with it. And you could see progress privately. And that's why you don't jerk the wheel all the time. And some of it was out of practicality and necessity. But those guys are doing a really good job. I think the insides of our pockets have been really good. And those guys are playing a lot of confidence and they're rolling off the ball. And Parker Hesse has had a pretty big impact in that run rushing attack as well. If I could stage just one more in here, Coach. I know obviously you were listening to all the groaning about Kyle Pitts getting the ball more. And that's clearly why you threw him the ball more this weekend. I kid in Jess, but was there anything different done? Or was it just a different defensive game from Seattle's standpoint that allowed him to see the ball more early and often? We've targeted them pretty much the same. It's just the defense, as I say, and then like I said, it's a give and take. And it's probably said many times why Drake has been as open as he has early in the season. But still, we got to evolve and we haven't played any of these three games and we really dissected it. We haven't played them the same. We've gone in there with different strategies and there's a lot of different subtle things that I'm not going to get into. But we thought there were some opportunities early in this game, as you remark, that we wanted to try to exploit. That's why you saw the first play. We got a look that we had seen and something we hadn't shown before. And again, the way that went, I mean, even though we don't make that play and we had to pull up at the last second, I think they feel that early. You know, and so there's sometimes, even when we don't make those plays, at least the DBs, you get them thinking a little bit that they say there's something different this week. And thankfully, you know, we got Kyle in a rhythm. I thought he finished really well with the ball on his hands on that screen. I mean, he was humming down there to truck the guy right at the end and then ran a play pass to him and, you know, they bid on it and the guy grabbed him and, you know, Marcus ran in the next play. I mean, he has a huge impact and I can go on and on and on. But we'll continue to look at him. Mark, he's a huge part of our success. He's played really good football. And if you really study the run game too, he's becoming a complete player. And it's only going to benefit us in the long run. Kyle's 21 years old and everybody wants the video game numbers. And so do we, but he has such a huge role, you know, and he's had a huge part in our success offensively. Josh, you got a follow up? Yeah, Arthur, what went into the decision to have Brian Edwards inactive last week? Yeah, it's the decisions we make every week. Josh, we'll do what we think is best for the game plan and the team. So sometimes it's not necessarily that player did something wrong. It's we feel we got a good matchup somewhere else or somewhere we need feel like we need to help on special teams and we'll make those evaluations. It's a good problem to have when you got a lot of guys we feel like we can you know, activate or put up or down. So we'll keep working. I mean, he's young in our program and we're not down on Brian. And it'll pay off. I mean, this is, you know, it's different. I mean, he's learning a new system and we got guys doing really good things, subtle things that not always just comes up in the passing stats. Maybe my memory is just wrong, but it feels like you you're rolling more guys in early, rotating more guys than you did early last season. A, is that accurate? B, is that just because you've got more guys that you feel comfortable with? Or you're just trying to get more guys ready because maybe you got toward the middle and end of last season and didn't feel like you had enough guys ready? You kind of answered all right there, Josh. You're not far off. So, yeah, it's pretty accurate. I mean, that's what you evaluate, you know, and every season is different. So, you know, we had a lot of, we still have a lot of young guys and we do. And they're playing, they're playing pretty good football for us. But that team last year had probably some, it did. It had more veterans on it, some guys, older guys and then early on, you know, you're relying on those guys and you're still bringing along. And the one thing I think that paid off for us is Richie Grant. And everybody, again, is another guy that already wanted instant gratification. Richie's parents playing pretty damn good football right now. He really is. And sometimes if you rush guys too early, it could be a detriment to their career. And you just got to evaluate it case by case. And there's been a plan and we objectively look at it all the time. And it's good to see it pay off for guys like Richie. But every year is different, Josh. You are probably seeing more guys in there. You definitely are. So. Trevon Gray on the AJC. Can you hear me? You know, yeah. So earlier, obviously, let me talk a bit about how important it was to have Kyle Pitts blocking and opening up the run game. Obviously, the offensive line had a huge impact as well. Can you talk a bit about what you saw from the offensive line and also the defensive line and the aggressiveness and kind of your message to them in opening up the game on both sides of the ball. We're just trying to continue to improve and win the line in the scrimmage. And, you know, our rushing attack, I say this all the time, it goes, it's all 11. When you watch some of his runs, you watch that big run by Patterson, when he cuts back, you're going to watch Kyle Pitts, you're going to watch Felipe Franks and Avery Williams make those spring those blocks. That's how those become, you know, seven, eight yard runs into explosive runs when you get guys buying in and all 11. And so certainly the offensive line, they're playing really well. We're like where they're trending and it's going to be a unique challenge. We got a huge challenges week against Cleveland. Their front, the aggressive front, penetrating front. We know everybody knows about Miles Garrett and they'll be ready to roll. I mean, everybody sees the tape. I mean, they're going to be a really physical game on Sunday. You know, they're going to try to run Nick Chubb about 500 times and we've got to stop them and we're going to try to run the ball and play our game too and we'll do different things. So defensively, you know, I think TQ Graham is playing really well. A lot of subtle things. I think some of his pressures late affected the quarterback and he kind of grinded out some rush and that's why you keep chipping away. And I think Lorenzo Carter, nice job setting that one up. And those are the games within the games. You know, he's going against Charles Cross and some of the way he's rushing them. And then he got them and then, you know, we needed to play. And he had set that thing up and he was able to to pull them back in there and make a big, big sack in the same thing with Grady. So please, you know, obviously there's a lot of things we got to clean up with some of these young guys and we're making some pretty good progress. So also, obviously, Marriota is comfortable running the ball in a strong situation and sometimes with the design quarterback runs. Are you encouraging that a lot more having a mobile quarterback? Or are you like how kind of the schemes going with Marriota in the run game? Yeah, I mean, I kind of give you a big picture thing. Certainly there's some things we ask Marcus to do, but I'm not going to get the schemes. I'm not going to get Kevin and Joe Woods that satisfaction right now. All right, got a follow up from Armsteads in them. Marcus Marriota in his career has never been at least statistically one of the more accurate passers, saved 2018 when he was above 68 percent. You've got him at the highest in his career, you know, in every other year at this point, that said, from an untrained eye, a couple of throws seemed like while they were completions, they weren't as accurate as they needed to be. Like the one in the second quarter to Drake down the sideline was a little behind him. He had to stop in his route to come back for the ball a little bit. The things like that, is that how much of a focus is that? Where are you with Marcus's accuracy slash completion percentage and how much does that if it needs to improve? You know, I think the thing to mark on that play you're talking about he had pressure and sometimes a quarterback can't set their feet, you know, you obviously would have loved to hit that play clean in the one backed up Drake there. So he was able to get that throw off. What Marcus has is he's got a very, very quick release. And so certain times in different situations, that's why I think he's very effective in the red zone like the one he threw the Drake in LA. Those are tight window throws. He's got a really quick release. I think he's thrown the ball really well down the field. You know, we've hit some big, big plays with some good timing and accuracy because there is an arc to that when you're anticipating guys breaking out of that when you're running some of the play action stuff. But yeah, that one backed up, usually the case and the same thing in LA. You know, if you get any kind of pressure, you don't set your feet. You know, you're using all your arm and then you can make the subjective argument like when he fell down against LA and he popped up. I don't know how many guys could do that and the same thing yesterday. He does it. He's got good spatial awareness. And yeah, we're continuing. We're always working that stuff, Mark, but we've seen a lot of progress. Thanks, Josh Kendall. You mentioned the pass rush on the final drive, which probably made the difference in that game. Could you all have done that last year? I mean, Josh, you're comparing two different teams. And, you know, I love those guys that played for us last year, so I'm not going to sit there and, you know, I'm happy where we're trending and this is a different team. Let me rephrase it. Do you feel more confident that you can dial up? I know it's not used per se, but you can dial up pressure packages the way this group is playing right now, as opposed to at times last year. Again, Josh, you can rephrase it. I'm not going to say anything negative about those guys that put it online for us last year, just where we're at currently in our situation. We're a different team, different personnel. Josh, I go through it all the time with all the coordinators. And that's my job as head coach. We go through all the personnel stuff as we continue to build and evolve and evolve. So I'm not really sure exactly what you're trying to get out of that, other than the fact that it's a different team. We've got different players and we try to play the best our ability, the strengths of our players. Is that all total? Even before you were asked, you brought up the subject of establishing a home filled advantage. And how important that is for this team taking the next step. You guys are just leaving a place where you had a lot to say about Seattle's home filled advantage. Do you think it's just a matter of getting some wins and the noise and the the the the NPCs will disappear, etc? Do you think it's just going to be a couple of wins to get that going here in Atlanta? We've got to get people. I mean, we are in the sports and entertainment business. Charles and the fundamental essence of the business is to create a customer. I've beaten them. I had it as a young age, Charles. So it's not awesome that we got to do our part. And that's what we that's what it is and you don't forget that. So yeah, we need to give people a reason to want to come watch. I think we're trending. I think we're, you know, hadn't been perfect. Certainly, we, you know, would have loved to have started the week one at home the right way. We didn't. And so there's a lot of painful lessons learned and we continue to improve. But we got some exciting young players. And it's an exciting brand of football and my biased opinion when you watch our guys play, but we got to do our part. And when I'm talking about Seattle, it's nothing to do with comparison to us. It's a reality. Teams have lost games because they couldn't handle the noise and situation. If you're not ready for it, shame on you. And I thought for the most part, one perfect. We only had two penalties yesterday overall. It's a pretty disciplined game. And and that that's the art of the coaching. You know, things we got to change logistically. Take advantage of which I thought helped us in the red zone. And we weren't perfect. You can dissect a couple of plays, but it was certainly better than it was in L.A. And I thought that was the difference.