 run game was headed in the right direction. I feel like the backs did well enough getting what was blocked up. It seemed like maybe sometimes that there was more there. Sometimes, I mean, I think it's a combination of both. Certainly the play that I was referencing where we had the fumble looked like there were some things that were blocked up. And then there's times where maybe it wasn't. And the backs did a nice job. It all ties in. It all ties in. It all goes together. There were a few guys that we missed or didn't get to. And then there was always going to be cuts that we can go and talk about split second decisions that, hey, maybe could have been better. But I really believe that it was on the right track and the game dictated that we couldn't really run it more than we did. Are you still in the process of where you have guys with the distribution of carries falling into roles? Or would you like to have someone eventually emerge as the primary guy? How are you? I think right now we're just evaluating how we can beat the Patriots. How do we prepare to beat the Patriots? What are we going to look like offensively, defensively on special teams? Who's going to be available? And how those roles get defined here throughout the week? I'm not really sure how we're going to break down the carries. Is Foreman running some plays wrong still right now? Is that costing him? Well, there was a play that he went the wrong way, mistake on his part. But I felt like Deontay had some positive carries, some good carries. Unfortunately, that was not one of them. But I don't know how many other, I don't think he had many more MEs other than that. I don't think that that one was unfortunate. That looks, that's bad football. Nobody wants to put that on tape. That's not indicative of who we are. But that was clearly a mistake. But there was a bunch of them just by everybody. How about Deontay? On the goal line, it seemed like maybe he wasn't where he should be. We saw Ryan talking to him after the third interception. Again, we're going to go through this, and it's going to take all 11. It's going to take everybody being where they're supposed to be. Throw the football. We start with protection, making sure that the pocket's firm, running the guys behind. And yeah, we have to do better. Making sure that we're strong down the field, that we're not getting pushed places, that we shouldn't be the distribution, the route timing, recognizing zone coverage, sitting down. So those are all things that are going to be important here, and even more so this week. If you mentioned maybe a little bit of a tired football team, you trying to do everything, did you see more of that? You know, they fought. I think they fought. It's just unfortunate that we made the mistakes that we made. I would say that if somebody wants to look up and see what scores are, when teams have five turnovers, fumble four times. Tell me what those scores are in the history or at least the last 10 years of the NFL. So the fact that we were in that game fighting, swinging, tells me a lot about our football team, our character. Nobody wants to be in that position. We have to do everything we can to avoid being in that type of position. But proud of the effort, we just have to be better. It just came out. Did they have the urgency that you expected or you talked about last week yesterday? Was it just a lack of execution or did that message maybe not get home as much as you hoped? No, I mean, it's hard. You're never going to have or want false enthusiasm. You have to have the type of energy that's required. You have to go out there and create it. We've been down this road before. So when you stall on drives or you get stopped in short yardage, it doesn't matter how urgent you are. They converted short yardages. We did it and that's disappointing. Did you expect the 12 straight games to be as physically challenging as it looks like it has been or has this been maybe a little harder than you expected on some guys? I mean, it's pro football. So we expect it to be tough and physical. We deal with the injuries as they come up and we try to just get everybody prepared each week the best that we can. I don't know if I had any expectations on what that would look like. With the opponent being on the road, that maybe help keep the focus on the task at hand with the by looming ahead? Well, I mean, I think anytime you go on the road to a team that's playing as well as the Patriots, I hope that we're all locked in and we're ready to go. We understand Thanksgiving is gonna be here and we'll have a schedule that allows our players to enjoy some time with their family. We're all thankful for things, but we have a lot to focus on here and get ready to prepare for a team that's playing really well. We've been up early in proper work, but what you're seeing of them? Yeah, they've created 13 turnovers in five games. Obviously they've won five games in a row. Number one scoring defense in the league. Offense has been very efficient. Number six, scoring offense. They're not turning it over. They're not doing things that beat themselves and obviously they've done a great job of taking advantage of bad football. Well-coached, they're running the football and they're playing physical, so it'll be a huge challenge. What are the challenges going against? Not just the Patriots, but I mean, just against Coach Bell's check specifically. I mean, this would be your third time facing them, but what's the challenge there? Yeah, Bill and I won't be squaring off to determine this game. It's a game we'll be won like it always is with the players. Well, are there any typical trademarks? Like he mentioned for you, trademarks are always very few mental errors, physical toughness, being prepared situationally. What can you respond to? The same thing. The same. I mean, just the same things that I mentioned that they're doing well. They've turned the football over. Guys understand where to create turnovers at and they're good on the edges. The guys play with great technique up front. They're running the football, marrying that with the play-action game. Receivers all block. They all block. They're all selfless. They all understand that their effort is going to help whichever back they have in the game at that time, run the football. You know, the quarterback's accurate. Is it still special? I know you say you're not going against him, but obviously the relationship... I think coaching in this... I think being involved in the National Football League is special. I really do. I don't take... I will never take what I do for granted. The opportunity to get to coach this football team, to get to, you know, travel to other stadiums. You know, certainly this one, having spent eight years there. We've been through all that. We've handled that. We've touched on it. But, you know, Tyler's going to be up there. You know what I mean? It's like Tyler's going to be there. Tyler's going to school there. So, yeah, I think it'll be cool. But I think coaching in this league and playing in this league is special too. And with so many mistakes, like you said, how do you balance learning from it, but then also kind of wiping it away? Well, we have to learn from it. I mean, we have to learn that... I mean, I think that's kind of rhetorical. I don't think they're... You turn the ball over as many times as you did and you're careless with football. But those are things that we preach every single day. And, you know, we didn't do a good enough job of handling the elements clearly. But we have to move on. You know, we have to move on. We'll bring the guys in tomorrow afternoon. You know, we'll start our preparation and find out who's available. Find out who wants to go help us win and then put a plan together. And then we'll start out at the receiver position, how tough a spot he is, maybe from a depth standpoint and who might be available. Well, we'll figure out that, you know, maybe later on. We need a few days to kind of let the dust settle. And we'll see, you know, if there's guys here that can help us or, you know, always guys that we could bring in from other places. Are you basically trading Tuesday for Thursday in the practice week? Oh, yeah. The players would be off on Thursday. Yesterday in the rain, no hat, no anything or just kind of standing there, taking it in. Will Compton wanted to know what War Movie inspired you to stay in character like that? No War Movie. You guys should have Will come here and he can ask his own questions. Nah, we just, we have to do a better job of the elements. We do, you know, and it was unfortunate. You know, we thought that, you know, give David, give his staff, give the players credit they on film didn't handle them very well in Buffalo the first time around. And, you know, I was hoping that we would. I hope that, you know, the way that we practiced and the different things that we tried to do that we could take care of the football and we didn't. And that those make it too hard to win football games and they handled the environment. Can you watch the tape again? What was happening upfront on defense to allow Taylor has so much free space to roam? No, there wasn't much free. So he went around the edge and he was faster than us. We came inside. So you saw that look you did, you know what I mean? Like you knew that. So no sacks also. They threw their longest game was a jet sweep. Their longest pass play was a jet sweep. I mean, so you watch the same game I did. Let's break it down defensively. Their longest game was a jet sweep I thought we affected a quarterback. Unfortunately, we didn't contain him. And that's really what bothers you because it doesn't make him earn it. And there you go with, you know, he's maybe not, you know, today's credit didn't throw it into places where that we could take advantage of it and find a way to intercept the ball. They were low or, you know, we played off of them and we didn't, you know, those are things that I was frustrated with. You know, we should have been up challenging, but, you know, we didn't feel like the matchup at a particular place was great. I don't think we rushed them poorly. But again, the plays that they made, you know, those were critical. The edges on the red zone, the first third down scramble, you know, we could get off the field right there. That leads to a long drive. So that's what we had to do. We don't think we have to worry about the pass rush per se and just knowing who the quarterback is, knowing where we think he may be able to scramble and doing a better job of containing them. That's one of the things that we talked about as a key is making him earn everything. And we did, for the most part, with the exception of a few penalties and that quarterback scramble. On the second Taylor touchdown, it looked like Molden may have been a guy who could have said that, but I know he's in man. Is he like, do you want him to? Yeah, no, there's, yeah, that's a fine line. You know, again, we try to incorporate those rush games and having those guys make great decisions on, you know, when they can come inside, when they can't, using great judgment, you know, and then being able to identify guys that are matched in coverage who can trigger on the quarterback. And so, you know, we'll keep showing those guys and say, hey, you know, once you pass them off to somebody, you know, we have to understand who the quarterback is, what his strengths are, and it'll be a new challenge this week, you know, with what the Patriots do and what, you know, the type of quarterback that Mack Jones is. I know there's like distractions that come with the volley, but you, some ways mentally get a boost, knowing you've got, after this long stretch, you've got a break coming up late on the line. Yeah, I'm not looking past anything, past right now, I hope our players aren't, I hope they're focused on getting healthy, you know, no time to sit there and reflect or look ahead to the bye week and making mental preparation for what that'll be. We just have to focus on trying to win a football game, to improve in doing the things that we know win football games in this league and going on the road and having a great challenge. Robert, you called Rome and did you hear that Fisher spent the first couple seconds of his acceptance speech calling out the refs on that? He called it grounding, grounding. Yeah, the intentional grounding. Nah, I mean, it looked like he, you know, I don't think there was a receiver in the area, I don't know if he was out of the pocket or not, that's not for me to decide. We all have to be better. You know, the playing in this league, especially as it relates to the Titans has to be better and the coaching and then the officiating, it all does. You know, those are the three facets of the game. I can focus on two of those. Pretty much your plan ever since you've been here has been to be in a game or take the lead and be able to run the football and be balanced on both sides. Did yesterday highlight the fact that with the guys you have out right now, that that may be even more important as part of your recipe moving forward? I think it's always important, you know, whoever we have, you know, we find out who we have. We try to get those guys ready. We try to impress upon the guys how critical it is to be ready to go, to go in there like a player like Don Shrill Hilliard, take advantage of your opportunities so that you get more opportunities. But that's what we believe in in winning football games is trying to, you know, take care of the football, be balanced, play good defense, take care of the football, turn it over. None of these things should surprise anybody and that's, you know, we weren't able to do that yesterday. And to go along with that, you were pretty aggressive yesterday. You went for fourth down in the first half. You could have, I guess, taken points at some points there. Do you have to be more aggressive right now? Was part of that the elements or? Well, part of it was, you know, mean part of it was and I think to Joe's question yesterday, yeah. I mean, I did, I probably answered too quickly. We did discuss, you know, going for two, Joe just thinking, you know, where it was still a little bit of time in the third quarter if it was probably into the fourth, you know, we ended up having five possessions after that, but we did consider it. So I know that I probably answered a little bit too quickly. Trying to be aggressive and trying to have some plays. It's just, you know, again, I'm gonna explain to our football team, their short yarded situations, they converted. Ours, you know, we didn't. And that's, you know, that just comes down to physical football. You know, they ran the same play that we ran and they stopped us and they got a first down. You know, so that has to change. You have to be better in those situations, especially when a team is up and is just gonna be satisfied with running the ball for, you know, three yards. It wasn't like they were wearing us out in a run game, it was just that they could and they could just run it, they could just hand it off, punt, play defense, and hope that we would make mistakes on our way to try to come back and win the football game. Mike, what's the challenge? Last two weeks, the opposing offenses have been connected on passes to the sidelines. How tough is that to defend and how can you try to maybe take some of that away? Well, I mean, I think you have to be in tighter coverage. You have to be able to, you know, pick and choose your spots of when we challenge, you know. Well, we've got some guys in there that are probably more suited to play zone. But I know that they threw one to the sidelines on Elijah and he matched the guy's hand, he didn't look back, he drove, did exactly what we teach him to do. They threw one on the sidelines on Kevin. I think admittedly, I think that's a play Kevin should make. And I think he'd tell you the same thing. They threw one out there on Chris Jackson. Chris Jackson's plan on one foot, trying to go through the ones that were, you know, out there and matched coverage. So, you know, to throw the ball out there, you know, Tiaire can probably help us. He had a nice rush, you know, try to get him to match the hand he tackled the quarterback around the waist, which was a nice rush. But unfortunately, didn't do anything to affect the throw because he got the ball off. So I think some of those things we can do to, you know, help us on the edge when we're rushing, you know, to try to get a hand up as that thing's traveling through. What you've seen Danico and Jeffrey do, you know, those are all things that we'd like to try to do and then always, you know, try to just be a little tighter coverage or being a coverage that allows us to roll up over there. But what you're saying, how have the Patriots done as far as getting John O. Smith and incorporating to that offense and involved in that passing game? Well, I mean, he's a piece. We understand his skill set, you know, his vertical speed, you know, and it'll be good to see Johnny who haven't seen him. And I think that they've, you know, continue to find ways to win a football game. And whether that's, you know, finding some guys one week or finding other guys, you know, I saw they handed them off, you know, a jet sweep and, you know, try to get them some catch and run opportunities and, you know, I'll dive into it more here after this. Thanks guys. Appreciate it.