 How are you going to help while he's coming out of this one? I guess Frank's and Chuma will be in the protocol. And then, obviously, Chuma didn't make it to the game. So I kind of assess where he's at, what's the best plan for him, but Felipe's in the protocol. And for four red zone, film breakdown, how'd that go? Yeah, I mean, obviously, when you look at the stat at the end of the game, when you look at the stat sheet, clearly, we need to be better there. But in every individual drive, you break it down, you critique yourself from the calls, the situations that came up. We had the one before the end of the half, the penalty, and then the time, and all that issue. And then going on before that, we had some things we got to be a lot cleaner on. We had our chances. And I've got to get Baltimore credit, but there's some things we knew better there to deal with. Is there a trend there that goes back further than last week in terms of your red zone efficiency? Because before that, I mean, again, you take what you want with the rankings. I should believe we were top 10 in the red zone. I think whatever we're at now this morning at 13, doesn't tell the story. I mean, tell my trips on there. If I thought we were completely, something was a major issue. Every week's a little bit different in the story. We obviously need more points. I mean, I'm not going to rationalize that, but like you said, there are different things that have come up. You get down there, you get a penalty, end of the half, and then another time, we got to be better, a little bit operationally. Just some things mechanically, and then one of them, you got to make a decision to take a field goal because of the situation in the game. So those are all different. And it's a fine line, trying to make excuses and rationalizing, but just the reality of the situation. Again, if we thought it was some epidemic, when you're top 10 in the league, it's not completely broken, but we need more points. That's for sure. What? I thought he did a nice job. I mean, we were in a little more of a drop-back game, which was good to see for him. I thought he delivered, especially as the game went on. I thought he made some critical throws and some critical situations. That's what I saw, Scott. But again, we came up short, which was frustrating, but I thought he meant a lot of progress. When you're looking at guys that are banged up or flat injured now, like a guy like Chima, since there is no playoffs, do you approach it differently in terms of shutting them down for the year or kind of keeping the guys that have been battling through some stuff, maybe some vets, and not play them because of keeping them healthy for the longer term? Did you play that? You got an example of a precedent of that? Like, when you were in the league, telling guys to shut guys down, we don't work, I just get an injured report. This is an important game for us. We need to play well and we need to go win. It's important to win at home. It's important to win. Regardless of building short-term, obviously we came up short of our goal. You know? But in the next step, we need to finish this outright. We need to win. And then we need to go into the offseason and if there's anything we'll have areas to address there. But this week is the most important thing for us professionally and every guy in that locker room. That's the culture you're trying to, you know, the competition you have. And again, you go back and look at these games and we've been close, but obviously we came up short. But we're here to win and win this week and we'll get the best guys out there. A lot of guys were disappointed or eliminated, but they kept talking about finish strong. Steph, how do you try to motivate them to, you know, you know, finish strong? Job, Deela, that's what you're hired to do. And if you can't get motivated, you're not self-motor, you're probably the wrong person for the job. And certainly, as the example is around the league, you can rationalize a lot of things. You can find a lot of excuses to not do your best. That certainly won't be here, certainly not as long as I'm here. That's just not the way these guys are wired. Deela, we got a lot of prideful guys, players and coaches, and we're thankful to have another opportunity to go out and compete. We owe it to our fans, we owe it to ourselves, and that's what we're, that's our charge this week. When you look at this 2022 draft glass as a collective, have they exceeded your expectations at all? We got a lot of good young players in here. Again, it's not fair to individually, all of them individually have different situations here. You know, some of them have been, you know, I didn't say they had to play earlier. Some of them, you know, where we're at now, you know, they're getting their opportunity, but some of them by injury and other decision-making. So it's, we got a lot of good young players. I mean, there's a lot of huge growth you have from year one to year two. That's a big part. I mean, look how much growth that Chris Linsom's had from year three to year four. Those are huge years. He goes two, three, four, and that's what you like to see as we continue to build. What do you want to see from Desmond in these last two games? Yeah, just another step. I thought, Josh, I thought he took a good step again. We got thrown into the fire. Got on an Orleans, play veteran defense. Thought he handled some situations. We obviously had some more success through the air. Saturday in Baltimore against another really good defense that puts a lot of presnaps stress on you. And I thought he handled that well for a young player and I got more comfortable in the pocket. I think we need another step here. I mean, ultimately we need another step into when too. So as long as he keeps making this progress, I think that's a good sign. Is there something specific that he needs to do to take that step, or is it more a little bit better at everything? Well, I mean, again, we haven't put the entire game plan in, right? It's just Monday afternoon here. But as you go on there, operate, we need to be cleaner in situational football. We need to obviously score more and win. I mean, so that's another step in the evaluation of it, how he handles those situations. Third down, red zone, fourth down. When you decide to go for it, again, presnap, gotta have a situation in the half, in the games, all that stuff. It all goes into it. In terms of, well, actually, there are a couple of things that I asked. First, we never followed up, I guess, the week last week. Marcus ended up having a surgery. Yeah, I thought I said that. All right, I remember. I thought somebody had it. You said it was scheduled, I'm not sure we ever. Yeah, okay, and... Apologize if I did not. I thought one of you all asked me that. I think you asked me that, and we'll have to go fact check you. Yeah, that's fine. Maybe it on Friday when it's not recorded. No, I don't know. I don't know. Anyways, yes, he did. In terms of just kind of how you're going to, I guess, structure the last two weeks, I mean, is just business as normal? Do you try to do things a little bit differently? Well, in terms of what? I don't know what you're insinuating. We have a job to do. We're gonna come in here Wednesday. We have a normal in season Wednesday. We're gonna practice, gonna prepare. Thursday, we come in here. We have a normal Thursday, Friday, Saturday day before the game. Everything we do, we have a normal week. I don't know what you're saying. I guess maybe if you were trying to get maybe some of the younger guys in, like Adarbee or like, maybe get below it. What do you think that's, is that fair to those other guys that are competing for jobs? I mean, other than Grady and Jake, I mean, everybody in here is either on a rookie contract or on a minimum on the last year of the deal. That's disrespectful to those other guys in the receiving room. You really want to think about it. Go tell Kaderohaj, hey buddy, you've been working, playing so hard all year, now you're not gonna get a shot. That's not fair to this team. It's not fair to him. I mean, everybody, I mean, he's got to be merit-based. This isn't, yeah, I understand the question and I don't fault you for asking question, but take a step back and think about everybody and everybody in that locker room, what morale, what leadership really is and not fantasy, you know, these hypothetical GM situations. Like there's a lot of young guys that are playing we feel good about and we need to prepare to win. I mean, that's a big part of it too. So again, the best guys are gonna play. We're gonna do everything we can to win against Arizona. Did you hear anything from New York on any of the officiating questions? Yeah, those are private conversations that we're not allowed to talk about. They are, they are. I mean, I don't think there's any, nothing I can do to change that, Michael. So, we're always about it, I feel. Coach, you got a little bit left. Yeah, it went to overtime and then Tampa ended up winning. So, you know, we understand Arizona, same thing, it's a national football league. As of what the records are coming in, there's a lot of prideful guys. To Michael's point, there's a lot of, look, a lot of guys gotta have motivation from everywhere. We understand what we're at in our program and there's some things we feel good about and there's some things that we need to clearly make improvements on. It's a prideful guys, the 11 ones that balls kicked off, you gotta play your best to win in this league. And we know it'll be a challenge and I said they got prideful players and coaches and we know we're looking forward to Sunday. And we were sorely, you know, what do you remember about him coming out of Penn State? I didn't think it was a 45 attempt, guy. Yeah, I can. I got my own things to worry about right now as we put the game plan and he led them. I said, we're gonna focus on ourself and take the next couple of days, put this plan in and get ready to go. How have you seen Drew Dalman make progress this year? He's made a lot of progress. I mean, his first year starting in the NFL at center and in a critical position for us and for most offenses around the league. He's got touches of all first every play. He sets a table for us, a lot of things. I thought he's really stabilized in there and like a lot of players or things we'll look to improve on as we do every day as coaches. But Drew's at a pretty productive, it's the second year, but first year start. You said it's important to win and if I can manage this question without sending him like a smart alec, why? What do you, what do you say? Tangibly draft position is helped with losses. Why do you, that hasn't entered your mind clearly. Like why in your mind is it important that? That's what you're trying to build here. I mean, you go back and you look at it and you study history. That's what I do when you take a job like Terry and I took over. There is precedent and there's some things you try to study people that have success doing that. Certainly Seattle in their first two years with Pete Carroll and John Schneider. I believe they won seven and nine those first two years and I think first year they kind of got in playoffs coming out of the road here in the NFC South. Maybe get in with a losing record, but you know in the next year and then they got that thing going. You look at Buffalo, they took a dip knowing what they were trying to do and they certainly competed everywhere. You win in San Francisco, the same thing. The reason San Francisco, you can go back to Bill Walsher, you can go back to what Kyle and John Lynch have done. And as usually the common thread there, they had a plan trying to get the right people in there, trying to build it the right way. You're competitive, you're trying to learn what it takes to win, win those situations. I don't know any coach. The same thing I said in the spring, you'll never apologize for setting the expectation. Your objective is to win. To go in there, not to win. That's disrespectful to this game, to the players in that locker room. I understand the context you're talking about draft position, but there's also a graveyard of some horrendous draft picks just because you're up there high. You got to get the right and some of it is luck. Yeah, if there's a no-brainer top pick, usually history will tell you that's not the case. And so I get all that stuff, but go back and just study the draft, study that. You're trying to build a culture of winning the right way. Again, we've come in a lot of these close games with a young team and we've been charging back, but we haven't got another hump the last four weeks. We need to do that. Desmond Ritter needs to go in there. We need to go win a football game. Those are important, especially if he's gonna be in the quarterback of the future. When you're asking why, I have no problem answering that question. There's a lot of whys to it. But, and then the flip side of the argument, which, and I'm not hard headed, and I'm not like a old school P coach that's got my head, you know, backs up against the wall and says it run hard. Like I understand the big picture, but again, the draft position history will tell you that just because you're sitting at whatever spot doesn't guarantee you're gonna get a good player if you don't have the right process and identify it. Maybe luck is in your favor. Maybe not. You just mentioned Desmond and quarterback of the future. Sure. Is there, have you seen enough to get a sense of that already, where you stand with him? Or did you still get to see him? Again, we'll see how we are in a couple of weeks and we have a whole year with him and we've been pleased up to this point. Make sure we finish it. And there's a lot of things you gotta discuss throughout the off season. I mean, you got a lot of things and as you decompress the season, you go through meetings, strategy going into free agency, which we haven't had here in two years. Obviously, we're on the draft. We got a lot of picks. A lot of things you can move around and as we get into that. So, you know, we're excited about the off season and a lot of things we built here. We just wanna finish this the right way. And that's a huge question. I mean, Desmond done a lot of good things. He's out there and I'm excited to see what kind of step he takes from his second start to his third one as well. You're evaluating players, whether it be Desmond or anybody else, you're evaluating a known versus sort of a potential on a fuzzy and unknown of what you might replace them with. How do you put in safeguards to make sure that you're trying to compare apples to apples? It's not really apples to apples, as you're saying, because no matter what, I mean, we know Desmond. Right. And then again, it goes back to that thing with the draft. Go study drafts. And you know, go study what's been successful, what hasn't. And a lot of it is the right climate you're stepping into. A guy that can operate what you're building around that. I mean, the thing is if you continue to change strategies, you can see that too. A lot of young quarterbacks get in a place and they jerk the wheel every six months. Coordinators, coaches, personnel, even from the ground up, you know what you're scouting for. These guys are changing their criteria all the time. That's why there has been models of consistency. You look at places like Pittsburgh and Baltimore. You know, a lot of ways to do this, but the one thing that's when you look at history and look at consistency, it certainly makes it easier. It's not just the coach and the play callers or the position coaches, it's the whole organization. What you're trying to share vision and what you're trying to build. So there's a lot of factors into it. So we're excited about where this thing's going, but it is important for us to finish, to play well and to go win these games. I mean, I don't know how you go into a locker room to tell these grown men that put everything they have for you. Hey guys, let's just play young guys and see what it looks like. It's not fair to the fans that come out there. It's not fair to everybody and all the effort that's put in this game. So I got to, you know, I'll have our flaws. One of my flaws is I'm trying to do this thing right and win so big. Yeah, coach, when y'all do get to off-season, y'all have some resources available that haven't been there in the first couple of years. How do y'all, I know we'll get to that, but is that one of the things that are kind of a stick that's out there for y'all when you get to the off-season? Well, certainly our strategy's gonna change, right? And we've been thankful. I mean, I've been lucky. Some of these veterans that I've gotten to work with, whether they're one-year guys and guys that have come here that didn't necessarily know. I mean, think of, you know, we got C.P. late that first year and fun to work with Patterson. He's done a terrific job here. Lorenzo Carter or Sean Evans. I mean, there's tons of guys, guys that he'd been here before, but everything they had into Doron Harmon's, Brandon Copeland, Steven Means, guys that, you know, Lee Smith, as you really appreciate that put it on the line for ya. And those have just been the obstacles and nobody cares about your problems. I mean, this is such a competitive league and you're trying to do everything you can to win and build the right foundation. And we feel good about the foundation. We know we want to get over the hump, set the expectations high. You know, again, we, for multiple reasons, we didn't achieve that part, but it doesn't mean that it's, we're all of a sudden just down and out because we know we're building something real here and those are why you study history and why I brought those other examples. So certainly it's kind of changed the off-season plan that now we're in year three and some of the lumps we took along the way to get here. And so, you know, and that was one thing I think Terry will probably, as we enjoy talking to Terry, is it getting the off-season about all that stuff and that strategy will play out. And I know Mike kind of talked about taking a look at other guys and so forth, younger guys or practice squad guys. I know in the years past, Brett Grimes was doing all kind of crazy stuff out here and they went on and put them in the game and they turned into an all pro corner back there. There's a lot of guys we put into the game earlier or not and we've done that here. Some of the guys that we were able to be patient with, like Richie, the guys that we had to play earlier and based on different wavelengths, we constantly look and we've been developing guys. I mean, look at what Caleb Bluntley did. It's not lost, you know what I mean? Just because we didn't wait until week 16 and we played Caleb early. And those are guys in the program that we've been able to have success with. There's guys that we feel are coming along, but we gotta make the right decisions and we gotta do what's best for this team and what's best for those guys in that locker room. And that's what this is about. So I think sometimes now you get in the situations, it's easy for the guy on the peripheral to dismiss those guys, but you guys have covered this, you're on this team all year, every day. And we got a lot of great guys in that locker room and we want to finish this thing right because it does impact their future too. You're talking about guys that may be in year four then in the last year of the contract. So you didn't tell me, hey, you deserve to play, but man, sorry, we're not gonna do that. Those guys are trying to earn a living and trying to help us win. That's for Matt Hennessey. Yeah, so Henny, we're gonna make a decision on this week. I feel like he's making good progress, we'll just see how the week goes. Could be an opportunity, obviously depending on the fleet pay situation, right? And depending what the game plan, if I want to go heavy on offense or go heavy on defense. It was just, that's where he's at, I guess he was shaved at from his availability to just even practice from the P squad. So that's kind of how this will play out before now until Wednesday. Is anyone else possibly going to come back at this one? Because that's another area we're... Again, we're gonna have to assess, but then I'll be able to answer that for you, pretty clear about Wednesday. A lot of us are gonna impact on where Chuma's at, some other things, go along with it. This isn't a question about whether he's gonna come back or not, but how has Casey Hayward been doing in his recovery? Do you expect kind of a full... Can I... You know, Casey, he's been around, he's traveled with us like I haven't been, he's been rehabbing like all our guys are, TQ, Kyle, you see those guys all the time, we check on them, enjoyed having Casey around, he comes with us on the road, he's a veteran. So we'll see how it plays out for him, Scott, but very thankful for what he did for us early this year and love having him around. Kyle's doing his rehab here. Guys do a rehab, they check in, they get one here, they're gonna make an off season plan. He'll make it be a minute by minute. No, I just didn't know, well no, some guys will do their rehab, go somewhere else to do their rehab and then just come and check in. I didn't know if Kyle was doing it. Guys all have different rehab structures. They're doing here, they check in here, you see them, it's part of the cooperation and then obviously in the off season you got plans and that's their prerogative and guys are gonna end up doing what's best for them and the team as you collaborate and that's what we do here.