 Hi Teresa. Good morning Mike. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Great. How helpful has this week often for your team especially when you come back and you know you now have a division opponent coming in on Sunday? Well I mean we'll see. I think we you know have had a couple days off hopefully guys feel better hopefully guys feel healthier and we're ready to work and get something done. What is today is it practice? No it's practice. It's practice you know we have to get better. There's you know only so much time on a bi-week that you have. You know CBA says they have Thursday to Sunday off so we worked on Wednesday. We practice Wednesday. We'll practice today. What did work with Josh Mike as a project that you brought in hoping to get something at receiver? Just just gave me an opportunity and you know didn't didn't see enough there and one with another player. A few more passes you know I mean it's you know they give them a lot of credit they never go away. They scored they scored in the last 30 seconds of all three wins so never out of it you know battle back against Houston so however the game goes whether we're up or we're down I mean it's gonna be something that we're gonna have to focus on and be able to finish you know or have the ability to try to come back because they you know they're they're gonna battle and then they're not going anywhere so don't give them a lot of credit. Mike what's was made of your response I guess to the officiating committee was that report accurate and if so I guess why reply all to the message that you got there? Well first I would say that you know obviously I wasn't I wasn't contacted by anybody that put the report out. That'd be the first thing I'd say you know the second thing is I just you know it only goes to head coaches and general managers you know so apparently there's there's you know people there that want to put things out to people for a purpose I don't I don't know I never understood that. The reply all I mean you guys know me I'm not hiding behind anything I mean I just we all get together we meet we sit in a ballroom apparently you got email now it's reply all it's like me standing up or any other coach or any general manager anybody that wanted to say something in the meeting I felt the need to to say it and address it it's important you know coaching playing and officiating all make up our game players more so than anybody and you know we do we spent a lot of time on this in the offseason the only other job that's harder than playing is officiating so just trying to make my point or say my piece. You haven't said publicly previously though I mean you said you said pretty much the same thing here in training camp you feel like you're not getting any traction in that regard. No it doesn't matter you know I mean it doesn't matter what my my traction is I love working with the officials that that are at our training camp that come in the conversations amazing situations these guys working and talking with our players watching tape going through things it's never gonna be perfect neither is playing neither is coaching just striving for a level of consistency each and every week that you know things that that look like foul or foul things that aren't aren't so that you're not seeing one thing on TV one week and seeing something different the other and say well what about you know it's like coaching or you know I mean you can only you want to try to be as consistent so that one one kid says well they so-and-so well Tyler did this and he didn't get you know in trouble well Carter you know I mean that's what happens they just try to set a level of consistency with the players so that they can understand that what they can legally do and what they can't you know I mean if it's defensive pass interference because you're not playing the ball and there's contact well great we all understand that voice that and kind of influence that with your role in the competition committee my role in a competition committee is just to try to you know help with clarifications things that we talked about in the off-season and say that you know just try to be involved in the meetings and say you know and try to come up with ideas that are gonna help us that's it so let's focus on the Colts and back to tackle in this open time you've had or are you guys just content with him and guard well he's had to play guard I mean Nate Nate Nate was unavailable last game and I played guard last game Corey and you know we think the Dylan's got some versatility and some flexibility eventually or this week no chance potentially any other practice windows in general opening this week that not that I'm aware of I think it's it's a balance you know I think we try to you know do some self-scout stuff on Wednesday I think we'll do a combination of both of those things today and then you know work work towards the Colts as we move on in a week potentially trying to find guys who need to play more and maybe some guys who need to play less his jig with his matchup the problems he can create in the passing game is he a guy what does he need to do to be in there more often I think it's a combination of just being able to function isn't his role of what we're asking him to do and you know block and some of the other things that we ask the tight ends to do and you know I think he's he's working hard and again I mentioned his ability to play on special teams that's something that you know with a young guy that maybe didn't do a whole lot of it in college has been really good and you know the speed that he's trying to play with and play on our punt team plan or kickoff coverage kickoff return you know these are you know punt return that's you know that's been good to see is Dennis you're optimistic that Dennis can can progress from where he's been or is left tackle a spot that you have to consider I think we have to consider a lot of options you know throughout the roster from your perspective how important is that for the growth not only the franchise but also the city well just happy for our organization happy for miss Amy to fan you know the entire family the ownership group our team the city you know as our cities continue to grow and the success that this the city has had you know we want to try to be representative of that and plan an amazing facility for our fans for the events that it's going to hold and everything else so that's that's amazing that we can we can start to move forward with it I don't think I've been involved in those conversations yet I haven't gotten the wish list I think that that would be something to check with the Health and Safety Commission to see what the numbers are I don't know what the numbers are so I'm not going to speak and say that the percentages are this I'm sure that they have them I just haven't looked at them and we practice on grass I know when we go inside we practice on turf I know when we go to Indianapolis we play on turf when we play at home we play on grass so I'm sure they'll look at a lot of different things maybe then he did just two or three weeks ago when you faced them like any other quarterback there's no pressure they all look really comfortable and really good and when there's pressure sometimes they don't look so comfortable when guys are screaming at you like any other quarterback got the ball out got the ball out quick yet didn't give me sacks and they moved some guys around and you know they played well and they played really well you know and so we'll have to be you know try to affect the quarterback like we like each and every week I will see how the week goes long see how it plays out on Sunday but now those are the guys that we're trying to identify guys to help us win potentially yeah man I think is you know something I don't necessarily say it's long overdue but we obviously have seen the growth of Nashville these past few years obviously starting what I think it was our uniform announcement that had brought a bunch of people out downtown it didn't obviously the draft so obviously you know getting a new stadium would bring a Super Bowl which I believe bring you know more benefits to this city so super exciting to see definitely I mean I don't know when it's gonna be complete or nothing like that hopefully you know I could play my last couple years in that stadium so but like I said it's exciting for the city so hopefully they can get done they're hoping for 2026 2026 so was that three four years from now I don't know that's that's pretty far out so try to think about it right now like you said the possibility of being there and obviously playing in the state and being the home stadium it'd be awesome but you know like I said man maybe some of these younger guys they for sure are guaranteed to probably play at it but like I said from 2026 who knows what's gonna happen there like we've done that like the past three years and so I don't know if it's been the coach usually at the end of the year we always play Houston like the last two or three weeks back to back so we're kind of used to it benefits I don't know about any benefits but I mean I guess us coming off a bi-week having a lot more time to self-scout ourselves but also scout the the coach as well and they're probably gonna do some similar things that they did last time such things that they beat us on or you know did a good job against so like I said we kind of know what this battle is gonna be heavyweight match two teams gonna run the ball not sure if Hanson tail is gonna play but I'm anticipating both of those plans so they obviously gonna try to get back to running the ball and setting the tone down there and you know Matt Ryan had a really good game last week do like 37 times in the first half so expect them to air it out a little more too yeah I mean you always want to have pride and beat your division teams I don't think there's anything like we're just walking around saying hey we're gonna go out there and beat them again off the rip we understand that you know their owner and their entire team their entire city wants to beat us so we have to go in there with that type of mindset obviously having a home game expecting a nice crowd out there in Nissan so should be a pretty good game Mike noted that there's a pretty big limitations on what you can actually do on the field during the bye week with just a Wednesday practice and then tonight how much did this team get better and how in the last week I mean you can't really tell honestly you only can tell obviously building up momentum throughout the week at practicing and obviously going out there on game day I mean the thing you should anticipate especially us as a team you know coming off a bye week is guys being fresh flying around all hats of the ball trying to try to have fun you know I'm saying because obviously coming off a bye week some guys able to get away refresh their minds or whatever but like say it's being so early in the year guys should be fresh and ready to go out there and hunt I mean it'd be exciting I mean I haven't heard much about it I saw today just listening to it but you know I think that'd be not just exciting for our team but you know this whole city of Nashville so I think it help our markets for sure especially like with all the concerts that you see others you know stadium having for sure but you know hopefully we can get a lot of wins in it first so I think when they bring a stadium like that and cost that much I'm sure they expect us to win so you know hopefully we just get some wins first how much can you guys get done actually over the bye week can you actually get better in that time and how yeah for sure first mentally you know especially you know it's early still it was early it's an early bye of course but you know we played five games and that's where we we could come back you know okay this were especially defensively you know we if we take away the X plays you know we focus on not giving up the big play that's where we could get better on defense because you know we make team go go to go you know it's always turns out good for our defense and I think that's where we started on defense you know we just take away the X plays you know because we're doing especially the last two weeks and we played the coach we played on Washington we did a great job of stopping the run but it just you know the small things where we could maybe we could affect the quarterback a little more for the not let him go and make them deep throws like that so I think that's just our next step especially defensively how can we communicate better you know pre-snap a line I mean adjustment stuff like that where we can communicate and just you know get lined up and make sure we ready to attack especially up front I should say so I think our next step right now especially coming out this by you know let's let's try not to give up all these big plays yeah I mean I've seen they threw the ball a lot of course they didn't have a two running backs with Hans and Taylor which we can expect them to come back this week especially to do what they normally do and that's run the ball so you know we're expecting you would have to stop the run again but we're also you know after we stop the run because we see you know Matt Ryan he you know he was in a groove especially last game so we have to affect him so I think that's the thing stop the run and then affect the quarterback yeah I was yeah I was watching I was in India actually so my family my fiance's family was there she was right by the the Colts facility so I was trying to get some extra you know sneak peek some looks at practice but yeah I watched that it was a good game you know they came back and made plays when it counted that game you know I got a sense that you know they're feeling pretty confident and that's what we got to expect you know for them coming here that they're feeling really good and confident who they are and we're gonna get their best shot yeah it's good yeah you know just off a bye week being able to watch them against the divisional opponent you just I feel like you get you know good film to watch stuff to learn off of in ways to try to exploit them but also ways that what they're doing well and what's like out for I mean I'm sure it'd be big but I feel like the biggest thing is just win the game win the next game being want to know this week not thinking ahead of what it could shake out for the division just focus on winning winning every game one by one and then it'll shake out how it's supposed to you guys just to have time now to continue to build on offense the second half and the things that you need to improve on yeah I mean that's that's what's great about this game and coming back to work now after a bye week is you get to you know kind of reset recharge and come back with I guess that a sense of urgency of you know it's exciting to be able to fix something it's exciting to be able to have an opportunity to get better at something and that's what we we have today you know with this extra practice and then going on with the rest of the season yeah I mean like you said getting that distance but it's gonna take you know a one-on-one mentality but that can you know give us a little I wouldn't even say breathing room because then that's what's when you get complacent when you know start to fall off so it's really just giving us a chance to you know just start heading the right direction continue you know improving week by week because that's how you end up you know going deep deep into the playoffs and you know making a run at the Super Bowl