 A lot of things, you know, Terry put out the statement. And like any move we make, we try to do it in the best interest of the team and always mindful of the players and very appreciative of all the players that played here, especially the guys that played well, whether they played for us. Since I've been here, they played for other ones. I always love guys that have former players that come back and we embrace them all and very appreciative of everything Deion has done for us. Yesterday you said, when I asked you about whether you thought it was passing up here, yesterday when I asked you if you thought it would be a great e-coloss pass, or no pass, but it's rough in the pass where you said you wanted to watch the film after watching it. With a day to sit on it, what do you think about it? Yeah, my focus is on San Francisco, you know, it's like a lot of things in life control, which you can control. The league has very clear policies that, you know, when you get clarification per their policy, those are confidential conversations and there's a process to it, but it's like a lot of things, Mike, in life control, you can control and what we can control is how to get better because we have a huge game Sunday here in Atlanta against the Niners, so that's where our focus is now. Part of the process, do you submit tape and all that, can you give us a general part of it? It's, that's part of it and like I said, when that's tough, you handle it, it's pretty standard operating procedure with the league and you have those conversations in per their policy, those are confidential. You learn from trying to learn from everything he led. Again, things in life, you can't ever change anything in the past, there's no point in sitting here and spending any more time on the need to because what we have to do is we are ready to play and play better and to beat the Niners here at home and it's gonna take a great week of preparation, know what's gonna be a physical game and we're excited about it. One more on that, you said yesterday that you need to learn to coach it better. Or is there anything you saw on tape that you actually could coach better there? That's a good question. I'll continue to look at it and find ways. We're talking to some guys in the locker room after the game and a lot of them have the perspective of, we start fast to play more consistently because at first half we're not even in the position to have a call like that. When you hear guys have that perspective, what does it make you think of this locker room? Yeah, you got the right guys. I'll never sit here and try to tell somebody how to feel a certain way, that's insane. But I think perspective helps. It's an emotional sports, emotional game. We love people's passion. Players, the fans, everybody involved in it and that's part of it. And that's why I think it's the greatest game in the world. But you have to have that perspective because when you look at it, there's a lot of things we could do and you can rationalize and say, oh, if this happened or that happened or this and that but we're trying to improve. We need to make sure we're trending in the right direction as this thing continues to evolve. I think that we're close in a lot of areas. There's been a lot of progress. There's other things we need to clean up. There's some of the details in the passing game and it's all of us. So there's things you can be encouraged about. There's things you certainly gotta clean up and that you have to clean up, excuse me. And we will. With the trading of Deion, the linebacker position has been revamped here. How are they playing? How they look? From Mike Hill all the way down to Nate Linn. Yeah, we obviously feel that's a strength of our team and things evolve. And we said that we very appreciate Deion and Foyer and things that give us life in the NFL. I mean, it's just, Foyer thinks that there's gonna be some lifetime appointment in the wrong profession. That's why you better enjoy the journey and stay in the present and try to get better and in the people as they come and go. So it is in pro sports and really any team, whether in youth football or high school to college, change is constant and it's gonna happen. And it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the journey or you're with those people and be very respectful and appreciative of which we are. So going back to the inside linebackers on current roster, like Welker who thinks playing really good football and the numbers show that and same with Sean, they all have their strengths. And Troy, you know, he played a little more in some of the two stack linebacker packages and thought he handled it well and then he had a little bit for Nate and maybe he has to play a little more because Mike was out and we feel good about quit too. So we feel like that's a strength of our defense. You mentioned Mike, obviously Mike with the injury as far as right trade. With those, like look, if there's something major I'd update you with, the truth of the matter is you need to meet, excuse me, meet, we're in here one o'clock Eastern. We don't have all the imaging done. So once we do and then we gotta assess it tomorrow, a little bit of how they feel tomorrow and then I promise you everything will be on that practice report Wednesday and you guys will see it. Who's out there who's not. If it was something major, I'd let you guys know. But your average is 164 yards a game, I'm not gonna rush it. The average is 166 yards a game passing. I know you like balance, but do those numbers need to look a little different? Oh, I mean, every week's gonna be a different challenge. Certainly, you wanna be everywhere you wanna improve. There's things I think we need to do better in the run game. I think the thing that, when you're in sync and depending on your first, second down, there's some things I thought we did well in the drop back yesterday, starting with the first, third down in the game. I thought, you know, you gotta beat man coverage and then NFL wide open, not like the college game. It's marginally like that. And I thought Ferk had a good route and covered a man. I thought we had a good pocket. I thought it was a really good throw. I thought there was some good throws made in the drop back game. I think some of the stuff in the play pass game as you continue to work, I think are a little bit of our spacing, some of our details, a little bit on the protections. As we continue to evolve, they can help. And that's where, again, as you keep working on it, just like you do in the run game, I think we're close to some explosives. I guess I'm careful how much I did because it sounds like rationalizing, but that's part of the coaching. Like I do feel confident that we'll be more, I guess, balanced in a complete way, that better way to put it. Because there's some things I think we can do better in the run game too. Do you, when it comes to the quarterback play that you have from Marcus. Sure. Where do you feel like it's at this point? BZ is completing less than 60% of those passes. Well, I think Mike, there's a lot of ways to look at it. I think there's some guys that necessarily won't make the right play and they'll take sacks and there's the guys that try to get you out of it. You got us a lot of jams yesterday. They did everything they could to bring every kind of pressure known to man, which we anticipated, and there's some things. And then as we started, the game started going, thought we adjusted well, and we were able to hit some big runs because of it and hit some big passes. No different than the one we hit to OZ before the half. No, we didn't execute better. I, you know, they bring a pressure. We don't, he can't catch it, you know, ball against on the ground. And then, you know, they bring an overload to the three technique and got a guy loose and we take a sack there. It's a lot to, you know, coomissing the field goal. So those are little things too. So I don't know how that's on the quarterback. I think he's doing a really nice job. His simple plays, you know, quarterback rating, completion, be damned. He's gotten us out of it because if he hasn't, I mean, there could have been some other negative plays, which gave us a chance to come back in that game yesterday. So not perfect at all. I think that I think he's continuing to see him in a rhythm, you know, when you watch the tape, especially in the drop back game, we got to be better on some of the other first and second down passing game. So when you're asking to do that, some of the movement passes, they're not clean progression reads. And that's stuff that we look at as coaches and everybody, I think we can be better there. So the completion percentage, whatever. I worry more about situational football turnover margin. Make sure we're clean in the red zone, which we'll be two for two yesterday in the red zone. We need to get down there more. But there's a lot of ways to look at it, but I do have appreciation for guys that will not take negative plays regardless of their stats. As far as Damian Williams just said, I guess last week you were talking about Cordero, and you thought he'd come back. He's eligible to come off. Yeah, I was just being obsessed. I think he's getting closer. And again, I trust him and the medical experts. So we'll just have to see how it looks like as the week goes on for him. You mentioned me, at least, I've put him in a radio. I got to see, again, how he's doing. I think he's close, but I can't wait to see. In terms of the way you divvied up the running back work, how much of it with these guys, at least as long as Cordero's out, is hot hand versus one or a bunch of other players? And there's some things he does for us as an offense, just when he comes back. I mean, and like all of a sudden, he was 35 carries. Very productive in what he does. But there's things that CP can do that a lot of guys can't. He can go out there and then what he did last year for us. And we'll continue to assess that. So when he comes back, I think it makes us a better offense. Put him in there in multiple backs. Is he a wide out? Is he a back? Is he a quarterback? Is he a tight end? That's where you want to get to him. Because I know this, when he touches the ball, he's effective and he's made big plays for us in the passing game a lot last year and the run game. And he was certainly having a pretty good season so far running the football. But when he comes back, I know this, there's a lot of things he can do for us and that'll make us better as an all-complete offense. I meant more until he gets back. How do you handle that? Is that more hot hand with Tyler and Caleb and Damian if he comes back? Or is that, how do you approach that because of what he's able to do? That's what we're gonna call. A little different. There are certain things we ask guys to do. Even when he was in there, I mean, there are certain things that schemes that we may ask Tyler. Just kind of give everybody a role. You like to play everybody. We're not playing the backup quarterback yet and the two quarterback system. So, I mean, D-Led, when he's the one guy to play, but we do play everybody. And so everybody's got different roles. That's why sometimes maybe it's fatigue, the guy needs a break. Other times it may be a package that the games within the games like with Avery's touchdown run yesterday. There was something if we had gotten a certain look we would have run with him. And then we got the other look and got us in the right play and got him on the free safety and he made a little spin move and got on the end zone. What was the effect of Kyle not being there yesterday at least what you saw defensively and did it slow things down in the first half in the passing game? Not necessarily, that wasn't the major obstacle. A lot of it was, you get an earn first and then whether it was a penalty or negative play. And it wasn't like they were playing a lot of man when you needed somebody to win one-on-one every down. That wasn't going on. They brought a lot of different pressures, a lot of simulated pressures, a lot of shell look as they roll down into the skies and build out of there. I think that's the trend right now and certainly going against that. As they give you a single high look and then they bail out, they're trying to make sure the ball is not thrown over their head. Maybe had a shot that we were trying to take and unfortunately we didn't get to play off. So certainly when I love having Kyle out there but if he's not available, it's my job to find out what's the solution. So I don't. Well, if you don't win, that's a great subjective argument but I think there was some things that we tried to challenge them on and certainly wasn't perfect but ultimately we kept with the plan and because if it's out of reach, it can get really ugly. But you know, I'm going in the fourth as we were driving like we could stay into our normal plan which certainly gave us a better chance and even not getting the ball back late, we had the drive in between before OZ's touchdown where we had a face mask call and it takes you, those are crucial penalties and it was a face mask and those kind of negative plays but there was enough possessions there for us to win it regardless of what happened at the end. Can you put more on OZ's plate? He does a lot of things for us. He does a lot and he's playing good football for us. Yeah, because I was just, you know, 12 to 14 looks like maybe, caught every ball comes way pretty much. Hodge made a big play on the two-point conversion. Hodge just made some big plays for us. Yeah, and Bird's a very smart player and played multiple roles and Brian was up against yesterday and some things will continue to push with him as he gets more comfortable in the offense. Yes, I'd like to wait till the end of the quarter next week. Go for it. You got your flex on today. I don't know, somebody had that shirt on yesterday. Iro did, yeah, he was flexing everybody and he brought it today. It's off of the crowd. It's the Hall of Fame selector shirt. Big flex, all right. No, I'm looking ahead. San Francisco didn't, haven't finished reviewing yesterday but Saudi Rams game. How are they playing? And, you know, I guess Debo's having one is off to a good start. Yeah. Doing the kind of multiple stuff. Quarter, it was going for you. Watch, obviously when you're playing him, he's a pain and then you know what? That's because he's a good football player. He's very strong. A guy that we really liked. You know, that's the thing. That's why there's a, you have a draft so you can't take everybody. It's not like recruiting. Can't get 25, five stars. Cause trust me, I'd want to coach and Debo. Really liked him coming out of South Carolina. Really good football player. And I say that as a comment. He is a football player. Really strong hands, hard to tackle, play multiple spots. So we got a work cut out there. We got to make sure we account for him and tackle. Obviously Kittle at a ton of plays in his league, plays at unbelievably fast pace. Really good instinct to player. Finds different ways to, they do a good job finding different ways. And he does, he's got a good feel. And some of the delay stuff he does to create explosives. And they play hard. It's going to be a physical challenge. I mean, we, I think the top rush, second rush defense, rushing defense to court in this morning, I think they're giving up the least amount of yards per carry. Number one in total yards overall, defensively. And so it's, you know, it's what you want. You don't want to play, you want to go against the best. And the Niners, they have a really good scheme. We got a really good D line coach, really good defensive coordinator. So we're excited about the challenge. Whatever's not going to big deal a lot of D'Amico Blitz in a lot in the Rams game. They, I guess they haven't traditionally done that. Probably saw him on tape. He's on tape now. Maybe, you know, he's a terrific football coach. D'Amico is. And it's a really good scheme. I think Chris Casaric is as good as anything the line coach in the league. And those guys bring it. And I got it to hold them in respect for them. And, you know, it's two really physical styles. And it should be a pretty good match up here Sunday in Atlanta. I see you guys don't use Cordero the same way that San Francisco uses Debo. But the fact that your defense has seen a player at least somewhat similar. Does that help at all in prep for? I think maybe because you see nontraditional sets. Certainly, yeah. I think some of the motion stuff you'll see. I think you'll, it's not going to be, you know, they're different players, but, and they're both really good players. And ironically, they're both from South Carolina. But, yeah, I mean, like I said, it certainly helps when you're playing against versatility. But again, it's a different player. Were you studying the way Kyle Coles plays on offense? You know, is there any tendencies you see or anything similar that you've already seen somewhere else? Because he's so unique in what he does? Well, I think, you know, I think the easy thing is a label of everybody that's, there's like an evolution of football. No doubt for a different one. People have success in the way the game's trend. I think the easy thing to do is say, okay, that team ran wide zone. Well, they run it a little bit differently than Mike Shanahan and Gary Kubiak and Alex Gibbs. The thing that you see about the Niners is pretty creative. What they do, and they play fast, but they practice hard, and it's not the play calls. It's the intent, it's the details, it's the climate that he's created there. I mean, sometimes, like I said, like, you know, it could be a basic call. And when you've got guys that are in sync and you believe in what you're doing, they could take a very, what you call, vanilla play call and make it special. And so if somebody has the playbook, I could print out a playbook and it won't matter. It doesn't matter. If I could get Kyle's playbook, it wouldn't matter. But it's, that's the way I think you're seeing, I think everyone on the surface is like, oh, this guy came from here, he came here. No, I mean, usually smart people, Green Bay's playing a lot different, play to the strengths of your team, and everybody's got their own ideas. I mean, I learned something from somebody, but I've taken something from every coach I've been with, offense or defense, and you make it your own. And that's why I have a lot of respect for Kyle. I mean, so different system, but I like, I appreciate the way they play and how he gets his team ready and they got a good culture.