 All right, guys, go ahead and get started. Just one thing real quick before we get started. Des Kitchens, hey, D-Led, Des Kitchens. I was just going to say something quick, D-Led. OK. Just to update you guys, Des Kitchens, who's our running back coach, is taking the offensive coordinator job in the University of Virginia. And we're happy for Des. It's a great opportunity. Go be a coordinator. And so he will assume that position immediately. And we will, obviously, finish the season in the running back room by committee. So we've got a lot of good coaches here that can help. D-Led. I tweet that out, coach. Hold on. We got breaking news here. I don't know if this is going to be breaking, but. Yeah, I'll tweet it out. Ross, you're going to probably beat me. Tweet it out. I'll fight over who gets it first here. Yeah. Well, let me go to my question. You've driven me a curve ball. Give it a couple of seconds if you need to finish tight. Yeah. Just, Coach, can you discuss the juggling job the staff did to get ready for this game? And you had 66 snapped by the practice squatters. And I imagine you and your staff went through great links to get ready for this game. Yeah, that's part of the job description of a professional coach. And those were what the circumstances were. And so we had to adapt. We had to adapt in game. There was a lot of moving parts going on in the middle of the game. And guys stepped up. We've got a lot of production from guys that weren't necessarily with us in camp. Guys have been on our practice squad. They've had to step up. So that obviously came up short. But I appreciate those guys and the staff and getting the guys ready to go. And as far as Coach Kitchen's going, what will that committee look like with what Lefler? Regardless, Lefler's works with some backs, I guess, too, at one point. How would that committee look for you? We've got plenty of coaches here. I can step in. Dave Ragon, TJ Yates, lead. We'll get this thing done for this week. And then I'll take some time and be thorough about anybody else, anybody we bring in here and staff. So it won't be immediate. We know Russia Judd with their. OK. And just a little bit more on Parker, Hesse, what's y'all see during the draft process to make y'all think he can move from defensive end to tight end? It's been a three-year process, I guess. Yeah. No, it was Todd Downing, who's now the coordinator in Tennessee, was our tight end coach. We went out to the pro day with Hocketson and Phant. And Hesse was willing to work out. He was a team captain in Iowa at the defensive end. And then we got post-draft. And a lot of times when it's sometimes it's hard to fill that spot, especially when you've got a lot of production in that room, coming back, a lot of guys may not sign them as undrafted free agents. And we took a flyer on Parker. Todd liked him and said, hey, look, this guy's willing to come in here and try. And I believe he was in a rookie camp. And then I think he was going somewhere else to try out as a defensive guy. And we had him try out as tight end. And he hung around with a lot of guys on IR. He took a ton of reps that spring in 19, hung around on P-Squad, kind of went up and down. And when they let him go in Tennessee, he was a guy I was familiar with that wanted to get a shot here. Thanks, coach. Michael. Hi, Arthur. How are you? All right, Coach, how are you doing? All right, I'm getting better. This thing's coming for everybody, it feels like. So yeah. Yeah. Definitely is. Panging in, watching TV broadcasts, apparently, instead. What, I know you talked a little bit about yesterday or didn't, but what did the officials tell you about the Matt Ryan slide slash play? What were you told about that and the calls slash not calls? Yeah, I'm not going to get into the officiating thing with the way they ruled it. I'd imagine they clarify that on the TV broadcast, Michael. It's not the only time it's happened this season, but that's something that has an emphasis by the competition committee. But that's the way they ruled it. So that's what happened. And the calls and effect from that, to where you're at after that, being in a third long situation. As far as Kyle goes, any update or clarity on what's going on with him there and whether you expect him? I'm not going to get a lot of clarity. Let's see how the week goes. So we're not ruling him out today. This maybe is a weird question, but the fact that he's close to getting into Dick's mark, does that play into it at all this week? If he pushes for it and he comes to you and says, hey, listen, I want to make a run at that, how do you weigh that in a last game scenario? Not coming to that. He's going to come and say, how would he help us win? So I guess those things are nice. I'm not disregarding those things, those stats. But the only stat that matters, can we go out there and beat the Saints? And so that's Kyle. That's why we like Kyle. He's going to be, as he's proven this year already. And I think I've said it multiple times. I think he's just scratching the surface. But he wants to help the team win. That's your goal as a football player and as a football coach. How do you, this is your first year doing this. And how do you handle the last week of the year with guys? Do you start playing other guys? Maybe start to get them some reps, some looks? Do you stick with it, kind of just as is? These different guys take different philosophies on this. That's great. Our approach is to win the game. Every game we go out, that's our job description. And when you look at it, I know you guys have one game left. But how do you view what this team has accomplished this year and what this team has done? You know, obviously, you want to play in the postseason. We came up short. But like I said, that's probably a better question for sometime next week or thereafter that might. Appreciate it. Thanks, Arthur. Josh. This might follow up a little bit on that. But how much of what you do from here on out and in terms of personnel will be with an eye toward 2022 as you start to figure out what the roster is going to look like next season? We're playing to win this game, Josh. That's the best way I can describe it. There are so many things that happen. Things that are in your control, out of your control. They change so much from year to year. We obviously have a long-term vision. But short-term, the way it always is when we line up and play on Sunday, we plan to do whatever we have to do, play our way we can to win that game. Deron Harmon mentioned yesterday about liking the way that some of the young players on this team approached the game. How have you tried to balance, or did you try to balance this year, the youth that you had to have by necessity with the cap concerns with enough veteran guys like Deron to counterbalance that? And will that formula always be the same, or does it change as you go through this process? It changes, but that certainly was our intention and why we brought Deron and Eric in here. I don't think there's any secrets about it. I got a great appreciation for Deron Harmon, Eric Harris, and what they've meant to this football team. But Josh, you've got to evaluate what are your circumstances, and the way you asked it, you kind of answered it. It will change year to year. It's not just like, hey, we did it for 21. We're going to have to do it again for 22 or 23. And your circumstances are going to be, we're going to be at a different spot. So. Thanks. Thank you. Tori? Yeah, I think just kind of going back to what Michael was talking about, just preparing for the final week. I mean, do you feel like this team has kind of the wherewithal to honestly go into itself motivated to where you don't really have to kind of lay it out and be like, hey, this is a big game, even though there's no playoff implications? I mean, do you feel as though this team kind of has that culture in place to be able to do that on their own? Yeah, we don't, Tori, we got the wrong people. So I guess you find out about, you find a lot of people through adversity. I think that's, we found out a lot about this team throughout the year. I think, you know, we answered, you know, some of it, you put yourself in certain holes as the season goes on. For the most part, we answered that. You said we came up short yesterday, but if you've got to answer your question, we would think we had the wrong guys if we had to sit there and trick them and motivate them. That's absurd. That's nobody that we want here. Terry and I want here to play here. We'd have an issue with that and they won't be here. Cool, thanks. That's it for me. Do you have any follow-ups? Yeah, yeah. Coach, just the defense yesterday came on 4-3. Was that just part of what y'all felt you had to do? And then I had to rail, you know, follow-ups to find, you know, it looked like y'all had to just, you know, it was a lot of things that we hadn't seen. I had to just kind of do some stuff because of the situation, I believe. That's what you do when you're trying to win the game. So I thought that was best on the circumstances. I thought that was best for this game plan. And it was a nice job by those guys executing that package. AJ did a nice job, matching for the most part, but that'll always be our charge every week. You'll always look to problem-solve and give us the best chance to go win a game. And, you know, a guy like Thurman comes in and plays 17 snaps. That's, you know, somebody got him ready to play too. I would imagine y'all got him, you know, real late last week. Well, Thurman's been here. Thurman's been in our program. I've been called up, called up. Yeah, but he's been here and that's real. And you got a development program and you need everybody here and you get somebody in your program. And he showed improvement every week. And the circumstances, I mean, there was an opportunity there. And same with Leonard, who was here and y'all had to go back and getting. And he had to play, he looks like the three snaps on the kicks. Sure. And he would have been ready if, you know, he had to go on their attack. Now that's part of it. And we had him in our program and then, you know, certain things came up that week. And so, you know, we bounce around and so does practice squad, but at least he had been here and we felt confident if he had to play, at least he knew, he would know what to do. And just one question on the Saints here, eight and eight, y'all could knock them out. You know, it's a rivalry around here. So, you know, folks will, you know, be looking at like a, you know, real big, big game, even though you're not going to play off. You know, how big would it be to knock off the Saints and, you know, and get to, you know, eight wins for the season? Yeah, it's about us. And, you know, you know, we need to go out and win this game. Do you, Ed? You know, division game, we got a, I got a ton of respect for the Saints and what they've done their program for a long time and Sean Payton said it the last time we played them. We understand, you know, any division game is huge. Certainly this one being here in Atlanta, being another home game against a really quality opponent. And we need to go win this game. All right, thanks coach. Thank you, Michael. Yeah, I've got a couple. First, when it comes to Dez, you've been an offensive coordinator in your past. What do you see from him that makes you believe that he'll be a good OC? He's a smart coach, communicates well, understands how to provide value every week in terms of strategically, you know, coming up with ideas, getting his guys ready to go. There's a lot of things, communicates well. So he's a good, smart coach. He'll be missed around here, but it's a heck of an opportunity for him. And just at the end of the first half, there was maybe a little bit of, you know, every time management, I guess the clock went down again at points, just what was the strategy and the thinking there toward the end? I believe it wasn't like little under two minutes left. Can you tell him about after AJ's interception? Yeah. We had our timeouts, we had the ball midfield. We got in position to score. That's what we're supposed to do. Yeah, I guess I just meant like, was there a thought process maybe taking some timeouts earlier there in that or no? I mean, you get down to, you got most of your timeouts and down to 30, surely you don't want to take a sack there, but it's pretty obvious, Michael. I mean, they got the ball back after half. We need to score and then a fine line, you know, we're obviously trying to score touchdown. And, you know, you're playing that game there, not giving them the ball back too quick either with an explosive offense. So it's pretty obvious. Appreciate it, thank you. Josh. I know you're fairly neutral, but when it comes to analytics, whatever that means necessarily, but are there any statistics that you monitor internally that you think do show fairly progress or not as a season goes on? Yeah, we have a good analytic department. I think, you know, it's a kind of industry that's popped up. I think it's a lot of very misunderstood from the outside. I think a lot of people on the fringe, you know, when I make a dollar, I don't fault them for that. I don't think most people understand it. It sounds smart to write about, sounds smart to the user when something goes bad. But like I said, we have a, I'd argue one of the better analytic departments and pro sports, we put a lot of thought into it. And it's all about user application, but you're talking about splicing up stacks and you're coming at it. This isn't baseball and basketball. So some of them are really good to look at and you listen, you learn, and some of them are just, you know, you can bunch things, bundle things together, try to create your own narrative. So I don't know really what you're asking there, Josh, other than you get to the bottom of it. And, you know, you have a more direct question about it. When you get that stat sheet, the first time after a game you get, when you get that stat sheet, is there one place your eye goes? One or two places where your eye goes that you say that's a fair indication of how we played today and how we're playing through the season? I think it'd probably be the final score. The first place my eyes will go, Josh. You got a place you start? No, I mean, some guys, you know, yards per carry, time and possession, I don't know what it is. Everybody's different in terms of something that they think. But I mean, the ultimate thing is the score. I think there are a lot of things too. There's a lot of misleading stats, I think when you're having a bad season and you're playing a lot of down a lot of games and you're in a lot of two-minute drives and you sit there and pat yourself on the back for some pattern souped up passing stats. Great, you know, we want to be balanced. You know, there's some of the things that are pretty obviously situational that matter. But the first stat I look at, Josh, I look at the scoreboard. Corey? I'm good, thank you. All right, anything else? All right, thanks guys, thank you. Thank you.