 Before we get started here, I just want to take a moment to send my condolences to Joe Gibbs and his family. The tragic loss of his son, Coy, that I'll bring you back and put life in perspective when I heard the news after my press conference yesterday. So I'm heartbroken over that, but I just wanted to give my condolences there. Did you know of Coy? Coy, I knew JD pretty well. And you know, both of them are great men and just really, really heartbroken for them, for the family. Yeah, coach, coming out of the game helpful. How are you with Hennessy and Felipe? Yeah, Matt will be available this week. Still looking at it, but we'll have to see when we get him back. Yeah, Felipe, I think it'll be tough for Felipe to make it for Thursday. We'll have to see when you're on these short weeks. It's not like we'll be able to crank up full speed tonight or tomorrow, right? And so you're on a short week. And it'll be the same thing with AJ, to kind of assess and see where he's at. Eric Harris. But with Felipe, Eric, AJ, we'll just have to see. Hennessy, I would definitely not expect them Thursday night. Matt, Hennessy. And your IRC after they all any help coming from there? Don't. We're not looking this week to take anybody, but it may change next week. Arthur, you know, the game played out statistically very similar to the one against Cleveland, very similar to the one against San Francisco. Is it just mistakes and execution? That was the difference in this one versus the other? I mean, that's usually what happens in those close games. Some of those critical downs on both sides of the ball late. We had a chance up, moving the ball at a decent drive and came away with no points. In those close games, it certainly hurts. You have opportunities there. And they have a say in it, too. So when you say that, you want to make sure your perspective, the charge you got to say, and then you get into those and they get the ball back and it's tied. And we had a couple opportunities and they converted. And even as crazy as that fumble was, I suppose some crazy things have happened this year. But some are broken our way, some haven't. But that's the NFL. When he picked that up, I mean, he's rolling. And then, like I said yesterday, it's hard to explain what happens with the football sometimes. And so bounce right back to him and then they hit the play. And then there's couldn't stop the clock and they hit it. So yeah, there's always things that we can do. And when you look at it, and especially on a short week, you look at it last night. And thankfully, we just played Carolina. So you get to very familiar with them. But you look at the Cincinnati game and we got to move forward. It's a big game for us there tonight. Or make this a little bit easier on a short week because of Carolina. Because you saw them 12 days ago? Yeah, it does. It does. It doesn't mean it's going to be the same thing. They'll have adjusted their plan. And we'll have to adjust ours as well. In the fact that they let go of two more position coaches, does that alter anything or not really? Not from our end. I can only speak for us. But they got a good defensive unit out there. They're fast. They're aggressive. We know it'll be a fight Thursday night. If Baker plays for them at quarterback, will that give them a different look there? It'll be a little bit different with the look than PJ or even if they want to bring Sam Darnold. Obviously, we played Sam last year. That's the route they go down. Baker, there's plenty of what he did yesterday. I've seen enough how they use them offensively. And then if it's PJ, that's just what you've got to prepare for. And like I said, they'll have them ready to go. It's a divisional game. We all know how these things go. And we've got to be ready to roll because it's a huge opportunity for us Thursday night. As bad as that felt yesterday, you always got to turn the page even quicker. It's, like I said, we'll be on that plane pretty quick here Wednesday. I was probably going to be a little too broad, I don't know. But how do you feel like Marcus has played for you this year? Enough to be right where we are in the middle of the race. So there's all of us. That's the job of the quarterback. When you win, you probably get too much credit. When you lose, you probably get too much criticism. But that's what you sign up for. So right now, we're right in the middle of this thing. For none of us, it hasn't been perfect for none of us. But there's been a lot of progress made. There's been times I thought we played pretty good offensive football. But didn't get it done yesterday. But right, like I said, if we can find a way to get this one Thursday night, that would be huge, just where we're at right now in the division. So what is for us, the consistency factor of it? That's very, to my broad. Right. That's a very subjective matter. It's going to be about wins and losses and how you play on critical towns and turn on a margin, red zone, third down. Like I said, there's always things to improve on. For the most part, we've been pretty decent in those areas. But obviously, yesterday, we needed to make one more play in one of those situations, and we didn't. I mean, when you signed him in pre-agency, I was very hectic seven days. But when that happens, is he giving you what you anticipated he would be considering you had worked with him before? It's just different. Not in prediction. You signed a guy. You try to make sure you work with them to improve and how you play an attack and play to the strengths of your team. And I think for the most part, we've done that. And we'll continue to evolve. Every game's going to be different. Like yesterday, you felt pretty good the way it started. And certainly the way we ran the football. But we've got to find a way to make more plays, especially down the stretch in a game like that. When it comes to Marcus with that, you always talk about improving and being in that it's a long season. I understand now the terms of creative equal all exactly happen the same way. But are we at a point where there are certain mistakes you're seeing on film that just shouldn't be happening at this point in the season? Is that fair to say? I mean, I think about the plays you make that you overcome. Like, there's gets out of it and extends the play to Al Jere. I mean, some of these plays that he's made, the play he made last week, pulling the ball. The easier play probably would have been given at the Tyler in that situation. But he takes it and it's like a heat check. Pulls up from the logo on the three pointer, so to speak. Takes it on his own read and wins us the game. So it's give and take there. We've hit some explosives down the field. Obviously, we've got to continue to work that with him and Kyle, which we will. And so, yeah, I mean, we can play this game all day. But enough to point where we feel where we're sitting right now. This is our best chance to go in there and try to win a divisional game and be right in the middle of it and with half a season to go. You mentioned Kyle, where would he be used to do? You said it a couple times yesterday and then today. Where is maybe the disconnect with him and Marcus? There's not a disconnect. Like I said, we've been pretty efficient. The red zone has been trending that way. You know, when you're getting further, the ball travels, there's a little, you know, statistically, it's not like those aren't high percentage plays, but, you know, every player is different. Where you, you know, how much area you need to put on them and they run underneath it or whatever. And so, he said we have hit plays to Kyle. We could continue to work all, you know, all of our guys and that's the name of the game every week. Where has Marcus improved from the last time you looked at him? Where has he improved? Like a, I mean, like two? The question is pretty vague and very generic. Like, give me something specific and I'll answer it very specific. But if you're getting these like vague, like philosophical questions, like it's going to be painful for very many of you. Coach, how about, just to, you know, everybody's been talking about it and looking at different numbers and it's like one of eight on 40 yards or more and one of 13 on 30 and trying to connect in on the deep passes. I have a one of eight for 40 yards and heard of one 13 for 30 checking them out. But just the, the mechanic- You had that against like the league average? No, I haven't put it against the league average yet. But I'm more interested in the mechanics of getting the timing and the distancing down to make those. Sure. I mean, some of them, again, there's, like I said, the margin of error there. You get moved off the spot, you reset your feet. The angle of the guy comes out of it, depending on the covers you're playing. You know, obviously a lot of those, depending on where the safety's at, the direction of the ball and where you need to drive it, the angle at it, the guys that can run underneath it, that all, that all factors into it. He may lack in certain physical attributes and talents he makes up for situationally in the game. Is that one of the things about him that you find that is most redeeming? Well, he's made some huge plays for us in critical moments. I mean, I think week after week, we've improved a lot of areas and like I said, yesterday, you know, disappointed, you know, as a team that we didn't find a way to finish that game. We certainly had our chances, but we didn't. And that's where you gotta learn from it. You know, whether you, when you look at it, that's why you can't sit there and think you've got the answers. If you win the game or when you lose it, you gotta have perspective. I mean, thankfully we've won enough that we're right in the middle of this thing and we understand where we're at in our division. And we, the season with eight games ago, it's gonna have two more lifetimes. We just gotta make sure we do everything we can to give ourselves a chance to go win one of division game Thursday night. Tyler, I was here to talk about being like an all-around bad cop and seeing this aggression, not only from like a rushing stand, but also from a season. Yeah, so it's a little bit, when you're taking a guy depending on what they ask him to do and the system's in the college, where your bet on Tyler is his instinct really, really intelligent. And so I think a lot of times where guys have what's so hard is the third down protections in the NFL, not that they don't, like, all the different looks you get in the NFL and the speed that you get, a lot of times the rookies, it takes a minute to adapt. I think Tyler's certainly made a lot of improvements there, which I think it's hard for young backs, because we don't see a ton of young backs in there on third down. I think Tyler's done a nice job there. I think he's a guy that played other positions in college. You see him in the passing game, his awareness, understanding where to settle down in zones. He's got what I call good spatial awareness. I think that helps him. But those are things you've gotta make sure, when you talk about in sync with the football staff, that you do make projections. But a lot of these are, because it's not gonna be apples apples, you're not taking, like, every offense is a little bit different that you're taking a player from in college and how they fit to what you wanna do and what you think you can enhance and what's realistic. And I certainly give Tyler a lot of credit. He's ahead of where I thought he'd be as a rookie running back, certainly in the protection aspect. Back again, Emerson. Sure. One of the things that it looks like he sometimes does is almost like faints a little bit and has fakes, kind of like a point guard sometimes, to create passing lanes. Is that, am I just seeing things or is that something that he's, I don't know what you're saying. Is that something that you have seen from him in the past where he's able to kind of move defenders by? Yeah, I mean, certainly he's got that instinct. I mean, that's how he's been successful in this league and certainly come out of Oregon. I mean, he's got a great feel in space. When you watch him sometimes, when he can feel guys, you know, certainly two weeks ago, some of those check downs that he was able to feel to get back to, the play down here yesterday, the play to Drake last week, those are some very instinctive plays. When you see this match with Carolina and things that went well, understanding they get to say and they will adjust and change. Right. I mean, is it overly tempting to go back to what worked so well just eight days ago? You know, that's, it's always a fine line there. You're so familiar with them. You just played them, you know, that obviously Al Holcomb calls a little bit different than they called it last year, but players and schematically very similar. So it's a very fast defense. I think they close the space in a hurry. So some things that, you know, we need to adapt to and they'll adapt and then that's what's fun about this coaching the NFL is it's good on good every week regardless of what are the record shows at that time. We know how these games can start and how they go, but it'll be a challenge because it's a good defensive front and really at all three levels. Just curious, have you ever coached against at a schedule like this where you've played a team in this quick succession before? I can't remember if it was on a Sunday, you know, a week before and then a Thursday, but I've gone, I've definitely gone, you know, same opponent with one week in between. I can't remember if there's ever been on a Thursday like this, I'd have to go back and look. I don't have the photographic memory that a lot of guys in this league claim they have, so I'd have to go back and look. Coach, Foreman had 118 in the last game and well, I matched up B with the linebackers at four. Yeah, we got to do them. Good job. Foreman does it. He's a physical runner. He makes that one cut, he gets downhill in a hurry. That's kind of the one he put his foot in the ground and the one that they scored in the red zone where, you know, I thought he ran extremely hard. I mean, he's a talented runner. I got anything? Any thoughts on another North Carolina lineman being named the head coach today? I just heard about it. Like Jeff Saturday, wish him well.