 What do you think you're bringing for style and maybe how you feel? Violence, a person that's going to be in tremendous effort. And the guy that's going to lay it down in line for his team. Good to feel wanted, I mean, for a team to claim you. Oh, it was a blessing. It was a blessing. You know, anytime where a team feel like they have value in you, it's a blessing. Unfortunately, Arizona felt like there were no more value in me. So it's a blessing to still have 31 teams to go out there and select you. And I'm happy to be here in Tennessee. What do you think happened to having here with the Manchester team? Yeah, so I do a different color every year. And I stuck with blue all year. And just so having this match perfect with my new team. You said that Arizona had been here. Anymore. Yeah, anymore. Do you take that personally? What kind of chip do you carry coming in here? I always had a chip on my shoulder, man. I've been a backup in the league for a while. This year is probably my first year. They actually allowed me to spin and to go out there and perform. And I did a good job. Unfortunately, you know, they was looking at certain things there in the back end. But I'm just here to hit a ball, help my team win. Here to just go hard for my teammates. Did anybody hear that you know beforehand? Oh, yeah. Terrell can play with Terrell. Take Godwin. He on the practice squad, but know him. I think just those two guys, but at any day, football is still football. I love the locker room. I love the guys in the locker room. And eventually once they respect me as a player, eventually, you know, the brotherhood and the bond are into the ground. You know, Terrell, it's crazy. You kept him with Terrell. I knew Terrell before we even got into the league. He's from Virginia. He played at VTAC and he knew a lot of mutual guys. And stuff like that. So that's how that came about crazy that you guys end up here together. Yeah, that was that was crazy. Went went training camp together, did competing, battling and, you know, he he he won the job there at the Eagles. I ended up going to Arizona and we just unfortunately ended up in the same team. But it's actually good because, you know, I'm with a familiar face. I'm with a guy that that's that I know that's going to go out there and put it online for exchanges like me. How much the help that you play? I mean, you play a lot this past Sunday. We've been helping you play about every snap. I mean, how much that helped you coming in, being fresh, kind of in the flow of things? I always help, you know, the more opportunities you have, the more opportunities you can go out there and show what you can do. And I felt like this year has been the most opportunities I've gotten. And I've made the most of my opportunities. What did you know about a Mike Brayville head coach team? And just you mentioned Coltson. Anything you had heard before? Oh, yeah, yeah, I used to watch, like, just every team all the time, especially growing up, but especially him, especially me. He's at the Patriots, but just just seeing him and his culture and the way he carry himself and what he desires out his players is exactly what I needed as a player. All my coaches at every level, high school, college kind of bring that same type of tenacity, same type of aggressiveness and and passion about the players. He's he's a players coach and I love coaches that player coach. What is one possibility would be kind of rotation if it comes to that of the other guys? What are maybe pros and if it does come to that? What are maybe pros and cons of such a system? Yeah, if it comes to that, you know, pros are obviously, you know, getting getting two guys on the field that that can help us win. Really, in whatever way that we're going to ask them to, you know, maybe it'll be similar, maybe it'll be different. But but I think it'll help take some stress off of both of them to whether or not they're at every single play, if that ends up being the case. And it allows us to to give us an opportunity to, again, take advantage of some different matchups and things on those lines. Different skill sets, would you then be able to kind of open up everything that you have in your arsenal using them both? Yeah, I think you guys have seen that. I don't I don't think we're too concerned about opening things up or anything along those lines. I mean, we're going to continue to put put our guys in a spot to to be successful. I mean, running triple option with Ryan, things like that. So I don't think it's it's anything along those lines. Just going to going to continue to try to put those guys in good situations if it comes to that challenge. You know, maybe handled. Obviously, the league's been the plan, you know, a little bit more than will. How does he kind of handle things that no one that he had a real opportunity Well, it's questioning. I'm sorry. How is we'll kind of handle knowing that this could be a real possibility for him this weekend? Yeah, I think they've both done a good job of coming out and preparing and putting the time and the work in to learn the game plan. And and, you know, if their numbers are called, doing a good job of being able to go out there and and help our offense be efficient and score points and doing and doing whatever it takes for us to win a game. His challenge of getting what's biggest challenge of getting a quarterback who's never played a snap in a regular season game ready to go so that he's not shell shocked when he gets out there. Yeah, I mean, he's played football. He's he's been playing against a good defense here. You know, against our defense every single day. He's got obviously some limited exposure in the preseason. So the big thing is just continuing to focus on its fundamentals and what the intent of of each and every play is. And it's really the same with with whatever quarterbacks out there, whether that's Ryan or whether that's Malik or whether that's will trust their eyes. You know, because Malik has had issues holding on to the ball too much, you know, waiting waiting for something to develop when maybe you should let it go. And will obviously has no game experience. Yeah, I mean. I don't really know how to answer that question. But again, it's it's it's about our guys being able to go out there and trust their training and then really doing a good job everywhere else, making sure our wide outs continue to go out there and do their best to win routes and win fast. Doing a good job up front when it comes to us being able to throw the ball if they're able to hold up and pick up any type of protection issues that may arise. And then our runners doing a good job in the running game and in, you know, in protection and doing everything that we're asking them to do. So I think that's more of a collective effort than it is just to one individual person deal with a rotation like that. For you, as a play caller, does it make it more different for you to kind of get into that groove or layering plays those type of things and also for a quarterback to get into that rhythm of the game? Yeah, I don't think so. You what's your communication like with Ryan this week? Are you still operating under the process? He could still go. I mean, he's been in every meeting going through taking notes with the installation, watching tape. I mean, he's not nothing's changed on his end, you know, as far as what's going on with his preparation. It's a whole more game. I guess the week had 12 dropbacks and four sacks and three scrambles there, too. And it was a tough situation. Ravens defense difficult to put, but is that evidence that he does need that there's not enough progress and getting rid of that ball, you know, in more of a timely fashion? Yeah, sure. I mean, I think anybody that if we're going out there and, you know, don't have the protection that we want. Yeah, we I've got to do a better job of being able to get guys open quicker. You know, and I think it's just like I said earlier, it's a collective effort, you know, so it was not an easy situation. You know, having to go in and, you know, kind of thrown into that deal. But yeah, it's it's it's more of a collective issue that, like I said, than just a one one man problem. Go ahead. Yeah, I thought he was productive. He took advantage of those opportunities and earned the right to go out and play some more. He was physical. He played with a good energy. And there's there's stuff that we're working to clean up as we are with everybody that's on the field. But he went out there and, you know, it was it was it was good to see him play, it was fun to see him play like jumping around, running the ball, you know, played played with the sense of urgency and the physicality that we were looking for. Did he get caught flat footed a couple of times when the leak was under fire quickly? Yeah, like I said, I think all of there there was probably breakdowns along along the entire line. And in, you know, like I said, I've got I've got to help him out with some of those play calls. But yeah, I was trying to return to play gone and you're hopeful that you can kind of hit the ground running on Sunday. He's looked good. Looked good. The past however many days has been out there. So hopefully you can go out there and have another good day of practice today. You couldn't keep it in the fourth quarter because of where the game was. Do you feel like the third quarter is the potential of what you can do? Yeah, I mean, there's again, unfortunately, consistency has been been really the the biggest issue. They are guys did a great job. But there was that their two or three two series, I think, in the third quarter where we were able to do a great job on the run, ripped off whatever it was, the the toss to Tajé and then Derek next play. I think a nine-yard run, but then the next play we stall and then we got to third one, third two, whatever it was. So there's there's been flashes of that. And hopefully, again, when we get out there on Sunday, we're able to maintain that and sustain that for an entire game. Have you seen, maybe from Will, just out of the last couple of weeks, he's been able to get some reps with the higher end receivers and so forth? Have you seen any signs of progress, even in the last couple of weeks? Yeah, I think both guys have been doing a good job going out there and playing on time and, again, understanding the different body language of some of these guys and what it looks like when they're getting in and out of cuts and, you know, being a being a good communicator and letting those guys know what they're anticipating versus certain looks. So, yeah, they've both gone out and I think have really benefited from some of the extra work that they've been able to get over here the past however many days it's been. Have you seen him progress as well? Because it looked like he had kind of caught on to something in the last couple of games. Yeah, he was doing a doing a good job, excuse me, sorry, doing a good job of understanding, you know, his role and kind of what we're asking him to do. I think he's an instinctive player, you know, being able to kind of figure out just the best way for him to be able to go and execute his job. And I think that's a testament to him, to Tony and, you know, the work that he's put in to make sure that that he could not only understand and execute his role, but earn the trust of those round him for him to be able to go out there and do so. The short area of quickness that Kyle brought when he came back haven't really seen him used much in that regard. Is that something that there haven't been opportunities for? Yeah, probably a little bit of both, where, you know, it's we got to do a better job of staying in third and two to three, four to where we can really let that shine, you know, as opposed to being in some of those third and longers like we were the other day. So we're able to stay in those down in distances where we're able to take advantage of those, you know, short area, quickness, movement, skills and things like that. Tim, Atlanta's only allowed one rushing touchdown this season. What are they doing that make them tough to run against? I mean, they're good up front. They're big. They're strong. They're physical, you know, Bud, Klaas, Grady. 90s in there, like they're, they're, they play hard. They're physical up front and they're well coached on the back end. You know, Bates is all over the field. 27 is down there, you know, sticking his face in it. So they're physical and they do a good job of trying to take away what your bread and butter is. So they're, like you said, the stats don't lie. They've been doing a good job in that area. You mentioned the potential pros of a rotation. If there is a con in there, is it that maybe if a guy gets hot and maybe he still goes out to get the other guy serious, is that a potential? You know, I guess that's one hypothetical. You know, it's we've we've got a plan for for, you know, if those guys have to play and we feel comfortable and confident. Sure. Yeah. You know, you know, some things just got to just got to continue to, you know, trust in our guys to be able to go out there and continue to make plays and not try to force too many things. That was the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway that I took from from the self-evaluation during the bye week and really staying true to our identity and continuing to to lean on our playmakers and let those guys go out there and make plays for us. Thank you, guys. Obviously, the playmaking that's lost from Kevin, how much of a blow is the communication that he brought to the secondary and the defense? How do you go about replacing that? Yeah, I think guys just got to get out here and do it, right? We got to get Terrell up to speed of what's going on, terminology, all that type of stuff. The other guys that have been here that are going to be in there got to take a little bit more on their plate in regard to that stuff. But again, I mean, that's that's part of it. Next guy up's got to be ready to go and hopefully we can get these guys acclimated and everybody's going to have to do a little bit more. Why are you being going? How much does that impact the life of the holder? Yeah, hopefully he can get out there and go, you know, I mean, he's been battling some injury stuff. So kind of see where this week goes the rest of the week. And I mean, it's it's good that he's got some work there, you know, so we got an option there. We got an option with Terrell. We got some other guys that have played for. So we'll kind of see where it goes. But I'm excited for all those guys and opportunities they're going to have. But what did you get a chance to talk to Kevin on the way out? And maybe what made you as a coach? Yeah, I mean, first thing that comes to mind with Kevin, man, is he's he's special. You know, he's a special player. He's a special person, a special leader. I mean, he did a lot for this organization. He did a lot for our unit, did a lot for me and his time here. I can't say enough good things about him, just who he is as a person. The ultimate pro, like if you're looking for somebody to emulate in this league, it's it's him, not only on the field, but off the field. But the consistency, the reliability, the day in and day out, being the same guy, knowing what you're going to get. Not everybody's like that, right? So but part of the business, you know, we got to have guys step up and and and see where this thing goes. Desmond Ritter, most turnovers by any quarterback so far this season. What does your defense need to do to make sure that trend continues? Yeah, I mean, I think we got to affect them when they're when they're throwing the ball. We got to be able to get some pressure on them, you know, we got to hopefully we can we can disguise and do all those things in the back end and make it a little gray form at times to add a little bit of time. Hopefully for our guys to be able to get home and when we get back there, we got to be attacking the football, right? Like something we've talked about turnovers, they got to come. Hopefully they come in bunches. But at the same time, we got to force them, right? They're not going to hand us anything. We've got to be able to get close enough to the ball to affect it. What has been the problem up front with getting pressure on the quarterback the last two games or so you guys haven't done a ton of that? What needs to change there? Yeah, I think we got to win. We've got to win. We've got to get back to our mentality of pinning our ears and going. And we've got to find ways to win our one on ones. We've got to find ways schematically to create some advantages for us at times. But the execution, the coordination, all the stuff that comes into play. We just got to do a little bit better. How does that go away, the way it's gone away in the last two games? Yeah, I mean, I think a little bit of that probably as a result of the run game success those teams had against us, right? That plays into it. A third downs as a unit, we got to do a better job of not allowing them to be a manageable down in distances, right? You get in those third and five or less. It's hard. The ball's getting out quicker. They're finding guys a little bit sooner. Can't be quite as exotic as you are on some of those longer distances because of that. So I think it starts with that, like being able to create some third and longer distances that open up our scheme a little bit and open up our ability to rush where they got to hold the ball a little bit longer. But the coordination, coordination is a big part of it. Making sure we're coordinated. And like I said before, when we get these one on ones, we got to find ways to win them. Yeah, both those guys have played a lot of ball, you know, between him and Terrell. So I'm excited about both of them. We'll have to get them up to speed and kind of see as a week goes what they can handle, what they're able to potentially do for us on Sunday and whatever role that might be. So I mean, we're taking it day by day with both of them right now. They're both engaged, asking good questions. So we'll kind of see where it's as a week goes back to the past rush and winning. Is it more from the edge that you haven't been winning or from the interior that you haven't been winning? I think it all goes hand in hand. I do. I think the ability to push the pocket. It's always going to help those edge guys and the ability to get the quarterback step up is going to help those inside guys, right? So it takes everybody. I think the coordination is a big, big factor that gets overlooked at times. Like he's very rarely do you guys see, see guys win cleanly, right? Like it's, it's being relentless is winning with the second move. And part of that is not allowing the quarterback to step up, right? So it takes all four of them being coordinated and all four of them being able to push the pocket, set the edge, make them step up, where they're all kind of working together and we get the result that we want. You guys when playing, been doing anything different or surprising in the run game, or is it just kind of in more of those one on one battles you talked about? Yeah, I mean, I think Indy for us, it was in my mind, they, they played really well front. They were, they, they out physical us. They did that first game and we got out of some gaps and I think they found them, you know, and that that resulted in some plays. Baltimore, you look at it, I think it was more like quarterback, right? The quarterback had a few plays. They had a couple of 30 ones in there where you're trying to stop the first down, but at the same time, you got to be good on the quarterback and we weren't, you know, so that added to some, some plays, but for the most part against, against the Ravens, I thought we were pretty sound with, with what they're trying to run game wise, all the scheme like tough scheme to go against in the run game and that quarterback elements always going to kind of pad the stats a little bit. And going against them on Sunday, how much do you think both sides Yeah, I mean, we've talked about this week, there's a lot of familiarity. I think the teams are kind of built culturally the same way, structurally the same way, um, want to run the ball, they're going to have their passes off it. They got those playmakers makers on the perimeter, um, play good defense. So I think the style of the, of the game is pretty similar in how we're structured. So, uh, like I told our guys, it's, it's going to come down to who does their style best, right? Who does the best, who plays the best on Sunday. Um, but obviously had a great couple of years with Arthur and think the world of them doing a great job. I mean, four or seven games, they, they're over 400 yards, right? So, I mean, they've had some troubles in the red zone, get it in whether it's turnovers or whatever, but I mean, they're moving the ball and they're, they're unique, um, in terms of kind of what they're doing schematically, they, they do some things that challenge you. They're, they're very game plan oriented. Like he's going to have plays for us, you know, that we haven't seen. So we got to be good. We got to be ready to go. And it's going to be a big challenge for us on Sunday. To be involved in transition and Baltimore, I'm wondering why he needs to be involved. If you're the special teams, yeah, why you would send Kyle back there and why Kyle would feel. Sure. I mean, I got to do a better job there, um, you know, just communicating the situation, uh, you know, making sure that everyone knows what's going on, the worst case scenario that we, we muff the punt or that the ball gets down at the one yard and we still get the ball. Um, so, you know, it's just us communicating, doing a better job. Me personally, for sure, I got to do a better job with that. Um, and not put Kyle or anyone back in that situation, um, to, to field a ball like that when we really don't have to. So, yeah, we'll, we'll continue to work on that stuff and, uh, you know, making sure that we understand situational football. No, no, usually when that happens, you know, we're trying to get all the guys around, um, you know, ready for punt, whether it's the, what we call our gray unit, whether we call our punt return unit, whether we're going to set up some return. Uh, so yeah, we, uh, you know, me personally, I just got to do a better job of getting all 11 guys on the same page, uh, with a situation like that. Uh, right, right now it's open, you know, the competition is going to be open. There's guys that are going to be back there, um, even today that are going to go and catch and we'll make the best decision what we feel, uh, that a guy can go and catch the ball and then get up field and get some positive yards. So yeah, sure. I mean, we're, he's going to be back there. We don't want to throw Kyle away and, you know, he's done some good things for us. So he'll be back there and they're going to go and compete for the job and we're going to give the job to the guy that we feel is the most reliable guy that's going to back there. That's going to catch the ball and give the ball to the official afterwards. How long is doing some good things back there, a qualification that gets you chances when you're doing so many bad things? Yeah, you don't, you don't want to give that opportunity over and over again. Um, but you know, we really like Kyle. And, uh, you know, think that he can do some good stuff. But we obviously understand that we can't afford, uh, to give the ball to the other team on those situations. So, uh, I don't really want to say if there's a certain time, um, but, you know, we're just going to have an open competition and see what happens. What do Kinsley do? What do Kinsley do or not do when he was back there that made you say, you know, we need, we need to look brother officers because it seemed like he averaged 12 yards. Yeah, turn and, and, you know, knew when to fair catch and those sorts of things. Yeah. And just going back, you're right. He did a good job for us this year. Um, and you know, when you look back at last year too, he also had a month. Um, so, you know, it was all about who we're going to bring up a 48 people. Um, you know, is Mason going to be one of those guys that are going to be up? Is it Kyle that's going to be up? Is it other guys? So, uh, we just made a decision to put Kyle back there and, um, you know, unfortunately it didn't work on the one, but, uh, you know, we'll, we'll see how this thing leads us, uh, here in this next game. Kyle and Mason, who else could make it next? Uh, you know, Eric could be back there. Shy, uh, Smith could be back there. All those guys, Colton Dow, have been out there, um, getting reps as a punt returner. Is it harder to correct, I guess, what seems to be more of a mental error than it is a physical? Yeah. Um, cause usually, you know, Kyle obviously has athletic ability to go back there and catch punts. He shows that all the time, uh, in practice. And now it's just, uh, a mental thing right now that we've got to have him overcome and we all got to overcome it. And, um, but it, it is tougher because, you know, it's not physical right now because he does a great job of going and catching the ball during practice. Um, so we just got to continue to build his confidence and build all the guys' confidence back there that they can go back there and catch the ball. What's the definition of not physical there? Because physically, he didn't catch the ball. Yeah. Uh, you know, it might be part mentally because there's too many guys around him. Um, do I feel comfortable back there? Um, you know, that's probably an answer that, you know, who knows until you start continuing to catch the ball. Um, but physically, I mean, he goes back there, gets underneath the football, uh, squares up to it, all the stuff that you're going to coach him to do. Well, he started moving around just a little bit, but, you know, I think it was the pressure of those guys that were close to him and, you know, taking his eye off the ball. So, um, you know, we'll continue to help him out and have him catch the football. Yeah. Well, we put a lot of guys around the returner, um, whether they catch the ball during practice or they catch the ball pre-practice, we're putting, we're trying to distract him as much as he possibly can get. Whether it's three, four, five guys around him, heck, we even got the little pool, uh, stuff there to, you know, distract him from catching the ball. Um, so we'll continue to do other things to try to help him out. What's the process like in, uh, maybe incorporating a couple of new guys and a couple of new safes just to have them next? They, will they be working with you as well? Sure. Any guys that we, we bring up, they're going to be the guys that are going to try to help us out on special teams. So I know Terrell, uh, has been here and was here yesterday doing some good things for us. So we'll get him reps as many as we possibly can to see if he's, he's ready to play for us. The root of the problem on the punt return. Yeah. Uh, you know, it wasn't the kick. I thought the pump was really good. Um, 57 yards had good hang time, um, really good direction. Uh, when one guy gets out of his lane, bad things start to happen. So, uh, we're going to work even more as far as doing longer punts and full cover punts that you guys probably saw yesterday. If you guys were still there at practice. Uh, we, we've covered some more punts because if one guy gets out of his lane, you know, bad things start to happen. Stonehouse speed impress you. Yeah. Stonehouse continues to impress a lot of people. Um, but, uh, yeah, I mean, it was, it was good. He, he squared up on the guy, did a really good job of making him make a decision. And then he took the proper angle. A lot of guys would just give up on the play and say, you know what, I'm not going to try to hurt a hamstring. Um, you know, usually punters don't make, make tackles like that in space. So, uh, you know, proud of him going in there and trying to save a touchdown, which, you know, we gave up a field goal, but it wasn't a touchdown. So, you know, proud of stony going back in there and, uh, making that play for us. So yes, um, we, we don't do it as much with the kickers, but you know, like Morgan Cox, he'll get in there. We try to do some offensive players during training camp. We, uh, move them over to the side, but usually with stony, um, you know, we don't really try to give him any live tackles and practice other than when the ball gets declared and starts going to the sideline, we, we want to use the sideline to our advantage. Why choose Johnson's, you'll be, I guess, a legend of the game on, on Sunday. You, before you remember about him when he played dynamic in the dance. Right. I mean, I think he even showed that the last time he was here. Um, but yeah, I mean, obviously a great player and, um, I didn't know that. So that, that'll be fun, um, to see him here at, at, at the game. Oh my gosh. Now that would be great. Right. I don't know if he would want that or not. Heck, he probably still thinks he could play one more snap. So yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Like, I think everyone thinks they can play one more play. So I mean, heck, I think I even can play one more play.