 You know a couple things here before it gets started one, you know, I do you know the next couple days will be will be there will be a lot of Stuff going on with Terry and I but every guy we got in that locker room. I appreciate their effort the entire spring Summer camp we got some tough decisions ahead of us, but I'm always thankful those guys efforts regardless of pro football They get put paid these guys have worked Extremely hard and this was a good way to cap the preseason for us preseason or not. It's good to get a win at home Yeah, you know, it's that's why you need to play these guys. There's no way to develop you can simulate things in practice You teach them lessons and sometimes you get the best thing to do is to go out there and play and work through it You're gonna find out a lot about people first play of the game We have one guy up front go the wrong way and He let one mistake become two trying to play hero ball, you know, you can live to the next down So he understood that he didn't he didn't palp put his head down comes out the next try I thought he was was very solid You know, then we we didn't have it, you know, we lost a couple situational things On third down or didn't handle overcoming a backed up on a penalty And then the last one I wanted to launch one it before the half, you know You had to move in the pocket They had to reset because I thought we had a chance with Frankie Frankie had a good move on that I'll give him a chance and End of the half, you know, who cares? But there's a lot of guys that they care more about social media Stats whatever it is and Desmond's a real football player and you're gonna come out keep swinging keep things in perspective So you put the second one on me and move and trying to try to get a play before the half See me then launch one. You're like the new CP Coming in and crashing man Darrell Liam Smith How you doing bud? Good. It's a load everybody. Oh, yeah Sure What's that No, he's uh, he'll be my lineman, but but he led I was proud of these guys We won a game in all three phases opinion punted well obviously Q Bell defense handled sudden change and You know made him kick field goals and we were able to score touchdowns on red zone. That's that's the name of the game Any update on ethrich? It was have to see, you know, obviously though when every time somebody gets carted off looks bad Not to be evasive, but we won't know until we get, you know, doctors looked at them and we're very hopeful But we'll have to see Coach can you describe what you saw from your running backs that will either make it difficult or easier in your final decisions for the roster? Yeah, they ran hard But it takes all 11 of us in the run game quarterback get us in the right look We put a lot on the quarterback. That's why I get I'm pushing dead so hard There's a lot more than just call and run is what we ask our guys to do I thought the line the receivers they blocked and it's fun as a play caller You're able to get a lead and you get these guys in a flow and you just want and there's nothing I enjoy more maybe I'm messed up in the head because I was a lineman But that's pretty to me when you're in the fourth quarter You got a lead and watch these guys come off the ball and churning out or two yard runs to eight to nine Huntley popped a big one But it takes all 11 to run football for us you talk about the decisions of the next coming days What does the next coming days look like for your coaching staff in the front office? Well, it's our football staff. So that's what we call ourselves a football staff. We're a team So we got a lot of work ahead of us again, you know There's a lot more transactions the way this thing's gonna go a lot more mechanisms now that you can use You know, you're just gonna have to let it play out because you're able to get more guys on the practice squad Different mechanisms, you know what may look like the roster on Wednesday may look a little bit different on Thursday and so on With this defensive line It really felt like this was a big game for them in terms of y'all deciding what you have depth wise How did you feel like this defensive interior played today? Well, I was excited I mean a lot of the two is not just the sacks But it's when you're running certain pressure packages or games everybody being coordinated on the same page So you don't open rush lanes or you don't lose contain guys get the ball out even Troy He was he was upset with himself, you know He needs to make that play but guys kept finishing an effort and then he's still able to get the ball out He threw it up and and Nate Dan Lambin was able to pick it off With the wide receivers and the decisions that y'all have to make with that group specifically I know you said the other day you're looking for guys who you can trust Do you feel like you have that right now with this group? I do Coach First of all, we'd be remiss to not congratulate you on being the first Falcons coach to win a preseason game at Mercedes Benz Stadium, but seriously though you mentioned the Home field you talked about that that the practice here as you said, it's only a preseason game But how important just kind of establishing a winning culture at home, which is not not been the case here the last few years It's fine wasn't me as can't sit there and live in the past or get anxious by people We're trying to build something real and it's gonna happen organically. We got to do our part I love our fans that come out here. They're passionate the city loves the Falcons We got to give people come in here so it could be like a Big party on Sundays, but we got to do our part and it'll happen It'll happen organically and we got to do our part and build build a winning culture and do things the right way Because this place I promise you will be rocking when we get this thing roll Coach you already answered this a little bit But how beneficial is it that Desmond Ritter got all the way to the fourth quarter and he was able to play a lot of football today? It's huge. So it was our strategy going in. I feel about as good as you can To get to execute the strategy in preseason what we wanted to accomplish playing everybody joint practices The competition that we had and there's a reason why and then Felipe, you know, you know I had to let him pick the ball once I thought he threw a pretty good ball there at the end But they can't get enough reps and they try to develop these quarterbacks and get Marcus going again They took a ton of reps to those guys So and able to use the preseason the right way and I was I was pleased one perfect But he got better every time we went out there Feel good about what I've seen from Marcus and in all the offense players, too Yeah, coach. Could you talk about getting Dion and Isaiah Oliver some action? Absolutely Part of those guys, you know, they're on different return to play. They're not on the same Time table. That's why every injury is different. I was really pleased with Isaiah You know, sometimes it's not just the physical hurdle. It's a mental her And whether you know, you guys may not realize it or you know, nobody in the stands are but Dean called the same call that Zay blissed on and got hurt against Washington Sometimes you need to overcome it and when he called that, you know I wanted to see Zay go back and you basically have to face those fears or to know the guys back And so we'll continue to assess but I was very pleased with Isaiah today And then just we're getting to the roster situation or the mechanisms you speak of kind of, you know waivers You know players coming from all different paths and it's gonna be around the league And so we've got a great football staff and we'll go through every contingency plan and Make sure we get the the right guys through and and keep going turnover every every stone We can't make sure we got the best roster available Anything? Say go Falcons. Go Falcons. There we go. Thank you guys. Oh one more. I'm sorry My question. Um, what's your overall thoughts of the just the progression of this team? Yeah, I think this team We got a chip on our shoulder, you know, we're not we got something to prove and so I think we've been competitive from day one We don't you know is in like the peripheral opponents can can say what they want. They can rank us 40th roster and 42nd coaching staff out of 32 We don't care we're gonna go compete and we got to do our best Got a lot of work ahead of us but to get ready to roll for September 11th when New Orleans comes there