 Obviously, that was a scary moment in pre-game and seeing him get on the board and cart it off. Certainly, the defensive staff gave Frank Bush a lot of credit. Those guys rallied. But thankfully, Dean's all right. He's back with us. Here, Coach, what was your vantage point on the fumble where you all were driving and getting up front down there? Yeah, so it was fourth and five. Like I said, I decided to go for it three timeouts, knowing that if we didn't get it, we could hold up to a field goal and still have a chance to go in with a touchdown and felt good about it. I thought the game went on. Dez settled down and delivered the ball. Drake, we got to do a better job with the ball security. They made a play and popped it out. And we got to do a better job there. Chance going into possibly win the game or at least tie it. Yeah, I thought he was amped up early. We were aggressive early. There was a couple other things I thought he was pressing. But he did a nice job settling down, D-led. There was going to be something he was going to have to fight through. He's not scared of the moment. He's poised. Like, again, it wasn't perfect. There are a lot of things that we got to look at the tape. I like what he's made up of. I think it says a lot about him as we finished the game. We were able to run the ball really well, which took some stress off the passing game. I don't know how the yards per clip, but you certainly feel it out there. And then, like I said, they made a play. We got to do a better job with the ball security at the end. But there's a lot to coach off of. Do you think the defense was OK? I don't know if it was unsettled, D-led. I mean, we were pretty sure he was OK, so it wasn't. But as you settle in, we were doing a decent job early to start up in the run. They made a few plays against some of the zones. And I thought we'd, Frank, those staff did a nice job adjusting. They hit the shot play. And they were driving. They could have had us in the defense bowed up, ripped the ball out, and we were able to stay in it. No. Human nature would be the most serious. Well, we called them up and we got in the warm-ups. We said our prayers for them and tried to update them and just be honest about the situation. You know, you were sitting there and everybody knew it. I mean, you were running the stadium solid. It was a scary moment for them. Thankfully, they're Saints doctors. Our doctors did a hell of a job and kind of evaluated and will continue to monitor them. But yeah, Michael, I don't think I've ever been a part of something like that. What kind of change could be what you were trying to call a bit early to settle down? I mean, I thought the, you know, I mean, it came out firing. Got the screen to prove it, I believe was his first completion. Then he kind of got going and settled in there. And there's a lot of things we can correct over the tape. Yeah, like I said, I told Desmond yesterday, whether he threw for 400 yards or threw for 100, what I'm going to define his career is a lot to learn from. The things that I saw him operate procedure-wise, he had a lot of command. Now that we get to the next step is we got to continue to find solutions and make more plays. We got to get on the other side of this, Mike. You know, it was another close game. Had our chances, didn't get a ton, though. I thought he had plenty of instinct. I mean, a fourth and five, and it's just one play, but that's got to have it. I mean, you talk about got to have it plays. Critical third downs, fourth downs late. You're on the road, amped up. I didn't see him flinch, you know, delivering the football in there. I got to watch the tape to see. There's a couple other things. You know, like I said, we were aggressive. He'll learn from certain things. He takes some risks, throw it away. He'll learn from some of that stuff. But I thought as the game went on, Michael, he settled down. It was obviously desperation time, though. He'd lose track of the time. No, no. So what happened was, you know, those are what you want to call them, hook and ladder plays, or we call them throwback plays. Yes, for him, whether it's in the return game or whatnot. I mean, you're kind of out of the Hail Mary range. Five seconds, no timeouts. So when they, and Davis was the one that stepped up. So he actually made a very instinctive play. You don't want to end the ball with it right there. But what he's trying to do is we're setting up a tunnel back. He's trying to get him to go back. So he was over there directing him. In hindsight, he was running out of bounds, but he kind of had an improv there as Davis kind of spooked him on something. So that's kind of what happened there. Yeah, I learned he's not scared of a moment. And we'll continue to improve. It was his first start against good secondary. You know, they were, Jeff, they were packing the paint. You know, we threw some things early. We got the double move. We got the penalty, but that's who that defense is. I mean, they're, they play that press quarters and they get in there and they're grabby and it's a veteran, they're savvy, you know, May and Matthew, it's not their first rodeo. But I thought as he progressed, I thought he settled down. And then there were some things that we were getting an advantage running it that it just made too much sense when you're, we were getting six yards of clip, it felt like. And so we tried to pound it in the red zone. And we were able to do that. And, you know, we knew at some point you get that drive backed up. We get going with some momentum. I delivered a strike to Pruitt. Got it, got us the first down. I thought, again, we get into that fourth and five. I got to look at some of the tape. Certainly wasn't perfect, but I like this boys at least. At your point, you decided to go down the left. Sure. Yeah, just kind of open it up, see what it was about. We had CP out there and they did a nice job covering it. Tried to get them to show that we would be aggressive because no one, they're probably going to try to pack the paint. That was the thought there. Now, what about in the first two positions, that was 10 out of the five? Well, no, the other one, that's what I thought he was a little amped up. He took a shot down the field. I thought we had something underneath. Ironically, it was a play, we hit Pruitt later in the game where we thought Pruitt was open underneath. Again, he don't want to take their initiative away, but that's why I say he came out amped up. And then as he settled in, he was able to correct that, which plays that stuff in the right direction. What kind of learning curve or progress curve would you foresee over the last three games here from the other team? What do you expect from that? Yeah, you expect progress. We're going to have another big challenge on the road. Short week, Baltimore played yesterday, we got to turn around. We'll be out there Tuesday. It's one day shorter, an opponent that we're not really familiar with. Another conference, supposed to be cold and all the other things, it'll be good for him. Test, short week, could defense, go on the road and see if we can make the improvements. He did. What were you trying to do? Well, some of those was a personal package. Figured they'd come out and try to run the ball. And they did. And so just trying to get it just bigger in there and this different package that we ran. Mike had other packages. Whether we, as the game went on, they had the lead, we got to it a bunch, but that's it. Mike just trying to get the, play the strengths of all three of those guys. How did you see guys on my team? I thought it was good. Jeff, you know, as we get back in there, I didn't notice anything. Like I said, his demeanor, great, his interaction with the players. And it's a huge learning experience. You go on here, play the Saints, played veteran defense. Certainly didn't go well early. And to his credit, he settled down, the team settled down. I seen the rally around him. He's an instinct to play smart, hard to tackle. He's the first guy to bring him down. You know, I had a big run on the third and one. And I thought, you know, you feel him. He's another volume guy that, that as the game goes on, I mean, he, those guys don't, don't like tackling him. He made a good play on the two point, able to bounce it, show that burst to get to the front pylon. I really excited about him. He's been big for us. I'd have to check. Yeah, I don't have an update on that. Oh, I'm sorry. You said Huntley. Yeah. That's something lower body. Let's see the MRI didn't look good though. I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about somebody else. Sorry, but Caleb Huntley. No, no, Caleb Huntley is what you said. Yeah. Yeah, you know, going into this week, it was about, you know, communication and being able to get in and out of the huddle and working efficiently with that and handling the environment, which I thought we did a really good job of as an offense, getting on the ball, you know, not letting that playcock run down on us, getting the upfront communicated. So from that standpoint, I feel like we did a pretty good job of. And then obviously the execution part upfront, you know, they did a heck of a job blocking in both the run game and the pass game for me. And then, you know, you talk about the pass game from my standpoint. Obviously, you know, not where we want it to be. Some of those deep balls got to give the guys a chance to go make a play, try to be too perfect on those, try to put it out in front of them to make, you know, a perfect ball winner. In reality, all you got to do is just give them a chance. So that'd be something I'd look back on and be able to work on. Obviously, you know, you're gonna have, you know, nerves, anxiety, whatever it may be of, just getting out there first start, crazy environment, just, you know, this is the, you know, this, like I said earlier in the week, this is, you know, what all of us dream of is to come into the NFL and have, be able to start a first game. So obviously, there's a lot of emotions going on through that. But just being able to settle in and get going, obviously, that first drive coming out, you know, not being able to move the ball and then, you know, settling in, I think that really helped. But, you know, it's just about being able to come out there and play efficiently. What blitzed a lot earlier? We're kind of like forcing you to make reads. What was your case then? Yeah, you know, they did a good job in the back end. I felt like, like I said, our O-line did a phenomenal job of the run block and the pass block. And then, you know, I think at all it comes down to is winning one-on-one matchups on the outside. Which, you know, our guys did a lot of the times and, you know, whether the ball placement wasn't there or, you know, my fundamentals was off a little bit. Like I said, just got to give the guys to make a chance. No, no, no. Other than the music loud right there under our hotel on that street, you know, I was able to sleep pretty well. Yeah, I mean, you know, just after that first drive, obviously the first drive, like we said, you got emotions, you got everything going. You just want to get out there and be perfect and, you know, go down there first drive, 75 yards, score, touchdown. And obviously that's not how it went. When we came back off the sideline, it was like, okay, deep breath. Let's go back out there to work. You know, honestly, I don't want, you know, having really processed the feelings of it yet. Obviously, the emotions are down because obviously we didn't get a win, didn't play as well as, you know, I wanted to from a self-scouting standpoint. But you know, I think what this team has shown over this year is that we're fighters. And that's something to look forward to for, you know, the next three games and then the next season is that this team, no matter, you know, whether we're up or down by a whole bunch, this team's gonna fight till the end, which is something that you can't take for granted. Yeah, I saw him laying on the ground for a split second too long than what I thought. So I sprinted over there to run and pick him up because, you know, at the end of the day, he's gonna look at that and, you know, think the game that if he would have caught that and we would have kept going, we would have scored or whatever it may have been, that, you know, he thinks that that one play right there is what made and broke the game, which is absolutely not true at all. You know, Drake made a lot of great plays in that game. Obviously, that one didn't go the way we wanted to. But, you know, I just told him, hey, you know, it doesn't matter, we're just gonna go back to work. You know, don't hang your head on that because, you know, that's not who he is. And so, you know, I'm just excited to get back to work and come in tomorrow. Yeah, it's huge. And those runs are huge for us. And I know, I think there was a stout or something that I heard when we came in, a rookie minicamp that, you know, he was, you know, leading the NCAA in broken tackles and this and that. And, you know, he's not a speed guy. But, you know, every time you hand the ball off, you're expecting that he's gonna make one guy miss. You know, it's gonna take more than one guy to tackle him and bring him down. So, you know, that's almost a security for, you know, to kind of hand the ball off and just know that he's gonna get positive yards as long as our line is doing what they're doing every single week and moving the line of scrimmage. Yeah, there wasn't much confusing out there. You know, what we saw is kind of what we got. I think we prepared pretty well as an offense. And, you know, I think at the end of the day, like I said, it's just about execution. You know, for the most part, we executed in the run game. You know, that's tribute to the guys up front and the tight ends in that tight end room and the running backs running hard. You know, you look at the stat sheet and you look what it comes down to. It comes down to, you know, just being able to move the ball and keep a flow to the game. And that flow is obviously put in the part of the pass game in there, which obviously I didn't do well today. Yeah, that's just my leadership. That's how I've been since, you know, I've been in high school. But, you know, I think that, you know, a lot of times, and obviously quarterback has a high role leadership. And, you know, a lot of guys kind of look to the quarterback, what his emotions are, are they up, are they down? And that kind of has a flow of how the offense goes or how the team goes. So, you know, no matter what the situation, whether three and out or their turnover, but a touchdown, just keep those guys up, keep them up in a good standpoint. So we know that next drive we go out there and go to work. You feel like the guys respond? Yeah, you know, I feel like they respond to me pretty well. Obviously, you know, they saw my preparation throughout the week and saw that, you know, we were being efficient in and out of the huddle, you know, not setting on calls, not doing any of, you know, what a typical rookie you would say would do. And so, you know, I felt like coming into this game that, you know, as long as I was doing everything that I needed to do, those boys were gonna be behind me and what they were. How would you grade yourself? C minus the D. Like I said, I thought that, you know, it was really good in the execution of coming out the huddle, getting the play call, getting to the line of scrimmage with plenty of time on the playcock. And then, you know, post snap, felt like it could obviously been better. Yeah, just same thing every week. Just going out there warming up, getting my mind in the right place, knowing, you know, every time I walk out there for the first time, checking where the play clocks are at, no matter if I'm starting or not. So, you know, like I said earlier in the week, my routine hasn't changed that much, and I'm just going out here and doing the same thing. No, so I did that last week. That was the first time they were able to come down there last week, and then they were able to come down this week, obviously, for the first start. So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're in the 21st century, so obviously you get a whole bunch of calls and text messages and everything, just wishing you good luck. And, you know, like Quit told me in the locker room, he said, you know, obviously this is a lifelong dream for a lot of us, we grow out here and play in the NFL and start in the NFL. So, when I walked back in the locker room, he said, hey, look down at me, he said, hey. You know what you did? He said, well, I said, what? He said, you're starting. You know, you went out there and played an NFL game, and that's not something to take for granted, that's not something to look back on. So, obviously, you know, it didn't end the way we wanted to, but at the end of the day, you know, we went out there and did something that we've been trying to accomplish for, you know, my entire life. What do you expect of yourself in the next three games? Obviously, to be better, to go out there and win, to go out there and lead the offense and execution, whether that's third down, whether that's red zone, you know, whether that's base down, just go out there, not be perfect, give guys and make a chance, like I said earlier, and just be able to keep the tempo, keep pressing the offense, to keep pushing them, to keep moving forward. Yeah, obviously, better in the passing game. You know, some of the reads, I felt like, you know, the deep shot to OZ, I think, you know, you look back on it on film and you look back on the tablet, you know, if you just not take that shot or at least give them a chance, obviously, one, you might have come down with a two, you got guys coming across underneath that are open too. So, like I said, like I just said, keeping the ball moving forward, that's our ultimate goal, that's what Art talks about every single week, you know, taking no negative plays, and so that's something obviously we'll look into and keep trying to better. Yeah, no, you know, it wasn't necessarily to prove something. Like I said earlier, you know, when we looked in the week, it was about winning one-on-one matchups on the outside, we got those one-on-one matchups, but like I said, at the start of this, I didn't get the guys a chance. Try to make a perfect ball, try to do this, try to do that, win in reality, all I gotta do is give them a chance. Thank you. Thank you.