 There was some confusion over the COVID protocol, but do y'all know, okay, not in the hands of choice? Well, here's what I think. There's a ton of disinformation out there. It has been in the last probably for a while, but it seems to accelerate in this country. So this is not 2020. It's 2021. And so they have enhanced protocols, and they're very different from what we lived through last year. So to answer your question, you can be an enhanced, but it's not the enhanced protocol from last year. Things evolve, and December 2021 is a lot different from December 2020. As soon as we have something, they get put on the list, just like it does around the league. Well, it's just a culmination of trying to improve and doing your job better week after week. And I think that's what you're saying. I wish I had some great quote for you. There's nothing real flashy about it. We just continue to get back to work and try to get better, and it's starting to pay off. But we got a huge challenge this week going out to San Francisco. Well, that's why I have so much respect for Craig. He's a true pro. He comes to work every day. He's got the right mindset. He's a real leader. He's not some fake guy that had status. They throw it to the skies real. And I got a ton of respect for Craig Jarrett. Thank you, Michael. Yeah, we talked about Russell a little bit the last couple weeks. His emergence, his emerge production, how does that help what you're trying to do scheme wise and what you're trying to call it? Well, we get contribution from everybody. So obviously, Russell's, the ball has found him last couple weeks. He's certainly healthier than he was earlier this year. And I think like all other guys that continue to, as we continue to improve as an offense, you know, you're going through year one, you're going through a lot of transition. He's, you know, people are playing us in a ton of zone and he's getting open, finding the right spots, doing his job and the ball's going his way. You just try to find productive football players. We'll evolve and play to the strengths of our team, depending on how, you know, the injury situations, you know, just practical reality who we have up and who can help us move the football and score points. Yeah, Eric, so we got the MRI in there. He's got a, you know, a tendon issue that he'll go on our at some point. What was the next one? Dante. Dante day to day. We do it with all, there's a lot of thought put in. We do it with all our vets and then we do what's best for them and what's best for the team. That's where the decision is made with him. It's a collaborative effort. So it provides a different points in their career and different points of the season. And I don't think anybody, you know, it's the December in the NFL. And so you're going to have to manage it and you're going to do what's best for the players and for your team. Anybody else? Oh, and Darren Bates will be back at practice day. As the cycle between offenses and defense, as that wheel turns, or do you feel like where the NFL is on the start of a circle back to the run game? I think, I think you're, I don't, it's definitely a circle back to it. You know, I think you look at some of the things. I said this when we played New England a couple of weeks ago, whenever it was, I don't think they've ever been given enough credit at how physical they are on both sides of the line of scrimmage. They've always been able to manage or run it. I know some years have been different depending on how their team's been. But the physicality year over year teams that usually play this late in the year, not all of them. There's always different outliers. I get it, but you say year over year, the teams that can handle a lot of scrimmages, whether that's part of the run game or they're very physical on the other side of the line of scrimmage or using one's plan in January. Well, there's a challenge every week. We got different schemes you put in. He's a terrific player. Got to use, if started using them, like similar to the last couple of weeks like Patterson, they're not the same player, but he's in the backfield more. They did run the ball with him early, more on gadgets. Now that kind of, he's taken a little bit more of a CP role and run a little bit inside the tackles. He's a, he's a really good football player. They put the ball in his hands. He usually makes things happen. So he's a good player. He can be a problem and somebody you got to account for. I think the same is, he's a good player. Just like, just like Foy, Dion, all these guys, they're, they're in unit. They play as a unit. Agent, the guys continue to improve. He does his job, does it well. We played multiple schemes out there and he's got a pretty good understanding. He works really hard at it. I think I asked you in training camp if you could see AJ kind of being a leader up along with defense. And I was just kind of curious now at the final part of the season, do you think he's evolved into that and how do you see him being now? What kind of leader are you asking about? Like just kind of like a vocal leader. I think everybody's got to be themselves. Same with coaches. I've never tried it. I've learned a lot from a lot of great coaches that I've been around. But then the day, you got to be yourself. So I know that, you know, in the movies and there's all that conventional wisdom that, you know, you may have to be this raw rock guy to be a leader. I think guys respond to guys that play at a high level to do their job and that they're themselves and not trying to be something that's not. So, you know, as AJ has continued to evolve as a player, he's in his second year, very confident player, but he's his own guy. And that's why I have a ton of respect for him. So if you guys are 6-2 in one score game this year, I'm just curious, I know there's a lot that goes into being able to pull those games out. How do you feel like you've all been able to be successful in those moments when no games are talked like that? Because you understand that's the reality of most weeks in the NFL and you deal with reality. You got to understand that it's a privilege to have that kind of pressure. That's what you sign up for. And, you know, our guys do a good job of continuing to grind it out. And there's, you know, as you work at it, as you get results, I think their confidence builds. And as a play call, you guys have had a lot of success in the run game. Like, what does that open up for you as a play call when you have success in the run game? Well, it allows you to try to, best you can, to keep the defense off balance. It's as simple as that. What's hard about it? What's hard about it? Because, I mean, they don't do those, you know, you got to really have an eye for the churches to know, you know, what they're doing, if they're getting a push or they're sealing a guy, the commas like, it's a lot going on up there. Yeah. And so, you know, to be able to try to explain that to people is, you know, kind of finding one of the difficult rules. Yeah, well, there's a lot of nuance. That's what I love about this game. And you love that people are passionate about it and care. It's such a different sport because there's so many different variables that can happen in one play. So, you know, there's 22 guys out there. It's a great challenge just league. It's what makes this league fun. A lot of really good players out there and people study really hard at it. And then there's a chess match and then there's obviously the physical games and the one-on-one matchups. And then you get into those combination blocks. And, you know, some people, you know, I originally think they can see it all in one play. Again, there's just so many little nuances. So, it takes a long time to study over and over and over again. I think at the primitive thing, if you can just block your guy in front of you, you're probably doing a decent job off his line. When you can see that line of scrimmage move, usually good things are happening. And then without getting into the details of all the techniques and the combination blocks or the, you know, schemes and one-on-one. Is it, how much of it is for the late person, both power versus angle and technique? It depends on the scheme. And then what's happening. I mean, sometimes, you know, if they're running a pressure, you may catch a minute and the guy kind of takes himself out of play. I mean, other ones, you just see it, especially in some of the short yardage, depending on if you're using gap schemes coming downhill at somebody, it's, it could be one-on-one. It's like an old school drill, you know, and see if you can move that man against his will, depending on that scheme. And then, you know, if you get him out of, have a gap in some kind of combination of different schemes. But I think if you can see movement and space open up in the run game, usually you're doing a pretty decent job. I don't have a fixed number. And so it just, it just depends. Depends on what's going on. I mean, so I don't have a fixed number for you. Sorry. Maybe depends on how much sleep I got night before. How much coffee I drank. I mean, a lot of variables there too much. We're in the 2021. I think it's, you know, like a lot of things to get leaked out from God knows where, not from here. But again, what I'm trying to educate is not last year's 2020. Everybody like, I think that's, there's a societal issue that we're still in a pandemic, but there's a lot of variables that have changed. Every country's handled differently, globally, locally. So that's the thing is thankfully, you know, if you're saying that the things you can control things you can't, that's true with everything in life. So thankfully, depending on how you believe doesn't mean I think I'm better or worse than anybody else, but vaccines available. Thankful to go get it. Thankful to get my booster shot. But there's a lot of things I can't control. It's out there. It's inevitable. You try to, you know, educate, try to do smart things. But this is a very different moment in time than it was in 2020. The pandemic's still going on, but we're not completing everything. So last year when you're enhanced, there wasn't, there wasn't a vaccine available. There was different protocols you had to go into things became more virtual and there's, there was so much more on them. There's still a lot of unknown. I don't claim to be an expert. I never will on, on medical issues. So I think that's what needs to be addressed is that it's enhanced. It's a very different moment in time. And every team's dealing with something different. Our issues completely different from the next team. So we feel like we're in a good spot, but there's always unknown when you walk in this building every day. Sure. I think, I think there was a lot of myths. It wasn't factual what was really going on. And again, I don't know any other building. I just know we communicate with the league constantly. I just know what's going on up here in flowery branch and we're trying to do the best we can. And what's something that's really, if you really look at it, it's uncontrollable in certain areas. So you would assume wrong. I'm not going to get into the league protocols. I'm sure, you know, somebody can get a hands on it. They can leak it from somewhere, but it's not going to come from here. We still, I still value privacy. It's not some big mystery, but no, we're not in virtual meetings. That's not, it's not a right assumption. Yeah. You just slipped it in there. So you got your boots here then? Yeah. I got no problem telling anybody. That doesn't mean I think I'm good. Doesn't mean I think I'm like, I'm not like self righteous about it. I think I'm better than anybody else. There's available things as best you can. I know nothing's 100%. You try to control the best you can, and then you got to assume your own risk, what you're comfortable with. So that's how I look at it. I just want to make sure I have the right to follow. Sure. There's nothing, I'm not afraid to, I mean, like, I don't think it's taboo. Like, yeah, I got vaccinated. Whoa, big story. They're going to make everybody get their booster if you're tier one and tier two anyways. People are saying focus, of course, with COVID. Well, there's a lot of things, Anthony. And so it's all like life. Like the flu is still going around. Guys, people are still getting sick with the flu. I mean, it's that time of year. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of things out of your control. It's a holiday season. There's different stresses in life people have. You know, there's all kind of things. I try to, you try to, we're all human. Yeah, you may get frustrated things in it. Try to control what you can control. That's all I try to do. And so it's the same thing. You come to work every day. No matter if it's COVID, it's the flu, there's, there's things going on outside of everybody's got something in their life that's going on. And you try to come to work and hopefully it gives you a chance to lock in and focus on something that maybe it's a good distraction from real life. Because real life out there has been tough for a lot of people for a couple years. And nobody's immune to that here either. My name is told is what you told him in the run of that and was had run game going. What had the conversation been like over the last couple of weeks with you guys? I'm not sure what, what do I say? Not trying to get you to trouble, but uh. I'm going to get me in trouble. He's going to say you challenge them. You challenge them. I just, just try to, try to coach better. For a 10th or consider long snapping as a way to continue your career? You know what? Probably the dumbest thing I did is I didn't listen to somebody told me that at 14, 15 years old. I always looked up and when I got to work in Washington, another Tarheel, Ethan Albright kind of had it figured out. He was a great college offense alignment. I can't think I maybe, Ethan played 17 years being a long snapper. He's a sign of one year deal. I'm sure he's living a good life somewhere in North Carolina. Maybe he's in Greensboro, but yeah, that was probably the bigger mistake. That's a good job. And that's a job you don't ever want to be noticed. And, you know, Josh Harris is an excellent long snapper. Yeah, I probably, if I'd listened at 14, like a lot of things, who knows? That's a, it's a great, great living, but there's, there's a, and you got to be a quiet professional. And that's what Josh is. You hope to never be noticed, I guess. Went to the decision for you, where the West Coast looks, like the Sun, the Shades, you know, what went into that decision? Sun was right in my eyes. Yeah, I know. And it worked. They were, they were sun guys that I wear when I go snow skiing. So I, again, I wasn't trying to look sweet or awesome. I don't think I'm setting any kind of styles around here. So it really is just practical. Sun's right in your eyes. I put the sun guys on. What am I as I wouldn't want. It's like when Michael asked me with my hat selection. There's no deeper meaning. When I get up early in the morning, I get my coffee. I've got about three hats laying around. I pick one up. It says Falcon's on. I put it on. Yeah, I've got tons of hats. I got too many hats. My wife tries to throw them all away. Like half a year, every, you know, six months or so. Sure. Like I opened up the door for the deeper meaning. When you were, when you were a kid, were you like a half, like I was a half guy. And I had like 50 of them. You know, like were you like that your thing? Yes, it was. How much do you have? I've never counted. We've been able to move a couple of times. So a couple of them, I guess, conveniently get lost in the moves. Probably give them a good will. Good will, yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, because I can't open those, but can we expect to see more blue chains moving forward? I just haven't changed into my work clothes today. I love that. I wear jeans a lot. Like I don't show up and maybe I'll show up in the old bike coaching shorts. A little throwback for you. So I just, I don't put a lot of, I mean, again, it's a little cold this morning. Check the weather when I get up, put it on. I just haven't changed it in my work gear yet, Anthony. So yeah, that's fine. That's part of the job description. I actually have a serious question. Okay. I mean, you saw last week, it's the first game we've been in the concert. Sure. It's a big game. Is this week kind of, is it even bigger in some ways? Of course. You know, I mean, you know the old cliche, it's a big game. It's the next game, but the reality is, I mean, it's a late December game with a lot online for both teams. It's an important NFC game for both teams. And that's where you want to be. You want to be in meaningful games. I've said it a hundred times. I'll say it again. You continue to win and you give yourself a chance. It's a it's a big game for both teams. Is it, you feel like with the way the NFC is in the middle, does it almost feel like an elimination game or something? No, because I mean, you obviously, you know, you're going to throw, both teams are going to throw everything they got at it. And it's a really good team we're facing. Well coach, smart, fast, really skilled team. And so there's so many things that can happen. And we've all, you guys have covered this league. You know the craziness that happens in late in the year. You know, used to be week 16, 17, crazy night. You're going to say week 17, 18. They're going to be all kind of bizarre things that happen. And you all have stories and we've all been around it. So until they officially eliminate you, you're never really out of it because there's some things that just gone really crazy in the last couple of weeks of the season. I think that's a credit to him. I mean, he stayed with it. And there's a lot of things you can get as frustrated with if you're dealing with an early season injury. So I think Russ deserves a lot of credit. Love working with Russ. He's been on target for the last couple of years. And there are a lot of guys like him who have a reputation of being good on that down. Like what's important to being good? Well, it depends on your situation. It depends what you're being asked to do. If you're going to be asked to be the slot and you're the maybe third or fourth option, which some guys that they dominate inside because maybe the attention goes out because of the different personnel out there or whoever else on the team. You know, you're a complimentary slot as a role guy that has a huge job on third down. And you may get the bested matchup because of the advantage who's on the field. And then sometimes people's roles grow. And then if you become a number one option, you can win. It's completely different in certain circumstances. So Russ has done a really good job on really every down. He does a lot of little things that people never see, blocks well, point of attack. Really pleased and really enjoyed working with Russell. I wouldn't compare anybody here. Nobody quite like Russell. Thank you.