 That was all my playlist, Kayla, so you're an 80s rock guy, just said rock in country. Go ahead. Kayla, let's go Kayla. Come on. She's sitting there waiting next man up. I mean, I think we've done it before, but I also appreciate the way that they were able to come out today and practice and transition inside. I thought that there was good energy. I thought there was good speed. We got a lot done, you know, so then we'll have to transition on to traveling tomorrow. Appreciate, you know, Joey, his staff, Todd, his staff be able to, you know, get all that stuff packed up here, turned around a short amount of time and then get us everything that we need up in Minnesota. Josh was on the roster and we he counted. Josh was counting just like Caleb Farley and Dylan Radins. Yeah, just taking what they give you, you know what I mean? Getting the flow of things and, you know, kind of seeing the different rotations and when you see, you know, them drop out of there in Tampa and maybe, you know, just being okay to take the check down and put the ball in the, you know, back's hands and let them work for you and see if they could tackle and see if we can break a tackle and, you know, just those things. How much of that comes from just being able to trust what he's seeing with his eyes and what he's studied on film? Well, I would say that the film is much different, you know, I think that it's much different just from my experience of, you know, watching our tape, watching other people's tapes standing behind the quarterbacks or being on the sidelines. It's much different. So the really true reps are obviously the practice reps that are critical and then the game reps. Go ahead, Jimmy. Good to have Thompson back as he kind of in a return to play protocol. Well, you know, Josh's main main role right now is going to be to just get back and get rolling on on special teams. We had a vision for him to be, you know, one of our core special teams players. It's kind of where he was last year. And so that's kind of where he started today. That's kind of what he did. It was, you know, good to see him out there. I know he was excited to be out there. That rotation that you had with the quarterbacks last week, is that something that you've seen a lot or is that pretty rare to, you know, have a competition to play on that? With as far as the series? Yeah, as opposed to a quarter or a half. I don't know. That's just the way we decided to do it. May do it differently next week. May not. I'm not sure, but that's what we felt like was best. Chris Moore said, Ryan's so good at helping teach the new concepts of the offense. It feels like he almost helped design it. What's it say about a quarterback to be able to pick it up so quickly and to kind of have that level? I think that that's the leadership. That's what you have to have from your quarterback. They're the ones that have to act as an extension of the coach on the field. You know, they're the ones that hear the play call. They're the ones that have to know where everybody's supposed to line up. They're the ones that make the adjustments, the checks, you know, so that that's critical. Once we send them out there on the field, you know, it's up to the players to figure it out. So and to fix problems and, you know, work through it and then come back in the huddle the short amount of time and do it all over again and recognize what the situation is. I think Trey's, you know, competed since the day he got here. I think that's the biggest thing that you notice about him. He doesn't say a whole lot. Kind of lines up, keeps playing and, you know, hopefully he can build on what he's been doing and continue to do it in the games. And going on special teams for us last year was really good on the hold up and played some there on defense and, you know, came down with a football today in the red zone and, you know, but then also had a holding call there in two minutes. So it's back and forth. It's up and down and Trey's, you know, always worked since the day he got here. He doesn't say a whole lot and I think he just keeps getting better. Sean's always been in the secondary since he got here and have you seen him kind of help some of the other guys? Well, you know, as you come into a new situation as a free agent, you just, you know, kind of figure your way through this thing. I think SMB has done that. He has been consistent. He's been reliable. He's been out there every day. You know, the thing I like is he can play multiple coverages, multiple techniques. It's not just, you know, it's not just a press man or not just an off cover three corner. He's been able to be proficient in all the different coverages that we've been asking to play. Hardest said that he wants to improve as a pass rusher, not just be a run plugger. How has he done so far at the camp? I think okay. I mean, the biggest thing we always talk about, and Tier knows this, is the more conditioned and he can be, which allows him to play up to our standard, the more he plays. And so when he does that, then he's out on the field and he can impact the game in different ways, whether they run it or whether they throw it. So that's the biggest thing, is the more that he wants to impact the game, is the more that he can be out there and play up to our standard and be conditioned and, you know, use it. You know, he's got good quickness. He's got good power. And so hopefully he keeps working on that. What are some of the things you look for when you go about figuring out what your final offensive line unit is going to be? Like, how do you know when it's the best case? As far as like the five or however many you keep, or I mean, how they how they continue to work together, you know, using the first drive the other day as an example, it looked like there was some some some coordination in the combination blocks look like there was some coordination in what we were doing. There was some finish and never going to be perfect, but there's it's not jointed. It's not one guy's at this level and other guys at this level. I think we saw some of those things and took a good step with that unit. Yeah, I thought that Peter looked comfortable. I thought him and Dre worked together a couple times in combination blocks and, you know, past protected. He tried to stay firm there in the middle of the pocket. Well, no, I just, you know, reference the stiff arm as great as the stiff arm is, you know, we have to make sure when we're making cuts or we're making doing something to avoid tackles, you know, like Chris, it's never the guy that you, you know, see it's the one you don't see it's second guy in on Wiley and on and on and on. Yeah, I mean, curious, you know, did some nice things, you know, was able to help us there on the kickoff return was able to make some catches there. I thought he continues to try to play with some speed and, you know, all those young receivers that keep earning opportunities. I mean, the kick we got a block for somebody. I think that's the hardest skill around the league is you got to block for him. And so I think there's plenty of guys that can do it. It's it's fine and 10 other guys that can block. Mike, in what ways have you seen Chigs that bug as a leader in the tight end this season? Well, Chigs got a, you know, there's there's a personality to him. There's a there's an energy to him. And I think that's what, you know, we need each and every day. I think that that's what that room needs each and every day. You know, just his, you know, coming into a second year, maybe explaining how important special teams are to helping these young guys find a role. But but Chigs personality is such that, you know, every day we need that kind of energy. We need him bouncing around and, you know, I'm confident we'll get that. What makes kick return blocking the hardest skill around the league? Well, a lot of space, a lot of speed, you know, guys are guys are coming down from, you know, 30, 40 yards. And you got a couple different ways. You go around them, you know, over the top, back door or through them. And so that's that's that's just a difficult task with space and the athletes that you're you're trying to block with. And it's something that you got to keep repping. It's something that goes into the timing and the depth of how far you're dropping taking great angles. You know, if you don't take a good angle with a guy beat you, you know, with a back door, if you go too deep, then he comes over to top. And if you're sitting there too light, you know, Jonathan Ward had a good example of that where he drove the guy right back into the returner, and they held him. And that's a critical penalty. So I think it's just a tough skill from, you know, trying to find a body types that have those types of movement skills and reactionary agility and the ability to block. Yeah, we've had some experience with them. So needed a body, you know, she killed brown. We'll go on IR and unfortunately, so we needed somebody and Kyle has some experience here and is played. Are you taking the entire team to kick off lunch into more or maybe why is it important to do that before going out of town? Well, trying to try to work it into our schedule will absolutely be there. You know, team will be there and you know, try to help the charitable foundation, try to interact with with our season ticket members or whoever's going to be there. And you know, hopefully we'll be able to the rookies will be able to entertain us a little bit. So how nice is it Amani to be going back home for for not just a game, but for a couple of practices? And do you have to maybe tune out some of the family friend noise so that you can do business? Yeah, it's gonna be awesome to go back home have people that I grew up with friends and family ex teammates ex coaches be able to you know, come to hopefully a practice and be able to see me compete in person. And I mean, for me, I've always had family or friends at my game. So I mean, I blanking out the noise. That's that's no problem. I think I went to one when I was really little, but not not often a lot. It'll be a good test. It'll be good for guys to go up against different body types, different skill skill sets as well. It'll be a great challenge for us and we're going to take it head on. I actually wasn't my dad's from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. So I grew up a Bret Farr Packers fan. This is this whole time. So I'm actually Packers fans growing up until until I got drafted by Titans, of course. What's my every successful year you've been around for a couple of years now? You know, one thing I see from Tray is his competitiveness. He's going to compete no matter what. He gives up a catch. He's really good of moving on to the next play and just continues to play not letting the play before carry over and now it's making too bad plays in a row. He's good at if he hasn't messed up, he forgets it and continues to play on and he has good ball skills as well. Very intense. I mean, guys are trying to make a team. Guys are understanding that they're going against a new a new guy. Understand that the competitiveness is high. You got guys that want to come out here and make plays and you know that they're trying to do the same thing on the other end. You don't want to be, you know, that guy that's going around viral when you get done practicing. You look on Twitter and your guy caught the ball. You're probably not playing in any of these games. This is what gets you ready for the break of the season. Is that these joint practices? Yeah, it's time where, like I said, going against different skill sets. You might go against Chig. He might run a route different than T.J. Hawkinson will run a route. So it'd be good just to, not just for me and KB, but for younger guys to see, you know, what joint practice is like and to see the competitiveness it is because it's very similar to the games. Did you guys stay in touch a lot since college? Yeah, I hit him up here and there. I know if he got engaged or something happened, I'd reach out to him and talk, but not like so much every week or none like that. What personal does it get with the DBs and the wide receivers when you have that seven on seven time in the joint practice? It's very personal. I mean, because we want to show what our standard is. We want to show who we are as a DB group and, you know, that's, we want to make sure we win at all costs. What have you seen out of a guy like Eric Garry who showed up big in the game Saturday and has had a couple of past break-ups out here today? He's a guy, like I said, he's a similar to Trey Avery. He competes. He's a dog. He's going to fight. He might not be the biggest guy, but he's going to compete. He's going to get feisty with you and then you saw him come up in the run game and make some good tackles in the game as well. You've been involved in a lot of joint practice since you've been here. I mean, what's the balance like in trying to be physical and play with intensity and not having to spill over to a pull-off? Yeah, I mean, that just comes into that edge. You know, a guy might be cussing in your face, screaming in your face, but you have to be able to take it to an edge and then be able to pull off because in the game we can't have those, you know, personal foul penalties. Now we're hurting the team. That's the stuff that we got. Now's a good time to practice that. What kind of test does Justin Jefferson present for you all in that practice? Justin Jefferson, I mean, he's getting one of the best receivers in the league, if not the best. I know my guys Christian, Roger and SMB are going to do a great job of challenging him, competing, and it's going to be real fun this week. We haven't started yet, so we'll see what happens to the rest of today and tomorrow. I mean, I mean, yeah, I'll take them upon myself and watch the preseason game just to see what, like I said, what guys' styles are like, the way they move, and kind of just get a little feel before I head down there. I'm not sure if anyone has a nerve to do it. If anyone were to do it, I think it'd be Chig. I think Chig's be the guy to do it. I'm going to have to mention it to him. I'm not sure. We'll see. I'm not exactly sure. I mean, it means a lot because when I played, when I was a rookie and I had, you know, Kenny Vicarro, KB and Logan Ryan on the sideline, we played the Eagles my first game. That meant a lot to me because I wanted to show those guys that I can play, not just the coaches. So I mean, my job was just to go out there, wherever I could help out at, you know, just be encouragement for my teammates. Yeah, Mike probably didn't have a great camp. He had a great OTAs. He's a guy that's been standing out. And he saw in the game and on special teams as well. I mean, he went down there and knocked the ball out on the muff punt, and then he's doing a great drama defense. And, you know, you don't have that many games in your belt. So you have to treat the practices as similar to games as best as you can. Say it one more time. I would say, see I haven't been there in a long time, but I'd probably say Mall of America for the guys that haven't gone yet. I'd probably say that before 6 p.m. 6 p.m. You might not want to be there, but that's the big mall. Yeah, yeah. Say it again. No pacing park. No pacing. Maybe Valley Fair. Valley Fair is like a amusement park that's kind of south of the city. Oh, yeah, that's right. I haven't gone there before. I've been around the neighborhood. I mean, there's like three, three foot lockers. There's like a Macy's. There's like, there's like a double of everything. They got that amusement park in there. It's like a Nickelodeon Park inside. Yeah, yeah. What happens after 6 p.m.? Does it just get crowded? It just, you know, you just don't want to be around. I don't know. It just kind of gets bad out there. It's better. It's just better. I believe in before six. All right. Oh, food of choice. Let me think. You get a juicy Lucy. That's a good one, too. That's a good one, too. A lot of a lot of people when I was coming up, my high school would go to Keynes. Keynes right in the University of Minnesota campus. It's Keynes Chicken. Yeah. That's who? See, see? He can't go wrong with a lot of it. All right. Thank you guys. What's going on? How'd you feel like the quarterbacks handled the alternating series? Yeah, I think they did a good job handling it. You know, both had had some really good plays. Both had some good opportunities to be able to learn from some of the performance stuff. But in terms of the rotation, they did a great job handling that. Maybe you just take a look at some of the stars that you made. Yeah, he played faster on Saturday, which was good. That was the big thing that we talked to him about is we wanted him to make sure that, you know, he played to his time of speed. So he played fast. You know, his decision making was better. He appeared to play on time more so than what we've seen in his previous game exposure. So I thought he took a good step forward here on Saturday. As you saw from the game, what are some things that obviously showed he's still working? Yeah, you know, there's some things, obviously now having a life pass rush, knowing when we need to step up, you know, when the journey's over, when we may have to ditch one. But you look at his ability to be able to get the ball out when he was playing on time. You know what I mean? He had some really good throws for us. And again, it's a good learning situation for him to be able to come back in here today, be able to watch it, now get a true understanding as to why we're doing things a certain way. And again, looking forward to see his growth here from game one to game two. Is that really the only way to improve that kind of feel is to get those live game reps and pre-seasoners? Yeah, I think, you know, obviously, the more live reps you can get, the better off you're going to be with that. You know, it's a different deal when those guys can actually hit you in terms of being able to feel the pocket and being able to step up and maneuver within the pocket. And so, yeah, I think the live bolts you get there are invaluable. Yeah, you know, he's, first of all, he's got to continue to focus on ball security and just do a good job with that. But yeah, he saw his ability to stick his foot in the ground. You know, he showed that he can be a hard tackle on the open field. And he caught the ball the one time the ball found him. So, you know, very, very pleased with Tajah. And again, looking forward to him to continue to improve here. Yeah, they kept him really clean. They were able to push some piles. They were able to get some movement in the run game. And again, the more that those guys are going to be able to play and gel together, the better off we're going to be. So, I thought they all individually did some good things and collectively as a unit did what we asked them to do. We wanted them to play physical. We wanted them to kind of set the tone and put our brand of football on tape. We wanted them to keep the quarterback clean. And I think they did all three things. Where's Ryan right now in the locker room? Go ahead. As far as what? As far as mastery of their offense, control of everything. I feel great. I feel great with where he's at. You know, being able to sit in there and just watch our tape, you know, kind of watch the film of the defense and what we're expecting. What we're expecting if you see A, B and C in terms of the different coverages. And I think he's doing a really good job of playing on time. And then again, like as we get going here with the situation, just looking forward to him continuing to grow there. And, you know, he's been on the money with his decisions. And I think he's missed a throw or two, but other than that, he's been playing pretty good for us. Yeah, anytime you get to go against another team, I think that's crucial. You know, it's going to be good for us to be able to go up there and see some different things schematically in terms of what we've been seeing from Shane and what we're anticipating seeing up there and just being able to go against players that have different skill sets. You know, that's a big part of it as the opponents change each and every week. Got to be able to kind of adapt to what we're doing and how we're going to attack them and how, you know, individually we need to put ourselves in the best position possible. So it's going to be good. It's going to be a good challenge. We're looking forward to it. Yeah, continuing to grow, continuing to protect the football. We've got to do a better job with that. Can't turn the ball over. You know, first and foremost, so we've got to protect the football. We've got to do a better job with our ball security within the pocket. And then just continuing to play on time and play within the system. Yeah, yeah, it's in deal. Like the decision making in terms of, in terms of, you know, not not jamming balls into tight windows, being able to be accurate when when there's people around you, all those different things are going to come up in those. Yeah, he's got another chance to come out there and get better today. That's the biggest thing is that our guys need to need to understand that, you know, that was a learning opportunity for him. And so there's going to be things that as we talked to Josh this morning and this afternoon and as we move forward here, you know, same deal with the quarterbacks like, hey, this is why we emphasize, you know, these things during during the week of practice. And we got to see the things that we do on the practice field translate on Saturdays or Sundays, you know, during the season. The biggest thing is just continuing to get him to grow and get him reps and continue to let him play fast. Oh, I couldn't hear the question. What are you looking forward to in terms of the offense and time to looking to see the offense from one game to the next? Yeah, protect the ball. I mean, you can't win any games in the NFL turn the ball over four times. So that's paramount. We got to do a better job making sure that we're not exposing the football. Got to do a better job and make it sure we're taking advantage of a short field, right? Our defense did a good job creating some turnovers and we got to do a better job being able to take advantage of that. So those would be the two major areas that we want to improve on. Coach both upstairs and downstairs during your career's OC and have you settled or you think you'll be the season and maybe what's the benefit that you're so. Yeah, I'll be wherever, wherever Coach Framble wants me to be. Being able to be upstairs, you see everything. Being able to be on the field is you feel everything. So there's some pros and cons to both, but wherever Coach Framble wants me to be, that's where I'll be. Tim, with Chig being like the guy, the main guy in the tight end room now, have you seen him grow as a leader? And if so, what does that look like in your building and maybe interacting with the other guys in the room? Yeah, it's been good having Chig kind of share his experience in the first year with some of the rookies, some of the lessons that he learned, and being able to kind of pass that knowledge off to some of the younger guys. In terms of his leadership style, he's just, the smile is contagious. You feel his energy whenever you talk to him. And that's been great to see that walk around the building and being able to communicate with him and just know that when he's here, he loves football, he loves the work, he loves the process. And I think that's the biggest thing, that as far as being a leader, just being able to continually do that day in and day out. That's a really close heat for handling this situation. Have you felt like in a game situation, where he's playing with guys that you really hadn't played with before? Yeah, you're right, Nick's in a unique situation here. He's doing what he can in order to be able to kind of block out the distractions and just trying to take advantage of every rep that he's getting here, knowing kind of what's coming down here in a couple of weeks. But I mean, he's here every day. He's working, he's putting the work in. And again, just looking for him to continue to take advantage of the reps that he's getting during these practices. I do evaluate some of the backup offensive linemen, maybe who just fell, who might need to clean some things. Yeah, I think you could probably go down the line and say they all did some good things and they all did some bad things. The biggest thing is that we just need to continue to focus on playing our style of football, being physical. I think the one run the son had, it would have been in the second quarter in the low red, right? They had a really good pile push. Corey was there, you saw X kind of come up and that's the stuff that we want to see consistently. And then we need to continue to improve on protecting the quarterback. Now a lot of that, however many we had, I think we had eight. I think half of them at least were due to quarterback issues there. We got to get the ball out on time. But just continuing to work the different techniques that we're using. And hopefully we can continue to see the improvements that we see during practice on the game tape. And Rook, had you played a lot of different spots as you were working through camp? How do you do a tackle? Yeah, I mean he's a big joker when he's out there, right? So he's big, he plays hard, he tries to play physical, he doesn't try to play physical. He does play physical. And so when he was out there, he was playing as a good player and he went out there and held his own. So the good thing about Rup is that he's smart, he's got different position and flexibility being able to kind of play multiple spots. And so he did everything that we asked him to do on Saturday and played hard. What about the receiver who's earned himself more opportunities based off of what he did in that game? Yeah, I mean I think you look at those young guys and a couple of them flashed for us. Kiaris showed up on that one long catch and run. Tray Sean showed up for us a couple of times. Gavin had a big catch for us on that drive in the fourth quarter. I think there's positives that you can take from a lot of those young players. They're forced Colton had a, you know, caught an odd force on the sideline, one of the two-minute drills. So all of them, when the ball fought them, they all did a good job of making the play. Can you score 11 brings to the line? Has it been a starter but a guy who's been here for a while? Yeah, he's been here for a while. He's played in some games, you know. He's smart. He knows everyone's job and he plays the right way. I can't stress how important that is, is having a group of offensive linemen that take pride in as silly as this sounds, is blocking their guy and protecting the guy with the ball, whether that's a quarterback or the running back. That's a mindset here. And you look at the way those guys play with Brew, with Corey, those guys take that to heart and everyone else kind of follows their lead. What could have been better on those and how helpful to have those as teaching points at this point of the year, rather than in a month? Yeah, absolutely. Not, obviously, not the way we wanted to start those first two drives. Just recognition. The first one, just recognition. Guys see it sooner. Get guys triggering a little bit sooner. And then obviously the retrace. I think there were some questionable decisions just over the top underneath some of that type of stuff. But for the most part, I thought they were running. They were trying to get them down. They were chasing them to the end zone. But yeah, it can't happen. The second one, really, just the back leaked out on us and Fields was able to extend it enough to find them. So just things we had cleaned up. But I mean, again, I'm glad it happened in preseason, not week one. Thank you. Avery made a play for you. Has he been through, let me do that, the camp? He's been good. He's been really good. He's been a guy, I think, all of us on our coaching staff. Chris Book, Jay Ham, they've been working hard with him. I think he's developed. You see his progression as we've been through camp here day in and day out. He's competing, he's challenging, and he's making some plays on the football. So he's been good for us. You talked about Monty and Gibbons competing. Monty only got seven snaps. What was kind of thinking there? Yeah, I think just those guys working through, rotating some guys, kind of seeing where the game's at, where we're at. So I mean, each week, preseason-wise, we're going to figure out who plays and who doesn't, how many snaps they're going to get. So we're going to see where's that as we go this week. In the game, it seemed like Garer showed up around the football a lot and made a lot of open field tackles. How did he look once you broke the film down? Yeah, he's been good. We transitioned him to play a little bit more outside here this past week, just to add a little bit of depth there. He's a scrappy dude, right? He's competitive. You can tell he's got a chip on his shoulder every single day. He's a guy that's improved since he's been here, and we like the versatility piece of him. So hopefully that continues, and he can continue to be around the football and show up in the run game. How much did you find out about your guys this week and joined practice working against some of their school? Yeah, it's going to be great. Just the kind of gauge where we're at, right? Been going against the same guys for three weeks now, so I know the guys are excited to go against somebody else. And really, for us, just to be able to go out there and execute and see if everything we've been working on translates, right? Beyond the preseason, you go up, and there's a lot of ones versus ones. You're getting a lot of reps there. So just kind of get a good gauge of where we're at. I thought there were times. I think there's always some room for improvement in terms of our ability to affect the quarterback. Again, didn't have a whole lot of third and long situations show up for us. They were in that mid-range quite a bit, and then on the early one of the fields, they threw a screen, right? So I wouldn't say there was a ton of opportunities there for those guys, but I felt like they were trying. You saw some good moves individually. I think it probably got to be a little bit more consistent, but you saw some flashes from some guys. How do you like the way that depth and safety is starting to work? I saw that Mike Brown 44. That was a guy that kind of flashed it in his past. Yeah, I think coming in, that was kind of a big question mark for us to start depth there. Obviously, working Elijah back, I think that's going pretty well. I think he's getting a good grasp of it, and then Mike's done a good job. I think special teams, he's done a really good job there, kind of carving out a role for himself. Hopefully that continues, and he showed up Saturday. So hopefully that continues. I've been pleased with Mike and how he's progressed here, and I think he's a guy that's been a riser throughout camp that we were a little uncertain of going into it. And what about Shai Carter? Yeah, really good. Like Shai's always been the guy. I mean, we've had him here just dependable. I think he tried to play physical on Saturday. He tried to show up in the run game, got to clean up some tackling stuff with him, just a little bit undersized guy going in there to tackle at times. It comes into play, but the ability to show up, get out of the post and show up on plays, he's got to work on wrapping up a little bit. Chance Campbell made a couple of big plays. How's he kind of progressed through this camp? Yeah, it was good to see Chance out there flying around. I thought he'd play fast. I did. There were a couple of plays I'm sure he'd want back, but he showed up doing all the right things in the right spot for the most part. So hopefully he continues to perform that way. Because again, I think it's a pretty deep room. It's a competitive room from the first guys to the last guys. Special teams are going to be vital for that room and those position battles. But it's good to see those guys progress and go out there and show the improvement they've made since we've been in training camp. Who among the defensive linemen stood out to you? Yeah, I think PK has done a great job since it's been here. He's again, with all those young guys, it's just the consistency of it. Like you see flashes of him in the run game, using his length, playing with his hands. You see the ability to rush. So hopefully we can continue to work on the day-to-day and every play having that. I thought that whole group battle, right? Like not having a ton of numbers there going into the game between Jaleel, between Shelvin, between Shaq before he went down. I thought I thought those guys battled for. So hopefully that continues. I think these pre-seasons are huge, just for the competitive aspect of trying to figure out the depth there as we get to the 53. What's the adjustment been like for him from smaller school to L speed? Yeah, I thought I did a really good job on Saturday. Like you saw some good things from him. You saw him flash. I thought it was run to the football. Think just, I don't think the speed of the game was as dramatic as I thought it would be. Like it is for every rookie. Don't get me wrong. But I didn't think that was a big issue for him. I think with him it's just continue the reps, continue to see things, the strength, right? Working, continue to work in the weight room to get stronger. But he has some ability. They have Nashville Catholic. Yeah, Paige I believe has Giles County maybe. So yeah, it should be fun. Hey Craig, I'm going to butcher his name. Number 33, how did he do for you on putt coverage this week? And what does he bring that gives him a chance? Yeah, I think Eric did a really good job for us going back there catching punts. You know, he had a great career in college and we gave him an opportunity to showcase his skills. And we thought he did a really good job of coming up and catching those punts and getting positive yards. Especially the last one where it was a key situation for us. Obviously we're down in the fourth quarter. We put a little pressure on the punter. And, you know, Eric came up and caught a bad punt and gained 17 yards to put our offense in a position to, you know, possibly go down there and score. So I was really happy and he earned an opportunity, another one to go out there this week too. I guess the young kickers who maybe had some good moments also suddenly probably needed to improve a little bit. Yeah, you know, that's just a part of them being young. They're going to have some ups and downs. Obviously we don't want Caleb to go and kick the ball, OB to start the second half. You know, that's one of the biggest things that we talk to our players on special teams is we have an opportunity, whether it's at the start of the game or the start of the half to set the tone. And, you know, going into halftime, he made a great kick there at the end. So we had all the momentum going into halftime. We want to keep that momentum starting the third quarter. And we just can't have the ball kicked OB. Now I can do a better job of helping him. You know, maybe it's a ball kicked in the middle, but yeah, we just can't have that. And, you know, with Trey, he's had a good camp. I think just part about being young, he starts to overthink. He has a little bit of wind that goes right to left. It's in the windy city in Chicago. He overthinks it. He aims at the right upright and the ball barely moves. So that's just part of the learning process for him, but we're looking forward to them going out there and going against Minnesota here. Where did you see him from Stonehouse? Yeah, probably not up to his standard. You know, it's interesting, he still averages 44 net, but nowhere where he should be. And he's going to be the first one to tell you that, you know, just one of those days for him that couldn't make those adjustments. And, you know, he's going to come back. He asked to punt today. So he wants to continue to work on it and hopefully we'll have a better game against Minnesota. Is it more angling the pints, using that sideline as the extra tackler, or is it, you know, is location the biggest issue? Yeah, I think there he just miss hit the ball. You know, he's trying to be too perfect. That's his thing. He's got a high standard for himself. We have a high standard for him. He just tries to be too perfect. You know, we talk about his footwork all the time. That's going to be key. It's going to start out with his footwork. And it was just a little bit off. He was hopping into the ball, kind of made his drop just a little bit inside. So those are the stuff that we'll work on today and throughout the week. With the kicks, like especially with Wolf, like how do you, what's the grading scale for those guys and how much just one kick matter in the scope of things? Yeah, I mean, we take every kick and not necessarily grade every single kick because it's a body of work, whether it's through the training camp and the preseason. And obviously the preseason games are going to count just a little bit more. But, you know, we'll take everything into consideration, you know, what he's done in practice, what he's done this next preseason game and kind of go. And I still feel it's neck and neck with those guys because, you know, obviously Caleb kicking the one at the end of the half was good. Trey made, you know, did a really good job on the one kickoff that he had. Got the ball up in the air. And we made the tackle inside the 20-yard line. So we'll continue to work those guys and, you know, make a decision who knows when. How crucial are these next two weeks for Caleb and Trey? Yeah, I mean, it's big. Obviously they're battling for a spot. Gives them an opportunity to, you know, start in an NFL game. So it's going to be a big two weeks, but we're going to handle it day by day. And I know those guys are ready to get out there and compete again. What's some of the biggest focuses on this next week? Yeah, I mean, basically all four core, we're going to continue to see guys, you know, that made some plays for us and they're going to get more opportunities. So, you know, the biggest part is guys playing as fast as they possibly can with some technique. And, you know, those guys that did really well, they're going to get that opportunity to showcase their skills again this week. So it's going to be a big week for all the core guys too. What about the Gunners? From being able to fight through contact and getting downfield, who maybe impressed you there? Yeah, I think, you know, when you look at the preseason, you're going to get a lot of what we call six box, where our Gunners are going to go get double pressed all the time. And it's great work for us, especially the Gunners, because we're going to see who's going to be competitive, who's going to be able to fight, who's going to be able to use the techniques that we're teaching. You know, we thought Anthony Kendall, Matt Jackson, even Racy on his one, did a really good job, whether they split them or use the out-of-bounds as a weapon for us. But, you know, it's going to be tough for those guys because they're all going to get double pressed. But it's a really good teaching aspect that we can go off of and see if they can actually play for us when they get double pressed. And only one return for Kyle. What's his point, Amps, as he kind of starts that path again to be your returner, just kind of hit it in? Did he do that on Saturday? Yeah, you know, it all starts with a catch and he did a great job of squaring up to it and catching the ball and then running and getting vertical. You know, we tell the guys, we want to get the first, first down. He obviously did that, made a couple moves, so we were excited to be out there and make a play.