 What's the challenge in getting this offense off to a fast start from the first drive? What has to start happening faster? We have to play clean with fundamentals. I think it's something we talk about. We spend a lot of time in the meeting room on the practice field, the coach available in front of the whole team. We spend a lot of time on technique and fundamentals and just playing clean football operation. And I think we've heard ourselves. You go back to beginning of the year even. Too many drives early in games have been stopped by ourselves. Penalties, dumb mistakes. So we just have to play clean football, play with fundamentals, play with good technique, take care of the football, and we'll be moving the ball. On an ideal day, what is the identity of this offense supposed to be? I think we want to run the football, be a physical front. Obviously, Derek's a big, tough runner. We want to get him carried, get him going early, set the tone that way, and then play off of that. Well, usually you guys are going to take whatever points you can get down in the red zone. Just in terms of this team and playing Kansas City and a team that can put up so many points, how important is it for you guys to make sure you're getting in the end zone and you're getting those touchdowns in this game? Well, it's huge. It's huge every week. Every week usually comes down to the end of the game in the NFL. So any time you can score touchdowns, you're getting four bonus points there. And you're going to put yourself in more situations to win games, obviously, the more touchdowns you get when you're down there. I think we've been gradually getting better as the season's gone on. We just have to stay on that track and take advantage of those opportunities. Always going to be successful, obviously, but against a team like the Chiefs who have a pretty high-powered offense, how important do you think it is to control the football and play a little keep away while scoring at the end? Well, it's huge. You need to stay on the field. I think that's been important for us all year. The more you can do that, the more opportunities you're going to have. And I think just being clean on first and second down, keeping yourself in third and manageable, converting those, and keeping drives going and sustaining drives, then like she just asked, finishing drives in the red zone. Once you get down there, you've got to put them in the end zone. And doing that, I think we'll put ourselves in the best position to win. Seems like you've been a lot better at it after half time. How much that time of possession in the first half sustaining drives an issue you've got to resolve? Well, it's huge. Like I said earlier, we have to play cleaner football. I don't think we're playing clean football right now in the first half, and it's come back to haunt us. We have to be able to come out early and play clean football. Nothing complicated about it. Just playing with good technique, playing with fundamentals, playing with detail, and be able to sustain those drives and get points. Can you put your finger on why you can't play that clean football in that first half? Is it just you get the momentum going, one guy gets a penalty, kind of brings it back? I mean, can you, as a quarterback, look at that and see what's going on? It's been different things at different times throughout the season. Sometimes it's been penalties. Sometimes it's been a sack or negative yardage runs. It's not one thing that we can just, hey, we stopped this one thing, and it's gone. So like I said, it's cleaner football all the way around. It's a little bit of every position, every position group. We just all need to kind of come together and be on the same page, eliminate the dumb things that we can control, like the technique, the fundamental stuff. And then when it comes down to execution, just execute and we'll be in good shape. Does the tempo establish a sense of urgency? Tempo, does that establish a sense of urgency? And if so, how does it do that for you as a quarterback? It can. You can use tempo sometimes to change the defenses, look what they're seeing, get them out of the rim, so to speak. But it really comes down to sustaining drives. If you can't change the tempo, go no huddle and go three and out, then your defense is right back on the field. So it's about execution when you do change up the tempo. And as far as a quarterback, yeah, you can get some different looks on the defense whenever you go up tempo. So it's a tool that we'll use throughout the season. What are the times spent with AJ, maybe, in training camp when you guys were probably both doing a little bit of second team there? How much has that impacted your chemistry and kind of built it here as a starter for you? Well, it's huge. The more reps you get, the more time you spend with the guy, obviously, the more comfortable and the more you can anticipate how he's going to run things. But he's working extremely hard. We're communicating a lot on how I see things, how I see him running routes. And he's doing a good job of listening, communicating with me, and then going out and playing big, strong, tough physical football. Did some of that start maybe in training camp when you guys were getting a lot of reps together in the first place? Yeah, I think he missed a lot of the spring with, I think it was a hammy. But so we missed some opportunities there. But once he came back in training camp, obviously, he did get some reps with him there. And that was always a good time for me. What did the Chiefs do well on defense? Where did they provide the biggest challenge, as you think? They do a lot of things well. I think they are a strong front, tough, physical, big front. Linebackers play really hard. They pressure a lot. They're going to try to give you a bunch of different looks. They're physical on the outside, get hands on the receiver, try to disrupt the timing. They're going to disguise a lot in the secondary. They're going to zero pressure at time. So they really throw a lot of things at you. And as an offense, you have to be on your toes and be ready to adjust when you come to the line. How do you, as a quarterback and as a leader, balance an attitude of, OK, let's stay the course, see if this sort of figures itself out versus maybe we need to start changing some things and get this thing going? It's situationally. I think it depends on what it is. If it's lack of focus, lack of effort, those things where you really got to get on guys and make sure we're locked in and headed in the right direction. If someone just gets beat or the other guy makes a play, which happens too, then we're going to be OK. Just move on from the last play, lock into the next one, and I keep playing. You mentioned getting on guys. Have you had those moments since you've taken over where you've had those private one-on-ones talking about things that need to be fixed or solved? Yeah, there's constant communication with guys, whether it be receivers, tight ends, running backs, offensive line. You really just have to be one unit. And to do that, we have to communicate a lot and make sure we're all on the same page. When you threw that long pass to AJ last week, pretty well covered. What's that say maybe about, I don't know, your trust in him to be able to come down with one of those? Yeah, it does a lot. It does a lot to see AJ make that play. It's a play that we've seen him make in practice. Defender had good coverage. He, AJ did a great job of kind of slowing down at the last second, laid hands, and using his body to shield off the defender. So we've seen him go up and make plays, but just see that body control, timing, laid hands. That gives you a lot of confidence as a quarterback to be able to put a ball in his direction and expect him to come down with a football. What about their defense and anything I know? But Mahomes is a quarterback. When you watch him play and I've seen him play, what are your impressions of him? I haven't watched him a lot this year, but I watched him a little bit in the off season. And he's a unique player. You don't see a lot of guys throwing no-look passes. And just the way he can create down the field explosive, he finds guys that are open, makes some really good throws. And I think plays a little differently than most quarterbacks. So definitely a challenge for our defense. Fribles said you guys had good focus this morning in the meetings. And you kind of know what's at stake this week. Did you feel that as well? And how do you approach this week? Do you approach it like the season on the line backs against the wall or just a game you've got to win? It's a game we need to win. Obviously, it's a one game season for us at this point. It doesn't really matter what else is beyond that. We're locked into it's a win in one game. Do what it takes to win this one game. I think there's good urgency in the building. Good focus, energy on what we have to accomplish and the task at hand. So we need to be able to carry that throughout the week. And on Sunday, go have fun and play good football. Brian, when you get to the line of scrimmage, how much flexibility do you have to adjust based on what you're seeing? And how comfortable do you feel with that now? Three games in a row? Yeah, it depends on situation. It depends on call. It depends on defense. We do have some flexibility to get ourselves out of bad situations. We build a lot of stuff into the call. That way, the call takes care of it. But there is some flexibility there to make sure that we have a good play. That's good. Thank you. Thank you, Eddie.