 How are you doing Teresa? I'm okay Mike. With the lot of talk about effort and execution is maybe a bigger problem the challenge that you've got so many undrafted players that you're having to lean on on right now. Well sometimes whether it's youth or experience draft whatever it may be those are you know we just have to make sure that we're you know doing our job that we're taking advantage of the opportunities and that we're not missing them and sometimes you know whether that's on defense and you know we're close or we give up a play you know we lose leverage we'll go ahead and answer it see who it is is anything important okay tell her Ella what is that we're just you know we have to be able to make sure that we're not missing opportunities and so you know we've we've played with you know undrafted everybody that's here you know is expected to do their job and we have trust in them and you know have earned the right to play whether that's their first opportunity and tk or you know Andrew Ruppchitz or Eric Garar right on down the line. When you've been hurt in the past you've brought guys in who've been able to help you but when you're not hurt it seems like you're reluctant to go get people like what why it wasn't there more churning of the back end. Yeah we've had plenty of workouts and you know I probably don't want to put a number on it but you know we we added you know K-von Wallace we've signed you know other guys we've brought up guys from the practice squad we've had worked out guys we've added you know added players you know throughout I don't have an exact number but I mean I think every week we've had you know workouts and just signed an offensive lineman you know last week so I mean I think we're continuing to look and have workouts and bring guys in and I think we'll continue to do that. Between Jack and Monty are you satisfied with what you're getting there and is it not possible that there's a solution outside the building who could give you better than you're getting from that? I don't think either of those you know I think they were an issue yesterday you know by no means perfect but I mean we'll continue to have workouts and bring guys in and you know and take a look so I don't think that's ever been something that we're afraid to do. After we're kind of watching film yesterday maybe what bothers you the most maybe what's something you feel good about? Well the X plays you know defensively will always you know end up getting you played a lot of really good snaps played a handful of ones that weren't very good you know some good plays down in the red zone to get some stops had some good stops on third down didn't have very good rush lanes you know a couple times on a quarterback you know that would be something there you know offensively we we weren't able to run the ball efficiently we had too many negative play runs hit some you know hit some eight or nine yarders hit some cool plays you know they you know didn't do a very good job in in the play action pass game and their their pressure in that regard you know to where we could you know move the ball downfield and you know we had too many drops yesterday. When you look at the way world level has kind of been hit so many times the last couple weeks when he continues to come back he stands in the pocket whatever you learn from him through that through that experience. Well I you know I think that you know anytime you have a quarterback that that shows that type of toughness and is willing to stand in there and you know not stare at the rush you know I think everybody you know appreciates that and values that and that's not the plan that's not the goal nobody wants that to happen you know I've said this to our team you know since I've been here you know when somebody misses a block or or doesn't go to the right ID or the right linebacker it's it's not the seven yards or on a sack or a four yards on a run that that bothers me it's the fact that somebody could get hurt you know if we don't block somebody and we're hitting the ball off the derrick or or taje that's what bothers me and we can make up the four yards I know somehow some way it's just I don't want to see players get hurt whether that's the quarterback or running back or anybody involved and you know just like you know if we throw a two-man concept out there between let's say Chris Moore and Nick Westbrook that we did you know fairly well it wasn't like a 30-yard gain it was a first down that was probably nine or ten yards but you know Chris's job is to protect Nick and go and make sure that he's you know not getting drilled the second that he catches it you see that you know throughout the league and in college football or you know in a bubble you know in the same way as that we you know flip it out there to taje on third down we've got three guys that are that are blocking and taje is comfortable enough to catch it and know that you know the next guy that's free is the post safety and so that that's important to me so to your question is we believe in will's toughness and and we also believe that that we don't need to get it we don't need to challenge it as much as we have challenge his development as a player like you know some of these young quarterbacks that go out there and they get beat up and and it alters through the way yeah no i mean his i mean he's texting he's texting with with tim last night he's meeting with uh you know tim and charles this morning um you know about where to go with football and about you know late in the game and uh you know ball placement on on certain things and and zone coverages and you know i don't see you know any any discouragement i but i you know we we have to continue to to protect them and and develop them and and have them help us and let them you know throw the football which you know he did at times and you know we left some meat on the bone there i'm not making some plays for them there are examples mike of guys young guys promising guys getting hit a lot early in their career and it kind of having a bearing on their long term career in terms of making a gun shy or whatever do you have any concerns i i don't but i you know that's something that has happened in the past and you know whoever our quarterback is um you know we need to we need to protect them i we all understand that for every reason that i just mentioned um prior to so no i don't don't have any concern about that uh but but i again i don't want to challenge the the idea how hard is it to evaluate his performance not just yesterday but his evolution now that he's the quarterback when he's under the duress that he was yeah again we try to you know evaluate ball placement you know pocket presence you know got out of the pocket extended to play and hit Kyle down the sidelines stepped up in the pocket through some passes that you know were caught through some that were dropped and you know had some that were you know off target um so i think you can still evaluate it um you know you can evaluate his ability to to get the protection uh in the right direction and uh you know no no one wanted to save you know take care of the football get rid of it and also not put himself in harm's way have you been satisfied with how much he's moved in use does athleticism or do you kind of want to see him make more plays outside of the pocket i mean i think that that's just something that you know will will come you know i think that his uh well's eyes are are downfield i think that he can you know scramble um you know he also has to you know know when he is scrambling when to get down and you know take care of himself so when i think the opportunity presents itself i think it's there um you know i think he's just keeping his eyes downfield trying to trying to work from the pocket the offensive line uh problems causing you to not be able to do do as much as you want to do or limiting any any of the play calls in certain situations or parts of the game line i mean i don't think it's anybody does it's you know sometimes in the in the play action pass game and i wouldn't put it all on you know the offensive line right some of those things are backs are involved and tight ends are involved so um you know it's it's all of us you know it's all of us when when when there's pressure or there's uh blitzers and we have to understand that you know instead of being able to build those combination blocks you know where their you know teams may run somebody through and and peel us out of some of those combinations to where then we've got to straighten back up and and and take the the backer you know so they don't have a you know a clear shot or the you know the tight end has to be able to come back and and pick one of those up and you know allow us not to have self-inflicted wounds where we're you know letting guys into a pocket or we're tripping our own guys in a quarterbacks too flat right there's all these one times that this happened this happened that happened you know leads to to negative plays is there ever a point where as the season unfolds you say to yourself or even the staff say to yourself we overestimated what that guy could do we we've got to make major adjustments or you know judging judging the personnel side of things maybe i don't understand your question but i think we're always trying to make changes going forward each week that we based on you know who we're playing you know what we have who's available what the game plan is you know and then is there somebody else that has earned the opportunity or earned the right i think we always try to do that look at a guy say we thought he could do x when we brought him in and he can't do x it's become clear to us yeah i mean i think that there's always you know you think you know when you look at you know player acquisition i think that do you have vision you know for players on what they've done or what they will do or you know not getting into specifics but i think that's what happens when you when you look at players that coming out of the draft or coming from other teams it's like okay this is what he's done for them you know what do you think they can do for us you know do you think that it's opportunity based and will they improve or this is what this person is and and we you know they're consistent in that you know weekend and week out to that point where do you feel like this offseason maybe you and ran maybe miscalculated on the offensive line yeah um i think there's been too much said you know about that you know particular spot i mean i think that you know ran and i and and chad and a robin the coaching staff like we'll we'll focus on you know personnel and player acquisition when we get there right now it's focusing on you know getting a meeting that has the corrections and you know moving forward here to jacksonville and you know what we have and so you know i don't think that it's you know a calculation or anything with regards to to that we just have to make sure that you know pieces are there and they know what to do and that we're we're able to protect based on you know the matchups and and what it is each week quick pressure in the quarterback's face throughout eight games nine games what should we be focusing on oh you guys i'm not going to tell you guys how to do your job you guys just i just going to answer the questions i'm not going to tell you how to do your job what does the left tackle situation stand with yeah dillard's in concussion protocol dylan you know finished the game there and moved around and dylan you know admittedly wasn't up to the standard that that we need and he's played some some good snaps for us you know jaylon duncan is available to potentially you know play or compete for an opportunity and you know a couple guys on the practice squad that's coming you know from your perspective are you seeing receivers cut their route shore and also like will's clock shortening because of that pressure um no i mean i don't think that you know i mean there's times where i think the cart needs to speed up but i don't think he's uh he's rushing it you know i think that's just a testament to his toughness and um you know just you know miss some blocks drop drop some passes had some metal errors you know so it wasn't uh you know they had some had some good plays too and we did had good first drive and negative plays again down in the red zone missed opportunities you know on screen the point the distance there what is race's role there should he be heading in towards the running bench you know that you know it's um yeah i wish you know wish herald would have got in there and blitz sooner and come underneath and allowed money to scrape around the edge um and probably that's that was the design of it uh money probably would have taken the the pass from him if not i wish that aziz hadn't turned and run with number three and played with a little better vision i wish that um you know we could have got him down wish you know a money had a good hit on the linemen i wish he you know wouldn't have given himself up one for one maybe try to stay on his feet christian folton could have stayed alive and Elijah molden wouldn't have come under and uh and we could have gotten him down but that's pretty much everybody there on a nutshell can you ask a force you're here you can always ask you don't have to ask if you can ask a question in an accusatory way i'm sure it's okay i i i'm serious just from watching the tv copy were you happy with trevis gibson's effort on that screen pass uh no i mean i don't i don't think trevis was running as fast as he could i don't think roger from the backside but i'm trying to think trevis was trevis was dropping and so he was on the backside um you know again i don't think anybody's effort was was good enough anytime that they you know gain yards or the quarterback you know fumbles the ball by himself and we've got some too many guys standing there and watching that assuming that that he's down or assuming that somebody else is going to make the play and it's you know you can never um assume and that's why we talk about finishing longer than the guy with the ball and playing full tilt at a tackle and then when they are tackled you know that that's when you can come out so again there's not going to be every single play there's a lot of great efforts in there there's also you know efforts that you know you're going to wish that you had back in in a long hot game with you know none of those are excuses it's just sometimes that's how it is again that's a statement paul and so if you could just ask the question yesterday you said that effort wasn't an issue it was execution today you're saying that there were some questionable efforts those two things don't jive can you help me understand um you in a course of 70 plays um you know i wouldn't say that we played with bad bad effort you know there's always going to be some outliers and you know the ability to to take you know things that i say and interpret it however you want to interpret i don't think that the effort on the 43 yard play was the reason for for the touchdown it's always going to be you know to think that you're going to have 11 guys on every play you know with 100 effort like that doesn't it just doesn't happen you can watch every single tape from every league of every game like do i think we play hard yeah do i think we quit no um did we play well enough and coach well enough no they hit a play um yeah they hit an x play and uh you know that's that was unfortunate the teams that you've coached here in the past have found an identity in things like winning the tournament battle winning the rushing attack you know being tough on the road physicality 10 weeks into this year you guys haven't done those things what makes this team different from the teams that you coach every team is different every every year every team is different every season is different so i don't want to you know compare and contrast each and every year we're focused on you know what this particular team needs to do better what it needs to do better in a hurry and what it can eliminate uh to to help us start winning what is the quarterback position how much of their job is to demand more from the 10 guys around him and if it is a big part of it how difficult is that for a rookie well i don't know i've never been a rookie quarterback um but i think that the quarterback their their play and their you know i don't know if it's a demand or inspire or you know i've always felt like you know when you're in the huddle and they call the play you you feel confident about the way that it's called and that that it's going to be successful and that that they fix problems and they fix formations and they say hey you know make sure you do this and and i'm going to throw you the football and yeah those are all things that happen at so at the quarterback position how do you chance how do chains hurt himself hurt himself in pregame warm-ups mike with the game in jacksonville one more road game but a divisional game how much of this is an opportunity to try to fix a couple things at once the road i mean it's just about you know it's about one game it's about focusing on this week it's not about you know our record and things like that because that's not going to help um it is what it is that's not going to change and so you know we have to change um behavior we've talked about the only day that matters is is the test day is is when we go out there and we can ask questions and we can walk through we could practice and and we can get it but until we go out there and we show it and put it on tape and that's all that matters so it is a great opportunity kind of productivity has gone down in the past couple weeks is that a matter of defense is who's that wheel still throwing downfield quite a quite a bit is that a matter of defense is adjusting to to him the last couple weeks after that that great start no and i told you we dropped five passes so start there um you know then it took some shots i think late in the game which you know they were back there and we probably could have you know dumped it off to to tajay or you know somebody but he you know tried to throw the ball downfield we're down two scores philips is he earning more time yeah i mean they just have to understand kind of kyla skill set um and plays for us on third down plays a little bit on first and second um there he's got a you know a skill set and then we just have to be able to marry that with with the other stuff that we're doing um and the routes or the plays or the calls that we have you know through my through my screen had a nice game a great effort i wish you know make sure you guys evaluate the effort on that on that play to kyle while we're grading effort and um you know probably needs to catch the one will throw him will probably got to take a little bit of steam off of it but you know those are good plays for kyle turns into you know kind of put returns those little screens and then he's been showing up a little bit more at a great play on third down with the combination of players that you have and coaches that you guys can get to the answers on figuring out how to get the offensive line to allow the offense to get into yeah i mean i'm very confident you know that's what our job is here we're here to fix problems and none of us have been good enough at any at any position at any level um you know so that that's our job that's that's what i'm going to do and i know that's what uh that's what our team's going to do and so we'll give ourselves a chance we'll get a plan together and you'll get back to work thank you you missed a call confidence level on the offensive side of the ball right now uh you know started out yesterday holding the ball moving it uh and then the red zone just seems to be a brick wall when you guys get down there it can you pin it on any one area at this point um no in terms of confidence you know we have a lot of confidence we're able to move the ball really well and um you know we just make a few too many mistakes we we hurt ourselves and you know once we are able to fix those mistakes you know i think we're gonna have a really good offense as receivers you know you're running your route you know that the pressure is coming how tough is it for you to fight that urge to like cut route short and just speed everything up knowing you know how the pressure is coming yeah and you know um sometimes you're gonna have to just know and um if they're bringing a lot of pressure you're gonna have to cut it short and you just have a timer go off in your head that you know okay it's it's time to break the thread off and get open is that something that you and will come like is that an understanding yeah it's a definitely understanding you know just through the flow of the game you know some teams they want to heat it up a little bit you're gonna know you know maybe i'm not gonna get 16 cut off around 14 just speed your routes up a little bit um you know just the coaches give me opportunity outside you know i definitely didn't start to see off very well and um but luckily you know they the coaches stayed in there with me kept working with me and um give me more and more opportunities and just uh just taking advantage of them lack of confidence or just the frustrations of obviously the injury last year the slow start this year how did you stay in it so when this opportunity came you were able to take advantage of it yeah and i was um very frustrated but um you know luckily i have a great wife back home we always keep my head up and um just great teammates great coaches just uplifting me you know just making sure i'm just keep pushing forward i have taken full advantage of those i mean it's not like you get a ton of snaps but the production's been pretty high you think you would have taken advantage of of the chances yeah um definitely think i'm taking advantage of you know every every time i watch film you know there's a few plays i wish i would have done a little bit different so um i'd like to make a little more plays but overall i feel like i'm taking advantage of it how much focus on receiver full-time and not working as much on special teams helped it all with that production stuff i wouldn't say to help too much you know i mean i guess i'm still preparing back there as if i'm a starter you know in case something happens you know i got to stay ready so in terms of preparation i feel like it's just all pretty much the same since the monday and tuesday work that you got uh with will getting him ready to you know take live reps that he missed in camp how much did that help your rapport with him in terms of the connection yeah it's been huge just working with will and even just staying after practice a couple times just getting reps just making sure we're on the same page turning in terms of timing you know each receiver runs different so it's good to get uh reps with him and you know him seeing how i run routes how i come out routes and everything like that yeah very poised very confident just you know really takes command of the huddle you guys are trying to find that balance sometimes you know the run has been getting you guys and then like you had a game sunday where you where you stopped the run some more x plays that probably is it difficult find that balance where you can where the defense can do a good job against both yeah it is i think you know every week is different every opponent we face is different they have different you know strengths and weaknesses and we knew like in the buccaneers are going to throw it deep their vertical passing team and and we you know we wanted to stop the x plays you know what i mean and limit them in points and they ended up getting a few um but i mean i think we look at every week differently you know it's and when we are clicking on both sides you know at that point like we gotta once we are clicking on both sides we got to go out there and force more turnovers and affect the ball you know pass breakups all that stuff um personal accountability at least for me like look at the film and be very critical of myself which i always have been ever since i was little um and really just wanted to be coached you know what i mean i i want to be coached really bad and um because that's the only way i know i'm gonna get better personally and i don't i mean i don't i don't think we're you know we're a team that that points fingers like that you know i don't i wouldn't want to be a part of an organization organization that does that you know especially when times are getting tough so um you know i've always appreciated the guys in the locker where my teammates because because of their character so i we haven't really you know we haven't had too much of that going on you kind of just chalk those up to the bucks hitting you guys in tough coverages that they exploited or was there something different you guys could have done in the back end to kind of put a lid on those uh i mean i mean they they at the end of the day it comes on them them making plays and and we couldn't you know i mean no matter what the call is um you know we're the we're the ones who have to go out there and actually execute it so i can't say it's it's this or that you know i don't really want to get into it you know they have some really good receivers veteran veteran receivers on the other side of the ball and we knew um that they would test as deep you take on the on the screen that went for the td lives or what turned that into such a you know that that a play that looked like it might be smaller game turned into such a big um i mean i think they caught us in a pressure um i think it was a good play call and then and then from that point on like i know i gotta get a i gotta do a better job getting the try to get the ball turned back around and you know i have a blocker right in front of me i can kind of buy it maybe i can buy time for everyone else um and and you know people on the back end can kind of like stall and and hope everyone else can get to the party