 Profitball writers honor Ryan with both most improved and comeback player of the year that it nice to see him get recognized with his production Absolutely, you know, I think that any time that the team has success Players get recognized that I've learned I learned that as a player. I understand that as a coach And I know that he'll he's very deserving he's worked very hard He came in he learned the offense He supported Marcus. He's developed into an outstanding leader And it's done a great job for us Well, they it wasn't He had had the respect of the room. It wasn't that he just all of a sudden popped out there and in week seven I think that he was well respected by the way that he came in worked him and Logan Worked hard with with Pat O'Hara our quarterback coach to to learn in the off-season And so I think that as he went through training camp in the OTA's You know, he began to to earn the respect of the players and the teammates you don't have to be a starter To have the respect of your teammates Well, I hope that it it may affect How we feel, you know, it's 19 weeks in or 20 whatever we are You know understand what the toll is on the body that these players They practice hard. They play hard. We ask that they play with great effort and finish And so maybe it helps us an extra 24 hours I think that the preparation is still ongoing, you know, we get till Till Sunday at 205 to continue to prepare Well Derek threw a pass last week, so they're probably counting him as the quarterback Here's what I've told our guys about respect The only respect that you need or should ever try to earn is the the respect of the players next to you And the ones across from you not from you know media outside influences this game is played violently physically and I played with players told me that that you have to earn the respect of the guys next to you and the ones across from you Good good, I mean he was able to get out there and do some work Hopeful that he can can help us and we'll continue to evaluate him But much better than Than where he's been. He'll he'll he'll be traveling with us and But it was good to see him out there I enjoyed every game that I played joy to more when we won I think I think what the benefit is is that the team that that executes again is is it cold is there snow? Is there wind is there sleep? You know, I don't know. I mean, it's just the temperature is one thing But you're gonna paint a better picture for me and I can try to tell you who it would you know Is it on turf? Is it on a frozen field? Is it a field that has heated coils underneath it a lot of factors that go into it? It's cold or tired or you just it's been a long I know you guys are tired of seeing me all week how much of a Middly tough mindset develops when you know you got to go on the road each week Well, I think that's it you have to be able to build that Throughout the course of the off-season and your practices and the way that you prepare That the games aren't always gonna go the way you want they're gonna be tight they're gonna be close You're gonna be behind you're gonna have to be great in in situations or four-minute running the football and So I think that that's a it's a build-up and that's a process to get there Again it our path was made easy by you know We were gonna continue to play as long as we won and I guess that we would decide when we were done playing by it by How we played Well, they send me free stuff there was a you know a hat in the off-season that I that I stole from Hardy and I liked it instead of run the damn ball and then I got it for some of the players and They sent me a hat and I They didn't give me any more money, so I didn't wear the hat out here