 Things here before we get started, just getting the obvious out of the way. We won't have an update on TQ. I know we got carted off, but again, until you get the imaging, we won't know. Kyle, same thing, I won't have an update. Have to get the imaging, obviously get the opinions. It usually takes 24, 48 hours. So we'll see where those guys are at tomorrow through Tuesday, and obviously up to Wednesday's practice. Other than that, I thought it was a really good job of our guys. Good team win. Overcame some adversity. Some of it our own doing in the first half and kept swinging. Really, really happy for CP. Pretty cool when a guy breaks an NFL record. We obviously needed that play, and so it was a great team win. Yeah, coach, on the kickoff return, do you feel that kind of ignited the both units there? Well, I mean, it was a team. It was a huge play. You know, obviously, when the game had gone, they had stolen possession. You know, Avery, Avery was a huge part of this team. And guys fighting for extra yards, we got to be smart. No one in the journey is over. I mean, he was trying to get extra yards. We got to be smarter there. They were able to get the ball back. Obviously, CP, he cut back, had a big run. They made an effort to play. The ball came out, and they capitalized. And so that game could have gone another way, but it says a lot about our guys. They gave the opportunity. We felt close. We could go on some returns and big time play by the return unit and by CP. And the defense coming out and getting the stop, I think the third game that they got an interception to close one out. That might not be correct, but Seattle, I think. Feels like Cleveland, Seattle, yeah. After giving up the eight minute drive, how big was that for the unit to come out and kind of put their foot down at the end? You know, and that's a give and take, D-Led. And it's a real credit to our defensive staff and the defense to execute that plan. You know what they were going to try to do? They're going to hit a couple. We're going to make them earn it the long, hard way. We didn't let Justin get loose on any big runs. Guys tackled well for the most part. I mean, they have a good physical football team. It's the NFL, but we weren't going to sit there and hand them things. And our guys really executed the plan well, tackled well. Physical got to the quarterback. It's give and take. We got a couple sacks. He got out of a couple of them. But you know, that eight minute drive, a credit to them. You know, you got to cover for a long time when you put a rush plan like that and it was a heavyweight fight. You got two teams that are physical. And thankfully, we were able to grind them out. Big game for Q. A lot of guys, you know, it's been D-Led. It felt like it had been four weeks since we had played. So glad to come back and get a win at home. Sticking with the defensive storyline for a minute, you talk about this team knowing kind of what the Bears wanted to do offensively and being able to use the game plan. I mean, when it really pulls down to it to keep Justin Fields under 100 yards rushing on the game, I mean, how important was that? Do you think to the flow of it? Yeah, we weren't going to, like I said, we weren't going to handle everything. We were going to turn our back and hand them anything. So we're going to make them earn it. Like I said, Dean and his staff, great job. And really, credit to the players. They're the ones that are out there executing and it's about those guys. And we're forcing them to get the coach, a group of guys like this that just put their head down and work and play well as a team. It's an unselfish team. Glad to get that one. Following up on Justin Fields, he took a lot of hard hits from your defense today. Did you see any sort of cumulative effect toward the end there, particularly their last positions? Run him that many times and he's running back when he does that. And so guys tackle, you know, keeping in front of you and make sure, you know, what he turned their back is one-on-one person, it's team defense. So I mean, I think any game you get like that, a lot of carries add up. Just like I said, I'm proud of the defense, the way they execute the plan. I think it certainly has an effect. When you said I'd give them one up for 70, if you make them go a long hard way, worked out in our favor. And one on the other side of the ball. I'm sure it was a tough week for Marcus coming off the last two games. Could you just talk about maybe how he handled the week and today? Yeah, that's a good question. So, you know, like a lot of things, I mean, it's easy to say all the right things, do all the right things when everything's going your way, but you find out a lot about people and adversity. And obviously, you've been through a lot the last couple of years, certainly for all of us. You know, we wanted to get that taste out of our mouth. The last 10 days, like I said, it felt like it had been a month. It's a lot about his character, because you're gonna find out a lot of people when your axe against the wall came out. I thought he executed the first drive really well, and a good rhythm, able to extend that play. They grabbed Kyle on it and able to extend that play to Drake. Showed a lot of guts, put his foot in the ground a few times, got us a touchdown going in. Thought he executed the two-minute drive well, handled it all, wasn't perfect, never is, but says a lot about his character, Jeff, and it was good to see that. Defensively, you guys didn't really blitz much today. What went through the strategy to kind of choose that as the way to go to defend Justin Fields? You saw it. I mean, honestly, like, there's give and take. There's a lot of good coaches. That's the fun part about this league. I mean, if somebody can, you try to take away people's strengths, easier said than done, but guys, nobody panicked, right, did their job. We got a physical football team, that's what we think's our edge. So we thought whoever was the most physical team today would win, and so thankfully that was us. And I know you said you don't have updates on TQ or pitch yet, but is there any concern that either one is a long-term situation? No, Mike, I'm not trying to evade the question. I just, I've been through this enough where you think you see a guy get carted off and he's actually okay. You see a guy runoff and he's done for the year. I just, until we get the imaging and kind of standard operating procedure now, you know, guys are gonna want to get opinions, and that's great. I mean, that's part of the NFL. So it's just, I won't have anything for you for 24, 48 hours. And just with Cordero, when you're looking at kind of how you handled him, it seemed like he got a little bit more work there this week than last week. Well, we had two games in five days. You don't play for a month or so. You got two games in five days. I mean, we didn't have that many offensive snaps anyways in Charlotte, so, you know, extra rest. I mean, it's a big stretch for us. It was a big one for us, you know, keeps us in it. And like I said, we'll have a huge challenge going up to Washington. It's always Thanksgiving can be a week, can be a distraction if you let it. And Washington's been playing really good football. So we got to make sure we're ready to go. Coach Ty game, eight minutes left. You really leaned on your ground game to kind of close it out. Just what they did there, especially on the fourth down play. Which one, the one that CP converted? Yeah. Yeah. So, and we just, you learn from previous mistakes. Obviously, the momentum, the defense have been on the field forever, just the way the game went, right? You have a stolen possession is what I like to, I mean, you fumble in a return game, that's really, it's way somebody steals a possession or if they end the half and start the half, you know, that's kind of the way that happens. So the defense have been out there a long time. So both their offense and defense look pretty tired. And so you got to make those calls. That's what I get paid to do. And it wasn't like our offense, you know, they were going back and forth and even CP, you know, he looked tired, but he dug deep and there was no stopping him when Mark was handing that ball. And we needed that play. And then we, you know, we got aggressive, figured out on a pressure they did. Tried to end it. And then Koo made the big kick. Yeah, coach, could you discuss the player's center, Drew Dalman, who played before that he got pushed in the pattern, so then he comes back and gets two blocks to kind of spring him on that forfeit too. Sure. Yeah. And, you know, that's the give and take. We hit him on the sneak early. So they were in there and they were all in there in that sneak front. So we were trying to go around him. Obviously they got more penetration and sometimes that penetration doesn't matter. If you're able to get the edge, but it stopped our feet and that's the NFL. I mean, it's good players inside on both sides. They always have a say too and people forget that. And, but going on there and get the fourth down and said, it's a it's a got to have it. And thankfully we got that. You see Tiki go down and then you have Abdullah Anderson, Jalen Dalton, Timmy Horne that kind of come in. What does that say about the depth that you feel like you have accrued on that defensive interior right now? Well, it says a lot about us as a football staff. You know, our personnel guys do a great job. I mean, if they found players from everywhere and if you got a common vision and you don't have a political staff where it doesn't feel like Capitol Hill and you got a group of people that could check their egos at the door and part of our jobs as coaches, be on the same page and develop guys because it's naturally going to happen in NFL. You know, you get to a game, hopefully Kyle's all right. That's what coaching is. You got to alter your plan and see what you're going. Michael Pruitt stepped up big time. There's a little things in the nuance in the game plan that he did that nobody will ever know. But that's our job. It's our job as coaching and a football staff and a team and our guys believe that. So whoever's out there, we got faith in. Coach, only eight third downs for your offense today. Was there any intentionality in avoiding third down or is that more just a byproduct of the way the game played out? It's kind of a byproduct of the way the game played out. Like I said, they were on the field a lot in the first half and we knew they were going to run the ball. So it's a fast game. I don't know how many total snaps. Everybody have that on them. I don't have that on me, but so that's give and take. You get the two turnovers, right? The turnover happened after the punt return and then the only one happened on the first play of the drive. So that had a lot to do with it as well. Thank you. Huge win. And it's nice to do it at home in front of our fans. And like I said, at the end of the day, when you're playing games like this and they're meaningful in this time of the year, the games will continue to get bigger and bigger. And it's fun to be around these young guys to kind of help them understand what's going on. But we're excited about what's next. What was going on in the huddle on the fourth and two when coach decided to go for it there with the game tied? We just wanted to make a play. We were hoping for it. We appreciate the confidence from Art to allow us to do that and CP made a great play. Marcus, this was honestly probably one of the most balanced offensive attacks you guys have had this year. I mean, what do you think led to that in the course of this game? Really, I think it started distributing the ball, letting our guys go make plays, kind of lightening up the boxes a little bit. And then as those things happen, being able to establish the run, control the line of scrimmage, you got to give a lot of credit to our guys up front. I mean, really they dominated. And to be able to do that and to be able to be balanced like that makes us tough to stop. When CP takes off for a 100 plus yard, kick off for a turn for a touchdown, I mean, what are you kind of thinking is, you're like, well, I'm not going in anymore. Yeah, we were saying it was a great drive, great drive offense. Really cool, really special moment. It's cool to be a part of that, right? Be a part of history. I knew when they kicked it to him, especially after what happened earlier with the fumble that there was no way he was going to let that touch back. So again, he's an incredible player. Still got the wheels, man, for being 10 years in. Once he hit that second level, he was gone. It was fun to watch. Arthur Smith was talking after the game about the role that Michael Pruitt played in this game. What did you see from him and kind of how he was maybe an unsung guy throughout these four quarters? He doesn't get a lot of credit and he deserves a whole lot. Like he not only does he block at the point of attack and do a lot of different things for us. You know, unfortunately with Kyle going down, he had to step in into a bigger role and had a huge play for us on one of those keepers. And it's kind of fun for me. I've known Michael since we're in Tennessee together and I have complete faith and trust in him. And he's done a lot of the dirty jobs and it's cool to see him have some success today. Marcus, congratulations on the win. Thank you. But the team just faces so many adversities. Can you just speak a little bit just about just the resilience of the team? It's, yeah, and it starts up top. We've got a really cool culture that's being built here. We've got a really cool, just mentality. And you know what? It's fun because these guys are younger and they're really embracing that type of mentality because it's not easy. It's not easy to get everybody to buy in. And when things are going south and you're not winning games, you've got a two game losing streak, it's so easy just to kind of dive and focus on your own individual things and not worry about what's going on with the team. But our guys are totally bought in. It's fun to be a part of and really I'm excited for our guys. Speaking of adversity, you were coming off a couple pretty tough weeks yourself. And I'm just wondering what that was like to go through and how you handled the weekend. Yeah, no, I mean, as a professional athlete, you would love for every week to be perfect and you're throwing a bunch of touchdowns and a bunch of yards and scoring a bunch of points. And it's never really that way. And I think the time that I had in Tennessee really kind of built me for situations like over the last couple weeks. And just kind of water off my back, understand I got to do my job, go back to work, do whatever I can to help this team win. Following that up, were you viewing this game as any sort of referendum on you in terms of whether you'd be the starting quarterback moving forward this season at all? No, not at all. I think when you start to think about those types of things, you let outside noise kind of dictate how you play. Eventually it's going to happen where you're not going to like what the situation is. So I just focused on what I can do, really just controlling what I can control, going to work, always putting in the time and the effort. And when it comes to the game, just kind of loosen and playing. Going back to the final drive that you guys had that ended with Young Way's Kick, it feels like there have been moments where that's what needed to happen in late in games. The fact that it was able to actually happen and you guys were actually able to put together a long productive, methodical drive at that time, what did it mean for you guys in that moment? Well, it's huge, right? Like you understand kind of the situations and the scenarios and Art does a great job of explaining those types of things to us. You know, they can't score points, they don't got the ball. And I think unfortunately we haven't been able to convert some of those in late games and to be able to do that today, I think is a huge confidence booster for this offense. And I think that's something we can build off of moving forward. Awesome, thank you guys. Have a good night.