 I'm glad you're ready to roll. Yeah, I was just getting ready for a day looking at the center situation again. What are you hoping that they, by playing both of them, is that a developmental thing? Or are they both able to optimize their playing time in the end there, or just wanting to get some more rationale on the rotating sentence? The rationale? Well, rationale is to make sure we got the best five guys out there. And so the only way to know if you want to make a change, or if you feel like there's somebody else that deserves playing time, is to play them. So that's the rationale. It worked. Doesn't necessarily mean we'll do the same thing this Sunday. It's just depending on the matchups and what we feel is best for the team. I don't know if maybe the less might make Matt play better. We've got a one game sample size. I mean, there's multiple factors that probably helped. But like every week, the challenge is being consistent. So we'll just have to assess that and see how we feel on Saturday. And we'll tell them the plan, and we'll go with the plan on Sunday. And then Drew, is that a, I guess, obviously, it looks like our development is more if you play, you better get faster. Is that part of it also developing him? Usually the act of doing something gets you the reps, helps. But we're trying to win football games, do you like. So we didn't think it was something that could help us win football games. If it also helps improve guys in development, then the old saying is, you know, kill two herds with one stone. Great, but ultimately the goal is every week. It's not about stats. It's about winning. It's about doing what's best for this team, short-term and long-term. So that's really the thought behind it. Pretty practical, pretty simple. Michael, how much does the opponent play into those? Sure, everything's a factor. Do you want to go at the end, Stu, on the other side, for any example? Sure. We feel that there's a better potential matchup. Then we feel like we can have a chance to contain them or block them, then we'll go with that. But these guys, the one thing about them being a divisional opponent, there's a lot of familiarity on both sides of the ball. It's a really good football team. They've got good players across the board. And our guys, they'll be ready to roll Sunday at 1, ready for the challenge. Where do you feel like your team has improved since you saw them? A lot of ways. I mean, we're finding ways to win games. We're five and two in one possession games. It was a big thing here. You're trying to build a winning culture. Again, the ultimate goal is to build a sustainable football team that wins football games. So that's what we're trying to accomplish, short-term and long-term. Why do you think that this team has struggled at home? Well, we want to play four home games. So small sample size there. Number of factors. Every game is a different story. So I don't think it's necessarily just being at home. Week one clearly didn't play well enough. Carolina, Washington came down to the wire. And then obviously against New England, it was a close game for most of the fourth. And then they finished us off. But I don't think it's necessarily just home. But that's an easy surface narrative we're all wrong with, Michael. But we've only had four games and we're going into December. So it's just the way the schedule is. You go to 17 games, the NFC's playing one last home game. We had a home game in London. So mass correct, that's seven times in our building. And we want to win at home. We appreciate our fans. Our fans did a great job. It was really cool to see you down in Jacksonville. A lot of our fans there, that was awesome. So we got to do our part at home. And we got another opportunity on Sunday. That's how we look at it. Josh, you said Sunday afternoon, I think that you can be physical running the wide zone. As if, at one point, that was not the conventional wisdom that maybe wide zone was considered the finesse run scheme. Is that? Well, I just think it's, I best way to put it, not accurate narratives. I think that's the one thing. I don't think Alex Gibbs got enough credit for. When they went that route, you read the history of why. Again, it was practical. I believe it was Jim McNally doing it with Cincinnati. If you go back and look at the history of Alex Gibbs and what I've read, and I didn't know Alex. I appreciate him from afar. I know people who worked with him. He had a huge impact on national football league. But going back, I think a lot of people rationalized Denver's success. And they were a very physical line. They were a little bit smaller. Just a great culture. Obviously, he had success here with the Atlanta Falcons when they were here with Michael Vick and the way they ran the wide zone when Alex was here with Jim Moore. So I think there's a lot of false narratives. I think those Denver teams are really physical. I think sometimes in college, you see some teams that just kind of, the way the game's playing up tempo, it's whatever your style is. You're playing a lot of snaps. It's hard to sustain that level of effort for 100 snaps if you're going that fast. So a lot of people think zone. They're just going to lean on them. It's clearly not the case. So that was kind of the point I was trying to make, Josh. Is GIFs the guy that has most influenced your flaking on offense and why? Well, I didn't know him. In my modern history of my experience in football, I have a lot of research and a lot of coaches and players that made this game what it is. He was somebody that certainly that I aspired to study. And like I said, I've worked with people that got the chance to work with them. And I've even talked to Rich about him when he was here. And just a big fan of what he did. And it was a lot of practical thinking about why he did what he did. And that's usually what, out of necessity, where a lot of good ideas come from. I just don't think there's a lot of assistant coaches. No different than my opinion that there's a lot of players that played in the 80s in Washington or played in New England in the last 20 years that deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. And I think that there's a lot of assistants that deserve recognition. I know Dick LeBeau got in there. He was a great player and a long time coach had a huge impact. Same way I feel about outskips. What is the thing that's been out, I'll tell you when you look at it? Physical runner, finished people off, brings a good presence to the run game. Good player. Through, long, or down? Sure. There's plenty of stuff. It's every game. Whether you win or lose, I mean, that's the chess match. That's the beauty of the NFL. You know, you're going to play. You're going to have tough matchups every week. That's what's fun. It's pro football. They got good players, good coaches. Clearly, you know, they won the Super Bowl last year. They're having an excellent season. There's always stuff to learn from. Every single game, as a coach, as a player, we're always looking to be objective and improve. What do you think, specifically, you can say that you've looked at from that game that you want to improve on? Got to answer your own question then. Appreciate you asking, though. Like, I'm waiting for the injury updates for Michael to do that, and I'm just waiting. You guys are kind of, you're off today. So, yeah, the Thanksgiving hangover. More specifically, your family's business background affects how you approach building a team or even game planning stuff? Well, I don't pretend to have a business background. You know, I think I don't learn long at all. And I've said it many times, and I'll say it again. I've never felt somebody else in my family's success was my success, certainly not my father's. You know, I try to educate myself on a lot of topics. I just want to learn. I don't know. So I wouldn't sit here and claim just by genetics that somehow I'm some great business. I'm a football coach, so. So if you observe and you use return on investment, you sort of nap in those terms, it seems like you see the world, you see things in that sort of structure. And I wonder if you think that's affected the way that you approach what you do. I think everybody's life experiences, in fact. Like your education and background, who you've been influenced by, certainly part of the journey that you would hope that you can learn from it. So that's all I've ever tried to do. So if it has, then it's just been by my experiences. So unconsciously. Yeah. This is your second, you're starting to head into your second time through some of these NFC South teams. Obviously, it's been a long time since you've played Tampa, but just getting to know the personnel and the coaching styles is, what kind of impact does that have as you're entering into the second go round? Well, I think anytime, you know, you're playing into vision games the second time around, I mean, there is a lot of familiarity. And that's the thing. I mean, every team's dealing with something, you know, you're a little bit different. You're going to be dealing with some kind of injuries. You know, it was a little personnel change from the first time you played him, whether you played him two weeks ago or, you know, we're getting them now here in December. Yeah, that's the challenge. And that's the fun part about the NFL. You do have common opponents as you get to know, and there's some familiarity in the division. It makes it fun. And you're, where is the board of staff at DL? What's, who do you got? Who do you got? Who do you got? Okay, well. So, DL is still upset that they missed, he talked about not adapting the practice squad guys to make sure they're on their end report. You guys missed that. So when you guys have your committee meeting or subcommittee meeting, you guys should talk about that. Yeah, well, okay. And I just, just give by the rules that they give me and basically it gives me. So, you know, Dion, we'll see you be day to day. Chef, we hope to get him out there today. We'll see what it looks like. Bull. Again, it'll be day to day. You know, we'll just have to assess and then cues back. We've talked about it a little bit before, but just the way that Patterson has been deployed this year. Do you see that the NFL may be going more toward having guys like him in the future. Is that a possibility? I've said it many times. I mean, I think you're getting guys, a lot of these hybrid athletes. I don't think, you know, you're getting a lot of youth and specialized sports, but as the games evolved, you're getting guys that, you know, they, whether they're playing more football, the seven on seven, the impact that's having, which is really, it's a quasi version of real football that you see here on Sundays. But the guys are playing, they're maybe running more routes than they did when they traditionally, they got moved to running back and that's what you played in middle school or high school and that's all they played was behind the center. So I think you've seen, you've seen it all over the league. You know, San Fran, I mean, they started putting Debo Samuel back there. And I think that's Agnew was playing multiple spots for Jacksonville. I just think it's a type of hybrid football players you're seeing around. The same thing with defensively. You're seeing these safeties that play in the box, linebackers, safeties that can go out there, you know, cover man to man. I think that's what, there's an impact and I think it's the influence of kind of where the game's gone in the last 15 years. Do you think that maybe it takes a different type of player to mentally be able to walk to do that and to maybe see the bucking and convention of having a... Sure, I mean, if a guy can't handle that, it would be a, it wouldn't get those kind of results. So certainly that plays a factor. Yeah, coach, how big was it for Derrick Hall and Richie Grant to get some really low-lab action there in the Jacksonville game? Was that for them down the stretch here? Well, for anybody. He would hope to build off experiences and improve it to week, which it's certainly they have. And like I said, the challenge is, now you know, you got to do it another week and that's the hardest thing to do is to sustain success in this business. You see it every Sunday. That's the challenge. That's certainly the challenge for us as a team and then as players. How do you think that your staff has done developing some of these younger players while you're trying to game plan and all these other types of things to keep these guys moving them? You're looking for like a letter grade or something like that? Sure. You want your hot take comment, letter grade? Coach Smith thinks of his staff. And I don't talk in the third person. I'm just saying this as a joke. No, staff done a great job. So we're going to continue to do that. It never stops. The development process never stops. I didn't say that. Just you put whatever we want, whatever can maybe get you another click or two and we'll roll from there. I just, you know, we're, I said that we got a good staff. Walker, you know, with a tough spot, I had to go out there and play. You know, we talked about doing a good job after the game and so forth. How big was that to have a guy kind of, do you ever step up in that type of situation? Well, it kind of goes into what Scott's asking. And that's why you have, you continue to coach every player on the roster and we continue to bring guys in here and try to develop so we can find the best team as you, because you need everybody as the season goes on. That's why I don't have that fixed mindset about, oh, we got this guy week one and it's how it's going to be. Well, maybe we continue to improve or it may have an injury. Different guys. You got to shift your strategy because of who's available and what not. Mike, you know, I don't look at it as tough. I look at it as a guy being a professional, which is really the minimum job requirement, but more times than not, guys can't handle it, but Mike's done a nice job of being on there. They all, you want guys that want to play, do you like, so I never got a problem with a guy that wants the ball more, wants to play more, you want that. You got a problem with people that are content. You don't want to be average. So I get Mike credit because he wants to play and he gets an opportunity. I look at it as an opportunity. I look at it as a tough. I think Mike took advantage of his opportunity. You showed up at the ball 11 times. What did he do? I mean, I don't have the, you know, I don't know how to evaluate the linebackers, but what did he do to make him, you know, to do this and be productive? Well, as a play good defensive football, you need, simple as it is, it's, like I said, a lot of things are easier said than done is to play as a unit, to play all 11. There's so many things that can change. You know, motions, making sure you're in the right, right gap in the run game, make sure you get the, you may have to get the right check and certain certain looks that we may have game plan that week. And that's part of doing your job and being a pro and he executed well. And then like everybody, there's always plays you want back as a coach and players, there's always things to improve on. But overall, Mike did a nice job stepping in there. Last thing for me was getting means back yesterday and Andrews. Well, we'll see what it looks like at practice. You know, Josh coming off the COVID IR, Steven's got a couple of weeks to see what it looks like. Is Josh coming back? Is that something you could see in other rotation? Rotational situation? I think it's going to help us win. Every option's on the table every week. Just like we put CP, trying to find more packages to form on defense. Anything else? Is that serious? It's all in play last week, right? Yeah. It'll be out there. Let's see if the package that team puts in for them, if we think it's going to help us, we'll put it out there. Appreciate it. Thank you.