 Good morning Mike. Mike, a short turnaround and with Ryan's injury status is it just easiest at this point to stick with Will for this week for Thursday night? Well we'll see where Ryan is. We haven't done anything with him here yet today so we'll see how he is but you know I think we probably would say that if if Ryan can't go I mean it will move forward with Will and then we'll see you know where Ryan is. Again it's it is a short week but also we'll have to you know see who is available to us at every position. How was Ryan? He's good. I mean he's supporting the quarterbacks and doing what he could do to help us win on Sunday. He was obviously physically wasn't ready and you know so again we'll have to do some more stuff with him today and evaluate where he's at. Does it help at all just in terms of the lead that's coming into performance he had maybe not having to rush back Ryan Tannehill though? Yeah I don't you know I don't want to look at that as you know a determining factor of how fast players get back. We just need to get everybody back available and then make decisions at every position on who can play and who can't and then you know what the game plan looks like and how we can you know try to to go on the road and and try to find a way to beat Pittsburgh. You know until Ryan's healthy I don't think that you know I'm ready to you know make a determination you know I mean I think that that's that's something that could be a possibility but again we're talking about hypotheticals and we'll get Ryan healthy and see where things are at then. Well I think that's all about just the players and just making sure that they're ready physically and you know today's Thursday you know I mean that's how we have to approach this that today is Thursday and you know they're not going to like to hear that but you know we're going to have to put ourselves into the mindset today is Thursday and we play on Sunday night so that's how we have to approach it but physically we ask a lot of the players during the game and they play hard and it's a it's a violent sport and so we'll have to just you know get them back as is the best that we can. Will you stick with the tackles as you finish this game now or is there an alternative? Well the alternative if Chris is unavailable you know Jalen Duncan's on the active roster and then we have two linemen on the practice squad so you know we'll see and you know I didn't think that you know I thought Dre went in there and you know competed and gave us a chance to win. That's different against Wat though right? Yeah Wat usually you know Wat can line up anywhere you know I mean it just you know I don't know there's Watts beating a lot of tackles in this league so whoever's over there is going to have to have some help like I know that. Does your fellow observer recognize maybe that Hubbard was not right after the play? How did that kind of develop where play got stopped and he comes out? I just kind of heard Chris you know kind of looked out there and I think he was kind of you know grab at his neck and so that's that's that's paramount for us to go out there I don't know if the spotter I didn't hear anything about a spotter I just heard Chris I don't know if he did something and you know we went out there and made sure that you know he was he was looked after and that then was evaluated. You're now 6-0 in your coaching tenure coming off the bye and if more than doubled the scoring of your opponents what do you think you've been able to do so well throughout your coaching career that has led to success after the bi-week? I mean we just try to focus on getting better I think we focus on you know improving and doing things that are going to help us win and you know I think for me as the head coach here it's frustrating sometimes like yesterday when we're really really close to putting teams away and you're playing with good field position and you're you know complimenting each other and you're scoring and getting off the field and then all of a sudden it's like okay this happens and that happens and we go three and out and they convert on a third and long and then they string some plays together and we make it a little closer than what it should be but that's this league sometimes so all the credit to the players for for going out there and performing and and being ready to go. How often are your quarterbacks coached to fall on a fumbled snap rather than try to pick it up? Well I think all our players offensively or on special teams is you know you try to use good judgment and and when you want to try to pick it up and advance it and and when you when you can't and so and obviously you're referring to Malik's situation I think we all would agree that we would want him to to just recover the football and you know it's one of those unfortunate situations that you know one mistake one bad snap that we could probably get away with and probably eventually reserve the right to punt being where the the sticks would have been that we just can't you know I mean we have to you know sometimes fix mistakes that happen and in simple way of fixing that mistake would have been just just getting on the football and you know we'll live the fight another day give give the defense credit for for holding them to a field goal and and playing complimentary and sudden change. Well we were good on the line of scrimmage you know main trail and lined up wrong like that's it's not on the quarterback though eventually maybe you know he could he could fix that you know and scan and take a peek and just say you know but it wasn't like we were breaking a huddle with eight seconds and not being able to shift and motion or you know I'd taken a peek and felt comfortable where we were when it was down to two and one and you know him getting the ball snapped and so that was that was the first thing that I think is important is that we weren't just you know disjointed from an operation standpoint which is critical just to get the play started and lead to our efficiency which we were. That confidence and comfort that he played with was there a point like in the week of preparation up into the game where you felt like he's really getting it. Well I mean they all have a good week and it built up and you know some of the plays that you've worked on or that you work on throughout the week that you that you hit you know I mean I don't I don't try to think like the throwback I don't know if he hit maybe he hit Nick on it you know I know we'd run it but you know sometimes guys make decisions just to not open up I mean Nick I think hit 21 and a half miles an hour going for that ball so I don't know if he got to that speed and practice but you know you talk about the you know the ability to hit some shots down the field so you know that was that was probably the best thing and we we practiced them and and thought that they would be there. I think you touched on a little bit there about the live scrimmage. How much was your ability to stay on schedule in the run game a creator of everything that happened? Yeah I mean the number one key on offense was going to be that efficiency was going to rule the day and you know it's funny we talk about pushing piles and I mean there was like a three or four yard run and and Hop comes in and and he's pushing with his back and I'm thinking man that ain't really doing much but I love your effort Hop and you got the message that you know we knew that every yard was going to be critical to stay in third and short and not live in third and long where they had been really excelling you know third and sixth plus they were they were doing really well in that regard leading you know coming into our game so I think that everybody on offense embraced that and that we were able to to run the football we were able to take a profit you know I think the one you know having I'm sure we'll like to have it back the one to trailing you know the two guys on them it was a good ball but I think that there was guys two of them and and probably we just try to take the profit there to to jig on some of those play passes when we say take a shot you know just being smart just hitting those long passes that consistently and that accurately and in practice for a while yeah man I think that that's something that he does well that's a strength of his is he's got good arm strength and you know again to do those you need protection and to run a double move on an empty you know like we did the other day you need protection and and we got it and held up in protection we're able to to throw it I think probably both Joe I think both he had done well those are some things that he you know had put on tape in Kentucky is a strong player but I think also the look as well as just looking at maybe how they were approaching you know short yardage and you know knowing that that'll be different each and every week but you know felt like that was something that we could do yesterday they said that they weren't surprised by what levels was able to go out there and do because he had done that and practiced a lot in other situations like with other teams that has been the case and players went to the coach and said hey you know so and so is really balling did that happen with you and and any of the guys no our defensive guys need to focus on on stopping the other team's offense let the offensive coaches and me handle the offense how about within the coaching staff was that you know something that came defensive coaches yes yeah no they need to focus on stopping Pittsburgh and and all those good things no I mean it's just we were trying to create an atmosphere of a team and you know any place where coaches can help any places where players can help and I appreciate your question and I was kind of you know joking a little bit but you know anywhere where we can try to help somebody else on our team we want to try to do whether that's Charles London sitting with our defensive players and saying hey this is this player skill set or using another example of somebody else saying hey I was with this player I was with this coach or this technique like we I encourage that we want that to try to help the entire football team wherever we can whether that's Tom Quinn helping a gunner even though technically Anthony Levine helps the gunners or is working with the gunners like we don't it's not like my there are guys it's everybody like we're all included in and trying to help the player have some confidence have some trust to go out there and do his job everybody so nobody came to me and said oh yeah Will does this I'm watching the practice too you know I mean but we're just trying to create an atmosphere that everybody is helping each other and trying to get us to win well one we have great fans one one one they you know I was a little curious you know and coming off the bind maybe the uniforms helped and the alumni helped but you know I know when we play hard and we play physical and we we look like we know what we're doing and it's not sloppy I mean we're not nobody is going to win every game in this league you guys have all covered this league this is a it's a tough league to win it we know that but when we've played up to a certain level of standard that looks like it's football right and not disjointed and not you know just bad football right lack of a better term that our fans are there they're cheering they're loud on third down they've helped us win helped us a goal line stands they've helped us on and on so with that being said you know if there's things that they don't like they they've got a right I think we all are disappointed in you know when we don't do something well or the decisions that we make so you know I know that they're going to be there they're going to support us as long as we you know are playing the way that we're supposed to play I want to think about that is exactly what I just said you know I mean our job is to play our job as the coach and again it also is to support our teammates right that that's also a player's job is to support their teammate so I appreciate them supporting their teammate picking them up off the ground helping them however they can do you say anything to me after the boost came in or how do you think he handled that whole situation I mean the same thing I tell Malik or tell anybody that's not in the game be ready to go be ready to go and if you're if you're not you just never know when you're going to get an opportunity and I don't whether it's Stray Dillard or whether it's Eric Garar uh in any position like as soon as you start thinking about something other than what my potential job could be if I get called on right now that's taken away from from your ability to take advantage of an opportunity all right again if it was directed at me great I'll take it you know I mean it's that that's what it was Jimmy we could tell you can put a poll out and uh and let me know how it goes yeah I'm I'm I'm more than okay with the plan that we had I'm disappointed that we we snapped the ball high and outside to the quarterback and that we didn't recover it still I'm gonna be okay with with that plan all right because I know what's in there know what the what we can do but uh you know again I'm I'm I'm okay either way you said last week you know there was a time for for Kyle after which you know his practice showings that wouldn't pay off if his game showings didn't didn't match up are you near a point like that with Malik his situational play has resulted in the ball on the ground quite a bit or failure to recover it yeah I mean Malik's you know I'm still trying to you know he's made some plays that have helped us you know when he had an opportunity but but no I'm not you know a young quarterback that's you know that's never even crossed my mind I mean every week is different but you certainly had a you know factor yesterday and affected a quarterback and you know unfortunately had the had the roughing there but you know listen he was he was rushing hard and I don't think that was a you know it wasn't something that he hit him low or it was full body weight you know it was kind of being blocked and and reach in and and caught the quarterback in the neck I so there's there's different penalties that I can kind of break down I don't think that was one that would be you know necessarily avoidable but uh wish we you know wouldn't have gotten the penalty and would have had the sack I would have been a big play for us but you know it was good to see Harold you know and again using that crowd the crowd noise that was there when uh when when we need him I think that you forced him to go silent and Harold's really good at that that get-off so you know he was able to get the edge on um McGarry so again that's uh you know some of those things are attributed to to our fans and their excitement and their ability to to help us when teams can go silent and we can use the rules to our advantage you know with the center head bob and if it's sudden and abrupt you know Harold's smart enough to go because he knows if the ball doesn't come after a sudden head bob that it's supposed to be put on the center and so if we can get that crowd noise and force teams to go in a silent then they got to be really good with the silent cadence just because of when you look around the league and the trends that those centers that snap their head up and the ball doesn't come there's a defensive guy that jumps they've been putting them on the center rightfully so we everybody's sharing the same video and that's been the message so my point is is if we can you know smart player like Harold can put all that together we get the crowd noise we force them into situations that hey have to go silent Harold knows okay that's sudden the ball's got to be coming I can get a good jump and I may get a half a step to affect the quarterback going on the road again to another great environment on Thursday night coach anything you can take from just these road games and maybe what you haven't done that you can watch what we've have done we've turned the football over you know we've done things that have hurt us it's a road environment and we're not going to be able to blast sticks renegade any louder like I promise you like we won't but what we're going to have to just be that much more focused on the huddle on breaking the huddle on where to line up uh because when you have a thin margin for error like there is in this league and like you know maybe we're at you know right now that those yards matter those yards in the red zone matter when I would talk about penalties or not a fish it runs those those matter every yard when you get down there especially in the red zone matters and they know that in those critical situations that crowd's going to get louder and third and four turns into third nine and then it's you know a lot tougher so again that'll be a huge key for us is to be able to handle the road environment you know but but I do you know that was an important win for us to be able to win and not really be at our best be at our best at moments but but not for the entire game which we we have to find a way to get to you have really confusing explanation you got about the d-hop pi was confusing to us is there any any way we could try that again or is it too common I all I said all I asked was what did you have the opi on on the guy traveling or the guy on top of him and he said the guy that was covering him he had d-hop with his hands up appeared to be driving so that's what I went with and you know I don't I don't have the time right now to go get an explanation I'm focused uh probably but again it I think that's a case of uh they had been playing that way the entire game and again it was just they let them play and and we have to be we have to do businesses businesses being done and I told our receivers that I told our defensive guys that that if that's how they're going to call it that's how we have to play it and a trust that they're going to continue to do it that way I think it was just a bad situation of the guy running you know had trailing in the backfield the guy was on the other side he got a caught off guard he was running late so again whatever the officiating is you know we we there's some things that we know and there's some things that that just happened I would say that that one's one that just happened you know holding a guy on a punt return blocking a gunner you know four yards out of bounds 25 yards downfield like that's that's a dumb penalty there's other penalties where like okay they happen it's in the course of the game like you tug a guy the legal content whatever it may be but there's some things that we we got to stop making excuses for and coming over to the sideline and saying well I I stopped we're not coaching that stuff anymore like we're going to coach the stuff that is new not the stuff that we've been talking about for six years gipson over weaver and murphy maybe a reward for what he's doing in practices or maybe a sign uh you know we only got so many guys to get active and you know try to have around nine edge guys up there at some new safeties special teams play a part of that you know trevis had been factoring and the opportunities that he had and try to give him another opportunity that could change this week you know we've you know plays hard and we've tried to be be involved in special teams as well which he hadn't been so you know I give weave credit for that for finding you know some role and every week is different and again we can't can't have everybody active um but Thursday night you know could could be different we'll see there is yes yes there is practice just one practice it's cheddar bob kayla cheddar bob but uh yeah no you know he was starting to do some good things at versatile uh versatile peace on offense and also um you know special teams something that he hadn't really done much but you know one game he played like two or three different positions on the punt team you know Raider showed up again so these tight ends that you know maybe you don't think that they're gonna factor that that's really cool to see you know kevin did that last year when he when he came up for us and I mean there he is down there making a really nice tackle on on a punt team and so yeah hopefully we'll get josh back that's a love tap I mean if you can't hit me harder than that how are you gonna hit the offensive lineman um um no I just you know I I just try to coach the team and I try to make a connection with these guys I try to be honest with them I try to tell them the truth I try not to waste their time and so we you know we need tear and tear also has an individual situation there's no secret that tears contracts up after this year and you know I've told him that you know for you and your family like both things can happen like you can play well and you can help the team and you can play well and and help your family like that's that's what professional sports is and I understand it go ahead Corey thank you at the performance and you can't just bark and everything out in front of you you know she's not with us anymore she's just stopping all over me I still didn't stop for free what are you talking about good after last 11 yesterday do you expect to field calls about where I am headed into the trade deadline I don't know I mean we we haven't as of yet um but I have no idea I'll go downstairs and when Rand tells me that somebody called then we'll talk about well whoever player they they called about and what they would offer and make a decision just like we do does it change the situation that we would listen or that we would I mean we would I think we owe it to the team to to listen as diligently as possible on anybody that would call you know regardless of player or person or position just to to make sure that we're we're doing right by the football team thank you John is 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