 Yeah, well, this is we're excited to be here at the combine and this is an important exposure. We went through a very productive round of February meetings, so we're able to set the board based off the film and now we get into this part of the process and I know different people see the combine different ways, but this is a very important exposure for us. Any touch point with the players that we can have is critical the interviews, the formals, the informals, seeing them work out and compete and just being here with all our peers, agents. If you handle this week the right way it can be very productive. So we're excited about being here. Yeah well the most important thing is the makeup. We're here working to build a championship roster one player at a time and to build a championship roster you have to have championship makeup and you have to have the right kind of culture and so assessing the makeup and assessing the character making sure the players fit our ethos smart tough highly competitive players that's always gonna be number one in what we do. Everything else matters the tape obviously matters and and what kind of football players they are and their talent level and yes the measurables and the statistics and all those things matter it's all a part of the equation but number one is always gonna be the makeup. Yeah well the elephant in the room right we have some big numbers associated with four players particularly our quarterback we have a big cap number and all those players with the big cap numbers it's not their fault they're just good professionals that come in and do their job and I want to be clear with that but it is a challenge it's not a I wouldn't say it's a it's a problem I would say it's a challenge and something we have to work around so it's important to make sure we go through the process of finding the right ways to open up some cap space and and we have to add players and we have to improve this roster that's important and when you're at different points there are times where you'll handle the salary cap and handle contracts a different way some some teams feel like they're one player away and they're gonna make a big splash in free agency and spend a lot of money we're not at that point we have to be patient we have to be patient we have to be selective and we have to be cost effective so where we are with our team we have to figure out ways the right ways to create cap space and then make sure we're patient and and we make we find value well there are a lot of different ways whether you're talking about contract extensions whether you're talking about they're gonna be cuts they're gonna be trades they're gonna be contracts that we do convert and we don't I think another elephant the room is are we rebuilding are we are we trying to win now and I would say we're trying to have our cake and eat it too we want to be smart and and we don't want to make decisions that are gonna hurt us in future years but we also want to build the best team that we can so we're gonna work hard to to be smart and calculating our decision-making but we also have to improve this roster this offseason and add competition well I think I think every the seat I sit in I'm a general manager I'm one of the 32 so what I have to do is look in the mirror and and look at what we're doing in Atlanta I can focus on that area what we're doing in Atlanta to help this part of the process and so I have to make sure that number one everyone in the building everyone in the building has opportunities to continue to grow and whether we're talking about coaches whether we're talking about people in the personnel department the training staff make sure people in your building are able to grow and are able to develop and you have you're very intentional in doing that and then also the pipeline every time you're bringing in people whether you're bringing in coaches scouts or any area of the organization make sure you're bringing in minorities and and everyone has opportunities to get in your organization and then grow so for me personally I just look in the mirror and make sure that we're doing the right things here in Atlanta yeah absolutely I think it is and and look the league is going to look at the situation every year and I know the league is is trying their best to improve in the areas that they can but I do I think for me I can I can't solve the we can't solve the problem for every single team but we can look in the mirror and do the best we can for the Atlanta Falcons well we look for succession plans at every position we have to add to the roster at every single position and I think where you can get in trouble is if you if you reach and you feel desperate in certain areas and but we're not going to do that and yet we're going to evaluate we got to we actually had formal interviews with several quarterbacks yesterday and there's a good group in this draft there's different flavors and so we're going to evaluate those players and at the appropriate time we will add to that position but I think you can get yourself in trouble if you if you reach and you don't feel good about what you're doing I'm not going to say anything about any particular players or any because if I answer that question we can go through the entire roster and talk about who they are but I would say we're going to look to add to every position and try to improve this roster well I would say if you go through each position in the draft there's there are some positions where they can be a little more top-heavy and it's not a strong midway through the draft and there's some positions that there might not be a player at eight that we love but yet we know there's depth in the draft so we're still going through that process and I wouldn't say where we see the strengths and weaknesses but but but I would say they're good players at every position the wide receivers there's some we met with a lot of those guys last night too and there's some real good receivers in the draft again some different flavors depending on what you're looking for but and there's value at the top and throughout the draft at receiver I'm glad you got the question in because you've gotten interrupted like four times man you're persistent so Kyle Smith's a stud it's funny when people ask about Kyle Smith I always show him my phone because I get texts from him or calls every night about 10 10 30 11 o'clock and he's watching film and he wants to talk through something and he just doesn't stop this is all he does all he cares about his football and building a good team his his mind's always going that's the way he's wired so he's a he's a stud he's a really hard worker and he's just obsessed with what he does well I think of that position when you when you go historically and look at edge rushes that have been successful they've come in all shapes and sizes you've had the tall long you've had the undersized and you've had guys with great 40 times guys that don't have great measure balls they come in all shapes and sizes and so it's just about assessing can that player get to the quarterback and is he a true pressure player does he win because when you start focusing on just the measure balls and you try to create something sometimes you can get yourself in trouble so I would say the most important part is is he winning those one-on-one matchups it's not something we can talk about right now there's there's no update on it and when there is we'll let you know it's great Matt he's a great professional and he comes in and works every day and does everything he can do to help the team win so I would say it's a that's probably a question for Matt specifically but from from my vantage point from my standpoint I really appreciate Matt and what he's been in terms of a leader in terms of a worker in terms of professional everything he's done here in Atlanta and so I would say for from my standpoint from my vantage point it's been excellent I appreciate him yeah that's exciting and I said it before obviously Kirby and that whole staff that whole building they did a great job building what they built there and and it is kind of overwhelming when you look at all the players on that roster particularly on defense but also on offense they have some really good players and so they're like you said they're right around the corner so we have to really evaluate those players and and look at them and the interesting thing too is when you look around the league and and there's so many local players from Georgia that are really good I'm hoping we actually can have the local day we weren't allowed to have it last year with COVID but if we can have that that's exciting because there's a lot of kids that that grew up in the Georgia area that ended up in some different areas that are really good football players so but we're excited about spending a lot of time with those Georgia players so you're asking if the Calvin Ridley situation got it got it well again that's a question for Calvin I can't address that how he's particularly doing but I will say yes the receiver position is important and but it's a complimentary game so our goal is to improve our team overall because when you when you have a when you protect when you have a good run game then receivers are going to be more open when you're when you're playing good defense and you're playing with leads it changes things so I would say it's a complimentary game so our goal this offseason is to improve the entire roster and obviously the receiver position that's an area we have to improve as well the value of being here at the combine yeah and it really starts with with assessing the makeup and we have to take advantage of every touchpoint we have with our with with with the players in this draft process because the most important thing is the makeup and so whether it's the combine whether it's pro days personal visits we have to take advantage of getting around those players getting our hands on them our coaches our scouts and make sure the players that we pull the cards off the board and the players we sign and bring into the building we're bringing in the right culture and we're bringing in the right types of players so it's it's extremely valuable last year from being virtual what do we learn what do we learn from last year being virtual I guess I can say we we're still going to utilize as long as as much as the league allows us to do in terms of virtual meetings and we're going to utilize that and and we'll still utilize that part of it you can be pretty you can be really efficient still having virtual meetings and virtual interviews as long as we're allowed to do that so so we'll utilize that we did learn some things last year but being in person is important as well thank you ma'am well number one when the first thing we have to do is create a little cap space and and then number one is is our players and we have a lot of players I won't talk specifically about cp but we have a lot of players that that we want to resign and that's important now it's important for us to you're never a player away so we have to look at each specific player evaluate the player and look at the parameters of the types of contract that we can sign and what makes sense for us and we have to stay disciplined with that because we're not trying to sign one player we're trying to build a team so we have to make sure we assess the value and stay within our parameters with every player and on the other side of it it's important for players to assess their market value along with their agents and their families and find the best situation for them because they have a small amount of time to make as much money as they can and so we respect going through that process of the business so with that there gonna be some players that we're gonna be able to resign some players are gonna move on and and we understand that but talking specifically about cp that's an example of what we have to do this year in free agency that was a situation where it was a month in a free agency when we signed cp he wasn't getting the offers he wanted and and again a month into it we signed them we had a clear vision for him it says a lot about him the success that he had because he's a great man he's a great player he added on and off the field and it says a lot about our coaching staff and that they were able to find what he does well and and he had the most productive season of his career as an offensive player so that shows the way we were able to find value in that and and I believe it it really shows the league that this is an attractive place to be and you look at our coaching staff and and you look at what they're able to do with players and you look at Atlanta and living in Atlanta whether you're young and single or whether you you're married whether you have a big family it's a great place to live so living in Atlanta the the opportunities that we have in all three phases because we have opportunities here and we have a coaching staff that's going to get the most out of players so I think cp is an example of what we have to do especially with the constraints we have here this year yeah because a lot of things we do and we evaluate value as we look at comps position comps and so when when it is kind of that hybrid unique position it's tough to have you know a roll the decks of a lot of comps with players like that so it's tough to value but at the end of the day for us it boils down to assessing that make up assessing the fit and looking at at what we can do currently with our specific team so it's not always easy to value that specific specific position but it's something we have to do say to him yeah it yeah just like just like a our whole rookie class and a lot of young players it's important this offseason for them to to work and come back in a better situation but he did some really good things this year and we're excited about him in the future well like I said with any measurable it's all a piece of the puzzle right it's all a part of it any measurable any statistic it's all a part of the evaluation but there's never going to be one thing that that makes the decision it's all a it's all a part of it it all factors in but there's never going to be one thing that completely eliminates or makes a decision for us but we're going to look at everything well like I say we do have thresholds at every at every with every measurable with every statistic so it's things we look at but the key is is it's all that does is it makes that particular player or that particular whatever we're talking about it can make them an exception in a certain category but it's never going to make a decision all right thank you