 Yeah, you're 50 Does it I mean, I feel like 50. Nope, what's it feel like? It's it feels great Pardon No When you wake up like in all seriousness when you wake up like do like does that hit you at some point like? Mentioned that once in a while or something, but no, I really don't think about it. I really don't it's like yesterday Absolutely, I had just much fun this spring in an OTA's and training camp I've ever had I really love this football team love this defensive guys that are they're pointing for us and and No, this is as rewarding a spring as I've ever had I have felt it how it helps the chemistry, you know how it helps I Who knows, you know, that's one thing about having done it this long There's times you think you're gonna really be good and you're not as good as you think and sometimes you don't think so I'm sure since Natty. I remember I talked to a couple guys on their staff a year ago and they thought to get fired Going into the year. They were worried about getting fired and here they end up in the Super Bowl. You never know in this league Year to year. It's just it could be from top to bottom. I thought one of the toughest teams we played last year was Detroit I loved to watch the way they played. I thought they played our lost close bunch closed games I thought they're a really good football team, you know record didn't indicate it But I thought they were really good to you just never know but back to your original question as is Yeah, I feel it with these guys. I think there's a good chemistry there with them I think they like playing together feel like they're together. So, you know, we'll see how it goes How do you feel? I knew back at the start of training camp you talk very passionately about that you didn't want a defense that was Poor mediocre. How do you feel about your defense now having gone through camp? Well, you know again? I don't know how we'll be statistically, you know, I But when I said that it's like, you know People made a bigger deal. I've done everybody want to be a top-ten defense. I mean that in that what your goal is It's like I just but the point was is that I don't want us to just settle for being okay Yeah, we played good. It's like I don't it's not okay that you just go out there and line up in the right spot and Read your keys. It's that you go make a play after you do that. You go make plays It's not enough to just that's what I was really talking about and alluding to and just don't Make your expectations high. Why wouldn't you I who wants to be just average or below every certainly? You want to be the best that can be, you know, and I alluded to Baltimore and New England It's just because that's in Tennessee in and all three of them Guys the expectations were great on defense and they played that way I don't know if we were any more talented than any other team, but I think there's just certain expectations and and That's what we should have and I feel like these guys have them now if we can live up to it You know, we got a the proof is and going out there on the field and doing it And just saying it and talking about it. We got a now actually go out there and we got to do it So but like I say I've had Really had a fun spring really had a fun fall camp with these guys and fun is in terms of not just me camaraderie It's feeling good about the guys in the way they played and the passion they're playing with and trying to learn and do the Right things and all that kind of stuff. That's what makes you exit fun for a coach These guys are coachable Things may be changing. We're not changing with Sean not being there in college place Who oh with Sean? Oh How long they've been together for so long? I mean it He'll everybody always has their own tweak to whatever it is But I still think if the the crux of their offense isn't gonna probably change a whole lot I mean he's not gonna all of a sudden become a running shoot guy or something. So it's gonna be it'll be similar I'm sure he'll have his little things that probably over the years He's always wanted to do but couldn't maybe and so, you know that we're all coordinated We're kind of like that. We always had this little stuff in the back that I've always wanted to do this So now I'm gonna do it but you know I Those guys have bought into a system down there. They've been very successful with that system Why wouldn't you keep the same system? Did you have a call from the box last year? Yeah, did I yes Is that a change for you or do you do that the preseason I've done it I've done it every place I've been I was No, no, I had nothing to do with preseason had to do with I Did both at New England. I did both at Baltimore. I was up at Tennessee But Here I was up last year. It really has to do with The Information that you can receive from upstairs And if it's if you can get good quick information You like to be down because you can talk to the players Quicker and as they're coming off the field and you're kind of into the game a little bit down there It's just as good upstairs. It's 50 50. It's calmer up there You don't have everybody talking to you on the fan. You can't really hear the fans and stuff like that So it's pretty quiet, but it really all is based on Information if you got to get information fast if you're on the sideline you got to get it and get it in I mean you got Basically 10 seconds make a call sometimes not even that So if you're not getting information fast Then you got to do it upstairs because then you can see everything you aren't listening to anything else and you can make the call faster it but So we tried it in the preseason To see because we got a couple new guys up there And so it went great and so I really feel comfortable with us. I'm probably gonna stay down There's three guys up there, so I'm not gonna mention one guy there all three have him put into it Well the thing about him is that that he's Got a very very strong arm. He's he's accurate at times and he can have his his moments But he's got a strong strong arm. I Think he's really improved in reading coverages and stuff like that over the years also the system I think at New Orleans is beneficial to him to sometimes to what it's been other places The other thing is that he has hurt people with his feet, you know, he's been mobile He's not only mobile. He's a big dude, you know, it's not like Rothlesburg or wasn't no Mobile he was nifty always said because he could make you miss But he was hard to bring down even when you hit him and so and and James is a little bit the same way He's a big guy and like I say, I've seen scramble and hurt people and I have gone against him over the years And and he can put the ball in there now on you so You know, he's certainly a big threat That's kind of the way it is, you know matter kind of who you play that first game if they got a season vet back there at the quarterback He's not gonna play a whole lot. So you never really see those guys in preseason very much It's this is all based on what he did really last year and he played one series against Last week right in preseason. So this is really based on last year and past history of him Yeah, because I thought last year We didn't some of the guys didn't get a lot of snaps prior to the first game I thought we've got a few more snaps in this year at least in the first and second Games, you know, we got in like a quarter or maybe not even a quarter some of them But they got some snaps in and I felt good about it. The other thing that I think helped to this year from that standpoint is Since we went against the Jets and Jacksonville during the week Those were all snaps that you're going against their number ones, you know Down in down out for more than a quarter. You're going through a whole practice. So I mean, we went against a couple You know good quarterbacks flacco, you know Hell quarterback and and at Jacksonville the same thing I mean, we've we went against good people that were on the other team and not necessarily our scheme Going against our same guys all the time. So So I feel like yeah Hey, we got no excuse we gotta go out there and we gotta it's time to play Is some of that due to having so many new faces and younger players to this year versus No, it's really more about the staff than it is about the team the players There's goods and bads like I said to both it being down You're around the players you kind of get a feel for them coming off the field if they're hanging their head They're feeling good. They're pumped up. You get a little bit of a feel that way Where you don't get in the booth, but then in the booth It's nice and calm and quiet to call the game as opposed to chaos sometimes down there on the field and everybody kind of yelling and talking It's really more about getting information. What is the best way to call the game? What is the best way to get the fastest call in to let these guys get lined up? Because if you're late getting calls in that puts everybody just in a little panic mode that a call got in late They're lining up. I got to figure out the formation. You want to get it in as fast as you can What's the best way to do that and we have a very veteran staff, you know as position coaches So that's good. The other thing is is that sometimes when you want to talk to players like if you're upstairs You know, you know, I got to say hey Michael get Foyer on the phone for me. Well, then you got to go get the phone He's got to get on the phone and meanwhile. I also wanted to talk to Michael Walker Well now I get done with Foyer. I haven't got time to talk to Michael Walker Well now as Foyer is what or somebody like that is walking off the field with Sean Evans walking off I can talk to Roshan and I can go right over and talk to Michael So it's sometimes a little better too for me in that in that regard Pardon who you calling the place into this year Michael Walker, they you know all those guys have The ability to do it You know, you can only have one on the field at a time But if Michael wasn't in there, I mean Roshan can do it We got some they all have the ability to do it. You just got to change your helmet So you got to designate who who it's gonna be before the game starts Yeah, I think we get three you get three guys that you can do it and you designate who it's gonna be They just can never have the dot on at the same time So if Michael was out of the game because he broke a shoelace or something You could give Roshanna a new helmet and he's got one with the dot on it And as soon as Michael comes back in Roshanna got put the other helmet back on so you but you have to designate before the game starts Who those three people would be? Yeah How do you feel about that revamp linebacker core Lorenzo and the two inside guys and then I like them I like them all I like them all I'm very comfortable with them. They are really dug in and studied the stuff and and There's an there's nobody I'm not satisfied with I think we got a good young core I mean, it's a young group and there's gonna be growing pains like there is with everybody But I I sure like the way they're practicing the way they're playing the way they're preparing We just got to go out now and we got to see what we got and and work through the bugs and and Get it going I think what you gotta do is is I think you you just gotta in some ways To start them out With not making it real difficult in other words They try to try to put them in a position where they got kind of one thing to think about not a bunch of things to think about In their first snap There's been times in the past Even with veterans I can remember Tennessee one time Somebody was out for a snap and we had to put in a backup and I blitzed it just because That's all you had to do is Please he didn't have to think about coverage didn't have to think about reading scheme didn't have to think about anything I blitzed him because I knew he's gonna be wired up anyhow to go So I just sent him and and it turned out pretty good So it's just you try to make it as easy on them and simple on them as it It can be because it's not they they get they're trying to think it too much and you make it too hard on them I've learned that you know, I wanted up the very first Super Bowl I was ever at with Coach Belichick and Obviously it wasn't his first and and I remember him talking to the team about When you go out for pregame, you know, it's the Super Bowl everybody gonna be hyped beyond belief, you know, don't Exert all your energy in pregame and before the game ever starts and then the game starts and you're out there hyperventilating because you know You you're and you know what is that was experience? And so I kind of carried that over into other things too because that was really true when we played I saw the other team out there jumping around and going a hundred mile an hour and doing that stuff And we were like business as usual and went out there and want it and and everybody their team looks spent In the second half where our team wasn't spent in the second half And I thought that's great great coaching point and it kind of goes not the only to a Super Bowl But just kind of in general sometimes, you know, the guy's gonna be hyper so try to settle them down trying to do things a little more simple No, they don't know at all because I don't want to you know, I felt kind of like last year sometimes that I just Wanted to call some things from times and didn't call some things that I wanted to call and I thought you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that again. I'm not gonna go through that again. I'm gonna we're gonna have our stuff ready to go I'm just saying that maybe on the very first play. I might that they're in there I might not try to make it as difficult on them But they got to know it because if not, I don't want to be hamstrung and handcuffed in a way that I Can't call this because so-and-so is in game and these guys know that and I've made that very clear in the off-season You know, you're preparing to go in there and play and we shouldn't have to not be able to call something because you don't know How to do it that that's not fair to the team It's not fair to the organizations not fair to the fans not fair to anybody We need to be able to call what we need to call when we need to call it and It's your job. You're a pro You know as you said You wouldn't ask the coach to say well, we can't he can't teach this aspect of something You know hey we put it in you got to coach it you got to teach your guys how to do it You wouldn't say well this coach is young. He can't really do it. No, and he shouldn't be hired That's the same way if I can't do it, then he shouldn't be playing so you know we're We got it in and we're ready to play it