 Sam, thanks for coming on the show as always. And the first question is, how badly did this team need that win? Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. We needed it bad. It was really good to come out with a whole team victory. The last couple stops that our defense got were huge. Obviously, we'd like, as an offense, to go down there and score and put the game away ourselves. But again, we played total complementary football that game, and it was awesome to see. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but again, great start. What do you attribute that to, that you guys just seem to get off to those great starts? And then, I guess, to piggyback that question, what slowed down a bit in the second quarter, and what adjustments do you think the Giants made? Yeah, again, we talk about it all the time. Start fast, finish strong. I think the last few weeks, obviously, we've been starting fast and have been finishing strong. And this game we did. I think the second quarter, we just gotten a little bit of a lull. We had a couple of things. I think I could have done a lot better job of getting the ball out of my hand in certain situations. But I think it was just the Giants having our number on a couple of those big third downs during the second quarter. Did you guys feel pressure? I mean, the losses mount, the dolphins, you end up losing to them, and they end up winning two in a row with a win yesterday against the Colts. But did you feel pressure? We've got to get this monkey off our back. We hear people. We know what they're saying. We've got to get a victory. No, I don't think there was any pressure. I think, for us, it was really just about going out there and executing. I say that truthfully and honestly, every single day, when we go in the locker room, we go into meetings, we go to practice with the same mindset every single day. It's just executing what we have to do on offense, defense is the same thing. Obviously, special teams are doing their thing. So for us, it's just about playing complimentary football once we get out there in the game. And I think we really did that against the Giants. And again, I'm just really, really proud of the guys in that locker room because we got up early on them. We found ourselves down a little bit there, too, in the second half. And then we bowled our way back. It was a really good thing to see and to move out of the boys. Is it surreal? I guess it's a better question for the Giants because they were the road team. You were home, but still, how often are you home where the other teams got a lot of fans there and they share the same building as you? So even though there may not be a rivalry, Sam, was it just a weird set of circumstances that you're playing a team in the same building that calls their place home? I mean, since we were the home team, it was probably more strange for them because they had to come out of a different locker room and warm up on a different side of the field. So for us, it was nice, but I mean, coming out, I thought our fans were awesome, allowed. They were awesome. Even when the Giants had a third down, the defensive chance from the crowd were loud as ever and loud as they usually are when a team from out of the state comes in and plays us. So the fans came up huge. The Jets fans came in abundance on Sunday and I'm just really happy that we came out with a win and I know all the Jets fans are as well. Sam, maybe I gave bad information to a fan on Friday, but I thought the Giants had their own home locker room and you guys have your own home locker room. You don't have the same home locker room, do you? Yeah, I think you're right. Actually, now that I think about it. Okay, they just had to come to a different tunnel, right? Yeah, different tunnel. I just wanted to make sure, I'm sorry. Leonard William said it was fun facing you and he said he actually told a couple of reporters that he had, he wrapped you up and you had the ball in here and you got rid of it and then he said something to you and then you told him to bleep off. Is that true? You know, to be honest, a lot really short of what I said. I might have said that. But he said you said it in a fun way. Yeah, you know, I'm always messing around out there and having fun, but you know, especially with Leo, I've known him the past couple of years. Obviously, he went to SC, so, you know, every time Leo got in there, I was messing around with him. So it was fun, you know, it was fun to go up against him. Obviously, he did some damage and he was a great player. It was different going against him this time, but you know, obviously fun to play against him too. So you guys will be very slight underdogs this coming weekend in Washington, but trust me, I know going to Washington, it's not really like playing a road game. It'll probably be at least a split, crowd-wise. This is a team that is now deciding to go with their rookie quarterback the rest of the way. So do you see this coming weekend as another opportunity, a really good opportunity to get you guys back in the win column again, put a little streak together? Yeah, you know, I think every single week we should look at my life. You know, every single week's a good opportunity for us to get better, because every single week we're building and I feel like we are getting better every single week, and so I think it's just, it's up to us this week on how we attack practice and how we attack meetings and all that kind of stuff and make sure that we stay on top of it. Make sure, like I said, that we're getting better every single day and hopefully with that, we'll come away with a win on Sunday. All right, some fans may look at you as regressing because there were losses and we judge it by wins and losses because we don't know the game the way you guys do, so explain to me why you believe you're getting better each week. Yeah, I think, you know, it's every single week. I feel like I'm making decisions faster. I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with the offense, the protections especially, so, you know, I feel like with some of the oddball stuff the Giants threw at us, I was very well prepared. That's credit to the coaches and the quarterbacks in the QB room with me, so, you know, I just, I felt really good about things and in the game I felt like I saw things really clearly. So, again, credit to the coaches and the QBs. Now, maybe you could give us some clarity on this. We have Adam Gase on every Tuesday and he just seems, Sam, as if, you know, he's so flat-lined that none of this flustered him. The losing didn't fluster him. I mean, is he like a duck? He's paddling a lot underneath and we don't see it. I mean, did you see that side of him that the losing was eating at him? No, not at all. That's the best part about, you know, Adam is that he's so process-oriented and when you're so, you know, process-driven, process-oriented and, you know, you understand that, you know, that's what it takes. It takes patience. There's gonna be some ups and downs, but at the end of the day, you know, the downs, you know, it's gonna be worth it once we get up, once we get up top. So, I think that's kind of the mindset that he has and he understands, you know, besides him and the coaching staff for every single player, really, and also besides, you know, Damaris Thomas who's been in the system, it's our first year in the system and, you know, there's gonna be, it's gonna be a process, but that's not an excuse. You know, it's just the truth. So, that's kind of how we look at it, but no, you know, I never felt that Adam was ever flustered by any of the media or anything like that. You know, it was just, it was about us, it was always about the process and that's how he's always been. And does that comfort you in the room to know, all right, there's no panic in him, so we can relax? Absolutely, absolutely. You know, with him, you know, his confidence being sky high, no matter what the result is, that's always gonna, you know, ripple confidence through everyone. How do you feel about Chris Herndon? I mean, what a nightmare season, huh? Yeah, it sucks. You know, it's not fun to go through stuff like that. You know, obviously Chris is not just a great player, but he's a great person, so you just feel for the guy and I know he's gonna come out the other side better as a person and as a player, I believe. Finally, you said after the game, you guys think that you have a chance to make the playoffs. Is that a real goal or is it just game by game? No, I think for us, it's game by game. You know, I was definitely, I think, with that comment caught up in the moment a little bit, you know, coming off high after a win that we really needed. I think for us, it's really about taking it one game at a time and, you know, that's where I'm at with that.