 You know, winning one-on-one and they were more physical and they played harder than we did. So they won the football game. We didn't protect our punter. Just go right on down the key is what I'm going to tell the team here shortly. So we'll have to get that corrected. Turnovers, they had eight PBU's. We had two. So they got more chances to get the ball turned over. And these are all things that have to get corrected. And I think we'll. I think we'll, but we have to get going here pretty quickly. Like offensively, did you think the play-calling was an issue or was it just more of, you know, kind of execution, you know, guys? I think when we lose and you don't have success, I think it's everything, Ben. I know that you haven't been here in a while or been here previously, but, you know, it's always going to be something. It's one guy in a run game, right? We get started and we miss one guy. Or, you know, we don't have the perfect call. There is no perfect call. And we have to, as players and coaches, not think that it's going to be perfect. It's going to look dirty. And guys and as coaches, we're going to have to give them enough confidence and trust to go do their job, whether it's a look that they've seen or not seen. So when you review the game, there's always going to be, man, I wish I had that call back. I wish, I wish, I wish. And we don't get that luxury. So we have to improve and hopefully get going in drives and get the first first down so that the plays that we do call can begin to complement the ones that we have called and will continue to call and that you get into a rhythm. Going three and out and being behind on the chains and having negative plays make it difficult. I think the defense got affected from the early stages of the game later being out there so quickly over and over again. You know what I mean? Obviously, you want to be able to possess the ball and drive it. And I think that they, again, the ball's on the one yard line. We hold them to a field goal after a poor punt. We hold them to a field goal. We execute down there. It's third and goal on the sixth. We get some rush, the quarterback scrambles. And we don't plaster. And he makes a play on the throw to Hopkins. And I don't know. I know that defensively, your job is to go out there and play defense whenever they call for you. And that's what we have to do. And so whether that takes a toll, our job is to be ready to go play defense whenever we have to. He was critical of himself. He's kind of called himself out on social media. What is your issue yesterday? What were the technique, focus, execution? After watching his play, what would you say for his shortcomings? Well, I mean, you get beaten. Sometimes that happens. And so we have to improve. Taylor has to improve. We've said this before in this league, your best players, they have to play good on Sunday for you to win. That's how this game is set up. And that didn't happen for us. It happened for Arizona yesterday. And so we have to get those guys ready to go to get on the road. It won't get any easier. We'll go out to Seattle. So we'll have to get going here pretty quickly, make these corrections, flush it, and be ready to get focused on Wednesday with a game plan and a way to go out and try to find a way to win. Seeing some encouraging signs from your defense in the preseason, but didn't necessarily carry over, did you discount that now, say it was just preseason, or do you tend to say, you know, this is just point here? I'm worried about today. I'm not worried about preseason. And again, when we have 17 opportunities for second and long situations, we have to capitalize. We can't only win eight of those 17 opportunities that then create third in six or less. We need third and long. But isn't part of the reason you don't win those opportunities because of the preparation that went into preparing to win those opportunities? And when I say that we're going to try to focus on that stuff that we did well, there were stuff. And then we have to correct the lapses. There wasn't that many missed tackles. I mean, the quarterback scrambled around and made a play on third and 10. They made every play that they needed to make. And we needed to make one stop at one time and start playing more complementary football. What was that, Paul, that I didn't hear you when you were interrupting me? Question about the preseason work, but it would seem the preseason work question factors in to your inability to do the things you're saying you couldn't do. The preseason work? Like we played well defensively and we've practiced well or defensively? We've acted for opening day offensively. I know he was referencing defense, I believe, right, John? Right. So now you want to ask me about what? The lack of time together for the offense in the preseason, which we asked you about all the time, you kind of dismissed as a non-factor coming into this game. Nothing is dismissed. That's what it was. And I mean, it wasn't, we practiced with the guys that were available and that we had and that we wanted to try to get work with and try to have a plan. It wasn't that we dismissed it or I dismissed it. It was this is who we had. This is who was available for practice. This is the plan that we had. And then we'll have to go out this week and make sure that whoever's ready for the game and those guys that we think are going to be contributors are ready to go. I know often already that the things that maybe weren't ready for week one or the miscues and the shortcomings yesterday can get fixed in one week's time per se. Yeah, they can get fixed. I mean, we've run the football here, we've thrown it. I mean, there was positive plays. We protected sometimes and we threw good passes and got going and then had a miscue or had a mistake. I'm confident that we'll get things turned around. We got beat. We got beat at home and a home opener. Not that we wanted to, but we have to be ready to go quickly. And there's a fine line between sitting there and pouting. I think we've got to own it. It starts with me and then get ready to work, to work hard, go back to work on Wednesday and start practice off and build towards the end of the week. Not making it easy for, or you mentioned it, being easy for them on some occasions, does that apply to the defensive backs and just not challenging as much as you wanted to? Because I knew that was an area of folks. I mean, it was everything. There was times where we didn't challenge. I thought we challenged and our Christian Fulton was encouraging. When Christian challenged, he did his job. I'm excited to watch Christian Fulton play football this year, which I was really glad that the official picked up the flag because him and I were both kind of in the back and I didn't think he made any contact. And so the guy came in correctly, told him that there wasn't any contact and it wasn't defensive pass interference. And I thought Christian played well. We all have to play well and continue to improve. It just maybe just some loose plays on the edge that we have to get numbers over there. We've got to trigger and get off blocks and those types of things. Or when the quarterback keeps it on the goal line on first in goal, it's like we got guys back there and we know that Carla Murray wants to have the football in his hand and they design plays for him down there. So those are some of the things, just the awareness things that we have to continue to coach and understand and say, did we show you that play in that formation? No, but we showed you a different formation that was still him keeping it on a naked bootleg and it was a one man play. What's that after the game that we need to stop thinking about being good and start actually being good? Sure. Do you think a wake up call so to speak could be beneficial? I never know how to answer that. Like you don't want to lose. Like I don't think anybody wants to lose but hopefully we can learn from this quickly, move on but you have to go out there every week in this league and prove it. It's a demanding league. It's a great league from that standpoint. The challenges that are presented each week are great. And so hopefully we'll come back here together and start figuring this thing out here as a team. How did he hold up in his first action? Well, Bud had some snaps. He ran around, played hard. I know that there's going to be some things that, you know, he wished he'd done better, you know, like everybody else. I wish I'd coach better and I'm sure all the players wish they had played better, you know, because we lost. We lost as a team. Chandler Jones ran up the field and, you know, I guess made a good play. Chandler Jones just ran up the field, you know what I mean? If Ryan knew that Chandler Jones was going to run up the field, I mean, if they give us the luxury, you know, we've had a lot of success here running boots and that one wasn't, you know, so, you know, that one wasn't, we didn't have any success there. Play action. But obviously, you know, we'd like to try to salvage it and telling you it was a really nice play, you know. You know, he put his hand out there and matched the quarterback's throwing hand. You know, whether we can get that off and get it out and dirt it or, you know, just take care of the football. But he made a good play, guys. I guess in general, guys didn't do a lot of it, didn't seem to succeed. No, play action on second and 12 is not really what you dial it up for, John. You know, does the lack of the running game really hurt that significantly? Again, that always goes into, I've always tried to say, man, if we can start stringing some plays together and you can get into some drives and you don't have to convert on third down every single time and you can run, you know, you can get some first downs early in the series, then you open up a lot of different plays and a lot of different ideas. No different than when we got into the drive and, you know, Watt and Chandler Jones goes over and we go off on the side and we say, you know, hit the flea flicker. And, you know, we hit a play there, you know, those are, but we had gotten into the drive. We had gotten a couple of first downs. They were tired. They came up, you know, but you run two plays and it's third and 10, like you're kind of running out of options. What's the line between a healthy swagger for this team and maybe a detrimental arrogance that's not the best for this team? Oh, I mean, I hope we don't have much of that today. I hope that we're... Yeah, you know, yesterday, that went away pretty quickly. You know, it's 17-nothing or whatever it is. And, you know, we don't want to be fake with anything we do. You know, everything we do, we want to be real, feed off each other, support each other, you know, not trying to taunt anybody. We want to celebrate as a team, as a unit. But to do that, you have to be able to make some plays. And I'd say that, you know, we should make some plays and that, again, builds some momentum and some excitement. Could you say from Julio when maybe they give you... maybe a talking point already about maybe keeping your composure and getting that penalty? Sure. Critical mistake. You know, I don't think that... You know, those are absolutely... that's absolutely nothing that we coach or teach. You know, so that would fall into the category of doing dumb shit that hurts the team right there in bold letters. Goes from third and one to third and 16. What's your sort of approach now that you've got time to deal with the kicker situation? What do you intend to do, look at, talk about the next couple of days? Just, you know, determine who we feel like is going to make them and take a look at Michael, take a look at some guys working out. Randy's on the practice squad. Find somebody that we think is going to make them and protect for them. That's the plan. Mike, you got blown out in the first game of a season when you were a player and ended up winning the Super Bowl. Kyle, what did you take away from that experience and is there anything you can share with the team in that regard? Well, I mean, I think that I'm not going to try to get into that right now with the team. I mean, we need to focus on us, but that it's a long season, you know, that you have to continue to improve whether you win or lose, you've got to move on to the next game, make the corrections, try to recognize how important we believe the keys are. You know, we talk about turnovers minus two, we talk about quarterback efficiency, you know, 122 to 75, and we talk about running the football and stopping the run. It was, you know, whatever it was, 130 to 89. So there it is right there. Pretty clear that that's why we didn't have success yesterday. A lot of slipping from Jenkins in particular. You guys got to get that down in pregame and figure out how to keep it. Sure, just like we tell them every week, make sure we go out and check the field. We don't practice over there. Check the sun, returners. Let's find shoes that work. So, you know, our job is to wear the equipment that helps us do our job. And, you know, part of a defensive back's job is to stay on his feet. You know, so that'll be important that we try to focus on that. In preparation this week, did you face a similar quarterback in Russell Wilson and would have just early challenged in facing them? Well, I mean, Carson runs very hard. I mean, it looks like their defense played really well yesterday. Lockett continues to be one of the best deep ball receivers, you know, again, that I can remember for his stature. You know what I mean? It's just he's a small guy that plays the deep ball extremely well. You know, obviously Metcalf and Everett, you know, Russell Wilson is just composed. So it'll be a huge challenge to go out there and handle that road environment. And we're going to have to start here really quickly. Where does Rashad Weaver need to grow to be able to be active on game days? Probably just continuing to focus on his strength at the line of scrimmage and, you know, special teams, you know, developing that, you know, developing that role. And then, you know, Weaver's working hard to just, you know, get five guys at that spot. And, you know, he saw Ola factor a little bit yesterday and, you know, but we'll keep, you know, we'll keep looking at it and keep working, you know, with Weaver, you know, like his attitude. And, you know, he's working hard and give us a good look on the show team. And that's why I talked to those guys about taking advantage of those reps to improve against good players. One matchups that can, that, you know, you guys, Safford has mentioned to other guys have mentioned that you have. I mean, is it just a matter of literally a player just making a play or where it's technique in that? Like, how can you guys keep those type of things from happening so much? What? Not winning? Yeah, not when we win. When we win the game, we usually win the one-on-ones, you know, and when you lose, you know, they've only got 11 guys. We've got 11 guys. You got to put them in a position, you know. And so it comes down to, you know, technique, you know, finishing, you know, those are things that we talk about, you know, maybe what his alignment is or knowing his skill set. Okay, this is a guy that likes to rush inside or this is a guy that, you know, may use a certain move or this route, this receiver runs a certain route or this is what he likes to do with his route. And I think that's a lot of going into, to win a one-on-one matchups is knowing who that, who that other one is, you know, and what he likes to do. So, you know, hopefully we can continue to gain knowledge of who we're going against and then find a way to execute whether we're trying to block them or we're trying to beat them or try to cover them. In a case like yesterday where a guy just consistently getting his tail whooped, I mean, how do you address that? I mean, you chalk it up to, hey, look, he was just a better man that day, let's spin it forward or how do you address that? Well, address it that we have to, you know, we have to be better, you know, and we have to try to stay out of some of those situations that, you know, would put him, you know, a player in those positions of, you know, dropping back and throwing as many times as we did. You know, we know that that's not ideal and that's not, you know, that's not what we want to be. And if we get into those situations, then we're going to have to be better going forward. You said that you guys lost the swagger with the score early on yesterday. That's understandable. Well, I'm just saying, like, we just, you know, I mean what, I don't even know what the swagger is, man, but I just know that if you're not playing complementary and you're not creating plays, it's hard to have a false enthusiasm, right? We don't want to have a false enthusiasm. And so, you know, if we could make one stop or get a conversion or do something, you know, fake a punt and get it and then go out and be able to get them with 12 guys on the field, you know, that maybe could get go or get a first down, but they, they got, they stopped us. You know, we faked a punt and they stopped us. Three plays later. I guess the questions that a lot of guys talked about, how they were building the swagger throughout the preseason and then yesterday happens, do you want them to spend this week regaining the swagger or do they need to have a humble, we just got beat desperation going into this week? Yeah, no, I think that we should say, and again, I hope that we approach every week the same, right? I hope that we're putting everything into each week as we possibly can, whether we win or lose. And if we do more today or Wednesday because we lost, then we're doing a team of disservice after we win, right? So hopefully we, we recognize that whether you win or lose, there's going to be corrections that need to be made and there's work that needs to be done. And I apologize for not answering your question correctly the first time, but hopefully we can take that approach out on the field on Wednesday and our preparation and our game planning and all those types of things and probably make it a little bit more heightened, you know, because of how we performed on Sunday. Struggles yesterday, you think related to the fact that he was, you know, playing for the first time since October? I think every excuse that anybody could come up with, you guys, me, the coaches, they would all be valid. Excuses are always valid, right? You can make a case for every excuse, but whatever it is, you know, dog ate my homework, we're going to have to just do enough and prepare enough and perform enough so that we do our job in order to help the team and not live behind any sort of excuse. That's just not going to be good enough here or in the national football league. Thank you guys. Appreciate it.