 Yeah, coach, what are any medical updates after that one? Obviously, you know, AK didn't finish the game. Hopefully he'll be all right, you know, because he's dealing with the wrist injury. And, you know, we'll try some different things to maybe a different brace here or there, and see, make sure, check again to make sure there's nothing, not slingering with him. And then the ones that couldn't make it back, Felipe, you know, came back. Juma, you know, we'll see the week goes. Chance to get, you know, Elijah back at practice. We'll have to see how that goes towards Wednesday. Who am I missing there, D-Led? You got? Juma. AK went to the game. Juma and Felipe are not gone. Yeah. Same thing. We'll just have to see a response by Wednesday. But, you know, day-to-day on all those guys. Yeah, after the dust, I'll go ahead, man. Yeah, just to be clear, so it's a wrist injury on a forearm for the forearm. This is the semantics. Right here. Somewhere in here. Right down here. Well, it's up to me. It's on the forearm. I mean, it's all attached. It's all attached. Right, but don't put more on the lower part, man. Sure. In terms of, so are you going to then activate Elijah? You just have to see how it goes. We've got to see if he's ready to practice Wednesday. And then, obviously, if he is ready, see how he looks by the end of the week. You know, it's a little bit like CP, where they come back after a month. You've got a better shot than a guy that's been off for three months. Brian, just to be clear, so you're planning on, at least, starting that window on Elijah? We'll have to see how it goes about Wednesday. But he has a shot, I guess, is the best way to put it. We're just not ready to make that decision today. Obviously, we'll have more discussions about it. With Elijah and the medical team. But there is a chance. The window's open for him, and he's made good progress. Even if he gets out there, it doesn't guarantee that he'd play. I know you addressed this yesterday after the game. The benefit of feeling looking at it with that goal and goal situation at the end, three time outs, you wish there was a run goal there? There's a lot that goes into it. You've been in those situations if, certainly, your thought's different if a field goal wins it, right? You're down two, or even if you're down three, being risk adverse. And I say that, meaning you call a run, you score, you're going to have the same issue. You're happy you scored a touchdown, but you're going to have to turn around and still have to defend. You'd love to have it when you score a touchdown with one second, no time, and kick it and go home. And so when you're down six, you're going through the thought process. You call a run play the first play. You lose two yards. You're second to four. Runs you like. There's also passes. So do you pass it on? You're probably going to have to have a pass. And if you don't get it in at some point, whether it's third or fourth down, and went with a, those are the decisions you make. So you go with a decision right there to get them in. You're pretty confident in what you're going to get. And we got it, but unfortunately, they made a play. And so you live with that decision. And it's one thing if you get wired, you call a pass. You're wired, play extension. Those are pick. You know, people bring up different references. You know, hey, it's like, saw this happen in a big game, or ball gets picked on second down. And we've all seen it. I mean, those are obvious things. And those are, you know, bang, bang. I mean, these are ones where different scheme, different situation, time left in the game, where you feel like you got pretty good, but two of your better players or you've schemed it up with Patterson and Drake. But unfortunately, they got a pretty damn good play on the other side at battle all day in Daron Payne. And he dipped it, and not only did he dip it, the ball bounced it forward. Well, you know, you go into that, and that is a good front. But we also feel like we're building something here up front in our mentality and the offensive line. And there isn't moral victories, but there's, it does give you confidence week after week that these guys have stepped up and no matter, and we played some good fronts. And it is the NFL and everybody's good, I got that. But we played some of the better ones. I mean, I played San Fran, I know they didn't have Boso, but that's a damn good front. And then yesterday, they were playing as well as anybody in the league. And low possession game, I thought we moved the line of scrimmage pretty well. Thought we had some really good pockets, staying on track where they didn't get, they had the one sack on us. Tried to be aggressive, wasn't there. It wasn't likely initially they collapsed it right away. And then obviously we took the sack. I know you talked a little bit about yesterday, but you played some Kyle in the lineup. It looked like, almost like it was like maybe four or five guys took on different parts of his role. Was it that many? What's that scene? You just evolve where the game plans at. We can play in a lot of different personnel groups and you ask guys to do different roles to try to play to their strengths. And that's kind of how it went. I mean, the scheme you're playing in a defensive rise in the front. And they probably played more on top than they had. I mean, a lot of times when you're in a heavy rushing game, you get these guys that they're up there at eight yards. I mean, I've lived that world too, where you gotta make sure you gotta get something over the top. And then certainly we tried at times. And I think with all the personnel groups we were running and some of the motions they were trying to just keep it out rely on their front. And so that was the kind of the game that within the games that were going on, even their third down plan changed as the game went on. And that's kind of what was going on. I guess what it's like going forward too. I mean, is it gonna be a week to week thing of maybe how you try and figure out to replace what he did or do you kind of have a better idea? It's not like that. I mean, you're dealing with what you've got available. So it's never one for one. I mean, that's just not reality. That's not practical. So it's our job to make sure to play at every advantage we have and protect where you think you might have a disadvantage and neutralize their strengths and attack what you think they're weak points. And that's kind of what it is. And so we have a lot of guys that can play multiple roles. And I thought yesterday, if you're talking about the tight end position, we asked Brut to do a couple of things. We asked Forksher and certainly Hesse, who's done a lot of the hard jobs all year. Having a guy like CP, though, you moved him all over the place, really. Does he play into that as well? Because maybe he was spread out a little bit more. What are you trying to find a prediction? Production error. He caught the crossing route. Obviously, what Drake can make sure that try to find different ways and get him involved. I mean, OZ yesterday, some of the stuff that we were doing with Drake and opened up some things for OZ. The big play had it in the game. Well, they played over the top. Two guys run with him. OZ comes out of it and we're able to hit him for the explosive that got us down there. So that's the give and take with it. There's a different ways. Like, it's just, it's not gonna be one for one. And you just gotta find different ways to play to what you think the strength is and what the game plan allows yourself to win. And obviously, we didn't yesterday, but we were able to give ourselves a chance, at least. CP had five targets. Is that a function, part of part function of that? Yeah, and some of this, you know, you get him multiple ways to try to find him the football, to get him the football. Rushing attempts and things like that. And it's not just targets. I mean, that's what shows up on the stat sheet. You know, sometimes you call a play with a guy being a primary example with Drake. You know, where a lot of those were, he may be the primary, but the ball's not going there for whatever reason. Maybe it's because of the coverage and you got to progress. Example, I just gave it with OZ. That happens a lot too. And you may call a play with a guy who's primary, but they have a say, they can change it up and you've got to have an answer. You can't say, oh, I'm only going to call it versus this call. You could do that and have three checks at every play, but you're going to play pretty slow. So you've got to be able to progress and have answers, and that's what we try to do. You only have one carry, is that it? Was that a function? Kind of a function game. Yeah. You know, you had one good run. Yeah. I know. You got to try to find a way. I mean, that's a good problem to have. How do you, because Tyler's playing really well. We know the impact C.P. has. That'd be a good problem to have, and we got to make sure, because he's earned the right to carry the football for us. And you get in the game, and that's what we got to take the next step, but we're in a lot of these low possession games. Some of it our own fault, and they have a say in that one right there. You know, time of possession, or we only had 57 snaps at offense. That's right. To go back to that Golden Go situation, the argument that I've heard from fans on Twitter, maybe some Russian bots sprinkled in there, is that you can kind of eliminate the clock if you run the ball in that situation on second down, and then, you know, You can't if you score. Attention, right. These are great subjective arguments. There's never the perfect answer. You're trying to, you know, when you need a touchdown, you've got to find a way to score a touchdown first and foremost. You'd love to have your cake and eat it, right? Like I just gave you the example. The perfect world, you'd love to call the play at one second, score, kick the X-point, walk off, and never put the defense out there. Absolutely. So when you're taking, there's a risk every time you're making a play call. So say you do dollar-running there, we score. You're gonna have the same position you're gonna be in. So when you had the three timeouts, and so I, no, I'd get it, and I've been in that before, and if you have a time out, if we just needed a field goal to win it, you're probably gonna kneel down there, you know, until you get it, and you bang the time out and you walk off. Or even if you're down two, you can play it completely different, even down three, right? Maybe it makes you a little more conservative there. And I understand that. And you're calling what you think is your best call and a way to get the ball to your best players. And that's the risk you take and that's what you live with. Not only to get tipped, and it does, you know, even if the ball hit the ground, it would have stopped the clock. It would have, and not only to get tipped, it bounced to them. So you live with that, I get that. But you can't call a run there. And if we score, we're gonna have the same problem. But the thing that at least we had the time outs as painful as it was, we had to go play four minute defense. And then obviously we got the penalties and we never got the ball back. Let's talk about close games for a second. Just, you know, last year, you guys went seven and two and one score games, all seven of your wins were. You had eight other games, you were by definition blown out by at least two or more scores. This year, four or five in close games, there were only three games decided not by two scores and you won one. Really, there's only one game this year that you weren't really in, you know, sensing. I mean, winning close games, a product of execution, coaching a whole bunch of other things. Like, what do you take from either regression or what's different this year about not winning those close games? Do you even study that? I mean, the way this thing is trended. It's, you know, last year, I mean, there's completely different. Some of those scenarios we're in. Yeah, Denver roster, a lot of things. Like even someone that came down to technically one possession games, other than the Jets, right? Well, that was one of the one possession games. We were in control the whole time. We was Mike Davis scores. They get a touchdown late. They kick alongside. It was never really, they weren't the same type of games we've been in this year. They're feel like that. Miami, right, where we were in control and they think about the last year, the difference, completely different team where this year, you know, even the Carolina one, they kick a field goal late. They technically made it a two possession game. Then with the Thursday night game, it was really a one possession game. It's just, there's a lot of ways, a lot of things that goes into it. Even yesterday, the ball not only can tip, it's tipped and bounced right to him. TQ picks up a fumble and a crazy game and the ball comes out and it's a double fumble. You know, it's like nature, you know, Carolina. They had, you know, we had multiple chances to win the first one at home, multiple chance and we got lucky that they kicked it. I mean, that's kind of what's been the story of a lot of games this year. I feel like we're executing a lot better. We've made a lot more progress in a lot of key areas that have given us a chance situationally, but that is the end result. So I understand the question, but I think there are two completely different scenarios. I believe we're a much better team. We're a pretty disciplined team. Not going to woods, we're not very, we don't get a lot of penalties. We don't have a lot of mental errors. Now, does that make you feel any better that you're five and seven? No, but we have a chance and these guys, no matter what's happened, grind it out and it's going to pay off and it has to pay off. I mean, he's one of these young guys and they know what it's like to be in pressure. That's what the world was living. I said, use this rubber for like, we're all right now, we play in the mud and we're going to fight you and do everything we can to throw at you to make sure we can have a shot to win the game. How much of that as a function of what you have offensively versus, maybe trying to protect the defense a little bit? How much of a take? I mean, you don't feel like you got... Your matchups, maybe on the perimeter or maybe where you're at with the pressure. I mean, a lot of times if you bring a lot of pressure and you play a lot of man, you turn your back to him, you can give up explosive quick and that's a risk assessment on the other side. How you want to play, who you're playing, what the game plan is and in the last two weeks, we played a lot of, we played two quarterbacks that extend plays with very different players. We had a different group of skill guys from Chicago to yesterday, which is a pretty talented group outside and they were to extend some drives, we played pretty well on situational football, gave us a shot. You know, you hold somebody at 19 points, as ugly as it may feel at times in the run game and in the way they had the clock, we gave ourselves a chance. So there's a lot of things we can improve, run defensively, run fits, things that are realistic, not just coach speak. That'll be our charge this week with the game. That, I mean, it's crazy that we're still in the situation. I feel like a broken record where two weeks ago we were yesterday and the way the schedule is in a perverse way, it's a late buy and you're half game back in the NFC South or however that works out. So it's, you need any opportunity, I guess. You say you need opportunity a few times. Is there any point where you just look and be like, still in, but at five and seven you're still in this in a very real way and not kind of. That happened a lot. I mean, you've been walking off the field yesterday. You know, when I was in there in 0-7, I mean, you know, they were honoring Sean Taylor and I was part of that season and we were sitting there and I think we started five and three, lost four in a row, including that Buffalo game where you're sitting at five and seven and we ripped off four in a row and got in the playoffs. I mean, it just, it happens in the NFL. It happens every year. You make it hard on yourself for, damn sure, but we are. I mean, that's the reality of the situation. You're going to get better on defense on third downs. I know you were a little bit better yesterday, but it seems to have been a problem throughout the year. Yeah. The field on third down, how are you grading that? Well, a lot of it's, we've changed some things we're going to and that's part of the coaching. I mean, it's a fine line of improving, you know, but if you're going to get beat on the same things, you better change it. So we've tried to adapt, you know, we've had a lot of different bodies up in there inside. These guys are grinding in there and we're trying to find different ways to try to affect the quarterback and whatever matchups we have outside. And it was good to have AJ back. I feel like you can see him getting back to speed. He made some good plays yesterday. One third down and we'll continue to try to work that week to week. Brake had 216 yards receiving in the first three games of the season. I think he's at 224 since. Is there anything that you can attribute that to? Yeah, there's a lot. Obviously he's a huge part of our offense and we'll continue to find ways. I mean, the numbers are where they are. He's had a big impact and we'll continue, always do a better job if I'm finding, whether he's the primary or not, if Paul's not going to him, okay, why is he not going to him? And so what can you do differently? You know, he's, like most rookies, there's some things he's got to figure out, but we're very pleased where he's at and we can continue to find ways to get into football. And I gave you an example in a critical moment where his number is called. They cover him, somebody else has got to win. Like I said, the play that, the last drive. Yeah, so we'll continue to work at it. It's not for a lack of trying, but certainly we can do a better job. Is there an element of that where he's new to the league? Teams may not know how to optimally defend him. No, I think they're talking to the fan. I said yesterday, they played over the top a lot of things that probably try to protect some of their corners or probably try to protect some of the things we were doing pre-snap or having to defend the zone read. That can certainly change your coverages because that's going to change your run fits. You got to add an extra, somebody's going to have to play two-gap, give or take, depending on the scheme behind you, even in post-safety defense. So that certainly can change the way that they may play coverage-wise. And yeah, I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. Did they kind of keep McLaurin under control? Well, I mean, they kind of, they came out and they threw the ball a lot early. And then obviously you guys were all there, the game went on, and Robinson got going and they grinded out a lot of long drives. So I don't, probably pretty similar to Drake, whether that, I don't have Scott Turner's call sheet, but I imagine that he focuses on Terry, but same type of thing. They were running the ball well. There was a couple of plays that I thought we made that were pretty good. AJ, the one that, the interception that, obviously the ball hit the ground. Similar to when you faced in Paris weeks ago, how much college shape do you look at for Kenny Pegg, or is that out the window at this point? Given you've got- I think you guys also kind of see what they're doing. I would certainly have, like all these guys, which I think it's important to, whether you take a guy, you need to, you don't skip steps in the office, and you need to learn the league. Because again, you only have a certain number of picks and you got to know who's coming in and what their strength and weakness is, and then you kind of see what they're doing as a pro. So it's not necessarily going back and looking at college shape, there's enough now where you got a good feeling, but you guys certainly know what it looked like at University of Pittsburgh.