 Hope you guys had a great holiday. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Back to work. That's what I hear. Mike, at this point, biggest challenge seeing who's healthy enough to put together a roster for Sunday? No, not at this point. Our challenge is to put a plan together and get our players to understand it and how we can play better. Certainly against this opponent on the road and win. That's what the challenge is. We'll make sure that there's 48 guys that are ready to go, that are as healthy as they can be, and ready to win. This team has been so good in your first five seasons in one-score games. This year, the record is the other way. You've talked about seven games by one score. You've talked a lot about that fine line. What is the challenge of trying to navigate that and end up on the good side of that line? I think it's just always just the little things that end up adding up. And we would love to be ahead 14 points in the fourth quarter and use the clock to our advantage and rush the quarterback and try to create negative plays when you get into those situations. But that's not where we've been. So it's just the little details, the little plays. One guy here on a screen, a cut, one throw defensively, making one play and hitting the ball out or intercepting it, or one penalty here. It's hard to overcome. 15-yard penalties in a close game or a false start that makes it first and 15 against a good defense So those are all the things that we continue to preach and to continue to coach. And we're going to make sure that we all see it and try to find ways to eliminate it. We have a much forward record to tell you. You're close or maybe you're not built to finish? Oh, I don't know if we're not built to finish. I just think that we're close. We've been close a lot of times. And we've sat up here and we could go through all the plays that are very positive, that are well-coordinated with a lot of effort and execution involved in it. And then there's just too many of those plays that get you beat. And so I was excited to be able to play some young guys that really took advantage of the opportunity. And whether that's on special teams or offense and defense, but I don't know if it's not being able to finish. It's just being able to get in those positions. And again, we came from behind in Miami, gave up the score there yesterday or a couple of days ago, and then just really didn't get into that last drive how we needed to. That was probably the most disappointing thing. When you look at De'Andre Hopkins just individually, he's 69 yards or 61 yards, I think it is, from 1K. You guys haven't had that in a while. As you look back, how much has he been a plus for you guys? Yeah, I mean, he's been everything that we've wanted. I know that he and we all would wish that things were different and that we would have one more games up until this point. But I appreciate his attitude, his willingness, his competitiveness each and every week. And we'll find ways to hopefully have him help us this week and moving forward. From your perspective, how much has he been a steady and influence for your rookie quarterback in Levitts? Well, I think that that's something that's been there. I think early on they've had conversations. And again, Hopps played a lot of years. And he's seen a lot of different coverages and things happen out there. So the most important thing is that those guys are on the same page. There's nothing more important than that relationship. If I'm a receiver, I'm going to make sure that the quarterback knows where I'm going to be. So I think that they've worked hard on that. We'll see. Hopefully they can do that this week. Have you seen the importance of Will, I guess, since last week? You're still hoping to get him? Yeah, I mean, I think he'll try to practice tomorrow, probably in a limited basis. But I think that he's better. He's improved. And he's been working hard to get back like everybody else. Do you feel like it's important to get him to work if he's able to do it? I do. I do. I think that those are invaluable reps. Would anticipate a great road environment, gentry, and playing on the road in a loud environment and being able to handle the operation and work the offense. And I know that that's something that's always critical. So I want everybody that can play to possibly play. I must have come up with that on Sunday. He wasn't very close. Wasn't close enough. How do you explain, Danico, at this point in his career? I mean, is it DNA? Is it preparation? Well, I think it's a lot of it is will. A lot of it is his core values, his competitive spirit, going back to when he was undrafted and having that mentality every single day of his career, whether he was a free agent that was sought after to go to Indy or that came here, having that same mindset and mentality. So that's probably in his fabric to be like that. And it's continued to improve, continued to understand the game. He's a very instinctive player and plays inside, plays outside for us. Does a lot of different things. How do you think Ruppi showed up in his first start? I thought Ruppi, you saw him around a pile a lot. So I appreciate, one, the willingness to go and finish and try to protect the guy with the ball. I thought that try to play physical and try to help us in the middle of the pocket. There was some mistakes, but I thought he held up OK and was confident in how he would play based on what we saw in Tampa when he went in there. Pumped it on, I think it was 4th and 4th from there, 42. What was the rationale there? Well, it just felt like our defense was playing well and could potentially pin him. Three 15-yarders, and I guess the Mike Brown, when I was curious about that one, is that an automatic flag there around the knees or as you interpret that call? Optics, I guess. Why don't you tell me what you saw, Jim? Tell me which ones you liked and you didn't like. Let's go from there. I'm assuming you didn't like it. They're not going to find you. Yeah, well, I'm assuming you didn't like any of them. I'm in the hole here from Christmas, so. OK, so I guess maybe instead of getting you to. Jaleel grabbed the guy's face mask. I will tell you this, that crew, they lead the league in a wide margin, very wide margin for unnecessary roughness. Just like I don't think Diggs's hit against Trelin was a defenseless receiver, was dirty. I thought he hit him in the chest. Thought it was a very, very good, hard hit, a physical hit. Keep going, I'll respond as you go along. Yeah, I'm not getting you to question the call. Wallow had a hands-of-the-face on a kickoff, I guess, and there's 20 guys running into each other. Their hands are going to probably end up running their face every once in a while. So you won't go on to play more of it? Yeah, I mean, I think Jaleel, if a guy after a play is driving you, grabbing by the face mask and jerk him down, they usually see the second guy. Right, so I'll tell you, I mean, Jaleel knows better. Motion's got the best of them, whatever. You mentioned on Sunday, I mean, the call was in their favor or would have been in their favor, but for officials to kind of keep their hands in their pocket when they don't see something on Metcalf's touchdown, I mean, is that guy just kind of... Oh, I don't know. I mean, again, it just, you know, when I go watch Carter play baseball, I think the best thing is a decisive call. All strike safe out so that everybody knows, and then there's a challenge mechanism in our league and obviously in the major leagues that can then go, but, you know, blow the whistle. Our guys are coached and taught to play through the whistle, play to the whistle and finish and block their guy just like you saw Raider doing at times and say, OJ, I mean, these guys are trying to finish and when you want the play to end or when the officials think the play's over, blow the whistle and then when the end of the play is and just give a signal or throw the flag or whatever you're gonna do, but just do something and be decisive and then that way everybody knows and we can challenge the play in Pete's instance or, you know, if it was a touchdown, then it was gonna be automatically reviewed. That's all. What do you think the run game was more effective on Sunday? Well, I thought we did a better job of getting into a line of scrimmage. I thought we did a better job of, you know, getting the backers and then we had some missed opportunities. We had three screens that should have had, you know, explosive gains with Mason and Tajé and Derrick. You know, whether it was a block or cut, you know, we had some good runs. We had some runs, you know, we need to, you know, block them better. But, you know, guys were trying to compete, try to finish and gave us, you know, some efficient runs there. Mike, the young guy, like, every gets thrown in the fire and kind of struggles a bit at times. What goes into the coaching of that up this week in regards to you and his position coach and such? Does that have to get him, obviously, you know, right back out there? Yeah, it may as pro football, and those guys are talented players and, you know, making sure that you're playing with good technique and you're playing with a competitive spirit to challenge. You know, it's a tough place out there playing corner. You know, Trey's been out there, Trey's challenged for us, made some plays and they made some plays the other day on him and he's got to be willing to come back and compete and learn another opponent. How much can you learn about some of the guys on this roster character-wise? I don't know if that evaluation process is, you know, still ongoing, with special teams- It absolutely is. I think I got a pretty good idea about the character of most of these guys, but they're more than willing to or more than capable of proving me right or wrong this week and, you know, against Jacksonville. Go ahead. I said this week and then- Oh, sorry. Apologies. Multitasking, sorry. You had talked in the past, we'd asked about rolling will out and you talked about kind of the sacrifices you made in terms of cutting the field in half and it's not necessarily being worth it a lot of times. You seem to roll Tannehill out a decent amount in this game. So I'm curious what made it different from these? Well, I mean, I think just the health or what, you know, I mean, you made like a bootleg, you know, one was a roll out that wasn't successful and we've moved will, you know, we've moved Brian and you know, I think just some of that is based on what you think you're gonna get out on the outside if you're gonna get some sort of, you know, man coverage, I would say that and most critical two point conversion of the season in Miami will was rolling out. So I don't know what else, you know, I mean, like it's just pretty much situational and kind of what you think you're gonna get. They zone it off, it's not gonna be great. I know Jeffrey probably loved to play again this year but the decision made to put him on our last week just he just wouldn't gonna be able to protect himself and play. Yeah, no, he would, I mean, the decision, these are hard decisions. I mean, everybody that ultimately goes on IR, especially at this point in time of the season, you know, they're disappointed. They want to be out there. But we also have an obligation to put 48 guys out there that, you know, can help us win. And those guys weren't gonna be available and the ones that we put on IR weren't gonna be available this week. So we started there with those players that weren't gonna be available this week. In your experience to playing a team twice so close to one another? Well, I don't think they're gonna change much. I think that they're gonna be ready to go after yesterday's game or two days ago or Sunday's game and hopefully, you know, we feel the same way. And, you know, there's familiarity. You know, he just looked at them. He just looked at the personnel, play style scheme. So hopefully there's some recall there about who they have and how they like to use them. Same time they stand to be substantially different with Stroud if he's back. Sure. I mean, I don't think the plays, you know, I don't think the concepts, you know, are gonna change. But, you know, Nico Collins is back. He's having a hell of a year. He's a great, great receiver. You know, and obviously the year that CJ was having, I just only probably enhances the plays that they run. So I don't think it's a completely different offense, but it will have different players functioning within it. Games, earlier, you know, in your tenure, a lot of that, if you look at Derek's numbers in the fourth quarter, you would kind of get going and take over a game late. And how much of this do you think the last year or two has been an ability to kind of take the ball and just kill off a game? You know, Gentry, I haven't, you know, certainly grinding out the clock there when you get it with four or five minutes. You know, we've done that. We did that at times last year. I don't know how many times we've done it this year. Certainly not enough. But, you know, when you're down, you don't have the luxury to do that. Like we used Derek to go down there the other day and score and just didn't get a stop. You know, didn't get a stop defensively. So then we're back in a two minute mode. And that's not, you know, Derek can operate in that, but that's not his primary role. We know that. Now, if we're up six, seven, eight, you know, 10 points, you know, we're gonna rely on Derek in a run game and all that stuff to help us find a way to get down there in a four minute and all the stuff that we talk about in four minute about, you know, the penalties and staying in bounds and, you know, not, you know, just all the reminders that we talked to him about in four minute that we just haven't been able to be in four minute enough. Gotta be winning.