 There's a lot of fun, you know, we love being competitive, making each other better. And, you know, it's gonna be tripping around, especially when, you know, it's a blue versus white, you know, we both want to win. So it's a lot of fun. I think we've got a lot out of it. A lot of guys got better. A lot of guys got a chance to make plays. I hope we did. They gonna came back at the end, I don't know. So I hope we did. Yeah, I actually enjoyed it, man, to get out there, be with the team and fly around. I haven't done it in a long time. And then going against something different, I felt like, you know, we were back and forth practicing against those guys. They're a good defense. They fly around. But, you know, I was happy to be out there to get some reps, be able to be with the offense and what I didn't try to make plays. How are the teams, I guess, divided up today? How do you decide who went up on the blue, who went up on the white? I don't think they did a draft and select it. I don't know who was drafting, but the blue team did a pretty good job. Even though the white team, you know, makes some plays at the end. But, you know, just trying to make it fun, make it practice fun, make it competitive. And as you can see, you know, we loved it and we enjoyed it. Derek, as you get ready for September 10th, playing our timeline from the start of camp until then, do you feel like you're where you want to be or are there things you still want to work on between now and then? It's going to continue to work until that time to suit up and play a game. That's always a mindset. And that's all, that's always how it's going to be for me. It's going to continue to work until it's time. Why are you looking forward to this offense and maybe having some more room to run out on the field this year? Well, really just being out here and continue to polish things, continue to get better, continue to pay attention to the details and, you know, let it all come together as camp's in and then leading on to week one. But I'm excited for everybody. I'm excited football's back. Can't wait to get out there and play in a real game. But, you know, we're still working right now, so that's the main focus. I think guys are still focused on getting better until that time comes. A veteran like yourself, like this time of year, you get into the dog days of camp, you're not really getting any live action and pre-season games. What's the excitement level looking ahead to September and what's, is there any like impatience there? No, I mean, you don't want to rush anything. Nothing you want to be great happens overnight. I think you just got to work through it, work hard. Come out here every day and be willing and be willing to work with, willing to improve, be a great leader, be a great teammate, and make everybody better until that time comes. Just focus head down and, you know, turn the vision until it's time to suit up and play week one. Coach says he really likes to wait Julius practices every day. Wait finishes. What do you see from him out of the practice? When we see the game stuff, what do you see out of the practice? You know, I mean, he practice how he plays. He's full goal all the time. Always running to the ball, always hustling, always shows up on film. And I think it showed this last Saturday against Minnesota. And I'm happy for him with, he works hard. And I told him, adventure is going, it's going to happen for him. And I'm glad it did last Saturday. What's the feeling, I guess, that I don't know if you've played maybe two season games already, or maybe you haven't played recently? What's the feeling as far as whether you need it to be sharp for the season, whether you don't need it? I know you've got to focus on everybody, but what you're trying to say, how much you need to work? I mean, if they need me to go in there, I have no problem playing the preseason. But at the same time, when you're at practice, you've got to get to work in as well to make sure you're prepared. And to work as hard as you can. That's what I try to do with the reps that I get. And practice is going against our defense, because they give us a great look. They're a great run defense and a great defense overall. So anything I can to do to help me get better is catching, just doing anything and getting ready for the season, like I've done in the previous years. You probably did a great job. I know I can't do nothing like that, but it's great to have a change-up and have a back that can be explosive. And I know when he hit the ground, he took off. So that was great to see. And happy that he was able to find an end zone. And I think he played great last Saturday. You've got to wrap up Julian's a couple of years now, too. Is he glad to return to the way he is now? You're glad to see him in practice. How have you seen him for so long? Oh, why do you do that? I think Julian's just came in, just ready to work. I've never been satisfied and continue to be hungry, want more reps, and whether it's on offense or special teams, he just does a great job. And he practices hard, and everybody noticed it. And I'm here to be a big brother, be anything I can do to help them and help bring forward their game a little bit more, and just help them in any way possible. So I try to help those guys, and they've been doing a great job. They've been working hard, and I'm very proud to see it paying off. You see 281 yards rushing, even though you didn't play Saturday night. How much does that kind of let you know that this team still has its bread and butter? You almost need to put some pads on, because I wanted some of that. But it's great to see some guys flying off the ball, playing our style of football, going out there and playing the way we want to play. And receive us going there and making blocks, knocking safeties down so Julian's to get a big run. Titans coming out the ball, getting big blocks. I just accredit it's the way they work to our coaching staff and how we are as a whole and how we come out here and try to make each other better when it leads to a game. You know I did, I know I did, definitely did. I just looked down and I said, you know, you know so. Yeah, but we just joked about it. But I thought he ran well, and he was two yards short of 100. But he still did a great job. But we can't get a hawk, though. And they've been doing a really good job. They come out the ball, they're physical. They try to finish, try to do everything. They're the coaches to ask them to do. And that's all you want, as far as the teammate. Guys who want to go in there and be willing, want to be physical and play our style. So, for sure. What, sorry, Derek, one more thing. What, is there anything said by Coach River? We're talking to a couple of guys about Caleb Farley's situation and just as his teammate. What kind of encouragement can you offer to him? You know, just praying for Caleb. I was actually just, we was probably the last one in the locker room last night just hanging around. But I just found out the news. Praying for him to keep him in our prayers. A prayer for his family. Sending our condolences. We all send our condolences. Just a tragic situation. I don't want to speak too much on it because I don't know all the details. But I just can't describe the way he probably is feeling right now. And just let him know we praying for him. We love him. And we all here for him. If you need some money to lean on. Thanks for your time, sir. The chance to tackle, I guess, live. It's been a while since I've done that. I'm really, I'm just, I'm kind of indifferent when it comes to the preseason games. But obviously, like, I trust, you know, very much judgment and, you know, what he sees in me as a player right now. And so if obviously, if he thinks it would benefit me to go out there, then obviously I'll be out there. But yeah, just the tackling aspect of it. Yeah, the tackling aspect of it. No, I haven't been in a process for you, I guess, to open the film. When you first started coming back, how do you think it's gone when you're here for every two weeks away from the season and how do you feel? I feel great. I feel like camp's going great. You know, every day I come out here, you obviously know it's not going to be perfect. But I'm just focusing on and taking advantage of all the reps that I get and, you know, getting to where I need to get to come that first game. But no, I think camp's going well. I feel like we're just out here, you know, us out on the front floor building that chemistry. And I just feel like I'm just really just taking it one day at a time, coming out here, trying to improve. Every third day spent over you, coming off the injury this year, I think things have been different for you as opposed to the previous time to get ready for the season. I mean, there's not really, like I'm going to be honest, I don't really think about my knee at all anymore. Like it's just, there really is no difference. Like right now I'm just literally focused on improving in every aspect that I can improve on so that I'm ready to go at my peak performance, come game one. I think third day spent walking through just kind of built-in rest. You surprised that you haven't needed a day off or they haven't forced you to take a day off along the way? No, I mean, I think Braves does a great job of, you know, identifying, you know, what players need what each day. I think he knows that like every player is different. But no, I think he does a good job of making sure that we're all getting the work that we need to get in while also, you know, making sure that, you know, he's taking care of us. You know, I think he has a good idea of, you know, what it takes. No, I mean, I felt like today was a great day. You could see how competitive it was out there on the field and, you know, obviously it was hot, but I feel like we all just went out there and competed, you know, we didn't pay attention to it and we just all went out there and went to work and I felt like it was a great day of practice. Can you ramp up the same type of intensity going against your teammates in an inter-squad game as you can in a joint practice with another team? Yeah, I mean, the only difference is you just don't know, you just don't know, like obviously we were going against each other all camp, so like you kind of know things about your teammates, obviously as a player. But I would say the only difference is you just don't know what you're getting when you go against another team at a practice. But I feel like we always put in good work every time we step out on the field and I think that's why we have success here because we practice so hard against each other. Who picked the teams and would you think of the balance? I mean, I don't know how they went about the draft and how they did that, but I feel like it was good balance. It was competitive the whole time. I mean, it was a close game, the entire scrimmage. But yeah, nah, I mean, it was a good balance. It was competitive. You're curious what you got picked? I mean, nah, I mean. Just scrolled over about your draft stats. Nah, I mean. I'm not even going to do that correctly. Nah, I'm not even going to do that. Nah, I mean, I don't. They didn't say, I don't know. But nah, I was happy, you know, obviously, where I ended up. Nah, Vraves told us about it in the team, man. We went over it. Nah, yeah, Vraves just let us know at the end of practice so I got to make sure that I reach out to him. But nah, I mean, it's like I couldn't imagine that happening to me. You know, I feel for him, obviously, and he'll be in my prayers. But nah, I mean, it's just you just feel for him, for sure. Well, I don't think that's important. I think what's important is that we do everything that we can to support Caleb, his family, and do everything that we can to be there for him, support him, that that's the most important thing, is to focus on him and not any of the, you know, everything else is pretty trivial. Well, he was over there this morning. Did the team help him get over there because it's not easy to get there that quickly? Again, what's most important is that we do everything that we can to support him. Emotionally, teammates, coaches, organization, just shocking, but also got to focus on Caleb and his family and what we can do to support them and be here for him. What you imagine it being since you had this idea? Yeah, I mean, I think that we came and we came to work with the right frame of mind with those players and coaches. And it was great energy, really good work. Thought we tried to take care of each other and good plays on both sides. What are all of your type of decision to change out kickers? Just trying to find somebody that can help us. We had a draft. Stretching big tee. I tried to massage it a little bit, where I felt like I needed to, but stretch picked and big tee picked. I feel like it was a pretty even split and a pretty competitive bracket. Yeah, absolutely. I think at one point in time, however, I was keeping score at 36, 33. And I thought there was good plays on both sides and had a few penalties that showed up on third down, had a couple X plays. So those are things that can be good, obviously, for the offense and not so good for the defense. But I thought it was very competitive, back and forth, good energy. What you saw from Ryan, a couple long touchdown passes? Yeah, I mean, Ryan continues to have good command. And as long as we can protect him, we don't get guys into spots. And we can help him out on the back end and catch them. But yeah, there's been good command, good leadership, good performance. You seem like Tiair was in the middle of the field goal scuffle after he was in the middle of something in Minnesota. Are you concerned that he's not? The message is not getting through to him in terms of? Do you have any idea what happened? I don't, I'm asking. Good. Well, no, you assumed. You said he was in the middle of it. So when you figure it out, you can ask me a question. Is that what you think? Is that what you think? I think he threw it. OK. Could you tell us what happened? No, you just assume and you went in a different direction. So when you figure it out, then you can ask a question. Well, we didn't bring him in. Yeah, you know what I mean? Which we lucked out. We absolutely lucked out because there's not a better human being. We got great people around here, but Thomas is, there's not anybody better that cares about this team that works his tail off and has really taken advantage of those reps with the line of scrimmage and has had good practice against our guys and then Minnesota and that carried over to the game. Rasslin and Tanglin with some of those big guys on the edge of the line of scrimmage. His hard work has paid off, and that's been really cool to see. And we like for good things that happen to great people. He said he kind of made it his first permission to really get involved in the run game black and white. Well, he didn't have much of a choice. Thomas isn't the fastest tight end that we have on the roster. So he had two choices, either get involved in the pass, which we probably would have steered him to the direction of being strong in a run game. So he's got a great frame, strong player, good length, and that run blocking suits him a little better. What do you, I guess, lost your cursor week, knowing that that date's on the rise and about just continue to focus, not think about what's ahead? Well, you can only control the things that you can control each day, how you come to work, how you improve, if there were mistakes that showed up in practice or they showed up in the game, making sure that those get corrected so that you're not an error repeater. You don't make the same mistake twice. Can you take coaching? Do you continue to show improvement? Or are you taking a deep breath? Or are you looking around and counting numbers and trying to figure out all the things that aren't important? I've seen a lot of snaps and reps from these guys in practice and the game over the last month or so. How much more over the next three days did they do to move the needle? I mean, certainly the game is important. We'll practice tomorrow. Game's important. You really start to see that the special teams is what we've talked about a lot with the games. You can only recreate so much out here. So the special teams and the ability to tackle some of those things that the game is critical. So I think you can see a lot. He's done a great job sticking around contributing to his team without spending much time on the 53. How's a guy like that break through now given the opportunity with some injuries? We'll see where he can line up at any different spot. He's been a punt returner for us. He'll get some opportunities to do that in the game on Friday. He's reliable, dependable, and has been talked about just what he's done when he's been here in the practice squad, as far as the amount of volume that he's had to take over the course of a couple years in practice, just playing safety, playing receiver, playing safety, playing receiver, because that's what we needed. And so you know you're going to get a good day, honest days, work from Mason. And I think we all appreciate that. And he's got a great attitude. He's fun to be around. Mike, are you hoping or expecting for a little of us to be able to play Friday night? Well, I hope. I don't know what I expect. But I hope that he can. I don't know if he will or not. What's like how many snaps or plays does he need to make it work? Which I'd make those decisions here closer to the game, but haven't really decided and made a final determination. I mean, I think sometimes it's just going through the process of uniform, stadium, being at home, pregame, going through the preparation, getting your mental routine, physical routine of warming up, and then going out there. So I don't think it has to be a ton. I think it's based on each individual player, probably. Does the approach for a guy coming off a long-term injury like that, like him, does that change the approach of like how to get him ready? Does it change that he hasn't played in a while? Right. I mean, he just was up here. I don't know if he just asked him how he's playing on, getting ready. Does it change him? Yeah, I mean, it's his. It's me. No, I'll have a conversation with Harold and figure out what I think I need to see and what he feels like he needs to get. That's really how it'll go. Some live action. See, he plays different blocks, cut blocks, and just being out there and tackling and finishing and just things that he probably doesn't do through the course of practice as much. I'd probably just see that, I would imagine. Do you factor a new kicker getting used to snapper holder on his first day into the misses, or he need to be back out of the game? Any kicker that we bring in or that we have on a team just needs to make him. Maybe you want to bring him in. We'd had Michael here before, and he's got the next crack at it. I'm sure they'll look at other ones, too. You talked about me some getting a look in the return game. Is there a gear showing you about to also get some more looks Friday night returning to football? Yeah, I mean, I had the one, I think, he bobbled. I can't tell him in March to part sometimes. 25 and 33. But those guys are competitive, man. If they can return, they're tough nickels that trigger in a run game and blitz, and they've been a nice surprise. So if Eric can help us in a return game, that would certainly add value to him and his position. Thanks, guys.