 What's the challenge in preparing for the Saints when you're not maybe sure exactly which quarterback do you prepare for both Simeon and Taysom Hill and does knowing Trevor at all from last year help? Well I mean I think we have familiarity with with Trevor obviously you know he did a great job when he was here for us and the role that he had you know I think it always is a challenge every week to prepare for for the next opponent. It's certainly one that we don't have a ton of familiarity with. We'll have to be prepared for for Taysom Hill for Trevor you know obviously they've you know they really got into a rhythm they they put Taysom in there the other day hit some chunk plays and then then went back to Trevor and you know really got moving there in the second half. Mike that Saints defense what what challenges do they present for you guys? Well I think they just have really good you know players I think their sound I think you know the scheme is obviously good but they you know they they're long on the edges you know Davenport you know Jordan Stout an explosive inside I think their backers are active I think tomorrow I've always had a ton of respect for DeMario Davis and what he's able to do and all you know really in the run game you know his ability to cover and also he's a really good blitzer you know it does it does a nice job with them you know Kwan and then obviously you know Werner rotating in there getting some secondary guys you know with Roby obviously Lattimore Jenkins Williams they have really good players in all three levels of their defense and um the rush you know helps the coverage the coverage you know they play different coverages they play multiple coverages and then obviously that'll help out the rush. With the way uh my brain I'm asking this question for Terry so I had to shift gears sorry uh do you need to make sure you stay out of obvious passing downs against this defense I mean they've been so good against the run uh yep yep you're doing great job for Terry just like he would say you nailed the impersonation um that that would be the goal um all the time no no matter who we were playing just to stay balanced and stay ahead of the chains and being good on first down you know those are those are tough situations playing the game and and second along and then third and long you just you know some of these guys in this league it's hard to protect them you know and you just run out of you run out of plays and time to get them off so the more that we can stay you know efficient you know whether whether we throw it or whether we run it um but that would be a huge key every week uh it's just being efficient on on early downs just how valuable is that to have as a hallmark quality I mean I think just having you know in life you know I mean life is you know things always come up um everybody deals with with things and what what is a struggle to one person is you know maybe not so much for the next person but everybody's dealing with something and I think that that's a good lesson in life carries over to the football field that things aren't always going to be great they're going to be mistakes you're going to have some adversity along the way and hopefully that with a team and a group and in what we believe in and what we preach and what we practice you know you can you can carry that through that there's not a panic level you know we had you know basically four double digit drives against the Rams defensively that ended in nine points I think that that's a good example of of that of not panicking and you know don't want to sit here and recap the Rams game but I think going forward it's like okay we can settle down not panic play well in the red zone get a turnover get a fourth down stop whatever it may be so you know we've had lots of situations here um and we just we they keep fighting and battling and finding a way a group it seems like you know both sides of the ball they understand that we may not have a good game so we have to pick up where does that like where is that rooted because that's it seems like I mean I think I felt you know they feed off each other I think that they're they're close I mean you practice against each other from the time that we come to training camp and so they're around each other a lot you know some guys are going to be closer than others but I don't ever hear any complaining as far as you know they got to do this they have to do that kind of just figure out what needs to be done in all three phases and and go out and try to do it good to get the I guess the process going with christian return of practice now happy to have been with the guys who've kind of you rotate a lot of different guys in there how how they've done as a group yeah we'll see what christian looks like this week this is a good thing to be able to get out on the practice field do some stuff get with with coaches get around his teammates you know do individual drills and you know evaluate him as the week goes along you know and then guys have stepped up and improved and you know done a nice job for us so and everybody that we can get back would be great kind of progress have you seen from from Dez if it's Patrick on the practice squad yeah you know there's you know some momentum there you know last I guess it wasn't the Rams week it would have been the Colts week he was show team player of the week on offense and on special teams and so that's a two-for-one special and those are hard to come by and I think that that's something that we have to continue to to take advantage of and try to find roles for him and have him keep working like like everybody else that's either on our roster or on our practice squad and that's you know that's our challenge do you feel like there's a knee I mean you release Reynolds is there a need to replace a wide receiver or are you more likely you think that to fill that position with you know maybe a different spot well I mean I think when you practice late in the year you're always going to need you know legs you need linemen you know guys are banged up so you know I would imagine that you know we'll have the legs that we need and we'll see where we're at on the roster how hard is it to find a quarterback at this time of the year and what what do you know about Kevin Hogan well I you know he's playing a lot of systems you know I think that he'll be able to grasp what we're doing fairly quickly you know in case that his services were needed and you know it's probably hard to late in the year to try to find guys he's played in this league and been in their meeting with Pat and and so hopefully you know he'll have a grasp by the end of the week that if we need him you know he'll be available yeah I mean there's danger there's danger all around you know you know it's just being able to be calculated I think understanding what's what's going on you know that play happened to be a quick game you know quarterback pretty much I declared but you know I think just some of those plays down the field I guess is what I was you know referencing that you know we just can't we all have to be smart do our jobs and then understand when when you have the ability to go make a play you know go make one well yeah that'll always be I think that the pressure on the quarterback the ability to affect the quarterback will always be something that will help you know different than you know getting a guy in a pocket in the end zone and him you know throwing throwing it to us at this point in the season how impressed are you with the overall growth progress of this team especially considering the adversity you've faced with injuries and setbacks well I think the the challenge now is to continue to improve without you know maybe some of the full speed stuff that we've had in the past earlier in the season and we talked about the details and being able to uh and focus on those when you can't focus maybe on stuff that you're doing physically for guys that may not practice until Friday you know we've had a few of those guys the last couple weeks and so the challenge is to find a way to improve without doing it physically and so that that comes down to details impressed I mean we're all we all have a job to do so you know that that's that's my focus is making sure that I do my job and that that everybody else does as well is the coordination with the pass rush in the sense of if one guy wins and flushes the quarterback you know there's someone there where the quarterback is going and how difficult is that to achieve well I think that first starts with who the quarterback is Luke and and so some quarterbacks you may be a little less inclined to have coordination and then other ones that we've played certainly that's at a at a premium and every week is a new week coach Williams coach crow obviously Shane everybody involved they come up with a plan you know when they try to you know teach it to the to the pass rushers whether it's a third down or two minute situation whatever it may be and then the and then the guys have to go out and execute it so I think the first part of your question is based on the quarterback you know and then obviously how they run it you know using the game example with Jeff the mistake that's commonly made as he rounds it off would would have too much space in between him and the tackle as he came around the tackle would then be able to give some ground to get a hand on him and run him by the quarterback Jeff wrapped tight tackle couldn't come back to make the pass off so you know those are those are the struggles that we face offensively you know trying to to stop those games and when they're run properly correctly with good players it's it's sometimes can can be a challenge lead the the league in the number of players who've played games this year by a decent margin what's it say I guess about either the scheme you think we do or we do oh I'm pretty sure okay so what's it say about I guess either the schemes or or and or the players that you know still able to have success with a number of different players rotating through here you know a lot of it is about the guys that are on the practice squad understanding that when they come in each week that they you know should be expected to to play in the game will they play in the game I'm not sure but if they come in with that mindset that I'm gonna play then they prepare they understand they stay engaged in the meetings they may not get as many reps and frankly they may not get any at all you know and that's the challenge of being ready to go they have to maybe get their reps on the show team and get their improvement that way you know we I feel like we try to coach the guys that that come in as quickly as we can extra meetings you know and then you'll find out what they know and what they're comfortable doing like how they kind of attacked his job coming back in here last week and he potentially earned more opportunities about having success yeah and we have to all you know do a do a better job and then continue drive so that we can compliment our offense but Diente you know has been with us is now with us again you know we'll see you know how many opportunities he gets but I don't think he did anything to diminish his role you know but hopefully we can you know get into some drives where some plays can compliment each other against an excellent defense the biggest challenge in replacing or surviving and prospering without you know your key player Derrick in this case you've got to play better and coach better and you know figure out a way to to move the football continue figure out a way to to convert on third down score touchdowns in the red zone you know block better as you move forward here for one guy in that backfield to emerge and get the balker or carry the other I you know I don't know that yet I don't you know just I don't think the body of work was enough you know we didn't we didn't I don't think we did enough offensively to really determine that I'm not sure how that's going to play out even like philosophically the idea of you know running back getting in rhythm and you know one running back well I mean the Saints run it really well and they have Alvin Camara and Mark Ingram so there there's a lot of ways to do it we've done it differently you know where we had one guy obviously who that guy was but we'll kind of see here as we progress into the second week with with having you know some new faces there is there anything in particular you want to clean up about the run game this week especially on those first and second down runs offensively yes yeah just try to block better and try to you know everybody you know the message to them is when we don't block whether that's as a receiver a tight end running back or o-line in protection you know people have the the the the possibility of getting hurt you know I mean it's when you don't block well um somebody can get hurt in this league you know those those the defenders are physical they're powerful they're they're angry and so we have to block better I think starting there um yeah and then trying to trying to again get these running backs some speed behind the line you know that was the challenge last week is getting here and then they're ready to go the guys that maybe are blocking for them aren't quite ready to go to to be able to to give them some full speed reps in practice um I don't know if anything went wrong I just you know kind of just didn't work out you know and so we we have to focus on the guys that are here focus on the Saints and keep working