 there? Yeah, really, you know, it's never perfect to me and an NFL game. Um, that's why I really, you know, going for their first half, we knew it was going to be a slow way that they played. They were going to try to grind it out, but they made the big stops when they had to. Regardless of how that first half went. Um, and then the second half, they played really well, and then especially down the stretch. Really proud of these guys. That was a really good team win. So we pride ourselves on where team. Then we got contributions from all over the place to that extent was crunching the numbers. This defense is three for eight when stopping opponents in the red zone over the last two games. What have you seen from your defense inside the 20? Yeah, our defense and it's always a bit about us and the team. So our defense, you know, we just we got really, really smart players and coaches and certain things. That's that's what it is. It's a constant work in progress. There's a lot of things we'll have to clean up tomorrow and we got to be objective and there's some things we've done differently down there and those guys communicate well and a lot of times it's a chest match and and I thought they handled it well today. What do you think of the spark that Caleb Huntley provided there at the end? Oh yeah, I mean there's another guy on our program and we believe in this team and guys and that's our charge is the coach. Everybody in this roster and you never know when you need next guy has to step up and Caleb did it today. So did Tyler Algier and so did every Williams. He had a big run late in the game and you know we had C.P. Early as a good contribution in the run game. When you put Caleb in things were dragging a little bit. Did you put him in for a spark or is that just part of the normal rotation? You know sometimes you get in there and they you know they have a say too. You know we didn't didn't execute well. I think we had three drives in the first half right? I mean it was a quick first half for us. We had like 17 plays if I'm not mistaken at the half. You know whatever was on that surface at halftime. And so we come out, try to take a shot. We don't hit it. You got to get off track. You had a punt. You come back. Try to do a little misdirection. Nothing there. You know get Drake going. Get the face mask right and then you play it in their hand. We're really off track. So then coming out we knew we wanted to get back to our game and it wasn't perfect. I got the pick on the movement pass. Ward made a pretty good play and a defensive nice job. That was a big stop by them. A sudden change and then we came back out and it was just weird just playing our game Josh. You know a lot of those first start of the series put us off track. That's credit Cleveland and we got to execute cleaner and certainly I can look at everything I was doing and then we're going to make a statement and that's what we did. It had nothing to do with Caleb and nothing to do with anything else other than trying to win that game and play in our style and that's what we did. Those 14 straight runs is that what you're talking about making a statement. Absolutely. When the line's running like that that's what you call being in a flow. Proud of those guys. We knew it was going to be a big boy fight and saying no run attempts and always thought the team that ran the ball better today was going to win and that held true thankfully. Arthur kind of following on all of that. When you go to the decision to go to Caleb and Tyler in that drive how much of that was because of Cordero throughout the week and how much of that was planned. Yeah. This is what I'm saying this going to be in dead series. I believe anybody is up on game day. Mike Petrie does a hell of a job. He's got his handle on it. If I need somebody on a play like I wanted Avery on a certain play to set up I'll call for them. But I got all the faith in Mike Petrie. I don't care he's out there because I believe in everybody that we put up on game day whether it's that receiver running back tight end Felipe. I don't care because I believe in these guys. It's not a status thing. It's not a star fan thing. We're trying to win the game. So Mike thought Caleb get into in a couple reps in there and he proved that he was right and that's credit to Caleb and that's Mike Petrie does a hell of a job. When he going with that when he does get one or two carries and it's going so positively at that point you is it one of those things where you just ride it until? Oh but yeah certainly. You know that Caleb played he had a first real carry a couple weeks ago and made it not mean a lot to some people but kind of get your feet wet so to speak. So I was very confident in Caleb that's why we put him up and like I said we knew what kind of game it was going to be. It's why we only had four wide receivers up. Defensively for at least a good portion at least to the first half you went with the similar defense that you used last week against Seattle with the five line with kind of the five linebackers on the field. Is that in some ways used to make it? We can morph to a lot. It looks like sometimes you can play different fronts very multiple different things. Mike you know we got a lot of speed when you put Troy and Mike Walker. Sometimes it looks like base you can go five down sometimes you can go four down three down. Those guys are fast enough to play in a slot too and that's what having versatile players does for you. So you can mix and match whether we put Mike forward in the nickel but Mike Walker put Troy Anderson put D offered that's that's why I get excited. That's why I'm thankful to coach this team. Is that something though that when you're playing run heavy teams like Cleveland is like Seattle was last week? Is that fit into it and what they're trying to do? You know they ran they run multiple personnel. It's very similar Cleveland a little bit different scheme similar mindset there and they run a lot of guys in there give you a lot of different looks they shift they motion some of it you're playing situationally and some are playing personnel and that's the chess match. I think Kevin Sifansky Bill Callahan and that whole Cleveland staff they do a hell of a job. Coach you have a little symmetry in these back-to-back wins with the defense getting a sack and getting an interception to end the game. How important is that for you to see that consistency to be able to not just close the game out but close it out in that type of decisive fashion back-to-back weeks? Well you know most of these games come down to the end and whether we got to go put a drive together and certainly you'd love to have a touchdown there but you know my bias opinion we can I got to put Ku out there in those close situations I got my money on Ku. So Ku you know bangs it through they use their timeouts and that's the game you're playing. So none of that what I liked about that last drive too was they checked to something and they threw what I call big box fade and Bell caught it on Alfred and then D didn't flinch you get up play the next situation. They run a screen they get guys down the field you take the penalty you know you kind of got a chance to pin your ears back and then be able to get that picked the next play that was says a lot about our team and the kind of guys we got. Congratulations on the win. Who's got congratulations on the win coach. Thank you. What was your message to the team after the game? Just you just said it we're a team and we'll find different ways and we believe in these guys and we got to keep improving but these guys believe and that's the way they work and so hopefully we can get back to we know we got a huge divisional game down a Tampa next week and we got to get ready so we got to go in there and assess where we're at tomorrow and on the Tampa. Thank you. Speaking of the screen game or the defense how well they played the screen game was that something you saw on tape or was that defense reading and reacting? Well some of it you know and guys being disciplined you know one of those they had a pretty good call we were we were pressuring guys being able to read out of it and that's kind of the game you get a feel some linemen's maybe they give it away because they're too quick they let you beat them too quick but we had different calls in there too so a lot you know so it's instinct knowing the situation being able to make those plays. There were a couple of possessions second half where you had Holland for Hayward what just what was the no different than having Huntley and Algier in there we got we got a team I'm going to continue no different in Troy plays a little bit Lambin had a package like I said we believe in this team that in some positions though like at corner that's not always something that you see in the NFL I'm just wondering what what you were seeing from your guys that tells you a lot of guys I can play that can help us win that's that's what I see no different than you know we roll tight ends or receivers or backs D linemen corners safeties I mean it's we believe in our guys that are up and and will continue to work that's all it was. You alluded to it a little bit earlier but it looked like they were looking for D'Alfred a couple of times were you surprised that he was able to respond in the way he did at the end? No and I wouldn't say they're necessarily looking at him Josh sometimes the games in the game it happens to be with the coverage you know they're trying to get indicators sometimes they get them sometimes they don't a lot of that is when they're packaging plays I'd say it's more about what they thought the look was and so like I said I mean they they thought they they they guessed right I mean they didn't guess right they had a tell and but they had something completely different the next time when we were able to get the get the sack so I thought they saw if they were getting it again but they weren't and that's the games within the games so they checked to it happened to get man they threw that big box paid people call it a chop route some people stomp route I've called it a hundred thousand things but that's all it was Josh I didn't see that like they were attacking. You called this game a big boy fight which I like by the way that's probably going to be my headline but for this run for run blocking purposes what did you see from your offensive front and I know last week you talked about it's all 11 blocking but what do you see from? To be able to you know we didn't have a lot of snaps early in the game like I said credit to Cleveland then you know it was kind of a lull really about both teams that started that third quarter it was getting kind of quiet in there and those guys keep swinging it's the way they work and we know I mean it's going to be a challenge I mean you're not creeping up on anybody people know that we want to run the football and that's what you that's what fires you up and it won't be that way every week we're gonna have a challenge it's a good we know how competitive it is but when you can run the ball when they know you're gonna run it that speaks volumes about your guys thank y'all appreciate it. Marcus I asked coach this question so I'm going to pose it to you as well you got two back-to-back wins basically the same way to a sack and a pick to close out so how important or how confident is it for you and as well as for this team just to know that your defense when charged to close out a game can close it out in that fashion it's awesome to see really our defense has continued to make big plays in pivotal moments we as an offense that excites us because we understand that if we can get down there and take a lead in the fourth quarter our guys have the opportunity to close it out but credit to our defense you know they kept us in it really and gave us an opportunity at the end of win. And you also had a game where you had 11 first downs on the ground and so this was that game where maybe you know the Browns didn't allow the passing game to really take off but whether it was all jeer whether it was cp you really had the ground game going out again how important is it that for you guys to have that versatile that versatility on offense starts up front you got to give credit to our line they did an unbelievable job unbelievable job and for us as an offense sometimes you got to be patient you know you're not going to make plays down in the passing game and we understood that you know if they're if they're covering some of our play action passes some of our intermediate game we had opportunities to run the football and you know we leaned on our guys up front our backfield was unbelievable young guys coming in and stepping up and making big plays and you know what that's what it takes I don't really care as long as we win games congratulations Marcus on the win just talk about just your biggest takeaways from tonight's win again I just thought it was a complete team win you know offense made plays when we needed to defense made plays when we needed to special teams they came up big too to be able to play all three phases that way it's huge for us and I think it's building a great foundation for the rest of the season thank you guys have a good night