 Let me just first start off by saying I had a conversation with Craig Alkerman of going to move on and make a make a change there and their leadership on a special teams unit. I'm excited about, you know, the possibility of Tom Quinn leading that group. Tom's going to take over those duties, brings a lot of experience and knowledge. He's a great teacher and so hopefully, you know, we'll be able to, you know, continue the stuff that we've done well, which there has been some, you know, plenty of things in there that we've done well and hopefully, you know, eliminate those mistakes that that cost you. So I want to thank Craig for what he's done for us. Certainly in the time that I've been here, but I felt like this was the best thing for the team and for, you know, the players moving forward. Most importantly, the players. So with that, take some questions on the game and upcoming game here with the Dolphins. That decision was that like something over time? Yeah, just, you know, trying just again, just trying to evaluate, you know, what we do, who we do it with. And I just felt like, you know, this was the timing, what it needed to be and felt like it was best for the team and for the players, especially going forward. I don't recall you making an in-season move before. No, Corey. No, that had, you know, again, everything is, you know, there's no real precedent to anything. It's, you know, you try to get a feel for, you know, what's best and what's needed. And whether we've done something in the past, there's, you know, times in, you know, we haven't run a certain coverage or we hadn't run certain plays. And I think those decisions are about timing and feel. So that's the decision that was made. And, you know, again, we're going to get back to work here moving forward and trying to get as healthy as possible and go down and win a game against a very good opponent on a road and a big stage. Back at those two block punts. Was it a scheme issue that they took advantage of? No, I mean, again, you know, we'll have to make sure, you know, that everything that we do, that there's confidence from the players that there's an execution that's reasonable to expect them to do. Whether that's blocks on kickoff return, protection on a punt, you know, understanding from the specialists of where pressure may come from just like the quarterback. And you talk about punt protections, about building a pocket. And, you know, so again, there's a lot of things that came up. Everything, you know, that they, you know, because another team is looking at is just like us. How do we want to attack certain things? Or how do we want to play against them, you know, in the red zone or third down? Same thing would be said on special teams. And, you know, everything we do, we want to be sound in and make sure that we play with great effort and that there's execution. And, you know, so, you know, there were, you know, we just have to be better going forward. And you had any major issues with the special teams unit before yesterday's troubles? Well, I mean, there's always positive plays. There's, you know, plays that, you know, we've had, you know, listen, you can't, you can't win games with having, you know, three punt blocks or whether that's, you know, scheme, personnel, it's on everything. And so, again, decided to make a change. I guess Derek being waved to the sideline. Do you have a concussion? Is there any protocol? Derek, you know, just to touch on that a little bit, what was removed from the game, I saw it, you know, so I was, I was headed out there just because I saw the, you know, how he got up. And so did the trainers and so the players, which was great and then came over, was checked. They deemed him, you know, not able to return. But then it's doing great. Zero symptoms worked out this morning. So not in the protocol as of now, but we would monitor how he's feeling and any symptoms that may come up just like we would do any player. So again, as of now, it's doing great. And that's great news, exciting. How does that work when you're pulled out, but then later you're not in the protocol? What's the process for that? As far, I mean, he comes in, you know what I mean? It's like we checked on him last night. We check in with him and, you know, like we do every player that's, you know, injured or doesn't finish the game. Then he, you know, we check in on him in the morning. If he's able to come in, come in, does the, you know, takes a symptom score and that gets reported. And if there's a symptom score, then they enter into the protocol. And then when that symptom score, if there was a symptom score, then they would report it each day when it gets to a certain level. They start conditioning. They start weight training. And then they see an independent doctor. They take an impact test and then an independent doctor ultimately. So as far as like trailing just to kind of give you some context, you know, he was reporting zero symptoms, which allows him now to practice last week, take the impact test past that, have a full practice, and then get cleared on Saturday morning by the doctor. Could have been Friday afternoon, but they were in brain surgery. So they thought that that was more important than getting him cleared from the protocol. So if that helps, that's kind of how it goes. If a player reports zero symptoms, it would be hard to put them in the protocol, but you would monitor his, how he feels. And after it works out, check on him good. Let him go through today. Check on him again later on. And if it's still at zero, then I would assume that there's not a protocol to enter into. Is Stoney's situation season ending? Yeah, Stoney's going to have to have surgery and get fixed and come back stronger, stronger than ever and ready to go. So certainly don't want to lose players and that's unfortunate. Do you proceed with caution with Derek or just to kind of monitor how things are Wednesday, Thursday and if everything continues to look good? Sure. Yeah, I mean, we would, you know, I think we would do that with any player that was in that situation, whether it was Derek or anybody else. So hope that he continues to have zero symptoms and, you know, not that I'm a doctor or any visual test, but when I spoke with him after the game, him and I were probably one of the last two to leave. You know, having been in this and seeing guys that were in the protocol, Derek appeared normal and he went home. We followed up with him at night and again today. So, you know, whatever that is, we'll monitor through the week. Very like how Tom Quinn has done since he's been here and what's that like in season, having somebody, a new voice maybe leading that group? Well, I don't think any of us know and I told Tom that, you know, we would meet more this afternoon and that, you know, this is his opportunity, you know, to continue the stuff that we do well and, you know, we got to work hard to fix the stuff that, you know, has become or that is issues. We'll have to find a new punter, which is a new holder and, you know, but Tom's been great. He's been, you know, he's a good teacher like his ideas, like his input that he has and, you know, his experience. Have you had an opportunity to talk with the team about the movie editors to meet him kind of later in the day? No, our players will be back in a team setting on Wednesday. I feel like the best thing to do is, you know, get them some rest and recover, treat, you know, make sure they lift and they're through the building and we'll see them and just, you know, haven't had that conversation yet. Is Brett Kern an option or is he... I think, you know, I mean, anybody that can punt and hold would be an option. What's the division of labor challenge when you're making a movie like this? I mean, obviously, you've got... those guys have done a certain amount of things. I assume other people are going to take that over. How do you manage that? Yeah, I mean, I feel like we have plenty of guys that can, you know, that can help if needed. I don't anticipate there being, you know, it's just about conversations that we have about making sure that, you know, who we're going to use, who's available, and making sure that the players understand and making sure that, you know, they're able to execute to the best of their ability. Defensively, did great in the red zone. We gave up a lot of explosive plays that put you in tough spots when you look back at yesterday. Yeah, just explosive passes. No. What did you see good and bad? You didn't have a chance to answer Jimmy's question. I was pausing to think how I was going to answer. Yeah, you know, I'm into gadget, which, you know, give credit to them. You know, they hit a play just like we did for a couple of hours. You know, they just, you know, they...unfortunate to hit one over the top there. SMB was, you know, pressed and challenged. And, you know, and then, you know, Elijah, that's just, that's a mistake. You know, we have to... You know, there's a difference between handing it to them and making them earn it. And there was a clear difference in those two plays. They still got the yards, and they still won the football game. So, you know, you can see how many good plays are in there, third down, run defense, swarming, handling the RPOs, being locked in, knowing what's going on, and then, you know, one-play, you know, Cauchy. Will said that he felt yesterday was his worst game since he took the starting job. What was your assessment of how he played after watching the film? Well, I certainly appreciate that attitude. I think that's what you have to be able to do. You have to be able to, you know, give credit, you know, to the people around you when things go well, and you have to be able to accept the blame when they don't go well. And there, Will had some really cool, positive plays in there, sometimes where, you know, I'm sure he would have liked to look somewhere different or deliver the football. He had some good throws in there, and, you know, 50-50 decision there on a mirrored route to hops on the left and nicks on the right, and, you know, the guy on the right bit on a double move and the guy on the left in it, and he looked to the left, and I wish he'd looked to the right. That's how it goes. But there were still some really, you know, cool throws in there. And then just continue to see the picture when, you know, if a guy is cut, you know, the corner cuts and drops, you know what I mean? Try to, you know, get the big one off of that. You know, I know he'll keep working hard and he'll keep, you know, finding ways to help us move the football. A combination of the toughness that you kind of alluded to yesterday and then just the awareness of seeing a guy fumble the ball, go force a fumble, recover the fumble, return it, all these things. How rare is that in a guy at quarterback? Well, I mean, it just, you know, I think that's what you're looking for in the entire football team, whether that's, you know, Taj, you know, batting the pass down, chig, you know, trying to play to the recovery. Aziz trying to play to the recovery. I mean, in a dead sprint after we hit the quarterback one time. And so, you know, he asked about Will and that was, you know, there was certainly an energy and an effort and, you know, go tackle the guy with the ball. You've seen quarterbacks kind of in the past stay out of the fray and, you know, that doesn't look good. And I think that the message it sends to the team is a real positive one when you can say, man, I don't know if that was a fumble. I don't know if he intercepted it. I'm going to let him sort it out, but I'm going to go do my part. And, you know, he wasn't the only one, you know, but it was great to see him do that. But then also, let's not lose sight of the other guys that did that as well. What are you dealing with? Jeffery Simmons injury? Jeffery will be, you know, he'll be out here for a couple of weeks. You know, we'll see where he's at, but he'll be unavailable on Monday. The run blocking from Jaylon Duncan, that was good, but on the opposite, the pass pro wasn't. What were some of the things that you saw from him? Well, I would say to that, I may probably disagree on how good, you know, if you just look, I think it was inconsistent. I think there were some really good things that improved from last week. I used Derek's first touchdown as an example, talked about trying to get in on the backside, get in to the line of scrimmage on the backside so that the big fella doesn't have to go and check, you know, his feet. He kind of rolled and was able to then run by the corner, something that was very positive. Other blocks, you know, in the run game, need a little bit of work. Some things that we focused on improved, much like in pass protection. And we're times where really, really good, and some other times where, you know, maybe a soft edge or, you know, got beat underneath. So I would say in both of those, you know, whether it was a run or a pass, that you could find positive plays and then things that we need to improve on from Jalen. And, you know, Jalen was disappointed, you know. And I said, well, at least you care. And that's a great place to start. And he'll continue to improve and just try to do a little bit better each and every week. He rolled a lot of guys at him, good players. And like you mentioned, there was some good plays in the run game, some good plays in pass protection, but then also some things that we'll have to continue to improve. And, you know, I'll have to see. But for just a few starts or whatever second start, you know, we're just scratching the surface. What can you do better against, like, the speed, rush, equity, pain, and also the power that have you come through? Yeah, you have to be able to know who it is that you're playing against, you know, stance and how are they coming? You know, being able to sit down but keep your head out of it, all the things that we teach. And, you know, we talk about speed rushers. It's, you know, you got to get them at the top of the pocket. You can't be, you can't, they can't corner at seven yards. They have to corner at nine. And, you know, with that being said, you know, it seems like a broken record, but if you're firm in the middle of the pocket and the quarterback can step up and then, you know, you can run them by. But if they're cornering at seven yards, then it's not reasonable to think that the quarterback has a whole lot of room to step up from there. Just like Arden Stripsack last week, you know, Jeffrey pushes the middle of the pocket. The quarterback can't step up so Arden can corner at nine yards. And so those are all things go hand in hand. Jaylen and Peter, how do you feel the communication? Yeah, I think it's going okay. Yeah. I mean, I think it's going okay. It can always be better. I don't think we were, you know, let anybody go free, you know, per se. But I think that they're working hard to communicate and whether that's with the guard and the tackle or the tackle and the tight end on some of the blocking schemes that we were able to hit, which were cool. Had a bunch of double digit runs yesterday and had some ones that weren't efficient. But, you know, it was good opportunities for all of us to be able to run a football. Looks like there's a little bit of an emotional exchange, I guess, between Will and DeAndre there at some point. Are you okay with the way Will handled that? Or would you kind of want him to do that a little bit more privately? Yeah, we are in front of 60,000 people on national television. Unless they go into the blue tent to handle things privately. These games, there's a lot of emotion that's involved and, you know, I think that as long as there's respect, I think you have to understand that sometimes those conversations, you know, are, I wouldn't say heated. I think, you know, those things kind of happen and you get them fixed and addressed and, you know, move on and try to find ways to help us. Yesterday about having Colton up, Kyle down and getting Traylon back into the mix, but he wasn't, it didn't seem like it was full go for every rep, I think he only had 10. Yeah, I was just asked about that yesterday. I only got 48 spots. Eric's been catching punts for us. So special teams and the role that it would play, I would say that Colton's impact on special teams has been noticeable and been really fun to see and cool to see. Wanted to try to get Traylon back going, whether that was for the amount of snaps he played or maybe, you know, a few more. Not sure, didn't know. It's hard to tell kind of going into a game exactly how many snaps, but knew it wasn't going to be the full amount or 40 snaps. So hopefully that could increase. And, you know, I know Kyle will be ready to go. It's just have to try to make a decision on how many players, you know, come to the game based on who does what and the role that they'll play. The last time you were in Miami was what, an $8 game. What are some of the things like when you guys were on that first intermission and then the longer one? I know like in Miami, some of the players like they ate barbecue to eat mac and cheese. We were eating pan pizzas from upstairs. The ops guys went upstairs and they were getting many pizzas from the third deck and brought them down because, you know, we ran out of food. You know, I mean, the catering wasn't coming until after the game or whatever it was, but certainly interesting and unique way to start my NFL coaching career. What do you do to like keep them ready? Not a whole lot. I mean, I mean, it's like this one's going to be a while. So let's take our pads off and hang out and then try to have an idea of when it may end and, you know, try to ramp back up, went back out and then did the whole thing all over again. So I have to be ready for everything, I guess. This year against, you know, their weapons and their speed. Well, that's what it is. It's a speed, you know, great skill players, speed, you know, really good timing. You know, not only is it fast, but there's a timing element to it that, you know, it's not just all just run by you. There's a timing element and then what they do after the catch has been impressive, you know, their ability to translate that speed into the run game has also been something and then obviously the defense is playing well. You don't see left-handed quarterbacks very often. What does that change in terms of how you attack them? Well, when you start talking about matching a hand and making sure that, you know, you're trying to match, you know, normally which would have been with, you know, your left, trying to find ways to impact the ball the way that it comes out. Some of the RPOs come out much quicker, you know, to his left than what tradition he would. When you look at your run game, it appeared you guys were a lot stronger on the first down yesterday and how important is that moving forward, especially against team with Miami on Monday night, people continue? Yeah, you're going to have to possess the football and we're going to do everything that we can to try to possess the football. And again, it was about just getting into the line of scrimmage. Baxter did a nice job. I thought Derek ran with a purpose. We gave him, you know, some places to go. I thought Tajé ran with a purpose. You know, it looked like kind of what we wanted to look like. Not that everyone was perfect. There was some pressure, some movements that got us, but, you know, we covered them up and we got to 44 and we blocked 44. We gained some yards. I thought, you know, receivers did a nice job for the most part trying to get the support player and, you know, helping us get some extra yards. Do you think one of you improved level of physicality in the run game, working bad at style? Yeah, I mean, I think, again, just trying to get into the line of scrimmage with this penetrating front that Indianapolis ran. You know, you have to be able to get in there and cover them up, stop their charge, but also try to find, you know, two linebackers that can run. And, you know, that's a fine line of doing that and trying to stop their charge so somebody else can take them over and then trying to get to the second level. Had some good opportunities to that and, you know, we'll need a lot more. We'll be able to run a football and marry up that run game with our play pass. Yesterday, coming in at the end, and I guess this Christian, you know, the hamstring got him again there? Yeah, yeah, the hamstring got him again there and, you know, everybody's got to prepare as a starter. I mean, you never know when you're going to go in there, what you're going to have to be able to do, whether that's a defensive lineman, if a player goes down, it's an inside linebacker, Tajé, you know, going in there and just more of the load or an offensive lineman. We've seen that happen over and over. So, you know, you just have to be ready when your number's called. Jeff went back in. Was he just testing the injury? Was he just kind of what was the process? Yeah, I think he really, you know, did everything that he could, you know, and even made a play and he just wasn't going to be able to do anything and if you can't protect yourself out there and nobody wants to put a player in harm's risk. And we're going to trust Jeff to say when he can go and when he can't, but certainly don't want to put any player at risk and they can't protect themselves, especially inside playing defensive line where there's a lot of bodies that are coming after you and they, you know, are trying to get you. So, never want to put a player in that position.