 What part do you like? He eats pumpkin top? Shocking. I know. Shocking. Shocking, I like Thanksgiving meal. I know. It's all. Do you put cream on it? It just depends. Put as much as you need. All right, D-Led. Jarvis is very anti-puking part of this. Yeah, Coach, want to be some of the keys to get ready for Jacksonville and get my office going with the offensive team. Sure, D-Led. It's like every week you got to prepare. We need to have a good week of practice. We need to get back to playing smarter football, which I felt like we did, for the most part, through a six-game stretch. We went four and two. I thought we played pretty good. Like I said, we did a little obstacle. But what we did do, we got to get back to work. We got to play smarter, get an execute better. We got to coach smarter, all the above. But it's going to start today out of practice. That's the way we prepare. As every week, you have to deal with different issues, different schemes you're playing, different match-ups, and that's life in the NFL. But we're excited to get back to work today. In the start of the game by game, y'all were hot near top, but we were there for a second. Now look at what was working there. Absolutely. But to recapture that? Absolutely, D-Led. And there's some things that we got to do better. We understand that there's different challenges every week, certain match-ups up front, or maybe the cover schemes or the players you're playing. Certainly, we need to get back to what I said. We got to get back to playing smarter, which we've had, for a six-game stretch, that we need to get back to this week. And yeah, we did do a good job on Monday about asking about Matt Ryan's foot and Kodaro and any other injury updates for him. Daniel Mahoff will, I guess, be with you. They'll be out there today. We'll evaluate them day to day. But they'll be out there today. Michael? Yeah, I guess when you look at Matt Ryan, I mean, is there any real concern that he wouldn't be available on Sunday? I mean, again, the longer you're in this league, Michael, strange things happen. So, you know, I feel pretty good about it. But as always, you've got to have a consistency plan. So, in case something happens to any of your players, but I feel pretty good. If the guy's a practicing, usually it's a good sign. And as far as, is there more that you can do to get Matt, for Matt to get any more protection? There's a lot of things you can do. Like I said, just from top-bottom, like I said, when we've played pretty smart and we've executed well, it's looked pretty good. We have, and it's looked like it has the last two weeks. But I'm confident we'll get back on track and it gets a good opponent and a really important game for us Sunday. Do you feel like you found a defensive identity? Well, that's what you're building. Which is still, you know, it's still a work in progress and really in all three phases. We want to get to the point where the most physical, smartest team on the field. And, you know, at times we've shown flashes in certain situations and other times we have. And I think when we didn't, and that was going back to Thursday, it was the most disappointing. You're playing a really good team, a championship caliber defense, and a good team that's historically won a lot of games, and you make those minor mistakes, you deserve to lose. And that's what's frustrating because we have done it at times. If we hadn't all year and you're saying the same song and dance and you're selling hope and this and that, but we have done it. It's a grind in NFL season. That's what I was saying. There's gonna be little obstacles in the way. We got to work through them and I'm confident that we will. Using the word playing smarter or being smarter. Yes. I'm assuming you're talking about the self-inflicted wounds and the situation with the ball, but what are you kind of meaning when you're talking about playing smarter? There's a lot of different examples. Getting your depth on a route. So it's a game within the games that you don't realize, you know, if you get your depths, a lot of times you can save yourself for some of those short yard situations and stay on track, right? And you become more efficient. And it's a minor detail, but they all matter when you talk about timing and spacing and trust in the passing game. And that's a small example. Or understanding the call we need to make protection wise, getting on the same page and making it. So you can have better protection. So you're gonna avoid some of the, you don't give the defensive advantage in certain situations. Those are all little details. That's why football's so fun. I mean, you love that people love this game and there's so many variables. It's so different than any other sport. Because those little details, the games of the game that you have no idea unless you're sitting in a meeting room, you don't know what's being asked. You got a general idea. Most people that played, you got a general idea. But so you're running a six man protection. There's teams week to week, they tweak things, you may ask for something. And if you don't execute it, it can look pretty bad. And that's the fun part about football and really pro football. But those are the things that we can be smarter about. What percentage of that is the way that you operate out here versus the people that you bring in? So how much of it is the people? How much of it can you develop? That is a great question. And that's the truth. And yeah, you can't sit there and say you got to be a physical team and you got a bunch of non-physical guys. I mean, I think for the most part, we got the right guys. Certainly, you need the right people. It's not, I didn't go to med school so I don't do heart transplants. But you try to have that culture, you try to get the right people in there and there's an identity that way you want to play. Because year over year, especially at the end of the season, that's what can wear people down. But it definitely goes hand in hand. Definitely goes hand in hand. I always use an analogy. If you want to be a high volume three-point shooting team, don't go get guys like me to go shoot three-pointers. Same thought. That's a good question, guys. How then do you develop it so with the people? Well, it's, you know, you want to get the right people, you want to have the right culture and you got to hold everybody to the same standard. Or if you want to use that word, which is a trendy word, but that is true. You can't start making exceptions. You start making exceptions and you look the other way then you're not being consistent and then you're just being a hypocrite. You always talk about, you know, it's season we can meet for goals and we can play games in a field. How do you convey that wishes to your team kind of helping them understand that for goalers or the record that Jack was having, like, this is a game that you got to be ready for? You would hope, I think, for all of us in life, it's about perspective. I think there's no, and the football is just kind of a microcosm of it, right? You win a game and you feel good and if you believe the BS, what I like to call it after you win a game, then shame on you. And if you believe the BS after you lose a game, shame on you there too. So I think there's plenty of examples of history in a lot of different industries. Or you look at, you know, seasons of the past, you're not the first team to ever start 0-2. You're not the first team that started 4-6 and then made a run and got to the playoffs. So there's a historical precedent there too and you got to keep things in perspective. So I think that's one thing and it's the hardest thing to do because what people normally want to do is you want to relax and be comfortable. And NFL is a grind and like you said, if you don't bring it, it doesn't matter what your record is going into a game. It's pro football. You can be a humble to the heartbeat and you can't ever lose sight of that. And we've got counting examples. You just look at this season for us. So that's a big part of it. But I think perspective is such a big part of life and especially in this game. Do you feel more of a passing? Yeah, I thought Q, he ran hard. It was good to see. I thought he was coming up physical. I thought he ran physical. You know, he's a guy that's worked through it, but hasn't been the probably easiest season for him. You know, it's not, it's a hard job. We understand he's NFL, but guys like him who go through the ups and downs and the journey of the roster, but I thought he certainly earned the right for more carries and we just have to see how the game plan goes and how his week goes. There's a lot of things. There's a lot of things that can break down on a play. Again, you don't, unless you're in the meeting rooms, you don't understand, you know, what you think you see is not necessarily what really happened. You look at it again, like the ones that are night, you gotta give, again, the defense has a say in it too, and for you, you can't forget that. Certainly when it doesn't work and that's the job you signed up for, okay, why didn't, no, I didn't work. Was it a bad, was it a poor scheme? Was it a poor matchup that we execute? So when you get in there and you run a, maybe you run a staple play, whatever happens, happens, and you don't execute something on the perimeter, and then maybe that stops you. Or they throw a different look at you. If somebody gets beat up front, there's a lot of things to attribute to it. And then other times, again, when you've got really, I always thought the outliers, you know, it doesn't matter what you call. Sometimes you just got a great player, you know, and they're just gonna make a play. So there's a lot of factors that go into it. We start to look at it. You know, at times where you have a small lack of execution, there's a ripple effect to it. And that, certainly, that happened Thursday night. But there's been times we've been okay. Other times we need to get a lot better. More said, starting with him yesterday. Mm-hmm. You know, a look I see from him in his trap, and you had to give him a dozen, I guess. Correct. And sometimes, and that's the simplest answer, Dustin, I thought, and he has, he's putting pretty well for us lately, but we're still living through a pandemic, and I know there's things change daily, and so that's life, and that's reality. And so, obviously, Dustin goes on the COVID-R, and you've got to find a punter. And so Thomas, the guy that we've liked, that's why you have a good pro scouting staff, and everybody's on the same page, and you bring them in here. So we brought Thomas in here, and we brought Don Maggio back in here, and we'll just see how the week goes. Somebody's got a punt. Hopefully we're not putting a lot, but somebody's got a punt. They did this, and they did this, and it's manner's on, but how are y'all trying to get him one least here, again? D-Led, it's pretty simple, man. Like, we try to get all her players open. There's never a lack of intent. We like calling up all over the field. Like I said, I mean, you get in too many obvious pastoral situations. Sometimes it's not necessarily the route. It takes all 11 in the passing game. You know, if you have a breakdown of protection or somebody wins, and the route doesn't have a chance to develop. Or if he doesn't run a good route. So that's the thing too. Again, you can, a still picture in this game doesn't tell you the whole thing would happen. Again, you don't know what we're asking to do. Guy could be short on a route. Doesn't take the right release. He said the defense has a say too. Like all these guys, we work really hard every day to try to get them open. And, you know, it takes all 11. It's a coordinated effort from all of us, you know, players and coaches. And on the surface, when they see the end result, and he runs away from somebody the first play of the Dallas game, you know, it looks pretty damn good. But there's several factors to it. He lines up all over the place. But as a team, I know the focus, I know the hype. He's a rookie, but as an offense, we gotta play better. And that's everybody. So, you know, anything else you got to add to that? I mean, it's more about. Yeah, the whole line, I'm just trying to make sure because, you know, he said it's hard to change the mid-season. And he said, schematic, tweak, it's down. I'm like, my brain's going, hey, he's staying with the line. They just got play back. We'll see you Sunday. Just gonna get a guess, and there's no update on the count. No, there's Monday. There's no update. So, as we get an update, we'll give you an update. There's no update. Yeah. As far as what your receivers are able to do, create a separation to run in the rounds, if you generally, how do you kind of assess or you could play history, what to see? Kind of the story of our season. The times just look pretty good. At other times, it needs to be better. And that's just what it is. And that's, you know, at the end of the day, on third down, more times than not, you're gonna have to beat man coverage in this league. And that's usually a pretty good indicator when you're seeing some one-on-ones. You see it more on third down in certain situations. And, you know, you can do different things. And we certainly motion a lot. You play out a bunches and stacks. But when you're playing a really good defense and you're going one-on-one, you're gonna learn a lot about your player. It doesn't mean that that's the way it's gonna be because it didn't look good Thursday night. It doesn't mean that we can't go in there and play and improve. And obviously, you actually get better on Sunday. But that's a challenge week to week. And the other hard challenge is the focus for 17 games to bring it week after week, day after day. To all speed, kind of last third of the season of managing players, managing practices, is different coaches different? That's another good question. It just depends on your team where you're at. Where you're one, other than a few guys, we're a pretty young football team. So I think there's a constant evolution. We look at it every day. We track guys, workloads. A lot of thought goes into it. Obviously, everybody's dealing with injuries, so you gotta be smart. So you may wanna practice most of your team, but this guy may need to be limited just to get him managed maybe as a veteran and try to be progressive there. If you've got an older team, like I said, my first year in the league with Joe Gibbs, we had a very veteran team and he took a different approach, but we had a really veteran team. Right now we got a young team and so I think every coach, that's the fun part, you gotta make the best decision, but that's a constant evaluation. And, but I know this, most of our guys, we need to practice right now. But is that during a big-out season? Yeah. You go into the season saying, okay, if there are X, then I'm gonna do that. Like, do you plan all that well before the season were easy? You plan ahead, but there are certain things that happen. I mean, like, you may have injuries there and you need to get more work. And a guy that's a veteran to say, hey, maybe on November or on a Wednesday, we can help him rest. I know that's a popular word in sports. You talk about load management or whatever the term you wanna use, but resting and managing your players and know that they're all different. It's not one-sided if it's all, but overall, we're year one, we got a young team. We need to play a lot better and it starts with practice. But if you get to a certain point in your program, and again, you got 31 other flavors, then that's the fun part. And you wanna make sure it's what's best for your team or the health of your team's at, where you're at in the season, what you need to accomplish. Yeah, but. I mean, you know. No, I like it. I just, you know, it's, like I said, I think like most of the league, whether you structure a practice, I know the teams that play this right in your first year not covering Thanksgiving game. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. So, I know I love Thanksgiving. You know, I wish I could see my whole family, but I got a job to do. And certainly the players and coaches, everybody will take time to hopefully eat with, they wanna eat with tomorrow after we put work in in the morning. I don't have a favorite Thanksgiving memory. Yeah, but, yeah, maybe Christmas maybe, but not Thanksgiving. Yeah, it was like a spade, like, you know, football game when you're like 10 or something. No, not that I remember. Yeah, practice, well, who's on practice? Do you know how many contact practices we have left? And Coach Taylor was saying he had the letter and we got three left, the rest of the way. Who's that? Well, Zach Taylor, he's on, you know. I'm good for Zach, yeah, yeah, that's pretty standard. No, you got my three left, or you need to stay with him, or? We'll just see how it goes, you got it. We're well aware of the rules, we're well aware of how many we've got left. Yes, correct. You just answered your own question. What do you need me for? What do you need me for? You just answered your own question. No, no, I got it here, they don't, they don't. No, no, no, I can't be like Chuck Nolan. We can't go full goal line on Friday, so. What you want to say? Sure, yeah. Everybody's playing by the same rules. He's trying to say anyway something here. No, no, I'm just kidding. Yeah, I mean, I think there's something wrong with you if you don't like mac and cheese. I must take a poll in here, like who doesn't like mac and cheese? Can we take a poll? Like who doesn't like mac and cheese all the way? Okay, let's just take a poll. It's one of those things, there's very few things that everybody can agree on these days. But I would think, I mean, there's probably somebody that's offended by it right now, but. Let's put it at this deal, I think 90% of people probably like mac and cheese, they don't, they don't, they're lying. Take me step one, like how are you going to go against anyone, attack that guy, and you've used that now to kind of like, as a coach, you kind of like regurgitate it. You just try to understand everybody's got different every issues, every player's a little bit different. What's their skill set? What are their strengths? Who their matchup is? What they're going against? Yeah, it's all taken account of. It's not one side, it's all. When you look at it and tell you, what do you see from Trevor Lawrence as a band that he does will, even though he's just a rookie, he's not a player? I mean, he's got a live arm. I mean, he's a talented player, and I'm building to bet he's going to figure it out. He's played well, you know, he's, like I said, he's a rookie, but he's a very talented player. I can see why he was the first overall pick. You know, he can hurt you with his feet. When he gets calling, he's a great athlete. He's got a live arm. But thanks to him, I know it's popular, but some people will say no to Turkey. What is his name? I'll eat Turkey. There's not a lot of things. As you can tell right here, that there's not a lot of things that don't. So, any more, any more food questions? All right, hope you guys have a good day.