 Hi Teresa. Mike, the three turnovers there in the first half, that to tell the game? Well, it's a large part of the game, but it's not, you know, I mean, we have to be able to get some turnovers. We have to be able to find a way to, you know, to get our hand on the football. You know, I mean, we batted one early on third down and then we batted one late and then we had an interception that went through our hands that, you know, turned into a touchdown. So it's obviously very complementary. It starts with taking care of the football without question. And then we have to be able to find a way to get a stop, you know, force them to kick a field goal and not turn those turnovers, let those be touchdowns. I was keeping you from disrupting the quarterback right now. Yeah, there's no secret to affecting the quarterback. I mean, you got to have some guys that go and rush and get them. And then, you know, when we pressure, we have to be able to get there. We have to get there quicker and then, you know, coverage is going to have to allow for, you know, an extra count or a pump or, you know, a hitch, but that's where it's at. There's no secret to that. You told the guys they had to make decisions while they were in the crossroads. What did they tell you with their play today? Well, there's a lot of good things out there today. We moved the football, got some stops early. I thought how we came out and played early, was positive, not good enough with the turnovers, not good enough to start the second half defensively. So we'll get after a lot of those things corrected. First time you lost three in a row since your... Anybody else here? How much maybe Mike can make it more difficult moving forward by not being able to win this game today? Moving forward. I mean, it's about consistency in this league. I mean, whether you win or you lose, and unfortunately, we lost. But it's about finding a level of consistency that we show up tomorrow, ready to, you know, make corrections and be honest and try to get things fixed so that we can, you know, move forward and prepare to win a football game. That's all we do, whether we win or we lose. I think it was distracted this week. Nick was blocking on that interception. Is there some kind of miscommunication between the people on that play? There was just, you know, not a well-executed play, clearly not a well-executed play. No, Joe, I felt like we actually had a good week. I thought that, you know, Friday there was energy. Saturday there was a volume around the building. I mean, I think that the way that we started the football game and what we did was positive. We just didn't do enough there once we got into the game with the turnovers and our inability to affect the quarterback and to make them earn it. All those things that we try to preach each and every week, good player. And we didn't, you know, we didn't do enough to affect the quarterback or, you know, lost leverage and, you know, screenplay in man coverage and so catching runs and balls down the field. It's the first time you've lost three in a row since your fifth, sixth and seventh games in your first year. Say something about where this team is right now that hasn't been able to redefine itself? I think we'll all kind of, you know, evaluate, you know, was excited about coming back home and excited about playing against, you know, a division opponent. You know, I thought we were prepared. I don't know what it says, you know, about this. We understand that there's going to be some ups and downs and we're going to have to be able to weather the storm and find out, you know, who's willing to kind of, you know, give us that extra push here down the stretch. Past protection hurt again, especially early in the game when Ryan got sacked and fumbled there. That kind of been an ongoing issue for this team. Is that, what part of that was a question? Help me out with what your question is. Past protection, was it good enough today? Nothing was good enough today. Derek fumbled three times in two games. Is that enough to qualify as a trend? Hopefully we can give it to them as many times as we possibly can next week. Mike, when you guys are preparing during the week, do you at any point at this point in the season feel hamstrung by the personnel you have available to you, or do you feel like you come into each game with enough guys to get the job done? I think that I take that approach every week. Every week that I come in there, find a way, I always tell them, find out who we have, who's available, and everybody to prepare as a starter. And we saw we moved a lot of guys up, a lot of guys played, and we'll see where it is next week and do the same exact thing. Did you come into the game today thinking you had enough guys to win this game? I always think that we can win a football game. If we are able to do the things that we talk about with able to affect their quarterback and be able to be efficient with our passing game, get some turnovers, take care of the ball, and being a game where when you can stop the run and force them to throw the football, then you affect the quarterback and then control the game by running it. I do because I know that that's what wins in this league and then being good situationally, which was which is cool to see our guys battle back. They pressured us. We got into an extra long situation there. Hell, I thought we were going to have a chance to score there, and we're going to get an onside kick and see if we could have the 10%. All that shit that happened and went wrong. I still thought we were guys were rotating in there. Chris Conley, Racy, guys rolling in and out that maybe hadn't had a ton of work with that two-minute. So I thought that there were some things there that we can build on. Unfortunately, we just had the real long yardage after the sack. Somebody on the defensive line firing off on that kneel down at the end, the way that they did, or should that be a done deal? I want our guys to protect themselves at all costs throughout the game. I don't know what happened or didn't happen. I think that they should protect themselves every time that they're out there. When you're at these points, a lot of times when we ask you questions, you say you got a coach better, you got a plate better. What does it get to a point where that frustration just boils over and something else has to happen? Well, I don't know what would happen at this point in time other than me coming in there with a clearly defined vision for how the week is going to go, trying to figure out who's healthy, figure out what the game plan is, how we execute it, how we practice, how we prepare. I don't think there would be anything else. I mean, if there are, you know, I'm open to all suggestions and I mean that, but I think that the consistency that has to happen with my leadership and my vision for the game plan each and every week and what we need to do to win, hopefully I can stay consistent and like I said, come to work tomorrow, wake up with a choice of how we are going to respond and how we're going to walk into that building tomorrow and starts with me. It's going to have to start there and hopefully through the assistant coaches and the players, yeah, we're frustrated. It sucks to lose. Do you ever get angry with them, Mike, and do something that's out of character and inconsistent looking for some sort of change up? Yeah, I do a lot of different things each and every day, you know, but yeah, I mean, the consistency is just about the approach that we take and our attitude and the mindset. So yeah, there's things that I do each and every day that I think are, you know, we change practice up, we make emphasis, we ball disruption two times a day, ball security at the beginning and the end and, you know, add open field tackle. There's a lot of things we do with the schedule. You know, we add, you know, a lot of things. Mike, you talked about coming in and figuring out who's healthy. Across the league, do you feel like anybody's had to deal with who's healthy the way you have over the last year? I try not to, you know, I only focus on the Tennessee Titans and whoever we're playing that week. That's what I try to focus on. Ross, tough to win any time. Turn the ball over four times in a game, huh? Yeah, no doubt. Obviously, that's something we know each and every week in this league and, you know, we all got to be better and do a better job there. The interception, Ryan, it was hard to see on the replay. It almost looked like Nick was thinking he was blocking on the play. What happened, though? No, I was passively all the way. Just weren't on the same page. You know, I saw something. We could get a quick ball to him there and just weren't on the same page. What's the balance at a point like this between being angry, frustrated, whatever, and not being emotional in terms of how you approach your work and just kind of get back to the grind? Yeah, we got to channel those emotions. Channel the frustration, channel the anger, you know, whatever individual emotions that each player has. We got to channel them, put them together and come together and make it back on track. You know, this is not the way we want to play, but, you know, we talk about the keys all the time in our building and we didn't really execute any of them, offense or defense today. So, got to get back on track, stick together, channel that emotion, put it together in a positive way and find a way to win next week. Aside from the turnovers, you guys did what you wanted in the first half. Derek had 100 yards and, you know, you guys were moving the ball well with balance, but it seemed like that once they scored, it just kind of completely took you out of that. How much did that just kind of make you have to throw the game plan in the trash and just in the second half and just throw it every down? Yeah, we were moving the ball effectively. The whole first half just shot ourselves in the foot with the turnovers, you know. Each time we were kind of getting in the groove, getting rolling, getting down, actually two of them, I think we're in the basically scoring range and the field goal range at least and we were moving and then had the turnovers. So we did a lot of good things in the first half. Got to take better care of the ball and then, you know, you get behind like we did early in the second half. You know, they come out and score. We have a penalty that put us in first and 22 backed up basically. We're not able to gain yards there and ended up punting. They scored again, right? So that put us down three scores, I believe. And at that point, you know, you got to find a way to move and try to go to the points. You still lose, I think, this first three-game losing streak that I made came in. You guys regularly beat the Jaguars, too. How much to combination of things turn around a little bit of an unusual place for you guys to be in right now? Have you lost 30 and lost big at home to the Jaguars? Not a place you want to be in, yeah. Not a place that I think any of us walking in this building, I mean, I thought we're going to be in today. We talk about, like I said, the keys all the time. You don't take care of the ball. You don't get turnovers on the other side. You don't get stops. You can't score points. You're going to lose, you know. So I don't think there's any magic formula. We got to do the things that we talk about and take advantage of the opportunities that we get. So, like I said, channel this frustration, channel this anger, channel this emotion, put it together, stick together, and find a way to win next week. Some of the defense players, they've said that body language and being upbeat is going to be critical in a week like this. For you as a guy who has to set the tone for the organization, how do you go about making sure that happens? Yeah, no doubt. Got to bring energy. I thought we had great energy coming into this week. Guys sticking together had a great week of practice, great week of preparation. So, you know, great energy going into the game, great energy in the first half, even though we had some mistakes and some turnovers, it was great energy, right? So it wasn't for a lack of body language or energy or belief. We just had the mistakes. They really cost us the game over the course of the game. So stick together, you know, keep that focus, keep that energy, keep it going. You know, times like these is where we find out what you're about. So stay the course, stick together, and find a way to win next week. Is this still a confident team in your opinion? I believe in those guys. You know, I believe we have what we need to go win games. We got to make it happen, right? I mean, like I said, we did some good things today and did some things that ultimately cost us the game. So we just got to be cleaner, take advantage of the opportunities we get, believe in each other, and find a way to win. Yeah, it was great. Like I said, we did a lot of good things in the first half. We were able to move the ball the way we wanted to, you know, doing some stuff in the past game. Derrick was rolling in the run game, had some big runs, had some efficient runs where, you know, it was muddy underneath, but he was able to fall forward and stay efficient and get in four yards. So, you know, a lot of good things in that first half. We just got to do a better job of taking care of the ball. Derrick, on the interception, what did you see? I think you just called me Derrick, but, yeah, the D-Lignment stuff, the D-Lignment stepped up, thought I had a quick window there to drive it to Nick. He wasn't on the same page as me, and the rest is history. Yeah, I mean, we're trying to get the shot deep. Don't have that. Got Robert coming across the field. They buzzed out underneath. There were guys running with Robert underneath. Safety hung for a little bit in the middle. We were able to get behind him, so I made it one-on-one on the outside, and, you know, took a shot down to Nick. It was such a strange distraction. How do you rate the focus this week, and do you feel like it affected the team in any way that most things wouldn't? No, I mean, obviously, we had to deal with it, but I think the energy was great. The focus was great throughout the week. Had a great week of preparation. Practice was great. Guys were locked in in the meeting room on the practice field. Got a lot done. You know, we just, you know, did some things, like I said, that hurt us in this football game. You know, a lot of good things, but when you turn the ball over, you don't get any, put yourself in a bad situation. I think there seemed like a lot of good things that happened in general for the offense in the first half, but just frustrated by the turnovers more than anything? Yeah, it kind of, you know, put us behind. They took advantage of it. Turned the ball over. You know, coach greased about it all week. You know, we got to take care of the ball, and, you know, things to drive with points. But unfortunately, we didn't, and, you know, that's what happens. What happened on that fumble that you had when you were all on the sidelines? Does it matter not expecting that hit right at that point? No, I'm coming off a broken tackle. I mean, I didn't really see, he hit me, the ball came out. That's what happened. I don't know if nobody's seen it, but that's why I got to take care of the ball. How should this team react? How does this team react towards the first third game where it was a streak in a while? Get better. Like I said, it doesn't sound like a broken record with me. What can you do? I mean, come in, make the corrections, learn from it, and put the game plan together to go in the game, and focus on that. I mean, it's over. It's in the past, we lost. And, you know, come in tomorrow and correct, and you can take care of the ball, and you can take care of the ball. That's all you can to come in and get better. Like I said, last week, he talked to you guys about being in a cross-ride, cross roads and kind of making a statement. Collectively, it didn't seem like a very good team to answer today. Are you surprised by that? Surprised by what do you mean? Well, it seemed like all of you last week were saying, hey, we're definitely going to, you know, come back, answer it with a kind of definitive team statement, and stated it maybe the opposite. Yeah, I mean, I feel like we just didn't do what we needed to do, you know, to be able to win the game. And they came out and played better. And, you know, like I said, we turned the ball over and give them opportunities then. You know, that's, you know, put us in the bad spot. You know, I'm going to hold myself accountable always. And, you know, I got to take care of the ball and do my job a little bit better. And, you know, just continue to work and make each other better throughout the week and, you know, try to go out and win the game. You know, it's, things bad right now, we lost three, you know, but just try to stay positive as possible. Is this team still confident, as it was, say, a month ago when things were rolling? Yeah, we definitely are still confident. You know, we just got to, you know, strain, finish games, put drives together and with points and things that we know how to do, but we just kept shooting ourselves in the foot today and, you know, it really bit us. Practice, we would not have said how to come next to everything? Yeah, I think you have a, have to have a growth mindset. Come in and make the corrections, learn from the corrections and then let it translate on the field. I mean, you guys come in and work hard each and every day and, you know, it sucks to lose, but I know my teammates and the whole coaching staff that, you know, we, you know, out of the will to want to get better and go out and get a win and I think eventually it will happen for us, you know. We just have a little adversity right now and that's all it is and, you know, we just, whether the storm keep working and everything happened the way it was supposed to. Derek, despite having a rough day all around, the running game seemed to have some success today that it hadn't been having lately. Do you think there were some adjustments that you made during the week that you could attribute to that something that you can positively take away from this game? I mean, I think just running hard and, you know, getting what I can out of every run, off the line did a great job. All those guys did a great job blocking and I'm glad we were able to be efficient in the run game today, but it still wasn't good enough and, you know, they won so. What was supposed to happen on that last fumble? Was that a direct snap? Just kind of what went wrong? Yeah, it was a direct snap and got a little away from me a little bit, but I should just throw in the ball rather than trying to pick it up and get back up. I got to be better, so, you know, no excuse on that, just fall on the ball and put another down. How new of a feeling is it for you to kind of have a team that feels like it's trending downward late in the year? You guys typically have always gotten better as the season has gone on and how frustrated or concerning is that? I think that's leadership. You know, and Coach always says, culture is not built on when everything is going good. It's built on when, you know, you got your worst. How's our culture going to withstand with everything going bad? And I think leadership just need to step up. I need to step up and, you know, just rally together. Stay together. Like I said, we've been through adversity before. This one is definitely is tough, but all you can do is just make corrections, get better and go out there and try to win the game and work throughout the week, make each other better and continue to do those things. I've been saying over and over the past couple of weeks, but that's all there is to it. The adversity that you guys had to deal with this week leading up to this game was different with John Robinson. How do you feel the focus was coming in and even today? Yeah, we was focused. We want to come out and get a win. Not only worrying about what's going on outside, we're focused on what we want to come out and get a win. We didn't, but if our guys focus had energy and really want to come out the best we can to help us win. So when you say leadership needs to step up, what are you personally going to try to make that happen? Stay positive because it's easy when everything is going bad to be down and have every excuse in the book about this and that, but I think you just be positive. You continue to work show to guys and other teammates that still in it continue to work, everything is still in front of us. We just got to keep getting better and have that focused mindset of wanting to finish the season strong.