 Good afternoon, Mike, how nice is it to have Julio Jones not only on the team but have him out there today and start getting a look at him in person. Well, yeah, I mean, I think that that's the whole idea is to have your players practice and the ones that are new to our system, try to get them in here and get them acclimated to how we do things. Every place is different, but it is exciting to have them in here and go through our meetings and start to learn teammates and figure out who those people are and how they interact as well as some of our office and the installation. Tim Wyatt. And what's first for him, Mike? I mean, I guess you get to acclimate his notice. You spend a lot of time with Todd, maybe with the quarterbacks. How important is it to maybe get him up to speed now where it's better at training camp? Well, I think that that's, you know, something that's important. As soon as you can learn what to do and how to do it, you can transfer that out to the field. You know, he's, you know, he's run a lot of routes and caught a lot of passes and been a very productive player. But I think that these things take time in new situations. So that's that's what we're focused on now. And that's why he was back here today and we'll see him, you know, next week when we when we finish up the offseason program. Mike, how do you think Julio Jones fits into this offense? But what do you what do you think he does for other guys on this offense? You know, right now, Joe, we're trying to really get him acclimated. And, you know, certainly he's a productive player. He's a big target. He's a strong hand, surhanded. You know, just really have enjoyed his attitude and the interactions that I've had with him about our football team and about how, you know, just just his willingness to come in here and try to learn how we do things. So, you know, his impact, you know, obviously can can help a lot of people. I think there's ways to do things and then veteran players that have been successful in this league, you know, can also try to explain things to younger players. Sometimes that's those are those are your best coaches. And I'm sure he'll provide some of that. But, you know, ultimately we're just trying to figure out where he fits in and how he best gets acclimated to to our system. Luke. Mike, you talk a lot about wanting to have versatility and now you've got at least three receivers in Julio, Josh and AJ who can play sort of all three positions and move inside and outside. What does it do for a passing game when you have those options to move guys around and no one is the, you know, designated X or designated slot guy. I think that is important. I think that's probably what we talked about earlier in the off season about the the conceptual learning Luke is knowing the the entire play or knowing the entire route and the concept behind it and, you know, are you going to be on the front side of the read are you on the backside. What we call different formations where you are at based on, you know, which one of those receiver spots you're playing and I just think it gives a lot of versatility to to where we can line guys up and how we, you know, function as an offense and how we, you know, personnel things and who's in the game on certain packages. Paul. Hey Mike, he obviously worked a long time with with one quarterback. What can you do to facilitate he and Ryan learning each other and how much time goes into that how do you deploy things maybe differently during camp than you would usually I think that that's the most important relationship. If you're a receiver is the one with the quarterback, you know, we talk all the time. There's a there's a play that gets installed. And you talk about man or zone and you talk about spacing or running a route, but at the end of the day if I'm a receiver I'm going to be where the quarterback wants me to be. He needs me to be there and so that's my message to them is to figure out quickly where the quarterback wants you to be and get there. And if you get the ball take advantage of your opportunity so I think to your question the only way that they do that is by practicing by meeting by having conversations, you know, no different than than what we would have any of our quarterbacks or wide receivers do, you know, when they're coming in here probably for the first time. It was a close conversation with the onboarding process for Jones. How did that go as far as talking to him and making it clear hey you may not get nine to 10 targets but we'll get involved but it's a team offense and that kind of thing. Well I'm having, you know, John, you know, touched on, you know, some of the onboarding process that you that you are referencing. And as always conversations that I have with, you know, with our players are going to stay between me and them and but we have expectations here. You know, we're going to treat treat every player the same way they treat the team. And that's no different than from for Julio or for you know, racy McMath. That's just, you know, that's what we believe in and you know, we try to make our expectations here clear. We try to be direct with the players and try to get them to understand, you know, the way that we we do things and there hasn't been any sort of issue about really anything and we'll like anything else we'll continue to make those expectations clear and how we do things and what time we're on the field or how we practice and all those other things. John Glennon. Mike, I was going to ask you on Julio also just kind of want to wonder what your impressions were of how he has, you know, come into a brand new team for the first time in over a decade. He's approached new teammates, new coaching staff, you know, OTAs, etc. Just kind of how he's gone through this the first few days. Yep. You know, he came in after, you know, for I guess would be the physical and had a conversation with me at length had a conversation with Rob and Todd and went through that at first day of meetings and he needed to go to back back to Atlanta to get some stuff and and then we asked that he communicate with us when he was what his intentions were to come back and said I want to come back Wednesday night I want to be there and working on Thursday and, you know, obviously be a part of the mini camp so all the conversations that I've had have been, you know, positive and good and they've been open dialogue. So there's really appreciate that. I know going to a new place. You know, sometimes it's different, but that's what it's going to look like, you know, every year that things are different and there's there's change throughout the NFL. Harry. When you bring in a guy who's accomplished as much as Julio has still a long acclimation process or is it made much quicker given what type of guy he is and how long he's been around. You know, Terry, I'd hate to say one way or the other it's going to take as long as it takes, you know, and we'll see where he's at as we work our way through the end of mini camping. You know, unquestionably excited about having him. But to say, you know, there's some sort of timetable on when he's going to know the entire offense and every detail that goes along with it. I, I, I hesitate to try to predict that. Hey, Mike, you played against offenses in your days, whether it was the greatest show on turf for the paid man and cult teams that had multiple hall of famers on them in their primes. What was the key when you played against those and then when you played with them in New England with a great offense for that kind of offense with all of those great players to mesh well what's the key for this group to mesh like those groups did. I mean, I think it's, you know, it comes down to always put the team first and and being willing to do whatever is best for the football team. And we understand that there's a lot of people that right now we'd like to get the football to they only give us one football so I think that that's on our, that's what we're charged to do as coaches to make sure that that everybody fits into what we're doing and get to buy in to how what we believe it. David will clear. Mike, I'm sure you want to answer Julio questions all day but Adam Coon what's the challenge in the jump he's trying to make and what have you seen that makes you think he's got a shot to do it. I just, you know, just wanted to try to take a look at that at Adam, you know, had followed his wrestling career for a while and something that we looked at and then I, again, I was a part of as a player, taking a former wrestler and they developed into an offensive alignment with, with Stephen Neal, you know, they are, they have great, you know, wrestlers, especially at that elite level have, have unbelievable balance core strength, things that I think would translate well to an offensive alignment, but having not played the game there's a lot of development that has to go on, you know, pretty quickly for him to compete but he's got a great attitude he shows up. He competes, he goes hard. He just might not know what, what to do all the time and, you know, I think we just have to continue to coach them and develop them and see what we, what we can get out of it and how he develops. Kayla. Hey coach. I know that it's a there I know it's always cool when something like this happens you get a big name a pro like this, even just for us to see and watch but how much can this just bring the energy of the team up I mean when you watch those guys out there. It's hard not to look at him and see what he does. You know, I think that I think there's just excitement from everybody Caleb I think that you know you guys are unseasonably pleasant today as well. I'm sure our fans are excited. Our organization is excited but you know we have to we have to get to work we got to put the work in. And that that's what it comes down to in this business it's not about what you've done it's about what you're willing to do and what you will do. And I'm confident that that Julio has begun that process. Hey Mike, you know you obviously you know talked about how you know your conversations with Julio are, you know, you know, for private but but just kind of generally speaking. Have you just gotten the sense that he's just kind of eager to maybe maybe prove that you know he still has kind of a lot left in the tank, you know a lot has been made of his age and just the injuries, the lingering injury he dealt with last year just feel like he's really just kind of driven just still has, you know, pretty big fire just in terms of getting out there and showing people what he can do. I wouldn't want to speak for Julio or any of our players so you know I think that that would be a great question for him I think that that's something that that I wouldn't want to comment on I just think that whatever everybody's hopefully winning is high on that that priority list. Hey Mike, I know the the offseason with many camp is not yet over but what kind of growth have you seen that you've liked from the from the tight end position. Well I'm at you know you see him showing up more I think you know Anthony showed up in the red zone, you know, focus, you know been a player that showed up in the red zone that you know on third down those really critical situation downs and areas of football field. And they continue to improve and, you know, we're going to keep working and building with that group Tommy Hudson has been here. And he was a young player that was with us on the practice squad. You know, and I would say the buck that the biggest improvement we're going to have to wait until you know training camp we have you know pads on and we're running a football. That that's really where some of those guys are going to probably come to light and make the most progress, you know it's going to be in our in our run game. And then there's certainly there's there's routes and things that they do on first and second down but you know FERC right now is primarily you know that third down tight end and maybe that guy that we would look in the red zone but the other guys would be predominantly in the red zone and that's how you waited in training camp. And Rossini coach it's pretty evident here and in the way you're talking about the Julio situation that no matter what it's certainly not going to change the way you coach this team which is team first playmaking second but a little bit of a stretch here obviously in your own career as a player you you went from one team spending over a decade and doing and then getting treated so you kind of have something in common a little bit with Julio. Have you leaned on that at all or have you shared with him, you know what that's like to just go to a completely new place and really know nothing. We've had some some really good conversations. I wasn't nearly half the player that that Julio Jones is. I was a throw in with Matt Castle so I don't even think they knew I got traded. It's been really it's been really you know refreshing I, I really feel a lot when I have conversations with Julio and, you know, Rashawn and Derek is is how these guys were coached in college and I can always really appreciate players that have come from places like Alabama where there's so much consistency and how they do things and listening to Nick Saban coach Saban talk about this is how we do things and it doesn't change the players may be different each year but, you know, or the coaches come in and we lose a lot of coaches but we're still going to do things the way that we do that. And we've had some great conversations and we're excited about having having Julio here. A couple more for coach, Emmanuel Morgan New York Times. Hey coach, it seems like the value for receivers is kind of changing over the past few seasons, Julio and the other hoppers who were second round picks. Very respective what why is that and then from coaching perspective how valuable is it to have a number one guy as a receiver. Well, Emmanuel I can't comment on the, you know, the analytics behind it or the compensation. The other deal I think, you know, one thing I do know about deals is that everybody has to feel like they, they got something out of it. Atlanta got compensation. It's great to work with those those people with with Arthur and Terry, like John mentioned, and then we got a player that we're excited about so as far as having a number one receiver. And we really are looking for guys that get open and catch the ball and are willing to try to block and finish longer than the guy with the football, whether they have it or or somebody else does. Jim Wyatt. Mike, what do you like about what you've accomplished during OTAs and what's maybe important next week is you wrap up the off season with the mini camp. I think we've improved I think our conditioning is improved. You know, Jim, what we feel like, you know, we play a certain style and stress the effort and finish on every play and you know do that you have to be conditioned enough to play that way and I think there's one thing about being able to run and and go out and do some 40s or 50s or whatever they are, but the your ability to go and play the football game and go play the game in the manner in which we expect it to be played takes a level of condition. And so I think that's improved. You know, we've gotten a lot of third down in moving on got some red zone and so just excited to finish up next week and and move on into the summer and get these guys back. Back soon. Okay, back to Julio. Mike, I did want to ask you speaking to conversations that was reported you talked with Nick Saban multiple times. Just wondering if you could clue us in on any of those conversations and others that you had. What were you trying to find out what did you come away with. I would say that I've, you know, had a really good relationship with with coach Saban. He's, he's welcomed me down there to really just try to get better and improve as a football coach and then, you know, the ability to call him and ask him about a situation about adding a player that he's coached was was something that I was able to do. And like a lot of the conversations that I have with with other people that would say that he's here and coach Saban obviously thinks a great deal about Julio as a person.