 Ryan what's the challenge in trying to make sure you stay out of long downs or long distances on third downs? Efficiency on first and second down you know you have to be able to to run the ball efficiently when we call runs and then you know get completions when we call pass passes you know we got to stay out of penalty situations and negative plays. Is that something that you guys had been doing well how much maybe losing Derek impact that and having to get more comfortable with the new faces? Yeah obviously losing Derek is gonna be tough but there's other other factors there as well I just don't think we played clean on first and second down so definitely something we want to clean up. Mike, give your team a record of where you guys are at the conference right now. There's been a lot of national people picking up on it so we got to start paying attention to the times now. Is that something you guys you know talk about, think about, worry about, etc. We're focused on ourselves you know we're focused on on finding a way to win one game each and every week you know. Stacking wins is a great thing but the only way to keep doing that is to consistently work to get better. I still have a lot of things we can be better at and so we're excited for that challenge of working the details this week and going out and playing a good a really good Saints team this weekend. The passing attack Ryan when you know Sunday had a couple offensive line starters out in terms of maybe having to get the ball out quicker or routes that maybe can't go quite as deep as you'd like. Is there significant change you know when you're when you're missing two three offensive linemen? Yeah anytime you're missing guys you know it's it's it's tough you know whether it be an offensive linemen receiver or running back but we've had that next man up mentality you know since I got here so I'm proud of the way that some of the guys who stepped in in in for us you know Bobby stepped in right as the game started for us so tough situation around but he went in and and played hard for us gave us everything he had and Brewer obviously at right guard you know did a good job for us so yeah it's tough whenever you lose lose anybody but you know I believe in the guys that we we have stepping in there and you know at some point hopefully not but those chances are at some point this season it's going to come up again and you know we have to trust the guys that go in there. Ryan is there a balance in in knowing that the the pass attack the passing game needs to maybe carry the load a little bit more with maybe not trying to force the issue and trying to find your guys is there kind of a delicate you know balance there with that balance between the past game and what just in not like trying to force the issue right like losing Derek you know maybe you have to kind of depend on the passing game a little bit more is there kind of a balance of knowing you have to kind of lean on that more and not maybe trying to force the issue yeah I mean I think that you know obviously being able to fill the football is gonna be key for us you know the rest of you're just like it would if Derek was here you know I think this team is is gonna try to have balance no matter no matter what the situation is where they're you know Derek's back there and out we're gonna try to establish the run that's our foundation and and and build from there and when we do get opportunities in the past game we have to execute you know we have to be able to to get open on the outside I have to hit them and the offensive line has to be able to hold up really good defense all around physical they play fast they play together their front is tough you know they're making it tough to run the football they're rushing the passer in passing situations they really just are really saw defense linebackers are flying around making plays Mario Davis is in the backfield he's in coverage he's making tackles on the perimeter really you know flying around all over the place you know secondary physical do a good job of covering safeties come up and make tackles and hit so you really look at at their defense there's not a weak spot in it and the challenge is going to be for us to go out and play really well to not be around guys if somebody else didn't get the vaccine and still was able to do those things how would that make you feel I know I know what you're trying to get here Paul and I'm just gonna stay out of that one clearly a lot different not having Derek right now and there's still some transition happening but do you get a good energy from this group it seems like a mixture of guys a mixture of style I mean what have you seen in the short time that they've been together yeah obviously you know just added a couple guys last week so haven't had much time on task but yeah I think you know adding Adrian and and form and have been good for us you know they're both both physical runners obviously Adrian is downhill he's gonna give you everything he has form and has good speed good good hands and has great size as well so I think it's only gonna get better with those guys the more carries they get the more they kind of get into the groove with our offensive linemen upfront so excited to to put in a good weeks of work this weekend and you know head into next game feeling strong the red zone efficiency touchdown watch for you guys improve and a lot of it is coming from you making plays with your legs I know some of them are designed like boots etc but is that something that you have kind of like taken upon yourself to to revisit you know being able to make plays with your legs in the red zone yeah I try to try to always keep that in the back of my mind right and being able to extend plays or or make plays on the ground with my legs I think it gives the defense something else to account for and has created some big place for us offensively so yeah I think that if we can continue to do that as we move forward it's gonna be good for us you talk to rabbit maybe a little bit about his knowledge of that same defense to help you yeah I mean having rabid on the team it'll be be a good thing for us hopefully you know some good conversations will come from that training is it when you face a well coordinated pass rush that it's not just for guys kind of doing their own thing but they always seem to be in spots that make it difficult for you yeah it makes it tough right because if they're they're standing the lanes it limits the ability to use use my legs like I just said and makes it tough on the offensive line because if they're executing then our offensive line has to do a really good job of passing things off and and staying in sync and playing together as a unit so that's part of being a good front is being able to do those things consistently I think you have Isaiah Thomas and John Morant partaking your finger roll no I Ben's got it down no I did I never thought that would be be something but you know it's been fun to to kind of incorporate that and it's kind of grown you know since 2019 so definitely cool little feature and my wife showed it to me Sunday after the game so I thought that was pretty cool disappointed Ryan and Josh Reynolds situation I guess yeah a little bit of history with them I mean not only that a friend goes but that it just didn't seem to pan out the way you know maybe was expected to yeah I think it's tough tough for everyone you know bringing here excited to have him obviously things things didn't go like like he wanted to or like we wanted them to but you know he did some good things why he was here helped us out and so obviously I wish him nothing but the best you know moving forward hopefully he lands in a great spot for him just beyond anything beyond injury you think or is that the main reason things just didn't didn't work out the way that the people wanted or what we thought I don't know you'd have to ask ask Josh and and John about that how much what Mike did we did on Sunday made the decision go for on 4th and 1 to the goal line instead of keeping the field goal how much juice does that give an offense when you are aggressive like that especially when you make it well it's huge you know I think that you know we went for a couple times on 4th down we're able to succeed him and both both tries so you're able to extend drive sustained drives and then obviously we scored on one of them so when you're able to do that obviously gives you a lot of a lot of juice offensively and and that confidence from the head coach to to allow us to go for it and and make a play it's huge I didn't really know what the corner was going to look like coming around the edge on that one thankfully it was a clean clean edge and was able to score