 Hey, just checking in on the, I was thinking about the IR guys, we didn't know anything on Monday, or you, you know, having, you know, a thing about them today, or? Same as it was, Mungo. Same as it was, Mungo. Okay. And Darren Hall, um, you know, with Casey going on, on, uh, in the reserve, uh, as a kid that came in, he's been steady, steady, uh, improving the plan for you guys, uh, uh, you know, how comfortable, or what I guess comfortable is not a good word, but, just could you talk about his progression and his play that he's already put on the field and which might need to form moving forward? Yeah, um, you know, Darren's a guy that's, uh, you know, in second year in our program, we got a lot of confidence in Darren. I think he's had a pretty good season up to this point. He had a really good camp. So, um, like all our guys, uh, you know, there's high expectations and we're very pleased with Darren's progress. Mark, you were at certain points, kind of like what you guys did with Jaylin last year. It's like you were walking Darren in, here and there, I think, with Casey. It was maybe a possession here, a possession there. Was that a civilian plan? It was, but it was part of that too similar to what you guys were trying to do last year to get experience in case something like this happened. Well, a lot of times when guys play, Mike, there's a lot of different reasons. One, yeah, you only got 48 guys dressed. And if we give somebody a helmet, um, we expect them to contribute. How much depends on the plan on the flow of the game. Um, everybody's on a different, those are different plans. So it's not just apples to apples. Like I said, I'm very pleased with Darren. We got a lot of confidence in there. What is it that you feel like he brings to the table as a guy who hasn't seen a lot of? Yeah, you're looking at it all wrong. Okay. I mean, I know everybody's used to like just the depth chart and those are the guys and right in and stone and may post draft. And, you know, they just sit there and 11 guys just sit there with their helmets. Everybody's gonna play and we got different roles and depends on the plan. And so, um, seen a lot of progress and Darren, very pleased with him. I'm glad he's on our team. When you talk about the defensive backs, I don't know if you cognizantly realize this or not, but you say a lot for the defensive backs when you're talking about that you can feel them. What does that mean for you even like maybe not statistically, but when you're looking at how do you feel this defensive back group? It depends on the coverage. Guys, I mean, has been perfect. I think they tackle relatively well as a group. It's a physical group all the way around. And I think AJ is one of the more physical corners and run support. I think you get guys and again, depending on the coverage of the call, more times than not, they've been in the right spots. I think, you know, there's progress being made every week. And those guys enjoy and we playing out there with each other. And so I said, we had a lot of guys. I mean, the guys we finished the game with, we had a lot of confidence. I mean, you know, D was working through something and he was able to finish the game. Mike Ford goes out there. Isaiah, you know, those are, that's what we train the way we do. And that's what we believe in our team. And we'll see what it looks like this week with some of the other guys that are nicked up. Speaking of one of those guys, do you expect AJ to be out there today? And how's he feeling? He'll be out there today. We'll see how the week goes though. Yeah, Isaiah, better scheme, right? Better scheme. He'll be out there. Coach, what are some of the challenges you see offensively and defensively from Cincinnati as you prepare for them? Yeah, so obviously Cincinnati had a lot of success last year. I went on a good run. Obviously all the way down to the last possession of Super Bowl. You know, they're three and three like we are. Been a lot of close games. They got a really good staff and personnel. Little contrast in styles compared to, you know, that's why every week's a different challenge. A lot of love and personnel. Really good, really good receivers. They, you know, obviously Barrow, you know, has been playing pretty well for them. They had a lot of big plays, Chase, Higgins, Boyd. They get production out of the backfield, too, with Nixon in the passing game. So it's a different challenge. A lot of love and personnel and they're pretty damn good at it. Defensively, they give you a lot of looks, multiple looks, multiple fronts. Really good secondary, solid edge setters. So it'll be a good challenge and going up on the road against a good football team. Thank you for being with me for this first second. After the game on set day, obviously it looks like you're having a lot of fun. Everybody saw the post game beer celebration. How would you describe the culture around here right now? I mean, all of y'all are around us quite a bit that cover us. And, you know, it's, it's, we got a lot of guys that put in the work. They enjoy being around each other. It's something you got to work on every day just because you won a game on Sunday. And I mean, it's, it's hard to win and but you got to turn the page just like when you lose. So I think you'll find out more kind of how we respond this week, how you handle success just as much as important as you handle any kind of failure too. So it's a big week for us. We got a huge challenge. So it's something we work on every day, but like I said, a lot of times I enjoy coming to work every day. Did you feel it actively changing around here? Again, it's something you got to work on every day. I don't, doesn't mean that we think we're any better than anybody else. It's just what we do here and what we believe in. There's a lot of ways to win. There's a lot of different philosophies and you got to make it your own. We're not trying to copy anybody. We're, again, we're trying to build this thing the way we, we believe in doesn't, again, arrogance of thinking that, hey, just because we've got it, we've had some success recently that you're doing any better than somebody else. It's just our own and I enjoy it, but it's something we value and we work on every day. You talk about taking objective looks and how to handle success and failure, all that for this team right now, where you are, what do you still want to see this team improve on and take a step in, particularly offensively? Everything. That's the name of the game. So you're not going to be a team you were in week one and week six, and it's a challenge every week. So we can improve everywhere. Hey, coach, what, you know, is you all philosophy on coaching turnovers and making them happen with the plus two now y'all are seven in the league? Rephrase that again. I'm sorry. What's your... You said coaching turnovers. Do you just get them, you coach them? Yeah, you work everything fundamentals. Yeah, there's a lot of things that, you know, the ball does have a tendency to bounce a funny way sometimes, but there's certain things that you work on as part of fundamentals, how you tackle, how you try to go about ripping the ball out, you know, what Rashan did when the guy, the other guy wrapped up and the ball came out and it took the right bounce twice for us. No different than ball disruption, where you're attacking the football, trying to play through the pocket or ball disruption, you get a chance to tip the ball up. Those are all things you work on and, you know, sometimes, again, the play takes them that way, a quarterback, you move them off the spot, he uses his arm angle, you never get a tip and the ball's picked. So, yeah, it's something we certainly actively work on. Same thing on the other side. Going through traffic, securing the ball, quarterback in the pocket, all that stuff. I know it's talked about it a few times already, but Marcus is comfortable with the offense. When you went back and watched last week, are there things you've seen that you're like, wow, I don't know if I would have seen that in a week or two because he understands this better now or understands this better. I mean, it's like a living, breathing document, you know? So, and everybody, like, if you printed out most of these playbooks and they went online, it wouldn't matter. It's a lot of it's the detail. I know it looks, somebody could sound smart, they use some of our terms and what you call it, 12 to 14 are basic routes and people may call it digs and people call it an end. It doesn't matter. A lot of it's the teaching that goes on behind the scenes and the details of it. And there's an evolution that happens during the season. Guys, as they improve or, you know, you may have injuries in certain places and you adapt. And so long as we're short, we just want to see improvement every week. You know, everything we're asking them, you know, it doesn't look the same and it's not the same as the stuff we talked about in the meeting room late September of 2019 when he and I were together. That's what I appreciate about Marcus and really the whole group and the coaching staff and we're just looking to get better. Mike and that's in the game. And if we don't, you'll get exposed in a hurry this week. Is the beers celebration, is that a standing thing now? If you all win and they get on your doors, Ocean? No. See what happens. You mentioned earlier, you know, focus about the team handling success. I know you've praised the players a lot for just the way they work day in, day out. Is that something that you have to emphasize in a week like this when, you know, Marcus wins NFC offense player's week and you're getting a lot of praise in the media or is that something that these guys already have? Yeah, it's the same thing. I don't believe it. I mean, it's just, it's like the Icarus syndrome, right? You want to be too high, you don't want to be too low. You know, when you're, you know, the worst in the league or you're the best, neither one's true. So that's kind of my approach and I think that perspective matters and that's what I love about this, this game and certainly the NFL, how competitive it is and if you don't have that perspective, like I said, you'll be a humble quick and so that's our charge every week. We know the challenge this week with a really good Cincinnati team. It's really talented. They've had a lot of recent success. All their losses have been one possession. We're going on the road. A team that we're not that familiar with they're in AFC and playing AFC North. I got a little familiarity with them. Played them in 2020. There's always connections with the players and coaches. So we know it's a unique challenge and that's what we want to see how we respond this week and can we make the corrections? Can we execute a plan and improve to go beat a really tough team on the road? Dean was talking last week about Troy Anderson. He made the comment, he's young and he's going to make mistakes but he's going to do so being aggressive. How do you see that mindset, not just with Troy Anderson, but maybe with a lot of these young players that are in their first and second year in the league on this team? Yeah, I think that's the way some of these guys make up for a lot of small mistakes. Obviously you're coaching everything as there's a lot of stuff happening. Pre-snap, post-snap, the way the games are playing with the assignments and some of the things we ask them to do. You're coaching to improve and not have any kind of mental errors but there's a lot of things where guys can get hesitant and if you see that then they've got no chance to play, especially as a young player. So at least if you're going to be wrong go a thousand miles an hour and try to break through something and I think he's done that at times. There was a screen late in the game where he was able to. They called him to pressure. It was a good look by San Fran. Good call against pressure and Troy made it right. Got underneath the blocks. There were three guys on front, slipped underneath and the cavalry came up behind them and it was a good play by Troy. It wasn't perfect technique but that's what you're looking for right now. Same thing with AK. You're seeing it at times and then even to Angelo. So that's what you want to see. So if he's able to go Sunday all of a sudden that gives you maybe a good problem to have with the way Troy's playing? Great problem. But again I know everybody gets all excited and giddy inside because they haven't seen enough of a young player and they get all warm and fuzzy about a draft pick and what they could potentially be and we're happy with Troy's progress but I'm very, very pleased with Michael Walker. So we'll find ways to get football players out there. They're going to help us. How that'll look this week maybe different than what we've shown in the past and we'll find a way. Coach, just one thing on the bingos. What are their safeties for bats? Yeah, just Bates and Bell. Like I said, the secondary, Luzzi, Apple, Mike Hilton I think is one of the best inside corners in the league. Tougher than Hell. Watching him play in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago. Watching him last year. He's a damn good football player and I got a lot of respect the way he plays at his size. I don't think Mike Hilton gets enough credit either but Bates and Bell, those guys are very confident. They've been together and they're smart. They're not going to trick them and it helps when you have that veteran secondary out there and they've been in big games. So we got a challenge this week and we better be on point.