 Having had the Thursday game and some guys that rested last week, potentially back this week, it doesn't matter or maybe my brain's dead right now. That's okay. Playing on Saturday, you've got more rest than Jaguars. How helpful can that be this Saturday? Well, I mean, I think it can just be helpful by how we use it. Hopefully some of those guys that we're recovering or treating or whatever they were doing are going to be able to help us this week. And it'll only be able to help us if they play well and we execute. So that's really what this game comes down to. Jacksonville's playing at a high level and they're playing with a lot of speed and both level all three phases. So it'll only matter on how we play, but hopefully we've taken advantage of the time. What's the extra time and desire for a different result? Do you tweak the approach leading up to the game this week? No, that's going to be prepare and practice. Maybe try to limit some of the mental errors that we had on defense, take care of the football. I mean, we'll still do ball disruption and ball security. We'll try to have an open field tackling drill, critical our ability to tackle those players in space. And they do an excellent job, whether that's Agnew in the return game. All those things that we think are important for practice. You've probably preached well with extra time to prepare. Why do you think that is and are you guys conscious of that? I don't think that we're necessarily conscious of it. I think we try to do what's best for the football team and use some rest and recovery mentally and physically. And just try to do everything that we can to get them ready for the game. And then try to execute the plan. You kind of preach that if you go out and win this week, it kind of writes a lot of the wrongs. Well, I think, I don't know if that's the case. I just want us to be excited. I want us to, hopefully, we've saved our best for last. And that we can be excited, coming to work and preparing. And then ultimately going on the road and winning. Mike, what gives you faith and belief in this team, given the injuries and the losing of late? Well, I just have seen the leadership. Jared, I've seen us compete in too many games. I've seen us be really, really good, play winning football. But then obviously, we've all seen the things that get you beat, that we have to eliminate. So I'm hopeful that all the stuff that we've done, that we think are positive and that would look like winning football. We can continue to do those things and that by hopefully meeting and practicing and eliminating some of the things that we just talked about, that'll help us win. How are they better than different than maybe the last time you saw them or are they just doing everything better? I think they're scoring a lot of points. I mean, they've averaged, I think, 28 points in the last six games. They're turning the ball. I mean, the defense is forced in turnovers. They've been opportunistic. They play, they do what they do. The strength of the football team on defense is up front. They apply a lot of pressure. They've turned it over. I think their third and fourth turnovers. The quarterback is distributing the football. At the end, still runs with speed and has a lot of contact courage going through the hole. And if you don't get them on the first or second level, it's a track meet. You need your big money, guys, to play like it? Well, we've always said that your best players have to play good for you to win in this league. So I think that would be the case throughout the league. Significant would winning three straight division championships be, especially given all you've gone through? Well, I think just significant would just be winning a game that has a lot on the line. It's a playoff game. And you win and you get to keep playing and you get to keep coming to work. You made a decision on the quarterback? Yeah, Josh will be our quarterback. I've talked to both quarterbacks. And let them know that Josh will be our quarterback for this week. And then Malik has to continue to prepare like a starter. I'm fairly confident that Malik's going to do something to help us win in this football game. And so I just hope that he'll, and I know he will, continue to prepare like he has and continue to improve throughout practice. I guess from the minute he came in the building, as far as trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible, how have you been impressed maybe with his work ethic? With Josh? Yeah, I mean, I think he came in right away and has done what a lot of guys have done. Whether you go back to use Don Trell Hilliard, the first day that he was here, saw him at 8 o'clock, 8 30, meeting with the special teams after he got done meeting with Tony to try to get some of the base offense and formations installed and then going and meeting with the special teams coaches. And Josh has done the same thing, put in extra time and studied and tried to prepare with the game plan and understanding of what to do, especially on a short week last week. So he's worked hard here the last couple of days. How much more can you add to what he's done and what he did Thursday night, given a full week here now? I think that there'll be some things that we will try to add or maybe things that we practiced last week that we didn't run. I think it's just going to be good to have a full week and be able to have a first and second down, a third down, red zone emphasis. That's probably where just having been here as much as I think we need to dive into his knowledge of the overall red zone and everything that's going on down there. How much different is it from the Jaguars having seen him play that game than it was for the Cowboys kind of seeing him blind? I don't know. You'd have to ask the Jaguars. I'm not sure. In your experience going against the quarterback who hasn't you haven't seen versus one that you have a game on, how much different is it? I'm sure that they studied or watched. I'm sure the Cowboys looked at some film from prior experiences, the limited regular season snaps that Josh had. One game is a little bit, but I'm sure they're going to be prepared for everything that we could do on first and second and third down. When you look back at the film, what did you see from Josh that you liked, whether it be operational or just his play that led to this decision? Well, I think that there was some good decision making. I thought he was decisive. I thought he did a nice job progressing through when we gave him time in and around the line of scrimmage and coming out of the huddle and just getting us into the right football play. And I thought he tried to take the opportunity and run with it and lead. And I just think he gives us the best chance right now. I guess some coaches, or maybe even you in the past, have maybe waited to make an announcement like that in certain positions for competitive advantage reasons. Why maybe do it today? It's just, you know, wanted to have an opportunity to meet with both of those guys and just to let them know. No more, no less. Kind of get back into a groove. He seems to be giving you a couple of explosive plays a game here since his return from the concussion. Yeah, I mean, he is. We also have to make sure that when things are going fast or fatigue sets in, I mean, we all wanted to play as much as possible. But that we're doing the right things that we're being asked to do within the play. That we're lining up where we need to line up. Just a lot of those things as the volume starts to increase and certainly understand how he can affect the game. And it's good to see him have some of those X plays and those catch and runs and his physicality. And we even alluded to the play down the field, his body control. I thought they grabbed his left arm. And if they wouldn't have grabbed it, I thought he would have come back and made the play. So seeing some guys maybe drift out of bounds in those instances, it was good to see him be able to adjust his body, come back, stay in bounds, or even on the catch there at the end of halftime, being able to control his body, stay in bounds, and run. And we just got to be careful and understand that that was a situation that we had talked about in training camp that comes up when you're in that field goal situation, like you're either going to have to score or get out of bounds or get down for me to be able to call time out. And it's not just him wanting to go make a play and get as many yards. I mean, he's programmed to catch the football and try to be physical and break tackles. But those are all really positive things. We just have to make sure that some of the little details and overall understanding is good. Over the last month or so, Mike, from what you've seen on Trevor Lawrence on film, how go to see him? Well, I mean, he's 14 touchdowns, two interceptions. He's taking care of the football. He's got a lot of playmakers. He's distributing the football. He's able to extend plays with his legs or some of the quarterback design runs. I think that's the thing is he's a big mobile athletic quarterback that's strong in the pocket, but then is able to extend plays and keep his eyes downfield. How much maybe could the week, it would help a lot of guys, but Derek specifically, how much could the week off of maybe hometown? Again, it's only going to, we'll have to see how everybody plays and how everybody performs. That's the most important thing. And if we perform well, then it'll serve us well. And that's the only thing that matters is what we do this week and how we come in and our attitude and our preparation and then ultimately our performance. What are the games that you guys have won around here over the last few years in the core group of guys? You've had a handful of these sort of, well, you've had one winning in. You've had first round games the last couple of years where they haven't performed at their best. What has to be different this week? Well, I think what has to be different this week is we focus on the guys that are here and maybe not the ones that aren't that you mentioned to and some of the core group of guys. We have to continue as guys come in and continue to preach and to teach and explain what wins and what loses in this league and try to build a foundation with some of these guys that are kind of coming in and adding as they add to playing a lot of football for us. I said it, maybe Andrew Adams started to figure that out, just using him as an example. And then some other guys that maybe have only been here for a week or two, we have to get them brought up to speed of not just what to do but why we're doing it, why we're asking them to do a certain technique that maybe they didn't do somewhere else and that we think is important because we have history of it working and we feel like that's what's best for us and the overall football team. So just trying to do some things differently. To start by taking care of the football offensively, that goes without saying. We moved the football, had nine explosive gains against the Jaguars the last time. Unfortunately, that all gets masked by four critical turnovers. With Derrick and the Fummo's, a lot of those are happening, fighting for extra yards. How do you get him to balance? OK, you do want to fight for the extra yards. We also have to know when the journey is over in those situations. I think that that's hard because there's so many times the journey is not over. I think that there's been some good plays. I think he took a good legal hit, coming back in bounds against the Jaguars. I think the guys are, they understand that that's probably a really good chance to tackle him is by trying to tackle the ball or hammer the ball, just his size. And we can also, we also have to do a better job. Maybe you're a block on the back side that doesn't seem like a big deal until the ball breaks and there's a 10 or 15 yard gain. And there's a guy, it's not the guy that Derrick can see. It's not the guy that the guy with the ball can see. It's the guys that they can't see. So trying to do our best is what we preach is protecting the football and the guy that has it. And there's only one football and he's got a responsibility, but we all have a responsibility to try to finish longer than the guy with the ball at a high screen, to do all those things to keep some of those turnovers from happening. Even with a potential losing record going into the playoffs, why is making the playoffs so important to this organization? Well, I think it's important just because once you get in, you have a chance. Once you have a chance, you're in the tournament. We've had, we want to have a consistent program, a consistent winning program. We don't want to be in the situation that we've been in the last couple of weeks. Nobody wants that, but the reality is that we're playing for an opportunity to win the division, an opportunity to make the playoffs. So winning is the foundation of everything that we do, competitiveness. But it's not OK just to compete and not end up winning. We have to win. And like I said, we can go back and we can look at all these games where, man, and you guys are really competitive, but we just came up a little bit short. And there's been throughout the last six weeks some really, really competitive moments. Unfortunately, not good enough and not consistently enough. So we'll just have to put it all together this week. You guys decided for sure on David Long or the open practice window for him? No, haven't decided. I guess I was just curious about how excited was Josh to get the news and maybe what's your challenge to Malik to support him and to just keep working? You know, I mean, Josh isn't an overly excitable person. You know, I mean, I think he was ready for the opportunity and is looking forward to it. The message to Malik is to continue to do what he's been doing, which is continue to study, continue to use the practice reps to his advantage, to help the game slow down for him. You know, when he's out there, that's the most important thing. I wish that we could go with more speed during practice, these last however many weeks of the season, which we will be able to this week, I feel like. But the past four to six weeks, it's been a lot of jog through, some walk through, some short weeks, whatever may be. So not only is that you're trying to get guys to the game, but then now those are some developmental reps that some other guys may not get. So it'll be a big week for him to be able to have some of that speed. Last week after giving him the news the first time, just for a young guy, how tough is that to have to ping pong like he has? I mean, I think everybody has to be ready every day that they come to work to try to do what try to put the team first, to try to continue to improve. And his attitude has been great since he's been here, since I've gotten to know him. So that's what we're all required to do. When you were at the take of the first Jacksonville game, the mistakes on defense, what do you think are correctable? And where did you think maybe that you needed to change a little bit of what you guys were doing in that game? We got put on some short fields. I didn't think we did a very good job of executing the third down and two that led to an easy red zone touchdown. I think we have to be ready to go quicker pace, whether that's coming out of the huddle. Talked about the MAs, finding ways to affect the football, trying to bat some passes maybe at the line of scrimmage. Try to get a fumble, knock a ball loose. I think we learned from the end of the half situation. I think if you look from just one week to the next, whether that be from the end of the Jacksonville game to the end of the Chargers game, I think that's something that we all learned. Just trying to make sure that we're conscious of the situation. I think you just try to take a little bit out of each game. But certainly, that game, their ability to catch and run, there were some short plays that turned into long ones. So we'll have to be better there. Presumably this is the healthiest. Jeff and Danico will be side by side since late October. How much of a difference can that make? Well, I mean, again, they'll have to go out and perform. And they'll have to try to do their best to work within the scheme, work with each other if they're working on a game together or they're working in a pass rush combination. But it's going to take everybody. We're going to need their best efforts along with everybody else's. I guess as soon as you guys found out about what we did last night when the game time would be next Saturday, how to go logistically from 10 o'clock last night through today and tomorrow, which I guess is probably Wednesday for me. Yeah, I mean, we were planning on going at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in many ways with the idea that was probably going to be Saturday. And then they let us know a little bit before they let you guys know and then kind of go from there. Do you get a bonus stuff or just tomorrow? No, they'll be in tomorrow. And I think they'll be rested and excited and ready to start our preparation. Well, since you've seen Fulton, he got a chance to practice this week. I hope so. You guys are still the champs until somebody knocks you off. That is nice, Doug. You guys are underdogs in this game. How do you see yourself as compared to how he views you or he said he viewed you yesterday? I love Doug. I think he's a friend. He's a great football coach. But I'm just focused on our football team. We have a huge challenge going on the road in a great environment on Saturday night. So we have to play better. We have to play better more consistently throughout the course of a game in order to win.