 What did you see New Orleans do to change things in the fourth quarter? There's the same route same stuff that they did earlier in game They didn't change anything didn't didn't change the protection didn't really try to max protect Anything like that. I think James knew he needed to get the ball out a little quicker Maybe get it get the ball a little quicker, but other than that they didn't change other than they decided to go You know, we weren't they weren't gonna run the ball, you know, and when they were two scores two scores down Said that they felt like the ones that start to chip a little bit more maybe after half time Yeah, yeah, maybe a little bit there Maybe because we've gotten to them a little bit So maybe that it didn't really change the protection the way they slid the protection did that stuff But they did kind of bring those guys in and chip the ends a little bit more. Yes, they did do that When you look at the pass rush that you did get I mean For you considering what last year was how encouraging was that to see well the whole thing to me for three quarters It was really encouraging that that's what I was so anxious to see where we were from last year and I you know had really anticipated that game and really Wanted to show that these guys have really improved and that we can we can play that kind of football I thought for three quarters. We look like we're one of the better Defenses we were a good defense and we played our ass off and I thought those guys they followed the game plan They were into it crowd was into it really want to thank them. No, I thought that was a really good crowd And I just thought that that's the way you want to play I felt that on the sideline I felt like the guys coming off the sideline We gave up two plays to hill on that first quarter on those runs where we made some mental mistakes On we set the front wrong one time and we didn't adjust on the other one on the actual touchdown run We came to the sideline. We got those fixed and never saw that problem again. So that's that's encouraging That's a big adjustment the guys made and were able to make and we kind of shut that thing down but the pressures the Pass for us the whole thing there for the first three quarters look like you want defense to look and The difference was when we went into the fourth quarter. We said the same thing We said to the sideline and we came over and when we were off I Don't remember I can't remember exact series whether it was right start of the fourth or the end of third when it went in The fourth quarter, you know, we're not gonna let our foot. We're not gonna take our foot off the pedal What got us here is what we're gonna keep doing we're not gonna sit here and say okay Well, we got a two-score lead, you know or 16-point lead and then we're gonna all of a sudden play Different than what we played for the first three quarters. We did not take our foot off the right that pedal We kept the pressure on we just didn't execute it. We just didn't execute it period Say sometimes we do have situations like that where teams give up leads It's a young team sometimes it's just a matter of some of those guys have not been On that stage in that situation before in that pressure situations Do you see any of that at all where these guys just have to learn about those moments? Well, it's yeah, it's a little yeah, it's a little bit of that and it's It's just attention. That's what when when you're in those situations that's when your details matter absolutely the most and You know, for example The one pass that was down the scene that the drive that really hurt us was the very first drive With like 12 minutes to go or something like that where they just went down the field before for plays that got their momentum Going anything that kind of takes them off of that a little bit and uses up a little more clock all of a sudden It's it's different. Well, it didn't I mean it was like four plays. They're now back in it Okay, well the play that hit on the seam route all the way down to the five-yard line was a pressure It didn't look like it But it was a pressure and we had two guys that had missed assignments on the play That we had run that exact same pressure two series before that and got a sack exact same pressure and So Why you know, it's just whether that's what you you know, that's what it is. It's the nervous part of the deal You know, we're trying to rotate guys It was kind of different couple guys were different up front and were before but those are the kind of things that the play that We they actually hit on the in route at the end of the game that actually got them in the field goal range That's a blitz. I mean we blitz if you watched and Rashawn Evans got cut in the hole, but we're pressuring the quarterback. We're coming after a man coverage Well, we didn't play very good leverage. We had to play inside and we you know The guy got inside on us and we kind of that's why you play inside leverage it So is it a little bit of like I don't want to be the guy that makes the mistake? And so do you play a little more tentative than you did earlier on because the year Everything's not on the line. Maybe I can't tell you that only those guys could tell you that if they play like that I didn't I just I didn't sense that because there were two other pressures in that Last fourth quarter if you remember, right? We ran a pressure up the middle with the safety and he almost threw us an interception on the sideline Right, so that was a pressure and we ran it really well And he had to get rid of it quick and it could have been a game-ending play and then we had another pressure where we ran and We brought the nickel or a corner off the the edge unblocked and he threw it to the trying to throw a screen to 41 and Michael Walker tackles him for a six yard loss So on those plays the pressures look just like they did earlier in the game. So Yeah, it could be some of that. I don't know, but we just just didn't execute Whether that's because we were anxious or didn't want to make a mistake and so you play cautious But that's not what we need to be. We just we need to play like we didn't first three quarters for four quarters That's how we need to play and it not, you know, I don't know who the heck thinks we dig on played Soft coverage in the fourth quarter, but the guy doesn't know anything about football Did you see from Richie Grant as he obviously started this season he started the first game Kind of growth did you see him from last season over off season coming into the year this year? Well, it's a lot of growth. He's playing a lot better He's communicating better and one of the things I'll attribute that to is the two guys that are in that room with him Eric Harris and Dean Marlowe. He's got two veteran guys playing behind him who are kind of Minners to him. He's still he's the guys got to take charge. He's the guys to do it But he's got two guys in that room that really helped him And I think that's that's Big I don't want those guys to go unnoticed. They may not be playing a lot last year Kind of Eric played some then, you know Richie We're trying to kind of get him in there a little bit but now it's it's it's And for those two guys who are veteran guys to take a backup role tells you a lot about their character, too You know, it's not about me. It's about the team and getting these guys ready to play So I give Eric Harris and Dean a hell of a lot of credit for Richie's growth, too So going into week the week you have those perennial receivers who were kind of stars in the league What is kind of your thought process in those week-to-week game planning and also you can message to the team as you prepare for those teams I've been those players obviously at Michael Thomas last week Cool cup this week kind of what are you thinking each week? Well, you're always gonna try to take their best players You know, you're always gonna emphasize their best players and you always got to do some things that actually You know, you're gonna try to take those guys away and try to give them, you know Very seldom are you once in a while like down on the goal line? You may end up in one-on-one coverage on those guys because you know any choice You got to stop you can't let them run the ball in so somebody's gonna have to take the toll and it's usually gonna be corners But most of time, you know, you're gonna try to do things to take away their best players I mean we did things special things in that game to try to take away 41 in the run game How many how many runs rushing yards did he have? Anybody know I do by the way 37 Okay, to me, he's one of the best running backs in the league that that guy is a great runner a great runner He's a he's a great athlete. He had 37 yards rushing. That's that's pretty good And so we did the things that we needed to do there You're gonna do things whether it's in the run game in the past game to take away their best players You're always gonna do that What's that? How do you decide how you figure out your rotations when it comes to the defensive line? Well, what you want to do is you're trying the best you can is to always have your best four in the game in two-minute situations, you know, you don't want to have backups in there in a situation too much that You know where you know, they're gonna go two-minute you got to have your best guys on the field I don't know. We did a great job with that this last week. We got to do better We did at the very end, but you know, we kind of knew when it got to 12 It was it was clear after the first two plays At 12 minutes to go that they were gonna be in two-minute mode. It wasn't it wasn't a secret to anybody So we we changed and went to to a rush front and so we just we got to do a little better job Maybe of getting those guys in but you want them fresh, you know, you got to rotate guys during that time because you don't You know, you don't want to get down there to where it's really matters and your past rushers are dying out there because they've been rushing all day So you just got to do a great job of rotation like that Pardon Okay, it played okay, I don't think you know We win win. So nobody played great. I didn't coach great. So that's the bottom line But I thought, you know, it played okay for his first game out there and that kind of stuff He's he's here's one of the things the young guys got to learn is they got to learn about the guys that they're going across from How to rush them not just rush You can line up a Penn State and just come off the edge and be a guy from Northwestern or Indiana or Michigan State or wherever It might be it's not gonna be the same tackle in this league Whoever the best tackle was in college is now playing against you in this league And so some guys you can beat on the edge some guys you can't beat on the edge So it's got to be based more on how to attack that guy than it is about what your repertoire is Especially as a young guy, he's got to learn that stuff. I don't know if you I mean if you got you watch even the Great rushers like von Miller. He may take you one time on the edge then next time He's gonna take you right down the middle and run you back So the tackle is always guessing what it is when I had sucks and doomerville same thing those guys Those guys are young guys and they'll learn that I mean that's just doesn't come over night They're not all of a sudden gonna walk in here as rookies and go geez I got all this expertise on how to rush all these offensive tackles in this league It's just that's that's being a pro. They need to learn those guys because they're probably gonna face them for throughout their career It's just like a defensive back if I'm going against a certain wide receiver I Want to have a book on that wide receiver of how to play him No, I don't care whether I'm here or another team if I go up against you know Michael Thomas as I like that I should know how he releases. What's his favorite route? What's the stuff the same way the quarterbacks? I mean that's being a pro those guys will learn that there. It's not gonna come Like that to him. It's gonna get there But the effort that the only thing that ever upsets me as a coach is missed assignments Unless we didn't tell you you ought to know it an effort Because it takes no ability to have effort If you're tough, you know what to do and you play as hard as you can play what else can you ask somebody? There's gonna be sometimes that guy's gonna be better than me and he's gonna beat me But if you're not giving effort, that's the only time I get upset and be honest with you I walked out of a game and I just was really really disappointed because I didn't feel that way I'm not pissed off at all at the players. I'm not I told him that on Wednesday when I met with him I'd love to be mad because we lost the game, but I'm not mad because we lost again I'm disappointed because we lost the game because we made so much progress and had a chance to prove to everybody How much progress we made and we let him off the hook and so we just got to come back and we got to fight back and we got to Get better. We got to finish He is that's why we drafted him I'll guarantee it now With coach Smith at the helm You're not gonna draft anybody doesn't have effort That's the kind of guys that we look for the thing that he did at Central Florida It wasn't the same coverage that we do we knew that you're gonna have to learn a lot as far as coverage You're gonna have to learn a lot as a pro all stuff, but the one thing when you watched him on college film. He played Watch my language here. He played hard. He played he played hard and that was what we wanted in a safety That's what I've seen in safeties that I've coached in the past whenever we've been a good defense those safeties The Rodney Harrison's the Eric Wells the Kevin Byard those kind of guys. That's the kind of guys the Ed reads They play hard and fast and same way with linebackers and those kind of guys We want linebackers that are downhill hit you Hard and that's that's what we're looking for. So it's never gonna not be that with Arthur Smith as the head coach You must like Richie a lot He's Central Florida grad or something or what? Not offhand not a fan. I'm not gonna go. I don't I can't really tell you a particular play How many how much more difference can you bring? Pressure-wise this year than you were able to last year Well, what was our top pressure game last year? Does anybody know or what it was our average pressure for the season? Anybody know? Yes, huh I do obviously I do Say because that so the most of time most Defenses in a league are gonna be somewhere in the 30s Pressure-wise. I'm just saying overall it could be 21 game. It could be something ours was like I think 31 or 32 last year. We were 51 percent on Sunday 51 and I would guess it's the only team in the league that might have been more now would probably in the Miami Dolphins Because they put every day on down So or maybe the Giants because I know wink what's is a lot, but I doubt it. I doubt if they put 50% Probably the lead leaguer league leader last year was probably maybe over 40% I don't know for sure exactly what it is, but I know usually the average is in the 30s We were 51% pressure in that game Sunday, which is Probably the most I've ever done in my career I felt like that's how we played That's what kind of team we got so it's it's and it could be this we could be 10% You know, I don't know I'm gonna do whatever the the offense dictates to me And so we're gonna try to play to whatever our strengths are Against that kind of offense. Some teams you want to get after on press room. Some teams better be careful You know, you play Brady all the time. You better be a little careful when you pressure, you know All of a sudden you give up big plays and so and it depends on the people that we have and I feel like we're a pretty aggressive team But that doesn't mean it's gonna be 50% every week. I'm not shooting for that all I'm shooting for as The signal caller is what's the best way to approach this team and every week is gonna be different Yeah, so guys good, okay, thanks