 I'm excited just to go back out there and get a second shot at it you know this game last year was the game you know I got injured on a Monday night you know it's ironic because that is so I'm just excited to be able to get back out there and you know get another shot at it. Absolutely you know I feel good I'm confident I'm just ready to go out there and cut it loose and play and you know make plays help us win get this win come back to Nashville. Last week you were only got like 15 or 16 defensive snaps are you is this just kind of a week to week thing in terms of what your role is on this team right now? Oh yeah you know I just do whatever they ask me to do to the best of my ability and you know I feel like if I take care of that you know I try to earn a bigger role and everything should take care of itself. I'm definitely motivated I'm ready to show it you know Monday I'm ready to you know have a good game and go out there to compete. I mean it's a tremendous challenge you know I don't really think what I think they went 9 for 10 on third downs last week so you know they're at the top of their game right now so that's a great opportunity for us to go out there and you know prove that we can also play you know they're elite so that's just what we're doing we're gonna go in there and compete. Yeah like you said we got a plaster played through the whistle be ready for third and fourth down territory not only can he throw the ball accurately but you know he's very very good with his legs he always looks to run to pick up first down so it's gonna be a challenge it's gonna be a fun game it's gonna be a dogfight. Yeah I mean I think it just shows how much work they put in together how much chemistry they got and you know it just holds us to a high standard to make sure we're on the top of our game and we go execute. Our extremely talented obviously Vaughn's a first ballot hall of fame type of guy he's got a you know I don't even know how old he is he might be 36 he might be 40 for all I know but he's still got a lot of juice so we got our hands cut out our hands full that's the word I'm looking for. You guys go into this game at all like backs against the wall you can't afford to go into. I think it's two it's never that that's never the case I guess it's we're going to play football and so we have to do better than we did last week and continue to take steps in the right direction we did a lot of good stuff last Sunday just unfortunately the scoreboard didn't reflect that. When you guys go flat like you did at the beginning of the second half what do you do to try to help? Just you know verbally try to help the boys get into it and tell them you know from an offensive line standpoint you got to assume it's on you you know you got to take responsibility for that and try to keep everybody involved but we have a good group of guys here that stay locked in the game there's not a whole lot you have to say to them. Trust our coaches put this in the spots and play together. Obviously it's only week two but you guys go into this game at all saying you know our backs against the wall we can't afford to go into anything like that. I mean that's the NFL every week right I mean if you don't have that mentality something's wrong I mean I've been on teams where we haven't won live been on teams where we won at times so I mean if you don't have that sense of urgency regardless of the record you're going to have a problem. Todd made it sound like you were kind of unmucky that some plays that you were primary in came apart because of penalties and stuff like that. Imagine you had games like that. Yeah it's football I mean you know it's just just how the dice roll sometimes you know so I mean just a function of how it played out I mean it's not a function of you know being ignored by you know anything else it's just you know it's football sometimes you get a bunch of looks sometimes you got to be a great teammate and helps other people get open that's beauty of this game it's a team sport. Oh yeah they're fun they're fun you get an opportunity to go out there together as a team and go out there and compete we're playing a really good football team so in a great atmosphere I've never played in before so I'm looking forward to it. No the only time we played them was in Atlanta so they like to break tables it looks like I don't hear they're really passionate fans it's awesome for them I'm just looking forward to go out there and compete. Looking out the bus window yeah I might sneak a peek we'll see how much time we're on the bus we'll see. It's really just a part of the game plan that we do trying to keep these guys fresh and give everybody an opportunity to contribute. So you do match? For the most part I mean but sometimes you know injuries dictate that there's a lot of different things that can come into play but you know we try to do the best we can to end the rotation if those guys are up you know we need them to contribute. When it comes to receivers being able to draw past interference calls or defensive holdings like Hooper and Phillips did in that game Sunday against the Giants. Is there an art form to that? Are some guys better at getting the calls than others in terms of how they go about it? I mean you hope that the officials call what they see at the end of the day but I think you know circumspectively we don't teach these guys to expect to get the call. You know we teach them to play through contact and make contested catches all those things so that the game is never put in their hands. Okay but along those lines are some do some guys kind of develop a knack they're just harder to cover and they sometimes get a you know draw a flag whereas maybe another guy won't. You mean like flopping in the NBA or that type of thing? Is there any acting going on? I mean I guess that you know if there is a art form or that I certainly didn't perfect that and don't really know how to teach that but I'm quite sure there are some guys that do that for sure. Last time we talked to you you mentioned consistency being what you wanted to see out of trailing just in the pre-season performance. Now you've gotten some regular season action out of him and he created a lot of separation, good analytics data on him. How do you feel about that consistency level in his play? He's a work in progress and he just has to continue to stack the days together and I think he'll continue to get better from week to week and that's always the goal. From an individual standpoint as a team is to consistently get better week to week and I think he's on pace to do that. Do you just feel him starting to kind of settle in at least like talking to us he seems more comfortable. Do you feel him settling in? Without question you know I think he's starting to kind of grow up in the NFL a little bit and understand how to manage it and how to work through it and how to perform. We always say around here you take advantage of those opportunities probably going to be some more to come so keep building keep growing and we'll help this football team. When you go against a guy like make plays off schedule and likes to roll out and get outside the pocket how important is it that your guys kind of set the edge not only rush but they got to set the edge and make sure that he doesn't make a big play. Yeah he's a heck of a player you know not only does he attack you with his arm he can attack you with his feet and we talk to our guys all the time about just know who you're hunting and you know we don't want to slow ourselves down. We just have to have awareness in terms of that so I think they're locked in they're excited for the challenge and we'll go out there on Monday night. Back to Weaver the sacks are obvious what sort of smaller things did you see that you liked that maybe you've been working with him on that showed up in the game? Yeah his attack was good and that's one thing that we've been working on and part of that is just pad level you know he comes off and we always talk about this he's naturally high he's a tall guy. And so just the attack and the pad level is something that he's been conscious of something we worked on and something that showed up in the game. So just continue to improve that and like I said he'll help us win some games here. What's the emotional balance I guess when a guy like a nanny gets his opportunity that you're going to miss him because he probably could have helped you at some point versus your happy form for getting an opportunity? Yeah absolutely happy form. It's not every day you get called up to play and whether it's here somewhere else you know those guys that's when those guys get those opportunities to take advantage of them. So he grew when he was here and I had a conversation with him told him I was proud of him and don't stop growing and take advantage of every opportunity so. How do you feel? Yeah and like listen I love Harold to death and wishing nothing but best on the recovery but you know we don't talk about making up for people or trying to fill voids. We work with what we got and proud of those guys and excited to see them continue to come together and grow. Go up and you know you're on high alert and somebody who's that good does that to you. People talk about five guys playing as one on an offensive line but how important is the offensive line especially the tackle relationship to the tight ends as an extension of the line? Yeah I think it's very important especially because I believe Todd does a great job in terms of even in protection giving chip help and bang help and we have to trust that the tight ends will be there when they're supposed to. But we run to the tight end a lot too so that's a big part of what we do so those combinations are really important. The holding penalties against Brewer didn't seem terribly egregious the other day. Is that a thing that requires a correction or do you trust maybe it won't get called by other crews? I think you know I think they're pretty tick tacky but you know there's an opportunity there where his hands a little bit high we can replace it quicker. His take down on the linebacker you know I see what the ref see on that anytime you take a guy down and his shoulders turn and it looks like he's getting corkscrewed as he goes to the ground they consider that a torque. Well I know what the back judge at least saw on that like don't change the aggression Brew just keep going straight and pushing a guy instead of pushing with one and pulling another but those ones were pretty tough. Yeah. From your standpoint how do you think that? No I agree I think that at the end of the day for the most part we covered them up but we didn't necessarily we take a lot of pride in running the football and what I mean by that is we know we have a great back end Derek but we want to get them through the first level clean. I think we covered guys up and give a lot of credit to the Giants you know we covered them up but we didn't necessarily win a gap and get them only in probably one or two runs we got them through there clean to get them into the second level to let him do what he does. But I don't think it was all terrible either we covered them up we pushed some piles and we got some stuff moving it just you know it just felt like we never quite got to that point where we break one. Which is obviously you always want to try and get at least one of those again.