 Questions? Yeah, Coach, I've just... You know, user error here. Got to turn around and leave. Yeah, Coach, just where are you all out here? You know, just heading and putting everything together here. You're ready for the first game. Just anxious to see where we are and what we have. You know, it just... pre-season's been pretty vanilla and pretty, you know, just getting guys of value... We've been doing a lot of stuff to evaluate guys in the pre-season. Like most teams are. So some of the starters didn't play. A lot of the backups did. So now it's the time to put together a little bit of a game plan and see where we are and see how well we adjust in the game situations because there's always things that come up that you don't plan on every week. So how good can you adjust to them and get changes made? I'm just anxious to see where we are and how we play. How did the rookies do through up to this point? You know, you had, you know, Audie, people talk about Harry Graham and Darren Hall, or some of your foot rookies and Richard Grant, of course, too. Well, I think all of them... I just put them all kind of together. I'm not going to really talk about any one of them individually. I think as a rookie group, whether they were drafted or undrafted, they made the team, that speaks for itself. That if they... if you keep them, even if they are a practice squad player, that means you saw a lot in them, or you felt like there's a lot of potential in them. They've all played like rookies. They've all had great days. They've all had average days. You know, that's due to... But I think it's a good rookie class. I'm really pleased with the rookie class. I'm pleased with the rookies that we have. I don't think there's anybody there that's not capable of being an NFL football player. You know, rookies are rookies. It's just... it's a lot different. There's a lot of things going on, you know. They... it's... even though you played... some of these guys have played in big games, it's different in the NFL in games. It's just... it is the speed of the game. All that stuff changes. And you really... I mean, you get a little bit of it in preseason, but most of the time what happens is it's really backups playing against backups. And now if a backup gets in the game, he's not playing against a backup. So it may be a lot faster and a little quicker than what... And the only way you're going to find out is until it happens. You know, you can... you can speculate and, you know, everybody does. There's nobody knows. I mean, everybody seems to have an answer of how this guy's going to be and that guy's going to be. You have no idea how they're going to be until you play. With your scheme, if AJ Terrell is able to take that next step, maybe become more of a shut-down type corner, what is that due to what you're able to do? Well, I don't... you know, first of all, Michael, I don't know what a shut-down corner really is. I mean, I've had some really good corners in the past and I don't know if I'd ever call anybody a shut-down corner because you don't... there's certain receivers you don't shut down. I don't care what they tell you. That's why you double them. So it's... Usually when you double them, you put your shut-down corner and everybody thinks it is on the second guy. So you use two guys on that guy and you put your good one on the second guy. But, you know, the thing of it is they just... they all got to take a step. It's not only him. It's everybody who needs to take a step. You know, it's... what happened last year, two years ago, how I coached two years ago, how any of the coaches coached last year is really irrelevant. We all got to take a step in the right direction. You know, and we have a lot of high expectations for our defense and for this team, as I know Art does and we do on defense. AJ just along with all those guys, whether it be Isaiah, whether it be Debo, I don't care who it is, it's Jared Grady. I mean, we all need to take a step. If you're really good, you need to be great. If you're really great, you need to be a pro bowler. You know, if you're a pro bowler, you need to be a hallfamer. I mean, there's just always that next step that you need to be. Kind of a little bit fine with AJ. What's your philosophy on traveling the corner versus side? Like, have you varied on that in your career? But the thing of it is, is that everybody thinks that it's so simple to do. I heard somebody last night say something about, well, yeah, you got to take Debone and Spy Hertz. What do I do with all the other guys that we got to cover? You know, what about the running game? You know, you can't just take a linebacker and tell him, okay, follow number one. What if he hands the ball off? We'd like to go see that guy. Go make the tackle. It's like, you know, stop and think before you say something. Traveling can be okay, but there certainly, the problem with it is when one guy travels, everybody else has to assume another responsibility. So it's not as easy as everybody think, well, you just take that guy and put him on this good guy. Well, it's just not that simple sometimes. Some offenses are, if they don't do a lot of motion, they don't do a lot of movement. They just kind of line up and they're pretty vanilla. Like back in the day when the Indianapolis Colts had Harrison and those guys, it was basically line up and play. Dallas Clark was going to be here. Harrison was going to be here. You know, it just, you kind of knew where it was going to be. So yeah, you can match up. Wasn't a lot of movement. They weren't going to put Harrison in motion. They weren't going to do that. Those days are gone, long gone. So everybody moves now. And then you got all the other stuff on offense where RPOs and things like that, you know, you just can't, you can't have four guys back there trying to figure out who they got based on one guy. So on, I'm not a big advocate for it, but I'm not going to say that I've never not done it or that I wouldn't do it again. I think curiosity, since you brought it up, where did you hear someone suggest they, that the Spai Hertz was on a meeting? I'm having a hard time. Where did you hear somebody say that you wanted to be on a Spai Hertz? Was that a, was that, was that one of us? Was that in a meeting? That was a radio show. I just had to hear it on the way home. I'm trying to figure out, I got a ram truck and every time you turn it on, the radio comes on and I cannot figure out how to turn it off. So I don't really want to listen to it, but it was on when I turned out of the parking lot and this guy was talking about Debo spying Hertz and then he went on and said, oh yeah, you just take this guy and man that guy and you take Debo and you spy Hertz. Oh good. Well hopefully they only run one play so that we can cover that one because they do have a few other guys that can play pretty well. And it's like, so I just, I just turn it down. I can't turn it off so I just turn it down. Sorry for the radio guys, but. It was because I helped it a lot. I just, so it was, it was, it made it sound pretty simple to me. I'm great last time about that, but I mean just that, you know, what does he do or what does he give you as, you know, front person right up front and in front of the other guy? Who's that, Greg? Well, Greg is really, he's really a good player. I mean, just really a good player. He's really a good teammate. He's not only a player, he's a good pro. I mean, just the way he practices, the way he prepares, it's all those things. That's what makes those guys really special and I think he's special. You know, he's a guy that can move. He's got some quickness. I mean, he's got all the things, you guys have seen it. I'm not going to tell you any characteristics that we know about him. He just, the thing that we got to try to do is try to get him and just like any player in a position where they can do their best. You know, if he's being double-teamed all the time, yeah, that's great. He's being double-teamed. That means somebody else maybe, but at some point in time, too, you want to try to get him in a position where he's not getting double-teamed all the time. So, you know, that's our job as coaches to try to work that out the best we can. Coach, I think you kind of answered this question on Brady, so I'll ask it just on Debo. With those two being selected as your defensive captains for 2021, from your perspective, what did you see in them both on and off the field and say, hey, I want these to be our defensive captains for this season? Well, you know, you kind of around the league. It's kind of funny because everybody always asks, did you know a lot about those guys before you came? You know a lot about the offensive guys that you've played against, and so you studied them. Matt Ryan's, you know, Ridley, those guys, because when we played a couple years ago, I played against them. That's who I studied. I didn't study, you know, Brady and Debo. But then you kind of start watching a film. You say, yeah, a really good player, but you don't know the guy, you know, and then all of a sudden you're with them off season and you're with them through training camp and all that stuff. I know those two guys are just as advertised. I mean, there's a reason why they're really good players. They're pros. And to me, that's more of a compliment than being a good player. Good player means, yeah, you can play good, you got talent, but you do all the little things. You study your opponent, you do the things, you're a team guy, you're asked to sacrifice. It's not always about, hey, how many sacks can I get? How can I, how are you going to take care of me? It's how is the team going to win? How is the defense going to play as a unit? That's why those guys are captains. Because if they, you know, players aren't going to vote for guys that are me guys, you know, for us guys. And that's what those guys are. You're talking about putting Grady in the right position to be successful, but how much of that is also guys around Grady picking up in certain areas, especially in the past, right? It's a game of loving guys. It's just like when Michael asked the question about, you know, matching up a corner. Well, I can't always put Grady in a position where I know that he's going to be then all of a sudden when I move him, three other guys are playing different, two up front, you know, or the linebacker might be playing different because he's not playing behind the same guy. So it's, it's, we just got to do it in the context of the whole defense. It's all loving guys have to work together for. You know, it's just, it's, the easiest place to always just get a guy singled up is always as an outside backer as a pass rusher. But even then, offenses can put guys in a position to chip them. They can use a back chipping. They can use a tight end to chip him. They can turn the protection to that guy like we used to do at Suggs. If Suggs was over here, we knew the protection was going to go that way. That's why Elvis Doomerville had 17 sacks one year because he was playing on the other side. Always getting a one on one. So you can do things like that. It's harder on the inside guys to do that because they, you know, there's, there's going to be two guards and a tackle and they're going to double team somebody. And so it's, it's not easy to do. But that's our job as coaches to try to configure things that we can do to try the best we can to get him one on one. You're never going to get him free, but you just try to get him one on one. I think one of the most interesting things that y'all have done this season that I found is putting Jacob to a mariner on 7 on 7 and kind of dropping him back a little bit. What can you kind of say about what he has shown you in terms of versatility in this new role that y'all are playing? Well, I always felt like when I watched a film on him last year, I always felt like this guy can run. You know, he's, he's young. You know, everybody can kind of looks at some of these guys about three years, guys like their seasoned vets and they're not. But he can run and he's he's really conscientious. He's another guy that's really a good pro. You get guys like that, and especially if you can run the versatility of being able to drop them, rush them, do whatever with them. We ask, we ask all our guys on defense to do a lot. I mean, all of our outside backers or past rushers, they all play inside. It's just like we ask all of our safeties to have to play corner, all of our corners to play safeties. So I'm going to have to play like a linebacker. We, we really want the defense to understand the entirety of the defense just not their position. That's what we've really tried to instill in them from the day one. That you can be the more you can do, the better. And we only dressed 20 some guys on Sunday. Well, you know, that's too deep. You know, sometimes even if it is too deep, if a guy goes down you may have to go play another position. We can't just all of a sudden bring one in from the street and play. So the more you can do, that's what we really kind of done with all these guys. You know, you know, the philosophy on pressure to go back to the tour to talk about the game of one-on-one matches. How much of your philosophy on pressure is that it confuses our opposing offenses enough that they might force them to be still worried about people that will get one-on-one pressure, one-on-one matches for maybe a down hit ball or maybe even a great deal. Like how much of your philosophy is kind of based on trying to eventually get there? The misconception is that it's really confusing to the quarterback. When you build a pressure, it's really not based so much on the quarterback because it is the offensive line. Everybody always talks about the quarterback, if you do this, this will confuse him, this will confuse him. Now, he's not the one that's blocking. I mean, he may have to see the coverage and be able to throw hot or he may have to do that or something else. It's the line. The line has a certain set of rules to where they're turned. Is this guy the mic? Are we turning the center to the mic? Are we turning the center over here? How do they protect? That's where you're really trying to confuse. If all of a sudden, 54 is the mic all week and they're saying, we're going to turn to 54. You hear a quarterback, you guys hear him on TV all the time. 54 is the mic and they're pointing right there. What if 54 isn't the mic next week? What if 45 is the mic? And 54 is somebody else. 54 is the end. That's the kind of stuff that you can do to confuse people. You don't even change the pressure. One week, 45 is Blitzen. Next week, 54 is Blitzen. Next week, number 3 is Blitzen. Next week, 91 is Blitzen. It's the same pressure. But all of a sudden, to an offensive line or even to a quarterback who's trying to point out the protection, hey, I practiced all weeks seeing 54 over there. And that hit me a long time ago at a practice. I know I get winded here sometimes, but I really kind of do want to tell you sometimes what the thought process is and not just, you know, I'm not one of those guys that doesn't want to give you an answer. I do. I'm not going to try to give you a secret, but I'm going to try to give you an answer. But I went out to practice one day. This was years ago in the NFL and the offensive line coach was ripping one of the assistant coaches that was running the scout team for having the wrong number on a guy. And I said, what would make a difference what number he was? Well, we know if that guy's the mic that's how we're turning the thing. Okay, great. As a defensive coach, you just told me what to do now. So that mic's going to be different all the time now. So what are you going to do if that's not that guy? What's hurt? What if he's not in? What if I change the mic? How you can't protect it? So it dawned on me that why shouldn't we move those guys all over the place and let them try to figure it out. So that's kind of how it happened. Long time ago. Awesome, guys. Thank you. Thank you.