 Mike, with the way injuries just seem to keep piling up execution issues, how do you keep the faith in the locker room of now that the lead in the division has down to one game? Well, man, I think you have to be professionals. You have to come to work. You have to. We all have a job to do. You know, we have to excel at it. We have to do our job better and we have to, you know, continue to find ways to not, you know, not hurt ourselves in all three phases to continue to play complimentary to try to sustain, you know, those types of things and, you know, just get the guys ready to try to figure out who's going to be available, where the, you know, where the injuries are, where you have to try to bring guys in or elevate from the from the practice squad. Challenge, maybe increase the fact that you've got a short week this week and a shorter week next week? Well, we'll focus on this week, you know, so we have, you know, one last day to prepare, but so do, you know, the Texans. And then, you know, we'll worry about, you know, what happens after that. Then, you know, we have to put everything into this week and make sure that we're ready to go, make sure that we're focused and that the guys that will be in the game will, you know, be expected to play up to a level and a standard that, you know, is going to help us win. And having that conversation about not making the big mistakes and things like that for a couple of weeks now, the offense goes out and you get a penalty from one of your key guys on the first series, end up in second and 22 or whatever. What's that say about kind of the message getting through and guys kind of doing, not doing the things that you've been talking about for three weeks? Yeah, that's going to be a quick answer to an incredibly terrible, long question. Just continue to stay consistent and focus on improvement and, you know, making sure that they understand where some of these penalties occur, you know, pressure and, you know, Nate kind of went back and, you know, I think Ben saw the backer blitz and so just understanding like in special teams where, you know, those guys, you know, you get blocks in the back out in space is just trying to understand where those occur, you know, Hooper's penalties at the point of attack, you know, it's, you know, those are things that set you behind. That's it getting through. Jimmy, you got anything here? Yeah, I guess the final deep ball to Mike Williams, I guess, was maybe in the good coverage and they made a play there, somebody supposed to go there maybe helped them. What maybe went wrong and allowed that late field goal. A quarterback broke in and made a play down the sidelines. Defense. Not good enough. Again, a quarterback broke into a guy made a play down the field. So, you know, whether they were on them or not, I mean, they made a play. Mike, a couple of sacks the last couple of weeks that Dailey's giving up, there was the chip first. Did the chip serve? Yeah, not very good. Not good enough. Did it almost send him around? We got to stop the charge. We've been trying to work through this through training camp and some really good examples of that getting done. And then, you know, unfortunately, you know, we chip one time and a couple of weeks ago and we flew out of there and gave up, you know, pressure inside. So, you know, the message was, you know, when we are getting a chip, we have to, you know, stay inside out, protect, you know, help the guard. You're getting help. And then the last two times, you know, we haven't done a very good job of chipping and then our tackle stayed inside out to help the guard. And then all of a sudden realized, you know, I probably am going to need to get out of here a little quicker. And so, again, we just didn't do a good enough job on that particular play. Right, moving around the day and kind of starting back at square one as far as rehab and trying to get over that. Yeah, I mean, he'll work, you know, extremely hard to get to get back and find a way to make the game like he always has. And, you know, again, we're never going to question his toughness or his willingness to get back and help us win. As those injuries, they continue to mount up. Like, do you ever look at it and kind of like chalk it up to the physical nature that you guys play with? I think everybody, I think that professional football is a physical sport. And then I would say most everybody plays hard. There's some guys that play harder. But I mean, I also, you know, watch a lot of the games. And I think that, you know, I understand it's a physical sport. So, you know, that's, you know, where we're at is where we're at. We'll have to find out who's available and try to get the guys that need to step up, get them ready to go. As they mount up a little bit more for you guys over the last couple of years. I mean, do you ever look at that and wonder what is the cause? Should we not play as hard? No, I don't know. No, no, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes with the physical style that you play, is that more conducive to guys having more injuries? Like I said, I think there's a lot of guys in this league that play hard and that play a physical style of football. You know, football is a professional football is a violent game. Mike, you said that you evaluate everything and everyone every week. So what's your evaluation of tie down and spike calling from yesterday? Like our, you know, probably like our entire team's effort, not good enough to win, you know. I'm responsible for every call that goes in. Whether it gets executed or, you know, it's a good call or bad call. You know, you have to, you know, look and see times we got no flow and a rhythm. And I just really, really always curious about play calling. You know, I think that that's again, I've said it in all three phases. I think it's not not overrated. That's not the question mark is, you know, making sure that everybody's on the same page that we find ways to play the game. That, you know, we were close, you know, and just sometimes where we got into drives, another penalty, started to play drives off with penalties and getting in third and long. You know, I thought that Malik was prepared and went in there. It was probably the most comfortable that he's been. You know, we didn't protect the quarterback again. You know, hit some runs there in the second half that I thought were that were good. You know, again, I guess when when Hooper was was wide open, well executed play by by Hooper and Ryan and the line. I think the execution and play calling, you know, all go, you know, goes hand in hand. That's what I think about the play calling. You said he looked the most comfortable he's been. Does that play into your decision making this week and see the strides? I mean, Ryan's healthy and Ryan can play. I mean, Ryan be our quarterback. But again, I think Malik has put a lot of work into the show team and in trying to play the game and command the huddle and do all the things that we've talked about how he needs to try to develop during the week when there aren't a lot of reps. And he done and he did that. And, you know, Pat's watching all those reps with them. And, you know, we talked about not making bad decisions in the jog through just because it's a jog through or, you know, he'd try to break contain just to, you know, give the guys a look maybe last week or whenever we were with with Trevor Lawrence and we kind of threw it back across in the middle of the field. And I think it was a good opportunity for me just to say, hey, I think we need to just take off or, you know, try to progress and try to find somebody on the sidelines, not make those decisions in practice because we would never, you know, want you to do that. So we're always trying to coach him. And I think he has learned from those opportunities. And I think he was ready to go in in the game and try to help us yesterday. Decisive. I'm sorry. Was he more decisive? He progressed through. And I think, you know, the one where he took off and and scrambled, he looked didn't see what he didn't like what he saw, put the ball away, made a really good move. Got a first down, slid, took care of himself. You know, I thought maybe one of the moves, the ball got, you know, a little outside his body, which we continue to work with. But, you know, I would say that decisive he progressed through on the third down and, you know, was able to, you know, pick up a first down for us. You give much thought to going for two after the touchdown. I think, yeah, I did. I just thought that where the clock was, I think it would have been down a little lower. You know, that I probably would have, you know, I figured that where it was then, they would have had a chance to kind of do what they did. Unfortunately, On a third and two, why have Derek off the field? Well, I mean, Derek rotates. We got a package, a pressure package to prepare a third down back. Now, there's times that there's, you know, in there on third and two, there's there's times that that he's not. There's times that he's in there on third and long. So, you know, we have a package that we practice and guys are, you know, prepared for those roles. And sometimes Derek's out there. How do you view like third and two? Obviously, third and ones are running down, right? But how do you view third and two as more of a passing down? And I think it's, you know, predicated on, you know, what you feel like you're going to see the looks that you're going to get. You know, the coverage, I mean, usually he's going to be in there pretty tight, you know, based on what front they're in is a five down front, four down front. And again, you have a lot of options where you are on the field and you feel like you can, you know, run it or you feel like you're going to go for it on fourth down. That may predicate, you know, or dictate some of the call. You've seen the Mark Walker improve maybe since he's been here. I just think he played yesterday. He played, you know, really hard. I think he had some good rushes, power rushes and play with a lot of energy. I was taking advantage of the more snaps that he's gotten and been productive. So hopefully he can help us. He's, you know, been very durable and he works extremely hard and appreciate his attitude. Now, somatically, when you look at the division right now, there's a good chance it comes down to that last game in Jacksonville. Considering that, is there a chance that you may be rest guys try and get more healthy in the next couple of weeks leading up to that game? No. When you see what Houston's done the last couple of weeks, they play some solid games against both Dallas and Kansas City. How have they, I guess, I don't know, stood out to you? Well, they've got a great group of veteran players that, you know, played a bunch of football, I think, in this league and have been successful, you know, other places, guys that I have a great deal of respect for. And they and they play hard and they compete. And, you know, they should have had, you know, had Dallas beat, you know, had them beat down there in a goal line in a four minute situation. They continue to be opportunistic. They took the ball away and took advantage of turnovers with with Kansas City. Took them to overtime, you know, so they're obviously the record doesn't mean anything. They've got veterans that, you know, have played well in this league and continue to play well and add some some youth and, you know, so it again, it'll be a huge challenge. They took Kansas City to overtime without some key players for him yesterday. Some faith that Mike. Well, I don't think that they've lost. Anybody's lost any faith. It's, you know, it sucks when you lose. It sucks when you, you know, we're in a game and you lose in the last couple of seconds, you know, I think if you if you watch and the effort, you know, I think the competitiveness, you know, I don't think that that we've anybody's lost any faith. What you're saying, resonating, because some of the themes that you're hitting are still coming up as prom. Yeah, that's why you coach, you know, as you said, you still got everything in front of you. But, you know, with four, four straight losses, what do we make your leaders need to do to keep guys? You know, we don't need to keep guys and we just need to play better. We need to coach and get them going. And, you know, this isn't a cheerleading contest. This is figure out who you got and get 48 guys ready for the game. Like this isn't a, you know, rah, rah, this is go out and execute, you know, do the things that help you win and eliminate some of the things that that end up costing you. Because you can see when we do it well and we play complimentary that we have a chance to do things. I mean, we've got to stop on defense. You got, you know, sitting there at first and goal or not first and goal, but first and 10 on maybe the 20-yard line and then, you know, go backwards and miss a kick. So I would like to have some of those things over. Along those same lines, you got to preach so much about the work during the week, D-Ray, for Sunday. Have you seen that slip at all during that stretch? Or is this simply just about somebody needs to make a point? Yeah, I mean, we walk through. I mean, we walk through 60 reps. So I mean, it's hard to practice guys that, you know, are barely making it to the game. So we try to come up with a plan that we feel like is best during the week, like the preparation is good. I feel like the energy is good. And I think yesterday was a much different game than, you know, Jacksonville. You know, I think that it was, you know, competitive. And, you know, we just we got beat beat at the end. We didn't we didn't turn it over and handed to him. We didn't give up the big plays. It was really cool to see our defense go out there and sudden change and and do something and keep fighting. I'm assuming last year wasn't much different in terms of the walkthroughs. But in your first couple of years here, did you get more practice time this time of year? And if so, how beneficial is that in the last couple of weeks of the season? Well, I think playing well is the most important thing. So however you have to structure practice, just playing well down the stretch is most important. Try the rotation again to get where you wanted to get yesterday. Oh, yeah, we'll see how it goes this week. I don't know. We'll see how Dylan's feeling. Like I was asking earlier on the on the injury front, how much have you in the last couple of years kind of looked at everything that you guys are doing and have you have you changed anything? Or have you changed a lot? Yeah, we have. I mean, training camp has been different. And, you know, we track all the injuries. You check how they occur. Some guys are repeat offenders. Some injuries occur in a game, you know, try to limit, you know, try to limit the ones that occur in practice, obviously. But we were very conscious of the training camp schedule, practice schedule. Talked earlier about how we try to have done research on getting guys to 90 percent each and every week. So it's not, you know, just once a week on Sundays, sometimes Wednesday and Thursday, Frank will walk around with the iPad, track guys and say, hey, I need to get 90 percent. So they'll manufacture some sort of stride. So that's not just, you know, they hit 90 percent on Sunday, way to week. And then all of a sudden go out and hit 90 percent. So we're focusing on some of those things. And some guys are repeat offenders that, you know, have been, you know, showing up there more than once on some things that are maybe similar or maybe the same injury. Are you surprised given those changes that you're kind of in the same spot you were last year before you made those changes? Since where we're at right now. So we'll continue to evaluate and try to, you know, get everybody as healthy as we can. Not much of it for you, because you just need your guys back when you get to the finish line. Oh, well, we need everybody that we can get, you know, we need to, you know, try to get everybody that we can get back healthy, you know, see where Danico is this week, see where Zach is this week. Yeah, there's a lot of guys coming off that game that, you know, may or may not play in the game going forward. You mentioned you lose a day in with your injury situation. What's practice look like here as far as how much speed you can do? It would look a lot like, you know, last week's. You know, try to walk through, try to do some individual, you know, practice tomorrow and do some stuff on on Wednesday that, you know, it's probably a little faster. But I mean, I wouldn't say it's doing much full speed work till Thursday. I know you don't have much choice, but is it harder to sustain the next man up message when it's several next men up every week, all season long? Well, you don't have much of a choice, do you? You kind of have to, you know, put somebody in there. And, you know, whether that's Greg Maiman, whether it's Jack Gibbons, you know, whoever that is throughout the roster, you know, just trying to get guys to know what to do and be able to play fast and aggressive and and give ourselves a chance. Mike, with the Dunn-Troll earlier on IR, do you maybe rethink the way you do some of the rotations with Derek and maybe keep him on the field more on third down with, especially as productive as he's been as a receiver this year? Yeah, those are different downs. I think that the play pass stuff, you know, it's different. It's really, you know, we're not using the back to to create and win one-on-one in, you know, a choice route situation. And I hope that's not what you guys are alluding to, because that would be that would tell me a lot about what you guys think of and how you view football. There's a protection element to it that we've worked extremely hard on making sure that everybody knows what to do and Derek's included in that. And yeah, I mean, obviously those roles that, you know, when we can get him the ball, I do agree with you there. He's worked hard to catch the football. Ryan did a great job on, you know, after the play fake, they didn't go with him. You know, Ryan was decisive and hit the nice screen yesterday. So, you know, there's just some first and second down element that may not, you know, translate to some. Now, he'll be in there in some third downs, you know, and then some he won't be. We hear a lot about rookie wall and to see Roger and Chick both ascending when you're past that point. How good I've just seen the look on, you know, Roger's face. He's so competitive. He wants to do so well. He internalizes so much that, you know, again, addressed it, I think yesterday is after the, you know, the mistake last week before half where the ball went through his hands to be able to know the situation and, you know, understand it. And that's a fantastic play. Challenged Williams. I thought the last two weeks have been really, really good for him as far as just overall consistency. And we need that to continue. And then Chick as well, just to, you know, kind of make some improvements, you know, at the line of scrimmage, but certainly playing fast and probably one of our better special teams players had an outstanding play on the punt team yesterday. And, you know, as more snaps as he gets on offense, you know, he still will, you know, wants to be out there on the punt team and wants to help us. And that's been, again, I've said it a million times, trying to, you know, that's the most impressive thing I think from him or Hassan is that they are really good special teams players.