 Coming off of yesterday you're in a stretch of you know just one home game in the seven-week period you've lost the first three games on the road what has to change to or improve to to get a win away from home. Well all the things that that are necessary that that we believe in and that we know that we have to do which is you know play better defense you know create some turnovers create shorter fields for offense and you know when we get down in the red zone making sure that that work we're turning those opportunities into touchdowns and we're able to do those things yesterday. Red zone area has been something that this offense has been fairly good at the lab in recent seasons. Yeah well whatever we've done in the past or did last week or you know two weeks ago that's that that doesn't have a whole lot of bearing on you know future opportunity so what we'll have to do is improve there and understand you know maybe where things went wrong we missed a play to hop that we felt good about just missed them like that happens you know first in 20 is tough and that got us off schedule and then you know we didn't convert there at the end. Are you taking shots at hot in the red zone? Yeah I mean sometimes I think the coverage dictates that and you know we'll continue to look at that and see if you know those things can help us but we certainly want to get him involved and and need him at all parts of the field. Some of your suspicions I guess about what were wrong in run defense confirmed by watching tape. They blocked us. They blocked us and you know we got out of gaps and when you play peek-a-boo those things happen. When they are blocking you like that what have you got to do from a defensive standpoint I guess from a player standpoint to keep that from happening. Keeping from blocking you yeah put your hands in their chest and you know leverage your gap when the ball runs through your gap shed and tackle and swarm to the football. So all the things that we've tried to do around here for a while you know sometimes you know and again they they broke one and you know KB was down there playing a quarterback you know on the run and you know wasn't it you know he's been able to and that that's not our KB I just tell you where it was like he was over there in case the quarterback pulled it and you know he's been really good for us when he's in the middle of field that when that ball breaks like that that we can you know he can he most usually likely gets him on the ground he just he was over there playing a quarterback his own read game like we had told him to. Five weeks in how are you feeling about how Jake has developed in year two so far I think he just inconsistent and you know some of that's you know our ability to try to find ways to get him the ball you know within what we're trying to do but you know some of that's on on chig as well so I love his effort I love some of the the things that he's doing but I think there's some details and some things that he can you know be better as well. Well no we're just talking about playing square and not letting these guys run whether that's you know within five yards or within ten yards you know I'm gonna say the same thing to to Amani Hooker you know I mean you have leverage on every pass coverage man or zone and you know leverage may mean inside eye outside eye but not not turning and letting them run and you know if you're if you're square and they run into you you probably get the benefit of the doubt not if you just slide in in front of them and or you know catch them with your arm and so I think that's just the focal point and that that's not you know try to let anybody off the hook I just trying to talk to the league and the officials and the things that they look for and you know when you are able to play square and move your feet you know sometimes you know you get the benefit of the doubt. Some of the things that happen like maybe eyes in the backfields sitting on the sticks are those things that are easily correctable? We'll see they better be correctable quickly would hope that we wouldn't be having these conversations about putting our eyes in the backfield and you know grabbing guys down the field and when we're in phase I think those are just things that we have to be able to you know understand you're in phase there's no reason to grab a guy. When you have a guy like that that has ability but you're not getting the results like how do you go about managing them and getting to coach to those results? Well I mean I think at some point time this is professional sports and we're gonna coach them coach every single one of them Christian included but we also have a job to do and we have to to go out and do it and one week doesn't mean anything and one game doesn't mean you know I mean it's unfortunate but then we have to keep moving on and we have to we have to improve and figure out you know is it that we're trying to make some plays and I mean if you're in match coverage really the whole goal is that we don't let our man catch the ball not that we're we're trying to make interceptions in match coverage because then you start looking for the football you start looking in the backfield and then you know they uncover or they make another move so you know there's opportunities when we can try to get an interception and in man coverage that's not one of them with the young guys that are behind them though I mean you feel comfortable if you don't throw them out there to take sure yeah that's why everybody's here you know and that that's something that could happen and you know we'll see where things go here at the rest of the day and our meetings and you know as we work towards Baltimore trying to be a little too eager to try to make a turnover you talk so much about it is it just not happening or are there other things that defensively you're not doing to put you in the right position well you could tip a ball at the line of scrimmage you know I mean how many we don't we don't tip any passes that then get intercepted talk about tip balls getting getting intercepted so we don't we don't tip any at the line of scrimmage you know we don't hammer any footballs out we never the ball was never in jeopardy yesterday quarterbacks are usually the the number one target and when you hit the quarterback two times it's hard to think that you're gonna get the football out when you can only hit them twice the pass game was you know efficient you know would have liked to you know been a bit better in a red zone and we threw it but you know we hit some chunks we hit some play passes I thought there were some good things there certainly there were some good pockets and you know quarterback got hit a couple times but I felt like we had time to just you know work our way through and progress through the the route and gave him some time to get the ball downfield yeah you know I think a little rusty but you know maybe a little conditioning but I think excited about you know getting them back in there and having them another week and you know it was a good step for him to get back out there and you know be able to play through the entire game one of the guys that was an active it just a feeling on him going into the week he just needed needs more time to get his technique and conditioning everything back yeah I mean Nick's been out a while so they're gonna have to earn a earn a spot back on to the offensive line and what we're trying to do so he had a little bit of practice last week and he'll get more this week agents tweeted that he's joining the practice squad he's a veteran guy what what does he bring to the defensive line I don't even know if we've he signed the papers or not so until I get confirmation of that I'm sure his agent you can check with him on Twitter but I'll let you know soon I don't want to say something miss miss speak you know when I in the process of me coming up here as an offensive weapon this year good we got to continue to find ways to get him the ball his my favorite contributions that he makes I know that he's gonna do good things with the football but even on the the past the West go there on short yardage he's sprinting down there to block somebody that's trying to hit you know Trayvon and he tries to protect the guy with the ball didn't really mention it I don't think during the week in Cincinnati but you know the 15-yard penalty that everybody was questioning was Tajé coming over and blocking a guy and squaring him up in the hole and then driving them as the pass went and the guy ripped Tajé's helmet off and that's what they ended up calling it so it you know I think there was some questions on was it on the quarterback was it on Nick it was actually Tajé's willingness to go in there and block the guy and finish as long as he could that the guy got frustrated and ripped his helmet off so those are the things that again we talked about in Minnesota when he came in and blocked in the pressure and the mug look and so those are all really really positive things outside of what he does with the football in his hand which you know speaks for itself. With Deandre Hopkins that drive coming out of the half time it kind of took over that drive how do you like the way he's just kind of getting settled in as one of the major guys in the offense? Well he has to be and he knows that and the connection that he has with the quarterback and his ability to find seams in the defense and whether it's to settle down or uncover run through his own Ryan gave him a good ball or his ability to adjust to to pass his body control so you know I know up until yesterday he obviously would have wanted more production but I've mentioned before every time we've needed a play on third down he's been there or play at the end of the Chargers game you know made a huge play so yesterday it was great to see him you know have have some you know production. We're talking about an explosive play, you've given up defensively but offensively you've had a bunch of 15-16 play drives do you need a few more explosives to make you not have to drive 80 yards in 17 plays? I mean unless you score from the 50 yard line you're gonna have to be good in the red zone so I'm that I don't we'll take as many as we can get just I mean I think we're trying to get them I mean maybe we could have thrown a crit you know I mean I think where I could have probably let one go to Chris Moore there around the maybe it was the 35 or something going in but other than that I don't know where we would have you know gotten any more of them. Factors went into your break a couple runs but that was a few and far between. Factors went into your decision to practice here for most of the week rather than go over to London for the entire time. Our experience I think the last time that we went over is get a lot of work in here have everything that we need here at the facility work ahead make Tuesday or Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday you know so on and so forth get over there get it get adjusted have a Friday practice clean up a lot of stuff that we did and then have our normal preparation for the game I talked to a lot of people that have done it both ways and that's how we did it the last time felt like we were ready to go and just didn't just didn't end the way that we wanted to from that last time you were there that you said okay you know what next time I'm going to do differently and you're doing differently this time we're going to get the two-point conversion that's what we're going to do oh okay I I felt like it was good I felt like the hospitality was good if you know me we provided buses and security and things for the players so that they could go into the city and see what they wanted to see that worked out well guys left went down there early got back early got sleep you know we do a little light workout stretch and take a walk and do some stuff before our Friday meetings you know other than that I don't know what you know we'll have all our staff over there our training staff and medical staff for the players no we're not we're at we're at a different place that no Duke castle preparation wise to eat their bodies right for all the travel or is that something that you kind of expect no we do we do I mean we're trying to you know you can dial back a little bit on asleep and and make sure that that we're hydrated and limited on a caffeine and all those things that that are going to be critical when we when we go and travel so hopefully we can you know start to try to you know get a little bit of extra sleep or make sure that we're going to bed a little bit earlier some of the bills players they you know had complained about the playing surface they said it was a root for some of their injuries that have you guys like done research and looked into that surface we have you know we've spoken to both teams and both equipment managers and you know however the field is I'm sure it's sure it's safe and sure it's rated that's their opinion I haven't played on it I won't play on it but you know what we'll have to be prepared for for whatever the surface is nobody's happy with is there a level of accountability you want to see from your players after a game and what does that accountability look like to you that you when you see guys how they interact how they talk how they reflect on their own performance yeah I mean I think it's our accountability is critical accountability and discipline not making excuses showing up we know it's a long season and game is humbling sometimes you know you you put a lot into it sometimes you lose unfortunately but come back to work get back to work and prepare and to go play a good football team a discipline physical football team that's really good in the red zone on both sides of the ball run it they stopped the run so we we know what we're we're getting ready for a lot of respect for him and then we just have to come to work and you know start preparing as much as it's disappointing like we got to move on and I try to give myself till nine o'clock to quit pouting and it's time to go to work we'll see I mean I I know he's working hard and then we'll see how he does and you know tomorrow tomorrow and Wednesday and we'll see how he does but hopeful that that he can try to get out and start running around I hope so but it's early in the week I don't know I hope we get try to get everyone we play I mean if that's the message is let's try to win everyone we play like just it's a week-to-week league and focus on this week and everything that we can do and then you'll figure out where we go after that