 Arthur, how do you plan to approach Marcus and Desmond over the next two and a half weeks? How do you handle reps, how do you handle kind of working both of them through as you figure all this out? Well, it's a lot of guys. I mean, this is, we've, and I've stated this on the record before, and what you'll see out today, this is an OTA, this isn't a practice. This is an organized team activity, which is a workout. And there's rules and some about being smart, player safety. That's why you're not going to see the full team, not going to see the big guys. There's not going to be contact. It's not what we want right now, this time of year. A lot of individual development. You'll see in individual periods. You'll see some 7-on-7, but this is a build-up. When we start camp, then it's competitive and it's real football. So there's all the rookies, Mike. There's the quarterbacks, wide receivers, backs, DBs. There's a progression. So it's a teaching development and a lot of a passing. But again, you're talking about 7-on-7. There's no rush trying to get the timing down. So again, you know, people love the hot takes right now. You're watching a scripted 7-on-7. And when it comes to Isaiah Oliver, would you feel like he'll be, at what point do you feel like he's going to be ready? Who? Isaiah Oliver. Don't have timelines on the injuries. That was a delayed question. Yeah, it was a delayed question. Isaiah's doing a good job. He's progressing. And this is not fair to the player to put a timeline on it, but there's nobody that's working harder than Isaiah Oliver. He's in the building. He'll pop in there sometimes at 8 o'clock at night and he's in there working. That really refers to that. What did you see in him, even though he got hurt, that you wanted to bring him back? Yeah, really intelligent football player. Embrace that role of playing that slot corner, that nickel position. You know, he could play on the outside if he needs to. He could drop deep if he has to. And he's a good pressure player when Dean dials up the pressure with the slot corners. Coach, what do you expect to see from your wide receivers? You have a number of wide receivers that you've brought in from this time in OTAs, and what are some of the things you'll be looking for as far as them to separate themselves as you guys ramp up towards training? Yeah, you really won't see anybody separate themselves now, but you're getting guys in here. We're a little heavier on the skilled positions. We make decisions that we'll have some trial players at veteran minicamp, and then we'll probably end up adding to the lines to balance it out going into training camp. But you get a couple of week evaluation with guys, how they're picking up the offense, how they mesh in with the quarterback, the timing, understanding conceptually what to do, and really one of their work habits on the field and in the classroom. We hear so much about the jump from year one to year two for guys, for guy like Kyle Pitts. What have you seen from him being year two a second offseason that's a promise? Well, he's not facing the unknown, right, with all these rookies. Everything's new to him, new environment, new team, staff, terminology. You see Kyle, as you saw him as he progressed through last season, and I've said it many times, he's just scratching the surface. You see a very different player mindset. He knows what to expect, what we expect from him, so I've been very encouraged so far. With your defensive personnel additions, how much differently do you think you'll be able to play on that side of the ball? I'm sorry, Josh, I didn't hear the last part of that. How much differently do you think you'll be able to play on that side of the ball this year just because of personnel additions? Yeah, I think you'll see, you know, Dean, and he's gone on record. You know, he'll be able to put more, especially in year two, even the guys coming back. They're familiar with what we're asking them to do. There's different packages. You know, we should be more multiple with some of the guys if they continue to progress, what do you think? Some of these young guys we brought in and some of the guys we signed give you a lot of flexibility. Whether it's on the back end, with the depth we feel like we'll have at safety, or really up front with a lot of those young guys at that DN outside linebacker spot, and at inside linebacker. So it'll be a fun group to coach and be able to open up a lot more of the playbook. Several of his players have talked about aggressiveness. His aggressiveness as a play caller. Does that just mean getting after the quarterback, or are there other elements involved in being aggressive defensively? That's all over the place. You know, a lot of it, too, is you can come up with great pressures, whether you're in obvious past situations, or you're in red zone with thought behind it, what you're trying to accomplish, getting the ball out, understanding also aggressive coverage behind it, knowing the situation as well, Josh. You know, it's not just the blitzing, the pressure from up front, but on the back end, understanding the situationally, how to close the cushions, where you fit in the space, and stuff like that. And that's where it comes with year two, better understanding some of the competition. I think we'll bring that out, and I think we'll have better execution. So coach, recently Anthony Firks have talked about just being in that tight end room with someone like Kyle Pitts and just the competitiveness. I know it's very early on, but are you starting to see in that tight end room as it just kind of flows out in the competitiveness in that room? Well, certainly, I think with guys that are in that room, and it's not just Kyle. Justin Peel does a great job coaching that room. It's a different room than it was a year ago. We'll be able to do a lot. And it was just by personnel. I mean, we had Lee in there last year who was at the end of his career, who I think I'm faster than. Hayden was a different type player. And then now you got other guys in there. He's a guy that's really developed. That I expect a lot of growth from here. Well, Parker's been in the league for a couple of years, but he was a converted defensive end from Iowa. And then Anthony Firks is a guy I've worked with before. He's another, gives you a different element in the passing game. Guys that's made big plays and big games and playoff games before. And Braden Linnius is a guy that we're going to develop. That's been from the CFL. It's got unique pass catching traits. And then obviously the rookie John Fitzpatrick will bring him along coming off the foot injury. Hopefully we'll see more of him in camp. And then Tucker Fisk is a guy we brought into rookie mini-camp. So that room is unique. It's different than it was a year ago. So I'm excited. And Coach, I'm going to ask you a non-football question. Sure. My name's Tenetra Batista. I should probably tell you that. I know. Oh, you do? Okay. Because I'm like, you didn't call me any. So I should probably reintroduce myself. But I'm with 929 the game. I just couldn't hear. So a lot of it, yes. Gotcha. And this morning on one of our shows, they talked about the fact that they saw you kind of doing your rounds, getting your cardio going. So I was curious, what is it that you listen to, what are you listening to in your pods that kind of gets you going and ready for something like open practice today? Oh, yeah. I didn't know. I thought I was here before anybody was. I wasn't trying to look for attention. It looked like the cool guy coach working out. Need to stay in shape or getting better shape. Put it that way. You know, we have some players too. But it's good. It kind of recharges you. You know, whatever your routine is. I have an eclectic music taste. Sometimes I listen to podcasts, audio books. Got a pretty good commute into work. So I just changed it up. Coach, how you doing? Year two for you, but a lot of new personnel, a lot of new faces out there and only a few days on the field, no contact going on. What's your timetable? And what do you look for to let you know that things are on schedule? Yeah. A lot of times too, we're installing new stuff every day. So a lot of the stuff to see today be the first time for these young guys that they've run those certain concepts offensively or a new call. We put it in defensively. So it's a teaching and development stage where a lot of the stuff you see, it's like, can we bring the installations in the classroom that we've shown film on? Can we bring them to life? And you want to get as many reps as you can with those calls and the adjustments. So when you come back again and camp, you feel like you're ahead there and you kind of, you reinstall it and then now you're, like I said, you're really competitive and real football then. So with some guys, some guys pick up things quicker than others. It doesn't mean we're going to write somebody off this time of year because of it, but it allows you to assess where they're at mentally and as well as physically. Last time we talked to you, you said that reuniting with Marcus was fun. Why is he somebody that you like to coach? Well, he's just a great person to be around. You take the football side of it, then there's, we all know people, friends and co-workers that you enjoy being around. They make coming to work fun. He's a unique person. And that's why you always hear teammates that play with him, whether it was at Oregon, Tennessee, or Vegas, even the short time here, why they appreciate him. He's an authentic person. I don't know many people, I've met my life that are better humans than Marcus Marriota. The last time that we talked to Brian Edwards, he made the comment that he thought that coming to Atlanta was a good fit, as good as it could get for him. Why was Brian somebody that y'all wanted to go after? Well, we thought the opportunity was there and you hope it's a win-win. It's a new program they're building in Vegas and I got a lot of respect for Dave Ziggler and Josh McDaniels. And sometimes it's a really good player and they may be going in a different direction. But ironically, he may fit more of us. What we're trying to do, he's relatively local. Played at the University of South Carolina, Conway, South Carolina, so he's familiar with this area, which is unique. It's not why we traded for him. But there's some skill sets that I saw for him when he was coming out of South Carolina that I thought would fit and there's a role for him here. So when Terry brings up the trade and we talk about it as a staff, we thought it was an exciting move for us because he really fits what we're trying to build in that receiver room. Mentally, the maturity, the competitiveness. Obviously the guy can play. Got a good catch radius. So we're excited about him. Coach, you talked about fear of the unknown as far as cow pits and what's the difference between year one and year two. What feels different for you coming in from your first year and then coming into your second year? Certainly. I was a rookie head coach last year. So we challenge our players and staff and I start with myself, how can I improve day to day, year after year? So there's certainly things that you can get, you feel you can get accomplished. Every day you would blink and it felt like it was 10 o'clock at night and there's so much you want to get done and what's practical, what's not. You feel like you're hitting your stride better and certainly more comfortable for me, year two as well. Last question though, do you have a head in the size eight? What's that? Do you have a head in the size eight? I need an eight. You need an eight? Yeah, I need an eight. I want to talk to Brian Boyner or Kenny. I'm sure they can work some out. Appreciate it, Coach. Has your philosophy about running the quarterback changed since you became an NFL coach? Well, I just... Yeah, I mean, that's probably fair. I mean, you know, I go back and I think about the first couple of quarterbacks. I was the defensive quality control, but we had Jason Campbell, Mark Brunel, Todd Collins. Mark was a guy that, you know, early in his career, he had extended plays in Jacksonville, but people weren't running a lot of the zone read. Let quarterback run stuff that was kind of taking over college football in the early 2000s. It certainly made its way into the NFL. And there's a fine line. I mean, you don't want to be reckless with it, but I think there's a natural progression that's happened and we have some very athletic quarterbacks. So we're going to try to play to our strengths. Did you... How much of it was the type of players you started getting at that position that made you re-evaluate? Yeah, I think that's a lot. I mean, I think with the talent pool coming in, I mean, you can either complain about it or the reality are there's a lot of guys that are very versatile football players, whether they come from 7-0, 7 backgrounds and they got, you know, it's a different game structurally sometimes on the back end, the type of athlete that's coming into the league. You're seeing that certainly what we did with Cordero Patterson. Obviously what San Francisco did middle to late year with Devo Samuel, that got a lot of notoriety, that people have had success with guys, but they're used to playing other positions. They weren't just stuck at tailback from the time they were 9. They played wide open offenses. Defense, you have hybrid safeties that come in. Are they corners? Are they those big sub linebackers? So it's... That's what the talent pool that's coming into this game and you better adapt. Now some old principles still hold true in the game of football, but in the same thing with the quarterback, a little bit different in college, the speed of the game, you got to be careful how many times you run a certain player. You don't want to expose them too many times because it's their fair game when they're running in between the hashes. Yeah. Yeah, what does Marlon Davidson need to do to kind of take that next step as a player? You know, what have you been looking for out of him? A lot of guys. No different when you ask Grady to replicate what he's done in the past. Can we continue to enhance Grady? Can we find other guys that can come in there and give us some internal pressure? So it's not just Marlon, it's the whole group. And there'll be opportunity everywhere and like I said, we may have to get flexible about different packages which Dean and Ted and Gary have done in the past and Frank, so we're excited. Always got to have an opportunity and Marlon knows what the expectation is that he crammed us or Nick Thurman. But the opportunity is there. We've got to find more internal fast rush. Arthur, you keep bringing in a bunch more wide receivers just signed another one this week. Is there something that you were looking for when it comes to receivers that you feel like you need in that room? Not necessarily. When we see there's good football players out there, maybe somebody, obviously I have a history of some of the guys or somebody on our staff does, personnel or coaching. But if we can enhance that room and if we think there's a guy out there that could possibly make this team and make our room better, we're going to bring him in. And in this kind of a year, because we don't have to, you know, line up and play a real game, you may go heavy and it's extended to three week trial for certain guys at certain skill positions and we're excited. So when the opportunity to bring somebody like Cameron Batson in who's played in this league who I've got a lot of respect for and we were able to, the first team to work them out, you want to bring them along and see if we can enhance that room. The competition will only make us better. And just from a clerical standpoint, anyone not going to be here today that was here last week and vice versa? I mean, our guys are here. I mean, I got... I gave the update recently, you know, there's guys at different parts of the program, the off-season, some stuff was cleaned up. Some guys with vets are dealing with some family thing, but we've had probably about 95% of our guys almost every day.