 I think what we did yesterday was a great start to what we want to do and the direction that we want to go into for the rest of the year. Obviously, the way we started last week wasn't the way we wanted to, but the work we put in showed on Sunday. I mean, if you give a big place and give up points, that was shown against the Saints, that was shown against the Browns. And then when you don't give up good plays, they won't score points, that's going to help us out. But we just did a good job of, I think, eliminating Chase as much as we could. Obviously, he's a great receiver, it's hard to do, but I think we did a good job of just taking away some weapons. Michael always says it's about the players, but to what degree, from the player's side, it's a success like that, at least in part, about the plan? Yeah, it's about the plan as well. I mean, it's a two-handed stick. You've got to be able to take the game plan and also play it to the best of your abilities. And that comes with great coaching that puts us in the right position so that we can be successful on the field. How big was that plan? It was a great plan. I mean, that's the main plan, all the keys that we needed to win the game we hit on defense. So you sit there and see everybody pretty much where they started, over his two and two, what are your thoughts? I mean, that's how the league is. It's going to be a grind. It's going to be a long run. It's not going to happen over a couple weeks. It's not like college where you can just go in and blow out every team. Every week's going to be a challenge, and then we've got a good one this week. Whatever problems you guys have had right out of the game, you still have to feel pretty good about the position you're in, regardless of what's happened. Especially, like you said, we feel really good where we're at. Obviously we want it to be better, but the best thing we can do is just win the game that we have at hand. What does consistency look like for this football team? Going out, knowing what to do and playing fast and aggressive. The times that we go out there on all three levels and guys are timid, guys are questioning. Just kind of second guessing. That's not what we want. We want guys just to go out there and play football. Just for an example, from yesterday, Tyrej drops a ball on a toss from Ryan. He isn't panicking. He picks it up, goes, gains yards, Ryan blocks for him. That's like backyard football. That's what rabble means when the players have to make plays. That's the instance right there. Last week you guys talked about early in the week that what happened didn't matter, just on to the next game, so on. How does that approach have to play well then? It's the same approach. We've got to do it again. How good do we want to be? How great do we want to be on defense? It's going to be a week to week thing. Where does that come from? Is that something that comes from bad preparation? No, it just comes from guys just caring about what they do and not wanting to make a mistake. That's literally all it is. Guys aren't going out here trying to make errors or have mistakes, but they also don't want to be too aggressive. It's a fine line, but that just comes from experience that comes from being out there and playing on the field. You guys have a face-to-quarter back, even though Richardson's a rookie, you haven't faced a quarterback like him, his style of play yet this year. What kind of problems can he present with his size and athleticism combination? Being able to extend plays. That's definitely going to be tough on the back end. Makes us, as the DBS, have to cover longer. Guys are able to get open, but he's a good quarterback. We'll see what he has this week. You played pretty well in two games at home. It hasn't translated as much to the road. What's the challenge of making sure that you have the same type of effort when you go back on the road this week? We got to go as a team. We got to go out there and believe in ourselves, believe in our practice and our preparation throughout the whole week and understand our keys and our objectives to win and we'll be successful. Thank you for having me earlier. I guess right at the gate you almost had a pick there. What was your read on that play and you beat yourself up for that? Whenever the ball hits my hands, for me I got to be able to catch that. But it was just short. The ball was on probably a 7-8 yard line. I ended up becoming a free player and I was just reading the eyes of Joe Burrow and I kind of got a little too far in front of it a little bit, but I got to catch those. How important was that stop there to force pull them to a field goal? It seemed like they were rolling early and then you guys obviously stopped them after that. Yeah, very important. That's the key for us is to get the drive stop no matter what, even if it's not looking too good. But at the end of the day we don't want touchdowns and they got down to the red zone and we did a good job of just holding them to a field goal. After the game it's been Derek, it's been called Jeffrey, the heart and soul of the football team. We thought Derek is being that guy for a long time. Has Jeffrey kind of taken over that mantle with this group? Yeah, I mean he's a guy that's going to get everyone riled up and get ready for the game. I mean he's not just a riled up, riled up guy. He's a leader as well. He cares about the team. He knows the rules. He knows what's going to make us successful and he applies that to the squad. Any play like that when I'm at a space, I love it because I'm athletic. So whenever I can pull around, get somewhere, release on the line, back at DB, open space, I like those plays. How many of those do you think can work? We had about three or four? Yeah, we had about three or four plays I pulled up out of there. Harry, you guys have talked about success so early down, staying ahead of the champions, other than just saying it and doing it. What allowed you to have success so early down? Everybody on their job, everybody's winning one-on-ones. Everybody's out there playing fast, flying around and just being aggressive. Everybody winning one-on-ones, I'm going to have positive results. You looked at positive results, right? The way that you guys were able to play yesterday, did you have any early indications throughout the week that that was the type of result that you were going to have? I feel like that's always the goal, going into the week. Have you prepped? You ain't never going to a game with a game for anything like, oh, it's not going to work. So whatever game you have, you think it's going to be successful and you're going to execute the way it's drawn up. How much of a game like yesterday helped build confidence in the room, especially coming off a game where the team across the board had struggles against the week before? That was a big time win. Then we back at home too. Just come out there and dominate the bingos like that. In all phases, from offense, special teams, defense, that's a big time confidence builder. What do you think is going to take to stack games like what you did yesterday and stack that and roll that into further games that will be more consistent? I was just saying, seeing what we did that day, making your games off the positive things you did. You see them will work. Whatever you were doing, staying in that mode and just keep enhancing whatever you were doing, that was working. That's how I feel about it. Raymond really tends to dismiss it when we ask him questions about the game plan and the play calls. He says it's all about the players. Understanding that from the players side, how much does the plan and the play call help set you guys up to execute? It's big, but at the same time, I don't know if you've heard it before. You can draw up plays, but it's going to be the players that bring it to life. You can draw up any play and if everybody wants to dominate the person across them, it'll work. That's a true statement. It's all about the players bringing the plays to life. Back in the building, what do you tell him as he works his way back into football shape and being ready to go himself? I feel like he's been locked in this whole time. Even when he's away, he knows he's coming back. He got to stay ready for when that time comes. It was cool. He got short time a little bit, but I feel like he's been locked in. He's been focused and just staying ready for whatever comes. What do you think his presence can mean for the run? He's been around, so we've been in means. We've been practicing together. It's the same presence to be honest. It's still the same energy, same standard. We don't go. Do you have a line performance yesterday? Is that a breakthrough in some ways? Or go back to what you said earlier about every guy winning their battle? Every guy winning their battle, we're just working together because we're a unit. I feel like we've been knowing what we're capable of, but it's always been fine. There's just one slip-up or one person here or one person there or just not being good enough, so it just was clicking on our cylinders. How's Dylan doing since he's moved into the lineup? This is really the first extended playing time he's gotten since he's been here. How's he done and how's that kind of helped his confidence? He's been doing good. He got in a couple of games last year and came in as a starting license since he's been here. I feel like wherever you put Dylan, he's going to thrive and he's going to hold up to that stand and give it all he got every time. I know you guys tried to cheat everything out, but there's some guys under the gun after last week's game. Did you learn something about the guys in your room with how they responded this week? Yeah, I feel like with an athlete itself, you can't beat down yourself for too long, no matter what happens. You yourself and then us around, anybody who had a bad game or they just downed them best, you got to pick each other up and just put everybody on your back so they can keep going. Sometimes people don't got the energy or just a mindset to just fight through a problem like that. Us men and you and them helping each other out and just carrying each other along the way. Aaron, the coach spoke about how last week you guys all just came to work after a bad game like that. You guys got better basically Monday through Saturday? Do you see that in the course of a week, even in the middle of the season, that you can get better during the week? Absolutely. You can get better. It's an everyday thing. It's the NFL. You never know what's going to happen every Sunday. We all ain't seen it before, but just taking it one day at a time and being intentional with whatever you're doing, every drill, every rep. In meetings, how you take notes, how you study, just being intentional with everything you got going after you do fail. Even when you succeed, it's the same thing, growing off your failures. You talked about how much better the O-line clicked in this game. You reset the bar for the group playing like that now that you can't do what you did in Cleveland or the earlier game? I ain't resetting the ball. It's trying to get to that ball. We had a good game this past Sunday, but the ball is still set at the top. We're trying to be the best, so we still got some more work to do. How do you view momentum? Do you feel that's something that carries from week to week, or do you feel it's something you build throughout the week? How do you look at it? I see you build momentum throughout the week. Yeah, you had that game you win that past Sunday, but after you win that, me pressing, it's just a reset. It's a whole new week, whole new opponent. It's just building that momentum every day. You got a good practice. You're a little more confident in what you're going to do. Come out there the next day, you're doing the same thing. Clicking on our 70s, some more momentum. Then you get it all the way up to Sunday and just rolling. You say it's a 500 league, and here you set the entire division's 500. It's kind of crazy, isn't it? No, it is for sure crazy. That's why I say a league is crazy. You never know what's going to happen, man. What's one thing you know about the Colts is you're going to see each time you play them without even getting into watching tape too much. Yeah, I know they got a solid defense, and I know they're some penetrators, and they're going to fly around. They play hard. Aaron, you're going to make this living blocking. How would you rate your quarterback's attempt at blocking on TyJ's fear of running? I think that was solid. You know, we can't blindside no more, so I feel like if it was back in the day, I'd feel like 10 here would probably would have took him off his feet. You know, you just got to get in the way, so that was a great block. Do you mean technique-wise? Yeah, he got the job done. Is Big Jeff welcome up front with you guys any time? You say you're taking money out of a little gold non-play, huh? Yeah. No, Jeff, come over there. As long as he's going to hit somebody in the mouth, he good. We asked yesterday about that play. It was 100% confident that it was going to work. Were you winning that same mindset? I'm 100% confident in every play. What's the story of Hope Cliff here? Hope Cliff? Oh, this city, man. You know, my family and everybody's raised, so it's like all the area closing, everything. And so, like, really, this hoodie right here, one of my guys named Taylor, he's from Dallas as well, Taylor Toans. And so, like, it's like an organization. It's called Ford Cliff. And so, like, they just look out for the community. It's a whole little, like, sooner they take care of people education-wise, give them back to the community. And a little buff. Hey, you guys scored 27 again yesterday. You know, you're two games on the road, you haven't gotten to the end zone yet. What's the challenge of taking the same effort and execution you had yesterday at home to the road this weekend? Um, just, Dallas ain't just, it's just another game and trying to be the best we can be. Well, all these things to clean up, I thought we, you know, our specialists, you know, starting there, I thought, you know, a huge kick there from Nick, you know, 53 yarder. Oh, we punted well, you know, the opportunities that we had, you know, kind of seeing there what Stoney is able to do with some of the different kicks and being able to put them inside the 20 or inside the 10. Those are always huge. Looking at field position. You know, offensively, it was just about getting into the drive and being able to be efficient, not put ourselves in, you know, third and long. We had a good day on third down and mostly that was because of, you know, they're all third, a lot of third manageables. We had a couple of third longs, which, you know, obviously didn't go our way. So that was great. We converted those drives into touchdowns, been able to do what we need to do in a red zone. Defensively, it came down to, you know, just not having those X play passes that we had seen in some of those games. That was Kinsey done in terms of punt return. That was in 12 and a half yards. Yeah, you know, and that's it. That's not only mace, but that's a testament to those guys on that unit. You know, you got to take care of the gunners, had a really nice play there, big return, had the good return, had the penalty. It really gave us some great field position there at the second quarter. So, you know, probably would want them to fair catch the one, you know, being smart there. You know, Chris Moore made a play as a gunner and knocked the football out there. So yeah, mace has done a nice job. Maybe sticking with him when Kyle comes back. We'll see. We'll see where Kyle's at. You know, 48 guys going to the game. You know, how many guys we can take. Nicholas, be equipped to be plugged in, in a week now? And what's your philosophy on an incumbent coming back when his replacement's done well? Yeah, you know, I think that that's, you know, Nick's been away for a little bit. He was with us in training camp. You know, we'll see where things go. You know, like the way that Chris is playing over there. You know, we'll just see how he looks this week. How do you feel about where you're at? Which way you slice that 17th game, or who gets that piece of the pie? That's a little sweetener. You know, we just got to just be more consistent. You know, we need to get on the road and be able to go win on the road in the division. It's going to be a huge, huge test. You know, so that's where our focus is and trying to execute the keys each week and take care of the difference in taking care of the football and, you know, being able to get off the field on third down. What does that look like? Is that something you accumulate through the week or do you carry over? I think the response has to be consistent. You know, maybe whether it's a good play, a bad play, you know, second and 10 doesn't have to lead to third and 12. Right. And so talking about just the consistency of, you know, our effort and our understanding of the concept. And, you know, maybe they made a play, right? We have to just continue to string some positive plays together, let them build off each other, you know, hit some passes, hit a run, hit a keeper, hit a play pass, hit a shot, you know, eliminate the self-inflicted wounds. Momentum, like, you build it throughout the week, but is there anything to, like, taking a win like yesterday, rolling it into the next game and just stack? Because it's been a bit since you guys been able to stack a couple of wins together. Yeah, I don't see that as being something that really happens when you say, well, we did this last week against the Bengals and if that was the case, how would we have done against the Browns if we just carried that over? Yeah, I mean, it was like, but I think you can show them what everybody is capable of when we all do our job and we get going. And I think a lot of that is attributed to how what you do in practice, you know, just the understanding of the looks you saw in practice and the ones that you don't see, you know, can't show them everything, right? There's going to be some things that you're not going to be able to see in practice, but just having an understanding enough of the play to be able to execute it off of a look that you haven't seen or being instinctive enough to be able to execute it. What's on more mobility from Ryan? Is that something that you can build on, you think? Yeah, I mean, I think we've used Ryan in and out of the pocket at different times and whether he keeps it or got rid of football down there in a red zone with pressure and Nick was able to score. We'll have to change the launch spot for the quarterback plenty of times this year. What if he plays where Aaron pulled and kind of protected on the backside of the rollout? Is that uncommon for a center to be used like that? Well, based on what type of center, you know, that's just looking for a way to change the launch spot for the quarterback and depending on who's covered and who's uncovered, whether it's the guard that's coming back to protect or whether you use a tight end. Does it be successful when he's gotten opportunities and how'd you like his effort in getting in the end zone on that? I thought it was a great effort to get into the end zone. I looked determined. You know, Nick's worked hard. You know, Nick's worked hard to know a lot of different spots, played a lot, plays a role on special teams, kind of just keep showing up. Whether that's on a catch or on a huge block, had a nice block on Derrick's, you know, touchdown run there. Has he seen Wiley kind of grow since he's gotten here and just what's allowed him to have the kind of role he had yesterday? Well, he, you know, again, can play at the line of scrimmage. He plays in the backfield. He can handle multiple spots, done well in the kicking game, been able to step in there, stepped in there with that a whole lot of reps in Cleveland. He's got a good catch radius. You know, I thought that Ryan executed that pass there to him in the high red area. It's good for us to get down the seam. I like kind of where his attitude is. He's willing and just continue to improve. Wiley just did a better job of winning one-on-one battles last week and doing it more collectively. When you saw him film how that offensive line worked, were you happy with that improvement there? Yeah, I mean, there were some good finishes. I mean, again, when we took the ball at the end there and were able to run the football and have the clock and run the clock out, when they knew we were going to run, I thought that was a good ending to an efficient day on offense. You know, it could go more than two ways, right? Three plays and punt and they have to go back there and, you know, play defense. Probably, you know, going to win the football game, but you're going to have to go and rush and cover them. And, you know, we want to end the game with the football. We did that. I thought we protected better. I thought there were a few lapses. You know, I thought, you know, they got us on the one-third down with the TE with the game over there. Brew tried to probably do a little bit too much. You know, it was kind of working to the left side and came back over to help. And Dylan was going to work back out and kind of gave up a cheap one there. So as long as we just all do our job, I think winning one-on-one in this league will always be something that will be beneficial for us if we can do that in all three phases. I was talking about being about the players and the execution of the players. I was hoping you could expand on that. The plan and the calls obviously, to some degree, put the players in the position to execute. So to what degree do you think that the plan and the calls influence the ability to execute? Then the play comes in. The 11 guys out on the field are the ones that make it go. Whether they're on the same page, whether they're executing a call or they're on the same page, that's the most important thing is a guy being able to communicate. Whether we call man coverage and you got an opportunity to get picked. And guys are communicating and they try to pick you and they don't get picked. It's an incompletion and they punt. It's about just trying to give them the opportunity to know they have confidence in the call, in the play, and then go execute. You think from the outside perspective? I think there's good plays that don't work and I think there's bad plays that work. I don't know what to tell you. It's just the whole guru mentality. I think that it gets executed. Whether you think it's a good call or a bad call, you'll know by way the players execute it. How much are you liking what you're seeing from Aziz and Jack manning those inside linebacker spots? Was yesterday the best game they've had so far? I don't know if it was the best game. I thought they were efficient. I thought they both made some plays. I thought Aziz, I thought you noticed his speed and effort and violence to the football. I thought he was running. I thought Jack was an efficient tackler. I remember myself calling him Jack by the way. Dr. Gibby got his hand on a football. We talked about that, those interior throws. They need to fit some runs better. I think that they can blitz better. Tried back down the middle, going fast on third and three. He was able to be there. So again it was, we'll have to keep doing that and keep improving this week. How important is it to play off each other and work in tandem like that, playing those inside spots? Well, there's sometimes where guys will, you know, you'll fit a gap and a guy will have to overlap and whether that's at the player in front of you, you know, seeing where the D-limit is and working off of him. Sometimes they work off of each other. Communication and coverage is critical. What kind of questions did Anthony Richardson make when you were doing the pre-draft process? Well, a great visit with him. You know what I mean? Very engaging individual. Enjoyed it, enjoyed the time, our conversations and spent a whole day here and did a fantastic job. And he'll, you know, he's a big physical fast quarterback that's going to be a huge challenge this week. Yesterday and a couple of weeks ago, he's been so charged on the road in an environment like in the Apples. Well, being able to communicate either visually or with hand signals, right, talking to the guy next to you, being able to use some sort of cadence that doesn't allow them to tee off on you, our ability to get off on the football and be legal and not, you know, fall start or be late. Those are some places where you'll need to start. Jeffery, the heart and soul of this football team. When Jeffery was drafted, did you look at him and think, this guy's going to be the heart of our team? Well, I mean, we certainly appreciate what he does and everything that he's about. His effort is demeanor, his attitude, his willingness to execute the game plan and understand what we're trying to get done. He's very coachable, very, very, very coachable. And so, you know, it's kind of the person that we thought we were getting. Certainly a great player and, you know, it's a huge part of our team. Jeffery, take some time to get him back up to speed, but getting Nicholas back early, how pleasant of a surprise is that for you and how nice will it be to have him back on the practice field and getting more involved with things this week? Yeah, we haven't seen him, you know, for a while since training camp. So the league made their decision on what they felt like they wanted to do. And so we'll hopefully get an exemption for him and practice him and see where he's at as we work closer to the game. Has it appeared to him that they change rules on the fly? I don't know. I mean, the league does what they want to do. How's Peter been in progress? Good. Feeling better and stronger. So hopefully having that practice this week and see how he does. What did you think of the PI on McCreary? And isn't most of the contact there within 5-0? Yeah, I probably missed that one. I don't know. I like how we responded defensively. You know, we went one week. It was, you know, everybody throwing their arms up and completing them. And it's like, continue to work on our responses, which I thought we did. You know, and that was, I'm sure they'd like to have that call back. That's probably one that they would like to have back. Much better yesterday. You're sitting here feeling pretty good about where they are right now. When you have a Galaxy coming back, MPF to the mix, does it open up some doors to look at possibilities of maybe some changes? Yeah, sure. We can change. I mean, I think if you have a coach and you ever feel great about anything, at least I don't. I mean, we get back to work and it's a huge test. And I guess that's the attitude of a coach. I don't know. It sucks to run. When you have a day like yesterday where you are eliminating those ex-place, defensively, is there something you're seeing or maybe not seeing that's the common trend? Well, I think some of the coverage dictate that. You know, some of the coverage, right? So split safeties and guys, you know, probably some of the coverage dictated that. Some of the pass rush dictated that. They tried down the middle of the field and Gibby was there and close. But I felt like there was some good combined rushes and coverage and we tackled. There wasn't like a catch and run that got loose and could have. I mean, right down the sidelines, I think we need to leverage that ball better, but that has a lot to do with it too. He'll play more. He'll play more. What's he done? How's he kind of gotten better? He learned what system, learned the calls and what we're doing and, you know, so it was great to see him and he's been working extremely hard. I know he wished that he was out there, but what he did was take advantage of the opportunity that he got and earns more opportunity. Thanks guys.