 Well, both. I mean, I think there's a lot of things that are fixable and obviously the execution has to be better. I think that's in all three phases, you know, when you lose, you know, that's how it is. And certainly offensively, we have to, you know, remain, understand who we are and how we have to stay efficient. And the difference in third and four and third and 10 or 11 is critical. And I mean, just our ability to play the game in that fashion, much like we did against the Chargers, you know, we weren't able to do that consistently enough yesterday. So, you know, our ability to pick up and convert on possession downs at third and five or less, you know, is really good. And then the third and 10 pluses are two for 25 and that's just too many third and longs. How disappointed are you that your team, normally the more physical team on the field wasn't able to do that yesterday? I'm disappointed that we lost. You know, I mean, this isn't a battle of, you know, being the most physical or throwing for the more yards. It's, you know, again, it's about winning and losing. And I would say that that's where the disappointment is, then why, you know, we lost. We can, we can get into those factors. But in the end, it just, you know, none of it was good enough. And that's why I'm disappointed. Is that just that we lost? You guys were really focused on the officiating after the game. You usually don't like to stick on that very long. You're surprised that they did or would you like them not to? Yeah, free to speak for themselves. That's what I do. And you know, when you gathered the guys around, what was your primary message that you wanted them to take away? Well, that this is, you know, when you play like that, you're going to, you're going to lose. You're going to get beat. So we have to understand that we have to realize why it is that we lost and also realize that you can define your culture by what you look like when things aren't great, when things don't go well. And yesterday they didn't go very well and we'll find out, you know, what kind of football team we have this week and what kind of individuals, what type of people we have here, which I believe in and who we are. So, you know, that was my message. It was wouldn't have a whole lot to say, give them all credit, get back to work and don't think that anybody did enough to help us win. You guys hit the run defense theme so hard and you defend the run well. But it doesn't, two out of three times it hasn't, hasn't equated to winning. No, we know. We talked about that first. Like it was like we did what we set out to do and stop it. Who's that? Jeff Simmons. Yeah. Again, Jeff's free to get a lot of respect for Jeff and Jeff's free to say what he wants to and speak on, you know, for what he thinks. And, you know, we knew in the number one key was to affect the quarterback and didn't tackle him at least four or five times. So, again, we'll stop the run when we need to. We've talked about this. We have to find ways to affect the quarterback and not just on third down. You know, first and second down and, you know, so that that's what we're aiming to do. When you have a game like that where you know you're facing some real studs on the outside, do you have to be careful not to overreact to the one on one losses that were lost on the edges? Yeah, I mean, there were some one on one losses. There were some one on one wins. You know, you look at, you know, the one that's probably, you know, one's a second and 12, you know, probably come back here. I'm sure Ryan wished he would probably not to look the guy off and just thrown it out to Derek, you know, down in the red zone was second and 12. You know, the other ones are third and long situations. One was a second and two that created the third and long. And that's a play action protection that that we've done multiple times. So again, if we can stay efficient and be able to not not turn into a drop back passing game, which against the type of players that they have is no small task. And, you know, I think we'll we'll all be better. So you're doing some shuffling maybe up front or you think you can win? We'll continue to look and see, you know, what's what's best and where guys go. But as it stands here right now today, I don't. Don't see something changing until we have some more time to visit on it tomorrow and see who's available. See who's healthy and see find a way to beat the Bengals. What's the challenge of staying efficient offensively ahead of the change? Well, yeah, well, we gained nine yards and then we run, you know, main entage bounces out of, you know, a gap scheme run, which, you know, he's hit a couple of those. And I think against the fast team, I think he realized probably can't bounce that out. But, you know, we give him the ball. We give Derek the ball and, you know, they make the decisions. And so then that created, you know, another third and long, you know, I think we might have picked it up. It wasn't too long, but it's about just making sure that you're capitalizing on your opportunities that you're that you're able to get into drives. If you know if you can't get into drives, then then some of the plays and the formations don't necessarily compliment each other. And that's our whole goal is to is to try to get them all to compliment and be balanced and, you know, have a run game that that helps and, you know, gets Derek what he needs and Tajye can supplement that. And, you know, the passing game where, you know, some of those contested catches like, you know, we come down with one, we get a DPI and then, you know, then there's some some drops and some some misses. How exactly did you get with Tajye? Were there holes there in the run game that you thought about? Oh, no, there weren't too. There weren't a whole lot. I mean, there were there were some. I just, I meant Tajye as a skill set throughout spring and in the first couple games. And I mean where, hey, you can design a play, but we tell him none where they're not and try not to overcoach a running back that has vision. And so I just was using that as an example that he may have gotten away with it against a couple other opponents. And he realized that, you know, yesterday, you know, when he tried to bounce it outside that they caught up with him. In a game where there's so few yards to be had, Mike, that you cool with DeAndre sliding there. You want a receiver to try to gain every yard he can at the end of the run. I don't think that that I mean made a good catch, you know, like take care of the football. And I'm sure he'll have plenty of chances to catch and run and help us. Is that a body maintenance thing for him in that particular? You'd have to ask DeAndre to speak for him. That drive you had just before halftime. You guys were chipping on Miles Garrett most of the way down and you got in the red zone. You kind of got away from it. What was, did you just have a play where it was supposed to get the ball out quickly? Well, you just getting, I mean, like talked about last night, you just some of those red zone concepts, you know, they're trying to get guys out to spread the field and didn't work out for us on that particular play. You know, we'll have to, we'll have to have an answer, you know, for that, something that we know that the ball's got to go in the end zone or it's got to go out of bounds. You know, those are, those are critical. You know, that's the end of half and being able to get three points and hopefully come back in the second half, get regrouped, going there with a little bit of, you know, just energy and confidence that you went down there and scored. And so that's, that didn't turn out that way. You have a chance to get Peter back this week and if so, I'm sure there's a chance, but I don't know what, how big or how small the chance is. Yeah, it was a mis-execution. Christian, supposed to cover the guy. Is Nicholas back in the building? He is in the building, yep. And he's allowed to meet. He's allowed to work out. He's allowed to condition, train by himself, but he can be in meetings and he can't be a practice or attend games. What do you imagine that to be like in terms of ramp up for, for the return? I imagine that he can, will be working out and he'll be training by himself with the strength and conditioning staff. I imagine that he'll be in meetings and I imagine that he won't be at the games or practice. With Hassan's case being dismissed, are you anticipating him being removed from the exempt list anytime? I, it's not my, it's not my exempt list. I mean, I would try to help you out guys, I would have no idea. In the past, when back when AJ was here, if you remember he had the issue with, you know, considering contemplating suicide. Chris Hubbard has had a friend who, who he lost the suicide. Have you got to talk to him at all about that, especially with this being a suicide awareness month? No, but, but I, but I will. And I didn't, I didn't know I hadn't been aware of that. And again, we, mental health is critical or ability to take care of ourselves and what we need to, to be happy and healthy and function. You know, again, there'll be a lot of attacks on the Tennessee Titans and our players and our coaches. And, you know, that's just a small example. I mean, we play a game here. So we, we're going to try to win and we're going to do everything we can and we're going to improve. And, but we're also, you know, I'm going to be mindful of, of our mental health and, and our physical health. With him being a veteran in that group, you know, with a lot. He'd been a great addition, by the way. Chris has been a great addition. That's what I want to ask you, how he's been able to come in and kind of. I think he's just a veteran, you know, he spent time in two good organizations and spent time in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Have always seen him from afar, but really respected the person that he is and how he's come in and. You know, earned a position on his team and just continued to work. Sean, the protocol or did he get clear? He was not placed into the protocol. Like the X-play is, that you've given up defensively have all come against your past defenses. Is that a function of how good you are to run, how much teams throw and how much of it when they do happen is a guy making a play, maybe like a Mario on the sideline yesterday. Okay, yeah. Bring it back later. Yeah, I think that there's, you know, unfortunately, that's the categories that we lump them into, right? Did, did we just get beat, you know, were we in, you know, close proximity? Or maybe our technique was poor. Did we have a communication error? Like what occurred maybe against the Chargers? Or did we just have a mental error? Like maybe what occurred yesterday at the end of the game? You know, just playing quarters coverage and, you know, thinking that hook was going to take them and, you know, that's so again, there's no easy answer to that. I apologize. I know that that's not what you're looking for. We know that that has to stop. You know, we talk about making them earn it. You know, part of that is affecting the quarterback with, with a pass rush or getting them off the spot. Or when you do get them off the spot, being able to, to get them on the ground. So I think it all goes hand in hand. It's just not the, just not the guys in coverage. It's the guys up front. And that's how we have to look at it. And that's how we have to coach it. Maybe no easy answer, Mike, too, for the offense. You scored three touchdowns through three games so far. Is it, do you look at tweaking the scheme? Is it just no execution? Is it all the, like, how do you go about trying to? Well, I think we want to make sure that we're as efficient and as confident and as urgent and decisive as we possibly can. You know, so looking through the first three games, what we've done well. Thing that, you know, when we look at it to the players look like they're, they're executing it with confidence, right? Whether it's positive play or just a couple yard gain, you know, but it looks like they, they know what they're doing. And I'm not talking analytics and saying it was a 10 yard game because of Miss Tackle. It's, it was a 10 yard game because it was well blocked. Guys knew what to do. Guys were flying. They could adjust to whatever looked at the defense gave us. And I'm also going to think that, you know, I think the Saints and certainly the Browns are going to be two of the better defenses in the league and the chargers presented their problems. But on the road, you know, we, we, you have to be really good, you know, against those two defenses. We were not. So we're going to get back to work and we're going to, we're going to make sure that we're doing everything for our players that, that helped them. And help us, you know, move the ball. Whether it's hitting X play or get down the red zone, you know, be locked in, know that they're probably going to pressure and, you know, after a turnover and, you know, that's, you know, we, for us to win, we have to be able to do that. We got a great turnover from SMB. You got to turn that into a touchdown on the 18 year line. The double moves affecting you guys more so than, than maybe in the past and, you know, anything that can be done more so against them. Um, get, get, get your eyes on your man. You know, that's one way. Get there a little quicker in the pass rush. You know, but when you look in the backfield, you know, you don't really see the receiver, you know, covered it, you know, well against the chargers got beat against against the Saints and, you know, they probably ran a couple of years today. Appreciate it. It's coming in the building. Uh, you watch the film, try to learn from the best you can from the mistakes. Uh, there were a lot of them out there, but you just learn the best you can and just you got to move on to next week. That's the thing about this league. It's a, it's a long season. You just got to keep going week by week. Those contested catches down a sideline kind of that you had yesterday and teams made a couple of times. What were the, what are some keys to kind of down with those past? First is trying to get in a good position to get your body to the ball is when you see the ball in the air, just adjusting and getting in the right position and catching. And at the end days, you want to, you want to go out there and make that play for the team, help, help the team the best you can. Uh, this, I mean, uh, DHOP talk about all the time. This is a league where there's a lot of contested catches. So you just have to find a way to come down with that ball. How important are those for you guys given some of your offensive struggles that you make some of those downfield from time to time? I think it's very important. And just like last week, uh, the previous week, the home game, it helped us win the game and any situation that you can. You just got to try to get the momentum for this offense. So there's a play out there to be made. We got to make it find out about your culture, I guess, during tough times. What, what have you, uh, I guess seen in the wake of yesterday's loss and how do you kind of anticipate this team kind of rallying after yesterday? Um, even before this loss, I've, since I've been here, I've noticed a different culture here of just guys who, who love the game of football and who, who want to be great. And just coming in here early, people are already here in the locker and getting their stuff done, getting ready because we don't have means. So total 30. So people, but people are already in here trying to get right and get ready for the next week. So that's the type of culture you see when, when adversity hits, nobody's with their head down. Nobody's out here blaming each other. We're just out here trying to work hard and fix it. Chris, how is the finance line in looking and, and, and trying to improve and fix something and, and beating yourself up about it and, and lingering too long on something? Yeah, I mean, like it's a very fine line. That's, that's just NFL sometimes as players, you know, you're, you're tough as critics. Like when we watch the film, we, we don't take it easy on ourselves. You're, you're in there thinking about that one play you could have had, the one thing you could have done better. But it's, it's, we have coaches that help us to see the bigger picture of how we can improve and not beat ourselves too much. And then at the end of the day, we have another game this week. We have to move on and get ready for this next game. So when you did watch it back today or yesterday, just what were the moments that stood out to you that you guys would have wanted to have back? There's a lot of them. I mean, as personally as an offense, we just had to go out there and execute better. There was a lot of plays we could have made or we just got to just, we got to finish these plays and go out there and just be better. Yeah. I mean, that's not easy for any offense to convert. When you, when you shoot yourself in the foot early in your already putting yourself in the best situation, third down is hard enough to convert to make it even harder to, to convert when you're third and five and plus. It's definitely not easy. Chris, that's a great defense they have, obviously. How many times do you almost just kind of have to tick your cap and say like, that's Miles Garrett making a great play. He's a great player versus what you're talking about in the self-inflicted ones. Yeah. I mean, you, when you're going into a game and you're playing a player like that, you know, he's going to make his, his couple of plays because you're not going to shut him down completely. That's, he doesn't get paid the money does. He's not the player he is. If we were able to just X him out of the game plan like that. But at the end day, when the opportunity is given for us to take advantage of it, we have to. And that's what we fail to do. We always hear it's a 500 lead and here you stand a victory away from, but bringing right where a lot of other people are going to be. I mean, so fans may feel like things are over, but you're a long way from that. Yeah. Like I said, it's a long season. There's a lot of games left. We hasn't, we haven't even played anybody in our division yet. So, I mean, we just got to take it each, each week and just tackle that game first and then worry about what's next later. You've been at this a while when you take the hits to stay confident. You just, when you go out and practice the next week and you, you go over those new plays and you're out there and you're connecting and you see the game plan coming together and it's working. That's when you get the confidence to go to next week. Like, man, that was just that week. That was that game. And this week we see this game plan. We see how we can do better. And like I said, practice is always how I've just got my confidence back going into the next week. Is it defeating it all for an offense when you have that big play to DeAndre and big play to yourself at the end of the half to then come up with no points and how might that carry over into the second half of the rest of the game? Yeah, it sucks. I mean, that was something you definitely, when you're in that situation, you want to get points at the end of it. But I mean, I think we're all pros here. Like you can't linger on that. We go into the locker room and we're already looking for what we can do next. Because we knew we were getting the ball back. So we were out there trying to come up with like how we can get points on this next drive opening out. So I don't think anybody held their head down after that or we're thinking about that. I think we were thinking about what was next. Like how when we get this ball back, we can go down and try to get some points. For you personally, you talk about confidence in a game like that. Do you lose confidence when things are going bad? Or is there just a baseline that you gain confidence when things are going good? You talk about like personally, I don't think I lose confidence. Personally, it's almost like a little bit of frustration because, you know, we can be out there doing a lot better than we are. And you get a little bit of frustration really. But like I said, when you go into next week and you get to wash the tape, you get to see either it wasn't as bad as it was or it wasn't as good as you think it was. And just go out and practice and just get back into the rhythm and get back into the flow of things. How big of a sense of frustration is there in this building today, knowing you haven't scored a touchdown in two of the three games, and how confident are you that you fixed it this week? I mean, I don't think anybody is like that frustrated about it. When I was talking about frustration, I was talking about me personally. But as a team, like I said, we got guys who want to come in here and work. And like we have every confidence in everybody on our team that we have the ability to go out there and score points when we need to. We just got to execute when the situation calls for it. And we're going to get opportunities this week to do it and we just go out there and do it. Appreciate it. Yeah, like you said, we knew that he was a guy that can break tackles. He's going to be elusive in the backfield when you get back there. So we have to game tackle him. But he did a great job of just creating plays and making plays. And he just ended up getting in that rhythm, like you said, and then to win in the game. What happened in the last play with your last touchdown with you and Chris? I was just miscommunication. That's kind of how this game comes down to. You have a split second decision. One guy makes a certain move, a movement, and it changes your whole responsibility. So there's a miscommunication between me and Christian. That's something that we get to clean up and we've got to carry on to this week. Molly, when you look at the X-Plays, I think it's 12 now that you guys have given up all through the air. How many incidents of it is a guy making play? Like, maybe one around the sideline yesterday versus a miscommunication or a blow-up? Like, you know, is it tip your cap or is it really concerning what you guys are getting? I mean, obviously it's concerning. You don't want, you know, 12 X-Plays happening at any point in the league, I mean, in the season, excuse me. Yeah, but like you said, it just comes down to a guy making a play. It comes down to rushing cover at the end of the day. Our job is to cover the guys down the field and when the ball is in the air to, you know, make sure they don't catch it. A simple answer, but how do you guys get better at that? How do you get better at eliminating those X-Plays? Just being comfortable with the ball in the air. Don't panic when the ball is in the air. Don't feel like you have to, you know, touch the receiver just because, you know, he gets wide eyes. Doesn't mean you have to get wide eyes. Just, you know, stay patient and trust your technique when he puts his hands up, you know, matches his hand. What would you say is the overall vibe, you know, coming into work today? What's the vibe from your fellow players? I mean, guys obviously are upset that we lost. I mean, you guys, the game that going into, we felt like, you know, we had a chance to win. We had a good game plan. You guys, you know, guys are excited to, it's not the end of the world. You know, it's only about to be a week four. We got the Bengals this week. Guys are, you know, excited for the challenge that we have and, you know, they're ready to get to work. Some of the guys yesterday, they spoke about the play better mantra that, you know, is delivered to you guys and you guys deliver to each other. Yeah. What's your perspective of that? I think it just comes down to, you know, you got a job to do. We're all grown men. You just got to look at your play. I mean, if you feel like you're not doing what you're supposed to do and the coaches are saying that, obviously, you know, something has to change, whether it's, you know, film study or you, you know, practicing harder or just whatever it is, it's different for every guy. But I'm at the end of the day, like you said, you just got to be better. It's our job. But do you feel it's getting to a point where it's like, all right, enough saying, we got to be better. We just got to be better. Yeah, exactly. I mean, they just got to do it. The frustrating money, you guys, by this long stretch of being so good against the run, frustrating that hasn't necessarily converted into the, you know, into helping out the past defense? Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, we want to stop the run. We want to continue to do that. And then just passing the passing game. Like I said, it just comes down to guys making plays. They're going to throw the 50-50 ball or I call it the 75 ball because it's either going to be a catch or a PI. You feel me? So it's going to go to the offense either way. So we just got to get better down the field. And then just better communication so we can't have those, you know, X plays. You know, they got Joe Burrow. They got, you know, good receivers on the outside. Jamar Chase is one of the best in the league. They're going to be able to challenge you down the field. They're going to challenge you on one-on-one coverages. They're going to run the ball. They're going to mix that in as well. But, you know, Joe Burrow is a guy that can create plays. And they're a team that's been successful the last couple of years. They're yards pretty much through the air in all three games. How do you avoid the finger-pointing with each other of getting it right? Yeah, I mean, I mean, we're a good group of guys. I mean, we're all teammates. We're all friends. So we're not going to be pointing fingers at each other. We're going to come together, figure away how we can, you know, stop the passing game from getting carried away going on to the next couple of games. We're going to come together, we're going to improve, and that's what we're going to do. The way it has gone, though, like with the past defense, because you and KB are like the leaders, like in the back end, does that mean like you guys maybe have to speak up more, or how do you balance maybe, you know, knowing that you guys were leaders with also the fact that, you know, you guys felt tight and all that, like how do you maybe jump all that? I mean, just continue to be a leader the best way that we can, whatever that, every guy takes leadership differently. Some guys you might, you know, have to be able to talk to, and some guys you might have to talk to one-on-one, kind of just, you know, hang out with them, sit down at lunch, and have a conversation with them. But nothing today, like I said, we're all grown men. We all have a job to do, and I'm pretty sure every guy knows that, you know, that they have to be better in what their job is to when they're on the field. PI's, are those the same kind of demoralizing as giving up a big player? Is there something different about a PI that feels personal and more interactive, just kind of what is the feeling? I mean, it's tough because, you know, it's kind of like a fine line. You know, you want to be aggressive, especially with the receiver who is aggressive, but then you can't be, you know, too aggressive. It's just a fine line. You've got to figure out how the refs are calling the game. And they are, those are X plays to me, because they start, you know, second in 25, and you give up a PI for 30 plus yards. So that's the X play. You think it was kind of a personal matchup for you guys? I mean, because you had your issues with Joe and those guys? Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's personal on like a personal level like that, but they're a team that, you know, we view as a great team, and a team that we want to show up against and be. And obviously when they come into town, you know, we're going to have a good challenge ahead of us.