 Yeah, Coach, what are some of the things after the review that stood out as you get ready for Tampa Bay this week? Well, like every week, obviously, when you lose, and in my mindset is when you win, there's always things you've got to correct. And clearly, there's a lot of things we've got to correct. It's not all gloom and doom. Obviously, we're not happy with the result. That's life in the NFL. It's what you sign up for. And the way the thing is the truth is things of marathon. So like I said, the best analogy I've got, and I'm a big fan of sports. I'm a very terrible golfer, but I like golf. Kind of what I explained to the guys, when you look at an NFL season, it's like playing a major championship. So you get on hole one, hit it down the fairway, start it, and then obviously we hit it over into a bunker and bogeyed our way out of there. You know, you got 71 holes, and that's why I appreciate about those golfers. I don't claim to be one, but I got a lot of appreciation about it because it's a mentally and physically taxing in the NFL season. And your mindset's got to be, yeah, we didn't like what happened on hole one. We got 71, just like those guys come out of the first round of those major, it's a physical and mental grind, and that's what the NFL is. Different sport, but that's got to be our mentality. Where are you at with the lift guard? You said all things were on the table. Sure. You'll see some, you know, we brought some guys in here in the practice squad. I don't want to still bass these thunder. I'm sure he'll release it shortly. He's probably cringing right now because I gave that to you guys so we can get that out on social media. But we'll continue to look for options and we'll continue to improve with D-LED. Again, some of these guys are rookies. And so we don't, like I said, there's a final line between jerk and the wheel and give somebody a chance to improve. And then understand we got to fix issues if it doesn't change. There's no secret there. But again, some of these rookies in my experience, if you go there, your first NFL start and you're going against a pretty good front and some pretty good players. Let's see if we can go in there and correct it. But we also have options too. If that's not working. And co-turn them up. Yeah, it's part of my job. So that's what we get paid to do. Michael. Yeah. Before I ask my actual questions, how bad of a golfer are you? Play like once a year. I'm probably better. I'd be better in a scramble. I guess I'm good to ride around the cart and drink a couple beers. Just checking. After Sunday, did you hear from guys in the profession, mentors, how everything went? Like what did they tell you? What was their advice to you? What did they say? Talk to people all the time. But look, Michael, you don't get in this thing. Like I said, if you're a soft soul and you come in here and you look at everything and it's catastrophic, it's not the result we wanted. Right? So, but the analogy is you've got to understand the business you stepped into. And I tell the team all the time, none of us are victims. It's professional football. It's a long season and we got to improve starting with me and understand it's a long journey. And you know, you guys have been around this game for a long time. You've seen the tail every time. Again, I've been a part of opening days, two years in a row where you win big and you think you've accomplished something and we won one game the rest of that year. And then the next year, I think we won two more games. So I've seen both sides of it. I've seen it where you start two and four and you're going around to the ASA championship. I've seen it where you go six and two, you finish eight and eight. I mean, there's millions of analogies. That's kind of why I use that analogy about golf and the major championships because that's what an NFL season is. It doesn't stay the same. And so you lose it. Yeah, you feel, you feel bad. I mean, everybody in this profession, but you understand what you signed up for and part of your job. Are you a front runner? No. So we got to correct things. Nobody's a victim here. We got to improve. And so that's kind of how I look at it, but there's people I talk to, but I don't need consultation. Like, oh, console me like the hell out of here. Like it's a big boy. It's a professional football. And I got a job to do. And that's what I signed up for. And the players, same thing. It's how we look at it. Those soft souls here, Mike. I didn't mean, I didn't mean that. The way that phrases, but sadly, sadly, I do get bothered by people all of a sudden they step into this and they act like there's some kind of victim. Like you're well compensated players and coaches. We got a job to do. And that's the fun of it. That's the challenge. That's what you want. But I think otherwise, to me, you got the wrong mindset. And when you look at what Tampa Bay offense brought back and what they're able to do, what is it that maybe they do the best? Because they see kind of so much. Well, I think the best thing, they got good players. Good staff. Obviously Bruce Arians, those guys do a hell of a job. And they got good players too. They got veterans obviously as well noted. They got all 22 starters. I mean, I know that, you know, there's injuries every week, but that's a very good veteran team. They've won, you know, they won, I believe, nine in a row, including last year. That's a team, you know, it's talking about the tale of two seasons. I mean, look at them last year. And then they drew a line in the sand and they continued to improve and everybody saw what they did. And it's everybody. But the one thing I do know about Tom Brady is he's going to say he's probably the best or one of the best I've ever seen with situational football. You make mistakes, he's going to expose you. You make errors, substitution, he's going to expose you. And that's why, to me, one of the many reasons that makes Tom Brady who he is, he plays the situations just as good or better than anybody I've seen. So we know it's a challenge and there's a reason why they won the Super Bowl. I know you wish that your offense had helped your defense out more, but when your defense was out there, what did you think about the way they played? Well, I mean, I think, look, it's going to be hard to win football games when, like I said, like the reason I use the golf analogy, you play a lot of plays with no return on your investment. So I got the analogy, you hit the first shot down the fairway, but it didn't mean anything. Because we hit it under the bunker and couldn't get out of the sand. And so I think when you look at it, you've got to score more than six points. So however it happens, we've got to find ways to score points. And it's a team game, it's all three phases. Like I said, you can look at things. Okay, is our process good? Is our progress in certain areas? Sure. There's a lot of things we've got to correct, and it's the same way on defense and special teams. There's things we've got to clean up on teams, things we've got to clean up on defense. And you can show, look at two ways. There's things that get you beat, which are pretty obvious, that we went through on Monday. There's things that you're making progress on. Let's build off those. Lessons learned. And let's move on. So really in all three phases, and that's not me trying to rationalize or make excuses. It's just a matter of fact. And we've got to keep building. We've got to improve. Tori. Yes, I think we have spoken a lot of using the terms growing pains and constantly evolving from one week to the next. But I'm just curious, what are examples for you of acceptable growing pains and unacceptable growing pains? Yeah, I mean, look, technique, fundamental issues, to me, those are acceptable. The unacceptable ones, or, you know, the pre-snap, you can't get the play starting. You can't get out of your own way. And that's the things we've got to cut up. That's the stuff that keeps me up at night. You get out there, because that's what looks like amateur performance to me. So the ones that are in aggression, you talk about D-Led ask me about coaching and our job, and the players all working together. Yeah, those technique and fundamental issues, you work through those, especially with the young guys. But the missed assignments, or the pre-snap stuff, that's the stuff that keeps you up at night. And you've got to make decisions. I'm always going to give you guys, you've got to have people a chance to correct themselves. If somebody is a repeat offender on that, then you've got to make decisions. I'll try to extend your golf analogy a little bit. And while you're looking at some of the clubs in your bag that you've got on the other sidelines, all 22 back. What kind of luxury is that for a coach? As a coordinator, however, does it even have a limit back? Well, those guys are smart enough. Each season takes on a life of its own. And I think you've probably, again, heard Bruce say that many times, and he knows that the guy's the hell of a football coach, been coaching a long time, excuse my language, but he has. And he knows, and they know every season it's its own entity. And so I don't know in their mindset, but I know as a football coach, they know every season is different. Certainly there's experience those guys, but you've got to earn it every week, every day. And they're a good example of that and what they did last year, and what they continue to do and what they did Thursday night against Dallas. Those guys have been in tough situations. They took a belief system and they went out there and they executed and they made plays in the pressure. And that's what those guys, that's what true pros do. Allison. What challenges does it present facing a division opponent this early in the season? The challenge every week. Obviously the division games because of, you know, when you get into it in the long haul, so much fun is going off here. When you get into the long haul, obviously when you get down there and you're hopefully playing to get into the tournament in the year, yeah, the division records, I mean, it uses tie breakers. You've got to do a nice job in your division. So every game is big in NFL. Certainly the division opponents because you know, play those guys twice, but I look at it as a challenge every week. And Tampa is a great challenge for us. Coach, you mentioned Bruce Harris and his coaching style. Just going to this game, especially where your defense is looking to improve, you know, he's very aggressive when it comes to 4,000 situations. I used to like to go forward and forth the short or forth the mean situations. How have you been coaching your defense just to be ready for the opportunity so they can get on? You play every snap. I mean, I think the one thing you're looking for some positives, we did that on Sunday. That's not new. I mean, the thing that happens is kind of everybody, you see these waves, you saw it happen in baseball, you see it happen in football. You know, you want to call it analytical waves, everybody's pretty much got the same data now. Same thing happened in baseball. Billy Bean writes that book. Everybody hires the same kind of guys. And eventually, you know, it's like, what's your, what's different, it differentiates you from the rest. So you're seeing more people going forward down, right? And then ultimately you've got to make a decision for your team, whether it's the right call or not, whether they get points, you get down there and there's a decision. That's what they pay you to make your fourth and three on there. Do you go for it? Or do you go ahead and first drive and get points? Those are the decisions you've got to make as a coach. You get in our second drive, it's fourth and one, felt we should go for it, kind of in that fringe area, and we went for it. Luckily Matt and Kyle made a play, and they made it right. So, and you go in the preseason, you know, certainly people play with house money in the preseason, they go for it more. Certainly Philly did. Wanted probably every team now that uses the analytical data, and they went for it a couple of times, right? A fourth down, and our defense knows that. I think everybody in the league knows that. They're ready to play until they see that kickers come out there. Their mindset's got to be we've got to stop four downs, especially when you get in the plus territory. It's not late in the game. Jarvis? Coach, what are some of the things that stand out to you when you go to the film on Todd Moles' coach defense? Like, why has he been so successful in the NFL? Well, I don't know Todd personally, other than, you know, brief interactions, and I got all the respect in the world for Todd. And a few times I just, like in the last 10 years, you know, played him when he was in Arizona. The challenge, certainly he had some good defenses in New York with the Jets and what he's done down, and we played him two years ago when he was in, I believe, their first year in Tampa. He's very creative, aggressive, and they do a lot of good things. It's a subtle things that you see on film that I got a lot of respect for, you know, and not to give everything away, but that's where I got a ton of respect for him. It's not that, you know, he's just aggressive. You can see the whys, or at least, you know, you have deductive reasoning why you see it and you see what they're doing and you say, hey, that's pretty good. It's pretty smart how he's attacking protections or how he's trying to play certain looks and motions and formations, and that's why I give him a lot of credit. And really smart. A lot of personnel packages, they'll throw it at you and a lot of different blitz packages that some of them look the same and they have different patterns. And to me, he's one of the best there is. Do you see any similarities from Philadelphia's deepest in Tampa? Very different, very different. When you went back and looked at the film, specifically the Red Zone offense, what are you looking to clean up in that area and make sure that those are touchdowns not field goals? Sure. That's the challenge. I mean, I think everybody asks themselves that when you don't score down there and you go through there. All right, first thing you look at schematically, was it sound? Okay, it was. Okay, what happened? Was there an issue here? You know, we'd lose somewhere in 101. Protection matchup out there. Where do we have certain personnel? I think it all comes into play. And once you go into a game trying to accomplish and then obviously they have a say and there's a counter punch and you have answers. I feel pretty confident with why we didn't do it, that we can get cleaned up and then get the good challenges. We'll have to go out there Sunday and the rest of season to prove it. So we're not continually kicking field goals down there. Michael. Yeah, I want to go back to kind of what I was asking before about not necessarily advice, but when you look at week one, the things that you sit there actually do your debut and how it goes and say, man, I need to change this or do you kind of stick with, you know, like, you know, this is what got me here. So I need to stand up. Well, you know, on the surface, like you're sitting there saying, you know, like you got beliefs and there's things that we're talking about, you know, and people have used that buzzword of process, right? That's it's become like a corporate buzzword. You know, who started first? I don't know if it was Alabama or not, right? Everybody, hold on to that. But to have a real process in your culture, like there's things you have beliefs at your foundation and you're constantly looking to evolve. To me, if you don't evolve, you know, it's going to be an issue at some point. But that's not really what I felt going into that. And that's not me being arrogant or stubborn because it's fair, all criticism is fair and you've got to look at it and I think it's healthy. And then you're going into it saying, all right, is our process messed up? Certainly you start there. And that's what I think it's fair. I don't feel that way. Certainly, you know, you play out the next couple of weeks if something's got to change, if you're not getting any kind of improvement, if there's not progress being made. But I'm not going to all of a sudden change who I am personality-wise because to me it goes back to that mentality, like try to be as neutral as I can, try to be as objective whether we win or lose because it is that grind of a season. And so you look back at Sunday and there's things we can certainly build on and there's a lot of things we've got to get cleaned up. And you look at the foundation and I feel like our foundation is there. And it certainly wasn't good enough but that's part of my job, is to make sure I get that stuff cleaned up. Do you have a message that you really focus in on your players saying, listen, I know last week went the way it went, but I'm sticking to accent, I'm sticking to why. Like, is that important to kind of have? I mean, look, I don't think you're at the point where you, you know, like that's, it goes back to that. I joke, say soft souls. Like, you're that insecure. You're part of being insecure where you look like the, you know, every day, you know, you act like somebody different and you're panicked and, you know, you're trying to change a million things or you don't want to be the other side of the spectrum where you're so stubborn that you can't adapt. So it goes back to me to being objective and I think like everything, I think that's part of your job is to be, try to be as neutral as you can. We all have biases to human nature. You try to be as objective as the truth as you see it. What needs to get fixed? Where am I, where can I do better? That's where I start every day with me. That's not me being a martyr, but that's the damn truth. So that's what you look at. And so that's what I'm trying to do here, but you come in there and you tell them the truth as you see it and the things you've got to clean up. And I think some of those are pretty obvious on Sunday and we'll go from there. And then we need to be better. We got a hell of a challenge Sunday. Over the course of your career, how has your thinking changed about positions? I'm thinking about Kyle Pitts, who is a tight end, but can play anywhere, or Darryl Patterson. Why can't he just be a running back? How have you evolved? Or do you think you have in terms of flexibility with positions? Yeah, I think I've, you know, that's kind of how my mind works. You go back to some of the stuff we did in Tennessee with that position or with somebody like Patterson who can do a lot of different things. No different than some of the players we had in Tennessee and what we tried to evolve. Again, it wasn't all roses, the end result. You know, ultimately, you know, you don't win the Super Bowl, so you feel like you failed, but there was progress made there. And, you know, we got through some struggle there, but there was guys that did a lot of roles. You know, whether we played John who went running back, played tight end, split them out. I mean, that's kind of, I don't think it's any secret. You know, we, some of the things we do, the way we play. So all those guys, I mean, those roles, they evolve as the season goes on. You know, saw some good things, some things we got to do better, you know, a little bit personnel-wise, but I said it's a long season. Let's see how it plays out after 17. Do you remember somebody you saw do that earlier in your career and you saw a film, you saw a coach do something different with a guy and he thought, that pushed you in this direction? Yeah, I guess it goes back to a lot of different things. It's kind of the way I look at the world, through the eyes of, you know, looking at different businesses, looking at different sports teams, looking at other sports. It's just the way my mind works. Awesome. Yeah, an older quarterback like Matt Ryan season, that when does safety become a concern when you're seeing him get sacked four times and in those sacks, do you see anything that he could do to prevent some of those sacks from happening? Well, certainly, certainly, you know, it was late in the game where he, you know, he took a shot, I think, on the first drive, but that's playing quarterback, you know, it's not going to be perfect pocket every time. It was late when we got obvious, Neva would have pinned their ears back, certainly makes it hard, and they're the fine line. I mean, you're not, you're trying to accomplish something. Like, you're not trying to, like if you're still a two-possession game, it may have felt ugly as hell, but, you know, it's 22 to six, like it's a two-possession game. So, that's where, you know, we're going to keep continuing to fight to try to win the football game. And then at some point, that's why I put Josh in at the end. So, it's a fine line of not panicking, not, you know, you don't ever want to be the coach that throws a white flag and say, hey, here we go, but, yeah, there's times to be smart, and that's why I put Josh in at the end. Anthony? When you play on one of the grades and tell him, Brady, you talk, you talk about him, of course, being the champion and how he's feeling to be the champion. Just as a coordinator and now as head coach, where's the thing you found that helped you be successful in at least slowing him down and ultimately, you know, best of the slowest, you know? What was the question? Just how are we going to slow him down? Well, you found that a coordinator and head coach on how to slow Brady down. Yeah, well, certainly, not many people have slowed him down, but, you know, it's a football game. It's a challenge every week. You know, you go into a Philadelphia game and it's everybody you play. We didn't do anything to affect jail and hurts, and you saw what happened. So that's life every week. Certain players are good players. That's what you're game playing for. It's what you, the matchups, the stuff you look forward to. You know, that's kind of a hard question to answer because you're sitting there one, I'm not going to sit here saying, hey, here's our scheme this week. And two, it's kind of a loaded question because if you sit here, I'm not going to fall for the trap. There's a graveyard of guys who've popped off with arrogance about Tom Brady. Nobody's done it better than him. And we got all respect in the world. And there's a reason he's won seven Super Bowls. I got alluded to earlier. If you make mistakes, he's going to make you pay. So we got to get better and we got to hell of a challenge at four o'clock Sunday. Not for one more deal. Coach, Dallas kind of treated them like the 86 bears throwing all those screens last week. Did you learn something from how they were attacked and were able to get the 400 and four yards on them? Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot of different strategies. It goes back to scheme. There's been people, you go back to everybody that's playing. That's what every coach does in the league. Why it works doesn't fit them. So there's a lot of, that's what makes the game fun. But I'm going to ask you this one too. Who won the game? So again, you can feel good. You can throw for 500 yards. You win the game. You can run for 300 yards. And if you lose the game, who cares? And it's the way they feel. Whether you pass, you win. You get three, you know, return, you know, an interception return, maybe a fumble recovery return. You don't win the game. You know, who cares? That's kind of how I look at it. And that's not a shot at Dallas or anybody's strategy because there's a lot of smart coaches that got moving the football. In the day, in the day, Tampa found a way to win. And we have our challenges, but I'm not going to sit here and say schematically, oh, we got to do exactly this. There's things that you know going in. They're a hell of a run defense. They've been that way for a couple years. So we got to have our challenges and I'm not going to get up here and talk scheme. So stats don't really mean much to me if you don't have a lot of wins with them. Appreciate you guys. Thank you.