 I mean I think you know we have certain pillars and certain things that we stand for on the defense and obviously one of those is not giving up big plays so obviously we show those type of plays and you know during the meetings or whatever may be but at the end of the day it's not something that we're just looking at a bunch of well I know for a fact me personally and I know sometimes they don't really bring it up that much but as far as like you know you gave up 10% of your pass they were like we don't talk about it we talk about the main things that we believe in as a team so we can be preached on to the entire group it's not just one player hey you did this so you know I'm saying so at the end of the day we're just trying to work on everything right it's giving up big plays for some more turnovers you know one thing we did talk about is you know having a lot of sacks last year but not a lot of strip fumbles and things like that so we've been working on things like that so like said as a total as a defense we have plenty of things we have to work on we're not just leaning on the stats that we had last year because at the end of the day that was last year and this is this is this year in a preparation week when you're going against an opponent you went against last year will you see some of that is there some recall to that yeah sure I mean especially I mean a lot of it has to do with you know who's the offensive coordinator or something like that so if they had the same offensive coordinator we'll definitely look at the place from that year and maybe you know our defensive coordinator try to run some stuff like that but everything is new you know I'm saying obviously we're not gonna expect this that team to run the same stuff against us especially we had success so at the end that you can't look at some of that stuff but we're not depending on it or depending on hey they ran this play last year this same play is gonna come up so like I said the schemes and everything is always gonna be different we're always trying to reinvent not necessarily reinvent the wheel but we're always trying to add on to some stuff that we did last year so it's all about trying to have more success than we had last year I see that he's playing with great effort you know it's not perfect we're still early in training camp nobody's perfect I'm not perfect I don't have perfect plays out there but I've tried to preach to the guys that hey the effort has to be on point every single time because when the guy does make a mistake when the guy does miss a tackle we have another guy running there may punch the ball out and get a turnover so a negative could turn to a positive with great effort yeah no absolutely I think he's fit really well in with us a lot of guys out there but definitely he showed up with his effort I mean you can't give a big place I mean it wasn't just him you know we all give me gave us some plays but you know I've kind of I spoke highly of him you know on a podium but it's one thing I'm always gonna stay on him because he has a great talent kind of like he got a little gassed out there but at the end of the day that's how it is you know in practice you know you're kind of four plays and the two come out there in the game you may be out there for eight plus plays and that may be the time where they own a 30-yard line there in that fringe area and they're taking a shot you know so I'm trying to you know make everything look like a game situation so just talking to him about that that hey we can't give a big place and it's not always going to be four and done we could be out there for 10 plays we could be out there for 12 15 plays depending on how the offense is playing so we had to make sure we're just fighting through the adversity No I mean it's possible obviously he has to speak for that I can't necessarily say that he was tired or not but when I turned around the ball is getting thrown over top our head that's something I have to address but like I said it could have been some indecision it could have been conditioned it could be whatever maybe you can ask him he'll probably tell you he'll probably be real with you but I just feel like at the end of the day you know with him being a guy that we're gonna have to depend on a lot this year I just got to keep holding him to that standard and obviously still early in training camp you know it's just one of those things where it's everything's a learning experience I mean for referee he's still a rookie as far as the amount of reps he's been able to have so everything is going to be a teacher moment for in my opinion when it comes to him Coach Yano said he wanted you to match your footwork to your processing what does that mean so you can't explain that that means I'm processing faster than what I'm used to going within my footwork process like I'm processing the information and knowing what I need to do but in order to be on time and be able to throw anticipation I need to help my feet get up to with my processing ability so it's like knowing what to do but just getting the reps were you able to do it without thinking you know how do you accomplish that? Reps. It looked like you were much more decisive in that long team period there letting the ball go quickly and letting the receiver come out of his break and all starting to feel a lot more comfortable in terms of that every day I mean that's just kudos to my teammates and going and getting open and having time too so I just appreciate the O-line appreciate my receivers can get an open and these are plays that we've been repping so I feel like I said start to you know pick it up I know. The kind of step that you expected Malik coming in here especially maybe coming from you know from a smaller school as well? I don't think that matters but nah yeah I mean it's football bro at the end of the day it's just how willing are you to work at it and understand new terminology and new concepts and just going against the best players in the world. What are some things you're doing outside or after the practice hours to get that football process and speed up to work? It's camp brother we doing a lot doing a lot we got a lot of time during the day in this building after y'all leave so we've just been working on it a lot. Hey Malik obviously in college you're getting all the reps here maybe reps are more spread out how do you take advantage of what's kind of your mindset when you're given? I mean just try to be thankful for our opportunity and whenever you get it you take advantage of it and be back there taking mental reps on all the plays and that's what Coach Raven's been trying to get me to focus on even when I'm not getting a rep just take a mental rep see what the coverage is see how it plays out and all that type of stuff. With all those reps Malik how would you say you have progressed since day one with the tennis facility every time now? Malik Ricky mini-camp day one? Sure. I don't like years ahead of where I was but that's just from helping from my coaches and just dedicating the time to just study this information. Did you think it would be like that much progression that quickly for you? I didn't but they they told me it would they told me it would he told me to set up a alert on my calendar he was like first day of training camp and just see where I would be from the time Ricky camp started and he was right I was a lot years ahead. Where does that show up? You're talking about for his comfort level footwork technique? As far as just everything regarding my job description operating the huddle operating the line of scrimmage just all the plays and being comfortable in them and saying them just all over. Trying to steal the vinyl roll on the steam and wherever I can help help. Yeah we're asked Braves and Botanical about seeing some good things about just how you have progressed and everything what have you done to kind of take strides to do that? Yeah definitely just locking in more you know it's completely different than last year you know I just have a year underneath my belt staying on top of the details knowing what really the team keys are and how you know really us Titans should play. Sure what type of chemistry do you think you've been building with Ryan out there? Yeah definitely I meant just starting a meeting room him knowing that I know my assignments to the tee him knowing that you know when I go out there I'm supposed to be at the right spot and on the right depth and you know make the play when the ball's in the air so you know I'm still working on it but you know everything's not gonna be perfect so you know.