 I guess, Tom, I played for Colton to get hurt. I guess, how much improvement did you see from him during his rookie year, and maybe what will your message be to him as he attacks off season? I saw a ton of improvement from when he was here in the spring to throughout the season. Just, you know, he kept getting better and better. So it's tough for him. He's starting to make some strides as a receiver as well. Just attack the rehab like he attacked the season, and he'll be fine. What's your message, I guess, to Caleb, who got to keep hitting penalty on Sunday? Yeah, that was tough, because we want to create momentum and field position. We did the opposite. We created it for them. So again, he's just got to be smarter. He's got to pull off. We talked to him about that. We drill it. We train it. So I got to do a better job teaching him so he's not in that position, and then we can't do it, because then you give up points. And especially on the road in the division, that's hard to do. Mike seemed to suggest, kind of on Colton's play, there's some inherent danger in the way guys can go at him. Caleb's player, Colton. No, Colton's, in the way he got hurt, that there's some danger to it. Yeah, I mean, that's a tough position. You've got two guys, and they're running over 20 miles per hour, and you've got to change direction, and that's just unfortunate. Mike was talking a little bit about Kyle at the field yesterday, too. And it's tough to get a slot receiver in the game when he's not returning points. Has he continued to work on that, even though he hasn't been able to do it? He's worked every day before practice, catching punts. And when we do the punt team, he's back there catching them and trying to improve. See some progress in that? I know it's hard to simulate game. Yeah, it's hard to simulate when those guys are flying down at you. It's a little bit different catching it, just in the middle field with all the action. We get a few of those reps, but not a ton. I sure hope so. As long as you keep going, it does. Appreciate it. Do you feel any different turning 30 today? I don't. I was expecting gifts. That's what I mean. And there's spots. OK, OK, cool. All right, back, back. Did your teammates say to you, at least? I ain't got no song yet, but no. I'm still expecting gifts from y'all and everybody else, but that haven't popped up yet. So we'll see. What's it like having a birthday and NFL locker room? Do you get jokes? Do you get one-liners? What are you here? Well, Ben Jones is gone, so I feel a little safe. I don't get no shaving cream in my face. The guys are a little nicer, but it's cool. Especially just this time of year. I got family coming in, and it's great for to be able to see another one. We've talked about that number with running backs and how people tend to draw it as a bad line. I imagine you're eager to disprove that. Let's see, we'll see. Stay tuned, we'll see. What's it mean? There aren't too many backs in your age area that are very productive. Do you feel somewhat proud that you're still making it so productive, one of the few backs of this age that are still so productive? Yeah, it's always a good thing to be able to still be productive and be able to make plays and have an impact. And I'm grateful to be able to still be in this position. My body feels good. I feel good and just ready to work and continue that as time goes on. This season hasn't gone the way you or the team probably wanted it to, but how good does it feel to get another pro bowl selection and have that honor? Yeah, it's always a great honor to be to be recognized for your play, which I'm not too proud of this year. But from your peers and everybody voted, I really appreciate it. Very grateful to have my fourth selection. Don't thank for granted at all. And just appreciate everybody who was involved that were able to get me in. Do you have to give yourself a little bit of grace, I guess? You say you're not too proud of your performance this year and the numbers aren't quite where they've been. But clearly your peers and everybody else still say you're one of the best and you're still over 1,000 yards this late in your career. Do you need to be easier on yourself? No, not at all. Sometimes you need to hit a year like this to be able to grow, to be able to learn, to be able to reflect. And I'm definitely going to do that once the season's over. Wasn't fueled before. I'm definitely more fueled now. Definitely more motivated, definitely more hungry and going to all season, attacking it as hard as I can. But at the end of the day, it's about being consistent, but being at playing at a high level. And like I always say, I'm my worst critic. So I'm always going to be hard on myself, regardless. Are there any facts who you saw advice from about playing later in a career and what advice do those guys give you about having long sustained careers after 30? Yeah, I had talked to Barry Sanders. I had the Nike Suite last year at the Super Bowl. I had saw that he ran for 2000 when he was 29 years old. That kind of gave me a little bit more motivation. And I was a big LT fan, so I watched him throughout his career. I really watched almost all the backs. Grew up down the street watching Fred Taylor and Marisha Jones drew when they were a tandem. So got to watch a lot of great backs throughout my years and track their careers. And sometimes I go online and see what they did when they got to this age. And hopefully I can do some great things at this age as well. So you anticipate Sunday being like driving to the stadium, going through your regular motions, but knowing there's at least potential that's the last time you're doing it in the home locker room there? Yeah, yeah, I would just treat it as any other game. I'm not trying to try to get too caught up, get too overwhelmed. And just enjoy the moment, you know, focus on fitting the season strong, going out there playing a good game overall as a team and hopefully getting to win. And then after the game, having talked to Numbida and going straight home. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm just kidding, I'm kidding. You think there'll be a moment somewhere along the way? I mean, there's obviously going to be an introduction and some fanfare when you leave the field and stuff like that? I mean, it definitely going to be a moment, you know, last game of the season. I'll be free agent after this year, been here eight years. So just be grateful to whoever shows up. And I know the fans have come out and hopefully we put on the show, be able to finish strong. But just grateful for the whole process. Do you have family or friends or people in public who ever come up to you and talk to you about free agency? Is that something that ever has to come up? Or is it something you can avoid? Yeah, I'm not really much. I don't really go out in public too much. But no, not really. I think they'll talk about it once the season's over with. But I'm not too much. I'm too focused on what I need to do. You guys have been going at it since, I guess, April towards the season. What's it like knowing that Sunday is the end of it and it's kind of weird that a lot of times you're playing to getting the playoffs into the very end and then there's a sudden end. Now you know the finish line Sunday. What is that like? It's been a short, long season. I would say, but that's just what it is. That's the reality of it. We love the game, but we've got one more. So just focus on finishing it strong. Like I said, we're not happy about how the season went. But it's all about how you finish and hope we can finish it strong. There was this taking care of from both the team perspective and your perspective in the offseason. But is there a large part of you that would like to play your entire career in Tennessee tight? I mean, any player will love to play for the organization and finish out their career as long as they can. But like he says, the business side and all those type of things that go on and on. And I understand that. So we'll just see how it shakes out during the offseason. You told me to ask later on a few weeks ago when I asked this, what has been your favorite run or moment since the time you've been here? Just asking me after Sunday. On Sunday. I have an answer again. Still got another thing. Still got another, yeah, so we'll see. We'll see you after Sunday. How are you going to celebrate your birthday? Thank God for another one. Probably get some cupcakes or a birthday cake for my girl. My daughter's already been talking about it since you woke up. And she'll probably blow out the candles. Probably a little spit on there because she's always excited for it. So yeah, just thank God for another one. And spend the time with my girl and my daughter. And wake up tomorrow and see you another day. Thanks, Jack. Is it hard to, you've gotten 22 back there possibly for the last time. Is it hard to keep that out of your thinking for the game at all? No, I mean, our thought process hasn't changed. It's still going to be find a way to go in a game. Find a way to do a good job of playing good football, being physical, controlling the football, and putting our team in the best position possible to go in a football game. So that's really, I know it sounds like coach talk here, but that's really been in the forefront in terms of our focus here and how we're approaching this week. He's handled the responsibility and the execution of that half-back pass so well. Has that made that easier to call kind of as time is going on? Yeah, when you have someone that's played as well as Derek has for such an extended period of time, you trust him with the ball in his hand, whether it's doing that, running the football, whatever it may be. He's proven that any job that we give him, he typically goes out there and does a pretty good job of it. So when you have guys like that that you can trust, you feel comfortable being able to go ahead and maybe think outside the box a little bit. There are a whole lot of running backs that is turning 30 today that are still making a big impact on games. How impressive is that that he's still a productive guy? It's really impressive. And I think it's a testament really to the way he approaches obviously not just how he comes to work every day, but the type of work he does in the offseason, the type of work he does outside the building during the season to not only maintain but to continue to get stronger as the season's going on. And again, the proof is in the put in there. But he does such a great job of maintaining and taking care of his body that's put him in a position to continue to be effective and successful at this point in time. What do you think Taja maybe made his biggest strides this season? Yeah, I know it's probably not a sexy answer, but really like pass protection. He does a great job with the pickups. He does a great job being in tune with everything and understanding that as a puppy coming in here, that was the quickest way for him to be able to go and gain the respect of his teammates is to be able to go and face some people up. And he's done a great job of being able to go and handle that responsibility and doing really anything that we're asking him to do when it comes to being able to go and pass pro. He's dynamic with the ball in his hands, and I think we all knew that when he got here. But his continued attention to detail and effectiveness and pass protection has been impressive. We won't get a shot to talk to you after this game. How do you kind of evaluate how the first season's gone in terms of what you wanted to do offensively? Yeah, we wanted to win more games, wanted to score more points. But at this point in time, luckily, we get one more opportunity to go out there and play consistently for four quarters. Again, here we are talking about it whatever week it is in the season. But we need to do a good job here putting together these last couple of days of practice and then being able to go out there and play consistent, good style of football for four quarters on Sunday. Yeah, they do a good job of moving all those guys around. It's not just him. They've got a multitude of rushers up front that are effective, that have different skill sets. 44 is big and long and strong. 41 does a good job of being able to use his length. And he's got some speed to power. He also has the ability to use some finesse. And then you got 95. So they've got a multitude of guys up front that they do a good job of in their pressure packages. Yeah, a lot. I mean, just look at last week what came up. And there are a couple of things that came up, right? With us being able to go and operate on the road, some different things there. And just, again, as he continues to play the position, just the things that come up organically, every game's a new opportunity for those situations to come up and for him to be able to learn from those opportunities. And so yeah, I think each game presents an opportunity to be able to continue to grow in those different situations. What's the biggest area you would start to land again with a guy who's finishing the season? Yeah, I mean, he's done a good job of just continuing to come in and work every day and not get too high, not get too low. Again, we'll have a little bit more time to be able to dive deeper into those evaluations. But again, I only have a limited amount of brain power right now and all that's going towards Jacksonville. The offensive line problems have been pretty well documented throughout the course of the season. What are some of the areas there, though, that you kind of see as positives from that group? Are there very many? Yeah, again, it's a tough position because when you're getting noticed, it's for the wrong reasons, typically. You know what I mean? So they do good things for us. In the run game, I thought we did a better job up front at times being able to get into some of our combinations. And we've continued to see that execution improve. Unfortunately, again, it comes down to there's one run in the goal line where we get four of the five up front are doing a great job, and we have a breakdown at a position. So it's just a matter of us continuing to work out here with the different techniques and fundamentals to make sure they can be more consistent. What kind of things has Skobronsky learned throughout the course of the year? Has he kind of leveled off a little, or is he still getting better? No, I mean, again, he's learned how to play in a new position. I think a lot of times that gets overlooked. That transition outside from tackle to guard is a little different. I mean, everything's on you faster. You don't have as much space to operate. So he's learned a new position, being able to slide inside the guard. And he's done a good job. Again, you go back and watch last week. There were multiple examples of him being able to go ahead and get movement at the point of attack and just, again, continuing to be more consistent with some of the different stuff that he's seeing, the handling of some of the games, all the different things inside that, again, the entire group and everybody needs to work on. Still in the zone, maybe, especially the last few weeks, has he come on this year and maybe going into the off season, does he potentially carry some momentum at maybe holding down that spot? Yeah, I mean, Dylan's done a good job of doing anything that we've asked him to do. First and foremost, in terms of being a good teammate and really understanding the complexity of the multiple positions that he's played, whether it was left, whether it was right, whether it was guard. And so he's done a really good job of being able to have that responsibility thrown on him and being able to go ahead and go out there and execute. And oftentimes, it wasn't really with a whole lot of heads up. There were a couple of battlefield adjustments there where we had to slide him in or slide him over. He's done a great job there being able to go and function at the multitude of positions on both sides. Is his right tackle as good a fit as any of the spots that he's played for? Yeah, I mean, I think there's, you know, he's had pluses and minuses at every position. So again, we're focused on him being able to go out there this week and giving him the tools to be able to go out and play well against a good front. Has it been healthness throughout the season battling injuries? But he's a veteran and he's been on different teams. How beneficial has that been just to have a little bit of that? Sure. Yeah, I think any time you get a vet that's played a lot of football, you know, that's experienced the highs and lows, it's good, especially when you have a younger room. So he's done a great job in there, you know, taking some of those guys under his wing and being able to kind of show them the ropes a little bit as to what it's like and what it takes to be a successful offense lineman in the league. How nice is it to have Danico and Harold, particularly the way Harold's played here down the stretch as that threat on that line, especially with Jeff out these lines? Yeah, it's been big for us. I think their production has been huge. It's been timely for us. Great to get Harold back to where he's rolling, you know? And you see the effort play showing up, the reverse the other day, chasing it down him and Otis from the other side. So some of those old school Harold plays that we're accustomed to, it's good. But I can't say enough about both those guys and what they do for our defense. It seems like Entree has been overlooked for many years for one reason or another. It was nice to see him at least get an alternate pro bowl. Yeah, he's deserving. He's a pro bowler in my mind, everything he does for us and the impact he has on the game each week. Just happy for him, well-deserved, earned. So hopefully he's able to enjoy it, if he's able to get out there. What do you think has enabled him, though, at his age, being an older player to still kind of be so effective? Yeah, I think his approach, his daily approach, the way he studies, the way he prepares, and then his ability to go out there and be instinctual. Played with instincts, he's got a good feel for how linemen are trying to block them. He's able to use his quickness. I mean, he's got a unique skill set because he's so long. But at the same time, he's so quick, he's able to get on edges in a hurry. He can win a lot of different ways, right? And he understands that, and I think as games progress, he understands how guys are blocking him. He's able to counter it as within the game. What have you seen from Otis Reese in the brief trial he's had inside linebacker? Yeah, I think he's taken steps. I do. You see flashes out there and making plays. I think he's flying around. We knew his physicality a little bit from the preseason and the opportunities he's had there. So he's done a good job of this point. He's just got to continue to be consistent. Don't get complacent. Don't be happy where he's at. Continue to improve and get better. And special teams always, that's going to be a big thing for him as well. Can you give you an element of speed on this defense that's maybe been missing in a few spots? I mean, it showed up here these past few weeks. Him running, I think anytime you get those effort plays, you see him open up and run. It's evident. What about Kevan Wallace, who's played a little bit more lately, too? Yeah, it's good to get him back last week. He's battling through some stuff. So he's been good since he's been here. I think he's done a good job for her. So hopefully that continues here this week. When you see the lineup, the starting lineup, you guys have put out there like last several weeks and some of the names just not as recognized as a little bit mind blowing just how different the lineup has been going down a stretch here compared to. Yeah, those are things that are out of our control. We've got to coach the guys that are available. We've got to get them ready to go and they've got to go play. And hopefully make the most of their opportunity, right? That's our job. So whoever's out there, they've got to go perform. And hopefully we can do a good job as a coaching staff and preparing them to be able to put their best foot forward. This is the most we've seen out of Elijah Mold in terms of playing games because he's had injuries the past few seasons. How do you feel like his growth has been being able to actually build off of that and playing in games? And what would you want to see more from next season with him? Yeah, I think he's done a good job for us. I mean, as a rookie, he had a really good year for us playing inside. So I think just the transition to safety form has been an adjustment. And I mean, hopefully it continues this week. He's going to have an opportunity to go out there again this week and go play. And he's got to continue improve. Like all these guys just continue to improve. We're not going to see you after this game. When things haven't gone well enough for the defense, what in your eyes has been kind of the root of the problem? Yeah, I mean, right now, man, I'm focused on Jacksonville. See if we can find a way to win this thing and end this thing on a good note. And we just got to keep improving. We've got to become more cohesive as a unit. And each week playing and play out, we got to be ready to go. And hopefully this weekend at Jacksonville, we can do that. What's prevented the cohesion you think? I think combination of things. I think that's one thing we strive for all the time, is just the communication, the execution, understanding. Every guy's got a role on every single play, right? And we just got to make sure everybody understands and goes out there and executes and does their job. Christian Kirk-Craft has said, if he can go, how much does he change things? A lot, you know, a lot. He's a really good player. They're talented, right? On the perimeter, they're talented across the board. So we're going to have our hands full if he's available. Zay Jones is available. He'll change his things for sure. Thank you.