 Now that you've got Derek activated to start practicing what's the as you're watching this week what's the thought process on you know making that next decision? Well just to see how he responds and ask him to start doing you know some of those things that he's gonna need to do in the football game. I mean no different than what we've done with with any other guy that's you know come back from you know the injured reserve and as they start the return to play. At this point of the season what's the how challenging is it with what you're able to do on the practice field pad limitations and things like that as opposed to game rubs what is that how about how challenging is that balance for a player? I think would say depending on the position I think that that certainly is something that you'd have to look at maybe the position of that the player plays whether it's at the line of scrimmage you know receiver and so we'd have to just monitor those things and try to recreate what they're gonna be asked to do in the game as closely as we possibly can. I don't know I'm not gonna speak for his excitement I'm excited I can speak on my excitement to coach this football team to have a chance to go on the road and and do everything we can to try to win that that that's what I'll speak on. Can you comfortably recreate things for him here as opposed to maybe getting him touches in this game if you decide to go that way? You know I'm not sure what comfortably means but I think that you will try to do everything we can you know for the players that are coming back to to try to recreate to give them again the confidence and trust that they can you know go out there and do their job we try to do that you know with every player that's returning. When you're weighing all of this out as far as his return is concerned how much does the playing surface come into play whereas you know like field turf versus natural grass? I think there's a lot of factors that go into you know decisions that we make. Anything on the Texans? How much different are the Texans now from compared to when you saw them? Well there's a few players that have changed obviously the quarterbacks changed you know Burkhead Rex has been getting the bulk of the carries rely heavily on the skill set of cooks defense is fast and they create a lot of turnover so you know as we know firsthand. And his skill set what is it about it it seems like whoever regardless of what his quarterback is he's a thousand yard receiver. Yeah he's you know he just has the ability to you know I guess the skill set and the player always wins out no matter who's throwing to him or what team you know what helmet he's wearing you know plays you know he doesn't isn't a big big player but he's got speed and I think he's got really good play strength he does a great job of creating penalties down the field or catching those or those deep passes so you know it'll be critical that that we try to do everything we can to defend him. I was wondering if you had any response to the charge against Bud and what that could mean for him moving forward? You know obviously we're all aware of it we'll continue to monitor it and you know like always we we try to do everything we can to help our guys make great decisions on and off the field and you know that that's my response we'll continue to monitor it communicate with with Bud and you know see how everything will eventually play out. How big of a difference from the last game you now have Zach Cunningham on your side of the defense rather than on the other side of the field how with his growth and grasp of the defense so quickly how much of a difference can that make in this game? Well I don't I don't think that defensively you know we we we just turned them all over the last game you know Zach's going to try to do everything he can to help us whether that be left tackle on the punt team playing special teams or playing defense for us you know this is about you know where we are in our 17th game and about the things that we're trying to improve on and continue to to make our charge to play our best football down the stretch. How much has been kind of the glue that's held the offensive line this year? Well I don't I mean I think that since the time that Ben's you know coming to the league I think that's always been something that he's you know whether that was in Houston when I was around him or or here you know Ben loves football Ben loves you know his teammates he does whatever you know he can do to help the team and in a large part of that is is making sure that everybody up there is on the same page you know trying to execute whatever scheme that we're trying to do. You mentioned the challenge of you know we asked you about the challenge of dealing with Derrick's decision. Going in with a chance to get the one seed to buy what what factors do you think of you know Chiefs play the night before or the day before you'll kind of know what your status is when you kick off on Sunday. Do you think about trying to rest players or with a chance at a buy play starters longer? There's an awful lot of math. I think that winning takes care of everything that's that's the one thing that I've learned since you know you know I've been in sports or athletics is that winning usually takes care of everything. Do you know the unique or special message this week different from from other weeks? Winning takes care of everything. The turnovers in the last game this is something you've said the team emphasizes every week is at this point do you even need to say anything more about that? I probably don't but I do just to show them the difference the way that you know when you possess the football you know that you can turn drives into points and you know if we're not able to score touchdowns we can you know rely on Randy to give us some points and you know when you when you force turnovers defensively it creates short fields for the offense and and we're doing those in both of those phases we did that and the special teams created field position I thought we did a great job of that the other day as well which will we need to continue. I noticed you always kind of go out on the field and you know tend to them a little bit just kind of wondering you know sort of what what do you hope to deliver what kind of message do you hope to deliver to a guy that's heard out there and has that always been the case that you that you've done that? I mean we just we spent a lot of time with these guys I think that you know like I tell the team you know when I when I first got the opportunity to do this and be a coach or a head coach you know you want to try to make you know make it as close to a family atmosphere as you can which you know there's always issues within families there's arguments there's disagreements everybody's different we respect everybody's own personality but I think in the end you try to come together for a common goal and so we do spend a lot of time with these guys and you never like to see anybody injured you know so I think that's part of my job is to go out there and make sure that you know guys know that that we care about them other than just you know a pair of shoulder pads and a helmet. What's your expectation for Ryan is though coming in into the tight end remit this late juncture? The expectation is to do everything he can to be ready to play in a football game and when he blocks finish longer than the guy with the ball and when we throw it to him you know catch it. You got a lot of depth at that position what's the competition like what's the challenge in trying to find a role for all this guy? Yeah I think that there's gonna be a lot of decisions that that we'll have to make and that's a good thing you know there were there were weeks where we had had ruled seven players out and we were bringing guys from the practice squad to get healthy 48 guys to the roster so you know that that's not something that should come as a surprise to anybody we talked about that this morning you know in the squad meeting and you know their preparation how they practice and and really the roles that they can they can play for us on Sunday go into making those decisions. What's your assessment on how Jenkins has kind of turned things around it seemed like you know he's stacked some some pretty good games how would you assess his play like what he's put on film recently? Well I mean rabbit you know he was one of those performers you know he got it you know we recognized him with the with the game ball and it has been really good to see him challenge and and be productive and obviously we touched on the interception a couple weeks ago I felt he was you know very good technically the other day thought he tackled well when we asked him to tackle so a lot more that would be be great this week.