 It's a talented team, it's a talented defense, they've got a really good front, they've got athletic linebackers, and they're playing well in the secondary, so we've got a huge challenge in front of us Sunday, and I know our guys are going to meet the challenge, so they're excited about it. Like any young player, he's still developing, we do things with him to try to prepare him in case he ever does have to play, because being the backup quarterback you are always one play away, so he puts in the time, he does a great job working with Marcus, helping Marcus in anything that Marcus needs, takes a lot of reps with the guys during practice, after practice to try to prepare, but it's also, he's got to emulate the quarterback of the team we're about to play, so he has that challenge as well. We have full faith in both guys, and I think Desmond has done a great job trying to prepare himself, and we'll see what goes from there. Well, you'd like to think you know how it's going to go, but obviously it's football, and things are going to happen, and there would be things that he hadn't seen, and just be a new experience for him, but I'm sure he would handle it fine, I wouldn't have any worries. Yeah, I think the biggest thing about Marcus is he's the same guy every day, so whether he throws for 300 or 150, he's the same guy coming to build, and I think for the quarterback position that's important, because everybody looks at him to kind of steer the ship, and they see he comes in there, he's the same guy every day, puts in the same work, and I think that's important. And I thought he came out, really had command of the offense, had a good first drive, you know, we were able to punch the ball in there, I thought he did a great job with play extension on the touchdown to Drake, so I was happy to see him come back and rebound, and that's what football is, and you know, it's going to be ups and downs, it's going to be abs and flows, and I thought he handled it well. Yeah, you know, being a competitor, he's going to do everything he can to help this team win, whether it's trying to get a first down, whether it's scoring a touchdown, whatever it may be, but he knows he needs to protect himself at times, and he's smart about it, and he's been playing football, you know, a long time, so he understands what he needs to get done, but being a competitor, he's going to do what he has to do to get the first down or punch the ball in there, so I look forward to seeing you do that. He's often tough on himself when he sleeps with us, and his common refrain is that he gets in trouble when he tries to put too much on himself. What kind of, I know you want a guy to be confident and not be second guessing himself on the field, what kind of feedback do you give him about those kind of decisions, and when to know when it's too much, when he's putting too much on himself? You know, I think, you know, it just comes into the flow of the game, like, you know, Marcus here's at times, you know, obviously, he wants to make a play, he wants to make a spark, but sometimes you've got to be smart with the ball as well, and knowing the journey's over, knowing the play's over, and play the next play. Maybe it's a bad play, and don't make a bad play worse, and get us into a manageable situation, and let's go out there and try to attack it the next play. So you never want to take away his instinct, and his ability, and his reaction to certain situations, but we talk about it, and I think he's done a great job of not putting the ball in harm's way, and trying to help manage the game. You just said journey's over, Arthur said that, Marcus said that. Is that just kind of a common phrase that you all use? Is that just... He's usually when all three guys are saying something, you know. Well to me it's an old football adage. I wasn't a very good football player. But my coach used to tell me, hey Charles, knowing the journey's over, now I was only gaining about a yard or two, so the journey wasn't a long journey. But I think it's just a football term that you use. But I think you got to be, you know, smart about knowing when it's over, and knowing when it's over, and let's play the next play, let's get down, let's get us into third and manageable, whatever it may be, and then we'll play the next play from there. Yeah, as we talked about last time, he's got a tough job. Being the backup quarterback is not an easy thing. You have to know our offense as well as the starter, but you're also emulating the team work. We're going to play his quarterback. And he's got to do a good job of balancing that and understanding their offense and what our defense needs to see during practice, but then also being able to execute our offense at a high level if needed. Because he's only one play away, and that's the situation with any backup quarterback. So we're pleased with where he's at. He's going to continue to develop. He's going to continue to grow. We're continuing to work with him, and we'll take it from there. How much harder is that for a rookie? I think just understanding it. And I think Marcus does a great job of working with him to understand what it's going to take to be a backup. And I talk to him, and Coach Ragon talks to him. We just try to educate him on what needs to be done. And obviously, as the season's gotten on, he's gotten more and more comfortable with it. And you've seen growth from there, just from him, whatever it's, whether it's mastering the game plan or mastering this concept or understanding this progression. You see a little bit more of it each week, which is a positive. If he did have to come in, do an injury, whatever, how much of what you guys do could he do right now? We expect every player on the team, whether it's the quarterback, the running back, a cornerback, whatever, to execute whatever the scheme is for that week. So we would expect him to come in, and he would have to do whatever he was asked to do. But I don't know if I'm going to double down on that. I know you are. Well, because you've seen it over and over again with quarterbacks in the NFL. You have to pull back or change all two things based off of skill sets. So I'm just wondering how much, you know, having never taken a regular season NFL staff doesn't really handle if it was a situation where he had to be put into a game plan. And I don't know that my answer would change. Anything that we call game plan wise, anything that's in the game plan, we expect him to be able to execute. And it's the same thing with any other position on this team. And I think that's the one thing that's really good about this team that I'm really proud of is that it's competition everywhere. And these guys go out there and compete and it's competition every week at each position. So at any position, the guys are expected to be able to execute the game plan. And we would expect Desmond to go in there and execute the game plan if he ever had to go in. Well, how much of the game plan would have to be truncated? Whatever part he's asked to execute is what he'll do. How confident would you be at that moment that he could do that? Be fine. Just like any other player had to come in. They're on, everybody's on this roster for a reason. And everybody's got a job to do. And we feel everybody on this team is capable of performing whatever job there is asked to do. And the whole, myself, the coaching staff, we have faith in these guys. You spoke earlier about how he's made progress each week in things including mastering the game plan. Now that's different, I assumed, than learning the playbook. And we've heard in the pre-season in training camp that he was a quick learner. But that's not the same as being able to put your team in the right place and call the right plays and all that. Where have you seen him grow in terms of the mastery of the game plan? You know, I just see growth with him, whether it's conceptually, whether it's formations, or whether it's blitz pickups, whatever it may be. I just see the growth in the work that he puts in each week about trying to get better as a professional quarterback. And, you know, obviously he was asked, you know, there's things that we asked him to do that he wasn't asked to do in college. And I think he's taken the growth there. He's taken the steps there and he continues to develop each day and put in the work. And, you know, we'll continue to work with him and see where it goes from there. What's the specific, wow, that's a good question. You know, I think where a lot of time has to go in is play-calls. I mean, some of the stuff, you know, he's got to be on top of it. He's got to know where every position has to do. So if a player comes to him in the huddle and the play's called and needs a reminder about what to do, he's got to be able to tell them what to do and go from there. So I think it's just understanding the full concept and what we're asking them to do and also understanding what everybody else's responsibility is on the offensive side of the ball to be out there because he's the coach on the field. So if there's any questions, any, anything out there, the quarterback's got to be the one to answer it. So I think that knowledge and that wealth of information is probably one of the harder things. I mean, it goes before even the pre-snap stuff and obviously execution of it. It's literally one dollar in the huddle. No doubt. And then it's got to get, what looked at the defense present us? We told, we think they may give us this look. They gave us another look. Now what's the adjustment? Now where does the ball go? Now where's my progression? And all that needs to be processed in probably 20 to 25 seconds as far as, what's my protection? Where do I need to go there? Where does the ball need to go? And I think just continued reps and reps and seeing more and more, it obviously is going to help anybody's growth. Can you do that without doing it? Is that, if that makes sense? Yeah, no, no, I got to say it. I got to say it. Well, he doesn't practice, you know? So we see it there and we see it from both our quarterbacks. We see it from Marcus, we see it from Dez, see it from other players. And that's why we go out there and practice to try to simulate the best that we can in a game like situation. You spoke about this, part of his job is to emulate the opposing quarterback. What kind of percentage of his practice time is on being Hanukkah or being filled instead of being... Yeah, it's a huge part. I mean, because any time our defense is out there and it's a live rapper, it's seven on seven, he's the one out there. So he has to have an understanding of what the other team's quarterback's doing. What are his mannerisms? Maybe what's the snap count? Like, where does he like to throw? And he's had to do all these things, but also still master what we're asking to do from a weekly game plan. So like I've always said, it's a tough job. He's doing a good job of it and I'll continue to grow from there. Whether it's Dennis or another... Any other young quarterback at this point, can that be a help to them down the road that they have to do that? They're a force to... Yeah, I think so. And I think the other thing that helps is a lot of plays are similar. Like we may run a play that another team runs and it's a similar concept. So he's got to grow, okay, well we call it this, they may call it that, but he goes out and he executes that play. So that's his game rep for the week. Now maybe against our defense, it may be a different look, but that's his game rep. So I do think as that can help the growth of a quarterback. They're seeing a lot of things, they're doing a lot of different schemes, they're trying to make a lot of different throws and I think down the future, it could do nothing but help.