 Mike, you're now here at the buy. How much of this week do you spend on self-scouting to try to tweak and improve the offense to get games started a little better, a little faster? I mean, we're going to do a lot of things, Theresa. The whole goal is to try to improve mentally, get as physically healthy as we can, try to get our players to understand each and every play, the details of it. First, whatever they're running offensively or defensively are on special teams, and that'll be the key to try to improve. Which energy does it bring to a team when a quarterback can rattle off some runs like Ryan did yesterday? The one special the recount carries upon for the first down there? Again, you guys have heard me talk about defensively being able to defend the quarterback as he runs or extends plays. And whether it's to throw the football down the field or to gain yards when guys are turning and running in man coverage, it's deflating. You don't necessarily practice that. I mean, there's rush lanes. And when those guys get covered up or there's areas and spaces and guys turn and run, and especially in long-yarded situations or in two-minute drills. So there's design quarterback runs and there's ones where they extend the play. And I think the ones you can practice are the ones that are designed. And the ones that are hard are the ones that quarterbacks in this league or in any league college extend plays with their feet. And then certainly his ability, Ryan's ability to be physical, to get the first down and to get the two-point conversion was really cool to see. Do you earn a little credit or respect from guys when you're willing to fight through some of that stuff? As a quarterback, I'm not going to speak on what kind of respect quarterbacks get for not having played the position. I would say that when I would watch quarterbacks or have a quarterback that did those things, that I probably respected them. I think that they have to be smart in this league. I think the way they lead, the way they try to prepare the team and try to get guys on the same page is another way that they earn respect throughout the week and the way they play on Sundays for the course of 60 minutes and good times and bad times, good plays, bad plays. They're the ones that have to lead the offense. And I think, in turn, might rally the team. With those runs, with the record you guys have had since he's taken over with 10 touchdowns and 10 trips to the red zone. See, take it on the mantle as well as you could have ever expected. I think, Ryan, it's a unique situation. I was very aware of that, I think, coming in, having been a starter in this league, coming here, learning in offense to try to invest as much as he could to be ready for the opportunity. And he was. It's a fine line. I think that there were things that he probably wanted to say or do as a backup that he had normally done as a starter, respect to the situation. He probably didn't. And I think now that where he's at starting for us, it's been everything that we'd hoped for, having him coming in to be ready to go to assume that role. And we have to continue to do those things. We have to continue to work with receivers and linemen and understand where we're going to be in the pocket, where receivers, where we want guys when they're man coverage, zone coverage. But getting down in the red zone, there's been a lot of reps at a lot of these plays. And our players are confident and comfortable in what we're doing. And when you can run it in, it makes it a little easier. So again, that's been a key for us to be able to score when we get down there and not kick field goals. They attempted five yesterday. And again, thank God that we were able to keep them to field goals in those situations. Is there anything about this game that you think lends to the success in the red zone that you've had, whether it's command or just a personnel anything that lends to why you guys have been so successful with? I think that we've put a lot of time into it. We put a lot of work into it. It's a focal point. Going back to April and training camp, got a lot of reps at it on Friday. Hopefully we can get down there more and continue to score. But that's been something that's been real positive for us. When Ryan first got pecking order always pretty clear still in your mind when you came in. It was obviously going to be the two. I think that that's what the plan was. I think that that's just what we thought as coaches and John and I and everybody else that this was going to be a guy that if things happened or something happened that he could win us football games. And we've talked about that in the past. The opportunity presented itself to Ryan. When Ryan probably he probably figures he's only got so many more chances at it. And we even sit down and have this conversation. But you only get so many opportunities to go out there. And it's good to see him take advantage of what now is an opportunity for him. What went into the decision to go on the fourth and 17 near the end? Did you think about finding the thought process there? Again, the decisions that we try to make where I think that if it was outside of two minutes, you probably would have had a little bit more decision. The field goal, if they would have made it, would have kept it a one-scored game. The three time outs, really that was the fact that the field goal would have kept it a one-score game. Really that's probably a different story if stopping them in three plays in a field goal makes it a two-possession game in that field position. You've got to bang it out of there and hope that somehow you get the ball back with a minute 20 and no time outs. And the ability still to win with a touchdown. So I think that that's all it really was, was where are we at on the field? I guess we're just kind of hoping for a huge play there, penalty somewhere down the field, and then holding them to just the field goal. And our guys, I think, at the field goal block unit has put some pressure on teams lately. And I think they snapped it quicker than they probably had wanted to. And it forced them into a mistake. And we blocked an extra point last week. Dane and Josh are excited about that unit and their role on that unit. On the missed extra point, Isaiah Mack attacks the backside guard, shows up, gets penetration. The guy kind of throws them into the backfield. I don't know if Butker saw them, but I know that he was playing with the type of effort that we expect. And it was what some people would consider a meaningless extra point. But I thought that there was great effort there, and that unit's been good for us. And what's the thinking on the squid pack instead of the goal? I think that we're trying to get it down there, probably a little farther. Seeing where some of the kicks had landed into the wind in that situation, you want it to be down there a little further. We weren't going to be able to kick a touchback. And just want to kick it down there a little further, kick it a little harder. Is the wind all that was working against Ryan in terms of touchback? Or does he not have enough leg right now? No, I think that the wind was a large factor. I mean, I think going that way, there was returnable balls on both sides. And I think if you look coming the other way, we were able to put them a little deeper into the end zone and certainly so with their kicker. But I just got to try to get it down there and kick it a little harder down there. I know you talked about the PI calls being cut over. I heard that you think about challenging the one on AJ, but AJ on the fourth and 17 after seeing the unit. Under two. Under two, Jimmy. It's under two, it's on them. Yeah, so I ought to look like a moron, and then you guys would be asking me, what dumb ass challenge under two minutes? After watching it, do you think they don't matter whether they're going to let them play under two minutes and let the guy up? I don't know. Not going to matter. So again, you've got to follow up to that one. I asked the guy next to me, do you see anything? Not from here. Sorry, it's only 60 feet. Maybe we should expect that they could see a little bit more than 20 yards. It seems as much as the two-man defensive line that you played yesterday, and what's the sort of key to making that alignment work? I'm sorry, which person? The two-man defensive front. Is that as much as you've done of that in a game? You mean just with the defensive linemen, the tackles, and not the, yeah. I mean, it was just how we wanted to match up against their 11 and 12 personnel defenses. And now as far as however we wanted to treat Kelsey, if you treat them as a receiver, more of a receiving tight end, I guess it just allows you, when you play a four-down front, because I would consider that a four-down front and just lump all the four defensive linemen together. It just brings you an extra DB into the game from where our base stuff was. Every week you kind of decide, I'm sorry, every week you kind of go in there, and we decide how we're going to treat this tight end based on his ability, his skill set. And do you look at it more as a receiving tight end, or would you look at it more as a blocking tight end? And that's how we make the decision. Sorry, John. Sorry. What was David Long in your mind doing so well yesterday? I think eight tackles and only 20 snaps would come later that production. He's an instinctive player, and there's a lot of stuff that we got to continue to coach on him and improve, but he has shown, since he's gotten here, that he is an instinctive player, that he makes tackles, that he gets around the football, got an opportunity to play and showed up, got the ball out. So the thing, I appreciate, Dave, I mean, you coach him hard. You can get on him and coach him hard. He knows when he's out on the field that he's going to go play. And he's just a young instinctive player that has been improving through the course of the season and on the show team. Gives us a great look over there, him and Nigel Harris. And we've talked to him. We coach him. We watch those plays with him. That's their opportunity to improve, to get a lot of reps just at the run in a play-action game and diagnosing plays. There's a card, but we try to win in possible. Me and Luke and Stecco and whoever's operating that show team is to try to say, hey, this is our call. Just run it like that unless they need a specific look. So that's where they get a lot of their work and improvement. We've had some conversations about passing numbers, me pushing you like, hey, what if you threw for 300? What if you threw for 400 once just for the heck of it? And you're kind of saying, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Is yesterday kind of an example of that in the homes? That's the most yards anybody's ever thrown for in that building and it turned out not to be all it's cracked up to be. It's just what you have to do every week, I think, to win the game. And again, everybody understands, starting with me and the team, that that's not where you want to play that team. You don't want to sit there and trade touchdowns with them and make it a 55-51 game. You go back and look at the games that chief's team has lost. The other team was running the ball 40 times, controlling it for 38 or 40 minutes. And so when you try to come up with those keys and talk to the players about the plan, ending drives on third down defensively, sometimes it doesn't go that way. And we've always said, hey, we all want to start fast, Teresa. But when we don't, we don't quit and walk into the tunnel. We got to find ways to win. So the biggest thing was that when they did have success moving the football, and I think the five field goal attempts was a huge part of keeping that thing close and giving us a chance at the end of the game. So when we had to get some stops, we did. And we can play better. There's a lot of things that we can do that we have to do and we must do to improve. But that was a huge emphasis to be able to force and to kick field goals. But what do you try to tell Kalu as he was running past you at the end of the game? Just a fantastic play. And I think that we'd have liked to have a little better. I know Joshua would have liked to have a little better on the pass that got down there. But you just always enjoy guys that take pride in making a play to help their team win. And Josh is primarily a special teams player for us and got some action on the punt team. We felt like his performance in Carolina warranted that we find a spot for him. We found a spot for him as the wing on punt team. Helped us get a little faster on the punt team. We punted the ball great as usual. Brett did a fantastic job. It's huge key. 50-yard net punting to be able to eliminate hard men or hill if they got back there. And again, those guys that hopefully we're starting to build some confidence in a core group of special teams players. Dane, you can't help but notice him seven or eight yards in front of everybody on the kickoffs. His effort, he gets doubled every single play on kickoff and on punts. Milton had a huge tackle on a punt team. These are names that people don't always see because the TV cameras cut off every special teams play. I didn't ever say who makes a tackle. But those guys are starting to form a little core group in there. And in Batesy, it takes a ton of pride in everything that those guys do. You're not saying the same thing than falling on the sword. That's two weeks in a row you basically sacrificed a series to his penalties. You kind of said, you can't teach him not to raise his hands into somebody's face mask, but something clearly has to change there with his mentality and his ability to fall into these habits. Where do you go from here? I don't know. I've got a week to decide. Where do we go? Your TV show. Is there any way to explain just the number? I mean, a probable guy like that, just the sheer number of penalties that he's. You guys are going to be open locker room as soon as you guys stop asking me questions. Sure, I'll have plenty to say. So I don't know what to tell you. You talk about the confidence gained on the special teams. The way you guys have been able to get these three wins at home, late plays, final minutes, things like that, how much can that provide a boost when you do come off the fight? Again, the more that you do something routinely, the guys start to build some confidence. We've got a lot of work in these situations. I thought Arthur gave the guys a heck of an opportunity. They were playing two-man, which allowed for the scramble, which allowed for the nod to perk. And then the middle field is wide open. And same thing to hump. So it was run, nod, nod, and great plays by the two slot guys. We know when they play that, that it's tough sledding for the guys on the outside. Safeties are high and wide. But we felt like we had a really good match up in there with FERC and who's done that. Same thing he did against the Jets last year. Same exact route, same exact coverage. And so then we flipped it over and got it to hump on the next play. How'd you think Adori held up yesterday with a pretty tough assignment? I think he finished. I think there were times where he competed. And we got to tackle better. We got to be more confident in our ability to tackle. And it's a great player you're playing against. Some technique issues that we'll continue to work on. But I felt like, especially down the field, he was competing and was competitive. And we'll need more of that every week. There's going to be good receivers and a good quarterback. You said you had a week to decide on a lot. Is there any recourse? No, I was joking. It was the first joke I could come up with. Like, I don't know what. I'm going to stand up here and talk about with penalties or with Taylor. We're not going to hide behind finishing. I stand in here without this podium. And I tell the team every week, if we're going to play full tilt to the tackle and we're going to finish longer than the guy with a ball, we can't use it as an excuse. And whether it's pushing a guy late or whether it's the quarterback, I can go back and vividly remember Harold and Atlanta, rushing like heck to try to get to the quarterback. He throws it. Harold hits him. And the officials saw that as unnecessary. He's going as hard as he can. So we showed him, coached him up, explained, yep, it's a fine line to go and play full tilt to the tackle and understand when you have to pull off. Jarrell plays as hard as anybody on our football team. I mean, he's going after Kyle Allen, and he slides. And unfortunately, Jarrell catches him with his knee in his back. And it's a penalty. It's forcible contact at a quarterback that's giving himself up. And I explained to him that we can't use that as an excuse by playing hard and just saying, well, I'm just playing hard. That would be no different than Taylor to say that I'm trying to finish. That's not what we coach. That's not what we teach. And we can't say that I was just trying to finish. And he knows that. And I know that. And it applies to everybody at every position. It's an offensive line. It would be finished in their guy, and then the whistle, and then hitting them later, doing something like that. I explained with the rushers, going as hard as they can. And the quarterback doesn't have the ball or gives himself up. So there's a lot of instances where players are confronted with that, playing with great effort and then having to have the composure to not do anything after that. And just go back to the next play. AJ ran over to Taylor after that. The bigger call kind of got in his face a little bit. Did you like seeing that? I love seeing when our players hold each other accountable. And I don't know what was said. But anytime our players trust each other enough to hold each other accountable, I think that that's a good thing. After a win against a quality opponent like Kansas City, what did you learn about your team yesterday? Well, I always think that we're gritty. We're tough. We need to play better. We need to execute better. But there is, I think, sometimes the grittier and grimeier it gets is kind of where we like it and where it should be. There's just every week, not every week. But when we win, sometimes one side helps the other side and somebody comes up with a huge play. And I wasn't too long ago. We were the offense this, the offense that. And we got in a ball back and they did some pretty good things. Do you think it's fair to ask where some of this has been? Some of what, the wins or the production? The big plays, the production, the result? Well, I think the plays at the end of the game were dictated by their coverage. I mean, they didn't play any snaps of too high safeties on first and 10. And so when we got the coverage, we took advantage of it. Again, we have to run more plays. We have to be better on third down. And it was, I would say that it probably wasn't easy to get Derek the number of carries he got yesterday based on where the game was going. I mean, we just didn't run enough plays. It goes back to that. We got to run more plays. We averaged more yards per play than the Kansas City Chiefs. So that would tell me that, again, you guys are the number experts, but we got to run more plays. We got to find ways to continue drives and sustain them. So we're going to get back to work and get rested mentally and physically and try to go win another game. You got Jarell Delaney, Corey, and J.I.L. Mess. I mean, how much of the ball would help when it's optimistic that you get all four of those guys back at some point in the not-so-distant future? I'm not sure what not-so-distant future means. I'm worried about today. So if you're asking me if they'll be back today, they won't be back today. Don't interrupt me, Paul. I would imagine that they could probably look to get back, hopefully, after the buy and do some things, and then we'll evaluate where they are. I know each and every one of them is working their tail off to get back out there to help the team. And they'll be working hard this week to recover.