 Good to see you guys be of zoom there Terry and coach can see him. Yeah just you know as we set out on the offseason here what or you know some of the priorities for Terry you know getting ready for the draft first question for Terry on the offseason priorities for the franchise. Well, we're going to take a take a few days here to separate from the emotions of where we are right now and and we'll get back in the building and obviously we'll have a collaborative effort and sitting down with author and the staff and the coaches and the scouts and evaluating the season and every single player. And that'll be the beginning of whether players under contract or not under contract. That's the start we evaluate every player and how we want to proceed. Each player and and then we start to formulate that offseason plan. So we need to just separate a little bit and so we can come in and with fresh eyes and be objective and evaluate every single aspect of this year. And for coach how will your offseason evaluations of the season go have the coaches started on those and you know where you all at with the evaluation process of 2021 season. Yeah, D-Led. Yeah, that's kind of standard operating procedure. We will after anything any any thing we've done here. You I think the smart thing is to go back and look at it. What can we do better? There's certainly not to be every year whether whether you won the Super Bowl or not. I think you've got to be objective and see where you can evolve and adapt. It can never stay the same. It just can't and we feel like we've got a great foundation here D-Led and you know we got a bright future and we'll look at every single thing we've done and see what we can do better. Michael. Hey y'all. Thanks for. He froze up on us. Mike. Mike you're frozen. Tori we'll roll to you real quick till we get Michael back. Yeah, that sounds good. Just kind of I guess I'll start off this question for Terry. Salary cap rising in 2022. How do you kind of feel like this organization do you feel like this organization is in a better spot in 2022 because of that and how do you foresee that kind of shaping out the offseason for you guys? Well, yeah we're in a better spot because the cap did increase this year. That was one of the big challenges last year because of the cap going down so much and we already had challenges prior to that. But this offseason the cap did increase and yet there still are challenges here for the next couple years. But again we have to look at every contract every player whether they're under contract or not and make the best decision for this team moving forward. And then this question is kind of for both of you guys big picture. What do you think is the difference between how you feel like this organization operates cohesively this offseason in comparison to where you were at this point last year both of you guys just coming in here. Well, I think everybody's more familiar with each other. Certainly the second time around if you've done your due diligence and your process is good it should go smoother. And it's just because there's so many things to do here one as you're getting you know you start and hit the ground running. It should be a lot easier this time because you kind of understand how everybody operates and there's some things we want to do better than what we did last time and it just you're just more familiar it's like any relationship. You feel like you know everybody better. Michael, you're muted Michael. Sorry about that. Sorry about the Internet is apparently bad. Yeah, so Terry I was going to ask this that last year you were talking about some of the cap constraints that you guys were working with. How do you manage the cap this year you think versus what you had to do a season ago. Well, again still some some constraints but we just have to look at look at every player and every contract and just do the best job we can. We know we have to bring in competition and continue to work to improve this offseason. So they're going to be challenges every year with the cap but we just have to make the right decisions and the players we bring in make sure we have clear visions for them and do the best job we can. And for Arthur, you talked about desk kitchens last week. Is that the only anticipated staff change that you're going to have or do you anticipate more changes? Well, it's hard to predict the future Michael. There's a lot of moving parts. I think, you know, we'll take our time for the running back job. You know, we want to talk to a lot of people. There's a lot of movement going on and so right now that's the only only movement we've had but you just can't predict the future. Because there's a ripple effect and who gets what job and so we'll see but we'll take our time. Make sure it's the right person that we bring in here. Home team. We can't hear you Brandon. Audio issue on your end. Josh, this one's for you. Do you have a how will you handle the Calvin situation Calvin Ridley situation going forward in terms of when you feel like you need to know something. Has there been any communication thus far? What's your expectation for kind of how it walks out? Well, it really hasn't changed and we've as an organization we've done the best job we could to just support Calvin and do everything we can for him. And I know he made the statement when he did and we made a statement during the season as well and really up to this point nothing changed with that. Do you expect him to be on your roster in 2022 or is it too early to tell to say at this point? Well, it's look we have a roster of a lot of players you can go down and ask that about every single player and we obviously we're not going to answer those questions but again regarding him specifically. Nothing changed. We just continue to support him. Thank you. Home team, try it again. Still no audio burning. D-Led, go to your follow up. Okay, yeah, what's the what's the plan to fix the lines and the trenches are offensively and defensively a lot of sacks weren't able to run the ball and defensively our last in the league and sacks. Well, you know, I love the loaded question D-Led but like the whole team we got to improve. I think that's again, statistics, however you want to manipulate them. Those are easy. Those are the low hanging fruit doesn't tell a story the whole season doesn't tell a story. You know, I, you know, necessarily how you win games. Like I said before, you know, we went seven to one possession games. We got to close the gap in the other game. We got to continue to improve and there's a lot of ways you can fix it. D-Led obviously down to the end of the year, we need more shots on goal. I think when you get in the game and you don't have the ball very long and a lot of it was self inflicted. But when you average five yards a carry to make a grand indictment on the run game, I think that's a little bit at the surface level there. We need to be better all around. So there's a multiple ways you can improve the front. We got to improve this whole team, you know, as we climb. I mean, the goal here is to sustain, sustain success and to win championships. That's not your objective and you're just playing survivor and trying to manipulate narratives and stat pad. But that's not what we're trying to do. We're trying to build a championship level team roster and that's our objective. What do I make of it being 30th in the league then? I mean, I got to look at, you know, evaluate something. I'm not saying that D-Led, you're kind of missing the point. Okay, yeah, help me out then. I need some help then. What I'm just trying to do is you're trying to win games, correct? And so if you sit there, we need to be better. We need more plays offensively. So we need to extend drives. We need to get off the field and third down. And like I said, we need to close the gaps in those games that we lost. That's clear and there's multiple ways to do that. But like I said, when you, we, I think we're 31st and offensive plays run and that's a team issue. And that's what we'll do. I mean, there's everywhere you got to get better. I mean, if you, if you win two games and you finish fifth and passing, are you patting yourself in the back? No, we clearly, we're going to continue to improve. But it doesn't tell the whole story. There was times where it gets really good defensive Randall Ball. Well, we need to do a better job sustaining drives, getting into the red zone and scoring more points than the other team. It's pretty, pretty practical. And we got to close the gap in those other games. Thanks, coach. Thank you. Bear. Hey guys, this question is for, is for, skid me. I'm sorry. Tori. Yeah, I want to kind of stay on the topic of what D led was talking about. Dean was speaking to us last week on the need to develop a passion. He spoke specifically through the lens of talent acquisition and talent development. So my question for Terry is when it comes to the acquisition part of that, what is the blueprint of what y'all are looking for? Yeah, we're always looking for pressure players. You're always looking for cover corners. Like author said, it's a complimentary game. And so as we improve the roster and bringing competition at every position that's going to help when you're playing with leads, obviously you have more opportunities to rush and it's a complimentary game. So we have to improve the entire roster, but we're going to look at every avenue to bring in competition, whether we're talking about free agency, the draft after the draft, we're going to work hard to bring in players to compete. And one more for you, Terry. I know this roster turnover was something that we talked about earlier in the year and kind of how this roster was going to change a lot. And I was just kind of curious how you feel like the front office did providing players in season to kind of be slotted in to this active roster. I kind of think of guys like Anthony Rush, James Spotters. I was just kind of curious your thoughts on that and kind of how important that process will continue to be moving forward. Yeah, Tori, I appreciate that question and it's really twofold. I think the personnel department did a really good job. The pro department and bringing in players, but then the coaching staff into developing those players, getting them up to speed and implementing them and having the confidence to play them. Because those players, some of the players you mentioned and some other players helped us in all offense, defense, special teams. So being able to bring in players during the season, the coaching staff and the scouting staff, I think they did a really good job with that. And we're going to have to continue to do that and finding players however we can. And Tori, that's why it's such a collaborative effort. I've said it before and I'll say it again. And the way we operate here, I think the easy thing to do is, and have you seen this done a lot in this league, is you bring a player in and everybody wants credit for it. Or, you know, you win a game and you want to get out in front of the parade. There's so much work that goes in and you've got to be in sync because those guys, personnel department, they do a terrific job of trying to sort through the roster to see who's available in the spring. And then it's our job to make sure we have a vision for them and you've got to play them. I mean, you can't sit there and say one thing, you bring a guy in and then you don't play them and then, you know, so it's got to go both ways. And that's why it's such a collaborative effort. You have to have a vision. You have to be in sync. So nobody's looking at here to jump in front of the parade because everything discussions we have daily. Terry and I and our staffs, it's about the vision of building this roster to get to a championship level and operate that way to win championships. And that's what we feel we're on the right path. Michael, how to follow up? Yeah, Terry, this is for you again when it comes to kind of decisions that might need to be made down the road on some of your own guys, whether it's Cordero or Foyer or Youngway. How much do you weigh maybe their familiarity now and what their price points might be versus kind of that cap situation that we were talking about before? Like, where does that balance for you in building this? Well, you go through that process again. It starts with meeting with the coaches and determining who you do want to proceed with. And that's the beginning of it. And then we go through the process of looking at their market value. And it does make a difference when a player is in your building. And ideally, the best former for agency is developing and signing your own players, players that because you're not guessing. We know exactly who they are in the building. And so that's important. So ideally, when it's players in your building, those are players you want to invest in. But there are a lot of variables and you want to look at the market value and making sure you're making the right decisions. But when you can do that, when you can reward your players in your building, that's something that we want to do. And this is, I guess, for both of you. I know, Arthur, I asked about Matt after the game and you said, you know, after the game, you didn't want to be penned into a corner with a couple more days. I mean, where do you guys stand as far as Matt being your quarterback going forward? It would be the same answer I gave you Sunday. The same answer I gave you in March or in April. I mean, we're always evaluating our roster. I mean, to sit there and back yourself in the corner and say that, you know, make some grand statement that we'll never ever do this or that. I mean, that's not being objective and not trying to improve the roster. Same thing, you know, with Kyle Pitts or Jake Matthews or Grady Jarrett. I mean, you can go down all down the list. There's not going to be no State of the Union because it's a constant evolution. You got to look at it and you never want to pass up an opportunity to improve your football team. So I understand, you know, the headline you're seeking and what you're, and you got to ask a question, but the answer hasn't changed. Home team, give another shot. Yeah, we're still not getting audio. Charles. Terry, I appreciate you doing this. It's never too early to look ahead to the draft and I wondered if you could give us a little insight as to you and your team and how you, how soon do you start putting together a draft board and at number eight, do you feel like this is going to be a year where you go for best available, regardless of, regardless of position? Yeah, man, I appreciate you. And yeah, we've been, we've really had a draft board. It's really ongoing and you have a draft board at the beginning of the season and it changes as more grades come in and as players declare or whatever happens so that it's really a fluid thing. We've had a round of meetings. We have meetings. The next set of meetings are in February, so it's an ongoing process. And I think we've kind of talked about that draft process and that we always want to be a team that doesn't reach for needs and we go into the draft with needs and you know you want to feel those needs, but you always want to take the best player on the board and not reach for something. And I think we think that's how you make mistakes. So it's an ongoing process. The college staff has been grinding all year and now it's the point where the coaches are going to get involved in that process. It's going to be a collaborative effort to make sure we bring in the best players we can. And if I can follow up on Josh's question to you about Calvin and I understand you guys have been diligent and being sensitive to his needs, but of course you've got to be protective of the team's needs as well. And so when you say nothing has changed as you're looking at your team needs, do you have to assume that he is not available to you for 2022? Well, I wouldn't assume anything. Like I said, we handle each situation individually. There are so many variables we deal with. We're going to try to add to every position this offseason. So whatever player we're talking about, whether under contract, not under contract, we have to be prepared for everything. Mark Bradley? Yes, thank you. This is for Mr. Fontenot. Would you say that 7 and 10 is an accurate reflection of where your team was? Or do you think that that record was flattering or that you were actually better than 7 and 10? Well, it's funny because I read something at some point that said, talked about the point differential and how many games we should have won. And I think that says a lot about our team that would I really appreciate about our would author has built here, the coaching staff, the players that I do believe we're building a winning culture. We're not where we need to be. We don't want to be having this press conference right now. We want to be preparing for a playoff game. So we're not happy that we're not playing right now. That's going to be our charge moving forward. But I really believe everything that our head coach preaches about the culture and having a winning culture and being a smart, tough, competitive team. And you look at any game you can look in the fourth quarter where the game can be out of hand and we have players flying around competing. Those players were bought in. Those guys in the locker room love each other. They love the coaches and they really went out and competed. So there's probably some statistics that can tell you how good we were as a team and how many games we should have won. But I believe we're moving in the right direction and we're building that winning culture. And that's a credit again to art, the staff and the players. Thank you. Thank you. Chris room. Hey, Terry and either as y'all head into year two, how would you both of you define success in this next year when you're sitting here in next, you know, next year when January forever, whatever it is, how would you define success for for year two for y'all. For me, it's pretty simple. I mean, we'll be better than we are right now. And hopefully, like Terry just said, we're not having this press conference this time of the year. It's later in the year. So then that's the ultimate objective. I mean, for me, that's pretty clear cut. We continue to improve one more games next year, continue to get better. Like I said, our ultimate goal, you got to be the one in championship, not playing survival area. Sorry for you. Yeah, I agree. It's about without looking at scores in the game or records, it's about continued development and continued improvement. And again, that's something we saw throughout the year, continued development, continued improvement. We'll see that in the offseason. It's about developing and getting better. And that's our goal. That's our challenge to continue to get better. I guess to follow up with that then. So in year one, what were some of the challenges that you face this season that you've learned from that you'll apply in year two? For me or Terry? For both of y'all. Sorry about that. Well, I mean, I think, you know, anytime you go through something the first time, there's always the unknowns to try to prepare yourself. We go back and look at the last year, almost 365 days now. There's a lot of things that are going on. It's been a big time transition year. We did through everything we had to compete to win, to change the mindset. I thought we made some pretty good strides. Obviously, we got a lot that we need to build on and improve. But it was a great challenge and going through it. You certainly, your lessons learned all the time, Chris. And I think if you stop learning, you stop growing, you might as well get out of this thing. Yeah. And one of the biggest challenges for me this year, I would say when you come into a new building, when you've been somewhere for a long time, you have relationships with everyone in the building. We kind of touched on this earlier and you're able to build those relationships and that makes the communication smooth. And yet here with the COVID restrictions with a lot of new people, you weren't able to build all those relationships as quickly as you'd like to. And that does affect things. And yet I'm excited about going into this next year where we have built more relationships. Hopefully we won't have all the restrictions that we have going into this offseason and we can continue to communicate in the right way. So I'm excited about going into this year and not having all those restrictions that we had last year. D-Led, we'll go to your follow-up. Yeah. Since the season's over, can we get an update on Matt Gano and if he's on track to be back next year or what's his status? Well, he's a free agent. And Matt, obviously we expected Matt to come back at some point in the year with that injury. That's why we handled the transaction the way we did and that didn't work out. But he's not, he's said to be a UFA. That's right. That's all. Michael. Yeah, Teri, I want to kind of get back to something you did on a little earlier. But when you were constructing this roster, when you look at how this season went, where do you think was the biggest, I don't know, miscue that you made when you were building this thing considering what you had to work with? Miscue, I don't know, we had a specific plan in building the roster and we wanted to structure it a certain way. And we obviously had a lot of one-year contracts this off-season that was part of that was because of where the cap was. And then we wanted to bring in, we brought in a lot of veterans this year that really helped this team, whether they're going to be here next year or not, that it's going to build dividends moving forward. I felt like this was a really close group and they really, we have young guys, we have veterans and so we love the way we constructed the roster this year. We've said it already. We don't want to be having this press conference right now. We want to be preparing for a playoff game. So we're going to bring in competition and continue to improve. So I wouldn't say miscue. We had a plan last year and we implemented that plan. We'll have one this off-season and we'll implement that. And also when it comes to the pass rush specifically, what do you like out of a pass rusher? What do I like out of a pass rusher? Well, Dean said in his press conference the other day about pass rushers and he said something like it's, you're not coaching it. They just figure out a way to get to the quarterback. There are pressure players, whether it's a, it can be an in, it can be a defensive tackle, a linebacker, a safety. They just figure out a way to get to the quarterback. They're pressure players. So there's different ways that they do it. There's different guys and different ways they do it. But you're just looking for pressure players. Thanks. I appreciate it, guys. Yes, sir. Thank you. Corey? Yeah, I just have one more for Terry. I was really hoping to kind of get your evaluation of this rookie class. How did their development in year one match the vision for, I guess, what you guys had for them when you picked them last year? Well, they played a lot. You look at it was Thompson League in terms of the amount of snaps our rookies, the amount of games they were active for, the amount of snaps they played, not just on offense or defense, but also in the kicking game, they contributed a lot. And that was our plan for them to come in and contribute and grow and develop. And obviously, rookies are going to, you're going to take lumps and it's not going to be perfect. There's going to be ups and downs. What I love about this rookie class is the mindset of the group. I believe we have competitive guys that fight and compete. And it's going to be a challenge for them to continue to develop even into this offseason, develop and get better coming into this next year. So we appreciate the fight that we got from that group. We believe they're wired the right way. Josh? This may be somewhat hypothetical. So forgive me. But if you bring Matt back, do you feel like you have to do something different with the contract just from that cap number? Or is could you do it either way in your mind? Would you make the math work one way or the other? We're not going to speculate on anything regarding contracts or we're not going to go there. A couple of random ones. Isaiah Oliver, how is his rehab going? Does that complicate your decision on what you do there at all? Without talking about it because we have a number of players on IR that are free agents. So I don't want to start talking about every single player. But without talking about that, we make those decisions. We're aware of where all our players that are going through the IR process are. And some of them you'll wait until a certain period to sign them. And some of them, if you feel good about it, that we can sign them. So that wouldn't restrict a player being injured wouldn't restrict us from extending them. But I don't want to talk specifically about any players right now. And Arthur, one Jalen Hawkins didn't play much Sunday. Was he still recovering? I know he'd been on the COVID list. Was that some conditioning stuff or was that a performance issue? No, it wasn't a performance issue. Obviously, you know, let's always say it's not one size fits all and everybody was dealing with different things. And so it's where we felt he was at coming back from it. And that's why he played the amount of plays he did. Thanks. There I guess that's all the question requests we have. So appreciate you guys joining us today. Thank you. Thank you guys.