 Hey, your overall assessment of today in practice? It was up and down. We did some great things, and then we did do some great things. So just inconsistent overall. Thought we did some really good things in 7-on-7, made a lot of plays, had guys open, guys making catches, got the team, did some good things in team against the defense. Then the second team came back and wasn't as clean. Then into that two minute, we just weren't playing at a high level, what we expect offensively. So just too inconsistent for today. You don't have to learn from it, clean it up. They're throwing a lot of different looks at us that we really didn't prepare for, just coming out for a half practice with them. So it'd be good learning tape. We'll be able to take a look at it, learn from it, and be better moving forward from it. Can you take a picture of the Phillips? You guys connect really well. During two minutes, there was a bit of a struggle. What was behind that? It seemed like there was a disconnect. Really annoying to think of one of them. One I threw away, I was getting quick pressure. He was about at five yards, and we needed to go 50 plus yards. So for the time, it wasn't worth the five yard completion on a short one. So I just kind of threw it away in his general direction. Another one, I think we had a quick beat inside. So I had to get the ball out of my hands on an option route, I thought he was going to set, he broke out. So that was a miscommunication there. But yeah, overall I feel really confident in Kyle and his ability to read defenses and be on the same page with me. Any root cause or similarity in what was going wrong in the disjointed two minutes? They were doing a lot of pressure. In the looks we hadn't talked about, usually you go into a game with a game plan, a protection plan. And we didn't really have one for the looks that they were throwing at us. So it's a good learning experience. That's not an excuse. We did have opportunities if we would have just done our jobs. And we could have been effective and moved the ball down the field. We had a couple of procedural penalties and holding penalty, which obviously will kill two minute drives. Any penalties inside two minutes are going to kill you. So have to clean those things up. You have to be able to get the play started and play clean football. But a lot we can learn from and look forward to doing that. Combination. Were there corners kind of playing an aggressive style that he tried to jam people off routes and hold things up a little bit too? A little bit in the two minute, they're playing leverage. A couple of times we had plays that have been effective for us and just ended up being bad leverage against the coverages that they were playing, which made it tough. So I don't think they were playing overly aggressive. They played aggressive in the one on one period and in two on two period. A lot of contact and going to be contested catches, which is what's going to be, especially down there low in the red zone, they're not going to call that contact. As receivers, as an offense, we have to be able to play through that contact and make a tough catch with somebody on your back. Combination or were you just maybe the Ravens in the joint practice last week and this week? Maybe it helped to get this team ready for the season? Oh, it's great work. Like I said, last week, it's looks and people that you haven't been going against. So you're getting exposed to more defense, more personnel, which is only going to make you better. Come out here, compete. Everything's not going to be perfect, but you can learn from the tape and next time a similar situation comes up and hopefully we can nail it. Hopefully, Ryan, I said that you guys get some more explosive plays, you think, this season? And I guess also, do you see some elements of that? You're going to start to have it for the offense? Yeah, I think our guys have been making some plays. I think if you look at the past few weeks, what we've been able to do out here and some of the play action game and guys going up and making plays, we've had that. So yeah, excited for the opportunity to be better in that area and really compliment what we do in the run game. Route running beyond just the go routes and the deep post. How much has he improved his short and intermediate route running? Yeah, he's become much more a rounded receiver. Obviously, he has that size, that strength, that speed that everyone knows he has, but he's becoming more and more rounded the longer he's here. So getting more opportunities, he's made a bunch of plays for us, so he's gotten more opportunity and just hope to keep the foot on the gas of them and keep developing. What's the development of Nick as he grows into that right tackle position? I mean, it's kind of twofold, right? Just leading, encouraging, and then also holding him accountable. Obviously, if he's in there, we're going to need to play at a high level and operate the way we expect to operate. And then also, it's loving him up and letting him know when he does a good job and that we have a lot of confidence in him being able to block effectively both in the run and pass game. We shouldn't make too much of what basically amounted to be a half-practicing step on it, but can you learn a lot from, I guess, the new mistakes that happened today? Yeah, no doubt. Like I said, we didn't come out with a full plan against all the looks that Arizona was going to throw at us. There's an aggressive coordinator, aggressive defense, and threw a bunch of different looks at us. So we knew we were probably going to get a bunch of crazy looks, didn't know exactly what they're going to be. We're going to get up being things that you don't see too often in the NFL. But it's good work for us. A lot of looks we can learn from. And we're going to play other teams that have pressure packages and personnel packages where they're moving guys around, playing downline and backer, nickel, safety. And we're going to have to be able to identify those and block them when we get those opportunities. Ryan Kiles has had such a good camp. And he had an update today. He said it himself seemed extremely frustrated. But how much maybe can that benefit sometimes? Just having that update, going back and looking at the things you didn't do right, or maybe what went wrong? Right, everything's a learning experience, right? Especially on days that maybe things didn't go the way you wanted them to, you take a real critical look and have more than one thing to say, OK, I can fix that tomorrow, right? Some days on a good day, it's only like one or two little things. You say, OK, I fix this, tweak that. Day doesn't go your way. You might have four, five, six, seven things. You can say, OK, I can do this different. So it's all an opportunity. And as long as we're learning from those opportunities and not making the same mistake when it comes up again, we're getting better and we'll be better for it. At this point in your career, Ryan, how do you self-assess days like that that you may have out of camp? Same way as I did whenever I was younger. I think you look at situations for what they are. I think when you're evaluating plays for me now, it's like, OK, was my decision right? Was I in the right spot? Did I make the right adjustment? And does the ball in the right location? And so just constantly going through play in, play out, talking with the coaching staff on what led me to a certain area of the field, what led me to a certain read, and how could I fix that? What's my thought process? Making sure I'm on the same page with those guys. But yeah, it's constant, whether it's little things with footwork or adjustments in the pass protection, adjustments to the route, getting back to a certain part of the read quicker. It's all fluid, so it's a constant learning experience. Can you give a good assessment of pass pro, Ryan, and days like today when there's obviously no contact with the quarterback? Do you still get an idea of what the pass pro is like for you? Yeah, no doubt you feel it, right? You feel proximity and colors of jerseys in your area. So yeah, just like everything out there today, there was some good, and there was some things that we needed to improve upon. So good opportunity for us to take a real look at the tape and make those adjustments. Talk about seeing what's being prepared for. How often over the course of the season does that happen in a game? And what is the process for adjusting to that so that perhaps you don't have what happened out there in too many when you're seeing something you're not ready for? Yeah, it happens occasionally during the season less, definitely way less during the season, just so you have a lot of tape to look at, and it may be one look as opposed to a bunch that you weren't prepared for. So just be able to, when those situations come up, stay true to your process, try to make the best decision, protection-wise, with the rules that we've been given to make, and then take care of the football, whether it's thrown it away or just being safe with it, just making sure that you're not making a bad situation worse by doing something reckless with football. Do you think you need to play in the pre-season, or do you feel like the work you've done so far has gotten you ready? I don't think I need to play. We'll see what Coach Vareble wants me to do. I feel like I've gotten a lot of really good work out here with the guys, excited about what's in front of us here this next couple of weeks to keep tuning up things and learn from days like today. So we'll see what happens this weekend, but I feel really good about the progress we've made and hope to continue making it as we move forward. Ryan mentioned inconsistency, but what were your overall takeaways from the joint? Well, I mean, I thought that there was some good stuff. I thought seven-on-seven was good. I didn't think the, you know, down here in the red zone, I think the one-on-ones, it's the same stuff. And then we just have to realize that it's gonna be contested, there's gonna be contact. You know, we have to do a better job of, you know, attacking a football and keeping guys off of us. And that's what it's gonna be. It's tight, it's quick. Thought we got some good work in the team against ourselves. And then, you know, offenses didn't do much there. In the two minutes. So we'll have to figure that out. The officials work a little bit counter to what you wanted to get done at certain points in terms of, you were talking to them about wanting to move on with things. Well, I mean, you know, I had to tackle, you know, in the backfield. Again, they're doing what we're asking them to do, right? You know, I mean, I think just would've liked to seen, you know, them execute the, you know, down, down clock or whatever. And, you know, again, we tell our guys, if they warn you and you don't scoot up, then they're gonna call, you know, and they're gonna call a penalty. So, you know, that's how it goes. Officials are out here, they're working. And, you know, we have to know, you know, have to get a good idea of how they're calling the game. Are you kind of pleased with the way that the defense kind of held Murray in the pocket, didn't let him escape very much in the two minutes and made him dump it down? Yeah, I mean, every week's a different quarterback and clearly his talent is, you know, is something that, you know, you have to kind of be conscious of and, you know, and that's what he does very well. And they worked it a little bit in seven on seven. And, you know, each week it'll be a new challenge about, you know, where the quarterback is, what he can do and, you know, what his ability level is. Specifically these reps. Yeah, these are great. You know, I mean, every time we can go against somebody different new scheme, you know, a new set of players with different skill sets, new concepts, and then obviously a quarterback of his level to be able to deliver to football, you know, not only from the pocket, but create plays, you know, off-platform and being able to attack a defense in numerous ways. Fired and Hooker were heavily involved in one-on-ones today. What prompts you from time to time to send those guys there? Because they're gonna have to be involved in all-site sorts of coverage. And, you know, I think their tight end numbers were probably down, so probably contributed to it. Brian said that there were a bunch of looks that they gave today that you guys obviously didn't prepare for before one practice. He said that doesn't happen much in the regular season, but it does occasionally happen. When they do get a look that they're not familiar with, what do you want them to do? Well, I mean, I think what we want all of us to do is try to be as poised and instinctive as possible, let your rules help you and sort things out. You know, we've got rules at all levels of each call and, you know, try to fix problems, figure it out quickly, take a hit off the quarterback in protection, you know, make a play, you know, as a receiver defensively would be the same thing. You're just trying to avoid, you know, if it's something new, it's a new scheme, you know, safety's got to be able to try to figure it out and get the guy on the ground and save a touchdown for those bad things that come up. With two weeks in a row and the two-minute drill against another team giving up a sack. I mean, I don't, I mean, I think that those are tough in two minutes. We say, you know, I mean, sacks kill two minutes and, you know, whether it's a holding penalty or, you know, a sack, that's part of it. That's something that we're going to have to look at and make sure that we're all on the same page and what we're doing and how we can help those guys in the route and not only, you know, in protection. But you and Cliff go back a while with your teammates on that three team. What's the relationship like and what do you remember about Cliff as a young quarterback back then? Well, I mean, obviously it was great work. I mean, Cliff's great to work with. This was easy communication, open communication about what they wanted to get done, what we wanted to get done. Came over this morning, met, you know, talked with the officials, thought things ran smoothly. So, you know, our playing days are long over, you know. So we're going to try to be better coaches than we were players. Okay, we've got the ball out today. How's he improved maybe from the start of camp? Oh, I mean, just make a progress, Jim. You know, I mean, it's new looks in there each day for linebackers, especially young ones. But I think to see the guys that are practicing the stuff that we're coaching, we talked about the number of attempts that we had coming out of that football game last week defensively to see that carry over. And then we have to be better, you know, offensive. We have to be strong to the talking. You know, take care of the football. We know how critical that is. And that'll be the case the entire season. Like, Derek getting some team period reps today. How is that process coming along as far as just getting him ready for the season and making sure that he's up to speed? Good. I mean, he's involved in all the meetings and I'm gonna try to have a plan with him and try to, you know, get him prepared and thought today would be a good day to get him some reps. Might get a little bit of work tomorrow. We'll see how that goes. So, but I think he's in a good spot. Is that something that you more or less like you monitor from day to day? Or like, how do you go about planning out what workload he's gonna get? Well, I mean, obviously we talk about it every day. Frank and I and Todd and, you know, we monitor each and every player and their health and, you know, where they're at. So, you know, ultimately a lot of that falls on Frank and his staff. I kind of oversee it and decide, you know, when he'll enter back into practice. There was one course down, Mike, where Malik, looked like he threw the ball away. Loose track of downs there or? Should ask Malik. How much, back to Derek for a minute, how much do you take input from him as far as putting him out here in the team periods and things like that? Well, he wants to, I mean, Derek wants to be as involved as possible, you know what I mean? So we have open dialogue and, you know, he's been great and he's been all for, you know, whatever it is that we decide we think is best for him and ultimately the team. Theo out for a little while that reemerges and is moving around again. The versatility plug right back in or is the guy when he misses time kind of lose out on some of the ability to play multiple positions like that. Well, a lot of that is just necessity, you know? So, started working at safety and then, you know, got to look and see what you have and try to figure out if somebody's got to go there and, you know, you got to have at least two deep. So we figured we'd try him at nickel today. What do you think of Malik's poise, accuracy and decision making in the seven on seven period? I thought it was improved. I thought that there were some good timing. You know, we talked about something that came up yesterday against zone and how quickly that ball should be delivered and where it needs to go. And so I thought that there were some accurate balls, you know, standing where I was in the seven on seven. The players talked about the fact that mistakes happened. What you hope is they're new mistakes, not repeat mistakes. Does a day like today expose some of that as a great teaching lesson off of it? I mean, mistakes are going to be part of this game. It's part of life, how you handle them, how you come back and not trying to make, like you said, the same mistake twice or let them kind of mount up, you know, let them start to snowball and continue to think about, you know, what it is that you, you know, did wrong and we got to move on. There's a lot of snaps in the game. There's a lot of ups and downs and we got to try to find a way that no matter what the result of the play was, just get back to neutral, get back centered and find a way to do our job. The next snap, figure out what the situation is. Is it third down? Is it second and 10? Where am I at on the field? What personnel group there? You know, I mean, there's so many things that, you know, we try to get them just to think about next as opposed to the mistake they made. So, you know, we'll look at it and we'll continue to coach it. And, you know, I thought it was a good day of work. Stone has proven to be an effective player. Is that kind of a wash in terms of the competition? Yeah, I mean, Stoney, I think is, doesn't have as much experience as Brett does, but, you know, that's why we're working them in there and trying to get them as many of those opportunities as we can. Traylon at this point with the lack of consistency? You know, I don't really try to get overly concerned. You know, I mean, I try to coach and try to figure out who's available each and every day. I mean, we've been through a lot. There's gonna be, it's a long season. And whether it's Traylon, whether it's Deshaun Hand, whether it's, you know, go right on down the list of, you know, guys that, you know, may or may not be there. We just put the next guy in. That's what we've always done. That's what we're gonna continue to do. And that's how it goes.