 Mike, you've talked an awful lot about guys being professional coaches, players, and focusing on the task at hand, ignoring the contract situation. Does that make it, though, impressive what Derek and Ryan have been able to do with their contract statuses and the way they've been playing, particularly over the last few weeks? I don't think I've probably done this long enough to get into that. I really just try to coach the guys that are here, try to get the best out of them. Those guys have helped us win a lot of games. They've helped us get to this point. And all that stuff really gets taken care of in the offseason. Staying aggressive, defensively, while staying defensively responsible against a quarterback like Lamar James? Yeah, I mean, anytime that you have a quarterback, and especially a scheme that forces you to defend the entire field both laterally and horizontally, it takes a lot of discipline. It takes guys being good tacklers, sound tacklers, swarming to the football. It's a huge challenge. We'll have to play our best and prepare these next couple of days to give us a chance to get into third and long. They're number one and third down defense because they have so many third and ones, third and twos, third and threes, where they're able to still run the football, but also throw it. And that's why they're number one in the league in third down and in scoring. Was it like to be read and to know that maybe there are going to be some plays where you can't make the right choice? Sure. Yeah, that's, well, I mean, sometimes you can make the right choice. Sometimes you just can't make it. I mean, it comes, it's the Jimmy's and the Joe's. The plays are great, but Lamar does a fantastic job. He's an unbelievable athlete. Looks like he loves playing football. So we'll have to line up and play the next snap if they hit one, which they will. That's how it goes. You have different responsibilities and they do a nice job of mixing up the scheme. So it's not just the same thing over and over. It'd be a great challenge, huge challenge for us. When there's so much going on, is there a particular importance in keeping to assignments and not maybe try to do too much and try to play hero ball? Discipline is always critical to playing good defense, to playing great defense. Trying to make a play, as you mentioned, we always try to make them good ones. Because when you start chasing things, sometimes you just open up more problems. I hear that Lamar Jackson's speed is something that surprises you because you haven't seen it before. Can you look back on your career and recall anyone that had that time? All of them, to me, yeah. He eats up stripes. When he goes north and south, those stripes get eaten up pretty quickly. It's option football, so you've got two alley players. You've got one alley player in the middle of the field safety. So I think watching some of those films, the middle of the field safety gets a little surprised that he's on them as quickly as he is. You only got a couple choices. Got to post safety. Two safeties or no safety. You bring everybody down, so it's not a whole lot of options. What do you see from them as far as how aggressive they are on defense as far as sending extra guys? Probably the same thing you've seen, Jim. They are very aggressive. They've got very good skill on the back end that they don't mind covering with. Obviously, Peters and Humphreys, who does a fantastic job of disrupting the football, probably one of the better defensive players we've seen this year of punching the ball out and hammering it out. Jimmy Smith, physical, great length. They really, with Brandon, a car, a cover safety, and then a versatile, rangy safety with Thomas. So that, I think, gives him a little flexibility. And you know, Wink's been very aggressive and called an aggressive game. That's who he is. And we'll have to be ready for everything. Is the challenge great for Pajae, Corey, and Tashae getting off the line of scrimmage on these guys, or are they tough on those guys? The challenge is on everybody. I mean, the challenge is on our entire team, our coaches, to prepare similar to what we did last week, understand what they are really good at, which is a lot of stuff, and then try to give us, give our players a plan that they feel confident in, that they can go out there and execute in a hostile environment on Saturday night. Yeah, that's pretty much kind of what we talked to the team about, is being able to create some field position in the special teams phase, whether that's by pinning them down there, flipping the field, getting a few returns, finding a way to see if we can make them punt and get some yardage there. But then also not giving them anything easy, making them earn everything that they get. That'll be a critical part. They average four possessions a game in the red zone, and they're number two in the red zone. So it's not hard to see why they average 33 points a game. And they have the best kicker in the league. Not that they've used them a whole lot because they're scoring touchdowns. But that'll be critical for us defensively. They have the third-rank defense in the red zone, too. So when they do get down there, they're not giving up a whole lot of points. They don't rush the next goal. It's ridiculous. I think I wrote it. It's 1,800. I just did the math. It took me a while. Not in this league. They have 5,000. I mean, it's ridiculous. I thought it was going to be, you know, you sit there and you're like, yeah, we'll see what they're doing because we didn't have a whole lot of carryover. I'm sure it'd be fun to watch. It's not fun to prepare for, but we're excited. We're excited about the challenge to go out and play, to continue to play football. Our guys were, everybody's excited to come into building, to continue to get treatment, to work out. There's a lot of teams that aren't doing that, aren't meeting, aren't doing practice schedules. They're on to the off-season, and I know that our guys and our coaches are excited to continue that preparation and to go play a huge game. I think the fact it disrupts things up. I think that they, again, they're trying to limit that. They're trying to make a clean mesh, and it'll be important for everybody to focus in on each and every call, what the details are for the call, for their position. And then, again, there's a fine line between being disruptive and then, you know, being somewhere where you're not. And so there are, you know, disruptions always welcome. You just have to make sure that it's within what we're trying to do. He was, I think, throw down play at the goal line and allowed Rashawn to make a play. I see you've been here for you down the stretch, and you think you've benefited from maybe having taken a week off to get even healthier? Jeff continues to improve. Fantastic attitude to improve. Missed a lot of time, has come back, has continued to battle, take care of his body, played well, played, you know. Again, there's a lot of plays that go unnoticed, but, you know, he was probably out on the field for three or four punts where he drove two guys back into the punter last week, and he goes hard on our field goal block unit. So those are a lot of things that I think people don't realize, but, you know, he doesn't ask, hey, why, or why am I doing this, or why am I on the pun return unit? He tries to help out wherever he can, and, you know, the other night, he referenced the goal line, he runs out there, and knows what to do, and helps us make a play. I feel about LeLan's growth curve since he came back to now. Good, I mean, I think that Taylor's continued to improve. I think he takes coaching. I think he's focused on doing his job. I thought the entire offensive line came off the football the other night. We'll need a lot more of that growth, as you put it, Saturday night, but he's trying to do things to help us win and block his guy. And the penalty, you know, I mean, there's certain penalty, and if you're referencing the penalties, obviously that's been something that's come weighed down. And, you know, as long as we're playing fast and aggressive with good technique and fundamentals, that's all I can ask for if we keep our composure after the whistle that we don't do anything that would negatively affect our team. You know, that's what I care about. What's your assessment of how that whole group has been playing together? When you're able to run the football and protect a quarterback, and he doesn't get a whole lot of hits, you know, usually the guys up front are working well together. It's been a challenge, you know, every week's a challenge in this league. We've got a whole new team to prepare for this week. Different fronts, different personnel groups, pressure. So again, it all starts back over. You know, we've talked about playing with confidence, but building momentum. And so whatever momentum we had at the end of that game, basically, to me, restarts, and we have to try to find ways to build momentum through practice and lead up to the game on Saturday night. I would imagine we're already underdogs every week. That's kind of, I mean, you go to our games. I mean, there's 20,000 other teams' fans. I just coach the team, try to get them ready. Some days it's good enough, and some days it's not good enough. I try to improve on what I didn't do well enough. All I can tell you is that we're excited to prepare and then ultimately play at the end of this week. It's like you're guys relish. I think that we need to prepare. We need to practice. We need to try to find ways to limit what they do really well, which is a lot. You know, find a way to get our guys to believe in the plan this week, to understand it, to be able to communicate it to each other in a loud environment. Those are all the things I'm focused on. I can't figure out what else people's thoughts are. Will you talk to balance that line of getting good, clean, hard hits on the more, but not playing dirty, especially in those zone read situations? Yeah, I mean, I think that we've, at least I've always coached and been coached that football is a collision sport. We've never coached or I've never been coached to do anything that was illegal or that would try to ever hurt a player. He does a fantastic job of, you know, taking care of himself. He hasn't taken a whole lot of hits. I mean, as many times as he's run the ball, it hasn't had a whole lot of hits. So I can't imagine he'd be too worried about us hitting him. Protocol yet? Still working through some stages with practice and the towards the end, towards the end of the protocol. How's jam? What I said, sore. Give it a shot today. You know, we'll see how it goes and let you guys know after practice. How valuable is that against the team that's going to give you a bunch of looks and a bunch of pressure? You know, it helps. I think it helps not only to for communication, but you get so many games on third down. You get so many pressures where guys are lined up in one gap and they're going to another gap and guys have to pass things off. And the more that the guys that are doing the passing off are the same, hopefully that that helps. And then there can be some improvement along the way. So again, that continuity has been good. And I know that the guys, I know that Dennis and Jamil and Pamph, the guys that we have active and available, are ready to go and are prepared with the game plan as well. They pass start every week, but is this one of those weeks where staying in the game or having the lead and not allowing their guys to pin their ears back is doubly important? They face the fewest amount of rushes in the league. So I think that kind of explains, hopefully, that if you can keep the game manageable, you can be balanced so that you're not having to drop back and throw it every single snap because it's 21 to 3. You talked about defending the whole field against them. Setting the edge strong enough so we can talk about the regular. Well, a lot of times the edge now, they're reading the edge. There's times where they don't. And I think they catch people off guard when they just turn around and hand it. And the guys, we watched this morning, maybe they're reading a guy, they're reading a guy, all of a sudden the tackle smokes it. The big brown comes smoking off on a guy that thought he was getting red and knocks him 10 yards off the ball. So there will be times, obviously, when they block you, that the edge is always important. But then sometimes those guys are getting red too, and that's the challenge. That's the conflict. That's where this whole thing became. It's trying to cause conflict on those guys that you can't block or you couldn't block. And so it's going to be a huge challenge. Thank you.