 All right, I roll. I changed that. What's that? I changed that. I'm going to put a lot of thought into it. See something, pick it up, or. Sir, coach, we talked about the trades for yesterday. Had a few moves in some court. Middle of the season, obviously, we made a few moves, you know, Terry put out a statement. And some of those are long-term discussions that get expedited by the trade down line. And like with Dean and Rashad, those happen as people call around. Those are more the opportunity right there at the deadline. And like any trade make, we understand there's always a human element. And what is a tough business? We understand how it affects every party involved. We always try to do the right thing by the team and by the players. So that's kind of how it happened. What's your plan for today? What's your plans for fitting? Excuse me. I'd like to follow up. I'll answer. I promise you, I'm not going anywhere. So I'll answer all of that. The plans are fitting. What's going to assess when we see them, right? We add some depth at corner and a player that we obviously like. John Hoke has some history with him at South Carolina. And so it's just an opportunity to add some depth and we'll see what it looks like this week and go from there. Are you done? All right. Good. All right. Can you explain to us why behind training? Really? Behind training, really? Versus maybe waiting for the next one. Look, very important statement, Mike. And these discussions have been ongoing for a long time. And everything I told you is I just told you that everything we do here, we understand that there's a lot of parties involved in it. And it caused an effect and a tough business. And we always do everything. This is the best interest of the team and in regards to the players as well. I guess what I'm getting at, was this something that Jacksonville came to you with? Or were you guys actively trying to shop? Look, Mike, there's NFL the way it works. The discussions are always ongoing. I said it last week when people call. And you get an opportunity like with Dean Marlowe. There's a million different ways these negotiations happen. Explaining that wasn't some short term that happened at the trade deadline, but those were a long process. And so I can leave it at that. Terry put out a statement, and that's just really what it was. How much of that didn't go back to even before the suspension because there were trade talks back then? I'm going to throw this to the president, Mike. They're getting into all kinds of rumors and then new window. And these are moves that's an organization to make on. And like everybody we've ever had come through here, and I've been fortunate enough to coach, or whether it was Jerry Glanville or June Jones, there's a reason we had over 100 alumni back at the game on Sunday. It's about the people here. What is a tough business, and we care about people. So whether it's Dean Marlowe or any other player, Matt Ryan, that's the way it goes. And every move is made, made in the interest of the team, in regards to the players, everything is thought out as well. That's what it is. So when it comes to Ridley, though, would you, was there any interest in actually had he been reinstated bringing him back? Or were you always looking to make a move on? The decisions are made, and we're onward. That's the way it goes in this business. And you want to make things bigger than they are. You want to deal with rumors in any window. And we'll sit here, and we'll continue to play this game. Or we can talk about the Chargers and our current team right now. Matt, just curious, when a player does get treated, do you have a chance to talk to them, or tell them? Or is it kind of like once he's traded and he's gone, and you don't need to talk to him? Most of the time we have a chance to talk to him. And we try to always make sure we talk to everybody. And certain circumstances, depending on league protocols, we'll buy by those. But always, always communicate, especially because it is a tough business, but it affects a lot of people. There's a human element. And we care about all our players, regardless of their football status. Who else are you going to talk to, Ridley, then? Well, I can somebody ask me a question. Any private conversations that have players, they stay private. That's kind of my thought. And it's been that since I've been here. And the same thing about Julio Jones, to any player. Those conversations will always remain private from my end. Arthur, what unique issues Austin Neckler really takes with you guys? Yeah, he's obviously, Justin, trust him. They use him a lot of different ways, whether they get the ball to him on the screens or in traditional runs. But he's obviously got a very high comfort level with Austin out of the backfield. He's a damn good football player. You can see some of the similarities of Joe and Barty uses him. Kind of comparable to how Kamara's using the passing game with New Orleans. And he's a problem. We've got to be aware of where he's at at all times. Today's on CP. Yeah, CP will be back out there today. We'll see how it goes. And he'll be back out there. AJ won't. Elijah won't. He's dealing with something off and on. And we'll see how it goes the rest of the week with AJ and Elijah. But CP will be out there today. And that's the only guy that's on the outer that will be out there. Are any of the other guys close at this point? Or do you feel like maybe some of those guys are very subjective question? Back to Fenton a little bit. How important, A, was John's relationship with him? Because you have an idea of the person you're getting. And B, the tackling history there. Well, there's a lot of things that go on into any decision we make. As a football staff, we got a great football staff, pro and college. And so when these opportunities come up and you communicate about them, among the personnel and the coaches, you use every resource you got. There's a streamlined communication. And we make a decision with things of best interest. It does help when you have some kind of familiarity with them. You go back to the college evals. You go back to the current pro evals. And when somebody has a history with them, it helps. And when you make a deal like that, something like a player that can provide depth. And we'll see how it goes. And so it looks like this, if he gets active or not. Does that relationship make it maybe easier for him to be available this week, the history they have? Not necessarily. But at least you have a history with the player. You know how he learns. There is practice habits. That helps. But different scheme. So we'll just see. And just to clarify, will he be here today in practicing, Rashad? Yes, he's here. I looked at him. Did you feel comfortable in the depth, I guess, you have? Yeah, we wouldn't make the trade if we didn't. That one's pretty obvious. We loved Dean Marlowe. Again, just opportunity, Buffalo. And if we didn't feel good there, we wouldn't have made the deal. I guess, when you're looking at that depth, is it more some of the cross training stuff that you've done back in pre-season that allowed that? Or is it maybe what Mop could show you on practice? Both. We have guys that we feel in a house that have cross trained to your point and to Bonte. Coach here, any update on Pockens? I'll be up there. The only two guys that would be AJ and Elijah. For the game, a portion of the protocol. Hey, how are you? Just hiding around, laying around. That was almost better than the little clawing back and forth that you might did earlier. But he'll be out there and we'll see how the week goes, Mike. In the pass defense, there are some things you all can do to ramp that up a little bit. You try every week, how you affect the quarterback, different obstacles, different schemes. Justin gets the ball out really fast. He's not taking a lot of sacks. He's had a really good football player. Lead the league and pass it in for a game. It's probably going to be pretty obvious what the game plan is. They're playing to the strengths of their team. Herbert Eckler, the passing game. So every week, there's a different challenge. Depending on your plan, it doesn't mean that they have to come out there and throw a 50 times. But I understand that's a strength of them. Obviously, they've got to run game and they've got good players back there as well. But anyway, we can't affect the quarterback. You're always looking for that edge. Because you look at your evaluations all the time, the quarterbacks that come out. It wasn't very long ago that Herbert came out. You're flucked back on some of the things that you were thinking about him as you scouted him. And it certainly seems like he's looked up to his in the barn. What are your thoughts on him and where he is now and what you thought of him coming out of college? Well, he's a really good player coming out of college. And where we were, that was the COVID draft in 20, with Joe and Tua and Justin. So where we were picking that year, I mean, you look at him as a coordinator at the time. But it wasn't like we were taking somebody in that range right then. I mean, obviously, those guys all went pretty high. So you do look at them. I thought it was a good player coming out. Obviously, that class has been pretty special. If you look at those three guys and the success they've had and sometimes, I don't remember there being a ton of hype on Justin. Obviously, people thought I have him because he went top 10. But that's what sometimes you've got to understand what's real and what's not. But he's a terrific player. A lot of courage in the pocket. Changed his arm angle. He's really accurate down the field. Pretty complete quarterback. The answer's in a matchup, right? And I don't know the stat on me. We can look it up on the last time two Oregon quarterbacks were going head to head at starters. We talked a few weeks ago about what Cordero would do when he comes back. Now that what you've seen from Tyler and from Caleb, maybe on a more consistent basis, how does that help? How to bring CP back? How does that maybe alter some of what you're able to do? We'll find out Sunday. I'm trying to walk me into some scheme questions, but we'll find out Sunday. We'll let Brandon and figure out how we're going to do that. So are you anticipating that they get the week out? Yeah, the week goes. How can you see if he helped just open up the wrong game, like having his touching experience and things like that? We just try to play the strings of our players and we try to find solutions. No matter who's up every week, our job is to find solutions and try to win a football game how we can do that. There'll be no different, you know, whoever's up on game day and we try to play the strings of our players. When you see these standing scrubs that we say at the end of some runs, how much does that speak to you about your offense, his finishing mentality? Well, you know, we got a lot of guys that play with a lot of effort. We try to play clean through the whistle, nothing cheap and dirty, but we like to play with everyone finish and it says those guys and the mentality they play with as an offense. And so you can feel that certainly as the game's going and we've got some physical runners, whether it's in the passing game or in traditional runs. Are there any specific coaching points in those beyond just push really hard? I mean, are you trying to protect your ball carrier because I know with the defense that's what you're trying to do. It's kind of like the scheme questions. I'm not gonna get into some of our internal coaching discussions, but I enjoy watching the way our guys play. I mean, what's in North Carolina, but do you have anything right on Tennessee, Georgia this weekend? Watched it anything? No, I'm not gonna trap me into that one. We've got players and, you know, a lot of people with a lot of interest, right? There's the home school, home state school. It'd be a big game. We've got Tennessee connections, from CP to Max Planck. So a lot of conflict and interest. I get to be a neutral party in it. I've got a niece, she's a sophomore at Georgia. I've got a lot of cousins who went to Tennessee. I'll be like Switzerland on that one. Jared, for a good game. I was going back through there was, it looked to me in the Carolina game, the explosives that y'all had offensively. Drake London was blocking downfield on pretty much all of them when he wasn't involved in them. Show us what kind of teammate he is. Is that something that you guys saw from him on Dillam when you were looking to draft him? You saw certain characteristics. I mean, it's part of the mindset that I liked about Drake, other than the obvious. You know, I always think the easiest part, when you're looking at it, all of us in here can look and see if somebody's fast and all they can catch it. Those are the easy ones. It's the other stuff that fit some of its luck, right? You may really like a player, Arch's point, you may love Justin Herbert, but you get no chance in hell to get him or whatever it is. A lot of times it's about fit and a little bit of luck in the draft. And then when somebody like Drake, there's a lot of characteristics that we liked and the skill set we thought was unique. I mean, there was another really good receivers there. It was just a good fit for us and we were starting to see that and it's got a bright future and you can stay on this path and we can keep stacking wins and all that stuff will take care of itself. Arthur, three-level player in Derwent James. Guy, any problem? What do you do with somebody like that? Yeah, they got him all over the place, whether he's playing a deep part of the field or he'll come down into the box, the line of scrimmage, very instinctive player. You can feel him on the film. Kind of the heart and soul it feels like of that second and third level of that defense and terrific player, but he'll be all over the place. You have to account for him. When y'all were first together, he played too robotic and he was too worried about being perfect. Is that something that you've seen change with him over the course of this first half of the season and him playing a bit more freely? Yeah, absolutely. I think his comfort level, that's shown week to week. Like I said, in camp, there's a lot of things you can't simulate that happen in the pocket, the pressure at your feet. I mean, you can come up with a lot of different drills and guys chasing around or Jim's warm throw, like dodgeball stuff. I've seen people get up brooms and I've seen people run at him, whatever. It's not the same until it's live and you actually feel that. And I think what you're seeing too, some of the stuff we've been able to expand and will change depending on the week and the game plan, but there's a lot of different ways we've kind of evolved to attack and you can see him getting more comfortable. You can see him getting into progressions and even the way he extends plays and the way where his eyes go down the field, not just looking down the field to run, keeping his eyes down the field, looking to throw. And we had some big plays that were made because of that, progressing, sliding in the pocket and then true play extensions like the one he hit to Drake late. How much costumable do you get to watch? I know you're game planning and things like that, but. You peek it a little bit, right? Whether you're at the hotel, they always got the games on and the meal rooms, especially on the road. You see it and you see, you know, you hear guys around the meals talking and the games are on late Saturday night. You may peek them a little bit, but you stay aware, but obviously I won't really dive into that stuff until after the season. Why do you, last year, you guys really struggled at home. This year, you guys have been much better there. Why do you think you guys have been better at home this year? You know, it's just, there's always an obstacle, Mike, you're always looking at something, so we're just trying to win games. Certainly, you want to win at home. You also want to win on the road, so it's not by lack of a where last year we just wanted to win games on the road and this year we just want to win at home. That's not how it works. It's just constant improvement. There's always something to work on. You want it to be a home field advantage. We've got a great stadium, we've got a great fan base and you want to get people reasons to come to the game. So it certainly helps when you do win at home. It helps to have that home crowd and you try to use that to an advantage. But there's a lot of different things, a lot of different obstacles and things that we got to improve, so I don't have some perfect answers for you. I didn't give some great speech or show some inspirational video and all of a sudden it flipped. A lot of work that goes into it every week. Mike, you had said before the season and even last season how important that was, try to figure out how to be able to do that. So I was just wondering if there were things that maybe you changed in your preseason approach or something like that that emphasized it more? Again, I'm not going to be specific of what I say behind team meetings in regard to game plans or home or way, whether they're obstacles that everybody's got to deal with. We just try to find solutions and like I said, we want to win every game, whether it's home or away. But we do appreciate what our fans have done this year and like I said, we got to give them a reason to want to be there. Because you do feel when you're in big moments, especially in the second half.