 I put a terrible amount of pressure on our next guest Arthur Smith when I told him before we started how much I was looking forward to talking to you today and and coach I appreciate the time and and I'm interested in just so many different things about your particular situation and I start with this as The OC and Tennessee you do a really nice job And now it's your job to do the whole job and I see how many times a coordinator is great at one specific thing But then the whole thing becomes a really big challenge. So in the early days there in Atlanta What do you find is the biggest difference? Well, yeah, you're absolutely you're responsible for the entire roster and the whole coaching staff And we feel really good about the guys we hired here And we got good experience and in guys that can help you and in areas that you might not have the experience in so Really excited about when we added Dean peas and where we're gonna take this thing defensively and then Dave We're going on offense and Marquis Williams on special team I looked at the Atlanta schedule today and the results and I think I've got this right eight games That they lost by a single score now you could look at that man This is a coin flip league and they're really close or you could say they just couldn't figure out how to win I just I'm curious Arthur as you look at what they were last year. How do you view what what last year was for them? Well, it's a talented team they've had good coaches and players here and you know most of these games as you know They come down to the end and if you look at us when Tennessee last year, you know the first five games We started five and oh and all those games came down right to the wire and you've got to be really good situationally They're very confident about that some of the pieces that are here and it's I'm excited to get to work with Biggest picture challenge for you as you're as we head into the next what month and then it's free agency And then you got about a month to get yourself situated from a draft perspective If you give me an idea you're whiteboard right of like what you're dealing with like you all right eight o'clock I got to talk to van Pelt. That's five minutes. I'm wasting the rest of your day. What does it look like? Yeah, there's a lot of things that come we try to structure it We're putting in you know new offensive defensive and special team systems. There's a lot of meetings going over the roster You know you're unsure about the salary clap. So you got to have you know plan after plan It's been fun. All right, and just my last sort of overarching theme as you talk to your guys And you want your your personnel to get an idea of what's what's my philosophy like what what what makes me tick? What is it? I want us to be how would you explain that to them? Yeah, I mean I think a lot of people do you want a smart football team? You want a team that can adapt and play together in all three phases? You have to be able to do that because there's there's so many different challenges I mean just look at this division and who you're playing And what they're building in carolina obviously tampa just won the super role in new Orleans It's been as good as anybody has in the last 17 18 years Yeah, man, there's divisions in the nfl where you kind of feel like maybe we can get that one The south for years has just been you never know who's going to be the top because the bottom is just so fierce And uh, that's where you're going to make your living. We wish you the best Arthur as you get going in land Thanks for making some time for us here. All right Oh, thanks, Brad