 Mike, what did you tell the guys after a game like that one? We just didn't do enough to win, starting with me, coaching staff and the players, and it's frustrating that there's some close opportunities. When you look at the film, it won't be as bad as we think, and it certainly won't be as good. But because there's some opportunities, it's like offensively good play, good play, conversion, X-play, red zone stop, red zone stop, touchdown on third down, offensively, positive play, self-inflicted wound, it's certainly frustrating. But we have to find a way to keep improving and not let that derail what we have to do each week. It's as frustrating as it is. Come in, you're ready to work and find the answers. You usually really hold the timeouts for the end of the half. You were using them for third downs in the first half. What's your change of thinking today? Those were, again, going back, Paul, I've always tried to mitigate those situations. I've had thinking back many years ago, third and 12 on the minus 25, not using one there, the chances of converting, trying to figure out, like, hey, unfortunately, we're in this situation. We're at the snap count. We're at the play clock, third and three. Thought that was probably an opportunity that we could have converted. We've been OK when we've been in those downed distances. Trying to use those judgments to when I think I would rather, obviously, never have to use them until the end of the half or situations, whether it's the challenge in that you need them to challenge a play or that you're going to need them to maybe get an end of half or end a game situation. So basically, the overriding point is that the operation is critical so that we don't have to use those timeouts. I know Will took a sack to get you out of field of range. How'd you say, how'd you grade how you did and maybe? I'm not going to grade anybody other than not good enough. Not going to grade anybody. Let me finish here, Jim, and then I'll let you ask another question. When you lose, nobody did enough. And we're not going to have that mentality, well, this guy played good, but we lost. We're trying to create a culture and an environment that when you lose, everyone has to be better. There's an accountability, and some guys probably watching the tape will go back, and some guys probably played well, but there's always going to be some things that we can improve on. With that being said, we'll see the tape. We'll see some of the operations. Made a few plays there late. Probably missed some opportunities, just like every game, especially at that position at quarterback. You have a follow-up? How do you think you protect them as a whole today? I think that there were some times where we had pockets. There was times where he had to step up, and there was times where he got sacked. And so whether he needed to get the ball out or had time, I know the red zone one, they bring six. So we've got six to block six. They zeroed us out and got on pretty quick. So if you look at that one specifically, not good enough. Probably some other times where it was. So it's always going to be a combination. What was the problem with the secondary? I mean, some of you guys with the zone, they're picking that apart. You go man to that way. Sometimes you've got to get on them, challenge them, cover them, looking at Rodgers' first third down. I thought he was over there square challenging. I didn't necessarily see the same thing that the Aaron saw over there, but he saw some restriction on third down. And then maybe get a little gunshot. We got to get a little better effort from the safety over the top, playing two man and a throw the ball deep. I've never seen that. That's new for me around this league, throw the ball, you know, vertical in two man. So I guess that would be something. You know, and then just making sure that we challenge when we need to challenge that we're playing with vision and break, when we have those own opportunities, and then making sure that you tie everything in. And it's never going to be about the pressure, and you know, we'll make sure that's talked about. Sometimes there's pressure and something. We got to start combining both of those. We have to combine what the coverage concept is and execution and knowing what we can give up and knowing what we can't at each coverage. When we play man coverage, not getting picked on third and three, when a running back leaves the backfield, that should not be any surprise that those things would happen on third and three in man coverage. So keep coaching it, keep repping it, and keep working. What's one area, Mike, where you feel like there's some kind of steady improvement going on? Again, it was, you know, when you lose, it's hard to identify those types of things. You know, there were some, again, look at some of these plays that we hit, and we hit a few plays offensively. It's just the ability to sustain. You know, one guy here, one pressure, you know, we're in the red zone, hit a couple of plays that we liked. We just need to get down there more often. Like I said, defensively, it seemed like it was one or two plays a drive and the penalties. One of the keys of the game is winning a pre-snap matchup. Whether that's the shifting and the motioning, the hard count that we knew that Trevor Lawrence was going to use. So those things, those penalties cost us on third down. So, you know, there was some decent first and second down plays defensively, you know, early on, but just not consistently enough. And then turn the ball over, we give him a field position. We've done well in the red zone traditionally this year, but yeah, every week's a different week. They've got 14 points off of those two turns. How frustrating is it? It seems like Brewers had some issues with snaps here somewhat recently, and then, obviously, part of the return's been a consistent issue at times. I mean, Lawrence Snapper's a good player. Got to count for him, which we did, and got to the tackle. We had got the first, first down, and you know how critical taking care of the ball is, and whether it was close to him being down or not, they raked it out of there, and so that was one. And then, you know, the snaps are, well, so I have to snap 100 a day instead of the 50 that we snapped right now, and I can't operate under center the entire game. It's probably not gonna be a possibility, so we better get him figured out, and making sure that everybody's on the same page, and where the ball's coming needs to be there. Quarterback's gotta help him out, just like quarterback throws a ball that's imperfect. I'd like to see the receivers try to help him out. I'm not saying that that's will's responsibility, but when things like that happen, hopefully other guys can catch the ball, get on it when it's on the ground. I mean, we let one mistake turn into a couple more. Frustrating to give up 14 points off turnovers, it can't, we're not in a position to do that. How much inability to run the ball at the beginning of the day? Well, I mean, I think that it's always gonna be a factor. I thought we had some runs that we liked, and we're probably close on some, and had some good positive gains, and then just the efficiency and the volume and the ability to create and run more plays, like run 40 plays, and think that we're gonna beat anybody. That's not gonna be possible. It's not fair to the defense, and that's not fair to the players on offense, and that's not fair to, if we can make a play, and then we can counterbalance that with another play, and then comes back to somebody else, and then Derrick gets touches, and Tajé and Hop, and Nick, and the receivers, and the shot to Chris, or Chig, or everybody starts to get some plays, they compliment each other, but when you run 40 plays, and it's not gonna be enough. Jeff from the lobby, maybe for, been lobbying for that play for a while, and on a tough day. Jeff just does his job, comes to work every day, tries to do his job, tries to help lead this football team. He's frustrated like everybody else. It was a play that we've liked, a play that we've repped, and Tim felt comfortable calling it, and then they executed. You think of job security as an issue, Mike, or what's going to be? Oh, Paul, I don't try to concern myself with that. I really am focused on these players. I heard for them. I played 14 years, won some games, won some championships. I am frustrated for the players. I'm disappointed for the players. I want them to have success. I know how hard they work, and then they put it in, put into it. So that's what my focus is. My focus is on coaching this team, of trying to get these guys to understand that there's a fine line in this league, of winning and losing, and finding a way to get a win. That's what I'm focused on. I'll let you guys fire me each week, or not fire me. I really apologize. I appreciate your question. I do. I will always understand that. We have to improve, and we have to win. Those are things that we have to do. Why can't they get better results? Well, I mean, sometimes we do have some results, and it doesn't translate into victories because of some of the mistakes. And so I have to do a great job of trying to continue to show us the things that we did well, the things that are minor mistakes, and then the ones that get us beat. And those will be the things that we'll always do, and start to compliment each other, start to play better field position, and try to create some turnovers on defense, and take care of the football, and win a kicking game each week, and be at a flip field when we have to with Stoney, and get the first first down, and all those things that we've done that we have to get back to. You guys have come on and focused so much over your time here on the week to week. When your situation is what it is now, and the goal is seemingly getting harder and harder to get to the playoffs or win the division, can you continue to focus on the week to week, or how do you keep them centered inside that locker? It'll be something that we'll have to figure out here real quick, stay consistent. Like I said, that's what I've tried to always do here, stay consistent, and figure out who we got. That'll change this week based on injuries and everything else, and put a game plan together, coach them, teach them. And I think the consistency in the end is gonna work. I know it, this sucks right now. Nobody wants to be where we're at, not me, not anybody, but we are. We put ourselves in this position, so we'll get ourselves out. Can you see that wearing on? I don't know, you have a chance to talk to him. I mean, I'm not gonna speak, no. I'm gonna come to work, I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna sleep five hours like I do, and I'm gonna come with a resolve, or I'm gonna be thankful this week with Thanksgiving, I'm gonna be thankful for this opportunity that I have to coach. I'm gonna be thankful for my family, I'm gonna be thankful for this team, and I'm gonna coach the hell out of them like I do every week. And I'm not, you know, I love Romeo Cornell not only with my position coach, I got to coach with him, and he always used to say, it's a great life, you don't let it beat you down. And we're not gonna let it beat it down, but we're gonna get back to work, and you can still be frustrated and upset and disappointed, but, you know, I'm also gonna be thankful and hopeful for the opportunity that I get to coach this football team. Thank you. Thanks, Mark. I gotta have, I guess, I guess it's the overall frustration leaving here today when I had to dig out of a hole. Just not executing on the keys as we talked about all week and spend the same theme, which is being efficient on first and second and coming out and starting strong. And, you know, I'm gonna look internally what I can do for myself better. We all gotta look internally, but we also gotta look at the guy next to us and do what we can to help the dudes next to us and come together as a team right now. But it's frustrating. In these moments, how important is it for you guys to not press beyond like trying to do what it is that's within your control? Yeah, I mean, we made that point towards the end there. Like, we're still playing our style ball even when you're in a position there. It's easy to think that you gotta force something and you gotta try to make something happen. We talked about wanting to make a play. Someone's gotta step up making a play, but, you know, being aggressive, but being not reckless with decisions and with the ball in our hands. You feel like there's something since you've taken over that's gotten like at least incrementally better over that period of time with the offense or is that part of the struggle with that there's not something? I mean, we definitely have hope for some more improvement over the last few weeks. We thought we'd do some great things in practice to put us in a good spot to execute today, but we just didn't do it. And that's what comes down to just going out there executing the game plan and too many mistakes that put us in bad position. Yet the risk of sound that we've done it is that is that really where the disconnect is coming? You guys feel good about it in practice and then it just doesn't manifest in the game? Yeah, like that's the worst when you have a good week of practice and then you can't let it transition into Sunday. And I feel like that's the case both these last couple of weeks. Like I feel like we had two really good solid weeks of practice and the focus just wasn't there come game day. So gotta figure out how to fix that leadership. We gotta step up and figure out what we can do. But yeah, it's disheartening for sure. When you say focus, just what do you mean? Is it stuff that's being mistaken? Yeah. Just kind of how do you define it? Operationally. And I'd say, what's the word? Just being fast in and out of huddle and not having everyone freak out and just being able to understand that, you know, like today, the looks we saw, a lot of them are, you know, looks that we'd practiced against and being able to recognize it quickly, getting us into a position where we can get the protection set. So we can get all of our guys out. Too many instances where either I could help us in protection or just guys not locked in on the snap count which has been again, reoccurring thing here the past few weeks, which just can't happen. You mentioned getting fast out of the huddle. Was that something like, do you have to spit the play out faster? Does that get to you faster? I think it's just an urgency all around. Just getting guys after a second down right back in the huddle as fast as possible so that we can utilize cadence. Too many times where we were trying to, but we weren't able to get out of the huddle fast enough so we couldn't use that cadence to get us the protection change or whatever look we wanted to get. So it's just me this week, emphasizing again to the guys how fast we need to be in and out of there after a second down. When you have a game just get out of hand like this, you know, you guys are struggling. What do you say to the rest of the team, the offense, to keep them going? Yeah, I mean, just keep being us play our style ball and we were preaching that towards the end there. Didn't matter what the score was, we're going to execute the game plan, execute the play. Like I said, situationally can't affect how we're going to be playing ball. We got to just play our game and just lock in one play at a time. Because when we do that and we string drive together, good things happen. But it just, you know, we can't have an explosive plate on there and can't bother to snap. And then when that happens, like that can just change the game just like that. So understand how just important and all these little things are. It's hard to celebrate plays after a loss. Do you ever think you feel a touch on passion to Jeffrey Simmons? I mean, we've had that play up in the playbook for a couple of weeks. It's nice to get it off and I'm happy for him to get his first study. You guys talk all the time about flush and losses by the time Monday comes around. Is that going to be tougher to do? Is that kind of a pilot? No, I mean, I think that, you know, for professionals, I think we all have a good mindset of just moving on and learning from the mistakes. And I've been proud of how we've attacked each and every week this past couple of weeks, regardless of how that previous game went. It just sucks that we have that great week and we're not able to let it transition into Sunday. So just got to put it all together, have seven days instead of just six.