 All right, that's up to you guys. I can hold up my end of the bargain. Add on to hosting a team that's owned too. What's the challenge of trying to not play desperate, but to do what you need to be doing to win games? Yeah, have to play with an urgency. Have to, first of all, prepare with an urgency, starting today. And I think we've got a good jump on it today, but it's coming with an intention and a focus. And being able to execute, that's what it comes down to is just doing our job, making the plays that we're supposed to make. And coming out with a purpose, like I said, and being able to play consistently through four quarters, not just one drive, not just half, but play for four quarters. What do you do to help rebuild guys' confidence, young guys, particularly when they get down? And how do you do it maybe after you've had a poor game yourself? Yeah, you're talking through supporting guys the best way you can, encouraging, and the best way you can. We have a lot of guys who have a lot of belief in, and this team has a lot of belief in, and we're going to need everybody to go get this win on Sunday. So just being able to speak confidently to each other, build each other up, and getting ready to go, that way we can go play our best ball on Sunday. How do you feel Traylin is evolving as a guy, to be a go-to person for you? Traylin's done some really nice things. He's made some plays for us, and we're going to have to continue to press into him to make more plays. He's got talent. He's shown what he can do, so now we expect him to go out there and play to that level each and every play. From your perspective, what is it that makes it so likely, so easy to hit him on those passes across the middle? Is there a certain skill set that he has that stands out to you that makes you like to hit him in those situations? We do what we're asking him to do, and that's all you can ask for is for him to go play fast and do what we ask him to do. He's big, he's strong, he's physical, he has great hands, good body control, and he's jumped in with both feet and doing exactly what we ask him to do. So that's all we can ask for at this point. And like I said, look forward to continue to press him to make more plays. Would you have a lopsided result like Monday night? Do you go back and scour the film and look a little deeper than you normally would as you try to make the corrections, or do you just prepare the same each week? You have to go look at what caused it, right? You can't take a broad stroke, you know? I think you try to look at each play and what went well, what didn't go well, what we can fix. And at the end of the day, it just comes down to playing clean football and not hurting ourselves with dumb mistakes or penalties and being able to sustain drives. And I think if we do that, we'll be in good shape. Tell them how to sustain drives. What do you think have been the biggest problems on third down and how critical is it to maybe get that fixed? Yeah, we heard ourselves putting ourselves in longer down and distance situations this past week with some penalties, some negative plays. They really backed us up, kind of killed some drives with that. So being able to stay in third mandible situations and then when we do get those opportunities, we've got to convert. The penalties have been uncharacteristic, but is that kind of the easiest thing to clean up when you're going through the list of corrections for the week? Yeah, no doubt. When you look at it, it's shooting ourselves in the foot with the penalties. And they're coming from all over. It's not just one person, one group. So we just have to play smarter, cleaner football and eliminate the mistakes that we shouldn't be making. Simple things that we know well. We just have to execute that, our bread and butter stuff, be able to play clean football, execute it and give ourselves the best chance to play efficiently. You guys have been really efficient in the opening drive, which Mike said earlier has been mostly scripted of those two games where you scored on touchdowns. Is there something when it becomes unscripted later in the game that you guys have to do a better job of within the offense to sustain that success? Yeah, I mean, it's game plan plays, right? So it's plays that you've practiced all week, just like the rest of the game plan. And it's just plays we like. So we call them early. But it really just comes down to execution. Being able to execute the play that's called that comes in and do our job, nothing more, nothing less. It seemed you weren't ready to come out of the game the other night, but is there some noticeable physical benefit to having played one fewer quarter on a short week like this? Yeah, I mean, you never want to come out of the game. But you know, body feels great. I think our guys feel really good on the whole. You know, obviously some guys are dealing with some things. But on the whole, our guys feel really good and excited to go out and get the ball rolling in the right direction this week. How about you specifically? I mean, can you tell a difference that, hey, I only played X number of plays as opposed to a full game the other night? I feel great. You know, I don't know about number of plays and all that, but you know, I didn't take any hits that caused injury. And so I think when you come out of a game without injury, it gives you a lot of momentum to go into the next week feeling good. Traditionally, it seems like empty sets around the league are loaded with the most dangerous weapons a team has. You guys were running one out that had three of the five weren't those kind of guys. Is that a wrinkle for you guys to do something? The spring, Mike said trailing was open on one of those. Was that kind of an unconventional approach? Yeah, he was open. I think we tried to mix and match what we're doing with our personnel. That one was a bigger grouping. Got the defense we wanted. Just didn't execute. So you try to mix it up where teams don't know exactly what you're doing when you call a certain personnel. We call a big personnel, and we pack it in there and run it every time. They're going to know what's coming. So call the big personnel, spread them out, got what we were looking for, just have to execute. What do you like about Todd Downing working with Coach Downing and also as a play caller? He's great to work with. He doesn't have an ego about what we're doing. He's willing to work with myself and the other coaches and making adjustments into what we feel like collectively is a great plan. He obviously does a good job of getting everything started and it's just minor adjustments from there. So he sets the tone on a daily basis on what we expect from our offense. And I do my best job to uphold that. From a physical standpoint, how has that synergy between he and Tim Kelly? How has that gone? It's been good. It's been great to have Tim in the building, just another veteran mind who knows a lot of football. Not only the game planning process, but during games as well. So I think he's been a big help for us so far. From a physical standpoint, in terms of a short week, probably not the best. But mentally to be able to move on is probably a little bit easier to put that in the past. Yeah, I'm excited to go get back on the field and play another game. You have an outing like that. You want to get past it as quickly as you can and go get things going in the right direction. You see enough of Chandler Jones last year. You'd like to keep him at arm's length this year? I like to keep all the big guys up front at arm's length. Obviously talented edge players that they have between Chandler and Max on the other side. Guys who play fast or long, they're active, they play hard, and they're disruptive. So definitely have to be aware of those guys and have a plan for them. Probably the last time there was this much external doubt about where the team stood was when you took over as the starter. What makes you believe that this group can have a rebound in the success that you had a few years ago in the same spot? Yeah, it was a lot of belief within our locker room. And I think that's where it all starts is we know what we're capable of. We haven't put that on the field so far, but we have the guys we need and the belief that we need to go out and do it. Just a matter of doing it. You can't talk about it. You can't think about it anymore. It's a matter of going out and making it come to life on Sunday. Teresa, what'd you do for your birthday? Work? It was a Tuesday. You didn't go to any dinner? We don't work on our Friday night. Where are you going? I haven't chosen yet, but probably Sparry's. No free shot. Get the pork turn. Yeah. I'll find a nice state place for sure. 12.37, 12.37. Exactly. Okay. We'll get him off. I'm gonna try to keep it clean again today. I'm gonna like yesterday. Mike, with a short week, trying to make corrections and trying to tighten things up with the script wise, how do you, what do you focus on first? Is it making the corrections? Is it just focusing on the things you want to key in on and your bread and butter, so to speak? Yeah. I mean, I think you have to be selective. You have to try to get these guys back in here, get their bodies back. And I think we've done that. I think we've lifted and we'll condition and get stretched out, get a little bit of light work in today. Meetings have been great. And I think you have to be able to show them continually the stuff that we're doing well, not lose sight of that. Make sure that we get these things that have to get fixed, corrected, and especially the ones that are gonna carry over to this football game, which will be a lot of them. You are a very confident player. You're a confident coach. Is it ever difficult for you to deal with guys who are having a little bit of a crisis of confidence? And how do you work through that? Well, I think we work through it together. Like we want to do everything. We want to try to just be better together. We want to embrace coming into work. We want to embrace coming to meetings. We want to focus on today. You know, we got to go play. You know, you have to go play. You have to try to have a goal and try to figure out what you want and then try to get out of the way. Sometimes we get in our own way too much. Is there an individual element to it though, Mike? If a corner's having a particularly hard time and it's giving up big place, getting through it together is one thing, but maybe... Well, you have to go out and, you know, you have to do some of those things on your own. I mean, this is certainly a great team sport and, you know, what we think is one of the best team sport. It just requires, you know, you're always just trying to, you know, when things are happening good or things are going bad, we just make sure that we're always checking in on everybody. You know, and then I think personally, you work through some of those things, saying, you know, trying to work on whether it's studying or understanding or situationally, you know, per your position. There was a lot of hope and promise, you know, with him coming into the season. It hasn't exactly started well. When you have a guy like that that's so talented, how do you handle getting back on track and fulfilling that potential that he has? Well, you just work, you know, you continue to show up every day, you work, you meet. And that's the only way I know how. There's no magic formula. It's about working and it's about, you know, communicating what you see and what each player sees. Is there something technique-wise that he could get better? We can always, you know, everything that we do is based on technique and obviously, very specific, you know, position. There's details and, you know, technique for each position and based on a call or a route or a blocking scheme. Coach, you added a couple of DBs to your roster. How difficult it is on a short week to kind of get those guys right in there and learning everything from the game. I mean, we just want to work with some guys, you know, I mean, just trying to get some legs back there and we've done it in the past and then our Anthony Midget and Coach Booker have done a good job of that in the past of getting guys ready and we'll see where they're at and see how they can help us, whether that's this week or down the road. Coach, what are your big challenges, Mike? Is your face or writer's old Sunday? Well, offensively, just tremendous skill. Adams and Waller, Renfoe, Jacobs and, you know, Carr makes it all work. His communication, his operation at the line of scrimmage have been doing a lot of good things out of Empty, which he's, you know, the leader of that band and defensively, they're just long, long on the edges, you know, got a lot of great respect for Chandler and Max, the impact that they have on the game, big upfront athletic inside, you know, young DBs that can all run. So they got probably the best collection of specialists in the league. Their kickers are fantastic. You know, not only is, you know, Matt Collins, you know, producing, well, when they throw to him, when everybody else has doubled, he's their best special teams player. Can you go at the three-fifths of your eligible? Aren't maybe pass-catchers primarily and known for pass-catching? Are you looking for those three to help make things happen for the other two? I'm curious why you don't load up maybe with more guys who are more dangerous? Well, I think there's sometimes, there's, you know, match-ups, whether it's, you know, base defense or nickel or you're getting a specific call for a personnel. Had trailing, had trailing, you know, running free in one of the particular instances that you're talking about. So I kind of really liked that one. We just weren't able to hit them. You'd have been on the, it had been on the safety at about 15 yards. So sometimes they work, sometimes it doesn't. But there's, you know, there's other things that go into it as far as maybe what defense you're trying to seek, trying to get based on the personnel that you have on the field. When you go and you have to start replacing guys, whether it's on the offensive line or in the secondary like you've had to, obviously you want those guys to be ready to go and experience. But do you sometimes have to simplify things a little bit in order to accommodate them as they're coming in? I think it's all on a case-by-case basis. We'll figure out who we're going to try to use for the game. The 48 guys try to have an idea and try to make sure that they're prepared and then evaluate what we feel good about as far as the execution and their understanding of it. How much benefit was there to getting Malik some game action the other night, even in the situation it was, you think? You know, I think just being able to be ready, you know, this week is probably the most important thing. You know, if anybody that's not a starter has to go in, they're expected to prepare like one. So that's where our focus is now. You know, we've got a huge challenge ahead and it's time to prepare to win. Opening drive each of the last two weeks and what have you not been able to carry over later in the game? Just probably just sustaining, you know, just a play here or play there, a penalty. You know, we talked about, you know, the things that lead to scoring drives. You know, you have to make some conversions along the way. You're gonna have to hit some X plays along the way. You're gonna have to avoid critical errors or penalties along the way. And so if you look at a lot of these drives in the NFL, they usually have, you know, the ones that lead to points usually have some X plays and you know, two or three third down conversions, maybe a fourth and one along the way. And then some of the drives that get stopped, albeit without a turnover obviously, but there's some critical errors that you don't block somebody leads to a negative play or there's a penalty that puts it at second and 20. So I think we're, you know, spent some time this morning focusing on those exact things that we just talked about and trying to show our players what it looks like when we do some of those things offensively, how those drives can lead to points. I'm assuming those first two drives were relatively to the script you had before? Sure, close. Sure, I mean, we just weren't able to defensively to get some of those stops on third and long and it had been pretty good. We came back, got to stop the other time. So we'll need all those this week offensively. Yes, you know, I would agree with you. And then, you know, there's always reasons why the other drives aren't as successful. Tell us about Taylor and is Dennis the plan when he's not out? Well, Dennis was the plan Monday night. You know, we'll see where it is Sunday. We'll continue to evaluate Taylor. Are the Raiders using Devontae Adams pretty much the same way Green Bay did? Or are they doing anything differently with him? He just gets open a lot. Whether there's two guys on him, he's always open when it's single coverage, intermediate, route runner, vertical threat. He's got great release, plays with different speeds, got great play strength. He's fun to watch when you're not preparing for him. I know it's not your defense to have a corner follow a guy like that around. Why don't you? Who would you want? I mean, is there like a? If Fulton is healthy, it seems like a guy. Champ Bailey available this week? Or, you know, I mean, we'll figure out whatever we think is best this week, Paul. Okay, I mean, you're done interrupting me. I was trying to answer a question. You saw the best, probably, of the Chandler Jones has to offer last year. Well, I hope, but we'll see. What does he add to that defense? Just great length, savvy, really appreciate his instincts. Sometimes he goes in, he dips back out, he's slippery, he's long, he does a great job of bending at the top of the pocket. He doesn't just run by the quarterback, he counters back, he tries to get his hand up. So he's a complete edge player very similar to Max on the other side. It's just, you know, it's a huge challenge that they disrupt the game. And it is just being important that we obviously are sound on them. If you drop your head, they make you miss. Well, you have to work. Chris, can your front be knowing the car maybe isn't at the runner's say that Josh Allen is? Oh, still athletic. I think we have to be mindful that he has the ability to run. I think he does look to throw and has stayed in the pocket and has had plenty of success there. So we'll have to find ways to affect him when we rush him and be smart down in the red zone so that he's not able to get in into the middle of the defense and break it down in coverage and dump it to somebody. When you first got here, Jayon Brown, I know he was a guy who took personal interest and what have you seen from him in a couple of games that you've been talking about? Yeah, it looks like he's healthy and active, athletic, and covering the backs and seeing him running around. So happy for Jayon. I always liked coaching him and no different than Daekwon or Roger or any of these guys that have left that you build a relationship with and they go on and they have a career at another team. It's all part of it. Coach, I know you talked about Kyle Phillips yesterday, but anything this week that will let you guys decide if he's gonna be back there returning punts or is that a decision you guys have made up? I mean, that's a decision that'll go throughout the week. We'll just see how comfortable everybody is and we'll make sure that whoever's back there has got our confidence and is prepared. That's okay, Paul. I'm curious about that answer. Well, when you talk about matching up, we've taught about doing that. We've done that in the past and some teams do it. I think a lot of it is preference, the motioning, where they move them around to and getting other pieces and parts. If you're gonna play man coverage, that may or may not be the... That's the easiest way. You could do that and see how that goes every time. Or you're just trying to mix in different coverages where that person may or may not fit into a certain area and when they motion, whether it's two by two or three by one, everybody else's job has to change. And so sometimes it's probably not as easy, but anytime you're playing, man, you could do that if you felt good about what you were doing.