Speaker 1: Yeah, by week as far as you just got to
Speaker 1: get away or did you watch films you're kind of
Speaker 1: self scout? What was your process play? Um, A little
Speaker 1: bit of both, you know. I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: early in the week, you know, it's good to kind
Speaker 1: of look at some things, um, but then really just
Speaker 1: kind of tried to get away, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of clear in my mind and get a break. So
Speaker 1: that way, you know, when I got back here for
Speaker 1: this week, I was fresh, ready to go, you know,
Speaker 1: ready to attack the back end of the season. The
Speaker 1: film show you. Um, you know, I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the way we've played over the first seven games,
Speaker 1: you know, there's been a lot of good things that
Speaker 1: we've done. Um, I think we've shot ourselves in the
Speaker 1: foot too many times. And I think you know, we've
Speaker 1: said that after you know, several of the games, and
Speaker 1: we've just got to find a way to eliminate the
Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds. And when we do that, we're a
Speaker 1: pretty good offense. But when we continue to make mistakes
Speaker 1: that we've made since week one, you know, we put
Speaker 1: ourselves in bad situations and it's hard to overcome those mistakes.
Speaker 1: And we've got to be better at eliminating those first Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's some of us one of those things.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, I don't even like turning on
Speaker 1: that tape. You know, it was bad, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think we've come a long ways
Speaker 1: from that game. You know, but going back to that
Speaker 1: first Dallas game and you look at it, I mean,
Speaker 1: so many, so many negative plays in that game that
Speaker 1: just put us behind. You know, we just really struggled
Speaker 1: to establish any sort of a rhythm in that game.
Speaker 1: You know, We've got to eliminate the things that put
Speaker 1: us behind, um, you know, and that put us in
Speaker 1: those tough situations. Have you watched that tape this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, hadn't got any partiers that consistency. So this is,
Speaker 1: like you said, there's some there's some stretches where you know,
Speaker 1: you guys are really operating slowly. End. There's other strategies
Speaker 1: like all or nothing at it. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if I've ever been a
Speaker 1: part of an offense where it seems to be like
Speaker 1: you just said, all or nothing. You know, when things
Speaker 1: are clicking, it seems to be that you know, we're
Speaker 1: out there and we're rolling, but when things aren't going well,
Speaker 1: I mean it looks bad and it is bad, and
Speaker 1: you know, somehow, you know, we've got to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to eliminate the self inflictive wounds like I've
Speaker 1: talked about, you know in play, like we know we
Speaker 1: can't because when we get a rolling and we do
Speaker 1: the things that we're capable of, you know, we are
Speaker 1: a good offense. If you find that the break was
Speaker 1: good for it to just hated to kind of perspective
Speaker 1: being away, you know, just just started the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's always good to get away
Speaker 1: for a few days. Um, you know, especially after going
Speaker 1: through you know, training camp for seven weeks. You know,
Speaker 1: I think our BI week fell at a good time.
Speaker 1: You know. I think it was a great chance for
Speaker 1: everyone to just kind of to step away, take a
Speaker 1: deep breath, get their mind off the things, and come.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought our energy today yesterday, um, you know,
Speaker 1: as good as it's been in a long time. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, I think guys are feeling good for the
Speaker 1: second half right now. Down or did you say, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I went back to Oklahoma. You could have changed it
Speaker 1: all year. So focus on the next weeks at the
Speaker 1: moment during the season, but the miss the first time
Speaker 1: in your career you don't know exactly where're gonna be
Speaker 1: in the next year because you're thinking all about where
Speaker 1: you are now Intiludophia, and you know where you might
Speaker 1: be moving forward and whether you're happy here and with
Speaker 1: the future of my whole care you. I think those
Speaker 1: thoughts are a long way down the road. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we got to pick game against Dallas this week.
Speaker 1: Like I said last week, it was more about just
Speaker 1: kind of stepping away, you know, getting my mind right
Speaker 1: and coming back ready for this week. When when you
Speaker 1: look at all the game, you know you could you
Speaker 1: could looking at them dame aside. Yeah, how do you
Speaker 1: feel that you just played the first year? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like I just said, And you know, there's
Speaker 1: been some really good stuff and then there's been some
Speaker 1: times where I need to be more consistent. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm part of the mistakes that have been made, you know,
Speaker 1: and I've got to work to correct the mistakes that
Speaker 1: I've made. You when you get so when you went
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma, did you just get away from football totally
Speaker 1: as you watch games? Did you play golf foot. Did
Speaker 1: you do? Um? Yeah, I just kind of got away,
Speaker 1: you know, I went hung for a few days. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just kind of hung out with some friends. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just enjoying my time being home. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did not. I did not. Did you handle? I had
Speaker 1: you handle the drops? And you know, I know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna probably one under the bus or blame anybody,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's gonna be hard. You get guys
Speaker 1: lead or at least going into somebody, let the league
Speaker 1: in drops and um, personally, how do you handle it
Speaker 1: when those plays happened? Because I mean they reflect on
Speaker 1: you when you're sat and everything, but obviously they're not
Speaker 1: your fault. Yeah, you know, I think I just try
Speaker 1: to keep encouraging our guys. You know, like I've said,
Speaker 1: all your long drops are part of the game. Um,
Speaker 1: They're gonna happen, you know, I expect them to happen.
Speaker 1: Obviously you don't like to see them. But you know,
Speaker 1: just because someone drops the ball doesn't mean that I
Speaker 1: lose any confidence and them out on the field. And
Speaker 1: that's really the message that I try to convey to
Speaker 1: those guys on the sideline. You know, if they have
Speaker 1: a drop who cares go get the next one, come
Speaker 1: back and make a big play for us. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the best thing that they can do. You turn
Speaker 1: down a four year deal? Is that accurate? That offer
Speaker 1: must have got lost in the mail, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if I ever saw that one. It's my hands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the numbers say you guys have been better running the ball, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the last four or five weeks. But but
Speaker 1: kind of in that theme of all or nothing, it's play.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys will dash off the twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: yard run to John the first and as you know,
Speaker 1: it's a two yard loss. That kind of thinks the series.
Speaker 1: Does it feel that way? I mean, is it is?
Speaker 1: It is getting a consistent running game something that you
Speaker 1: think is important for you guys moving forward. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think being consistent as an offense is an important
Speaker 1: for us going forward. You know I kind of talked
Speaker 1: about those negative plays, you know, going back to that
Speaker 1: first out scheme. You know, anytime you have a loss,
Speaker 1: whether it be a negative run at sack um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's tough to overcome those in a series. You know,
Speaker 1: in the good offenses, you know, eliminate those or have
Speaker 1: very few of those type plays. So I think for
Speaker 1: us to continue, um, you know, to operate at the
Speaker 1: level that we want to, we've got to try to
Speaker 1: eliminate those plays. How fortunate do you feel that this
Speaker 1: entire division it's off to a terrible start and it's
Speaker 1: flide over here? I mean, you guys are still in
Speaker 1: this day? Yeah, I mean you know what else could
Speaker 1: you want? You know, I don't think we've played our
Speaker 1: best football yet, you know, and we're still right in
Speaker 1: the hunt through seven weeks. Um. You know, obviously, you
Speaker 1: know it could be a lot worse. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: we feel very fortunate. You know, we know we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of work ahead of us. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to have to play better football, play up
Speaker 1: to the level that we expect ourselves to play. But
Speaker 1: you know, with that being said, we're writing the thick
Speaker 1: of things existency going to be inevitable. When he had
Speaker 1: had a couple of new offensive line, of new receivers,
Speaker 1: you run a couple of new running backs, Um, you're new.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's so many new facets and the
Speaker 1: offense such a rhythm thing, and yeah, is that going
Speaker 1: to be part of it? Um? You know, I think
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, um it is you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: I think you know, you're talking about any organization, um
Speaker 1: stabilities the key, you know, and when you have a
Speaker 1: group that's been together for a long time and understands
Speaker 1: how each other plays. Um, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: easier to develop that chemistry. But um, you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have a lot of time. We
Speaker 1: got to get it going, and I think it's starting
Speaker 1: to come. Like I said, I think we've shown flashes
Speaker 1: of it. Um, We've just got to try to continue
Speaker 1: to develop that had a great expected um. Injuries have
Speaker 1: been part of that. Have you kind of talked to
Speaker 1: him at all about keeping his head up and knowing
Speaker 1: there's going to be those rookie pumps that he's going
Speaker 1: to go through. Yeah, um, yeah, that's probably something I
Speaker 1: should do now that you say it. But uh, now,
Speaker 1: I mean Nelson, you know, he's a he's a tough
Speaker 1: minded kid. You know, I haven't seen him, you know,
Speaker 1: drop his head for one minute. You know, he expects
Speaker 1: to come out and make plays, and that's what we
Speaker 1: expect of him. Um. Obviously, I think everyone kind of
Speaker 1: goes through some ups and downs as a rookie, um,
Speaker 1: you know, but what you like to see as someone
Speaker 1: who continues to come to work today, hung comes hungry
Speaker 1: every day to work you know, wanting to get better.
Speaker 1: And that's the attitude that he's shown. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just because he hasn't maybe produced like he had hoped,
Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't hung its head at all. He's
Speaker 1: continued to work extremely hard. And I think that hard work,
Speaker 1: you know, is going to pay off for him and
Speaker 1: for our offense. Is this what you talk about consistently?
Speaker 1: You think it's just a matter of individual execution and
Speaker 1: everybody doing it at the same time. For other things
Speaker 1: that you think this offense philosophically, you can do a
Speaker 1: little differently to help that execution, whether it's change no,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you'll listen, you know to
Speaker 1: what I said earlier. You know, when you look at
Speaker 1: times where we struggle with it's been a lot of
Speaker 1: self inflicted you know, wounds, you know, things that we're
Speaker 1: doing to ourselves. You know, when everyone's out there doing
Speaker 1: the right thing, we look pretty good. But you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if you have you know, one or two guys not
Speaker 1: doing the right thing on a play. Uh, it's often
Speaker 1: hard to have a positive play. My confidence. It's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, it's good. Um. You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can let things rattle you outn't think you know
Speaker 1: at this position. You know, I think you've got to
Speaker 1: be pretty even keel. You know. That's how I think
Speaker 1: I've been most of my career, and that's how I
Speaker 1: am today. You know, I believe in myself. I believe
Speaker 1: in this system. I believe in the guys out there
Speaker 1: with me. What do you think it? Position? Like? You? Three?
Speaker 1: Says you and you're fucking pretty good names pously just
Speaker 1: show out. Um. I'm not really sure what that means,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think all three of us probably
Speaker 1: want to get our names off that list. All right,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Thank