Speaker 1: And Dan, what what stands out to you when you
Speaker 1: look at the Jets on film right now? Uh, I'd
Speaker 1: see a team that's physical. Um, you know they defense,
Speaker 1: They're they're strong up front, they got guys in the
Speaker 1: secondary they can cover. I think offensively, Um, they still
Speaker 1: have the ability to run it. You can't ever lose
Speaker 1: sight of that. And I know they're going going a
Speaker 1: little more spread out formations at times, but they still
Speaker 1: have Marshall and Decker and and I've been around here.
Speaker 1: You know, this is my sixth year and Fitzpatrick has
Speaker 1: always been a thorn to us. I mean he's always
Speaker 1: played good against us and been a problem to deal with.
Speaker 1: So you know, we know we got our hands full.
Speaker 1: I would say the first thing that stands out is
Speaker 1: it's a physical team. How different do they look through
Speaker 1: the team you saw in London? Um, I would say
Speaker 1: they as far as being physical, they looked at say,
Speaker 1: to me, just offensively, it looks like they've they've done
Speaker 1: a little bit more spread out type stuff. That would
Speaker 1: be the biggest difference, to be honest with you. And
Speaker 1: you know, I need to make sure that I get
Speaker 1: this across Todd Bowls. Um, I have a ton of
Speaker 1: respect for and you know, I was here when he
Speaker 1: was interim head coach and I know what he's about
Speaker 1: and he's as good as they come. And then Casey
Speaker 1: Rodgers was with a long time, and I think those
Speaker 1: guys as coaches are as good as they come. And
Speaker 1: I know, you know, we got our hands full of
Speaker 1: this mentality and the way those guys play and the
Speaker 1: system and everything. On the flip side of that, how
Speaker 1: do you feel you your team is different from that
Speaker 1: London game. I feel like we're more physical, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're a team that kind of identified
Speaker 1: that we need to come off the all a little
Speaker 1: bit better. We need to we need to have a
Speaker 1: presence about us. Um. You know, we need to change
Speaker 1: I think the way that we're viewed. And to me,
Speaker 1: we are more aggressive than we were the first time
Speaker 1: they played us, and for the most part we've been
Speaker 1: able to stay in games. I mean, that game got
Speaker 1: out of control on us and we end up being
Speaker 1: one dimensional. Last time we played him, which was Kudo's them,
Speaker 1: they put us in that situation. How how's Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: playing right now? Dan, He's playing well. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he had he had a couple of bumps in the
Speaker 1: road or the last you know, four or five weeks.
Speaker 1: But all in all, if you look at his production
Speaker 1: since um, since I took over, since this everything's happened,
Speaker 1: he's played pretty good football for us. You know, certainly
Speaker 1: he's like anybody else, he's not perfect by any means,
Speaker 1: but but he's playing good enough for us to win overall.
Speaker 1: With you demanding you guys be more physical and everything,
Speaker 1: do you sometimes think maybe you lean too much on
Speaker 1: the passing game and you want to get back to
Speaker 1: just pounding the ball a little more? Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: always those things always cross my mind. Is you know
Speaker 1: we're running it enough? Are we not the way that
Speaker 1: we're running it? You know, should we lean a little
Speaker 1: bit more on this schematically in the run game or not?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, every game creates its own unique, um,
Speaker 1: you know, challenges and and certainly I love to run
Speaker 1: the ball, but we'll do whatever we feel like we
Speaker 1: have to do to uh, to put some points on
Speaker 1: the board. And that may not always be running, you
Speaker 1: never know, but yeah, I'm I would love to establish
Speaker 1: the run. That's who I am. Dan. What what appealed
Speaker 1: to you guys about Quentin Copals uh well, his his
Speaker 1: his talent um, his links um, the fact that we
Speaker 1: feel like for for us, it's a scheme fit and
Speaker 1: we're a little lighted defensive end as it was, and
Speaker 1: it was a bit of a no brainer. And then
Speaker 1: you know, Mike cannonbamb had a history with him, he
Speaker 1: knows who he is. Character wise, we know he's got
Speaker 1: a really good character and h we just feel like
Speaker 1: we're about to get the best of Quinn Copele's yet
Speaker 1: we're about to get you know, the best is ahead
Speaker 1: of him, and so we're excited to have him. Do
Speaker 1: you think he can have a role this week? Sure?
Speaker 1: I don't see why not. I mean, that's that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons we've got him to use him for
Speaker 1: the last six So you know, if we can get
Speaker 1: him up to speed, we plan on using him. And
Speaker 1: just clarify because here he was an outside linebacker for
Speaker 1: a lot. You guys are gonna use him on the line,
Speaker 1: right mostly he planned a D line for us. Primarily.
Speaker 1: We could use him in some other roles, but that's
Speaker 1: primarily what we're gonna do. What about Jarvis Landry, how
Speaker 1: big has and helpful to Tannehill has he and just
Speaker 1: his general playmaking ability. Yeah, Jarvis has been, um, you know,
Speaker 1: pivotal to us having success. I mean, he's he's a
Speaker 1: heck of a football player. He plays with a lot
Speaker 1: of energy. He's a guy that always finds a way
Speaker 1: to get open, and he's dangerous with the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands. So he's been He's been one of Ryan's
Speaker 1: most reliable receivers. And for that reason, because he can't
Speaker 1: get open, he can separate, you know, at the top
Speaker 1: and and then like I said, when he when he's
Speaker 1: able to get the ball in his hands with a
Speaker 1: little bit of space or room, he could be dangerous
Speaker 1: for us. He's been. He's been very productive this year. Day.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Mike Tanneman before. Obviously a lot of us
Speaker 1: know him. Um, what what's it been like working with
Speaker 1: him in this role as in from head coach? Mike
Speaker 1: has been great. Mike has helped me more than I
Speaker 1: can really even say. I mean, he's he's taken a
Speaker 1: huge burden off me, um from from the time this
Speaker 1: this went over. I mean he told me his sole
Speaker 1: focus has been to support me and to make sure
Speaker 1: that that I am able to stay with the football
Speaker 1: side of things, and the staff and the players and
Speaker 1: and and it's been in that way, and I felt
Speaker 1: that way. Uh. And so he's been great, he really has.
Speaker 1: I mean that I don't I'm not sure I'd be
Speaker 1: able to do it without him under the circumstances. Can
Speaker 1: you talk about your running backs a little bit, Lamar Miller?
Speaker 1: And also now you have j j I Ah, the
Speaker 1: rookie coming along now, how he's looked since he came
Speaker 1: back from the injury. Yeah, I would say we I
Speaker 1: would actually go with three because I feel like we
Speaker 1: have three quality backs are all a little bit different.
Speaker 1: If you throws Damian WIBs in there as well, But
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, Lamar Miller has been really
Speaker 1: good for us in space. He's been good in the
Speaker 1: run game for us because if he can hit that crease,
Speaker 1: he's got really good speed. Um, you know he Uh,
Speaker 1: he's kind of an electric type guy. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: the type of player that can take any ball in
Speaker 1: the distance. And because of his skill set, Jay were
Speaker 1: really pleased with j as well. I mean, after he
Speaker 1: came back from the injury, we're able to practice him
Speaker 1: for a little bit and then get him involves. Starting
Speaker 1: with Buffalo, we were hoping he would be a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a downhill back, and he proved us
Speaker 1: to be right, which is really encouraging, you know. And
Speaker 1: and so we feel like we've got two backs that
Speaker 1: that are a little bit you know, unique, a little
Speaker 1: bit different, but complement each other. Well. You know, you've
Speaker 1: got somebody it's a little bit better in space and
Speaker 1: get the whole take of the distance. And we feel
Speaker 1: like we have that back who put his foot in
Speaker 1: the ground and go down the hill. So we're we're
Speaker 1: happy with both of them. And there again we have
Speaker 1: our third back, Damian Williams, who could do things in
Speaker 1: space and he's a really good special teams player for US. Dan,
Speaker 1: did you draw anything from watching Todd uh do do
Speaker 1: the interim coach uh for three games in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven when you got this this role, did you
Speaker 1: draw anything from that experience? Yeah? I did. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think one of the there was a couple of
Speaker 1: things that I remember most about bowls Uh. You know.
Speaker 1: The first one was that he's gonna treat you like
Speaker 1: a man, and it was about you handle your business, um,
Speaker 1: and when you don't handle your business then you'll have
Speaker 1: the repercussions of it. But he he was he was
Speaker 1: about it being it's a man's league and it's time
Speaker 1: to man up. That was that was his messages. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is, Hey, whatever world we live in,
Speaker 1: offensively or defensively, that's that's who we are. We're not
Speaker 1: going to change who we are because we believe in
Speaker 1: what we do. You know, for example, you know, uh, defensively, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna lie him up on third down, that
Speaker 1: we're gonna lie him up the whole game on third down.
Speaker 1: You know, he was kind of always that mentality is
Speaker 1: that we we know what we're doing, we believe in
Speaker 1: what we're doing, and we're gonna stick with it. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's been a proven commodity for him, you know,
Speaker 1: every everywhere he's been a defensive coordinator. And I mean,
Speaker 1: there again, I can't speak enough good things about Todd