Speaker 1: You know, I was. I thought that was the key.
Speaker 1: We talked about being able to establish run and then
Speaker 1: things can build off of that. But UM, credit those
Speaker 1: guys up front. I think they they had a good
Speaker 1: week of preparation and they did a really nice job there.
Speaker 1: Worried about well, they both practiced Thursday. So when you
Speaker 1: got Thursday, Friday, Saturday, so we had three days with them. Um,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, well, I think you know again, because
Speaker 1: we got a chance to get them full on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You know, we felt like we were we would be
Speaker 1: good with them. Um. And again, getting getting some continuity
Speaker 1: with the same five guys I think really helped us.
Speaker 1: You're talking more about ago being able to run when
Speaker 1: the defense even knows you. You remember run the law
Speaker 1: and you allow your plays game playing game game with
Speaker 1: Sam under center, we can throw from that. I mean
Speaker 1: that's not just because I know that, but we can.
Speaker 1: So it's not like I don't play. I mean, they'll
Speaker 1: put seventeen guys in the box because of it. But um,
Speaker 1: I think again, I get credit to our offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think they did a really nice job, um and
Speaker 1: opening up some things for our guys and letting my
Speaker 1: running backs get started. I think with all three of
Speaker 1: those guys, if you can let them get started, um,
Speaker 1: they can be productive. And it started up front. Um,
Speaker 1: those guys did again. I had a great week of
Speaker 1: practice and accepted the challenge. Go on. It's a real
Speaker 1: tough defense. It gives you a lot of multiple looks. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought they handled it really well. There's a start
Speaker 1: of difference between two and three. We didn't make conference
Speaker 1: were four leave the confident? W an indication bringing it
Speaker 1: up at all this now we weren't. We're not a
Speaker 1: conference division. We had to win a football game. You know,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter if we're playing ANFC opponent or an
Speaker 1: NFC opponent or you know, there's not more weight I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the year, obviously there is.
Speaker 1: But in our mindset as a team, we had to
Speaker 1: come out way to uh play play on all three
Speaker 1: phases in one of football game, and that's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to you guys turn it twice. Yeah, early in
Speaker 1: the game, did you feel fortunate or the defense that
Speaker 1: that didn't really fight you early? No, I just felt
Speaker 1: like got offensive confidence, said that we could move the
Speaker 1: football on them. You know, when we we were open
Speaker 1: on the first wat Sam just kind of threw it
Speaker 1: on the line if he just puts it up a
Speaker 1: little bit and he'll tell you the same thing, um,
Speaker 1: And then really just going for it on fourth down
Speaker 1: was just you know, I think one of them was
Speaker 1: going to be a fifty seven, maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: out of Kaba drange, and then the other one was
Speaker 1: on the edge of fifty three fifty four with a
Speaker 1: little bit of slight win. We knew going in you
Speaker 1: actually hit two fifty four yarders in pregame, um, but
Speaker 1: we were just right on that cost and it was
Speaker 1: just kind of caught us that way. So I felt like,
Speaker 1: I leave our offense on the field because I do
Speaker 1: have confidence or defense. I think our defense is quite
Speaker 1: well because I have confidence in our defense. If the
Speaker 1: risk reward is if I put the ball put our
Speaker 1: defense out in the field in that situation, that I'm
Speaker 1: confidence that they're gonna get a stopped. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the way I feel about our defense and other punch
Speaker 1: dominating for a while. But now see like the numbers
Speaker 1: starting to come on, you guys doing anything different than
Speaker 1: free of numbers. He's just now, you know, sometimes and
Speaker 1: Billy says it sometimes it comes in bunches, you know.
Speaker 1: But but Fletcher has played really really well for US,
Speaker 1: um in the three years I've been here. You know,
Speaker 1: It's just sometimes it just seems, you know that some
Speaker 1: of those some of those things are sacks and things
Speaker 1: like that coming bunches. But um, he is playing really
Speaker 1: well for us right now, and we were really I mean,
Speaker 1: he played a heck of the game today, So it's
Speaker 1: like when we really turned the game around, you know,
Speaker 1: three sacks, two forced bumbles really turned the game in
Speaker 1: your favorite Yeah, again, he played really well today and
Speaker 1: and uh, a lot of our guys on the defense
Speaker 1: side of the ball played really well. Tod up, but
Speaker 1: touch at a heck of the game. Your first three
Speaker 1: possessions passtball closed down each of those possessions, and Dan
Speaker 1: kind of helped them do suit up the running game
Speaker 1: as well. I don't know if it was just kind
Speaker 1: of some of the look some of it. Sam's got
Speaker 1: an option whether to hand it out forgive it, so, um,
Speaker 1: it just depends on how they deploy their defense. If
Speaker 1: they be having a lot of success throwing in football
Speaker 1: to their backs in the horizontal passing game, you talk
Speaker 1: about the defensively there. Yeah. I mean we knew going
Speaker 1: in that the port of their deal was getting the
Speaker 1: ball to you know, to Spiller and Robinson and uh
Speaker 1: Ingram coming out of the backfield. The three really talented guys,
Speaker 1: and Sean does such a good job at getting the
Speaker 1: ball spread around to different guys. Uh. But it was
Speaker 1: a big emphasisis this week for us more than any
Speaker 1: team we've played so far, to really contain the running
Speaker 1: backs in the passing game. How do you think Sam
Speaker 1: responded after going the two interceptions? I thought he did
Speaker 1: a good job, you know, I think he Uh, you
Speaker 1: know that stuff's gonna happen, but a lot of it
Speaker 1: is your response after it. You know, we're all going
Speaker 1: to make mistakes and when you when you make them,
Speaker 1: you know you do you continue to dwell upon him?
Speaker 1: Or do you learn from it? And if you get
Speaker 1: to put in that situation, you put the ball in
Speaker 1: the right spot. And so um, I thought he did
Speaker 1: a nice job. I thought I thought he bounced back
Speaker 1: after those. It was before what's dood out Today we
Speaker 1: ran the ball better. You know, when we run the
Speaker 1: ball better and we're balanced, Um, then we have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to stay on the field and that's what we did.
Speaker 1: We ran the ball better and then we converted on
Speaker 1: third DOWNCE so we could stay on the field on
Speaker 1: a sideline. Yeah, I wasn't that. Yeah I got a penalty.
Speaker 1: What do you say? What's that? What did you say
Speaker 1: something that you're not allowed to do because you get
Speaker 1: a penalty for him? Did you? So that was more
Speaker 1: straight than blocking schemes. Now, I mean we do the
Speaker 1: same things we've done in and the other three games
Speaker 1: that we lost. You know, it's just we executed, and
Speaker 1: that's what you know. That's so I said last week
Speaker 1: we weren't executing. This week, we executed, but we didn't
Speaker 1: change up what we were doing from schematic standpoint. Um,
Speaker 1: Josh had you know, the one thing and I told
Speaker 1: Jess before he had a really good week of training.
Speaker 1: You know, he had been missed, he missed the Jets game,
Speaker 1: didn't practice full towards the end of the week. Um,
Speaker 1: in terms of he was out there every day, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't like he was full speed killing everything. And
Speaker 1: then he started to have a good week of training.
Speaker 1: And obviously we believe a good week of training, we
Speaker 1: you sink to your level of training and you and
Speaker 1: your level of training allows you to play well on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and had a good week of training and allowed him
Speaker 1: to play well. I thought it did a really nice
Speaker 1: job for us today. Did you have available to you
Speaker 1: when he came back? We just decided off on him
Speaker 1: or I don't know that off to ask Bob. I
Speaker 1: just know he's rolling him at that point in time,
Speaker 1: so I know he was out for a little bit then.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they kept him out or if
Speaker 1: Bob kept him out. Marcus Smith quite a bit. It
Speaker 1: seemed like he was active. I mean, he's the one
Speaker 1: I had three receptions? Were you think I'd have to
Speaker 1: watch a film on that specific? I know Marcus did
Speaker 1: play and we had planned on getting him in there. Um,
Speaker 1: it was good to get him back out in the field.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't tell you exactly. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: remember that play right now. So what was that excuse?
Speaker 1: Just on how the coverage of you know, how people
Speaker 1: are going to cover you and what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: when they deploy their tight end. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing with Sam is Sam will Sam will
Speaker 1: take what the defense gives them. So we felt like
Speaker 1: we could exploit that match up if they were going
Speaker 1: to play away the statue, but they kept running away
Speaker 1: from some rolls and sometimes they were bad kicks. What
Speaker 1: they do, Yeah, I mean it shows up on the
Speaker 1: statuet because the starting field position is where it shows up. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's part of Darren's ability is that, you know,
Speaker 1: the same thing when we had Darren in the past game,
Speaker 1: they were doubling them, you know, so some of the
Speaker 1: things that we knew, if they're going to double them,
Speaker 1: that's gonna free somebody up. And I think Sam was
Speaker 1: Sam was pretty sharper that if they're gonna double Darren,
Speaker 1: then let's get off of them and let's go to
Speaker 1: another receiver, making that our first raid. And I think
Speaker 1: he did a really good job with that so well.
Speaker 1: I just think it's you have to take what the
Speaker 1: defense gives you. Everybody's good in this league, you know,
Speaker 1: and so you just can't say we're going to force
Speaker 1: it to this individual. If we can, you know, get
Speaker 1: to somebody in a matchup, is that hopefully because of
Speaker 1: we have some skill players that you know, how do
Speaker 1: you match up with all five of them? And then
Speaker 1: for the quarterback, it's it's his responsibility to kind of
Speaker 1: process it and say all right, hey, they're playing a
Speaker 1: man now, the matchup is here, you know, And the
Speaker 1: next time they played dime, they were moving those guys
Speaker 1: around a lot, so sometimes it was a match up here,
Speaker 1: the next time the matchups on another guy. So that's
Speaker 1: what we were kind of looking and trying to trying
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the game. Wore we are kickoff
Speaker 1: re journey. He really seemed to get some energy from that.
Speaker 1: Did you sense that he was that helped deja vote?
Speaker 1: Did you just heard the last question about Hugh That's okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: Josh had a great week of training. He didn't play
Speaker 1: against the Jets um, you know, because obviously had a
Speaker 1: hamstring and then didn't practice full. By that, I mean
Speaker 1: he practiced full, but he did really go full the
Speaker 1: week before in terms of getting ready for the Redskins game,
Speaker 1: and he knew that. But he had a really good
Speaker 1: week of training. We talk about you sink to your
Speaker 1: level of training, and I think how he performed today
Speaker 1: he is kind of what his week was like. So
Speaker 1: hopefully for Josh he can build him on it. But
Speaker 1: he's not going to run into the end zone with
Speaker 1: one hand and the football again, and you've talked about that,
Speaker 1: does that do anything to flow the game? Anything? Like?
Speaker 1: It is what it is? And then if they discussed
Speaker 1: it and they don't think it's penalty and that's not
Speaker 1: a penalty. Sence Sam played better as the game early
Speaker 1: interceptions and then it seemed like he was maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit I don't know, progress more accurate. That was
Speaker 1: just operations the interceptions, I hope. So as we move forward,
Speaker 1: I do I mean, did he plays? Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: he played. I thought I thought Sam putting a good game.
Speaker 1: But like all of us, you know, you make mistakes.
Speaker 1: I mean I I called it not a real good
Speaker 1: play on a screenplay, you know, and then you got
Speaker 1: didn't get much artis and then we get knocked back
Speaker 1: not in the red zone. You know. I think it's
Speaker 1: everybody does it. But I think if you can continue
Speaker 1: to lay more good plays out there, it's not a
Speaker 1: bad place. That's what we're trying to do. So thank you,