Speaker 1: As we lost, we owned it. You know, we made
Speaker 1: some strides, we didn't make enough strides. Um from where
Speaker 1: we came from. We got better, we got a long
Speaker 1: way to go. It should stay, I know, it should
Speaker 1: help us propelling the next year, understanding what we gotta
Speaker 1: do and work harder and win more games. Ten and
Speaker 1: six on the surface is an okay record, but it's
Speaker 1: not enough to get in obviously, our goals to get
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, win the super Bowl. So we didn't
Speaker 1: get that accompassed. But we have a lot of things
Speaker 1: to grow off of and learn from and we'll go
Speaker 1: from there. I do a surgery yet, what's the prop
Speaker 1: didn't have surgery yet. He'll get surgery in about a
Speaker 1: week or less, you know when his recovery I'm not
Speaker 1: sure yet. Know what are the last yesterday? I mean
Speaker 1: lost the game. You understand that right after the game.
Speaker 1: I can see the game pretty good. I understand the
Speaker 1: things that went wrong within the game and after that
Speaker 1: and kind of detox and get exit interviews ready and
Speaker 1: kind of go from there and build up and get
Speaker 1: together with the staff after this and go over things
Speaker 1: for the next couple of weeks and kind of move
Speaker 1: off and you reflect, you get some alone time, which
Speaker 1: I haven't yet. Can you try to build from there?
Speaker 1: Were you surprised when we looked at some of the
Speaker 1: mistakes you guys made to be surprised by bus mistakes
Speaker 1: more function of what Buffalo did or it got to
Speaker 1: you guys for some of those errors. I mean Buffalo
Speaker 1: for us on eras and we made some errors on
Speaker 1: our own that was self inflicting. So when you get
Speaker 1: you can't play against us and we can't play against
Speaker 1: them at the same time, it's like playing against two
Speaker 1: different teams. So we beat ourselves and they made some
Speaker 1: plays to help us beat ourselves too. So you were
Speaker 1: on the early part of the game offensively particularly, do
Speaker 1: you know what what was it when you guys flat
Speaker 1: was wool was going on the first fourth series of
Speaker 1: offense and just couldn't we're flat. We weren't clicking. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a play here and to play there. There
Speaker 1: were a bunch of almost but almost doesn't count and
Speaker 1: we just didn't make enough play or something like that.
Speaker 1: A few times this here, the slow starts were something
Speaker 1: you guys play really solid and somebody who's real ably
Speaker 1: come back and pull it out. The fourth quarter or
Speaker 1: a second around. Is there something you can put your
Speaker 1: figure on that that caused that problem is here? I
Speaker 1: mean I wish I could. We're gonna study it as
Speaker 1: a staff and we're gonna go over and try to
Speaker 1: put a thing on it. But at this point, right now,
Speaker 1: I can tell you. I can't tell you that tell
Speaker 1: your offense only brand the ball, the running backs foot times.
Speaker 1: You know, on a day when the winds were pretty
Speaker 1: stiff up there, there's a reason for that kind of
Speaker 1: offensive games. No, not really. You know the way they
Speaker 1: stacked the box and do some things that talk this
Speaker 1: out of some things we have audibles. Well, well the
Speaker 1: football maybe we could have run it more and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we could not hindsight because were you the fact
Speaker 1: that the really started. Were you trying to manage my
Speaker 1: reas carries throughout the course of the game, and why
Speaker 1: not start him and you know when he gets h Well,
Speaker 1: we don't want the contingency because we've been down to
Speaker 1: one back, so we I was just started in the
Speaker 1: package that we had, like went out there, really got
Speaker 1: some number of share of plays. He had a store
Speaker 1: of need, but nothing that kept him out of the game.
Speaker 1: It's just the one two punts and then the package
Speaker 1: that we had going into the game. You mentioned this
Speaker 1: yesterday about playing zone, you know with Blagins, you know,
Speaker 1: the vertical threat. White and Darrell Will alluded to this
Speaker 1: today that you guys have been playing more zone in
Speaker 1: recent weeks. Why specifically in this games that are using them?
Speaker 1: You know, the guys were press cover quarters. It's good
Speaker 1: at using in that way. Why White muze, We played
Speaker 1: a bunch of man in this game as well, since
Speaker 1: that the zone plays. They caught some plays on us
Speaker 1: that they hit. We played just as much man as
Speaker 1: we did zone in this ball game. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: we get caught sometimes the plagues and fake underneath. Guys
Speaker 1: got to get back and get there. But we played
Speaker 1: a bunch of man. TOI, what's your revaluation um over
Speaker 1: the course of the season about the rat this, Like
Speaker 1: I said, he's a good corner that other main good
Speaker 1: corners don't get beat and don't have bad games. But
Speaker 1: they have some bad games. But I still think the
Speaker 1: same and that that always Gay. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: It's tough, he's smart, he works hard, and he's athletic
Speaker 1: and we're glad to have him back. You could do
Speaker 1: it over here? Would you give it him help? Unwatkids?
Speaker 1: Would you try to call the Rockings differently? We lost
Speaker 1: the game. I don't reflect back on what I could
Speaker 1: and couldn't do over again. Make the decisions and you
Speaker 1: go with it. But we covered them, Okay. We missed
Speaker 1: some players, We missed some underneath drops, and he made
Speaker 1: some players as a good player. You'll have to do
Speaker 1: this off season. And like you said before, time wins
Speaker 1: is Obviously he's a previoud season. But given who's upper
Speaker 1: free agency and given some of the lath how much
Speaker 1: work is gonna have to happen this off season. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of work. You know, the way
Speaker 1: teams are nowadays, we're free agents and draft and people
Speaker 1: getting hurt. You don't have a new team every year. Here,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be about twelve or fifteen new guys on
Speaker 1: your team. So you just got to find the right
Speaker 1: mix and try to find the right guys to sign back. Obviously,
Speaker 1: free agency is a crap shooting the gamble, and certain
Speaker 1: guys may try to leave. Hopefully a lot of guys stay.
Speaker 1: We're building something here. Everybody understands that We'll try to
Speaker 1: get as many of our guys as we can. I
Speaker 1: think the core is in good shape. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are stable here, a lot of
Speaker 1: guys would not to play football here, and we just
Speaker 1: gotta build around it a months coming up with personnel
Speaker 1: meetings and figuring out there before the raft. Just off
Speaker 1: of this season, is there one area feeling this person
Speaker 1: wanted on the team. I don't want to say there's
Speaker 1: one area. We need a couple of different areas, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna meet at the staff and go over that,
Speaker 1: and then as we go over that will matter down
Speaker 1: the specific areas. I can sit here and say we
Speaker 1: didn't do this well, and we're doing that well. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we probably want to
Speaker 1: get better at every area. You know, depending on what's
Speaker 1: available and what we can get our hands on, we
Speaker 1: probably just get better at that area in which A
Speaker 1: key part of your seeking this year. How high I'm
Speaker 1: I already left is resigning. Obviously it's pretty high as
Speaker 1: the quarterback, and we had a great year for us,
Speaker 1: so we want them back. How how important seeing it
Speaker 1: the defense? I thought they amon had a great year.
Speaker 1: You know, theyman solidified the run game and helped us
Speaker 1: stop everything inside you can blocking with one and sometimes
Speaker 1: two guys. I thought he's very important for us. Kind
Speaker 1: of sticking with that in regards to Mohammed Wolkers and
Speaker 1: would you approach Mike at all and ask, I guess
Speaker 1: make your opinion known on if you feel the team
Speaker 1: it's imperative that he comes back. We're gonna have that
Speaker 1: discussion obviously in all season We're gonna have a ton
Speaker 1: of them. That's gonna be one of them. How realistic
Speaker 1: is it though, with which resources invested on the defensive
Speaker 1: line to keep that entire move attack. Well, that's something
Speaker 1: we gotta figure out in the off season. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be some tricky parts on our doing, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be guys wanting to come back and just working
Speaker 1: it all out. You know, we got a while to
Speaker 1: get all that done. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: I have to be talked about before then. Ryan's afformance
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter yesterday in any way tarnish and
Speaker 1: you had a big picture of you what he accomplished
Speaker 1: over the course of the No, it didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: he had a good season. He want a bunch of
Speaker 1: games for us and can't tarnish that. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be great. Every quarter just happened. It was yesterday in
Speaker 1: the last game. Do you want to get that. I
Speaker 1: like Daniel Smith as a quarterback and the person as well.
Speaker 1: I thought Geno it was very mature as a person,
Speaker 1: plays mc larry mature as a quarterback. I thought he
Speaker 1: handled everything well. I probably took all his reps. I
Speaker 1: thought he got better as a person, and I was
Speaker 1: very proud of what he did this year. How do
Speaker 1: you say you want Ryan Fitzpatrick back? Is that as
Speaker 1: you're starting quarterback, you want to come back in that role.
Speaker 1: He comes back, he'll be the starter. If you talk
Speaker 1: to any of the players from out any plock back
Speaker 1: for next season at still be a returning. No, we
Speaker 1: hadn't talked in to contract because sad accident given good
Speaker 1: by us. Certain things about the first year's head coach
Speaker 1: that being in it surprise you that you couldn't have
Speaker 1: known him to be actually gotten it either. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the day to day process and certain things go wrong,
Speaker 1: like the locker room thing, or something happens in the
Speaker 1: summer in the off season, take Sheldon's things, for example,
Speaker 1: and certain things like that, they don't surprise you if
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna come up and surprise you, because
Speaker 1: there you don't still him coming. But you just handle
Speaker 1: them on a day to day basis, and you get
Speaker 1: better at him, you get experience, and you're trying to
Speaker 1: have to put too much into it. Say what you
Speaker 1: gotta say, and you move on. Shelton, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts and your observations on how he responded to your
Speaker 1: guy's challenges an organization for him to grow up after
Speaker 1: the incident, he got a summer and I thought he's
Speaker 1: been great since then. You know, he's he's a very
Speaker 1: engaging guy to be around. He's been honestly been up front.
Speaker 1: He's been on time even there doing everything it needs
Speaker 1: to do other than more. Are there any injured players
Speaker 1: who you had expect to have surgeries as you off season?
Speaker 1: Not at this time, though jud it would be it
Speaker 1: does remain with the organization fairly unrealistic that he would
Speaker 1: stayed in any spring practices. I don't know the recovery
Speaker 1: time right now, so I hope he hesitant answer that
Speaker 1: the offense um performed about your expectations this year. No,
Speaker 1: I thought they performed. Have they jailed? They performed to
Speaker 1: expectations as an offense and as a team. You want
Speaker 1: to get better at the weeks go on, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought they figured a lot of things out and
Speaker 1: I thought they got better. A lot of your best players,
Speaker 1: like Revis Larsa, this Patrick, we're all over thirty years old.
Speaker 1: Do you think the team needs to get older. I
Speaker 1: think we need to get faster. I don't know about younger.
Speaker 1: We need to get faster obviously certain areas. We want
Speaker 1: to have more team speed on the field, and that
Speaker 1: that's with the process for me being a faster team.
Speaker 1: Don't you just to be using start for turning in
Speaker 1: full excusing? Yes? Do you guys need um speaking here
Speaker 1: for getting faster? Do you think you need to spit
Speaker 1: you on the edge the defensive and you drive the
Speaker 1: stats from some of the guys the outside. That's probably
Speaker 1: getting faster all around. That's all inclusive in it kind
Speaker 1: of You don't expect any of your assistance for sue
Speaker 1: opportunities alt where you're in the college or professional Well,
Speaker 1: they may, I'm not sure at this time. If you
Speaker 1: asked me to, I expect them back. Yes, have I
Speaker 1: met with him yet? You know, we'll meet for the
Speaker 1: next two days and I can probably give you a
Speaker 1: better answer after that. What do you think of every
Speaker 1: season overall? You mentioned want to Patrick back, You talked
Speaker 1: about some of the guys to feel as strongly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Chris. I mean whether you want them back
Speaker 1: and how it works out of free agency are two
Speaker 1: different things. Obviously, money talks and situations differ. So sit
Speaker 1: up here and said I want everybody back. Yes, to
Speaker 1: sit up and here to say is everybody coming back? No,
Speaker 1: everybody's probably not gonna come back. But I've had a
Speaker 1: great year. It's a great running back. It's a good guy.
Speaker 1: He works hard and I respect everything he does. I
Speaker 1: don't think so he's getting nicked up during the year
Speaker 1: and you get a little bruise here and there, But
Speaker 1: I don't think you ran out of gassed the first
Speaker 1: five seas. No, I don't. Seriously his knee entering the
Speaker 1: game yesterday. He downplayed it afterwards, but he mentioned that
Speaker 1: Stephen got pretty much all the reps in practice. Really
Speaker 1: sends how he conveyed it. During the week, he was limited.
Speaker 1: You know, one day Miss Nay was limited the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. So Stephen was the only healthy running
Speaker 1: back we had. But as he got in the game,
Speaker 1: he got his reps. Do you think the teams fill
Speaker 1: filled its potentials? Were no, our potential of the playoffs
Speaker 1: and trying to get to the super Bowl? He got better.
Speaker 1: We didn't fulfill our potential. What can carry if it's
Speaker 1: a new team, what what can curry over to next? Well,
Speaker 1: you start over, you're gonna have a new team. So
Speaker 1: the carryover is hopefully the confidence that we know how
Speaker 1: to win and we jael together. But as you get
Speaker 1: new pieces to your puzzle, you gotta jell all over again.
Speaker 1: You gotta blend it together. So hopefully with the right
Speaker 1: core and attack where we can do that again. Disappointed
Speaker 1: to win the special teams warm at times, I mean
Speaker 1: it returns, yes, and we gotta make tackles here and there.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta make plays. We didn't make enough plays,
Speaker 1: sometimes with the defense, sometimes with the offense, sometimes with
Speaker 1: the special terms. Okay, so how you guys performed a
Speaker 1: Do you feel like if you got in to the
Speaker 1: playoffs you could have made her run some of your
Speaker 1: players To mention that we didn't get in, there's nothing
Speaker 1: for me to talk about. How do you feel you did?
Speaker 1: Person I can be better? You know, you learn some
Speaker 1: things as a coach. I'm harder on myself first, I'm
Speaker 1: far look at anybody else. I can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things better, in particular everything, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of six games. I can do a lot of things better.
Speaker 1: How much of a difference one made um this year
Speaker 1: having everyone together? I mean, there's gonna be some changes,
Speaker 1: but not like this past year they had all the
Speaker 1: weeks that a lot of your players coming together. When
Speaker 1: you guys don't need how much easier you know, if
Speaker 1: a bit easier, it'll be a little more continuity from
Speaker 1: a standpoint that they're hearing it for quite a few times.
Speaker 1: I haven't done it before and know what they expect
Speaker 1: and it's not new. So it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: im not some kinks and jelling together and hopefully with
Speaker 1: jail sooner than later. I thought, how pivotal is it
Speaker 1: that that you bring back Fitzpatrick. You're talking about conduty
Speaker 1: for all the records that they said was their first
Speaker 1: year together, that really wasn't part of off season starters.
Speaker 1: Howportanes is bringing back important to bring it back because
Speaker 1: it's starting quarterback. I understand he's a free agent and
Speaker 1: it's all about business and you want to work things out.
Speaker 1: I understand when you're trying to bring somebody back, money
Speaker 1: gets involved to it. It involved the whole team. It's
Speaker 1: just not about bringing fits back. Is being able to
Speaker 1: afford him or somebody else overpan for him and those
Speaker 1: type of things. But you can't take away from anything
Speaker 1: he's done this year from a record standpoint or otherwise.
Speaker 1: He's been great for the guy in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and he knows we want them back and he wants
Speaker 1: to be back. It's just a matter of working it now.
Speaker 1: It's just a little the whole quarter Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: If you gonna enjoy this year or not because you
Speaker 1: didn't make them I enjoyed it best. We didn't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but that was a good year and I
Speaker 1: smiled much more than you think I do, Kimberly, But
Speaker 1: it was enjoyable. He learned from it, obviously, the ultimate
Speaker 1: thing is winning, not just enjoying it. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was fun. What was your role assessment? I thought
Speaker 1: those guys played well. You know, they were healthy for
Speaker 1: the most part. They played well together. We can get
Speaker 1: better at something. Some games. We've got stoned in the
Speaker 1: run game with some games. You know, we had some
Speaker 1: big running games and that's the all the tribute to them. Steger,
Speaker 1: You're off, there's one that a concern for you, not
Speaker 1: at this time. You always want to build and have
Speaker 1: somebody behind somebody in case they leave by injury or otherwise.
Speaker 1: But you know, I thought they played well this Curly
Speaker 1: rolling for coming. Hopefully he's got to work himself in there.
Speaker 1: Obviously we had guys that played and made some plays.
Speaker 1: But we have all the confidence in the world and Curly,
Speaker 1: but if I have enough balls to go around? What
Speaker 1: about Dan Older? Kind of along the same line. He's
Speaker 1: along the same line. He's gotta get healthy and me
Speaker 1: and he talked about it, he's gotta get healthy. He's
Speaker 1: got to stay healthy. You know, he's gotta be ready
Speaker 1: to play. You already that that's a challenge time and
Speaker 1: you only in one year with him, but his whole
Speaker 1: NFL career has been kind of marred by injuries. He
Speaker 1: worded it to be a guarded I can't stay in
Speaker 1: the field. No, I mean, he's got to get himself.
Speaker 1: Some of them are freak injury that can't be helped.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he got sick that couldn't be health. He's just
Speaker 1: got to continue to have his confidence and be ready
Speaker 1: to play when his number called. I've seen it where
Speaker 1: people doesn't hit the strides at the third or fourth year,
Speaker 1: and I've seen it where people can't stay healthy at all.
Speaker 1: You know that's up to d and that's up to
Speaker 1: fate to decide. I can't say whether he feels it
Speaker 1: or doesn't feel it. He doesn't work that way, don't
Speaker 1: act that way. He always prepares to play and he
Speaker 1: works hard. He just has some freak injuries. Have a
Speaker 1: real chance of being a starter. He'll compete for one.
Speaker 1: Do you say that because you're not certain in our
Speaker 1: priorities future? I say that because going into the spring,
Speaker 1: all the spots are open and you earn it as
Speaker 1: you go. Is Antonio Cormarti a guy that you'd like
Speaker 1: to see back? I knows the cop number next year
Speaker 1: is kind of high, but dealing with him in Arizona,
Speaker 1: would you'd like to see him return? Yeah? I like
Speaker 1: the same return again at all. It's all business at
Speaker 1: this standpoint. We gotta put everything together and see what
Speaker 1: we can come up with and hopefully out the right
Speaker 1: guys on our team table. For certain guys, once I
Speaker 1: watched the film, I'm not gonna over face it a
Speaker 1: point where it detriments the rest of the team. Well,
Speaker 1: what a great when you gave me some time. We
Speaker 1: didn't go to the playoffs. That's the bottom line. So
Speaker 1: I don't have a great after that. If you want
Speaker 1: to call it a F called to the F, if
Speaker 1: you want to call it the B callor to B,
Speaker 1: I don't have one for myself. I'm still working at
Speaker 1: it all right. Thanks, what game you talk