Speaker 1: Thanks. That's usually they've always showed up. By the way,
Speaker 1: every week that you're preparing for was the fun own
Speaker 1: game those season already? Man, I mean went by fast.
Speaker 1: Um I would say, Um, didn't go the way we
Speaker 1: all planning to go. But UM, you know we need
Speaker 1: to end this season, UM with a win. You know,
Speaker 1: we need to come out and fight until the end
Speaker 1: and come out and you know, take that momentum into
Speaker 1: the off season you've had. Do you think that that
Speaker 1: can carry into the off season. Absolutely, I man gives guys,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, positive attitudes and knowing that you know
Speaker 1: we're coming back, Um, you know, back into the off season,
Speaker 1: UM with a lot of energy. I know guys would
Speaker 1: be ready to go. UM. So I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: you get that win, you know, the last win of
Speaker 1: the year, um, knowing that it's our last game of
Speaker 1: the year. Um. It takes that momentum to kind of
Speaker 1: carry over to the off season really stronger when NFC
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the momum. But looking back upon it,
Speaker 1: then then you kind of whatever you were playing a
Speaker 1: certain level with the numbers weren't coming. Do you look
Speaker 1: back upon it now and thought that jumping back to
Speaker 1: the four three was there was to be a little
Speaker 1: more adjustment than maybe you might have thought because you
Speaker 1: had played in the defense before. I mean, it's always adjustment.
Speaker 1: I think. I think, you know, as I grow into
Speaker 1: you know, back into gym, you know, into the fourth
Speaker 1: three scheme, you know, beying planet, playing it out my
Speaker 1: whole career. But you know, not being into those years
Speaker 1: that you know we was in the three four you know,
Speaker 1: that takes away you know, from you know, a whole
Speaker 1: lot of the process of learning, you know, the attack
Speaker 1: stile defense that gym's like. And um and I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I forgress you know, each game and embraced
Speaker 1: every opportunity that I go out and play on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Plus what was the significance of that loss to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys techn point league in the fourth quarter? A should
Speaker 1: kind of think of the season. There's a whole lassibility.
Speaker 1: I mean, hood up, I mean I think that game
Speaker 1: right there kind of you know, to find our season.
Speaker 1: You know, that game, Um, you know took a lot
Speaker 1: from us because we had a ten point league going
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter. I think, and you know, they
Speaker 1: came out and made some plays and and I think
Speaker 1: we kind of eased up on them towards the end
Speaker 1: of the game. We took it overtime. They made the
Speaker 1: play to winning game. But we know, um, as a team,
Speaker 1: we know, you know what this game means us. You
Speaker 1: know they you know they want to come in, you
Speaker 1: know they're going to come in, you know, with a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of energy, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence. And I think we want to stop that.
Speaker 1: You know, from the first play of the game, what
Speaker 1: is on offensive defense or attention from offensive lines this year?
Speaker 1: First the previous ones in the three four more double
Speaker 1: teams and I think so I think teams started I
Speaker 1: mean scheming up, you know a lot of things. You know,
Speaker 1: when you get guys get them, get a little more
Speaker 1: attention than than other guys. But also I mean it
Speaker 1: gives opportunity for you know, um, you know other guys
Speaker 1: in the room to make plays. And I think those
Speaker 1: guys have stepped up. You know, when you signed the contract,
Speaker 1: did you realize then that it would make it would
Speaker 1: put a lot of more attention on you and how
Speaker 1: you produced because of that, that that figure that you
Speaker 1: signed for, And did you think that also played a part?
Speaker 1: Did you want maybe teams played a little more attention
Speaker 1: to you as well. Well, like you said earlier, I
Speaker 1: mean I started off hot and I think I had
Speaker 1: three sacks and four games, um, and then you know,
Speaker 1: at that point, you know, I really wasn't getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot of you know, slide. I was getting a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of one of the the ones and
Speaker 1: you know, just creating a lot of disruption at the time.
Speaker 1: But you know, team started, you know it scheming up
Speaker 1: with a slide of protection really the whole defensive line.
Speaker 1: You know, we started getting a lot a lot more
Speaker 1: attention because earlier in the year we were getting after
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you know, either hitting them or either sacking them.
Speaker 1: And you know, teams started doing the seven man protections
Speaker 1: and you know, ways to protect their team and it
Speaker 1: just getting rid of the ball fast. What do you
Speaker 1: recall about facing Zeke Elliott the first time around and
Speaker 1: wasn't mean to you guys, especially as a run defense
Speaker 1: and your fast the season And guess I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we got to go out and you know, we
Speaker 1: gotta hit. Um. We know that if you're out of
Speaker 1: your gap, he's gonna find you. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: he somehow he finds a way to you know, get
Speaker 1: north and south. You know, anytime somebody's out of the gap, UM,
Speaker 1: he's running hard and you know he's gonna make you
Speaker 1: pay for you out of your gap. So the main
Speaker 1: thing is this week, man, is you know, tackling Um.
Speaker 1: Of course, very you need you know, we need all
Speaker 1: eleven guys to the football. But yeah, sorry about that yet, Elliott.
Speaker 1: You you've seen him on tape. You've seen how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done this season. Is he a legitimate MVP
Speaker 1: candidate even though he's I mean, I mean I think
Speaker 1: he kept being a running for but I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been playing at the really high level
Speaker 1: this year. Um and UM. And it starts up front
Speaker 1: with those guys. You know, I think that's one of
Speaker 1: the best um offensive lines of football. UM. And you
Speaker 1: know I think we're um, we're gonna go out and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a challenge up front for us. And
Speaker 1: I think it was a step up. Thank you're here man.
Speaker 1: Thanks