Speaker 1: First game back. Just take us through how you felt
Speaker 1: getting back on the field and how do you evaluate
Speaker 1: your blood. I mean, I felt good, you know, I
Speaker 1: felt good to find them be out there. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a long time coming, obviously, a lot of excitement,
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions. But um, coming out the way
Speaker 1: we did with that hot star going right down the field, uh,
Speaker 1: going some no huddle tempo. I felt good, feel good
Speaker 1: that no huddle and tempo. Is that something you requested?
Speaker 1: What did that give you, guys to at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, Doug and I talked about it early
Speaker 1: in the week and UM thought it would be something
Speaker 1: just kind of get get me, started to get the
Speaker 1: off and started to get us all starting fast, um,
Speaker 1: and and he trusted us with it, and obviously the
Speaker 1: result was a good one. The turnovers in the game
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, did you attribute those
Speaker 1: to rust or just or decision making? This decision making?
Speaker 1: I mean the interception, the guy made a great play.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a it's a routway throw. It's all
Speaker 1: the time, and uh, he just he just read it right,
Speaker 1: it well, and I gotta I gotta be smart with
Speaker 1: that one. Um. Another one's unfortunate stepping up in the
Speaker 1: pocket getting it hit. Um. You know you gotta clean
Speaker 1: up those things. Obviously. You never want an interception, fumbles,
Speaker 1: especially um when you're backed up like we were put
Speaker 1: our defense in a couple of tough situations. But they
Speaker 1: stepped up and played a played a good football game. Drive.
Speaker 1: Every team plays, and a lot of them. You guys
Speaker 1: were behind the sticks. A few players said that you
Speaker 1: brought them together at one point and said, you know,
Speaker 1: had boards encouragement. I guess what were was the message
Speaker 1: you wanted to convey to the guys there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just in the middle of a drive, especially in
Speaker 1: that situation, you know, I think it was just we
Speaker 1: had the sack and then the whole thing, I think
Speaker 1: it was, and it was all of a sudden second
Speaker 1: and thirty or something like that, and I just told
Speaker 1: the guys, let's get half of this. Let's get at
Speaker 1: least half of this, get us in a thirdain manageable, um,
Speaker 1: and just stay together. Everyone's kind of, you know, all
Speaker 1: up in arms over the whole thing or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And I said, they just stayed together, Let's stay on track,
Speaker 1: and next play we had the holding defensive holding, pick
Speaker 1: up the first down, and then we were rolling. We
Speaker 1: get very many big plays today. Was I with the
Speaker 1: frustrations set in at all or did you just kind
Speaker 1: of expect that coming yet? You know? That's I mean,
Speaker 1: credit the Colts defense on that, honestly. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought they played, um did some things different than we
Speaker 1: saw on film and really just forced us to drive.
Speaker 1: You know, they played a lot of soft zone coverage
Speaker 1: and forced us to take a lot of things underneath.
Speaker 1: So so really credit the Colts defense and UM. At
Speaker 1: the same time, we just played our game and we
Speaker 1: put people in the right spots. Obviously you saw us
Speaker 1: with a lot of two and three tight end personnels
Speaker 1: out there, so um, that's kind of part of the
Speaker 1: game plan. Knowing what the Colts like to do not
Speaker 1: at all. Didn't sec reporter when you made that dive
Speaker 1: first down? Can you describe that play and is that
Speaker 1: indicative of your willingness to play with the same a
Speaker 1: band and you played with before you got hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought it was just a normal scramble
Speaker 1: to me. You know, obviously made a guy miss in
Speaker 1: the pocket, and um, it's all the first down marker
Speaker 1: and do for a pretty standard standard for him. What
Speaker 1: did Alice got her street of it? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think with Dallas, Um, he's showed me first of all,
Speaker 1: he's a smart football player throughout training camp. Um, and
Speaker 1: then you know, being able to go the no huddle stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting him in different situations, get him in
Speaker 1: different spots, UM making calls, the line checks at the line.
Speaker 1: You know, he was very instinctive and good football player.
Speaker 1: And obviously Um came up big with a couple of plays.
Speaker 1: Managing emotions lead up to this game up ter, it
Speaker 1: was such a much ants. Yeah, I thought I thought
Speaker 1: it went pretty well. You know, I thought obviously emotions
Speaker 1: were running high from the moment I woke up this morning.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, for me, I was just putting
Speaker 1: on worship music and just getting in the zone like that.
Speaker 1: I just felt like another game at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. Able to get your first hit today and
Speaker 1: getting you bounced right back up. How the nerves calmed down.
Speaker 1: It felt great, felt great. The running game help you today.
Speaker 1: It looked like that was a real focused effort to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the running game was huge. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a lot of UM no huddle kind of checks
Speaker 1: at the line based on what we were getting coverage wise,
Speaker 1: and they were playing a lot of soft um zone coverage.
Speaker 1: So you know, the running game helped us slot in
Speaker 1: the passing game. And um, you know, obviously we're down
Speaker 1: a little bit with scrolls and a gie out, so
Speaker 1: um getting Windale getting you know, Josh Adams going, and
Speaker 1: then Corey. I think those those guys all stepped up
Speaker 1: and played a good football game. All the skill spots
Speaker 1: were pretty far down the dead chart. What effect is
Speaker 1: it is that having one on the offensive role? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's that's just kind of football.
Speaker 1: You know, that's part of football. And then I think
Speaker 1: that's where where good coaching comes into playing and getting
Speaker 1: our best guys out there. You know, obviously you saw
Speaker 1: us a lot with with two and three tight end
Speaker 1: personnel out there tonight, um, and I think that just
Speaker 1: was indicative of those injuries and just um finding a
Speaker 1: way to to just um, get our best guys on
Speaker 1: the field. And um, you know, coaches has a great
Speaker 1: job always just scheming things up, getting the right guys
Speaker 1: in the right positions, and so unfortunately you don't you
Speaker 1: don't want injuries but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you got to adapt with them, and I think coach
Speaker 1: has done a good job of that. Get said trouble
Speaker 1: getting the ball to Agilor, But on that last drive,
Speaker 1: two third down conversions out of him, you know, and
Speaker 1: both were with yards after the cash. What were the plays?
Speaker 1: You have a third and five and there's a third nine,
Speaker 1: And what did he do to make this possible? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Nelson today obviously didn't get it get a bunch
Speaker 1: going early, and um, that's just part of it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not something by any by schemer design. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just their coverage. And um, like I said, we
Speaker 1: had to take some things underneath, and um, the tight ends,
Speaker 1: all of them kind of stepped up and played it.
Speaker 1: Played a good football game, and um, you know on
Speaker 1: third downs, I mean those ones late in the game,
Speaker 1: Nelson just always has a feeling and being in the
Speaker 1: right spot. And so, um, he's a guy you know,
Speaker 1: especially like him and Zach are two of the main
Speaker 1: targets that we look far on third down and um,
Speaker 1: those he stepped up there at the end car watching
Speaker 1: your defense stop him in the red zone. How much
Speaker 1: of that fire your offense up? Yeah. I mean I
Speaker 1: think we both feed off each other, you know, offensively. UM.
Speaker 1: Seeing our defense just continually step up late in games
Speaker 1: like they have, UM, even going back to last year
Speaker 1: and then the first game of the year, UM today, UM,
Speaker 1: just that that gives us a lot of UM energy
Speaker 1: and excitement on the on the offensive side, and knowing
Speaker 1: that if we just put one together now that defense
Speaker 1: is going to get ahold And that's what they did.
Speaker 1: Or a hit, but you took where you said, okay,
Speaker 1: shoot unrelieved. Now I know I can I know I
Speaker 1: can do this. There are a couple of times where
Speaker 1: you got hit. A couple of scrambles you've made, a
Speaker 1: couple of times you were very elusive in the pocket, left, right, left, forward,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Did any of those register like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's great? Um? Not really, you know, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I've been doing so much in practice,
Speaker 1: you know, whether whether you guys saw it in training
Speaker 1: camp or I was off to the side with the
Speaker 1: trainers or whoever, I've been doing so much of that
Speaker 1: stuff for a while now. Obviously getting hit was new,
Speaker 1: but I felt like felt like riding a bike, getting
Speaker 1: hit and popping back up again. Your team means have
Speaker 1: mentioned different times in practice, different places where they said
Speaker 1: on my Carson's packed, there's gonna be no limitations. Was
Speaker 1: there a play like that for you in the past
Speaker 1: whatever three to four weeks, I don't think so, you know,
Speaker 1: nothing really sticks out. You know, it was a lot
Speaker 1: of going against the defense As a scout team quarterback,
Speaker 1: I was a little new for me, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I felt good for a while. I was
Speaker 1: just good to finally get out there to get this
Speaker 1: first one. All the way for me, how much was
Speaker 1: afore they get this first one done and then just
Speaker 1: out back one focus? I mean it was huge. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it's huge to just pick up a win in
Speaker 1: a hard fought game with some some tough conditions out there. Um,
Speaker 1: guys really rallied around each other. Uh, the resilience, I
Speaker 1: thought it was huge. Today. You know, we had, like
Speaker 1: we talked about that long drive at the end, we
Speaker 1: had some really unfortunate situations we were in in second
Speaker 1: and extra long third downs. Uh, the fourth downs. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a couple of things, and um, guys just stayed
Speaker 1: together and then the defense stepping up at the end.
Speaker 1: That was huge for us to get us back on track.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned a soft stone a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Looked like a lot of cover too. This was an
Speaker 1: emotional game for you. It's nine plus months, is it was?
Speaker 1: It kind of a little bit harder to not want
Speaker 1: to press and you seeing that cover to it. Not really,
Speaker 1: you know, I like to think I'm a tun off
Speaker 1: as a player to just take what they give me.
Speaker 1: Obviously they had some um that that might have fooled me,
Speaker 1: um coverage wise and kind of tricked me a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's football. That's football, and that comes with it,
Speaker 1: and um, you know that's that's a good defense over there.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you were curious about that you
Speaker 1: how you would respond that today's told you? Or I
Speaker 1: think you learn that you did not know this point?
Speaker 1: Not really, you know, not really. I think once I
Speaker 1: got back out there, got that first incompletion out of
Speaker 1: the way, kind of threw that one down the field
Speaker 1: a little aggressively. We were rolling from there. Thanks. Thanks, Thanks,