Speaker 1: And it wasn't just one guy. You hit a bunch
Speaker 1: of different guys and yeah, you know, you guys kind
Speaker 1: of have an upfield now is something that keeps have
Speaker 1: to kind of defend, how they except you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know obviously, Uh, it's good to finally put that
Speaker 1: on tape. You know, it's not something that we've been
Speaker 1: trying to shy away from. It just you know, hadn't
Speaker 1: really presented itself until last Sunday. But now that it's
Speaker 1: out there, I think teams have to respect us pushing
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. Obviously, it's something that we're
Speaker 1: going to try to do. Um. You know, we did
Speaker 1: it with some success on Sunday, you know, so hopefully
Speaker 1: that'll back people off and maybe open up some of
Speaker 1: the intermediate stuff. Some of them seem you were hating
Speaker 1: what they were giving them, but some of them were
Speaker 1: seemed like you were being a little more aggressive, perhaps
Speaker 1: growing guys open um. Were you feeling differently out there
Speaker 1: or was something different about how you felt this in
Speaker 1: the scheme. You know, I think a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the calls, you know, they're designed to
Speaker 1: push it downfield, so you have to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more aggressive, But you know, I think in that
Speaker 1: second half, we just kind of found a rhythm. You know,
Speaker 1: I found a rhythm where I was just really confident
Speaker 1: out there and everything that we were doing, um, you know.
Speaker 1: And I feel like once you get into a rhythm
Speaker 1: like that, or you get that confidence, then you know,
Speaker 1: you start making some throws that you know, you feel
Speaker 1: like they can't cover. You said after the game Sunday
Speaker 1: that you're starting to feel more comfortable. What exactly you're
Speaker 1: feeling more comfortable with, um, you know, just the offense
Speaker 1: in general. I think you know, the timing of different things. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously, you know, you go through training camp
Speaker 1: and it's kind of your base offense, base package, and
Speaker 1: then you get into game week and you start the
Speaker 1: game play a little bit and there's been some things
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe we're relatively new to me, but
Speaker 1: you know, now I feel like I've got a better
Speaker 1: grasp of, you know, what we're trying to do, both
Speaker 1: in the run game and the past game, now that
Speaker 1: we've got a few weeks you know, under our belt,
Speaker 1: and just feel better with it. Is that what you
Speaker 1: think Coach Kelly expects from you? I know, and the
Speaker 1: pretty season you were saying you'd like to be on
Speaker 1: the field to kind of get on the same page
Speaker 1: with him. I mean it's that kind of coming together
Speaker 1: to with his expectation levels. Why you're right on the field. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully he's you know, gaining more confidence in me.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously, I think you know, the more you're
Speaker 1: out there, the more I'm out there, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the more work together, you know, that's what I'm comfortable with.
Speaker 1: What I like. I think he gets a better sense
Speaker 1: for you know, kind of what gets us going. Um,
Speaker 1: so with that relationship would just continue to get better.
Speaker 1: THIRDNS um, there's a lot of them. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's one issue. I think it's it's all over
Speaker 1: the place. Um, you know we've had some mistassignments and misthrows,
Speaker 1: some drops. I mean I think that you know, you
Speaker 1: could look at third down in general and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone that we failed to complete. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: different reason why we're not converting. I think we use
Speaker 1: a lot of different word for what we got. Y
Speaker 1: I'm important to get everybody's mom Yeah, I mean that's huge,
Speaker 1: you know, especially in this offense. You know, the way
Speaker 1: we want to play spread you know, we want to
Speaker 1: spread people out, you know, and give them the threat
Speaker 1: that the ball can go anywhere at any time. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think obviously in the first couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, we had primarily tried to attack the middle
Speaker 1: of the field with our inside guys. But last week,
Speaker 1: you know, we spread the ball around outside. I think
Speaker 1: that's something we're going to continue to try to do.
Speaker 1: And I think the more that we can spread the
Speaker 1: ball around, you know, the tougher it makes it on defenses.
Speaker 1: Today that the problem on third down was was a
Speaker 1: lot first and second down and not getting what you
Speaker 1: need to make it manageable. How do you see that
Speaker 1: and what has to change for that too? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's big. I think, you know, the first two games,
Speaker 1: that was our main problem. Um. You know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to be efficient and complete a high percentage of third
Speaker 1: downs when you're in third and seven, third and eight
Speaker 1: longer yardages. So you know, I think on first and
Speaker 1: second down, you know, we've got to do a better
Speaker 1: job of just being efficient. Um. You know, we can't
Speaker 1: have negative plays, whether they be negative run sacks. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, even incompletion and uh, those just seemed to
Speaker 1: kind of set us back. And right now, the way
Speaker 1: we're playing, you know, we've got to do a better
Speaker 1: job of getting ourselves third and two, third and three, Yes, Bree,
Speaker 1: he traded four and Drew coming off injured. Is that
Speaker 1: a store you followed or a story? Doctor and Andrews
Speaker 1: get the talking backdoor to the copy process? Um a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, obviously, I think you know, any
Speaker 1: quarterbacks familiar with his story, you know, obviously he's made
Speaker 1: a tremendous comeback. I'm not sure outside himself, anyone believed
Speaker 1: that he would be able to do what he's done.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been truly remarkable. So I think it's
Speaker 1: something that you know, I was aware of. But did
Speaker 1: I have a specific conversation with anyone about it? Not really?
Speaker 1: And was there one particular throw we usually started feeling
Speaker 1: it ACTI made the one handed one, but after that,
Speaker 1: get the hurts throw a really tight window, which one
Speaker 1: which one did meet? He felt, you know, felt that
Speaker 1: if he were starting to get it and start coming back, um,
Speaker 1: you know, probably the one to Earth's or even then
Speaker 1: coming back in the second half and just getting the
Speaker 1: one to coop, you know, the touchdown the first play
Speaker 1: to get us go. And I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: once we got that first touchdown, that first big play,
Speaker 1: I just I could sense the energy you know in
Speaker 1: our group on the sideline and in the huddle. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that we were about to take off from
Speaker 1: what you see, you know, build like defense where you
Speaker 1: feel like you might be able to take a batch
Speaker 1: of balls again or Um, you know we're gonna try,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know we feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we've got some speed mismatches outside this week with
Speaker 1: some of our wide receivers against their corners. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: but like I said, it's all going to be dependent
Speaker 1: upon how they play us. You know, if they want
Speaker 1: to play us in man that we're gonna take some shots.
Speaker 1: If they want to play us in more too high
Speaker 1: or zone, uh, than have to be willing, you know
Speaker 1: to work the intermediate stuff. You know that just the
Speaker 1: the injury, really coming back from really tough to is
Speaker 1: there a little bit of that and you coming back
Speaker 1: from your back to back and feel there's some kind
Speaker 1: of holes. Well the way you guys are coming back, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I think we're both quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who have gone through injuries. But other than that, I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure if there's a whole lot you know
Speaker 1: that links us. The reality is you didn't have you
Speaker 1: really didn't have a lot of reps in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and the deep balls are plays and are such timing
Speaker 1: plays and precision is required. I mean, is there a
Speaker 1: possibility that just having more time with these guys in
Speaker 1: practice and at full speed reps has really kind of
Speaker 1: I don't given you better timmy with the receivers to
Speaker 1: be able to hit those. That is that part of
Speaker 1: the equation. Um, yeah, I think that could be part
Speaker 1: of it, you know, obviously, I think, you know, the
Speaker 1: more reps you get, um, you know, and anything, the
Speaker 1: more comfortable you become, you know, the better you feel
Speaker 1: about things. I think that's obviously the way I feel
Speaker 1: right now. So, um, you know, I think that could
Speaker 1: play a part and why we had success on Sunday
Speaker 1: with the angle. Is the angle that you leaded in
Speaker 1: the game the same one that you injured earlier this season? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the running game obviously hasn't been where you guys want,
Speaker 1: but relatively speaking, it's been a little bit better with
Speaker 1: Ryan and has with DeMarco. Is that just coincidence ers
Speaker 1: or something you guys have done differently. I mean, what's there?
Speaker 1: Do you explain that? Um? To be honest, I really
Speaker 1: wasn't aware of that. UM. You know, we've kind of
Speaker 1: looked at the run game as a whole um and
Speaker 1: its opposed to how it is with one player or together.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's probably just coincidence. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we'd like to get it going. You know, I've
Speaker 1: said it before. You know, this offense is at its
Speaker 1: best when we can run the football and when we're
Speaker 1: running the football successfully. So you know, it's something that
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to address and continue to try
Speaker 1: to get to be where we want it. Oh, that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's fine, safense. The offense really has struggled three out
Speaker 1: of four games in its start. If you get off
Speaker 1: to a slow start this week, it's fair to say
Speaker 1: the paying faithful might being anxious. You sense that. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously I don't think they were happy with our start
Speaker 1: against Dallas. UM, but it's one of those things. We're
Speaker 1: not happy with it either. UM. You know, we're just
Speaker 1: as frustrated by you know, obviously we're doing everything we
Speaker 1: can to try to get it fixed. You know, it's
Speaker 1: obviously not fun going into halftime trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how we're going to dig ourselves out of a hole
Speaker 1: that we've put ourselves in. You know, it's much more
Speaker 1: fun for us to go out and establish a lead
Speaker 1: and get things going early. So um, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: that's something that we can do on Sunday. So you've
Speaker 1: been playing eleven personnel like a ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: time on first and second down. What are you seeing
Speaker 1: from defenses? Are they sharing in their base or they
Speaker 1: how are they playing? Are you forcing your nickel? It's
Speaker 1: been primarily nickel to our eleven personnel. Yeah, which I
Speaker 1: mean it should make it favorable to run right you
Speaker 1: would think sick theoretically, Thanks guys, Nikos right back, yere