Speaker 1: Together anymore? Is their schism here all that? Stevens, he
Speaker 1: just beat me here and I advanished my shake. Um.
Speaker 1: I just as Jordan Fletcher the same question. Uh, you
Speaker 1: look at the Detroit game, he has to replate. You
Speaker 1: look at something you guys up late? The Washington game
Speaker 1: was in the balance. Um, how does how does a
Speaker 1: team learn to finish those games and and and put
Speaker 1: teams away when you have the opportunity. I think just
Speaker 1: in those moments, everybody's to really lock in on what
Speaker 1: their main job is, you know. I think sometimes it's
Speaker 1: it's in a the when you think you've got the
Speaker 1: game under control, everybody kind of you know, takes that
Speaker 1: deep breath, and then that's when you slip up. That's
Speaker 1: when there's missus signments. That's when the ball gets put
Speaker 1: on the ground, whether it's at receiver, running back in position. Um,
Speaker 1: that's when guys just aren't focused on the minor details.
Speaker 1: And then those are things I'll kill you. And so
Speaker 1: it's just saying, okay, like when we come in the huddle,
Speaker 1: maybe if you know, next time we're in the game
Speaker 1: in that situation and we're up late, it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: everybody lock in whatever your job is, do that for
Speaker 1: the next six seconds, every single play, and let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish these guys. Don't start looking ahead, don't
Speaker 1: start relaxing. To keep that same strength, keep that same
Speaker 1: energy up that we had at the beginning of the game.
Speaker 1: Part of the team being young, Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think you can credit and sometimes being young. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of experience to to be you know,
Speaker 1: so to be had for this team. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's more just being disciplined. You got you
Speaker 1: gotta be disciplined. You know, this is the NFL. So
Speaker 1: we're not gonna sit around and make excuses all day.
Speaker 1: We gotta go finish those games. Um, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as concerned, I'm My biggest thing obviously is I'm
Speaker 1: his friends. So I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: he's good Miss Lee with his family and everything and
Speaker 1: just at home. You know, obviously we know that he's
Speaker 1: going through some things right now. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: is okay, it's happened. We deal with the facts. But
Speaker 1: now after the facts are dealt with, how do we
Speaker 1: react to them? How do we combat that? And it's
Speaker 1: just you know, continue to stay positive. Continue to still
Speaker 1: be a good father to his son, good husband to
Speaker 1: his wife, and then when he comes in here us
Speaker 1: giving him positive energy and positive feedback just his players
Speaker 1: and friends or you and others have talked about how
Speaker 1: a defense may not be threatened by the threat of
Speaker 1: a deep fall or a deep passing game. With the
Speaker 1: way things are going right now, do you have to
Speaker 1: take shots down the field for things to open up
Speaker 1: a little bit? Yeah, I mean I think everybody wants
Speaker 1: to obviously, you know, that's one big thing. I know.
Speaker 1: I know Carson wants to go out there too, and
Speaker 1: you know, take some shots down the field. That's just
Speaker 1: something that we want to do. We want to do
Speaker 1: a last game. But you know it, surprisingly Dallas played
Speaker 1: really deep. They played two safeties deep. You know, so
Speaker 1: you are going to try and you know, pick him
Speaker 1: apart underneath, and for the most part we were doing,
Speaker 1: you know, a good job with it. We just had
Speaker 1: to finish the game. You know. If we would have
Speaker 1: finished that game, I still I don't think this would
Speaker 1: be as big of a topic still as it is now.
Speaker 1: So obviously, you know, it is still something to work
Speaker 1: on for us, though mainly as receivers. We just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we got to go out there and make the plays.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not we can't call him, we're not
Speaker 1: throwing it, but we gotta go out there and just
Speaker 1: go and make it happen. That way, we're in still
Speaker 1: more confidence in Carson and and the coaches and us
Speaker 1: going out there and doing it. What are you singing
Speaker 1: practice from Tricks? I mean, he got here, lady, He's
Speaker 1: getting all the installs. Now is he up to speed?
Speaker 1: And you're not a coach, but is he getting close
Speaker 1: to where he might be? Yeah, definitely he's Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: up to speed for sure. He's running like four to
Speaker 1: three out there. So I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: worry about you know him as as far well, I mean,
Speaker 1: all right now, I just want him to run straight
Speaker 1: and go get the ball. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: much install and I wanted Tricks to know. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, he's doing well. Hard working guy. He's
Speaker 1: been cool as far as just in the meeting rooms around.
Speaker 1: The guy's great addition, So you know, it's just plugging
Speaker 1: him in in the best way possible. But obviously he
Speaker 1: does have an asset, and that asset is a speed.
Speaker 1: So we want to definitely be able to utilize that
Speaker 1: as soon as we can. You've seen Doug handle several
Speaker 1: off the field issues over the last several months. What
Speaker 1: has struck you about his approach to how he handles
Speaker 1: those things. I think the best thing about Coach Peterson
Speaker 1: is he understands that, you know, as a grown man,
Speaker 1: when you make a mistake, you don't need another girl
Speaker 1: man to remind you of the fact that you made
Speaker 1: a mistake, you know. I think that's one big thing
Speaker 1: that Coach Peterson does understand. He's really good with people.
Speaker 1: He's been in the locker room. He knows guys, he
Speaker 1: knows things happen. So if anything, he's always going to
Speaker 1: get positive feedback. Is he going to say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to figure out a way to get past this.
Speaker 1: Of course, But at the same time, whenever there's a
Speaker 1: situation like that, the guy honestly knows that he's made
Speaker 1: a mistake. So Coach Peterson is always going to be
Speaker 1: as positive as possible with him. He's going to always
Speaker 1: make him feel like family, you know, as he should.
Speaker 1: And I just I like the way he handles it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't come up here in team meeting, you know,
Speaker 1: and get on somebody in front of everybody. He's going
Speaker 1: to have those conversations in private, one on one, and
Speaker 1: then when it comes to the team structure, it's about, hey,
Speaker 1: we continue to move forward. We let everything else play out.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we're a team, we're a family,
Speaker 1: and that's still the most important thing. The fact that
Speaker 1: he has been in that locker room as a player
Speaker 1: is a big reason why. Definitely, I think I said
Speaker 1: that from the very beginning. You know, Coach Peterson, great coach,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. But at the same time, I feel
Speaker 1: like I go fishing with him, like he's just a
Speaker 1: you know, normal guy to the core. But I think
Speaker 1: that that sense of how he is definitely helps him
Speaker 1: in the locker room and just with guys you know
Speaker 1: around the building. Um, I would say, no, not at all,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not playing to the level that we
Speaker 1: need to be playing at, you know. And you can
Speaker 1: even throw me in there too, like, you know, me
Speaker 1: included with the whole group. So it's on us, you know,
Speaker 1: to all say internally, how are we each going to
Speaker 1: go out there and not just do our job, but
Speaker 1: do our job to a level where Okay, now, we're
Speaker 1: a threat to people, you know, because right now we're
Speaker 1: putting people in situation. Okay, yeah, this guy does this,
Speaker 1: this guy does this. He's a big guy, he's a slot.
Speaker 1: At the same time as okay, we need to be
Speaker 1: worried about these guys. You know. I know when our
Speaker 1: defensive guys come in here, y'all going to ask them
Speaker 1: about the giants wh our receivers and you know what
Speaker 1: threat are they to you? Guys? What we need to
Speaker 1: play to that level to where other teams are saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta get ready for these guys. But that's just
Speaker 1: on us. That's what we gotta do every day in practice,
Speaker 1: and we just gotta take that mentality to the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm confident in the guys that we have that
Speaker 1: we want to do that. Okay,