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Speaker 2: You mentioned in your press conference that you thought overall
Speaker 2: Will Levis played better in a lot of facets against
Speaker 2: the Jets than he did against the Bears. One thing
Speaker 2: that stuck out to me in kind of watching some
Speaker 2: things back, will Levis was not afraid to go at
Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner, one of the best cornerbacks in the league.
Speaker 2: A lot of young quarterbacks would would not do that.
Speaker 2: But will Levis is not afraid. We know he's not afraid.
Speaker 2: When he runs. He's averaging over nine yards of carry
Speaker 2: guys on pace for over five hundred rushing yards. This season.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he doesn't slide, and that's not always the greatest
Speaker 2: thing in the world, but.
Speaker 1: He did twice. He did, He did get better. We
Speaker 1: got better.
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm getting down to. As we like
Speaker 2: to say, he ain't scared. And we know this that
Speaker 2: fearlessness is a tremendous attribute to an NFL quarterback. Fearlessness
Speaker 2: can lead to recklessness, though the two are sort of intertwined.
Speaker 2: So how do you, as a quarterback guru, accentuate the
Speaker 2: quarterback's fearlessness and mitigate the recklessness while still keeping him
Speaker 2: being who he really is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the trick, because you have to be able
Speaker 3: to be fearless enough to stand in that pocket and
Speaker 3: make a throw, and you have to be fearless enough
Speaker 3: to pull the ball down and run and not be
Speaker 3: worried about getting hit and standing in the pocket when
Speaker 3: people are bearing down on you. Those things are all
Speaker 3: traits that Will has that are going to serve him
Speaker 3: well in his career. And then you just have to
Speaker 3: mitigate the mistake part of it, where there is a
Speaker 3: time to cut your losses and not every play has
Speaker 3: to be this hero creation, get out of trouble, make
Speaker 3: a crazy throw, off platform, off balance. That's not really
Speaker 3: what you need to do. A lot of playing quarterback
Speaker 3: in the NFL is doing boring things, doing mundane tasks,
Speaker 3: and that's completing the football, taking a check down and
Speaker 3: holding onto the ball when you're getting sacked and just
Speaker 3: take the sack. Well, we'll live for the next plays.
Speaker 3: I've said a million times to over my careers. There's
Speaker 3: a time and a place for trying to extend to play,
Speaker 3: for playing off schedule and off structure with a little
Speaker 3: bit of recklessness, which requires and then there's a time
Speaker 3: where just sometimes the sack is the best play and.
Speaker 1: You have to learn that.
Speaker 3: And I think I think we are on track to
Speaker 3: learn that at this point with Will, and he understands
Speaker 3: the situational part of it versus just the purely I
Speaker 3: need to make a play part.
Speaker 2: But you understand my question though, in terms of I'm
Speaker 2: watching it back and I'm going he's going right at
Speaker 2: sauce card.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We felt good about our matchup too. I don't
Speaker 3: know that there's a whole lot of people that can
Speaker 3: cover Calvin Ridley right, and we felt like Calvin's Calvin's
Speaker 3: ability to run vertically with speed and to change the direction,
Speaker 3: make cuts and get out of the break. Makes him
Speaker 3: a really unique player and there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: guys that can do what Calvin does, and so we
Speaker 3: weren't afraid that that would be a hard matchup. We
Speaker 3: knew that Sauce would probably at points beyond Calvin and
Speaker 3: we weren't going to be afraid to throw it to him.
Speaker 2: And sometimes Sauce is going to win, but as we saw,
Speaker 2: sometimes when you take those chances, you're able to win
Speaker 2: as well, and win.
Speaker 1: Big correct like on the touchdown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was some really nice There was some really
Speaker 3: nice plays. There was the one out route that we
Speaker 3: threw in that last drive as well on a third down,
Speaker 3: that pretty ball, beautiful timing, footwork, protection, throw route, I mean,
Speaker 3: the whole thing. And that's sort of what my message
Speaker 3: was today with our team is that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of that, which is all of the things that we
Speaker 3: look for, all the things on all three phases. There's
Speaker 3: really good things happening. We just have to mitigate the
Speaker 3: ones that have hurt us, and I think we'd like
Speaker 3: the result.
Speaker 4: So have you noticed after reviewing the tape from week
Speaker 4: two that some of your younger players are making those improvements,
Speaker 4: are continuing to make some of those changes from week
Speaker 4: one to week two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the most noticeable was the two offensive lineman
Speaker 3: on the left side for US on offense was But
Speaker 3: Jc's improvement from week one to week two was pretty
Speaker 3: pretty dramatic. He did a much better job. Same with Pete.
Speaker 3: Peter was really really good on the second part of
Speaker 3: this progression. And to see those guys make those adjustments
Speaker 3: and improvements is really positive. I think, you know, defensively,
Speaker 3: we don't have a lot of young players on defense
Speaker 3: right now. You know, That's that's probably why our defense
Speaker 3: has played so well at the Stars because we have
Speaker 3: so many veteran players that have played a lot of
Speaker 3: football and they understand how to play together. And but
Speaker 3: I think that you know, even Jarvis Brownly continues to
Speaker 3: develop and play a role and play good and plays
Speaker 3: well in special teams for US. So yeah, we've got
Speaker 3: young players doing good things and contributing obviously to Andres
Speaker 3: another young player that plays a lot for us. So
Speaker 3: those are all exciting things that young players are developing.
Speaker 3: And there's there's there is a jump week to week
Speaker 3: to week for those those guys and it's not always linear,
Speaker 3: it's not just they're just constantly improving, but there's weeks
Speaker 3: where they do really nice things.
Speaker 2: Was there any difference in how the Jets chose to
Speaker 2: block or handle to and Andre sweat.
Speaker 3: No, they tried to run their offense the way they
Speaker 3: tried to run it. But I think they were just
Speaker 3: our guys were disruptive and you could see the difference
Speaker 3: this week. Whereas Devandre had some splash plays last week,
Speaker 3: this week he was doing a little more of the
Speaker 3: dirty work. I mean he was eating up double teams
Speaker 3: and you could see Ernest and Kenneth just ripping through
Speaker 3: gaps because there was nobody on the second level to
Speaker 3: block them. And that's the other part of his job
Speaker 3: that it's not going to be as exciting to watch
Speaker 3: on TV, but it's just as important, just as effective
Speaker 3: to eat up those double teams and let the linebackers
Speaker 3: run overall.
Speaker 4: Did the Jets offensive line make some of those adjustments,
Speaker 4: like bigger picture, did you see that there was some
Speaker 4: difference from week one to week two?
Speaker 3: No, not anything out of the ordinary. I mean they
Speaker 3: did a nice job. They got they were little more empty,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of five man protection got the ball
Speaker 3: out quick because I think our our defensive line puts
Speaker 3: some pressure on him early. You could see their adjustment
Speaker 3: was to let Aaron get it back there and check
Speaker 3: it out and see it and make a couple of
Speaker 3: quick throws and get the ball out of his hand
Speaker 3: because the pressure was pretty relentless to start the game
Speaker 3: on their offense. So I didn't see anything dramatically different
Speaker 3: schematically that would have changed what they did.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of conversation about the big guys on
Speaker 4: this Titans defense, but Harold Landry had two sacks in
Speaker 4: this last game against the Jets, and he kind of
Speaker 4: continues to be this presence within the defense. What does
Speaker 4: he contribute just that.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a when you have an edge rusher
Speaker 3: that gets production on the quarterback and then you have
Speaker 3: two interior players that are difficult to handle, and then
Speaker 3: Arden has done a really nice job and his role
Speaker 3: it affects the way that the quarterback feels. I mean,
Speaker 3: we all know that when the quarterback feels pressure and
Speaker 3: they get hit, they don't like it. And Harold's done
Speaker 3: a really good job of producing on the quarter back
Speaker 3: and a lot of to one of the sacks this week,
Speaker 3: and one of them last week was really because of
Speaker 3: the unselfishness of jeff Simmons rush. You know, they're in
Speaker 3: they're in a game, and just all Jeff's jobs do
Speaker 3: is just to occupy and penetrate vertically and Harold's looping,
Speaker 3: and Harold is a great job finishing the loop and
Speaker 3: finishing on the quarterback. But a lot of that's because
Speaker 3: there's other guys working to help get them open, just
Speaker 3: like on offense, when your receivers are running arounds to
Speaker 3: clear space, just clear in space so Harold can go rush.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what makes that unit really good,
Speaker 3: is they're all really unselfish.
Speaker 2: It feels like in watching them too. Jeffrey Simmons hit
Speaker 2: five tackles in the game. But it feels like his
Speaker 2: time is coming very quickly in terms of being able
Speaker 2: to get to the quarterback. Based on what he's been
Speaker 2: able to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt, I mean, and again part of
Speaker 3: that is because he's been asked to do some other
Speaker 3: things to help because he garners so much attention. Boy
Speaker 3: that short yardage play though you want to talk about
Speaker 3: impact play, I mean, he swims the guard and then
Speaker 3: ejects the or he swims the center and he jects
Speaker 3: the guard back into the backfield and then makes the
Speaker 3: tackle that allowed Ernest to go fit it on top
Speaker 3: of it, and the two of them hit him for
Speaker 3: a two yard loss on a third and one. I mean,
Speaker 3: those are the Those are way more impactful than a
Speaker 3: sack sometimes, you know. And that's what he does. He
Speaker 3: just he impacts the game in a lot of different levels.
Speaker 2: Ernist Jones got his first starts that you traded for him.
Speaker 2: Nine tackles, two tackles for lost yardage. It feels like
Speaker 2: he's everything he was cracked up to be.
Speaker 3: I mean it was. He was a four year starter
Speaker 3: and a team captain and a you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know the reasoning for what I wanted to make the move,
Speaker 3: but I'm glad they called, and I'm glad we made
Speaker 3: the move because he's We felt like he was a
Speaker 3: player that could really help our defense and help that position.
Speaker 3: We were a little bit thin after some injuries and
Speaker 3: training camp, and we had a need there and to
Speaker 3: get a player at his caliber. We knew it would
Speaker 3: eventually have an impact once she got more comfortable. And
Speaker 3: I think as he gets another week comfortable, He's gonna
Speaker 3: be another week better in the system. But man, I'm
Speaker 3: really glad we have him.
Speaker 1: Is explosion The main thing he adds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's is a physicality. He's kind of similar to
Speaker 3: like how Kenneth is in terms of heavy downhill physical
Speaker 3: still can run well, it still can cover southel on
Speaker 3: the sideline, but just the physicality is the part that
Speaker 3: you see from him a lot.
Speaker 1: It's like an AFC North linebacker.
Speaker 3: Sure is.
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Speaker 1: We continue with head coach Brian Callahan.
Speaker 4: Coach Tony Pollard had one hundred and two yards from
Speaker 4: scrimmage against the Jets. What does he continue to bring
Speaker 4: to this Titans offense?
Speaker 3: Versatility and he's he's a really good running back. He's
Speaker 3: really good as a runner. He's got great vision and
Speaker 3: patience and then burst to pick up yards after contact.
Speaker 3: He's got some elusiveness. And then in the past game,
Speaker 3: I mean, we hit him on a twenty yard vertical
Speaker 3: down the field pass, and we hit him on the
Speaker 3: use him in the screen game and use him out
Speaker 3: of the back of the So there's he just has
Speaker 3: the ability to be like that's what I envisioned when
Speaker 3: when Tony got here, was a guy like that that
Speaker 3: could have, you know, twelve rushes and six catches and
Speaker 3: he's going to account for one hundred and something yards
Speaker 3: every week he steps out there, and it's that's very valuable.
Speaker 3: He's he's and he's a he's I love everything about
Speaker 3: how he plays football. He's he's a really really good
Speaker 3: football player.
Speaker 2: You touched on Calvin Ridley in our last segment. What
Speaker 2: we saw yesterday four catches seventy seven yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 2: One rush for a touchdown. Is that just kind of
Speaker 2: the tip of the iceberg in terms of how you
Speaker 2: see him being able to be used in this offense.
Speaker 1: I sure hope.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, he's all the different ways. I mean, we
Speaker 3: move him all over the place, We put a lot
Speaker 3: on his plate mentally, does a great job handling it,
Speaker 3: both in the run game, man in the pass game.
Speaker 3: The fact that we could get that, you know, he's
Speaker 3: done a lot of those motions over the first part
Speaker 3: of the preseason. In the first regular season game, and
Speaker 3: to get him a jet sweep was really really good,
Speaker 3: worked really well, exactly how we hoped it would. But
Speaker 3: that's what I see. And then really we left some
Speaker 3: plays on the field to him too. And I think
Speaker 3: he's he's a catcher two away from having a you know,
Speaker 3: one hundred and something yard game as opposed to those
Speaker 3: you know, the sixties and seventies. I think we find
Speaker 3: another way. Two three more completions, and you know he
Speaker 3: has the one that he dropped on the third down.
Speaker 3: You call that a drop That one was, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: that one was. I just yeah, I just wonder how
Speaker 3: you we have not heard how you grade. Yet he
Speaker 3: would he would call it a drop to I would
Speaker 3: imagine that one was that one could have been that
Speaker 3: was that was the hundred something yarder to big third down,
Speaker 3: put us down the red zone again, chance to win
Speaker 3: the game. That was a big play. And I think
Speaker 3: that there's gonna be more and more of that, and
Speaker 3: he's getting more comfortable. Will is getting more comfortable with him,
Speaker 3: and I think that, uh, this is just the beginning
Speaker 3: for what he can be. He's such a dynamic player.
Speaker 1: You're a tough grader, I hope.
Speaker 3: So it's just the way it is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: there's the teams that are really playing well make those plays, right,
Speaker 3: they make the they make the contested catch that Burke's had.
Speaker 3: They think we were just we're we're so close, We're
Speaker 3: so close to being really good, and so the only
Speaker 3: way to get better is to be critical and hopefully
Speaker 3: you make those adjustments and you make those coaching points
Speaker 3: and we're better the next time.
Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, just to follow one further bit,
Speaker 2: if you have that level of expectation that you expect
Speaker 2: that catch to be made, do you find as time
Speaker 2: goes on that catch ends up getting.
Speaker 1: Made absolutely okay.
Speaker 3: There's a there's a there's always standard, there's always an expectation,
Speaker 3: and I think that most guys rise to meet those.
Speaker 3: All the great competitors I've been around always end up
Speaker 3: they want to be held to that high standard. They
Speaker 3: want they want the expectation to be they're going to
Speaker 3: make the play, and I think the more that you
Speaker 3: do that, the more it becomes part of who you
Speaker 3: are as an offense, and everyone sort of responds to
Speaker 3: those things.
Speaker 4: So when we talk about standards on offense, it seems
Speaker 4: as though the run game is closer to the standard.
Speaker 4: What is it going to take to get the passing
Speaker 4: game on the same level.
Speaker 3: I think the more we play, the better we're going
Speaker 3: to get. That's just natural progression of things. I think
Speaker 3: Will has done a really nice job in a lot
Speaker 3: of areas, and there's some areas that he needs to
Speaker 3: get better at, and I think he has. I think
Speaker 3: the Week one improvement to week two to me was
Speaker 3: really encouraging. You take the silly play that he made
Speaker 3: out of it, and there's a lot of really positives
Speaker 3: from the game that were better than they were the
Speaker 3: week before. And I told him before I came up
Speaker 3: here that that's all we're looking for is be better
Speaker 3: the next week. If you made a mistake the first week,
Speaker 3: don't make it again. If you had to correct something
Speaker 3: the second week, don't do in the third week. And
Speaker 3: I think that progression is really going to help him.
Speaker 3: And then as hop gets gets back to form, and
Speaker 3: I said in my press conference, I do a better
Speaker 3: job of getting him involved earlier in the game, and
Speaker 3: I think the ball gets distributed a little bit more
Speaker 3: evenly and makes it a little bit harder to defend. Overall,
Speaker 3: it's not just throwing the Calvin I think will be
Speaker 3: a lot better for it.
Speaker 2: All Right, So there is a trend around the league though,
Speaker 2: teams running games seemed to be far ahead of their
Speaker 2: passing get through two weeks, fourteen one hundred yard rushers
Speaker 2: and only five three hundred yard passers. Do you have
Speaker 2: a theory as to why.
Speaker 3: I don't, And I think that that's really it is
Speaker 3: really interesting in the beginning of this season compared to
Speaker 3: seasons past, And I'm sure at the end of the
Speaker 3: season it will all sort of bear out, but this
Speaker 3: early part you're just you're seeing such an emphasis on
Speaker 3: limiting explosive plays and making offenses rightfully. So making offenses
Speaker 3: drive the field and do it do it the hard way.
Speaker 3: Complete you have to go five for five and rush
Speaker 3: for forty yards to get the score touchdown every time
Speaker 3: you touch the ball, and that that's hard to sustain
Speaker 3: that kind of success series by series. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: there's there's something happening right now in the NFL that's
Speaker 3: that's different, and I can't quite put my finger on it,
Speaker 3: but there definitely is a it's a different style that's
Speaker 3: being played. Whether people are running the ball more because
Speaker 3: there's more two high shells, but they're running it better
Speaker 3: against those two high shells. And maybe there's some teams
Speaker 3: playing with the two high shells that aren't built to
Speaker 3: stop the run with a two high shell, and so
Speaker 3: there's more runs, more rushes happening more often. You have
Speaker 3: a lot more young quarterbacks playing early in the season.
Speaker 3: So there's probably a bunch of factors that a lot
Speaker 3: of people that are way smarter than me have a
Speaker 3: better idea about. But there definitely is a change in
Speaker 3: dynamic on offensive football this early part of the year.
Speaker 4: So let's talk about Sunday's opponent in the Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packers because teams that rush. They had fifty three rushes
Speaker 4: for two hundred and sixty one yards against Indianapolis yesterday,
Speaker 4: and that's a lot. You don't really see NFL teams
Speaker 4: that committed to running the football. How hard does that
Speaker 4: make game planning on your defensive staff.
Speaker 3: It's it's not totally. It's a little bit different for
Speaker 3: us on the other side because they have a new coordinator,
Speaker 3: but for them, like at least Matt's been there for
Speaker 3: a while, the style of offenses is. You can go
Speaker 3: back and watch some things on what they like to
Speaker 3: do and all that. But yeah, I mean you you're
Speaker 3: getting ready for a team that's gonna try to run
Speaker 3: it right at you. And our team has responded well
Speaker 3: to that for the most part through two games. And
Speaker 3: that's gonna be a tough That's gonna be a tough
Speaker 3: matchup when you just mean it's going to be an
Speaker 3: almost old school approach and that red they're gonna run
Speaker 3: it that many times, and you've got to be ready
Speaker 3: to go defend it that many times and make it
Speaker 3: so they don't want to run it that many times.
Speaker 3: You have if there's no production in the run game,
Speaker 3: you're not going to keep handing it off. You're gonna
Speaker 3: try to find other ways to gain yards, and it'll
Speaker 3: be a tough test. I mean, they did a really
Speaker 3: good job. I mean, that's an impressive outing on the
Speaker 3: ground for any team at any point, and they did
Speaker 3: a really nice job. Well, Indy's defense is not chop
Speaker 3: liver either, No, not at all. They've They've been better
Speaker 3: defenses up front in the league. And yeah, that's an
Speaker 3: impressive performance by the Packers offensively for sure.
Speaker 2: So philosophically, do you go into this week with the thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to prepare for Jordan Love? Is that how
Speaker 2: you Is that how you think about it? Or do
Speaker 2: you even think about it?
Speaker 3: You have to be ready for it, absolutely, I know,
Speaker 3: we'll we'll watch, We'll watch all that. Jordan's been turned
Speaker 3: into a really nice quarterback in the league, and that's
Speaker 3: had really finished this season really well last year and
Speaker 3: had a good opening game. And I do believe that
Speaker 3: if he's got a chance to play, he'll try to
Speaker 3: be out there for his team. We have to be
Speaker 3: ready for that prospect, and then you just get you
Speaker 3: react to whatever the outcome is for the Sunday's active roster.
Speaker 3: So we'll prepare for it. We'll be ready for it.
Speaker 3: But you Elsea got to prepare for the league.
Speaker 2: My leak did a nice job, did a great job.
Speaker 2: He really had for him. Not surprisingly, he went in
Speaker 2: and played well and had a tremendous amount of composure.
Speaker 2: Do they change I mean, I know they ran a lot,
Speaker 2: they didn't throw as much. He's new to the offense.
Speaker 2: But philosophically, do they change much if they change quarterbacks?
Speaker 3: I think they let they put the ball in Jordan's
Speaker 3: hands more often than Jordan's true. I mean he's going
Speaker 3: to take He's earned the right to have that. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's done a nice job. So yeah, it changes a
Speaker 3: little bit. But you know, Malik's Malik's a capable and
Speaker 3: talented player. And I liked a lot of things about
Speaker 3: what Malie did for us in the preseason. It turns
Speaker 3: out this opportunity was the right one for him. He's
Speaker 3: had a chance to go play and that was that
Speaker 3: was what we were hoping for. And I'm happy that
Speaker 3: he that he's played well. And the thing that he
Speaker 3: did a great job of is he didn't he didn't
Speaker 3: lose them the game. He didn't make any mistakes that
Speaker 3: would have cost him the game. He managed just how
Speaker 3: I'm sure they asked him to, and he did a
Speaker 3: really nice job with what was asked of him, and
Speaker 3: everybody else around him played really well. And that's how
Speaker 3: you that's how you handle that situation and go win
Speaker 3: a football game. And that, you know, tip of the
Speaker 3: cap to the Packers and mattla Floor and his staff.
Speaker 3: They did a great job of getting ready and being
Speaker 3: committed to a particular way of playing a game, and
Speaker 3: they did a great job.
Speaker 4: You mentioned that there's some new stuff within the defense.
Speaker 4: What sticks out to you about that side of the
Speaker 4: wall for the Packers just.
Speaker 3: It's just you don't know what the scheme is fully yet.
Speaker 3: You know, they only had two games. It's a coordinator,
Speaker 3: it's been in college for a while, has a long
Speaker 3: NFL background, but it is coming from college experience, and
Speaker 3: so what does it look like?
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 3: Who is he? You know, what what family has he
Speaker 3: come from? What what does he believe in? And has
Speaker 3: that changed over time? And so it's just it's just
Speaker 3: a small sample size for us. They got talented players
Speaker 3: on defense there, it's it's been there they've been a
Speaker 3: really good football team over the last handful of years,
Speaker 3: and that that's the challenge is find then find them.
Speaker 3: Who do they want to be in defense schematically and
Speaker 3: what do we have to do to counter that? And
Speaker 3: where do we find those? You know, there's not a
Speaker 3: lot of tape to go look at.
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Speaker 4: Well, we wrap up here. You've mentioned a lot that
Speaker 4: you have to be able to ride the highs and
Speaker 4: the lows of a football season. You can't get too high,
Speaker 4: you can't get too low. You've got to keep an
Speaker 4: even keel yep. How do you model that for your
Speaker 4: team in the way that you coach, in the way
Speaker 4: that you prepare.
Speaker 3: I just try to be as consistent as I can
Speaker 3: with the message after a game, with how I carry
Speaker 3: myself in the building and with how I interact with
Speaker 3: the players, that it doesn't change because we've lost, or
Speaker 3: it doesn't change because we've won. That when they walk
Speaker 3: in the building every Monday and every Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 3: and Friday, they know exactly what I'm going to be like.
Speaker 3: And I think that that's important and I worked, I
Speaker 3: work hard to make it that way. It's it's it's
Speaker 3: it's it's intentional, and it's not always easy because you
Speaker 3: do there is emotions involved in all these things, and
Speaker 3: so but you just you have to really fight against
Speaker 3: riding the up and down emotions of what what an
Speaker 3: NFL season can feel like, and right now doesn't feel
Speaker 3: really good. Being oz too is not where we thought
Speaker 3: we would be, not what we're capable of being. We're
Speaker 3: capably much better. But I think that there's an importance
Speaker 3: to the for the players to know when they walk in,
Speaker 3: they know what the tone is going to be how
Speaker 3: it's going to look. And we can be critical both
Speaker 3: in wins and losses, and but consistently critical. So it's
Speaker 3: not like we just pretend like everything's great when we
Speaker 3: win and we're terrible when we lose. There's just here's
Speaker 3: what we have to do better, here's why, here's where
Speaker 3: we could have lost the game if we won. We
Speaker 3: haven't won yet, we will, and then here's where, here's
Speaker 3: where we did. This is what did contribute to us
Speaker 3: losing this game. And we can't have these things happen.
Speaker 3: And I think you take a very matter of fact
Speaker 3: approach to the good and the bad. Your critical work
Speaker 3: critical is worthy, and and you're you praise what praise
Speaker 3: is worthy. And there's that's every week in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and you just have to keep finding ways to try
Speaker 3: to be on the winning side of It's a lot
Speaker 3: easier to do it that way.
Speaker 2: Brian Callahan, thanks so much for the time. You got
Speaker 2: it for Brian Callahan and A B.
Speaker 1: Wells. I'm Mike Keith and this is the ot P