Speaker 1: Mike, can you put Uh, what is your perspective of
Speaker 1: the reading surgery and when did you guys know about
Speaker 1: the injury, because he would have listed at all last
Speaker 1: ye would have risted, Yeah, this is one. UM honestly
Speaker 1: became probably aware of it about a week or so ago. Um,
Speaker 1: it's again, he's had a surgery on his wrist. Um,
Speaker 1: it's nothing again. I'd have to defer to Durrell about
Speaker 1: how it was affecting number, how he felt about it. Um,
Speaker 1: it really wasn't on or injury for it because we
Speaker 1: never really treated it during the season. I think the
Speaker 1: most we probably did was just tape his wrist up
Speaker 1: on for game day, which is what we did as
Speaker 1: a kind of a regular practice. Nothing out of the ordinary. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think from my understanding, as the as the
Speaker 1: season ended, UM, he was going into the act, you know,
Speaker 1: the exit physical. I don't think he met really mentioned
Speaker 1: the exit physical, but he was seeing a doctor for
Speaker 1: another thing, um, and then mentioned his wrist and they
Speaker 1: looked into it and they got a couple of opinions
Speaker 1: on it, and one of the doctors felt it was
Speaker 1: a potentially are a ligament which didn't show up on
Speaker 1: an m R i UM and they subsequently decided to
Speaker 1: do surgery on them. When they went into do surgery,
Speaker 1: they found a guess a tear and that ligament and
Speaker 1: they fixed it. So from our standpoint, we never really
Speaker 1: reported it because it was never something It was an
Speaker 1: injury that we were probably really brought to our attention
Speaker 1: that we were actually treating or aware of at the time. Mike,
Speaker 1: what's your level of optimism of getting a deal? Patrick, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to get into you know, sort
Speaker 1: of the status or where we are with different negotiations.
Speaker 1: I think quite simply, you know Ryan, and we said
Speaker 1: this before, um, you know, we feel you know Ryan,
Speaker 1: We we feel we have a very good situation for
Speaker 1: for Ryan here. He's a very good fit for us.
Speaker 1: Um you know, our goal i've eventually hopefully to get
Speaker 1: Ryan under contract and go forward that I don't really
Speaker 1: necessarily and we've kind of I think this will be
Speaker 1: the situation when a lot of our you know, there
Speaker 1: are players and agents were dealing with. We don't really
Speaker 1: want to put it, um you know, in context of
Speaker 1: you know, are we close, are we far? Are we
Speaker 1: you know, We're we're focused on trying to get the
Speaker 1: player back. And and I kind of like to lieve
Speaker 1: it that I don't really want to get into how
Speaker 1: we feel about, you know, where we're at with the
Speaker 1: whole process. What might be surprised by how hard it
Speaker 1: had been to get the deal done with Patrick? No,
Speaker 1: not necessarily. I mean it's free agency. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you go through this process like with any player, um,
Speaker 1: you know, And again I think both parties are basically
Speaker 1: trying to look at what they probably feel is fair. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a process you have to work through, um,
Speaker 1: and we'll see how it plays itself out. I mean again,
Speaker 1: we you know, we we we like Ryan, we're you know,
Speaker 1: we'd like to have Ryan back. Um. But I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: free agency. So it's it's you go through this and
Speaker 1: at some point time, hopefully we can find a middle ground.
Speaker 1: We're both happy with Mike. What is your backup plan
Speaker 1: if you are not able to resign him? And what
Speaker 1: made you want to bring Robert Griffin into the visit? Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, in terms of we do have,
Speaker 1: like every team does, contingency plans for all you know,
Speaker 1: that's what you have to be prepared for. UM. I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to get into who we have necessarily
Speaker 1: lined up as our contingency plan because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's more of a competitive thing. We
Speaker 1: don't want to messily tell other teams what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We did obviously, UM, bringing you know Robert Griffin in UM,
Speaker 1: you know, is a situation where he was you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of the you know, he's a quarterback as
Speaker 1: you know, and that's just a free agent available on
Speaker 1: the street. And UM, it really was more to do
Speaker 1: our due diligence with him because you know, I probably
Speaker 1: haven't really talked to her seeing him since his Baylor
Speaker 1: pro day for you know whatever years ago. UM, but
Speaker 1: I know that that was so from for one stamp
Speaker 1: and I want to hear him go through all the
Speaker 1: different contingency plans we may have and and like all teams,
Speaker 1: we do have contenency plans. UM. But you know, Robert
Speaker 1: Griffin was a player that we looked at it. And again,
Speaker 1: our focus primarily is trying to get something to you know,
Speaker 1: worked out with Ryan. UM. But again we're just doing
Speaker 1: our due diligence and see what else is out there,
Speaker 1: and it was a good you know, it was a
Speaker 1: good meeting. It's more of a a meet and greet
Speaker 1: type of situation with him where we got a chance
Speaker 1: to sort of interact with him a little bit on
Speaker 1: sort of face to face and and if we decided
Speaker 1: we want to continue to follow that up, will pursue
Speaker 1: it down the road at some point time. Mike, Obviously,
Speaker 1: at some point you're going to have to act on
Speaker 1: those contingency plans if you can't get something doing Ryan.
Speaker 1: Do you have a deadline with fits Patrick for when
Speaker 1: you guys need to reach a deal before you guys
Speaker 1: have to act on those continuity plans? Yeah, I don't. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to, you know, put like a
Speaker 1: time frame on that necessarily. Um again, I don't really
Speaker 1: want to comment, you know, you know, in those aspects
Speaker 1: of the negotiations because said our focus is is that
Speaker 1: we've said this all along. Our focus is to ideally
Speaker 1: get Ryan back, um you know, in the organization and
Speaker 1: continue forward with him. Um So I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, I think at some
Speaker 1: point in time, everybody has you know, you have to
Speaker 1: implement things if you feel you've exhausted all options of
Speaker 1: of trying to get something done. But I think my mind,
Speaker 1: that's um, you know, that's not something we're focused on
Speaker 1: quite frankly. Right now. I mean, right now Ryan is
Speaker 1: a free agent and we're actively trying to um you know,
Speaker 1: facilitated contract with him and when it when if and
Speaker 1: when it works out or if it does or doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll go through that process. And if we
Speaker 1: have to get to the next stage, which is going
Speaker 1: to other other you know, possibilities, well we'll approach that.
Speaker 1: Then everybody's still there. Next question, might well the British
Speaker 1: on Ferguson be on your roster if that, uh, well,
Speaker 1: right now, obviously Direction is under contract, and you know
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, our focuses or are our
Speaker 1: thought would be he would be um. But like everything
Speaker 1: else with all players, I mean, you know, this is
Speaker 1: an for this earlier on with free agency this year,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a fluid free agency for us.
Speaker 1: We're trying to you know, we're trying to make decisions
Speaker 1: that are in the best interest of the you know,
Speaker 1: the organization, both short and long term. UM. So I
Speaker 1: would say, you know, are you know right now I
Speaker 1: would say he would be on our roster going forward,
Speaker 1: but we'll see how this thing unfold. Like if things
Speaker 1: did not work out with Ryan, what's your level of
Speaker 1: comfort of Geno Smith came into camp. I guess as
Speaker 1: the expected starter. Yeah, I would say, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing. And again I wasn't here when Gina
Speaker 1: was a starter. But you know, Gino did have a
Speaker 1: very good off season for us last year, and at
Speaker 1: the time of the whole incident was was technically ahead
Speaker 1: of Ryan um going into preseason or right about when
Speaker 1: all the stuff happened with I K. So you know,
Speaker 1: in a way, Um, that whole the way that you know,
Speaker 1: we never had the benefit of Gino working through the
Speaker 1: preseason with Ryan, competing with Ryan to see how that
Speaker 1: how that would have been folded, um, and and and again,
Speaker 1: even when we talked about that incident when had happened
Speaker 1: was very unfortunate because we felt Gino had had a
Speaker 1: very good offseason that year, and I remember you guys
Speaker 1: had talked to Chan and taught about that at various times.
Speaker 1: But but the whole incident, and you know, within the
Speaker 1: locker room obviously changed everything. Um. But then you know,
Speaker 1: then The only other time Gino had a chance to
Speaker 1: really play was in Oakland. UM, and you know, I
Speaker 1: know again I thought there was some I thought he
Speaker 1: did some things well in that game. UM. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, he obviously was able to move the ball
Speaker 1: and be part of some obviously touchdowns we had in
Speaker 1: the game. Um, at the end of the game, I
Speaker 1: know there's some players in there. I'm sure he would
Speaker 1: like to have back, and and you know, we're you know,
Speaker 1: in a perfect world, was probably rather do it over
Speaker 1: have a better outcome. UM. But that all that being said,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, did some good things in that game,
Speaker 1: and especially when you're coming off the bench as a
Speaker 1: second string quarterback and you don't get all the reps
Speaker 1: during the week preparation. And on top of that, really
Speaker 1: that was his first real game experience because he had
Speaker 1: missed the whole preseason. UM. So that being said, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, UM, I
Speaker 1: think what we would do is like with Gino, we
Speaker 1: you know, again we haven't really had him as a
Speaker 1: as a starter force, but you know, he would definitely
Speaker 1: be a possibility to to step in into that role.
Speaker 1: I would defer to Todd at the end of the
Speaker 1: day in terms of who, you know, who would be
Speaker 1: the first, second, third quarterback on our roster depth chart.
Speaker 1: But Gino did do some good things and then again
Speaker 1: we'll see how it unful is I you know, I
Speaker 1: think you know, a lot of a lot with Gino,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for us, is the way that the season unfolders
Speaker 1: last year. For him, there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: we don't really have you know, he never really had
Speaker 1: a chance to go out there and do and compete
Speaker 1: for the job. So he's a bit of an unknown really, Mike.
Speaker 1: How close for you guys to the Giants in terms
Speaker 1: of the offer first snack? Um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you know, the Giants were very competitive and very aggressive
Speaker 1: with that, and we we tried to stay you know,
Speaker 1: we were involved. You know, we were um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought we were floase. When it was all said
Speaker 1: and done, I think the giants, um, you know, the
Speaker 1: Giants were, you know, they they they put a very
Speaker 1: good offer on the table for snacks and um when
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we're you know, we're very and we
Speaker 1: were disappointed we lost the player or Damon went to
Speaker 1: to another team, but we're very happy for him too.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, that here the guy who came
Speaker 1: in to the league as a as a college free
Speaker 1: agent and had the ability to play and produce and
Speaker 1: then finally get a chance to go hit the market
Speaker 1: and free agency and then be well compensated for that.
Speaker 1: But but I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we were you know, um, you know, the Giants. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we were close. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it was that the Giants
Speaker 1: made a very what we felt was a you know,
Speaker 1: a very very aggressive, very competitive offer for for Damon
Speaker 1: and um, so I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, whether how much apart, I don't really want
Speaker 1: to get into those details, but um, but it was
Speaker 1: it was, it was, you know, they made a very significant,
Speaker 1: significant offer and um, you know, it was was above ours.
Speaker 1: So that we tried to close the gap as best
Speaker 1: we could. Mike, are you open to trading Mohammed Welkerson, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to talk about like hypotheticals rank
Speaker 1: players on our roster right now, like what we may
Speaker 1: ORed me and I want to do with with anybody
Speaker 1: or be open or not to Um, but I do.
Speaker 1: I do realize that with all players on our roster.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's always you know, you have
Speaker 1: to look at every player individually and if you have
Speaker 1: an opportunity, um, you know, the better the team, then
Speaker 1: you have to visit that. But I don't think it's
Speaker 1: not something we're actively pursuing. Um. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you know he is he is you know,
Speaker 1: under you under the franchise tag. So um, you know
Speaker 1: I would say we'll see other same players that I
Speaker 1: personally like. I said, it's it's not Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you have to look at this with every
Speaker 1: player because you always try to make decisions that have
Speaker 1: benefit to the team bosport long term. Have you received
Speaker 1: any interest from other teams on MO Yeah, again I
Speaker 1: don't really want to, you know, common or speculatory of
Speaker 1: that stuff. Um. You know I will say this, and
Speaker 1: this is not just with Mohammed, this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is you know, teams are constantly talking to each other,
Speaker 1: either shopping their own players, um it seems like or
Speaker 1: even enquiring about others. But again I wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's more Um, it's more of a it's just
Speaker 1: kind of the nature of our business a little bit.
Speaker 1: But again in regards to that, you know, any individual
Speaker 1: player in our our team, I don't really want to
Speaker 1: comment on any of that stuff. Mike. Are you working
Speaker 1: on things without being specific, are you working on things
Speaker 1: to create more tap space right now? Well? I think
Speaker 1: what you do is you have a lot of it's
Speaker 1: a bit of a puzzle trying to put the team
Speaker 1: together in terms of you know, you know, our freegency
Speaker 1: situation this year, and I mentioned this earlier would be
Speaker 1: very fluid, um but no, we do like a lot
Speaker 1: of things. You go through different contingency plans and what
Speaker 1: you can do, um you know there to create room
Speaker 1: if you need it, or any other other side of
Speaker 1: it too, if you know what you've created for in
Speaker 1: terms of um you know, making you know, decisions that
Speaker 1: will help the team going forward. So I think like
Speaker 1: with every I think every team does this quite frankly,
Speaker 1: as you have a lot of places where if you, um,
Speaker 1: you know, decide you want to create money or a room,
Speaker 1: can you have the ability to do that, and then
Speaker 1: you just sort of weigh out on a case by
Speaker 1: case basis if it's um, if it's in the best
Speaker 1: interests of what your short and long term goals are.
Speaker 1: How would you characterize the decision making in signing Jarvis
Speaker 1: Jenkins and Steve McClendon. Where do you view that? Are
Speaker 1: they viewed as as depth signings or is it possibility
Speaker 1: you know, one or both will make it a chance
Speaker 1: to start? Well, I think again, who will you know
Speaker 1: eventually start or not start? Um? All that stuff will
Speaker 1: play itself out over time, and then quite frankly, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Todd will make the determination
Speaker 1: on you know, on that UM. I think both the
Speaker 1: signings I would probably put put in some kind of well,
Speaker 1: let me first say that they've agreed to terms with us, um.
Speaker 1: But but both of them I would say, um, we're
Speaker 1: in our minds at least good value type guys in
Speaker 1: the marketplace. And that's kind of what we we sort
Speaker 1: of went into looking for. I mean, we we didn't
Speaker 1: have quite the funds we had last year, so this
Speaker 1: was sort of a different approach to free agency. And
Speaker 1: as I mentioned before, the end of the day, we're
Speaker 1: trying to make sure we make smart investments overall. But
Speaker 1: what they do give us ability to do is is,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously mcclennon has had, you know, history at
Speaker 1: at the nose tackle position, which it gives us ability
Speaker 1: to line him up there, whether it's in you know,
Speaker 1: as a starter, as a sub player. And Jenkins obviously
Speaker 1: has played more or less all the positions on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, so again he gives us some flexibility there
Speaker 1: in terms of line things up. But um, I think
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of offseason, there's a lot of training camp ahead of
Speaker 1: us to figure out who's going to be a starter
Speaker 1: or backup. And I wouldn't probably focus too much on,
Speaker 1: you know where, how to how to just make those
Speaker 1: de terminations now and eventually Todd and it's coaches defil
Speaker 1: after they spend time with these guys and will make
Speaker 1: that determination. I'm sure. I'm sure Todd, like well, ideally
Speaker 1: want to put his best players on the field and
Speaker 1: then whatever those guys at, whatever combination of guys that is,
Speaker 1: that that will work itself out in time. Regarding you, Mike,
Speaker 1: regarding your backfield, you kind of assess where you're at
Speaker 1: right now in terms of losing losing what Chris I
Speaker 1: re gave you. But also I guess bringing back and
Speaker 1: bringing in what fort Powell and Robinson office, Yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: and and going into free agency. And I mentioned this before.
Speaker 1: You know, what you prepare for, you know, you do
Speaker 1: market analysis. You try to figure out what you think
Speaker 1: your own guys. You know, first off, the grade everybody
Speaker 1: in free agency, and then you go through and you
Speaker 1: sort of grade your own players and then try to
Speaker 1: figure out what you think, you know, fair market value
Speaker 1: of worth is for them. And you have a range
Speaker 1: of you know where you you know, where you would start,
Speaker 1: where you feel comfortable at, and then at a certain
Speaker 1: point time where you feel they may go beyond that.
Speaker 1: And we always felt Chris is going to be a um,
Speaker 1: it would be you know, he was gonna have a
Speaker 1: conpetitive marketplace and and we obviously wanted Chris back. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we just you know,
Speaker 1: we knew that, you know, based on our situation from
Speaker 1: a cap standpoint, that it would be um, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day was all with every
Speaker 1: player at any position that you have to you know,
Speaker 1: your way of who you who you keep will eventually
Speaker 1: cost you maybe a player or two or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, somewhere else and you know, when we
Speaker 1: looked at the free agency market, we mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we knew Fote was out there, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we liked him quite a bit. We know
Speaker 1: he was a little bit older than some other backs,
Speaker 1: but he's still a very good back. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we felt as the market kind
Speaker 1: of worked itself out. Um, you're trying to make decisions
Speaker 1: that will help you not only short term but potentially
Speaker 1: long term. And we felt a chance to get a
Speaker 1: player of pourtas quality if the price range we got
Speaker 1: him for was um, you know, really would help us.
Speaker 1: And then unfortunately Chris, um losing Chris. We were disappointed him,
Speaker 1: but we're happy for him that he got you know,
Speaker 1: a good offer, a good deal down there, you know
Speaker 1: from another team. Um. And then we you know, obviousability
Speaker 1: to sort of again redirect some of our funds to
Speaker 1: other positions of their places, to try to sort of
Speaker 1: to make the impact of you know, our cap situation
Speaker 1: a little more um, you know, a little better for us,
Speaker 1: and and trying again always sort of I think this year,
Speaker 1: if anything, we've tried to target players we like that
Speaker 1: we thought were you know, good value in terms of
Speaker 1: the investment when we made in them, and and Porte
Speaker 1: obviously felt very strong about that one. Mike, with regard
Speaker 1: to Fitzpatrick, why do you think there's such a large
Speaker 1: gap between where you guys value him in the market
Speaker 1: place and where his camp thinks and should be valued. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that that kind of followed in the same category.
Speaker 1: Like I don't I don't really want to weigh in
Speaker 1: from that and those those type of questions, because you know,
Speaker 1: we're our focus again. We like Ryan, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we like very much to get Ryan back in the fold.
Speaker 1: And UM, like every free agency, there's you know, there's
Speaker 1: two camps and you have to work through this and UM,
Speaker 1: eventually hopefully we can find a middle ground at some
Speaker 1: point in time. We'll see, UM. But I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to weigh in why the you know, the market
Speaker 1: was the perception from the outside maybe a certain way. So, Mike,
Speaker 1: when you were doing your valuations a free agency, did
Speaker 1: you foresee what happened with the quarterback market this year
Speaker 1: in terms of you know what the Eagles gave Bradford,
Speaker 1: your former club gave Osweiler, and even with the Eagles
Speaker 1: gave Chase Daniel Well I think that the one thing
Speaker 1: with free agency this year a little bit um And
Speaker 1: it wouldn't necessarily I mean, um, the quarterback markets are
Speaker 1: always kind of interesting. I mean that's all the markets,
Speaker 1: quite frank for all the positions of interest in the
Speaker 1: quarterback market is um, you know, a bit of you know,
Speaker 1: it was an interesting one this year in the sense
Speaker 1: of you know, how much uh, you know, certain players
Speaker 1: may have gotten and not gotten and stuff like that. Um.
Speaker 1: But I would say as a whole that we felt
Speaker 1: a little bit going into this market was um, there
Speaker 1: was a market probably flush with cash. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of teams, had a lot of cap space. UM.
Speaker 1: I think like every year in free agency, it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the talent is a little better here
Speaker 1: they are at different positions, and you know, some people
Speaker 1: may have different opinions on how much talent there is
Speaker 1: in the overall market. But what we found was a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, there's and again when you look
Speaker 1: at some of the deals that were done, um, there
Speaker 1: was you know, there was a lot of there were
Speaker 1: a lot of benchmark deals not just for um, you
Speaker 1: know obviously at the quarterback position. Where are some good
Speaker 1: deals that were done but but more so with offensive
Speaker 1: line in other places. UM. And we felt at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it was just the general nature
Speaker 1: of the market, UM, that it was a very competitive marketplace,
Speaker 1: and there a lot of people were getting deals that
Speaker 1: were a little bit above you know, maybe what some
Speaker 1: teams maybe would have anticipated, especially when compared to him
Speaker 1: a year ago. UM. But I do think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, everyboy seems to speculate that the
Speaker 1: capital is going to take another significant jump next year.
Speaker 1: So maybe this is UM as people start ramping up
Speaker 1: towards that end, that the you know, the price for
Speaker 1: some of these players in a competitive marketplace goes higher
Speaker 1: than your thought. I know. UM, there was some definitely
Speaker 1: some deals done for players, not just very competitive. That's
Speaker 1: just that's the nature of the market. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where you have to when you go into the market.
Speaker 1: You have to realize what you know to degree what
Speaker 1: you feel the value is, UM and then make the
Speaker 1: decision how you want to allocate your own resources. And
Speaker 1: there was a lot of teams, a lot of casts
Speaker 1: based and a lot of money, and they were very
Speaker 1: aggressive out there. They we'll take a couple more Mike,
Speaker 1: how does it visits with Courtney Upshaw and Josh He'll go,
Speaker 1: have they wrapped up and left or they still in
Speaker 1: the building. Uh, now they both have left them. They
Speaker 1: came in the other day and both of them have
Speaker 1: moved either gone back home or maybe taking other visits. Um,
Speaker 1: but both of them went well. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny when you go through the market, the first
Speaker 1: part of the market ends up being very um. That's
Speaker 1: that's probably the more exciting part of all the big
Speaker 1: dollar contracts are flying around and stuff like that. But um,
Speaker 1: there are still some good players out there, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're in a slightly lower ice point, um, but
Speaker 1: there's still you know, I think some teams who do
Speaker 1: their due diligence can find some guys that maybe for
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not the high dollar type contract is
Speaker 1: some of the big flashy contracts get done early in
Speaker 1: free agency happens either where I think sometimes you can
Speaker 1: really help your team and probably don't you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't get as much, it doesn't get as much credit
Speaker 1: or weight as it as other signings do. But there
Speaker 1: are some still some good players out there, and then
Speaker 1: there's potentially some players that can help us. So but
Speaker 1: both of us went very well, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens is is they go for it,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that. I think both of those players do
Speaker 1: have the other visit schedule with other teams, so we'll
Speaker 1: see how that unfolds over time. Here, Mike, in your mind,
Speaker 1: is it too soon to begin evaluating what kind of
Speaker 1: all season you're you're having to begin sort of grading
Speaker 1: your moves or lack of moves. Well, I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting. I don't really see. We don't
Speaker 1: really sit there and sort of great ourselves. Um, youven
Speaker 1: kind of leave it up for you guys and everybody else. Um,
Speaker 1: But I think what we focus more on, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: is trying to make sure we're making decisions um that
Speaker 1: that help the team again, not just you know, because
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a balance you're trying to you're
Speaker 1: trying to help yourself short term, but you're also trying
Speaker 1: to have a bigger or longer term view that you don't, um,
Speaker 1: you know, jeopardize something down the road. And I think
Speaker 1: the one thing we we go when we go into
Speaker 1: this process, um, you know, we're trying to you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody does the same thing. It's not unique
Speaker 1: to us. But we're all trying to make decisions. Anybody
Speaker 1: in the NFL that, um that you're a really trying
Speaker 1: to be right. But again, if you're wrong, you know,
Speaker 1: whether you overpay a player or whether you have to
Speaker 1: cut a player in a year or two and you
Speaker 1: take dead money or a cap hit, um, you know
Speaker 1: it costs you another player and that other player, who
Speaker 1: are that that that missed opportunity? Can you know? That's
Speaker 1: what we're trying to make sure we we do the
Speaker 1: best of or to do the best in terms of
Speaker 1: our decisions. UM, So we don't really necessarily sit there
Speaker 1: and kind of grade ourselves. Um, you know, we're trying
Speaker 1: to make sure what we do is in the best
Speaker 1: interests of you know, our organizations. And it's like everybody's
Speaker 1: in the the NFL the same way, like short term and
Speaker 1: long term