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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about Isaiah's week last week kind

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Speaker 1: of getting in. Yeah, crazy week for him. He did

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Speaker 1: a great job coming in. I didn't think he got

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Speaker 1: I don't think he got here until Thursday. Uh, coming

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Speaker 1: in learning the game plan. I know there was some

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Speaker 1: you know, comfort level with with his his previous experience here,

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Speaker 1: but I would say it's changed a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And and and you know since he's been here, and

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Speaker 1: you know, coach Crow Troy that they did a great job.

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Speaker 1: And Isaiah obviously put in all the work to make

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Speaker 1: sure that he was able to go out there and uh,

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Speaker 1: not only know what to do, but but do it

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Speaker 1: at a high level and and make some plays for us. Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was that that was one of the

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Speaker 1: cooler things I've seen in my experience in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: is just someone showing up on a Thursday and then

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Speaker 1: having having a major role in the game and and

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Speaker 1: and playing well. And uh, he did a great job.

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Speaker 2: We thank you.

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Speaker 1: Last week we talked about how your role changed during

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Speaker 1: the week, How did your role change on Sunday, you know,

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Speaker 1: just just communicating with with Mike and and letting, you know,

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Speaker 1: let them know what what we were seeing thoughts moving forward. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, what plays do you like here? What plays

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Speaker 1: do you like there? So I would say there's just

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit more communication there between him and

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Speaker 1: I and you know, just just again just constantly making

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Speaker 1: sure that we're seeing the game through the same set

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Speaker 1: of eyes and making sure everyone's on the same page.

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Speaker 2: How would you describe Calvin Shepard's defense aggressive?

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Speaker 1: You know, in the schemes that they play, the techniques

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Speaker 1: that they use, you know, there's a lot of press

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Speaker 1: coverage when you look at it, they're aggressive. You look

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Speaker 1: at their backers, you know both Campbell, Anzeloni, you know,

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Speaker 1: Barnes all, all all those guys are are aggressive in

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Speaker 1: terms of how they attack the ball carrier and different blocks. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're aggressive and in and how they attack the football

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Speaker 1: with with the punch outs and and you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's a definite mindset there for them to go and

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Speaker 1: attack the ball. So I would say aggresive. It is

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Speaker 1: probably the best way to describe it. You've done CAF

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Speaker 1: Obviously it worked closely him for a while.

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Speaker 2: Is maybe I'm.

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Speaker 1: Just curious what your impression was of how he handled

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Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, he did a great job, obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: not the easiest circumstances to you know, to kind of

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Speaker 1: take over in that that situation. But he did a

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Speaker 1: great job making sure that the team was ready to play,

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Speaker 1: and I felt like our guys responded well to him.

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Speaker 1: He went out and we played hard, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. We fall short ultimately, obviously, you know, we

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Speaker 1: want to win that game, but I felt like everybody

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Speaker 1: was flying around for for the entirety of the game.

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Speaker 1: And again, I think that that's just the testament to

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Speaker 1: Mike and and he did a great job of getting

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Speaker 1: this team ready to go, both mentally and physically.

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Speaker 2: Game plan wise, assuming Jackson gets cleared, when you go

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Speaker 2: to put together the game plan, how much do you

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Speaker 2: have to take into account that he is coming off

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Speaker 2: with concussion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you definitely take it into account. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, no different than someone was coming

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Speaker 1: off with spriant ankle, you know what I mean. Got

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Speaker 1: to make sure that that you're not exposing people unnecessarily,

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Speaker 1: and and again putting putting our team, you know, in

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Speaker 1: a position to win the game, and for all our guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, with for us in order to win the game,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna need our best players on the field, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that that comes into account, but I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know, that comes into account when when we're designing

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Speaker 1: any type of play and making sure again that that

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Speaker 1: we're we're putting our guys in the best spots.

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Speaker 2: The run game worked really well on Sunday, So I'm

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Speaker 2: curious what what did you see that worked really well?

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Speaker 2: And do you also see this offensive line growing in

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Speaker 2: a way where that can be replicated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, our guys played hard. I thought there were multiple

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Speaker 1: examples of of pile pushes, of guys finishing you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, finishing their blocks, finishing to the ball. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's little things like being the first guy down there

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Speaker 1: to to help martyr or trace who or whoever as

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Speaker 1: the ball, helping them off the ground. And you know

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Speaker 1: that that's something that we're stressing and that's a mindset

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Speaker 1: and that's contagious, and they did a really good job

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Speaker 1: of not of in the past has been spurred to that.

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Speaker 1: I felt like for the first time in a while

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Speaker 1: that there was sixty minutes of that and you felt

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Speaker 1: it throughout the game, and you know, those guys have

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Speaker 1: done an awesome job. Karen does a great job with

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Speaker 1: Brick of getting those guys ready to go, and you

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Speaker 1: can tell what they've played together now, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? For however, many games not only this year,

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Speaker 1: but even dating back to last year, and there's a

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Speaker 1: sense of comfortability with with everyone there, and you know

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Speaker 1: there's there's something to being said of you know, when

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Speaker 1: I'm in a block, I know what you're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: I know what that feels like. I know you know

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Speaker 1: when you're gonna come off of it or not, not

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Speaker 1: only the verbal communication but the physical communication that comes

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Speaker 1: all with people playing with one another for a while.

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Speaker 1: What you make of the game jamis last week Jamis

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Speaker 1: Jamis executes a game plan. You know, he was aggressive

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Speaker 1: when we need him to be. Uh, Obviously, there's always

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Speaker 1: going to be plays that you want back. You know,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, I didn't think he exposed the football.

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of times there where he got

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Speaker 1: a little hairy, but you know, he did a really

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Speaker 1: good job of executing the plan, getting sending out of

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Speaker 1: the right play, operating within the offense, and letting the

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Speaker 1: system work for him. He did everything he asked him

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 2: Receivers, I mean, all shapes and sizes. I think maybe

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Speaker 2: because of his size, Wan Dale gets pigeonholed as a

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Speaker 2: certain type of receiver. Has the season he had shown

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Speaker 2: you that he's like a legitimate every down, you know,

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Speaker 2: top two receiver on a team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's I think last week he played

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Speaker 1: every snap. So you know it's you know, it goes

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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, his toughness, his versatility, you know

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Speaker 1: his ability to to to not only run but went on.

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Speaker 1: You know, a wide variety of routes, and he's a

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Speaker 1: guy that constantly shows up for us when we need him. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, to ans your question, Yes,