Speaker 1: I know the feeling that goes on now in the
Speaker 1: next twenty four to forty eight hours or so, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a little uneasy for a player sometimes.
Speaker 1: But you know, even even as coaches, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I challenge the players going into this last week to
Speaker 1: it's a really especially the ones that play in this game,
Speaker 1: to make it hard on us as coaches, as personnel
Speaker 1: staff and you know, um, give give everything they have
Speaker 1: for for one more opportunity. And and you know, and
Speaker 1: I also tell them that listen, they're they're competing, yeah,
Speaker 1: for our roster, but there's there's thirty one other teams
Speaker 1: that are also looking, you know at everybody's roster. And
Speaker 1: we've got some good players, and um, you know, we've
Speaker 1: got to make some tough decisions. And that's just the
Speaker 1: nature of this ball game. And we got to get
Speaker 1: down to the fifty three here over the weekend because
Speaker 1: he played a week Do you have to make these
Speaker 1: decisions a little bit than not? Really, we still got time,
Speaker 1: you know, um, still got some time next next couple
Speaker 1: of days to to you know, get it to where
Speaker 1: you want or get it where you think you have it. Um,
Speaker 1: But uh, it's a. It's a little it's sped up
Speaker 1: a little just because we're playing you know, playing on
Speaker 1: Thursday doesn't give him an advantage because he's a veteran
Speaker 1: and you have all show that's gonna be he's gonna
Speaker 1: be out for these two weeks. Well that we got
Speaker 1: to take that into consideration. You know, obviously he's he's
Speaker 1: played some football, you know, in this league. And and uh,
Speaker 1: I thought his you know again, I thought what he
Speaker 1: did tonight was was good. We got to evaluate it
Speaker 1: tomorrow when we watch it and can can break it down.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, he has experience, and and we
Speaker 1: got to factor that into everything. Adams and Joe's um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought both of them ran extremely hard.
Speaker 1: Uh Matt, Matt kind of you know, excuse me, Uh
Speaker 1: just go back to Josh. Josh you know, had the
Speaker 1: first half and and and did did some good things
Speaker 1: and um and then and then Matt, uh, Matt in
Speaker 1: the second half just kind of kind of took over.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, some offensive line play was was
Speaker 1: we tightened some things up and stouted made some of
Speaker 1: j Smiths and all that. But I thought Matt really
Speaker 1: came in and really sort of improved, you know as
Speaker 1: uh one as camp progressed and really had a nice game.
Speaker 1: You know, to uh obviously score that game winner was
Speaker 1: was key for him. As a follow up the Jimmy's question,
Speaker 1: he's an accurate d a day. Jeff's gonna miss two
Speaker 1: jams were in these two weeks. Actually he's talking about Alshan.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna activate him off the pup tomorrow. He's playing
Speaker 1: every day by day from here, I Addams to out
Speaker 1: many camp and training camp. I mean, I wouldn't this performance.
Speaker 1: Who is that? Josh Addams? Josh Adams. You know, he's
Speaker 1: done some nice things. You know, he kind of came in,
Speaker 1: you know, he missed the offseason a little bit with
Speaker 1: with an injury and and you know sort of was
Speaker 1: kind of a little a little playing catch up and
Speaker 1: then uh come into camp and he was ready to go,
Speaker 1: and then he had a little setback again and got
Speaker 1: healthy from that. And he really has done a nice
Speaker 1: job for a young player. We've we've asked a lot
Speaker 1: of them really, um and and you know, again without
Speaker 1: really making a fair evaluation after watching the tape, watching
Speaker 1: the full body of work, because he's also played some
Speaker 1: special teams. We got to factor that in, um and
Speaker 1: see where he's at and see see if he uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know where he is now in these next couple
Speaker 1: of days based on based on that, Doug, if you
Speaker 1: made a decision on the starting quarterback is going to
Speaker 1: be for Thursday yet it's not Friday yet, Are you
Speaker 1: guys going to sit down on tomorrow and make that decision? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have to make that decision right now.
Speaker 1: We got we still got some time before we get
Speaker 1: hit the practice field again and and uh go from there.
Speaker 1: Well that conversation on it though. Sorry, you're looking forward
Speaker 1: to learning what the news is clear not clear, because
Speaker 1: you guys are just beat getting ready for the Fountain,
Speaker 1: you know, Um obviously you know yeah, I mean you anticipated.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I've got you know,
Speaker 1: the rest of the team to prepare to get ready
Speaker 1: for Atlanta and um, you know whoever it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just we just got to prepare the same way.
Speaker 1: We just gotta take it one day at a time.
Speaker 1: We got to focus on one game at a time
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, take the take the forty
Speaker 1: six into that game that that are that are ready
Speaker 1: to go that choose to. You know what, I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of Nate already. He's played a ton this
Speaker 1: offseason or this preseason. He's played a ton of football.
Speaker 1: And really I needed to get a fair assessment of
Speaker 1: Joe and Christian because we haven't really seen Christian thy night.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not at all, not at all. What was Christian?
Speaker 1: I thought there were some good things. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the turnovers are things that we can't do from
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Um, you know, it was unfortunate there
Speaker 1: at the end of the half. Christian had a really
Speaker 1: nice drive going to to pin you know, at least
Speaker 1: maybe get three out of that drive. But but we
Speaker 1: just ran out of time and and and all that.
Speaker 1: But did some nice things. And then then and Joe
Speaker 1: I thought, really in the second half and the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter came in and you know, once he you know,
Speaker 1: a nice drive, just kind of under threw the pass.
Speaker 1: He had the guy in the end zone if he
Speaker 1: throws a little bit further. But I was it was
Speaker 1: great to see him come back and bounce back and
Speaker 1: and and put together that touchdown drive at the end.
Speaker 1: So they both did great things. Um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: excited for both of them. Uh and and and obviously
Speaker 1: their future and and uh um, great way to finish
Speaker 1: the preseason with with a touchdown drive. What's the message
Speaker 1: as he goes? Yeah, it's unfortunate, Number one, he understands,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, but you know the message is just hey,
Speaker 1: he's gotta he's gotta stay focused, he's got to stay ready. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's got to continue to work out, you know, for
Speaker 1: the next um, you know, seven eight days whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And um, when he comes back, he's he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start that week one in his passes. No,
Speaker 1: we haven't made those decisions yet. Talk when you talk
Speaker 1: about its evaluation as a whole, go all the way
Speaker 1: back to the spring and you've seen most of these
Speaker 1: guys through training camp. How much can this game tip
Speaker 1: to scales for those bubble players? Um? I think it
Speaker 1: it can. It can it can it can tip it
Speaker 1: a little bit? You know. I mean again, you got
Speaker 1: to take the full body of their work. You know,
Speaker 1: it just can't rely on one football game. You know,
Speaker 1: we gotta go back to OTAs and you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to go back and even just watch
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of practices back then and see
Speaker 1: how they've progressed to now. And you know, by doing that, um,
Speaker 1: we do our due diligence to make sure that the
Speaker 1: fifty three is the right fifty three, you know, in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. And uh, some of these
Speaker 1: guys you know are gonna make it tough on us. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: you bring it