Speaker 1: The third and ten throw to the nixt throw after
Speaker 1: he came back in the game, to Zach, can you
Speaker 1: kind of walk us through the call the last drive? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the twenty yards passed. Oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: um yeah, so you know, um, just to call that's
Speaker 1: been in our offense. Um again thinking thinking of our
Speaker 1: playmakers obviously you know al Shaw making a tremendous catch
Speaker 1: and then and then Earth's uh the two defenders for
Speaker 1: Houston actually collided, um, and which allowed Zack to really
Speaker 1: really pop free and Nick did a great job there
Speaker 1: have just been able to be patient in the pocket,
Speaker 1: find him and put up a good throw and then
Speaker 1: have the awareness of getting out of bounce on. There's
Speaker 1: been a few couple orders. What were you thinking? We
Speaker 1: got time and time outs again and uh, have a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in the offense, and you know it's
Speaker 1: something that um, you know, we we work on a lot.
Speaker 1: There's a two minute drive and tempo offense and um,
Speaker 1: you know, um, this league has always been about about
Speaker 1: players making plays and and uh, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of credit to the offense today for for putting us
Speaker 1: that position to win this game. Nicole was plays with
Speaker 1: calmness with poise. But how impressive was it today, especially
Speaker 1: after he took that hit, had to come out then
Speaker 1: to come back and direct the offense. You know, that's
Speaker 1: just that's just Nick. Um. You know, he's always been calm,
Speaker 1: you know, in in in and around the you know,
Speaker 1: his preparation during the week and then of course leading
Speaker 1: up to the game. And you know, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that just wants to wants to continue to just help
Speaker 1: the team win and and and dish the ball and
Speaker 1: put it put it in our playmaker's hands. And you know,
Speaker 1: um really not not get much credit. Just just let
Speaker 1: the other guys do it, you know. And and uh,
Speaker 1: even after taking that hit and then going back in,
Speaker 1: I thought it took a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: courage excuse me, a lot of courage and guts at
Speaker 1: that point to want to finish the game and come
Speaker 1: back in. And it's just credits to credit to Nick.
Speaker 1: What did he say when he came off the field
Speaker 1: for that one play? Um, I was getting Nate ready,
Speaker 1: so I didn't talk to him. You guys think you're
Speaker 1: playing your best football this season right now heading in
Speaker 1: the next week, Yeah, I think so. I think I
Speaker 1: think he you know, UM, these last you know, three
Speaker 1: four or five games, I think things have um kind
Speaker 1: of picked up for us. Uh. I do feel like
Speaker 1: that this time of the year. Uh. You know, if
Speaker 1: you want any kind of momentum, um, you know, if
Speaker 1: you get a chance to go to the postseason, you
Speaker 1: need to be playing your best football now. And and UM,
Speaker 1: I think that's uh, you know, I think that's what
Speaker 1: we're doing at this time. You got lead for most
Speaker 1: of the game. But the past front ratio is pretty
Speaker 1: lot time favorite past stuff because they were kind of
Speaker 1: depleted at a corner. Did you see their rush defense today?
Speaker 1: Thirty five yards rushing in football? It was hard? Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we need to run the ball more or something.
Speaker 1: But um as a tremendous defense. Now, it's a great
Speaker 1: group that front seven eight guys with their safeties. I
Speaker 1: mean that they do it. They do a really good job.
Speaker 1: They're um uh they create um different angles for our
Speaker 1: offensive linement. And so some of the things that we've
Speaker 1: been able to do on the last couple of weeks, Um,
Speaker 1: they just kind of took us out of it. And
Speaker 1: and so you know, I knew we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to run the ball late in the game,
Speaker 1: you know, even when we went up the you know
Speaker 1: by the third, by thirteen there, twenty nine sixteen. I
Speaker 1: felt like we could, you know, get a little momentum
Speaker 1: run the ball, Uh, make them use timehouse. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe we could finish the game at that point. But um,
Speaker 1: we didn't do it. It's just a great defense on
Speaker 1: the version of the first hand. Two questions, what made
Speaker 1: you go for that one? And was there an except
Speaker 1: as Um, well, the I wanted to go up six
Speaker 1: at that point, so that's really the option there. Um
Speaker 1: And then um, yeah, you know it's something we'll just
Speaker 1: have to take a look at. You know, we'll send
Speaker 1: we'll send it in tomorrow and see what we get back.
Speaker 1: But uh, um nothing for eighty three that able. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson on j J to Day did a tremendous job.
Speaker 1: JJ's name didn't get called very much. I'll tell you Lane,
Speaker 1: Lane had a great week of preparation, got it got
Speaker 1: in the in in his mindset. He's he's awesome. I
Speaker 1: mean he's awesome. He's he's a tremendous right tackle and
Speaker 1: you know he's had to block some really really really
Speaker 1: good defensive ends. Uh this season. Um, this was probably
Speaker 1: one of the uh, probably the best one he's he's
Speaker 1: seen all season. And I did a nice job, did
Speaker 1: a really nice job, and and uh it's a credit
Speaker 1: to him and um well deserved. They check out of
Speaker 1: on that audible. It was into coverage check that he
Speaker 1: saw something Houston had been running earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: and he saw it, got to another, got to another
Speaker 1: one of them that got to a play that would
Speaker 1: attack that coverage, and uh, great protection and allowed him
Speaker 1: to get the ball down the field play it was
Speaker 1: a pass play to begin with. Yes, yeah, exact broke
Speaker 1: Wittin's record tonight today. What does he meant to your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to have a guy, particularly on third down and
Speaker 1: in the red zone that they know can get open
Speaker 1: and they can count on. Yeah, first of all, it's
Speaker 1: it's a great honor for Zach and and um you know,
Speaker 1: can congratulations go to him. You know, but he's another
Speaker 1: one of those guys that very unselfish. UM quarterbacks do
Speaker 1: have a comfort level with him, you know. He seems
Speaker 1: to kind of be that guy that that uh, you
Speaker 1: know exactly where he's gonna be and Um, you know
Speaker 1: he's he's obviously great after the after the catch, Um,
Speaker 1: runs great routes. So you know, for the quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: have that type of guy, Um, again, it just gives
Speaker 1: you that little comfort, you know, do you especially in
Speaker 1: crucial moments like you know, the the corner route that
Speaker 1: he ran late in the game. Um, It's just it's
Speaker 1: a moned to credit to him for how hard he
Speaker 1: works and then and then his uh relationship with our quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You see, I was just proud of him, told him
Speaker 1: how proud of proud I was. And you know, um,
Speaker 1: we had to we had to come through a lot
Speaker 1: of adversity today. Uh and and and they hung in there,
Speaker 1: they hung together. The game wore on our Our team
Speaker 1: got tighter and tighter and tighter and played played well
Speaker 1: down the stretch. And you know, it wasn't pretty obviously. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there were a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes and a lot of things that went around. But
Speaker 1: but the bottom line was they they found a way
Speaker 1: to win past a certain feeling about your team. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing something now in these past five natures that
Speaker 1: gives you encouragement? I'm value prospects you yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you know that's and part of the message in the
Speaker 1: locker room too, is just you know, I'm proud of
Speaker 1: the way they come to work every day and prepare
Speaker 1: that day. It's Wednesday or Thursday or Friday, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: they prepare that way and it pays off, you know
Speaker 1: in these games. And um, you know, our guys don't
Speaker 1: make plays that they made today if we don't practice
Speaker 1: those situations or at least put them in situations to
Speaker 1: make those plays in practice. And you know, you're just
Speaker 1: seeing how a lot of our young guys are really
Speaker 1: maturing now and they're growing up and they are they
Speaker 1: are contributing and making some plays and you know it's
Speaker 1: not again, it's not perfect. There's still some mistakes being made,
Speaker 1: but you know, the veteran guys are rallying. The veteran
Speaker 1: guys are making plays there, um, doing the things that
Speaker 1: that we ask them to do. And that's for me. Um,
Speaker 1: that's all I can ask for. The effort is there, obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the excitement is there, the passion for the game,
Speaker 1: the desire to win, and you know, it's a resilient group.
Speaker 1: Was like a few times this year, and that resiliency,
Speaker 1: this group has been at least playoff wise declared dead
Speaker 1: for the year, even part of today. What does it say?
Speaker 1: And how proud of you that you're going into week
Speaker 1: seventeen with something to play for us? Now? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: it's everything. I mean, these guys are so excited to
Speaker 1: be to be still you know, in the hunt and
Speaker 1: and and to really um, you know we talk about
Speaker 1: controlling things that we can control. Well, we get to
Speaker 1: control where you know, our destiny a little bit. We
Speaker 1: get to make our own and create our own and
Speaker 1: and and so that's that's that's why I'm you know,
Speaker 1: these guys never quit, you know, they they don't quit.
Speaker 1: And um, it would have been easy, you know today
Speaker 1: just to you know, kind of let your guard down
Speaker 1: at the end and and not finish the game. But um,
Speaker 1: again kind of goes back to your question. Just it's
Speaker 1: a veteran group, resilient group. They hang together and they
Speaker 1: find a way to win and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: as a head coach, that's what you can all you
Speaker 1: can ask for, really,