Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, all right, that's this fast, this fast game,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half over time, did you really
Speaker 1: start to feel everything click with the offense and also
Speaker 1: the tempo was running at tendas. Yeah. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we got into a pretty good rhythm there in the
Speaker 1: second half, and you know, kind of like I talked
Speaker 1: about after the game, I felt like that was really
Speaker 1: one of the first times all year where we played
Speaker 1: at the tempo that we wanted to. You know, we
Speaker 1: played fast, We put a lot of pressure on the defense.
Speaker 1: You know, we had both the run game in the
Speaker 1: past game going in that second half, and we're balanced
Speaker 1: and playing fast like that. That's what we want to do.
Speaker 1: When you see the running game, especially over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, maybe the last four weeks, do you
Speaker 1: see defenses now having to really respect it and that
Speaker 1: helps you with play action, It opens up a lot
Speaker 1: of games. Yeah. Absolutely, you know, when we can get
Speaker 1: the run game going, you know, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways you know that we can compliment that
Speaker 1: in the past game, whether it be some of our
Speaker 1: play action, some of the bootleg stuff where I get
Speaker 1: outside the pocket, but um, you know, it really makes
Speaker 1: it tough defense when they have to play the run
Speaker 1: and they know that we're going to try to run
Speaker 1: the ball at them. For you personally, especially just the
Speaker 1: way it happened the last second. Um, as far as
Speaker 1: giving you actual help in your step profidence the rest
Speaker 1: of the same time, UM, yeah, really no, I mean obviously,
Speaker 1: like I said after the game, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a great team win, you know, more than myself. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully it sparks our team. Hopefully it gives
Speaker 1: us momentum going into the second half of the year,
Speaker 1: and it's something that we can build on about when
Speaker 1: people have asked you about the slow starts, about what
Speaker 1: we get our second breath, we get, we figure out
Speaker 1: what they're doing, and we we dial up the right place.
Speaker 1: Obviously the second half was a great example of that.
Speaker 1: Is there any way you can take that start to
Speaker 1: get you know, not half to wait till halftime. We
Speaker 1: would love to do that, Yes, you know, obviously, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, slow starts or something that we've kind of
Speaker 1: battle all year, and uh, you know, we were able
Speaker 1: to overcome it last Sunday, but you know that's not
Speaker 1: always going to be the case. And obviously we'd like
Speaker 1: to come out and start fast. You know, and play
Speaker 1: the way we did in the second half of the
Speaker 1: whole game. So you know, that's something we're working towards.
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully it's something you know that we can
Speaker 1: get done. But it's the same theme. I mean, you
Speaker 1: seem slightly different things each week from the other guys
Speaker 1: that forced the slow starts until you guys can kind
Speaker 1: of figure out what. Um, yeah, I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: exactly what it is. You know, I think one of
Speaker 1: our biggest strengths this year has been able or has
Speaker 1: been being able to go into halftime talk about what
Speaker 1: we're seeing and make the proper adjustments. You know. I've
Speaker 1: been on teams where you know you can't make the
Speaker 1: adjustments and it's the same story for the whole game.
Speaker 1: But you know, we've been able to go in, kind
Speaker 1: of regroup, come back out and execute. Obviously we'd like
Speaker 1: to be able to do that for four quarters. I
Speaker 1: feel like one of the first times you guys got
Speaker 1: the off times, gun and all fast to kind of
Speaker 1: follow the past and run game all of it together.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think so. Um how much cofference does
Speaker 1: that give you when you're gone forward guys and kind
Speaker 1: of pollow about other Yeah, Um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it gives me a lot of confidence. And I think
Speaker 1: just from talking to some of the other guys after
Speaker 1: the game and this week, you know, I think we
Speaker 1: all know that we're capable of that, and it's something
Speaker 1: that we're trying to do more consistent. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: but like I said after the game, it was really
Speaker 1: nice knowing that we had a great week of practice
Speaker 1: last week for it to translate and come together like
Speaker 1: it did in the game. Um. Yeah, if we could
Speaker 1: do that every week, I think we've been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Chicken talked about in the meetings and everywhere else about
Speaker 1: slow starts. Is there anything that the coaches we're doing
Speaker 1: differently or the players are doing differently, or preparation to
Speaker 1: the trading week just likes to call it to try
Speaker 1: to change it, or anything you do different practice to
Speaker 1: try to change the Dum. I'm not really sure if
Speaker 1: there's anything you can do in practice, you know. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing is just execution, you know, when
Speaker 1: we get out there in the first half, regardless of
Speaker 1: what type of defense we see regardles so what they
Speaker 1: throughout us, We've got to be able to go out
Speaker 1: there and execute it and get ourselves going the way.
Speaker 1: Transfer on your frozen and insist and you haven't really
Speaker 1: underploding the ball much there before and after with uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think you know something that me and
Speaker 1: Coach Day talked about, something that you know, both him
Speaker 1: and I noticed, you know, just from watching some of
Speaker 1: the game tape and some of the practice tape, and
Speaker 1: you know, we've drilled it a lot out here in
Speaker 1: practice the past couple of weeks, and I think it's
Speaker 1: something that has paid off Chip him explaining his confidence
Speaker 1: and you said, used to some analogies about a half
Speaker 1: of the movie and that you you just needed to
Speaker 1: become more and more familiar with this. That has not
Speaker 1: really been your theme in terms of explaining things away.
Speaker 1: Do you feel way more familiar right now and whatever
Speaker 1: week it is than you did with this offense than
Speaker 1: two weeks to agree? Yeah, I mean yeah, I think
Speaker 1: said along. The more you do something, you know, the
Speaker 1: more reps you get, you know, the better you feel.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, kind of how this process has
Speaker 1: gone for me. You know, the more I've been out there,
Speaker 1: the more reps I've seen, the different looks I've seen
Speaker 1: from the defenses again, certain plays the more comfortable, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel running this offense, and I think
Speaker 1: we hear all the time the games slowed down for
Speaker 1: do you feel the game was slowing down for you
Speaker 1: part of the BA I think in a way, you know,
Speaker 1: probably a little bit. Just I think, you know, in
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, we've kind of found what
Speaker 1: we're good at, you know, some past concepts, some things
Speaker 1: that I'm comfortable with, that we're comfortable with, you know,
Speaker 1: we've just kind of repped those, We've gotten good at those.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to go run those plays on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, maybe for a while it
Speaker 1: was just finding what it is this offense this year,
Speaker 1: what we're going to be good at, and what we're
Speaker 1: going to attack people with the team win. But you
Speaker 1: feel maybe a little extra good this week for Jordan Matthews,
Speaker 1: who um struggling a little bit of some jobs and
Speaker 1: even quite you know, questioned a little bit himself last week,
Speaker 1: and then for him to have the juice game and
Speaker 1: have it off of the touchdown. Yeah yeah, I told
Speaker 1: you guys after the game, I've never seen anyone work
Speaker 1: harder than he did. Last week in practice and for
Speaker 1: him to go out and play the way he did,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think it surprised any of us,
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't think it could have happened
Speaker 1: to a better guy. And I know him, you know
Speaker 1: that's not the end of him. I mean, he wants
Speaker 1: to come out and build on that, and he wants
Speaker 1: to play like that every week. And that's really what
Speaker 1: you like to see from a guy. Had you ever
Speaker 1: seen a guybody, you know, starting wide receiver team snaps
Speaker 1: with the scout team like Jordan mad last week? You know,
Speaker 1: I think I've seen it where you know, a coach
Speaker 1: maybe grabs a guy for one play, Hey can we
Speaker 1: get you for this look? And you know, run a
Speaker 1: go or a post or something to give us a
Speaker 1: real look. But you know, I don't know if I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a starting wide receiver take every rep in
Speaker 1: the scout team. Said, there was a process you're kind
Speaker 1: of petting familiar with. You guys don't work in the
Speaker 1: offense this year with this person, I was trimming the
Speaker 1: playbook part of that and kind of just look, even
Speaker 1: made plays that you felt comfortable with it, you felt
Speaker 1: better than than other plays. Maybe you earlier in the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's kind of what I just said.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just kind of going through figuring out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm comfortable with, what we're comfortable with
Speaker 1: as a group, and you know, what's been successful, what
Speaker 1: have we done well? You know, what have we gained
Speaker 1: yards on? What have we not you know in firing
Speaker 1: out kind of where to go from there? Um, as
Speaker 1: far as what as what's the tangible difference station? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for me has just been,
Speaker 1: you know, my ability to move in the pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: and get to the backside of some progressions, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it be the second, third or fourth guy. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel much more comfortable doing that now
Speaker 1: as opposed I did earlier in the season. I think. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think so just you know, knowing that
Speaker 1: I've taken shots this year, you know, I've gotten hit,
Speaker 1: I've gotten back up, you know, nothing's affected me. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I just feel better with that each week
Speaker 1: was Spider right, there was something you had really ringing force? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's uh, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: I noticed earlier in the years. I mean my footwork
Speaker 1: was just all over the place. And you know whether
Speaker 1: that's you know, being in a new offense, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, the rhythm and the
Speaker 1: timing of certain plays, or just um, you know, just
Speaker 1: not having played football and you know, being out of rhythm.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like when my feet are under me and I'm
Speaker 1: in rhythm, you know, good things happen. But you know,
Speaker 1: when my feet are bad and I'm out of rhythm,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when you see the under throws, overthrows,
Speaker 1: you know, throws too early, too late, things like that.
Speaker 1: The winning pass seemed to be an example of which
Speaker 1: you're just talking about. You stepped I don't know two
Speaker 1: winches forwarded just enough to throw the path at Hardy
Speaker 1: was taking penal just a little bit off, and you
Speaker 1: end up like, look that's being and missing. Yeah. Is
Speaker 1: that something you think you when you look at that tape,
Speaker 1: Is that something you were doing now that maybe you
Speaker 1: would not have done earlier in the year when I
Speaker 1: don't know it just maybe. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that exact play something that I would or would
Speaker 1: not have done it, But I just say, my overallall
Speaker 1: overall comfort levels, you know greater. Now, what do you
Speaker 1: see from the going Ryan, as far as they're they're
Speaker 1: back running the ball like these some weeks. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: those guys are just running hard. You know, they're running hard,
Speaker 1: they're getting downhill, they're making you know, the right cuts
Speaker 1: at the right time. Um. You know. But more than anything,
Speaker 1: I think the guys up front the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks have done a great job blocking for him, giving
Speaker 1: them lanes, you know, giving them holes to hit. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of been a group effort to
Speaker 1: get the run game going a whole soon. Yeah. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a good defense. You know, they're talented obviously, you
Speaker 1: know up front, you know they're front seven. You know,
Speaker 1: they're big, they're physical, they're fast. You know, they've got
Speaker 1: some guys on the interior that can make play. Is
Speaker 1: obviously with Sue. Um, you know, they do some things
Speaker 1: scheme wise that are a little different than what we've
Speaker 1: seen in the past couple of weeks. So you know
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna take a good effort from us to
Speaker 1: get after them this week. All right, guys, thank you. Yeah, Yeah,