Yep. Is that, uh a little bit,
you know, I think more than anything just really
letting the guys know that this guy is a real
guy, you know, I know he hasn't played
a ton of ball yet. And, um,
he, he's not one of the, the more
established quarterbacks in this league, but I was,
I was so impressed with him at the senior Bowl
, his command, his leadership, um, his
intelligence, uh I think that he's, he's a
winner, you know, and he's proven that proved
that at high school, he proved that at Cincinnati
. He's proven that with the Atlanta Falcons, you
know, um his home record is stellar, you
know, and, and he's done a lot of
nice things there and, uh, and the beauty
of that offense and that system is they don't ask
that quarterback to do everything. He's not the guy
that's got to throw the team on his back.
Um, obviously they're committed to run game and that's
their identity and that's what's gonna be the, the
reason, um, that they win or lose for
sure, you know, but, um, when
he's asked to, to, to win a third
down or a play pass or whatever the case may
be. He does an excellent job of that.
He does, uh, coach Arthur Smith, I
think he does a fantastic job. Like there is
a real identity to that offense. You know,
they're gonna be physical, they're gonna be committed to
the run game. Um, they're not gonna abandon
it. It doesn't matter how well you play it
early, it's gonna keep coming and coming and coming
at the same time, they got some, some
really good players, they got an offensive line from
tip to tip that in my opinion is, is
one of the, the better offensive lines in the
NFL right now and then, and then you got
three runners that, um, are all unique in
their own way, but all bring something really special
to the table, you know, so it's a
, it's a tremendous challenge and, and for a
defense that maybe has struggled against the run the last
couple, um weeks, what a great opportunity to
show us, um ourselves who we are, you
know, as a defense to that point to seem
like the defense has been a bit of an issue
within the last month. How do you, how
can you get that corrected? Yeah, we gotta
, we gotta maybe change the presentation a little bit
, you know, we, uh you know,
I can help with some calls that will, will
assist the defense, bring more guys in the box
obviously at times. Um you know, and,
and, uh, and then we got to play
better, you know, set better edges tackle better
, um, be more consistent. You guys are
31st league against the run. So it's not something
that just happened in the last two weeks. Is
there a common denominator through out a longer stretch as
to why the ranking is so low? Well,
I think you do, we need to play better
. Absolutely. Like you're going off of pure yards
. I think the better statistic always is yards per
carry. You know what I'm saying? And we
are not 31st as far as that is concerned.
So do we got to play it better? We
do at the same time, we're facing a ton
of runs. We're, we're number one in the
league. Arizona has a little bit more but they
played an extra game, you know. So we
have the most runs against us not to say that
that makes it ok that we're giving up the yards
that we're giving up and that we're the level of
, um, defense that we're playing versus the run
that has to improve, but we have faced a
lot of runs.