The volume.

All right, we're here on Open Mike and my next guest, he arrived as the 49ers defensive coordinator for the 2017 season.

And for two years, I heard fans and people in my business just crushing this guy.

I thought his first name was fire because I just could not hear anything other than this guy is killing us.

And then in year three, suddenly the Robert Salas sidelight experience took the NFL by storm.

And now he is the toast to the big apple. Hello, Mr. Salah.

Who's up Mike? How you doing, man?

I'm great. And you are in your biweek and kind enough to join us. And I'm still trying to process all this because you and I sat together back in the spring in Morris, Canada, Jersey, had a great meal and talked about some of the challenges you were facing.

And if we had been sitting there that night and I had told you, no macaque, Beckton, no Elijah Veritucker, George Fant would go out.

You'd draft a guy named Breeze Hall who was tearing it up and then he was out.

And you'd be sitting here six and three. Would you have looked at me funny?

I would have taken it.

And the guys have been doing a good job. And on its testament to all the coaches, all the players, it's been a good first half of the season, but we got to find a way to keep it rolling.

You took a high profile job in a big place and year one with a team that was kind of reeling from past years.

You went four and 13 and of course it's New York's and nobody reacted very strongly or anything. And you know, you have quarterbacks, Zach Wilson, you drafted last year, who's still growing into it.

And so you had challenges. You came out after the opener, which didn't go well, and started talking about all the criticism you guys have been getting and the negativity.

Was that intentional and kind of what was your thinking when you when you talked about that?

It was kind of a it was in the moment.

But trying to really just trying to keep the attention off the locker room, negative attention anyway.

Positive attention. I mean, have at it. Give give.

Don't worry about the coaches. Give it all to the players, please.

But from a negative standpoint, especially with such a young roster, I think why it's so hard to build in New York is because it's instant coffee everybody wants it now.

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