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Coach, another win yesterday.

Thanks for coming in this morning and chatting about it.

What impressed you yesterday?

What impressed you with your team?

Wow, a few things. just finished watching the tape here about an hour ago uh i'll tell you what our guys played really

hard um you get like you had a feeling you know it's tough it was a noon it's kind of a weird

time because it's central um you know you're traveling it's a long you know like we can't take

these like travel days for granted like it's a pretty big undertaking it takes a lot for the guys

to get going and uh and i thought the guys played hard you know i think we were we weren't like sluggish

the guys are trying their trying their tails off and we fought and um and we did a lot of good things like I think in each a little bit more like individually and there's some there's some really great I think like we're going to show the team day there's some great you know like series of events that are really complimentary and that let us you know step on the gas and then there's some series of events that weren't as complimentary, and we're acting a little bit independent of one another. And I think that's how you end up with the score that ended up being. And it's a tribute to the Titans, too. I mean, they kept battling, and the quarterback made a lot of plays down the stretch where, you know, some off-scheduled plays that he made some throws. and so, you know, some off schedule plays that, that, uh, he made some

throws. And so, you know, they deserve some credit too. I've heard scouts use the term,

Mike, stopping power when it comes to tackling as a safety, as a linebacker, like when this guy

hits, does what he hit from an inertia standpoint stop and then go backwards? Man, it felt like yesterday, whether it was Drake, whether it was time,

whether it was patio, whether it was D law, man, there were half dozen double-digit numbers

where it was just hit and that thing absolutely stops and goes backwards.

How do you evaluate that? Do you look at that in that term of stopping power or is it a measurement that you guys use? Well, it's a, it's a great point. I thought our guys tackled really well yesterday. Even in space, I mean, like, I know we missed the one on fourth down, but recid some other ones that were in open field. They made some good plays as well. So obviously we want to make that play, but you're right. You know, we take a lot of pride and like we want runners going backwards. You know, on offensively, we want to finish going forwards, defensively, we want runners going backwards. And normally it takes more than one guy, you know, so that is really like a 12-as-1 type of idea of let's get to the ball, let's knock it back. And we knew this, we had a really good feeling going to the game that it was going to be an eat game, really in all three phases. So when we talk about eat, it's really how you finish plays, you know, a lot of those hidden yardages that we needed to go in our favor. And defensively, we did that a good bit to get them to second and long. Offensively, I thought we finished runs going forward, which is a positive. There's a couple we've got to get cleaned up. And special teams, I thought we played a great game up in exception for the punt return. You can't live like that. You know, you can't live with, you know, living in the exception world. But, um, so overall, I thought it was positive. And, but you're also leaving it saying, hey, look, you know, we got to, we got to play better in some of these other areas. We've got a ton of questions about your team that we'll get to in a moment. But it's twice now, I've heard you talk about Cam Ward. And it sounds like you were pretty impressed with what you saw Brock. I was, yeah. I was, yeah, I was, he,

um,

he,

uh, And it sounds like you were pretty impressed with what you saw. I was. I was. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was. He's slippery. There's a strength and a slipperiness to his game. He's a hard, tough guy to get on the ground, you know? Like going into the game, they were taking a lot of sacks. And I thought, you keep seeing him improve, I guess is my point.

And so it's, you know, hats off to him.

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