We're back the NFL with twelve re option touchdowns rushing touchdowns. You guys rank for PFF nineteen against the rush on reoption? How can you improve on that specific side with the challenge that they bring with the red option? With the red option, anytime you're facing a quarterback that has that type of ability, you just gotta be on your assignments, you know, for a full sixty minutes, which is way
easier said than done. Uh. You know, there's times in a game where you might be part of a long drive. You know, guys get tired and all of a sudden, the first thing that goes in your mind, you know, and you forget where you might need to fit in
a certain uh play. Um, but yeah, it's all about being detailed and everybody's forming to the ball, getting to the ball, carry if if and when if or when he does pull it against the Cowboys had kind of back and ball feel given that the stakes are higher and maybe the Eagles or maybe even more equipped to play that way. Do you expect I don't know, something even more Yeah, I mean I expected to be a
battle all the way through. Um. Both the Cowboys and Eagles are both physical talent to teams who are really fast and UM have a lot of talent. So just like it was a battle of this past week, I'm expecting that if not more this week. You know, them being in their home home stadium, home crowd behind them, They're gonna be juiced up, ready to go. Was that offensively evolved slash improved since the last time you faced them? I think obviously just the uh the addition of some
of their playmakers. I mean, I guess most noticeably is a J Brown UM All Pro receiver, and uh, the the I guess, the evolution of all the other guys that have been on their team, as in Jalen Hurts, Um, Miles Sanders, DeVante Smith, all those guys that they that they use, Dallas Goddard, you know, I go down the list, all of them have gotten better, UM this season. So that's equal to a more complete offense. They're on the
line is all even better this season. So uh yeah, Hurts evolved, I think just the command of the offense and knowing where to go with the ball, being more decisive. UM obviously the dynamic plaimmaker always has been, but using his legs to create plays and uh, you know, just launching the ball downfield to the guys who can go and go up and make plays. Um. I think that's what's kind of elevated him into being an All Pro
quarterback the third time in four years. You guys are here, you kind of looking back at that wallpaper, can you appreciate can you describe the appreciation also the difficulty of doing when you guys have done in this war yor span? Yeah, I mean you you work all season obviously to get up to this point and you know, just me looking at that just kind of reminded me of like it seems like just yesterday when we were getting ready to
play the Rams. Right, But it takes such a long season, a long grind and uh, you think about everything that we've we've went through up to this point just even get to this point. Um, it's uh, it's it's a grind all season. And I think this this part of the year and this game specifically, it's all it's all mental. You know, obviously everybody's bodies are are beaten down mentally, your your your drain. But who can do who can
do right longer? Who can continue to push through for the end goal is do you want it that bad, Like are you are you starving for? Is that something that you you're gonna get out of bed and do whatever possible to make sure that you attain that goal. So, um, that's where we're at. Teams out, Diamador Lenore. What what are his best attributes in your mind? Um? I think
just the competitive spirit. Um people talking. People are going to knock him on his size and uh, you know plays that he might have given up, but it doesn't matter for him. He's he's willing to go down there and get his nose dirty in the run game, tackling guys physically regardless of his size. You know, that's why people kind of calm a pit bowl. He will call himself a hyena, whatever you wanna call it. He's a competitor and he's gonna go up. He's gonna compete for
the football in the air. He's not afraid of anybody. Then, I think that's what makes him so great. And he's obviously played huge for us. Hit on the sideline on CD land did that jump out to you until on review? I mean, that's that's something he's done. Also, you look back at the Seattle game, you do the same thing to uh to lock it, you know, on on our sideline. So, uh, he's just continuing to be himself and gaining more confidence,
which is obviously producing better results. Enjoy being in coverage, and have you evolved that part of your game? UM, I mean it's always something that I've I've been more comfortable with. UM. You know, obviously doing that a lot back in college and and so forth helped me to do those type of things. And now here at this level, I've just tried to try to, uh evolved my game to being a more complete inside backer so I can play in the box, play in the back end, do
um do everything as well as possible. Thanks guys,