Guys. Just the injuries from the game. Christian had a something with his calf, didn't return, possible calf strain. We have to see tomorrow on it though. Yes, that's why were laid in here. It was awesome. Well, didn't want to really try to not pay attention to it, didn't want to get our hearts broke, but we did right there at the end, and they pulled it out. That was pretty cool to see. We, I mean, we think will be all right. I don't know if he would have been able to go next week or not, but
we'll have to find out more tomorrow. But he was moving around all right on the sideline, so hoping that it's not too bad. But I want to know tomorrow. I'm not sure. I really didn't think about it. We were just focused on this. I'll definitely try to rest some guys, but I mean, you can't rest everybody. It's too hard. You don't have enough players. So we got to fill the team without a doubt. But and we're
gonna have a big week of practice, you know. I still think there's lots of things we got to obviously get a lot better at, and the only way you do that is playing football and practice and football. So I have a big Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, figure out our roster as the week goes, and decide what we'll do for Sunday. It's huge, uh, you know, in these last couple of weeks, just we've been a little banged up and there's been a couple of positions that just we've been getting rolled
thin at. Guys had to push through a number of spots and some of those guys are doing that. Hopefully this will help him out. I thought Elijah did a great job, you know. I mean when Elijah's healthy, I think he's as good as anybody. It's he's been working to come back. He was close to last week and has had had a real good week this week, and he was ready for the moment. And then when Christian went down, he just came in took over. So I thought I did a real good job. Still, how big
was that? Yeah, he's I mean, he's at a hell of a year and that was a big Uh. That was a good call by Steve Collin. Zero quarterback had to get rid of it and Mooney was all over him and then he made the catch. I wish they would have blown it earlier cause watch him use a lot of effort, but it was cool to watch him almost score. I wasn't sure if he was down or not. But he's been playing his ass off for a little
bit now and keeps getting better field. I was a little nervous at first saw him running around, and I just wanted to make sure we don't lose yards or anything like that, cause I thought we we were at least in field goal range. But he created bought some time. And then when I saw that ball leave going across the field and quickly looked to where it was and he was all alone, quickly was excited. So it's a hell of a play by him, and it's great to
get seven there. Coach, you hear about that. I mean, you don't calling off script play when lots of times players don't work in practice, and when they don't work, the quarterback breaks the pocket and you just have rules and stuff. I'm coaching guys on how they distribute the field, and but yeah, anytime the play doesn't work, whenever we use it as a rep to do that type of stuff.
And uh, he's got a good knack for it. Well, he's talk about how do you like I mean, it's not that I don't mind talking about football, it's just it's hard to keep trying to come up with things to say when there's four clips and each one of them is different, you know, So it's just a simple football play. And then I think it's real tough when someone does that and it's about football, and then he's got to answer questions all week about how his mental
state is, how everything is. It's just how the world works, and it's just a football game. He studied his tail off all week, practiced well, knew some of the reasons he made some mistakes in the game before, and just treated like any other week. And I think it's good to get out there and didn't have any picks today, which I think would be good to not have to answer questions on those. But I thought it was a
hell of a deal for him. I mean, I've had a lot of real good quarterbacks in this organization, and you know, just being told in there that he broke the record for the whole time yards in a year, that's a pretty big accomplishment by him and everyone else in there. So it's cool to do that today and and to lock up to one seed kind of you guys on Monday across country flight. What does it say about what you guys have built here in the last couple of years to just be able to handle all
of the adniversary you were talking about that. That was real proud of the guys today because it was it was a tough week. I mean, I think it was more about the motions of last week. Whenever you have a big game like that, and it's just it's so exciting to play on Christmas in front of everyone, those two the two teams with the records, and it's just the motions for everybody was huge, and then it's you're tired from that. Takes a while to get everyone back
going again, not just physically but also mentally. So I had a lot of concerns about that throughout the week, talk to the players a lot about it, but you never know how they're gonna be till game day. And I was just pumped at they went out, don't worry about anything else and found a way to win. It's good, but important is he to what you guys do. It's tough to win without a left tackle you can trust, and it helps you win when probably have the best
left tackle. Ever, he's a guy that we don't have to worry about. He's a guy that makes plays for us too. You know, being with Trend's rookie year all the way to now, he's always has been. He almost looks the same. I mean, he you think he's not gonna been to his knees much and walk through and stuff, which I give him hard time for. But once that ball snaps, he looks like he's twenty three. So he's as good of an athlete as I've been around. He's
one of the biggest best leaders on our team. Football is very important Trent, and he really enjoys playing, he really enjoys studying it. And I just feel very fortunate to have him on our team. And I can't say enough about Trent any any emotions as far as today, you're no, not at all. This is I used to have those, but it's a totally different place here now and different people, and you know, there's nothing personal here anymore.
The personal stuff is gone. As a coach, uh, I'm I'm he's with winning, and then after you win, then you kind of look at all the other stats, and especially after last week, I mean, the turnovers and penalties I think made it really tough to win. So I'm glad we cleaned that up, and I'm glad we got the W all right, all right, guys, thanks