First game back. Just take us through how you felt getting back on the field and how do you evaluate your blood. I mean, I felt good, you know, I felt good to find them be out there. It's kind of a long time coming, obviously, a lot of excitement, a lot of emotions. But um, coming out the way we did with that hot star going right down the field, uh, going some no huddle tempo. I felt good, feel good that no huddle and tempo. Is that something you requested?
What did that give you, guys to at the beginning of the Yeah, Doug and I talked about it early in the week and UM thought it would be something just kind of get get me, started to get the off and started to get us all starting fast, um, and and he trusted us with it, and obviously the result was a good one. The turnovers in the game at the end of the game, did you attribute those to rust or just or decision making? This decision making? I mean the interception, the guy made a great play.
You know, that's a it's a routway throw. It's all the time, and uh, he just he just read it right, it well, and I gotta I gotta be smart with that one. Um. Another one's unfortunate stepping up in the pocket getting it hit. Um. You know you gotta clean up those things. Obviously. You never want an interception, fumbles, especially um when you're backed up like we were put our defense in a couple of tough situations. But they stepped up and played a played a good football game. Drive.
Every team plays, and a lot of them. You guys were behind the sticks. A few players said that you brought them together at one point and said, you know, had boards encouragement. I guess what were was the message you wanted to convey to the guys there. Yeah, I mean just in the middle of a drive, especially in that situation, you know, I think it was just we had the sack and then the whole thing, I think it was, and it was all of a sudden second and thirty or something like that, and I just told
the guys, let's get half of this. Let's get at least half of this, get us in a thirdain manageable, um, and just stay together. Everyone's kind of, you know, all up in arms over the whole thing or whatever it was. And I said, they just stayed together, Let's stay on track, and next play we had the holding defensive holding, pick up the first down, and then we were rolling. We get very many big plays today. Was I with the frustrations set in at all or did you just kind
of expect that coming yet? You know? That's I mean, credit the Colts defense on that, honestly. You know, I thought they played, um did some things different than we saw on film and really just forced us to drive. You know, they played a lot of soft zone coverage and forced us to take a lot of things underneath. So so really credit the Colts defense and UM. At the same time, we just played our game and we
put people in the right spots. Obviously you saw us with a lot of two and three tight end personnels out there, so um, that's kind of part of the game plan. Knowing what the Colts like to do not at all. Didn't sec reporter when you made that dive first down? Can you describe that play and is that indicative of your willingness to play with the same a band and you played with before you got hurt. Yeah, I mean I thought it was just a normal scramble
to me. You know, obviously made a guy miss in the pocket, and um, it's all the first down marker and do for a pretty standard standard for him. What did Alice got her street of it? Yeah, I mean I think with Dallas, Um, he's showed me first of all, he's a smart football player throughout training camp. Um, and then you know, being able to go the no huddle stuff, and I'm getting him in different situations, get him in different spots, UM making calls, the line checks at the line.
You know, he was very instinctive and good football player. And obviously Um came up big with a couple of plays. Managing emotions lead up to this game up ter, it was such a much ants. Yeah, I thought I thought it went pretty well. You know, I thought obviously emotions were running high from the moment I woke up this morning. But um, you know, for me, I was just putting on worship music and just getting in the zone like that. I just felt like another game at the end of
the day. Able to get your first hit today and getting you bounced right back up. How the nerves calmed down. It felt great, felt great. The running game help you today. It looked like that was a real focused effort to Yeah, I mean the running game was huge. You know, we had a lot of UM no huddle kind of checks at the line based on what we were getting coverage wise, and they were playing a lot of soft um zone coverage. So you know, the running game helped us slot in
the passing game. And um, you know, obviously we're down a little bit with scrolls and a gie out, so um getting Windale getting you know, Josh Adams going, and then Corey. I think those those guys all stepped up and played a good football game. All the skill spots were pretty far down the dead chart. What effect is it is that having one on the offensive role? Yeah, I mean I think that's that's just kind of football.
You know, that's part of football. And then I think that's where where good coaching comes into playing and getting our best guys out there. You know, obviously you saw us a lot with with two and three tight end personnel out there tonight, um, and I think that just was indicative of those injuries and just um finding a way to to just um, get our best guys on
the field. And um, you know, coaches has a great job always just scheming things up, getting the right guys in the right positions, and so unfortunately you don't you don't want injuries but at the end of the day, you got to adapt with them, and I think coach has done a good job of that. Get said trouble getting the ball to Agilor, But on that last drive, two third down conversions out of him, you know, and both were with yards after the cash. What were the plays?
You have a third and five and there's a third nine, And what did he do to make this possible? Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, you know, obviously Nelson today obviously didn't get it get a bunch going early, and um, that's just part of it. You know, it's not something by any by schemer design. You know, it's just their coverage. And um, like I said, we had to take some things underneath, and um, the tight ends, all of them kind of stepped up and played it.
Played a good football game, and um, you know on third downs, I mean those ones late in the game, Nelson just always has a feeling and being in the right spot. And so, um, he's a guy you know, especially like him and Zach are two of the main targets that we look far on third down and um, those he stepped up there at the end car watching your defense stop him in the red zone. How much of that fire your offense up? Yeah. I mean I
think we both feed off each other, you know, offensively. UM. Seeing our defense just continually step up late in games like they have, UM, even going back to last year and then the first game of the year, UM today, UM, just that that gives us a lot of UM energy and excitement on the on the offensive side, and knowing that if we just put one together now that defense is going to get ahold And that's what they did. Or a hit, but you took where you said, okay,
shoot unrelieved. Now I know I can I know I can do this. There are a couple of times where you got hit. A couple of scrambles you've made, a couple of times you were very elusive in the pocket, left, right, left, forward, that sort of thing. Did any of those register like, hey,
that's great? Um? Not really, you know, because at the end of the day, I've been doing so much in practice, you know, whether whether you guys saw it in training camp or I was off to the side with the trainers or whoever, I've been doing so much of that stuff for a while now. Obviously getting hit was new, but I felt like felt like riding a bike, getting hit and popping back up again. Your team means have mentioned different times in practice, different places where they said
on my Carson's packed, there's gonna be no limitations. Was there a play like that for you in the past whatever three to four weeks, I don't think so, you know, nothing really sticks out. You know, it was a lot of going against the defense As a scout team quarterback, I was a little new for me, but um, yeah, I just I felt good for a while. I was just good to finally get out there to get this first one. All the way for me, how much was afore they get this first one done and then just
out back one focus? I mean it was huge. I mean, obviously it's huge to just pick up a win in a hard fought game with some some tough conditions out there. Um, guys really rallied around each other. Uh, the resilience, I thought it was huge. Today. You know, we had, like we talked about that long drive at the end, we had some really unfortunate situations we were in in second
and extra long third downs. Uh, the fourth downs. You know, it's a couple of things, and um, guys just stayed together and then the defense stepping up at the end. That was huge for us to get us back on track. So you mentioned a soft stone a couple of times. Looked like a lot of cover too. This was an emotional game for you. It's nine plus months, is it was? It kind of a little bit harder to not want
to press and you seeing that cover to it. Not really, you know, I like to think I'm a tun off as a player to just take what they give me. Obviously they had some um that that might have fooled me, um coverage wise and kind of tricked me a little bit. But that's football. That's football, and that comes with it, and um, you know that's that's a good defense over there. Is there anything that you were curious about that you
how you would respond that today's told you? Or I think you learn that you did not know this point? Not really, you know, not really. I think once I got back out there, got that first incompletion out of the way, kind of threw that one down the field a little aggressively. We were rolling from there. Thanks. Thanks, Thanks,