I think he's playing probably like uh, like a rookie quarterback should and would be at this time quite honestly, UM, I you know, going all the way back to the to the offseason, starting after the after the draft, and all the way through to the night's game. I mean, you know, UM, it's not easy to play quarterback in the National Football League, and UM the things that he has done UM in practice even in you know some
of these games. It may not look like it because the end result, but he's made a lot of progress this uh, this entire training camp. So my hat's off to him and how he's worked and how he's prepared. What you see from the young defense events tonight, I thought they played hard. We got after the quarterback, UH, they closed on a couple of you know, uh tackle for losses. I thought they they came ready to play.
I mean it was it was good to see, um, you know, in this last game, the energy level they had, UM, the effort that the uh they gave. UM obviously looked more at it tomorrow when we check out the tape. But I thought overall played well. It's going to be tough. I think they're all tough. I just told you guys in the locker room that you know, these next few days or the hardest, hardest few days we we have. Um, you know, you got ninety or so players and you got to get to fifty three and then and then
you build back your practice squad. Guys. I mean, it's a it's a tough business. And I just appreciate all the hard work that these guys did for um through training camp, obviously through the off season. Um, you know, and and they left it in our hands and now it's our opportunity now to you know, make some tough decisions in the next couple of days. How do you evaluate how mac hollins has played. It's pretty season. He's been in a little more active in the last couple
of weeks times. So we just got to go back and look at look at everything that's full you know, the full body work and and uh, you know, obviously you know his health coming in was was an issue. But he battled through that, got himself healthy and back on the field, and um, he fought through that and he that's that's commendable. And we just got to look at the whole body of work and and and see and again make make some make some tough decisions on these guys. What did you find out about Jordan my
loots injury. We're actually gonna get another update in the morning when we get back tonight, and then in the morning when we do our medical and so on Monday, I should have a probably a better update, you know, with with where he's at. Dog obviously sewn situation a little unfortunate. Uh just how serious is it to us? Clear that op as far as you expect him. But we get one in ten days, he'll be fine. Dog. Rud On a different Rudy Ford wasn't out there tonight.
Why wasn't he playing? It's got a lower body issue that just needed some rest. And then you had Cameron Johnson on the kickoff? What was the reason for that? Just in case? I mean, you've seen us in the past when when Jake's gone down and we've used Kamo, you know, and just an opportunity to get Cam a drop kick on a kickoff that could be beneficial for us if somewhere happened to Jake during the season. Uh no, no,
it's just something we wanted to do. Um. You know again, Windell is a player that we know man, we got a lot of history with him. Um, and and you know, unfortunate, gosh that one run tonight. I mean we we had a trap inside and the backer hit a ball on the you know, tackle on the ball came out. But um, you know Windell is a guy that uh, um, that we understand, we kind of know him, and and you know he last week it was you know it was it was Corey's opportunity last week, his opportunity this week,
and and uh would have played last week. The game was shortened obviously, but um, you know he's he's writ in the mix. What made you not want to play andred doer tonight? Knowing that he's not going into the season as a start. Andrew's gotten a lot of work at tackle, um, especially left tackle, you know, all through training camp. I mean that that has been the primary focus with him. And you know, for a guy that could be part of the seven on game day, UM,
you don't just want to give him extra rest? Do you ever keep a player, um, who might not figure into your times as much? Buddy's earned a spot and it kind of proves to the rest of the guys. Yeah, I think every year there's there's that one guy, sometimes
two guys that on every team. You know, it's it might be a surprise to to you guys, it might be a surprise to the fans, but to us, it's no surprise based on how that that player has worked, um and and guys make teams all the time, um, you know, because of because of that their effort, their energy, their willingness to uh practice, you know, and and make an impact. All right, thanks, thanks, Just like