You know, I was. I thought that was the key. We talked about being able to establish run and then things can build off of that. But UM, credit those guys up front. I think they they had a good week of preparation and they did a really nice job there. Worried about well, they both practiced Thursday. So when you got Thursday, Friday, Saturday, so we had three days with them. Um, pretty good. Yeah, well, I think you know again, because we got a chance to get them full on Thursday.
You know, we felt like we were we would be good with them. Um. And again, getting getting some continuity with the same five guys I think really helped us. You're talking more about ago being able to run when the defense even knows you. You remember run the law and you allow your plays game playing game game with Sam under center, we can throw from that. I mean that's not just because I know that, but we can. So it's not like I don't play. I mean, they'll
put seventeen guys in the box because of it. But um, I think again, I get credit to our offensive line. I think they did a really nice job, um and opening up some things for our guys and letting my running backs get started. I think with all three of those guys, if you can let them get started, um, they can be productive. And it started up front. Um, those guys did again. I had a great week of practice and accepted the challenge. Go on. It's a real
tough defense. It gives you a lot of multiple looks. Um. I thought they handled it really well. There's a start of difference between two and three. We didn't make conference were four leave the confident? W an indication bringing it up at all this now we weren't. We're not a conference division. We had to win a football game. You know, it didn't matter if we're playing ANFC opponent or an NFC opponent or you know, there's not more weight I think at the end of the year, obviously there is.
But in our mindset as a team, we had to come out way to uh play play on all three phases in one of football game, and that's what we're trying to you guys turn it twice. Yeah, early in the game, did you feel fortunate or the defense that that didn't really fight you early? No, I just felt like got offensive confidence, said that we could move the
football on them. You know, when we we were open on the first wat Sam just kind of threw it on the line if he just puts it up a little bit and he'll tell you the same thing, um, And then really just going for it on fourth down was just you know, I think one of them was going to be a fifty seven, maybe a little bit out of Kaba drange, and then the other one was on the edge of fifty three fifty four with a
little bit of slight win. We knew going in you actually hit two fifty four yarders in pregame, um, but we were just right on that cost and it was just kind of caught us that way. So I felt like, I leave our offense on the field because I do have confidence or defense. I think our defense is quite well because I have confidence in our defense. If the risk reward is if I put the ball put our defense out in the field in that situation, that I'm
confidence that they're gonna get a stopped. And that's that's the way I feel about our defense and other punch dominating for a while. But now see like the numbers starting to come on, you guys doing anything different than free of numbers. He's just now, you know, sometimes and Billy says it sometimes it comes in bunches, you know. But but Fletcher has played really really well for US,
um in the three years I've been here. You know, It's just sometimes it just seems, you know that some of those some of those things are sacks and things
like that coming bunches. But um, he is playing really well for us right now, and we were really I mean, he played a heck of the game today, So it's like when we really turned the game around, you know, three sacks, two forced bumbles really turned the game in your favorite Yeah, again, he played really well today and and uh, a lot of our guys on the defense side of the ball played really well. Tod up, but
touch at a heck of the game. Your first three possessions passtball closed down each of those possessions, and Dan kind of helped them do suit up the running game as well. I don't know if it was just kind of some of the look some of it. Sam's got an option whether to hand it out forgive it, so, um, it just depends on how they deploy their defense. If they be having a lot of success throwing in football to their backs in the horizontal passing game, you talk
about the defensively there. Yeah. I mean we knew going in that the port of their deal was getting the ball to you know, to Spiller and Robinson and uh Ingram coming out of the backfield. The three really talented guys, and Sean does such a good job at getting the ball spread around to different guys. Uh. But it was a big emphasisis this week for us more than any team we've played so far, to really contain the running backs in the passing game. How do you think Sam
responded after going the two interceptions? I thought he did a good job, you know, I think he Uh, you know that stuff's gonna happen, but a lot of it is your response after it. You know, we're all going to make mistakes and when you when you make them, you know you do you continue to dwell upon him? Or do you learn from it? And if you get to put in that situation, you put the ball in the right spot. And so um, I thought he did a nice job. I thought I thought he bounced back
after those. It was before what's dood out Today we ran the ball better. You know, when we run the ball better and we're balanced, Um, then we have an opportunity to stay on the field and that's what we did. We ran the ball better and then we converted on third DOWNCE so we could stay on the field on a sideline. Yeah, I wasn't that. Yeah I got a penalty. What do you say? What's that? What did you say something that you're not allowed to do because you get
a penalty for him? Did you? So that was more straight than blocking schemes. Now, I mean we do the same things we've done in and the other three games that we lost. You know, it's just we executed, and that's what you know. That's so I said last week we weren't executing. This week, we executed, but we didn't change up what we were doing from schematic standpoint. Um, Josh had you know, the one thing and I told Jess before he had a really good week of training.
You know, he had been missed, he missed the Jets game, didn't practice full towards the end of the week. Um, in terms of he was out there every day, but it wasn't like he was full speed killing everything. And then he started to have a good week of training. And obviously we believe a good week of training, we you sink to your level of training and you and your level of training allows you to play well on Sunday, and had a good week of training and allowed him
to play well. I thought it did a really nice job for us today. Did you have available to you when he came back? We just decided off on him or I don't know that off to ask Bob. I just know he's rolling him at that point in time, so I know he was out for a little bit then. I don't know if they kept him out or if Bob kept him out. Marcus Smith quite a bit. It seemed like he was active. I mean, he's the one I had three receptions? Were you think I'd have to
watch a film on that specific? I know Marcus did play and we had planned on getting him in there. Um, it was good to get him back out in the field. But I couldn't tell you exactly. I don't I don't remember that play right now. So what was that excuse? Just on how the coverage of you know, how people are going to cover you and what they're gonna do when they deploy their tight end. So, um, you know, the one thing with Sam is Sam will Sam will
take what the defense gives them. So we felt like we could exploit that match up if they were going to play away the statue, but they kept running away from some rolls and sometimes they were bad kicks. What they do, Yeah, I mean it shows up on the
statuet because the starting field position is where it shows up. So, um, you know, that's part of Darren's ability is that, you know, the same thing when we had Darren in the past game, they were doubling them, you know, so some of the things that we knew, if they're going to double them, that's gonna free somebody up. And I think Sam was Sam was pretty sharper that if they're gonna double Darren, then let's get off of them and let's go to
another receiver, making that our first raid. And I think he did a really good job with that so well. I just think it's you have to take what the defense gives you. Everybody's good in this league, you know, and so you just can't say we're going to force it to this individual. If we can, you know, get to somebody in a matchup, is that hopefully because of we have some skill players that you know, how do
you match up with all five of them? And then for the quarterback, it's it's his responsibility to kind of process it and say all right, hey, they're playing a man now, the matchup is here, you know, And the next time they played dime, they were moving those guys around a lot, so sometimes it was a match up here, the next time the matchups on another guy. So that's what we were kind of looking and trying to trying to take advantage of the game. Wore we are kickoff
re journey. He really seemed to get some energy from that. Did you sense that he was that helped deja vote? Did you just heard the last question about Hugh That's okay, Hey, Josh had a great week of training. He didn't play against the Jets um, you know, because obviously had a hamstring and then didn't practice full. By that, I mean he practiced full, but he did really go full the week before in terms of getting ready for the Redskins game, and he knew that. But he had a really good
week of training. We talk about you sink to your level of training, and I think how he performed today he is kind of what his week was like. So hopefully for Josh he can build him on it. But he's not going to run into the end zone with one hand and the football again, and you've talked about that, does that do anything to flow the game? Anything? Like? It is what it is? And then if they discussed it and they don't think it's penalty and that's not
a penalty. Sence Sam played better as the game early interceptions and then it seemed like he was maybe a little bit I don't know, progress more accurate. That was just operations the interceptions, I hope. So as we move forward, I do I mean, did he plays? Yeah, I thought he played. I thought I thought Sam putting a good game. But like all of us, you know, you make mistakes.
I mean I I called it not a real good play on a screenplay, you know, and then you got didn't get much artis and then we get knocked back not in the red zone. You know. I think it's everybody does it. But I think if you can continue to lay more good plays out there, it's not a bad place. That's what we're trying to do. So thank you,