Yeah, I thought they were outstanding, you know, especially after that first drive where they just went right down the fielding with avy yards and you know it's seven nothing, you know, right off the bat kind of neutralized the crowd kind of hushed everybody up, and then I think they only had one hundred and sixty yards after that. I think our defense, you know, the rush um, the
ability to get to elag which is difficult. You know, going into this, they'd only given up short amount of sacks and they only turned the ball over, you know, not very much either, so for us to come up with, you know, Nolan's kit pick was big. Um. I thought the play by Demiko Ryant on the interception really kind of stemmed the tie because they were moving the ball again on that drive and then uh, you know, Demiko made a nice play on the on the wheel route
kind of knocked the ball up. But I thought, I thought our defense played outstanding all game long. Think change for that first drive now, I mean not call wise or anything like that. I just think our guys settled down and again I think that interception by h Demiko I think was kind of and that kind of almost everybody took a deep breath. All right, let's go when then then the rush started getting there. Then the next next series we got Nolan on the interception for a touchdown,
and then our guys really started playing. I thought, yeah, I do. I mean, I think they played. But again, besides the opening glove, I thought our defense played outstanding all game long. You get a sense Demico is motivated by the fact that need Jordan Hicks is getting a lot of attention and you know, goes to the better room, and do you think he's maybe motivated by that by the younger guy? Now, I think Demiko's motivated twenty four seven.
You know he's and I've said it before, he's our mufassa. He's the leader of our defense, he's leader this football team. Uh, he's motivated every day. Were around him, every second I'm around the guy. So um, he's been the number leagable mentor to to Jordan, and there's no one that wants to see Jordan succeed Morton Demiko. So I don't think that motivates him. I just think that's just the type of guy he is. He comes to let me any turnovers.
How can say him? Bradford get better him? We had some miscommunication today, you know, on a couple of routes where um, the quarterback and the receiver weren't on the same page. But UM, we have to clean that up, you know, and we we've talked about that. UM, he's getting more familiar in terms of what we're doing. UM, you know, but we can't you know, we can't continue to do that, you know, and against really good football teams.
We were fortunate that that we did it and got away with it today, but it's not gonna in this league. You can't do that and uh, sustain things, can sustain winning. So we really got to clean that up on the offensive side of the balls. Communication, it's on both, it's on both, depending on you know, sometimes we're reading coverages and routes are supposed to work in a certain way. So it's it's not all on Sam, it's on both of Sam's developments in the system. I don't have an answer,
you know, on a continuum answer. I just know he needs to improve and we all need to improve on the offensive side of the ball. I think, uh, you know, we're starting to run the ball better as a group. Um, we hit him with some good play action passes. They really got some big chunk place for us. You know. Obviously the first touchdown to Coube, Um, we hit him, hit Miles on a nice seam route. Um, we're doing some good things, but we have to be able to finish,
especially in the red zone. How are you to get into Marco going in the second hand? I think our offensive line is starting to really you know, come together as a group, and and uh, you know, the one thing about DeMarco, he's a downhill, physical runner, runs behind
his pads. You know, if we can get him started, and I think we started to get a little push at the line of scrimmage, you know, and then get him to the second level, he can run through a lot of harm tackles and Um, obviously it was really good to see him get going today as they had that roughing the kicker kind of league and you guys came back out you were able to score right there where You think that men for your momentum there. Yeah,
it helped. You know obviously, I think, you know, we we got stalled on that drive, but then you get the penalty. You know, they ran in and we knew they were a big rush team. Anyways, it was a good job by Donnie getting the ball off, because that's a tough group to block. They get a lot of big guys on their special teams, um, you know. So for the fact that we could capitalize on that, I
thought was big and then that was a deal. We think we capitalized, you know, whether it be the penalty or their turnovers, you know, we capitalize and score points. And then when when we turned it over again, credit our defense, our defense, we didn't give up any points after we turned it over. I thought our defense at a great job in their response after the turnover at
the end of the first half two timeouts. I tell you, if you complete a pass to the nineteen with thirty three seconds to go, one all the time out there instead of because we were trying to save it, and then we took a sack, you know, because again receiver ran a wrong route, so Sam is expecting the receiver to do something else. So we were just weren't on the right page. So I wanted to get away with just a field goal there. Let's let's take the points and let's get in a half time and get the
thing straightened out. But there was a miscommunication on the on the route before that and there was a miscommunication on the one that he took a sack on. Wait. Look, no, during the week, you didn't really get into how important this game was other than one game, but being it's the first win in the division, it's a game that really kind of set in the season back on the right way. How important was this? Every game is important? I mean, so it's not every single game you play
is important. At the end of the year, what you final record, you can't say what We lost that one, but it wasn't that important. Every game is is important and that's what we talk about. So we have a huge one coming up. Whatever you want, Howard, Every game is important when we're trying to win, So we don't. I don't go in and say, hey, it's an AFC opponent, let's just take it easy this week because it doesn't count. They all count at the end of the day. They
all count, you know. So this is it's flyve full go, and we're getting ready to go play Carolina. We're not gonna say it's not a division opponent, so let's kick our feet up and take it easy this week. In practice, we got we gotta get ready against real good football team. This week Brandy grating curing a lot of pressure they
did before they did. You know, I think a lot of times with what they do because they get the ball out quick, or they're releasing five guys into the route, there's a lot of single, single blocks going across the front. So obviously it becomes a matchup with our d line against our oline. And I thought, I thought Vinnie played really well. I thought Fletch played really I thought all those guys, you know, I thought, right, you know, it
was good to see that. And then you know, the one thing you have to do to disrupt the rhythm and timing because the balls out so quick is get a push in the pass rush. And I thought we did that reception that was thrown into the end zone. What are you seeing on us? We had a match up, you know, we felt like we had earths on the safety and it was the ball was just a little
bit behind him. But you know, as we were going, that's what we were trying to do, that was what the play call was, That's what we're trying to do. But the ball just looked like it was a little bit behind him. From more I saw him, I think no place coverage wise, what did you do better? I think we we we were on to a combination of
both things. I think it's the pass rush and in terms of what they do, the balls out quick, and so then we talked about if the ball is out quick and it's completely we got to tackle, and I thought we tackled better on the back end between the receivers and the quarterbacks. The city. Is that happening in a little bit of an alarming rate for you at this point in the season. Anytime we're not on the right page, then we're concerned. Can you trace them? This
communication is from the sideline going in? Is just is that word is or when you've had these guys together to spring, Yeah, we know that. Well, it's not one specific thing. It's not always the same thing. So it's not just hey, this happened, so let's correct it. At one point time, it's a receiver. At the other point in time, we didn't get it. You know, we'll get it communicated. So it's it's it's a it's a group of guys. So we got to get it straightened out. Thanks guys. H