Are you concerned about the amount of injuries? Uh, not concerned. You know that injuries happened or whatever. Every year, injuries happened over times. It seems like we've had more this year, and we had a lot of guys go down, you know, in the game on Sunday, which is unfortunate, but you know, injuries happened. Unfortunately. It's a part of our game where the injury rate is. You know, you play long enough,
the injury rate is one hundred percent. So it's it's something that comes with the game, mixing and matching different guys in it out. Because of this reason, communication problems you guys ever did together every years he's had some of that or pretty working that kind of stuff. Our communication is good, you know, all the guys that step in do a good job of communicating. So I don't I don't see where we had any lack of communication
issues amongst any of our guys. Louis Davis thought the best of fact that when you face a quarterbacks like a Drew Brees, you're really facing an offensive warden. They were on the field and get out. How difficult to does that make your job as the defensive signal court Yeah, it makes it tough because Drew is such a great player, smart player when when you can change the plays at the line, he always gets his offense and favorable plays.
So no matter what defense we present to him, he always has a check to get them in another play or a better plays, so to say. So, it's tough. But for us as a defense, you can't. We can't really focus much on it. We just know we have to play solid in our We have to play our defense well. You know, we can't try to mix and matter everything that they do, but we have to play our technique and our defense as great as we can.
I think you guys in the playoffs two years ago, three four times, right, it's pretty difficult because of what he can. Yeah, I think it's tough to blissen because he gets the ball out so fast. You look at their offense, it's a lot of rhythm, a lot of time in the ball comes out fairly quickly, a lot of three step drops and uh, you know, if you do pressure them, you just have to get pressure up the middle, which I think will work moving him off the spot a little bit. They don't give me anymore.
It was a big part of their office, Billy said, and this just watching they see look thro to the back spot more album. They're pretty challenge the kind of thing that you have to worry about. It if you ran about the sea, you get short. But there's a different break. Yeah, they have a lot of weapons. It's one thing in the backs, you know they are they have become more of a go to guys in the in the offense now you know with Spiller Ingram all those guys are doing a really good They do a
good job of catching the ball. So you see a lot of a lot of screens on take all Over, and they were on a lot of screens and a lot of a lot of times try to get mismatches against you know, the faster backs on linebackers or safeties. So well are we have you know, our antenna's up. We're alert of what they try to do with their running backs because you know what they do, they get the ball in the playmaker's hands. So we have to
definitely be ready for the for the screen game. Demko's impossible to be a dominant defense opposite of a temple of offense. You can be a dominant defense no matter what the offense does. You know, the offense doesn't dictate what the defense does. We we always dictate how long we're on the field, you know, causing turnovers, scoring defense can do at all. If you're a dominant defense, you know all of that lies in your hands. It has
nothing to do with the offense. You guys have made the bottom of the league in the plays against for all three years under Chip. I would think that's not all just because you guys can't get off. The third downs are part of the place. Run on that sun too, right. I think it's a lot of third down, a lot of third down. We're just not making plays. And you know, like the drive in Washington, they hit us with the draw. Now we're on the field, extra play we get off
the get off the field on third and long. When they're running the draw, they're pretty much conceding, Hey we make a tackle. We don't play all those extra plays. So a lot of that I think is on us. A lot of people put it on the offense. But I look at his defense. You control, you control how long you're out there, You control, you know, how many players you can make out there tackles on Sunday. What did you see from him in that game, and how does he help you do what you have to do.
Bennie is playing outstanding. I think he's he's playing with really a lot of energy, a lot of tanassy like he's meaning up front, and he's making a lot of plays for us, beating up a lot of offensive linemen, getting off of blocks, making plays. He's very disruptive and for me sometimes he steals a lot of tackles because
he's he's making too many plays, but he does. He does a really good job man just penetrating uh and he causes a lot of disruption up front, so it makes it tough on offensive lineman sometimes to get up to the second level because Benny is so disruptive, a great leader, being able to read the locker room and one of three right now, how is the locker room right now? Our locker room is fine. Everybody is everybody is locked in. I feel like I feel the focus
is really locked in this week. Everybody is ready to, you know, go into battle, gets the Saints and get a win. And I think that's what it's all about. Men. We work every week, working hard every week. These guys bring the same attitude you know every week. You don't see a big up and down with our locker room. It's pretty even killed. But the guys are locked in this week attitude. But is there maybe a little bit
more humility in the building? You know these last this last week players, coaches kind of maybe looking at themselves and a little bit more. I mean you should always be. I mean, for me, it's always a sense of humility. And that's why I said, I don't see you know, where guys got too high or anything. You know, there's always been, like I said, a sense of humility around here because again, you know, it's just that's the nature of the game, and you can't get too high, too
low one weekend, one week out. Things change with your lunebackers, particularly having to pay attention to those screen games, you know, being heavily visits on the sill. Said put more on the inside guys like yourself to create that pressure to Swood, especially since you want to get pressure in the middle of a right It's predicated on the calls, whatever casts we have. Sometimes it's it's called for us, it's inside line bikers to get pressure up the middle and sometimes
the outside pressure. So it's all predicated on different calls that Billy Mays, Jordan has been very productive for rookie year early on. How much of you had to help him as far as wanting things like that, not much. A smart kid, Jordan's really smart. He knows you know where to be, knows his position, he knows his technique. So there's not there's not much that I have to tell Jordan when we're out there on the field together. You know, Jordan is, He's done a really good job.
He stepped in and play really well for So there's not much on my end that I have to tell him that he doesn't know already. Really said, if you're in that situation again, trying to protect the league for twelve rest of twelve games, and you win the next twelve games. But when you look back at it, I mean a lot had to go wrong for you guys to give up that league. Had He kind of balanced how much you know they did versus how much did
you let happen. Yeah, I always look at it as us we let we let a lot of stuff slip. We let a lot of things happen, a lot of you know, a couple of those big runs that we let get out. That's why I look at the most those runs. It shouldn't have happened. I feel like we set the run down for most of the game and then to let those two runs out the last drive. That's more so on us than them. The respect how there's not that many emotional episode flows with this team
kind of even kid, what do you contribute do? I think it's just just maturity. I think for the leaders and locker rooms, just knowing the maturity of the guys and just relaying that to the younger guys. You know, you don't win a season just because you win one game. It doesn't mean anything. Just because you lose three, there's still there's still a long season. So you can't You can't ride the wave of the outside world, what everybody talks about on the outside. You can't ride the wave.
You just have to stay even kill, have to stay focused on the task at hand, all right, Thanks guys,