Huh, I know, right, Fletch, you after looking at the tape from your own performance perspective, and what are your thoughts after that game on my individual performance? Um, I don't think really it's about individual um performance. I mean, we lost, so I think that that says it all moving in the right direction as a team despite being two and six eight games. Um, what do you see out of the team? Why are you why is he saying? Because you know, he know a type of team that
we have. You know, he know that, you know, he knows the kind of guys he got, you know in the locker room. You know, he believing us. He knows that. Um, you know, everything can start clicking. You know, I think we didn't see I think we have seen the worst already. So I think it's all good can come from, you know, from here on out. You know, he believing us, the whole culch and staff believing us, and we just gotta be focused and get the job done. How tough is
it against the quarterback like Aaron who? I mean that first half he was getting the ball out from I mean in like one point two seconds on the average. That tougher for you guys up front to try to to put pressure on him when he's when he's when the ball's out of there before you know what happened. Yeah, absolutely, It's tough to on any D lineman, you know, and not just um. I think they did a think he did a really good job of getting rid of the ball.
We just had to you know, rally, you know, we just had to run to the football and attack of the guy with the ball. You know, he you know, he's making his reads quick. He was making smart decisions and he's making us tackle on the edge. Coming into the season, one of people you know said defensive line is the strength of this team. But past a month
or so, havn't had the sack numbers. Uh, the still feel that your unit is you know, he's the way for victory because team, Yeah, I still think this this unit is the defensive line is still you know, you know, one of the you know, main parts and important parts of the team. That's with any team. But I think again, you know, um, winning and losing is most important, and we we gotta get on the track, you know, start
winning football games. You know, I don't think I think you know, just a single it just a D line out is I mean, we just got to be better as a team. I think you know, and we will be better as a team. We just gotta have the situation and you know, focus and focus in practice, one player at a time, and get ready to go to Cincinnati on Sunday. The last couple of days been like for you. You know, there's been a lot of scrutiny and a lot of talk about the way the defense
wasn't able to get off the field Monday night. You know, how have you handled that? Um? Get ready to go on Sunday. The game happened Monday night, and we know, um, we know how we played as a defense. We know what you know, we know that could we be better. We know that we can be better. I'm sorry, and we know what we gotta do to get better. And that's just um, you know, not change nothing that we do because we know what type of what type of
team we are, what type of defense we are. We're gonna be aggressive and we get off to you know, get after people. Frust rating too, not just because the way Rogers got rid of the ball and you're able to beat your man. It just seems like there's a second or third guy there before you even get a chance to get to them. So it's just you know, it's it's you know, you could beat your man all day, and you know if quarterbacks making quick decisions, smart decisions
and he's not gonna get hit. And you know most quarterbacks make their mind or they're gonna make They know what type of um, what type of front we got. They know we're really aggressive and we get after the quarterback and try to you know, sack him every play. You know, every time he dropped back. And you know, when the quarterback don't want to be hit, he's gonna make his first read, get rid of the ballast. What
are you see of the Bengals offense this year? What are they doing on I mean, I think they do it. They do a lot of stuff. Good man, Like you say, Andy is you know, I think he's playing really good. Um Um, I mean they record, don't I mean, don't say the whole lot. But I still think this is the NFL. And you know, and you have to approach it as you know, um as you know, professionals every week gotta respect the other team that you're playing against.
You're in the game Monday night. That when it developed that this was how Rogers was doing it. Were there any adjustments that you guys can make or anything that you tried to do to limit him more? Oh, I mean they didn't have They had no success running football. I mean I would think I would say that, I
think that one data has sucess running football. But you know, just the way that you know, Aaron is a fit in his game and he's making play, he's making he's making checks out the line of streamish to try to get them in the best situation, you know, to whatever whatever looked that we're giving him, and they did a great job at him. Man, you know, you gotta you gotta respect that