Yes, oh, Lane. Obviously the other dad was in there with the quarterbacks early in the morning. Lane kind of walked by, walked in to say hello to the quarterbacks and it was a good sight and they were happy to see him as well. Look great video. I know it sounds corny, but you could feel the energy. You could feel it bottled up, you could sense it ready to go. Yead, Isaac played right tackle. How did you look?
Isaac looked really good, really good. I mean I think at this point, you know, there's been uh, some ups and downs to the season. Um, certainly a few more downs than we wanted. But one of the real positives is all of our draft picks have really I think showed looked good, played well, have continued to get better and show a lot of promise going forward. Um, you know, rotate guys through and then coach, I'll ultimately make that decision that you get drafted Isaac because he's so worthful.
What is the best position? Um, you know, I think, yeah, he is virtually extremely athletic. You look natural out there at right tackle. But I think you know, originally we had drafted him to play guard. In the short term, what does that give you to have big v and and Isaac moving forward, to have two young guys like that, um that you know, you can build around with him a lot. Um, It gives us a lot, It gives us versatility, gives us depth, UM, gives us options, you know,
with those guys. And like I said, Isaac, Isaac can play tackle, you can play guard, and you can play center. I mean these guys and Stout and Eugene do a great job of cross training them all and they really feed off of each other, so they're getting better all the time. These next two games were laying going into the next, next year, into the future as a leader on this office left and two or three years that he hasn't been but he's got to go for them
words last two teams. Yeah, absolutely. You know. Obviously, when Lane was here at the beginning of the year, we got off to a pretty good start, so for him to kind of bring back and he was playing at a very high level. So, um, there's a lot of ways to lead, but the number one way to lead is by great play on the field and lead by example by the way you play in the field. So we expect him to come back and set the bar very high. Like he did for himself, um going forward.
So it's great to have him back. The boost of energy that you get from having him here, is it tough not to think about where the offense would be, where the team would be if if he hadn't had the ten game suspension, you know, I mean it's it's yeah, I guess it would be easy to go there, but you're so always so wrapped up into the next opponent that you really don't have time to go there mentally, Um,
but certainly a good player that we've missed. He hadn't played all season and comes in and he sudden field like a screed players in full floor and everything. You know. I mean, I think Byron shows explosiveness. I thought he looked a little amped up early on, but made some good decisions. You know, we think he's a talented guy.
Got called into action due to injury, and you know, like the other guys who've gotten called in, those other young guys have gotten called in, you could tell it's their first time in action, and as the longer they get in, the better they get. Ryan Matthews this season, it's you know, it seemed like injuries of office is a little bit big with the fumble as well. But when he's been successful, the team for the most part
has been as well. Yeah, I mean Ryan, We all know Ryan's talent as a runner, his strength, his size, his explosiveness. When he's in there, Um, it feels a little different. And but obviously all those backs are really riding the coattails of good play up front on the offensive line. But Ryan does add a dimension of physicality back there, and he's done a good job been Certainly there has been a correlation when he's when he's humming, Um,
it's been good. You guys leave the league in the time of possession right now, you haven't scored more than two offensive touchdowns in the game since Pittsburgh in Week three? Is it all about the red zone? And if it is, I mean, what what do you see as the major problem down there right now? Um? You know, I mean, I think some of it's the red zone, some of it's the lack of big plays. Um, you know, you want some explosive play touchdowns. We need a few more
of those. So we just have to keep I just know this that you know, amidst the negatives and amongst the negatives, Um, leading the league after fourteen weeks in time of possession, there's something positive about that. Um, it's not good enough because we haven't scored enough points. We got to be better in the red zone. We got to get more explosive plays. But we're showing signs that we can control and possess the ball, that we can make first downs. Um, those have to be good signs. Valuable.
Parson's interceptions, you know, the first drive, Secretary, I've I think six out of the thirteen in the first quarter. What do you make of that? Is Is there anything too that is he too jacked up early in the game? You know, I don't know. I mean, you know, sometimes there's a lot of factors that go I'd have to break each one down individually, which we'll kind of do at the you know, at the end of the year when you go back and evaluate. You know, we always
start with the beds. So we'll go back and we'll look at every interception, you know, we'll look at every sack. That's the way we always start off with the quarter and then we get to the good stuff and evaluate it. There's a lot a lot of things are going to play. Is it possible that guy's amped up or you're a little juiced up. Sometimes I don't think that's always the case. I think he's pretty poised. Could have it happened in the game or two. Maybe I've seen it happen to
really experience guys. I've been around some really experienced quarterbacks who get really jacked up for a particular game, go out, maybe try to do something too much early on. That's probably happened, you know, once or twice, But I don't think it's a recurring problem. Valuable was it that, even though the two point conversion wasn't converted, were cardson to take the team down the field, because you've had a bunch of those situations this year and actually score and
finish the job? Yeah, I mean I think it was important. Obviously, we wanted to finish it off the right way. I think everybody I don't know, I think everybody on that sidelines there was no doubt in our mind we were scoring on that play. I thought this was the moment.
You know, we're all I think we've all been thinking and you've seen it, and we would talk a lot about incremental growth and getting and you know, I certainly not journaling his progress in that sense, but you can you could feel it each time we get that situation, we're getting a little bit further. Now we go in and we're standing on him. This is it, We're making
this play. This is this is the one. This is gonna And there wrote a lot of good signs down the stretch, but those good signs need to finish with a touchdown that win or a two point conversion that wins the games. What have you learned about Bill Peterson as a coach going to be You know, he's got no fear, he's steady, he's aggressive, he's tough, he's accountable, fun to be with, you know, he's he's open minded. He's very confident in what he knows and what he
believes in, and he knows what he believes in. Um. But you know, he's hired a good staff, I believe, and he takes good input from everybody on the staff and he's fun to work with. But four hundred some yards against the Giants last time he played him, what's different? What has become different about that defense? And the weeks since then, they've obviously gone that way, and you guys are going on this way. Their defense playing really well.
They're getting after the passer. Uh, you know, Russian passer very well. They have two really good corners, obviously a good safety, you know, good good secondary. They have good personnel on their defense, and it just seems like they're hitting their stride um defensively. You know, we know Spags is a very good coordinator. So um, they're playing with a lot of momentum right now. I'm playing at a high level, really good in the red zone, really good
on third down, pretty good against the run. So be a good challenge for us. What does lack big plays? I know when you were hired, Doug said, that's kind of what you brought, was that the downfield passing attack. Why do you think that hasn't been able to kind of take hold this year? You know, I mean I I just think we have to. You just got to keep working at it. I mean, there's no magical answer. We believe in our players. We believe we got a
quarterback who's a big play quarterback. He likes he likes to throw the ball down the field. You know, we try more and more to you know, build stuff in a fine ways to give guys an advantage or leverage down the field. Take some shots we just have to keep believing it and keep and keep giving them opportunities down the field, the circumstances that you probably wouldn't have preferred. The way guys have come in with the offensive line, has it gone from an area that was questioned is
something that might be promised? I always from you know, from day one, that the offensive line was a strength of this team. I think I've said that all year long. You know, I know we've been beat up and a lot, but I've never felt I've been at other places where we've been really beat up at the offensive line before, and this has just felt different. I just feel like
we really have good depth. We you know, the goal Howie and Dugs that down in the offseasons that the goal is to build some depth on this offensive line. We drafted a couple of guys, we signed a guy. I think all of those things were really good for us, and I think it is an area of strength. I think Jason Peters is a dominant football player and still playing at a dominant level, and now we got laid
back and some other young guys have played more. I think it puts us in a good position going forward. Process behind not having active this week, you know every week. You know, there's certain things plays that we had in you know, we had one couple things in for you know, a couple of things in last week for Bryce Um that I don't want to get into that. You know, some of them we got to, some we didn't get to. That's just a week to week decision players that they
weren't the rushing attacks. It seemed like you still had a lot of the same wivezone concepts, just stuck to it. Board. Was there anything different as we did that this past week? Guess the rays, the finances, you know, it just came down to execution and physical you know, I think the offensive line has been playing well all year. Um, there's been no quit, no quit in them, you know. And in the run game we had some success early, and
that just everybody feeds off. I know, it's a play call or your feed off that when you can get some success early in the run game, they felt it, and you know they're calling forward on the sideline. Um, And you know, I just think the mental challenge of going against going up against the number one defense that's always that was always a good thing. And I think Jason Peters really led the way with the way he played. His physical nature really helped lead the way in that game.
Running the football, yeah,