Because we know if we can keep teams out of the end zone, really what happens to between, you know, the ten yard lines is irrelevant. Once we get down and they're tight and we can hold them at three, we feel like we can outscore anybody. Is there something about your personnel that seems I think it's yeah, I think it's a little bit of both. Obviously, we've got, you know, guys that can make plays up front and
put pressure on quarterbacks, that can stop the run. We've got guys in the outside that do a good job playing our technique and make it really hard to just line up and throw phase during slants, UM. And then the rest of it is you know, scheme, guys knowing where to be, how to close windows. UM. You know, Jordan Hicks has been a guy who's taking taking the ball away and lockdown in the red zone specifically almost had one today, UM. And So I think it's a
little bit of both. It's it's a simple scheme that allows us to play fast, but we had some injuries where you know, guys are coming in. Carmon came in, um Rani came out, so we had to change. We can figure some of our stuff but it doesn't matter. Our exits the spots and everybody knows we've been facetious or you guys really kind of get recent and feel a little bit more comfortable where the red zone. I you know, I just been a little facetious, But now I do think that when we get to the red zone,
everybody's completely comfortable. Um. It's not like, you know, a panic situation. Um. And so we always feel like as long as even if a big play happens, as long as it didn't go for a touchdown. We're finding playing red zone defense and completely confident in the game on the line. We've been in a situation too much and been successful not to be you know, confidented. So UM,
it's something that will continue to improve on. We'll see new looks every week and as people you know, attack us in different ways, and we'll continue to adjust play. At the end of the shot, I didn't see it, actually, I was they were running mess shows, receivers running everywhere. All I saw was left trip up and hit the ground. Um. But obviously I'll rush. You know, it's been it's been the back one of our defense, and we can take away routes early in the down and good quarterbacks to
hold the ball. It's really hard for for offensive lines to win, especially one on ones, UM, and we saw that kind of all day today. Don't think you guys need this a little bit harder on yourself than we be with all the penalties sometimes, no doubt. Yeah, I mean there's a lot to correct. You know, we talk about losing the turnover margin, the penalties that we had, UM, just situations that that we always we tend to put ourselves into some bad holes and you can't expect to
continue to have success like that. UM. But it's always easier to make those corrections after a win, and so winning is hard at the end of the day. As we go on, we need to, you know, find a way to get just a little bit better. If it's in the penalties, if it's in turnovers, takeaways. We had a couple opportunities on defense to take the ball away
and then come up with them. So as you start to look at the game and its tontality, you know, everybody contributes and so we're happy to obviously to win, but there's gonna be a lot we can quit. Mills had some to pass break ups today. The kind of appreciation for how so his whole career is usually getting knocked after a really bad game and you gotta replace. Somebody usually comes back and and it's Mills You'll have because it happened so much. Yeah, I mean, you know,
it's part of playing in this city. Uh. And he's playing a tough position where all eyes on him. We don't wrote help to anybody, you know, our defense, we put a lot of pressure on our corners and he answers to told. You know, he goes against some of the best receivers in this league U and obviously showed up there. Really, this this game made a bunch of
you know, key tackles, good stops. Somebody will continue to rely on under And I've seen it, you know, I've been playing for ten years, and I've seen guys, especially in this city, play that position and will allow, you know, the outside noise or a bad game to have their confidence way. And I think for him it probably feels them more than anything. And that's what you need to be successful. All there in the island is a continuously believing in self your technique. I'm gonna keep getting better
as you go. Part of your post game speech elaborate on what the message us. I think the message was was was simple, was you know, welcome back to winning. But you know, remember kind of what we were got it's here. We didn't just show up and win the game. We came off a tough loss on the road. We came back, we evaluated and prepared, and then we played. And so that's the same process and cycle that we
just need to go two week to week. We'll show up on Tuesday, we'll watch the game, we'll flush it, start, turn our eyes to the Titans, prepare all week, and kind of lose next time the next I'm just gonna say, it's been a while since you guys have had to bounce back from a loss. Do you feel like you guys were? I mean, I think we're gonna go back on the table and still see penalties, especially on special teams. You want to see UM, you know, miss opportunities to
get the ball. Defense, you want to see turnovers in offense, UM and wait, we're areas that we want to improve UM. But it's all it was easier to improve after winning seventeen seventeen night drive what you drive by the offense, you guys late that fourth quarter. Did you need na We didn't need the rest, but we needed the points. You know. It's a situation that fourth down that they went for. You know, we go back on the field and we'll we'll be we'll be pressed to kind of
get the ball back quickly with some time left. But for them to go down methodically and put points on the board, UM obviously put us you know, and a dantage to go up. We're now we're defending the touchdown, not a field goal, it's not a time things like that. So that was a huge drive obviously for the game clean out day. After seasons winning going out, there's just close games and just went in your way. You still be playing, what is it about this team? Aw, You're
able to win these these games? At the point? Well, I think a lot of the times at the end of games, especially close games, it comes down to execution, UM and and really you know your defense, can you get a stop? I mean That's how I'll usually view it, whether it's a shootout or it's just you know, one of those defensive games. It always comes down to whose defense,
UM makes the last play. Um, their defense had that that long drive and ended up you know, entering a touchdown, our defense, you know, held up even though it's a long drive. They got down to the one fourth and one week, we end up making one more play than they did, and oftentimes that's the difference in this league. UM. And so we feel very confident in somebody making that play for us, you know, making those plays on defense. UM. And so when we get into situations we prepare for.
We've been through it in practice, we've been through it in real game situations. So we just we just play. We'll take a couple more of them bringing to throw the hill there and a lot of them looks like Andrews throw rolls either short or underneath, holding numbers really down. Did you notice how to take you up to the week that Andrew Wood is a little bit different obviously coming off the shoulder surgery and mister yet, I mean yeah, I think he's still working his way back, but I
mean he still looked sharp. Um. They've they've moved to which is they've also changed their offense as well, you know, and so their offense very similar to always taking a lot of you know, short intermediate routes getting the ball out of his hand, especially when you play defensive front like ours. You don't want that ball to get, you know, out of his hands. I still think obviously, you know, and I think the last play being a little bit of proof that if you got to really stretch the
feel um. You know, he's been limited, but he's coming off of obviously that injury. But you know, we got a lot of respect for what he's doing. He's he's definitely still I'm going to top two quarterbacks that can make plays. His mobility is something that's underrated. Um now obviously a small quartergram. I thought you killed Michael almost did. I felt bad. I was just worried about I was trying to kill whatever whatever was there. But he's all right.
On the red zone stop. In the Atlanta game, I remember some of you guys saying that you knew from the formations to be what they're trying to do. There's preparation or even more when you get down. Yeah, I mean you usually you know where where teams want to go with the ball. And then I mean in the red zone, the advantage is the defense because there's not much space, so they got to try to fit the ball to tight windows. Um and so when you can
muddy those windows, you know, wh spots they like to hit. UM, you can take that away. You also see where other teams might have had success. And it's a copycat league, so you usually see those same plays show up. UM, And so we'll look back. It will be some things I'm sure that will pop up on tape UM that we'll know the other teams might want to use. UM.
We'll try to collect those and adjusts. UM. The good thing is everybody knows the defense is well enough to make an adjustments is not an issue, and we change you know, tools within the coverage almost weekly. That gives us a little bit of advantage.