I'm sure he's gonna get a lot of criticism from people for floting him play and not disciplining him in some way. You've been around this game a while. I mean, what do you think of the way Joe is approaching it. I think he's handling it the right way. I mean, you know, guys make mistakes. Josh has been a guy
who's been a great teammate since he's been here. I hadn't gotten in much trouble, if any that I know of, um, And you know, at some point you I'm sure they'll let the legal process take care of whatever it is. And but as far as the team, we're moving on. We're moving forward. We understand that obviously, uh, Josh made some mistakes and needs to have a little bit better judgment. Um,
But you know, we're getting ready for the Giants. I don't know if you can address this or if you have a perspective on this, but a lot of fans don't understand what players do need guns. Um, you guys are going to you know, obviously high profile, a lot of work, a lot of money, fancy cars and everything. Is there is there any it's like you you have you know that if you just talk about UM gun ownership.
Whether you're in the NFL, you're a regular American citizen, you're you're gonna have your opinion on UM gun ownership. But you know, we have the right to bear arms and people it's you can legally own guns. And so I don't think we're any exception to that. Obviously, just like anybody else, we have rules and regulations as to where we can take those firearms and where um or what we can do with those um and we follow
those rules. UM. So yeah, I mean it's there's no need to really get into, you know, whether it's justified more more justified for us as athletes to have them us. It's our American right and some guys choose to practice it. Welcome As a leader, and as Josh's peered, do you basically talk to him and say, hey, look, you know this is you messed up, but let's let's not let this happen again. Yeah, I mean, you know, you you you got to keep the big picture of mine, you know.
Obviously he I think he already understands. Um that last and judgment, Um, could you know, not only just jeopardize what we're doing as a team, but jeopardize you know, his own well being, his own UM, livelihood. UM. And so I think he recognizes that. UM. But you know, you you don't want to act like he's just you know,
a bad apple. This is a guy who we've relied on heavily, never had any problems with UM until you know, we won't let one mistake, UM, you know, ruin our feelings feelings about him, but you know he will have to deal with whatever consequences do come UM from a legal standpoint. UM. But you know he's a girl man and we were looking forward to to moving moving forward with him. Where do you feel like you guys are
as defense right now? Coming off watching it in bad game Minnesota, real good game and then Sunday night, a lot of really really good things for fifty five minutes and then not a great finish. Do you have a sense of where you guys are? I still think we're really good defense. UM. I think the last two weeks
we played really good UM. Obviously Sunday Sunday night we played a really good offense and the Cowboys and we were putting some some tough positions with you know, the fake punt to turnover and did a good job of making stops toward the end of the game. When we needed some big stops, we got them. Obviously we didn't finish the way we wanted to, especially in overtime, but we didn't really give up the big play. You know, they earned something, you know, uh Dac did a good
job of extending play. Sometimes when we had everybody covered, had him lockdown, he just made a play, you know, in a few times where you know, you watch on tape, we're close and to either getting to him getting a sack or forcing the turnover and just came up one play short. Um. And so you know, I think it doesn't change, um, what we feel about ourselves. We thought
we played a really good game. Um, Like I said, we just just one or two players here there that we can come up with really changes the whole outcome of the game. The only reason we really are sitting here feeling you know a little bad about um where we are or even the reason that we're questioning that is because the outcome wasn't what we wanted to be. But if you watch the game, we played some good ball. Like I said, they made some players. They're a good offense.
But we're playing some good some good ball right now. On defense, well, I mean it's you don't just show up on Sunday and all of a sudden think you're gonna finish the games. It's the way you go about everything, whether it be your meetings, your practices, your drills, your lifts, um, you gotta finish everything. And and it's got to be um,
you know, a lifestyle. And I think this team understands, um what it takes and what things we understand how to mess it up at this point and what things do mess it up, whether it be turnovers, um, you know, missing your job or whatever, um. And I think that that's something that will moving forward, have to emphasize that as the game gets tighter and the game comes to an end, those mistakes are you know, exponential, and that's when you need to be able to focus in more.
You need to be able to come up with some energy, some momentum and do your job you know, you know, finishes and about somebody making a spectacular player at the end of the game. It's just about having the composure to do your job and do the simple things over and over and over again for the duration of the game. And that's that's where we're working towards. And once we start doing that, I think our outcomes will will will be what we want days and be easily and witting.
In that group two, Cruise and Beckham and Sterling Shepherd another really good cast. Receivers was a challenge this week. From what you've seen on the table, well, you know Odell is Odell, He's he's one of the most unnamed receivers in our league. UM Eli is doing a good job of getting the ball out. They move him around a bunch, so he's in the slide, he's at the ex he's at the z um shepherds in the slide as young player is doing really good runs, good routes. Uh,
you know, they're they're another NFC's passing attack. You know, we got a lot of um unique matchups in this in this conference, so I'm I'm I'm excited about it. Um Obviously thirteen is probably get the majority of the attention, as he should, but you know, they're doing a good job of getting the ball out of Eli's hands. So we got to be able to match up and cover early in and down and give our Russian a chance to affect the quarterback as well as stop the run.
Lost three straight on the road and you don't have the division win. Is there a great report on this one then? I mean, yeah, you know, we hadn't done that well on the road. You know, we got to figure out a way to get a role win, and pretty much all but one we had a chance to really all of them. But really we had control of the majority of those games on the road, and somehow it didn't finish or didn't come up with enough place to get the win. So this is this is really
big for us. It's our next game, but we got to figure out how to get a role win, especially here in the division. Would have been your impressions, Jail and Miss Development. I mean, I think he's been playing well. Um. I think last week for him was it was a little different the first time we asked him to play
the nickel, so it's a different spot for him. But you know, other than a few players here or there, I think he's played well, especially for the amount of reps and the amount of snaps he's played for US as a as a rookie. He's moving along well. Okay, cool day. Yeah,