Um, I mean the biggest thing was Benny Logan was probably the only only guy who had a good game and he got hurt. Um. Everybody kind of took their turn, either blown in as timon or just making mistakes and and collectively when you add them all up, it's just it's just slot of bad football. UM. So stuff that
that we can correct, um. And And I think the biggest thing is when you have a team running ball like they did, um and to keep the ball every time of possession and the amount of players you're out there, all of a sudden you start getting tired, and then the effort gets low and then it's snowballs into something worse. So, Uh, the biggest thing is is not letting that get um out of control. Everybody doing their job every single play, regardless if you're a starter, backup, whoever, um, just just
doing your job. Nobody has to do anything spectacular um. And and we can stop things like that from happening. So but obviously a lot of things are correct from from the tape tackles. How do you guys overcome that? It seems like every once in a while it just happens for the team where they is it contagious or how do you get over those time you I mean, you practice. It's all about you know, what you do, your standards during practice and a lot of the things.
A lot of the time, especially in the pros is not many teams practice tackling, you know. Once the season starts, it's most people are just you know, tagging off or or whatever. And so it's just about deliberately being or put yourself in the right position so that in the game you're not um, you know, out of position to make it tackles. Everybody wants to make the tackle. Everybody you know, uh is trying. It's just about practicing. Those
happens just like anything else. Tackling during UM now, I mean you get more so on your own on a looted linebackers do uh the dbs No, not so much. I mean you can do. Some guys stay out and do some do extra after practice. UM. But it's just one of those things. It's more once you get to the season, it's more about install coverage and things like that. Throw September playing him six weeks later. Who has the advantage there? The guy who knows the playbooks so to speak,
or the defensive song throughout the song. I think that we'll see that on Sunday. Um. You know it's weird to you know, a few weeks back, Sam was getting ready to be our starting quarterback, and now we're getting ready to play him. Um. I think he obviously knows a lot about us. We know a lot about him. Um, So it'd be it'd be fun to get to play play against. And one thing we know all too well is that he can sling the ball, especially when he's
when he's upright and comfortable, he can make all the throws. Uh. He's savvy enough to look off safeties. He knows how to manipulate the coverage with his eyes. Uh. And he knows his playbook. He knows where his checkdowns and everything are. So he's a smart, bright quarterback with a live arm. We're gonna have to gonna have to show up surprising. You would rather these playing as well as he dude? Or did you kind of see that from him drying training? We expected a huge year out of out of Sam
for us. You know, going into the season, I thought he was he was poised to really, um take hold of this offense and do element um. So no seeing him in Minnesota. Playing as well as he is is no surprise when he looks at you and Rodney preetnapum and looks at the coverage. Other things you guys can
do to you know, see. I mean guess it's if he's thinking, you know, this means one thing and yeah, well, I mean the good thing about me and Rodney are we're interchangeable, so whenever we want, we can switch who's who or you know, and and muddy up those looks from a quarterback standpoint. So, um, you know, hopefully he won't be able to look at either me or Rodney and know from us what we're in. He's gonna have to look somewhere else. Um. You know, sometimes we'll just say, hey,
play well. Sometimes we'll play left and right. Sometimes we'll play free and strong. Sometimes you know, we'll we'll mix it up. Um, that's yet to be seen right now what we're gonna do. But I doubt he'll be able to get the tip from us this week and even in the game. Will you kind of recall some of the tendencies you've noticed from him over the last year plus. I keep a book on everybody I play with, everybody
play against, so Uh, you know those notes are already taken. Yeah, in the course of the season, three wins then two losses. How important is this game to re establish the positive momentum. I mean it's huge. You know you're talking about coming back, um from from two row losses. You're back at home. Um, you know the goal is win all your home games. Obviously when you lose two in a row, getting a
win to stop the bleeding is huge. And we got a great challenge and the only undefeated team left in his league with a with a really good defense, offense that is doing really well, and that doesn't turn the ball over, with a quarterback that can make all the throws, receivers that can that can make plays in a solid running game. Um, you know, it's a it's a big challenge.
And so but we also understand what um, would a win against a team like this does for for your organization does for a season, especially at this point in the year. So, uh, it is we're trying to do as much as we can to to get better, improved from last week, correct those mistakes, h and put our and work to putting ourselves in a position to compete and win this game. Offensive the couple that Pam is that we can see you watch the fucking defense, But
there are other pieces besides Sam out there. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's not out there. You know, he's got a nice supporting cast. Uh. They've got two running backs that they rotate in and out that give you a kind of a change of pace. One shifty and quick, the other ones downhill. They can get into some wildcat formations that get in hurry up tempo. Uh. They'll do some reverses with Eddie four. He's doing jet sweeps, he's doing screens. Uh. He's a strong runner with the football. Then they've got
guys that convertically stretch, stretch the field with play action pass. Uh. They got a tight end that's very crafty and gets open um, whether it be getting behind linebackers a hard play action or running some double moves down the field. So he's he's got weapons and they've got a good scheme that that presents enough issues for you to have to game plan for for a lot of different looks um in plays that you might only get two or three times a game, but you still have to be
prepared for him. So uh, you know it's gonna take a lot of a lot of preparation, to solid plan and a lot of execution in order to have some success. Sam's looking to run off the way he used to. Earth's here. What's the responsibility for you? And it being a matchup like that? Yeah, I mean, you know he's he's getting a lot of targets. Um. And you know those those catchers usually keep the drives going. Um, you know, move the ball, getting them out of some bad situations.
So it's gonna be a huge responsibility for not only me, but Ride and the other linebackers whoever it might be on him. Um, because it's the easiest throw is right over the middle, and and a lot of the times it's hard play action. He get those backers to step up and then you know he's running away from the safety or away from a linebacker and one false step or you know, one step behind, Sam's accurate enough to put it right on him and throw them open. So
that's a huge matchup. And in something that you know, I think myself and Ranny are looking forward to Sunday is the Eagles tackling breast cancer game. What does it mean to you with your mom being a breast cancer spot? I mean, it's huge my mom. You know, it's been cancer free for five years now, Um, and you know it's a lot of this this month for hers, it's her birthday month. It's also the month that she was diagnosed, so you know, the month of October is big for her.
So you know, whenever, I mean, obviously in light of all that that's going on this season, it's hard for me to get down or feel sorry for myself when I when I look at my mom. So it's an opportunity to, um, you know, kind of honor her and those who are fighting or survive breast cancer and kind of shed a little light on their situation. You mentioned Kings was obviously unfeated and in the class of the NFC right now. Look around how the conference is shaking
out so far. You've got a lot of these teams on your guys schedule this year. Is that something that's encouraging for you that you guys are gonna have a chance to come show where you stand. Yeah, I mean, we're not gonna have many blowout games, and so when you're talking about you know, every week, we're gonna have to come with our a game, um, which I think is a good thing. We'll get a chance to see um, you know, the best and not only our division, but
you know in the NFC and around US league. So you know, we look forward to look at it as an opportunity. We don't want an easy way out. We want to be able to take on those teams and know that you know, we're at the top of the league. Um so. But but at the same time, you got to take it one game at a time. You know, you started looking down the road, UM. You know it's you get punish them out for out who you standing
in front of. So right now we got a big um opportunity in front of us, um, and we're excited about it. You know. Cool