Yeah. Yeah, And there's been a lot of fun this week about to Marco when he's carriage. Have you had a chase to talk to him at all? Um? Yeah, yeah, I mean I talked to him every day. Um. But you know, I think it's part of it. I think, you know, I've known DeMarco for a long time, and I think you know, he's, um, you know, a competitor in every sense of the work. And you know, I think he wants to be on the field. He wants
to feel like he's contributing. He wants to touch the ball, and so you know, I think when that doesn't happen, he gets disappointed. But you know, at the same time, he's a great teammate and uh, you know, he was happy on Sunday that we won, and I think obviously he was just a little bit frustrated in his own performance running one of these checks that did it kid? You know one of the theories about kids lack of except last except is here way you guys said by Um,
you know, I really don't know. I've never played running back. I'm not really sure with college. Yeah, um right, Um, you know, I don't know. You know, I think you would have to ask him. I'm sure that he'd be able to tell you a little bit more in depth on what I could. You know, I know it's different, you know, I think, you know, there's probably an adjustment period and you know he might be still going through that.
What's up? Um? You know from every conversation I've had with him, UM, you know, he hasn't said anything otherwise. But like I said, you'd have to ask him and he would have to answer that for you. Are you surprised the number of what they were? Like, I think we have to set your way a crazy year, not closer to that. Um. You know, I think it's hard to compare year to year. You know, it's a different team, it's a different situation. His role is different in this
offense than it was last year. Um. Obviously that year he had a great year. You know, he's still a great player even though his numbers aren't the same. But I think it's really difficult. I think you're kind of comparing apples to oranges when you look at those two different sets of numbers. How do you keep this becoming a distraction? Is a distraction? Um, you know, I don't pay attention to it. I think there's a lot of guys in that locker room who don't pay attention to it.
You know, he came in today, you know, it's his typical self, had a great practice, worked hard. You know, there was nothing said at practice, There's nothing that's been said in our meetings. You know, it really hasn't been an issue for us so far. See what does it you even through your injuries this year, that you still have a chance to win this division and it's right
there in front of be the opportunity this last month. Yeah, yeah, I think I touched on a little bit after the game on Sunday, But obviously we would like our record to be much better than it is right now. But you know, given where we are in the season, you know, to be tied for the lead in the division, you know, and to real control our own destiny these last four weeks, I think that's all you can ask for the ling game now. You know last week you had the location
three guys, Now what do you know running? Um? You know, I think the great thing about that is, you know we've got four guys we feel really comfortable hand on the ball too, and it keeps those guys fresh. You know, if we can play the way we want to play, which is up tempo, and get our play count, you know, upper seventies into the eighties, and keep those guys fresh, you know, hopefully in the third and fourth quarter, you know,
when they're starting to wear down. You know, we're continuing to put those guys in and they're coming in and running hard and you know, staying a little bit fresher because you were starting to see that, I mean before you got hurted, before Ryan got hurt right now, but um yeah, I mean four is better than two, right you shoulder do anything? Um yeah, we're in a little bit extra padding on that left shoulder right now. Joke. I think you joke. You don't even know who you're
getting you off. Yeah. They also they just doing different heights and different coming at you. I really that's irrelevant to you. I mean it is a little bit different obviously. DeMarco and Sprowls are a little bit different size. Um. I think I do notice before the boy who I'm handing the ball too. Um but I think you know, it did take me a while when I first got here, because you know, Sproles comes in there and you really
kind of have to lower the mesh point. But uh no, that's a fun play with all those guys when they rotate like that kind of challenges just buffo. Um. You know it's a big test for us this week. You know, they're really good defense. You know. I think one of the biggest things is, you know, we've got to be able to keep ourselves ahead of the chains. You know,
we can't have penalties. You know, we can't have negative ways and put ourselves behind the chains because you know, I think once you get into third and long, I mean they're going to come after you. It's heavy, heavy pressure, you know, force you to get the ball out and then they try to rally and tackle before the sticks. So um, you know we've got to control their front,
got to be on top of their blitzes. When they do decide to pressure us, you know we've got to beat that and try to get them out of it. Three days when those numbers. For you, what's what's the different, um? You know, I think just getting more comfortable, not forcing things, Um, you know, going through my progressions, you know, not sticking on one or two, you know, checking the ball down if I have to, you know, and just trying not to put our team in bad positions, says you were
your numbers. You worried at it taking the ball over a while. Yeah, you had some early Yeah, you know, it was something that I was trying to figure out because I've never been someone to throw a lot of interceptions and so that was new to me. And you know, I think it was a variety of things. You know, I missed some throws that you know ended up being picked. You know, I made some bad decisions, um yeah, and there were a few miss I mean it was all
over the place. So um, you know, hopefully you know, we can continue to eliminate those Is this I mean, well you put the last couple of games before you got her last week. Is this is a guy who here comes the fourth for you? Um? I hope. So, I mean, you know, I felt like, before you know, the injury a couple of years ago, I was playing really well, and you know, I feel like before the injury this year I was kind of coming back into
that form. And so hopefully I can you know, continue to build on that bit off topic, but you might have a highs and trophy build. Who's your foot? I actually I voted for Baker Mayfield. Um yeah, yeah, he's a fellow suit or you got to vote for the Sooners. And you know, I thought he had a great year this year, and you know, I thought he was deserving. I think it's a little bit unfortunate that he didn't
get invited to New York. Um. It's actually it was at my parents' house for a while, and I think now it's in my office at my house. Everything the stories you tell about happy um My mom used it as kind of like a centerpiece on the dining room table for a long time because she didn't have anywhere else to put it, and so it stayed there for a while, and then I think there were like kind of decorations around it. But then she finally got tired of it and took it brought it to my house.
It's in Oklahoma, I know, I know, I know, a little bit unfortunate. Hopefully we can get a Sooner in there next year. YEA, thank you guys. Zero