Uh, we’ve had urgency and effort about every day. I, I really like this team. I like the way they’ve worked. Um, we’ve tried to explain to them, you, you won the second most games in the AC C. Uh, so you’re close. The thing we haven’t done is we haven’t finished. And that’s why people get frustrated. Well, we get frustrated so we gotta finish better and they understand that. Uh, so mentally and physically, they’ve gotta bring it every day. That’s what we haven’t done. We’ve played, we’ve beaten some teams that we, we’re not as good as we’ve lost to some teams that we were better than. So, they’ve got to bring it every day and that’s what we’ve talked to them about in this camp. That’s most important. Um, and, and if you don’t, you’re average, so many people can’t do that and it, it’s hard to bring your mind and, and your physicality every day, uh, especially when you’re tired and you, you’ve had 1011 days of practice and you’re worn out in this heat and that’s just a, a huge part of this. We have been, uh, really focused on turnovers. We’re not turning over the, we’re not forcing enough turnovers with our defense. We’ve always taken care of the ball with our offense. So it’s hard, but our defense has got to do a better job of turning over, uh, forcing turnovers. Uh, same thing with explosives. We looked at last year’s explosives given up by the defense and most of them were, um, Mr Simons and that’s when they’re tired. So that’s why we’re, we’re, we’re playing too deep. We’ve got a lot more people on the field and playing four safeties right now. Any of the four could be in the game at any time and we’ve never been able to do that. So, um, we’re, we’re really working on our depth. Uh, and we’ve got to create more explosives on offense. You lose somebody like, uh, Tez Walker. I mean, you, you don’t have the same speed outside. So you gotta work at, at trying to create, um, explosives really working hard on penalties. We’ve had too many penalties. We’ve got the smartest kids in the league. We’ve got the best apr in the league and we’ve been up in the penalties every year. So that makes no sense. So we’ve just told the guys that we will have absolutely no pre snap penalties. It’s unacceptable. If they have one, we’re taking them out and we’re telling the guys there will be absolutely no post twistle penalties. If they do that, they’re running a lap and staying out the rest of that, that, uh, rack of plays as they go through. So we’re, um, and, and then we’re penalizing, we’re, we’re doing physical, um, drills for consequences for guys that have holding penalties or, or, um, past interference penalties. So those are usually what you have. So we’re actually, uh taking another step for enforcement into those areas working really hard on the red zone. We’ve been average on the red zone on offense. We’ve been bad in the red zone on defense. So every day we’re working live on the red zone and, and you saw it today, it’s, it’s, uh, that’s what we did. We had a red zone scrimmage here at the end. So, uh, we’ve got to improve in that area and then we’ve always talked about, uh, dominating in special teams. Uh How do we finish stronger? You, you get more depth, uh, it helps morale. It, it keeps people fresh and, and you have fewer injuries and that’s, that’s a huge part of what we’ve got to fix at the end of the year. Um, we’ve hit more because we’ve got more depth and we’re more physical right now in this camp than we’ve been since we’ve been here because we can be, uh, we’re already looking at who would be on the travel squad. We’ll tackle talk, we will take about 80 guys to Minnesota. So we’re telling the guys, how do you get on that plane? And what do you have to do to get on the plane. Um, and we’ve got lots of competition. It’s really fun if, if right now, uh, when you’ve got guys like, uh, Josh Harris and Travis Shaw and, and, um, Kevin Hester and, um, you, you’ve got guys like, uh, Rucker and, and, uh, Des Evans getting after you, the offense better come out here ready to play because they’re gonna get embarrassed if they don’t. And that, that’s, uh, that’s something we haven’t been able to do. We’ve put a lot on the leadership committee. This is an older team. It’s a, it’s an older mix with a lot of young guys that are gonna play. It’s really a, a unique, um, mixture of, of what we’ve got. But, uh, uh, we’ve put a lot on these guys ask them to, to handle all the discipline in their units and, uh, making sure that they call the guys out and help coach them on the field and they’re, they’re doing a really good job in that area. Um, scrimmage. We, we, uh, I felt like the defense dominated the scrimmage on Thursday and as it usually is yesterday, we had a, another type scrimmage and the offense dominated it. So that’s what we gotta do. We can’t come out one day with one bunch and another day with the other. We’ve got to get more consistent, uh, as we go through it and our game, our, our scrimmage the other night was at game time. It was at seven o’clock, it was raining. Uh, so we were lucky to get it in, but it was great to have a scrimmage with rain and wind and all the things that can happen in a game that you, you can’t, uh, prepare for. Uh, the last thing before I answer your questions is that it’s really, really helped us that the analyst in Q CS can coach, uh, Ty mckenzie played nine years in the NFL and he coached eight and he’s helping coach Stig Pin with the linebackers and, and he’s also helping coach special teams. Uh, then you’ve got Nick Newsom who was, uh, a coordinator at, I think Gardner Webb, but he worked with Jeff Collins at, at Georgia Tech. You got Jimmy Lindsay who was a defensive line coach at Illinois, South Carolina and LSU. Uh, so we got a lot of great guys that are stepping up to help Clyde Christensen has helped so much. We got the best quarterback coach in the country coaching your quarterbacks along with Chip. But when Randy Clements had to go to the hospital and, and they had to miss a week, Chip was able to go down and help with the offensive line because Clyde could coach quarterbacks. You got Natron means that can help the running backs when Larry Porter is working with special teams. Uh, and then you got guys like Caleb Pickrell and, and Kyle Fuller who are, are, uh, younger coaches that could actually coach the offensive line how Randy was gone. And then we’re so lucky to have, uh, Eric Meely and Eric was the special teams coordinator at Washington State and at Mississippi State for Mike Leach, and he has really been helpful with our special teams. So we, we’ve been able to be more organized and get more things done, uh, at one time and, and, and be more efficient questions. How much closer are you with the quarterback situation? How much clarity have you gotten? Especially since you guys, we’ll have a scrimmage on Saturday. Uh, that will be a, a really good scrimmage like the first one. and then after that, we’ll start looking hard at, at depth charts and personnel more and more. It is, it is, all three of them are good enough. That’s a good thing. Now, we gotta figure out who’s the one that gives us the best chance to win and, and you’ve got differences in that. Uh, um, Connor can throw and runs 44. He hadn’t played very much. Max has played 1600 games and thrown 900 passes in the sec and played against very tough competition in a, in a tough league and loud stadiums and, uh, Jacoby’s behind them simply because he wasn’t here for the spring. So right now it would be Max and, and Connor competing at the highest level and Jacoby, uh, coming on said the defense had a dominant showing in a lot of times, you know, it starts up front, you know, in the church is in the front seven. How would you kind of, uh, describe the way the, the front line defensively? I’m, I am so excited about our front seven. We’re, we’re thin at linebacker. I mean, that we’ve got to get a, a 3rd and 4th, 5th linebacker. So that, that’s critical. We’ve got some of that at each position, but Josh Harris has brought energy. He’s brought, uh, maturity, he’s brought leadership, uh, and he has really excited those guys and, and he is, he has been a huge plus for us inside and, and he’s helping all the others grow up. And Ted Montecino is an amazing coach. So, uh, I like what I see out of those guys right now and then you mentioned linebacker, how, how much closer are, you know, some of those next guys I know, you know, sort of about their names have kind of come up. I’m supposed to, those guys getting to, you know, being in that you’ve got, uh, short Lavalle, you’ve got Ashton Woods, you’ve got, uh, the law brothers, uh, all that are competing for those two spots. And what we’re trying to do is is tell the coaches, it needs to be the best players if you say, well, he can’t play Mike. He’s got to play, uh, will I don’t want to get the best guy out there and and cross teach, cross train. So that’s what we’re trying to do. And that’s why we’re working those guys, like in our goal line scrimmage today. Power didn’t play. Uh, he and uh Amari were out. So we, we had all those young ones just going in Amari’s young, but he’s, he’s more experienced than they are. So, uh we’re, we’re trying to find the 3rd and 4th corner. We’ve got four safeties. I’m really excited about our safeties. They, they look really good and we can rotate them at any time and we are, uh, we’ve got three guys that, that we think can play star. Uh Caleb’s ahead but the other two, Trey Miller and, uh, uh, Tasha, um, are both where they could play. Uh, so I’m excited about them. Um, and, and then you’ve got a, I’m, I’m Dez and, and, uh, uh Ken Rucker, uh Dez Evans and, um, Bo Atkinson have been dominant up front. Those three have been really good pass rushers and Dez has had his best two days, the last two days that, that I’ve seen since he’s been here, so hopefully they can keep growing our tackles have trouble blocking them. We would absolutely have to chip if we played ourselves to, to be able to protect some leaders, came to you and said this guy’s idea what he’s supposed to do. Can you just explain that a little bit more? Yeah, we were there and Ted was starting to send a guy in and, and, um, came and Rucker was the one that said no, no coach. He, he’s not doing what he’s supposed to do. Don’t put him in. We don’t trust him. He’s gotta grow up then afterwards they all met with him and they all said you either start doing these to be on time. It wasn’t awful. Things is be on time. Keep your mouth shut, start studying the playbook more and earn the right to get in there. And I’ve never seen that. So that was pretty cool. Ma you mentioned urgency off the top is bringing in a guy like Josh Harris on the defense who has been to two schools and this is his last year, potentially going to probably see, be a part of that, of that. Absolutely. It, it uh you look at Des Evans came and Rucker him. Uh they’re all at the end. Uh Richie’s been sore some but when he’s in there, he’s, he’s done really well, Travis Shaw is doing a good job. Uh When you, you get somebody like Josh that’s leading the rest of them follow and, and that’s, that’s really been impressive to. So he, he has been a great addition for us. You think about uh Kevin Hester, uh Travis Shaw and Josh Harris up front. That’s a lot, a lot of body. There’s some big, big guys in there. I was just gonna say the guys respond to the emphasis on urgency and that there, we’re, we’re all over it with them because we’re, we have a thought of the day, every day that we actually got from Coach Smith 100 years ago. That and, and today’s was go back and look at your last 24 hours. What did you do to prepare yourself for this practice? Did you sleep? Did you eat? Right? Did, did you, uh, get in bed when you were supposed to, did you not put anything in your mouth that you shouldn’t put in there? It’s gonna help you. So what you do and if you didn’t do that, then you don’t deserve to play. And we also told him afterwards, don’t tell me, you wanna play every one of you wanna play. Um But we’re pressing you enough that you’ve got to show us you wanna play and you’ve got to earn the right to play. And then when you do, uh it’s in front of everybody because we’re showing clips every day to the team of guys who are doing well. And if you’re not in those clips and obviously you haven’t earned the right to play. Not just along those lines. That got me thinking about last year. One of the mantras was nine isn’t enough that, that you said like, is there a mantra put in place? What I’ve told them this year is let’s just play the best we can play every week and be the best team we can be, let’s don’t get in the numbers because we were better than eight last year, uh, until we weren’t. And you’re the, there’s different levels of good enough. We were talented enough, but we didn’t play hard enough all the time. So that means you’re not good enough. And everybody says you were better than that. We weren’t, I mean, the big eye in the sky don’t lie. And the scoreboard tells you the, the story and, and that’s what it is. So, so we haven’t gotten the credit for what we have done and we haven’t because we’ve lost three times to a rival and we’ve lost at the end of the year. So we haven’t near gotten the credit for being the second most productive team in the AC C. That, that would be a, a great question on Jeopardy or somewhere because nobody get it. Uh at all. We don’t get credit for having the best grades in the league because nobody really cares. Uh they, they, they only care if they’re bad. They don’t care if they’re good. And these kids have been incredible. So I’ve told them you’re so close, step up and finish because our expectations are higher than others too because we’ve started well. So that’s on us, that’s on us. But we’re not into how many we’re gonna win. We’re not, we’re into doing the best we can do every game. And I told them you’re not gonna play great. All the time, but we’ve got to start winning games where we don’t play well in and to do that, you gotta have high energy every game and you can do that. Mac running back room is a position like this and maybe he isn’t getting talked about it to this hall because of how good is, how do you feel about the depth behind that right now? You got Dave, he feeling pretty good with that position, you know. Yeah, we are. Um Darwin Barlow is very talented. He, he just got here so he’s still learning, he got to protect better and gotta do, make sure you hold on the ball and do the things, but he’s very talented. Um Dave on goss just amazes us with his maturity. He’s starting on four special teams. He may be the best or second best package protector out there as a true freshman and he’s got very good vision. He scored a couple of times today on, on red zone. Uh So he’s gonna have a role and then uh Caleb Hood’s been so good. He just staying healthy and right now he’s healthy. He, he’s, he’s playing and we’re pushing him. So all four of those guys have a chance to play. So that room’s really good spot. Still a battle that better under the radar battles you guys. Yeah, we’re actually looking at uh uh Malik mcgowan’s been playing there along with uh Aidan Banfield and we’re also looking at the possibility of, um, Jakai Leftwich who is the third tackle, uh, also playing some guard because we’re trying to find the best 78 that we can get to rotate. We talked to chip yesterday about a little bit about the scrimmage. He said sometimes the guy looks good against the second team. You get him in the scrimmage, young guys. They don’t look as good against the first team, Aidan Manfield, but he passed that test the other night. He was legitimately a guy that’s on the field. Yeah, what you’ve got, what you gotta do is is you gotta prepare yourself for a true freshman that would play against Minnesota in the first game he’s ever played in on the road in a tough environment. So, uh, that takes a lot of confidence. So we’re just gonna keep working him. He is going to play this year and he’s going to be a really good player, whether he starts against Minnesota or not. We’ll just determine what happens every day because we’re, we’re actually hitting a lot every day and telling them we’re moving you up and moving you down and he is, he’s gonna be a good player. Two years ago, you sort of had a similar schedule set up to this year where you had four nonprofits in an eight straight league game year and you said you were treating that as sort of a mini season and then sort of see where you are after that, not to look too far ahead. But are you treating this year sort of the same because you have the four and eight set up the, you, you always want to win your conference championship. So, what we’ve got is, is that’s, we divide our season up every year into different parts. Uh, so those first four games will be, uh, the start of the season for sure and then we’ll stop, we’ll regroup, we’ll re evaluate everything and then start over, uh, at Duke on the scrimmage from the other night. I obviously it was pouring rain. Um, did that limit you in any way with the weather? And also what were, what were some of your top line things that you personally noted coming out of there guys who stood out or didn’t stand out? What were some of your notes that you? Well, the, the first thing we said, if we could get out there without lightning, we wanted to go because it’s gonna rain on us at some point during the season and we don’t wanna have an excuse that we’re limited. I mean, that, that’s excuses. They, they don’t always play indoors. So, so you gotta handle the element. So, uh, yes, it was harder for the offense, but that doesn’t matter. They, they’ve got to play in that weather. It’s harder for the punting punters and the kickers. Uh, but they’ve got to play in that weather. Um, but one thing. It, it, it’s really funny when you’re, as a head coach this time of year, you stay frustrated because if your offense is not turning the ball over, that means your defense is not forcing turnovers. So I brag on the offense and jump on the defense, it’s harder unless you’re scrimmaging live because in thud, a lot of times we tell them stay up, it’s hard to strip the ball without pulling them down and don’t hit the quarterback. And a lot of times the quarterback disruption is, is where turnovers come. Uh Then we’ve, we’ve worked so hard on explosives. The defense is giving up fewer explosives right now than they’ve given up since we’ve been here. I really like what our secondary is doing. Uh Marcus Allen and, and, uh, uh Elijah Hussey are playing really well and then the four safeties I really like we’re tackling better in space. We’re, we’re doing things that, that we need to do better. Uh But then again, a bunch of the receivers have had a pull. They, they’ve been hurt, they’ve been sore. So we hadn’t, we have not had the continuity in our passing game that we want. Um And then that’s harder to evaluate quarterbacks when your receivers aren’t all well. So we’re playing a group of different receivers at all times, so we need to get somebody healthy. Uh So we can get out there. The one that’s been the healthiest and played the most consistent has been, uh, Nate mccullum, which is really, really good. He and, um, um, Bry and Nesbit have been the two best at, at that quote, pass, catching positions just going back to Cayman and him coming to you and saying the player is not doing what he’s supposed to. Can you just talk about with this preseason, how he’s developed? And, yeah, he’s a national honor student, uh, national honor society student out of high school. He’s, uh, he was undersized. He has a chip on his shoulder every day because everybody told him he was too little. Uh, and I think that’s a great advantage for him on pass for us because he can dip his shoulder and get under our 68 tackles. So that makes it harder for them. Uh, but what you, what you look for is who’s gonna be disruptive in a game and he’s disruptive every week. He practices the same every day. He works the same every day and there’s absolutely no way one of those other younger kids can tell him. Leave me alone. Don’t say that. I mean, they’re gonna listen because he and power echoes are running this team and, and on defense and that’s, that’s a positive Jeremy said you would ask. So I put red dots next to Aidan Manfield. We’re really excited about him and he will play, I don’t know when, how much, but he will play in the offensive line. Um, and then uh, Jakai Leitz we haven’t seen, but he’s 663, 35 and he will play it as an alternate, uh, alternating tackle. Right, because right now it would be those three or he will play as, uh, as alternating guard, but he’s gonna play a lot because he’s a, he is a really good player. Uh, Darwin Barlow, he and Dave on Goss are, are both gonna be in the game and they’re gonna be playing. Um Bo Atkinson is, is uh done an amazing job at pass rushing. So that’s really helped us. Uh Josh Harris, we’ve talked about him. He brought a huge impact to this team. He, he stands up at the end of practice and says things I had him as one of the guys breaking down the team at the end of the day because he works so hard and when you get a senior that’s through and this is it and he wants to play in the NFL. So he wants to help your team and make the NFL. He’s driven and he’s driven every day. He’s already lost. He was 350 when he got here. Uh He was 338 uh this morning. So he is working so hard and I’m so proud of him and can’t wait to watch him continue to grow. Uh We’ve got to get either Tyler Thompson or J Brown Harvey to, to be able to, to help, uh Caman Rucker. Uh we talked about the young linebackers. Uh, you’ve, you’ve got Ashton Woods, Michael Short Caleb LA Valley Cade Law and Cruz Law, all that are, are fighting for spots. Uh, so that’s an area we’ve got to improve and it, and after Saturday you get, so you start looking at Minnesota so it needs to come this week and then we’re really proud of all four safeties, like I said, and, and, uh, uh, Joaquin Harris is, has really been a uh a good impact coming in and the other one would be Caleb Cost and though those are guys that Tasha White’s done some good things, but Caleb Cost plays like an older guy. You mentioned this before, but you played two quarterbacks at various stops. You anticipate that may happen this year with uh Max and, or I don’t know. Um, you know, I, I watch all your interviews, I watched your interview with Chip yesterday and it was interesting that, uh somebody on TV took the lead that that was, we were gonna play two quarterbacks during the game. That’s not what he said at all. Uh because I listened to it very carefully. Um, we have in the past, we will not if somebody separates, but if we’re not really sure which one would be the best we’ll play both and, and, uh I don’t know what that means yet because you, you don’t get to that point until you get about 10 days out. And that’s when you start making decisions? Ok. Or are there certain times when one plays and the other one comes in or? So, we’ll just have to look at that here. We did it a lot with what, uh, Jason Stanis and Mike Thomas and, and, uh, Chris Keldorf and Oscar Davenport. But those guys, we, we changed a lot. Um, so it, it, and, and it seemed like the best. I remember everyone that started stunt and the other one came in and won the game. Uh So that’s kind of what we did. So, uh, but we’re, we’re not planning on playing two, but unless somebody takes over, then obviously you, you put both of them out there and the one that takes over and starts winning, the game would play more. There’s a saying that if you have one, but you have won playing multiple. So you go back and look at the status in the major. Apple like Chris, you won a lot playing two quarterbacks. So it’s not something that really I would imagine bothers, you know, my, my whole coaching philosophy has been do what you need to do to win with the people that have the best ability to do it. So that’s what we’ve got to do. We’ve got to figure out what can Max do and what can Connor do, uh, enough alike that the blue offensive line gets to work on it every day, but we can highlight whatever they do differently. And then we do it and, and I’m not into, um, I, I used to say catching two fish at one time when I’ve been in the mountains was better than catching one fish. I do know if you’ve got one quarterback and he gets hurt and the other one’s not ready to play, you’re in trouble. We’ve got three that can play if, if one of the two got hurt, Jacoby could get ready to play by taking every snap and, and because he’s experienced him and around, he makes some unbelievable throws and he’ll be in the mix if somebody gets hurt or by next year because he’s got two years. Uh So I’m, I’m excited about the quarterbacks. I just want them to, to be better leaders and it’s always hard when one of them is not in charge. I remember telling Drake you don’t, you don’t say much. He said I’m not the starter. I don’t have a starter. So until one of them gets that role, it is harder for them to step up and lead. But I’ve told them it’s their job. You’re, you’re, you’re on call every day showing us who can lead and, and who can make a difference in this team. I’m sorry. Yeah, we’re punting the, the regular punt and the rugby punt. Both, um, and both punters have tremendous legs and I would say that both have been 75% good, but, uh some inconsistency that we gotta get rid of. We’re hoping to get Randy Clements at some point. I think this training camp, um, and talk to him about what he’s been through. Uh, can you, would you be willing to share? Uh, I, I’ll let him share the rest of it, but you’re gonna get him tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I’m, I’m sitting there on, uh, on Sunday on Reporting Day and I get a call at, uh, four that Randy’s in the hospital. Um, and he’s tough. So he, he didn’t want to go to the hospital and he had a stomach disorder that was really scary and really dangerous. Um, and he spent a week there and, and, uh, I mean, as tough and stubborn as he is, he was zooming with us and texting me during practice how they look Randy. I got more to do than text you about how they look, watch a video. Uh, but he’s come back and he acts like he’s not sick. I mean, he, he has been out here every day. He’s been at every meeting. His wife’s out here monitoring him every day to make sure he does what he’s supposed to do. Uh, but he’s, um, he’s, he’s tough and the kids really responded and it, it, it obviously got us behind because you missed your guy and, and he, he had two that had never played before here in, in, uh, Greenberg and Leftwich. Um, and he’s got Howard that he had coached. So it, it, uh, it, it slowed us down some, but I’m, I’m still standing with, uh, I’m excited about both lines of scrimmage. Uh, probably more than I have been since I’ve been here. Are we there yet? No, uh, do we still have things that, uh, steps and everything else? But, but when you put the good against good, it’s a fight and it’s fight every time, uh, we did put Willie in a bind because when you got 268 tackles, he looks even shorter. So that’s, that’s tough. Is that something that up again or is it? I, I think he, he would have to tell you, I think he’s fine. I think they’ll have to look at it again in the spring. But short term, he’s fine and he’s, he’s out of the, the danger zone or he or he wouldn’t be out here. Obviously, Mac, how have you guys been trying to simulate the environment that you’re gonna see in Minnesota, uh, in practice because it’s National TV. I, I’ve told him you’re gonna have what you had at Virginia Tech after COVID. So that’s what you got. And I, I enjoy those environments. I, I said enjoy it. And with the helmet communication, we’re turning the music up really loud so they can’t hear. Um, so they have to really work to hear. Uh, Chip and Jeff. So I think that’ll help as well. I know that you’ve had, I guess a couple of weeks of practice with the good guys. Uh, Zach Greenberg is, you know, one guy that, you know, some people kind of, you know, mentioned the last few weeks. How have you seen him? You know, I was coming from the three level. How have you seen him competing in these, we were going to put him at both guard and center, but we feel like he needs to get settled because it’s all new and fast for him and he’s the backup center and he’s done a good job with it. He’s had a couple of bad snaps every now and then, but that’s because he’s trying too hard and, uh, but we’re, we’re just trying to get him settled. Uh, and I think he’ll be a good player. He, he’s definitely worth signing him good. He’s been good and you got those big bodies on you now. It’s a mess. I mean, if you can imagine ducking your head and putting the ball between your legs and having Josh Harris breathing on you and it’s not, yeah, it’s, it’s not, it’s not fun and simple and easy. So, but it’s been really good. He is not back down. He is not gotten frustrated and, and, um, I’ve just told our guys like the defense plan so well, then they didn’t handle it as well coming out. We haven’t handled success well, so we gotta grow up. We just gotta grow up and, and we, we’ve gotta be stronger and tougher. And if you’re gonna be a great team, you gotta be a great team every day. You, you can’t be, you can have great days, but that doesn’t make a great team and that’s where we’ve got to be able to, you will have to be off with some of the questions you have. Like, does he have to sort of? Yeah, I would think. Yes and, and no to, to answer it. Uh, we’re, we’re good enough at receiver, we’re good enough at quarterback. We’re good enough at tight end. We, we got enough PS because people are gonna try to stop on our end. So we’re gonna see, uh, the box being full and there’s gonna be one on ones and we’re gonna have to take advantage of them, but our quarterbacks are good. They’re talented. I’m not, I’m not worried about it or we, we turn on TV and see Drake and Sam. Um, so I, I got it, uh, but like we said, Connor has shown some, uh, days where he’s really talented and, and Max has played a lot of ball. So I, I think we’re, and, and Max is accurate, he’s 65. Max can run better than people think he can and, uh, Connor consistently gets better. I think again, uh, Clyde’s helping all three of those quarterbacks and then you put Jacoby in and he’ll make some plays that. Wow, you and, and you’re saying, well, how simple can we get him this spring and, and we can do that, but I’m, I am not worried about our quarterbacks. I think they’ll be fine. We just got, we as a team, we’ve got to be more consistent and, and I’ve told them if you play bad with energy, you still got a chance to win. If you play bad and let your head get down and you lose your confidence and that bad body language or you don’t have energy when you came, you’re gonna get beat and that’s what we’ve done in some cases that we’ve got, we gotta change. I asked chip yesterday, this, it kind of goes off where you’re saying with the quarterbacks, like they kind have different starting points. You know, Maxwell experience Connor younger coming in late. Does that give you an idea that maybe this maybe more open minded to changing it as, as things go on and, and um there is a starting point you, you know, we have to play Minnesota so, I mean, we have to make some decisions but who knows if that’s the end game? I mean, we may learn something in Minnesota. We can’t learn and practice who handles games better. If, if, if we’re not doing well, we’ll probably put the other one in at that point if it wasn’t working, uh because they’re both talented and they both been starters. So I’m, I’m not taking that out either. You everything every decision we make will be to win the game. So if somebody goes in and they’re playing great, we got his quarterback and, and a backup, that’s good. If, if somebody’s really struggling, somebody said, well, they can’t have them looking over their shoulder quarterbacks always look over their shoulder. I mean, he got the hardest job in football. So we, we can’t, if he can’t handle pressure, then he’s probably at the wrong position. All right. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate the update.

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