Mike Tomlin

He's a four-phase special teamer.

He does things like that for us.

And so I think that's just more of a reflective of the deep and diverse group that we have at that position.

You know, I think a component of it is continuity.

And when you're infusing new people in, you don't have a lot of continuity.

Certainly over the last several weeks, we've established some continuity, particularly on the back end.

For example, when we moved Jalen to free safety full-time and acquired Doug and some of that stuff, that began the continuity.

And to have that discussion without continuity is not very realistic.

And so we certainly have gotten better, but you expect to as a leader, and you also expect it to continue.

One time you said 11 and then another time you said one higher, two higher.

There's a lot of layers to that question.

You're stressing me out there.

I answered the 11th question.

It's week to week, and a lot of it is based on the matchup component of the game, and I gave you an example of last night.

Now, what was the defensive component of that question?

That's very much week to week, based on who we're playing and what they specialize in and what's required for us to minimize certain components of their attack or people.

You know, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

He certainly, I thought, did a nice job of representing himself last night.

As I mentioned, though, we helped him schematically, but it is our job to do so.

But he was a component of a successful winning outing, and so he deserves congratulations for that, and we'll see what this week holds.