Good morning, Mike. Hi, Teresa. You've faced a lot of running quarterbacks this year. What makes Jalen Hurts maybe different or similar to some that you've seen? Well, great play strength. He's decisive. I would say fast enough. I don't think he's the fastest quarterback, but he's a strong runner. But he also has the ability to deliver from the pocket. He'll keep plays alive going lateral. So this is a huge challenge. And then the receiving court, can you maybe speak to the diversity that they have there, guys that do a lot of different things in different ways? Well, I mean, they have good route runners. I mean, obviously, AJ's got good play strength. Smith certainly can work down the field, but is a fantastic route runner, intermediate. And I would say that his play strength for the player, I guess, for his measurables is really good. Probably something that we noticed coming out. And I would say that that's true now, whether he's catching it, breaking tackles, he's taking some hits. He's held on to the football. Obviously Watkins, speed guy, Pascal, intermediate, does a great job at a run game, blocking for him. So it would be a huge challenge like it always is. How much does it help getting Ola at least back on the field to see what he does, particularly at that position? Yeah, I think there's just excitement from him. And for us to be able to start to get guys back to practice, see how they feel, the rules are very particular. What guys can do on a return to play basis. So you need that window, that 21 day window, to be able to evaluate them in a setting of things that they're going to be asked to do in the game. So I think we've kind of gotten them to as far as we can get them with the trainers and the rehab people, and then we'll put them to practice. The environment is still, unlike a lot of places around the league, how do you prepare your team to handle that sort of situation that's there? Well, I mean, we just have to be able to embrace and thrive the road environment. We'll have to do it collectively as a team. We'll have to be really good early on in the game in all three phases. They're outscoring people, 212, 120. Don't quote me, I'm probably off by a couple, but they're really getting ahead early in the game. In fact, in the quarterback and hitting some runs, I mean, you saw the other night, it's 13-nothing, five minutes into the game. So that would be a difficult place to play in that situation and put yourselves in that. So we'll have to start fast. We'll have to all be good collectively and work from silent cadence and things that we've done in the past and try to make some plays, try to get some stops would help, too. Let's take a round or a drag route crosser, however you guys call it. You have great success with that for a long stretch. It doesn't seem to be as big a part of the repertoire now. Is that a matter of what your people can do? No, I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to think which one you're referring to. AJ and Corey ran it a lot. Yeah, I mean, when the post safeties at eight or 10 yards, it probably makes it a little difficult. We would throw some of those in the past, and then as those guys started creeping down, we probably didn't. AJ got hurt in Houston. Hit him pretty good. Reed got him pretty good, and he was low. So some of those you don't do, and we've hit some of those. But we have to find ways to get the play pass going. You have to run the football and then be able to marry some of those things. When you mentioned it, you used to be taking Malik's interception? No, I'm talking about a couple years ago when Reed hit AJ because he's standing at 10 yards. You're not going to throw too many of those when the post safety in there. Was Malik's interception on that kind of play? It was on one of those routes. It was a lot of timing and things that go into those things. You have to make sure that when you're throwing the ball in the middle that guys' hands are down and that whether you're seeing it versus press or seeing it versus off, a different way to run the route. Are those kind of throws the ones? What are the many that you may have envisioned for Traylin Burks when you guys were looking at him and bringing him in? Well, we thought he could run a lot of the different route trees and envisioned him just playing at all different levels of wide receiver play. He showed the ability and the physicality to be willing to block, to be able to catch and run, also adjust to the ball down the field. I think that's probably one of the things that we saw him really start to do in training camp towards the end, got into some games, and then unfortunately had the setback and was out. And then I've been able to do some of those things that we started to really see at the end of training camp. Where have you seen him out in Brooklyn most? I think his attitude. I think his attitude, the way that he comes to work and the way that he, again, we talked about the short week in Green Bay for a young receiver when you're trying to add a couple wrinkles in your practice. And it's a quick practice and things are shortened. And probably there were some mistakes that we talked about. And then watched him work hard with Rob and walk through and get those things corrected so that he felt good going into the game and had a good game and followed it up with a good game. So I just think his overall attitude, I think his competitiveness is good. We just keep working. What did you point out to the plus 13 and how have they managed to do that? Well, they take care of the football. Quarterbacks only throw in three interceptions. Their defense is very opportunistic. I think at home, I was trying to see what they've done at home and started going down a rabbit hole. I think they have maybe six interceptions inside the 20-yard line. So opponents, they force those guys, people into the interceptions, especially in the scoring zone at home. You look at Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, threw one down there, Vikings, I think, threw three down there. So those are critical. Not only are they turnovers, but those are scoring opportunities. So we'll have to be great with football and take every opportunity we have in the red zone. No, yeah. A lot of energy, a lot of energy, loves football.  I just feel like he had a good relationship with the players. Mike, you've thrown the ball better in the last couple of weeks statistically. How much has that been out of necessity? Because the running game hasn't been going as much. And how much of that is maybe Ryan and the guys coming together a little bit more than they had earlier? Probably both. I think probably a little bit of both. Again, it starts with protection. You have to be able to protect the quarterback in this league, give them a pocket to throw from. I think we're progressing. I think we've hit some plays. I think there's some plays that we need to get cleaned up and improve on. And so hopefully we can do that this week and be better in the red zone. How much with the run game is it kind of your move to counter these six-man fronts that people have been throwing at Derek in the run game? Yeah, I mean, the sixth one is a structure that we've seen. We have to be able to block it. They're not adding any more people to it. I think it's just the spacing and the configuration. So hopefully we can find a way to progress through. And then if they are be able to mix in a passing game and work some of those things, as we see it, we'll have to be ready for the same thing from Philly. They've shown that that probably is not going to change. What stands out to you about their front? You know, with guys like Brandon Lamb, Josh Sweat, yeah. Cox, yeah. Fletcher Cox has done it at a high level for a lot of years. Got a lot of respect for him.  The extremely versatile piece. He's played inside, he's played outside. He plays, you know, outside for them, but they drop them and re-rushes and plays the run. Josh Sweat, Brandon Graham has done it forever.  And it's a very good front. They all played. They all played.  Got a lot of respect for them.  How has Ben Jones progressing? Do you foresee him? Good, I think Ben will practice today and then, you know, see how he feels here, moving on to the week. Hi, Kayla. Hi.  Is it any different with AJ given his personality, given the production he had here the last couple years? Any different? No.  I want nothing but the best for AJ other than Sunday when we play him. I mean, he has to know that and he knows that. And I hope that he has the same feeling for me. You know, you put a lot of time in with these guys, personal time, professional time, and get to know their families. And, you know, you want the best for them, except for, you know, when you're competing against them. Coach, you touched on in a little bit Monday when it comes to AJ Brown and the storyline this week. How have you seen your team manage outside noise, not just this week, but overall throughout the season?  I think the most important thing is how you handle them. You know, we all have things outside of work that we deal with. And, you know, I think they all do a great job. We try to help them, and we all try to help each other. You talked about putting up in recent games. And is stopping the run still a top, top priority, even with all the weapons they have? Well, I mean, I think it has to.   And it's not all, you know, option football. But there's elements to it. And then it forces you to kind of sometimes maybe let your guard down. And then there are free access plays inside that will have to, you know, be able to defend. Yeah, no doubt it'll be weird seeing them in different uniform. Yeah, you know, I love AJ and miss having been around, but obviously he's doing well over there. Just hope it's not too well on this Sunday. Hear me out, kind of like an X. Hear me out, we're a little bit of history there, right? And you don't exactly want them to do so well without you? I want AJ to have all his success in the world, just not this Sunday. You know, he's obviously having a great year and I want to continue doing so. I just hope, you know, Sunday's not his best day. And Ryan, right now you're over these last two games, your connection with Traylin, obviously him being back off of IR helps, but how has that connection maybe grown, particularly for the two of you all recently? Yeah, just try to keep building each and every week. You know, he's building some momentum right now and just want to keep expanding his role and what he can do for us. So yeah, I think you mentioned that he's doing some good things. Just have to keep expanding on that and building on it. Ryan, on Traylin, you guys have talked so much about how much he's grown. I guess maybe from your vantage point as the quarterback, where specifically has he maybe kind of grown the most, taken the biggest strides?  You know, sometimes there's a lot of variation in how you run the route depending on the defense. And then some concepts, we really need you to pretty much stick how we install it and you pretty much run it the same no matter what the defense is. So just understanding the nuances and places where you have a little bit more of that freedom to put some variance in how you run the route and when you fit into a larger picture of where we need you to be. Picking up on that, Ryan, you guys had great success with the dig or the drag, with AJ in particular, who could gather ahead of steam and then kind of be physical with the first kind of run away. That route doesn't seem to be particularly popular now. The defense has done stuff to take it away. Are you receivers better at other things? You know, each week's a little bit different.  We've actually hit a few this year, but just overall we're just trying to find the best ways to attack and sometimes that's not the best way to attack, you know, what defenses are doing that week. Do you feel like it's thrown stuff like that over the middle of the last year? You probably know better than me. I don't keep a chart of where my throws are and how many are going there. You probably know better than me. Philadelphia, that type of environment, a little different from others, I would say? That's a great football environment, played up there a couple of times and it's a ratty crowd. You know, it's a hectic atmosphere. You know, it's something that you look forward to as a football player going into a situation like that. It's a challenge, no doubt about it. You have to be clean in your communication and operation, but it's a fun place to play and looking forward to it. You've got 15 picks on defense. How have they gotten to that number and how much is that stress this week? They're making plays. You know, you look at their secondary, they have good players all throughout it. You know, they do a good job up front of putting pressure on the quarterback and then when you have good cover guys on the back end that understand concepts and it can make plays on the ball, play the ball well in the air. Veteran guys who've seen a lot of football and are extremely talented, you know, that creates those opportunities. They've got some big names on the defensive front too. Are they doing a lot with scheme with those guys or just asking them to beat guys one-on-one in front of them there? Yeah, they do a little bit up front, but they have talented players across the board. Veteran defense as you look at it, you know, from the front to the linebackers to the secondary. And so they know what they're doing and they do a good job of it. When Derek was being recruited, coming out of Uly down in Jacksonville, running over people like crazy, a good share of people that came to him said, we'd love to have you, but we want you to play defense. Could you imagine looking at that guy, even at that stage and thinking he's not a running back? I have no idea. Obviously, you know, Derek had a heck of a high school football career. It's tough to say you wanted to play in any other position. Mike said that Trelin had really grown in his attitude. That was something that he had noticed with him. As his quarterback, how have you seen his attitude change over the week specifically since returning from IR? Yeah, I think it boils down to, like I said, a better understanding of what we're asking him to do and then when you do those things and you start making plays, your confidence grows. And so, you know, we're seeing that happen with Trelin. You know, he's had some opportunities. He's took advantage of those opportunities and seeing his role expand and all those types of things. So, yeah, his attitude is all where it starts. You know, you're coming up with a good attitude and eager to learn, eager to learn the game plan and the nuances of it each and every week. It's a challenge each and every week, but you know, as a young player coming in, maybe it wasn't the same way in college where you're doing a lot of nuanced things throughout the season that make a big difference. And so, you know, sometimes rookies have to understand what we're asking of them and how they fit in the bigger picture. And as guys start to pick that up and soak it in and apply it on the football field, I think it starts making a lot of sense and obviously, you know, pays on Sundays. What do young guys like that? You know, obviously you probably test them in practice a lot to see, you know, what they can handle, what they can't. Do you also try to take moments in the game and say, I think there's an opportunity for you to make a play here and put them to the test? Yeah, no question. You know, it starts, like you said, in practice, you know, going back to training camps, all a lot of good things, specifically from Trelin during training camp and you build that confidence throughout the week in practice and throughout the year in practice. And then when those opportunities arise in the game, you kind of do the same thing. So it all works together. I did it several times during training camp, you know, just had opportunities, one-on-one opportunities down the field and said, hey, I'm going to give them a shot. If it's one-on-one, it'll be playing out one-on-one, game a shot and you made the play. And so, you know, when guys start making plays like that for you, it gives you a lot of confidence to keep going back. It definitely goes both ways. You know, he has to trust that I'm going to put the ball in a spot where he can go get it. And obviously, I have to have the confidence that he's going to be in the right spot and go get the ball. So definitely, it goes both ways. It works throughout, you know, the whole offense. It's trust between the offensive line to do their job up in front of me, trust them. Our receivers outside, they're going to do their job outside. From the run game, you know, Derek has to trust that everyone's going to get their guy covered up as best they can and give them a running track on his lane that he's going in. So, you know, trust is a big part of what we do throughout offensive ball. What's moved in attention to detail mindset like coming off a loss as opposed to a win? And maybe what's the feeling going into this game Sunday against a one-loss team? Yeah, I never like to lose. It's a sick feeling and, you know, definitely makes for a long Saturday night and Monday as you process that, learn from it, you know, look at every detail and then try to apply it as you move forward into the next week. So it's a rough, a rough couple of days there. And then as you turn the page the next week, you're just trying to apply those lessons of things you didn't execute upon and didn't do well in the game before and really focus on ways so we can improve, getting ready for the next one. Without Ben, the last couple of weeks, do you have to do anything more pre-snap, like, you know, reminding Bru of a thing or two or was it business as usual? Bru did a really good job. Yeah, communication is always a big deal when I make sure we're on the same page and try to help him a few times throughout the game, but, you know, really, really happy with how he's played the past couple of weeks up front, you know, doing a really good job of kind of setting the tone and executing, getting the table set offensively for us. In terms of Derek as a pass receiver now, do you see anything different in terms of kind of how he gets himself open positioning, even for those short passes, the screens? Is he, you know, is he more aware, I guess, of where he is in relation to defenders? Um, yeah, you have to ask Derek how he feels about that, but from my vantage point, you know, he's doing a good job of what we ask him.  It's helped him, you know, get the ball in space a few times more, which is always a good thing. If you think you saw from the last game that you can take from to improve, how do you get back up there in terms of the red zone? Yeah, everything's magnified down there. You know, we talk about it all the time. The margin for error is much smaller in the red zone.  You have a better chance of overcoming it in the field. You get down in the red zone, you don't have a lot of opportunities to overcome it. So we just have to have a better execution and not shoot ourselves in the foot when we get down there.  A little bit better where you can maybe use your legs even more down the stretcher will be able to get to a point where you can do that? Yeah, you know, feeling better day by day, you know, it's a process, it's been a long process and I'm ready to be 100% whenever that day comes. But, you know, just trying to fight to keep improving day in, day out, week in, week out. And, you know, I felt like I moved around a little bit during this last game and hope to continue to head down that road. They have some, they have a great skill, guys. So when it just come down to this game here, man, they believe in running the ball. And here in Tennessee, we believe in stopping the run. So I'm excited for the challenge.  You know, we didn't do a good job of containing the quarterback first and also didn't do a good job of stopping the run. So that's what we need to start first, that's getting back to our identity and that's stopping the run. What is it about him that makes him so effective running the football? I mean, he's elusive with it. He gets guys, I mean, I think the thing is, you see a lot of teams just let him go and, you know, he make that move and get right down the middle of your defense or the field. And that's his strength. So he able to make guys miss. But it's also guys just not being coordinated. And that's what we talked about with Barry last week. You know, when you got quarterback like that that could move around the pocket and want to get outside the pocket, especially if I got cover guy doing the hell of a job, taking his first read or whatever away. He looking to run and take off running. So I say, when it come down to stopping his running game, I mean, of course they got some quarterback run designed for him. When you see on film when guys get past him, that's what he want. He want you to get past. He want you to open them lanes up like that. So when it come down to it, man, we just have to be on the same page up front. You mentioned, you talked about the sort of, you could come with AJ in high school and he get in college.   But at the same time, like I said earlier, it's not about just AJ Brown. And we're not just preparing for AJ Brown. Like I said, day first thing is running ball.  And you know, like I said, he a hell of a player and I respect him as a player and a man. So, you know, since high school, since little lead, all the way up to now, man. You know, he always been a great guy or great friend. So I mean, the competition part about it, you know, I enjoyed competing against him.  You know, they're going to get in his hands quick. You can make plays downfield. So, you know, it's just going to be a challenge just like it is area of the week. What he's able to do after the white line? Yeah, it's very important. Like I said, they're going to try to get it to them quick, different ways. But if you want them quick, you know, make them try to make the tough catch, contested catch, then we'll have a chance. Is there any more fun going against the guy you know that well in a good school? I mean, it's not the first.   So, you know, I'm excited, you know, looking forward to the match up between him.  Is he a big talker out on the field?  I don't know. Like I said, I ain't played against him since college.   But I mean, we both know each other, you know, pretty similarly. So, he's probably, you know, going to know something about my game and I know something about him. So, yeah, yeah, you know, he's a real good route runner.  So, he can run past you. So, that's the challenges that he brings, you know, to DB. But I said he's not as, you know, as physical as AJ. So, you just got to know how to play either, either one.


to go, he met the media. Hey, Kairis, after the slow start, what were you guys able to correct that gave you an opportunity to get back in the game? Thank you for us. We came out kind of slow. We had a lot of defensive lapses, especially in transition on the glass. Those are the two things that Steve preaches to us every game. Taking care of the ball, defensive rebound. And I think those two things today weren't at the best, especially at the start of the game that cost us. And then after clawing all the way back, what was the difference in those closing minutes of crunch time? They executed a little better than we did. I turned the ball over a couple of times. That's how it is when you're climbing back into a game. You kind of use a lot of energy to climb back into it. That's how we got to play better earlier in the game, but we'll learn from this. Good thing about the season is we play damn near every day, so we got to know the one day after tomorrow to correct it. Greg Logan with Newsday. Keras, considering the comeback that you guys made tonight, can you put in perspective what these last three games have been like, three without KD and two without Kyrie? What do you guys feel like you accomplished? I mean, we went two-on-one. I mean, that's, I would say that's what we accomplished in the three games. We played pretty good basketball and stretches. I think it would be important for all of us to keep this momentum going forward when those two get back, because obviously, they're a huge part of our team. And we need them to play well in order to do what we want to do. So I think for us, it was good to kind of get our confidence, get our looks and things like that, because we're going to need that going forward for sure. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Keras, are you able to find the balance between having one of the best games of your life in a loss? Like, are you able to kind of find the kind of areas where you can be happy that you had such a good game, but also understand where you guys could have improved to have a better result? Yeah, I think so. That's the thing with basketball. You're not going to win every game. I think if you take every game as a learning experience, I think you'll be in the right spot. I try not to get too high or low. Win loss, good game, bad game. I try to say the same regardless. This is just another step. Definitely some things to learn from, some things I was happy with. So we'll move forward. Brian Lewis with the New York Post. Keras, I'm curious, if there are other things that you can take from these three games, where you're obviously at far less than full strength, that you can put into effect when Katie and Kairi are back or our roles so different and the way and rotation so different, that's going to be a challenge. But that'll be a very different team. Yeah, the roles are definitely different when those guys are playing. But there's definitely things to take from it. Like I said, for us to be a great team, a team that we know we can be, everyone has to be playing at full strength, everyone has to be confident, everybody has to be ready. So if anything, I think these three games prove that one through 15, we're a strong team and we're going to need that going forward. Tom Dowd with bricklinets.com. Hey Keras, with the numbers you put up in three starts this year, when you are the first option and you get some more volume and more touches, I mean, does that just make it easier to get into a rhythm, get into a flow? Yeah, I think so. But I think for me, just working off the ball is definitely something I've worked on a lot this off season, playing off of players, playing off of the ball, playing that two man spot, three man spot sometimes. I think that's where I've really improved. And I think that, as the season progresses, I'll be able to show that. Alex Schiffer with the athletic. Hey Keras, the three point shooting in the first half and the second half was night and day. Is that as simple as the ball going in, the second half and not in the first half, or you think you guys did some stuff to get better opportunities in the second half? A little bit of both, to be honest with you. Back to back, they had it back to back as well, but I think in the first half, we were kind of sleepwalking a little bit and it kind of felt like everybody was in quicksand a little bit. So we missed them three short. We had to get our legs warm. I think once we did that, we got into the flow of the game. We started making better plays for each other and we got some easier shots. Back to Michael Grady with yes. Hey Keras, I know we've been living with COVID for a while and I know you're locked into the games, but I'm just curious, you know, how odd is it to just cross your mind, just how quickly, you know, things can change with Seth Curry yesterday and then Jonas Valentinus was pulled for the second half for health and safety protocols and, you know, the kind of element that adds to the day-to-day for you and me and players. I didn't even know Jonas was pulled for that, to be honest with you. He had COVID? No, it's just a contact tracing thing. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I mean, it's crazy. You know, I wish the best for both of those guys and their families, but obviously it's crazy times right now. It's unpredictable, especially for us NBA players. You know, we got a couple of players out with that right now, contact tracing and things like that. So I think you just got to expect the unexpected in these situations. And then as a team, if we're talking basketball, we just got to be next man up mentality because, you know, you never know what could happen. And last question, we'll go back to Christian Winfield with the Daily News. Keras, just seven of nine for three tonight. Was there a moment that you knew you were hot from downtown? Oh, that was new for one. Honestly, I've been shooting bad all season. So I feel like I was due for this game. I've been putting in a lot of work.  So I think it was just a matter of, a matter of time to be honest with you.


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And there is Rookie Premier, Jersey and autograph. Kenny Pickett, 7 out of 99, RPA from Absolute Football. That's Evan with the Steelers. Won that spot in the filler, got randomized. The Steelers ends up with the KP. Another one. Here is Chris Godwin, Jersey and autograph. Who's going to throw the ball to Chris Godwin? This upcoming NFL season, 22 out of 25. Eugene with the Buccaneers. Any guesses out there? Is it going to be, can you give Kyle Trask a shot? It might as well. Been marinating behind Tom Brady for a couple of seats. Hopefully learned a thing or two. There is Mark Andrews, 14 out of 89. For the Purplebirds, that's from NT Football. From 2018 NT Football. That's for Ed P and the Ravens. Who's going to throw Mark Andrews the football? I feel like they'll get the deal done, right? The Lamar Jackson deal, Ravens and Lamar Jackson. They eventually get that done. Another one is Double Jaguars, Travis Etienne and Fred Taylor. 24 out of 25 from Gold, Standard Football. Nice dual auto for Ken, Ken and Jacksonville. How about some Devontae Adams? Rookie auto Devontae Adams. 35 out of 99. From an old Topps set, remember this? Topps Valor football? Green Bay Packers, Aaron Billingsley. With the Go Pack Go. Who's going to throw, who's going to throw Devontae Adams the football this upcoming season? Here is Malik Willis. Jackie with the Tennessee Titans. Rookie auto from Mosaic. Nice. A lot of QB questions out there. Who's going to throw to who? Who are you? AJ Brown. 6 out of 50. Signature standouts from Absolute Football. That's for the Fly Eagles Fly. Chad B with the Eagles. Nice. Dano, thank you. Last flawless baseball filler down at 24. Let's fill it up. Let's get it on the schedule. And then there's Calvin Ridley. 12 out of 75. Triple relic and autograph. Calvin Ridley. David with the ATL. Back in action. Calvin Ridley. But wait, there's more. Another case of hip parade. This is case 6 of 10. I think on ESPN there was a pretty great story. Pretty lengthy interview. He said a quote from Calvin Ridley.  Bedding on football.  I guess he was going through kind of a lot. That was a good story. I mean, kind of fully owned it. And let's see him back in action. All right. Another case. Good luck. We have Joe Mixon. The rookies autograph. 17 out of 99. Whatever happened with Joe Mixon? Apparently there was a shooting at his house. But then he is not a suspect. That's for Cincinnati. That's going to go to Brian Bunce. Maybe a sister. Some reports are suggesting. Ooh, 24 out of 25. Plates and patches. Dual relic and autograph. Daniel Jones. Payday for Daniel Jones. New York football Giants. That's going to be Ken. Is he worth it? This Giants will find out. I mean, not much they could do though. They kind of had to. It's not like where they're going to start over. With another rookie quarterback and end up in the same position. Here is AJ Brown. 64 out of 99. This one's Titans edition. That's for Jackie. It's from 2019. Illusions football. Yeah. That's what I heard too, Danny. Yeah. Calvin really had a break in at his house. Had stuff stolen by a friend or relative. And I think there was just like, just kind of stressed him out. Burglars happening while he was away from home. Some injury setbacks that really bummed him out too.  Here's Gary Wilson. He might have Aaron Rodgers throwing him the ball. Here's your offensive rookie of the year going to Chris and the Jets. Not numbered, but a nice one. Hopefully Calvin really is good and bounces back because it could be pretty dynamic. Who's Calvin really with? He's not with the Falcons anymore, right? Here is Tyler Algier. Algier? Never know how to say his last name. Rookie Autograph speaking of the Falcons. That goes to David and the ATL. Hippie Spinach, what's with the sudden outbreak of signing with initials only? It makes me not want to collect someone. I don't know if it's sudden. It's been happening for a while. I blame texting, Hippie Spinach. I blame the kids who are texting. They're not working on their handwriting. We've got a thick one here. Look at that. Well, that's from Eminence Football. And it is T.J. Watt for the Steelers. Two out of ten gilded graphs. Wow. There's the Eminence sticker right there. Steelers. It's for Evan and the Steelers. Maybe we need to start a Jaspie's autograph camp. Get some of these players to come out here and learn how to sign. There's Travis Etienne Jr., two-color patch and autograph. RPA, 26 out of 49 for the Jaguars. Ken and the Jags. They do have to sign a lot these days. That's true. Is that another goal for the L.A. Kings? Nice. All right, next one is Keenan Allen. No, 19 out of 25. Team Supreme Autograph, three-color patch and autograph. It's from 2017 Plates and Patches. That's going to go to the Bolts. Edward Petty with the Chargers. Right, it's a confluence of all those things, Danny. I agree with you. They got a lot more product to sign. They don't teach handwriting cursive anymore. Everyone's using touch screens and everyone's texting. No one's writing anymore. And then we have Michael Pittman Jr. There's some effort there. Some guys do it. Two-color patch and autograph. 17 out of 99 for the Blue Horseshoes. That's going to be for Kenny. We can be throwing him the football. The Colts will draft somebody. All right, Allen's playing to the whistle. Good luck, Allen. Good luck, everybody. 20th and final box, hip-raid football dual-case break. Thanks, everybody, for getting in. Appreciate it. We don't have any more hip-raid football, but we do have another dual-case of hip-raid baseball in the store, jaspyscasebreaks.com. We'll go on to get after it. All right, last one is landscape mode. It is Davante Adams. 42 out of 65 from 2014. It tops triple-threads football. Nice rookie auto for the Packers, Aaron Billingsley with the Go Pack Go. There you go, gang. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


This is an unusual time, after lunch. I know it's a bit more difficult than other times, so I appreciate your interest in user experience. My name is Marc Miquel. I come from Barcelona. I teach user experience in video games in a university of Barcelona. And I would like to share with you some reflections, some reflections I had during the past five years. So one of my main interests in Wikipedia is to improve its user experience. This is a desire, a wish, that makes me think in many different ways. Because user experience is something elusive. It's hard to define. There are many factors influencing user experience. User experience is how we use things, how we relate to things, how we remember them, how we actually think of them when we are not using them. So there are many different ways of analyzing user experience. And at the same time, there are many factors influencing it. And I would like to share some ideas. And when the presentation is over, to encourage you to discuss them or to tell me what you think. So first of all, user experience in Wikipedia is very important in order to make communities grow. Wikipedia has a huge potential that can expand to the entire education community. So we are far from being as many people as we really can be. And this is perhaps the most important reason that supports improving the Wikipedia user experience. If we grow in number, we can also grow in diversity. And therefore, this might improve also the different types of content that are going to be in Wikipedia. And how can we improve the user experience of any technological project or product? Well, there is a particular framework or a philosophical perspective which is called user-centered design. User-centered design is a framework created by Don Norman. Don Norman was one of the pioneers in user experience in the late 80s, beginning of 90s. And he proposed several ways that every product design can be better by taking them into consideration. First of them is to be iterative. So to continuously change the design according to how it is used. Second of them is simplifying the task, making things visible. This one is very important. Getting the right mappings. So it means that everything is consistent once we have something that it is explained in a particular way with a color, a button with a certain meaning, being consistent with that color and that meaning. Understanding the user needs was the main motivator and understanding their limitations, either they are cognitive, education, and so on. So if we apply a user-centered design process and we keep on redesigning, we'll eventually improve the user experience. So this is what we do in every technological project, either video games, computer software, and this is what would work as well in Wikipedia. So what are the factors that influence Wikipedia user experience? Well, there are so many, there are many, which is very good because it means that we can improve the user experience by improving very little pieces of the product, of the creation, starting by the content itself. We improve the user experience of the reader. The editor's behavior, that's quite controversial. The harassment, the way we talk to each other, we improve the user experience as well. The norms, the norms also shape the user experience, the usability of the tools, and so on. When these factors are not tailored to the users, there is friction and the user experience is bad. So we need to work in all of them in order to improve the user experience. So what do we know so far? Well, actually, in this talk, I want to bring a little bit of friction, a little bit of another point of view because from research, we know there are many things that are many problems that are not tackled yet. We know for several years that experienced editors, they tend to block newcomers, contributions at content and policy levels. We know that reverts to newcomers, they drive them away. And at the same time, we know that harassment is also another situation that drives new users away. And these problems are known for some years, but still they are not tackled properly. All the things we know from research is that there are some ideas that they work. They work because they have been tested, like trying to get participation from readers in order to engage them to become newcomers, allowed to send minimal feedback on the quality content in order to engage them as well to become newcomers or to assign tutors in the tea house or village pump in order to facilitate their entrance into the Wikimedia sphere. All these things, they have been approved by research, but somehow they remain unimplemented. They do not find its right implementation in order to have its most big impact as possible. And unfortunately, there had been some solutions which have been tested that would potentially improve the Wikimedia user experience, like the visual editor tool or the flow discussions, that remain unimplemented in many Wikis. One thing that something as a why do you see when you get editor that it's so common in many other platforms like WordPress should be by default for new editors. So I'm really wondering why this is not happening and this is a question that each of us should ask in order to improve new editor retention. So why this is happening? Why do we know there are problems? Why do we know there are solutions and why do we know there is software improving user experience, but still we are not getting as far as we would like? Well, I try to be analytical. I try to divide the problem into different steps. And I thought that the first possible step is that there is a low degree of knowledge or awareness of the problems by the involved actors. And these are foundation, communities, chapters. The second one, there is a lack of communication between these actors that they are not transmitting this knowledge. So perhaps this knowledge isn't the foundation, but it's not in the communities or it's already in the chapters, but not in the communities as well. And the third possible factor or the last step of this process is that the consensus decision-making mechanisms is somehow blocking these changes or it's possible implementations. I would like you to reflect on which one do you think is more possible. In my opinion, the second and the third are crucial. Okay, so Wikipedia has two unique factors, two unique characteristics that make it more challenging to transform it into a user-centered design process. The first one is the consensus decision-making. There is no central decision-making, so it's harder to implement changes, as I said before. And the second one is the outcome, the resulting product. The resulting product is a counter-centered totally. So it's not centered on the users, it's the user that they have to go around the product. These two characteristics, which are unique to Wikipedia and are essential to make it work, they present very specific challenges in order to implement the user-centered design process I said before. So I'll try to propose solutions for that. So why consensus decision-making is something unique but at the same time challenging? Because in a user-centered design process, we have new ideas coming from company managers that they have a strategy, they want the product to grow, to have more users, to make more revenue. They design, they evaluate with research, and they listen to the research very carefully in order to take decisions and implement them, and they continue iterating in this process. What happens in Wikipedia? Well, in Wikipedia, we have new ideas coming from the foundation, but very often from experienced editors, we have that the research is in the foundation and the decision-making is always in the communities. It's always in a group of users inside the communities. It's a different process. The actors are different. Within a company, the one who sets the strategy is the one who finally decides what to do with research in order to implement the changes or not in Wikipedia. The ones who set the strategy are the communities in the foundation, but the ones who are always deciding about what to implement are the communities. And this makes it more challenging. Why challenging? Because new ideas, they come from experienced editors most of the time. So they tend to create new ideas based on their needs, based on their own needs for the whole time they have been users. And less thinking about the needs of potential new users or newcomers. So what happens? It's much more difficult to set a strategy in long-term. It's much more difficult to propose some changes that not aim at the same users, but at new editors. So it's much more difficult to think to grow, but to think to make happy the same community. This is the consensus model. And it works, but it has this other side. And we might need to look for some ways to improve it. And besides the consensus model, there is also another, let's say, cultural factor, cultural values that I consider very important. Every now and then when I talk to Wikipedia and I listen to them, they really tell me, if I learn it, anyone can. That's very encouraging. I like very much the spirit, but that's not realistic at all. Because we are not the same. Users come with very different education path, very different sociological profiles. So assuming this is one of the big mistakes if we want to expand our community, if we want to extend it. We are full of cognitive bias. When I talk to game designers, I tell them, please do not do the play testing yourself because you know your game, you know it very well. Just give it to other players who don't know your game and you really know, you really see if it's usable for more players. Editors are not the ones more aware of what new editors need. So these values are useful for certain editors, but they are not useful at all for the entire community or the potential users. These values are often represented in controversies. A few days ago, actually in June, I found this post in Wikipedia weekly page in Facebook which presented the debate, open knowledge, mission versus controversial design features in Wikipedia. Whether it's more important the commitment or the features because they are controversial. Well, I think this is a really false debate. It is a really false debate because anything Wikipedia should not be a test of commitment, it should be easy. That's simple. If you have a high commitment, you'll be able to overcome difficulties. But if easier and you have commitment, the better. You're gonna do much more work and you're gonna engage more people. Or should we edit with terminals? There is actually the way to do it, but it makes no sense at all. So we really need to keep motivation, but we really need to make it simple. So this is why getting to consensus is problematic because there can be groups of users or the entire community that eventually might get into a close feedback loop. How some people are going to decide to the interest, to the best interest of these people that are not in the consensus. That was kind of the most difficult questions that I cannot answer. How can we represent newcomers if they are not even in the community in order to decide for technological features that would help them? It's really difficult. And I know I'm getting into the danger zone and this is controversial because taking power and privilege from people is always difficult. So our really community is able to take decisions to the benefit of every potential user. Should consensus be limited to only content? Should we let technology to another group of people, maybe larger? Should we change consensus for technology? I know this is conflictive, this is tension area, but we should really think about it. My proposal or one of the solutions I think that it might be useful in this direction is to say perfect a little bit more the consensus and the community because Wikipedia started as a collaborative project without users, without roles. And roles were created when the needs required these roles, content policies. So I think that we are getting to the point that we might need roles for users, roles for community, roles for implementing changes and roles for facilitating this information flow. And this is why I propose introducing a user experience flag inside the communities that would care for community health, that would care for user experience. This flag, as I imagine it, has three main characteristics or three main duties. The first one is to represent these users, these newcomers who are not in the community yet and therefore cannot debate whether flow is going to be useful for them or whether visual editor should be the default editor. Second of all, it should ensure communication among the foundation and the communities. It should provide the communities the information on what is going on, on what the time is being invested and therefore facilitate that they really accept these changes. With research, with evidence, experienced editors will eventually accept that it's important to do these changes to favor user experience. And third, follow community stats to know exactly what is going on, to know exactly whether there is retention, whether there is harassment and communicate it as well to other users. So we need to represent potentials and new users in the consensus. We need to put these roles at every step. And this way we're going to facilitate the consensus to take into account the right and needed changes in order to expand communities. At the same time, this role should be in the community. It should not be in the foundation. And this is really important because as I've seen there is a distance between communities and foundation and this user experience flag would breach this distance. And this is why it's really important that the information flow is facilitated by this role. And third, as I said, to follow community stats, harassment, new commerce retention, all this should be available to communities. So they take responsibility. There are amazing research papers about retention, about the effects of reverts, as I said before, but communities, they don't know about it. If this information is at hand to communities and may hand, I don't mean outside websites or not only foundation projects, but something integrated and put them as a goal, then communities would take charge of it. This is why this role would bring a sort of secondary goal to the project. We have the big goal of providing the sum of human knowledge into a place. This second goal would be to give the best knowledge experience. And I'm really happy that I saw that we are talking about knowledge as a service because we are right in this direction. So this user experience flag would comply with these activities and would really help in bridging communities and foundation. And with this, I'm getting to the second challenging characteristic in order to improve the user experience. And this second characteristic is the outcome, the other product, the content center architecture. So we know that content is the center of Wikipedia. This is why we create it, but this has consequences. Wikipedia has grown by accretion. There are tools, there are websites for pictures, websites for metadata, it's a universe and it all revolves around content, but it's really difficult to catch up with everything that is going on. And very often we realize there are tools that would have helped us if we knew that they exist when we started a particular task. Okay, complexity brings friction. This complexity is against the user experience. And actually with multiple creators can only create complexity. And you'll say, because I had this conversation before, okay, but this is the power of Wikimedia. We cannot stop that, actually not. We shouldn't stop that. This complexity will continue and will grow, but we need different ways in order to tackle complexity and to balance a content center architecture like Wikipedia it is, and transform it in a more user center architecture. And I'm gonna tell you some ways very fast that they are usual from a user experience perspective. And I'm happy that some of them they are already taken into account, but it's good to have them in mind. So there is a user experience tool which is called user journey, which implies dividing every part of the experience into different steps, starting in Wikipedia would be before registering, after registering, while contributing, while engaged and re-engaging. So first of all, it is really important to realize for new editors that it is possible to edit. And by putting in bold the edit label is not enough at all. There are still a big percentage of users that they do not know that it is possible to edit and there is new research supporting this fact. So we should look for ways to make this possible. We should make it more visible. Actually, one of the misconceptions or the ideas that I think that we should debunk is the division between editor and reader. This division makes it more difficult for readers to become editors because there are many different profiles who are contributors and they are not the typical superpower editor. There are researchers, there are photographers, there are event planners. And by saying editor-reader, we are making it a bit more difficult for this to be part of the community. So what I'm proposing, as I said, making things more visible. Few years ago, perhaps we were a bit afraid of showing that Wikipedia is a living thing but because of reputation, because of credibility, but I think that more and more we need to visualize all the things that are going on. The community events should be visible to newcomers because they might be engaged, not into editing itself, but into following what is going on and perhaps contributing in some other way. I'm thinking about the homepage as a page much more diverse than it is now. It could include calls to action for uploading pictures. It could include community events, topics that are missing in a language or translations. These are tasks that they would really call the very diverse motivations that users have because editors, they have very different motivations. So if editors, they have very different motivations, why should we all see the same page? And this is what I mean by making it more visible into the homepage. So after registering, once we have already created a nickname in Wikipedia, we need to teach users to create content to contribute somehow. In video games, we use something called onboarding plan which teaches players each of the steps that they need to play the game. But games are so complex and some of them, they have game plays for 30, for 80, for 100 hours, which is not very different from what many Wikipedians do for Wikipedia. And not all, they go along the same learning path. So what this onboarding plan proposes is to divide each mechanic into a step. So first you learn to move the character, then you learn to create an object, you learn to shoot if it's a game about shooting, you learn about creating tools. So imagine that for Wikipedia. Why does a photographer needs to learn about a particular policy? Why should all users go along the same learning path? Sometimes some of my students, when I tell them to contribute to Wikipedia, I say, wow, but this is like a jungle. There are so many things to learn and policies and they have the feeling that there are so many things I don't know where to start. They feel overwhelmed. Onboarding plan helps people not feel overwhelmed because they are carefully designed to set an order of learning for different profiles. And the most important, no time constraints. It must be an environment that is meaningful, so it's integrated in what they are doing, but at the same time, it should not put pressure. This is how a good onboarding plan works. So let's say that they already learn what they need to learn, whether they are photographers, typographers, translators, which have a role, and they want to start contributing. So by contributing, we can be motivated to contribute, but if the system itself facilitates us what we need, it's gonna be more usable and therefore the motivation will not need to be that high. And this is why I propose providing assistance or providing further actions in order to perfect what we are doing. If I'm a new editor, having a space in the screen telling me which policy might apply to this page or which other article might improve what I'm doing, would really facilitate my process of learning. If we make things visible, it's gonna be easier to use. Recognition, we often say, it's easier than to recall. And this is especially important during the first days because we haven't learned it so hard, so deep. So we need to recall it continuously, to recognize it. I mean, recognize it continuously on screen. These tools, they would show the policies, they would show the templates. Fortunately, in the foundation, they are already working in this area in order to improve quality features of articles. And I just remember one of them proposed in the hackathon of introducing pictures from the same article in other languages in order to extend the article and improve its quality. Further actions is really something helping user experience. So while we are engaged, and we already know how to move around Wikipedia, there is this big problem with complexity. And Wikipedia is good at finding content. It is easy to find articles, pieces of articles, but it's not easy to find collaborators. It's not easy to find available tasks based on your profile. It's not easy to find some particular parts of the communication, what is going on in the community. So we need more recommenders. And this is a similar idea to the one before. We need recommenders that they make this thing easier to find because we often need to go outside many other pages. And the last part, re-engaging. We might leave Wikipedia for a while, for months, for years. And our memory is valuable. We have a learning curve and a forgetting curve. So after several years, we tend to forget what we were doing, what we were using, who we were collaborating with. So knowing this, we should provide tools in order to catch up much more easily. One of the best tools, and proven in many other websites, is a dashboard, a user-centered space. This is not new, but it would really improve editor's life when they haven't been active for some period. It could include page creation stats, Wideslist, some research to follow activities from the communities. A dashboard would be something that would be useful for all different profiles in order to personalize based on their needs. With these measures, with these different ways, we could improve user experience. And I think that by creating a community experience role, we would really facilitate it because we would have someone that would represent newcomers, would represent users' best interest in the consensus decision-making, which is where decisions are really taken and where it matters. And they would ensure communication and follow stats and communicate them across the communities. So thank you very much. I would like to hear your ideas, to really understand what, how this could be implemented, who should I talk to, and really, how this should start. Thank you very much.


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Why GOP loyalists and candidates keep moving left? By Ryan McMakin, an audio-mesist wire narrated by Michael Stack. There is good reason to believe that the 2020 election was a repudiation of far-left social and economic policy in the United States. This interpretation at the very least has been taken to heart by many Democrats who lost seats in the U.S. House and who now fear, with good reason, greater losses during the midterm 2022 elections. Many blame the factions who represent the most far-left elements within the party. Moreover, when we look at the U.S.'s center-right party, that is the GOP, we find it may gains nationwide when both federal and state-level offices are considered. What is less clear, however, is whether or not the usual center-left elements of the American political scene have been repudiated at all. One would be very hard-pressed to make the case that this election illustrated any widespread appetite among Americans to embrace an agenda of lower government spending, cuts to social welfare, or restrained monetary policy. Although the media likes to portray Trump as a right-wing troglodyte, the fact is that Trump in 2020 did not run on a platform of overturning to any significant extent any of the left's victories solidified during the Obama years, including new gay marriage provisions, Obamacare, or increased social spending. Indeed, Trump increased government spending to unprecedented levels, imposed new gun controls, and did little to rein in a CDC bent on destroying the economic well-being of countless American families. Perhaps Trump suspected that any sizable ideological turn to the right would doom him politically. If so, he was probably right to think so. Social policy related to gay marriage has become pretty much a non-starter, and long gone is the old conservative social agenda that was arguably still popular 10 years ago. Similarly, running on a platform of reigning in federal spending would require outlining where a candidate plans to cut spending. Yet federal spending on welfare programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is consistently popular. Pledging to cut voters' gravy train is not exactly a recipe for political success. Many of Trump's supporters, including most Republicans, appear to be fine with this. Even as it became clear the administration would generally embrace the center-left status quo at least on domestic policy, Trump's support among Republicans only increased over his term, rising from about 90% to 93%. There's little evidence that the so-called silent majority to the extent it exists has any interest in scaling back social programs or taking a robust position against the policies of the Obama years. Consequently, if the GOP hopes to actually win elections, it needs to keep moving left. In other words, if the center keeps slowly moving leftward, then the center-right party will need to keep moving left as well. In a world where the left to varying degrees controls nearly all educational and cultural institutions, as is indeed the case in the United States today, it is only natural that the ideological views of the voters will keep moving left as well. To win elections, political candidates will have to reflect these views. After all, winning elections involves, for the most part, a political party offering of candidates that can appeal to voters based on the voters' pre-existing ideological views. This will vary based on the jurisdiction in question, but candidates in the national elections will have to appeal to the views of voters nationwide. And candidates such as governors will need to do the same with the state's voters and so on. Overall, if the ideological views held by the public are learned in colleges, high schools and through Hollywood movies, political candidates can only be successful if they can package themselves in such a way as to appeal to those voters. If a political party can't offer candidates and policy agendas that reflect the ideological views of at least a large minority of the voting population in the jurisdiction in question, it will simply fall into irrelevance. This same argument, of course, is often made by party members themselves. We can find examples of this from the days of George W. Bush. Bush planned to run for reelection in 2004, so his administration aggressively pushed what became the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Monetization Act of 2003. This was at the time the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society. It greatly expanded government spending on Medicare, especially on prescription drugs. The motivation, of course, was to pander to elderly voters who were quick to embrace the prospect of more free stuff paid by current wage earners. Naturally, libertarian elements within the Republican Party complained about this expansion of state power and state spending. But opponents of the administration's plan were shouted down by party loyalists who insisted that expanding the welfare state in this manner would help secure a Republican majority for years to come. We now see similar logic being used by Trump's supporters, and the underlying electoral philosophy has been the same in both 2005 and 2020. We are told the candidate must be allowed to appeal to the voters in order to win reelection. And if that means abandoning all plans for cutting government spending or undoing the left's gains elsewhere, then that's just what we have to do. Of course, embracing untraveled growth in government spending was not always the recipe for winning an election. If we lived in the late 19th century, we'd find many Americans voting in favor of hard money, low tariffs, and low government spending. Indeed, Grover Cleveland was able to win the presidency twice, appealing to these views. Once upon a time it was possible to win elections by pledging to cut federal spending. But this was only possible because a sizable portion of the population actually embraced laissez-faire to a significant extent. If the public has different ideological views, successful politicians will have to change accordingly. Ludwig von Mises drives home this point in his book Socialism, quote, The Russian conservative is undoubtedly right when he points out that Russian tsarism and the police of the tsar was approved by the great mass of Russian people so that even a democratic state form could not have given Russia a different system of government, end quote. Mises' point was that if voters want tsarism, then that's what the voters will get. After all, quote, as long as the majority of the Russian people stood behind tsardom, end quote. Mises' point was that if the voters want tsarism, then that's what the voters will get. After all, as long as the majority of the Russian people stood behind tsardom, Mises continued, then the Russian political class could only benefit from embracing tsardom as well. Similarly, in modern America, so long as a sizable portion of the American electorate stands behind a ceaseless expansion in size and power of the federal government, a politician will not suffer by taking the same position. Not surprisingly then, Trump loyalists were more than happy to either tacitly or explicitly embrace Trump's big spending, big welfare agenda. Re-election required embracing the nation's relentless ideological drift leftward. What is the solution to this? Only after the direction of ideological and cultural trends change will political candidates be able to change how they appeal to voters. This requires a big change in the institutions that dictate ideological and cultural trends. However, most opponents of the left, such as conservatives and libertarians, continue to think primarily in terms of fighting only short-term political battles. The left, meanwhile, fights ideological, cultural, and political battles simultaneously. This is why eight years from now, GOP candidates and party activists will be embracing most everything implemented during the Biden-Harris years. It will be the only way to get elected. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.