Today, we're making one of my favorite recipes from this year, Greek yogurt biscuits. As the name implies, this is a mixture of all-purpose flour and Greek yogurt and a few other ingredients. If you've tried two ingredients, dough or bagels or pizza crust, it's going to be a riff on that. I'm going to show you exactly how I make it, so this is using a food scale. If you don't have a food scale, highly recommend getting one, especially if you do a lot of baking just for precision sake. If you don't have a food scale, I have all the measurements here. You can use that just fine. But this may look like a lot of stuff, but I'm going to touch on a few alternatives, things to know. The original recipe, I mixed in a stand mixer, but we'll get to that and we'll do a little troubleshooting how you might be over mixing dough. If your biscuits don't come out, nice and fluffy and things like that. If you can see the tape measure over here, we're going to get real precise. We're going to give you measurements, how long the dough should be when we're finished, how thick it should be before it goes in the oven. All that good stuff. Let's just jump right in. Like I said, this is exactly how I would make it, and how I make it every time. We've got our food scale on and we're going to start out with all purpose flour going one and a half cups or 180 grams. Now, if you're measuring this, we'll want to get as closely as possible. You can see I measure here very precisely with a protein powder scoop. We'll go 180 grams. One reason I really love, I've already touched on precision, the reason I love using a food scale is we just know exactly what we've got in there. We don't have to worry about leveling off measuring cups, and then we just get consistent results every time. With our sugar here, now this is kind of an important point. This is swerve granular, which is a granulated sugar substitute. This measures one for one like sugar, or substitutes one for one just like granulated sugar. But the difference between this and some other alternatives is the weight. If you were to measure this using a tablespoon, this would be, let's see how close we can get here, pretty spot on, 12 grams per tablespoon, so the recipe cost for 24 grams. If you use something like stevia, Splenda, or sucralose, if you measure out two tablespoons, your weight might actually be something like five grams, eight grams. If they're really light, it doesn't make or break a recipe, but if you have issues, like if you make these biscuits and something just seems off, like they're not fluffy or they're a little tough, or you have trouble getting the dough to come together, or like when you add all your wet ingredients, the dough's kind of sticky, could be, this is probably a big factor there. So we're going 24 grams or two tablespoons here, and then we've got salt and baking powder. So these are two big ones. Baking powder, make sure you have something that's active if this has been open, and just sitting in your pantry for a year, you probably want to get some fresh baking powder just so that we actually get that leavening effect, and we get some rise in our biscuits. So we're going here half a tablespoon. I think this could be a common error with this recipe, because we use a half teaspoon of salt and a half tablespoon of baking powder, so if you only use a half teaspoon accidentally of baking powder, you're not going to get much rise here. And then if you use a half tablespoon of salt, you'd have some seriously salty biscuits. So half tablespoon, I will use a measuring spoon for this, just because sometimes scales can be a little sensitive, and if you're only measuring a few grams, unless you have a really precise scale, you could have some issues there. So we'll measure that out. That's our baking powder. Then we'll use salt. I'm using kosher salt. If you have just table salt, like the finer textured, you might want to cut this in half to a fourth teaspoon instead of a full half teaspoon. And again, I'll actually measure this with a spoon. With baking, if I'm cooking something, just stir fries, whatever. I might just go with a pinch there. Precision isn't all that important. But with baked goods, let's be as precise as we can. OK, so that's all our dry ingredients here. We're just going to give those a good mix. I'm using a fork here, very fancy. Like I mentioned earlier, the original recipe used a stand mixer. You can use a food processor. They all work, but you do run the risk of over-mixing with that.  So we'll give those just a quick mix. You don't have to get super crazy here. We're going back on the food scale, and then we'll incorporate our butter here. So I'm using a light butter with canola. You can use really anything you want. This has 50 calories per tablespoon. If you use real butter, probably going to turn out just fine. If you use margarine, probably just going to turn out totally fine. I can't believe it's not butter. Really, I think the butter here, we're only using two tablespoons. So you'll probably get away with lots of alternatives here. So we're going two tablespoons, 28 grams, almost nailed it. So you can see this butter is very soft at room temperature. Like it just almost completely creams here just with a little fluff. If you're using real butter, this can be a little bit tougher to mix in. You might want to use like a pastry blender or something like that. So we're just going to kind of cut this in. As you can see, just we'll press them down with the fork here, creating some little clumps. You can see there kind of looks like clumpy sand. We'll just work this together. When you can no longer see any visible pieces of butter or any large chunks, you're good to go. So we'll make sure we get as much of that off as possible, and it's time to add our Greek yogurt. I'm going to use the same fork here because I have an almost empty tub of Greek yogurt. If you're scooping out of a full tub of Greek yogurt, don't use your spoon with flour and everything on it. Okay, we're going three-fourths cup, 170 grams here. I'm using Cibani. I imagine, you know, every Greek yogurt is a little bit different. I don't think you'll have that big of a difference using another Greek yogurt, but you never know. So, you know, keeping it as consistent as possible is always going to make the best recipe. So we've got 170 grams, and now we're done with our ingredients. We just have to mix this up so you can take it to this step, throw it in the stand mixer food processor. Again, I'll show you what we want it to look like before we bring the dough on to the board here and start forming our biscuits. So if you can see this, we have quite a bit of dry flour remaining and kind of just some big chunks here, and this is when we're going to dump this out. So it's definitely not, we're not mixing this until there's no dry flour remaining. What happens if we're using like a wheat flour, like all-purpose flour, is that gluten will really develop, and that's when you end up with like tough biscuits or biscuits that don't rise at all if you've got all your ingredients right. So we're going to dump this out. And now we're just going to use our hands. So we're going to press this together, kind of knead this dough, shouldn't require much work at all. If your dough, again, like if you use different ingredients and your dough is very sticky, you can spray your hands with a little bit of cooking spray, kind of rub that in, and that will prevent, you know, just super sticky dough all over your fingers. So you can see, all I did there, pressed that together, and then we've already incorporated the most of that remaining dry flour, and then we're kind of flipping the dough, so I'll press this out, make sure any dry bits are kind of pressed in, incorporated here, and then flip it over. If there's any dry bits left, you know, you can kind of like bring those in. Keep working that together, fold it over, and then we can form this into kind of like a ball of dough. You can use it to pick up any remaining flour here that's on the board. You don't have to worry about every little drop. So there we go. We have our dough. If you have any bits left on your hand, you can kind of rub these together, and the dough itself should help you kind of pick up any stragglers there. Okay, so it's time to form biscuits. We're going to go straight down on the board, and we're just going to use our hands again, press this out into a rectangle. Again, I've got my tape measure over here, so we'll get measurements. You can see, you know, exactly how big you need to make this. Okay, so the dough is a little sticky. I'll probably let my ingredients sit out for just a little bit. So I'm going to get a tiny bit of cooking spray. That'll really help me out. So, spray the hands, and that's going to be so much easier to form this. We'll kind of round those edges. You don't have to have a perfectly symmetrical rectangle here with like squared edges, rounded edges, they're just fine.   This looks about right to me. Be sure like your center, you don't want your center to be super tall, and then kind of like level out at the edges. So make sure, you know, you're pretty even across the board here. My tape measure, so looking at it from end to end. This looks like about nine inches, and then height wise, maybe close to a half inch, something like that, close enough. And then we're going to cut this into six pieces, and then we'll brush our eggs on, and we're ready to bake.  Okay, you can measure this when you cut, if you want to, so you have perfectly, like the same size or close to the same size biscuits. I'm just going to eyeball it here, and there we go. If you want, you can, these little end pieces, you can kind of form those, if you want to where they're more square, like your other, like your center biscuits, or you can leave them kind of in this triangle shape. Whatever you want to do. If you do squares, it'll make them a little bit taller, so there you go. So we kind of squirt them in a little bit, and then we'll press down just a tiny bit, to where they're about the same thickness as those two centerpieces. So I'm going to transfer these to the baking sheet, we'll do our egg wash, and then we bake. Okay, so I've added just a tiny bit of cooking spray here, just to prevent any sticking, we'll transfer over. If you wanted to double this recipe, just be sure that you're not crowding them too much, they're not going to expand much, they'll rise more than they kind of expand, but you don't want to crowd them too much. But as long as there's some separation, you'll be fine. So let's go egg wash, we've got one egg, we're going to do an egg yolk wash, so separate the yolks from the white. You can use really anything you want here, you don't have to brush them with anything, but if you don't, they'll be a little pale, which is fine, but I like golden brown tops. So an egg yolk does really well, you can use a little bit of butter, mixed with honey, or even some sugar, that sugar will really create some caramelization, you get some great color on top of these, but we'll choose an egg yolk. Okay, so I have a little brush here that's like four brushing meats, if you don't have a brush you can use a fork, no big deal. So we've got that on, you don't have to worry about brushing around the sides entirely, we'll use most of the egg yolk on the top, and we're good to go. So I'm gonna throw these in the oven, and we'll see them when they come out. Okay, so our biscuits just came out of the oven, this was after about 18 minutes, that's pretty warm, but you can see we got some nice rise here, they're not gonna be just massively tall scone-like biscuits, but there definitely should be some rise. Yeah, you can see here, I'm gonna cut into one, let these cool down a little bit first, see that, got nice irration here, these are not rocks. So that's what you're looking for, right there, pretty nice, right? Troubleshooting, I've mentioned a few things, some of the biggest will be granulated sugar, sure you get one that not only swaps one for one with sugar, but is essentially the same weight, you don't want to use a super concentrated sweetener. A few people have tried this recipe and asked if they should be sweet, not at all, so you shouldn't taste the sugar at all. These should be buttery, kind of buttermilk tasting biscuits, because you get that acidity from the Greek yogurt, just like you would real buttermilk, so they taste almost like buttermilk biscuits. Baking powder, use fresh, use the half tablespoon, not a half teaspoon. If you've got all your ingredients right and they don't rise or they're tough or rubbery, my guess would be over mixing, but now that you've seen what it should look like, so still some dry flour left in the mixing bowl, not completely incorporated, don't overwork it, so when you're forming that rectangle before we cut our biscuits, we don't need to sit here and just knead that and let that gluten super develop. We just need it to come together enough to hold to where we cut it and separate each piece, do the egg yolk wash or any kind of wash we want, and I think that's it. Troubleshooting wise, if you have other questions that I haven't covered here or this video, you watch this video in its entirety and you make these and they still don't turn out, I can't think of anything else, I'm sorry. I think that's it. All that being said, you should be good to go. I'll link the full recipe, got all the amounts, some substitution questions like can you use almond flour or other types of flour, Greek yogurt, butter questions, things like that, and I'll link the sausage gravy, chicken breakfast sausage, some stuff you can pair this with, link that down below or somewhere around here, and that's it, hope you enjoy these. Let me know if you give them a try, and like I said, if you try it all and it still doesn't turn out, don't let me know.


The Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Honourable Achim Rotimi, from Equity States, could not hold back tears while presenting his motion on the spate of killings and adoption in Equity States. The federal lawmaker, while presenting the motion under matters of urgent national importance, lamented the recent killings of two traditional rulers during the module of Emojo Equity oba o Lathungy Samuel o Lushala a'r Eliswm o Eshoe Equity oba David Babatundi o Gunshala by armed bandits, a commercial driver and a kidnap of students at Emoire Equity and a general insecurity in Equity and environs on Monday, January 29, 2024. He called on the Chief of Army staff to deploy military to the outpost along Yokea Co in Equity and the Inspector General of Police to deploy personnel to the state and also fair mar to rehabilitate failed portions of the road as a matter of urgency. The House further urges the Chief of Army staff to redeploy military personnel to the outpost along the Yokea Co area to enhance security and forstall a repeat of such acts. The House also directs Inspector General of Police, the Commander General of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps and other security agencies to deploy more men to Equity North One and ensure that those who carried out those acts are fished out and brought to justice. The House also urges the security agencies to put all measures in place to rescue the school children and teachers who were abducted in Emoire Equity. The House also compels the Minister of Works and Firmah to immediately rehabilitate the Aedw to Irelia Road and other roads in the federal Constituents. The House also mandates the House legislative compliance to ensure compliance to report back to the House in two weeks. In a related development, the House aired the Chief of Defence staff to establish civilian joint forces in Plato State following the attacks which leads to the death of 50 persons, several seriously injured over 1,000 houses and the people of Mangu Local Government. It was not that on the 24th of January 2024 there was another attack on the people of Mangu Local Government area of Plato State killing more than 50 persons, other serious injuries with over 1,000 houses and properties, but billions of nerah completely destroyed with about 20,000 people displaced at different IDP camps within and outside the local government area. For that note that most of the victims that sustain various degrees of injuries are currently receiving medical attention in different hospitals within the state. Worried that the continuous attack by terrorists in Mangu Local Government area and Boko's Local Government area of Plato State need to be addressed immediately. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2018 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie is stock number 14392Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2018 Ram 2500 has the 6.4-liter V8 Hemi engine. It's paired up with a six-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. Might be one of the cleanest 2018s we have on our lot right now. Very, very nice. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the truck. Brilliant black crystal pearl is the color I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, and stay current on our ever-changing and vast inventory here at Summit Auto so you don't miss out on gems like this one. This one comes with the 18-inch polished aluminum wheels. They are in really nice condition. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes or corrosion on there. Has Michelin Defender LTX tires. These are LT27570R18s, and I would say that they have probably about 70%, 80% of the tread left on them. The rim and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one-owner, clean title history, clean car fax out of Missouri. Front fender is in excellent condition. You get the projector lamp, headlamps, LED running lights, factory fog lights, front bumper parking sensors, no dents or dings on there, chrome-trimmed grill. That's in really nice condition as well, and the hood is absolutely perfect. No major dents or dings on there. Passengers' side front fender, very nice and clean. And the passengers' side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. Definitely can tell that the previous owner took very good care of his vehicle. Brilliant black crystal pearls, got a lot of metal flake in it, some greens, some purples, and some gold flake in there, really a good-looking color. As you go down this side of this 2018 Ram 2500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Take these HD videos, so if you're far away, or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Now if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you back wheels in excellent shape, as well, and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck back here as well. All the way underneath looks really good, definitely advantageous to get a truck out of Missouri. Lower rockers all look great, and it does come with a nice factory chrome step bars, passenger side box, no major dents or dings in there. You get the fender flares with the Laramie package. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, the rear bumper is in great shape. It does have the backup parking sensors, the full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, and the tailgate is in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any dents or dings in there. It does have a very nice retracts rolling tonneau cover. So just kind of give you an idea. I think it might be locked right now, but it rolls all the way like that. This one comes with a goose neck hitch. It also has a linex spring and bed liner, seven pin wiring in the bed. And that spring and bed liner goes onto the tailgate, which is really nice. Linex is a really good brand of bed liner. It's what I got on my truck. I love it. Coming down the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side, no major dents or dings on the box. Looks really, really good. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Cab and doors all look really good on this one. All the way down. Didn't see any dents or dings. Does have the heated fold up tow mirrors built in directional signals. They fold up like that and in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. Get the light tan interior, no rips, no tears back here. Does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window. Look at the headliner. Absolutely perfect. You get the speakers and the ceiling. Once again, no rips or tears on the seats.  If you've got muddy boots or tools, put them on here. Not going to get your seats dirty. Or if you've got pets, put both sides down and they got a nice, flat place to lay. And they're not going to get your seats dirty. Underneath, you get a winter front, some extra wiring back here. Factory floor map back here. In floor storage on each side with removable bins. Put ice and drinks in there. It's like too many coolers wherever you go. Or if you're not from Wisconsin, just extra storage space. Child safety locks in the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors. All look really good on this truck. Show you the VIN sticker here. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. Which means the quality is usually a lot nicer on American trucks. Tire and loading information right there. Up front, the Laramie package gives you the 40, 20, 40 split bench seating. No rips, no tears on these seats. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. You get the Laramie in Boston to the backrest. Once again, the side current airbags. Memory driver's seat with lumbar. Comes with a nice set of rugged ridge, all other formats up front. Auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. You get the leather bolster, the wood grain trim. And these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 52,560 miles on it. You get the digital spinometer on there. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Compass, outside temp. You can change all those corners to whatever you want. This one comes with the heated leather wrap, steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. There's your shifter for that six-speed automatic transmission, Alpine premium sound system badge there. This one comes with the 8.4C radio. You get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You also have your heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your heated steering wheel controls there, backup camera, which is working nicely. Then you get all your different apps on here, including projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen. Why that's important on this one is because this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, so you can project your cell phone up there with Waze or Google Maps.  We actually did a demo on Android Auto. If you want to check that out, that's in the upper right hand part of the screen on an 8.4. Turned-out four-wheel drive, climate controls, volume and tune controls, factory brake controller, heated cooled seat buttons, heated steering wheel stability control, tow haul, front rear parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. You also get a 115-volt, 150-watt plug-in, a little storage cubby right there. Three cup holders, obviously the 4020, 40-split bench seating, 115-volt dual-glow boxes, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. Once again, headliner is very clean and it smells very clean inside this truck. Map lights, power sign, rear window control, and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. Assist and SOS buttons in the mirror. Didn't see any windshield chips on this truck. Looks good. Let's start it up and take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. 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Good morning to CMC Espresso. Oil prices started stronger into the week as wildfires in Canada threatened oil production there, but later on Monday prices were starting to retreat. It caught markets by surprise that the Saudi oil minister Al Naimi had to go. His successor the crown prince Bin Sultan is seen by many commentators as a bearish factor for oil prices as he is seen as a strong defender of the notion that markets should set the price of oil and that this is not the job of countries or any cartel. In any case, it has become quieter in the last days when it comes to talks or rumors about any freeze talks in oil production. Maybe the Russians and the Saudis have realized that they will not be able to defend their market share by forcing Iran to the negotiation table. Iran just wasn't willing to join this game and Tehran was regularly just joking about what Moscow and Riyadh were trying. Bank of America thinks the price of a barrel of Brent crude could go down as low as $35 in the coming days or weeks. They argue that the market profile there would be very interesting. The market profile shows at which prices there has been the most trading activity in the past as a cumulated statistic or in the case of Brent futures, the most open interest. Based on this, analysis of the market profile, Brent prices could go down to $35 in the coming days or weeks. That's what the Bank of America wrote in a research report yesterday. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank thinks that the European central bank will have two meaningfully lower rates even further into the negative as only by doing this would there would be a positive effect on inflation and growth in the eurozone. So while the bank publicly has been one of the loudest critics of the policy of the ECB, the internal research departments of the bank claim that things are just going to go to be much worse going forward. They say that the economic cycle in general is in its later stages. Wages are growing, but companies are having less pricing power than they did in the past. The result of this is that they are not really able to forward those cost increases to their end customers so profits are starting to twindle as we can witness again in the latest earnings report figures for the first quarter. Meanwhile, the famous bond managers Bill Cross and Mohamed Ellerian think that the rate hikes in the U.S. are not off the table. They still think that there will be two rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year and this by itself would be a major surprise for the markets which only calculate with an 8% chance that there will be a rate hike at the Fed June meeting. So going forward it seems that one thing will prevail in this market environment. There will be uncertainty and so there will be volatility. This is an El Dorado for active investors like the CFD traders from CMC markets.


President of the United States. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcome to the White House complex. It's particularly a pleasure to welcome you, even though I am a little jittery inside because I remember being told very forcefully by a minister once that ministers were the worst kind of audience. But I know that you're some of our nation's most distinguished preachers. The church has a special vet place in American life and it's around the church that America's black communities have revolved. You've long been a source of strength to America's black families. You've given the sustenance of faith, hope, love to Americans who've long needed it to face and overcome prejudice and injustice. It was around your churches that the civil rights movement began, a movement that was to free not only blacks, but all the rest of Americans from the burdens of intolerance and from the pain of not living up to our own ideals. And who can forget that at its climax the leader of that movement, of that march to justice was Martin Luther King, Jr., a young man of God who spoke in the cadences of the pulpit to the conscience of the nation and who reminded us all that America had issued a promissory note for freedom and that note had come due. Yes, you stood for justice and you stood as I said for much more, for family, for patriotism and for belief in a loving and merciful God whose message of love and brotherhood all Americans were put on this earth to seek and find as no other people had ever found before, despite the hardships, despite the temptations and despite falling sometimes by the wayside. And let me add that what you stand for was taught to all America one night some years ago by another young black man. It was in Madison Square Garden at a giant patriotic rally America had gone to war, World War II. There had been many speakers that evening and great entertainers from all over the world of entertainment, many of whom declared in their own appearances that we would win the war because God was on our side. And then this young man, a few words with great wisdom, was introduced. Madison Square Garden was well known to him. Joe Lewis, heavyweight champion of the world. On this night he was private Joe Lewis, United States Army. And he came out and he'd been introduced and stepped up to the microphone and said one simple line that brought that great crowd to its feet. He said something no one else had said that night. He said we will win because we are on God's side. Georgie Gessel, who had introduced him, said, Joe, you have just put a rose on Abraham Lincoln's grave. Well, you know, Martin Luther King used to remind us that black Americans are among our greatest patriots. I narrated a film about a group of such patriots, pilots being trained at the Tuskegee Institute, including one who would go on to become a great general and a national hero, Chappie James. I was only a member of the horse cavalry at the time, but I'm proud to tell you I now am also an honorary member of the Tuskegee Airmen. Today, members of your congregations continue to show inspirational patriotism. They've taken the lead in defending our country. Among qualified black youth, more than four out of ten enter our armed forces, compared to considerably fewer than two in ten of all other qualified youths. These young men and women are also some of our best soldiers, sailors, and airmen. They're much more likely than other recruits to have high school diplomas. And the chances of them re-enlisting are far greater. And they're less likely to be discharged before the end of their tours of duty. I've met many of our young men and women in uniform all around the world. I spoke to a group of them just a couple of weeks ago in Iceland before I left to come home. And let me just promise you, because as I said, I know so many of them are in your congregations. I hope we never have to ask them to defend their country. But if ever we do, I am determined they will have the best equipment and support possible, and that's why I've been fighting. My reason for fighting for a proper defense budget. And that's also why in Iceland I stood firm against Soviet demands that I give up the Strategic Defense Initiative, America's insurance policy for peace. I will never bargain away America's security or the safety of our young patriots. In recent years, black Americans have helped lead our nation, not only in patriotism, but despite continuing problems in economic progress. I'm pleased to be able to tell you that in the three and a half years since our economic recovery began, in fact, over the last several decades, the earnings of black males, for example, have grown significantly faster than those for the rest of American males.  But despite such success stories, we know that millions more still live in poverty out of the American mainstream in need of our help. More needs to be done. But in the three and a half years since our recovery took hold, we have reversed the rise in the poverty rate that started in the late 70s, and we've sent the poverty rate moving down again at the fastest clip in some 18 years. In the last two years, nearly a million black Americans have taken hold of the first rungs of America's once again strong ladder of opportunity and become a part of that American tradition of climbing to the stars as they climbed out of poverty. Unemployment among black youth, however, remains a national tragedy. But even though blacks represent only about 11 percent of our total population, during our recovery, 15 percent of all new jobs have gone to black Americans. Now, I don't think this success is any accident. You see, I believe you have a great deal to do with it. If our history teaches us anything, it is that in this land of dreams, when barriers of prejudice and discrimination are lifted, those who have the power in their wings that comes from strong families, deep faith and good values, those of God's children soar to the sky. You've given that power to the good people of your congregations. I think it's clear that you're among America's greatest forces against poverty and for decency and hope. And yet we know that in the last two decades, there have arisen, particularly in our inner cities, subtle temptations that have lured too many poor Americans away from family, away from community, away from values like hard work, planning for the future, and taking responsibility for one's own actions. It was in the name of compassion that these corrosive temptations became a part of national welfare policy, but well-meaning though they were, their hand up had become a handout. And yes, some of these same decent but mistaken people also told us at one time that drugs like marijuana were not all that harmful to young people, and that getting tough on crime was a veiled form of racism, even though blacks are among the principal victims of crime. And they had no more respect for the right to life of an unborn child than they had for the right of a school child to begin each day the way every member of Congress begins it with a prayer. Well, I sometimes think how much better things might have been if instead of those well-meaning people, you had been in charge. We all know the tragic consequences of these excesses, children having children, violent young addicts or pushers, and their victims. Big government may have made its pushers feel good, but the overdose they gave poor struggling families was almost fatal. That's why our administration has said that the way to fight poverty is not with more government, but with more opportunity, more faith in family, more trust in the values that come from our Judeo-Christian tradition. Today we're looking for ways to reform the welfare system, to make it support, not tear down families. And we're investigating how to incorporate work into the welfare system so that we encourage, not discourage, the development of self-esteem. But welfare reform isn't the only answer. We believe it's time to have a criminal justice system that respects the rights of poor people who are working honestly to lift themselves, and that will put criminals who mug, rape, murder, or rob in poor communities or anywhere else behind bars and keep them there. And it's why Nancy and I have enlisted in the nationwide crusade against drug abuse. We're asking children in our inner cities and everywhere to have the courage to just say no. We've made major progress in our agenda of opportunity this year. Our tax reform bill is the greatest anti-poverty program in the history of our nation. It takes over 6 million poor Americans off the income tax rolls and lets them keep more of the fruits of their labor. For a family of four living at a poverty level, that means a tax cut of roughly $1,300 a year. And if the leaders in the House of Representatives would end their years of opposition, we could also pass our enterprise zone bill. 32 states have already adopted their own enterprise zone programs. From New Jersey to California, state enterprise zones have created tens of thousands of jobs for those who didn't have them before. We're saying it's time for the federal government to pitch in too. After all, it was our idea to begin with, and yet we haven't been able to get it passed. And the states just took it up once they heard about it. All we're really saying is that the road out of poverty is not the old government way, but your way. Not by the main streets or the mean streets of temptation, but by the steep path up the mountain. By hard work, by economic growth, and by faith in family, community, and God. It's not an easy journey climbing that mountain. But the way of the Lord is never easy. Only good, only decent, only right.  I'm happy to see that more and more, this is the view he made my day. So here's what I've come to say to you today. Let's climb that mountain together so that generations to come can look back on this time and say that in it, all Americans came at last to know America's promise of opportunity. And yes, his truth did go marching on. Now I only have a few minutes I know and you've been here for a long time and I still think though that I would like, because I'm a little self-conscious, more than a little. I was raised in a family, I'm mother and father, there were only four of us, my brother and myself. My parents raised the two of us to believe that there was no sin in the world greater than discrimination against any human being for any reason. And therefore it's been the most frustrating experience of my life to hold this office and see the image makers go to work and create an image that I am somehow racist and am discriminatory and so forth. And it's been against everything I was ever raised to believe or anything that I ever did before. As governor of California, I will be forever proud that I appointed to executive and policy-making positions in our state government more blacks than all the previous governors of California put together. One of them's on this stage here, now still an appointee, Mel Bradley. But maybe for just a few minutes we could take, well, a question. Mr. President, we come from a perspective that the heavens declare the glory of God. And another perspective is that when you pray we say, our Father, I've been trying to find this answer from many people, but maybe you can tell me. When we, for you for instance, represent our country with Mr. Gorbachev, all the leaders of the Soviet Union, trying to bring about peace and your initiatives there. And on the other hand, in Nick Wagner, who are associates and supported by the government, it seems we have a similar but a different relationship there. And I was wondering as we talk about our Father, we have missionaries in Nick Wagner from our church, trying to minister in the sermon to help people there who've been victims of that war. Could you give me something that maybe that I don't know and I've been there to support your policy there in Nick Wagner and your relationship with the Soviet Union which is in other cities? I should try to do it very briefly. Yes, when I meet with all of those other people, I don't meet alone. I've asked somebody to come in with me and help. But with regard to Nicaragua, we know that they had an authoritarian type of government under Samosa, who was something of a dictator. He wasn't a totally dictator as we've seen in countries like the Soviet Union or anything, but he was on a dictator of the right wing. He was a very authoritarian. And finally, the people rose up in revolution. And among the revolutionaries was one organized group, the Sandinistas, and they were definitely a communist organization. When the revolution was over and incidentally what ended the revolution was when the revolutionaries asked the organization of American states if they would persuade Samosa to step down in order to end the killing. And the organization of American states said, well, what are the goals of your revolution? And those goals were the same as our own revolution had been 200 years ago. They were freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and all the things that we believe in, the right to labor unions and all of that. And then, Samosa stepped down and the revolution or the war ended, but the revolution now took place. But as has happened in several other countries where communists are involved, the Sandinistas ended up being already an organization. They took over and gradually, less than gradually, they eliminated other revolutionary leaders that had fought beside them. Some were actually executed. Some were exiled and some took to the hills and are now part of the contra organization that's out in the hills.  They have limited religion. They have been particularly hard against what they call the evangelistic religions, mainly the Protestant religions, the country being so pronounced Catholic. They were a little less harsh, but since then they have ordered bishops out of the country. They have taken away the printing press of the Catholic Church and they have started a church of their own. In the schools, incidentally, they have a new official national anthem in which it names the United States as the enemy that must be destroyed. Now, we believe that the people of Nicaragua who fought for that revolution have got a right to share in the kind of government that will result from the revolution. And the contras up on the hills are basically that many of them are not to hold over from the Samosa regime. In fact, many of them were imprisoned by Samosa at one time. They were revolutionaries too. And what they're really fighting for is for the Sandinistas to open the door and let them come in and together let the people of Nicaragua determine the kind of government they want. Now, I appeared over at the State Department before the Washington press. They were the only audience. There were three people from Nicaragua, two had previously been officials of the Sandinista government and who walked away from it because of its intolerance and its totalitarianism. And the third had been a clergyman in what they call the Creole community.  And one day one of the prisoners told him he was going to have to escape because he said they're planning to kill you. And this man stood there. He was one of the speakers at that appearance over there before our press corps. Nothing of what he said was ever carried in the television news. And yet what he said, well, first he pointed to where his ears had once been. Among the tortures they'd cut his ears off and they had tortured him until he managed to escape across the river into Costa Rica. And yet, as I say, with all of the press present, there was no attention paid to the stories of these three men that were related to them. Mr. President, I am Peter C. Holland from Greensboro, North Carolina, Pastor Church in Canapras, North Carolina.  We're pastoring people and the people who are using drugs are giving drugs to people who have no jobs. And when they give these drugs to these people, it's time they get back to work. They got them hooked that they remain on drugs. And so what we try to do is try to keep them employment. And Cannon Meal being the only meal is there and the only employment that they've ever known in that area. And whenever they lose their job, that's it. This is, there's no question about the imports, but let me also state something about what has been going on. In these 46 months, we have created 11.7 million new jobs. And what is called the Potential Employment Pool in America is everybody, male and female,


In this video, we're gonna talk about properties of equality, how they relate to functions and how that relates to solving single variable equations. So we talk a lot about functions in math 1050. And so let's suppose we have a function, let F be a function, all right? And let's also say that some numbers A comma B are inside of the domain of F such that we have that A equals B. So we have two different numbers inside the, I shouldn't say two different numbers, we have the same number just represented twice. Well, if we have a function, then what's gonna happen is when you take F of A, and you compare this F of B, if A equals B in the first place, then F of A is gonna equal F of B. That is when we evaluate the function on the same value, it's gonna get the same output, the same input produces the same output over and over and over again. This is what it's all about to be a function. We have learned with the vertical line test that given a unique, give a specific X coordinate, there's always a unique Y coordinate attached to it that the same X coordinate cannot produce multiple Y coordinates. That's what it means to be a function. So let me try to clarify, when might this property fail? So consider the following sort of non-example here. Let our function F, little take as inputs fractions. So let's say we have a fraction of the form P over Q and our function F is gonna have the following rule that it reports back just the numerator of the fraction. F of P over Q equals P. That seems like a perfectly good function, right? But what about the following? Note that if I were to take, for example, the fraction one half as fractions, this is the same thing as two forces, isn't it? One half versus two forces, it's the same thing, but if you take this function of the valuation here, this so-called function, right? F of one half, well, if you return just the numerator, you get a one. That's not the same thing as two, which is the numerator of two fours. And you can see what happens here is that this assignment, it depends on the representation of the number, right? Do we want a function, which if you give it three, it says seven, but on the other hand, when you give it two plus one, it says five, right? Do we want a function that does something like that? Well, guess what? Those type of things are not functions. This is not a function because functions have this property that if you take A equals B, and it doesn't matter if A and B look the same, if they are actually equal as numbers, then it must be that the output of the function will be the same. And so this right here is what we describe as being a well-defined function. So the function is well-defined. Is it some terminology we use to describe this type of thing? That doesn't matter how you look at it, the number, the output will be independent of that. And so this is true for any function under the sun, there's no function that doesn't have this property because essentially this property is what makes it a function. The same input, even represented differently, will have the same output each and every time. So when you apply this to the functions of arithmetic, right? So we could talk about there's a function that'll send X to X plus C. So there's an addition by C function. There's a function that'll send X to X minus C, the subtraction function.  We can make functions out of the four arithmetic operations. And so if we apply this principle to these functions, you get the following that if A equals B to begin with, then A plus C will equal B plus C for any number C. And that's because we're just applying the addition operation there. Same thing for subtraction. If you subtract to both sides, you get the same quantity again. If you were to times both sides by some constant C, equality will be preserved. If you divide by C, our equality will be preserved because these are special types of functions. It's nothing particularly special about the arithmetic operations.  Now there's a few things I should say about this that when a function is one to one, this means that actually the solution of the equation will be preserved, but it is possible for the equation to enlarge itself, right? So if you take an equation like X equals two, then clearly the only solution to this equation is X equals two. Now if you couple that with the function F of X equals X squared, and then you apply that, you're gonna get F of X equals F of two, which is to say that X squared equals four. In the process of solving this one, it turns out there's actually two solutions. You get X equals plus two and minus two. So you'll notice that the original equation was X equals two. When you apply a function, in this case, the squared function, you can solve it, you can solve the new equation, and you do retain the original solution of two, but sometimes you gain extra solutions. Ones that are solutions of a subsequent equation, but not the original equation. I often like to refer to this as party crashers, someone who wasn't invited to the equation. One has to typically look out for something like this as you're solving equations, but this is only an issue when you work with a non-invertible function. That is a function that's not one to one. X squared has the property that two squared is equal to negative two squared, and this is how negative two kinda snuck in there. It's always a good practice to check your solution at the end of solving an equation. To double check that something like this doesn't happen. One is just good to check your algebra in the first place because we all make mistakes, but oftentimes we have to check our answer to see if it worked, because even if we did everything right, we might have discovered a number that wants to be a solution, but isn't really because of some non-one-to-one function that's used. Some other things I should mention here is that once in a while when you're solving an equation, you end up with something called a contradiction. Let me put that in one line there. You get a contradiction. What do I mean by a contradiction? A contradiction would be an equation of the following form. You end up with something like two equals negative five. You get an equation which is absolutely false. There's no assignment of the variable X that could make this thing true, and that's typically because you get two numbers which are not equal to each other. This happens when you try to solve equations on, this happens when you try to solve an equation sometimes. Like if you had some equation like two X plus one equals three, using the properties of addition that we learned above, we could subtract the number one from both sides, thus combining things, plus one, minus one, those cancel out, three minus two ends up with a, sorry, three minus one gives us a two, two X equals two. You can then use the multiplicative property here, divide both sides by two. We're dividing by two to cancel out the multiplication by two on the left-hand side. We're applying the inverse operation, and we end up with X equals one, right? The solution here. You can check this solution easy enough. Notice two times one plus one equals two plus one, which is equal to three. We checked the answer. No party crashers here. You're never gonna get a party crash when you use a one-to-one function like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. That does happen when you do other non-one-to-one functions like squaring, sine, cosine, something like that. So getting back to the idea of a contradiction, right? A contradiction occurs when you get something that's absolutely false. No assignment of the variables can make this true, such as two equals negative, two equals negative five here. And in this situation, it turns out there is no solution. The solution would be nothing, right? If ever you're trying to solve an equation, you end up with a contradiction. It means there is no solution. So for example, if you had something like x plus two equals negative x plus x, you might do something like the following. I'm gonna subtract x from both sides. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You cancel the x on the left. You cancel the x on the right. And then you're left with exactly this equation right here. This would then tell you you have no solution. On the other hand, sometimes we end up with things which we're gonna call identities. What is an identity? An identity is going to be an equation that's always true, irrelevant of the function assignment. So as an example of such a thing, what if we ended up with something like three equals three? We go about solving our equation. We end up with an identity. Then it really tells us that, okay, there's no restriction on our variable here. Like so for example, if we had x plus three equals x plus three, and then you subtract x from both sides, again, just using an additive property of addition, the x's cancel out, we end up with three plus three. In this situation, there's no restriction on the variables. And we see that all numbers, all numbers solve this equation. All real numbers can work here. There's nothing that prevents it from happening. So contradictions and identities don't seem to happen that often. But when you're solving equations, that can be a possibility here. Most likely though, you're gonna see things like the following. You have an equation. And as long as you do the same function to both sides of the equation, you'll retain equality. And so what we do is then we just apply inverse operations, one by one, getting rid of operations attached to our variable x until we get our solution. But like I said, also watch out for that. Even if we do everything correctly, party crashes can't enter the mix. This will be because our functions are not one-to-one. So it's always good practice to check your answer when you're done. When it comes to working with inequalities, you have a lot of the same principles, right? Because of the following. Again, let F be a function. And in this situation, we're gonna assume that A and B are numbers inside the domain of F such that little A is less than B here. Now in this situation, we have to break things up a little bit because it's applying the function F to both sides, won't necessarily give us the inequality we want. Instead, we have to kind of break it up into two cases. If F is an increasing function, whoops, if F is increasing, in that situation, we're gonna get that F of A is less than F of B. That's what we get right there. On the other hand, if F is decreasing, if F is decreasing, then we're gonna get that F of A is actually greater than F of B. And if you look at the definition of increase and decrease, and then it becomes apparent why this is, a function is increasing on an interval A to B by definition if, as the X coordinates get bigger than the Y coordinates get bigger. On the other hand, a function's decreasing on the interval A to B if when the X coordinates get bigger, the Y coordinates get smaller. So this is just applying the definition of increase and decreasing, but it has an important application towards solving inequalities. If you have an inequality, A is less than B, and of course there's appropriate modifications for less than or equal to, greater than or greater than or equal to. If the function's an increasing function, you apply it to both sides, the inequality will be going the same direction it was before. But if you have a decreasing function, then the inequality will be reversed. And so I'll kind of mention to you that these four arithmetic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, these are all special cases of linear functions, functions of the form f of X equals m X plus B. So all of these arithmetic operations are just special cases of the linear functions because if you have a plus or minus, that can, that just means you're adding or subtract, if you have a plus or minus, if you have an addition, subtraction, that means you're either adding a positive or adding a negative, right? And if you're dividing or multiplying, it just depends on the number bigger than one because if you divide, this is multiplying by the reciprocal, this encodes all the possibilities here. Now, if you're adding or subtracting these principles right here, that just means that your m is the number one. And so you have a, your slope is positive one. And if a line has positive slope, it's an increasing function. So if you add or subtract c, it'll be increasing function as a linear function. Therefore, the inequality is preserved. On the other hand, if you are multiplying or dividing by c, you're basically assuming that the b value is zero and then m is either greater than one or negative, or, you know, it's greater than one or less than one or something like that. And so then what you see happening here is, is, is this function mx, is it an increasing function or decreasing function? It depends entirely on the number, the slope there, which here it's listed as an m, up here it's listed as a c, right? If c is a positive number, then the linear function will be an increasing line and therefore equal, inequality is preserved. But on the other hand, right, if c is a negative quantity, then the inequality gets reversed when you multiply it by it, because in that case, you've now times by a negative slope, which is actually a decreasing function. So, you know, we often learn that, oh, solving inequality is just like solving the equation. It's just when you multiply by a negative, it switches directions. That's, that is true, but that'll be true in general for decreasing functions. When the function's decreasing, well, you have to switch the direction of the inequalities. And so this is great. So for example, when you use things like f of x equals the square root of x, the square root function is an increasing function. So this property would apply. If you take something like g of x equals e to the x, the natural exponential, that's an increasing function. Therefore, this rule applies when you solve inequalities. On the other hand, if you take something like h of x equals x squared, this function's neither increasing nor decreasing. It's increasing from zero to infinity, but it's decreasing from negative infinity to zero. And since the function switches its monotonicity, that makes solving inequalities involved a little bit more complicated, which is why we'll talk about quadratic inequalities a little bit more in the future. But other than that, solving an inequality works just the same way as one would solve a equation. Just make sure you pay attention to if the function increasing or decreasing.


That first touchdown drive for you guys, and maybe what did you guys show by kind of overcoming a few things on that drive? I think there's a third down, fourth down, kind of things like that. Yeah, it was big. Just being able to find a way to move the chains. I feel like it helps you gain confidence, you know, for the rest of the game, knowing that you can do that. And then also being able to convert down there in the red zone just to give confidence.  Let's just go and keep doing it really. The wind doesn't solve everything, but how much it helped maybe change the mood around here today? Yeah, I mean, it's always fun to win. It's not easy to win in this league. Feels a lot better winning than losing. I mean, everybody can say that about anything. So I feel like it gives us a good opportunity to try to build this momentum and learn from what we did yesterday and try to keep it going forward. What do you guys in 4-0 at home averaging 20-plus here, but 11 on the road? Is there something to just how things work at home for you guys as opposed on the road? Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure. I couldn't really put a name on it. I mean, if I were to guess, it's just like a, you know, just feeling comfortable here. I feel like we know what to do at home. I don't know what it is, but we got to find a way to do it again this week and then find a way to take it on the road finally. What do you think happened the second half yesterday where offense obviously wasn't the same as it was in the first half? Yeah, I mean, that's just on us really to try to close that game out. That's something we got to improve on. You know, that four-minute opportunity. Obviously, you know, scoring in third quarter try to try to build that lead. But eventually, you know, once we got to that four-minute opportunity, I think that's something that we've normally kind of hung our hat on and that we kind of missed the mark on yesterday. You talked about carrying confidence over after a win. When you guys have been successful here in the past, what does it take to do that? What did it take to carry over that confidence? I think part of it is highlighting what we did well, fixing what we did that we didn't do well, but then also not getting too high on ourselves and not getting too low on the mistakes. I think it's just, I think we're best when we're kind of even keel and we know what we're doing, we know not to get too high or too low, but still celebrate what we do well. When you look at this lead and how dramatically things can shift, I mean, the Broncos gave up 70 to Miami and they won five in a row. And you guys have seen your actions. How does that happen in this lead? I think you see teams like that and I think with us too, it's like the phrase, you trust the process, right? You keep going at it day after day. You might not see the results immediately, but eventually, like for the Broncos right now, now they're winning games. They probably didn't feel super confident early on, but it's just trusting that process, trusting that what we've done here in the past works and just believing in that and trusting the work that we're putting in. Is this going to be a confident team in your opinion? I'd say so. I mean, we showed it yesterday in the plays that we had to make, we did make. We ended up coming out with the win. So I don't think you can win a game without having confidence. Having another four of your last six at home when you're four now, how much does that hurt your confidence for the stretch you're on here that you guys can put together in a row? Yeah, I mean, there is confidence in that. You know, we know we haven't lost here at home. So I mean, they say preparation builds confidence and I think we've prepared by winning here. So I think that's something we can hang our hat on and continue to go forward. Will was pretty specific as far as his own critiques of some misses he had specifically in the second half. As a receiver, how nice is it to hear that? Not only from your quarterback, but from your young quarterback, is that self-aware? Yeah, it's always good that someone can own up to mistakes or missed opportunities. That's the nature of this business. I feel like part of being a pro is understanding where you miss the mark and trying to improve those things. Do you remember about the first Colts game and maybe what are some things that maybe need to change for you guys to have more success this time around? Yeah, I feel like looking back, I might have to watch the film on that game again because I'm really what is the goldfish mentality from 10 Lasso. I forget about things really easily if it's not going to help me going forward. But I think the self-inflicted wounds, like the unforced air, a lot of those things have showed up through the season that have held us back. And then really just trying to take advantage of the big play opportunities. I feel like we did do that well and that's something we got to continue to do well against Andy. We'll show you guys maybe on the drive right before the half in terms of efficiency and getting you guys set up and getting the field goal up there. Yeah, that was a big drive for us just to get an extra three points there. It's something we work on a lot at practice and we've worked on it throughout training camp that pretty much that same exact situation. We've done it through practice over the last 10 weeks, 11 weeks, several times so it's something we feel confident with. Nick, how do you kind of evaluate Will week by week by week in regards to his seeing the field and finding the right guys? Yeah, I mean, it's not my job to evaluate him but he's been doing well. I think he's still learning and that's part of the process of being a rookie quarterback is still figuring out who's open and what coverage is going on. But I feel like he's going at it the right way and he's trusting the process and figuring it out. Have you seen trailing around too much and had a chance to visit and talk to him? Yeah, I've talked to him a little bit. Seems to be doing better. Obviously that's always a tough deal with those head injuries. So I don't really know much details but at least in good spirits and it's a blessing that he's alright because that was a scary play. Nick, a lot of guys have talked about just building on getting L-win. Now that you've got that win, how much confidence is in this room that you guys can build on that here in the center? Yeah, there's a lot. I mean, we said earlier, you know, we feel confident at home for some reason and it showed and we know we got a lot more of those home opportunities. So that's part of it but also it's a familiar opponent and I think we feel like we own one also. Are you aware during a game like that that they're suffering those injuries on the offensive line and that the people across from you are changing as frequently as they are or are you just kind of... Yeah, we saw I think it was 62 that went out earlier and Nico and Jeff was the main ones who knew about it first and then told everybody that 62 out and I think 66 came in. We didn't have much film about them, knowing about them so we just went in and saw what we did on the field.  I think he spent some time with you in practice last week. What have you learned from him? What's he teaching those moments and how's he maybe been as a coach for you? Last week I got to recall we were just talking about length on run defense. When a guy come out and base you, I'm alone so he was just teaching me how to be longer while I'm able to shed off blocks. But Greg's always coming in coaching, giving us two cents into whether it's pass, rush, run, stopping, anything dealing with outside line. I mean he played it before, was successful at it so if he see anything that's lacking from the OLB room then he'll come and tell us. They move you guys around like you'll be inside and Jeff will be outside or vice versa. Is that something that comes out throughout the week or is it something like in the game you're like, hey look, I can take them? It comes throughout the week. I think we've been given the freedom to do that a lot more. That's why you see it a lot lately in the last three games. But that's something that we incorporate throughout the week, whether it's tackles out, ends inside, things of that sort. How do you personally build on what you were able to do yesterday? You had a big game in the season opener against New Orleans then quiet for a little while and yesterday you had a big game. How do you build on that going forward in stack games? I mean just throughout my career and my history in November, December, AK coming alive. So I mean it's that time, it's the end of November and we're coming into December so I mean that's why I play my best ball there.  What does this team need to do outside of just getting that win to get back in that rhythm? I mean that's what we needed. We needed to get the win. The win cures a lot of things and us getting this win, it was a great win. Especially us coming back home and then being on the road for three games, having to lose like that. And the way we did, just coming out and getting the win which builds up the confidence and come in and beat the coach and build more confidence for us. I take it you're never a guy who needs to get his swagger back. You keep doing this pretty much all the time. All the time. When you are in a slump, who is it that gets you out of it? A slump? Just me really. Sometimes I do get in the slump but you look at my past experiences specifically just with football and how things are going. Especially this year. I've been in this situation before and just go back and look at the experience that I went through and the things that I was doing, the things that I wasn't doing, that I could have been doing.  You played pretty early. It seemed apparent like there was a big chance to go get the football there. Does that turn into slow motion scenario for you as you're closing on him? Can you talk us through kind of what you see and when you know what's going to happen? Yeah, I mean sometimes you get white noise. Especially on that play you can see the slow line and just the ball movement. That's why I came over top of him the way I did. Usually something hit the side, arm or whatever the case may be. But it's just slow motion.  And then unfortunately he threw the ball and I got the sack fumble. But that's just the way it went. That's the way the cars was played at that time. You were with Jacksonville last year and they were kind of giving up for dead at this time of the year and then went on an impressive run to make the playoffs. Do you preach any of that to these guys in this locker room? Here? Yeah. Yeah, I mean when we had those three losses and everybody had their inputs on different things. But for me, every time it was when I was in Jacksonville or San Fran when we went through those, we went back to the bases. We went back just like last week. We went back to the bases. We went to camp stuff. The thing we ran in camp, we ran last week. And the things in camp is we know how to run. We know how to run those things. And we play fast as you saw last Sunday just because everything was simple. I saw you yesterday after you enjoyed some time with the fans out there and all that. How much do you enjoy that part of it? And how much have you enjoyed just sort of being in Nashville this year? I enjoy it because I know just growing up, I ain't got a vet as gold. I know everybody can tell it a mile away. But I know a lot of kids, a lot of fans just want to be around it, want to take pictures around it, want to do that.  I'm a very loving guy. You can read it on the social media, read it in the papers. But to get a handshake, to get a smile, to get a picture, to get an autograph from me, it'll go a long way. You guys said yesterday that you can't win at home. You have to win your home games. What is behind that pride that you have in making sure that you got to win at home? It's just nobody.  So it's like that with football. We win. We got great fans. They care. They really care. They're really into it. And I think it would be a disservice for us to not go out and play and go out there and try to get the win for our home fans, the home games. When you look back to the first game against Andy, obviously they had a lot of success running the ball. What do you remember from that and what can you guys correct to make sure that doesn't happen?  They ran the ball on us and they beat us up. And that was the worst game. I think that was the worst game we lost this year. But we owe them. They're going to come in and probably try to run the ball again. And they're going to be a team to test it and try to test it and run the ball. So it's up to us to stop the run so we can get to the pass. Was there some added motivation maybe, Arden, when postseason doesn't look great for you guys, but if you're playing teams that are right in the thick of a playoff chase, maybe some added motivation to try and knock those teams off? No, we ain't at that point yet. We're motivated to knock people out. We're still fighting to get to the playoffs. It's just a coach. It's the next game up. And we owe them. We owe them from the first time. So I don't think it's about playoffs or anything. They beat us last game bad and we owe them this game. How much do you think this week you could get back in the hot at Biden's? Every week is valuable. We got to stack wins now. Now it's a crucial time for us to stack wins. Yeah, you can sit here and say, yeah, we should win out seven games in a row. X, Y, and Z, we want that, but we want to stack wins. We want more wins than losses these last seven, eight games. You brought up the car. How long you had it? Two years. You bring it with you from San Fran and Jacksonville or just Jacksonville? Jacksonville, yeah. You see Jeff chase Bryce Jones from sidelines to sidelines and stay on the field. I mean, is that just leading by example? Because I didn't know how he was even going to get down into stance on the next play. That's great. We just saw that play. The outside linebacker was just watching it. It's just amazing. I mean, that's what we preach.  He's a pro. Effort is what we teach and what we preach over here.  And if you don't, then you want to be a Titan. And I think he's just the best. The best item to look at if you want to be a Titan. You look at Jefferson. You obviously had a previous relationship with Rand. And I would imagine he played a big role in you coming here. What were some of the things that stood out to you about him and made you want to get reunited here in Nashville? Just our relationships. Just our relationship in San Fran and how he operated over there in San Fran. Everybody speak highly of him. We had a relationship in San Fran. So it was just easy once he made the phone call, easy for me to pick up and say, what's up? How do you feel this organization has done as far as living up to the pitch that he and everyone else gave? It's been good. I think everybody has kept their word thus far. And I can't be more than happy to see it's not made. On the other side of the line of the screen, what do you see from the quarterback? Will and just how he kind of cares himself. Maybe some of the confidence that he brings. Boys, boys, boys quarterback. Will take a hit. Sitting there taking a hit. Can't deliver the ball anywhere on the field. Smart quarterback. And he's becoming a leader. He didn't want to break us down yesterday coming out for the game. He broke us down. Not Jeff, not the older guys that beat him as a rookie. And the things he said, he got us going. He definitely got us going. And he just, he brought it back to us. He said, in this other, we see a lot of dogs.  No matter what, everybody else saying or whatever. I see a lot of talent in this group. So let's go out there and play. Is that affecting that, Drusher?  You can see him get a little rattled. He's got a lot of escape. A guy like Will, who's willing to stand in there, take a hit, and he's unfazed by it. How does that affect you during a game? It'll be very annoying as an edge rusher. Hit in the quarterback. He don't show any type of emotions. It's been a time when he didn't got hit and looked at the guy. He looked, he, they hit him. So it's, it's one of those. He just got that, that mentality, that, a dog mentality. Is that all you got? I don't know. Maybe he's saying something or whatever, but it's one of those looks like you got to keep coming. On the other side of that, Arden, what's your feeling when you're right behind the quarterback and about to hit him from behind, and he clearly has no idea that you're right there? What's, what's that feeling like? The ball. The ball? Cause he don't, he don't, he don't see it. I'm on the right side, the blind spot. And then on the play-action type pass like it was, those routes are longer. The play is more developing on longer routes. So if he, he, he expects for, they hold up to be a little longer. And him not expecting it. It's a easy, easy, easy thing to get a sack from in those situations.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I miss something like that too though.  Two. I'll be biased if I say God for LSU. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Mike, nine rookies yesterday. How much is some of this youth maybe part of the penalty issues that have been going on, or is it just needing to, needing some guys to maybe clean up some things? Well, I guess you'd have to go through the penalties, and then I'd have to look and tell you whether they're a rookie or not. Okay. Are you seeing any common theme in some of the penalties? No, no. Jalen had a, you know, a fall start. You know, we had a couple of those. We had three of those. You know that hurt us, and we have to use Cadence as a weapon. You know, we're at home. Just as we have to be good on a silent count on the road, you know, we have to be able to use that as a weapon, especially on third down, whether that's to address some of the coverage or some of the pressure that may come, or even to get them to jump.    How do you think Jalen held up first start? Well, I think it was okay. I mean, I think that there were some good snaps. I think early, you know, he got powered and needs to replace his hands and, you know, he settled down and, you know, I thought he did a nice job and had some good snaps.  You know, would have liked to have a better block on the throw to Chig, you know, but Will made a great throw with pressure and Chig helped Will out, so that's kind of how it goes sometimes.  How about how much of the time did you leave him single-blocked in one-on-one situations yesterday, especially the pass probe?  What are the why's you guys are at home 24 points on the road, it's like 11. Is there anything that you could put your finger on to say, like, why is so different offensively? You know, I don't want to say, sit here and say that we've played good defenses, but I know that, you know, that's probably part of it. We have, I think, played good defenses. You look at the, you know, where the Saints were week one and, you know, I felt like that was a good defense and, you know, Pittsburgh on the road, you know, see the type of defense that they play and that's probably, you know, being realistic, you know, we know that we have to be better. We're focused on, you know, being better at home, because that's where our next game is. And then, you know, attacking those things and just the details and just how critical just a few things are when you're on the road and the noise and, you know, getting off on the snap count and all those different things that attribute to that. But right now our focus is, you know, preparing to win a division game at home. How real is that energy from the crowd that you guys experienced? Yeah, I mean, when we play hard and we play well and we play complimentary, I mean, I thought that there was, you know, great energy and I thought defensively the thing, you know, probably the most proud of and excited about was, you know, that we gave up some plays or we gave up a third down penalty or conversion or quarterback scramble and it came back and there was a long drive that had penalties on it that we held them to a field goal and then responded after the second half scoring drive and then kind of kept battling and we got the turnover and, you know, some really good opportunities and cool things in there. We just try to put it together for 60 minutes. Martin was talking about how meaningful it was for him to see Will break it down in the huddle before the game. When you see that or some of the other steps Will's taken to be a leader as a rookie. Just what does it mean to you to see him take those steps?  Because you have to chase this Bryce Young from sideline to sideline and then stays on the field to brush the passer the very next play. Is that something you show as kind of a teaching moment for your team with what the effort is all about? That's going to be, you know, I mean, that's one of them.  I thought, you know, we factored in the middle of the pocket yesterday and, you know, we'll have to continue to try to contain those, you know, those quarterbacks that can scramble. But, you know, Jeffrey works hard and is conditioning, works hard to play a lot of snaps for us and to to help us impact the game. What's the coaching, teaching been like with Chig, I guess, throughout the season as he's kind of tried to develop consistency and how much of hope, you know, yesterday is maybe give some a little bit of confidence to keep playing well. Well, I love, you know, I mean, I love Chig's energy, love what he can do. Continue to find ways to, you know, to get on the ball and some of the details and he did a very nice job of slipping out of there yesterday.  We just couldn't get the safety and, you know, so he's, again, fantastic to work with, fun to work with and, you know, we'll continue to find ways to have him help us in the run game and in the pass game.  That's the most important thing, whether you know, fake a pun or you'd go for it on fourth down and you convert it. You know, you gotta finish it off. In the last month, 3.5 yards of carry, 5.4 a catch, you kind of assess where he is right now compared to where he's been when he's kind of brought more explosive play. Yeah, I think that's just probably based on opportunity. We gotta, you know, continue to find ways to get him some opportunities and then, you know, it's 3rd and 12 late in the game. We try to flip a screen out to him, just, you know, take care of the football and, you know, 3rd and 5th, we're going to try to win the game. I think 3rd and 12, we're just trying to make sure that, you know, somebody doesn't, you know. So again, I think a lot of that's opportunity. So, you know, break the tackle there on the corner and get some yards. And we just, I think it's just about opportunity. He might tell him to get down, take a knee on that spike at the end of the half or is that just, is that how he's coached or that his instinct is to kind of... Yeah, just stop. You know what I mean? You're going to be off the line of scrimmage and, you know, save your legs and not worry about running down there. You're legal. Just, you know, again, I thought that was very well executed. I'm, you know, excited that we were able to put that on tape and for everybody, for the defense to get a stop, for us to go down there offensively and get the ball out of bounds and, you know, they took, they called timeout, changed the defense. You know, we were able to get Nick down to the 35. Everybody was running. Brew got the ball, got the spot. You know, Taje just figured might as well just stop and be legal and not worry about anything else. So, I thought that was a very impressive play. Mike, there's nothing better than game reps for rookies. How do you feel like Will's done so far through five weeks in regards to taking what he learned from one Sunday into the following week? Well, I think he continues to improve. I think there's some snaps. I think we, you know, decisions and being able to see some things that come open or pop.  I thought that, you know, got us going early there with Hop and, you know, the patients there to wait him out and the accuracy. You know, just making sure that we're not putting the ball in harm's way. You know, a couple of layered throws. I'd like to see a better, you know, better football to Taj. You know, we can't leave that much air underneath it and put him in harm and put the ball in harm. Can you talk about complementary football? Ryan still has said it at the record last year, but has he been consistently better this year with where he places the ball and specifically kind of a short yardage inside the tent? I think his ability to mix it up, I think he's worked on more pitches, you know, some different pitches.  So, you know, I thought special teams was a little closer to what we expect. It wasn't perfect. That was a good unit. You know, they were averaging 34 yards of kickoff return. We know late in the season the ball's going to be in play. So that was something that was a focal point. You know, we were pretty good on our punt coverage. I was excited about the return that we had, unfortunately.  You know, we thought we had a little bit more space. We had had the one kickoff return, but, you know, the other one, we just, you know, weren't quite good enough. I just, I thought special teams-wise, that was more along the lines of what we were looking like covering kickoffs for most of the day. Five penalties in the secondary yesterday. Were you seeing common threads? Is it more of a technique thing that you're seeing or how do you evaluate that? You can't grab the guy or, you know, I mean at the top of the route and grab him. There was some good examples of guys being square, but you also, you know, you can't grab him.  Was that the Fulton one? What's that? Was that the Fulton one? No, probably the one SMB went on, Dylan, but two-step process. I don't know if he looked back and saw the ball get thrown over here, I'm not sure. You guys can take care of that. Which the Fulton one, no, he was there hugging the tight end. If you can take care of business with the Colts this weekend, do you feel like that gets you back in the fight or is it still too early to say that? Yeah, we're looking to fight every week. I just, that's, you know, I don't, I think for us to look that far in advance, it doesn't, you know, we got to focus on this week. We got to focus on health here, recovery, improvement, you know, these little details, these techniques that I know that we can be better at, that we have to. You feel like you can put the same offensive line on the field for two weeks in a row after this week? And how much of an advancement is that for you guys to be able to do that? You know, again, I haven't met with Todd.   You impressed how he just continues to just... Yeah, a lot of pride, I get a lot of respect for D'Nico.  You know, got a lot of respect for him. It means a lot to him. So, enjoy coaching him, enjoy being around him, and, you know, certainly factored yesterday. It was a large part of our, you know, performance. How's the inside linebacker rotation there with Gibbons and Rice? How's that? Is that predetermined which guys are going to play which series, or is it just kind of a feel thing as you go through the game? I mean, I think it's trying to be predetermined and give them, you know, a couple of series, each half, whether that be for Gibby or Aziz and kind of rotate through and, you know, then kind of see where it goes. I don't know what the word is. Frustrating, I guess first three drives, second half you start off with kind of a big chunk play and we're unable to capitalize on it. Frustrating, disappointing, I guess, there.  Yeah, I mean, that's what's frustrating. You hit a 20-some yard gain, hit a 15-yarder and then, you know, third and three fall start or just, you know, don't have very effective plays following that up. Like, it's got to be, okay, on to the next one, let's get into a drive, let's get into a rhythm, great drive starter. And then just not stall. Don't worry about one week at a time, but how much can you point to, I guess, last year and how much the division changed from this point kind of on to show your guys that there is still a lot of football in front of you and a lot of things that can change?  And then that kind of takes care of everything else and the motivation should be high to win and continue to improve. Did you get the chance to talk to Frank much yesterday? I know you probably hate it anytime a head coach loses a job but just kind of an example of, so you need to win in this league to keep your job? Yeah, I talked to Frank, you know, I've known Frank for a few years, got a lot of respect for him. You know, I think every situation is different. I don't know, you know, why the decision was made. They made a decision, but, you know, a lot of respect for Frank who he is as a person and who he is as a football coach and, you know, it's, you know, we know what we signed up for. Middle Tennessee, we've gone from Greek stocks though today after 18 years.  Is he a guy you got to know well at all?  So, you know, hopefully, you know, we'll see him more going forward and based on where he goes on his next job but it's always welcome here to come and watch practice. Wasn't Nick and Arden, when they were up here, use the exact phrase, we owe them meaning the colts for them? Is that just kind of a consensus within the locker room? Was that a message you gave them yesterday or this morning? And can you tap into that at all this week as you prepare? No, I don't think I can remember saying that we owe them.  So, yeah, I mean, I don't see there being anything owed. Like, they beat us. We didn't make enough plays. They, you know, played better than we did that day.  And I'm confident that, you know, we'll be ready and we'll be prepared and we'll play hard. And protocol. Are you hopeful that he can take another step in getting back on his feet? I'm hopeful for a lot of things, Jim, but I'll just wait, you know, and see whenever the player in this particular case trailing clears the protocol, then we'll practice with him. No different than if that was anybody else or hopeful that we get all our players back that aren't playing right now. So whatever that is, that's what it'll be. And that's all I can say just because of that's how you're supposed to operate within the protocol. Sean, come out of it. All right. Oh, yeah, I would, I would again, I want to reserve the full diagnosis until I've had a chance to talk to Todd, but everything coming out of that game last night or yesterday afternoon was positive as far as how he was able to make it through. Notice, notice you chatting with Trace Atkins before the game. You spent much time around him. You realize that big and you think he's a football fan? Well, I know he's a football fan. He is, he's a good man. Had a chance to meet him before. Good old deep voice.  So I didn't even dawn on me that he was singing the national anthem until I walked out there. So had a chance to catch up with him.