I feel like we should just skip the basics and just get into a cheat code and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Amen. Cheat code to everything. Let me just open it. Let's go. So look, man, today in the black, well, first of all, welcome to the trap. Welcome to the trap market. Thank you for having me.   Who are doing it? That's a fact. You know what I'm saying? We need platforms like this that's going to highlight us doing good sometime. That's only right. And today, we got y'all in here, man. Cheat code. Appreciate you for having us. Can you feel me? I got all my side notes right here, man. First of all, we got Kway and Jehu right here. You know, they represent. He said, tell them where you from. I'm from the Washington metropolitan area in Northern Virginia, Maryland, the whole 495. So shout out to the DMV. Yeah, I'm from Ghana, West Africa. Yeah. Back home. Shout out to them. Shout out to all that cubs, though they don't even know yet. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The year of return is coming soon, you know what I mean? So that's what they're waiting on? I mean, nah, you don't got to wait on nothing. It's not the return of the year. They're like, look, I'm telling you. All the niggas coming back. Yeah, the year of return was actually last year.  It's one of the hottest places to be in December. Bro, we ought to put together. So they just have gangers just show up. That's a fact. That's the way it goes. Let's get right down to it, man. We'll get into all of that later on, man. Tell us about the cheat code. First of all, put us up on game. Man, some cheat code, man. Cheat code is so much. It's our brand. It's our company. It's our community. Shout out to all the cheaters out there. The cheat code out goes the software we developed that helps users know when to get in and out of stocks, crypto, forage, anything with a chart on it helps you know when to buy, when to sell. Because a lot of times, people don't know when to get in and out of a trade. So that's a software we developed called the Chico Algo. The Chico community is a community of 16,000 traders. Cheaters. Call them cheaters, you know what I mean? People who are looking to learn how to beat the market, you know what I mean, how to get the information with a community of like-minded people to support and help along the way. So you're saying y'all created an algorithm, right? That lets people know when to buy stocks, when to sell stocks, when to hold them. That sounds to do all three, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's crazy. So the main thing about it though is this, right? A lot of people look at it and they'll think it's like a magic pill, right? There is no magic pill to the market, you know? That's the bottom line, in fact, no matter, but there are ways to give yourself an advantage. When you look at hedge funds out there that got billions and trillions of dollars that are getting out the market and spending billions of dollars on tools to help them to stay and step ahead of you and everybody else in the market. So we developed a similar type of tool for the average person to be able to get them an advantage, right, but you still gotta learn. You know, it's not something you can just pop in and be like, oh, by itself, by itself, you gotta learn, you know what I mean? You gotta put in the work. How did y'all pull on this partnership? Man, crazy. I actually met this dude when I was still in my nine to five, no longer working my nine to five years. Never thought I'd see the day, neither. Never thought I'd see the day, neither. Man, we've been in a few business ventures together.  Shout out to Chico. You were making a ton of money, it still won't quit just yet. A ton of money is crazy. We pulled off, we used to, we had like a, like a home improvement, home improvement, but we also did commercial projects, all the damage, restoration, stuff like that.  I'm like, well, what are you, you know, why are you still working if we focus full time on this?  Yeah, it's just something about the nine to five, man.  Yeah, comfortable. It gets you comfortable.    Yeah, stock money. I made like, with $30,000 on the trade, I was like, man, let's go blow that shit, we just went to Miami, we just tweaked out. You gotta do that sometime, man.  You gotta blow some money sometime, man. That's what keeps the hustle spirit alive. Yeah, for sure. That's a fight, man. Yeah, so I met him through a different business venture and then we got together, he was one of my other friends actually brought him on because he's been known for, you know, being operationally, you know, business acumen type of thing, being able to put systems together and whatnot. Hold on one second, you know him for that? Yeah, in my local, in my local community, you know what I'm saying? So basically like, people, I never had a 95. I got locked up 18 to 21. I ain't even gonna listen to that last one. I'm just gonna stick to the fact that you said you ain't never had a job before. I can respect that. I've had a little hustle and stuff like that, like I came on 21, I couldn't really get a real good job that could cover what I needed. I had a son on the way a year after I came home. I was in construction at one point and it just wasn't working. So I started trading from the porta-potties. I was like, you know what, you know, once I started making more money from the porta-potties that I did on the job side, I was gone. And I rolled the bottle there as soon as I could. And so 21, I just went full time in the trading entrepreneurship. I'm 31 now, so it's been 10 years. So all my friends and people around in the circles, you know, in the community know me for like, always doing something, some business, some hustle doing something, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. So that's how we met, man.  You know what I'm saying? It's what we eat, breathe, sleep. Like 3 a.m., we up talking about, you know, this business is starting this. They're, you know, their management team, they just brought on this new CEO, CEO, et cetera, et cetera. So he just started talking, man. I'm somebody that's a sponge for information, you know what I'm saying? I went to school, always been math and science, very, you know, open-minded. So I listened to him and we had these conversations, man, he'd be like, man, he was talking about the stock market crashing. Like he was like, yo, there's all these financial indicators, all these economic indicators that the stock market is gonna crash soon. And this was before COVID, mind you, this was probably six months before COVID. And he was talking about it. I'm like, man, like, you know, like, yeah, I'm listening. I'm looking, I'm doing my research. I'm like, man, you're right. You know what I'm saying? Like the market is looking overextended and low and behold, someone had ended up putting like a hundred million dollar bet against the stock market at the time. And he was like, yo, look, you know, these institutional guys, they know something that, you know, us average people do not know. So I was like, man, we're paying attention to it. And low and behold COVID came and the stock market crashed like crazy, right? It's like 20% some crazy correction that they had in the market. And the person that put the hundred million dollar bet against the market was able to make like literally billions of dollars, like billions.   So I'm like, yo, I'm going to like, I'm like, yo, we need to literally force this man. I don't like a lot of talking, like to people. You know what I mean? Like I talked about like local group. He's an introvert. But I don't like the whole lot of it. So he was like, man, he's a super extrovert always talking to people. So he's like, man, he made this group, a DM group, like 60 people. It's the Grim DM. He was like, are you going to teach these people and stuff? So I just, you know, dancers went in, we host those zoom calls and stuff like that. And so for the longest time, we didn't even do it as it wasn't even a business and it was just doing it just cause we wanted to get the information out there. So it got to the point where 10 months later we had like, you know, one from 16 people, like two, 3000. And they were like, yo, we got to pay you because like we just been giving up so much for free all this time.  Like 12, 16 hours a day type thing on calls with different people. She called us born. Yeah. And that's how it all came about, man. It's crazy.  Like that's really thinking outside the box. Appreciate it man. Just making the information available. Cause that's the real wealth. That's the first step. You know what? It's funny you said that cause I always, I tell people like, you know, we talk about generational wealth, right? But generational wealth is not always money. It's not always buildings. It's really information. Information. Conversation rule in the nation. Exactly.  I'd rather know how to make it. People win the lottery all the time. People win the lottery all the time. The information like the knowledge to go get it. That's how you keep getting it. That's the real bad. Cause if you can get one, you can definitely. You can get two. The same, you can... That's exactly what's important. Exactly. Well he just said a word. Y'all can't count how many times man. Like I done got the bag, blown the bag, went back to zero and I started, I'm waiting for him. Like I tell the story too. When we in the crypto market in 2017, crypto went crazy. You know, a lot of people weren't even hip to crypto at that time. Right now everybody talking about crypto. Yeah. But at that time man, I went from like five grand to 250k in like four months trading crypto, right? One day the market crashed overnight. Yeah. And I was over leveraged, lost 220 grand in a single night and I was devastated. I was like, you know, even though I had 30 grand left, I'm like, I'm used to the 250. I'm like, yeah, I'm down to 30. And then from there it started to lose it all. Crazy. I had to go back and a lot of my real estate money was tied in there. A lot of things I was doing at the time had to go back to, I went all the way back to collecting scooters on the side of road. A lot of people don't even get scooters and charge them up. Rahe, I go pick up scooters in the van and go all the way back to that. You know, till I got a little bit enough to flip that into something and flip that back into the stock market. Because I had that skill set, it could rebuild. So it's all about the information once you got it, never leaves you. You know what I'm saying? That's real good. Well, look man, work hand, work hand. What's the question, Kat? Okay, wait, Elon Musk just sold about $3,000 for the Tesla stock.  Yeah, options. He was cleaning up, he was cleaning up some bread. Yeah, he was letting it go. He would let it go so he can buy it back cheaper. So man, so pretty much you got, you know, a lot of these corporate executives they have options, right? They get paid in options, things like that. Elon's must, his compensation plan is tied to performance of the stock and things of that nature, right? So what we've actually seen in the market right now is actually a record level of selling by corporate CEOs, right? They're selling shares at a record level right now because like I said, they always a step ahead, right? The market has had a tremendous run over this time. At some point you got to cash out. So what's happened is a lot of these CEOs are taking their chips off the table, right? You know what I'm saying? Improperation for who knows what. Just let it do what it do, right? You got the Federal Reserve right now that's about to kick up interest rates at some point, right? Because inflation's running rampant since COVID, interest rates been low, everybody money flowing freely et cetera, et cetera. They're about to turn that spigot off at some point, right? Or slow it down. So that's not always gonna bode so well for some corporate stocks. So a lot of times what you're seeing is these guys are selling all shares and things like that to lock in those profits and... Exactly. The whole thing with cash is a position type of thing, yeah. Just sitting on the sidelines, yeah. Man, it's just been so interesting that you know, COVID did happen.  Give us the game. We don't know what the market about. Tell me something, young man.  Like Tony Declose, all the people who are in the finance industry in there coming out with this information that we see exactly, exactly like shout out to Ernie Leeser and Wall Street Traffinology. It's like the information is becoming more available than I've seen it in my room, you know what I'm saying? And it's from the younger generation. Like black men, young, mid-30s and things of that nature. So it's like, it makes me always wonder what we could have been if somebody would have came and kicked a piece of that knowledge. It's crazy. You ever heard them say back in the day that they say, you know, you ever want to keep something from a black man put in the book? Right, right. That's no longer the case anymore, right?  Because we've always been hustlers. Like if you go back at any point in time during black history, we've always been hustlers. Yeah, but see, now that's turning to caveman talk, brother. The way that the world is moving right now, we're gonna have to read everything we ever been taught about some money was wrong at this point. And now that we finally touched a little bit, we gotta change the crypto currency. Yeah, man, we gotta, we gotta all over again. I can't imagine my grandmothers and girls and stuff. Baby, they want to set this Bitcoin, they gotta pay cash for the money. Yeah, nah, it's crazy, man. Listen, fuck, man. The way education is going is just, it's just a different vibe now, like, and we're not learning through, like, even like books as much anymore. It's social media, it's, you know, conversation on YouTube, the podcast is oratory.  That's the best way that we learn. Right. Coming back from Africa, it's like, you know, we tell stories by firesides. Like a lot of information is passed through generations, through stories, right? Which is sound and, you know, sound manipulation and things like that. So, I mean, today is just, the information is out there is accessible. You just said something, bro. You just said some good podcasts and it's like, it's like the new fireside chat, really, you said, you know, around the bonfire and stuff like that, talking and passing stories down from generation to generation. You know, this is really that new, new confidence. Now, if this is the story, it's like, okay, now if the information and the story we're gonna pass on to the next generation is financial literacy. Let me ask you this, like, coming from Ghana, what are some of the things you learned about money coming from a whole other country than coming here and then having to relearn this system? What are some of the things that you came with that stuck with you from your background? I would say one of the number one things, so coming back home, just to give you a little background, my mom was, you know, the head of like, we had like a little convenience store back home that was like our family house. Like, we owned that store and my mom would go out to get stuff and I'd be like the one in front of the store. Like, six years old, I was already doing transactions with grown men and people couldn't cheat me just because of the, you know, the background that we come from. Because they had a chico. Yeah, they had a chico. Yeah, but now it's crazy. It was just, I was always business-minded, you know. It was like, it was not an option.  You need to get it. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of like a jungle mentality, but from there to now, differences that I would say from there is just the fact that there's no such thing as credit. Other people's money, OPM doesn't exist back home. If you have to pay for rent, you pay the full 12 months upfront.  But if you come here, there's the opportunity of using other people's money to be able to finance different projects to a certain scale, which is crazy. And people don't even take advantage of it. We sit down and say, like when we have these conversations just comparing back home to here, it's just like coming from back home, like knowing the fact that I didn't have the opportunity, like certain features that you guys have here, it's just like, I see just opportunity, you know. Just straight up, I'm just like, the sky's the limit. There's no limits. There's no reason why it can't be Elon Musk. He's a human being just as much as we're human beings. You know what I mean? So it's just, there's just no cap to like, you know, just how high we can go and how, you know. It's just other people's money, man. I hope you heard that. Yeah. I hope you heard that. Thank you so much. People sitting around right now waiting on some opportunities.  Let them know what they can tune into your program, subscribe to your program, get it in that group message, all of that. How can they be a part of the cheat code, man? We got some 85% of us who I know about that paper and they want to get down with the cheaters, man. Yeah, for sure. So our Instagram is chico.tv. Chico C-H-E-A-T-C-O-D-E.tv. You could also check out our website, chico.us. And then my personal Instagram is therealjhu, therealj-e-h-u. And then you got Quay. Man, it's quay.trades, k-w-a-y.trades.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It got a lot of big profiles. Do it. I'm not a long DM you for no money. So all of it got a lot of fake pages on it. Why Instagram don't do something about that stuff, but. I don't know either.  Exactly. It's crazy. You could report these people all day long. Nothing. Nah, we got this. We got to get it.  Crazy. It's crazy. Nah, but yeah, man. I appreciate you guys having us, man. Definitely. Hey, man, it's your first time over here, but it definitely won't be the last, man. I wish you brothers much success with the cheat code. For sure. I'm going to definitely hit you and see what I can investigate and when to buy and when to sell, because that's just too good of an opportunity to pass. Yeah. Each one teach one is our motto. Yeah, nah, we all about that, so. Exactly. And one thing we always got along that same model thinking, man, anytime we teach something to somebody or encourage anybody who does have something valuable to share with somebody, teach the next man. Even if it's your niece, your nephew, cousin, brother, whatever it may be, because that's the only way we get about the situation of economic situation we're in as a community, as a culture, you know what I mean? Right. So I'm going to get us out of there. Yeah, let's go.  Let's go. When I get my paper, everybody street. The whole community.  We need a hero out here. Y'all need something to believe in. That's a fact, man. I keep telling people, you know, it's like, if you ever imagined Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos working together, that's what we got going on right now. And people just don't know, but they don't know. That's right. Yeah, they don't know.  Well, look, like I said, much love and success to you, brothers. Don't let this be the last time you ever stop to do it. For sure, for sure. Y'all came through and dropped the cheat code on me. The black market's still open, man. Let's take a picture right quick, man. So there's no put this one in the history books. Yeah.


The idea that creativity should come easily to those who go on to do great things discourages many would-be careers from pursuing their endeavors since they don't immediately have the attention span or skills to do great work. This thought neglects that many of the skills you need to be highly creative take an immense amount of practice. Much like exercise or weight training, creative skills need to be used regularly and built upon continuously to be able to be used proficiently. Nearly every part of creativity takes practice that eventually gets you in shape to create easily and effectively. In this video I wanna discuss how to look at your different creative muscles and how you can build them so you can become an amazing creator. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon and this is Muse Formation. Musician message boards are littered with questions of how long a session should be or how long it takes to write a song or do a mix but the actual way you should see this is dependent on where you are and you need to work your way up to having muscles where when a song takes 12 hours you can handle it or when one only needs two hours to develop you can tell that's all it needs. If you listen to interviews with the greats in music they talk about how some songs take forever and some are fast birds. You can only know this if you've built up creative muscles that can handle the long arduous processes so you know when to say when and when a song is done. If you watch a recent pitchfork interview of Phineas talking about how him and Billy Eilish built the biggest record of the year you hear them discussing the many muscles they had built up to work on these tracks tirelessly but they also knew when they were done if they didn't need as much work as one that they labored over for 40 hours at a time. They learned so much about emotional iteration in building their songs and it obviously paid off but let's talk about the different creative muscles you need to build. The first one is time. As we were just saying time is a crucial muscle to build. When I first started working in a recording studio doing a six hour session felt like an eternity. Within a year I could do a 14 hour day with no problem. 15 years later sustaining an 18 hour day isn't hard for me as long as I don't do too many in a row. Expecting to jump into 10 hour days in the studio without losing your attention span or getting exhausted is unrealistic. Most of us need to build up stamina for long days of creation. Now let's talk about your artistic attention span. This is one of the most under discussed muscles. It's the ability to even be able to keep track of making multiple great songs at once. So many artists wanna jump into making a full length but they haven't even yet learned how to put enough great ideas into one song. It takes a totally different artistic attention span to keep track of how 12 songs relate to each other other than two. Crafting an album is often best grown by releasing singles which can be wildly different from one another while you find out who you are and figure out your sound. And once you know your personality you can work up to making an EP that fits together and then on up to an LP once you know your artistic attention span can handle it. If you underestimate this just think of how many artists have tons of filler or songs that sound too alike to make a good LP. Yet you like a few songs that you will put on a playlist but you don't wanna listen to their whole album. You don't wanna be that artist. So don't underestimate that this is a muscle that needs to be built up. Now let's talk about arrangements. Most musicians start out learning simple three chord pop songs building up to the ability to remember long complex melodies. To get good at complex arrangements you need to first learn the basics and then continually move outside them until you have a large understanding of how it works. Don't expect bohemian rhapsody to come out of you before you've learned basket case. Now let's talk about building up your comparative skills. One of the biggest parts of songwriting and production is comparing things. There is a certain listening skills for comparisons and even learning how to listen is essential. Producer Eric Valentine has a video on this that is solid gold. But by continuously comparing things you learn the different creative options you have and what feels emotionally right to you and which ones you can avoid. Incorporate comparisons into your daily routine so you can continually get a command on understanding the difference between the tools you have and what you should be using to get your objectives and the emotions you wanna express. Commitment's another undervalued muscle. Committing to decisions is a practice that takes time. At first musicians are uneasy about commitment in case they need to revisit an element of a song. In time as you become confident the decisions you make are right becomes progressively easier to commit. Commitment is essential to good songwriting since your mind feels mass confusion and fatigue if decisions haven't been made. Keeping virtual instruments open and constantly tweaking their details doesn't allow you to focus on a mix. If you listen to interviews with nearly every huge producer they talk about this commitment so they can focus on each phase of the project from demo to production to mixing and mastering and they all require different commitments so your brain can give the attention span it needs to each part of the process. Which brings us nicely to our next muscle which is ego depletion. This unfortunately named term is the idea that every time you navigate through a creative crossroad throughout your day you get more exhausted. Dr. Roy Baumeister discovered this in a study where he stated, your finite willpower becomes depleted with each decision you have to make in each unfamiliar interaction you have to have. This relates to creativity in that every person only has so many decisions they can make without taking a break before they make poor decisions or give up on making good decisions and just make a decision for progress sake. Building up your resistance to ego depletion not only takes time by going through the creative practice but it also takes strategy. By committing to production choices like we just talked about and utilizing templates you spend less time making decisions which frees your brain to sustain its creative fuel. Many life hackers take this to the extreme where they'll have the same breakfast every day to save their brains for making more pressing decisions. While this example is excessive the practice of ridding your life of pensive decisions before creating can help you use your creative power as effectively as possible. Making decisions during pre-production instead of long studio days can make the process of deep reconsideration in the studio more effective. The next muscle we have is criticism. It's hard to hear criticism at first and it's another muscle you need to build. Some artists need a filter at first by having a friend read them reviews to find what's useful and not malicious. In time they can grow to hear that not all of this criticism is valid but calling everyone haters is the opposite of the way to grow. Instead take it at the beginning to build a muscle towards the how to process all the criticism you hear. Our next muscle is diligence. Trusting your instincts and learning to elaborate on your ideas takes practice for everyone. When the going gets hard, you can't give up. Can you imagine how Queen felt halfway through laring the vocals for Bohemian Rhapsody? The vocals were recorded for 10 to 12 hours a day for three weeks straight. But without this exhaustive dedication we wouldn't have one of the most ambitious songs in music. Now you'll probably never go through that arduous process but understand that emotional impact is achieved by focusing diligently on the details. While I often talk about you need to trust your gut to develop songs, at times you can't even hear your gut. New Age hippies talk all day about being present. But it's a real thing. If you're distracted texting on your phone thinking about adult world responsibilities or anything other than your song you'll miss your gut alerting you to problems. When I began to produce records I had a hard time focusing and self misdiagnosed myself as having ADD. The truth was I had to get used to listening intently by exercising a muscle to get better at evaluating creative judgments. In time I had no trouble focusing while learning to trust my lack of comfort when an element of a song felt wrong. The more you can focus the more you'll be able to be alerted to gut impulses that can help actualize your vision of a song. Keep pushing all these different creative muscles like they are a different part of the body that you need to exercise and push them a little bit more each day. One of the best happens when I was learning record production is I wouldn't allow myself to call it a day unless I messed with a tool or a plug and I'd never used before. These days when I do my to-do list for each day I try to put it in something that I'm not familiar with I've never done before so I keep building my skills each day and learn to work these creative muscles out so they don't atrophy. That's it, am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I wanna answer them so leave them in the comments. I hope you liked this video and if you did please like and subscribe and get notified for my future videos since I'm gonna be breaking down the concepts in this video along with tons of others on promoting your music and how to make music you're more happy with. As well, I have a Facebook group that's linked below that has only helpful information. No one tried to sell you anything, playlist or con artist, only helpful information for musicians looking to be better themselves. If you wanna learn more about me make a record with me or check out any of my books, podcasts or anything else I do head to jessicanon.com or at jessicanon.com on any of the socials. Thanks for watching. One last thing, if you liked this video there's two playlists here with tons more videos that you'll probably enjoy. One's about how you promote your music and the other's about how you make songs you're happy with.  Thanks so much for watching.


After Derek ran for 195 yards against the Ravens back in January, they tried to bulk up their defense. Right now, Brandon Williams is hurt, Clay is Campbell's on IR. Does the way they're playing defense though, does that really matter when they're missing those kind of pieces to have to try to run on them? It's excellent defense. Turnover machines, it's impressive to watch those guys play. Really good on the edges. They've got guys that they rotate. They run different personnel packages. Linebackers are young and fast and active. DVs are very involved in run support. Humphries is forced four fumbles. Peters three, this is a very opportunistic defense that looks for the football and does a great job of separating it from running backs and receivers. So whoever is in their tree sets is going to be a huge challenge for us to be able to move the football and we'll have to have excellent week of preparation. Jim? Mike, I know you're kind of a last year's, last year type of guy, but do you appoint to this time last year as a time, hey, this is when we hit our stride, we can do it again and look at positivity there? Sure. I mean, I think we, how you play one week or how you play one year doesn't guarantee how you're going to play the next, we all understand that.  You can see that in the standings. It's that type of time of year in the National Football League that teams are going to go in different directions and we're going to have to find a way to play better and start by doing that this week against the Ravens and seeing if we can't string some good weeks together. Tron? Yeah, good morning, Coach. When you guys go against the Ravens with the Maher, it truly makes 11 on 11 football. What kind of stress, not stress, but how does that impact what you have to do on defense? Well, I think that you prepare for option football with alignments and assignments and obviously, you know, run to the football in the way that you, you know, tackle. But it's not all option football.  You know, the Maher is a huge part of what they do. So they're just, they're very good at running football and they use, you know, the quarterback as a large piece of that having 90 carries. Now, some of those are scrambles in play extension, but, you know, it just comes down to alignment and assignment and obviously, you know, the execution. And then last year, when you guys faced them, it seemed like there was a focus on kind of condensing the field and reducing the space that he had to operate. Is that something that you've seen teams continue to do this year to slow that offense down? I mean, I think that the more space that you give to the good players and athletes in this league, the tougher it is to tackle them.  So it's easier said than done.  Thank you. John. Mike, I wondered if you could talk about the decision on the punter yesterday to wave Ryan and keep Trevor, at least on the practice squad there. In making that decision, how much do you, you know, consider practice in that? And how much do you consider game performance in that? Yeah, we've touched on a lot of the punter conversation, John. I know that that was something that we talked about. Practice is critical, you know, game performance, obviously something charting hang time and those types of things. And, you know, we'll see if we can, you know, where Ryan's at and his availability to, you know, to potentially return to the practice squad. You know, we believe by watching practice and what those guys have done. We made the decision on the roster and, you know, I know that one punts, you know, we're not going to define Trevor. We believe in him, you know, believe in his leg and the way that he swung it. And we're going to have to protect better. So we'll move on to this week and have a great week of practice. Good. And sticking with the kicking theme, just wondering what your thoughts have been so far on Tavecchio. I know he's a guy who hadn't kicked in the league for a couple of years. What have you seen from him so far in practice? Just continue to try to improve and be ready if we were to make a decision. You know, everybody that's on our roster where they practice squad or active roster should prepare like they're going to play in the football game all the way up until, you know, an hour and a half before, you know, or in practice squad's case, 24 hours before. So that's what he's done and will continue to do. Thank you. Eric. Hey, Mike, with a few full weeks of practice now for Isaiah Wilson, where is he in his progression and I guess how close is he to being active on a game day? Continue to work, continue to develop. Some of those practices, you know, those days are kind of misleading, Eric, because of the turnaround time that we had or, you know, jog through practice. So, you know, today will be a critical day for a lot of people.  So, you know, we'll see where he is and as we work our way through the week and try and make decisions on his availability for the game. Paul. Mike, how have you guys done with disguise and late movement defensively this year, do you think? And in recent weeks? I think we've done enough of anything defensively. When you lose, you know, you're not doing anything good enough. You're not stopping the run well enough. You're not rushing good enough and you're not covering good enough. So, I would imagine that like a lot of other things, it could be better, everything could be better. Is that still something that you aim to be a core thing for you guys in terms of confusing a quarterback and an offense near the snap? Sure, I mean, that would be something that would, you know, be able to help everybody.  And, you know, there were times in the game where it wasn't good enough or we made mistakes in doing that. So, there's a balance there by making sure that you're in a position to do your job, that you're aligned correctly. But, you know, not letting disguise override your assignment. Terry? Mike, obviously it's important to try and get a lead, but with the way the Ravens are built offensively, is it even more important to play from ahead if you can in this game? Because it seemed to work out well last year for you when you got up 14-nothing. Sure, you know, I mean, they start fast. This is, you know, a subpoena. You know, plays with a lot of speed. They're turning the ball over. They're capitalizing. You know, they're leading their football games 143 to 83 in the first half. So, they're building, you know, a substantial lead by the average. And that allows them to play to their strengths when football and pressure the quarterback, pressure them into mistakes, interceptions, sacks, long yard situation. Jim? Mike, you guys activate Sonor's period today. Pretty crowded that position with Jeremy and Deontay. Of course, Derek and then Darrington on designated for return. What are you going to be looking for here over the course of the next week and maybe the next couple of weeks as that position kind of settles down? Looking for the guys that can help us win. You know, guys that can reverse the goal and know their job, that can play on fourth down and protect when they're asked to protect a lot of those types of things, Jim. And as far as crowd, I mean, going back to no fans on Sunday, you've dealt with that during the course of the season. Will it be any more challenging now if you've had fans in the stands or you just approach it like you always have? Just imagine that we approach it like we always have and hope that we play well and we can understand the keys and how to execute them.


One from another from Gary in the PDF realm to round out our quick tips here. He says, although it is no longer possible to use save as PDF in the preview app via the print dialogue to remove a password from a protected PDF in Monterey. The option is grayed out. It still works in Safari. So open your PDF in Safari and print and save it from there and it will be stripped of its password. I always I get my my tax returns from my accountant and he always puts in password in the PDF because you know it's got. I mean, it's not only our social security numbers but lots of private information. I totally get it. What I do not want though is in four years to have to go digging through whatever files I have to figure out what that password on that PDF is. So I always strip passwords out and this is going to be a handy way to do it. So thank you for that, Gary. I appreciate it. I had lost my ability to do that.