**On right guard Cesar Ruiz and injuries**:
"I think he's fine. We had a few guys that kind of got a little banged up, but we'll get the reports. We will see how it goes."
**On improving slow starts:**
"That's a great question. I don't have an answer to that one. For our whole team, just playing a little bit faster. We have to play faster. We have to open up the first quarter and play better. That will be something for us to learn, especially with a noon kickoff. You have to be ready to rock and roll. We will grow in that aspect."
**On adjusting to movement on the line:**
"I would say it is something we definitely have to evaluate, and we have to get better (with). Line movement exists in this league. It is a challenge. It is hard for offensive linemen. There was pressure for sure on one of them with the safety, but movement happens. We have to be able to respond to it. It's being all coordinated and being on the same page."
**On how much of the team's playbook is shown in preseason games:**
"We are obviously conscious of that. We want to give our guys an excellent opportunity to be successful. We don't want to shortchange them in any way. There's naturally some things we will continue to build throughout the regular season."
**On how he evaluates the quarterback battle while not showing everything in preseason games:**
"There are a few game management items that just come up that we may play out a situation a little differently if we saw it in a regular season game. For the most part, we are competing and playing ball. Schematically, there are a few items that maybe you don't do during the regular season or during the preseason that we do during the regular season, but I think these guys are going out there and competing."
**On seeing the two-minute drive unfold:**
"It was awesome. It was just a good example for our guys oftaking walkthroughs to practice to games and the stuff that goes into that because there's situations every single Sunday that sometimes you get one shot of during an August walkthrough. That's hopefully going to come up, and when we played out of a couple of those at the end and for those guys to be on the same page and to understand what play was coming, what the situation was and what would have to be the response based on the clock, I thought our guys just did an awesome job.
"Running game, I think, we just continue to feel like there's more out there. I think our play style is getting better. Our finish is getting better, but we have to get better en masse."
**On if the tie felt like a win for the team:**
"I felt like our guys just loved how we faced adversity and we met the challenge. I think there's a lot of energy, a lot of juice in our locker room. It felt like a win in many ways from the standpoint of how it ended. We were put in a challenging situation, fought ourselves back. The offense made some big time plays there to score. Defense had a great response. (Jonas) Sanker's pick was awesome. I wish we had one second so we could put Charlie (Smyth) out there, but you know, it didn't happen."
**On the crowd not appreciating punting on fourth down:**
"I'm going to get a few of those. Those are always those fun challenges—fourth down decision-making. It is what it is. Some of those you're going to love. Some you are going to have to bite the bullet, so to speak. I felt like our defense was playing really well. We were still in a one-score game, so we punted. They had a three-and-out, so that was good."
**On whether a punter battle played into the decision to punt:**
"No. No, it's all game circumstance."
**On if he called the game as if it were a regular season game:**
"There's just a couple. There's just a couple, but I think it's a really good exercise for all of us, especially those types of game situations – the timeouts, playing defense in four-minute mode, playing offense in two-minute. Our defense did an awesome job in the end, right on field goal range, because their field goal kicker just kicked a 70-yarder last week. We were playing in a really good, contested situation. Our guys did a really good job contesting the receivers and made a play."
**On the decision to make receiver Chris Olave active:**
"(Brandin) Cooks and Juwan (Johnson) played last week. Then, we had a plan of flip-flopping those guys with Rashid (Shaheed) and C.O. in this game just to get themselves acclimated back into a game instance. 8-12 plays, which puts them in a position to play for a little while as well. We will see how the third game plays out."
**On everyone seeing the field despite limited snap count:**
"I think it's good for any of these guys to get out there and play the game, no matter what the length is. We will try to do that with as many of them as we can, but we will see how this week progresses."
**On left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr.:**
"Kelvin's done a really nice job. When you add those two (preseason games) and a joint practice at the Rams, he has gotten some really good work now against three teams. Different schemes, different exposures- he just needs all of that. He just needs to keep responding in the right way. I think that's the beauty of the player he is. He's going to do a ton of really good things for us. When something doesn't go his way, he hops up, and he's ready to play the next day. We think he's heading in the right direction."
**On playing a preseason game at home:**
"This dome was awesome. The Caesars Superdome is home, and we got treated like that. It's going to be big time. It's going to take this entire community, our team, everyone, rallying together. It's got to be a place where it's a big-time opportunity for us to win at home and control this place."
**On the tackling performance:**
"I took a note on it. It felt like there were opportunities where it felt like when one guy missed a tackle, there were three or four in a couple of instances. Off a screen, they missed a couple of tackles there that turned into a big gain. Something we will have to keep an eye on."
**On missed tackle evaluations:**
"We will evaluate it. There's obviously a lot of fundamentals associated with it that we will continue to build and practice. We just have to harp on it."