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Will Matthews and David Gbenda's exclusive interview · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to some of the conversations that we've
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  Speaker 1: had this week that our man Will Matthews sideline reported
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  Speaker 1: for Long Worn Football is next how we're going to
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  Speaker 1: hear his conversation with Jayden Blue, the Long Orn's running back.
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  Speaker 1: But he also had a chance to sit down with
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys. And when we've joked about this,
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  Speaker 1: David ben and I have joked about this about him
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  Speaker 1: being what the old school term was for guys who
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  Speaker 1: were seniors, fifth year seniors, or in his case, a
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  Speaker 1: sixty year senior old heads. And he said, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that. I've heard that old head is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: But he is a very wise young man and a
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  Speaker 1: big part of this Long Warn football team. And Will
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  Speaker 1: Matthews had a chance to visit with David Benda.
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  Speaker 2: It's only an l if you don't learn from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that the defense and of course the
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  Speaker 2: offense learned. Talk about adversity and why are you guys
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  Speaker 2: so able to handle it versus the the way that
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  Speaker 2: you are.
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  Speaker 3: I would just say, honestly, we're a team that loves
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  Speaker 3: each other, and we're a team that's very talented and
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  Speaker 3: talent and love means just guys who are gonna take
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  Speaker 3: that talent, but they're gonna take that talent and push
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  Speaker 3: it past the point of just what they're talk what
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  Speaker 3: they're used to, and just trying to make sure they
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  Speaker 3: apply effort to do whatever it takes to win. And
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  Speaker 3: I feel like one thing that I learned about our
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  Speaker 3: team is that we we love each other a lot
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  Speaker 3: and we will.
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  Speaker 4: Do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 3: Because to be able to do what we did and
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  Speaker 3: have the situation we were in and come back into
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  Speaker 3: half and be as close as it was, I would
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  Speaker 3: just say I learned that, Okay, obviously we didn't perform
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  Speaker 3: to our best as a holistic football team, but we
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  Speaker 3: love each other and when.
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  Speaker 4: We put it all together, we're gonna be We're a.
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  Speaker 3: Dang good football team, you know. And that's just something
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  Speaker 3: I love about it. From top to bottom, everyone understood
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  Speaker 3: that we didn't play our best, and even the younger guys,
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  Speaker 3: like just seeing them and trying to build them up
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  Speaker 3: and then let them understand that, yeah, I know it hurts,
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  Speaker 3: but we just gotta bounce back. It just helped me
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  Speaker 3: to know that we're gonna be really good down the stretch,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna help.
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  Speaker 2: Us win games, and it can be difficult in the
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  Speaker 2: sense of everybody loves you when you win, and then
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  Speaker 2: you lose, everybody thinks everything is the world's ending. But
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  Speaker 2: we all know it's not talk about how how you
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  Speaker 2: move forward from this because it's not over.
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  Speaker 4: It's not over man.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we're a very talented team and we
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  Speaker 3: care about each other, and we understand that this is
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  Speaker 3: the same situation situation we were in last year with
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  Speaker 3: losing the OU, But we understand that every game from
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  Speaker 3: now on council. But at the same time, we're very
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  Speaker 3: talented and we have a lot still left in the
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  Speaker 3: season and nothing's set in stone, So I understand that
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  Speaker 3: with this week, we got to understand that vnder bilts
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  Speaker 3: a lot of team that's gonna just take us lightly.
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  Speaker 3: They are our team that's well versed in upsets and
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  Speaker 3: taking on big headed teams, and like as then you
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  Speaker 3: saw the Alabama game, I really know what they're about.
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  Speaker 3: So with us, we just got to hone in on
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  Speaker 3: the little details that helped us to win and understand
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  Speaker 3: our Obviously, we got to learn from the past mistakes
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  Speaker 3: that we had clean up those mistakes, and obviously understand
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  Speaker 3: the little nuances and details that are going to help
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  Speaker 3: us to be Vanderbilt. So I'll just say it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of learning and a lot of just
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  Speaker 3: grinding and just coming even closer than ever.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. We gotta you just got
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  Speaker 4: to understand the.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously everyone around us is taking this loss bigger than
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  Speaker 3: it needs to be.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: We all we got, we all we need, and the
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  Speaker 3: people in the field understand that whatever we gotta do,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta do it and just win.
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  Speaker 4: I guess Vnderbolt and taking when we get a time.
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  Speaker 5: When you're looking in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: After after something like that, what how do you encourage yourself?
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  Speaker 2: And also like even you know you you guys, the
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  Speaker 2: way you have rotated in there's just long ago files
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  Speaker 2: on the field more everybody's doing, everybody's got their different role,
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  Speaker 2: and you still come out and bring out what seven
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  Speaker 2: tackles from this last game to tell us about that,
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  Speaker 2: like the culture that you have inside of that side,
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  Speaker 2: that linebacker room and just the next man up kind
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  Speaker 2: of I would.
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  Speaker 3: Just say, man, the linebacker room is a talented room,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also one big, happy family, you know, what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, it doesn't matter who's in, who's ever's in
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  Speaker 3: is going to be able to do whatever they need
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  Speaker 3: to do. And that's the thing about us. It's not
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  Speaker 3: about the rep count. It's about making your reps count.
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  Speaker 3: So that's how we all look at it as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: And we understand that regardless of the the regardless of
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  Speaker 3: our production, we didn't come out with a win. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the stat that sticks out to us the most, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: And all the guys we have in the they're well
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  Speaker 3: versed in whatever role we have because we are on
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  Speaker 3: the lot, we're involved in special teams and some guys
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  Speaker 3: are involved in a lot of that as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's just i'd say, one big family.
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  Speaker 3: But we also understood that there's a lot more that
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  Speaker 3: we could have done to help win this game, and
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  Speaker 3: just cause more place that could have just helped us, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: So putting that one aside and getting ready. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Vandy's got like you said, they upset Central. They're they're
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  Speaker 2: looking for that kind of thing. But even that, I
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  Speaker 2: know how you guys are looking internally on yourselves. Keeping
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  Speaker 2: the main thing, the main thing walking into this week,
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  Speaker 2: what should we expect from the long Wards man, we.
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  Speaker 3: Should expect just the holistic football team.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm so I'm hoping, That's why I'm gearing
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  Speaker 3: towards and just understanding that we're going to expect the
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  Speaker 3: hungry your team because we understand that what we put out,
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  Speaker 3: the product we put out.
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  Speaker 4: Last week wasn't the best.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't us at a standard, and we got to
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, the standards the standard.
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  Speaker 4: So expect the standard.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, expect the standard.
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