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Press Pass | Luke Fortner: "We have the players in place." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: As you, guys feel and painted a vibrant picture. What
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  Speaker 1: what kind of pictures did you see that he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get across to you? Or what was his
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  Speaker 1: message to you guys, Coach Peterson? Uh, not a very
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  Speaker 1: good one. Uh. You know, he he came in and
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  Speaker 1: he was honest, and I told us, say, we're not
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  Speaker 1: where we want to be, and we have a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go, and collectively, we're gonna have to work,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every single day, every single week to get
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  Speaker 1: to that point. How tough was it to rewatch that
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  Speaker 1: game from yesterday? It was hard. It was really hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know. You saw a lot of great individual efforts
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of guys playing you know, really good football,
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  Speaker 1: but when it mattered, we couldn't come together and and
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  Speaker 1: finish it. So uh and that and that's what's about.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about you know, one guy playing great on
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  Speaker 1: certain plays or another guy playing great at certain plays.
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  Speaker 1: It's about all of us come together in critical situations
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  Speaker 1: and uh, finishing the game. You guys had gained the
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  Speaker 1: moment there in the early part of the second half,
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  Speaker 1: then the kickoff return. Did that just take a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of breath momentum whatever out of the sideline when
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  Speaker 1: that thing happened. Yeah, and I think it you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it took too much, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just like in the first half when you know,
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  Speaker 1: we missed a kick and and we we can't let that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dictate the game or you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: chances and we miss them and and then we let
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  Speaker 1: that dictate the rest of the game of oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: things aren't going our way, you know, And and that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a verse. That's football. You know, bad
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  Speaker 1: plays happened, bad things happen, And yesterday I felt like
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  Speaker 1: we you know, we didn't come together when those things happened. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of we lost our momentum. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know it needs to change. It needs to
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  Speaker 1: be different. Putting up the points that maybe you guys
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  Speaker 1: expected it would going into the season. How do you
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  Speaker 1: get the offense on the right track. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: you uh, you know, you come back and you reevaluate
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  Speaker 1: the process and look at the details and little things
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing. And like I said, we had you know,
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  Speaker 1: great plays here and there, and uh, critical situations we struggled.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, whether it's maybe more of a
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  Speaker 1: focus on that or more of a focus on the
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  Speaker 1: little details. Uh, you know, that's something we got to
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  Speaker 1: look at and evaluate this week and for the week's
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  Speaker 1: continuing on, maybe make it more frustrated known first and
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  Speaker 1: second down and gone so differently in the third down
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  Speaker 1: the season. Uh, yeah, it is. I mean, it's absolutely frustrating,
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  Speaker 1: and it's you know, something we continue to look at
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  Speaker 1: and work on, and you know, but it's great knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you know it's there. You know, we you can
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  Speaker 1: see flashes of how explosive and the potential of this
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  Speaker 1: offense and you see it there and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't work out. Didn't work out yesterday. I know
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  Speaker 1: anytime hasn't played right next to you, But how did
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of see his growth, you know, compared
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  Speaker 1: to maybe a week previous. Yeah, I mean he the
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  Speaker 1: ability to bounce back from a week like last week
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  Speaker 1: is is crucial. And he came out there ready to play,
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  Speaker 1: pumped up. He was you know, he's vocal and talk
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  Speaker 1: and everybody and uh, you know, encouraging everybody else. So
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  Speaker 1: it's incredible from a rookie. Does it take a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks for the offensive line to gel and settle in sometimes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think always. I think the whole offense
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  Speaker 1: in general. You know, there's things that happen in games
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  Speaker 1: that as hard as you try and simulate and practice, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's just things that happen. Anything can happen
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  Speaker 1: on a football play, and uh, you know, things tend
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  Speaker 1: to go wrong when you, uh, when you least want
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  Speaker 1: them to. And I think, uh, I think as those
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  Speaker 1: kings get worked out, and I think you saw the
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  Speaker 1: same thing last year, we'll continue to get better. City
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  Speaker 1: thinks guys are pressing to make plays instead of letting
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  Speaker 1: plays come to them. When you watch the film from
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks, do you see that? Is that
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  Speaker 1: evident to you guys when you're watching? I believe so.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think a big part of our problem
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  Speaker 1: is we're in our own way. And I think we
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  Speaker 1: all know and believe that, you know, we can be
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  Speaker 1: a really great offense, and I think we are trying
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  Speaker 1: so hard to to put that into action and to
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  Speaker 1: make that come true that if we would just go
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  Speaker 1: out play play how we know we can play, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we would be we'd be better off. An
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  Speaker 1: element of like, let's just say screw it and go
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  Speaker 1: play and not over absolutely. I think you know, last
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  Speaker 1: year and no one expects us have a good offense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we would would come out, we'd play relaxed. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go make plays just when they come to us.
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  Speaker 1: We're not gonna go looking for extra plays. We're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna go make plays happen, and they happen, and now
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  Speaker 1: you know we're we're saying we got to be a
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  Speaker 1: good offense. We've got to be a good offense. And
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  Speaker 1: we're all just push and push and pushing to make
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  Speaker 1: all these plays. And we have the players in place
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  Speaker 1: that it will, it will come to us, It will happen.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to let it in any way, more pointed,
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  Speaker 1: more agitated with you guys after yesterday's loss and any
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  Speaker 1: of the other previous losses you've dealt with, even the
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  Speaker 1: post game. I think anytime you drop two in a row, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely as a head coach, you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be looking at every little detail and
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  Speaker 1: trying to find out what the issue is. And I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, I can't recall last year, you know
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  Speaker 1: what it was after two two in a row, but
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  Speaker 1: one in a row. You know, the big messaging point
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  Speaker 1: after losing one is you can't let it turn into two,
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  Speaker 1: and we let it turn into two. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that was what you know, really upset him yesterday is
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  Speaker 1: we had these opportunities to bounce back and to respond
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't do. You think any of the outside noise,
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  Speaker 1: the outside expectations, creeped into the locker room, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: people are looking ahead thinking, oh, well, this team is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be this. Well, if they were, I hope
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  Speaker 1: they're not anymore because you know, clearly we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work to do. But I think I think
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  Speaker 1: anytime you play in this league, you you know, you
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  Speaker 1: hear things people talk about how great you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: and X y Z. And that's what we talked about
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  Speaker 1: pressing is people see that and think I have to go,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go make it happen, when in reality,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people are talking about it because you're a
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  Speaker 1: great player and because you know we have all the
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  Speaker 1: skill and talent and it'll just happen. Okay, Thanks, Thanks