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- 0:00Speaker 1: Stakes were obviously so big today. What you see in
- 0:03Speaker 1: terms of toughness and focus out of your team, Yeah,
- 0:05Speaker 1: I think our guys, you know, took took control of
- 0:09Speaker 1: the moment. I guess you could say in terms of
- 0:11Speaker 1: understanding that, Yeah, this was a big game in a
- 0:14Speaker 1: lot of ways, and I think our guys have responded
- 0:18Speaker 1: in so many ways in these big games.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Right.
- 0:21Speaker 1: You look at obviously at Kansas City San Francisco, some
- 0:24Speaker 1: of those moments where you know, I think they ultimately
- 0:28Speaker 1: always kind of feel disrespected, and that's something that continues
- 0:32Speaker 1: to feed our team.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Well, I in your first year, you've won a lot
- 0:36Speaker 3: of different ways. But what's it been like the last
- 0:39Speaker 3: two weeks there against a visional opponent to get out
- 0:42Speaker 3: early and you know, increase the lead, but be able
- 0:46Speaker 3: to hang on to that league. What's have been like
- 0:47Speaker 3: the last two weeks?
- 0:48Speaker 1: Yeah, starting fast was something we didn't really do it
- 0:51Speaker 1: a great job of at times this season, and I
- 0:55Speaker 1: think we've done a better job of executing early in
- 0:59Speaker 1: games and also taking the momentum and using it like
- 1:03Speaker 1: actually coming and playing complimentary football. And our defense did
- 1:08Speaker 1: an unbelievable job again creating turnovers and then we were
- 1:11Speaker 1: able to take advantage of them. So I think this
- 1:14Speaker 1: team is continuing to gain confidence, especially our quarterback right now,
- 1:19Speaker 1: and that's that's something that ultimately is going to continue
- 1:22Speaker 1: to hopefully lead us.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Trevor had a lot of success throwing downfield today. Just
- 1:26Speaker 4: what did you see from him? And how Bacon unlocking
- 1:28Speaker 4: that part of the offense really be for.
- 1:29Speaker 1: You guys, huge, huge, when you can attack. You know,
- 1:32Speaker 1: every blade of grass is something that ultimately we want
- 1:35Speaker 1: to be able to do and to get BTJ going
- 1:38Speaker 1: down the field vertically. Some great throws and catches from
- 1:41Speaker 1: those guys. Tim Patrick made a few big plays down
- 1:45Speaker 1: the field as well. You know, that's a huge part
- 1:48Speaker 1: of this game is being able to stretch people vertically.
- 1:52Speaker 1: So much of our past game has been a little
- 1:54Speaker 1: bit more intermediate and trying to create more zones and
- 1:58Speaker 1: catch and run and to make these guys just made
- 2:01Speaker 1: plays today in a lot of ways, like those weren't
- 2:04Speaker 1: phenomenally schemed up plays. Those are our players going out
- 2:07Speaker 1: and being special.
- 2:09Speaker 4: And then just seeing Travis E ten and what he
- 2:11Speaker 4: was able to do in the run game. How important
- 2:13Speaker 4: was that today?
- 2:14Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge In those kind of games you've
- 2:16Speaker 1: you've got to be able to grind out some clock,
- 2:19Speaker 1: continue to have balance. The huge turnover that we got
- 2:22Speaker 1: and then we hit the twenty eight or whatever it
- 2:24Speaker 1: was yard run. You know, create being explosive in the
- 2:28Speaker 1: run game in some points, but also grinding out some
- 2:31Speaker 1: of those hard physical runs. You know, that's that's got
- 2:35Speaker 1: to be a recipe for our success as we move forward.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Liam Trevor's confidence in those deep balls that just doesn't
- 2:41Speaker 2: happen overnight. Is that product of maybe some of their
- 2:45Speaker 2: way they're playing defense, the way you guys are running
- 2:46Speaker 2: the ball, or is it him like you finally got
- 2:49Speaker 2: into him let it go man.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've we have worked pretty hard, I
- 2:54Speaker 1: would say, and throughout the whole season in practice, watching
- 2:59Speaker 1: tape and really trying to detail and get more reps
- 3:03Speaker 1: at throwing the ball down the field. We've we've been
- 3:07Speaker 1: pretty diligent about every Wednesday in our Mamba, you know,
- 3:11Speaker 1: going and throwing the ball. Just let's throw a go ball.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Let's just keep throwing it down the field a little bit.
- 3:18Speaker 1: And then again this Thursday we try to do the
- 3:20Speaker 1: same thing with him and BT on the first play
- 3:22Speaker 1: of Mamba again. So we've tried, We've worked at it.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Credit these guys for sticking with it and continuing to
- 3:29Speaker 1: have confidence in each other, right in each other to
- 3:31Speaker 1: go make plays. So, you know, I think that us
- 3:35Speaker 1: being able to run it may have helped in some
- 3:37Speaker 1: of those, but really a few of those were just
- 3:39Speaker 1: like those guys going out and making huge plays.
- 3:43Speaker 3: When do you have a team that feeds on disrespect,
- 3:46Speaker 3: how do you does that continue to go when maybe
- 3:48Speaker 3: the respect starts to come, which might be where you.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Are will ever really get it? So that's the beauty
- 3:53Speaker 1: of it. I ain't coming. You know that it's not
- 3:55Speaker 1: so and that's the beauty of it. And that's totally fine.
- 3:59Speaker 1: And you know, it's one of those things that I
- 4:02Speaker 1: think the group right now. Houston was good for us.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I do believe that, you know, the end of Houston
- 4:09Speaker 1: was good for us. And to know that each game
- 4:12Speaker 1: is going to be a sixty minute football game in
- 4:13Speaker 1: our mindset, mentality has to be that way. And when
- 4:17Speaker 1: you get into December and you're going to go play
- 4:20Speaker 1: some really difficult games on the schedule coming up, and
- 4:23Speaker 1: everyone counts. Trevor just said it. Everyone is exactly the
- 4:26Speaker 1: same right now, moving forward for us and very proud
- 4:29Speaker 1: of these guys getting the nine wins, but a lot
- 4:32Speaker 1: of work to be done.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Sounds like you don't honestly want the respect to come.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it helps, you know. I mean
- 4:38Speaker 1: they've heard the rat poison before, you know. I mean,
- 4:40Speaker 1: everybody loves you when you're doing it well, and then
- 4:43Speaker 1: you know you're always going to find something. You know,
- 4:45Speaker 1: that's the competitive advantage that you have. Every player has
- 4:50Speaker 1: to get themselves into a place, right. You always hear
- 4:52Speaker 1: the stories about Jordan and how he would create things
- 4:55Speaker 1: to get himself into a place to go compete. So
- 4:59Speaker 1: our guys just keep finding ways to get a little
- 5:02Speaker 1: bit picked, you know, pissed off, and go play their
- 5:05Speaker 1: tails off and execute though at a higher level. And
- 5:08Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that we're starting to see
- 5:10Speaker 1: a little bit better since the Chargers game, is you know,
- 5:14Speaker 1: playing with an edge, but also going out and executing
- 5:18Speaker 1: the plan at a higher level.
- 5:21Speaker 3: I apologize for bringing up last year, but when you
- 5:24Speaker 3: watch the film, you saw the complete lack of complementary football.
- 5:28Speaker 3: You mentioned it a moment ago. I mean, to get
- 5:29Speaker 3: those takeaways and then turn right around one play later
- 5:32Speaker 3: score and again get points off of takeaways. How important
- 5:36Speaker 3: that is to this stand.
- 5:37Speaker 1: It's so big. I mean, it's one of the biggest
- 5:39Speaker 1: aspects of Campi's defense that I've appreciated from day one was,
- 5:45Speaker 1: you know, we want to stop the run and limit
- 5:48Speaker 1: the run, and we want to try to take the
- 5:50Speaker 1: ball away. And now those were two things that we
- 5:54Speaker 1: really tried to emphasize from the moment that we got
- 5:56Speaker 1: here together as a staff. They did a phenomenal job
- 6:00Speaker 1: all throughout OTA's Mini camp training camp, uh really preaching
- 6:05Speaker 1: the ball disruption and to continue to be able to
- 6:09Speaker 1: uh you know, punch hammer rake, be opportunistic the zone
- 6:13Speaker 1: coverage drops. We've worked so much at and to see
- 6:17Speaker 1: some of those come to fruition is is exactly why
- 6:20Speaker 1: you coach. It's you know, you typically get what you
- 6:22Speaker 1: emphasize in this league.
- 6:25Speaker 3: M hm.
- 6:26Speaker 4: How impressed were you by Trayvon Walker just being able
- 6:29Speaker 4: to go out there after what he's been through with
- 6:31Speaker 4: the knee injury, gets that fourth down stop. Just how
- 6:34Speaker 4: impressed it was that?
- 6:35Speaker 1: Very proud of Trayvon. You know, he's I know, he's
- 6:38Speaker 1: been chomping at the bit to get back out there
- 6:42Speaker 1: and go put go put it on tape, and and
- 6:44Speaker 1: that's what he's been trying to go do and he's
- 6:47Speaker 1: stayed consistent. He worked his tail off from a rehab
- 6:50Speaker 1: standpoint and was able to go out there and make
- 6:53Speaker 1: a difference for us today. He's somebody that we lean
- 6:56Speaker 1: on heavily. We count on him to go out and
- 6:58Speaker 1: make plays for us, and I was very proud of
- 7:01Speaker 1: him today.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Fiddling up Jonathan Taylor for most of the game. Just
- 7:04Speaker 4: what does that say about your guys?
- 7:06Speaker 2: Defense?
- 7:07Speaker 1: Defense? Yeah, it's it's the number one pillar of our defense.
- 7:11Speaker 1: And and and that's that standard has to continue to
- 7:14Speaker 1: remain the theme and uh, just keeping the standards high
- 7:18Speaker 1: of that. That's the kind of football team that we
- 7:21Speaker 1: would like to be. That's the kind of football team
- 7:22Speaker 1: that we are right now. Is having the ability to
- 7:25Speaker 1: go stop the run and whether it's in single high
- 7:28Speaker 1: or too high. You guys know that helps you more
- 7:31Speaker 1: than anything when you're able to do both. So credit
- 7:33Speaker 1: the defense can't be the staff, but the players going
- 7:37Speaker 1: out and executing the plan. And really it comes down
- 7:39Speaker 1: to whooping blocks. Like you know, you can call a
- 7:42Speaker 1: million different plays and calls, but our guys have a
- 7:45Speaker 1: mindset mentality did not stay blocked, and that's the critical thing, right,
- 7:50Speaker 1: Thanks