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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been an area that we've kind of struggled
- 0:07Speaker 1: in all season. Um, you know, we we kind of
- 0:12Speaker 1: pride ourselves. I'm trying to get touchdowns, you know, and
- 0:14Speaker 1: once we get into the red zone. But it's something
- 0:16Speaker 1: we have to as a staff. We really have to
- 0:18Speaker 1: take a look at and make sure that we are
- 0:20Speaker 1: you know, putting our players in situations there and plays
- 0:23Speaker 1: that you know that they can be successful in. And um,
- 0:28Speaker 1: you know, we just it's it's got to be a
- 0:30Speaker 1: collective effort, you know, the coaches, players offensively, just you know,
- 0:35Speaker 1: making that conscious effort to get better. I wasn't turned
- 0:40Speaker 1: and make the decision there, Uh any second, no, because
- 0:49Speaker 1: it's first in goal. Um, and you know it's it's
- 0:54Speaker 1: a it's a relatively safe play if it's not there,
- 0:57Speaker 1: just you know, and and Trevor knows this. Just just
- 0:59Speaker 1: throw the ball, Just sail the ball and you've got
- 1:01Speaker 1: you've got you know, two to three more downs to
- 1:04Speaker 1: do whatever you want to do there. Um just uh,
- 1:08Speaker 1: you know I can I can definitely do it better,
- 1:11Speaker 1: you know, play call obviously, but at the same time,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you know, um, defensively, um, as they packed the box,
- 1:18Speaker 1: just trying to get you know, kind of one on
- 1:20Speaker 1: one with Christian and and Trevor. Really, um, they did
- 1:23Speaker 1: a nice job of taking that away. So we just
- 1:25Speaker 1: gotta learn from it, you know, throw the ball away
- 1:28Speaker 1: live to place second down and and take our chance
- 1:30Speaker 1: that way. Was that an interception you early reminiscent of
- 1:34Speaker 1: the one against the Texans where you wanted them to
- 1:36Speaker 1: make the similar decision to throw it out of the
- 1:38Speaker 1: back of the end zone. Um? Yeah, how do you
- 1:42Speaker 1: can coach out those mistakes? You just keep coaching it.
- 1:45Speaker 1: You just keep showing them, and you just keep teaching.
- 1:48Speaker 1: That's that's that's why we you know, as coaches, um,
- 1:53Speaker 1: you know, do what we do, you know, and and
- 1:56Speaker 1: and we we've we've got to continue to teach and
- 1:59Speaker 1: and just show Trevor and and a lot of the
- 2:02Speaker 1: lot of the players just you know, those those situations,
- 2:06Speaker 1: you know, and those are always the critical ones that
- 2:09Speaker 1: um seem to raise their head, you know, in in
- 2:12Speaker 1: games like this when it comes down to a one
- 2:14Speaker 1: score game. You know, it's just it's unfortunate. But you know,
- 2:18Speaker 1: we've we've got to we've got to be smart. And
- 2:21Speaker 1: I think both coaches and players collectively in those in
- 2:25Speaker 1: those situations. It keeps coming down school one score game.
- 2:28Speaker 1: How does the team overcome bout? How do they get
- 2:31Speaker 1: beyond losing that one school again? I tell you what,
- 2:34Speaker 1: my hat's off to that. Those guys in the dress room,
- 2:36Speaker 1: they battle their tales off. You know. It's we just
- 2:42Speaker 1: keep plugging. We just keep plugging away, and we keep
- 2:44Speaker 1: we keep practicing, and we keep learning, and we keep teaching,
- 2:47Speaker 1: and and we keep scratching and fighting, and um, you know,
- 2:51Speaker 1: I truly believe that good things are gonna happen for
- 2:53Speaker 1: this football team. Um. You know, we're sitting here after
- 2:56Speaker 1: eight games, not where we want to be obviously. Um,
- 3:00Speaker 1: but you know, to every man in there, Um, nobody's
- 3:03Speaker 1: gonna hang their head. You know, nobody's gonna feel sorry
- 3:05Speaker 1: for us. Nobody's gonna you know, we're not gonna make excuses. Um,
- 3:10Speaker 1: we just gotta continue to work. Coach, Now you've experienced
- 3:16Speaker 1: a London game as Jackson coach. Despite the result of what,
- 3:19Speaker 1: do you think the future of the franchise can hold
- 3:23Speaker 1: over here? Well, they're they're obviously well respected here, you know,
- 3:27Speaker 1: and and I believe Shot our owner does a great
- 3:30Speaker 1: job of marketing and and um, A lot of Jags
- 3:33Speaker 1: fans over here, and it was great to see today.
- 3:35Speaker 1: And you know it's just, uh, I think it's just
- 3:37Speaker 1: a relationship that we continue to to build off, you know,
- 3:40Speaker 1: each and every year, and and um, you know, enjoy
- 3:43Speaker 1: coming over here, and uh, I just wish it were
- 3:46Speaker 1: a better result. Big game from Travis e TM today.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Was that what you expected from? Yes? Would you like
- 3:54Speaker 1: to see more of that from number one? How much
- 3:57Speaker 1: more of that can you get from number one? A lot?
- 4:00Speaker 1: Get another one? Sure, I keep going. You know, he
- 4:06Speaker 1: played listen, he played He played great today, he played tough,
- 4:09Speaker 1: he played physical. Um, he's a good football player. And
- 4:13Speaker 1: and again we just gotta continue to find ways to
- 4:16Speaker 1: get the ball in his hand. Yeah. Overall offensively got
- 4:23Speaker 1: some big plays at the end. Yeah, you know, we
- 4:27Speaker 1: started the game extremely well and and uh um, you know,
- 4:32Speaker 1: just we gotta turn over early and and uh just
- 4:36Speaker 1: got after the quarterback a little bit there and and
- 4:38Speaker 1: then and then you know, it's just listen, it's a
- 4:40Speaker 1: it's a sixty minute football game, and we've got to
- 4:42Speaker 1: continue to you know, play for sixty minutes and and
- 4:45Speaker 1: and keep you know, keep the pressure on. And I
- 4:48Speaker 1: thought I thought the d line did a nice job,
- 4:51Speaker 1: you know, when they need to get a pass rush.
- 4:53Speaker 1: They got the pass rush there and that was good
- 4:55Speaker 1: to see today. And again we just we needed to
- 4:58Speaker 1: find a stop at the end, you know. And and um,
- 5:02Speaker 1: you know again as coaches, we look at those situations
- 5:04Speaker 1: and did we do our part too, you know, to
- 5:07Speaker 1: put our players in position to make those places. You've
- 5:12Speaker 1: reached patients since before the years started, was these were
- 5:15Speaker 1: these the kind of close games that you anticipated going
- 5:18Speaker 1: into the season, when you started saying, you know, maybe patient,
- 5:21Speaker 1: it's a young team, there will be growing bands, I
- 5:24Speaker 1: think so. Um, you know, these are obviously these last
- 5:28Speaker 1: couple of weeks are tough, you know, tough to take, um,
- 5:33Speaker 1: especially as hard as the guy's work and play. Um,
- 5:38Speaker 1: you know, and and and what I'm proud of the
- 5:42Speaker 1: guys are they're they're playing for sixty minutes right there,
- 5:45Speaker 1: playing to the end. Honestly, if if there's nobody likes
- 5:49Speaker 1: to lose, right I mean, that's just that's the nature
- 5:51Speaker 1: of the game. But if I had to pick, I'd
- 5:55Speaker 1: rather pick these types of games than blowout games where
- 5:59Speaker 1: you lose. Um. I think you learn more in losses
- 6:02Speaker 1: like this. Um as a team where we are with
- 6:06Speaker 1: the culture of our team. UM, then then you would
- 6:10Speaker 1: in a blowout loss and you know, um, my hat's
- 6:15Speaker 1: off to the guys. You know, nobody's nobody's gonna like
- 6:18Speaker 1: I said, nobody's gonna hang their heads. You know, we
- 6:21Speaker 1: just gotta keep fighting. When you see your guys fight
- 6:23Speaker 1: until the very end like that, does that give you
- 6:26Speaker 1: the hope that it'll start paying off in the long one?
- 6:29Speaker 1: You can see? I do, Yeah, I do. I believe that.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I believe that we keep we keep fighting and keep
- 6:33Speaker 1: working the way they're working good things. We'll we'll pay
- 6:36Speaker 1: off eventually. You know. We're just looking for that one, um,
- 6:40Speaker 1: to get it, to get it kind of started, and
- 6:41Speaker 1: then we just build off of that. So, UM, it's
- 6:45Speaker 1: kind of where we are. Do What events did you
- 6:49Speaker 1: say to Trevor uh? Either after the person more, I mean, listen,
- 6:54Speaker 1: you know we still have a lot of a lot
- 6:56Speaker 1: of trust and a lot of faith in him. Uh
- 6:58Speaker 1: And and we're just gonna continue to grow. We're gonna
- 7:00Speaker 1: grow together, you know. And and I just told him
- 7:03Speaker 1: to keep his head up, stay confident. Um, I want
- 7:06Speaker 1: to put the ball back in his hands. And and
- 7:08Speaker 1: and just show show the trust that we have, that
- 7:11Speaker 1: I have in him and that the team has, and um,
- 7:15Speaker 1: you know he knows that, uh you know, we we've
- 7:17Speaker 1: we've got to got to be better in in in
- 7:20Speaker 1: a few situations. But um, those are just again, those
- 7:24Speaker 1: are those are really good learning opportunities for for Trevor. Okay,
- 7:30Speaker 1: interest all right,