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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's going on you when you look back at your
- 0:03Speaker 1: uh obviously annoying reaction Sunday, how much of that is
- 0:10Speaker 1: knowing that this next next game is almost feels like
- 0:14Speaker 1: a like a day of reckoning for your program.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Ooh uh, what do you mean by that?
- 0:22Speaker 1: The importance of this game is is hyped far and
- 0:25Speaker 1: more now because of being only two as opposed to
- 0:27Speaker 1: one and one or.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Or two or zero. I mean, I think they're They're
- 0:30Speaker 2: all important. I think that's what's frustrating is the first
- 0:33Speaker 2: two were important, and you know, offensively, we didn't play
- 0:37Speaker 2: up to our standard and didn't play the way that
- 0:40Speaker 2: I know we can play. So I think that's where
- 0:42Speaker 2: the frustration was from. More more so not looking ahead
- 0:45Speaker 2: to the next week. You know, each each game each
- 0:48Speaker 2: week has enough worries of its own. You focus on
- 0:50Speaker 2: the one right in front of you. So I think
- 0:52Speaker 2: more just obviously disappointed in the result on Sunday. You
- 0:55Speaker 2: come in here, though, we've had a couple of days
- 0:56Speaker 2: to let it marinate, let it breathe, and move move on,
- 0:59Speaker 2: and we're ready to go attack Buffalo. And yeah, it's
- 1:01Speaker 2: an important game. This is a good team, this is
- 1:04Speaker 2: a team you look at the last handful of years,
- 1:06Speaker 2: is always one of the better teams in the AFC
- 1:08Speaker 2: and in the NFL, and you know, that's that's a
- 1:11Speaker 2: team we want to be moving forward, and we want
- 1:14Speaker 2: to when people think of the Jaggs, you know, think
- 1:16Speaker 2: of a team that is one of the best teams
- 1:17Speaker 2: in the NFL, that is a top contender in the AFC.
- 1:19Speaker 2: So we understand the matchup and the team that we're
- 1:22Speaker 2: playing and what it's gonna take to beat a really
- 1:24Speaker 2: good team in Buffalo. So you know, we're looking forward
- 1:27Speaker 2: to the opportunity, but we're not making it more than
- 1:28Speaker 2: what it is. I mean, every game is important, and
- 1:30Speaker 2: you know we have to just attack every week. Like
- 1:32Speaker 2: we've said before, follow up.
- 1:36Speaker 1: The teammates reaction on Tuesdays seem to be very positive
- 1:39Speaker 1: to you being as agitated as you were, because they
- 1:43Speaker 1: feel like that's not something they see out of you
- 1:46Speaker 1: all that often. But they I'm just warning is that
- 1:49Speaker 1: the reaction that you've gotten that is, you know, the
- 1:53Speaker 1: feeling that you're kind of they're kind of glad that
- 1:55Speaker 1: you did it because they kind of feel like they
- 1:57Speaker 1: need some sort of.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Jolt of some sort. Yeah, look, I think there are
- 2:01Speaker 2: our teams responded great to not just you know, what
- 2:05Speaker 2: I had to say after the game, and just things
- 2:06Speaker 2: that we've talked about in here, you know, whether it
- 2:09Speaker 2: was over there after the game or in the next
- 2:11Speaker 2: few days over here when we're just going through the
- 2:13Speaker 2: tape and just talking about kind of things that we
- 2:16Speaker 2: need to do, things that we need to address, and
- 2:18Speaker 2: really moving forward. How do we move forward? How do
- 2:21Speaker 2: we get better from it instead of just you know,
- 2:24Speaker 2: being pissed off about the result, likely how do we
- 2:26Speaker 2: use it to actually learn from it and get better.
- 2:28Speaker 2: So I think we had some great conversations. The team's
- 2:31Speaker 2: done a great job. But we're together. We're tight. I
- 2:34Speaker 2: think that's the biggest thing that you can't lose, and
- 2:36Speaker 2: we haven't lost that at all. You know, we got
- 2:38Speaker 2: a really close team and it's important. But yeah, I think,
- 2:41Speaker 2: of course we got a we had a mature team
- 2:43Speaker 2: that's going to respond well to things like that or
- 2:46Speaker 2: to you know, whether it's myself or Coach Peterson or
- 2:48Speaker 2: Josh or Foyer or Evan, whoever says something speaks up,
- 2:52Speaker 2: guys are going to respect it. You know, we have
- 2:54Speaker 2: a really tight locker room. So no, no, surprise to
- 2:57Speaker 2: me there, but you know, we know we have to
- 3:00Speaker 2: do this week, so we got the right The right
- 3:01Speaker 2: mindset you want flush.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Games is after you review them and then move forward.
- 3:06Speaker 1: But is there a downside to being this like all week?
- 3:10Speaker 2: Not just you, just in general. I mean, yeah, it's
- 3:13Speaker 2: not fun being pissed and wanted to get back out there.
- 3:16Speaker 2: I think that's the that's one of the worst parts
- 3:19Speaker 2: about losing, especially when you when you don't play well
- 3:22Speaker 2: on offense or individually or whatever it may be. When
- 3:24Speaker 2: you just have when you had a bad day like
- 3:25Speaker 2: we did Sunday, it's like you want to get back
- 3:29Speaker 2: out there and write the ship and go corrected, and
- 3:32Speaker 2: you wish you could play sooner. Obviously physically you want
- 3:35Speaker 2: to recover and you got to get your body back,
- 3:37Speaker 2: but as far as just for your mindset, it's like
- 3:39Speaker 2: you want to go out there and and make those
- 3:41Speaker 2: plays that you missed or you know, correct the mistakes
- 3:43Speaker 2: that are easily correctable that you're kind of irritated about
- 3:47Speaker 2: whatever it is, you want to get back out there
- 3:49Speaker 2: and do it right. So from that standpoint, that is
- 3:52Speaker 2: kind of that feeling of urgency, and that's why practice
- 3:55Speaker 2: is great. You know, we get we get a chance
- 3:56Speaker 2: to get back out there today and you know, not
- 3:58Speaker 2: necessarily correct the stuff we did because we've move gone
- 4:00Speaker 2: to Buffalo, but get a chance to move around, get
- 4:03Speaker 2: going again, get our offense going, getting a groove, all
- 4:06Speaker 2: those things. It's fun to just get back out there
- 4:07Speaker 2: and flush it. I think that's the best way is
- 4:09Speaker 2: to get out on the field and start rolling and
- 4:11Speaker 2: pracing again.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Something was your first game without Evans since he's gotten here,
- 4:15Speaker 3: do you guys miss when he's on the field, and
- 4:17Speaker 3: then how do you see Brenton kind of respond?
- 4:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, of course, Evan is a huge part
- 4:22Speaker 2: of our offense, our team. You know, he brings a
- 4:24Speaker 2: lot of energy and leadership too, you know, not even
- 4:27Speaker 2: talking about just football, but just his mindset and the
- 4:30Speaker 2: way he is in the huddle on the sidelines, very intense.
- 4:34Speaker 2: So you're missing a big piece of your offense. But
- 4:36Speaker 2: you know, great teams figure out a way to to
- 4:39Speaker 2: you know, next man up to step up and make
- 4:41Speaker 2: the plays, which Britain did a great job of that.
- 4:42Speaker 2: I was, you know, I was proud of the way
- 4:43Speaker 2: you respond. I'm not surprised, you know, I think he's been,
- 4:46Speaker 2: He's been working in the dark for a while and
- 4:48Speaker 2: he finally had an opportunity. Obviously, it's unfortunate the way
- 4:51Speaker 2: it comes about, with Evan getting deemed before the game,
- 4:53Speaker 2: but either way, he's he stepped up and made the
- 4:56Speaker 2: plays when his number was called, and you know, I
- 4:58Speaker 2: had a lot of trust in them. Nothing nothing really
- 5:01Speaker 2: dropped off as far as my trust in that position.
- 5:03Speaker 2: And you know, if a play, if he's a guy
- 5:06Speaker 2: that's open, I'm gonna get to him and I'm gona
- 5:07Speaker 2: trust him to go win as one on ones all
- 5:08Speaker 2: those things, and you saw him do that in the game.
- 5:10Speaker 2: So that was really encouraging, not surprising, but definitely cool
- 5:13Speaker 2: to see a guy step up, especially such late. Notice
- 5:16Speaker 2: I mean it's not like he's getting ready for the game,
- 5:18Speaker 2: thinking all right, I'm you know, I'm in Evan spot
- 5:21Speaker 2: and I'm getting this these targets and these looks, and
- 5:23Speaker 2: you never know how game's gonna go anyways, but at
- 5:25Speaker 2: least usually you have time to prepare for that. I mean,
- 5:27Speaker 2: it was right before the game he had to, you know,
- 5:29Speaker 2: kind of shift his mindset of he plays a lot already,
- 5:32Speaker 2: but now he's got a different role. So I was.
- 5:34Speaker 2: It was cool to see him play well and respond
- 5:36Speaker 2: that way. And Doug said on Sunday he thought going
- 5:39Speaker 2: tempo kind of help the offense get going a little bit.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Just from your perspective, what is going up tempo kind
- 5:44Speaker 2: of helping offense? Yeah, I think it's good. You know,
- 5:47Speaker 2: I think it's it's good to to get and stay
- 5:50Speaker 2: in a rhythm. You know, if you if you start
- 5:51Speaker 2: kind of rolling on offense and you hit a couple
- 5:53Speaker 2: of plays, it's always nice getting on the ball and
- 5:55Speaker 2: going and attacking the defense. You feel like you get
- 5:57Speaker 2: them on their heels a little bit, because that's hard.
- 6:00Speaker 2: You're playing a defense and they're used to you huddle
- 6:02Speaker 2: in every play. They can huddle, they can get set,
- 6:04Speaker 2: they can get their call. You'd have to line. You're
- 6:06Speaker 2: snapping it with less than ten seconds every time on
- 6:09Speaker 2: the clock, and it's just that same repetitive rhythm. But
- 6:11Speaker 2: then when a team goes up tempo, it changes for
- 6:14Speaker 2: the defense and they have to get their calls in faster.
- 6:16Speaker 2: A lot of times it simplifies defensive calls because you
- 6:20Speaker 2: got to play fast. You can't try to do all
- 6:22Speaker 2: these funky coverages and pressures and whatever. Because the ball's
- 6:25Speaker 2: about to be snapped and you got to communicate that
- 6:26Speaker 2: across the board. So a lot of times you'll see
- 6:29Speaker 2: defenses kind of simplify it. And you know, there's some
- 6:32Speaker 2: defenses that are better than others at playing against tempo.
- 6:35Speaker 2: And you look at a team like Buffalo, I think,
- 6:38Speaker 2: I actually think they're pretty good at it because their
- 6:40Speaker 2: offense does a good amount of it, and you know,
- 6:43Speaker 2: they've been running the same scheme for a long time,
- 6:45Speaker 2: so they can get in and out of calls pretty quickly.
- 6:47Speaker 2: So it depends on the week who you're playing. I'm
- 6:50Speaker 2: not saying that's gonna affect our game plan of what
- 6:51Speaker 2: we're gonna do or not gonna do, but a lot
- 6:54Speaker 2: goes into it. But I think tempo's great. I've always
- 6:56Speaker 2: loved that really my whole time playing. I've been a
- 6:58Speaker 2: fan of it. Talked about in the offense this offseason
- 7:01Speaker 2: and I guess it's kind of a similar question to
- 7:04Speaker 2: last week for you.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Where do you think you need to take the next
- 7:08Speaker 1: step so you guys.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Can get back on track. Yeah, I think, uh, you know,
- 7:13Speaker 2: for me, just going back to the last game, I
- 7:16Speaker 2: thought I didn't play, I didn't play great early. You know,
- 7:18Speaker 2: I missed a couple of throws early in the game
- 7:21Speaker 2: on third down that I need to make to keep
- 7:23Speaker 2: us on the field, to keep our defense off the
- 7:24Speaker 2: field and just get into a rhythm, you know, And
- 7:28Speaker 2: I think that was a big piece of it. And
- 7:30Speaker 2: just consistency, Like I've been saying, you know, I think
- 7:32Speaker 2: that there's things that there's things in my game that
- 7:35Speaker 2: I'm doing well right now that I wanted to do
- 7:36Speaker 2: well this season that I made an emphasis, and there's
- 7:38Speaker 2: some other parts where I still need still need to work,
- 7:40Speaker 2: you know, consistency on some footwork stuff, some timing, just
- 7:44Speaker 2: my eyes on certain plays, you know, not getting too
- 7:47Speaker 2: fast or too far ahead of some some plays or progressions.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I think there's a few things definitely to work on.
- 7:53Speaker 2: But you know, I think it's the same messages message
- 7:57Speaker 2: for myself as it is for the whole offense and
- 7:59Speaker 2: our team is just a couple of little things, but
- 8:01Speaker 2: you got to do them and you got to be consistent,
- 8:02Speaker 2: and those the little things get you beat. So I
- 8:04Speaker 2: think that that's the emphasis, is just the details and
- 8:06Speaker 2: the consistency and doing the right thing every play is
- 8:09Speaker 2: gonna be. It's not gonna be perfect, it's gonna be mistakes,
- 8:11Speaker 2: but really putting an emphasis on those little details and
- 8:15Speaker 2: because they matter and they show up in games. You
- 8:18Speaker 2: know this week? Yeah, for sure. You know he's one
- 8:22Speaker 2: of our best players, and obviously we have a lot
- 8:24Speaker 2: of chemistry and we've played a lot together and he's
- 8:27Speaker 2: a guy I trust a lot, and you know, you're
- 8:29Speaker 2: exactly right. Got to get him going this week. And
- 8:31Speaker 2: I got a lot of a lot of trust and
- 8:33Speaker 2: trust and faith that it will get going this week.
- 8:35Speaker 2: And you're not really concerned about that. I know it'll
- 8:38Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. So you know, we got to keep
- 8:41Speaker 2: keep trusting the system and keep putting the best plan
- 8:44Speaker 2: we can together. But of course he has to be
- 8:46Speaker 2: an emphasis and just the way he impacts the game.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Gotta get him the ball and gotta get him in
- 8:50Speaker 2: a rhythm.
- 8:51Speaker 3: You mentioned the positive is the ball security in the
- 8:53Speaker 3: pocket something you can pretty get about that.
- 8:55Speaker 2: You definitely, Yeah, I had the one. I had the
- 8:58Speaker 2: one uh last week, which you know I can do
- 9:01Speaker 2: better on. Some of those are tough when you feel
- 9:03Speaker 2: like you're about to you're about to get rid of it,
- 9:05Speaker 2: and then you don't see the guy. Some of those
- 9:06Speaker 2: are hard, but I think for the most part that's
- 9:09Speaker 2: been a big improvement. I've kept two hands in the
- 9:11Speaker 2: ball when I'm escaping, when I'm stepping up, when the
- 9:14Speaker 2: pocket's money and I can see it and I know
- 9:15Speaker 2: the issues, I feel like I've done a much better job,
- 9:18Speaker 2: you know, like the one in the game for when
- 9:20Speaker 2: the pocket is kind of closing in behind. You just
- 9:22Speaker 2: learn from that and sometimes just eat it, tuck it,
- 9:25Speaker 2: run it. Just get it tucked sooner, you know, especially
- 9:28Speaker 2: when you're playing a guy like Miles Garrett. You know
- 9:29Speaker 2: he's really good player. So but yeah, that's been an
- 9:32Speaker 2: improvement for sure.
- 9:33Speaker 3: And the Rock add the numbers up, sublame him. But
- 9:35Speaker 3: it's been three hundred almost three hundred days since you
- 9:38Speaker 3: want to start a longer person. You went from your
- 9:41Speaker 3: final clumpson game to at first win in London, I guess,
- 9:46Speaker 3: But does it feel like it's been forever since you
- 9:48Speaker 3: want to start?
- 9:52Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a while, you know, I was I
- 9:54Speaker 2: haven't thought about it that way because we won here
- 9:56Speaker 2: against Carolina. I didn't play, so that was towards the
- 9:58Speaker 2: end of the season, so kind of broke which yeah, yeah,
- 10:03Speaker 2: but uh, so I mean not, that's not something I've
- 10:06Speaker 2: been thinking about. I mean, obviously I separate the seasons.
- 10:09Speaker 2: I don't I don't think about the two seasons running together.
- 10:12Speaker 2: And I know we've lost our first two this year
- 10:14Speaker 2: and that's really what matters. So we gotta get on
- 10:18Speaker 2: the right on the on the right page here and
- 10:20Speaker 2: getting the win column. So we know what we have
- 10:22Speaker 2: to do this week, and it's a big opportunity. But
- 10:24Speaker 2: definitely want to get I want to get a win
- 10:25Speaker 2: this week for sure. As always. All right, thanks guys,