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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "It’s a lot of effort and just mentality." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That we're still going the process of defense. We have
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  Speaker 1: to take this loss and learn from it. He did
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  Speaker 1: a great job yesterday of getting back to work, working
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals and you know, go back out there and line
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  Speaker 1: it up again. Such a beast fading position. I think
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  Speaker 1: the type guy beat on a play earlier in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then he made that crucial dirt now stop to
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  Speaker 1: give offensive ball back. Just being in positions like that
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  Speaker 1: and seeing a young player made that stop, how does
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  Speaker 1: how much confidence does that give you with a guy
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  Speaker 1: like we have our confidence because we've seen him in
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  Speaker 1: practice and we understand that he's a good player with
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  Speaker 1: that position and a lot of positions in the back end.
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  Speaker 1: You hear it all the time, you know, uh gotta
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  Speaker 1: have a short memory. And he did a good job
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  Speaker 1: of coming back and playing the next play. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you have to do. You know, they're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: play the time aimes and you have to brush it
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  Speaker 1: off and come back in and go back to battle.
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  Speaker 1: Like what was it? Total mistass? I think it was
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  Speaker 1: right around eighteen. How many more is that than you
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  Speaker 1: would be acceptable? Too many more? Yes, yeah, too many more.
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  Speaker 1: That's a thing you know in this game you have
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  Speaker 1: to tackle. It helps us on you know, third down
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  Speaker 1: because instead of being third and short, now with third
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  Speaker 1: medium and you're in a different different thought process. Last
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  Speaker 1: the last time that you guys didn't have the defensive
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  Speaker 1: ever you wanted, you came back the next week against
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  Speaker 1: the depended upon it and playing lights out. You extract
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  Speaker 1: the response for this meren to be something said, not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily shut out. On the same terms of being able
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  Speaker 1: to the response you got to get as far as
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  Speaker 1: being a competitor, that's what you look for if you
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you fall down, you gotta get back up.
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  Speaker 1: And they came to work yesterday with the understanding of
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  Speaker 1: we're back to the basics. We're trying to go one know,
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  Speaker 1: this week, we're gonna go back and just be ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and get back there the way we play football in
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. In terms of the run game,
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  Speaker 1: I mean last week, just how much did the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being mobile and being able to run. How
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  Speaker 1: much do you think that kind of affected things, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: just making guys think a little bit more. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's part of it. He's another option that
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  Speaker 1: they have. But at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 1: were out of our gaps. We didn't play fundamentally sounds
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  Speaker 1: so we gotta get back to doing what we do.
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  Speaker 1: As a coordinator, you more wanting to face a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: like this week is maybe less less of a running threat.
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  Speaker 1: It's really in run game. You just want to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and be successful against the run game. No
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  Speaker 1: matter who's running. They have a really good running back
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  Speaker 1: and we're have a work cut out for us. How
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  Speaker 1: it will also would be if if it fully can't go,
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  Speaker 1: just in terms of how much he had dictates what
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  Speaker 1: happens from the deepensive, it would be a big loss.
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  Speaker 1: But you know we have guys that are ready and
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  Speaker 1: able to go behind him, so you know, if he's
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  Speaker 1: unable to play, then we'll the next man will be
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  Speaker 1: up and we'll go. Everyone always says turnovers coming bunches.
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  Speaker 1: What makes a defense be able to be on the
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  Speaker 1: right side of those turnovers and and get them flowing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of effort and just the mentality.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about it, but the guys go out there
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  Speaker 1: and they really think about it, and they practice it,
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  Speaker 1: and they practice fast, and that's part of it. Being
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  Speaker 1: able to be around the ball being able to play
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  Speaker 1: fast and affect the quarterback, affect receivers, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: you said, they come in bunches. Said earlier this week
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  Speaker 1: that he thinks a lot of those turnovers are coming
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  Speaker 1: from your personality and just kind of how you talk
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  Speaker 1: to the players and what you're expecting from them. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's a fair statement that they're responding to
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  Speaker 1: what you and the rest of the coaches too. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could say that, but they're the ones out
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  Speaker 1: there making the place. You know, we talk about it
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  Speaker 1: as a staff, and we talk about it as coaches
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  Speaker 1: to the players all the time. We you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have different things behind the scenes that we try to
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  Speaker 1: stress and but they go out there and they in
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  Speaker 1: the right position, they play fast, and they're creating the
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  Speaker 1: turnovers the world of you seen from Andre Cisco from
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  Speaker 1: week one until now. I think he's been He's consistent.
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  Speaker 1: You saw him early on. Communication was there. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: just even multiplying. He's communicating and made the big play
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  Speaker 1: last weekend. We just can continue to see that happened.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of stresses Brandon Cooks put on defense. He's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that they go to. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it's time to get the ball or
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  Speaker 1: time for critical play, you know they're looking for him.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime you have a guy that's a volume player,
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  Speaker 1: that has a skill set that he has, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a tough day. When you look at Davis Mills,
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  Speaker 1: what stands out to you? He has athleticism and he's
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  Speaker 1: able to commend the offense. You see him. He throws
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  Speaker 1: R P O s, he throws uh, the deep passes, UH,
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  Speaker 1: He's able to hand the ball off and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just be able to run the show for them. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a that's the way they want him
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  Speaker 1: to play, and I think he's playing that way. Young
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks sometimes can get confused by defenses. What what is
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  Speaker 1: it that defenses can do to kind of give young
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks those extra struggles or make them think a little
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  Speaker 1: bit longer. I think in really the way we go
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  Speaker 1: about it, any quarterback, you want to speed him up,
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  Speaker 1: You want to pressure him, and we just want to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and try to show him a different look.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, pressure him as much as we can.
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  Speaker 1: The front four and I try to get after him,
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  Speaker 1: make him speed his clock up. So that's uncomfortable for him.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.