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Press Pass | Luke Fortner: "...keep pressing and the dam will break" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I've been constantly improving and kind
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  Speaker 1: of learning what you don't know, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's so much that you don't know. You don't know,
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  Speaker 1: and as the week going on, I figured out things
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  Speaker 1: I need to be better at, things I need to
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  Speaker 1: work on and continue to prepare for. And the vets
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  Speaker 1: in the room and the coaching staff have been incredible
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  Speaker 1: helping me out and making sure I know what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: So far, it seems like Doug's message every week seems
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  Speaker 1: to be that you guys are beating yourself in the losses.
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  Speaker 1: How I mean in your experience playfall. How do you
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  Speaker 1: kind of raise some of those mistakes that kind of
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  Speaker 1: hamstring you over the course of the game. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's obviously frustrating, and I think it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you have to, you know, look within yourself and and
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  Speaker 1: focus on a practice. And it's it's things that show
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  Speaker 1: up at practice that may get overlooked and and show
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  Speaker 1: up in the game. So for us, it's just about
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  Speaker 1: continue to harp on those details and and continue to
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  Speaker 1: lock down the preparation and you know, make sure what
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  Speaker 1: comes out on Sundays is the finished product is the
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  Speaker 1: confidence still there in the locker room that you guys
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  Speaker 1: can get this turn around. Absolutely. Uh. I mean room
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  Speaker 1: full of older guys that have all one and lost
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football games, and just the way of
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  Speaker 1: seeing them approach the way these weeks as they continue
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  Speaker 1: to go on, you can sell they're they're excited and
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  Speaker 1: still optimistic and confident. What's been the message from the
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  Speaker 1: leaders in the locker room sort of to try to
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  Speaker 1: get you guys going in that right direction? Yeah, for them,
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  Speaker 1: it's just been just continue to keep your head down
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  Speaker 1: and work. Uh. You know a lot of people when
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  Speaker 1: when things get to start pointing fingers or start cracking,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the last thing you can do. And I
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  Speaker 1: really believe the damn is gonna the damn is gonna fall,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep pressing, keep continuing to push in. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: It'll all come together. What uh from your what happened
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  Speaker 1: on the floor on the quarterbacks and going forth in
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  Speaker 1: about a half yard? Um? Did you feel you didn't?
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously you didn't get the push you the
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  Speaker 1: collective push that you wanted, But was there? Did something happens?
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  Speaker 1: You very rarely see a quarterback immediately get pushed back
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  Speaker 1: like Trevor did on that particular play. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's on me and the rest of the guys inside
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we didn't get it when we
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  Speaker 1: needed to get it, and so that's what happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it pure only just leverage? I mean that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's battle and sometimes the sometimes the guy
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  Speaker 1: who gets lower, uh and is able to Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just one man against another. And then we didn't come
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  Speaker 1: out on top of that time. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: a critical situation. We didn't get it. So stings. You've
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  Speaker 1: been to London before, No, I've not. I've actually never
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  Speaker 1: left the country, So I'm excited. Do you watch any
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  Speaker 1: soccer if you ever watched the game at Winsley Stadium before?
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  Speaker 1: You know, in eighth grade, I had to decide between
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  Speaker 1: playing soccer football for the rest of my life. I
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  Speaker 1: think I chose correctly. But yeah, I used to be
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  Speaker 1: a huge soccer fan. So it still comes together that
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  Speaker 1: you get to play a game at Windley. Absolutely all
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  Speaker 1: full circle. Yet positions you playing soccer. I played goalie
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  Speaker 1: and then midfield. Yeah. I used to be really skinny too.
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  Speaker 1: That part changed as well. Yeah, on the illegal man downfield,
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  Speaker 1: and only what kind of happened from your perspective in
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  Speaker 1: that situation. I wasn't able to go back and look
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  Speaker 1: at the play again. Yeah, I'm not sure. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was engaged with a player, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it gets tricky when you're running those r P
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  Speaker 1: O s and you know you might be running it,
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  Speaker 1: might be passing it. So uh, it's something we gotta
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  Speaker 1: look at and go back and make sure we're all
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. And you know, the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: knows what the receiver's doing and vice versa. So definitely
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  Speaker 1: something to look at. I'm not sure what happened, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, how much hell because some of
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  Speaker 1: the veteran guys on the old line been for you
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  Speaker 1: getting accustomed to everything that's going on in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: like Brandon Sheriff, Tyler Shatley. I'm helpful of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean it's been great. I mean they've you know,
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  Speaker 1: combined something like fifteen or sixteen years of experience, and
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  Speaker 1: just to hear them talk and hear them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: give pointers and tell me what I'm good at when
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good at. It's been tremendous. And I'm very
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  Speaker 1: thankful for it. What were the players thinking on the
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  Speaker 1: field after Christian Kirkch reverse run, uh didn't produce a
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  Speaker 1: first down? Did you think it was a first down?
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  Speaker 1: Or you weren't sure because obviously, you know, they went
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  Speaker 1: back and then then there there was at least a
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  Speaker 1: look at it. But I mean, did you think it
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  Speaker 1: was a first down and then got confus used when
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're looking down at its third
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  Speaker 1: and one? Yeah, I'm you know, I don't really see it,
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  Speaker 1: And I think in the huddle of the time, we're like,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, We're gonna get anyway, you know, which
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  Speaker 1: obviously we didn't, but we weren't really focused on what
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  Speaker 1: the rest called at that moment or anything. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's something that kind of only happened this morning for us,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, not something we thought about at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it happened. How much of a heartbreaker
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  Speaker 1: was that last play when you look up and see
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  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk just hanging out at the one yard line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a brutal picture. I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 1: the still photo of him, like, yeah, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a tough picture and um, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, you just gotta keep pressing and in the
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  Speaker 1: damn will break And I really do believe that. Is
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  Speaker 1: it fun blocking for a running back like EA team.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of look up and then there he is
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  Speaker 1: just down the field. It's so much fun. You have
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  Speaker 1: no idea who's gonna end up. It's it's it's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be you know, you'll think you live over here,
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  Speaker 1: and next thing you know, he's way down there. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's awesome. He's working his butt off and I'm really
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  Speaker 1: excited to see him continue to grow good. Yeah, thanks guys.
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  Speaker 1: The s