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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on "Wake up Call" Against San Francisco 49ers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Why do you think the team wasn't ready today anything
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  Speaker 1: you can put your finger on.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the team was ready.
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  Speaker 3: We failed to execute on the opening UH drive defensively,
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  Speaker 3: and we failed to execute on the opening drive offensively.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the that's the part that is disappointing, because
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  Speaker 3: these guys were these guys were ready to go, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, to have the lack of execution like we
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  Speaker 3: did early in the football game just kind of snowballed
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  Speaker 3: from there.
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  Speaker 2: UH.
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  Speaker 1: Last year against Detroit, this year against Houston. Guys has
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  Speaker 1: similar games, bounce back, played your best football of both seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Why were they able to do that? And do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's in them to do this now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We obviously got to look at look at ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: the mirror and figure figure some things out, and especially
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  Speaker 3: here at home, you know, three or four games that
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  Speaker 3: are not very good, and I guess the beauty of
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  Speaker 3: everything is we still sit in the have re seat.
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  Speaker 3: We're six and three and and there's still a lot
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  Speaker 3: of football ahead and and great opportunity. You know, this
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  Speaker 3: was definitely a humbling experience.
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  Speaker 4: Today offensively, Doug, do you think it was a matter
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  Speaker 4: of Trevor rushing things, the protection not being there. Was
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  Speaker 4: there anything you could really pinpoint as to why I
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  Speaker 4: never got into that flow on offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, possibly just just maybe you know, speeding
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  Speaker 3: some things up in his mind, you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: obviously when we failed to execute even around him. Right,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's there's problems there on plays that we should
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  Speaker 3: we should know, we run them all the time. And
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, you can't you can't put yourself
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  Speaker 3: in the third downs like we did and or turn
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  Speaker 3: the ball over like we did and expect to do
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  Speaker 3: anything with it, you know, and it just you put
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  Speaker 3: your defense in a bund, You put specialty in a bind.
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  Speaker 3: And you know that's the that's again, that's the disappointing part.
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  Speaker 4: And then just a quick health update if I could
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  Speaker 4: just on Agnew and then Tyson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I talked to fer.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna get further testing in the morning and see
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  Speaker 3: where they're at. So hopefully we have a better answer
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  Speaker 3: for you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: You touched on San Francisco being ready out of the box.
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  Speaker 5: How much of that can you do you discount in
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  Speaker 5: terms of your performance, in terms of they had lost
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  Speaker 5: three in a row. They had been itching to get
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  Speaker 5: back on the field and show that they were the
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl contenders. Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's probably something to that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And and obviously we had we had some
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  Speaker 3: momentum as well, and and you know, it's disappointing to
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  Speaker 3: play like we did. But I'm sure, you know, for them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, I'm sure the message was pretty simple.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we've got to play. We have to
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  Speaker 3: play better, you know. On their side, I'm assuming and
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  Speaker 3: they did. They played an outstanding football game, and they
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  Speaker 3: got after us today and we got to look at
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  Speaker 3: the film and make corrections.
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  Speaker 6: Doug, if the word was right that that was a
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  Speaker 6: desperate football team, do you want your team to react
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  Speaker 6: with a sense of desperation this week? And do you
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  Speaker 6: think that helps a team get sharp for a game
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  Speaker 6: like that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm not. I don't think they're a desperate football team.
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  Speaker 2: Don't. Don't get me wrong, they're not.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good football team. So I don't think it's desperation.
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  Speaker 3: They know what they're doing, right, and they did it
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  Speaker 3: well today. For us, we're still trying to get there,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I told the team again. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't done anything here and we're trying to be
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  Speaker 3: like that. We're trying to have that consistency. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: this will be this will be in some ways good
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  Speaker 3: for our players, you know, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: wake up call, quite honestly. And you know, myself included coaches, players,
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  Speaker 3: we all have to you know, what are we willing
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  Speaker 3: to give up these next eight games so we don't
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  Speaker 3: do this again?
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  Speaker 2: Right? And and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think I think our players will rebound.
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  Speaker 3: They always have and you know, look forward to next week.
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  Speaker 7: Doug. Some of the stuff you talked about today, red
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  Speaker 7: zone turnovers and some other issues have sort of been
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  Speaker 7: around all year. Is there a feeling of why can't
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  Speaker 7: we get this fixed? It should be fixed by this point, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, it's obviously turnovers can't happen. They just flat
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  Speaker 3: out can't happen. And and we gave them what three
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  Speaker 3: of them today, and you know, you just you.
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  Speaker 2: Just can't four Yeah, that's right, two interceptions. You can't
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  Speaker 2: you can't do that. You just can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's a matter of whoever has the football,
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  Speaker 3: take care of the football.
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  Speaker 2: That's your job.
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  Speaker 3: Bring it back to the huddle, let us play another down,
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  Speaker 3: and we continue to stress it, our players continue to
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  Speaker 3: stress it.
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  Speaker 2: And until we.
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  Speaker 3: You know, until we figure that out, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be it's long.
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  Speaker 2: You just can't. You just can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, again, if you if you want to be
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  Speaker 3: a playoff team, you got to take care of the football.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of alluded it to a little bit there,
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  Speaker 1: both with that answer and the home game situation. You've
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  Speaker 1: had two real statement games as far as the national
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  Speaker 1: perspective goes at home here against Kansas City and today.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't scored a touchdown in either of them. As
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  Speaker 1: the offense maybe sort of gripping the club a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too tight, trying to swing too hard, maybe, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, to muse a golf analogy, trying too hard
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  Speaker 1: to make a play instead of just taking what's there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at Christian Kirk kind of fighting for
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  Speaker 1: that extra yard at the six yard line when he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to get in. Uh, Trevor fire and a
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  Speaker 1: fastball a tank as a couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think Christian was fighting. I think he
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  Speaker 3: was held up and I think the ball got punched out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think it was necessarily him fighting
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  Speaker 3: for extra yards. But again, those are those are plays
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  Speaker 3: that that you know, yeah, we want to hang on
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  Speaker 3: to the football. You know, sometimes you're asking questions that
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  Speaker 3: are that are really hard to answer because you know
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  Speaker 3: the team's ready to go, they have a good week
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  Speaker 3: of preparation. Why we go out like that? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: nobody wants to go out and coach that way. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: wants to go out and play that way. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 3: to go out and lose that way. We had too
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  Speaker 3: much pride, you know. And and this is these are
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  Speaker 3: great opportunities for me to coach this football team and
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  Speaker 3: to lead this football team into to instruct this football team.
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  Speaker 3: And until until and we've got some young guys that
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  Speaker 3: are that are that are learning this for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and kind of going through a little adversity,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, again, we're trying to put ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: positions to be a better football team in the AFC,
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  Speaker 3: and and and and sometimes it looks brilliant, and then
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  Speaker 3: there's days like today not so good. And those are
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  Speaker 3: the things that you know, each person has to look
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  Speaker 3: at themselves and say what am I am I studying enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as coaches, are we putting our players in
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  Speaker 3: better positions to be successful?
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  Speaker 2: Are the players.
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  Speaker 3: You know doing what they need to do, coaches doing
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  Speaker 3: what they need to do. So it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: group effort. You know, there's there's enough, you know, enough
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  Speaker 3: stuff to go around. You know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: call it blame, but you know it's it's it's everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Doing their job right.
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  Speaker 3: And and I know this football team, and I know
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  Speaker 3: they'll I know they'll come back Wednesday, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: we get ready for Tennessee, and they'll be focusing, ready
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks coach.
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  Speaker 2: Okay,