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Press Pass | Doug Pederson Reacts to 30-27 Loss to Packers in Week 8 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're they're devastated, their heart broken. They battled
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  Speaker 2: their tails off, you know, they fought to the end.
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  Speaker 2: Quite frankly, it's all. That's all that I can ask for.
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  Speaker 2: But I also want them to understand too that these
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  Speaker 2: games come down to about two plays, three plays, right,
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  Speaker 2: I can't give the ball away like we did late.
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  Speaker 2: You know, deep in our own end, we didn't tackle
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  Speaker 2: very well defensively. So there's there's some things that we
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  Speaker 2: need to clean up and continue to clean up if
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  Speaker 2: we want to, you know, if we want to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get back on track.
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  Speaker 3: Doug Trevor leads the eighty seven yard drive to tie
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  Speaker 3: the game without the top three receivers going into today.
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  Speaker 3: What did he kind of show you there on being
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  Speaker 3: able to guide the team down obviously down his top
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  Speaker 3: three receivers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think, I think, yeah, he he did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job. I give a credit to those those receivers,
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  Speaker 2: those tight ends and the offensive line. Those guys they
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  Speaker 2: made plays for him. Right now, he made some really
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  Speaker 2: good throws and all of that. But those guys that
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  Speaker 2: were playing at the end of the game, when you're
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  Speaker 2: down your top three receivers and and you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: playing in your your twelve personnel for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the game. That's that's tough. But the guys battled their
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  Speaker 2: tails off got us back to tying this football game
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  Speaker 2: with a chance to you know, potentially win it there late.
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  Speaker 2: So hats off for those guys, because Ken, you walk
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  Speaker 2: us through the strategy at the game, it looked like
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  Speaker 2: you were trying to let them score.
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  Speaker 1: But then they kind of fill down like not allowing
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  Speaker 1: you to.
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  Speaker 2: Let Look, it's it's I mean, the only way for
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  Speaker 2: us to get the ball back was to make decisions
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  Speaker 2: that you could let them score. They're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in church mode. I mean, it was almost inevitable. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're playing the game and you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do what you can to to you know, save time,
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  Speaker 2: get as much time back on that clock as you can.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, they did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: We'd have done the same thing. Get the first down
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  Speaker 2: and go down, you know, make your opponent in this case,
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  Speaker 2: myself burned your last time out. Things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, honestly it was it's smart on both
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  Speaker 2: sides to to uh to play it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Doug, how serious is Christian's injury? Did it appear to
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  Speaker 1: be something that might be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on the on the injuries, guys, I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I haven't talked to fer yet. I came
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  Speaker 2: straight in here, so I'll probably have something later and
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  Speaker 2: know more tomorrow, you know, when I get the updates.
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  Speaker 1: And with with Trevor on the fumble down there, the
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  Speaker 1: ability though to kind of shake it off and then
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  Speaker 1: kind of like you said, Hey was talking about lead
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  Speaker 1: them down the rest of the way. Can you just
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  Speaker 1: talk about that mentality to be able to have to
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  Speaker 1: shake stuff off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's that's our sport, right, It's that
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  Speaker 2: mental toughness that that I talk about with the team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we can't turn the ball over
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  Speaker 2: that deep, obviously, we know that. But the resilient part
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  Speaker 2: of that is how we battled back and got ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in position to tie the football game. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: that's the mindset. But that's the mindset we got to have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the first quarter, and that's that'll be
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  Speaker 2: something that we can we can, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: learn from moving forward. That's your coach.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any thought to go in for two at
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  Speaker 1: the end there?
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  Speaker 2: Not with the time remaining if there was maybe twenty
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  Speaker 2: seconds or less, potentially go for it there. But with
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  Speaker 2: the time, the amount of time that's left in the
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  Speaker 2: game and a couple of time outs, now kick it
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  Speaker 2: and tie it.
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  Speaker 1: How disappointing was the defensive effort there at the end?
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  Speaker 1: You got a backup quarterback in second and long and
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  Speaker 1: giving up that big play like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's you know, it's disappointing that you
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  Speaker 2: know we're able to give up that. But I'd look
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  Speaker 2: at it too. I mean, you know it shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: necessarily come to that. But again, it just goes back
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  Speaker 2: to what I said too, right. I mean, you never
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  Speaker 2: know which two or three plays are going to be
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  Speaker 2: the ones that decide football games, and and you just
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  Speaker 2: gotta be ready to make the ones that come to
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  Speaker 2: you and credit them, you know, they hit it and
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  Speaker 2: put them in a position to win a game.