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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "...there's no quit in our guys." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just, um, my hats off to our guys,
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  Speaker 1: our team. Um I told him after the game that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other than obviously winning the Super Bowl a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago, greatest coaching victory, um as a team,
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  Speaker 1: this one, this one's right up there with it. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: my hat's off to our guys for just battling. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as deep a hole as we dug in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, you know there was there was you
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  Speaker 1: guys have you know they've been around our team. You
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  Speaker 1: know there's no quit in our guys. And uh they
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  Speaker 1: did an outstanding job obviously in the second half, and
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  Speaker 1: uh Riley kicking a ball at the end was obviously
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  Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. Doug, from your perspective, having played quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: can you relate and give us some appreciation for what
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  Speaker 1: Trevor did tonight throwing four picks and then rallying back
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  Speaker 1: with four touchdowns to get the win. And can I
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  Speaker 1: played with one of the greatest quarterbacks ever and far
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  Speaker 1: of and there were times when you know, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a great first half and came back in the
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  Speaker 1: second half and and uh we could light it up.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's what that's what I love about Trevor
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  Speaker 1: and and his demeanor and his aggressiveness and um, the
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  Speaker 1: ability to just forget and move on. Um. But he'll
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  Speaker 1: be the first one to tell you that it's not
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  Speaker 1: it's not about him. The guys around him to made
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  Speaker 1: made plays. Protection was good, Receivers were doing a nice
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  Speaker 1: job being where they needed to be. UM. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: from an individual standpoint, it was, Uh, this is really
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  Speaker 1: a great performance by our quarterback. Coach. What does it
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  Speaker 1: say about this team that they never flinched down that
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  Speaker 1: much and just kept fighting back? I mean, it's everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, It's it's just what I told him at halftime.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of like our season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, we've put ourselves in a
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  Speaker 1: hole at times, and then we've we've worked ourselves out
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  Speaker 1: of it at times. And and just to have the
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  Speaker 1: resiliency and the and the fight and the desire and
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  Speaker 1: the um the ability to continue to play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because it could have easily gone the other way, right, Um.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's what I'm so proud of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: For um, everything is on the line, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they go out and get the job done. Doug. Play
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks make their reputation, become elite guys in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: What is this performance today say about Trevor where he's headed,
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  Speaker 1: what he can do for this franchise. I'll just keep
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  Speaker 1: saying that it's a step in the right direction for
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  Speaker 1: him and for our team, for our franchise. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we love having having Trevor's our quarterback. And he never
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he never flinches. He It just you saw
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  Speaker 1: the emotion on the on the sneak, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the goal line. Um, you know, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: it was at the two point conversion. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you saw the emotion, right, and uh, and that's who
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  Speaker 1: he is. And um, I just uh, I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he's he's leading our football team. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a step in the right It's a step in the
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  Speaker 1: direction that we want this organization to go. We want
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  Speaker 1: him to go, our team to go, and um, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to continue to build on that. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Hope, Florida start our newspaper. What type of tactical
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  Speaker 1: adjustments were you able to make it the half that
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  Speaker 1: allowed you and your team to come all the way back?
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  Speaker 1: I think one of them was just we had to
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  Speaker 1: kind of go up tempo, UM, be on the ball
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more in the second half when we
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  Speaker 1: got down so many scores. There are three scores at least,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, we just felt like we needed to
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  Speaker 1: get a spark, you know, and and be up tempo UM.
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  Speaker 1: And and we you know, we were just more efficient
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  Speaker 1: in the passing game. And and that's what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: It just takes sometimes, it just takes the guys the
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  Speaker 1: desire and want to to to play better, you know
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Uh, and they did. But but I really
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  Speaker 1: think the up tempo stuff helped us in the second
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  Speaker 1: half to kind of give us back in the football game. Doug,
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  Speaker 1: could you could you talk about calling the time out?
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  Speaker 1: Did you just not like what you saw from the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers defensive front on the fourth and half yard Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then electing to go outside. Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't I didn't like the look that we had
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  Speaker 1: for the play we had called, UM, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just took the time out. Um, we reloaded, regrouped, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put our heads together, came up with that call,
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  Speaker 1: and just a great effort by Travis you know to
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  Speaker 1: obviously hit it off tackle there and and get the
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  Speaker 1: first down, and more the risk of it going outside. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you know, listen, if they're outside, you
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  Speaker 1: go inside. If they're inside, you go outside. Travis is
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  Speaker 1: is a heck of a back that can do that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, with his speed and ability, um made made
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  Speaker 1: a great play at that moment. Did you tell Riley
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  Speaker 1: anything in particular before he went out there or did
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  Speaker 1: he say anything that comes to mind? No, No, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't say a word to him. And he's made seventeen
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  Speaker 1: out of eighteen since that Chiefs game. Is he It's
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  Speaker 1: just this guy become very reliable. I guess I would
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  Speaker 1: suppose I mean, you know, yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously this is this is a big moment for him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and for him to make that kick
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  Speaker 1: under under these these uh circumstances is great for his
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  Speaker 1: you know, his career too. And uh, I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 1: proud of him for you know, battling through what he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little shaky start to start the season,
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  Speaker 1: but he's really you know, locked in here at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, and and uh, nothing, nothing greater
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  Speaker 1: than than that kick here at the end. Coach, congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on the victory. For the question is on the two
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  Speaker 1: point conversion, you saw that they got the penalty. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: was it one of the things you had to really
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  Speaker 1: think about should I go for the two pointer? Or
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  Speaker 1: it was never never a doubt. I trust in the players,
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  Speaker 1: trust our decision. I felt good about our call that
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  Speaker 1: we had. Um And and you know what it does,
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  Speaker 1: is it? It? It either a field goal wins or
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  Speaker 1: you gotta score a touchdown to win. And and oh, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're getting these moments and listen, you trust
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  Speaker 1: the players, and you want to win the football game.
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  Speaker 1: You want to do it for them. And uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know they battled their tails off, so there was there
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  Speaker 1: was no hesitation on that. Just to clarify, would you
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  Speaker 1: have gone for two without the penalty? Probably not. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna lap it up for you here in the minute.
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  Speaker 1: All right, m here coach, this is a total phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: in congratulations on your success. Now coming back from halftime
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  Speaker 1: doing what what's your strategy when you come back from
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  Speaker 1: halftime doing that score? Is um? This is what twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven is something? What what was your strategy? Strategy was
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  Speaker 1: just one play at a time, you know, and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know we knew the defense was starting the second half,
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  Speaker 1: so we felt like, uh, you know, defensively, we had
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  Speaker 1: to get off the field at some point. We're trying
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  Speaker 1: to create you know, takeaways, turnovers, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: And and if we could, um, you know, offense just
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  Speaker 1: you know, had to just regroup and and uh and score.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about possibly having to score every every
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  Speaker 1: time we touched the ball, every possession in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know, so that was the that
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  Speaker 1: was the strategy. You know, we just had to it
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  Speaker 1: had to be a one play at a time mentality