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Press Pass | Liam Coen Discusses Overtime Victory vs. Cardinals in Week 12 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It did feel like quite a while, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I saw him drifting back because it looked like
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  Speaker 1: if he would have taken a three step drop, I
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  Speaker 1: think we had an edge on him, but he just
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept drifting in the pocket. I'm like, get him,
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  Speaker 1: get him balls up in the air. Do We did
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  Speaker 1: a nice job of overlapping to help Christian and we
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  Speaker 1: get the ball down, so made a stop, made a
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  Speaker 1: play when we needed it at the end, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here with a big West Coast win after.
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  Speaker 2: A game like this, is it more relief for excitement.
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  Speaker 1: We're not gonna apologize for winning around here, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just not anything we're gonna do. Being
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  Speaker 1: three and zero on the West Coast. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those games that you felt like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we had explosive runs, then we had two yard runs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then we had big passes, and then
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  Speaker 1: we had picks. It was just one of those games
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  Speaker 1: that you felt like when every time you kind of
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  Speaker 1: get momentum going opposite, maybe the first drive, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was getting off schedule, they were doing some
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  Speaker 1: things in the third downs that was giving us some
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  Speaker 1: problems early on from a protection scheme standpoint that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to clean up.
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  Speaker 2: We did clean that up.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean you always feel multiple emotions after
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  Speaker 1: a game, but winning is what matters.
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  Speaker 2: Turnover battle for nothing, It's never an ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, How did you guys overcome that and managed to
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  Speaker 1: just stay in the game. Yeah, I think you talk
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  Speaker 1: about resilience, toughness, staying together, guys having each other's backs,
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  Speaker 1: keep playing. I mean, Trev obviously was disappointing to throw
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  Speaker 1: some of the picks and have some of those issues,
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  Speaker 1: especially the one down in the red zone because Jacoby's
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  Speaker 1: wide open for a touchdown, but then he turns around
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  Speaker 1: and makes a huge throw to Parker to start off
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  Speaker 1: the overtime, and guys stepped up. I mean nobody flinched,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was walking around head down, disappointed, frustrated. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep playing, and that's been the message
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  Speaker 1: for the last few weeks is just to keep playing.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys they closed it out when we needed
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  Speaker 1: to Patrick down there. Yeah, he's a clear out on
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  Speaker 1: the play. Basically like all week, it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a clear out deal and we said, hey, if we
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  Speaker 1: get man, we can alert that if we get a rub. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they just so happened to bust it. From a coverage standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: he is wide open. He popped wide open, and but
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  Speaker 1: Tim's more so thinking I'm here to kind of clear
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  Speaker 1: this thing out. And I think that's just a great
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  Speaker 1: learning op and lesson for all of us, but specifically, hey, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: you know nobody's just clearing out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hey, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Get your eyes back on a go, especially when the
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  Speaker 1: void kind of happened.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: I thought him just seeing it was actually going to
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  Speaker 1: be a good play for us.
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  Speaker 2: But that was just one of those.
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  Speaker 1: Things that Tim's thinking, I'm clearing out, Trevor sees it pop,
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  Speaker 1: and I think both those guys will learn from that moment.
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  Speaker 1: You walk us through the decision to go for the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one down there at the end of regulation
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  Speaker 1: with like, yeah, I mean we hadn't We didn't run
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  Speaker 1: it great obviously, like getting there, you know, on the
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  Speaker 1: previous play we hit the keeper to Brenton to give
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  Speaker 1: us what third and two, we get stuffed kind of almost.
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  Speaker 2: Like lost a half a yard.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were like, what fourth and two, fourth
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  Speaker 1: and two and a half, and we just say, man,
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  Speaker 1: we've been aggressive. All season when it comes to those decisions,
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  Speaker 1: and you're putting the US growing as an offense, us
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  Speaker 1: growing as a team, is trusting them in some of
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  Speaker 1: those moments to go make those plays and go execute
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  Speaker 1: in those situations. It didn't work out this time, but
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  Speaker 1: hopefully those guys get the message that ultimately, man, we
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  Speaker 1: need to go execute in those moments. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: for us to close people out on our terms.
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  Speaker 2: Over time, was it just more important to get points?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at that point it was like, man, we kind
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  Speaker 1: of just missed the throw and so you're like, let's
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  Speaker 1: just get the points because you know, it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those things why we took the ball was you know,
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  Speaker 1: the defense had just been out on a long previous
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  Speaker 1: two minute drill drive.
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  Speaker 2: We took the ball. Obviously it helped us in the
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  Speaker 2: Vegas game, right, we won that game. And with that,
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  Speaker 2: but knowing you're gonna potentially get a third down.
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  Speaker 1: Another possession, excuse me, and that would have been key
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  Speaker 1: and critical. Obviously if they would have kicked a field
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  Speaker 1: goal there, we would have got another possession. So taking
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  Speaker 1: the points, putting the cam's hands at that point to
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  Speaker 1: make a kick and defense got to.
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  Speaker 2: Go get a stop leaving him alone, or I just.
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  Speaker 1: Hit him a few times after the Uh, A few
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  Speaker 1: of them was just like, dude, just keep chucking it, man,
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  Speaker 1: Like what are we gonna do? I mean, he was bummed,
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  Speaker 1: he was pissed about it, but he kept saying confidently
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  Speaker 1: like I feel good, you know, like I'm throwing it good,
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing it good. They you know boot him made
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  Speaker 1: an unbelievable play on the third now where he picked
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  Speaker 1: us off.
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  Speaker 2: We ran kind of everybody sitting at the sticks type
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  Speaker 2: play and.
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  Speaker 1: He was playing in between Austin Trammel and Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: seam stopped to sit down. I think it was Parker,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, or Jacoby and I thought Boodham made a
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  Speaker 1: great play.
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  Speaker 2: On that one.
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  Speaker 1: And the one in the the red zone obviously gets tipped.
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  Speaker 1: We marched right down the field to start the second half.
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  Speaker 1: We go bang bang bang bang, bank throwing the ball
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  Speaker 1: and then we get a tip pick on the six
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  Speaker 1: yard line on a play that's a touchdown. So those
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  Speaker 1: are just the ebbs and flows of a NFL game
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  Speaker 1: on the road, and we pulled out a win. Fust today.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't sacked at all last week. You got to
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  Speaker 1: him pretty often. What was the key for you today?
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  Speaker 2: They're huge, those guys.
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  Speaker 1: We had to use a lot of them in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, knowing that they were going to chuck it.
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  Speaker 1: A good amount of times in this game. We used
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys in different positions. We had a
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  Speaker 1: few substitution errors because of that. Danny kind of got
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  Speaker 1: nicked and we were trying to put some different guys
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  Speaker 1: in some different spots to give us some more rush.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, they ran it for what fifty five
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  Speaker 1: yards again, and we knew they were going to want
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  Speaker 1: to come out and chuck it, and we had to
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  Speaker 1: impact them and influence the rush, which we did in a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of ways. Anticipation, Yeah about that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we definitely watched him a little bit at
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  Speaker 1: one point, you know, when he was.
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  Speaker 2: Playing quite a bit early on.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to make sure that we weren't overloading him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, huge presence, right, he has the big sale
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  Speaker 1: route and then the keeper at the end. It's just
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  Speaker 1: his presence and energy, the look in his eye that
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  Speaker 1: we had that he has that gives our offensive spark.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I caught a bunch of passes, but it didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like he really hurt you guys too much.
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  Speaker 2: What did you guys do against him? Yeah, we had
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  Speaker 2: a few calls.
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  Speaker 1: I thought camp he did a nice job of mixing
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  Speaker 1: up whether we were playing vision zone or playing then
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  Speaker 1: sticky zone and trying to reroute him as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible within the five yard distance. And then we did
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  Speaker 1: combo him a little bit, played some doubles, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was in the third down situations or in.
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  Speaker 2: The red zone.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of respect for that guy, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought we did a nice job of
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  Speaker 1: tackling him and getting him to the ground.