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FB Coach Jason Candle Postgame MD Presser · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, I'll take your questions here. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think you said it right there. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: made some really tough catches. It's really, you know, critical
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  Speaker 1: times and pivotal times throughout the course of the game. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you play man coverage, damn near the
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  Speaker 1: whole game like we do, you're going to have some
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  Speaker 1: of those things where they're 50-50 balls and credit their
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and their kids for making some plays on the
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  Speaker 1: football in tough moments. Do you feel like their size
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  Speaker 1: kind of wore down your defense by the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game? Yeah, but I don't think we helped them
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  Speaker 1: on offense, right? I mean, we're putting them back out
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  Speaker 1: there and the one at the end there, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I probably should have punted the ball, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to try to go get a score. We'll put them
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  Speaker 1: in short fields a couple times there because of three
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  Speaker 1: and outs and punting into the wind there was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a challenge. I think those kids on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive front played their tail off, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. Played hard throughout the whole time. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be some stuff on the tape that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have to address and fix, but they
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  Speaker 1: can't just sit there and take punches the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to help them out in other phases of
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  Speaker 1: the game. What did you learn from your guys today?
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  Speaker 1: I think that I've said it publicly. I've said it
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  Speaker 1: privately to our team. Our biggest worry coming out of
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  Speaker 1: week one, there wasn't any adverse moments in our first
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  Speaker 1: football game. This team is a whole different animal. We
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  Speaker 1: were going to have to toe the line and play
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  Speaker 1: a Big Ten football team. They were going to try
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  Speaker 1: to lean on us and run the football down your throat.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to play up in the face of your receivers.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to play pressure-style defense.
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  Speaker 2: We were going to figure out how we were going
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  Speaker 2: to respond.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes we did a good job. Other times
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  Speaker 1: it maybe just wasn't to the quality of what you wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those plays and the timing and the rhythm
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  Speaker 1: of things, when they're just off a hair nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: how far they're off.
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  Speaker 2: They're off, right?
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, you're in third-down situations, and they're coming
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  Speaker 1: after you. You know they're coming after you. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to make the plays.
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  Speaker 2: But I think, you know, for me, it's week two.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a long way to go.
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  Speaker 1: This certainly isn't going to define us. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: see this as an opportunity to grow and continue to
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  Speaker 1: get better. And I think some guys' individual efforts, I
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  Speaker 1: think some of them were really good.
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  Speaker 2: I think some guys showed up in some key moments today.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like early in the game, the tackling was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, that's a very perimeter-oriented operation.
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  Speaker 1: They want to play fast, they want to spread the
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  Speaker 1: field and get the receivers out there and throw screens
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  Speaker 1: to fast players and Easier said than done.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to go out there and you've got to
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  Speaker 2: tackle them.
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  Speaker 1: I thought for the most part they did a decent
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  Speaker 1: job of that in the first half, but there's too
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  Speaker 1: many throwing shoulders in there for me.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to wrap up and you've got to go
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  Speaker 2: get the guy to the ground. It's just what it is.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to improve.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the areas we've got to work on. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: you're heading for a few big ones, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: a Big Ten defense. What is the challenge of a
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  Speaker 1: more drawn out no really rhythm in the run game
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  Speaker 1: you know the inability to run the football doesn't help
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback out so then it becomes on his shoulders
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  Speaker 1: which then stresses the protection and then you know all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you can feel that as the defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator and all of a sudden now you pin your
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  Speaker 1: ears back and you probably play a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive add the fact that the score is you know
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  Speaker 1: a two-score game at the time and it's really like
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a recipe for disaster to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you so we've got to figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: run it consistently. You know, we can use Caleb to
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  Speaker 1: do that a little bit. But these guys, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they challenged us. They challenged the line of scrimmage, and
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  Speaker 1: we weren't able to get any consistency moving in that
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  Speaker 1: part of it. So then falling on a quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: his second start, I mean, I think it's a little
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  Speaker 1: unfair to continue just to ask him to drop back
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  Speaker 1: pass and to tackle as a drop back pass against,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty damn good pass.
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  Speaker 2: Rushers the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I think a lot of things factored
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  Speaker 1: into that. But, you know, ultimately at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you want to run the football better than
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  Speaker 1: we did today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yardage doesn't matter to me. It really doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the score. So you go into halftime, you're down...
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of scores, you get the ball
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  Speaker 1: coming out to start the third quarter. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty pivotal drive in the game. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the coin toss and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: that first possession in the second half, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were able to do it. You just got to produce
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  Speaker 1: some points there and you got to just get, you
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  Speaker 1: got to play a little bit better in.
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  Speaker 2: The third quarter, uh, coming out of locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, fortunately we weren't able to get anything going
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  Speaker 1: at first drive on offense. And, you know, from there,
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  Speaker 1: then it, you know, it kind of did get out
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  Speaker 1: of hand a little bit. So, but I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when they leaned on us a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: give Maryland a lot of credit, man. Um, give coaches and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his crew a good, you know, kudos for
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  Speaker 1: getting those guys ready to go and they played hard
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  Speaker 1: the entire game. So, we got a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to correct, a lot of things to work on this
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  Speaker 1: week in practice and we'll go to work hard at that.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about the inability to run today.
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  Speaker 1: Was it anything special that Maryland's line was doing or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what did you see at field level? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'm going to take that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, but I think that, you know, there's,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough front to run against. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: just what it is. You know, so, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be able to create edges. You've got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball to the perimeter to your fast players.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got to be able to block really well
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  Speaker 1: in the perimeter and allow those guys. And these guys
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  Speaker 1: have got to win their one-on-one battles. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't able to do that today in some moments.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to just watch the tape, address it,
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  Speaker 1: and fix it.
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  Speaker 2: A couple more for Kirk. You mentioned you thought a
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  Speaker 2: few guys played well. Anybody in particular you were pleased with?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Shamar Porter showed up today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: did a good job. I thought we, you know. Some
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  Speaker 1: guys did a good job on it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: those defensive front guys, I think those D linemen played
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  Speaker 1: their tail off for the most part. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about statistics and yardage. I mean, Maryland didn't
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  Speaker 1: run the ball either in the first half at all. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: but credit their quarterback. I mean, he was able to
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  Speaker 1: hang in there and like I said, make some tough
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  Speaker 1: throws and those receivers did a great job making some
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  Speaker 1: contested catches in key moments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just that, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, um, Your attitude and your mood is a
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  Speaker 1: little different. It's human nature in life when it's all
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  Speaker 1: going good. I think you're ultimately going to be defined
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  Speaker 1: when you get hit in the mouth. We got hit
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  Speaker 1: in the mouth today, so we're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: bounce back. As I just told them, nobody's coming to
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  Speaker 1: save us. If you're a real competitor, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: anybody to come save you. You want to get better.
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  Speaker 1: You want to improve. You want to learn from today.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be able to address the tape and
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  Speaker 1: fix it. That's what we're going to do. Coach, any
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: update on Eshaan Carter and Sincere Bowers?
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  Speaker 2: Both of them went back in the game. Thank you.