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Press Pass | Coach Pederson Reflects on Season After Week 18 Loss · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, another one score loss. But it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh sort of fitting, you know for the type
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  Speaker 1: of year we had to take it into overtime, get
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  Speaker 1: electra football and still lose by a score. So listen,
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  Speaker 1: we have to obviously as a team, we we we
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  Speaker 1: have to we have to learn, we have to and
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  Speaker 1: we're learning the hard way. But but we have to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to win and win these close games like
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  Speaker 1: this because this is what the league is about. And
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  Speaker 1: and we will you know, and uh you know, but
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, kind of a fitting way to end our season.
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  Speaker 2: What are these moments, like one more time with this group,
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  Speaker 2: and what does this group mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: Desplite the record?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, these are these are tough moments because
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the last time we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be together, you know, as a team taking the field together.
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  Speaker 1: Things change now right off season begins and and everything
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  Speaker 1: everything begins to change, and and you changed for the
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  Speaker 1: better and and you try to get better, you try
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  Speaker 1: to improve. But but for the moment right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate every one of those guys in there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they they worked their tails off, they worked, they worked
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  Speaker 1: hard for me, They didn't quit on me, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: quit on each other, and they battled to the end.
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  Speaker 1: So these are these are these are hard moments because
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  Speaker 1: there's you know, obviously no more football for the season.
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  Speaker 2: You've been around this long enough to know what what
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  Speaker 2: you've got. Do you feel like you're moving forward into
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  Speaker 2: this off season or.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll find out this week. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to speculate right now. You know, emotions are running
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  Speaker 1: high obviously.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I I I hope that I'm still here. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we we've we've got the makings of
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  Speaker 1: of being a good football team. You know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, our guys are our our main guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one need to get healthy and then and
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  Speaker 1: then two we've we've got to continue to work hard.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm optimistic and hopeful that that happens.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that this could be a quick turnaround
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  Speaker 3: in terms of this team being able to get back
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  Speaker 3: to where you guys had been over the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, maybe even more faster than you would probably
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  Speaker 3: think for like a younger team or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it kind of has to honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the turnaround has to be quick. It has
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  Speaker 1: to be fast and and and we we got to
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  Speaker 1: do it the right way, and that's to continuing to
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  Speaker 1: work and and just build the pieces and you know,
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  Speaker 1: put to put together a you know, a strong football team,
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  Speaker 1: you know heading into next year.
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  Speaker 2: When you when you look at this, this whole thing,
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  Speaker 2: do you think it's just plays in one score games
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  Speaker 2: or do you think a plan that.
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  Speaker 3: You guys set out, even going back to February.
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  Speaker 2: March, where guys would play, who would play, those type
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  Speaker 2: of things didn't work as as well as you didn't play.
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  Speaker 1: Now now I don't I don't think that. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously we set out with a plan,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and then sometimes that gets a little
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  Speaker 1: derailed with injury as the season goes. And offensively it
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  Speaker 1: affected us. I mean, we missed a lot of our
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  Speaker 1: weapons on offense. And you know, quite honestly, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: two years in a row, you know, our quarterback hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been healthy and and that's that's something we've got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that that he stays healthy and and and
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  Speaker 1: he will and he knows that he's he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he sees it and understands that. But I think the
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  Speaker 1: plan too to play some of these young guys that
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  Speaker 1: we did, and some of them had to fill in
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  Speaker 1: some big, big shoes, you know. I mean you look
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  Speaker 1: at Jari and maybe wasn't going to be a pencil
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  Speaker 1: to starter right away, but he got thrown in there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right away and played a lot. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can look at Mason and Jordan and
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  Speaker 1: all those guys BT, you know, all those all those
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  Speaker 1: young players just stepping up and and and and playing
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  Speaker 1: because we're that's that's what's gonna make us a better
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  Speaker 1: team moving forward, you know, playing playing that many guys
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  Speaker 1: in other way have seen him in a while.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at the compilation of what are
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  Speaker 2: you with him? And where is he and all of
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  Speaker 2: that and going into twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five, and opinion, I I I'm excited, he's excited. He
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  Speaker 1: he's looking forward obviously to the offseason and and really
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  Speaker 1: I think I think overall learning from this year and
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  Speaker 1: and and taking it another step further and getting better
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  Speaker 1: himself and getting better as a team. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's excited and and uh, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: really looking forward to the opportunity to to get back
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  Speaker 1: out on the field when he can, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of riding the ship and and getting us, getting
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  Speaker 1: us back on track.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think of just how the team unfolded this season?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like week to week it was confusing almost
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  Speaker 3: as to why things were happening with What do you
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  Speaker 3: sort of make of that in terms of the confusion
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  Speaker 3: as to what's going wrong?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of well, I mean, those are all
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  Speaker 1: things that now, obviously I get it. I get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to sit back and obviously take a look at
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  Speaker 1: and evaluate. You know, I think I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: needs to take place. And then you can probably put
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a finger on the wise and you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know, it's we're all in it together, so everybody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the accountability is everybody, and we've got to
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  Speaker 1: look at that. And but but those are you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever whatever comes out of that, that's what we got
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  Speaker 1: to fix, right, That's what we got to fix moving forward,