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Press Pass | Foye Oluokun: "We keep fighting all the way through." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Aha, you went to Yale. What were the uh, what
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  Speaker 1: was the probability of coming from behind down twenty seven? Nothing?
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  Speaker 1: And if you had to pin it on a moment
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, when did it turn? It was gradual.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the odds. I told them, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, but I love my chances. Like, as long
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  Speaker 1: as there's a little probability of winning at all, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep fighting. And when we saw the thing at
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  Speaker 1: the table starting turning, we had momentum. We kept that,
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  Speaker 1: just keep getting the ball back to the offense. They
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  Speaker 1: started rolling. Um, I don't I couldn't pinpoint in exact time,
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  Speaker 1: but when we started making them punt, when we started scoring,
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  Speaker 1: I think that were touched down the evan maybe over
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  Speaker 1: the middle. You know, once we saw we had a
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  Speaker 1: larger chance, you know, might as well take it. Hey
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  Speaker 1: for first career playoff game for you, is this one,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the way it went that you'll remember forever? Yeah? Probably? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: That was crazy. We were down and we want I
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  Speaker 1: just love the way the boys came together as a
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  Speaker 1: team when things got hard. We went in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's pretty calm. We said, you know, we're not playing well,
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  Speaker 1: let's play better, and uh, everybody said, we're gonna play
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  Speaker 1: better for our brothers, you know, buy some more time
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  Speaker 1: for our brothers. And when we came together like that,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's accountability went up and we all played hard and
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  Speaker 1: you know, came out with the win. Bruce Hope, Florida
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  Speaker 1: start a newspaper. When, um, when the offense starts getting
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  Speaker 1: it rolling like they did in the second half, what
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  Speaker 1: does that do for you guys as a defense, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, you start flying around more, the energy picks up.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me kind of where you were on that. It's
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  Speaker 1: cool to see them start going. Uh, it turned from
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  Speaker 1: stops to let's get three and ounce, Like, let's get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back to him as soon as possible. Keep
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  Speaker 1: getting the ball in their hands because they're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: something special with it. So we was on our on
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  Speaker 1: our you know p's and Q, but we was mad
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  Speaker 1: about letting them drive that one drive that they missed
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  Speaker 1: the field goal. On our job. When the offense rolling,
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  Speaker 1: and get the ball back to them as soon as
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  Speaker 1: possible and they'll just take the game over. Back here
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  Speaker 1: in the back, Will Brown w j C T News,
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  Speaker 1: you will have been here before towards the end of games.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants here ever been t I a bank. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants, the Raiders, the Texans, You've been here a lot.
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  Speaker 1: How much did all of those experiences of games coming
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  Speaker 1: down to the last three minutes here at home help
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  Speaker 1: you all get back into this game? Yeah? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I hope we do. It's funny something a lot and
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  Speaker 1: we've been down a lot a lot of times. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the year we came back and lost, and
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  Speaker 1: then later in the year as the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: year went on, we came back and one. So it's
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  Speaker 1: the same energy. Let's just make this game close, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we do the right things to end
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  Speaker 1: the game. We went into half, we got got a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: We came back, you know, we got seven, came back
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  Speaker 1: at the halftime. I think they might have got three
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  Speaker 1: or something, but we kept fighting, made the game closer
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  Speaker 1: and closer to chip away. That games close will take
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  Speaker 1: our side at the end of the game. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we did. You know, we had I told him
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  Speaker 1: we just need one stop, we're gonna win it. We
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  Speaker 1: had that stop. They went down to kick the field goal,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the situation of football strategically, Uh, what changed
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  Speaker 1: that halftime? Like, good question, Well, yeah, well what changed
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  Speaker 1: at halftime? Like they obviously had a few short fields
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  Speaker 1: to start, you know, going into the half and things
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  Speaker 1: of that nature. But in after halftime you previously mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that you guys had more persent and urgency. It was
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  Speaker 1: more about getting three and ounce. Did anything change as
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  Speaker 1: far as the coverage is, as far as the game
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  Speaker 1: plan and anything along those lines. It was he just hey,
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  Speaker 1: play better, Yeah, kind of play better. Uh, we had
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  Speaker 1: seen the plays that they run to our specific coverages,
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  Speaker 1: so we kind of went over how to match the
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  Speaker 1: routes and uh, you know, get a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a different um nuance within the past rush, but really
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  Speaker 1: just execute our plays. We put some plays in for
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  Speaker 1: this week and we need to execute them. Wait, what
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  Speaker 1: were used? What was the conversation among the defense in
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  Speaker 1: the first half the defenders when you saw interception after
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  Speaker 1: interception that had you guys on your heel defending the
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  Speaker 1: red zone. How did you guys rally a bit when
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  Speaker 1: things were seemingly coming downhill on you guys. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta keep hi out the end zone in those situations. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, offense. We're just waiting for them to start going.
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  Speaker 1: If we just made a couple of stops when we
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  Speaker 1: were putting those situations backed up, Um, you know, offense
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  Speaker 1: is gonna capitalize off of that. So our job in
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  Speaker 1: those situations and keep them out the end zone. And
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  Speaker 1: we weren't doing it at first. So we all came
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  Speaker 1: in a half time We're like, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to play better, we need to communicate better, get
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  Speaker 1: there more urgency, tackle better. I know I missed tackle
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  Speaker 1: like maybe first drive, second drive. Uh, just do what
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. And when the offense gets roll
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do that. Rights on the victory ut penalty
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  Speaker 1: against the Chargers allows you guys to go for two
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  Speaker 1: instead of kicking the extra point and then field goal
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  Speaker 1: ties and do you get that? You know, Trevor gets
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  Speaker 1: the two pointer. How does that change everything in the
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  Speaker 1: mindset of the pty. I don't even know what happened
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  Speaker 1: was oh, it was, it was bad. It wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously you could have taken the fifteen yards and
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  Speaker 1: kicked off from the fifty maybe onside, but they went
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  Speaker 1: for two. You got it? How does that changed the
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  Speaker 1: whole way the defense thinks because now field goal wins
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  Speaker 1: it insteads of ties. It didn't even think about that.
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  Speaker 1: I told him boys while they were driving to score
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  Speaker 1: that touchdown, we get one stop, we're gonna win the game. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: one stop to win it. We had the momentum of
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  Speaker 1: that time offense was rolling. Whether they scored the touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and and uh made a three point game, I felt like,
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  Speaker 1: we get a stop, thing going will score seven. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we knew if we got that stop, we're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: the game. So when it was two points instead, it
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  Speaker 1: was even further. Let's make this three and out, get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back to them, and then offense do what
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  Speaker 1: they needed to do, run that clock out for the
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  Speaker 1: game when the field goal. Congratulations for moving on today.
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  Speaker 1: Three straight games. But that Dallas Cowboys game that you
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  Speaker 1: came from behind and double digits. Do you feel that
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  Speaker 1: that game itself probably provide you with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: momentum going into the final year that you had such
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  Speaker 1: an incredible contest night to pull it out under unbelievable circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like how we were talking about earlier. We
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of close games this year. Um, the
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  Speaker 1: Giants game, I think maybe came back in the Ravens game,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders game, we did those earlier. Um then a
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  Speaker 1: Detroit game happened, and we just knew the kind of
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  Speaker 1: energy and fight we need to have for four quarters,
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  Speaker 1: and we knew if we just brought what we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to bring to the table, anything is possible. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that Dallas game was cool to see, but we had
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  Speaker 1: kind of learned our winning equation a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 1: than that. It's just our accountability on doing that. That's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of how we are as a team right now.
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  Speaker 1: We just keep fighting all the way through. No matter
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in the game, We're gonna put ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: what we feel is the best chance to win, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what happened at the beginning.