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- 0:00Speaker 1: Uh. More importantly, we got the win. I think that, uh,
- 0:03Speaker 1: I think that tops everything off. But you know, we
- 0:06Speaker 1: got the win and you know, tied to the record,
- 0:09Speaker 1: just getting closer to breaking it. You know, next game
- 0:12Speaker 1: we got Houston, another good team playing against a great
- 0:15Speaker 1: defense that they got over there. So we're gonna have
- 0:17Speaker 1: to be on our details going into next week too.
- 0:27Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we every game, we go into
- 0:30Speaker 1: every game trying to win first and foremost, you know,
- 0:33Speaker 1: we all had to be on our p's and q's.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Guys stepped up in a big way. Guys played a
- 0:36Speaker 1: huge old Travis. I think we ran the ball very
- 0:39Speaker 1: well and we continue to run throughout the whole game.
- 0:42Speaker 2: And then Trevor made a lot of good plays.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Parker stepped up special teams, you got trammed, and you
- 0:47Speaker 1: had I think it really all started with Cam.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Uh.
- 0:50Speaker 1: You know, we try to create a contagious uh environment
- 0:54Speaker 1: when one when one play goes good, let that be
- 0:57Speaker 1: contagious and let that effect the next play, the next play.
- 1:00Speaker 2: And then we come out on third. We come out
- 1:02Speaker 2: on defense.
- 1:03Speaker 1: We got an interception two plays later, so and then
- 1:06Speaker 1: offense capitalizing as well.
- 1:07Speaker 2: I think Truvor told me. They scored five.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Score five times the last five drives or something like that,
- 1:12Speaker 1: or got points.
- 1:14Speaker 2: That's the momentum that we needed.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Defensively, we gotta do a better job on getting off
- 1:19Speaker 1: the field.
- 1:21Speaker 2: But great team win. No, I was rushing.
- 1:31Speaker 1: I heard it. Yeah, I mean I turned around. I
- 1:38Speaker 1: heard the and I turned around. The balls on the ground, jacksman,
- 1:43Speaker 1: I'm exhausted.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Good ship. Mm hmm.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Is it's really nice that we gotta come together as
- 2:11Speaker 1: a as a team.
- 2:12Speaker 4: Uh.
- 2:12Speaker 1: We gotta stick to what we do best and execute
- 2:16Speaker 1: the calls that's being called.
- 2:18Speaker 2: We can't do anything extra.
- 2:21Speaker 1: If everybody does their job at a very high level,
- 2:23Speaker 1: good things would happen. Good things are gonna happen. And
- 2:26Speaker 1: we came out everybody's supposed to be. We stopped them
- 2:29Speaker 1: on the We stop 'em first and second down. We
- 2:30Speaker 1: stoped 'em on first down, came back second and long.
- 2:33Speaker 1: We knew they would go on a lot of quick game.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Coach called a hell of a play. Uh got our
- 2:37Speaker 1: corner up there and he just made his play. And
- 2:41Speaker 1: that's what we needed. That's what we need all the time,
- 2:44Speaker 1: and that's what's contagious. Like let's be some y just
- 2:47Speaker 1: do your job and make that contagious throughout the game.
- 2:49Speaker 2: And if we can do that, I think we're a
- 2:51Speaker 2: hard team to beat. I don't know, I don't know.
- 2:58Speaker 2: I he swung on 'em. Appreciate it.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know.
- 3:10Speaker 3: I think we've dealt with so many two minute situations
- 3:13Speaker 3: with our offense before.
- 3:15Speaker 4: I mean, you can harp on it.
- 3:17Speaker 3: I guess Bengals game, no Sam Fraang game, no Bengals game,
- 3:21Speaker 3: no Sam Fraan.
- 3:22Speaker 4: Game, Sam frag game, and the Carolina game.
- 3:24Speaker 3: We've both gotten field goal range twice right before half,
- 3:28Speaker 3: and so I think that preparation leading up to this
- 3:31Speaker 3: two minute drill was no different. I mean, Trevor does
- 3:34Speaker 3: such a good job to get us into field range
- 3:35Speaker 3: every time, so I'm expecting you go out there and
- 3:37Speaker 3: kick a field goal. And I think that's a very
- 3:39Speaker 3: normal thing for me. Is I'm always going out there
- 3:43Speaker 3: thinking we're going to kick a field goal right before half.
- 3:45Speaker 3: We could have the opportunity, and so yeah, I try
- 3:47Speaker 3: to stay away from everyone and just kind of gather
- 3:49Speaker 3: my thoughts and my kicking nets on the opposite side
- 3:51Speaker 3: of our you know, offense, kicking toward whichever way we're
- 3:54Speaker 3: going and yeah, I just try and you know.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Be with myself at that point. I don't want any externals.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I don't any emotion of the game, whether we score
- 4:01Speaker 3: touchdown on that drive or we take a whatever, negative,
- 4:05Speaker 3: I don't.
- 4:05Speaker 4: It's that doesn't bother me.
- 4:07Speaker 3: I'm I'm in my present present mindset.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Not really yet. No.
- 4:16Speaker 3: We went out there and uh, like, you're looking at
- 4:19Speaker 3: it and I'm like, crap, this is sixty eight yarder
- 4:22Speaker 3: and so yeah, you look at it and it's like,
- 4:25Speaker 3: you know, kick it straight enough, kick it long.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Enough, and it goes in.
- 4:27Speaker 3: And simply simply put, we're playing indoors and we're on
- 4:30Speaker 3: natural grass. You kick it long enough, and you kick
- 4:32Speaker 3: it straight enough, it's gonna go in. And so Logan,
- 4:36Speaker 3: me and Logan kind of had like a one on
- 4:37Speaker 3: one right before the kick, and I said it it's
- 4:39Speaker 3: as ball as hard as I can. And usually when
- 4:42Speaker 3: I tell myself that, I find success. So, you know,
- 4:45Speaker 3: went out there and just let it loose. I think
- 4:46Speaker 3: that's when I play my best during outside noise in
- 4:55Speaker 3: terms of trying to turn against you in a sense.
- 4:59Speaker 4: Right, but never lost. How much does that you?
- 5:03Speaker 3: Yeah, No, one hundred percent. I think I was just
- 5:08Speaker 3: talking to Bucky about it, and this organization from top
- 5:13Speaker 3: to bottom, from front office to coaching staff to players,
- 5:17Speaker 3: has instilled so much confidence in me through adversity that
- 5:21Speaker 3: I've you know, for the first time really in my
- 5:23Speaker 3: career that I've faced. And so I think when I
- 5:26Speaker 3: really sit back and think about it, and you know,
- 5:30Speaker 3: they let me know how much confidence they have in me,
- 5:32Speaker 3: it's forever and debted to this place, and they know
- 5:35Speaker 3: how hard I work, they know how much this means
- 5:37Speaker 3: to me, and for them to go out there when
- 5:42Speaker 3: I'm obviously not performing my best and staying on the
- 5:45Speaker 3: table for me is something I'll forever being debted to
- 5:47Speaker 3: this organization too.
- 5:48Speaker 4: But I think that kind of talks about what kind
- 5:51Speaker 4: of culture we have here. I think you.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Look at this win specifically today, and you think about
- 5:57Speaker 3: everyone coming together as a whole and doing this and
- 5:59Speaker 3: not doing this when maybe plays didn't go our way.
- 6:03Speaker 3: I think that just speaks about the culture that from
- 6:05Speaker 3: front office to coaching staff to players is building, like
- 6:08Speaker 3: you see us, and we go out there and win
- 6:10Speaker 3: that game and at the end of the day and
- 6:12Speaker 3: win as a win, and so man I'm so proud
- 6:16Speaker 3: to be in this organization and be a part of
- 6:18Speaker 3: something where the culture and having each other's back means something,
- 6:22Speaker 3: and it's it's such a cool thing to be a
- 6:23Speaker 3: part of. No, Like I said, I was just kind
- 6:30Speaker 3: of in the moment when I when I'm doing that stuff,
- 6:32Speaker 3: it's literally like you know, people always ask what do
- 6:35Speaker 3: you think about before you kick? Well, you don't really
- 6:36Speaker 3: think about anything, like you just you black out into
- 6:38Speaker 3: a mindset of I'm relying on my muscle memory at
- 6:42Speaker 3: this point. I think a lot of kickers around the
- 6:43Speaker 3: league would say that, yeah, I mean I kicked it straight.
- 6:49Speaker 3: It kind of just stayed left middle of the whole time.
- 6:51Speaker 3: It didn't really draw much. My ball naturally draws a
- 6:53Speaker 3: little bit if I hit it on the screws, and
- 6:55Speaker 3: so you know, once Logan threw his arms up like
- 6:59Speaker 3: he's done that to twice, now, I kind of had
- 7:01Speaker 3: an idea that it was going in. So you know,
- 7:05Speaker 3: you go so far back in that ball takes a
- 7:07Speaker 3: long time for it to get there, and so you
- 7:10Speaker 3: don't want to ever celebrate too early before the kid
- 7:12Speaker 3: goes in. And so once I saw it clear the crossbar,
- 7:14Speaker 3: I was obviously, that's when I knew it was good.
- 7:16Speaker 3: It's tough for me to tell a lot of guys
- 7:18Speaker 3: are taller than me too, So.
- 7:24Speaker 4: Man, he was just happy for me.
- 7:25Speaker 3: I think he just that was a really cool moment
- 7:28Speaker 3: for not only probably him, but for me, because, like
- 7:32Speaker 3: I said, I haven't you know, maybe I haven't performed
- 7:35Speaker 3: as well as I should be, and I can take
- 7:36Speaker 3: accountability for that. I need to go out there and
- 7:38Speaker 3: make the kicks that I was missing at times. And
- 7:41Speaker 3: so for us to kind of have that moment together,
- 7:43Speaker 3: it was it was really cool. And like I said,
- 7:45Speaker 3: that kind of just ties back to the confidence that
- 7:47Speaker 3: he has in me, has in me, and it was
- 7:49Speaker 3: really cool just to share that moment probably till next week.
- 7:54Speaker 3: To be honest, there's probably something I'm not even joking.
- 7:56Speaker 3: You and me, Logan and Ross are just joking that
- 7:58Speaker 3: a guy round the league probably broke it before the.
- 8:00Speaker 4: Game even ended.
- 8:01Speaker 3: So no, but there's just so many talented Like I
- 8:04Speaker 3: harp on this all the time when someone asks about seven,
- 8:06Speaker 3: You're like, there's so many good kickers around this league.
- 8:09Speaker 4: There's so many guys that.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Are very, very capable of hitting that kick, and just
- 8:12Speaker 3: all comes a matter of you know, when you get
- 8:14Speaker 3: the opportunity seizing it. So I don't doubt that someone
- 8:18Speaker 3: will probably break that record at some point. Yeah, you
- 8:28Speaker 3: kind of as you grow, As I've grown throughout my career.
- 8:32Speaker 4: I think one thing where I've kind of realized.
- 8:35Speaker 3: Is as a specialist, not only punting and kicking, but
- 8:39Speaker 3: just for your team, momentum plays are huge. I mean
- 8:41Speaker 3: kicking kicking a field goal, maybe not one to put
- 8:44Speaker 3: us up points, but it gives us momentum. And I
- 8:46Speaker 3: think that was you know, I was talking to I
- 8:49Speaker 3: think it was venture halftime, and he was like, man,
- 8:51Speaker 3: that's a big momentum play for us.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Way to go, and.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Any chance that I can to just put points on
- 8:56Speaker 3: the board for our team, I'm expected to go out
- 8:58Speaker 3: there and do that. And you know, obviously I felt
- 9:01Speaker 3: felt like I, uh, maybe had a part in the momentum,
- 9:03Speaker 3: but not a not a not a huge part considering
- 9:06Speaker 3: how many guys played their tails off out there and
- 9:08Speaker 3: had a lot more to do with that win than
- 9:09Speaker 3: I did.
- 9:10Speaker 4: So yeah, thank you guys.
- 9:13Speaker 5: Yeah I felt I felt better, for sure, feel a
- 9:15Speaker 5: little bit better after getting the win though. That was
- 9:18Speaker 5: a that was a fun one, So definitely gonna feel
- 9:20Speaker 5: a little bit better on this plane ride back, but
- 9:22Speaker 5: it would be nice to rest up and get off
- 9:24Speaker 5: my feet for a little bit.
- 9:25Speaker 4: There's always a big hit. Something said that cams kick
- 9:31Speaker 4: at the end of the first.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Half sorted you guys made the leader of this team.
- 9:38Speaker 4: Our kicker just hit sixty.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was huge.
- 9:41Speaker 5: And then you look at the end of the game
- 9:43Speaker 5: and how big those three points were, So it was
- 9:45Speaker 5: it was huge. I think offensively, we were moving the ball,
- 9:48Speaker 5: but we weren't getting any points. So to be able
- 9:50Speaker 5: to get a field goal there before the half and
- 9:52Speaker 5: something kind of go our way and get us, give us,
- 9:54Speaker 5: give us a little momentum.
- 9:56Speaker 2: It was great.
- 9:56Speaker 5: And then I think in the second half, obviously we
- 9:58Speaker 5: made some adjustments and we just played a lot cleaner
- 9:59Speaker 5: off offensively. Uh, you know, I didn't really take myself there.
- 10:09Speaker 5: I was like, it's gonna have to be really really
- 10:11Speaker 5: bad to not play, So I didn't really give myself
- 10:13Speaker 5: that option. But you know, thankfully, as you know, feeling
- 10:18Speaker 5: a little bit better by the time the game rolled
- 10:20Speaker 5: around where I was gonna I mean, it would have
- 10:22Speaker 5: taken a lot to keep me out of it so,
- 10:24Speaker 5: but now it was all good.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:34Speaker 5: I just think, you know, the complimentary aspect of our
- 10:36Speaker 5: team feeding off one another and having each other's backs,
- 10:40Speaker 5: and maybe the first half, you know, we didn't score
- 10:43Speaker 5: really any points offensively and the defense held them to six.
- 10:46Speaker 5: And then second half, you know, we had to score more,
- 10:49Speaker 5: and you know we were I think we scored on
- 10:50Speaker 5: our last four or five drives or whatever ended up being.
- 10:53Speaker 5: So I think that's where you're seeing our team grow.
- 10:55Speaker 5: And there's a lot of things that we still got
- 10:57Speaker 5: to improve on and that we can do better. But
- 11:00Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, you want
- 11:01Speaker 5: to swin the game, final way to win, and we
- 11:03Speaker 5: were able to do that and obviously crazy ending there,
- 11:05Speaker 5: but found a way.
- 11:08Speaker 3: In the second half.
- 11:10Speaker 4: Line, hey, let's keep.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Were they act like that?
- 11:19Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 11:20Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean when you when you can run the
- 11:21Speaker 5: ball like we did today and stay on schedule and
- 11:24Speaker 5: consistently have that threat of the run game and running
- 11:29Speaker 5: as well as we did, I mean, that's huge and
- 11:30Speaker 5: I think those guys feed off that and you can
- 11:32Speaker 5: see them getting going. Obviously they want to move people,
- 11:34Speaker 5: run the ball. That gets them kind of in a
- 11:37Speaker 5: groove and then it was cool in the overtime drive.
- 11:40Speaker 5: How many time I think we ran it like seven
- 11:41Speaker 5: times straight or something, maybe maybe more than that. So, uh,
- 11:44Speaker 5: just to see those guys continuing to step up and
- 11:47Speaker 5: move the line of scrimmage when everybody in the stadium
- 11:49Speaker 5: knows you're running it is pretty impressive. Let's I mean,
- 12:01Speaker 5: just guys stepping up. That's what was really cool about today.
- 12:03Speaker 5: There's a lot of guys that stepped up. You know,
- 12:06Speaker 5: it wasn't exactly what you thought it would be going
- 12:09Speaker 5: to the game. Obviously, guys go down and guys have
- 12:12Speaker 5: stepped up make plays. Tim made the big play on
- 12:13Speaker 5: the shallow cross what was that that was in the
- 12:17Speaker 5: fourth court down there to get us kind of in
- 12:19Speaker 5: field goal range and making a big play. I mean,
- 12:22Speaker 5: it's it's cool Tram with the big kickoff return and
- 12:24Speaker 5: guys that are just ready to go no matter what.
- 12:26Speaker 5: You know, those are guys that you know, I haven't
- 12:28Speaker 5: gotten all the opportunities, but you can see the way
- 12:30Speaker 5: they prepare because they can come in and make plays,
- 12:32Speaker 5: and that's you know, testament to the work they put in.
- 12:35Speaker 3: How big just for this game just to be able
- 12:38Speaker 3: to keep.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Yeah, it was huge. He played, He played great.
- 12:42Speaker 5: I think that's a that's something that obviously we need
- 12:45Speaker 5: to keep doing is keep him involved obviously, but staying
- 12:49Speaker 5: on schedule and giving him as many opportunities as possible.
- 12:51Speaker 5: How he did some awesome things today. He played really hard,
- 12:53Speaker 5: ran hard, broke a lot of tackles. The line obviously,
- 12:56Speaker 5: moved the line of scrimmage. It was was fun to watch. Yeah,
- 13:03Speaker 5: I didn't know who who bad at it. I saw
- 13:05Speaker 5: obviously the I was looking. It looked like the first
- 13:08Speaker 5: part of Gino's read, you know, wasn't open. So I
- 13:11Speaker 5: saw him kind of reset and then I'm trying to
- 13:13Speaker 5: see who's over there. Then I just see the ball disappear.
- 13:15Speaker 5: And that's a good feeling, especially the way the second
- 13:19Speaker 5: half was. You get down and score and then obviously
- 13:21Speaker 5: they kind of went down. Our defense had to make
- 13:23Speaker 5: a big play. I mean, that's that's cool.
- 13:27Speaker 4: Away from the game question, I remember when you went
- 13:30Speaker 4: to eleven.
- 13:36Speaker 5: And that's where TTR was.
- 13:38Speaker 2: I'm just curious when.
- 13:39Speaker 1: Keeping touch or you know, that was just a pretty
- 13:41Speaker 1: special class.
- 13:45Speaker 5: Especially Yeah, you know, I don't keep you know, really
- 13:50Speaker 5: in much contact with some of those guys. I do,
- 13:52Speaker 5: but not a ton of them. When I see him, obviously,
- 13:55Speaker 5: it's you know, we have a relationship and we talk
- 13:57Speaker 5: and kind of catch up with you know, played or
- 14:01Speaker 5: TTR any of those guys, but you know, haven't kept
- 14:04Speaker 5: up with them recently. But obviously we had a great
- 14:06Speaker 5: class and some good memories.
- 14:08Speaker 4: How would you guys?
- 14:14Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we just stayed in it, and you know,
- 14:18Speaker 5: we we also had the understanding of offensively, you know,
- 14:21Speaker 5: we didn't have points to show for it, but we
- 14:23Speaker 5: had moved the ball. I felt like our plan was
- 14:25Speaker 5: really good, Like we had a lot of opportunities. We
- 14:27Speaker 5: were run on the ball pretty well, had some good
- 14:28Speaker 5: stuff in the past game, and we just shot ourselves
- 14:31Speaker 5: in the foot a couple of times early early downs
- 14:33Speaker 5: and then some penalties, some big penalties on third down
- 14:35Speaker 5: that put us you know, third and long. So I
- 14:37Speaker 5: think we all understood like, hey, we're fine, you know,
- 14:40Speaker 5: we we have all these plays out there for us.
- 14:42Speaker 5: We just got to settle in and play a little smarter.
- 14:44Speaker 5: And I think everybody you know took that approach. Thank
- 14:48Speaker 5: y'all appreciate it.