Speaker 1: H m hmm. On a fun day, Dog said that
Speaker 1: he felt not every player a gainful effort. As a
Speaker 1: leader of this team, how did you interpret day? How
Speaker 1: do you fix that? Um? Uh? You know he never
Speaker 1: put any specific names on it, UM, So I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you know, he feels like as a team, we probably
Speaker 1: need to play harder. But you know, I know that
Speaker 1: the intent of the guys UM that I practice with
Speaker 1: and play with every day, and and and I didn't
Speaker 1: see effort um being an issue from from my standpoint.
Speaker 1: So I think how I address it on a from
Speaker 1: a leader's standpoint is just to make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: I show up every day, that I get the guys
Speaker 1: to show up every day in practice, which we which
Speaker 1: we already do um, but just continue to to push
Speaker 1: the things that that win games, and and focus on
Speaker 1: the game planes, the mistakes and the things that we
Speaker 1: aren't doing well. UM. As far as performance, guys, you
Speaker 1: know they love this game and lay it on the line.
Speaker 1: So I don't have to coach anybody up on energy
Speaker 1: or showing up. It's just really the performance that we
Speaker 1: got to get back to the game. On Sunday, all
Speaker 1: the players kind of stuck together saying you were all
Speaker 1: trying and giving effort. UM. You just wanted to see
Speaker 1: to say that through the media instead of maybe only
Speaker 1: to you guys. I mean, you know, he didn't put
Speaker 1: anybody's name on it, UM, So you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of those if the shoe fits, wear it, UM. And personally,
Speaker 1: I feel like I played, you know, hard throughout the game.
Speaker 1: I know most guys, if not all guys, probably felt
Speaker 1: like they gave one hundred percent effort and if and
Speaker 1: if they didn't, like I said, they're word that shoe.
Speaker 1: So I think it puts us in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a tough position as players because now everybody wants
Speaker 1: to know what, who are you talking about? UM? But
Speaker 1: that's not something that that that we're worried about. UM.
Speaker 1: I think everybody in this room UM understands that UM
Speaker 1: our effort is never something that that that'll be the
Speaker 1: last thing to go, and we don't. We understand that
Speaker 1: in ourselves we're not quitters, and we trust that the
Speaker 1: guys next to us aren't quit either. So our focus
Speaker 1: this week is just simply on the game plan and
Speaker 1: fixing what we need to do to get a win.
Speaker 1: Disappointed that a team of an issue that you know,
Speaker 1: it was even brought up and everything. Um, it's not
Speaker 1: an issue. It's only the only reason we're dealing with
Speaker 1: is because I have to answer the questions what happened
Speaker 1: in terms of the looking back of the game. Um,
Speaker 1: in terms of third success, crong age, you guys, you
Speaker 1: guys try pretty much of everything. Again, Um, it's a
Speaker 1: combination that we just got beat at a lot of them.
Speaker 1: They had some throws down the field. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just a tough day. Third down wasn't wasn't good. Again,
Speaker 1: we didn't really have much pressure on the quarterback. Just wasn't.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a good day overall. You guys are again to
Speaker 1: find yourself where you were last year leading the league
Speaker 1: and plays of twenty plus yards given up? Why don't
Speaker 1: the coverages work? What? What's what's going on? I mean
Speaker 1: some of them, Uh, you just getting beat at the
Speaker 1: point of attack. Um, you schemed up or you blow
Speaker 1: coverage here there, But most of them have been blowing coverages.
Speaker 1: But I mean you just get beat and you give
Speaker 1: up plays, especially big plays. Then you know that's what
Speaker 1: that's what happens. We ask a lot from our corners m.
Speaker 1: We put them one on one um a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, you say you're gonna have some
Speaker 1: of those plays short. The front Sham swing was energy
Speaker 1: and effort. They thought different, more energy music, that energy.
Speaker 1: It's hard to have energy and you're down three school,
Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean, I think guys still play hard.
Speaker 1: But you know it's it's you know, from just being
Speaker 1: a human being. It's hard to celebrate a play when
Speaker 1: you know you're trying to fight out of a whole um.
Speaker 1: But I think you know, guys still um played hard,
Speaker 1: play with effort um. You know, everybody always talks about
Speaker 1: going out and having fun, where you're only having fun
Speaker 1: when you win in and so we got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get some of the the momentum on
Speaker 1: our side, get uh some of the the plays and
Speaker 1: things to swing in our favor, and then we can
Speaker 1: have some fun as a team. But it's it's really
Speaker 1: hard to to to have that enthusiasm that that you
Speaker 1: want to see um when when you're got your backs
Speaker 1: against wall. There's so many games this year that you
Speaker 1: guys have been in a hole early for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Fourteen nothing, you know, ten nothing, seventeen early second quarter.
Speaker 1: Uh does that wear on guys? Is to have like
Speaker 1: a cumulatve effect, like you know, here we go again.
Speaker 1: You know, um, no, I think you know, especially for
Speaker 1: us defensively, if a team comes out and they drive
Speaker 1: the field, we understand that the team's game plan. They
Speaker 1: have a plan, and really what we try to do
Speaker 1: is adjust to how they're trying to attack us. And
Speaker 1: then you know, we can we can tighten up UM.
Speaker 1: And so if we give up a score in the
Speaker 1: first first drive, we're not in any kind of panic.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't face as we go back, look
Speaker 1: at the cards, see what we need to adjust and tweak,
Speaker 1: and then go back out and play um. And that
Speaker 1: was kind of the case early in the season. It's
Speaker 1: still a case. Now. The difference has been, you know,
Speaker 1: the response the next couple drives. We hadn't gotten off
Speaker 1: the field, um, hadn't got got any takeaways. And and
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, now that that opening drive
Speaker 1: now turns into the opening two drives three, and now
Speaker 1: you got a game that that kind of gets away
Speaker 1: from you. Do you agree with the premise that these
Speaker 1: last four games, Yeah, how you guys to play will
Speaker 1: be a reflection upon your supportive Doug. No, I don't
Speaker 1: I mean, um me personally. You know, although I love Doug,
Speaker 1: Doug is not the reason I get up and play
Speaker 1: and go to work every day. Um. You know, it's
Speaker 1: about the guys in the room and and so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think our effort or how we play, how
Speaker 1: we perform is a direct reflection of um Doug. You
Speaker 1: know it is his his job obviously to lead us
Speaker 1: and and and get us prepared to play. But a
Speaker 1: lot of that onus is on us as players. You know,
Speaker 1: we're the ones. I gotta go perform, we gotta make
Speaker 1: the plays, we gotta show up, we gotta get our
Speaker 1: bodies ready, to get our minds ready. Um. And there's
Speaker 1: only so much a coach can do. Um. So no
Speaker 1: I think, I think whatever is put out on that tape, Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a direct reflection of the guys on
Speaker 1: the films often have clods up the lock. Where's the
Speaker 1: lot of gram? Um? Well, I think everybody's obviously frustrate
Speaker 1: where we're at right now, but we also understand that
Speaker 1: all we can control is is this week, and you know,
Speaker 1: we want to get this win. We're back in the division,
Speaker 1: back at home, and we want this win back. And
Speaker 1: so the biggest thing is trying and from a leadership standpoint,
Speaker 1: is trying to continue to motivate the younger players, keep
Speaker 1: them dialed into the process and the plan um, but
Speaker 1: also reinvigorate, you know what we're doing, bring some juice
Speaker 1: and try some things that um that maybe we hadn't
Speaker 1: done over over the course of the season to get
Speaker 1: this trending back in the direction that we wanted to.
Speaker 1: He's on the other side of the ball. But if
Speaker 1: you notice if Carson has become more vocal as a
Speaker 1: leader for the whole team through the season, I mean
Speaker 1: he's I think as he gets more and more comfortable,
Speaker 1: he takes on a bigger role. But he's not in
Speaker 1: a situation where he he's a running team. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's still a rookie and we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of veterans on the team. But he has um he
Speaker 1: has kind of taken on a little bit more when
Speaker 1: it comes to to that leadership, but he's still not
Speaker 1: somebody that's standing up in front of the room or
Speaker 1: talking in and I think it's good, you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to worry about that. He can just prepare
Speaker 1: for the games. But I think as time moves on
Speaker 1: he gets more and more comfortable, that's something that that
Speaker 1: he'll naturally do, no problem,