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Speaker 1: Titans fall in Washington by account of forty two to nineteen. So, Brian,
Speaker 1: after you got on the plane and you're sitting there
Speaker 1: watching the tape of Sunday's loss, was there anything on
Speaker 1: that tape at all that surprised you?
Speaker 2: No, man, I think surprise is maybe the wrong word.
Speaker 1: Okay, give me a better one.
Speaker 2: There was. There was some things that I that I
Speaker 2: was disappointed by just overall execution. Part of it was
Speaker 2: was left a little to be desired, obviously, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it was. It was a game that we we I
Speaker 2: didn't think at any point. I don't think our team
Speaker 2: felt at any point that should have looked the way
Speaker 2: it did by the end of it. That was a
Speaker 2: team that I thought we could compete with, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know in the second half we did. And and
Speaker 2: when you just you just take the second half alone,
Speaker 2: and and and how we played there was much better
Speaker 2: than how we played to start the game, and it
Speaker 2: was more just an avalanche of things that just sort
Speaker 2: of it just spiral and it happened sometimes like that.
Speaker 2: But it was disappointing to see it just sort of
Speaker 2: get out of hand before we even really had a
Speaker 2: chance to start playing. That was That was the disappointing part.
Speaker 2: There was some things that were positive, you know, I
Speaker 2: think Will's kind of stacked another positive performance together. I
Speaker 2: thought he did some nice things. I think Daryl Worley
Speaker 2: coming off coming off the street a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago and having seventeen tackles and playing nickel and safety
Speaker 2: was pretty impressive. But you know, overall, just too many,
Speaker 2: too many mistakes early on in a game and got
Speaker 2: away from us quickly and could couldn't climb out of it.
Speaker 1: Which your message to the team much different on Monday
Speaker 1: than it was immediately after the game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: No, it was exactly the same and probably maybe maybe
Speaker 2: even a little bit more strongly worded today than it
Speaker 2: was yesterday, just because of you know, you watch the
Speaker 2: things and it just we do too many things over
Speaker 2: the course of a game that put us in position
Speaker 2: to lose and not win. And that's one of the
Speaker 2: things I've stressed since since I've gotten here, is that
Speaker 2: you have to do things a particular way to give
Speaker 2: yourself a chance to win the game. And too many
Speaker 2: times this year we've done those things where we've not
Speaker 2: given ourselves a chance to win the game. When you
Speaker 2: have penalties the way we've had penalties and controllable penalties
Speaker 2: that are that are focus related and execution related, and
Speaker 2: then you have turnovers those are Those are two very
Speaker 2: very glaring statistics that over the history of football would
Speaker 2: tell you that the more of those you have, the
Speaker 2: worsh off your team is going to be and the
Speaker 2: more games are gonna lose. And right now we're in
Speaker 2: a bad spot in all those places. So I have
Speaker 2: to find a way to do that a lot better.
Speaker 3: What specifically did the tape show about why the Titans
Speaker 3: had difficulty stopping the Commander's run game.
Speaker 2: There's there's a there's I'll give credit where credit is due.
Speaker 2: They do a nice job with the run game there
Speaker 2: in Washington. I think Jaye Daniels ads an element to
Speaker 2: their run game that's not standard. It's a lot like
Speaker 2: Little Guy A Little Baltimore. There's just some things about
Speaker 2: the quarterback run game that you don't see a lot
Speaker 2: in the NFL. But there are some teams that do
Speaker 2: some of it, but they do it particularly well. They
Speaker 2: they've they use some of their gap schemes that were
Speaker 2: that we misfit on some of the runs. You know,
Speaker 2: we didn't fit the gaps right. And when you're and
Speaker 2: you're in some of these kind of one back run games,
Speaker 2: the the term usually hear is kind of one back,
Speaker 2: one one one back, one gap, and when you're out
Speaker 2: of one of those gaps, that's where thirty yard runs
Speaker 2: come in, you know. And we just and and it's
Speaker 2: everybody has to do their job at the right spot
Speaker 2: at the right time and in order to knock the
Speaker 2: run out which we've done a very very good job
Speaker 2: of for most of the year. And that that one,
Speaker 2: that one caught us a couple of times early in
Speaker 2: the game. And uh, you know, then the score of
Speaker 2: the game allowed them to continue to run the ball
Speaker 2: at a rate that isn't necessarily normal for the course
Speaker 2: of the game. But they got up big enough and
Speaker 2: they could just keep handing it off and keep running
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: So let's pull it that thread a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Was there anything that the Commanders did or didn't do
Speaker 3: in their running game that surprised you?
Speaker 2: No, those are all they all the things that they've
Speaker 2: done were schemes that they'd shown on tape and and
Speaker 2: there wasn't anything, you know, earth shattering about how they
Speaker 2: came into the game and they just executed at a
Speaker 2: high level, and we didn't, you know, and they we
Speaker 2: we put ourselves in some spots where we had to
Speaker 2: get one more guy in the fit and we had
Speaker 2: to make a tackle, and then we didn't do those things.
Speaker 2: And that's usually what happens in a game like that
Speaker 2: when it gets away, and then again they can they
Speaker 2: continued to run the ball, uh when they were up
Speaker 2: some scores and allowed for some production on the ground
Speaker 2: that I think, you know, ten nine out of ten
Speaker 2: weeks probably doesn't look like that, but but it did.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Commanders were four or four converting third
Speaker 1: and ones, four of five converting third and twos. Now,
Speaker 1: before you get into the why of them being able
Speaker 1: to convert at such a high level, I mean, you
Speaker 1: have third and one or third and two, you've you've
Speaker 1: got a good percentage of conversion. It is just the
Speaker 1: overall number of chances they had on third and short
Speaker 1: the real problem.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's that's one of the things that we
Speaker 2: that every offense in the league preaches, and we certainly
Speaker 2: preach the same, is that you want to be in
Speaker 2: as third and manageable as possible. And you know, they
Speaker 2: would they they'd find a way to get four or
Speaker 2: five yards and two different plays, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it was third and two and it felt like
Speaker 2: and every time I looked up, I'm like, what is
Speaker 2: it third and one again? And then you know they're like, yep,
Speaker 2: third and one again. I'm like, okay, well, it's feels
Speaker 2: like it's a lot. And it was. I mean, they
Speaker 2: were inside a third and five I think, what seven
Speaker 2: or eight time? I mean maybe, I mean. And so
Speaker 2: they did a great job of how we termin to
Speaker 2: staying on schedule on the early downs and giving yourself
Speaker 2: very third and manageables where you can still even run
Speaker 2: the ball and feel good about it. And you know,
Speaker 2: we didn't give ourselves. You know, the old adage in
Speaker 2: the NFL is that you had you have to earn
Speaker 2: the right to rush the passer. You know, and we
Speaker 2: didn't earn the right to rush the passer because we
Speaker 2: didn't we didn't knock the run out well enough to
Speaker 2: put them in spots where they had to throw the football.
Speaker 2: It wasn't enough opportunities for that. And that's a that's
Speaker 2: a big part of playing successful offensive football is being manageable,
Speaker 2: and the good defenses keep you out of those spots
Speaker 2: and make you have to drop back and throw or
Speaker 2: hold the ball or whatever it may be in the
Speaker 2: third and eight, nine, ten, eleven range. And we didn't
Speaker 2: do enough to get them in those spots where over
Speaker 2: the last handful of weeks we've done that.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Daryl Worley credited with seventeen tackles in the game.
Speaker 1: The last time a Titan was credited with seventeen tackles
Speaker 1: in a game September twenty third, twenty twelve, a Keem
Speaker 1: Airs Wow against Detroit.
Speaker 2: I remember, a.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the last time somebody had more Michael Griffin
Speaker 1: eighteen tackles the previous week against San Diego September sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. When a defensive back has that many tackles,
Speaker 1: is that is that.
Speaker 2: That means the balls in the secondary more than you
Speaker 2: want it to be. The other part of that, too,
Speaker 2: is that actually Wary played both positions. He played safety
Speaker 2: for the majority of the beginning of the game, and
Speaker 2: then when Roger got knocked out, he moved in a nickel,
Speaker 2: So that shows his versatility. You know, when you're in
Speaker 2: a next when you're a nickel, you're gonna have way
Speaker 2: more action in the run game and tackling. So that's
Speaker 2: probably where most of those ended up stacking up. He
Speaker 2: probably had a pretty normal safety number game, but the
Speaker 2: nickel reps I think picked that number up for him
Speaker 2: as the game went along. But really a credit to him.
Speaker 2: He's only been here for two or three weeks and
Speaker 2: to be able to jump in and play safety and
Speaker 2: then go play nickel in the same game as pretty impressive. So,
Speaker 2: you know, happy that we have him, and he did
Speaker 2: a nice job shown up for us and two different
Speaker 2: roles where we needed him.
Speaker 3: Why has he been able to be so productive here
Speaker 3: in this defense specifically, Well, he.
Speaker 2: Played it in Baltimore, you know, that's part of it.
Speaker 2: There's some familiarity with the scheme into an art and
Speaker 2: and what's asked of him, and that was one of
Speaker 2: the reasons why signing him when we did and we
Speaker 2: needed some depth and some pieces. Was was a part
Speaker 2: of bringing him in is that he could probably function
Speaker 2: pretty quickly and didn't have to get up to speed,
Speaker 2: if you will. He already had most of the things
Speaker 2: down pat and so you see that from him. And
Speaker 2: on top of that, he's played a lot of football.
Speaker 2: You know, he's played corner in the league, he's played
Speaker 2: safety in the league. He's he's sort of done everything,
Speaker 2: and and you see that from him when you when
Speaker 2: you when he goes and plays like that.
Speaker 3: Let's flip over to offense a little bit. You mentioned
Speaker 3: earlier that it felt like this team could never actually
Speaker 3: play because of the deficit that started so early in
Speaker 3: the game. Does it also make it hard for you
Speaker 3: to evaluate the performance of the offense because they never
Speaker 3: could just play yes and.
Speaker 2: No, I mean yes and the terms like yes because
Speaker 2: it became a drop back passing game, which we didn't
Speaker 2: want to do obviously, and that's but there's things that
Speaker 2: evaluate within that. And then but there's we didn't never
Speaker 2: really get to like get to them the plan. You know,
Speaker 2: we kind of got knocked out of it so fast
Speaker 2: that we didn't have a chance to actually do some
Speaker 2: of the things that that we liked in the game plan,
Speaker 2: especially in the run game, in the play actions, and
Speaker 2: you know, we looked up and it was like we
Speaker 2: had run ten plays on offense, which is again is
Speaker 2: partly our fault offensively, we didn't convert. You know, I
Speaker 2: think two third downs there we don't convert, and then
Speaker 2: we turn the ball over on the third series, and
Speaker 2: then that was that. And there's twenty one nothing, twenty
Speaker 2: eight nothing before even I mean, I feel like I
Speaker 2: hadn't even gotten into the opening plays yet and then
Speaker 2: we're in that spot. So that was disappointing that we
Speaker 2: couldn't see what the game plan was going to look like.
Speaker 2: But but there's also plenty of things to evaluate from
Speaker 2: how we did play and the things we did in
Speaker 2: the passing game over the course of the game.
Speaker 1: Take it further with will Levis, how do you evaluate
Speaker 1: him and consider him to have stacked another good performance
Speaker 1: when the game was just so out of out of
Speaker 1: hand so quickly.
Speaker 2: He kept fighting in there, you know, that was one
Speaker 2: of the things. He kept finding ways to move the
Speaker 2: team and we you know, we score a touchdown at
Speaker 2: the at the end of the half. In the two
Speaker 2: minute drill, we come out and we put ourselves into
Speaker 2: two field goal spots. Again, those are those are moments
Speaker 2: though that have we gotten touchdowns in those spots? You know,
Speaker 2: maybe we got a whole different second half on our hands,
Speaker 2: you know, instead of kicking two field goals in those drives.
Speaker 2: But there was a lot of good things. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's it's the most probably dropped back passing that he's
Speaker 2: been put through in a course of a game. And
Speaker 2: didn't you know, we dropped some balls, which was disappointing.
Speaker 2: And you know, the protection's hard when you're just dropping
Speaker 2: back and you know you got to get guys out
Speaker 2: in the pattern, and so we had some protection issues
Speaker 2: as well. But just to see the way he fought,
Speaker 2: he found complete, he's playing on time, He created a
Speaker 2: couple of plays. Still working on that part is you know,
Speaker 2: the feel in the pocket and getting out and creating
Speaker 2: more when you have opportunities. But I just I thought
Speaker 2: it was another solid game for him just doing the
Speaker 2: things that you just want to see a quarterback do.
Speaker 2: Wasn't a winning effort overall, But just if you're just
Speaker 2: talking evaluation of growth, I think there was more of
Speaker 2: that again this.
Speaker 1: Week thirty nine drop backs, only two sacks for a
Speaker 1: total of minus two yards. That would tell us on paper,
Speaker 1: the offensive lines protection was pretty good.
Speaker 2: It was it was okay, it was okay, it was
Speaker 2: you know, I think We'll did a good job a
Speaker 2: couple of times. One of the things we've been talking
Speaker 2: about is the early down sacks. You know, that's why
Speaker 2: some of the sack totals are high in some of
Speaker 2: these games. And it's just about just throw the ball
Speaker 2: away and let us live for second and ten, not
Speaker 2: second and seventeen. And he did that two or three times.
Speaker 2: You know, he threw the ball away a few times,
Speaker 2: and so it's going to hurt his completion percentage, but
Speaker 2: it's going to help our offense overall. And just to
Speaker 2: see that happen, I think, what two or three times
Speaker 2: he just threw it away. It's like, great, that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good's that's growth. And so it helped us not
Speaker 2: take four or five more sacks in the game because
Speaker 2: he just threw two or three of them away. And
Speaker 2: that's great. It's what we're hoping for. And he's learning
Speaker 2: every game he goes out there, you know, more and
Speaker 2: more about how to efficiently play the position, and then
Speaker 2: making some big throws and making some big plays when
Speaker 2: he had to.
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Speaker 1: with Titans head coach Brian Callahan. So let's now turn
Speaker 1: to this week's opponent, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: Their quarterback Truck Lawrence, suffered a concussion in Sunday's game
Speaker 3: against Houston, So yet again, the Tennessee Titans are not
Speaker 3: sure what quarterback they're going to be seeing on Sunday
Speaker 3: in the event that he can't go against the Titans.
Speaker 3: Mac Jones came in and played pretty well against Houston Texans.
Speaker 3: All things considered, what does mac Jones bring to the
Speaker 3: Jags offense?
Speaker 2: Maybe he's a first round pick. You know, he played
Speaker 2: quite a bit of football over over his first couple
Speaker 2: of years. And you see that. You see a guy
Speaker 2: he's got some skills and some talent, and he's played
Speaker 2: good college football. He had some good you know, he's
Speaker 2: had a really good what first year I think in
Speaker 2: New England. There's just there's some things about him that
Speaker 2: you know that he's not a throwaway. He's not just
Speaker 2: you know, he's not some bum off the street like
Speaker 2: Mac can play football, and they got good weapons there,
Speaker 2: they got good talent in Jacksonville, and they haven't put
Speaker 2: theirs together for whatever reason. But the records similar to ours,
Speaker 2: probably for a lot of the same reasons that ours
Speaker 2: is not great either, And so we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to fight like hell to be able
Speaker 2: to go try to get a win at home here
Speaker 2: against a divisional opponent. And Mac is certainly he's respectable.
Speaker 2: I mean, we should be respectful of his ability to
Speaker 2: move the team and score touchdowns because he's done that before.
Speaker 3: Rookie first round pick Brian Thomas has also been playing
Speaker 3: great lately. On Sunday, he added four more catches for
Speaker 3: seventy six yards and a touchdown and that includes a
Speaker 3: fifty six yard reception. What is he doing so well
Speaker 3: that's allowing him to have such a strong rookie season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could. You see he was prepared and ready
Speaker 2: when he came in. And you know, guy that we
Speaker 2: looked in the draft as well, and in one of
Speaker 2: those guys like this guy's going to be a good player.
Speaker 2: And guy has all the requisite skills set. He can run,
Speaker 2: he can catch, he's strong, he's fast, and then they've
Speaker 2: put him in positions to let him showcase those skills
Speaker 2: and he continues to make the plays when when he's
Speaker 2: been called upon. So good player, come on, really strong
Speaker 2: for a rookie receiver, I think he's up there with
Speaker 2: rookie players for sure in terms of production. Got her
Speaker 2: hands full with him. I mean, he's he's proven that
Speaker 2: he's capable of being a upper echelon receiver in the league.
Speaker 1: Does he essentially and I mean Brian Thomas, does he
Speaker 1: essentially play the role that Calvin Ridley did for Jacksonville
Speaker 1: a year ago?
Speaker 2: There's probably some similarities, you know, without without really studying
Speaker 2: all of it, there's also probably things that he does
Speaker 2: this different style player than than Calvin is, So I'm
Speaker 2: sure they use him differently, route treewise and maybe some
Speaker 2: things they try to do for him than they did
Speaker 2: with Calvin. I'm not saying it's dramatically different, but there's
Speaker 2: probably some differences because they're both different style players.
Speaker 1: It's turned to defense. How about Trayvon Walker.
Speaker 3: Would love to and mean, he's had a great year
Speaker 3: three and he had another sack on Sunday, So why
Speaker 3: is he becoming such a problem for opposing offenses?
Speaker 2: Well, I think edge rushers in general, very few come
Speaker 2: in and make immediate, big time impacts. You know, you
Speaker 2: look over over time, it takes him two or three years.
Speaker 2: Because college they're usually just bigger, faster, and stronger than
Speaker 2: the competition and they let that win form. When you
Speaker 2: get up here, you realize that you have to have
Speaker 2: rush plans and rush counters, and you have to you
Speaker 2: see all different styles of tackles, and you see all
Speaker 2: different styles of good players, and you have to develop
Speaker 2: a repertoire and a pass rush toolbox, if you will.
Speaker 2: And so I think what you're seeing is the benefit
Speaker 2: of playing over over time, now that you're starting to
Speaker 2: see him come into his own and I would say,
Speaker 2: usually that year three four for pass rushers is when
Speaker 2: they tend to really show up because they've gotten the
Speaker 2: experience behind them and they understand how to play the
Speaker 2: game and how to rush over over time, you know,
Speaker 2: as opposed to just running fast and being big and strong.
Speaker 1: Ryan Nielsen is the defensive coordinator. He's just come over
Speaker 1: from Atlanta. How would you characterize the Jags defensive style
Speaker 1: since we haven't seen him yet this year? Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 2: They got an aggressive style and the secondary they'll press.
Speaker 2: They like to play a lot of you know, you
Speaker 2: call it man coverage if you will. It's got a
Speaker 2: very loose term, but they do a lot of things
Speaker 2: where they're they're trying to challenge receivers and and they
Speaker 2: got good talent on defense. I mean, they played pretty
Speaker 2: good yesterday against Houston as well. And those that collection
Speaker 2: of players, the rushers and then the scheme is one
Speaker 2: that going into the year, I felt like was going
Speaker 2: to be a really good pairing between him and that
Speaker 2: scheme and the players that they had there. And so
Speaker 2: I think they've had ups and downs, just like everybody
Speaker 2: does during the year. But there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: about the aggressiveness of the scheme, the coverage aggressiveness that
Speaker 2: that is good and it's it's hard to play against.
Speaker 2: I mean, we had a hard time playing against them
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, you know, a couple years, even in the preseason,
Speaker 2: just the aggressiveness of the scheme. So I think it's
Speaker 2: a pretty good pairing. And again they've had their ups
Speaker 2: and downs too, but they got talent. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a good scheme.
Speaker 3: So Sunday is might cause my cleats for the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3: Why do players love that game so much?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Some of these guys do so much work out in
Speaker 2: the community, and they have things that they're very passionate
Speaker 2: about causes, foundations, charities that really mean something to them,
Speaker 2: and it's just a chance to be able to highlight
Speaker 2: the work that they do. I think it's a great
Speaker 2: initiative that the league does, and it allows guys to
Speaker 2: show a little bit of their personality and then show
Speaker 2: the things that they support and what's important to them.
Speaker 2: And they do a nice job of highlighting all the
Speaker 2: things these guys do and the impact that they make
Speaker 2: in communities, and I think it's really cool. I love
Speaker 2: seeing all the stuff that they do to wherever their
Speaker 2: heart is and what they support. I think it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: It's December now, and a lot of things happen in December.
Speaker 3: One of those things is some tweaks and changes to
Speaker 3: the practice schedule or practice routine. Sometimes, are you going
Speaker 3: to be switching anything up this week given that your
Speaker 3: defense specifically was on the field for over forty minutes
Speaker 3: and played something like seventy seven snaps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are things that we look at, and then
Speaker 2: we got all the folks down on the performance side
Speaker 2: of it with the you know we do all we
Speaker 2: track everything over time and all the different GPS tracking
Speaker 2: and player metrics and accelerations and decelerations and all the thing.
Speaker 2: There's things that go into a game, and so they
Speaker 2: usually come up with some pretty good recommendations about you know, hey,
Speaker 2: you need to back down here. We can ramp up here,
Speaker 2: but you still want to make sure you're getting working
Speaker 2: and you're still practicing, and there's there's still a flow
Speaker 2: to get ready for a game where you want to
Speaker 2: they get a little bit of time, but you still
Speaker 2: want to work and ramp into it, and you sort
Speaker 2: of back down by the end of the week and
Speaker 2: you try to keep that consistent. I think we've done
Speaker 2: a really good job of the schedule management for the players,
Speaker 2: and so that's something that we'll definitely look at, especially
Speaker 2: as you get late in this season, of where you
Speaker 2: can pick and choose your times to recover some versus work.
Speaker 2: And it's a delicate balance because you need both. He
Speaker 2: needs to still need to work, you need to practice,
Speaker 2: but you also need to make sure you're ready to
Speaker 2: go on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: more for you two point conversion success this year is
Speaker 1: down nearly twenty percent from last year. Wow, actually came
Speaker 1: up after this weekend's games. It's thirty seven percent.
Speaker 2: That's low.
Speaker 1: Why do you think it's been harder for teams to
Speaker 1: convert two point conversions this season at such a dramatically
Speaker 1: reduced rate.
Speaker 2: It's a really good question. I've did some research on
Speaker 2: this a couple weeks back, when you know, there was
Speaker 2: all those couple of games where everybody had opportunities to
Speaker 2: try to go for a win, similar maybe what Indy
Speaker 2: did against New England this weekend, but that going for
Speaker 2: the win spot you know, at the end of regulation
Speaker 2: and you just look at what the numbers are and
Speaker 2: they're kind of jarring. I mean, you're conversing success rate
Speaker 2: right now in two points, as I said, is very low.
Speaker 2: It's not good. It used to be about fifty percent.
Speaker 2: Why that is is, I'd have to study that, I
Speaker 2: have to really look AT's. My guess would be that
Speaker 2: there's some the teams in the low red zone. I
Speaker 2: think if some of the defenses down there have gotten
Speaker 2: pretty good, they kind of are aware of all the
Speaker 2: different schemes. Some of these teams are really aggressive, but
Speaker 2: they can match and they pass things off. There's just
Speaker 2: the defenses I think are really right now in the league,
Speaker 2: and the low red zone are good, and they're making
Speaker 2: it really difficult to score and convert when you're when
Speaker 2: you're scoring position. That would be my general hypothesis, if
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 1: Did the analytics of that, knowing that the numbers have
Speaker 1: been reduced so dramatically this year, the success rate is
Speaker 1: so much lower. Did that impact your decision to go
Speaker 1: ahead and go for two at thirty five to nineteen.
Speaker 2: No, No, that was more. That was strictly more of
Speaker 2: a score differential for us, and that's just getting to
Speaker 2: put us in position to cut the score possessions down.
Speaker 2: You know, we're only gonna have so many more possessions
Speaker 2: left in that game anyway, and trying to go for
Speaker 2: two to put us in a spot where at least
Speaker 2: we get to the end potentially and know what we
Speaker 2: needed and where we needed to be at. So that
Speaker 2: was less. That was less related to taking any chance
Speaker 2: necessarily or numbers on conversions. It was more about we
Speaker 2: need this to for the next three possessions, to know
Speaker 2: where we're gonna be at, and just sort of a
Speaker 2: numbers game.
Speaker 1: For that part, we always appreciate you. Thanks for ticketing
Speaker 1: time you got to coach Brian Callahan joining us every
Speaker 1: week