Speaker 1: You guys have cherish. It's more intimidating. No injuries right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be something tomorrow, but there's nothing right now.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, and what impressed you the most lot?
Speaker 2: I mean, just how we overcame a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: I didn't think we played perfect ball by any means,
Speaker 2: I thought, which you never do, but I was just
Speaker 2: happy that the mistakes that we did make we always overcame.
Speaker 2: I was real disappointed, you know, getting those first two
Speaker 2: turnovers and not scoring on either of them, having a punt.
Speaker 2: Then when we get the third turnover, we actually score
Speaker 2: ourselves on defense, but we have to call it back
Speaker 2: and that was strategic so we could let the offense
Speaker 2: do it. So finally we were able to do one,
Speaker 2: and then being able to get that fourth one was cool.
Speaker 2: You know, play complimentary football took us a while a
Speaker 2: little bit back and forth, but once I thought we
Speaker 2: were playing both well on both sides, that's when the
Speaker 2: score became what it did strategic If you were on the.
Speaker 1: Sideline, what's that?
Speaker 3: Would that penalty have not been strategic if you hadn't
Speaker 3: been one of the ones on the field for it?
Speaker 1: Is that one? Yeah? No, I would have been mad
Speaker 1: at whoever did it. No, I was.
Speaker 2: I was mad at myself and I thought the play
Speaker 2: was over. We kind of see and everyone jumped up.
Speaker 2: And so when that happens, you're getting out there to
Speaker 2: start to congratulate people coming back, and they're not coming
Speaker 2: back to congratulators, they're running.
Speaker 1: Back at us.
Speaker 2: So everyone got it. We we know the rules definitely,
Speaker 2: we know you can't go on the field. I just
Speaker 2: I personally thought the play was over. They ran right
Speaker 2: by us, and it was very unfortunate because it's a
Speaker 2: good learning experience for our team.
Speaker 1: We do show that stuff, but it's it was.
Speaker 2: Short lived because we ended up scoring, so we can
Speaker 2: live with it, but good learning example for us. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if you went back to it, but that
Speaker 2: first play was a five pan front on the defense.
Speaker 2: Was that something that you had charged out over the
Speaker 2: buy and kind of set its own No, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think we've mixed that in a little bit throughout
Speaker 2: the year at times. I think we did a verus Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: I want to say, in one of the first couple
Speaker 2: of plays, and I know we did a versus Minnesota,
Speaker 2: I believe on Mooney's pick they're in the first quarter,
Speaker 2: I think, so it's something we mix in and but now,
Speaker 2: I thought their playing was real good today and it
Speaker 2: seemed effective.
Speaker 3: What did you think of the Big Books did he do?
Speaker 1: I thought he was great. Uh.
Speaker 2: I think Nick's been playing well all year, but for
Speaker 2: him to get to get the sack and stuff cost
Speaker 2: a turnover. I know how much he loves playing in
Speaker 2: Florida too, so it was cool to have a big
Speaker 2: game from him a day.
Speaker 1: Thought all of 'em played Big Books on the field,
Speaker 1: and sorry, what's that? What was it like having Steve
Speaker 1: Books in the building.
Speaker 3: How do you think get helped him?
Speaker 2: I mean I ran into him a couple more times.
Speaker 2: I mean I hear his voice wherever he is, So
Speaker 2: I mean I enjoy him down there. I last of
Speaker 2: players how they thought. I'm excited to talk to Steve
Speaker 2: on the plane see what he felt. But again, that's
Speaker 2: nothing against you guys or anything, but just I've been
Speaker 2: coaching a long time and I think that's one of
Speaker 2: the most overrated things in the world. So but I
Speaker 2: I enjoyed him down there to day. What was a
Speaker 2: call process on on trying to get a Canter free
Speaker 2: touchdown there?
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, eighteen games in a row is
Speaker 2: a big record, So I mean, if we had a
Speaker 2: chance to do that, I was gonna try to do
Speaker 2: it for him, and you sold nerve wrecking. Last thing
Speaker 2: I want to do is get him hurt. But once
Speaker 2: we got it was a big time for Elijah to
Speaker 2: run the ball like that to get us down there.
Speaker 2: Brock In, I think Ronnie made a huge third down throw.
Speaker 2: I believe that gave us a chance. And once we
Speaker 2: got close and we told him to stay loose cause
Speaker 2: we were gonna try and got close.
Speaker 1: Wish we could have.
Speaker 2: Done it for him, but I think that was a
Speaker 2: pretty big accomplishment just to do it for seventeen games straight.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was awesome, said he knew right when I
Speaker 1: saw him. I was like, hey to Hope, you know
Speaker 1: why were trying to do that? And he was very
Speaker 1: well aware they he said, they were talking about it.
Speaker 1: So hopefully it didn't offend him too much.
Speaker 3: You know, people would have some people would hear me
Speaker 3: a freaked out from the coffee, got hurt on the
Speaker 3: most of those players, you were ready, obviously ready to
Speaker 3: assume the risk, could take the heat. I if that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I I try to make decisions not based off of
Speaker 2: having to talk to you after the game. I try
Speaker 2: to make it on what I think's right for a team.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong. Mm. But I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna think about you until after the game. So and
Speaker 2: I could just deal with it.
Speaker 1: And practice recently.
Speaker 3: That maybe the confidence that to make move today.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean Amory's been I think Ambry's made
Speaker 2: a lot of strides going back to even training camp
Speaker 2: and stuff. But it was nothing against anyone in particular.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to see a demo in the nickel
Speaker 2: a little bit, and Demo's got a kind of a
Speaker 2: knack for that, and it'll be fun to go watch
Speaker 2: him on the plane and stuff see how we did.
Speaker 2: But for us to make that choice, Amby was the
Speaker 2: next man up outside. From when I saw there, it
Speaker 2: seemed like he had a big impact. I know, watching
Speaker 2: him and Nick there on that same play just I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll see when I watched the tape, but just having
Speaker 2: him out there and allowing our rotation to go, and
Speaker 2: from what it looked like to me, I thought it.
Speaker 2: I thought we were rushed collectively. The best that I
Speaker 2: had seen you know, it's I'll tell you guys tomorrow
Speaker 2: after I watched it on the plane, but just watching
Speaker 2: alive on the sidelines, it seemed collectively our group had
Speaker 2: their best game yet and that's the goal. How the
Speaker 2: beginning of the second half. I know that you always
Speaker 2: strive to do that, but could you kind of feel like,
Speaker 2: could you breathe a little bit easier after that basically
Speaker 2: a ten point possession. Yeah, that was our first time
Speaker 2: this year that I felt like we did it right.
Speaker 2: That we scored on the last play at the second quarter,
Speaker 2: and we started out with it in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: so and then we got that touchdown. So that that's
Speaker 2: what we try to do every week. We were successful
Speaker 2: this week. It was very nerve wracking watching them icear
Speaker 2: kicker than the TV network icear kicker. I didn't know
Speaker 2: what was going on, but that third kick, it was
Speaker 2: a little tight too, but it worked.
Speaker 3: So glad touchdown pass was that.
Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, that was honestly one of I can say
Speaker 2: this because he played his ass, played well, but that
Speaker 2: was like one of his worst decisions. I think he's
Speaker 2: a mazed aince he's been.
Speaker 1: Here and it took me a while to get over it.
Speaker 2: But I thanked him for the touchdown, but that that
Speaker 2: was not a good decision and he was fortunate with it,
Speaker 2: but he made a lot of really good plays. And
Speaker 2: if you are going to make a bad decision and
Speaker 2: it's still a touchdown the grand scheme of things, he
Speaker 2: can tell me it was really good decision. But uh,
Speaker 2: I know, we can't. H he knows that he he
Speaker 2: knows what he did wrong.
Speaker 1: But uh, you made him right well.
Speaker 3: Pretty much, I guess po positive, which I w I
Speaker 3: W course, uh is uh the fact that you know
Speaker 3: he he you know, too many picks, too many you know,
Speaker 3: bad mistakes by Brock. The fact that that was the
Speaker 3: first drive that yeah, he didn't want of it, but
Speaker 3: the obviously still was a scared and was still still
Speaker 3: slinging it. Maybe not great, but I meanes that tell
Speaker 3: you something that he still wasn't playing scared in despite
Speaker 3: what the university.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's been playing the same way
Speaker 2: all this time, and you don't feel it from him
Speaker 2: at all. That's that's why I kind of been you know,
Speaker 2: and I know he's had some turnovers here and they're
Speaker 2: in our losses, but you know, you ask anyone who's
Speaker 2: watched all those games and stuff. He was one of
Speaker 2: the best players on the field in those games, and
Speaker 2: you're always responsible for those turnovers. And but Brock, there's
Speaker 2: none where you're sitting there saying he's taken too many
Speaker 2: bad decisions.
Speaker 1: That was one.
Speaker 2: Definitely, it's gonna happen with guys. But I love having
Speaker 2: a guy who isn't thinking about that. He's trying to
Speaker 2: make the right decisions, letting her rip and he'll live
Speaker 2: with the consequences and try to get better when it's not.
Speaker 3: The two phases of the game. You guys just held
Speaker 3: Don Peterson and Trevor Lawrence off a by without scoring.
Speaker 3: Is it a similar first? Is this what you envisioned
Speaker 3: your defense to look like?
Speaker 1: In second? Is this simple as you guys just winning
Speaker 1: early down.
Speaker 2: I think it's just playing one game at a time
Speaker 2: and not getting caught up in anything like I mean,
Speaker 2: they had a bunch of big plays. It's it seemed
Speaker 2: like it. I mean, they they got a number of
Speaker 2: they got it going with their screens a number of
Speaker 2: times that we had some big penalties that hurt us.
Speaker 2: They had some exposive plays that got down there. Every time,
Speaker 2: it seemed like they got going. Our guys just never stopped,
Speaker 2: and you don't get points to you cross the goal
Speaker 2: line or kick it through the uprights. And our guys
Speaker 2: made so many plays when they were getting down there.
Speaker 2: They just were relentless today and kept going for that ball,
Speaker 2: and eventually everything took care of itself, and it was
Speaker 2: real close. I mean, he was adamant that he was
Speaker 2: gonna play and he was able to do enough to
Speaker 2: you know, I'd say, whatever the percentage is eighty or whatever.
Speaker 2: But it is tough because the last thing I wanted
Speaker 2: to do is go out there and re injure it
Speaker 2: or make it work so we can't play next week.
Speaker 2: So it was a tough. We talked about it a lot,
Speaker 2: all the coaches and him. We're gonna keep it a
Speaker 2: hard eye on him as it went. But I thought
Speaker 2: he performed well under the circumstances, and the biggest thing
Speaker 2: was just talking him there on the sideline. He didn't
Speaker 2: zing it, got out healthy and no stepback. So I
Speaker 2: don't have to answer Eric's questions, what did you see
Speaker 2: on the touchdown? It looked like Brock was working with
Speaker 2: zero room to us with.
Speaker 1: The line in front of them. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was a look we were hoping for.
Speaker 2: It just takes a while and Ba's running the en
Speaker 2: route and George is running out route and takes a
Speaker 2: little bit of time to get down the sidelines with
Speaker 2: a leverage that I believe it thirty three had on him,
Speaker 2: and Brock just tried to wait for it and waited
Speaker 2: as long as he could so pumped he got it off,
Speaker 2: but he had to throw with some anticipation and didn't
Speaker 2: know if Brock was if George was going to be
Speaker 2: able to get to it because he had a bow around,
Speaker 2: a little rub of man coverage, but beautiful touch on
Speaker 2: the ball. George has the skill set to explode through it.
Speaker 2: And that was a huge second play of the half horse.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks guys, Thanks