1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Positives could you take out of the Sidi's game. You know, 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: any anytime you lose, you know, there's it's tough. You know, 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: there was so much fight. I mean, I think that 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: the the belief in the guys that we have, the 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: belief on the sideline. You know, there's been a lot 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: of noise and guys did not flinch, and so I 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: think that was the. 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: Best part about the day. You know, it would have 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: been better. 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: There's only one thing that would have been better, and 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: that's obviously the most important thing has to win and 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: find a way. And we tried to find a way. 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: We kept responding, we kept answering. You know, I thought 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: Malik played an incredible game. I mean, I mean, this 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: guy is special. The plays that he was making. League neighbors, 16 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: I think one Dell had a tremendous game. Slave made 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: some big plays you know, for us when we needed it. 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: I thought the line did a trem job and give 19 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: me enough time and credit those guys, you know, and uh, 20 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: we needed one more play, one more moment to make 21 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: a big play, and unfortunately, you. 22 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 2: Know, they made it before we did. 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: But I just think that, uh, you know, the fashion 24 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: that we fought, you know I was. You know, you 25 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: watch I love sports, you know, I love I love 26 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: watching greatness. I love watching people be relentless. You know, 27 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: I love watching boxing for example. You know I love 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: watching you know, basketball and all these different sports. But 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: like I use the basketball reference. You know, we're in 30 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: a seventeen round fight, and we've battled the first round, 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: first second, the first and first round, second round, and 32 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: we got more to do, and so I was just 33 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: proud of how we I mean to to be able 34 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: to answer the way we did. I've been apart a 35 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: lot of crazy games. I don't know if I've been 36 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: a part of something that's that that crazy and that 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: that much grit. 38 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 2: You mentioned, there's been a lot of noise. 39 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: How much do you feel like you silenced that noise 40 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: around you by the way you played? Yeah, I think 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: that you got to respond in the midst of adversity. 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: You know, I think I don't think I know. I 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: know how talented I am, and I know what I'm 44 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: capable of. I don't I don't need somebody to convince 45 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: me of that. I don't need outside, uh, you know, 46 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,399 Speaker 1: praise or or criticism to convince me of what I'm 47 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: capable of but it's not me, it's you know, it's 48 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: really just the grace of God and what He's given me. 49 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: And I just thank thank Him for the ability to 50 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: be on this platform every day and every time, and 51 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: and the highest, the highest, the best moments to some 52 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: of the tough ones. And I think that, you know, 53 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: one of my favorite scriptures is James one too. Consider 54 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: it pure joy. And you go through trials and tribulations, 55 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: and sometimes you go through some stuff and it's just 56 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: pruning you to be even better, even even tougher, and 57 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: to have that mental toughness, to be able to be 58 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: neutral in the midst of the praise and and and 59 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: the criticism and all the other stuff that comes around 60 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: with it. 61 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 2: And so much is given, much is required, and. 62 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 1: So I just got to just keep answering the bell. 63 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm grateful that I have the teammates that we have, 64 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: the guys that we have, this organization, the fight, the 65 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: love for one another, you know, And so this game 66 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. 67 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: It was time to answer the call, you know what 68 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: I mean. And it was like, nah, you know what 69 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: I mean. 70 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: And so I think that for me was important to 71 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: do that, not for anybody else, just for myself away. 72 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: Right, Like they say again, it's nice for I, Sue, 73 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: to not have the noise around you. 74 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: Right if you you know, I think that somebody once 75 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: told me, the greater you're great, the more they're gonna hate. 76 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: The greater your great, the more they're gonna hate. And 77 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: that's something I never forget. I was my dad was 78 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: on his deathbed. I was playing. 79 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: College football at a pastor in North Carolina, NC State. 80 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: Tell me that one day and. 81 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: I was going through a lot of tough stuff, you know, 82 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: my dad on his deathbed, and I was playing well, 83 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: and I was going this and that, and everything was 84 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: going as some of the highest moments but also some 85 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: of the toughest moments personally. 86 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: I never forget he told me. 87 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: That the greater you're great, the more you're going to hate. 88 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: And so for me, I embraced the noise. I don't 89 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: run from it. 90 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 2: And we got to keep answering the call. Like today, 91 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 2: we didn't do enough to win, and. 92 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: That's all that matters is us as a team, us 93 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: finding a way to win that game. You know, we 94 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: believe in the guys in this room, the defense battling, 95 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: the offense battle and special teams. We laid it all 96 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: online and you can't ask for any more effort and 97 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: love and passion and energy and work than we just gave. 98 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: So you have to respond back when you hit that 99 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: moon ball the Moleik at the end of regulation say well, 100 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: ask the question again. 101 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Sorry, your emotions when you hit that moon ball to 102 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: Malik with twenty five seconds left, Yeah, when we that 103 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: played by Malik was unbelievable that the line did a 104 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: tremendous job giving him a time. 105 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 2: But what were my emotions? 106 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: Now? 107 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: I was just thanking God once again for the moment. 108 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: You know. 109 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: I think sometimes you go through some tough stuff for 110 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: moments like that. You know, I always think about the 111 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: fourth quarters for example, you know, and you know it's 112 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: you get into these fourth quarter situations and moments like that, 113 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: and you know, you want to be great. You got 114 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: to be answered, you know, you got to be able 115 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: to find ways to win, You got to be find 116 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: ways to make a big play in moments like that. 117 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: And so I think that my emotions were more so 118 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: just gratitude, gratitude for what God's given me, gratitude for 119 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: the moment of what He's blessed me with. And you know, 120 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: gratitude that he made that play. You know, I was 121 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: pretty sweet by him.