Speaker 1: Welcome back to Ravens Press Pass. I'm Cassie Scherago. It's
Speaker 1: November seventeenth, and the Ravens were just defeated by the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers eighteen to sixteen at Akroscher Stadium. Head coach
Speaker 1: John Harball and Ravens players discuss the loss.
Speaker 2: First up here from John Harball.
Speaker 3: Well, question, Jed, John been doing so well?
Speaker 4: What do you think what was the difficulty?
Speaker 5: What was the Pittsburgh doing to create so many difficult.
Speaker 3: The biggest thing was the we just got in the
Speaker 3: second law too much. Second long then ends up being
Speaker 3: third and long. Too often. Penalties. I've set us back
Speaker 3: too much. John's going to.
Speaker 6: Take for this team to cut down on the penalties.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it has been an area of weakness
Speaker 6: this year.
Speaker 3: It's definitely something we got to do, and we got
Speaker 3: to cut down on the penalties. That's very important. We've
Speaker 3: done it before. On offense, we haven't had a lot
Speaker 3: of those in some of our big offensive games, but
Speaker 3: today that was a big problem.
Speaker 7: Communication issue of discipline thing. Is there anything that you
Speaker 7: can kind of take at the tape.
Speaker 3: That's what you do. You look at all the different
Speaker 3: situations and you know, if you can come with some big,
Speaker 3: you know, one thing issue that you're looking for with
Speaker 3: that question, and we'll have it. If not, it'll just
Speaker 3: be they'll standalone type situations. Just depends on each each circumstance.
Speaker 6: Confusion on that two point play because it looked like
Speaker 6: Likely and Aguel are on the left side.
Speaker 8: There worth not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 3: I'll have to look at it on tape and talk
Speaker 3: to the coaches. But I didn't not that I was
Speaker 3: aware of. Nothing was talked about during the game and
Speaker 3: I didn't see it.
Speaker 7: There's a thought to putting Derrick Hennery in on that play.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that stuff before. We have two point
Speaker 3: plays called. We called the one, they called time out,
Speaker 3: We call the next one.
Speaker 8: John h at the end of the first half to
Speaker 8: go about the eleven yard line with less than a
Speaker 8: minute left, there was a fumble, they got the.
Speaker 3: Ball back into the What went into being aggressive in
Speaker 3: that situation at that time, Well, I mean it's a screen,
Speaker 3: which is like a run, and you can't take a
Speaker 3: knee there. I mean maybe if they have three timeouts,
Speaker 3: you take a knee. They're calling their time outs, you're
Speaker 3: punting from your own what twelve yard line or whatever
Speaker 3: it was, So you got to try to get at
Speaker 3: least a good play to starts. They don't call their
Speaker 3: timeouts just a fumble. John.
Speaker 8: We know Tempters his own biggest critic. We know he
Speaker 8: has a long track record.
Speaker 6: How can sartn are you with his struggles continuing and
Speaker 6: especially in the place he's had so much success kicking
Speaker 6: here in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's techniques to make kicks, you know, that's important.
Speaker 3: He makes him in practice, and he made the long
Speaker 3: one later, which is good to see, which means he's
Speaker 3: still very capable. You know, kick him straight. We'll be good.
Speaker 7: John, I know you have the three timeouts obviously. Was
Speaker 7: there ever any thought about an onside kick at the
Speaker 7: end with a minute?
Speaker 8: We considered it.
Speaker 3: We felt like the best chance was to get a
Speaker 3: stop and get the timeouts, get the ball back with
Speaker 3: about forty five seconds, have a chance to get a
Speaker 3: field goal range to see if you can win it
Speaker 3: right there. We thought that was a better and percentages
Speaker 3: I think would bear us out as opposed to getting
Speaker 3: an onside kick, which is hard to do. Anything.
Speaker 7: Is there anything you like you can see him doing defensively?
Speaker 8: Or anything doing against the law or just.
Speaker 3: I thought they played well. It was more more than anything,
Speaker 3: it was the penalties that set us back on a second,
Speaker 3: you know, down the second long.
Speaker 8: On that failed two point co version?
Speaker 4: Was it an RPO? Was it a a run that
Speaker 4: from March just kind of pitched away?
Speaker 3: Or he was a play that we have I don't
Speaker 3: think I need to describe all the details of the play,
Speaker 3: but it was not an RPO.
Speaker 5: Now he los to keep that, I know.
Speaker 3: Updates on any injuries right now, it's about five minutes
Speaker 3: after the game, right John, m.
Speaker 9: That Jackson didn't make the trips at any.
Speaker 3: Breason what I have nothing to report on that, right John?
Speaker 5: He saw Marlon leave with like fifty seconds that he
Speaker 5: went to the tunnel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Lamar Jackson took the podium?
Speaker 5: Or what is it about the Steelers that that created
Speaker 5: so many difficulties?
Speaker 10: I believe you know, we we had a lot of
Speaker 10: slow starts, if anything, you know, a lot of penalties,
Speaker 10: three turnovers, stuff like that we can't have in these
Speaker 10: type of games. This environment uh known as the division
Speaker 10: of game. That's still that's still a raven. Uh rivalry,
Speaker 10: it's the it's the one who uh have more possession
Speaker 10: of the ball and keeping it safe.
Speaker 3: And we didn't do a good job at that.
Speaker 7: Were you seeing any sort of different looks from the
Speaker 7: Steelers defense that prevented uh, you guys from getting off
Speaker 7: to a faster start?
Speaker 1: M nah.
Speaker 10: Like I said, we just it was first and long
Speaker 10: a lot, second and long a lot p We were try.
Speaker 10: We were just trying to get back on track and
Speaker 10: we wasn't ha s having success. And I don't even
Speaker 10: think we can rate it any third downs.
Speaker 7: I don't know, Lamar, what was supposed to happen on
Speaker 7: that two point try.
Speaker 10: Uh it was a uh QB, it was a QB run.
Speaker 3: They just stopped it. They did a good job, Famarea.
Speaker 6: You mentioned some of the long distance and plays it
Speaker 6: because you're behind the chains. Penalty is a big part
Speaker 6: of that. What's it gonna take for you guys to
Speaker 6: cut down on penalties? I mean, you know, both sides
Speaker 6: of the ball. It's been a problem at different times
Speaker 6: throughout the year.
Speaker 10: I mean we can't we can't control when when the
Speaker 10: rest wanna make they calls. That's their job, and do
Speaker 10: they gotta make those calls, and we just gotta try
Speaker 10: to do a good job back not having you know,
Speaker 10: not holding uh, lining up in the right formation, stuff
Speaker 10: like that, you know, just being smart and not saying
Speaker 10: my player, my my teammates or slow anything like that,
Speaker 10: cause they're not. But it's like, we just gotta play
Speaker 10: a great game, you know, save for a hundred percent
Speaker 10: save game, no penalties l more.
Speaker 9: Why do you think when you play the Steelers, these
Speaker 9: and the stakes seen.
Speaker 7: To happen, the turnovers, penalties, It seems to be a
Speaker 7: common denominator when you when these two teams get together.
Speaker 3: I can't call it.
Speaker 8: I can't call it.
Speaker 10: I feel like we was we was, we was taking
Speaker 10: strides in the right direction, and then it'll be something happened,
Speaker 10: you know, But I can't call it.
Speaker 9: Of that initial turnover on the first drive. I mean,
Speaker 9: it's that sort of sort of a down note to
Speaker 9: even start on. Or is it tough to kind of
Speaker 9: recover from that?
Speaker 10: Nah, like we you burst that off. That was first
Speaker 10: quarter games NBER one in the first quarter. I've never
Speaker 10: seen any NFL game one in the first quarter, So
Speaker 10: we we just had too many though, you know, after
Speaker 10: that win, it was a couple more and well one
Speaker 10: more in a interception. Uh So it's like, we can't
Speaker 10: be happened those in these type of games.
Speaker 7: You feel like you guys had a momentum after Russ's interception,
Speaker 7: the one done in the end zone and then you
Speaker 7: guys get the ball back of the champion.
Speaker 9: It's fifteen minute time. Do you guys feel like you
Speaker 9: had momentum, Like, hey, we got a shot to if
Speaker 9: you wanna.
Speaker 10: Take the weakness, yeah, but I believe on that drive.
Speaker 10: We had a penalty on that drive too, when we
Speaker 10: got positive yards in an explosive place. So it's like
Speaker 10: that's taking the momentum from us, you know it way
Speaker 10: it went back to those guys, and then.
Speaker 7: You know, kind of on top of that, like what's
Speaker 7: it like.
Speaker 6: When okay, you go it on, then you go for
Speaker 6: the time you got a two point play it, you know,
Speaker 6: with a chance to win it.
Speaker 10: S we just gotta get it, Yeah, we just gotta
Speaker 10: get that more.
Speaker 7: At this point of the season, you know, the twelve
Speaker 7: weeks in you guys have talked about the penalties and things,
Speaker 7: and that's kind of been it happened a few times.
Speaker 7: How would you describe the level of frustration with your
Speaker 7: guys with that stuff.
Speaker 10: It's annoying. You know, we busting out behinds out there
Speaker 10: just like anybody else. We tryna put points on the board,
Speaker 10: and it's like we getting cost of their penalties each
Speaker 10: and every drive. Like every time we was out there,
Speaker 10: I believe it was almost a penalty each and every drive.
Speaker 10: It's like, that's crazy, but uh, as part of football,
Speaker 10: we just gotta overcome and put points on the board.
Speaker 3: Cause those guys had what sixteen points.
Speaker 10: Where we had fun what what it was sixteen eighteen
Speaker 10: something like that sixteen eighteen score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta we gotta.
Speaker 10: Put more points on the board, right.
Speaker 5: Uh do you think what the penalties and the turnovers
Speaker 5: that you guys feel like you you're you're your biggest statriment.
Speaker 5: It wasn't really what's up, but what you guys did
Speaker 5: you feel?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 10: It's been that way for ever since last year, I believe,
Speaker 10: you know, going back to the as a championship game,
Speaker 10: we killed ourselves Chiefs game, the opener killed ourselves, Raiders,
Speaker 10: we killed ourselves and today same things. It's just like
Speaker 10: we can't be beating ourselves in these type of games.
Speaker 10: We gotta find a way to fix that.
Speaker 4: I know you don't play the events, don't play special teams,
Speaker 4: but it's a frustrating. And to see the defense have
Speaker 4: a great game like this. You guys have had so
Speaker 4: many great games on offense, just the the few times
Speaker 4: you've been able to put together a complete games and team.
Speaker 3: Yeah that that, Yeah, I was, I was.
Speaker 10: I was hot about that. Our defense played great today. Man,
Speaker 10: they they hold up. They held a great team, great
Speaker 10: offense to eighteen points and we just scored sixteen points.
Speaker 10: We been putting up all these points all this year.
Speaker 10: That's it's annoying.
Speaker 9: Going back to the Jamerson's question a little bit about
Speaker 9: the performances here and do you feel like there's any
Speaker 9: mental pressure on yourselves.
Speaker 7: To perform in this week?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 9: We know you guys take this seriously. Talk about importance
Speaker 9: of beatings dealers every year. Is that part of what
Speaker 9: you think might lead to some of these mistage?
Speaker 5: Yah?
Speaker 10: If anything, we just be too hype at the beginning,
Speaker 10: you know, cause I believe when we shuttle down, we
Speaker 10: started making things happen, you know, And in this type
Speaker 10: of game, it's a momentum game. It was swinging for
Speaker 10: both teams and those guys had to have had the
Speaker 10: Uh that's when at the end.
Speaker 8: There two more what suggestion?
Speaker 2: Good cornerback Marlin Humphrey addressed the media.
Speaker 5: What's the level of frustration when you when you lose
Speaker 5: that much.
Speaker 11: Your mad I didn't eight. I did not realize it
Speaker 11: was aided the last nine. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 11: it's clear. You know, we've really struggled against them over
Speaker 11: the over the years. You know, I've been on the
Speaker 11: at least two or three of those eight or nine
Speaker 11: or whatever were you know, game winners on me. But yeah, man,
Speaker 11: they they they've kind of had our number. You know,
Speaker 11: you y you get to see him twice. Uh, you
Speaker 11: just keep just keep fighting, you know, you know what
Speaker 11: I mean, you know they're gonna be a well coached team,
Speaker 11: uh with with with Tomlin over there, and uh, you
Speaker 11: know we the it's always a battle. So you know
Speaker 11: they had that had our number, but you know, we
Speaker 11: we just keep fighting.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks, we're getting kind of chippy in the first
Speaker 4: half on your side of the field.
Speaker 9: What went into those couple plays back to back before
Speaker 9: that flag was thrown.
Speaker 11: Shoot, honestly, man, I was Uh, it was a lot.
Speaker 11: It was a lot, you know. I I been in
Speaker 11: this robbery for a while and I told the guys, man,
Speaker 11: I I just it was it was a lot. The
Speaker 11: emotions were were hot for me. Honestly, it was uh
Speaker 11: I I I can't really say I've Honestly, I can't
Speaker 11: really say I I've been in a situation where I
Speaker 11: felt the kind of so uh uh emotional dur during
Speaker 11: the game. And I kind of blame it on my family,
Speaker 11: my family group message, mainly my big sister. But uh yeah,
Speaker 11: man I I told some of the guys, I was like,
Speaker 11: y'all helped me out. Man, I'm kind of emotions are
Speaker 11: are are flying for me, and uh so they they
Speaker 11: helped me out. But uh yeah, it was it was different.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 11: I really I found myself watching uh over the years
Speaker 11: of Raven Steelers highlights the other day. I don't know,
Speaker 11: I mean, I it just.
Speaker 8: I love this robbery.
Speaker 11: I I love robbery games, but but this is really
Speaker 11: the one. You know, you got the the browns, the bangles,
Speaker 11: but to me, this is this is really the one
Speaker 11: you want to get the dub you know, you came
Speaker 11: up came up short. But yeah, I just can't can't
Speaker 11: can't do that, can't let the most you get the.
Speaker 12: Best of you.
Speaker 11: And uh, that's a that's a no big deal. Really,
Speaker 11: you got one you can't get to and try not
Speaker 11: to make a habit of that.
Speaker 8: Marlon saw you.
Speaker 5: I'll leave the field without fifty seconds left. Was there
Speaker 5: something going on or yeah?
Speaker 11: So usually I I thought it was they get a
Speaker 11: first down, the game was over, but we actually had
Speaker 11: another timeout and there was fifty segments, so two more
Speaker 11: players had to People probably haven't realized that, but I
Speaker 11: do that when we win. But if they're twenty seconds left,
Speaker 11: we win. I'm the first one in. I'm a sore
Speaker 11: loser and a sore winner. So uh but I uh,
Speaker 11: it would have been kind of awkward. I came back
Speaker 11: out once I realized in the tunnel that the game
Speaker 11: is that we called it, had another time out and
Speaker 11: there's fifty seconds but no, you uh just uh, I'll
Speaker 11: have to Maybe I'll start waiting til zero on Wednesday
Speaker 11: and losses until you just just go in because that
Speaker 11: was you can't have that.
Speaker 6: Well, and you've had some takeaway this year that have
Speaker 6: swung the momental for you guys.
Speaker 8: Tampa Bay, the Cincinnati games. When you picked that ball
Speaker 8: off in the end.
Speaker 6: Zone, are you're thinking at that point, this is swinging it,
Speaker 6: this is where it's gonna turn, and we're gonna take this.
Speaker 11: Not necessarily, I'm just thankful to be able to make
Speaker 11: a play to help the team and uh this players
Speaker 11: are really really big if you if you can make
Speaker 11: them and hopefully it can get the team going. But uh,
Speaker 11: ultimately it's all about getting a win.
Speaker 2: Justin Tucker in the postgame locker room, that's right.
Speaker 8: And you know, I mean, I'm not gonna I'd like
Speaker 8: to make it a point not to make the same
Speaker 8: mistake twice, let alone once. But uh, you know we did.
Speaker 8: We didn't make that adjustment moving into our next opportunities
Speaker 8: in the game. Chris said that Chris Wordy said earlier
Speaker 8: this week, and every kick is until kick. But does
Speaker 8: this do these misses linger one over another?
Speaker 3: You able to kind of compartmentalize and make every kick
Speaker 3: its own kick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's part of the challenge of playing
Speaker 8: this position is you have to go out there and
Speaker 8: make each kick its own kick, you know, so compartmentalizing.
Speaker 8: You know what happened on one kick that didn't go
Speaker 8: through and putting it away so you can go and
Speaker 8: make the most for your next opportunity. That's a challenge,
Speaker 8: and that's not necessarily an easy thing to do. You know.
Speaker 8: I still remember misses that I had twelve years ago,
Speaker 8: and I, you know, will wake up at night thinking
Speaker 8: about one that got away. But that's just the nature
Speaker 8: of playing this position is you have to treat each
Speaker 8: one like its own kick, you know. So the first
Speaker 8: two that I missed today, you know, I was still
Speaker 8: trying to make it a point to do just that,
Speaker 8: you know, treat each kick for what it's worth. And
Speaker 8: you know, ultimately just decided to make a slight adjustment
Speaker 8: moving forward for the remaining opportunities that we would half
Speaker 8: the rest of the day. I just made it a point,
Speaker 8: you know, communicated with Nick and Jordan, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 8: pick a target line that's gonna be more right third
Speaker 8: of the uprights, and we're just gonna, you know, just
Speaker 8: smash the ball and go from there. So yeah, I
Speaker 8: leave it at that.
Speaker 12: People in this locker room, as to tell you, you're the
Speaker 12: most confident guy in this locker room.
Speaker 8: Has that been a battle at all with your confidence
Speaker 8: this year? When you get so successful over the year.
Speaker 8: Still like a couple get away. I don't think I
Speaker 8: don't think it's anything that is unique to just playing
Speaker 8: in the National Football League, coaching in the National Football League,
Speaker 8: just competing at this level. You're gonna have ups and
Speaker 8: you're gonna have downs, and trying to you know, chase
Speaker 8: as many ups as possible is what we're all after.
Speaker 8: I mean, ultimately, none of us are happy if we
Speaker 8: don't win it all in the end. You know, only
Speaker 8: one team gets to do that. But part of the
Speaker 8: challenge that every player, every coach, every team faces is
Speaker 8: remaining confident in the way that I know we remain confident,
Speaker 8: which I'm still confident. I'm gonna go out there and
Speaker 8: nail every single kick. Part of the way, part of
Speaker 8: the reason we stay confident is by continuing to work
Speaker 8: and uh, trust the process. And I know it sounds like, uh,
Speaker 8: you know, I might sound like a broken record, but
Speaker 8: you know it is. I it's it's a it's a
Speaker 8: part of what brings us success is just trusting the
Speaker 8: process and then taking it one cake at a time.
Speaker 8: For the game here yesterday, too, is a surface and
Speaker 8: issue at all. I wouldn't say the surface was an issue,
Speaker 8: but it wasn't ideal. Uh. You know, that's something that
Speaker 8: we make it a point to account for by going
Speaker 8: out there in pregame warm ups and you know, getting
Speaker 8: our feet under us, you know, figuring out what the
Speaker 8: wind may doing. But we've we've dealt with that plenty
Speaker 8: of times here, uh elsewhere at home, you know, and
Speaker 8: then throughout the course of the game. Uh, the most
Speaker 8: action takes place in between the ashes and it naturally
Speaker 8: just gets chewed up. So uh, it's something that we
Speaker 8: make it a point to you know, kind of tackle
Speaker 8: in pregame warm ups and then you know, make whatever
Speaker 8: minor adjustments if necessary. Uh, you know, with whatever opportunities
Speaker 8: come to us throughout the game.
Speaker 5: Justin is there anything to that? I think every single
Speaker 5: one of the misses this year has been wide left?
Speaker 5: Is there anything to that that? Is there a I
Speaker 5: know again, I know each kick. Is is there something
Speaker 5: to that trend that everyone every one of the misses
Speaker 5: were wide left?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I think that's fair to ask, and I think
Speaker 8: the short answer is no. Each kick is its own kick.
Speaker 8: And you know the tendency for the misses this this
Speaker 8: season for me, have been that they've gone, they've gone
Speaker 8: wide left, you know. And even when I felt like
Speaker 8: I've picked the ball clean, I've hit a strong ball.
Speaker 8: Sometimes the ball will stay straight, sometimes it'll move a
Speaker 8: little bit, and you know, that's that's part of the
Speaker 8: challenge of playing outside where you know, we play, where
Speaker 8: every one of our division opponents plays, is you know,
Speaker 8: finding how to pick the ball clean and you know,
Speaker 8: hitting a strong ball with each opportunity. So I think
Speaker 8: the that's that's the long answer, and the short answer
Speaker 8: is not really no, I'm just really making every point
Speaker 8: to go out there and you know, hit each ball
Speaker 8: strong and hit each ball straight. I guess.
Speaker 2: Hear from outside linebacker O way, not.
Speaker 12: Really, you know, I just like I told him, I
Speaker 12: just continue to do what I've been doing, trying to
Speaker 12: be in a little bit more intentional about being physical
Speaker 12: and then building off that, you know, building the finesse
Speaker 12: and stuff off that. So it worked today, Like keep
Speaker 12: going building on that too.
Speaker 8: Just how comp is it to drop a game like
Speaker 8: this and you know, individually have a great game and
Speaker 8: defensive played well, How is it to for the team
Speaker 8: not to be able to get that game?
Speaker 12: It sucks? Man. I feel like whenever I play goods
Speaker 12: like we lose like graders too, So you know, we
Speaker 12: just got to put it all together. We can't hang
Speaker 12: our heads. We were right there too, a little que
Speaker 12: questionable plays that you know, we gotta fix on our
Speaker 12: uh you know, our own parts. But we know we're
Speaker 12: still there. We're not gonna act like the world's ending.
Speaker 12: We got another big challenge and the Chargers next weekend
Speaker 12: and it would be good it.
Speaker 8: We'll be straight.
Speaker 13: Some of the gods said, communication is something that took
Speaker 13: a big step forward. How did you think it for us?
Speaker 12: I mean, yeah, that's been our issue this whole year. Uh,
Speaker 12: but like I said, I feel like we did a
Speaker 12: better job this year so or this this past game.
Speaker 12: But yeah, we gotta work on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Center Tyler Lennardbaums filled with the media.
Speaker 8: Can you tell us what happened on the two point diversion?
Speaker 8: How was that supposed to play out?
Speaker 9: Might it break down?
Speaker 8: Uh? Just polers got caught up.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was just.
Speaker 14: Pat me and pass supposed to get around. Just got
Speaker 14: caught up. Stuff happens with the play of the games.
Speaker 14: Just how the dnds playing. It's a tough block for
Speaker 14: the receiver there, but Yeah.
Speaker 7: Tyler, just in terms of penalties, it's been kind of
Speaker 7: a recurring theme at this point. What's the frustration level
Speaker 7: with you guys, and and why do you think it
Speaker 7: still keeps it cropping out?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's you know, it's something that needs to be
Speaker 14: cleaned up, needs to be fixed. You know, it's not
Speaker 14: helping us win ball games, you know when it happens.
Speaker 14: You know, just that's the biggest thing in winning games,
Speaker 14: you know, taking care of football, you know, limit the
Speaker 14: amount of penalties, cause at the end of the day,
Speaker 14: you know, it's just it's only hurting our drives. You know,
Speaker 14: it's it's not fun to be you know, first and fifteen,
Speaker 14: second and ten all the time. You know, just gotta
Speaker 14: stay ahead of schedule, stay you know, and put ourselves
Speaker 14: in an advantage uh position, and not helping them out.
Speaker 14: So stuff that has to be cleaned up, stuff that
Speaker 14: can't happen, you know, just learn from the tape and
Speaker 14: we gotta we gotta a great team coming.
Speaker 8: Up in the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Finally tighten Mark Andrews.
Speaker 8: Were they doing anything Mark, you know to make it
Speaker 8: difficult or was it was it kind of penalties and
Speaker 8: starting in difficult situations.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think that that that kind of sums it
Speaker 13: up where there's too many things of us, you know,
Speaker 13: starting starting to kind of behind the eight ball and
Speaker 13: and and not doing the right things. And it's been
Speaker 13: kind of week by week, and you know, I think
Speaker 13: the guys, like I said earlier, is that we.
Speaker 8: Continue to fight.
Speaker 13: We continue to move the ball and put ourselves in
Speaker 13: good positions and put ourselves right at the at the
Speaker 13: end of the game to you know, tie the game up,
Speaker 13: but didn't go that way.
Speaker 8: But we're going to learn from that.
Speaker 5: What's your guy's conference lovee When when you know the
Speaker 5: most accurate kicker Justin Duckert is he misses a couple
Speaker 5: in this game was kind of the conference level.
Speaker 13: We got tucks back no matter what. That's a guy
Speaker 13: that's done it year after year, year after year, and
Speaker 13: you know, we know that he's going to come through
Speaker 13: and it is what it is. You know, he's going
Speaker 13: to find his way, and we just wanted him to
Speaker 13: stay confident, continue to be him and all those guys
Speaker 13: so we have his back mark.
Speaker 12: How do you do about trying to avoid shooting yourself
Speaker 12: in the foot.
Speaker 8: You know, certain situations, whether the penalties, churn overs, you
Speaker 8: know those types of things that it's playing good football.
Speaker 13: You know, it's like I said, it's it's all all
Speaker 13: three phases, you know, really, you know, trying not to
Speaker 13: hurt ourselves and you know we'll look back and see
Speaker 13: different things. But for us, you know, those kickbacks, you know,
Speaker 13: hopefully starting on thirty yard line is a good deal.
Speaker 8: And we can't. We can't, we can't.
Speaker 13: Really, we want to do everything we can to to
Speaker 13: make ourselves, you know, in the best position starting the
Speaker 13: ball and start in the field.
Speaker 5: And yeah, the more said, he was pretty hyped coming
Speaker 5: into this game. Could you say any difference in him
Speaker 5: coming into this.
Speaker 9: Game at all?
Speaker 8: Laser focus, I like he always does week and week out.
Speaker 13: We talk about, you know, number eight being ready to
Speaker 13: go and being locked in. There's no difference to this game.
Speaker 13: I think he fought hard. I think everybody fought hard
Speaker 13: and there was no give up from this team. And
Speaker 13: you know, for us, again, it's looking in the mirror,
Speaker 13: understanding what we can do better and being more efficient
Speaker 13: in all phases.
Speaker 4: You know heard you guys have the defenses back for
Speaker 4: their ups and downs. It was disappointment when they come
Speaker 4: through with the game that they had. You guys could
Speaker 4: with your own games.
Speaker 13: I don't know if I would put it like we
Speaker 13: couldn't with our own game, you know, I think they
Speaker 13: we went down and scored and and didn't you know,
Speaker 13: turn out with that two point. But we still had
Speaker 13: a chance no matter what. And there was it really
Speaker 13: boils down to all four quarters, all all the plays
Speaker 13: you know that leading up to that, and I think
Speaker 13: that we put ourselves in good positions. We were in
Speaker 13: the ball, put the ball in the field where it
Speaker 13: needs to be, and we didn't score enough points and
Speaker 13: that that's that's everybody.
Speaker 8: I think, last years. Now today, it seems like to
Speaker 8: your point.
Speaker 4: You guys were able to move the ball before midfield
Speaker 4: and then kind of after the field started.
Speaker 8: To tighten up a little bit. I mean, it didn't
Speaker 8: feel that way out there today.
Speaker 13: No, No, I think that we were able to do
Speaker 13: kind of what we wanted. But it was a tough game.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 13: It was a tough fought game. It's just about executing.
Speaker 1: Head coach John Harbo will hold his normal Monday press
Speaker 1: conference at two thirty pm from the Underarmer Performance Center.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.