Speaker 1: You guys a lot of close games this year and
Speaker 1: you haven't been able to pull any of them out.
Speaker 1: What goes into winning those games? And why haven't you
Speaker 1: guys been able to people? Um, At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's execution, you know, flatting playing and simple. Um.
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to execute at a high level, uh,
Speaker 1: in order to pull those games out. And I think
Speaker 1: you know that comes with experience, that comes with playing together. UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, ultimately you have to focus in and
Speaker 1: and play one snap at the time and realize that
Speaker 1: every single snap counts and that when you're you're out
Speaker 1: of position for one you know, and that could be
Speaker 1: the game changer. And when you've got multiple people saying
Speaker 1: my bad, um, you know, and and doing different things. UM,
Speaker 1: I mean you don't execute. That's that's how you get
Speaker 1: beat in this league. You know, every competition is super stiff. Um,
Speaker 1: every game is gonna be tight, you know. And so UM,
Speaker 1: I don't think you know, we haven't other than one
Speaker 1: game other Cincinnati. You know, there has been one game
Speaker 1: where we couldn't have feel it. We don't feel like
Speaker 1: we could have won. So it's difficult, UM, tough, It's
Speaker 1: definitely tough to to to think about and to come
Speaker 1: to that realization that you know, we could this season
Speaker 1: could be completely different if we would just execute those
Speaker 1: little those little details. I think the Giants are like
Speaker 1: eight and two and games decided by seven points or less.
Speaker 1: You know, a couple of those games go one way,
Speaker 1: and then you guys, a couple of games go your way.
Speaker 1: Probably talking about a whole different subjects. Absolutely absolutely, and
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately it's on us. Ultimately we have to
Speaker 1: make the plays to win the games down down the stretch. UM.
Speaker 1: And again you know that could mean a big play,
Speaker 1: miss opportunity in the second quarter, you know, or or
Speaker 1: early in the game. UM. Doesn't necessarily have to be
Speaker 1: at the very end, you know. You just want to
Speaker 1: put yourself in position UM and build that momentum throughout
Speaker 1: the game. The problem, right, I mean, it's obviously a
Speaker 1: goal of mine. UM. I'm not gonna sit here and
Speaker 1: say it's not obviously be an honor, but my number
Speaker 1: one goal is to win games. UM. My number one
Speaker 1: goal is to be the best linebacker I can be
Speaker 1: UM for this team, for this defense. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: and let the chips far as they may, you know
Speaker 1: that's that's really been my mentality, uh this whole season,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't see that changing at all. Personally.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's been all right. You know,
Speaker 1: I've grown a lot um obviously new defense. I think
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of guys around me who have
Speaker 1: made me better. Um. You know, We've put a lot
Speaker 1: of work into this year. It's disappointing the way it's
Speaker 1: turned out. But you know what, the you can always
Speaker 1: see the light at the end of the tunnel, and
Speaker 1: I think that that we're we're able to see that,
Speaker 1: and you know that's really the focus. That's what the
Speaker 1: focus is. Turning it around. Um, you know, making plays
Speaker 1: and finishing this season right. Yeah, just physicality, not being
Speaker 1: able to go out there and have um, you know,
Speaker 1: coaches are trying to pull back a little bit um
Speaker 1: on the physical aspect. You know, it's nice to have
Speaker 1: that every once in a while, just just so you're
Speaker 1: getting game speed reps. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: got a supplement with more film study, um, you know,
Speaker 1: getting in on your own, making sure you're you're on
Speaker 1: point with all the little things because you might not
Speaker 1: see see that look out there on the field because
Speaker 1: you're not getting as many reps. Obviously you're playing the
Speaker 1: Redskins and they celebrated a division title on your field.
Speaker 1: That much extra motivation is it that, you know, to
Speaker 1: not let the Giants clinch a playoffs bote. I mean
Speaker 1: we're hearing that mainly, um, honestly from you guys. From
Speaker 1: for us, it's more about us. You know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we want to win because we
Speaker 1: want to win. We've got a lot of pride on
Speaker 1: this team, um, you know, and we feel that we deserve,
Speaker 1: you know, to win these last few games. We feel
Speaker 1: like those first the first time we played, um, the Giants,
Speaker 1: we were not We had an opportunity and we did
Speaker 1: an execute. We weren't able to capitalize on the opportunity. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, So I think this win is more for
Speaker 1: us than it is for them. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: we don't want it's not necessarily we don't want them
Speaker 1: to go, but obviously we don't. But you know, we
Speaker 1: want to win the game because we need this win. UM,
Speaker 1: we need to turn this around. UM. You know, losing
Speaker 1: this many games in the row, it is not acceptable
Speaker 1: and we understand that. At the same time like this
Speaker 1: is I think gonna be the third game against a
Speaker 1: team that pretty much needs to win to you know,
Speaker 1: keep the playoff. Like for you guys, does that kind
Speaker 1: of show you like the kind of intensity? I guess that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you guys played with the intensity anyway,
Speaker 1: but like kind of at a different level a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, the fact that your question is, is we
Speaker 1: played a different intensity because of this guys? I guess
Speaker 1: so you think they get a chance to see like
Speaker 1: the intensity level, you know, playing like one of those
Speaker 1: games that you gotta have or win. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I mean this time of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got to win in December. Um, so that's how
Speaker 1: the league is. Uh, It's always gonna be that way
Speaker 1: around this time. So I don't know. I think if
Speaker 1: you're talking about must win games, I feel like in
Speaker 1: my mentality the way I'm wired, every win is a
Speaker 1: must win game. You know, obviously, once you get in December,
Speaker 1: you're playing for you know, things are kind of defined
Speaker 1: a little bit and you understand your situation. But to me,
Speaker 1: every every game is a must win. You learn definitely. UM,
Speaker 1: A guy who cares, coach who cares coach who wants
Speaker 1: to see us succeed. Um does everything he can to
Speaker 1: put us in position to do that. UM listens to us.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously you guys know about the players counsel.
Speaker 1: You know we've had some good conversation in there, and
Speaker 1: you know he takes it serious, just like we take
Speaker 1: it serious. And then there's UM good communication. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy who wants to do everything right
Speaker 1: and do everything possible UM to put us in a
Speaker 1: position away. And yeah, you guys are constantly around the
Speaker 1: football having an opportunity to play with him. What are
Speaker 1: some of the things that you've seen from from him
Speaker 1: as a football players a line back? Yeah, is you know,
Speaker 1: you can watch him and realize how physical he is,
Speaker 1: how athletic he is. What y'all don't see is how
Speaker 1: smart he is. Um. You know, he is a talented
Speaker 1: football player, but he understands the game. UM understands the
Speaker 1: way the defense is supposed to work. UM and does
Speaker 1: a good job you know, helping me. Um and I
Speaker 1: think we we've we've really built a really good chemistry
Speaker 1: this season. UM talking to each other on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, if he sees something, he yells it out.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just we're kind of gelling together really
Speaker 1: well right now. Um, and it's it's it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of fun playing next to him. But um, he's
Speaker 1: a great player. You know. I can't say enough about him.
Speaker 1: I can imagine the leadership council areas we don't see
Speaker 1: so so yeah, I guess from one day to Saturday,
Speaker 1: how does he show that to you guy? How does
Speaker 1: he have that? How does he have Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: obviously it starts with that, that leadership council and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking to him being vocal, being honest, him
Speaker 1: being honest with us, us being honest with him, um,
Speaker 1: and just kind of talking about the direction we're going,
Speaker 1: you know. And and that's really all you know he
Speaker 1: can do is try and convey the direction and and
Speaker 1: show us how he's doing that, and then us take
Speaker 1: the reins of it and push it in that direction.
Speaker 1: And again, in my opinion, it's on the players to
Speaker 1: push this, this team, the locker room into the direction
Speaker 1: that we wanted to go. So, um, you know, he's
Speaker 1: done a great job so far, you know, I think, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we're all holding hell accountable. But Um,
Speaker 1: he's done. He's done. A good job.