Speaker 1: Hello, Lena, say about the rookies, you know, the way
Speaker 1: Alex started the game, the way Vernardo ended the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about it. So big, so big.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about, uh during the week it
Speaker 1: being a must win and all those type of things
Speaker 1: and the gravity of the game.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And to have your young guys, rookies coming in and
Speaker 1: making those type of plays to help win a game, Uh,
Speaker 1: so big and really happy for them, happy for our
Speaker 1: team finding a way to win.
Speaker 2: And uh, yeah it was. It was great seeing them
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: What's it like when you're saying it's a must win
Speaker 1: game in the locker room?
Speaker 2: Is it practice field? Is it different heading into one where.
Speaker 1: You guys kind of have the emergency like going on
Speaker 1: a little bit, and even though it's early in the yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, we knew the gravity of the situation.
Speaker 1: We couldn't drop O three in the division, you know,
Speaker 1: to start the year. And my message to the guys
Speaker 1: on the field, you know, during warm ups was, you know,
Speaker 1: just stay focused on the process, being the moment.
Speaker 2: You know, all this talk about must win, all this
Speaker 2: other stuff.
Speaker 1: Is great, but you know, how we're gonna execute, How
Speaker 1: we're gonna come out, what type of energy and tenacity
Speaker 1: are we're gonna play with?
Speaker 2: And uh, I think everybody showed up the right.
Speaker 1: Way thousand and you know that was something that was
Speaker 1: something Yeah it sucks, but yes, uh uh, it was
Speaker 1: something that felt familiar for sure. And I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: we can go one to two AA's right here. We
Speaker 1: can stand tall, uh in a hostile environment in the
Speaker 1: game that we know that we gotta get or you know,
Speaker 1: we can settle for exactly how we've been doing, how
Speaker 1: we've been playing the last couple of weeks or the
Speaker 1: last you know, a couple of losses we've had. And
Speaker 1: that's what I'm probably most proud about right now is
Speaker 1: you know the way we stood.
Speaker 2: Up Yeah, I mean defensively.
Speaker 1: Uh. I think we they had brought it to within
Speaker 1: one Hey, George, we brought it within once, had brought
Speaker 1: it within one score, you know, And I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Bosa and some of the other guys and I'm like, hey, like,
Speaker 1: you realize we're winning the game, and like we have
Speaker 1: the opportunity on defense to stall him out right now,
Speaker 1: you know, and and kill that momentum that they've gotten.
Speaker 1: So I think We went out and we stopped him
Speaker 1: on that drive and the offense got the ball back
Speaker 1: and the rest was kind of history.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was one of those moments where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta let's go do it.
Speaker 2: I know, you run on the.
Speaker 1: Field for the challenge that they kind of threw there
Speaker 1: with part return, But at what point is is it
Speaker 1: making its way down the field that there was an
Speaker 1: angle that you.
Speaker 3: Know showed him touching the ball, or like, how does
Speaker 3: that kind of work when you're winging on the sidelines?
Speaker 1: Do do you hear about that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I have no idea how any of that works. You know,
Speaker 1: I left my head coach take care of all that.
Speaker 2: He does a good job. Uh yeah, I mean I'm
Speaker 2: I'm just out.
Speaker 1: I'm back in coverage and it looked like, you know,
Speaker 1: we got a hitch from Gino and he thought, you know,
Speaker 1: John Gina must have seen something that he liked. And
Speaker 1: I turned around to see Ronaldo picked that ball off,
Speaker 1: and my mindset was let's go score and try and
Speaker 1: get a block for him. Alan got his interception and
Speaker 1: he ran right out of bounds. I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? So you gotta learn you gotta learn. Hey,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. We gotta god. You see, the
Speaker 1: first red zone does feel like the kind of weight
Speaker 1: off you're talking about for our offense or George, what
Speaker 1: did you guys do you scored? Didn't you go?
Speaker 3: Scored from six?
Speaker 1: But yours was the red zone. Yeah, George is a
Speaker 1: good player for us, and he does a good job.
Speaker 1: So so this brought Yeah, I'm not really I'm not
Speaker 1: really worried about whatever they got going on. They I
Speaker 1: know they'll take care of business and do what they
Speaker 1: gotta do. It's our job on defense to be better
Speaker 1: in the red zone ourselves.
Speaker 3: DK had eleven targets only three catches, and that looked
Speaker 3: like maybe it was gonna be an issue with that
Speaker 3: moody there. I'm sure not staring at the secondary, you know,
Speaker 3: but you know what, what's your assessment of the job
Speaker 3: they did?
Speaker 1: I can't I can't say enough about it. You know,
Speaker 1: that was that was a big thing for us pre game.
Speaker 1: You know, we lose obviously one of our best corners
Speaker 1: before the game starts and guys are getting shuffled around,
Speaker 1: and he's a he's a big part of what they do.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what was going on with
Speaker 1: with their offense. It didn't seem like he was he was.
Speaker 1: He was kind of rotating in and out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we we made his hard. Was we made his life
Speaker 1: hard for you know, most of the game. And I
Speaker 1: know he got he got some on us, but we
Speaker 1: got more. And I'm so proud of our back end
Speaker 1: and the way that they competed.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys,