Speaker 1: That ain't During the week and a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: he talked about how how solid your defense has been
Speaker 1: and how good it's been, but that it can be
Speaker 1: great and a lot of that had to do with
Speaker 1: taking the ball away and was tonight's sort of an
Speaker 1: example of where you guys hope to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's funny because you know, Coach Wilkes, he
Speaker 2: said it last night, he said, you know, you guys
Speaker 2: don't know how good you truly can be. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, we see the talent in the room and
Speaker 2: what our potential is. But it's about doing it, you know,
Speaker 2: week in and week out. And to do it this
Speaker 2: game on this stage against a really good football team,
Speaker 2: I mean, it really meant a lot.
Speaker 3: I think this sense to the rest of the week
Speaker 3: for team. This is yeah, I mean I don't know,
Speaker 3: obviously that were.
Speaker 2: Dangerous, but it's not even about the other teams to us.
Speaker 3: You know, it's all all about us. Every single game,
Speaker 3: it's all about us. You know.
Speaker 2: We we understand the opportunity that we have and it's
Speaker 2: about just taking it one week at a time, regardless
Speaker 2: of who we're playing. We got to uphold the standard
Speaker 2: and play to the best of our ability every single game,
Speaker 2: and if we do that, then we'll like the result.
Speaker 3: How much does that result impress you?
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive? Pretty impressive. You know we talked about a
Speaker 2: dog fight, you know, lead going into this game. We
Speaker 2: knew Dallas was a really good football team, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, when it's your night, it's your night to
Speaker 2: do it in front of the whole country.
Speaker 3: It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: During the week. I know, you guys are playing other
Speaker 1: team's offense and say you're worried about yourself, But there
Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about Dallas's defense going into
Speaker 1: this game. Did that stuff get through to your guys
Speaker 1: ears at all? About how good their defense was supposed
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 2: I guess the political answer would be not, we don't
Speaker 2: hear that stuff, But I mean, being being the competitor
Speaker 2: I am. Of course, I wanted us to be the
Speaker 2: top defense tonight, and I think we did that.
Speaker 4: There's a good there's you know, there's a handful of
Speaker 4: guys in the NFL that people always talked about for
Speaker 4: NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Your teammates wide like
Speaker 4: a Parsons.
Speaker 3: This kind of.
Speaker 4: Seemed to be an audition tape for her resume, for
Speaker 4: you doing all those things, do you think of yourself
Speaker 4: in that light as being capable of winning ANFL Defensive Player.
Speaker 3: Of the Year.
Speaker 2: I mean, if so, if yet, I mean, if they
Speaker 2: put me in that conversation, great, you know to me,
Speaker 2: I know what, I know what I have to contribute
Speaker 2: to this team.
Speaker 3: I know the calbery player I am.
Speaker 2: I don't need anybody else's uh, you know, recognition or
Speaker 2: people to tell me how great I am. I want
Speaker 2: to be the best person I could be, best player
Speaker 2: I can be for my teammates and for this team.
Speaker 2: You know, we know what we have ahead of us
Speaker 2: and the goals that we've set out for ourselves.
Speaker 3: All that other stuff take care of itself.
Speaker 2: When you're just doing things the right way day in
Speaker 2: and day out, you know, it's it's uh, I'm I'm.
Speaker 3: Just really grateful. And for this moment, seriously, did you
Speaker 3: think you.
Speaker 4: Got a sense that you were gonna dominate the game
Speaker 4: and was becoming frustrating.
Speaker 1: For them offense?
Speaker 2: As soon as the offense went down on that first
Speaker 2: drive and scored, and I was like, we got them.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the way that they're the way that
Speaker 2: they're operating right now is unbelievable. You know, I've been
Speaker 2: a part of a lot of good teams since I've
Speaker 2: been here, but the way the offense is playing is
Speaker 2: unlike anything I've seen.
Speaker 3: That that that they're right there just lets.
Speaker 2: Me know, as long as the defense is doing our job,
Speaker 2: we're always gonna have a chance.
Speaker 5: You guys got off to a similar start and it
Speaker 5: was pretty new for that group contending. I mean, and
Speaker 5: this year, how much do you feel like the last
Speaker 5: few years and then even twenty nineteen it's has shaped you?
Speaker 3: And how different does it feel at this point? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think as you as you go through your career
Speaker 2: as a coach, as a player, you know, you you
Speaker 2: learn things along the way. Uh, you get scarred, you know,
Speaker 2: by by adversity and by you know, things that happened
Speaker 2: in your path, and you learn from those things. Right,
Speaker 2: And so I think you talk about even going into season,
Speaker 2: how we said we wanted to get off to a
Speaker 2: fast start, you know, because of things that have happened
Speaker 2: in the past, and how we didn't feel like we
Speaker 2: needed to hit some adversity in order for us to
Speaker 2: be all the way locked in, all the way dialed
Speaker 2: in from the jump, you know, and so those things,
Speaker 2: those are things you learn as you go. And there's
Speaker 2: still things we got to learn, you know, as as
Speaker 2: we continue through this season. To say that we're the
Speaker 2: team that we're gonna be in in December and January, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think we still have a long ways to go,
Speaker 2: and it's all about just living in the moment, taking
Speaker 2: it one week at a time, saying.
Speaker 1: That he felt during the week of practice, he felt
Speaker 1: really good. How you guys were were practicing, h Did
Speaker 1: you feel that or did you Andrey need to get
Speaker 1: his sie or is everybody just locked in from.
Speaker 3: A yeah, everybody was locked in.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm really confident in h In our team, our leadership,
Speaker 2: the way that we operate day in and day out.
Speaker 2: It's no, it's not luck, right, Like, I think these
Speaker 2: things happen for a reason. And I mean we talk
Speaker 2: about the detail and at which we operate day in
Speaker 2: and day out, meetings, walk through practice, all of it is.
Speaker 3: Uh, just for moments like this, right, Thank you? All right? Thanks?
Speaker 3: Got ready