Speaker 1: It's taught. Were there any other injuries that came out
Speaker 1: after the last time, No, not that I know of
Speaker 1: right now. Some people saw it, but no other injuries
Speaker 1: are reported. What happened with Kemball Tompkins as far as
Speaker 1: and being tired off the fields? What would the injury?
Speaker 1: He had a lower leg injury. It turned out to
Speaker 1: be more of a muscle spas and type of deals
Speaker 1: and a major injury. That's why I came back. It
Speaker 1: looked worse than it was. Some of your players talked
Speaker 1: yesterday about your your speech to them after the Texas
Speaker 1: game kind of being a turning point. What do you
Speaker 1: remember about that and what what was your message? And
Speaker 1: you were trying to get across at that point when
Speaker 1: you guys were five and fives. Just remember we weren't
Speaker 1: playing well, and you know, there's a point we were
Speaker 1: going back and forth. It can't be a five hundred team.
Speaker 1: Either have to get better and tread water. You have
Speaker 1: to tread water and get worse so you can get
Speaker 1: better as a team. And you know, we started playing
Speaker 1: better after that. I don't know if that was the reason,
Speaker 1: but we started playing better after that. Todd, we were
Speaker 1: just talking to Calvin Pace and he said at that
Speaker 1: moment of the season, he got the feeling that he
Speaker 1: was either the team was going to come together or
Speaker 1: the ship was gonna sink. Those were his pretty much
Speaker 1: his exact words. Did you get the feeling that that
Speaker 1: was a cross roads as well? No, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: don't think the ship was gonna think. That's not on
Speaker 1: cow And I'm sorry he didn't mean it that way. Uh,
Speaker 1: And we were going to do anything from a playoff
Speaker 1: standpoint in the season standpoint, and that was the time
Speaker 1: to come together. But we were still growing and building then,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't a problem of wearing about the ships thinking,
Speaker 1: just a matter of play more consistent. So I hid
Speaker 1: the Bills look different than the team you saw in
Speaker 1: early November. I mean the same team. They're running the
Speaker 1: football pretty well, they played great defense, and they got
Speaker 1: a big play receiver. So there's gonna be another tough
Speaker 1: game going in there plays playing the football game. We
Speaker 1: just gotta making us play to win. Scott, how do
Speaker 1: you think you guys are different from when you were
Speaker 1: when you lost to the build. Hopefully we've grown from
Speaker 1: a mental standpoint, you know, we we guys trust each
Speaker 1: other a lot more. They're playing together a lot better.
Speaker 1: So from that point we're a little bit bit different.
Speaker 1: Do you think your team has grown enough to handle
Speaker 1: the pressure of what basically is a playoff game? Well,
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks of the playoffs games, they're
Speaker 1: really have no pressure. They just played together and we
Speaker 1: have fun and we try to get better better at
Speaker 1: the team. There's no pressure on us, and we know
Speaker 1: we have to win. We've been having to win the
Speaker 1: past four weeks, five weeks, so it's no different going
Speaker 1: in the Sunday tod Do you expect that Rex Ryan,
Speaker 1: will you know, be probing these guys up to try
Speaker 1: and knock you out of the playoffs? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they're trying to win the game
Speaker 1: as well. It would be something you probably to ask him.
Speaker 1: I just gotta worry about my team. But do you
Speaker 1: But do you believe in that in that concept though?
Speaker 1: Can he can he coach he's on something like that
Speaker 1: and explain it to his players in a way we're
Speaker 1: motivating them in a way that there would be a
Speaker 1: different come Sunday. I don't know. You would have to
Speaker 1: ask a coach that would do that that that's that's
Speaker 1: just not me. I'm trying to win every game. I'll
Speaker 1: share every coach in the league is trying to win
Speaker 1: every game, and everybody has different methods. So whatever works
Speaker 1: for that team will works for us, works for us.
Speaker 1: Whatever works for everybody else works for everybody else. God,
Speaker 1: you've taken the approach the last few weeks of you know,
Speaker 1: you guys just have to take care of business and
Speaker 1: then the playoffs will take care of themselves. But now
Speaker 1: this one is winning, you're in. Will you talk about
Speaker 1: the playoffs this week with your team? Will you address
Speaker 1: that the situation that you know what you're playing for Sunday?
Speaker 1: Or will you try to treat this like, you know,
Speaker 1: just another game? Kind of tree is the same? I
Speaker 1: mean we I mean we understand what we're going up against,
Speaker 1: and we understand what happens this week, so they know
Speaker 1: that fully well, but we've got to continue to do
Speaker 1: the things we've been doing. We try to do anything
Speaker 1: else and we won't have a chance to win. So
Speaker 1: why why do you prefer that approach? Well, it depends
Speaker 1: on how you are when you get a new team together,
Speaker 1: and you've got to have a pulse for your team
Speaker 1: and see where they are, and there will be a
Speaker 1: time when it changes when the team takes over and
Speaker 1: takes that approach until you can get to that team
Speaker 1: and you have enough time to put your imprint on
Speaker 1: things and they see how you want to do things
Speaker 1: and how the coaches when things done. Sometimes they take
Speaker 1: it over, They take it over early in the season,
Speaker 1: sometimes they take it over later. But you've got to
Speaker 1: have a post to your team and make sure they
Speaker 1: always ground it and understand what's going on around them
Speaker 1: and not let the game get too big for him.
Speaker 1: What are the something that you would look for in
Speaker 1: that in that case, well, it can go both ways.
Speaker 1: You can hear a lot of complaining if you're losing.
Speaker 1: You can hear a lot of bravotto if you're winning.
Speaker 1: And when you do those things, sometimes you let the
Speaker 1: little fundamentals and things slip by, and we just need
Speaker 1: to make sure we don't let anything slipped by and
Speaker 1: we continue to do the things that got us to
Speaker 1: this point. Calen Pates was saying, Um, you know he
Speaker 1: can sense the point this season where the players bought in,
Speaker 1: bought into you and the way you were preaching. Did
Speaker 1: you get a sense of that at all at any
Speaker 1: point this year that you you know your message was
Speaker 1: getting through and you're buying in. Well, it's still a
Speaker 1: work in progress. I mean, I think we're playing better
Speaker 1: and they're coming together themselves. And as a coach, all
Speaker 1: you try to do is make them see what the
Speaker 1: vision is and then work towards getting there. And a
Speaker 1: lot of that has to do with them trusting each other.
Speaker 1: Obviously they have to know what you're talking about from
Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint as a player, but them trusting each
Speaker 1: other and then believing in each other and getting that
Speaker 1: type of camaraderie and chemistry takes a while, and I
Speaker 1: do see some that coming together. Did you hear anything
Speaker 1: from Parsala's last night He's just sick congrats. Did you
Speaker 1: always see this team as a playoff team? Well, we
Speaker 1: gotta get to the playoffs for me to answer that.
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