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Speaker 2: And I know what you're thinking. You're not Eric Nordquist.
Speaker 2: That no, I'm Brett Blakemore filling in for Noro today.
Speaker 2: Nordo is out. And I promise that maybe the last
Speaker 2: person you want to hear recapping a Viking's loss. I
Speaker 2: promise no snark, well minimal snark from me going forward
Speaker 2: to do my best to keep everything out of it.
Speaker 3: We're just talking about the Vikings game.
Speaker 2: We're gonna recap what happened in this first segment here
Speaker 2: and then listen to Kevin O'Connell, Jordanadisen, Kirk Cousins all
Speaker 2: coming up in the second segment of Vikings Rewind. And
Speaker 2: it was I don't want to say a boring first
Speaker 2: half because there were a lot of events, but a
Speaker 2: very low scoring first half. But the one thing we
Speaker 2: did get a lot of is there were a lot
Speaker 2: of fumbles in The Eagles started it.
Speaker 4: Off Ryan Wright facing a big rush with a high punt.
Speaker 4: Brittin Cooby floats to the right side. He'll give it
Speaker 4: a whirl from the eighth prints to the fifteen. He
Speaker 4: dropped it half the tenants bounding about, but the Eagles
Speaker 4: have recovered it. Oh, Brittain Covey got smacked.
Speaker 2: Well, could have been a big play for the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Turned out to be well, just Eagles ball. They ended
Speaker 2: up taking the lead on a field goal from Elliott
Speaker 2: three nothing Philadelphia and then the first of many.
Speaker 5: Snapped the ship post awful punch.
Speaker 4: Brandon Powell runs up on it at the forty six,
Speaker 4: shakes a tackle with the forty sevens prints right to
Speaker 4: the fifth. He's at the Eagles forty five to the forty.
Speaker 4: He dropped it, neil'n it, Come on man. Powell dropped
Speaker 4: it and the Eagles recovered it at the twenty seven.
Speaker 4: He went minus three in the take give last week.
Speaker 4: It's the single biggest threason the team lost. And now there.
Speaker 2: Minus won the turnover battle, proving costly again from Powell
Speaker 2: on the punt return. We're gonna take a brief walk
Speaker 2: away from the turnover game to say hello to Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 4: Hurts idled the shotgun play action, Jordan Hicks with a
Speaker 4: big rush, Jalen is contained and Jalen is sacked back
Speaker 4: at the forty one yard line. It's gonna be a
Speaker 4: loss of five yards. Several Vikings got in there as
Speaker 4: Jalen went to dancing.
Speaker 5: In the pocket.
Speaker 4: The Vikings have two sacks and now it's going to
Speaker 4: be second and Daniel Hunter with a second sack of
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 5: It'll be second and fifteen for the merge.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Neil, nice to see you, thanks for checking in.
Speaker 2: And the defense didn't stop there. The Eagles had trouble
Speaker 2: throwing the ball until we'll just chose not to and
Speaker 2: here's why.
Speaker 4: Goddard motions to the backfield. Thirty sixteen Jalen parks Fireston
Speaker 4: over the middle, intercepted by the Minnesota Vikings, had about
Speaker 4: the thirty five yard line. THEO Jackson, with his first
Speaker 4: National Football League interception, has turned over the favored Eagles.
Speaker 2: So Jackson gets the interception for the Vikings. They're only
Speaker 2: down three points. Everything's going right for the Purple until
Speaker 2: Alexander Madison.
Speaker 4: Hussins under center hands it off to Alexander Madison.
Speaker 5: He broughted the ball.
Speaker 4: Alexander though the ball at the thirty eight on our
Speaker 4: line light as he was going down and and no
Speaker 4: signal Eagles ball.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: No, We're not kidding you, Pete. Thanks for checking though,
Speaker 2: but no harm, no foul. Even though there was the
Speaker 2: second fumble so far because the Eagles missed a field goal,
Speaker 2: still was at three to nothing for Philadelphia, and then TJ.
Speaker 4: Howkinson strikes Hussins under center, puts Addison in motion the
Speaker 4: left play action.
Speaker 5: Hurt boots top to the left past his pack.
Speaker 4: Hockinson shakes the tackle, touchdown j Jay Hockinson and the
Speaker 4: Minnesota Vikings have claimed the lead.
Speaker 3: Happy Days for your Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 5: TJ.
Speaker 2: Hockinson puts them out in front seven to three, but
Speaker 2: the Eagles would answer right back with the patten and
Speaker 2: tush push on Jalen Hurt.
Speaker 4: Hirts goes to speaking, he darts to the left side.
Speaker 4: Touchdown philadelt the Eagles right up the middle, to the
Speaker 4: left of Kelsey, to the right of Randon Dickerson, their
Speaker 4: left guard, and for Jalen Hurts. That is this twenty
Speaker 4: fourth rushing touchdown the last two regular seasons.
Speaker 5: And Philip Deltia has reclaimed the lead.
Speaker 2: So the Eagles lead ten to seven, and we thought
Speaker 2: right at the verge of halftime that justin Jefferson, while
Speaker 2: it looked like either a touchdown or he was down
Speaker 2: at the one.
Speaker 5: Here comes the song.
Speaker 4: Reddick from his front side pass left caught Jefferson ha
Speaker 4: reaches for the end zone any Shorge Justin caught it
Speaker 4: at the five yard line and he got down to
Speaker 4: a one. So that's a catch of thirty yards with
Speaker 4: thirty three seconds to go in the first half. Excellent
Speaker 4: catch by Jefferson first involve Minnesota.
Speaker 6: What is what a great job, that's a that's a
Speaker 6: questionable thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they want to look at this
Speaker 4: and see if he fumbled it, because if he fumbled
Speaker 4: it out of bounds in the end zone, it's a
Speaker 4: touchback and it's Philadelphia's ball.
Speaker 2: A great effort from He's JJ. But to quote Lee Corso,
Speaker 2: not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 7: Review the fumble went over the pylon, which by.
Speaker 2: Day for philadelpatness. So what would have been a fourteen
Speaker 2: to ten lead for the Vikings probably going into halftime
Speaker 2: turns into a thirteen to seven deficit thanks to this long,
Speaker 2: long field goal.
Speaker 4: Rick Lovado snaps punter Sippos Hols Elliott from sixty one
Speaker 4: line draw getting close to the end to the goal post.
Speaker 5: It's good.
Speaker 4: I get Jake Kelly and from sixty one yards nineteen,
Speaker 4: a career long and eighteen record has kicked the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5: To a thirteen devin lead.
Speaker 2: And there's your first half of Thursday Night football.
Speaker 3: The Eagles lead.
Speaker 2: What could have been a lead for the Vikings going
Speaker 2: to the half ended up being thirteen to seven for
Speaker 2: the Eagles. Let's go to the second half now, where
Speaker 2: the fumbles resumed again.
Speaker 4: Second down Eagles blitz kerk hit tripsack picked up by
Speaker 4: the Eagles and inside the ten yard line goes a defender.
Speaker 4: We now have fumbled the ball four times, and that
Speaker 4: is Fletcher Cox with.
Speaker 5: A fumble recovery.
Speaker 4: Fletcher, a four time All Pro, nearly got the fourth
Speaker 4: fumble recovery.
Speaker 5: Of his career. Eagles have the ball.
Speaker 4: Josh Swetz the one to force the fumble. Hurst and
Speaker 4: Gold Philadelphia from the seven.
Speaker 2: Rush was very hard to contain for your Vikings offensive line.
Speaker 2: Another example of that and version two. Right after that
Speaker 2: fumble of the tush push.
Speaker 4: Kirk goes to sneaking and he'll follow behemoth left guard
Speaker 4: Land and Dickerson right into the end zone. Touchdown Philadelphia
Speaker 4: second rushing touchdown for Jalen Hurts his twenty fifth new
Speaker 4: regular season. Over the last couple of years, he had
Speaker 4: two against the Vikings last year.
Speaker 5: He has two against the Vikings this year.
Speaker 4: And the Philadelphia Eagles have grabbed a nineteen.
Speaker 2: To seven lead, and after that field goal, the lead
Speaker 2: was up to twenty to seven for the Eagles and
Speaker 2: guess what.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, they weren't done.
Speaker 4: Jalen goes back to pass byers left Devonte Smith uncovered
Speaker 4: caught it for twenty fifteen ten five touchdown Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 4: and Vonte Smith got behind to Caleb Evans. He had
Speaker 4: a fifty four yard reception earlier, the longest his career,
Speaker 4: and scratched that the sixty three yard catch is the
Speaker 4: longest of his.
Speaker 5: Career and Philly is opening up on the lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty seven to seven isn't exactly ideal. Being in
Speaker 2: the third quarter. The credit to the Vikings. They started
Speaker 2: battling back, starting with rookie Jordan Adison.
Speaker 4: Cousins how of the shotgun steps up, he shoots one
Speaker 4: deep center of the field, and.
Speaker 5: It's caught Jordan Addison. Fifteen to ten. Touchdown.
Speaker 4: Jordan Addison with the second touchdown he scored this season.
Speaker 4: It's a sixty two yard touchdown throw from Kirk for Jordan.
Speaker 4: It is the longest reception of his career, and the
Speaker 4: Vikings have cut the margin to twenty seven thirteen.
Speaker 5: He's Jordan Addison.
Speaker 2: And again the Vikings would not go down without more
Speaker 2: of a fight. This time kJ Osborne strikes.
Speaker 4: Ninth play of a possession that's on seventy six yards
Speaker 4: and taken ju minute fifty six seconds.
Speaker 5: It's now first and goal for the Fightkings from.
Speaker 4: The ten Cousins under center play action to Madison's great drop,
Speaker 4: looks to the end zone, throws to a man wide open,
Speaker 4: touchdown Vikings. kJ Osbourne with his first touchdown this season.
Speaker 4: It's a ten yard touchdown, and it's twenty seven to
Speaker 4: twenty Philadelphia, and just.
Speaker 2: Like that, hold the phone, Cotton, we might have a
Speaker 2: football game. But the problem was as soon as the
Speaker 2: Eagles got the ball back, they kept running and running
Speaker 2: and running, eventually running all the way in the end zone.
Speaker 8: Second in goal, Hirch walks up to Jason Kelsey and
Speaker 8: now he walks back to DeAndre Swift to his wife,
Speaker 8: and we go back to Swift and heels around the
Speaker 8: left side and runs through an arm tackle by Harris
Speaker 8: and Smith.
Speaker 5: Touchdown Eagles.
Speaker 4: DeAndre Swift with his first touchdown wearing the colors, and
Speaker 4: the Eagles have opened up again thirty three to.
Speaker 3: Twenty one, and that would really be the nail in
Speaker 3: the coffin.
Speaker 2: Although one more touchdown was scored by your Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 2: but really it only benefited TJ.
Speaker 3: Hawkinson Fantasy owners.
Speaker 4: Cousin's first and goal o's right Codd Hawkinson touchdown, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: T J.
Speaker 5: Hockinson with his second touchdown.
Speaker 2: This game short and sweet from Pa there. I mean
Speaker 2: it was at garbage time. I understand they did have
Speaker 2: the pass late. If Cousins would have connected, it would
Speaker 2: have been another Minneapolis but not in Minneapolis miracle. And
Speaker 2: I did think they had a chance to do it,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it was kind
Speaker 2: of academic at that point in time in my humble opinion.
Speaker 2: And there's your final thirty four to twenty eight Eagles win.
Speaker 2: Your Vikings are zero to two. When come back on
Speaker 2: Vikings Rewind, we're gonna hear from Kevin O'Connell, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 2: Jordan Mattison all talking about the laws and recapping that
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Vikings, Rewind. I'm Brebler filling in for Nordo.
Speaker 2: I hope that was painless enough recapping the game, not
Speaker 2: too much snark for you. Let's go now to the
Speaker 2: locker room. Ben Leeber was joined by the coach, Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 9: We are down in the Vikings locker room and yet
Speaker 9: with the head coach, Kevin O'Connell, and it does seem
Speaker 9: like second week in a row. It seems like we're
Speaker 9: kind of giving these games away. You know, these turnovers.
Speaker 9: That's the elephant in the room right now. You know,
Speaker 9: I know JJ was trying to go for the for
Speaker 9: the end zone there in the sack fumbles. Sometimes that's
Speaker 9: going to happen against a good front four. But the
Speaker 9: other two is it fundamentals, is it something else?
Speaker 5: What do you see?
Speaker 10: Well, clearly, you know, six fumbles in two games, and
Speaker 10: you're right, the stripsacks the way Kirk Cousins played tonight,
Speaker 10: dropping back with you know, we're down two or three
Speaker 10: linemen at different times. I mean, that was as impressive
Speaker 10: of a performance as I've seen of him, and we
Speaker 10: still had a chance to win the game because of
Speaker 10: the way he was able to play. But ultimately, Bennett's
Speaker 10: it's something that we take a daily focus in and
Speaker 10: clearly I got to do a better job, and it
Speaker 10: starts with me and our staff. We've got to emphasize
Speaker 10: it because although you know, you look at it and
Speaker 10: you say, you know, two playoff teams from a year ago,
Speaker 10: we've turned the ball over. We've lost a turnover battle
Speaker 10: seven to one in two games, and we've lost by
Speaker 10: a combined nine points, one of the witch being at
Speaker 10: the defending NFC champions House, and you just I'm tired
Speaker 10: of saying could.
Speaker 5: Have, would have should it.
Speaker 10: It's only two a week two already, So we've got
Speaker 10: to coach it better. We've got to emphasize it. Hopefully
Speaker 10: we can get healthy on the on the old line, hope,
Speaker 10: hopefully we can get some guys back at some point
Speaker 10: to continue to try to, you know, chase running the
Speaker 10: football better. But that's an incredibly difficult front seven around
Speaker 10: the football against and we were able to you know,
Speaker 10: move the football, but just not consistent enough with losing
Speaker 10: the ball as many times as we did, you know
Speaker 10: in the kicking game one time and then obviously three
Speaker 10: times offensively.
Speaker 9: You know, as brutal and as painful as that status
Speaker 9: the seven to one turnover ratio, but only losing by
Speaker 9: nine points? Is that still if you flip it around,
Speaker 9: something that you can use optimistically, that you can tell
Speaker 9: the team, look how close we are.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I told them in the locker room after the game,
Speaker 10: not very optimistically, but that's just the reality. I mean,
Speaker 10: you lose turnover battles in the NFL, your percentages, especially
Speaker 10: when you lose by three and back to back games,
Speaker 10: your percentages of winning those games are you know, they
Speaker 10: go down almost to next to nothing historically in this league.
Speaker 10: You know that band You've played on a lot of
Speaker 10: good defenses, and ultimately we've got we're not giving ourselves
Speaker 10: a chance to even compete to win football games. But
Speaker 10: yet we still are. And I think that's a you know,
Speaker 10: a big time reason with what is in the makeup
Speaker 10: of this team and what we could be. But like
Speaker 10: I said, how many we can't afford too many more
Speaker 10: opportunities I could have, would have should have had we
Speaker 10: not turned the football over.
Speaker 3: So I got to coach it better.
Speaker 10: Clearly, I haven't done a good enough job of emphasizing
Speaker 10: something that we talk about as much as we possibly can.
Speaker 10: It's part of our football philosophy. But you are what
Speaker 10: you put on tape, and right now, seven to one,
Speaker 10: losing turnover battle in twenty twenty three, we're not giving
Speaker 10: ourselves a chance to win these games. Now.
Speaker 9: The defense, you know, it looked like they were fast,
Speaker 9: they're aggressive, they're swarm of the ball. Early it looked
Speaker 9: like they're responding to sudden change really well. But then
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, it's the two fifty nine at
Speaker 9: the end of the game that they let up on
Speaker 9: the grounds. You know, how did you see it? What
Speaker 9: did you see from the rush defense? You know that
Speaker 9: kind of fell apart second quarter on.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they had a good game plan early on, Flow
Speaker 10: and his staff did they you know, gave a completely
Speaker 10: different presentation to our defense.
Speaker 6: Thought we were able.
Speaker 10: To get off the field early on. And really, Ben,
Speaker 10: it's a matter of with those first half possessions when
Speaker 10: we got them either a punt return inside, you know,
Speaker 10: their thirty five yard line or so, or just potentially
Speaker 10: putting the ball on the ground on a first and
Speaker 10: ten you know, first and ten run.
Speaker 3: Those were the times.
Speaker 10: Where you've got to get a lead against a team
Speaker 10: like that. Now we were able to come back and
Speaker 10: being on side kick away for potentially taking the lead,
Speaker 10: and not one guy in our team thought for a
Speaker 10: second that we didn't have a real chance to win
Speaker 10: this game with the momentum that was kind of coming.
Speaker 10: But we just asked the defense to do too much
Speaker 10: and I be on the field too much and try
Speaker 10: to overcome, certainly circumstances that are very very hard to
Speaker 10: overcome when you're playing at Philly. So we got to
Speaker 10: be better, got to find a way whatever, by any
Speaker 10: means necessary, find a way to run the football better.
Speaker 10: And then obviously we're always going to you know, have
Speaker 10: success to in the football with the way our guys
Speaker 10: are playing in that phase, and you know we're gonna
Speaker 10: use this many many buy this three week, three days
Speaker 10: as a staff to go back to work and try
Speaker 10: to do the best we can to come out of
Speaker 10: this thing ready to go win a game next Sunday
Speaker 10: at US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 2: From Ben Leeber and the coach to Gabe Henderson and
Speaker 2: Jordan Aison.
Speaker 6: We got Jordan Adison here, j you caught your second
Speaker 6: career NFL touchdown. Look look kind of similar to that
Speaker 6: touchdown you had at USC against Stanford. You spent around
Speaker 6: very athletic play. What did you see on that play
Speaker 6: that that kind of got you open?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 11: So we had we had Jets on the left side
Speaker 11: running the screen. I'm on the backside by myself. I
Speaker 11: knew once once Kirk pumped that Jets for the screen,
Speaker 11: I knew that the safety was gonna go over and
Speaker 11: I'm knowing I'm gonna have one on one. We we
Speaker 11: practice this all week and practice. So once they called
Speaker 11: my number and I knew it was my time. So
Speaker 11: I just ran a great route against one on one
Speaker 11: and made the play.
Speaker 3: And from Jordan Addison.
Speaker 2: We go to the presser post game with the quarterback
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, all.
Speaker 7: Right, tough, tough loss, you know, solid opponent. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: shout ourselves in the foot with the turnovers. Similar story
Speaker 7: now the first two weeks and that in that case.
Speaker 7: I'm sure that's been said a lot to you guys
Speaker 7: now post game, but it ought to be and it's
Speaker 7: difficult to win in this league when you you know,
Speaker 7: lose the turnover battle by one, let alone by the
Speaker 7: margin we've lost it by so, uh, you know, we
Speaker 7: got to fix those mistakes and not let it continue.
Speaker 7: And then, you know, obviously proud of the way guys fought,
Speaker 7: continue to feel like we have, you know, guys who
Speaker 7: can make place and and be explosive and make this
Speaker 7: offense go. And you know, Kevin's gonna give us a
Speaker 7: lot opportunity to do that. So we're gonna call a
Speaker 7: lot of guys numbers. And yeah, I guess that's really
Speaker 7: all I have to say. So take any questions yet, Kurt.
Speaker 9: How were you able to overcome a lot of the
Speaker 9: pressure that they were able to create to still have
Speaker 9: to shoot back the pass the game overall?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I think it's a combination of, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: I was still getting you know, protection to be able
Speaker 7: to get through the progressions, and I think, you know,
Speaker 7: guys did a good job winning their man coverage matchups,
Speaker 7: their match coverages, and uh, you know, Kevin and the
Speaker 7: staff did a good job of you know, getting number one,
Speaker 7: number two open. So I wasn't having a sit in
Speaker 7: there too long, and it's just a combination. You know,
Speaker 7: the line did a good job, you know, mix up
Speaker 7: the snap count, trying to stay disciplined there. And there
Speaker 7: are a lot of moving parts when you go on
Speaker 7: the road, so you know, outside of the turnovers, felt
Speaker 7: like we did did a lot of good things. Good
Speaker 7: how confounding? Just is the turn of the turnover?
Speaker 10: Then?
Speaker 4: Is this so many? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you look at each one as its
Speaker 7: own entity and you kind of look at it, well,
Speaker 7: why did that one happen? And is there a pattern?
Speaker 7: And in some cases there isn't. You know, if Justin
Speaker 7: is going out of bounds at the five yard line,
Speaker 7: he's not reaching, right, He's reaching because he thinks he
Speaker 7: has a chance there on the half yard line. So
Speaker 7: that one's kind of its own entity. And then yeah,
Speaker 7: have you know the sack fumble where I'm saying, okay,
Speaker 7: how was that one happened? Well, you know, I got
Speaker 7: to keep two hands in the balls as much as
Speaker 7: I can as a pastor. It's hard because you're you know,
Speaker 7: pulling your hand back, but you know, going back to
Speaker 7: two hands in the ball as much as possible. So
Speaker 7: each one is his own entity and and we just
Speaker 7: have to have to address them each that way.
Speaker 6: On the side, Hubble, looks like you had to take
Speaker 6: a couple of inches there.
Speaker 5: And did you feel the defenders stumping around you as
Speaker 5: you Is that a surprising Yeah?
Speaker 7: I didn't. I didn't see him, you know. I guess
Speaker 7: it's that old blindside you know term, But uh, yeah, her,
Speaker 7: why have you? And Justin Beale will have been be
Speaker 7: so productive even with other teams knowing that he's yeah
Speaker 7: Justin Jefferson. Yeah, so so they clearly do the way
Speaker 7: they cover him throughout the game. You know, they're very
Speaker 7: aware of where he is, and you can feel that and.
Speaker 5: Tell that, you know.
Speaker 7: I think our coaching staff is there's a lot of
Speaker 7: credit for for being very creative and uh intelligent, you know,
Speaker 7: with how to how to use him and and then
Speaker 7: you know he's we try to take advantage based on coverage.
Speaker 7: So if you know, sometimes he's not, I can't work him,
Speaker 7: you know, and I'm moving on. But there are other
Speaker 7: times where you say, you know, yes, they're they're aware
Speaker 7: of him, but I still can can make the throw.
Speaker 7: So I try to take advantage when the when the
Speaker 7: coverage allows it.
Speaker 1: To talk about in the past, Justin's ability to finish
Speaker 1: place see Jordan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, make that deep catch and as the finish, great line,
Speaker 7: great question, great line. That was the first thing I
Speaker 7: said to him when he came off the field on
Speaker 7: the sideline, I put my arm around and I just said,
Speaker 7: the finish is what I love. You know, he got
Speaker 7: his six points instead of running out, you know, with
Speaker 7: our red zone offense, and uh, that's tremendous. You know,
Speaker 7: if you watch his tape from college, he's catching post
Speaker 7: routes for Pitt's catching post routes for USC. He's good
Speaker 7: at it. When he first got here, I told him
Speaker 7: I watched his tape and that was what I saw,
Speaker 7: and he said it's my favorite route, and he said
Speaker 7: it with a lot lower energy than I just said
Speaker 7: it now. So, uh, he's a very natural receiver and
Speaker 7: that's going to show up in the way he runs,
Speaker 7: the way he catches the football, and the way he
Speaker 7: after the catch makes place.
Speaker 2: Krpel kJ was wide open.
Speaker 7: When kJ was wide open, which one are you saying?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, good play design, Good play design, I
Speaker 7: like to call all week and it had it on
Speaker 7: my favorites list, and it's great design and they just
Speaker 7: you know, it was crossing patterns, so they have to
Speaker 7: decide whether we're going to pass it off or run
Speaker 7: with it. And I think they on one side decided
Speaker 7: to run with it, the other side decided to pass
Speaker 7: it off, and then he's able to kind of sneak through.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be saying it after two games
Speaker 2: in a row, but how do you kind of balance
Speaker 2: the urgency to fix the turnover and get better with
Speaker 2: kind of some encouragement from the way you're off into
Speaker 2: the being.
Speaker 9: Able to move the ball?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you evaluate all football games in that
Speaker 7: light where you say, okay, let's we don't just look
Speaker 7: at it with one broad stroke brush and say, oh,
Speaker 7: we lost, that was bad, or we want and that
Speaker 7: was good. You know, if anything, have to avoid it
Speaker 7: when you win. You know, last year, I think there
Speaker 7: was a lot of times where we were winning, but
Speaker 7: you got to go back and be like, this isn't
Speaker 7: good enough, this isn't sustainable. And so there's a little
Speaker 7: bit of the opposite too when you lose. If saying hey,
Speaker 7: I liked what you did here, I liked what you
Speaker 7: did here. But obviously there's a you know, need to
Speaker 7: coach and fix things and and be hard on ourselves.
Speaker 7: You know, anytime you lose Kirk, I'm gonna I mean,
Speaker 7: you've talked about the ability to finish with Justin quite
Speaker 7: a bit too.
Speaker 5: Pretty arm himself on the sideline, amol. Is that kind
Speaker 5: of one of those where you don't want to dissuade
Speaker 5: him from doing that, even if it's.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, you have your you know, when you
Speaker 7: talk about security and fundamentals, you always say, you know, hey,
Speaker 7: don't reach for the end zone unless it's fourth down,
Speaker 7: and and yet players do it all the time and
Speaker 7: score a touchdown. And so you know, we often joke that,
Speaker 7: you know, don't reach for the end zone if you're
Speaker 7: not going to score. It's kind of the it's kind
Speaker 7: of the wink, you know. So it's tough, and the
Speaker 7: players are you know, instinct shroleing in the moment. You know,
Speaker 7: he's so aware of where he is in the field
Speaker 7: that you know he reaches for it. But I'm gonna
Speaker 7: be hard on myself, right, I'm gonna say, look, that
Speaker 7: ball shouldn't have stopped him. You know, the ball stops him,
Speaker 7: so we have to go up and get it and
Speaker 7: has to pull through what if I threw a perfect
Speaker 7: ball and what if it had dropped right in the bucket,
Speaker 7: Maybe he runs in untouched. So again going back to
Speaker 7: we don't even have to have that moment. If I
Speaker 7: can throw a perfect pass and drop it in the bucket.
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