Speaker 1: Five five years in college, five to seven this year?
Speaker 1: How how are you doing well? It's frustrating and I
Speaker 1: no one likes losing, especially in this business as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wired to be a winner. You know
Speaker 1: I hate losing. Um. But you know, at the same time,
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect us going forward. You know, I I
Speaker 1: know it doesn't affect me. UM. And I could probably
Speaker 1: say the same thing for the guys in that locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna come in and prepare um and
Speaker 1: be the same win or loose, because I think that's
Speaker 1: what it takes to be great. Um. You can't get um,
Speaker 1: you can't waiver, you can't change how you approach things.
Speaker 1: You can't change how you go about your business. Win,
Speaker 1: lose or draw. Um. But but at the same time, yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, I'm we don't we don't like losing
Speaker 1: around here. Take you to get over these losses, UM.
Speaker 1: I mean you get in the locker room and it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a down feeling. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of you guys are in the locker room after the game. UM,
Speaker 1: they're tough. You know. You don't like lose, No one does,
Speaker 1: especially on the road, having it to get on the
Speaker 1: plane or the bus or whatever and come back home.
Speaker 1: But UM, you get over it. You know, you turn
Speaker 1: on the tape, you learn from it. Um. But right
Speaker 1: after you watch that tape, it's it's onto the next
Speaker 1: you know. That's that's kind of the nature of this league,
Speaker 1: and that's how you have to approach things. Watching the
Speaker 1: tape of the Cincinnati loss. What is it you think
Speaker 1: you need to work on from from looking? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think myself and really just everybody, we just gotta be
Speaker 1: better disciplined with things, um, whether that's from from alignments,
Speaker 1: from pre snap things, from from recognition, um, from reds,
Speaker 1: you know, you name it. I think we all just
Speaker 1: gotta be more disciplined. Um. Really just execute better. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it starts with me. Um. There's just things
Speaker 1: we got to control, control our mistakes. UM. And that
Speaker 1: goes for everybody myself first and foremost. Talking about you specifically,
Speaker 1: are you talking about what players are slumps? Uh? The
Speaker 1: best thing to do sometimes to go back to look
Speaker 1: at when you were successful. Have you done that recently?
Speaker 1: To look at those those first five six games when
Speaker 1: you when you were we're hitting on all cylinders, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't turned on the tape by any means. UM,
Speaker 1: but I think we know, we know what it's like.
Speaker 1: You know, we remember it. I know I do. UM.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: I don't think we change our approach with with things. UM.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's just full speed ahead with with
Speaker 1: the Redskins here and UM, we know what we're capable of.
Speaker 1: I think everyone in this building does. UM. We just
Speaker 1: got to get over that hump a little bit. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz said he spoke with you about that play that
Speaker 1: has been mentioned so much in the last several days.
Speaker 1: How did that go and what did you think of
Speaker 1: the whole thing? Yeah, you know, I think you know,
Speaker 1: I think coach right hit it on the head yesterday,
Speaker 1: and um, we we talked about it. I think it
Speaker 1: was kind of a non factor in the play. I
Speaker 1: think I was already, um, just about out of bound.
Speaker 1: So we definitely talked about it. And you know that
Speaker 1: kind of just say is what it is? Through the
Speaker 1: ball sixty times on Sunday And so do you kind
Speaker 1: of feel like sometimes like maybe too much might be
Speaker 1: put on your shoulders at this point, Like you know,
Speaker 1: they're asking you to do more. I think it kind
Speaker 1: of goes game by game, you know. I think it's Hey,
Speaker 1: it's kind of part of the game plan every week, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you get in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game, UM, and then in that game you get
Speaker 1: down twenty nine nothing. You know, that's just the nature
Speaker 1: of the beast. UM. And I think we did some
Speaker 1: good things late in that game. You know, as an offense,
Speaker 1: I think we moved the ball. UM. Obviously we had
Speaker 1: the turnovers once we were moving in those are those
Speaker 1: are never good, UM. But you know, I think we
Speaker 1: did some good things late in that game, and we
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't quit, you know, we didn't quit. We
Speaker 1: kept fighting UM down the end. And that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the nature really that fourth quarter how it played out, UM,
Speaker 1: which added up to a lot of those throws. Basically
Speaker 1: your number one receiver in Jordan. What's it gonna mean
Speaker 1: to get him back and to happen. Yeah, obviously obviously
Speaker 1: getting Jordan back hopefully this week, UM, we'll be huge.
Speaker 1: You know, having a guy like that and a guy
Speaker 1: who can trust UM is huge. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, I know Trey Burton last week stepped up huge,
Speaker 1: Paul Turner stepped up huge. So, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: love Jordan and it'll be big to get him back there.
Speaker 1: But it was good to see some of those other
Speaker 1: guys step up at the same time. A lot of
Speaker 1: these games have been similar where you guys dig yourselves
Speaker 1: a whole down fourteen nothing after the first quarter or
Speaker 1: ten nothing whatever. Um. You know how obviously takes you
Speaker 1: out of being able to run the ball, being balanced.
Speaker 1: How how tough is it to kind of, week after
Speaker 1: week be in that early hole. Yeah, it's tough, you know,
Speaker 1: especially in this league, to dig yourself a hole. Um,
Speaker 1: whether the defense is struggling, offense, you know, giving them
Speaker 1: points with turnovers and different things. Um, it's been a
Speaker 1: variation of a lot of those things. And UM it's tough.
Speaker 1: You know, it's tough to dig yourself a hole, um
Speaker 1: against anybody, especially against good teams. So, um, we gotta
Speaker 1: avoid that and we gotta come out swinging a little
Speaker 1: better earlier hunting games, you got to do that. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it just comes out to being focused and
Speaker 1: locking in. And I mean you've seen us. There's there's
Speaker 1: been games where we come out and we're rolling you
Speaker 1: know right away, and um, we just got to find
Speaker 1: a way to maintain that and be consistent with that.
Speaker 1: You have maybe I think it's three touchdowns offensively in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Um, do you feel like the same
Speaker 1: urgency isn't there early as it is maybe late? I'm
Speaker 1: hard to say, hard to say. I know, I know
Speaker 1: myself and I know a lot of guys. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we want to come out rolling, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's that's big for us, and that's something we want
Speaker 1: to do. But um, at the same time, sometimes you
Speaker 1: got ease into the game. At times, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta teams play you a little differently. At times you
Speaker 1: gotta come out and see um and react. But obviously
Speaker 1: the goal is to come out swinging right away. It's
Speaker 1: kind of been a long grind from New football wise,
Speaker 1: with you know, college, right right into the pre draft process.
Speaker 1: You know how mentally, I mean he was mentally fresh.
Speaker 1: Do you think now as you were you know back
Speaker 1: back then? Yeah, you know, I feel good. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it comes down to do you love it enough?
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you love the game and
Speaker 1: you're around it, you enjoy the grind. You know, you
Speaker 1: attack it and Um, it's kind of a part of
Speaker 1: the process. And um, you know, for me, there's there's
Speaker 1: no more school to go to during the day. It's
Speaker 1: just football all day, every day. UM, And I love
Speaker 1: that and I love that. So it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And UM, by no means is it is
Speaker 1: a wearing on me in a negative way. When you
Speaker 1: talk to Doug and Frank, you know, about things that
Speaker 1: are going on, do they kind of like tell you
Speaker 1: about their experiences, like you know, when they were in
Speaker 1: the NFL it's quarterbacks and how much So how much
Speaker 1: does that help you? Um? A little bit for sure.
Speaker 1: You know. I think they both kind of have different
Speaker 1: bits and pieces here and there that that can help. Um,
Speaker 1: they're all kind of case by case, they're all kind
Speaker 1: of different, you know, but UM, I think knowing that
Speaker 1: they've been through it, they understand, you know, what I'm
Speaker 1: going through, what this team's going through. Um, And they're
Speaker 1: guys you can trust, you know, you you trust their opinion,
Speaker 1: you trust their judgment because because they've been through kind
Speaker 1: of industry of kind of was breaking down and your
Speaker 1: every motion in your in your throwing, your mechanics. Um.
Speaker 1: So do you number one that you spend as much
Speaker 1: time looking at uh, you know, because mechanics of your
Speaker 1: throwing and has that kind of almos silted down to
Speaker 1: you and as sessions about how you Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you know we're all, you know, work in progress. You know,
Speaker 1: every quarterback in this league I think would say that.
Speaker 1: You know, you're never a finished product, myself included. So
Speaker 1: you're always analyzing different things that you can do, um,
Speaker 1: from pocket movement to full work. You know, you're always
Speaker 1: analyzing those things. Um. So without a doubt, you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about them, um, but we don't beat it
Speaker 1: overhead either. You know, there's a lot of things going
Speaker 1: on in the middle of the season. So um but
Speaker 1: without a doubt, those are things that we're constantly working
Speaker 1: on and we'll be working on weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: First of Washington geam, we're obviously get quite a day
Speaker 1: able to beat fast first team. Once you learned from
Speaker 1: that game and looking at the film this week, do
Speaker 1: you see things that could help them down? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we learned that they're a go football team. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think we also learned there's some things we
Speaker 1: can take advantage of for sure. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought later in that game, we kind of settled and
Speaker 1: we did some things a little better. Um kind of
Speaker 1: came out sluggish, but uh, you know yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we definitely learned some things and I think we'll be
Speaker 1: we'll be ready to roll this Sunday. First time you've
Speaker 1: played a team twice in the same season, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: I actually know Um in college we played South Dakota
Speaker 1: State a couple of times, UM, a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and they're actually about to do that this this Saturday again.
Speaker 1: So that's the nature of the FCS playoffs kind of
Speaker 1: an advantage to you you want to do I think
Speaker 1: it can be, but you know you you both you
Speaker 1: both know your opponent that much more. So I think
Speaker 1: it comes down to really just executing because at that point, UM,
Speaker 1: you're so aware of what they do, their tendencies. UM.
Speaker 1: Sometimes just guys try and change it up and do
Speaker 1: something crazy, but for the most part, teams are who
Speaker 1: they are, you know. So I think it really just
Speaker 1: boils down to executing on that game against the Rescue.
Speaker 1: So you guys were able to find success with the
Speaker 1: Temple offenses. That's something you would like to start out with.
Speaker 1: You get that urgency right from the jump. I'm hard
Speaker 1: to say, you know. I think the biggest thing with
Speaker 1: that is you've you've seen it throughout every game. You know,
Speaker 1: at some point in almost every game we've we've gone
Speaker 1: with that tempo, kind of no huddle style. UM, And
Speaker 1: it's really just a feel thing, you know. It's a
Speaker 1: feel thing for this offense. It's it's really when Coach
Speaker 1: Peterson's feeling comfortable with it. Sometimes it gives us a spark.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we're down lad and we need to kind of rally.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think at the same time, we
Speaker 1: all feel comfortable with it. So whenever coaches is feeling
Speaker 1: that it's the right time, I think we're all ready
Speaker 1: to roll with it. On that urge play, would you
Speaker 1: have rather your tight end take out the linebacker there? Again?
Speaker 1: It was it was I mean, I was already past them.
Speaker 1: It was irrelevant. Um, I don't think it would have
Speaker 1: made or break to put it would have made the
Speaker 1: difference at Allso, UM, I don't really want to speculate
Speaker 1: too much on that, you guys said earlier. Being able
Speaker 1: to still maintain the focus at this point, it's something
Speaker 1: that it's an answer to a question, do you love it?
Speaker 1: Enough and you clearly love football. What is it about
Speaker 1: this game but that you love so much? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think for one, I love the fact that you're always learning,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's always something new to learn. Um.
Speaker 1: I love the competitiveness. I love the men in that
Speaker 1: locker room. There's just something about when a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys come together for a common goal that, um can't
Speaker 1: be put in the works, you know. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's something really special. UM. And the competitiveness and just
Speaker 1: really everything about the game. UM, that's I just really
Speaker 1: have a passion for it. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in that locker room do too. Thanks everybody,