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Just a moment of frustration after a tough, intense game
like that. I just think of the opportunities that I
could have could have done better to take it out
of their hands. Just a moment of frustration. What was
specifically was the tweet commenting about UH, just the opportunities
that we didn't take advantage of. Some of the moments
that we put we put in the officials hands. I
just felt like we could have executed to to not
(00:20):
put ourselves in those situations. And I know that some
that will improve on what moment felt like it was
in the officials hands. Just some of the two point
extra plays, uh, and some of the opportunities where our
defense had executed, make them sap on one more time.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But yeah, what kind.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What kind of conversations, if any, have you had with
McVeigh regarding what happened during the week.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Coach has just echoed that he's always in continuous support
of me. Uh, disappointed in some of the actions, just
distracted my teammates and that some I know I'll learn
from it. Some I know I don't want to to
be a distraction in any in any week, and especially
in a short week. So we had talked about that,
and he's right there behind me.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Didn't feel like a distraction this week.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I I enjoy playing this game of football. I do
everything I can in the week to prepare myself. So
just there's definitely some noise, but I wouldn't say distraction.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
What did you learn from this mistake?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
From these mistakes, just the there there is a time
and place for some things, and there comments that I
should definitely uh say to the guys in the locker room,
and to be aware of the situation that we're in it,
but then also just to stay and use every moment
to prepare for.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The week your position, you know, for a massive extension
coming up. Do you feel like kind of episodes like
that can detract from your ability to cash in.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I try to do my best to continue to prepare
and help help my teammates and help help this team
perform on the days that we're needed. And that's something
I know I can continually do and to show that
show that to our organization.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is it to get over a loss like this where
you guys lead by sixteen points of fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think yeah, it goes back to some of the
moments that I mentioned earlier of this opportunities we have
to to take the game out of anybody else's hands.
We have those moments to continue drives and that later
the late third quarter and early fourth quarter where we're
not executing on third downs, and I know those moments
were some of those those third down calls are coming
to me. So I will go back and look at
the tape and I know, Uh, I'm my biggest critic,
(02:20):
and the guys around me will help help get us
each other better and I'll be.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Able to perform in the lives for me. Said that
you believe the referees were sometimes making calls to be
shown on TV? Do you believe that?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I know, I know it's just a lack of awareness
and just yeah, just in some frustration. I know there
were moments where I feel like Matt, Uh, we watch
other games and you think of the calls that some
guys in and you wish you could get some of those.
But that's just how football is played. And I'll do
my job in order to work my technique to make
sure that there's not an issue with the calls. Comments
(02:52):
on Tuesday distraction to you or the team.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Uh No, I think at the end of the day,
we know what we have to do. We came into
the build and we brought out we prepare. We prepare
it the the same way. So, uh, we know what
we do. It's that the that stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh we no, or how would you subscribe the kind
of the emotion of the team right now, knowing everything
that was at stake tonight in the division and the
number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, it's kind of funny you say that for us,
we had nothing to lose. We you know, we just
went down swinging. Mm. That's a really good football team. Obviously,
it's hard to beat the team three times a year. Uh,
we'll see them again. You know, we beat them once,
they beat us once, We'll see them again. At the
end of the day, we're in the big dance. That's
what count That's what counts, that's what matters. And I
don't care where we're at. I don't care if it's
(03:37):
freezing cold, snow, rain, or I don't care if we're
back at home at so far, wherever we play, I'm
counting on my guys and I'm betting all my guys,
So I don't It wasn't really obviously, it was a
big time game because you're playing a really good opponent
and it's a it's a opportunity to see really where
you stand. But yeah, we we had nothing to lose,
could lose.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Sean said he had never seen a play like what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
With the overturn two point conversions. What was your.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Reaction to that and what impact, if it all, did
that have on the defense?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. All shook. Definitely shook because
it had already gotten to the kickoff phase. Obviously, Jared
made a really great play on the ball. But it's
crazy we talk about that all the time we have
these meeting Situational Masters always ended up with the ball,
and that was just such a big time play. I mean,
I think of even me, I should have been there
to pick up the ball, but I saw Verse hit it.
(04:27):
Then I saw Cam almost catch a pick, and I
was like, well, you almost called it, and then I
went to go and celebrate Versu and uh, that's definitely
gonna be one of those clips on Situational Masters. But
that's a game of football. Some calls go your way,
some calls don't. And that didn't really affect us. I mean,
obviously that evened up the score. But at the end
of the day, the standard is a standard for us,
and if we would have kept them from scoring again,
(04:49):
then we would have won the game regardless.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What do you guys, Gonge overcoming a game where you
now don't play for eleven days but you're out of
sixteen point league.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, h that's funny that you use the word challenge.
I see it as an opportunity. I think there's been
plenty of things that have been showed over the time
of when we've lost and how we've come back even
stronger than ever. The good thing is that this isn't
a January game when it really really counts, where you're
losing your out. We're still living, We're still swinging. I
(05:19):
mean we swung. There's some things that weren't characteristic of
us that went down, but man, run the big dance.
Anything that we take, whether it's a learning opportunity or
it's a chance to continue to improve. So not really
much of a challenge. I mean, we've proven exactly who
we are and we're gonna go back and prepare and
again I'm excited. Obviously, I'd be a whole lot more
excited coming off of a win, but I'm excited for
(05:41):
the opportunity to prove again who we are and Mandy's Falcons. Yeah,
it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You guys so many you guys made so many plays
to go up thirty to sixteen and your estimation.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just why weren't you guys able to close us out? Yeah?
I think that it's something that we definitely have to
get better at. You know, we were able to take
control of the momentum, and momentum is a crazy thing,
and sometimes when it flips, it flips, But Sean talks
about all the time each plays the opportunity to either
continue your momentum or to take the momentum away. We
just got to figure out ways when we get up
to hold off on that lead and to be able
(06:14):
to close games. But that's a game of football. Sometimes
you're hot, sometimes you're cold, but you know, at the
end of the day, it's about coming away with a
w and we weren't able to do that tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Talk about rookie development, What does it mean for somebody
like Terrence Bergerson to have as big a game as
he did today? What does it do for your psyche?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, I mean, t Ferg is a guy, He's a dude.
He's continued to show that every opportunity that he's had,
he's made the most of it. Super proud of that guy.
I know he's going to continue to grow. I know
that chemistry with Matt is going to continue to develop.
And really I can't say enough even about the tight
end room of being able to bring him along and
then him as a player, his character, to be able
(06:51):
to you know, in the beginning when he wasn't seeing
as many snaps to now, you know, being a very
key and critical player for us on the offensive side
of the ball.
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