00:00It's hard to stomach it. You know, I, especially personally, man, I feel like there's so much
00:04I left out there on the field, you know, to help put us in better position. But we'll learn from
00:10it. We'll grow from it. It's a heart for the swallow. As far as the run game goes, Zach talked
00:15about needing to shake things up possibly to help it grow and get better. What do you notice in that?
00:20Yeah, I mean, I just, like I said, it starts with me, man, just being better in those situations
00:24for us, being able to execute better, handling, handling my job. You know, it was two tee and
00:28fails that I gave up there, especially there on the first play of the game. So to me,
00:32man, it starts with that. Did you feel like practice this week was as sharp as it needed
00:36to be? Was there any indication that you guys could potentially have the type of performance
00:39you did in the first half? No, no, I just, I think, you know, it just comes down to execution
00:43and, you know, when it lights come on, being able to go out there and be the best version
00:46of yourself. It's tough with those two turnovers that go the other way for seven.
00:50Yeah, yeah. You know, that's hard. That's hard. And, you know, some things are a part of the
00:55game. You know, you're never going to be perfect, but being able to capitalize from
00:59those things, come back and score, you know, sometimes can help those things. And we weren't
01:02able to do that today. How do you want to see, in terms of emotion, this team respond
01:06this week? Yeah, well, I mean, I think, you know, the way you handle adversity, you know,
01:11defines true character. And so this team has been in tough spots before. You know, I think
01:16back to 2023 when we lost Joe, Jake had to come in and we had to do our job. So, man, it's
01:22just so much football left down the road. And to me, you know, this is a very much of
01:26a learning and growing moment for us. How important is it for the run game to start
01:30to get going at some point here? So very, very important, man, especially early. You
01:35know, I, like I said, man, I can't put enough honus on myself, you know, for us to start
01:39the game there with a TFL because of me, you know, that's, that's a lot. And that's
01:43real. And I got to do a better job of handling, handling my responsibility in those situations
01:47for us. I know this was tough and the tape will be tough to watch, but do you look at
01:51this as an opportunity for you guys to really see what you could be made of and, and not
01:57let this snowball into a couple more weeks? Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. We got everything
02:01we need in here. And, you know, we got a ton of faith, every man in here to do their job
02:05at a high level. We, like I said, we just got to execute when the lights come on.
02:10It's 17-3, you're driving the end of the, at the end of the first half, you're driving.
02:15And, you know, if you punch it in, get a field goal, you get the ball at the beginning
02:18of the second half. Yeah. That seemed to be a big, uh, the big play there. Yeah, man.
02:23I, I, is, was that a turnover on that drive? Is that what happened? Yeah. Well, you know,
02:27man, it's, it's like, you know, those, those types of swings are hard to come back from
02:30on this level, especially, you know, when we get a ball up like we did. And to me, that's,
02:34you know, more of a reflection of the score as well is, uh, you know, just, just kind of,
02:39you know, turn the ball over in those situations. And that's an 11 man job on offense,
02:43man. Making sure that guys are getting downfield, getting to the ball, when the ball,
02:46when the fumbles do happen, someone on our side of the ball is able to fall on it,
02:50man. Uh, you know, nobody's going to be perfect. And so, but we strive to set a very high standard
02:55for ourselves, man. Today, we didn't live up to that at all.
