Demetrius Knight Jr. on Bengals' Loss to Broncos

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00:00It's a game of momentum. When you have it, you have it. And when you don't, you don't.

00:04It's kind of hard to generate it, but we've got to find different ways to generate it.

00:07Offense, we've got to find ways to generate on offense.

00:09And defense, we've got to complement it. We've got to give it right back to them.

00:12So we are in the process of ironing out the kinks.

00:16Still early. We're not defeated yet.

00:19We're just going back to the drawing board, just as a lot of teams are doing across the league right now.

00:23So everybody's still finding their identity.

00:25We know what the identity is.

00:27Because we're just, you know, in a metaphor, we're still on the climb.

00:31Still on that journey to get there, to put down the roots of what we want to be, who we're trying to be.

00:36So people are itching to get back to where I know I am.

00:39You were in for almost every snap. Barrett played a bunch.

00:42Do you feel like you two guys grow with every NFL game you play?

00:45Absolutely. That's all this is, is learning to be consistent.

00:49Learning to trust your brother to your left and to your right.

00:52Knowing that you can get the play call, echo the play call, and go out there and do your best.

00:56Do your 111 to make sure that we can get off the field.

00:59And that's what we're going to continue to do as a defense.

01:02And we're going to continue as an offense to grow and put points at when the time is called.

01:06How challenging are the Broncos to defend?

01:08Very good screen game, good offensive line, punishing runners.

01:12Talk about that challenge.

01:14Yeah, we step up for every challenge.

01:16You've got to step up to every challenge in the NFL.

01:17Well, all teams are, they have their favorite plays and they have their momentum plays and their big momentum shifts.

01:25And teams find what their bread and butter is.

01:27For them, that's their bread and butter.

01:29And every week, you've got to have a plan for it.

01:30We always have a plan.

01:32We have an answer for everything.

01:33We just have to know when to put the right answers into play, if you will.

01:39And not overload our minds and just make it simple so that everybody can play fast.

01:43Was the touchdown with eight seconds left in the half a big blow?

01:47Because it was 14-3 at that point.

01:49Definitely a big blow.

01:52But you've got to kind of go back to your little league quarterback days or just little league days in general

01:59where, you know, you hear a lot of coaches and even my dad would say, you know, have short-term memory.

02:05You know, when you come back out, you get a next opportunity.

02:08There are no failures.

02:09There are just opportunities, just missed opportunities.

02:12So there are no failures on the field.

02:14We don't consider it a failure.

02:15We see it as a missed opportunity.

02:17So, and then, you know, going into the next half, what an opportunity you get to come out of the gate and get through and out.

02:24So that's what you want to stand on.

02:26So it's about learning from missed opportunities, never learning from failures because we don't have failures

02:31because we get to play the game that we love.

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