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00:00three monday so shot how many in a row nine wins in a row but how many how many how many
00:04weeks we've been doing shots i think we've done all of them quite a while cheers cheers
00:09hello congratulations
00:14uh it's very good uh that is the immunity shot that one had more kick no oj no straw ginger
00:22uh ginger and lemon from uh pure green and that is the coach's go-to right there that is well that
00:28is good um listen tough to win on the road and um you guys are you're perfect on the road this season
00:34so uh congrats on that well appreciate it yeah it's um you know go down 10 10 nothing uh so proud
00:41of the way that they battled back and then you know there's always going to be some adversity
00:45which i thought we you know we stood up to i had a big drive there at the fourth uh in the fourth
00:50there to have to kick a field goal and he made a big kick to make it you know a six point game to
00:56where they needed a touchdown and we got the drive stop so there's a lot of positives a lot
01:00of things to improve on but in the end i felt like we were able to you know find a way and not be at
01:07our best uh but also you know make the plays when we had to drake may has been you know almost perfect
01:14may may right where do you stand on that i'm not really sure i just heard about it 10 seconds ago yeah
01:19terrible i think the old you know those of us i couldn't even figure out six seven and now it's
01:27drake drake may may i don't know i like draco yeah i don't like that either courtney keep going
01:33what harry potter i've never seen it never seen harry potter no i thought about waiting in the line
01:39one time at universal for two hours and then i went to the bar so what do you call him rake rake
01:45what does he does he call you vrabes or does he call you coach or coach i think coach yeah uh
01:53well pop douglas said they call him draco and i prefer that but i we're old um but anyway a little
02:00you know hard to nitpick on him but a little bit of a slow start for him uh yesterday well i mean i think
02:06that uh again just settling in and making sure that uh well everybody's i guess just in tune and getting
02:15it getting the drive started i think to me whether it's the slow start or just getting the drive
02:19started i think you can see the difference that when we can get into a drive we get the first first down
02:24we can kind of get a rhythm to what we're doing and obviously that starts with with the quarterback
02:30but then there's there's all these different supporting casts that have to be uh good for this
02:35thing to work so again that's what i see um is just have to get in the drive we have to be able to
02:41get into the first first down and get moving and then then things kind of start clicking mike you
02:47you've been around football a long time and you see these wins and you go that was a great win that
02:52was an ugly win and look you look at yesterday's game and it's one of those wins where i kind of
02:56look at it like it's one of those ugly wins you learn a lot you play a tough uh a tough uh road
03:01opponent what what do you kind of like message for some of these guys afterwards like hey you're able to
03:07come away with that but we need to clean up this this well the coaching probably right after the
03:13game is is not really i mean i don't think they're hearing a whole lot of of what i'm saying so uh
03:19just the emphasis of you know we're going to need everybody and we saw that today we saw that yesterday
03:24with with the injuries that we had and the moving parts and the things that go and sometimes things
03:28happen fast and you have to be ready for your opportunity and you don't want to let those uh pass by
03:34and the ability to help your team win uh when guys are going down i mean we're shifting different
03:39positions we're out of personnel groups or in other personnel groups we got five different companies
03:45i don't think we've i don't think any teams use as many as you know we've had probably 18 guys on
03:49a field goal protection unit yesterday that that's that's a first for me the goal line offense could
03:56use a little bit of improvement moving forward i know coaching immediately after the game is nothing
04:01but moving forward as the head coach how do you get them better uh that's that's um i there's a
04:09million things i could say right there courtney but i'm going to try to say that it has to be better
04:14and again when we get out of um you know with the injuries we were out of goal line there were some
04:19things that that that is there and then at the end of the day you have to you have to be able to
04:24move somebody into the end zone you have to be able to score with your man um and that's really
04:30what happens and we have to we have to be better uh we have to be able to convert those uh into
04:36touchdowns and so it's uh it's everybody it's it's the design it's the execution
04:44you know and we that you know just you're not gonna win any games too many games if you can't
04:49score with inside the five-yard line what you said earlier that that's probably on not on drake may
04:56that's you and and josh with the play call is there plays with drake may at the line of scrimmage
05:01where he has the opportunity to audible out of a play that maybe he's not seeing things like is
05:05there anything on drake may in terms of pre-snap uh yeah there's stuff on all of us you know i mean
05:09there's there's stuff on all of us and there's plays that you know again either they're going to
05:13heat you up and they're going to bring everybody or they're going to you know play zone and you know
05:18we have to have answers for for both things down there when you're not in goal line you know and
05:22they're not in goal line defense and you know what that's going to be you know we're in different
05:26personnel groups and so um i think what you want to do on offense is you want to be able to predict
05:33what it is that you're going to see and when you have goal line you know personnel in there you're
05:38pretty certain what you're going to see uh and then as that personnel changes then so then it becomes
05:45somewhat of a you know crapshoot of hey are they going to be in blitz zero they're going to be in zone
05:50and having answers for for both of those things so we always talk about operation that's not going
05:56to change that can be better from yesterday on the goal line and um you know we'll just have to
06:03keep working mike you you you know i was i was wanting to be a fly on the wall in the locker room
06:09at halftime because you you guys you give up a long kickoff return that's ultimately called back
06:14for a holding but then you end up so did we give it up or was it called back which one i'm not
06:19sure you gave it up and then it was called back and then it came back and then you ultimately give
06:22up a field goal you had to be frustrated in that point because there wasn't much time on the clock
06:26and you just no we just got to make plays and you know i mean when they throw the ball we got guys
06:30standing there go be afraid don't be afraid to go make a play um you know and then this comes down to
06:36to competing in this league and you can you can scheme stuff up any way you want to you it comes down
06:42to competing and i felt like you know we did you know we we did ultimately do that and again
06:48the kickoff uh that unit did help us you know whether they got us on one and they called a
06:54holding but i felt like that unit when we when we had to cover kicks we covered the kicks we got
06:59kyle out past the the to the 42 yard line one time we hadn't really done a great job of that
07:05so you know we're going to get marcus going on we got to pop one of these pump returns again
07:09but there's no secret formula you know you just have to go out and you know our fundamentals have
07:16to continue to improve and i thought you know that's something that we can really focus on
07:20this time of year i think for people that look at the stats they look at pop douglas's game yesterday
07:25and it they move on to the next but you made a point after the game to call him out in the locker
07:29room why was that so important well i you know i just there was uh we needed to play and pop made it
07:34and he didn't have a whole lot of opportunities the game goes in a lot of different directions and we
07:38know that pop can help us and you know he'll continue to help us and and what what i saw
07:43yesterday was we were you know third long and it was a critical time of the game and drake made a
07:50great ball made great throw and pop made a heck of a play uh and and so i just felt like that was
07:55much needed and and everybody wants to contribute everybody wants to help and you know i have to be
08:02able to try to help them manage that and understand we got to sometimes do what's best for the team
08:07and sometimes you get your opportunities and sometimes you you don't but you have to be ready
08:11for the ones that uh based on your approach post game i'm guessing you don't want any injury questions
08:19this morning at all um oh hold on we lost we come i don't know we completely lost you that's
08:24good i've been practicing that yeah what's that i can ask anything yeah um so uh update on on uh don't
08:32have one no update on the guys did you wash your hands when you went to the bathroom i saw you coming
08:36back i was going to shave i was going to shake it but give it a try i always we we won't know much
08:42that yesterday was was not a great day for for us with injuries so there'll be some players that went
08:46out of that game yesterday that won't be available on monday night uh hopefully we you'll get some of
08:51those guys back it's uh we get an extra day but uh yeah i won't be able to tell you much i you know
08:57i wouldn't imagine that will's gonna play in the game i don't think that that'll that'll be something
09:01that'll happen that injury is going to probably be more than um a week or two he looked i mean he had
09:07the towel over the head when he was going out so it looked like i mean obviously he's a guy who wants to
09:11play and um it looked like he was upset yeah but i think they all want to play and again will's young
09:18player hasn't had a lot of probably injuries or things that have you know affected him and so
09:24we'll have to there's a lot of things we have to manage through and try to help these guys
09:28get over that they they haven't experienced so the reports that it was a sprain that are out there no
09:34well i think you have to understand the sprains have different severities you know so um
09:41spraying strain not sure but i just know that he's probably not going to be there monday night
09:47and i don't think it's going to be something that's going to keep him out you know this is
09:51not career ending um but i wouldn't anticipate him being out there monday go ahead weeks no i was
09:57just going to say you talk about guys stepping up and taking advantage of their opportunity and
10:01week in and week out it's different guys hunter henry had a seems like the guy shows up every
10:05week you know whether he's catching seven passes or he catches two passes um talk about you know
10:12those players and how they've been able to take that on and saying hey at the end of the day i might
10:17have a great you know opportunity one week but i might have less the following week it is about the
10:21win yeah and it's just managing that i think that that's um you know you've you've played the position
10:28that you know gets the ball thrown to him and you want the ball thrown to you as many times i think
10:32that's just human nature and and i know i'll use you know hunter's been really consistent for us and
10:38but a calming presence and a good target for the quarterback he got a pass on first and 20
10:44and i and i mentioned digs too and digs hadn't had it didn't have the day that the production that
10:49he wanted we won the football game he had a big third down version at the end but he turns and blocks
10:53for hunter hunter gets a first down so those are the things that i have to continue to show the
11:00players that that it matters that instead of just not catching the ball and dropping your head and
11:05going back to the huddle you know being able to turn transition block somebody and help hunter get
11:10a first down that that ultimately helps the team uh you mentioned after the game that you you guys need
11:16to bounce back better i actually thought you drake bounced back i thought the team yesterday looked
11:20like they started off poorly for whatever reason but they sort of turned it around yeah i don't know
11:25what context i said i i mean again you you guys dissect everything i said probably that's you're you're
11:31probably accurate in saying after that first drive to come back and put a long drive together
11:36um which was which was really cool to see after you know the the start that we had to come back and
11:44and score and uh nine plays or whatever it was uh so you know i don't know what the bounce back was i
11:53who knows at that point in time i shouldn't even talk after the game
11:59um a lot of your contact contractually required i think you have to but you could make it quick
12:05yeah that's what the old guy used to do around here
12:15um steven a smith wants to know if you could put first take on in the weight room for the for the
12:19guys we don't have i don't even know if the tvs work in the weight room okay
12:25you know we're getting a new building so we'll make sure that the audio and everything works and
12:30i mean it is and that's good is it i find i find that i find that number one 20 years 20 years i
12:37find that hard but i mean it's not the sports center that i grew up with yeah no it's a lot
12:44different yeah it certainly is mike when you look at your defense and the way they responded
12:50how did you feel after seeing how they responded throughout that game especially late in the game
12:54when you needed that uh uh stop when uh cincinnati obviously you know i mean they got us on the
13:01touchdown you know i mean and gonzo owned up to that he said hey okay he got me and uh that we
13:06had him a fourth down we had a chance to get a stop and and you know weren't able to make it but then
13:12you know came back and got the other fourth down stop and for for carlton to to be able to challenge
13:17and have the pi but still be able to challenge and trust his technique and everything else so
13:21you know when we needed it it was there and we ended up uh you know having a good day on third
13:27down you just have to be you know just a little better obviously each and every week every week's
13:34a challenge the way in which the guys rallied around jelani tavai yesterday whether it was hunter henry
13:39the dedication on the field christian gonzalez after the game saying that the guys all facetimed
13:44him to celebrate the win with him we talk about culture all the time is that something that you brought
13:48in or is it a testament to the guys you have in this locker room that it really does feel like a
13:53family well you have to bring the right people in and then you have to foster the right type of
13:57relationships and the right ideas and try to you know show them what what's important outside of
14:04actually just the physical performance on the field um so i think it's a little bit of both
14:11i think that obviously you have to get the right people and then allow those relationships to
14:15to mature and to happen and and to to grow what do you guys just like this mustache is growing how
14:23about at that i mean three weeks i mean really why are you giggling like that because it's looking
14:27good it does look good ready to be shaved off it's back in fact speaking of people in culture
14:32i i people in culture you know they that's what they call like hr now yeah people in culture
14:38people and people and i go stretch what is this department he goes out it used to be hr people
14:43in culture okay um shine is shine is telling me that a on your mustache a former teammate of yours has
14:49called the uh radio program this morning okay you want to want to talk to him yeah sure uh shine go
14:55ahead if you if you could hello put me in coach i'm ready to play today what up braves morning buddy
15:05you know that that's how are you matt hey listen buddy i'm good and and i'm going to tell
15:13all the fans listening the secret behind the culture it's one thing it's that beautiful
15:19upper lip plumage that coach brable is is sporting for the world to see every day well we're trying to
15:27support uh men's health and movember and prostate cancer and gillette's helping us and we're actually
15:33actually auctioning off some uh some shoes after monday night's game oh wow yeah they're dressing
15:38up as first time i've ever done my cause my cleats doing it for men's health awesome yeah so i think
15:43they're pretty cool and i'm excited to do that so if you have a hundred thousand dollars just laying
15:48around and you want to help uh charities you can you can buy my shoes right and signing them it sounds
15:53like uh maybe for 120 sounds like light might be ready to go in an emergency situation uh we we're
16:02dealing we should yeah we were we were back near matt's hometown we were back near greenville and we
16:07were cincinnati's not far from greenville where matt grew up so uh we missed you yesterday matthew but
16:12we appreciate your support buddy listen i had a dream no joke sunday morning i wake up and i i had this
16:21dream that i was i was going to have to run a conditioning test to get ready to go back and
16:26play again and i don't know if you've had those i've talked to other guys that you know have been
16:29long retired and i've probably had seven or eight episodes where i've had this sinking feeling and
16:36then i wake up and i'm like oh god oh my god it's not real i don't have to go back to work this is great
16:42no that i just had the dreams about what do we have to do to make the team better that's what i do i don't
16:47i don't worry about playing anymore because i've long gone from that all right well it's nice to
16:53hear your voice mr light and uh and i know you got you you have a ton of charity stuff going on too
16:58do you have a hockey game coming up or something yeah and you know what we got wiggy coming in for
17:04the first time which is going to be beautiful what do you play a goalie like that kid on mighty ducks
17:10you don't know mike i'm a big hockey guy i'm a forward i score a lot of goals men's
17:14bad league i was mvp uh congratulations did wasn't light's thing that he yeah he pulled pranks on
17:20everybody yeah did he ever get you on oh once or twice matthew he did he did what did you get what
17:28did you get him with oh there was a good bunch of good ones we can't talk about no we're not talking
17:35about we do have video though we can roll that beautiful bean footage you know at some point
17:39listen i did want to say this greg many years ago we made some sweet music on your show and you know
17:46every now and then you write a new stanza to what was you know a major hit right it doesn't happen very
17:53often every now and then it does right yes yeah so you know just as a little refresher it used to go
18:00a little something like this and remember you'd be across the line yeah we'd be in stretch and we'd say
18:06stuff like now listen up friends i got a story to tell about a group of men who knew how to live
18:10well they must even they made a pack their big old boys wear a mustache mustache now to modernize this
18:18i'd like to say as the sun fades and years roll by the mustache man seems like a fable but then a new
18:25day dawns and the mustache lives on and the man they call coach brable mustache mustache that is
18:32fantastic well well done matthew all four circle all right thank you matt like there he is wow i mean
18:38really what a way to add what a segue what a what a way what a way to add so uh thanksgiving you yes
18:45you're gonna see the family yes okay yep we're gonna we're gonna uh we're gonna have some time off
18:50in the afternoon and that'll be great i think the kids are uh coming in tyler's already here carter's
18:55flying in new girlfriend so you like her yeah i love her first holiday with her though yes yes
19:04first holiday is she cooking for sleepover too separate bedrooms i don't think our place is that
19:09big well keep it going we got a condo no ring no same bed uh courtney it's 20 25
19:24all right coach thank you guys appreciate you guys thank you thank you happy thanksgiving
19:28i'm thankful for you guys each and every monday that is mike rayball
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