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everybody. Have you ever had a part
of the home that get cracked off like
that? I have not. I'm sure how to do with
it being really cold.
But yeah, I I knew I didn't know what happened
at the in the moment but I got in the
huddle and everybody was telling me and I was like
I I got y'all, but I'm not coming out the
game so we can figure out on the Cylon so
hoping we scored.
Obviously we didn't end up getting the end zone,
but yeah, it was a first for me and who
who's Helmet came it was.
It wasn't a backup that just happened to be out.
They they have a backup that's out there.
We got to talk about where where we store the
backup because it was like frozen.
So like when I try to put it,
when I try to put it on,
it was completely frozen. I couldn't get it on.
I don't know if anyone got a picture of it
didn't look great,
but we were able to adjust it on the sideline,
get it kind of warmed up a little bit and
get get rolling from there.
You feel like you guys handled the conditions about
as well as you reasonably
could
have. Yeah, I mean, they they did it.
They brought a lot of pressure.
I wish I would have been able to make some
of those throws.
We had some guys kind
of running free down field.
I missed a couple of them.
But other than that, I thought the guys accepted the
challenge.
We were able to throw the ball.
We were able to run the ball against some of
those pressures.
I thought the old line did a great job.
And I mean, we had that mentality all week.
As we're going to go out there and play football.
We know it's cold, but we're going to go out
there and play football and see what happens.
How important has Rashi become as
an outlet for you? Yeah,
I mean, he's doing great,
man. He's getting better and better every single week.
Some of those guys with that rookie wall and it
seems like he just kind of pushed right through it
and he just continued to get better and better.
And he's a great player.
He has that right mentality.
He comes to work every single day and he made
a lot of,
a lot of great plays for us today that helped
us win the football game.
Patrick.
I
know. Yeah, no, I talked about it.
I think in training camp I was like,
I really would not want to play our defense
because it's not just. I mean not just.
I mean we have great players.
We have great players all around,
every single level. You have players,
you have depth guys rotate in,
can do it all and then you have spags in
the scheme and there's been all the guys are so
well coached in the scheme that they use it to
their advantage and you don't never know where they're at.
I mean sneaky play inside,
outside. I mean Duffy can play inside,
outside all the linebackers cannot can guard and can make
tackles
and it's hard to get a beat on what they're
doing.
And so that's why I knew in training and I
was like,
man, I'm glad I don't have to play those guys
because that that would be tough.
Patrick,
just because of blitzing so much and the fact that
you sort of found the right times when they know
just what worked for you,
especially when you're our surprise that many teams
blitzing that much. Yeah, I mean,
we we knew that they might blitz a little bit.
I mean, they did a little bit against Buffalo,
against Josh a little bit.
So I'll try to have the answers for every single
play.
For the most part, I thought I did.
I even know if I didn't hit it,
I was going to the right spot and on time
trying to give our guys chances to make plays.
But I mean, obviously it was more than we expected.
I think it had to do with our office line,
with blocking so well when they weren't blitzing.
So they had to bring some pressure to kind of
get some pressure on me and get the ball out
of my hand.
I thought guys just have to challenge.
Well, obviously we got to,
we got to continue to get better in the red
zone.
We're getting down there, but we got to get in
the end zone,
if that's running, throwing, whatever that is.
But other than that, I thought we played a pretty
good game offensively,
but we got to continue to get better and better
as the playoffs go.
How good
was
the offensive? Yeah, they did a great job.
They did a like a tremendous job.
I mean when you when you have those extra guys
and then they're able to kind of block 1 to
get a hand on another guy to give me time
to throw the ball down the field,
that takes kind of that chemistry together.
That takes guys just being accountable to one another.
And then the running backs did good stepping on making
their blocks and protection as well.
And so whenever there was four man rushes they did
a really good job of protecting against Wilkins and and
and 92 in there and so
and then whenever they did bring the pressures they did
a good job.
Give me enough time to throw the ball down the
field and we hit someone we and obviously I want
to hit more but we were able to score some
points. Can you take us through the can you take
us
through that four down.
Yeah they did a good job.
We're expecting pressure. We're expecting some type of man coverage.
They played zone it covered it really well.
But I mean offense line blocked for a long time
gave me that window.
I was able to run officers going for the first
down and then I got down the sideline and got
us into the red zone.
So I was I was I was just happy Coach
Reed he was confident in us to do that after
I kind of made a not a great read on
the play before I could have handed it off.
I'm trying to be like
Pinnix but we we we stole that play from him
and
it worked for them and I I pitched it in
the corner was out there so he he's better than
me at that so I got to make sure I
I ask him next time what the read is on
that and how he's able to read that.
Yeah. And we we, we saw the play.
I thought it was sweet,
but obviously the corner stayed a little bit further out
against us and I I still pitched it.
So it's not great. But we we made it work
on 4th down and we're able to kind of continue
to get the drive going.
That's nice.
Precisely. Cracked helmet. I just wondered how the conditions
affected you today. Affected the offense.
Yeah, I mean it was windy.
I think he saw on some of the throws down
field.
They kind of carried more or didn't carry enough and
I thought the guys did a great job of getting
themselves open.
I mean it was it was cold.
I'm not going to lie,
it was it was cold.
But I think at the end of the day,
you got to just be mentally tough enough to just
say that it's not going to affect how we play.
That's not going to affect my effort.
If something doesn't work, I'm going to come back the
next time and keep firing.
And it wasn't be like we were going to run
the football.
We ran the football well,
but at the same time you got to throw the
football in order to have success in this league.
And I take that as a challenge to be able
to go out there and throw whenever teams are playing
that aggressive coverage.
I'm
supposed to hand it off,
You hand it off. I mean,
they had guys in there over.
There's a chance, a better chance than what we had
you you. I'm kind of reading that that corner slash
in man on the line.
And I just. I knew he was off.
But I was hoping because it because they brought the
cover zero type pressure that maybe he would kind of
squeeze a little bit tighter and he didn't.
He made a great play
but we were able to get the first one next
time.
So I worked out I was able to run and
make up for my own mistake.
Change your approach
with
the way that your defense is playing.
I mean you have to I think I learned that
this year because you can.
I mean when it's not there you got to be
able to throw it underneath
and and punt the ball,
flip the field and not be frustrated with it.
I I have that mentality.
I want to score every single time I play in
the Big 12.
I want to score every single time.
But when your defense is playing like that you have
to find what's the best way to win the football
game and if that's pun the ball flip in the
field let them get a stop for us and then
and then score in the next drop.
That's what you got to do.
That's the other thing on the on the crack helmet
run
you you had the first I think already and
I guess put a slid but
go through what what you saw and yeah I was
trying to get in there.
I was trying to get that end zone a young
Pat would have got in.
I'm getting a little old
like Tennessee out of spun you know got up in
there but I got squared up and got my helmet
cracked.
But I try to do it too much,
but it's playoff time got sometimes you got put it
on the line and try to get in the end
zone to win football games.