The game, contributed all the way up until the end. It was you know, we needed every single play that we made to win on the road against a really good team, and we had a lot of fun doing it. I think the energy um even last week, even though we didn't get the result we wanted, we had a lot of fun and compete it um and did what we needed to do to give ourselves a chance. And this way, you know, and this time we got the result.
We want it well, I think you know, at the end of the day, it starts with the leadership on the team, you know, just kind of you know, putting our foot in the ground, um and just saying we're gonna make a stand. At the end of the day, you know, we want to continue to play, and we want our dreams to continue. We got to go take it.
And so that's why you see the ski masks, That's why you see the renewed enthusiasm, because we got the mentality that we got to go steal whatever it is that we want if we want to continue, it's not gonna be easy. And then nobody asked it to be. We're fine, we're doing something special in extraordinary, but that's just gonna take it, you know, one week at a time,
keep competing and keep having fun. See that struggle this season is that a lot of injuries and you can come in here when a lot of people find this, not a lot of people everybody, we'll go ahead, okay, but for you guys to do it where the Rams had a boss, how priority all this team to fight you with all the injuries, especially in this second I mean very proud we've been. Look, we've been hit it with adversity all year, even to start out the season,
all the way through now. Um, and we just found a way to continue to fight, plug guys in the trust in each other to adjust, um, you know. And that's that's been our mantra, you know, all all year, even last year. And so that that doesn't change regardless of who we have on the field. UM. And so we'll continue to grow. I think we've seen a lot of those young players who've been you know, playing more significant roles because the injuries grow today. UM. And so
we'll continue to you know, our process. We'll get back, we'll watch the tape, try to improve on the things that we didn't do well. I'm gonna get ready to go compete against another good team. What's the significance of that and what do you got to do with it? Like I said, man, you know where we are right now. If we want to continue to play, we got to
go take it. And so for us, it's kind of that season where we're gonna go steal every everything we got, whether it's the ball, where it's the game, you know, our our chance to go play in the postseason. We gotta go take it. And so that's kind of what that scheme mask is doing. And you know, for us, I think it's it's bringing back that that energy, having fun. Guys are enthusiastic about, you know, contributing, and there's so many different people, Um, you know making plays. Uh, it's
right on time. I believe it was Jalen Mills. Yeah, it's not your side of the ball. But having Dick in there, do you guys seem the rally round him. No, he's a Super Bowl MVP. We don't have to rally around Nick Um. You know. We we trust fully that Nick can go on there and compete Um and command the offense. And you know, a hell of a game today.
Put the ball up to our playmakers, guys who were making big plays for him, um, you know, and it's exciting to watch and all of a sudden, you know, those things on our offense gets rolling um and and as a team we played better, and so you know, Nick Nick's performance today was obviously a huge part. And while we got a w curus see back in the coliseum under center. It is ironic, but we got a lot less wins this time around coming into the game. But we knew it was gonna be one of those
games where it wasn't going to be a blowout. This is a great team, a lot of great players, they're on the role this year. We knew we'd have to fight, you know, the entire game um and even the momentum that we got early in the game. We needed every every bit of that obviously coming down to the end um. But you know, it definitely feels good to to put it all together and come to a place on the road against the quality team and come out with a win.
Out about that the final drive there and in particularly the less play when you sent a listen, I think that the biggest thing was there were like two or three huge tackles that kept them in bounds. And so we talk about situation of footballers. The things we talk about all the time, um, and sometimes you worry about with with younger players especially. You know that we're having
the secondary. But guys made up and made some really good tackles on either sideline to keep that clock running, to give us that opportunity to then rush the passer um and you know, play the end zone basically on one last shot to the to the to the end zone. I mean, I just I know the situation that he's in and I know it's not easy, and we're putting a lot on the shoulders as a young guy, as a rookie come in you're drafted as a corner and then move the safety, um and you're learning all of it.
And we're not just spoon feeding and we're giving them the whole defense, making them make calls. He gets, somebody gets hurt, he gets to go into the nickel with no preparation throughout the week this week, didn't even know if he's gonna play. Then he's a corner. He hadn't played corner all year, um, and he's making plays, that's making differences in our season. And so you know, I take a lot of pride in making sure that you
know he's prepared to just you know, encouraging him. But he's a player that I think it's gonna come into his own. These explosives made a ton of plays this year. Um. It's fun to watch quite frankly, in that locker room last year after the game, to know what was the environment like and what was the message. I think it's
very similar. I think guys, you know, as you you get wins like this, it creates energy, It creates um, that belief, not that it wasn't there, but you you prove it to yourself, you know, and you know, uh, you have examples of when you put it together, this is what it looks like. And so now the challenge to the leaders on this team is how do you
keep that energy going through practice? How do you you know, you pay attention to every detail so that when we show up again next week we have that same energy, We have that same resolve um and that same drive to to come out with a win. And that, I mean, the biggest thing was like, this is what it looks like when we put it together as a team. Um. And the biggest thing that most things you know, and I'm proud of at least is that we had fun doing it. And this is what you know, we've been
trying to get to all year. Um. It's obviously hard to have fun when you're not winning. But for us, we're not a front running bunch, and so we want to be able to have fun and and fly around have energy regardless of what the scoreboard looks like. UM. And that's what we've you know, been doing I think over the last couple of weeks, um. And we let the cars far where they made, but we're gonna come out and have some fun. That's that's what we enjoy doing. We get this, this is a game at the end
of the day that we enjoy playing with each other. Um, and say, yeah, we want to keep that going. There's a question there's going to teams. What do you think stocking. I mean, at the end of the day, you look at what you see on tape. Nick came in and had a great game. It helped our team win. You know, we don't get into a comparison game of who's doing what, but right now, Nicks the quarterback and he had a hell of a game that helped us win a game.
And we know that we have that in Nick, And so for us it's always about you know, well we'll go through the week, who were going into the game with. That's who we're gonna try to win with. We and we have wholehearted you know, belief and everybody that puts those paths on. You've seen the young guys all year, a little experiences one hundred eleven. Yeah, what what do you kind of learn about? They're growing? You know, to be honest, a lot of these guys been put in
some crazy situations, been forced into the fire. Um have struggled at times, but you know, have have persevered, have continued to improve and and now are making the plays that are helping us win games. And so you know, it's it's something I take great pride in. I enjoy watching these young dudes. Uh. They're bringing energy and the juice that that you know, we've been really searching for all year and uh, you know hopefully that that they continue to grow. When we watched the mature in from
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