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Press Pass: Fletcher Cox

Dec 08, 20165 min
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Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox knows the defense doesn't have a lot of sacks but he realizes that the game is more than just numbers.

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Right sex for the team six or less six games as a group. Um, how frustrating is everyone? How frustrated is everybody? And what he's happening to turn that around? Um, I will say that nobody's frustrated because UM, I mean sometimes I mean you can I use, for example, you can put a cone out there as a quarterback and if he's throwing the ball as soon as he touched

his hand and you know, getting sex. Um. But I think that the main thing is that you know, you know, as a team, you know, we just have to be better. We kind of challenge of the Redskins, particularly upfront. Um, it's a group that plays together. I mean those guys have been playing together, you know, all years, scepted with the deception of Trent missing a few games, and you

know they're all on the same page all the time. UM. I think when you got a group like that, you know, we have to play our best game because of you know, we gotta start off by stopping to run, you know, being physical with those guys and sitting the tone. You know early in the game, thirty rushing yards ahead against you last time. But a lot of it came out just a few carries. I mean a lot of big players. I mean, did you get a different sense coming out of that game and you do out of a game

where team is just pounding it? Yeah? Absolutely. I mean in that first game, I think we did a lot of uncharacteristic things, you know, things that we don't do. Um and it cost us. Um you know, just and just sometimes you just go down goes to the little things and uh, you know, we got to focus on that, you know this week are stopping the run and being physical with those guys and um, you know, creating a lot of knocked back and get him a negative yards plays.

I feel like you guys have been pretty good against the run other than maybe that Washington game. And I mean it it's I know, it's just like the first team you guys want to do is stop the run. It seems like that's been It's been there for the first part. Yeah, we got we got to stop the run. Um you know, and that and that goes to uh, I mean I think this guys is you know, setting that tone earlier, you know, as I said, and you know, um,

you know, making the team one dimensional. I think when we stopped the run, you know, early in the game and team struggle to run and ball on us and we get them in that third and long situations. You know, they give us a chance to you know, either go rush or you know, just you know, open up a whole lot of things for us. Dogs. Comments that we would played hard last week, Um, I mean I think as a team, you know, we have to be better. Um,

I mean this team actually think we played hard. But I mean I think if you know, if we're winning, I don't think you know, nobody's saying that, but um, we just have to be better as a team. Let's last week and Dalton Brook contained a few times. Um, I mean, did you guys just take some chances and he was able to get outside on it? Or I mean, looking at the tape, why was he able to get outside? I mean, were you guys? I do think it was

one third down and long. I think me and Brandon ran a stunt inside and uh, you know I kind of got bumped off and he spit up the middle and ran outside and complete it for the first down. Another one I can't remember the other one, but I think you know, I just I mean, we wanted to keep him on the spot, and you know, that. You know, he can run a little bit, you know, but you know, we knew he couldn't beat us. You know, he couldn't beat us, you know, um you know with his feet.

And I just think, you know, you know, we are better than that. And we just got to focus on really this week because you know, last time we played the rest games, you know, Kirk had a few scrammers on us. And I know that the guys will focus on it, and you know we'll be a whole lot better. You guys have been excellent on third down until about three weeks ago. I mean to see its starting with

the Seattle game. The last three weeks have been it's been tough getting off the field on third down've been frustrating for you to see that happen. No, I just think we just have to relax and play. I think you know, penalty's on third down has cost us in some drives, you know, extending drives. I mean I had one, you know two weeks ago that extended the drive, could have been off the field and uh, you know, just

come down. I mean, quarterback makes play sometimes, you know, I mean that's I think that's what they get paid for. They make plays. They make good throws, and you know sometimes you know, it's nothing we can do about the sacks. I know it's only a small part of what you guys do. But are you surprised? You look, we're here in week twelve. I think Brandon's got two since week three, then he's got one and a half. I think Counter's got three or four. Um, you know your numbers are down.

Does that surprise you? What the talent you guys have upfront that they haven't come you know? I mean it's we're getting there. I mean you're only having so many chances of rushing. I mean in a game, and I think the last game we had it maybe ten or eleven chances actually rush. We should have got him on the ground two times. But the most important stat to me and the guys in that room is winning. You know, we don't we don't get caught up in the whole.

You know, all man, we haven't had a whole a sack in such and such games because we know, you know, that type of stuff will come. Okay,

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