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00:00 week to be honest with yourselves last week, look at their performance, assess their performance,
00:05 and then come out this week and get better.
00:08 And I thought our guys had an unbelievable week of practice.
00:11 I thought our Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday may have been the best in seven or eight years.
00:16 I was very impressed with the way they handled the practices.
00:20 Regardless of the opponent, who it was, we needed to practice better than we did the
00:24 previous week.
00:25 They did that.
00:26 I was proud of the energy, enthusiasm, the pump return spike kind of sparked us.
00:30 I was really excited about that.
00:31 The news continues to do that.
00:33 That really prescribes energy.
00:34 I think it's kind of like basketball.
00:35 When you play really good defense, it helps your offense.
00:36 When you play really good special teams, it helps your offense.
00:37 So we were able to do that today.
00:38 A lot of guys contributed.
00:39 Our goal is to have a lot of guys be able to contribute.
00:40 And I was proud of that.
00:41 So a lot of good there.
00:42 A lot of things we can continue to work on.
00:43 And we definitely need to do that.
00:44 >> Coach, I'm going to ask you a question.
00:45 >> Sure.
00:46 >> What's your favorite part of the game?
00:47 >> I like the first half.
00:48 I like the first half.
00:49 I like the first half.
00:51 >> I think it's the first half.
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04:10 What our college knows, we didn't create those.
04:14 I think Malachi was a great example of he had to play very similar to that
04:19 the week before.
04:20 He did make the play.
04:21 We talked about, hey, Malachi, you got to --
04:23 those are the plays you got to make if you're going to get interceptions
04:26 and turnovers.
04:27 And he made an elite timing of the ball, jump, caught the ball high.
04:30 It's a really, really great play.
04:32 He forced that one.
04:33 But the others were luck.
04:34 And you're not always going to be able to rely on luck.
04:37 It's kind of like they got -- the one they got was a little bit of luck off
04:40 the tip ball there with Carson in the second half.
04:42 So, you can't count on those things.
04:44 But I can say this, we didn't catch the tip ball last week,
04:47 and we caught the tip balls this week.
04:49 So, we took advantage of the opportunity they gave us.
04:51 How do you assess Carson's first two games?
04:53 Again, maybe the opposition is not to the level we can start seeing next week.
04:57 But pretty pleased with what you've seen out of him in two weeks?
05:00 Yeah, I'm extremely pleased with what Carson's doing.
05:02 He's making good decisions with the ball.
05:04 There were a couple of times today that I thought didn't occur in the last game
05:08 where he got flustered, he got trouble, and he got rid of the ball.
05:11 And you can't make it dangerous when he does that.
05:13 He's got to live for the next play and move on.
05:16 But he's getting the ball out of his hands quick and sees the field.
05:20 He can tell you what coverage it was.
05:22 He keeps his eyes down the field.
05:23 Had a max blitz today.
05:24 We cut a guy free.
05:25 He stands there and throws a touchdown.
05:26 He throws it, and not a lot of quarterbacks can do that.
05:29 So, he does a good job playing that position.
05:32 Coach, what happened to Ian Dahlkamp?
05:34 How did they report that to the defense?
05:36 Yeah, he's really been dealing with a foot injury the entire fall camp.
05:41 So, we shut him down, I think it was two weeks before camp,
05:45 probably three weeks into camp.
05:47 I don't know how long it was, four or five, but he didn't get to do a lot.
05:49 He came back.
05:50 He was functionally good.
05:51 He felt good.
05:53 He felt it a little bit in last week's game.
05:57 And, you know, we've been advised to shut him down right now.
06:00 And he'll be week to week, and we hope to get him back.
06:03 Jerry, how do you evaluate the run game yesterday and into the first couple weeks?
06:06 It seems like it's been up and down, maybe not as consistent as you'd expect.
06:10 We'll define the run game for you.
06:13 Is that a run?
06:15 It is.
06:16 For me, there's an extension of the run.
06:18 There's these things they call RPOs and bubbles, and in football now,
06:23 those are runs because they're run down calls.
06:26 So, we're running the ball, but we elect to throw it on the perimeter,
06:30 and we get it in five, six yards.
06:32 So, to us, that's a running play.
06:35 To you, that's a pass play because that's what the stats say.
06:38 But that's not the case.
06:39 So, if you say I define the running game as between the tackles
06:42 and only between the tackles, I'm never pleased with that.
06:45 I'm never happy with that.
06:47 I'm only upset when the extension of the running game is poor
06:51 and the running game that you're defining as the running game is poor.
06:54 But I'm happy with the extension of the running game.
06:56 That sets up things like the play that Oscar dealt.
06:59 That's an extension of the running game because that comes off of a running play.
07:03 So, you've got to be good at something,
07:06 and right now we're better at that than we are the interior running game.
07:10 Not just for Carson, but how big is Marcus Rosby, Jack Saints' presence
07:14 for this offense?
07:15 His confidence and just leadership is incredible.
07:19 He pushes people.
07:20 He's a fearless leader.
07:22 He practices every day.
07:23 He goes out on specialty.
07:25 He starts on two units as a starter receiver.
07:27 I don't know that you can find a receiver in the SEC that starts on two units
07:30 and starts at receiver.
07:32 He's passionate about that.
07:33 So, he gives us confidence and aura about us that I think is very good.
07:38 Kirby, Jarvis Jones wasn't on the sideline today.
07:41 Is there an explanation you can offer for his absence?
07:44 Yeah, he's dealing with a suspension.
07:47 He'll be back with us this week.
07:49 What has De'Jon Edwards' progress been like,
07:52 and how close is he to dressing out today?
07:54 De'Jon?
07:56 Yeah.
07:57 Did he dress out?
07:58 He did.
07:59 He did.
08:00 Close to playing today.
08:02 Close to playing?
08:03 How close is he to getting on the field?
08:06 How did you feel like you blocked him appropriately?
08:10 Up until now, we had a couple plays that we had a chance to be really explosive,
08:14 and we didn't get it.
08:15 And then there was a couple mistakes we made last week on the perimeter
08:18 that we fixed.
08:19 Like Rah-Rah, they made a great block,
08:21 but they were probably missing that same block last week.
08:23 We worked hard on it.
08:24 He got it and Mews broke a tackle.
08:26 It was only a five, six-yard play, but it was perimeter blocking that was good.
08:30 We had several others that were not so good, perimeter blocking.
08:34 If we're going to be good in the extension of the run game,
08:37 we have to be good perimeter blocking.
08:39 Kermit, your team gave up three points today.
08:41 You all created three turnovers.
08:43 What did you see that they could maybe improve on?
08:46 It was a lot.
08:47 We're not getting the balls out.
08:49 We're not getting challenged outside of the perimeter.
08:51 We had several times where we were soft in the run.
08:53 If they run for four or five yards with their size offense alignment
08:57 and our size defense alignment, they won.
08:59 And they had several of those.
09:01 So we're still not playing the run defensively to the standard
09:04 or my expectation of what an SEC upper caliber defense should do.
09:10 We're just not doing that.
09:11 I think you get caught up in stats and you get caught up in outcomes.
09:14 I'm all about did we do it right all the time.
09:18 If we didn't do it right all the time, then why didn't we?
09:21 South Tech, you made some plays.
09:23 How do you feel like you fit in in this defense a couple of games in this season?
09:27 I'm proud of him.
09:28 He's a leader.
09:29 He's a captain of the day.
09:30 He's very vocal on the sideline.
09:32 He challenges people to practice the right way.
09:35 He does it himself.
09:36 I like the way he carries himself.
09:39 How would you maybe assess his roommate, Sori's, progression
09:43 over the last couple of years and then today and three times?
09:46 Yeah.
09:48 Sori, he's been a flex player, man.
09:50 He shows great ability.