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00:00 >> So how do you balance protecting the ball and being yourself?
00:07 And not taking chances and being aggressive?
00:09 I mean, how do you go into it this week knowing there's been a problem the last
00:12 five weeks?
00:12 >> Yeah, that's a good question.
00:15 I think this whole season really, I think I've only had a couple of plays where I
00:20 feel like I was careless with throwing the football.
00:22 There's been a number of times in the pocket, escaping the pocket,
00:26 running in space, all those things I need to be better at securing and
00:29 have better ball security, not give up the fumbles.
00:32 I think throwing the ball, I've probably had three this year that I think were
00:36 really bad decisions.
00:37 One on Sunday was a fourth down.
00:39 That situation, like I said after the game, just sucks being in that situation for
00:44 all of us.
00:44 For the guys at front block and for myself, for the receivers,
00:47 the defense is just backing up.
00:48 They know you gotta throw it past the sticks on fourth down.
00:51 You can't take a sack, all those things.
00:54 So things like that, I don't harp on too much those fourth down situations like
00:58 that, but the other ones, go back to the Pittsburgh game, the one in the end zone.
01:03 Go back to, I think there's one against Indy, there's one against Houston.
01:06 Those are the ones that I can think of where I felt like I didn't make a great
01:09 decision.
01:10 So I think more of the issue, personally,
01:13 individually, has been hanging on to the ball, in the pocket, getting stripped.
01:17 If I am taking a hit, keeping two hands on it, I gotta do a better job of that.
01:21 And then collectively as an offense, we have to do a better job as a whole of
01:25 just not giving the ball away, we've had too many this season.
01:28 >> Is there anything you can do during the week to prepare for that or
01:31 you all just don't need that?
01:33 >> We definitely can prepare.
01:35 I think that we make it a point of emphasis.
01:38 We talk about it a lot.
01:40 We practice it.
01:41 We have guys on the scout team punching at the ball all practice.
01:44 We do a ball security circuit every Thursday.
01:48 So I mean, it's something that we've talked about.
01:49 It's not like we've just haven't addressed it.
01:52 We've addressed it and it's something we gotta fix.
01:54 And it's definitely right in front of our face and it's cost us.
01:58 And really, definitely this game, but you look at other games and
02:02 if our defense didn't make some big stops,
02:04 we could be looking at a different situation than we're in right now.
02:08 Sitting at six and three, there's a couple games we might have hit a loss
02:10 because of some turnover.
02:11 So we own that and we know we have to get better and
02:14 that has to be something that we fix.
02:16 If we wanna get to where we wanna go deep into the postseason, all of that,
02:20 obviously, we're focused on this week.
02:22 But just big picture wise, you can't turn the ball over a lot if you wanna be
02:25 a really good team.
02:26 >> Beyond the back of the- >> Third down.