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00:00 >> Levante, obviously, Devin.
00:02 I mean, Devin was limited, he would have did a little bit.
00:05 Dean would have been out.
00:07 So I say he got sent home sick and Mike Green.
00:11 >> How's Baker, how's he feeling in his tackle?
00:15 >> He's feeling a lot better.
00:16 >> You expecting him to play on Sunday?
00:18 >> I do.
00:18 >> Talk about his toughness.
00:20 He's gone through some injuries this year and he just kind of fights through them.
00:25 But just his ability to kind of push through stuff.
00:29 >> That's the way he's brought up and coached.
00:31 He's got an old school mentality.
00:32 He's got a work ethic that is undeniable.
00:35 He loves to play the game and
00:36 he does everything he can every week to be ready to play.
00:38 >> If you had to go a second week without Levante and without Jamel,
00:43 how much do you think Sunday and the guy stepping in as starters
00:47 helps you in terms of handling that short hand this vendor on Sunday this week?
00:51 >> Well, I think they got a week under their belt.
00:54 So I say got a week under his belt.
00:56 So KJ knows how to play ball, so I think it helped him a lot just getting to speak
01:00 with him.
01:01 >> One of the challenges of facing an interim coach who steps into his first
01:05 game is kind of taking over the Panthers.
01:08 Is it kind of like a wild card that you don't know what to expect from this team?
01:13 >> Not really, I mean, you can't revamp your team in a week.
01:16 Chris is a great coach.
01:18 He's been a great special team coach.
01:20 He'd be a good head coach.
01:21 Can't revamp your team in a week, so you concentrate on the scheme.
01:24 I'm sure they'll tweak some things.
01:25 But we gotta worry about the things we can correct ourselves and
01:29 then go out and play them and play with them, see what happens.
01:32 >> When you go through a tough stretch like this as a team,
01:34 you ever talk to your leaders like a small group or something and
01:39 try to get their input on how to turn this around?
01:42 Do you ever have a private meeting like that?
01:44 >> No, we do that every week.
01:46 We talk to everybody every week and try to turn it around.
01:48 Everybody's got their idea and opinion that we all know.
01:51 It's a play here and a play there.
01:53 It's a different person at each time.
01:54 But the biggest thing the leaders stress is staying together.
01:57 We stay together, that's the only way we can get out of it.
01:59 And that's very good on their part.
02:01 >> They've got some comments after the game saying that guys aren't pissed enough
02:05 to make these changes and that he's gonna do his part and
02:07 drive whoever he needs to with him.
02:10 Do you feel like there's a sense of complacency at all that's
02:12 coming with the team at all?
02:13 >> There's no complacency, there's just youth.
02:16 You got this accountability, you gotta bring one along.
02:18 Everybody's playing hard, but
02:19 until they start being accountable for each other, and I've told them this.
02:23 We won't turn this corner until they start being accountable for
02:25 each other on the field.
02:26 >> You yielded six sacks,
02:32 quarterbacking sacks six times the other day.
02:35 How much of that was Baker's mobility?
02:37 I know he ran for first down after the ankle sprain.
02:39 Or how much of it was just maybe he held the ball too long?
02:42 >> It was about three of them where we could have got rid of the ball.
02:45 That we had it protected pretty good.
02:46 The other three, I thought they beat us on pretty good, but
02:48 we could have got rid of the ball.
02:50 There was nowhere to throw, but
02:52 you can get out the pocket and throw it away, try and do that.
02:54 >> How do you talk about how there's an urgency every week?
02:57 But given that you're playing a team with one win,
03:00 given the margin of error that's kinda left for your team,
03:02 do you think there's an appreciation in the locker room of just the immediacy and
03:06 the need to start a turnaround Sunday and not any later?
03:10 >> Yeah, it's gotta start Sunday.
03:11 We don't really care if it was a 12 and 0 team or a 1 and 10 team.
03:15 We gotta start with ourselves and
03:16 we gotta play hard no matter who we're playing on Sunday.
03:19 The urgency's gotta be there, no matter who's on the other side of the field.