Brennan Armstrong, Anthony Johnson, Antonio Clary, and Josh Ahern react to Virginia's loss to Louisville.
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00:00He's got to protect the ball and then, I mean, I talked about it earlier on,
00:07like trying to switch that mindset from trying to make every play to
00:11just playing within the offense and shoot, I mean, the turnover,
00:16I mean, the fumble is the fumble, I've been struggling with that all year.
00:19And then the turnovers, I mean, I'm playing within the offense in a sense,
00:23but we're just, just the execution part of it is not there.
00:28With Wixie, one on one press man, kept the safety at bay.
00:35Try to give him a shot, safety falls over, I mean,
00:38I try to keep the safety in the middle of the field.
00:40Up on the hash, falls over, makes a pick, and then Lavelle's curl route,
00:43there's man coverage again.
00:45Trying to throw inside on a little hook route, boom, he jumps in, gets us.
00:48I don't really feel like I'm trying to play outside the offense,
00:53but I'm just making mistakes.
00:55Also, with trying to play, make plays in a sense, so yeah.
01:00Just gotta watch-
01:01How much did the beginning before the fumble feel like it was kind of all
01:03coming together for you guys?
01:05No, it was good, yeah.
01:06I mean, we told each other that we want to start fast.
01:09We can put these guys in a coffin early.
01:11We started off 10-0, like I said, defense gets a stop or
01:15a pick, whatever that was, we move the ball down, I fumble, okay.
01:18So I think it was technically, hopefully we don't fumble, but
01:21we're thinking about it, we're inside the 20, so it's kind of like a point.
01:25Thinking like that, I don't like thinking like that, but
01:27in a sense that happens, they get some points, now we're in a fight.
01:31And like I said earlier to someone else, we just gotta learn to win.
01:36We just don't know how to win, we don't know how to come back from wins.
01:39I'm hard on myself to begin with, but yeah,
01:42just piecing together when times get tough and we just struggle to do that right now.
01:46How do you kind of bounce back from this?
01:50We just go back in the film room, learn from our corrections, and
01:53just take this time over the ball week to just find our heart as a team,
01:56get together and just figure out what it is that we need to do to help us win these
02:00games like this.
02:01And you guys obviously got off to a good start in this one.
02:04What turned or changed that let it get away?
02:07Just being complacent, not keeping a foot on the pedal on defense.
02:11We came out first, we drive really good stops, and we kind of got complacent.
02:15So just keeping that intensity and fire up throughout the course of the game.
02:19Can you be benefited from the bye week coming up?
02:22Most definitely, we get some guys back healthy, get over these injuries and
02:26just really get the lock in on our details and the small things and
02:29just really come together and just buy in.
02:32And like I said once earlier, just find our heart and
02:34just figure out what it is that we need to do collectively as a team to turn this
02:37thing around.
02:38Obviously changed the way the game was going.
02:41We got to do a better job of not laying down.
02:44We got to do a better job of sudden change like coach always talk about.
02:48So yeah, they got momentum and we didn't capitalize on that.
02:53We didn't, yeah, we just, we weren't ready.
02:57And when they got the momentum, we kind of laid down.
03:00We can't do that as a unit.
03:03What do you think the bye week could do for the team?
03:09Get guys healthy, get guys' minds right, let guys sit back and
03:14reflect on the past six games we just played.
03:18So kind of give guys a chance to sit down, reflect, and
03:25get their minds right, to buy in.
03:27That's all it is, we got to buy in.
03:29We need to work on to put a team away.
03:31This score might have not shown that we were up by that much, but
03:35momentum was switching.
03:37But Louisville did a great job forcing a turnover and
03:41changed the momentum and flow of the game.
03:44It's not the position you guys expected to be in at the midpoint of the season.
03:47Where's the mindset of this group and
03:48how do you kind of rally for the second half of the year?
03:51Yeah, definitely not the position we thought we'd be in at all.
03:53But there's nothing else you can do other than wake up the next day and
03:57keep working.
03:58So that's the mindset of the team, mindset of the group, and that's all we can do.
04:03In the locker room, are the guys frustrated?
04:06Yeah, no doubt, definitely frustrated, lost the game.
04:11Nothing to be excited about.
04:12Like I said again, it's just gotta live with it, think about it over the weekend.
04:16Get back on Monday, make the corrections, and keep pressing forward.