Parker Fleming Media Availability November 15, 2023

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00:00 I see your point.

00:06 I think it's something that special teams

00:11 situations come up in such different ways.

00:16 And we really try and work and fight to like I said to

00:21 cross all of those bridges before we get there. Right.

00:26 And clearly we haven't done a good enough job. And so that's the thing.

00:30 You know as I try and learn from and we continually

00:35 evaluate how we're doing certain things. Some of them are vetted and they work themselves

00:40 out. Obviously some of them don't. And that's something that yeah. Anytime something goes wrong whether it's

00:45 this or that I look myself and say hey did I prepare us did I prepare myself. Did I coach it well enough.

00:50 And when it doesn't show up no answers no. So I probably there's stuff that needs to be improved.

00:56 You guys altered the structure of anything this year. I am just saying

01:01 you're talking about miscommunications. You're also talking about this is a collective effort. Every coach has to live with.

01:06 You guys changed any of the flow of that.

01:11 I'd have to go back and look. Not that I can specifically think of. You know that's

01:16 practice. There's 22 guys in the field at all times. Special teams.

01:22 And so there's certain situations where coaches have groups and units and help and all that stuff.

01:27 But it's all back to normal.

01:32 I would say it's a great question.

01:53 I would say the one off plays.

01:58 We got to be better. We got to eliminate plays. We've got our job is to change field position.

02:03 Create explosives when we have opportunities to it. And we've done some of that. We have.

02:08 You look at the net field position in a bunch of games. We've won it. People don't care about that because the big things can't happen.

02:14 And they're right. You can't put your team in some situations that we have. And I totally understand that.

02:19 You look at the kickoff team. Guys Lorenzo running down on kickoff against Indiana gets two penalties.

02:24 They start inside the 10 yard line twice. That's pretty good play.

02:29 There are certain situations that have come up that they do. They put the team in a bad place.

02:34 There are a lot of other situations that our guys are playing really hard. We've got some young guys. We've got some old guys.

02:39 We have a group that really believes in the mission. And they are playing at a...

02:44 They're playing really hard right now to go down and impact the game in a positive way. And it shows up.

02:49 It does. And so that's what I'd say is the bulk of it. These guys, they work really hard in meetings.

02:55 They work really hard in practice. They work really hard in games to get things right and to do and help.

02:59 And any of the mistakes that they've made, I haven't prepared them well enough for.

03:03 But the bulk of it, I'm really proud of the guys and how they're performing on a week to week basis.