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00:00Now, let me ask you this.
00:01So you go into the locker room and you've got a team that's 11 and 1 that has won every
00:07game since the Northern Illinois game.
00:09You're playing for a national championship.
00:11No one thinks you can win the game.
00:13What do you say to them before this game as they go out on the field?
00:17Because I believe that they believe I believe that the Irish believe that they're going
00:25out tonight to win.
00:26If you're not going out to win, then why even make the trip at all?
00:31Yeah.
00:32Well, and I think you the defensively you hit that point.
00:35There is no difference between these between these two defenses in there, the way they
00:39played all year.
00:41And that evens things up.
00:42But if I'm the head coach and I look at them and I said, men, let's just go do what we've
00:46been doing the last 11 weeks.
00:48You know, as well as I do, you can beat this football team, not by something magical, not
00:53by something happened out of the out of the ordinary.
00:55Go out and play your game.
00:57Go after kick their ass, play your game and you go out there and win this guy.
01:01I think you talk with complete confidence like everybody there knows exactly what they're
01:06capable of doing.
01:08Do you think Riley Leonard will screw this game up?
01:12No, he's I think he's one of the reasons they win.
01:15He won't throw for a lot and he's not fast enough to run for a lot of yardage.
01:20But as I've seen two or three games that I've studied them, if he needs three yards to get
01:24a first down, he'll get three and a half.
01:26If he needs to scramble on second down instead of waiting for a second receiver to get open,
01:31he'll get it down to a third and one and two.
01:33He makes great decisions.
01:35And I think it's his decision making, not as and I'm not talking about NFL talent or
01:40the strongest arm or the fastest legs.
01:43He's got it.
01:44Whatever it is, he's got it.
01:46He'll make the plays to keep their drives going, make first downs.
01:50To me, he's always in control of himself and what he needs to do on every play.
01:55Do you think they should have played this game on Friday night and not on Monday night
02:00so long since they played the Thursday and Friday semis?
02:05Well, you know what?
02:07It is what it is.
02:08I think both coaches would agree with you.
02:10You don't want to sit around after after getting here.
02:13You don't want to sit around as long as they've sat around because so many things can happen.
02:17And also you just lose that.
02:19Coming off big wins, a couple of big wins, and you sit and things can happen.
02:24You can lose that momentum.
02:26You can lose that feeling.
02:27And so, no, I think I wish they would have played it on Friday.
02:30But the fact is, whatever affects one team has all the opportunity to affect the other team.