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Postgame Q&A: CJ West on Indiana football's 20-15 win over Michigan
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Nov 14, 2024
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plays defense really having to kind of
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play a ton of snaps can you kind of feel
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when the game starts to move to that
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Rhythm as a defense play most definitely
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like when you kind of get in that
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mindset you know it's going to be a
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really gritty game it's going to be a
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run stopping game it's going to be a
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physical tough fight so I mean when you
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get that you know that mentality it's
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just you got to go out there and do it
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kind of handle business so that's kind
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of what we did on the sideline we talked
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about it and and we kind of knew it was
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going to be that type of game going in
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the week CJ can you talk about the the
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goal line uh stand I guess I mean
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stopping them inside the 10 what kind of
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mentality you have to take into that to
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kind of be successful oh yeah going you
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got to kind of have a warrior mentality
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you know and going just kind of backing
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up our offense and just doing things
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knowing we doing following the scheme
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kind of you know relying our on our prep
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preparation for the week so just kind of
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going in there and doing it and hand the
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business with that situation how big was
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that in result of the game oh was huge
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that's great momentum especially like
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giving the ball back to our offense you
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know let them score three points out of
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that um that's huge and it's just a
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mentality that the defense has and know
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like you know we can stop anybody
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whenever at whatever time where does
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that mentality come from during the week
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preparation you know we study in a lot
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of film a lot of work competition during
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the week with the offense that's kind of
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where that mentality comes from we kind
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of have that on both sides of the ball
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and just keeping that up when we go into
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games Michigan's known for their o line
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and running game what does it say to
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hold in the two yards um it just really
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speaks on our you know our bond and our
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chemistry when it comes to the D line
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we're a really tight room and it just
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speaks on our preparation that we had
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during the week once again like you know
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competing with our own line and having a
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Competitive Edge during the week it just
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kind of helps us
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when uh when game time
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comes Davis Warren was there only three
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quarterback hurries but he was on the
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run a lot can you just talk about the
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pressure you guys were able to put on
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him and kind of take him out of his own
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rhym I mean yeah applying pressure to
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the quarterback is huge and disrupts the
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rhythm of the game especially to
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somebody's offense so that was you know
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another focus and they're going to stop
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the run and app BL pressure and that
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just kind of gives us a helping hand
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when it comes to you know passing and
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they don't get a bunch of time to throw
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the ball down the field helping out DBS
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what goes through your mind when you
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when the defensive unit has to go out on
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the field and Michigan already has the
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ball starting within the 10 yard line we
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don't bling an eye we're prepared for
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this we're ready for this we you know
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did all the preparations during the week
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with go line stuff and things like that
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so we just relied on our preparation and
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our execution with the
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plays did you guys feel like you had to
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get a stop on every drive as this game
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kind of yeah that's mentality going in
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getting a stop on every Drive every
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single drive that's why mentality so
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that's kind of how we hold that Warrior
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mindset going into those situations who
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was leading the conversation on
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everybody everybody talks on silent
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everybody's picking each other up
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everybody's giving each other help a
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hand so like that just kind of speaks
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again on our our b as a dline room how
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how how well Jed we are and all those
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different things so that's kind of what
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that speaks
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on good CJ what does it mean to be 10
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and up for the first 10 wins first time
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in team history you guys beat the
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defending national champions and yet a
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lot of people think you guys could have
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played a lot better I'm sure including
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you guys coach Sig said that what what
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is that feeling like um it's a great
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feeling you know like like coach says
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all the time we're going to you know
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celebrate the win for 24 hours and get
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right back to work so we're going to you
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know let this one sink in for a little
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bit for these 24 hours and when Monday
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comes right back to work for our by week
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preparing for Ohio State are you you're
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a young guy me are you able to
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appreciate the history of what you guys
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have accomplished this year oh yes sir
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you know and it it really also speaks on
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the fans how well they come out and so
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support for us how many fans come out
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show the game staying for the whole
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gamees now and just showing all the love
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and you know getting excited when the
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defense is on the field things like that
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it really helps us out and you know we
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love our fans for it and it's really
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helpful when it comes to those
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situations it's obviously not usual to
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get a second bye and you guys kind of
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get one before two really big games Ohio
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State and then a a rivalry game just
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like what does having a second buy do
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for this team oh yeah we're really going
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to use that to ourant you know really
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dig deep into their schemes and what we
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can do to exploit them and those
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different things and we're going to you
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know also use this by we to help our
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bodies recover and get better to prepare
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for Ohio State week this was one of the
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more gritty wins that we' had this
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season what does it tell you about your
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team that you've seen so far and what do
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you think this team has told everyone by
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watching this um it it really tells us
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that you know we can go on to anything
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with that mindset of just being gritty
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being Warriors when we get on the field
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and that's just kind of what that goes
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on like that's our preparation that's
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really what it is like it's nothing
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special it's nothing different that we
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do during the week we just prepare the
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same way we prepare with them mentality
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that no matter what we're going to go
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out there and fight our hardest you
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mentioned the fans how important were
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they on that final defensive stand oh
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they were huge you know getting loud and
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making it hard for the offense to kind
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of hear the caders and hear their checks
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and stuff like that that's huge for us
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and we get Advantage with
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that anything else how does coach Sig's
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confidence trickle down to you guys oh
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his confidence is huge we all you know
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kind of see it and he really builds the
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confidence in the in the players on the
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team as well um it really just makes us
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go out there knowing no matter what
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happens if they score if they get a
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field goal there's an interception
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defense comes on on the field um we just
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have the mentality that hey just go out
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and next play go out next play no matter
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what
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happens coaches always said one game at
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a time but the next game is Ohio state
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does that sound like fun going there
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it's a great time yeah it's it's going
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to be a great time play but we're going
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to prepare like every other week we're
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not going to do anything different we're
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going to do our same schedule that we've
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been doing so there's nothing's going to
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change with the the way with the way we
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prepar but we're just going to have the
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mentality of hey like it's the next big
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game and we're going to focus on that
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last
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one that was the last one all right CJ
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thank you thank you so much
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