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first um you know they do a great job we
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got a lot of guys up there that kind of
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just disrupt the pass game and then that
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also works in the uh the Run game as
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well and then kind of mixing up the
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coverages in the back in uh was
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something we talked about all week and I
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think we did a good job with
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that always feels like you have a lot of
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energy on the field how much of that
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comes from the the crowds that have been
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coming out lately oh it's huge uh every
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third down or really every defensive
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possession uh the crowd is roaring um
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you know you can you can kind of feel
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that as you go and I think it's huge as
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we keep going and you know make a run
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here you guys have won all of your games
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by these two touch until today to pull
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out a close one how much was that help
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through these last two games that's huge
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um you know a lot of championship teams
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you know you got to have those ugly
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hardfought wins and I think that's what
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we did today uh we had a great opponent
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that came in here a physical one and you
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know I think that's just speaks to you
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know when you get adversity how you
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respond to it and I think we did a great
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job with that was that the most physical
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you guys game of you guys played this
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season um kind of hard to judge that
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based off you know just coming out of
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the game but uh definitely a physical
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football team and one that you know gave
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us a lot of challenges down the down the
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uh the
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stretch through the uh the fourth down
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stop and just how how you saw that play
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develop uh you know I knew they wanted
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to get the ball to you know their tight
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end which he's a great player and you
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know respectively they I can see why
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they want to get it to him but uh you
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know just playing that and then you know
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seeing his vision snap down to the uh
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the route under that and being able to
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drive and finish on that and get the win
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for the team at Big 10 media days I
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didn't see you predicting 10 mil you
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didn't happen to think that way then oh
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I I think uh you as coach cetti he would
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have said this exactly where he thought
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he would be at the end of the day um but
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you know that this game is going to be
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in the past in 24 hours and we'll look
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forward to going one and0 against Ohio
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State next we got two week yes sir aeden
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there's a lot of a lot of three
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linebackers since today compared to the
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Past games how did you feel playing in
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that compared to the defense that you
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guys have been playing in I mean it's
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awesome you know when people in our room
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can get the chance and opportunity to
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step up and make plays uh it makes our
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room better as a whole and I think it's
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just huge for the team going forwards KN
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that we can get so multiple and bring in
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different guys to make plays at
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different times coach talked about your
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onfield leadership ability how do you
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see yourself as a leader on this team
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especially in a tight game like this
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late uh first it's just you know the
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position that the coach has put me in
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and uh how the guys kind of gravitate
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towards me in a way um I I want to make
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sure that I'm kind of upholding the
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standard here uh and making sure the
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guys know that I'm somebody they can
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look to if you know something gets funky
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uh on the field and we don't know what
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to do look to me and I'll get us in the
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right call U and that just speaks to you
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know in the workouts um and me just
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everything just making sure we're
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staying in locked in 100% at all times
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so when it does come down to the fourth
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quarter we're able to win these games in
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these these typ situations how important
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is that process being locked in as the
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noise gets a little bit louder you guys
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start making history and just a lot of
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more attention around you uh you know a
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lot of people will you know make a make
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an argument for Indiana and you know
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where should they be in the rankings uh
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should they be above this team um you
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know we'll leave that to them um it's
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not something we really care about um
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what we care about is the end day is
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making sure we're walking off this field
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with happy and you know coach zetti
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making sure that we know we're going one
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and0 each week so uh that's the biggest
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thing is just making sure we're blocking
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it out and keeping everything in this
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building um the most important thing how
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much you you kind of appreciate the
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history of being 10 and0 I mean never
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happened here before 10 wins period much
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less 10 and0 as someone who just came to
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Indiana recently what does that mean for
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you I mean it's great uh for a program
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that you know especially this year
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you've seen them kind of rise up I'm
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talking about the fans uh right here uh
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just the way that they've kind of
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gravitated towards this team and you
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know everybody's so excited around this
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town and you know it's like we finally
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have a football team uh so I mean it's
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really cool uh but for the team it's
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just taking care of each week one at a
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time and make sure we're keeping the
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zero on the on the other end so the game
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got tight in the second half you guys
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keep stop after job what are you saying
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to your teammates in those moments how
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do you guys keep your uh just let the
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defense know it's going to come down to
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us um you know the offense played a
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great game uh you know they have a great
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defense on the other side of the ball so
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uh just giving them fits and you know
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when when you put the game in our hands
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I want to make sure the defense is
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taking care of business and we're able
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to kind of play complimentary football
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with the offense and you know I think
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that's what we did today and we did a
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great job at it how did you manage to
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take care of business today what went
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into that um I would just say that the
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level of confidence and you know uh how
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together this team plays uh everybody
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kind of depends on one another and it
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it's just been great to see is like how
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how much we gelled so far and you know
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just make sure we keep going two more
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what does it mean to you to be the guy
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that the defense turns to in these tight
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spots in the second half like tonight uh
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it means a lot to me um you know that's
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something that I I hold very dear to me
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um and making sure that when they call
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on me and you know have that opportunity
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I'm I'm making them proud and making
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sure that they can depend on me going
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forward was there any game like this
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last year that you guys won with the
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defense kind in the last few minutes
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that you could call on that you had
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experience with I talking about James
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Madison yeah yeah um I would say a lot
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of games came down to this um you know
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it's something that coach Sig uh has a
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lot of trust in his defense and you know
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coach Hayes does a great job uh putting
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us in positions to put games away and
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you know I would just say a lot of games
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ended like this last year
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thank you thank you
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