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Austin Reiter – November 8, 2021 Download PDF version

Monday, November 8, 2021

C Austin Reiter

(I don’t know if you’ve had much of a chance to look at the Ravens on film yet. I’m hoping you have. I was going to ask you your impressions of them in terms of the physical nature of their game, which is nothing new to anybody it seems?) – “No. I’ve played these guys a handful of times in my tenure in Cleveland and Kansas City. They definitely have a DNA to them. They are a physical defense. They fly around. They’ve got a lot of energy.”

(How do you deal with that? What’s the best way to fight someone who’s pretty much coming for a fight?) – “I think you fight fire with fire. You’ve definitely got to figure out some ways to take away their strengths and play to our strengths. I think you’ve got to bring the fight to them. That’s what I’ve done in the past and had success versus them.”

(You guys had a commitment to the run yesterday. You ran the ball plenty. Why do you feel, in your estimation, you couldn’t get more out of it?) – “I think we just needed to play better, to be honest and frank with you. I think we had a hard time getting to the second level, which had it’s impacts in the run game and making those two-yard runs into four and five-yard runs. I think that was some of the difference there in our run game was getting on the linebackers. They were doing a good job of freeing those guys up and making tackles.”

(Obviously you’re new because you haven’t been here for the full season and you just got elevated into a starting role, but when you have a unit that seems to be struggling just about every week, how much pressure do you guys put on yourselves to fix this for the rest of the team?) – “There’s no excuses around it. We can definitely play better ball as a unit but I think going to work everyday and finding little things each and every day that we can improve on, it’s going to work out in the end in the big picture. I think you’ve just got to keep taking the sludge hammer to the rock and keep chipping away. You’ve got to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

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