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Brian Flores – December 23, 2020 (Conference Call) Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Head Coach Brian Flores Conference Call with Las Vegas Media

(When it gets down to it, with a team like the Raiders and the way that they’ve been playing of late, why are they still a dangerous team that you have to be weary of, knowing that they’re mathematically alive? And what do you see that they’re still maybe doing well?) – “I mean they’re well coached and they’re talented. I think that in itself makes them dangerous. They’ve won some games against some very good teams – the Chiefs, New Orleans, Cleveland. Those are pretty good teams, some of the top teams in the league. They’re well coached. They’ve played in big games and won big games this year. They’ve got a lot of good players. We have our work cut out for us.”

(With how well your team has improved just progressively and exponentially, especially on the defensive end, are you confident in continuing with the progression over these last few games and what they’ve done? What maybe has impressed you or surprised you that you’ve just pleasantly surprised with as you get down here in crunch time, with how they’re performing?) – “I think we have a lot of guys on this team who work hard and are tough and competitive and team-first. They love to play football. I think when you bring a group of guys together with those characteristics, if they prepare the right way, that’s all you can do. You let the chips fall where they fall. It’s week-to-week in this league so with the way you prepare, the way you walk through and the way you practice, it gives you a chance to execute the game and that’s what we preach on a weekly basis. What’s happened in past weeks doesn’t really have any effect on this particular week or this particular opponent. We’re going to have to play well against a good football team.”

(You guys are professional football players and coaches so you’re used to this in terms of the holiday week that it is, but playing the day after Christmas and having to fly in, does the preparation make anything different to the players or coaches? Do you tell them to celebrate before or wait until we get back and that there will be plenty of time for that? How does that play on their mental game as far as this week, especially with how trying of a year this has been in terms of the pandemic? I’m sure they want to celebrate with their families and so on and so forth and embrace that. Does it make it a little bit tougher or is it business as usual?) – “I think as far as the holiday, it’s an important holiday for a lot of guys on the team and really this organization. We’ll let our guys and the people in this organization spend time with their family. Obviously we have to fly out on Christmas Day. Couple that with the pandemic and all of that that’s going on and yeah, it’s been a very different year. I think in a year like this, you see people’s resiliency, people’s ability to deal with adversity and make sacrifices – as our team has made and teams really across the league have made – to not see family and not do a lot of the things that we normally do so we can play football. So you see the importance of the game to the people within our organization and obviously the Las Vegas Raiders organization and really throughout the league, that they’re willing to make those sacrifices to play football. We have that on our team and I want them to celebrate the holiday. I want them to celebrate Christmas with their families. It means a lot to a lot of people. But we’re still focused on the game and focused on trying to play a high execution game on Saturday night.”

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