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Mike Pouncey – November 20, 2017 Download PDF version

Monday, November 20, 2017

C Mike Pouncey

(Can you just talk about this event?) – “This event is awesome. To be able to give back to the community, a community that supports through good, bad and ugly, to be able to put a smile on their face for such a great holiday means the world to us to be out here for however long we’re going to be out here handing out turkeys.”

(We know when it comes to you, family is everything, just to see the families that you’re putting a smile on his face. It seems like you’re happy to do it as well.) – “Well, of course. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I’m a fat guy. (laughter) I love to eat and this one I look forward to every year; but to put a smile on these families’ faces, it’s awesome.”

(I think I heard you say kids love you?) – “Kids love me, especially my two. They get everything they want. (laughter)”

(Is it tough after an outing like that? Does this put everything in perspective?) – “Yes, I mean at the end of the day, we’re all here to play football. The way we played these last four weeks is just unacceptable. We pretty much beat ourselves, even though you can’t take away the credit from any of the other football teams. They came out and they got the job and we haven’t. It’s a lot to learn from. Fortunately for us, no one in the AFC is playing really good football right now, so there’s still a fighting chance for us. We’ve got a big-time coming up this weekend, a division game with a team that’s been playing really well all year, and we’ve got to go out there and figure it out. It’s what our team needs to find that game to where we get on a roll.”

(How would you describe the mood with the players?) – “The mood is awesome. The guys come in and obviously everyone’s pissed today, especially the way we played in the game. We had every opportunity to win that football game and it came down to the very last play and it was just disappointing because when we play those teams, you’ve got to win those games and win those kind of football games. We just didn’t take care of business and now we put ourselves in a situation where we’ve got to keep fighting out of. It seems like this is a must-win game for us coming up this weekend.”

(Being one of the leaders of this team, when you see five turnovers, I’m sure that’s got to be like, golly?) – “The five turnovers, they suck; but it was really four of them. The last one was kind of a desperation one. The four turnovers hurt us on offense because we were really moving the ball up and down the football field and we’ve just got to find a way to protect the football and stop having these stupid penalties that are keep killing our drives. I had two of them in an area of the field where we can’t have those kind of penalties. It just hurt our football team; but we’ll learn from it. We’ll get better. We’ll practice at it. The best thing … I mean not the best thing, but the one thing about it is that we can fix the snap-count issue, the false starts. That’s something that takes no time at all. It’s just locking in at the right times during the game and we’ll get it fixed. There’s no excuses, but that team came out and they played really, really well. We didn’t.”

(With you understanding that there’s a lot to play for, if you can you put your finger on one thing that’s gone wrong this year, what would it be?) – “Just too many mental mistakes, honestly. If it isn’t this game, it’s the last game or the game before. It’s just we need all 11 guys doing their job on every play and if we do that, we have all the talent in the world. We’ve got the right coaching staff. If we just start playing together as a football team, we’ll win games, because when the offense is playing good, the defense isn’t. When the defense is playing good all year, this offense has to just carry our own weight and help our defense out because if we can ever get a lead in the game, we can really see how special our defense is. That’s what they do. They get after the quarterback and every game this year, we’ve down in football games and our defense has kept us in football games, and we’ve just got to figure out a way on offense to put points on the board and give our defense a lead so they can go out there and get after the quarterback.”

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