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Post-Game Transcript: DE Robert Ayers

Eric from BBI : Admin : 9/20/2015 6:53 pm
DE Robert Ayers Jr.

Postgame vs. Atlanta, Sept. 20

… What we do is, you know, trying to work every week and get better. We have a short week and we don’t have any time to feel sorry for ourselves, so you have to look at it, reflect, learn from my mistakes and move forward. It’s a simple recipe— we just have to get it right.

Q: Does it make it more difficult that it’s the second straight week where you guys had that lead late in the game and gave it away, if you will?

A: It doesn’t make it any more difficult; [losing] is always going to be. Whether we had finished this [game] off, it’s still going to be tough every situation. We just have to finish it. It’s not like it carries over— you know, 1+1=2 type thing. It’s just, you know, we didn’t finish. The first one was in the past— we’ve been off that. Now we’re worrying about this one, so we’re not combining two [losses]. We just let one go. We look at this one, the one that we just had— that’s what we’ll be looking at. That’s what we’re going to study. That’s what we’re going to try to get better off of. We can’t worry about the one before that— we’re going to look at this one and then we’re going to move to Washington. That’s how I’m going about it, and I think that’s how the team is going to go about it.

Q: Do you try to take any positives from this, [like] the pressure that you put on the quarterback?

A: Definitely. We take the positives out of everything and we take the negatives out of everything. We have to be realistic with ourselves and look at things. Sometimes it’s not as bad as it seems and it’s not as good as it seems, so we did some things well this week and we have to look at those and try to get those even better. We did some things bad, and we have to look at that and improve. It’s a simple game— we just have to understand it and grow as a unit and as a team, and when we get in those situations at the end, we have to close them out. That’s what great teams do and great defenses do, and we didn’t do that today.

Q: Odell [Beckham Jr.] says that two straight weeks like this is the type of thing that can either crush a team or it can bring a team together. How do you make sure it’s the latter?

A: We just have to be positive. It’s 0-2. It’s not the end of the world. We know we can play with anybody. When we get in these situations we have to finish games and we have to build on the positives. We can’t let things go up and down and up and down— when we get up, we have to keep going up and up and up, and that wasn’t the case this week.
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