Jedd Fisch on Keeping Things Together

You've got a team that's ranked 17th to start the season. Granted, a lot of talent. I think everybody recognizes that in a lot of places. When you started losing games, did you have to do anything different with these guys so that they just didn't lose it? I mean, because they had so much to begin with as far as image and potential. Yeah. No. We don't really – we didn't rank us 17th. We didn't talk about, you know, the fact that, you know, we're sitting here as, you know, a lot of these guys have never played football before. We're ranked on, you know, I guess, I don't know, high school rankings or, you know, the fact that we ended last season at nine and four with a completely different team. And while I appreciated the rankings, I think that it comes down to our guys just felt like, how do we handle each week? How do we get better each week? and you know we had a couple games that didn't go our way that certainly could have and um they just didn't you know you lose a game by three you lose a game by four you lose a game when you have the ball inside the 12 at the end of the game you turn the ball over inside the 10 in the game and um next thing you know instead of sitting here you know in a spot where you know you're talking about you know six and one season you're looking at a four and three record but um that being the case our guys just look at each week as its own week and we just say like hey we went out on the road against a team that just won two in a row and we won the game and we believed in one another um you know we believe in the mission and um you know that's who we are and get better and then next week we're going to go on the road again in an extremely hostile environment in front of a sold out whatever 90 some thousand people and we got to believe in the mission and we got to play our best football and then we're going to do it again at home and again on the road and then again at home and then again on the road the rest of the way but we're just going to focus in on this game this team and we know inside these walls that what we're building is we're building it our way which is young players through experience learning how to become champions and I think that we took a nice step on Saturday and now we have an enormous challenge a week from Saturday.