(Opening statement) “Good evening. Overall, it was a good performance. Solid performance for our group. To go back and really just to talk about our football team, this was our first time we traveled together. The logistics team did a great job of setting everything up with hotel, air travel, meals. I thought it was excellent. The meeting space that we stayed here was really good. Got a good chance to have walkthroughs. When you have these night games, a lot of times what you’ll do is you’ll have meetings and extra walkthroughs and that was beneficial for us. One of the goals for us coming out of our first performance from last week was to start a little bit better. We wanted to have a faster start as a group and I thought we did that. We came out, Justin [Fields] had a nice drive, created a field goal there for us and the defense came out in their first two series and had two three-and-outs which was excellent. And then we ended up scoring a touchdown with our second offensive possession. In the third quarter, we came out and had a nice defensive stop, created a short field, played complimentary football there. Drove the ball down and scored another touchdown there to start the second half. That was really one of our goals that we wanted to accomplish and I think we got that done. Some really good plays on special teams. We had a couple good explosive returns. Velus [Jones Jr.] had a really nice punt return, Nsimba [Webster] had a nice kick return that was really good. And it’s not just those guys, it’s the guys that are blocking for them. The whole football team, the whole team that’s out there did a nice job. [Special Teams Coordinator Richard] Hightower did a really good job coaching those guys to do it the right way. We’re excited about that as well. A lot of guys played. We had a lot of guys that played that are trying to make the roster. We still have a lot of battles open going forward and we’re excited about moving forward into this week. We have two…
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