UFL Battlehawks Head Coach Anthony Becht, QB Max Duggan, LB Willie Harvey Post Presser vs Renegades!

Appreciate y'all being here. Coach Anthony quarterback Max Dugen, linebacker Willie Harvey. Coaching statement, uh, you guys could direct questions to the players first so we can let them get going and then coach will stay a little longer. So, yeah. Um, well, you know, uh, hats off to to Arlington, uh, for winning the football game. Um, you know, first, you know, I'm just praying for for Manny and his health. Uh just tragic to see something happen in that moment and then the circumstances that happen during that play just terrible. I mean you know he's down on the ground holding the ball and it rolls out cuz he's in pain and they can pick it up and I mean I get it. I know the rules but that's just brutal. Um but you know listen, you know, we weathered the storm. Um it's never easy. You know I thought I thought Max listen didn't have many refs at all last this week. I mean, it's not an excuse, but at the end of the day, you know, we we just got to, you know, we got to rally around guys when when they go down. I thought the defense, you know, played their tails off. Honestly, I thought they did. You know, that was a huge interception by Willie. I mean, we laughed in the moment because, you know, we talk about it every every week, man. I'm just I'm just so happy for for his ability to get that done and and give us a chance. Um, you know, guys were pushing in the fourth quarter. It's hard. It's hot. Um, you know, they found a way to finish. Okay, we didn't. That's kind of what it is right now. You know, we're in the fourth quarter and we have our chance and we have to find a way. You know, whatever happened last week, this week, you know, we weathered it. That's what we did. And guys just got to keep playing and uh what we have we had the ball first and f on the five or whatever it may be, we got our chances. So, I you know, it's it is what it is for us. Like, I feel good. We got to that moment and uh we just got to execute a little better and I know our guys will moving forward. The reality of this thing is we're two and two. We're in a good spot and uh you know, we're going to have a great Easter tomorrow. Be thankful for what we have and we're going to come back ready to work. They always work hard and we we'll figure this thing out. I promise you. Adversity uh is is something I embrace and I want my players to do the same. Ron Murk 104 Max, welcome back to the DFW. How was it today to see u you know, your jersey in the stands and also other TCU jerseys? And how do you feel that you just went along in the game? Because of course, you know, y'all had an opportunity at a gamewinning drive. you came in for Manny to just talk about the day and uh you know the love TCU showed you today. Yeah, first of all, I think um thinking about Manny and praying for him and then yeah, today um yeah, it was it was a rough day. Uh I did not I didn't play well enough. I didn't help us enough. Defense um was doing a lot to to keep us in the game. Guys were straining on our side of the ball and I I didn't play well enough for for us to, you know, have a chance today. Um and I got to be better. So, how' you like the fact that you did see your jersey in the stands though and the impact that you did have in the DFW from your time being a horn frog? Yeah, it was nice to see support. Yeah, it was nice to see support from from some people. Uh Anthony Miller, all football digest. Uh Willie, for you, what did you see on that play that um that you were able to get the interception return back for a touchdown? Um we kind of baited him all week. You know, if we knew if we man coverage on the backside. He was going to come back to that backside sling and I kind of baited him and just jumped it. Was there anything defensively that you saw because you guys had a lot of success today stopping the run for the Renegades. Was there anything that you saw during the week that you were able to to prep and be able to stop or uh I mean Luis is a smart guy. He knows coverages. So just being being able to move around and not just stay in one spot because he knows how to recover. So just moving around kind of helped us out. That's kind of what the emphasis was. Jimmy J, D210 Sports. Max, what were you seeing from the Renegades defensive line that gave y'all so much trouble today? Yeah, they were they were playing well and I think I hurt our O line by, you know, kind of holding on to the ball, not letting it go, not, you know, getting through my reads quick, not kind of, you know, taking off and running. So, I think I hurt them a lot. Their D line is very talented and they played very good today, but I think I hurt our O line today with, you know, how I was playing. You got a question from the Zoom. Yes, this will be Oscar and then Oscar, you are good to go. Thank you very much, coach. Beyond the result, the result the team show resilience. What do you tell to the guys in the locker room? Yeah, Oscar. I mean, that's what I we talked about resiliency all week. Um, you know, look at we got to do it a different way this year, you know, until we we kind of start clicking on all cylinders. We have a good team. Our team has to play well every single week. You know, our defense can't carry us and win a game. Our offense can't just carry us. Our special teams, we all have to come together. This year was about building a better team. And uh you know, listen, it's going to be a battle. There's a lot of good teams. There's a lot of talent. And we just got to find a way to finish. Um you know, we're going to have a great week of practice. Oscar, I believe in my team. I believe in my players. Um, you know, I I don't lose sleep even in a loss because I know we'll bounce back and we'll do the right things and uh, you know, we have great leadership. Uh, Max is going to get an opportunity this week to to get those snaps and do everything he has to do and he'll be a much better player, you know, next week and like I said, he's still at the end of the day had an opportunity with the ball in his hands. So that's all you want as players. You want to be in them moments, right? So we all got to galvanize and come together. You know, no one man can do it by himself. You know, we got to dig a little deeper. We got to block a little longer. We got to push through as a running back. So, you know, I appreciate, you know, Max, you know, saying that, but, you know, we are a team and if this team plays well together, we'll be hard to beat and we're getting close. We're getting close. I'll also have another question from Allan from the Allen Alfred Sports Show. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, coach. I mean, definitely you could practice a lot and prepare, but you know, you have your starting quarterback go down unfortunately. Can you talk about the thought process as a coach when that happens? Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's terrible because I, you know, the the severity of the injury, not knowing exactly what it is yet. You know, he was crying. He's a lot of pain and you feel for the man. Uh, you know, he's a guy that, uh, you know, he's this is kind of his his last year. I mean, you know, he's put a lot of time and effort in this thing and, uh, you're sick to see that happen for anybody. Um, you know, as far as Max going in, I listen, I'm good. Like, you know, next guy up. Um, and that's the mentality we have to have. I mean, everybody's got to be ready to play. I watch every game, every week, multiple quarterbacks are playing, multiple players are coming in, and I saw Michigan playing a safety, I think a safety at linebacker like, "Hey, man. Like, this is what we got to do, okay? This is what we got to do." So, again, we just got to get better overall, you know? I I appreciate the effort, you I really do. But, you know, we got to find a a way to execute and finish games. And right now, we're not quite playing four quarters. All right, last question. Last question. This will be me asking from his name is Mike Reeves. Um, he's wanting to ask, could I ask um how how frustrating it was for the defense to be unable to get off the field on the third down frequently? I mean, you know, they made a couple plays for us to get us the ball back to put a drive together at the end of the game. You know, I got to watch the film on the other stuff, but as a head coach, that's all I want. All right. They were able to get the ball back for our offense and our offense had a chance. Um, you know, big picture, yeah, we'd like to be better offensively on third down. I think we're five of 16 or something like that. I mean, that's, you know, that's kind of a puke fest, right? Um, and then defensively, you know, look, I guys played hard, you know, I mean, they went for it on fourth down on their own 30. I mean, you know, for for our defense to have to, you know, that's you better rise up cuz that's basically trying to send a message that, you know, you can't stop them. And they did. And I thought in those moments, like I said, uh, they came up big when we needed it. The Willie play was huge. You know, it's kind of a sporadic thing with our defense right now. And, uh, they they kept us in this game. They kept us in this game for for our offense kind of sputtering. So, um, we got the ball at the end. That's all I can say. And, you know, we didn't take advantage of it. We had everything we wanted in front of us. We had the ball in front of us. Whatever happened before that really didn't matter. I was really excited about that moment for our guys and we came up short. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, guys. Happy Easter.