Thank you, LB Terrance Plummer and TE Cody Latimer of the XFL Orlando Guardians for answering our questions Post Game on the Alan & Aaron Sports Talk Radio Show!
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Interview Date: 02/26/23 8:20 PM EST Camping World Stadium
I just got the first one here, right here in front of Allen.
All right, Allen from the Allen Evans Sports and Trainer Show.
It was a pleasure.
Just talk about their team and what they were able to do offensively that
kind of was able to move the ball effectively in this game.
To be honest with you, they didn't do anything.
They were minus six rushing yards in the first half.
A lot of self mistakes, to be honest.
Got them a third down at the end of the half, and we ended up having a penalty.
We had some other things happen to point block.
I'm just gonna be honest with you, man.
They weren't nothing that we didn't expect them to be.
You gotta really take a look in the mirror, look at ourselves at this one.
That's gonna hurt, cuz if you know it was self-inflicted.
To that, the coach talked about, he already talked about the team,
knowing what to expect and kind of keeping the penalties at bay.
What do you think is happening that's causing guys to kind of lose their head
on the field?
You never know.
For me, it's tough, because of the fact that I know what these guys bring to it.
Nobody wants to make a mistake.
We all really do love each other, you know what I mean?
There ain't never a time where I think a guy's doing it just to get something off.
He's doing it a certain type of way, that just comes with the game.
But we're a new team, this is all new, no OTAs,
training camp was so short, we're still building and learning.
What it's gonna take is for us to realize we still got eight more opportunities to
go out there and make it happen.
It didn't happen today, but
I ain't never gonna not believe in my team that it's gonna happen next week.
Mike?
Mike Bianchi, Orlando, obviously you guys are great competitors.
I'm curious, what's it like riding the same plane back home or
to a game with the team you're playing?
They're probably gonna be celebrating, you guys are not happy.
What's that like?
It's hard to say, we haven't done it yet.
We've come here with them, everybody's listed themselves.
We gotta be professional, like Cody's saying.
This is part of what the league's giving us, you know what I mean?
So we're gonna be professional.
We better be professional, it's an opportunity a lot of us are waiting for.
So I'm here in front of Steve.
Steve Wilson, Florida Broadcasting Group.
Tough game this afternoon.
Can you take anything positive out of the game today moving forward?
Anything you can look at, say, we did okay in this.
Always finishing, we always gotta fight for this team.
We don't give it to ourselves, we play, go back and look at it.
This is a special game.
In the back, Josh.
Yeah, man, it's special.
I'm a Florida kid, I grew up in Jacksonville, born in West Palm Beach.
Orlando's a little, my family was here today, too.
We forgot about it, so.
In the back, Zach.
Cody, second straight game, you guys have had multiple more of the same games.
I think it's all right, though, we're good.
We talked about this.
I got time for two more right here, Jeff.
Hi, my name's Jeff Barnes, senior at NDS Media.
You guys are 0-2, it's only a ten game season,
unlike the NFL where they have 16 to turn it around.
How do you guys plan to turn it around this week,
because you're running out of runway?
We're still got a game to go, man.
I think we're still on season ahead still, right?
It's a small detail, man.
We just gotta clean up these small details,
little things that kill us in these games.
I'm gonna be using North San Antonio a little better than this.
Based off what we face, we're beating ourselves.
When we start beating ourselves, I think we're gonna start getting beat.
Last one, everybody.
Kyle.
Kyle Nash with three-point conversion in T-Plum,
also writing for the black and gold brand of red.
Not all of us forgot about you, brother, but with that in mind.
But with that in mind,
Matt Lee got in the backfield a lot to make some plays offensively.
What could you say about what worked for him and the defense during the day today?
Yeah, Mike Lee a baller, man.
T.C. called it up, we were prepared.
I really, that's why I'm just like a little, just however I am up here,
because we were prepared.
We went out there and did our thing out there in the first half.
You know, we gotta finish everything that comes through,
but Mike Lee's a great ball player.
He comes to work every day,
and we all come to work every day,
so it's gonna start bleeding off of him, more and more people.
We got some young guys on this team.
We got guys like Cody who's been around, been a big bro,
you know what I mean, done it at the highest level,
so we just gotta start leaning on those vents,
and those young guys gotta just come along.
We just gotta believe.
Well, we got to take accountability for that,
but we got one more extra team to go.
All right, guys, thank you very much.
Appreciate you guys, man.
Appreciate you guys.
Anybody needs stats should have some in the press box.
I think we had an issue getting them down here in time,
but...