Christian Pierce

So, you know, some positives over there.

And then having Christian Pierce has actually been, you know, really good in both categories.

So that's been one that has helped me, pushed me ahead in that.

And that's another one that I think can sway pretty quickly, especially if...

I mean, when we're working, I do have kind of that player's mentality.

Yeah.

yeah you just you focus on what's in front of you i don't hear everything chris is always like do you hear the band say this like i'll hear like individual you know shouts when i'm trying to like grab some ghost notes and stuff you know like uh the penn state student section saying f you to christian pierce and not realizing that he's not the one that knocked dante more out so yeah i hear occasionally things like that but like songs just are kind of the background noise to me it all blends into the white noise what about

take me home

Is there anybody in the linebacker or, or the secondary group besides Alex that you would say we should probably talk about that? Like I said, individual plays, big time.

Prophet Brown, Christian Pierce.

[laughs] Plenty of stuff.

I think it's more defined on the offensive side of the ball, for sure.

Another game where you felt like they closed this out, got that big turnover.

Christian Pierce with the punch.

Jason Johnson with the fumble recovery.

Obviously, they were not perfect.

Yeah, it's interesting because you don't necessarily come away from the Washington game feeling like the defense played well.

You know, there was certainly some plays that they had breakdowns, and with the coverage, I think you could still make a lot of criticisms, individual play, and then also just the way they're scheming things.

They're giving up some big passes, and quite frankly, without – our favorite strong safety playing free safety, Christian Pierce, that's a big play going down the middle of the field.

And if Christian Pierce doesn't knock that ball loose,

And that was a, that was a big play.

Um, you know, shout out, was it Christian Pierce, right, that, uh, did the punch out and, uh-

Yes

...

... chant at one point.

At one point, I don't know if you noticed, they were like, "F you six" over and over, like at, at, at Christian Pierce and someone's yelling, "You nearly killed Dante Moore." I'm like, "That's, that's the wrong player." I know six and eight aren't that far apart.

Is that, is that what they were...

If that's what they... 'Cause I, I heard when after they lost, well, like it was the, the, the team was flooding out, one of the or two of the guys were like trying to get the attention of someone on the USC bench to get number six for them.

I couldn't figure out why.

I was like, "Why do they want Deshawn Rideau? Like, why do they want Deshawn Rideau?" Um, and then, well, that makes more sense that they wanted Christian Pierce because they were yelling at the offensive side of the sideline, so that's why it didn't make sense to me.

So, uh, you helped put a little bit more of the p- the puzzle piece together for me It was Christian Pierce that they wanted

When I heard it, it was in the late in the third quarter when they were driving towards the student section in that drive that ends up finishing in the first play of the fourth quarter.