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Dan Bernstein here along with our executive producer, Matt Abattacola, and Ben Johnson is making a conscious decision, I believe, to make this game and this run

and this moment about himself.

And not in a bad way.

Not in a bad way.

Not in an egotistical way.

But I think he is taking on the pressure of this game in a way that may take it a bit off of his quarterback.

And I think it's a conscious decision on his part.

I think the way he reacted to the loss was a conscious decision on his part to invite this and to do this.

And I'm not surprised.

I think it's cool.

I think it speaks to his confidence and to his assumption of responsibility in this moment,

not hiding from it, not globalizing it, not saying,

oh, well, that it's all of us and we're a team and we'll all face this moment. This is,

in a lot of ways, exactly what you wanted when you hired him, I think. And how's he doing that in your estimation? Well, I think first of all, the more I think about the way he reacted to the loss. And yesterday when we discussed it, it had a lot to do with how he didn't even mention the defense. And sure, he wasn't asked about it. But he, the offense, the offense, the offense, the offense wasn't good enough when

you can't have, you know, one phase or, you know, two phase, this, it's the phase that he

handles, he said, was not good enough. And he took that on him. And even going into this,

if you notice the way already that we're seeing this couch is

and I was looking if you read, the

beat reporters in general have been focusing

more on him than

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