MU defensive back Martez Manuel said a change in mentality occurred in the defensive unit room, where the group recognized that, “Nobody on the outside is with us.”
“We really just leaned in on each other,” Manuel said. “I feel like at first sometimes people were pointing fingers, ‘The D-line is doing this, we’re not getting any sacks because the DBs aren’t covering’ — stuff like that. At some point we had to be like, to the outside world, ‘We all suck.’ We had to buy in together, we’ve got to lean on each other and be there for each other, so I feel like that’s really been the difference.”
Accountability, tough love, self-introspection — whatever — appears to have worked.
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“We really just leaned in on each other,” Manuel said. “I feel like at first sometimes people were pointing fingers, ‘The D-line is doing this, we’re not getting any sacks because the DBs aren’t covering’ — stuff like that. At some point we had to be like, to the outside world, ‘We all suck.’ We had to buy in together, we’ve got to lean on each other and be there for each other, so I feel like that’s really been the difference.”
Accountability, tough love, self-introspection — whatever — appears to have worked.
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