you kick today easy uh I don't consider any of them too easy U definitely helps with the confidence we've been there we've done it we've seen the situation um but I wouldn't say no it doesn't make anything easy we just going to stay focused stay locked in um that's how I mean I expected that you know you got to expect it and got be ready for it twice at the end of the first half and end of the second half this team gets in field goal range to get you a chance to score and you're able to put that you're able to put it through the uprights what can you say about your teammates to give you those chances yeah like yeah so yeah it's a combination great teammates great coaches a great plan um and I'm blessed to have a great line you know good St and hold um but Eli knows he knows get the ball across the 50 we're going to have good shot and get some points so it's a combination that speaking for you what was just his demeanor like you know stting soly just kind of building up and leaving that comeback he's a ball player and he knows that the game's not over until the clock hits zero there was a lot of time left um and like guess just you know he's a ball player he's seen it before it's on his first time Bas adversity not his team's first time face adversity um so he red he rallied the troops and obviously we had a great comeback your uh kick at half time um it seemed like it would have been good from 55 60 yards just what's the longest you've made before outside of a game practice anything like that uh we were at practice a couple weeks ago H 68 so we got range um you know that's not ideal if you can't do that game but um comfortable 60 is comfortable and uh I think that was 52 53 so had just hit a good ball and went down the middle was good from some distance so you felt pretty good going out there I thought yeah yes sir being from Ohio I what does it mean to be able to put on performance like you did today in today's game yeah it's fantastic um I had a lot of family and a lot of friends there um my home is 40 minutes up the highway so to do it here um against Cincinnati you know in my home state in front of my friends and family it was unbelievable um and it's funny they all said it too before the game is said I think it's going to be a great story today so it turned out that it just happened to be me and you made exp sure you know I've I've uh I've been on a ride you know with the ups and the Downs throughout my career hasn't always been super smooth um but we've had some highlights and like I said we've had some downs and um that provides you the pieces to put the puzzle together and uh I think today everyone got to see that the puzzle put there it's all together and uh we can we can really really really perform when we put it together you talk about facing adversity before why do you think you guys responded better today maybe than you did last season uh we got a new attitude and and we got new team and and new staff and um you know we we expect that of ourselves we we have very tough offseason we worked really really hard we prepared for moments like that um and to get that opportunity as a team to come out and do that it shows all the work we put how coach Bowski help helped you get better at what you do he just Believes In Me in the fullest he he truly thinks I'm I'm extraordinary um I think I'm extraordinary but it's not you don't always get to show that but he just pushes my confidence day in and day out and uh we've seen some really good results from that what was the emotion like after making a game winner and what went into your celebration after that um yeah you know student section was stand a lot of comments towards the pit team so that was getting all my nerv a little bit I gave a little UC um but uh no we try not to have any emotion um we try to stay right right in the middle um with with our emotions and uh you know like I said it's a wave of emotions all all day but if you stay neutral we we practice neutral thinking in our specialist room um until that clock gets zero then you can celbrate a little bit um or until that ball goes in or you do what you want to do uh but it's neutral thick I give a lot of props to that did you see uh Javon at the end of the game had the game ball and the equipment staff chasing them down I didn't see it I didn't notice it um I hit my s i to see my teammates and then we had a game to finish so I think there was some time on the clock so that was the most important uh part of that was finishing the game does what does it mean to be able to go into the backup ball two and0 after a game like this I think it's huge for for us and for our confidence and and for who we are and uh today like I said showed the results that um you know all the preparation all the work we put in this off season uh we got to see it come in place today um so that just builds our confidence and Trust in each other going forward you said 68 is your range 68 you know I practice having some fun um but comfortably yeah 60 andn 60 andn if I got a little rais my back 62 63 but um comfortable with 60 so you're from Tip City yeah I'm from Tip City lot you switch to GRE backward it's pit yeah that's right that's right kep in pit yeah it was uh it was cool a lot of people gave me a lot of stuff for that um obviously I made that move to go to Pittsburgh but yeah 45 minutes 50 minutes up the highway up 75 and uh you know SP lot of time at the University of Cincinnati uh coming up in my Recruitment and U the dude here like I said it was was phenomenal