Prompt Wrote:As much as we'd like to believe so, our players aren't perfect. With every win and loss, there's high emotions. With every game, there's mistakes that turn into flags and heartbreak. Every team's response to these kind of situations is different depending on the sort of discipline that team and their players have. For this PT, talk about what sort of strategies your team employs in order to keep everyone emotionally and mechanically disciplined. How do your teams get players to avoid making silly penalties or putting holes through the wall after a game?
Austin is definitely a younger team overall, so we can have some undisciplined games. I find that the biggest thing is to not let a single mistake compound into recurring or bigger mistakes - for example, I try to make sure that if I get hit with a pass interference call against me I keep my game at the same level and don't get angry at whoever I'm covering and stack up late hits or extra holding calls. I think I've been doing ok at it so far this year (and naturally winning games rather than losing them helps smooth over troubles amazingly well), but I do want to try and help out the rest of the team as we go. The 2-penalty games we've had so far this year are coming primarily from our rookies so there's definitely work to do. As a captain on the defense, that's definitely something I want to work on even more as we get deeper in the season and try to put a playoff run together.
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