WEBVTT - The Post Game Show: Eagles defeated by the Lions 45-14 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.720 The Detroit Lions had not scored twenty points in the game, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.360 and their last four contests won't. That was not an 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.360 issue today, as Matthew Stafford through not one, not two, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.600 not three, foot five touchdown passes in a forty five 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:53.440 to fourteenth victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Hello everyone, and 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.760 Happy Thanksgiving to y'all out there. I'm Chris McPherson and 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.000 this is the postgame show presented by Rico here in 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.080 Philadelphi Eagles Com. I'm joined alongside former Eagles linebacker ike 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.360 reas I the Eagles lose forty five to fourteen on Thanksgiving. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.760 We'll go back in time a little bit. Since that 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.760 first quarter against Miami, when the Eagles raced out to 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.880 a sixteen to three lead, the Eagles have been outscored 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.319 one hundred and seven to thirty four since that point. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.640 I'm a loss for words. The Eagles allowed all six 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.280 possessions that the Lions had in the red zone to 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.479 result in a touchdown. Offense didn't get much going on 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.920 their end. The fourteen points came. The last touchdown was 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.440 a Jordan Matthews score in the fourth quarter, when the 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.200 game was already well at hand. At one point. This 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.399 was a seven seven ballgame. What in your cutimation, what 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.920 in your estimation has happened specifically to this Eagles defense. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 It's hard to figure out, you know, what's going on 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.720 with this team right now. You know they've been able 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.240 to hang their head on their defensive performances pretty much 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.320 throughout the year to the defense has pretty much kept 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.240 them and just about every game, but these last two games, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.600 given up ninety points to the Buccaneers and now to 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:11.400 the Jroity Lions on Thanksgiving afternoon. It's really disheartening. It's 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.480 really not a brand of football that we've become accustomed 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:20.040 to watching in these parts, particularly in midnight Green. To 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.080 go out there and have an effort like today where 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.960 it's forty five to fourteen final score, it's just real disappointing. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.400 It's for a season that had so much promise and 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.320 had so much hope coming into it. These last couple 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.200 of weeks have been hard to swallow it as an 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.000 Eagle fan, no question about. The Eagles have now lost 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.000 three straight there four and seven on the season. After 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.680 this very disappointing and I don't even know what disappointing 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.639 at this point would be. The right word to describe it. Certainly, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.359 you thought that the Eagles defense would come out and 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.440 put on a much better performance after allowing five touchdowns 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.919 a week ago to the rookie number one overall pick 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.920 and Jamie's wins. But of course it's not just the 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.240 fact that the Eagles gave up so many points, but 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.360 there are injuries that impacted the outcome. Nolan Carroll suffered 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.160 a broken right ankle during the contest. In the second quarter. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.760 He was rolled up on during a joy bell run 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.200 by the Lions and he had to be carved off 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.480 the field. X rays determined that it was a break 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.040 and second round pick Eric Rowe had to go in there, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.520 and he was not given much help going against one 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.240 of the all time greats in Calvin Johnson, who had 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.480 three of the five touchdown passes on the day from 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.920 Matthew Stafford. I actually can't blame the second round pick 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.040 in some of these instances. You had good coverage at times, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.920 but it was more of an instance of just simply 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.360 how great Calvin Johnson is and the arm town of 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.320 quarterback Matthew Stafford. Well, no doubt about it. Number eighty one. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.240 I mean, listen, he has a spot and can't know 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.920 how you're waiting for him five years after his career 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.000 is Overwitt and Calvin Megan, Tron Johnson. But you knew 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.160 with this Detroit Lions allfense, it could be dangerous if 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.840 he can get clicking. The skill position players are there. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.960 You know Matthew Stafford, He's thrown for over five thousand 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.520 yards in this league. He's thrown for over forty touchdowns 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.600 in this league. You know what he and Calvin Johnson 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.640 can do when they get hot. And today the Eagles 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.680 secondary was the remedy for the Lions offensive wolves. They 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.840 had won their last two games, but they won those 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.760 games by putting up only eighteen points. They went through 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.920 an offensive explosion this afternoon going up against this Eagle secondary. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.080 You know what, when I look at the Lions offense 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.599 in the way that it performed today, I see what 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.160 I would hope the Eagles offense would be. A dominant 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.120 wide receiver, Calvin Johnson, a great slinger at quarterback. There 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.599 a gun slinger there in Matthew Stafford, and then those 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.680 skill position players in addition to Calvin Johnson theoretic. You 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.880 knew coming into this game that he led all running 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.880 backs in terms of receptions in the entire NFL. Well, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.760 he was someone that the Eagles had to worry about 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.479 and contend with throughout the course of the game and 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.039 Golden tape look. He maybe the number two receiver in 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.560 this offense, but very good in his own right and 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.400 someone who was able to be a chess piece in 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.520 this Lions off and someone who could be moved around 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.760 the formation. And to make matters worse, this was a 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.239 rushing attack that was dead last coming into the league 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.159 second round pick of mer Abdullah Joyce Bell. As we 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.560 mentioned before, they were able to get to churn out 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.120 some big plays, they were able to move the chains, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.320 and on the day, not sexy numbers, they gained over 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.440 one hundred yards on the ground, but when you consider 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.200 that they'd only done that twice in their first ten 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.400 games of the season, certainly something to consider there. So 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.640 what we're gonna do now is take our first break 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.680 here on the postgame show presented by ricco. 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I mean, this is as gut 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.760 wrenching a loss as I think any of us have 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.200 seen or experience in quite some time. Obviously, the Miami 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.960 lost a couple of weeks ago, very just a point 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.800 with the way the Eagles were able to get off 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.280 to a hot start last week, very demoralizing because you 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.800 figured Tampa Bay a team that struggled offensively, a rookie 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.520 quarterback that could have been what helped the Eagles out. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.480 Then you figure, okay, let's forget about the fact that 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.840 Eagles are still in the playoff picture, that MCAS is 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.800 still up for grabs. Just go out and play for pride, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.360 Just try to summon up what's inside of you and 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.560 to be able to go out there and play inspired football. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.680 You figure the best thing coming off they lost to 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.560 Tampa Bay was a short turnaround, and for whatever reason, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.560 it didn't prove to help. Yeah, I mean, just real 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.000 disappointing that, you know, the Eagles couldn't come out after 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.760 the disappointing lost this past Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.440 And like you said, nothing else. You want to see 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.760 that pride shown out there on the field. You want 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.000 to see the effort put forward to try to win 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.120 this football game today. And they may have come in 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.040 with the right intentions, with the right mindset, but it 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.040 wasn't very long into this game today where it looked 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.320 like there was just one team that just wanted it 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.559 more than the other team, and for two teams that 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.439 seemingly had not a whole lot to play for, and 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.120 the Eagles had more to play for. Coming into this 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.280 game against the Lions, it certainly appeared that the Lions 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.520 were the team that were playing as if their season 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.280 was on the line, as if they still had a 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.880 chance to get into playoffs. And that's what you wanted 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.040 to see from the Eagles today after that Buccaneers loss. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.600 I wanted to see what type of football team would 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.000 take the field today wearing midnight green. Will be a 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.920 team that takes the field with pride, that wants to 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.240 go out there and get that bad taste out of 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.319 their mouth that they had this past Sunday against the Buccaneers. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.600 Or would it be a team that goes into the 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.800 game and says, what do we have to play for? 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.880 It's Thanksgiving? I can't wait to get back home, And 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.480 sadly to say, that's what it looked like after that 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.160 first quarter, that one team was looking to get out 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.640 of Detroit as soon as possible, and the other team 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.120 looked like they smelled blood in the water and they 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.520 just kept powling on the points and points and points. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.120 We haven't seen a performance like this from an Eagles 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.400 team in some wow maybe you're a rookie season. Yeah, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.760 it was, especially when you're talking about back to back 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.720 performances like this. I mean, ninety points in two games, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.400 ten touchdown passes in two games. It's just not Eagle football. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.760 This isn't Eagle football. This isn't what we've become accustomed 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.080 to watching out there on the field. And that's what's 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.600 disappointing to the Eagles fan basis that this isn't a 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.000 team that they can identify with because it doesn't look 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.000 like what typically represents the Philadelphia Eagles now whatsoever. So 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.200 coming into this season, look, the Eagles had won ten 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.520 games in back to back seasons. You figured they had 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.200 made some big moves to try to get that team 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.719 to turn from good to great, and some of them 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.240 just haven't worked up until his point. Now, I don't know, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.360 maybe if we just over judge out that they would 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.920 need some time to gel that. You have so many 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.079 different pieces coming together that you know it's gonna take 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.880 time for all that to coagulate to gel together. But nonetheless, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.640 you figure at this point of the year, everyone'll be 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.080 finding the right note, everyone would be on track, and 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.600 things would be moving on up and you'd be making 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.000 that push toward the latter half of the season, the 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.160 final quarter of the season in fact. But for whatever reason, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.200 that just hasn't been the case. The defense, which everyone 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.679 has been able to rely upon in the early part 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.200 of the season, especially that rushing defense, anchored by Fletcher 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.280 Cox and Benny Logan upfronts. You know, their play has 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.440 slipped ever since the Carolina performance, and then the secondary, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.160 which had been very good. From a takeaway standpoint, maybe 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.080 they'd given up some yards, but at least they've made 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.439 teams pay with the takeaways twenty one coming into this game. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.520 You just have not seen that in the last couple 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.520 of games. You go back to the Miami game, they 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.640 got the safety in the first quarter and they were 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.160 not able to get any turnovers outside of the safety, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.800 even though that doesn't technically count as a safety. In 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.920 the game against Tampa Bay a week ago, they actually 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.800 didn't get it takeaway that came from the offense after 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.640 DeMarco Murray coughed up the ball and then Zach Ertz 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.520 and Brent Sulk were able to force the ball loose 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.480 and be able to get it right back for the offense. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.640 So the one takeaway there came from the offense. And 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.320 then today, nothing going as they were not able to 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.079 dark much pressure on Matthew Stafford. Again, five touchdown passes 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.040 on the day, three of them to Megatron. Look at 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.120 times there was good coverage, but again it just shows 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.760 how dumb. Even though he's getting up there in age, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.880 he is thirty years old, he is still one of 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.600 the best receivers, not just in a national football league now, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.520 but of all time. Like, oh, no doubt about it. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.080 I mean, and you're gonna leave single coverage on Calvin Johnson, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.800 you're gonna pay. I mean, that's that's just the quarterback 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.040 and wide receiver basically salivating when they see a rookie 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.080 like Eric Row over there on Megatron. They're gonna put 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.959 the ball up in eighty one's area and allow him 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.839 to go up and make a catch on the ball. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.880 You see fourteen targets. It's probably the most he's been 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.040 targeted in the last few games. He sees a young 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.839 player over there on him, you gotta take advantage of that. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.199 And like I said, Matthew Stafford, a guy who's thrown 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.320 forward five thousand yards in the sleeve forty plus touchdowns 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.000 multiple times, they know how to get the ball in 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.480 the end zone. And this was sort of the defense 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.440 that they had been looking for to sort of get 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.760 their offense clicking. Calvin Johnson had three touchdowns coming into 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.800 this game. He got three to day alone. For my money, here, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.680 I can't blame defensive Cordy build Dave for not wanting 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.720 to put extra attention over there. And here's what I'll 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.599 say why it is because throughout the course of the 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.360 game in that first half, you saw theoretic given the 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.640 linebackers lots of problems. You saw a golden tape again 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.760 being a thorn in the Eagles side. So for those 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.920 two guys as well, I mean, you can't just say 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.199 we're gonna double coverage or apply double coverage to Calvin 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.920 Johnson each and every time. Unfortunately, you know what, one 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.679 of the other guys in that offense is going to 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.359 come back to burn you. So that's why I understand 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.040 why Bill Davis made that decision in certain points not 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.720 to alleviate the help over there, because there are just 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.440 times where, look, if you're playing inside leverage and you're 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.600 as Eric Roy cornerback would do down the red zone 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.040 and say, look, I'm gonna play with the boundary, I'm 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.679 gonna play with the sideline and just squeeze Megatron in 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.720 between there and say, hey, Stafford, make a good throw 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.040 in there. Guess what he would. So we're now going 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.520 to send it to four field in Detroit head coach 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:07.040 Chip Kelly about to address the media. Take it away. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.760 It's right at the top. I mean, I mean we 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:18.959 didn't didn't well, didn't coach well today, didn't uh, didn't 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:24.680 really do anything well today. So UM, it's very disappointing. Um, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.640 what you wanted not the outcome anybody's looking for. So 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.680 give it up for two games and what's going on? 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.840 I thought, again, we got to do a better job 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.320 at getting to the quarterback. Um, I'm at it too 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.000 much time. Uh, gotta get a little credit to try 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.800 to create some more pressure. Uh, Calvin. Obviously it was 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.240 a very difficult matchup for US. UM, you know, when 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.600 we didn't do a good job putting those guys in 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.480 position to make plays that they had to make in 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.480 the game. I test, is it for you to be 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.640 confident of Wall team? Would you have stretched like ISRAELUS team? 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.400 Especially that I guess the answer that is the there's 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.720 no there's no other option. You know, you know you 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.960 got five games left here as we come up and 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.000 we get back in December. Um, and that's what we 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.560 gotta do. We gotta go play. You know, I don't 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.120 think anybody's gonna feel sorry for US UM as a group. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:20.440 We gotta play and we gotta play better. Yeah. I 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.280 don't think it's you know, they're trying to prove a 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.120 point or anything like that. I just think we didn't 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.240 we got we got out coach today and didn't do 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:36.920 a very good job. So, um, you we'll see. Yes, 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.960 what's that have confidence and most players in the locker 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.320 room because I've seen him play before and I've got 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.120 a lot of confidence in those guys. I think we've 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.800 got some really good guys at Damiko Ryots and Malcolm Jenkins, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.360 that Jason Kelsey's the Brent Selex that you know, there's 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.640 a ton of guys in there that I think I've 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.120 seen him compete and I've seen him play and I've 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.120 seen him play at a really high level. And Um, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.360 I told those guys in the locker room I have 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.480 confidence in there. Now I haven't seen it. We didn't 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:00.960 play well in the two gas. I'm not gonna make 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.960 any excuses for that. Well, this this was a different 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.000 week mark I think is because it was short week. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.760 So um, but we've we have trained before this week 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.640 very well. You know, we were all obviously on a 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.000 limited schedule with kind of a pro glide walk through 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.120 Tech Temple on Monday, because you're the day after the game, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:17.920 you know, and then you're into your forty eight hours 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.320 before the game. But they handled that well. It's the same, really, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.440 the same schedule we use. Last year we've played UM 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.640 Dallas on Thanksgiving, you know. So it's it's a you know, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.040 it's one of those where you look at it. One 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.920 year it worked really well for us, and obviously this 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.760 year didn't work well for us. How much accountability, I 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.000 think we all take accountability, but I speak for I'm 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.000 a coach. I'm not a player, So it starts to 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.600 may I'm not pointing fingers in anybody, and I don't 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.920 think anybody points fingers in anybody. I think it's we 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.600 all got to look inside ourselves and see what we 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.080 can do to change the outcome of what's going on. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.440 And that's the way it has to be. But I 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.160 think once you start pointing fingers in saying it's you 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.720 blame it on somebody else, then you know that then 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.760 you've lost what you gotta do. I mean think everybody's 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.320 got to look inside and figure out what they can 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.560 do as an individual to make this team better. Just 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.440 I mean that's the that's a question. You gotta everybody 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:09.720 wants to know, you know, you gotta look at it 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.040 and look at tape, and we'll coach them better, and 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.680 we'll coach them harder and put him in positions where 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.640 they can make plays that I know when we all 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.200 know that they can't they can't make because I've seen 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:22.080 him make of so mean. Yeah, I mean I don't 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.360 think anybody, I mean, we didn't. I didn't see this happening, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.800 you know, I didn't. I don't feel like, you know, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.040 coming in, I wasn't going, oh my god, this is this, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.440 this thing's gonna get away from us. You know, I 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.119 thought I'm gonna have a chance to commending him really 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:39.480 compete with the good football team. Um. I think we 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.359 tried to, you know, specifically at halftime, tried to come 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:42.680 after him a little bit more. He brought a little 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.480 bit more pressure on um Matt. But I thought Matt 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:46.800 did a good job. If you watched him, a couple 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.119 of times he checked in into protections and got himself 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.960 in a situation where he was picking up what was coming. Um, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.800 you know, he was he's a he's a guy that's 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.879 been around for a while. Um. I think he did 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.640 a really good job of handling some of the book 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.680 slicks that we were giving him in terms of getting 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.040 them set in the protection, in terms of being able 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.199 to pick those guys up games the first two seas. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.640 You can't do that this year now as a step back. Now, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.840 I don't look at I mean, I said before, ten 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.800 wins wasn't enough. You know, if you don't finish as 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.639 the number one team in the league, then it's a 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.879 step back. And that's what That's what our mentality is, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.879 and that's what my mentality has always been. But I 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.480 was never happy when we were ten and six, I 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.040 can tell you that. And I think, UM, you're always 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:27.640 trying to go out there and give yourself an opportunity. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.120 It's still an opportunity for us UM to make the playoffs, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.480 and that's what this deal's all about. You got to 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.080 get into the tournament and then see what happens from there. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:35.560 We got a lot, we've got a lot of work 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.359 to do to get ourselves into that. So it's a 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.840 U But I don't I've never looked at it like, hey, 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.359 I won ten games. We did a good job. I mean, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.639 ten games means nothing if you don't do anything in 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.200 the playoffs. We went ten and six last year and 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:51.160 didn't make the playoffs. It wasn't good enough your team job. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:52.959 I'm not saying we're doing a better job. I can 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.040 tell you that. I mean we're not. But I don't 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:56.800 look at ten wins as a good job either. I've 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.080 never looked at it like that. I believe our players 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.000 played today. Yeah, I believe our players compated. Yes, I 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.480 do all the players. Yes, the players, and you guys 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.119 lose one of the problem with you. I don't know. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.320 I don't have that answer. I just know. I just know. So, Yeah, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.440 we do it all the time, and it's we haven't 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.160 put our partners in position to make plays in last 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:19.960 two weeks. And that's on us. That's on That's on 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.080 me as a head coach. I'll take responsibility for that. Yeah, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:34.480 I'm competed to seeing this film's now and I think 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:35.960 it's two weeks. I don't know. I think the week 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.480 before was a little bit different. You know, it was 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.720 on one point last for we really made a lot 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.119 of week week I know that, but we weren't up 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.359 sixteen three and the last two games. That's why I 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.080 kind of look at the last two one of the 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.960 ones that I think hurt, hurt, you know in terms 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.679 of our how we how we performed and what the 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.400 fund score was. You know, I think the other game, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.480 you know, you just kind of when you watch that game, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.280 the Miami game, you go back and forth and how 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.280 many times we had missed opportunities that were right there 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.520 for us to take and ano in the game by 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:01.840 a point. You know, you have a touchdown call back, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:03.480 you miss a field goal. You know, we have the 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.280 ball bounce up in the air and no one sees it, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:06.800 and then we turned around and the guy catch. There's 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.120 a lot of different things that happened in that game. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.239 I think that game is a different game than these 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.199