Speaker 1: Atenc Stadium. Doug Pearson, You guys one point the game. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: decision making was to kick the extra point, tied up
Speaker 1: and then uh talk about the penalty afterwards to be
Speaker 1: able to go for it. Uh No, I just I
Speaker 1: just elected at that point just to go for the
Speaker 1: kick and tied up. We had a little discussion, but
Speaker 1: at the time we felt where we were as a
Speaker 1: team at the time, we felt we felt good about
Speaker 1: it and kept the points on the board. What was
Speaker 1: the explanation given on the fumble in the first play
Speaker 1: the game? Um, just basically there was a uh you know,
Speaker 1: it was a clear fumble and then and then just
Speaker 1: didn't know exactly who who necessarily recovered at the times
Speaker 1: a big pile I guess, um, and just unfortunate. Some
Speaker 1: of the issues for for the slow start again, well,
Speaker 1: I think some of it, Uh you give credit to Dallas.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a good defense. We knew that
Speaker 1: going in. Uh. Some of it is uh, you know,
Speaker 1: their design very disruptive upfront. Um, and then just comes
Speaker 1: down to you know, attention to detail, focus and things
Speaker 1: that have kind of hampered us a little bit all season.
Speaker 1: Showed up a little bit early in this game, and
Speaker 1: and it was tough, too tough to get things going early.
Speaker 1: You knew the stakes of this game. What did you
Speaker 1: tell the guys in there afterwards? Exactly right, we knew
Speaker 1: the stakes of the game. Um. I just told him.
Speaker 1: I said, listen, you know, it's one of those games where,
Speaker 1: you know, proud of the way they fought, proud of
Speaker 1: the way they hung in there, battled back. We were
Speaker 1: really never out of this football game at all. And
Speaker 1: just basically told them that, you know, listen, the way
Speaker 1: we all felt in that dressing room. You gotta hate
Speaker 1: this moment. You gotta hate this feeling. You just you
Speaker 1: gotta hate losing, and you gotta you gotta learn from it,
Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta move forward and pick ourselves
Speaker 1: up off the mat and get ready to go for
Speaker 1: another one. Go on that. Sorry, you got to go
Speaker 1: back to the two point inversion. That's a situation that
Speaker 1: you typically have gone for in the past when there's
Speaker 1: been a penalty on the extra point. What was different
Speaker 1: about this game than in the past. Yeah, just a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Um, you know, late in the game where
Speaker 1: it was opportunity, you know, to just keep the points
Speaker 1: on the board. Um, nothing other than that. Would you
Speaker 1: agree that Carson looked a little hesitant to the first
Speaker 1: three quarters. I think there's enough to go around offensively.
Speaker 1: I don't think we put it on on the quarterback. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I think we'll take a look at this
Speaker 1: film and and um and uh you know, make make
Speaker 1: make the corrections where we need to. Um, you know this,
Speaker 1: this is a tough game, and he's done some great things,
Speaker 1: the great things tonight in the second half. So we'll
Speaker 1: evaluate the film and and uh, you know everybody will
Speaker 1: look at it and and um go from there. I think,
Speaker 1: why do you think it took the three quarters to
Speaker 1: finally get good things going with him? Well again, I
Speaker 1: think I think you give credit to Dallas and their defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, his defense is playing extremely well, and uh
Speaker 1: that's where the credit lies. You all have pretty tough
Speaker 1: spots in terms of your postseason opportunities. Perhaps, how do
Speaker 1: you keep those guys from reading the standings and saying
Speaker 1: it's just not going to happen this year. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're not focused on that. We're focused on, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back to Philly, getting ready for the Rams next weekend,
Speaker 1: and uh take them one at the time. The officiating
Speaker 1: to listen, they got they got a tough job. They
Speaker 1: got a tough job, and I respect everything that they do.
Speaker 1: And uh again, we'll take a look at it and
Speaker 1: you know, if we need to send some stuff, and
Speaker 1: we'll send some stuff in. But uh, appreciate those guys.
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard work and uh you know they
Speaker 1: bust their tail out there for you. You got in
Speaker 1: the shorthand you guys are shorthand in the second dirty
Speaker 1: so many injuries. But still what Amari did to the
Speaker 1: defense tonight, you know, fourth especially in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and over time, how frustrating is that even though you
Speaker 1: are shorthanded and it looks like Sydney's hurt still and
Speaker 1: I mean it's frustrating, but you know, we just gotta
Speaker 1: continue to push, continue to fight, continue to work these guys. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's obviously it's a great experience for Bobs,
Speaker 1: but it's unfortunate with Sydney in his situation right now.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, we just uh you know, it
Speaker 1: is what it is right now, you know, and we
Speaker 1: just gotta keep working and uh, you know, get everybody
Speaker 1: ready to play, get everybody caught up and uh and
Speaker 1: get ready for the next one. But you know there's
Speaker 1: there's no quitness and in this group, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think you'll see that next weekend. The decision to put
Speaker 1: Sydney back out there and then to pull yeah, well
Speaker 1: we checked him on the sideline, you know, and and
Speaker 1: felt felt comfortable. Um and and you know, just uhum,
Speaker 1: he felt felt comfortable with him going back in there,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we'll evaluate it again, you know,
Speaker 1: tomorrow and see where he's at. But yeah, um, because
Speaker 1: of the injury or because he wasn't performance, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just it was unfortunate because it started to flare
Speaker 1: up again. So we decided to risk any further injury,
Speaker 1: just pull him and put Bossing there. You had a
Speaker 1: play there was small Wood in the game pretty importantly
Speaker 1: where he got to bought enough it's a checkdown to
Speaker 1: him with him whatever, but he hadn't touch the ball
Speaker 1: a good ball. It seemed like an odd spot for
Speaker 1: him either. Well, when Corey went down, um, it was
Speaker 1: not so much an odd spot anymore. Um and and
Speaker 1: so um, you know we had we needed him in
Speaker 1: a couple of spots and we used him. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: you get on the play tonight, what part of this
Speaker 1: game is gonna bother you the most time. I think,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is going to disappoint me
Speaker 1: is just the look in those players eyes in there
Speaker 1: and and to see the disappointment that that we felt,
Speaker 1: even even with this close a game it this really
Speaker 1: was um and still not playing great offensively, UM for
Speaker 1: the defense to come up with some big, big turnovers
Speaker 1: keep us in this football game and not finish, you know,
Speaker 1: not finish this football game. Um, because we felt at
Speaker 1: the end, even going into overtime, that that there was
Speaker 1: some momentum on our side and just needed that one stop. UM.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's going to be you know, the
Speaker 1: look of disappointment you know in the players and coaches eyes.
Speaker 1: That's gonna that's gonna bother me on this right home.
Speaker 1: What'd you see with Dallas Grner What all of a
Speaker 1: sudden kind of freed him up? Well, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a trends tight end. UM. And again
Speaker 1: we felt going into the game that we could we
Speaker 1: could do live as our two tight ends and in
Speaker 1: second half we'd um, you know, mix them in there
Speaker 1: really well and it just creates some matchups, you know,
Speaker 1: with their base defense that we felt we felt comfortable
Speaker 1: with and and uh, he did a great job. There
Speaker 1: was a third down throw the Carson threw pretty well
Speaker 1: short of the end zone to zach Ertz. What do
Speaker 1: you think his decision making was there? It was the
Speaker 1: one after the Small would play was ninety six galls.
Speaker 1: You guys settled for a field goal. He slanted the earth,
Speaker 1: but he was at the five yard line. Third down?
Speaker 1: Was it after the penalty? It was after the Small
Speaker 1: would run. It was like third and goal from around
Speaker 1: the nine nine arts had a pushing the back that
Speaker 1: put you guys back. Then you had a catch and
Speaker 1: then Small would run. And then on third down to nine,
Speaker 1: Carson was the left left, left flat and swall short
Speaker 1: of the goal line. Yeah, it was a chance to
Speaker 1: catch and run at that point. And then if I
Speaker 1: do remember the play, um, Yeah, a chance to get
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pick pick scheme over there
Speaker 1: with I think him and al Sean, I think that's
Speaker 1: the one you were talking about, put it in his hands,
Speaker 1: chance to score or you're in a situation because we
Speaker 1: had talked about possibly staying on the field on fourth
Speaker 1: down and going for it. In that situation, I had
Speaker 1: two downs right there. You've been asked about that two
Speaker 1: point conversion there. If you had to do it over again,
Speaker 1: would you have done if you stand by the decision there,
Speaker 1: I mean we could sit here in hindsights, you know,
Speaker 1: but twenty twenty fifty fifty, whatever the deal is. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd kick it. I'd kick it. I'd kick it. I
Speaker 1: mean it's easy to sit in here and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go for two out there a little different, and
Speaker 1: I stick by my decision. Yeah, all right,