Speaker 1: You know, Um, just the ebb and flow of a game. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know they they got some breaks in there.
Speaker 1: We know we we were moving the ball again. I
Speaker 1: mean I think you know we had that. We had
Speaker 1: the turnover that throwed a zacher it's up a sideline there,
Speaker 1: that got got intercepted, and just kind of momentum change.
Speaker 1: They went down and scored on that, and UM, so
Speaker 1: nothing nothing that they did obviously. UM, we just uh,
Speaker 1: we just didn't make no place to either stay on
Speaker 1: the field or you know, continue drives, execute and score.
Speaker 1: Seem some were holding back here to see when you
Speaker 1: were holding back tears, can you describe. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough because it's so final. You know, you're you're
Speaker 1: here at the end of the season. There's no more,
Speaker 1: no more football, you know, for for twenty eighteen. And
Speaker 1: UM just told the guys, you know, just keep their
Speaker 1: heads up and we we set out on a journey
Speaker 1: way back in OTAs and we keep talking about and
Speaker 1: having no regrets, you know, and leave everything out on
Speaker 1: the field. And they did that tonight. You know, they
Speaker 1: did that this afternoon and um, they battled right to
Speaker 1: the end. We had we had opportunities. So um, proud
Speaker 1: of them, proud of the season, proud of the adversity
Speaker 1: that we faced all season long, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: found our way to get it into the postseason and uh,
Speaker 1: um you know, just wish wish the Saints. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: good luck going forward. It's hard. I mean it's really
Speaker 1: hard because he's so he's so down. But you know,
Speaker 1: for me, it's about staying positive. And uh, listen, he's
Speaker 1: made many many big catches for us this season and
Speaker 1: continue he will continue to do that. And I just
Speaker 1: told him he's gotta you know, he's got to keep
Speaker 1: his head up and and don't let one play to
Speaker 1: find you. You know, it's it's not who he is.
Speaker 1: He's he's too good of a player, and um, uh
Speaker 1: he needs to he needs to. He'll embrace it, you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: but uh you know, and he'll be better for it.
Speaker 1: But I told him just to keep his head up
Speaker 1: and keep keep playing. Um. Yeah, but so is that
Speaker 1: why you lay at that point? Plenty of time to
Speaker 1: get to the line of scrimmage and uh and get
Speaker 1: the playoff. I wanted to stay aggressive. Um just ran
Speaker 1: to play like two plays before and when we tried
Speaker 1: to stick it there and hurts, and um we got
Speaker 1: the rough in the pastor play. So it's a simple
Speaker 1: play got lined up, and I had plenty of time
Speaker 1: to think about. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll look at the tape and and and
Speaker 1: uh you know, evaluate that. But there's always throws you'd
Speaker 1: like to have back, uh in every game, you know.
Speaker 1: But I thought the way he hung in there and
Speaker 1: battled and gave up gave our offense a chance to
Speaker 1: go down and you know, possibly win this football game.
Speaker 1: So I thought overall, he played played pretty well. Yeah
Speaker 1: you felt you felt it a little bit, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but but we listen, we we had a lot of confidence.
Speaker 1: Even at that point. We felt like we're moving the ball.
Speaker 1: We stayed and stayed in rhythm and um no I know,
Speaker 1: but but we felt even even on that drive, we
Speaker 1: felt like we we could have um could have scored
Speaker 1: have we hit that play. But kind of changed after
Speaker 1: that point. And um, you know, again credit the Saints
Speaker 1: for for uh, you know, executing stretch stretch. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's and it's you know, it's just it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's tough. Um, you know, those guys are uh, solid
Speaker 1: players or starters, and and uh, it's unfortunate we lose.
Speaker 1: We lose those guys for you know, Brandon for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game, but those guys for periods of time.
Speaker 1: It's it's disruptive a little bit, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of been our season a little bit, you know, fighting,
Speaker 1: fighting through that adversity. And um, you know we did
Speaker 1: get them back, but but credit them too for for
Speaker 1: playing through a little injury or anything. Now that Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's it's you know, you kind of expect
Speaker 1: it in that situations. Fourth and one, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you just gotta be prepared for that. And and um,
Speaker 1: you know again just a great play by then in
Speaker 1: the game. You were ready. We've had our defense, our defense,
Speaker 1: defense stay um calling, so our our our defense was
Speaker 1: on the field sixteen. That was the one over the middle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, we're dropping his own and just uh again
Speaker 1: you know, um, Drew did a good job just hanging
Speaker 1: on the football and letting his guys get down the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was just just a
Speaker 1: window right there, you know, in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: and and uh got it and got the first down.
Speaker 1: Sea what brought you back to relevant. Um, the guys
Speaker 1: in that locker room, Um, you know, got a lot
Speaker 1: of trust, a lot of faith in those guys. My
Speaker 1: coaches just um, you know, I'm just believing that we
Speaker 1: could we could get ourselves in this position, you know,
Speaker 1: and be in the postseason being you know it is
Speaker 1: it is one of our goals obviously, is to be
Speaker 1: playing in January. And um, it's as you know, I've
Speaker 1: set all season a resilient group that you know, doesn't
Speaker 1: um waiver a whole lot you know, through adversity, um
Speaker 1: makes you tougher, makes you uh, um, you know, battle
Speaker 1: that much harder. So those guys in the locker room really, um,
Speaker 1: you know, fought through that and and gave us the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be in this positions. I mean I thought
Speaker 1: that we were we were, we were on our way.
Speaker 1: You know, we got that we got to you know, Um,
Speaker 1: it just felt like the momentum at that point, I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was in our in our favor,
Speaker 1: kind of in our hands, and and uh it's been
Speaker 1: that way all season, you know, and it felt like that, uh,
Speaker 1: that sort of that magic was going to continue. Specials
Speaker 1: after after the games, it just possible. I just told
Speaker 1: him I appreciate everything, everything he's done, you know, and
Speaker 1: everything that uh uh he's done this season, and and
Speaker 1: you know, for him to come in and step in
Speaker 1: the way he has I mean, um, you know, just
Speaker 1: just told him I loved him, and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll probably visit the next couple of days. But well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, obviously, you know, I'm gonna punt
Speaker 1: that question and talk about that later. Know that some
Speaker 1: of these guys has to be in the back of
Speaker 1: your mind decision, and it's tough. I mean it's tough
Speaker 1: because these guys are going you build relationship with these guys,
Speaker 1: you spent so much time together and and um, you
Speaker 1: know your your roster. Every year, your roster is gonna change.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just the way it is. There's there's
Speaker 1: people are gonna come, people are gonna go, and you know, um,
Speaker 1: obviously we'll we'll talk more about it, you know, in
Speaker 1: the next next few days. But um, when you build
Speaker 1: relationship like that and you know these guys personally, makes
Speaker 1: it that much harder. Well that's the thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: we've we've we've won a Super Bowl with these guys
Speaker 1: and and uh, um, you know, we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: where we go at the end. We can rest. No,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a credit the defense. I mean they
Speaker 1: got after drew, which we had to do. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, the one the one, one statistical thing
Speaker 1: I think was the third down. I think they were
Speaker 1: eight of fifteen on first on third down. That was
Speaker 1: kind of the big statistic that kind of uh stood out,
Speaker 1: you know. And then conversely, I think we were two
Speaker 1: or seven. So that that to me kind of is
Speaker 1: the tail tale right there. We just couldn't get off
Speaker 1: the field enough defensively with fifteen third downs. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a credit to get to fifteen, but then we
Speaker 1: got to get off the field. Um. Conversely, seven for
Speaker 1: third downs is great, but you should at least convert
Speaker 1: four or five of those. Obviously a lot of guys
Speaker 1: down in the game. What was I going to say
Speaker 1: about you made the divisional round? But what was that
Speaker 1: going to say about going forward? Um? Well, and I
Speaker 1: tell you got to have a lot of confidence, uh
Speaker 1: in in in the in the guys and the coaches.
Speaker 1: I mean, to get to this position, to be in
Speaker 1: the divisional round two games away from the super Bowl. Again,
Speaker 1: I mean is is uh, it's it's it's tough in
Speaker 1: this league. It's tough to win games. And even back
Speaker 1: when when a lot of people were you know counting
Speaker 1: us out, you know, in mid season and after the
Speaker 1: Dallas game things like that. Um, it's why you played
Speaker 1: sixteen games, you know, to give yourself a position, you know,
Speaker 1: shot to be in this position. And um, you know
Speaker 1: it's a credit, you know looking forward, Um, you know
Speaker 1: it's a good football team, good football team, and uh
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna learn from this. We'll be better
Speaker 1: for him now. I just think they just played a
Speaker 1: little bit better. They controlled the line of scrimmage a
Speaker 1: little a little better. Um, you know, our run game
Speaker 1: just kind of I don't say disappeared, but it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't very good you know there, and and tried
Speaker 1: to continue to run it, and um it just felt
Speaker 1: like that uh you know, Um they and we had
Speaker 1: some we had some formation issues and some things like
Speaker 1: that to kind of had to burn a couple of
Speaker 1: time outs there. But um, other than that, I think
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, credit them for their effort and
Speaker 1: and uh you know making the place. Thank you