Speaker 1: How do you expect the way the defense collapsed up
Speaker 1: in this game tonight? I mean we lost a football game.
Speaker 1: I mean I think you know the day it's all
Speaker 1: about when this league, it's about winning and losing. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think we made enough plays on defense to
Speaker 1: win the game. Were you surprised with the way Dallas
Speaker 1: was able to run football between the tackles against your
Speaker 1: front seven? I don't think we made a couple of mistakes,
Speaker 1: but I mean we you know, we just gotta get
Speaker 1: a hat on them. Sometimes sometimes went through that scott
Speaker 1: free and uh, I mean that's that's not us. But
Speaker 1: we just gotta get it cleaned up and get a
Speaker 1: shoulder on them, hold them up and you know, way
Speaker 1: to the game, get there to get them on the ground.
Speaker 1: The second half, third down was crucial and they converted
Speaker 1: a lot of third downs on you guys. Now I
Speaker 1: haven't watched the tape, but they did convert a lot
Speaker 1: of third downs, and uh, you know, we just gotta
Speaker 1: be better. And then they are really good on a
Speaker 1: really good third down team when this crushes, when it's
Speaker 1: crunched time, and uh, you know all this today we
Speaker 1: were they made they made they made plays and we didn't.
Speaker 1: How much do you attribute to what happening to a
Speaker 1: lot of guests being injured on this see how much
Speaker 1: do you attributed to that? Let's know what you could
Speaker 1: keep We're all pros. At the end of the day.
Speaker 1: The next guy gotta step up. We're all in the
Speaker 1: same meetings, were all in the same practice, are participating
Speaker 1: everything together so that the next man up. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: be an excuse. You guys talked about how did it
Speaker 1: take care of your division? So what's the message after
Speaker 1: this one? Because you gotta get ready for next week. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this this this law suck and we have sucked lately
Speaker 1: at home. Um we I'm really good at home in
Speaker 1: later weeks. So we got to do something about that
Speaker 1: and get this game behind us and get ready to
Speaker 1: go to all this next week is a real test
Speaker 1: for us. And know what you describe the way the
Speaker 1: defense so it consistent in this game today. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought earlier in the game we got
Speaker 1: a bunch of stops. The biggest part of later game
Speaker 1: we couldn't get the negative plays on first and second down.
Speaker 1: I thought the Cowboys had a really good package on
Speaker 1: third and two and less. So some things are really
Speaker 1: hard to handle, which extended drives m kemp us on
Speaker 1: the field. So yeah, I mean it was just really
Speaker 1: the inability to get um, you know, some negative as
Speaker 1: or get them behind the sticks first and second down.
Speaker 1: Were you surprise they reads? But they slats as they
Speaker 1: did intersecutive Uh no, I mean that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: in their wheelhouse. Easy throws to the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: especially versus press man um, somehow I weren't surprise about it.
Speaker 1: You have to talk so much about taking care of
Speaker 1: your division. So with the message now when you look
Speaker 1: at the big picture, I think they're you not allowed
Speaker 1: to look at the big picture at this point in time.
Speaker 1: It's just taking pride in the work that you do
Speaker 1: every single day working, whether that's your preparation, um, the
Speaker 1: way you practice. That's all we can afford to look
Speaker 1: at at this point. There is no big picture. It's
Speaker 1: just one day at a time, taking pride in your work,
Speaker 1: and then we'll we'll figure out the wrest level. Welcome
Speaker 1: with you. You know, wrongs already coming out and you
Speaker 1: have like three guys everything, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's not like you got time and time to sit
Speaker 1: there and cry about it. I mean, the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you put the next guy in and you
Speaker 1: can play. I thought, you know, sullivant payment and uh play.
Speaker 1: Well he didn't didn't. He wasn't out there wide eyed.
Speaker 1: He knew what we were doing. Um. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just obviously we got a ton of injuries in the secondary.
Speaker 1: But like I said, we don't have time to make excuses.
Speaker 1: We got a job to do. Um, and so we'll
Speaker 1: continue to prepare to get these guys many reps as
Speaker 1: we can. Um. Obviously, we gotta gonna have a challenge
Speaker 1: this week with Drew Brees and the Saints often so UM,
Speaker 1: the emphasis goes on the preparation, two weeks to prepare,
Speaker 1: and we like to win. So any loss is disappointed,
Speaker 1: but uh, none more than anything else than any other loss. UM.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we didn't perform the
Speaker 1: way we wanted to. So well we'll take the same process,
Speaker 1: evaluate it, prepare and go play again. I'm gonna miss tackles.
Speaker 1: Seems you try to be down in time. It seems
Speaker 1: like you're happening obviously that you guys seeing that out
Speaker 1: there too, you feel that I mean you got Ezekie
Speaker 1: Eliot running the ball. It's not the easiest person to
Speaker 1: get on the ground. They make plays too, I think
Speaker 1: later in the game. Uh, you know it probably showed
Speaker 1: up just keeping them behind the sticks. You know, weren't
Speaker 1: getting the tackles for losses or those short games. Someone
Speaker 1: they're falling forward for even if it's four yards, do
Speaker 1: that two times and now one third and one or two.
Speaker 1: And they had, like I said, they had a really
Speaker 1: good package that we were struggling with on third and shorts,
Speaker 1: which is hard for anybody. But we got a running
Speaker 1: quarterback like Dak and Zeke. Obviously it makes it a
Speaker 1: little tough. But um, you know, for for us playing
Speaker 1: a team like that, we knew coming into it we
Speaker 1: had to stop the run, especially early in those those series,
Speaker 1: and um didn't get the mission accomplished. But you'd seen
Speaker 1: this defense already once this year. What did you try
Speaker 1: to stress to the guys here, Bob, how to attack then? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a different system completely, So I
Speaker 1: wasn't really expecting the same coverage is the same style
Speaker 1: of play, and plus it was you know division games,
Speaker 1: so um, you know when we played them last time,
Speaker 1: I felt like we got a lot of man played today.
Speaker 1: We got when I was in there, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of zone. Um. But we we had some beaters
Speaker 1: for everything, but we just you know, we didn't make enough. Place.
Speaker 1: You've only been here a little bit more than a week,
Speaker 1: how much you would playbook? Did you really have ton
Speaker 1: to grass? Um? You know, I I try to study
Speaker 1: at all and just try to learn all the concepts
Speaker 1: the best I can. I still got a little ways
Speaker 1: to go, but um, the coach is doing a good
Speaker 1: job and not over overwhelming me. And I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of putting some some extra work in every day. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, while I'm there, I want to get home
Speaker 1: and it'll come. That's the most frustrating today I did
Speaker 1: go in the red zone and you know, like I've
Speaker 1: been here for I gotta still gotta get a feel
Speaker 1: for things. Um, we just gotta make make a few
Speaker 1: more plays. Um. We made some really good plays tonight,
Speaker 1: but just just not enough that that last play is
Speaker 1: that for you guys? What was that kind of like
Speaker 1: a design? You know whatever? Whoever has the ball flipped
Speaker 1: it back or no, We're just trying to keep it
Speaker 1: alive anyway we could, Um, you know, I probably should
Speaker 1: have flipped it somewhere. Um, go back and watch the film.
Speaker 1: But I just gotta keep the ball a lot um,
Speaker 1: and I didn't. Well did you expect to have maybe
Speaker 1: more of an impact? Um? You know, they designed a
Speaker 1: package for me and I just started the heck out
Speaker 1: of it. And you know, like I said earlier, the
Speaker 1: flows of games are just different. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: to take the flow of games. And you know there
Speaker 1: were some guys other guys that they're making some big
Speaker 1: time plays for us and and moving the ball just
Speaker 1: you know, I just I just did my job. You know,
Speaker 1: I got here and one thing I stresses. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to do my job and you know, fit in however,
Speaker 1: the coaches and the players, you know see that I
Speaker 1: can and just just help us win anywhere anywhere I can,
Speaker 1: dulls do it and get the way against you. The
Speaker 1: other touches had so much success against Super Viaga, but
Speaker 1: anywhere aware of you or uh yeah, I guess. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, just when I played in the first time,
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of man and you know, I
Speaker 1: like every time I was on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of zone. Um, you know, It's
Speaker 1: just it's just how it worked out. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we had some great plays out there, and you know,
Speaker 1: we had some zone beads and man beaters, just we
Speaker 1: didn't make enough place I would puts it to feel comfortable. Backer.
Speaker 1: We haven't done a mucher lager. Yeah, I don't mind it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know again, it's just anytime I can get the
Speaker 1: ball in my hands, I feel like I can do
Speaker 1: something with it. And you know, I didn't get too
Speaker 1: many opportunities, and you know, I had to knock the
Speaker 1: rust off a little bit. But I'm keep working at
Speaker 1: it and keep learning these guys. It's learning the assignments
Speaker 1: and trying to give us the best best chance to
Speaker 1: win I can. It seemed like you didn't take your
Speaker 1: helmet off the entire first half of what you got in.
Speaker 1: How emp are you for this? I was? I was
Speaker 1: pretty pumped. Um. I figured keep me warmer if I
Speaker 1: kept it on. Um, And I'm just kind of trying
Speaker 1: to stay warm. Um. I didn't know, you know, if
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a turnover or you know, wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: punt punt return. So I just trying to stay ready
Speaker 1: to trying to stay warm, which you think about the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: it's nice. Um, it was, the link was rocking. UM.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed, and I wish we would have
Speaker 1: given you know, our fan base a little bit more
Speaker 1: to cheer about. UM. I know how important this game
Speaker 1: I was to to everyone in the city, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just didn't get it done. We talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: taking care of the adition. We still have a chance
Speaker 1: to take care of the position. So how disappointee used
Speaker 1: the performance? You know, coming off the weak arrest and
Speaker 1: does that make it worse? Um, coming off the week arrest.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I mean this is the NFL. You
Speaker 1: if you don't, they get paid too and they're good
Speaker 1: football team. I mean, we didn't play well enough to
Speaker 1: beat them. That's the bottom line. I think sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: people look at it and say, well, you know, we
Speaker 1: went whatever we went last year at thirteen and three
Speaker 1: fourteen two, we're just supposed to roll the ball out there,
Speaker 1: and we don't look at it that way. We knew
Speaker 1: we had to come in here and play well to
Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys, and we didn't play well. Though they
Speaker 1: get paid too or good football team, and we can't
Speaker 1: just play okay and expect to beat a team. Looked
Speaker 1: up the whole field advantage too. It was it was
Speaker 1: such a four year at home for so long. Now
Speaker 1: it's been a while since. Yeah, no doubt. I mean
Speaker 1: that sucks. We gotta fix it. I don't know. We
Speaker 1: all got to do better. Is there anything you can
Speaker 1: point to as to why you guys have been so
Speaker 1: much better in the first half of the seconds to do?
Speaker 1: I have no idea something to look at. It's not
Speaker 1: like guys are getting tired, it's not it's not like
Speaker 1: guys aren't playing hard. It's like, you know, uh, we're
Speaker 1: not physically prepared to play. So I don't know. We
Speaker 1: just got to look at it. Um, it's definitely showing
Speaker 1: up thought the message. Now, what can you We gotta finish.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not out of it by far. We
Speaker 1: want to win a division. The division still wide open.
Speaker 1: A couple of games down to Washington, we still got
Speaker 1: to play them twice. We're not going in the tank
Speaker 1: at all. We're gonna finish. We're gonna finish wrong. But
Speaker 1: this has been like a roller coaster right all season long.
Speaker 1: What happened to the killer instinct that was with this team.
Speaker 1: We still happen. We're just coming up short. You know,
Speaker 1: we lost a couple, you know, four games within fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen points, and then we lost the nights. So I
Speaker 1: mean this little stuff, you know, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: difference between mission and last year. How about here at home.
Speaker 1: We're such a course here at home, and it's been
Speaker 1: a while now. No, I think we didn't drop two
Speaker 1: or three year at home, and I mean last year,
Speaker 1: I don't think we lost one game at home. So
Speaker 1: we just got to clean up all the little things
Speaker 1: and then get back to the Eagle football. You got
Speaker 1: seven games left to play. What do you say these
Speaker 1: guys and a lot too Uh? Finished, finished, man, don't
Speaker 1: go on the tank, don't listen to none of the negativity. Uh,
Speaker 1: just come to work and and let's finish. We got
Speaker 1: the Saints next week, tough opponent. We're gonna be gonna
Speaker 1: be ready for him. For you to be playing through
Speaker 1: everything when you're playing crop and for the team to
Speaker 1: be not doing something, how frustrating is that hadn't a
Speaker 1: sudden sideline and watched way look at the last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, it ain't. It ain't nothing to me. I'm
Speaker 1: going out there and battling, whether we won one win,
Speaker 1: eight wins, ten wins. I'm I'm I'm suiting up and
Speaker 1: I'm playing every every week, and I'm gonna give out all.
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of Lane Johnson's appoence hurt tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you got a guy like Lane all
Speaker 1: pro that's not in the lineup, you know, it definitely hurts.
Speaker 1: But we next man up by Ty and I mean
Speaker 1: I think he did well tonight against Lawrence and we
Speaker 1: just came up short to night. When you say that
Speaker 1: that you'll be out, you know, no matter what, no
Speaker 1: matter what the record is, White, why is that for you?
Speaker 1: And you know you can even such an amazing career wise,
Speaker 1: it's a poor people until those of the other A
Speaker 1: little championships at this point, that's that's all. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of championships. Get to the postseason and win championships.
Speaker 1: With the secondary play role at all in this game,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's an excuse. We've we've got guys
Speaker 1: who are more than capable that we have a lot
Speaker 1: of trust him. Um, you know, guys that have played
Speaker 1: a lot of football, so um, you know, again, it's
Speaker 1: all execution. It's all us. You know, we gotta put
Speaker 1: that the defense is really well in the first half,
Speaker 1: typically the offense is live well in the second half.
Speaker 1: Why why have you guys failed up on that in
Speaker 1: the hand. It's tough. It's tough, you know, we're talking
Speaker 1: about that. It's if we can put it together. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, go up and get a big lead on
Speaker 1: on teams earlier, make things a lot easier. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: if we just offense, defense, special teams could all put
Speaker 1: it together at one time and made help a lot.
Speaker 1: For some reason, you know, it's just not happening. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to find a way to make it happen,
Speaker 1: to find a way that to uh, you know, to
Speaker 1: get everything clear. It's kind of a way to work.
Speaker 1: Last year we were getting early amazing of course, and
Speaker 1: teams to change your game. Yeah, it's not happening. Yeah
Speaker 1: so far so uh, you know, we'll get back in
Speaker 1: the lab and um check out the field. Take it
Speaker 1: one practice at the time, one game at a time. Um,
Speaker 1: really good upon it. You know next week, so um,
Speaker 1: I gotta bounce back. How a daunting is that? Daunting? No? No,
Speaker 1: none of that. Just again, one game at a time.
Speaker 1: We got a really good football team. Man, we just
Speaker 1: gotta put it together. You gotta execute. Got a team.
Speaker 1: Why the turnover has been so scared? So what do
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, it's goodness, gracious, I don't you know.
Speaker 1: It's tough stuff. You know, a lot of times you
Speaker 1: get opportunities. I feel like we have one opportunity this
Speaker 1: game with Comma with gotta freaking big old thing on
Speaker 1: his hands. You know, it's tough on him. Um stuff, Man,
Speaker 1: we've got to find a way to get the ball
Speaker 1: back our offense, you know, and whatever it is. But
Speaker 1: us quarterback quarterback may not give us an opportunity. You
Speaker 1: got to get after that ball and put on runners hands.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta go after and we haven't. We
Speaker 1: haven't done that well enus yet. And then they they
Speaker 1: played their stuff, Um, first half, they execute it a
Speaker 1: lot better than us. We couldn't find rhythm in the
Speaker 1: first half. UM kind of got to the red zoner
Speaker 1: of the first half and score touchdowns. So it's tough.
Speaker 1: M down thirteen or three a half time. UM put
Speaker 1: our defense in a hole, and our defense is meant
Speaker 1: to play with the lead. Unfortunately we haven't gotten them
Speaker 1: the lead very often a couple of games. But other
Speaker 1: than that, we're just not playing as well for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes as we'd like to. On offense, are the opening
Speaker 1: are the opening which least? I mean, that's a trend.
Speaker 1: Any any idea what's going on? Um? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we could fix it, if I knew
Speaker 1: the exact reason, I believe we would get it fixed
Speaker 1: by now. Um, we got too many weapons to mass
Speaker 1: score touchdowns in the first quarter. Um, we just gotta
Speaker 1: start fast. I mean, it's not like we're going into
Speaker 1: a game and they hadn't surprised by what the defense
Speaker 1: is doing. They're doing what they do. Um, they're not
Speaker 1: really doing anything out of the ordinary. When we play teams,
Speaker 1: I feel like we have a great scout. Um, like
Speaker 1: I going into the game, we're very confident with what
Speaker 1: we have called what the play is going. Then the
Speaker 1: second half typically we get rolling. After the first score,
Speaker 1: we get rolling. Um. And so he's got a fine
Speaker 1: solution because we've got a really big game this week.
Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it. All This early
Speaker 1: plays scripted. Yeah, I mean, so you've been scripted for
Speaker 1: the first sixteen for years now. Yeah, so the so
Speaker 1: the players are scripted. You guys are practicing all during
Speaker 1: the week, and just seems, um is the reason why
Speaker 1: they're not not effective. And it seems and the other
Speaker 1: thing I'm wanting to ask too, is it, do you
Speaker 1: feel like they're you guys are being aggressive enough early
Speaker 1: on this on this first drives. I mean I think, um,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we have plays to be really aggressive,
Speaker 1: especially this game. Um. First play the game, I don't
Speaker 1: do get enough job stopping to Marcus Lawrence, and he
Speaker 1: kind of Um, he's the sole reason the play wasn't
Speaker 1: as successful. Um, So it just falls on the players
Speaker 1: to go out there and execute later. UMU having but
Speaker 1: having you blocked to Marcus Lawrence isn't probably a fair
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean it's a play action. UM.
Speaker 1: I've blocked that block a thousand times. Obviously, he's a
Speaker 1: very special player, best player on that defense. UM. But
Speaker 1: I put a lot of pride in my blocking. It's
Speaker 1: not something that I just take for granted. UM. I
Speaker 1: think the coaches trust me. I've been doing it for
Speaker 1: years now. We ran that same play against some really
Speaker 1: good players in Jacksonville, and I stown him every time.
Speaker 1: Last week, So I just gotta be better, UM and start.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking in the mirror trying to be better.
Speaker 1: Doing the last play in the game. Sure that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we ran a kind of all end zone play. UM.
Speaker 1: Caught the ball I don't even like at the ten
Speaker 1: yard line. I think, try to saw Golden. Tate knew
Speaker 1: that we had a limited time on the clock, so
Speaker 1: I just try to make a play. UM, try to
Speaker 1: get the ball in Golden's hands. I guess uscal with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. UM. Looking back on it, Um, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact rules of what I would
Speaker 1: have done differently, UM, but I wish we ended up
Speaker 1: in a touchdown.