Speaker 1: Do think held them to make one hundred and six
Speaker 1: yards total offense before those final pre possessions. What happened, well, um,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it just, uh, you know, we didn't make
Speaker 1: enough plays offensively defensively in the second half. You know,
Speaker 1: we we had opportunities to get off the field defensively,
Speaker 1: we didn't. We had opportunities to stay on the field
Speaker 1: offensively and we didn't. And so you know, it's something
Speaker 1: we just gotta take a look at. Um, we gotta
Speaker 1: get you know, there there were some positive things obviously,
Speaker 1: but but those are areas that have have heard us
Speaker 1: in a couple of games you know this season already.
Speaker 1: They just made more plays. Nothing changed, the same guys,
Speaker 1: the same same people out there. They just made more
Speaker 1: plays than we did. So really sychematically, nothing changed. Um uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just we just didn't make enough in the
Speaker 1: second half of this game. Once you get down there
Speaker 1: in the final possession, inherence you play, we'll go for
Speaker 1: about eight yards. Can you take us through the food
Speaker 1: process there on the play? Hold what are you trying
Speaker 1: to do there? Or you just get in the end zone,
Speaker 1: get the first down? What's we had to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone? You know, to win the game. Um.
Speaker 1: And and our thought there was, you know, give give
Speaker 1: Carson a pass and audible to you know, give them
Speaker 1: a run so if they play a certain defense, we
Speaker 1: could get to the run. And we were able to
Speaker 1: do that and we got positive yards and then get
Speaker 1: right back on the ball and go go tempo a
Speaker 1: little bit right there, and and uh and try to
Speaker 1: get the first down. Still had timeouts, you know, so
Speaker 1: we still had a lot of options available to us,
Speaker 1: um with the amount of time and timeouts in the
Speaker 1: in the game, so trying to get the first down
Speaker 1: but ultimately trying to get in the end zone on
Speaker 1: the fourth and ten diversion they had to do soon. Um,
Speaker 1: I felt like that. I believe it was Jalen at
Speaker 1: the time, may have may have slipped, may have fell down,
Speaker 1: and just Tory was was standing right there. Why we
Speaker 1: were real close of getting to get the cam and
Speaker 1: getting them on the ground at the time, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we were we were just a step behind
Speaker 1: at seventeen. Offensively, there's muttered, Um, we didn't we didn't execute,
Speaker 1: you know, we uh just just just broke down, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we can't have that and those are things
Speaker 1: that uh, our guys pride themselves on, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's you know, I look at the I'll go back
Speaker 1: and look at you know, the couple of calls play
Speaker 1: calls there. See if I can do a little better there,
Speaker 1: help our team out there. And um, we had an
Speaker 1: opportunity on the third down al Sean, uh twenty four
Speaker 1: you know Brad Burry for them, came back and really recovered.
Speaker 1: Well al Sean was wide open and twenty four just
Speaker 1: came back and just got a hand in there late
Speaker 1: and knocked the ball the way or otherwise. We're on
Speaker 1: the field at that point too. What was the message
Speaker 1: to the team after the class like us, Well, the
Speaker 1: message is that uh um, you know quite frankly, and
Speaker 1: I told him, I says, you know, we we have
Speaker 1: to learn from these These are these are things, These
Speaker 1: are these are games that the galvanized football teams and
Speaker 1: and this is gonna do that, this is gonna bring
Speaker 1: us even closer together. Um basically told them that, hey, um,
Speaker 1: pressures off of us. Nobody on the outside world's given
Speaker 1: us a chance to do much of anything, and pressures
Speaker 1: off so we can go play, have fun and just
Speaker 1: relax and and and a lot of football ahead too.
Speaker 1: You know, we still have m a bunch of games
Speaker 1: and still anything's possible, anything can happen, and you know,
Speaker 1: we still treat it as one week at a time.
Speaker 1: You guys, most the game earlier this season where you
Speaker 1: were a head seventeen and three in a second year,
Speaker 1: what did you not learn from that one? I mean
Speaker 1: it's that where's there some kind of connective thread there
Speaker 1: between what happened in Nashville's that's happened here? Well, um,
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen, fourth and ten, we've got to go
Speaker 1: look at those two plays and that's probably the answer.
Speaker 1: So we've got to, you know, as as players and coaches,
Speaker 1: make sure that that we're putting our guys in position.
Speaker 1: And then secondly, we got to execute the play flat out.
Speaker 1: This This is a player's game, right, Players have to
Speaker 1: make plays and and uh um, you know we try
Speaker 1: to as coaches, we put them in possession to be
Speaker 1: successful and and uh so we got to evaluate that
Speaker 1: and and just coach better and play better. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going to wait you close on games. Something you're looking
Speaker 1: you'll be looking at you working on saying this week
Speaker 1: put it right in the seat well, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna be working on a lot of things. Um, but
Speaker 1: that's one album. You know, we talk about finishing all
Speaker 1: the time, and it just doesn't mean, you know, the
Speaker 1: first half of games, we gotta finish the second half two.
Speaker 1: You are making an adjustment. You're not adjusting to No. No,
Speaker 1: I mean Carolina, Um, you know, just just get stuck
Speaker 1: to their game plan. Um, you know nothing we didn't
Speaker 1: expect um. So no, wait, cars Um, well I thought overall,
Speaker 1: you know, um, pretty good. I think his numbers were decent.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the the actual stat deal, but
Speaker 1: you know, bottom line as we lost and and so
Speaker 1: it's not a not an individual sport. He's part of
Speaker 1: it obviously, and uh did some good things and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll we got to take a look at the whole
Speaker 1: the whole pie, right now. What do you mean by
Speaker 1: well number one? I think I think sald you know,
Speaker 1: no one has really given us a chance anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: whether we're putting pressure on ourselves to perform, um, you know,
Speaker 1: to play whatever it is, you know, live up to
Speaker 1: a certain expectation. I think I think that you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's that point where where you know, I
Speaker 1: think that that no one has given us that type
Speaker 1: of you know, maybe with the amount of injuries or
Speaker 1: whatever it whatever, it is giving us much credit, you know,
Speaker 1: going into games, and and I think sometimes we we
Speaker 1: we we force issues, you know, we h we try
Speaker 1: to press just a little bit instead of just you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to go searching for plays. We just
Speaker 1: when the plays come, we just made. Let's just make
Speaker 1: the plays they come to us. And and right now
Speaker 1: we're not doing that. So I think that, Uh, I
Speaker 1: think that's the pressure that's that's off of us, and
Speaker 1: we just we just have to get back to playing
Speaker 1: and executing better. Are you saying that the players are
Speaker 1: feeling pressured to live up to what you guys accomplished
Speaker 1: last year. No, I don't think so. I just think
Speaker 1: that each week, and this is something I've talked about
Speaker 1: all season, is is when we talk about embracing something,
Speaker 1: it's a choice. And we know that we get everybody's
Speaker 1: best every week. And and uh, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: good football team. You know, Carolina is a playoff caliber team.
Speaker 1: They were in the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's a good football team. And and we know that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we don't use um, we don't use injury,
Speaker 1: We don't use whatever it might be as an excuse
Speaker 1: not to not to perform and and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think plays coaches just put just put added
Speaker 1: pressure when they don't have to, you know. And and
Speaker 1: that's something that we've got to We've got to you know,
Speaker 1: starts with me there and just making sure that we're
Speaker 1: doing everything even during the week, getting ourselves in positions
Speaker 1: to win games. There's still the defending circle champs. I mean,
Speaker 1: that doesn't change. But at three and four, do you
Speaker 1: really think that pressure is off you guys? Now, it
Speaker 1: won't be. But but it doesn't have to come from us.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't have to come you know, there's
Speaker 1: enough pressure just the game itself brings its own sort
Speaker 1: of pressure. We don't have to go force anything. We
Speaker 1: don't have to go um, you know, go like I said, Earl,
Speaker 1: they don't have to go looking for plays. Let the
Speaker 1: plays come to you and then make them when they
Speaker 1: come and and and that's where we're at. So there's
Speaker 1: a play caller real quick. Uh. When you see the
Speaker 1: momentum ship like it did drastically, are you are you
Speaker 1: aware of that. You mentioned it's a players game. What
Speaker 1: do you feel the need to kind of fuel things
Speaker 1: when you see the momentium change. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: feel it and you sense it. I don't think didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to get you out of your rhythm offensively,
Speaker 1: because I thought we were doing some good things, you know,
Speaker 1: even in the run game, RPOs, play Action Pass, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the things that we were able to take
Speaker 1: advantage of. But um, but yeah, no, I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like I had to get ultra aggressive or anything like that,
Speaker 1: just because the tide was sort of changing just a
Speaker 1: little bit there in a second, all right,