Speaker 1: And even though he's.
Speaker 2: You don't need to say no, I mean, come on now, Like,
Speaker 2: the thing is is the quarterback is always going to
Speaker 2: receive the blend, like the the brunt of the the criticism.
Speaker 1: But Brock is like the least of my worries. Brock
Speaker 1: is made of the right stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can he protect the ball better, sure, but he's
Speaker 2: the reason why we have a chance to win games
Speaker 2: and every single game that we're in, like right now,
Speaker 2: I can't like the The common denominator right now is
Speaker 2: that I haven't been able to say in the in
Speaker 2: the last three losses that man, the defense had our
Speaker 2: best outing.
Speaker 1: We just happened to lose. We're not playing good football.
Speaker 2: On our side, and that's the reason why we haven't
Speaker 2: won the last three games. And that's got to get
Speaker 2: figured out, and it will get figured out. The Bible
Speaker 2: would be great for us. You know, people wanna say,
Speaker 2: oh man, it sucks like we can't just get the
Speaker 2: taste out of our mouth after a quick turn around,
Speaker 2: Like we had that opportunity this week and we didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't get it right.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna look at it as you know, a
Speaker 2: good reset to be able to go into the buy
Speaker 2: and figure this thing out and get back to playing
Speaker 2: forty nine or defense, because right now we're not.
Speaker 1: What you just said about the defense is the most
Speaker 1: of your worries right now. What specifically are the things
Speaker 1: that are going wrong with uh?
Speaker 2: Just inconsistency across the board. Uh, I think tackling has
Speaker 2: been an issue when it hasn't been in the past.
Speaker 2: You know, players have got to execute at a higher level,
Speaker 2: including myself. We gotta play more as a unit. There's
Speaker 2: gotta be more hunt to the football at all three levels.
Speaker 2: There's gotta be more penalty free football. Like I said,
Speaker 2: execution gotta be higher. We think that we're we're preparing hard.
Speaker 2: We think that we're putting a lot of work in.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're not doing enough. You know, there's gotta be more.
Speaker 2: There's gotta be more there. You know, it's just what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Seen character your defense. What do you see from the
Speaker 1: past coverage or the past defense and change out? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, we uh, we we were gonna keep a simple
Speaker 2: as game and and rely on our execution to uh,
Speaker 2: you know, play play our coverage and with our.
Speaker 1: Uh with our rush. And it just wasn't enough today.
Speaker 2: Uh, playing complimentary football, and uh, I have to look
Speaker 2: at the tape to see exactly where we where we
Speaker 2: were wrong in that in that face.
Speaker 1: Defensively, how damaging do you think that that verse third
Speaker 1: down was? Uh? What were you have? Two defensive line?
Speaker 1: I missed that sack and rolls out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I we gotta be we gotta be
Speaker 2: better on third and long, Like that's gotta be automatic
Speaker 2: off the field, you know, when we get 'em backed
Speaker 2: up in a third and long situation.
Speaker 1: I think back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: We had one last week where it was about a
Speaker 2: third and twelve and we gave up a checkdown for
Speaker 2: a first down in the in the beginning of the game.
Speaker 1: Same thing this game.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, Like that's not
Speaker 2: back breaking, Like I think we gotta we gotta be
Speaker 2: better at bouncing back, you know, off of adversity, Like
Speaker 2: who cares if they get a first down you know,
Speaker 2: backed up in that situation early in the game, Like,
Speaker 2: but how are we gonna respond?
Speaker 1: You know? Like it is what it.
Speaker 2: Is this last week. That's something that's game rights still
Speaker 2: Like me, I mean, we haven't shown that we can
Speaker 2: play from behind and come back and win a football game.
Speaker 1: So that's something that we gotta address in and get
Speaker 1: better at.
Speaker 2: Uh. We can't just be a team that can only
Speaker 2: win when we're up, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: that's why I'm sure that something will look.
Speaker 1: At really over confident after we think that was part
Speaker 1: thirty two, not at all, I don't think so. I think.
Speaker 2: I think after we won that game and we're going
Speaker 2: into the Browns, I mean, I think every single week,
Speaker 2: the mindset is just to go one and know, like
Speaker 2: give ya all to like just just win one game,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's like to say that them.
Speaker 2: The mindset shifted after that after going starting five and no,
Speaker 2: I don't thinks.
Speaker 1: I I really don't think so it just isn't enough.
Speaker 2: And the easy thing right now to do is to
Speaker 2: is to say, you know, I'm s it's to tuck
Speaker 2: away somewhere. S. Stuff is hard, you're down three to zero,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of hide in the corner. But I promise,
Speaker 2: like that's that's not the type of guys that we got.
Speaker 2: That's not who I am. I know, I'm gonna stand tall,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to rally the team I'm gonna continue
Speaker 2: to show up and put the most work.
Speaker 1: In I can. And words are great. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not.
Speaker 2: Trying to sit here and just give you a speech,
Speaker 2: but like I'm actions obviously gotta lead first. So uh
Speaker 2: that's just what what we're gonna do. So he's got
Speaker 2: some prism Steve Wilkes, you know, you know, you know
Speaker 2: he's the coach's that's kind of that's the likely lead.
Speaker 1: But what do you think about the way he's coordinated.
Speaker 1: He said that he's kind of learning the defense. He's
Speaker 1: think there's an adjustment period's still going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the least my words. Honestly, I think
Speaker 2: players win games, not coaches. I think uh, I think
Speaker 2: he's done a great job. I think right now. The
Speaker 2: the issue is, I mean there's there's gonna be ebbs
Speaker 2: and flows in the season, especially with a new defense coordinator.
Speaker 2: I think the offensive side is has gone through that
Speaker 2: as well when we lost mc daniel.
Speaker 1: You know, like even though Kyle is a play caller.
Speaker 2: Like when you lose a coach, there's gonna be adjustments
Speaker 2: being made throughout the season. So we gotta continue to
Speaker 2: work on that. But At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: players are gonna be the reason why that we win games.
Speaker 2: We gotta execute at a higher level. Uh, player wise,
Speaker 2: attack this year.
Speaker 1: Had been much year at all. Since you get here,
Speaker 1: what can you put your finger on miss your west
Speaker 1: for me? Uh nothing, I'd really put my finger on.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna make excuses for while we're
Speaker 1: missing tackles. You gotta gotta tackle betterers of the defense?
Speaker 1: What what and you say? What did you say to
Speaker 1: your defensive teammates?
Speaker 2: And today I said to the defense and to the
Speaker 2: entire team, it was I mean, this is it? Like
Speaker 2: we didn't have a a game after this after like
Speaker 2: this was our season right here? For there's one game,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, obviously knowing that we had
Speaker 2: a boy going into the next week, just just emptying
Speaker 2: the tank, uh for one game, and uh it obviously
Speaker 2: wasn't enough, right, I got