Speaker 1: Defense. That's a good defense, good team. They play hard,
Speaker 1: and we just couldn't stay on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: we couldn't stay on the field. And then uh yeah,
Speaker 1: we just couldn't established long drives and put things together
Speaker 1: and just didn't execute. On the second and goal from
Speaker 1: at thede eleven, it looked like, tell me if it's right,
Speaker 1: did you check to a run there where the small
Speaker 1: even If so, what did you see on that play?
Speaker 1: It was it was already a run play down the
Speaker 1: next play after that, you drew to Arst on this
Speaker 1: on a slant. It looked like what was your decision
Speaker 1: making behind that? Yeah, they were just playing super soft coverage.
Speaker 1: You know. I was just trying to get it to
Speaker 1: him underneath so he could hopefully get in, get in
Speaker 1: from in the middle there, because they just went shelt
Speaker 1: coverage and got wide. So when we just didn't hit,
Speaker 1: it was a where you went the opening kickoff was reversed,
Speaker 1: went back to the councoys. Yeah, honestly, I'm not I
Speaker 1: never even saw it, so I just I just know
Speaker 1: that that we all went on the field assuming it
Speaker 1: was that way, and um, yeah, I got no opinion
Speaker 1: on that though. How frustrating. Is it getting that? It
Speaker 1: seems like every week we said here and ask you
Speaker 1: about the slow starts, and we're here with thirteen or four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's frustrating. I mean it's absolutely frustrating. And with the
Speaker 1: talent that we feel we have on the offense side
Speaker 1: of the ball, and um, just couldn't execute, couldn't sustain
Speaker 1: drives and came up short here and there, and um,
Speaker 1: yeah we got a doubt. That's frustrating. Which really flipped
Speaker 1: and you know down the stretch in the fourth quarter there,
Speaker 1: what was the key? Hard to say? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we just started playing our our football, you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of went back to the basics a little
Speaker 1: bit and just gave our guys, um, you know, they
Speaker 1: were playing a lot of one on one on the
Speaker 1: outside and just gave you know, Nelson and uh Aj
Speaker 1: some opportunities there and they were able to make some
Speaker 1: big place. We went some more dual persnow down the
Speaker 1: stretch and Dallas became a factor allowed that. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, Dallas is a great player. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a great player. Tough matchup, um as far as
Speaker 1: being covered and everything. So, UM, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's just kind in response to how Dallas was playing
Speaker 1: us defensively. Um to get Dallas and Hurts on the
Speaker 1: same on the field together, Um, I and we tried
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it a little bit. How do
Speaker 1: you explain kind of where the teammates at this point?
Speaker 1: Say that again, you knew the stakes of this game, obviously,
Speaker 1: how do you explain where the teammates at this point
Speaker 1: or I guess rationalized where the teams Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we're not gonna you know, get anything, do anything crazy.
Speaker 1: You know, as far as you know where we're at,
Speaker 1: you know we um, we will never quit, you know,
Speaker 1: I know that will never quit. And um, you know
Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep competing our tails off and preparing
Speaker 1: our tails off and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1: There was a strip sac at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half. What happened on that part? Uh, it's strip sac.
Speaker 1: You know. I was trying to get it out and
Speaker 1: I didn't just feel more here or I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was behind me. I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: hard and stuff, but ideally I could get that ball
Speaker 1: out earlier, hopefully. And there was a lot of frustrating
Speaker 1: moments in this game, and how much of it impact
Speaker 1: you think the rest had from that opening kickoff to
Speaker 1: even if they got her teaching coming back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: never want to sit and question the rest. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have a hard job to do, and uh, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't ever really see the calls. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't really see them on the JumboTron from where we're at,
Speaker 1: So I don't really I'm not gonna stand up here
Speaker 1: in question um what they did and how they affected
Speaker 1: the game at all, like a stunned silence and a
Speaker 1: lot of them a game your perspective, what were you
Speaker 1: guys feeling? Yeah, I mean that's a tough loss. It's
Speaker 1: tough loss. I mean again, we kind of knew the
Speaker 1: stakes of this game, and uh, you know we were
Speaker 1: able to uh stay in it. You know, we were
Speaker 1: able to stay in it, and you know, we were
Speaker 1: we were struggling there for a while and then we
Speaker 1: battled back and we were extremely resilient and we just
Speaker 1: came up short, you know, and that's uh, that's never fun.
Speaker 1: It's never fun. And then to lose on on that
Speaker 1: play the way it happened, um, where Ursul made a
Speaker 1: great play and it just you know, bounced their way
Speaker 1: and um yeah, just kind of you could say stunned
Speaker 1: a little bit, but just frustrating for sure. Is part
Speaker 1: of the journey may be open for you guys this season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't look at that at all, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean everyone, Um, like I said earlier, we're gonna
Speaker 1: just keep competing and keep preparing, um, and not really
Speaker 1: look at any of that outside stuff and just keep
Speaker 1: doing what we do and you know, try and get
Speaker 1: on a role here. And like I said, let the
Speaker 1: ships fall where they may. Did you want to go
Speaker 1: for them two? Um? Yeah, that's coaches call. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a coach's call. And um with him one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And you know it's always you could always argue it's
Speaker 1: easy in hindsight to to look at that, but um,
Speaker 1: we made the decision and went over time and just
Speaker 1: didn't get it done. That said after after you guys
Speaker 1: didn't go for two, and you do get to touch
Speaker 1: the ball again. So let's go through your mind as
Speaker 1: you watch the rest of the game. Wan pulled the
Speaker 1: helpless feeling. You know, it's helpless feeling. You know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in the defense they were
Speaker 1: making place today. Um, and then you know, we just
Speaker 1: didn't you know, like I said, it's help was feeling
Speaker 1: not not going back out on that field. But you know,
Speaker 1: we just didn't do an early offensively and that cost
Speaker 1: us as much talent as you guys have. And then
Speaker 1: you ain't kind of mentioned it there with slow starts.
Speaker 1: But are you surprised you guys are sitting where you're
Speaker 1: sitting with three games to go with what you guys
Speaker 1: did last year and having so many pieces that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're absolutely surprised where we're at. You know,
Speaker 1: we never envisioned ourselves. We never kind of pencil ourselves
Speaker 1: into be a losing record at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: We hold ourselves to high standards and high expectations, and yeah,
Speaker 1: this is extremely frustrating where we're sitting right now, after
Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdowns called back? What are you saying there?
Speaker 1: What are you doing in that moment? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: and first of all, everyone was tired because everyone just
Speaker 1: ran all the way down there and had to come back.
Speaker 1: But you know, I just said, hey, keep a leaving,
Speaker 1: keep a leaving, and then let's let's go get this done.
Speaker 1: And we did. You know, we went down and scored
Speaker 1: there at the end. But again it was just too little,
Speaker 1: too late. It's sort of arbitrary for a coin toss
Speaker 1: to have such a big impact on the game. But
Speaker 1: did you But why did you choose what you chose?
Speaker 1: Did you consider? Yeah, I didn't make the call. I
Speaker 1: didn't make the call. And you know that's just over time,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just the way it happened today. And um, again,
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. You look back at this team previous twelve.
Speaker 1: Is the overriding theme that you guys have not been
Speaker 1: able to get a rhythm game. I mean you could
Speaker 1: say that a little bit. You know, we we obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: everyone's seeing what we put out there, you know, and
Speaker 1: and getting in rhythm and starting slow has unfortunately been
Speaker 1: a common theme for us, and that's something we got
Speaker 1: to look hard at. And um, again, we believe we
Speaker 1: have the guys to start fast and just stay on it. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, it's it's tough, and you could say there's
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a theme there that's that's frustrating
Speaker 1: for sure. That's a follow up to that. As you
Speaker 1: fly back tonight, what's gonna bother you the most, the
Speaker 1: fact that we lost, I mean, first and foremost fact
Speaker 1: that we lost. You know, there's there's handful of plays
Speaker 1: that you know, I think everybody wants back. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the tape and um be
Speaker 1: critical of myself and everything. But it's hard to say
Speaker 1: one specific thing other than that we we just didn't
Speaker 1: get it done. Thanks Gad,