Speaker 1: Carson of Corson, You've had the ball in your hand
Speaker 1: now late in the game to either tire go ahead
Speaker 1: several times and you guys just haven't kind of gotten
Speaker 1: over the top there or were some of the problems
Speaker 1: down the stretch through. Yeah, we just didn't execute an execute.
Speaker 1: I mean it came out second half, Um, I thought
Speaker 1: we were moving the ball well. Um, slow start really
Speaker 1: really hurt us. Looking back, Um, first half, putting out
Speaker 1: three points, the turnover I had, you know, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: UM gonna make it tough to win in games like
Speaker 1: this where uh, they're they're big kind of ball control
Speaker 1: team and your drives are really limited and so every
Speaker 1: drive is really important. And we started off slow and
Speaker 1: that really hurt us. And at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: we just didn't get it done starting slow. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure thirty two, fourth and seven there in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of what went wrong? Execution I mean at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, execution screenplay, we just missed it.
Speaker 1: Um the play at our Uh you know, we we
Speaker 1: dial it up and it's right at the sticks and
Speaker 1: came up short it. Carson and had obviously had a
Speaker 1: lot of success this year. I think you're charged sixteen
Speaker 1: times today he is they're good and bad to that
Speaker 1: you want to food the ball to different people a
Speaker 1: little bit, Yeah, I mean it's always great, um, when
Speaker 1: you can spread the ball around to everybody. Um, tonight
Speaker 1: it just so happened to be, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of chances with zach Um with the way they were
Speaker 1: playing coverages and the way they played their techniques, and um,
Speaker 1: it was Zac had a great game, you know. So. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times we threw to him
Speaker 1: or how many completions the ab but I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was a lot. Um. And so to have that chemistry
Speaker 1: with him, with the way they were playing him, that's
Speaker 1: just just the way it worked out tonight. And that
Speaker 1: going back to that fourth and six or seven or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, to Earth's Um, why did that Why
Speaker 1: did that play you know fall short of the sticks
Speaker 1: on them? Yeah, I mean we knew it was gonna
Speaker 1: be close. Um. It was his type man coverage, so, um,
Speaker 1: we knew it was gonna be right at the stick.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day we came up short.
Speaker 1: The one opportunity to all shone down the right sideline.
Speaker 1: Would you have to see on that plane which one
Speaker 1: you're talking about? U. It was al Shon deep on
Speaker 1: the right and then earlier in the second quartering good Yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, I gotta get more more behind that throw. Um,
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite finish it, you know, I couldn't quite
Speaker 1: see what how it ended up the end result was.
Speaker 1: But no, I didn't get quite enough on the throw
Speaker 1: to attempt to al shut in the end zone. Did
Speaker 1: you expect him to go a little further on that
Speaker 1: or what happened on that in completion? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: the way they were playing coverage, we talked about it
Speaker 1: all week and then they the way they reacted on
Speaker 1: the field was a little differently. And um, that's one
Speaker 1: that we're kicking ourselves. We want to have back and
Speaker 1: just missed it. Slow starts, I'll eat it. I think
Speaker 1: you guys have three touchdowns in nine games in the
Speaker 1: first quarter at the two in the same game. You
Speaker 1: think it's an issue? Do you think it's something that
Speaker 1: you need to resolve? Is it's just a flukey thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel differ for early in games?
Speaker 1: I know I personally don't feel different. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: some people can say you want to settle in all
Speaker 1: those things. I don't feel that way. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought that was something I don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about last year. But that's something that we did really
Speaker 1: well last year. And it's really hard to put your
Speaker 1: finger on why, um it is the way it is
Speaker 1: this year. A lot of it's just little execution things
Speaker 1: that are a big deal. Um. And so I mean,
Speaker 1: we got to go back and look and see what
Speaker 1: our teams doing to us early in the game. Why
Speaker 1: are we having these slow starts? And really, you know,
Speaker 1: look hard in the mirror, because I think tonight that's
Speaker 1: what costs us. Mentioned sounds like the scripted plays that
Speaker 1: the other team is all over them every week, you know,
Speaker 1: one yard passes and picks and things like that. It's
Speaker 1: like they know what's coming those. What was the question
Speaker 1: to the layman on the slow starts. It looks like
Speaker 1: the scripted plays are just being run right into the
Speaker 1: teeth of the defense. So if you know, it's good
Speaker 1: good observation. I mentioned you said look at yourselves in
Speaker 1: the mirror. Duck said that was his message to the
Speaker 1: team afterwards. You have make sure that you're doing everything
Speaker 1: you can to prepare. What do you as someone who
Speaker 1: has the Polstal locker room. What do you what are
Speaker 1: you sensing that? I mean, I know this one hurt.
Speaker 1: You know this one hurt obviously. UM, Sunday night Football
Speaker 1: Division One opponent, the Cowboys coming into our home. Um. Really,
Speaker 1: the way we've played the last couple of times at home,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not what we pride ourselves on. And
Speaker 1: this one hurts. So I know, UM, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of veterans in there, a lot of leadership and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, like coach said, UM, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep echoing the same thing. We all got
Speaker 1: to look in the mirror. What can we do differently?
Speaker 1: Where can we be better? Um? And we realized a
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna want to write us off
Speaker 1: at this point, and UM, now it's just time to
Speaker 1: play ball and then try and go shock some people.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you to follow up on that?
Speaker 1: That's been the message before from from me? What makes
Speaker 1: you think these next seven teams are going to be
Speaker 1: any different? Yeah, I mean, like you said, that's been
Speaker 1: the message before. UM. Some extent, I feel like this
Speaker 1: press conference has been a broken record almost. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been here a couple of times and we know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, every one of these
Speaker 1: games is closed and this is the National Football League
Speaker 1: gets hard to win. Um, and we've letting, we've let
Speaker 1: a handful get away from us now that we're really
Speaker 1: just kicking ourselves. And um, like you said, I mean
Speaker 1: we've said it before. So it's really just are are
Speaker 1: we gonna step up? Are we gonna make good corrections?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna come out faster each week? Um? And
Speaker 1: you know, I believe we have the guys to do that.
Speaker 1: Designed shorter passes, screens had not been as successful as
Speaker 1: they were last year. Is that do you see that?
Speaker 1: Is that a theme that's been running through the course
Speaker 1: of the year to say, honestly, Um, after to night,
Speaker 1: I'll have to go watch the film just thinking back
Speaker 1: on some I know we had a couple of screens
Speaker 1: that were right there. Um, even that third and two
Speaker 1: late in the game, we had it right there. We
Speaker 1: just the one guy you know, knife through and made
Speaker 1: the play. And um, you know, they're the same stuff
Speaker 1: that we hit last week or two weeks go ast
Speaker 1: Jacksonville for the thirty five year touchdown or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And so those are just little things that we're just
Speaker 1: missing by this much. That make a big difference. You
Speaker 1: look like Golden kind of had a fairly limited package
Speaker 1: of plays. Is that tough at all? You're trying to
Speaker 1: work a guy into the offense. I mean, anytime you're
Speaker 1: trying to work a guy in the middle of season,
Speaker 1: it's tough. You know, he's done a great job picking
Speaker 1: things out from the second he got here. He's putting
Speaker 1: in a lot of time at the facility, you know,
Speaker 1: meeting with coaches, asking questions. And I feel confident in
Speaker 1: him wherever we put him in, whatever we asked him
Speaker 1: to do. Hard to say. Could we have used him
Speaker 1: differently tonight? Hard to say. But I'm really confident in
Speaker 1: him as a player and as a teammate going forward here,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he'll get more and more involved as
Speaker 1: we go. Of course, this may seem like an unfair
Speaker 1: question considering how far you've come to come back from
Speaker 1: your injury. What what do you think you can do
Speaker 1: better or more of to get this team back on track. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we just gotta ex you better at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. And that comes on my shoulders,
Speaker 1: that comes on the old line, That comes on everybody. Um,
Speaker 1: execution is the biggest thing. It's really hard to stand
Speaker 1: up here after a game and just pinpoint one thing. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, starting slow at something that that I think
Speaker 1: I can I can do better, and making plays early
Speaker 1: in the game, trying to get guys going. Um. But again,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to just put your finger on one thing. Um.
Speaker 1: But but executing, you know, some of the situational football,
Speaker 1: some of those those red zone plays have liked played
Speaker 1: al Sean. Uh, those are things we just gotta hit.
Speaker 1: We gotta hit. And that's all at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, just executions. Are you seeing the execution in
Speaker 1: practice with what's have been like in the practice field?
Speaker 1: Is it just in the game that kind of clubs Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean practice looks good. You know. I thought even tonight,
Speaker 1: execution later in the game wasn't bad. Um, just early
Speaker 1: in the game we were just slow, start missing things
Speaker 1: here and there. Um. At the end of the day, though,
Speaker 1: that's a good football they played, that's a good defense. Um.
Speaker 1: They did some things early to kind of get us
Speaker 1: out of our out of our rhythm a little bit.
Speaker 1: So you gotta tip your hat to them at some point.
Speaker 1: And I thought we made great adjustments at halftime. We
Speaker 1: just you know, it's too little, too late, a tendency
Speaker 1: to maybe try a little too hard, to start fast
Speaker 1: to the point where it becomes kind of productive. I
Speaker 1: mean there could be. I can't say that's what's happening
Speaker 1: to us. Like I said, it's a culmination of things.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you gotta tap
Speaker 1: your hat to them. Like I said, they did some
Speaker 1: things early too to kind of take away what we
Speaker 1: wanted to do, made some plays and we stend next
Speaker 1: year enough early in the game. Thanks