Speaker 1: So much, and that as much with the Murray win
Speaker 1: the day, some of the matchups with the linebackers, you know,
Speaker 1: we felt like there it's as big a group of
Speaker 1: linebackers as you're gonna face. And then we just kind
Speaker 1: of as the game expressed itself, we're kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of trying to go with the hot hand and
Speaker 1: we used all three. Um, you know, DeMarco had a
Speaker 1: big run on the inside zone in the in the
Speaker 1: red zone there on that drive that thirteen played drive. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a big run on that. But we just
Speaker 1: thought we were gonna use all three today and needed
Speaker 1: all three. But when you got Collins and Nikovic and guys,
Speaker 1: it's it's as big a linebacker crew as you're gonna face.
Speaker 1: So um, sometimes those smaller, quicker guys can can cause
Speaker 1: some problems in the matchup. I thought Darren played really
Speaker 1: well in all phases, and I think it's something you
Speaker 1: continue to see out of him. We see it every
Speaker 1: day in training, and you know it's it's on us
Speaker 1: as the staff. We need to continue to get there
Speaker 1: and involved in what we're doing because he he tilts
Speaker 1: to field a little bit and when now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we hadn't used him that much, so people
Speaker 1: don't people hadn't weren't double in him. But then when
Speaker 1: he was in there, I started to draw some extra
Speaker 1: attention and open some other guys up. So day going
Speaker 1: down the last three games help proudly you fall teams
Speaker 1: and hunting happened. Well, you know, I'm I've always been
Speaker 1: proud of them, And I told those guys that, I said,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes they don't see in them what I
Speaker 1: see in them. And I know we have a good
Speaker 1: football team. And I think they showed it today and
Speaker 1: they they shown it at other times during the season.
Speaker 1: In the last two weeks, we didn't show it um,
Speaker 1: and that's what was disappointing for them. But I think, um,
Speaker 1: we got contributions. I thought defensively, the pressure we got
Speaker 1: on the quarterback was instrumental today. You know, But then
Speaker 1: when you have a block kick for a touchdown, you
Speaker 1: have an interception return for touchdown, and a punt return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, it takes those things to win in
Speaker 1: the stadium against uh this coach, that coach and in
Speaker 1: that quarterback. So in the defense today, I think we
Speaker 1: generated pressure and really those guys up front did a
Speaker 1: really good job. Um, I think we had four sacks.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times are hurries or hits
Speaker 1: on on Tom, but that's what you have to do
Speaker 1: because he's so good. And there's a couple of times
Speaker 1: he shook us off and kept drives alive, um, you know,
Speaker 1: running and made some big plays there. But I thought
Speaker 1: the effort that our guys that played with up front
Speaker 1: was really really good and that's what we needed out
Speaker 1: of those guests. Yeah, we we felt like we needed
Speaker 1: a first down. You know, we could have run it
Speaker 1: and then you got the appropriate time and where we
Speaker 1: are numbers wise, and we're talking about all that, we
Speaker 1: have charts, we know what's there and then but part
Speaker 1: of it is we felt like we needed a first
Speaker 1: down and that was our best option on that play.
Speaker 1: You know, we had run the the naked play on
Speaker 1: third actually try to throw on first down, you know,
Speaker 1: try to run the naked play. And I thought Sam
Speaker 1: made a really good decision. It may have been closed
Speaker 1: trying to throw it, but then if it's not there,
Speaker 1: you know, keep the clock running, you know. I think
Speaker 1: when you have a smart quarterback, you trust him that
Speaker 1: you can do that. Um, we ran on second down
Speaker 1: obviously got the clock moving a little bit. And then
Speaker 1: on third down, we just you know, our our concept
Speaker 1: was we we got to get a first down here,
Speaker 1: uh And I got great faith and trusting Sam, and
Speaker 1: I know he's got great faith and trust in his
Speaker 1: receivers and gonna cut a little mimurd route deal on
Speaker 1: and he was going to the best side And was
Speaker 1: a big play by Coop and um big throat by
Speaker 1: uh Sam. I mean, fhip always, we always have a
Speaker 1: couple of schemes going in there in terms of being
Speaker 1: able to get them in the situation, and the half
Speaker 1: dictated it, you know, hit them pumping back to us
Speaker 1: and I was catching it. We're probably not going to
Speaker 1: get anything generated out of that. I think there was
Speaker 1: fit was a fifteen seconds I think was on the clock,
Speaker 1: So we're probably going to go after the punter in
Speaker 1: that situation. And that was the rush that we had
Speaker 1: had practice this week, so scores and then they tried
Speaker 1: that role whatever was that kind of turned the game around.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that was the turning point, but I
Speaker 1: think it was a huge another huge play by our
Speaker 1: special teams. Um. You know, you know when you play
Speaker 1: this team that they're going to tax you in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. They ran the reverse past to Brady. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they did that. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: a great play by two two good good reaction by
Speaker 1: him and um, you know it's it's but I think
Speaker 1: Phip and uh did a really good job of the
Speaker 1: special teams preparing them for a lot of the different
Speaker 1: things that they do on special teams, and they challenge
Speaker 1: it from a special team standpoint. Say that again. So
Speaker 1: it was, you know, a big, big job by Malk.
Speaker 1: You know that that interception was a real backbreaker. You
Speaker 1: know when you talk about turning good into great, you know,
Speaker 1: you stop a team when they're in the red zone
Speaker 1: from scoring. And I think anybody would have been happy
Speaker 1: of just with the interception. Hey let's turn it over.
Speaker 1: You know they were driving. We got to stop there.
Speaker 1: But to be able to take at the distance and
Speaker 1: return it, you know, I was really happy for him. Um,
Speaker 1: he's worked a lot. I know sometimes he gets maligned,
Speaker 1: but I you know, he worked really hard on on
Speaker 1: on catching the football and he did a great job.
Speaker 1: Looked it in the eyes to the tuck as we
Speaker 1: talk about all the time. And Um, but to convert
Speaker 1: that into his score was a was a real big,
Speaker 1: real big turning point in a game for us at
Speaker 1: the hood. I know, I know you said that the
Speaker 1: team's given effort and passed. However, this was a different
Speaker 1: team tonight. Uh, there's something about this game. It was
Speaker 1: so much different than the last two. What was it
Speaker 1: with your players and what? I mean, that's the same
Speaker 1: thing I told him. I believe in them and and
Speaker 1: uh that they were a really good football team and
Speaker 1: just we played together as a group. Cross is just
Speaker 1: a guy that's shown up in practice every single day
Speaker 1: and we felt like we wanted to give him an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play that Jeffrey Lury said something about you
Speaker 1: fired me up. Did speak to the team before the
Speaker 1: game or something? I mean he talks everybody before every game,
Speaker 1: so he usually is in the locker room and walks
Speaker 1: around the players individually. He didn't, you know, give a
Speaker 1: speech or anything. But Jeff, I mean, he's as good
Speaker 1: an owner as I've ever you know, been around. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he really truly cares about the players and
Speaker 1: the coaches and he always makes sure um before every
Speaker 1: game that he takes it he and I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody knows this, he talks every player before every game.
Speaker 1: He talks every coach before every game. So what was
Speaker 1: the plan in the fourth The last drive and the
Speaker 1: figures at the ball about the time out worked almost perfect.
Speaker 1: What was your plan? Well for them to drop it
Speaker 1: a couple of times, the little voodoo thing going. Now,
Speaker 1: I just think you knew the distance that they had
Speaker 1: to travel, and there's a lot of short Matthew have
Speaker 1: to do. If the ball is completed in bounds, it
Speaker 1: takes about sixteen seconds to get a clock off. So
Speaker 1: now you're just doing the math in your head. There's
Speaker 1: fifty two seconds if it's completed in bounds, you get
Speaker 1: the ball down into the high thirties. If they complete
Speaker 1: another one in bounds, you know, so you're really trying
Speaker 1: to protect the sideline. You know, that's the key. If
Speaker 1: they can just nickel and dimeon get the ball moving,
Speaker 1: they got a shot. But you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: knew where it was. If they completed the last one,
Speaker 1: even though it was fourth and ten, they probably would
Speaker 1: have only had eight seconds on the clock if it
Speaker 1: was completed in bounds and then they got to throw
Speaker 1: for the end zone. Um, you know, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in a clock situation, so we're just kind of
Speaker 1: playing the situation there. I think just growth, and he's
Speaker 1: grown every game. That's why it was it was so unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I thought he was playing really well. I think his
Speaker 1: passer rating was one eight team when he went down
Speaker 1: in the Miami game. Then you lose him for two games.
Speaker 1: But I think he's he's very smart with the football.
Speaker 1: Um you know that. That's why the two plays before
Speaker 1: we called naked on first down. But it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm worried about him just throwing the ball away and
Speaker 1: stopping the clock. I thought that's as good a play,
Speaker 1: just kind of scrambling and get himself up there for
Speaker 1: to make it second and nine and taking so that
Speaker 1: the cluck continues to run. So I we have great
Speaker 1: faith and great trust in him. I think he continues
Speaker 1: to grow because we we were around each other. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gotten um, you know, eight or nine games underneath
Speaker 1: this belt. But I think you've seen improvement out of him.
Speaker 1: And that's in this league. Turnover as a paramount. I
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of it. When you got
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's not going to go out there and
Speaker 1: turn the ball over to the Now we're just talking
Speaker 1: about playing the next game. And I've said it since well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll pick our head up after the Giants
Speaker 1: game and see if we played well enough to get
Speaker 1: in or not. But I mean, I think that's just
Speaker 1: wasted energy to talk about playoff picture and what happens
Speaker 1: here and who wins here, and you know, because there's
Speaker 1: there's so many different things going on in terms of
Speaker 1: everybody's bottled up. You know, it seems like in the
Speaker 1: entire league there's a couple of teams that have played
Speaker 1: really well, you know, nine or ten wins, and then
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of us that are kind of in
Speaker 1: the middle there. And um, I just like it's wasted
Speaker 1: energy to talk about that when what we should be
Speaker 1: talking about is who our opponents and let's prepare to
Speaker 1: put to play them. So this kind of sends a message.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think we get this question all
Speaker 1: the time. We were supposed to send a message after
Speaker 1: the Dallas game when we went down there on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: You know, it's every week in this league is a
Speaker 1: battle and you better prepare. Um, you're gonna get everybody's
Speaker 1: best and you hopefully you can give your best. And um,
Speaker 1: I think when you look at all that stuff, sending
Speaker 1: messages and all that, I think they make good stories.
Speaker 1: But you know that's not what we're talking about school.
Speaker 1: But you know, they went key through way with Frady
Speaker 1: And yeah, I thought Eric Roll, you know, for his
Speaker 1: first time, you know, started the game because obviously losing
Speaker 1: Nolan who was a key key for us on defense.
Speaker 1: And um, I thought Eric and his first time of
Speaker 1: extended playoffought, he did a really nice job. They went
Speaker 1: after him, which we knew they were going to go
Speaker 1: after him, but I thought he battled and competed, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they took the long bomb on him.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of different things they tried him.
Speaker 1: They d a couple of comebacks on running people off.
Speaker 1: But um, for the most part, I think Eric did
Speaker 1: a really nice job and it's good to see him,
Speaker 1: you know, start to develop that confidence because we we
Speaker 1: as a staff have a ton of confidence in Eric
Speaker 1: to play. So about austin memory, But was their conscious
Speaker 1: decision from uniqu shakings up just a little bit, No,
Speaker 1: we just we talk about who's competing who's playing and
Speaker 1: who gets an opportunity that you know, it's it's every
Speaker 1: week is an evaluation. Every week is you you get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show us what you can do. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, we brought Jonathan Cross in here for a reason.
Speaker 1: We felt like he was a really good player. Um.
Speaker 1: We brought him up for a reason too. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just you know, let's just reward a guy. But when
Speaker 1: you watch him in practice and we see him as
Speaker 1: a staff that you know he can continue to do
Speaker 1: some really good things. So um, and I think he
Speaker 1: had one catch on the shallow cross But um, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's good when you have I think it's
Speaker 1: really good when you have competition. That's that's a good
Speaker 1: thing to have what THEYD apoplished years. Is there a
Speaker 1: sense of satisfaction, maybe even just for a moment. I know,
Speaker 1: you don't say carries over just for the moment, gret
Speaker 1: such a satisfaction maybe now, I mean, I think obviously
Speaker 1: and we're very aware of it. You got a first
Speaker 1: ballot half coach, you get a first ballot Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback, you know, maybe the best quarterback they'll play
Speaker 1: in this game. Um, so you're aware of that. You know,
Speaker 1: when his record here is it's off the charts. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like one hundred and I mean to like
Speaker 1: three losses or something. I mean it's and I'm not
Speaker 1: even exactly I think it's something like that. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's unbelievables in thee. So we're aware of that.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's anything where you just you know,
Speaker 1: we I guess we always have the mindset we want. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what's the next game, you know that week, because
Speaker 1: you spend too much time kind of patting yourself on
Speaker 1: the back of you're gonna We're gonna play a really
Speaker 1: good Buffalo team coming in here. I think one today.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's always the next challenge in the
Speaker 1: next step. But it is, you know. I think I'm
Speaker 1: really proud of how our players played. I think that's
Speaker 1: the most important thing I took away from today, almost
Speaker 1: the way the team played against the Lions, against the Belts.
Speaker 1: When you see them go out and do what they need,
Speaker 1: this plays against Brady and Dollership, I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised at anything. I said that all the time. I
Speaker 1: think you better every single day come to work in
Speaker 1: this league. If not, things can happen, and usually they're
Speaker 1: bad things, you know. So I think our players, um
Speaker 1: even know what that was. I think our players did
Speaker 1: what I told him. I told him when I saw
Speaker 1: him last Tuesday, that I know we have a really
Speaker 1: good football team. And UM, when we put everything together
Speaker 1: as a group and everybody plays hard and kind of
Speaker 1: gives everything and plays with an edge, UM, we can
Speaker 1: be a good football team. So last year, that specific
Speaker 1: pump block play, how many? How many times does that
Speaker 1: work for you either? You know, in this this year career,
Speaker 1: I don't think we have a I mean we blocked
Speaker 1: a couple of punts last year. Uh, San Francisco we
Speaker 1: had a pump block. I think in the Titans game. Um,
Speaker 1: at home we had a pump block. You know, we've
Speaker 1: had a few. Up in the Giants we had a
Speaker 1: pump block. But they're all have their own little individual wrinkles, um,
Speaker 1: in terms of who you're playing and from a protection standpoint.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if um, that particular scheme we
Speaker 1: ran today is something that we ran those other games
Speaker 1: we've we've blocked a few in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Thanks