Speaker 1: It's kind of been the theme, you know, giving up
Speaker 1: plays that we know we shouldn't, penalties, takeaways or turnovers,
Speaker 1: and then a lack of takeaways. UM, you know, those
Speaker 1: things we feel like we're doing to ourselves. We hadn't
Speaker 1: played a game yet where we felt like the team
Speaker 1: just flat out beat us. So that's I think the
Speaker 1: most frustrating part. UM. But you know it's up to
Speaker 1: us to correct those and obviously with a short week,
Speaker 1: you know, it's something that we're going to have to
Speaker 1: trust each individual to look at themselves critically, UM really
Speaker 1: without practice, UM and and try to be more discipline
Speaker 1: team next week. Does that make it more frustrating than
Speaker 1: just getting out played, like you said, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think if if if it was an issue of
Speaker 1: talent or scheme, you know, we can live with that.
Speaker 1: But when you're losing games because you know you're committing
Speaker 1: penalties or your your missing assignment or giving a ball
Speaker 1: away not taking the ball away, that's frustrating, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: to to each of us. But uh, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: continue to trust in the process. I think, if anything,
Speaker 1: will will dive harder into the smaller details. UM. Put
Speaker 1: pressure on everybody to individually just get a little bit better, um,
Speaker 1: and and you know, continue to compete the drip of
Speaker 1: you on. Yeah, I don't know what he's supposed to
Speaker 1: do if a quarterback has the ball, um, Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know they don't want low hits on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but if you're falling down, I guess you're
Speaker 1: supposed to just let the quarterback go. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: the explanation from the front the official was, you know,
Speaker 1: he has to avoid that hit, which means that he
Speaker 1: can't do his job. He can't tackle a quarterback while
Speaker 1: quarterback has the ball. So obviously that was a big play. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: I was frustrating, but I don't know what to tell
Speaker 1: Mike to do on that play. Had a long conversation
Speaker 1: with the official. What was what was your argument to him?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, it was it was what do you
Speaker 1: want me to tell him? You know, what do I
Speaker 1: tell my teammate to do in that situation where he's
Speaker 1: already you know, falling to the ground, He's trying to
Speaker 1: the quarterback has the ball in his hands, and he's
Speaker 1: just like he has to avoid the play, which you know,
Speaker 1: literally means he has to fall and allow the quarterback
Speaker 1: to continue the down, which is the antithesis of his job.
Speaker 1: So you know, it was a tough call, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to find a way to overcome it.
Speaker 1: These rules becoming too slaying it against the defense, well,
Speaker 1: I think they just sometimes lack common sense. Um, So
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. We want to protect quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and I completely you know understand that, Um that a
Speaker 1: life led to our game. But you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: really hard to do the job and it's having an
Speaker 1: effect on some games, but we have plenty of other
Speaker 1: opportunities to win the game. That was just one play
Speaker 1: that was a little frustrated, Malcolm said to the team
Speaker 1: when he kind of addressed them after Doug spoke again,
Speaker 1: I mean, we got short week. You know what's at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if we want to get
Speaker 1: get better, there's no you know, magic play or drink
Speaker 1: that we can make to be a better team. And
Speaker 1: just every individual has to find out what they need
Speaker 1: to get better at and do it in a hurry,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I think we
Speaker 1: can all look at a player two here there, a
Speaker 1: mistake or two here there that are that's you know, well,
Speaker 1: I would say out of character, but it's been a theme. Um.
Speaker 1: And if you take those away, then there's really not
Speaker 1: much us that we can do. It's just those self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. So each individual's got to find a way
Speaker 1: to get just a little bit better. Um. And we
Speaker 1: have to trust um the guy next to us, you know,
Speaker 1: to the left and to the right, that they're doing that.
Speaker 1: And you know, we'll continue to compete and let the
Speaker 1: cars follow what they may. You have to have a
Speaker 1: short memory, obviously in this sport doesn't help with a
Speaker 1: short week after a loss that you kind of can
Speaker 1: just get back. Depends on an individual. If you want
Speaker 1: to let it carry over, it will if you if
Speaker 1: you you know, attack to take take care of your body,
Speaker 1: get some rest, um and move on. Um. And and
Speaker 1: and and deliberately um corrected the mistakes that you made then,
Speaker 1: you know, to make you better. And so we'll see
Speaker 1: how we handle it. You guys were so good at
Speaker 1: limited spoiled plays last year. They got a lot more tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You see like a theme here through the first to
Speaker 1: part of the season with those I mean, if you
Speaker 1: if most of those plays, if you look at it,
Speaker 1: we're real close to the quarterback and you know, the
Speaker 1: ball gets off. If we can get one more step
Speaker 1: in our rush, H hit our angles just a little
Speaker 1: bit better, I think we get the quarterback down or
Speaker 1: get them to hold it. We made some adjustments that
Speaker 1: helped us later in the game, but we got to
Speaker 1: do a bit a better job of that making sure
Speaker 1: that we keep the ball in front of us. But
Speaker 1: I think that's, you know, a collective effort. That's the rush,
Speaker 1: that's the blitzers is you know guys on the back end. Um.
Speaker 1: But we're an aggressive defense, you know, so we'll we'll
Speaker 1: continue as long as they're not going for touchdowns, we'll
Speaker 1: live to play another down. Guys here maybe been that
Speaker 1: guys haven't been focused fight enough or fighting hard enough
Speaker 1: at this point. I don't think fight. I don't think
Speaker 1: the fight is the is the is the issue. I
Speaker 1: think guys are playing hard in every single game. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, focus. I guess you could say I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say that we're an unfocused group. I just I think
Speaker 1: discipline is really the word you look at, you know,
Speaker 1: just doing your job, snapping and snap out for where
Speaker 1: there's seventy plays or fifty plays just doing your job
Speaker 1: every single time, not you know, committing um bad penalties
Speaker 1: if you're we live a penalties, if you're playing aggressive,
Speaker 1: if you're you're going after a play cool, but just
Speaker 1: you know, dumb penalties we can't have protecting the football.
Speaker 1: We need a better job of that. UM and defensively,
Speaker 1: we got to find ways to get the ball. I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing that we did in the past
Speaker 1: that build us out of a lot of bad situations.
Speaker 1: We hadn't quite come up with those um this year
Speaker 1: until we got to find opportunities, whether that's from the
Speaker 1: quarterback ball areas um, um, you know, getting guys in
Speaker 1: some throwing lanes. So we got to search for those
Speaker 1: opportunities um. And then eliminating a big play making teams
Speaker 1: earn it uh and then you know, getting some better
Speaker 1: field position for an offense. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: collective effort um, and it's gonna come down to each
Speaker 1: individual trying to find a way to get this a
Speaker 1: little bit better, include myself. You guys haven't lost two
Speaker 1: rows its December of twenty and sixteen. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can make it. You know, you can make it whatever
Speaker 1: you want it to be. If you want it. If
Speaker 1: you want to feel sorry for yourself, you want to
Speaker 1: go on the tank, It's there for you to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure there's plenty on social media. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be plenty of media to tell you. You know
Speaker 1: that you aren't any good. You can believe it if
Speaker 1: you want to um. But if you want to get
Speaker 1: it back in the winning column, then you watch the tape,
Speaker 1: you digest it, you get better as an individual, and
Speaker 1: you show up next week and play hard. Where right now, Uh,
Speaker 1: my concern is, I mean, it's not that high, to
Speaker 1: be honest, you know, this game is one of those
Speaker 1: that if you don't get better, it will show up.
Speaker 1: If you do, you'll win. And right now we have
Speaker 1: been playing good enough to win the majority of our games.
Speaker 1: We have another opportunity next week. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you know, we can only control what we
Speaker 1: can control, and this game is at this point behind us.
Speaker 1: What we can control is how we deal with it,
Speaker 1: how we as individuals evaluate ourselves as coaches, how we
Speaker 1: evaluate the team and put ourselves in positions to win.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we're looking forward to competing on
Speaker 1: Thursday night,