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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's going on, coach? You guys have lost the three
- 0:04Speaker 1: of your last four. How do you make sure that
- 0:06Speaker 1: this one, I mean, such a heartbreaker fashion doesn't linger.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Yeah, we just talked about as a team that you know,
- 0:13Speaker 2: this game can't beat us again, It can't beat us
- 0:17Speaker 2: on Sunday at one pm because we're kicking off against
- 0:20Speaker 2: the Chargers and I have a very quality opponent coming
- 0:24Speaker 2: into town. We're back at you know, we're at home
- 0:28Speaker 2: and nothing, you know, nobody cares. Nobody cares. It's just
- 0:34Speaker 2: the next opportunity that we have to go try to
- 0:38Speaker 2: get a w. I mean, that's the reality, is that
- 0:40Speaker 2: we gave up a nineteen point lead in the fourth
- 0:42Speaker 2: quarter essentially.
- 0:43Speaker 3: And didn't get it done.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Their back was against the wall, and they played like it,
- 0:49Speaker 2: you know, they played like it and we didn't.
- 0:52Speaker 3: And so.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Those are tough ones to swallow, as you mentioned they are,
- 0:57Speaker 2: and you know, it's hard, it's hard to to move forward.
- 1:01Speaker 2: But come Wednesday, we're preparing for another opponent. When the
- 1:05Speaker 2: players get it back in the building, we are preparing
- 1:07Speaker 2: for another opponent. We've got to get this tape fixed
- 1:11Speaker 2: and corrected and moved on. But you know, I'm not
- 1:14Speaker 2: worried about losing the team by any means.
- 1:19Speaker 4: And trench play.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Is there a way you can manufacture I mean, I
- 1:23Speaker 1: know it's the middle of the season, but manufacture improvement there,
- 1:25Speaker 1: whether it's the four man rush or the offensive line
- 1:28Speaker 1: or is that just simply like personnel, you kind of
- 1:30Speaker 1: got what you got.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's maybe a few guys
- 1:35Speaker 2: that can you know, get some more opportunities at different
- 1:40Speaker 2: positions that you know, rotating guys in, keeping rushers fresh,
- 1:46Speaker 2: and utilize some of the personnel that we do have
- 1:50Speaker 2: to be able to create. You know, we tried obviously
- 1:54Speaker 2: zero blitzing them a number of different times. That did
- 1:57Speaker 2: create a turnover, especially early in the game, put a
- 2:01Speaker 2: little pressure on them to make throws under duress.
- 2:07Speaker 3: But you know, when we had to get.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Home in some of those instances, the thing that occurred was,
- 2:13Speaker 2: you're not we never made them one dimensional.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Even towards the end of the game.
- 2:18Speaker 2: They were still running the ball right like they were
- 2:22Speaker 2: running it, staying balanced. They were getting five six yards
- 2:26Speaker 2: a chunk in the run game, which we never got
- 2:28Speaker 2: them really in the second and longs.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Obviously at the end of the.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Game, when you get them in a third and long
- 2:34Speaker 2: third and goal to go and we have an edge
- 2:37Speaker 2: at the end, you know, at the edge, and we're
- 2:39Speaker 2: not able to get home and get them down. So
- 2:44Speaker 2: you know, hey, we all got to look at ourselves
- 2:45Speaker 2: in the mirror and say how can we or I
- 2:49Speaker 2: go improve my play.
- 2:51Speaker 3: And my job to help this team win. There's no
- 2:54Speaker 3: magic solution.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Thanks coach Yarry, then too, o'haloran, Liam, put your quarterback
- 3:02Speaker 4: hat on. Can you explain why backup quarterbacks seem to
- 3:06Speaker 4: have gotten this team a little bit? I know that
- 3:08Speaker 4: you and your staff are only responsible for what happened
- 3:10Speaker 4: this year, but the example of Browning, the example of
- 3:14Speaker 4: Davis Mills, there are numerous other examples in the past.
- 3:17Speaker 4: But why are the backup quarterbacks having so much success?
- 3:21Speaker 3: That's a great question.
- 3:22Speaker 2: You know, it's obviously gotten us twice this year in
- 3:25Speaker 2: game winning drive situations where those guys have been able
- 3:31Speaker 2: to go the distance. You know, it's there's definitely a
- 3:36Speaker 2: frustration there, you know, as sometimes as a backup you
- 3:40Speaker 2: go into some of those situations and what's the worst
- 3:43Speaker 2: that can happen?
- 3:44Speaker 5: Right?
- 3:44Speaker 2: The expectations are what they are, But Davis Mills, he performed,
- 3:50Speaker 2: he produced in critical moments that we did it, and
- 3:55Speaker 2: that's gotta be a killer instinct mentality of when you
- 4:00Speaker 2: got them down too, with a backup quarterback and a
- 4:04Speaker 2: couple of backup o.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Linemen in there to go and take it.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Those moments didn't happen for us on Sunday, So it's frustrating.
- 4:15Speaker 2: It's definitely something that you're like, man if Joe Burrow
- 4:19Speaker 2: would have done it, or you know, that's one thing,
- 4:22Speaker 2: but you know a backup going in there and doing that.
- 4:26Speaker 2: I know as a backup quarterback at one time in
- 4:28Speaker 2: my career. You just go and play and you cut
- 4:30Speaker 2: it loose and there's not a ton of expectations.
- 4:33Speaker 3: I guess you could say.
- 4:34Speaker 2: But I don't think Davis Mills played like a backup
- 4:37Speaker 2: on Sunday.
- 4:38Speaker 4: And the other thing is I'm looking at the rosters
- 4:40Speaker 4: and NFL coaches usually have veterans as backups, guys who've
- 4:44Speaker 4: been around the block a little bit. They are in
- 4:47Speaker 4: all the meetings, they're in all the practices with the
- 4:49Speaker 4: first drink quarterback, and they're going against the first team
- 4:51Speaker 4: defense a lot of times. So is that something to
- 4:55Speaker 4: it and that these guys have been around like Davis.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean those guys.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Davis Mills was like a third round draft pick, right,
- 5:04Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's definitely talented. I mean there was
- 5:07Speaker 2: throws that he made in that game. You think about
- 5:10Speaker 2: the seam ball down to Nico Collins, that Devin Lloyd's
- 5:13Speaker 2: in perfect position carrying the seam, and you know, Dewey
- 5:18Speaker 2: made a break on the ball and the ball was
- 5:20Speaker 2: put in a perfect position. Nico makes a strong handed catch.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Multiple other throws that Davis made in the game that
- 5:28Speaker 2: were right on the money, the third and ten backed
- 5:32Speaker 2: up to the tight end across the field. I mean
- 5:36Speaker 2: that ball was put in a perfect position. So you
- 5:39Speaker 2: got to give him credit and their staff credit for
- 5:42Speaker 2: making those plays and having a backup quarterback be able
- 5:46Speaker 2: to go.
- 5:46Speaker 3: In the game and really not miss a beat that way.
- 5:50Speaker 4: Thank you, Oh Halleran, followed by d rock.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Hey, Liam, I got two for you.
- 5:56Speaker 6: First ones on Trevor Lawrence in the two games since
- 5:58Speaker 6: the buy are you seeing on tape and also in
- 6:01Speaker 6: prison that when he's seeing that first read open, he's
- 6:04Speaker 6: letting it rip more than maybe early in the season.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, definitely, there was a few that you'd like
- 6:12Speaker 2: to have back. You know, we had Diami on a
- 6:14Speaker 2: post route in the third quarter. I believe it was
- 6:21Speaker 2: that we'd like to have back, that we have an
- 6:23Speaker 2: opportunity there as the number one read to take and
- 6:26Speaker 2: possibly get a touchdown or explosive.
- 6:30Speaker 3: You know, there was definitely some.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Pressure yesterday at times that may have affected some of
- 6:36Speaker 2: the number one or two reads in the progression that
- 6:41Speaker 2: you know, but it definitely looked at our best day
- 6:44Speaker 2: throwing the football in terms of throughout the week, best week,
- 6:47Speaker 2: I meant to say throwing the football during the week
- 6:50Speaker 2: of practice, had some moments in the game that it
- 6:53Speaker 2: was positive, but ultimately we did not execute third and
- 6:58Speaker 2: four in the four fourth quarter. We run a mesh
- 7:02Speaker 2: concept and we don't execute the play properly, and we
- 7:06Speaker 2: don't have the receiver underneath the depth setter on the
- 7:11Speaker 2: shallow and it gets batted down in our faces. So
- 7:16Speaker 2: we've got to find better ways of getting number one
- 7:19Speaker 2: open in some of those instances and also taking an
- 7:24Speaker 2: advantage of when we do.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Second one.
- 7:28Speaker 6: For me, Breton Strange eligible to return, do you anticipate
- 7:31Speaker 6: him practicing this week and when he does return, hel
- 7:35Speaker 6: Confidentdy he can sort of really pick up where he
- 7:37Speaker 6: left off.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, we'll open up that window
- 7:40Speaker 2: this week to get him going, you know, get him
- 7:42Speaker 2: practicing a little bit here this week and see what
- 7:45Speaker 2: that looks like Wednesday Thursday, specifically to see how he's feeling,
- 7:50Speaker 2: see how he's looking. I know he's very eager to
- 7:53Speaker 2: get out there and compete and play and make an
- 7:56Speaker 2: impact on our offense like he was doing before he
- 7:59Speaker 2: got banged up. So, you know, trying not to put
- 8:02Speaker 2: a ton of huge expectations on them, you know.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Different pressures.
- 8:07Speaker 2: It's more so just hey, let's get you out there
- 8:10Speaker 2: and get practicing again, get catching the ball from the
- 8:13Speaker 2: quarterback again, to see to see what.
- 8:17Speaker 3: It looks like. We're obviously hopeful, but I have to
- 8:20Speaker 3: take a day to day. Thank you, Thank you Rock
- 8:24Speaker 3: followed by.
- 8:25Speaker 5: Brand HeLa And we've talked before a little bit about
- 8:29Speaker 5: you know, this guy group has to learn how to win.
- 8:31Speaker 5: But when you've had some instances earlier in the season
- 8:34Speaker 5: where you made plays at the end of the game,
- 8:36Speaker 5: and then yesterday when it doesn't show up with all
- 8:39Speaker 5: those opportunities, is that the maddening part of like building
- 8:43Speaker 5: a program I guess.
- 8:44Speaker 3: I think so it's pretty maddening for sure.
- 8:47Speaker 2: You know, you look at Houston game one, you know, tough, tight,
- 8:52Speaker 2: close ballgame. The whole way we made a play uh
- 8:57Speaker 2: to bt to to go up and then we obviously
- 9:01Speaker 2: had the tip pick by Antonio at the end of
- 9:04Speaker 2: the game to make that play, right, to make that
- 9:08Speaker 2: one or two plays that needed to happen to seal
- 9:12Speaker 2: the deal, and we didn't find that play yesterday. Like
- 9:17Speaker 2: that play didn't happen, whether we were pressing too much
- 9:21Speaker 2: to make the play and didn't to the finish, the mindset,
- 9:26Speaker 2: the mentality to go take it didn't come. We had
- 9:30Speaker 2: multiple instances where the ball was up in the air,
- 9:33Speaker 2: tipped and it just didn't you know, go our way
- 9:38Speaker 2: with those instances. So where it has in some of
- 9:40Speaker 2: those other games where we were four and one going
- 9:43Speaker 2: into this game and one score games and we were
- 9:47Speaker 2: back in one at the end even though you're sitting
- 9:50Speaker 2: there up nineteen and the fourth it became a one
- 9:53Speaker 2: score game. We needed one play, we needed us stop,
- 9:57Speaker 2: we needed a third down conversion on off and those
- 10:00Speaker 2: plays didn't happen. That is absolutely maddening, But it's also
- 10:04Speaker 2: this is the NFL, Like those things happen all the
- 10:08Speaker 2: time in this league, just so happened to be on
- 10:11Speaker 2: the wrong side of it yesterday.
- 10:15Speaker 5: What is your personality? More challenge these guys go at
- 10:19Speaker 5: them more aggressively this week after something like that, or
- 10:22Speaker 5: is it more you know, hey, move on kind of thing.
- 10:25Speaker 5: What's the way that you would like to have an
- 10:28Speaker 5: approach to you as a player.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Yeah, we kind of went at it both ways in
- 10:32Speaker 2: the team meeting today in terms of guys like nobody
- 10:36Speaker 2: cares at the end of the day. Guys were kicking
- 10:39Speaker 2: off on Sunday against the Chargers, not playing the Texans again,
- 10:43Speaker 2: and we can't relive the moment. We can't change anything
- 10:47Speaker 2: about the outcome of yesterday. It sucks, it's brutal, but
- 10:51Speaker 2: this is the league, This is the NFL, the real adversity,
- 10:55Speaker 2: the real response to gut wrenching, tough losses like this.
- 11:02Speaker 2: Everything is in front of us, like we have every
- 11:05Speaker 2: opportunity to go, you know, whin win this week, Like
- 11:11Speaker 2: that's all that matters.
- 11:11Speaker 3: We got to win this week. Look you look around
- 11:15Speaker 3: the league.
- 11:15Speaker 2: I mean, look at all these games, right, I mean,
- 11:17Speaker 2: teams are winning, then they end up losing at the end.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Teams are losing, they end up winning in the end.
- 11:20Speaker 2: It's just it's who makes a play. We won three
- 11:24Speaker 2: quarters of the game, like, let's be honest, right, we
- 11:27Speaker 2: won three quarters. We didn't win the fourth and they
- 11:30Speaker 2: did and they ended up winning the game.
- 11:34Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, Rent, followed by Mia Hey.
- 11:39Speaker 7: There, Liamba. Do you feel like this team doesn't have
- 11:44Speaker 7: enough edge yet or the edge that at least you
- 11:48Speaker 7: want them to have.
- 11:50Speaker 2: I didn't feel like we had enough edge yesterday. I
- 11:54Speaker 2: think we've shown to have the edge at times, to
- 11:58Speaker 2: be obviously four and one in one score games going
- 12:01Speaker 2: into the game, you feel like, okay, well we've made
- 12:03Speaker 2: some improvements in that area that we've learned how to
- 12:08Speaker 2: finish some games or come out on the right side
- 12:11Speaker 2: or a tip ball goes your way. I mean, you're
- 12:15Speaker 2: on the right side of some of those games going
- 12:17Speaker 2: into yesterday, excuse me.
- 12:19Speaker 3: And then you have a nineteen.
- 12:21Speaker 2: Point lead in the fourth quarter, and no, I don't
- 12:26Speaker 2: think that we had our edge in the fourth quarter yesterday. No,
- 12:31Speaker 2: you know, we have them backed up. What where's the
- 12:34Speaker 2: edge and mindset mentality to keep them there and to
- 12:37Speaker 2: force a punt and on offense, you've got a third
- 12:42Speaker 2: and four at about you know what was at the
- 12:44Speaker 2: forty five or so yard line. I think it was,
- 12:48Speaker 2: and we don't execute a play that we execute on
- 12:52Speaker 2: a pretty weekly basis. So yeah, that's we didn't have
- 12:57Speaker 2: our edge in the fourth quarter yesterday, and that is
- 13:00Speaker 2: it's very disappointing about that game. But the beauty of
- 13:04Speaker 2: this league is we have an opportunity on Sunday to
- 13:07Speaker 2: regain that edge into Hey, if we're in that moment again,
- 13:10Speaker 2: let's see how we respond.
- 13:12Speaker 7: One more quick one for me. I know it's a
- 13:14Speaker 7: very low percentage situation, but seven seconds to go, were
- 13:19Speaker 7: you trying to do on that?
- 13:21Speaker 2: We were running our out of bounds play where it's
- 13:25Speaker 2: everybody kind of runs it. It's a level layers type
- 13:29Speaker 2: play to the sideline where you get a deep out
- 13:33Speaker 2: like a twenty twenty five yard corner, a sail route,
- 13:37Speaker 2: and a five yard out, so you're trying to flood
- 13:41Speaker 2: the sideline, which they were playing sideline, so you're hoping
- 13:44Speaker 2: to be able to get Parker. I mean, really, the
- 13:47Speaker 2: killer was obviously the play before where you get the
- 13:53Speaker 2: ball to the forty two yard line with Parker on
- 13:56Speaker 2: the outbreaker, which would have obviously said us up to
- 14:01Speaker 2: maybe take one more shot at like outs and see
- 14:05Speaker 2: if we can steal another five yards or so and
- 14:08Speaker 2: then attempt a game winning field goal and giving Cam
- 14:12Speaker 2: that opportunity. You feel confident that we have a chance
- 14:16Speaker 2: with all of how the drive started with a sack
- 14:19Speaker 2: and a negative play Trevor scrambles, then we hit Parker
- 14:23Speaker 2: and we have the illegal hands to the face there
- 14:27Speaker 2: on the tackle, so you know, desperation seven seconds, you're
- 14:34Speaker 2: trying to get a little bit of a chunk out
- 14:36Speaker 2: of bounds to the sideline before you get to desperado.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Thanks, we have time for two more questions. It'll be
- 14:44Speaker 1: mia than to shipleyay.
- 14:47Speaker 8: Lie, I'm kind of building upon that. Obviously, keeping the
- 14:50Speaker 8: standard the standard is something you've preached since you got here.
- 14:53Speaker 8: Do you feel like you've reached a point where with
- 14:55Speaker 8: the penalties in particular in terms of playing time repercussions
- 14:58Speaker 8: for if you you know, continue to rack up penalties,
- 15:02Speaker 8: if they're continue to be miscues, maybe that person doesn't
- 15:04Speaker 8: see the bulk of the snaps perhaps that they otherwise
- 15:07Speaker 8: would have.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that is you know a little bit where you
- 15:11Speaker 2: know it's not as much. I mean, look, Jarion Jones,
- 15:16Speaker 2: you know, gets a PI on twenty five yard line
- 15:19Speaker 2: that goes down to the two on a mutual hand
- 15:22Speaker 2: fighting combat play. You know, I'm trying to think about
- 15:27Speaker 2: what we're other killer penalties Trayvon on the sack, you know,
- 15:31Speaker 2: where he's got to hit the strike zone. And you know,
- 15:35Speaker 2: I don't think those are plays that I want to
- 15:38Speaker 2: completely pull them off the grass for.
- 15:41Speaker 3: But we've got to.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Look at all of the positions in terms of okay,
- 15:46Speaker 2: where are we getting, where do we need to get
- 15:49Speaker 2: more production? And we aren't going to just live in
- 15:53Speaker 2: the in the status quo like that's crazy. That's the
- 15:58Speaker 2: definition of insane entity, right is doing the same thing
- 16:02Speaker 2: over and over again expecting a different result.
- 16:04Speaker 3: So we are.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Going to look at, hey, how can we get more
- 16:10Speaker 2: of a uge, how can we get these guys in
- 16:12Speaker 2: positions to be successful, and ultimately, we got to go
- 16:16Speaker 2: make those plays in the fourth quarter for us to
- 16:19Speaker 2: take the next step as an organization, take the next
- 16:22Speaker 2: step as a team to close out your rival on
- 16:27Speaker 2: the road in the fourth quarter. I don't care where
- 16:30Speaker 2: it comes from, but it needs to happen.
- 16:33Speaker 8: And then just to kind of build upon that because
- 16:35Speaker 8: I guess the penalties I should have specified more of
- 16:37Speaker 8: those pre snap penalties.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Oh yeah, along.
- 16:40Speaker 8: The offensive line. To that point, your offensive line, how
- 16:43Speaker 8: would you evaluate week one to where they are now?
- 16:46Speaker 8: Can you simply say they've been beaten up and there's
- 16:50Speaker 8: pieces rotating in and out or have you seen regression?
- 16:54Speaker 3: No, I don't you know.
- 16:56Speaker 2: I think last week we played pretty darn good upfront
- 16:58Speaker 2: against the you know, one of the best d linemen
- 17:02Speaker 2: in the National Football League, and Adam Butler was really
- 17:04Speaker 2: good too, So that was you know, Houston's number one
- 17:07Speaker 2: in the NFL, you know, for a reason. But the
- 17:11Speaker 2: false starts are probably you know, those are problem plays
- 17:15Speaker 2: that keep backing you up and creating longer down in
- 17:19Speaker 2: distances second and long starting longs.
- 17:22Speaker 3: And you know it wasn't that loud.
- 17:27Speaker 2: We just you know, when you got rushers that are
- 17:30Speaker 2: rushing like those guys, did you know, it gets you
- 17:34Speaker 2: on skates a little bit at times as a tackle
- 17:37Speaker 2: or as a as an offensive lineman. And you know,
- 17:40Speaker 2: we tried to chip them a decent amount at times, and.
- 17:45Speaker 3: They were hunting. I mean, they were hunting.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Those those That's a good defense it's a good DL
- 17:50Speaker 2: that has made some good offenses look pretty mediocre. I
- 17:54Speaker 2: think they're averaging about fourteen and a half points a game.
- 17:57Speaker 2: We scored twenty on offense and or twenty two on
- 18:01Speaker 2: offense and seven with special teams. Right, so we were
- 18:05Speaker 2: above the average, but that wasn't good enough yesterday, Thanks Liam,
- 18:11Speaker 2: last one Shipley, Hey Liam with the Army snaps yesterday?
- 18:15Speaker 5: Was that?
- 18:16Speaker 4: Is that just kind of how you got see the
- 18:17Speaker 4: receiver room chicking out right now? Is that related kind
- 18:20Speaker 4: of his week of practice and the injuries and whatnot?
- 18:23Speaker 3: Yeah, it was more.
- 18:24Speaker 2: You know, obviously we got Jacobe coming in, came in
- 18:26Speaker 2: and THEAMI was ready to He was spelling guys throughout
- 18:30Speaker 2: the whole day and being rotational at both the ZEE
- 18:34Speaker 2: and the exposition, and you know, he just needs to
- 18:38Speaker 2: continue to go to work during the week of practice,
- 18:40Speaker 2: keep playing fast and when his opportunities are come his
- 18:43Speaker 2: way makes him make those plays. And you know, had
- 18:47Speaker 2: good dialogue with THEAMI last week and he practiced hard
- 18:51Speaker 2: and played faster. So we'll have to look at, obviously
- 18:55Speaker 2: the rotation this week. But I've you know, trusted him
- 18:58Speaker 2: to continue to make plays and