Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Hines-Allen, Oluokun, Walker and Engram Discuss Week 8 Loss to Packers
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- 0:00Speaker 1: How any process this one.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Uh, this definitely hurts right now. Uh, you know, we
- 0:05Speaker 2: had every opportunity to win this game, and you know,
- 0:08Speaker 2: again it comes back down to those you know, those
- 0:10Speaker 2: those those little those little mistakes or I don't know
- 0:13Speaker 2: what happened on that last play. You know, I think
- 0:16Speaker 2: Cisco got hurt or something. So hopefully he's he's feeling
- 0:19Speaker 2: all right. But you know this, this one's definitely gonna
- 0:22Speaker 2: hurt cause I feel like we had a great game defensively,
- 0:25Speaker 2: special teams, offensively. You know, I think we all made
- 0:28Speaker 2: big plays when when we needed it the most.
- 0:30Speaker 1: But we didn't.
- 0:31Speaker 3: We didn't get this victory. So you know that one,
- 0:33Speaker 3: This one really hurts. Yeah, it's I is.
- 0:35Speaker 4: It uh frustrating to you to e You see a
- 0:39Speaker 4: lot of good plays, but they just whether they're not
- 0:42Speaker 4: coming when the offense makes a good play, the defense does,
- 0:44Speaker 4: or or vice versa.
- 0:46Speaker 2: The complimentary football, I think I think that's what it
- 0:48Speaker 2: all is. You know, we have we both have a
- 0:51Speaker 2: spirit moment, big plays here and there, but you know,
- 0:54Speaker 2: the capitalized defense get a stop, what does the offense
- 0:57Speaker 2: do or the offense gets a good turn, gets a touchdown?
- 1:00Speaker 1: With how do we respond to the defense.
- 1:01Speaker 2: I think that's where we have to be better at
- 1:03Speaker 2: cause we can obviously play good football both sides of
- 1:06Speaker 2: the ball. We just have to compliment each other a
- 1:07Speaker 2: little bit better.
- 1:08Speaker 4: When that has happened to it means that is that
- 1:11Speaker 4: just riding momentum? Uh cause it just guys making plays
- 1:14Speaker 4: in those spots? Is it riding momentum from one unit
- 1:16Speaker 4: to another?
- 1:17Speaker 5: What is that?
- 1:17Speaker 2: To be honest, it's like, I mean, what, h what
- 1:20Speaker 2: does it look like from previous time? Like from previous experiences.
- 1:24Speaker 2: I think it's just you know, having that confidence or
- 1:26Speaker 2: just everybody doing what they're supposed to do, or just
- 1:28Speaker 2: everybody doing what they're supposed to do when somebody makes
- 1:30Speaker 2: it play when the ball comes to them, and you know,
- 1:32Speaker 2: vice versa. I feel like, you know, personally, when a
- 1:37Speaker 2: big play was made when we came back out there,
- 1:39Speaker 2: something happened to them, and then we have to respond.
- 1:41Speaker 2: And then we're trying to figure We're not trying to
- 1:43Speaker 2: figure out, we're just playing ball, but like you know,
- 1:45Speaker 2: we're not making that that one person at that particular
- 1:48Speaker 2: play is not making that player.
- 1:49Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:50Speaker 2: I gotta watch this tape. But I know this hurts,
- 1:52Speaker 2: and uh, we gonna have to correct this.
- 1:56Speaker 3: I mean correct this.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Sorry, excid me onwards, cause this.
- 1:58Speaker 6: One hurt wor more than the others, just because of
- 2:03Speaker 6: we're halfway through the season. You guys said, you know
- 2:06Speaker 6: you need to win every game out Yeah, I.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Mean, uh, them very disappointed we loss, obviously hurt more,
- 2:17Speaker 2: hurt less. A loss is a loss at the end
- 2:19Speaker 2: of the day, and and they all sing the same way.
- 2:22Speaker 6: Uh.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Obviously we had a goal to to win every other game.
- 2:24Speaker 2: I mean to win games, the win at every game
- 2:26Speaker 2: moving forward, and we didn't get that done today. Uh
- 2:29Speaker 2: so it definitely sings a little bit, but uh, a
- 2:32Speaker 2: loss is a loss, and you know, it just doesn't
- 2:34Speaker 2: say right for for myself or anybody else in the
- 2:36Speaker 2: locker room. How important is it to have confidence heading
- 2:39Speaker 2: into week nine?
- 2:40Speaker 5: What does it mean for this team to have a.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Little bit more?
- 2:43Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like we have confidence obviously, see
- 2:45Speaker 2: the way we competed today, so the confidences isn't there.
- 2:48Speaker 3: We know we can play.
- 2:49Speaker 2: I think this was probably one of our best games defensively,
- 2:52Speaker 2: you know, just from what it felt like not watching
- 2:55Speaker 2: the tape or you know, just how it felt, the
- 2:57Speaker 2: energy that we played with.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I felt like we competed really well. We got off
- 3:00Speaker 1: a little.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Third down we had to take away and so like
- 3:04Speaker 2: I we stopped to run up to a certain point.
- 3:06Speaker 2: So we had to tackle better defensively, Uh, especially in
- 3:09Speaker 2: crucial moments, especially towards the end of the game. So
- 3:13Speaker 2: that's one thing that we need to focus on and
- 3:15Speaker 2: we need to just dial into. Uh cause it's a
- 3:17Speaker 2: four quarter game and and like we said previous times,
- 3:20Speaker 2: like the game don't stop util zero zero zero zero
- 3:22Speaker 2: on the clock, and so we just gotta keep that
- 3:25Speaker 2: keep that effort up right there.
- 3:26Speaker 6: Uh, this far in the season, how important is it
- 3:29Speaker 6: to kind of walk in and kind of get as
- 3:31Speaker 6: much you know, maybe that.
- 3:32Speaker 2: You guys have.
- 3:34Speaker 5: I'm sorry, well I'm sorry. Just confidence at this time
- 3:37Speaker 5: of the important as competence right now.
- 3:39Speaker 7: Uh, it's really important, and I think that we have
- 3:41Speaker 7: to do a good job weekend week out coming in
- 3:43Speaker 7: with confidence. I think we came in ready to play.
- 3:46Speaker 7: Uh we didn't execute down the stretch. Uh s key
- 3:48Speaker 7: plays here and there. But I think whoever you roll out,
- 3:52Speaker 7: I think we always have competants that were preparing the
- 3:53Speaker 7: right way.
- 3:53Speaker 5: To win games.
- 3:54Speaker 7: We just gotta win those plays in within the game
- 3:57Speaker 7: that they end up winning the game. So fort card
- 3:59Speaker 7: of the fourth quarter, every played important competence and winning
- 4:02Speaker 7: competitive preparation is definitely then is it still.
- 4:04Speaker 8: Pretty frustrating though to have the outcome that you did
- 4:07Speaker 8: with all the confidence that you have.
- 4:08Speaker 5: Is is losing frustrating every time?
- 4:12Speaker 1: It's tough.
- 4:13Speaker 7: It's tough, and uh, you gotta go there prepare, see
- 4:16Speaker 7: what you gotta do a little bit differently in order
- 4:18Speaker 7: to get on the winning side of of these plays.
- 4:21Speaker 7: Uh that in order to win the game. But that
- 4:24Speaker 7: definitely losing is frustrating.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Is it just is it hard to believe?
- 4:29Speaker 4: Sometimes you did a lot of good things right, you
- 4:31Speaker 4: get to take away you did you did some good
- 4:33Speaker 4: things early, but you just just can't piece all together.
- 4:35Speaker 5: For that's the NFL.
- 4:37Speaker 7: I mean you can win the first quarter, it don't
- 4:38Speaker 7: mean that you're gonna win all the way through the game.
- 4:40Speaker 8: Uh.
- 4:40Speaker 7: Back when I was a a child, I think you know,
- 4:42Speaker 7: I saw the Rams winning off the whole Super Bowl
- 4:45Speaker 7: loss of time, Brady, So you you gotta win first, second, third, fourth,
- 4:48Speaker 7: all the way through. Good team's gonna win critical down.
- 4:52Speaker 7: That critical down could come in the second quarter. It's
- 4:54Speaker 7: big plays that in complimentary football, that we gotta continue
- 4:57Speaker 7: to to improve on and continue to learn how to play.
- 4:59Speaker 5: And that the winds started rolling, But we got all
- 5:01Speaker 5: the talent.
- 5:02Speaker 8: Uh.
- 5:02Speaker 7: I know, you got to tired of hearing it, but
- 5:03Speaker 7: we were right there. We just gotta execute when it.
- 5:05Speaker 7: Execution matters the.
- 5:06Speaker 4: Most were you Uh did you guys think that maybe
- 5:09Speaker 4: they were just gonna run it to overtime, whether.
- 5:11Speaker 5: It came out with a run or no. I think
- 5:13Speaker 5: they came out with the run. Uh.
- 5:14Speaker 7: I think we all thought it was the boot play
- 5:16Speaker 7: they showed us two times earlier in the game, maybe
- 5:17Speaker 7: three times. We kind of all automatically went for it.
- 5:21Speaker 7: And then, you know, it's a good chest chess game
- 5:23Speaker 7: on their part, went for the old crap route we
- 5:25Speaker 7: call it.
- 5:25Speaker 5: Uh, it was open. Uh you got to played, you know,
- 5:28Speaker 5: got to see.
- 5:28Speaker 7: It throwing the seams, got to see it.
- 5:31Speaker 4: You're you're chasing to get all the momentum of its mean,
- 5:36Speaker 4: is it more a gut punch when you come back
- 5:37Speaker 4: from ten down? And then it just still doesn't end.
- 5:40Speaker 7: Up your wife for sure, it's a gut, gut punch,
- 5:42Speaker 7: and uh, you know, I just don't like losing any game.
- 5:45Speaker 5: It's a gut punch.
- 5:46Speaker 7: And and and when we were right there, we played
- 5:47Speaker 7: so hard and obviously there are times we played better.
- 5:51Speaker 7: Times we didn't play as good as game, but we
- 5:53Speaker 7: was right there ready to win it and we didn't.
- 5:54Speaker 5: So that that's tough.
- 5:55Speaker 1: That's tough.
- 5:55Speaker 4: First game in a while.
- 5:56Speaker 1: How'd you feel and how do you think you came.
- 5:58Speaker 6: Out of it?
- 5:59Speaker 5: Yeah? I talked about that tomm.
- 6:02Speaker 3: On the way.
- 6:02Speaker 9: We just had to find a way to continuously get
- 6:04Speaker 9: over that hump. Obviously we had those ebb and flows
- 6:07Speaker 9: that during the game, and Uh, for me personally, I
- 6:10Speaker 9: just say I just had to make all the plays
- 6:12Speaker 9: one hundred percent of the players that come my way,
- 6:13Speaker 9: Like one of the missacks.
- 6:14Speaker 3: I feel like that would have been critical if I
- 6:16Speaker 3: would have got that one. And then you know what
- 6:18Speaker 3: I'm saying, We just had to.
- 6:19Speaker 9: Find those little small little details to get over that
- 6:22Speaker 9: hump that that we need to be great.
- 6:24Speaker 6: Josh just said he felt like as a whole, you
- 6:26Speaker 6: guys were playing well, then it was one or two breakdowns,
- 6:28Speaker 6: So you feel like that's when it's been coming down
- 6:30Speaker 6: to just one or two plays.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like just a boy. Every game that
- 6:33Speaker 3: we lost besides one, I.
- 6:34Speaker 9: Feel like it's always it always comes down to that
- 6:37Speaker 9: one of one or two plays or you never know
- 6:39Speaker 9: which one it is. So that's why I say, you
- 6:40Speaker 9: just have to go in and capitalize on one hundred
- 6:43Speaker 9: percent of the plays that come your way.
- 6:45Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 6:45Speaker 10: Sorry, Where do you think has to change necessarily with
- 6:49Speaker 10: the defense in terms of the mentality, Maybe just to finish,
- 6:52Speaker 10: just to to get that extra you know, whatever you need.
- 6:56Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say anything has to change.
- 6:59Speaker 9: Its just the sense since an urgency has to ramp
- 7:01Speaker 9: up from the start to the finish. Obviously, I feel
- 7:05Speaker 9: like we didn't come out how we're supposed to come
- 7:07Speaker 9: out fast, physical things of that nature. Uh, So we
- 7:10Speaker 9: just have to amp up the intensities coming out and
- 7:13Speaker 9: then finishing as well.
- 7:15Speaker 6: Is that where you need to do to get over
- 7:17Speaker 6: the humper? Is there anything else? Uh?
- 7:20Speaker 9: I mean definitely, that's that's part of getting over the humping.
- 7:23Speaker 9: Like you say, just execution and all all three, all
- 7:26Speaker 9: three phases coming together like we did last week.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Uh.
- 7:29Speaker 9: Obviously it was very clear that all three phases came
- 7:31Speaker 9: together last week, and that's one of those things that
- 7:33Speaker 9: we have to try to continuously come together with each
- 7:36Speaker 9: other as a team.
- 7:37Speaker 3: And UH do like.
- 7:39Speaker 4: When you guys are doing some good things and it
- 7:41Speaker 4: still doesn't end up the right way to feel good
- 7:44Speaker 4: to hear.
- 7:45Speaker 9: Uh, that just just just goes to show you this
- 7:49Speaker 9: game is all about the inches, and within those inches,
- 7:52Speaker 9: you just have to dig into those little small details.
- 7:54Speaker 9: Like I continuously keep saying, Uh, it's always gonna come
- 7:56Speaker 9: down to those one.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Two or three players.
- 8:00Speaker 9: I feel like once we start executing, obviously it's gonna
- 8:02Speaker 9: be 's and flows at the game. But once we
- 8:04Speaker 9: start executing majority of those plays as a collective as
- 8:08Speaker 9: a group, everyone all eleven on the field, and I
- 8:10Speaker 9: feel like that'll be us getting over the home.
- 8:13Speaker 4: You feel like the momentum shifts back and forth because
- 8:15Speaker 4: you guys aren't playing complimentary football. When you guys use
- 8:17Speaker 4: something good, it seems like the offense might not be
- 8:19Speaker 4: in rhythm, and then vice versa.
- 8:21Speaker 3: Sometimes you know, I wouldn't even I wouldn't even say that.
- 8:23Speaker 9: It's just this is football, and obviously it's gonna be
- 8:25Speaker 9: 's and flows in every football game. No matter what,
- 8:28Speaker 9: it's nobody's perfect. Not trying to say we we gotta
- 8:31Speaker 9: obviously wanna go out there and be perfect, but nobody's
- 8:33Speaker 9: perfect in this game. It's a hard game of football.
- 8:35Speaker 9: They get paid just how we get paid. So, like
- 8:37Speaker 9: I said, we.
- 8:38Speaker 3: Just have to find those little small details.
- 8:40Speaker 4: Did they surprise you a little bit, uh at the
- 8:42Speaker 4: end of the game throwing it or did you think
- 8:44Speaker 4: maybe they were playing for overtime at all?
- 8:46Speaker 10: Uh?
- 8:46Speaker 9: No, they did everything that we're expecting them to do.
- 8:49Speaker 9: Came out trying to continue to run the ball, run
- 8:52Speaker 9: out the clock, and I mean, we just have to
- 8:53Speaker 9: get out the field.
- 8:55Speaker 1: You know, mostly injuries for off offense.
- 8:57Speaker 6: But what that next band of mentality and seeing guys
- 8:59Speaker 6: step up kind say.
- 9:01Speaker 9: Uh, it's it says a lot. It's the NFL, So
- 9:03Speaker 9: that's how it's supposed to be. Is next man up.
- 9:05Speaker 9: I mean, it's nothing that you can do alone. Like
- 9:08Speaker 9: like tomorrow Monday, we gotta come in and get treatment.
- 9:10Speaker 9: The ones that's banged up, we gotta come in and
- 9:11Speaker 9: get healthy, and it's on to the next It's a
- 9:14Speaker 9: week the week league.
- 9:16Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, you know, definitely they're capable of They
- 9:20Speaker 8: wouldn't be here if they weren't, it's gonna be all
- 9:22Speaker 8: hands on deck. So obviously very unfortunate that we have
- 9:26Speaker 8: to get to that point, but uh, it's the NFL,
- 9:29Speaker 8: and guys gotta step up. So I don't know exactly
- 9:33Speaker 8: how we're gonna move forward, but we gotta move forward.
- 9:35Speaker 4: What's it like, uh to find some small victories there
- 9:40Speaker 4: in that fourth quarter for you guys, I mean you're
- 9:41Speaker 4: down all those bodies in your rally from ten pack,
- 9:44Speaker 4: I mean, does that mean something?
- 9:47Speaker 8: I mean, I think it definitely speaks to uh the
- 9:49Speaker 8: young guys. Young guys like getting called on and just
- 9:53Speaker 8: stepping up.
- 9:53Speaker 6: So h.
- 9:56Speaker 8: You know, this point of our season, can't really uh
- 10:00Speaker 8: can't really bask him the more victories, but uh, yeah,
- 10:04Speaker 8: it's good for our Team's good for the young guys
- 10:06Speaker 8: to step up in that moment. And uh, I still
- 10:08Speaker 8: got a lot a lot of football left, so gotta
- 10:11Speaker 8: keep on.
- 10:11Speaker 1: And you stepped up big time in the end zone.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Uh did you feel like, I don't know, maybe two
- 10:17Speaker 2: seconds before the ball was even in the air, that
- 10:20Speaker 2: Trevor could throw it to you there.
- 10:22Speaker 8: Yeah, I Trevor has a really good sense of guys.
- 10:26Speaker 8: Winning at the line of scrimmage, and a lot of
- 10:27Speaker 8: a lot of players in the past that he's thrown
- 10:30Speaker 8: to me. I he's thrown me off with great releases.
- 10:33Speaker 8: And I threw a great release on the guy, and
- 10:35Speaker 8: so I knew Trevor would see it.
- 10:36Speaker 1: So I knew the ball was gonna be up there
- 10:38Speaker 1: for sure. Could you also talk about the timing of
- 10:40Speaker 1: the jump, because that's.
- 10:41Speaker 4: What got the defenders, was the fact that you timed
- 10:44Speaker 4: it perfectly to go up to hit the balls.
- 10:49Speaker 8: I I just went up and called it. I just uh, yeah,
- 10:53Speaker 8: I just went up and got it.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Definitely.
- 10:54Speaker 8: Uh. Everybody was talking about it was up there floating,
- 10:57Speaker 8: but yeah, I just went up and got it.
- 11:00Speaker 4: Feels like we've got We've wondered, can you guys make
- 11:02Speaker 4: a winning place the big place?
- 11:03Speaker 3: And you do in that moment?
- 11:05Speaker 4: So how I mean, how how much of a gut
- 11:07Speaker 4: punch is that you still don't end up celebrating it here?
- 11:10Speaker 11: Yeah?
- 11:10Speaker 8: I mean, they they ran a great playofffense, that little
- 11:14Speaker 8: sneak play that gets everybody so very unfortunate in that moment.
- 11:20Speaker 8: But our guys fault our guys, you know, we believe
- 11:22Speaker 8: that we can win this game and we were right there,
- 11:24Speaker 8: So we're definitely we're definitely trending up. And at this point, uh,
- 11:31Speaker 8: at this point, we gotta.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Fight for our legacy.
- 11:33Speaker 8: You know what kind of legacy do we want to
- 11:34Speaker 8: leave as individuals and for and for our team as
- 11:36Speaker 8: a team. So you know, we can we can throw
- 11:39Speaker 8: the record out at this point. Uh, you know what
- 11:42Speaker 8: what legacy we're gonna leave on the field moving forward?
- 11:45Speaker 8: And I think today gave us a h you know,
- 11:49Speaker 8: a good glimpse of what we can do.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Still just got to finished, so gotta keep moving forward.
- 11:55Speaker 4: Christian, you have a good relationship strong. How tough is
- 11:58Speaker 4: it to see a guy go down like that?
- 12:04Speaker 8: Yeah, it's uh, just on one of the best teammates
- 12:08Speaker 8: I've ever had ever been around, one of the smartest
- 12:12Speaker 8: players I've been around, and the you know, one of
- 12:15Speaker 8: the greatest best leaders I've been around.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Uh and you saw him cut up the day too.
- 12:19Speaker 1: He was rolling, he was getting.
- 12:21Speaker 8: Going, and it's just just a very unfortunate uh event.
- 12:26Speaker 1: God.
- 12:26Speaker 8: You know, God doesn't make mistakes, cause there's a plan.
- 12:29Speaker 8: His will is better than any any of ours can imagine.
- 12:32Speaker 8: So he'll be just fun.
- 12:34Speaker 6: I mean you're not saying season's over, right, but you're
- 12:37Speaker 6: saying the rest of it has to be about personal
- 12:39Speaker 6: pride and personal.
- 12:40Speaker 8: Pill Hell, no, season's not over. We you know what
- 12:44Speaker 8: happened here. We were in a way worse spot later
- 12:47Speaker 8: in the season. So I think today we we were that.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Today everybody was, you know.
- 12:52Speaker 8: Playing their passes off, leaving the legacy for themselves in
- 12:57Speaker 8: for our team, and uh, that brought us down to
- 12:59Speaker 8: the I guess a really good team. So I said,
- 13:02Speaker 8: I'm saying that just we gotta continue to do that
- 13:04Speaker 8: and continue to build on Matt and if we have
- 13:06Speaker 8: the outlook, we're gonna get the best out of our guys,
- 13:08Speaker 8: for sure.
- 13:09Speaker 10: We're any impoint we're sitting around in the huddle or
- 13:12Speaker 10: lining up, going where is everybody?
- 13:14Speaker 3: Like everybody's out?
- 13:15Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Oh yeah, I mean I
- 13:17Speaker 1: didn't even realize.
- 13:18Speaker 8: I was so locked in. I didn't realize Gabe was out.
- 13:21Speaker 8: I didn't realize BT was out. Obviously, I was like
- 13:25Speaker 8: front row for Christians.
- 13:26Speaker 1: So and then I.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Came up from the sideline and they were like, we.
- 13:29Speaker 8: Have to go twelve personnel for us today, and I
- 13:32Speaker 8: was just like okay. And then that was like, Oh,
- 13:35Speaker 8: but it's football. Got gotta step up and make plays
- 13:38Speaker 8: and keep on.
- 13:40Speaker 11: I mean, there's been a lot of talk about this
- 13:42Speaker 11: team potentially trading off guys because of the record. Christian
- 13:46Speaker 11: was talked about Brandon obviously, we talked about Cam. Is
- 13:50Speaker 11: that just disheartening or is it a distraction for you
- 13:53Speaker 11: guys to hear that that you know is another loss
- 13:56Speaker 11: and watch this team.
- 13:57Speaker 8: Sell sell sell.
- 13:58Speaker 1: That's uh, that's out.
- 14:01Speaker 8: That's way outside of our building, way outside of our building.
- 14:05Speaker 1: We have no control over that.
- 14:07Speaker 8: And we truly love each other in here, so we
- 14:10Speaker 8: don't even think about that.
- 14:11Speaker 1: We don't even fathom that.
- 14:13Speaker 8: At the end of the day, the business, the business
- 14:15Speaker 8: is a business and things might happen. We're not like,
- 14:18Speaker 8: we cannot even we can't even sit here and I
- 14:20Speaker 8: don't even wanna see her answer that question so respectfully,
- 14:22Speaker 8: but that's just something we don't think about.
- 14:25Speaker 1: We're talking about