Latest / Press Pass / Press Pass | Thomas, Oluokun, And Morse On Falling Short To The Eagles
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Uh.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I I do know.
- 0:01Speaker 3: We keep asking you how frustrating this, but uh, how
- 0:05Speaker 3: tough stick to come up short again?
- 0:07Speaker 4: Uh, I mean have super tough to come up shorter again.
- 0:11Speaker 4: But I mean, Shan, we ain't nothing we can do
- 0:15Speaker 4: about it now.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Uh. We just gonna come out next weekend try to
- 0:18Speaker 1: ug be better than we were this week.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Cool. This was like two different games and then you
- 0:23Speaker 3: guys really couldn't do anything in the first half.
- 0:25Speaker 1: But what were something of the struggles? Mm just couldn't
- 0:28Speaker 1: just start it, just couldn't.
- 0:29Speaker 4: Uh just couldn't contain the drive stay stay on the
- 0:32Speaker 4: field thing that we had. Like wonder if they want
- 0:35Speaker 4: the two first hours uh in the first half and
- 0:37Speaker 4: you just gotta stay on the field.
- 0:38Speaker 1: We had to uh control the drive, put a drive
- 0:41Speaker 1: together and so we can get get the offense going.
- 0:43Speaker 3: How much uh did they focus on you? Did you
- 0:45Speaker 3: feel like in this game and when it wasn't one
- 0:47Speaker 3: of the other games to the defense?
- 0:49Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, I mean I don't feel like they did
- 0:51Speaker 1: not any special. I don't feel like they did nothing
- 0:54Speaker 1: different any other team or whatever. Yeah.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Did you feel what it is at all with the injury?
- 1:00Speaker 1: Nah? I I'm I'm good.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Pretty surprised that you didn't get it a little bit more.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Uh. I mean I just played the game, Uh whatever,
- 1:08Speaker 1: just played it, play the game the right way. Uh.
- 1:10Speaker 4: Try to go out there and win for my team.
- 1:12Speaker 4: I mean it don't matter. But what if I do,
- 1:13Speaker 4: if I do good and we still lose, or if
- 1:15Speaker 4: I so Man, I'll just try to go out there
- 1:17Speaker 4: and play for my team, do what I could do
- 1:19Speaker 4: to help the team win.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Frian, is this feel different? Like? Is there more anger
- 1:23Speaker 1: after this loss? Maybe than some of the others.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Pretty in here?
- 1:28Speaker 1: I wouldn't say. I mean a loss is a lot.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:32Speaker 4: I mean we we just we been been there right
- 1:34Speaker 4: there for the past couple of weeks.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Uh couple weeks. Uh, I mean we was just trying
- 1:39Speaker 1: to get over the hump.
- 1:39Speaker 5: Uh.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Just gotta try to do what we gotta do to
- 1:42Speaker 1: final to finally get that win. How these slow starts
- 1:45Speaker 1: that have kind of been the plague all year? What's
- 1:48Speaker 1: left to try or what's left to do to kind
- 1:49Speaker 1: of get over these days?
- 1:51Speaker 4: Mm?
- 1:51Speaker 1: Just good, come out and be better.
- 1:52Speaker 4: Just uh, there's no know what we do, they're wrong,
- 1:55Speaker 4: correct it and just come out next week and be better.
- 1:58Speaker 1: All we can do how much.
- 1:59Speaker 3: Reg gods and does it say something at least in
- 2:03Speaker 3: a loss, how much you came back and you're about
- 2:06Speaker 3: ready to get blown out?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 2:07Speaker 1: In that second half, Yeah, I mean everybody came out.
- 2:09Speaker 1: We battled, Uh, we fought.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Uh, I mean we didn't get the result that we wanted,
- 2:13Speaker 4: but we I mean we still came out fall two injuries.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Uh everybody, everybody, everybody gave it their all.
- 2:19Speaker 3: Can you give us a sense of what it was like?
- 2:21Speaker 3: First down thirteen yard line? You guys just feel like
- 2:24Speaker 3: you have all the momentum on you know, in that huddle,
- 2:26Speaker 3: and they're gonna go steal a win.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you thought we came out, we had
- 2:31Speaker 4: a good play.
- 2:32Speaker 1: We just gotta execute.
- 2:34Speaker 4: Uh, just gotta execute the little things and uh hopefully get.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Should have came out.
- 2:38Speaker 2: We went watched the Traveller's Home over recover and returned
- 2:42Speaker 2: energize you guys.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Uh. It helped us out a big time. It came
- 2:45Speaker 4: in a very uh big moment. Uh just playmakers making
- 2:48Speaker 4: the play. Bu but it I mean it it sparked
- 2:51Speaker 4: us a lot.
- 2:51Speaker 1: It helped us out in a l uh in a
- 2:53Speaker 1: in a big way.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Where's uh where's your mind to have with all? I mean,
- 2:57Speaker 3: it feels like little DejaVu, Well daydre u. I mean,
- 3:01Speaker 3: just another close one on the right.
- 3:03Speaker 5: So, uh gotta start executing all the way through the
- 3:06Speaker 5: whole game, putting ourselves in good positions to defensively, you know,
- 3:10Speaker 5: we gotta get off on third down and especially in
- 3:13Speaker 5: the red zone a couple of times. We keep putting
- 3:15Speaker 5: ourselves in positions to win the game. We definitely showed
- 3:18Speaker 5: a lot of fight, a lot of resiliency. But let's
- 3:20Speaker 5: be cleaner all the way throughout the game, and that's
- 3:22Speaker 5: how we'll come.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Out on top.
- 3:23Speaker 3: But it did you made some of those plays.
- 3:26Speaker 5: We made plays. We could have made more plays, for sure.
- 3:28Speaker 5: You know you get put out there. Uh, third down,
- 3:30Speaker 5: third and longs. We have more plays to make, you know,
- 3:34Speaker 5: and we will show fight to keep ourselves.
- 3:36Speaker 2: In the game.
- 3:37Speaker 5: We made plays, We can make more plays like whatever
- 3:39Speaker 5: it's called upon us. Our job is to do our job.
- 3:41Speaker 5: So make the players that come to us and keep fighting.
- 3:44Speaker 5: This way we'll start seeing ourselves winning game.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Or do you look at some of the big plays
- 3:47Speaker 3: the third and eighteen, the thirty twenty two touchdowns, So
- 3:50Speaker 3: is that them making great plays or you.
- 3:52Speaker 5: Guys know they make they make plays. I remember the
- 3:55Speaker 5: draw play. I kind of felt it was gonna be
- 3:57Speaker 5: a drawing me personally communicate that to the D line
- 4:00Speaker 5: so they don't worsh up the field. Everybody gotta hunt
- 4:03Speaker 5: on that play. You know they're gonna get a couple
- 4:04Speaker 5: of yards in the draw when we're playing off. But
- 4:06Speaker 5: we can't have that explode to a a touchdown. You
- 4:09Speaker 5: know what I'm saying things like that is it is
- 4:12Speaker 5: killing me right now.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Uh.
- 4:13Speaker 5: You know they they make plays in one handed, catching
- 4:15Speaker 5: the in the back at the at the end zone. Uh,
- 4:18Speaker 5: it's tough, keep hunting, keep working. Uh, let's make the
- 4:22Speaker 5: play next time it.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Comes to us.
- 4:23Speaker 3: How mentally exhausting is that with the all of a sudden,
- 4:26Speaker 3: the downs.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Alter the game.
- 4:28Speaker 5: I love it.
- 4:29Speaker 1: I love it.
- 4:29Speaker 5: I think that's football. I love the anxiety that you
- 4:32Speaker 5: get when you, uh gotta come back and win. I
- 4:35Speaker 5: wanna be up the whole game, But that's not NFL football.
- 4:38Speaker 5: I love, you know, being able to compete through all
- 4:40Speaker 5: four quarters. You know, I love it. What you mean, like,
- 4:43Speaker 5: is it mentally exhausting? That's what I signed up for.
- 4:45Speaker 5: I suppose you do is an NFL football player. When
- 4:47Speaker 5: you win in a loser, you're gonna fight all the
- 4:49Speaker 5: way through the game. It's it's it's it's it's fun, bro,
- 4:53Speaker 5: it's fun.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Uh.
- 4:54Speaker 5: I wanna win more games, though, I wanna be winning
- 4:56Speaker 5: at the end of the game a lot more. But however,
- 4:58Speaker 5: it looks you gotta be able to to fight through that.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Be uh kind of mentally tough, be be ready for
- 5:03Speaker 5: those type of things, and we gotta find a way
- 5:05Speaker 5: to win.
- 5:06Speaker 1: You guys were dead a couple more.
- 5:07Speaker 3: How much did trade with the play?
- 5:09Speaker 5: I don't think we were ever dead? That was cool though, Yeah,
- 5:12Speaker 5: we ain't dead. Like if they weren't scoring that much,
- 5:14Speaker 5: that's you know, Uh, keep giving the ball backs to
- 5:16Speaker 5: the offense. I think I gave us definitely a spark,
- 5:18Speaker 5: But we weren't dead. It was early in the what
- 5:20Speaker 5: third quarter?
- 5:21Speaker 1: Oh?
- 5:22Speaker 5: Yeah, what was the score?
- 5:23Speaker 3: Oh it was nothing at one time.
- 5:25Speaker 5: It wasn't dead. Doope, looks we came back.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Huh, So we wasn't dead.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Uh A A great job, Trayvon. That's a that's a
- 5:31Speaker 5: hell of a athlete, right, so, uh, he got that
- 5:33Speaker 5: ball in his head.
- 5:34Speaker 1: He show us what he could do with it. Uh
- 5:35Speaker 1: put him in Kate returner.
- 5:37Speaker 5: But uh uh, that's a great play by him individually.
- 5:39Speaker 5: And I just loved how the whole defense started blocking
- 5:41Speaker 5: for him. I think that was cool. Did our job
- 5:44Speaker 5: to spark the team. But like I'm saying, we're never
- 5:46Speaker 5: dead just cause just we were down a little bit
- 5:48Speaker 5: in the third quarter.
- 5:48Speaker 1: That's not the mindset to have, Is this alright? Last one?
- 5:51Speaker 1: Last one? D Sorry?
- 5:53Speaker 3: Is this a little bit more anger in the long
- 5:55Speaker 3: from after this game?
- 5:56Speaker 5: After frustration is is definitely there? Uh, because you see
- 6:00Speaker 5: that we can play with anybody. We see that we
- 6:02Speaker 5: can beat anybody, but we're not winning at the end
- 6:05Speaker 5: of the game. So I think you win at the
- 6:06Speaker 5: end of the game. We'll winning first quarter, the second quarter,
- 6:10Speaker 5: end of the second, beginning of the third. Like, we
- 6:12Speaker 5: gotta look at that the other opportunities we could have
- 6:14Speaker 5: won the game, not just like a final drive or
- 6:16Speaker 5: nothing like that. Cleaning ourselves up all the way through
- 6:18Speaker 5: the game. And we're gonna see us come on top.
- 6:20Speaker 5: But we gotta get that fix.
- 6:22Speaker 3: How tough of this is just another one to come
- 6:26Speaker 3: down to the wire, just not up on the right sides.
- 6:28Speaker 1: A lot of these now.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Yeah, but listen that it's it's devastating, right, Like, we
- 6:35Speaker 2: put the work in the week, come out with intentions
- 6:39Speaker 2: to win. You know, it just comes down to shooting
- 6:42Speaker 2: ourselves in the foot early and then you know, our
- 6:46Speaker 2: defense is putting been putting us in great positions and
- 6:49Speaker 2: we just have to capitalize.
- 6:51Speaker 5: You know.
- 6:51Speaker 2: The unfortunate thing is it is a broken record right now,
- 6:53Speaker 2: which is that you have to look at yourself and
- 6:56Speaker 2: I know there's plenty that I left out there that
- 6:58Speaker 2: I've looked back, and every player is gonna do that
- 7:00Speaker 2: and on their on their job, on what they can
- 7:04Speaker 2: do better as a professional, and then you carry on. Man,
- 7:07Speaker 2: that's just part of this great professional work. Part of
- 7:12Speaker 2: like you just gotta on your stuff and work every
- 7:15Speaker 2: day to get better.
- 7:16Speaker 3: I know you're you you'd fix it if you could.
- 7:19Speaker 3: But the slow start with thirty one yards in the
- 7:21Speaker 3: first half, I mean, is it crazy that you guys
- 7:24Speaker 3: are only producing that much?
- 7:25Speaker 1: To you?
- 7:28Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I wish there was. Yeah, it's just unacceptable.
- 7:32Speaker 1: One.
- 7:34Speaker 2: You know, it's it's been our defense of a terrible situation,
- 7:38Speaker 2: you know, time of possession yards you know, so for us,
- 7:43Speaker 2: it's just focusing on what we can you know, we'll
- 7:45Speaker 2: we'll take a good hard look at it. I wish
- 7:47Speaker 2: I had all the answers today, I don't, and uh
- 7:51Speaker 2: come about and if you guys ask us later in
- 7:53Speaker 2: the week, maybe I'll have better answers for you.
- 7:55Speaker 3: In the game you're went to thirteen, can you give
- 7:57Speaker 3: us a sense of how you guys are feeling with
- 8:00Speaker 3: after the miserable start to have a chance and how
- 8:02Speaker 3: much momentum we had in the spot.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I think UH spoke a lot about the resiliency
- 8:07Speaker 2: of this team, which unfortunately we're really relying on a
- 8:12Speaker 2: lot more than we'd like to. But you know, we
- 8:14Speaker 2: had a big fourth pound of conversion. I felt like
- 8:17Speaker 2: we were kind of flowing a bit. And listen, I
- 8:20Speaker 2: mean it just playing like that happens. It happens. But uh,
- 8:23Speaker 2: you know, we're we're out to be part of this team,
- 8:26Speaker 2: proud to be a part of this group, and we'll
- 8:30Speaker 2: we've got to own our stuff as professionals, which we
- 8:33Speaker 2: will and uh, you know it's really tough right now,
- 8:35Speaker 2: there's no getting around it. But what you do is
- 8:38Speaker 2: you stepped foot in that building tomorrow morning with intentions
- 8:42Speaker 2: of moving the ball forward, no pun intended, right, Like,
- 8:45Speaker 2: So we'll just go in there and do the best
- 8:47Speaker 2: mechanics pros and you.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Give us a sense of what it's like in your
- 8:51Speaker 3: room to see guys.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Battle on the way they're battling.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, Coop is a guy
- 8:57Speaker 2: who does everything the right way. He's such a spark
- 9:01Speaker 2: in our room, not only as a player, but this
- 9:04Speaker 2: is a personality as a friend. So that was you know,
- 9:10Speaker 2: when you're in the flow of the game, you compartmentalize,
- 9:13Speaker 2: but now that you have the opportunity to sit back
- 9:15Speaker 2: and reflects, it's devastating. He does everything the right way. Yeah,
- 9:19Speaker 2: and then you have guys going battling through injuries and
- 9:22Speaker 2: unfortunately that's the name of this game. But we got
- 9:25Speaker 2: some tough dudes.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Man.
- 9:26Speaker 2: I think, like, it's just it's it's a real privilege
- 9:31Speaker 2: to battle with these guys. Even if it's not going
- 9:33Speaker 2: our way right now, it's still the ultimate privilege. Is
- 9:36Speaker 2: there a sense of where you guys feeling unlucky even
- 9:39Speaker 2: a little bit at time unlucky? Oh? Well, you know,
- 9:43Speaker 2: I think luck in this business is a little bit
- 9:49Speaker 2: It's hard to explain, but you really bring good luck
- 9:52Speaker 2: or bad luck upon yourself by attention to detail.
- 9:55Speaker 1: And you.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Know, I'm just doing to answer your question. And uh,
- 10:01Speaker 2: if you start looking at as lucky or unlucky, then
- 10:04Speaker 2: you take away from being a little bit critical yourself
- 10:08Speaker 2: and making the corrections moved too.
- 10:09Speaker 1: So then you guys have been talking.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Oh, you're talking more about like, uh, injury.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Wise, injury wise, slow start, I mean you.
- 10:16Speaker 2: Guys well, injury wise, absolutely, yeah, slow starts, you guys do,
- 10:22Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is, right,