Go ahead, go ahead, Fred, How do you put this one into perspective? Yeah, I mean I'm always just gonna look at defensively not good enough. Uh I. I really don't have anything to say about big picture or anything like that. It's just I'm you know, I'm just speaking on the game. I we did some things good, we did some things not good. Penalties killed us. Not taking the ball away and you know, one take away in the last five games. It's just not gonna get it done.
You know. I challenged the defense at at half saying we needed to take the ball away to win the game, and we didn't do that, you know, and I I put that on myself. I I put that on you know. Just gotta continue to keep challenging the guys. I can only speak defensively at the end of the day. And how much did it deflate you guys or you know, hurt to see Dre go out so early in this game? Yeah, of course we we see the difference, right uh er r you know from last game when he's out there
and and uh that's my guy. I love going out there and battle with him. But at the end of the day, it's it's about saving dre from himself sometimes too. You know, he's coming back from a a major injury and everybody looks at last game and how how great he was, and it's like that's not normal. You know, he he's dealing with something significant. So we got to just protect him fro himself. Sometimes you are, how are a serious? Your chance to talk to him? Yeah, he's down,
he's down here. I mean Dre built built the right way. Like he he wants to be out there. He wants to help us win games. And that's my brother. At the end of the day, like I said, we gotta we gotta hold him, hold him back from hurt himself more. You know, obviously focused on this game, but he wanted the few players on this team who was here for the Super Bowl when it was here, and I think that's the last time at the point I was played in this building. Did did you ever that Iver Rander
in your mind it all today? Not really, you know, I guess when we first walked in and just see in the locker room better than that, it really didn't have any significance. You You and Nick had said that you're eager to see what the energy levels like over these last few games. M what was that like today? What was the energy on den? It was right? It was right. I mean from the get go, you could you could feel it like we we came out with
the right intention. I think all across the board everybody had their mind made up that we were gonna come out, we were gonna, uh set the tone early. But I mean it's a four quarter football game. That that raw ros stuff only lasts so long. You gotta you gotta play, you know, Simon sound execute at a high level. And at the end of the day, I look at you know, defensively just the I f I I keep looking at it.
The takeaways is the difference, you know, we when we don't take the ball away, it's gonna be hard to win. And rather pretty out there being with Ding next to you, it's great. I loved I love playing alongside him. You know, he's a young player, but he plays the right way, you know it. I know he's I know he's bang. Everybody's banged up right now. I but I like taking the field. I love taking the de the field d every single time, MM, were you lait hit? You know
he's by the defense. Any comment on those some of the 'om team. Maybe a little bit ticky hacky. Yeah, I mean, I know I can't comment on comment on it too much, but you know, we're obviously gonna play a a a style of play where we're gonna try and finish with the ball every single snap. There's a there's a smart way to go about it. Go about it, and at the end of the day, if you get a penalty called on you, you're wrong. You know I
I that's that's just what it is. That's good. Thanks for me, Thanks that for thank you going