This one in perspective, yeah, I mean mixed emotions about it. Honestly, we know, we know the recipe for winning football games for our team, Like, we got to take the ball away on defense, we didn't take the ball away. We gotta protect the ball. On offense, we gave it. We gave it away. So when you do that, that's how you lose games, you know. And so even through all of that, had we scored at that on that last drive, we would have been within one score and like had
a chance. But right at that point, it's like, man, you're grasping to try to find a way back in the game, but we just didn't. We didn't execute. They were the better team today, but at the.
Half you're only down for itspite being minus three intronal Mrson, are you are you happy about that in that moment or are you regretting, Like, hey, we had opportunities to really get a.
Big leader both. I think obviously we have to have a way better start to the game in the first half as a team, and then in the second half, even even if they do get the ball on defense, we can't let them score. Tout sounds like we gotta find a way to either get the ball back or settle for three. And we didn't do that in the second. We just didn't play it good enough to win the game.
You and Dre and Nick were having a talk on the sideline early on trying to figure out things. What was that about, just trying to solve what Lamar was doing offensively?
Uh? I can't. I can't remember exactly what we were talking about, but uh, I mean, we came into the game saying we had to stop the run, and I feel like we did that in a in a big way early on. As you know, Lamar made some big plays with his legs and extending some plays, and we knew that he was gonna get his. We just had to get ours and we didn't today. We had to take We had to find a way to take the ball away to get us back in that game. We just couldn't do it. This big picture, you know, you
guys came in here controlling your own destiny. You still do. So what's the mindset of now on a short week getting ready to go to the DC. The mindset is, you can't let one turn into two. You gotta you gotta wipe this one. Learn from it. Of course, you know it wants to tape hard, be honest with yourself, but gotta you gotta get back to work, Get right back to work. You know what I'm saying, Like, we can't let this, you know, affect our confidence as a team.
We know who we are. We gotta come back on a short week and go on the road in a big game and and find a way to win one game. One one of those examples where this sport can just humble you at anytime. Absolutely, that's it. Merry Christmas.