Hi, guys who set that mic injuries from the game, Ronaldo greened after the toe injury didn't return. That's all we have for now. I mean I basically said, I knew they were gonna be ready to play. Our guys were. We had a great week of practice. But I was just glad that they were ready to battle because that game was a battle. I told him last night, don't expect this game to be fun. It's gonna be grimy out there. It's gonna be sticky. This team that is
playing too desperate. Just it's a good team that's lost some games, some close ones, and there are a day before their bye week. So we knew we were gonna get their best shot. I thought we had opportunities to run away with it. We didn't. That was on us. But I was so proud of the guys in all three phases, how they rebounded. I mean, oh, just the struggles, those two struggles in the red zone. I'm coming back and making that big one by Brock and Kittle there.
I think it was second goal from the ten. The struggles on special teams, mainly with the missed field goals. For Jake to come back at the last one, to. You know, there's much pressure on him, as you can imagine in anyone with missing those three in the game, and for him to drill that was huge. And even though you know I didn't put the muff pun on Jake, he's got to catch it, but you know, just lude get in his way. He's got to get out of
his way. That's a problem for him to come back and make a big play return in it later and in the defense. So I thought was solid all game, but those huge penalties on that last drive. To have those, you can just see the way it's going for them to still hold him to a field goal, I thought was huge, and I gave us a chance to answer there at the end. I don't have much of it a take because I didn't see any of it, so I just got told about it. But probably an obvious one.
Guy's frustrated and something probably happened, and you know brother's scuffle a little bit. I didn't see any of it, so I don't know how bad it was, but something I'm not too worried about. We'll fix it, but it hasn't been fixed already. We'll fix it on the plane and we'll go back to loving each other tomorrow. I had great confidence all week in him, you know, he you know, confidence is built off of how guys looked during the week, and he looked great in the week.
And he he made some field goals today. But you know, the one he missed was just a little bit left. Looked like the next one he missed was the exact same kick a little bit left. Then it looked like he over compensated for those misses and missed the exact same way a little bit to the right and fixed that a little bit and it just went into the right on the last one. So I think you're only as good as your last kick. So he's did a
hell of a job winning that game for us. At then you like and how he did this, Yeah, that's allowed. You know, it's doesn't seem like it effort. So I react the same way, but it's it's it's allowed to do They're allowed to do that. We sorry, what's that? You think? He came out great, which was huge. You know, we knew it was gonna be hard, but he to load manage him, as I think everyone says in the media, I just say, not play him as much. But I
thought we did. We did that in the first half, you know, we did a couple series and stuff, and the second half it had got away from us a little bit. We had and I think we only had one drive in that whole third quarter, didn't have as many possessions, and we weren't taking him out on the fourth and he didn't need to be taken out. He's just talking and we felt great and gonna be pumped out him back next week. I think the third how
can we do that? Just cause we had a drive and we would get him out on two plays, we wanted to make sure we had him in on third down, and just got in a bad situation there on second down if this is the one I'm thinking of, right, just busted a protection and got a sack and then we just finished it with a drive. So I don't even know if we put him in for the scra I mean finished it with a screen, but that was
just us surrendering. Uh. Ricky was awesome, you know, he made the plays he needed to when we went to him scoring a touchdown on that he beat his guy in coverage and then made a great catch and scoring points there. It's huge, not making us have to do anything on the three or one. I know it was close, but great job getting in and uh his hands on
the last drive. I know we got the out route which was a big one, but the dagger that he caught was was a huge one that got us down there on the situation which one so we could save one, I mean when they had one left right. Uh, okay, you're talking at the end at the first half, just so we could I mean, do we run out of time there at then? Yeah, I mean we plan on the drive going longer. If you know we're gonna go three and out after that play, then that'd be good.
But I'd love to be able to still be able to run the ball, be able to overcome things, be able to if you get a penalty, not get a ten second run off. We didn't feel time it's an issue. No, I don't. I don't wanna mess with the kicker. What am I gonna say to him? You better make it? Does that help or does that hurt? I have no idea, and Brock it inta to either. It's you want him
to play normal football. I don't wanna go, uh go to him and be like be aggressive, but don't be if it looks bad, so we don't give it back cause you have over time, you're going for the win, and he did. We had some real good plays. I mean just with Juan, I think to start the drive and I think it went to Rickey, some good quick outs and then we got the big explosive on the dagger, which was huge, and uh, he was awesome in the second half there. Yeah, it was yeah, everything went went well.
It was smooth day. What's that day as well? Oh? Huge. Jawn's been a stud all year. He's been a stud in his whole career here. But but you know, we you know, especially losing Ba, you know, we needed to get drawn back in the starting position and this was his first time ever playing exposition, which he'll be doing the rest of the year. So he did a hell of a job. I don't think anything's really going on, but he but he did miss a few throws in the first half just being a little bit off and
you know, cost us on a couple ones. But the way he came back in the second half was huge. You know, he had some big time that won a Christian down the sidelines because we had a busted protection. He actually threw it, so early. I didn't think it was a good throw. I didn't know why he threw it so early until I saw the pictures and saw we busted a protection. So he had to get rid of it so early and put some touch on it, which gave Christian a chance to get under it. So
that was huge. The throw to Kittle on second and goal from the ten in the corner of the end zone, that was huge. Reminded me of what he did on third and goal from the ten vers Seattle to kind of get us out of our red zone lows. And he did the same thing here today and was awesome. On the last drive a teammate went after Moody or Pepper. I mean, this is the first time I had it all described to me. Some It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm gonna wait to see it on
my own eyes and talk to the guys. But I mean, I I I don't think the pressure of people of getting shoved with a helmet on or something as much of it. I think when it all comes down to you and everyone's depending on you, there's a lot of pressure on that guy. Even if he hits six in a row to day and it all comes down to him at the last one, and he misses that. That's why You're only as good as your last kick, You're only as good as your last throw, You're only as
good as your last game. It was great practice for himself to put himself in a situation like that and to come through. I think that does add confidence to guys. So they've been there before, but I'm proud of how he made that. It then guy's good, all right, guess