Carson of Corson, You've had the ball in your hand now late in the game to either tire go ahead several times and you guys just haven't kind of gotten over the top there or were some of the problems down the stretch through. Yeah, we just didn't execute an execute. I mean it came out second half, Um, I thought we were moving the ball well. Um, slow start really
really hurt us. Looking back, Um, first half, putting out three points, the turnover I had, you know, all that stuff, UM gonna make it tough to win in games like this where uh, they're they're big kind of ball control team and your drives are really limited and so every drive is really important. And we started off slow and that really hurt us. And at the end of the game, we just didn't get it done starting slow. I'm not sure thirty two, fourth and seven there in the fourth
quarter of what went wrong? Execution I mean at the end of the day, execution screenplay, we just missed it. Um the play at our Uh you know, we we dial it up and it's right at the sticks and came up short it. Carson and had obviously had a lot of success this year. I think you're charged sixteen times today he is they're good and bad to that you want to food the ball to different people a little bit, Yeah, I mean it's always great, um, when
you can spread the ball around to everybody. Um, tonight it just so happened to be, you know, a lot of chances with zach Um with the way they were playing coverages and the way they played their techniques, and um, it was Zac had a great game, you know. So. Um, I don't know how many times we threw to him or how many completions the ab but I'm sure it was a lot. Um. And so to have that chemistry with him, with the way they were playing him, that's
just just the way it worked out tonight. And that going back to that fourth and six or seven or whatever it was, to Earth's Um, why did that Why did that play you know fall short of the sticks on them? Yeah, I mean we knew it was gonna be close. Um. It was his type man coverage, so, um, we knew it was gonna be right at the stick. And at the end of the day we came up short. The one opportunity to all shone down the right sideline. Would you have to see on that plane which one
you're talking about? U. It was al Shon deep on the right and then earlier in the second quartering good Yeah, um yeah, I gotta get more more behind that throw. Um, I couldn't quite finish it, you know, I couldn't quite see what how it ended up the end result was. But no, I didn't get quite enough on the throw to attempt to al shut in the end zone. Did you expect him to go a little further on that
or what happened on that in completion? Yeah? I mean the way they were playing coverage, we talked about it all week and then they the way they reacted on the field was a little differently. And um, that's one that we're kicking ourselves. We want to have back and just missed it. Slow starts, I'll eat it. I think you guys have three touchdowns in nine games in the first quarter at the two in the same game. You think it's an issue? Do you think it's something that
you need to resolve? Is it's just a flukey thing. I mean, do you feel differ for early in games? I know I personally don't feel different. Um. You know, some people can say you want to settle in all those things. I don't feel that way. Um. You know, I thought that was something I don't want to talk about last year. But that's something that we did really well last year. And it's really hard to put your finger on why, um it is the way it is this year. A lot of it's just little execution things
that are a big deal. Um. And so I mean, we got to go back and look and see what our teams doing to us early in the game. Why are we having these slow starts? And really, you know, look hard in the mirror, because I think tonight that's what costs us. Mentioned sounds like the scripted plays that the other team is all over them every week, you know, one yard passes and picks and things like that. It's like they know what's coming those. What was the question
to the layman on the slow starts. It looks like the scripted plays are just being run right into the teeth of the defense. So if you know, it's good good observation. I mentioned you said look at yourselves in the mirror. Duck said that was his message to the team afterwards. You have make sure that you're doing everything you can to prepare. What do you as someone who has the Polstal locker room. What do you what are you sensing that? I mean, I know this one hurt.
You know this one hurt obviously. UM, Sunday night Football Division One opponent, the Cowboys coming into our home. Um. Really, the way we've played the last couple of times at home, you know, that's not what we pride ourselves on. And this one hurts. So I know, UM, we got a lot of veterans in there, a lot of leadership and uh, you know, like you said, like coach said, UM, and I'm gonna keep echoing the same thing. We all got to look in the mirror. What can we do differently?
Where can we be better? Um? And we realized a lot of people are gonna want to write us off at this point, and UM, now it's just time to play ball and then try and go shock some people. Do you feel like you to follow up on that? That's been the message before from from me? What makes you think these next seven teams are going to be any different? Yeah, I mean, like you said, that's been the message before. UM. Some extent, I feel like this
press conference has been a broken record almost. You know, we've been here a couple of times and we know, at the end of the day, every one of these games is closed and this is the National Football League gets hard to win. Um, and we've letting, we've let a handful get away from us now that we're really just kicking ourselves. And um, like you said, I mean we've said it before. So it's really just are are we gonna step up? Are we gonna make good corrections?
Are we gonna come out faster each week? Um? And you know, I believe we have the guys to do that. Designed shorter passes, screens had not been as successful as they were last year. Is that do you see that? Is that a theme that's been running through the course of the year to say, honestly, Um, after to night, I'll have to go watch the film just thinking back on some I know we had a couple of screens that were right there. Um, even that third and two
late in the game, we had it right there. We just the one guy you know, knife through and made the play. And um, you know, they're the same stuff that we hit last week or two weeks go ast Jacksonville for the thirty five year touchdown or whatever it was. And so those are just little things that we're just missing by this much. That make a big difference. You look like Golden kind of had a fairly limited package of plays. Is that tough at all? You're trying to
work a guy into the offense. I mean, anytime you're trying to work a guy in the middle of season, it's tough. You know, he's done a great job picking things out from the second he got here. He's putting in a lot of time at the facility, you know, meeting with coaches, asking questions. And I feel confident in him wherever we put him in, whatever we asked him to do. Hard to say. Could we have used him
differently tonight? Hard to say. But I'm really confident in him as a player and as a teammate going forward here, and I'm sure he'll get more and more involved as we go. Of course, this may seem like an unfair question considering how far you've come to come back from your injury. What what do you think you can do better or more of to get this team back on track. Yeah, I mean, we just gotta ex you better at the end of the day. And that comes on my shoulders,
that comes on the old line, That comes on everybody. Um, execution is the biggest thing. It's really hard to stand up here after a game and just pinpoint one thing. Um, you know, starting slow at something that that I think I can I can do better, and making plays early in the game, trying to get guys going. Um. But again, it's really hard to just put your finger on one thing. Um. But but executing, you know, some of the situational football, some of those those red zone plays have liked played
al Sean. Uh, those are things we just gotta hit. We gotta hit. And that's all at the end of the day, just executions. Are you seeing the execution in practice with what's have been like in the practice field? Is it just in the game that kind of clubs Yeah, I mean practice looks good. You know. I thought even tonight, execution later in the game wasn't bad. Um, just early in the game we were just slow, start missing things here and there. Um. At the end of the day, though,
that's a good football they played, that's a good defense. Um. They did some things early to kind of get us out of our out of our rhythm a little bit. So you gotta tip your hat to them at some point. And I thought we made great adjustments at halftime. We just you know, it's too little, too late, a tendency to maybe try a little too hard, to start fast to the point where it becomes kind of productive. I mean there could be. I can't say that's what's happening
to us. Like I said, it's a culmination of things. But at the end of the day, you gotta tap your hat to them. Like I said, they did some things early too to kind of take away what we wanted to do, made some plays and we stend next year enough early in the game. Thanks