Press Conference: Doug Pederson October 21

we just gotta take a look at. Um, we gotta get you know, there there were some positive things obviously, but but those are areas that have have heard us in a couple of games you know this season already. They just made more plays. Nothing changed, the same guys, the same same people out there. They just made more plays than we did. So really sychematically, nothing changed. Um uh, you know, just we just didn't make enough in the

second half of this game. Once you get down there in the final possession, inherence you play, we'll go for about eight yards. Can you take us through the food process there on the play? Hold what are you trying to do there? Or you just get in the end zone, get the first down? What's we had to get in the end zone? You know, to win the game. Um. And and our thought there was, you know, give give Carson a pass and audible to you know, give them a run so if they play a certain defense, we

could get to the run. And we were able to do that and we got positive yards and then get right back on the ball and go go tempo a little bit right there, and and uh and try to get the first down. Still had timeouts, you know, so we still had a lot of options available to us, um with the amount of time and timeouts in the in the game, so trying to get the first down but ultimately trying to get in the end zone on the fourth and ten diversion they had to do soon. Um,

I felt like that. I believe it was Jalen at the time, may have may have slipped, may have fell down, and just Tory was was standing right there. Why we were real close of getting to get the cam and getting them on the ground at the time, and and uh, you know we were we were just a step behind

at seventeen. Offensively, there's muttered, Um, we didn't we didn't execute, you know, we uh just just just broke down, you know, and then we can't have that and those are things that uh, our guys pride themselves on, you know, whether it's you know, I look at the I'll go back and look at you know, the couple of calls play calls there. See if I can do a little better there,

help our team out there. And um, we had an opportunity on the third down al Sean, uh twenty four you know Brad Burry for them, came back and really recovered. Well al Sean was wide open and twenty four just came back and just got a hand in there late and knocked the ball the way or otherwise. We're on

the field at that point too. What was the message to the team after the class like us, Well, the message is that uh um, you know quite frankly, and I told him, I says, you know, we we have to learn from these These are these are things, These are these are games that the galvanized football teams and and this is gonna do that, this is gonna bring us even closer together. Um basically told them that, hey, um,

pressures off of us. Nobody on the outside world's given us a chance to do much of anything, and pressures off so we can go play, have fun and just relax and and and a lot of football ahead too. You know, we still have m a bunch of games and still anything's possible, anything can happen, and you know, we still treat it as one week at a time. You guys, most the game earlier this season where you were a head seventeen and three in a second year,

what did you not learn from that one? I mean it's that where's there some kind of connective thread there between what happened in Nashville's that's happened here? Well, um, fourth and fifteen, fourth and ten, we've got to go look at those two plays and that's probably the answer. So we've got to, you know, as as players and coaches, make sure that that we're putting our guys in position. And then secondly, we got to execute the play flat out.

This This is a player's game, right, Players have to make plays and and uh um, you know we try to as coaches, we put them in possession to be successful and and uh so we got to evaluate that and and just coach better and play better. Yeah, we're going to wait you close on games. Something you're looking you'll be looking at you working on saying this week put it right in the seat well, I think we're gonna be working on a lot of things. Um, but

that's one album. You know, we talk about finishing all the time, and it just doesn't mean, you know, the first half of games, we gotta finish the second half two. You are making an adjustment. You're not adjusting to No. No, I mean Carolina, Um, you know, just just get stuck to their game plan. Um, you know nothing we didn't expect um. So no, wait, cars Um, well I thought overall, you know, um, pretty good. I think his numbers were decent.

I haven't looked at the the actual stat deal, but you know, bottom line as we lost and and so it's not a not an individual sport. He's part of it obviously, and uh did some good things and we'll we'll we got to take a look at the whole the whole pie, right now. What do you mean by well number one? I think I think sald you know, no one has really given us a chance anyway. Um, whether we're putting pressure on ourselves to perform, um, you know, to play whatever it is, you know, live up to

a certain expectation. I think I think that you know, it's it's it's that point where where you know, I think that that no one has given us that type of you know, maybe with the amount of injuries or whatever it whatever, it is giving us much credit, you know, going into games, and and I think sometimes we we we we force issues, you know, we h we try to press just a little bit instead of just you know, we don't have to go searching for plays. We just

when the plays come, we just made. Let's just make the plays they come to us. And and right now we're not doing that. So I think that, Uh, I think that's the pressure that's that's off of us, and we just we just have to get back to playing and executing better. Are you saying that the players are feeling pressured to live up to what you guys accomplished

last year. No, I don't think so. I just think that each week, and this is something I've talked about all season, is is when we talk about embracing something, it's a choice. And we know that we get everybody's best every week. And and uh, you know, it's a good football team. You know, Carolina is a playoff caliber team. They were in the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.

It's a good football team. And and we know that uh, you know, we we don't use um, we don't use injury, We don't use whatever it might be as an excuse not to not to perform and and so um, you know, sometimes I think plays coaches just put just put added pressure when they don't have to, you know. And and that's something that we've got to We've got to you know, starts with me there and just making sure that we're doing everything even during the week, getting ourselves in positions

to win games. There's still the defending circle champs. I mean, that doesn't change. But at three and four, do you really think that pressure is off you guys? Now, it won't be. But but it doesn't have to come from us. You know, it doesn't have to come you know, there's enough pressure just the game itself brings its own sort of pressure. We don't have to go force anything. We don't have to go um, you know, go like I said, Earl,

they don't have to go looking for plays. Let the plays come to you and then make them when they come and and and that's where we're at. So there's a play caller real quick. Uh. When you see the momentum ship like it did drastically, are you are you aware of that. You mentioned it's a players game. What do you feel the need to kind of fuel things when you see the momentium change. Yeah, I mean you

feel it and you sense it. I don't think didn't necessarily have to get you out of your rhythm offensively, because I thought we were doing some good things, you know, even in the run game, RPOs, play Action Pass, you know, some of the things that we were able to take advantage of. But um, but yeah, no, I didn't feel like I had to get ultra aggressive or anything like that, just because the tide was sort of changing just a little bit there in a second, all right,