What is the next thing. Well, it comes down to, first of all, you have to, as I said in that locker room, you have to hate this feeling more than you enjoy winning. And uh, um, it comes out of each guys. I'm starting with myself and I look at myself in the mirror and make sure that I'm doing everything I can to prepare this football team for each weekend. And effort obviously is always there. Um, and we have to we have to look at the film quite honestly, and and and it's all fixable. The things,
the things that were the mistakes were making are all fixable. Um. Whether it's you know, a coverage element being on a position or you know just uh, you know, a holding when we're on the perimeter. Offensively, we can't do. You know, it's just things that we can correct and practice during the week. And that's that's what we have to do to Tennessee. Offensive you'll have a to school lead you know, this road stuff with defense, I mean we talked about
and talked about exactly. Um, it's something scenario that that we've we've got to I've got to look at it this week and uh, you know, because we're our schedule is set up. We're home away, home away, so we you know, we're gonna be on the road just as much as we are you know, playing at home. So um, it's something that uh, you know, we understand I think
where we are as a football team. And uh, you know, nobody's gonna feel sorry for us, you know, with the injuries or you know, there's no excuses, So we don't feel sorry for ourselves. We just got to continue to work and and and keep getting better. But the last play of the first half, you ran a running play with I think it's like eleven second class from the clock from the ten yard line. We get the first down, burn the time out, and then have maybe eight seconds
to start taking shots to the end zone. You preach to your guys, you know about the penalties and so that you address how frustrated these we you guys have started. It seems like it's in every game and really feels like you're beating yourselves in the situation. Yeah, I mean a penalties are are are racking up and and can't
can't happen. We've got to we've got to eliminate those and and um, you know, it's just it's something we do look at you know, I look at it here in the next couple of days and and uh before we get ready for the next opponent, and try to put a finger on it and just keep keep coaching the guys. That's all we can do. If you just keep coaching them out of it. It seems like ours past particularly why is that we'll give them credit. I mean, that's it's a pretty good funt. We knew that going in.
You know, it's a good defense. Um, so I give them a lot of credit. Number one, number two. Again, we'll look at the film, we'll make we'll make our corrections. It's a couple of guys got edged a couple of times. Uh. You know, we got to make sure that our backs and you know there's there's cohesiveness with that all that protection. It's not just one guy or two guys. You know, it could be could be the offensive line, could be the quarterback, could be the coverage, and so we just
have to address it. And uh, um, you know, we pride ourselves and picking up the pressure, picking up the blitz. And we'll get back to that. And we just as a situation again where we were just a low out of position. Um, and again credit them. It's a great play obviously, fourth and fifteen. You know, Um, it's a fixable situation obviously, and uh, well we'll get it corrected with the whole the movie parts of the defensive backfield.
The last a couple of weeks change this week. Uh, this is to expect a little bit that it's going to have to be growing together process for that. I think I mean a little bit. Yeah, there's gonna be. There's gonna be, um, you know, some communication issues that we gotta we gotta address. There's gonna be you know, moving parts, moving guys around. Um. You know, it's very similar to offensively with you know, the amount of injuries. You know, with the running backs and receiver group. There's
moving people around and moving parts. And again it's it's something that um, you know, we'll continue to address, continue to work. We will make excuses for it. Next man up plays and we we coached him up and getting ready pretty offense. Yeah, he was. He was excited to watch him play today. He was aggressive, he attacked football
time of spark for the offense. It was great to see him back and keep him coming coming game goes with how much I just wanted to see how the game and folder with him, how was how he was with his you know, because he missed a couple of days there and just wanted to make sure that he was, you know, strong, you know as the game went. He felt really good as it went. As it went, touching on the drive stopped in What was the issue those two situations, Well, a couple of times, uh, you know,
again we stopped ourselves. Whether it was just execution, um maybe a penalty backed us up, just a touch U sack something something negative happened, um and and it just
it just got us out of our rhythm. It seems like we got down there fine um and and the and they you know Tennessee build their neck and and it kept us to three much like our defense has done, you know for the first month of the season, you know, um and and again it's uh, you know, we pride ourselves and in the red zone obviously we've been we've been pretty good there. Um and and we just got
to continue to work. Feel like, less likely to snowball because of when you guys went through last season, doesn't have any bearing at all, has no bearing, has no bearing. Those guys in there sick to their stomach right now. And uh um, they they they take it. They take this this, this hurts. This stings. The losses like this sting, and and uh um it's something that we use is fuel for you know, our emotion and moving forward. It's uh, you know, we try to go one to know every week.
That's our that's our main objective. And uh it's arts in practice when we come back together on Tuesday. But do you think that you're experienced last season makes it less likely that this loss turning into something and next week game back? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not it's not going to snowball that way. Yeah. At a time, seems wavering a little bit more responsibility years when your shoulders, I gotta get us back in the riddle of the highway.
I mean, yeah, a lot of it falls on my shoulders, you know, preparing this football team during the week, mentally, physically, how we practice all of that. Um. But the one thing that that this team is has learned through resiliency and is just the ownership of just doing their jobs. Keep do simple better, you know, and and uh, just focus on their task and their job and and as coaches and players and uh, you know, UM, I tell
them all the time. It's a you know, it's so it can be a simple game if if you keep it simple, you eliminate turnovers, you eliminate penalties, and just go execute. Um you know. Um, And that's where we're at. Jobs there has to be a huge problem, and then they weren't so much last year. We're kind of backing now, who are your jobs, passes, Is there anything that you can contribute there too, or maybe to unsettle dancial position at the moment, just um, you know, maybe just lack
of focus at the time. You could count to a lot of things, but um, number one thing is we got to make sure we do catch the football and and uh we just continue to work. H Thanks. Thanks,