Your offense, particularly your offensive line. Three out of four games and the first quarters just looked like chaos. Right, is that talent? Is it coaching? What's going on? This happens again and again. Yeah, I don't think it looks like chaos. I wouldn't use that word. I think we've been out of sink a few times. But I think we have the right guys and we're doing the right things. You know. Again, we start off the game with balls a little bit low on the first pass of the game.
Could he caught it? Shitty have caught it? You know. Um, we've gotta be able to help those guys out too. So any of the steam related, I think it's all related games in the run game. Yeah. I mean we've been doing things that we've been doing for a long time here, running inside zones, outside zones, sweet play. So I think we understand what we're doing, but we're we're allowing sometimes too much penetration. Sometimes it back's not hitting
to where I hit it. You know, second play of the game, if the back bounces it outside, there's no one outside. You know, the defensive defensive ends showing his head gear on the inside. So if they keep it on the outside. So it's not just one thing, it's a combination of a couple of things. You need to do something a little differently in terms of the plays. Yeah, we just we need to execute the plays better because that's what we need to do. See, execution is the answer. Leaper,
halt and fast fool leaves what happens. Because I've seen us move the ball, you know. I saw us move the ball and three consecutive drives or three out of four drives in the second half against them. I saw us move the ball in the second half against Atlanta, saw us move the ball against the Jets. So I have confidence in this group. We just have to we have to do it on a more consistent basis. And your three losses, you have a total three boys of the first half. Yeah, what's going on in the first
half design wise, thematically, et cetera. To where you guys aren't able to get going with you. We're not executing, you know, and we need to stay on the field offensively in the first half and not be on three and outs one time you can execute. Go on the grounds in the first half. O ye brand math because he no, Ryan, I was actually in on the first series in the UM game yesterday, so you know that second run was was was he was in the game there. So I don't think it's the matter of the back,
you know, and that's not the the answer. Hey, it's this put him in and then everything's changed. So it's a it's a combination of the whole group. So it's not adjustment state. It's product productivity that's happening in the second not the first. It's not a result of adjustments. I think it's guys are making plays when they have an opportunity to make plays when we're not making plays when we need to make plays in the first half. So yeah, because it's not one guy. If it was
one guy, it would be an easy switch. We can move this guy in and move this guy out. But it's it's a consistent thing in the other games. We had key drops in Dallas on third down where where the balls hits us in their hands and we now we stay on the field. You know, it's a third and five, we complete a pass for a third and eight, but the balls dropped on a third night and so
then we're off the field. You know, it's it's a matter of in and again it's not the same guy, so it's a different guy each time, where it's not one specific thing, so that there's there's plays to be made there, we're just not making the plays right now. It's that part of the concern you the most, that it's a different person in each play and stuff. Yeah,
it does. I mean, and the guys that we know are good football players, you know, but it's it's a it's the difference in this league right now is almost every game when you look up as a less than one score game, it's a one score game in terms, but I think thirty one of the sixty two games so far have been decided by less by eight points or less. So, um, it's a matter of making one more play than your opponent. You know. We we had a touchdown call back because we lined up wrong, you know,
And that's a difference in the football game. Miss an extra point, mister, field goal, that's a difference in the football game. You know. We we get a completion on third down, we allow a completion on third down, that's a difference in the football game. It's it's just one play here or there, and it's it's a different story when we're sending here today, We're gonna stay with Caleb. Um. Looked at what's available out there, don't feel uh. I think the state of kicking in the league right now
is not very good. There's been a lot of changes. Houston change kicker last week. I think Tampa Bay has changed their kicker. A lot of people have done that and move those things. Compared to what we had from a workout standpoint, one of the guys we had worked out actually got signed with the Texans and was their kicker this week. Um, but we feel in terms of what's available out there, we're gonna stick with kid them.
Given the consistency is on offense, are you open to pool and back on tempo to a DVA some of the burden on your defense, Yeah, I don't think that's a burden on our defense. That burden are the deal all the time is we need to execute offensively. If we execute offensively, then it's it's not an issue. But if your offense is an executing on a consistent basis, then that it comes with pattern and the defense that's able to feel longer. Now I disagree with that. It's
plays run. Our defense needs to make stops when they have the opportunity to make stops and our offense needs to make place. Please when you're are talking about that, and in fact that they're most to huddle, and that's
perhaps why it kind is important. And employees run physically, well, what does it do to the defense in the mental part of the game when they're out there on the field so much part our defense is concerned about making plays on the d defensive side of the ball, so in our offense is concerned about making plays on the offensive side of the ball. So when I talk about time of possession, we have this argument every week. We had the same exact plays run in the Atlanta game.
They had the ball for thirty five, We had the ball for twenty five. They ran the same plays that we ran, They had the same production that we ran. They just stand around a little bit longer than we run. So I understand that I'm just and that's the physical part of the game. But I'm wondering if you've done any studies or anything that to know what it does feel personality when you're well. I think when you're when you're when you're losing and you're not on the upside
of it, it can affect you mentally. But if you're a competitor, you're not concerned. You're concerned with doing your job, not anybody else's job, and not hoping someone else bails you out. You mentioned the touchdown that was called back on the illegal formation. As much as you prepare, how does that happen? That just seems like such an essentially incredibly crucial mistake. I mean, it happened to them first play the game, so it happens. But they were it
was a touchdown. I know that. But you don't know it's a touchdown when you do it. I mean you don't, I don't. I know he didn't do it on purpose, but it happens. People line up and sometimes you have a receiver cover up, or sometimes you don't have a receiver enough on the ball. We've had tackles called in two games being too far in the backfield, you know, and and had had plays negate it. It's it's just one of those deals where, um, it's the first one
we've had in our four games. But obviously it came in a real in opportune time. Players aren't making the plays. Bigot, coach that up. How you change that? How you guys. Guys make clutch plays. Orgmented drop and Jordan made a heck of a catch on a on a deep ball down the scene with two guys draped on him and took a shot to the head and came up. But late game, how do you change? You just keep practicing and you keep working on it, and you trust the guys you have and I we know we have the
right players here. We just it's it's a play here or play there. You know, we've lost a game by two, and we lost the game by three, lest another game by ten. We've lost games by fifteen points. So you know, you you you hit two kicks and we're sitting here three and one and everybody's happy. I mean, there's there's no difference. Is that you either make plays or don't make plays. And if you're not making plays, you could you have to continue to work at them so you
can make the plays. Are in the NFL thin. So you don't throw the baby. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water and say, Okay, we're going to change our offense, change our defense, and change everything we're doing in our approach. It's that we just need to settle down, take a deep breath, and when we have an opportunity to make a play, we gotta make
a play. Should Mark the Murray be getting more We all should be getting more touches on the offensive side of the ball, But when you only have fifty one snaps on offense, there aren't a lot of touches. So we can stay on the field and snap it for sixty eight seventy plays, then we're gonna have a lot more balance in our in our run and pass game
because we're on the field longer. So over the last you guys lost six year last day regular season games dating back to last season over that period to kind of piggyback and what Jed was asking, has there have you drawn any conclusions about the league and what other teams are doing to you, maybe expectations or falls that you might have had about you know, the development and things would go. Or is this simply what what you are coaching will work. It just needs to be done
the right way. I think when we have an opportunity to make plays, we have to make plays. So that's how we look at it. With this, With the way this happens, everybody kind of looks at themselves when you look over everything. Do you start in certain situations second guessing yourself, I should have done this. Yeah, we look a look at play calls. You know, what could I have done on second down so that second down could
have put us into a more manageable third down. You know, you look at it from that standpoint of maybe, you know, we we should have maybe run at this this situation so that you had second and ten could have got you the third and six. If it gets you the third and six, then your choices of play calls on third and six are a little bit different because third and mediums easier to convert the third and long. So
we're always analyzing that part of it. You guys, you guys doing I mean, I know you have the one carried for thirty yards seven. Yeah, we bottled up there a little bit. They had seven guys in a box, you know, a couple a few times in there and uh, triggering a safety on the run on the you know, when the tight end block, the safety kind of got triggered. So, um, you know, they just they had sometimes they had an extra guy in there. But we're still trying to kind
of run the football so that when we run the football. Um, we're putting ourselves in a little bit better situation when we get the third down. So, um, you know, he's doing a nice job. But all three running backs have done a nice job. I think when they've had their opportunities. We just again, we're not getting a lot opportunities because we only had fifty months naps. Depends on what we're we've got play called was do you think eight year
three execution has been such a big problems for four games? Office? I wish I knew that answer, then we could go out and fix it tomorrow and they're ready to go play the Saints. But I think it's it's just a matter of and you see it a lot, you know, all of a sudden, someone makes a play and makes a spark and then everybody starts kind of feeding off of that, you know, And I think, um, it's it's such a game of confidence, U And as you see it being played out across the league, it's the same
exact thing. You know. It's just who's gonna maybe give us a spark to kind of bring the whole group along with them. It's kind of what we're looking for right now. What are some of the positives to take from yesterday. They can build on the team to build up to take what's that? What are some of the positives that you take from the game after watching the film At the team, I just think we're close, but we we again we need to make plays. You know, when when we have an opportunity to make plays, I
think our guys gave great effort. Um, But when we had an opportunity to make some plays, we didn't make them. Why do you injuries at this point again that you got to look at the individual injury and kind of go through all that and um, you know the predisposition of that player is are their hips aligned the right way? Are they not align the right way? Did you have a pre existing condition going into it? Um, there's a
lot that goes into it and said they can't. There's not just a blanket statement of we have more this year than we had the last two years because of X. Do you have guys try to play with the injuries and there's all after the first series? Does that mean they should have been in the lineup? Probably? But you know when we when when they worked out during the week, they felt like they could go. So you know, sometimes you're gonna hit on that, and sometimes you're you're not.
There's some guys you're nervous going into the game. I'm not sure how many snaps are gonna get out of them, and then you get a ton of snaps. But I don't think anybody can predict that an injury is going to happen. But obviously not having a couple of those guys, you know, really put us in a bind a little bit, so reaggravated the same year as he looked at it repuditions. Why is that just again, it depends on the individual injury,
So just are you aware of that? Did you mind him saying that I want all of our guys at the running back wide receiver spot to want the football. I mean that's I don't think you want someone that says I don't want the ball more. I think it's you know, it's what you're looking for. But again, it's it's a team deal on the offensive side of the ball that we need everybody. Everybody needs to ball more and we need more to We need more than fifty one snaps in a game for us to be successful
on the offensive side of the ball. So when we only have fifty one snaps. You know, no one's gonna get the ball as much as they should get the ball. How do you keep the players from question game? Obviously players frustrated. How do you keep them from questioning what's happening and keep them one track to try to get where you say that they can get. I think they have believed in themselves, so I'm not I'm really not
worried about this group. You know, I've been around a lot of different teams, but I think this group's pretty close and understands what the task is at hand and also understands everything in this league is going to be close, and every game you're gonna be in is gonna be a you know, a one possession game, and it's it's it's about if you're a competitor, you kind of embrace the situation and get excited for what's your next opportunity. You know you're playing a one in three team coming
in here. Both if you're watching play last night, they don't play like a one in three team. That New Orleans Saints are a good football team. You know how they lost their first three games. They lost one twenty seven, twenty two, they lost another one twenty nineteen. They've been
close in two of their three losses. You know, they're kind of in the same boat as us, you know, and they had a close came out to night, they wanted overtime, you know, that missed the extra mixed to give me field goal right at the end of regulation, and then came back and Um showed some great resolve and made a big play on an eighty yard touchdown pass Um to win it in overtime. So it's it's uh, it's about being a competitor and coming back out there
and you know, we're still standing. We've taken some shots, but we're still standing. We gotta go out there and compete. Passes yesterday for the offense as far as you know going forward, everything I don't I don't know about going forward. It just you know, Sam's taking what the defense gives us. And in those situations, the defense give us an opportunity to throw the ball over the top, and when they
did that, we took advantage of it. So it's the first time we've kind of had a chance to do that and when we when when we had the chance to do that, I think in doing it to three different guys, I think helps us UM, But we know, we've always known we've got guys out there that can make plays. But if people are always going to play back and make us throw the ball in front of them,
then it's going to be a different story. But if people are going to challenge us and try to, you know, kind of blitz us a little bit, which Washington try to do, try to get a next fun in the box like Washington tried to do, UM, then we need to be able to hurt him with our our wider servers. And that's what That's what happened on those three pass plays, particularly on the offensive line personnel as obviously have Denis out there, bad out there. Are you sure you have
the personnel death wise and starting wise and animal winding? Yeah, this, Quinton time, you have to. I mean there's there's not a bunch of oldlignment on the street. I mean everybody's on their different teams at this point in time. So you know, you hope JP's healthy this week and if he can go. If not, then we gotta go with what we got. This was part of this team, though we chose to part with him. You've given the issues
alone the offensive line. You is it a lesson learned that you just learned we weren't going to renegotiate his contract again, I'll say it again. We were told by his agent if we didn't renegotiate, it weren't getting them back. So special teams. You know, Michael was active, So then it came down to Nagi and Brad on special teams as compared to him, somebody we give you as far Is that a leadership No, I don't think it's not
lack of leadership. It's it's making a play on third down when we need to make a play on third down, or making a play on first down. So whether we don't have a play on third down. So I don't look at it as a as a leadership thing at all. Leadership break down. I like our leadership. I think our guys are doing a nice job. It's just you know, again like we don't we don't cover receiver up and we're in a different football game. You know, we lost by three and we have a touchdown callback, So we're
not sitting there having this conversation questioning our leadership. I don't think leadership had anything to do with us covering or covering up with a receiver on a pass play on third down. You've been well into the forties first two years now, Yeah, any common common theme when we're not successful is a lack of success on first and
second down, so that we're giving into longer third down situations. Um, it seems like when you when you kind of look at it, I think if we can be a little bit more consistent on first and second down, the word to put us into more manageable third downs being a good situation on the guys on the Taxica