Yeah, we had we had were the second time we were on the play. The other time Jordan caught it and ran the ball kind of bounced down to like the five, and then we scored the next player on a sweep after that. So it was it was just the same same play call. We had called it once and we're successful on it, and I felt like if we got over midfield that I was gonna call it again. Arguing for Jordan, Matthews has had so many jobs this year.
He's been really hard on him fu himself, especially after that Carol M. I'm extremely happy for I'm like, I'm happy for everybody though. I think it was a team victory and um, I got a full confidence in Jordan. So you know the great part about Jordan's he don't pay attention to it either, just like we talk about and he's been great. You know. I think if you have a work ethic like he has, your work ethic will help you get out of a slump. And he
did a great job. What do you think anybody offensive line? Uh, you know, I thought they did a good job. Obviously, when you're down, Jason and we had to shuffle some guys over Lane's first time playing on the left side. Um, you know Dennis Kelly and the first time to start for US since we've been here. Um out at tackle. You know, he had started for US at guard last year. But I thought those guys did a really nice job
against a formidable front. We knew that going in that was gonna be a heck of the match up for US. You seem like a real up and down game, a lot of consistencies. Yeah, good football team. Um, we knew going in it was going to be a battle. You know. It was one of those deals where I don't think you could compare for prepare for everything. Um, playing at Dome, we had a win. It rained on us. Uh, some things that you didn't think would happen when you played
the Dome. But you know, Caleb that it was a little bit more difficult kicking that way. So that that kick he kicked for us, the fifty two or fifty three yard or into a little bit of a breeze, there was a win down there a little bit. So Um. You know, then you see it at the end of the end of the game. Um, they go out for a field goal, it hits the upright. Usually when it hits the upright, it doesn't go in. You know, it hit the upright, came down in. Um. So it was
just kind of one of those games. But um, our guys battle. They battled right to the to the last and uh, proud of them. I think they had a great week. We talked about it. They had a really good week this week, as good as we've had around here. Uh. And it showed in our play tonight that obviously last week was a little bit better than the week before. I think Sam is continuing to improve. Um. I thought he was really accurate in his throws today. UM you know,
put the ball on guys in the right spot. You know, you look at the play with Jordan. It was a heck of a throw. He threw it before the guy fell down and then but it gave Jordan an opportunity to catch and run. You know, sometimes those throws if they're not accurate and it's a tough route to kind of time up. You know, you may catch it and you know kind of turn around and you get a you got a good game, but you don't have a
chance to have a great game. And what you know, so he gave Jordan an opportunity to run and get it in. So it's like we light on Sam Bore. The longer the game, when you gaining more and more confidence, I've always had confidence in Sam. I just like it's how the game played out. I thought we were pretty balanced in terms of being able to run the ball um and then once we kind of got moving, we had a lot of long drivees. There were a lot
of long fields for us. We didn't start. I don't think we had any, you know, obviously, because they're so good in the return. I mean in the kick game, we didn't have any kick returns. We didn't have any punt return so there's there wasn't a real flip in the field. And then the one turnover we had that we created, thank god, Jordan Hicks had actually brought it all the way back for our score. So it wasn't like we got to turn over and had a short field or we had um, you know, a return that
gave us a short field. We had long fields to go um. So on all of our drives, we we had to kind of pound it out, and I think we were pretty balanced in terms of doing that. So the first time again, I think we just executed and blocked up front. You know, I thought, I'll give our guys up front that did a heck of a job and um, now that was the challenge for him going in. I thought they handled their their defensive front for the
most part. You know, it's a very formidable front. They actually had some new guys that we didn't face the last time. I face you know, Hardy for the first time, greg Uh Gregory for the first time. Um. But it was you know, I really proud about how those guys played, especially with you know, Lane bumping over and Dennis getting his first started right tackle. So on the fourth down there, did you think about not doing that a refunding the
report all the way? No, I mean I thought we were gonna get it, so we were gonna go for it. On the final Cowboys drive, What did you think of that pass interference call? They made it? That's what I thought, Well, what was range? He was kind of right on his edge that way because there was a wind coming um that way. He probably had a little bit more going the other way, but he was really right on edge
of what we could kick. We're stuck with him. After early struggles, team talk about all he's the only kicker we have so it wasn't like I was gonna bring another kicker in. So for a team that has struggled before the byether win like this after the bye, going down the stretch here, what can a win like this do for this team? It's it's the same thing I told him, the same thing I told him after Carolina game. One down, one to go, and the same thing, the
same message in there. One down, one to go, we're gonna get back. We're gonna get back late. They have tomorrow off when we come back Tuesday, and we got to really start a good week of preparation for Miami. We actually, um, someone told I don't know if it's true. We're gonna actually check where we actually were. We may be able. We may have a game at one o'clock on a Sunday. So um, our guys are kind of
excited about that. But you carry over into it, it means absolutely nothing because you lose next week and it didn't carry over, So we don't talk about that, like, hey, we had a good game last week, let's just ride the way. We got to come back, go to work on Tuesday. So there's something about Sam you can only learn and anything those those late game situations over time situations. No. I mean I know Sam, and I got total confidence Sam.
I've always had total confidence in Sam. So I didn't learn anything new today about saying there was always something about Murray in the passing game that he felt that take advantage of. We just some of the matchups with the linebackers, and after Sean Lee went out, you know, we thought we could exploit that and that's what we did. Did you see this as kind of game A man, I don't really concern. We're just trying to get wins
each week and then we'll figure out. We'll pick our heads up and after that last game against the Giants to see if we're going enough games. But I've never had a conversation with our guys about East NFC out of division. I mean, if that's the case, then we shouldn't even show up this week because it's an AFC opponent. So we don't care, right, I mean, that's not our mentality.
Our mentality is every single week we got to go out and play and at the end, do we have enough wins that are good enough to get us into the playoffs, And if it is, it's okay. But we never talk about who the opponent is and how this game is more important than that game. Every single game is important when it comes down to it. First, Apple, what's the thinking in terms to the block management they're
trying to get out of their end. I know they had a couple of time out, so if we didn't get a first down there early, you know, all of a sudden, we're gonna turn the ball over and they have an opportunity to go down to score. And then they're getting the ball at the beginning of the second half too, so you've got you're in that two score situation.
I want to make sure we could at least get it out of our end, not be able to give it back over to them, because they do have a kicker that that's you know, got ranged close to sixty so um, you know anything in terms of turning the ball over, they just didn't want to make a mistake. We're content to go in a half time at seven seven. I have no idea less. I want balanced, you guys, there's most balance we work tonight. So that's