Good question. She's forty four yarder. You know, you're down to thought. You got great confidence in Cody that we're gonna put it through year. We were, but we didn't get you know, a third and one. We didn't get a lot of movement up front, so you know, I kind of thought that again, it was a forty four yarder. Paul was in the you know, right kind of in in the middle of field, so I didn't think it was a tough one. You know, he's he's hit those before.
So Matthews and not murried about that. That back was just it was ever in the game at that point in time. You know, we don't have a specific back. Everyone's specific place. We didn't play very well at all in the first half, you know, and you give up ten points right there and the inside the last two minutes. Um, you know, I all those guys at half time. It was the tale of two halfs. We played a lot better in the second half, but we did not come to play in the first half. We did. I couldn't
really get much moving on their d line. You know, we were concerned with their defensive line. They hadn't a lot of new guys. Um basilely and uh uh Clayborne, you know, some guys that we saw in preseason that we had a lot of respect for him. We knew we're gonna be uh, you know, some difficult matchups in there. But we we uh you know, played well enough in the second half, but it was too late, put ourselves
in too big a holes. In the last two season games practice, he was fine, you know, and he was fine on every other kick today. It just I don't know if the timing was off on that. You know, you gotta look at the film in terms of um where he was. But you know, we kicked it was seven seconds ago on the play clock, so it wasn't like we were rushed and trying to you know. Uh, he didn't have a chance to get it set. So
I don't have to look at that, you know. I thought again, and I talked about him earlier in the week. I thought their d line, you know, did a nice job there one gap penetrating, get up the field. Uh and and and they did a good job. You know. I think we sat down a little bit in the second half and kind of got it going. Um, you know, in terms of some of the matchups, we felt that you know, we felt it outside guys were really good in coverage, but I thought we could exploit some things inside.
That's where the running backs really showed up in the UH in the passing game for us in the second half, and obviously Jordan, you know, being an inside receiver force and or TV and inside receiver force, some of those matchups we thought, well, we're beneficial force. But in the first half, we we can get a lot of traction on those first five drives. Um, I think it's a combination of both. I think Matt had a lot of tack. You know, I don't think the pass rush was what
it needed to be. You know, we had some of those routes were deep down the field that you got a cover for a long time, but you know, we didn't. We didn't get we didn't generate a good enough PAS rush on some of those. And then and then, um, you know, we weren't close enough and coverage on some of those other ones. Expectations obviously, you guys, Yeah, I
mean we're gonna learn. We I thought our approach and how what we did in the second half, Um, you know, we can build upon that, and then we have to look at what went wrong. In the first half. H correct that. You're right. We do have a short week. You know, we'll just have meetings tomorrow and we're gonna be back out the field on Wednesday. We gonna get Dallas coming in here, so that's got our attention as
we move forward. Yeah, they did. You know on that screen, you know, we had the ball deep down inside and all of a sudden, we we brought it. Um, you know, brought it, brought us back too far and um, in some of those drives we overcame that one seventeen played drive, you know, with penalties in there. We overcame a lot of penalties in those situations. But UM, you can't do that again to good football team and continue to think
you're gonna be able to build yourself out of those holes. Obviously, Uh, some critical penalties there. Solowd us down. Yeah. I mean I haven't talked to anybody, but he looked finally may walk off the field us. Yeah. I think our line settled down a little bit, you know, um did a better job in protection and gave me some time to get the ball off. And then it was just a combination of understanding zone and man and we had some
answers for both. So you know, I think, um, obviously, well, we liked what happened in the second half, but I think he had some time to settle and throw the ball in the second half. So now they're playing the same defense that they normally. Yeah, a lot of those times there was there was there were in max protection, you know, so it was deeper down the route and strows. But they had a lot of guys into protection. So obviously it's a little bit more difficult to get to him.
But you know, we we we got to kind of overcome that. You can't just have him sit back ve. I think it's a you know, a real combination to him and the one thing they do a real good job. Kyle is always done a good job. He's not the same spot all the time. So it's it's not like you can say, hey, one guy could cover him. He's inside, he's outside. Emotions, he lends up at the third receiver, he's the second receiver, he's the first receiver. You know, he Matt hit him twice on those quick slants on
run players right at the backside. Um, so I think a lot of credit goes to him. I thought same did a decent job. You know, I think some of the protection issues, I think that we cleaned up when we gave him time to throw and set his feet. I thought he did a really good job. But there's a couple of times where you know, he got hit pretty goo. So I think the biggest thing, as I come out of it before we look at the tape, is is we got to show up our protection in
certain situations. We had more success running outside the second half. Yeah, you know, now we just kind of again we talked about it. They did a nice job inside, you know, and kind of shut some things down there. So then obviously, you know we've got to make we counter their counter. So you know, they do a good job inside, so
we gotta get the ball to the perimeter. Felt like we got the ball to the perimeter a little bit in the second half in the run game, and then obviously you can throw it on just because we didn't know where Ronny was, I mean, where Julio was gonna line up, so there was gonna be some matchups where you know, their best receiver was going to be in the slot. We felt most comfortable with malcolming that situation. Christ Yeah, because we dropped as we dropped the safety
down to our next safety went in the game. Yeah, he's our third safety. Keiko played Nichol. That's how we kind of alternated with him. Obviously hasn't had a ton of snaps, so we felt like with Michael stayed most of the time when we were all to NATed Keiko and uh In, Demico and Basin and Nickel. My confidence in park I had a lot of confidence in Cody. Parking was a Pro Bowl kicker and I've seen him make a lot of big kick Streuss correct. Yeah,