It's right at the top. I mean, I mean we didn't know, didn't well, didn't coach Wall today, didn't Uh, didn't really do anything well today. So UM, it's very disappointing, UM on what you wanted, not the outcome anybody's looking for. So never give it up. What's going on? I thought, again, we got to do a better job at getting to the quarterback. Um, I'm at a too much time. UH got to get a little creit trying to create some more pressure, uh, Calvin. Obviously it was a very difficult
matchup for us UM. You know, we didn't do a good job putting those guys in position to make plays that they had to make in the game. I test, is it for you to be confident about walls stretch like this released game especially? I guess the answer that is there, there's no there's no other option. You know, you you you got five games left here as we come up and we get back in December. Um, and that's what we gotta do. We gotta go play. You know, I don't think anybody's gotta feel sorry for us UM
as a group. We gotta play, and we gotta play better. Yeah, I don't think it's you know, they're trying to prove a point or anything like that. I just think we didn't we got we got out coach today and didn't do a very good job. So you're willing we'll see, Yes, What's that? We have confidence in most players in the locker room because I've seen him play before and I've got a lot of confidence in those guys. I think we got some really good guys that Damiko Ryots and
Malcolm Jenkins to Jason Kelsey's and Brent Seleix. You know, there's a ton of guys in there that I think I've seen compete and I've seen him play and I've seen him play at a really high level. And um, I told those guys in locker room, I have confidence in there. Now I haven't seen it. We didn't play one of the last two games. I'm not gonna make
any excsis for that please. This was a different week mark I think is because it was short week, so um, but we've we have trained before this week very well. You know, we were all obviously on a limited schedule with kind of a pro glade walk through Tech Temple on Monday, because you're the day after the game, you know, and then you're into your forty eight hours before the game. But they handled that well. It's the same really, the
same schedule we use. Last year we've played UM Dallas on Thanksgiving, you know, So it's it's a you know, it's one of those where you look at it. One year it worked really well for us, and obviously this year didn't work well for us. How much accountability players, I think we all take accountability, but I speak for I'm a coach, I'm not a player. So it starts with may I'm not pointing fingers anybody, and I don't
think anybody points fingers in anybody. I think it's we all got to look inside ourselves and see what we can do to change the outcome of what's going on. And that's the way it has to be. But I think once you start pointing fingers and saying it's you blame it on somebody else, then you know that then you've lost what you gotta do. I mean think everybody's got to look inside and figure out what they can
do as an individual to make this team better. Ally, I mean that's the that's a question you gotta everybody wants to know you know, you gotta look at it and look at tape, and we'll coach them better, and we'll coach them harder and put him in positions where they can make plays that I know, when we all know that they can't, they can make because I've seen him make so I mean, yeah, I mean I don't think anybody, I mean, we didn't. I didn't see this happening.
You know, I didn't. I don't feel like, you know, coming in, I wasn't going, oh my god, this is this, this thing's gonna get away from us. You know, I thought I'm gonna have a chance to commended him, really compete with the good football team down. Um. I think we tried to, you know, specifically at half time, tried to come after him a little bit more. He brought a little bit more pressure on um Matt. But I
thought Matt did a good job. If you watched him, a couple of times, he checked in into protections and got himself in a situation where he was picking up what was coming. Um. You know, he was he's a he's a guy that's been around for a while. Um. I think he did a really good job of handling some of the bookstocks that we were giving him on terms of geting them set in the protection, in terms of being able to pick those guys up the first two seasons. You can't do that this year now, obviously
as a step back. Now, I don't look at I mean, I said before ten wins wasn't enough. You know, if you don't finish as the number one team in the league, then it's a step back. And that's what That's what our mentality is, and that's what my mentality has always been. But I was never happy when we were ten at six,
I can tell you that. And I think, UM, you're always trying to go out there and give yourself an opportunity to it's fill an opportunity for us UM to make the playoffs, and that's what this deal's all about. You got to get into the tournament and then see what happens from there. We got a lot, we got a lot of work to do to get ourselves into that. So it's a U But I don't I've never looked at it like, hey, I won ten games. We did a good job. I mean, ten games means nothing if
you don't do anything in the playoffs. We went ten and six last year, and didn't make the playoffs. So I wasn't good enough Tea. Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying we're doing a better job. I can tell you that. I mean we're not. But I don't look at ten wins as a good job either. I've never looked at it like that. I believe our players played today, yea. I believe our players competd Yes, I do all the players. Yes, So it's a players. You guys are losing. It's the
problem with you. I don't know. I don't have that answer. I just know. I just know. So, Yeah, we do it all the time, and it's we haven't put our partners in position to make plays in last two weeks. And that's on us. That's on that's on me as a head coach. I'll take responsibility for that. Yeah, I'm committed to soon this room. Let's go now. And and I think it's two weeks and don't know, I think
the week before it was a little bit different. You know, it was on one point lots where we really made a lot of week week. I know that, but we weren't up sixteen three and the last two games. That's why I kind of look at the last two one of the ones that I think hurt hurt, you know in terms of our how we how we performed and
what the final score was. You know, I think the other game, you know, you just kind of when you watch that game, the Miami game, you go back and forth and how many times we had missed opportunities that were right there for us to take and you end up losing the game by a point. You know, you have a touchdown call back, you miss the field goal. You know, we have the ball bounce up in the air and no one sees it, and then we turned around and the guy catch. There's a lot of different
things that happened in that game. I think that game is a different game than these last two weeks. And my biggest concerns the last two weeks. How do you motivated players? What did you say to them afterwards? Somehow it's tend to keep them off. I told them that, you know, we don't have UM and I don't think anybody has any words is gonna make you feel good?
Right now? And rightly? So? I mean, we got beat today, UM, And what we have to do is that we have to come together as a group and we're got to figure out. We got five games left in December, and actually four games in December, one in January, that first week of January, that will determine where we are as
a football team. So we need to get our head straight here in the next couple of days because they're off and then when we come back on Tuesday, we get ready to go play in New England Patris, and I'm not happy with how we play well day. Sam's not cleared cleared to go full fold right now. His head is cleared as to shoulders, but he's not cleared
to go full right now. What are some of the issues with the offense minus nine guards offense in the second quar Yeah, I think specifically this game, we struggled with their rush. They were only rushing four um and they generated a lot of pressure um on market times, you know. So we didn't we didn't do a we didn't do a good job for a protection standpoint. Okay, good