Decision on him Camu again his right ham string strain. Um, he did some running today and we'll see. We'll see where he's at later in the week. But again he's also week to week. And then Taylor Hart with the right ankle. Um, he was sore this morning again and um, he's also week to week. Benny Logan is doing much better. Um, we'll see where he's at. We'll probably limit him a little bit. He should return to practice this week and and uh get him, get him some reps and see
where he's at. Uh. Chris Maragos and Leotis um with their hamstrings are okay, I'll be full go with them. And then Michael Kendricks, Jordan Matthews and and uh um Carson had to calf string a week ago, um or calf spasm. Actually, um are okay and and uh our full full go Barbara's place. We just did well. Weis did well. You know, he's such a uh um, he's
such a competitor, and he's a he's a pro. You know, he really um focuses in on his his assignments, his job and and uh you know he's hitching to play. And then he got an opportunity and played well. He say week weeky are you usually expecting as the Giants can't tell you until until I see him on Wednesday to see where he's at. You talk a little bit more about Carson's cap. I don't think that was on the report was that it was just sore after the Minnesota game he got kicked in it and uh was
sore and just a spasm. He's fine, so um, okay, So it didn't Uh he didn't reaggregate it. No in the game, No, not at all. Looking at the film, was there anything down the field that maybe Carson missed her that you didn't You didn't see maybe during the day that was available. Um, you know there there's always uh when you when you come in on a Monday and you look at the tape and and you look
at it with uh different set of eyes. I mean, yeah, you can you can always uh uh you know, make a make a determination on certain things down the field. But you know, Dallas two played a little bit more too deep against us than what we've seen uh in previous weeks. Uh. Um, you know, I thought that Carson was very efficient with with the throws he did make. He made some tough throws at the end of the half.
There were some situations there and you know, but overall, um, I thought we came away you know in the passing game, um, pretty well in this game. So you know, we will evaluate it some more. But but at the same time, I thought that the decisions that he made and the down the field um throws that we did have were We're we're good and you know led to it led to a field goal obviously before half. My receiver drops
are a problem. Well, anytime you drop the ball as a problem, Um, you know, well it's you know, everybody has to do their job. I talk about it every week with the team, and you know, you have to do your job to your assignment, no excuses, and and um you have to own up to them. And uh, we're there some drops in the game you know last night that that were that were crucial. Yeah, I mean that's um, that's part of the as part of it.
And we just got to continue to work and get better and and uh, you know, keep putting our putting our players in those situations to make those places. You said that you were you were good with your wide receivers. You said there wasn't going to be any moves at the trade deadline considering how they played on Sunday, do you feel like you need to upgrade there? And will you guys make a move for the devil? As far as I know, UM, we're not making any moves. The
guys we have were the guys we have. We're going to continue to work and get better at that position. You guys have won play of thirty yards and more than the last four games now over two hundred and thirty snaps. Can you win without doing anything down the field? Um? Yeah, we went nine to oh in Kansas City and and and didn't do it. You know, Um, I've seen it done. Um, and uh, you can do that and and UM, you know it's just uh, we we have to we have to figure out and find ways to get the ball
obviously down the field. Um, you have to trust protection, you have to trust reads and progressions, and you got to trust the guys to get down to get down the field. So there's a lot involved in in in in in that kind of stuff. And UM, we just have to evaluate it. But yeah, I think you can. Uh, you can definitely win last week. Any chance he'll be up, Um, I don't know. We'll just see where he's at. You know, he's still working. Um mentally, he's getting better with with
the offense and learning learning the role. He's done done an outstanding job on the practice squad and and um, we'll or with the look teams. Um, not practice squad, but with the look teams, and um uh, well, we'll see where he's at again this week. His comments after the game. I don't look at drops any of that type of stuff. I'm tired of hearing about it. It's just stupid. I'm wondering how those kind of comments sit with you, coming from a first round pick obviously is
charged with not drop. Well, you know it's it's obviously. Um uh you know, we're disappointed. I'm disappointed, um in in in in Uh you know the type of comments I think you Each individual has to be responsible for their own job, obviously, um. And uh, we gotta make we gotta make good smart choices and and and everybody's mad and disappointed and angry after after tough losses like we just came through and and uh, you know, cooler heads prevail and we just have to um, you know,
bite our lips sometimes and and just suck it. Up and and and get to work. And you know, um, that's what we got to do this week more than incrementally. You know, we always talk about making the receivers catch the ball better and running backs and securing the ball. But you guys have repute. Me you have one on your team. Guys have reputations over a stretch of time that are counter to any but what any coaching himsels are people inherently good or bad in that? And you
can move the dial in incrementally. I think you can move You can definitely move to move the dial, and you can move it in a positive direction. I think. I think you just got to continue to show confidence in that player. You know. The second you don't I think is when when when bad things negative more negative
things can happen to that to that individual. And and listen, we're you know, um, we go to work every every single day with with with the guys we have and and and we just keep we just keep fighting through them fighting. There's a lot of football left, a lot of season left. And it's like I told you guys, after the team, I mean, you're still a good football team. You're a great football team. You know, you proved it.
You proved it again last night. You know you you went toe to toe with one of the best teams in the National Football League and and um, um, you know you prove that that you can, that you can. You just gotta eliminate the mistakes. You eliminate the assignment errors, you eliminate turnovers. Um, make the make the make the pick when you get an opportunity to make those types of things, and those those things will help us win
games down the stretch. Yourself at all in the triple and portion taper or anything that you second guess is so well, you know what I have. I'm the I'm the first one to tell you that. And I'll admit that that. Uh. You know, I look at the tape, um, not not necessarily from execution the first time around. I do that more today. I look at it from the standpoint of did I put the guys in the right spots? Did I do enough, um to be to be accountable for putting our offense in in the right spots by
play call? And uh, you know you take away from this game We're always evaluating. I'm always evaluating myself, the players, the whole thing. And you know it's if there's anything in this game that that I that I look at and point point of finger out for myself. Um, would probably be the player in the first quarter on the
fourth down. You know, we kicked the field goal, we got the roughing would have put us at a fourth and one and um, you know it would have been a situation there and possibly at the seven yard line to go for it. Um. And and you know, whether you make the fourth and one or not, you know, you keep the drive alive or they get the ball at the seven yard line, eight yard line and have to go the distance. So I look at those plays and I need to evaluate those. Um, you know, from
my own my own standpoint. Ryan Mathews have such a limited role yesterday, And was it a reaction to his fumbles in the previous one. Wasn't a reaction. I just think that Darren went. Darren had the hot hand yesterday. Darren was playing outstanding and uh, um he was doing he was doing some great things out there. So just just want to keep keep Darren in the game. He concerned about giving Darren that number of carries at thirty three years old, Well, I mean no, Um, I definitely
think he's capable. I think I think, I think you don't want to give him any more than than what he got yesterday. But you know, with is with his role on special teams and all that too. So but but he's I mean, if you know Darren, like I know Darren, the way he works during the week, the way he prepares himself and he prepares his body and mind, you know, um, he's definitely capable of handling that type
of load. That first quarse you would stand out to you more than a fourth quarter se points when you had the third and eight that that at the thirty yard six yard lost the scrolls and then moved pump the board least well in the first quarter obviously, Um, and really both of those situations, Uh, we were decisions that uh you know had first of all, if I had would have gone for it, if we'd accepted the
penalty and gone for it. And uh and uh you know, possibly make the make the fourth and one there, um first quarter, you know, seven points over three makes it makes a different that situation. That's that's a different first quarter. There's you know, maybe less stress or whatever. I mean, it's the first quarter of the ball game. And then it kind of said it's the tone early, you know,
the third and eight play. I look at that, and I looked at it again this morning, looked at on a plane last night, and and um, I'd have called the same thing again. Um. It's assignment football. It's one of our basic fundamental plays that we've we've wrapped the entire season in a man situation which we got and uh, it just comes down to assignments and and um, we busted one assignment and negative play happened. So you know,
every we have to look at it. Um, we have to own up to those those It starts with me obviously, UM. And then each man on the team has to has to own up to their responsibility and make sure that those those negative plays don't happen again. You know, by nature of the play, it's going in reverse and you're in field goal range and if it if it gets dropped for a loss, that that pulls you potentially out
on the way. Yeah, and and and the thing is too in a way, I kind of and you guys know football, I mean, come on, it's any play has the ability to go backwards or to run a pass, a sack in those situations. I know where we were on the on the field, it is a relatively safe football play against darren sproles out in space. UM, in a man coverage, look that that we have the ability to to to run some interference on some linebackers. Um, I e. Shawn Lee who made the play. We had
a chance to run interference. We didn't run the interference like we were supposed to. And so I've got to coach that play better. I've got to coach that play better. We make that play. We are inside the twenty yard line when you look at it on film, we're inside the twenty yard line with the first and ten or if anything, it works, it's a fourth down and and uh, you know you're kicking the field goal from a lot closer in than than than what happened yourself on the
decision not to kick the field goal. No, I did not. Um. You know, that was another one where I felt too where we were in the game. Defense was beginning to kind of kind of catch their legs and they had some momentum and we had stopped them, and we were stopping their run game. Um. You know, outside of the first quarter, you know, Elliott had like twelve twelve rushes in the second twelve and yards in the third, like fourteen in the four. So we were doing a great
job in a run game. So I was trusting my defense in that situation, and and to pin them back inside the inside the fifteen at the ten to make them drive the length of the field. I felt real comfortable in that decision. If you're saying you trusted your defense, then couldn't you say, oh, well, if we do missus field goal, I'll trust my defense and stopping. Yeah, when you give them the ball now like the you know, thirty eight yard line something like that, the reward two scores,
it was six minutes to go. You're up to scores. I also look at the third and eight. If we just execute a little bit better, then we're not in this situation. We're not talking about it today the running backs. Will Darren be your primary ball carrier moving forward? I can't say that one hundred percent. Um. It's something we'll evaluate these next couple of days and make that make
that determination. But until then, you know, it's still it's still Ryan Matthews and then and then Darren in those situations. And we got to get Windell and Kenyon going a little bit too not being more aggressive with the timeouts at the end, you have a chance to maybe make
them punt and give your stuff at least a chance. Yeah, I wan be back again today and looked at that, and uh, I felt, if you did, you know, doing the math on everything, and you burned two timeouts, possibly in those situations, you might get the ball back with about fifteen seconds one time out and have to go thirty thirty five yards to kick the field goal um.
Possibly in that situation. But again, I was relying on the fact that that I was our defense was playing extremely well at the time we were we were we were starting to put pressure on back those last couple of a couple of possessions that they had, and I was fully confident in our team going into overtime that we were going to win the game. Is big quarterback running back in college back. He's renowned for football instincts.
Any consideration of making him one of those salt Away Foyt quarter guys because of his hands, I mean, you you try. Yeah, You've lost like I think three games on a point quarter Columbus so far, so yeah, you know, it's something will evaluate. Uh. You know, obviously he had an opportunity to make a play on a third down.
And we're going to continue to to feed our tight ends feed him in those matchup situations like that, and um, you know the best we can to to put our guys in those those opportunities, and and um our tight ends are are you know, I think another one that that really has been playing kind of a kind of having a quiet but a good season as Brent Sellick. And and he's another one that we can begin to uh possibly look at to get the ball to in
those situations. Four late in the game and Carson went to Trey Burton versus Brandon car Was that the first read for was that? I mean that was because it was it was it was a bigger body on a corner, good situa. We've done that before this season, already did it through pre you know, through training camp work on those situations and had full confidence that that we were going to make that play. Selick, I'm sorry, zach Ertz said after the game that my number is just not
being called right now. I'll never second guess. The coaches will never second guess Carson. That's just the way the games have gone. Would you agree with that that his number is not being called. It's it's how do you say number? Um, you know, maybe he may not be the primary guy every time, but the times that he might be, uh secondary primary worst secondary. There's been times where he's he's been open and Carson's gone gone a different way with the ball. So a lot of times
it's it's, uh, it's progression of the play. Um. You know, he's doing an outstanding job when when when when called upon, he made some He made a couple of good catches again last night, and um, you know, we continue to try to find ways, you know, um, to to to keep keep feeding him the football, you know, doing the fake punt. I just think we just lost lost uh, um,
a little bit of focus right there. We were fully anticipating the punt and and um you know, um it just lost awareness a little bit on the on the punter and and uh you know, um ended up on a thirty yard game decision to put Jalen Mills as the slot corner instead of the plan that you told us about with Malcolm going in and then Jaylen Watkins back in safety. You talk about Jayalen Mills, Yeah, because Jayalen Mills was in in at the nickel spot quite
a bit yesterday. Yeah, it was. It was again, it was it was sort of you know, you also saw Malcolm in there yesterday. You saw Jaylen in there yesterday, and it was by scheme um by, by coverage by uh uh um by just sort of the matchup and what we were trying to get done defensively, whether it be by blitz or or just the coverage that you saw.
Especially later in the game, we started bringing a little more pressure, so Jalen ended up being the guy inside and Malcolm was back in the safety spot, either blitzing or covering eighty two. You're running backs coming the ball away three times in the last four weeks and a fourth quarter. What what kind of message to you to give them? And and what does it mean for a
guy like Dell Smallwood? I get another chance? Oh for sure, I mean, I you know, listen this this I'm not I'm not I'm not going to stand here and I'm not gonna just just be down on a guy. You know, it'd be easy to do that. It'd be easy, so easy to do that. And my job is to coach these players up and and uh as coaches, that's that's what we get paid to do. So, um, we're going to continue to work on it. Talk about it, coach
these guys up. We got to have one percent confidence, you know, in our guys in those situations that they will make the play. And like I told the team at the end of the game and then that dressing room that that that that game lasts, it is going to make us a better football team down the stretch. And I fully believe that. And and uh, you know, it'd be easy to point the finger today sitting here,
but but that's not the case. I mean, we're we're united, we're going forward and uh uh we got all the confidence in the world and those guys and that you've now lost two games, we had quarter games on the road. What's the teaching point game, man, what do you tell the guys about? Yeah, I mean, we just gotta learned to finish, bottom line, got learned to finish. It comes down when it comes down to that crunch time at
the end of the game. I mean, you know, we had opportunities to sack the quarterback, um let him out. We had opportunities to make plays on the ball. We you know, we didn't do it. We had chances of of completing some passes you know whether protection, but we didn't UM, And those are those are all learning and teachable moments for for a team that. UM. We we're
young on offense at skill positions. We understand that, but those are those are moments that are going to make us better down the stretch and we just have to learned to finish and uh and focus on that UM each and every week. It's been a while since you guys have gotten into that consistent rhythm on offense. And I think it's three weeks in a row now you haven't had three hundred yards in a game. Do you feel like you're you're you're close to to be where you want to be or do you feel like it's
kind of gotten away from you a little bit? I feel like it's really really close. I mean, you put the tape on again this morning and you watch it and and obviously you're, UM. You know, you're sitting there watching in your office, and and it's you're calm, and you're you're kind of going at it and you're just going, man, we're so close, We're so close, and UM, the guys are the guys are I can't say enough about how well they're working and preparing and practice and putting themselves
in these positions. But you know, we do have to finish better. Obviously, Um, there's just it's it's not an lack of effort at all. I think you could you would agree that that the effort is there. It's just now we have to continue to fine tune in detail our work because little things get magnified in games like we played last night. I think you do upon start to start when you watch the film, see what he's getting better. He's getting better, he's getting better, he's getting better,
and hum, it's good to see. It's good to see. On the road loud stadium, silent count again, had another had two weeks in a row. Now where he's he's uh, he's done. He's done a great job. So yeah, he's done. Well. Do you feel like you're still searching for the right formula on how to kind of cater to the strength of your team? Seems to be defense and special teams, putting them in good positions while so not being too conservative on the offensive side of the ball. I think
there's some some of that. I think I think we're still you know, figuring out Um, you know, dgb's getting a little more work. Obviously, we're trying to figure him out. We kind of know where he's what he can do in his strengths and weaknesses. UM. You know, Uh, obviously our tight ends. I think we understand what they are and who they are and and and the and the and the the magnitude that they could help us. The run game, Uh, you know is probably an area that
that we continue to improve. I know we can get even better there, um, full confidence in our offensive line there. And you know, Carson gets better every week and and and we've we figure out and the more we're around and and and know what he likes and under understand what he can do. Um, then we can Taylor Taylor game plan. So a little bit of we're still trying to figure that out. But at the same time, I think we have a good feel for for who we are and and uh and what we try to get
done in these games. Parson's getting better every week. Um. For outsiders watching the games, it probably doesn't look like that. Um, what are you seeing from him that tells you he's getting better, even though maybe the numbers aren't there. Yeah, the numbers may not be there. But the thing is is is he's not turning the ball over okay, which which he you know, last couple of weeks he's had a he's had a couple of interceptions. He's really protecting
the football a little bit better. And UM, he's understanding, you know, I think, how to spread the ball around, you know, using his using his personnel a little bit better each week. UM. You know, Uh, I think just understanding the offense. UM, what we're trying to you know, when a play comes in, what we're trying to get done, what we're what we're why I'm calling that play in that situation. He's getting better there the sideline, which a
lot of people don't see. The communication, UM, with his offensive line, with his receivers, with myself, with Frank, Uh is the best I've really been around. UM. And so there's there's some things on on the field off the field that Um it's it's small, but they're but they're there's there's steps in the right direction. Is that a function of the reeds he's making or the way you're calling together? Um? Could be a little both, could be
a little both. Um. You know, obviously we're gonna We're gonna attack the game based on what what the defense has given us, and uh and utilize it, utilize it that way. Um, some of it, some of it can fall on the quarterback obviously because because he ultimately has has the final say and all the decisions. But um, yeah, you know, and and then and then just personnel and and uh, just understanding the design of the play. Its
displaying proper respect for your white outs interview. I mean, Chris Collins with made a point less night that said that they didn't seem to be defending, as if they were really afraid of your explosives opposing defenses. You said, what the defense? Yeah, what the what the um to your personnel as well? You know, I think I think that, uh, I think there might be a little bit to that,
you know. Um, But at the same same time, you know, I don't think I don't think a defense necessarily goes in and and says that they're they're gonna you know, they're gonna focus on Darren. Yeah, they're gonna focus on Darren a little bit. Um, might focus on our tight ends a little bit in coverage. But at the same time, I think I think what we've seen the last couple
of weeks. Is they're they're just playing their defense and they're they're teams that are that are executing their defense and not necessarily taking one aspect away, you know, from our offense. Okay, thanks guys,