Sam, it's your first w a a long time. It feels good. Um. Obviously, that's a really good football team. You know, to come on the road and get a win today, you know, a tough win. You know, our defense did a great job today keeping us in the game. Um. You know, it's just a great win for the team. Sam. That's tough teams to throw against. Obviously. What were some of the struggles that you guys had growing Um, you know, like you said, they're a good defense, UM, and I
thought they matched up with us well today. You know, I missed a few throws. I think we had a few drops, you know, just uh, you know, a couple of different things, you know, on different different drives that kind of set us back. Um. But you know, like I said, I don't think there was anything major. I'm really proud of the way we fought, you know, to get that win, to hang in there, to fight. You know, that's huge for us right now. In the first two weeks,
you played from behind, today played with the league. What was that like for you? UM? I like that. You know, hopefully we can continue to do that. It's a lot more fun to play from ahead than it is behind. Um. You know, obviously we just gotta figure out a way, uh, you know, when we get those leads to continue to put drives together in the second half. Obviously, that was a bit of a struggle for us today. Um, you know, so hopefully we can learn from that and continue to build,
you know, on those Bill routes. I know, you know, Matthew's dropped one, but the touchdowns, you know, similar type of play. Because that's something you saw it, you probably kind of take a batch of. Yeah, you know, we felt the way they were playing Matthews in the game.
You know, there's a lot of man coverage and you know, a couple of those looks we gotta matched up on a linebacker, and you know, the past couple of games we'd ran a lot of routes with him going to the flat, and so we figured they'd be hard on the flats and then you know, it looks very similar and then he just wheels up. Um, you know, and it worked pretty well today. What are your reasons for taking it seemed to be more snaps under the center
this week? Um, I'm not sure you'd have to ask coach. Um, you know, I think it gets the run game probably a little more downhill. You know, that's how Ryan likes to run. You know, that's the only thing that really comes to my mind. Um, but you'd have to ask him. Running game established today, you know how much? Huge? Huge? Um. You know, it was great in the first half to get those guys rolling. You know, I thought they ran
really hard, that the line did a great job opening holes. Um. You know, it's a good front seven that we just play, you know, to be able to come out and run the ball the way we did in the first half, you know that that's really big for us for a team's confidence as far as you know, maybe starting to strink here. I think it can do a lot, you know, especially for us. You know, I feel like the first couple of weeks there was just a lot of pressure on us. I feel like we're all pressing a little bit.
You know. It's just nice to get that first one and now that pressure is gone. You know, like I said, it wasn't perfect today. Um. You know, there's gonna be things that we need to correct, but you know, I think this is a great building block for this team. We've had a chance now to see Darren Sprowls up close and personal, but these few much thoughts on what makes them such a special player. Oh, just as versatility. Um, you know, what he's able to do in the backfield,
what he's able to do in the slot. You know, obviously his punt returns to day. You know that was a big momentum swing in the game. Uh. There's just so many different things that he does really well. You know, we can utilize him in so many different ways. I don't think there's a lot of guys in the league that you know can do that. You'd already tell you that you were yelling completely the sent of the passing So I had to turnovers? How would you eat before
the get How do you feel about it? You know it now? Uh? Good and bad? Yeah, obviously the turnovers. You know something that we talked a lot about this week. You know, this defense had ten takeaways in the first two weeks. You know, for us to have I think one giveaway today, Um, you know that's big. Um. You know, obviously passing game, we just gotta be a little bit more efficient. More guys, what are they doing to take
away the d ball? Seem like you try to him, I'm um, yeah, I think they've got some great players on the outside. Um, you know, I think once we got the lead today, it was just kind of the way the game went. No wheel route, we hit on Matthews behind the linebacker. You have a guys screaming at you. It took quite a hit. Did you see it open right away? And just trying to anticipate what happened later? Uh, you know, I saw the way the linebacker was playing, and like I said, I felt like he was playing
in the flat. You know, I think Ryan did a great job to avoid him and get outside of him. Uh you know, and I knew that the position that the linebacker was in, Ryan could outrun him. So just try to put it out there and let him go get it. The ball that was bounced off of Ryan in the flat, that was sort of a quick a drop. Was he going to wheel past him up the sideline at that point to the vacated area or not? No, that was just a flat. Yeah,