Gott who's your quarterback for Sunday? That's Patrick. How much discussion did you guys put into that decision to not months. I mean we went over the family like we always do, and we did everybody, and we read every player, and he came out he missed some throws, but like everybody else, if he did a lot of things that we did a lot of things wrong as a group that we gotta correct. But where so his leash any shorter as
that starting quarterback is there? If he struggled a little bit on planny, could you go to you know, no, he used to start a quarterback, Todd, we went into the release of Queen and Cobost today. Uh, it just wasn't playing We trying to get a spot earlier and we didn't have a spot. We weren't playing him. He didn't get any time. It's just a business move and with nothing personal. So Todd, the was nothing bestides of football stuff that went into that. Did he didn't have
any issues with your coaching staff or anything like that? No? Absolutely not. I just is there any message you hope that sent to your team by cutting a former first round pick? It was not a mess fact for cutting the former first round pick, trying to send a message. We're just trying to play good football players, and we're trying to play guys that want to play and guys that are ready to play. And obviously a long way whether we wanted to lose, and we still got to
make business decisions going forward. That was just one of them. Does that meant to play? I'm sorry, sorry, I'm in here. It does that mean Quintin wasn't a guy who wanted to play. Oh, he wanted to play. I mean, I think Quintin still has a good future. It just wasn't playing with us. There were guys that were playing better. So it just came to the point where we put may need to rust the spot later, So we made the decision. Todd he he played well at times last
year when he was on the defensive line. Obviously, you guys have enough talent defensive line. Could you kind of maybe explain why you maybe wasn't a scheme sit for you? And uh, I guess that well. I think it was a better inside player than he was an outside player. But we got a flew with guys inside, including Draft
and Leonard in the first round. As an outside player, I thought he was okay, but we need a little more speed on the field for the things we were trying to do, and it just got caught up in between the tweeter status force of other men. He still can't play. That just means he wasn't a fit for us, because it definitely had inside. I guess, I guess why
now with with making the decision. You know, Versus said, you know later in the year, even after the season, Well, I mean, we weren't playing im and as this game evolved, there wasn't much we could do in that regard. And we're trying to do some things going forward to make some business decisions as far as getting our team better. So now it was a good time. Can you give it some what you know about the mangal to read it my readers going through a Concussom protocol. So obviously
he's got to go through some things. And he wasn't feeling any better today and Mangoes got the last rations in his hand that he got to get stitched up, about six seven stitches, and we gotta see what the pain level looks like this week. As far as I've been able to snapple ball now because this wasn't getting better today? Are you pestimistic about him playing this week? No, anytime somebody gets a concussion, kind of pessimistic about him
the next week. You know, some people recover faster than others. So I'm just gonna have to wait and see. I did, uh Nick having m R. I in his hands, and he did Uh. They came back negative. Again, he did have to get stitches. Were there any other injuries that came out of game time? I'm not to this point now. I will accuse you to seat in the patrick to uh to stick with him going forward? And again, I
don't think a lot of throws are Ryan's fault. When you have a quarterback and you gotta like at the overall scheme, not just a quarterback as far as things are getting done, and a lot of times we just gotta get on the same page. And you know, I think Ryan made some good throws. I thought he made some bad ones as well, But you don't get up on the quarterback just like that, because the overall on what he's done this year, he's still proved he can
do that going forward. How about Sheldon, Uh, do you think there's a chance this week? I'm hopeful we'll get some more treatment and as we go through practice, you know, we'll hope to see when he can get him out there and I gotta him run. Would good? How when you look at the offense is slow starts the last few weeks. Are there any common teams you see in
those those slow starts. Yeah, Usually there's a penalty involved, the county or two involved, and we get set up backwards, and then there's a misassignment here there that sets us back and we can't get going. And the whole thing is we gotta get going earlier on the offense, and we can't come from behind. And all the games we lost, we've been behind maybe double digits, and we have to
come back and try to fight at the end. We got to find a way as coaches to get that out of the way and get it and get him started earlier and started faster earlier. That was a healthy scratch yesterday. Yeah, he was a healthy scratch. He was sick all last week, so he met a lot of practice time and when he came back Friday, everything was already at the stone, tied on double tasks. How in
the perfect world, how should that have been defended? Like with what protown defensively, I think they're wearing this factor. You know, I've seeing a guy's eye out there nine times out of ten. You don't see those in a long time. And everybody just has to stay with their rules and not get caught by the first past going the other way, and to stay with the guy you're supposed to be with. God, you were you guys to
wear the short ran a double past against detectives last year? Yes, we were todd You had a twelve men on the field penalty after a time out? What what happened in that? And that was a big culture mix up in a big mistake on our part. M hm. Does anyone have anything else for coach? Is there any I do that? Uh? Be thought to considering any lineup changes this week? Yeah,
they're all Wes thoughts man. We'll go through the game plan tonight and tomorrow and we'll see what fits and we'll just trying to make that decisions as we go out on Wednesday if we do. How how tough is it for a coach when you go through like a stretch of adversity like this and you have your core principles and your philosophies that you believe in, But at the same time, you probably want to try some new stuff to get the team on track. So how do
you weigh those two you know, those two situations. You know it's a fine line. Obviously, you've got to stick to your core belief and you know, the same things that got through the wins. You gotta stick with the same thing they got to the losses and try to
get back to it. But at the same time, you got to still make sure the team is continuing to grow and everybody doing what they're supposed to, coaches and players, And it's a fine line between the two, and you weigh the good in the bed and you make a decision that you gotta go with it. Last night, some guys mentioned that, you know, this is a team that doesn't know how to finish, or you know they don't
know how to play sixty minutes. Is that a cultural thing that you're just coming in trying to change or is there something specific that you can pinpoint as to why that might be. I think it's a little bit
of everything else. They're trying to finish the ball game, and we know we have to finish ball games and the way we finished ball games, the execute and play situational football, and I think once it gets down to the end of the ball game, there is a bust here or a bus there that we gotta get better and that that comes with mental toughness, and that that's something has to be ingrained every year, whether it's a new coach or whether it's the same coach. So, you know,
I think it's the process. It's something we gotta get over because we lost five of them, and there's at least three of them where we lost where we should have better mental toughness and execution. At the end, Coach, it looked like Aaron Henderson got some additional rest there on the defensive side of the ball against you, And is that something you're gonna look to increase even more in the coming weeks. It could be. I mean, David and Tomorrow got banged up at certain point of the game,
so he's the next guy in. Just um a clarification on the Queen situation. Did you you said you might you need the roster spot, You might have something in mind where you want to clear that roster spot. Now, yeah, we have something in mind going forward, and you know we see how developed or go from there. Might you sign a kickoff return. I'm not gonna devoted at this time, but we do fomthing that we're looking man,