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00:00 [INAUDIBLE]
00:10 So a lot of self-critical errors.
00:15 Obviously, that's a great football team, great defense.
00:20 So we took our caps at night, but you look at it after.
00:25 There's so many opportunities that we missed.
00:28 And the level of the group, the guys that needed to make plays,
00:33 there's times that the plays weren't made.
00:35 And they just caught up to us.
00:38 So I think that's what is hard for our team right now.
00:43 Does that add to the frustration,
00:44 like the missed opportunity to play the defense play,
00:46 to hold them, to set a key?
00:48 100%.
00:48 I mean, the defense is about as nice as they're playing
00:51 since we have football.
00:53 That's such a high-powered offense.
00:55 And for them to hold them at 17, they
00:57 gave us every shot to go out and win the game,
00:59 and we didn't do it.
00:59 That's on us as an offense.
01:01 And we're way too good to go out there and put together
01:04 something like that, put that out there.
01:05 So we need to look ourselves in the mirror
01:07 and be very harsh on ourselves.
01:09 So--
01:09 Are you OK after hitting that post?
01:12 That was Calvin.
01:13 I'm sorry.
01:13 Yeah, no, you're good.
01:14 But I got a little--
01:16 I got a little.
01:17 Yeah, I got a couple hits today by my--
01:20 How about--
01:20 [INAUDIBLE]
01:21 What is the fourth down to versions?
01:23 Like, beginning of last year, you guys did a lot of rolling
01:26 the dice, not paying off so far this year.
01:29 You look at it as just taking a chance,
01:31 and sometimes it's going to work, sometimes it's not.
01:33 I think no matter what, we're going to be aggressive.
01:36 And Doug believes in us.
01:37 And as players, we need to be better on fourth down
01:40 and third down, collectively.
01:42 And in those pressure downs, we need
01:44 to make sure that we're all off-ramp,
01:46 and having those days, there's some penalties,
01:48 some mis-design on those plays.
01:50 So we just need to be better.
01:52 We're the ones controlling it, and they're
01:53 putting us in a position to go make those plays.
01:55 So I think that we're going to continue to be aggressive.
01:58 We just need to be better at it.
02:00 Did the game flow good together in the game for you, at least?
02:04 Did you get in the flow of things?
02:06 Yeah, it did.
02:08 There was a little bit of ebbs and flows in the first half.
02:12 We were still trying to figure some things out,
02:14 still had some missed opportunities.
02:16 But unfortunately, we didn't win the game.
02:18 And so we need to go back and look at whether there's
02:22 better opportunities to either schematically do
02:25 some better things.
02:26 But I think as players, we're going to do better.
02:28 But whatever I can do to help contribute a little bit more
02:32 to give us some wins, I'll definitely love to do.
02:35 Talk about the missed opportunities,
02:36 a lot of that in the red zone.
02:38 What can you specifically do better as a unit
02:40 to come away with touchdowns, not just field goals?
02:43 Execution.
02:44 Execution.
02:46 It's hot.
02:47 Long game.
02:48 But we can't fall back on that.
02:51 We're going to have another opportunity next week.
02:54 We're going to be hot, and we're going
02:55 to have a divisional opponent.
02:56 So we need to be better.
02:57 I think it's all pretty snap, just
02:59 locking into what your job is.
03:01 And doing that at the highest level,
03:02 no matter how tired, how hurt you are, you got to do it.
03:06 And so that's what we're going to definitely focus on,
03:09 is just selling out in each and every game.
03:12 All right, guys, one more.
03:13 Is it hard to move past these?
03:15 They got you the last three times,
03:16 dating back to last year.
03:17 Is it harder to move past these ones?
03:20 No.
03:21 We have a lot of pros.
03:22 There's a lot going on.
03:23 So the pros move on.
03:25 If it hurts right now, you've got
03:27 to adjust the feelings today.
03:29 And then once tomorrow morning comes around,
03:31 don't be hard on yourself too much.
03:33 And then so you move on.
03:35 This is week two of a 17-week season.
03:38 And we're still very early on in writing our story.
03:41 And we're looking forward to doing that.
03:42 So yeah, it hurts now.
03:44 But we're going to move on.
03:45 And I believe this team will be ready to go next year.
03:47 All right, thanks, Christian.
03:48 Thank you.
03:48 Appreciate it.
03:48 You guys go ahead and walk them out.
03:50 We're going right now.
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