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00:00 Questions for Garrett?
00:01 Garrett, start with first drive went so well.
00:03 What was good there, and then how'd that thing flip so quickly
00:07 offensively?
00:07 Yeah, I think they did a good job adjusting
00:10 to what we were doing on offense after the first drive.
00:15 Started giving us some really complicated looks.
00:19 That's what their defense as well
00:20 is giving you a lot to look at.
00:22 And I started to see too much.
00:26 You said that.
00:27 So when you see too much, explain that a little bit.
00:30 Is it using smoke screens on you, or what happens?
00:33 Yeah, part of it with a defense like this,
00:37 there's so many moving parts of it
00:38 between the front and secondary that if you
00:41 try to look at the whole picture,
00:43 it just looks like there's bodies everywhere.
00:45 So after the first drive, for the first probably quarter,
00:49 quarter and a half, I was just seeing everything.
00:53 Really halfway through the second,
00:56 I started to settle in and see it better,
01:01 but still didn't see it great tonight.
01:04 Run game for you guys wasn't as efficient as it often is.
01:10 Not the same problem, but similar things.
01:12 They would just beat you guys up front a little bit more
01:14 than you're used to?
01:16 Yeah, they did a great job.
01:18 Their front and their backers, I think 28's a really good
01:21 player.
01:22 He does a great job getting them lined up.
01:25 And they ran some stunts and some twists and stuff
01:28 that affect our run game.
01:31 When you're going through that process
01:32 that you were just talking about, seeing too much,
01:34 trying to settle in or whatever, does that
01:37 make it more difficult to make changes or try something
01:40 that's a little bit different just because they are showing
01:43 you so many different things?
01:45 Yeah, it just all goes back to me being coached
01:47 to do what I'm coached to do.
01:50 They help me all the time.
01:52 The reads are the reads.
01:54 And I just got to do a better job of that.
01:56 Is this hard to flush?
01:58 You've got two games left.
01:59 There's still a lot in front of you.
02:00 Is it hard to put this one behind you?
02:02 Yeah, obviously we're going to learn from it, myself
02:08 in particular.
02:09 But tomorrow the sun's going to come up and God is still good.
02:14 So we're going to learn on it and get better
02:16 for the next three.
02:16 Seemed like part of the plan was to get you more engaged
02:19 in the run game this week.
02:20 What were they doing to offset that?
02:23 They were just really disciplined in their run fits.
02:26 I think last year they kind of lost that with the QB run game
02:31 and they did a great job of correcting it and getting
02:33 in the right fits.
02:34 And they forced you to run a third long,
02:36 which got you off script.
02:37 Yeah.
02:38 Made it more difficult, didn't it?
02:39 Yeah.
02:41 Their defense is the best when it's third and long
02:44 and they can really dial up simulated pressures.
02:49 That's one of the cases early in the game.
02:50 I felt like there was bodies everywhere.
02:53 But that's something I'll learn from and get better.
02:55 Fourth quarter, the last 10 minutes,
02:58 when the game's obviously out of hand,
03:00 what's your approach with your teammates?
03:02 What are you trying to do?
03:03 Yeah.
03:04 I think just as an offense, as a team, just continue to fight.
03:10 It's got to be in our DNA.
03:11 No matter what happens, we always got to be fighters.
03:16 You're one who normally is moody over a loss
03:19 or are you able to quickly turn that around in 24 hours?
03:24 I think I want to stay on it longer just because of how much
03:30 our team invests in each week.
03:33 But we got to come back and play Cincinnati on Saturday.
03:37 So I'll watch the tape, sit on it, and then come Monday,
03:40 it'll be all Cincinnati.
03:42 Do you think you broke the play?
03:44 Yeah.
03:45 Yeah, I 100% did.
03:46 I thought I was in the end zone.
03:48 But it is what it is.
03:50 Is there anything else for Derek?
03:57 All right, thank you, Derek.