When you say, we need to not beat ourselves, is that defense or do you mean the whole team kind of needs to work on things different?
Well, it's definitely the whole team. It's all phases today. Today there was, it was all phases. You can go down the list if you want to but at the end of the day, I think it was in all different phases of the game. Especially on defense where I feel like it's my domain. We just got to improve and make sure that we just go back to doing our job and making sure that we just play football. At the end the day, they're going to get some. They're good players, D-Hop (DeAndre Hopkins) had a big day, right. He's had plenty of big days in this game. He's a good player. Will Levis, first time playing, coming off the bye, you got to give him his respect. He came out here and played like a veteran and they did some things that was kind of a big ask for a rookie quarterback and he handled it very well. So give him his respect, and it is what it is. They're in a whole different conference so we won't worry about them anymore, but we'll learn from our mistakes, and we'll go from there.
When we talked to Jessie Bates, the only thing he kept answering our questions with was 'We got to stop these explosive plays that we gave today.' You've been on, I'm sure, teams in games that that's been a problem. How fixable is that for a defense and how do you kind of move forward as a defense knowing that you can limit that?
Yeah, most of the time when you see an explosive play like that, something didn't go the way it's supposed to, right. If a guy gets beat in position, you can live with that because that's usually just somebody making a play. Which I think one of those was that, right? But the other, there was three big time explosives where you got to watch the tape to figure out exactly what happened. At the end of the day, one thing that we pride our team on is that we didn't panic, we didn't flinch, we just kept fighting, we gave ourselves a chance to win at the end of the game, which is huge. That's who we are. So, at the end of the day, today was just their day. I mean, they're players. You got to give them their respect. We kept fighting, we had a chance at the end of the game, and that's all you can really ask for in this business.
