On what this weekend has been like for him coming back home
"Honestly, I'm just trying to get a football win. That's it."
On how he feels about his performance today
"Ass."
On anything in particular that went wrong for him today.
"Getting stuck past the 50 [yard line]. Interceptions, incompletions, penalties., not helping the defense out. Just not good enough to win."
On if today's homecoming is ruined
"No, that doesn't ruin anything for me. They see me a lot in the offseason. They're just trying to come show their support and really just try to be there for me. Just trying to get the ball rolling".
On if there was anything the Texans were doing in particular to cause today's outcome
"Not really. They did everything they showed on film. The biggest switch up they had when they went more cover two on third down. They showed everything they did on film. A good defensive line, a good back end. We just didn't play well enough."
On his interception pass that looked like he left his feet and went sidearm
"No matter if I throw off platform or sidearm, I just have to be more accurate with the football. I wasn't accurate enough, he was coming in, I threw it on his backside shoulder. I can't do that. I know he'll make that play for me next time, but I shouldn't have put him in that situation."
On his feelings regarding if he had any accuracy problems
"Not really. Some of them got to be throwaways in some situations. Some of them were just me not putting the ball where it needs to go."
On what's not going right with this offense
"Everything, from interception to penalty to an incompletion by me, a bad ball. Once we passed the 50, we're just not extending the drive. So we are keeping a book right now, we ass. We're 0-4. At this point, we have nothing to lose. We dropped a quarter of our games and we've yet to do anything yet. We have to lock in, especially myself. Offensive line from the defensive line from the special teams to all three phases, we have to play together. We have not played together this year yet and that's just something that we want to preach about it every day, every day, we got to do better, and we're doing that, but it has to show up on Sundays. It hasn't showed up yet, but it's got to show up next week."
On if he challenges guys in the locker room to get better week to week
"Yeah, we all challenge each other. I challenge those guys, they challenge me every day, especially in practice. If it looks good in practice, it's not looking good right now on Sundays. We got to make it look good in practice and on Sundays. So no matter how many good weeks of practice we have, we have to have a good game on Sunday. Four weeks straight, we ain't did it offensively. At some point we have to help the defense out. We're down 6-0 halftime, end up getting the ball back, we're still down 19-0. They give up a touchdown. We're still in the ball game and we're not helping the defense out. So we're not doing enough offense."
On is this the most frustrating period he can recall football-wise
"I would say no. I had a lot of frustrations in my past, whether it was high school to college, but I just want to win. When's the last time Tennessee won? I don't know. I'm trying to win. Everybody in this locker room, we want to win and we have to win. That's really what it comes down to. No matter how we got to do it. At some point, we have to turn the tide and we have to start winning games."
On is there something he could bring from whatever those more frustrating moments were to this and apply it to move forward for himself personally
"Really just continue to have urgency, and that's everybody. Especially myself. As a whole, the offense. That's the biggest problem right now in my head. We're not helping the defense out and whether defense gives up a touchdown here or there, we're still not doing enough to help those guys out. They're playing their ass off for us every Sunday and we're not doing our part. It all comes down to us locking in. From myself having bad incompletions to not taking completions to not getting the ball out, from us having a penalty or if it's a drop on receiver, everybody knows. Everybody's got their one job and everybody's got to do their one of eleven. We just got to go get it."
On what he is seeing when looking at film from the last three games that is not being done from an execution standpoint
"I would say, honestly, just not being consistent. That falls into the execution standpoint and whether I have a bad ball, whether I need to throw it away but also the biggest thing is every time we get in a long situation or get back on track situation, the drive always ends. NFL is hard to play on second and long. It's hard to play on third and long. That's the biggest thing. We have to execute plays every play. It can't just be if we get a big run or a big pass or a spurt. We got to just be consistent."
On what is it about the coaching staff that's maintaining your faith
"It's nothing about the coaching staff. At the end of the day, they put together a good plan for us. We're not executing as players. Offensively, like, we just have to make the plays. At the end of the day, every pass concept is winnable verse man or zone. No matter what they got to. I got to get through the progression. I got to put the ball in the receiver's hands. At the end of the day, they got to make plays, too."
On what gives him the confidence that the plan is good or the plan will work when he hasn't felt or seen the results yet
"Because it's there. I'm watching the film on the sideline. It's there. It's just whether it's a bad play by me or a bad play by one of the eleven, it's just not clicking when it needs to click. It has to click every drive and it's not doing that yet. The biggest thing is the urgency. I think up front, those guys, they were gritty today. The run game and the pass game, they went against a good defensive line up there. From an offense standpoint, we just have to be consistent. It's four games and we're 0-4. Why? Because we're inconsistent."
On if he feels he you needs to assert his leadership even more on this team given the circumstances and where the team is?
"I don't think that. I always assert it when I think the time is necessary, but we're not doing our job as a unit. We're not doing our job and at some point it's got to change. I hope it changes next week. We're going to try to change it next week, but that needs to be the message. We have to change it one play at a time. If it doesn't change, we're just going to keep on getting these same results. We have to win games."
