Why do you feel like you guys did have an uncharacteristic day?
"I don't know, especially with our run defense, it was surprising. As we all know, just one person out their gap or whatever, it was open, six. And it happened twice."
Why has the effort not completely shown up on the field and what is it going to take to really clean these things up and make a change?
"That's a good question. We put bad ball on tape, bad film. It just starts to spiral. As we see, we started slow on defense and that kind of spiral. We were able to get the lead back at halftime but then, the turnovers and we didn't stand up in the red zone, so that's how the game goes. We just put a bad ball out there today."
You talked about coming into the week, these are two teams with four combined wins. Knowing that, do you think the focus was there the way it needed to be, or was there more that could have been done?
"You can look back at any week and say we didn't practice well, or we didn't do this in the third. You just have to execute in the moment, and we didn't."
When you're a rookie and mistakes like that happen, how do you bounce back from that?"
"Obviously, it's tough on them to beat themselves up since they may not get a lot of touches, but you got to know that it is easily fixable stuff. At the end of the day, the greatest players mess up as well, but the greatest players also deliver when it's time to deliver. It'll be good for them to learn from."
What did (QB) Shedeur (Sanders) show you at the end today?
"He (QB Shedeur Sanders) played with heart, man. I think the whole offense, they put up a lot of points. They had ups and downs, but he was throwing the ball not perfectly, but it looked pretty good and we just have to be able to have his back as a defense. He's our quarterback, we have to get him the ball back when they put us in some hard
spots."
