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00:00 >> Baker, you guys have been so good on the third down today,
00:04 it was kind of the opposite story.
00:06 Can you just address- >> We sucked today.
00:08 I sucked today, we sucked today.
00:10 It was awful.
00:12 In the get go, I mean, it was just, can't play like that.
00:16 Didn't start fast, we didn't pick it up in the middle, and we didn't finish strong.
00:19 So I didn't think we had to be better.
00:22 Lions are a good ball club, but can't play like that, we're doing things at a time.
00:27 So playing the defense and special teams, did an amazing job yet again.
00:31 In offense, we just need to pick our shit up.
00:34 It's really no other way around it.
00:35 >> You missed Palmer a couple times, obviously,
00:38 like did you hit more to the left of him in the game?
00:41 >> Yeah, not only those two to trade, but he tipped the reception,
00:46 I can score a touchdown.
00:49 Just one of those days where I had everything we wanted, but
00:53 didn't hit it, didn't execute, and so it's frustrating.
00:56 So we should find ways to make it work, and it starts with me, and so we'll fix it.
01:01 >> What's the most frustrating part of it?
01:04 >> Just knowing that the plays are there.
01:06 There were plays that we should have had, should have executed to where they were
01:09 game changing plays, and we didn't do it.
01:11 And left a lot out there that we should have taken advantage of.
01:16 >> Baker, your coach just said you guys were sluggish coming out of the bye week
01:20 about three or four times.
01:21 >> Absolutely.
01:22 >> What's the reason for that?
01:25 >> I don't know, but we'll fix it.
01:29 I'll fix it, I'll fix my mistakes, I'll fix what I was doing wrong, and
01:33 we're gonna go on.
01:35 There's zero excuse for our offense coming up with a headache like that,
01:38 it was horrible.
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01:41 >> It seemed like you weren't able to complete a pass to Mike until the second
01:46 half, and Drake, I think you were like one of seven targeting him.
01:49 Was there anything they were doing with those two guys downfield that was making
01:52 that more of a challenge?
01:54 >> They did a good job passing some things off.
01:56 I think there were a few plays early on that we could have hit those guys,
01:59 but didn't exactly do it.
02:00 And they did a good job passing some things off to the red zone.
02:04 One of the plays on the second down in the red zone,
02:07 over on the second and three, they wound up bringing the pressure.
02:10 Both Mike and Chris were at it one on one, but
02:13 they did a good job of bringing that pressure to get us out of it.
02:15 So yeah, there were definitely plays there that didn't happen.
02:21 >> Baker said your hand came back.
02:24 >> Yeah, x-rays are good.
02:25 >> What happened? >> It just hurts.
02:26 I took a nice little face mask right to the hand, so it feels good.
02:31 >> What about the screen game?
02:33 Cuz I know even at times when the ground game has kind of struggled this year,
02:36 it seems like you were able to lean on that, but
02:38 that was a little bit more of a struggle today.
02:40 >> A little bit.
02:41 They were, the guys are real aggressive downhill players.
02:44 So you saw some of the RPOs that we were able to take advantage of.
02:47 But then at the same time, when we didn't have enough,
02:50 they would rally and tackle the ball.
02:51 It was the same things we talked about earlier in the week.
02:54 They play extremely hard, they rally, they play for each other.
02:58 And so you can tell that's part of stopping the run game is how hard it went.