Kevin O'Connell on Nick Mullens' Play vs. Bengals

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00:00 Mullins had two interceptions inside the 25 and the one that was a pick six that was nullified.

00:06 How concerned are you about those plays?

00:08 Yeah, I think the biggest thing is Nick showed that he can execute our offense and really move the football team.

00:15 I think what we've got to continue to work through are those plays where we don't try to do too much.

00:22 And really it's a matter with, you know, the first one, you know, he was, you know, a little bit of, you know,

00:29 man coverage, got guys running away, hoping to, you know, at the very least put it in play for a chance to try to run away.

00:36 And if not, you know, we're in field goal range, try to be smart with the football.

00:40 He wanted to take a chance there to JJ, you know, and just they end up making a play on the football.

00:46 The second one really is the pocket collapses there.

00:50 He's trying to get that ball thrown away.

00:52 That's just, you know, more repetition and understanding in that moment.

00:55 We've got a great chance at three, even if we do end up taking a sack in that moment,

01:01 we still have a chance to put points on the board based upon the drive that we, you know, that we had had.

01:06 And then, you know, on the third one that got called back, we've kind of got a play there where, you know,

01:12 he can either throw it to Ty frontside or JJ on the backside.

01:15 And when he did see the defender kind of immediately across the line of scrimmage,

01:20 that kind of forced him to throw one back into the boundary when maybe the look might have presented itself out to the field.

01:26 All of which is, you know, things that, you know, we're playing, you know,

01:31 Nick's out there for really the second time this season and there's a lot to work through.

01:35 But I thought as far as the, you know, yardage we were able to generate and, you know,

01:39 a couple big plays to help us score,

01:42 I thought Nick Mullins played well enough to give us a chance to go to overtime on the road and win a game.

01:48 as a team, we just didn't do enough in the end.