uh we're good to Y iMed iMed thoughts after game like thatv the defense probably played pretty well overall but obviously he didn't get the win so how are you feeling coming out of a game like that it's all same effort um we shouldn't get 23 points in that first quarter I think some guys uh myself included were a little you know just excited red you know for the opportunity in front of us real early in this game and I think uh some of us were making some mistakes that we usually don't make and um you know those are big yard plays and those were the touchdowns that they had and we started to clean it up and they they didn't score after that first quarter so we just have a lot of work to do this week what was the difference what did you guys Chang what kind of alterations did you make you start playing better um you know I think guys just locked in like they realized that we can compete with these guys I always I believe in this team I love this team I Believe In Coach Miranda I believe everybody's put us in like the right places to have the right opportunity to make plays on the field I just think sometimes when you're too busy trying to make a play not do your job some things can happen on defensive I guess U did it change did their offense change a lot when RIS went out no I just think that he um whatever checks he makes he knows what he's doing I mean he's been playing college football seven years so he's a betet but the Young Buck definitely didn't know all the checks are kind of like what they're seeing but there were at times where RIS kind of knew what we were doing and so you know as we uh got further down the game we figured out what his adjustments meant and then just built off that and how critical was that fourth quarter drive that they put together when y cut it to an 11o game right there for the T and they drove I think they like seven minutes off the clock yeah that was big um couple of two two big third down plays messed up on um you know we ended up getting stopped but if we could have stopped that early I think our offense would have scored for sure I believe our offense would have scored and we would end up winning the game despite the offensive struggles you know yall were on the field a ton today how did y'all kind of rally that second half to shut them out um you know we came we talked to each other told each other like we love each other we know who we're doing this for we're doing it for the University our family's back at home and any uh support uh Team Member staff anybody who supports us you know we we want to win make them proud and you know that's our biggest goal and that's what we came to do what is the energy on the sideline like in the you know fourth quarter there when things are kind of slowing down a little bit but what what's the energy sideline like we're good like I feel like we were super energetic I was making sure nobody was down we're talking we know what we need to do um any guys that were giving that energy you know we pressed them a little bit talked to them and told them we can't have that right now like this the the time of the game this is the opportunity that you dream about when you're little kids so we got to take care of that you feel like this one slipped away from you guys kind of have some opportunities there for sure for sure um but I think like I said in the first quarter we struggled um not because of them but because of us but then you know once that next quarter came and then so on and so forth like we showed what type of team we could be we just have to do that every day and every quarter every snap what do you think the learning curve for this team is do you think it's just you know do you think by game you know five or six you be tun whatever be able to kind of do that over four quarters I feel like I feel like after you know last week game one we we should be ready to go we should be good uh I think this week was a really good practice for us uh the offense as well so we came into this game expecting and believing that you know we could come out and Domin at this team and play with the best ranked 11 or whatever they rank like we had no doubt anything else Josh Josh tough and a loss but your first career touchdown how good did that feel cuz it felt like yall were kind of right back in the game when you scor there uh yeah no it felt pretty good but and at the end of the day I really don't care about my production for real like yeah I really don't care about it honestly cuz we lost at the end of the day but in the moment it did feel good but we just got to come out on top of then for it to feel really good what caused you guys to struggle so much in the early going first quarter second didn't seem to be able to get any traction what was going on I think uh just as a team um first time playing on the road I think we all just had to settle down and find that group um defense um as well they they finally grew here towards the end of the first quarter second quarter and rest of the game then um we settled down a little bit too but we just got to finish drives when we when we do settle down so I would just say just settling down um from the get-go just starting Josh on that on that touchdown play what opened up because I mean it obviously wasn't you know big deep pass it just seemed like you got some good blocks and kind of a lane open up I guess yeah just really just a lane opened up just wanted to try and get juice to the team for so what sort of burning curve does this offense have do you attribute better slow start to like game two do you think by game five be able to sustain that a little bit better sort of this offense have overall true I'm just going to say that come next game we going to start fast we going to get it corrected any any mistakes that we see on film we're going to get it corrected we're going to put guys up there that going to make plays want to play hard for to get go we're going to get it corrected mve forward after you scor that you feel yeah know I definitely felt a momentum shift I was just on the sideline trying to get the defense up offense saying let's go we back in in this like it's really just like one two score gamees so I was really just trying to get everybody motivated and um yeah we just got to we just got to grab on to that and do something with it for e for e on his 57 C for for spe for e for for for spe e for for Happ spe for for for for to e guys how we going it's good to see you guys um disappointed how we started the game you know I think um you know there was just multiple erors really basic uh fundamental and execu execution things that um you know throughout the week hey this play we're going to go right and we got the walkthroughs all right everyone we good we're going right and then we get to game in the first you know first series we're going left and U you know I think I probably put too much emotion into this and um you know um really wanted this to be a statement game I think I probably over did that and I think our guys would fight we try to do that I think uh we're playing probably too many things uh when we got to just play the guy right in front of us played a lot better and so um I think that for sure kind of set the tone for the game I thought the guys continue to fight and play and U there's great effort there's great one to there was never a moment of hey this is uh going to get away or hey I'm going pack it in there's never that and so the adjustments on the sideline with flying by you know I was uh mentioning earlier to just defensively if this was a year ago this style offense just everything that comes I mean we see it every day scrimmage against it all this other thing we're the opposite now you know so to go against it and get aign to it there's a lot of work that goes into it and uh you know I figured that Andy would show it all which he did and very early on and so uh there's a lot of 14 Personnel 13 and just all these things so we had to make those adjustments as we went I'm proud of the team for making them uh proud for the fight at the end you know um but a lot to improve on you know I've got to get better team team has to better take questions you said you never got there but how deflating was that yeah I think the whole thing was kind of deflating you know I think the whole I mean losing is uh not what we're about and not what we want and U not what we want to be associated with I know right now that's that's the case and so you fight against that you know and um you know I thought there was resolve on I thought there was you know let's come back out and get a stop uh you know at that point in the game I think there's great focus on what we could control and I'm proud of that and I thought uh we were able to do that what can you point to what was causing some issues in the first quarter yeah I think um you know I hesitate to say this cuz I can hear the I can hear their rebuttal you know already got put too much emotion into this game and U you know we wanted to play physical we wanted to uh uh to play our best ball we wanted to make statement and I think the guys still do want to do that and uh I think it probably became too much of that and I think U they were all trying to you know um win everything with one Fell Swoop um you know when they got to hey man this is the this is my keys this is the the situation this is the the play it just got to football I thought we settled that played well and so yeah I think that's the main reason you said you talk through everything I the first and second quarter how difficult was that to defend when you saw some of some of that stuff reverse the yes yeah and so there is um you know there is multiple Personnel changes and so um you know people coming on people coming off a huddle there's not a lot of teams that truly huddle so to build to see kind of where people are coming out of the hudle I mean we practiced that it's been since uh we haven't really seen the hugle you know and so like we have to practice seeing the Huddle and so I just all those things are things you know and uh you have to pay attention to to those things and give detail to those things and um you know I thought later in the game there was great tension and detail I think early in the game we were blinded probably by ambition you know and some of those details got lost some kind of multiple hats how hard is it when the defense plays so well and the offense doesn't play as well how hard is it to kind of jugle that justos of the two you know sides of the ball yeah we just want to win you know I think it's been it's been too long it's been too much of this we need to win and the bottom line and so however we do win we'll take it but we're working to win you've got to be happy with how the defense play though especially the second half you seeing some positive steps on that side of theall I'm seeing fight and I'm seeing guys that care and I'm seeing guys that are committed and I'm seeing guys that um are invested and don't want to let other guys down and so I'm seeing a start you know there's a long way to get to the Finish hey got the ball with 29 seconds left in the half just to kind of get yourself back game yeah I think you know it's one of those things where um you know in the past not calling plays we probably would have had a lot more time because um I would have been just doing the clock you know and now that I'm not it's just it's hard to do so I think that's something we can improve on we need to improve on more there um but yeah you know when we when we moved fast which we play fast we were at our best you think was at the beginning of the game especially I think again I think the majority of our team um you know um really felt confident about the game really was thinking we're going to come out and uh and uh there's going to be big punches that we're going to have to absor and go but we're going to do that and we're going to get back up off the canvas and throw some punches of our own make plays and do all that I think probably too much emphasis on that as opposed to just the details of the what was coming at him and I think he got caught up in U wanting to prove people wrong and wanting to make the play and do all these things and I think we're still fighting that a little bit how do you find that sweet spot m forward obviously you need to you know how do you find that sweet spot not getting too emotional with playing with a match yeah I think it's um you you have to play what's right in front of you you got to play in the moment and um you know you have to if it's a a technique or a scheme and it's right in front of you then that's what you play and um anything that's outside of it you leave in outside and you're present in what's right in front of you you know um Sor came speak speak to the team and he talked about Conor mcregor fight first fight uh he had with Conor and Conor just talked so much he just got him into into Dustin's head play when they fought the first time Dustin was fighting all the people are saying all this and was saying all that and fighting all these things as opposed to just the man so there's some of that I today thank you thank you guys be able