Mike Macdonald: "Geno Smith Played A Dynamite Game" | Postgame Press Conference - Week 2

all right we got everybody um man it was a what a heck of a football game um just we knew the game was going to come down to the fourth quarter didn't expect to come down to the fifth quarter but uh whatever it takes just proud I mean again just same just proud of the fight um the resiliency uh the just the confidence the support um the togetherness of our football team so um that's a good that's a good really good football team we just played um tough obviously they ran the ball really well they stopped the Run uh but our guys came through in the end and then uh just proud of our guys you know we need to make it play it seems like on all three phases the guys made plays without you know um you know inventing techniques or whatever just kind of played through played through the scheme played through their fundamentals and um and we closed that out at the end so um just a just a great great football game and excited to get back home you had a bunch of drops not a lot of help from the Run game but G got it done what did he show you today man I thought Gino I thought Gino played a dynamite game I thought uh he was decisive the ball was out fast thought we had a great plan um yeah we had a couple drops but we'll clean those up I mean I not sure what the numbers are but they're probably pretty dang good he had a bunch of game when he drive last season the game Ty when Drive what that say about sounds like that's who he is so you know let the tape speak for itself and uh I'm glad he's on our side what did you Julian uh black field goal was that design play or just something he was able to figure out there no they know just like invent yeah I mean that was that was the play that's the that's the the field goal Rush at that time without getting into like the strategy involved but he made a heck of a play I mean just heck of a play but it's something you practice all the time and finally when you have the opportunity um you know he goes and executes it so yeah that was big time was part of the oh go ahead dropped last week and then this week CAU how was that oh yeah he he played a dynamite game he played a great he did a great job he told you he had confidence in him he had such had he had such a great off season but we had a big return in the first half caught the ball there I don't know who got blocked into him but uh but that I mean he's gonna have to make those plays moving forward but he's he's the man for the jobike all he look good today Greg all right gets one or two TGs for 60 minutes he just has a it's just that's him you I I mean I I you knew it coming in you knew his reputation um learning who he is is a person who who we absolutely absolutely love um but that there's something special about him where he comes alive in those clutch moments man uh again I mean it's just I just uh we love him but I mean just a great job by Tyler you see on that third down over well I I felt the rush I didn't know who it was at the time but I think Derk Hall had a d a really good rush and um you know they they uh they did some good things on offense in the first half on third down so we had to make a couple adjustments um you know they're hitting the tight ends um so we had to adjust a little bit of our Rush plan but this this what happens it's the NFL like teams are going to have good plans you're going to have to kind of understand how they're attacking you and then kind of move and shake from there so the guys did a great job of um kind of going to the next things and and playing some of the plays that they were they're running against us and I thought our rush started to come alive in the second half would have been great to get him on the ground more but um you know jacobe he's a really good player too you know he understands that I told you he was Elusive and uh he got rid of the ball in some of those critical situations why do you feel like you weren't able to get much going in the ground game well I mean uh on our end I don't know but I have to look at the tape and see what's happened on some of the blocks um but you know if it's not there and you're able to throw the ball then you know whatever it takes to win the game so I thought we did that but we'll go back to the tape and figure F out but you know they have a really good front and they do a good job in the Run game numbers back it up how much of a decision was there was it tough before before you KCK the field goal to tie it up when you had the had the fourth and one there about going for you set the offense out there the one where we took the delay yeah uh well I mean yeah we we we wanted to take a peek and see if we had if we if there was an opportunity to go for it and um didn't have a didn't have weren't confident enough in the situation at that point so we felt like take the five and still still a pretty good pretty good manageable field goal to to go tie it up was getting invol running game yeah yeah yeah that's a good points I wouldn't say surprised I was disappointed I mean we look we can't be giving up 180 yards rushing so um there's plenty on tape that we we've kind of had a pictures on the first half um losing some leverages uh not playing some runs the right way so I mean we got our work to do on that front uh we got a good good team coming to town that that uh can run the ball so we're going to have to be better moving forward in the Run game so um a lot of work to be done on that front guys know that um but you know in the last two drives it felt like uh we saw some of the some of the plays they had gone to earlier in the game and the guys knocked them out so that's the that's what you're going to have to do you know to win you know if you just keep banging your head against the wall then uh they going to be it's going to be tough blood out there mik you told us a while ago that you really wanted Gino to be the voice of poise I think was youring in like you know chaotic adverse situations youve had a few of those so far how have you seen him handle those no he's been he's been incred I mean he's been the guy that he's been since um since we got here in February I mean he's just he like you there's some points where you know where we communicate one way or another and um he's right there in lock step um this is a great example of this game of like hey when the offense needs to pick the defense defense up they did it when you know when defense could help the offense by getting a critical stop because we weren't able to get the ball into negative territory we got the stop you know so that's what you have to play complimentary football you got and and you need your leaders to show up in those in those critical moments and and uh and he did that and I thought defensively the guys did the same thing as well how' you feel about the rookies ofon Murphy and tyres Knight and Christian uh Christian I I know he got in there the third series I don't know how much more he played after that that uh so we'll see we ended up going with AB for the majority of the game um it's good to get good get Christian in there guy we have a lot of confidence in but in order to develop guys you need to get reps so sometimes if it doesn't go your way man it's okay like you know he's a guy that has been worked really hard he deserves an opportunity to go earn his reps so um expect that to keep going uh Byron not sure I I I felt our Run game at times was really good at times I thought we weren't so good so I'm G to have to get back to on the tape uh Tyrese Knight again he's a rookie he's getting his first time in there I'm not sure how many plays he made there's a couple couple ones that are on top of my head that you know we want to play a little bit better um but again a guy you have a lot of confidence in he's playing a lot of he's got a ton of reps under his belt so I thought this is a solid start for him I'm sure he'll go back watch the tape easy fixes you know as things the game will start to slow down for him as he gets more experience out there you know when uh in the regular season uh really I really felt like the only issue was not that it was an issue but the only true backup we went to was was Tyrese um with bake not been able to finish the game yeah I think I think he's gonna be all right how about boy uh boy same thing he's got like a um a knee contusion I think he's got banged in the knee uh I think it was it the last might have been the last drive before over time or the overtime Drive last drive before overtime so um we'll see with all that stuff we'll see how it shakes out what do you think howson played overall career for him I didn't realize those career highs it's pretty awesome yeah I mean he uh he he's a great player he's um got incredible hands all the underneath stuff I think he you know underratedly deep threat um there's a play I think it was an overtime where he held on to that ball the guy had a pretty good hand on it in ball in transition to be able to secure that ball in that critical moment it's the one that stuck out with me so um he's going to he's a guy that we're going to be relying on moving forward and um yeah he's a great player getting the field goal at the end of the first half that looked like that was pretty efficient and getting up line yeah grad you bought that up that that's a lot of teamwork going into that drive getting the stop on defense you know coming back um offense kind of understanding like saving your timeouts operationally so you can use all of them you can use the whole field and then uh the the field goal operations is you know a point of Memphis this week so I'm eager to watch the tape and see how we blocked him on field goal but um the operation was great J hit a great ball and um probably a game you know gamechanging type series is there any thought there in using the first time out after that first stop that you get on defense um you kind of in those situations you kind of ask yourself hey Which side will I want to be on I felt like it was the right move to to kind of make them go conservative and then um whatever time remaining we could we kind of do our thing on defense or on offense DK had a couple drops but was a key part of the rest of the game especially Drive talk about show yeah it's a great point I mean like you know he started the game off with us you know on the uh on the on the Deep pass down there when they're in zero and uh kind of got us of and running on offense I know he had a couple drops but coming back making some critical plays one where he leaped over the guy was incredible and then having a couple big time catches over there in the fourth quarter and overtime so um not sure what his numbers were but it sound I mean it felt like he had a great game anything else thanks Co okay thanks guys