um appreciate our players their strain and their fight till the end to figure out a way to win disappointed in uh a lot of things that uh we did uh today did enough things wrong to we deserve to lose and fortunate to find a way to win um really uh thought to the field position Luke elzinga was fantastic coming here to the press conference and bring on our punter um but he deserves it he had you know eight punts I think two were inside the five and three were inside the the 10 and that was a big uh part of uh the game in a a field position game um uh really uh we had plus one again in the margin we two out of two in the Red Zone uh scoring touchdowns uh again overall body work on offense not very good uh today uh really proud of guys that stepped up and had a you know an opportunity I thought that Bates Josh Bates really battled his butt off and then's mind we really lack discipline had a couple of personal fouls today that um embarrassed about just didn't handle ourselves in uh the right moments we lost the middle eight 9 to zero really poor drive on offense just before half 15sec drive that gave him the ball back and they went right down and got a field goal there as time expired and then first drive of the second half defense had a bust supposed to be in too deep and safety play quarters and they scored a touchdown and when when they're not moving a ball much and not scoring much uh that's uh again just a recipe for losing and uh but the Danny stman again had 15 tackles uh Jake Roberts had his two big time catches for us his first touchdown as a sooner Grayson Halton with a minute and 42 seconds to go in a game just a great play there to force the safety and uh uh had several guys go down in the game and gu stepped up Samy iGo got in there and had a career-high five tackles had a couple tackles for loss and really did a nice job uh as well but like I said fortunate uh to win and thankful for victory thankful again for our players uh and our staff to figure it out on a night where a lot didn't go great thought we were off um you know on defense uh just enough to allow them to stay on schedule I we talked about you know how the opponent wants the game to go and um early in the week and it went exactly I bet it was pretty much close to script uh if you ask the Houston other than they'd want to win but uh keeping it close and again the stove was hot we touched the stove and got burnt let him hang around and and again they had great fight you know you got to give it to them and you know they made layups when they were there and uh and at times when we had layups we didn't make them and uh again like I said we uh in many fronts you deserve to to lose but again I don't want to take away from getting the fight and our guys figuring it out a way to win again I think being on the plus side of the margin uh again is a is big and and again uh Robert Spears had a great interception and really nice play that's eight straight games I think 24 of our last 28 games that we've you know forced an interception uh since the start of the 22 season so it came up big tonight where do you think the disconnect is on offense can you boil it down to three or four team or is is it literally across the board yeah it's a little bit of everything and you know so got to go back and uh reevaluate a lot of things but you know there was some opportunities there in the game that to get allow us to get into a rhythm that we missed some of those opportunities and uh so we have to go back and look at that and but we got to get we got to get a whole of a lot heck of a lot better quickly what did you think of Jackson's play tonight yeah again just inconsistent um you know there was uh made some really nice plays you it was 19 out of 32 made some really nice plays and then other times you know we you know uh maybe try to force it you know when you don't have to he had uh but U thought he ran with toughness and you know some some critical situations you know made some good plays and and again there's everybody around them got to play well too and uh so that that uh that's that's part of it as well has go how is it for you to stay patient frustrating when you have quarterback and off yeah I mean yeah and guys that are you know fighting through there's a lot um from an injury standpoint and whatnot so you got to have perspective on all of it and uh it is important but uh at the same time you know you don't want to uh have your head in the sand uh as well so making sure that the things that we're asking people to do are the right things and uh they give us a chance to win and again defense and Especial teams and fi position and then taking care of the football making the explosive plays and again uh when we we got good play design and we're in a good position based on the defensive calls that we make those plays that are there too get much push up front the offive line yeah I have to I have to wait and see you know uh you know too much penetration at times uh for sure and uh you know we got to be there's no doubt we got to be uh a lot better we average you know had four yards a play you again Houston I said going in the strength their team was their defense but uh you know we got to we got to be better what about the Run game in particular did you see there how much of it was the protection up front versus other back yeah inconsistent and uh go back and look and see again what whether or not we're making the right cuts and the right reads um at times you know we had a few explosives but nothing like you you got to have and you got to you got make people pay in the back end too you know for how they're lining up and and they got to make plays you know throwing the ball as well we saw uh Gentry and Jake Taylor go down during the game were those serious injuries for you guys I don't I don't think so um uh have to evaluate that but I don't think so H Army is the lack of big plays it's one thing get stuck consistently but I'm not able to have any big had two plays I think for 15 yards so what the question is how much does that limit the offense when can't move it yeah obviously it loosens the defense up the more you can create explosive play so uh we got to again look at you know creating those making the plays you know when we are there and and then look at you know play design as well so we can create some of those opportunities you put people in Conflict for the most part your defense I know you gave up the big play but defense got you to win tonight what did you think of your overall def well again proud of um there's moments in the game that were that were excellent and um uh you know you know just look at the second half the first drive we have a bust uh that leads to a touchdown um I think that was no that wasn't um but we we let him stay on schedule you know that was you felt it from the very get go and he we we can tackle great you know we uh some of their run their play actions you know we let guys get slightly outside of us and it's all it takes and you're dumping it down and throwing it at two yards beyond the line of scrimmage and picking up seven you know we did that three different times that I can remember and again it's hard man you can't let people get into a rhythm and uh do that team wanted to possess the football and to me we allowed them and you know and then next thing you know you're losing some of that field position the momentum that you get but the second half drives other than the first drive that led to the bust you know uh 20 yard drive 12 play 20 yard drive you know it's like you know you know seven minute drive went 20 yards uh punt four four plays minus four yards interception seven plays 24 yards punt but they held the ball 4 minutes and 44 seconds and so for the offense it's hard to get into a rhythm two you you know uh next drive you know one play you know we knocked him backwards and forced the safety and then a you know 29 seconds there at the end you know we were in a really comfortable confident position you know one coming off the safety but two we we work a lot of two minute and I think our guys were super confident they knew they knew like we talk timeouts we talk how many seconds you know what they got to do the win and uh they had no timeouts uh in a touchdown win they felt we all felt very confident in that moment but uh and we made it we made it awfully hard on ourselves way too often I thought there was a a point in time in the second quarter we had a chance to go up by three scores and we missed this this window that the game doesn't just you know give you back those opportunities in a in a night where you got a lot going against you whether it's not guys not being available or guys that are you know pton Bowen getting you know we dropped a couple of punts billy gets out there and uh looks like a freshman you know trying to field some punts and you know when we they they gift wrapped gift wrapped at us the first touchdown and uh again that's to take nothing away from jacobe busting his butt to get down there and Lewis Carter busting their butts to get down there and playing the play from snap to whistle and they did that that created the opportunity too and the offense does a great job of punching it in right there too so it takes that but um you know the there's small windows in the game where at night where everything isn't going to not much is going to come easy we we didn't slam the door and step on the throat when we could have to me in the first half that would have made it really hard on Houston under the circumstances you know where where they're at offensively right now and and where we're at supposed to be at defensively how proud were you a play Grayson made at the end of the game second week in a row he's come back make some plays in the back field yeah he's yeah really thankful proud of him and uh you know that group of guys guys up front you know they've helped him too though he'd be the first one to tell you man that's a really close group of guys that bring out the best in each other they challenge each other every day Grayson has grown up uh you know right before our eyes uh here in the last you know since January he's made a decision he wants to you know he's going to do something and and really proud of him and all the work that he's put in uh and what a what a big time play you know they didn't just gift wrap that you know didn't have a whole bunch of tackles for lot I don't know what they were we didn't have a whole bunch of them today but man that one was a huge one and uh uh Game Changer right there talk about it there a couple answers ago but Lewis's play there on that opening what what did you see there and the way that he reacted after didn't it seem like the the returner thought he touched it yeah I mean you just never know you got to play when we coach Deacon talks about that all the time you get on no matter what don't don't leave nothing to chance and uh you know let the review and the officials figure it out when it's all said and done so just great great headiness and awareness and effort you know as much as anything not taking the playoff not relaxing you know not putting two hands or one hand on the wheel keeping two hands on the wheel and playing from getting from snap to whistle whatever you got so it's good big Play Just CU third game working s when it comes to game management I know you had the third third and six third and seven you go a quarterback draw field goal you guys discussed your setting up for field goal yeah so we had we we had a draw there that we were strongly considering um you know going forward if we got the right amount and uh just you know obviously um you don't know what would happened on fourth down now after the fact we missed the field goal but um he's doing exactly you know playing the analytics uh on it and we would have liked to get a couple more yards there and you know yeah is there something about the tie yeah again you know those are short yard situations and they got the whole defense down there and so you're you're playing off their aggressiveness and so uh couple of good play designs there that you know then making the plays you know to not only get open but make the play too you know nothing's a gim me the uh the m field goal from Tyler he just did he just pull that one he pulled it mhm he did you still got confidence in him yeah absolutely do anything else coach appreciate it