Matt LaFleur: 'We didn't capitalize on opportunities'

all right uh obviously very disappointed um there was a lot of opportunities out there to win the game we weren't good enough in the red area we were plus two winning the football um and ultimately didn't score enough points to win the game I mean give Philly a ton of credit they made some some big plays um certainly we knew the talent they had offensively uh Jaylen Herz is a hell of a quarterback they got one of the best so lines in ball and then they just got a lot of Playmakers across the board so uh there's a lot to clean up it was it was definitely a sloppy game I think from us I think there was you know some uncharacteristic things that that we did um as a staff quite frankly and that trickled down to our players and so ultimately we all got to look ourselves hard in the mirror and and find ways to get better cuz tonight obviously wasn't good enough I don't know I don't know we didn't score I'm not going to make excuses about the field it was the same for both both sides no that's what we're trying to get done two plays in a row I thought I thought the guys competed hard they played with good effort but it just it it was sloppy I think like it it felt like every time offensively we had a a drive stopping penalty and we overcame some of those um but there was a lot of penalties a lot of sloppy play um you know I thought our defense you know to to force three takeaways against a really good offense I feel like you should win the game I I think this the stats will tell you it's about 90% win ratio when you have plus two on the ball but we didn't capitalize on those opportunities to Come Away with nine points off three turnovers that's not good enough that's not going to get it done and do I think we need to play better defensively absolutely we can't give up you know 30 some points a game uh in this league that's usually a recipe for disaster so I I just when I look at it I think it's a collective loss all of us are a responsible myself it starts with me it starts with our and goes down to our staff and then to our play players and I I challenged everybody we we got to learn from this cuz I think you know um just watching the tape and I'm not trying to take anything away from Philly I mean they battled and they they played better game but I think there was a lot of opportunities that we didn't capitalize on and when you don't do that you get beat and specifically uh the red area was was a huge problem tonight and I would say a year ago we were pretty damn good in that area and we got destroyed in that area tonight I I think week one's always you just don't know what you're going to get you know what I mean it's it's kind of a slopfest and tonight was certainly that I can't hear you I'm sorry oh I I don't know I got to go back and take a look at it but I mean they were having their way with us I would say it felt like Jaylen had a lot of time to throw the football and I think anytime that you don't get a pass rush um and again that that is a a really good offensive line I just expected more from our pass rush tonight um and then you know when we did bring PR pressure there were a lot of times it looked like guys were uncovered we had some mistakes um certainly in the Run game especially we had some some blown gaps where they just saquan was barreling through there and getting chunk chunk gain so you can't do that against a really good football team excuse me oh Emanuel yeah I thought Emanuel ran well I thought he did a lot of nice things and um he had I know back toback I want to say back-to-back explosive gains on one of the series um so I think with limited opportunities I don't know what the final stats were with how many yards he ran for but I thought he I thought he played pretty well yeah it's not just one guy I mean I don't think we blocked really well either you know what I mean so um and then he was able to bust some some some chunk runs you know Philly give them credit they came out defensively and did some things that we were not anticipating it was a lot more spot drop um not a lot of pressure especially in the first half and I think in the second half they kind of flipped their mindset and they started to Bringing more pressure um but they they were trying to play soft and um when teams do that and you're not consistently running the football it's going to be a problem um yeah I mean obviously he's a young guy that's got a lot of talent uh certainly it hurt him missing a lot significant amount of time in the preseason because you I mean this is his first game action so you you don't know what necessarily to expect but uh I know what we see every day in practice we see a very explosive player that can run and hit and um I know there was at least one bus that was pretty critical um a pretty critical mistake but I thought all in all I thought I noticed him just like you did he was flying around and it seemed like he was making plays go ahead I mean yeah I thought the atmosphere was outstanding um a lot of credit the fans tonight I thought they showed out um it was an incredible setting uh you know I'm just disappointed right now that we didn't capitalize on an opportunity to come here and show what we're all about and and play our best brand of football but uh I thought all in all the people here of Brazil have been outstanding um you know and overall it was a really good experience minus minus the the loss obviously take care guys