Coach Brian Daboll: 'Home crowd was awesome'

Brian Daboll (0:00)

Good team win. That's a division team on the row, or at home, should I say. Home crowd was awesome, but we gotta give them a reason to be awesome, too. So, another good game by our rookie quarterback. But another good game from everybody around him, and that's what we needed. You know, it's not about one guy, it's about a team. Two turnovers on defense, very good. Third down execution on offense.

Round the ball well, finish the game. You know, it's good to have a young leader like Dart.

Connor (0:33)

You have not had much success against the Eagles for a while around here. How do you feel about that?

Brian Daboll (0:41)

Yeah, waiting feels good. So, there are a lot of coaches sleeping in their offices this week, and I appreciate about those guys. You know, they put a lot into it, like they do every week. The players put a lot into it, and we had a lot of walkthroughs.

I'm just happy for those guys that put so much into it to try to get the outcome we all desire. Played clean football. It's a good football team that we just played. So, get a little bit of a couple days off, rest our guys. Hopefully, we'll get them back. We'll be back on Monday. Get ready for our next opponent.

SPEAKER_3 (1:23)

Brian, does Daboll give you more than the yards he gets? Is there some kind of an energy that is infectious with these guys, what he's hard to come to bring down like that?

Brian Daboll (1:37)

I mean, he's just a good teammate. He plays with a high amount of, I would say, energy, toughness.

Certainly, people can feed off that.

SPEAKER_4 (1:48)

What did you like best about Dark tonight?

Brian Daboll (1:54)

I don't know, I've liked everything about Dark since we've got him, so. Again, he's not perfect, it's not going to be perfect. You know, there's going to be, drop a ball, whatever it may be. But we've got toughness, I think he sees the field well. We've got athleticism, vision, leadership. You know, but just three games in, you know, two and one as a starting quarterback.

But a lot to work on, so. And he'll be the first to tell you that, but he's a leader.

SPEAKER_5 (2:31)

How does he lead?

SPEAKER_4 (2:32)

Like when you say, good to have a young leader like Dark.

Brian Daboll (2:35)

He leads by his play, he leads by his words, he leads by his emotion, he leads by his loose plays. Glad he's my quarterback, our quarterback.

SPEAKER_5 (2:47)

How much different does he make?

Brian Daboll (2:49)

And again, he's a rookie, so as one of my mentors once said, let's not give him a gold jacket right now. Coach Parcells. But he's a good young player to work with.

Connor (3:04)

How much difference does his legs make everything?

SPEAKER_5 (3:07)

How much difference does his legs make with everything?

Brian Daboll (3:12)

Yeah, it helps. It helps.

Connor (3:15)

He just obviously has an uncanny ability to kind of feel the rush around him. Is that just a God-given thing? I mean, most guys don't have that. I don't want to stress it.

Brian Daboll (3:24)

He keeps his eyes downfield. He's got awareness in the pocket.

I mean, he had it at Ole Miss, at least what I watched of it. So, again, each week will get tougher, I think you asked that question the other day, as you put more tape.

But let's give credit to the other guys, too, as he would. Offensive line, I don't know, we must have rushed for what, 200 yards? Dan? I'm starting to mark. Yeah. It's close to it. I don't know, third down was 11 to 16, I think. Red zone, what was that, Jordan? You got it? Three to three. There you go. So, when you play good situational football, you don't turn it over, you know? We didn't have any turnovers, right? Hove a lot better than five last week. And then you create turnovers. What a play by Flott, you know? Down there to get it, and, you know, we talked about it last week. He was going back to, you know, down south. I said he owed me one, because he was going to get one down there. And what a big play and a big moment. Again, I love these guys. They grind. It's not always been easy. It won't be easy. We'll go back to work on Monday. Coaches will go back on work tomorrow. I'm sure they're not happy about that, but it's a good win.

Connor (4:48)

Brian, do you feel validated in your decision to go?