Coach Brian Daboll reviews Week 10 vs. Cowboys

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Hey Brian, how are you?

Brian Daboll (1:02)

Morning.

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When I was growing up, there was a lot of parents who gave kids a poem called If, and it was about, you know, things about you going wrong and trying to keep your head. How hard is it at this point to trust yourself with what you're doing?

Brian Daboll (1:21)

Is that by Kipling?

Yeah, look, I'd say that any time you lose, it's tough.

Take a lot of pride in what you do and what we do and how we go about our business. And we're not always going to get the results that we want. So, you know, the challenging part is coming back in after that and moving on to next week, and that's the National Football League. Certainly not where we want to be. Make no excuses about it. Acknowledge it, move on and get ready to play the next week. And that's how you have to approach it. But, yeah, certainly, look, everybody's human. Everybody wants to win. Everybody wants to do everything they can do to help achieve that goal.

Extra meetings, stay here as late as you need to, good practice habits. And I'd say we take pride in doing those things. But, you know, the results haven't showed. So understand that that's a production business, and we're working extremely hard to get different results.

Paul Schwartz (2:35)

Paul Schwartz. Hey, Brian.

Hey, when you looked at the tape of yesterday's game, you know, the execution, we know all that. You know, you've talked about some of that last night. Do you look for other signs when a season is going like this and the score is like that? You know, do I see signs of effort leaking? Do I see signs of guys not being confident? Do you have to look a little differently to uncover things?

Brian Daboll (3:04)

Yeah, no, you always look at it like that. And again, the effort in which those guys compete with has been good. Running to the football, finishing blocks, blocks downfield, finishing runs.

You always looked at that as a coach, Paul. So, but certainly, when you're a little bit of a rut here, you want to make sure that you're doing all the things that you can do on and off the field, the right way to give yourselves the best chance to get out of the rut, if you will. But those guys competed. Those guys competed. Certainly we didn't do enough.

That starts with me, but those guys competed.

Paul Schwartz (3:50)

You have been around the league a long time, but this is only your second season as a head coach. Are you doing more soul searching to figure it out?

I mean, I'm not saying you don't put effort in. You always do, obviously. But has it gone so bad that you are like questioning what you do, maybe thinking about things you need to do differently, or just maybe getting different voices to try to say, look, what is going on here and how do we fix this? I don't know if I can.

Brian Daboll (4:19)

Yeah, no, I'd say that that's something that's consistent since I started out coaching as a position coach, as a coordinator, obviously, last year as a head coach.

You're always doing that. You're never satisfied. As a competitor, you're never satisfied. So look, I believe in our process. I believe in what we do. Certainly, we have to do it better.

And that's what we're all trying to do.

Paul Schwartz (4:48)

I don't know if there's another hand there, so I'll ask another question until someone else pops on there. Sorry about that.

Thank you. When you look at the defense, the numbers are obviously very staggeringly ugly.