Coach Brian Daboll reviews Week 3

Paul (0:00)

What, after one day, any thoughts on what you're going to do with quarterback moving forward?

Brian Daboll (0:06)

Yeah, we just watched the tape here. Paul, we're in the meetings with the players right now. You know, like I said yesterday, you know, in order to improve the passing game, and I'd say that was the number one thing we needed to improve from yesterday, you know, a collective, as a collective, everybody's got to be, you know, doing exactly the right stuff. So it's not all on one guy. You know, there's multiple reasons why, you know, certain plays didn't come out the way we want them to come out, and we'll continue to do that.

Paul (0:43)

So Russ remains the starter moving forward?

Brian Daboll (0:46)

Yeah, I mean, we're working, we're working through, you know, all personnel decisions, and we'll do that over the next few days.

Charlotte Carroll (0:57)

Dan Duggan.

Dan Duggan (0:59)

Hold on, so you're not saying, Russ, is the star, right? You're saying you're still working through that?

Brian Daboll (1:03)

Yeah, we're doing what we normally do, which is watch the tape. We're just watching it with the players right now. So, you know, we'll have staff meetings after this, but we watch the, when we come in, we watch the tape, offense, defense, kick and game as a staff, and then we go meet with the players. That's where we're at right now.

Dan Duggan (1:23)

What do you say we normally do? Most Monday afternoons, you know your quarterback is going to be the upcoming week if everyone's healthy, though. It seems a little different in your responses.

Brian Daboll (1:31)

Yeah. Well, look, we're going through the tape right now. We're evaluating everything.

Dan Duggan (1:35)

So quarterback change is on the table.

Brian Daboll (1:37)

I'd say we're evaluating everything.

Dan Duggan (1:46)

When would you like to have a decision on who's going to start quarterback?

Brian Daboll (1:49)

Yeah, I'm not saying who's starting or who's not starting, Dan. I'm just saying we're evaluating everything right now. You know, we're going through the tape from yesterday, and we're evaluating, you know, every position right now.

Charlotte Carroll (2:05)

Charlotte Carroll. Hey, Dabes, how's it going?

Brian Daboll (2:08)

Hey, Charlotte.

Charlotte Carroll (2:10)

When you're looking at this tape, I guess, what would stand out or what would you see that would force you to make a change at QB?

Brian Daboll (2:17)

Yeah, well, I mean, I'm just I'm going through the pass game right now or talking about it with you. And there's a number of things from protection to routes to throws to reads. We have to do a better job collectively to improve the pass game. You know, we had one good game throwing the football. And then yesterday, we took a step back and need to improve in that area.

Charlotte Carroll (2:43)

Thank you.

Brian Daboll (2:44)

Yep.

Charlotte Carroll (2:45)

Evan Barnes.

Evan Barnes (2:47)

Hey, Ryan.

Brian Daboll (2:48)

Evan.

Evan Barnes (2:49)

When you look at the red zone again, this is the third straight game you guys have struggled in there. When you're looking at the tape, what commonalities are you seeing that have made this such an ineffective situation for you guys?

Brian Daboll (3:02)

I'd say a number of things. We wanted to go into the game being able to run the football down there. And we did on that one with Scott.

And then we got the penalty when we went fast after the one play to Wendell. And we just, we got to do a better job down there overall, collectively in the drop back part of the passing game in the red zone.

Evan Barnes (3:27)

And when it comes to that, you've obviously, we saw Dart play two plays in a row last yesterday. Is that more of an, regardless of what you're doing as far as you're evaluating everything, but do you foresee possibly using more of that as an option as far as when you're in the red zone, the passes aren't working? That's got to be another option you consider a little bit more?

Brian Daboll (3:47)

Yeah, I'd say we got to look at every option to improve down there. We've been down there a fair amount and the results haven't been there.

Evan Barnes (3:55)

And in that case, I think I saw a stat where I think Russell's thrown either 18 or 20 passes in the red zone. I'm curious with that, with the struggles you guys have, is there more, do you see more of Anita maybe, you need to maybe mix things up that way, you know, Russell's in the red zone, he passes given how much he has struggled in the red zone?