Coach Brian Daboll: 'That was a tough one'

Brian Daboll (0:01)

That was a tough one. Battled back and forth. You know, guys left it all out on the field. And it was a tough result.

SPEAKER_2 (0:17)

Coach, can you talk about the penalties and how it might have impacted the game?

Brian Daboll (0:21)

Yeah, I had a number of them.

You know, some physical penalties, some, you know, offsides, if you will. Far too many. I want the guys to play physical this game, be aggressive. But, you know, I was roughing the pass or DPI. We had enough of them. There's a lot of penalties called this game, I think almost 260 yards worth between two teams. Certainly don't want to have as many penalties.

Paul (0:52)

Brian, when you score 37 points in a game, how disappointed are you with your defense today?

Brian Daboll (0:58)

Every game is different, Paul. I mean, last week it's 14 to 6, and the fourth quarter was seven minutes left. This game is, you know, back and forth, score with 24 seconds left, kickoff. And, you know, we knew they knew Aubrey had a long kick, had a long leg, and, you know, try to play tight coverage, try to do some things rush-wise. They made some good plays.

Just made one more play than we did.

SPEAKER_4 (1:25)

You guys spent a lot of the offseason and camp talking about the need to start fast to be 0-2 after the first two games.

SPEAKER_5 (1:32)

How do you process that?

Brian Daboll (1:34)

I just say, you know, this one hurts. Connor, this was a... These guys battled, ran for 60-plus minutes. So, we'll...

No, this one hurts. Put a lot into it.

SPEAKER_6 (1:49)

How do you square Russell's excellent game with the interception at the end? Like, how do you evaluate it all?

Brian Daboll (1:55)

Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm sure there's a few plays. I thought he played well, you know, made some plays, attacked certain things we wanted to attack. You know, that second and three kind of slipped out of his hand. That pushed us back there. You know, whether it was incomplete, not incomplete, obviously they call it that way. And then that deep shot kind of at the end, communication, not a bad communication, it was communication. You know, I thought called a good game.

You know, again, this one's tough. I'm not going to sugar coat it. These guys battled, Dallas battled, and came down to the end.

SPEAKER_7 (2:38)

What did you think about that? Why do you think you're so successful on the deep balls today?

Brian Daboll (2:45)

Good throws, good catches.

SPEAKER_7 (2:49)

That's sort of what you were hoping this offense would look like this season. Right, when you add Russell, you have some receivers that, you know, can get down the field. This is sort of what you're doing. And even Wondell, you guys said all season, we're going to throw the ball more to him downfield.

Brian Daboll (3:04)

Yeah, I mean, explosive plays help, obviously. I know you guys know that. I'd say we hit a number of them in the pass game today. Just, you know, collectively, just a couple plays short.

No excuses. But these guys, these guys, you know, it's a tough game. It's a tough game back and forth. And I know our guys, they gave everything they have, man.

SPEAKER_5 (3:30)

When you put Jackson in for the three plays?

Brian Daboll (3:34)

Well, the one that we hit with Scatt, you know, we were just talking about on the sideline. We didn't have much going in the running game. You know, a couple of plays here or there. You know, that particular one, it's kind of 11 on 11 football with a reed. It kind of sprung Scatt. It was good blocking. So, you know, he did a couple of good jobs with the handoff, then he kept one and slipped on the one. I think that was right before the fourth down, if I'm not mistaken. But that was the reason why.

SPEAKER_8 (4:02)

When the game starts on that opening possession, obviously Hudson had a rough one. Yeah. Can you talk to him with something going on?

Brian Daboll (4:13)

No. No, he had a number of them. Yeah, no, he had a number of them. I just thought, let's put Bowen, settle it down a little bit, and then, you know, just told Carm and James, keep an eye on it. Again, it's not like he wants to go out there and commit these, have these penalties. You know, you get the one where the guy slipped, and you hit him in the head. So, just thought, at that particular time, put Bowen after, I think it was four penalties or three penalties, whatever it was.