Head Coach Jerod Mayo 11/17: "You win or you learn - that's our mindset"

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Jerod Mayo (0:30)

Good evening.

Obviously, we'll always be disappointed, you know, walking out of here with the loss. But before I get into the football stuff, hopefully you guys have seen these pins that all the guys are wearing and we all are out there representing a fallen hero, a fallen soldier, which I think is important. I think the TAPS program, they do a great job. We'll support these guys. As long as I'm here, we'll continue to support them. And today, I was representing Army Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson, known as Danny to his friends and his family, and really gave the ultimate sacrifice for our safety. So today would have been his birthday.

Pretty tough situation, you know, especially coming from a military family. I can't imagine, you know, suffering a loss like that. But I think the TAPS program is a great program. Kind of what I told the guys in the locker room felt like, I never really felt like they had control of the game. I felt like we had control of the game. Look at the first half, I think we only had one three and out. Offensively, I thought they did a great job on first and second down, which was one of the targets that we talked about. Defensively, not so much. Defensively, they only had, what, eight third downs in the game. And you just can't win that way. When you look at the time of possession, you look at the movement we were able to get, offensively in the run game and in the pass game, you look at the time of possession, that's part of the formula. We just got to continue to build on it. We'll say the guys came out with energy, and even when our backs were against the wall, they still continued to play hard, which I definitely appreciate. I know the rest of the coaches and hopefully the fans appreciate it as well, playing hard. Now, do we need to get better? Absolutely. And that's my job as the head coach of this football team. It starts with me. I have to do better. Demand more from our assistant coaches. Demand more from our players. We have enough talent. We have no talent in our locker room to be a very good football team. We just got to be able to put it together. A couple of situations that came up, I'm sure that's going to be part of, you know, part of the discussion. You know, the fourth and two elected to kick a field goal. If it was fourth and one, probably would have went for it. But it made it a one score game. And then the Seattle situation showed up again. And I would say this, every game is unique. It's one of one. And I just felt like when I made those choices, it was the best thing to do for our football team today. Like I said, proud of the way those guys competed. Just got to clean up a few things.

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We have a question for Dan Rose from the back.

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Jerod, with what you just said and with how hard they played, how much do you maybe kind of look at this one as a team you are facing had key veterans at the position, Stafford and Nakua and Kuppen knew how to make plays when they needed to make plays compared to you guys just battling and trying to learn?

Jerod Mayo (3:15)

Yeah, you know, it's part of it. And look, you win or you learn, that has to be our mindset. Like it would be a huge disservice if we don't learn anything from this game. But that's a good football team that we played today. But at the same time, I feel like we had our opportunities.

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Jerod, I'm just curious what you saw on that final play where Drake was intercepted, just kind of what went wrong there?

Jerod Mayo (3:40)

Just miscommunication, which going back to the question earlier, you go back and look at the Rams versus the Seahawks and those guys making those plays down the stretch. It's very impressive. And we'll grow into being able to finish out and finish and close out these games. Just got to go back to work, get on the practice field. Tomorrow, we'll clean up a lot of this stuff. And then Wednesday has changed the page on to the next game.