Head Coach Jerod Mayo 12/15: "We all have to take accountability"

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Jerod Mayo (0:30)

Good evening. All right, never mind. Take it back. You know, I kind of sound like a broken record standing up here, you know, just being disappointed after a performance like that. We had to do better. You look at the stats, you know, they had 389 yards, we had 311 The running game, you know, once again, we give up a big run play that really hurts us and really skews the rest of the stats. I would say a third down just in general, you know, we were 0-4 on third down, and they were probably around 70% on third down. So, you know, when you talk about extending plays, I mean, that's what it is. And then really defensively, not showing up in the red area. Those guys were 3-4 in the red area. And those are definitely, look, we've spent a lot of time on it. Those are definitely, it's definitely an important part of the field. And we just didn't do it well enough. Again, turnovers, turnovers, there were a couple of balls on the ground, they got one. But again, I mean, it's what we put on film. So, you know, at the end of the day, we are what we put on film. We are what our record is.

Penalties, you know, kind of get into that, you know, again, kind of sets us back on some of these drives where we're really making headway during the series. I will say, look, today we won the coin toss. I thought the best thing to do for us was to put the offense out there. I thought it was an opportunity for us to go out there and start fast, which it was. Unfortunately, you know, we walked away with no points on the miss field goal. But that was my thinking on that. You know, I told the guys in there, kind of the same thing I'm telling you, is like, we all got to take accountability, and what does that look like? Accountability is not really, you know, the my bad. The accountability isn't coming in saying things like, you know, oh, if we would have just did X, Y, and Z. Like, we've been talking about that all year. Accountability is going out and correcting that. That's about action. It's not about just sitting here saying, you know, that's my fault, my fault. You have enough of those, and that's what you have out there on the field today. Fire away.

SPEAKER_5 (2:14)

Jerod, coming off the bye and then the first offensive series, you got to move with the ball and get the holding pedal to the second when you get the sack. How frustrating is it to see the same mistakes over and over?

Jerod Mayo (2:25)

It's very frustrating. It's very frustrating. And we're not a good enough football team to be able to go backwards and overcome, you know, those long yardage situations as we've seen all season.

SPEAKER_6 (2:34)

Any thoughts on them going for it on fourth and sixth on that first ride?

Jerod Mayo (2:38)

Yeah, there were definitely thoughts on going for it on fourth down. You know, we're lucky not to, so. What was the explanation if they gave one to you on a hit on Kyle?

SPEAKER_7 (2:45)

It looks like he became a runner.

Jerod Mayo (2:48)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_7 (2:48)

Smaller guy ducks down, Jennings kind of gets tied up with him.

Jerod Mayo (2:51)

Yeah, they just told me that, you know, even though he is a runner at that, they still have some of that protection as far as hits to the head. So they said Jennings hit him in the head and they called it, got to live with it.

SPEAKER_3 (3:02)

In the first half, it seemed like the offensive play calling was a little conservative.

Jerod Mayo (3:04)

Was that part of the game plan or is that a result of some struggles? No, not at all. I thought we were able to run the ball. I told these guys going into the game, like we got to be able to run the ball for four quarters. But at the same time, we got to get open, we got to catch the ball, we got to make the throws, we got to block the guys up front, and we got to run the ball. Like those are fundamental things. And this is why I always go back to like the X's and O's are one thing. And we're all pretty confident as far as X's and O's are concerned. But going out there and executing a play takes a lot. And we just weren't able to do that on a consistent basis.