Julian Love: "There's So Much Out There For Us"

Julian Love (0:01)

Do you want to put it over here?

Are you following up there? We're done.

SPEAKER_2 (0:11)

Well, Julian, just a second, I guess, I don't know how big of a surprise our show was after last week. It seemed like you guys were kind of getting back on track, and you kind of had that happen today.

Julian Love (0:19)

Definitely a disappointing, kind of disconcerted effort. We want to be able to stack plays, we want to be able to play complimentary football. We did it. I mean, there was a few plays that I'm sure a ton of people wish they had back.

And versus a good team, a well coached team, yeah, it's going to kill you. So getting across the ball, everybody wishes they had a few back.

SPEAKER_3 (0:41)

We've not seen very many teams move the ball on your defense like that in the last couple of years. Was that more them just making plays or stuff you guys feel like you should be doing better?

Julian Love (0:49)

A mixture. I think a few good calls. I think, you know, the screen there, kind of a 40-yard screen, that was a killer. Good play call. We've got to find a way to get that down, especially on third down and give our offense a shot. But for the most part, I feel like everything was within our control. And then we got to clean up a lot of things, especially our red zone efficiency is terrible right now. And so we need to go to work on that.

Other than that, I think we did a great job versus the run. The team runs the ball really well.

And then just those open field throws made it a little too easy for them back there. So we got to tighten some things up.

SPEAKER_4 (1:23)

The coach or offensive coordinator, which by Johnson is, cornerback combination that they have with Johnson and Williams. I mean, have you seen too many more combinations that weren't difficult to defend?

Julian Love (1:35)

I think they have good players. I think they're well coached. I think obviously he's known to call good games.

But I think, I don't know, it could be just ego or whatever. I feel like we go into a lot of games knowing that if we play our brand of football clean, efficient, on the same page, then we play well. And so, I think kudos to them for sure. But we just, we got to go to work, man. People need to step up, guys need to get together here and just play better football together.

SPEAKER_4 (2:05)

You're seeing Kenny Uelks study Caleb during the week.

Julian Love (2:08)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (2:08)

What makes him Kim?

Julian Love (2:10)

He's a good quarterback. I think he can make all the throws. He's a strong arm. He's confident.

He plays with a swagger to him. So yeah, you give him some open lanes, he's going to make the throw. So that's I think a lot of those deep developing routes in the middle of the field. I mean, the windows are pretty big. And so I think a good quarterback can make those throws. And so other than that, we got to just correct that for sure.

SPEAKER_2 (2:34)

You mentioned the screen obviously there was a delay there. It looked like you were getting off the field. Just how critical was that sequence?

Julian Love (2:40)

I mean, that's tough. That's a tough one. You get a stop.

It was a dumb penalty on us. I mean, it was a cause of doing business penalty on that kickoff. You get them down to kind of the 50-ish. And yeah, you feel like we had them pretty stout. Then you see the flag coming in, and they make the play the next play. Just an unfortunate series of events there.

We just got to find a way to get off on third and nine, man. Our third down efficiency needs to step up. I think they were probably like 40% today, which we got to lower that number on defense.

SPEAKER_5 (3:13)

Julian, when you're four and four, kind of big picture, and I'm sure you guys all feel like you're better than that, what's the level of frustration of a better group on this point?

Julian Love (3:22)

I would say a lesser team would be really frustrated and like, oh, pointy fingers turning on each other. I think the guys in the room, or at least me, it's like, man, there's so much out there for us. We play a good brand of football.

Teams know kind of what we're about. I think we play tough, like we're connected. But we're still chasing efficiency. I think on both sides of the ball and teams, we know there's, I mean, there's so much more for us to be.