OLB Abdul Carter: ‘We’re going to learn from this’

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

What do you think about the tough stretch you have coming up with some of these teams? Obviously, like, to this point, you guys have played a lot of teams with losing records. I mean, what do you think about just the ball testing?

Abdul Carter (0:07)

Yeah, I don't really care about that. Like I said, they got to see us. We're going to come with the same energy. We come with every game. We're going to do this one week at a time. And whoever come, wherever we got to play, we're going to deal with that.

SPEAKER_3 (0:17)

Are you guys angry?

Abdul Carter (0:18)

How angry are you guys at the defense team being pretty close this time? I want to say angry is the word. We just got to figure out ways to stop making so many mistakes and just, I don't know, we got to give our offense a better chance. You know, if we give up 24 points and they defense give up 21, that's on us, we got to do better. So that's how I look at it. Like I said, we're going to be better next week.

SPEAKER_3 (0:39)

Carpal was saying he wants you guys to keep this in perspective.

Abdul Carter (0:42)

Like it's one that got away, but there will be other opportunities. Do you think that's how the one was responding to it? Yeah, I think so.

I didn't walk into the locker room, everybody heads down, like the season is over, nothing like that. This one game, there's no more undefeated teams throughout the whole year. You know, it's hard to win in this league, and we'll be better next week.

SPEAKER_3 (1:01)

Every game seems to go to the final play, final drive. How wearing is that on you guys, that you have to be playing a complete game? Like, it'd be nice to have a blowout, but how does it feel to be so...

Abdul Carter (1:12)

Yeah, this is the NFL, everybody gets paid, everybody's great at their job, so we just gotta keep fighting, keep getting better, and we'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_1 (1:19)

What felt different tonight about, I guess, the way the commanders were able to throw the ball a little more on you guys, maybe you guys didn't get quite as much pressure as you wanted. I mean, just what did you think of the rematch?

Abdul Carter (1:29)

Yeah, some things just didn't go our way towards the end, and yeah, it's a tough one, but we're not gonna hold our heads low. We're gonna get better. We're gonna figure out a way to stay together and get better next week.