Postgame Presser: Coach Brian Daboll on loss to Saints

Brian Daboll (0:00)

Credit to Saints. Hard to win when you turn a ball over five times, and it was five consecutive drives. Missed a couple of opportunities offensively on a flea flicker and a post, which I thought could have changed it after the start of the game. Defensively, we did a good job in the run game. Gave up that big play to 22, which was a huge play for us. So we can't have those things. Too many DPI penalties. Again, five turnovers to zero, you're not going to win this league.

I'm going to clean up her. Yeah. Actually, if I had that, it was hard to tell if it was. Yeah, I'm going to have to go back and look at it. I thought we got by on there, take a look at how it looks, but I thought we had a chance.

SPEAKER_2 (0:49)

The fourth one, the next play, why not go for it?

SPEAKER_3 (0:51)

You're going to be that aggressive on third down.

Brian Daboll (0:54)

Yeah, again, that was the decision that we made, not to go for it there. We went on a number of four downs, and we're going to try to pin them down there on that one.

SPEAKER_3 (1:01)

You didn't go for two, I believe, in the first half. You were on the other side of the... Then you went for the one early in the second half, which is all the causes behind that.

Brian Daboll (1:10)

Yeah, again, we go... I have guys that I lean on, fourth down-wise, that we communicate and talk about. And every decision I make, I think that's the best decision after talking to the guys that I lean on, and then ultimately it's my decision.

SPEAKER_3 (1:26)

What did you think of Jackson?

Brian Daboll (1:28)

How did he play? I thought he battled.

The game got away from us from him a little bit. Again, with those turnovers, again, some easy ones, too, when we just dropped and, you know, those kill you because they give those points, I think, 13 points off and then they take away points when we're driving and they're all, you know, most of them were on the plus 50 or down there inside the scoring zone to at least get a field goal out of it. But again, we move the ball well sometimes, but it's just hard when you're giving the ball away. Can I follow up on Jackson for a second?

SPEAKER_3 (2:02)

A lot of his success was in the first half based on him using his legs. What did you see differently in the second half that kind of prevented that?

Brian Daboll (2:12)

Not much. I thought we moved the ball and then we turned it over. So, you know, the drives that we stalled on, we turned the ball over.

SPEAKER_2 (2:20)

The big turnaround?

Brian Daboll (2:21)

Five in a row, which is, you know, it's hard to do.

SPEAKER_2 (2:25)

With Cam, which I mean, he's hard to bring down, and the ball just gets knocked away.

Brian Daboll (2:30)

Yeah, I got to go back and look at all of them. He's got knocked out of his hands. Slay got knocked hands. Jackson dropped the one. I mean, those are three big drives coming out to or going in to go ahead and generate some points or not give them up at the end of a half. Again, turn the ball over like that, give them opportunities for points, take away opportunities for you scoring points when you're moving the ball.

Well, I'd say a number of things. I thought they got the ball out quick. They did a good job with it. That we missed a couple that we had in our grasp. But again, that big play on defense got us some third downs. They were third and shorter. Most of those, you know, one third long on the cross or to a lobby. But, you know, in creating turnovers and against broken record, but 5-0, I don't know. I don't know how many teams have ever won when it's 5-0 on the turnover ratio.

SPEAKER_4 (3:24)

You did have one takeaway that got negated, the bank, the I. Just think of it, Brian, a couple of things.

SPEAKER_2 (3:29)

Why keep up that rotation?

SPEAKER_4 (3:30)

What are you seeing from him? It seems like Flott is playing better.

Brian Daboll (3:34)

Yeah, I mean, Tay had that penalty. Tay's done some good things. You know, trust both those guys, but obviously that one hurt us. Again, some missed opportunities with that one. A couple of plays we had downfield that I thought we had a chance to make and then the turnovers.