Postgame Presser: Coach Brian Daboll talks after Week 3 vs. Chiefs

Brian Daboll (0:00)

So I thought we battled defensively. Had a good plan. They made a couple of nice plays there in the second half, but there's a lot of things improved defensively. Gave us a chance. Thought we did a good job in the kicking game and fell short offensively. You know, we ran the ball much better. Our passing game was not good enough, particularly on third down. So we were like one to 10 on third down. That's hard to sustain drives and put points on the board. So, you know, but I thought defensively, we did some good things in the kicking game. We did as well. Tracy's got a shoulder. Graham got hurt during the defensive introductions before the game. He was out there kicking and got a groin so he couldn't go first half. And then he said he can kick from a certain distance in the second half. So.

It's about it. Not good enough.

SPEAKER_2 (1:02)

Coach, what did you see in the way that they were playing in the secondary to limit Malik and Wendell's?

Brian Daboll (1:09)

Yeah, I mean, they played a fair amount of split safety.

So, you know, we got a bunch of split safety last week. Just didn't get the job done this week with it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:20)

Why do you think you couldn't get Malik Daboll? You obviously didn't have a catch going into the fourth quarter there.

Brian Daboll (1:25)

Yeah, we got to do a better job with that. No question about it.

SPEAKER_4 (1:29)

What do you attribute that to? Game plan, quarterback?

Brian Daboll (1:34)

Probably a collection of everything, Pat. Probably a collection of everything. Again, they were playing a lot of split safety coverage. They played it last week. Could be just a little bit different, but I'd say a collection of all that. We certainly got to do a better job with it.

SPEAKER_5 (1:49)

What's the plan with Andrew Thomas?

Brian Daboll (1:53)

Yeah, we're going to give him 25 plays, so that's what we gave him. And he came out, you know, from what I understand, just fine. So that was the next step for the ramp up for him. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some more this upcoming week.

SPEAKER_6 (2:09)

How would you describe Russell Wilson's game tonight?

Brian Daboll (2:12)

Yeah, I'd just say overall offensively, Connor, nothing was good enough. Coaching, playing, didn't do a good enough job, everybody.

SPEAKER_7 (2:22)

Brian, this is the second time you've had to play a game without a kicker. Yeah. I mean, is it getting untenable to have that kicker when, you know, I mean, it's...

Brian Daboll (2:33)

Well, look, that's why Jamie kicks in practice too. I know they blocked that kick. We had a range for him as well and him and Gunner had practiced before, but yeah, just literally we're getting ready to go out for the anthem and saw him pull up on one of those kicks. So then we had to decide, you know, what's the line now?

You know, the four downs change, you know, throughout the game considerably. So we just had to make sure we're dialing in with that. And in the second half, when he came back, there was another plan. But then we had two kickers, one was going to kick for a certain distance. The other one would kick a certain yard line in. So you got to do what you got to do.

SPEAKER_7 (3:14)

In the first series, is it safe to say you would go for the field goal there?

Brian Daboll (3:18)

Would've. Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (3:20)

Brian, I know this is hard behind it again, but you guys spent so much time this off season stressing the need to start fast.

Brian Daboll (3:27)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (3:27)

To be bottom three. I mean, how do you describe that?

Brian Daboll (3:32)

Yeah, that's not the goal, certainly. So again, we got to put a complete game together, all three phases, offense, defense, special teams, coaching, we got to do all that. Again, I thought our defense responded, responded in a positive manner, you know, but, you know, you only score once, not good enough.

SPEAKER_8 (3:58)

Stand the rhyme and reason when you put Jackson in and then you get down, it seems like third and fourth, deep in the red zone would be the perfect time to put him in. You don't put him in, you run Russell on the zone, you're just trying to understand the thought process.

Brian Daboll (4:08)

Yeah, I would say, you know, look, we discussed a plan going into it and Mike is in his flow of the game. You know, I thought when he put him in and ran a couple of those zone reads, the first play we put him in was actually a pass, not a zone read. And then based on where we were on that particular play, where we got hit and lost a couple yards, there was a certain distance we were going to go for it. And we actually lost a yard, I think. And if we didn't get it, we didn't think we'd lose a yard on it, but we had a zone read on that play as well, too. They just played it well. And he can run those.