Postgame Presser: Coach Brian Daboll talks after Week 15

Brian Daboll (0:00)

DeVito had a concussion, that's why he came out. So Boyle had to play that second half there. Played a good team, they played well, we didn't play well enough.

SPEAKER_2 (0:10)

Coach, you've been around football a lot of levels, different levels, you've seen the good and the not so good. What do you tell the young, specifically the younger players who are going through the type of results they're getting right now, for them to stay into it?

Brian Daboll (0:23)

Yeah, be a pro, control what you can control. Go out there, give effort, prepare, and go out there and play as good as you can play.

SPEAKER_3 (0:33)

You know, when Tommy kind of got dinged up there, was it under the penalty?

Brian Daboll (0:39)

No, I don't know if it was the penalty or after that. It was just he came off, talked to him a little bit, and then right before we were going to go out there at that two-minute drive, I went over to him and talked about a particular play. You know, we had a couple of timeouts, and I just saw, you know, I kind of saw his eyes. I said, I asked the trainer to come over, take a look at him, and then they took a look at him. And so it was right after that touchdown series that we drove down.

SPEAKER_3 (1:10)

What was it about Lamar?

SPEAKER_2 (1:11)

That made it so difficult.

SPEAKER_3 (1:13)

I mean, we know he's a great player, obviously.

Brian Daboll (1:14)

He's difficult to defend every week, Jordan. I mean, against any team he plays. He's a dynamic player. He's the reason why he's a two-time MVP, and, you know, he's really good.

SPEAKER_4 (1:26)

Even with all your defensive shortcomings, with the patients and, you know, guys coming to practice for it?

Brian Daboll (1:31)

With what?

SPEAKER_4 (1:32)

With all the patients and the secondary and things like that. You know, the bus and the white line coverage, I'm sure you don't want to see that in a lot of these days.

Brian Daboll (1:43)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (1:43)

I mean, what did you see in so many easy completions?

Brian Daboll (1:47)

One of them, the guy ran a good route. Lamar found him. No one was third and short. Made a great, unbelievable throw and toe tap catch. I mean, they played well. Give them credit. They're a good football team. We knew that.

He's a dynamic player. That number eight, he's dynamic.

SPEAKER_2 (2:04)

On the quarterback sneak that you didn't get in the first half, Tommy, you seemed to be a little upset afterwards. Was it a certain play call or formation?

Brian Daboll (2:12)

No, I just wanted to get the first down.

SPEAKER_4 (2:21)

All good? I mean, probably goes without saying, but how difficult is this to, you know, get administered another loss at home? This one was one-sided, you know, wasn't close.

Brian Daboll (2:31)

Yeah, I mean, these guys are doing everything they can do. So ran into a good football team with a lot of good football players, and they played well, and we didn't play well.

SPEAKER_3 (2:39)

How do you describe where your team is mentally at this point? Obviously, you've lost nine straight.

Brian Daboll (2:44)

Yeah. Look, all we can do is control what we control, so.

SPEAKER_3 (2:48)

Do you sense that they're down? Do you sense that they're still keeping their head up? Like, what do you see from there?

Brian Daboll (2:53)

Yeah, they're competing. I mean, we got to yell. Look, there's a lot of guys in and out. They're competing. I appreciate the way they're competing. Just not getting the results.

SPEAKER_2 (3:01)

What was the best thing to do to the guys in practice this week?

Brian Daboll (3:05)

Get ready to play a game.

SPEAKER_4 (3:07)

What do you think of the label league battle? I mean, you got knocked around. He came in, he came out, made that touchdown at the end.

Brian Daboll (3:13)

Yeah, it was split zero. It was a good play by Boyle. Drifted back. Didn't have enough to protect it, but he saw it and laid it up there. Malik made a nice play. He had two big plays that helped us. We had three actually. One to Slayton, two to Malik on pass interference penalties.

Productive.

SPEAKER_4 (3:28)

Do you watch that in a young player, rookie like that, battling down the stretch of a hard season to see how he's...

Brian Daboll (3:34)

No, you watch every player. National Football League. They're all professionals.

SPEAKER_2 (3:40)

When you go with Boyle, is it, do you have to modify the plays because he hasn't been with the team that long? Does it limit how you call the plays?