QB J.J. McCarthy: ‘We’ve got to find a way to get the win’

J.J. McCarthy (0:00)

Obviously, absolutely sucks.

No matter what, we gotta find a way to get the win, you know, credit them for making more plays than we did. At the end of the day, this is the National Football League. It's gonna be tight games all the way down to the wire. And we just gotta learn from this and find a way to get better and keep progressing through this loss and make sure it doesn't happen again in those critical situations. And yeah, thought the boys battled, but just didn't get what we wanted. And we gotta make more plays next time.

SPEAKER_2 (0:29)

JJ., can you just talk about kind of the emotional roller coaster of this one from, yeah, it's, you guys are behind, your fight back looks like it's yours, the interception's unable to close it out, and then kind of lose in the end, just how you guys went through this one.

J.J. McCarthy (0:43)

You know, I was really proud of the guys, you know, just staying kind of steady throughout everything, you know, in terms of the offense, you know, just being around them, I felt like they were very even keeled. And, you know, at the end of the day, you know, this is the National Football League, like I said, there's gonna be a lot of games where it's up and down, you know, emotionally, and it's gonna be the teams that, you know, pursue through that with, you know, a level headedness and emotional steadiness, that, you know, this is gonna be data that we can collect for the future and help makes better.

SPEAKER_2 (1:09)

The thought process on those final two throws, throwing them up, and John was saying it was a cover zero, basically they brought everyone, I mean, we haven't seen the replays too extensively yet, but is your thought there, if they're blitz and I'm going deep, or is there an intermediate route you could have hit, or just kind of those final two plays where you were thinking what happened, what maybe could have gone differently?

J.J. McCarthy (1:30)

Yeah, I'm sure you could look at the tape and, you know, we're going to be sitting there disappointed of what if, could have done this, but my thought process was pop it up to my playmakers, have them go make a play, you know, could have bought more time with a little bit more depth, but at the end of the day, you know, the thought process was, you know, give it to one of my guys and, you know, have them go make a play.

SPEAKER_3 (1:51)

JJ., does this seem a little bit more, because the defense was able to get those two turnovers and give you guys a chance to close it out?

J.J. McCarthy (1:57)

Say it, first part.

SPEAKER_3 (1:58)

Do you think this one stings more, because the defense gave you two turnovers to try to close it out?

J.J. McCarthy (2:03)

Definitely does. You know, as an offense, we want to be the ones that finish the game. And, you know, we put them in a bad spot a couple of times. And, you know, we just got to be better. But, you know, it's going to come down to the wire in a lot of games, you know, the rest of November and going into December and January. So, you know, this is something that, you know, it would be foolish to not take advantage of and learn from this and continue to grow and stick together as a unit.

SPEAKER_4 (2:23)

What's your media kind of the game just ended, but your media takeaway and what you want to learn from this?

J.J. McCarthy (2:30)

The media takeaway is, you know, just do whatever we can to get a fast start, not, you know, hurt ourselves in whatever moment it is. You know, we just got to be so crisp, detailed, and, you know, execute on every single play like it's the last play, you know, from snap one to the last snap. And, you know, we just got to do a better job of tightening things up, you know, be consistently on the same page, all 11, and, you know, do whatever we can to find a way to get a win in those critical situations. You know, there's things I could have done better. There's things a lot of guys could have done better. But at the end of the day, you got to give credit to the other team that's in the National Football League. They made more plays than us, and we got to find a way to make more next time.

SPEAKER_5 (3:09)

JJ., can you describe what you saw in the likely touchdown, and given the fact that you had a blitzer in your face, is that as good a throw as you've made at this level?