RB Cam Skattebo on offense’s performance vs. Commanders

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Your emotions after losing the way you did tonight?

Cam Skattebo (0:06)

Yeah, it sucked, man. I feel like we left some points out on the field.

I feel like I could have did a little more. But at the end of the day, man, we got to go back into the film room, clean it up. Got a lot of football left.

SPEAKER_1 (0:21)

You got a little sick between the first and second quarter. Could you talk about that?

Cam Skattebo (0:26)

Yeah, I had a pretzel wrapped hot dog.

Didn't sit right on the stomach. Nothing crazy. Got rid of it. Felt good after. When did you have it? Before the game.

You had a hot dog before the game? Yeah. I had to eat some food before the game, and it didn't sit right on my stomach. Simple. It's happened before.

SPEAKER_1 (0:47)

What did you think of the whiteout?

Cam Skattebo (0:50)

It was cool, man.

Obviously, everyone expected a thunderstorm and a dump and rain game, but so probably missing a couple of people out there, but I mean, it turned out good, man. A lot of people out showing love, and a lot of people on third down making noise. So I think this stadium could get a little bit louder when the defense is on the field at times and more critical moments, but at the end of the day, we got to execute.

SPEAKER_1 (1:12)

Your first touchdown, talk about each of your touchdowns. Yeah.

Cam Skattebo (1:15)

I mean, there was holes, you know. Line did a great job making holes, and I was able to, you know, execute off those and, you know, when you have guys that work their butt off every day to make sure that you're, you know, you have holes to run through and you have one guy to beat or run over or make missed. And that's what you can dream as a running back.

SPEAKER_1 (1:34)

The second touchdown, Mooney did a backflip too, right?

Cam Skattebo (1:38)

Malachi, yeah. We talked about it, but I knew he could do it, so. It was Malachi that did? Yeah, it was Malachi.

SPEAKER_3 (1:43)

Cam, it seemed like you guys made a lot of plays tonight, though. Why wasn't it enough?

Cam Skattebo (1:47)

Yeah, I mean, I think we fell short in a couple of third downs, you know, and we had opportunities at the end of the game to close it out, and we didn't, you know, and it's simple as that, man. We just got to execute better and be better as a football team.

SPEAKER_3 (2:03)

Because of the opportunity you had in the division here, if you had won this game, does it feel like you let like a stranglehold on the NFC slip at all here?

Cam Skattebo (2:11)

Yeah, I mean, we got to go in the next five, six games not wanting to lose. We got to win the football games. So I'm not too worried about it.

And they got us this time, but we got the rest of the division to handle. And we'll let it work itself out.

SPEAKER_4 (2:30)

Kamp, does this make Stinger just a little bit more because the defense did make those two turnovers and you guys just couldn't be able to finish it after that?

Cam Skattebo (2:36)

Yeah, it sucks.

And I think part of it is, I put myself in a situation last time we played these guys that kind of killed the trust in coach, maybe a little bit. I've given up the ball last time, and maybe he didn't want to give me the ball again. I don't know. I'm not going to say that was something that he was thinking, but I would think that as well, that situation with the mental. But at the end of the day, man, we just got to execute and be better.

SPEAKER_1 (3:06)

The little shovel, the underhand pass that you caught for the 34-yard gain, tell me about that play.

Cam Skattebo (3:13)

Yeah, I mean, I was in the flat. I seen JJ getting tackled, and he's a hell of a player. He can make anything happen at any time. And I screamed his name, and he was able to get his eyes up and get the ball out fast enough before the guy took him to the ground. So, improvise, those plays are what make and break games. If you can make those plays as a football team, those are huge plays that are unscripted. So props to him to get in and out to me and being able to make a play.

SPEAKER_3 (3:37)

Did you feel like in that last sequence that if you had had the ball in your hand, you would have been able to get the guys into field goal range?