02:19Yeah, what I would say is, you know, a physical outfit that wants to run the ball downhill,
02:23okay, starting with that with change-ups, okay?
02:25We did not run the ball well enough, okay?
02:28I would say that starting off.
02:30And then we've shown the ability to drive the football, okay?
02:33We haven't been able to finish well enough, which has been disappointing.
02:36So we've got to do a better job of that again, starting with me, standing here, okay?
02:40And, you know, we own that.
02:42We want to run the ball downhill.
02:44Well, cool story.
02:45I appreciate that.
02:46We all want things.
02:47I appreciate that.
02:48Well, yes, that's a great point.
02:49I mean, do every NFL team want to run the ball downhill?
02:52I want to have dinner with Christina Aguilera.
02:54I mean, it's...
02:56I did...
02:57I've heard this once before.
02:58You want Christina Aguilera, huh?
02:59Oh, she's the real deal.
03:00Okay.
03:00She's a big fan.
03:01I'm realizing that.
03:03More so.
03:03But what has got nothing to do with it?
03:06I think the particular portion of it, Fig, I know you're talking about wanting to run
03:09downhill.
03:09I think teams want to run the football, always.
03:12Downhill is very particular to this team.
03:14I mean, obviously, it's a largely inside zone from what I've been able to see, team.
03:19The thing that's frustrating, and I think you're alluding to that, John Lopez, is that
03:23you can want it all you want.
03:25This is clearly not something you do well.
03:27Yeah.
03:27And not only is that the case, if you go and you actually put the numbers on it, there
03:34is not a single way you could slice it that that is something that you do well.
03:37And so, I appreciate that, one, he acknowledged that they have not done that well, and two,
03:43that he said, one, as opposed to, like, this is what we are, because that'd be a whole different
03:47level.
03:47Especially if he was asked, like, what he was asked about his identity.
03:52Yeah.
03:52The frustrating thing is that what Nick Cayley talked about a lot, and I understand that
03:58was in a time period where you hadn't had the opportunity to fully get a grasp of what
04:03you wanted to do.
04:04Like, you were still trying to figure some things out with your personnel and all those
04:07and training camp and such.
04:09But this is supposed to be a game plan and do what's best for the personnel that we have
04:13type approach to offense.
04:15Run the ball downhill does not make sense.
04:17Like, if you take it from yards, they are in the 20s when it comes to total yards.
04:21If you take it from yards per game, they're in the 20s.
04:25If you take about yards per play, they're in the 20s.
04:27If you take it from efficiency stats, there's a number of them, EPA per play, stuff percentage,
04:33right, or even one of my favorites, success rate, right?
04:36How many times?
04:37They have a low success rate.
04:39They are really middling, if not below average, when it comes to explosives.
04:45It's like they're not getting runs over 10 yards.
04:48There's just no way to cut it in any facet that this is a team that runs the ball well
04:52in any way.
04:53Talk less of being physical and getting upfield.
04:55And we know that because we watch this offensive line, and they are not a physical offensive line.
05:00Nothing about them says run downhill.
05:02And it just, it's like, it's one of two things.
05:04Either you're completely neglecting what you have in front of you, which is probably possible here.
05:08Or, I mean, well, actually, I don't even know if there's another one.
05:12I thought I had another one, but there it goes.
05:13It just feels like you're neglecting what's happening.
05:15Or you're just really bad at executing what you want to do.
05:17I definitely want to get to the other two cuts, Figgy.
05:19Just do them in order because this, you know, people talk about triggers.
05:23This is what really triggered me and got me thinking about this.
05:25Because Nick Caley said a lot.
05:26He, you know, he was, you know, obviously presented, didn't get too riled up.
05:33You know, but did he, he said a lot.
05:35But did he really say anything?
05:36And then, and then this one happened.
05:39And then that would be the first, Kaylee, Figgy.
05:42I take accountability.
05:44If that's what you're implying, I take accountability starting with me on this.
05:47It's the entire operation.
05:49So we've got to do a better job.
05:51We've got to, you know, find better ways to ultimately get the ball across the goal line.
05:55I understand the intent of what you're asking.
05:57But you're asking me about execution physically.
05:59That's what it means.
06:00We also have to put ourselves in position to be able to find different ways to score.
06:04And so, you know, it hasn't been good enough.
06:05I definitely agree with that.
06:06No doubt about it.
06:07And, you know, that's, that's the quest is to do that for sure.
06:10For the, it's a whole thing.
06:12Yeah.
06:12It's, it's how you practice.
06:13It's how you, it's how you approach everything.
06:15And then ultimately when you get an opportunity for 60 minutes on Sunday, you got to go, you got to go do it.
06:19And I haven't done a good enough job of that.
06:21And so what is accountability is obviously a question.
06:24And, and, and the question is about, you know, they all talk about execution, which sort of kind of sort of puts it on the players and, Hey, we're doing our job.
06:31But then he did, he did clarify and say, no, it's us as well.
06:34But the whole, I take accountability.
06:37We have to be bet.
06:38To me, it's just sort of a disarming tactic.
06:40You know, like, look, I'm not saying I'm not at fault here, but it always goes back to the execution.
06:46Always goes back to what we, what we want to do and we're not doing it.
06:48It just, it just hit me the wrong way, man.
06:51Right.
06:51And I don't want to be hypocritical on this because part of, you know, this part of answering the question, when you don't get the answers to questions at all, it's frustrating.
06:59And now we get some answers and they're not satisfactory and it's frustrating.
07:03So I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, gloss, you know, glaze over or gloss over that portion of this.
07:08The thing that is, what should he say?
07:13And that's ultimately what I want to get to is that really none of the answers are going to really mean much unless you are starting to either, unless you get to the right answers or even you're starting to demonstrate an ability of finding some answers.
07:27And that's the thing that is the most frustrating about all of this.
07:29I'm not seeing, I'm not seeing the experimentation to start finding the right answers, the things, the small portions of the right answers that you have found.
07:38It feels like you've walked away from time and time again.
07:40You know what I'm talking about.
07:41What up, Jalen Knoll?
07:42And the answers are also similar.
07:45And that's why, that's why the run thing hit me.
07:47Right.
07:47I get it.
07:48Early on, that is the idea, especially we're going to try and come in.
07:51We're going to try and coach up this guy's on the offensive line for the technique to be better, for you to go and be aggressive.
07:55And that's going to be our identity.
07:57When you get halfway through the season and you're looking up and it's like it's not quite working that way, it feels weird to be able to step out here and be like, well, that's what we are.
08:04It's not.
08:05It's not.
08:06It's not.
08:06And if you're telling me, well, we've got to find another way, holding on to that as identity feels like it's erroneous here.
08:13Yeah, and you said find another way.
08:14And I'm glad that texter brought that up.
08:15And look, I started this whole segment by saying, maybe it's me.
08:19I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.
08:22But you can't, I will say it, you can't help how you feel.
08:25And this just made me feel irritated, you know, because we've heard this before and this whole, you have to take accountability and it starts with me.
08:32Yes, we know.
08:33You know, we know it starts with you.
08:34But the big takeaway for me after I heard this and, you know, kind of looked at the offense and the things that you're talking about, it still made me feel like he's just kind of guessing out there.
08:46Whether it's the practice field or, you know, like, let's try this.
08:53Yes, we want to be, and he's also has the directive from above, we're going to run the ball.
08:58Yeah.
08:58You know, and maybe his hands are tied.
09:01That's quite possible, right?
09:03Yeah.
09:03And maybe that's why you have to continue to this particular answer, even in the face of it and not showing any numbers.
09:11Literally, I was, as he said that, I pressed pause on it and I went back and I started pulling up every statistic I could think of running back and running wise.
09:19I'm glad you did because there's nothing that says that.
09:20I couldn't find it.
09:21And so, like, it's either insanity in the, you know, wide-held thought of the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, even though that is not actually a definition of insanity.
09:35But, I mean, that's what it would be.
09:37It feels like that would have to be the case.
09:39Either you are doing this level of insanity or this is being foist upon you that this has to be a part of the identity.
09:44And, ultimately, whichever those is or whichever one of those it is, the most frustrating thing to me, the thing that I am most upset about is that the job is not getting done and that you find yourself in a place where you're wasting fantastic opportunities and really incredible defense in the process.
10:02I hear you, Davis Mills.
10:03We're trying to find that identity.
10:04It feels like right now the ways that they're going about it aren't right.
10:08We'll see.
10:09Another opportunity to put something on wax is show if you can maybe start to give us some level of idea that you are working towards the right answers here.
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