Kansas City 42, Philadelphia 30
Q. On the first drive, can you explain what happened on the fourth down, deciding to go for it, timeout, field goal?
NICK SIRIANNI: We went all the way down there, we had a really good drive. We ran out of time on the play clock on the one. I didn't get the call in quick enough. So once we got to that, I thought it was important that we got points on the board at that particular time. I thought it would be too much of a momentum swing if they stopped us on fourth-and-three, so I decided to kick a field goal.
Q. If you're going to kick the field goal, there's no need for a timeout. What was the conversation with the ref?
NICK SIRIANNI: I'll keep that conversation between us. I'm not going to make an excuse about anything. I got to be better.
Q. (No microphone.)
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, they thought that he pushed him downfield and they thought it was DPI. You know what, they got a tough job. The referees got a tough job, we got a tough job, the players got a tough job. They're trying to get it right. I know they're trying to get it right. They are trying to do their best to get it right. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
I'm not saying one way or the other if they got that right. I'll keep my opinion to myself. But they have a tough job just like all of us.
Q. Right before the second half, you didn't call a timeout there.
NICK SIRIANNI: We do a ton of studying of all those situations throughout each week. We felt like we could get a play off that was going to go out of bounds before that. So we wanted to save that timeout.
All those times right there, when you can save a timeout right there, I'll double down on that call. It didn't work that time. He got a sack. It was a long thing. But I'll stick with that call all day because I've put myself in that position a thousand times when I've watched it.
So because of where we snapped that thing, if it got a little bit lower, then I would have clocked it or called a timeout. To have that timeout right there when an NFL defense -- what an NFL defense will do, if you don't have a timeout play, a sideline defense, where now it's making it almost impossible to get to the sideline.
I stick with that call, I stand by that call. It didn't work. I got to sit with that.
Q. Do you think the rush play accounting for the poor protection?
NICK SIRIANNI: I don't. We've run that play a bunch in my past, not just here in Philadelphia. We've run it a lot in Indianapolis and San Diego. When I was in Kansas City, that was our out-of-bounds play. You know what, it didn't work out this time.
Q. What is the primary emotion you walk away with?
NICK SIRIANNI: You're upset. You're furious that you go to 1-3. But there's a lot of good. We can also see there's some things that are to build on there.
The self-inflicted wounds have to stop. I know I sound the same, but it's still true. We got to stop the self-inflicted wounds of putting ourselves in holes with penalties.
The guys did a good job. We won the turnover battle. Our defense took it away; we didn't give it away. They forced another fumble on special teams. There's some good things obviously right there.
Obviously we've got to do things better both offensively and defensively and special teams-wise. There's one time we started inside the 15. We have to use this tape and get better from it. My message is never really going to change win or lose: we got to make our corrections and get better from it.
There's a lot of guys that battled their tails off today. There's a lot of guys that played good football today. You're happy with that. But obviously you're never satisfied and you're always upset when you lose.
Q. Executing in red zone situations, what has been the problem with that? That was the case in the San Francisco game and today.
NICK SIRIANNI: We had the one in San Francisco. I think we were 5-6 before this game today. We had the one in San Francisco where we weren't good enough on. Today three of six. When you're playing a team like that, you got to convert there.
It's the plays I'm calling. It's the lack of execution. I'll always have it start with me. When the plays don't work, that's on me. I got to call better plays, I got to put our guys in better positions to win.
Everyone is going to look at themselves on all those plays and say I could have done that better on this play, I could have done this better on this play. The greatest team sport there is. I starts with me. Of the plays that didn't work, that's on me. I got to come up with a better scheme and put the guys in position to make a play.
Q. When did you find out about Lane? How tough was it to adjust at the last minute?
NICK SIRIANNI: I found out a couple hours before the game. I think Jeff Stoutland and Shane Steichen did a phenomenal job getting everybody ready to go. Jeff Stoutland, our offensive line coach, he's got everybody ready to play in all these different scenarios if different scenarios happen. Well, we were proposed with one of those scenarios today.
I thought the offensive line battled. I thought they played really well. That's just a tribute to Coach Stout of how good of a football coach he is.
He's gotten the guys better as a whole with their fundamentals and he mentally prepares them. Then just a tribute to the guys who stepped in and played. They really played good. I got to watch the tape to tell you exactly how they played, but I thought they battled. They played their tails off. They played hard. They played physical. We got a lot of warriors right there in that group. I thought they did a good job in the circumstances that they were put in.
Q. Is Lane here?
NICK SIRIANNI: I'm not going to discuss anything about Lane. Just a personal situation. I'm just not going to discuss that right now.
Q. You mentioned some of the self-inflicted stuff. The illegal man downfield stuff. How do you deal with that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Well, they're calling it. The referees, they're calling that pretty hard this year. Probably a little bit harder than they have in the past. So we have to adjust.
That starts with me. We have to adjust how we're blocking it, how we're teaching the blocking schemes to not allow the guy and how we're reading it, or just don't call it. That's what we're going to have to do because you obviously can't shoot yourselves in the foot. That's my fault. I got to get better at that with that. It's not Andre's fault he was downfield on that one because the timing was pretty good.
The referees I thought did a pretty good job of refereeing it.
Q. (No microphone.)
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, I mean, they had, what was it, the PI that I answered I think from you, then the illegal man downfield that I just answered. The other one was the guy out of bounds.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I answered the first two. The last one right here. He ran out of room. I said the same thing with Jalen on the other one, that he's got to work a better release at the line of scrimmage. DeVonta will be the first to say that, the quarterback room, hand fighting, some pushing.
Like I said, the referees have a tough job. There was hand fighting on both sides. I don't blame them. We have to save room. It's a technique thing. You know the answer to the other two.
Q. We know the Chiefs are a very good offense, but how do you think the defense performed today?
NICK SIRIANNI: They got a lot of good players. Mahomes is a really good player. He's an NFL MVP for a reason. Coach Reid is a really good play-caller. Coach Bieniemy does a good job getting his guys ready. You see Kelce and Hill. They got really good play-makers.
That was a tough challenge for our defense today. You're always going to look -- when a team rushes for that many yards, you're always going to look at that and say we got to stop the run on that. That's going to always be the first emphasis.
I obviously need to watch the tape on a lot of that. A lot of times I'm looking down on my timesheet to see what I'm going to call next. I'll have a better answer for you. Any time you rush that many yards, you know have to improve in that area.
Q. What do you think of Jalen's performance?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, I kind of talked to somebody in there. I just said, That's one of the better quarterback performances I've seen. And I've been around a lot of good quarterbacks, Phillip, Rivers and Andrew Luck. He battled. He made good decisions with the football. He got out of trouble when there was trouble. He made good checks. He made good reads. That's the best I've seen him in practice. That's the best I've seen him in a game since I've been here. Hats off to Jalen, he battled. That's going to be important for us moving forward.
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