Eagles 21, Commanders 32
Q. (Indiscernible.)
NICK SIRIANNI: No, I did not. It kind of went right from there. They called it and then we were right into playing again. I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
Q. What was your opinion of it?
NICK SIRIANNI: Hey, that's not what lost us the football game. I would have to watch it on tape again. I saw it live. I kind of looked down the field. But they got a tough job, and I'll look at it and -- but that's not at all what lost us the football game.
Q. What lost you the game?
NICK SIRIANNI: Shoot, that is pretty simple, right? The three turnovers lost us the game, the time of possession loses you the game. We lost it together. Offense, defense, special teams, coaching, we lost it together. That's what lost us the game.
Q. What did you think of the Dallas Goedert fumble? Looked like he was face masked on that play. Did you get an explanation? There was a long stoppage.
NICK SIRIANNI: You know, I didn't. We got to have better ball security there. We take a lot of pride in how we protect the football, and we were obviously loose with it. That's how they got it out. Defense did a nice job of stopping them right there, so we held them to three.
You know, looking at my decision on that, I thought -- I know he made one at the end of the first half. I didn't think that was easy for him, thinking about the line of where he kicked it from and where the ball was right there.
Obviously second thought, he made it, so I should have accepted it. He misses it, then that's the way it goes.
So I had to be convicted with the decision. I was, and he made it. But whether it was a face mask or it wasn't a face mask, it's hard for them to see at that time. I get it.
We got to protect the ball better, and we didn't do a good job of that all game. We were loose with the football and it came out and they got it.
Q. I know it's hard to tell in the moment, but Quez's as big reception, 50 yards, and obviously St. Juste was able to get it out from behind. What did you see there?
NICK SIRIANNI: You know, that's something that we talk about and we think about, that you're susceptible getting up off the ground. You want to teach them to be aggressive, and if you're not seeing behind them, they get up off the ground, maybe and run for a touchdown.
We are also aware that the defense is taught to take a swipe at that ball when you are getting up off the ground kind of the same way as when you're going to the ground. The ball is not -- is loose sometimes when you're that way.
And so, hey, we got to do a better job of coaching that. We got to think of a drill to do that. We talk about it, but obviously we didn't execute it today. And so as a coach you put yourself in at that situation first and say, how do I fix that, so we'll have to do a drill where we're getting up off the ground protecting it, and if there are bodies around us, we got to stay down on the ground.
Like I said, we talk about it, but I didn't put Quez in that scenario in drills. We'll get better from this as coaches, and I know Quez will as well.
Q. Do you get a sense from the players and the coaches in the locker room after the game that this was a lost opportunity, that you had many opportunities to win in game and just gave it away?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, I give them a lot of the credit. I think that's a good football team. I have a lot of respect for Coach Rivera, and so I don't ever like to say we lost it. They played and they played well.
But we know that we made mistakes, right? We made uncharacteristic mistakes, so it's a both and. You're not please with -- I give them all the credit, but know that we didn't play our type of game. We made mistakes. We had penalties. We had uncharacteristic fumbles. We threw an interception.
We didn't do a good enough job. There are some things back that we want as calls. I didn't do a good enough job coaching this week. Yeah, you feel upset because you lost the game and you made a lot of mistakes. We made a ton of mistakes. That loses you football games in this league. You turn the ball over like that, you'll loose the football game in this league.
Q. ...mistakes, and some of the calls were freakish; do you focus on that or do you say, you know what, we're 8-1, this is one blip?
NICK SIRIANNI: I think like whether the calls were bad or whether the calls were good or whatever it was, I think when you play the way we did tonight, when you play the way we did on all three phases, offense, defense, special teams, coaching, right, when you play like that, it does seem like -- it seems like everything is going against you.
You create your on luck and we played like crap. We didn't do a good enough job. It feels like things go against you. Those plays, those scenarios that happen when you play like that get magnified, right, whether it was the right call or wrong call.
So we made our own luck today and it was bad.
Q. What did you think of the run defense? And were the adjustments in the second half focused on the run defense?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, second half I thought the defense coaches did a nice job of adjusting and held them to really three points there.
I mean, the offense, we fumbled. Gave them a free three there, and obviously the last play of the game. I thought the defense -- hats off to our defensive coaches making the adjustment at halftime, but it can't be that long before we make our adjustments, and we got to do it even quicker.
With that being said, they were five yards on first down, two yards on second down, or three yards on second down and converting on third -- I mean, they had 21 third downs. That's a lot.
So they stuck to their game plan. I respect that. Scott Turner did a good job calling it. They stuck to the game plan and kept us on the field for an awfully long time.
I do think the adjustments we made were good, but we can't start off like that. We can't let them get 20 and then go in and then go from there. So we got to do even better. Sometimes when the offense is -- I think we had one where we turned it over, so it was the defense was out there a lot, and that's hard, too.
Like I say, it's a full-team game. Like if offense goes -- I think we went a three-play drive, we had a couple big plays, and we threw an interception, like they're making those adjustments right there.
And then they went right down and scored off that, off 90 yards. It wasn't right, they took the ball all the way down the field.
So I want everybody to understand that it's like, yeah, we got to make the adjustments and I'm saying that, but they didn't have time to because we didn't keep the ball on offense.
That's why it's a team game. We started 8-0 together. We lost this game together. We're going to move on together. We'll get better from this.
Q. You've Jonathan Taylor, Aaron Jones, Derrick Henry coming up.
NICK SIRIANNI: I am only worried about Jonathan Taylor at this point.
Q. You didn't do very well against other teams (indiscernible) Achilles' Heel since you lost Jordan Davis. How do you address that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, obviously have to go look at this tape. We'll look at this tape and see what went down on this game, knowing that, hey, when you show that a team attacks a place, we're going to see it again, right, and then we're going to see that again.
And so we'll work like crazy to get it fixed, and we understand that that will be the narrative of how to beat us. We got to own that and fix it, and we will.
Q. (Indiscernible)
NICK SIRIANNI: Pretty much right what I just said to Elliott. Hey, we started 8-0 together. We lost tonight together. We move on together and we pick ourselves up together, because we lost this game together. We truly lost this game together. Uncharacteristic things that we did, and let's get better from this.
Q. AJ seemed to be limping after that first reception a little bit. Was he okay?
NICK SIRIANNI: I mean, he kept playing. He toughed out what he was going through right there. I got a lot of respect for that, that he was able to tough that out and be out on the field, because he demands a lot of respect out there.
Q. Does that shift things for you, though?
NICK SIRIANNI: We still want to be able to get him the football, and I know he didn't get it as much tonight and it shifted to Devonta a little bit more and Quez made some plays.
But, you know, they did a good job taking him away.
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