Miami - 22, Baltimore - 10
Q. Do you feel there's something similar how defensively you held up a few big plays again that really cost you?
MARLON HUMPHREY: Yeah. I mean, it's kind of -- you know, we -- things we're trying to work on. But, you know, I guess you are what you put on -- you know, on film in the game. And that's kind of been our -- our Achilles heel, you know?
Even when we play good, good, good, a slip up here, good, good, good, a slip up there, a slip up, bad quarter. So we had some, you know -- Wink asked me what's your -- what's something you can guarantee going to happen in the game for the secondary, and I said we're going to communicate.
You know, as a leader in that secondary, that's on me, man. We got to communicate better through the secondary and then throughout the whole defense as a whole.
Q. Was there anything going up against Tua as a quarterback that hurt you guys or bothered you guys during the game?
MARLON HUMPHREY: We anticipated that Brissett was going to start. But when Tua came in, it didn't really change anything. We know they're two different quarterbacks. But nothing really, really there.
But both quarterbacks, great players. And I think Tua, when he got in, it gave them some juice that kind of took them the way.
Q. Marlon, could a game like this be a wake-up call for you guys?
MARLON HUMPHREY: I think so. You know, it's -- I -- I think it's going to be a good time to watch the film. I was thinking this week, you know, I was sitting there thinking, like, you know, when you have those bad games, I think you -- sometimes you want to, like -- if you're putting something on film and you know you're better, you're, like, Why have I not been consistent and playing as good as I want to?
And it seems at times the defense, the offense, you haven't been playing as good as you wanted to play. So I believe this will be a great wake-up call to be for everybody to be like, What is it? Am I not understanding something I'm doing? I'm not playing the technique I'm coached, do I need Coach to coach me a different way?
I think there's going to be so many different things to look at and I think, you know, the -- how we understand the coaches, how the coaches coach us. I think it'll be a good wake-up call for the players and the coaches.
You know, the good thing, we got a bye week. We can spend a full day to really figure out what went wrong tonight, what we can do getting better, and take another day or two to ourself. And just sit down and have those mental talks with yourself, You know, what can I do to be better?
Q. Do you have a guess what it might be or do you just have to do the study to figure it out?
MARLON HUMPHREY: Really, just got to do the study. You know, I think when you watch us, you know, in practice and different things, you know, I think we're practicing right, we're doing the things right.
It seems like we're getting to the game and there's kind of a disconnect, at times. At times. You know, I'm not going to say, you know, we haven't done good things in the past, offense and defense.
But there seems like there's certain series or plays that's kind of getting us and the certain mistakes that I think can be fixed. So that's the encouraging thing.
Q. Marlon, you mentioned communication. The Wilson play at the end there when he came across and no one covered him, that play in the second quarter, were those communication issues you think?
MARLON HUMPHREY: Yeah, we just got to communicate it as a whole on defense. And like I said, as a leader of that secondary, you know, that's one thing that I said we were going to do. And we kind of failed on that. So that's on me.
Q. Marlon, how much of an impact is it with those entries, especially in the secondary, you know, guys being rotated around? How much has that been an impact, you feel?
MARLON HUMPHREY: I think, you know, it's weird. You know, we lose an all-pro guy, we lose -- this guy moves, this guy sits out here or there.
You know, the good thing is we got guys that can play and guys that know the defenses. Excuses are pretty easy to say.
But, you know, like I said, I just got to communicate better and we all got to as a whole get there and just be better. I mean, we got to echo the call. Even when you heard it, just say it again.
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