Raiders 40, Seahawks 34
JOSH McDANIELS: Well, I think our team is obviously learning how to be resilient, and give Seattle a lot of credit. This is a good football team. They're well-coached like we thought they would be. Pete does a great job. They gave us some fits on some things and made some adjustments, and we had to make some adjustments. It was a very interesting game in that regard.
But I thought our guys were tough. We kind of had some highs and lows, and lost the lead there and then came back and then lost it again, then came back. I know we missed some opportunities to maybe get the lead stretched a little bit, but we wanted to be aggressive today and try to give our guys an opportunity to do that, and I thought they came out with the right mentality.
Lo and behold, we just keep playing and string together two in a row. Feels good to win, and like I said, credit our guys; they kept fighting.
Q. When you're on the sidelines, how are you just trying to stay sort of balanced there, both from yourself and the team's perspective, keep sticking with it and putting yourself in a position to win?
JOSH McDANIELS: Well, I think you've got to focus on the next drive, the next sequence, the next unit that's going to go out there on the field. I mean, it started from the first play to the last play. First play is an interception, and the last play is a touchdown. It was really -- there was a lot of swings in the game, and credit our coaches. Our coaches did a really good job of staying neutral at times when they needed to be and trying to fix the problems if there were any and address those without having a bunch of emotion in it.
I got emotional a little bit, but that's football, when you're going up and down, and you want to win.
I thought our guys, our captains did a great job of staying even keeled today, too, throughout the whole game.
Q. Foster hasn't dropped one on 3rd down, comes up with a big touchdown pass, as well, and runs a great route, makes a great catch in the corner of the end zone --
JOSH McDANIELS: It's kind of the epitome of a lot of our guys. We had a lot of opportunities, like Keelan made a big catch there on 3rd down late in the game. Sometimes these guys, they don't have their numbers called for a little while in a game for whatever the reason is, and then they're ready to go. When all of a sudden the ball comes to them, they're in it and they make the play. Same thing happened on defense. We had a lot of guys, T-Hall is out there covering again, and Sam Webb and a lot of guys out there trying to make the plays in the critical moments.
Look, when you play a game like this, you're going to need complementary football to win. All three phases are going to have to contribute somehow, some way, and each man that's active on game day is going to have to do his job.
I think we're learning how to do that well as a team, and certainly we have a long way to go, and there's a lot of things we didn't do very well today, but I think we're trying to play together better than we have earlier in the year.
Q. Josh Jacobs was just phenomenal today --
JOSH McDANIELS: Yeah, he's -- I'm running out of superlatives. Over 300 total yards in the game, and it didn't feel perfect, but he just -- I think toughness -- he's a football player. That's probably the greatest compliment I can give him.
He comes up big with big -- he had a couple big 1st downs on 3rd and short that I'm not sure everybody in the league gets those, but he did, and of course makes the big play at the end.
I thought he was tremendous throughout, gave us a lot of hard yards in the running game, caught the ball well out of the backfield, made some big plays with his hands, but that's JJ. That's what he is.
Q. Were you aware of him when you were in New England or aware of this?
JOSH McDANIELS: Not to this extent. You don't ever get to know somebody this well unless you're with them and coaching them.
I just have an incredible admiration for -- it's not just what he does on the field, it's how he practices, what he does in preparation, how attentive he is in the meetings, what he's like in the walk-throughs, how much he wants to win.
He wants to win, and that's the greatest compliment you can give somebody. Does everything he can to help us.
Q. Also the one-handed catch by Davante that set up the game-tying touchdown there, running out of things to say about him, as well?
JOSH McDANIELS: Yeah, they bracketed him a bunch today and we had some opportunities that we might have missed, but they were trying to make it hard, like everybody does. He's used to that now. We found a little bit of single coverage there later in the game, and he was able to make the plays. That doesn't surprise me that he makes them anymore.
Another guy that's just unselfish and he's not worried about his stats or anything like that. He just wants to help contribute in any way that we can.
A lot of times when they cover him with two guys, that's what opens up the Foster Moreaus and the Josh Jacobs and Keelan Cole, Matt Collins, the flea flicker, Mack is open and there's multiple guys running with Davante. He has an impact on the game almost every play.
Q. Lastly, to win the game the way you've won the last two weeks, walk-offs in overtime, making plays when they need to be made, not validation, but is it affirmation maybe that what you're doing is heading in the right direction?
JOSH McDANIELS: I've never doubted that it was. Like I said, the NFL, there's a lot of close games every week. Sometimes it takes a little while to learn how to get over the hump on some of those things, and that's what we attributed it to.
It doesn't guarantee us anything going forward. We're going to stick with our process. We think we have a really close-knit group here that works hard. We believe in what we're doing. We believe in what we're coaching. We believe in trying to win the way we're trying to win, and I think our guys do, too, and I think -- you don't always get the results you want right away, and I think that tests your patience and your perseverance a little bit, but I think we've got a very resilient group.
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