Texans 30, Jaguars 16
Q. Darrell, if you could just kind of walk us through how difficult it was to prepare for a game with everything that happened this week, from a timing standpoint and focus standpoint and so forth? What was this week like?
DARRELL BEVELL: It really ends up being a normal week. We're used to all kinds of things that change, so we have to be ready to make adjustments and be able to adapt to the situation. I thought our guys, whether it was the players or the coaches, did a good job putting a plan together. The guys were ready. They were into it. We just didn't play a clean football game today.
Q. Did you get an adequate explanation from the referee on the penalty on Dawuane on that punt return because it looked like he just bumped into the referee by accident?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, what the official told me was on the return before the play was finishing, Smoot ran on the field and he said he ran right into him, said he ran into him hard. I didn't see it. He said it wasn't just a graze, knocked him over pretty hard, so he felt like he had to call that. That was the explanation.
Q. It looked to be totally inadvertent.
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah. You know, that's just one of the things you talk to the guys about. We can't play bad football. The guy on the sideline running on to the field is not good football.
Q. Could you talk a little bit about obviously there was an intention to use James Robinson a little bit more here today. Could you just talk a little bit about when you had 3rd and 10 on their 11 why you had an inside handoff to him if it wasn't going to be four-down territory? That's just an unusual play call in that situation.
DARRELL BEVELL: Well, at the time we felt like it was a four-down territory. That's how I was playing it. We had a pretty solid run. Then at the end -- we started to go for it, ended up taking a time-out, just thought better of it. Wanted to get points in that situation to have something positive happen at the end of that drive.
Q. The offense struggled to find the end zone today. Is this something that's fixable in the last stretch of the season? This is something we talked about the offense feeling like it was in a bit of a lull. How do you snap that and get out of that kind of scoring drought?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, I thought there was things that we did better today. There was a little bit of explosion. You were able to find guys -- we were able to create some space for some people. But again, there was opportunities to make plays. We didn't make some of them, and we've got to catch the ball, we've got to throw the ball. We've got to protect better, and we'll be able to find the end zone.
It's just on us to continue to improve.
Q. This was your first game on the sideline with this team; how did it feel to be on the sideline calling plays with this group?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, I thought it was really good. I thought the communication was clean with all the coaches, being able to go back and forth on the defensive line. Our analytics guy upstairs, was able to talk to him pretty cleanly, so I thought it went well for the first time out.
Q. Five drops today by your receivers and running backs. Now as the interim head coach, how does your conversation maybe change in terms of the urgency for the continued drops by the receivers for this team?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, I mean, I just told them in there, we have to play clean football, and we haven't been able to do that, whether it's the drops -- the one thing that I really preached with the guys was I want them to play 60 minutes and not measure the game because you have to be able to learn how to win, and these games in the NFL are razor thin. Whether it's the dropped passes, whether it's an opportunity right there on, I don't know what it was, 3rd and 9 to get a stop, we got a stop, the offense got a chance to go win the game, we give up a touchdown. Those are chances for us to make plays, whether it's making a tackle, whether it's giving them good calls, whether it's catching the ball, whether it's throwing the ball, whether it's protect -- we've got to clean that up, and we've got to learn how to win, and we've got to learn how to win those close games, and then this thing will start to turn.
Q. You did feel like there was almost a drop in focus in the fourth quarter?
DARRELL BEVELL: I wouldn't say it's a drop in focus, but whatever it is, when you get your opportunity to make a play, you've got to make your play. These guys are professionals, we talked about it before, and we have to catch the ball. That's your job. A receiver, his description is to receive, so he needs to catch the ball.
Q. Houston threw for two 3rd down touchdown passes, the first one the opening drive and another on the last drive. What were some of the things that -- how do you get off the field in those situations, and how critical is it to get off the field in those 3rd down situations?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, I just hit that on the last one. The last one is a huge play in the game, and after the whole game, after everything that happened, there's a chance for a one-play opportunity. If the defense makes the play, then the offense gets a chance to go win the game, an opportunity to make it. I believe in the first drive we're off the field. We get a penalty that doesn't need to happen, and we have to clean those things up. We've got to make sure the guys understand that because again, we're killing ourselves, and it's going to continue to happen unless we clean that up.
Q. Now that you've got a full week to prepare, are you going to change the way you've been preparing so far this season? I know you mentioned you were keeping the status quo back on Thursday I think it was when you spoke. Are there going to be changes moving forward from that standpoint?
DARRELL BEVELL: Yeah, I think that's something here in the next 24 hours or 48 hours that we'll be able to sit down and really think about it. Like I said after the game, I want to be able to take a breath, see how things went and then evaluate it from there.
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