Patriots Head Coach Jerod Mayo addresses the media during his postgame press conference following New England's 30-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium on Sunday, December 15, 2024.
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Good evening, all right, never mind, take it back. Yeah, I kind of sound like a broken record standing up here, you know, just being disappointed after a performance like that. We had to do better. You look at the stats. You know, they had three hundred and eighty nine yards, We had three hundred eleven. The running game, you know, once again we give up a big run play that really hurts us and really skews the rest of the stats. I would say a third down just in general. You know, we were oer for on third down and they were probably around seventy percent on third down, So you know when you talk about extending plays, I mean, that's what it is. And then really defensively not showing up in the red area. Those guys were three for four in the red area and those are definitely Look, we've spent a lot of time on it. Those are definitely it's definitely an important part of the field and we just didn't do it well enough. Again, turnovers, turnovers. There are a couple of balls on the ground. They got one. But again, I mean, it's what we put on film. So you know, at the end of the day, we are what we put on film. We are what our record is, you know, penalties, you know, kind of getting that, you know again, kind of sets us back on some of these drives where we're really making headway during the series. I will say, look, today we won the corn Toss. I thought the best thing to do for us was to put the offense out there. I thought it was an opportunity for us to go out there and start fast, which it was. Unfortunately, you know, we walked away with no points on the missfield goal, But that was my thinking on that. You know, I told the guys in there kind of the same thing. I'm telling you. It's like we all got to take accountability, and what does that look like. Accountability is not really you know, the my bad. The accountability isn't coming in saying things like you know, oh if we would have just did X, Y and Z, like we've been talking about that all year. Accountability is going out and correcting it. And that's about action. It's not about just sitting here saying, you know, that's my fault, my fault. You have enough of those and that's what you have out there on the field today. Fireway to run coming off the buy and then the first offensive series, you guys moving the ball, get the holding pedals. In the second when you.
Get the sack. How frustrating he is to see the same mistakes over and over.
It's very frustrating. It's very frustrating, and we're not a good enough football team to be able to go backwards and overcome you know, those long yarded situations as we've seen all season.
Oh Andy, thoughts on them going for it on fourth and six.
On that first ride, Yeah, there were definitely thoughts on going forward on fourth down. You know, we're lucky not to so trouble was the explain explanation that if they gave one to you know, the hit on Kyle, it looks like he became a runner. Yeah, smaller guy Dutch down, Jenny's kind of gets sied up with him. Yeah, they just told me that, you know, even though he is a runner at that they still have some of that protection as far as hits of the head. So they said Jennings ad in the head and they called it.
Got to live with it in the first half seeing yeah, did some play Colin was a little conservative. Was that part of the game plan or is that a result of.
Not at all? I thought we were able to run the ball. I told these guys going into the game, like, we got to be able to run the ball for four quarters. But you know, at the same time, we got to get open, we got to catch the ball, we got to make the throws, we got to block the guys up front, and we got to run the ball. Like those are fundamental things. And this is why I always go back to, like the excess and o's are one thing, and we're all pretty confident as far as ex's and no's are concerned. But going out there and executing a play. It takes a lot, and we just weren't able to do that on a consistent basis. What did you see on the short yardage two plays that we couldn't get the yard?
Half yard? And did you have a conversation with Alex around work down?
It was very I mean it was disappointing, you know, I said this. You know, I think probably the first week of the season. There comes a point in time as a football team where everyone in the stadium knows what the play is and we just got to move bodies and we weren't able to do that.
Do you feel like you've you've shown.
That you can be that kind of team. So we have some guys we have got in there. They are physically tough, mentally tough, and you know, my expectation for them is that we always gonna move bodies. Unfortunately we didn't do that today.
You consider running drinking that situation that it's a short yard situation.
You know he can run, that's you said it. I didn't.
You've obviously talked about your running game, but then running one hundred and sixty three, what what is it that you're seeing with the lack of run defense on your team.
Yeah, it's just you know, the big run was the big run. I mean we had people there to make the play. I don't know if you guys saw it that way. We had guys there to make a tackle. We just didn't come up with it. And this is why I continue to go back to This game is about fundamentals and tackling being a major one. There.
First question, just now, you said you said I didn't.
So was that I was gonna decision. It's all, It's always my decision. I would say, look, the quarterback obviously has you know, a good pair of legs and does a good job running the ball. We just chose not to do it there.
Why do you think the offensive line playing the way it didn't early?
I gotta watch the film, I would say, you know, just from on the sideline and seeing the clips on the Jumbo Tron, we had a hard time, especially inside the one sack on I think it was on low. The defensive end got a good jump on that and ran the hump. So I thought inside, just from once again not watching the film, I thought inside, we definitely let some leakage come through. Your final question, you guys did defensively today.
I hope that Christian had a good game, but otherwise, obviously.
Again just not good enough.
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