January 11, 2025

 

Yeah, penalties are unacceptable on offense. Way too many of them. Way below our standard. We’re generally first in the league, typically, as a team on offense and so just to have as many false starts as we had, there were some procedural penalties that we’ll get into behind the scenes, but the false starts set us back and led to two drives where we didn’t score points. I think we didn’t score on three drives or four drives and those are crucial. So, unacceptable. But really happy with the way the defense got the turnovers, five turnovers, three of them in the second half was huge for us and kept them on the field for a long time. Our defense had to play a lot of snaps in the second half. It was a strange game that way but I think they’ll gladly take that when we’re taking the ball away and having to play because of that.

I thought he settled in there. There’s some tough matchups in there sometime, but I thought he settled in there and did a good job in his first career start. Really proud of the way—that’s an example of a guy who just practices. Devin Cochran has practiced the right way. He’s proven to his teammates all season long that he’ll be ready if his number is called because of his approach to that. So, really, you want your top players to play Orlando (Brown Jr.), and Cody (Ford) and all of those guys, so this isn’t even any knock on them, but to hear Devin’s going to play in the game, wasn’t a gut punch because you just trusted him. He was ready for the moment, and we knew that we’d be able to go out there and produce with him.

 

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