Todd Monken Press Conference — Week 5 @ New York Jets

[0:01] Not good enough, credit the Jets, their resiliency there at the end. [0:06] But we certainly tend to do enough offensively, running the football, [0:12] consistently throwing it. [0:15] Really, what we had was Deshaun running around trying to make some plays down the field. [0:21] And even with all that being said, we put ourselves in a position at the end, [0:27] like we had the last three weeks, as up and down as we had played. [0:30] To get the touchdown, get the turnover, unfortunately, we go three and out. [0:36] And then, obviously, giving up the snap and the punt at the end. [0:41] But as we know in this league, it comes down to making the other team play their best. [0:49] And I don't think we did that today. [0:51] I don't think we did that in some ways defensively. [0:55] We did after the first drive, I thought we settled in pretty well. [0:58] Gave up some yards, but came up with some big stops and some turnovers. [1:03] But ultimately, not good enough, not clean enough. [1:06] I mean, that's just the way it is. [1:08] And when you do the things we did today, you're going to put yourself behind the eight ball [1:13] in terms of a chance of trying to win. [1:14] And that's what we did today. [1:16] What ways are you trying? [1:20] Oh, I mean, we have a lot to get better going forward, [1:23] starting with me and our coaching staff. [1:25] I mean, you guys, maybe not you, but other people have heard me say it before, [1:29] is what are we going to do? [1:31] We're going to own it. [1:33] We're going to be self-aware to know that we're human and we fail. [1:36] And we're going to own it and fight like hell to fix it. [1:38] That's what you do every week. [1:40] It's a week to week league. [1:42] And as good as it's felt the last three weeks, it doesn't feel very good right now. [1:48] But I'm not discouraged, I love our guys. [1:51] And they come to work every day, that's all you can ask is for you guys to come to work [1:54] every day and give you everything they got. [1:57] And we certainly got to coach better, got to play better. [1:58] I mean, that's just what you got to do. [2:01] And I haven't really watched the tape to really know, but there's a lot of things [2:06] we're going to continue to get better at. [2:08] Was the bad snap the result of a wet ball? [2:12] I don't know. [2:13] I mean, it was wet the whole game. [2:16] So I mean, was that a part of it? [2:18] Probably. [2:20] Was that a part of some of the drops? [2:22] Probably. [2:23] Was that a part of some of the ball security? [2:25] Probably. [2:26] Well, we both had to play in it and that's, that's it, in a nutshell, not good enough. [2:32] Ty, Deshaun was sacked eight times today, a season high. [2:35] I know you said you haven't watched the film, but what stood out to you? [2:37] Was it more protection issues? [2:39] Was it Deshaun not seeing the field? [2:40] Was it guys not getting open downfield? [2:42] Why was he sacked so many times today? [2:43] Let's just say this, eight sacks is a season high. [2:46] I hope like hell, the rest of the time I'm here, we don't have a game, we have eight sacks. [2:50] Okay, I'm not trying to be, I'm just saying. [2:53] You know, when you say that, it's everything, right? [2:56] It's, it's, it's coaching, it's playing, it's getting the ball out of our hands. [3:01] It's protection, it's all the above. [3:03] It's rarely just one person. [3:06] And so, we all got to take a big frickin' bite of this and work to get better. [3:11] Cause that's not good enough. [3:12] I mean, you know, and I know we had, we had got some pressure on Gino. [3:16] But again, you're gonna put yourself in that position when you can't run the football. [3:23] We weren't able to run the football today. [3:24] And we were behind the sticks the whole, the whole day. [3:28] And we made a few plays, you know, some, some get back on track and some third downs that [3:33] gave us a chance. [3:34] But we were never comfortable calling it or playing. [3:39] And that's not a recipe for success. [3:41] Everybody, everybody knows that. [3:42] And, you know, we got to be able to run the football to control the game. [3:46] It starts up front and starts with the way we call it and the way we scheme it. [3:49] What about the blow to the head by Minka on KC and just losing KC so early in the game and [3:54] the impact that that had? [3:56] Well, I mean, it's just a bang bang play. [3:59] I mean, Minka's been in this league a long time. [4:02] I mean, he's not a dirty player. [4:03] I've never seen that out of him. [4:04] I mean, it's, it's a bang bang play, you know, and unfortunately it happened to our guy and [4:09] that that's part of the league and yeah, not having KC's a part of it, but everybody's [4:14] missing players. [4:15] It's the NFL. [4:16] You lose guys throughout the course of a game and ultimately you count on the next man up, [4:21] the expectations of the position and we obviously didn't do enough. [4:26] I mean, we just didn't do enough on offense. [4:27] KC didn't make a question to report about? [4:29] I'm not ready to go there. [4:31] I mean, he didn't come back in the game. [4:32] So that's all I know. [4:33] I saw him afterwards. [4:34] He was in good spirits, but I don't, I don't even know what exactly what the rules are. [4:40] I know he missed the game. [4:41] So I would assume he's in concussion protocol, but you, you said the running game was never [4:46] comfortable, but did Watson ever look comfortable in this game? [4:51] I don't want to go there yet without really watching it. [4:57] It just, you know, from, from the first play of the game, we didn't get the ball handled [5:02] very well. [5:03] It was a little bit of a zone read and we've got to pull it and we don't and you end up [5:06] with a, you know, now you're second 14. [5:09] So right off the jump, you get a loss yardage play, which is not ideal, but that's part [5:15] of it. [5:16] That's the part of growing as a team and coaches together collectively. [5:21] And there's going to be some ups and downs as players and coaches and, and we're going [5:25] to go back to work. [5:26] We're going to watch the tape on the plane headed home and we're going to pick our big [5:30] boy pants up and try to figure out a way to get better. [5:33] That's what you do. [5:34] I mean, that's, that's what we're paid to do. [5:35] And it just wasn't good enough. [5:38] I mean, you guys watched it. [5:39] I mean, if I knew that we'd have it fixed, you know, and at times I think we do some nice [5:58] things with it and other times we don't. [5:59] And it's, it's all of us. [6:00] I mean, that isn't it right? [6:03] Isn't it what we do? [6:04] Like it's coaching, it's scheming it, it's playing, it's doing the things our players [6:09] can do well. [6:10] I mean, that's, that's what you do, right? [6:13] We got to all own it because when it, I tell our coaches all the time, man, if, if you want [6:17] the credit when we win, man, we got to own this, this when we don't, you got to own it. [6:22] Can't be this when we lose and it's this when we win. [6:25] No, it's all of us. [6:26] That's what, that's what we means. [6:27] That's what a team means. [6:28] And we got to take a big bite of this and say, Hey, that, that, that's not good enough. [6:32] Give them credit. [6:33] I'd said it before we played them, you know, they did a few things a little bit differently. [6:38] They'd be playing, been playing a ton of shell, you know, and, and this week, I think they [6:42] changed it a little bit, played a little bit more man, were a little bit more aggressive. [6:46] And, and that's a credit to them, you know, and Aaron, you could see it even leading up [6:51] to the Bears game, how well they'd been playing on defense. [6:55] They really had been playing well and been playing aggressively. [6:58] Great game, special teams wise, was that, how surprising, how disappointing? [7:03] Well, just kind of fits the day, right? [7:07] You know, just, there was, there was a sequence there of special teams plays where you miss [7:17] the extra point, you give up the long kick return, defense comes up with a big stop, and [7:23] then we mishandle the snap, snap or the catch. [7:26] So it's like, within a matter of whatever that would have been, three plays on us on offense, [7:32] and however many, they had four or five with them. [7:34] We had three special teams place it, you know, below the line. [7:39] But that's, that's what happens, right? [7:42] When you don't play clean, you're going to get beat. [7:47] And we got beat because of those things, and we're going to work like heck to fix it. [7:52] Todd, the penalties in the second half, you seem to do a good job in the first half of [7:57] not having many, I think only two. [7:59] But the second half, the penalties really, you know, really seem to be real drive killers. [8:04] What was sort of maybe, I mean, loss of focus, what do you attribute to that? [8:08] Well, I mean, I'd have to look at, what, we have seven or something? [8:11] We had none in the first half, and, you know, some of it, I don't know, just felt like that [8:17] kind of game. [8:18] I'm sure they're going to say the same thing, right, where they had some false starts. [8:22] You're trying to communicate the rain, trying to make sure you're on point. [8:28] And, but we had, obviously, way too many in the second half. [8:34] And, again, nothing was clean from special teams to offense. [8:38] The only thing that, that we can actually say, our guys battled their rear ends off [8:42] was on defense after the first drive and came up with some big stops when we need it. [8:47] I mean, that's really what it came down to. [8:49] And even then, all that being said, we haven't played a clean game yet. [8:53] We just found a way in the other three games to get it done in the fourth quarter. [8:58] I mean, let's be real about it. [9:00] And we had the opportunity. [9:01] We just did. [9:02] We got the turnover, had the ball right there at the 40. [9:06] And we just, we didn't capitalize at that moment. [9:09] And that's what happens. [9:10] What about Quincy Williams backing up, you know, just saying that he wanted the nightmare [9:16] to begin on Sunday and just going out there and forcing three fumbles [9:18] and making all the stops that he did tonight? [9:21] Yeah, I mean, I mean, Quincy's a good football player, you know, [9:26] and he's with us now and, you know, we're happy we have him. [9:30] And I don't get into, you know, Quincy being here now with us. [9:35] I don't, I don't get into all that. [9:37] We got to play better football. [9:38] And, you know, just, just collectively. [9:42] And we certainly are capable of that. [9:43] What about the way that Deshaun Watson fought back after that long, long dry spell, [9:50] bunch of three and outs, fought back through the touchdown pass to Denzel there at the end? [9:56] I mean, what can you say just about the grit or whatever that he showed you? [10:01] Well, you know, it started with the end of the first half, and then we were backed up. [10:09] The last drive of the first half in two minutes, and then three straight drives were backed up. [10:14] We just couldn't get out of our own end. [10:17] We did in two minutes, and then we had a little bit of a setback. [10:21] And, you know, you're backed up, and it's a low-scoring game in the weather, [10:26] and we just weren't able to really get out. [10:30] And the defense kind of still kept us in it, kept battling. [10:34] And Deshaun's a battle. [10:35] He's a competitor. [10:37] But it's too early for me to really talk about really anything about the game without watching it, [10:44] you know, without really looking at it. [10:46] But, you know, Deshaun battled back and hit the touchdown that gave us the lead, [10:51] and we just weren't good enough. [10:53] We just weren't good enough today coaching and playing, and that's just the way it is. [10:59] Good. [11:00] Yep. [11:00] Thank you. [11:00] Thank you. [11:01] Who else is coming in?