00:00What is the number one moment from the game that stays in your mind?
00:06I'd say the fourth and one field goal.
00:08I think it was a 10-3 ball game, fourth and one.
00:11You're definitely in four-down territory.
00:14Fourth and inches. It's less than one.
00:16It was two inches was what was on screen, I believe it was.
00:19But let's call it just fourth and one, just in case I'm getting them mixed up.
00:22Fourth and one, and your decision to attempt a 58-yard field goal.
00:30Instead of leaving your offense on the field and going for it.
00:33I think at that point in time, not only was the game lost.
00:37I think at that point in time the game was lost.
00:39But I also think there was an admission by the head coach that he's got zero confidence
00:44in what they worked on and talked about all offseason.
00:52We're going to be a more physical unit up front.
00:56We're going to move folks and we're going to run the football.
00:58I think that was an admission to, I ain't got no confidence in these guys up front.
01:03We're going to try a 58-yard field goal at this point in time.
01:07So I think that's when.
01:08To get down, what, four?
01:10It would have been a 10-6 ball game.
01:12As if field goals were going to beat that football team.
01:15To get down four, Tyler.
01:16Yeah, so no, I think to me that's when.
01:19David Montgomery.
01:20Yeah.
01:20That's when this game was lost for me.
01:23Yeah, that is a moment that sticks out because they just fluster at what was supposed to be
01:29their identity down the trash, down the toilet.
01:32I think it was a public admission of, hey, man, I ain't got confidence in these guys.
01:38Well, then they go on.
01:38I remember when the press box at the half, Clint said, I mean, passes as CJ attempted.
01:46I said, I think he's got like 24.
01:48He said he should have 45 by the end of it.
01:51Yep.
01:52They flushed it down the toilet.
01:53You know who leads, Tyler?
01:55You know who leads the NFL in pass attempts this year?
01:59I have a feeling it might be found in Houston.
02:01CJ Stroud.
02:02Yeah, I mean, hell, he's averaging about 45 a game, I believe.
02:05He is leading the NFL.
02:06I think he went 38, 55.
02:07Was that supposed to be the game plan?
02:09He's leading the NFL in pass attempts.
02:13All right, here was CJ today.
02:14I'm sorry, D'Amico today.
02:16D'Amico spoke to the media.
02:18You heard it right here on In The Loop.
02:20But here was D'Amico addressing that moment you just spoke about.
02:24And actually, he talks about both the fourth downs, the one that they didn't get that wasn't
02:28even close.
02:29And then the one, because they didn't get that, I would assume, Clint, it created them
02:35to go in a different direction to kick a 58-yard field goal instead of trying to get that first
02:41down.
02:41Here's D'Amico talking about those decisions.
02:44Yeah, we didn't get the yard.
02:46I made a decision on both of those.
02:48I make the decision to go for it or to not go for it.
02:51I decided to kick the field goal, 58-yarder, have all the confidence in the world in Kaimi.
02:57He made it last week from the same spot.
02:59Everybody gave him praise.
03:00It's a tough kick.
03:01He didn't make it.
03:02We move on.
03:03We live with the decisions we make.
03:06All right, there he is right there giving his explanation to it.
03:11Yeah, I mean, yeah, you can't.
03:14Yeah, you like that's and that to me and I've not been in the locker room and I'll let you
03:18I'll let you give me your thoughts on this because you've been in those locker rooms, Clint.
03:23I feel like you send a whole message to the team on this when you do that.
03:29When you've talked about it, we're going to be physical.
03:31We're going to be physical.
03:33This is us.
03:34We're a physical football team and you go and make that decision.
03:38And this wasn't like a 40-yard field goal.
03:41This is a 58-yard field goal.
03:43And you know you're going to give them the ball.
03:45I feel like you tell the whole team right there where you are and what you think about them
03:51and the confidence level you have.
03:52Well, look, I'm going to say it again.
03:53Look, I make all the decisions and he made it last week, I think, is a super weak response
03:58to that scenario, being a head coach of an organization.
04:02You know you're going to be asked about it.
04:04And at least, at least pull the curtain back a little bit about what went into making that decision.
04:11Right?
04:11I mean, I totally disagree with it, but hit us with, hey, guys, it's a 10-3 ball game.
04:17Our defense is playing pretty good.
04:21They're killing their own drives left and right.
04:23The game is still right there to be had.
04:25I felt like if we just got points and saw a field go through the uprights, we could kind of
04:31reset
04:31and crank this thing back up.
04:33Right?
04:34Instead, it's one of these, oh, I make all the decisions.
04:38It's like, come on, man.
04:39I mean, we know you make the decisions.
04:40Who's questioning whether you make the decisions or not?
04:43Yeah.
04:43Like, it's, but it's like this defensive mechanism of being asked about that scenario.
04:55Like, you know, I know the Cincinnati Bengals are a high-flying offense that can score points
05:01in a hurry, but we felt like we really had a beat on what they were trying to do.
05:04So we did feel like we could win that game with field goals at that point in time.
05:08Again, I disagree, but at least give us a little something to what you were thinking instead
05:14of just, I make all the decisions and he made it last week.
05:17Like, that's, I don't know.
05:20I just think that's, I think that's weak.
05:22Well, yeah, it's, the whole thing was, well, the whole thing is, is, especially, it just
05:29completely just flushes down the toilet of what your identity was.
05:33And I hope, Clint, that this now, I hope that they moving forward now go on with what
05:40this, this new identity is.
05:42You're not a run first football team.
05:43You talked about it.
05:44You talked about it.
05:45You said it on Friday when we were at Talyards.
05:47No, they need, this, this thing needs to go through CJ.
05:50You're not a run, you're not a run first football team.
05:53That's not what you are.
05:53Right.
05:54You don't have the dudes up front.
05:56And, and again, they're a, that's a good run stopping defensive line.
06:01Those two guys in the middle, like you still haven't faced the Texans, a Texans version
06:06of the line.
06:07Like you haven't faced an elite defensive line yet.
06:10Right.
06:11All the way through those guys in the middle stopping the run are, but I mean, overall, and
06:16you've been, they were pressuring and you couldn't run the ball.
06:19But if you're going to spend the entire off season and you're going to spend 20 million
06:24plus more than that, I can't know what Ed, I didn't do the math.
06:27We're going to have eight, 12.
06:28What Ed get a year?
06:2810.
06:29I mean, more than that.
06:30Ed, Ed's their highest paid offensive lineman.
06:32Okay.
06:32So, so he's got more than 12 because Braden got 12, I believe.
06:35So you're, I mean, you're, you're talking about upwards of $35 million on free agents,
06:40a first round draft pick to the left.
06:42That's going to be your center or left guard and all the, and, and the whole, like literally
06:46outwardly, outwardly, publicly is we're going to be more physical and we're going to play
06:50a different brand of ball.
06:51And this is what we're looking for.
06:53And you see it.
06:53Y'all see it.
06:54Look, look at, look, look at Keelan Rutledge and what he's bringing to the table.
06:57Like you don't, you don't say those things, spend that money.
07:02And that is your entire vision.
07:06And then after playing a team, that's a pretty good run stopping defense go.
07:11Yeah.
07:11That's pretty good run stopping defense.
07:13First, you got to give them credit.
07:15You, you, you, you spent a boatload of money and a, a, a ton of focus and effort on running
07:21the football better.
07:22Do you think that means you just go run it better against, against, uh, you know, the
07:27work that the bottom five run defenses in the league?
07:29No, I mean, at that point you're, you're saying, Hey, we're going to, we're going to run the
07:32football against anybody in the league.
07:34Forget about four minute offense and like being a dominant run team, but you got to at least
07:39to be able to go in there and have some level of success against the better run defenses
07:42in the league.
07:43And, and it was, it was, it was awful.
07:46The Texans running backs, 10 carries, 18 yards.
07:50Um, and then they told him, nah, man, we don't trust you guys to try to get a yard.
07:55They have now completely flushed the identity.
07:58They set themselves to be offensively week two.
08:01Bro.
08:02CJ Stroud was a leading rusher.
08:04Jalen Noel was the second leading rusher.
08:05One carry from Jalen.
08:07They've completely flushed the toilet to it.
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