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Uh, well, obviously very disappointing. Um, not, not able to, to do enough things to, to win this football game, um, you know, ineffective, uh, offensively in terms of too many negative plays, uh, and the inability to, uh, finish off drives, you know, that, that in itself is, um, what’s apparently, uh, part of our problem and then the explosives on defense, you know, uh, so giving up explosives on defense and, and negative plays on offense when, when you’re playing in this league in the SEC where there, it’s *** razor thin margin for victory and defeat if, if you, if you don’t have ***, *** clean performance in that sense, um, you’re gonna struggle and, and we’re in that we’re in that phase, unfortunately, we’re struggling right now in, in terms of execution, consistency. You know, we, I thought we, you know, found *** way to run the ball much more effectively today. Um, but, but again, it’s, it’s, you have to finish off drives. I mean, I think, I don’t know what the time of possession was but it was ridiculous. Right. You know, and, and I think first downs maybe almost 2 to 1 in terms of first downs, but that doesn’t, that doesn’t win you games, you got to score points and our inability to score touchdowns and score points continues to crop up. And, you know, as coaches, we have to take responsibility, uh, players have to own their end of it. And we are in the situation that we’re in because we’re largely, um, not effective enough in those two areas, negative plays on offense and not finishing off drives and then defensively giving up the explosive plays. Um, so that’s kind of where we’re at right now. Um, and, you know, our, our team’s got to make *** decision, you know, how they move forward and we’ve talked about it and I’m pretty confident they know what needs to happen in, in terms of, uh, their mindset. And, um, again, we, we keep working on the deficiencies in which I’ve highlighted. So, but that will open up the questions. Well, uh, right. Yeah, it seems like today you were holding your play sheet more regularly throughout the game than you maybe normally do. Is, were you more involved in the offense, uh, in this game than you? Well, I, I think, I think when things don’t go well, the head coach has gotta be involved. Um, and that’s not to say that I don’t have full faith and trust in my staff. I do, but the buck stops with me, you know, when, when we lose *** game. Um, I have to be able to, um, look at the reasons why. And quite frankly, I ha I feel as though in my background and how I was developed as *** coach. Um, I feel like it’s, it’s getting involved. And so, yes, I’ve been more involved in, in, uh, everything that we’re doing of the amount of hits that Garrett took tonight. And how concerning is that I, I look some of it, you know, obviously we, you know, where we’re concerned to the point where we want to keep our quarterback clean, but, but we have to look at it. I, I in its entirety. Did the ball come out when it needed to, did, did we protect the way we needed to, you know. Um, so any anytime the quarter quarterback gets knocked down, everyone’s gonna have to look at, you know, what did we do and what can we do better? You ran 92 plays, you, you found *** running game, you possessed the ball. Have you ever been in *** game like this where you dominated so many numbers except touchdowns? No, this was unique. Um, but we know the reasons and, and it’s the inability, you know, we can’t take, we can’t keep taking points off the board. You know, we had *** silly, silly mistake on *** touchdown. Um, you know, that, that were better than that, you know, um, and, and drives have to be converted. You, you can’t just continue to move the ball up and down the field, they’re not converted to points. They don’t give you *** pat on the back because you had the ball longer or they had first downs and that is in, in *** large degree, um, making sure that, that everybody is, is doing their job and, and that’s why I have to be more involved in what’s going on. It’s not, I, I have to be able to figure out how we can help our players get through this, this is *** rough spot for them, but we gotta help them. And as coaches, that’s, that’s what I have to do. Can you point to anything while you’re not able to finish? I mean, you got *** number of report down recently. Yeah, I mean, I, I think if, if you look at each drive, some of them were, um, you know, we had some negative plays leading, leading up to, uh, the actual third down. Um, you know, as I mentioned, we had *** touchdown taken off the board, um, which had to turn into *** field goal. So it, it’s *** myriad of different things, but at the end of the day, um, *** lot of that is, is you, you have to have players that make plays down in that area of the field and that means everybody, um, you know, from the quarterback to the left tackle to the wide receiver, um, and we haven’t made enough plays down in that area and you talked last week, Brian about trying to get them back up and, and remind me what they have to play for. How do you reinforce that this weekend? Well, you know, it’s, it’s, this is really *** simple exercise of, do you wanna fight or not? You know, do you wanna fight and, and take responsibility as coaches and players that we’re not playing well and we’re struggling right now. So it’s life, it’s *** myriad of, of things, but, but it’s *** reflection of what life’s about. There’s, there’s *** rough spot here that we have to fight through and we got to do it together. So if you’re not *** thumb pointer, if you’re not somebody that’s saying I’m gonna work and continue to work to be better, then we don’t have *** place for you in the last couple of weeks. But if you want to fight and you want to keep working to get better, then then we’re gonna be alongside of you. But at the end of the day, it’s about um overcoming adversity and, and fighting through these last two games that are at home that we desperately want to win playing off of that. You mentioned, obviously learning some things about these guys. Does this really give you an opportunity to learn really what the mindset of the psyche of this team is doing the next two games and how you can build up on that in the off season. Well, it’s gonna point out those that are not fighters. So we’re gonna put guys on the field that wanna fight and I wanna do everything they do to correct where we are right now and, and that is struggling with, uh, consistent execution and, and I’ve, I’ve pointed out *** number of times negative plays and ability to, um, finish off drives in the end zone and then the explosive plays on defense, they’re pretty consistent. Now. I think we’ve, we’ve seen them enough to know what clearly we have to be better at as coaches and players. Right. Correct. You and Brian *** the first quarter. Yeah, that was, that was my decision, coach’s decision. I don’t care to elaborate. Well, it’s really, I guess that sort of demarcation point for the offensive has been since half time in Texas *** and M, yes, it has been, obviously there’s *** lot of things that go into it, but it just, I guess what do you point to as sort of, even though if you found the running game in here, like, why did nothing is quick clip? Yeah, look, if, if I had the magic bullet for that, we would have already pulled it right and used it. Um, but, you know, we’re look, everything that we do, we’re challenging, everything that we look at. We’re challenging and, and, and that’s what you have to do when you’re struggling like this and you find ways to make things simpler, maybe, um, less offense is more, that’s why we got into more of *** running game mindset and we’ll continue to do that because we have to be able to eliminate the negative plays and convert when we get opportunities in these short fields. And like I said, the, the prolific offenses players make plays in short fields. You, you just make plays. We haven’t made enough plays down there quite frankly. And, and so we have to look at it as coaches, you know, we’re getting the guys to the, the places where they need to be, to, to, to make those plays and then again, uh, eliminating some, the negative plays that have led up to stalling some of those drops. We have time for two more shots. Uh, all talk about the running quarterbacks you’ve gone up against, but it seemed like they kept him in the pocket all night. Yeah, I don’t think that, I don’t think that was an issue. Uh, I didn’t think we think of, I don’t know that we went into the game thinking that that would be *** particular issue with, with DJ. We, we think he’s ***, uh, uh, *** thrower of the football, uh, he’s capable of running, certainly. Um, you know, uh, look, uh, I mean, we could go over every play in the game. Um, but, you know, again, I, I think that they made some plays, they played well. Um, and, and we did not do enough, uh, to eliminate some of the mistakes that have been haunting us the last couple of weeks. Who was the last one? Right. I just have *** follow up on earlier question. You’re saying you’d be more involved. What, what does that mean? Like, what, what is that? Well, I mean, like, uh, listen, anybody that has *** business organization and, and you’re not, you know, getting *** profit at the, you know, you, you, you put yourself on the street right. You know, everybody is working, you know, and, and, and putting in the time and, and the head coach has gotta be part of that as well. So, um, whether it’s *** business or it’s football, uh, coaching, um, you know, you, you, you can’t sit and, and say, well, it’s, it’s, it’s the coordinators. I mean, the head coach is ultimately responsible for the success of his football team and we’re not successful these last three weeks. And so, um, you, you gotta get involved and obviously I wasn’t good enough tonight, um, but we’re gonna go back to work and we’re gonna look at the things that we need to get better at and we’re gonna keep singing and we’re gonna have 22 guys out there, uh, that are gonna fight for LSU, um, and play hard these last two weeks at home because we