Jonathan Gannon Postgame Media | Week 4 vs Seahawks | AZ Cardinals

Jonathan Gannon Postgame Media | Week 4 vs Seahawks | AZ Cardinals

Okay. Um, on the injury front, uh, Simmyi is being evaluated for concussion. He could not finish. Dro, I think, had a chest, could not finish. Um, obviously a disappointing finish. Um, you know, to lose again here on a walk-off. Um, and I just told them, you know, uh, I appreciate the resiliency that’s there. No one has their head down. everyone believes we can win. Uh we’re not doing enough all three phases to win these games and that’s very clear. Uh so I just told them they need to get rested up this weekend. That’s tough to play um two games like that. Everybody has to do it. Seattle played well. Give them credit. Got to get rested up, reset our mind and our body uh and then come back to Monday uh and get better at playing football. um you know, three phases really for now four games, pretty good sample size. We just haven’t put it together like I think we’re capable of putting it together. Those are just words. It’s my job to make sure that we put it together. So, that’s what we’ll be working on. What do we got? Coach, offensively struggling in the first half, actually the first three quarters until that fourth. I know a game es and flows, but what’s going on offensively? Yeah, we’re we’re not doing enough to win a game right now. I mean, point blank. So, you know, between not really run, our run efficiency is not where it needs to be. Um, you know, generating explosives not where it needs to be, penalties are killing drives, sacks are killing drives. It’s everybody, you know, and it starts with me. Um, so we got to find some solutions so we can play a little better. Um, because when we get it rolling, we can we can put points on the board. I know that. We just haven’t done it for four quarters. Um, and I know an NFL game, um, there’s going to be es and flows. That’s a good way to put it, but we’re not doing enough. So, we got to find some solutions. Think there’s a reason for any kind of major changes on offense. They just got to play better, right? Uh, you know, I gota No, there’s not. Um, we start with we got to coach better. Um, but we do have to take a good hard look and look what’s going on and adapt because if we keep doing the same thing in my mind, like when you’ve been in the NFL long enough, you got these stretches where you feel like you’re letting some games slip away. If you keep just doing the same thing and hoping, that’s not good coaching. So, we will we will change and adapt some things. There’s no doubt. Mistake on the kickoff giving them the ball at the 40 yardd line obviously hurt big time. What’s he trying to accomplish there? Keep it in play. Keep it in play. You know, that’s that’s kind of one of the things we talk about late in the game there with the amount of timeouts and time and what they needed. The line trying to burn off some time there. I I mean, Chad played his ass off. The the game doesn’t come down to one play. You know, we didn’t do enough collectively for 60 minutes to win the game. It’s a good question. Gambo has Smith and Jigma bottled up at home. You didn’t Yeah. Yeah. He’s a good player. It’s tough to contain him for a whole game. you know, he had some critical downs there. That was a component of the game we knew going in. Um, I thought I thought, you know, the corners battled them. The safeties that were on him battled them pretty good. He made some good plays, you know, and that’s what it takes to win. They made a couple more plays than we did. You know, that’s life in the NFL. So, we got to we got to make some of those. Did you Did you feel like Marv’s play kind of swung in the middle of that game from how it started to how it ended for Marvin out there? What do you mean, Dave? The maybe the the interception, the bobble, and then for him to have the touchdown and to respond the way he did. Uh, I mean, the response was fantastic. You know, I thought he came and lit it up in the second half. Is that what you’re asking? Yeah, absolutely. You know, he got got involved, made some big time plays, a touchdown catch, big time play. Um, couple catches in those drives. You know, he’s winning one-on-one. Uh, I’m not worried about Marv at all. Like, he’s going to be just fine. I thought he played faster today, too. That’s what I told him. That’s what I wanted to see. You know, on a short week, there’s not a lot you can work on because you’re not practicing. I said, “Just let it rip and play fast.” And I thought he did that. Um I’m not worried about Marv at all. I thought he’s resilient just like that whole crew is. That’s the the good thing from my view. Um I know we have a connected team. Uh I know we will go down swinging. I know we ain’t going to quit. I know we’re going to fight tooth and nail. Uh we just got to do a little bit better. Why did it take so long for I don’t know. We got to we got to figure it out. You know what I mean? Because up until the last, you know, fourth quarter, like you said, Craig, like that’s we we’re not putting enough points on the board right now. Um, so we got to we got to score more and all those things that I just talked about. It’s it’s not one thing. It’s not one guy. It’s not, you know, anything. It’s collectively as a unit and as a whole coaching and playing, uh, that we got to score more points. had talked a few times about not putting it together on all three phases for four quarters, but was the fourth quarter an example of what it can look like when all three phases are working? Yeah, I mean I think you know the defense until the end there, but I thought the defense got off the field when we needed some critical stops and our offense, you know, your back’s against the wall. You know, you’re down two two touchdowns, right? 14 points. Go all the way down, score, get the ball back, go all the way down and score, you know. Um, and there are some big time plays in there, too, to to extend those drives. I mean, Mike Wilson on a fourth, they got to have it. That was a huge play. You know, Amari, Marv, Trey. Um, so we we we we’re going to be fine. Um, it’s my job and the coach’s job to make sure that we’re doing enough um throughout 60 minutes of football that we don’t have this keep happening. Coach, you mentioned the sacks. Six sacks is tough on an offense. He’s getting behind the sticks. Yeah. How do you correct that? Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s all 11, you know what I mean? It’s everything from, you know, the quarterback to the O line to the receivers, the timing, all that. You know what I mean? And and truthfully, Craig, um I knew we were going to give up some sacks as much as we were going to throw it today. Um you know, that’s a good front. They got good rushers. Um they’re playing, they play a lot of different things in the back end, which makes you hold it a tick, you know what I mean? And that’s I’m crediting Seattle, but we can’t give up six sacks and think we’re going to score points, you know, they just kill drives. So, third down sack, I get it, you know, but um it’s the sacks on early downs to me that are just, you know, you’re good luck trying to keep a drive going when you’re behind the sticks like that. So, we got to clean that up. It was a lot more 11 personnel in the first half than we’re used to seeing from you guys. Did that have more to do with Seattle or more with you guys trying to change some things up? A little bit of both, truthfully. A little bit of both. I mean, what they’ve shown um going into the game, if you play them in a phone booth, you ain’t going to like the result. So, we didn’t want to play him in a phone booth all day. Um so, that was part of the game plan. Um what we thought we had to do to win the game. Uh and I I liked how we operated out of 11. I did. What did you see out of Trey taking on more of a role running back? Well, I got to watch the tape on that one, Tyler. I thought he made some plays. You know, he had the one explosive. You know, he caught a couple checkdowns, made some guys miss. I thought he was pretty decisive, you know. Um, again though, like it’s and Trey’s a a component of the run game. Uh, it takes all 11. We have to run the ball better. Uh, it’s just it’s just not where it needs to be right now. Um, and that’s a part that, you know, going into the year, you think that you’d be able to run it a little bit better through four weeks. You know, we’ve played some good fronts, but we we got to look at take a good hard look of what we’re doing in the run game and get that have that become more efficient. Was the disparity in pass run more playing from behind or the struggles with the run game? What was the disparity game? 17. Yeah. No, I I truthfully I thought to win the game we’re going to have to throw it all over the yard. Um, now with saying that, the last two drives obviously we went past that because we’re down 14. So, I don’t know if it was straight up, but it would have kicked out, but yeah, that was the plan to throw it more this week. There was a point in the first half where Marvin looked pretty dejected on the sideline. What goes into bouncing back from the emotional toll of that first half for him? Control controllables, you know, um being psychologically trained, which he he’s he is um you know, he he wants to help the team win. He gets down on himself. He’s got to let that go and control the controllables, which for me, for him is just play fast, you know, control your effort, your mode of play, and play fast. And I thought that’s what he did. So that was good to see. I liked I really liked his response. Did you talk to him at any point? Yeah. I said, “Keep playing fast. Let me see your effort.” So, I got you. And he did.

Head Coach Jonathan Gannon addresses the media following the Cardinals’ Week 4 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

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