Rico Dowdle on execution against Rams defense | Carolina Panthers

Rico Dowdle on execution against Rams defense | Carolina Panthers

emoji uh Tuesday. Yeah. Like confused or what kind of what was the meaning behind that? Yeah. Um just was frustrated with the uh way the outcome of the game went. We lost and uh thought we had the opportunity to run the ball on him. So just frustration. Coach addressed it with the team. It’s all good. Just focus on going to the next week. Have you talked to Dave about only six carries? Yeah. Um, like I said, he addressed it with the team and, uh, he talked to me this morning about it and, you know, we got to run the ball and um, order for us to have our best chances and things like that. So, yeah. You get to meet individually with them? No, it’s just side talk. Were you satisfied with what he said or are you still skeptical about whether they’re going to run you enough? No, I definitely was satisfied. I mean, it’s understandable. Everybody knows. He knows. He took ownership of it and uh we take ownership of it as a team. Um we know we got to do and uh definitely could have balanced that game out and so yeah, it’s all good. Does that come from a place of knowing what you have been able to do this year and what you can do and Yeah, for sure. Uh definitely the frustration just coming thinking we had the opportunity to go out there and run it on them. Um didn’t give us heavy boxes. It was a light box light box type of type of day. So thought we could have ran it on them. So definitely steam from that. very good team. They talked about being really accountable to you guys, talking about what he needed to improve on. What was his message to the team as far as the play calling in that game just in general, not just the run game, but just to you guys? And like I said, he just took full ownership of it and said uh he had to call a better game and uh definitely know we needed to run the ball that game and um to make it nitty and we could have had kept the game closer, but like I said, he said that in front of the whole team and uh we on to the next week as a player like to have a coach take that type of ownership and in front of the whole team. Like what does that what does that say to you? Um this a great coach. you know, a lot of coaches don’t they won’t um take that ownership and things like that, but every time um it’s been the outcome of what it’s been. He’s came in and he’s took ownership of day in and we have to take our ownership from my end as players as well. So, great player coach relationship. A lot of guys might when they get asked about that emoji or that post kind of try to explain it away. Why are you kind of meeting it head-on and and telling being being transparent with us and also your teammates and your coach? Um because coach was transparent um with the team. So, I mean, it speaks for itself. The film speaks for itself. Uh, what we’ve been able to accomplish in the run game this week. And, uh, so that’s just pretty much it. Oh, this year. I mean, I’m sorry. Was the meeting today, Ra? The team meeting or was it yesterday? It was today. Yeah. What do you see defense? I mean, they’re number one in the league in scoring defense and just tight across the board. It seems like just like last week. Um, just a real fundamental group. Them guys uh got a good front good cross uh across the whole board. good front seven and uh so yeah, just fundamental and those guys play hard and play well for the game. What are these last three or so weeks been like for you cuz you were like really dominating there for a while and it seems like every yard is tough right now. Um just trying to execute uh just f focusing on how we can execute better really uh and what we need to do uh to get our run game back going. So yeah, it’s there. We’ll make it work. Why do you think it hasn’t been working then? uh like just lack of execution. Would the events of the the last I don’t know five, six days, especially Monday, uh impact your interest in coming back here? Not at all.

Dowdle spoke about what he’s seen from the Rams defense in preparation for Sunday’s matchup.

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