“I don’t want us to come away from this saying we’re the worst, and lots to learn from,” Allen said. “I’m glad this happened early in the season so we can correct things.”
Rookie WR Keon Coleman, who ended the day with 3 catches and 51-yards, spoke after the game about bouncing back in the second half after having a drop late in the second quarter that would have set the offense up in position to score. Coleman made two huge, contested catches along the sideline that helped the offense move the ball in the second half.
“The moment’s never too big,” Coleman said. “Just got to go out there and make a play, execute and keep going.”
Allen also said that he learned about his team’s no-blink mentality and that it will help them down the road in dealing with adversity after being down 21-3 at the half.
“We were down and out early on, and we kinda stopped the bleeding,” Allen said. “We could have done more to really put a Band-Aid over it, and we just let it slip away. So those plays are really big in the grand scheme of things, and they altered the game. But make no mistake about it, they came out, like I said, with urgency, and they whipped our butt.”