Dungy 10/6 Press Conference Recap

In case you didn't listen to it, here are the Cliff's Notes:

Overall no takeaways from the film other than the 1st quarter and the last 4 minutes of the game. We played hard but for 3/4 of the game we self-destructed, played without passion and unsound fundamentally. We made progress in the bye but that didn't translate to the field somehow.

Defensively there is some inexperience causing the young players to be going through a thought process about where they should be but moreso we're not playing with enough passion, not flying to the ball like we should be. Hopefully the last four minutes opens the floodgates and set the tone for the remainder.

We can't expect to come from behind on a weekly basis like this. We don't practice that way so we can't expect to be able to recover from poor play like that week-in, week-out.

Defenses are crowding us unlike in the past. This could be due to the lack of cohesion in the passing game or the lack of pass protection causing the deep ball to be less of a threat than historically was the case. Until we consistently make defenses pay with deep passes they will continue to crowd us.

Freeney strained his leg on the first fumble recovery, no update on Kelvin or Marlin, more concerned with how to play better than what the docs have to say. Charlie played because he had more practice time, Tony not demoted.

Spec teams better over the first four weeks, Adam and Hunter kicking better.

Call on Raheem was understandable, increased enforcement on defenders pulling guys down.

Friday is the last day that injury status MUST be published. Nothing we can do about things happening on Saturday.

Unfortunately for Sage, he probably won't get a chance to play through this because Schaub will come back and get the start. Tony would tell him, "You didn't loose the game by yourself." Guys should rally around him and focus on positive not negative.