DeVante Parker – September 29, 2019 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 29, 2019
Postgame – L.A. Chargers
WR DeVante Parker (transcribed by Anthony Gutierrez)
(Are you guys encouraged that you guys can do better and use this bye week to improve for the rest of the season?) – “Yeah, of course. We are going to use this week to improve and look at what we need to do better.”
(Can you take us through that first series when you got open down the sideline, what happened and what you saw when QB Josh Rosen connected with you?) – “They were playing the perfect coverage we needed, and it was a good throw he made, and I was wide open.”
(What has been going on with the execution on this team? It seems like every week the players point to it, you have a couple good series and then kind of gets away from everybody?) – “We had a good first half of executing what we need to do right, and then in the second half we have to just work on it.”
Reshad Jones – September 29, 2019 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 29, 2019
Postgame – L.A. Chargers
S Reshad Jones (transcribed by Ken Mendonça)
(What is the frustration when you’re in contention in the first half and in the second half there are issues?) – “Yeah, there is a little frustration; but like Coach (Flores) said, we are one or two plays away. One block away, one tackle away. We just have to make those plays.”
(Did it feel good for you in that first series when you had that pass break up on third down just to kind of get involved again?) – “It just feels good to be back playing football, back out with my guys, playing the game I love. It definitely felt good.”
(What happened on that first touchdown when it looked like Chargers QB Philip Rivers was scrambling?) – “I thought he was out of the pocket. Rivers, he’s been running the ball a bit more lately, so I thought he was about to try to run it in, and I thought he had past the line of scrimmage, so I came off and tried to make a play.”
Josh Rosen – September 29, 2019 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 29, 2019
Postgame – L.A. Chargers
QB Josh Rosen
(That first half that you guys had – was that the best half you think you’ve had in your career?) – “My career?”
(In your short career?) – “I don’t know. I would have to think a little bit on that. Maybe.”
(You guys had those four potential scoring drives. What were you guys able to do to make you successful early on?) – “I thought we had a pretty good game plan going in. It was nothing too crazy, just came down to execution. I think we’re a young team. The more snaps we have on the field, the better we’ll get. Hopefully this isn’t the last of those you’ll see, so hopefully we’ll get down there a lot more often and just continue to build on them.”
(It’s two weeks in a row it seems like things are a little bit more efficient in the first half as opposed to the second half. Can you put your finger on why that is?) – “No, not really. We’ve got to go back and look at tape. I definitely made a couple of pretty significant errors in the second half. I missed a couple – they started to heat up the pressure a little bit and I started to miss a couple – like not a couple, just like one or two sights in some kind of critical areas in situational football. I’ve just got to not almost get a safety on the 1-yard line and understand the bigger scope of the game, the field position and just make smart plays. Then, the quick little screen out to my left, I should have just thrown it in the dirt instead of trying to run like an idiot playing high school football. (It was) just a lot of little things here and there, but I think we’ll improve and be better (after the bye week).”
(What was the difference today in the second half as opposed to the first half?) – “I don’t know. We just didn’t really execute. I missed a couple of things as I was kind of saying earlier. It’s nothing very complicated. I think we’ve just got to continue to get snaps on the field and play better together and continue to improve.”
(With WR Preston Williams – you had the opportunity to get to him a little more – are you comfortable with him?) – “Yeah, absolutely. Like I said, ‘Fitz’ (Ryan Fitzpatrick) was taking most of the reps through training camp and the first couple of games. I’m just kind of getting my feet wet with this thing and getting chemistry with all these guys, and like I said, I think we’ll improve as the season goes. As I said, through training camp and OTAs since I got here, I’m just trying to make my next day better than the previous, and I think once we’re in-season, I think I can sort of hopefully try to expand that and say just trying and make the next week better than the previous and just kind of execute better and continue to just get in the red zone and try to put touchdowns on the board and not field goals.”
(Can you take us through your interception?) – “I just kind of hesitated a little bit. Just a couple of adjustments they made. I just made a real dumb decision. I was kind of in between two throws I was trying to make to Preston (Williams) and ended up picking the one in between, which was (to) him and the defender. I’m trying to eliminate those. I think our defense plays – our defense is playing pretty well. I think they’re getting better each week. I’ve just got to really try to eliminate turnovers and just try to stay with positive plays and not let it get out of hand.”
(You had a lot of turnover up front with the offensive line. Generally speaking, how did you think your pass protection was?) – “I thought they did really well – really well, actually – particularly early in the game. I think we did some good stuff schematically to help everyone out and get the ball out quick here and there and then try and mess with the d-line a little bit. Overall, I think they played pretty well. Like I said and keep going back to, we’re a young team and I think we’ll only improve as we keep rolling. I don’t think Isaiah Prince expected to be lining up there even just a couple of weeks ago. I think we’ve all got to step up to the plate, and I think they did a really good job today – all of them.”
(Regarding that second half, the last two weeks you guys have been winning the game at halftime and then come out in the second half and played a little more flat. Is it the other team making adjustments or has the energy just not been there in the second half?) – “I really don’t know. I mean you guys keep asking about the second half thing, and if I had an answer, we’d correctly adjust for it. I don’t know. We’re figuring that out, and hopefully we’ll give you guys a better second half the next time.”
(Is this a good time to go into a bye week for this team?) – “I don’t know. I haven’t really been playing in the NFL that long. I think we had it midseason – like a Week 8 or 9 bye last year. We’ll see how this one goes. I don’t really have any preference. I haven’t had much experience with byes.”
Brian Flores – September 29, 2019 (Postgame)
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Postgame – L.A. Chargers
Head Coach Brian Flores
(This is the closest you’ve come in the fourth game. Is that good news?) – “No. I thought we could have played a lot better in that game. I think I come up here and really say a lot of the same things. I think we’re a missed block, a missed tackle, a drop, a missed kick – every week it’s a handful of plays, it’s eight to 10 plays, that if you make them, the game is different. If you don’t make them, the outcome is what it was. And that’s my message to the team. We need to start making those plays. We’ve got to coach it better, we’ve got to play better, and that’s kind of where we’re at.”
(So in your mind you don’t even measure progress?) – “I mean there’s progress, but at the end of the day this is about wins and losses. We’re 0-4. Do I see progress? Yeah, I do. These guys, they work hard, they fight hard. The effort is there. The communication is there. They practice hard. They’re doing everything. But there are some opportunities there and plays that we should make, kicks that we should make, blocks that we should make, penalties that we can’t have. There’s a lot of things that we’re hurting ourselves in a lot of ways.”
(The last three games, you keep it tight in that first half. In the second half you’re outscored 81-0 in the second half. What’s happening between the first half and second half?) – “We’ve got to make better second-half adjustments. We’ve got to play better. We’ve got to coach it better. And that’s really what it boils down to. I think we go in, we talk as a staff and we make the adjustments. We started out okay offensively, and then we got stuffed on the minus play on a run, and we couldn’t move the chains on third down, punted it, and then they went down the field offensively. We’ve got to do a better job. That’s really what it boils down to.”
(Pressure, especially with QB Philip Rivers having the opportunity to pitch and catch out there. How do you develop and get some pressure? It’s been an issue over the last couple of weeks.) – “We can blitz more. We can – Look, we had what we felt like was a good plan going in and we didn’t execute it. We didn’t execute it at all. We really only executed it the one time when we actually got some pressure on the quarterback. There’s a few different things we could do. We could pressure more, but there’s issues with pressuring more. But we had a plan going in and they did a good job, Rivers does a good job getting the ball out. But we’ve got to do a better job.”
(On the positive side, T Isaiah Prince gets a start. You move T J’Marcus Webb over to the left side. It seemed like they held their own throughout most of the game.) – “I thought from that standpoint, the offensive line played well, especially in the first half. We had some runs. We had the quarterback protected, put some drives together and we just couldn’t sustain it. At the end of the day, that’s – One half isn’t – You’ve got to play two halves in this league.”
(You had three missed field goals by K Jason Sanders. Is that becoming an issue for you?) – “I have a lot of confidence in Jason. He’s a good kicker. He makes them all in practice. I have a lot of confidence in him. So, we’ll keep kicking them. He’ll make them.”
(They came out in the second half with 16 plays and ate up 10 minutes, 33 seconds on the clock. What were seeing on that drive and how important was that for what followed given you’re your defense had to be out there for so long?) – “We could have played that better defensively. They had a couple second-and-20 situations where they picked up chunk yards and got themselves into manageable third downs and then picked those up as well. (Philip) Rivers made some really good throws. We’ve just got to make a few more plays and we’re just not making them right now. I would say in the first half we had opportunities to just tackle. If we just tackled better, some of those drives wouldn’t have been extended. We’ve got a lot of work to do. We’ll come in tomorrow, make the corrections, like we do every week and get better.”
(QB Josh Rosen had the one bad pick today. How would you assess your quarterback today?) – “I thought he played well early. I thought he got the ball out quickly, got the ball in space, let the guys – our backs, our receivers – catch and run early. We had the one long play early. We had a couple of drops that didn’t help his cause. I think that would have sustained a couple drives. We had one that I think we may have scored. A couple of them may have extended some drives, and that’s something that we talked about week after week after week. Again, those eight to 10 plays could be the difference between winning and losing or a much tighter game.”
(You’re having trouble scoring in the second half, are you concerned maybe that’s becoming a trend?) – “We’re having a lot of trouble in a lot of areas in the second half. I don’t think it’s a conditioning issue. I think it’s an execution issue, a coaching issue. We’ve got to coach it better, put these guys in better positions, and we’ll do that.”
(What’s going to be your main focus during this bye week?) – “We’ll self-scout everything. We do that every week anyway; but we’ll look at player combinations. We’ll look at different groupings, any tendencies that we have – run pass, first half, second half. We’ll take a long look at the second half, obviously. That’ll be something we’ll spend a lot of time on and try to find a way to create some momentum in the second halves of games. There has been some progress over the first four games. The first quarter of the season is over, and we’ll move on to the second quarter of the season.”
