Josh Rosen – September 22, 2019 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 22, 2019
Postgame
QB Josh Rosen (transcribed by Dallas Cowboys)
(How are you doing physically and emotionally?) — “Good to the first. I don’t know, to be determined on the second. I feel like we are making a little progress as a team, but (we had) a lot of mistakes that were very well within our control. So, like every week, back to the film on Monday. Get it fixed.”
(How would you evaluate your start here today?) — “I thought we got off to a pretty good start and started to taper a little bit. I don’t know, I couldn’t think of a particular moment in the game, but I definitely…. Some good, some bad. I’d say right in the middle.”
(Regarding the concussion protocol and how you felt after coming back…) — “Yeah. The spotter kind of pulled me out. So I just had to go back there, get a test real quick, and come back out. Fitz made a really awesome throw to get us down sort of within scoring range, and we weren’t really able to finish the drive.”
(Regarding the changes on the offensive line during the game..How much did that play into the way you were able to play throughout the rest of the game?) — “It’s tough when injuries happen, but I think our guys up front did a really good job of sort of adjusting and playing on the fly. I think (Michael) Deiter kicked out to left tackle. I think he hasn’t done that in quite a while. I mean I think our guys did a pretty good job of adjusting. I think we just have to continue to grow as an offense and just try to figure out what we do well and do more of that and try to eliminate mistakes.”
(What’s the emotional state of your football team?) — “Not great, but not bad. I think given the set of circumstances, I think really good. I think we are all like a really determined group of guys that (are) really prideful and just want to put a good product of football on the field, something that we feel proud about and I think we are getting there. I just don’t think we’ve really quite hit that hump. I think, even last week in the New England game, like yeah we got blown out or whatever, but there was like a couple plays there where we really could have..I slipped up, (could have) taken the lead or in that second quarter. It kind of felt the same way here with a couple of those sort of red zone stall outs. I think, I’m not going to say right there, but I think we are getting there. I think we’ve got good progress. We’re making good progress.”
(Regarding the late hit…) — “I don’t know I’d probably have to watch it. But at the first one I tried to make it kind of clear that I was sliding. I mean you’ve got three Cowboys running up..(I’m not about to?) take them on. I thought the first one I tried to make it a little clear I was sliding, maybe I kind of hesitated for a little bit too long. The one on the sideline I was like about to step out but I didn’t realize the dude, DeMarcus I think, was right behind me. So yeah, I mean I think they’re “bang-bang” so will probably have to watch (the film) to give a better opinion.”
(Do you take any victory from a loss like this?) — “I don’t know if victory is the right word, but positives; yes. This very clearly is not a victory but I think positives, yes. As an organization we are just trying to like sort of find our identity. I think you can find positives and negatives in anything. I thought we fought really hard and I don’t think that not for one millisecond of the game did we give up. Our dudes up front were battling their butts off and defense was playing a helluva game. But it just, with our defense, once we’ve hit a couple of those three and outs and leave them on the field for a little bit too long it’s really tough on them. So I think it’s our responsibility as an offense, that even if we’re not going to score, at least we can string some drive together and, or string some first downs together and give them a break and at least try to stay on the field for a little bit.”
(Regarding how you felt about things were going in the first half…) — “It felt really good. I thought we had the defense on their heels. They have a really good pass rush. They started to emerge later in the game and I thought that we pretty much, for the most part, did a really good job of holding it back early in the game. I thought we had a really good game plan coming into it. It’s just about, sort of finishing the drives. I thought we put a couple of good ones together (drives) but we’ve just got to sort of cap it off. And then we stall it out inside the five twice. So that’s never a good thing.”
(Regarding running the ball on the goal line. You’re a quarterback, so I assume at some point you would have preferred to throw the ball?) — “That’s not my call. I mean..”
(Can you audible?) — “Yeah I can but that’s like given the set of circumstances that wasn’t my job. I thought we had a really good play with a really good look. I can’t say the actual name of the play but I think it was the third one I mis-Mike’d it when I motioned my guy over..I actually…I mis-Mike’d it and I had my receiver blocking a linebacker when he was supposed to be blocking a safety so it’s little things like that..even are on my play. So, yeah, so it’s very fluid and we wished we could have punched it in but hindsight is always twenty-twenty. We’ve just got to get down there a little more often.”
(On fourth down it looked like you wanted to go for it. Is that fair?) — “Yeah absolutely.”
(Because?) — “Because I didn’t want to step off the field. I’m a quarterback and very competitive. I’d be very disappointed in any quarterback in any situation that, in that situation was jogging off the field like alright…If I had a little more say I would have loved to ‘Peyton Manning’ed’ it and waved them off and call the play but we’re not there yet.”
(Have you had a chance to talk to WR Allen Hurns?) — “Briefly. That was probably one of the lower points of my career. I felt really bad about that. Hopefully he’s okay. I think he’s still meeting with the docs and stuff, but yeah it sucks.”
