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Ryan Fitzpatrick – October 28, 2019 (Postgame) Download PDF version

Monday, October 28, 2019
Postgame – Pittsburgh

QB Ryan Fitzpatrick

(The game started off – you couldn’t ask for a better start, 14 points on the board – and then struggles begin. What changed at that point?) – “We had a couple of nice drives early, good momentum. Guys were out there having fun. Now, there’s just – this whole thing, it’s just a progression, and that’s a spot we need to get better in. It’s two weeks in a row now with the opportunities we had in Buffalo and now here today. Some of the stuff – coming out and getting the lead and just not being satisfied with it and continue to go for it.”

(It seems like this team, when you score it’s methodical. You’ve got to grind your way down the field. You don’t have those opportunities to get those big strikes and you see other teams that do it against you. It’s got to make it tough because you don’t really give yourself much margin for error.) – “I think when you do rely on those long drives, a penalty here or a sack or a negative play, then that makes those very difficult. I agree in that we’ve got to get to where we’re making more explosive plays and we have the guys to do it. Just to make those drives and scoring the ball a little bit easier than having the do the methodical march every time; but the last few weeks, we’ve had some really nice drives of doing that, taking it 75 yards and first down after first down. There’s more than one way to do it, but the ‘chunk plays’ certainly make it easier.”

(I know you look at this team and you see things getting better, but you lose every – the hurt’s tough when you lose these games. When does it become too much to bounce back from?) – “We’ve just got to continue to keep fighting and that’s just kind of the place that we’re at right now – just continue to keep fighting, continue to keep going to practice and try to get better every single day and then making sure that when we come out on Monday night or on Sundays now, we’re just out here enjoying each other and trying to have fun out on the field.”

(The fourth-and-1 and fourth-and-2 – were you pretty sure that you made it?) – “I thought I did, but obviously the replay said differently. I wish I would have kept my knee up for a little bit longer; but yeah, I thought that was a nice aggressive play call. I liked the play call when it came in and I’ve just got to get that first down.”

(You guys have had issues running the ball tonight. What were some of the complications there?) – “I think (the Steelers) are a good defense. I think you have to give credit to them. They’re very physical up front. They did a nice job. In the second half, especially as it got away from us a little bit, we didn’t really have a whole lot of opportunities to run the ball; but they did a nice job in the first half and contained our run game.”

(Can you take us through the interceptions there?) – “The first one was just unfortunate. (We were) putting together a little drive before the end of the half and those things happen. (The ball) got tipped up in the air and they made the play. Then the second one was a third-and-longer-type play and I just told Jakeem (Grant) I was going to chuck it up there and worst-case scenario, they’re going to intercept it inside the 5-yard line and it’s as good as a punt anyway, so I was okay with that one.”

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