Sir Purr
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QB Teddy Bridgewater
RE: Realizing there are no moral victories, but what this game says about where the team is right now
Like you said, there are no moral victories in this game. The guys, we fought, we gave ourselves a chance to win the game at the end. Hats off to the Chiefs, they are great football team, they came up on top and we came up just short.
RE: What happened on the fourth down-and-14 run
It was just one of those deals as I was running, I just looked to the sideline to see where the chains were. I knew if I would have went down head first, they might have marked me down a little shorter, so I might have been a little short so I just decided to take flight and sacrifice my body and try to get the first down.
RE: What you want to want to show your teammates when you make a play like that
It's honestly one of those deals where we could all just sacrifice for five seconds, six seconds, for 60 plays a game, 70 plays a game and just give all our effort, then we are a tough team. For me it's just wanting to continue to show the guys that this game, this team means so much to me and I will do whatever I can to win. This situation, got out of the pocket, had a nice lead blocker and just tried to make a play.
RE: What impact, if any, offensive coordinator Joe Brady being on the sideline had today
I think Joe [Brady] has been itching to be on the sideline. I know he says it's much calmer up in the booth, but just having Joe on the sideline, his calm demeanor, he was always even-keeled throughout the course of the game; so that was good to see, that was good for me. We were able to communicate, instead of having to get on the headset, he's able to see the game at field level, he was able to go down and talk to the offensive line, talk to the receivers and things like that. So I think that was pretty good for him to be down there.
RE: Getting Christian McCaffrey back and how Bridgewater views these close games where the team is coming up just short
To answer that first question, it was definitely good having Christian [McCaffrey] back this week. He fought for us, he ran hard, he put the ball out of the backfield, picked up guys in protection and then when Mike [Davis] came in, Mike made some plays as well. It was good to just have both of those guys rolling.
When you think about how we are coming up short in these games, you know a game like today, it pisses you off, especially when you play a team as good as the Chiefs are, that's a great football team. We don't want it to be the common theme of being right there. Obviously, you lose a game, sometimes you are able to learn from it and quickly put it behind. This is one of those games that pisses you off a little bit, at least it should piss you off. We will come in tomorrow, thick skin, watch the tape, be judgmental of each other and be honest with each other.
RE: When the team goes blow for blow with the defending Super Bowl champions, if there is benefit to the team down the road
Of course it does, down the road, but right now, we talked about there are no moral victories. With a game like this you come up short, it's like man you are able to, yeah, measure yourself next to the defending champs but at the same time you don't want to be satisfied with just coming up short. We play this game to win. We can easily say we fought, we played tough, that's what we did, but we didn't come up with the victory. So, I think we just have to get back to work next week, realize some of the things we did wrong. I know we had some penalties, just some things that prevented us from winning this game. Like I said the Chiefs are a great football team, they did everything to win that game, and we did everything to not win that game.
RE: Your mindset on that final drive, specifically as a couple plays finished inbounds and not out of bounds with no timeouts, and thoughts on Joey Slye's final kick
The situation that we were in, we didn't have any timeouts and I am pretty sure the Chiefs were aware of the situation as well. We just wanted to try to advance the ball as fast as possible. Maybe do we wish we could have got out of bounds more, yeah, but the defense that they were playing was defending the sidelines, had to take what they give you. We hit a big play to Curtis [Samuel] down the middle of the field which gave us a chance, then you try to take a cheap five yards to put us in field goal range or something like that to DJ [Moore] but they did a great job of being prepared for it. It's tough on Joey [Slye] to try to kick a 67-yard field goal in this environment. We just came up short as a team and it's going to be on us to fix this.