Doug Pederson was clearly surprised by his team’s performance. After the game he tried to make sense of what took place in Buffalo.
On if he could identify the reason for the offensive struggles vs. the Bills
Doug: Yeah, honestly, no. Yeah, I thought we had a good plan coming into the week. Had a really good week of practice and prep. At some point you’ve got to go do it in the game and we haven’t been able to do that yet. Don’t have a great answer for you right now. I think obviously watching the tape is going to help, and we’ve got to fix the mistakes that are showing up. There’s plenty of them to pass around to everybody. We’re the ones that got to make the corrections. At the end of the day, we know when we step on the field we’ve got to make the plays. I think that’s what we’re lacking right now, just not making the plays. We’re in positions to do it and not doing it.
On if the struggles are different or similar to the last two weeks
Doug: Yeah, like I said, I have to watch it and really see all the plays. I know there is obviously some in my mind that I’m thinking about that didn’t go our way. We’ve got to figure out why and how we learn from it, what we can do better in every position. You know, it’s just one of those times where we don’t have any momentum. It seems like everyone takes their turn on making a bad play at the wrong time, including myself. Seems really difficult to go forward. Can’t find that rhythm right now. We all have or share in it. It takes us making the plays out there. Players play, coaches coach and when we step on the field we’ve got to make the plays. So, we have to take all the accountability, all the criticism, scrutiny because we’re just not doing that right now and that’s our job, is to go make the plays. I know that I’m not playing as good as I can play, just point-blank. There are plays out there—the one to Brian, I’m sure you guys saw, just a throw you miss and turns into a turnover. It’s a game where the defense needed us to make some plays to get some momentum, to settle in, to keep the ball, put some points on the board, give them a little breather, and that, for example, really hurts us. So yeah, we’ve got to make the plays. It’s that simple. This game, it’s hard but not that hard. We made it look really, really hard today. We’re a lot better than that.